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The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-07-03
parison with others, and where The
The RexaN Store

parison with others, and where the
leaks are in his business.
DR.. F. G. Warren gave an illus.
trated lecture to the summer stud.
ents on the Types of Farming in the
United States and the Factors That
Control 1t. The lesturer revealed
some interesting facts relative to
Utah's farm activities and made val.
liable suggestions relative to its fu-
ture expansion and growth.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-07-03

A Missouri farmer was killed the
other day by fall from load Of
rye. 1t is some time since rye has
caused a fatal fall of the wagon in
the rural d stricts OF Missouri.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-07-03
Poor Man,e ADVANTAGE.

The sleep OF the laboring man Is
sweet, whether he eat little or much;
but the abundance OF the rich will not
suffer him to sleep.-EccIssiastes,
6:12.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-07-03

San Francisco shrewdly reminds us
all that no transcontinental train was
ever summarized, Chicago Daily
NeWb.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-07-03

1t has been decided that Porter
Charlton was sane when he killed
his wife at Como, Italy, FIVE years
ago. He and Thaw should form an
AlIenists' alumni. San Francisco
News Letter.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-07-03

The outlook for safe and sane
Fourth OF July In Europe is pretty
gloomy New York World.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-07-03

What's the matter with the seeres.
es? VIII no one claim to have predict
ed the Lusitania disaster7
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-07-03

Japan appears to be working under
the initiative and ultimatum.- Hon
olulu Star Bulletin.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-07-03


Fourth Independence
II 1915
marking
contributed its thousands from Its
exposition
enthusiastic
state departm in
Fourth Of
night saw a fireworks
mainta ned ever
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-07-03

batter during the game played up the
canyon Saturday, is again around
school.
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MAKING OLD-FASHIONED SOAP
ON FARMS NEAR WASHINGTON

