[ RAPS AMERICAN HEROES
. James H. Stark, historian, in his book, "The
\ Loyalists of Massachusetts and the Other Side
112 \ of the American Revolution," calmly tears the
/'j. 'A halos from Ihe heads of the ancestors of many
Vfjf//, ' 'lr4 of Massachusetts' first families, who pride them
selves on their honorable lineage. The book is
\ a most damaging document to the cause of the
V Sons of the Revolution and other kindred soci
l* eties and one of the boldest statements concern
ing the real lives of some of the foremost men of
L . x revolutionary days.
* n a c^a P ter devoted to the causes of the Rev-
olution the author states: "In Virginia the revolu
t'onar-v movement of the poor whites, or 'crack
erß'' led l,y r ' atric,{ Henry, was against the
A'" ji" ■M i planter aristocracy. It was only very slowly and
very deliberately that Washington identified him
self with the disunionist cause."
Patrick Henry was one of the most unreliable men living, according to
Historian Stark. Byron called him a forest-horn Demosthenes and Jefferson,
wondering over his career, exclaimed: "Where he got that torrent of language
Is inconceivable. I have frequently closed my eyes while he spoke and when
he was done asked myself what he had said without being able to recollect
a word of it."
"He had been successively a storekeeper, a farmer and a shopkeeper, but
he failed In all these pursuits and became a bankrupt at 23," declares the
author. "Then he studied law a few weeks and practiced a few years. Finally
he embarked on the stormy sea of politics. One day he worked himself into
a tine frenzy and in a most dramatic manner demanded 'liberty or death,"
although he had both freely at his disposal.
"John Adams joined the disunionists probably because he saw that if the
revolution was successful there would be great opportunity for advancement
under the new government. This proved to be the case."
The author, by quoting from a letter which Adams wrote, shows Boston
that Adams was a defaulter and did not make proper return of taxes and that
his sureties had to pay about $5,000.
Stark takes up, with careful detail, the Boston mobs and the events lead
ing up to the Revolution. In telling of the Boston massacre, he says:
"The rioters repeatedly challenged the soldiers to fire if they dared and
the torrent of coarse and profane abuse poured upon the soldiers is aston
ishing even in its echoes across the century and would furnish material for an
appropriate inscription on the Attucks monument."
NEMESIS OF THE BEEF TRUST
~ "Who is this man, Pierre P. Garven, who dares
to go after us?" inquired one of the beef barons
recently indicted at Jersey City.
£ Vn S* "You might get some information as to his
£, JH fighting qualities and ability as an official by in
ipwwfe ISfej, N& quiring of the Standard Oil Company," was the
i"if reply.
m yU By this it is shown that the young prosecutor
VK Is of the county of Hudson, in New Jersey, having
\ 'frgb / once locked horns with the greatest of all trusts
' I and came out winner. Is fitted for the great battle
ahead of him when he goes into court to try the
Jkv. 21 packers of the beef combine for conspiracy.
MnjIIUIK hlllm/ / Jlr ' Garven is not a reformer in the sense in
!r -Ay \ ' > ■*' believes in the enforcement of the laws. Like
Joseph W Folk of Missouri, Mr. Garven says the
the laws should be obeyed by all aiike, but if the laws as they appear in the
statute books are bad laws they should be repealed.
Mr. Garven started out in life just like thousands of other boys. He was
born at Bayonne and his first work was for the Jersey Central Railway Com
pany. He studied law at night and after being admitted to the bar served the
same company in the legal department. Next we hear of him attacking a
corrupt Democratic ring. He lost the first bout but tried a second time and
was elected mayor of Bayonne. Then it was that he tackled the oil trust.
He did not think the Rockefeller concern was paying enough taxes. If there's
anything a trust hates it's taxes, so Mr. Garven had a fight on his hands
from start to finish; but he succeeded in tacking $2,500,000 onto the assess
ment against the Standard. He had tried to add $5,500,000, but was satisfied
with the compromise.
GREAT BRITAIN'S SPEAKER
~T~~_ ~~l The British house of commons the other day
re-elected James W. Lowther speaker and for on
rv»»' XX| ' ' ,<• indeterminate period the right honorable gentle
' >') A man wlll preside over the lower branch of the
I ' >? i mother of parliaments as does "Uncle Joe" Can
l' non at Washington.
