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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-07-29

DuI the ulSu Call De kept Su6QJ
for long, and Bill Sweeney, captain
and second baseman of the Braves,
bUsts into the imeIght.
If Bill was with a good team he
would be noticed more. It is we'll
known that man plays better ball
when with a winner, because Of the
interest he feels, and the winners
are also watched more closely than
the losers. For these few reasons
Sweeney is not getting his share of
attention.
Give him to the Giants and he
would be the equal of Larry Doyle.
possibly having the edge in fielding.
He would be star with the PhiIlies,
would just about make the Pirates
pennant winners and would be eager
ly snapped up by any manager in the
business. The Irishman is an aggres-
siVe ballplayer, in the fight all the
time, a crack defensive player and a
batsman of the smuggling type. For
three years he has been in the first
flight of National League batters and
last season gave Heinie Tim a tough
battle for the head of the procession.
His judgment is good When Man
ager Stallings is away from the team
Sweeney takes the helm, and, while
he is not as successful as the chief.
he has fair luck with what material
is at hand.
Sweeney is liable to create some
stir within a year. StaIlings is grad
ually getting together ball team,
and it is being built around, Sweeney
and pitcher or two. If the gang
ever does hit a winning stride Cap'n
Bill Sweeney will be riding on the
crest Of the wave, and will be given
some Of the recognition that is due
him as star ballplayer.
Tomorrow the Giants come to the
West Side for a fOur-game series, but
there is not the same warm interest
in the battles that has featured those
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-07-29

games behind the Giants for first
place and there is small chance Of
cutting down the gap.
McGraw has his team going
strong, and EVers will be put to it to
get an even break on the series.
MathewsOn is apparently as good as
ever and RUDE Vanguard has started
another cOnsecutive-win record. The
addition of Burns and Shafer and the
uncovering of Demaree, a young
pitcher, has given McGraw about the
best team he has bossed in the past
three years. It is a much faster team
than was licked in the last two
worlds series tits with the American
League.
Bill Lathrop, the Notre Dame
pitcher secured by President Comis-
key of the White Sox after John Nc
Graw had made a futile effort to re-
tain him, worked out in batting prac-
tiCe in Boston yesterday and made a
good showing, according to reports.
The husky highlander is compare
lively inexperienced, but he has lots
of smoke and a neat curve ball. Wild
ness is his main fault and he admits
it. This is something, as he will nat
urally work to remedy the defect
If he was sent home to train with
Billy Sullivan, who is doing daily
stunts at the South Side park with
Ed Walsh, the youngster might learn
faster than with the team. There is
no veteran catcher with Callahan on
the present trip. Schalk, Easterly
and Kuhn are good receivers, but
they are not in the class of Sullivan
when it comes to teaching the young
idea to shoot, and shoot straight.
McGraw had Lathrop for a week,
and during that time the recruit did
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-05-30

1t was observed that little or no wa.
ter ran through the holes while 1t was
flowing downward through the soil.
but as the soil became over-saturated
from the bottom upward the water be-
gan to run out.
The bottom of the pan represented
blue clay. hard pan, rock. or any
other hard layer through which water
could not easily pass. The hole in
the can represented the underground
drain through which what water the
soil could not hold would flow away.
They learned that the soil like a
sponge. will hold only a certain guam
tity of water.
Do you suppose that they concluded
that tile drains should be made shall
low or deep? What do you suppose
they learned about soils having gravel
or sand subsoils?
The next week. these boys came to
school with small strips of litmus pa
per, which they purchased for five
cents at the drug store, some clean
saucers. and some samples of soil ta-
ken from different places.
One touched some vinegar (acid)
with the litmus paper to see what
change would be made in it's color;
one touched some lemon juice; anoth-
er placed a piece against raw piece
of tomato. Then they touched some
dampened soda. wood ashes, and lime
These they found to be alkaline; that
Is they acted much like lye
They learned that by carefully mix
Ing a little lime water and vinegar
no change in the color of the iitmus
paper would be made. They had read
that such substance was said to be
neutral. They learned that the els
tern water was neutral.
The samples of soil were separate,
ly mixed with rain water to a stiff
mud, and piece of litmus paper
pushed into each and allowed to re-
main two or three minutes
Three found that their papers were
darkened from being wet, but that
there were no marked changes in the
color. The soils tested therefore were
neutral
One boy found his paper turned a
brickish red. That was decided to be
an acid or sour soil. 1t, was learned
that 1t needed draining or lining, or
perhaps both, to neutralize it.
The most impressive lesson these
boys learned was from what they did,
fhnv f1a,, ,Lzk 4
these four boys did any other boys of
the upper elementary grades in any
school can do.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-05-30

