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The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-03-05
PIT SILo FOR DRY FARMERS
Among Other Advantages II Is Deep
and Freezing viii Not Take Place
Has Proven Success.

By IT. f. DvORACHEK. Colorado Agri-
cultural College)
When the spot for construction Is
located a perpendicular hole is sunk,
with a two-inch test auger, to the pro-
posed depth of the silo. An inch and
a half pipe is dropped into the hole.
with the pipe at the center, a circle is
described the size OF the inside diam
eter OF the silo, and another circle
with radius OF a foot greater. The
space between the two circles is
excavated to depth OF eight or ten
inches and is filled with concrete.
Further excavation is done inside
the collar OF concrete The walls
should be smooth and perpendicular
and are best trimmed with a trimmer
knife, which is fastened on a two by
four, just the length OF the radius OF
the silo and pivoted on the pipe in the
center.
The dirt Is best hoisted out with
some sort OF a derrick or crane. When
the pit is dug and trimmed, the walls
should get one-half inch coat OF rich
one-half mixtures OF sand The coat
should be smoothed with a trowel and
brush, coated with a new coat of
cement wash to make it water tight.
The coating is very important. as It is
absolutely necessary to make the silo
walls water proof, otherwise, the earth
will draw out the moisture from the
silage near the walls and the mould
will develop and spoil the silage for
several inches all around the sides OF
the hole.
A wall of some sort should be built
on the concrete cellar, to a height OF
about three feet In order to make 1t
more safe. Brick, concrete or adobe
can be used. A pit has the advantage
OF being deep and also freezing will
not take place in 1t. That the pit silo
is success has been proven beyond
a doubt.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-03-05
RED RUM-MURDER,

A barrel of whisky contains some
thing more than an ordinary barrel
of the same size: for, in addition to
the regulation forty-two gallons. 1t
contains:
A barrel of headaches, Of heartaches
Of woes;
A barrel of curses. barrel OF blows;
A barrel of tears of a world-weary
wife:
A barrel of sorrow, a barrel of strife;
A barrel of all-unavalllng regret;
A barrel of cares and barrel of debt;
A barrel OF hunger, of poison, of pain;
A barrel of hopes ever blasted and
vain
A barrel of falsehood, a barrel of cries
That fall from the maniac's lips as he
dies;
A barrel of poverty. ruin and blight:
A barrel OF terror that grows with the
night.
A barrel of crimes and barrel Of
groans;
A barrel of orphans most pitiful
means:
A barrel of serpents that hiss as they
pass
From the head OF the liquor that
glows in the glass.
Beware, all men of the glass!
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-03-05
GREAT CRISIS.

Health boards. armed with police
authority, eradicate the carriers OF
typhoid and quarantine the victims.
but alcohol, a thousand times more
destructive to public health than ty-
phoid fever continues to destroy. AL.
coholic degeneracy is the most i'm
portant sanitary question before the
country, yet health authorities do not
take action because alcohol is en-
trenched in politics We are face to
face with the greatest crisis in our
country's history. The alcohol ques-
ton must be settled within the next
ten years or some more virile nation
will write the epitaph OF this republic
DIR. II. Alexander MacNicholl
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-03-05
OUR VITAL ASSETS.

Taking the estimate OF the money
value to society of the average human
life as $4,000, Dr. David Starr Jordan
reckons our vital assets" at approx.
mately two hundred and fifty billion
dollars $3.50. 100000, ,OOO). The phys.
ical wealth OF the United States he
places at one hundred and ten billion
dollars Cs11O,OOO. .OOO.OOO) Speaking
OF the attention given to the preserva.
tion OF this physical wealth. he In.
sists that "even the most arrant
materialist must admit that the con.
servation of forests or the eradica,
tion of disease among cattle and
hogs is not to be compared in i'm
portance with the conservation OF hu
man life"
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-03-05
ENORMOUS ENGLISH PIES

