Ligonier Banner., Volume 42, Number 45, Ligonier, Noble County, 30 January 1908 — Page 3

Q.ofo+o+o+o§o§o+o#o§o+o+o+o + ' ' . i BABS IN i :. - : :THE CITY: ® e e & e % By ARMIGER BARCLAY z‘ +0404040404040404040404040 : (Copyright.) - | “Well, how did you like the city, Babs?” asked the admiral. Babs nerched on a high stool in front of the _tape-machine, ceased pulling the paper ribbon through her fingers and looked up. - “I'm waver bavered,” says she. “It's the figures. I never was good at awifmetic.” “Oh, the quotations! They are puzzling when you're not used to them,” agrees the admiral . “I never shall be,” admits Babs. “Ii never could learn the multiplication table. When people say eight times nine's fifty-free, how can you tell if it's twue?” L | The admiral ponderg the indictment before_he -answers. “Your illustration cértainly does place arithmetic in a new light. All the same, business would be rather dull on the stock exchange without it. Eh, Mr. Hands?” Babs throws a glance over her shéulder at the stock broker. “If fings go up free points how much would I mak}_g’on a fousand?” she asks him. ° The question took him by surprise. He had been regarding the earl’s small daughter with great interest, but hardly as a potential dealer. ‘ “It depends, ' Lady Barbara,” he smiles. “Depends whether it's stock or .shares.” 5 “I was finkin’ of Mexicans—second prefs,” ‘observes Babs, sagely. It is as much as Mr. Hands can do to answer. “A rise of three points on a thousand Mexicans means £3O profit,” he stammers. “Fanks,” ‘says Babs, and becomes immersed in the tape once more. People who meet Babs for the first time are usually bewildered by her baby-like perspicuity, and the stock broker is no exception to. the rule. The admiral evades his glances of stupefaction by addressing Babs. “What is the trouble, little lady?” he asks, leaning over her chair. “Noffin’; m waver busy,” she ‘answers without moving her eyes from the tape. ) The admiral dutifully moves away' and rejoins the earl and Mrs. Fane, who are now in consultation with Mr. Hands. Mrs. Fane has certain- investments to make, and the earl, her T Eg-g;fi-bevs e ] vral P Sl - §§ é;_ g . 7 o_9‘_.._ reiil 47 L B i r‘ 8o N ‘ €N e g %&&b "’ g = 2 oy N ;g'?/ %\'u TR (0857 == S - At A oy LRI (el A ] rfi\ .§ , : sl (! | ‘f;' ’ll}id ’n";j% sy J‘ / \ ‘ A 220 N R s;“J"/;,{’ //)I*‘ § i (AN ‘L, IR B 7 | N, A e | ! !.}“\t\\%', = ' Qi IDH X | il \\ dd N | I i ‘ 'L ,X( ; | The Men Come and Stand Over Her, Watching the Ribbon. trusfee, has accompanied her into the city. For reasons not ye{ apparent, Babs has insisted on being of the party, and persuaded the admiral to make it a partie carree. ‘While the tape machine ticks and jerks under the regard of her big blue eyes, the others go ‘into the merits of Japanese fours, colonial government securities and English rails, and in due course Mrs. Fane's business is disposed of. : . “We may as well have a flutter, now we're here,” suggests the earl to his sailor friend. The admiral concurs with a nod. “What would you advise?” he asks the stock broker. ! . “Grand’ Trunks and Hudson Bays are looking up,” answers Mr. Hands impartially. “You'’d much better stand in wiv me,” murmurs Babs from the other end of the room. Mr. Hands sits up with a start, then turns an inquiring face to his clients. “What is it, Babs?” ' asks the admiral. “I didn't know you were an authority on stoek exchange transactions.” “I'm perfectly serious,” insists Babs. “If you want to earn your winter's corn, buy Mexican secoud prefs.” _ Mr. Hands, through his pince-nez, eyes her in a fascinated way, but feels compelled to dissent.” “The very last thing to touch. No dividend expect- - ed, you know,” he observes in an undertone to the earl ; “I know it's not expeeted,” returns Babs, whose sharp ears have caught the words. “But there’s goin’ to be a dividend, all ve same. It's a stable secret.” ; : “My dear child!” reproves Mrs. Fane, fearful of the stock broker taking offense. “How can you know anything about it?” . “Oh, I've known it for a couple of fortnights. I had it stwait from the Beitsteins.” : “Beitsteins?” repeats Mrs. Fane. “I never heard of them. Babs does get to know the strangest people!” “Beitstein!” exclaims Mr. ‘Hands with sudden interest. ‘‘He's the leading operator in the Mexican market!” . _“Where did you pick them up, ‘Babs?” inquires her father. ~ “I didn’t. They picked me up in the park one day and took me for a wide - and mops up petwol by the bucketful. fi& most éx-

