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MOVE TO ABOLISH FENCES iPlttsburgh Newspaper Regards Idea With Favor, but Has Doubt of Its Practicability. Baltimore comes forward with a community back yard idea, already the subject of practical experiment in that city, remarks the Pittsburgh Dis patch. It aims to abolish the unsight ly back yard and its rubbish-hiding fences, and to create instead a neigh borhood open space or park and play ground that would keep the chil dren off the streets and offer residents instead of a little cooped-up and prac tically useless piece of private domain a chance to stretch themselves and en joy a freedom of movement to be had in no other way. A correspondent who directs atten tion to the scheme suggests that it might bo expanded into a fac:or in reducing the cost of living if the com munity would devote part of the .open space to growing fruit or garden truck. Admirable as the idea may seem in the abstract, it may be questioned whether neighborhood human nature has arrived at the perfection neces sary to its success. It is not difficult .to imagine a refractory resident an gered by some neighbor spoiling the whole plan by restoring his fences. It may be doubted, too, whether this could be avoided by any binding agree ment being secured in advance. Then, also, there is always the possibility of an untidy neighbor mussing up the .community back yard, of clothesline fights and dogs and chickens and ail the numerous troubles that a^d spice if not sweetness to neighborhood ex istence. GOOD IN GARDEN MOVEMENT ?City of Duluth Has Demonstrated That It Is of Value In Many Different Ways. In the Bummer of 1913. the Duluth Commercial club obtained three va cant lots in different parts of the city and put a man in charge of the three tracts. He conducted demon stration gardening through the sea son ; was always available to help puz zled gardeners ; guided the school chil dren in their work, and otherwise stimulated the garden movement in the city. From an importer of garden prod ucts. Duluth became at least a pro ducer of its own supplies. Duluth's hinterland- la developing agricultural ly, birt the garden movement in the city ha? lost none of Its significance, lt has promoted the ownership of many homes; it has drawn children from the street and made them gar den enthusiasts; lt bas induced great er efficiency among wage-e&rners through contentment and more health ful surroundings, and it has made Du luth a city of gardens beautiful to be hold. Of greater value to Duluth is the moral effect on the city. The rising generation is one of gardeners. Fac tory workers and office employes not only reise their own vegetables, but they have developed their bodies by the exercise. The demand for saloons, gambling houses and similar resorte ls dying out. Camphor Trees for Streets. ^ A trade journal quotes a Texas nur seryman as saying that the camphor ?ree is very popular for street planting fin the southern part cf that state; ' that it ls never troubled by insect peats and that mosquitoes will avoid at No tree is exempt from insect pests, ?nd camphor trees may ba found with auoh a thick incrustation of the red ?cale of the orange that bark on twigs 'may scarcely be seen. Mosquitoes avoid camphor and Its fumes and therefore will not literally "roost" upon the tree, but they do not avoid the general territory In which lt .grows. The camphor tree ls a prime favorite in southern California and we do not allow fear of insect pests to deter us from planting lt wherever and whenever opportunity presenta. Lee Angeles Times. Enoouragcr?ent of Thrift. In Chicago there has been started an association for tho encouragement of thrift. Far-seeing men are behind the movement, confronted with the enormous waste in time, opportunity, and material which has been a natural Inheritance from a generation that found everything to spare at hand. This condition no longer exists. A changed economic condition calls for changed methods of living, to which the people must be educated. As the lasting and formative Influences are those belonging to childhood, the school garden may be counted upon to play no small part in bringing about a better understanding of th? elements of living, all the way from the mar ket basket onward to the best that goes to make happy and prosperous (homes. Does More Harm Than Good. The charity is bad which takes from Independence Its proper pride and from mendicity rta salutary shame. Southey. Confider well the portions of things It ls better to be a young June-bug than an old birr? of Pr.r dlse.