The Hennessey Clipper. (Hennessey, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 22, 1908 Page: 3 of 8
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WAGON TIRE DRAG.
Loop Together Four Old Iron Hoops
and Let Them Break Up the Clods.
CARE OF EARTH ROADS.
Treatment of a Clay Roadbed Oiffers
from One Composed of Sand.
On clay roads a thin layer of sand
gravel or ashes will prevent the slick
Ins of clay to the roller or to the
wheels of vehicles. Clay soils -s a
rule absorb water quite freely anil
soften when saturated, but water does
not pass through them readily. When
used alone clay is the least desirable
of all road materials, but roads com
posed of clay may be created with sand
The writer wlifle driving over the or small gravel from which a compara
northern portion of Arkansas observed tlvely hard anil compact mass i..
the drag shown in the illustration at formed, which is nearly impervious to
work. The tool was so much differ- water. Material of this character found
ent from anything we had ever seen in the natural slate commonly known
that we at once stopped and walked as "hriidpan" makes, when propcilj
one round with ihe driver, simply to r.pplied, a very solid and durable road
watch the drag grind up the clods. jn soils composed of a mixture ot sand.
While the cut is self explaining, and J gravel and clay all that is necessaij
it is easily seen that the drag is made to make a good road is to crown the
with four old wagon tire irons, the , surface and keep the ruts and holes
driver Informed us that the two front filled, and the ditahes open and Iree.
tires should be heavier than the two While clay alone never makes a
rear tires, and that sometimes he good road, except in dry weather
sand alone never makes a gcod road
except in wet. The more the diainage
of a sand road is Improved the more
deplorable becomes its condition. Noth-
ing will ruin one quicker than to dig
a ditch on each side and drain all Ihe
water away. The best way, therefore,
to make such a road firm is to keep it
constantly damp. This can be done by
planting shade trees along its sides
to prevent the evaporation of water,
or by growing upon the surface of such
j sand roads a thick turf, preferably
Bermuda grass. Roads running through
loose sand may be improved by mix
ing clay with the sand and slight 1>
crowning the surface.
For the temporary Improvement ol
earth or sand roads, any strong fibrous
substance, especially il it holds mois
ture, such as refuse of sugar cane or
sorghum, and even common sliaw,
flax, swamp grass or pine needles w
be useful. Spent tan bark Is some
times beneficial and wood fiber in ally
form is excellent. Enough sand or
earth should be thrown over such
*3Y
QOL/MT ERIC
VO/y ROcSEW
The Drag.
wired a log on the fronl tires, when
the ground was very lumpy. The four
tires were fastened together with , roads to keep them damp and pro-
short chains, and the evener fastened tect them from catching fire
with chains to the two front tires, as Earth is composed of small, irregu-
shown. We were later shewn one of lar fragments which touch each othei
these drags, fastened with open rings, at. points, leaving voids between
which appeared lo be preferable to the | When the earth is broken up and put
chains, continues Ihe writer in Wal- verlzed these voids are almost equal
lace's Farmer. The tires simply in volume to the solid particles, and as
ground the clods and lumps into a fine ! a result the earth will absorb almost
powder and left the surface of the j an equal volume of water. In the
field in better shape than any we j building or maintaining of earth roads
have ever seen. The drag is inex- j it is, therefore, vei> desirab e
: these small, irregular particles be
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JHOr 0!V THF THRMHOLD OF H/S HOrtt
mmxs/tsasm-msmTt
//y .JfARQrt OF J UPPER
STEEL KING GIVES $16,0C0.000 TO
HIS CHILDREN.
W. H. Singer of Pittsburg Places
Riches lo Extent of $4,CC0,000 at
Plate of Each Child on Occa-
sion of His Golden Wedding.
Pittsburg
\t the
llden ed*
CHURCH OF FEW WEDDINGS.