“Let’s hear about her new friends” interposes the earl. “Who are they, Babs?”

.“I onlv ynow Percy, weally. He's their son. I met him at a juvenile party; but I got my maid to look them up in “Who’s Who,” and it says they’re an old Jacobite family. There is somefin’ curious about their noses. And old Mr. Beitstein takes hours to tell you anyfing—even wiv all the hs left out.”

“But where do they live?” demands Mrs. Fane. ’

“In-- a place called Bayswater—where the ’buses come from,” explains Babs. ;

“Was it dat the party that Mr. Percy betame confidential about Mexicans?” asks the admiral. . ' : ‘Babs allows her diminutive shoulders a s'ightly contemptuous shrug. “Yes,” she -admits. “When a boy is epwis wiv you he always tells you his pwivate affairs.” ° Mrs. Fane deems it essential to iift her eyebrows censoriously.

“It was privéte, then?” ponders the earl. . .

“Ravher, daddy! He said the only over person besides me who knew a word about it was the head rabbit.” There is a pause while they revolve her meaning. -

“Chief Rabbi!” exclaims Mr. Hands, with sudden inspiration. “It must be something very exceptional, or Beitstein wouldn’t—would you mind telling us exactly < what he said, my dear?” _

Before Babs answers she opens the little jeweled bag that hangs on her wrist and exhibits a banknote. :

“You'll put this on for me?”’ she asks. “It's some of my ‘Sarewitch’ winnin’s.” _

“That's all right, Babs,” promises the admiral. ;

“Well,” proceeds Babs, while the three men hang on her words, “he said he'd heard his faver say that Mexicans were goin’ to soar to heaven when the dividend came out, and that if I could pick up a few seconds prefs. in the street next Friday before free o'clock I should go home feelin’ 18 carat. And I wasn’t to bweave a word to anyone.” : “What a little horror the boy must be!” deprecates Mrs. Fane. “He is,” allows Babs; “but it's a soft fing all the same.” : “Friday—three o'clock!” muses Mr. Hands, leoking at his watch.” “If we onlv can—"

“Spoil the Egyptians!” augments the earl grimly. : There is a short: consultation between the three men and then Mr. Hands hurries out. - s

Five minutes later he returns, rather out of breath, and announces that he has got 11,000 second preference at 61%—five each for the earl and the admiral, and the odd thousand for Babs. : “It’'s like racin’, only not so excit. in’,” observes Babs as she turns once more to the tape. : As she speaks, the machine, which has been silent for half a minute, recommences ticking. The men come and stand over_her, watching it. A good yard and 2a half of ribbon slowly exudes in spasmodic jerks, giving the prices of various stocks and shares. The office clock: points to five minutes past three and Mr. Hands, watching it, grows anxious. “Here they come!” cries Babs, as the words MEX Ist appear, followed by the price, and then 2nd is disclosed with the quotation 61—¥%. Mr. Hands seizes the ribbon and reads off the figures that are now coming as fast as the operator at the other end can send them. “Two to a half—three—three and a quarter—four!” He ignores the first preference stock. “Four and a half—five! Dividend three and three-quare ters per cent.! Well, I never!”" “That’s good enough!” cries the earl. ‘“‘Better close. They’ll be up another point by the time you get to the house!” ' Once more Mr. Hands hurries out—this time, in his excitement, forgettlng his hat. Babs climbs down from her stool. “It’s all over bar the shoutin’,” she remarks calmly. “How much have we won, daddy?” : “By Jove, they've touched 66!” cries the admiral at the tape. “You’ll rake in at least 60 for your share, young woman!” laughs ' the earl. . Babs looks up with a smile at the admiral. “Well, how do you like the city, shipmqte?" she asks mischievously. ' : : “I think it's a thundering fine place to come to—with you, Babs!” is his prompt answer. “I'm so glad,” she drawls. “But I fink the Beitsteins have a good deal to do wiv it. I shall have to leave cards on them to-morrow, I suppose.” “You may as well leave mine, too, Babs,” says Mrs. Fane meekly. :

Shelley's Edinburgh Home.

