Greencastle Herald, Greencastle, Putnam County, 4 January 1908 — Page 3

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E. B. LYNCH House Furnisher and Funeral Director

GREEISCASTLE, IND. 12 and 14 North Jackson St. Telephones 89 and 108

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BLOWVILLE. Miss Elizabeth Star is visiting at Indianapolis. Mr. Edgar Gaines^gave a party Tuesday night. Mr. Bert Gardner, of Russellville, spent Sunday at Fred Obenchains. Miss Guenn Allen gave a party Thursday night. Miss Kate Petty spent 4ihe latter part of last week at Roaohdale. Mrs. Wm. Welch, of near Barnard, spent Sifhday with relatives here. Mr. Coom Frakes ajid family, of fndiaanpolls, who has been visiting relatives here reeturned home Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Dunseth, of Champaign, 111., wlho spent Xmas with their daughter, Mrs. C. M. Moffett, have returned to their home. Tiie wedding of Melvin Parks and Lennie Wampler occurred Xmas might. May they live long and enjoy peace and happiness. The masquerade, oyster supper and band concert Monday night was well attended. Mrs. Frank Allen received the prize for being the most neatly dressed lady and Fred Ford received a prize for being the most eommicnlly dressed man. Mr. Burk, of Roachdale, spent Monday with his sister Miss Mary Burks. Mr. C. M. Moffett went to Terre Haute Tuesday. Miss Ollen Ellis and cousin, of Terre Haute, spent Sunday here. Mr. Coom Frakes and wife and daughter took supper with Mrs. Conn Saturday evening.

While our line of Holiday Gift Books, Children's Books, Miscellaneous Books, and Booklets is complete. We are prepared to please you. J. K. LANGDON & CO You get results when you advertise in the Herald.

A Higher Health Level. “I have reached a higher health level since I began using Dr. King’s Now Lif Pills,” writes Jacob Springer, of West Franklin, Main. “They keep my stomach, liver and bowels working just right." If-these pills disappoint you on trial, money will be returned at The Owl Drug Store. 25c. jn.

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GRKENCA8TLE, INDIANA, SATURDAY, JAN. 4, I DOS.

PAOE

Modern Methods In the Wool Raising Industry.

DETAILS OF THE BUSINESS.

The Summer and Winter Ranges, the Lambing Period and the Work of the Docking Crews—How the Fleece Is Shorn, Graded and Packed. A modern sheep ranen today is most Interesting aud Involves a great deal of detail unknown to most people. As I spent some tlm^ on a big sheep ranch lu Idaho a year ago, some account of my observations may be of interest. Unlike cattle, which can, except In certain seasons, be left to themselves, sheep have to be herded the year around. The country is divided Into several sections, a winter and summer range. The latter is generally iu the hills, mountains and In parts of the forest reserves, permits for which have to be bad from Washington. Only so many sheep are allowed iu It, aud the government charges about D cents a head for the summer season, which opens lu Idaho about June 15. The winter range is In the valleys and plains or near the ranches, where hay can be bad when the suow becomes too deep. The hardest season is perhaps the lambing period, which comes lu Idaho during May. A band of 1,500 to 2,500 ewes is taken out under a lamblug boss, who has with him two or three herders, a night herder, a night shooter aud one cook. As soon as any of the lambs are born they are gathered together iu a small band aud flagged— that is, a pole with a red flag is placed near, so they can be easily bunded together and that the mothers will suckle their young. When 500 or 000 ewes have lambed they are all driven together iu u band aud taU< u on to a new section a mile or so away, where they remain until all the baud lias lambed. Then they are divided again into two bands, under a herder aud helper, and wait until docking and shearing begin before they go to the summer range. The ewes are herded each night by a herder, whose duty it Is to keep them on their bed grounds, while the night shooter, either afoot or horseback, rides around, shooting blank cartridges every little while to scare away coyotes or other animals, lie generally places two or three red lanterns on prominent places us guides for his night's work. About the middle of May the docking crew is made up, which generally consists of a boss, cook and live or seven men. Starting at some convenient point, they put out with two Wagons, one containing the tents, provisions and beds, while the other holds the corral. The corral is made of laths aud wire and can be put up in thirty minutes. Thu ewes and lambs are driven Into It, the lambs cut out and put into the triangle shaped fence, where two or three men hold them by all four feet, while another cuts off their tails aud slices the ears of tho ewe lambs. They are branded with tho outfit and flock brands, while ewes are also marked and counted. In this way the percentage of the lambs is taken. Sometimes three or four bands are treated that way in a day, the corral being taken up and put down wherever the next band is, but two bands are all that most crews can do In a day when they are very near together. This goes on for ten days or two weeks until all tho sheep under whose foreman they are have been treated. About May 25 or June 1 shearing begins. A large outfit will have perhaps two or three shearing plants situated conveniently in different parts of the country. A large plant will have thirty or forty shearing machines with steam for power, while a smaller one of sixteen machines will have a gasoline engine. Blades have been given up mostly now, and nearly nil modern outfits use tiie clippers. The shearers are paid by the sheep. Id cents for rams and 8 cents for all other sheep and u dollar per day board. A ‘‘high roller” will /shear 200 sheep lu tec hours, but these men are far and few. Tho average is a little Inflow a hundred sheet) per day. Each foreman knows beforehand just about what time to have his sheet) on hand, and 11 Is remarkable how thousands of sheep can be handled and timed so that none will mix up. A baud of ewes aud lambs will come iu by sunset and are corralled and the lambs cut out and counted, while the ewes are put through a chute Into an alleyway and five or eight put in each shearer's pea. As each pen is refilled and the shorn sheet) put out tiie alley man and shearer toll up their account. The shorn sheep are put down another alley and branded with the outfit brand and flock brand. After the shearer Tuts stiorn his sheep he lets it t'o back Into the pen and takes out another, kicking tiie fleece out of ids way, which a boy ties up and throws Into a car. The latter gets one-fourth cent a fleece for tying and will make perhaps $3 to ?<; a day. Tho car Is pushed down to the end of the shed where the fleeces are graded and thrown Int) different pens. Whenever there is enough wool of a certain grade it Is thrown up on a platform, where two men sack and tramp It Into jute wool sacks. It is then put out on the scales, recorded in a book with tbo number of tiie hag, weight, branu and grade, tolled out and stacked up ready for the teams to haul it to the railroad to l>e shipped aast.—Country Gentle man.

