Lincoln County leader., April 17, 1908, Image 6

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The man who wants his hide tnnefl
when he dies may not have to wait so
long.
Several 2-cent fare bills, never used
and as good as new, are on the market,
if anybody Is looking for such things.
No doubt there are plenty of men
who agree with young Mr. Rockefeller
that It Is unwise to loan money to one's
friends.
The extent to whlcn a prohibition
law is being enforced can always be
judged by the falling oft In the demand
,or cloves.
Critics say that the Pacific fleet Is
not fit to go Into a fight, but they would
probably have difficulty In making
Spain believe It
Another new book Is entitled "Ifs of
History." It will be followed In due
time, presumably, by "Ands of History"
and "Buta of History."
. Testa's long silence Is ominous Per
haps be Is evolving a scheme for mak
ing absolutely fireproof houses by pour
"ng melted asbestos Into molds.
The Japanese minister of finance Is
said to have made a mistake of $20,
000,000 In the annual budget. Sounds
like an American municipal Incident.
The Pullman Company has given Its
ronductors and porters a $200,000 tip
for being polite, but the dear public
need not lninglne that It can keep Its
change In Its pocket
Count Szechenyl says he won't need
any of Miss Vanderbllt's money be
cause he has an annual Income of $70,
000 of his own. The count must be
planning to live somewhere else than
In New York.
The only really objectionable feature
of these 'foreign marriages, In the opin
ion of many persons, Is that they af
ford Congressmen of a certain type the
opportunity to harangue the unresisting
air with mortifying gush about "his
majesty the American citizen."
Through some unaccountable over
tgbt the spelling manglers neglected
to change "sleighing" to "slaying,"
thereby saving two letters. The slight
confusion likely to arise from making
two words of different meanings ex
actly alike never bothers your true
spelling "reformer."
A touch of nature that makes society
.kin to the young and the poor appears
In the new diversion of fashionable peo
ple, winter lawn-parties. They are
given at the summer' places. A part
of the lawn Is flooded for the use of
skaters, and tho rest, left unshoveled.
provides material for snowball battles,
the building of snow men, and other
seasonable sports that have always
been dear to the heart of youth. The
one discordant note In the descriptions
of the festivities Is sounded by the
statement that "foot-warmers are sup
plied to the less athletic."
The men In the life-saving service
risk their Uvea In these years of peace
as the soldiers of the army and men
of the marines and the navy do In time
of war. During most of the year they
are In constant peril along our sea-
consta and the shores of our great lakes,
Their pay Is small. The President says
that the surfmen do not average more
than $50 a month. For this pittance
they constantly face death to save the
lives of shipwrecked mariners and Im
pel lied passengers. Thousands are pre
served annually by them from watery
graves, and millions of dollars of prop
erty rescued from destruction. If sol
diers and sailors of army and navy
are worthy of retirement pay at a
tated age, the men of the life-saving
service are even more entitled to It
There never was an old-fashioned
father any more than there Is a new
fashioned father. There is no fashion
In goodness, no style In badness. The
father of to-day Is much the same as
Adam and his sons are much the same
as Cain, Abel and Seth. You will find
the father of to?day like the father of
yesterday, proud of his sons and fool
Ish about bis daughters ; shocked when
he learns any of them want to get
- married ; unable to see that any young
man Is quite good enough for Martha ;
pained to discover that the young men
of to-day are not what young men
were when he was a young man; In
clined to think that bis silver-haired
wife, who baa held hypnotic sway over
his very soul ever since they were mar
ried, would ba lost without his hand
on tho helm of home Oh, .the old.
fatrtikmed father la here, dqp't worry,
and bo lat bard to find. Ho Is your
fatter, mabo ho H yon, yoofwlf, and
Gc Is bo roasos) for asking what has
become of him or what Is going to
become of him, because be always baa
been and always will be, world with
out end.
In the beginning, as both Holy Writ
and the scientists tell us, the waters
covered all the surface of our planet
and the land rose up out of the waters.
And, If the waters have their way, ap
parently they will, In the course of
time, again cover our globe. For the
attacks of old ocean upon the land
are Incessant the world over, and in
the aggregate enormously successful.
