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The Elbert County tribune., 1907-06-06
TEN GOOD REASONS.
Read Them and Patronize the Mer-
chants of This Town.

Here are ten good reasons for trad
ing with your home business people,
as given by an exchange.
Because You examine your pur-
chase and are assured OF satisfaction
before investing your money.
Because: Your home merchant is
always ready and willing to make
right any error or any defectiue arti-
Gle purchased of him.
Because: When you are sick or for
any reason II is necessary for you to
ask for credit, you can go to the local
merchant. Could you ask 1t of a mail
order house?
Because: II a merchant is willing
to extend you credit you should give
him the benefit of your cash trade.
Because: Your home merchant pays
local taxes and exerts every effort to
build and better your market. thus in.
country property.
Because: The mail order merchant
does not tighten your taxes or in any
way hold the value of your property.
Because: The mail order merchant
does nothing for the benefit OF mar
kets or real estate values.
Because: If your town is good
enough to live in 1t is good enough to
spend money in.-Gov. Folk OF Mis-
souri,.
Because: The best citizens In your
community patronize home industry
Why not be one of the best citizens?
Because; II you give your home
merchant an opportunity to compete
by bringing your order to him in the
quantities you buy out OF town. he will
demonstrate that. quality considered
he will save you money.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-06-06
Keep Good Horses.

We know farmer who has over
$1,000 invested in old plug horses,
Ringbones, spavins, wire cuts. curbl
and blemishes are noticeable. He has
ten head and none of them can be de.
pended ON for decent days work. He
has neighbor who has three horses,
free from blemishes, which cost him
5000, but with these three horses he
can do more work in season on a
third of the feed than the man who
has ten head. At the present price
of feed, horse is not worth keeping
unless he is a good one and able to
do lots of hard work.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-06-06
Search for old Cannon.

A tradition still survives in Luzerne
county. Pa, that when Gen. John
Sullivan marched through that region
in 1879 on his expedition against the
Indian confederacy of central New
York, he buried some superhuous
brass cannon along the Wilkes-Barre
mountain. To search for these revolu-
tionary relics a number OF the best
known citizens of Ashley have formed
themselves into an historical society.
One recent Sunday the members
secured the mountain In the vicinity
of Laurel Run. but could find no reIici
except few Indian arrow points
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-06-06
Flat Top Wheelbarrow.

eral idea of construction is very well
brought out in the illustration. The
two side pieces A A are six feet long
and are Is inches apart at the wheel
The end C is supported by two side
pieces which are mortised to AA
Frame work is then covered by boards
b is a leg nailed to the bar. extend.
ing up to the frame. This kind of q
wheelbarrow is recommended for
transporting anything in boxes or bar.
rels. finding it particularly suitable
for transporting hives of bees.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-06-06
AROUND THE CIRCLE
HOW THE PRACTICE OF HOME
TRADE HELPS EVERYBODY.
THE RESULT OF ADVERTISING
An Increased Use Of Printers Ink In
the Local Paper Brought Pros
perity to the Entire Com
munity.

you'll have to stay over. Sunday.
Mary, so l can have chance for a
visit with you. Can't possibly get the
time through the week. Business too
lively"
Things must be getting better
with you, John. Last time | was here
you seemed to have lots OF time to
spare. Said business had gone to the
dogs. or rather to the mail-order
houses. What made the changer"
We'll, to tell the truth. Mary. just
wakened up one day and thought /
would give them fellows In the city a
little of their own medicine. / got
onto the fac. that they were killing
me by feeding the people around here
on printers ink in the way of adver-
tising. and while l knew most OF
what they said was lies the people
didn't know 1t, and / started in to
show them what | could do. Not at
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-06-06
Sheep Are Best Producers.