tuce, or radish, together. A row OF
parsnip, or carrot, and row of sets,
or lettuce, or radish. One will mature
and be used before the other, and both
are hoed and hand weeded at once as
readily as If alone. A row of sweet
peas may have early vegetables along
side it to advantage. Early vegetables
may be grown between rows of tomato
plants, melons or cucumbers, and
used. or marketed, long before their
comrades occupy the ground.
Hubbard squash and pie pumpkins
planted among early potatoes set and
mature their fruit after the potatoes
ripen and their tops die down. Ground
sown to early peas may be set to late
cabbage or sown to winter radish or
turnips after the peas mature and are
removed. This late working the soil
kills hosts of weeds and prevents them
maturing seed after August 1, the
time when garden weeds usually ma
ture seeds.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-05-30

until four months ago I began giving
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound a trial and now I am in good
health. Mrs. WILLIAM H. GILL. IS
Pleasant Street, Auburn, New York.
"Doctor's Daughter Took It."
st. Cloud, Minn.-"I was so run down
by overwork end worry that could not
stand it to have my children talk aloud
or walk heavy on the floor. One of INV
friends said, Try Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, for 1 know a doc
tors daughter here in town who takes
1t and she would not take it if It were
not good
II sent for the Compound at once and
kept on taking it until was all riobt !"
Mrs BERTHA M. Qu1cKsrApT 1877 6th
Avenue, s., St. Cloud. MINI. '
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com.
pound may be relied upon as the most
efficient remedy for female ills, VIM
don't YOU trv it2 W."
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-05-30

ute some simple apparatus which
would be needed in making some SIM
pie tests Of the truth of the state
ments made in the books.
With lamp chimneys, thin muslin
and some flat-bottomed pans. they
planned to find out for themselves
how rapidly different kinds of soil per-
mitted water to pass through them.
After tying the muslin on the bot
tom Of each chimney they filled one
with very black soil (humus), one
with clay, one with loan. and one
with sand leach containing the same
amount of soiD; to the upper part of
each chimney they tied strings which
served as balls through which to run
a broomstick.
Each end of the broomstick rested
on the seat Of desk. The pans were
placed beneath the chimneys. At the
same time, exactly the same quantity
of water was poured on the soil in
each chimney.
Through which do you suppose the
water ran most quickly?
Which was the last to permit 1t to
run through?
Which one held the most water?
Which one retained the least wa
ter?
On another day, they filled the same
chimneys with the same kinds of soil,
-humus, clay, loan, and sand,-and
set each one on two small chips on
the bottom of the fiat pans.
Instead of pouring the water into
the chimneys, they poured the same
quantity into each pan. They did this
to learn from the experiment which
soil would allow water to arise most
rapidly. Through which do you think
1t rose most rapidly?
The next Friday morning, each boy
had a common thermometer and a
good sized tin can. Into each can was
placed the same kind of soil. In the
center OF each Of two cans the ther-
mometers were placed deep enough
to allow the freezing point to be just
above the soil; in the other two they
were deep enough to allow them to
remain upright.
At the first recess, the temperature
Of each was read and noted. Into the
can containing a deeply-covered ther-
mometer and into one having the ther.
mometer not so deeply covered, the
same quantity of water was poured.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-05-30

