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THE EMI-WEEKIY TRIMINE IRA U BARB, Publisher TERMS, fUS IN ADVANCE. NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA THE CARELESS SMOKER. Tho nvcrngo smoker la too cordons In tho mandbr In which ho tosses burn ing cigar and clgaretto butts and light ed matches about Tho chances aro thnt no damago will bo caused, and ho takes thoso cbnnces.. When a home, & business house, a city block, or oven largo section of a city, Is burned by a flro starting from a smoker's care lessness tho smoker goes scot free. Is it not portlncnt to ask why tho law should punish a man for spitting on the sidewalk because soma one might contract a gorm dlscaso as a result or his carelessness, while no punishment Is fixed to deter him from throwing Are about, although millions of dollars worth of property and many lives may be lost If tho butt or match cbancoa tq fall where It can start a fire. The crui sada of tho untl-smoko contingent la not making much headway as a moral Issue, a movement for tho Improve ment of public health or an agitation against the'boorlsh Individual who is discourteous to thoso with whom ho comes in contact, sayB the Louisville Courier-Journal. If It should result In tho enactment of city ordinances mak ing It a mlsderaoanot' to throw lighted matches and butts about, and In stato laws providing punishment whore It Is possible to fix tho blamo for a flro upon a negligent smoker, millions of dollars' worth of property and many lives might be saved. Tho habit of smoking cannot be ended by agitation. When docB slang cease to be slang7 This is not a conundrum, but tho In quiry of a correspondent who sooks to know wnat length of llfo a word must havo.'how long mutt it bo used and generally understood, beforo It passes from being, as It were, an un desirable alien in the realm 'of our words, and becomes naturalized. Every schoolboy knows that "the herring pond" means the sea. Most people would probably term It an American ism referring to the Atlantic ocean. The only dictionary handy duly admits the hyphenated word, describes It as Uune. and Illustrates It with "to bo lent across the herring-pond: to be transported," says the London Chronl, cle. The word was used as long ago M 17(3, wketi an English ambassador wrote fross Calais to a secretary of ntate that be had "traversed tho hir-rlB-pe4 after about ten hours' sail." Tlie burglar will always be about seeklsg for a chance to rob, and the polls problem is how to reduce the raaks of these thieves to a minimum ,as4 make tbelr work so dangerous that few will dare to undertake It, CsreleasaeM and forgetfulness on the part of the housekeeper make the work ef these gentry far easier than R would otherwise be. The police generally do the best they can, but they could do far better were not the burglars offered so many golden op portunities for the work they are al ways so ready to do. A one-pounder mounted on a gun carriage is said now to solve the prob lem of firing at aeroplaues. How such a weapon could be effectively sighted remains te be shown, The convle tlon grows that efforts to prepare for the aerial battleship should be along the line of perfecting the . eight, en larging the caliber and lengthening the range of sharpshooter rifles, and training men fer tbelr speediest and BiMt accurate use, The seizure of Dr. Rlchter, a noted GraH engineer, by Greek bandits who held blm for a ransome of $225. 9M will be apt te cause travelers to aveW Meant Olympus until assurance Is receive that the government of Greece U etreeg eaeugh to prevent sued preeeedlngs by the Greek Na tIoJ society, se-called, for the re pienlsbsaeat ef the society's treasury. A Sestet! Chinaman is going back, te ht native land after having amassed a fortune of half a million dollars out of chop suey. We venture to predict that he wilt lose his head if he ever trie to spring that Amer ican Invention oa his fellow country men. When we read how the aviators aro held up by rain and fogg and other weather conditions It becomes mora and more evident that an Immense de velopment must como In tho tlyinjr ma chino before 'it arrives at tho stago of much usefulness. la