Prof. F. b. Mumford of the Mis-
souri, experiment station says that
sheep produce more meat from a
pound Of grain than any other class
of farm animals. In fact, pound of
mutton can be produced from about
half as much grain as pound of beef.
Even Missouris mostgage-lifting hog
requires more grain to produce a
pound of human food than the sheep.
with the combination of corn and
glover hay for feed, the dry shed for
shelter sheep will always give good
account of themselves and respond
re IDLY to the care given them.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-06-06

II is claimed that fish when eaten
make brain. When they get away,
they make lies.
Never give maiden lady a room
with folding bed in It, There is alb
solutely no use in looking under a
folding bed for man.
Many a man buys more than rib
bon for his typewriter.
II is easier to get a wife than to
keep servant.
When a girl refers to herself as an
old maid, there is still hope for her
No marriageable young woman
should wear pin in her belt during
tete-a-tetes.
When William ate the dynamite
The clock had Just struck Z.
Twas only 1901 when Bill
Made entree into heavenl
SoE1e young men seem to think that
a college diploma is a daily order on
the universe for three square meals
and the fub-dubs.
Leap year Is of no use to the kind of
a girl men like to marry.
When the druggist dies, goes to
heaven and Is held up for his pass by
Ut. TtltI, Will ne dChHOWltube tndI ne
hasn't one, but. instead, brings some
thing just as good?"
A Kansas editor says It is an awful
shock to kiss girl with cold nose.
That's nothing Walt until he is com
PEELED every day to kiss one with cold
feet
Whenever an Office seeks the man,
IL doesn't have to hunt long.
The less money you have. the more
anxious are your creditors that you
pay.
The boy stood on the burning deck
Whence all but him had fled;
The reason was the water there
Was somewhat DER his headl
Some men who think they are great
politicians are only good jokes
Some fellow who will invent a con.
densed sort of sleep that will enable
a man to take eight hours of 1t in
twenty minutes before breakfast, will
make a fortune and accommodate a
lot of sleepy individuals who nightly
use the street cars for sleeping cars
on their way home to fix their wives
tempers.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-06-06
Keen Account of Your lime.

Keep an account of every hours
time needed to prepare the ground
plant the seed, tend the crop and har-
vest the grain. To this add a rea-
sonable amount for wear and tear o.
machinery, and the legal rate Is in.
terest upon the money investe. in the
land. When the crop is harvested
figure the number of bushels at the
prevailing market. If the expense ac-
count exceeds the other. then set
about to increase the productiveness
of the land so that it will produce
more the year following.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-06-06
THE DUST MULCH.
1t Prevents Evaporation of Moisture
and Causes Roots to Strike Deeper.

A Matter of much Importance. both
as regards saving moisture and pre-
venting root injuries, is the depth of
surface tillage. Too shallow cultiva-
tion will not be effective in checking
evaporation. still one must know that
the soil should not be stirred so deep
that the top roots are cut. If this is
done the growth is at once checked,
and the roots are forced lower in
search of supplies. From two to three
inches have been found the best depth
for fiat cultivation, where the ground
has been thoroughly prepared. When
a seed bed has been thoroughly fined
proper handling will bring the corn
crop along, with the minimum amount
of rainfall The problem, says In
diana Farmer, is to maintain good
capillary action between the lower
water systems and the soil where the
roots are growing. When the water
moves upwards and strikes the dust
blanket 1t Is checked, and 1t must pass
out through the plant, rather than by
evaporation. 1t is a pretty nice prob
lem, but the aim should be to make
all water and fertilizing material pass
through the roots of the growing
plants, work for the dust mulch;
don't dig down to the wet soil, so
that with every cultivation you ex
pose more soil to the sun.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-06-06

the open fork is made round so it will
at the post
A number of holes bored through
the top of post. one under the 9th
er, through any one of which a bolt
may be placed. This bolt. c, holds
the upper hinge in place. BY setting
1t up or down in the row of holes.
the gate may be made to swing high
or low, as desired. When there is a
heavy snow, the bolt can be placed in
the top hole, and the gate will swing
over the drift. If it is desired to
raise the gate so hogs and sheep
can pass under while large animals
are restrained, the bolt can be set
any height desired to make the pass
ageway under the gate large enough
to permit ingress or egress of the
smaller animals.
The drawing will explain the con
Struction.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-06-06
Copyrlght: l9o7: by Byron wIIlIams

