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The Holt County sentinel., 1912-03-08
F. N. BROWNLEE.
AUCTIONEER.
Public Sales a Speciality.
See me for dates. Call at
Cotten's Real Estate office,
Or Hotel Woodland. Oregon.
Missouri.

Mrs. Ed. Foster, Of the Woods
district, has so far improved as to
warrant the dismissal Of her nurse.
Mrs. Crawford, Of Forest City, had
charge Of her and proved an excellent
nurse.
The Holt County sentinel., 1912-03-08
TUE WEATHER

- recorded ~ the T. =. weather STA.
tioh IN Oregon. Mo-. Thomas CurrN.
cooperative observer.
February 18th To March 9Th. lpl2:
The Holt County sentinel., 1912-03-08
Property for Sale!

No. Consists Of M abog, oneaf mile southwest from city lin.
Its Of regon has splendid dwelling Of good barr
and other ouuidinYs brand csterns and
best roads leading into the city. Price, $1,000.
NO Consists
City and " miles southeast Mound neighborhood
splendid Of water s,ens and living waie apples aSoS,
eac trees cherry plum and small fruit and fenced into
alfalfa and the Timothy
you a price on this farm that will sell it.
nos Consists farm Of 100
Good ous, and barn and other outbuIding about
Forest City This farm has plenty of fruit and good home
Price. 500
No Is little farm 81 acres located mile northeast Of Forest
and chicken houses vo well of water aud two
cisterns. Price, 300
NO H. Is little farm Of mile from school building
Five dwelling barn. chicken and all under good
strawberries, blackbees. little home and sllO,
will buy 1t.
City Property.
Has dwelling besides
the vacant lot being suitable for building Located ~
blocks west OF court house square Price, $1,000
No. Is dwelling Of porch,
dwelling in good repair inside Plenty Of fruit Of all kinds
Harm Tor team COW and hogs Chicken house and lot Buggy shed
Kitchen coal house, chicken peach
vineyard a good bargain at $500
prepared make
interest with reasonable commission Or have hic
viii place and
r.. Q. BENTON,
OREGON, MO.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-10
VISIONS OF oLDEN TIMES.

When you sleep beneath II you can
dream OF the days Of your grandfathers
without any fear Of waking up 10 the real
ity. Perhaps, in your dreams you will see
the shearing Of the sheep, the spinning OF
the wool yarn, the gathering OF leaves for
dyes. the dyelng Of the yarn. the drawing
OF the draft the threading Of the loom
and perhaps, you can even hear the loom
clatter back and forth as your ancestress
slowly lays the threads one upon another.
Perhaps, also. in your dream you will
be informed why she called 'hc "kiver"
"Gentlemans Fancy" or JOBS Trouble"
or "Pansles and Roses In the Wilderness"
or "Dogwood Rose. or "Ginny Fowle.'
or Locks and Dams" or Wandering
Blades and Folding Windows" or Hen
Scratch" or Beauty OF New York" or
The Star Of Venus" or st. AIMS
Robe" or 'Murphy's Legacy" or isle
Of Patmos," or Maid OF Orleans" or
"Jacksons Army" or Young Lady's Per
plexity," or Double MuscajIne Hulls,"
or "Freemason's Walk" or any other of
hundred more or less similar names
1t is only by dreaming that YOU can fad
out what the origin Of the titles OF these
works of art was. At least. that is the
only way the author OF the book employed
in many cases, for she could discover no
facts thereupon.
There is plenty Of room for guessing
whats In a name" You feel there must
be some reason for such unexplainable
names. They invite guessing. for you Think
that II you knew you could get peep
into the lives of those who selected them.
What is the significance Of Catch Me
II You Can" Lonely Heart" Soldiers
Return" Girls Love-" st Annes
Robe" "Isaac's Favorite," Snake She'd"
"Shuckeroones,' Rocky Mountain Gu
cumber," Dollars and Cents" Flowers
of Canaan" Governors Garden" Rose
In the Wilderness or Sunrise on the
Walls OF Troy?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-10
TT Is refreshing to find a new thing

