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ous blend procurable. + have once, trying to d you, hoping the mistakes I made. Here are what I call the high lights of not havin kind , . PE re ¢ too much fire. The kind spells. Sorry you're hurt, old of curing pork, the "do's and don'ts" of wood also needs consideration, for Fh trail along with you to a doctor's." ha BRN Success! carefully it influences the flavor, I like green 2. Cool the meat thoroughly, or let it thaw if frozen, before placing it tn) brine. 3. Keep every piece submerged in: the brine all the time. 4. Dry th 5. Smoke producing as much smoke and as little heat as possible. 6. Cool the meat before storing it.' 7. Wrap every piece in paper, cover thin coat of The equipment required for curing meat is not wood barrel large earthen jars also are fine for this purpose. They are, however, more expensive. Either a new barrel or one that has held molasses wil! serve the purpose; but if the latter is chosen, it must be scalded and washed thor- oughly before the meat is packed in it.' "Vinegar barrels may be utilized in| case of an el be burned out inside, and washed and scalded with traces of sourness. Scales for weigh- ing the meat and other ingredients are essential. Salt, suga: peter are the is an astringent; consequently, it has a tendency to harden muscle fibres and to extract the juices. Fortunately, sugar and molasses have the opposite effect; that is, they make the muscles tender and soft, and help to retain the moisture important that salt and sugar or molasses be used together and in the proper proportions. Saltpeter has but one purpose, thae of retaining the red- dish meat color; but, since it is not healthful, I use it sparingly. In my home the hams, shoulders and bacon are sugar-cured, the fat-backs are pickled, the trimmings are made * Into lard and sausage, and the loins and spareribs are eaten fresh and canned by the cold-pack method. Many folks prefer to give the fat-backs the dry cure, but Trimming ragged edges for sausage * because they Sugar-Cure table that is then the of b with special care to pulverize' finely. This mixture is, MY WAY OF CURING MEAT. | My definition for bad luck is to have. fhe pork spoil that I cured during the winter. It is one of the heart-bréaking tragedies that most farm homemakers { off so easily. Of course, there is no logical excuse for failure when one has good recipes. All there is to do then is to follow them. My troubles came while I was penditure of more time and effort than when the pork is pickled. Moreover, my family likes the particular flavor "of the pickled slices when dipped in corn meal and browned. ' pork are these: bo months, 1 year and 2 years. A 1-year cooled hams, RR Lork--The dutoughly | size requires 1% yards of 86-inch rubbed with salt and left in a cool TRatetial. mailed to any address on place EE dave s lige W ork receipt of 15¢ in silver or stamps, 'by ed if I know. But if was_guessin' he Witte the 10 8 to J ames Cann in in this way; a layer of salt is the Wilson Publishing Co., 78 West I'd say it was this fellow Hull, the y: m, ced on the table top and the salted Adelaide Street, Toronto. Allow two Slicker that helped him put through gatas stacked on it. The next day Veske for" receipt of pattern. 'heavy hams are packed in the bot- | \ of the barrel, the shoulders on top WHEN THE CLOCK BALKS, 1 four gallons of boiling. | back on the meat again. iscover the right methods all our readers will avoid Consider | stitutes. oroughly before smoking. pork slowly with a fire yellow wash. elaborate. I use hard- s for holding the brine; trate inside. being better, mergency, but they must' great care to destroy all is to be kept for summer use, I appl r or molasses, and salt- a thin coating of yellow wash to preservatives used. Salt insects. . For this reason it is I find it requires the ex- off all the corners and from the different pieces | : 3 ed in the style here illustrated. and lard making is an|PXess Ww, 'economical practice. These have to| The Motel is good Jor gingham, Baup 'be removed eventually, 1 have, found, | ®1¢'¥®¥; Tepp, pon; nd sndengarten, soak up too much brine. | © oth RA 3 % cuff, may be omitted. C Among my favorite recipes for curing, The Pattern is cut in 8 Sizes: 6 hoon brought Tore to on oF nat why I came to see you. ) o x IC " h eom 'openly in the retribution that had fal-' Why did you o then". asked bacon. Then, the brine,' When something seems to ail the th has been made the day before, clock, try moistening absorbent cotton will be quite cool, is added. | with kerosene and place