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Charlevoix county herald., 1905-01-14
For Cooperation
Among Farmers

This paper has often lamented the
absence Of and positive need for, Co
operation by farmers in many OF their
no other occupation gives such favor
able opportunities for mutual help and
cooperation as does that of farming.
Even in the primary processes of pre-
pairing the land for cropping, an i'm
mense saving could be effected in
community by the joint possession of
complete set of the latest improved
implements and tools. A seeder and
drill will do far more work in a sea-
son than the average farmer requires,
and two or three of each of those i'm
plements would do the planting for a
big district, instead of, as now, lying
idle after few days use. OF course,
cooperation Gas its name implies)
would mean the mutual help" of the
co-operators, and its successful work
ing would necessitate mutual forbear
ance and self-denial at busy seasons
when farm work was pressing. Har
vesting operations would present fav-
orable opportunities for economical
cooperation, inasmuch as one harvest
err, cornrcutter, etc., would be profit
ably employed long enough to pay
large proportion of its cost. And so
on with threshing operations, corn
cutting for the silo, shredding, and the
multifarious work for which special
implements are necessary for the most
expeditions and economical perform
ance of their several duties. But the
occasion for these remarks is prompt
ed by the statement of the satisfac-
tory results of cooperative owner
ship of stallion by company of
farmers in Taylor county, Iowa. They
gave $4,000 for a thoroughbred Per-
cheron stallion, Finco, imported from
France. Aug. 2S, 1903, by Charles II.
Kirk of Charlton, Iowa. The cost of
the stallion to the farmers company
was $4,000. So far he has served
eighty-eight mares at a service fee
of SIS, which is charged both mem
bers and non-members. From this it
will be seen that the horse has nearly
earned half his cost price showing
the investment to be a good one, and
the members of the company are well
satisfied. No doubt they will be still
better satisfied as time passes and
the colts raised begin to show signs
of superior breeding and greater
utility"
The same policy could be pursued
with high-class pure-bred bulls, and.
in some cases, swine. The fact that
there is only one pure-bred bull for
thirty-five to forty farms in this coun-
try is strong evidence of the want of
cooperation in cattle-raising with us.
Not many farmers have use for the
exclusive use of a bull, and not af-
ford-or fancy they can MOTTO keep
one themselves. How easy, then, for
two or three, or four to club together
to buy a breeder which will in few
years enhance the value of their stock
far beyond its present selling price
Journal of Agriculture.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-01-14

tend the play, and even the opera. in
hats. This practice is causing a rev.
olution in the form of headgear made
fashionable for the purpose.
The bold plunge of discarding the
theater hat altogether is not con-
templated. The position of affairs is
only to create new work for the mil
liners.
The illustrated specimen of this fas-
cinating pursuit in the cause of 9TH
er peoples vision of the stage is made
of the newest and most modish lace
there is, all of stiffened gold, and a
little moonlight white tissue that glis-
tens like silver and forms the apology
of a framework the cap possesses.
Add to this paradise plume, the air
lest and lightest form of feather there
is, made of silver and gold with a
dash of pink and rose red in it, and
the whole delightful arrangement is
complete.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-01-14

