The Independent. (Cashion, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 10, 1911 Page: 2 of 12
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Ostrich Raisers Assured of a Market
While Present Styles for Millinery
Are in Favor.
A government ostrich doctor Is In
tSoutli Africa. His duty la to study
the diseases peculiar to such birds.
There is also an ostrich breeding as-
sociation where are recorded pedi-
grees of the tiner birds. Some of the
farmers have so improved their stock
that their ostrich chicks bring from
$500 to $1,000 each, and many of the
most noted cock birds are priced at
$7,000.
Port Elizabeth, in South Africa, is
the chief ostrich feather port in the
world. In that neighborhood there
ore nearly half a million birds now in
captivity. Tho feathers from these
birds sell at from $10 to $150 a pound
and the industry of this one port alone
amounts to some $15,000,000 a year.
vSome districts produce better feath-
ers than others. The Outdtshoorn
feather roaches 123 Vfe inches in length,
the (iraff Reinet. measures about 24
inches and the Mlddleburg runs 22
Inches long. The willow plume, the
most expensive of the ostrich family,
is a made plume. The length of the
flue is acquired by tying extra flues to
those already on the stem. This oper-
ation is done b.\ French girls and
with marvelous skill. To each flue
on a long plume is tied another in
such a way that the joint is invisible.
Some plumes treated in this manner
have been priced at $1,000.
The first experiment in ostrich
farming in this country was made by
an Englishman who imported his birds
from Africa and paid as much as $1,-
200 a pair for them. For this pioneer
tin re was no fortune. Hut those who
have followed In his footsteps are
reaping colossal harvests. It is al-
most impossible for milliners to meet
I he demand for high grade feathers.
And it would be quite out of the ques
tion were they dependent upon the
stock Imported from Africa. But the
flourishing American industry makes
a large part of the supply a homo
product. The United States ostrich
feathers are quite as fine and in some
instant i s far superior to the African
grown feather.
They Must Wear Beards.
The employees of the Shechita
board, tho organization responsible for
the supply ol kosher meat, have been
informed that the wearing of a beard
is now an essential. The edict is to
apply to young and old alike, and Is
thought to be an outcome of the reso
lution passed at the recent rabbinical
conference at Leeds.
The new rules (writes a Jewish cor-
respondent) has created a certain
amount of indignation among the
younger employees inasmuch as notb
ing may be done that will retard the
natural growth of the beard. Hitherto
the authorities have countenanced the
periodical clipping of the beard, but it
has now been decided that this prae
tice is to cease.—London Mail.
Concerning Man-Eaters.
It seems strange'that bears, so fond
of all sorts of flesh, running the risks
of guns and fires and poison, should
never attack man except in defence of
their young. Only wolves and tigers
teem to have learned to hunt man for
food, and perhaps sharks and croco-
diles. Mosquitoes and other Insects
would, 1 suppose, devour a helpless
man in some parts of the world, and
to might lions, leopards, wolves, hy-
enas, and panthers at times if pressed
by hunger—but under ordinary cir-
cumstances perhaps only the tiger
among land animals may be said to
be a man-eater, unless we add man
himself.—John Mulr in the Atlantic.
Ko Athlete can do himself justice if liia
feet hurt. Many thousand* are using daily,
abroad and in this country, Allen's Foot-
Ease, the antiseptic powder to b« shaken
into the sht>en. All the prominent Golfers
and ionnia l'layers at Augusta, Pinehurst
and I'alm lkaoh got much satisfaction
from its u*6 this Spring. It gives a rest-
fulness and a springy feeling that makes
you forget you have feet. Allen's Foot-
Ease is the greatest comfort discovery of
the age and so easy to use. It prevents
eoreness, blisters or puffing and gives rest
from tired, lender or swollen feet. Seven-
hen years before the public, over 30,000
testimonials. Don't go on your vacation
without a package of Allen's Foot-Ease.
Sold everywhere, 2oe. D n't necept any
■ubxtitute. Sample sent FREE. Address,
Allen S. Olmsted. Le Roy, N. Y.
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THE IDEA.
PAPA THREATENED THE TOTAL
DISRUPTION OF HOME.
i
Peggy—Didn't the lawyer know you
were an actress?
Kitty—Gracious, no! He offered to
„;et my divorce without any pub-
licity.
Musical Note.
A music teacher in a New England
Bchool was trying to make the chil-
dren in the fourth grade understand
the value of a triplet—to get them to
know, that three-quarter notes under
a brace were equal to two quarter
notes.
She couldn't make them unde
stand; and finally, in despair, she
asked: "What are three little babies
boru all at the same time called?"
"Accidentals!" shouted a small boy
with a vague remembrance of the les
eon of a week before.
Sincere Prayer.
Teacher—Now, Tommy, suppose a
man gave you $100 to keep for hlih
and then died, what would you do?
Would you pray for him?
| Tommy—No, sir; but I would pray
for another like him.—The United
Presbyterian.
COMES A TIME
VVMcn Coffee Shows What It Has Been
Doing.