to range through many crops that are
grown on the farm without damage
to the crops and by such practice Sc.
cure double returns from the same
piece Of land.
Orchards or cornfields are ideal for
this purpose and the presence of the
chickens in them is beneficial rather
than detrimental, as they will destroy
large numbers of insects injurious to
the crops. The movable colony house
which is rapidly coming into general
use on the farm makes it possible to
scatter the chickens out over the
fields.
This method is especially valuable
for handling the young stock, as II
gives freedom to the birds. The re
suit will be stronger, more vigorous
birds. BY moving the house close tc
the fields where small grains have
been harvested the birds are able t.
turn into profitable gains the shellet
grain and scattered heads which re
main on the field.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-05-30
MAGNETIC NAVY is AMUSING
Caused by Magnet and Concealed
Magnetlzed Needles.

To build this navy thin pieces of
cedar or pine wood and some mag
netized sewing needles are necessary.
Cut the pieces of wood into lengths a
little longer than the needles used
and about one-fourth of an inch in
width. Make one end of each boat
pointed for the bow. After the boats
are all ready turn them upside down
and lay magnetized needle upon
each where the keel should be. Now
light paraffine candle and let drop
Of hot paraffine fall upon each needle
and boat. Take hot nail and smooth
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-05-30

wrong side Of the fence. This was i'm.
proved by some poultrymen who used
heavy wire, weaving 1t in the mesh
and tacking it firmly to the posts.
Later on the wire was discontinued
and, instead, ditch of about six
inches was dug and the mesh tackled
to the bottom Of the posts and firmly
drawn up.
But 1t remained for a Hammonton,
N. j., poultryman-Charles A. Nelson
to devise method by which not
only is the wire held firmly in place,
but fewer posts are required. BY this
plan posts can be from 16 to 20 feet
apart. A heavy wire is tackled on the
top Of the posts; and In the center
of the space. between posts, a small
piece Of wire is twisted around the
mesh and the cable wire, which holds
the former firmly. 1t will be noticed
that the posts are a few inches higher
than the wire fencing. If the work
Is carefully done cheap and excellent
fence can thus be secured.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-05-30
MAKE PROFIT FROM CHICKENS
Lucrative Side Line for Farmers Who
viii Make Most of It-FowIs
Destroy Many Insects.

Specialized poultry farms are be-
coming more numerous each year. In
many cases these are paying good
returns on the money invested, but
their effect on the supply of eggs and
dressed poultry for our large markets
is but as drop in the ocean. 1t is
for the small flocks of SO to 300 fowls
kept upon the farms as a side line
that we must depend for our supply
OF poultry products in the future as in
the past, says Prof P. G. Holden in
the Farm and Home Poultry Annual.
No other branch of agriculture is rep.
resented on SO many farms. The cen.
sus for 1910 shows that SS per cent
of all farms reported keeping poultry.
In no case can the business be
made so profitable as where it is con.
Quoted as a side line of general farm.
ing. 1t is possible to allow chickens
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-05-30
RIDDLES.

Why Is a steam engine at fire an
anomaly?
Because 1t works and plays at the
same time.
What word is 1t of five letters, of
which two being removed, only one
will remain?
Stone.
Why is a fly taller than most men?
Because he stands over six feet
without shoes or stockings.
Why should false friend never
leave his house?
Because you might look in and find
him out"
Why is divinity student like q
merchant?
Because he studies the prophets
(prof1ts).
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-05-30
Tor he T5)
Lit ILL.,
ONES E.
BOYS TEST OF SOILS
Interesting Experiments of Four
Ohio Youths.
Most Impressive Lesson Learned Was
from What They Did Rather Than
from What They Read-Re-
suits of Trials.

