The County Democrat (Tecumseh, Okla.), Vol. 29, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, November 29, 1912 Page: 3 of 8
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BOYS’ HANDICRAFT
By A. NEELY HALL '
Author of ** Handicraft for Handy Boys** and** The Boy Craft tman"
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A PACKING-CASE DOG-HOUSE.
A substantial appearing dog-house,
placed In a prominent part of the
yard, will of itself furnish to a resi-
dence considerable protection from
thieves, Inasmuch as the average thief
will much prefer to pass by that house
than to run the chances of encounter-
ing the dog, which he will naturally
assume to be somewhere upon the
premises. 1 do not mean to suggest
that you boys build a dog-house If you
do not own a dog—although this might
furnish a good excuse for getting a
dog later, but if you have a dog do
not fail to take advantage of this
means of making known its presence
to all passersby.
The size of the house will depend
largely upon the breed of your dog,
but in any case it is better to get the
quarters too large than too cramped
for space. In the case of a pup, be
sure to provide for its full growth.
The house shown in Fig. 1 is 24
inches wide, 24 inches high at the
lowest point, and 42 inches long, which
is about right for a dog of medium
size. The easiest way to build it is by
using a packing-case. One of these
can usually be obtained at a shoe
store or drygoods store for 25 or 30
cents. You can probably get one of
very nearly the dimensions given
above, but if all you come across are
too large one way or another it will
not take long to cut one down.
The first step in the construction
of the house should be the cutting of
the doorway. For a house of the di-
mensions given, this will be about 12
Inches w-lde and 20 inches high. Mark
It out upon the end of the packing-
case, with an arched top, as shown
(Fig. 2); then with your bit and bit-
stock bore a series of holes close to-
gether and just inside of the line, and
with a compass-saw or other small
saw connect the holes and saw out
the entire opening. A wood file and
sandpaper may be used to finish off
the opening. When the opening has
been cut, it will be necessary to bind
together the remaining ends of the
boards on each side of it with vertical
battens. Place these upon the Inside
(E, Fig. 4). The end of one or more
of the bottom boards will also have
to be connected to the boards adjoin-
ing by means of a batten fastened
across the under side.
The dog-house may have either a
peaked roof or a lean-to roof. The
latter Is the better form it you fasten
the house against a wall or fence, as
In Fig. 1, which is a good plan If you
place it to one side of the yard. A
well-made packing-case is re-enforced
at the ends with vertical battens, as
shown in Fig. 2, and for the purpose
of extending these ends to meet the
slanted roof, several inches of the up-
per ends of these battens should be
sawed off (Fig. 2). One or two nails
probably will have to be removed. Cut
the triangular extension pieces A (Fig.
3) of the length of the ends, between
6 and 8 inches wide at the high end,
and slanted down to nothing at the
other end. Then prepare the battens
B and C of the right lengths to ex-
tend from the upper edge of pieces A
down to the tops of the sawed off ends
of the battens of the packing-case, and
after nailing them to pieces A set
pieces A in position on the ends of
the packing-case and nail the lower
ends of B and C to the case. Fill in
the board B between pieces A, on
the high side of the house.
The roof may be covered in any one
of several ways. The main thing to
look out for is that it will be water-
tight. The method shown in F’ig. 1
is to nail on a covering of boards,
fitted close together, and so cut as to
form a projection or several inches
ever the ends and one side of the
house, and then cover these with a
piece of table oilcloth, tar paper or
heavy canvas. The latter should be
painted after it has been tacked on, to
make it water-proof. The method of
putting on two layers of boards, with
the edges of the upper boards lapped
about one inch over the edges of the
lower boards (Fig. 5) is a good one,
while if you can get a few shingles
you can have a splendid shingled roof.
If yon shingle the roof, split up the
shingles into narrow widths to make
them of smaller proportions; also ex-
pose only two or three inches of their
length to the weather.
The floor of a dog-house should
never be allowed to stand directly up-
on the ground, because when so placed
there is no chance for air to circulate
beneath it, and the floor boards are al-
ways more or iess damp and subject to
decay. Either set it up on stilts or
support it upon a base made of boards
three or four inches in width nailed
to ail sides. Holes should be bored
through the base boards for air pas-
sages. In the house illustrated, one
side of the packing-case is fastened to
the fence and the other side support-
ed upon stilts placed at the two outer
corners.
Grade up the ground in front of the
entrance to the floor level, as shown.
Not only for the sake of appear-
ance, but for the preservation of the
wood as well,, the house should be
given two coats of paint.
(Copyright, 1912, by A. Neely Hall.)