certain parts of tho country farmers have beetl cutting hay with their automobiles. Unfortunately It win sot bo possible for many c-f thcra to dig potatoes with automobiles tkls year. On difference between Joy riders aod night riders Is that Joy riders oietlm manage to kill themselves But they are both dangerous to tfc la nocMt bystanders. COVER CROPS BENEFIT Where Irrigation Water Abundant Alfalfa Is Grown. Is Being Deep Rooting Legume, It May Be of Advantage to Orchards Where Moisture la Plentiful Some Objections. Successful Irrigation is not condi tioned upon clean cultivation; In fact, It may bo quite otherwise. Covor crops aro sometimes of andvantngo. Recent practlco in some parts whero irrigation water If abundant boyond tho requirements of tho treo, is to grow alfalfa In-tho orchard. Doing a doop rooting legume, It may bo of ad vantago to tho trees In tho prcsonco of ample moisture, whllo with scant molsturo It would rob tbo trees and practically ruin them. In tho hot Ir rigated valleys of Arizona n cover crop of alfalfa reduces tho soli tem perature, prevents tho reflection of heat which occurs from a light-colored soli surface, and Is said to Insuro thrifty young trees whero elenn cul turo destroys thom. In cooler parts of tho arid region, as In tho mountain valleys of northeastern California nnd In Idaho, nlfalfa Is also grown in Irrigated orchards. These facts are or wido significance ns showing that Irri gation may bo found of benefit oven whero clean culture may not bo thought desirable. It Is certainly rea sonable that if a cover crop is grown at all it should bo attonded by tho surety that tho trees shall not suffor for molsturo, and they unquestionably do sometimes suffer seriously under old turf, even In lands of summer rains. This view in wholly apart from tho (subject of exhaustion or soil fertility (by Intercropping. Of courBO, compen sation for tho depletion must bo mado by uto of fertilizers, nnd whothor tho intercrop secured yields n profit upon such investment is a calculation for eign to this discussion, The purposo xlmply is to cmphaslzo tho fact that on rich soli amplo irrigation can pro jduco good fruit on an intercropped orchard, and it can do the Bnmg on a pastured orchard, but tho height and form of n cow-pruned fruit trco 3s totally abhorrent to present Ideals. A covor crop and intercrop arc, (however, somewhat dlfforent things. Tho growth of a cultivated crop be- E'vcon tha rows of fruit trees is per iBslbto if the land la rich, and mols ,.jro, cither by rainfall or by lrrlga jtion, Is ample; but experlonco has jshown that such a crop Is only profit jable while tho trees are vory young. As the trees expand they repress the igrowth or the Intercrop below the profit mark, and give no further In ducement to tho grower to longer on 'danger the future of his trees by di viding their sustenance with tho Inter crop, on the othor hand, a covor prop, If it be a legume, may re-enforco (the humus In the soil. Ono of tho objections to continuous clean culturo jn the arid region is tho tendency of me sou to lose numus and to uecomo lifeless and refractory. Tho growth of .clovers, peas, and other hardy legumes ilurlng tho winter season, when tbo moisture Is usually abundant, is being widely resorted to for tho purposo of j-estorlng humus. Tho summer growth or tender legumes with ample Irriga tion is thoroforo, for this reason, as fvoll ob for loworlng'tho soil tempera ture and escaping othor effects of ex- ccstivo temperature, worthy of con- ldoratinn If water is ample enough to support the covor crop nnd tho trees. Clearly where such practice la ad visable the irrigation mothod must bo suitable. If the land Is nearly level, ow check levees on contour lines will restrain sufficient water and "hot In terfere with tho use of the mower. Hucn contour chocks may incioso a considerable number of trocs. With greater elope the square chock sys tem Inclosing a. singlo treo may be necessary, or flooding down the spaces between tho trees, with a low levee- along each row, may bo the most available system) oxcopt In email orchards, where plpo linos, hydrants, and sprinkling may bo UBed. -Farmers Bulletin No. 