set over fires built on the ground Flat
stones support the kettles while a wood
fire burns beneath. Into each of these
kettle are poured three gallons Of
water, which is left to boil. Then
three pounds of caustic soda or I've are
put in and allowed to boil.
Twelve pounds of fat scraps go into
each kettle next, but before the scraps
are put in the strength of the I've
water is tested by dropping in a
chicken feather. If the feather is
stripped to the shaft. then the water Is
declared to be strong enough for the
fat.
After fishing out the feather, or what
is left of it broomstick is used
TO stir the contents of the kettles,
which are kept just boiling slowly from
one to five hours. To regulate the fire
sticks are pulled out or added. as the
case may be, and if the boiling becomes
too merry cold water Is used to keep
the fire down.
At a particular soap-making large
copper dipper alternated with the
broomstick for stirring. and heavy
iron skinner, handmade at the. black
smiths, was used to skim out hard
pieces of useless and unreliable rind.
Neighbors. famed for skill in soap
making, are called in. but the whole
family takes part in the work.
In the days of the "up-coming" of the
moon the pot would have boiled over.
but the soap mixture simmered away
very nicely because 1t was in the
down going" of the moon, and after a
couple of hours boiling, and when the
mass looked like maple sirup. the fires
were extihsuished and the kettles set
away to cool off and for the soap to
harden At night they were covered
and in the morning each was full Of
good soap to the bottom. Sometimes.
when there Is too much I've. 1t settles
on the bottom, but in this instance
there was no excess of I've.
The contents Of each kettle were cut
into blocks about the size of brick
and the color of wet cement. They
were hard enough to pile into baskets
and pack away in the meathouse, and
this pure and strong soap will last a
large family all winter for laundry
purposes The cost was about 80 cents
worth of caustic soda and three hours
labor in the open air. where much fun
was mixed with the work.
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riedly to send many of it's best stall
lions into Holland, where they have
remained ever since.
After the infantry of the Allies was
hidden head-high in long trenches and
their cannoneers were posted behind
hills and in concealed places on lofty
ground, the cavalry ceased to be mem
toned in the news that trickled past
the censors from the battlefields. But
horses were being slaughtered, and so
cavalry officers and veterinarians came
to this country for fresh supply
The United States and Russia own
nearly half the horses in the world.
the United States about 24.00O,O0O and
Russia approximately 25.000.000. Rus
The United States has. though horses
here have not been particularly cheap.
notwithstanding the wide use OF gaso-
line trucks for hauling purposes. In
deed. they slowly advanced in price
from 1897 to 1915.
Average farmers will continue to
employ horses for blowing cultivating
and harvesting. And for the next fVe
years. at all events. housekeeping
will be a profitable business. 1t takes
1--WE years to make a draft animal.
Few farm horses are left in Great
Britain. There is small surplus In
France. Germany. undoubtedly, al
though 1t has drained surrounding neu-
trail countries of all the horses that
can be spared, will, at the end Of the
war, need many American horses Tor
agricultural and other industries.
While the Secretary OF state Is
watching over the foreign relations of
this nation, and the Secretaries OF war
and the Navy are looking after the de-
lenses of the country, and the Secre-
tsrv Of Commerce is telling business
men how to reach the markets away
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a clean private life, will read my Bible and
pray .S daily and viii endeavor to the best Of
Tense toward God and Man Signed =.
When the Rev. Mr.. Edsin was asked
In what sort of spirit men in penal in
stitutions met his religious efforts he
replied:
'I meet with more response in institu-
tons than do in the pastorate. These
men who know the ups and downs of
life, who have trod the rough places
realize that we are attempting to help
them. Because, as a rule, out in the
GOODNESS. they appreciate kind words
and sympathy and cooperate with us
heartily. To illustrate this 1 must tell
you about the special evangelical serv-
ices 1 conducted when at Jefferson
vile reformatory. l requested two
minister friends of mine, warm-heart-
ed, kindly men, to come and spend a
week with me at the institution. We
held services every night. and during
the day had private interviews with
the men who cared to come to us in
our study to discuss their problems,
hopes. failures. regrets and ambitions
with US. During the week, as a re-
suit of that special religious effort 200
men took a stand for a religious life.
Having that as nucleus, 1 organized
a federated church in the reformatory.
This federated church had a creed
which embraced all religions and
which confiicted with none, being based
on those fundamentals which all
churches believe in. For membership
in it our men had to have a six-month
clear record in the institution, but the
man who lost a grade or was disci-
. plined in any way had to relinquish
his membership. In order to again
become a member he had to have
another six months clear record. Each
member wore a little white button in
his coat lapel. bearing the words:
For a Manly Life
"I hadn't been chaplain at Jefferson
Vile long before 1 decided that the
men must be baptized, and so we had
a baptistry erected. When the men
we're discharged. and they requested it,
I gave them letters of introduction to
pastors in churches in all parts of the
United States In this way the men
were sent out into the world deter
mined to join some church and to stay
under its influence. 1 have received
letters from many different ministers
in churches throughout the country
telling me that my men were members
in good standing in their congrega-
ton.
United States. I run across some of these
boys and the fact that they go out of
their way to greet me proves that they
are leading straight lives. II they
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HH Kings old and old-fashioned are
being revived, but not all the
primitive home industries have
gone out. Not only butter and cheese
making are still carried on by hand
on many farms throughout the coun-
try. but cider and vinegar and sorghum
and brooms are made from home prod
bcts on the farm.
Soap and candle making were done
by the Pilgrim mothers. and these in
dustries may be found in operation in
some sections of the country around
Washington. especially in the Shenan-
doah valley. where these. with many
other home industries, have been hand
ed down to the jewellers there by their
German and Dutch great great-grand-
mothers. for many Germans settled in
that part OF the country during the
eighteenth century. and the names.
churches and customs of their de-
scendants still bear the strong i'm
press OF their Teutonic forbears
