The Waynoka Democrat (Waynoka, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 2, 1912 Page: 3 of 10
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SWIMMING DEVICE IS NOVEL
Fins Attached to the Heels of Wearer
Are Manipulated by Cords—
Assists the Novice.
A novel swimming apparatus has
been invented by two California men.
It may be used to assist a novice or an j ha£y Atmosphere” c Indicates cloudy
expert may rig blmself up in It to 1
EASY TO KEEP A LOG BOOK
Apparently as Complicated as Double-
Entry Bookkeeping, But Little
Study Solves Problem.
How many landsmen know how a
log book is written up? It seems Just
as complicated as double entry book-
keeping when one doeB not know, but
after a little careful attention and
study It's as easy to keep a log book
as to eat hot gingerbread. There is a
list of letters arranged and they look
like so much Greek to the uneducated.
The letter b. for Instance, stands for
blue sky, whether there be cleur or
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Leap Year Plunge
By NELLIE CRAVEY GILLMORE
GOOD MANAGEMENT OF LIMA
BEAN CROP FOR FAIR RETURNS
Plant Is Easy to Grow and Not Hard (o Cultivate—Farmsr
Should Grow Them ns a Specialty and Sell on
Large Market or Direct to Consumer—
Experience of Growers.
achieve great speed or cover greater
distances than he can do unaided. A
Jacket made of some buoyant element,
probably with strips of cork in It, has
Fins for the Swimmers.
two wings, or tins, attached to the
back, over the shoulder blades, where
wings usually sprout. These tins have
a swivel motion and are operated by
cords attached near their tips and
running down through eyelets in the
suit to anklets, or heel fastenings.
There are springs at the swiveling
connections of the fins which keep
those objects normally raised above
!tbe body, but when the swimmer kicks
bis feet backward he draws them
down and they act as propeller blades,
sending him through the water with
much greater velocity than he could
obtain with his arms and legs alone.
iCopyritlu, i^ij, by Anocutti Lutiaiy Preys.)
CAGES FOR SINGING INSECTS
Tiny Houses, Constructed in Japan,
for Little Bugs That Have Ten-
dency Toward Music.
In .Japan people keep singing Insects
in cages, as we do canary birds, and
Irave them hanging about the house.
They arte supposed to bring good luck.
In Tokyfc and other cities some of the
shops are devoted entirely to the sale
of these bugs and their cages. The
practice is beginning to show signs of
becoming a fad In this country. It Is
doubtful, however, if the American
■will take the same interest in such
diminutive pets as does the Japanese.
Then, too, the variety of singing In-
sects In this country Is not so pleas-
ing as it is large. The most widely
.known member of this family is the
mosquito, who is never likely to be-
come popular as a household pet, and
or detached opening clouds, d denotes
drizzling rain, a small f fog, a capital
F thick fog. g gloomy, dark weuther;
h hail, 1 lightning and m misty or hazy
so as to Interfere with the view.
The letter o represents overcast, or
when the whole sky is covered with
one Impenetrable cloud. Passing show-
ers are noted by the letter p, and q In-
dicates the weather to be squally. Con-
tinuous rain is indicated by an r, snow
by an s. and thunder by a t.
An ugly, threatening appearance in
the weather calls for the letter u, and
visibility of distant objects, whether | your lips, but with your eyes
the sky bo cloudy or not, is repre-
sented by the letter v. A small w Is
wet dew. A full point or dot under
any letter denotes an extraordinary
degree.
As an example of how the letters
are used take q p d 1 t. This reads
very hard squalls and showers of driz-
zle accompanied by lightning with
very heavy thunder. Numerals de-
note the force of the wind.
A cipher Indicates calm, 1 light air,
2 light breeze, 3 gentle breeze. 4 mod
erate breeze, 5 fresh breeze, 6 strong
breeze, 7 small gale, 8 fresh gale, 9
strong gale, 10 whole gale, 11 storm
and 12 hurricane. This system of ab-
breviation is generally adhered to on
all merchant vessels.
DO TRICKS WITH AEROPLANE
Two Swedish Acrobats Include Somer-
saulting Machine in Their Stage
Equipment—How Worked.
