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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1912-09-06
IDAHO HAS NO SUCH
FARMER AS THIS

The average Virginia farmer gets up
early, at the alarm of Connecticut
clock, buttons his Chicago suspenderss
to Detroit overalls, puts on pair OF
cowhide boots made in Ohio, washes
in Pittsburg basin, Cincinnati soap,
and dries on cotton towel made IN
New Hampshire, sits down to Grand
Rapids table, eats hot biscuits made OF
Minneapolis flour. uses Kansas City
bacon and Indiana grits fried in lard
made at Omaha, cookies it on a St.
Louis stove, buys Irish potatoes that
were grown in Michigan and canned
fruits put up in California, seasoned
with Rhode Island spices; claps on his
old hat that was made in Philadelphia,
harnesses his Missouri mule. fed on
Iowa corn, and harness thar came
from New York, and plows his farm
covered with Massachusetts, mortgage
and uses an Indiana pillow.
At night he crawls under New
Jersey blanket and is kept awake by ;
Virginia dog, (the only home produc
on the place., and then he wonders
why he keeps poor.
Moral: Patronize home industry
spend your money where it will Civ
you a market for what you grow, ant
thus make money and increase tn
value of your farm.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1912-09-06
The Importance of a Hat in a
Woman's Costume

Edith M. Weiden6eld says in the
fashion department Of the Woman's
Home Companion:
"a new hat must have says the
average woman each season, and a
new hat she does have, even if she
has to go without some of the neces-
sites to get it. Now this may seem
foolish to some. but in reality it is
very wise. With a becoming hat,
fresh and up-to-date. even though it
it is accompanied by an old suit, pro-
vided it is neat and trim, woman
passes as stylish and we'll dressed. Let
her appear on the other hand. in a
new suit with an old hat, detected and
hoplessly out of fashion, and she. is
Immediately referred to as way behind
the times. And so it is that the woman
who is wise in dress matters begins
each new season with new hat"
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1912-09-06
Orator Who Nearly Lost His Pants.

In the September American Maya
zine appears the following about
delegate at the Baltimore convention
who made a speech:
"The crowd listened approvingly
to frenzied speech from a south
western statesman who introduced an
entirely new gesture With his right
hand out stretched he made wild
clutches at his shoulder with his left
hand thumb. 1t turned out that this
was no mere affectation to emphasiz
rhetoric, but that his 'galluses' were
slipping. He remarked to a fellow
delegate as he came down from the
PLATFORM: 1 durn near lost my
pants
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1912-09-06
NO DISTRIBUTION OF
MAIL ON SUNDAYS

Postmaster Horn is in receipt of
the following circular letter from the
Post Office department, regarding the
Sunday closing act, recently passed by
congress. This order is mandatory and
the postmaster must obey the instruc-
tions from on and after next Sunday.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1912-09-06

FACTS

4 FACTS =
x The first thing Robson =
4 Crusoe did when he landed on =
x the little island was to show his =
< sound business judgment by adj =
X vertising. He climbed to the 4
X highest peak he could find and \
x planted his signal of distress; !
x advertising the fact that he =
4 pose he had not advertised, =
<Robison- Crusoe would simply 4
X have lived his life and died on =
x that little island, and the world 4
4 would have lost good story. =
+ What about you-you who are =
+ reading this, have you anything =
4 to sell--are you letting the peo- \
+ pie know that you have some =
4 thing to sell-are you telling =
X them what it is--or do you just \
X sit back and wonder why your 4
x old customers go to the "other =
4 fellow Here's straight tip, \
x if youth Just sitting back" just as =
K sure as you are going to bed to- =
X night. your going to take the !
X small end of the business in your \
X line and the end won't be what \
X you thought it would be when 4
x you first opened the shop, You !
4 must find the real reason why !
x people should buy your goods and !
K then you must tell them what !
X that reason is; not once or twice !
< but all the time.
X
X X X X X X 4 X X X X X X X X
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-03-22

IF the weather warns up farmers
will be able to save good many pigs
coming now but II not, there is go
ing to be short pig crop in my
neighborhoOd," said w. W. Hall, Of
Devon, Kans. Farmers are anxious
TO take care Of the pigs and save
every one Of them, but cold and
damp weather with little sunshine
will kill off young pigs every time.
They must have sunshine and lots OF
it. The hog situation anyway is Just
a little different from what 1t has
been for several years. Hog sickness
and high-priced corn and rather
poor market, made up a poor com6i-
nation"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-03-22
TRIED THEIR OWN MEDICINE.

