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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1906-12-13, Page 3SHEEP DRIVEN 1,000 M1LFS Flock of 30,000 Moved from New Mexico into Nebraska. (New York Post.) • To travel 1,000 wiles on foot with 30,- 000 sheep is a stupendous undertakings yet this feat woe teceolupliehcd recently by seventeen herders, hearted by it. li. % Daly,Plive stock dealer and mailman of Omaha and Stevenson, .Neb. r.D1 l New k M a awed through h York the other day on his way to te Cana- dian northwest on a business trip and at the Astor House gave a vivid. de- scription of now the sheep were headed. The journey was from Santa ie, in New Mexico, to. Stevenson, in central Nebrae- ka, and it wait undertaken primarily to defeat the railroad company. "I have for over twenty-five years been engaged b the handling of sheep, being what is called a "sheep feeder," he said, "A 'sheep feeder' is a man who re- ceives the animals from the ranges into the feed lots, where they are fattened: for market, and he is distinguished from a 'breeder' who grows his sheep on the range. Last 14I'arelt I contracted with a Mexican living in Santa Fe to buy 30,- 000 sheep. "Owing to a difficulty with the rail- way company in the +natter of freight rates I• determined to have the sheep 'trailed through' to Nebraska, which, in western parlance, •means driving, them overland. I selected my men at the same time I contracted for the sheep.• I also procured two of the heaviest 'grub' wa- gons I had on my ranch, four strong mules, and two good saddle horses, to- gether with all camp utensils and other necessaries for the trip. The wagons, mules, etc., I sent down to Santa Fe by freight. Altogether there were seven- teen men in my employ detailed to bring the sheep through. "Arriving at Santa Fe, wo at once _set about getting the sheep ready fur ',lithe long drive. The Mexican with whom had contracted for the 30,000 had in turn subcontracted with numerous small Mexican ranchmen for the required num- ber. His agreement was to deliver at Santa Fe the specified number and qual- ity of animals. There were several rea- sons for buying in this way. For ex- ample, the Mexicans in the outlying dire tricts know nothing of money drafts and cheeks and gold would have to accom- pany eevry purchase. And to traverse the wild hills and canyons of Mexico with money in one's possession, Would be positive madness, unless, of course, one had a well -armed company as a body -guard. "Well, the small bands of sheep were speedily brought in and they grazed ar- ound the town until my Mexican friend told me through his interpreter that he was ready to hand over the lot. Those grandees, by the way, usually profess ° not to speak English. "1 bad bought 18,000 lambs, and 12,000 2 and 3 year old wethers. The flock or band as it is termed there, was 'round- • ed up and got ready to run through the flimsy corrals, two of which were con- structed side by side, with only a divis- ion fence between them. From the first corral V chute with a narrow gate at the end led into the second., The sheep were' driven into the first Igen until it was filled and then were counted through the chute into the second. "One thing which added to the' diffi- culty of counting was the fact that the corral was not large enough to hold the whole number at once. I had to count • part of them first and then turn and hold them together while I counted the rest. "It turned out later that this gave us all plenty to do and besides furnished abundant chances for fraud. The corral was filled with sheep and I took my station at the chute to count as they streamed through. Now it is mighty* dizzy work to count sheep. I could count up as high as 500 and then I would become so dizzy watching the swiftly - moving stream of animals that I would have to shut the gate. ,This done, I would jot down the number in my note- " book and then let my foreman, John Martin, take any place as long as he could stand it. "We wore getting along nioely and had wanted to 6,000, wheal Martins made a defectively. The gate which was the en- trance to the first eoa'ral