THE SHOEMAKER’S ART. It Has Been Known Since the Earliest Days of Civilization. A few winters ago 1 passed a day among the wonderfully decorated tombs iu the cemetery of what was once Memphis, upon the western bank of the Nile, writes Julius Chambers lu the Brooklyn Eagle. One of the show places Is the remarkable underground palace that the illustrious Queen Ti of the ttfth dynasty (1. e., about 4,500 years ago) constructed for her final resting place. It consists of a great court 40 by 00 feet, as 1 remember, aud several other apartments, besides the mummy chandler, which Is reached by a stairway leading down from the largest room. Upon the walls of this tomb are the best preserved pictures to be found in all Egypt, and among them are the figures of two artisans workiug upon coverings for the feet. Therefore, makers of shoes, I salute you! More than 4,000 years before the art of printing had practical existence, although you will admit that the decorator of Queen Ti’s tomb was almost a publisher, your art was recognized, respected and Immortalized. The natural Impulse of maukiud Is to go barefoot. Every reader onu remember youthful days in which the greatest possible pleasure was embodied in a run through the woods or along the shore unshod. Very well cau I recall the secret spot in tiie barn In whit h 1 was wont to hide my shoes and stockings in order that I might be iu tho competition for the first stone bruise of the summer. That was the primitive man, speaking up for the faraway days "before we were women and men.” AN OLD TIME ASCENT.

London's First B.dlocn and the Great Excitement it Raised. Tremendous excitement was caused when London's first balloon went up. The balloon, manned by a young Italian named Vincent Lunurdi, ascended from Moorfields, thou an open space of ground, on Sept. 15, 1784, in the presence of more than 100,000 spectators. All business was suspended, the king himself setting (lie example by adjourning a cabinet council that happened to be sitting. Vast crowds followed the balloon’s course, some on horseback, lu 'carts. In chaises, but mostly on foot. The Great North road, above which the aeronaut sailed for some distance, was a roaring river of Immunity. Many were hurt In (lie crush, but the only fatality recorded was the death from fright of an old country woman, who, coming out of her cotLugo to see what the excitement was about, beheld the balloon just above her head. On the other band, Lunnrdl undoubtedly saved one man’s life, a Jury bringing In a verdict of not guilty on a notorious highwayman lu order that they, (lie prisoner and tiie judge Who was trying the ease might rush out of court to see the balloon. The aeronaut descended eventually near Vine, In Hertfordshire, where his sudden drop from the clouds was the cause of more astonishment and excitement. Many of the spectators swooned with fear, while others urged the putting of Lunardi to death there and then on the ground that he must needs lie,a sorcerer and In league with the evil one. Small Necked New Yorkers. Statistics furnished by manufacturers of shirts and collars indicate that the average New York man has a smaller neck than Ids out of town brother. Comparison of orders shows that out of a given volume of business booked Boston and Chicago led In the matter of big sizes. Inquiry at several haberdashery shops in Manhattan resulted in the Information that any number larger than sixteen and a half would have to be specially called for from the factory or had through the selling agent In other cities It Is an everyday experience to sell ns high as size eighteen over the retail counter. Of course the element of snug fit Is a factor, but ns a regular proposition eastern and western men are more “bull necked” than Is the case with their New York brethren.—New York Dress.

