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The San Francisco call., 1913-07-27
How Soldier Bought Own Home;
Happy Despite Self-S crifice

TThis story of how a soldier bought
his home was written by veteran
Of the Spanish American war, who re-
quests that his name be withhold
IT'S not what you earn but what you
hang to that pays for your home ]
quit s55 month job to become a
private at 1880, rations and clothing
furnished, when the Spanish American
war broke out. I only mention It be-
cause 1t was while soldering on small
pay that / learned to save, and that
army acquired habit helped get me
my home.
Not cent had / laid up before I
enlisted. More than that. when the
company was ordered into camp, al
though I took $40 with me, I left be-
hind a 800 debt. Six months later I
paid $50 OF 1t. After 13 months serv-
ice 1 returned with money enough
loan and interest and buy some clothes.
Then I was broke; but 1 had the saw
ing habit.
I went back to my old job and put
a part OF my wages into savings
bank each month. In six months had
800. With It I made a payment on a
$500 lot Two years later I had the
lot paid for.
That lot wasn't making me any
money, and as I couldn't figure that
it was increasing In value. T traded 1t
for little house that rented for So
a month. Just before / got married I
sold that property for 800. The
money, with $500 more than I had
saved, made me $1,000, the accumula-
tion OF seven years.
I bought a cottage on a fair sized
lot for $3.50. paid 1925 down, and gave
a three year per cent mortgage for
the rest. My wife and I paid cash
for everything that went into the
house. then we spent $50 on a wedding
trip The day we started housekeep-
ing l had only 81 cents in the bank
and 81 in my pocket.
My salary then was SOS a month We
determined to save out of 1t enough to
pay off the mortgage when 1t came
due. We figured we could lay away
s25 in the savings fund each month.
We resolved the rest must pay living
expenses OF all kinds and take care of
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Products of Inventors Genius

TOR handling garbage in cities there
has been invented a self-loading
wagon. garbage dumped into a
hopper low IN the rear being lifted
into the body OF the wagon by a belt
conveyer.
For heating shaving water in a cup
in minute there has been invented a
resistance coil. taking electricity
through a cord from a light socket
A patent has been granted TO cover
the manufacture of dog biscuit in the
shape OF bone.
To keep dust out of the eyes and
nose a silk gauge face shield for mo-
torists has been invented.
A trap to catch rats as they try TO
enter a ship by climbing a hawser as
It is moored in port has been invented.
a household novelty Is litter for
removing fruit jars from high shelves.
Horseshoes attached by bolts around
the hoof have been patented in Eng
land.
There were so,Oss applications for
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GRAINING THE LEATHER

When II is necessary to grain the
leather It is passed on to the grainers,
who use a board about three or four
and run it several times across the
board in one direction, giving 1t what
is called the long grain. the grained
leather to be found in high class auto
mobiles.
Another finish is known as the peb-
BILE grain. This process is the same as
that employed in the ordinary grained
leather, except that the grainer breaks
the grain up in six or eight different
ways. Pebble grained leather is used
extensively in automobile manufacture
and In upholstered furniture
Each tannery has It's own secret
process of tanning, a process which is
carefully guarded. When a hide is
tanned chemically it is necessary to
wash it a great many times in order to
get out of 1t as much of the strong
chemicals as possible. But no matter
how much washing such hide is sub
5ected to, 1t is not possible to get out
all OF the chemicals. What remains in
the hide ts continually eating at the
fiber, and after a certain length of time
the leather loses it's strength and Is
called rotten Tannic acid Is what
gives leather its long lease on life.
Hides could be purchased a few years
ago at from to cents a pound. To-
day they bring from 20 to % cent, a
pound.
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n NEW vocation, new occupa-
~ tfon, dignined, limitless in op-
1 \ portunity. splendid in achieve
ment, comparatively easy of ac-
cess. opens to the youth of the United
States. Skilled farm adviser!
The title conveys little of the respon-
sibility, the ambitious effort, the bene-
flts to society, to those IMMERSED In
the economic affairs and process Of
natural evolution of tho nation. yet IT
represents one Of the most vitality I'm
portant subjects under discussion by
leading thinkers and doers OF the gen
Grafton. 1t opens a vista of magnif1-
ticipation in the preservation and de-
velopment of the worlds fundamental
commodity. food.
The skilled farm adviser, practi-
cally recent product of scientific and
common sense demand, is already in
MS pldCo among the essential IdClOIS
in modern life and economic advance
ment, and already Is the demand far
in excess OF the supply.
With the turn of attention to the
necessity for improved methods OF
American farming, emphasized by di-
rect comparison with the wonderful ad :
vancement of quantity and quality
with less effort wherever the scientific
principles have been applied abroad
and at home, many organizations, In
dustrial bodies, and general welfare
seeking individuals have set in mo-
tion different forms Of machinery to
bring the practice of better farming to
the attention OF the agricultural com
munity and the individual farmer.
In all directions the work has pro-
ceeded with substantial degree of en-
thusiasn that bespeaks permanency
and perpetuity, although there Is no
common standard On the latter re-
quirement an organization is actively
and continuously engaged in promot-
ing legislation by which the federal
and state governme ents will cooperate
in establishing service for the main
tenance OF q skilled farm adviser in
every agricultural county In the United
States
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MEN OF AFFAIRS INTERESTED


