Carney Enterprise. (Carney, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, June 11, 1909 Page: 4 of 8
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ALL GO ON STILTS
QUEER METHOD OF LOCOMOTION
IN FRENCH DISTRICT.
Nature of the Soil In Many Parts of
Gascony Is Such That Travel
on Foot Is Practically
Impossible.
There is a district in Prance where
the people are literally up in the air
most of the time, says a writer in
Good Literature. The nature of the
Boil is such that they have to walk on
6tilts. In the department of Gascony
there are great level plains covered
with stunted bushes of dry heath,
and these waRte lands have a soil
that is so muddy that the slightest
rainfall makes them practically im-
passible by ordinary methods of pe-
destrlanlsm. As the poor people of
Gascony have to go about their work
Just the same, they have, accordingly,
become a stilt-walking people, ana
men, women and children are to be
Been at all seasons of the year high
up in the air on their stilts, trudging
through waste lands, carrying their
baskets and bundles. The stilts
used are about six feet long.
The shepherds of Landes all go on
stilts, and they think little or nothing
of being perched up from daylight
until evening with their feet ou a
level with a man's head. The shep
herd is provided with a stout staff
with a flap, which makes a comfor-
table seat when turned down. On
this he quietly sits and watches his
flock, and at the same time knits or
spins with a distaff fastened to his
girdle. There is a rest to support the
foot, with a stirrup and a strong
strap, and, higher up, a band el
leather holds the top of the stilt firm-
ly to the leg, somewhat below the
knee.
Some of the stilts are made espe-
cially for fancy walking and tricks,
and the man mounted on them is
gifted as with seven-league boots, for
he can cover the ground at a great
rate, often traversing as much as
ei^ht or ten miles an hour. The
lower end of the stilt, which touches
the ground, is usually capped with a
sheep bone to strengthen it.
The old shepherds, often accom-
panied by their wives, children and
even grandchildren, mounted on di-
minutive stilts, wear shaggy, sleeve-
less sheepskin coats and gaiters.
They also wear the beret, a kind of
tam o' shanter, and in the old days
carried a gun to protect their flocks.
The old women wear the quaintest of
bonnets, like an inverted coal scuttle,
perched above their brown faces,
crossed by a thousand lines and
■wrinkles. Mounted on his stilts, the
shepherd can watch his Hock and see
that the sheep do not get into mis-
chief. He carries a long stick as a
crook, and when tired he uses it as a
tripod, whereon he calmly sits for
hours at a time, smoking, knitting or
watching his flock. Many of the
women manage their stilts as well as
the men, though they have an easier
task, since theirs are not such high
ones. Some of these women show
such great skill in manipulating the
stilts that they can maintain their
equilibrium while they pick up stones,
gather flowers or perform other as-
tonishing feats.
Too Technical.
The artist was picking at a very
small bird at the little table d'hote. He
finally laid down his knife and fork
and looked plaintively across at his
companion. "I don't see how you can
eat these table d'hote dinners," said
he. "I can't. There is too much
technique."
Would Do Hl« Part.
Caller—"Sir, I am collecting for the
Poets' hospital. Will you contribute
anything?" Kditor—"With pleasure!
Call to-night with the ambiflance and
I will have some poets ready!"—Stray
Stories.
"I hear, Limpy, dat de price of livin'
has increased."
"Yep. Gee, it must be tough" to
have to work for wot a feller eats."
MAKING SUNSHINE
It Is Often Found in Pure Food.
The improper selection of food
drives many a healthy person into the
depths of despairing illness. Indeed,
much sickness comes from wrong food
and just so surely as that is the case
right food will make the sun shine
once more.
An' old veteran of Newburyport,
Mass., says: "In October, I was taken
sick and went to bed, losing 47 pounds
in about GO days. I had doctor after
doctor, food hurt me and I had to live
almost entirely on magnesia and soda.
All solid food distressed me so that
water would run out of my mouth in
little streams.
"I had terrible night sweats, and my
doctor finally said I had consumption
and must die. My good wife gave up
all hope. We were at Old Orchard,
Me., at that time and my wife saw
Grape-Nuts in a grocery there. She
bought some and persuaded me to
try it.
"I had no faith in it, but took it to
please her. To my surprise it did not
distress me as all other food had done
and before I had taken the fifth pack-
age I was well on the mend. The pains
left my head, my mind became clearer
and I gained weight rapidly.
"I went back to my work again and
now after six weeks' use of the food
I am better and stronger than ever be-
fore In my life. Grape-Nuts surely
saved my life and made me a strong
hearty man, 15 pounds heavier than
before I was taken ill.
"Both my good wife and I are will-
ing to make affidavit to the truth of
this."
Read "The Road to Wellville," in
pkgs. "There's a reason."
Ever rend tlie nhovo letterf A new
one nypenm from tlSM to lime. Tbey
ore geuulne, true, nud full of human
Interest.
Englishman's Withering Reply.
The best of us sometimes forget the
beum in our own eyes while we search
for a mote in another's. An American
trareling abroad met an Knglishman
with tho rather remarkable name of
Pthorne, which was pronounced
Thorne.
"What's the good of the 'P?"' the
American queried; "you don't pro-
nounce it, do you?"
The Englishman gazed at him with
the manner of one who, while he
pities, is bored.
"What's the good of 'h' in 'orse?"he
questioned, convincingly.—Spare Mo-
ments.
Obedience.
