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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-05-18

TO TACKLE H,4ZERS.

The hazing trials at Annapolis. fol
lowed by the long discussion Of the
subject in and out of Congress, have
served to widely advertise the Acad-
envy, and, as a result, there has been
an unusual rush Of applications from
ambitious young men who aspire to be-
come admirals. Many of the applicants
breathe defiance to all hazers and re-
cite instances of their physical pow
ers to demonstrate their fitness for ap-
pointment One of the letters recently
received at the Navy Department ran
as follows
play football, have been captain Of
the basketball team these last two
years. | am, also an expert with box.
ing gloves, and would like to have
some of the Annapolis fellows try their
hazing tricks on me | imagine they
would have to get real busy IL they
tried to stand me on my head and
make me eat soap
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-05-18
A SUBSTANTIAL ROAD GATE.

OF the country to use posts made of
iron or concrete, even as is now done
in many places.
An essential feature of a rail fence
is a comparatively short panel, but
now that wire is, in the majority of
cases, taking the place of the rail, it
is questionable whether as many posts
are necessary as was the case when
rail were used. Recent tests were made
at an English experiment station to de-
termine upon the best method of con-
structing fence One point considered
was whether fence constructed with
a dropper is as efficient and durable
as one constructed entirely with posts.
A second point under consideration was
the minimum number of posts required
in the construction of an efficient and
durable fence when troopers are used
and the character of the dropper re-
quired for best results. The dropper is
a thin vertical brace used to strengthen
the stretch of wire between posts. AS
metal is admittedly more durable than
wood. an endeavor was made to obtain
a suitable rigid metal dropper, but with
out success.
NOTCH THE CORNER POSTS LOW.
An error that farmers sometimes
make in erecting a fence is that they
place the corner supports or struts too
near the top of the post, and conse-
uuently at too great an.angle with the
line of the fence, so that when the wires
are stretched tightly the post is pulled
out of the ground, Notwithstanding
that huge powders are piled against
the post or hung on 1t, in an endeavor
to keep it in the ground. One fence
which has been found to prove very
satisfactory consists of square posts
and top rail. with three or four rows
of plain wire fastened on the outside
edges of the post, instead of through
holes bored In the uprights. To these
wires is fastened ordinary poultry not
ting with, say, an inch and a-half or
two-inch mesh. This netting may be
strained very tight and will lie as fiat
as board, the appearance of the fence
being thereby greatly improved.
While the use of barb-wire in the
construction of fences is regretted, ow-
ing to the injury which 1t sometimes
infiicts upon the live stock, there is no
doubt that its employment under GER
tain conditions prolongs the life of a
fence, lettering stock from rubbing
against it and unduly Htraining the
plain wires. 1t has been argued that
stock soon get to understand how dan
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-05-18
FREE $500 PACKAGE COUPON
Joe, THE INDIAN BOG.

From Sunset.
did he ever make friends with the
battery boys?
No" said Sergeant Wright, che new
er did. understand dogs, and l know
that our dog Joe died of broken heart
at Fort Stevens, at the mouth of the
Columbia, and we gave him a sort of
informal military funeral and buried
him where the moaning of the bar is
always heard.
There had been a battle near the
Yellowstone, and the Nez Perces had
gradually had to give way and retreat
as the dusk drew down to hide the
damage of the day. But all the war
riors did not go. Among the rocks up
the canon, nine of them lay in one
heap, seven in another, at rest at last.
-Four dogs We're there doing the Casa
blanca act, and soldier lassoed one
of them in form and color like fox
and brought him into camp.
Joe was the name given him, and
day after day he was led by some men,
Der Of the company until the long fif-
teen-hundred-mile march was ended
lie tolerated the portion OF the rations
handed him, but never smiled in re-
turn, and merely ate to live He con-
formed to constituted authority as
matter of common sense, and on the
long steamboat trip down the Missouri
to Omaha, across by rail to the Pacific
and up the coast to Oregon, he was the
same dignified dog, always with an ear
askance, anticipating the footstep of
his Indian eomrade.
But it never came.
No soldier had learned to love him.
but all respected him for fidelity to his
dead master.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-05-18

