THE PATTON COURIER Farming in Alaska Seattle, Wash.—Touring southeast- ern Alaska for an inspection of natu- ral resources, Secretary of Agricul ture Jardine will find farm life of the Far North in the midst of a colorful transition. The “bachelor farmer,” whose pio- neer struggles are written into the agricultural history of every frontier, is slowly passing from the land he cleared of timber and is being re- placed by men with families. Where his shack stood the new farmer is building houses and barns and his one-crop system of farming, is giving way to diversified activities, including the production of live stock. Needing little and obtaining that principally from the forests, the early settler lived under conditions impos- sible for a man with a family. He planted his wheat or potatoes in the spring, left during the summer months to earn a “grubstake” and returned in the fall to harvest a crop that had received no attention. SUCH IS LIFE Long-required diversified farming is coming in with the families. The small dairy farm grows more common and many vegetables are grown. In the region near Fairbanks the bache- lor still predominates, and since the area is adapted to wheat and pota- toes, it may take longer to introduce diversified systems. Southeastern Alaska is rough, rug- ged and covered with timber. Com- paratively little land in this region is available for cultivation. The rich farms are in the great Tanana valley, which, with the Yukon and Susitna valleys, has the essentials to make it eventually the granary of Alaska, in the fertile Matanuska valley and con- tiguous territory. The secretary's plan to visit the southeastern section was motivated by his desire to see at close range the infant forest industry, other natural resources and the possibilities for preservation of wild life. This neweat Alaskan industry has A Labor-Saving Device none of the stampede characteristics of earlier enterprises. The gold rush brought rapid but short-lived growth in many places, but the paper-making industry is expected to be permanent. Scientifically developed, costly news- print plants, with strict government supervision of natural resources, have been planned with a view to encourag- ing prosperous cities and towns. Water-power rights for construction of mills at Ketchikan, the secretary's first stop in Alaska, and at Juneau have been granted by the government, and two companies are making pre- liminary investigation for actual con- struction work. The United States will be paid for the timber as it is cut, and cutting will be done in accordance with for- estry principles. The southern coast is covered with thick forests, and 95 per cent of the timber is understood to be excellent for the manufacture of paper. Long Search for Honest Man Ends Summitville, Colo.—For 24 years Jack Pickens kept secret the location of a “peak of gold” in the San Juan mountains until he could find a finan- cial backer whom he would trust to help him open the treasure vault locked by nature. Today Pickens and Judge Jesse C. Wiley, the honest man whom the pros- pector found after a search of a quar- ter of a century, are sharing equally the fortune Pickens discovered. While prospecting over the hills about the Little Annie mine in 1904 Pickens stumbled on a protruding bowlder. He tapped the rock with his hammer. A piece broke off, revealing a layer of almost solid gold. Another blow dislodged more gold-lined slabs. Beneath the surface of that bowlder, the prospector concluded, lay a peak of gold, Determining to keep the dis- covery a secret, Pickens also resolved to stay near his potential fortune. He obtained a job with a small force of miners at the Little Annie and then began his quiet hunt for an honest man with enough money to exploit the “strike.” Several times the owners of the Little Annie mine started tunnels to- ward the golden peak, and Pickens held his breath, He was greatly re- lieved as each of these projects was abandoned, one within eighty feet of his hidden treasure. Finally the prospector met the man whom he could trust. He and Judge Wiley formed a partnership, obtained long-time leuses on 40 mining claims, including the golden peak, and within six weeks realized $114,000 from the ore taken off only that part of the bowlder showing above the grass. Since then half a million dollars has been hauled away and yellow metal worth many times that amount still is in sight. Pickens has a wife and thirteen children with whom to share the for- tune. By Charles Sughroe MY WORD, 1S THAT A HOLE IN tern Newspaper Union SO | KIN LOOK OUT AND TELL WHEN IT | LOW AIM By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK Dean of Men, University of Illinois. E WERE visiting Fortress Mon- roe, and were being shown about by the officers in charge. I had never seen artillery of that sort and I was interested in all the details and calculations incident to accurate marksmanship. “Would you like tn see the target practice?” the officer asked me. “We are going out this morning, and I should be glad to have you accom- pany me.” It was a new experience to me, and 1 accepted his invitation eagerly. I WINS ANOTHER TITLE Lord David Burghley, titled mem- ber of the English Olympic team, just after he had won the 400 meter hurdles championship at the Olympic games held at Amsterdam. Will Study Old Bones Washington.