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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 12, 1908)
rf" K ?? Mr- UkUtiiikkfaiiihUaUkiUfyiiiULUili I THOUGHTS ON BUSINESS I BY WALDO PONDRAY WARREN , . DO MORE THE man who makes the best progress Is the man whe doas more than he Is told. Some men think they have done their full duty when, they perform certain routine work. They consider that they are being paid fifteen dollars a week for fifteen dollars' worth of work and they measure out the correct amount with as much care as the grocer meas ures out rice, putting in and taking out a few grains until the scales balance. But the progressive man goes about his work with the spirit of the athlete. The satisfaction of accomplishing a feat, and the knowledge that with each trial more skill Is devel oped, form one of the best Incentives to good work. The ath lete does not confine his practice to a certain number of runs and Jumps, but keeps at It until he has achieved some greater degree of skill than he ever had before. He delights In at tempting harder and harder feats because It means more and more skill. Thus does the truly progressive man love hie work. He does not consider that he Is working merely for his salary, nor for the house, but for himself for the development of his Individual capacity and skill. He delves Into things not re quired of him, because he wants to gain power to do more because that is the normal impetus of a progressive mind. (Copyrtutat, 1(9T, by Jojtpb. B. Bowln.) IRRIGATED FARMS FOR EVERYBODY 80,000 Acres Choice Carey Act Lands In the State of Idaho 30,000 acres of this land already opened for settlement, with water flowing through the canals for irrigation. This land will produce all kinds of crops without a failure and will yield as follows: WHEAT, 50 to 80 bushels per acre. OATS, 75-to 125 bushels per acre. POTATOES, 200 to 500 bushels per acre. SUGAR BEETS, 15 to 30 tons per acre. ALFALFA, ,4 to 6 tons per acre. Besides the ordinary farm crops APPLES, PEARS, PRUNES, STRAW BERRIES, RASPBERRIES, BLACKBERRIES, ETC. grow and pro duce abundantly. This is the premier section of Idaho for apples and pears, a state which is famous for the wonderful quality and flavor of these fruits. The land of perpetual water right costs $30.50 per acre, payable as follows: $3.25 down, balance in ten annual instalments, with 6 per cent interest. :: :: ::: :: :: :: :: All the work of construction has been done under the supervision of the state and the state has jurisdiction over the land, so the settler is given full protection. You may have exhausted all your other rights to file on government land,-but you can still file on this Carey Act land. :: ;: The following residents of Box Butte county have bought land in this tract, to whom we refer you: K. L. Pierce, H. E. Jones, John Anderson, R. B. Green, and Frank Potmesil, of Hemingford; Wm. King, W. C. Thompson and James Fcagins, of Alliance. Our next excursion for the land will be Novemher 17th. Round trip $30.45. Call at Watkins & Fcagins office in the Rumer block and talk with our representative far further information. BIG LOST RIVER INVESTMENT CO. C. FEAQINS, Hanager. Celebrated Jackson The AUTOMOBILE .jHBsWV'sSvBHBHfifiBBBBBBBEE BsfcjtSMSsl tJB MB HsU&L. M J Kf iMtt-ijfec.. "'"-HcksoN modEC Pk i . -Ak - a ? For Full Particulars R.J; GENERAL AGT. FOR BBTZOLD WWIfWH WESTERN NEBRASKA POWDER UTS Used to Make the Goobers Look Clean and Pretty. LONG AND CAREFUL TOILET. Besides Being Powdered, the Nuts Are Brushed and Polished and Sized Be fore They Are Roasted Cooked at the Mill by Experts. There Is not much to a peanut, to look at It. It grows on n farm and is ready to cat after it has been roasted. A careless deduction would link up the farmer, tlio commission merchant, then tho grocer or Michelangelo. That would bo a mighty careless de duction, though. Tho first time a lot of unronsted peanuts are encountered rub ono on a pleco of dark cloth and observe the white mark It leaves. That N talcum powder. They powder pea nuts to make them look pretty, which Is just why Bister powders her face, n ml in that particular peanuts and girls are both alike. Any farmer can grow peanuts, but no farmer can sell them to the con sumer. The peanut ho grows Is not fit to put on a stand, nt least not until It has been touched up. Look nt the pea nuts on the next push cart and see how