This is story Of a professor who
tried some of his own medicine.
Samuel J. Hunter, professor Of En-
tomology at the state university, had
for sixteen years been trying to con
vince the farmers of Kansas that a
little study applied to their orchards
would double the returns from their
fruit crop. So earnest was he in his
exhortatiOnS that he finally came to
believe his own advice.
A little over a year ago he and
Prof. A. T. Walker, of the Latin de-
partment, leased a ten-acre orchard
naar Lawrence. They paid the owner
the most he had ever bee able to
make from it in a singh year, $50
per acre. The two professors took
care Of it at odd hours, applying the
laDratory methods Prof. Hunter had
been teaching all his life.
Doctoring the trees as a family
doctor would look after his patients,
picking the apples at just the right
time, packing them scientifically and
storing them by text book, Prof. Hun
ter watched his next door neighbor
sell his crop of apples at $l.75 per
bushel. This was last summer.
Last week the two theoretical pro-
lessons" sold their entire stock at
the store rooms for three dollars a
buShel.
And there were some bushels. The
money in hand from the apples, scien-
tifically raised On ten acres that had
never before brought in but $500 to
Tile owner, amounted to a little over
$500.
And, as Prot. Hunter remarks. apoL
Osetcally, everybody knows that last
year was not the best in the world
for apples.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-03-22
MARKET LETTER.

Kansas City Stock Yards, March IS
Light receipts Of cattle were neceiy-
ed at all the Western markets last
week, because Of the bad shipping
weather. The market made some adj
vance, though prices were already at
a height that made 1t difficult 10 ad
vance from. Some dealers say that
despite the expected slim marketing
Of cattle for a month or two ahead,
prices will not make much Of a gain
In that time. Receipts today here
are $500 head, market steady to
strong on everything except heavy
steers, which are a little lower in
some cases. Usually at this season
that is condition to be expected, as
buyers want lighter cuts of meat as
warm weather approaches, but it is
not looked for to any extent this sea-
son, on account of the scarcity Of
the good heavy cattle, and the larg-
er percentage of light weights. A
year ago this condition was most pro-
nounced. Butcher cattle are stronger
today, steers and heifers selling up
to $500. The best heavy steers here
brought $500 today. Twentysix loads
Of guarantees are here today, con-
tanning some good yearlings at $3.50,
and yearling heifers at $3.50, heavier
steers, $50 to HIS pounds, at 500
to 1915. Hay fed Wyoming steers
sold today at $3.50, weighing 1850 IBIS.
Demand for stOckerS and feeders is
brisk today, at the highest prices of
the season, fair to good feeders sell
ing at $500 to $3.50, and stock steers
S5.25 to S6.4O, stock cows and heifers
1915 to $3.50.
Hog prices moved up decisively last
week, and without much opposition
from packers. Receipts are shorten
ing up at all points, and killers who
have stocks of provisions on hands
are not ayerse to falling in line with
called steady to five lower here to-
day, although the top price, s6.97 IL,
is the highest figure reached here this
year. 1t was paid for an extra choice
load Of 30O-pound hogs. Bulk today
sold at 1855 to $500, light weights
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-03-22
MANY DRIVEN FROM HOME.

Every year, in many parts Of the
country. thousands are driven from
their homes by coughs and lung di.
seases. Friends and business are left
behind for other climates, but this Is
costly and not always sure A bet
ter way-the way Of multitudes-is 10
use DR.. Kings New Discovery and
cure yourself at home. Stay right
there with your friends and take this
safe medicine. Throat and lung trou-
eles find quick relief and health re-
turns. It's help in coughs, colds, grip,
Group, whooping cough and sore lungs
make 1t a positive blessing. SOC and
sl.OO. Trial bottle free. Guaranteed
by all druggists.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-03-22
STARTING VEGETABLES
IN INDOORS HoT6EDs.