11C. Saving Squash. The squashes on our vines last. year wero only fairly set on September 0, when signs of frost wore npparont We covered each little squash with lawn clippings and left tho covering on for sevoral weeks, says a writer in an exchange Tho loaves died, but the roots continued to afford nourish ment to tho equasboB, which wore of tbo Marblohcad and Uutmnn varieties. By October 25 they wero quite largo, when they wero gathorod, currlod to a dry, warm room and laid on tho floor before a sunny window. In two weeks moro they wero in nlco condl tlon for cooking, fairly dry and of good flavor. Mowing Meadows. ny mowing tho meadow Just nftor the bloom falls, tho hay will retain ,moro of its rich, grass flavor thnn If It ,1b allowed to stand till thoroughly .ripened. Early cut buy ulso Is easier of digestion and not bo Ilablo to cause digestive derangements among Hvo stock as In tho late-cut product. Fall Seeded Alfalfa. If fall seeded alfalfa cannot make (rapid growth in the spring it is at n disadvantage as compared with (spring seeded alfalfa that can be isowb oh clean sol) on which ono or two crops of weed seeds havo been killed before seeding. u NEW OUTFIT FOR IRRIGATION Water Lifter of Recent Manufacture Is Excellent for Use on Ex tremely High Oround. Farmers who cither flooded or ran water down listed out furrows beforo tho crop was planted this last spring are tho ones, if thoy irrigated at the proper periods afterward, who are reaping tho potatoes, beets nnd gar den truck. Whero no irrigating was done until after the crop was up the crop was much less, and In somo cases, even with propor watorlng, tho crop has I a failure, olmply be cause of ik ottom molsturo at tho start. A trial Is being mado of many kinds or pumps, makeshifts, eleva tors and lifters. Each class has Its place Its advocates. Tho centlfu gal pumps, aro hard to beat on low lifts, but whero tho water must be raised, say 20 feet or over, thoy have somo cnpablo competitors, writes C. nollcs In tho Farm, St6c and Home. Ono of these Is a truo water lifter, of rather recent manufacture, which lifts tho water to 20 feet or mora with less power than many othor styles. Tho lifter In use hero is tho COO-gallon-por-minute typo nnd requires four horse power for that capacity. Tho machine' consists' essentially of 66 eight-gallon buckets (galvanized shoot steel) swung botween two cog chains. These chains turn about two largo cog wheels suspended loosely in tho well (or pit), at tho top tho. chain cog wheels get their powori through back-geared friction pulleys.1 Thoro are two shaftings; ono carries tho chain cog wheel and larger fric tion wheels, tho other tho belt pulley and smaller friction pulleys. Ab tho nsccndlng buckcta begin their backward Journey tho water Is dumped Into n centrally placed recop-, tacle. directly underneath the shaft-' ings, From this vessel the water; flows out around the ascending buck-, cto to nn outflowing trough. Thcro is a brake, so that if the machine stopsj at any tlmo tho chnlns aro locked, right whero thoy atop running. Fric tion Is also reduced to a minimum' through tho use or roller bearings., Tho farmer who bought this lifter paid something like $200 for It, or with tho englno the outfit would coBt him about $425. Ono good feature or this machine Is that ho Is running it with a two-horsepowor engine, though but' onc-thlrd to one-half tho buckets arc la uso. Tho operator Is working on tho problem or pumping from wells, tho wells being supplied from sand points driven in tho bottom. At present from a well 0 foot across, 17 teot to water, 7 feet or wdtor, nnd tour points, two 18 tect down and the. other two 27 rect down, tho flow la close to 80 gallons per minute. These points aro two Inches in dlametor. it Quarantine New Bird. Never Introduce a new bird Into tho Y ." - ....... regular ynrd until it nas nccn uuiy quarantined. Kcap It alono, for n. week and uoto its condition, appetite, etc. Dlsoaso Is often Introduced into a flock by carelessness In this matter. FARM NOTES. Crude oil la almost a euro all. Sllago is rapidly bocomlng a factor n ceding operations, Plan to havo plenty of shado about your placo next year. Rotation