Paradise Valley a Genuine Winter Resort
Old-Fashioned Home Combined With
Modern Dress and Conveniences
ORCHARD
I GLEANINGS
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DISCUSSIONS OF
BERRY DISEASES
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When the visitors go to Paradise
valley th is winter, which Is 5,500
feet up thb side of Mt. Itainler.
they e n te r the second or third story
windows of P uradlse Inn, as the
fam ous hotel Is burled under 00
or CO feet of snow.
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Romance of Sea
Rivals Fiction
C an adian
Firem an
W ho
S aved T itan ic B ab e B e
com es H eir to M illions.
It Is enough for me to say th a t the
next morning we w ere picked up by
the Carpathlu and th a t the baby was
still safe and sound.
"On the C urpalhla they tried to take
the child from me, but I had given my
word to deliver It to Its grandparents
and I meant to keep It. The child was
well cared for, of course, und a fte r we
reached New York I took It ashore
with me and then back to England,
w here I was met by the g randparents
a t Liverpool and handed her over to
them. At the time 1 was well com
pensated linunciully, and a fte r the
W ashington aud Southam pton in
quiries, at both of which I gave evi
dence, I returned to my calling ou the
sea.
"T he grandparents would w rite me
and send me money on the T itan ic’s
anniversary, but It wus not until the
wur tliut 1 suw them ugalu. It wus
about six yeurs a fte r the Tltunlc'a
sinking th a t I wus In hospital wound
ed. When I wus discharged I wus
given a fortnight's leave und I went
to spend it In Loudon In the Uulon
Jack club. 1 hud uotlibig to do there
so I thought I would call for the first
tim e on the buby's grandparents, for
I bud been often Invited when In Lon
don to do so.
Toronto, O nt.—Heir to $2.000,000
and guardian of a girl of fourteen
whom as au Infant he saved when the
T ltnnlc went down In 1012 Is the hap
py fate which, according to his own
story, lias befallen John Jam es, a fire
man employed In oue of Toronto's
pumping stations.
A few days ago
Jam es left for Englund for the pur-
(M>se, he said, of concluding legal for
malities.
Among John Jnm es' associates his
story Is accepted a t Its face value, for
they have known him for many years
as a trustw orthy workman and a man
<rf Ills word. Among others th ere Is
skepticism pending hts retu rn from
England with Ills millions aud hla
ward.
John Jam es' story In any case stands
unrivaled among romances of th e sea.
H ere It Is In his own w ords:
"I hud shipped on the Tltnnlc as a
seumun under the name of John
Jones. I did not use my own iiume
because of a previous disagreem ent at
the company’s employment office.
‘‘When the vessel struck the 'growl
er' I took my station beside No. 8 bout. •I-1 I I I I I I I I I 'l l l
l l l
Receives Charge of Baby.
"It wus as the passengers were get
: B aby W ar R efu g e e
ting Into the bout th at I received
Is M ade H eiress
charge of the baby, who has been re
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London. — Fourteen-year-old
sponsible for th e events which have
Marie Suz.ette Stevenson, u tiny
happened recently.
• Belgian refugee from the war-
“A num ber of women had got Into
; torn fields of Europe 12 years
th e boat. I rem ember they Included
- ago, Is n B ritish heiress as a
Mrs. J. J. Astor and Lady Itolhe, when
result of th at sam e w ar which
a woman currying a baby In her arm s
■ spread misery and ruin across
cam e forward, lle r husband and two
half of Europe.
other little children were with her.
•
Suzette w as horn In Belgium,
Kite first handed me the child and
, w here her fath er was an urtisan.
then, on leurnlng th a t her husband
’ When the nations leaped at one
could not accompany her, refused to go
. an o th er’s throats, she was two
herself. The other two chlldreu stayed
; years old. H er fath er went to
with th eir mother, and I wus handed a
. the front and along with tliou-
sum of money and an address In Lon
’ sands of other refugees, Suzette
don, with Instructions th u t should any
• was brought to Englund.
thing huppen I was to deliver the child
I
A fairy wand waved over the
to th at uddress. 1 wus told I was
• humdrum refugees' eniup one
keeping (he baby for ex tra precaution.