-Mark Twain. CHAPTER ON FOREIGN PUDDINGS. The boiled pudding is the great English dessert, and it is found in all places. They are mostly boiled in cloth; molds are seldom used except for a very elaborate pudding. Baroness Pudding.-Chop very fine three-fourths of a pouud of suet, add the same amount of seeded raisins, mix wifh three-fourths of a pound of flour> a ha,f teaspoon [rtls^Ki/ ful of salt and a cupful of V^,-'^/ milk. Beat well and tic -~~r^i> in a pudding cloth wrung out of hot water. Put the """"^ pudding into a kettle of boiling water and boil without ceasing for five hours. Serve with powdered sugar. Delhi Pudding.-Pare, core and I cut into slices four large apples; put them into a saucepan with a j little grated nutmeg, one teaspoon ful of grated lemon peel and four tablespoonfuls of sugar; stew with very 1: .?Ie water until the apples are tender. Make a rich biscuit crust, spread with the apples a few currants, then roll up, tie in a floured cloth and boil for two hours. Queen Elizabeth Pudding.-Sweeten a pint of milk to taste, add a little grated lemon peel and four well beat en eggs. Line a buttered mold with raisins cut in half. Spread slices of sponge cake with marmalade and place in the mold. Pour in the cus tard, tie the pudding down with paper and a cloth and boil gently for one hour. Let cool slowly and when cold turn out of the mold and serve. West Indian Pudding-Crumble half a pound of sponge cake and pour over it a pint of hot sweetened cream. Beat eight eggs and add to the cream. But ter a mold and line with three table spoonfuls of thinly sliced preserved ginger. Carefully pour in the pudding, tie down with a floured cloth, and boil or steam for an hour and a half. Serve with whipped cream flavored with the ginger sirup. Staffordshire Fig Pudding.-Chop six ounces of suet and make a smooth paste with three-fourths of a pound of flour and milk to moisten, add salt, roll out a half-inch thick and spread with a pound of finely chopped figs. Roll up, pinch both ends, tie in a pud? ding cloth and boil for two hours. ~ li HEN The art of cooking when not al lied with a degenerate taste or with gluttony, is one of the criteria of a people's civilization. A good dinner sharpens wit while lt softens the heart.-Doran. THE KITCHEN SHEARS. A pair of scissors or shears is the greatest convenience imaginable in the kitchen. They will cut up much quicker than a knife, vegetables, such as celery, lettuce, beans and any num ber of other things. To hollow out a tomato to be stuffed a pair of shears is much better to use than a knife, for it may be done much more evenly. The cutting of a grape fruit to prepare lt ] for the table may b? done entirely by the use of shears. First cut out the | center pulp, then clip the sections along the edge and the grapefruit ls ready. When dicing green peppers cut them in long slivers, then take a few io the hand and ellp through the entire bunch. When preparing fruit for salada the sections of orange and grapefruit may be easily cut away with the shears. The more often the shears are used the more ways will occur to use them. We need not limit scissors to fruit and vegetables, however, as they work equally as well on chicken, flah of various kinds, cutting the joints of j game and lobster shells. The hard parts of oysters and clams are neatly removed by a pair of shears, while slices of cold boiled tongue and ham are often much im proved by trimming with scissors. Cabbage Salad. - Shred cabbage very i:ne and mix with one or more finely cut green peppers and a small bunch of celery, finely chopped. Add a bolled dressing made as follows: Cook together equal parts of egg and mild vinegar. When smooth and thick add equal parti of whipped cream, sugar, and a bit of cayenne pepper, a litttle mustard, if liked, and a sea soning of salt. This dressing may be kept indefinitely and the cream and seasoning are added just as it is ready to use. Canned Beans.