—Relics of a buffalo hunt held by primitive men near Fol- som, N. M., thousands of years before white men came to America continue to puzzle and attract scientists. In response to a telegram from Folsom received by the Smithsonian institu- tion, reporting new discoveries of stone arrows points and fossil bison bones, Neil Judd, a Smithsonian an- thropologist, with other scientists, has set out for the scene of the excava- tions to examine the evidence. The excavations are being conduct- ed by the Colorado Museum of Nat- ural History and the American Mu- seum of Natural History. The stone arrow-heads used in the hunt have been found close to bones of bison supposed to have become extinct in America long before men appeared on this continent. If the stone weapons were shot at this liv- ing game, as the evidence indicates, the conclusion of some scientists is that men must have inhabited Ameri- ca at least 25,000 years, possibly even several hundred thousand years. No evidence has ever been discovered in this country to show that the types of bison found with the arrow points have lived in America in recent times. Dr. Oliver P. Hay of the Smithso- nian institution is now engaged in studying some of the bones of these extinet bison. The bones found at Fol- som belong to bison with flattened horns different from any living form, Doctor Hay states. had never thought much about the details of aiming and firing one of these huge guns. Without considering the matter I had taken for granted that one aimed directly at what one expected to hit. I did not stop to consider that gravity pulled the shell down as it was hurled on its way, and that one must aim high if he is to hit even a low object at a dis- tance. It seemed to me as I watched the muzzle of the great gun pointing into the air that the marksman was shooting into tke clouds instead of aiming at the target a few feet above the surface far out in the ocean. I began more intelligently to appreciate what the poet mefnt when he said: “Not failure but low aim is erime.” If one would hit an object at any distance away he must aim above it, for the gravity drags the bullet down. It is equally true of other sorts of endeavor in life; we fail very often from aiming too low. Kent was dropped from college last year because of poor scholarship. He had meant to pass his work, but he had no ambition to do well. The last thing he wished to be was an “hon- or man.” It seemed to him a foolish waste of time to do better than the average, and feeling so he aimed low, and missed the mark, failing in most of his work. Father and mother were very much grieved and Kent himself was humili- ated and begged to be given another chance. He seemed like a man newly converted and the dean tried him again. He was readmitted on condi- Something of a Novelty for Mars’ Dogs Only a man’s phil- osophy will enable him to bear the bur- dens imposed upon him by the philos- ophy of others. that at least three-fourths of his work should be passed with a grade of C. Now C is far below’ the average of college, so that the mark at which Kent was to aim was not a very remote one, and not very hard to hit. I had a letter from his father to- day. The boy has failed again. He had fully intended t® get no grade below C, but the trouble was that he had had no intention of making A or even B. € was the mark at which his artillery was directed and he aimed too low. He failed one course and barely passed another and the second chance for which he had begged was lost. “It seems too bad,” his father wrote, “that he should have lost his opportunity by so slight a margin.” It does indeed, but Kent's failure but illustrates the failures of many men in business or in professional life. They are satisfied to be com- monplace; they aim too low. (©, 1928, Western Newspaper Union.) tion Old Ideas Must Go Neosho, Mo.—Old-fashioned ideas in Neosho have got to go, if they have to be pulled out by the roots. At least that seems to be the decree of a group of the town’s citizens, who, wearing masks, uprooted several concrete posts and severed the iron chains that com- posed the “hitching rack” on the court- house square. 1 BBB R BOR EB REC ECHR OB BCRCBCBOROECH EY a DIPPING : INTO SCIENCE i ¢ IRAE : The Dog’s Jungle Hang- 2 @overal times befcre lying down is said to be because his ances- tors found it necessary to do so. The dog, being . domesti- cated animal, is a wild forefathers that lived in jungle-grass. If they wanted a comfortable bed they had to '*n around several times to leve! the grass. Today's dog goes through the same pi. 38s instinctively. (©). 1928, Western Newspaper Union.) < Over 3 "mn 5 8 The reason a dog turns around survivor Jf & Ex-Kaiser Nears End of Wood-Chopping Job Doorn, Holland.