Herald-Democrat, Greencastle, Putnam County, 16 July 1920 — Page 8

Workmen Wanted f Twenty five laborers wantedjfor per manent, all year work. Indiana Portland Cement Co.

Comparative Cost Horse vs. Tractor It lw recently come to our attention that many fanned do not ic-ep book*. The writer recently a.ked a prominent farmer what it cost him to keep his norses a year. He said tha* he did not know and that be ne 'er kept any record of cost*. Where nould any business man be in a short time if he did rot keep books? We have figured that it cost* a* follows to keep one horse a year. Hay-3 ton at $30.00 $ 90.00 Grain-10 qts. per day (112 bu.) at $1. 112.50 Shoeing $6.00 Wear and tear on harness .. 3.50 Depreciation on horse $12.50 Total cost of upkeep on one horse $224.50 For four horses 898.00 Did it ever occur to you just how much it is costing you to keep horses? Now look at the cost of the Fordsoi tractor that can easily do the work of four horses. Cost of fuel average season $100.00 Cost of repairs and one over-haul per year estimated 50.00 li* Depreciation on Trator estimated 100.00 Total $250.00 Cost of upkeep four horses 898.00 Cost of Upkeep Tractor 250.00 Saving by use of Tractor $648.00 Undoubtedly you will say that it is necessary for you to keep two horses at least. Alright, by keeping two horses you can save just onehalf the above ament. Go over the above figures carefully and see where we are wrong. If anything, we have the upkeep of the tractor high and the upkeep of a horse low. However we would Bke to have you check our figures carefully and tell us where we are wrong if possible.

COMPARATIVE COST HORSE VS. TRACTOR You might say fuel is high—it is and so is feed. Grain has increased in price about 226 percent against an in* crease in gas and kerosene uf a heat 75 percent. Oil has increased bent 100 percent. From these figures, which is the cheapest? The tractor will plow, disc and drill yaur wheat, work ea your roads, cut your grain and hay. . The power policy will fill your silos, ruo a threshing machine, run your dairy grind your feed, haul your logs, and a hundred other things. You would eujoy operating a Fordsoi, and when you are through at uifht, you will not need to bed it down or curry it off in tbe morning. With a tractor, it is a fact, yon will make more money with less work. Tbe Fordson Tractor deKvered to you for $875. Liberty Bonds accepted at face value. KING, MORRISON & FOSTER CRECNCASTL* KOACMDALC, CLOVEROALB

KOW SORREL IS PRESERVED. Curious Industry of a French Agricultural Community. A curloua agricultural Induatry la h-ing luutkably oarrlod un at Vaio- | dalru. iMai Mraiit, Krauce. It ronaiala in tlid manutseturs of preserved sorrel, wblrli is put up in Uua or small casks and riporled to all paru of the world for use aa a culinary and table accessory, ,ay« tbe Scientific Ameriegn. Tills induatry was started at Varedalea in the year ISM), but it attll rwmalna proctically unknown to the world at large. It requires a motive [Kiwer of about eight horsepower while a quantity of alesm representIng 17 horsepower i» alao used foi b-iiling and cooking purposes As the water used must be eitremely purs, an anesian well bas been sunk in ihs gi minds of tbe factory, and yields a supply of tbe necessary medium wbicb, like the imuiorial Bayard, it sans repi cell 9. Sorrel can only l>s grown four years in succession upon tbe same land, which must than be put under other crops for about 12 yeats. Hence tbe land bought up for tbe purpose covers a superficial ares of 120 hectares (2:)* acres). When picked (for wbicb 00 women are employed) the leaves are conveyed as quickly as possible to the factory; here they are carefully wa-di-ed by mechanical means and are then well cooked In specially designed digesters or .boilers. 'ibis interesting industry, which is by no meant unprofitable, would well repay consideration, as there is plenty of room for a much larger trade to be done In preset ved son el—by no means au unpalatable table adjunct.

The Race Qutation in America. The proportion of children in the United States has been studied by Prof Walter F. Wlleux. an 1 the data ate published in an interesting bulletin of the Census Bureau. Not only has the proportional number of children under tire age of five been steadily decreasing since 1810, but also the number in relation to the number of women who are between the ages of 18 and Id— the child-bearing period. In ISM) there were #24 children to every 1,000 women but In 1900 there were but 471. indicating a steady decline in the birthrate This result is said by Gen. Francis A. Walker to be due to immigration, though in what way is not properly explained, for the same decline is not as great here. Indeed, no reasonable cause has been given, it Is merely a pheoom-non which has been going on since prehistory. Tbe smallest number of childr-n is found iu Massachusetts, omitting the District of Columbia, which Is really a city, amd all tbe cities have less children than iu the surrounding country. There is less difference between the city anti country in the North than iu the South. wh*re the country rate is very large and the city rate quite small. Moreover, the negro birth rate shows the same decline as that of tne white population. The foreign born women show a higher rale than natives, and this -ems io be a remarkable phenomenon which has been noticed In many parts of the United Statee. (hough neve, sa'Isfactorlly explained. There Is nothing said as to the pioportionate number of children Itoix, who survive to marry and reproduce, but from other statistics, we are safe in asserting that this proportion is steadily rising all over the civilised world. In the savage or barbarous life, the death rate of infants and children Ts dreadfully high. It seems ihat we aie steadily appioachlog a future ideal state In which neerly all, If not all, children born will be raised to bealtby adult life, aad that the hitm rat* is naturally adjusting Itself to this end Yet tba reaeon for the grsatsi eduction In American-bom women as compared with the Immigrants, is yet to Iu* explained There Is something about Ilfs in America which makes women ehun the oarea of bearing and rearing large famlltea—perhapa aa once before explained, they may hava found, like the Canadlane. that the old larg* families cannot now he supported. At any rate, it ia nothing to worry about. Wa will naver suffer tor population.—American Magaztna.