-For a change of I vegetables, use the little tender) green beans. Scald them and season with butter and a little vinegar, pep per and salt. Taste them to see that there is butter and vinegar enough to season well, and serve very hot. (Conducted by tnt National Woman'? Christian Temperance Union.) DRINK AND CRUELTY. Medical science tells us that an im perfect nervous system is often the cause of the tendency to cruelty some times seen in young children-that If a child shows a disposition to torture animals or abuse other children lt does not follow that the boy or girl is a degenerate; ii may be due to the presence of toxin in the blood. The well-known tendency to cruelty on the part of those addicted to the exces sive use of intoxicants, bears out thia statement Men, who in nober mo ments are tender husbands and fa thers, become transformed by strong drink into ravages and fiends. Even the more "temperate" use of liquor tends to dull the sensibilities and be cloud the finer Instincts. The toxin in the blood of a moderate drinker, while not always causing a noticeable degeneracy in the man himself, ls transmitted to his offspring, and in the third or fourth generation, If not before, is manifested in the "cruel tendencies" of children that excite our wonder. RUINING A VESTED INTEREST. Collier's Weekly, which with con. me?dable frequency gives the liquor traffic an editorial stab, recently an swered as follows the saloonist's claim that to destroy the saloon is to destroy a vested interest: "Every generation raises its crop of fine old crusted Tories-some of them in the humbler walks cf life. And at all times they oppose light-even as they once tried to resist lighting what Longfellow called the 'street lamps of the ocean.' The instance we have In mind is noted in Emerson's Jour nal. Sixty years ago the philosopher visited Nauset, on Cape Cod. 'Collins, the keeper, told us he found resistance on Cape Cod to the project of building a lighthouse on this coast, as it would injure the wrecking business.' Did you ever stop to think that our lighthouses have utcerly ruined what used to be a vested interest?" DISAPPROVAL OF LIQUOR. The American Sheet and Tin Plate company of Vandergrift, Pa., which ls a subsidiary concern of the United States Steel corporation, has placed the stamp of disapproval on liquor and drinking by notifying all employes that they must withdraw from frater nal organizations and clubs which maintain sideboards, or cease to work in the company's plants.. They are also prohibited from indorsing liquor license applications. This order. It is said, not only af fects the 6,000 employes at the Leech burg, Hyde Park, New Kensington and Vandergrift plants, but all the plants of the company throughout the coun try. AGAINST ALCOHOL. Dr. C. W. Saleeby, the distinguished English physician and writer on eu genics, concludes his little book on "The Methods of Race Generation" with this remarkable sentence: "In the light of truth and the verdict of science it cannot be questioned that he who at this date is for alcohol ls against civilization, and whatever ideals of justice and freedom and good ness we would transmit to the future. To all and sundry I say: Would you befriend men, women and children? Go protect parenthood from alcohol; and fear not that kind of laughter which is a6 the crackling of thorns under a pot." STICKS TO TEMPERANCE. A German spoke at a temperance meeting as follows: "I shall tell you how it vas. I put my hand on my head; there vas one big pain. Then I put my hand on my pody and there was another. Then I put my hand In my pocket and there vas nothing. Now there ls no more pain In de head. De pains in my pody are all gone avay. I put my hand In ray pocket and there lah twenty tollars. So ! stay mit de temperance." FAVORS HIS OWN RULE. Mr. George Perkins of the New York Life Insurance company gave a dinner to the directors of the great company. When a menu card was handed him for his sanction he crossed out all wines. To the protest of the proprie tor that such a thing would be prepos terous and could not be done, Mr. Per kins replied: "We discriminate against the use of these In our policy holders, lt ls but fair we should abide by our own rule." TOTAL ABSTINENCE DEMANDED. Eighty-eight per cent, of the manu facturers of the United States demand total abstinence of their workmen. About one million railroad men in this country have to be total abstain? .rs from beer and all other Intoxicat ing liquors. BONUS FOR ABSTAINERS, The Philadelphia Quartz company has offered a ten per cent bonus with the wageB of men who sign an agree ment to abstp'n from drinking alto gether. Nearly all the 300 men em* ployed have signed the agreement GOLDEN 8TREET8. If we could turn all the liquor money into good roads, we could al most walk on golden streets to every American home, and find each home aglow with Joy.