Lexington Leader (Lexington, Okla.), Vol. 20, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, August 18, 1911 Page: 3 of 8
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BY WARHLN ti nllUM
MERE are all sorts of
camps, from tlie hasty
voyageuer bivouac of the
big-game hunter to the
serene summer retreat
when one invites his
soul to ease In Nature s
J2S) Lotus-land—that "place
where it seemed always
afternoon." Indeed, 1
think that the quintessence of camp-
ing is reached when one knows the
game thoroughly enough to be able
to draw from Nature alone all the
comforts that civilization affords, in
addition to the thousand joys which
no civilization can give. It is far
easier to do this than one would sup-
pose, for the reason that most of the
drawbacks of camp life come from neg-
lect of simple cleanliness and ordin-
ary bodily comforts, such as homo
sapiens has become accustomed t9
from his cradle.
The subject of camping is really so
vast that It cannot be even approach-
ed in a single article. It' strikes at
the very roots of lifo. At its best t
holds up a mirror to us .all, show ing
bow far civilization and overpopula-
tion have combined to separate us
from the easy formula of life which
the Creator intended; how they have
driven thousands to starvation within
a stone's throw of the fabulously rich,
■whereas Nature gave every man the
equal strength of his own two hands,
•which were once ample to win him
livelihood and happiness.
When one is after traveling game,
or on a canoe trip, or such nomadic
camp iife, the less of everything
taken along the better. A good sleep
Ing bag Is preferable to a tent; a sin-
gle skilfet will provide the utensil to
cook with; and rifle, hatchet and knife
are really all the necessities that can
fce mentioned. I even once went on a
camp where I took nothing along, ex^
cept a notebook and two sheets of
blank music paper. A bully tramp over
the mountains it was, too, and I slep
Sn piles of leaves raked up in dry ra-
vines that wore already filled a solid
foot deep with dry leaves. 1 had on a
canvas hunting suit, slouch hat, and
gaiters. In the shooting coat pockets
were a Dutch weinerwurst, half a
dozen hardtacks, three potatoes, and
a hunk of bacon. In the ditty-bag,
without which I never take any trip, way
were little primer-boxes filled with
butter, salt, tea and sugar, and there
-were also a variety of hooks and lines
a steel 'possom hook and a pickerel
hook for frogging. It was the on y
tramp In which I had no Hilary,
badn't any idea of getting anyw .
and could stop whenever and as l^ng
as I pleased. 1 think 1 was all one
afternoon going two miles around he
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WAR
By Rev. Samuel M. Dick
Ptfcior of Wesley M I'. Church,
Minneapolis «
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EXHIBIT
SHOULD HIVE
41 BIG STATE
"Boost your county s resources
products at tlie big Okh^oma State whst c
aud the best It has and show the world
be done under circumstances
A floor space
of 8 by 14 feet
is ample fof a
bungalow of this
kind, with a
gambrel roof as
shown in the il
lustration It
will have a door
in each end, a
window at each
side; doors and
windows made
of gauze tacked
on the same
framning as the
main panels,
canvas awnings
and porches over
doors, and a stone
floor. To build it
will have to bring
«• HUHTmt, WUUt- TMTCRnprrtOUOtlT^
windows and
and concrete
complete you
out into the
woods six rolls of Induroid or Rubber-
old roofing, costing 2V& cents a square
foot, 100 square feet to the roll; SOU
running feet of dressed No. 1 south
ern pine, soft maple or hemlock, %
by in hes; 8 yards of bobbinet or
gauze. 5 yards of 8-oitnce duck can\as,
and one-half sack of Portland cement.
Not a very heavy layout ot either
money or material, say, $2a all told,
ami yet It will give you a start lor a
permanent bungalow that you can al
and
TK\T —And ho will JudK«*
Jtfcwill decide wnc.rnln^m.n^
II I I lU Mtl pM 11 . ,
! plowshares." :• ii.l ti" lr *1";"" ln'°
iminiiiK lioi.l.*. nation ttuy
sword against nation, ni-'ther sliau
kain war any more. tsuiuii - .
