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The Valliant Times
VALLIANT - - OKLA
SCHOOLS IN PUBLIC PARKS
Boston’ finance commission ha
placed Itself upon record as faroring
the building of one of the publlo
schools In one of Boston's publlo
parks If the suggestion should be
acted upon by the Boston city govern
cnent It would probably involve a
unique experiment A schoolhouse 1
to be built In a portion of the city
where property 1 high-priced and
even at a high price It Is difficult to
get a suitable site In Washington
park the city has an area of 396125
' square feet In such location as to
make an Ideal alts says the St Paul
Dispatch The commission argues that
the school building will occupy but
12000 square feet of this space and
that the curtailing of the breathing
area will therefore not be serious On
the other hand the fact of having a
school In the park will attract to It
a maximum number of children and
promote the object of the park
While the finance commission does
not wish to make It recommendation
a precedent It has In It a suggestion
of value The plan might be worked
both ways locating schools where con-
venient In public parks so as to give
the children a maximum of ground for
recreation and turning the grounds
about such buildings Into breathing
pots for the use of the neighbor-
hoods especially In vacation times
A Brooklyn woman lately wrote to
the marriage license bureau of that
city to know If she could be supplied
with a good honest sober husband
The clerk In charge explained that
while he had a few model men on
hand they were all married and the
supply was entirely too limited for
the demand The fact that the matri-
monial market is understocked with
honest sober husbands may be one
reason wh the divorce courts are
overcrowded
The pessimist can always find food
for gloomy thought The facts that the
census shows a big Increase In popu-
lation while the death rate Is de-
creasing will prove' to that Individual
who like the proverbial Scotchman Is
never happy unless he Is miserable
that the nation Is going to be over-
crowded until somebody has to be
shoved off the earth to make room for
the rest
Those who have been wondering as
to whether America would produce a
new race have their answer The
hobble skirt race has been Inaugura-
ted on Long Island It was won In
seven falls
That marriage Is the worst kind of
a failure Is the opinion of a Gotham
broker who Is paying his first wife
1240 a month alimony and whose sec-
ond wife wants alimony to the tune of
S300 more
Trust science to rise to every emer-
gency It says we are all going In-
sane from living In flats and now a
French surgeon Is going to saw open
our heads and scrape away the foolish
fancies
A Japanese scientist claims that he
can educate oysters to produce per-
fect pearls This may be glad news
now that the season Is open to the
patrons of the restaurant pearl fish-
eries Football this year will have to com-
pete with aviation but as there seems
to be no good way to use a college yell
In connection with an airship the grid-
iron sport will have some advantages
A Tokyo cable announces the Japa-
nese will make a dash for the south
pole to try and beat the American and
British expeditions The more the
merrier And may the best man win
Girls caught shoplifting In Philadel-
phia explained that "they wanted to
he stylish” In order to satisfy that
desire they should have confined their
i misdeeds to smuggling
A western man claims he Is Insane
end brings forward as proof the fact
that he was married three times In
'three months "Insane'' Is an Inade-
quate word we opine
New York has formed a league to
''banish French from the bill of fare
IMerely to call a chef a cook would be
great gain
We gather that the Brooklyn wom-
an who named sixty-three co-respon--dents
In her divorce suit really de-
serves to win It
New York bulldog turns on the ga
end commits suicide Even a dog
can’t stand the dog’s life a New York-
er leads
Now the sultan Of Sulu says that
one wife Is a plenty Thus he destroys
his usefulness a a comic opera pron
SWAMPLAND FARMS
Work of Reclamation Has Been
Going Steadily On
Total of 130000 Square Miles — About
83000000 Acres of Wet Land In
Different Section of Country
Already Surveyed
The Irrigation projects In the United
States for the reclamation of arid
lands have been so large in concep-
tion and so magnificent in engineering
features that they have overshadowed
the reclamation of swamp lands which
require only the prosaic labor of
digging ditches But work on the
wet lands has been going on stead-
ily not only by the diggers but the
scientific preparatory work of the geo-
logical survey has been very exten-
sive and considering the cost In-
volved much larger In prospective re-
turn than Is possible from - arid
lands
A total area of 130000 square miles
