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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-01-05
pipes froze on the pipemen's

pipes EIOZe Oh the plpellell >
faces. 1919.
The Halsted street fire started
in the building of the Halsted
Street Milling Co., destroying it
with a loss of $4,000, and spread
ing to an adjoining two-story
building at COLL. The first floor
was occupied by printing con-
eern, and the two upper floors by
James Quinlan, wife and three
children. All were driven to the
street and suffered from the cold,
but the monetary loss was slight.
The Carpenter street fire broke
out in 6847 and communicated to
6851 and 6853S. Carpenter street.
Mrs. Carrie Anderson, her
daughter, Selma; her son-in-law,
A. O.. Johnson, wife and three
children, were carried from 6847,
and all suffered intensely from
the cold. ... 49,. .-
Mrs. Fred Schadd and her
three children were taken from
6853 S. Carpenter street, when
the fire spread to their home.
Mrs. John Braun and six chill
dren were overcome by smoke in
o85l S. Carpenter street, but were
rescued BY fremen. =.
-O-O-
REV. C. V. T. RICHESON A
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1912-03-01

tools, so that they can repair practi-
cally any breakdown that might
occur, saving their time. 1t is re-
markable how soon the outfit of good
tools pays for itself.
.s.Many farmers, however, have found
an outfit of poor tools more expensive
than none at ALL When tools break
down they can seldom be repaired or
the repairs amount to more than the
original cost. In years gone by 1T
was difficult to select a really good
tool. Few tools we're guaranteed and
those that we're cost so much that
their purchase was almost prohibitive.
1t was a common occurrence to buy
an ak, for instance, that had all the
earmarks of an exceptionally good
tool, but the first or second time iJ
was used produced big hicks that
could not be ground out.
1t is different nowadays. The
farmer can go to bis dealer and ask
for any tool or lot of tools and simply
say that they must all be Keen
kutters. Z" He knows that every tool
sold under this name is absolutely
guaranteed. If it proves unsatis-
factory he can get new one. he
knows that "The Recollection of
Quality Remains Long After the Price
is Forgotten.
Everyone will do we'll to demand
nothing but ''Keen Kutter'' tools
II your dealer does not handle them
write to The Simmons Hardware Co. (,
st. Louis, Mo- They will see that
you are supplied.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1912-03-01

that the old customers stick.
Now, why do they remain loyal to
"Ball- Band''? People don't come
back a second time for an article that
disappoints them. Eight million
people are not deceived year after
year by goods that lack merit.
The only answer is wearing. Quality
good, old fashioned wearing quality
that causes the buyer to remember
the name and to insist on having the
same kind the next time he buys.
This enormous demand for s'Ball-
Band' represents steady growth of
nearly quarter of a century, from
small beginnings.
The business of the Mishawaka
Wooden Manufacturing Company
originated in the manufacture of ALI
Knit Wool Boots and Socks. This
explains the "Woolen' in the name
of the company. though rubber foot
wear is now by far the larger part of
the output As the business grew
the company could neither obtain the
quantity nor the quality of rubber
goods which had to be supplied with.
its wooden footwear.
The company, therefore, went into
the manufacture of its own rubber
footwear. The result was ''Ball
Band' Rubbers.
Competition was just as keen when
"Ball Band" was first marketed as it
is now.
In years. manufacture of .Ball-
Band' goods, !, 252 carloads of raw
material, supplies, etc.. we're used.
This material, if put into one con-
tinuous train, forming hollow
square, would enclose more than
3. 600 acres with a solid wall of fully
loaded freight cars.
1t required 5000, 900 square yards
of sheeting, cotton duck, cashmerette.
wool Innings, etc., to make these
goods enough cloth to cover l,O33
acres completely.
One and quarter billion yards of
yarn was spun for knit boots, lumber
mems socks, etc.-more than enough
to form three strands from the earth
to the moon.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1912-03-01

