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The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1912-10-01
"Pacifier" Not Good.

A "pacifier" is the worst thing for
baby to use, as It will strain the
muscles of it's throat and the lower
shape of the mouth and will cause
adenoids when the child is older.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1912-10-01

Peggy-You have been abroad.
haven't you. ReggyI
Reggy-No; what made you think
had been abroad?
Peggy-Why. l heard father say you
were way OF
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1912-10-01

visitor--Has your son benefited by
his stay In college?
Farmer-Yes; he's benefited In
ono way. Mother an miss him so
much when he's away that we don't
feel nigh as much like taking q club
TO him as we used to.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1912-10-01
LOST.

LOST--Between Rawdcn's store and
James MacNaughton's residence
comet pin, Saturday night Finder re
turn to News office. Reward. g
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1912-10-01
m POUND.

IN CALUMET POUND cows red
and white and cream color. C. & II.
tags on. owners can have same by
paying charges. Josiah Reed Pound
master. 4
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1912-10-01
FOR SALE.

FOR SALE-Six-room house in Cen
tennial Heights. All modern improve
ments including bath. electric lights
and plumbing. Good basement House
comparatively new. Will sell on rea
sonable terms. Apply M. w. Youngs
Calumet News office. N
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-10

signed iifAsome of the Pratt camps and more areS under way. Little by little many changes are coming to pass in the environment of the miners of the Birmingham district. A few years from now every big mining camp will prob ably have it's parks and playground , sanitary conditions will be materially improved, and it will be the custom for every miner to have his little patch of ground planted with vegetables, fruit and flowers.
 The Woodward Iron company is be- coming great factor in the progress give work of this district. They have fenced in many of their miners cab ins and plan to carry this out gen. orally.
 Last spring they gave fertilizer free to all of their men who went into truck gardening, and this year they ex- pect to give not only the fertilizer, but many of the plants, cabbages and potatoes to start with, and will offer prizes for the best gardens. They are gradually doing away with the old plantation cabin style of house, un- sealed and crude, and are building their new cotta ges with the drop board sid ing.
 The Pratt Consolidated Coal company has encourag ged the farm movement materially in their camps. They have found that the adoption of a fence made entirely of iron and wire has proven good plan. They use an iron post, a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-10
A Modern Rain Maker

From HarperS Weekly.
 In the spring of 1911 crops on the ranch began to need rain There was no Sign of nature that pointed to any immediate conclusion of the drouth. There was no method by which I could run irrlSation ditches in time to alleviate conditions. II was under the stress of these conditions that I resolved to carry the war into the country of Jupiter Puvius and Lombard him until he surrendered enough rain to save the crops
 Late in June l made my first attack upon Jhe elements. My men arranged eight firing stations in almost straight line. an eighth of q mile apart, making firing line of one mile. One hundred and twenty-five shots of two pounds of dyna- mite apiece were fired from each of these eight stations
 Nothing came of the first "battle"-due, probably, to the fact that we had paid lit- tie attention to the atmospheric conditions and had conducted the initial experiment when none of the natural indications of rain were present
 Inside of a week after our first eXperi- ment we chose a day that seemed more proptious for the second attack. The ba- rometer on the morning of the battle indicated an extensive degree of humidity, but there were no clouds overhead and the sun shone down hot and steadily as 1t does upon the plains of the southwest.
 The second battle" was upon larger scale than the first We made use of the initial eight stations of the first firing line, but doubled the dose-that is, we used 250 two pound shots from each battery, con finuing the firing throughout the after noon Rain followed within 10 or 12 hours after the firing ceased, whereupin rainy period set in, extending from July 1 to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-10

