The Spencer Siftings (Spencer, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 32, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 31, 1908 Page: 3 of 8
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Mr. William A. Radford will ar.«w.r
imationa and itlve advice FRISK OK
?OST on all subject* pertalnliqi to the
■object of buildlnjr for the reader* of th<*
paper. On nrcount of hi* wide expe-
rience a* Kdltor, Author and Manufac-
turer. he I*, without doubt, the highest
authority on all these subjects. Address
ill Inquiries to William A. Itadford, No.
tW Fifth Ave.. Chicago. 111., and only
enclose two-cant stamp for reply.
Sometimes it Is necessary to build
u house to fit a narrow lot. As a
general thing lots are deep enough to
hold almost any kind of u house. F.w
lots in American cities are less than
100 feet from front to back, but be-
cause of expensive street improve-
ments they art? often squeezed side-
ways until houses get to be very close
neighbors, it is unfortunate that it is
so, but we have to take eonditions as
we find them aud make the best of it.
Sometimes these narrow lotB are in
very desirable neighborhoods, conven-
ient for transportation and convenient
for other reasons, and by building a
house to fit the lot such property
may be made very comfortable and at-
tractive.
This design shows a house only 18
feet wide, but the length is 38 feet 6
inches, exclusive of the front porch.
Such a shape necessarily requires that
one room shall follow another, some-
times with a very long, dark, narrow
hail, but this plan avoids that difficulty
by putting a room at the back end of
the hall and by connecting the kitchen
with the dining room by way of the
pantry.
Then the upper part of the house is
laid out with a bedroom in each end
and a bathroom opposite the upper
hallway in the center. This arrange
ment requires that the bathroom shall
he lighted by a dormer window, the
BRADFORD
EDITOR
a porch root to give it so much pro-
jection, but you have got to do some
thing out of the ordinary or when the
house is done you are not satisfied
with It.
Every house should be built with
modern improvements, whether the
house is large or small. More atten-
tion is being paid to bathrooms with
hot and cold water connection than
ever before. The time will soon come
when a house won’t rent or sell unless
it has what are generally terim*d
Second Floor Plan
modern improvements. I have known
small houses to rent for eight or ten
dollars a month, and I have known
houses that cost very little more to
rent for double that amount simply
because they were built attractively
and contained modern means of heat-
design of which is very neat and at-
tractive. It adds a great deal to the
appearance of the house, because it is
ornamental an well as useful. Such
’attachements make up the difference
between a common, cheap-looking
house and a satisfactory, useful, orna-
mental habitation that, is at once very
pleasing and interesting.
So-called cottage houses with one
gable end toward the street are as
common as house tiles in the cheaper
sections of some cities. You may
count them by the hundreds, and they
are all practically alike; cheap tene-
ment-looking affairs, each house trying
to look as near like its neighbor as
possible, without any attempt at in-
dividual ornamentation. The front
yard is usually bare of grass and there
is a broken board walk at the side.
ing and with plumbing connections so
the different members of the family
could keep themselves clean.
A great deal depends on the plan
as well as the convenience and the
the outside appearance. It is an art
that seems difficult to acquire, the
building of small artistic, comfortable
houses, but it is an art well worth
studying.
Such houses should be a great deal
more common than they are. It would
prevent families who like to live nice-
ly from crowding into flat buildings
where they have neither light nor suf-
ficient air. This is another excuse for
narrow lots. A 50-foot lot would hold
two such houses and make comfort-
able living quarters for two families
instead of one.
Generally such houses are boxed in
with some kind of a wooden fence
that shows signs of weather wear and
the dilapidated breakage caused by
children at play.
A neat design like this costs very
little more, but what a difference in
appearance. Tbo shape of the roof
and the corresponding roof over the
front porch, with the proper placing
of windows, makes the difference in
the outside appearance. The cclors
used in painting, of course, have a
good deal to do with the final finish
A good combination of light shade of
paint for the body with darker trim
mlngs carefully chosen to properly
mutch show to great advantage in the
finish of one of these houses.
it costs a little more when building |
Would Want the Umbrella.
