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Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-12-10
Good Roads Appreciated.

Motor cars said Mr.. Chuggins,
have done more than anything else
to make people appreciate good
roads,"
But your machine is constantly
breaking down, regardless of the
road
Yes. But it's great comfort not
to have to climb around in a mud
hole while am fixing it,"
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-12-10

all the hardness of this world. If men
only felt tina. same kinshlp. which makes
men awake to the true meaning of broth
erhood,
My friends from the sacred solemnty
OF this day let us learn tha, one bright
hour OF love and good will laid beside the
pathway of the living is worth more to
the human happiness, than all the roses
that can be heaped upon the graves of
the dead"
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-12-10
Drainaae Is Essential.

Drainage is the first essential of the
construction of good roads and still 1t
is very frequently the last to be con-
sidered
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-12-10
Farmer Saves His Horses,

In considering roads, remember that
no town looks so good to the farmer
that he will kill his horse to get there.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-12-10
Improve Rural condItlona.

Good roads viii improve every con-
dition of rural life; and they will
cost you no more than poor roads are
costing you now.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-12-10
hannier Social Life.

Good roads bring better school
life, a closer church life. happier
social life.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-12-10
Easy on Horse and WAGON.

Good roads are easy cr you, easy on
your horse, easy on the wagon, easy
on the harness.
The Harrison times., 1915-11-20
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A stir Of eager girlsh feet
Across the ancient oaken flooring.
A burst Of laughter bubbling sweet
with mirth and confidence outpouring
A ralying Jest, an awestruck sigh
At Nelrs mistakes and Margarets
knowledge
Oh, never hours sped merrier by
For three fair cousins home from col
lege
The Harrison times., 1915-11-20
SET EXAMPLE TO HIS MEN
Henry of Prussia Evidently One OF
Those Leaders Who Do Not Say
Sol" but "Come!"

Prince Henry of Prussia is an ar
dent sailor, says Pearson's Weekly,
but he is known among the bluejack'
cts as a great martinez, and they fear
rather than love him. The following
story is typical Of his methods, and
shows that, although he expects those
under his command to put up with all
kinds of hardships, he is by no means
above "roughing it" himself
One day, when he was on board q
warship in the North sea, he suddenly
gave the order, "All hands to bathel"
1t was a bitterly cold day and the
water was like ice. The order was 80
evidently distasteful that one of the
officers ventured to make mild pro
test to the prince. Without answering
him single word, Prince Henry, al
though fully clothed, sprang over the
vessels side, swan out good dis
tance in the icy water, and returned
to the deck dripping from head to
foot.
After that, the sailors took their
bath without demur.
The Harrison times., 1915-11-20

last Thursday in November. 1t since
has thus been observed,
So it is that in 1915 the people OF
the United States give thanks not
for a war over, with the combatants
putting aside the science Of murder
for the science Of constructive things
and resolutely facing the future, but
because the country is at peace with
its world brothers and looks toward
taking the impartial part in the bring
ing about Of the peace Of Europe
and of the world. DR. Carleton Simon,
the distinguished neurologist, recent
ly, while discussing war as an acute
nervous affliction and its treatment
and its cure" made an interesting
diagnosis Of the condition of the
United States. 1t may be reassuring
to hear from such an eminent author
ity, who regards the more than 9O,-
100000 human beings in the present
ment of a gigantic composite, that
there is no fear of Uncle Sam flying
off the handle
THE United States has escaped"
says he. THAT is the special occa-
sion for thanksgiving. But may not
the whole world come to find cause
for real thanksgiving in the new spirit
derived and nourished by the tragedy
Of this war;"
Contrast these typical rural Thanks
giving pictures with some of the fam
lily groups and Of sustenance opera
tions within the war-smitten territory,
and, If you be apart from want you
will feel a pang OF keenest commisera.
tion and a regret that all Of the worlds
struggling family should not be shar.
ing the peace-and-plenty conditions
In this case the turkey is the bird
alike Of peace and Of plenty. 1t is the
bird, likewise, Of sacrifice--but not OF
burnt offering-and goes to its ap.
pointed end with what seems like n
conscious dignity Of the part II plays
In the grateful season.
What finish more honorable and i'm.
pressive for a bird than to be fated to
die to make happy an entire nation?
For this brief, golden period the eagle
is only remote symbol The Thanks.
giving bird s magically transformed
into tempting thing Of appet2ing
odors, an eye.entrancing vision +
glistening brown and bronze and bring.
ing In It's train attendants Of the field
The Harrison times., 1915-11-20
LUCKY HORSESHOE A HOOD00
Lad Casts Il over Shoulder, and II
Goes Through Car Window,
Says Dispatch.