One of the two Edinburgh houses associated with the name of Shelley is in process of demolition. Though there is a little uncertainty as to Shelley’s first house, the house in which or from which he was married to Harriet Westbrook in September, 1811, a correspondent thinks the eyidence is almost conclusive in favor of 60 George street, the “handspme front parlor” in which Shelley spent his honeymoon being now a shop. Of the second house, however, there is no uncertainty. He lived in it for nearly three months in the autumn of 1813, and addressed many letters from it, putting the fact beyond all doubt. They are headed “36 Frederick street,” and this is the house which is now being pulled down to make room for large buildings: : - Here Shelley, with Harriet and ‘‘the blue-eyed Tanthe,” spent many happy days, and here also Shelley wrote his “Refutation of Deism,” and became known as the author of “Queen Mab"—privately printed in the summer of 1813. 5 ; - How ls This? If you hear that a woman is a genius it does not surprise you. But if somebody says she can cook yaqu fail dead.—Chicago Record-Herald. -fi———fl‘——-—-—-——-———p—-g‘- 3} ' Beyond Understanding, What a woman likes about her hus band explaining his politics is she can’t understand it any better tham

MY CITY FoR THE X By CARMEN SV BYIND Gu:in o eoirsan L[.)jc_l*d_m;, yE Oy “’\"’. s i \ \\\\\\ Ne \\ \\\ . oA

Some years ago & young man who had just finished his period of conscription entered my service. He was a capable stenographer, and had command of several languages. I had engaged him that he might lighten somewhat the arduousness of my work by copying manuscripts for publication, but principally that I might intrust to him the management of many minor matters. : - Very soon cruel Fate struck him blow after blow. The death of his first child, then of his wife, and finally of his mother—one loss sueceeding another with sad swiftness—overwhelmed him with grief and despair. I have always fourd ' that in great sorrow work is the supreme alleviator.. ' I decided that if I could give him work up to the limits of his physical endurance I should make it possible for him to support his afflictions and sustainh him in his solitude. - 4

Just then I heard of Nowak's invention. for the blind, and I had some of his machines procured. I had for a long time sought to aid the blind in my own and other countries in a manner that others-had not till then attempted. I had found that those who. instructed the blind, demanded not enough of brain werk and too much manual labor, which deprived their hands of that fineness of touch which helps them to perform the functions of eyes for those bereft of their visual organs. The machine did not justify its reputation, and I had another sent from America, a very heavy and expensive printing machine, which cost almost £l2O, and the manipulation of which was so fatiguing that a vigorous youth could not operate it for longer than three hours each day. We had established an asylum for the aged. As Itraversed its passages, whence opened little rooms where the patients were already installed two in a room, I passed a youth wearing dark spectacles and with the gait of a blind man.

If I cannot see far, God has placed in my heart eyes that can see at once when prompt help is needed. When I had returned home I bade Monske hasten with all speed and hire’ a small house, where he was to install Theodoresco and his wife. - The blind man began at once to make proofs of the . pages which Monske then printed, and they worked in harmony in a little garret in my residence. Again Theodoresco earned his bread_ and lived é)ua;ppily with his amiable young wifé thanking God daily for his fortune. In the summer we went to Sinaia, while Theodoresco was sent to the waters, as he suffered from 'muscular atrophy, probably caused by lead poisoning, to which typographers are subject. Soon after our return Monske came to me. “I think that Theodoresco has discovered something.” And he explained that his blind friend had passed the summer months in trying to invent a better printing machine than that he was using. He had decided that the Braille characters made upon paper could be mounted on a paper cylinder in such a manner that to take further impressions was easy. Only a practical. typographer would have solved the problem thus. We patented the machine in the principal countries of the world. Monske worked incessantly. Christmas, 1906, he presented me with a dainty little model, but when I worked wish it it revealed some few defects. He set himself to work again, and at last produced the present pattern, so incredibly simple that my wment was “The egg of Columbus.” S A- man completely blind is now able to print 5,000 sheets every day