I day. Suzette was scarcely old
None of us dream ed for a moment the
• enough Io see It. Ixird and Lady
T itan ic would sink.
Stevenson stepped out of th eir
"We lowered away and pulled off
• limousine In search of a child to
from the doomed vessel.
. gladden th eir home The wand
"Each hour I made each passenger
; pointed to flaxen haired Suzette
take a teaspoonful of rum and I took
. and she became their adopted
some myself. Il kept us alive, for
' daughter.
the cold, following the proxim ity of
■ For three years Suzette had
the Icebergs, w as intense and I was
filled the Stevenson home with
dressed only In canvas breeches and
r laughter. Lady Stevenson died
jersey. I had not even stioes on. I
In 1!»I7 But at her deathbed,
hud stowed the baby, wrapped up In
■ Lord Stevenson promised Sux-
my oilskins. In the boat's locker. Now
i elte would never w ant for any-
and again It would cry and I m oist
■ thing. The second Ixidy Steven-
ened Its lips with a little rum ami
. son, too, loved Suzette. A few
wuter. T h at, In tuy opinion, kept It
• m onths ago there came the death
alive.
. of I.ortl Stevenson, and his will,
Picked U p by th e C erpathla.
• Just made public, brings to Suz-
"It w as terrib le when the passen
. ette a legacy of $125,000 which
gers In the boat realized (he glunt
; Is all her very own.
vessel was gone. The tragedy has
been sufficiently w ritten about, and
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DETROIT WORKER INHERITS
LARGE AUSTRIAN ESTATE
e s tra n g e d F ro m P aren ts Since I t t i
H s A rriv e s H om s In T im e to
Save P ro perty.
fietro lt. Mich.—Estranged from his
p aren ts since B ill over n trlvlnl q u ar
rel. E rnest Meuser, an A ustrian me
chanic. who has made his home here
since th a t time, returned to hla for
m er home In St. Polten he I Wien,
n ear Vienna, last month Just In time
to claim the valuable esta te of hla fa
ther. which would have passed Into
th e hands of a d istan t relative at tha
end of th is year.
fietalla o f th e death of his paren ts
while he was In America and Inform a
tion regarding th e e sta te reached here
leeen tly In a le tte r received by Meu
se r’» American wife, who Indirectly
w as th e cause of Ills retu rn to Austria.
T he m a rre l th at caused young Meo
ser to leave his home at the age of
eighteen was an Inconsequential m at
ter. Mrs. Meuser said, hut the young
man took It deeply to heart ami never
corresponded with his parents. Four
years ago he m arried. D uring th e
Inst year or two his health fulled Mrs.
Meuser believed her husband’s III
health w as caused by Ids w orrying
over his estrangem ent from his p a r
ents and some w eeks ago, unknown to
him, she wrote to his mother.
It was returned to th e Vienna post
office marked "A ddressee dead," and
was opened by the postal authorities.
From It th e A ustrian auth o rities
learned of M euser's address here and
they wrote to him telling him th at his
fath er hail died soon a fte r the World
w ar and his m other about two years
ago.
By his m other's will, all the prop
erty, consisting of valuable m anufac
turing plants, w as left to a distan t
relative unless the son claimed It be
"I weut down by bus and, of course,
I was w earing my sailor’s uniform.
When I arrived at the address I w as
surprised a t th e size aud Imposing
front of the house I bad come to v is it
M ustering up my courage I rung the
bell aud when the door w as opened
by u butler asked to see the lady of
the bouse. He viewed me w ith ap-
parent doubt and then rem arked th a t
the Indy of th e house w as not at
home.
“ "Take her my nam e,' I said, 'I
know she will see me.’
“He w as about to close th e door
when a little girl w alked from a room
to the left of the g reat hall across It
She was dressed In white, und as she
crossed she saw me. She stopped and
looked a t me fo r a long moment.
" 'W h a t Is your nam e?’ she asked
me, and I told her,
’’ ’M artin,’ she said, ’kindly let the
gentlem an in. I know him and grand
m other will see him.’