vt is refreshing to find a new thing
about which to be enthusiastic. Even
n a Presidential campaign involving the
preservation OF the right to pursue happi.
ness pals at the end of eight months 1t
is a relief therefore, not only to have an
opportunity to turn to another subject as
an outlet for your surplus Of feeling, but
to one which is virgin soil.
There may be doubling persons who
think that Solomon was right when he
said that there was no new thing In the
solar system, or words % that effect. They
ar, wrong-at least. about subjects for
enthusiasm.
There is, for instance, handwoven COW
erlets. They have Just been discovered
And they are covered with characters as
difficult Of translation and as excellent
field for the exploration of the magma
ton as the curious angular characters UNI
earthed at the southeast corner Of the
harem area in Jerusalem. They are as
mysterious as any symbols to be found
upon a Persian rug, and much less Is
known about them by the experts.
Indeed. apparently, there are no ex-
perts in hand-woven coverlets. The near
est to an authority in this field is Eliza
Calvert Hall. for whom Little, Brown &
Co., Of Boston, has just published "A Book
OF Hand Woven Coverlets." Her book
reveals how much room there is for play
OF the Imagination, and how little is known
about this product Of the looms Of our
foremothers. Weaving coverlets by hand
is welnigh a lost art.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-10
DISCOVERY OF THEIR VALUE,

Why should a housewife be asked or
willing to spend eighteen months prepar-
ing the material and weaving a coverlet
when women can be hired for Sc week
to watch machine turn out cotton count
erpanes by the gross? II you are not a
housewife or one of those who "seeketh
wool and fax, and worketh willingly with
her hands" then you can discover the an
swer by sleeping under one in an old
farmhouse. The house ought TO have big
freplaces, puncheon floors scrubbed to the
snowy wilderness described by the poets,
but seldom seen, and small window panes
II should be furnished with mahogany
veneered furniture Of the type now so
nearly priceless, four posters and chlntz
curtains. There should be blue cnina and
pewter and old English silver. Also. there
should be furnace and coal in the cellar,
maid or two in the kitchen. man at
the barn, a telephone and electric bells
Then the old-fashioned. hand-woven COW
erlet may be appreciated at its true art
value
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-10

for the recovery of coverlets and ;heir
history.
Mrs. Hall, not 10 use the name OF Oben-
chain, that OF her husband, discovered,
after the first burst of enthusiasm had
led her to decide to write about hand
woven coverlets, that imagination stood
silent with folded wings, and instead Oh
her dulcet tones, heard harsh voice
that clamored for Facts! Facts! So
for two years she declares, My friends
say that my salutation has been:
Have you an old coverletT
"Do you know anybody who has one
And do you know the names OF any coy
erlet patterns"
HUNTING FOR FACTS.
"By putting these questions to friend
and foe, rich and poor, high and low. the
CITY bred and the country bred. and by
writing innumerable letters to jewellers
IN the mountains and the lowlands / have
collected a pleasing array or facts Names
and patterns, but what are these by the
side of the facts, names ana patterns tiia'
might still be collected?
IF life were as long as art might come
nearer to the goal Of completion, out no
dictionary or encyclopaedia holds the
knowledge seek. To learn what Is still
unknown to me about names, drafts and
designs / would have to make a pilgrim
age through the villages OF New England
and the mountains OF North Carolina
Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia, stop
ping at every doorway and asking an
aims OF information with such questions
as these:
"'Are "F1ourishing Wave" and Float
ing Wave" the same as ocean Wave?
"'What are the differences between
Iron Wheel" Running Wheel" Wheel
of Fortune" wheel Of Time" and pilot
Wheel?
"'What are "Muscadine Hulls'?
"'What flower is "King's Flower In
tended to represent?
WAS Lees Surrender" named In sor-
row or in triumph?
lis "Penford" the name Of place or
a nerson . 4"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-10
ROMANCE AND POETRY.

Romance, poetry and practically are all
reflected in the group. But their origin is
buried in the bosoms Of persons whose
bodies have long since turned to dust.
Being the handiwork Of pioneers toiling
on the soil and not weavers working for
the rich and powerful, they left few doc
uments to reward the enthusiast in cover
lets for his work of research, Facts re-
garding the orlginators OF the designs are
as few as in the case OF the patient soul
or souls who embroidered the Bayeaux
tapestry. After reading Eliza Calvert
Hall, however, one is almost persuaded
70 ioin hands with any other enthusiasts
who may crop up In forming society
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-10
New Field for the Lover and Collector of Things Old and Beautiful
Coverlets Come Into Their Own with the Writ
Kentucky Authority of Manual These Dainty
Bits of Craftsmanship in Which They Are Said To Be
Ito American Art What the Prose Works of In
crease Mather and the Verses of Anne Brad
street Are American Literature.

