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N. H. 8IQER, Editor.
COLONY • -
OKLAHOMA
FIGHTING MACHINES.
It Is i half contury sines Ericsson's
Monitor was launchod. Wo bars just
passed the anniversary of that event,
lit was an evolution In the art of naval
armament which at the time seemed
to promise a permanent chance in
theory and practice. What the
Monitor did for us la the crisis which
‘It was deafened to meet Is matter of
history, says the Boston Post. That
low-lying, vicious craft was perhaps
:tbe salvation of our navy. But what
* change In the years that have since
elapsed! The Monitor type has gone
to the scrap heap, and the massive,
towering, stupendous dreadnought has
taken tta place. Torpedoboats have
come in, followed by torpedo de-
stroyers. And the range of naval op-
erations has been extended. Every
maritime nation has equipped itself
with submarines, and the very latest
Is a submarine that can light above
the water and descend with safety
after delivering the Are of Its battery.
Under the water and above the land
in the air the power of destruction Is
extending. What Is the end of this
development of the means of devasta-
tion T Logically, Is it not the estab-
lishment of universal peace as an In-
ternational duty?
Toys Are of Orest Variety. Both
Slxe and Construction and Are
Cleverly Handled.
Those deft and clever people, the
Japanese, do almost everything they
attempt well, and some things they
do better than any other people In the
world. Of the latter sort top spinning
la one. The tops are of great variety,
both In stse and construction. The
WHY DOES NOT PAPER BURN? ,B "a“
eter and proportionately heavy. Some
Very Simple and Safe Experiment
Will Afford Much Amusement and
Set One to Thinking.
Take a pleoe of paper—ordinary
writing paper will do—and fold It ao
as to make a box, and as you bring
the corners round, fasten a pleoe of
string In each corner securely. This
will help to keep the corners in place
and will serve to hang It with over
the flame or the lire. When It is
made, put some water In—the quality
need only be governed by the strength
of the box—hang it over a Are, and it
will not be long before It will be tootl-
ing. An alcohol lamp Is best because
you can set It on the table and hold
Wherever the Romans lived in the
days of the empire they carried luxury
and art. They occupied for centuriea
* large part of the northern ooaat of
Africa. It Is not surprising therefore
to learn by a dispatch from Tripoli
that a body of Italian troops digging
trenches near the Oasts of Bclara, on
the spot formerly occupied by Roman
Imperial gardens, has unearthed an
ancient Oreek Venus of remarkable
beauty. The bead and arms are mtsa-
tng, but the torso Is In excellent
preservation and reminds beholders of
the famous Capltollne Venus. Tha
statue has been sent to Rome, where
It will be placed In the National
museum. In neurly every spot where
soldiers have tapped the ground to
throw up defensive works they have
uncovered traces of the ancient Ro-
man occupation of Tripoli, including
tombs, mosaics and ruins of splendid
villas.
BOIJJNC WATER
IN
PAPER DO*
There Is a New York statute against
the revelation by physicians of the se-
erets of the consultation room; but a
New York judge has decided that It
does not prevent a doctor from de-
scribing the services which be has
performed when he Ande It necessary
to sue for the collection of his fee. In
that case, the Judge rules, the phy-
sician may proceed with his action, al-
leging anything and everything that Is
necessary, without either directly or
Indirectly becoming liable for viola-
tion of the law. The decision would
aeem to be reasonable. It Is a mean
man whs will refuse to pay a fair fee
t< his doctor.
Paper Will Not Burn.
the box above It, and all present may
watch the proceeding. This Is a very
simple and safe experiment, and It
will affofd much amusement and set
you thinking, too, how wonderful It
Is. What is the reason‘why the paper
does not burn* The reason Is that
the heat of the flame Is absorbed by
the water so fast that It keeps the
temperature of the paper below the
point where It can take Are. Virtual-
ly the same principle is used in the
biggest steam boilers. So long as
there Is plenty of water in the boiler
the Are will not hurt It, bqt let the
water get too low and the heat will
be absorbed by the boiler and there
will be an explosion.
are solid; others contain a Aock of
little ones that Ay out when the top
Is lifted, and spin away by themselves.