Ignorance often saves much dis-
quietude. Many have heard the story
of the woman whose first experience
in a railway train ended with an ac-
cident. Thrown from her seat and
shaken up generally, she nevertheless
retained her equanimity. When asked
if she were frightened she replied:
"Frightened! No. I didn’t know but
that was the way they always
stopped." It is to be hoped that the
trolley passenger in Mr. Howels’ anec-
dote introduced into “Confessions of
a Summer Colonist," was possessed of
he same trust in the event. The
onductor, at least, preserved his pres-
ence of mind. Says Mr. Howells:
I had long expected to see some
me thrown out of the open trolley car
at some of the short curves. One day
a woman was actually burled from her
:eat into a road. Luckily she alighted
on her feet, and stood looking about
s if in a daze.
"Oh, oh!” exclaimed a passenger.
"She’s left her umbrella!”
The conductor promptly threw it
out.
“Why did that lady wish to get out?"
I asked.
The conductor pondered a moment
before he answered:
"Weil, she’ll want her umbrella,
anyway."
Help for Woman Suffrage.
Mrs. Russell Sage and other women
of large means have pledged $60,000
to the cause of woman suffrage in the
United States. The money is to be
paid in sums of $12,000 a year for the
next five years. The annual receipts
of the American Woman Suffrage as-
sociation have grown from $2,544 in
1892 to $25,662 for 1907.
Farmers Educational
-AND-
Co - Operative Union
Of America
’Tla a Dinky Little World.
A cashier in a downtown bank.
With a knack for manipulation,
Regan to manipulate the funds,
Hence his chase through all crea-
tion;
They caught him going up the Nile
On a most palatial steamer.
And they brought him back to old U. 8.
On a serious misdemeanor.
His pride was wilted, likewise his pile;
He’d not much left but gall,
And ho thought, thought, thought,
As they brought him back,
Tls a dinky little world, after all!
A man with n wife and family of kids,
Found his Unity in another.
He left them all and went with her
To this place and the other;
They settled down in Mexico.
In a cot of white adobe.
And he fondly thought that in old
U. 8.
He had left his domestic load;
A tourist, idly rambling about.
Espied them in their kraal.
And he thought, thought, thought,
As they brought him back,
*T!b a dinky little world, after all.
There’s several parties In the swim
That’ll catch it on the hip;
There's going to be some tumbles
From the Presidential ship.
The Dem’s and Reb’s and Soc’s and
Prob’s
Have greatest expectations.
And soon there’ll be a looking up
Of various reputations;
The losing ones in old U. S.
When recovered from their fall,
Will think, think, think,
As their minds come back,
'TU a dinky little world, atfer all.
The Price of Cotton.