even they run as to size. They have all been sorted. Observe how clean they aro and how white this lot is, how gray that lot is and how uni form all the different lots nre. They have been sorted. When the peanut Is grown It Is gath ered nnd carried to a miller, who puts It In a great bin nnd later carries It over to his mill, where ho has a con trivance just chock full of brushes. Theso brushes get almost every fleck of sand and dirt out of tlio peanuts, which Is moru than tho farmer could have dono If he had spent tho summer trying. Then the brushed peanuts go on to another sort of mill, and by belug tossed about they get their hulls polished, nnd while that Is belug done thoy aro peppered with talcum powder, so that by tho time they come out of this machine they are as white us they are to appear In public. But the peanut Is not ready for mar ket yet. It Is alongside a lot of larger or smaller ones, hurting tho appear ance of the larger ones, while It does not enhance tho vnlue of the smaller oues. To even up matters the output of tho talcum powder polishing ma chine Is run .out on to u great canvas belt, which travels for fifty feet or more slowly. On either side of this belt are boys and girls. Theso sort the peanuts ns thoy pass; this squad pick ing out the biggest, that squad taking the next largest, and so on down till the smallest arc left Shells that have dodged tho powder rag are thrown back Into tho mill, and broken hulls nre thrown away. - - - That is about all for the peanut now, excepting tho Toasting. It has to bo roasted. There Is a popular supersti tion that the Italian vender roasts the peanuts In his little push cart All he does Is keep them hot They ore roast ed at the mill, tons at a time, cooked to a nicety by experienced men, who bava thermometers and all sorts of nppllances to show them when n pea nut Is "done." This roasted product Is the ono that the Italian buys, and when be gets It he pops It into his lit tle fako roaster and warms it over. It takes a long time and a lot of work and hosts of boys and girls to get the nickel's worth of hot roasted peanuts In the red and blue striped bag, but there is a reason for It all, and the reason is that a sack of even run small sized peanuts will And a buyer quick er than a sack of big and little ones all mixed up together. The stomach likes the eye to make a good report, and the peanut commission merchant understands that a shining shell, with indentations filled with tnlcum, pleases tho eyes, nnd ho has no compunctions about the powdr box, because he has found out that in rousting tho heat drives oft the surplus talcum, so that Is why If ono wants to find out for true about this trick of tho trade It will be necessary to got hold of an un roasted and not a roasted peauut By way of good measure It might be added that the shelled peanuts, gener ally sold salted, have been run through a thrashing machine, which breaks tho hull and blows it out of the way. Only "Spanish shell" nuts cun be so treated. Tho tougher hulls have to go to SIgnor Itallauo. Kansas City Journal. The Long Lived Pear. The pear Is really more hardy than tho apple and needs less cosseting. There nro trees still standing near Mon roe, In the state of Michigan, which wero planted by the French settlers be fore Penn founded Philadelphia. Pear trees can bo kept In good bearing condition for 300 years and apples for at least ISO years. I have an apple tree 115 years old and Its annual fruitage Is as perfect as It was sixty rears ago. B. P. Powell in Outing Magazine. The Comparison. Towne Tes, ray wlfo is nbte to dress on comparatively little money. Browno Oh, como now Comparatively llttlo? Towne I mean a llttlo compared with, what she thinks bIio ought to have. Exchange. On a Big Liner. "Let's go forward to tho main deck." "All right. Steward, call us a taxi cab." Washington Herald. Nothing Is -farther from eiirth than lien von; nothing Is nearer than heaven to. Qrth-nare. H umor ONLY THREE TONS. How His Thumb Natl Was Jarred Oft by Dynamite. When n man entered the car with tho thumb of his right hand somewhat ostentatiously done up In a white rag It was a foregone conclusion that somo ono would want to know all about It Some one did. lie was a man who seemed to take life seriously, and there was anxiety in his tones ns ho lenned forward nnd said: "Sir, I observe that you have your thumb tied up In n