Others pull in a spiral or ladder of suc-
cessive tops. One draws up Into a
lantern, and spins cheerily In that
form.
The methods of spinning are almost
beyond description. Even a very
large top Is sometimes thrown as the
Australian casts the boomerang, so
that while It appears to be going
straight toward the head of the spec-
tator It returns to the thrower and Is
caught on his palm. When It arrives
thus the performer takes It by the
spindle, apparently stops It, sets it
down and It recommences. Turn It
upside down and it proceeds Just as
merrily on Its Iron-spiked head. The
spinners balance It on any kind of
surface, round or flat, on the edge of
a fan. the sharpest Japanese sword,
along a thin cord, and after some mo-
ments of unconcerned spinning there
it Is tossed on the table, with apparent
carelessness, when it goes on working,
unexhausted and inexhaustible.
One of the most delicate perform
mances consists In spinning a top In
the left hand, up the left arm, round
the edge of the lobe at the back of the
neck and down the other arm into
the palm of the right hand. Another
Is to toss it spinning Into the air and
catch it on the hem of the sleeve,
whence It runs down Into the'hand.
A third is to fling It up and catch it
on the bowl of a pipe, pass it behind
the back, toss It to the front and there
catch It again.
A large, heavy top is sometimes set
In motion by rolling the peg In the bight
of a cord, one end being held in each
hand, then flung ten or twenty feet In
air and caught with the same cord,
spinning always. This can be done ten
times In succession. But the most
wonderful display consists In sending
a top spinning up a rope to the bead of
a mast, and then recalling It.
| Greater Farm Efficiency
Cows That Make Most Money I
jv^y-O^-WlMWBiry.|
believer in marry-
{novelist
[lag for love.*'1
The speaker, an editor of a worn-
I an’s magaxine. was taking tea at the
Colony club in New York. She con-
tinued. a nut sandwich poised near
I her mouth:
“I argued and wrangled about love
matches with Miss Corelli one whole
lay In her old-fashioned Stratford
borne, but she rather got the better
>f me, at the end with an epigram:
“ ‘She who marries for love,’ Miss
Corelli said, ‘enters heaven with her
[ ayes shut. She who marries without
love enters hell with them open.’ ”
Important to Wvothora
Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for
Infants and children, and see that It
Bears tha
Signature of i __
In Use For Over so Years.
Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoria
The Resson.
“You mark all your compositions
forte,‘‘ said the friend.
“Yes,” replied the composer. “They
wouldn’t have any vogue among peo-
ple who live In flats if I had them
played softly.”
The Dairy Cow Must Have a Tendency to Produce Milk Rather Than to
Lay on Fat.
A Greeley, Colorado, man claim* to
have perfected a seedless watermelon
and Is now experimenting with pea-
nuts crossed with sweet peas. He ex-
ipecta to get blossoms and peanuts
from the same vines, the peanuts
growing above ground Instead of In
the earth. He has hopes of producing
• succotash plant by crossing corn and
heans, and looks forward to growing a
breakfast food which will Include the
qualities of coffee. In the meantime,
where'a Luther BurbankT
PARACHUTE TOY IS AMUSING
Indiana Man tnvants New Plaything
Consisting of Globular Casing,
Hold Closed by Catch.
An amusing toy has been devised by
two Indiana men. It consists of a
globular casing, hinged at one point
and held closed by a catch. Inside this
casing Is packed a parachute, with a
small ball for a weight. The catch
of the receptacle Is held shut by a pin,
which Is unwound and allowed to lie
loose on the ground so It will pay out
freely and the ball thrown ae high
Into the air as It will go. When It
comes to the end of the cord the pin
will be jerked out and the shell will
fly open. This will release the para-
HAND CANNOT BE HELD STILL
Amusing Little Experiment Will En-
tertain Company When Other
Things Begin to Lag.