This prophecy is beginning to reach
igs fulfillment. When the awful cost
in life and treasure is reckoned with.
It is astonishing that sensible civil-
ized men should ever resort to war
to Settle any question. There is an-
other reason apart from Its destruc-
tive character why war should not
be resorted to. It never settles any
question. The best it can do is to
restate it and put it in another form.
Take for illustration the Civil war in
this country. Did it settle the race
question? Did It settle the slavery
problem? Not by any means, but if
the amount of money that war cost
us during its progress and for pen-
sions since", had been expended among
the colored people of this nation for
industrial education and other civil-
izing agencies that race today would
have been further advanced In tlie
scale of progressive peoples than It
will 500 years from today under the
present circumstances.
Christ's kingdom does not come b/
the sword. It is within you. The
patriotism or war rules the world with
the sword. The patriotism of peace
rules the world with an idea. 'I he-
one is spectacular and wins instanta-
neous applause; the other is quiet,
moves unseen and its marks aie
seen only in generations. One is
like' a derrick, it moves the mass of
iron by force applied in one place;
other is lilte a sunbeam, it moves
the mass of iron by tha unseen ep-
pansion of its molecules.
The maintenance of peace by pre-
paredness for war is out of harmony
with the gospel, with reason, with
ethics, with economics and with com-
liion sense, and any institution that is
out of harmony with all these things
o . rw not altogether favorable.
1'air, Oklahoma City, Sept. -ti to uct ^ lelter )s directed to the heads
en tlie 7 and in that way boost the state of j ^ commerclal organizations and may-
Will you do it?"
Oklahoma.
That is the keynot
I. S. Mahan, .secretary of
homa State Fair, is sending
ors of cities and towns all over the
of a letter which | state. Mr. Mahan says in that way
the Okla • he hopes to reach some one in every
out all j county not already entered who wi
*
■; iR'
ine pavilion—oklahoma state fair.
the state with
county exhibits this year. Mr. Manl , count. collective exhibits a
— Z ^"properly place.the .art.
Okt&homa this yea
drought.
county can
hy secretary Ma„.n on re.
county in Oklahoma should send on | quest.
WATERING PLANTS
the gable ends are measured
made. After putting them in position
the saplings can he knocked away and
the weight of the roof allowed to
come on the gables. Hooks will be ^
needed at the eaves to utilize the top . gho*u)d be- discontinued. The prophet
wall-strip as a tie.
say
s the nations shall not only settle
The doors are made just - enough j (o the Rreat induslries of peaco
smaller than the opening to permit a but that they shall not learn war
uny more. As long as peace is main-
overwhelming navies the
sill and lintel of hemlock lo be nailed
in the doorway. They are covered
on the inside with gauze or bobbinet, ,
tacked to the frames with galvanize
tacks. The windows are made in
same fashion except that the
three feet is filled In with
of rnnfinet material anil
to permit
lower
Bolid
come back to with increasing | panel of roofing material and a similar
piece let In up above
flank of or.9 mountain, down Into
ravine aup the brook to the spring,
where I camped for the night. ■
•on, two days; bagged most of the
species of trees of the middle states
ea
St of the Appalachians In note-
book. and scrawled the music
so full of wriggly black notes that the
publisher got cross-cyed trying t
read the copy. Such a camp-tramp
cannot last more than two day
you are apt to spend the nigl t huh
ging a tree, while the rain deluges
everything throughout the woods.
For the light week-end camps or
fishing trips not lasting over ten days,
1 always take a small tent.