was m•ext to the partition featee, and the `greaser' who was tencldme the gate was forcing sheep through tike loose fence back into the first corral, Rio that they would be demented the second time! "Uiartin tat onee informed ane of the fraud and I stopped the count and hatt- ed our Mexienn friend To emir aacusaa tune he replied with e dignified 'No eabe.' Martin then hustled up the swar- thy interpreter, and ave gave them some talk that would look bad in ,paint, but it left the senor quite undisturbed. "His interpreter finally told ars the greaser 'wouldn't do it again,' but that did not settle for what iiad been re- counted. There was tothing to do but dein all over again. The delay was annoying, and it took ars the eyehole of that. day to' dount the wether and get threats out so We could hold them safely -that night. "Next morning the wahines were start- ed on their 1,000 -mile trip to Nebrnsku, divided into five blinds, each in charge of a herder on foot. One extra anon went along to act as night watcher: The cook travelled in the wagon, and the foreman of the gang rode oat. horseback.. "Oat the following day Martin and 1 wmdlertaak to count t'ke 18,000 lambs. As on the first day, we were ave;,. under envy when; wo discovered another fraud. One of my men detected a 'greases' in the act of driving a small Wein which had been counted- and. turned out around through :a+, ravine and, back toward tate hosts of sheep waiting to enter the first corral, We atoppeI the swindler in time, however. In , eve . 1 then ten soatteaext any men out at ad1 points Whore fraud might he attempted ana then proceeded with the count. A pceuliarity of these h'Geele can gentlemen as that they do not wean at all edn.barrassed whep. detected an dis- honest tricks. A failure or two never deters them Isom Ldyiug it again at the that opportunity, "Our 18.000 1umbe were run in sax bands',,with a herder in diem& of eeach. We deft Santa Fe on May 1 and the wea- ther was .hotter than blazes. On the eecand day wo discoverer. that the nem- .ahead eth- .a lead of us were hotting the .best of the feed and not ieating enouglt,toudea• titan So we made a circuit arouatel.ttlene camp and the next morning the lanaee were leading the way. "New Mexico is always a dry region and .the spring had been wmusually•dry, the duet was dreadful. Dust, by the way, is always the .worst feature ,of the trail, The cloud, that hangs over the flock locks from a. distance like the smoke front a prairie fire. "Our face e 7 eve.r,e •hlacle most of the time, but we tali wove shields of tinted i,singlasis to protect; roar eyes, othemwmse 1 some of u's nught have gone blind, The , soil of the region, I should. .explain, coaly tains some alkali, which make's it doubly i irr.tat]e. 711-e waters are also tinged with alkali, and tdrie hurts the hips and thnoal,t. "From Las Vegas on Tinto Oolorado tire .grass was burned brown with the droutik and water was scarce. Of mune we had to depend on ponds or etreoams for our. water supply. Some of it wvas pretty thick—'thick enough,' as one of the boys said, to carry in a gunny i sack.' Bat a mon is not at all parboil - jar when he is. `on the trail.' "Sheep are not great drinkers and can do without water if there are heavy dews on the graze. But on this occasion the air was so dry that dews wvetre light and stud of the • tam there 'was nioste let all. Finally we +tvere without water al- together, eigid for five days the sheep had not a drop of water. "We hoarded the little we had, but at length it was all gone. For two whole days in intense July heat we hadn't a drop for ourselves. Wo chewed our dry bread and salt bacon and thought how good a cold drink would taste. On the evening of the second day the cook took a mule and rode over to a little town eleven utiles away to get water. He hung a jug over one side of the mule and then, just to makeit balance properly, hung a small demijohn on the other, Every pian had a roaring headache the next day. "The she©p had been five days with- out water when we approached a river. We were fully a mile from the bank when the poor animals scented the water and stampeded. In