In order to give a modern touch
to acrobatic tricks of a kind that have
been familiar to theater-goers for
years, two Swedish acrobats include a
somersaulting aeroplane in their
Little Margery Sessoms's eyes were | tiursw had to
more pink than blue as she dabbed | than once,
them petulantly with a very moist
scrap of cambric and lifted her
small, determined chin wltb a sudden
accession of pride Her mind was
made up; she bad shed her last tear
for him. And in order to convince
herself that she meant what she said,
she opened Dwight Ogden's volumin-
ous letter and read It through to the
very end without so much as the
quiver of an eyelush. Her lips tight-
ened as she came to the final para-
graph:
“I am sure the day will come when
you will regret your obstinate course.
You have vowed a thousand times
that you loved me—not nlone with
which
1 Is more. I know it; you know- it We
both understand fully that there can
never be any other man or any other
woman. In Just the same way. Our
love was a sacred thing. It stands In
a place by itself, high above the
everyday counterfeit that people feed
themselves—and fool—themselves on.
•‘We've proved it. haven't we? I
am saying all this to you In self-
justification; In Justice to yourself.
In after years It will be something
to look back upon—as an exoneration
—should my silly conscience begin to
prod me for what I've never, inten-
tionally, done. But, of course, after
J your merciless words of Tuesday
night, it would be foolhardy—ridicu-
lous of me—to reopen the subject to
you. I have been given to under-
stand. And as long as I live I shall
never again annoy you with my feel-
ings. I have asked you to marry
me for the last time.”
Margery folded the letter and
i placed it calmly In the envelope.
Then she leaned forward In her chair
and coolly laid it on the bed of pink
and gray coals smoldering in the
grate. She watched it in Spartan
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stage equipment, says the Popular
Mechanics. At one end of a girder
pivoted to a standard about 12 feet
high, is a miniature aeroplane so con-
structed as to be able to turn somer-
saults. The 3-foot propeller of the
machine, driven by a five horsepower
two-cylinder engine, sends the aero-
plane around on the end of the girder
the other end of which is provided
with a counterpoise. The acrobat
works the elevating plane with hia
feet and operates the rudder with, his
right hand, making the machine turn
somersaults.
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wl|>e her eyes more
The crisis came; his life was de-
paired of. The little nurse boldly took
it upon herself to scud a line to Mar-
gery Sessoms. She had gotten her
name from the alck man's ravings;
she found her address in the tele-
phone book Hut alas! Margery was
a thousand miles from New York She
was down south, lu Georgia, nursing
her mother back to health—and try-
ing to patch up her own broken heart
with her art.
it was a month later that, return-
ing to her northern home, Mar-
gery found the letter addressed In a
strange woman’s handwriting They
had carelessly neglected to forward
It, and as Margery's stupefied senses
at last took In the full reall/.a|lon of
the words, she gave a little husky cry
and—swooned. They brought her to
In a little while, and she again took
up the letter and slowly re-read the
contents
"Dear Miss Sessoms—If you can.
please come to the hospital right
away I am writing you on tny own
responsibility. Poor young Dr. Og-
den is dying, and he talks about you
all the time some trouble between
you—-and I know you’d come If you
could hear him
"Ask for Miss Trueheart when
you get to the hospital. Hastily.
•'LYDIA T.”
But Dwight Ogden did not die
(By C. M. CLINTON >
To ninke money with Lima beans
one should grow them as a specialty
and sell on the large market or direct
to consumers, If possible. If this Is
aot desirable. It is best to make an
trrangement with one commission
house which makes a specialty of this
Muss of vegetables and ship to him
lally as long as the season lasts.
The dwarf Lima beans are sports of
the climbing variety. There are three
types of each, the most popular of the
climbing beans being the true Limas,
large, flat and Blender, with broad
pods. The dwarf Limas are compara-
tively new and possess all the desira-
ble table qualities of the pole Llnms,
while their low stature makes cultiva-
tion easier. *
The ground for Lima beans should
be plowed early, but not until the soli
is In good condition. Beans should be
dropped in rows four feet apart every
eighteen Inches and covered lightly.
Deep planting Is fatal. If the weather
Is wet the least possible soil, say a
quarter of an Inch, is enough to draw
over the bean. It requires about one-
half bushel of seed per acre.
The Lima bean does not need fer-
tilizers containing nitrogen, because It
gets all It needs from the air, but
should have .plenty of phosphorus.
Fertilizers should be put on after the
plants are up and growing nicely.
The plants should be well hoed be-
fore the vines commence to run, and
as soon as the ground dries off after
ed a year or two than on freah sward
land. Manure well aud mark out rows
four feet apart and put hen manors
•In the furrow, covering it three or four
Inches—C. H. V., Conn.
