The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1905-03-30

yemark that Inc day OF the whipping
post was also the day OF the ducking
STOOL for such women ~ nagged their
husbands.
Prof. Bailey, OF Cornell University.
rays that dairying b kind OF manu-
featuring enterprise. The barn In the
factory. Cows are the machines. Hay
and silage and concentrated foods are
raw materials. The factory should
run all the year. The barns mus; bel
adapted TO the health and comfort o.
the animals, not merely Q place In
which to keep aem or store them fof
half . year.
A prominent surgeon OF 81 Louis
takes occasion to eonfute the popular
theory that fruit seeds are the cause
Of appendicitis. He states that dur
ing his nineteen years OF experience
operating on several hundred cases OF
the disease. he has found no proof IN
any case that the cirse OF the trouble
was owing TO seeds OF fruits. No doubt.
the use OF certain kinds OF fruits has
been somewhat reduced By the popu.
lar fancy regarding the danger OF
swallowing the seeds. although lead.
ing medical authorities have frequent
" pronounced the fear groundless. nj
leas; so far as concerns tue disease
Of appendicitis.
Maxwell, the irrigation expert, de-
clares that che Government has lost
100000 In the past two years
through misuse OF the national timber
lands. lie asserts that the land Is 30
Ing into the possession OF sharpers,
who obtain Il for far less than the
timber alone Is worth. His remedy Is
TO sc: apart as forest reserves every
acre Of public forest land more valu-
able for timber than for mining or
agriculture. and to repeal the timber
and stone act. as recommended by
the President. Al present forest lands
are passing into private control mt
rapid rate, and like other good things.
seem not TO be fully appreciated until
rney are gone.
A writer In Leslie's Weekly thinks
that the world Ia growing better and
gives the following reason for 40
thinking: "a sure indication that the
world IL growing better Is Afforded In
the change OF public sentiment. not
only In this country. hut In other
lands, with reference to the lottery
business. Less than half a century
ngo the lottery device was frequently
reeorted TO In the United States for
the purpose of raising money for edu.
eational and charitable purposes. and
families OF the most respectable sort
thought nothing OF patronizing lot.
teries for the chances offered In the
way OF prize dinner acts and other
articles for household use. But an
enlightened public sentiment, backed
ND by the law, has done away with all
these gambling enterprises. except as
they are suffered to exist. under some
transparent guIse. In church fairs and
government land distributions.
There rs no place perhaps where at
first sight dirt Is less ayoidable than
on the farm. says the Youths Com
panion. for the very essence OF farm
work consists In dealing with the
earth. and nearly every farming op-
Grafton brings the farmer necessarily
more or less In contact with the soil.
Yet the farmer knows better than most
people that what he terms earth"
soil" and dirt" do not necessarily
mean the same thing. and that there
r. such a thing as clean earth or clean
soil. and on the other hand. soil and
earth which are dirty. OF late years
bacteriology has shed new light upon
these well.known differences. and to-
day science Is disposed TO restrict the
word dirt" more nearly than former.
" 10 It's dictionary meaning. which IL
"excrement." II this meaning be at
tached TO dirt, then dirty earth Is
simply earth that has been fouled. On
the other hand. clean earth may be
really, as II often appears TO be, pure
and unpolluted: and even garden soil.
although frequently MANFRED. may BIO
comparatively clean. for old or rotted
manure, as every farmer knows. Ia
very different from that which Is
fresh.
A woman's club the other day de-
bated the question whether married
women should pay their bills. Strange
10 say, most OF the good ladies pres
ent were disposed to think that they
should not. Even where a woman has
no property or earnings OF her own 20
dispose OF. Il should be q matter OF
pride with her 10 pay the debts she
!ncurs in her own person, continues
che new York Evening World. To
run up accounts at random. leaving
81 10 some one else TO settle then
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