—about 83000000 acres — of wet lands
In different sections of the country has
already been surveyed and mapped by
the geological survey and It is esti-
mated that of this area fully 80000-
000 acres of the most fertile of farm-
ing land will be available for cultiva-
tion The comprehensive plans of the gov-
ernment engineers Include making the
main ditches large enough to afford
navigation for small vessels thus pro-
viding the cheapest possible means of
transportation of the products of the
reclaimed land to market points
The cost of doing the work Is estl-
mater at from two to ten dollars per
acre — as compared with the cost of
reclaiming arid land at from 512 to
860 per acre and the natural fertil-
ity of the swamp lands with their
enormous accumulations of humus Is
Immeasurably greater than that of the
arid lands
The largest extent of wet lands In
the United States Is In those states
bordering on the Gulf of Mexico Flor-
ida having the greatest area — about
19000000 acres — and Louisiana fol-
lowing with 10000000 acres Missis-
sippi with 5750000 acres and Arkan-
sas with 5250000 acres Another
large swamp area lies about the Great
Lakes Michigan having 3000000
acres Wisconsin 2500000 acres
Minnesota 2700000 acres and North
Dakota 3000000 acres
A third large area lies along the
Atlantic coast of North Carolina
South Carolina and Georgia each of
these states having upward of 3000-
000 acres of wet land The state of
Maine has an equal area of reclaim-
able swamp land
While the government has not yet
taken the active part In the re-
clamation of wet lands that It has In
the arid lands of the northwest much
work has been done by the states and
by Individual enterprise In Minne-
sota alone since 1900 more than
340 miles of drainage ditches have
been dug by the state at a cost of
5585000
Large wet areas have been reclaim-
ed in California Florida Louisiana
North Carolina Sou’h Carolina and
Wisconsin In the Gulf states a move-
men has been started to secure a gen-
eral swamp reclamation law similar
to the irrigation law which Is work-
ing so successfully In the northwest
It Is proposed that the government
shall dig the main ditches or chan-
nels to be navigable for small ves-
sels and that the branch channels
and minor ditches be done by recla-
mation companies which would quick-
ly take up the work in accardance
with the recommendations of the gov-
ernment engineers The relatively
small cost to the national treasury at
which a very large area of most val-
uable agricultural land can be made
available seems to assure the accept-
ance of this plan by congress
General
RirmNotes
Whenever you find cross branches
rubbing each other cut one of them
out
If you have San Jose Beale spray
the trees this fall and again next
spring
It Is an easy matter to make a val-
uable tree out of a poor one by top
grafting
Less land and more work would
make rich many men who are now
land poor
Dust the cabbage with air slaked
lime It Is not poisonous and makes
the cabbage sweeter
The high-headed tree Is easier cul-
tivated but the low-headed tree makes
the fruit picking easier
The ground dries out more quickly
under a high-headed tree and more
fruit is blown off by the wind
If there Is a day when nobody on
the place Is rushed with work send
out a team with the road drag for a
few hours
Do not work the soil deeply about
plants that root close to the surface
merely break the crust with the claw
rake or with the fingers
Before you sell the farm take a
month to think It over There are
some things lacking in a new location
that money will not buy
The ducks at liberty can of course
procure all the drinking water they
require for themselves but those In
runs must be well supplied
It's a mighty mean man who will
ride a plow and cultivator while his
wife uBes a wash tub in place of a
machine and her hands for a wrlnier
HOME-MADE GRAIN ELEVATOR
Practical Schema for Getting Crop
Into Granary Without Much Back
Work — Easily Erected
I have seen a number of schemes
used for getting grain Into the gran-
ary without much back work but one
of the best I know of Is an outside
elevator that can be made by most
any farmer handy with tools writes
John Y Beatty In American Agricul-
turist The first drawing shows the
appearance of this elevator from the
outside of the building A dump bole
Is made In the roof through which
grain can be dropped Into a hopper
from which It can be distributed to
the different bins or If there is only
one bln in the building the opening
Is directly Into that blu
A track of 2x6's la made extending
from a pit at the side of the building
to the hole In the roof On this Is
mounted a large box that will hold-
10 or 25 bushel of grain This box'
drops Into a pit at the end of the track
In such a way that grain can be easily
dumped from a wagon Into it without
any shqvellng The wagon Is simply
