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The daily Alaskan., 1910-04-21
GRAND REDUCTION OF STOCK
 SALE

The Pack Train is now selling a big lot of Good Goods at reduced prices as they are getting too old Co hold and sell at a profit Yours,
 L Herman Grimm
The daily Alaskan., 1910-04-21

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The daily Alaskan., 1910-04-21
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The daily Alaskan., 1910-04-21

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The daily Alaskan., 1910-04-21
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The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-02-11
Farm ena
Garden
BUILDING A STONE FENCE.
Connecticut Farmer Tells How to UtiI.
ize eowlders That Are In the Way.

Connecticut Farmer Tells How to Util.
ize eowlders That Are In the Way.
One Of the most picturesque sights
In New England is the stone wall
fence. The utilization Of loose stones,
which otherwise incumber the ground.
Tor the construction Of barriers neces-
sary to farm life used to be q leading
industry in New England before the
advent Of the barb wire fence. Even
now many farmers extend their stone
fences just to get rid of the rocks. And
there are plenty Of rocks in other
parts Of the country that can be used
to the same useful purpose.
Here, however, is q brave farmer.
f. II. Plumb of Tolland county, Conn.,,
who goes further than picking up and
piling stones. He believes in breaking
up powders and using the fragments
for fence material. Says Mr.. Plumb:
An occasional bowlder here and
there in a level, fertile field ought not
to d%ishearten any robust, enthusiastic
farmer from breaking them up and
clearing them anway!Dyndtnite, al
slesdge,a few chains and steady yoke
of oxen or team Of horses will work
wonders in a short time in many q
field.
A knowledge Of rocks, will
prove Of great assistance before work
of any kind with them is undertaken.
Some are apparently as hard as flint;
others so soft they can almost be
crushed between the fingers. Some
have a grain similar to a log so they
may be split by wedges and half
rounds quite straight and true. 9th
ers will hammer or split into all sorts
Of forms and sizes. But there are few
stones a stone mason cannot trim into
any form he desires.
If we closely examine q bowlder,
say, three to six feet long, we may no
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-02-11
PLEA FOR THE TOAD.
Indiana Entomolosist Says Little Frog
Eats Bad lnseets.

Indiana Entomolosist Says Little Frog
Eats Bad Insects.
B. W. Douglass. state entomologist
for Indiana. who is the bitter foe Of
every insect tina. lives on the fruit and
foliage Of the state and the friend OF
every agent that tends to destroy such
pests, Is out with u plea to the farmers
and gardeners to protect the American
toad, or Mr.. Bufo Americana. to be
explicit. In making laws to protect
insect eating birds. observes Mr.. Doug
lass, NJ n has ever proposed to- pre-
vent legally the enthusiastic small
boy from killing as many toads as he
cares to-. The plea will appear in the
annual report from the chronological
department, which has gone to the
state printer and which Mr.. Douglass
hopes to have in the hands Of a large
number Of farmers and gardeners by
the time early spring preparations be-
gin for the 1910 crops.
"As a matter Of fact" says Mr..
Douglass, 1.-THE common toad does more
to rid our fields and gardens Of noxious
insects than many Of the feathered
songsters Of which we hear SO much.
But simply that he is ugly-emphatic-
ally and most Enthusiastically ugly-the
toad has all manner of defamation and
libel heaped upon him.
'Early superstitions have charged the
toad with about ali the vicious quail
ties possible for one creature to pos
sess. Some 81 these traditions, how
are OF such a nature as to render
the toad an individual to be avoided
rather than to be sought and killed.
But in spite Of his ugliness the little
animal is about as harmless as any we
can find in our woods and fields, and
as a destroyer Of insects his value has
been established beyond a doubt.
Ninety-eight per cent Of the food Of
the toad consists Of animal matter,
and Of this the greater part is injuri-
GUS insects"
farmers and gardeners should provide
artificial ponds or water places in their
fields and gardens where the toad may
breed. The little animal possesses the
home instinct and when taken from
the ponds or creeks and. placed in q
garden or field is likely to desert his
new quarters and return to the old.
To obviate this Mr.. Douglass believes
the gardeners and farmers should
provide. breeding places in order to
make the fields and gardens the actual
home of the toads.
In addition to the good which may
result from having the toads feel at
home In the fields and gardens, Mr..
Douglass sees another good in the
hatchery idea-that of robbing the
children Of their propensity for STAY
ing the toads whenever they find them.
He believes that the average boy, by
watching the development of the lit
tie animal through the tadpole stage
to that Of the adult toad, will .soon
have a scientific interest in the toad
which will insure it life and protec-
ton. This protection, the entomologist
observes, is something the farmer and
gardener cannot afford to disregard in
these days Of constant and rapid in
crease Of insects which prey upon farm
and garden products.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-02-11
OUR 1909 BUMPER CROP.