Lite Elmer Cook has good reason
to believe there is nothing to the time
honored theory among youths that to
throw horseshoe over ones left
shoulder is good luck, because he
tried it and it brought him bunch OF
trouble.
Elmer was playing with two OF his
companions when 1t came his turn to
throw the horseshoe the boys had
found at lower Stockton road and Y
street, The lad did not know that the
street car was passing behind him un'
I'll he heard the crash Of glass as the
"lucky" shoe flew through the window
of the car.
The boy did not run, but stood his
ground and told the street car con-
ductor a straight-out story, explaining
that he hoped the horseshoe would
bring him good luck.
The car was well filed with women
and children at the time, but no one
was hurt. Oak Park Dispatch, Sacra
mento (Cal) Bee,
The Harrison times., 1915-11-20
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Beneath the kitchen rooftree brown,
with weathered tile and rough-hewn
rafter,
What memories are looking down
A hundred years OF toll and laughter!
What echoes OF long-vanIshed feet
Stir In the shadows everlasting!
What far-oH voices young and sweet
From other days Of feast and fasting
Tomorrow, through the drifted SHOWS,
with hearts aglow for smile and greet
ing,
Nelly and Margaret, and Rose
WIN walk across the hills to meeting,
Good angels ioin them as they raise
The old hymns dear 10 dead and living.
And blend the fcnstIug and the praise
Into one day Of pure thanksgiyIng
Mabel Earle IN Youths Companion.
The Harrison times., 1915-11-20

Resembling a large tracing wheel Is
German inventors device that accu
rately measures irregular lines.
A muscle from frogs leg is utilized
by French inventor In a device that
receives and records wireless signals
Peat compressed and formed into
sheets IS replacing cork in Germany
as an Insulating material against heat
and cold
England and Wales together have 40
special schools for the blind. 3 for the
deaf and 245 for otherwise defective
children.
The Harrison times., 1915-11-20

HE American Thanks
giving this year is IN
vested with a pro-
found significance, a
blending of reverent
appreciation for the
blessings Of t b e
twelvemonth, and a
The Harrison times., 1915-11-20

that crisply show ivory white and pale
emerald, and translucent, liquid ruby.
In the turkey at this season there
are the pride of country, the religious
sense of a nation and its sustaining
hopefulness, the racial family spirit
that makes the whole world akin"
and the very essence of pleasing
plenty.
The Harrison times., 1915-11-20
INTERESTING BITS

The American mountain sheep are
the greatest leapers in the world
The British government Is establish.
ing very powerful wireless station
in Jamaica
Virginia is the leading state in the
production OF soapstone, Vermont
ranking second
The United States bureau OF stan
dards has developed delicate thermo
electric test for the purity Of plat.
rum.
The Harrison times., 1915-11-20
Wanted His Riuht.

The Sergeant-Look here, before
you're served out with your uniform
you'd better hip down to the wash
house and get bath.
The Recruit--Wot? | come ere to
be a soldier--not bloomin' mermaid
London opinion,
The Harrison times., 1915-11-20

sydney, N. S, w. now has benzol
plant,
The relative values Of various kinds
of coal are determined by Nrays
with a method invented by French
scientists.
Statistics have shown that Amori'
can telephone operators answer calls
two seconds quicker than their Eng
lish cousins.
Experiments IN rice cultivation In
Porto Rico give promise OF the island
Secoming an important producer OF
that grain.
The Harrison times., 1915-11-20

There Is no objection to a mans
taking up his residence almost any
where, but when It comes to shoplift
Ing, that's different
The Harrison times., 1915-11-20

