The Beaver County Democrat. (Beaver, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 28, 1909 Page: 2 of 8
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B—wr Co. Democrat
Wrti C. Tr.e y, Pub.
Braver,
G.T
i!2C*-r ■
Truth About Pscan Raising.
Nature has indeed played prank a
with the pecan producer* Hundreds
•f thousands of nuts— large, smooth,
thin of shell and plump of kernel-
have been planted with care, nurtured
with anxiety and brought to fruition
fa trepidation, only to furnish proof to
the earnest orchardlst that Nature
k*ld secrets he had not solved, for the
erop was not what was expected, the
products twing "throw backs," aa un
like the parent nut as the woolly
Welsh pony Is unlike the round bar
raled, sleek limbed, satin coated thor-
oughbred. Por yeara the struggle to
unlock the closed doors of nut knowl-
adge has b««a under wsy and success
has made a timid approach, but pecan
propagation Is. to-day almost as
dubious an undertaking for a novice
as the geometrical method of piling up
Millions by starting with one pair of
rabbits and expecting to supply every
glove factory In the land with (he pelts
•f their progeny In from three to Ave
years. Por the comparative few who
understand the perpetuation of choice
ypes by scientific budding and graft-
Ing of a tree that seemingly possesses
more vagaries than does a disordered
mind, there is wealth to be made, for
the demand Is far In excess of supply,
and It Is ever on the Increase, says
Technical World Magazine. The
prices are high and are destined to
remain high for years to come; the
trees are hardy and long lived and the
yields from the best of them are
gratlfyingly large.
A marine novelty which has not yet
keen introduced In this country Is the
reinforced concrete ship. The Italian
engineer, 8lg. Gabeilfn! of Rome,
has for many years been advocating
the use of concrete for ship-building,
and has not only been successful In
making practical use of the Idea hlm-
aelf, but has persuaded the Italian gov-
ernment to adopt It for certain pur-
poses connected with the navy. Al-
ready five boats of about 100 tooa each
have been completed for the govern
, ney nave uounte skins and
water-tight compartments, and are
able to withstand shocks by collision
to a surprising extent. Their draft Is
little more than that of wooden ves
■els of the same slxe. A special ad
vantage is that they neither rot nor
rust; and they are easily kept clean.
Many canal barges of the sntne ma
t"r'al are In use in Italy, and concrete
has been found particularly well
adapted for the construction of float
Ing docks and caissons.
OADAN
A STONE HITCHING POST.
A little known field of profitable em
ployment is called to the attention of
young men by the Journal of Account-
ancy, which states that 1.000 efficient
young men are wanted Immediately to
perform the well „aid duties of analyx-
Ing the business systems of cities. Not
only municipalities but private firms
and corporations are having Increased
use for the services or what in Kng
land are known as "chartered account-
ants." and in some"states of the union
as "certified accountants"—men who
have passed a state or national exam-
ination. and have received a license or
diploma as expert accountants. The
wagrs are excellent.
If 'he plans are successful, the cele-
bration of the tercentary of the dlscov-
ery of Lake OhampJaJn next July will
be a splendid pageant. It is proposed
to reproduce in spectacle the Impor-
tant events which have centered about
that picturesque body of water. An at
tempi \s||| mH(je (o ra|8(, Hene(jjr(
Arnolds flagship, the Royal Savage
and show it m the scenes Illustrating
. 'h" r,li" Important naval engagement
between Great Britain and the colo-
nies The ship now lies at the bottom
o. the lake, off Pittsburg.
How It Can St Easily Mada Out of
Cemant.
A country place must have a hitch
log post at the aide, or In front of the
bouse, else
thoughtless call-
ers will bitch their
horses to the
shade trees or to
the fence. Prom
Its very nature It
Is hard to make a
hitching post look
attractive on a
lawn, but some-
thing will be
^ gained If It can
be kept from look-
- ing decidedly un-
attractive.
A wooden post
• Is an Invitation to
Vl.w o< , „onM,,
0#t- Iron posts can be
used, but these are more or less ex-
pensive, and are not readily secured
except In the large cities. A stone
Post is attractive but expensive—a
"made" stone post, however, Is both
Inexpensive and easy to construct.