“I wus taken inside, w here an old
lady wus sittin g reading. I Introduced
myself and to my consternation she
kissed me.
’Send for Mrs. M artin,’ she or
dered the b utler. ‘Mr. Jam es will stay
with me.'
Spends F o rtn ig h t a t House.
"I dem urred, but she Insisted and
the whole of my fortnight's leave wus
spent In th u t w onderful house. Each
day we would drive to the th eater or
some en tertain m en t or other, while I
met many people at her home. You
can guess I w as not entirely con»
fortuhle, but I gradually got used to
the new luxury and my leuve expired
alm ost before it had begun, so to
speak. T hen I went back to the sea
again. A fter the wur, w ith £500 the
old lady gam e me, I cam e to Canada
and stu rted n»y new life here."
Now, according to Jam es, the grand
m other Is dead und be lias been notl-
lied thut be must assum e guardianship
of the child and Is heir to an estute
th at Is valued a t $2,000,000.
An em bnrrasslng chunge in bis mode
of life Is entailed but Jam es thinks be
can best bridge the gulf by becoming u
gentlemun farm er, an old ambition
with him.
In any case, be says, he will not
abandon Cunuda or bis friends at the
city bull and elsew here in Toronto
S a lted W h a le s’ T a ils
D e lic a c y to Jap an ese
Tacoma, W ash.—O ver la Japan
th ere Is no w orry over the shortuge
of turkeys for th e holiday season for
during th e lust week 170,000 pounds
of suited whules' tails have been ex
ported to th a t country. T he whale
tails. In g reat dem and there, came
from the various w haling stations on
the north Paclflc Alaskan coast and
represent a value of over $41,000,
w hereas a few y ears ago they were
discarded o r worked over Into low
grade fertilizer.
F a stest B oat
Berlin.—A speed of »14.78 miles so
hour has been ohtnlned with w hat Is
claimed to be the fastest motor hoal
In the world. In the tr la ls rn e a r Pots
dam, the s|»eed boat, which Is calle«
Nameless, surpassed nil guarantees ot
(he Potsdam builders. It Is .8.8 feet
long and driven by two 200-horsepow
er motors.
fore the end of the present year. On
receipt of this Inform ation. Meuser at
once left for A ustria and arrtv«>d at
St. Poleu the end of last month, In
tim e to establish hla Identity a id
claim the estates.
M rs . Meuser Is arranging to Join
her husband In A ustria.
Fam oua “B ig B en ” C racked,
R ad io Fans D etect F law
London, England — Big Ben Is
crick ed Most all rndlo fans who have
heard on th eir seta th e clock strike
the hours from the W estm inster tow er
thought th ere w as a flaw In the hell
and this Is confirmed by W. Bough ton
of the Ancient College of Youths, Eng
lan d 's oldest hellrtnglng fraternity.
H e says professional bell ringers
agree th a t Big Ben Is so cracked "th at
you can stick your arm through the
The D epartm ent of A griculture has
Just issued a report on “D iseases of
Raspberries and B lackberries," of
which B. O. Dodge, pathologist, and
It. B. Wilcox, assistant pathologist,
office of fruit diseases, bureau of plant
Industry, are the authors.
The report Includes discussions of
mosaic and related disease of rasp
berries, fungous diseases of rasp b er
ries nnd dew berries, und suggestions
for preparing bordeuux m ixture aud
lime-sulphur solution.
The text of the introductory p a ra
graph follows:
Most of the diseases of rasp b erries
nnd blackberries a re caused by fungi.
The usual sym ptom s by which each
disease may be recognized a re fairly
well marked.
C ertain other diseases, such as
mosaic and leaf curl, though they are
of an Infectious nature, are not known
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to he caused by fungi or other organ
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isms. They occur throughout the
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range of the raspberries and a re be
coming so serious In some places us
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to necessitate th e replacem ent of
susceptible varieties with o th er so rts
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of berries which are more resistan t.
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j The more im portant fungous und
virus diseases of raspberries aud black
berries of the U nited S tates a re de
scribed and Illu strated In this bulle
tin, and practical m ethods for th eir
control, when known, ure given.