It win be better and saving of time
If the timber after being cut up for
the gates is given couple of coats of
paint before being put together After
the gate is completed and hung, it can
be given final coat The first or
printing coat should be very thin; in
fact, may be nearly all raw linseed oil.
The second and last coats will of
course, be a little thicker, and in order
to dry hard, and with a little gloss,
should contain small quantity of tur-
pentine and boiled oil. While tastes
may differ as to color, results have
shown that white seems to give the
most satisfaction, while the iron work
painted black will make a slight con-
trast, adding to the improved appear
ance of the gateway.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-05-18

The depletion of the timber lot and
the gradual decrease in the supply OF
lumber, with the consequent increase
In the cost of wood, make the erection
of fences on the farm matter of con-
Germ, for the landholder heretofore has
looked upon wood as a proper material
for the construction of an effective
fence. Metal-that is, fence wire-has
almost entirely replaced the rails which
at one time were considered necessary
to make a fence stock-proof. We still
find, however, that timber is, in most
localities, the cheapest material for
fence posts, though the supply avail
able is becoming scarcer each year,
and 1t is possible that in the future
1t may be necessary in every section
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-05-18
FENCES AND GATE POSTS.
Guy ELLIOTT MITCHELL

is possible to obtain from them fences
constructed entirely of metal at small
cost.
While the unprogressive farmer is
content to have few bars to let down
in order to admit of the passage of
teams or wagons, no fence is complete
without an entrance, and therefore
without gate, for at best bars are
only malleshifts and a loss of both
time and temper. It is surprising how
common they are when excellent and
serviceable light gates can now be pur-
chased very cheaply and even where
the lack of money is an obstacle to this
handy man can, with the aid of an
axe, a hammer and some nails build
and hang strong useful gate with no
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-05-18

ger0us harb-wire is, and when in a
quiet condition are rarely injured by
IL: but once excited by panic or play
they forget its danger and often suffer
in consequence. While there may be
some styles of woven fence which viii
enable the farmer to discontinue barb
wire. the new material must have suf-
ficient elasticity to recover from occa-
sional very severe and unusual strains
and also SUFFICIENT to respond to our
varied conditions of heat and cold, and
SO require no straining after its erec-
Non. The American fence manufacture
ers seem to be ahead Of The Europeans
~ tho production of wire fences, for II
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-05-18

quite separate and distinct from any
posts used in the construction of the
fence, as a better effect is obtained
without additional trouble il they are
slightly higher than the uprights in
the gate and higher than the fence
posts adjoining the gateway. The
main entrance to the farm and also the
gateways around the dwelling may be
still further improved II a little addi-
tional trouble Is taken TO square the
gate posts and round of the tops
No gate can be said to be finished
until It Is painted, for not only does
painting aid In giving a tidy appear
sHve, but prolongs the life OF the wood.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-05-18

other outlay than the expenditure of a
few hours labor and certainly in less
time than is required in the continual
putting down and up of the bars.
Experiment has shown that it is ad-
visable to have the openings of the
farm gates 16 feet wide or Whereabouts
in order to admit of the transfer of the
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-05-18
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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-05-18

farm implements from one field to an
other. Where some fields are planted
with small green crops from which the
farmer desires to keep his poultry it is
thought best that the bottom rail of
this gate should be within an inch OF
the ground so that the poultry cannot
crawl under. The gate posts should be
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-05-18

Former Iron Master Andrew Car
negie has Endorsed the idea of phonetic
spelling making the words sound as
they read, or read as they sound
either way.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-05-18

Foso actually grows hair, stops hair falling out
growth to shining scalps, eyebrows and eyelashes,
and quickly restores gray faded hair its natural
color l don't ask you take myword for ia; let me
send you full $I.oo package free. Write to-day.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-05-18
PAINT WITHOUT OIL.

