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The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1915-03-18
MUCH IMPROVED DIRT ROADS
Intelligent Use Of Drag VIII Benefit
Roadway, No Matter What the
Nature Of the Soil 10.

The dirt road can be very much I'm
proved by the intelligent use OF the
road drag. This has been proved be-
yond a doubt In the states that have
legislated in favor OF road dragging
No matter what the soil. the intelli
gent use OF the drag will improve the
roadway. Mind you. used the word
intelligent, says a writer In Success
full Farming.
A sandy soil is hard to handle.
Where gravel is available-a gravel
containing considerable clay-a sur
facing of six or eight inches with this
material will greatly benefit sandy
road.
The first thing essential in road i'm
provement is good drainage. You
first get the water away from the sides
of the road so the deep-seated road
bed can dry out and harden. When
the side drainage Is perfect, then the
next essential is to crown the road
80 that surface drainage of the road
Is perfect. Even a dirt road cannot
get very muddy II the water has no
chance to stand In the wheel tracks
With surface water eliminated. and
ditch water taken care OF. the roadbed
cannot soften very much.
Every highway whatever its con
struction. should be patrolled by a
man who is on the lookout for clogged
bitches and the breaking Of the road
surface. A shovel in the hands of
road walker will do more to make
good roads than the most elaborate
outfit used only when roads become
impossible.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1915-03-18
UNCLE 'RasTus UP A STUMP
Maybe orovsd-Hos Was Responsible
for His Injuries, But He Had
His Doubts.

7 don't know bout dat groun -nawg
Il dunno" said Uncle 'Rastus. as he
wagged his head in a puzzled way.
Am he like a woodchuck7
"Am he like a 'possum?
Am he like a polecat?
Am he like a bar?
4 dunno--sah--I dunno. All kin
say am dat de ole woman give me a
dime one day TO go down to de stoh
and buy her some snun ! got into
a crap game down dar and lost de
dime. When got back home de ole
woman says 20 me:
"'wha's dat snf. ole man.
"'sunthin' happened 20 dat dimel'
says.
"'You crapped It away. you ole sin
ner!'
mo. Linda. A groUn'hawg took
arter me and run me for seven miles
and ober leben fences. and We went 30
fast dat de dime melted In my pocket.
= said dat. sab. and when cum TO
he'd been kicked and pounded and
struck and dragged around till II was
10 weeks befo' I could git outer bed.
Mebbe II was dat groun-hawg. and
mebbe not Tze got a sneakin' idea.
but I dunno-I dunno! Pittsburgh
Dispatch.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1915-03-18
MOTHERI LOOK At
CH|LDS TONGUE
II cross, feyerish, constipated,
give California Syrup
OF Figs"

A laxative today saves q sick child
tomorrow. Children simply will not
take the time from play to empty their
bowels. which become clogged up with
waste. liver gets sluggish; stomach
sour.
Look at the tongue. motheri II coat
ed, or your child is listless, cross, few
erish, breath bad, restless. doesn't eat
heartily. full Of cold or has sore throat
or airy other children's silment, give a
teaspoonful OF California Syrup OF
Figs" then don't worry. because It is
perfectly harmless. and In few hours
all this constipation poison. sour bile
and fermenting waste will gently
move out OF the bowels. and you have
well. playful child again. A thor
ough Inside cleansing" is ofttimes all
that IS necessary. II should be rle
frst treatment given in any sickness
Beware Of counterfeit fig syrups
Ask at the store for a 50-cent bottle OF
California Syrup OF Figs" which has
full directions for babies. children of
all ages and for grown-ups plainly
printed on the bottle. Adv.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1915-03-18
ADVANTAGE OF siIencer.

