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The Harrison times., 1917-06-23
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All feed and food products are cN.
ceptiOnally high this season. his
makes il important for each farmer 20
produce everything possible that his
family and his animals eat, on his own
farm. Nearly all farmers PVT out a
small garden in the spring As soon
as the cotton, corn and other crops
need attention the garden is forgotten,
so that by the middle of the summer
il has grown up in weeds and has
dried out. Instead of having green
things from the garden all summer,
fall and into the winter, many farm
ers depend upon getting their supply
from the local store No spot on the
farm will yield as great return as the
garden and it should be worked dur
ing this season of the year so that
the moisture will be maintained. II
the rows have been made long enough,
a small plow or cultivator pulled b.
mule can be used to loosen up the
soil. The reason that so many farm
ers feel that working in the garden is
fooling away time is because the rows
have been made so short that all the
work must be done with a hoe. Late
paintings of onions, radishes, turnips,
potatoes and many other vegetables
should be made. One farmer at Dan
vile last year had twenty varieties
of green vegetables growing III his
garden as late as October 1st This
garden saved the farmer many dol
lars during the season, and he and his
family of five had the satisfaction Of
having fresh vegetables whenever
they were wanted. A surplus should
be produced and canned for winter
use. Write to the Department of Agri-
culture, Washington, D. c., or to us
for Farmers Bulletin No. 359 or Can
ming Vegetables in the Home. In
many counties there is a Canning
Club agent, part of whose work is to
assist the girls and women of the
county in the canning of vegetables.
She will always be glad to furnish in
formation and help. A big supply Of
green vegetables during the summer
and fall, and canned vegetables dur
ing the fall and winter, all produced
at home will go a long way toward |
solving the hard times of the farmer
and will enable him and his family |
to have much better health.
The Harrison times., 1917-06-23

If you can't swat the Kaiser you
can at least swat the fly.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03
Greed of the Busy Man.

I believe in the stuff 1 am handing
out, in the firm am working for and
In my ability to get results. believe
that honest stuff can be passed out to
honest men by honest methods. 1 be-
lieve In working, not weeping; In
boosting, not knocking, and In the
pleasure Of my job. 1 believe a man
gets what he goes after, that one deed
done today is worth two deeds tomor-
row, and that no man Is down and out
until he has lost faith in himself. 1 be-
lieve in today and the work 1 am do
Ing, In tomorrow and the work 1 hope
to do and In the sure reward which the
future holds.
/ believe in courtesy, in kindness, in
generosity. in good cheer, in friendship
and in honest competition. 1 believe
there is something doing, somewhere,
for every man ready to do it. 1 believe
I'm ready-right now!-Elbert Hub
bard.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03
The Swiss Admiral.

"As much business as a Swiss admi-
ral'' is term sometimes used satirical
~. But the little inland nation actual
ly had an admiral once. He was an
Englishman, too, Colonel Williams,
who Joined the Swiss colors in 1899.
This Colonel Williams got together a
small fleet on Lake Zurich and was or
dered to oppose the French army, which
was preparing to attack the Austrians
and Russians massed near by.
The French attacked their allied foes
and routed them. Admiral Williams
calmly watched the battle that was in
progress On land. Then, enraged at his
own inaction, he discharged his crews,
scuttled his vessels and went back to
England.
Switzerland now has one armored
boat on Lake Lucerne, but its COM
mander is only captain.-Kansas City
Star.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03
oRExEL 2os2
7. w. Champion & Co.
Real Estate Brokers
/ RENTING :. LOANS :. INSURANCE
: 5107 South State Street
Chicago
Outside the House,

How many beautiful homes on which
money has been spent lavishly to make
them complete are marred by some de-
feet in the landscape work! A few
hours motor trip through the suburbs
of almost any city in the country will
reveal many such cases. The most fire.
quent jar the trained eye receives is
from the poorly laid out walks and
driveways in which badly arranged
curves are used or walks made to curve
around an oval grass plot placed in the
center for no other reason than to
make pedestrians take time to circle
about that particular grass plot. Post
men, messenger boys and others take
a short cut, and soon a path in the
proper direction is worn across the sod.
When a curve is used in a walk or
driveway there should be reason for
it. If there is no other reason plant
one; place a tree or two or shrubs in
position so the curve will seem neces
sary. People then will keep on the
walk, and the plan will seem reason
able.-New York Sun.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03
Shotquns In War.

That shotguns should be largely uti-
lized in modern warfare is the conten-
ton Of q number Of military experts.
1t is pointed out that such guns would
be particularly useful to sentries at
night time, as an intruder might more
easily be crippled and captured by a
spreading charge Of heavy shot than by
a single bullet. Moreover, a person
moving quickly might often be missed
by a shot from a rifle, whereas a snap
shot from a shotgun in semidarkness
could hardly fail to find its object.
In the trenches shotguns could be
used with success. A shotgun loaded
with about forty-eight grains Of pow
der and one and a half ounces Of big
shot, with about twenty-five pellets,
would be of much more value than the
rifle, as during a night attack, either
for attack or defense in semidarkness,
a single charge would hardly fail to in
flict serious wounds ON one or more Of
the enemy.-Exchange
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03
Many William Shakespeare.

