Walkerton Independent, Volume 53, Number 39, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 23 February 1928 — Page 2

Walkerton Independent “ .Published Everv Thursday by TILE INDEPENDENT-NEWS CO. Publishers of the WALKERTON INDEPENDENT NORTH LIBERTY NEWS I.AKEVII.I.K STANDARD “THE ST. JOSEPH COUNTY WEEKLIES Clem DeCoudres, Business Manager Charles M. Finch, Editor ' SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year ..11.84 Six Months 90 yhree Months .ov TERMS IN ADVANCE Entered at the post office at Walkerton* as second-class matter. She may be warm-hearted, but her knees are probably cold. Cleanliness is next to godliness, and equally annoying when advertised. It is easier to get married on $5,000 a year than stay married on $500,000 a year. Forgive and forget sounds well, but most folks are more for getting than for giving. The old-fashioned girls who used to go in for frills are now coming out strongly for thrills. • Still, the race would be making no progress if your kids had no reason * to feel superior to you. Another unexplainable thing about him is that after al! that banqueting he is still Slim Lindbergh. Lapse: Something or other that happened to the policy two days prior to the incident in question. Many of the candidates who think they are running for the Presidential nomination are just limping. Kuppa: Americanism, meaning “cup of’ —as in “Givvus a dime, willya. Mister, for a kuppa coffee.” The motor world still has a mark to shoot at: Even the advanced models aren’t as fast as the rumors. The cold, sharp wind not only whistles for the coal man; it actually sings and makes beautiful music. An American left the hulk of his fortune to his lawyer. If everybody did this, a lot of time would be saved. Television’s greatest contribution to humanity is that it will cause the complete cure of a great many sick friends. The evil that men do lives after them, said the Bard of Avon. And if there isn’t any, the biographer will invent some. Long legs, says a Columbia professor, are a sign of high intelligence. But not when you leave too much of them uncovered. We are fast moving toward the time when the laying of the cornerstone for a new building will be the final event in the opening day program. Nero couldn’t have fiddled during the fire, they say, because the fiddle wasn’t invented until the Middle Ages, so probably he was whistling “Dardanella.” For one reason, at least, Americans may envy the ruler of Arabia, who has 24 wives. Think of the exemptions that would allow on income tax returns 1 Dummy—A hand in bridge on the strength of which, if he had known its contents, her partner would have gone four no-trumps, instead of one diamond. London restaurants have standardized the prune and will serve nine to a person. That's always been the trouble with the prune—it looks so standardized. The Westerner who put a billiard ball into his mouth and couldn t get it out must have been the son of the i old-fashioned clown who got his thumb caught in’a jug. Fairy Story: “Once upon a time there was a .girl named Mary Ann who opened a beauty parlor which she i did not decide to name the Marie An- : toinette Salon.’’ “Lettuce was used freely in Persia ! many centuries ago— ’’ and some of us are trying our best to visualize old Omar underneath the bough, champing on a tea room sandwich. Among the new hosiery tints are such popular items as marron, grapenuts, ‘nrown, mirage, aluminum, pigeon gray, evenglow, etc., all of them being quite light enough to show truck splashings. Looking over an insurance company's list of prohibited risks we notice “Lobster Fishermen.” who frequently live to be one hundred two or i thereabouts, and no mention of opposition politicians in Mexico. Why is it. the farmer would like I to know, that as soon as a crop starts ' coming up in the fields it starts going down in the market? 'Die king of Italy, a news item says, i likes to play poker, but has a forced fondness for that form of game in i which the duce takes the king. Every time we hear of another inquiry, probe, investigation, etc., we think, well, if half the world doesn t j know how tiie other half lives, they i can't say it doesn't try. “Doughboys” is an excellent name, 1 except that they weren’t boys and weren't tiie ones that got the dough. —Austin American. Among the ailments that are conveyed from dogs to man we note the inclusion of insomnia Some people get it from the dog next door. Another advantage, so-called, of modern life is that the pedestrian has his choice of so many different kinds ■ of vehicles that are always ready and | b willing to run over him.