Then there Is Lonely Heart" A de
serted wife or a maid forlorn" surely
made this thinks Mrs. Hall. Flowers
OF Edlnboro' is Scotch emigrant's sign
for her native land, and II you knew
nothing OF the origin of these mountain
people doubtless referring to the South
ern mountaineers), such titles as Queens
Patch Kings Flower 'Cuckoos Nest
'Penford Chariot Wheels and Flowers
Of Edinboro would tell a story Of Scotch
and English ancestry quite as authentic
as the aristocratic surnames borne by the
weavers themselves. Young Lady's Per-
plexity' suggests a maiden hesitating be-
tween two lovers. Forty miners COM
memorates the discovery Of gold in Cali
fornia. Rose of Sharon Lily Of the
Valley Olive Leaf and the Isle Of Pat
mos show the Biblical knowledge of the
mountaineer. The Brides Table is r
rare pattern woven near Athol Ky.
There are squares representing tables,
and In the centre Of each a round tufted
figure, which is the brides cake.
Youth and Beauty and Lasting
Beauty are names that tap the fountain
W NNSiS' tANAO olO SOlAlS lHIilbS llldb VIC
do not know until we lose them, nor can
we really know thing until We know its
opposite. IL you want a hymn in praise
OF youth and beauty, you must not ex-
pect 1T Of the young and the beautiful.
Only the old know what youth and
beauty are, and looking at the faded blue
Of Rachel Marian Chambers coverlet and
the simple squares OF the other Scandi-
nayian design, l see two women wearied
with care and sorrow and childbirth
PAIN withered, toothless, colorless, bend
ing over the loom and naming their
handiwork In memory OF a swift-winged
splendor that once was theirs and that
Will never be their again. Soldiers Re-
turn Is a mothers psalm Of rejoicing
over son saved from tho perils OF war
and restored to the safety of home.
Catch Me II You Can paints a picture OF
a coquette with flying feet and flying
curls, looking back TO see how near she
is to being caught. Young Mans Fancy
has a familiar sound. Where have we
read those words before? All, yes" etc.
1t is strange that coverlets as subject
for enthusiasm were not earlier more
generally recognized.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-10
THE STATELY ARlsTocRAT.v

II design sometimes has four or five
aliases in as many states, SO sometimes
single name is made to do duty for
different designs. Even the most staid OF
names are found to have changed in their
transition from one part Of the country
to another. Mrs Hall tells Of the remark
OF a friend OF extended "coyerlet knowl-
edge" that the name Governors Garden"
was Governors Garden" everywhere. So
she sat down at her desk and wrote:
In this bewildering masquerade there
is one steadfast pattern. Whether you
find Governors Garden In Massachu-
sets or Kentucky, in Maine or Ohio, 1t is
always Governors Garden a stately
arlstocrat with whose name no one dares
take liberties"
Only a few weeks later she discovered
how uncertain everything is, particularly
where coyerlets are In question. From
some Eastern Tennessee weavers came the
information that Governors Garden" Is
also called ''Leopard's Spots" or 1.-THE
Spotted Leopard" Still later she learned
that her stately aristocrat' was known
In New York State as Rocky Mountain
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-10
PERSONALITY IN coVERLETs.

One Of the marvels Of coverlets Is
how n human being, or a race OF them'
could devise so many different designs
when the materials are only threads dyed
with a few simple dyes, such as can DC
secured from the roots and leaves grow
ing around the farmhouse. one discovers
however, that sometimes the same design
will have different names In the different
states where II once was made Iheh
what's in a name" has some significance,
for the names tell something OF the char
acter OF those who christened them. For
instance, the round fowerlike figure
which the Southern mountaineer calls
'Dogwood Blossom or SNOWFALL Is the
Dog Tracks and 'Catspaw' In the New
England states, and Hen Scratch Is, |
am sure, the prosaic name for the beau
tiful Sunrise pattern. IL was realist and
a prosaist who named Sixteen Squares,
and a weaver who belonged TO the roman
tic school who changed II to Sixteen
Snowbals.
Worlds Wonder" stirred Mrs. Halls
IMAGINATION, for to her II was AN eX-
clamatlon of pure delight and self-con-
graduation" She pictures the maker as
having toiled long at the wheel, the dye
pot and the loom. The breadths have
been cut and sewed together. The ends
have been hemmed with the coarse, home
spun threads Of those days The room has
been swept and garnished for the recep-
ton OF the new coverlet so long in the
making 1t is spread over the high, funny
feather bed The maker retlres to dis
lance to note the effect. All. look at the
snowy white OF that foundation, the rich
tracery Of dark blue! Perhaps those are
not her exact words as she throws up
her hands In delight and inquiries OF her
self II there ever was anything so beau
tiful as this in the whole world. 1T is
the wonder OF the world!' she cries, and
Worlds Wonder shall be its name
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-10
COVERLETS AND ART.