Only T\ao in Two Centuries Is Record
of London Edifice.
l*or don.—Two marriages only in
i wo centuries is a record which |h>s-
sibly but one church in the world can
claim. That church is St. Peter's,
Yer<? street, London. And yet St.
Peter's is oue of th«' most fashionable
I churches of London. The reason of its
record is curious. The church is not
licensed for marriages.
With the aid of a special license and
■ial proclamation and dispensa-
I -ling dinner of himself and wife. W. H. Hon, the archbishop of Canterbury, as
pensive and may possibly be of some
help to those who intend to sow wheat
or late cowpeas, etc.
FARM SURVEYS.
Within the last few years 1 have
njoyed any amount of experience in
bear hunting, mainly throughout Fin-
nish and Russian Karelen, where I
accounted for over a score or
more of these fascinating beasts. My
hunting in Finland and Russia has al-
ways been in winter time. The most
pleasurable hunting trip that I can
recall was one carried out 011 ski. The
starting-point for this, as for most of
my expeditions, was the little village
of Snojarvi, situated 011 the lake of
the same name, 14 Swedish (84 Eng-
lish) miles to the east of Wartsila,
in Finnish Karelen. A bear had been
ringed within four miles of this vil-
**iHger, an iron king, distributed $16.-
000.000 among his four children, each
getting $4,000,000 Through the tiling
3f certain papers in the Allegheny
county courthouse the other day this
camo out. it later was admitted by
the Singer family.
Mr. Singer invit I his children to
the family home, 934 Western avenue.
Alleyheny, to assist in celebrating his
golden wedding anniversary on May
27. None but the children was in-
vited. and each ojie found by his or
her plate a small dinner "favor" of
checks, bonds and deeds amounting to
$4,000,000 each.
The four children who receiv
these small gifts are as follows:
William Henry Singer. Jr., land-
scape painter, now In Norway, where
he spends most of his time.
George Singer, iron manufacturer of
Pittsburg, now in the White moun-
tains 011 his vacation.
Mrs. William Rots Proctor, wife of
a Philadelphia architect.
Marguerite Singer, a younger daugh-
ter, who resides at home.
Mrs. Singer, who has a fortune of
her own, received several pieces of
valuable real estate as her golden
wedding present.
Mr. Singer made his fortune as a
member of the famous iron firm of
athering of
a distinguished
ipii M ffiyi
2.. . . -'-^ytzsc
St. Peter's Church, London.
cle
UV FLIGHT ACROCS A FROZE# LAKE
ened out on his own doorstep with a
bullet through his brain.
Twice in my chase of ISruin I have
made use of a bear-spear as my weap-
on of attack; and some newspaper
writers in their search after copy have
rioted furiously over my methods, 1
may take this opportunity to main-
lage, and my friend Herr Sjogren, I tain that the use of the spear entails
pressed and packed into as small a
space as possible, in order that sur
plus water may not pass in and de-
stroy the stability of the road. To
this end rolling is very beneficial. The
work of maintaining dirt roads will be
How a Straight-Edge Board and Spirit much increased by lack of care
Level Can Be Used. properly rolling the surface.—Depart
ment of Agriculture Report.
A means of surveying for the farmer
without investment in any expensive, uawrcn
equipment has been offered by a col SERVICEABLE CLOTHES HANG .
respondent. This can be readily prac-
ticed by any one, and requires only a Something the Wife Will Find Han y
board with a straight edge and a spirit for the^Kitchen.
level The wav to go about it is this . _
First determine the only two points, Two pieces of pine one inch in di-
the levels of which you desire to de- ameter and 40 inches in length are re-
termine, and drive stakes in the ground, quired to maxe the simple device
Then take a board with an even edge shown in the accompanying illustra
and tack it to a tree, if one happens to
be available within the line of the two
stakes. Otherwise drive a third stake
In the ground between them. Put the
board at such a height that you can
readily sight over it, and carefully
level this board by means of the spirit
level. Then sight over it toward one
of the stakes, having some one at that
stake who will by means of a small
piece of paper locate the point at1
which your line of vision cuts it—in J
other words, where a line projected
from your sighting board would strike j
the stake. Make some sort of a mark
at this point, and then sight to the oth-
er stake in the same way, and mark
the point where the line would strike
it. By measuring distances that these
two points are above the ground you j
can get the difference in levels with
reasonable accuracy, says the Journal i
of Agriculture. For instance, if your j tjon
Making the Clothes Hanger.