I
"Of late years coffee has disagreed
with me," writes a matron from Rome,
N. Y.
"Its lightest punishment being to
make me 'logy' and dizzy, and it seem-
ed to thicken up my blood.
"The heaviest was when it upset my
stomach completely, destroying my ap-
petite and making me nervous and ir-
ritable, and sent me to my bed. After
one of these attacks, in which I nearly
lost my life, I concluded to quit the
coffee and try Postum.
"It went right to the spot! I found
It not only a most palatable and re-
freshing beverage, but a food as well.
"All my ailments, the 'loginess' and
dizziness, the unsatisfactory condition
of my blood, my nervousness and irri-
tability disappeared in short order
and my sorely afflicted stomach began
quickly to recover. I began to rebuild
and have steadily continued until now.
Have a good appetite and am rejoicing
In sound health which 1 owe to the use
af Postum." Name given by Postum
Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
Read the little Book "The Road to
K'ellvllle," in pkgs. "There's a reason."
I3ifr fend the above lollcrf A nm
nc npiirnm from time to time. They
ire genuine, true, nud (all of human
■tereat.
i He Insisted on Having the Place Liv-
able or Moving to a Hotel,
and He Carried His
Point.
"Wipe your feet, papa," reminded
papa's eldest daughter as he stumped
muddily on the front porch. Papa ac
cordingly shuffled his feet diligently
upon the wire mat; then stepped upon
a strip of carpet on the porch and by
contorting himself into weird shapes
wiped the edges of his shoe soles com-
paratively clean.
"Don't hang your wet coat there!"
called his wife. "Don't you know wa-
ter will ruin that chair?" Papa ac-
cordingly gathered up his raincoat
and carried it up to the bathroom.
"Oh, mamma," wailed the youngest
daughter; "look at the mud he's leav-
ing on the stairs! And I just washed
them myself!" But papa was put-
ting on his slippers in the bathroom,
standing on one foot and hopping
about like some damp stork. Then he
changed his clothes and came down
stairs.
"Did you change your clothes,
dear?" inquired his wife sweetly, eye-
ing the chair in which he sat with
speculative eye. Papa growled and
turned over a sheet of his paper, for
he knew all about that inquiry.
Presently he stretched, yawned and
rose. He walked over to the sofa,
heaped with pillows and lay back lux-
uriously just as the middle daughter
came In.
"Why, papa," she shrieked; "you're
spoiling the sofa pillows. You're ly-
ing right on them." Papa sat up.
"What's this sofa for?" he demand-
ed. His wife had come in by this
time and stood side by side with her
Indignant daughter.
"Certainly not to treat as you're
treating it," she said. "If you want to
take a nap lie on your bed." Papa
arose. His jaw began to grow rigid,
for papa was getting mad.
"Take those pillows up to your
rooms," he commanded the assembled
daughters; "this sofa goes out in the
woodshed. This is no place for use-
less things." Then he dragged it
out into the shed, leaving consterna-
tion in his wake.
"What do you mean?" stormed his
wife. Papa looked at her and she be-
gan to grow uneasy under his look.
He didn't say anything.
"Go up "in the bathroom and get my
raincoat and shoes," he directed. "One
of your girls, 1 don't care which." The
girls looked at each other.
"Go!" said papa, "and be quick."
The youngest daughter went. Then
papa sat on a sacred chair and put on
his shoes. The slippers, one inside
the other, he handed the oldest daugh-
ter.
"Take them to the bathroom," he
commanded. The oldest daughter
stared. Then she started to say some-
thing and shrugging her shoulders de-
parted. holding the slippers as though
they might bite. She couldn't miss any
of this remarkable situation, so she
returned.
"I'm going down to the office," said
papa; "you can pack up what you
like, because we're going to store this
truck and go to a hotel."
"Why, papa!" It was a chorus of
alarmed voices. But papa was firm.
"One tiling is certain," lie said;
"we're througli with this foolishness.
I've had all I'll stand. I'll do this
much—either you'll make this place
homelike, beginning tomorrow morn
ing, or we quit housekeeping. That's
all." Then he departed in the rain.
But when he returned his slippers
were in the hall, and his favorite
chair, with the evening papers on tt,
was stationed under the light and the
family had retired.
Then papa put on the slippers, put
them on another chair and began to
reiul—Galveston News.
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it may bo avoided by taking Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
She was fourweeks in the hospital
mid came home suffering' wor.se
i than before.
Here is lifr own statement.
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I suffered very severely with a dis-
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not be on my feet for
a long time. My
physician treated
me for seven months
without much relief
and at last sent me
to Ann Arbor for
an operation. I was
there four weeks and
came home suffering
worse than before.
My mother advised
me to try Lydia
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and I did. Today I am well and strong
and do all my own housework. I owe
my health to Lydia E. Pinkham's
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female complaint to try It."—Mrs.
Orville Rock, 11. R. Xo. 5, Paw Paw,
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For thirty years it has been the stan-
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Barnard, W. F. The Independent. (Cashion, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 10, 1911, newspaper, August 10, 1911; Cashion, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc107666/m1/2/: accessed April 17, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.