But the acme of camp life is to ar
range to spend the whole summer out
of doors, beside some favorite lake or
river To most of us this raust
somewhere within commuting dis-
tance of some large city. To a few
It is given to be able to live thus in
,a good game country, leaving the * >•
ness cares for the winter months^ U
<s this kind of camp of which 1 wis
particularly to speak, for it is an Ideal
'"as a matter of fact, the bungalow
in the woods should be the cleaner
„.nd nattier of the two.. If you can
eet a board floor, so much the better;
but he very sure that none of the
boards reach out Under the walls ot
the tent, so that the water can follow
;;em Inside. The best way ■ to rent
your ground, or buy it outright with
as much of the surrounding woods as
afford, and buy or build
if you have the
ith flat
stones taken from the natural rock of
the forest
Though the 'hree-foot window wat-
rmits lour cots to be arrant,' u
scot per
corners
these from the
same
you can
small bungalow.
homing instinct you will get J" love
that little Shack like you do your boy
hood town, and will put In ^ ^ts
of spare hours and rainy days in
proving It and making it more com-
fortable. The cheapest one I know o
Is to take a half dozen rolls of ready-
roofing and some 2 by 1 Inch hemlock
Joist into the woods and then build
the shack yourself. It Is surprising
how far into the backwoods you can
get with this stuff, given a couple of
canoes and a day or • so s time
Pick 01* a picturesque site where
tbe outlook will be a pleasure
for many a serene hour to
come, and back the shack up against
„ rocky siope or steep turn of the-
mountainside with a southerly out-
look You will find that the eight or
ten feet back of the house, between
t and the wall, will soon grow into
valuable "linter" and may some day shown in
afford possibility of a field-stone chlnv I so as to
ney whem you have the time and a
canoe load of quicklime brougln out
trow the clearings. The frame pani-
ork out much as the sketch.
affection. On arriving at your site,
the first thing to do is to pitch your
tents, select the very best site your
ground affords for the shack, clear
a little space to make panels in. and
saw your pine up into the right
lengths. You will need 12 panels 7
feet by "6 inches for the sides, and
four panels 16 feet by 36 inches for
the roof. Get out the walls first. They
are quickly and strongly joined by
driving in half-inch corrugated iron
fasteners, which are driven across the
joints with a hammer, sinking them | ing and floor the whole ot
flush with the surface of the wood. In I
this way the whole 12 can be quickly |
and strongly knocked together, lack
the roofing material to the backs oi
the panels as fast as completed, as
they are very wobbly and weals side-
ways without the material. This lat
ter is gray in color with a leathery
surface, and in each roll comes the
needful nails and cement for joints.
tin caps, etc. Space the nails about
three inches and run the cement
i ahead as you nail. The hardwar, for
'this house will be two dozen stout
iron hooks-and-eves for tho corners,
and two dozen three inch Iron flat
hinges for doors, windows and roof
panels. Both hinges and nails are
best galvanized.
Having the 12 panels to hand, the
next step will be to nail a strip of
pine 14 feet long to the top and bot-
tom of each .four panels, making two
sides of four panels each, with a 2-
foot window space in the middle of
each. In the same way the two ends
are assembled with strips of pine
eight feet long, nailed to top and bot-
tom of two panels with a 2-foot door
space in between. They are now
ready to raise up, but first a founda-
tion must be prepared, and the sim-
plest thing in the woods is to drive
in four 3-Inch stakes about three feet
long around all four sides, having two |
stakes at each corner. Saw them all ag tQ never baVe
off flat to a string run Ml around and | heat
tallied by
nations are learning war and the prog-
ress of the world is checked. Given
national jealousy, hatred, prepared-
ness for war aud any trifle is sulli-
clcnt to produce war. Given national
fraternity, great prosperity on tlie
part of the people and no armament
Few persons realize that the wa-
tering of a plant Is a task
quires both experience and ability to
perform properly. There is all the
difference in the world between the
vigor of a plant which is watered prop-
erly and one which is watered im-
properly. Watering of plant, is not
like the feeding of animals in which
regularity is of prime importance.
Roots do not take up water at in-
tervals but constantly, and yet water-
ing is something more than seeing
that the soil around the plant is kept
at a uniform degree of moistness^
! The principles which underlie the art
of watering plants are the principles
i of plant growth.
| The great mistake usually made is
I to water too often and too little at a
Tho ground around a plant
mer and bo green and attractive,
whereas a lawn which is sprinkled a
little here and then a little there, mov-
ing the sprinkler every half hour or
hour, will dry up la spite of constant
attention.