, „„„. Small screws are fastened ir
line of vision has cut one stake eight | ^ enfjg o{ the sticks to which pieces
feet from the ground, and the other! o( wire 19 incbes long, are attached
one five feet from the ground, then ob-1 Twq otj,er pieces nine inches long arf
viously the difference in level is three a()(jert wjtj, loops bout in the ends,
feet, or, in other words, the vicinity of prom hook eyes in the ceiling sus
the stake on which the mark is live ; pen(J (wo wireK 32 inches long and loot
feet from the ground is three feet j them jn,0 the entls 0f ,he nine-inct
higher than the other stake, and you 1 wjres allowing the lower piece 01
will have a three foot fall from drain- j WOO(j !o hang even with the stove
ing from this point to the other. Such a device, says Prairie Farmer
' will also be found useful in a closet
of eellarway.
MOWING BRUSH.
RAISING ONION SETS.
A Suggestion to Women Folks for
Making a Little Pin Money.
Clean the Pastures and Seed Them t(
An easy way for a woman to make I Tame Grass.
a little money for herself is by raising I
onion sets from seed. To get the best j There is much time and strength
results the seed should be Ranted'] wasted where brush is mowed in the
late, using ground where an early j early part of the growing season
crop, such as peas or string jeans, j because the roots will at once sprout
has grown. The seedbed should be j and produce another crop. Tills is
made Arm and solid, and tie seed not true where the brushing Is done
planted thickly in wide rows, lightly j during the fall months.
covered and pressed down with a i There are many pastures so occu-
board j pied with brush that the grass can-
All weeds should be kept out. says | not gain a place in the soil. Get
the Farm and Home, hut no thinning after these Idle fields with a brush
Is done, as the object Is to crowd them
so that the onions, will not grow toe
large for sets. If the earth seems to
cover the bulbs entirely it should be
swept away from them with a broom
scythe and clear them as soon as
possible. Burn tho waste material
and seed the land to tame grass
which will make the idle acres us
B profitable as the clearings, declares
When sufficient growth has been ; the Northwestern Agriculturist. \\ here
land is selling for $50 to *100
per acre it should be productive of
grain or grass. Don't allow weeds or
made it is usually lato enough in the 5
season so that the tops die down nat
urally, but if they do not they should
be broken down by running a roller
over them. Soon after this they
should be dug and dried carefully, out
doors if possible, then stored In a
cool, dry place till spring. All gro-
cers handle them and It is not difficult
to find a market for all one [las to sell.
brush to occupy the same.
Raise Good Cafveg.
When a dairy calf can be ralsad iin
skim milk and sold from $30 to $100
at real age, It looks as If scrub stocv
were at a discount.
who had purchased the "ring," kindly
invited me, in company with the cele-
brated hunter, Capt. Bjorkenstam, to
take part in the hunt. Herr C. Bro-
berg, a nephew of Finland's foremost
bear hunter, Capt. Hook, offered to be
my interpreter, and I have had every
reason to congratulate myself on the
association thus begun with this in-
trepid hunter.
At dawn we left the village and
traversed the greater part of the dis-
tance in sledges. Then on ski we
came to a dense thicket wherein our
bear was surmised to have stowed
himself away" for his long winter's
nap. It had been ascertained that he
had taken up his quarters on "Bratt"
(i. e.. above ground, on a bed made
of moss and twigs with the trunk
of a fallen tree to roof him). Capt.