it in the bot- every hundred pounds of meat, tom of the case. Never oil the works unds of salt, two and one-half with a cheap, heavy oil. rown sugar, and two ; of saltpeter are used. The salt,! CARE IN PLANNING. , and saltpeter are mixed to-/ i Things to remember when planning cals: : gol, this brine is pour-! iron : 00 2jorine is pone, The iron requirement weeks, and the heavier ones eight « | Weeks. When taken out, every picce ia "F've bean' Worrying a deal washed thoroughly in warm water about this business ng 3,00 desl Then the meat is hung, suspended I suppose. Anyhow, I've had two or from cords or twine, so that no ti three dizzy i h, in th kehouse to dv and proportions to use. The results Pieces tous ny SImgleh of this adventure I am passing on to Smoking Meat--1 hickory or maple smothered in saw- : . 0 i dust best, but corncobs, a few of which Pact Js, I'm feeling quite myself tered Herefords. are moistened so they will not burn quickly, or wood chips make good sub- In the winter I keep fire constantly, it. In the summer or late spring, | when there is danger of getting the with a heavy muslin bag, and apply 2, pork heated too much, I let tho fire die! meat is of a uniform light brown VI inh » ; . color. Of course the length of time I" Jaf an hour" lett | welled out of him toward Hyll. "| {riendship, a serene and modest selt i required for the process varies some-|p co to talk with the tenants of th ; what with individual taste, two ae Se Jenanls of Yu being the shortest, and a week or two Db ey at Ra oY roan 3 in gg, Seema to be some doubt whether live the evanescent phemomena that After this part of the curing is the Rockies. : ; thim o complete, the ventilators of the smoke- | He itt the train at Summit, a small house are opened, and the meat is town left hanging until cool. Then I wrap every piece in old newspapers, and' toy marketed their place it in a stout muslin bag. If it In the fall they dro | Fried foods should be used sparing-| %5¢ 158 - of children I've got over feelum all right yes now?" Prospero . uid; never | 1 of k -- he ask _ ; os ¥ foo! Brow £4 rigns of fermenting during the euring sy liregting bls Slant, oval eyes 1 ¥ a elks 'might : process. When this occurs, it must be "Yes go A ; : i drained off, boiled, cooled, and poured thanks, Shibo." James turned to the others. "Shibo was at the foot of the I let the bacon stay in the brine stairs' when I caught my heel. He i the lighter Bathered up the pieces. I and some of ui don't get from uo Sy Ne i Sight a, Wasn't 1, hbo?" 'turn sures in Time's cabinet, Tew J ty 'back when you would, and find them . "He's a 1 iow... | there intact. You have learned bet You heap sick for minute," y.| serious, though." "I don't wonder. You sit at a a couple o' hours a day an' do only sprained your arm. By the ment again. about, it and get a permit for jus eught to go up to Dry Valley 'out every other day. Too much heat check things up there. We might , dries out the meat, especially on the out who wrote that note to -U outside, and the smoke cannot pene-| Maybe some one has been maki threats in public. We cpuld see i The death of Cunningham had not 6 y ing i il the Was in town from there last week! 3 delicate regard for thé. individuality The smoking is continued nntil tl a Was 0? To-day? Train leaves PParently assuaged his intense hat- him. "Nobody can be dead sure of A PRACTICAL PLAY DRESS FOR golden yesterday when every other TUTINY TOTS, saloon and the rattle of chips la anatomy for fleas. Kirby registered at the office of frame building which carried on tor, chanced to be od, Fellows' Hall. He desisted from labors to chat with the stranger. The editor was a fat, talkative fact, during his stay in the valley name as an "Open Sesame." It len upon him. i rhetori ; It was a centre shot. Kirby was ithe Dry Valley steal. 'Course it might : iti ? 7a" been the Jap, or it might 'a' He sure of it. He read it in the man's | the nephew from Wyoming, but say it was Hull. Hull up here. H e's one bad Zoo 1 that _at man is, believe me. Cunning- ham held out on him, an' he laid for the old crook an' got him. Don't that 1 look reasonable to you? It sure does' to me. Put a rope round Hull's neck - v old J. C." est issue of the "E 6" the rest. of { ake of Ler mow. You have seen that there is i guess 1 was 0, 000NES Don't. kngye | 8 difference between s day and & day. Tt )--"Can you tell «| What he was. dois' in Denver," the| You have learned that the world of B vod : r i Is forever mutable, and that|What family the cat belongs, J. "Lan solic gro _ Jores (aftér'n little hesitation)--"1|w