one mad, whirling rush, gathering speed as they went; the bands crowded together and reached'the river in a dense, struggling mass. They plunged in, climbing over each other and piling up until it looked as if we might lose them all. • • "We, of course, plunged after them, towing, dragging and throwing the sheep out of the river until every man was exhausted. When we got the flock out of the tangle we found that: at least 800 Iambs had been. drowned.. I sent my foreman to warn the other outfits to hold their flocks at a safe distance from the river and bring on one band at a time. "Of course, we had to replenish our stores occasionally, . and our cook would go across country to some town near us when we needed something. Our prin- cipal fare was bread, bacon and gravy. Bread was baked every day in the camp kettle, and I can assure you it takes a considerable quantity to feed nine hungry hien. It might be supposed that we had mutton for dinner sometimes, but.we did not, though we had 30,000 sheep in front of us. Few sheep men will eat mutton. I myself would have to bo very hungry, indeed, to eat it. "We follotvcct no•roads, but struck out across open country wherever forage was good. At nightwealways tried to find a hillside for the camp. Sheep have a great many peculiar notions, and will only lie down quietly on a hillside. We made only about Dight inflect a day, as we gave the sheep plenty of time to graze, but we were always tired enough to crawl into our tarpaulins at dark and lost no time in going to sleep. While the rest of us slept the night watch went his rounds, moving about the edge of the camp and keeping it sharp lookout for wolves. "It was early in summer when we started and kept on through midsummer in the dry heat and alkali dust till the grass was browned •by frost. Across Nebraska we took the straightest lino for the Piatte River, which we reached, opposite North Platte—the very first town I had seen in a journey of 000' miles. For tate rest of the trip—some- thing over a hundred miles—we zigzagged bale and forth across the river, avoid- ing the towus and hunting for forage. On one occasion wo approached a large cornfield and I found that we could save three miles by going through it instead of around. I said.: `Take 'eni through,' and we did. On the farther side stood %..man with a shotgun waiting for us. 'What's the damage?' I said. "`Twenty dollars, and not a gent less,' Don't neglect your cough. Statistics show that in New York City alone over 200 people die every week from consumption. And most of these consumptives might Le living now if 'they had not neglected the warning cough. You know how quickly ,S'tco t'.r Emulsion enables you to throw of a cough or cold. ALL, DRUGGISTS: Stec. AND 11.00. s Steiing Si iver as Christmas Gifts EVERYTHING CARRIED THAT IS r'OUND IN THE BIG SHOPS WITHOUT AC- COMPANYING EXPENSES. Jewelry Parlors Write for book. JAS. D. BAILEY 75 Yonge Street N. E. Corner King -rc9 R a i-rco 54,`�F,-•, ... .fid'. MI4444+44##444.44444 444 4. , jA� {�RR PATCHES j'}- iatals illi IWl tl1 Li�4 A � .L;C The 1� �J Ilii ER+U i Ii I .�j# 1LJ r1Iu )iixls tl y w ra tt hue: ' • , 4 dm, A he Few #' lea <jijre of COLD OR after ihv relawat they were tea, ma k+ ria ametis F rmel s' w#'vas ES I "Tbe l4ody�walwrrppe4 bt t Halog far }stet lOtc .,,�.�.. . which 4-+ri+*+t�4•* + Z�ilrt-Q4lc a ti ad .Cure The community ir> ai►dAIto s a + Telt + e • e • # e a • ,b �•a# { Every burial ground had s ve A G Rt i 4asee + tadsi�lt t,anntPy pleasures aro much sun l At this season chapped handle, char• made by the unhappy war. l�Iaa '# bm e>e qtr about by poet and writer, also by ream blwfua, rough, sed al iiia, said other rf funeral like tht>e had: ever talon place iib hood tT ilk lean hers of old city men who have made Beets of the cold are verycommon! the. vielnity, and I doubt if it ever had ' albs tbo jobbs a emintetpart in any State, North . ox alt' In s' It tke 1a6Aiaai load fortunes in the city, who continue to and ZSBI-Bilk, we homely to deet, is South. I hope not." 1 t u1laalig t.tteiti�r$ rant live there and will die tihere. However j �+ they still talk