There have been many William
Shakespeare in the past. Among the
burials In the registers Of st. Clement
Danes, In the Strand, there is the en-
try, Jane Shackspeer, daughter Of
Willm., Aug, 1909" Warwickshire
records show, among other things, that
a William Shakespeare paid SIS. to the
Lay Subsidy, Walton super Olde;" an
other W. S. priced the goods Of "Rob-
ert Shakesper of Wroxall" on March 10.
1868; another, a shoemaker Of Coven-
try, made his will March IS, 16O5-6:
still another William Shakespeare,
gentleman" had Ibis daughter Su-
sauna" (singularly enough baptized on
March II, 1896, and yet again another
W. s.. shoemaker Of Warwick. fell
into the Avon and was drowned.
These are a mere fraction of the full
list.-London Chronicle.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03
The Sadness of q Wedding.

There is something sad about a wed
ding. The young groom is leaving a
home In which he always has had his
way and is going into one in which he
never will have his way. Although his
parents do not go through the formal
ity Of giving him away at the altar,
they know well enough that In a few
minutes he will be a son-in-law to an
other woman, while to them he is moth
ing but son. There he comes, with
another man holding to his arm. 1t
looks as If he might have made an at
tempt to escape and that the strong
best man captured him and brought
him back. He Is as happy as he Is
nervous and so trustful that he has no
fear for the future.-Claude Callan in
Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03
A Father Vaughan Story.

Father Bernard Vaughan, the famous
English Jesuit preacher, says what he
means and means what he says and
is never afraid of directing his criti-
cisms even against the most powerful
sections of society, especially the idle
rich.
An amusing reference was once made
to the fiery methods Of denunciation
he employs when in the pulpit. He
had been preaching in Rome and had,
as usual, dealt out plain truths about
everybody with his accustomed force.
One of the cardinals remarked that
he preached like an Italian. Yes"
said another dignitary, but he is an
Italian. He was born on Vesuvius,
and we only sent him to England to
Globe.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03
What Are You WORTH

Have you any idea? Did you ever
capitalize your wages and figure It
out? This is the way to ascertain how
much your labor Is really worth.
For instance, a man who has saved
$4,000 and invested it at per cent re-
ceives an annual income Of $1,000 q
year, or about $40 week.
The clerk in the office or the work.
man In the factory who gets $40 a
week therefore receives the income at
5 per cent on an investment Of SIC, 900.
He is a $4,000 man-that is, he Is
getting as much week by week as the
man with $4,000 who depends solely
upon the income from bis investments
and who does not work for living.
The man who earns $40 a week has
about the same income as the investor
with $4,000 put out at interest at
per cent.
So labor is capital. 1t has a market
value. 1t can be called a commodity
because it can be sold by its owner the
same as any other possession he may
have.-John A. Sleicher in Leslie's.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03
Making q Magnet.

The simplest way Of magnetizing a
bar Of steel is that known as single
touch" The bar to be magnetized is
laid on the table, and the pole Of a
powerful magnet is rubbed from ten to
twenty times along its length, always
in the same direction. If the north pole
of the magnet is employed the end Of
the bar first touched will also become
a north pole, while the opposite end, at
which the magnet is lifted before re-
turning, will be a south pole.
There are other and more complicat-
ed methods, known as divided touch"
and double TOUCH" in which two and
even four magnets are employed.
A steel bar can also be magnetized
by placing 1t within a coil Of insulated
wire, through which galvanic current
is circulating. The magnetism induced
in this way, however, is weak COM
pared with that which can be procured
if the same strength of current is en-
ployed through the Intervention Of an
electromagnet.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03
A Story of IonufelIow.

In Longfellow's journal, in which he
chronicled daily things that came I'M
der his observation, he notes that upon
a certain occasion he attended a
church where the minister took as his
subject Progress" He was very fiat
tered when the latter quoted about
half of the psalm of Life" After re-
peating the verses the minister said,
Il could never read that poem without
feeling the inspiration with which it
was written" To this incident Long
fellow adds: But 1 had the cOnceit
taken out Of me on the evening of that
day, when 1 happened to meet a lady
at Prescott's and in our conversation
she referred to the sermon in the
morning and added, He quoted some
beautiful verses, but nobody knew
whence came the quotations.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03
Using the Scrub Palmetto.

