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The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1914-07-31
Boon to Mankind.

Ignatius Tootle, the renowned au-
thority on floral life, who lives near
the quiet village of Yankee Springs,
is at the present time trying to out
burbank Burbank, the wiz, by grow
ing rectangular watermelon. Mr..
Tootle has noticed for years that ulti-
mate consumers have had much trou-
BILE trying to carry watermelons from
the store, inasmuch as they (the wa
termelons) are Of awkward shape and
quite slippery, and after a watermelon
has fallen and has hit the cement side
walk its usefulness may be said to be
over. Mr.. Tootle's watermelon will
be long and will have square corners,
one of which corners will fit into the
bent elbow when the melon is carried
on the inside of the arm. Mr.. Tootle
expects to have his new melon grow
ing and on the market by 1927, if moth
ing happens.-Boston Globe.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1914-07-31
PARADISE FOR THE BIRDS
Providence Seems to Have Provided
Temperate Zone for the Feathered
Friends Of Man.

Up in the far country where the
timber fails, the calendar is respect
ed. There is no summer before the
official day set for 1t. The ground Is
held fast by frost until June is well
started. There are flurries Of snow,
wild, bitter winds, a sky that has no
mercy. And then, suddenly, the wind
shifts and comes out Of the south. 1t
Is summer then with a leap.
The interest of the temperate zone
In the northland is that 1t Is there
that have gone great many OF the
migrating birds which paid us few
days visit and passed on. For all its
inhospitality to man, that country in
summer Is a paradise for birds. Its
marshes are safe refugees from two
and four-footed enemies. There is ex-
haustless material for nests. And out
OF the pools come myriads of insects,
food that does not fail until the time
for the southwark bird movement ar
rives
Some man has said that there Is
no God north of latitude SO. He did
not inquire as to what the birds
might have thought of that.-Toledo
Blade.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1914-07-31
The Way of ProQreea.

A dog barking at a passing automo-
bile is generally supposed to be Az tell.
ing symbol of futile objection to the
march Of progress as could we'll be
imagined. In almost the same category,
however, belongs the strike of the
stevedores in New Orleans against the
introduction of the electric truck to
transport freight between vessels and
warehouses. The wonder is that this
improvement has been SO long delayed
instead Of only now appearing-and
then as source of a new labor diff
Guilty. One cannot have much SYM
pathy for opposition in this particular
instance. The motor vehicle in all Of
it's forms has come to stay, and the
rest of the world has been rather RAP
idly adjusting itself to the new condi-
mountaineering Record
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1914-07-31
ECZEMA ITCHED AND BURNED

r. F. d. No. 2, Seymour, Mo.-"My
scalp broke out with fine pimples at
the start. They itched and burned SO
much that was compelled to scratch
them and they would tester and come
to head and break out again. The
trouble was attended by such burning
and itching l could not sleep, also
when l sweat 1t burned the same.
My hair fell out gradually and the
scalp kept rough and dry with itch'Sg
and burning. After about two years
the pimples broke out between my
shoulders. My clothing irritated them.
l was troubled with that eczema FIVE
or six years.
Il tried everything that was recon-
mended without any benefit until
used the Cuticura Soap and Ointment
according to directions, and Cuticura
Soap and Ointment cured me sound
and we'll In two weeks" (Signed) s.
L. Killian, Nov. %, 1912.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world Sample OF each
free, with 32-p. Skin Fook. Address post
card "Cuticura, Dept. l.. Boston ADV
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1914-07-31
CONSERVATION OF MOISTURE
First Essential 10 to Have Soil In Re-
ceptive Condition-Fali Flowing
Helps Greatly.