I With such a plan in view, the Ma
tional Soil Fertility league was formed
in Chicago nearly two years ago and
an active campaign has been conducted
in support of the Lever bill. Howard
III. Gross, former member of the Chi
cago board of education and a strong
figure In many important public move
ments, submitted the proposition to a
number of men of affairs, who Joined
heartily in the organization and in
sisted on Mr.. Gross assuming the pres
idency.
|, President II. T. Nudge of the Rock
Island railway is vice president; David
r. Forgan, president of the National
City bank, is treasurer, and the direc-
tory contains the names of Frank G.
Logan, retired board OF trade opera
tor; Frederic A. Dolano, president Wa
bash railway; Frank Baackes, vice
president American Steel and Wire
company; Clarence Funk, general man
e. S. Conway, vice president Kimball
Piano company; Judge John S. Good
win. lawyer-farmer. James J. Hill is
chairman Of the advisory committee,
which contains the names Of William
Howard Taft William Jennings Bryan,
Speaker Champ Clark, William C.
Brown, president New York Central
lines; N. H. Batchelder, master National
grange; DR. Edmund j. James. presi-
dent University of Illinois; A. Fl. San
ders, publisher Breeders Gazette and
member tariff commission; A. P. Grout,
president Illinois : Farmers institute
B. f. Yoakum, chairman Fresco lines
F. D. Coburn, secretary Kansas board
of agriculture; DR.. Charles r. Van
Hise, president University of wiscon-
sin; J. M. Studebaker, manufacturer
and farmer, South Bend, Ind; Col.
Henry M. Exall, president Texas Com
mercial league; Henry Wallace, pub
Usher Wallace's Farmer: w. d. Hoard,
former governor of Wisconsin, pub
Usher Hoard's Dairyman: DR.. John II
Worst president North Dakota Agri-
cultural college; Mrs. P V. Penny
hacker, president National Federation
of Women's clubs, Mrs. Emmon's
Crocker, chairman conservation COM
mittee of the same organization, and
number of others identified with the
economical development and improve
ment of the nation
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Tanning Hides Lucrative Trade;
Big inducements to Young Man
Rv F. r BUR Fly
By E. r. BURLEY
twestern Manager P. REILLY & SOM

hide is put into various vats of liquid
mixed with extract taken from bark.
remaining in each vat certain length
! of time First. the hair and the loose
flesh on the flesh side are taken or
We use the old oak bark process, which
takes about three months for the hide
to go through the numerous treat
ments before 1t is ready for the mar
ket. Before the. green hide comes out
of the tannery as finished product,
ready for commercial purposes, 80 days
must be consumed.
Leather is sold on so day terms. 1t
will, therefore, be seen that the inde-
pendent tanner must have a big cash
fund in order to operate a tannery, for
his money is tied up in hides for
something like FIVE months before he
begins to get returns All this heavy
overhead expense makes the tanner
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OLD PROCESS SAFEST