-Noah D. Cooper, Nashville, Tenn. EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1914 (Conducted by the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union.) OPENED HIS EYES. A young man entered the barroom of a village tavern and called for a drink. "No," said the landlord. "You have had too much already. You have had delirium tremens once, and I cannot sell you any more." He stepped aside for two young men who entered, and the landlord waited upon them very politely. The other stood silent and sullen. When they had finished, he walked up to the landlord and addressed him as fel lows : "Six years ago, at their age, I stood where these young men are. I was a man with fair prospects. Now, at the age of twenty-eight, I am a wreck, body and mind. You led me to drink. In this room 1 formed the habit that has been my ruin. Now sell me a few glasses, aftd your work will be done, j I shall soon be out of the way; there is no hope for me. They can be saved; they may be men iigain. Sell it to me, and let me die, and the world will be rid of me; but for heaven's sake sell no more to them." The landlord listened, pale and trem bling. Setting down his decanter, he exclaimed: "God helping me, that is the last dr?p I will sell to anyone." And he kept his word. A POTENT RACE POISON. Scientists are agreed that alcohol is a potent race poison; lt poisons the whole system, notably the reproduc tive organs and protoplasm. There fore we cannot have drinking without race-degeneration. If parents abstain their children are healthy, but If, later on, the parents take to drinking, the children are afflicted mentally and physically. Plato uuderstood this when he deprecated drink for nursing mothers. If, in extreme cases, alcohol is an extreme poison, moderate drink ing is moderate poisoning. The medi cal profession contains pro-alcohollsts and antl-alcoholists; but the policy of facing both ways is weak, and be fore long, presumably, all medical men will be anti-alcoholists. Let them preach the gospel that there is NO USE FOR ALCOHOL IN HUMAN LIFE. Abstinence tends to true pa triotism, and the state ought to do preventive work as well as curative. -Dr. V. Rutherford, Zion College, London. CHOOSE YOUR BRIDGE. Remember, all who have fallen into the dark river of intemperance have fallen from Moderation bridge, none from the Total Abstlnance bridge. Re member, if there were no drunkards on earth today and moderate drinking should continue, there would be plenty of them tomorrow. Look once more at the procession headed by half a million drunkards dropping into the tide, a million moderate drinkers, two million of po^Bsionab fashionable drinkers, and' behind them all the boys and young men of our land-and then, as you shall face the record in eternity, I call on you to choose, as a brother of humanity, ? patriot, a Christian, on which bridge you will cross.-Frances E. Willard. WHY HE QUIT DRINKING. Indianapolis newspapers tell the story of why a certain attorney sud denly quit drinking. With great lib erality he patronized one saloonkeeper for a number of years. Recently the saloon man bought a- house and lot and had another lawyer examine the abstract for him. The steady patron resented this and wanted to know why the saloonkeeper turned away from his own customer to give business to a man who never patronizes his or any other saloon. "When I have busi ness for an attorney," said the saloon keeper, "I want lt done by a sober lawyer." This ls why th? attorney has quit drinking. HOW BREWER8 MAKE MONEY. Hon. Frank S. Regan, in an address, 'The Fool Tax Payers," delivered in Ottawa, 111., recently made the state ment that according to information furnished him by a chemist in a Mil waukee brewery, tbs actual cost of making a barrel of beer which retails for about $28.00 la but 72 cents, and that the cost of producing a gallon of whisky which retails for 94, ls but 86 cents. NOT TO BE TRUSTED. A man under the influence of even small quantities of alcohol has no right to believe his senses; he cannot trust them to give him correct facts, and he cannot rely on his Judgment for the interpretation of these facts. Prof. Q. 81ms Woodheads M. D, Uni versity of Cambridge, Eng. DON'T WANT 8ALOON8. It ls reported by the Grand Forks (N. D.) Herald that James J. Hill has decided to move the division head quarters of the Great Northern rail way from Garretson, S. D.. to Jasper, Minn., unlesB the former town votes out its saloons. ALCOHOL 18 BARRED. Sir Edward Shackleton, who ls preparing to lead another expedition to Lie Antarctic, says that the party will take with them no stimulants ex cept tea and cocoa. (Conducted br the National Woman'? Christian Temperance Union.) NO SURRENDER! In every moral struggle foreign born citizens have fought with native Americana to bring victory to the cause of righteousness. Many foreign born citizens are today struggling with native Americans to crush the saloon, but, unfortunately, numbers of native Americans join the enemies of law and order and sobriety and bring defeat to the cause of righteousness. It ia pitiable that descendants of Revolu tionary heroes and warriors of later wars say we must surrender to the blind pig keeper and bootlegger. They haul down the stars and stripes and let the lawbreakers hoist the black fag of riot and ruin. Every license vote is a white flag of surrender to the lawbreakers. Brave Americans, native and natural ized, will not surrender to anarchists. Lawbreakers shall not rule this land of ours. The saloon, the enemy of our country, must go!