The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 813, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 20, 1906 Page: 2 of 4
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THE DAILY LEADER.
VERNOR A ABNEY, Pubs.
LAMPASAS,
TEXAS
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THE BUSINESS OF FARMING.
OVER HOT EMBERS.
It Has Taken Great Strides in Fast
Fifty Years.
Kisses in Kansas.
Very romantic news is ttiis tliat per-
colates In from the fields of Kansas,
where the wheat crop is so great that
it has made the ground sink down two
feet to sustain it. Hiram Skipworth,
father of three beautiful daughters, is
reported to have secured all the har-
vest hands he needed by the simple
expedient of paying them two dollars
a day and permitting each man to kiss
each of his daughters once daily.
Those who did not want the kisses
could have three dollars a day, hut it
is pleasant to add that nobody drew
more than two dollars per diem. How-
ever, says the Detroit Free Press, old
Lafe Plummer, who lives about five
miles down the big road from Skip-
worth, got all the harvest hands he
needed, also. Lafe has but one daugh-
ter; she is 40 years old, angular,
freckled and has an uncertainty in one
eye, besides that her nose is hesitant
and her chin is shy. La£e took the
overflow from Sltipworth’s farm, and
after luring the sturdy harvesters to
his field he would introduce his daugh-
ter and tell the affrighted laborers
that unless they pitched in and worked
their best he would let her kiss them.
Mr. Plummer's fields were harvested
in half the time that was required for
Skipworth’s.
Great Night for the Onion.
The onion has served as the basis
for many quips and flings at the hands
of the humorous paragraphers. And
yet it is an extremely wholesome plant
and one of high rank with the ancients,
particularly the early Egyptians. For
these reasons it is pleasant to note
that the tabooed edible met with de-
served recognition at what was termed
an onion reception and banquet in an
interior New York town called Union,
which in this case might plausibly
seem a corruption of onion. It was ar-
ranged, says the Cleveland Plain Deal-
er, in honor of the sixteenth anni-
versary of the special guests of the
evening and the onion was the centei
and scenter of attraction. The house
was decorated with onion blossoms,
an onion center piece graced the table
and the bill of fare included onions
and onions only—top onions, sliced
onions, stewed onions, onion salad and
fried onions. Needless to say, the
guests, who departed at a late hour,
went away breathing many encom-
iums of the fragrant bulb of honor.
KILLING “DOCK.”
How to Deal With a Troublesome
Weed on the Farm.
This is known by several common
names, one of which is dock. The
name usually given in botanies is
curled dock. This is evidently de-
rived from the crisped or curled mar-
gins of the leaves. It is also called
yellow dock, a naijje which has refer-
ence to the color of the root. The
plant has been introduced from Eu-
rope, and is a large, coarse, unattrac-
tive perennial and sometimes trouble-
some weed. The young leaves are
sometimes used as a pot-herb, and the
root has some repute as an article of
medicine.
The best method of exterminating it
must depend on circumstances. If
there are but few scattering plants,
probably there is no cheaper method
of destroying them than to dig or cut
them out with a sharp mattock. A
Far Too Speedy for Speech.
The tremendous speed made in the
International automobile race over the
Ardennes circuit in Belgium is almost
beyond conception. To maintain an
average of nearly 70 miles an hour
through a run of 371 miles, which was
the record of the winner, must have
meant a speed neighboring on 100
miles an hour for much of the dis-
tance. Only in this way could time
lost on curves be made up. The race
makes very pat the story of a Boston
millionaire who recently visited one
of the young Vanderbilts at Newport,
says the Springfield (Mass.) Repub
lican. The visitor was taken for a run
in a big racing automobile. He stood
the experience until the speed rose to
upward of 80 miles an hour, when, in
terror, he tried to call to the driver
beside him to slow up. But instead of
being able to call he found, so runs
the story, that once he had opened his
mouth he could not shut it, so vio-
lent was the blast. Fortunately the
stretch permitting such speed was
short.
Curled or Yellow Dock;
single, well-directed, vigorous blow
with it is sufficient for each plant.
Strike deep enough to sever the root
two or three inches below the surface,
so that it may not sprout again. Draw
the plant from its place by giving the
mattock a pull upward and forward in
raising it from the ground after the
blow.
The plants may be destroyed by the
application to the crown of each one
of a small quantity of some strong
acid, such as carbolic acid or sulphuric
acid; but this will require nearly, if
not quite, as much time as the use of
the mattock, and the cost of the ma-
terial must be added to the cost of the
labor.