and pillow points have hardly ever the
right sort of an edge. All this is be-
cause the grindstone is so slow and
requires so much effort.
Emery they have tried and found
far from satisfactory. In fact nearly
every farmer has a scrap heap on
which are several emery sickle
grinders and tool wheels. The emery
would spoil more tools than it was
worth by drawing the temper and
leaving a rough cutting edge.
Luther's new Hummer Grinder
equipped with Dino Grit sharpening
wheels remedies all this. 1t will do
everything that grindstone will and
dozens of things besides, and do it
all in small fraction of the time re-
quired otherwise. The machine is
built entirely of steel with enclosed
shaft drive, protected bearing. and
beveled gears.
Dimo-Grit, of which the sharpening
wheels are made, is the latest and
most advanced sharpening substance
scientists today have been able to
produce. 1t is as hard as South
African diamonds and with a speed
of 4, 200 revolutions per minute, work
is done very rapidly without the need
of water and without danger of draw
ing temper. 1t is peculiarly adapted
to sharpening steel, leaving a smooth
cutting edge. This machine, how
ever, can do 30 other things besides
sharpening tools. One of the attach
ments is a flexible shaft which every
farmer will find extremely useful. 1t
is the only way by which the knives
of ensilage and feet cutters can be
sharpened without taking them from
the machine. With this flexible shaft
can be attached clippers for shearing
sheep or clipping horses Besides
this it will sharpen horse shoe calks
without removing the shoes, grind
the fiuters on corn huskers and dozens
of other jobs where it is easier to
take the wheel to the work than to
take the work to the wheel.
The Babcock milk tester is also i'm
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1912-03-01

portant on the farm. 1t is common
knowledge among dairy authorities
that nearly one third of all the cows
are MIXED at direct loss. By the
use of the Babcock milk tester and a
pair of scales anyone, no matter how
inexperienced can find out which are
his "robber" COWS and which COWS
are paying him.
Besides this it has an attachment
for boring holes through iron or any
metal. There are also attachments
for sharpening drills, jig saw, circle
saws, skate sharpening, iron polish
ing and wood sander.
The Luther Grinder Mfg. Co.,
would be very glad to send their 40
page book telling all about the in
teresting discovery of Dimo-Grit and
this labor saving farm machine.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1912-03-01
Replaces the Grindstone.

Everybody hates the grindstone.
For centuries it has been a symbol
for back breaking work. The very
hardship of sharpening a tool by this
slow old fashioned method is the
reason so many farmers are content
to get along with dull tools. Their
sickIes are only half sharp, their discs
almost stay on top Of the ground be-
fore the season is done. the ak is
blunt most of the time and The chisels
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1912-03-01
Making Repairs Economically.

Every farmer has his break-downs.
The wear and tear on farm machinery
as we'll as farm buildings and equip
mentis source of great expense, to
say nothing of the annoyance in wait
ing for repairs. Often the break is
of a trivial nature, yet, for the lack Of
tools, the farmer has to hitch up and
drive to the blacksmith or get
carpenter. The binder breaks down
and the entire force has to lay OFT
sometimes several days. The corn
harvester breaks, causing days of de-
lay when frost is expected every
night that would damage all corn
standing.
These expensive daily occurrences
are causing farmers to establish their
own repair shops right on the farm.
Many are equipping their shops with
both wood working and iron working
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1912-03-01
Hmofts Our Patrons
Show Great Growth.

The J. |. Case Threshing Machine
Company furnished fitting climax
to the most succe ssful year in the an
nails of agriculture by announcing
that it bad increased it's capital stock
from $4,000 600 to $40, 900, 900 and
would add several new lines to it's
already big output of farm machinery
and engines.
Several additions will be made to
the big plant of the Case company in
addition to those already in the course
of building. The new gas tractor
home will be one of the most COM
plete in existence and will be complet-
ed in 1912.
Banking interests friendly to the
Case company have encouraged the
expansion policy and the floating of
the first $40, 000 600 of Case common
and preferred stock excited little
more than passing interest. The
assets OF the company we're conceded
to be many times In excess of its old
capitalization, to say nothing of the
world wide influence of the Case
name and the far reaching power of
it's great army of 10, 900 representatives
in the field and it's 65 branch houses
all over the world
The history of the j. l. Case Thresh-
ing Machine Company reads like a
fairy tale. Just seventy years ago
the founder of the great plant, which
now covers upward OF two hundred
acres came to Racine, Wisconsin,
from New York State. And while he
has long since passed away, his name
still remains standard trade mark In
the threshing machinery world.
The beginning of the great Case
plant was infinitestimal compared to
it's size today. 1t covered less than
an ordinary city lot but improve
ments that the brain of j. L. Case
had imbeded in his own threshing
machine made it far superior to any
other in use and in the spring of 1043
the Case Company began to expand,
and never stopped until now is the
largest institution In the world OF its
kind.
In 1897 the last reorganization of
the company took place but the name
of the institution remained the same,
the j. |. Case Threshing Machine
Company, Incorporated, and the
capitalization was raised to So, 900, :
600. F. X. Bull was elected president
and Frederick Robinson vice presi-
dent, while r. T. Robinson was
chosen secretary and Charles L. Nc
Intosh treasurer. Later the cap1-
talization was raised to S5, 900, 600
and Charles L. Mcintosh, who died,
was succeeded by f. Lee Norton, the
present incumbent.
The latest building completed is in
connection with the automobile
factory, which is three stories high
and has close to 100000 square feet
of floor space. The plans for the
coming year call for the construction
of 1000 automobiles. and these will
only supply the demand OF the branch
houses in the different parts OF the
world.
The rumors that have been floating
around of Threshing Machine trust
are dispelled by the action of the
Case Company and means more com
petition than ever in farm mchinery
circles.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1912-03-01
The Ranch Cook Book.
CORN PUFFs.