MAKES OLD STOVES NEW. | Renovator Sold One Cast-Off to Its Original Owner. “It’s an alley rat,” the renovator of old stoves said as he scraped off long scales of rust. “I found it on an ash heap and the woman was glad to have me haul it away.” . This dealér in cast-off stoves owns a shop on Independence avenue, according to the Kansas City Star. He makes a living—and a good one, he says—in picking up stoves that are thrown away. Sometimes he pays 25 cents for a stove, or perhaps, more than that, if it is in unusually good condition. It is very seldom. that he fails to make a profit of several hundred per cent on his investments. “You don’t know how many stoves are thrown away in these days of natural gas,” said the dealer. “It's the people who can afford gas ranges and fancy gas heaters that dump their coal stoves in the back yard. = “Pm tho man that profits by this

without fatigue, and soon the blind will have as many books as they can desire. This then will come to pass! We shall be able to impart to the blind a high culture, and shall -profit by their teaching. They will be debarred only from studies demanding the use of the micrescope and the telescope, but in -the empire of thought they shall be kings, because they will be free from distraction. Monske and I developed our plans after prolonged consultations. I asked our first oculist how many blind people were in Roumania, and when he informed me that there were 20,000 I was astonished. @We soon became conscious that it was impossible to proceed as in other countries. In my native town of Neuwied is situated the blind asylum for the province. It contains only 70 inmates, and it cost £25,000 in round figures. But here we had absolutely no money, only the knowledge that we had a valuable commercial asset in the machine. Neither Theodoresco nor Monske wished to make any personal profit, although their patents might have brought to them enormous. wealth. We decided to deliver the machines at extremely reasonable prices, retaining only a small profit for the cause of our blind. Business began during October, 1906. We could have made deliveries much sooner if we had gone to foreigm manufacturers; but to this I would not agree, as I wished the money to remain in the country. / Thus we had to practice the virtue of patience, but the call of the blind ‘was impatient. Just at this time our exhibition was opened; and we had an exhibit, mounting both an old machine and a new one, and having both manipulated by blind operators, thereby showing to the world the superiority of our invention.

I have never felt within me a sensation of greater pride than when I wrote upon one.panel of wood “Printing Machine for the Blind—old American System” and upon another: “New Invention by the Roumanian Theodoresco.” Monske refused absolutely to take any credit to himself. His sole desire was that to ' Roumania should come the glory of the invention and that the name of a Roumanian should ke pronounced blessed by the world. .And when the article had been exposed to public inspection, offers-flowed in like a swollen torrent. In a shorf time our capital was £3,200, but what was this when we had to consider 20,000 blind? - .

" Our plan developed. We determined to found a colony of the blind, a city of the blind, where/ both those with and without sight might dwell together, for the greater number of the blind were married, or wished to he. :

A lady presented me with a field of 50 acres, and we laid this out as a garden. We built all around it small cottages, and had for all a common kitchen, so that the women might be free to work without burdening the blind husbands with the care of the families. L We started many industries—a flpe and twine making department, a brush factory, a shot foundry, and others which are suited for blind operatives. ~We established a school, presided over by blind masters. We taught music, one of the blind teachers being an expert violinist, and he mastered the piano so as to convey instruction in that instrument also. 3, :

Our city of the blind promises to be bright and its inhabitants happy; hence I have christened it ‘“Vatra Luminoasa,” the Home of Light.

