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The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1901-05-31

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The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1901-05-31

Il. HiHr..~-Editor and Proprietor
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-01-30
PROF. BAKERS IDEAS.
Noted Civil Engineer Explodes Some
Of the Fa1laciOus Arguments of
Good Roads Advocates.

The Technograph, published at the
University of Illinois, has an article
by Prof. I. O. Baker, civil engineer,
on "Fallacies of Good Road Econom-
ics," in which he alleges that "falla-
cious arguments" are sometimes used
in behalf of good roads. 1t is often
said, for example, that a horse in Eu-
rope does twice as much work as one
in America and that bad roads there
fore costs the American farmer the
cost Of feeding one-half of the horses
plus the interest on their value. But
the premise is mere guess, and the
argument assumes that all horses are
on the road all the time, which is
great error. The farmer, moreover,
needs more horses to raise bis crops
than to haul them to Market
It is often estimated that the saving
per horse due to improved roads is
from SIS to $25 per year. This sum,
multiplied by the number of horses
given in the last census report, is put
down as the annual loss due to bad
roads. There is no evidence of the
actual loss. Possibly horse could
earn $25 more year on good road
than on bad one, though farmers
assert that horses are damaged fully
this much by being driven OF stone
roads. But in fact only small per-
centage of the horses of the country
are on the road all the time. 1t is not
at all clear that with better roads
farmers could keep fewer horses. The
hauling of crops to market is an Incl
dent of the farmers work, not his
constant employment. AS respects
the conclusions of the United States
road inquiry office, circular ~, the
professor thinks they rest on very
imperfect data. 1t is absurd to say,
he thinks, that the average cost Of
hauling crops to the market is IS cents
per ton per mile and that the cost
of marketing the crop is 26.6 per cent.
of its value. The real advantages Of
good roads are that they are more
comfortable and less expensive to use
during parts of the year; facilitate
rural mail delivery; enable children
to attend school with less difficulty;
add to the social opportunities of the
farmer. 1.-THE fundamental defect in
in the construction and maintenance
of American highways says Prof.
Baker, is the lack of intelligent and
effective supervision" Baltimore Sun.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-01-30
GLEANINGS OF FACT.
Britain makes aoo,ooo,ooo yards of
linen a year.

Britain makes 300,000,000 yards of
linen year.
Forty-fve alligators in Milwaukee
show died of pneumonia one day re-
Gently.
A St. Louis negro has devised an ele-
vator in which screw takes the place
Of weights and pulleys.
Filipinos dread exile more than i'm
prisonment or even death. It is said
that the natives are so attached to their
island that emigration is unknown.
The first iron war vessel built in the
world was the United States steamship
Michigan, which is still on duty on the
great lakes, and has often been seen in
Chicago.
The annual report on the Michigan
state penitentiary at Jackson shows a
total population of 72O, the lowest in
rs years. The tailors' shop had but
one man at work.
The town of Eatonville, Fla, has
1900 inhabitants, with not a single
white among them. It has it's full
quota of public officials, bank and
other business establishments requi-
site in town of it's size.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-01-30

fy the water anywhere needed. The
sketch shows the arrangement of the
system.
About six or seven years ago, during
very dry spell, the water in the
reservoir became very low and the
old ram afforded US considerable an
noyance on account of there being
only one stroke, which necessitated as
much supply water at one time as an
other. therefore we had to keep the
ram turned off until the water was
needed in some of the buildings.
About that time at the county fair, [
happened to see another hydraulic ram
which looked so simple, and having a
governor to regulate the strokes in
pumping, which means everything
when the reservoir is getting low, that
I purchased one and placed it in posi-
ton and have had no trouble since.
On one occasion in particular its use
fulness was very prominent. A fire
originated in the bottle department.
OF my dairy, between the inner and
outer sidings, which was impossible to
reach without the use of thrown
stream. but by breaking little of the
outer siding and inserting the nozzle
of the hose the fire was overcome in a
very short time. thus saving every
building on the place, which otherwise
would have surely burned.-T. w.
Stewart, in Farm and Home.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-01-30
A VETERAN SPEAKS.
The Honorable Moses b. Crane OF
Tacoma, WASH, Tells How Old
Soldiers May Help Themselves.