In order that elephants, cabbage. to-
matoes, peppers and such vegetables
have their full development early, it
is necessary TO start them indoors,
unless one has a hotbed or green
house.
Shallow boxes, twelve inches wide,
by twenty inches long, and five or
six inches deep, are convenient to
handle for this purpose. They may
occupy a sunny window in the living
room.
These boxes should be filled with
fine mellow soil, and kept moderately
moist throughout the period from ger
mfnation to the time of transplant
ing.
A layer of broken cnockery or peb-
bleS should be placed in the bottom
of each box to improve the drainage,
and the soil should be sandy loan,
moderately rich.
After filling the boxes let them
stand in a warm room a day or so
before planting.
Plant pepper, tomato, cabbage and
eggplant seed thinly-about one-Quar-
ter of an inch apart. Cover the seed
by Sitting the soil over them. Press
it lightly and sprinkle with tepid wa
ter. Cover the boxes with a cloth,
and maintain a daily temperature of
70 degrees. When the tiny sprouts
appear, remove the cover and shower
gently with tepid water. using
brush.
The temperature may be held at
60 after termination.
Where the light is stronger on one
side of the plants than on the other,
the young seedlings will lean toward
lat side, after a few days growth.
Turn the boxes. The plants will
straighten in a short time.
After the second leaves have de-
veloped, the plans must be trans
planted to other boxes, giving them
about an inch and a half of space.
After growth is established in their
new location, it will tougher them,
and promote stOcky growth, if they
are set outside, on the veranda, dur
ing the middle of the days when the
temperature is above freezing.
They may be transplanted to the
open ground when all danger from
frost is paSt.-M. B. ConOver.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-03-22
LOCAL NEWS.
Market Correspondent.

DR.. Homer Robson of EllinwOod
was here Sunday visiting relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. R. Brown went TO
La Crosse Sunday to attend the fun
eral of Mrs. Christmas, foster-mOther
Of MrS. Brown.
Mrs. o. P. Mcpherson, visiting her
sister, Mrs. Geo. Brinkman, returned
rome to Kansas City Saturday.
Mrs. c. H. Harter and daughter,
Bessie, spent Saturday and Sunday
with friends in Lyons.
Mrs. G. n. Moses will leave soon
for California on an extended visit.
c. F. Ruch was up from EllinwOod
this week on business.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-03-22
THE FRUIT CROP.

Now that the snow is going off
the fields over the state the fruit
growers are beginning to take an in
tenest in fruit prospects and reports
are coming in to Walter WellhOuse,
secretary of the state horticultural 50
ciety. His reports show that the APP
pie prospects in Kansas are the best
in years.
All the information | can get he
said, indicates that the apple buds
are in perfect condition and that with
the right kind Of a season from now
on Kansas is going to have a record
breaking apple crop.
Il am also surprised to learn that
in many localities there are going to
be peaches. The tsnderer varieties
were killed by the cold weather but
many hardy varieties are in good
shape and all over the state it has
been found that the Seeding peaches
are still alive.
Certain varieties of blackberrieS
have been killed but the indications
are that there will still be plenty Of
blackbeTies and other small fruit. On
the whole, Kansas fruit appears to be
in first class condition considering
the winter. OF course. we may have
unfavorable weather from now on
but it is unlikely"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-03-22
CAN YOU ASK MoRE7
Your Money Back for the Asking. Ycu
Promise Nothing.

We are so confident that We can
furnish relief for Indigestion and dys-
pepsia that We promise to supply the
medicine free of all cost to every one
who uses it according to directions
who is not perfectly satisfied with
the results. We exact no promises
and put no one under any obligation
whatever. Surely nothing could be
fairer. We are located right here
where you live, and our reputation
should be sufficient assurance Of the
genuineneSs of our offer.
We want every one who is troubled
with indigestion or dyspepsia in any
form to come to our store and buy a
box of RexaIl Dyspepsia Tablets. Take
them home, and give them a reason
able trial, according to directions. II
they don't please you tell US and we
will quickly return your money. They
have a very mild but positive action
upon the organs with which they
come in contact, apparently acting as
a regulatiye tonic upon the relaxed
muscular coat Of the bowel, thus over
coming weakness and aiCiDg to re-
store the bowels to more vigorous and
healthy activity. Three sizes, Csc.
Sec. and s1OO. Remember, you can
obtain Rexan Remedies only at ouI
store-The Rexall Store. Hooper
Drug Co., 1907 Main.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-03-22
RAISE HORSES TO FIT YOUR
SPECIAL NEEDS.