meat pie weighing 200 pounds was
recently baked for a banquet given at
Gorieston, England. That the English
are fond OF pie is plainly shown by the
famous pies for which DENLY Dals.
near Halifax. has long been noted.
These are baked only upon very spe-
cial occasions, the very biggest OF
them all being prepared in 1887. In
honor of Queen Victoria's jubilee. II
weighed, when cooked, no less than
1900 pounds, and the ingredients com
prised $50 pounds OF beef, 160 pounds
each OF mutton and veal, l40 pounds
lamb, $50 pounds lean pork. and
enough fowls. geese, pigeons. rabbits,
hares. etc, to stock a poulterers shop.
To make the crust 60 sacks OF flour
were used, mixed with 100 pounds of
lard and 30 pounds of butter.
Another similar monster was pre-
pared in 1876 to celebrate the repeal
OF the corn lawn. Yet another was
baked In 1888. in commemoration OF
King George Ills recovery from i'll
ness; while fourth was prepared and
eaten in 1915, in honor OF Wellington's
victory over Napoleon on the field OF
Waterloo.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-03-05
A FAILuRE-IF.

A Judge of Knoxville. Tenn. when
asked II prohibition had failed in
that city, answered.; IF larger and
more regular attendance at Sunday
school. preaching and other services
in our churches; II a larger and more
regular attendance at schools, by bet
ter-shod. better-clad children; II S4O,-
900 more for increased room, better
equipment and better-paid teachers;
II sixty per cent decrease in arrests
for drunkenness and kindred crimes,
II a decrease even greater in the per
cent. of murder and al grades OF
crime; If s1.OOO0O0 spent for neces-
saries is less helpful than the same
amount spent for liquor-if these
things indicate failure, then prohibi'
tion has failed in Knoxville"
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-03-05
'CASCARETS' FOR
A BILIOUS LIVER
For sick headache, bad breath,
Sour Stomach and
constipation.
Get a 1O-cent box now.


No odds how bad your liver, stomach
or bowels; how much your head
aches, how miserable and uncomfort-
able you are from constipation. indiges-
tion. biliousness and sluggish bowels
you always get the desired results
with Cascarets.
Don't let your stomach, liver and
bowels make you miserable. Take
Cascarets tonight; put an end to the
headache. biliousness, dizziness, nerv-
BUSINESS, sick. sour, gassy stomach.
backache and all other distress;
cleanse your Inside organs of all the
bile, gases and constipated matter
which is producing the misery.
A 10cent box means health happl-
ness and clear head for months.
No more days of gloom and distress
If you will take a Cascaret now and
then. All stores sell Cascarets. Don't
forget the children-their little in
sides need a cleansing. too. Adv.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-03-05
Te temperance a e
"a 18S3N
(Conducted by the National Woman's
Christian Temperance UnionD
WANTED, soYsl

WANTED, BoYsl
Walking down the streets of our
cities and towns and viewing the ex.
peDsive window fixtures OF the saloons,
can see as plain as the sign over the
door, the word, WANTED"
Yes, wanted 81 200, 900, the saloon.
keeper says. II makes no difference
how get it, but must have 1t. pay
o big revenue to our grand old gov.
ernment to be protected and 1t must
protect me. pay big license to the
city. and in return II must furnish me
material for my business. II must and
will furnish boys. can no more run
my business without boys than a saw.
mill can run without logs
Wanted, s1,OO0,OOO, and to get this
amount OF money 100000 boys must be
sacrificed What kind of boys are
wanted? The boys who have made a
failure at everything they have under.
taken? no. the boys Of worth and OF
high birth and good parentage. Most
desired is the boy whose parents have
faced the financial difficulties OF life
and started the boy out well equipped
II makes no difference how his mother
worked and contrived; 1t makes no diff
ference how his father toiled in both
heat and cold. all the liquor trade
wants is to get the boy started down
the toboggan slide OF life and strip him
OF money, honor and virtue before he
realizes his true condition.-Mrs. Cora
Wright in Union Signal.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-03-05
Pulled MoIasses capdy.

one-fourth cupful OF butter, two
cupfuls of graDulated or coffee sugar.
one and one-half cupful OF boiling wa.
ter. Mix all ingredients and boil
without stirring until It forms a soft
ball In cold water. Turn into a b1t.
tered platter and fold toward the cen.
ter so 1t will not harden. When II can
be handled. pull until light, working
in any desired haSoring. Cut with
the scissors and roll In squares OF
waxed paper.-Delineator
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-03-05
Good Feeding Adaae.