“I prefer pole beans for home use,
as they are more prolific and profit-
able, but grown on a large scale the
poles are too hard to get and are too
expensive."—G. W K , Ky.
"Where poles are easily gotten, pole
Limas are the most profitable. They
have much larger vines and hear bet-
ter than the dwarf."—M. A. S. C.
"A pole Lima will outbear a bush
bean and will not rot so badly In wet
healtha'and ^strength —and a^tbaG ™l„. they should be lightly hoed and
tered life. He had been so near re-
lief from it all, and relief had not
come. The same bleak future
stretched before him only, if possi-
ble, It was bleaker. The little nurse
had told hint of her letter to Mar- j lai|S®' flat variety,
gery — and Margery's failure to re-
spond. What was there left for him
to live for? Not even hope!
the surface kept loose.
It Is important to study the demand
of the market, because some con-
sumers require the plump potato-bean
while others will have nothing but the
LESSON IN NATURAL HISTORY
r
Cage for Singing Bugs.
even a cage as small as that shown
in the illustration would be too roomy
(or him. A kind of cricket is the in-
•ect most often domesticated In
Japan.
STREET GAMES FOR CHILDREN
Something New Is Being Played by
Little Girls of Great City of Lon-
don—Ball Is Used.
The children of the street are ultra-
conservative in their games. After
.countless years London Bridge contin-
ues to fall upon my fair lady; the crop
of oats, peas, beans and barley grows
as bountifully as ever.
This season has brought a new game
which is played by little girls In every
part of town, announces the New York
Sun. A rubber ball is bounced on the
pavement and caught to the accompan-
iment of intricate hops and skips. In
its simplest form the game is to
bounce the ball on each flagstone and
jump to the next without touching the
crack.
Among the older children a form is
used of turning completely around
after the ball is dropped, clapping
bands and balancing on one foot. In
counting a progressive system is em-
ployed similar to that in jacks; on the
first stone each motion is gone through
once, on the second stone twice, etc.,
and the player is out as soon as she
misses a count in any of the move-
ments
Peculiar Traits of Fly, Hen, Cats,
Dogs, Mouse, Snake and Goldfish
— How They AcL
A fly on a window pane will crawl
to the top, fly back to the bottom and
crawl up again. This order is seldom
reversed.
Hens scratch for food with the sun
behind them, the reason being that the
rays reflect on the minute particles. |
A blind hen will pick grain and not
miss a kernel.
Cats seldom lie with their feet to
the fire. Usually they lie on the left
side. Dogs lie with their fore paws to
the fire.
A mouse will ignore a food supply
sufficient for a meal and run great
risks to nibble at a wholesale supply.
It will hide at the source of food sup-
ply and not depart therefrom until
actually disturbed. It Isn't true that
a mouse runs to a hole at the first
alarm.
Find a harmless little snake the
She Watched It With Spartan Silence.
silence as the flame licked up and
gathered it hungrily beneath its yel-
low tongue. When the last bit of
charred paper had sifted to nothing-
ness she arose, poked the coals with
an elaborate display of unconcern,
and weakly trilling a bar from an old
opera, quietted the room and ran up-
stairs to her den. Her lips and her
cheeks were very white as she sat
down before her easel. The unfin-
ished study—a plate of June apples—
was before her. She worked absorb-
ingly for two solid hours; then with
a sigh she laid down her brushes
and threw back her head to survey
the result. She laughed hysterically.
The fruit was perfect in proportion,
charmingly arranged; the leaves
were absolutely lifelike and exquisite.
But the apples jvere purple!
Margery's trembling hand sought
her throat! she felt as If she were
going to stifle. Her heart plunged
downward a thousand leagues.
Dwjght dead—and she had not been
able to go to him. He had died be-
lieving her cruel and unforgiving
and relentless! When she could pull
herself together she arose and
dragged her aching limbs to the
telephone. She called up the hos-
pital and asked for Miss Trueheart.
Miss Trueheart was “on duty.” and
she falterlngly Inquired of the girl
at the phone when Dr. Ogden had
died.
“Oh,” she gasped, “not—not dead.
Getting well—ah! Thank you so
much; I was misinformed. Goodby.”
Margery never knew how she got out
the words—or bow she got back to
her room. The first thing of which
she was conscious was of sitting be-
fore her desk, pen in hand
“Dear Dwight.
“I have Just returned from Macon,
Ga., after a six weeks' visit. On my
arrival at the house I found a letter
from the girl who nursed you. Miss
Trueheart, telling me of your serious '■
illness. It was written the day you
w'ere expected to die and she asked j
me to come. You understand now i
why I did not.
