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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-12-06
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1909. by George Matthe"
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HOW FARMERS BUSTED \ ItSS
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The trusts can be destroyed when
ever the people are so determined T."
destroy them that they Will not elect
men to office who stand in with the
trusts. or whose only indignation at
trust methods is voiced in speeches
before elections The farmers of THIS
country saved themselves from two
trusts, and they can save themselves
from the tobacco and implement II
steel trusts if they Will be courageous
and refuse to be cajoled or silenced by
absurd threats OF trusts TO leave he
State" If compelled to obey the laws.
In Human Life. for December, Fred
w. Beckman tells how Western farm
ers, under the lead Of the editor Of an
agricultural paper, busted a trust.
He writes:
"Mr Wallace came nto this larger
field of agricultural Journalism at a
time when politics was red-hot. He
had no personal liking for the political
game, hut he had learned that the
farmers interests are so involved in
It that the farmer must get into 1t
occasionally; SO he Joined with the
forces that were seeking to curl mo-
nopoly.
I'm the latter '70's and early SOS
the notorious ~barbed-wire trust was
levying heavy toll upon the m
of the West through its apparent own
ership or control OF all b~arbed-wire
patents that We're worth while. There
was no particular encouragement to a
fight with the trust, but Iowa m
determined to undertake the struggle
anyway.
'Mr. Wallace assisted in organizing
10000 and more of them into a trust
busting alliance which put up many
thousands Of dollars for the war. a
young Des Moines lawyer, then at the
beginning of his career. now United
States Senator. Albert B. Cummins,
was engaged to conduct the fight
Though the trust claimed TO own
every patent worth while, this young
lawyer found positive evidence that
an Iowa farmer had made a rude
ha~rbed-Wire fence to keep the hogs
out OF his garden years before the
trust patents were allowed. and upon
that ground the trust was whipped"
When the Farmers Alliance was a
power IN the South, a war was begun
against the jute bagging trust, under
the leadership of Col. L. I. Polk, edi-
tor of The Progressive Farmer n
president of the National Alliance. The
aruners refused TO use trust goods and
forced the trust to its knees.
The trusts that now rob the farmers
and others can be made to stop their
robbery If public officials will be as
courageous and determined as Mr..
! Wallace was in the '7O's and as Colonel
| Polk was in the carly '90's. Are they
f! waiting for private citizens to always
do the work for which they are taxed
cial officers?
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-12-06
TUESDAY,
December 6, 1910
f. TONIC.
tPhiillps BrOokS.)

tPhIlhps Brooks.)
~ men would only look at the life
OF Jesus 10 see what Christianity is
aIlo NOT at the life Of the poor repre-.
lt115'e5 OF Jesus whom they see
aiouhQ tne3G, there would be so much
more ciearneSs, they would be rid nf
"dlE olfIcultc& and doubts. When
L look at the life of Jesus I SEQ thai
me purpose of conservation. of amap-
Iipdtloh' IS service of his fellow-men.
l 'ahnot think for a moment Of Jesus
dS cong That which SO many reiiciors
peop1e thlnk they are doing when they
serve Christ, when they give thor
HFe5 TO MIN. L cannot think Of Him
as simply saving His own soul. living
t1ls own lite. and completing His own
IT, nfaodf Ia me sight Of God. 1t is a
me OF service from beginning to end
tie gives himself to man because He
as absolutely the child Of God. and
ne sets up service. and nothing but
service, to be the ultimate purpose
,le one great desire, Oh which the
sou19 OF bis followers should be set.
a. rs own soul Is set, upon it con-
You say, What can I ao?,
70" can furnish one Christian life
Aou can furnish d life so faith-
'ul 70 every duty, so ready for every
90 xrte' so determined not to commit
avery SIN, that the great Christie
thufch shall be the rong for yol,r
ilNliE IN 1t, and the problem of the
"orld De answered, and a certain great
peace come into this poor perplcxed
phase Of our humanity as it sees thai
new revelation Of what Christianitv !.
aes' christ can give the world the
.naHs II needs in unknown ways and
!het1odS that we have not Vet haonn
~ o must do
somethlnE. Only let Christ tell you-
let Christ tell you that there is notbin,
IMAM a man rests upon in the moment
tnaf he thinks Of, as he looks bach
upon u "heh IT has sunk into the past.
with any satisfaction. eycant en,,o
service TO his fellowman. SOM
strengthening and helping of q human
solll ~
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-12-06
UNCLE WALT
The Poet Philosopher

