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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (April 27, 1933)
Talker Must Remember Listeners Have Rights The ruins of elementary politeness •re two: That no speaker be Inter rupted and that none shall monopo lize the rostrum. In practice both rules are and often should be dis carded. A virtuoso concert-violinist talker Is well worth being listened to by amateur fiddlers—though the amateur will become a professional only hv playing himself—but If even « brllllfint talker exceeds his man date he may be stopped; and, of course, to stop a boor or a bore Is merely Christian duty. Yet human patience under such persecution can be staggering. One of my ac quaintances. n Communist and other wise n delightful fellow, so Insisted on talking Moscow politics in and out of sensnn that he unintentionally proved the human race to have been created at heart pacifists. Other wise he would long ago have been dead, not because he was a Com munis! but because he was a pest.— “Chcle Dudley,” in the Boston Globe. Th\ Pierce's Pellets are best for liver, bo vets and stomach. One little Pellet for a laxative—three for a cathartic.—Adv, Human Nature Most men follow the calling they waul to whether il pays or not. How to train BABY’S BOWELS Babies, bottle-fed or breast-fed, with any tendency to be constipated, would thrive if they received daily half a teaspoonful of this old family doctor’s prescription for the bowels. That is one sure way to train tiny bowels to healthy regularity. To avoid the fretfulness, vomiting, crying, failure to gain, and other ills of constipated babies. Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin is good for any baby. For this, you have the word of a famous doctor. Forty seven years of practice taught him just what babies need to keep their little bowels active, regular; keep little bodies plump and healthy. For Dr. Caldwell specialized in the treat ment of women and little ones. He attended over 3500 births without loss of one mother or baby. Dr. W. B. 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From puppvhood he was trained to sled work, because of his unusual size and strength and wisdom. The same qualities made him a lead dog or “top dog” at an age when most sled huskies are just beginning to learn then trade. When Admiral Byrd went North to choose his sled dogs for the Aut artic, ho had the pick of the whole region to select from. He needed the very best dogs procurable for the historic task ahead of him. And Unalaska was the first and foremost of the huskies he picked out. Those of you who have read the story of Byrd's expedition will re member the mighty part played in It by the sled dogs; especially by Unalaska. Over miles of trackless and treacherous ice these huskies dragged the sleds. They fought their way through blizzards; they surmounted seemingly impassable obstacles. When their day’s work was done a handful of frozen fish was their reward for risk of life and overstrained muscles. Their bed was the nearest snow drift into which they could burrow deep enough to escape from the killingly bitter cold of the outer air. For that is the way northern sled dogs sleep. While their owners huddle around fires in their igloos or huts, the huskies are left outside to shift for themselves as best they can. By instinct they know they can be warmer—or less cruelly cold —if they snuggle far below the sur face of the snow. So they burrow. When the going was hard or fatigue so intense as to tax the prowess and courage of the rest of his team, it was Unalaska that put new heart into his mates and forced them to keep on. The tale of that South Pole ad venture has been told too often and too well, to need repetition here. It is enough to say that Un alaska continued from first to last to do his splendid duty and that he proved himself a hero again and again. Then came the return to civil ization. The country did honor to Byrd's daring achievement. In one interview after another Byrd did honor to the part in his success which was due to Unalaska and the lesser sled dogs. Back to the United States came the expedition; the dogs with it. Their tremendous task was achieved. The huskies received their share of praise and attention. Unalaska was hailed as a hero. In order to show the stay-at homes what kind of a life had been led by the party, in the Antartic, a “Byrd South Polar Exhibit’’ was instituted, an exhibit portraying the camp of the explorer and its members’ daily routine. The exhibit traveled here and there, drawing throngs of inter ested spectators. Unalaska got his full share of their admiration as he and his fellow-huskies were put through their paces. C. B. Poster, who was in charge of the show, made a special pet of Unalaska, and gave him his daily exercise. Presently the exhibit moved to Monroe, Alabama, where it at tracted its usual crowds. But the Louisana weather was hot and breathless compared to the icy blast of the polar regions. The sled dogs in their heavy coats suf fered from the heat. They were geared to the snowlancls, not to the far South. (In a lesser way it is the same with all long-coated dogs, in sum mer. My own Sunny bank collies get their hot-weather gallops be fore sunrise and after sunset, in the torrid months and arc