nig?" "Yes, sir." "Which lends me to Infer that tho snld thumb has met with some sort of accident?" "It has." "Cut It with a chisel, for Instance?" "No, Blr; the nail got Jarred off." "Jarred off? 1 enn hardly under stand how that could havo happened." "Easy as rolling oft n log, sir. I stood close to three tons of dynamite when they exploded, uud the shock Jarred the' nail off my right thumb." "Three tons, did you say?" "Just three tons." "Lot mo congratulate you, sir, on be ing a prudent man. If you had been standing beside six tons tho nail of the other thumb would havo been shaken off, and you might havo lost a tooth as well." -Chicago News. Excused. Tho Teacher And why didn't you como to school yesterday? The Pupil Please, ma'am, mo muv ver didn't know school commenced yestlddy, and sho borrered Mrs. Green's almanac, nn It wuz a last year's ono, Tho TeacherAnd didn't your father know the duy that the schools opened? The Pupil No, mn'atn. He don't know nuflln 'bout days. The Teacher How Is that? The Pupil He works nights. Clove land PhilnDenler. His Idea. "Now, Willie," said the boy's moth er, "before you go to sleep you niUst try to recall any little sin you com mitted during the day nnd bo truly Ror ry for it." "Yes, ma'am," replied Willie. "I guess I wns guilty of usury for one thing." "Usury?" "Yes'm. I found u ulckei and used It." Pittsburg Tost Short, but Sharp. Miss Cutting I am usually so sea sick when I cross the ocean that it takes away ull the pleasure of the trip. Saplelgh And I am aw uernh sick on shipboard, donchcr know. What do you aw think of that? " Sriss Cutting I think I'd almost be willing to have a head as empty, as yours If I could escape the malady. Detroit Free Press. Queered. Jack I just had a rcusou why J wanted to kiss you. Eva And what was tho reason? Jack Er really I have lost it and Eva Well, that will do. I couldn't think of allowing a young man who had lost his reason to kiss me, Good night! Chicago Tribune. Useful Verse. Poet You don't like my verses. Editor On the contrary, I am very much pleased with them. Foet nut you never publish any of them. Editor No, but I got a raise In sal ary on account of being obliged to read them. Cleveland Leader. Always Waste. "Did you sny that your cook was going Into a decline?" "No. I said from the wny things were disappearing I concluded that she was wasting away." Baltimore American. Along the Great Highway. "Youse orter make a hit In dut hat, Ilarry.V "I have, Freddy. Nearly every farm er 'long do route has offered me a Job as a scarecrow." New York Ameri can. Favored by Fortune. Wife (who always looks ou the cheerful side of things, to husband, who has put the lighted eud of his cigar in his mouth) now lucky you were, dear, to discover It immediately! Lon don Opinion. r Nobody, "Everybody makes fun of campaign cigars." "Yes, everybody." "But did you ever see anybody re fuse one?" Kansas City Times. A Little Too Thin. Gentleman It's no use your whining to uici I can see through yon. Beggar So yer ought, guvnor. I've 'ad nnthln' to eat tot n weak. Tntler. ROMANCE TESTED. "I'd fly with you Sonic tale unto." Tho inrtld ronmntlc cried, "Ami, thouKh 'twfrc bleak. No more I'd seek If you were ty my Bidet AU-all l Ipovo, Nor would 1 srlvi Whatever came to pass.' "Ah, love," cried lie, "Would you for me Leave o'on your looking Rlassr A shade of doubt Her eyes about Seemed midden to un-ulte. Blie murmured: "Yes, Just that, I gums. I'd really linve to tako, Uut not a trlnlc- Kt Ie Just think! My tenl would never llos" Slio paused "Oh, no; I couldn't ro Without my powder hir!" Kansas City Times. The Truth of It. Tom Miss Woodley tells me her grandfather was a real estate convey nncer. Tess The lden! Tom Why? Isn't that true? Tess Oh, yes; I see what sho means! The cart her grandfather drove was a conveyance for transporting real es tate. Philadelphia Press. The Outcast. You ask mo why 1 weep nnd moan, like some lost spirit In despair, nnd why I wander off nlono nnd pnw the ground and tear my hair. You ask me why I pack this gun, all loaded up, prepared to shoot. Alas, my troubles havo begun the women folk nre can ning fruit. There Is no plnco for me to out unless I eat upon the floor, nnd peelings get beneath my feet nnd make me fall a block or more. The odors from the boiling Jnm all day as sail my weary snoot. You find me, then, the wreck I nm the women folk nre canning fruit! Oh, they