In the first place. they consult the
almanac, printed in English and Ger
man. to see If it is the "up-coming" or
the "down-going" of the moon. There
are two weeks of each in every month,
indicated by the points of the moon
Setting hens. planting crops and pre-
serving fruits must be planned for and
carried out under the signs of the
moon, as told by the almanac.
This has been bad year for eggs
and chickens because there has been
too much "down-gofng" Of the moon
that is, the old housewives allege this
as the cause. Sweet potatoes are filed
bout. but are down so deep il takes a
'3rubbing hoe to dig them. They must
have been planted in the 'down-going, I"
say the natives.
But to return to the matter OF soap
making. All the scraps. rinds. crack
lings. etc. from the last hog killing and
The meat scraps from cutting and cook
{olg and eating have been saved up in
the meathouse, where IL is cold. Iron
kettles. usually of six-gallon size, are
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been sustained in cotton, the increased
planting Of oats has amounted to 1,900.-
900 acres.
The crop for the entire country, 1t is
estimated, will measure about /. 400. 00o.-
600 bushels As the rise in price has
been 611 cents a bushel over normal
conditions, the apparent advantage to
the growers of oats for the season of
1915 will foot up in money. approx
mately, to $91, 100000. The two seasons,
accordingly-1914 and 1915-have in
creased the wealth of the farmers
through oats only in the sum of $111,-
100000.
Five items, cotton. wheat. corn, oats
and hay. represent IS per cent in value
of all the crops grown on American
farms. The war has had no appreciab BILE
effect on the prices of potatoes, meats
or hay. Pork has fallen in price. Swine
have increased in number. Germany,
formerly a large buyer of American
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1,40o pounds are worth $3.50 or $3.50 to
the farmer.
French and British army officers and
veterinarians are buying horses In chi
cago, st. Louis, Denver, Omaha and New
Orleans. The horses are shipped either
to New Orleans or Newport News,
where they are again Inspected and
put on ships. An ordinary ship VIII
carry 1000 horses, placed in stalls. but
as many as 100 have been loaded on
occasion at Newport News.
Horses by the trainIoad are being re-
ceived at Newport News and New Or
leans. Spectators are combtng the
west and southwest for gunners. drafts
and riders, as the British officers call
the types they wish to purchase. The
cost of feeding, inspection and freight
age by land and water, added to the
sum paid the farmer. makes the horse
a high-priced war necessity by the time
it reaches the firing line. Italy, too, is
now buying American horses and a
small number is being shipped to
Switzerland.
There are more horses in Iowa
1.600, O00-than in any other state. Illi-
follow Texas. with 1,1S2.00o; Kansas.
with 1,132,0oO; Missouri, with 1,0s5.000.
and Nebraska. with 1.03S,000.
The European demand would have
greatly increased the price Of horses in
the United States had the cotton farm
ers been as prosperous last season as
they were the year before. Cotton
growers do not raise their own mules
and horses, but buy such animals as
they need from other farmers in the
south and southwest. They were not in
the market this year for new stock. and
thus France and Great Britain have
been enabled to obtain both horses and
mules at fair and even at a low price,
all things considered.
half million horses at, say. $3.50
each totals $75,000,000 in French and
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course. be placed the losses to the cot
ton growers of eleven southern and
southwestern states. The cotton crop
of 1914 amounted to 100000 bales.
A bale OF cotton weighs 500 pounds.
Cotton was selling at 10 cents pound.
or $50 bale. when Austria sent Its
ultimatum to Serbia.
War followed. The crop here was
then ripening. Shipments OF cotton to
Germany and Austria were cut of
These two countries normally take
about one-third of the cotton exported
by this country.
The reduction in the price OF cotton.
cents q pound or SIS bale, which
meant total of $240.000.000 for the
crop. This paralyzing loss fell on
100000 farmers in Alabama, Arkansas.
Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi.
North Carolina. Oklahoma. South Caro-
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September /. the new assistant super
intendent, who is boyish-looking
man of forty-five or whereabouts. with
iron gray hair. but decidedly young
ish" in appearance for all that, gave
his views on crime, criminals, correc-
tive methods, corruptive influences and
many other things in the same cate
CORY.
The time will come when we will
have a far more tolerant attitude
toward criminals than the majority Of
us have now" he said. I'VE will look
upon them as sick men and realize
that they should be treated as such.
They will be sent to institutions not
to be punished but to be cured
am strongly in favor Of an indeter-
inmate sentence. Then a man can be de-
tanned until a complete cure is eff
fected and he Is whole in mind and
body You wouldn't send a fever pa
tient to a hospital with the advice that
he be released in a certain number OF
days. would you? No: you'd keep him
there until he was fit to be discharged.
The same rule should apply to the men
and women guilty of crime" Rev. Ed
gin paused near one of the mems build
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British gold. to which should be added
the sum of $14.000,000 received for
100000 mules at, say, $40 head. In
all. accordingly. the. farmers Of the
country have been paid $S9,000,000 for
horses and mules, which they have
spared without any decrease in the
yield Of their acres or in the aggregate
OF the crops grown.
But for the war there might have
been little. If any, business in horses.
take the country as a whole. Even If
100000 horses and 100000 mules had
been sold the prices received would
have been considerably less than the
French and British have gladly paid.
Horses. probably, would have brought
1920 and mules $40. A little figuring
will show that in the matter Of horses
and mules only. the net gain to the
American farmer has been at. least
$18,000,000. At the same time he has
brought sS9.000,080 into the country,
exclusive of the money paid by the
French and British to the railroads for
hauling the horses and mules to New
port News and New Orleans.
Also the farmer of the United States
has gained handsomely in several other
directions. He has lost heavily, how
ever, in cotton. While the profits of
the powder and shell manufacturers
and of the makers of guns and auto
mobiles have been causing riot
among prices in Wall street, though
few of the facts are known, the Amer
lean grain-grower has been selling out
and depositing his money in bank or
quietly adding to his landed posses
sions. He, at any rate, is a mathe-
NAUTICAL quantity.
Roughly speaking, the European war
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$ in Enormous Gain for American Farmers