('• 4 'he Right Hon. Jomes W. Lowther follows
C ,'M 0,,• ' a different system from that of the speaker of
'MS the hoURG of representatives at the capital of
OMb rrfflWwf 1 V&fy 11)0 United Cltates. Nobody ever calls the British
' 'yyffw speaker a "czar," a term that has been applied
U -Mi -W/'XV' to American speakers. None of the members of
/' ll nriiWH ' the h0,13e of commons ever gets into an argu
/ L, ment with the speaker. There is no fight against
'"'r' s 7 / v '' ■'* * l ' B rules.
1 Prior to his election Speaker Lowther had
been as keen a partisan as anybody. To his Tory
mind a liberal was only a polite anarchist. The merest mention of home
rule for Ireland made him see red. He spoke his mind inside and outside the
house with much vehemence and he was not a man to mince words. He
called a right honorable spade a right honorable spade and if any man within
the sound of his voice didn't like it he could lump it.
But when he became speaker he became politically dense. He had not
and must not have —a political opinion. So far as party politics is con
cerned he doesn't know anything.
The emoluments of the speaker of the British house of commons are
$25,000 a year, an official residence, $5,000 a year toward its equipment, a web
of broadcloth every Christmas and a buck and a doe each year from the
master of buckhounds. When the speaker wants to retire from office he gets
a pension of $20,000 a year.
COL. GORDON S SUCCESSOR
Leroy Percy, who recently was elected United
States senator to fill the unexpired term of the
,ate A - J - McLaurin, is a lawyer and planter, the
son of Col. A W. Percy, who won his military
title in the confederate army and also was a law-
W yer and planter. The family, one of the oldest in
Mississippi, has its home in the rich Yazoo delta
£>! country. Senator Percy lives at Greenville, a
Ty town of some 8,000 population, which is situated
| on the Mississippi river and is the county seat of
' /X Washington county.
J\ The real test ° f pol ' ular o l>l'iion on the sena
ixw/'' torship question will come in Mississippi next
/ year ' with ttle hol(iin S of the Democratic primary,
at. which the voters will determine Percy's sue
rWwj??,/ ■ /.< ■ cessor. Percy's election came after a long fight
in the legislature. He was nominated on the
fifty-eighth ballot of the Democratic caucus —nomination being equivalent to
election—by a majority of five votes over former Gov. Vardaman. That pic
turesque character has announced his intention of being a candidate at the
coining primary and he undoubtedly will poll a large vote. It is presumed
that Mr. Percy intends to make the primary race also, for the term for which
he has just been elected will expire March 3, 1913.
Born during the civil war, Senator Percy is considered a representative
of both the old,and new spirit in Mississippi, lie showed himself a good poli
tician in the fight for the senatorship and was the only candidate to de
velop strength steadily .as th<? contest progressed. His wife is a Louisiana
creole;.one of his is a pfonjinei— lawyer of Meniphis, another brother
is ono of the wealthiest business "men of Birmingham Ala.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1910.
PROFITABLE DAIRY HERD
DIFFICULT TO ACQUIRE
It Requires Time, Patience and Perseverance—llish Ideal
Must foe Constantly Striven For.
(By MILLER PURVIS.)
To build up a dairy herd is not a
short task. It requires in the first
place a fixed ideal in the mind of the
owner. He must set his stakes at a
mark toward which he must endeavor
to move constantly, advancing from
year to year.
There is a well-known dairy herd
In Illinois, the owner of which has
set his mark higher and higher for
years, every time reaching the highest
limit by following a set method.
This man cares nothing for recorded
pedigrees. He prefers pure-bred cows
If they reach up to his mark, other
wise he tak«s those of any blood or
Three Daughters of Noted Jersey Bull, "Eminent."
breeding. When he buys a cow he in
sists on the privilege of milking her
several times and testing her milk
with the Babcock tester.
When he began the dairy business,
a poor man, he set his stakes at 200
pounds of butter a year from each
cow. This was not to be the average
of the herd, but the lowest limit for
each individual cow. As rapidly as
the cows failed to reach this mark
they were sold and replaced with
betterones.
Calves from the best cows were
kept for members of the herd, and
thoroughly tested after they came in
milk, to be retained or rejected ac
cording to the test they showed.
In the course of time the 200-
pound mark was reached and the limit
was raised 50 pounds, and by follow
ing the same method he built up his
herd to the new mark.