Bjorkenstam and 1 volunteered to
make our way into the dense brush-
wood and have a look round. 1 was
a few yards ahead of my friend, when
my eye was arrested by the sight of
some dark object • protruding from
beneath the shadow of a pine. I
grasped the fact with some tumultu-
ous thumping of the heart—for I was
serving my novitiate—that there
snuggled, unaware and unsuspecting,
the object of our call. I halted; our
visit was unexpected, unprepared for,
and the gentle soul might shyly de-
camp. Hastily I took aim and fired.
My bear as hastily vanished, melting
away with phantasmal precipitancy
into space. I ran to the charmed spot
where he had lain and searched eager-
ly for gory traces that might show
my bullet had not been misspent.
No trace was visible, but a plowed
furrow through the snow indicated
the direction he had taken. The long
fur of his coat had been my undoing
and my bullet had flow.i too high. I
followed hotly in pursuit with Bro-
berg at my heels, and a memorably
exciting race followed. At last, on
a more sparsely wooded tract, where
we could increase our speed con-
siderably, we sighted the broad back
of the runaway some yards ahead of
us. A grand spectacle he presented,
this great black furry object, floun-
dering with heavy tread through the
pure white snow, against the vast
shadowy background of stately pines
in their wintry dress. I opened fire;
the beast growled savagely, shook
himself painfully, yet doggedly pro-
ceeded on his course of retreat; tl#>n
my second bullet laid him prone. His
chase had lasted just three-quarters
of an hour.
Another bear had lodged himself
for the winter in a cave made by
himself in the bowels of mother earth
and under cover of a huge prostrate
pine. After locating him, I gave my
foresters the order to halt, and pro-
ceeded alone. Advancing cautiously,
so as not to disturb his slumbers, 1
hesitated some, moments over the fall-
en tree trunk, for round and about
its roots I noticed the snow was dis-
colored and of a brownish hue. I
guessed this to be the ventilator and
the entrance to the den. I announced
mv coming by repeated shouts, but Its
occupant mode no sign. 1 thereupon
called one of my men and bade him
fell a young tree, and use it as a stake
to stir up the sluggard. A formidable
roar was the immediate result of
these tactics; out rushed the land-
lord of the besieged premises with an
expression of countenance that spoke
of hospitable Intentions of the warm-
est description. 1 judged fit not to
no greater cruelty than any other
mode of attack, and that every hunt
er should be armed with one In re
serve, since these powerful beasts
have a vitality that triumphs over a
stray bullet or more, unless lodged
in a vital region; and when wounded,
their retaliation is redoubtable and
easily fatal.
In Karelen the bear is yet regarded
as a noxious horror. The great black
haired "Slagbjorn," or killing bear
is still rampant there, and a couple
of winters back 1 was able to wreak
justifiable vengeance on some beasts
that had killed over a score of cows
and nhie horses. News had beei
brought me that some of these rascal 1
were hibernating on a small marsh
bound island. We found no difficulty
in locating their lair, and I took up
my post at the entrance to it, armed
only with my spear. I may explain
that a bear-spear consists of an ash
staff some two yards long and about a
couple of inches in diameter; there
is a blade of steel about 12 inches in
length, and the shaft is copper cased
as a prevention against the teeth of
Bruin. As soon as my gentleman ap-
peared I tried to stick him in the
throat, but he parried adroitly and I
missed; I made another lunge and
succeeded in driving my spear point
through his breast. He started roar-
ing furiously and snapped at my cop-
per cased staff, then made an attempt
to strike at my arm with his huge
forepaw, so that I might drop my
weapon. There was a thrilling uncer-
tainty as to the outcome; the power-
ful brute hung on to my spear at the
one end, while I as grimly held on at
the other end. His bites went through
the copper plate and he started shred-
ding the wood beneath. Strenuously I
checked his further advances, and
gradually, for his wounds began to
tell, his resistance weakened, and he
dropped at last over the aperture of
his den. 1 pulled out the spear, but so
much strength still remained in him
that he seized the blade and bit it
with a force that left deep indenta
tions In the steel. Herr Broherg then
finished him off with his own weapon.