How Il Would Look In Bulk Alongside
a City skyseraper.
Last years crops in America, while
not establishing a record, were consid-
erably in excess Of the previous year.
The corn was the bulkiest Of the prod
ucts. Next to corn came the produc-
ton Of oats with q huge total of near
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-02-11

tice 1t has a grain Its entire length and
all the way through.
I noticed my stonemason would take
a drill twelve inches long and three
quarters Of an inch in diameter and,
with a two or three pound hammer
mounted on a twenty inch handle, drill
a hole six inches deep in the bowlder
in a few minutes. depending on the
hardness Of the stone. Then along the
same seam of the rock another hole
was drilled, and perhaps another and
another, these holes being about SIX
inches apart.
Half rounds and a wedge were then
inserted in each hole, the wedges gen.
tly started, and then the entire length
Of wedges driven home evenly by
means Of q twelve pound, sledge. With
this treatment the big hard rocks
seemed to generally split evenly and
straight through. If they did not, aft
er the rock was split a few heavy
blows with the big sledge would knock
off any protruding pieces.
But there is a knack in knocking q
stone to pieces or trimming the stone
with the side Of a sledge hammer or Of
its cutting edge that takes time.
thought and observation to acquire.
NV Job was this: Extending easterly
along the roadway from my house was
an old tumble down wall that was the
most unsightly place to my family on
the entire farm. The land inside the
wall is about ideal for q rank growth
of timothy, and plenty Of stones Of all
sizes, from q pebble to enormous bowl
ders, were there.
The smaller powders, such as a
yoke Of cattle could draw on a stone
boat, and all the smaller stones the
boys and myself had picked of after
the blowing Of the past three springs
and hauled along the wall. OF course
this made the old wall look eve worse
than before, and all sorts Of weeds
and brush began to grow up among it.
AS the wall lay, 1t was made up Of
stones Of all sizes, many so big they
had to be split or broken and used as
foundation pieces before work could
be begun.
Ordinarily for q. new wall 9 strip Is
plowed and dug out just below the
frost line. As my wall was only to pc
rebuilt this was unnecessary, for I had
q good foundation.
Ny wall was laid with q straight
face on the road side, while on the
field side rough: cobbles without q
straight face were set up at a slant OF
about one foot othe four foot wall.
In no part OF the wall were the
stones Just thrown or dumped In. ~.
ery,stone was placed n at q time. ne
matter how small, and so placed at y
rested nrmly on Its base, with as little
tipping . / slooseness as possible.
a wall put mp in this careful man
1 ought to last several generations.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-02-11
Dairy Profts.