Then he set the limit at 300 pounds
in a year, and toward this he is pro
gressing as rapidly as possible, al
though as the limit is raised progress
Is slower.
He has now been in the business
long enough to select heifers from his
own herd which come up to his re
quirements. Although he ceased a
few years ago to sell his milk to a
butter factory, he still insists on the
butterfat test as to the merits of his
cows, and his well-earned reputation
makes his milk in such demand that
he cannot supply all that is called for.
The dairyman who does not set a
high mark and test his cows regularly
and systematically, will always carry
in the herd some cows who are kept at
a loss, to reduce the average of the
herd.
It seems like a strong statement to
make, but it is no doubt true, as was
said by the dairy commissioner of a
great dairy state, that if the poorer
half of the cows of the state were sold
off the dairy profits of the state would
be doubled.
If but the better half of the cows
were kept the feed consumed by the
METHOD OF STABLING CALVES
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The Illustration shows a very con
venient method for stabling calves.
The calves are kept in good sized
pens, several calves together, allowing
much more chance for exercise than
when each calf Is confined separately
in a small stall. The calves are al
lowed to run loose in the pens, except
at feeding time, and are then easily
fastened in the stanchions while
drinking. They should bo kept in the
stanchion for a half hour or so, and
fed grain, as they are sure to suck
each other if released immediately
after drinking. young calves
should be kept iii'separate pens up to
two or three weeks'Of age,, as it is a
difficult matter to keep from
sucking bcioi'o they learn to eat hay
unprofitable ones would be saved, the
work would be halved and the profits
from those kept would be more than
double those of the herds as now con
stituted.
The volume of butter and milk pro
duction would be decreased, no doubt.
If this course were pursued, and the
consumer would be called upon to
pay higher prices; but the dairyman
would double his profits, and that
should be the object sought in any
business.
Many dairymen are trying to find
the method which will allow them
to keep the largest number of cows
on a given acreage. A much better
object would be sought if they were
to try to secure the largest possfble
number of cows which will produce
a pound of butter every day for ten
months of every year of their activ
ities.
Making Butter.
To produce best butter the cow
should be a good, healthy animal, kept
on good pasture and supplied with
pure water. The stable should be
clean at all times, especially during
milking. The cream should be
churned at a proper time and tem
perature, and worked until the milk
is all out. I salt my butter with 12
ounces of salt to every ten pounds,
says a writer in Baltimore American.
My customers pay 30 cents a pound,
and come to the house to get their
supply, which is packed in five-pound
jars. This brings me more clear
money than any other way I can dis
pose of the produce. 1 make only 20
to 30 pounds a week and use about
250 drops of vegetable coloring mat
ter to 100 pounds.
Comfortable and Cheap.
L. T. Foss, of North Adams, Mass.,
has built an ideal poultry house from
canvas arid old newspapers. The can
fas is nailed to studding 18 inches
apart, and the newspapers, after be
ing folded so they were 12x18 inches,
containing 32 thicknesses, were nailed
on the same as shingles. These were
covered with canvas which was then
painted.
Be Kind to Sows.
If a sow heavy with pigs should
stray ir>to your yard, don't "shoo" her
with the hoe handle. Better shut her
up and notify your neighbor. He'll
thank you, and then besides one of
your sows may break out some day.
Sheep for the Farm.
Nothing need be wasted on the
farm where sheep are kept—tufts of
grass, weeds and aftermaths and odd
bits of feed can all be utilized and
converted into wool and mutton.
and grain. By fastening them in the
stanchions in this way each calf may
be fed separately and get only its
own shaie of grain. The calf pen
should be well lighted and clean and
should open into an exercising yard
where the calves nmy be turned out
whenever the weather permits.
Killing Chickens.
Chickens killed for market or for
} the home table should have the head
; severed by cutting off; (hen the body
j should be hung up to let the blood
I thoroughly. drain out. This .insures
the whbk',s<yn«ness, uf. the meat. If
I she ragged utek is.iinsightly, the skin
j may be' pulled'-over it and tied with
j a bit of twine.
$3.50 RECIPE CURES WEAK
KIDNEYS, FREE
RELIEVES URINARY AND KIDNEY
TROUBLES, BACKACHE,
STRAINING, SWELLING, ETC.