One and one-half cups of sweet
corn, canned or fresh, one cupful of
milk, the yolks of two eggs, one-half
teaspoon of salt and one and one-half
cupfuls OF flour sifted several times
with one teaspoonful of baking
powder. Add the whites of the eggs,
we'll beaten, and bake in a moderate
oven twenty minutes.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1912-03-01
Fight the Same Battles.

The farmer who is getting the
utmost out of his farm today is work
ing along the lines to highest quality,
as we'll as greatest quantity.
Why? Because quality of product
pays IS we'll as quantity. 1t pays
better.
The greatest per cents in farm prof
it's are being reaped by the men who
grow the best grain-the best cattle
who produce the best butter and the
best vegeta bles.
More and more our farmers are
coming to realize this. Hence, the
constantly widening interest in seed
selection-in the scientific prepare
ton of the seed-bed-in modern
methods of thorough cultivaGion-in
a word, everything that enables
Mother Nature to put all the quality
in her products that rightly belong to
them.
The pioneer Quality Farmer has
had his battles to fight. At times it
has looked as if the returns we're not
paying him for his time, his labor
and his dlscouragements. But he has
won. He is winning.
The markets of the world welcome
him. His stock, his butter, his
chickens, his eggs are virtually trade
marked with his own name and he
gets his own price for them.
And you will observe that the
farmers who are giving Quality are
demanding Quality in return.
These are the farmers who are buy
ing the best grades of clothing, the
best grades of footwear the best of
everything. They know that Quality
is the most profitable thing in which
a man can invest 1t pays to buy
quality just as it pays to sell it.
The manufacturers who meet the
Quality demand certainly have the
support of all thinking farmers,
whatever anyone may say to the con-
trary
Advertisements appearing year after
year in the best class of agricultural
publications prove this. Look these
advertisements over. They have a.
lesson for everybody who classes all
farmers as buyers in the cheap, poor
grade markets.
These advertisements of Quality
goods in the farm papers would not
continue to appear if the farmer we're
not buying the goods.
After a few trials the advertise
ments would cease to appear and the
cheap man would have clear field.
Instead, the advertisements of
Quality goods are multiplying. show
ing a constantly increasing response
from the farm market.
No better illustration can be taken
than .'BaII- Band" Rubber and Wooden
Footwear, go we'll known to farmers.
Well known in this case means known
wherever rubber and wooden footwear
are worn-for the manufacturers,
Mishawaka Wooden Manufacturing
Company, make more than half the
footwear of these kinds, sold in this
country.
Large shipments go across the
border, notably to Newfoundland,
which pays 40 per cent duty to get
'sBall- Band" Footwear, although it
could get the Canadian goods by pay
ing only 10 per cent.
More than eight million people
wear "Ball Band" Rubber and
Wooden Footwear. Many of our
readers are among the millions who
have worn "Ball- Band" for many
years. Multitudes are added to it's
host every year. But the explanation
of this amazing army of more than
eight million customers is the fact
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1912-03-01
che 6of11e.
Continued from page 15)

Continue until you have as much as
you need then cut The result. will
be even bands. Its good plan when
one has nice muslin to make the
pieces into bands. It's nice to have
them on hand and saves time.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1912-03-01
MEXICAN RICE.

Use one cupful of rice, cooked soft,
three slices of bacon chopped fine,
one onion chopped fine, one cupful of
tomatoes. Fry the onion and bacon
together until golden brown. Add
the rice and tomato and season to
suit. Cook together until we'll blend
ed.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1912-03-01
FRICASSEE OF CHICKEN.