There i« no better method of wa-
tering potted plants than to set the
in a vessel of water which U
fficiently large to cover the pot com-
pletely. Let it remain here until it
is wet clear through. In watering
potted plants by pouring water on the
top of the ground, water will come out
ut the drainage hole below long be-
fore the center ot the ball of eartu
in even moistened.
pot a
time.
window to swing Clear of the eaves. ] ^ no prob!em is sufficiently grave j Rhould allowed
Alter swinging the door and window . ■
awnings with "rustic" frames cut In
the wood*, the house Is ready for oc
cupancy except for the floor. It >>
worth while to take along a can .
the powder of some good cold water
to get dry, not
to produce war.
The logic of preserving peace by
increasing the navies of the world
would finally' leave the world power
In the hands of one nation. It would
. „ j only be a matter of time when all
to finish off the wood- j natlons but one would become bank-
rupt.
raiMs x,:::
paint, so
wnrk of the panels. .
... naiPSt floor to make in the j Tlie foolishness of increasing anna-
woods Is to choose some lazy after- ment is seen in the experience of our
noon when everyone is tired of fish , own peaceful republic,
For tlie eight
years preceding the Spanish war, our
appropriations for the army were a
little less than $21,000,000 per annum,
and for the navy a little over $27.(100,-
annum. For tlie eight years
preceding 1911 the appropriations for
now spending for
enor-
along the sides of the shack. 1 prefer ^ (0 $8:.,000.000 per an
.. . 1 num, and for the navy to more than
$102,000,000. We are
army navy and pensions the
mous sum of $170,000,000, or 72 per
cent of the entire revenue of the
United States. If this increase alono
in the army and navy were turned
toward the industries which make
a nation rich and happy, it would un-
able and maintain an industrial and
agricultural experiment station in
very county In the United States and
this snace for living room,
tho beds Pullman car fashion, just a j
little under the roof. The easiest way
to do it is to cut two straight, foil,
inch hemlocks, trim, and gain tc. posts
set upright from the floor toceillng
against the front and rear walls. They
thus make a sort of rustic inside doo.
lamb so do not take any useful room,
while the berths can be made in the
space behind the four-inch
tacking across ten-ounce
20-ounce galvanized iron
three inches apart. A ^eader 's
in at the middle, thus making two six
foot berths on a side. They are filled
with several inches of balsam browse
^nd are then ready for the sleeping
lnes The whole floor sphce
arrangement of sleeping accom
baked and
on the
plied.
thorough. The
soaked. Few persons
much water It takes to thoroughly
soak soil. None ot those who outline
irrigation reservoirs for their gardens
make these reservoirs large enough
unless they secure expert advice,
have known people who were foolish
enough to think they could pump
enough water to supply half an acre
! of garden during a dry season. In
watering either gardens, lawns or pot-
ted plants do not water so often but
| water thoroughly. Set your rotary
lawn sprinkler in one place and let
run all night, (if not against the rules
of your water company) and even
longer if necessary in order to enable
tho water to penetrate several inch
into the soil. Then, regardless of how
let it go for at
ground should be
realize how
log by
duck with
.iwdo vv- •• j I eve
alvanized iron tacks, spaced j gjve"lt more than $[,0,000 per annum
dry the weather is.
least a week. Ten days Is none too
lone even in the hottest weather. If
tho grass shows evidence of suffering
before this time has elapsed you may
be sure that the watering was not
sufficiently heavy. Lawns which a
watered in this manner will
btand the drought of tho severest sum
hy
thl
modations,
canvas camp
available, for living room;
chairs, log tables, etc.,
with
tho •
Recovered Her Sight
After being totally blind for twelve
years, a woman eighty seven years
Mrs. Boyland, of
ble
weather).