Dried Elderberry Leaves In Asthma. “If you will gather leaves from an •Iderlterry bush when they are green aud let them dry and then put them Into n pillow and sleep upon them tdghtly for about three months," said a Petersburg (Teun.) man, “they will cure the worst case of asthma. After they tire dried the leaves have a peculiar but pleasing odor. By Inhaling this odor the asthma Is cured. I know a number of people who cured them■splves of asthma by sleeping on dried elderberry leaves.”—Nashville Tennessean.

Heaven’s Secrets. The following Is a true story, vouched for by a correspondent: Her little boy of seven years of age said to her one day: “Mother, I know why It Is that babies cannot speak until they are twelve months old. It Is because they come straight from heaven, and If they were able to talk as soon as they were born they would tell the secrets, and so God doesn’t let them speak until they have almost forgotten them.”— Loudon Methodist Times.

Not a Crank. He—I notice you call a good many of your acquaintances cranks. I hope you do not consider mo a crank? She— Certainly not! A crank Is a person with one Idea, aud I never heard anybody accuse you of having one!— Pearsou’s Weekly.

OOJOOSOOOCOOOCOCSOCOCC^COCn I § PLAYING A MAN AT ?< | HIS OWN GAME. 8 OOOOC-OGOOCOOCCC-OCXXX5GGCCCC [Original.] Billy Panneter went to college, where he became familiar with the different j methods used by students who either won't study or can’t learn to help them * through their examinations. Mind you, I don’t say that Billy used any of these methods. Iu I lie first place, he was so bright that he could keep well up with liis classes and find plenty of time to work most of the mischief that was accomplished during his sojourn in college. In the second place, Billy was fairly honest and would not have “ponied” unless he was sure of being found deficient if be didn’t. Be this ns it may, Billy’s chum was both lazy and stupid, and to help him through his examinations Billy invented a wire and elastic contrivance that would enable the student to hold cards up his sleeve on which were written the demoustrations of various problems that might be propounded to the student. After i>elng graduated Billy went to the wild west. There he suffered from the usual pranks played on n tenderfoot. but as be was a good fellow he made friends from the start. There was one custom of the country ho would never follow. That was carrying a revolver at his hip, or, rather, n pair of revolvers at his hips. His friends remonstrated with him for not doing so, telling him that there were plenty of men about moan enough to shoot him down In cold blood either for revenge or gain. Billy played draw poker just as any other western man. Ho never won anything, but his losses were not great, and ho considered that the fun ho got out of It was worth what It cost him. He never played with men who were not supposed to be “square,” so he had nothing to fear in being cheated, and, to toll the truth, he was a much bettor pokor player than most of those with whom he played. In fact. It was soon noticed that if Billy found himself gutting too far ahead ho Invariably played very badly till he had lost ids win

nlngs.