R aspberries, blackberries, and th eir
relatives, representing different spe
cies of the genus llubus, differ as to
their huhits of grow th. On this ac
count nlone th e ir horticultural varie
ties might differ widely with regard to
their susceptibility to a p articu lar dis
ease. These berries are grown as g a r
den crops throughout the United
S tates and comm ercially In many fa
vorable localities.
It Is clear th a t methods worked out
f i r controlling a disease of raspber
ries In Michigan would not necessarily
prove satisfactory In controlling the
sam e disease ou dew berries as grown
In Georgia. It Is proposed to discuss
the diseases of raspberries and black
berries separately, although In some
cases th eir h o rticu ltu ral varieties may
all be subject to certain of th e dis
eases to be considered.
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Prune Grapes Properly
to Secure Finest Fruit
“G rapes must be pruned to produce
the best fruit," says Prof. Joseph Os-
karnp of the New York S tate College
of A griculture a t Ithaca, “T his prun-
lug is done mainly during the w in te r;
some of the principles Involved are
th at a com paratively few canes of the
past sum m er’s grow th should be le ft;
th a t a m ature grapevine should not
carry more than Ihlrty or forty buds;
and th at older vines should have th eir
canes spurred n ear the trunk In order
to kt*ep from developing long arm s of
old wood.
“At planting time, nnd the year a f t
er, young grapevines should he cut
buck to two buds and tied to stakes
for support. T he second sum m er each
vine should send out a cane long
enough to he tl«*xl to the top w ire of
a trellis. T his trellis. If a Kniffen
system of training Is used, should
have two wires, one at a height of
five feet and th e other three feet
from the ground. Number nine or ten
wire Is generally used mid strung
ou posts set 25 feet apart.
"In the sum m er a fte r the third
pruning, canes will develop from the
oue tall trunk left, nnd all of these
should he removed In (he w inter p ru n
ing except two nt the top wire and
two at the low er w ire; these four
canes should he tied to the w ires
to the right and left at right angles
to the upright trunk, and should be
cut back to four buds each."
Good Plan to Propagate
Various Kinds of Plants
It Is an easy m atter to propagate
many kinds of plants. During the
w inter take cuttings of cu rran ts,
gooseberries, grapes und various kinds
of (lowering shrubs. These cuttings
should be from wood thut w as growu
the previous sum mer. These should
he takeu a fler some severe w eather
and before the sap begins to rise In
the spring. Tie them lu bundles, with
the b u tts nil oue way. N urserym en
cover the bundles with earth, with the
butts down. In an outdoor p it A cool
cellar will do Just us well If you use
a box thut Is deep enough to hold the
cuttlugs iu a vertical position. lu the
sprlug. set the cuttings In the ground
In good garden soil and keep them cul
tivated during the summer. The next
spring you will have plants to set out
or to sell. Usually, all th at la needed
to make them grow Is a fair supply of
moisture.
Use Fruits in Diet
Fam ily physicians everyw here rec
ommend the use of fru its In the d ie t
They nre conr.ldcred friends to health
and foes to dlsense. They are not only
foods, but tonics, condim ents and cos
metics nil In one. For exam ple; It
wonld he difficult for one to eat too
fra c tu re ."
many apples. Even a fter the h earti
est meal, there la alw ays room for
Pnpler-m ache pipes Introduced by another apple. Someone has said that
plenty of good apple» will keep the
an Englishm an nre said to absorb
practically all the nicotine as It Is pro- I children at home and keep the doctor
away.
ducod w ithin the bowl.
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Fir»t Floor Plan.
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By W. A. RADFORD
Mr W illia m A. R a d fo r d w ill a n s w e r
q u e s tio n » an d g iv e a d v ic e F R E E O F
C O 8T on a ll p r o b le m » p e r t a in in g to th e
s u b je c t o f b u ild in g , fo r th e r ea d er » o f
th is p ap er.