Rsmarkable Discovery That CutsD own
the Cost of Paint sevenfy-five Per Gent.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-05-18
CONSOLIDATED SCHOOLS.

Assistant Secretary Hays Points Out
Necessity for More Thorough Farm
Education. Is in Effect Country
High School.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-05-18
TO LAME

E Z O'cOnnOF MIG. Co., tai B'way. n. Y.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-03-15
WON WAGER BY BATTING VICTIM.
After Much Provocation Conductor
Was Caught Mapping.

Some time in the seventies party
of friends EN- route to Boston from
Portland on the Boston & Maine rail-
road, with Payson Tucker as conduc.
tor, Matched up plot. and made q
wager OF quart bottle Of wine that
Tucker couldn't be caught mapping.
One of the party said that he would
take the bet.
He separated from the others. and
as the conductor came along, asked
what station they were then passing
and on receiving the reply he an.
swered, That's what | thought" This
act was repeated several times, and
finally Conductor Payson" became
very indignant, and said: do you
take me for id fool?"
That's what | thought" replied the
other, who now owned quart of the
finest wine-Boston Herald
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-03-15
Fault of our Civilization.

Wien a man sees a woman STUN
bling along with bag that is twice
too heavy for her, YEARLY shifting 1t
from right to left and trying in vain to
hold up her skirts with her elbows, his
natural desire is to put his muscles at
her service. 1t will be play for him to
swing that bag upon car, while to
her it is real difficulty.
Yet he knows his offer would be po-
litely refused. Her face may express
sentences varying from IL am sorry,
but it wouldn't be proper" to Mind
your own business" but mo, thank
you," would be the inevitable reply.
And all the time she would like
nothing better than to accept his help.
But she has heard warning tales all
her life long, about the annoyances,
the confusion and the terror strange
men can inflict on imprudent women,
and she is afraid to trust appearances
or accent or any of the evidences OF
his caste and quality
And probably she is wise. The devil
Is clever at masquerade, and it is cas-
iep to keep out of trouble than to get
out of It, Yet what a long way we
have gone from the original creation
il one human being cannot put his
hands out to help another without an
introduction or chaperon. "Maude
Muller" in Chicago Journal
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-03-15
MARKING HISTORIC OLD TRAILS
Eastern journal Praises Movement
Now General In West,

A movement is spreading through
the West which has for its object the
permanent marking of the old trails
along which the country was pene.
trated and crossed by adventurers and
emigrants In the period before the
construction of railroads. This is
highly praiseworthy undertaking and
to the degree that the object is faith
fully accomplished will be a more
noteworthy contribution to history
than many of the books that are so
classed. Out in Kansas they have a
trail day." which is observed in the
Kansas public schools. This year the
day was observed last month. The
purpose of 1t is to instruct the chill
dren in the history of the old Santa
Re trail, with its significance in the
growth of the west and through the
interest thus aroused In the commu-
nifty to raise money for marking the
course of the trail which stretched
for 400.miies across what Is now the
state of Kansas when it was a wilder
ness.-Boston Herald.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-03-15
RESTORE STRENGTH
Dr. Williams Pink Pills Actually
Make New Blood and Good
Health Follows.