E<[<<ZI[<T appreciation lOi 49,
NEZ>//W blessings OF the
Sz<zA~ twelvemonth, and
poignant regret that so many mem
bers of the World Family are IN the
red agony of war The Thanksgiving
definitely established after national
stress and travail, is tender with sym
pathy and brotherhood, and, While
one gives freely of thanks to his Crea-
tor, freely, likewise, does he give or
love for his fellows. 1t is the most
human of seasons, in which man
should, and does, follow the eternal
lesson of the Great Teacher.
Thanksgiving is elemental in the
soul of man and it probably found its
first expression, not in peace, but ait
er conflict in the early twilight OF
history, when some of the hairy men,
who had awakened to the mystery
and majesty of the sun as the giver
of good things, raised their SCARED
arms toward it, reverent and tri-
umphant, their grateful gutturals voic-
ing thanks for victory.
And this primitive thanksgiving will
be multiplied and intensified thou
sandfold at the expiration of the
present war-and not for the victory
but for the coming Of peace. In the
intoxication of bloody triumph there
can be little ~ the deep, spiritual
thanksgiving for, despite the gigan-
tic slaughter that has made this cen
tury the Crimson age, the world is
still one big family with interests so
closely interrelated that none is un-
affected by the struggle. And none
will give thanks, even with the prize
of victory, for having made widows
and orphans by the hundreds of thou
sands.
In the real thanksgiving there is
neither exultation nor pride; no re-
Election of bitterness or hate; but a
sweet realization of the kinship Of all
men before the Great Father,
In certain early and oriental litur-
gies was the Great Thanksgiving, now
replaced by the preface and part Of
the canon. Then there is the General
Thanksgiving in the Book of Common
Prayer a collect in the third place
from the end of the order for morning
and evening prayer and Of the litany,
But the Thanksgiving which while
marked by the incense Of prayer, has
the sunny lightsomeness Of good cheer
and laughter, is that annually OBJ
served in the United States.
In the beginning of the observance
was day set apart by the plymouth
Pilgrims, in 1921, in acknowledgment
Of their first harvest in America. 1t
was perpetuated in many states by an
annual festival appointed by the
governor Its national celebration, in
recognition Of the years blessings,
was first recommended by procama.
tion issued at the city Of New York,
in 1889, by George Washington, who
set apart for observance Thursday,
November 26, Of that year
The war between the states was the
event that established the national
day. 1t has been, therefore, sanctihed
by the blood Of brothers who died not
in vain, for as recurring observance
it was proclaimed by President Lin.
coin In October. 1868, who fixed the
The Harrison times., 1915-11-20
THE THANKSGIVING FEAST

This is the day before the feast.
A rack of storm Clouds gray with warn
ing,
Signals the valley, west TO east
"White fields and roads tomorrow morn
ing"
But through the farmhouse kitchen glows
A light to gladden. saint or sinner
While Nell and Margaret, and Rose
Make ready for Thanksgiving dinner.
The pantry shelves are lined with cakes
OF naky crust and fragrant sweeting,
Yet incomplete the banquet waits
For this which Margarets spoon is beat
ing.
The sdeboard CLEANS in jeweled light
with amber ounce and ruby Jelly.
Twill wear an added grace tonight,
Wrought by the hands Of Rose and
Nelly.
Meade County news., 1915-08-26
CREDITED TO THE BoSTONESE
miIiar Set Forth Clothed in
New Language.

If upon the initiative attempt sue
cess eludes your efforts, repeat the
operation ad infinitum.
1t is an exceedingly lengthy byway
that fails to produce some tangible
evidence to prove that its natural ten
dencies point to an apparent longing
to execute right angle.
When the household feline has tenn
porarily vacated the premises, the
small rodents will undoubtedly take
advantage of her absence to partici-
pate in unseemly gambols commen-
surate with the joyous occasion.
The operation of conveying a beast
of burden in the general direction of
the trough containing aqua distilla
may prove to be one of comparative
ease, but the process of inducing the
quadruped to partake of the contents
thereof is often matter of conjec-
ture, to be determined only by the
avowed inclination of the animal in
question.-Judge.
Meade County news., 1915-08-26

