USES PHONE 10
TO IH BODE
Pennsylvania Young Man Causes
Girl to Jilt Man She Was
Engaged To.
MAKES QUICK RESOLVE
—
When Young Woman Asks Him to
Wish Her Happiness He Decides j
He Alone Can Give
It te Her.
—
Bridgeport, Conn.—Paul J. Barber
Is a prominent young business man of
Wilkes-Barre, Pa. With his friend and
classmate of old University of Penn
sylvania days, Edward Poll, he came
here recently for a visit.
The especial attraction which
Bridgeport held for Poli was a young
woman who was then visiting Miss ,
Ruth B. Ailing, the attractive daugh- J
ter of Noyes B. Ailing, who conducts
several rubber stores. Naturally Poli
and Barber were frequent visitors at
the Ailing home during their stay. I
Some days ago Barber, in opening
his mail, found a postal from Miss
Ailing. She had "just dropped him a
line" to let him know she was to be
married to John R._ Wrigle, manager
He Called Up the Ailing Home.
of the Bridgeport Compressed Paper
Box company. She “hoped he would
wish her happiness’’ in her engage
ment and subsequent marriage.
Barber did wish her happiness—all
the happiness in the world—but he
was determined he would be the one
who would bring her this bountiful
happiness.
Puts in Long-Distance Call.
The young man hastened to the
nearest long-distance telephone. He
called the Ailing home, got Miss Ailing
on the wire, having prearranged with
lEe 'WIlk'es-'Rarfe'Dpei'ator fKaTBo mat
ter how high the tolls rose he must
not be interrupted.
There is little likelihood of anyone
ever knowing, including Barber him
self, just what was said in that con
versation or how it was said, but it
was eminently stisfactory and effec
tive.
Barber, in consequence, took the
next train for Bridgeport. He did not
announce his arrival here, but he and
Miss Ailing, a few hours later, might
have been observed on a train bound
for New York. Their destination there
was the city hall. A license was pro
cured. It was no aldermanic holiday
and—but what’s the use? You know
the rest.
This is not the end, however. Mr.
Wrigle, happy in the part of Miss
Ailing’s accepted sweetheart, knocked
gayly at her front door the very day
she and Barber had left for New York
on aldermanic business. Mrs. Ailing
came to the door.
“Where is Ruth?” asked the ac
cepted one.
And then he had to be told.
USE PATIENCE WITH CALVES
Young Animals Must Be Handled Care
fully—Can Be Taught to Drink
Milk Very Easily.
Handle the new-born calf as you
would a baby.
First of all, keep it warm, and be
sure it gets its first milk warm from
its mother.
Keep it dean and keep the mother
free from excitement.
If you separate the calf from its
mother on the third day, give it the
milk warm from its mother.
With a little kindness and patience,
young calves can be taught to drink
very easily.
Never jam a calf’s head up to its
eyes in milk—"ft is cruel.
Let the calf suck the finger; care
fully release the finger, and the job is
done.
FEEDING SILAGE TO CALVES
Yearling Animals Will Consume About
One-Half as Much as Mature Stock
—Keep Free From Mold.
Calves may be fed silage as soon as
they are old enough to eat it. It is
perhaps of greater importance that the
silage be free from mold or decay
when given to calves than when given
to mature cattle. They may be given
ail the silage they will eat up clean
at all times. Yearling calves will con
sume about one-half as much as ma
ture stock; that is, from 15 to 20 or
more pounds a day. When supple
mented with some good leguminous
hay, little, if any, grain will be re
quired to keep the calves in a thrifty,
growing condition.
Contagious Abortion.
Cows affected with abortion disease,
long after they have seemingly recov
ered and resumed the normal produc
tion of calves, continue to expel abor
tion bacilli with their milk. One cow
now under observation has continued
to discharge such bacilli with her
milk without showing a symptom of
disease for more than six years.
HIS LAST TRIP IN
SEARCH OF MINE
Venerable Prospector Says If He
Doesn’t Find It This Time
He Will Give It Up.
New Westminster, B. C.—Wilbur
Armstrong, a Washington prospector
of seventy-two. plunged into the moun
tains of the Pitt range recently on his
tenth trip in search of Slumagh’s
mine. For ten years Armstrong has
made this pilgrimage every summer,
but this, he says, will be the last if
it proves as barren as the others.
