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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 28, 1911)
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And in nine cases out of ten the farmer and his family could not drop contentedly off to slumber at night without the assurance that one or more dogs are on watch to give quick warning of anything out of the or dlnary. N The dog on the farm helps in a variety of ways, but It is a question after all whether his great- est value does not lie in the companionship be affords. The farmer and the farmer's wife, par ticularly it they live In an isolated locality, would bo mighty lonely at times save for the faithful dog and a lone child on a farm, with no play mates within several miles, might be hard put to It for amusement were It not for the self-same animal proverbially' patient under childish ty ranny and ever ready to join in any diverting project. And, since most people consider big dogs the best companions, the farmer is fortu nate in his ability to choose with reference to auch preference. The city man living in a house In a row or, worse yet, cooped up in a flat, finds the term "house dog" synomous with small size, but In the country, where the average homo has a large lawn and the dwelling has wide porches, there need be no line of discrimination drawn be tween the house dog and the "out doors dog." Closely linked to the sentimental value of the farm dog as a companion is the worth of the serv ice he renders as a guardian of life and property on tho farm. It is not merely, for Instance, that such a dog can servo as companion for the farm- JsAWAe rsvz1- jr sz& &t&tA&Mueej keep. Volumes havo been written regarding the remarkable Intelligence and judgment displayed by tho shepherd dogs of this and other countries in minding Hocks of sheep and thousands of dogs are today doing men's work in this field. Similar ly efficient service is performed very frequently by dogs in assisting to drivo cattlo to market or to the railroad yards and even in the more deli cate work of "rounding up" poultry. Finally there are a hundred minor services as, for example, that performed by the numerous farm dogs that have been taught by their masters to meet the rural free delivery carrier each day and to bring to the farm house the mall and the dally paper. This is a big time-savor for tho farmer when, as is so often the case, the R. F. D. box Is located a con siderable distance from the dwelling. Some persons have even predicted thnt the time will come In America when some of our farmers will employ dogs as they dk in Holland and other foreign countries to draw the carts of milk to the creameries and do other work that we now entrust to horses, but this prediction is not generally acceptod because of the great distances involved In this country. However, there Is no reason why tho usefulness of Intelligent canines should not be still further developed and certain ly as the "automobllo habit" spreads in tho rural communities the farmers are going to find dogs In dispensable in one more direction, for it has been proven that there Is no deterrent like a dog that looks as though he meant business for warning oft the Joy riders who are wont to appropriate auto mobiles that they find standing unguarded in the J&F& je&u?ysi&e st&uej&rf a dog on thu farm has a bearing on tho ease As a sheep dog or Indeed for any duty In connection with "minding tho stock" thoro Is no dog to comparo with tho faithful colllo. And the colllo la a mighty lino all around dog, too. Proverbially good tempered and gcntlo and possessing the highest order of Intelligence, he JttBtlllos by tho possession of good qualities his handsome appearance. Ami Unnllv. lio It mild in his favor that if a farmer desires to establish a canlno colony for profit thcro is no class of dogs that will sell more readily or bring bettor prices than tho collies. Tho old-fashioned Newfoundland dogs that wore onco the favorite playfollows of tho tots on tho farms seoma to havo disappeared for the i most part. In their place, wo now havo tho Great Danes nnd the rough and smooth-coated St. Bernards. The latter, slow and ponderous in move ment, will put up with any amount of pulling and pummellng by child ish hands nnd they are usually a very saleablo dog If pure-blooded. Houndi of one kind or another are to be found on many American farms ana so Ukowlse are hunting dogs, such as R5f lS-4 pointers, particularly In districts ?TH J where tho farmers have tho time and VT "X the