from home, the Secretary Of Agricul-
ture, with his great staff of expert
assistants, is counseling farmers and
instructing them how best to promote
their own interests.
Farmers owning good Mares" Sec
rotary Houston is saying to all who
talk with him on the subject, should
see that they are bred. There will
be a good market for superior stock"
Cart horses of the best quality are
selling at from $500 to $3.50 in Holland.
In this country prices now range from
$14O to $3.50. Three types of horses are
being purchased here by French and
British buyers. Cavalry horses weigh
ing about 1850 pounds are worth $140
to the farmer. Transport and artillery
horses weighing from 1850 pounds to
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lima, Tennessee and Texas. Cotton 10
recovering. w. P. G. Harding. member
of the federal reserve board and an
Alabama business man. believes that
nearly 6.ooo.ooo acres planted in cotton
last season were seeded this year in
other ways.
1t can be said. perhaps. that the loss
In cotton has been halted. The farmers
their acreage of corn. wheat and oats.
But the disaster which befell them cam
not be undone. They are $240.000.000
out of pocket.
more wheat, corn, oats, hay, barley, rye,
buckwheat, rice and fax than last year.
Moreover. the value of cattle, other
than mich cows, has risen from $31.13
a head in 1914 to $33.3S. or $50. 1905 900
in all Also there are great many
Nearly 100000 persons. half Of
whom are laborers and a half OF whom
are landowners. are engaged in argri-
cultural pursuits. When such large
nroportion of the workers of the United
States are prosperous, times cannot De
distressingiy bad for the rest
Summed up; the visible s, gains caused .,
nv the war in Europe. will have been.
al the end of 1915, as follows: On
horses and mules, $1s.000.000 and more;
ON wheat, s4ls. 100000. not including
the quantity eaten by the farmer s,s
themselves, nor the s0.ooo.ooO bushels
reserved for seed; on corn. $S2.50O,ooo;
on oats, Sill, 100000 or a total OF $685.
5oo. 600. from which should be subtract
ed a loss on cotton of $240.000.000.
Three hundred and ninety million dol
lars is tidy sum and it can be count
ed. The gains that cannot be itemized
or tangibilized, inclusive of the prices
that might have fallen but did not, are,
possibly, twice that amount.
Copyright, 1915, by James B. Morrow)
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DAVID f. HOUSTON,
Secretary Of Agriculture.
(Copyrtght BY Harris & Ewing.)