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4 By ELMO SCOTT WATSON

SF A BILL now before congress Is passed during the present session, the people of America will have a new national park which will perpetuate the memory of the life of a . great American amid the scenes of - one of the most important periods i In his career. The bill is known officially as 11. R. 298, and It Is a measure introduced by Representa-

tlve James n. Sinclair of North Dakota to establish the Roosevelt National park in the Bad Lands of his state. Two years ago Congressman Sinclair Introduced a similar bill, but it, along with much other legislation, was lost in the eleventh-hour jam, caused by a filibuster, which marked the closing scenes of the Sixty-ninth congress. But North Dakota, which believes it has as many natural wonders to show the people of this country as has its sister state. South Dakota, which became so much better known nationally through the visit of President Coolidge to the Black Hills last summer, now hopes that the present bill will pass and that it will have the privilege of giving to the nation a new national playground. Among the prime movers in the project to establish a national park in the Bad Lands are Former Governor J. M. Devine, now state immigration commissioner; Walter F. Cushing, publisher of the Beach (N. D.) Advance and former editor of the Fargo Courier-News, ami other leading men of the state. Soon after Congressman Sinclair introduced his first bill, the state legislature passed the following concurrent resolution which has been presented to congress in support of the project: Concurrent resolution (Introduced by Mr. R. O. Signalness and Mr. Walter Tester) memorializing the congress of the United States to establish the Roosevelt National park in Billings county, N. D., and to provide for the substitution of public lands of the United States foi the state school lands located within the proposed park area. Be it resolved by the house of representatives of the state of North Dakota (the senate concurring) : Whereas there is now pending in the Congress of the United States a bill to establish the Roosevelt National park in Billings county, N. D., introduced by Congressman Sinclair of North Dakota, December 7, 1925, being 11. R. 3942; and Whereas the tract of land in such proposed park consists of the pertrifled forest and the famous “Bad Lands” lying on both sides of the Little Missouri river in Billings county, N. D., where Theodore Roosevelt operated his historic cattle ranches and hunted wild game in the early history ! of Dakota territory, and which tract is admirably ‘ fitted by nature for scenic purposes and preserves I in its natural state the mountainous character and ' the wild, unchanged condition which existed in the West fifty years ago, and which tract it is practicable and appropriate to preserve as a national par k in the honor of Theodore Roosevelt, in the interest of American scenic beauty, and as a relic of tiie traditional pioneer conditions of the West, which have all but disappeared from the North AmeriI can continent; and : Whereas there is included in said proposed park | area approximately 42,000 acres of public lands belonging to the state of North Dakota known as | state school lands, which was granted to it by the i United States under sections 10 and 11 of the enj abling act of February 22, 1889, to be held in trust i by the state or North Dakota for the common ' schools, which land, on account of its rough and barren character, cannot be sold for the minimum price of $lO per acre, as prescribed in section 11 of said enabling act, and from which the state <>r North Dakota gets only a nominal income; and, it further appearing that it would be expedient to exchange the said school lands located within such proposed park area for public lands of the United States of like quantity, character, and value located in the vicinity of such proposed park; Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That this Twentieth legislative assembly of the state of North Dakota hereby indorses said Roosevelt National park project and respectfully urges the congress of the United States to establish a national park as provided for in said H. R. 3942; and, be it further Resolved, That congress, in furtherance of said | park project, make appropriate provisions for ex- | changing with the state of North Dakota public lands of the United States, of equal Quantity, | character, and value, for the state school lands ; lying within said proposed park area heretofore | granted to the state of North Dakota under the 1 provisions of sections 10 and 11 of the enabling act of February 22, 1889; and, be it further Resolved, That the secretary of state transmit I copies of this memorial to the President of the j United States, *t> the senate and house of repre- | sentatives of the United States, and to the senaI tors and congressmen for the state of North Dakota. JNO. W. CARR, Speaker of the House. C. R. VERRY, Chief Clerk of the House. WALTER MADDOCK, President of the Senate. W. D. AUSTIN, Secretary of the Senate.