There is an old adage that II every
feeder would keep it in mind and act
on it. not only with his sheep, but
with all his live stock, he would do
much better than the average feeder,
and that adage is simply this: IAN
animal well summered is half win,
tered and an animal well wintered is
half summered." which means that
the year through you should keep
your animals in nice. smooth, plump
condition.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-03-05
SOME CURIOUS MISPRlNTs

Type. like other matter. sometimes
gets In the wrong place, and conse.
quent errors escape the correction OF
the keenest proofreader. Generally
speaking. when II is not a matter Of
letters but Of words, typographical
mistakes may easily pass undetected
and remain to bewilder future genera
tions OF readers.
In many editions OF Sir Walter
Scott's Monastery" there is a curious
printers error. Father Eustace is
made to say, And dost thou so soon
morse thoughts of slaughter" The
meaning OF the word morse" for a
long time puzzled the learned etymolo.
gists. One Notes and Queries" con
tributor sought to explain II as mean
ing to prime" as when one primes
flintlock, by accounting for the word
arising from the old French amorce,
which means powder for the touch
hole; while another wise brotherin-
letters announced that the word was
certainly derived from the Latin
modere, ito bite"
Others, however. averred the word
was n misprint. but they were laughed
TO derision, none of the many millions
of readers for so years having chal-
lenged the authenticity OF It. when
the manuscript was referred to II was
found that the word was printers
error, Scott having written nurse"
Few readers OF Thackeray's Lee
lures Upon the English Humorist"
let's DR.. Morgan as the wild apothe-
cary" or suspect that the author had
written Welsh" instead OF wild; g
and when Thackeray writes OF Mrs.
Manley as being the detestable au-
thoress of THE New Atlantis" few
would demur who have cast even a
cursory eye over the first woman
journalists literary remains; yet
Thackeray really wrote OF her as "the
delectable authoress."
A very curious corruption in the
text OF The Pilgrims Progress" aris-
es from the accidental or perhaps In.
territorial change from an "e" into All
"a" Christian says ot Faintheart.
Mistrust. and Guilt that many called
them towards. although they had
made David sorely groan. moan and
roar, had brushed the coats OF Heman
and Hezekiah and handled Peter as
TO make him scared OF just a sorry
girl. That Heman was one of the
four wise sons of Mahol than whom
Solomon alone was wiser, was ap-
parently not known either to the print.
er or to some subsequent blundering
editor, for Heman became Haman.
A later editor OF Bunyan's immortal
allegory, certain that Haman was not
the parsonage whom Bunyan had In
tended to associate with David, Heze.
kiah, and Peter, substituted Mordecai
as more likely, and Mordecai has ever
since retained this place of eminence
at the expense OF Heman. the right
ful man.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-03-05
Good Seed Problem.

Since the dry farmer uses a com.
paratively small amount of seed he
can afford TO pay more for good quail
ity than his fellow farmer under the
ditch, so that in arid regions there
should be special emphasis put on
the seed problem.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-03-05
SMALLEST OF ALL CHURCHES

This tiny old church of Upleatham.
ten miles from Middleboro, England.
is believed to be the smallest in the
world, its seating capacity being ten
On the inside walls are painted coats
OF arms of three titled houses in the
district A quaint inscription roughly
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-03-05
Good Feed for Plos.

Skinned milk and refuse from the
kitchen can be utilized to great ad-
vantage in feeding pigs. When pas
turage is provided there is little need
for grain till the pigs are several
months old.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-03-05

Infested virtue is the cheapest com
modify in the world. The universe is
full of men with good intentions.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-03-05
Imnortant TO Mothera

II takes a pretty evenly balanced
man to be as strong in prosperity as
in adversely.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-03-05

EkEE TO DETROIT, FLORIDA CLIP
THIS AID, appearing hut once. Send with let
ter for Information about free trip to De-
uoits Celebration, February goth and 2lst.
Completion first canal and rock paved road
from Detroit. nine miles to Biscayne Bay.
See Detroit the farthest south town, In the
semi-tropics. Agents bring buyers, regular
commissions. Miami Land A Development
CO., Detroit, Dade Co., Southeast Florida.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-03-05