allowed to lie idle in the shade during the heat of the day.) Unalaska and hLs dainty little mate, Lady, were kept as cool as possible and had their daily walks before the sun was strong enough to annoy them. Mr. Foster used to take these two huskies out to a park in Monroe for a run and a romp early in the morning. Early as was the hoar, there always were plenty of townspeople to stare admiringly at the gallant Alligator Climbed Fence to Seek Delicacies Fredonm. N. Y. — <UP> — Miss Orace OladSlOni alligator will scale no more wire fences in search of turtles. I Recently, the two-foot alligator ar-alod the fence surrounding its pen and traveled a hundred feet to dine on two pet turtles. Miss GladstotM primary teacher in the Normal school, returned the allt* gator to its cage. Tho follow.ng night the alliga tor scaled the fence aia.il. euvwu 1 dogs. Also, It was impossible to take them out early enough to be ahead of the morning traffic In the near by streets. One morning Foster drove in his car to the park, carrying Unalaska and Lady in the back seat. Arriv ing at the big rectangle of green t grass, the two huskies were set free for a run. (The date, by the way, was January 3, 1931.) Unalaska bounded gaily from the car, making an eager dash for the greensward. Lady followed. But there was a street to cross before the grass was reached. Along that street at top speed came a coupe driven by u young man with a wide-brimmed slouch hat. He did not slacken his space, nor swerve, as the hero dog bounded across the roadway. To him. appar ently, it was not worth while to risk stripping his gears in order to , save a mere deg from death. The front wheels smote the gal loping Unalaska, and the dog was dragged fiftj' feet before his body could be knocked free from the speeding car. Men and women hissed and shouted. The driver pulled the wide brim of his hat down over his eyes to avoid re cognition, and he stepped on the gas. Out of sight he whirled, leav ing behind him in mid-street a crumpled bunch of tawny fur; the lifeless body of his victim, Un alaska. Foster ran to the spot and pick ed up the dead Unalaska and car ried him forlornly to his own car. Lady, Unalaska's mate, followed close behind, whimpering heart brokenly, her head and tail adroop. Her loved mate was dead, stricken to death by a hit-and-run driver She could not-understand. She could anly mourn. Unalaska had gambled with death a thousand times, in bliz zards and across ice-floes. Through his courage and brains and muscle, he had won. But it had profited him nothing. For at the last he died beneath the wheels of a carelessly driven car, whose owner had not even the decency to stop and mutter a word or so of regret at his wan ton dog-murder. The roads are full of simlar men, from one end of America to an other. To them, speed and selffish convenience is everything and the life of a friendly and a harmless dog is less than nothing. Perhaps I am foolish in believ ing that such drivers must—some where and sometime—pay a heavy bill for their needless killings. Spring Revival The Gibson Girl, of liuppr memory, never knete puffed sleeves more voluminous than these picturesque ruffled ones on the stalely gown shown here. It is fashioned in blech faille taffeta, and was exhibited at a recent style show of advanced Spring fashions in New York. ently In quest of more turtles. Once again Mias Oiadstont re* turned the reptile to Its cage. Then she called repair men to begin alterations of the alligator's cage to checit any further excur* •lone. • • The Skene (hangr*. From TH-Bl's. “You know Bill Thompson’ Well Ms wife Sarah jumped olf the bridge Into the canal and—'' * Poor Sarah I" " And a 1c low passing by jv.mo'd in and saved Iter life.'’ Poor Bill * OF INTEREST TO FARMERS HAVE SOMETHING NEW It you are going to plant the vegetable patch this year, plan to put In some trick vegetables. It will add Interest to your efforts and new dishes to the family menus. By trick vegetables, says a market gar dener, I mean some of the less familiar vegetables and varieties of vegetables that are desirable and available. The earliest vege-table specialty I recommend is the edible pod pea or pea salad. It is by no means new, but is little raised in many sections of the country. It is delicious. It is similar to the garden pea, but has the advantages orbear ing earlier, being more prolific and less susceptible to the weather changes of the spring. The prepara tion is merely a matter of string ing, boiling and serving with but ter and seasoning. If your family like salads and you have no water cress, be sure to plant a packet of garden cress. In selecting lettuce, choose a kmd that docs not go to seed readily. It is possible to pick nearly all summer from some of the loose-heading varieties. Of the squash family, I like the Yellow Crookneck. It bears rather early, helping to fill in the gap between lieas and limas, and has more flav or than some of the other varieties. For August bearing, broccoli and French lima beans, known as flag eolets, are my favorites. The former is a green vegetable with a grepn bloom that forms into a head, and makes very good eating, prepared like cauliflwer. The seed is avail able from seed houses. The French lima beans are to be shelled, und are similar in shapa to the beans