By PROF. A. B. GRAHAM. Ohio Col
lege Of Agriculture)
Four boys who were members of
the same country school had read
about how the soil had been formed
by glaciers; they had seen the soil on
the hillside farm gradually removed
by tiny streams and deposited on the
nearby level farm.
They had noticed the effects Of
freezing and thawing on high banks
and the sides Of the bitches. But
there were some facts about soils that
which they knew only by what they
read. Each one resolved to contrib
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-05-30
ILLS OF FARM STOCK
Directions for Treating Many
Common Ailments.
One Must Bear In Mind In Doctorlng
for Parasites II Is Just as Nee
essary to Clean Up Stables as
to Treat Animals.
CBy DIR. NJ. H. REYNOLDS. University
Farm, st. Paul Mimi

By DIR. NJ. H. REYNOLDS. University
Farm. st. Paul. MinnD
Joint all in colts and calves is SIM
ply an Inflammation of joint structure
due to a germ infection which gains
entrance through the raw navel cord
at the time of birth, or very soon af-
ter.
mestic animals for lice, bear in mind
that 1t Is just as necessary to clean up
and disinfect the stables, as to treat
the affected animals.
For lice on cattle, in cold weather
dust Persian insect powder over the
back and rumps; or brush the necks
and backs daily, using a little kero-
sene on a stiff brush-not enough
kerosene to wet the hair or injure the
skin.
Black leg is disease of young cat
tie usually under two years Of age.
Medical treatment is very unsatisfac-
tory, but there Is a vaccine easily OBJ
tained from the Minnesota expert
ment station, which is very reliable,
as preventive.
There Is an unnecessary prejudice
against lumpy-jaw cattle. A consider
able percentage of these cases are
passed by government inspectors as
fit for food purposes. Only the very
bad cases, especially those where the
disease affects several organs or parts
n tho hndxy
For worms or other parasites liv-
ing free In the stomach or intestines,
apparently careful experimental work
has shown good results by the use of
low grade tobacco leaves, sometimes
called tobacco trash" This should
be chopped UP fine; mixed with an
equal amount of salt and kept con-
stantly before the sheep.
The large swelling that occasionally
appears in front Of the knees of cat
tie, particularly old cows, is properly
known as hygroma. 1t Is usually filled
with a watery or straw-colored fluid.
Opening or other surgical operation
Is not advisable except by a compe-
~SAs lhCoO
usually do no harm and most of the
cases are most wisely left alone.
For ringworm on calves or other do
mestic animals, give good scrubbing
with stif brush. soap and water; then
apply tincture Of iodine and glacial
acetic acid in equal parts. Use a small
brush for the medicine and be care
full. especially when working near the
eyes. Apply twice day for the frs,
two days, and then once daily.
Cough among the hogs may be due
to very dusty quarters. With young
hogs 1t is frequently due to minute
thread-like worms in the bronchia
tubes. A soft, hacking cough is a yer!
common symptom Of hog cholera
Hogs also have the common forms o
bronchitis and pneumonia, just lik,
other animals and people. Witt
hogs, coughs and lung troubles, asid
ffom cholera, are frequently due t
sleeping in warm quarters. possibl
piled up. and then going out into col
places to feed.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-05-30
EQqs More Profitable

The production of eggs on the farm
is always more profitable than the
production Of market poultry. Less
equipment is necessary to carry on
the business and the product is ready
for market as soon as produced. II
the greatest profits are to be secured
from the business some attention must
be given to the proper selection, feed.
ing and care Of the poultry. The
product should be ready for the mar.
ket when the prices are highest.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-05-30
SPRING WORK IN THE GARDEN
Early Vegetables May Be Grown Be,
tween Rows Of Tomato Plants
Long Before Latter Are Up.

Much of the space in the garden
may be double cropped where the soil
is kept free from weeds aid hand hoe
Ing is thoroughly done. To illustrates:
Sow row Of onion seeds and, about
two or three inches distant, a row Of
sets, or buttons Of the evergreen onion.
These will grow and be eaten before
the black seed fairly starts growth. Or
a row of onion sets and row of let
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-05-30

The other two cans of soil remained
dry. At the close of the school, the
thermometers were read again. Which
soils showed the highest tempera-
lures? Which the lowest?
At another time they punched holes
at different heights in the sides of
some old tin cans; the cans were then
filled with the same kind of soil and
the same quantity of water was pour.
ed into each can.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-05-30
Fence That Saves Posts.