This crash Of the bullet makes the
value OF the Maxim silencer very little,
so far as military efficiency is con-
cerned. in the way that the fiction
writer imagines the silencer to be use
full. but not to prevent the enemy from
discovering the position OF the men
firing as many fsncy.
Its value lies in the fact that II
eliminates fully half OF the recoil OF
the rifle from the action OF the gases
in its chambers. and 1t gives the off,
GERS much better control over the fire.
because OF the lessened noise OF the
rifles. 1t cuts down the roar Of the
Springfield to about the noise OF the
.25-20 and thus the roar Of the rifles
at the firing line is much reduced, and
the commands OF the officers can be
heard.-Outing.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1915-03-18
GAS, DYSPEPSIA
AND INDIGESTION
"Pape's Diapepsin" settles sour
gassy stomachs in Five
minutes-Time III

You don't want a slow remedy when
your stomach II bad-or an uncertain
one-or a harmful one-your stomach
is too valuable; you mustn't injure II.
Pape's Diapepsln is noted for It's
apeed ia giving relief; its harmless
ness; It's certain unfailing action In
regulating sick. sour. gassy stomaehs.
It's millions OF cures ia Indigestion,
dyspepsia, gastritis and other stomach
troubles has made II famous the world
over.
Keep this perfect stomach doctor In
your home-keep II handy-get a large
hfty-cent case from any dealer and
then II anyone should eat something
which doesn't agree with them: II
what they eat lays like lead. ferments
and sours and forms gas: causes head
ache. dizziness and nausea: eructa-
tions OF acid and undigested food
remember as soon as Pspe's Diapepsin
comes IT, contact with the stomach all
such distress vanishes It's prompt
ness. certainty and ease in overcoming
the worst stomach disorders is reye-
latlon 20 those who try it.--Ady.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1915-03-18
GROWING FRUIT ON DRY LAND
Important Point 10 Remember 10 20
Plant All Trees and Small Plants
Farther Apart Than Custom
nBy JOHN ROBERTSON. Hot Springs.

By JOHN ROBERTSON. Hot Springs.
s. d.
In growing fruit without irrigation.
all trees and small fruit plants must
be planted farther apart than is the
custom This Is q very important
point to remember. Where there is
little rainfall and a dry sussoil. each
tree or plant must have enough indi-
vidual surface surrounding II to draw
moisture from. according to its size
and nature OF growth. We cannot get
something for nothing. nor can we
grow plants without moisture; and
they must have enough to do their
best.
Those who are planting apple trees
is feet apart each way on dry subsoil
land cannot succeed. This Is Just as
certain as that two given numbers
make a certain sum In a mathematical
problem. Apple trees should not be
planted closer than 30 feet apart each
way. They will not need all the
moisture between them at this dis
tance apart until ten or twelve years
may be grown between them till about
this age. but one must use care and
Judgment as to how much OF how long
to crop between the trees. II Is bet
ter to make the mistake OF cropping
too little than too much. Trees plant.
ed is feet apart will grow as well as
those 30 feet apart for the first ten
years. II there is nothing planted be-
tween them. but after. about that time
there will not be moisture enough to
supply the Increasing drain made as
they grow larger. Even II three
fourths OF the trees we're dug out. moth
ing would have been gained. for the
orchard would only be starting to bear
paying crops Of fruit: while " the
rows are 30 feet apart, and one row OF
small fruit plants are set between
each two rows OF trees. by the time
the trees need all the moisture. the
small fruits will have done their best.
and one can dig them up. feeling he
has been well repaid. II Is important,
too. that the outside row OF any kind
OF trees or plants be planted not closer
than IS feet from a prairie grass
growing border. There is little mois
ture under a prairie sod after long
| dry spell.
The land should be in thorough cul
tivation before trees are planted. and
the last plowing should be extra deep
because It is not going to be plowed
again and should be in condition to
take In heavy rainfall. No expensive
tools are required; simply a strong
12-inch plow set to run deep and 9
good team to pull II.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1915-03-18
a "FIylno" Maiady.

The doctors are puzzled concerning
a strange malady that has broken out
at more than one aeroplane works, and
has in one case ended fatally. The
malady in some respects resembles
yellow jsundice. and II il. rightly or
wrongly, attributed TO contact with an
aeroplane dope" or TO inhaling its
odor.
Further particulars need not at the
moment be indicated. but II has been
suggested that the source of the trou
BILE may be amyl acetate. which IL
used az a dope" solvent Some mys
terry attaches to the affair. the precise
nature OF the malady not having yet
been determined. In spite OF close ex
animation and analysis: and, ~ course
until success is attained N This direc
Ion no satisfactory precautions oil
remedy can be devised
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1915-03-18
TIME FOR PLANTING ALFALFA
Best Results Secured by Doing Work
In Wettest Season Of the Year
Avoid Crust on Soil.

