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The Elbert County tribune., 1912-09-20

The high price of mutton during the
past few years has encouraged. par
ticularly dairymen, to pay more atten-
ton to making good veal. but there is
a woeful lack of this kind of meat now
on the market.
Most dairymen will not take the
trouble to fatten calves, but send them
to market Just as soon as they are
past the age limit. and the result is
entirely unsatisfactory, both to the
seller and the customer
Well fatted calves. weighing from
120 to $50 pounds. always bring high
prices. no matter what the condition
of the cattle market may be. City-peo-
pie eat great deal of veal and would
consume much more if they could get
what they want. but the stuff seen on
the market is for the most part
stringy, unfinished and not at all sat
isfactory.
eMany calves are sold when week
old, at to cents per pound. when
II fed until they weighed 25 pounds,
would bring double the money, but
dairymen have not yet learned how to
feed calves. in order to make good
veal
The European farmers make good
money out of the right calves. The
youngster is carefully fed from the
day he is born. being confined in dark
stalls. He is fed literally on oatmeal.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-09-20

cred, and that the men, in their
frenzy. would rush out to certain
death. He drew his revolver and
told them that he would kill the first
man to attempted to break away. The
men knew that he meant 1t, too, and
that knowledge brought them back to
reason.
1T wasn't more than twenty min
utes before the worst of the fire had
passed the shaft When 1t was safe
to crawl out they found that five Of
the men were dead from suffocation,
but the other thirty-five were all
right. Pulaski himself was blinded
and burned. but his sight was partly
restored. He lost FIVE men, to be
sure, but with less courage and pres
ence of mind he would have lost
them all. / take off my hat to such
man. He is a real hero"
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-09-20
sana for Sultan.

Mulai Hafd. the ex-sultan of Moroc-
CO, while staying at vichy. In France,
made an excursion to Les Ardoisieres,
says the "Matin," where Napoleon III.
used often to go for rest. Three young
girls, sisters, timidly approached the
sultan and asked him to sign post
cards. Mulai Hafid consented on con-
dition that they would each sing a
song to him. Two of the girls at
once complied. and the delighted Mu-
lai Hafd wrote on their cards words
which. translated. mean: Like Ma
poleon Ill, have visited Les Ardoi-
sieres, where | have enjoyed, together
with the calm and freshness of ma
ture, the grace and charm of the
voices Of Miles. Paulette and Clio
tide" The third girl did not know
how to sing, but one of her sisters
having sung for her the sultan added
the name of Gabrielle.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-09-20
BREAKS JAIL TO FEED CATS
Nevada Miner Tramps Forty Miles
That His Pets May Not Suffer
Act May Bring Freedom.

San Francisco, Cal.-When James
Watkins. miner, was placed in Jail
at Searchlight, New. recently, charged
with having stolen pair of lace cur
tains, he asked the jailer to see that
his pet cats were fed. The jaiIer
laughed at him. but when night fell
Watkins broke jail and tramped forty
miles across the desert to attend to
his pets. The sherif followed him
next day in motor car and found
Watkins pouring milk for the cats at
his cabin.
The charge against Watkins prob
ably will be dismissed. his accuser
having been impressed by the miners
affection for his pets.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-09-20

whole milk at the start and skim.
milk later. with some roots, and
when he goes to market he is about
as toothsome morsel as can be found
anywhere. Englishmen are very fond
of this kind of meat. and price cuts no
figure with them.
There is no reason why our dairy
men should not increase their profits
materially by feeding their calves;
and 1t has always been a source of
wonder to us why they SO neglect this
part Of their business.
The fact is, the American public. to
large extent, is go prejudiced against
veal, having read gruesome tales
about bob veal being too often mar
keted. that thousands are afraid to
buy veal of any kind. If better sys-
TEN of feeding calves were adopted,
and the business systematized, we
would have in few years a line of
choice meat that would sell readily at
very high prices.
The first thing to be done would be
to amend the laws, to prevent the
railroad and express companies ship
ping veal under four weeks of age.
The amount of immature stun that
goes to market every day is appalling,
and we believe that rs per cent of 1t
is unfit for food How 1t gets past
the inspectors is something no man
can find out.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-09-20
RANGER IS A HERO
Real Men to Be Found in Occur
d'AIene Reservation
How Captain Of Fire Fighters, BY
Goodness and Bravery, Prevented
Loss of Thlrty-five Of His Crew
In Northern Woods.

