The Spencer Siftings (Spencer, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 2, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 2, 1910 Page: 3 of 8
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Write Us
If You Can’t Visit Us
Hart. Schaffner &
Marx
AND
Rogers. Peet & Co.
Clothes.
{They Sell from
$20.00 to $40.00
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But the Leaders, selling at the
Popular Prices
$20.00, $22.50, $25.00, $27.50
and $30.00,
are worthy of your inspection
Jno. B. Stetson Hats
Manhattan Shirts
J. & M. Shoes
KNIGHT, BECK S Cl.
1 15 Wert Main
OKLAHOMA CITY
PALACE OF THE DALAI LAMA AT LHASA
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rf«HE dalai lama, who fled from pal palace at Lhasa upon the approach of Chinese troops. Is now In India on
i his way to Peking where he will make a personal appeal for relief from the conditions which forced him to
1 flee from his capital. It 18 probable that the dalai lama will be given a favorable hearing In Peking, as
It Is recognized that the action against him may have serious results. The Tibetans generally recent the
treatment of the dalai lama, and as they have other grudges against the Chinese, the ‘Chinese officials at Iso-
lated posts are In great danger of being massacred.
BUGS DOING DAMAGE
Boll Weevil Forcing South to Cut
Down Cotton Production.
Do You Need a Well Drilled?
If so, either write, phone w call on us.
Satisfactory work, prompt service.
Hamlin & Hartsuck
Office 22 W. California. Phone 2602
Res. 1214 W. 28th St. Oklahoma City
Means End of Expenditure of Hun-
dreds of Millions Outside of
“Dixie" for Supplies — Huge
Loss for North.
Meet Me Face to Face
19 N. Broadway
OKLAHOMA CITY
Opposite Hotel Lee-Huckins
I Sell Clothing and
Furnishings
GET THE GENUINE
Boston, Mass.—A little brown beetle,
less than a fourth of an Inch long. Is
gradually changing a whole system of
agriculture. He Is disturbing the bal-
ance of trade He Is causing the north
to lose money.
This bug. the cotton boll weevil,
viewed at first as a calamity of stu-
pendous proportions, is beginning to
be appreciated as a blessing in the
south.
The cotton plant originated in the
plateau region of Central America and
south Mexico. For a hundred years or
so it has been cultivated In the United
States. Also. In the original home of
'-.Hie cotton plant originated the cotton
boA*.weevil. He began to push north
ward,' few miles each year, hunting
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probable. But say It Is only 6C per
cent. Take 11,000,000 bales as an av-
erage crop—It really Is less than the
average, but for illustrative purposes
It will no. At ten cents a pound, or
$50 a bale, the cotton crop is worth
about $550,000,000. Add an average of
five dollars per bale, value of the cot-
ton seed, and that gives $55,000,000
more, a total of $605,000,000. Cut that
down 150 per cent, and there Is a loss
of over $600,000,000 annually on a basis
of ten-cent cotton.
Even that price will never be real-
ized again. Cotton is worth 15 cents
a pound now—that means $250,000,000
more of loss.
Apparently, the south should be
prosperous with a flood of $600,000,000,
or v700,000,000 or $800,000,000 pourtng
into It each year. The south has pros-
pered, but not as one would imagine
from such a sum.
The reason of It Is that so little of
that money sticks In the south.
Cotton was always certain money A
bale of cotton ntay be converted Into
cash almost with the celerity of New
York exchange. There is no peddling
or huckstering. And there was a
cotton to
It was a long Journey, but In central j fascinating element of a gamble In It.
Mexico fields <jf the cultivated plant ^ Maybe It would bring ten cents or
Decante more plentiful.
By 1890 practically all Mexico was
Infected. So voracious were the wee-
vils that in many section? of Mexico
cotton planting was abandoned In its
entirety.
In the first ten years in the United
States the annual spread of the boll
weevil was 5,610 square miles. Since
1901 the annual Increase of Infestation
has averaged 26,880 miles. In 1904
51,500 square miles were infested.
At present the boll weevil has a
lodgment in five states—Texas, LouLs-
fana, Mississippi, Arkansas and Okla-
homa. Alabama and West Tennesseee
will be reached in 1911. Georgia and
South Carolina and East Tennessee
will be invaded In 1912. By 1915 the
infestation of every nook and cranny
of the entire cotton producing area of
the United States will be complete
Poison has no effect upon him, for
he bores into the immature cotton
bolls (pods holding the lint and seed
In embryo) and sucks the juice and
sap from the Interior.