Rheumatism
Neuralgia
Sprains
Minn O. Mahomet, of 2108 K. St.,
r. Washington, I>.Cl-, wile* : ’ 1
tred with rheumatism for nr© yours
fared w ith rheumatism for five years
aud I have just- got hold of your Lini-
ment, and it has done me so much
good. My knees do not pain anu the
•welling baa gone."
Quiets the Nerves
Mrs. A.Weidmav, of 403 Thompson
St., Maryville, Mo., vrrlta* J — Th©
nerre iu my leg wan destroyed A'#
years ago and loft me with a Jerking
at night so that 1 could not sleep. A
friend told me to try your Liniment
and now 1 could not do without it. 1
find after its use 1 can sleep.
SLOANS
LINIMENT
•‘Is a good liniment. I keep it on
hand all the time. My daughter
sprained her wrist and used your
Liniment, and it “has not hurt her
since."
Joseph
Hatcher.
of Selma, N. C.
E.F.D., No. 4.
At All Dealers
Price
25c., 50c., $1.00
Sloan's book on
borkCH, rattle, lions
and poultry sent
free. Address
Dr.
Earl S.
Sloan,
Boston,
Mast.
Hit Companions Safe, Philadelphia
Man Was Satisfied That He Had
Really Shot Buck.
Thomas Martlndale, the Philadel-
phia moose hunter, said, apropos of
the opening of the deer season:
“Buck fever is a strange disease.
The victim of it does some remark-
able things.
"A Philadelphian was deer hunting
In Maine. He shot four or five shots
Into a thick copse, and then he
shouted:
"'All of you come out of there!’
"Half a dozen sportsmen Issued
from the copse hurriedly.
" Are you all out?' said the Phila-
delphian. 'One, two, three, four.
Where’s Jake? Oh, there you are.
Jake. Are you all out, sure?'
“'Yes,' they answered. 'We're all
out; the whole party's out.’
"‘Hurrah, then!' shouted the Phila-
delphian. 'Hurrah! I’ve shot a
buck!'"
Every member of your family will appre-
eiate the many handsome, useful presents you
can get free with the coupons now packed in
WROTE TRUTH IN REGISTER
Usual Kind of Office Seekers.
"Well, how’s every little tiling, now
that election Is over?" asked the re-
cently arrived washing machtne agent
“ 'Bout as they are every place else,
I reckon," a bit pessimistically replied
the landlord of the Turgldtown tavern.
"The banker, the storekeepers, the
lumber yard man, the doctor, the stock
buyer, the blacksmith and all the rest
of the business men who have always
'peared to be capable of managing
their various sized affairs successfully,
are going on calmly and carefully at-
tending to ’em, while all the trillin’,
one-galltised incompetents that have
never had any affairs of their own to
attend to and, wouldn’t be capable of
conducting ’em properly if they had
any, are out hotfoot and hell-bent to
get and manage the post office for the
rest of us!”
BOSTON CHILD KEPT DIGNITY
Flustered Bridegroom May Not Have
So Intended It, but It Was
a Fact.
A buxom and winsome widow decid-
ed to continue her late husband's busi-
ness (wholesale meal putV'6/uij and
appointed his confidential and reliable
man, one John Jinx, as her manager.
John, though an astute and clever busi-
ness man, could neither read nor write.
The widow partly cured him ot the
latter defect by teaching him to write.
“Settled, John Jinx," when giving a
receipt for accounts paid to him.
The business improved and pros-
pered, as likewise did the amatory
feelings between the widow and John,
the latter fructifying in a proposal and
acceptance of marriage.. After the
usual preliminaries the ceremony took
place, followed by an adjournment to |
the vestry to complete the legal for-
malities .
The necessary particulars were duly
entered in the marriage register and
happy John, somewhat blushing, took
pen In hand and clearly and unmistak-
ably wrote as his signature in the
register; “Settled, John Jinx."—Tit-
Bits.
Matron Meant to Be Kindly, But
Youngster Was Not Conversa-
tionally Inclined.
This story has been going the
rounds of Boston about the ten-year-
old son of Director Russell of the
Boston opera house.
One evening during an entr'acte at
the opera house Master Russell was
promenading alone in the foyer, In
faultless evening dress—a very glass
of fashion. A Boston matron, seeing
that he was lonely, began to make
herself “agreeable.”
“You are Director Russell’s little
boy, aren't you?” she asked, with
patronizing sweetnesq.
Master Russell resented this Intru-
sion on his dignity, but bis courtly
maners were unruffled. “Yes, mad-
am,” he replied, with an elaborate
bow.
"Where were you born?”
“In France, madam”—Slightly more
frigid.
“What part?" continued the lady,
feeling the conversation well started.
"All of me, madam."
And he bowed and walked away —
Judge.
Our Prosperous Country.