1t is said that from two hundred and
seventy-five to six hundred tons OF wa
ter are required to produce one ton OF
dry matter for most OF the common
farm crops. In many portions OF the
United States the rainfall during the
growing months is not suficient TO
supply the large amount of water re-
CURED by the crops. This fact lay
stress upon two things-the impor
lance OF large water supplies In the
soil, not as stagnant water, but as
capillary water, which is for the most
part available for growing plants, and
also the Importance Of the conserva-
ton of this soil water
The first and one Of the most essen.
tial steps In conserving soil moisture
Ia to have and keep the surface OF the
soil in such condition that most Of the
rainfall will be received into 1t and
win be carried by gravitation to the
lower zones, where the surplus water
supply is held until later called into
use. Whenever the surface OF the soil
Is baked or run together and impervi
GUS 1t Is almost certain that large
portion OF every rain will not get into
the soil, but is lost because OF surface
drainage. An effort should be made to
hold the rains OF the entire year, those
Of the fall and winter and early spring
as we'll as those Of the growing season.
In order to succeed in accomplishing
this the surface of the soil must be
kept loose and open 80 that as rapidly
as the rain falls 1t may be taken into
the upper soil, from which 1t can work
down into the great storehouse be-
meath.
Fall blowing helps greatly to put
the soil on the surface In condition to
take up all the rainfall. After the
hardened crust is broken the water en-
ters freely. The ridges and hollows
of the plowed surface also act as ba-
sins which hold snow and rain until
they soak into the soil. Early spring
blowing and disking also play an I'M
portant part in putting the surface soil
In condition to retain and take In
maximum amount of water.
The second step In SOIL moisture
conservation is to save the water
which has entered the soil. This can
best be done by cultivation. The rea
son Is as follows: Water Is carried
| from the lower zones Of the soil by
capillary; 1t raises in the soil from
soil particle to soil particle, and finall,
| it reaches the surface of the soil and
! is lost by evaporation unless the up
| ward movement is checked by some
| agency. Now, cultivation creates this
| agency-namely, soil mulch. The
principle of moisture conservation by
mulches is we'll established. There Is
no practical method for saving sol
moisture except by the use of the
mulch
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1914-07-31
ADVOCATE OF DEEP FLOWING
According to Expert Of Colorado Agri-
cultural College, Practise Re-
quires Discretion.

(By ALVIN KEYSER. Colorado Agricur-
tural College.)
A great deal has been said and
written about deep blowing. Some
have advocated the system in season
and out of season, for all soils. all
crops and all conditions, and others
have opposed the system. Deep plow-
ing certainly has its place in nearly
all systems of agriculture, but 1t has
to be used with discretion. Deep
blowing Immediately before planting
a crop on the dry land is almost sure
to insure failure OF the crop. I'm
less rains should come Immediately
after blowing injury will surely result
because of moisture conditions. "
rains come Immediately afterward no
damage Is done. The moral of this
experimental fact Is that deep plow-
ing should be done a considerable
period previous to seeding time 80
that the moisture relation and proper
compaction can be completed in the
soil before seeding.
Deep blowing is sometimes not ad-
visable In high attitudes because Of
the fact that growing conditions are
quite different so that the crop does
not mature as quickly in the very
high attitudes. This is sometimes a
serious factor with such crops as the
grains. II the crop is delayed in ma
turing for ten days it may be caught
by a severe freeze, running the crop.
Deep blowing, especially short time
before seeding in these attitudes some
times has the effect of delaying ma
turity more than that number of days.
1t must therefore be used with caution
for crops where early maturity is a
desirable factor This caution only
applies to the high attitudes which
have normally very short seasons.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1914-07-31
Public Opinion,

People say how strong public opin-
ion is; and, indeed, 1t is strong while
it is in its prime. In it's childhood
and old age it is as weak as any other
organism. / try to make my own
work belong to the youth of public
opinion. The history of the world is
the record of the weakness, frailty
and death of public opinion, as geol-
ogy is the record of the decay Of those
bodily organisms in which public opin-
ions have found material expression.
Samuel Butler.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1914-07-31

walk the floor. / could not lie down or
sit still sometimes for day and night
at time. l was nervous, and had very
little appetite, no ambition, melancholy,
and often felt as though l had not .
friend in the world. After l had tried
most every female remedy without sue
cess, my mother-in-law advised me to
take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound. l did so and gained in
strength every day. l have now no trou-
BILE in any way and highly praise your
medicine. 1t advertises itself. Mrs.
S. T. HURLEY, Eldon, Missouri.
Remember, the remedy which dio
this was Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound. For sale everywhere.
1t has helped thousands Of women
who have been troubled with dispiace-
ments, Inflammation, liberation, tumors,
irregularities, periodic pains, backsche.
that bearing down feeling, indigestion.
and nervous prostration, after all other
means have failed. Why don't you try
It? Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co,
Lynn, Masa-
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1914-07-31
Makes Jobs for Detectives.