Forty-five species of insect enemies
of the weevil are known. The para-
site develops by feeding upon the
young boll weevil, which It ultimately
kills.
The only remedy for the weevil Is to
stop planting cotton, for the weevil
feeds upon nothing else
A reduction of two-thirds In the cot-
ton crop in the next six years is very
belter. Result, general joy and ex-
travagance, to be bitterly paid for next
year, when a lot of cotton exchange
manipulators in New York, New Or-
leans and Liverpool hammer the price
to six cents and keep It there until
the bulk of the cotton has been mark
eted by January 1. and out of the grow
era’ hands. Then the speculators would
blithely boost the quotations.
The average planter cannot hold his
cotton, lie lias been running on credit,
and his banker and his merchant are
Insisting upon money. They have been
running on credit, too. The eastern
banks are pinching the southern banks
and the wholesalers are pinching the
merchant. So the planter Is com-
pelled to sell and settle.
The bank gets Its money—nips off
ten per cent, interest and remits Its
eastern correspondent. The planter
then goes to his merchant, who has
been furnishing him with supplies
since last settling day. a year ago.
These supplies, Including not only
clothing, household goods, machinery,
etc., but also the most of his food, are
bought in the north. Ninety per cent,
of his money goes to the north.
Now, the cotton raiser who under-
stands these conditions Is preparing to
beat the boll weevil and the system
that takes his money from him. He is
going to lessen his cotton production
and raise instead all his own food sup-
plies.
When the weevil reaches his farm
Mr. Farmer can afford to lose the
whole crop of cotton and then not be
ruined. He Is making his living, what
be consumes, and a surplus for sale
out of the soil.
What cotton he gathers after hts
wrestle with the boll weevil is clean,
clear profit. He can keep the money.
He can hold his cotton until he gets
an adequate price for It, which he
could not do under the credit system.
Spring Clothing
THAT'S DIFFERENT
A Man's Suit Speaks as Plainly as His Card
His card simply tells his
name, while his suit proclaims
his personality to everyone he
meets. Everybody under-
stands the
Clothes Language
There’s individuality in our
Suita. The new shades for
Spring are greys, olive mix-
tures and Ians, in a variety of
patterns from
$15 to $35
Headquarters for E. & W.
Shirts and Collars, Stetson
and Crofut and Knapp Hats.
High class Neckwear.
WE SELL TO SELL AGAIN
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How to Make Poultry Pay
THE SECRET TO POULTRY
RAISING IS IN THE FEEDING
Barteldes 0. K. Chick Food
A complete scientifically compounded food for young chicks.
The reason Barteldes O. K. Chick Food gives such extra-
ordinary results, is that it is a well mixed, well balanced grain
mixture so proportioned to the needs of the growing chicks.
lOO POUNDS, $2.25
Barteldes 0. K. Scratching Food
An ideal dry grain mixture; afford* variety, maintains
health and make* hens lay.
STATE AGENTS FOR THE WELL KNOWN CYPRESS INCUBATORS AND BROODERS
HEADQUARTERS FOR ALL POULTRY SUPPLIES
The Barteldes Seed Co.
Insects Tipple on Plants
Entomologist Finds That Flowers
Make Bacchanalian Festival for
Flies and Moths.
Little Rock, Ark.—It Is not very
obvious, from the human point .if
view, why the ivy should be called
the plant of Bacchus, since no wine
Is made from its berries. Entomoto
gists, however, have found that its
flowers make a veritable Bacchanalian
festival for a number of insects.
They are wont to sally forth at
night with lanterns to capture the
intoxicated moths that crowd around
the greenish blossoms. When the wil
low Is In bloom they And a similar
scene of dissipation around its yel
low eatkins.
The tippling insect may be used to
point a moral by the temperance lec-
turer, for rum not infrequently leads
to its ruin. A distinguished entomolo-
gist, after giving a recipe for the mix
lure of sugaring trees for moths—
which included beer—said; “Add
Novel Foe of Consumption
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Bottled by
OKLAHOMA COCA GQLA BOTTLIKi GOMP’I
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Bottlers of the
GENUINE COCA COLA
Method of B-'eathing Introduced Into
Philadelphia Schools to Pre-
vent Disease.
