The Weleetka American (Weleetka, Okla.), Vol. 20, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 29, 1921 Page: 3 of 8
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e’cteck ru mm4 the town intil
fur yua" proMuuoed hls father with
(ntaMi eye
Norm nawtof eat if tki Imn
hang around dowatowu uatU eight
'dock uf then repaired to On
nmtot wodowni of the crowd u
old bonr abed attached to greet
bom mod by Firmer lopi Bo
' fdt omoih stubborn ud nettled Bo
cwtly bo bod boM dorod by bio too-
panlous to raoko cigarette’ Bo
bod not tbo doro tod row wttb two
of tbm In bio pocket bo III erfe and
In !eor robollloa agilnct bte (tbor'a
system use abooit to paff oat bla rt'
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mUforttint Thifv vu mi totOa it lowdid tit
foataro la which bla father forfot
ananlall-1 M wtft- Mii tit UCltlWIOt If til BOttMt
Su towJwd dMplIno “a unrttJr coteri rotod anowbaU
atrlct dSuanS? ' bo It alldo down tbo bill loadlnf
wouM tLt to hl D1 “ tctbotoom wmmooipt uplnto
tbo town hall tower ond rang Ito boll
j Cwrrtiat mi wwtora niwimrw Veiea
would boeat to ble neigh-
bor "That’ me" and' be looked It
end acted It ont until Norman fancied
he had been placed In the world elmply
to become tho bktt end victim of rigid
rule
Whan Norman’ tenth birthday wee
only eight houre distant bla father
gave the order eternly ipoken : "You
’ will be in the houao for the night at
even' o'clock" and Norman moped
In n roartyrlike way envying hi boy
friends who had mapped odt a joyous
New Year's eve program of skating
hill sliding and like boyish prank
He wondered what was coming but
‘his father simply viewed him specu-
latively and sent him to bed at the
nsuel time He was awakened to And
hie father roughly pulling at hla arm
"Get up Norman and come down
to the kitchen" said Joel Hardy
“yon needn't dress"
Norman arose rubbed his eyes end
followed ble father downstairs There
was a light on the
table and beside
It the house clock
Norman noticed
that It told the
time as ten min-
utes to twelve
All was still and
solemn except Its
monotonous tick
and outside an oc-
casional echo o!
shooting an
Bouncing Impa-
tient celebrants
already - prepared
to berald In tbs
In tbo midst of sotting loose a drove
ot cattle from a live stock enclosure
they were attracted by tbo dash and
rush of the village lire cart making
for a vivid spreading glare
"Why It's Parmer Logan'a placet"
sbonted a chorus of excited voices and
Norman Hardy's heart stood still He
recalled the cigarette and tho littered
woodshed He stood - dumb and
scared - The flames completely en-
gulfed the great frame barn Norman
slunk olt alone by himself oppressed
with an nppnlllng sense of guilt His
emotions were doubly Intensified when
he heard some one say : ' ’ '
"Lognn thinks It was set ablaxe
Arson - t pity' the firebug If he’s
caught It’s straight 14 years in tho
r'-nltentlary" t -
"’t will ruin tognn they say" spoke
soother "Tho barn was stored with
grain and machinery and the Insur-
ance ran out last week"
Norman was crushed with a ’sense
of his culpability ' He felt like flying
from home town and all tha peo-
ple ho had ever known ’ He skulked
behind a hedge as a gronp of glrla
came along They were discussing
the fire so excitedly that they paid no
attention to a lone member of their
group trailing on behind them Nor
man noticed her however - She was
MlUy Daniels He startled her by
(tepplng directly In her path
"Just linger for a moment will yon
Mllly T" be spoke under high agita-
tion “or I'll walk with you a bit Pm
In terrible trouble and I'm going to
n®w Pr leave town for good" and Norman re-
“My boy spoke his father after- pjted the entire story of the evening
mamamS mum AMfelHiUltf ilolIKAMtiAIS "
a moment of ominous deliberation
"when I waa a lad of ten my father
tanght me a lesson thst has left Its
Impress on my whole life In a salu-
tary way Upon the tick of midnight
Just preceding my birthday he always
called me down to the kitchen and
gave me a good sound strapping It
hnrt him more than It did me he used
to say but the reminder would bo
ever present with me Until I waa
twenty-one regularly npon each birth-
tday the strap played Its part and
J think It did a good deal towards
jteachlng me that 1 had a master and
jin making me a better man I have
concluded to adopt that feature with
my system' Yon'ra a pretty good boy
bat for fear yon might kick over the
traces Pm going to bulk the system
until yon ore of age Now Uien
jtake your punishment like a man"
: Joel Hardy produced a short thick
)plece of tanned cowhide and Norman-
winced but did pot cry out during
he unique castigation It waa five
- year later and with the usual routine
lote In the afternoon Joel Hardy re-
minded Norman of the pending mid-
night event His eyes bulged and hls
face betrayed overwhelming amaae-
jment as Norman stood up before him
a tall well-knit stripling almost men-
acing In hls bearing as he said:
‘Tather there will be po strapping
this time Pm through with It Half
the town has heard of It' and the
boys taunt me and the girls twit me
Not that I enre for any of them ex-
cept 'Mllly Daniels and she’s true
blue ami stands by me and I won’t
have her humbled and shinned I’m
going to bpuud this New Year’s eve'
with the crowd and HI be home to
breakfast" -
“There’s only one way out don’t yon
see It Mllly Y’ he siJd “I don’t dare
to face Parmer Lognn I’m going away
to 'make something of myself and the
day I have got the money to make It
square with Mr Logan-Pm coming
back And Mllly dear you have been
my truest friend and have always
stood by me Will yon try to think
of me while Pm gone will yoo — will
you wait for me? For I shall never
love anybody but you"
Five years went by Not a word
had been heard from the truant son
Joel Hardy had forbidden oven the
mention of hls name In the home
Mrs Hardy half heartbroken repined
In alienee Mllly Daniels became an
orphan and when Mrs Hardy neoded
a nurse and then
companion It
came about thst
she found a per-
manent home with
the mother of the
man’
8he and
Hardy
tyrant
unaware
cherished a mutual-
memory of
the absent youth
and took comfort
In watching and
hoping for hla re-
turn It was a few minutes after midnight
five years to a (lay since Norman
Hardy had gone forth into the world
to seek hls fortune Milly had pleaded
to sit u and natch (lie old year out
and the’ new year In All three of
the family though In different ways
were thinking of the hoy who had run
’ C A PARRISH
' Afint
Vestent Electric
Power O' Litjht
away fro
tort to od a
r knob of I
j Tboro stopped Into tbo room a bronaod
I atalwart yoaag wan at a eight of
whoa Joel Hardy gasped toerodu-
toady bla wife altered a Joyous
I scream and MUIy ataod biaatbleaeead
lettering
I "1 waited till I eraa ear the tael
j Rear of dledplla and the strap waa
pad and gone” spoke Nonaan Hardy
"Mother" a warm embrace “rather"
and a atardy hand reached oat
Mllly" and' tbo ywang girt awayed
no aca boa m
too
I -uuy ana- ran young gin iwajsa
jo and fro 'and would have ‘ fallen
had not Norman canght her
"I aald I wouldn't came bacR till t
could pay for tbo damage I did to
good old farmer Logos" eon tie nod
Normas "I’ve kept my word (hear
yon art struggling with a tvro-tbon-aand-doUar
mortgage father I caa
pay It off and loan you as much more
If you need It MUIy dear am I wol-'
comet I have come to keep my
promise true"
Joel Hardy left tho room Ho re-
turned with tho etrap thst had been
so familiar to hls son Taking out hls
pocketknlfe the old man proceeded to
cut the atrap to pieces and flung them
Into tho biasing grate
- “You've cheated me out of several
years my son" he observed “but 1
forgive you It's enough to know that
you are back home safe and sound
this blessed New fear's day I"
I T H the whirling and
drifting of snows
Comes breathless the
wild New Yeari
While bitter north wind
blows
O'er tha fields that lie starh and
droor t '
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Yet hop Is alight in her eye '
As she looks from tha heart f the
storm
"Earth sloops In bar thread" she
cries
- "But the life la her heart la warm
"Death la hnt n dream of tho night
And the hymn of Joy ie began
For elowly Making tho light
Tbo groat glob turns to the
t
"Behold I will bring delight
’ la place of darkness and cold y
Safe nador tho meadows so whito
Is hiding tho buttereup gold
"And isnaor'i splendor shall reign
la place of tho wlntor'c doarth -Her
color and made again
Shall gladdan the patioat earth"
Hark to the Now Year’ Voice
Threngh the mark of winter droor I
Oh children of man rejoice I
At tho tiding f hop and ehooc
-Colls T hosier
COST OF PORK PRODUCTION
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Records Easily Kept Will Show Breeder
If Hla Profit Is a Pair One
r the Reverse
' Before it 1 possible to determine
profit or loss It la necessary to know
the cost of production Investigations
of farm costs of P'rk made by the
University of Minnesota gave the fol-
lowing results for 100 pounds of
salable hog:
Feed 604 pounds: labor man 62
hours labor bone 9 hour cash ex-
pense 74 cents general expense 120
cents Interest 66 cent
The only Items of cost that are not
accounted for are shelter and equip-
ment For hogs fattened In the fall
and sold In the early winter this
would be a small Item
It Is a simple matter to determine
the cost of pork production by sup-
plying local vnlues to the amounts of
feed and labor required 'General ex-
pense covers general labor not di-
rectly connected with hog feeding
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WINTER SHELTER FOR COLTS
Open Bhed la Net Desirable as Peed
r le Utilised Meetly to Combat
Cold Weather
An open shed Is not desirable for
winter shelter tor the colts If they
have to use feed mainly to combat
cold weather and other condltldne
which could he overcome by better
quarters they wUl he stunted and