Once prolific and troublesome waste
product throughout Florida, the scrub
palmetto is now being developed into
an asset of great possibilities. Not
only has it been discovered that paper
Of good quality can be made from it,
but the manufacture of carpets, mat
tings, twines, rope and burlap from the
plant is already an industry Of high
standing in the state. Only the green
leaf, or fan, is used. Claim is made
that the palmetto leaves when shred
ded and spun are very much tougher
than the grass now used for mattings.
The green leaves are fed just as they
are cut into the shredding and spinning
machines, and in three minutes they
come out in twine This avoids the
discolorations and losses occasioned In
drying, storing and handling grasses
commonly used for mating. Palmetto
can be cut every day in the year and
Immediately made into Irvine. The
skeins of Irvine when hung up dry rap
idly and uniformly. The Irvine is used
as soon afterward as necessary.-Argo-
naut.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03
Falling Up Out of q Balloon.

If man falls out of rising aero
plane or balloon he will not go toward
the earth. but will continue rising into
the air for an appreciate time. II
the air machine were stopped in its
ascent at the time 1t could catch the
man as he came down. II the airship
were ascending at the rate Of thirty
two feet a second the man would rise
sixteen feet before beginning to fall
toward the earth. Thus, by reducing
the speed Of its ascent, the vessel
might keep by the side Of the man and
rescue him. The reason why the man
rises Is the same as the reason for q
bullets rising when shot from q gun
into the air-both the man and the
bullet are given q velocity upward, and
Il takes some time for gravity to mega.
dive that velocity.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03
Salt and Ioothhrushas.

Our dentist tells us a very interest
ing thing. Ordinary salt is one of
the best methods for sterilizing tooth
brushes that are known. But not only
because it sterilizes is it so excellent,
but because it has the effect of soften
ing the bristles and making them ex-
pand in a way. One of the troubles so
frequently met with is that the bristles
come out and are swallowed, causing
appendicitis. The salt causes the bris-
ties to swell and SO remain in the
brush. This may be but another of
the several million theories. 1t is i'm
portant, however, that bristles do cause
ppendicitis.-New York Globe.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03
a Wonderful Aboriginal City.

Near Laguna, n. NJ, may be seen
Acoma, the "sky city," claimed to be
the most wonderful aboriginal city in
the world. 1t stands ON an isolated
rock eminence 400 feet in height. The
city embraces three rows of houses
over a thousand feet in length, rising
up in terraces four and five stories.
One is amazed when he stops to con-
slider that the material for these build
ings were transported long distances
and up the cliffs upon the heads and
backs Of these human burden bearers.
Their graveyard consumed forty years
in building by reason Of the necessity
Of bringing earth from the plain below,
and their church must have cost the
labor Of many generations, for its walls
are sixty feet high and ten feet thick.
and it has timbers forty feet long and
fourteen inches square.-EXchange
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03
Proper Physical Education.

The purpose of physical educauOn ~ :
of course, not merely to build up -
bodies Of boys today, but to put nv ~,
the lives of boys that thing. wnA'r, .,
it is, that will make the boy STA! SUI
and ablebodied when he reaches u.
hood. Such men-lOverS of treSn -
of hiking in the wild. Of sleeping '.
under the sky-men who can DO'n
joy and endure. are the men WHO
make up a strong nation ana nut
ton Of weaklings.-ScOutlng.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03
Squads.

A squad grows enormously the first
twelve hours and still more rapidly
after the third day. Squads are at first
sparsely covered with long filaments
OF down, the root Of each filament in
dicating the point from which each fu-
ture feather is to start The down for
awhile still hangs on the tips Of some
Of the feathers during their growth and
is thought by some to be finally absorb
ed into the shaft of the growing feather.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03
Life of a Battleship.

We are continually reading in the
newspapers that various battleships
have been completed, launched and for
how long they have been commission
ed. There are probably few people,
however, who know how long a bat
tleship lasts. The average life of a
modern battleship is about fifteen
years. In the old days a battleship
was on active service nearly the whole
time of its commission, which was
about hundred years.
The Victory was forty. years old
when she fought at Trafalgar, and the
Royal William, which was built in
1910, was not 'scrapped' until 1873
London Mail.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03

Grapes will grow almost anyWnes
and are sure to bear. Grapes can "
trained on trellises close to fences o.
to outbuildings. Spring is the Oe''
time to plant, using either one or wv
year old vines. Frequently cultlVauU1
during summer will improve the lrull
Wood ashes make a good ferun.n
for grapes, and half a bushel 10 'N
vine will not be too much.
No pruning will be required tne W.
season, but the second season cut uao
the strongest canes to three or wv
buds and remove all others.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03
Substitute For tobacco.

Throughout the tropical orient the
natives employ a substitute for tobac-
CO consisting of slice of areca palm
nut, wrapped in betel leaf, favored
with a fine lime made of native sea-
shells and colored with carmine. The
habit is universal, especially with the
women, and sellers of "betel NUT may
be seen on many of the street corners
in Saigon and other cities of Indo-
China.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03
We. the Paonle.