population Of the country. In other
words. the war in Europe Is costing
the jewellers in cities and towns $780,
100000 a year extra for bread only.
farmers.
Besides. the United States is ship
ping great cargoes OF wheat to Eu-
rope from Boston. New York. Phila-
New Orleans. Chicago, Duluth and
Superior. Galveston. Seattle and Port
land. Out Of the crop Of 1914 there
was exported up to July this. year.
330,oo0,ooo bushels. This wheat, be-
cause they are fighting. cost the. bread
eaters of Europe 500, 100000 more than
would have been the case had their
countries remained at peace with one
another. That sum. likewise. went
straight to the farmers.
Il X
Specialists in the Department Of
Agriculture say that the United States
will sell 370,O00.O00 bushels of wheat
to foreign buyers out of the crop of
1915. If that quantity is disposed of
at 80 cents above the price that would
be obtained were peace now shower
ing its benignities on good share Of
mankind. a lump sum of 100000
extra, European money, will be paid
to the wheat growers of this country.
Meanwhile, domestic wheat consumers
will be adding their s104,000,O00 to the
revenues of the happy agriculturists.
The conjectural profits on shells,
powder and other manufactures used
for fighting purposes look small when
placed at the side of the known war
profits on wheat. Except for his
bread, cakes and pies. the American,
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the Jeffersonville reformatory came in
possession of its fine pipe organ.
x
we needed pipe organ badly for
our services" he said so. in 1905.
when Gov. Hanly visited the institu-
ton. asked him to give me a letter of
introduction to Mr.. Carnegie, as want
ed to ask him to donate an organ to the
church. Mr.. Hanly said he thought
the state ought to provide one, and
gave 500 to start the collection. Later.
when speaking to Mr.. Whitaker. he
told me he thought that the men would
gladly help to buy their own organ So
put 1T up to them the following Sum
DAY and explained that they could give
Whatever they chose, and the man who
did not give a cent would not lose
standing. Subscription blanks were
distributed, and a certain date was SET
on Whlcn they were to be handed in
that about 5000 would be raised. but
when the donations were totaled they
amounted to 1915. As the organ cost
$l,o15. the men practically bought. it
most subscribed $40. We investigated
and found he had given every cent he
possessed in the world. We made him
reduce the amount. SO that he would
the smallest amount contributed 1 cent.
He also gave all he possessed In mosr
cases the men had given all the money
they had; 1t was the sum which they
mad on their persons when committed
to the institution. In some instances
the amount contributed was overtime
money. for whatever the prisoners
made above what was required of them
IN the workshop they were allowed to
1t is readily understood why the boys"
have such confidence in and affection
for Rev. Mr.. Edgin after witnessing
a Jew of his interviews with prisoners
at Occoquan. Wandering into the mems
hospital, he stopped at the beside of a
pale, gaunt-looking patient, and placed
a hand on his head.
why. what's the trouble, my man."
he asked. sympathetically. You've got.
quite fever. How long have you been
here? Since yesterday? 1 missed you
and wondered where you were. Well,
the doctor will have to take good care
OF you so that you can be up and
around soon."
which, propped on his elbow, an aged
man was watching the chaplain with
eager eyes. The chaplain took his
wrinkied hand in his and asked him
They put me in the hospital" COM
planned the old man. Its a nice dav.
isn't it, chaplain? They put me in the
hospital. Yesterday ! was away out
west, and today I'm in the hospital"
The chaplain explained that the aged
mans mind was wandering, and. after
a few more kindly words. passed out
into the corridor with the patients
luerulous voice still following him.
Chaplain Edgin declares that he has q
big field to work In at Occoquan, and
IS enjoying it immensely. Since he ar
rived. blue prints have been ordered
md completed for a chapel to be erect
I'd there, which will seat over 500 per-
sons. He Is also planning to carry out
1t Occoquan many OF the ideas which
le found effective at the JefSersonville
Up until the present time
10 definite religious work has been car
led on at Occoquan, services having
been held there at different times By
'eligious workers who volunteered.