Probably the only people to benefit
private detectives, many of whom
are doing little else just now but
guarding pictures and other treasures
of well-known hosts and hostesses
from attacks at social functions, the
London Globe states.
The head Of one private detective
agency told me the other day, says
The Carpenter In the Express, that
he had been obliged to engage spe-
cial stan for this work, and that to
some receptions he has sent as many
as a dozen faultlessly attired guests"
to look after the pictures and china
of the host
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1914-07-31
Must Have Stirred Audience.

Dan DAILY once essayed the legiti-
mate. 1t was in his early days. All he
had to do was to come to the center
of the stage at critical moment and
shout:
THE king is dead; long live the
king!"
When the time came Mr.. DAILY
promptly assumed the correct dra-
matte pose, but for a moment was so
agitated that words failed him. Then
he beloved at the top of his voice:
Long live the king-he's dead!"
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1914-07-31
Searching Criticism.

Fve-year-old Herbert. scion OF a
bookish family, had learned to read
so early and SO readily that his first
glimpses OF storyland we're growing
hazy In his memory. One day he con-
fided to his mother. "Ruthie showed
me her new book today, and it's the
queerest thing you ever saw! Why,
1t just >ays. is it dog? 1t is dog
Can the dog rum and a lot Of things
like that! Course was too polite to
say so, but 1t didn't seem to me the
style was bit juicy!-Lippincott's.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1914-07-31
CIadstone,s pomeatic Rule.

Mr. Gladstone once said that he
had solved the domestic problem In
this way: Whenever Mrs. Gladstone
insists submit; an l whenever insist
she submits" He didn't say, how
ever, whether they took turns about
insisting and submitting. Marriage
II failure when one Of the parties
insists on being the insister and
doesn't take turns in submitting to
the submitter.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1914-07-31
The Favorlte Bait.

"Oh, do let me see that page!" said
Mrs. Twobble to Mr.. Twobble, who
was reading the morning newspaper.
1.-THE Mammoth department store has
. new sale advertised"
"Umph!" snorted Mr.. Twobble, as
he handed the paper to his wife, ANY
thing reduced besides jardinieres?"
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1914-07-31
Artificial Flowers an Old idea.

Artificial flowers were made in an
cient times by the Egyptians. In
Europe during the eighteenth century,
When there existed such a craze for
porcelain, flowers were made of this
substance; while the odor OF the real
flowers was initiated by the use Of
perfumes.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1914-07-31
New Modern Dancing

The leading Hxpert and Instructor in New York
City, writes. "DeAr Sir:-I have used ALLEN g
HooT-BAsE, the antiseptc powder to be shaken into
the shoes for the past ten 1t Is blessing
all rho are compelled to be on their feet. dance
eight or ten hours daily and find that ALLEN g
FooT-HAsE keeps my feet cool, takes the friction
from the SHOE prevents corns and Sore Aching feet.
1 recommend 1t to all my pupils"
(Signed) K. FLETCHER HALLAMORH
Sample FREE. Address Allen s. Olmsted LIE Roy, m Y.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1914-07-31
A Poser.

Mathematical Professor have now
completely discussed the theory of
probability. Are there any questions?
Problematical Freshman-Yes, sir.
Will you please compute the probable
fty OF my passing this course? Dart
mouth Jack O. Lantern.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1914-07-31
WOMEN CAN
HARDLY BELIEVE
How Mrs. Hurley Was Re.
stored to Health by Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.
Eldon, Mo. 81 was troubled with
displacement, Inflammation and female

weakness. For two
We ars I could not
stand ..on my fe ct
long at a time and I
could not walk two
blocks without en-
during cutting and
drawing pains down
my right side which
mere a ed every
month. / have been
at that time purple
in the face and would
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1914-07-31
Good and Bad Cow.

One of the commonest blunders the
farmer makes is that of keeping what
he considers good dairy cows, when,
them, he would find that they are
barely paying for their feed, to say
nothing of their care.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1914-07-31
Unusual Modesty.