Even though weather conditions con-
tinue favorable to the cotton crop
during the balance of the seasou, and
even though a bumper yield is assured,
there is no certainty that actual
cotton will he available in any consid-
erable quantities at 8c or less within
the next four months. Planters did
not secure as much for last year’s
crop as they hoped, yet the majority
are well satisfied with their profits, in
other words they regard the season’s
campaign for higher prices as having
been successful; anything above 10c
for cotton spells success in the eye3
for most growers. The Farmers’ Un-
ion with Its membership of more than
one million has been steadily increas-
ing its warehouses for storing the
crop, and has improved and expanded
its plan for financing the season's
yield in a proportionate manner. What-
ever may have been the actual measure
of success of last year’s holding move-
ment, it is generally admitted that it
was eminently successful in prevent-
ing (he flooding of the market with
cotton at low prices early in the sea-
son. Because of greater experience
and capacity it may be expected to
prove much more successful during
the next four to six months than it
was during the same period last sea-
son. The manufacturer or spinner
who contracts to deliver yarn or goods
during the next six months at prices
on a basis of 8c cotton is accepting a
mighty big risk. Buyers of yarns
and goods who are not now eager to
purchase on such a basis will do well
to make a careful study of the future
of he market from the standpoint
mentioned.—Textile Manufacturers’
Jo'-—-t
The above will prove interesting
reau.ng, coming as it does from a well-1
known trade Journal published in the
interest of manufacturers of cotton and j
woolen fabrics. The editor of the Jour-
nal, it will be seen, is not expecting
cotton to reach a very low level unless
farmers become demoralized and throw
tbeir cotton on the market as soon as
gathered and ginned. Now that farm-
ers are learning the lesson that it is
best to market their cotton slowly and
as needed by the manufacturer, there
is little likelihood that cotton will ever
again reach the 5c and 6c mark. The
manufacturer would rather buy his cot-
ton from the producer—buying as he
needs it the year round—than from
the speculator. If farmers will hold
part of their cotton and sell it as |
needed it stands to reason that one j
year with another a better price can
be secured than if marketed as soon
as gathered.—Texas Stockman and!
Farmer.
When you take tho hen and chicks j
from the nest grease the hen IghUy
under the wings and along the breast
with a little fresh lard (no salt). This
will assist in getting rid of any mites
or lice on the little ones. Use no
grease about the nests before they are
hatched.
National Cotton Committee leeuee
Address.
Is there any good reason why th#
cotton producer should sell his pm
duct today for three cents per pounf
less than he did three months ago)
We do not think then? is. Wo are
further removed from the panic now
than we were then. Business condi-
tions have improved in all lines. Tho
demand for cotton goods has increased
wonderfully In that time. While cot-
ton Is too cheap to sell the unusual
has happened in the price of gratu and
meat. Corn has maintained its high
level up to harvest time, and is now
selling for $100 per bushel. Wheat
is worth $1.0® and flour ha* advanced
fifteen cents per barrel this week.
Meat is selling at mid summer prices.
So it is with everything except cot-
ton. There ts no legitimate cause for
this lethargy and consequent loss of
many millions to the South. South
Carolina and Georgia will produce
much less cotton than last year. Ala-
bama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Ar-
kansas are short, and Oklahoma crops
are late and very much less *han one
year ago. Texas alone shows a small
increase, but her gains cannot make
up the loss in other States. The visi-
ble supply was considerably less Sep-
tember 1st. 1908, than it was Septem-
ber 1st, 1907. The invisible supply
and mill stocks are smaller than for
years. The amount of old cotton still
in the hands of the farmers has been
much exaggerated. There is not enough
in their hands to figure materially In
tho world’s Btipply. The stocks of
goods are depleted all along the line
from the local merchant to the factory
floors. A small visible supply, a re-
duced invisible supply, a crop no larg-
er if os large as last year, the re-
tail merchant’s shelves bare, the JolR
bers shelves bare, the mill stocks de«
pleted combined make a good showing
for higher prices. To make the situa-
tion more acute, we have an increased
demand for all kinds of cotton goods.
In our opinion this is the opportunity
of the South to assert herself and
bring genera! prosperity to her citi-
zens. This Is a time when concert of
action will count for much. Cotton
today should be selling for 12 1-2 cents
If natural conditions had anything to
do with its price. It is now selling for
less because growers are pessimistic
about the price and sell too freely. The
slow marketing of the crop will cer-
tainly advance tho price. Fair values
will benefit every interest in the South
as much as it will the cotton produ-
cers themselves. We feel that every
patriotic citizen should and will co-op
erate with us in our effort to market
this crop as the world needs It, in-
stead of following that mort senseless
policy of giving the world a twelve
months' supply in three months. The
farmers who are not members of our
organization, the supply merchants, the
coUon commission merchants, the
country and city banks, and the pro
fesslonai men should cooperate with
us, but they cannot do so effectively
without organization. We therefore
appeal to all these interests to co-oper
ate with our holding agencies or from
organizations of their own, appoint
committees to confer with like com
mittees from other bodies and let that
general conference be known as a cot
ton congress. 1 his would unify every
interest in the South in one harmoni
OuS co-operative plan for general pros-
perity of our common country. Each
farmer, each business man. each pro-
fessional man, each commission cot
ton house, and each bank could invest
In a few bales of cotton at the pres
ent low price and put such cotton into
a dead cotton account, thus taking it
off the market Indeflnatcly. Such ac
tion would result in advancing the
price of the remainder of the crop un-
til it will sell for more than the whole
crop.