Nightly coughing and torturng throat
tickle quickly relieved by Deans Mentho-
lated Cough Drops-5c at all Druggists.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-03-05

Brood over your troubles, IL you
want to hatch out more.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-06-17


I'VE found him murdered in cold
blood, the safe in his library ran
sacked. The dog must have put up
terrible fight, for he lies at his dead
masters feet, all but bleeding to
death"
Instantly the young attorney set
the wheels of justice in motion. For
twenty-four hours the entire country
was secured. No clew to the muir
derer or the missing plumber was dis
covered.
Then came a reluctant mournful
mission for Burdett. Judge Warren
had but one living relative in the
world-Eva, his adopted niece. She
was at bearing school 200 miles
away. Some one must advise her of
the death of her only friend in the
world. Burdett departed on his sad
errand.
He was amazed when the first out
burst of grief was over with the
young girl to observe that into her
fair face there had come a set stern
ness, as though the murder of her
uncle had changed all the currents of
her being. After the funeral it was
thought best that she should remain
at school until the estate was settled
up AS she placed her hand in that
of the young lawyer to say good-by,
she retained the clasp with the words:
you have been true friend
through all my trouble. 1 ask only
one thing more-not vengeance, but
Justice. The cruel murderer of this
good old man must be found-and
punished"
And, as if registering solemn
promise, Walter Burdett looked into
her eyes, and she knew he would not |
falter in his chosen mission.
No efforts we're spared to run down
the assassin, but not the slightest |
clew as to his identity or whereabouts
was discovered. There was descrip- |
L
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-06-17

DSCdulC Universally y 1(OIl, ISCONOIluS
from his fearful wounds, refused to
leave the grounds. He would linger
all day and night near the closed
doorway of the house, looking UP and
down the road constantly as if ex-.
pecting some one he was looking for
to pass by.
Walter finally dragged the dog
house to the spot, chained up Don
and morning and night brought him
his meals.
There came climax One moon
light evening Walter had just at
tended to the wants of the poor,
faithful animal when an automobile
sped by. Don had made a sudden
leap, with a sharp, wild cry. He
tugged at his chain, he glared after
the disappearing machine. Plainly in
the clear moonlight Walter saw that
it held but one person, a.. man, ap-
parently stranger in the district.
Don leaped into the air. He bit his
chain, he. was fairly frantic. A
speedy thought impressed Walter as,
following the automobile with his
eye, he saw 1t turn into a wooded
stretch away from the traYersed
roadway.
Had the dogs instinct guided him
to recognize in the automobile the
slayer of his master? The impress
sion led Water to trace down the ma
chine. It had halted in a dense grove,
one edge of which was bounded by
deep ravine. There the stranger was
reaching into a trunk of a hollow
tree. He drew out small iron box.
Walter recognized it as the missing
possession of his dead client.
'cYou are the man. he shouted,
springing upon the murderer.
"And you know too much!' growled
out the other. They clinched. Wal
ter fell underneath. The man had
drawn a knife. Kneeling upon the
breast of his adversary, he raised it
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-10-12
LETTERS TO EDITOR
TIME TO STUDY AND THINK

A''- - - - INV AAANaN
Editor Day Book:-While it is uni
versally accepted that the highest
conception Of justice is nothing short
of the administration of all our social
affairs in such a way as to conform
the highest degree of happiness upon
the greatest number of people, it is
to be lamented that so few of us
have striven to understand society,
its government in institutions, their
capabilities, the manner in which it
produces and distributes its wealth,
its problems and the possibilities of
solving them.
do not believe it is a revelation
when l state that the average man or
woman knows little if anything about
politics, other than considering it to
be a game of graft.
How many of us have analysed the
platforms of the various political
parties with a view of ascertaining
wherein, if in any, can be found
panacea for the affecting ills of So
ciety? What know the masses of the
essential principles of democracy?
Why do they boast with pride of their
liberties when in reality they are the
slaves of industrial mOnarchs? What
know they of the great PHILOSOPHERS
of Single Tax and Socialism? To
the masses they are but the utopias of
a dreamer. Perhaps some have heard
the polly cry of dividing up, free love
and industrial anarchism, and, be-
Ieving this hearsay, have given the
teachings Of such great men as
George and Marx little if any atten-
ton.
Ignorance of these great philosoph-
zeal doctrines are expressed every
where again and again.
But, say what you may, in this
mighty. struggle for existence the
oncOming evolutionary forces of
economic determinism will eventual
T. ~,
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-10-12
stomach.-Mrs. Jeanette solIer, 652
Hamburg ST.
GOD AND THE WAR