Dig a square hole In the ground at
the desired point for locating the
hitching post, about 1V4 feet square,
and deep enough to reach the "frost
line." Pin the bottom with small
stones and cement. On this set a
stout cedar post with a stout Iron ring
Inserted in the top Pill l„ about the
post with the small stones and cement
to the surface of the ground Then
'"over the post to
the top with a
thick coating of
cement—not less
than 2% Inches at
any point—build-
ing It up In the
square shape
ahown In Pig. 2.
To give the ce-
ment a stronger
hold upon the
wooden post, the
Orange j„dd
"«* ■ m r « Ki'eafg
driving large nails
nto the wood and . . „
leave the heads The Post When
projecting an Inch Finishad.
or more, as Is suggested In Pig. 1. The
cement may be mixed one part Port
tend cement to two parts sharp sand.
Do not use the post until it has had
time to dry and harden thoroughly,
riie cement and small stones about
the base should form a solid body that
water cannot enter. The stones are
used to save cement.
RUSHING GOOD ftOAOS WORK.
What the National Grange is Doing
and Has Accompliahad.
The movement. Initiated by the Na-
tional Orange Patrons of Husbandry,
to secure appropriations by congress
for aiding the state and local road au-
thorities in the work of public high-
way improvement, has made gratify-
ing progress during the past year. The
plans for a national educational cam-
paign, approved at the last annual sea- |
slon of the order, have been carried
out. on a large scale, with the result
that the proposition for federal aid
has been widely discussed and in-
dorsed In all parts of the country.
The most convincing proof of the
far-reaching effect of the grange move-
ment for better roads is found in the
fact that for the first time the national
platforms of the two great political
parties contained planks favoring road
improvement. This remarkable prog
ress. as compared with a few yeara
ago. when the subject was Ignored by
both parties, can Justly be credited to
the public sentiment created by the
persistent agitation of the grange.
The press In general has given cor-
dial support to the good roads move-
ment. and the leading newspapers,
magazines and farm journals testify to
the Interest of their readers in the
subject by the frequent publication of
articles dealing with various phases of
the subject. The importance of im-
proved roads, as a great economic re-
form which will directly promote the
prosperity of the largest producing In-
dustry of the nation, and thus indi-
rectly benefit all classes and Interests,
s now fully recognised, and the prob
lem remaining Is that of concentrating
this favorable public sentiment on
congress so as to secure the enact
rnent of legislation making effective
the wishes of the people.
♦>.' h? ^ R,Ven out at Washington
that of thousands of letters received
from farmers by the president's "Com
mission on Country Life," by far the
larger number advocate improved
roads as the most important reform
ISJ mrfrn,er'8 'Merest that congresi
can aid in securing. It is undoubtedly
the reform that means most in dollars
and cents to the individual farmer
o? fie a|d0,.',i0n °f the granKe PoI,cy
Of federal aid will be the most effec
I KM8uBenCy brln8|n8 about the es-
tablishment of a complete system of
oe«mVe? r?U'S ln every ^tion and
locality in the country.
Social
Bought
with a Price
t#
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4+ * T 7 I
By MMS. C. E. HUMPHRY.
0 BE a social success one must be more or less of a moral
I T I faHUre' Mid * CerUin ePi&rammatigt- most epigrams,
I I il iB Put nther strongly. But it is none the less certain
that an attitude of complete sincerity would be incompatible
with the perfect equipment of a social leader. Many writ-
era have tried to imagine the effect of an epidemic of truth-
telling; and they have all been forced to end with g compro-
mise, in order to avert the complete extinction of society aa
it at present exists.