Fig I — Outside Grain Elevator
backed up to the grain box and the
wheels dropped Into wheel holes Then
when the end gate Is removed the
grains run by gravity Into the box
Th box full of grain Is pulled up to
the dump hole by means of an ordi-
nary block and tackle
The grain Is dumped automatically
by means of a door shown In the de-
tailed drawing This door Is hinged
tightly to the bottom of the box but
Is held shut while It Is at the bottom
of the track by means of a shoe a
which runs upon a third rati shown In
the outside drawing and marked “2x4
track" The cover to the dump hole
is removed automatically when the
grain box Is pulled up to It by a piece
of Iron marked c In Fig II This en-
gages with two springs shown at d
on the cover and pushes the cover
open as the box Is pulled up When
the shoe a comes to the opening It
runs off the end of the track and the
door drops open automatically as
shown by the dotted lines This of
course releases the grain
When the box Is empty It Is let
down to the bottom and the Bpriugs
d start the cover back until It Is In
place where It Is stopped by pieces
of wood nailed to the roof and the
Iron c Is disengaged A little roller
r!S
Fig It — Details of Grain Dump
bhown at b serves to make the shoe
run easier The box Itself Is mounted
upon small Iron wheels not shown In
the drawing These wheels run upon
the 2x6 tracks and the box is held In
place by guide boards as shown
SAVE STORM-FELLED TREES
Borer Begins Work Promptly on
Fallen Pines in Southern States
Reducing Value
Experts of the Department of Agri-
culture have been studying the work
of Insects In storm-felled pine In the
South especially the work of the bor-
er known to lumbermen as the "saw-
yer” The results should be of Imme-
diate Interest to owners of timber
felled or damaged by recent stormB In
the southern states
It has been found that the sawyer
begins work in the bark of felled trees
very promptly and that It reduces the
value of the timber about one-third
within two months a reduction which
represents many millions of dollars
annually
This loss may be largely prevented
by prompt action on the part of the
timber owners As soon as possible
after a destructive storm an estimate
should be made of the -amount of fell-
ed timber that can be converted lnte
lumber before the sawyers begin to
enter the wood Trees that can not
be worked up with little delay can be
protected in either of two ways: (1)
The bark may be removed from the
trunks or (2) the logs may be cut
without removing the bark and placed
In streams or ponds The sawyers
will do practically no damage to tim-
ber from which the bark Is removed
within a month after their attack be-
gins In case of logs placed In water
they will continue their work only In
the parts which are not completely
submerged
To timber felled In winter or early
Bprlng the methods recommended
should be applied by May 1 for best
results Timber felled during the
summer should be worked up or have
the bark removed or be placed in wa-
ter within one month after the saw-
yers begin to work In the bark
For Business Girl
TIME was when the business wom-
an took no thought as to where-wlth-all
she should be clothed —
attractively The tailored shirt waist
the stiff linen collar and the well fit-
ting tailored skirt tor the office with
a Jacket or coat and the plainest of
hats for the street made the limits
of her choice very circumscribed
Such an outfit of good material good
tailoring and immaculate as to con-
dition Is hard to Improve upon But
a too steady diet Of the best of things
gets tiresome especially to women
and along came the business girl In
whom the eternal feminine longing
for pretty clothes was not to be
repressed
The business girl tastefully dress-
ed Is still tailor-made but with varia-
tions Among her first discoveries
was that of the extravagance of the
Immaculate shirt waist It had to be
fresh as a rose or Its charm was
gone This meant a change every oth-
er day with a longing for a dally
clean waist which went Intensified in
the majority of cases For laundry
bills have to be reckoned with The
business girl took up the dalny lin-
gerie waist with a little embroidery
and a little fine lace for decoration
With three-quarter length sleeves and
removable collars she achieved econ-
omy in the matter of laundry bills and
prettier dressing at the same time
The dally fresh collar Is a Joy and an
Inspiration
The black silk waists of messallne
or other soft satin-finished silks Is a
boon to the business girl They are
prettiest made with yoke and collar
of white net lace or batiste These
yokes are easily washed and dried
over night or a set of three will pro-
vide for the week Many of the
waists have high collars with which
turnovers are worn They are not
quite as pretty as those with yokes
Black skirts well fitted and tailored