The tanner who produces the highest
chances and experiment with chemicals
To make money he must cling to the
old style safe and sound process There
are tanners who put about so hides
into a vat OF chemicals. This method
however, is not productive of the best
results. Being of different density or
thickness when they are taken out. one
hide may be tanned beautifully and the
rest vary. The chemicals naturally af-
feet the hide A few hours longer or
less than the proper time will injure
the leather irreparably. Hides are ex-
tremely sensitive to strong chemicals.
Most OF the tanning bark comes from
Virginia and West Virginia. 1t is
ground in the woods and shipped to the
tanneries in burlap sacks. Quite fire.
the woods.
Tanning watts are about six feet
square In size. In the big tanneries
from 70 to $50 tanning watts will be
found side by side in one room. Shafts
extend along each row OF watts with
pulleys down to each vat, and on the
ends of the rods that go down into the
vats are cross pieces filed with small
hooks. The hides are hung on these
hooks at the neck and at the butt
They are lowered into the watts Of
liquid and the motion of the machin-
cry causes supporting frames to rock,
agitating the liquid.
When a hide has been thoroughly
tanned and split, 1t is known as leather
in the russet. II is stored IN that con-
dition in the warehouses, and as orders
are received by the tanner for differ
ent grades of leather, the hide is taken
from the warehouses and fastened on
frame about 10 by IL feet in size
The hide is tied to this frame at several
points suspended and stretched.
filler then is spread on the leather
The foundation for all this filler Is lin
seed OIL After this first coating is put
on the hide may be dried either in an
oven or exposed to the sun. according
to the quality of the hide being
| finished. 1t then is given a second
coating, and so on. until 1T is reduced
to the desired finish.
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- EATHER tanning, by reason of
the exceptionally high wages
paid. offers big inducements to the
young man who Is casting about
for a lucrative trade. Skilled tanners
and grainers always are in demand. In
order, however, to reach the degree
of skill called for, the young man
must make up his mind that he will
apply himself without fear of the ex-
actions OF several years before he may
qualify. He must first begin as a
common laborer at laborer's wages. If
he is built of the sterner stuff he will
find certain fascination about the
work.
The making OF patent and enameled
leather is carried on in Pennsylvania
and Ohio, but 1t was in Newark, n. j.,
that the industry originated, and it is
there where one Will find the real head
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"Too BUS" Sign Doesn't Pay
By DONALD SCOTT

IT tell you, it's all simply matter OF
common sense and common honesty
and consideration for the other fellow
and it's good pay dirt every time
when a man takes the time personally
to sift out the nuggets from his daily
quota of calIers-exceptions,o Of course"
he concluded but, in general. IL will
pay any man not TO rob the other fell
low of his time"
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-27
GREEN HIDE DIVIDED

Owing to the slow ana expensive
process only the best grades of leather
are split on the union machine. The
hand buffed is, Of course. split with
this machine; that is, the outside sur
face OF a hide Of the proper thickness
Is separated from the balance of the
hide. This is known as hand buffed
and gets its name from the fact that
workmen, using g. steel scraper, dress
the outside surface Of the leather as a
cabinet worker finishes his work
The flesh side of the hide is taken off
and made UP into cheaper grades of
leather. Each green hide is divided
into three complete hides.
There are no two hides of precisely
the same density of texture. This is
true also Of the skin on the human
body. There Is a slight difference be-
tween every two hides, hardly percept-
ible IN some and easily distinguishable
in others.
The tanning process is involved The
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-27

can is filed, claps on the cap and the
packing is complete This cap Is put
on with what is called hem cap ma
chine. The cap is hemmed with a mar
row ribbon of solder SO that when the
cap is put on the hole the packer sim
ply applies his soldering iron and the
can is ready for shipment.
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BORROWED TO PAY MORTGAGE


We had only $500 when the mort
gage fell due. I paid 1t by borrowing
s225 on my note at Z, per cent How
we reJoiced when we burned the note
year later. Had 1t not been that my
wages were increased to SIS month
10 months before the note was due that
debt would never have been wiped out
on time. 1t would have been impossi-
bic to have done so, for a second baby
came-only to join our first boy
leaving my wife lingering at death s
door. s125 debt was what that sec
ond heart breaking misfortune cost.
BY pinching the nickels hard we
managed somehow to get through the
four years entirely out of debt. Here
are some of the ways we saved:
IN the rear OF the house there is a
plot, As by. so feet worse weed in
tested. ash and rubbish dump I have
never seen. AS garden Ii looked inn
possible. But / knew there was real
soil under the refuse somewhere, SO I
tackled 1t.
Getting up at 4:so o'clock, / toiled
Tor Two hours each morning for weeks
pe1ore going to work to rid the place
or rubbish and spade the ground. I
DO not know Just how much In dollars
and cents the garden yielded US. but
| do know this, 1t furnished all the
vegetables of many kinds that we
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anxious for the Tina to come when
cal process that will tan leather in a
much shorter time than 1t now is pos
sible to tan it in. but the solution OF
the problem seems as far off today as
1t ever was
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-27
By GEORGE S. WOOD