local product, patented here by the Con- nors- Weyman Steel company. They are fencing in their houses by degrees, as the Republic Iron and Steel company is also doing.
 In fact there are. in the majority of the companies of this district, many plans ahead for the improvement of the mining camps.
 First and foremost is the truck gar dening scheme. So well has this suc- ceeded by the two or Lhree companies which adopted it last year and the year before that the movement is grad ually spreading.
 It Takes With the Miners
 The miners themselves are becom- ing enthusiastic about 1t and, given q stout fence, barnyard manure or basic slag for fertiizing, they are doing wonders in several camps in the Pratt coal field.
 These next two weeks of March mark the beginning time. for, owing to the unusually late spring, every idea of planting has been so far held up until now. The first step is, of course, always the fence. When people say, as people often do:
 How strange il is none of the miners ever think about planting any vege- tables for themselves They, must be a shiftless lotw Let these people stop a moment and put themselves in the miners place.
 In many of the camps all that is naturally worth anything is many hun
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-10
Luxurious Eating That's Cheap

From the American Magazine.
 Speaking of cheap things that are good to eat. take Danny Taylor's recipe. Dan- nv homesteads down on the Mimbres at Old Town, where the old Santa Fe trail comes down the mountain off the Black Pass over Cooks. He takes about pound of salt pork. Now don't skip until you hear the rest of it. He cuts the pork into strips about third of an inch thick and soaks it in fresh water to freshen it a hit Then he drops it into hot pan and allows it to frzze a minute in it's own grease On the table near the stove he has a pan of cracker meal and when the pork begins 10 get almost transparent he lifts each slice with fork and dips it in the cracker meal, covering both sides and then dropping it back into the pan, and when that pork is all crispy and craekly and golden brown it is a dish worth going al the way down to Grant county, New Mexico, just to taste.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-10
Truck Gardens Tn Mining Camps
Fly ETHEL ARMIES Amtl.or of Inc Story of Coal and Iron in AInbnmn

That place down in the bottom, around Dora mines. was nothing more nor less than a plague spot a year or so ago-but look at if nowl
 Out of a swamp which bred cat tails, mosquitoes and malaria they have actually made a little garden spot at or so ago-but look at it nowi
 So the talk goes on about what once was a gloomy, God forsaken two acre space below the Frisco trestle at Dora mines of the Pratt Consolidated Coal company, which was transformed not long since by the effort of William Mccormack into a little park and play ground
 After irrigating and cleaning tho space young MT Mccormack laid off one portion or the land in the form of Maltese cross, sodded and violet bor- dered, with flowers massed at the cen ter. Separated by a double row of scar let canna, is tennis court. A few rustic seats are placed under the trees and the whole enclosure is fenced in by q four foot wire fence, against which long lines of canna bloom. A tiny little rose garden is planted near the path ways and no keep off the grass signs forbid little children from becoming acquainted with Mother Earth.
 Initial Step in Dora Mining District
 This is the first recreation park and playground ever planned in the. Dora district. Others have been de-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-10

lis about 100x200 feet, thus giving plenty of room for a truck garden and chick on yard After the lot is fenced in the company assists the miner further with suggestions and materials for the prep aration of the soil
 One or two companies here inVarlaply employ some Auburn students or grad uates for few weeks or months each spring and summer. There is chie1 agricuturist in one local company, with an entire department fully organized under him carrying on the farm and truck gardening business.
 Thus this second step, the preparation of the ground, may be greatly aided by the company. Seed is then pro- cured by the company in large bulk and the conlmssaries instructed to sell 1t at cost or, as in the case of the Wood ward company this season, it is given away, together with plants of various sorts.
 As for the watering of the garden, that depends on Providence-as It does with most folks and farmers every where. Where the companies offer prizes of inspection is kept up.
 The general appearance of each gar den entered in the prize contest is re- corded four separate times, once during each month of the season, May, June July and August. The location anu area of the garden, the character of soil before preparation anu the preparation itself are all taken into considerations
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-10