are worn with these waists The
effect is dignified and charming Other
dark colors such as navy and dark
brown are made up In the same way
but black never grows tiresome The
large retail establishments require
their salespeople to wear black be-
REALLY SMART LITTLE DRESS
Blue Shantung Probably Is Best Ma-
terial for the Design Given
Here
Nattier blue Shantung is used for
this smart little dress It has a loose
and rather long-walsted bodice fasten-
lng a
being
band
t:
right
the side' both skirt and bodice
Attached to the same waiBt-
square cut neck the edge of
side and sleeve are finished
cause It Is the best choice in colors
but It Is much Improved by touch
of white near the face In loke or
collar Yokes of black net are worn
by the way of variety
Now that the one-piece dress Is so
much In vogue a black serge If well
tailored and fitted will give the busi-
ness girl greater satisfaction After
this a dark rich blue la the best
choice The plainest of shapely coats
to match worn with white collar and
jabot at the neck and a smart hat
make the costume all that any one
could ask
It Is In the matter of hats that
the business girl Is most liable to fall
In her attempts to get both practical
and pretty things This Is probably
because she is laboring under some
delusions as to what Is practical that
Is what Is durable and becoming
Very large hats lose their shape
with much wear are difficult to man-1
age on windy days get In the way In
elevators and cars and become much
battered and dilapidated before their
days are all numbered Therefore I
beseech you little business girl buy a
small smart hat made of good ma-
terial and In a simple design Beav-
ers and beaver cloth felts (in good
quality) velvet and (spite of Its fragile
appearance) good chiffon will stand
constant wear Don't consider os-
trich feathers or flowers but pin
your faith to wings quills or fancy
feathers bows and rosettes of
ribbon or silk waterproof malines or
chiffon in selecting trimmings Shapes
are good this fall In fact millinery
is the best we have had for many a
year
I advocate the things that make
for a dainty neat well-set-up appear-
ance In business or anywhere else
The clean yoke and collar the well
fitting and well fastened dress the
carefully arranged hair smooth and
shining In puff or curl and the smart
and trig street hat make up an ' en-
semble that have frills and furbelows
badly beaten when it comes to real
permanent charm If she only
knew It the clothes appropriately for
the business girl are "the best ever”
JULIA BOTTOMLEY
with a band of tan-colored foulard
spotted with dark blue the band on
bodice Is continued to edge of skirt
buttons and cord loops form a further
trimming The tucked yoke and under-sleeves
of silk muslin
Materials required: 6 yards Shan-
tung 34 inches wide M yard silk mus-
lin 44 inches wide yard foulard 24
Inches wide 18 buttons
DAINTINESS IN SERVING TEA
6mall Things That Count For Much
In This Most Pleasant After-
noon Function
A young women are so often asked
to pour tea for their friends who are
entertaining they should realize what
a difference it makes how the tea Is
served If this Is done In a careless
manner the guests have always fhe
feeling that something may at any
moment be upset and the quiet and
repose which is an essential element
In that most peaceful function Is lost
It Is well for the person who pours
the tea to rearrange the tray before
the arrival of the guests so that each
piece Is Just where she Is accustomed
to have It otherwise she Is apt to fum-
ble and move the things about As
far as possible reaching over the ta-
ble should be avoided and in moving
the china care should be taken never
to touch the rims of the cups
Observing these little points makes
the difference between an Impression
of daintiness and the reverse for
which some guests would care more
than for the flavor of the tea
The gown in one piece which fas-
ten up front or back la In excellent
style
Altevlatlng Circumstance
"Did you say” asked a gentleman
who was looking for room "did you
ay that a muslo teacher occupied th
next apartmentT That cannot b Teiy
pleasant" Harper's Bazar gives the-
landlady's reply
"Oh" ahe said eagerly "that'-
nothing sir The music teacher ha
11 children and they make ao much
noise that you can't bear the piano at
alL"
Sore throat leads to Tonsilitls Quinsy
“ ' aid Oil
and Diphtheria - Hamlins Wizar
used as a gargle upon the first symptoms-
of a sore throat will invariably prevent
all three of these dread diseases
For almost everybody the course of
life 1 fixed by Inexorable necessities
Not one In a thousand 1 free to-
choose the Ilfs bs would car for—
Dickinson
Clear white clothes are sign that th
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Large 2 os package 5 cents
The average man would not per-
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