Inclination to go out after small K' game in season. On most farms tho dogs make tholr headquarters In the barn or sta ble or In some one of tho outbuildings, but an In creasing number of country gentlemen havo tak en to providing dog houses of greater or less pre tentions and on the estates of some wealthy Amer icans, such as J. Plorpont Morgan, there are ken nela that cost a good deal more than the barn ot tho average prosperous farmer. The bulldog is famous as a watch dog on the farm and there aro many farms all up and down the land where one of these pugnacious beasts Is considered Indispensable. However, tho seem ing inability of many a bulldog to distinguish be tween friend and foe has put the clan In bad favor on many a farm whero there aro numerous unex pected callers or where summer boarders from the city aro included lntho household In vaca tion season. The smaller dogs such as the Boston and fox terriers, the black and tans, etc., are well represented on the farms. Such dogs are more dependable than some of tho heavier species for duty as watch dogs Inside dwellings or farm build ings and It the canlno family becomes too nu merous it Is usually easy to tldn a market in the city for the surplus, the city folks being partial to theso small dogs. Ono thing that the farm dogs have had to learn of lato years 1b a respect for the automobiles that whiz past at scandalous speed. Not a few valuablo dogs were killed on the rural roads ere the meaning of tho new men ace was learned. BIRD8 FIGHT THEIR IMAGES. er's wife when she Is left alone, but better yet. ,, , (, ,. ii , i w- . . , ii.i ,ti., f,mstreeta or in a market space or at a picnic. he Is able to offer very tangible protection from annoyance by tramps or other unwclcomo vis itors. Similarly the intelligent cnnlne can exer cise an almost human watchfulness over tho chil dren when they aro out ot sight and out of hear ing of their elders, and In proof ot the dog's ca pabilities in this role It is only necessary to point to tho very frequont rescues from drownings In which dogs play tho part of heroes. At night when the farmer nnd bis family are asloep this vigilance on tho part ot alert canines rs an almost invaluable safeguard and under Ideal conditions It affords the farmer as good or better protection than can bo claimed for his city cousin residing on a Street patrolled by policemen. It Is because of the diverse responsibilities ot this night sentry work that many a shrewd farnior thinks It wise to keep not merely one good dog, but three or four. With ono dog Inside the bouse and another outside the building and with other dogs insldo and outside the barn the farmer need have little fear that be will lack for warnings hould anything out of the ordinary transpire These dogs can bo depended upon, moreover, not only to give warning of the approach of trespass ers, but they are equally serviceable as alarmists should fire break out or should any ot the stock get loose In the night or Invade the feed bins. Such canlno sorvlces, tangible as Is their value, aro by no means all the responsibilities that grateful dogs assume In return for their modest All the above has reference, of course, to the value as helpers on the farm, but this by no means exhausts the possibilities of tho subject. On an increasing number ot farms it has been found that dogs can bo made a source of actual revenue. This Is accomplished by breeding blooded dogs for tho market. It Is of necessity a "Bide lino" to be sure, but it can be mado a most profitable one, for fine dogs bring big prices and the farmer has tho facilities for breeding dogs undor tho best conditions without a fraction of tho Investment that would be required of a man who established a kennel on a tract of land used for no other pur pose. Moreover tho farmer's wife and children can do most ot tbo work of caring for tho dogs, Just as they do in so many Instances In the caso of the poultry, Thero Is not much danger that It will prove Irksomo either, for there Is nothing more amusing than the average puppy, and ho does not as a rule require that extreme solicitous care that must be bestowed upon somo other classes of pot stock. Tho species ot dogs which may most advan tageously be selected as farm helpers Is, of courso, a matter ot Individual opinion and there are al most as many different opinions on the. subject as with the regard to the age at which people should marry. Naturally, personal preferences on the part of tbo farmer and the members of his family ofttlmes havo