TACOMA, WASH, JAN Fl, 1901
Especial. ~ used to have Heart Dis
ease, but thanks to Dodd's Kidney Pills
I now have Hearts Ease.
Five years ago, was continual
sufferer of Heart Disease. Exposure
during the war, and tendency to
grow over-feshy had greatly aggraNat-
ed this dread disease. often had to sit
up half the night, had it so bad when
would lie down. Life looked pretty
blue to me, as thought there was no
relief, until one day read an ADVERTISE
ment of Dodd's Kidney Pills. bought
box that same day, and it was the best
days work ever did. Before had used
all the first box could eat and sleep
better than had done for many years,
and after three months faithful treat
ment my health was. completely re-
stored. I am an old man now, but my
step is as elastic and my brain as clear
as when was thirty years of age"
These are the words of the Hon.
Moses B. Crane, secretary of Odin
Lodge, No. 1913, I. 0. O. F., of this city.
The Hon. Mr.. Crane is also Senior Vice
Commander of G. A. r. Post No. $, Ia
coma.
Those who know Mr.. Crane have the
fullest confidence in his honesty and
turthfulness, and know that he would
not give this unsolicited testimonial
unless he had actually experienced the
relief which he indicates in his letter.
Dodd's Kidney Pills are having Won
derful sale among Mr.. Cranes friends
and their name islegion-in this part
of the country. There does not seem to
be single case of Heart Disease, Kid
ney or Bladder Weakness, or Rheuma-
tism, that Dodd's Kidney Pills do not
permanently cure.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-01-30
PLANT MORE TREES.
Sections Where Timber Is Scarce
Suffer More from Drought Than
Wooded Regions.

More even distribution OF the for
est growth over farming sections is
needed, for as it now is the forest
growth in mountains and other Sec
tions is unfit for agricultural pur-
poses. The sections best adapted to
farming are largely void of trees. In
time of drought the sections which
suffer most severely are those where
timber is most scarce. Southern In
diana, which has been cleared too
much, years ago when there was still
much timber standing, produced far
better crops than now. Rains were
then much better distributed through
the growing season and showers were
frequent and mild, but now rain too
often falls in heavy, sudden down.
pours, often doing damage to growing
crops. These severe rains are usual
ly followed by hard winds that soon
dry the moisture from the land in
the growing season, and in winter
the wind having uninterrupted sweep
drifts the snow in great banks along
fences and leaves wheat fields bare.
We cannot undo the harm done by
too excessive clearing, but one can
improve matters by planting trees in
shelter belts on the south and west
sides of our farms. For a perpetual
wind-break, the Norway spruce un-
doubtedly leads. A good shelter belt
should contain four rows of spruce,
ten feet between rows and trees five
feet apart in the rows, and the trees
placed so as to break the spaces be-
tween rows. Spruce seedlings can be
got from nurseries when about ten
inches high for about three dollars per
hundred. Be very careful in moving
evergreens not to let the roots get
dry, as this means certain death to
the tree. Robert Killins, in Farm
and Home.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-01-30
Deem Plan ting of Trees.

1t is the general experience that
deep planting is harmful and con-
trary to nature. Trees that are
planted deeper than they stood in
the nursery row will make vigorous
growth for few years, as the wood
covered will send out ROOTS. but the
old roots make no growth, finally de-
cay, and sometimes cause the whole
tree to die. We consider it very i'm
portant that trees should not be
planted deeper than they stood in the
nursery row. In planting straight
sticks, by the Springfellow method,
with the lateral roots all taken off,
the trees may be set several inches
deeper than they stood in the nur-
sery.-G. A. Atwood, in Farmers
Voice.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-01-30
The Prairie Dog to Pass.

The prairie dog must go. The lit
tie fellow has chung to his home on the
plains more tenaciously than any other
of the inhabitants of our desert waste,
but has at last reached the end of his
tether. Agricultural Secretary Will
son has decided that prairie dogs kill
the grass and ruin good grazing land,
and must therefore give way to agri-
cultural civilization. Chemists have
discovered a mixture which will make
whole villages of prairie dogs fight for
the first bite, but which is sure to
bring disaster in the end. 1t is believed
that the dog can be destroyed in the
course of a few years, and that with his
disappearance western agriculture
will be rid of most insidious foe
National Stockman.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-01-30