Many women are like walking dolls with phonograph- attachments.

extravagance, I have my customers, too. Not every one is using gas. There is a brisk demand for my stoves.” ik

The ‘“alley rat” has been scraped clean of its rust scales. Then it was given a coat of blacking and the polishing process began. A new grate had been supplied. “Looks like' a new stove,” he said. “That’s the way I fool ’em. The rust fades away when I begin. Any stove looks old when it's rusty. “Just to give you an 'idea of what I can do with a stove I'll tell you a little incident. 5 “l picked up a heating stove in an alley out on East Eighteenth . street not long ago. I brought it in here and peeled it and then pwt on the blacking and did the elbow work. A new grate was needed; I put that in. Then I left it out on the sidewalk to speak for itself. “Maybe you won’t believe it, but the woman who gave it to me came by here and I sold the stove back to hes for $3.50. She didn't recognize me nor the stove. But I'm the man that makes old stoves new.” - .

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Try a laugh when the ‘sigh fails.

Work will go easier . and better if you think it out ahead:.

Bed the horses well so they will not bruise their knees on the floor.

You help yourself when you help your neighbor to be a better farmer.

Mix your feeds dry and wet afterwards, if you want to secure a good mixture. : d

Eggs from the best of the two-year-old layers are considered best for hatching. - . :

With a goodly flock of chickens the farmer is never at a loss for a little ready money. :

Where crude petroleum is obtainable at a low enough price it makes a practical dressing for roads.

‘When buying stock for breeding purposes be willing to pay the price which will secure the good grade animal. ’

If the temperature of your fruit and vegetable cellar ranges too high open the door during the night and close it during the day.

The mistakes of the past should become stepping stones to better things this year, not stumbling blocks which are going to bring further failure. .

Fence posts are a considerable item of expense, making it mnecessary to make them last as long as possible. Peeling off the bark helps some.

To sell the corn off the farm sells the fertility off the place but fed to the stock it returns a double profit, in fattened ‘cattle and hogs and in manure. e :

When the mane and tail are allowed to become clogged with dirt it is apt to create itching, resulting in the horse rubbing himself in such a way as to injure them.

A diary for the dairy might be a good thing this year. Begin to keep a record of the cows. See what each one is doing. Test the milk once 'a month. Weed out the poor cows.

. Keep the appetites of the hens sharp, so that they will always be on the search for food. Underfed is better than overfed with pouliry every time. But the best rule is to study your flock and feed just right.

,Making time and marking time sound a good deal alike, but they are vastly different in fact. The maker of time is the hustler, the marker of time is the fellow who stands still and shuffles. Lots of stepping but no headway. : . ; :

It is said that not two per cent. of the edible plants of the world are grown by the American farmers. This is reason enough, then, why the government should send its agents into all the world to find new plants better adapted to our linds than 'some we are now growing. : ;

Swift's words are still true: Whoever makes two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow where .only one grew before, deserves better of mankind, and does more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together.” Can you stand up brother and say ‘“that’s me?”. | :

Mark it down as a safe rule that the bleating calf lacks something in the way of food, water or care to insure its comfort. However there are calves that will bleat almost continuously and for no other reason apparently than because they are of that uneasy, restless spirit which marks them as undesirable to raise for dairy purposes. Get rid of such animals.

Lord John Russell held farming in high esteem. He said: “In a moral point of view, the life of the agriculturist is the most pure and holy of any class of men; pure, because it is the most healthful, and vice versa hardly find time to contaminate it; and holy, because it brings the Diety perpetually before his view, giving him thereby the most exalted notions of supreme power, and the most enduring view of the divine benignity.” Some fruit growers make a practice of washing their fruit trees once a year with soap suds. The rough bark is scraped off. This destroys possible hiding places for injurious inseetsAfter the scraping wash the trunk of the tree, as far up as you can reach, with a strong soap solution: One part soft soap to 109:parts of water. An old broom is a good thing with which to apply the wash. The forks of the tree should receive a good washing too. 2 S 7

Some rules laid down by a successful sheep breeder are as follows: Do not breed to a dry-fieeced ram. The sire is the proper improver, but in order to be such he must be a good individual and descend from the best lineage. Study sire, dam and blood lines. Follow the show ring, but show only good, well-fitted sheep. Have a right ideal and breed to produce it. Honesty is of as much importance in sheep breeding as it 1s anywhere elsa

Poor economy to let the stock run down even if feed is high. .

Reform your farm this year. Feed the soil better and then till it better.