of the merry days down ill great deniatuL The extratn•ditaary wa sof tial. p5 - e kieleMpe, on the farm, and when with bare feet ' Mise E. Bsowu, of hfarkham, ways: Telling the Weather by the Crotid,. wetly has astonished e+vet'yone 'who ileac they paddler around in the streams and "I certainly think Zam-Bak thio finest On the vary Ernest atrenlag, when ally witiatarved its work, amaciialt tlteaa flee +dee- brooks, fishitt3 wvitlr pin hooka and dia. ballet. let: the world, I used it tar east wind was Llow1n aha tinct thick anal tor's eounain, Illi. G'. W. Maelc, :i• piloting tlhemselwes generally, tsuno , chapped bands, and. it ensile tltent ata while en the roach, the sky ohne from hoe - manufacturer. ill Toronto an the rnlalssire They Nave never gone back to the stnooth anal soft as a trtby's hen 1. fly nes otouclrcuaerco n, ht you me I ns, thin iouas n1AAUfaoiurer, After inter vleewi le faint l ' wnc.e has slue tnicd it earl rva3-a it as btringln f talo access Willes overbold you great number of tient.. lire it A spirit of unrest pervades the farm- ' w'•nederful:' very may teal as nearly cart%!n as ono can be t "I have ye.t to findone failure" Pio ala- rue class, says afe Farm Journal. It .'lfr;, M. A. Doyle, of Wieicwon ave. anything to this uncertain world that cera.•viluaatl is Mr. l+fabek of the utauettal valets static! with the women, wives and daugh- no's, Tca•onto, sa •s: "\i e n u��c+l is ti.ithtn twenty tear I:oura. o y Y It tl:c cirrus harden attd tideless toward of thin coinpound, he has anile ttantlstliy fere of the farmers. Z:•uh-1. uk in the eirst place for ehsilrpett sunset, thou be sure that the downpour is barked it. No business man would do *le In every locality you will find limbo- hand's and cold-soces. He found it so eomanq that very night, and you will be with anything but a vee reliable msd- holds where the women are restless, dis• good that we now alwny-ts keep a sap- w uwecnnci tk ia ii ua-i ora dmoieture lailcn kine. Y satisfied • end living under protest, ply do the Itouse, aaul use it for cute, whv! Sn your chtmucy, If this compound won't euro you„ prraar yearning• for city, town or village life bruises, 'burnt+•, etc. It is w,ndentai watch the clouds, dna they aril tell you monsay will lie refunded at saes Tteia with a Ior,„ing that will sooner or later bow soon .ease comes' after /trn Ilia More about tie weather than all tale ba- frank offer is indication enough of the rametera ever wilds. Notice the wand us cense the !welly to move to town. We is algrliud to a sore or injaryt” well, and you will become a forecaster of excellence of the remedy, Write Dar. do net. have to ricer fair for the main • Not only for chapped hn'ida, color- renown. It Is In the morning and the even- 11. 1T. Mark. 40 Yonge street, Toronto, rraeon for the disatisfaction amens, Pere4 cl.ilhlains etc,, but dor cats, ing that the clouds tell you most. {far free booklet. the women. ba-aisea, Uleens, �I•ihllnhig Fro�re�, l,'v}e'd- The worst sign la when the clouds increase �,a lust before runnel And hang over the west- Dr. Mack's The pare:mut velum lies in the self- port ening, festering ww�oiit tel, ai a _see,. ern horizon 1a ru; qed, broken manse% with R. isliriese (or perhaps it is just tbourht- -pimples and eruptions, etc,, gem l.:i' Harsh edges and iadctern:inato; blotchy col- p d iesu1c45) cf the fntl'ter, for as a class h- s cure It al.�o eases the pain and Rheumatism Compound , ors. The angry leek of Such a sky speaks for the farmer sloes less for the real bap- marring of piles, and stops the bleed- Itself. and yortonds wind and rain. piness and pleasure of his 1 tinily than ing. It will be found able to c,oee oicl A Pale yellow sunset, even Though no any other class cf respectable men in wottndsa and sores w+hiuh have defier eIQud3 ap:ear to La visible, 1s also a bad trio world. Soon after'+lie marries he all other treatauert, saAn, and rain ie almhet usky,n. A degree �worne is the dusky, ltaderi sheet speaks of his wife as the "olcl woman," i Mr. J, II. Ilainilty'ln, of Thornbury, of sun vrhlch sometimes be seen ob.curins and she remains just the 'old woman." quotes' en