Norman Daily Independent. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 112, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 13, 1909 Page: 3 of 4
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means. There Is no doubt but that congress, if the matter
were brought to the attention of the national lawmaking body,
would grant Mrs. Harrison a pension of $5,000 per year sueij
as is now received by Mrs. Garfield and such as was vote®
to Mrs McKinley after the assassination of the late president.
Mrs. Harrison, however, has never made application for any
annuity, nor even for the privilege of franking her letters al-
though any presidential widow can presumably be placed on
the postal "free list" for the asking. Any such action has
been unnecessary, us Cen. Harrison !«*ft his family well pro-
vided for. it need s- arcely be explained that Mrs. Harrison,
who is i iiw in her fiftieth year, was the second
wife of Henjamin Harrison The first Mrs Har-
rison. who was Caroline Lavina Scott, and to
whom Harrison was married in is".:?, died at
tin- White House a few days before the presiden-
tial election of 1892. In 18U6, when Harrison
was 6". yi-nrs of age, he was married to Mrs. Mary
Scott Lord Dimmick, a niece of his first wife.
The r< oiid Mrs. Harrison, who at the time of
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ARTISTIC PLAN OF HOMESTEAD
Keep the Place Beaut ful by Setting
Out Shrubs, Trees and
Lawns.
In the fi lnrnii hi of a farm home
by the planting of shrubs and trees
little expen • n< • 1 ho incurred. The
labor of preparing ,i lawn or grading
a driveway < in !<• • done by the farmer
Bv Marie EvrRToN
dAKN
OR the first time in a num
her of years, after the demise
of Grover Cleveland, and un
the retirement of Theo-
dore Roosevelt, the United
States did not number among
its citizens a living ex-presi-
dent of the republic; and the number of
living widows of presidents is compara-
tively small considering that some of tin
ition's chief executives married women
many years their Junior. Surviving presi
dential widows are Mrs. Garfield, Mrs
Harrison and the lately bereaved Mrs
Cleveland. Regarding the life of Mrs.
Garfield and Mrs. Cleveland since they
left the White House the public has heard
more or less from time to time, but Mrs
Harrison has lived so quietly and in such
lusiou that the American people have
been told little of her home life
.Irs Harrison has a comfortable hon
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THE SHEEP-KILLING DOGS.
An Effect-v- Method for the Preven«
tlon cf Destruction of Sheep by
Prowling Animals.
at 1214 North Delaware street, in In-
dianapolis, Ind the eity which .was
always "home" to her late husband—
but she spends but a fraction of each
year in the Hoosier capital. President
Harrison's widow is fond of travel
and devotes not a little of her leisure
to journeys by easy stages in one part
or another ol the European continent.
When she does elect to spend an inter-
val quietly under her own roof she
manifests a strong preference for her
quaint country home in Herkimer
eounty, New York. Here Mrs. Harri-
son can usually be found from early
summer until late autumn.
That this rural retreat in northern
Now York should prove a magnet of
undiminished power for Mrs. Harrison
is by no means strange. The place
is. for her, full of associations. It
was at a farmhouse in this immediate
vicinity that Gen. Harrison and his
bride spent their honeymoon. The
ex president was always a great walk-
er. even in the days when his time
was occupied by the manifold duties
of chief magistrate, and he and his
wife tramped over the whole country-
hide during that first summer of their
wodded life and then and there select-
ed the site of the habitation which
they built the following year. Fur-
thermore, this habitation which is
fraught with so many memories for
the presidential widow is conducive
in the highest degree to that seclu-
sion which Mrs Harrison craves.
Berkeley Lodge, as the Harrison
place wiis named in honor of the ancestral
home of the Harrisons in Virginia, is situated
on a point of land that juts out into what is
known as Second Lake of the Fulton Chain a
series of those connected waterways which
are so abundant In the northern part of the
Kmpire state. Not only is the Harrison estate
distant a number of miles from the nearest
railroad, but it is wholly inaccessible by wagon
road. The only means of communication with
the outside world is via the small steamers
which ply on the lake and which stop on signal
at the private dock which Mrs Harrison has
had constructed oil her property. Through
this lone artery of transportation come the oc-
casional guests entertained by Mrs. Harrison,
their baggage, the mail and all supplies of
every character intended for the household.
Mrs Harrison's home is half a mile or more
from the nearest neighbor, but isolation was
the aim of Gen. Harrison when he built this
residence. Indeed, he and several wealthy
men who co-operated with him purchased
practically all the land bordering on the little
lake in order that the district might not be-
come too thickly populated. The Harrison es-
tate comprises only about 3 ti acres, but through
the arrangement above mentioned the Har-
risons were from the outset of their occupancy
insured against intrusion.