A grizzled, sun-tanned, Manufactured
man, whose face bore the stamp OF
hardship and adventure, was sitting
in the smoking room of New York
hotel. He happened to glance at
calendar and saw that the day was
Dec. 81.
by Jove!" he exclaimed. $50 TO-
morrow is New Years day. Unless
something happens before then, it will
be the quietest New Year I've spent in
twenty-three years.
I'm all that time have never been
so near my old home in Scotland as
am now. Often I've tried to get home,
but somehow or other New Year has
always found me in tight corner in
some out-of-the-way part of the world"
This mans experience is typical Of
that of many of the globe-trotters in
this age, when people are so fond of
"going to and fro in the earth and
walking up and down in it, like GER
tain parsonage in the Book of Job.
New Years day, 1897, found one
Englishman facing death from hunger
and thirst on board life raft 800
miles southeast of Madagascar.
His ship foundered seven days be-
fore in a hurricane. The boats were
smashed by the fury Of the waves and
some of the crew washed overheard.
The rest made a raft out of planks and
spars, but during the night high seas
swept over the frail structure and car
RED away most of the water and food.
"All we had left" said the man who
went through this terrible experience,
'were a few tins of potted meat, a
small barrel of biscuit anrd the small
est of the water casks. That was all
we had to keep life in twenty-five hun
CRY men.
1--WE made It last as long as we
Gould, but in four days everything was
gone. 'rSeme of the men fell into de-
spair and talked about throwing them
selves overheard. Perhaps they would
have done so, but during the night Of
the fourth day half dozen big sharks
swan around the raft in circles. The
sea was phosphorescent and we could
see them plainly in the waves of 1ivid
fire which they stirred up as they
swan around. Even the half-crazed
men who had talked about drowning
themselves shrank from death in a
sharks nav and stayed upon the raft
Next morning | saw by pocket
diary which carried that the day was
Dec 80. To keep UP the mems spirits
told them I had dreamed we were
going TO be rescued on New Years
day. That appealed to the supersti-
ton inherent more or less in all sail
ors, so l kept on telling them a ship
would come along and pick us up on
that day sure, until began to believe
IT myself. We even discussed grave
1y whether the sail would heave in
sight In the morning or the afternoon,
and ope man who said he guessed it
would be toward evening became quite
unpopular.
New Years morning broke with
dead calm on the oily, blistering sea
and blazing sky that aggravated our
thirst tenfold. There was not ship
in sight all morning-nothlng except
that CLASSY sheet Of water and that
cruel, cloudless sky above us. II was
the same in the afternoon, and our
hopes fell as the sun sank slowly to-
ward the western horizon.
"Just as we were beginning TO de-
spair, one Of the men screamed hyster.
tcslly , ID PORTED to q thin trail Of
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-01-14

smoke on the sky line. 1t was New
Zealand liner headed straight for our
raft. In a couple Of hours her doctor
was giving us a hearty dinner and
Stops and weak brandy and water"
This same man spent another New
Years day off Cape Horn. He sailed
from Valparaiso in a British wind
TANNER" expecting to reach his Scot
fish home in time to spend his first
Christmas there for many years. But
Gains delayed her for weeks in the
South Pacific ocean, and when she got
off Cape Horn she ran into a tearing
gale, which brought her miZZen top
mast down on deck and ripped out all
her sails. For days she drifted help
lessly, exposed to the full fury of the
western gale.
The crew labored industriously at
rigging up spare and bending new
sails. 1t was task of tremendous
difficulty, for giant combers rolled
over the forecastle head continually.
filling the vessel amidships with green
seas.
Suddenly in the midst of this toll an
apprentice piped out:
II say, fellers, this is New Years
day. Have you all forgotten it,"
Delay your tongue" retorted the
gruff old mate. There won't be any
New Year dinner to-day, except your
usual whack of lobscouse."
a 80 tha
work from the poop rail and heard the
conversation.
Cook" he bawled out Lay aft
here!"
The cook came out of his galley and
the captain asked what he could give
them for a fancy dinner.
'Ncthin' but split peas, sir, an salt
horse and marmalade. There amt no
turkeys in my store-room, sir" he said
Lets catch one o. them BIRDS
suggested an old tar, pointing to sew
eral addresses which were circling
about the wake of the ship. We'll
stretch a point this day and be for
given for it, l guess"
After several attempts an albatross
was captured with big fishhook bait
ed with salt pork and dragged aboard
triumphantly. Served up nice and
brown and swimming in gravy, 1t
looked so much like a real turkey that
1t warmed up the mems hearts and
made them think of the holidays they
had spent at home. But when they
tasted it the resemblance ceased. 1t
was fishy and tough. The meat was
like knotted rope yarn and the gravy
suggested tar However, it was a
New Year dinner all the same, and IT
was enjoyed as keenly as the finest
feast ashore that day.
Al. American traveller, who is well
known commercially in the West In
dies, was mixed up in one Of the peren-
NAL revolutions of Hayti in his hot
and foolish youth. Unhappily, he al
lied himself with the weaker side, and
one New Years eve found himself one
of a small band of desperadoes de-
Tending the stockaded town of Mira
goane against a government army,
which outnumbered them by more
than 100 to 1.
During the night the government
soldiers forced their way into the town.
Only about thirty of the defenders
were left alive.
Stand them up in line and shoot
thsnA" commanded Gen. Manigat. >
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-01-14
Received Letter From Dead Friend

1t seemed an odd turn of fate, but
Just ten minutes after Congressman
Burleigh of Maine had received by
telephone the news of the death of his
friend, Col Stevens. he received let
ter in the colonels own handwriting,
penned to him the afternoon before
in as steady and legible hand as ever.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-01-14
Paid Freak Election Bet.