They are svarrning In the cities and
and the God YOU will find them IN
all earthly neigh
THE bOrhoOdS: sWiping
JUST-AS-GOOnS thunder from their
ncighbOrs. prOfitinS
by others labOrs-you have met tneti
in yorr walks. the Just-aS-gOOds! some
inventor with a peck or two OF nFains'
may produce a something new In aero
planes: then the Just-aS-gOOds VIII
shark it, rush an airship Oh n mar
ket. and the good man gets his
for his pains. You may write 4 little
book that hits the pot, something
clever. With a brand new line OF
thought: and the Just-as-goods viii
grab it, and they'll initiate Its habit.
and they'll CLUTTER mp the bookstores
with their rot. You may make a little
na;ntinc or cartoon; or invent a better
vay to cook Il prune; and the Just-as-
goods will travel on your tFaii'
a-aratching gravel, and they'll iii
vour soul with sorrow pretty soon
Cen q poet who IS old and tired aud
fat finds the JuSt-aS-gOOtfS forever
sta aiding pat; and they initiate ms
verses. and he might indulge in curses,
hut there really wouldn't be much good
in that.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-12-06
NO PRODUCT IS WASTE.

What are we going to DO for paper
when we have cut down the forests?
That question will be settled in a way
to make a market for two products
now going to waste in the ~South-corn
stalks ana cotton stalks. In the West
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-12-06

maily welcome Col. Roosevelt 10 ~.
way OF thinking and extend the righ.
hand of fellowship. Let our .,stnr
county stick to its reputation n 80
Nash or II she wants to get in tha
game otherwise let her produce the
goods.' '0
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-12-06

The trend of population is to the
cities, and there was an increase IN the
drinking Of intoxicants last year. Whaf
is the connection between these two
facts? The rvo tension of city lite
is greater han Of country life, calling
more for stimulants, and affordIns
more convenient opportunities to geF
them. Drinking and smoking, too, are
10Th social practices, and there -
more society IL the cities than IL ths
country" says Harper's Weekly.
p.I;of ~ f,,f1ro ITO 10 rha 9HDeItte
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-12-06
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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-12-06

Belief in future life Is the appFfts
Of reaSon.-IandOr.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-10-27
Natives Found Entirely Ignorant
of Use of Metals.
No Form of Government Exists Among
Them Except Advice-Giving Coun-
Gil of Eiders-Bark Paved
Streets.

The Hague, Holland-The latest
expedition In New Guinea under Prof.
Lorentz, which succeeded in ascend
ing the range of snow mountains, has
published some interesting particulars
about non-Malayan race living to the
south OF the mountains. These people
have Caucasian or European features,
although their color is black They
speak a language entirely different
from that of the surrounding Malayo-
Polynesfan tribes; indeed. it is the
first time that such a race and Ian
guage have been encountered in the
Dutch indies.
The people were entirely ignorant
of the use of metals before the Dutch
expedition came into their territory !;
but once having made the acquain-
lance of European knives, they clam
ored for them and would bring guam
titles of fowls and game, pigs, fruit
and fish to exchange for steel knives
or iron of any description All their
own implements were Of stone, fish
bone. bone and wood. sometimes beau
tifully carved. Prof. Laurentz says
that this is perhaps the last race of
people existing in the world still in
the "stone age"
II, from this fact, 1t were to be
argued that they must be on a very
low level, indeed, 1t is surprising to
hear that, on the contrary, they have
reached fair standard of civilization.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-10-27
FAIR APRON MAKES A HIT
Designed by Clever Young Woman
Who Found No Further Space
for Table at Fair.