Berkeley Ixidge, which is is truth not a
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MSS ELIZABETH HARRISON
single dwelling, but a whole cluster of log
structures, occupies a knoll overlooking the
lake, but is so hidden by trees that it is un-
observed until the visitor is close upon it. The
main building is a picturesque two-story struc-
ture with a large octagonal tower on each
forward corner. The space between these
towers, across the front of the house, is oc-
cupied by a wide porch. Practically the whole
central portion of this building is given over
to a huge living room, open to the roof and
with a monster fireplace of lield stones, laid
up roughly with no mortar showing. Con-
spicuous on the mantel is a portrait of the
late ex-President Harrison draped with an
American flag. The towers which flank this
unique structure are given over to tiny bed-
rooms, those on the second floor being reached
by galleries to which stairways ascend from
either end of the living room These sleeping
apartments are reserved for the use of Mrs.
Harrison, her daughter and closest personal
friends.
Located a few yards distant from the main
building and connected with it by means of
a rustic walk is the "housekeeping annex."
which contains the dining room, kitchen and
quarters for the servants. These rooms, alike
to all those at Berkeley Lodge, are ceiled in
selected spruce, which, though unvarnished,
retains its beautiful cream tint as though it
were put in place but yes-
terday. The windows are
of leaded glass and all
the open fireplaces are or'
rough stone, similar to the
one in the living room.
A nook in the "annex"
that would prove of inter-
est to every housewife is
the "storeroom." House-
keeping half a dozen
miles from the nearest
market requires foresight,
even if you have your
own vegetable garden, and
so Mrs. Harrison has a
capacious closet, the well-
filled shelves of which re-
mind one of a full-fledged
grocery store. While on
the subject mention may
be made of another unique
adjunct of the Harrison
country seat—the tin
closet. This tin closet con-
sists of a small room,
completely lined with tin.
in which is stored all the
bedding, clothing, etc..
when the house is closed
for the season, n neces-
sary precaution to thwart
the field mice a destruc-
tive pest in this section
of the country.
The third of the princi-
pal structures on the Har-
rison estate is the Refuge,
a two-story structure
rustic, like the rest set
in the midst of a densely
wooded area. This build-
ing was erected by the
late Gen. Harrison in or-
der that he n ight have a
place to carry on impor-
tant work wholly undis-
turbed. and here he did
all his preliminary work
on the celebrated Vene-
zuela case and other im-
portant legal undertakings
upon which he engaged
following his retirement
from the presidency. On
the first floor of the
Refuge is ex-President
Harrison's old workroom,
with its broad windows
and large open fireplace,
in the center of which lat-
ter Is the remarkable heart-shaped stone which
the general and Mrs. Harrison found on one
of their honeymoon walks. Adjoining this
room is that formerly occupied by the gener-
al's secretary. This room and those on the
second floor- reached by an outside stairway
- are all now utilized as guest chambers. Mrs.
Harrison is of the opinion that when there is
a large house party at the lodge it is good for
both hostess and guests not to see too much
of one another, and consequently she gives her
visitors a sense of independence by installing
them in a habitation of their own, so to speak.
Although there are 14 bedrooms at Berkeley
Lodge and a greater or less number of guests
are being entertained almost constantly. Mrs.
Harrison lives very* simply and maintains a
most unpretentious establishment. The wants
of the household are looked after by a capable
housekeeper, George, an old colored servitor,
who has been in the employ of Mrs. Harrison
for a number of years, and a general utility
man, whose duties range all the way from
gardening to service as guide and boatman on
the occasion of those picnics or one-day excur-
sions which constitute the one form cf diver-
sion favored by Mrs. Harrison.
Mrs. Harrison is enabled to live in a style
befitting the widow of an American president
owing to the fact that she has independent
the wedding was -!8 years of age, is a native
of Pennsylvania and was a widow when she
married the ex-president Her first husband
was Walter Krskine Dimmick, son of Samuel
L\ Dimmick. attorney general of Pennsylvania.
She was married to the Pcnnsylvanian in IRSt
when she was years of age and the young
man died in January of the following year
Mrs. Dimmick had, therefore, been a widow 14
years when she wedded Gen. Harrison early
in April, 1896.
In arranging for his second marriage, ex
President Harrison settled the bulk of his for
tune on his children by his first wife, and
then set about making a new fortune, in this
he was very successful, for his professional
services were? in constant demand and his
fees large. Estimates of his set ond fortune
at the time of his death ranged all the way
from $200,000 to $400,000. His largest single
fie, reported to be $100,000, was received for
his services as chief counsel for Venezuela be-
fore the international commission which met
in Paris In .June, 1890, to settle the boundary
dispute between Great Britain and Venezuela,
which had for three quarters of a century been
a source of international complications. Fond
as is Mrs. Harrison of her life at Berkeley
Lodge with its opportunities for quietude and
absence of convention, she does not derive
such keen enjoyment from the experience as
does her little daughter Elizabeth, born Feb-
ruary 21. 1 SOT the only child of the former
president by his second wife. Miss Elizabeth
Harrison, who is now in her eleventh year and
whose latest portrait is presented herewith,
is an exceptionally attractive girl with a rare,
elusive type of beauty that is almost wistful.