Is very necessary to tho growing of profltablo crops. If you havo any metal roots, It Is policy to ground thom. It can be done nt very slight expense Tho storago of celery on a largo scalo is only practicable by tho aid of special houses for the purpose. On most farms, several acres of ground might bo saved by h hotter ar rangement of tho fields and fenqes. Always clonn out tho yards bofore winter boglns. It Is far easier to keep thom In condition when this Is done. A Frenchman has Invented a ma chine for mowing weeds and other un der water growths in streams and lruics. Hundreds of farmers aro hogging down ryo. Dotween ryo and corn wo havo two mighty good crops to turn tho hogs Into. An aftermath of grass In a corn field Ib not a bad thing for tho field, especially whero all tho fodder growth Is In the shock. Alfalfa- and clover bay cut when It Is greenest and cured In tho cock under caps will help wonderfully to keep tho milk yellow, Don't forget to plow the Held where tho? 'hopper has laid Its eggs. That field, if loft undisturbed, will hatch out trouble next year. Tho dog question Ib receiving a great deal ot attention In many farm publications. Many dogs aro valu nblo whllo many more are not. llrlck and cement aro about as, cheap as lumber, and last many times as lung. It Is certainly a wasto to uso much wood for floors or Bills, From now on, sllago will havo to be reckoned with In fattening opera tions, nnd tho sooner you got In tho band wagon tho better off you will bo. notter plan on saving tho manure now. Thousands of dollars worth of fertility leaka away each year on ac count of Improperly located manure plies nnd barn yards. GrasBOB in permanent pastures or meadows require moro caro than those that aro grown In rotation with other crops. It la advisable to rcsoed per manent pastures occasionally. Hollow tllo building blocks aro becoming moro popular each year, They aro cheap, costing but little moro a squnro foot than lumber, and If of good quality will last Indefinitely. and other; Painted Meat and Aged Eggs in Gotham 01 WILL, nt iir up 30 ru m ADit ro iSELL ir THEY'LL mtiK IT'S FiMB -v. NtSW YORK. Since tho first of this year tho statu bureau of food In spection has condemned 10,480,778 poundB of food as rotten or adulterat ed. Most of tho food condemned was In New York city. Tho other day tho flrat of tho group of offenders wero arraigned and must npponr for trial. Most of thom wore dealers from tho lower part of tho city, and the charge against them al leged tho possession ot decayed chick ens, soured condensed milk, spoiled corned beef, dyed chopped moat, spoiled meat of all kinds, rotten eggs, bad butter and decayed fruits. According to reports there nro even worso articles In restaurantB and stores, such as painted fish, spoiled meat dipped In formaldehyde and -reddened so as to look fresh, Ico cream containing wood alcohol, candles con taining poisonous dyes and soda sir ups mado of coal tar. "Wo havo found bad butter a mess," says Dr. McMillan, chief of tho Indianapolis Has a INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. Believing thnt A Indianapolis commission firms com bined to maintain high prices by keep ing down tho supply of farm products, Mayor Shank brought a car load of po tatoes from Wisconsin and sold them at cost, plUB a small Bum for buying, handling nnd delivering. In less than a weok tho prlco of potatoes dropped GO per cent, ab n result. Tho mayor has now proposed to tho council that It authorizo tho employment of a municipal buyer to follow tho sale prices of tho dealers and tho prices charged by producers. "I am convinced," the mnyor said; "that if 25 of our loading pities would do this tho combines that maintain high prices could be broken. There aro thousands and thousands or bush els or penrs and apples going to wasto In tho orchards ot Indiana becnuso the commission flrmB plan to keep tho visible supply down and keep up tho prices. Tho same conditions exist In other BtatoB and cities." Tho mayor had chargo of tho first car load ot potatoes, and thero was a remarkablo scene at tho city market when the first car was sold. It bad been announced that any ono person could