Il is very important when planting
the seed that no crust should form
above It, therefore II is advisable
when using press drill to plant only
when the top inch is dry. The drill
with chain drags should be used in
clay soil or In moist weather. Half
an inch to an inch is the best depth
to plant II In sandy soil. but in clay
loan even less is better. The best
time to plant alfalfa is the wettest
season OF the year The seed is small,
1t cannot be put In very deep. and II
It sprouts and then dries out before
the next rain comes It is gone. For
this reason we do not recommend fall
planting.
Some have been successful with late
planting and recommend II to their
neighbors. but taking It by and large
we hnd that only about 40 per cen,
obtain a stand. while spring planting
g;ves over rs. when the plowing and
other work has been properly done.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1915-03-18
When the Laws Met.

The Laws sat about the long green
table. All the fundamentals we're
there save one. Even the decrepit
salic Law was present. doing be
tween the Mosaic Laws and the Law
OF Primogeniture.
The chairman. the Law Of the
Land. called the meeting TO order.
Are we all present. he asked.
II was the Blue Laws who respond.
ed.
Il don't see nothin' OF the Law Of
Nations" he squeaked
The Law o, Nations has been
abolished" the chairman sharply re
piled. "The business of the conven
tion will now proceed"
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1915-03-18
A New Anecdote.

Queer requests are often received
for prescriptions. which might puzzle
either doctor or chemist. far more
skilled than the proprietor Of the or.
dlnary drug store. Here is one recent
ly reported by Morris Wade: II is n
note from an excitable mother, whose
nerves we're apparently as much in
need OF treatment as the digestion Of
her infant:
my little baby has ct up its fathers
parish plaster. Please to send an anec-
dote by the inclosed little GIRL
Youths Companion.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1915-03-18
Find Live Duck In Fish.

A strange specimen OF the angel
fish was caught by Captain Palmer at
Sound Beach, who removed from II
two ducks. The wicked fish had
stolen the ducks from J. Kennedy
Tod's Innis Arden estate. One was
alive.
The fish was struggling in the wa
ter when seen by Captain Palmer.
and was landed with a pair OF Ice
tongs.
The fish is yard long. and its
mouth is 6 by s inches. It was frozen
In a cake OF ice at the Maher Ice
plant and is exhibited in the window
OF market here.-Greenwlch
Conn Dispatch to New York World.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1915-03-18
Limit, In Literature.

You've read The Heavenly Twins?"
asked an Englishman OF an Irishman.
yes. have"
And the Sorrows OF satan?'"
Yes"
And you have read Looking Back.
ward,'"
How the dlvll could do that %
asked Pat
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1915-03-18
Not Much Acquainted With Him.

"Your husband" said the caller. sym
pathizingly. was man of excellent
qualities"
Yes" sighed the widow, "he was
q good man. Everybody says so. |
wasn't much acquainted with him my
self. He belonged to six lodges"
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1915-03-18
So Paw Saws.

Little Lemuel-say. paw. what is
a philosopher
Paw--A philosopher. son. is a man
who bears with resignation the tooth.
ache of another man.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1915-03-18
The Place.

Where can you find rods in
pickle?"
Mostly in family jars
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1915-03-18

Stubborn Colds and irritated Bronchial
Tubes are easily relieved by Deans Men
tholated Cough Drops-5c at Druggists.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1915-03-18

Sugar beets can be grown success
fully in Ireland recent government ex-
periments show.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1915-03-18
No Doubt About II,

Does wombat own or rent his
house7"
Rents IT,"
How do you know"
Il know all right He scratches
the matches on the paint"
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1915-03-18
Cut Down Horss's Feed.

AS the hard work eases up on tbs
horses cut down their feed accord
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1915-03-18

Fit Frame OF Mind.
How did the prisoner act when you
accused him OF arsony"
He showed fiery Indignation"
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1915-03-18
Its Ambition.

Wheat Is going up"
We'll. suppose It's after the
dough"
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1915-03-18

Sure.
PA. what is a skillful strategisty'
"A skillful strategist, my son, is a
man who knows when to quit"
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-04-07
UNIVERSITY MISsOURIAN
"wednesday, April Z, 1s15)
LET US KEEP THE LEAD.