Mrs. Hall has left some blank pages,
virgin white. In the back OF her book so
that every reader may help to answer
such questions by pasting in photographs
of his family coverlets and biographical
sketches OF them. Why one should be-
come an enthusiast in coverlets Mrs. Hall
points out In words that tend to make
them.
The Colonial coverlet," she declares,
is 10 American art what the prose works
OF Increase Mather and the verses OF Anne
Bradstreet are 10 American literature
Whoever tries TO trace the rise and
progress OF art in the New World viii
see In the colors and designs Of the hand
woven coyerlet the first faint stirrings OF
that spirit which breathes full-awakened
through the sculpture OF Saint-Gaudens
and Borglum and the architecture OF Rich
ardson and McKim. and CLOVIS In the can
vases Of Whistler, Furness, Sargent and
Abbey. Art is the wine OF life,' says
Richter and the hand-woven coverlet tells
you that the humblest artisan who kneels
at the affairs OF Beauty receives from the
hand of the god mis- share OF that price
less draft"
Coverlets are fortunate in their Column
hus
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-10
POLITICS AND WARFARE.

The Owsley Forks design, 1t is discov-
cred, conventlonalizes the curving flow
Of creek near the home Of a
weaver in the mountains OF Kentucky
Just as the delicate curves Of the chief
motif Of the Cashmere shawl are the
curves OF the Jhelam River in the far
famed vale Of Northern India This
weaver OF the Blue Grass State had paid
her tribute to the beauty of the ever
flowing stream that murmured past her
home, and I'm so doing had shown her
relationship to the whole world OF art.
Politics and warfare have got them
selves mixed up with coyerlets. Accord
ing TO the feminine biographer OF the
coverlet. every one Of the "Whlg Rose"
pattern was woven in Tennessee and its
name probably commentaries the forma-
ton OF the Wing party in Andrew Jack
sons administration. The complicated
nature OF Missouri Trouble and Ten
nessee Trouble might well be the reason
for these names, but the former is a
reference to the stormy days OF 1880 and
the Eastern Tennessee weayers say that
Tennessee Trouble commentaries the
trouble that Tennessee had with the Ind
ians at the beginning OF the nineteenth
century. In some parts OF the state the
pattern is called Jobs Trouble and II
Job should ever become acquainted with
its intricaces and difficulties he would
give thanks to God for having been
spared this trouble. The Sea Star pat
tern probably originated in a seaport
town, for the four-cornered figure sug-
gests the starfish. but it wandered down
into Tennessee and fell into the hands OF
a religious enthusiast, who saw things In
visions, as John did, and there 1t became
Isle OF Patmos'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-10

Continued on seventh page.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-07-03
MILK INSPECTION IS NO FUN
incident Showing How Hard It Is to
Force Sanitary Rules on Dirty
People.

The trials and tribulations Of a milk
inspector trying to force insanitary
people to live according to sanitary
rules are shown in the issue of the
Healthologist, the official organ OF
the Milwaukee health department
The story follows:
A Milwaukee milk inspector during
farm inspection. came upon a place
hopelessly filthy, disorderly and run
down. A motherly person with a bic
heart, but firm and weird convictions,
listened to the young mans sugges.
tions. Then looking over her spec
tacles pityingly. she said;
Boy, my mother was ninety-seven
years old when she died She was
dirtier than / am, and lived In a
dirtier house and drank dirtier milk
II she could stand it guess there
amt no reason why ] and the city
folks that get milk from this farm
can't stand 1t too"
And not being able to answer that
argument. the milk inspector left her
kindly withal, but yet voicing her
Indignation over them there new
tangled idees of cleanliness"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-07-03
WHY WE DETEsT PARASITES
Feeling Of Instructive Revision Is
Justified, for They Are Carriers
Of Disease.

The feeling OF instructive revulsion
against parasites of all kinds which
characterizes humanity generally. and
which is due to something much more
than the mere pain or annoyance that
their bites might infiet. become more
interesting as further discoveries show
the role of insects in the spread Of
disease.
Unfortunately this natural abhor-
renee has not been enough to protect
man under conditions OF poverty and
uncleanliness from harboring such par
asites, and now those who understand
how much more than a mere personal
annoyance is in question from the ex-
istence of parasites must take " the
problem 10 eradicate them
The possibility of the hedbug Coz
veying relapsing fever, typhoid and
leprosy has been suggested and APP
parently there a. &c parasite Of man
that may not be mode Of disease
conveyance. Flies, fieas. mosquitoes
and bugs not only are all under sus-
picion. but most of them are also
actually demonstrated as ordinary and
frequent conveyors of diseases of va
rious kinds.
Health authorities must now take
up the problem of getting rid Of in
sect parasites in order to stamp out
disease. - From the journal of the
American Medical Association.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-07-03
BURNING ITCH WAS CURED

