The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922, November 11, 1915, Image 13

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NewGaras-e
I have opened a new garage in the Norton building near
the depot, formerly occupied by the Ileo Garage, and am now
prepared to doctor your sick automobiles. The room has been
thoroughly cleaned and new equipment ha9 been installed,
making a large up-to-date workroom, and giving plenty of
storage space.
I have been with the Keo garage for some time, and my
work is known in and around Alliance. All work guaranteed,
and all I ask is a trial.
A special invitation is extended to my friends, and to those
who are not my friends, to call any time.
Quick Repair Work
A Specialty
George Ellis
Notice!
I have purchased the interest of L. A. McElhaney in the
Kecp-U-Neat Tailors, and have also taken over the accounts of
the firm.
"Satisfactory Service" is the watchword of the Keep-U-Neat
Shop, and the prices are always reasonable. One trial
will convince you of this.
We make a specialty of fine work, such as accordeon pleat
ed goods, silks, etc.
Work Called for
and Delivered
Keep-U-Neat Tailors
Phone 133
You Men Who Smoke
BtataHBBat,tHBlt,tiaBatrk WMMMMMMM MHHMMM MMW MMaWMMMMMHMMMMHHHMMV
The Next Time You Want a Good Fresh Cigar or a Fresh
Can of Tobacco, Drop into the King Billiard Parlor and Get It.
All Popular Brands of
CIGARS and TOBACCO
- Hank Keiser, Prop.
Truth Ever
Will
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By MOSS.
Up to date business
men thoroughly under
stand modem advertising
as a business proposition.
They fully realize that
they buy advertising serv
ice as a wholesale selling
agent, just as they em
ploy salesmen.
They keep their names
and goods before the pub
lic to make sales or cre
ate a demand. They do
this honestly or else they
ultimately fail.
Our local merchants
are doing this truthfully
and in a businesslike
manner. Consider their
ads. carefully and take
advantage of inducements
they offer you.
ROY B. BURNS, Prop.
205 Box Butte Avenue
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A New Roof
must be put on the bouse or barn
this spring. The old shingles can
not withstand the sun and storm an
other season
If this Job Is not to be done over
again for at least ten years you bet
ter use OUR
Shingles
They are good for that length of
time, anyway, and perhaps longer.
At a lower price we can sell yon
shingles not quite so good.
Lumber, too, for repairs about the
place.
Dierks Lumber Co.
We have nots of young ladles and
lots of pert misses but the sweet, old
fashioned girls of ever so long ago
have vanished along with the poke
bonnet and cinnamon cookies.
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EXPERIMENT WITH HOG FEED
Illustration Show Difference In Size
of Animals Fed on Alfalfa and '
Corn, and Corn Ale no.
The pigs shown In the Illustration
were litter mates fed at the Kansas
experiment station. The big pig was
fed on a ration of corn and alfalfa
bar; tbo little pig on corn alone. The
experiment was carried on for eight
ALFA LfA sing HTTP?
CORN)
RATK
Balanced Feed.
months. The alfalfa-corn pigs aver
aged 250 pounds dressed; tho corn
alone pigs but 60 pounds each. Pigs
must have protein. There Is plenty
of It In alfalfa. The balanced ration
made the difference.
PROTECT STOCK FROM FLIES
Department of Agriculture Recom
mends Mixture of Soap and Kero
seneUse Spray or Wash.
(By CHARLES I. BRAT. Colorado Ex.
periment Station.)
During the summer months, when
cattle are most likely to be bothered
with files, there are many people
who wish to know what can be done
as a preventive. There are a num
ber of methods sometimes recommend
ed for this purpose, some of which are
supposed to keep flies off the animal
by virtue of their bad odor or greasy
nature, and some which are supposed
to be sprayed on to kill the flies.
Considerable doubt exists as to the
benefits to be obtained from using
any of these treatments, or as to the
relative value of the different ways
of combating flies.
For spraying the backs of cattle at
milking time, there is possibly noth
ing more reliable than kerosene
emulsion. The following recipe
given by the United States department
of agriculture is one of the best ways
of making this: Dissolve one-half
pound of hard soap in one gallon of
hot water, and while still at near boil
ing point add two gallons kerosene,
and emulsify by use of a force pump
or agitator of some kind. Dilute with
water, one part emulsion to eight
parts water, and use as a spray, dip
or wash.
SUITABLE D0GPR00F FENCE
Arrangement Tried by Government
Rangers and Found Satisfactory
Height Is 67 Inches.
On one of the government's forest
ranges this fence has been tried for
three months and found to be dog and
coyoteproof. Not a coyote made bis
way through It Posts are set 16 feet
apart. They are 7 feet long and set
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Dogproof Fence.