One of the Danbury, Conn. letter
carriers paid an election bet by which
he was compelled to travel over his
route with one leg of his trousers
turned halfway up to the knee.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-01-14

/ GLOBE TROTTERS' NEW YEARS
Love of Adventure Has Landed Many Men n
s OF Discomfort Danger

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
NEW YEARS

But they were too weak to stand.
All of them were wounded, half-starved
and fever-stricken. So the govern
ment troops propped them up in chairs
and shot them as they lolled there.
Only the white man was spared, in
order that his case might be inquired
into.
When he protested to Gen. Manigat
against the cruelty of shooting help
less captives that triumphant warrior
merely blew a cloud of cigarette smoke
and remarked calmly: "C'est la
guerre."
Late on New Years eve," said the
American, they tried me by court
martial. When | woke up on New
Years morning I was in the calaboose.
sentenced to be shot at shutdown. 1t
wasn't very pleasant waiting. was
quite glad when a gold-laced officer
entered the cell toward evening. with
a paper informing me that his excel.
lency, the citizen president had been
pleased to pardon me, in consideration
of the request of the American minis
ter and of the fact that it was New
Years day.
Il believe they had never intended
to shoot me, but only to brighten me.
for they hardly dared to touch a white
man whose country owned a navy that
might lombard their ports. Anyhow,
| got out of Jail in time to eat my
dinner with some American and Eng.
fish friends on a coffee plantation near
Miragoane."
An American globe trotter tells how
he once spent New Years day hunt
ing crocodile in Jamaica, West In
dies.
After long hunt the crocodile was
found buried beneath the mud in
shallow bend of river on the planta-
ton. The hunters only carried small
shotguns, which were useless against
the beasts tough hide, covered as it
was several inches deep in mud.
But the planter was a man of re-
source. He sent hurriedly for negroes
and set them to work to construct two
strong walls of bamboo poles across
the bed of the stream, thus inclosing
the crocodile in prison from which
he could find no escape.
After the walls were built every
body hid quietly in the tap grass on
the banks and waited. Hour after
hour they laid there. Their luncheon
consisted of sandwiches and q flask of
rum punch.
1t was not until the end of the aft.
ernoon that the crocodile, finding il
could not break through the bamboo
barriers, crept out of the water Be-
fore it could drag the whole of its
huge carcass out of the mud IL was
lassoed and hauled toward the bank by
twenty willing hands.
Too surprised to offer resistance, the
beast at first suffered itself to be al
most dragged on the bank; but it
caught on the edge with its forepaws
and made desperate struggle. TWEEN
ty yelling negroes hung on to the 9TH
er end OF the rope, but could not drag
that crocodile up; they could only
prevent II from Hopping back into the
water again. Honors were even In
that terrific tug-of-war.
At last yoke of eight oxen had to
be brought. They soon dragged the
beast to the bank, where 1t was tied
around . tree and dispatched with
ayes
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-01-14

Sheep once fat and then allowed to
become poor never do well
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-01-14

This ladder has been used with
great success in Manchester, Eng
land. 1t needs no supporting wall.
and is very useful for raising firemen
with their hose to a point far above
a flaming structure.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-01-14
Matinee Hats.