Stops Pain in the Bladder, Kidneya
and Back.
Wouldn't it be nice within a week or
so to begin to say goodbye forever to
the scalding, dribbling, straining, or too
frequent passage of urine; the fore
head and the back-of-the head aches;
the stitches and pains in the back; the
growing muscle weakness; spots be
fore the eyes; yellow skin; sluggish
bowels; swollen eyelids or ankles; leg
cramps; unnatural short breath; sleep
lessness and the despondency?
I have a recipe for these troubles
that you can depend on, and if you
want to make a quick recovery, you
ought to write and get a copy of it.
Many a doctor would charge you $3.50
just for writing this prescription, but
I have it and will be glad to send it
to you entirely free. Just drop me a
line like this: Dr. A. E. Robinson.
K-252 Luck Building, Detroit, Mich.,
and I will send it by return mail in a
plain envelope. As you will see when
you get it, this recipe contains only
pure, harmless remedies, but it has
great healing and pain-conquering
power.
It will quickly show you its power
once you use it, so I think you had bet
ter see what it is without delay. I will
send you a copy free—you can use it
and cure yourself at home.
Driven by Hunger to Desperation.
Mrs. Mode had just returned hom»
from the country, to discover her pre
viously well-stocked wardrobe empty.
"Good gracious, Herbert,," she cried to
her husband, "where are all my
clothes? And what in the world ia
that big black patch out on the lawn?"
"Nelly," he replied mournfully, "after
I had starved for two whole days, you
wrote me that the key of the pantry
was in the pocket of your bolero. Well,
I don't know a bolero from a box
plaited ruffle, and I was desperate, so
I took all the things out on the lawn
and burned them. Then I found the
key among the ashes." —Success Mag
azine.
Record for Strangeness.
A Niagara Falls man tells this
story:
"A Buffalo man brought a relative
from Scotland here to see our grand
spectacle. The two gazed at the fall
in silence a long time. Then the Buf
falo man heaved a sigh and said:
" 'Ah, Cousin Donald, did you ever
see anything so beautiful and strange?'
"The Scotchman, after a moment's
thought, answered calmly:
" 'Weel, for bonnie, yon's a richt;
but for strange, no—fur I once saw
in the Town o' Peebles a peacock wit'
a wooden leg.' "
"How Sharper Than Serpent's Tooth."
An irritable old farmer and his un
gainly, slouching son were busy grub
bing sprouts one hot, sultry day, when
the old man suddenly stumbled over
a small stump.
"Gosh durn that everlasting stump!"
he exclaimed. "I wish it was in hell!"
The son slowly straightened up
from his work and gazed reproachfully
at his father.
"Why, you oughtn't to say that,
pap,"he drawled. "You might stumble
over that stump ag'in some day."—
Everybody's.
Cold Meat.
Mrs. Bacon. —They say these cold
storage houses are responsible for the
high price of meat.
Mr. Bacon. —Is that so? Well, I
hope we'll have no more cold meat for
lunch, then.—Yonkers Statesman.
A Tough One.
Redd.—Why do they call that prize
fighter the Young Bantam, do you
suppose?
Green.—l'm sure I don't know. A
young bantam is not supposed to be
tough.—Yonkers Statesman.
The Point oT View.
Newlywed.—What, S3O for a hat!
Why, it's simply ridiculous, my dear.
Mrs. Newlywed.—That's what I
thought, Harold; but you said it was
all we could afford.—Lippincott's.
A LITTLE THING
Changes the Home Feeling.
Coffee blots out the sunshine fro«
many a home by making the mother,
or some other member of the house
hold, dyspeptic, nervous and irritable.
There are thousands of cases wher«
the proof is absolutely undeniable.
Here is one.
A Wis. mother writes:
"I was taught to drink coffee at an
early age, and also at an early age be
came a victim to headaches, and as I
grew to womanhood these headaches
became a part of me, as I was scarcely
ever free from them.
"About five years ago a friend urged
me to try Postum. I made the trial
and the result was so satisfactory that
we have used it ever since.
"My husband and little daughter
were subject to bilious attacks, but
they have both been entirely free from
them since we began using Postum in
stead of coffee. I 110 longer have
headaches and my health is perfect."