think it belongs to - thie family next | "Pla dr yoy ald all Is lately, Nothing: Vlley men who had been in too much, James. What you need is ines the exercise, ' If youd get in the saddle St each of them was enough to g smoking process of great importance; ! YY J the main precaution to heed is that gif ridin' you'd quit. havin' dizzy Went. They knew nothing whatever | pathy, have passed on into the world A (found him burning brush. The cattle-| Memorial in a public. place, or in the "Not necessary I'll be all right. lair unforgetting grateful heart, and our It's only a few blocks to his office, [121 explained that he was from Wy- - : n. : "Well, if you're sure, Prob'ly you've! Olson looked over his dry, parched |an account of our stewardship for bet- I'd ki i ! 3 kinda like NE ore cle ® spar stock?" he asked sourly, that we can keep secure against all 80 the meat will not cool too much. | reckon the police missed anything, but' Kirby made a remark that set-the| that would "creep and intrude and Frozen meat cannot he smoked salis-' you can never tell." 1 factorily, consequently it must be| James hesitated. "I promised the \00ked as though they needed water. (9% 3 Inside of five minutes he had heard thawed out before a fire is built under Dhief of Police nn lot anybody Sloe the story of the Dry Valley irrigation | U8 #urely to the end of days are the 1 " le Say, Kirby, I've been thinking one of | Paradox Apartments, entrained for fine! Now all I ask is that they hang at last the'frame that holds them shall town, hich Was the shire of activi-! | ties for Dry Valley. Here the farm- i iers bought their supplies and here Some. Sut in the heat, of impulse, shot, 1,o "tne Heritage on Which time has no utter and eggs. ryndtie y/and loaded. thom Tove x Vrain Sutile and Lane could' see caution grow on|. . ® the chutes in the railroad yard. outside of the bags to make certain dere had Boon Hines in fe) past that there will be no trouble with When Summit el and flowec Aldead sure of is tha hy pan, de of turbulent ite Thin) "56,3 "nted"s "sha paint plank at had-been occupied by a that unless he saw. him do it." far into the small hougs of night. Now Colorado was dry ad the roulette ed cross the desert bevond the wheel had gone to join memories of tains in the distance, the past. Summit was quiet as a Sun-| "ung That's tough s meti day alterfioon on 8 form; a busiest innocent people, too ometimes on inhabi: was a which la, ' fo hon the sun and lazily hi Rr ia YS) "Meanin' this nephew of old Cun- hy its ith it than I had, but she's i false front the word Hotel. This done, ! 4 d, but she's likely to he RE nder od down to the shack hich : Into migh ty serious trouble just ore the inscription, e; " '" hp Ftorpine" The oohis o 2 the reno T ain't read anything in the papers who was also editor, reporter, press- man, business anager, and circula- n printing some Ts announcing a dance at Odd tle man. Kirby found it no trouble 3 his visitor. "Seems to me you take ¢. 3 at all to set him going on the subject 4507. Comfort and freedom are ex- gf James Cunningham, Senior, yoming man could always use that| locked all tongues. Cunningham and The bib and pocket, also the his mysterious death were absorbin r | topics. The man wa hated by scores "cBitored Herefords." o killed him? the editor asked *"d defiant. cally. "Well, sir, I'll be dawg-' We know that cuss," it i an' Joutl hang the 'man _ that. killed Lane putin an hour making hi self Ee grata, then r 1 he A door.' * What Is Enduring? desk But the others he saw only to : What is there that remains? The ate them suspicion. "One t the time Cunningham was killed] "O friends thes we cherished, on whom them a clean bill so far as we I d for jud t and for sym- some The metal soon became more widely used and appreciated; although it did not then attain the great commercial and artistic value it enjoys to-day. Platinum is found in small grey par- ticles along with other metals, fnclud- ing gold and chrome-iron. 'Occasional- ly it is discovered in the form of nug- gets, which are naturally. extreniely valuable. A 25-pound nugget of platl- num would at the present time be | worth over $30,000, It is found gener ally in river deposits in Rugsia and in the republics of Columbia and Brasil, In South America. Borneo, the West Indies, Australia, and the United States also contain smaller deposits of the valuable metal. Previous to the rule of the Bolshe- viks, Russia supplied ninety per cent. of the world's platinum, but to-day the .