buy as much as a bushel for 75 cents, a peck at 20 cents or half a peck for a dime. Ab early as threo o'clock, the crowds Prison Warden's PltAE JOB FER DC CHAMPEEM CRACKER TOPEKA, Kan. A new plan, Intend ed to glvo Kansas convicts a new idea of life, has been put into effect at the Kansas penitentiary, according to tho report or Warden J. K. Codding to Governor Stubbs. Every man taat Is sent to the prison is given six months' work on tho farm Just previ ous to his roloaae. Tho men got out in tho open. Thoy aro tanned and sunburned, havo moro liberty, lues dis cipline, got closo to naturo and leavo the prison with tho hatred or men and lawn gone and really wanting to try tolve better lives. Slnco the now system hns been tried not ono re leased convict has como back. War den Codding bollevos that through this system Kansas may gain n rocord lor a minimum number of second-term 02l CTt) ( Finds a $1,000 Pearl in Clam Shell CHICAGO. A $1,000 pearl, found In a clam bako and subsequently foroibly taken away by tha dealer who supplied the shellfish, was taken Into custody tho other day by Cnpt. Max pnnnor of the police department, pending a decision by Municipal Judgo Cavcrly of a question equally perplexing as that ot tho egg laid by tho famous Maywood hen, As a result Judge Cavorly wub expected to glvo the correct annwer to thq following question: "It a clam dealer Is ordered to sup ply clams for a church dlnnor and glvcB somo of thom to a carpenter, who finds n $1,000 pearl in ono of tho bIioIIb, docs tlie gom beong to the church?" Our Lady of Lourdes church, Lelnntl and North Ashland avenues, recently gavo a clam bako and ordered tho clams (or tho feast from Frank J. Dug got, 70 South Wator street. Whllo carrying tho clams into the church Dugget gave halt a dozen to Elmer Theaen, a carpenter, who wna at work in the building. Thesen opened ono of the shells and inspectors, "that was a mixture ot good and bad butter or oleo and bad butter and good butter nil mixed and treated so that It looked palatable. In ono of tho cellars of a restaurant man I found hams that ho had bought at a navy sale of rcjocted foods, and ho had, in addition, many pounds of rotten tomatoes. On tho stands of street vonders we have found n good ly amount of decayed vegetables and fruit, which, strangely enough, pcoplo buy. "As soon ns rotten food Is discover ed by inspectors It Is denatured by methylene blue or somo llko acid, un less It Is needed for chemical analy sis, "Meats can bo treated effectively with formaldehyde. A pleco of tainted meat, black and malodorous, is otton washed in tho ncld, wo find, and U then sold for good moat, red and fresh looking, as its treatment makes IL "Tho rotten egg industry is not yet dead. Recently I found 171 cans of 'spot' eggs In ono roan's cellar and 42 In another. Each can contained 30 dozen eggs. If fresh eggs aro put into cold storago In Bummer, they will keep nicely for nix months. If they are put in in cold weather, they will keep far n year. Longer perlodi. than thoso result in eggs that aro not fit for human consumption." Municipal Market LEASE -MR.'N MAYOR -flEASE -I SAY MR.MA.Y0R, HAVE A UTTLP PITY began gathering. Customers went thoro on foot, horseback, In carriages and automobiles. When tho first wagon, load arrived and tho mayor announced , tho sale wbb on, thero was a continual . clamor for potatoes until ten o'clock, ( when tho car load had been sold. Tho potatoes woro sold by weight; and not by measure. Thcro aro CO pounds to a bushol and it was found i that 00 pounds alwnys heaped high a J bushel measure. So with tllo mcas-i urcs ot Icbb denomination. One man) remarked ho could buy potatoes at; 75 cents by weight. Bell thom at 75. cents by measure and make money. Following hla flrat experiment in soiling direct to tho consumer, tho J mayor sent export buyers Into tho po-i tato and fruit districts ot Michigan,, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Ho says tho buyers found that thoro are large ; crops of potatoes and apples and oth er fruits, although it has been main tained by tho dealers that the potato crop Is a failure. Novel Experiments mon which will bo lower than that of any