This struggle from start to finish
covered five minutes.
I certainly have had, as have all
other big game hunters, one or two
narrow escapes, but so far my luck
has carried me through and Bruin has
never got the best of it. 1 once found
myself in tight quarters with an over
grown specimen of the Slagbjorn va
rlety. He had chosen for his sleeping
place the center of an open tract
where, while the giant forest trees
had long since been burned down,
dense bushes had grown In their place
and these, snowladen and frost-stiff
ened, obdurately impeded my way. It
was 110 easy task to advance noiseless
ly here, where every hvig was a snare
to entangle my long ski. I stumbled,
fell and lay floundering in the deep
snow. Simultaneously my beat
loomed forth on the near horizon.
He might—I considered—have select
ed a more auspicous moment for his
manifestation. Prone as I was, for ski
are Infernal machines when speedy
extrication is desirable, I took careful
aim and fired; my shot went home,
and certainly my good genius direct
ed it, for had I missed or merely
wounded, my position would have
been almost unenviable. When we
came to skin my capture, we found
an old bullet embedded under the
right shoulder-blade, which shows the
y
\
William Henry Singer.
111 (riled at the little church
four years ago his cbaplnln, the llev.
Mr McMillan, to Miss Maurice, grand
daughter of the late Uev. Charles Mau-
rice, and daughter of Gen. Maurice.
In the middle Victorian period l>r.
Maurice was the incumbent of the
church. He soon became celebrated as
the most eloquent and powerful
preacher in the Church of fclngland.
and brought St. Peter's from the un-
known ranks of a chapel of ease to its
present status of a famous and fash-
ionable church. The only other mar-
riage celebrated in the church was
| that of Lord Selborne's daughter lo
Col. Lord Dlgby or the Coldstream
guards. This was some years ugo and
King Kdwaril was among the guests.
! But for the fact that the bride was
daughter of England's lord chancellor
tt Is doubtful whether the special au-
thorization needed for the ceremony
^ j would have been issued. In the Mc-
" j Mlllan-Maurico wedding the fact that
| the bridegroom was chaplain to the
j archbishop of Canterbury made it eas
1 ier to grant the bride's request that
I she might be married in her grand-
| father's old church. The fees for tho
I special license and special authoriza-
tion amounted to $260.
St. Peter's was built two centuries
ugo by the earl of Oxford as a domes-
tic chapel to his big mansion on what
were then the outskirts of I^ondon.
About a century ago, when the earl-
dom became extinct, the chapel be-
came the property or the crown and
has remained so ever since. For years
it was used as a chapel of ease and
Singer, Nimlck & Co. He also was I jias( IU)Ver had a parish attached to It.
connected with many banking institu Tho government finally charged pew-
tlons In Pittsburg, and is considered r(M1t8 (n Dr. Maurice's time, for the
one of the rich men of the country, | chnrch was crowded to the doors
his wealth remaining, after giving his J twice every Sunday. When Dr. Man
children their fortunes, being $15,000,- rlcH ,jlcd canon Page-Roberts or Can-
000. The family is considered one of terbury, another of England's most fa-
the oldest and best in Pittsburg. j mou3 preachers, succeeded him and
A peculiar feature of the case was I stil| is |n charge. Canon Page-Rob
made known recently. William Henry j ertg ROP8 to London only during the
Singer, Ihe son who chose painting 1 Hl)Cia] season, and during the other
rather than the Iron business as his ! monfhs of the year his curate con-
life's work, will not be able to enjoy j (iuetK the services, and distinguished
his millions in America, owing to the j preachers from all parts visit there,
great, fear his wife holds of the "Black j jate Rishop Potter of New York
Hand." She recently received a j has been heard there.
threatening letter, and It frightened The exterior of St. Peter's is very
her into hysterics. Her husband was 1 j,jain. it looks more like a little old
finally compelled to take her abroad.