instance of this• Ile says: fcathern cleutLa n Herron ettnie and 111hc rat • Pprn the women on • the farms falls "The first ZarnBtik I 'obtained was g ' sembliug rho strippings of gooaaquilla, are • - • -- s the unceasing treadmill of heapeless for a, friend 'who hand. a small sore on seen how down across the western sky at answered the farmer. I paid and on we drudrery that bliglits the beauty of her t%ernplte. It drawl been treated. enc,, eventnq. Rata without wind cr cog well went. snail and matron until a woman of 25 or twice by a doctor, sial wattle's heal in�ba¢ly be the weather the following morn- a'n'4'e reached the little town of Stevenlooks 40, 1,Vilat incentive has the farm- up for a short time, but would bread: A very sure sign of westerly or eouthwest- son on the 24th day of September just er's wife to look pretty when in most out again. Zaan-Buk healed it up, (whygate is a ntralgbt shirting of cloud across about five months from the day we cases she begins her day's work of and it shows no sigma whatever of re- that, wind+ of ftohe evening sky front which started. The second band had overtaken household drudgery when the chicken, turning. Having had this proof of It the sunset be ruddy, the wind is the us and on wo went through the town to leave their roosts, nor does not end it 'Lana -auk's value, I tried it personally atop ht to n to arrive. The old eaytng, "Red my ranch in the outskirts with the 20,- when they go to roost. On the other far ahnrp stinging !pain ewivah I had whoa the sun seltar s dolts oudless LeAven i000 aisedad sheep, smothered The fog dust we band, sherest, of ten the last one to lie in my Ankle. There was no outward In tbls ease, too, the a•un should appear „ Y p ,- troub,e, lout I found Zam•Bnrk egauully very clearly deflacd at its setting. The sheep came through the entire { Her lord and master, be he ever so catds1aetory in this case 1 have o exit A much more c, rtatn prediction of fine drive in good condition—much better poor, reserves es tc biniself the right to fi.ath in at and think it an veeel'lent weather is Afforded by a really golden sun - than if they had been shipped in."i ].nock off"at times. Hegoes t� "cote," set, eanecloi'e St the evening bo calm or e balm. salplon-colored haze elon; the rim o1 tare 1 to the ero=s-reads store, or to the neigh- ! For all skin ilijttries and: drawees horizon, to m inter. whorl the sun itsett turns �Uarin„ town or city. 7,aum-Duk will be fearer a sure Cure. derd reit at ks setting look out ilio frost, ellrommosidalmullmsgsmommesetaa These little exetirsionq break in onlotto and black and bitted. Rubbed well in Duce the garbs affect. Roughly pneakia;, gaudy clouds with harsh $' Brooches ' the monotony of farm life—far in spite it eurars alieuntati=are, meuitlgia, sot- defined and definite colors are signs of ba+1 of all that is said to the contrary, the ati etc. and rubbed on the chest weather• Delicate quiet tints and soft, 111 - life on the ordinaryfarm under ordin- Mica, ' defined clouds are the accompaniments of a + it eases tighttnees rill aching In, cases tine period, ,ary conditions. is monotonous. of sells and chills. All dnttgJisbs ser! 1 +♦ In writing this article I meant to ex- it at 50 cents a box, or it may 'be ob- i On Lundy Island. patiate on the pleasures of farmers' wives, How small a space they taker How-easilyenumerated! I should say Go,. Toronto, on receipt of price, (; !ngRisisheer from out the depths,,of the hoses for $250, twined post-free from the Zone -Bak great ocean, and towering upwards to. they consist in going to church occas- • • a j wards the skies, lies a remarkable mass pic- nic y, a attending a of semi-annual plc Inutility of the Mere Balloon. ' of jag r on which now dwell a on oralawn party, and of city, is a once -a -year visit to some cite, when . (Brooklyn Citizen.) 