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The Bad Lands, which have t»een pronounced by authorities ns being the most ideal, naturally formed wild game preserve in the country, and second only to the Yellowstone National park In scenic Interest and awe-inspiring beauty. He In the western section of the state along the Little Missouri river and pass through five counties — Dunn, McKenzie, Golden Valley, Billings nnd Slop. They extend 91 miles from north to south and have an average width of 11 miles, “The name Is ill-given from our standpoint,” says one writer, “but natural to the Indian who roamed over and nann d the region, for it was indeed Make Sika (bad land), as far as travel was concerned. “Among those hills for untold ages unique animal forms roamed ami fought ami died. The world's greatest fossil bod is there and to this section paleontologists come from •■very part of the world seeking valuable fossils to he found only there. Over all Europe one can read labels on the valuable fossils collected in the great museums, ‘From the Bad Lands of North Dukot . U. S. A.’ “Occasionally one reads about the saber-toothed tiger with its teeth that could pierce the thickest hide. Ten of these animals with some saber teeth In perfect condition have been found in the Bad Lands. The king of all Bad Lands beasts v is the brontotherium, measuring 15 feet in length. 8 feet In height. For .500,000 years the«e animals roamed and ruled. A number of skulls w h the horns were among the finds last year. “There also roamed over these Bad Lands herds of giant pigs, wo now call the intelodon, the ancestral swine. This animal had the characteristics of a wild boar while resembling the hippopotamus and the horse. This sounds like a nightmare, and such it would have appeared to the human being—had there been <ne at that time. Climatic conditions were very different during the Miocene than they are now. for then the Bad Lands must have had a tropical climate." The Bad Lands, however, are interesting to others besides the scientist, for the mime “Creation's Workshop,” which is often applied to tb.em, is a good indication of the scenic wonders found there. Thousands of years of erosion, of weathering by water, frost and wind have resulted in fantastic rock formations unlike those found in any other part of the United States. There are towering buttes nnd pinnacles, wrinkled with age and erosion, rock formations with gargoyle figures of weird beauty. The canyon of the Little Missouri offers one of tlio most remarkable examples of the effect of erosion for, in addition to the usual weathering, here Is shown the effect of slumping strata, due to the burning of lignite coal where the veins were exposed on the canyon wall and which are still burning miles underground. But the geological and scenic are not th? only attractions of this country. It lias a host of historic associations, too, the most interesting of which center around the activities of a young New Yorker, named Theodore Roosevelt, who arrived there one September morning in 1883 in search of both health and adventure. He went first to the Chimney Butte ranch as the guest of the owners, Sylvane and Joe Ferris and William J. Merrifield, and, after a buffalo hunt with Joe Ferris, entered into a partnership with Merrifield and Sylvane Ferris and started a cow ranch with the maltese cross brand. Later he brought out from Maine two woodsmen friends, Sewell and Dow, to help start the Elkhorn ranch lower down on the Little Missouri and his brand for the lower ranch were the elk horn and the triangle. That the young easterner fell in love with the country and the life which

middle of the afternoon to wake him up; another purgative at dinner, and some chloral at bedtime to put him to sleep.” Doctor Tucker shook his head and smiled grimly. “These drugs offer happiness,” he said, “but it’s a happiness that Is as illusory and absurd as the story they tell of the sailor. “The sailor, you know, said to a

beautiful girl whom he desired to marry: “‘I know I ain’t no good-looker, mamma, with me knock knees and broken nose and all, but I m tattooed all over, and think of the money you’d save not goin’ to the pictures.’” Fur Not Highly Prized The fur-bearing animal, the fisher, is found in forested and uncivilized parts of Canada, and the northern United States, where it formerly ranged southward to Tennessee. Its ♦