in young string beans, but have a very auierem mvor. rney are delicious either green or dried. I believe tho seed is available through most seed houses. A really amusing vegetable is the yard bean, so called because the pods actually measure two or three feet in length. It comes in late summer. As it Is a climber, it should be grown along a fence.; but failing a fence, it will do nicely on the stalks of corn. For color ef fect in your garden, if for nothing else, plant some red cabbage. Its flavor Is much the same as the green kind, but a square patch of the rosy violet heads is an addition to the appearance of any garden plot. En dive is a fall salad that may be protected from early frosts and will be usable quite late. Salsify, or oyster plant, may be left in the ground practically all winter and dug as needed. Of course, there is nothing better than home-grown celery, but it requires a little extra care, so I do not urge it on young gardeners. -»« . BANISH POULTRY PESTS Red mites take an immense toll from the poultry flock, but are very easy to control. Even before warm weather causes them to make their appe.arance, the nests, droppings boards, perches, perch supports and the hoppers, if they are of wood, should be sprayed with a good penetrating red mite paint. This will absolutely control red mites, and such control often means the difference between profit and loss in the poultry venture. Body lice cause great losses among both layers and growing chicks. If the old hens and pultets, closely con fined all winter, had a good de.'ous ing last fall, it is now time to treat them again. The adult flock should be given a thorough delousing at least twice, now and in midsummer. Nicotine sulphate can be purchased in liquid form in proper dilutions. Paint this on the perches in the afternoon just before the birds go to roost. Be sure that all of them go on the perch at night. The close proximity of the nicotine sulphate causes the insects to die and fall off on the droppings board. The treatment has been known to pre vent the hatching of lice that are in the egg form. WORMS IN HOGS Since the life history of the round worm in hogs has been defin itely worked out, it is not difficult to raise pigs free from that para site. True, the following directions for avoiding worm infestation of pigs is easier told than done. Never theless, there are no insurmountable difficulties to providing a clean far rowing place for the sows and then preventing the pigs from coming in contact with tform infested ground until they are half grown. To raise pigs free from worms, three things are essential: First, a clean farrow ing pen; second, clean sows at far rowing time; third, keeping the pigs away from worm infested quar ters until they have reached a weight of 75 to 100 pounds. When pigs must be farrowed in a central hog house, see to it that the pen in which the sow is to give birth to her litter is thoroughly cleaned a week or so before the event is to take place. Remove all manure and litter and scrape the floor. Then wash the floor with boiling hot lye, made by dissolving one pound of lye In 30 gallons oi water. After the farrowing pen has been thoroughly cleaned and bedded with straw, it Is ready for the sow, but before placing her therein, wash her sides and udder with warm water, to make sure that no worm eggs re main attached to her body, to be in Young stock that pays The folks who made the moat profit last fall when the egg prices started climbing away above other farm product* were, in most in stances, those who had bought high-quality chick* that were hatched relatively early. So If you feel unable to buy tha usual number of chicks this spring, buy those ot better quality. A high-quality chick must be hatched from disease-free Mock. It must grow rapidly, ma ture early, develop into a large in dividual, lay large eggs and many ot them. If you get that kind of gosted by the pigs when they take their first meal. As soon as the pigs are large enough to be transferred to some clean ground — ground on which hogs have not been raised for several years — move the sow and hex litter to the place selected for that purpose. In moving pigs and their dam, do not drive them through the barnyard, which is filled with millions and millions of worm eg';'s. for that would complete ly neutralize the good work already done. When wean frig time comes, remove the old sows and leave the p'gs in this or some other clean pasture until they weigh 75 to IOC pounds. Once that wejght has been attained, they are not likely to be come infected with worms, even if placed in worm infested quarters. ♦ ♦ LOOKING TO FUTURE There are many real opportunity nowadays for those who enjoy breed ing beef cattle as a farm business enterprise. We shall always need the b .st of purebred slock for the im provement of our common cattle, without this leaven, our cattle will deteriorate. A few years ugo, it was estimated that approximately three per cant ol our cattle were pure birds, but, in the last two or three years many of our purebred herds have been disbursed, and in many cases they have beem sent to the butcher. Those who still possess purebred herds of beef cattle are to b? consider'd fortunate, and they should by all means bans on to them. They may not bring much greater revenue