The qualifications for making oneself a force in society are money,
or the brains to obtain money; taste in dreas, or the money to buy it; a
well-burnished panoply of the butterfly graces, and a perfect knowledge of
how to cater to them in others; beauty, if poasible; tact, certainly; in
fact, the ideal social leader devotes her life as arduously as any searcher
after the philosopher's stone to the study of society. She burns the mid-
night oil, or, rather, the midnight electric light; she sacrifices ease and
comfort, rest and peace, to the object of her pursuit; she belongs, not to
herself, but to the society to which she has bound herself slave; and,
finally, she is more to be pitied than a savant, since all her toil and labor
must be presented to the world as merely so much happy beating of
butterfly wings, attained without trouble, achieved without fatigue, and
the only real human sympathy allowed to her by the conditions of her life
is the knowledge, always to be concealed by constant gaiety, that to her
fellow slaves as to herself, "each day as it comes has to be slowly strangled.
RACK FOR HAULING WOOD.
Make It to Fit the Wagon Frame, a.
Described Below.
4x5 P,eces ot very strong
ood 11 to 12 feet long, and cut a
notch in each, so as to fit down over
from I. .r °f Waff°n to rack
from slipping backward or forward
I «e four or six standards on each
a"<l ,he same number of cross-
pieces so placed that the standard In
going down through the socket catches
Backbone
Wins
in Life
Game
By DM. MADISON C. PETEIS.
FARM NOTES.
It costs no more to raise a pound of
poultry than It does to raise a pound
« P«rk, yet t|, Sultry sells a. a much
higher price than pork.
Breeding stock will do well on good
pasturage with plenty of fresh water
but hogs that are to be marketed at
six months should also have some
grain.
The man who raises hogs in this
day and age has to be a reading man.
and reud up on his business. Whv
- - ,,h ■"
The whole secrct of Intensive live
s ock husbandry lies in the working
out of the old adage of making two
blades Of grass grow where formerly
only ono grew.
Salt and common tobacco leaves and
stems will, it iH cluimed. keep sheep
from having stomach worms.
Remember that a half-broken horse
Ih not broken at all and is a dangerous
animal.
A Handy Wood Rack.
against the end of the crosspiece as
shown in cut. Make standards 3%
feet long. They may be cut off after-
ward if desired
Make standard sockets from old
mTTJlr tVadn,lt standard
1^x4 inches and with holes for one-
half inch bolts. Holt all crosspleces
firmly. Have wagon near by when
making rack, and place the rack so
far forward that in turning the front
wheels will just miss the end
Charles Sumner said: "There are
three things necessary—First, backbone;
second, backbone; third, backbone."
When Lincoln was asked how Grant
impressed him as a general, he replied:
"The greatest thing about him is his cool
persistence of purpose. He has the grip
of a bulldog; when once he gets his teeth
in, nothing can shake him."
This was the whole compendium of
Grant's character, his epitome as a soldier.
Nothing could shake him off. With him it
was "On to Richmond," and, "I shall fight
it out on this line if it takes all summer,'"
that broke the backtane of the civil war and eventually made Lee surren-
der. This wonderful man, at 38 an obscure citizen of Galena, drawing but
$800 a year in his father's tannery, at *2 was one of the greatest general#
of history.
Most of the failures in life are due to want of grit or nerve. Ayield-
ing disposition, or, in other words, no backbone to map out a course and
pursue it steadily, unswervingly to the end, leaves many a one behind in
the life-race. You know how the boy said he learned to skate—by getting
up every time he fell down and trying again. Men who have been always
successful have often been defeated, but they turned each defeat into a
stepping-stone to further progress.
In our own time a remarkable instance of what grit can do, even
when handicapped by seemingly insurmountable obstacles, is presented
in the case of Helen Keller. Miss Keller has con-
quered all, and, despite her defects, 'has demonstrated
♦ hat she is able to take her place in almost any line
with her more fortunate compeers. In her blindness
she sees the beauty of the universe, in her deafness
she hears the music of the spheres through the ears
of a contented mind, and with her deft lingers she
voices the emotions of her being and the happy
thoughts that are hers. So far from bemoaning her
fate, she would not exchange places with queens.
Try It.