The Fair Apron" 1t is called by the
clever young woman who is its origin
atOr. There being no further space for
a table at the church fair in which she
was anxious to help, she conceived
the idea of making a big, stout apron
of denim, with plenty of spacious peck
cts, and going around with it, selling
small toys to the visitors at the ba
zaar.
No sooner thought than done The
apron was made of dark green denim.
reached to the knees, and was pro-
vided across the base with three
roomy pockets, made in the deep turn
over of the hem by two straight lines
of stitching. These divided the band
into three divisions, which were trim
med with triple row of narrow white
braid. Two smaller pockets were
made higher up. All of these pockets
were hastily ornamen-ed by pictures
of Teddy bears, etc. outlined in thick
white floss. The apron was fastened
around the waist by two stout cords.
which helped support it's weight.
So great was the success of this
plan with the children who were too
small to get near the big tables that
the second day of the fair she was
obliged to hang a tray around her
neck to hold the further wares de-
manded of heri
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-10-27
The Mystery of Petroleum.

At a recent meeting of scientific
society at Washington one of the mem
bers, in discussing the present prob
lens in earthquakes invited attention
10 a mystery which will assume great
er importance as the accessible supply
OF coal diminishes-the origin of pc
..oleum.
Such vast accumulations of oil as
exist in the Caspian and Caucasus re-
gions seem incompatible with the n.y.
pothesis that petroleum originates
from animal and vegetable remains.
Mendeleeff suggested that the source
of the oil is the decomposition of iron
carbids In the terrestrial crust, but
his hypothesis has not been generally
accepted. If the origin is not animal
or vegetable, then, it is thought. the
supply is very likely inexhaustible.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-10-27
NEW GUINEA PEOPLE

They are not nomadic. but live In
well-built villages, where even the
streets are paved. Some tribes use for
this purpose the bark of trees, while
others simply place palm leaves over
the roads to keep the dust down
Their villages and houses are kept
clean and near each house gardens
are planted, in which many kinds of
flowers are grown. These people are
extremely fond of flowers, and always
wear some in their hair. They sue
cessfully practise agriculture, and
their decorative art is of considerable
beauty.
Strange to say, nothing at all like
any form of government could be de-
tected. There are no chiefs, and the
only thing approaching known insti-
tutions is a sort of council of the old
est men Of the tribe. These, however,
do not rule the people, but their ad-
vice is asked in important matters.
Notwithstanding this, the utmost good
order prevails. everything being done
according to custom.
Their family life Is peculiar. Every
person dwells alone; the young un-
married men have separate houses,
the wives have their own homes quite
apart from their husbands. When a
married man wishes to speak to his
wife it is not etiquette for him to go
to her house and call on her, nor to
speak to her when he meets her in
the village. He must inform woman
neighbor of hers that he wishes to
talk to his wife, and the go-between
then arranges a meeting for them in
the nearby forest. Taking these facts
into consideration it is not surprising
to learn that domestic peace is never
disturbed occasions for Quarreling be-
ing extremely rare.
The Dutch explorers named this
race the Kaya-Kaya. because on meet
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-10-27
WhittIinG Sticks.

The things that one finds in the
shops of the great cities are very
strange A writer in the New York
Sun recently cited an instance which
he vouches for as true, but which
ireads more like a Pigment Of the imag-
ination than anything else. "On the
counter Of stationery store, beside
the lead pencil box" he wrote, 81
saw bunch of six-inch lengths of
plain wood. labeled, Whiting sticks.
What's that? l asked.
/ THE stationer replied that the wood
was just what the sign said it was,
sticks to white on. To white is
natural for boy said the stationer.
lit keeps him out of lot of worse
mischief, but city streets afford
mighty poor pickings in the way of
Iwhittling wood A boy might nose
around here all day and not find a
silver of wood fit to white on A
friend from the country sends me a
bunch of sticks every week and / sell
them three sticks for cent
Sells them three for cent! And
that's New York; No more picayune
business like that for me- Next week
II light out for country wEcre a boy
can white down whole tree and no
body stops him.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-10-27
CHICAGO FISH ESCAPE HOOKS
5000 Black Bass in Lincoln Park tc
Be unmoIested-Bison ForetsIl
Hard Winter.