The evil effects that follow many dis.
eases - particularly the grip and the
wasting fevers, such as typhoid aud
malaria, are caused by the bad condition
In which these diseases leave the blood.
AS result, the flesh continues to fall
away, the sufferer grows nervous and
irritable, aud even slight exertiOn causes
shortness of breath. These are danger
Gus symptoms aud indicate that the
system Is in II state that invites pneu.
nonia, bronchitis or even consumption.
What is needed is new supply OF rich,
red blood To carry health and strength
60 every port OF the body.
:" | was all run down from the effects
of the grip" says Mrs Amelia Hall, of
No. 9 High street. Norwich Conn. "and
could not seem 10 ge5 strength TO walk
could not eat II fun meal, my stomach
was so weak, aud | was 50 nervous that
could not sleep. / could only stay III
bad few minutes at n time either night
or day. Ia, least little thing would
itartlenne hi1 difficulty in breath,
ing aud hid frequent faiuting spells.
"My general health was completely
wrecked aud had neuralgia and rheu-
matte pains, dyspepsia, constipation,
aud female weakness. Ny physician at
tended me for the grip aud again for
the condition that it left me in, but |
got no strength from the touics he pre-
scr:bed. In fact, nothing helped me
until 1 tried DR.. Williams Pink Pills
aud they cared me.
81 grew stronger and gained flesh
from the time / began taking them.
ain satisfied that the pills are all that is
claimed for them and / shall do all l can
to make their good qualities known"
DIR. Williams Pink Pills cure ner-
vous disorders OF every kind, check
wasting diseases and build mp strength.
For booklet, address the DR.. Williams
Medicine Co., Schenectady, N Y.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-03-15
Goat Dairyine Is Profitable.

] have often wondered why English
agricultural laborers do not keep
goats for the sale of the rich milk
they yield. They cost very little to
keep, as goats will eat any kind of veg
etable food, so long as it is clean and
fresh. We learn from Woman that
two Frenchwomen have made a great
success of goat farming; one, Nine.
la Comtesse de la Boullaye, especially
has created in Brittany large indus
try of butter and cheese making from
the milk of her large herd of goats.
The butter is such deicacy that she
can hardly meet the demands for it.
and Is just about to turn her private
enterprise into company, so that
means can be taken TO supply the
quantity required by the public.-The
House Beautiful
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-03-15
SHOULD A HORSE
Be CLIPPED :?
CLIPPING IN THE EARLY SPRING
RECOMMENDED BY LEADING
VETERINARIANS.
All Thinking Men Readily Recognize
Its Advantages.

"a horse is valuable asset, and
should receive the best care possible.
He should be we'll fed, comfortably
stabbed, carefully groomcd and clipped
in the early spring. II he receives
these attentions he will work well
and improve in value. A horse lives
under artificial conditions. In his
wild state he required none OF these
attentions, for he was able to look
out for himself. The domesticated
animal, being worked under condi-
tions that are in themselves artificial,
must be kept in condition for such
work.
The clipping of horse in the early
spring is now conceded by all the
leading veterinarians to be as essen
tial to horses we'll being as shoeing
him or giving him comfortable bed
to lie on. Farmers in England and
France have been clipping their
horses for many years, and American
farmers are not slow to realize its
advantages. A clipped horse dries
out rapidly after hard days work,
and will rest comfortably and be re-
freshed for the work the following
day. An unclpped horse is liable to
catch the heaves, pneumonia and all
sorts of colds, rheumatism, etc. More
especially Is this SO in the early
spring, when his hair is long and he
Is soft" II worked hard he will per-
spire freely and the moisture will be
held by his long hair, and the food
that should go to uourish him will be
used to replenish the heat that Is be-
ing constantly taken from his body
by the mass of cold wet hair. II
clipped, the perspiration will evapor-
ate almost as soon as secreted, and
when put in the stable he rests COM
fortably and his food does him good.
Some years ago Buffalo street car
company tested the value of clipping
in the following manner They own
ed 500 horses, and $50 of these were
clipped early in the spring and $50
were not clipped. A careful record
was kept of results, and it was found
that of the $50 uncllpped horses 1853
were afflicted with coughs-and pneu-
one case of sickness was reported.
A man would not expect to enjoy
very good health If he did hard man
ual work clothed with heavy under
wear, a heavy suit and fur overcoat,
and after perspiring freely, as he
naturally would, go to sleep without
removing same. 1t is just as ridicu-
lous to expect horse to be in perfect
health If worked under the same con-
ditions.
If you would get the best returns
from your investment in your horse.
treat him right, and be sure and
clip him in the early spring A first
class housekeeping machine can be
bought at almost any hardware store
for less than s7.00-Horse Review,
Dec. 5th, 1905.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-03-15
FARMS AWAITING THE FARMER
Glorious Chance for the Suffering
Residents of City SIums.