Well seasoned with salt, and with
bran and corn meal added to it, clover
hay cut fine, cooked and steeped In
boiling water is excellent fQr brood
Inki ™,loh cows a'"l young Slock of
Chancellor von Uuelow has taken
the kaiser s pi„ce ns a war lord He
declared recently in rekhstag the
■Itnation In Kurope never was more
d .ng. rous; that talk of limiting arma
ments is nonsense, and that Germany
muat proceed with feverish haste t„
building a big navy. \N> wonder if
this Is the price paid for Imperial
nee, while the potentate sulks lu
bed ?
WINTER CARE OF MACHINERY.
Look It Over and Make Repairs While
You Have Time.
Arbitration, or rather mediation,
has achieved another victory. Martin
A Knapp, chairman of the Interstate
Commerce commission, and Charles P
Neill. United States commissioner of
labor. have settled a controversy
which threatened a strike of the loco-
motive engineers on the Pennsylvania
lines west of Pittsburg.
We find It an excellent plan In the
fall when putting our machinery away
for winter storage to examine each
Part separately and mako note of re-
pairs needed for each tool In this
way we are able to secure the neces
sary repairs the first time we ure in
town und set them aside until wlnter
has set in. then we go over the ma
chlnery aud do the necessary repair-
ing.
We find that in numerous Instances
we have to have the Implement dealer
■end for repairs that take several
days to secure, continues this writer
In Prairie Farmer. If I should delay
retiring machinery until spring we
would be delayed several days at a
time of the year when work is very
pressing, thus causing a great loss in
both time aud work.
A few tools for working need cost
but a very few dollars, in fact, we
have all the tools I believe any farm I
or needs for renairing purposes, and I
I have not Invested over $25 Otu
work bench is made of material pur
chased at the lumber yard with ,
i'.T etui w*er°1 anj
to do all kinds of wood work. Mv
forge I made myself at a cost not to
exceed two dollars. After a little „
perience In handling hot irons anv
farmer who is handy with tools can
earn to do ordinary Ironing required
In repairing most farm machinery
I do not think the average farmer
fully comprehends what a great sav
Ing a work shop is ,,, repairing ma-
chinery. The advanced price in labor
t"h"I!'?13 has Increased
Most of «h repa,lr,nv fari machinery.
Most of the repairing on farm tools is
shon .WOpriraan^«P- but ir done at a
rZ. "" *'
.v!'r.T ,bWn "" ">■« '
average tarn,or culd reduce hi. n.
l>ait bill to practically nothing if he
would invest In a few tools and en-
deavor to do the repairing work dur-
ing the winter months when farm
work was slack and he had plenty of
time to learn how to do things righL
Barriers
to
Noble
Qualities
By IEV.DH. JAMES S.STONE,
CUcw.
Extravagance and self-indulgence are
harriers as mighty as those of poverty
against the nobler qualities of life Hard
indeed, is it for a rich man to enter into
the kingdom of God or into the kingdom
of the intellectual life. Ignorance is not
confined to the haunts of the poor. Often-
linios it is even more dense in the home
of the rich, ave, in spite of the luxury: nav
because of the luxury.
"Give me neither poverty nor riches,"
said a wise man some thousands of vears
since. They who have either have a des-
i pcratc battle fi«ht they are coin* to
he anything ether this worhl or in the world come HcncTevJ?
etfo t o bring men', minds hack from this wild, mad pursuit of wealth £
each them that there are better things in the world than silver or gold
to force them to realue that love and happiness, the broad mind and th.
great, heart, cannot be bought - 'hat urnnferl tl,«f . i „
his needs, it i. a nobler accomp tlent ^ it ? " "Uffic'ent for
Shakespeare, to read ' ,PPT""C IW nr
still, to know God than to know all the kings and irreat
tsssr,wh
- s: r r- ^ - -
ciothcd r ^ *
stand in the way of higher things Ei^r both
capable of appreciation, of thought or nf ** " t,1e individual in-
those terms. Either dries up the snri c"J°-vr"ent In any real sense "of
Both are apt to deaden the mind an/Jrde^hTll?1
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Willhour, W. H. & Tracy, Fred C. The Beaver County Democrat. (Beaver, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 28, 1909, newspaper, January 28, 1909; Beaver, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metapth349720/m1/2/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.