These methods are available in kill-
ing the weed in untillable places—
along fences and roadsides. If the
plants are abundant iir tillable fields,
there is probably no better way than
to put the fields under cultivation. If
plowed in the fall, winter-freezing will
be serviceable in killing many of the
exposed roots. Frequent and thorough
cultivation of the growing crops will
kill others and any young plants that
may start from the weed seeds in the
soil. In an exterminating contest with
such a weed, it is important that no
plant be allowed to mature a crop of
seeds. This will require early atten-
tion to those th&t grow in pastures
and waste places and along roadsides.
They should be destroyed before July.
Moving might be a quick way of dis-
posing of the seed-bearing part of the
plant, but it would not prevent the
root from sending up new shoots. To
do this, more effectual treatment must
be given. Nor should anyone expect,
says the Country Gentleman, that he
can clear his land from this "weed and
have it remain clean very long unless
he is constantly alert in destroying
it as fast as it appears, or unless his
neighbors will unite in the warfare, so
that no source of a new infection shall
remain.
REAR STEP FOR WAGON.
Farming is the foundation of civil-
ization. It is the basis of all other
creations of what we call civilization
Before it was developed, nations were
savage. The nations that have been
most civilized have paid the most at-
tention to agriculture. The savages
regard it of such little importance that
the men generally consider it a fit
occupation for the weaker sex. All
the pi’oducts of our country are really
dependent on agriculture, and the
more enlightened the agriculture tho
more prosperous will be the nation.
Until man began to till the fields we
cannot conceive of him doing any la-
bor. Hunting and fishing were more
in the nature of recreation than of
labor.. The business of farming is one
that greatly affects the character, for
by it man is brought into close con-
tact with nature. For this reason
farmers have always been regarded
as the mainstay of every nation. Hor-
ace, in reviewing the glorious history
of the Roman commonwealth, says
that the heroes that won the battles
that made the nation great were not
from the cities, but were from the
farms of the country, where they had
been taught morality. The business
of farming has undergone great
changes in the last 50 years. Taken
as a whole the business of farming
was far harder 50 years ago than it
is to-day. Many a farmer will remem-
ber that in the old days, when the
crops were large and all work had to
be done by hand, it was exceedingly
difficult to get enough men to save the
crops. It was therefore necessary
that men begin work early and con-
tinue to labor till late. It was not un-
common, during haying time and tho
time of harvesting the wheat crop, for
the laborers to be in the field by five
o’clock in the morning and work till
the stars were shining at night. If
foul weather threatened, they worked
even under moon and stars. That was
not considered unreasonable labor, for
the gathering of the crops was looked
upon as emergency work. Now the
horses and machines do in a few hours
more than the men by the old process-
es could do in the longest day. A ten-
year-old boy, with the proper ma-
chines and horses, will do more work
now in an eight hour day than several
men would then do in a 16 hour day.
At that time the farmer was looked
upon as the hardest working man in
the country, little time being left him
for mental improvement. It is no sur-
prise then, says the Farmers’ Re-
view, to know that at that time
wheat brought a much higher price
than in this day. It cost more in
labor. The business of farming
has taken great strides forward
and is no longer looked upon as
the business requiring the greatest
amount of drudgery and giving the
least amount of comfort. The farmer
of to-day is not the kind of man the
comic papers picture. The progress-
ive farmer of to-day is a gentleman
and is doing business in a business
way. The business of farming is as
much a commercial enterprise as is
any business that is carried on in the
city.
FIRE WALKERS TRUDGE WITH-
OUT VISIBLE HARM.
Strenuous Form of Worship and Devil
Driving in India—Remarkdtele
Feats Witnesesd by Trav-
elers from the West.
HANDY SAW HORSE.
Arrangement by Which the Work Can
Be Made Easier.
In the illustration is shown an easily
made saw horse and a convenient
way of holding wood. Use pieces of
two by three or two by four-inch stuff
for the legs, cutting them the proper
length. Mortise the legs together and
A large trench is dug in front of
the shrine, about 30 or 40 feet long
and ten feet broad and two or three
feet deep. During the morning this is
filled with logs of wood and fagots,
which are set on fire and by the
evening beconfe a mass of glowing,
red-hot embers. After dark the people
assemble with torches and tom-toms
and music, and then some 30 or 40
people prepare to walk lengthwise
over the embers. They are worked up
to a great state of excitement by the
tom-toms and shouts of the crowd, and
then the whole 30 or 40 walk over
barefooted, quite slowly and deliber-
ately, in single file, headed by one of
the “pujaris.”