“Dear, can you ever forgive me?
I have been narrow, prejudiced, mean.
But I have suffered. You don’t know
the price I’ve paid. Dwight—all these
wre£ched weeks and today when I
thought I had lost you.
“There’s nothing I can write, noth-
ing I can say, to excuse myself And
I’m not going to try. After the way I
acted and talked that last night, of
course you could never ask me to
marry you again. But—but it Is leap
year, dear, and X am going to ask you.
My people are getting ready to sail for
Paris in ten days. I can be ready—
for the other—in a week. As in the
old days.
"Margery.”
“P. S.—After all, we are only sec-
ond cousins.”
When grown on a large scale, the
beans are sold In bags, and bring
from $1.50 to $3.00 per bag, the low
price being at the close of the season.
When shelled and packed into neat
boxes, they bring much better prices.
M
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Large White Lima Beans.
of course, and if cheap labor can be
had, this is the proper way to dispose
of them.
The Lima bean Is a favorite vege-
table everywhere and Is grown in all
sections of the country. The experl-
1 ence or rather, opinions, of growers
j In various parts of the United States
! as to the merits of pole or bush beans
i will be of interest.
“In this latitude Lima beans should
not be planted before May 20th. They
do better on land that has been work-
Dwarf Lima Beans, Rather Late.
weather. The bush Lima Is early, and
that means a great deal In the map
ket, and the saving of poles make*
them cheaper to grow.”—L. B.. Texas.
“But few Limas are grown here on.
account of the short season. Bush
varieties are therefore best, aa they
mature earlier.”—A. A. R., Minn.
“We have planted bush Lima beans
for the past three seasons. This year
shall plant no other kind. Planted
alongside pole Limas they have borne
right along during the dry season,
while the pole Limas did very little
good. The beans are smaller, but the
quality fine.”—I. E. M., Ind.
“The dwarf varieties have not
proved as reliable as the pole kinds.
In wet seasons the pods are too near
the ground and they mildew. In very
dry seasons they do not do as well aa
the pole varieties."—G. G., Pa. ,
“I have ceased to grow pole Limas,
as the bush beans have proved more
profitable with me.”—J. J. K., Ohio.
“Limas grow to perfection here.
Push them In the soil, eye down, In
early May. Can plant about four
times ns many bush beans on same
area as of the pole sorts; but with
same treatment a pole will make eight
times as many, and thus give twice the
crop that the bush beans does. The
bush gets In market first and com-
mands a better price, but the poda
are scarce.”—J. J., Ky. *
“With me the pole beans have done
best, but my neighbor has best suc-
cess with bush Limas.”—M. A. P.,
Mich.
“Bush beans have been a failure
with me, while pole Limas have been
just the reverse. I have grown them
at the rate of over sixty bushels to the
acre. I plant from May 20th to June
10th, in drills three feet apart and
six Inches in the drill.”—A. R. I., Neb.
FIGHT AGAINST
INSECT NUISANCE
Never Failing Remedy Against
Aphis, Onion Thrips and
Other Sncklng
Garden Pests.
Dwight Ogden took up the re-
ceiver with eager fingers. All day
he had waited in a fever of hope
and fear to hear Margery's voice.
But blank disappointment. met him.
As before—a dozen times, perhaps—
length of a toad pencil and provide i lt wa3 only a call from one of his
a box for it in the house, visit it daily, patients, and he found himself wish
and at the end of three months it will | ing savagely that they were all dead-
crawl to you for food.
Goldfish usually swim around a
globe to the right. They can be
taught to take a fly out of the hand In
or well.
But the days came and went and
(By E. W. GR.USS.)
Kerosene emulsion is one of the
standard remedies in the combat
| against insect pests. It is made by
! boiling one pound of whale oil, or
caustic potash soap, or. one quart of
soft soap in two gallons of soft water.
! When the soap Is dissolved pour the
solution into the sprayer, adding two
EGG TESTER IS
QUITE USEFUL
VFlth Very Little Tim* and Labor
and Practically No Expense
Kandy Device Can t
Be Made,
John M. Callahan’s Story.
John M. Callahan told a story of a
friend who had been asked to make a
short address on the tariff In Manito-
woc.