Next time you are called upon to
amuse the company try this little ex-
periment. Borrow a quarter from
some one. If they will trust you with
A Dutch prisoner, who was taking
walking exercise In the courtyard of
the Conclergerle Prison at Paris, sud-
denly made a running Jump at the
wall, which Is 14 feet high and topped
with Iron spikes, mounted It like at
cat, to the amazement of the Jailers.
Jumped down on the other aide, climb-
ed 20 feet up a wire ladder, dropped
by accomplices from an open window,
end got away He must be a real fly-
ing Dutchman.
Girls In a Massachusetts college
have rejected the cap and gown aa
graduation garb In favor of the white
dress, on the ground that the latter la
more becoming. This will be another
proof to the skeptical that higher edu-
cation for women la a rank failure.
New Parachute Toy.
chute and the weight of the latter will
at once straighten the little floater
out. whereupon all will descend gent-
ly to the earth, the shell preceding It,
to be ready for another throw.
Cannot Hold Hand Still.
It—or use one of your own If neces-
sary. Then take a piece of thread
about 18 Inches long and fasten one
end of It to the coin with a little seal-
ing wax or a piece of somebody's gum.
Then get a friend to rent her arm on a
foot rule or other stick about that
long with the other end on the table.
Have her hold the thread as shown, ao
that the coin will Just reach Into a
glass on the table—and then see If
she can keep the coin from hitting
the glass. She will be unable to do
It, for the coin will soon begin to
sway back and forth like a pendulum
and tinkle on the glass.
HOW TO LIFT SMALL PLATE
Clever Little Trick May Be Performed
by the Use of a -Heavy Piece
of Blotting Paper.
Fill a glass full to overflowing of
wnter. Plnce over It a piece of heavy
blotting paper, and then n small plate
or a saucer about the size of the pa
per. Carefully Invert the whole, hold-
ing plate and glass firmly together, so
no air Is admitted. In a few momenta,
A physician remarks of a prominent
invalid that hla days are numbered,
though nobody can toll bow many re-
main That might be also said with
perfeot truth of the healthiest man In
the land.
A boy who ran away from hla home
«t New Haven. Conn., twenty yeara
•go returned the other day with la,-
040,000. It la understood that hla
ifather did not moot biro at the gate
•with a etrap.
A Real Handy Tree.
Did you ever hear of a thread and
needle tree? It la rather a handy tree
to have growing In the hack yard
don't you think? Especially when
there are boys In the house with but
tons coming off about every other min-
ute.
This strnngp tree grows In nenrly all
tropical countries and In some places I
nearer home where the climate Is
warm. It gets Its name by which we
know it from the curious formation of
Its leaves. At the tip of the leaf there
Is s sharp thorn, which Is the needle
If you grasp It firmly and pull It out
there you are with a needle already
threaded for your sewing This fiber
thread Is very strong and the Mexi-
cans nse It for weaving a
of cloth as well as for
coarse kind
•cwltig.
By hurling a custard pie Into th«
ifxce of a would-be robber a waitress In
« Denver restaurant half-blinded him
and saved the money In the cash box
Aa a weapon of defense tha custard
pl« deserves the highest encopiluina.
A* Per Custom.
Little .InmcN hnd been Imparting to
the minister the Important and cheer-
ful Information that hla father hnd got
a new art of raise teeth 'Indeed,'
Jataes," replied the minister, Indul-
gently. "And whnt will he do wttn
the old set?" '»Mi, I s'pose," replied
little James, "they'll cut 'em down
add make mi waar 'am "
Lifting a Plate,
when the hlottli.g paper has become
damp, you can lift the glnss and the
plnte will hang tightly to It.
Try Thle On*.