1 dred feet under the ground. There nothing on top. A small section or | Sahara might have been carried over
 seas and set down in certain quarters
 of the mineral region of Alabama, Tor the look of the soil. IL IS barren, shaley or scherty-at any rate, hard as hickory nuts. The miners cabin is butt Ire quently and of necessity, in these hald stoney spots. Sometimes one section of his yard runs on 25 degree anSie from the other section and halt or HIS
 house stands on stilts.
 stray cattle hogs, chickens, sheep come and go at will. If the miner
 planted so much as a single potato vine 1t would grow up into a thistle before August.
 Some miners there have been WHO fenced in their own yards and slarieu
 their own planting. But they have been few and far between. The labor ana expense has been heavier than they
 could stand. When the company fences
 the lot that gives the fellow a show
 said a coal digger.
 Yes, the fence is the first thlng' good stout all wire fence. Board ieices
 do not work out so well. some thrl less neighbor--and frequently the tel ant himself, so the companies nave found, have a tendency to split up board fence for kindling wood, A Good Sized Space The average lot of the miners cabin
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-10
Some Flood. Too

From the New York Sun.
 Just after the violent thunder storm of last evening, which followed days downpour of rain, sleet and hail, and which brought to the minds of many be- draggled pedestrians the young cloud bursts of summer. Jupiter Pluvius granted an exclusive interview to the Evening Sun.
 When l made my decision to run" J. P said grandioquently, 'T was acting in compliance with what I believed to be a universal demand. There will be no let up. I shall run to the last ditch--that is, the Gowanus canal. My hat is in the ring -Saturn's seventh"
 But expostulated the reporter, "our national observatory prognosticators say that you will be frozen out within 2i hours"
 Frozen out?'' snapped J. P. "So this fspthe report they are sending out from the Boreal headquarters. Well, let 'em rave This MT. Boreas, whom I once thought to be my friend, has turned out to be nothing but a big wind. Don't believe him. It's going to be some flood.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-10

midst of the hogs, fieas, goats, mosquitoes, and with pork and biscuit to eat day in and day out-basting heat and barren waste--this was the first sign to the Ger mans of something that was like home
 Home in the old country!
 From the day. the good, stout wire fence enclosed his space of ground the young German miner had something else in hls head besides coal digging.
 Frhe fellow got fertilizer on the brain, his mine superintendent said laughingly. We couldn't get him enough. He was suspicious when we gave him slag at first, but not after he used it. He got the best seed from the commssary; he planted beans. onions, peas, potatoes, corn-pretty much everything. %
 He Was an Artist All Right
 'eHe laid out his garden. in fine style and his5 wife helped every day. The ior- egn women in the camps alwaysstaSet to gardeningi They are natural gardeners and get.reals pleasure out of It.
 .'Karl's wife wanted flowers, too, so they plotted out the whole yard, front and back They designed. a circular path en- closing the house and meeting in the back yard, into a system of little paths. set low to drain the. yard, and bordered them with violets. The -xiolets was two feet deep and kept the rains from washing the whole place down.
 "Thev set some ferns around the stones and changed the looks of the whole yard. you never saw anything like it. From one of the sorriest looking places in the Pratt coal field Karl I.c---='s place became one of the most attractive. People got to talking about it and even came from other camps to see it."
 Besides all of this the German miner supplied his own foodstuffs, sold some 10
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-10

July 10, with rains occurring al intervals of two or three days.
 The rain was not general over Texas or even over the section of the state in which my ranch is situated. It can best be described by the meteorological defini- tion. local showers. and in the minds Of those who witnessed the experiments was attributable solely to the fusilade we had directed at the heavens.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-10
Old Plantation Gardening Plan


A list of the vegetables grown is in- cluded in the report, and the final av- craze arrived at is based on the per oentage gained at each inspection. If the percentage of several contestants runs neck and neck" the handicaps are turned to, and the award given the best garden fashioned out of the most diff ficult material.
 In one company it has been decided this year to double the number of prizes, to offer six prizes at each mining division, three for white employees and three for colored-$25 first prize, $15 second and SIC third best.
 "There will thus be no competition be- tween the races" said a mine superin- tendent, and more satisfaction on both sides The foreign element of the white miners simply walk off with most all the prizes and there's no chance for the nigger."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-10
Nigger, Cotton and Corn