According to statistics, the value of
the farm crop in this country for the
last year aggregated eight billions of treated until he was seven months old,
dollars. It is easy to say eight bil- I and he got worse all the time. I sent
ECZEMA ON CHILD’S FACE
R, F. D. No. 6, Lexington, Tenn.—
“My little boy broke out on the face
with that terrible disease, eczema,
when be was just one month old, and
I Just thought sure it would kill him,
as it killed our other baby at five
months old. It would break out In
pimples and scab over, and he cried
day and night. I thought that there
was no cure for him at all. His face
would Itch and burn so bad that I had
to tie hla little hands down so he could
not scratch his face.
“We began at once to have him
Frontier Medical List.
In good old frontier days castor oil
was the principal medical beverage—
good full measure, too. Only the big-
gest person could hold a whole dose—
gest person could hold a whole dose—
one-half a dipperful, with half a dip-
perful of New Orleans molasses add
ed to help slick It down and make It
taste good, only It didn’t taste good.
In those historic days every old wom-
an was a doctor and gathered her own
“yarbs" in the woods and knew how
to mix up medical messes that would
stir the vitals of a brass monkey or
a cast Iron dog. All backwoodsmen
believed in “yarb" doctors. Something
In “yarbs," at that.
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Men everywhere prefer it because of its true natural to-
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—it’s impossible to get a purer smoke or a more likeable
one than this mild, rich, fragrant Liggett <$• Myers
Duke’s Mixture.
One and a half ounces of this choice granulated
tobacco cost only 5c—and with each sack you now get a
free present coupon that is a dandy.
The Presents arc FREE
They do not cost you one penny. In each 5csack of
Duke’s Mixture we now pack a free
With these coupons you can get any
article described in our new
illustrated catalogue of pres-
ents. Asa special offer,
good during December
and January only, we
will give you this cata-
log absolutely FREE.
Simply send us your name
and address.
Liggrtl i$- Myers
present coupon.
Curious Russian Law.
Russia has a law which to outside
observers seems almost to put a
premium on theft by which stolen
goods become the property of the
thief If he can prove that he has had
possesion of them for over five years.
!r. tv 'Moves' market—which is, of
course, licensed by the police—goods
that admittedly have been stolen
(more than five years before) are
openly offered for sale, and the place
is a veritable Mecca for the light
fingered gentry and their enterprising
friends, as also for the more honest
members of society, who secure many
a tempting bargain.
Turkish Counting of Time.
Through the center of the mosque
of St. Sophia runs the theoretical
meridian which gave the Turks true
local time—one hour and fifty-six min-
utes fifty-two seconds fast on Green-
wich—until, two years ago, the now
governnient fell In with the standard
system of time zones, and came Into
the eastern European zone, exactly
two hours ahead of Greenwich time.
For religious purposes, however, 12
o'clock always happens at sunset, and
noon thus wanders with the seasons
all round the clock.—Westminster
Gazette.
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Address—Premium Dept.
GOOD DESCRIPTION.
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ST. LOUIS, MO. ,// ”
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pay best market prlrea.
H rite for refrrrneea Bad
wkly price Hat.
■ . HA IIIfI. A BOSS,
HH IN VII,til, It Y.
eater* In Fora, little*,
*»l. KalablUhetl Ib&fl.
easy
lions, but the sum is so vast that it
is not so easy to comprehend it. No
other agricultural nation in the history
of the world ever produced anything
like this. No farmers in the world
were ever so well off as our farmers
are today. Last year the crops were
large and the prices good, but now
the crops and the prices better. Egypt
was the granary of Rome; the United
States is the granary of the world.
We have not only to feed our own vast
population, but our surplus products
keep hunger from many doors in
Europe. The riches of Mexico and
Peru were a curse to the old world;
the riches of the western plains have
been a blessing to it. We are the
greatest agricultural people on earth,
and in view of the crop returns it
looks as if we could not help be
ing prosperous if we tried.
Women in Business.
There are said to be at least thir-
teen women in Boston receiving a sal-
ary of $10,000 a year. Several of them
are members of the Business Woman’s
Club, which is the newest club In that
city. Though organized less than a
year ago this club now numbers its
members by hundreds. The object of
the club is “to promote the common
interest of women actively engaged in
lines of work directly connecting them
with the business life of the com-
munity.”
It Often Happens.
“How did you happen to lose your
girl?”
“I entertained her so lavishly while
we were engaged that she acquired ex-
pensive tastes. Then she wisely de-
cided that she would be unhappy with
anybody but a millionaire, which I
wasn't.”
and got a box of Cutieura Ointment
and one cake of Cutieura Soap. I had
not used them a week until I could
see a great change, and they cured
him sound and well and never left a
single scar." (Signed) Mrs. Lillie
Sikes, Feb. 17, 1912.