Boise, Idaho--Professor yelling,
tanned and toughened by his sum
msr's work in the Coeur d'Alene ma
tional forest reservation. held his
eastern visitors spellbound with
stories of the fight he had helped to
make against the fearful forest fires.
says the Youths Companion. He had
gone out, with two others, under gov
ernment commission, to study the for
est and. coming back in August, they
had met the fires and spent almost a
month in fighting their way out OF
them.
There are real men among these
forest rangers" he went on. In
fact, there is no place for anything
that is not genuine up there. The
most thrilling story of heroism that
l have heard in long time is the
story of Ranger Pulaski. 1t did not
happen in the part of the reservation
where l was, but can vouch for its
truth, for have talked with some
Of the men who were with him.
Pulaski had forty men under him,
and they had been fighting a big fire
for hours. Suddenly the wind rose
until it blew a gale. The fire got
beyond them. and 1t became ques-
tion of saving the lives Of the men.
They were many miles from a rail-
road or a clearing
pulaski remembered that about a
mile from where they were working
was an abandoned mine shaft that
ran back about forty feet into the
hillside. He ordered the men to
snatch their blankets from the camp
and run for this shaft. Once there
they packed themselves like sardines
into the hole. Pulaski placed him
self at the opening and stretched a
blanket across it.
"In few minutes the fire overlook
them. The blanket at the opening
caught and Pulaski jerked 1t away.
Again and again this was done. and
when the supply Of blankets ran low
he held the burning fragments across
the mouth Of the shaft with his bare
hands.
THE suffering Of the men from the
heat and smoke was pitiful. They
were fairly maddened by 1t, and some
of them made a wild attempt to push
their way out of the shaft. For a
while Pulaski held them back by
sheer physical strength, for he was
an unusually strong man. But he
knew that he must soon be overpow-
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-09-20
LAMB RAISING PAYS
FARMER QUITE WELL
Sheep Industry on the Average
Farm is Considered Side
Issue.

The farmer who will pay close at.
tention to his breeding stock and
raise native lambs of uniform size
and breed. feed them intelligently and
market them at the right time can
make more profit from his flock than
from any other farm investment. AS
a rule the native" lambs sent to the
markets are SO badly mixed, both as
to breed and feeding. that they are a
torment to the buyer and of little prof.
1t to the owner.
This Is one of the reasons why the
western range lambs find great favor
in the big markets. They the more
uniform in size as they are fed ip
large fiocks and go to market prac
tically In the same condition. Only a
small portion of the native" lambs
that are sold in the eastern markets
can be called prime, and his fact Is
entirely the fault of the farmer.
AS rule. sheep-raising on the av-
erage farm is merely a side issue and
little attention is given to it. The
remedy of the present condition OF the
native lamb market lies entirely with
the men who produce the lambs.
Whenever the farmers are engaged
in the producing of prime lambs for
market at any season of the year. the
business has proven highly profitable.
OF course the best markets are just
before Christmas and in the early
spring; at this period the prices are
always high.
America is becoming a great NUT
ton-eating nation, and If the farmers
will improve their flocks and their
methods of feeding there is no reason
why the native lamb market should
not prove more profitable than that
controlled by the range district.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-09-20
CHEAPEST HAY FOR
FORAGE IN WINTER
Second Crop Clover Is First Class
Feed for Cows and
Sheep.

Second crop clover is first-class
winter forage for cows and sheep.
Clover, when cured without being dam
aged by rain, is the cheapest and best
hay for cows In milk and ewes with
young lambs. Owing to the shortness
of the hay crop throughout the country
the young clover and foxtail and rag
weeds growing in the wheat stubbles
should be cut and cured before the fall
rains set in. Second crop clover is
worth too much as feed to plow under
for manure. Save the crop for feed
and plow under the stubble this fall
and lime for corn in the spring. AS
GOOD for poultry. when bulk is needed.
poultry men say that no other clover,
except it may be alfalfa, is equal to
second-crop red clover, cut and cured
free from rain and stepped in boiling
water during the night for feeding the
next day. Use the water in which the
clover was stepped in for mixing with
bran and corn chop, which, with the
clover, makes one of the best winter
foods for laying hens during the win
ter months.
In the grain-growing districts the
second crop is usually cut for seed.
II the first crop is cut early and the
stubble dressed with zoo pounds OF
plaster to the acre a good crop of seed
may be grown II the season is favor
able. Bees are a great help in dis
tributing the clover pollen After the
seed is harvested the stubble is plowed
for corn.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-09-20
TEXT TAKEN TOO LITERALLY
.Ten-Year-old Julia Gets Into Bad
Graees Of Mother by Giving
Tramp a Half-DoIIar.