81 deem 1t my duty TO tell about a
cure that the Cuticura Soap and oint-
ment have made on myself. My trou-
BILE began in splotches breaking out
right in the edge of my hair on the
forehead, and spread over the front
part Of the top Of my head from ear to
ear, and over my ears which caused a
most fearful burning itch, or eczema.
For three years had this terrible
breaking out on my forehead and
scalp. / tried our family doctor and
he failed to cure it. Then tried the
Cuticura Soap and Ointment and used
them for two months with the result
Of a complete cure. Cuticura Soap
and Ointment should have the credit
due, and have advised lot of peo-
pie to use them" (Signed) G. d.
Harrington, Creek, N. c., Jan. 26, 1911.
itching seaIp--Halr Fell Out.
Il will say that / have been suffer
ing with an itching on my scalp for
the past few Years. Ny hair fell out
In spots all Over my head. My scalp
started to trouble me with sores, then
the sores healed up, and crusts
formed on the top. Then the bair fell
ont and left me three bald spots the
shape OF half dollar. went to more
than one doctor, but could not get any
relief, so ] started to use the Cuticura
Remedies. tried one bar of Cuticura
Soap and some Cuticura Ointment,
and felt relieved right away. Now the
bald spots have disappeared, and my
hair has grown, thanks 10 the Cuti-
cura Soap and Ointment. | highly
recommend the Cuticura Remedies TO
all that are suffering with scalp trou-
b1eS tsigned) Samuel Stern, 236
Floyd ST., Brooklyn, NJ Y, Feb. Z.
1911. Although Cuticura Soap and
Ointment are sold by druggists and
dealers everywhere, a sample Of each.
with 32-page book, win be mailed
free on application to "Cuticura,"
Dept l. Boston
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-07-03
Ahsent.Mlnded.

1t was a tramway conductors duties
In the church of which he was a mem.
Der to take up the collection one day,
and, as II happened. his first expert.
ence Of such duties He was little
nervous as he started down the cen.
ter aisle, but that soon wore off, and
he began to feel more at home.
There We're several children in the
first pew, and each put in penny.
The people In the next pew also con
tributed something each.
A big glum fellow sat alone in the
third pew. The new collector passed
him the plate, but the man shook his
head and stuck his hands deep In his
pockets.
Thereupon our f.iend the conductor
stopped, put up his hand as If to Jerk
the bell-cord, and said, We'll, you'll
have to get off Tit-Bits.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-07-03
FILLING the House.

The theatrical man just in off the
road was recounting to the New York
manager his qualifications for a box
Office post.
Il don't see that you are any better
than a dozen other men can luke my
pick FROM said the manager You
say You can sell tickets So can they.
Nobody can sell tickets If people don't
come to buy"
30. they can't said the man. but
I have the knack Of seating people so
an audience Of so people viii look
like 400. and the house will never
look empty"
There's a good deal In that" said
the manager. and he gave the man
the Job.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-07-03
Definition Of the Bean

A beau is one who arranges his
curled locks gracefully, who ever
smells of balms and cinnamon,
who huns. the songs of the Nile and
Cadiz, who throws his sleek arms into
various attitudes. who idles away the
whole day among the chairs OF the
ladies, who is ever whispering in some
ones ear, who reads little billetdoux
from this quarter and that, and writes
them in return who avoids ruffiing
bis dress by contact with his neigh
boris sleeve. who knows with whom
everybody is in love; who fiutters from
feast to feast; who can recount exact
~ the pedigree Of Hirpinus What do
you tell me, is this a beau, Cotilus?
Then g beau, Cotilus. is very trifling
thing.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-07-03
The Elrs, Confederation.

At. St. Andrews some years ago an
old farmer and his plowman we're
earting sand from the seashore. They
were behind the target on the rife
range. but hidden by bank OF sand
from party OF volunteers, wao were
then on foot, at practice. A stray bull
let struck the plowman on the leg,
and he Immediately dropped. exclaim.
ing; I'm shot"
Without more ado the farmer
scrambled up the bank and, waving
his hand to the volunteers, shouted:
Hey, lads. stop that, will ye?
You've shot man, and it micht haze
been the horsel"--London Tit-Bits.