Such a bungalow
could easily he doubled, and with its hhould regalll her sight, an^. a°oul " | "was swinging briskly, and
' ' ag0 she could see a glimmer u ,
Gradually the blindness L , cua trlck3i
un . | nkfi] 0f the forest in it.
leveled at, say eight inches above the : prlnclpal use of such a wood
for Us work. What would this mean
to the people? Last year our farm
products of all kinds were valued at
I more than $1,700,000,000. W ith an
I experiment station conducted as Mm-
I nesota is conducting her work among
the farmers in every county,
I $50,000 per annum to operate it,
,| agricultural products of this country
ran he put in and one has a comforta- j Muk) easl)J
lounging and eating room (in ba d bUng every other Industry would montu oKO she
| keep pace. As it is now we are ^
of course, has no 1 SI)eI1,ling at least $12a,000,000 annua appeare(i and she can now
irmy and navy "1OTe | time ]t is by the church clock
tace or seaside bungalow has, hut j ttlan is necessary for reasonable mi
while a canvas tent seems to have a j tional policing, and
. .*( o-«ttine cold after the sun i nnnuallv more tn
fatal way w(U hold ,ts , ;ve mjght hav „ we followed
n' - ' - I the law of gospel and common sense
'and used the amount of money to de-
velop tlie resources of tho country
that we are now fooling away on
war measures and getting absolutely
nothing for it.
How long, oh how long, will this
wickedness and nonsense continue.
Furrow or Rill Irrigation. In water-
ing plants in garden or field always
strive to get as much water Into tho
ground and at the same time wet the
of the ground as little as pos-
this
row of
plants and then allow a thin stream
of water to trickle down this furrow.
This stream must run slowly, hence
the slope must not be steep. This is
the reason that in many Irrigated sec-
tions the fields are graded to a uni-
form slope before any cultural opera-
tions are started. Water trickling
down such a furrow will soak out Into
.he ground to one side for from one
to two feet, depending on the length
of time the water is running, without
wetting the top of the soil except in
lie bottom of the furrow. Many ob-
ject to the use of this method be-
cause of labor involved, but in very
hot weather it is the only safe plan
to use with tender vegetation in open
ground.
The difficult thing in watering
plants and the phase which approaches
nearest to being one of the fine arts,
is to toll when to wat«r. While most
people water too often, it Is of course
quite possible not to water often
enough, and while the injury from too
frequent waterings is marked, that ot
allowing plants to get too dry is even
worse.
Killed on Rocking Horse
To find their little sou hanging
old I dead entangled in the reins of his rock-
Vnpinml i Ing-horse, was the sad experience of
. h During Sunderland, Scotland, parents, a few
has received back her sigh . .Uuring ^ ^ mUe feUoWi Ravmoud
these years she. had prayed watson, used to cleverly rido the horse
aUUUl n. Kflalrlv ami
see a glimmer^ , ^ ^ beeu playing cir-
blindness has dis-j ^ ^ ^ ba]aaC(?i aart
fire any more than any summer cot | ly on 0ur
thereby losing
than $4,000,000,000
.time It
yards awray
tlie first time a few days ago.
100 having been unable to extricate bim-
in the absence of his parents, had
She saw a motor-car tor j.seK^ aeath
: goes dowi
Sort of Job He Wanted
"There's what I'm looking for, said
the damp
On these the panels can be set i ' P ^ ^ the proraotion of what
rt hooked at the corners, nails and st haa aptly named
driven down through the toot-1 Without it, many a holi
oil
being"Vi'ven"down through the foot- 1.^l°r_
strip into the posts. To make ® , 'v especially the combination ones
corners stanch and tight, three cleat_ , ^rrjng on Thursday or Friday,
should he nailed to one of the panils Saturday and Sunday are thrown
giving something for the hooks to pu ^ ^ gaod n,easiire, are wasted he
against. There will be cracks at the (mp fee)s n,ore or less unpre
and joints, and to protect - disinclined to break a new
weather and at the P*rf 811,01a"° a time. But if It Is
time guard against the inevita- ^ & maUer of packing some pro-
Culture Will Out
A yotn g m'anJ°n|'°ed ^n® ,n'|:"r' by | tho'lazy man going through the want
vania jail prove<' ,' , w „ locli and advertisements for an easy job, as his
using a sP00" t0 P,ck hl®0<il' for-love lighted on a call for canvassers
escape. Well-bred pers i ^ goU BOmething that "would sell lt-
get their ta?la ^ad they been i self. That's the sort of a job I
would have used a^knlfe had " V ^ ^ he Baid ,Q him8elf. ..something
situated as the I ennsy^an. „arn
was.—New York World.