In this country, the data of the Uni
ted States coast survey show that the
sea has advanced In the last thirty
two years an average of 545 feet along
the coast of Long Beach, south of
Barnegat Inlet. Oh Belize bayou, a
former outlet of the Mississippi River,
the Spaniards built a fort 200 years
ago ; our engineers found the sea water
ten feet deep over the doorslll of the
magazine. Aug. 10, 1850, a sudden
storm burst upon the Oulf of Mexico
and overwhelmed L'Isle Dernlere, the
favorite summer resort of the oldest
and richest Creole families of New Or
leans. Belgium spent the sum of $14,-
300,850 for protection from the sea
from 1002 to 1004, and is now prepar
ing to build a sea wall the whole
length of Its coast as the price ol
safety. At point de Grave , Franco,
on the left bank of the Glronde,
the lighthouse has been moved back
three times to save it from the
waves. Heiiguiuud wlilcii lu Liie
eleventh century was an Island
with an aera of 670 square miles,
Is now reduced to a mere rock, less
than two miles long and 2,000 feel
wide. Prosperous villages on the map
of Holland In 1571 are now nearly a
mile out at sea. The British isles are
apparently the worst sufferers, and
England is especially unfortunate.
There the encroachments of the sea
are so serious that a royal 'commis
sion on coast erosion has been appoint
ed, and parliament is to take up the
question of combating the ocean. Eng
land bos surrendered to the sea 524
square miles of good land In the last
thousand years. For the last forty
years the average loss has been 1,523
acres. And the loss Is increasing year
by year. England Is an old country
with unbroken records and there Is no
guesswork about these losses. Many
historical towns, such as Ravensburgh,
where Henry IV. landed in 1839, are
entirely gone. There Is an anchorage
of Seteey, Sussex, which is still called
"The Park," because It was a royal
deer park In the reign of Henry VII.
The Godwin Sands, so dreaded by navi
gators, were once the 4.000-acre estate
of Earl Godwin. Minster church In
Kent two miles Inland a century ago,
is now on the beach. Reculver, also In
Kent, was an Important military post
in the Roman, day and stood one mile
from the sea; now the site is under
water and all that is left of It Is the
two towers of the cathedral. 'The
famous St Michael's mount, near Pen'
en nee, Cornwall, Is now an Insular
rock; once It stood In a forest several
miles from the sea Off the Yorkshire
coast are no fewer than twelve sub
merged towns and villages. From al
most every point on the coast of Eng
land comes the cry to the government
for help. The efforts of private own
ers have proved unavailing against the
attacks of the sea. Sea walls and pro
tective works of all kinds have suc
cumbed, even where the cost of such
works has been three times the value
of the land protected.
WHISTLER AND HONEY.
The Er ceil trio Artlat'a Utter Lack
of Bualneaa Inatlnct.
The Dundee Advertiser tells a story
illustrating Whistler's forgerfulness
and utter lack of business Instinct
Being hard pressed for a debt and hav
ing finally been Informed be would be
sued unless a check for the amount
was sent by return post the artist
mentioned the matter to one of his
friends who lived near him. Explain
ing that he had a few pounds lu the
bank, the exact sum unknown, he re
quested his friend to stop at the bank
on the way to business to ascertain
what was required to make his ac
count good for a check of slightly over
$00 and to deposit that amount for him
as a loan.
The friend was quite willing and in
due time stood at the cashier's desk
of Whistler's bank asking the amount
of his balance and explaining the er
rand. The cashier was interested. He
went to the big book of balances, turn
ed over a few pages, wrote down some
figures and in a moment placed them
before the astonished friend. Whis
tler's balance was more than $30,000.
The artlBt was delighted, but found
It difficult to remember when he had
deposited so much money or where he
bad got It
Life.
Knlcker All the world's a stage.
Bocker Yes ; but wo are commuters
who can nover stay to see tho last act
Judg.
If th past has taken fairly good
car. of Itself, tho future, may-bo ok
"cto4 to do squally wo"
Heater and Cooker.
The cheapest and most economical
heater' ever used was one of my own
construction. -1 made a frame of 2x8
Inch pine seven feet long and twenty
seven Inches wide. I put a bottom on
this of No. 18 galvanized iron, letting
It project one-half Inch in each side
and fourteen Inches at one end for a
stove-pipe fitting. I spiked the frame
together and covered the corners with
heavy tins to prevent any leaking. The
bottom was nailed on with two rows
of eight-penny nails.