much to do with a choice and then again the sort of assistance that Is desired from NMW YORK. A Jury In tho supremo court found that a imm who tinners nround with a cut-glass bowl on his bond for a helmet, oven though ho Ih worth a million dollars nnd mado It by tnctuia of hln own In genuity, Is not In any mentnl condi tion to niulto n will. Tho recent lie testator waB Alexan der Miller of Brooklyn, owner of tho Vulcan Iron Works, and he mado a will In which he cut off his widow, Mrs. Mary 1011a Miller, with $12,600, leaving tho great bulk of his estate to his brother and sister. Mrs. Mil ler, by her own testimony and through tho testimony of other wit tiesHCB, proved that her husband wan eccentric beyond tho highest known Brooklyn records for eccentricity. Before his death two years ago Mr. Miller manifested tits scorn for the conventions by giving barefoot din- But So Do Flan, for That Matter, According to Darwin. A correspondent for the Scotsman recently re ported what ho described as tho "curlouB freak" of a blackbird Hying against a parlor wiudow many times at tbo same spot continuously. Such an in cident is not uncommon. Birds havo been known to tight for hours at a time, day after day, with their own imago reflected In a pane of glass, peck ing and fluttering against tho pano and quite ex hausting themselves In their fury to demolish the supposed rival. It is another Instance ot bow the arts ot our civilization corrupt and confuso tho birds. It Is tho came with fishes. Darwin tells a story of a plko in an aquarium separated by plato glass from tlsb which wero Its propor food. In trying to get at the fish tho pike would often dash with such violence against tho glass as to be com pletely stunned, it did this for more than three months before It learned caution. Then when the glasn was removed tbo plko would not attack those particular fish, but would devour others freshly Introduced. Algy Wasn't Slow. Pa Munn--I want Helen to marry a business man. Sho's going to got all my money. Algy That's grand I What business would yoa likt to set mc up In ? Philadelphia Bulletin. nor parties In tho hoiuu and presiding; at tho festive board In his undcrj shirt. If tho guests appeared to Mr. Miller In any way borvd ho got upl and performed for them. Ills favor-j Ito ntuiit wiih to put tho rut glausj salad bowl on his head and then dniico a sprightly oamlmtid around tho table. Tho millionaire Iron manufacturer; also possessed original Idtas on ccrv lug oysters. Ho had a basket of blvnlvPH taken Into tho library, whero he opened them on a tnnhogany tablo. As ho opened each oyster ho hurled tho shells at tho portraits of his an ceatoni which decorated tho wall. Whenever ho scored n hit upon tho countenance of nn ancestor In oil, Mr. Miller would pnuso In IiIb bombard ment to rarvo tho Initials of said ancestor on tho mahogany table, call ing upon his guests to follow his ex ample. Ho decorated much of his costly furniture In this manner. Mrs. Miller declared that her lato husband was very fond of playing mumblyprg on tho mahogany chairs. It also gave him unbounded amuse ment to drlvo his wlfo out Into tho street, then rush out aftor her and beg her to como back. Lure of the City Reaches Out to Farms ST. LOUIS, MO. Sixty per cent of tho young men who wear bluo uni forms on tho trolley cars nro farmers' sons. Most of them havo pulled and tugged at plow lines over tho backs of refractory mules long boforo they over pulled a boll cord In this city. Half tho clerks In the big railway ofllccB In St. Louts nro boy from tho smaller cities and tho llttlo railway stations whero tho fast trains never stop. Fifty out of every hundred of tho young men who nro putting kinks in their spines nnd ruining their eye sight over long columns of freight earnings nnd "ton miles," know when to plant potatoes and how to plow corn. Every other waitress In tho quick lunch places down town was once a country lnsslo. That Is, thoy wore born nnd raised up In one of thoso llt tlo towns that dot and spccklo tho stnto maps. Thirty out of 40 of tho men who run trains, hammer tel egraph kejB and make out bills of lading for tho railway systems wero recruited from tho fnrms. Many of the llttlo stenographers who scurry In and out of tho office buildings at lunch bour woro onco upon a tlmo llttlo pig tailed lassies, who played nbout tho big yards of somo little half forgotten town with elm Blinded streets. When a middle aged man or woman goes Into tho city to make bis or i1 kl li?ifefHE city S her homo thero, It