er. you "pups, ana ibkiuk "
inch spruce or cedar saplings and , npare8t jumping-off place in ti
ten the backs true and set them up 1 , vldnHy ()f ..Loafers' Glory," or wis
front of the cracks, securing the pa named the shack, y
ble warping of the joist in the w'eath- I and""the sleeping kit. whistling
you had best hunt up straight J- | TtataM ^ and takinK a train^ to
ever you have named
will get out of It many a pleasant lit
tie outing, each one a diamond polm
in your memories.
The beauty of making some sort o.
a beginning for a forest home is that
each year it gets better ™re
front — — , „ ,.
pis to them With nails drlv. n from the
inside The roof panels come next,
16 feet long by approximately US
inches wide, a lap being left over as
the detail of the roof-joints,
so as to leave no place for the rain
They are of the width of the roofing.
els will
J inches. and"7 feet high, diagonaled
shown, to make them rigid, and the
roofing is nailed to the backs of then,
2 s 1 .. — «
Abiding in Christ.
Abiding in Jesus is nothing but the
giving up of one's self to be ruled and
taught aijd led, and so resting n the
arms of everlasting -love. Illessed
regt! The fruit and the toretaste anU
the fellowship of Clod's own rest
found of them who thus come to Jesus
to abide in him it Is the peace o
God the great calm of the eternal
world, that passeth all understanding
that keeps the heart and mind. With
this grace secured, we have strength
for every duty, courage for every
struggle, a blessing in every cross,
and the joy of life eternal In death it-
Btlf—Rev. Andrew Murray.
First Hobo—"Strange how few of
our youthful dreams come true, ain
second Hobo "Oh, I don
Know; I remember how I once yearned
to wear long pants. Now I guess
wear them longer
the country.
money at without
work." And ho thought that really
some day he must go and look 'em up.
Origin of. Seven Day Week
Over a,600 years ago the Egyptian
astronomers adopted the pitsen
j ciatfed from the lunar a^d'sola^c^tfles!
To ' after year
summer
fixing and impruv
geta,.hde roof*™. lifUt^^m'Th^walls j outing and keep on BOlu
raise the ridge ^^'J'ndnaTl ! Uo'nlofLallsummer home and th.
rht ZlZTioV. ends to hold the ; perennial summer problem yet d.
gambrel in Us proper position while . vW«i
Every pew in a crowded churcn has
somebody in It who might become s
power for the Lord, If he would onlj
do what he could.
" Recovered Her Speech
After being speechless t,wo years,
as a result of a long Illness, Miss
Jessie, Flshel, of New °rlea°s- ^
Etantly recovered her voice the
day when startled by a vivid flash of
Or a Catcher's Mask
The Chicago man who got a divorce
because his wife's jolt 011 the jaw tanl
him up for 22 days didn t really nee
a divorce he needed a policeman.
, Washington 1'ost.
lightning anda ^ud^fUiund^.
Seventeen specialists in
her voice but with
he
To Clean Paper Mache
Wash with clean, cold water, using
a sponge or soft cloth
0j.! damp, cover with dry
hie dry with a piece of woolen cloth
StfSSSS has r;'yp.anned8 I chamois
had tried to restore
no success. Her father declares
vecovery Is the resuR of payers ^ (^
While BtiU
flour and rub
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Lexington Leader (Lexington, Okla.), Vol. 20, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, August 18, 1911, newspaper, August 18, 1911; Lexington, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc110480/m1/3/: accessed April 17, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.