In Paris it is customary for the
feminine theater going public to at
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-12-22
SOURCE OF VOLCANIC ACTIVITY

In recently published volume on
volcanoes Prof. C. Dcelter undertakes
to tell why volcanoes have eruptions.
Melted rock such as is flung from We
degrees Fahrenheit, SO that it becomes
liquid only far down in the earth, per-
haps 60 or 100 mics. Below the
outer crust of cooled and solidifed
rocks there must be larger zone of
rock which still remains solid, because
its temperature is less than that of
the melting point corresponding to
the pressure under which it rests, and
below that again there must be rock
or magma in a state of fusion; it is to
this magma that Prof. Doelter looks
for the primary source of all volcanic
activity. At the same time the depth
at which this primary reservoir of
magma lies and the pressure under
which 1t is confined are so great that
direct eruption from 1t is inconceiv-
able. but when, by movements in the
everything crust or otherwise, a chan
mel is opened the magma may rise to
a depth where it is surrounded by
rock at lower temperature than the
melting point. In these circumstances
qualification begins.
From all volcanoes large quantities
of steam, of carbonlc acid and other
gases are evolved, and the course of
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-12-22

In front of drinking place in Full
ton street stood brewers dray and
the portly, prosperous looking horses
attached to it were at their midday
meal Haughtily they tossed their
heads, scattering the oats from their
we'll filled nosebags as if to empha
size their opulence. Other horses
standing in the street and engaged
with scantily filled nosebags from
which they struggled to extract the
last particle of grain, kept one eye
upon the naughty pair with look
which seemed to conceal envy under
an expression which said as plainly
as words: what vulgar ostentation!"
Nearby stood scrawny old white
horse attached to a ramshackle cart.
His expression was one of profound
humility. His ribs showed through
his hide and his Roman nose was I'M
adorned by any bag of grain. All his
expression seemed to say was: "What
a blessing it is to be able to watch
the rich enjoying themselves" His
humility under the trying circum-
stances reminded one of those starv-
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-12-22
THINK CRABS CAUSED QUAKE

Very curious were some Of the ex-
plantations given by Cinnamon of the
recent earthquakes which have been
felt at Hongkong, Canton and Macao.
The Hongkong Daily Press tells about
them: The famous dragon whose
privilege it has been to give an oc-
casional shock to the earth's crust is
not held responsible for the recent
scare in Macao and elsewhere. Some
Chinese attribute the last shocks to
the water-dragon of Canton, whose
anger has been raised by the reclama
ton works. Coolies are dumping daily
boatloads of sand and stone on the
poor dragons back, and the beast nat
urally feels hurt.
ct appears, however, that the real
causes of the earthquakes were the
Macao crabs! Here is the story:
Close by the hot springs in the neigh
borhood of Macao stands a small VII
lage wherein lives an old woman. who
has the misfortune to be the mother
of an unworthy young man whose sole
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-12-22
HOME MADE HONEY.
A Restaurant Man Captures n Stray
Swarm of RaaS

A Restaurant Man Captures Stray
Swarm of Bees.
Ralph Gushee the lessee Of the Park
Department restaurant overlooking the
Hudson at the upper end of Riverside
drive, tells a remarkable story of how
he obtained the honey which is one of
the specials" on his daily menu
1.-TWO weeks ago." said Mr.. Gushee to
Corporation Counsel Whalen, who was
the host of a party of politicians at
Claremont, 81 noticed swarm of bees
under the tree down there overhanging
the drive just where the carriages
stand at the dinner hour. | offered $40
to anybody who would remove them
and nobody wanted to take the offer
until one of the policemen detailed to
guard Grants tomb heard Of it. He
said he knew all about bees and I told
him to go ahead. He went down in the
basement and got an empty sugar bar
rel. Then he demanded sheet and Dor
rowed pair of buckskin gloves from
a gardener. He spread the sheet on the
drive under the tree and set the barrel,
from which he had removed couple
of slaves, on it's side. Then he climbed
the tree and gently shooeu the bees
down to the sheet, whence he gathered
them up into the barrel. This was
covered with the same sort of mos
quito netting with which he had en-
veloped his own head and taken back
of the hotel. There must have been
three or four quarts of bees, and they
settled into their new home as natural
ly as though they had come to River
side Park for that purpose. They be-
gan to hive at once, and for the last
two weeks I've been getting four or
five pounds of honey right along and
the bees are still at home and at work. -
Mr.. Whalen remarked laughingly
that as the bees were evidently taking
sweetness from the blossoms in the
park it would be in order for the city to
increase Mr.. Gushee's rent. 1t is sup
posed that the bees came across the
Hudson River from New Jersey.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-12-22