I made a fireplace on the ground of
stone and blue clay, two feet wide by
three feet long and eighteen Inches
LIk'u. 1 Uiuu piled up ulit one fact
high and three feet wide at the end
of the fireplace for a flue, put stone
on the earth the length of the galvan
ized Iron, placed the tank on the foun
dation and banked It up with dirt In
cutting a hole for the stovepipe I turn
ed up strips of the galvanized iron for
a collar, then drove an Iron rod Into
the ground, put on two lengths of
stovepipe and wired It fast to the rod.
A piece of sheet iron was set up be
fore the fireplace to control the draft
and keep the fire. '
Tills beater was located near the
windmill and storage tank and I could
fill It from either. I could heat the
water quickly with cornstalks, straw,
cobs, brush or trash. I boiled pump
kins and small potatoes for fattening
the pigs, and cooked ground feed by
pouring scalding water on the meal In
barrels and covering with old blankets
or carpets. One light fire would take
the chill from Ice water for the milch
cows. I regretted that I did not make
It of twelve-Inch plank, as that would
have Increased Its capacity one-third
and furnished warm water for all my
stock.
I found constant use for this small
tank the year round, continues the
writer In Farm and Home. I cut off
the projecting part of sheet Iron where
the stovepipe fitted on and left It on
the foundation, while I moved the tank
about and used it . for various pur
poses. For a time I used It In a sheep
pasture, then to mix mortar In while
building, then as a pond for little
ducks, as I could easily tip It over
and put In fresh water with a hose
every day.
Shredded Corn. '
When corn is husked and the stover
shredded at a very slight Increase In
cost Iver that of huSklng by hand, the
practice must commend Itself to evry
farmer on account of the greater con
venience with which the material may
be bandied and fed, and the ability to
preserve the material from damage by
rains, etc., says Director H. J. Waters,
Missouri experiment station. Not only
so, but the greatest single objection to
the present method of handling stover
Is the difficulty of getting it out of the
field during the winter and early spring
months without Injury to the land and
the growing wheat crop, which is often
sown In the corn In autumn.
Moreover, shredding undoubtedly re
lieves the farmer of one of the most
disagreeable tasks on the farm the
handling of1 the coarse stalks In bad
weather, and relief from the necessity
of digging this material out of the snow
In winter. Likewise, It also makes it
possible to feed the material under a
shed or In the barn, using the portion
refused by stock for bedding, and still
have the manure In a condition to bo
handled easily by a manure spreader.
Tho Educated Farmer.
A fanner needs more education than
either a physician or a lawyer, for he
has need In his business of a knowl
edge more or less complete of all the
natural sciences, and hlo la tho only
occupation that deals with the sciences.
That education drives the young man
from the. farm proves, nothing except
that all men cannot bo fanners, tor iro
I WATEB TANK AND COOKIB.
must have all the trades and profes
sions filled. But agriculture Is mor
Important than all other callings com
bined, for the farmer feeds and clothe
the world. Therefore the better the
farmer knows bis business the better
will the world be clothed and fed.
Specka In Butter.
The white specks In butter may be
caused by one or two things. Some
times when the cream is set in shallow
pans or if the cow does not give very
rich milk and the scum of cream is
thin, little particles of cream on the
top of the scum 'will dry and do not
churn Into the butter, but will remain
In their hard state and either show
specks In the butter or come to the top
of the water In wasting. The trouble
can be hindered by straining the crean?
before churning.
The other way is caused from leav
ing the cream stand too long before
churning. If a little of the milk li
skimmed off each time with the cream,
this will, of course, settle to the bot
tom. There It gets overripe and forms
a curd that will be bo hard that It will
not break up in the churning, but
makes white specks in the butter.
This can be hindered by a closer skim
ming and by not allowing the cream
to stand as long before churning.
Straining the cream is also beneficial
In this case.
Stndr Blatter of Feeda.
When grain Is high In price, the
raiser of stocks needs to study the mat
ter of feed more than at any other time.
It does not pay to give foods that
merely fill up, and that Is what tb
temptation is In times when prices art
Inflated for the most valuable feeda
The man that understands the con
stitution of feeds will generally find he
can beat the high prices by raising
some kind of a crop that will give him
a big supply of cheap feed. Thus, the
man that has a good blue grass pasture
can conserve It, fertilize it and make
It produce a very large amount of nu
tritious feed that will, for some of hit
stock, make it possible to greatly cut
down on the grain ration, though this
cannot be cut out entirely. The men
that have been feeding corn extensively
to steers will have to balance that corn
with clover, alfalfa, soy beans or some
thing else to decrease the amount ol
corn used, for protein In corn comet
very high, on account of the large
amount of starch that has to be paW
for to get a little protein.