1ew seaze o• inhabitants, wile, altiough they have the melancholy pleasure of chore Isnothingto occasioere n to nt'g t tefat can their island is not more than twenty solve the problem of air navigation, and us miles from the English coast, yet, except observing how decidedly behind the times they appear to their city cousins. long as "k¢e wind bloweth where It listeth' in the excursion season, are almost as A week's stay in town, possibly, and and with a force whleh threatens the exist- shut out fromtheir fellows as are the in• then back to the routine of the old once of the balloon there never will be. Habitants of Pitcairn or Norfolk Island life. ovethethe b llaonairship but capable sot being pros But front time to time those rugged Now this Is not fair to the women and pealed by machinery in any direction is beetIing cliffs, Lhasa upheaved crags and girls of the farins. They recognize the a dangerous and wholly uncertain craft when sharp, partly submerged rocks, and those unfairness of the situation and are be- the wind rises and would certainly bo over- scattered irt'cgular masses of hard lime turned and dashed to earth in a tempest, b coming more dissatisfied each year. Is but a mere balloon that ,must go with tiro stone are the scene of grim disaster and there a remedy? There should be. The wind in any case is in no proper sense an ruin, of the destruction of many a gal: fernier in the first place should en- air navigator. rant ship driven by the wild fury of the leaver to help his wife a.nd daughters ;"� 4 elements upon that , sullen, ironbound to make the home surroundings attrac- wo,+e+ww4,'teem+w,'u+h,time'tocuase•emeetee, 3 coast, and of vain cries for help from tive. Women, even of the porest classes, �'Ack for the Purple PackaGe.^ ! those whom the raging waters are en - love the beautiful and long for the little i gulling one by one in that widely foaming refinements of life! In the heart of 99 , sepulchre. Or at other times, when the nearly every woman Is the love of the + island is veiled in a dense mantle of "home beautiful." impervious 'fog, so thick and so opaque There are so many ways of adding to 1 that it is utterly blotted out from view,. the attractiveness of country homes, i a vessel, having lost its reckoning, may, an4 many of them not costly, that framers too late to stop its onward course, find of the most moderate means can dorushinge much to help the women in their ended- FREE e ; in a few moments with a hoarse^era3li fBko5,Gratta ver. I.ancl is cheap all aver theg becoming stranded on those fated rocks, 4( } south. A geed -sized yard fenced in only, if released, to sial: down into tho � • V'lYt� with some of the fencing wire now of- depths' beneath, a hopeless, helpless fered in so many varieties on the mar• •. BEAUTIFUL PICTURE POST CARDS I wreck. let will be a good beginning. Flower -And this fate has recent. befallen one ing bulbs and plants can now be bought To anyone writing us answering the fol-; , y lowing questions wo will gladly send ab- .4of $ritain s mighty battleships. Unwisely • • at little cost. They will beautify the eolutety free, postago prepaid, a set= groping its way in the obscurity of the most commonplace home.. of four of our latest edition of beautiful -fog instead of anchoring untSI Around the dwelling houies there are Picture post cards lithographed in brilliant No Appetite. h colors_:— the winds had wafted away the numberless little conveniences that can An old sea captain had a faithful ser- he introduced ata rice hardlyfelt byest. Name your grocer. murky hall, the powerful ves- vant named John, who invariablypro-p 2nd. Karoo this paper. set struck triose rocks, and in • a the "lord r. vided a penny roll for his master's of the manor." moment the Empire is deprived of one of The day is past forever when the INTERNATIONAL FOOD CO..breakfast, One morning the breakfast the staunchest of her iron bulwarks, and women on the farms will be satisfied to TORONTO, CANADA a room bell rang, and on John going in t work fourteen hours for their bread and , , r a fighting ship costing more than a his master groaned and said, "John, I'rn ' '4tt+'h+R.'b ttdb 8t i, b+W 6tq, .t+R,mnr,niai;, n+a,n,nntw milion sterling is but a useless mass of clothes, The world is moving along. veryia 11.ly the beo ginning n n Dobson. lastisfllg� Let the farmers recognize this fact, j THE SADDEST WAR STORY. Wass." "Indeed, sir," said John, agitated- . and