2V& ' feet the grounu Ttu lower
wire lies fla i ?' ground. The
numberr on the cut indicat 'he Inches
betweei wire ranus. ' le total height
of the fence . "I incht The woven
wire fencing lb 36 incheb high and has
a four-lncl mesh.
SHEEP REQUIRE SOME SHADE
Best Place for Shed Is on Open
Ground Where There Is No
Grass Hich Fence Will Do.
Do not allow the sheep to He around
In fence corners or huddle In under
brush. The best shade Is a shed on
open ground where there Is no grass.
, A little bit of shelter Is fine for
sheep. Even it It be nothing more
than a high board fonce on the side
toward the sunshine it will help a lot.
The sheep can snuggle up near to
that and escape the direct rays of the
sun.
Better tban such a fence Is a piece
o. woodland. We have a cluster of lit
tle hemlocks In our pasture, up on a
side bill, says a writer In an exchange.
The sheep run up into that and escape
not only the heat, but also the miser
able flies that Lurt tbera so.
Examine Ram for Ticks.
It Is a good plan to examine the
ram once in a while for ticks, and If
any are founl he should be thorough
ly soaked with a few gallons of a dip
preparation. This can easily be dene
with a hand sprinkler while the ram
U In a standing position.
UQM I I l ALT ALT.
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CHANGING PURPOSE IN LIFE
Matter for Careful Consideration, and
by No Means Always to Be
Condemned.
Sooner of later there will come re
minders of the query. "Should it be ac
cording to thy mind?" One career
may be taken and another abandoned
Such change of purpose and pursuit
should not indicate fickleness, for the
most resolute have experienced it.
Buds of unusual promise may sadly
fail of flowering. Trees and vinos
confidently cherished sometimes sig
nally disappoint in fruitage. The al
leged wnys of wisdom do not Invaria
bly result In their promised pleas
antness and peace. Faithful workers.
In a good cause, themselves hindered
and hampered by circumstances be
yond their control, aee fidelity to its
opposite apparently favored by smiles
of fortune which they have woefully
missed. Now, without pursuing this
phase of human experience further,
let us recall tho great part of human
nature as noting a "divinity that
shapes our ends, roughhew them how
we may." Go on planning as best you
may, and with determination which
neither Are nor flood can vanquish.
Yet the race may not always be to
the swift, nor the battle to the strong.
At the table of generous bounty a fa
miliar face may be missing evermore
and a long-used chair be forever va
cant. The heart knoweth bitterness
that seems to taint Its entire cup of
life. Boasted foresight fails to grasp
the next morrow. Now the bugle
sounds truce to longer conflict and
surrender Is signaled, as for the dawn
of a glad new day, in "Thy will be
done." Knoxvllle Journal and Tribune.
ANTS ON THEIR WEDDING DAY
Time of Turmoil and Tragedy for
Many of the Small Creatures
of the Earth.
A recent epidemic of ants In differ
ent parts of the country Is really due
to the fact that the ants were cele
brating their wedding day, remarks
the London Times. They were out on
their marriage flight and honeymoon.
Generally sj. Ing. there are three
kinds of ants in this country the
workers, the winged males, whose life
Is a short and merry one; and the
young queens, who live in charge of
the queen mother. In the summer,
-when the weather Is favorable, the
winged males and the young queens
leave the nest for the marriage
flight. The latter race away pursued
by the ardent wooers, who fall In
their thousands to enterprising swal
lows, missing their way and dropping
to reBt their tlrod wings on any ob
ject within reach. But the young
queen flies on. She is strong of wing,
for her husband must be the best of
the crowd. The crowd of pursuers
dwindle from myriads to thousands,
from thousands to hundreds, to dozens,
until at last only one is left.
That was the meaning of the plague
of ants. It was the marriage festival,
and the winged ants we saw in our
gardens were the unlucky crowd of
mourners left behind, trying to find
their way home. On her return to
her new-chosen nest, the queen spends
the afternoon chewing off her wings.
These are now useless, seeing that
she must no more leave the ant-hill.
Henceforward she spends her days
furiously laying eggs.
Measure of Laughter.
A meter for laughter is the latest In
vention of commercialized drama. The
device registers automatically and In
degree the amount of laughter Induced
by moving picture films. It Is some
Invention and Its uses should not be
monopolized by the movies. Its one
great function In life Is evidently to
check up the applause and laughter re
ports now found so copiously scattered
through the columns of the Congres
sional Record, much to the chagrin of
blushing veracity. The machine we
really need, however, is one which reg
isters the spirit of humor and not the
effect. It would save humanity many
weary moments if the inveterate story
teller could first trylils stuff out on a
machine instead of his long suffering
friends. It would not do, however, to
have this machine around when the
politicians are making their promises
to their constituency of congenital
suckers.