The old fashioned negro is usually very glad of the chance to make him a garden, but he is liable to get discouraged at q competition with white follls.' When some of them have actually won prize their joy has been boundless.
 Ian sakes Lam sakes," one old negro woman exclaimed when she was given a check for $10 last summer. "I sho' Will make me a garden nex' year,
 Occasionally there has been more or less suspicion as to the company's purposes among certain of the foreigners. One man
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-10

neighbors, reduced his commissary ac- count to a minimum and got one of the company prizes-enough money to start his garden again this spring.
 And more than all things else he and his little family have gotten breath of the sunrise.
 An Ideal Proposition in an Ore Mine'' is the subject of the next article in this series to be published in The Age-Herald March 24. Principles of scientific man agement as used by the Woodward IrfIl company will be described in detail.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-10
Get Rid of Dandruff' Stop Falling Hair and Itching Scalp, Put Life and Beauty
 Into Your Hair

Parisian Sage is the quicK- est acting hair grower, lhVig- orator and beaYtifier the world has ever known ana a million clean headed and clear headed Americans won't ex- cept any substitute.
 The girl with the Auburn hair is on every bottle and carton of Parisian Sage; in buying see that you get the genuine which is made in America by the Giroux Mfg. Co.,. Buffalo. N Y.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-10
A Circle That Circulated

From the Boston Transcript.
 Maud-Jacks engagement ring doesn't fit me.
 Kitty--I had the same trouble with it,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-10
Give tkc Girl with the
 Auburn Hair a Chance

Parisian Sage, dear reader seldom fails to do as adver- tised.
 We gladly guarantee it to eradicate dandruff.
 To stop falling hair and scalp itch
 To put life. luster and even brilliancy into dull faded hair.
 To grow hair if used before dandruff germs destroy thd roots.
 Partisan Sage Is the most delightful and refreshing hair dressing in the world, and is sold for only 50 cents a bot I tie at successful druggists ev1 erywhere.
 On March 25. E. A. Widmanl 8 Norfolk St.. Newark, N. J.. wrote: My hair was falling out and my head was full of dandruff. Since using Parisian Sage the dandruff has disap- peared and now have quite a good growth of hair"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-10
A Case Right in Point

Karl, a coal digger in the Pratt ffeid, had possibly the sorriest piece or ground in the camp. Before the company fenced in his house and lot drove of goats found sustenance on his soil and stray hogs acted as scavengers. The young Ger mans wife, a thrifty German girl, tried
 to clean up the space of tin cans and garbage which the next doors neighbors, some Slavs and Poocks, dumped out on all sides, but there wasn't much use, be-
 cause no fence barred off the neighborS and their filthy habits. The empty tin
 cans caught the rain water and bred mos
 auitoes. Fleas multiplied. as fieas do, and
 flies swarmed over the place.
 The German folks planted a few green things one spring, but the goats and cattle chewed them up. The soil was shaley and big powder hunched up it's back near the front porch Once Karl tried to get boards at the commissary to build him fence, but lumber came too thigh for him and there was no stock of wire fencing in.
 whats the use of building a fence?" the other miners said. Cant nothing grow on that ground So they got dis couraged and let things go.
 This place got as shftless looking as
 every other place in the camp, and tliey
 got shiftless too.
 Then something happened. The com pany began to fence in the miners houses and actually offered to furnish fertilizer to all who wanted a vegetable garden. More than that the company went so far as to offer prizes for the best garden. In
 their long six years stay in the monot- onous mining camp of Alabama, in the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-10

who got a first prize would not believe the check was genuine. He had kept a boarding house, had supplied his tapie, sold $50 worth of vegetapies and then got first prize. He could not believe it.
 Something for nothing-like that-was bound to have d kink in it, he argued anu it was several days before he could be persuaded to cash his check.
 Several definite practical results have been obtained by this farm movement among the coal and iron companies In the first place the cost of living has been materially reduced for the employees. Then a greater variety of food has been pro- duced so that the general health of all the families in the mining camps has been better, and this has in turn caused the labor to be steader and more dependable and better satisfied.
 All these things tend to effect, in the long run, the main purpose and aim of coal mine-whieh is, of course, good output
 To get out the coal is found today to tread back to other circumstances than powder machines and tools. It is men, always men! And no miners. either black or white, can live and work forever on the shores of the Dead sea.
 One instance out of several hundred H. lustrates conditions here.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-10