Cows left out in the storm and wind are bound to show shrinkage in the milk pail: ‘

It is tc the interest of ‘every dairyman to produce not only clean milk but rich milk. -

Make home the ‘brightest and happiest place on earth. It should be the children’s haven. -

The profit in dairying is dependent on the kind of cows a man has and the care and feed he gives them.

Make it a point never to drive to town without something in the way of produce to sell, such as butter, eggs, poultry, etc. .

When no rivet is handy a good substitute can be found by cutting a wire nail in two and using the part with the head on as a rivet. :

Salt is required by the animals as well as by man. Even the chickens require a judicious amount. Fed in large quantities, of course, would prove fatal. . s

You can put the ewes which are in run-down condition in’ fine shape by feeding a grain ration of wheat bran, ground oats and peas, about one-half pound to each sheep.

The grain binder or thrasher allowed to weather the storms of winter under a covering of wheat or oat straw will not be«found to be in very good condition for next season’s work.

Have the wood box large enough to hold several .days’ supply of wood. Never let it get empty. You can bring in wood at odd times. Wife or daughters ought never to have to go out after fuel. .

The amount of money that finds its way into the owner’s pocket at the end of the year tells the whole story whether his cows are doing business or not. You might as well have one good cow as 41 of the poorer ones.

It is easy to get money into the poultry business and hard to get it out. Go slow. Build up your business slowly and surely and you will not be among the number which declares that the poultry business does not pay. -

-Gifford Pinchot, the government forester, who has just returned from a 10,000-mile jaunt over the government and private forest preserves of the country, declares that in 20 years the timber supply will' be exhausted if the present rate of cutting goes on.

Scripture saith that the very, hairs of our heads are numbered. This fact has perhaps inspired some industrious person to count the feathers on a hen, for he is out with the information that the average hen has 8,120 feathers concealed in Various places about her anatomy. 7

The . large calendars with the big white spaces where the numbers are make admirable record sheets for the poultry. * Put in the squares containing the dates the number of eggs laid on that day, and so on through the month, then, as the leaves of the calendar. are torn off, file them away for future reference. o :

A government bulletin declares that a majority of the paints and ‘washes advertised to protect trees from attacks of mice and rabbits are either without merit or are positively injurious and liable to kill young . trees. Some of the washes require renewal after every hard rain. In experiments with a wash of whale-oil soap, crude carbolic acid and ® water, for apple trees, it was found that in about 48 hours the carbolic acid had so far, evaporated that mice renewed their work upon the bark. Blood and grease,” said to give immunity from, the rabbit attacks, would invite the attacks of field mice. The bulletin continues: Reports recently received by the biological survey seem to indicate that the ordinary lime-and-sulphur wash, recommended for the winter spraying of trees to destroy the San Jose seale, is an effective preventive of the attacks of both mice and rabbits. Obgservations during the winter of 1906-07 indicate that this <laim is well founded. b : Prof. Fraser, of the Illinois Agricultural college, figures out the cow ‘problem as follows, and it will ‘be well for every owngr of cows to study} his reasoning and his figures: If, says Prof. Fraser, by weighing and testing the milk of each cow at regular intervals during _the year a dairyman should discover that 12 cows of his herd produced only 133% pounds butter fat and returned only 77 cents profit per cow per year, like the low‘®st one-fourth of the 554 cows tested by this experiment station, how much would it add to his annual income if he were to replace them with 12 cows producing 301 pounds butter fat and making a profit of $31.32 per cow per year, like the highest one-fourth of the same 554 cows? The 12 poor c would return a total profit of 7 cents, or $9.24.- The 12 good cows would) return a profit of 12 times $3132, or $375.84 for the year. The ifference in these- two profits is $366.60. This change of cows would increase the dairyman’s annual profits $366.60. Suppose the poor cows were sold to the butcher at $35 per head and the 12 good cows were bought at $7O each, how much new capital would be invested in this dairy? = The added profit would be what per cent. of “this new investment? The 12 poor cows at $36 each would bring $420.: The 12 good cows at $7O each would cost $B4O. It would be necessary to double ‘the money received for the poor cows; that is, to put in s42¢ of new capital to pay for the 12 cows bought. The annual increase of profit, $366.60, is over 87 per cent. of the new o?iml Isn't an investment returning 87 per cent. annual interest good enough fil arrant such g exchange of coms?