Profits In dairying do not depend %
much upon the number Of cows kept
but upon the kind. This fact Is being
realized more and more as the dairy
industry increases. One way to In
crease the acreage Of a farm Is to in.
crease the fertility Of the soil Of the
farm. Similarly one way to increase
q dairy herd Is to increase the cows
producing power.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07
Stra1u Hats and Autos

"You might scarcely think" said Mr.. Mao
Blink, that there was anything in common be-
tween straw hats and automobiles, but by that
way of thinking you'd be surely forgetting
their cost of upkeep, in which respect they are
strikingly alike.
"They say it costs more to keep an automo
bile than it does to buy one; precisely the
same is true Of the straw hat. You take my
own experience for an illustration.
EARLY in the season bought straw hat
for which I paid 81. know place where you
can get very good straw hat for that money,
and II it hadn't rained all summer l should
have been on the straw hat account under no
additional expense.
But 1t always does rain more or less,
Just as it has done this summer, and rs is very
we'll known If drop of rain gets on q straw
hat it is all up. Raindrops on a straw hat
will accumulate dust, and then you have to
have the hat cleaned, and that costs money; in
some places Is cents; in some IL.
II find by reference to my books that I
have paid out this summer In straw hat &C.
count for upkeep only $3.50, which is a good
deal. While the automobile man has been
spending his money for gasoline and things
I have been blowing mine for hat cleaning, and
it has cost me more to keep that hat going
than it cost me originally.
But in this find some slight satisfaction.
In this respect at least find myself ON tho
same footing with the man who 1T the begin.
ming Of tho season bought instead OF a straw
hat an automobile"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07
NO HEALTHY SKIN LEFT