With the price advanced, this dead
supply of cotton could be sold for a
profit on the investment. Such re-
sults can be secured by co-operation,
and we urge upon every southern man
who loves his home and his country to
get busy. We believe that not a bale
of this crop should sell for less than
12 1-2 cents.
The Farmers' Union.
National Cotton Committee.
G. R. Hightower, Sec.
Memphis, Tenn.
The next annual meeting of the
American Association of Farmers' In-
stitute Workers will he held in Wash-
ington, D. C., Nov. 16-17.
Scatter the feed for tho chickens un-
der the plum trees if you have such,
in their feeding they will then gather
up many insect pests which work up-
on the fruit and trees. Digging about
the trees will also cause them to hunt
for worms about the roots. Shak'«g
the tree At feeding time will dislodge
many an insect and diseased plum
which the hens will destroy.
One of the ugliest acts of journalistic
ill manners was the act of the news-
papers in prying in and claiming to
have found out the minimum price
for cotton set by the Farmers’ Union,
and publishing that price to the world
in unseemly haste after telling the
world that the farmers were trying to
keep it a secret. We guess the farmers
will stand for it. though. They have
a reputatioii-for licking the hand that
smites them.—Abilene Farmers’ Jour-
nal.
It is all right to have an aim in life
provided we don’t aim too long With-
out shooting.
Crow is not good eating, but the
man who keeps his mouth shut never
has to,cat it.
Have strictly Farmers’ Union pic-
nics. Let all net proceeds of stands,
eta., go to the Union treasury to htdp
pay speakers and other necessary ex-
penses. By so doing the outsiders will
help keep the Union going and they
should hdp some. If the members of
the Union are benefited by the organi-
zation, everybody else, except, the
grafter is likewise benefited. Be up
and doing, "the fields are ripe unto
harvest."—Union Advocate, (Okla.)
It takes hard work to grow eorn—
and character.
David Grieves
for Absalom
Sender School Lotto* tor No*, t, IMS
Specialty Ar angadi tor This P*pw
UERUNA A TONIC OF
GREA T USEFULNESS.
LRIMON TKXT C Haiuu.l
Memory vers*. 33.
OOLDKN TKXT. - A tooltnli t» n
grt«*f to hi* father.’’- Kiev 17:2ft.
TIME.—Three month* after «ur luat
Heaaon.
FLACK.—Jrrtimlcm and Mtlmntlm. it
fortified town oeat of tho Jordan, near
tho Jabbok. memorable for Jacob'*
vrrc*t!lng In prayer Half way between
the iH-aCI *ett and the Rea of Oalih > Tho
battlefield whn In the Wood of Kphrutm
In (IIFad, east of the Jordan, within one
day of Mahnnalm.
Comment and Suggestive Thought.
The day that David left saw Absa-
lom taking possession of the throne.
Rejecting the shrewd advice of
Ahithophei, h«- waited till he could
gather a great army with which to at-
tack and overcome his father.
This was fatal. David and his two
generals, tho greatest in all Israel,
planned and organized their forces for
defense only, so far as David was
concerned.
Absalom reigned three months, and
during that time not one good tiling
is recorded concerning him.
He was as great a failure as a king
as he was as a man; and for the same
r'eaeou—he was selfish. He wanted to
be king for his own pleasure. He had
no kingly aims or ideals.