Prompt and unquestioning obedi-
ence is the corner stone of the foun-
dation of succes in life. No man can
give orders properly who has not
learned to take them, and "save he
serve, no man may rule." It will bo
found that the men who have won
their way to positions of power and
responsibility have invariably been
the men who did not reason or argue
or even "respectfully represent," but
who promptly did as they were com-
manded without questioning. It is
the large man, not the little man, who
recognizes a superior authority.
Beds for Tuberculosis Patients.
Eight beds a day for tuberculosis
patients have been provided in the
United States, according to the Na-
tional Association for the Study and
Prevention of Tuberculosis, during the
year ending May I. There are in the
country over 15,000 beds for consump-
tive sick, distributed in 298 sanitaria,
or an average of 50.8 beds per sanitar-
ium.
PITY FOR THE TOILER.
BEYOND DOUBT.
"I suppose you mistake me for a
fool?"
"Mistake you? My dear boy, I
know you too well!"
Rough on Rats, unbeatable exterminator
Rough on Hen Lice, Nest Powder, 25c.
Rough on Bedbugs,PowderorLiq'd, 25c.
Rough on Fleas, Powder or Liquid, 25.
Rough on Roaches, Pow'd, 15c.,Liq'd,25c.
Rough on Moth and Ants, Powder, 25c.
Rough on Skeeters, agreeable to.use,25c.
E. S. Wells, Chemist, Jersey City, N. J.
A Lucky Mischance.
"At the last moment Fakem lost his
nerve."
"Then pray kind fate that nobody
else will ever find it."
Deeds Form Character.
Christian deeds make good Chris-
tians of us all.—Florida Times-Union.
m
45 to 50 Bu. of Wheat Per Acrs
have been grown on farm lands in
WESTERN CANADA
Much lew would b«
satisfactory. The gen-
eral average it above
twenty bushels.
"All are loud In their
praises of the great
crops and that won-
derful country."—Ex-
tract from correspondence Nation* I EdttorUl
Association of August, 1903.
It is now possible to secure a homestead of 160
acres free and another 160 acres at $3.00 per acre.
Hundreds have paid the cost of their farms (if
purchased) and then had a balance of from $10.00
to $12.00 per acre from one crop. Wheat, barley,
oats, flax—all do well. Mixed farming is a great
success and dairying is highly profitable. Excel,
lent climate, splendid schools and churches, rail,
ways bring most every district within easy reach
of market. Railway and land companies have
lands for sale at low prices and on easy terms.
"Last Best West" pamphlets and maps tent
free. For these and information as to how
to secure lowest railway rates, apply to
Superintendent of Immigration, Ottawa,
Canada, or the authorised Canadian Govern-
ment Agent:
J. S. CRAWFORD.
No. 125 W. Ninth Street. Etnstt City. Mlttoorf,
Guara"
There's Danger
Ahead
if you've been neglecting a cold.
Don'texperiment with your health.
Get a remedy that you £nou> will
cure—that remedy is
DR.D.JAYNE'S
EXPECTORANT
It's safe. In the severest cases of
coughs, colds, bronchitis, croup, fh-
flammation of chest and lungs it is the
most effective remedy known. It does
its work quickly, removes the cause of
the disease
Sold everywhere in three sue
tollies, $1.00, 50c, 25c.
A Jewelry Store
Is the
Only Place
to Buy
a Watch
Constipation—
Nearly Every One Gets It
The bowels show first sign
of things going wrong. A
Cascarei taken every night
as needed keeps the bowels
working naturally without
grip, gripe and that upse
sick feeling.
900
Ten cent box. week's treatment.
All drug stores. Biggest seller in
the world—million boxes a month.
THAT'S IT
The only skin softener and
bleacher 1 And.
It also keeps mo sweet and
, clean on hot summer days,
destroys all odor of perspi-
ration when applied on re-
J tiring and removed n it
morn i n j w i t h a dam p cloth.
Twosiees 50c. and $1.00 bot-
tles. Trial size 10c.
Kit her mailed direct on re-
ceipt of price.
HOOPER MEDICINE CO.
Dallas, Tex. & Jersey City N.J.
HOOPERS
DOKT
SCRATCH
■TETTER-
-JtEM
BARKER'S
HAIR BALSAM
Cleanse* and beautifies the hair.
Promotes a luxuriant growth.
Never Fails to Restore Gray
Hair to Its Youthful Color.
Cures scalp diseases** hair failing.
If afflicted with )
sore eyes, use)
Thompson's Eye Water
nrriANfr ^TAPPU ewlest, to work with sod
UtrlHUUL Olnnun atarches clothes nicest
For a competent jeweler is "on the
ground" to properly adjust the watch
to your own individual needs.
And that's the only right way to
buy a watch—never by mail.
For no matter how good the watch
—or how well known the maker—it
can't keep accurate, time unless per-
sonally adjusted. A
South Bend Watch
u
Frozen in Solid Ice Keepi Perfect Time
by
in
A South Bend—acknowledged
authorities to be the peer of all
every grade—would fail as a perfect
time-keeper unless it was adjusted
for the one who is to carry it.
A South Bend Watch is never sold
by mail—only by the best jewelers.
Ask your jeweler to show you one.
And write us for our free book
showing how and why a South Bend
Watch keeps accurate time in any
temperature.
South Bend Watch Company
South Bend, Ind.
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Herbert, H. S. Carney Enterprise. (Carney, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, June 11, 1909, newspaper, June 11, 1909; Carney, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc142546/m1/4/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.