On a c c o u n t o f h is w id e
e x p e r ie n c e an e d ito r , a u t h o r a n d m a n
u f a c t u r e r , h e la. w it h o u t d o u b t, th e
h ig h e s t a u t h o r it y on th e s u b je c t. A d
d r e s s n il I n q u ir ie s to W illia m A. R a d
fo r d , No. 1827 P r a ir ie a v e n u e , C h ic a g o ,
fo r r ep ly .
Here Is the old-fashioned type of
house with u new dress.
Instead of
the usual clapboard siding, the outside
w alls nre covered with shingles; at one
end n sun room has been lidded. T here
Is a kitchen extension at the re a r and
, the ra fte r ends nre exposed. T he com
: bination m akes a very a ttra c tiv e and
, practical home, which Is In no way old-
fashioned. except In the best und most
desirable sense of the term.
As alw ays, the square plan affords
a large nm ount of useful space in
closed w ithin th e o u ter walls. The
floor plans show six rooms in addition
to the sun parlor, washroom nnd b ath
room. All of these are of a good size,
so (hat there is uo feeling of crumped
qunrters, and yet none nre so big as to
fall short of a homelike atm osphere.
T here is a service entrance a t the
rear, and a side en tran ce as well,
with both Inside nnd outside basem ent
stairs. The breakfast nook off the
kitchen Is In accord w ith the pres
ent-day dem and for g reater con
venience and reduced housework nnd
a pantry off the kitchen provides stor
age space for the household supplies,
tin the upper floor th ere a re three bed
room s and the bathroom.
T his house Is of fram e construction
and m easures 40 feet square. Including
the sun parlo r and vestibule, but not
the front porch. T he foundation 1»
of concrete and th ere is a basement
30 feet by 40 feet under the house,
providing plenty of room for storage
nnd a garage as well. If desired, since
the w ashroom has been taken care of
on the first floor.
J Check Losses of Heat
these openings and the heat created
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at great expense is lo s t
Through
Roof
of
Home
!
Not only does heat pass through
i E ngineers have found th at 02 per openings, It p en etrates readily the lay
J cent of the heat escaping from houses er of shingles and roof boards, which
leaves through the roof o r top-story offer only a m eager bar to It« pas
celling.
sage, nnd seeps out over the whole
T hat Is w here the great heat losses roof surface.
occur In w inter, and w here the excess
heat of sum m er pen etrates to make
upstairs rooms unheuruhly hot. The Sheathing Wall With
roof Is the place that Is cheating home
Insulation Not Costly
ow ners of com fort and of fuel money
Average figures show th a t you can
every year.
sheathe 1,000 square feet of wall area
Il is only necessary to hold one’s with Insulating lum ber for the sam«
hand over a hot rad iato r to establish cost as when using ordinary paper.
the fact th a t heated air rises, and as
It is an nccepteil fact th a t the appli
• his heated air strik es the celling it cation cost of Insulating lum ber Is usu
iraesm lts Its heat ou through to the ally one-half th a t of wood sheathing;
attic. Because the heated a ir Is al th a t there Is no loss w hatsoever In
ways found nt the celling line the using this product, as 1,000 squnre feet
tem perature difference between the of It will cover 1,000 square feet
outside and the Inside Is g reater there of wall surface, while lum ber alw ays
than along the walls. And this tem
has a considerable loss— usunlly In
perature difference Is the factor th at excess of 10 per cent, due to scant
governs heat losses.
cut, odd lengths, broken boards, etc.
Furtherm ore, there Is less resistance
T here Is no necessity of using a
to the flow of heat at the celling line building paper with Insulation lumber,
than In the walls, for only a thin lay because It has a great insulation value,
er of plaster separates top-floor rooms so (hot you can build a house at lower
from the attic, and above this there Is coat with it than If built with ordinary
little to stop heat from escaping. In wood lumber.
many otherw ise well-built houses one
an actually see daylight through the
spaces between ra fte rs a t the eave
Refreshing Change
line In th e attic.
One of the best and least cnatljr
It Is very difficult to m ake construc method« of effecting a refreshing
tion tight at this point, nnd when win change and adding l>eauty to tha
ter comes the cold air enter« through home Is the liberal uee of yrallpaper.