Armstrong is not the only man who
has beaded search parties in the at
tempt to locate this hidden treasure,
whose location is asserted to be with
in twenty miles of the head of Pitt
lake, yet which has been discovered
by but one man, who is now dead.
Tenth Trip in Search of Mine.
since Slumagh, the Indian after whom
it is named, was hanged in the jail
yard at New Westminster in 1891.
Walter Jackson, the second dis
coverer, panned out thousands of dol
lars’ worth of geld in a few days
when he located it in 1901. Burying
the main part of his treasure, he
came out with dust and nuggets to
the value of $8,000, intending to re
turn and stake claims at his leisure.
But he fell sick and, being about to
die, bethought him of Andrew Hall,
who had grubstaked him at Guytos
many years before. He wrote to Hall
and drew a chart. Hall finding him
self in need of money in the Yukon
sold the letter and chart to a cousin
of Armstrong, to whom the documents
finally came.
Jackson's description of his find,
which is in a creek in a canyon to
which there is no outlet except by an
underground channel, says in part:
“In going upstream I found a place
where the bedrock was bare, and you
will hardly believe me when I tell you
the bedrock was yellow with gold. In
a few days I gathered thousands, and
there was_ thousands more in sight. |
Some of the nuggets were as big as !
walnuts. ... I saw there were
millions practically on the surface. I;
buried part of the gold under a tent
shaped rock with a mark cut on the
face."
SETTLE FEUD WITH KNIVES
McKelveya and Bennetts “Even Up"
In Desperate Fight on a Lonely
Island.
Birmingham, Ala.—On a lonely lit
tle island in the Flint river, near
Huntsville, five men, two on one side
and three on the other, fought a des- j
perate battle with knives recently,:
the two overcoming the three and
leaving them, mortally wounded, on
the island.
The fight was the culmination of a
feud of long standing between the Mc
Kelveys and the Bennetts. The two
McKelvey brothers met Rube Bennett
and his two sons on the island and the
fighting began at once. Back and
forth the men fought, grappling, stab
bing and slashing until the rocks for
yards around were dyed with blood.
The struggle lasted several minutes.
The McKelveya left the scene only
after their opponents had fallen. Both
were seriously wounded.
START ANTI-AIN’T SOCIETY
Kansas Normal School Students Plan
to Abolish “Ain’t” From
Vocabulary.
Hays, Kan—Organization of ad
Anti-Ain't association has Just been
completed by students at the Fort
Hays Kansas Normal school.
The association has for its purpose
the teaching of its members, among
whom are most of the students in the
school, the correct use of simple Eng
lish, the abolition of long, unnecessary
words, and especially the abolition
from their vocabularies of the word
“ain’t.”
The association was organized by
P. Casper Harvey, professor of Eng
lish, in one of the classes, and has
spread gradually through the school.
Misuse of the words “come,” “came"
and “nice” also is under the ban.
DISEASE WIPES OUT RABBITS'
Tuberculosis Making Terrible Inroads
Among Bunnies in Northern
Minnesota.
Duluth, Minn.—It is asserted that tu
berculosis has wiped out the rabbit
family in this part of the country ,
Hunters say they no longer see bunny
in the woods and around the city, and '
the sport oDrabbit shooting is gone.
Last year it was found that almost
every rabbit caught or killed for ex-1
amination was*suffering from incipient
tuberculosis, and a warning was sent
out not to use rabbit food.
It is generally believed among phy
sicians and some others that the little
animals have been wiped out by the
disease.
Surplus Crop.
Howes—"How is it that Wildboy’s
sons all walk in the straight and nar
row?” Crewes—“Oh, they feel that
their father sowed wild oats enough
for the whole family.’'—Judge.
PROPER TIME TO FILL SILO
Begin Operation Soon as Corn Has
Reached Right Stage for Fod
der—Let the Silage Settle.
(By J. G. WATSON. Missouri Experi
ment Station.)
Don't wait too long to fill the silo.
Begin as soon as the corn is right foi
fodder The kernels should be in the
dough stage but dented and the lowei
leaves turning brown. Let the corn
mature as much as possible without
becoming so dry that water must be
added to make the silage pack solidly
and ferment properly.
Cut into pieces half to three-fourths
of an inch long to make them pact
well and to prevent waste in feeding
This takes more power but is wortt
It. Pack well with concrete tampers
keeping the silage higher at the wal
than in the center.