Preparations Similar in Name the Market Be sure ask for Parsian Sage see illustration of Carton above always get the genuine at reliable druggists everywhere
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-04-24

night SOLOMON would not get n min
utes sleep, but he let the women
sleep and did all the kid-promenading
without a word.
And these babies walled some. even
II they were Of the royal blood they
mon had contracted the marrying
habit and could not quit.
As daylight streaked through the
window and the roadsters were max
ing Rome howl, solomon would jump
cheerly from the bed, leaping over
the four hundred and fifty on the
wife side. as n circus clown leaps
over string OF trained elephants,
while his wives and mothers-in- law
took their beauty maps. Hastily
stallment plan. Solomon would rush
down stairs, kindle a fire and get
breakfast, which included seven hun
dred pounds of fried hog hip and fif-
ty gallons OF coffee; then he would
rush back up stairs with his CHEEKY
cry OF first call for breakfast, gent
ly awaken each wife and each mother
in law; button each up the back, and
having on hobble skirts, solomon
had to carry them all down stairs.
tuck a napkin under each chin. and
serve breakfast. When breakfast was
over. Solomon kissed the four hundred
and fifty wives impartially. then turn
ed to the mothers in law, who all lined
up, as bellboys line up for tip
but theirs is a sort OF skim-milk kiss
for Solomon still remembered the
four hundred and fifty cold feet
which had been In the small of his
back from his mothers-inla side,
and rushed to his work.
Yes; Solomon was certainly a mar
vel Of patience.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-04-24
MARNLE1rS
Cotton Trcnding Upward.

NEW YORK, April 22.-An early
reaction IN the cotton market was fol-
lowing 10y better weather news, and
the market made new high records
during the closing hours, closing firm
from 4 to 10 points net higher on the
day.
The opening was steady at a decline
OF from 10 II points under heavy
realizing and local selling inspired by
lower cables, the better weather map
and private predictions Of generally
clearing conditions IN the south. These
predictions were confirmed by the OF.
fetal forecasts calling for generally
fair weather tonight and tomorrow, eX-
cept for increasing cloudness In Ar
kansas and eastern Texas, but offer.
ings We're verNwcl absorbed around
the initial figures.
Prominent uptown brokers were
particularly active during the middle
Of the afternoon, buying for large
blocks Of October ana as soon as the
market showed evidences of aggres-
siye bull support. there was active COW
ering by early sellers. Beyond reports
that the weather was becoming cloudy
again In Alabama, there seemed moth
Ing fresh in the way of weather news
to account for the renewed strength of
the market but it was remembered
that sold out bulls We're again taking
an active end before the close Decem-
ber contracts had made new high
records for the season while March
sold above the predicted 12c level.
Closing prices We're within point
or two of the best The market was
very active during the last hour.
Prominent bulls bought at least 5000
bales for the new crop delivery.
Today's receipts at New Orleans,
2,2S6 against 1,533 last year; at Hous-
ton S.237 against 2,lO0 last year. and
at Galveston, 9,244 against 3,441 last
year.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-04-24

GET OUR PRICES ON CHICKEN
fence. George w. Groves, Hard,
ware, 100 North Main.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-04-24
Cotton i'm IiyerDeOOI.

LIVERPOOL, April 23.-Closing--
Cotton spot in fair demand; good
middling 6.S5; middling 6.61; low
middling 631 good ordinary $50;
ordinary 5.55. Sales OF the day 5000
bales of which 500 were for specula-
tion and INCLUDED 400 American Re-
ceipts $4,000 bales, including $4,000
American.
Futures opened easier and closed
barely steady. April Gas; April May,
May-June. June-July 6.34h; July
August ga; August September 632 /:
september-October 62S1s; October
November 6.2G; November December
6.24; January, January
February 6.23; February March 6.23
y March-April 6.24h.