''Dobbs is an extraordinary man."
"1n what respect?"
Some years ago he spent two weeks
In Mexico, yet he doesn't pretend to
know all about the present situation
down there"
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1914-07-31

Do you know that patch of ground
own to turnips now will in a few
weeks provide forage for the ducks?
They are so fond of this that they
often eat young turnips right out OF
the ground.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1914-07-31
SOAKING Seed. Before pI,c,,ro

Celery, parsnips and other slow
sprouting seed should be soaked for =
day or more before being planted. Il
will come up quicker II 30 treated and
then placed In moist soil in early
sprtng-
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1914-07-31
Reasonable Guess.

Church-They say the new comet
hasn't been seen before In Is years,
and it's egg-shaped.
Gotham-Where do you suppose it's
been? In cold storage?
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1914-07-31
For Roso Buoa.

1t is good plan to remember this
about roses and rose bugs; that water
at heat of 122 degrees will kill the
rose bugs without In any way hurting
the roses.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1914-07-31
Near Well.

Husband note that the papers
again say that Huerta Is on his last
legs.
Wife-They certainly do last.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1914-07-31
A Stage Career.

who is the principal character in
this musical comedy?"
Little Bo-Peep who lost her sheep.
According to the newspapers, she also
lost breach of promise suit"
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1914-07-31
Better to Admonish.

II is better to admonish than to re-
proach; for the one is mild and friend
ly, the other harsh and offensive; the
one corrects the faulty, the other con-
victs them.-Epictetus.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1914-07-31

YOUR OWN DRUGGIST WILL TELL YOU
Try Murine Rye Remedy for Red Weak, Matery
Just Rye Comfort. Write for Book of the Eye
By mail Free. Murine Eye Remedy Co., Chicago.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1914-07-31

A fat woman's idea of no gentleman
is any mutt who asks her how much
she weighs.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1914-07-31

A wealthy dame who weighs 200
pounds is "portly." An ordinary wom-
an who weighs 200 is just plain fat
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1914-07-31
OF Course.

Hez-How is Farmer Cawntnssel
getting along planting his wheat7
Silas-Oh, just SOW SOW.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1914-07-31
The Eternal Feminine.

Want to hear some bad news?"
"Oh, yes! Goody! Who is it about?"
Houston Post.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1914-07-31
GROWING Old.

rs your father growing old grace
fully?"
mo; he positively refuses to learn
the make"
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1914-07-31

A small boy never wants to use the
hose on the front sidewalk until he
sees a lot of people passing.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1914-07-31

For every marriage In Kansas there
are FIVE divorces
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1914-07-31
Well. Yes.

Those women are trying to stop
the manufacture of amber fluid"
Beer checks, eh?"
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1914-07-31

But Not Toothless.
Call of your dog, for goodness
sake!'
mo use; he's deaf"-Le Rirc.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1914-07-31
Overcoming a TechnIcaIity.

How the deuce can Bjinks be a
lawyer when he can neither read nor
writer"
"Oh, he practisee the unwritten
law"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-08-25

fCopyr3rf. friFs " VIC '1V"f~F~
Enterprise Assoeiafion)
II seems az though there Ia some
thing that is trying to keep us
from getting into our new apart
meat. Aunt Mary was taken with
a case OF rheumatism last week
ana the doctor told her that moth
ing would do her as much good a.
mud baths go. after had put all
the furniture In the rooms. ! came
down here with her.
II was fortunate that Dick was
going out Of town Just az this time.
DO ron know. little book. ! am
auIte sure that Dick really made
an important business engagement
NJ this time when no knew We
would be all torn up with settling.
Men hate disorder and I really
don't blame them. They never
can see that order win come out OF
the chaos OF piled up furniture. pic
lures In the kitchen and the best
china In the living room where tho
movers have placed them. regard
fcss Of your direction ! could see
that Aunt Mary was perfectly ter
ror stricken by having 10 70 alone.
20 Dick and I decided there was
nothing 20 do but for me to 80
with her.
1 really think a sanitarium 10 a
more unpleasant place than a hos
pltai. There are 30 many people
who are fighting grimly against
pain and death. and you can see
while, for a time. they may over
come pain. the battle viii 20 at
last TO the awful shape that seems
TO be standing in wait just behind.
And the worst OF It is that one sees
SO many young people who are
crippled and worn--their racked
faces have lost the look OF youth.
which IA tho look OF hope.
Much OF the horror OF rheuma-
t,sm can be removed" one of the
doctors told me, 'if ones teeth,
nose and throat are kept clean and
free from infection"
That IL a simple and easy pre-
vention OF terribly painful dis
ease and I am going 10 take II to
heart and remember II, as | have
a bad throat and tonsils.
The doctor tells me that Aunt
Mary has rheumatoid arthritis--
Mercy, what namel II is brought
on often by the hardening OF the
arteries. He recommends a very
slim diet for this and says Aunt
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-08-25
Local Schools to
Begin Football
Season October 3