Estimating the worlds population as
1,600,OO0,0O0, the whole human race at
present living could stand comfortably
shoulder to shoulder in an area of 500
square miles.
Taking the number of generations in
the past 6,OO0 years as 200. the room
taken up by them all on the above
plan would be less than the area of
the state of Colorado. To bury all the
people on earth would need a grave
yard little larger than that area.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03
Inherited as IL Were.

Professor-Ycs. sir. your daughter is
pretty well grounded in French, but il
will, of course, take some time and
trouble for her to acquire fluency. Fa-
ther-Well, you know, that's rather
strange to me. l had an idea that
the fuency would have come sort of
natural to her.-EXchange.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03
o o o o o o O o O o o O
PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT.
Cleaning the Teeth.

o A clean tooth never decays.
o The best way to clean the teeth o
o is to place the bristles of the o
o brush firmly against the teeth o
o and with a rotary or scrubbing o
o motion go up and down the sur o
o face of the upper and lower teeth o
o both inside and out and up on o
o the gums. Go also behind the o
o teeth. After seeing that every o
o bit Of the surface Of the teeth o
o has been cleaned in this way o
o rinse the mouth thoroughly. o
o forcing the water between the o
o teeth several times to loosen o
o any food particles. Do this more o
o than once and always spit 1t out. o
o To keep the teeth as clean as o
o they should be kept in order to O
o preserve them and prevent de- o
o cay 1t Is necessary to wash them o
o after each meal so as to re-
o move all food particles. They o
o should also be washed the first o
o thing in the morning and the Q
o last thing at night 1t Is well o
o to have more than one brush on o
o hand at q time, 30 that 1t win o
o never be necessary to use a wet. o
o limp brush o
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03
What Is a Hawaiian

\ correspondent inquiries whether it
is proper TO speak of Hawaiian as a
"Kanaka." The term is masculine. A
"Kanaka" is male Hawaiian. A
''wahine" is an unmarried Hawaiian
woman. 4 "wahinemare" is a mar
ried Hawaiian woman. These defini-
tions are from the Hawaiian dictiOn-
ary.-Bellingham American Review.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03
Handsome Serenity,

. George Washington was never guilty
of deception"
Maybe not. 1 don't believe, in fact,
that he ever looked like his pictures
on our postage stamps. But, Of course,
he wasn't responsible for them
Washington Star.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03
Cana Hnrn,s Lighthouse.

Probably the most deSolate y
dreary spot in the world inhaOi,su :
white men is the lighthouse 'uA
maintained by the Argentine -
ment at Cape Horn. This Is en- 3
to be the southernmOSt lightnO"
the world.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03
Exclaimed the Matter.

Papa-Tm surprised that you are at
the foot of your class. Tommy. Why
aren't you at the head sometimes, like
little Willie Bigbee? Tommy-You
see, papa, Willie's got an awful smart
father, and l guess he takes after him.
London Telegraph.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03
The Wrong Word.

"Oh, come! Stop borrowing trouble"
Borrowing! Gee whiz, man, trou-
BILE isn't like money! When 1 borrow
money I can forget about it right
away."-Boston Transcript.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03
whv hot7

Clerk-Now, see here. little girl. i
can't spend the whole day showing
You penny toys Do you want the
earth with little red fence around It
for ! cent?
Little Girl-Let me see It-Life.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03
Ons NJ n Time.

"Does your husband worry aOO0'
grocery bill?" nntt
mo; he says there's no Sense = or,f
himself and the grocer worr'"'
the same bills. "-Exchange.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03
Made q Difference.

"Why do you fire me? 1 work like
sixty"
IF you were sixty that might be ex-
cusable. But you're only twenty-five"
Louisville Courier, Journal.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03
No Hanoinos.

Him-How did you like the stage
hangings in that Shakespeare showi
He-There weren't no hangings, y
boob! He killed 'em with a sword
Cornell Widow.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03

Men who are low and are falling do
not revolt. 1t In men who. although
they may be low, are rising who re
volt-W.. G. Sumner.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03
LOGICAL Conclusion.

Electric wires must be quick tenn.
pered."
"WhyT
Because it seems so dangerous to
cross them. American.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03
His Grouchy Opinion.

'The office should seek the man."
"And the girls aren't hanging back
either these days."-Kansas City Jour-
nal.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03

Happy the man who learns the
very wide chasm that lies between his
wishes and his powers.-Goethe.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03
Queer.

"Your wife gave us a sPlenN N,
ture on cooking last evenms
weren't you there?' ~, .rsS
I was home with terriOe
Of dyspepsia"
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03

Health lies In labor. and -
earthly royal road to II O''
toil.-Wendell Phillips.