Apparently self-conceit was the rea-
son why he followed Hushai’a advice,
for that wily enemy of hi* put before
him a picture of himself at the head
of an immense army, like a world-con-
queror, and all tho nations, as it were,
winging "Hail to the Chief.”
Among many other significant de-
vices, some beyond the seas have a
picture of a man, with a full-blown
bladder on his shoulders, another
standing by and pricking the bladder
with a piu; the motto: “How sudden-
ly!" hinting thereby the sudden down-
fall of all worldly greatness. —
Spencer.
A man selfish In his Inmost soul can
never attain true success. Selfishness
ruins health, ruins conscience, ruins
iudgment.
"Amidst the scattered fight Absalom
was separated from ills men, and as he
fled from a party of the enemy, the
mule on which he rode carried him
beneath the low branches of a spread-
ing terebinth and left him hanging by
the head, probably in a forked bough.
Perhaps, also, his long, thick hair got
entangled, but there is nothing to sup-
port the common idea that he was sus-
pended merely by the hair.” Josephus
says distinctly that Absalom's hair
was entangled. "The first soldier who
ranie up spared his life because of the
king's command, and went to tell Joab.
The unscrupulous chief hurried to the
spot aud thrust three javelins into
Absalom's heart. There was prob-
ably a true regard for the king and
kingdom in this act of Joab. He knew
that Absalom could not with safety
be suffered to live, and that ft would
ho difficult to rid the Htate of so
foul a member at any other time than
now, when a just right to slay him
had been earned in open battle.”—
Kltto. Absalom’s body was cast into
a great pit, and a great heap of
stones was east upon him, either In
detestation of his memory or as a mon-
ument to distinguish tho place.
V. 33. “Went up to the chamber."
To be alone in his sorrow. The deep-
est sorrow “treads the winepress
alone." “And wept.” “Tears are the
safety-valves of the heart." “O my son
Absalom!" “There is not in the
whole of the Old Testament a pas-
sage of deeper pathos than this. The
simple beauty of the narrative is ex-
quisite; we are Irresistibly reminded
of him who, while he beheld the rebel-
lious city of Jerusalem and thought
of the destruction It was bringing upon
itself, wept over it (Luke 19:41)."—
Cook. “Would God I had died for thee.”
"So Moscr (Ex. 32:32), and so St.
Paul (Rom. 9:3), would have sacri-
ficed themselves, had it been possible,
to save others. His wish to die in
Absalom's stead was no mere extrava-
gance of grief."
Absalom and His Sin.—He was
young; he sinned with his whole na-
ture; he kept on sinning to the end.
with no hint of repentance, with no al-
leviation of character. He did not re-
pent even as much as Esau, who re-
gretted the consequences of his action
with strong crying and tears.
David's sin was an incident—a very
terrible incident—In a very great and
useful life. It was a dangerous edd.',
like the whirlpool below the Niagara
falls; but It was brief, It was not the
main current of his life. He repented,
and all his after life showed sinners
the way of repentance, the possibili-
ties of repentance and restoration. It
has been a se man for almost 3,000
years on the tender mercies and for-
giving love of our Father in heaven.
Absalom from out the. far-off past is
still pointing our modern youth to
certain great lessons his career
teaches us:
(1) "The way of transgressors is
hard."
(2) The success of the wicked is
short, and then he is like chaff which
the wind bloweth away. "Not consid-
ering that the successes of the foolish
and wicked form the first rod of their
chastisement.”
(3 Sin Is sometfnies attractive at
first, but at last it biteth like a ser-
pent and stlngeth like an adder.
(4) The way to true success is not
through dlsobedj* uce to j arents.
(5) No failure is so terrible as the
failure of a life; no ruin like the ruin
of a soul.
(6) The death of . the wicked is
lighted by no ray of hope.
(7) They that sow the wind shall
reap the whirlwiud.
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