my little son. q boy of five, broke
out with an itching rash. Three doc
tors prescribed for him, but he kept
getting worse until we could not dress
him any more. They finally advised
me to try certain medical college,
but its treatment did no good. At
the time I was induced to try Cuti-
cura he was so bad that had to cut
his hair OF and put the Cuticura Oint-
ment on him on bandages, as it was
impossible to touch him with the bare
hand. There was not 0ae square inch
OF skin on his whole body that was
not affected. He was one mass OF
sores. The bandages used to stick to
his skin and in removing them it use.
to take the skin of with them, and
the screams from the poor child were
heartbreaking. began to think that
he would never get well, but after the
second application of Cuticura Oint-
ment began to see signs Of improve
ment, and with the third and fourth
applications tho sores commenced to
dry up. His skin peeled of twenty
times, but It finally yielded to the
treatment. NowI can say that he is
entirely cured, and a stronger and
healthier boy you never saw than he
is to-day. twelve years or more since
the cure was effected. Robert Wattam.
114s Forty.eighth St., Chicago. Ill.,.
Oct. .. 1902"
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Windham who did not thoroughly accept the IN :
depreciation were Colonies Dyer and Elderk1n. IN
a few minutes the light of the torches showed an
immense concourse of toads or frogs, whenever
they were, bearing down the main street OF inc
town, croaking and "glucking" like a myriad OF
night demons It suddenly struck the people that
II Judgment day was at hand, notwithstanding
the fact that Colonies Dyer and Elderkin seemed
to have been singled out by the visitors the day
Of accounting according to the Bible was an all
embracing affair, and thereat all the Windham
people started trembling violently.
There are living today a good many persons
who are direct descendants Of the Colonel Elder
kin whom the batrachians called to judgment that
night In Chicago until recently there lived
Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Norris direct descend
ant of Colonel Elderkin. Mrs. Norris had heard
the story of the invasion of the village score OF
times from the lips Of her grandmother who as
child was taken time after time to see the place
from which the night disturbers came. To the
days Of their deaths Colonies Dyer and Elderkin
were called Frog Dyer and Frog Elderkin, and
II local Connecticut authorities to be believed
there has not been seen from that day to this
either toad or q frog in the meadow and pond
from which started that midnight migration.
To get away, for moment, from frogs and
toads, and in order to lead back to them again.
let it be said that out in Utah the gull is care
fully protected bird. Olive Thorne Miller speaks
of them as great, beautiful, snowy creatures who
look strangely out OF place so far from the aea-
shore" l have been told that these gulls are
sacredly protected by the law and the people Of
the western state, and have also been told that
the early Settlers the Mormons, believed that the
Lord has sent the birds to his chosen people.
It is no wonder that it believed the gulls
were specially sent. Clouds Of grasshoppers had
destroyed the crops In that early day In many
of the western territories. They attacked Utah
by the million millions. Then 1t that the
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crushed the creatures and SO creased the rails
that progress was impossible for some time.
The passengers said that they could have
stood the situation more philosophicaly II the
blockaders had been frogs, for then the ques-
ton of the food supply would have been
settled for lot of hungry people. Frogs legs
make good eating.
1t Is not generally known, perhaps. to tho
layman that toads, like frogs, lay their eggs
in the water Countless millions of eggs will
be deposited in some morass. They hatch out,
tho young get big enough, and migrate in q
body to the dry land, sometimes going long
distances as an entity. These, it is said, are
the marching armies of toads which astonish
people and accounts OF which are spread
broadcast over the earth.
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intention 30 to do. they have inaugurated ver
table regns Of terror.
Years ago. In the little Puritan settlement
OF Windham, Conn. out Of which spranR as
many notable American families, perhaps, as
have come from any other colonial hamlet. a
migration of toads led the people to believe
that the tocsin Of the last day had been sound
ed. and they were all summoned. sinners and
sinless, to answer at tho bar Of Judgment Ira
dtion says that tho migration which brought
this fear upon tho people was one Of the frogs
Scientists OF today lean rather to the toad
theory, but 1t made little difference to the
frightened popu1aoe which species Of batrar
chan brother it was that brought horror into
their midst.
Now 1t happened that there lived in Wind
ham two colonial colonies, big men and digni-
fed, by names Dyer and Elderkin. 1t may do
no harm at this late day to say that both these
military titled gentlemen were more fond Of
good living, SO the story goes, than was per-
haps exactly consistent with the strctest Pur
itan thoughts Some OF the elders Of the place,
4 Is said looked bit askance at some Of the
views of Colonies Dyer and Elderkin. There
were slaves in that day In Connecticut and
Windham held its share.
One peaceful night in May the Windham
families retired at their usual hour, not long
after candle light" At midnight they were
sleep however sound could withstand the roar
that broke upon that peaceful hamlet in the
watches of the night. There were blended the
noises of a million threats. It was cultural,
harsh and horrible, and 1t came out Of the
lofty blaokness Of midnight. The people Of
Windham jumped from their beds panic strick-
On, threw on what clothes they could, and
rushed outdoors, many bearing pine torches.
which ate little light holes in the inky black
ness.
The slaves were Frustrated with fear and
chung to the knees Of their masters. The noise
ceased not for an instant, but on the contrary
increased with every moment and then, to
the added horror Of al. the noise found shape
In words which one quick-eared. imaginative