| main supply comes from Colombia. « The uses to which platinum fs i are almost countless. It is essenti to science and chemistry, a8 16 1s em- ployed to make crucibles, k only metal that will stand tense heat without melting. is it affected in any way by the of chemicals - that would eats other metals. In the manufacture most electrical and "telescopic instru ments it is also indispensable; as it 'can be drawn out into the thinnest | wire without snapping. " Platinum is used In 'the making of sulphuric acid, and consequently it is = - '| absolutely necessary for the manufac. | ture of high explosives. . Dentists: owe a great debt to plath- num, as it enables them: to fit arti , | ficial teeth with plates and rivets '| which do not tarnish or oxidise, Thin platinum plates have been used within recent years for makng artificial roofs for the mouths of soldiers and others . y | suftering from facial injuries, It fs ASK YOUR HARDWARE MAN FOR A444" | the only metal over which wounds will * : Bogle dit-Poutle Bit ST Lele SE 5 Any Shope-Any Weigh Filed Ee : Lake That Sharpens Razors. One of the most curious lakes in world is to be found in-Ireland. This lake has the power of petrify- ing any substance that 'may fall into it. Of course, the petrifaction 1s not 'absolute, but. the substance is coated with a layer of stone, which is found Aissolved In the like, and the stone then hardens and forms a shell over the substance. ' A well-known cutlery firm in Eng- land Heard of this, and sent a man over to inspect it. 'He selected pever- al pleces of hard wood, which he sank with weights and then marked the | A fortnight lat {I took up two pleces of the wood. 'which [| he found to be partly petrified. Two Weeks after he drew up th Fleck, and found each piece to b about it. " "" man, | Lane rode to Olson's . place. and that 1s "a wonder still." We rear a oming and wanted to sell some regis-| lives are fed by the expectation of gE ied Bg 80 meeting them once more and giving crops with sardonic bitterness, "Do T| ter or for worse. But they are not way) Took. like I could buy registered|liere. What precious thing have we jranchman off. He said that the crops climb" into the fold?" *The only things we can keep with swindle. Olson was not a forelgner,| things that never had a market vale. He had been born in Minnesota and|It is not the wood and stone of the nd attended the public schools. He spoke| houses made with hands or of the an a nglish idiomatically and without an| monoliths and pyramids that endure. ncle, accent. The man was a tall, gaunt, | We can keep and hand down to those ng broad-shouldered Scandinavian of| who come after us a creed of kindll- who More than average intelligence. ness and charity, a sense of honor, a you. ' red of the man or the bitterness which OL others, 'an 'affectionate loyalty in "Cunningham got his! Suits me! reliance. These are not to die when was Hull for it!" he cried vindictively. | mingle with the dust. These shall out- did it," suggested Kirby, to draw| filled our little day on earth between the morning Star and eventide. These | shall bring true the dreams whose ful- |, fillment was denied us, and these shall n. "That 80? Mebbe there's evidence you don't know about." The words had tensely and breathlessly, Ol- NRhiom son i at the man on the Sora power him, A film of suspicion spread over The earth is 02,800,000 miles f: | the pupils beneath the Re ra ' the sun. Tr : % from eyebrows, "I ain't sayin' so. All I'm th a & Hull did it." Yed "Mebbe some one saw him do it. 8 Folks don't tell all they know." Olson Niles) am. He'll get out all right." th | "Will he? There's a'girl under sus- © picion, too. She had no more to do about any girl," Olson answered sul- enly. : "No, it hasn't got to the papers yet, But it will. It's up to ry pan Toe knows anything about this to come his clean." lie.| "Is it?" The farmer looked bleakly } What Is Your Fe Instrument? VIOLIN -- SAXOPHONE -- CORNET BANJO -- MANDOLIN OR FLUTE | Haven't you often wished that you could play a Saxophone, a Violin, Mando- a lot of interest in this. - Who are you, anyhow?" 'My name is Kirby Lane," 'Nephew of the old man?" "Yes." In the 4 un-| Olson gave a snort of dry, splenetic laughter. "And you're out here sellin' "I have some for sale. But that's by lin or Cornet? Bend for our new catalog. OWS _exa : ; . . reproductions of all the popular home instru- "IT wanted to have a look at the man ; : ments. It explains how easily you can own f the Instrument you like best through our fr . plan of RA ' (the Scandinavian, his blue eyes hard) he ever came to Dry Valley again." oh face before anger began to gather 4 ATo be continued.) m1!