The elder Singer declined to dis-
cuss his remarkable dinner party fur-
church In the backwoods than a fa-
mous London place of worship. But
the Interior Is a thing of beauty.
ther than to say it was a private mat- Thousands upon thousands or dollars
ter. It is known, however, that the huve 1)een gpent on It during the last
Iron king is but following out the pol- j qUavter of a century. Its marvelous
Icy laid down by his lifelong friend, wjndows, altar pictures and decora-
Charles Lockhart of the Standard Oil j tions are all by Burne-Jones, and hun-
Company, who some years before his j (i,.e(]s 0f American tourists visit it
death called all his children into a j every year t0 see them. Its congre-
dlnner parly and under each plate was ! gat)0n is said to be the most intellect-
found a check for $1,000,000. | ua] |n England. The church being so
Mr. Lockhart and Mr. Singer many j neal. Cavendish square and Harley
.ears ago promised each other they i street, a large number or scientists,
would distribute their wealth among ! surgeons and physicians attend it.
their children "in time to do the clill i,0rd Cheylesmore, ex-mayor or West-
dren some good." \ minster, and his American wife at-
tend. The duke of Wellington, Lord
Parrot Hurt Trade. Roberts and a hundred or more great
I just bought this parrot from af! peers are pewholders. So anxious are
butcher," said the Bailor. "It's a rare peopie to attend the services that the
sort—a gold beak. 1 got it at a bar- vestry always has a waiting list ot
gain, too—a dollar. The butcher had : over 300 wj,0 have applied for pews,
paid six dollars for it. But it seems
the man what sold It to him was a Foley's Prosperity.
practical joker. He had krowed the In reading the newspapers, where so
parrot was to ornament a butcher , much is taken for granted in consider
shop, and he taught it to say the wust ing things on a money standard, I
thing possible for such a locality. | think we need some of the sense of
This here parrot didn't last long, ; humor possessed by an Irish neighbor
for from his perch above the butcher's j of mine, who built what we regarded
scales he kep' a singin' out in a sar- an extremely ugly house, which stood
castle voice; out In bright colors as we looked
"'Lovely meat. Don't tell the lady j from our windows. My taste in archi-
wliat It weighs, .lust tell her what it lecture differed so widely from that
conies to "' 1 affected by my Irish friend, that we
' | planted out the view of his house by
Ice in Milk. moving some large trees to the end of
Not long ago a child took typhoid our property. Another neighbor who
fever apparently without coming in watched this work going 011 asked Mr.
contact with any germs, as the milk Foley why Mr. Rockefeller moved all
It drank on being analyzed, was found , these big trees and cut off the view
■>o be pure. between the houses. Foley, with tho
Finally it was discovered that the | quick wit of his country, responded
nurse was In the habit of adding lumps instantly: "It's invy, they can t stand
of ice to the milk to cool It more looking at the ivideuce of me pros
quickly, and Ihe contamination came perity."— John D. Rockefeller, In the
from that. World s Work.
Decides this danger, the ice lessens Germ~ Advance ln Mining
the nutritive value of the milk. It
await th^H welcome, and he straight- wonderful vitality of these anlmais,
Germany in 20 years has increa>ed
are kept In the refrigerator; or, when ] Its yet
will be quite cold enoughSf the bottles I i(D-- ariymlnlng from 100
— - - -r ■ 1 nnoooo metric tons to 242,609,000 me-
lt is to be cooled hurried v, the glass i ■ $439,086,200. Coal
bottle can be plunged in a bowl or, ric ton. ^ Qf {he outp||t_ G(he|
cracked Ice.
forms 85 per
minerals, are salt, iron ores, copper,
New York's Water Supply. ! lead, zinc, pyrites gold, silver man
New York city's water supply will ganese, arsenic, saltpeter, vitriol ind
come from a watershed of .. square | aiun,._ The wor_kmen_ number about
miles when the Catsklll sysien. Is com-
pleted.
j 700,000
! 2.000.
and the companies about
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