Take one of the largest corks you
can And. the kind used In the long-
necked green bottles, and In one end
dig out a hole Into this put a leaden
bullet, or several large shot, and stop
up the hole with putty. Round off the
edges of the cork at this eud and your
dancer Is ready to dance
Around the top of the other end of
the cork paste on a little blue hood of
tissue paper; make a dress ol the
same and tie on a sash of ribbon
On the rork make with Ink the p*et.
fleet face you can, and then set tha
young lady a-dandug
A dairy cow la one of the epeclflc
dairy type and breed capable of mak-
ing a large and economical production
of milk and butter fat A careful study
and analysis of tbla definition and its
application to cows whenever one has
opportunity to apply it will greatly aid
In getting in mind the correct ideal
of the dairy cow and in Judging and
buying cowa.
“Type” refers to the conformation
of an animal and la Indicative of util-
ity. “Specific dairy type” refers to an
animal having a large, deep barrel, a
prominent, well developed udder, and
sharp, clean cut features about the
head, neck, ahouldera, back, hips and
rump, due to the absence of thick
flesh. Such a type Indicates dairy util-
ity and that ahe la of little value ex-
cept for milk production.
The dairy cow must be of distinct
dairy breed aa well aa of dairy type;
otherwise she may convert her feed
Into flesh rather than milk and thus
result in a beef animal. The National
and International dairy shows of this
country recognize the Holstein, Guern-
sey, Jersey, Ayrshire, Brown Swiss,
and Dutch Belted breeds of cattle as
distinct dairy breeds. High grade and
pure bred animals of these breeds are
found In this state and rank In num-
ber In the order named. Pure bred
animals possess 100 per cent, of the
blood of their respective breeds while
the grade animals have a predomin-
ance of the blood of a given breed but
lest than 100 per cent. Grade cows
are generally by pure bred sires and
out of native or grade dams.
A large production of milk and but-
ter fat Is a necessary requisite for a
dairy cow. The production for at least
a year should be taken Into considera-
tion because some cows make a large
production during the early part of
their lactation and then dry off soon.
It Is characteristic of beef cows and
of many poor cows of the dairy breeds
to dry off soon. A strictly dairy cow
tends to make a large and economical
production of butter fat throughout
her life time which means that she
converts a comparatively large
amount of the feed that she eats Into
milk and butter fat, and only a small
portion of It Into building up the tissues
of her body. A dairy cow shows marks
of dairy breeding and constitution;
and not only produces milk and butter
fat in large and economical quantities
but also at regular intervals progeny
which tends to be satisfactory for
dairy purposes.
Essential Features of the Dairy Cow.
The dairy cow Is a living machine
which, when In perfect health and
form, has four prominent features.
These are: a body Indicating a large,
strong digestive capacity, a dairy tem-
perament which is nervous and results
In milk production rather than flesh
production, a large well developed ud-
der of healthy gland tissue, and a
strong circulatory system that dis-
tributes the blood actively to all parts
of the body and gives vigor, health,
and activity. A cow usually fftlla In
the production of milk as she falls In
one or more of these essential fea-
tures. Each part of the body bears
some relationship to one or more of
these essential features and enables
one to Judge of their prominence.
Where one 1s able to consider all the
parts of the body and judge these es-
sential features he is not likely to err
seriously in his Judgment.
Digestive Capacity.—A large body,
more especially the barrel In propor-
tion to the size of the animal, lz In
dlcatlve of capacity. The body of the
dairy cow ahould be wedge ahaped as
viewed from front, aide and top. That
la, wider at the hip point! and be-
tween the fore lega than at the with-
ers, and deeper from the hip points
to the lower line of the rear flank
than at the foro quarters. This char-
acter of the body has ltd to the term,
triple-wedge-shaped conformation, and
In giving consideration to the di-
gestive capacity of the cow one should
remember that It Is the base ends of
the wedges, rather than the sharp
ends which Indicate her capaolty.
Long, well sprung riba, openness of
ohlne, width of back over loins, site
of barrel, depth and width between
the hips, and fullness of rear flanks
all combine to Indloate large digestive
eapaotty. A wide forehead and a com-
paratively long faoe are Indicative of
the else and feed capaolty of the body
and likewise the broad muasla, good
alaad mouth and strong* alnawy jaw.
The tall la often measured In Judging
the cow and ahould reach to or below
the hocks and carry a good switch.