Count Benckendorff, the Russian
ambassador, who is in mourning for
the loss of his son, Count Peter, killed
in action, had among his predecessors
in the title one who told a curious
story Of the thoroughness of the
Petrograd police in the early nine
teenth century. He had lost his pock-
etbook containing a considerable sum,
gave notice and had the money re-
stored to him within a day or two,
without the pocketbook. Shortly aft
or he found that the pccketbook, still
containing the original notes, was not
lost, but had slipped into the lining of
his fur coat Naturally, he asked
whence had come the restored money.
He discovered that the police, rather
than admit failure, had collected the
money among Observation-Disclosures
Advertiser.
Meade County news., 1915-08-26

pipes and traps and mysterious appli.
ances hidden beneath paint and wall
paper acquired a threatening look
and the observer could not but won.
der what might happen If they should
once take possession of the premises
on their own account.
Examination by the master sur.
geon, with Mr.. Smith trailing at his
heels. revealed no serious LESSONS nor
fractures. A temporary restoration of
circulation showed no flaw in the
main arteries. Mr.. Smith in despair
mentioned one or two of the emer.
gency measures of the night before,
the minor adjustments Of taps and
valves. The surgeon smiled Fill
up the cisterns and watt" he said.
The pipes began to throb. The wa
ter rose to the customary level When
the top OF the reservoir filled and
the noise was reduced to the mini.
mum, there 1t was again.
There in the bedroom-"Drip, drip"
it came again.
The flaw was found at last. 1t was
in the waste or overflow pipe of that
top reservoir. For the seventeenth
time the weary Mr.. Smith climbed
to the top of his house. There was
a short spout, perhaps six feet long
that made the whole trouble-Boston
Herald.
Meade County news., 1915-08-26
Activities of Women.

Women in Germany are now being
given military training.
The pulse in women is from one. to
tive beats higher than in men.
Because his wife moved 80 times in
10 years, E. T. Turner of Camden. N.
j., is seeking for divorce.
Four policewomen have been ap-
pointed in Pittsburgh to censor all
magazines sold in that city.
For conspicuous bravery In the per-
formance Of duty, Mrs. Isabella N.
Goodwin, police matron, has been
placed in the honor regiment of the
New York police force.
Miss Rose Pitonoff of Dorchester,
Mass, was the first swimmer of
either sex to cover the IL miles be.
tween Charlestown bridge and Boston,
although many famous home and for.
eign watermen had previously at
tempted the feat.
Women are now being employed in
all the large factories in England
where munitions are manufactured.
A woman must be between the age
OF thirty and forty to be eligible to ap.
pointment on the Chicago police force.
Miss A. Florence Yerger, Philadel-
phia's most successful woman lawyer,
has more business than she can handle
herself and has been compelled to
open three offices in different parts of
the city.
Since the dominion of Canada was
created fcrty-one years ago there have
been only 443 divorces granted, while
in the United States in the same period
of time the courts have dissolved l..
274,341 marriages.
Meade County news., 1915-08-26
PREPARE LAND FOR
STAND OF ALFALFA
Best Method of InoCulating Is
to Use Soil From Old Field
Keep Weeds Out.

Alfalfa is a hard crop to start. It is
delicate and tender, and to put alfalfa
on ordinary land without any protec-
ton or help Is about like throwing
away four dollars an acre.
Put on 20 to 30 loads of manure per
acre; you are preparing the land for
ten years.
But the land must first be worked
over and over until it is free from
weeds. 1t may take a disking or har-
rowing every ten days all summer to
do this.
If the soil is acid, as shown by the
simple litmus-paper test, put on the
ground limestone. Inoculate the
ground and SOW the alfalfa the last of
July or the first of August.
The best method of inoculating the
soil is to use soil from an old alfalfa
field or from patch of sweet clover,
a wagon load or more per acre, but
this soil must not lie on top of the
ground in the hot sun many hours or
the bacteria will be killed.
There is little danger from sweet
clover, which is a two-year plant, and
will not survive in the field when the
alfalfa is moved as often as it needs
moving.
Meade County news., 1915-08-26
JUSTICE TO OPLUMBER
Writer Calls a Halt on the Vener-
able Joke.
"SkiIled Scientist" Is New AppeIlation
Given Him, and II May Be That
He Will Be Held Deserv-
ing of It.