Fill slowly, if possible letting th<
silage settle a day or so at a time
This makes it keep better and in
creases the amount the silo will hold
This amount may be still further in
creased by using woven wire to holt
more silage at the top. It will grad
ually settle into the silo but tends t<
spoil while doing so. If more silage
is added after such settling, take oui
the spoiled layer at the top.
If caught by frost, the corn for sil
age should be cut before it dries out
After that, add water. The corn ma;
even be shocked to put in at a more
convenient time or to refill the silt
If enough water is added.
The experiment station has pub
llshed bulletins on shock corn foi
silage; silo building; and silage foi
horses, mules and steers.
KEEPS OUT DIRT AND FLIES
Sanitary Device, Invented by Texan
Closes Aperture in Bucket Dur
ing Milking Operation.
A milk pail which tends to preven
the unnecessary contamination of its
contents by flies and dirt has been in
vented and patented by a Texas ranch
man. Instead of being open and there
fore a catchall for filth, as is the ordi
nary bucket, the device is provide!
with a cover having a funnel-shapec
Sanitary Sleeve With Slita.
opening in the middle. A sanitar;
sleeve with slits for the insertion o
the hands is fixed to this, so that th<
aperture in the bucket is entirely it
HENRY D. ESTABROOK.
HENRY D. ESTABROOK of New York, a native and for forty years a
resident of Nebraska, is being urged as a candidate for the Repub
lican nomination for president in 1916 in a “new leadership” cam
paign. Headquarters to advance his candidacy have been opened in
' Omaha, at the Rome hotel, as part of a nation wide organized movement in
j his behalf.
closed during the milking operation.—
Popular Mechanics.
TRAMP SILO WHILE FILLING
I One or Two Men Needed to Give Si
lage Such Compactness as Will
Insure Its Proper Curing.
The importance of tramping while
filling is one that must be given con
sideration. In a silo at least one oi
two men are needed in order to give
the silage such compactness as will
Insure proper curing. The outside or
near the silo wall should be kept the
highest and made in the most compact
condition. This will prevent spoiling
which is so very frequent in poorly
packed silage.
If the silo is filled quickly and poor
ly tramped, there will be a large
! amount of settling. Where a farmer
owns his own outfit it will pay tc
allow this settling to take nlace for
one or two days an<T then fiir up the
silo.
Keep Only Best Cows.
The right kind of a man will have
profitable cows. The kind of breed
does not matter so much. There are
good and poor cows in ail breeds, but
the good business man will weed out
the poor of any breed and keep the
cncsd.
Suitor’s Sandwich Killed Dog.
Sandusky. O.—Mrs. Jeanette Casey,
a widow, told the police that a suitor
had given her a sandwich, of which
she was so suspicious she fed it to her
dog. The animal died. She refused,
when questioned, to disclose the name
of the man. and the police abandoned
their investigation.
Top prices paid for turkeys at the
creamery. Call us up.—Ravenna
Creamery Co., Loup City, Nebr.
ORE and more every day Ford cars
I are becoming a necessary link in every
MJ aggressive commercial organization.
I Especially are Ford cars becoming the
| Salesman’s and Farmer’s utility. The
I city Salesman, the Traveling Salesman
and the Farmer going through the coun
try all find in the Ford car the shortest
cut to largest results. Through its service time is doubled,
hor the salesmen, more customers can be seen; for the
farmer, much less loss of time from his work, especially in
times when every minute of work counts. The exhiliration
of driving and fresh air gives “pep” to effort. Ford cars
have proven more economical than any other method of
transportation. Ford cars cost less to operate than any
other motor car. Anyone with ordinary intelligence can
drive a Ford car; can look after a Ford, because there is
no intricate mechanism, nothing hard to understand, noth
ing to confuse or mistifv.
A. C. OGLE, Local Agent
TOUP CITY, NEBRASKA “ ’
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“What’s of No Use Is Too Dear
says a German proverb. The articles we have for
gifts are all useful and will be a constant reminder of
the giver as they are articles that will be used
often. The following articles are all useful and
make ideal gifts:
Furniture
Rugs
Sofas
Pictures
Rockers
Kitchen Cabinets
Dressers
Sideboards
Cedar Chests
Hardware
Carving Sets
Silverware Sets
Scissor Sets
Shaving Sets
Coffee Percolators
Shot Guns
Rifles
Pocket Knives
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