Trouble.
Do you ever go where the river is singing
And throw yourself down on the bank
in the grass.
And there. with eiixirs of Nature about
you.
Just load all your cares on the winds
as they pass7
When heartsick and cherries. con-
fronted with worry.
Do you ever go to the woods with your
woe.
And there with the birds and the bios
SONS about YOU.
Gain strength in the battle that GIBBS
to and fro?
When man has deceived you and broken
his promise.
Despoiling the trust and the love that
you knew.
Do you ever gain inspiration and cour-
age
From hills that are constant and wales
that are true?
Whom woman is fickie and Love turns
Do you ever walk to the soft flowing
rills
And there in the spirit OF One who has
suffered.
Gain strength from the peace of the
valleys and hills2
Do you ever go where the ripples are cir
cling
To reason 1t out in your own thought
ful way,
And fight to finish the iegions OF worry
That seek to confound you by night and
by day?
II not. take this lesson from one who has
reasoned
Out there where the zephyrs are kissing
the trees,
And traded the wood and the field all
his worries
For comfort and peace and divine &c
stasiesl
Just argue 1t out with yourself In the
country
Where God meant His creatures should
be sane and glad:
Just think It all over and settle forever
The tonic you need when your liver is
bad,
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-06-06
DURABLE GATE.
Hinges for Gate Which Permit IL to
B. Raised on Low End.

Any ordinary gate will answer the
purpose The improvement is in the
hinges. These are made of an ordi-
nary wagon tire. The upper one.
which | have marked A. is made SO it
will pass entirely around the post and
is bolted to the end of the gate.
writes the correspondent of the Jour
nal Of Agriculture. The bottom one.
u, Is made with shoulder which ex-
tends only half way around the post.
IL Is somewhat like letter ~" only
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-06-06
The Farmers Income,

One of our exchanges says that
81. 900 net income on the farm is bet
ter than an income of $4,000 in the
city. OF course many of our read
ers will not believe this. but it is true,
nevertheless. The man who has 81 900
clear on the farm after all expenses
are paid had better not change places
with the city man whose total income
does not exceed $4,000 and out Of
which he has to pay all expenses.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-06-06

lying, you know, but at selling good
goods as cheap as the city fellows
did. and lots of times little cheaper.
81 went to the local paper and pret-
ty near scared the editor to death by
ordering a half page of each issue for
six months. Then | set about seeing
what | had to sell that the people
would want. / really didn't know
what was In that store until l started
to look 1t over. Some Of the things
had been there SO long | had forgot
ten about them. ! hauled them out
and put bargain sale price on them,
told the people about them in the
next weeks Record. and gave the
prices, and say, l Just couldn't get
them things wrapped up fast enough.
Ever since then I've just been buying
and selling, buying and selling.
Seems like nothing stays in the store.
Have hired two more clerks, and
they're everlastingly telling me we're
out of this. that or the other thing. /
found that telling the people what
you've got and what you are willing
to selLthem for pays. I've paid off
that mortgage that's been hanging
over us for the last ten years. and
gave 500 to the new church building
besides. and it's advertising that
did it.
You'll stay over Sunday, won't
now"
Jones ordered new delivery
wagon this morning, Jane. Said
since the folks around here had
started to trade at home and quit
sending SO much money to the mail
order houses he simply had to have 1t.
You can have what l make on that
wagon to get that new dress with that
you've been wanting. Wish you'd
buy it of Jones though for he always
trades with me-"
Yes. sir, I figure I'm ahead little
more than the freight on that buggy.
besides getting better buggy than
you got. / intended to send away for
mine, too, like you did, but l saw
Browns advertisement telling the
kind of buggy he had and the price.
and l concluded I'd look at 1t first.
He's making better prices than the
catalogue fellows, and he's paying the
freight besides. / figure that | saved
just about enough on that buggy to
pay the doctors bill for Molly's sick
ness, and then, besides, Brown or
dered his hay of me, and he's paying
4 good price for 1t. too"
Now. my dear. you may engage
Miss Herman to give Princess music
lessons for the wave of prosperity In
the community has struck the minis
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-06-06
Old Seed Corn.

An extensive corn grower asks
whether we would advise planting
seed corn two years old. and which
now terminates 81 per cent. BY all
means. yes, replies Indiana Farmer. 1t
is safer to risk that two-year-old seed
than seed of 1906, which might show
termination of 9S per cent The
old seed will be more vigorous but 1t
will require more moisture to start
termination.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-06-06
In Raising Sugar eeets.

have found it very good thing to
roll my sugar beets lightly Just before
thinning them. l usually cultivate
once before thinning and again imme-
dia.ely after and then once every ten
days until the beets become SO large
that the cultivator would injure the
leaves too much, then | ditch them
aL1a lay them by.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-06-06
Save the Lambs and Pigs.