woman interpreted into this all but two OF
Che people accepting the Interpretation read.
Nv: Judgment day; Judgment day; Colonel
Dyer and Elderkin too, and catch niger too
It is perhaps needless to say that the only
two people among the white inhabitants OF
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gulls appeared-birds never before seen In that
locality within the memory Of man. They came
In tremendous hocks and devoured without
stopping tho hosts of the enemy, and they
completely saved the crops from destruction.
Now the gulls follow the plains like chickens,
and In Utah at least, it "a said that no one
has any desire to raise hin hand against them.
What the gull was to Salt Lake region the
toad was to one section Of northwest Texas
county, some time ago. There was but a COM
paratively small area Of the county under cul"
tlvatdoa, but the growing things were threat
>ned With destruction by horde of Rocky
Mountain locusts; then there appeared to the
astonished gaze of the resident Texans an
army Of toads, before which in numbers tho
great army Of Xerxes but score.
These dismal-looking, warty-backed Hop-o-my-
thumbs came along as on business bent They
said nothing and they ate grasshoppers. They
cleaned up utterly one entire flight Of the crea-
lures. And they quietly sat under the cab
bage leaves and beet tops to wait for more.
They didn't come. The toads had saved the
crops. and It may be judged that II one wants
to be certain to get in quarrel he can get it
If he will 90 that section of Texas and ma
lign toad.
Should anyone be inclined to doubt the In
sect-eating capabilities Of a common everyday
American toad, let him listen to the evidence
and clergyman, tho one fact establishing his
accuracy and tho other bis veracity This
theologue-naturalist a. the record shows,
found a toad In his garden and proceeded to
make pet Of it. Ho went to call on master
toad one morning about ten O'Clock and with
out knowing how many insects already had
fallen before the toad's darting tongue pro-
ceeded to feed him on plant pests. The toad
ate readily and grsedily twenty-three large
squash bugs which were offered him, and then
looked up inquir1ngly for more.
The squash bug larder was depleted, SO the
clergyman turned his attention to caterpillars
OF these hairy. repulsive creatures the toad
ate ninety-four. 80 the story record goes and
then he shut down to hop heavily OF to 4
shady corner to take that rest which It 10
said aids animal digestion
Now this same experimsnter tails tales OF
toads which might appear a bit ovsrdrawn.
were not the gentleman's cloth what it is He
took In his experiments with one toad some
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member of it ever since. He has ta-
ken part in many bench shows. and
has had many a blue ribbon tied to
his collar by admiring judges.
Though gray, deaf and half blind, he
still displays all the good points OF
his breed, and IL just as full Of tight
as ever. At the approach of strange
cur his hair bristles, his feeble old
body stinens, low growls issue from
his throat. and only the restraining
leash prevents a battle.
Tim never is forgotten when the
Christmas presents are bought. and
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large "tansle-legged" grasshoppers. Master
toad took kindly to this species Of food but
owing to to the nature Of the Insects legs and
their extreme length he found difficulty in
swallowing In order to aid In the process, as
soon az he would get firm grip on the grass
hopper he would look for stick or stone by
means of pushing against which he could force
his prey down his throat. Now in order to see
what the toad would do II no stone or stick
were at hand. all Of those articles were re-
moved from his vicinity, and then he was fed
another big grasshopper with great knotted
legs.
Now it must be remembered that the pres
ent writer is not vouching for this toad story;
he is simply setting 1t down az 1t has been
told by an observer, and II 1t is a nature
fake the blame must go elsewhere. The toad
finding he could not swallow the big grasshop-
per, looked about as usual for stone and,
finding none, he attempted to use the ground
as pusher. He was unable to get the right
angle to secure sufficient force, and so as a
last and perfectly effective means, he stood on
his head and without the least difficulty forced
his food down his throat
This toad unquestionably was wonder.
One day, we are told. he happened to find an
angleworm Of great length He took hold of
one end and succeeded In swallowing about
an inch and half Of the worm, which then
Eoallzln8 1tS DANGER apparently, WOUND mo Test
OF its body boa-like around the neck Of the
toad. This gave the worm leverage enough
to enable it to tug away at that part which the
toad already had swallowed. The result was
that although by mighty effort the toad
could swallow about half inch, the worm,
when tho relaxation came, succeeded in with
drawing three quarters of an inch. The toad
saw his breakfast slipping away from him, but
his infinite wit came to his rescue 1t is said
that he sat up like squirrel took one mighty
swallow. and then before the worm could get
In Its withdrawing work. he pressed his fore
feet against his throat and held the swallowed
part Of the breakfast In place; then, so the
story goes by a series Of quick successive
swallowing and throet squeezing, the toad soon
had the worm In the dark interior where he
was needed for breakfast
Toad migrations are not extraordinarily un-
common events. They have taken place In
many parts of tho country, and once the toads
in travelling succeeded In stalling a railroad
train on the Canadian Pacific line. The story
OF this runs to the effect that the wheels
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trim trained nurse in spot1ess white
may be seen leading a small boy by
the hand up and down the shady ave-
nues near the Fitch mansion. The
boy In turn leads the decrepit terrier
by a chain, and the pretty nurse
watches over both child and dog with
tender solicitude. The child is Mrs.
Fitch's little grandson. and the terrier
is the aged pct Of the Fitch house
hold. Tim Connors was born over
the sea twenty-five years ago. He
came to the Fitch family when he was
two years old, and has been a beloved