Charaetar In Buildinfa. Hvery raoa and every at* uncoaeclously write their character ia tha Puddings which th«y eract. la th* k<M of furniture they put in them and the hind of alieeta on which (bay pla-w them If a great Arse,lean oity were burled Z.MO yearn under a mans of aahea. aa PompuH was. aad was thea excavated. It would be plainly seen what naauaer of people bad lived la it Our "aky aura pan' and tunneie and mechanical convenience# wonts show how Ingenious w# ware and how our laws permitted every men to build without regard to shutting off hie nelghbor’e sunshine, they would show bow wa did hualaea* aad how we cared 'Alefly for saving time and making money. Our city would show that ws oared lean for bsauty than men did in formor times. It would show thai a tew people were aa rich as kings and lived la palaces, but that there ware hundreds of Ibouaauds who ware living In crowded tenements like ants in au anthill. Our school buildings would show bow we cared for education and our churches would indicate o tr manner of worship. All our good and bad qualifies would be revealed by the things we had made, even If all the hooka about 'ia had perished—SL Nicholas. The word “wed" at first was not confined to the sense of marrying To wed” was to enter into a solemn pledge of any kind. Nobles and war- < rlors were called wedded brethren when bound by oaths of amity and •rlendshlp.

BURIAL OF HAWAIIAN KINO. Bones Wsrs Csrrlsd By Chlsfs To S Subtsrransan Cavern. The discovery of rare relic# of old Hawaii iu a burial cave in WnlptO Gulch. Hawaii, recalls to Hawwllana advanrsd In yeses many of the traditions concerning burials In ancient limes, nays the Honolulu Commercial Advert leer. •'One story which was handed down through a family la to the effect that long before the missionaries arrived iu ths Hawaiian Islands two native farmers went near Weipio Gulch at the close of a day to look after their potatoes. Darkness lame bn while they were still working. Suridanly a light appeared on the summit of the hill. It was a kukul torch. Then another same into view until finally the summit and the slope were a Imbbing mass of lights. The natives kn»w that a burial was about to take place. If discovered, they, aocoMlng to law of the times, would be killed. They threw themselves down in the weeds and remained quiet. Tbe ptweesidn came close to them and stopped In a Uttar earned by several men was a young girl apparently in the last throes of death. Wailing and tbe c hanting of melee was heard and then tbe girl apparently died. Retainer# left the main body and went toward the stream, whicb they dammed up. thereby dlven Ing the at ream. In the old bed of the stream the retainers worked until they uncovered the mouth of a cave. The body of the girl, together with many calabashee, tepaa. etc., was carried in. the cave wss sealed up again, and the stream was once mure allowed to run its usual course. As to Kamehsmeha the Great, whose remains, according to rumor may have been discovered by Mr. Korbee in Waipio Gulch, hie body was taken by Prince lloaplli and bis half-brother, the high chief llo'olulu, and hidden in a submarine cave, the secret of the location perishing at the deeth of Ho'olulu. Kani*rsm»ha's body lav In state at Kamakahonu. Kailua. Kona. Hawaii. His temporary grave there was named Abitena and the spot is known at tbe present day as Kamaka-honu-i-Ahuena. lloaplli and Ho-olnlu watched the grave, waiting for a time when th# high chiefs, who were waving kahilis, and the groups of natives would fall asleep. When tbe time was opportune the two high chiefs snatched up the bundle of Kamehsmeha tbe Great's bones, which had been woven Into a net and enveloped in an AlmTila cloak (yellow feather iloakl. Prince lluapili had given his brother s pistol, once the property of John Young, and commanded him to shoot down any person whom they met. They ran along the sea coaet with their royal burden until half way between Kehaha and Waimeu. There they ui»t a youth. When Prince lloaplli saw him he stood perfectly still so as not to attract (he youth's attention. Ho-olu!ti came right on and met th# man, but fearing the report of the pistol If discharged would alarm others h# gave th# mau a blow with ths butt end. Intending to kill him. The chiefs resumed their flight until they reached a place on Ihe alior# where a canoe was drawn up They sailed along the coast, it is said, until they came to a plao which natives amen was Kamehameha'a last resting placs. Ho-olulu dived into the water and swam through an entrance into a large care and then* reposited the royal remains This must have been about May 13, 1819. for according to tradition th# oldtiwe Hawaiian# removed human flesh from the bones of tbeir dead an tbe third or 1'onrth day after death. According to the Kehaweaumoku who resided at I.aie, la 1*70. the two high chiefs did eater a canoe with tbe remains of KamehameBa, for he claims that It was his father whom Ho-olulu knocked down oa tha beach. After the assaulted maa re*H»ed what was taking place ha followed the chiefs stealthily uatll he raw them get into the canoe at Keksha. If the submarine cave has a long tunnel, aa many lava cavaa have on Hawaii, th# cave la Paiplo Gulch may hava heaa tba lead aad.