neer or doctor or lawyer. He doesn't
live upon the weaknesses or follies or
misfortunes of his fellow man. His
work is In the open. hea1thful, whole
some and productive. He makes his
own way. He has the Inspiration of
benehting his fellows and leaves So
ciety better each night for his days
work.
IT. lis one of the brightest, most am
bilious outlooks for the youth of the
land. AS he starts out, with an income
of $4,000 or $4,000 a year. he becomes
Immediately vital factor in the de-
velopments. and advancement, of his
community. and it is up to him to work
out this process. Many of the grad
yates Of the agricultural college will
work and prove to the generations be-
fore them the truth of the new-old
science on the fields OF their fore
fathers. Hence the opportunity re-
mains for public or professional service
for the many who will prepare for the
new vocation. ..
MUST REACH INDIVIDUAL FARMER
The science of agriculture Is not new
its acceptabiIity and application. are
modern. Statistics and demonstration
have proven that In Europe and the
United States, side by side with soil,
atmospheric, natural and aided condi-
tions, the adoption of the book farm
ing" methods has returned to the i'm
poverished soil its original vitality, In
creased the production from 40 to 100
per cent, decreased the cost of pro-
duction in energy and money. and given
assurance OF stability and endurance
beyond the fondest hopes OF the farmer
himself
In this country the department OF
agriculture, state agricultural college,
state experiment station, demonstration
trains. 1yceum and institute lectures,
bulletin services and agricultural news
papers have gathered and disseminated
vast funds Of useful information. Yet
the problem of reaching the individual
farmer, the prime factor In the real sit
uation, had not been satisfactorily
solved until the local demonstrator or
adviser was developed to carry the
message to Garcia" The splendid fund
Of knowledge was too general to prove
effective. there must be some direct
means of meeting the individual situa-
tion.
Under the provisions of the Lever
agricultural extension bill. introduced
in the last congress by Mr. A. F. Lever
OF South Carolina, and prepared after
careful deliberation by many OF the
leading educationalists, agriculturists,
economists, and business representa-
tives Of the nation, simple, workable
plan was presented.
The bill passed the house but became
involved with some radical and more or
less revolutionary educational proposi-
tions IN the senate and remained dead
locked In conference at adjournment
The popularity OF the plan, President
" AAS0ii . 0iiH t@CSACtdiy u lASIlC
Houston's expressions OF determine ton
to advance economic measures for bet
ter agricultural conditions and the gem
eral sentiment throughout the country
encourage the belief among the sup
porters OF the Lever bill plan that the
legislation will be adopted during the
current extraordinary session of con-
gress.
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are known as the sanitary, and the
hole and cap cans. The hole and cap
can is used extensively by packers of
peas, corn, tomatoes, beans and other
vegetables.
The operation employed in making
this can is entirely automatic. The
cans are made at the rate of $4,000 to
so, 600 day on each line, a day con-
sisting of 10 hours. A line consists OF
a machine called the body maker, into
which is fed the blanks in the fiat
the blank sheets of tin. The body
maker folds the sheets and rolls them
into cylinders.
The cylinder then is carried along
automatically to the next station.
where the side is scanned. Then 1T
finds it's way to machine called the
header. and into this header is fed the
ends and tops. On one side of the
header the tops come down and on the
other side the ends come down. This
puts the ends on the cans.
COUNTED AUTOMATICALLY
From the header they progress to a
crimper, which crimps the ends or
fanges against the body Of the can.
From the crimper they go TO the SOL
dering machine, where both ends are
soldered.
Next comes the tester that tests the
cans automa tically to see that they
do not leak. If a can is imperfect 1T
| IS thrown aside.s From the tester they
go to the drier and are dried thor
oughiy. No water is allowed to get
inside the can, the. hole. being covered
with rubber during the process of test
ing,
X The finished cans are, counted auto
ma tica1ly and packed In the cars by
young men. who use long prongs which
they insert IN the mouths Of the cans.
1t takes only about eight workmen
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WIFE THE REAL SAVER