Chicago.-Shade of Izaak Walton
and piscatorial enthusiasts, hear we
this-6,000 black bass have been
planted In the ponds of Lincoln park,
but there isn't any fishing yet
This announcement is made by Cy
De Vry, who looks after the veal OF
animal kind and the birds and fishes in
the great pleasure ground.
In former years the custom has been
to permit fall fishing in the ponds,
but this year there will be none of that
because it Is the intention of the park
authorities to encourage the bass ven
ture-this on the word and authority
Of Cy De Vry.
Yes. sir, we are going to have the
finest black bass in these ponds to De
found any where" he said 81 got the
idea some time ago that the ponds
heads, goldfish and tho like, and the
result is that the commissioners got
busy and we procured several thou.
sand bass from the Illinois fish com
mission. We emptied 5000 in the
north pond, and the balance went into
The south pond"
Having disposed of the subject OF
ish. the head animal keeper turned to
the more weighty ona of mammals in
the zoo.
See the buffalo, the elk and the
moose" he said. They are taking on
their fur much earlier this year, and
that means We are in for long and a
cold winter. have been watching
those animals and the bears and the
rest Of the furry tribe for several
weeks, and their hides present every
indication of an early winter.
Il see this. too, in the behavior OF
the beavers. The little fellows are
becoming more FESTIVE and | rather
imagine they would prefer the job OF
building their bark houses up in the
northern country than posing here in
Lincoln park for the amusement and
instruction of the public. Let the
coal men cheer up, for, as have said
there will be long winter and big
crop of Ice"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-10-27
BIG BEAR KILLED BY WOMAN
Mrs. Weston Adams of Stoneham, Me,
Outruns Bruin, Gets Rifle, and
Shoots Pursusr.

Norway, Me.-The bravest woman
in Stoneham. near Norway, is Mrs
Weston Adams, who has lain low the
biggest bear seen bereabouts for many
years.
Alone, blueberrying, on Spreckland
mountain, Mrs. Adams, fraii but cour-
ageous woman Of 80 years, ran across
Bruin in startling manner. She had
nearly filled her pail with berries when
up saw a huge black bear standing
on ledge less than 20 feet away.
Mrs. Adams stood her ground She
knew that to run would be signal
for the bear to attack. The bear
growled ferociously, and Mrs Adams
tried to drive 1t away by shaking her
pail Df berries at it.
Fearing that the bear would attack
her any moment, the brave little wom-
an did some quick thinking. She re-
membered that bears cannot run fast
down steep hill and knowing that
her rife was below her she waited I'M
til the bear had turned its head, at
tracted by noise further up the
mountains, and then she ran for her
life.
She planned it we'll Bruin angrily
pursued her, but Mrs Adams had a
good start, because of its numbering
gait the bear could not overtake her.
Just In the nick of time Mrs. Adams
came to the tree where she had left
her rife. ard taking steady aim sent
bullet into the oncoming bear.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-10-27
Forced to Believe So, but Get oysters
instead-Other Novel
Amusements.

Philadelphia.-The latest device for
toTturing freshmen at the University
of Pennsylvania is to blindfold the
victim, and, after propping open his
mouth with small oblong block, to
tell him that he is on the verge of
having frog dropped down his throat
and then in its stead to feed him a
large raw oyster. Raw eggs are used
when oysters are not available. This
method was found to work effectively
after twenty blindfolded freshmen
had been forced to chase frogs III the
lily ponds In the biological gardens.
A small hazing party, at which
three "freshies" were introduced to
several novel and entertaining amuse-
ments, proved to be merely prelim-
mary to a well organized and con-
certed attack on all the first year men
in the dormitories.
Beginning at 1 o'clock in the morn
ing, they secured the dormitories from
the new Provost tower, at Thirty-sixth
and Spruce streets, to the apex OF the
Triangle in search of freshmen. and
by 5 o'clock. when their. operations
ceased, more than a score of sad, hum
bled and forlorn 'freshies" crept quiet
ly back to the rooms. dripping with
the wet and mire OF the frog ponds"
in the Biological gardens. College had
lost its rosy glow for them after four
hours of torment at the hands of their
upper classmen.
Come along. freshie boys" the
sophs coaxed, as they jinmied doors
and climbed through windows by
means Of ladders conveniently at
hand from the recent building opera
TONS All were allowed to put on
clothes, but the more obdurate. who
refused to dress were forced brus-
ouely out into the chill night air clad
only in pajamas. Those who were
dressed wore their coats turned
wrongside out and their trousers turn
ed up to their knees. All were blind
folded and marched in military for
nation to the Biological gardens"
They were forced 10 initiate boiling
teakettles, TO offer supplication to the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-10-27