Editor Day Book:-I picked up the
Sunday paper and read all the pray
ers that were especially composed for
this Oct. 4 by the different churches,
and they all have the same object,
namely, that God should, one way or
another, stop this Unhuman warm
a tone that sounds like eff He wanted
He could do it"
If God is all-wise He would know
before this war started that it was
going to be a cruel, unhuman war;
and if He is almighty to stop the
war now He was almighty to stop
it before it ever started and save hun
dreds of thousands of lives.
If we accept the religious teaching
that men are created in the image Of
God it does not mean only in body,
but also in spirit And as Gods
spirit is taught to be good, we must,
therefore, compare God to a good
hearted human man, Can you mag
inc a good-hearted human man who
sees his kind in distress, and has the
power to help them, but waits for
those in distress to pray to him for
help? A man like this would be con-
sidered as an egoist; and we are
taught, by religion, that God is an
aItruist.
The nations that are at war are all
religious. All pray to God for help,
and if God does not hear their prayers
He certainly will not listen to the
prayers of outsiders. -
The date on the paper was Oct.
4, 1914, but it must be a mistake.
Oct. 4, 1714, would be more proper /.
for an age that can bring such a.
bloody human slaughter, and think ,
that the only way to stop it is by
prayer.
President Wilson was the Original
tor of this prayer-scheme in this
country. And it probably was his in
tention to turn away the minds Of
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-11-16
LEO FRANK MUST
GO TO GALLONS

ATLANTA, Ca, Nov. 16.-An-
nulment of Leo w. Franks death
sentence for the murder of IA
year-old Mary Phagan has been
refused by the Georgia supreme
court.
1t was the sixth time legal eff
forts In Franks behalf had failed.
and hope Of saving the life of the
young factory superintendent nov,
rests in possible appeal to the
supreme court of the United States
or on a plea for executive clemen-
cy. His counsel said today a SUI
preme court appeal would be filed
Immediately.
The motion to set aside the
verdict was based upon the ground
that Franks absence from the
court room when it was returned
was violation of his constitution
al rights. That he be absent was
suggested by the trial Judge, who
said he feared a demonstration.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-11-16

LIEUT.. EDOUARD GENNO of
the French gunboat Zelle, which
was sunk by shells from the Ger
man cruiser which bombarded
the French port of Papeete, Ia
hiti, recently destroying a great
portion of the city. Lieut.. Genno
was the hero of the engagement.
The Zelie was riddled and sank
in three minutes" he said, in de-
scribing the engagement. 1T had
been our intention to scuttle the
craft at the mouth of the harbor
to prevent the German cruisers
from coming close to the city, but
they came too soon. The only
satisfaction we French got out of
the bombardment was the fact
that in order to reach the Zelie
the Germans first had to sink
their own merchantmen, the
Walksure, which was anchored in
the harbor, a prize of war" When
the Zelie sank Genno swan ashore
from the laundering craft amid
bursting shells with the French
flag in his teeth.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-11-16
MILLS NOT At
ALL ANGRY, 0 NO

Commissioner of Public Safety
A. U. Mills today dismissed the
report that he would prosecute
William Turner, discharged fire.
man. who attacked him Saturday
in a corridor of the city hall.
"Why, | wouldn't arrest Tur-
ner" declared Mills. Il feel sor-
ny for the poor fellow. Instead
of arresting him, ! would try TO
get him job, IL knew where to
get one for him."
Turner is a good fellow" con-
tinued Mills, but he is a natural
born agitator. He accuses me OF
having double-crossed him since
he lost his city job, and that's
what started Saturdays racket. !
wouldn't hire him in my depart
11ent, because he makes trouble.
but wouldn't injure his chances
to work for someone else" Mills
declared today that Turner only
hit him a glancing blow on the
head.