or shingling lath on which to tack the
wire has long since been abandoned
by poultry men, as that manner served
only as an incentive for fowls to fly
up on the perch. and strong tempta-
tion for them eventually to get on the
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-05-30
The Magnetic Navy.

the paraffine out over each needle
The boats are now ready to place in a
large vessel Of water where they will
act very queerly toward each other,
says the Popular Electricity. BY hold
ing magnet near the boats they may
be made to move about in a mysteri
GUS way.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-05-30
TO BUILD A POULTRY FENCE
Ingenious Method Is Shown In Illus
tlon Herewith by Which Fewer
Post Are Required.

The illustration on this pags shows
a novel method of holding up wire
mesh. which not only saves posts but
also holds the wire strongly in place.
The old method Of having a top rail
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-05-30
WOMAN SUFFERED
TEN YEARS
From Nervousness Caused by
Female Ills-Restored to
Health by Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegeta-
bic Compound.
Auburn, N. Y.-"I suffered from
nervousness for ten years, and had such

organic pains that
sometimes I would
lie in bed four days
at a time, could not
eat or sleep and did
not want anyone to
talk to me or bother
me at all. Some
times I would suffer
for seven hours at q
time. Different doc
tors did the best
thew cO,11d for ~o
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-05-30
Assure These Benefits
Daily Thouuht,

Seek no friend to make him useful
for that is the negation Of friendship;
but seek him that you may be useful,
for this is of friendships essence
Henry Wallace.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-05-30
To Make Plants Grow.

Plants will grow more quickly if a
few drops of ammonia is added once a
week. The water should be lukewarm,
not colder that the atmosphere wher
you water your plants.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-05-30

AS rule the SOW and her litter
Will fare better II they are kept to
themselves until they are about Q
month old.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-05-30
Mothers of Men,

Men are what their mothers make
them.-Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-05-30

HOWARD, E. BURTON :, Assayer ana chemist
Leadyllie, Colorado. Specimen prices: God.
Silver. Lead, 81. Gold Silver. 75c; Gold 5Oc; Zine
or Copper, S. Mailing envelopes d full price lis,
hcited. Reference: Carbonate National Bank
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-03-01
Daddy sBedtirne
The Girl Who
.SfOTV- Spoke Pearls
...s And Diamonds

struck and not in bed yeti!
~ know Jack and
~ Evelyn replied
a there beautiful little girl
daddy
clothes hard.
stopped
a 10 a
girl smngly dipped spring held the
old could drink.
shall be
reward
relation said didn't
hour
oh sorry spoke lovely
and lips
the old
something really
o relation exclaimed .
with pail She
asked for
girl replied
yourself. Here's the pail
shall reward be-
hobbed
running meet
WelY mother asked :
that dirty old woman she cried
toad and lizards Her
mother shieked .
doors
giving be a beating
this time and they stopped
diamonds
happily aferward"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-03-01
Y. M. c. A. CAMPAIGN FOR FUNDS.

A campaign will be opened in a few
days for the purpose of raising $4,000
for the Y. M. c. A. About half OF
this sum is needed to wipe out old in
debtedness incurred in remodeling
the building and the other half will be
needed to carry on the work this year
Ottumwa has never failed to respond
to a call for financial aid from the Y.
M. c.. A., and it is believed the public
spirited citizens will contribute liberal.
ly to the fund to be raised at this time
Such an institution as the Y. M. c.
A. cannot be self-supporting. The noml'
nal charges for membership fall far
short Of meeting the financial needs
An institution that Yields such great
influence for good needs the financial
as well as the moral support of the
community and Ottumwans have
shown by the support given in the past
that they realize this.
Ottumwa ranks high as center for
Y. NJ. G. A. work There are few
cities in the country Of Ottumwa's size
that rank with it in this regard. The
influence this organization has had in
moulding the character of Ottumwa's
young men cannot be oyerestimated.
The Y. M. G. A.. has done much for