he led there for the next three years Is shown by tiie following quotation from the Scribner memorial edition of Roosevelt's collected works: I do not bclh i e that there was ever any life more attractive to a vigorous young fellow than life on u cattle ranch in those days. It was a fine, healthy life, too; it taught a man self-reliance, lar.lihood and the value of instant decision—in short, the virtues that ought to come from life in the open country. 1 enjoy.-d the life to the full, j After the first year I built on the Elkhorn ranch a long, low, ranch house of Io wn logs, with a veranda, ai d with, in addition to the other rooms, i a bedroom lor myself, and a sitting room with a big fireplace. 1 got out a rocking chair—l am very fond of rocking chairs—and enough books to fill two or three shelves, and a rubber bathtub so that I could get a bath And then Ido not see how anyone could have lived more comfortably. We had buffalo robe# and bearskins of our own killing. We always kept the house clean—using the word in a rather large sense. There were at least | two rooms that were always warm, even in the ! bitterest weather; and w» had plenty to eat. Commonly the mainstay of every m« .'.l w as game of our own killing, usually antelope or deer; sometimes grouse or ducks, and occasionally in the earlier days, buffalo or elk. . . . We also bad flour and bacon, sugar, salt end canned tomatoes And later, when some of the men married and brought out their wives we had all kinds of good things, such as jams nnd jellies, made from the wild plums and the buffalo b rries. and potatoes from one forlorn little garden patch. My home ran^h stood on the river brink. (Note the site is m rked X in the picture shown above.) Er -m the low, long veranda, shaded by leafy cot- 1 tonwoods, one looks across sandbars and shallows to a strip of meadowland, behind which rises a line of sheer cliffs and grassy plateaus. This veranda is a pleasant place in tiie summer evenings when ! a cool breeze stirs along the river and blows in i the faces of the tired men, who 101 l back in theit J rocking ehairs (what true American does not enjoy a rocking chair?), book in hand—though they <1 > n t often read the book, but rock gently to and fro, razing sleepily out at the weird-looking buttes ; opposite, until their sharp lines grow indistinct and purple in the afterglow of tiie sunset Rough board shelvts held a number of books, without which some of tiie evenings would have 1 been long indeed. No ranchman who loves sport can afford *o be without Van Dyke’s "Still Hunter.” Dodge's "Plains of the Great West,” or Caton’s “De< r and Antelope of America,” and Coup’s “Birds I of the Northwest” will be valued if he cares at all for natural history. A western plainsman is re- '■ minded every day by the names of imminent land- 1 marks among which he rides that the country was known to men who spoke French long before any of his own kinsfolk came to it, and hence he reads with a double interest Parkman’s histories <>f the early Canadians As for Irvin, Hawthorne, Cooper, Lowell and the other standbys, I suppose no man. East or West, would willingly be long without them; while for lighter readings there are dreamy Ik Marvel, Burroughs’ breezy pages, and the quaint, pathetic character sketches of the southern writers Cable, Craddock, Macon, Joel Chandler Harris, and sweet Sherwood Bonner. And when he is in i the Bad Lands one feels as if they somehow look I just exactly as Poe’s tales and poems sound. That ranch bouse which ho mentions now stands on the state capital grounds at Bismarck as a memorial to the great American who was once ‘ a citizen of North Dakota, but otherwise tiie scenes of his ranching days, which will be included in the propo- ‘d national park, are but little changed from what they were when T. R. rode on the round-up or hunted for game there. And North Dakotans, who point to the fact that it was here that tin* future Rough Rider of Span-ish-American war days, governor of New York and vice president of the United States, learned his lessons of “self-reliance, hardihood and the value of instant decision” which made him one of our truly great Presidents, believe that all Americans who hold his memory in reverence will be interested in seeing tiie new national park j established in their state, not only because of the j scenic wonders which it will preserve, but as a fitting memorial to the man it will honor when it bears the name of Roosevelt National park. j

fur in winter Is good and Is much cuught in Europe. These animals are caught without difficulty in large traps baited with meat. The biological survey says that very few people raise the fisher. The demand for the fur is rather steady, but not great. Has Peen Found Ou! “When we talk about a good man gone wrong,” said Uncle Eben, “de fact Is generally no mo’ dan a bad man lias been discovered.”—Washington Star. I