Cut fowl into joints, place in stew
pan with two onions cut into quarters,
salt and pepper, bit of lemon juice,
butter the size of an egg and one pint
of water. Stew for an hour under
closed lid. Strain off gravy, beat into
it gradually small cupful of cream
or rich milk and the beaten yolks OF
two eggs. Add little salt If neces-
sary and cook until thick, but do not
allow it to boil. Pour over chicken
and serve. This is an excellent way
to prepare an old fowl.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1912-11-11
March Of the Dining Hour.

The hour Of dining has advanced
with the centuries. frossart mentions
waiting on the Duke OF Lancaster nj 8
In the afternoon after he had supped
and was about 10 20 TO bed. and the
preface OF the Hcptameron shows that
the queen OF Navarro dined at ~
o'clock IN the morning From the
Northumberland Household Book.
dated 1912. we learn that the ducal
family rose at @. breakfasted at q.
dIned Mt 10. supped al and retired
for the night at o. Louis XIV. did not
dine ill II. while his contemporaries.
Cromwell and Charles H.. took the
meal MT J. IN 100 the hour was adj
vanced TO .. In 1851 we find the
Duchess OF Somerset dining at 3. and
In l7G0 Cowper speaks OF o'clock as
the fashionable time. After the battle
OF Waterloo the dinner hour was al
tered TO G. from which time II has adj
vanced by half hour stages to y. So
that in 400 years the dinner hour had
gradually moved through at least ten
hours OF the day London Spectator.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1912-11-11
subsid,nce Of The e.rmudas.

1t is contended that the Bermuda
islands are merely the remnant of an
island. very much larger than the pres
ent entire group. which has sunk into
the ocean The original island. 1t Is
asserted. had an area Of 300 or 400
square miles. whereas the Bermudas
Of today are only about twenty square
miles in area. Within comparatively
recent period. according TO Verrill. the
Bermudas have subsidized at least so or
100 feet. Their base is the summit OF
an ancient volcano. while their surface
Is composed of shell sand drifted into
hills by the wind and consolidated by
utilization
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1912-11-11
Hardworkina Dollar.

IL noticed statement IN an eastern
paper the other day that has disquiet-
Ell me a good deal" said Cleveland
man recently "T'he item called to my
attention the fact that Il takes dol
lar at the usual rate If interest more
than two years 10 earn dime. You
can see the effect Every time spend
dime think Of that toillng dollar
spinning away in the dark somewhere.
The dime spend means more than two
years OF steady application. and yet I
let It go MS II II were OF too small
value to be al all considered. Why. II
takes n dollar more than year TO
earn cents, Think of that when you
slip the next nickel across. 1t really
makes me feel uncomfortable. ] wish
I hadn't read the stupid thing
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1912-11-11
The First Mountaineer.

A Munich paper mas been searching
the records of history TO discover who
were the first mountain climbers II
gives the palm to Moses for his as
cent OF Mount Sinai and rules out
Noah for his ascent Of Mount Ararat
because he made it in boat There
Is Sufficient evidence 90 show that the
nncients thought mouniain climbing
Horace or I'Olyhius wanted TO go
climbing for u summer holiday. A
Chinese emperor In the seventh cen
tnry WIS the first IL make climbing
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1912-11-11
Paintinn Turkeys. Lsas.

Among the many trades which exist.
but which are not as a rule filed up in
the census papers. are the takers OF
all kinds. FROM the manufacturer OF
antique furnirrre and brasses to the
bird fancier vino can pass II sparrow
as canary Perhaps the most curious
form OF taking Is that which deals
with turkeys. dead or alive. and which
is principally practiced in France. The
age OF a turkey Is told chiefly by its
legs and heak. -'hese are filed and
treated with special varnish by the
"faker' two or ihree times a week be-
fore the bird is 10 he sold II will then.
TO all appearance have renewed its
youth. and its owner is able to obtain
a much higher price The freshness of
the dead birds is also largely told by
the color Of the legs. and for this. too,
a varnish Is used The varnish was
the discovery of a Frenchman, Pere
Chapelllcr. who seems 10 have been a
really remarkable man. ms he had many
irons in the lire and died worth con.
siderable sum London Telegraph
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1912-11-11
rhs Larusst Of Their Kir Is.