‘It was eight o clock when he began ganon8 Gf kerosene. Then pump Into
his speech, and he slowly unfolded the ,taelf untll the compound has the con-
intricacies of the wool schedule, the blstency of buttermilk and its bulk has
steel rate and a few others, never no- jncreased to nearly five gallons. This _____ , .....„ „...„„„
ticing the time. t 11.3 he hesitated j Is the stocls solution. Fbr spraying dl- and practically no expense whatever
for a few momen s, and said: • I lute two parts of the stock with 9 or ; the farmer can make an egg tester
When the farmer begins to save
eggs for hatching purposes, he natur-
ally wonders how many of them are
fertile and how many are worthless
for hatching. A great many make
the hen the tester. That is, they set
the eggs, and if they hatch they at-
tribute it to good luck, and if they are
all sterile they charge the result to
had luck and wonder why they cannot
have as pronounced success as their
neighbors.
With a very little time and labor
‘I have made my remarks rather
. , . | 10 parts of soft water. I cannot rec- i with which he can tell the fertile from
short, and perhaps some o you do not ommend a stronger solution. This Is ! the infertile eggs. By testing the eggs
drifted into weeks, and there was no fully understand s unpor an sub- a never failing remedy against the before placing them under the hen In
, weeks' time The nresen variation to the story. His dlsap- Ject and wish to ask me a ewques- aphis, onion thrips, and other sucking ! the incubator, the farmer can increase
six weeks time. The presence of pointment turned Into despair. She tions. I will be glad to answer any-
other fish in the globe is generally had, then, meant what she said—they thing you may ask me.’
ignored by goldfish. Drop a piece of
chip on the surface of the water and
it* will frighten a fish
He Was “Most Uncomf’ble.”
The following incident, told by a
teacher, is quite true: “My attention
was called to a wee small boy, whose
shrill voice piped out above the rest.
At first I was inclined to reprove him
for disturbing me, but on looking at
the tiny face I saw the child was
could never be more than friends. Just
because they happened to be cousins!
Well. If she still persisted In her
mulish course, he could do likewise.
If she was willing to sit passively and | “ ‘And wud yez be afther tellin' me
allow- the prejudiced views of a fa- something?’ he asked,
natic to prevail over the deepest feel- “ ‘Surely,’ said my friend, ‘what Is it
ings of her heart, he was quite sure j you want to know?'
he could carry out his end of the bar “ ‘Well.’ said he, ‘if ye don’t mind,
gain to the bitter end After the what time is It?’’’—Milwaukee Free
| insects. Biting insects, too, will’sue-j the percentage of eggs hatched—in-
cumb if the spray touches them. For J many cases this percentage can al-
most be doubled.
To make the tester take a cracker
box and place in It an ordinary hand
For some minutes none spoke, and results the spraying must be re-
again he asked for questions. Final-
ly an old Irishman in the rear.of the
hall arose.
things she had said to him, lt should
be as he had stated in his letter, he
Press.
really in trouble I called him to me. had asked ber to reconsider and mar
and asked him what was the matter.
At first he would not tell me. but
finally he said: "Please, ma’am. I
can't sit down. This morning I got
my trousers on wrong side afore, and
I’m most uncomfble. I want to go
home."
ry him for the last time
Thus the time dragged on.
There came a time when young
Dr Ogden forgot his own identity
for many weary weeks. Stricken'
down with pneumonia, he raved in
delirium till du pretty, gentle little
peated four or five times in Intervals
of five to seven days. It must not be
used on vegetables of which the leaves
are eaten.
Teach Dairy Secrets.
The University of Missouri is pre-
paring to establish dairy demonstra-
tion farms in different parts of the
state. A traveling instructor will
teach farmers the use of the Babcock
test, selection of animals and other
dairy secrets.
A Good Argument.
“How does this hat look on me.
madam?” asked the lady In the mil-
liner's.
“Very, very fine.” replied the mod- . Ostrich Raising.
Iste. “You could easily convince peo- Some farmers In southeastern Mts-
ple that you are ten years younger j souri are experimenting with ostrich
than you are with that litl" i raising.
lamp. ’ In one side cut a small hole
just the size of the egg when it is held
with the large end up. Make this
opening about on a level with the
lamp. It is best to test them at night
in a dark room.
Perhaps the most pronounced indi-
cations of fertility of an egg is the
clearly defined air space at the large
end of the egg and a cloudy appear-
ance. densest at the upper part of the
egg An absolutely infertile egg or
one whose germs will not develop
sufficiently is one which is clear or
near so throughout. Heavy red dot*
In the egg Indicate dead germs.
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