Wheat Straw Is of Real Value Much of Our Farm Land Is ; Deficient in Humus and Fertility. “The real value of wheat straw Is not what It is worth on the market or for feeding live st<wk, but what it is worth in the form of fertility and humus, when returned to the soil,” says H. M. Bainer, director. Southwestern Wheat Improvement association. Continuing, he says. “Much of our farm land is deficient in humus and fertility, and every |M»und of wheat straw or stubble that is burned niakes this condition worse. Fertility Removed. “Analysis of cultivated soils in the Southwest indicate that as much as | one-third of the original nitrogen and one-half of the original organic matter has already been lost Experi- I mental data Indicate that an average wheat crop removes from each acre of soil approximately 20 pounds of nitrogen. 8 pounds of phosphoric acid, and 10 pounds of potash. To replace this fertility, in the form of a com mercial fertilizer, would cost something like $4 50 an acre. The fertility represented in returning the straw to the soil is probably worth $1 an acre, but the greatest value will come from the humus it will add. Best Results With Straw. “For best results, each crop of straw should be worked into the soil right away, but if this cannot tie done, i It should be rotted and returned to the soil in the form of manure later The harvester-thresher has solved the straw problem, and it has been fairly well solved by the header. Bundle i straw should tie stacked in feed lots, where the feeding and tramping by the stock will assist in converting .t I into manure. Such straw as cannot ' tie handled through the feed lot or j the fields should lie piled in out of the ' way places, with lots of surface ex posure. where it can remain until rot ted and is ready to be hauled out as manure. “A soil that Is deficient in humus is also deficient in fertility. Humus adds life to a soil, it prevents pud dling. cracking, baking and blowing Humus Improves the physical condi tion of the soil, making it mellow, friable and easier to cultivate. It also assists in bolding moisture, thus helping to carry crops through periods of drought." Lignin Is an Unutilized Farm Waste of Big Value Whether or not you already know what lignin Is and what It is for. you are likely to hear ami learn more about it within the next few years Lignin Is a constituent of agricultural wastes, such as corncobs, constaiks. and straw. It has been almost entire l.v wasted. Several years ago the chemists of the United States Depart ment of Agriculture undertook to salvage some of the value of these by-products of the farms, and in the course of time evolved processes for ths manufacture of furfural which is now being used for many purposes The government discontinued the fur furai ex[M‘riments when commercial interests took over the work. Lignin makes up from 20 to 30 (>er cent of the dry material of these wastes. The chemists have succeeded in converting lignin into varnishes, dyestuffs, and various aromatic chem kuls that give promise of finding their places in the commercial chemical field. “Lignin," says Doctor Browne, assistant chief of chemistry and soils, “may be called the greatest of all un utilized agricultural wastes,’’ and he continues with the significant state ment that “it occupies with respect to industrial possibilities the position , held by coal tar a century ago." Use of Silage Some may hesitate lo put good fields of corn into silo this year i:i view of rhe possibility oi a good price for corn. The feeding value of silage is increased in proportion to the grain in the silage and consequently the grain needed in the ratirni is red med ■ Experiments indicate that the loss of nutrients from the corn is very low as compared with the great saving of the stover in a silo. o-*-o-»-c-»-o-»-o-»-oO»-Oo*-o-»-o»o-*o-*-c A 0 j Agricultural Squibs • Q.«-0.*.0'*.0-»-0-*- oO ^X>-*-O-»-O-*-O*-O-»- o Have you made any fencing plans? * • * Sow peas just as early as you can work the ground. • • • Now is a good time to fest your I seed corn. Use ft n kernels from each ' ear. Start keeping farm records nds winter when work is slack You may he too busy to start next spring. Long winter evenings will not seem 1 as long or gloomy if a farm lighiinu i plant di-pels the early falling dark I ness. Planted seeds must have air in or der to sprout—which means don r cover ’em too deep About twice th> ‘ thickness of the seeds is rhe right | depth. A farm machine that stands out till j winter not only depreciates in valm 1 tun requires a lot of extra rime am' | paiieme to get it readv to run when it is needed again. • • • Put the garden on new poil this year. The garden spot on many farms is the garden spot for a life time. Diseases gel firmly rooted. s<»il becomes depleted—change occasion ally. • • • resting seed corn with a rag doll » probably the cheapest and easiest method. Il also gives an accurate test of •vaeh ear s ability lo grow, if care is taken to keen the cloth moist and at the proper temperature.

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