Armenian History.
The history of the later years of the
Armenian kingdom is bound up in the
history of Am. The stronghold city
became the capital of the Bagratid
kings of Armenia in 961. The Byzan
tium emperor captured it In 1046, and
It was then a hive of many scores of
thousands, a wealthy city and an invit
ing one. The Seljuk Turks carried
fire and sword throughout its confines
18 years later; the "warlike Georgians
took It five times between 1125 and
1209; the Mongols overran It In 1239
and an earthquaake In 1319 completed
the work of ruin. The great cathedral,
the most perfect survival, was round
ed In 1010, just at the beginning of the
city' long chain of misfortune.
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Center of Universe.
A recent speculation Is that Cano
pus, In the southern constellation ol
Argo, la the center of the stellar uni
verse. Though second In apparent
brightness to Slrlus. It is really much
larger, and Is at the inconceivable
distance of 489 light-years from us.
Its volume 1 estimated at 2.400,000
times that of our own sun, wnlle it
brilliancy 1 supposed to be 49,700
times as great.
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SHIPPING SHEEP TO MARKET
Exercise Care That Animals WW Ap
pear to Best Advantage on Arrival
at Their Destination.
(By W. COFKKT.)
In shipping sheep or lambs to mar
ket care should be taken to handle
them so they will appear to best ad
vantage at the time of sale. The car
in which they are shipped should be
well bedded with dry straw or some
other material which Is Its equivalent
for keeping the animal clean. It Is
not necessary to give each sheep or
lamb In the car more space than
enough to stand comfortable, but over
crowding should be avoided. In hot
weather especially, overcrowding re
sults In losses. At this time losses
are likely to result from mixing lambs
In with older sheep, because the lambs
often suffocate from being crowded In
between animal larger than them
selves. At the time of shipment the fleeces
of sheep or lambs should be dry. It
tbey are wet It Is difficult to keep them
clean In appearance even though the
car be well bedded. If tbey are very
wet when tbey reach the market buy
ers do not like to bid on them, and If
they do they attempt to allow for the
moisture In the wool by offering less
for them than If they were dry.
If, at the time of shipment, some
of the sheep or lambs are foul behind
til
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Choice Leicester.
from dung being lodged in the wool,
It Is well to clip this soiled wool oft
before they aro loaded. This should
be done because the close crowding In
the car causes the sheep that are foul
to soil the sides of those that are
clean. There are also other reasons
for clipping awjty this soiled wool. It
detracts from the appearance of the
animals and from their value when
considerable In amount
FREE'jSHEEP FROM MAGGOTS
Wool Should Be Clipped to Skin and
Spot Treated With a Weak So
lution of Tar Dip.
Whenever a sheep has a filthy spot
on any part of Its body or when It
continually twists about and bites the
wool In a certain place it should be
examined for maggots. The wool
should be clipped to tl e skin If found
Infested and the spot treated with a
weak solution of coal tar dip.
If maggots have already lodged In
the muscles use a solution quite
strong. Pour the medicine over the
Infested part and work It Into the
holes made by the maggots. They
will soon come wriggling out. Tur
pentine, which is sometimes used for
this purpose, is harsh in its action
and Is not recommended on humane
grounds.
REASONADLE CARE FOR SHEEP
Most of Success With Flock Lies With
Increase Pastures Help Out
Feeding Problem.
To make the most of sheep one
j must give them reasonable care at
I least. Most of the profit lies in the
success with the Increase, and If they
are allowed to go through the summer
in poor, scrawny ccnditlcn, it will take
more feed to finish them In the fall,
and tbn ones that are kept for breed
ing stock will be unfit to start into the
winter. '
Our green pastures will help us out
greatly in feeding them, and in the
fall we will have our green corn and
perhaps sorghum to feed, but no mat
ter bow plentiful the feed, we should
not fall to supply them with plenty of
clean water.
Good Live Stock.
It make farming permanent.
It return highest price for farm
crops.
It furnishes market for waste feed.
It reduce bulk cf marketable crop.
It distribute labor throughout the
year.
It mean cleaner farms.
It make Income steady.
It helps to keep boy on tba farm,
It make farm life more pleasant.
Grinding Grain for Horse.
Many farmer do not car to grind
all the grain their team eat. neither
do tbey care to take the trouble to cut
up all their forage and then to sprin
kle It and mix ground stuff with It,
but that practice will pay In the case
of aged animals whose teeth are past
repair.
LEARN WAYT0 MAKE LlVlNC!