occupation is fishing. A few days
previous to the first earthquake shock
experienced in Macao the young man
returned home with couple of crabs
and few small fish.
Nothing extraordinary was noticed
at first, but when the crabs had been
boiled one of them presented a Pc
culiar appearance. as on the red back
ground of it's shell stood in gold relief
a design in white which resembled a
Chinese character. Neighbors were
called and the wise man of the village
soon explained that it was the king
of the crabs that had found its way
into the old woman's kettle.
"Thereupon the village prophet pre-
dicted that some great calamity would
visit the unfortunate village. Mean
while the crabs of Macao and the
neighborhood having learned the fate
of their king, assembled in great num-
bers, filling up every available hole,
and started to shake the earth Thus
was their displeasure at the death Of
the king crab clearly shown!"
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-12-22

every lava stream Is marked by clouds
Of steam evolved from the cooling
lava. At one time--and the idea is
still common-this steam was sup
posed to have been derived from sea
water which had obtained access to
the molten lava while still under
ground, but this explanation is now
generally rejected, being impossible in
some cases and inadequate in all, and
the greater part Of the steam and 9TH
er carnations from volcano are now
regarded as directly derived from an
original store in the interior of the
earth. However this may be, it is GER
tain that the magma from which vol.
canic lava is derived is not merely in
state of igEeous fusion, but is COM
given off as it solidiies, and by their
escape frequently form miniature vol.
canoes, on the surface of lava
streams.
If the solidification takes place I'M.
derground, the steam and gases are
expelled, and, if there is no free es-
cape, pressure may increase till It
becomes great enough to overcome
the resistance of the everything rock
and so lead to an eruption and the
formation of a volcano, whose charac-
ter will depend on the nature of the
reservoir from which the eruption took
place,
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-12-22

ing Parislans who, before the French
revolution, used to accept with graft
tude the privilege of crowding the
galleries of the royal dining room to
watch the king and his family at din.
ner
When the brewery horses had fin.
ished their luncheon their rubcund
driver appeared, took off their nose
bags and mounting his seat drove
away. With celebrity surprising in
such a bag of bones, the humble old
horse moved up to the place vacated
by the prosperous team and began to
eat the oats left scattered on the
pavement. Lazarus did not eat more
greedily the crumbs which fell from
the rich mans table than did that old,
white horse devour the grain which
fell from the nosebags of the brewery
team. He cleaned the pavement as il
it had been gone over with a fine
toothed comb and then, with a sigh
of repletion which seemed to say:
Fate cannot harm mel have
dined." he settled back into his medi.
tations.-New York Press.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-12-22
COCKTAIL AT THREE FORKS

glasses full of the mixture.
The boys both tasted the beverage.
and it did not taste good. Each had
numbered big gun and, playfully
toying with the weapons, they suggest.
ed that the bartender drink his own
mixture. 1t required some persuasion,
but finally, to avoid trouble, he swal-
lowed the contents of both glasses.
Now, make your will, you would-be
poisoner.' shouted the punchers and
solemnly they put their guns back
where they belonged. treated the
house to the cigars and faded away
into the distance, their horses hitting
only the high spots as they disappear
ed up the valley.
"And l tell you, the impromptu bar.
tender had good occasion to make his
will. For three of four hours he was
the sickest man ever saw, and It
took the services of a doctor, who
worked over him for an hour or two. to
bring him back to life again. Ana.
conda Standard.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-12-22

II was standing in the barroom IN
a resort at Three Forks" said trav-
cling man, waiting for the proprie-
tor to arrive, in the hope Of placing a
small order. While I was waiting,
two cowboys, wrapped in fur coats,
their own dignity and reputation as
the top riders of the country which
stretches away toward the head OF
Willow Creek, came into the saloon
and, marching up to the bar, demand
ed cocktail.
"The bartender looked nonplussed
for moment, but he was not to be
shut out, for he grabbed the biggest
glass he could find behind the bar and
Immediately got busy. If there was
anything there he missed putting into
that glass, from the salt and pepper
sauce used to flavor the beer, to the
snipping from the ends of the cigars
which he found in the cigar cutter,
could not see it, and when he had
finally finished he had two big beer