if he wants the wife to keep young 1 • ?4"'' „and to enjoy life, and the girls and the 1 ly; I hope not. What is it, sir? What bows also, to remain nailer the dear old Declared to be That of. the Returning does it feehlike?" "I am very bad, in• rooftree, let him pay a visit to the city, deed, John,"said his ;Waster. My ap• ' and see the city brother spending Isis petite's entirely gone, John; entirely. I time and money in making home entree - can't get through my penny roll." Ell, tive to the women of the family. said John, very much relieved, "is that all, sir? When the baker came round this ^'6 n0 morning all the penny rolls were done, 0lttput—A Yard a Year. sir, so I gave 'you a two -penny one." At $12.00 Diamond Hall is show. ing an especially attractive line of Brooches. An odd price perhaps but you will scarcely object to their not being marked $15.00, The one illustrated (Catalogue No. 31685) is of solid 14k. Gold set with 46 Pearls. It has a pendant attach - went for wearing, on necklet. A Sunburst Brooch (No. 31679) made up of 65 lustrous Pearls is an- other at the same price. We sendufionrequest free of charge our large illustrated catalogue. "RELIANCE BAKING POWDER Makes Rood Healthful. Costs Lees to Use. Gives Bettor Results. Insist on the Genuine. ♦•• SOMETHING ENTIRELY NEW. Plan of the Pacific Coast Securities Company Absolutely Safe The old idea of "nothing new under the sun" is completely put to flight by the Pac- ific Coast Securities Company, of Portland, Oregon, !n handling the stock of the Sea Island Copper Company. This company, whoso officers are business men of many years' ex- perience, have perfected a plan whereby the investor's :Honey Ls under Iris own control and he does not take the stook until earning and accrued dividends are satisfactory. A new booklet, "Something to Set You Think- ing." has just been issued for free distribu- tion, and it is valuable to anyone contem- plating investment in corporate enterprises. USES OF SAWDUST. Too Valuable Now to be Put to the Uses It Once Served. Many awe the uses of sawdust. In the days when the sawdust wagon made its lumbering rounds through the streets of must large cities two commercial uses of sawdust were to sprinkle floors and to (itel.ter lead pdpee from cold and glass bottles from breakage. Near every •sawmill was a vat for the sawdust and it was carted away free by anyone who had any use for at. In this era of the use of by-products sawdust has a commercial value . It is no longer given away, but is sold. One of the accent uses of sawdust is its distfllntion, •resultin gin acetic mid, wood 1 naphtha, wood al«tha and tar. , r tiaww^darat may also be burned tri special furnaces or mixed wit lt>ettle material for fuel. Sawdust, when saturated; with ehemic- als can be effectively used, in the manu- facture of explosives, but it is more particularly by demand in paper making than for any other purpo€•e, Snell a thing as sawdust on the floor of a room ae a substitute for it rug or carpet is now practielly 'unknown. Sawdust has join - eel sand in this respect. Cottcsr felt .rad :been ttuhetituted for eawvclust as a non-ccenduefor of cold in winter. Octw tan be made teem sawdust. It le also need for briquettes, i. e., Nooks of compressed sawdust and wood chips burned for fuel. Even in the pro. tection of glassware against breakage sawdust laate been superseded by exoel- sioar, sawdust being regarded as too valet• able for such use. no Need of a Leader. 'rite sachets rettortere atones speak et a larlmiia lr.laa "aril to the Otter," ate as theut,al� a bridle eoxld tial ler etre 'oral' goes vino - ended, Soldier Killed by His Father. "The saddet war story that ever oc- curred has never been fully .told so far as I know," said a man who followed. Lee to the surrender at Appomattox. "I he - The weavers were being paid off. Some Neve that Mrs. Chestnut in her `Diary were paid 8 cents a yard, some 10, some from Dixie' made a brief mention of the 11 or 12, according to the number of picks incident. in the cloth they .had woven—according, 1 "I had forgotten it until I read the that is, to the cloth's