This custom of fire walking is quite
common in Malabar. Kooriche, three
miles from Tellichery, in the direction
of the French settlement of Mahe, is
a locality reputed for fire walking.
Here a famous “pujari” by the name
of Oochatta dwells. He actually sits
on a heap of fire at an annual festival,
but is said to be protected by the bark
of the areca nut, which is known to be
a bad conductor of heat. At the vil-
lage of Putinam, 32 miles from Telli-
chery, in the Kaval Taluq, north Mala-
bar; a weird ceremony is performed
annually, at midnight, in connection
with the worship of the village deity,
when the “pujari,” who goes by the
name of Chamandy, throw’s himself
incessantly on a heap of fire, about
six feet high and fifteen feet broad
until he is able to knock every faggot
down and level the w’hole heap with
the ground. One end of a rope is
fastened to his arms, while the other
end is seized'by two Malayali low
caste men, who pull the “pjari” away
each time he rushes on the heap of
fire. Two women at the same time,
with brooms bring the fagots togethev
as they are knocked dowrn by the “pu-
jari” and endeavor to restore the heap
of fire as it is being dismantled by
him. The wood is the “puum,” a hard
jungle wood of the Malabar forest.
Khaza Prabhu, a pepper merchant
of Tellichery, w’ho died a few years
ago, and whose memory is still green,
had a great name here for curing peo
pie who were possessed of the devil,
and wras a great fire eater to boot. He
believed he w’as often summoned to
the Sri Lakshmi Narasimha temple by
the deity of this shrine to cure people
troubled with the devil. Here he was
wont to incarcerate many devils that
w’ere troubling the people of Telli-
chery, and every loose stone one no
tices in the temple precincts repre-
sents one such devil driven out of
the human body and imprisoned by
him. These stones are granite slabs,
are generally three to five feet long
and rest against a wall or tree.
In the temple of Malabar there are
several deities, but the number must
never exceed 39 in each. At. Audaloor
village, three and a half miles from
Tellichery, one of the village deities
Davatha Issuran by name, committed
atrocious sins and the other deities
pulled out his tongue, and Angaraka-
ram and Bappuran, two warrior del-
ties, drove Out the other deities from
the temple, allowing only any number
less than 40 to dwell in any one shrine.
From this date Angarakaran, the war
rior, carries a long sword, w’hile Bap-
puran bears a sw’ord and shield as
w’ell, and they are the principal dei-
ties worshiped during the ceremony of
fire walking. Some of the minor dei-
ties are Muthupendalvyam Khandhak-
arnan and Kuttichathan, but all such
are not propitiated excepting Vassury
mara, the smallpox god; Chamandy,
who puts devils into human bodies,
and Illi and Makal—the mother and
her two children of the jungles—who
smite people with jungle fever.—Mad-
ras Didcesan Magazine.
A Household Necessity.
I wTould almost as soon think of run-
ning my farm without implements as
without Hunt’s Lightning Oil. Of all
the liniments I have ever used, for
both man and beast, it is the quickest
in action and richest in results. For
burns and fresh cuts it is absolutely
wonderful. I regard it as a household,
necessity.
Yours truly,
S. Harrison,
Kosciusko, Miss.
Lincoln as a Lawyer.
A leader of the Lincoln party told
the other day in Philadelphia a story
of the astuteness of Lincoln as a
lawyer.
When Lincoln was practising law,’’
he said, “he had a case involving a
disputed will. The opposition claimed
the will was genuine and for several
hours adduced proof of this. For
Lincoln, who had to prove the will a
forgery, things looked black.
Lincoln, however, only called one
witness, a retired paper manufactur-
er, renowned the country over for
his wealth and probity.
‘ ‘Mr. Dash,’ Lincoln said to this
witness, handing him the disputed
will, ‘please hold that paper up to
the light and tell us what is the water
mark on it.’
‘ ‘The water mark of my own firm,
Blank & Co.,’ the witness answered.
‘ ‘When did your firm begin to-
manufacture paper?’
“In 1841.’
“And what’s the date of the docu-
ment in your hands?’
‘ ‘August 11, 1836.’
‘ ‘That is enough. Gentlemen of
the jury our case is closed.’ ”
Rather Rough.
Above the stairway there flickered a.
candle and then a deep voice called
from the shadows:
‘Katherine, Katherine. Wrho Is-
that sandpapering the wall this hour
of the night?”