handicapped to eay nothing of much
of the profits being token up In feed-
ing -
GRAIN FEED NOT ESSENTIAL
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Bheep Will Do Well Where Leguminous
' Roughage and Com gllage
Are Available - -
Grain feeding of sheep during the
early winter months te not absolutely
essential where a leguminous rough-
age and good corn allage or roots are
available but the best results era ob-
tained when a small amount of grata
' Is fed regularly throughout the win-
ter and increased Just previous to
lambing Two parts whole oats and
one part wheat bran by measure
make a good mixture If some grain
la fed during the winter less will be
required near lambing time Old ewea
j especially need plenty of good feed to
bring about maximum reeulta
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uvasrec::’
i:::j tsi trrra
anamamp
Maeh to Bo Learned Csaserelng Rote
tiv Merita of bomb and Oreem
brad Animal
(Pmramd to tae rwu sums
l si AerWailara)
j Although there Is a higher percent
I ago of purebred hogs In the country
I than of any other clan of lire stock
" there la still much room for Improve-
meat And there la much to be known
concerning ti e relative merits of
scrubs croesbietls and purebred To
make some of the points clearer’ the
animal husbandry division of the Unit-
ed 8tates Department of Agriculture
la starting a breeding and feeding ex-
periment that will contrast tha results
of using scrub crossbred and purebred
boars on scrub and crossbred sows If
appropriations provide sufficient money
Purebred Durce-Jtraey Boar v
It may be that the effect of using
crossbred and scrub boars on purebred
sows wll be studied ’
Ten crossbred sows of various breed
mixture and ten scrub sows of the
rator-back kind will be used Half of
each of those group wlU be bred to e
crossbred and half of the other group
will be brad to a scrub This same
scheme of breeding will be carried on
from generation to generation 8ome
of the offspring will be fed out end
some of them will be kept for breed
Ing before being fed out Slioati from
the different lots will be put In fee
lots together and fed alike so that
a fair comparison can be made Some
of these scrubs and crossbreds will be
compared In feeding trials with pure-
breds raised on the department's ex-
perimental farm at Beltsvllle Md
Some will be put Into different experi-
mental tots on vfcrious feeds
Nearly everybody thinks the pure-
bred Is superior to the scrub but there
Is a disagreement among furiuers about
the merits of purebred and crossbred
feeders The department hopes that
In due time Its experiments will five
results that will answer any doubts
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SAFEST RATION FOR STEER
81 lags Together With Cottonseed or
Oil Meal end Either Clever
r Alfalfa '
t-‘ — ’ -The
safest steer ration for a Man
who has silage Is to- feed 40 or 60
pounds of silage per steer dally to-
gether with about 3 pounds of cotton-
seed meal or oil meat and 2 or S
pounds of hoy preferably clover or al-
falfa Cottonseed cake generally con-
tains more protein than oil tnenl but
the protein In oil meat Is of higher
quality and ordinarily we would be
willing te pay $6 or 86 a ton more for
oil meal than for cottonseed meal The
question of feeding corn to steers de-
pends to a considerable extent on the
future action of the corn and cattle
market Probably It will be just as
well to feed four or five pounds of
com to the nera?e steer dnily during
the last month or two of tho feeding
period -1
BETTER SHEEP IN KENTUCKY
Breeders Improving Their Fleeks by
Us of Purebred Ram— tores -Recently
Bought- s
‘ ' ' ‘
In several Kentucky counties where
beep raising Is one of the major tana
projects sheep breeders art Improving
their flocks on an extensive seal ae-
cording te tha United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture ' On of the out-
standing development la that pur
bred rams are being widely need This
Indicates the Increased Interest ap-
parent In many sections of tho country
In the Improvement of the home flock
by the use of bettor liras Recently
n special "better-sire" sale was held
at Louisville where 260 pure-bred rams
of Hampshire Shropshire and Sooth-
gown breeding war sold sad distrib-
uted la flocks throughout the state
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SUNSHINE INSIDE HOSHOUSE
Ixoellent Plan to Us Wire Oates and
Partition— Keeps Building
Mere Sanitary
r
In order to get the most value of
the sunshine Inside the hoghouse It
Is an excellent plan to use wire gates
and partitions between the pens This
will allow the aun to get through and
afford better reflection of the sun-
shine This allows the Boon to dry
out and keeps the building more sank
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Bargains in residential property in every section1
of Weleetka— Good ‘terms
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