Time to call halt on the vener.
able joke about the plumber. He is a
skilled scientist, just as is the sur
geon a trained and highly intelligent
artist. The only difference is that
one ministers to a body diseased or
smashed up in some of it's essential
parts, and the other ministers to the
larger organism in which a group of
humans make their home, healing it's
diseases so far at least as they have
to do with the circulatory and other
important systems upon which the
health of the whole depends.
For instance: the other day some
thing went wrong with Smiths house
in its most vital parts. The kitchen
boiler cracked. to be definite. The
symptoms could be interpreted by
anybody, and clearly a major opera
tion was Immediately necessary. The
skilled surgeon was summoned. 1t
was decided that the house should
have a new heart. Also after consul
tation and mature consideration 1t
was determined that certain minor
defects Of the circulatory system, as
leaking taps and insufficient valves
should be patched up and put on the
job again. The cisterns no longer
should murmur.
Alas! The following night Smith
was awakened by the steady drip
ping of water close by the side of
his couch. The candle which was
hurriedly procured showed that upon
the ceiling there was circular patch
of wetness rapidly gaining in size.
Qui2zical Investigations showed that
all seemed to be in order. The ear
applied to walls and floors detected
no gaspings or gurglings. The reser-
voirs seemed to maintain their cor
rect levels. The telephone emergency
call got from the nearest plumber,
after half hour of rather wild work,
merely the advice-"Tap on the sup
ply pipe with hammer" That was
not entirely satisfactory, and another
plumber was summoned. He meas
ured, calculated and listened. He
finally diagnosed thus: Must be the
supply pipe just before it enters the
top of the reservoir"
And all hands went over to the
house, turned off the supply in the
cellar, drained the cisterns and sought
peace and sleep once more.
In the morning the plumber made
his official call. A brief examination
convinced him that his colleagues
diagnosis Of the night before had been
correct. Serious measures being
necessary. he began to pull up floors
and remove baseboards. Thus there
were laid bare the secrets Of the an
atomy of the house. All the hidden
organs were revealed. Wires and
Meade County news., 1915-08-26
REFINED PROCESS
OF FRUIT GROWING
Where Market Demands Fancy
Article Bagging Grapes Will
Prove Profitable.
(By E. VAN BENTHUYsEN.) }

Bagging grapes is one of the more
refined processes of fruit growing
that every man should test for him
self. There are various conditions to
be considered upon which its profit.
ableness depends.
Does your market demand a fancy
article and is 1t willing to pay for it
Do you suffer much loss from the
birds? In some districts they are very
destructive and scarecrows are not
OF much avail. Rot, too, is to be
considered, though some growers as
serts that bags are not preventive of
this disease.
II grapes are bagged at the proper
time, which is soon after blooming,
they certainly will not rot unless the
canes are already full of rot spores,
and after the vineyard has once been
thoroughly cleared of the infection
it should not be again easily affected
If the fruit is kept covered.
Bagging does not appear to be re.
sorted to throughout the West, but in
the East with its higher-priced mar
kets, some growers find it profitable
to bag their entire crop. The com.
mon paper bag in use at the grocery Is
usually employed, in the two-pound
size.
A thousand bags should not cost
more than rs cents. The usual way is
to fasten them with common pin.
Do not pin them around the stem
of the bunch, but over the cane from
which cluster descends. The edges
of the bag should be folded down and
them pinned securely so as to exclude
the rain as we'll as the insects.
If this be done carefully, only an in.
significant number of bags will be
lost during the rest of the season.
Women, with their trained fingers, are
the best for this work, when they can
be obtained. A skillful hand will pin
on thousand bags a day.
Another great advantage in bagging
is that 1t Is one Of the best ways to
preserve the grape in its ripe condi-
tion. Many varieties will remain
fresh and sound until frost, and even
then be cut off, laid away in a cool
place and kept still longer. They
have been kept until Christmas.
The red varieties seem to be the
thinnest skinned and most liable to
crack and to puncture. The white
kinds are of all the least molested by
birds, which seem to think they are
not ripe. The blacks are the first to
be attacked.
Meade County news., 1915-08-26

1t would be we'll II some of us would
ask ourselves how certain lines of
treatment would suit us. All animals,
man included, have much in common.
A single trial with a purebred
dairy bull will convince any man
that like will produce like, and that
the progeny will inherit the form and
characteristics from the parent that
possesses the strongest blood lines.
A purebred bull will exert a strong
er influence upon the progeny when
mated with the cows Of mixed breed.
ing than when he is mixed with pure
breds or higher grades.
1t is a great mistake to put the
large breeds of cattle on poor, scant
pasture. Give them a good field to
Craze in.
There is no middle course or stand.
still period to calf raising. Each day
the calf is not gaining it is losing.
At the end of two years of proper
care and feeding we shall be reward.
ed with an animal of healthy appear
ance, with a we'll developed frame
and an abundance of flesh and fat
one that is capable of withstanding
the burdens of maternity, and capable
Of producing large quantities of milk
when put to the test of the dairy