Little Miss Harrison has large dark eyes,
similar in their depth of color to those which
contribute so much to the distinguished ap-
pearance of her tall and stately mother and
a wealth of chestnut brown hair that roils
hack from ar unusually high forehead. Ah
is characteristic of children who have spent
most of their time with older folk and have
played little with other children, this youngest
living daughter of an American president is
quiet and demure, with beautiful manner* and
a shy modesty that adds greatly to the < harm
of her personality.
Of the other two presidential widows living.
Mrs. cleveland is best known to the present
generation. The whole life of this lovable
woman, since her gorlhood days, radiated
around the life of the only nan the Democrats
have succeeded in putting in the White House
in half a century of effort They were wedded
in the White House during the first term of
the then New Yorker
Her triumphs of the first year were abun
dantly repeated, and when once more the pair
retired to private life to take up their home
in beautiful ' W'estlands," their Princeton
abode. Mrs Cleveland remained a beautiful
memory to the nation that had genuinely
loved her.
Mrs. James A. Garfield has long survived
her husband, who has now been dead almost
27 years.
In Pasadena, Cal . Mrs Garfield has a sum-
mer home. There si • spends a large part of
her time in the midst of idyllic surrounding.
She spends most of her time sewing and read
ing She is a sweet and gracious woman,
gentle and kindly and always ready to speak
of the triumphs of her husband
Schisms That Seem Small.
Two religious sects who hated one another
bitterly were found by Sven Hedin in Tibet.
Searching for the cause «>f this aversion he
found that, one of the sects believed that the
prayer wheel should turn to the right while
the other was convinced that the wheel should
turn to the left In the region of the Brama
putra he found a mountain whi< h is so sacred
that whoever walks around it LI times has all
his sins forgiven. The result of this belief
is that criminals from far and near infest this
region When Sven Hedin started to ride
around this mountain on his horse the pll* j
grims informed him that that would do him .
no good
is a good illustr
early habits, fo
farmers yet, ti
poultry demand
prices in many r<
cows which ma*
pounds of butter
hill chicks that
Co
leading
featur.
by t his
i method
tions ol
f the far;
soil to
enrich i
clovr,
both of
dairy in.i
?, insuri
humus
SO ossein
or alfa
lfa. who
along v
■it ti corn
a good
ration
good
rotations.
crops 1
.'It little
meal a
re liecde
make a
balance
in th
Succession of Pointing in Garden
For the vegetable rar<!- n a supp
of seed should b<
through the sunm • :
of planting of th
plants. Lettuce and
and their rows sbou
filled either with s
maturing plants or
mature late In the
and peppers can e.e
and radishe
follow early beans
well on early pot at
lat<
fertile enough and moist enough
Garden boil is highly fertile and an
stand constant cropping There •■
no need of its resting and no excuse
for its lying idle and growing up >
weeds. Keeping every ron and ewr\
square foot of the garden soil planted
with some useful plants and under
the highest cultivation will not on!
keep down weeds hut will conserve
soil moisture and liberate plant !"< ■!•
The good gardener may be known h*
th* large per cent of useful phiQlt
nd in
one poll i(,
will 11-
himself, and $10 or $l'm will buy ah
the ornamental trees required from
the nursery
It is to be borne in mind that trees
grow handsomer each year and will
add hundreds of dollar.-, to the value
of the home. Notice the place the
man of ne an.-. picks out when he got-:,
to look for a country home. ID
doesn't <1 ri\ • up to some tumble-down
farmstead with the trees neglected
and half dea l. Of course not. 11"
trie* to buy a place with beautiful
shrubs, trees and lawns, If our farms
were mo'- • beautiful the hoys and the
r.rl • v.ruldn'* f.e so anxious to leave
POULTRY AND DAIRY NEGLECT
Two Branches of Agriculture Being
Overlooked That Pay Good Prof
its to the Farmer.
There are two branches of agricul- ,
ture which pay larger than any others
for the investments in them in the
central western states that are the
most negleetcd. We refer to the
dairy and poultry industries, says the
Indiana Farmer It is true that in a
way they are both pursued on the
farm, hut b.aek in the years when but
I 7 cents a pound,
chickens Si a do. n and eggs at 5
and cent per do/en the men on
tin- farm tabooed them and thought
nduHtries were too trifling, and
lave never cotton over it. It
a of the force of
t sticks to most
gh dairying and
have quadrupled
ects The ancient
but two or three
away every dog, but it
re out many of them. The
average sheep-killer dreads publicity,
and any noise that will attract atten-
tion to his movements will cause him
to Lave the farm.