Be not forgetful to entertain
strangers; for thereby some have en-
tertained angels unawares."
The foregoing quotation is from
chapter 13. verse 2. Book OF Hebrews,
and 1t is introduced solely because it
constitutes a vital part OF this story
Julia Is ten years old and she goes to
Sunday school. 1t appears that on a
recent occasion the Sunday school
teacher had considerable to say about
this matter of entertaining angels
unawares." Anyway, 1t made q deep
impression with Julia.
A few days after the lesson Julia's
mother left her in charge OF the house
for few hours. When the mother re-
turned she went to a particular cup
in the cupboard to extract therefrom
one-half dollar. In this cup is kept
the family pin money, and Julia s
mother knew that she had put fifty
cents there before she had gone out.
But the half dollar was gone. There
was an expression of anxiety on
Julia's face and mother scented mis-
chief.
did you take that money! asked
the mother, somewhat severely.
Julia broke into tears. 81 gave it to
man that came to the back door,
sobbed the little girl
Gave it to a mani" exclaimed the
mother. What for?"
Thought he might be God" tear
fully replied Juida--.Kansas City Star.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-09-20
Crime to Kiss.

In Russia 1t is crime for lovers
to kiss In public, and not very long
ago two young men and two young
women were arrested in Odessa for
having been guilty of this offense.
They had all been dining together in
a restaurant and kissed on parting.
They we're condemned to short terms
of imprisonment and the sentences
were confirmed on appeal. The gem
eral fine in Russia for q kiss in the
open street is 15 shillings, but In a
tramcar it may cost anything up to
20 shillings
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-09-20
Wild Ones.

Charles Crafty. the noted sculptor.
was talking at his summer home at
Folly Grove. near Gloucester, about
the quaint humor of the Gloucester
fishermen.
In Gloucester one day" he said. 'as
/ idled among the shipping. an old
salt began to narrate his experiences
to me.
Wunst,' he said, was ship
WRECKED in the South sea, and thar l
come across a tribe of wild women
without tongues
wild women without tongues!'
said /. Goodness! How could they
talkY"
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-09-20
A Pen and Ink Shakespeare.

Woodrow Wilson. on a recent visit
to Atlantic City. referred good humor.
edly to his rather illegibile handwrit-
ing.
But my hand is nothing" he said,
ito that Of Horace Greeley.
Poor Greeley once quoted from
Shakespeare in leading article, IT'S
true. 'tis pity, and pity 'tis true.'
This appeared the next day:
Tis two, It's fifty. It's fifty, tits
fifty-two.,"
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-09-20
Improved Vacuum Cleaner.

A new vacuum cleaner, designed to
be operated by water power in a
sink or bathtub, consists of two sue
tion pumps driven by water wheel,
and chamber in which the dust is
collected, to be washed away by the
waste water
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-09-20
American Tools Preferred.

A favorite support in New Zealand, as
also in Australia and Tasmania, is COM
petition in wood chopplng and saving;
and in these contests, which attract a
great deal of interest, the champion
ships are always won through the use
OF American tools. In fact, the expert
woodsman working for prize would
never think Of using any other kind
of tools.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-09-20

Some men work over time to earn a
dishonest living.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-09-20
Explained.

He knows all the best people in
town"
why doesn't he associate with
them, them"
'They know him."
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-09-20

Ten smiles for a nickel Always buy
Red Cross Bag Blue; have beautiful clear
white clothes. Adv.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-09-20

A man must draw the line some
where. but the chances are he will get
on the other side OF 1t later
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-02-21