WIFE THE. REAL SAVER
Anyhow, my wife schemed and
planned to save, for she was Just as
keen as. / to get the home freed Of
debt. There was no economy in her
dress she was not willing to practice,
but sometimes, I fear. she went a bit
shabby. She made over, dyed refash-
ioned, turned wrong side out and up-
side down. too, I guess, garments. and
hats to avoid buying new ones.
She planned our household expenses
so that not a penny was spent that was
not necessary. We ate nothing but
plain foods-many OF them the cheap
est. We. enjoyed few luxuries,. and
some of our sacrifices were real hard
ships But we were willing. even eager.
to make them for the sake of these
five rooms. grass plat In front and gar
den in the rear.
We believe they are worth what they
cost. All that was required to get
them was an answering purpose, a
determined and prolonged effort. Many
other young couples can do all. or more,
than we did If they will just hang on.
And after all isn't home all your
own. of which you are boss. with no
landlord to hound you and no rent day
to dread. worth years Of striving for?
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i quarters. There are something like 3S
! tanneries in this one city. Indians
were tanning hides at Newark in the
pools and streams when the first white
people settled there.
1t is not generally known that in the
manufacture OF high grade patent and
enameled feathers, for use In automo-
hnes, upholstery, and various other ar
ticles. steer hides-called cattle hides
in the trade-are almost exclusively
used. The finer grades of these leath-
ers are made from European hides.
The German hide has the preference
over all others, but 1t is not always
possible TO obtain them in large guam
titles. French hides and Russian hides
are about on a. par with those that
come from Germany; Spain and Nor
way furnish hides OF good quality.
There is something in the climate of
these countries that gives the hides a
peculiarly fine texture. Also. the
barbed wire fence is an unknown guam
tity in these countries.
FOREIGN BUTCHERS SUPERIOR
Foreign butchers are much more
careful workmen than are our domestic
butchers. They strip a hide from a
steer with great accuracy and get the
greatest possible surface free from
blemishes. And the cost OF the i'm
ported hide is not much more than
r-t-
butchers also show their superiority
over the domestic butchers by the way
in which they do up their hides for ex-
portation Their bundles are wrapped
with the flesh side out, which is the
poorest part Of the hide. The Ameri-
can hides are all bundled up with the
hair side out. The consequence is
that when they come IN contact with
sharp points the choice side of the hide
IS damaged Some Of our hides also are
purchased from the various domestic
packing houses.
Hides are split on two machines made
for that purpose. One Is known as the
old style union machine, which consists
Of stationary knife the hide being
forced up against this knife and drawn
through the machine by hand. 1t takes
several men to split hide in this man
ner, because of the irregular shape of
the hide. The hide is pulled through
for a few inches, the machine then
started up again for the purpose of cut
ting a few inches. This process is fol-
lowed until the complete hide has been
split This is a slow but absolutely
accurate method of cutting the leather.
for the hide may be split until the
til |,
of tissue paper
The other splitting machine is known
as the Hooper machine, consisting OF
heavy iron rollers set in frame AS
the hide passes between the rollers II
comes in contact with a steel belt knife
and the hide is split just as fast as 1t
passes through the rollers. From a
dozen TO fifteen hides may be split on
the Hooper machine to one on the old
union machine.
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new plan corn cure. "GETs-IT." watch
1t get rid of that corn, wart. callus or
bunion in a hurry. "GETS-IT'' is as
sure as time. 1t takes two seconds to
apply. that's all. No bandages to stick
and fuss over. no salves to make corns
sore and turn true flesh raw and red
no -plasters, no more knives and razors
that may cause blood poison, no more
digging at corns. Just the easiest thing
in the world to use. Your corn days are
over. "GETS-IT" is guaranteed. 1t Is
safe, never hurts healthy flesh.
Your druggist sells "GETS-IT,". rs
cents per bottle, or direct If you wish.
from e. Lawrence & Co, Chicago. Sold
in San Francisco by the Owl Drug Co.
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WHAT THE BILL PROVIDES
The measure provides for the estab-
hshment and maintenance of an adviser
in every agricultural county In the
United States. He is appointed and his