Last Act af Andrew Jack sen. On# of the last earthly thlara that Jackson did waa to read a aota from Polk, aahfag hie edvlne about the appointment of cm tain federal oErera la tba South. Polk had b#e« In oEca only a few week# at tke time, aad h# wanted to get th* ladoreameat of'Jackson for Ua administration. In order to win Jackaaa'a favor. Polk waa (railed Young Hickory by hie admiring friends, but Old lUokary'n favorite for the nomination In 1144 wo* Van Baron. and not Polk, wktla Van Buren'e opposition to annesatloa waa what caiuod hta defeat for the candidacy. Yet. personally, ba preferred Van Bursa. Palk, after hla Inauguration, made war oa Nraarls P. Blair, who edited Jackson's and Vaa Huron - * old oogaa at Washington, tbe Oapital. and thus displeased Jackson, though the latter knew that Blair had bean lukewarm toward Polk la tha caovaaa. Blair was forced to gat out and the Capital was ebaagad Into lb# Dally Union, with Ritchie of Richmond aa Its editor. From tha hour of hie retirement until bin death, through Van Buren’a administration and In the opening days of Polk's, Jackson remained an Influential figure In tba Democratic politics of the time.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

Bora* of tba Parisian suburb* where much laundry work is done have b» soma veritable hotbed# af consumption, many af tha lauadrymra being Ufeuled.

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ASK COUNCIL PERMISSION TO BUILD STREET

CHARLES BARNABY AND MRS. PHILO O. COLE, BELIEVE THAT THEY CAN CONSTRICT SHORT STREET AT MORE REASONABLE COST THAN CITY—FIRE PLUG AT NORTH WOOD—NEW ADDITION MAY BE TAKEN INTO THE CITY LIMITS—A BUSY COUNCIL MEETING

Charles H. Burnaby and Mrs. Philo O. Cole who own all of the property abutting Durham street the short street that runs from Washington to Franklin street on the west side of the Charles Burnaby residence property, at the council meeting Tuesday evening, asked the council that they, personally be allowed to contract the improvement of the street, which the city has ordered improved. Because of the fact that the total for the improvement must be paid by Mr. Bamaby and Mrs. Cole, they believe that they can contract for the building of the street at a more reasonable price than the city could, as much detail necessary to the contract ing of street improvements by the city, and which cost much money, can be eliminated. The street will be improved according to plans and specifications prepared by the city engineer The improvement of this street will give Northwood. Greencastle’s new residential district, an improved entrance from Washington street. The Council meeting on Tuesday

night was a busy one. The councdmen, at the request of the Northwood residents, ordered the water works company to run a water main to th# addition and to install a fire plug. A G. Brown of the First National Bank, who requested that this be done, volunteered to pay the fire plug rental, which will be near $70. a year for tn» first two years. The adviseabilty of taking .Northwood into the city limits also was discussed and this probably will b<? done and the council members seemed to favor that project. It was pmntei out that much property ha^ Uee i taken off the city tax duplicated hecau-e of the fraternities buying se.eral city properties for fraternity hi e purposes. With $40,000 in residences already buildod in Northwoiyl, and with nisry more r-sidences soon to be huilled, the addition of Northwood to th- ehy would be adviseable, the coun Irrv.m say. Hampered l>ecause of no money to repair city streets th<> city counciimen took a bold stand and voted to at least repair the square. The holes in the square pavement will lie repair ed with asphalt in the same i inr.e' that repairs were mad two years ag> The repair work two years ag • proved most satisfactory.

Mrs. Frank Donner has returned from Mackinac Island where ‘‘e attended the National Kappa Scorify convention. Allen Evans of Brav.il was 11 th;, city today on business. Mrs. Carl Mewbom of Tampa. Fix has come to this city to spend the summer with Mr. anr Mm Harry Moore and family. Mrs. Mew Porn is a sister of Mr. Moore. Miss I^la Browning has returned from a week’a visit with her aunt Mrs. Alice Gorham of Indianapol;

PUBLIC SALE! — —or — — DAIRY COWS At J. E. ChtmpEr’R Barn in CrEEncastlE, Indiana Saturday, July 17, ’20 At 1:30 P. M. 30 Head of Good Dairy Cows Two Year Old Jersey Bull This is a ssiset lot of Jorsoys, Holstoins and Shorthorns, frosh and eloso up springors, from Washington and Orange countios. :: .. .. « DICK LAND, Owner Cols. Dobbs A Vostal, Aucts. Paul Aibin, Clerk