! Did you strike this MANI" asked
! Dickens sternly.
well sir replied the landlord,
| "vether Hi 1T that mon on the ed
With pewter pot hit his not for the
| likes of me to say, sir; but the him.
preston on my mind his that Hi did
not"
We'll. SIR retorted Dickens judi
cially, whether you hit that man on
the head with a pewter pot it is not
for me to say; but the impression on
his head is that you did!''
Dickens left no memoranda from
which the plot of his uncompIeted
novel The Mystery of Edwin brood"
could be discovered. But, before
writing this novel, he told me of a
plot which he was considering. Point
ing to a building on the bank of the
Thames. he said: THAT Is our Poor
House. A well-to- do overseer put his
father into that house. under an as
sumed name. The old man revealed
his identity to the Board of Mana
gers, and they sent him back to his
son. whom they threatened to pros
ecute for fraud Angry. mean and
alarmed. the overseer put the father
into a buggy and drove into the river
here at this spot. His intention evil
IDENTIFY was to drown his father and
pretend there had been an accident
But the father chung to him and both
We're drowned. The overseer had ta-
ken out insurance policies upon his
own life and that of his father. and
distant relatives applied for the
money. The insurance company re-
fused to pay. Litigation ensued, and
the court decided that the policy tIp-
on the father was void, because he
had been deliberately murdered, but
the policy upon the son must be paid.
because he had not intended to COM
NIT suicide. There are hundreds of
such readymade plots in British ju-
risprudence."
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-02-21
Yakima Valley
News
From Herald Correspondents
TETON

IlEION
TETON, Wash, Feb. 19.--Rev. AL
len of Spokane is having handsome
six-room bungalow built on his ranch
in section 8. He has a slightly loca-
ton overlooking the Naches valley
He will move there at an early date
Philo Huxtable son of w. l. Hulk.
table, of North Yakima, is occupying
a temporary building in section one
Philo came out from Yakima recently
and will have charge of the Huxta-
BILE ranch of 80 acres, which will be
improved the coming season.
The mason work for the new Pres
byterian church is finished and the
carpentering is coming along nicely.
John Hall, of Florence, Wash, ex-
poets to set out a so acre orchard
and seed down 60 acres.
The ground is free from frost and
some of it dry enough for blowing
The uncompleted part of the Ma
ches dugway road will be finished as
soon as the ground is fit. The ranch
ers will furnish gratis, the teams and
labor and the county will supply the
tools and bosses.
A special meeting of the Tieton
Improvement Association Twill be
held in Schenk's hall at p. m. on
the 18th.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-02-21

Dickens was very happy at Gad's
Hill. When a boy. tramping with
his father from London to Roches-
ter, he had stopped before the pref
ty house and exclaimed There
shall live when | get to be mani"
The fulhllment of this prophecy
seemed to Dickens like the happy
ending to one of his own fairy tales.
Besides, the place was holy ground to
him, for it had been trodden by the
feet of Shakespeare and was a re-
sort of Falstaff Pons, Peto Pistol
and Bardolph. In the hall a painted
panel read, This is Gadshill, of
which Sir John Falstaf. said and
the quotation from Henry the
Fourth" follows.
There was only one other residence
in all England that Dickens preferred
to Gad's Hill. His favorite walk was
to Rochester, and he would stand for
hours. viewing the ruined castle; re-
building and repairing it; repeoplel-
ing it with the kings and queens
lords and ladies who had lived with
in it's massive walls. One day he
said:
'If I could only have this old cas-
tie to live in | would refit part of il
at my own expense and keep it open
to the public on certain days or hours
1t would not cost so very much.
have made the calculations. But this
is one of my dreams that will never
come true
While Dickens was featuring i'm
America L obtained an interview with
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-02-21
Plant at Coyote Rapids Will Fur
nish Nearly Hundred Million
Gallons of Water Daily
INCREASED EFFICIENCY
IN DELIVERY SYSTEM
Intake Is Lowered and an Inn
proved Distribution Method
Has Been Instituted for lrriga-
ton This Season

Ninety-six million gallons of water
every twenty-four hours will be the
delivery of the pumps at Covote when
says the Columbian of Hanford. This
will be an increase of forty eight
million gallons over previous years.
Next week II new pump with ca
pacity of 4S,250,000 gallons per day
will be delivered to the pumping sta
ton at Coyote Rapids and installed
and ready for work when water is
needed for irrigation in the spring.
The system of delivery of the two
pumps which furnished water during
previous years has been changed so
as to increase the efficiency and de-
liver a larger volume of water into
the ditch Heretofore the pumps de-
livered directly into the ditch, but I'M
der the new arrangement one will de-
liver to the other and increase the
lifting power.
Intake Was Too High
The past seasons during the low
water stages considerable trouble was
experienced by shortage of water III
the canal because the intake was
built too high and was not long
enough to reach to deeper water. This
will be history from now on. Crews
are completing the work of lowering
the intake six feet, several feet below
the low water mark, and extending
it 200 feet out into the river to the
main channel of the stream.
When these improvements are COM
pleted the Coyote plant will be one Of
largest and best installed pumping
plants in the state delivering water
to cement lined canal and subterran-
can distributing system. making the
local project one of the most substan-
tial in the west.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-02-21
MCKEE CITY