Cutieura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample of each
free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address
post-card “Cutieura, Dept. L, Boston.”
Adv.
Boomerang.
Mrs. Hiram Often—I’m afraid you
won’t do. As nearly as I can find out,
you have worked In six or seven
places during the last year.
Miss Brady—Well, an’ how manny
girls has yerself had In the name
tolme? No less. I’m thlnktn'.—Boston
Transcript.
Limit.
( '^Here’s your portrait, sir."
"That my portrait? Well, I may
have sat for it, but I won’t stand for
it.”
If your Appetite is not wbnt it should be
perhaps Malaria is developing. It affects
the whole system. OXID1NE will clear
sway the germs, rid you of Malaria and
generally improve your condition. Adv.
It may be all right for a man to have
a past, if it will only stay past.
Before marrying a poet a girl should
have her appetite amputated.
Worth Three Times a Diamond.
Nearly all the emeralds mined to-
day come from Colombia. And, in
spite of the supposed higher value of
diamonds, the emerald is the most
precious of gems. Carat for carat, a
flawless emerald would bring perhaps
three times the price of a flawless dia-
mond in the jewelry market. India,
the storehouse of precious stones, is
credited with producing the flrBt em-
eralds, but the Oriental emerald 1b
not identical with the modern gem, as
it is a variety of the ruby, of green
color and extremely rare.
Education and Larger Life.
It seems to me that the woman who
cannot cut out a garment better be-
cause of her geometry and her draw-
ing lessons, who cannot speak English
more distinctly and with fuller vocab-
ulary because of her study of French
or German, who cannot find a hundred
uses for her chemistry in the little
everyday emergencies of her house-
keeping, has not succeeded In getting
from her studies all that they had to
give her.—Home Progress Magazine.
-___
Teacher—Willie, what is a volcano?
Willie—Why-er-er, It’s like a fur-
nace full of Roman candles wtd do
door open.
Suiting Himself.
The modern small boy Is painfully
cautious.
“Would you like to come to our bon-
fire on the 5th of November?” one was
asked.
Back came an answer worthy of a |
cabinet minister: "Well, if I haven’t j
a bonfire of my own and if my father
doesn’t take me to Belle Vue, and if
I’m not asked to a better bonfire, I’ll j
be awfully glad to come.”—Manches-
ter Guardian.
Texas
Gulf Coast Country,
Rio Grande Valley,
Cameron County,
Harlingen
For information in regard to irri-
gated lands and business oppor-
tunities address Secretary, Com*
mercial Club, Harlingen, Texas.
ALBERTA
THE PRICE OF
BEEF
13 HIGH Aftn 80
is Tin-: i-hick or
As a Hummer tonic thereis no_ medicine
that quite compnres with OXID1NE. it pot
only nuilda up the system, hut taken reg-
ularly. prevents Malnrin. Regular or Taste-
less formula at Druggists. Adv.
The first thing the average hired
girl does is look in tho closet and size
up the family skeleton.
Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets regulate and invig-
orate stomach,liver and bowels. Sugarooated,
tiny granules. Easy to tako as candy. Adv.
A Bit Candid.
First Tripper (after lengthy survey
of second ditto)—You 'as got a hugly
face, 'asir't you, mate?
Second Tripper—Corn’t do nuffin’
abaht it.
First Tripper—You might 'ave
stopped at 'ome.—Punch (London).
Distance sometimes lends enchant-
ment to a man's view of his mother-
in-law.
8ome of us must save money in or-
der that others may Inherit It.
Alwavs full quality value In LEVIS’
Single llindcr. That is why the smoker
wants it. Adv.
No, Cordelia, a dancing academy is
not necessarily a hop Joint.
CATTLE.
For year* the Province
of Albortit (Western
i amnia) whs tbo Big
KancblngCountry.Many
oflboso ranches today
a re ltumenso grain Held*
and tho cattle bays
given place to tho cultivation of
wheat, oats hurley and flux; the
change bus made many thousands
of Americana, settled on these
plains, wealthy, but It hue Inr
creased the price of livestock.
There Is Splendid opportunity
dw to get a
Free Homestead
of 160 acres (a nd another as ft pre-
emption] In the newer district*
and produce olthercattleorarain.
The crops are ulwuys good, the
climate Is excellent, schools and
churches are convenient, market*
splendid, In either Manitoba, Sas-
katchewan or Alberta.
Hend for literature, the latest
Information, railway rates, etc., to
Q. A. COOK.
125 W. Ml STREET, KANSAS CUT, HO.
or address Superintendent ot
Immigration, Ottawa. Cauda.
of this paper desiring to buy
anything advertised in its col-
umns should insist upon having what they
ask for.refusing all substitutes or imitation.
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For Backache, Rheumatism, Kidneys and Bladder
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