One day a now man named Morgan came Into town ostensibly looking for opportunities to invest money, lie was a suave talker and soon gained sufficient confidence to be admitted to the poker parties. The stranger lost steadily for a week, though not very large amounts; then his luck turned, aud he won steadily. Meanwhile he had succeeded in getting tho boys to raise the limit, and his winnings were lu far greater volume than his lasings. Billy Informed the others that he believed the man was a card sharp who had come among them to get their money. Unfortunately they were all by this time losers except Billy, so they turned a deaf ear to him and kept on playing with the stranger. Billy told them that he'would keep In tho game with the hope of discovering some flaw in the stranger's play. From this time the hands held byMorgan and by Billy were something remarkable. Billy didn’t ho! 1 ns large cards as Morgan's, but he played them with far greater sklil. At any rate, he won back all the money the stranger had taken out of Ills friends. The stranger, realizing Hint Billy was a match for him, informed th • boys that Billy was a card sharp and they must get him out of the game. When they demurred lie declared that if they didn’t decline to admit Billy and he caught him cheating be would get rid of him by shooting him. This of course was reported to Billy, and he was urged to arm himself. Billy responded that if ho had pointed out the Irregularities he had observed in the stranger’s game tiie air would have rained lead. That's all he would say about the matter, and, ns for wearing a revolver at ids hip. It was as conspicuously absent ns it had always been. Well, the tiling came to a head lu this wise: They were all playing In a room over the store, and tho hands held by both Morgan and Billy were unequaled by the “heathen Chinee.” Billy, as usual, never bet simply because he had a big hand, only putting up ids money in large quantities when he knew he had a better hand. Morgan was losing steadily. It didn't seem to matter how valuable his cards were, Billy invariably held better ones. Morgan's brow w as every moment becoming more clouded, and the brows of the party (Billy’s excepted) were also becoming more troubled. The stranger wore u revolver at each hip. Billy had no weapon at either hip Finally when Billy had raked in a Jack pot containing $100 there was a sudden movement of a hand of every man present (Billy excepted) to grasp his revolver. The occasion of this was that Morgan’s hand went back for bis, and tho others were hoping to head off a movement that was undoubtedly intended for their friend. But both Morgan aud the rest were too late. Before the stranger could move his weapon Billy had covered him with a pair of derringers. That's nil there is of the story. Billy had In each sleeve a weapon attached to one of his college contrivances, besides a contrivance in each sleeve with which to hold cards. He demanded that the stranger be searched, and implements for card holding were found upon him. His losses were returned to him, and lie was escorted out of town. No blame was attached to Billy, who had saved bis friends from a card sharp. I have told the story Just as I got it from one of the party an I don’t care to lie held responsible for anything questionable there may lie in Billy’s methods. If beating a sharper at his own game and saving hi- friends from loss Is Immoral, then Folly wna an Immoral man. BEVERLY WOliTlllNGTON.

Banner Skating’ Rink Open each Afternoon and Night SKATING HOURS: Afternoon, 2:U0 to 5:00; nights, 7:30 to 10:00 ADMISSION: Gentlemen 10c; Ladies free, Skateslo cents. ERNEST WRIGHT FRED GLORE

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GREETING

To our patrons and friends who have favored us with their business and influence in the past we wish to return our thanks. ' During the past year we have addl'd a foundry to our machine shop and supply business and otherwise improved our facilities so that we | are now better prepared than ever before to serve you. As before our charges will be the lowest consistent with first class service. Hoping for your future business in our line and wishing you a prosperous new year, -we are. Yours truly, Wm. M. SHAW CO., Founders and Machinists. Brazil, Ind. Jan. 1, 1908. 3t-38

Animal Instinct.

A friend of mine saw two cats apfroachin.: each other on the top of a board fence. There was no room for them to pass each other, and he wondered what would happen. When they were near each other one of them stopped, turned around and retreated till it came to another board fence that joined at right angles the one they were on. The eat stepped off on tills fence and waited there till tiie other went by. My friend thought this act •bowed an appreciation of the problem beyond the reach of instinct. Xu doubt those cats had met before, and one wus master of the other. What more natural than that the defeated cat should retreat before the superior and when It came to the other fence step off upon it and let the victor pass? Tho action Involved no mental process any more than when two inert bodies In motion meet each other and one gives way. There was no other course open to the cat. If siie or ho had turned back and taken to the side fence solely to accommodate the other cat, why, that were another matter. The Gordon setter that met a train of cars upon a railroad bridge and stepped down upon one of the timbers of the bridge and stood there while tho train passed gave no proof of reasoning powers. It was the only thing the dog could do. Nearly all animals know enough to get out the way of danger. If they did not, what would become of the race of animals?—John Burroughs in Outing Magazine.

The Mam Trouble.

Wise -Oh, give us a rest for awhile, won't yon? Doubley—Well, every fellow has a right to his opinion and— Wise—Yes, but the trouble is that he eau't be made to realize that there may be a wrong to it.—Indianapolis News.

Patience. Traveler (after waiting patiently for train for four hours)—She’ll no lie cornin' the day, 1 doot? Porter—Hoots, mon, hao ye no patience? Ye'll Just bide a wee while an’ she’ll be by!— Punch.

Indiscretion, malice, rashness and falsehood produce each other.—L’Enclos.

Warden's Home-Matis BREAD

EAST SIDE SQUARE Greciicastlc, Ind. Phone 3.33

Greencastle ICE Ma.de in Greencastle by Greencastle men.

Kate to Families 25c ocr Hundred Pounds

Telephone 136 Crystal Ice Co,

Dry Goods, Notions, Boots and Shois, Groceries Bard and Soft Coal RILEY & CO G Plume r,!. .715 SL Main.

Ship Your Freight By T. h. I. & E. Trac. Line Express service at Freight rates to all points touched by Tractiou Line in Indiana and Ohio. Inquire of Local Agent.

Engraved cards—script —at the Herald office. Ono hundred cards and a plate for $1:50.

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