This renders It moat useful In brush-
ing flies, which appears to be Its chief
purpose.
In judging tha quality and condition
of the muscular tissue of the body one
should remember to-take Into consid-
eration the also, age, and stage of
lactation of the animal. The bone
and muscular tissues In a large cow
are naturally heavier than In a small
one and there Is not the apparent re-
finement and spareness of form in thS
large breeds that Is noted In the
smaller ones. Marked coarseness,
however, In any anjmal Is usually
accompanied by a sluggish disposi-
tion which In a dairy cow prevents
her from performing satisfactorily.
Young heifers with first calf usually
carry more flesh than cows of mature
form. All properly fed cows usually
show a higher condition of flesh de-
velopment toward the close of their
lactation and prior to freshening than
they do when four or five months ad-
vanced In lactation.
The Udder.—The udder Is the milk
secreting organ and Its proper devel-
opment Is, therefore, essential. In
many instances cows of large digestive
capacity and of dairy breeding have
failed in production apparently on ae
count of poorly developed uddera. Ths
udder consists of two large gland*
each of which is more or less distinct
ly divided to correspond with each ol
the four teats and form the quarters
The duct of each teat enters a smal
cavity termed the milk cistern. Th«
milk cistern of each quarter Is mort
or less surrounded by lobes of glam
tissue held In position and closely to
gether by connecting tissue. Thest
lobes may be likened to thick bunchei
of grapes since each lobe has severa
lobules corresponding to the grapes
The lobules are made of small division!
called alveoli which correspond to th«
seeds of grapes. These alveoli an
constructed of small cells surroundec
by a fine network of blood vessels and
nerves and It la by these cells that th«
milk ia secreted.
The beat cows have comparatively
large udders with equally developed
quarters extending well forward un-
derneath the body and a good distance
up behind and between the thighs.
Poor attachment giving a swinging or
pendant type of udder and deficiency4
and Irregularity In the development of
the quarters are criticisms to be of-
fered on many cows. The quality of
the udder when examined by handling
should reveal gland tissue of fine,
plastic texture rather than fatty tissue
or a texture that Is coarse and hard.
The Circulatory 8yatem.—This sys-
tem determines the activity of the
cow with respect to all parts of the
body. Only when In perfect health
andvall parts of the body are actively
performing their respective functions
can the dairy cow be expected to yield
a large flow of milk. When the cow
Is sick or by virtue of her poor Indi-
viduality Is dull and morbid there Is
an Inactivity of all the glands of the
body resulting In a dry, harsh condi-
tion ef the skin, a staring cost, and •
low production of milk. The circula-
tory system Includes ths heart, lungs,
arteries and veins since these organs
respectively force, purify and carry
blood to and from all parts of the
body. When food becomes digested
and assimilated the blood must carry
It to the parts of the body demanding
It and In the dairy cow the glands of
the udder demand a large share of the
nourishment of the blood for the secre-
tion of milk. The else and character
of the mtlk veins, more properly
termed “mammary veins,” and the
milk wells on ths underside of the
body are the best indications of how
much blood passes through the udder.
These veins do not cary milk as some
people believe, but carry a large por-
tion of ths blood away from ths udddr.
Tha blood paaaea Into tha udder
through artertea located deep on tha
Inner aide of the thlgha. If one were
atandtng below a mill propelled by a
water wheel and noted tha raoa filled
with water from the mill he would
have reason to believe that the mill
was In operation and performing Its
work. Likewise when one observes
large, branching mammary valna en-
tering tha body through wella of suffi-
cient also to avoid a vain becoming
gorcad ha has reason to bellevo that
the udder la performing Its work well.
To restore a normal action to Liver. Kid-
neys, Stomach and Bowels, take Garfield
Tea, the mild herb laxative. All druggists.
There are two things calculated to
make a man's bead swim—a merry-
go-round and a merry widow.
There are a few things that even a
young man doesn’t know. *
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The System
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Are the bowels
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Is the blood
Impoverished ?
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