mensurate with caution, to ford the
Sweetwater above it's junction with
the Platte, to travel by night if need
be and hide by day if he could, to let
no man or woman know the purpose
of his going or the destination of his
journey, but to land that package safe
at Warrior Gap before the moon should
wane.
And all this Burleigh must have
known when he, John Folsom, shook
his hand at parting after tea that
evening, and had then gone hopefully
to drive his girls to Emory to sec
his solid er boy, and found him busy
with the sudden orders, received not
ten minutes before their coming.
Something in Burleigh's almost trem-
ulous anxiety to get that money in
the morning, his ill-disguised chagrin
at Folsom's refusal, something in the
eagerness with which, despite the fu-
rious denunciation of the moment be-
fore, he jumped at Folsom's offer to
put up the needed money if he would
withhold the threatened charges-all
had continued to keep him thinking
during the night. Could it be that
Burleigh stood in need of all this
money to cover other sums that he
had misapplied? Could it be that he
had planned this sudden sending of
young Dean on a desperate mission in
revenge that he could not take Off
cially? There were troops at Frayne
going forward in strong force with
in the week. There were other Off
GERS within call, dozen of them.
who had done nowhere near the
amount of field service performed
by Dean. He, q troop commander
just in from long and toilsome
marches and from perilous duty, had
practically been relieved from the
command of his troop, told to take ten
men and run the gauntlet through
the swarming Sioux. The more Fol
som thought the more he believed
that he had grave reason for his sus-
picion, and reason equally grave for
calling on the quartermaster for ex-
PLANTATION. He reached the corral
gate. It was locked, but little
postern in the stockade let him
through. One or two sleepy hands
appeared about the stables, but the
Office was deserted. Straight to Bur
leigh's quarters he went and banged
at the door. It took three bangs
to bring a servant.
II wish to see your master at once.
Tell him I am here" and as the serv-
ant slowly shambled up the stairs,
Folsom entered the sitting-room. A
desk near the window was open and
it's contents Uttered about. The draw
ers in heavy bookcase were open
and papers were strewn upon the
floor. The folding doors to the din
ing-room were open. Decanters, COB
lets, cigar stumps and heel taps were
scattered over the table. Guest or
host, or both. had left things in riot
Gus shape. Then down came the serv-
ant. scared look in his eyes.
THE major isn't in, sir. His bed
hasn't been occupied, an the captains
gone, too. Their uniforms are there,
though"
Five minutes later, on a borrowed
horse, John Folsom was galloping like
mad for his home. A door in the
high board fence at the rear of his
house shot open just as he was dart
ing through the lane that led to the
stable. A woman's form appeared in
the gap-the last thing that ne saw
for dozen hours, for the horse SHE'D
violently, hurting the rider headlong
to the ground.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-01-30
HOW TO DRIVE POSTS.

stretch tight on line where posts are
to be driven. Saw block six inches
long and drive it into pins one-half
inch square. Drive a pin where each
post is to set.
Get a mattock, the hoe blade of
which is three or three and a half
inches broad and nine inches long and
the opposite side with an AK blade
four inches broad and six inches long.
Use the ak and make a mark even
with the pins to indicate where posts
are to be set. Use the ak again, sink
ing deep on either side of pin. Then
with two or three vigorous digs with
the hoe blade, dig out pin and all,
thus leaving a hole 10 or ~ inches
deep for setting post, leaving the
sides solid to hold posts from giving
sideways, as there is no danger of
them going edgewise, as the entire
fence joins in support. Raise post
above hole and settle down hard,
which will cause it to sink still deep
err. But eight or ten inches will then
be left for the post to be driven. A
few solid jolts from a 2O-pound post
maui will settle it securely.
To gauge the depth, use straight
stick four or six inches longer than
the posts are to stand out of ground.
Put gauge mark at bottom and a
plumb bob on string to reach near
the ground. Set this gauge three or
four inches from post to be driven,
lean stick to which the string is at
tached about six degrees and govern
the fence post by the plumb. Then
use platform, box or stand in wag
on, and driving the posts will be of
but little labor.-A. Byers, in Farm
and Home.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-01-30
CHAPTER XVI.

At three O'Clock in the morning,
while the stars were still bright in
the eastern sky, the little party OF
troopers, Dean at their head, had
ridden away from the twinkling lights
of camp, and long before sunrise had
crossed the first divide to the north.
and alternating: trot, lope and walk
had put miles between them and Fort
Emory before the drums of the in
fantry beat the call for guard mount
ing.
At ten o'clock the party halted un-
der some spreading willows, deep
in cleft of the bold, high hills that
rolled away toward the Sweetwater
valley. Horses were unsaddled and
picketed out to Craze. A little cook
fire was started close to the spring
that fed the tiny brook, trickling
away down the narrow ravine, and in
few moments the aroma of coffee
and of appetizing slices of bacon greet
ed the welcoming nostrils of the hun
cry men. The sun that had risen
clear and dazzling was now obscured
by heavy masses of clouds, and time
and again Dean cast anxious eyes
aloft, for storm seemed sweeping
eastward from the distant Wahsatch
range, and long before the little COM
mand had dived downward from the
heights into the depths of this wild,
romantic and contracted valley, all
the rolling upland toward Green river,
far to the west, lay under the pail of
heavy and forbidding hacks of hur-
rying vapor. Coffee and breakfast fin
ished, Dean climbed the steep bluff
overhanging the spring, a faithful
sergeant following, and what he saw
was sufficient to determine immediate
action.
Saddle up. Well push ahead at
once"
For an instant the veteran trooper
looked dissent, but discipline pre-
vailed.
''The lieutenant knows that Carey's
not in yet" he ventured to say, as he
started back down the narrow game
trail which they had climbed. !
"Yes; but yonder. he comes and SO
does the storm. We can't be caught in
this canyon in case of a hard rain.
Let Carey have some coffee and a bite,
if he feels we'll enough. Then we'll
push on"
Ordina rily when making: summer
marches over the range, the first ttswa-
ter camp on the Sweet-water trail
was here at Canon Springs. On the
road to Frayne, which crossed the
brook ten miles to the east, all wagon
trains nd troops not on forced march
made Similar camp. In the case of
scouting detachments or little parties
sent out from Emory, it was always
customary to spend the first night and
make the first camp on the Box Elder
at furthermost, then to push on,
ready and refreshed, the following
day. Dean well knew that to get the
best work out of his horses he should
start easily, and up to nine o'clock he
had fully intended. to make the usuI:
camp at the Springs. But once be-
fore, within - few years.. q big scout
ing party camping. in the gorge Of the
Box Elder had been surprised by one
Of those sudden, sweeping, storms, and
before they could strike tents, pack
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-01-30
CHAPTER XV.-CoNTINUED.