Farmers in the South still cling to
the light breeds Of horses, mainly be-
cause there is more horseback rid.
ing done, and the average farmer
wants horse for all-around purposes
In the north, the heavy breeds,
such as the Precherons, the CEdes,
and the Shines, are most generally
used.
The wise farmer will raise the type
Of horse best adapted to his needs.
Generally speaking, where only one
team can be kept on the farm, the
horses should be sizable enough to
pull a pillow or draw a heavy wagon
load with comparative ease, and at
the same time light enough to get
along over the road with a surTy or
light rig at a fairly good gait.
If a farmer keeps a number of good
horses he will, of course, use the
heavy type for plOwing, and other
heavy farm work, and keep light
harness team for the road.
1t is a great mistake to attempt to
plow with a team of horses of the
harness type. Farmers are blowing
deeply these days, and it is distress
ing to see a light team struggling
with a heavy pillow.
The general tendency, therefore, is
when light team is used, to allow
the pillow to skim the ground in order
to ease up on the team. If a team
of sturdy draft-horses, weighing 1900
to 1900 each is used, they walk along
with a pillow, running from six to
eight inches deep, without the slight
est distress.
The English Clydesdales and cross
es resulting from the uses of French
or German coach horses make a good
all4around farm team. The infusion
of the French or German Coach blood
produces a horse of good action,
while the blood of the Clydesdales,
Shires and PercheronS keeps him
heavy enough, and close enough to
the ground to pull almost any load
within reason.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-03-22

$3.50 to $3.50, and pigs $500 to $5.75.
No sooner has the seven dollar mark
been approximated than dealers be-
gin talking about eight dollars, which
some predict will be reached before
the first Of May. d.
Sheep and lambs made good gains
last week. especially wethers and
ewes, which advanced so cents.
Lambs added half that much. Run IL
5000 here today, market 10. to 10
higher, top lambs S.25, Others at
$40, fair to good lambs around 1915
Feed shortage is causing many ship
ments of half fat stuff, and while the
face of the market looks aTluring, the
accounts of sales cause heart aches
in many cases. Wethers are worth
up to $3.50, ewes $5.25.
]. A. RICKART, -.
Market Correspondent.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-03-22
PREPARING THE CORN FIELD.

On the majority of stock and dairy
farms the corn field is the ideal plac;
to apply the farm manure. A corn
crop is able to make profitable use
Of manure for the reason that it
makes its principle growth late in the
season after the fertilizing elements
in the manure have been available to
nowish the growing plants by the
action of the elements.
The ideal corn field is prepared
by applying manure to clover sod.
A light dressing of stable manure
on the clover sod will make an album
dance OF nitrogen for the corn crop
and at the proper time during its
growth to insure a maximum yield.
The bacteria in the manure will has
ten the decomposition of the organic
matter contained in the roots and
stubble Of the clover sod and hasten
them into a condition available to
nourish the growing corn crop.
All farmers know that excellent
crops of mixed grass may be grown
on field that has produced a good
crop Of corn by application Of manure
alone the previous year, but in my
opinion better economical results may
be obtained if the manure is applied
at the rate of from five to ten loads
to the acre and supplemented with
some form of fertilizer supplying an
abundance of phOsporic acid and pot
ash.
The phOSphoric acid may be pT-
chased in numerous forms, but in my
opinion the potash had best come in
the form of a high grade or a low
grade Sulphate.
The muriate might produce as good
a corn crop, but on many soils and
during many seasons, the succeeding
crop of clover would make less sat
isfactOry yield than when the SUI
phate is used. The growing of clover
demands an abundant supply of pot
ash and phosphOric acidl-W. Kelley.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-03-22

Woman 10 Is 2 clear, rosy complex
ion. Burdock Blood Bitters purifies
the blood, clears the skin, restores
rudy, sound health.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1912-04-18
North New Home.