Good Advice for All Women Warn
That Tendered at Woman's Club
at Pittsburgh.
A woman of wealth, but who Is
ertheless Identified with civic woHc
and Is a practicing lawyer, lately gav
a tal before a Pittsburgh mothers'
club. Here Is a part of what ana
said:
There is one question to wbfek
every woman ought to be able to an
swer Yes. It Is this "Can you earn
a living If you should need to do?"
If there Is one lesson more than sw
ot her that has been emphasized In r
cent years It Is that the untrain4
suffer most when a pinch comes. Aa
other lesson that Is most sufficiently
understood Is that there Is practicab
ly no security in fortune.
Bo prepared. Is advice for a women
as well as for a nation. Train yew
daughters, you mothers, to something
that will pay a return sufficient at
least for a livelihood. It can do d
harm, and It may mean just the dif
ference between happiness and misery
in later life.
There Is nothing more pathetic tba
the sight of some unfortunate womaav
brought up to a competency and V
terly unprepared to support herselC
who ha been suddenly reduced t
poverty. We all know some so)
woman. Pottering along at things
that are of no real use, at work given
by pitying friend or strangers, more
or less dazed by contact with a world
that Is foreign to her, sinking little
by little to meaner surroundings
more desperate makeshift, she at I
disappears, sucked under In the mael
strom she has neither the strength i
the training to resist.
Surely you don't want to run
the faintest chance of becoming uc
a derelict, you don't want your daugV
ters to run any such risk. So be pre
pared. Be fit for something, train!
to something, ready to take hold If
you must. Know at least one thins
so well that people will be glad im
pay you for doing It. Be able to say
Yes If the world should ask yon tf
you ran return fair value for a living.
It la the surest of human safeguard
TROUBLE FOR LOCAL EDITOR
Cricketer Threatened Physical ResemV
ment of Report of HI Prowes
In the Game.
At a village cricket match the fleI4
Ing side were for a time a man short
A farm laborer was pressed Into serv
Ice. Just before the team's own maa
arrived a ball was hit In the substi
tute's direction. To the surprise of ta
spectators generally, and himself tm
particular, he made the catch.
The local paper the following Sator
day was anxiously scanned for th
record of this feat, and disappointedly
fojund it reported merely "caught uV
"What caught 'sub'?" he asked
friend.
"Don't thee know? That means
'twere accidental!" was the reply.
Next morning the editor of the local
paper was greatly amused by the fol
lowing epistle:
"Deer ur You say In yore paper
as bow I cort a man out In Saturday"
match accidental I mite summon
you for libel, but I won't, but should
you 'appen to git a dump on the no)
one day wen we neat you will know
Bill Wiggins has done it, and It wont
be no 'sub' neither." London TU-Bita,
All Lesson of Life.
The worst kind of trouble and sot
row should only teach us the lessom
of a wider sympathy and love. W
should never allow ourselves to be
come Immersed in our owu griefs, for
that only Intensifies them. Let u
shut them out of our mluds as much
as possible.
By letting no day pass without do
ing some kindness to others who are)
perhaps far woreo off than we are.
tho Uouble. v. hich seemed so gigantic
at first, will gradually sink to Lillipu
tian dimensions. By thinking sunny
thoughts and shutting out the intrud
ing ditrk ones we can rob grief of all
its sting. By admitting only tha
thoughts of love and p'-ace we help
curbelves tind many others.
Forgiveness.
A Swedish count hus an autograph
album in which three statesmen hava
written a sentence of their respec
tive philosophies. The eighty-year-old
French minister, Gulzot, wrote:
"During my long life I have learned
two wise rules; the one is, to forgire
much, the other, to forget nothing."
Underneath these words the Frezveb
statesman Thiers wrote: "I hav
found that a little forgetting does not
detract from the sincerity of the for
giving."
On the same page there waa pac
enough for an autograph of the Ces
man chancellor, Bismarck, who said:
"During my life 1 have learnt the
need of forgetting much and havlnsj
much forgiven me."
Three True Steel.
Iron and carbon steel, vanadiu)
teel. and tungsten steel, are polnteaT
out by Prof. J. O. Arnold, British
metallurgist, as the three true steels.
The second kind 1 iron and carbon
teel with five per cent of vanadium,
the Iron carbide having ceased to e
1st, and vanadium carbide being pre
ent. and the third kind la Iron and
carbon steel having 11.6 per cent of
tungsten, the Iron carbide having been
expelled by the tungsten. Iron anal
carbon steel hardens at 730 degree
C; vanadium steel. Just below 14M
degrees. Us melting point, and tunjpji
ten tal at S50 degrees to 1200.