-John F. Cunneen, Labor Leader. WORKINGMAN AND THE SALOON. I have worked in the factories, mills I and mines of this country for many j long years, and have seen the effect j of the liquor traffic upon the security ; of the workingman's employment In all legitimate occupations, the total ab stainer bas ha? the preference, for he can be relied upon to be at his work when he is expected, and not spend one-fjiird or one-half of the first part of each week in getting over the in fluences of a drunken carousal. The ; railroad companies will not employ an engineer or a conductor that frequents j the saloon, and in many other indus ; trial walks the same rule obtains. '' Everyone backs such corporations La j this stand, and the workingmen are 1 beginning to realize what such a prac . tise means to them. When they fully ' appreciate the situation, there will be an absolute end to the liquor traffic I John B. Lennon, Treasurer of the i American Federation of Labor. WORK TOGETHER. The temperance platform is ai broad as the earth and as wide as the ? world. Its limits are marked only I where liquor ceases to flow. There is room on that platform for all; nor can any race, creed or nationality monopo lize it. It is a signal fact and propi tious sign of the times that the Cath olic priest and the Protestant minis ter can, and do, stand side by side, shoulder to shoulder, on that plat form. The cause is God's and human ity's. We shall battle for the cause whether on the lower plane of temper ance or on the higher ground of total abstinence; whether in the lesser ranks or in the larger flies of national move ments; we shall battle for the cause. -Rev. Father J. J. Curran (Pennsyl vania). CITY AND NATION'S WEALTH. "The wealth of the city ia not in its buildings, not in its banks, but in the ?? fcoye and girls apo" the. Ideals in. their liv??. These ideals fifS the thing!'* thal, we neglect most" f This is not qupted from a, serrajojj r or a temperance lecture; lt ls the lan- h1 guage of the first assistant district at torney of Mew York city in an address delivered before a gathering of pro fessional men who cheered it to the echo. The Woman's Christian Tem perance union believes in raising the standard of American citizenship through the conservation of these ideals. Says Mrs. L. H. N. Stevens, national president of that organiza tion: "Blessed ls the etate which rec ognizes as its chief asset its young men and women." DRINKING TO GET BU8INESS. If you must drink to obtain busi ness, forego the business. You will be solicited by all sorts and conditions of men to Join them in drinking, and ~" they will feel offended If you refuse- i but refuse. Don't think they will re spect you more for not drinking. Not they. The psychology of the drinker's mind ls this: He wants to see all men share his weakness, and hates the si lent disapproval implied In a refusal ?? to Join him. If it is a choice between the enmity of drink and the enmity of the man whose hospitality you refuse, ? take the lesser and eschew the Insid ious, far-reaching destructiveness of - drink.-From "Letters to a Young Man,'" by Arthur IL Hferls of Seattle, f In Wast & Co.'a Docket. t FIGHTING ALCOHOL. From all points of view, it ls cer* tain that we ought to battle against alcoholism with ewry means at our disposal if we wish to see a dyke - against the spread of tuberculosis, and ; today we can accept the unanimous statement of She Paris Anti-Tubercu losis congress of 1906 that to fight alcoholism signifies in the last analy sis to fight tuberculosis.-Prof. Tibertl Ferrars. PERTINENT QUESTIONS. The average American saloon takes from the people 07,300 a year. What does lt gives In return? If you spend one dollar or ten dol lars in saloons, what will you have [ for your money? If the saloon is good, why keep women and children out of lt? If the saloon is good, why screen windows and doors? If the saloon ls good, why clos* lt when there is a riot?