CHAPTER XV.-CoNTINUED.
In broad daylight, at his official
desk, in the presence and hearing of
officers, civilians and enlisted men, as
the soldier lawyers would have it.,
staff official of high rank had been
cowhided by a cavalry subaltern, and
that subaltern, of all others, the only
brother of Folsom's fair guest, Jessie
Dean-the boy who had saved the
lives of Folsom's son and his sons i'm
periled household, and had thereby en-
deared himself to him as had no other
young soldier in the service. And now,
what fate was staring him in the
face? Released from arrest but day
or so before upon appeal of the Off
Ger whom he had so soon thereafter
violently assaulted, Marshall Dean
had committed one of the gravest
crimes against the provisions of the
mutiny act. Without warrant or ex-
cuse he had struck, threatened, as
saulted, ETC.. a superior officer, who
was in the discharge of his duty at
the time. NO matter what the prov
ocation-and in this case it would be
held grossly inadequate-there could
be only one sentence summary dis
missal from the army. Just as sure
as shooting, if Burleigh preferred
charges that boy was ruined.
And four mortal hours that afternoon
it looked as though nothing could hold
Burleighs hand. The man was livid
with wrath. First he would have the
youngsters blood, and then he'd dis
miss him. Folsom pointed out that
he couldn't we'll do both, and by two
o'clock it simmered down to demand
for instant court-martial. Burleigh
wrote a furious telegram to Omaha.
He had been murderously assaulted in
his office by Lieut.. Dean. He demand
ed his immediate arrest and trial. Fol-
Every possible amende would be made,
but no! Indeed, not until nearly four
o'clock could Folsom succeed in the
last resort at his disposal. At that
hour he had lent the quartermaster
600 on his unindorsed note of hand,
on condition that no proceedings what
ever should be taken against Mr.. Dean,
Folsom guaranteeing that every
amende should be made that fair arbi-
tration could possibly dictate. He
had even gone alone to the bank and
brought the cash on Burleigh's repre-
sentation that it might hurt his credit
to appear as borrower. He had even
pledged his word that the transaction
should be kept between themselves.
And then there had been a scene with
that drunken wretch Newhal. What
possible hold had he on Burleigh that
he should be allowed to come Keeling
and storming into the Office and de-
handing money and lots of money
this, too, in the presence of total
strangers? And Burleigh had actual
ly paid him then and there some hun
dreds of dollars, to the stupefaction of
the fellow-who had come for row.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-01-30
HOW TO HANDLE POSTS.
Dressing and Setting Them in q
Proper Manner Is a Task Re-
curing Some Care

If to be driven two feet deep, dress
two sides in a direct line from lower
dotted line of a, II inches long, from
shoulder to point. making one-inch
point. Then dress the edges from IL
to IS inches. Edges may be rounded
from shoulder to point. A post dressed
more on one side than another, as
at b and c, will drive crooked. Stake
the fence line perfectly straight, u.s.
ing threefoot stakes. Then take a
one-half-inch rope 100 or 200 feet long,
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-01-30
FARM WATER SUPPLY.
Money Invested in a Small Hydraulic
Engine Pays Dividends in
Cash and Comfort.

AS near as I can remember. there
has been hydraulic ram on this farm
for &c years. The first ram put in was
used to force water to a watering
trough in front of the buildings and
also through a pipe leading to the
past 16 years, the time we have lived
here, it has been greatly changed and
we have furnished water to every
building on the place. Water is sup
piled on every floor. including bath
room, water closet. etc. The tank in
the attic holds 600 gallons. The pres.
sure of it makes sufficient force to car.