MAY RETURN TO USE OF OXEN. Lumbermen in Northern Wisconsin Believe Them More Serviceable. = Milwaukee.—The determination of the lumbermen to return ‘to the employment of oxen in the woods of northern . Wisconsin and Minnesota wiil recall the days of the pioneer of 40 and 50 years ago, when horses in the woods were a curiosity or -luxury. Horses succeeded oxen for the rea\ son that they make quicker time in hauling over long roads, and for the reason that feed became more plentiful as the country became settled by homesteaders. It was when feed was impossible to obtain that cattle were employed, for they were generally able to forage with the deer through.summer and winter months. - Those. were

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the days of the dense pine forests when feed was plentiful and the climatic changes were ot so sudden as a present, but the present day has its advantages, though the winters are more severe. Feed for the oxen may be had at any railroad station or of almost any farmer or -homesteader. Oxen require less feed than horses, and here is the first stroke of economy, though not a lérge one. They are sure of foot and will haul as large a load as horses. In skidding logs they are said to be much preferable to horses, and, unlike horses, they may be slaughtered’and served ‘to the lumberjacks when they have served their purpose. In some of the northern counties oxen are being employed by the new settlers for the cultivation of the farm. They move along slowly, it is true, but they accomplish the work of clearing tke land and bringing it to a state ef cultivation. The only drawback to this new movement is the lack of trainers and drivers. The oxen men of the last generation have or. are passing away, and. it will .be difficult to get men- who will condescend to desert the horse for the ox.

HOLDS ONLY OFFICE OF KIND.

Charles A. Taylor, Examiner and Inspector of? Accounts of Oklahoma.

Guthrie, ©kla.—Charles A. Taylor, state examiner and inspector of ac;ounts, has the distinction of being the only state officer of the kind in the entire United States. His is an elecive office, too, and he was chosen Ilong with the other state incumbents »n September 17 last. Only Kentucky has any office in any way similar to ‘hat held by Mr. Taylor, and even that s an appointive, instead of an elective sosition. : s As this is the only office of the kind n the United States it is necessary

. s /,"’/ - ,“ ,_\. G R R PR : (",::7// o {\;,7‘.._\\_{ \ // Vi SRSSY THENN 1/ U SFEN BN B / ll{" o Y BN /‘x’: Q. A NN N ‘h'flf’ \ SRR [ 'u’fs?é” i NN eSS T % i N R | Y i ‘\\\\\\i\\\'}g} R I,;’»”i & "t‘:; < d ‘,_:J’ ~‘{ / — ‘; ,);:wg;i‘/ N | B\l \ g : =L i _7' % & for the Oklahoma legislature to make the only provisions in .the United States for the government of this office. . Mr. Taylor is a native of Lynn, Mass., where he served as city engineer for several years prior to coming west to Hutchinson, Kan. where he was employed as civil engineer and surveyor. Later he moved to Pratt, Kan., and served as register of deeds and deputy clerk of the district court, later as vice president of the People’s bank of Pratt. During the palmy Populistic days in Kansas, while Gov. Lewelling was the state’s “executive, Mr. Taylor was assistant state commissioner of insurance, and later deputy state auditor. He came to Oklahoma when -the “Cherokee Strip” ‘was opened, dnd after being elected on the first state ticket of Oklahoma he began matters aright by becoming a benedict, being married two ‘days prior to statehood to Miss Frances M. Skidmore of Pond Creek, which is also Mr. Taylor's home in Oklahoma. =~ : o “Practieal. .7 Owing to his extreme. youth and timidity Tommy escaped going to church the whole year around, except on Christmas day. After one of ‘his annual visits his uncle asked him at the dinner table if he "had been a good hoy and said a prayer in church. “Oh, yes, indeed,” answered Tommy. “I said a prayer like all the rest did just before the sermon began. Want to Bogt Y L e ~ “Yes, indeéd. What did you say?” replied the surprised uncle, ~ ~ il Tommee: = 5o bk

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