This month, If the plans of the
Civic League are carried out. Colum-
bia will wage campaign for cleanli-
ness. True, this is a most admirable
and much needed conquest. But let
no one think that the city has been
delinquent in this respect. Columbia
is by no means dirtier than any of the
neighboring cities and If anything is
cleaner and more beautiful.
The object of cleanup week is to
make the city keep this lead over
others. Where the city is clean, this
campaign is to make it cleaner xith
the ultimate object of spotless town.
OF course. in Columbia. where there
is some smoke and clay, the ideal can
never be attained. But If everyone
will do his best cleanup week, long
step will have been taken in that
direction.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-04-07
MUST SUBMIT TO VACCINATION
The Question Passed On by the New
York Court of Appeals.

AS defense to a prosecution for
failure to send his son to school, a
father pleaded a bylaw of the board
of education which prohibited pupils
from attending public schools unless
vaccinated. In affirming a judgment
of conviction, the Court of Appeals of
New York in People vs.. Ekerold, los
Northeastern Reporter, go, said:
Our public school system has been
developed with great pains and solicit
tude, and its maintenance and sup
port have been recognized as so i'm
portant for the welfare of the state
that they have been provided for and
safeguarded in the constitution itself.
AS part of this system, statute has
been passed requiring attendance at
school Of children within certain
limits. Failure to comply
with the statute ought not to be ex-
cused for some good reason. It is per-
fectly evident that in great city like
New York, with its complex and vary
ing conditions, regulations must be
adopted for the purpose of preserving
discipline, order and health in the
public schools. Some of these regu-
lations would be So plain and essential
that no reasonable person would think
of disputing their validity or of max
ing unwillingness to comply Herewith
a basis for not sending his children
to school. The question which, with
in certain limits, is presented here,
is whether the statute and the bylaws |
of the board of education in that city, |
adopted under and in accordance with |
the statute requiring vaccination as
4 condition of attending the public |
schools, are, under ordinary condi-
lions, so unusual or oppressive that
4 parent should be allowed to make
his unwillingness to comply Herewith
4 basis for not sending his children to
school, for that is what the present
position of the defendant amounts to.
do not think that they are of such a
character. From Case and Com
nent.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-04-07
OUT OF A MEETING OF WOMEN.

In the beginning it was just wom-
ans club meeting. But these women
wanted to make Terre Haute better
place in which to live. They Or
ganized the clubwomen, fourteen hun
dred of them, to expose the election
frauds last fall.
Four hundred of them volunteered
to go to the polls with cameras and
notebooks. to make snapshots of the
repeaters and mark down the num-
Der of times they voted. The political
machine threw In their way insults by
wardheelers and election officials. But
the women stayed for the evidence
that has shamed Terre Haute.
The next day they sent telegram
to Judge j. A. Anderson of the federal
court asking for an investigation. Ex-
perience had told them not to try the
state courts. The gang began to
bring pressure on the business men
and the newspapers. The publicity
would hurt business and give the
town black eye. The business men
wouldn't help the women in the cam
paign.
The women came back with the
threat that they would do their buy
ing in Indianapolis, If Terre Haute
could not be made a fit place in which
to live. Then the tide began to turn.
The business men came over in sup
port to the investigation. There was
a stampede and nearly everyone, ex-
cept the members of the political
gang, ranged himself with the women.
The federal grand jury indicted 126;
Of these ninety-eight pleaded guilty,
and twenty-six have just been found
guilty. Among the important wit
nesses In these trials were the club
women who went to the polls for the
evidence.
Terre Haute has been shamed, but
It Is going to be a better place in
which to live, when it is finally |
Of political corruption. And
all this will have come from a meet
ing of clubwomen.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-04-07
The Open Column
A New Dress for Columbia.