The high school football season
opens In Seattle on Thursday. Octo-
Der 3. This Is the date which has
been fixed by the committee Of high
schol coaches and principals. who
have had charge OF drawing up the
schedule for tho season.
broadway. tho city's largest high
school. and West Seattle. the small
est institution OF the Seattle dis
rict. open tho season on the afore-
said date. Similar preliminary
games will be played, and not until
October "a. the date set for "A clash
between Broadway and Queen Anne.
will tho by battle be on.
While the achoi board had made
arrangements for putting the Wash.
ington park grounds into shape for
tho coming season, the work has
progressed but little. and the
coaches are fearful that the schools
will be without grounds upon which
TO play unless more speed In made
This is the first year the ban
placed upon intcrcity games win be
enforced. The board reached this
decision during last season. but as
n number OF tho teams had already
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-08-25
THE CONFESSIONS OF A Wife

Mary must cut her ratipna Ia half
am very sorry for this. M Aunt
Mary did enjoy her food and abe
has very few things to enjoy.
Nature ia hard taskmaster
and she cuts off our sensory pleas
lures ono by one until none II left.
suppose II Ia then that one be-
Gins TO 1.-Two In the past and to play
tho part OF the iooker.on-
Aunt Mary said TO mo this morn
ing: You know. Margie. my real
individual life II over and you can.
not tell how queer II seems 20 me
sometimes when you young people
talk about what you intend 10 do
some time hence. I have watched
Mary and Jack and you and Dick
and I SEQ you are confronting the
same old problems that confronted
your Uncle John and mo.
There IL this difference. how
ever: Woman's place In the world
Ia changing--she Ia thinking more
and more about what II required
Of her and how much OF II she n
IN duty bound 10 accomplish.
Il feel. dear. that there will be
n period OF great unrest and unhap.
piness before you young people
come irto accord.
up until now woman has been
an adjunct OF man. and II will take
quite a while for him 70 get used
to the real partnership and under.
standing that Is meant by that
word accord"
Goodnessl am sure, little
book. that not even you. who must
know Aunt Mary so well. never
thought that she. too. was being
carried along by this wave of fem.
inism that we younger women are
trying TO surmount. There must
have been a time when. with even
as perfect a husband as Aunt Mary
thinks Uncle John was, she would
have liked to have been in accord"
with him instead OF an adjunct" TO
him.
must read this to Dick.
think II will give him a new point
Of view Of what he calls my mill.
tant suffrageting."
Ito Be Continued Tomorrow.)
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-08-25

scheduled games with out-of-town
teams, they were allowed to follow
their schedule.
The new order eliminates Seattle
as a contender for the state inter
scholastic title.
The schedule follows:
October 3. Broadway vs.. West
Seattle.
October 10. Lincoln Va. Franklin;
Queen Anne vs.. Ballard.
October 10. Queen Anne vs.. West
Seattle.
October II. Broadway VS. Ballard.
October 20. Lincoln VS.. West Be
attic.
October "a. Ballard vs.. Franklin;
Broadway va. Queen Anne.
October 30. Franklin va. West
Seattle.
October 81. Lincoln va. Ballard.
November 7. Lincoln vs.. Queen
Anne; Broadway vs.. Franklin.
November 10. Ballard Va. West
Seattle.
November 20. Franklin Va. Queen
Anne.
November 81. Broadway vs.. Lin
coin.