If some of these tired, nervous, ir
ritable women would only leave off
coffee absolutely and try Postum they
would find a wonderful change in their
life. It would then be filled with sun
shine and happiness rather than weari
ness and discontent. And think what
an effect it would have on the family,
for the mood of the mother is largely
responsible for the temper of the chil
dren.
Read "The Road to Wellville,? in
pkgs. "There's a Reason."
Kvrr reml tlie nitove Idler? A new
one ««u>enr* from time to time. Tliey
lire genuine, (rue, and full of liuuiua
IntereNt.
HAVE YOU TRIED THIS?
I Simple Prescription Said to Work
Wonders for Rheumatism.
This has been well known to the best
doctors for years and is now given to
the public. "Get one ounce of syrup of
Sarsaparilla compound and one ounce
Toris compound. Then get half a pint
of good whiskey and put the other two
ingredients into it. Take a tablespoon
ful of this mixture before each meal
and at bed time. Shake the bottle
before using." Good effects are felt
the first day. Many of the worst cases
here have been cured by this. Any
druggist has these ingredients on hand
or will quickly get them from his
wholesale house.
His Sole Resting Place.
A precise Boston teacher spent a
quarter of an hour in impressing upon
her class the right pronunciation of
the word vase.
Next day, hoping to reap the fruits
of her labor, she asked: "Now, John
nie, tell me! What do you see on the
mantlepiece at home?"
And Johnnie piped forth. "Father's
feet, ma'am."—Harper's Hazar.
A Big Shortage in Seeds.
salons comes there
? fi'slitful shortages in seed corns:
also in some varieties of seed barley!
oats, rye, wheat, (tax, clovers and tha
early varieties of potatoes.
This is particularly noticeable In t'f
and oat and potato growing
Thus: The great states of Nebraska and
Jowa are suffering from a dearth of seed
corn as never before.
Thft wide-awake farmers In these and
other states are placing their orders early
for above seeds in order to be on the safe
slue, and we can but urge farmers to
write at once to the John A. Salzer Seed
Co., Box 182, 1., a Crosse, Wis., for their
farm seed and corn catalogue.
The magnitude of the business of this
long established firm can be somewhat
estimated when one knows that in ordi
nary years they sell:
50,000 bushels of elegant seed corn.
100,000 bushels of seed potatoes.
100,000 bushels of seed oats.
50,000 bushels of seed wheat.
100,000 bushels of pure clover and timo
thy seeds, together with an endless
amount of other farm seeds and vege
table seeds, surh as onions, cabbages, car
rots, peas, beans, lettuce, radishes, toma
toes, etc.
There Is one thing about the Salzer firm
—they never disappoint. They always fill
your order on account of the enormous
stocks they carry.
Send them S cents for a package of their
great SSOO prize Corn and Catalogue. Ad
dress, John A. Salzer Seed Co., Box IS2,
La Crosse, Wis.
Free Thinker.
"Whitcomb is an independent
thinker."
"He is?"
"Yes; he even dares to say the
clock in the railway station is wrong."
—Buffalo Express.
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh
that Contain Mercury,
aa mercury will surely destroy the sense of smt3
and completely derange the whole system when
entering it through the mucous surfaces. Such
articles should never be used except on prescrip
tions from reputable physicians, as the damage they
will do Is ten fold to the good you can possibly de
rive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured
by F. J. Cheney A Co.. Toledo, 0.. contains no mer
cury. and Is taken internally, acting directly upon
the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In
buying Hall's Catarrh Cure bo sure you eet the
genuine. It is taken internally and made In Toledo*
Ohio, by F. J. Cheney A Co. Testimonials free.
Bold by Druggists. Price. 75c. per bottle.
Tako Hall's Family rills for constipation.
Sporting Definition.
Tommy.—Pop, what is hope?
Tommy's Pop.—Breaking a pair to
draw to a flush, my son.—Philadelphia
Record.
PERKY DAVIS* PAINKILI.KU
when thoroughly rubbed In relieves strains an%
sprains in Joints or muscles from any cause. All
druggists, 25,35,0Uc sizes. Large bottles the cheapest*
It's difficult to convince a woman
that other women are as good as they
want her to think they are.
TO CURE A COtn IN ONE DAY
Tak« LAXATIVE BKoMo Quinine Tablets,
t'rugfflstsrefund money If It fails to cure. &. W.
liKOv U S signature Is on each box. 25c.
Father Time was probably nursed
in the lapse of ages.
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