A long stillness and then:
“No one down here, father, dear..
I guess it must be next door.”
The candle vanished and then from
the gloom of the parlor:
“George, you big goose, I told you
never to call on me unless you had
been shaved."
First Coins Were Brass.
The first coins were struck in brass
about 1184 B. C., and in gold and sil-
ver by Pheldon, tyrant of Argos, about
862 B. C.
Saw-Horse in Position.
A Task for American Women.
The editor of Harper’s Bazar, writ-
ing of the choice which women of
fashion are compelled to make as
whether they will be wives or moth-
ers, says that the absorption of Amer-
ican men in business interests tends
to reduce the dignity of American fa-
therhood to a level with the paternity
of the savage. “The supreme mission
of the American wife is, therefore, to
provide for the higher education of
the American father. To win a man
from exclusive attention to the sordid
concerns of business, the dissipations
of pleasure-seeking, and apply him to
the infinitely profitable, infinitely en-
joyable work of participating in the
care, the physical, mental, moral de-
velopment of his children, that is a
cure which American womren are
everywhere, under all circumstances,
able to apply to the root of the evil of
race suicide said to be seriously men-
acing our nation. Let them be about
Handy Addition Which Will Help in
Loading and Unloading.
Handy addition to farm wagon:
Here is a step added to the rear end
of a farm wagon, by means of two
stout iron sup-
ports. This step
will prove a great
comfort. It saves
a lot of strain in
getting in and out
of the wagon when unloading; and,
when one is lifting boxes, baskets or
bags in or out, it is a half-way place
on which to rest. Then, too, says the
Farm Journal, one can tip a box or
barrel over on edge against the step
and then lift the other end and tip it
into the wagon. One person can easily
load boxes and barrels in this way and
not lift much more than half the
weight at any time.
connect the ends with wooden braces
made of one by one and one half inch
stuff at top and bottom on each side
as shown. Run a light iron rod from
one end piece to the other at center,
To hold the timber in place when
sawing secure a hickory pole about
two inches in diameter and six feet
long. Fasten one end to the ground at
one side of the horse by means of a
stake or a bent wooden staple as illus-
trated. Bend the pole over the timber
to b® held and fasten with a forked
stake set in the ground. But, says the
Orange Judd Farmer, a small post
with holes bored in one side a few
inches apart and a pin to fasten in
the holes will be found preferable to
a forked stick, as the pole can thus
be sprung down and held at different
points to suit the various kinds of
wood laid oh the saw horse.
Keeping Fruit Without Decay.
It is claimed in France and Eng-
land that fruit which is subject to
early decay can be kept sound for a
remarkable peried by the immersion
in cold water containing three per
cent, of the commercial solution of
formol. The bath in the water so
tinctured with chemicals lasts only
about ten minutes. Then, when the
fruit has a skin which is eaten, like
cherries, berries and grapes, it is
placed for five minutes in clear cold
water and afterwards spread out to
dry. If the skin is not to be eaten,
as in the case of oranges, for instance,
the formol solution is used without
any subsequent bath in water.
Don’t let a weed go to seed in the
garden. It will make a great deal of
disagreeable work for next year.
Influence of Agriculture.
Before agriculture was practiced as
a calling, nations remained savage be-
cause they could live by hunting and
fishing. Agriculture has been the fac-
tor that has changed savage nations
into civilized nations
No Dispute About It.
‘What’s that thing on the end of
your tall?” asked the frog.
“It’s a rattling good thing, that’s
what it is,” answered the rattlesnake.
—Chicago News.
Envy.
The poor man says: “Oh man of gold,
Your wondrous wealth I fain would
hold!”
The rich man says: “With what delight
Would I possess your appetite!”
rWashington Star.
Hasty
Nervous
Chewing
of Food
the Cause of
Dyspepsia
If your teeth are fit, chew, chew*,
chew, until the food is liquid and
insists on being swallowed.
If teeth are faulty, soften Grape-
Nuts with hot milk or cream, or
allow to stand a minute soaking in
cold cream.
“There’s a reason,” as follows:
Grape-Nuts food is in the form
of hard and brittle granules,
intended to be ground up by the
teeth; that work not onty preserves
the teeth but brings down the saliva
from the gums so necessary in the
primary work of digestion.
Many people say (and it is true)
that when they eat Grape-Nuts they
seem able to digest, not only that
food but other kinds which formerly
made trouble when eaten without
Grape-Nuts.
Chew!!
“There’s a reason” for
Grape
Nuts
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