othor stato. Many years ago an Island In tho Missouri river was sold to tho Btato by somo political sharpers, who made a lot or money In tho deal. Tho Is land has novor been used, nnd the lands owned by tho Btato around Ibo prison havo never been used to nny great extent for farming. Warden Codding begun work two years ago. and tho first thing ho did was to glvo tho prisoners half an hour's llborty each day In tho prison ynrd. Tho men can do anything they wish during thnt hair hour. They con talk to each other and und tho guard, play ball, pitch horse shoes, play cro quet or a dozen other games. Tho prisoners had been moroso nnd sullen, and there were 22 Insano prisoners in tho hospital and a half dozon tuberculosis patients. Tho plan was adopted to boo It tho Insanity and tuberculosis could not bo stopped. Not a new patient bas developed In 14 months, and thero is not a single pris oner In tho tuberculosis hospital at this time. found tho pearl. Thoroupon Dugget claimed tho gem as his property, and an argument regarding the ownership followed, resulting In the denlor for cibly taking possession of tho pearl. Thosen thon bad Dugget arrested on a chargo ot larceny and tho case was called beforo Judgo Caverly. After pondering on tho details, tho judgo suggested thnt tho poarl should rightfully belong to the church which had purchased the clams. Immediate ly Thesen and Dugget Jo'Inod ranks against their common contestant, tho church, and refused to listen to any terms of settlement by which thoy both would "lose out" Accordingly, tho Judge continued his ruling und gavo tho gem to Captain Danner for safekeeping. ' PA Toasting the Teachers. There was a meeting of the new teachers and tho old. It was a sort ot love feast, reception or whntovcr you call it Anyhow, nil tho teachers got together and pretended they didn't havo a care in tho world. After the eata were et the syraposlarcb proposed a toast: "Long Live Our Teacherst" It was drank enthusiastically. One of the new teachers was called on to respond. Ha Kfbdestly accepted. His answer was: "What onr A Bad Sign. 8ho If 1 wero you, dear, I would not send for that plumber again who came today. He's too inexperienced. He Didn't ho do the work-right? ' She Yes, ho did tho work all right, but he brought all the tools he needed with him. Small Circulation. Shopman Here is a vory nice thing in revolving bookcases, madam. Mrs, Nowrich Oh, aro those revolv ing bookcases? t thought they called them circulating libraries, Christian Register. Chest Pains and Sprains Sloan's Liniment is nn ex cellent remedy for chest and throat affections. It quickly relieves congestion and in flammation. A few drops in water used as a gargle is antiseptic and healing. Here's Proof " I hye ued Sloan'i liniment for ion and cm testify to Its wonderful efficiency. 1 have ued It for ore throat, croup, lime back and rheumatism ana In every ctte It gave fnatani relief." REBECCA JANE ISAACS, Lucy, Kentucky, SLOANS LINIMENT is excellent for sprains and bruises., It stops the pain at once and reduces swell ing very quickly. Sold by all dealers. Price, SSom, BQo,g $1.00 Sloan's I Treatise on the Horse sent free. Addreu Dr. Earl S. Sloan on Mi T. M.K.Villodid fc? this at Mercedes, in tho lower Gulf Coast country ol l exaa ana a,-,5j Louisiana. Jan. x8th last ho planted 6 acres to corn. Ho got 240 bushels, which sold for $1 a bushel. Tho whole cost of rais ing camo to $33, leaving a net profit of $307. Juno 1st he planted a SECOND crop and got 240 bushels. This crop cost $39, leaving him a net profit ot $201. From 'the 3 crops ho cleared $408 not bad for 6 acres; and he can grow a crop ot fall potatoes on the same land and market them beforo Christmas. This Is not unusual in the Gulf Coast Country oi Texas and Louisiana Three crops a year is making money just ?; times as fast as you are, and the Gulf Coast armor saves more of what he makes than the northern farmer, because he has none of tho northern farmer's heavy winterexpenses. Better Look Into This! The pleasure of a trip to the Gulf Coast Country, via the Frisco Lines, Is well worth the little cost of going. 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