Save the lambs; save the pigs. The
ewes and sows will need some green
food at this time, or at least come
bran and oil meal. If the bowels are
kept open and appettes good there
won't BE much trouble with the young
sters when they arrive.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-06-06
Struns.

Some men succeed by main strength
and awkwardness. but The majority
get along better by fishing for flies
with sugar.
dress rehearsal is when the ballet
wears clothes.
Loves flame hasn't much chance
against fireproof paint
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-06-06

1t has been computed that there are
$4,000. 100000 in gold and Jewels at
the bottom OF the sea on the route be-
tween England and India.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-06-06

market? II SO you can bring him
around. / want him for birthday
present for my wife,
WRIGHT A. PATTERSON.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-06-06

Our ancestors, the Saxons. dyec
their hair blue. green or orange. ac
cording to taste.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-06-06
A FLAT ToP wHEeLeARRow.
One Which Will Be Specially Handy
in Transporting Boxes, Etc.

We present herewith a sketch of a
wheelbarrow which a correspondent OF
Prairie Farmer considers to be in.
dispensable about his farm. The gen
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-06-06

Information in regard to several ex-
ceiient weekly newspapers that are for
sale can be obtained by writing to tho
Western Newspaper Union. Denver.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-06-06

ing taey voted me a raise In salary for
the coming year. In. a talk made by
Brother Jones he explained that this
was possible because the people were
keeping their money at homo rather
tnan sending II to the catalogue houses
OF the cities. Brother Frank (the post
MASTERY explained that the money or
der business of his office had dropped
10 almost nothing within the past six
months. He said that less than year
ago he was handling more than 81 900
each month in the shape of money or
ders, and that now the total is not one
fourth OF that. l understand that they
VIII also increase the school teachers
salary next term"
l2-page paper this week, I see.
anything special doing?"
Not at all. That's to be the regular
size OF the Record in the future. The
increase In business warrants II. The
campaign of advertising being conduct
ed by the merchants forced me to in
crease the size or encroach upon my
reading matter columns, and so / In
creased. Then. too. my subscription
list is growing. People who never took
the paper before say they want 1t now
II for nothing more than to keep post
ed on the prices the merchants are
quoting. Business in the Record Office
Is booming all around l have had to
advertise for two more job printers.
and have just ordered a new printing
press By the way. is that horse you
offered me some time ago still on the
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-06-06
tennpers.
Shoe.

Now doth the little housewife
Go out to gather greens,
Within her hand "A case-knife
That In the sunlight sheensl
She searcheth on the hillsides
And cutteth on ehe lea
But homeward doth our wife slid,
When chaseth by beei
Sa~r,Ms4=az,
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-06-06

See that the little chicks. as well as
the Older ones, have plenty of w9tss.
and renew it often.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-06-06

Men who whistle at their work sell
dom work any better than they whis-
tie.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-06-06

"You won't do" replied the mer-
chant. I'VE want man with a dis
contented disposition; one that will
hustle. The Catholic Standard and
Times.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-06-06
Fatal Admission.

what other qualifications have you
for the placer" asked the merchant.
WELL" began the applicant. my
friends tell me have a contented dis
noaition ocd-fs
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-06-06

Now. my dear, you may engage
Miss Herman to give Princess music
lessons for the wave of prosperity In
the community has struck the minis
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-08-10
CASTING METALS.
Alloys Better Adapted to the Process
Than Pure Materials.