Mrs. Miller and daughter called on
Mrs. Henry one afternoon last week.
Born to Jack Skaggs and wife on
April 9, boy. Jack says he has
nothing to do now only to trade
horses and go to town as the boys
will do the farming.
Henry chart sold two calves to Mat
Simpson Thursday; Mr.. LinendQll
sold COW and two calves to Lyman
Hensley at Butler and bought a Jersey
COW the same day.
Grandma Pickett is visiting a few
days in Butler.
Cliff chart made business trip to
Virginia Saturday.
Mrs. Linendoll and Mrs. Nc aughey
visited with Mrs. Zeiler last Wednes-
day afternoon.
We wish Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Vance
a happy and prosperous married life.
Mrs. Mccormack and Miss Lola
Calvert called on Mrs. Linendoll last
Saturday afternoon.
There was a good attendance at
New Hope Sunday School Sunday.
There will be Sunday School at 10 a.
m. and B. Y. P. U. at 7:30 p. m.
Sunday evening.
Miss Ethel Poyer and Frank Ro-
mine attended the B. Y. P. U. Sun
day evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard visited with
John McKissick and wife Sunday.
Max Sproul, who has been sick, is
able to 60 to school again.
John Phelps was taken sick Sunday
but is better at this writing.
Mr.. Linendoll and Henry chart
bought corn last week from Claude
Berry at SOC.
Frank Miller took his boys to But
Ter Saturday to see the parade of Du-
Wallis spotted horses, but we have
not heard if Frank bought one for the
boys.
Mr.. and Mrs. Zeiler called at Matt
Adams Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mccormack went to
Butler Tuesday.
Albert Linendoll spent Sunday with
Frank Bowles at j. L. Streins.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1912-04-18

boats were splintered, while shower
of debris from her spars fell upon the
decks like giant hail. Though the
ship had struck the monster obstruc-
ton head on, as her bow rose clear OF
the water; smashed to an unrecogniz-
able mass of bent and shivered steel,
the vessel listed heavily to port and
threatened to turn turtle before the
recoil slid what was left Of her proud
form back to an even keel into the sea.
! The Titanic had forced her giant
bulk away up on submerged spur of
the iceberg, phenomenon which is
not infrequent in the most disastrous
collisions with these ghost-like senti-
nels of the sea.
In mounting upon the jagged ice
spur and in sliding back from her
position, the ship had torn out many
of her bottom plates from the mid
ships section forward to the bow.
AS a result, her compartments from
amidships forward were speedily
flooded. She took in water at rate
that defied the efforts of the pumps
and soon began to settle by the head,
listing heavily to port and rolling in
the trough of the sea as she became
gradually disengaged from the ice,
many tons of which had fallen upon
her upper decks, contributing to the
demolition and inextricable canfusion.
The force of the blow had been so
tremendous that the vast ship was
started in her every joint and every
thing movable throughout her superb
equipment of cabins and saloons was
tossed into heaps like so much junk.
The sea where this $4,000, 600
fabric Of the shipyards, this newest
and most luxurious and safest" of
ships, this unsuitable boat" found
her grave, is two miles deep. The
spot was only thirty miles south of
where she had received the death
blow from the ice, but the Titanic had
been four hours in covering that dis
lance in the hopeless quest for succor
from the onrushing ships to which
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1912-04-18

she was sending her frantic wireless
appeals for help.
But none of the many vessels that
had received the summons and sped
out of its course to respond reached
the Titanic before she went down.
The Carpathia of the Cunard Line, in
command of Capt. Rostron, was first
to arrive, and she found twenty boat
loads of survivors, most Of them
women and children, floating about
among the ice floes. :.
All of these were finally taken
aboard the Carpathia, after many
hours of maneuvering of that vessel
to do the rescue work in a twenty
mile-wide ice field, without meeting
the same fate that had overtaken the
Titanic.
The other vessel that responded to
the call found only wreckage and
bodies, for the most part bodies of
men, because the law of chivalry of
the sea had prevailed, and it was
women and children first" in the
last horrible hour of the Titanic. And
in that hour, a woman was woman,
a child a child and man man,
whether in the first cabin or the
steerage.
A wireless received at Cape Race,
N F., from Capt. Haddock of the
Olympic, relayed by the Celtic, says
that the second, third, fourth and fifth
officers and the second Marconi oper-
ator are the only officers ofthe Titanic
reported saved.
This of course, removes all doubt
of the fate of Capt. Smith of the
Titanic. He went down with his ship.
Capt. Haddock adds that he believes
The only survivors of the Titanic are
On the Carpathia.