The greatest bank in the world is the
Bank of England; the largest library is
the National in Paris. containing near
ly 100000 volumes; the largest thea
ter is the Paris Opera House. covering
three acres: the largest bronze statue
is that OF Peter the Great in St Peters
burg. weighing LOO tons; the biggest
stone statue is in Japan. forty-four fee:
high: the largest colleep is in Cairo.
with over 10000 students and 3iu
teachers.
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U. D. c. MONTHLY MEETING.

The meeting of l.. S. Ross Chapter,
U. d. c., at the chapter room on FRI
day at p. m. was one of the most
pleasant that has been enjoyed by the
ladies in some time. Renewed interest
aud enthusiasm in the work has come
to the members and new names are
being aided to the roll at every meet
ing. I'll chapter now has seventy-one
membef and applications for mem
bership have been fled for several
more.
Mrs. w. G. Taliaferro, the chapter
president, will go as delegate to the
state convention at Fort Worth.
The thanks of the members and Wis
itors present at the FRIDAY afternoon
meeting are cue Misses Anita Park
Alice Burtis, Mary Shelburn and
Frances Hall for their splendid con-
tributions to the program of the hour.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1912-11-11

fashionable In the east. but the first
true tourists in Europe seem to have
been Dante. Petrarch and Leonard.
Then came the Emperor Macmillan
l.. who used TO HINT In the noun
tains near Innsbruck. and after him
Conrad Won Gesner and Josias Simler
explored the Swiss mountains. But
climbing for pleasure such as we know
1t today was not thought Of until quite
recently.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1912-11-11
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS
ELECT OFFICERS
Interesting Program Of Subjects Ar
ranged for Discussion During
Remainder Of Session.

The Agricultural and Mechanical
College branch OF the American Insti-
tute OF Electrical Engineers has elect
ed officers and announced the program
for the year. S. Il. Bowler OF Fort
Worth has been elected chairman, and
Il. s. hammers, Jr., OF Dallas has been
made secretary,
The American Institute OF Electrical
Engineers is a national organization
of the engineering professor. founded
in 1884, and now having twenty-eight
sections in cities OF the United States,
Mexico ande Canada, and forty-three
branches In American colleges. Mem
bership is restricted to those who
have rendered distinctive service to
electrical engineering or its allied
forces. The institute has six associate
members connected with the Agricul-
tural and Mechanical College OF
Texas. viz: Professor, f. C. Bolton,
]. E. Lear, ]. w. Kidd, Instructors O.
3. Wooten, e. W. Lehman and J. II.
Proctor
The local student branch OF the in
stitute was organized on November
~, 1909. with C. Il. Greene as chair
man. Regular meetings are held every
two weeks for the presentation and
discussion of engineering subjects.
The men do considerable research
work and perform varied experiments
in the preparation of their papers,
Great enthusiasm characterizes the
meetings. the students take the work
seriously. and lively discussion follow
the presentation of the papers.
The program as announced for the
remainder OF the first school semester
is as follows:
November Electricity as APP
piled to the Farm" by p. w. Walker;
Central Station Design" by NJ. l..
Anderson.
December 2-"Comparison of Alum
inium and Mercury Arc Rectifiers,' by
II. c. Won Rosenberg; Unity Power
Factor Moor" by Professor ]. II.
Lear.
December Engineering Expert
ment Station Work at the University
OF Illinois" by Instructor o. B. Woot-
en-: Gas Electric Plant in Cement
Mill," by j. F. Brown.
January 10-"Steam Turbine Devel-
opment." by A. ]. Men; Spherical
Photometry,' by r. W. Nolte.
January 24--"Efficiency Engineer
ing" by Instructor J. II. Proctor;
"A. and NJ. Central Station" by d. n.
Levy.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1912-11-11
HOTEL ARRIVALS

H. F. Hill, Beaumont.
II. s. Aubrey, Houston.
j. w. HUMPHREYS, Baltimore.
A. C. Gillespie, Dallas.
Mrs. ]. NJ. Evans, San Antonio.
e. N. Conovar, Baltimore.
Mrs. G. c. Pendleton, Temple.
R. c. Hays, Maydeld.
w. H. Anderson, Hearne.
T. V. Bruce. Dallas.
Miss Lilly O'Neal, Cheyenne, Wyo.
c. M. Haines, Manhattan, Kan.
]. M. Leverton and wife, New York.
Jessie Howe, New York.
c. A. Lynch, New oYrk.
Griffith Rowland, Houston.
A. B. Johnson. Bitter Creek, Mich.
Mrs. Fred L. Wood, Hearne.
Mrs. II. H. Shultz, Hearne.