AS a general rule pure metals are
much less adapted for pouring than are
alloys. Thus pure copper, pure silver
and pure nickel are unsuitable casting
materials, since it is possible only in
very rare cases to obtain dense cast
ings, while the alloys of these metals
can be readily made into the desired
shapes by means of the casting pro-
cess.
The difficulty Of the production Of
the casting grows with the melting
temperature Of the material to be cast.
The higher the same is the more labori-
Gus and difficult is the production of
the casting mold and more expensive
is the material of the latter and the
larger a quantity of fuel is required
to fuse the material to be treated.
Metals fusing at a low temperature
may be cast with greater ease than
those melting at a higher one. Cast
ings Of tin, lead and zine can be pro-
duced without the expenditure Of trOu
BILE, time and material required by
those of aluminium, bronze, brass, sill
yer, gold, iron, steel, etc. Every me-
dunn which is adapted to depress the
fusing temperature will also obviate
the difficulty Of the production Of the
casting and the danger Of failure of
the work The consistency Of the
fused metals also exercises great inf1u-
ence upon the use of the material for
imparting shape in d liquid state. In
the same sense as, for example, water,
oil and quicksilver represent different
degrees of fuidity, the fused metals
also exhibit a different behavior in the
liquid state, as well as the transition
from the solid into the liquid state.
Forgeable iron, platinum and nickel
soften before they melt; hence they
pass through the stages which may be
compared to glass, sealing wax, wax,
oil and water, while the metallic alloys
change their state of aggregation more
or less suddenly. Those metals which
soften before melting are, as a rule,
more thickly liquid, even if heated far
above their melting point, than the
alloys which soften without melting.
For this reason the production of cast
ing from copper IS difficult, while the
use of bronze for this purpose gives
the opposite results; hence an alloy of
copper and tin offers no difficulties
whatever.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-08-10

will necessarily entail a long series
OF legal conflicts which may or may
not end in the higher court sustain
ing the ruling Of the Chicago bench.
The payment Of such an enormous
fine by even so rich a corporation
as the oil trust would mean a heavy
depletion in its finances and despite
the fact that the octopus does bust
ness in the hundreds of millions
figures, the present penalty would
affect it sorely. The ruling Of the
court is in keeping with the enormi-
ty of the crime committed and,
should it be upheld there is little
doubt but that the big corporations
would sound the kuell of the
practice of rebating.
Extreme measures are needed to
curb the piratIcal methods of the
giant monopolies today and Stand
ard as the greatest corporation
bears the distinction OF having been
designed for the most radical pun
ishment. The appeal to the United
States circuit court of appeals begins
another chapter in a fight which the
government must win.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-08-10

In Kansas the stern arm of the
law has stepped in and decreed that
bakers shall no longer knead dough
with their feet" 1t is high time,
therefore, for the stern foot of the
law to seize the cabbage raisers in
it's sinewy grasp and utter the i'm
perious demand that they shall no
longer pack their sauerkraut in bar
rels by the process of tramping it
with their bare hoofs.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-08-10
FINED $2o,24o,o 900.

To the average mind this sum
is incomprehensible and in it,
Standard Oil, faces the largest fine
which has ever been imposed in the
history jurisprudence. The judg-
ment, which was given by order
of Jurist Lands of Chicago, is in
punishment of oil corporation for
having been found guilty of vlolat-
inc the law pertaining to the &C
ceptance of rebates. The alton road
Is the second party to the illegal
transaction and faces a grand jury
investigation as result.
Standard has given notice that it
will fight the ruling of Judge Lands
and carry It's case to the United
States circuit court of appeals. This
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-08-10
HYDROPLANE BOAT.

issued to an Englishman named
Thompson and modified somewhat by
the present experimenters. The boat
is fitted with an 80 to 100 horsepower
gasoline motor, which drives two air
propellers that propelled the boat first
through and then above the surface Of
the water, as can be seen from the
photograph. The weight of the boat
complete with two men on board is
$500 pounds, and 1t is to attain speed
Of about forty miles an hour, although
the inventors do not state the speed
actually attained thus far.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-08-10
GOOD CROPS.

Early III the spring the cry went
forth that the crops of the country
were ruined. The late spring and
adverse weather conditions had
caused untold loss to growing crops,
was the CIV and now it is different.
The complaint comes from the west
that not enough men can be secur-
ed to harvest the crops, that the
barns are full to OVERLOOKING and
more cars will be needed to move
the crop. On all sides is this true
and an era Of prosperity has ap-
parently settled down again upon
the nation which has enjoyed many
years of plenty. In Rock county
reports are that everything is do
ing nicely except oats. It IS feared
this crop will be small as compared
with other years. Sugar beets and
tobacco are showing good progress
and even corn has picked up
wonderfully during the hot July
days and nights.