than good grades at present, but a time is coming when they win. As soon as anything ap proaching normalcy in agricultural prices return, it doesn't taka a piophet to foretell that there will be greater demand for high class purebred males and females than has existed for many years past. Just as this is a time for the breed er of superior beef cattle to stay by his job. so also is it an opportune time, for a young man to acquire a few head of purebreds and build up a herd of cattle that will be a source of pleasure as well as profit in years to come. The difference in the price of a few good purebred and or dinary grade heifers is very small at present. In fact, those who have a little money available can build up a herd in a comparatively few years at but little extra expense, and in due time reap a fair profit. Leaving the matter of profit out of consid eration, why not build up a herd of good cattle since It will cost but little more, once the original in vestment has been made — than to go on breeding grades? Even for beef production, the choicest cattle are more profitable than those twe or three grades below them in qual- l lty. The question might be raised whether enougn more pleasure would not be derived from raising the best cattle available, even though for a fewr years no greater profit would be derived therefrom. Somp farm ers are beginning to think that the mere making of money is not the main tiling to be derived from life. Doing real constructive work, such as is involved in breeding purebred cattle, that will some day be in strong demand and always will be needed to maintain the present live stock standard, carries its own re ward. It means greater efficiency in converting feed into beef. NO SUBSTITUTE FOR CARE All farm animals, particularly high producing dairy cows, are crea tures of habit, demanding regular ity of attention. One veterinarian with a large practice in a dairy sec tion said that 80 per-cent of his calls to dairy herds were the re sult of irregularity in kind and amount of feed, which could easily have been prevented. Cows should always have frequent access to suf ficient water. They should never be made to suffer thirst and to shrink in their milk flow because of a dis tant or empty water tank in sum mer or ice water in winter, as so many cows do when the dairyman neglects this important factor in their care. It is especially neces sary for good producing cows to have a sufficient time dry between lactation periods so that they can build up their bodies and strength en their resistance to disease. The most terrible loss in all live stock farming — diseased animals that have to be disposed of — results from keeping their vitality depleted or neglecting sanitation, or in some other way letting the care factor get so low that parasites and dis ease can slip in and get a foothold and ruin the herd. THAT SETTING HEN What is so dumb as a setting hen i There she sets in a perfect daze; Flies the coop when you want her. then sticks when requested to mend her ways. What cares she for the farmer's debts? Hen's Chief Duty she quite forgets; wasted weeks bring her no regrets; Little she recks — just so she sets . . .Chicks are her obvious aim in life; Give her some eggs — there, she’s off again! I sing the bane of the far mer's wife — the Ultimate Dumb bell — a setting hen. Pebbles and cobs are the dame's best bets — One of mine's trying to hatch briq uettes — Her beautiful creed. "Take What You Gets . . . .And she seta — and seta — and sets — and seta. birds, and If you give them good care, you should make a profit if anyone In the game does The cost of the chick when reared and the producing ability of the pullets are of a good deal more Importance from the standpoint of profit and loss than ta tire price paid for the baby chicks. , I.RINDING FELD Medium to coarse grinding o! grain for dairy cows Is cheaper and to as satisfactory as fine grinding Ground grains ara considered frwn 10 to 38 per cent more valuable than whole grain. WHEN BIRDS COUR i Song is the most conspicuous fea ture of bird courting. Males are the best singers, and they do most of the singing. They employ tlieir songs chiefly in courting the females, and usually cense singing—lilra modern husbands—ns soon ns tln^ have won their brides, and started thetr fam ilies. Song sparrows and red-eyed vireos may continue tlieir music even during the moulting sensou In August or September when otlter birds are usually silent. The females of a few species sing as well as the males, hut their songs are always more timid. Female cardinal*, purple finches, and a number of tropical American wrens sing operatic duets with the males during th* courting season.—Missouri Farmer. uou have* RHEUMATISM do llziL Get same genuine tablets of Bayer Aspirin and lake them freely until you arc entirely free from pain. The tablets of Bayer manufacture cannot hurt you. They do not depress the heart. And they have been proven twice as effective as salicylates in relief of rheumatic pain at any stage. Don’t go through another season of suffering from rheumatism, ar any neuritic pain. And never suffer needlessly from neuralgia, neuritis, or other conditions which Bayer Aspirin will relieve so surely and so swiftly. 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