fineness. book. Then it ochre back to me as I "Here you are, George," said the cash- heard it from one who was at the fune- ier. "You have 114 yards at 60 picks -12 ,.ral. The man who told it died twenty cents a yard --or $13.68 for your week's' years ago. work" } "The soldier had enlisted in Georgia "And a good week's work, too," said from his home, where his father remain - George. ed undisturbed through the struggle. The "But I know of weavers," said the cash- young man had fought through the war ler, "who only turn out in a year one without a scratch, save a slight wound single yard of stuff. What do you think which had left hien slightly deaf. This of that?" affliction he had never referred to in "I think it's a lie," George growled any of his letters. "I am alluding," said the cashier, "te "After the surrender he communicated the Gobelin tapestry weavers. These men, with his father, saying he would reach toiling in a Paris factory that the French home on or about a certain date. Travel Government owns, average in the year then was uncertain and he was not posi- from one to three yards of tapestry, ae- tive as to when he 'would arrive. cording to the fineness of the weave and "His father prepared to receive him. the intricacy of the pattern. Believing that his son would come as "These weavers work at hand looms, promised, he arrnnged a spread such as and they put in the filling, or weft, with the conditions of his surroundings at a shuttle held in the left hand. The that time would permit. , He had brought back of the tapestry is ttAvards them— out his best plate that had been secreted a mirror shows them its other side. for a long time, and with gold which Around their .looms are baskets of wool had been exhumed he bought such deli - of every shade and color -14,000 tones civics and substantials as the Southern in all, George. market at that time afforded. "Skilled as the Gobelin weavers are, "As many of the old time neighbors their pay is no bigger than yours. It Its • were living in the vicinity were in - averages $600 a year, cr about $12 a vited to the hone -coming of the return - week. But a dollar in France goes fur- ing soldier. The ex -Confederate arrived thor than it does here. on the old plantation the night before "The Gobelin tapestries, requiring years the earliest date he had mentioned in his in the making, are expensive. There are lettes. It was late and his father .and lots on sale, George, that $30,000 would the family had retired. not buy. "The only creature on the old Trace "New Gobelins you can never buy. The that seemed to be awake was a dog. As French Government gives them all away the soldier entered the gate of the to the great people, the salt of the earth. grotnids the dog began barking. It was a Gobelin tapestry, you'll remem• "The sound aroused the owner of the her, George, that France gave to Alice manor. The country was overrun at the Roosevelt for a wadding gift. time with stragglers, some of whom .had not hesitated to commit burglary. "The father of the returning boy arose. IIe stood in his doorway with his shofgttn and challenged the approaching stranger, as he supposed. "The young man being deaf made no reply, but continued on• his way. The roan in the 'doorway raised his gun and firer. The stranger fell deed. "The 'father summoned his family and the few remaining servants of the ial,in- tntirn. Att investigation Wag Mehl and the traeic truth ivas revealed. "The father, of course'. was inconsola- ble. Ile returned to hie house while the servants carried the lifeless form of his boy to the home that had been old iron. And as the spectator, standing open the cliff immediately above the week, looks dawn upon the dienzantled colossus, a thrill of mutest regret and chagrin throbs through the veine at the speetacle of the dire tragedy which has so disastrously deprived the Empire of one of those mailed defences, which, un- der Providence, keep the jealous foreign- er from flying at our throat, or which enable us to shield those of our own and in the process they inay also enjoy some new sensations. 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