Is nine chancos to ton that thoy have failed at every thing they havo ever tried In the llt tlo cities, nnd havo como to tho big town to start a boarding or a room ing house. And nine out of every ten ot them la certain that tho city, any city, Is tho very wickedest of wicked places. Back In tho country, whoro thoy como from, tho big town was held up to them as a symbol of sin. Tho older folks talked In low tones of its snares nnd pitfalls, ot the sin and degrada tion that wero everywhere In tho big town. Why do thoy come? Many of them fall to drag themselves back to tako up llfo whero they left it out on tho farms. The great majority manage to live on tho salaries they receive or the wages they aro able to earn. A few of them becomo wealthy and successful, nnd aro nblo to go back und buy up a whole township around the old home stead, if they desire. IMVWMAMWWMMMMMMMVWVW Home-Made Bread Declared Murderous. sat rtyfOUTAKEH lUFEIHTOUK HANDS evEAV. TIME SOU EAT HOMEMADE BREAD I KANSAS CITY, MO. The National Association ot Master Bakers de voted a part of their annual convention to tho housewlfo who bakeB her own bread. She was pictured In every po sition. Tho bakors showed their sor row for her by applauding every refer ence to the hot kitchen In which she has to work to turn out the homemade product for her family. They de clared she should be rescued from her slavery and the only way to effect a rescue was through bakers' bread. That the modern housewlfo produces a soggy arttclo of bread and Is com mitting murder In allowing It to bo eaten, was tho statement mado by Paul Scbulze of Chicago, president of the association. "This country is full of housewives who are proud of tholr cooking and who think thoy aro doing their duty by baking nt home," Mr. Schulze said. "The long-suffering stom achs of their families continue to pay tho penalty of this mistaken sense of duty. "The American housewlfo the American mother of today is an earn est and sensible individual, but very set In her ways.' She Is still Influenced by the working methods adopted in her girlhood. "One thing which wo bakers in the larger cities see most plainly today Is the absolute necessity ot educating tho housewife to quit baking at home. Let us come forward. Let us show these women that home baking Is wrong. Let us show them tbo over whelming benefits of buying bread baked In a sanitary bakery." Mr. Schulze told of a Chicago wom an who had built up a business sell ing '"health bread," a home product She brought blm a loaf and wanted to sell the formilla. "I cut Into the loaf," said Mr. Schulze, "and saw that the center was unbaked dough. I have been wondering since what effect that womnn's 'health bread' has bad on the death rate in Chicago. She was un questionably committing murder." Notorious Firebug Gang is Revealed CHICAGO. Six men are in custody hero and tho arrest of another hns been ordered by tho police In connection with tho operations of an alleged arson ring which caused a property loss of $1,000,000 during tho last twelvo months. Threo other men, Including a former policeman, are bo Ing sought by the police in connec tion with tho alleged conspiracy. Tho arrests wero mado after David Kor shak, tho alleged leader or tho fire bug gang, had mado a statement im plicating several business men in tbo alleged arson conspiracy. Korshak In a statement mndo to tho poltco declared that 7D per cent, of all Arcs In Chicago in tho last flvo years wero of incendiary origin, nnd wero either the work of the proprie tors of the building or of professional firebugs. He says thepo are more than a hundred men in Chicago who make a good living by setting flro to bulldlngB, to onablo tho owners to collect largo sums of Insurance; that tho firebug Is usually paid n lump Bum In udvanco, but that sometimes ho works on commission, receiving a peiccntago of tbo tnsuranco money. Korshak said that In all his fires he used jugs filled with gasoline, to which he set Are, with the result that flames rapidly spread to all parts ot the structure. Ho fled from Chicago after ho was charged with having set fire to tho storo of Leopold Dreyfus & Co., wholesale clothiers, June 3, this year. Both Leopold and Lazard Dreyfus, members of the firm, were arrested on suspicion Immediately after the fire. Three days later Leopold Drey fus made a statement implicating Korshak and then committed sui cide Lazard Dreyfus was charged with conspiracy, and the case against him Is pending. 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