MCKEE CITY, Feb 19.-The Bru.
lotte Bros returned from the Colum.
bia the fore part of the week where
they have property interests.
FIR. Arsenault is expctd HON toda,
from Seattle, where he accompanied
FIR. LaMontaigne after they had
closed a very successful four days
mission at this place. FIR. LaMon-
taigne going on to Vancouver to visit
his sister.
A Mr.. Landt is here looking over
the prospects for bank in Mckee
City. We have had numerous visitors
of late with this in view.
Mr.. Foy has moved his family into
North Yakima, where he has a posi-
ton with the Cascade Lumber Co.
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Horita are again
making their home on the ranch. Mr.
Horita was obliged to be in Yakima
the last two days because of the Sc
rious illness of his brother.
Mrs. Poole was in North Yakima
Monday and Tuesday, the guest of her
sister Mrs. Hurley
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Desserault
have moved to the south side of the
valley, where they will take charge
of a ranch.
Mr.. John Carr left with his family
for Prosser last Tuesday, where he
will take charge Of a ranch.
Miss Elizabeth McShane was in
Mckee Thursday and again Saturday.
The water from a new artesan well
over which they failed to get con-
troll for some time, helped the melt
ing snow in making coolies of mud
around Mckee the past two weeks.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-02-21
J. B. Braden Says That Is the
Only Politics On in the
Missouri Country
SAW MUCH DEVELOPMENT
BUT WEST IS THE BEST
Peach Crop in the Country He
Visited Will But But Fraction
of the Normal But Apples Will
Be Plentiful

ITS all Roosevelt talk, big men and
little back where l have been" said
j. B. Braden, who has just returned
from a trip as far as st. Louis and
Chicago and who has been visiting his
former home in Missouri for the first
time in nineteen years. Politically
you don't hear anything else. They
want the old boy as their candidate
and they are convinced that with him
there will be revival of the good
times that prevailed a couple of years
ago. Nothing is said about Taft and
Wilson, YOU never hear of. 1t is all
Roosevelt. l tell you and nothing to
It but that. The people as a mass say
they want him and nothing else will
satisfy. From what l have heard |
don't think there is any doubt but that
he will satisfy.
Says Yakima Is Best
IT noticed many changes and much
development but l want to tell you
that I found no city as big as this or
three times as big or four times as big
that is as good as North Yakima. At
that 1 cannot say that I heard a great
deal of western talk. Many of those
who want to come are unable to let
go of the property they now hold as
the buyers are not in sight. I did not
encourage any Of the old people 10
move but invariably told them that
they were perhaps better off under
conditions that they knew had grown
up with than they would be here in
a new country. To the younger peo-
pie, of course, I pointed out the ad-
vantages Of this part of the United
States. And of course there is steady
Westward movement at all times.
Every body in the west has friends
further east and the Interchange of
letters has the effect of inducing some
one to pull up stakes and move west
ward.
Bad Peach Outlook
s'Back in Oklahoma in some Sec
lions it is now three years since they
have had really good results from
their farming and there are many 9TH
er sections that have not done We'll
Naturally this creates discomfort and
unrest and those who come will come
prepared to stay for we have some
thing better to offer.
1T looked very much to me- said
Mr.. Braden, from what I saw and
heard that the peach crop of Mis-
souri, this season will be considerably
less than a tenth of normal and per-
haps not more than a fiftieth Those
people back there do not expect
peach crop very often. My sister told
me that all the women who are
housekeepers, when they get good
peach crop, can enough of the fruit
to carry them for several years so
that they may reasonably expect to
have sufficient to carry them until the
next crop comes. They will have
nice lot of apples, on the other hand
They do not take any such care of
their orchards as we do here and with
one or two exceptions in each To-
cality do not appear to understand.
And besides, though ] must whisper
1t for I come from Missouri, they do
not get up and hustle the way we
do in this country"