Good Manger Arrangement.
The sketch shows my bay and grain
rack for cows, which is a great help
when these two feeds are given at the
same time, writes a farmer In Farm
and Home. The hay Is put in space a,
SECTION OF COW STALL.
and then the grain Is poured in at b,
and the cow eats it at c. ' The part
of the rack holding the hay may be
made of slats and will thus be easier
to keep clean. Both of these racks
are kept In place by 2x3 strips run
ulng lengthwise of the manger. Many
dairymen are using this device and
find It all right
Farm Notea.
Full feed and light work has ruined
many a good horse.
Cream kept too long may become
bitter and be full of white flakes.
Oats are good for laying hens. Do
not be afraid they will eat too many of
them.
Sheep are a persistent agency of Im
provement to the land on the farms
where they are kept
Success in livestock raising depends
on producing a better strain of animals
with each breeding.
Eggs are better than birds to start
duck farming, because they can be
shipped with no danger of Injury.
Try a hoe for mixing the shorts or
any feed that gets pasty when mixed
with water. Makes the task easier.
Variety of food Is a good anDeticM-
There is no class of stock which likes
the same ration month In and month
out
Removable perches may bo kerosene
and burned over at a safe distance
from the poultry house, and all vermin
destroyed by lire.
The price of a bono grinder Is not
great but It Is sometimes unhandy or
Impossible to get a -good supply of
bones. It Is a good' Scheme to make ar
rangements - with, a tmtoker for bone
beforo buying tho Brtnder.
AMERICA'S OLDEST NEWSBOY.
Onumn Paare of Joltet, 111., Ia
Credited with Thla Dlatlnetlon.
Orasmus Page, of Joliet 111., credited
with being the oldest newsboy in the
United States, a claim which has never
been disputed, recently celebrated his
one hundredth birthday anniversary,
for the past fifteen years he has been
engaged in the sale of papers. Mr.
Page was born Feb. 11, 1808, and dur
ing the past twenty years has been a
resident of Joliet. Despite bis age and
the fact that he has but one leg the
other was lost In a threshing machine
accident many years ngo-he is active
and has built up a -thriving business.
Mr. Page comes of a family that Is
noted for Its longevity. One grand
father died at the age of 103 ; a grand
mother at 105. His father succumbed
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ORABUCS PAGE.
to injuries at the age of 86. Ills mother
was 78 when she died. Mrs. Page Is
twenty years younger than her hus
band. They have been married sixty
one years and have five children liv
ing, all of whom are married. There
are fourteen grandchildren and eight
great-grandchildren.
The Flying Fox.
The flying fox is a very curious li
habitant of the forest near Moreton
bay, In East Australia. It lives In
flocks and moves generally toward the
dusk of the evening, and the noise pro-,
duced by the heavy flapping of the so
called wings la very singular. The
flocks like quiet places, where there
are large araucarlan pine trees, with
an underwood of scrub and creepers.
The foxes hang In great numbers from
horizontal branches of the pine trees.
When there Is a clear Bpace among
the trees an enormous number of the
animals may be seen, and their noise
can be heard, for directly they see any
thing unusual they utter a short bark,
something like the sound made by
young rooks. Often every branch Is
crowded, and the young foxes are seen
either flapping their wings and holding
on with their hind feet and with their
heads downward, or snarling and fight
ing for places.
Suddenly the whole take to flight
and flap their furry, winglike sides and
wheel around like heavy birds. Many
fly with their young holding on to
them.
The creature 1b not a true fox, and
there Is a fold of skin which reaches
from the fore to the hind legs. This Is
called the wing, and It enables the
pteropus, as the animal Is called, to
float and turn In the air. -
Hla Honeymoon Feeling.
"Jedge," said the old colored citizen,
"how much fer a license ter git mar
ried? "Want it for yourself?"
"Yes, suh. You see, I gittln' mighty
old now."
"That's evident Then why do you
wish to marry?"
"Well, Jedge, ter tell de truth, some
body gimme a long coat a linen collar
en a walkln' cane, en I knows a 'ooman
what says she kin make a Hvin' fer
me, en I feela des lak' a honeymoon!"
Atlanta Constitution.
Alwara Will.
"Don't you believe that all men are
born free and equal?"
"Yes. but moot of them, ret
and spoil It all" Houston Poet
A woman should believe no man nn.
til sheJs married; and then she should
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