All over the country there are
farms crying for filling and there are
few responses The lure OF the city
has absorbed thousands of the best
young people of the agricultural dis
trict. II no plan is found for Keeping
young men and women on the farms,
then large scheme of emptying the
cities OF their poor and helpless
should be evolved. 1t is one of the in.
comprehensive phases of the situa-
ton that, no matter how poor and
suffering the average family of the
city slums may be, it prefers to suffer
the miseries of the tenements rather
than go out in the country where
healthful employment awaits all and
where the pure air will revive de-
bilitated bodies and the sunshine win
back the feeble tides of life.-Kansas
City Journal.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-03-15
Romance and Reality.

The young man had pulled the
young woman up the hill on the to-
boggan, and was amazed to find her
moodily silent when they reached the
top,
What is wrong?" he asked
"lf you had any romance about you,
you would have taken advantage of
the occasion and the opportunity to
say that you would be happy to pull
me up the hill of life forever and
ever" she sighed.
"But, but, +"
But last summer when we were
boating you said you could think of
no brighter future than to drift to-
gether adown the stream of life"
Il know, dear; but when a man
pulls $50 pounds of girl up a half
mile hill he hasn't enough breath left
to say what he thinks. Drifting in
a boat gives him more breath, and
more time to think, and less laborious
work for his arms. Chicago Tri.
bune.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-03-15
MISSOURI ADDING TO WEALTH
Ranks High as Manufacturing as Well
as Agricultural State.

For many years Missouri ranked
next to Illinois and Iowa for corn acre
age; It took high rank as a fruit and
wine producing state and was fourth
on the list of American states In wine.
Missouri corn, Missouri apples and
Missouri grapes were admittedly ex-
celent products. Within Ave years,
however. the manufactures of Mis-
souri, have increased 30 per cent. In
place Of corngrowing, but not to the
neglect of that industry Missouri has
taken up meatpacking, to the amount
of $60.000,000 last year. Tobacco
yielded $30,000,000 and malt liquors
S25 100000. The trade in boots and
shoes in which st. Louis is a formid-
able rival Of Boston was $25,o00,000
and in foundry and machine shop
products, made profitable through the
recent development of Missouri's IRON
lead and zinc mines, 100000 900. In
stead of being a distinctively agri-
cultural state Missouri has become
one of the chief manufacturing states
of the country.-New York Sun.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-03-15
BUSINESS METHODS ON FARM.
Agriculture No Longer Profitable Con.
! Quoted In Haphazard Way.


Thousands of farmers in the more
opulent agricultural regions of the
country still conduct their farms in
haphazard way, but everywhere the
advantage and necessity of the bust
ness spirit are being recognized. The
west has been warned. for example,
that the fertilizer problem of the east
and the south will have to be met be-
fore many decades unless the soils are
put under better rotations and econ
omy OF land is being preached. 1t is
now generally accepted as a truism
that the better the business man the
agriculturist of to-day becomes, the
more profitable will be found that oc-
cupation which once was described by
keen, though not wholly wise farm
er, in the statement that "farmin'
amt all keepin books, by a long
shot - Boston Globe.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-03-15
Partisan PoIiteness.

There is a thin coating of ice on the
pavement. Horses slip and stumble
and one OF them falls. but is not hurt
1t is so slippery that her efforts to
raise herself are in vain.
The coachman takes off his triple
capped coat with chiyalrous air and
with a gesture la Raleigh he spreads
1t before the feet of the poor beast
Then he takes off his leathern can
shows his jolly red face. and with a
low bow, addresses the animal: Mad
am, will yon do me the honor?"
And Madame" rises with difficulty
and the two, supporting each other eo
off amid the cheers and applause OF
the delighted crowd.-Paris Letter n
the London Outlook.