have peaches on tho chairs and moldly ap ples on the floor and Wormy plums upon the stairs and piles of pears out side tho door, and they nre boiling pulp and Juice, nud yon may hear them yell und hoot. A man's existence ,1b the deuce the women, folk nre canning fruit! Emporia (Kan.) Gazette. Only One Reason. ' "Papn. George wants to break our engagement" , , "Whnt reason does he ndVajtce?" "He snys he has" a lot of reas6ns. but he mentions only one." "And what's that?'J - . . "lie says he has seen somebody he loves much better thnn he loves me." "And that's tlie only renson he gives?" "Yes." "Don't bother him altout the others." Cleveland Plnln Denier. No7 "Learning to play the violin," mut tered tho persistent amateur, bending over his sheet music and making un other stab at the Instrument, "Is no snap." This being the exact psychological moment, the E string snapped. Chi cago Trlbuue. To the Point. "Well," said Nurltch, showing Knn dor through his new house, "what do you think of tho furnlshln's?" . "They show a great deal of taste," replied Kundor. "Ah! Think so?" "Yes, but It's nil bad."-Phlladelph!a Press. Can't Lose It. , "Of course," bald the optimist, "if a man gets Jntn the habit of hunting trouble he's sure to tlnd it." "Yes," replied the- pesslmjst, "and If he'fc so lazy that ho always tries to avoid It It will And him. So whnt's the difference J" Catholic Standard and Times. Personal Knowledge. "What do you think, Maud? Cholly Softy has been reading up lntely, and he says he agrees with the scientific man who says that plants can think." "Well, Cholly ought to know. Isn't ho a cabbage head?" Baltimore Amer ican. Where Meals Reside. Forlorn Freddie (the hobo) Just think, little girl. I don't knpw where my next meal Is comln' frum. Tho Llttlo Girl (sympathetically) Dear me! Ain't there u pantry In your house, poor man? ruck. A Bit Elshy,.TJllt Forpolso What la tho whalo blowing about? Dogfish Oh, he got so many notices for his fent in swallowing Jonah he's been blowing ever since. Boston Tran script. Authorizing. "What do you wunt with tho auto mobile catalogue?" "I propose to wrltp some dialogue for It, and then It will be n motor nov el." Washington Herald. 1 V J lorsW I 5ot toolVv'ICUAteaX StrVrato . CHtovV, SA- Miss Alary E, Smalley TEACHEK OF VOICE Hiss Edith H. Swan TEACHER OF PIANO STUDIO 424 Laramit Avmm Phone - - 220 GEO. T. HAND, M. D. EYC, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT Eyes Tested and Glasses Fitted. DR. G. W. MITCHELL, Physician ane Surgeon Day s,ud night otU. Oflloe over Boruo Store, Phone ISA, H. A. COPSEY, W. D. Phyftlclati aftd Surgeon Phone 300 CftlH answered promptly day and night from offlice. Offices: Alliance National Bank UnlldlQtt over the Post OBlce, DrTcHAS. ifTsLAQLlfr WITU DR. BELLWOOD Special Attention Paid to Eye Work GEO. J. HAND, IIOMKOPATUIC PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Formerly Intern Homeopathic Hoe pftal University of Iowa, Phone SSI. Office over Alliance Shoe Store Residence Phono 201. Churchill & Thornton PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS (Successors to Dr. .1. B, Moore) OFFICE IN FLETCHER BLOCK Office hours U-12 a.m. ,2-1 p.m. 7. 80-9 p.m. Office Phone 6a " Res. Phone, Dr Thornton, V87 Night calls, Phone 62 or 17 Drs. Bowman & Webfer PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS First National Dank Iildg. Rooms 4-5-6 Office hours, 10 to 12 a. tn,, 1:30 to 4, '7 to 8 p. tn. Office Pftene 65 Res. Pfcewe 16 & KS4- Drs.CoppernoU &. Petersen OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIANS (Succeora to Drs. Frey & Ualfe) 17 and 18 Rumer Block Office Phone 43, Residence 20, Private Nurse ,A Phone 492 1 WILLIAM MITCHELL, ATTORNEY AT LS.W. ALLIANCE, NEBRASKA. EUGENE BURTON Attorney at Law Office in rooms formerly occupied by R. C. Noleman, First Nal'l Bank blk 'Phone 180. ALLIANCE. NEB. H. M. BULLOCK. Attorney at Law, AXLIANCE, NEB. QUITO P. TUTTLfc (RA. g. TA8B TUTTLE & TASH, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. REAL ESTATE. North MalnSt., - ALLIANCE. NED WILCOX & BROOME LAW AND LAND ATTORNEYS. Long experience in state and federal courts and as Register and Receiver U. 8. Land Office is a guarantee for prompt and efficient service. t Office in Land Office llulldlnr. ALLIANCF - NEI1RASKA. T, J. THRELKELD, Undertaker and Embalmer OFFICE PHONE 2Q7 RES. PHONE 49& ALLIANCE, NEBR. H-H...ri 1.