Editor the Missourian: With the
coming of spring the citizens of Co
lumbia should think of the numerous
ways they can make the city more
beautiful. One of the best efforts that
can be put forth, and one in which
everyone can share, is cleanup
campaign.
There will be sever.l hundred Wis
itors in Columbia the first few days
of May for Journalism Week. A great
number will be editors not only from
towns in Missouri, but from other
states. We want these visitors to leave
Columbia with good impression Of
the city, with remembrance Of it they
will tell favorably to others ON their
return home.
Now let's all get together and make
plans to show these visitors a clean
and up-to-date little city.
Clean up and paint up. M.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-04-07

could have missed the iceberg that
sent Its freight of human life to the
bottom, and the Empress of Ireland
would have been saved.
Science has always a new wonder.
Let US hope that the fondest dreams
of the inventor of this latest wonder
are realized. Putting ears on our
ships will add much to the sum total
of life. 1t promises to bring subma-
rine warfare out of the dark, If there
must be war, and SO much more than
that will be the means of saving 80
many lives that might otherwise go
the way of the Titanic. In such SCI
ence is true service to the human race.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-04-07
One Good Story
Made In q. s. A.

An American and Scotchman were
walking in the Highlands, and the Scot
produced a famous echo. When the
echo returned clearly after nearly four
minutes, the proud native, turning to
the Yankee, exclaimed: There, mon,
ye Gamma show anything like that in
your country"
"Oh, don't know" said the Amer
ican, Il guess that We can better that.
Why, in my camp in the Rockies.
when l go to bed. / just lean out Of
my window and call out, Time to get
up! Wake up!' and eight hours after
ward the echo comes back and wakes
me."-Bristol Times.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-04-07
AN EVENING OF HAT MAKING
Arts and Crafts Club Members Make
Easter Creations"

Spring bonnets, Easter is over, but
there is still demand for early
spring bonnets and the Arts and
Crafts Club spent Monday evening in
making them.
There were hats of all kinds and
colors. The mems tastes seemed to
be for hats of the turban shape. Red
and green, or red and yellow, were
the colors preferred by them. There
were purple hats also. In fact, the
hats looked like so many Easter eggs
when completed. Since they were
made of tissue paper, Columbia's mil
linery trade is not likely to be af-
fected by these artistic creations.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-04-07
ASK FAIRNESS FOR JOHN BULL
Britons Present Their Side Of the War
In Letters TO COlumbians.

To receive a letter bearing the roy.
al crest and signed by no less per.
son than the Dutchess of Marlborough
is almost ordinary to Columbia wom-
en-. She is writing personal letters to
American women, enclosing list oi
books written on the British side OF
the war question, which Ill be sent
to any one interested in them. Sir
Gilbert Parker goes farther-he sends
British war literature to Americans,
wholly upon suspicion"
Columbia people have received let
ters from friends in England, present
ing the war fairly-from the British
point of view. Besides this man-to-
man appeal, real British "personages"
have taken up the cause with the idea
that name of international reputa-
tion carries weight when an ordinary
citizen would be ignored.
In spite of the work to be done at
home and for the soldiers in the field,
and the heavy expense of the war,
British subjects have the time, money
and energy to devote to the cause of
Great Britain abroad. Since the Unit
ed States is the only world power of
the first rank that is neutral, it is the
center of the British propaganda.
A personal letter, signed by more
than $50 Cambridge professors, has
been sent to American college profess
sors. This letter urges Americans to
all sides of the war question
before giving judgment against Great
Britain. The Briton's justification of
MS part in the great conflict is also
contained in the letter.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-04-07
PUTTING EARS ON SHIPS.

Wireless messages from ships at
sea have come to be matter of course.
Now comes the announcement of the
discovery of means of comnunica-
tion under water, something of a sub
marine wireless.
The American Magazine for April
tells Of this discovery, that will mean
much to the men on the sea, both in
peace and war. The instrument is an
electric oscillator, whose vibrations
under water produce a sound that can
be heard at considerable distance. The
oscillator is attached to the ship be-
low the water line and is used both for
sending and receiving. Messages have
been received at a distance of thirty
one miles; several hundred miles will
be possible, thinks R. A. Fessenden,
the inventor.
Battleships and submarines may
communicate with each other even
during engagement. Still the instru-
ment may be a protection against
the submarine. With an oseillator the
the propeller of submarine may be
heard five miles away. The three Eng
lish cruisers need not have been
sunk, says the inventor. At least
one foreign government is now equip
ping its ships with the instrument.
But this is not ALL In one of the
tests before an official of the United
States navy an iceberg was detected
and located when three miles away.
With such protection the Titanic