When the dog that is not afraid of
sheep bells comes along, it any < f.
the people are at honte and awake
the bv us will be heard and the sheep
rescued.
To w.feguard against the attacks at
night and when all are away fr i
home surround one permanent pas
ture with a woven wire fence ; i
make a gate of the same material or
of high pick. ts, so that no dt g can get*
into that field. Put the sheep in that
lot at night and whenever there is
no one to hear the bells and to pro-
tect the sheep. To find whether >our
pasture Is dog proof or not borrow
some dogs of assorted sizes and breed
and shut them Int > the field IT they
cannot get out dogs cannot get in. Of
course the fence must fit tight to tho
ground. If it is not high enough to
prevent jumping over, stretch a wire
or two above. But few dogs will
cross a fence of ordinary he ight.
unless there is something on top to
rest their feet upon while in the act.
A fine wire will throw them back.
Goats and horned dornets may af
ford some protection againi t small
dogs, but it would be impossible for
them to protect a flock against an at
tack from two or more large, savage
and swift sheep killers.
GOOD POTATO SEED CUTTER.
Handy and Economical Farm Imple-
ment That Is Always Useful
to Every Farmer.
This drawing shows a seed potato
1 cutter I have been using for ft «
years. My neighbors borrow it every
year, says a writer in an excha:
k and the dung-
In the same
>cant cbe - probably bad something
to do with forming this habit; but
now that we have i ,a . d these things
by, isn't it time to take notice more
gene-rally and to give the most prof
It..:I;'• • Industries oi tie farm greater
and more methodical attention?
It is also to lie said of the dairy in
dustry that it is on< of the greatest
factors in keeping up soil fertility.
Experience has shown that where
dairying is followed a leading fea-
ture of the farm the average yield of
corn and other crops
< d cidedly in
rn silage are
industry, as
rejiier produr
• ; nod to the
tin ' corn and
re required in
nitrogen and
Makes Four Pieces at Eai.j Slicc.
We can cut from 20 to .'10 bushels a
day with it. it is made of a plank 2
feet long and 7 inches wide, with a
hole 41 {.x6 inches in the center Two
knives cross each other at rhrht an
gles in this opening The i i.tter is
placed over a potato crate, box or bar
rel, the potatoes laid upon the knife
one at a time, and the handle brought
down.
Maintain Fertility of the Soil.
As much as It has been talked
about, the greatest problem that yet
confronts the American farmer is the
increasing and maintaining of soil fer-
tility. Fertilizers outside of the home
farm supply are a variable quantity,
expenisve and difficult to secure. Tho
only source to be relied upon is the
home stable.
The foundation for the increasing
of soil fertility is stable manure. To
produce it the farmer must keep
horses and cows. In keeping them he
can make u profit from the animals
themselves, and he is also able to in
crease the general profits of the farm
through a Judicious use of the manure
they produce. In this way he is
making a double present profit and at
the same time maintaining the fertil
ity of Ills farm for future profit, and
general satisfaction in growing things
If a farm, for want of sufficient fer-
tilization, is gradually decreasing in
fertility the owner is staring a grave
proposition in the face, and be no. t
be naturally of a very sunny dispe \
tion to see the right side of farm bl-
under such conditions. With <• '
of home-mail'' fertilizer and his !. • '
gradually increasing In fertility p.
has good ground for always be , -
optimistic Keeping and breeding a
in a on the farm makes it p<
Ten Alfalfa Don'ts.
kept on hand
quick-maturing
<idishe<- soon go
immediately be
ue other quid
Aitli some that
i ■ a Tomatoes
y follow lettuce
weet corn can
,at ■ celery does
ground if it is
i. things wh
al'alta is urged in
ated in tarmer's b
W'estgate issued
i f riculture at
points on which
special stress are
De n't fail to pr
•h I In grower of
to do are • numer
11* 'hi by J. M.
• he department
V a ri on. Some
W« stgate lays
■ Mows:
for ample in-
oculation. soil from an old alfalfa
field is best
Don't sow poor or weedy seed
Don't sow on a weedy soil
Don't sow on any but a sweet, weli-
l.mod soil.
Don't sow on poorly drained soil
Don't sow on any but a finely pre
pared, well-settled seed b 'd.
Don't pasture the first or second
year.
Don't lose the leaves; they consti-
Mte the best part of the hay
Don't seed a large acreage to begin
with Experiment on a small area
first.
Don't give up Many promine ut a'
falfa growers finally succeed on y
after many failures
In Germany dealers are net allow d
to mix so-called dessert wtues wi.h
white wines of an cut different
character
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