Philadelphia.—Dr. Joseph S. Neff,
director of public health, has asked
for and will receive soon a report on
a methou of breathing which Is being
Introduced by Dr. Emily Noble, who
says that by It tuberculosis can be
prevented.
Dr. Noble gave a demonstration re-
cently before a group of teachers at
the Friends’ Select school.
“From what I have heard of her
method,” said Dr. Neff. “1 believe it
to be good and practicable. If after
further investigation, and the receiv-
ing of a report, for which I have
asked, i find Dr. Noble’s method to
be what i think it, I will ask the
board «\f edt cation to arrange a series
of lectures at which she can tell Phil-
adelphia school teachers of her method
“What she advocates, so far as 1 un-
derstand, Is to train children to use
various muscles in breathing and not
to rely entirely on the diaphragmatic
method as a* present taught,”
Dr. Noble has traveled in many
parts ot the earth, and it is said that
she learned her method of breathing
in India, where such matters have
been better understood for many cen
turies that in the western world. In
some Jamaica rum just before using;
it is the rum which attracts tnera.”
Vfter sipping this mixture the moths
and butterflies fall from tbe tree in-
toxicated. If the entomologist is not
there to capture them by and by they
recover and get up again for another
dip.
There is a fly so addicted to wine
that Linnaeus named it the cellar fly,
which appellation Kirby changed to
the more appropriate one of the cel-
lar wine drinker. The latter distin-
guished entomologist writes of it
thus: “The larva of this little fly,
as I can witness from my own ob-
servations, disdains to feed on any-
thing but wine or beer, which, like
Boniface In the play, it may be said
both to eat and drink, though, unlike
its toping counterfeit.lt Is indifferent
to tho age of the liquor, which, wheth-
er sweet or sour. Is equally accepta-
ble."
"There Is another insect—a moth —
which also loves the cellar and the
wine bottle. But strange to say. It
takes its liquor merely as a flavoring
to tbe cork in the bottle, on whieh it
really feeds, that Is to say, the larvae
pasture on the corks of wine bottles,
sometimes causing the wine to run
out. The moth belongs to that trou-
blesome family which works such de-
struction in clothes and furs.
City Salesroom, 29 Main
OKLAHOMA CITY
If You are Unable to See
As well as you should, or suffering from any
eye trouble, the safest plan is to consult us. We
use only lenses ground in our own factory for
each individual case. Consultation Free
T1CAL
132 12 West Main, Oklahoma City
Carrier Captures Eagle.
Petaluma, Cal.—To capture an eagle
by merely picking it up from the road-
side was the experience of Frank A.
Holmes, a rural mail carrier, the oth-
er day. He saw a huge bird by tho
If you are NOT USING
CHOCTAW
You are NOT using THE BEST FLOUR.
Your grocer has it.
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side of the road, and when he alighted
fact, ia that country correct breathing j from Ills wagon the bird made no ef-
is intermixed with religious training,
and it is one of the first things taught
the young East Indian who aspires to
be a yogi, or holy man.
Boston.—A premature desire to go
west to convert Indians is believed to
acccunt for the disappearance of Jo-
seph F. Hubbard, a 14-year-old Dor-
chester boy. Hubbard has several
times declared his intention of becom-
ing a missionary among the Indians,
with a view to havjsg li totroduced to j and his partnis thin’- he ha* started
our schools. j tor a Montana reservation
fort to get away and Holmes soon dis-
covered that it was Injured. It was
brought to town and is recovering.
The bird is a fine specimen of the gray
eagle.
Find Voqelweide Songs.
Berlin.—The text and not** of
three songs by the great mediaeval
minnesinger Vogelwelde and n frag-
ment of a song by another poet are
reported to have been discovered by
chance among the state archives at
Munster
Souhtwe stern Marble
and Granite Mr
FOREIGN ANO AMERICAN MARBLE AND GRANITE WORKS
SPECIAL ATTENTION TC CUT OF TOWN BUSINESS
WE MAKE A SPECIALTY OF
MONUMENTS STATUARY
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Greason, J. Floyd. The Spencer Siftings (Spencer, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 2, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 2, 1910, newspaper, April 2, 1910; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc936755/m1/3/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.