able band the hobble introduced Be.
tow the cap. fortunately for grace and
iocomotion. there may be a deep kilt
ed flounCe. which in fine materials
Hutters and waves gracefully with
walking.
But these are the pet extremes of
The hour. and for those who want the
sensible thing pray let me Introduce
a few pictures which show styles as
pretty as they are reasonable.
Though designed for misses, the mod
els are appropriate for small women
and the styles are all quite simple
enough for home dressmaklng.
The combination of Russian coat
and plated skirt. shown in the illus
tration, represents an ideal style for
- young girls street wear for both
autumn and winter, for by wearing
\ warm little vest under the coat the
dress would be suitable for any but
the most frigid days. As pictured, the
suit is made of mannish goods In
brown and red, with a little handsome
embroidery and some fancy buttons
on the bodies The skirt is in seven
cores, but as these are plated and
stitched at tie top the effect is styl-
ishly narrow.
This model will be found very good
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-10-27
STYLES FOR MISSES
MORE NEARLY RIGHT THING
THAN THOSE FOR WOMEN.
Look Actually Adorable in 5agIike
Skirts of Hour-Many Dressy
Frocks Are in One-Piece
Models

The fan clothes provided for misses
strike the heart disgruntled with fash
ions follies as more nearly the right
thing than those provided for woman.
True. the small woman may find them
TO her taste, but the styles are Great
ed for the girl, and it is not entirely
the traditions Of girlhood that make
them attractive. Perhaps it is the
charm of the very short skirts and the
slim igures-it may be that the young
girl is more suited to the present friv-
olities than the woman who Is sup
posed to have come to the age of rea-
son.
Everywhere one encounters the
1nafdenly Wisp of humanity looking
actually adorable in the baglike skirts
of the hour, with their restraining
bands or skinny cut. with the ovSr-
skirt that looks as if it has a right
to be, the short sleeve that seems
Legitimate and so on. In the field Of
9racticaIities a mannish little coat
Euit represents the proper caper for
street wear, and in its most killing
phases it looks as if it might be made
out Of three yards Of stuff A trim,
dinky sort Of little jacket, with coat
sleeves fitting all but to the skin and
q single-breasted front, is completed
with a skirt without gather and with
only two seams-these at the sides.
Mannish materials, too. are being used
for it, and for all the apparent sim
plicity of such suits they require the
touch of accomplished tailoring.
Many dressy little frocks are in one
piece models, or they may be in two
sections, with the upper part of the
skirt Stimulating, with a yoke or trim
ming, some basque finish for the
bodice. When the waist and skirt join
perfectly it is impossible to see at
first glance that these frocks are not
in one. Then there is the straight
overskirt still with us, and just now
1T is the merest cap, hugging the hips
tightly and finished with the newt
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-10-27
Continental BARRIERS EscheW Use Of
Scissors on Demands OF Fas-
tidious Customers.

London am compelled to so TO
Paris or Vienna when | want my hair
properly cut. The use Of the razor
instead of scissors. which Is an infn-
itely superior way of cutting hair.
seems almost unknown in London"
So says a Londoner, who complains
of the difficulty Of obtaining really
satisfactory and artistic hair cut" at
the hands of an English barber.
Inquiries in the West End revealed
some interesting facts concerning the
use of the razor in the place of scis-
soTs.
Although the practise has been in
vogue in Paris and Vienna for great
many years" said a tonsorial expert
with a wide experience of hair cut
ting and hair dressing, ut is very IN
common In England ! only know of
one or two places in London where
hair is cut with razor,
THE advantages of the process are