—Former Em- peror William II of Germany has practically completed his woodman’s task on his own estate. The imperial wood chopper must go elsewhere if he wants to take his favorite exer- cise of felling, sawing or chop- ping wood. In his labors on the Hohen- zollern estate, now covering a period of about eight years, the ex-kaiser was careful to remove only dead trees or such as ham- pered others in their growth or destroyed the symmetry of his park. It takes half an hour at a brisk pace to walk around the whole estate, which is inclosed by a high wire fence surmount- ed by barbed wire. Dies in Coffin Budapest.—For years Victor Kas- sau, actor, slept in a coffin, fearing death was approaching. He has just been found dead in it. Species of Dogwoods Cornus Florida, the common dog: wood species in the United States, be- longs to the genus Cornus. There are about 25 species of this tree which are indigenous to Europe, Asia and North America. IN GOLFING TOGS which comfort and chic are fully blended. colors. Daag sett Mary Astor, who enjoys golfing be- tween work on motion pictures, wears exceedingly workmanlike costumes in success- She generally selects sweater combinations of contrasting Mascots Go With Byrd to South Pole Here are Virginia and Samson, the two young mascots who will have the honor of accompanying Commander Byrd's expedition to the South Polar regions. POPULAR SPEAKER Everything had been done to wake | the meeting a success. A large hall had been engaged and a widely known speaker was to attend. The great man arrived in rather a ruffled frame of mind, and, after a hurried glance or two about him, beckoned to the chairman. “I should like a glass of water on my table,” he said. “To drink?” the chairman asked owlishly. “Oh, no,” came the sarcastic reply; “l make a habit of concluding my speech with a high dive.”—London Answers. 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Dead Notes When Geraldine Farrar was a little girl in Medford, Mass., and first began to show her musical talent, she drove the neighbors frantic with her bud- ding vocal efforts. “Do you really have to do that?’ a little boy in the neighborhood asked { her one day. “Of course I do,” declared “Jerry.” “Beautiful © music always seems to haunt me!” “That’s because you murder It first!” decided the wag and the future grand opera star crossed his name off her party list.—Los Angeles Times. oe OLD FOLKS SAY DR. CALDWELL WAS RIGHT Soawo The basis of treating sickness has not changed since Dr. Caldwell left Medical College in 1875, nor since he placed on the market the laxative prescription he had used in his practice. He treated constipation, biliousness, headaches, mental depression, indigestion, sour stomach and other indispositions entirely by means of simple vegetable laxatives, herbs and roots. These are still the basis of Dr. Caldwell’'s Syrup Pepsin, a combination of senna and other mild herbs, with pepsin. The simpler the remedy for constipa~ tion, the safer for the child and for you. And as you can get results in a mild and safe way by using Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin, why take chances with strong drugs? A bottle will last several months, and all can use it. It is pleasant to the taste, gentle in action, and free from narcotics, Elderly people find it ideal. All drug stores have the generous bottles, or write “Syrup Pepsin,” Dept. BB, Monticello, Illinois, for free trial bottle. Literally Brown—The doctor said he'd put me on my feet again in six weeks. Smyth—And did he? Jrown—Yes, I had to sell my car to pay his bill.—London Express. Corn Made Into Starch More than 70,000,000 bushels of eorn in this country were converted into starch in the last year. When we think long and seriously fs when we suddenly discover that the apparent regard of some one for Been touring in a flivv, He Has To “The man who gives in when he is wrong,” said the orator, “is a wise man, but the man who gives in when he is right is audience. Good Reason for It eh? What was the cause of it? Farmer (at roadside)—The commiis- sioner of roads had a breakdown here several weeks ago. Last Request Doctor—About nine patients out of Is there anything I can before we begin? Dusky Patient—Yassah. Kindly hand me my hat. College Bred “College certainly has made my boy over.” “You ean hardly recognize him now, eh?” “No—he hardly recognizes me.” “Married,” said a weak voice in the | ten don’t live through this operation, do for you us is sincere. GIRL KEPT LOSING WEIGHT | | Lydia E. 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Gerrus, Box 476, Scohey, Montana. | | | | | Splitting and shavir school house, Sept.- worial Park. ne 1 By ELMO FTE] nea fifty tow tor to | tora site way and only officials and the ville, Dover an Ohie, gathered | to dedicate the r Schoenbrunn sch been erected the first school build That the dedic lar building and the restoration more than local ed to by the fa visitors from ot the ceremonies ai the renaissance « are being followe for its significan the borders of For Schoenbrunn Indian mission, built by the whi the Old Northw was later to attr: to its fertile land first church and tl building in that | and there, too, first peace and t west of the Alleg facts which give i national history al ation is complete brunn will stand the spirit of the | who, with their B teachings, did thei the West as truly pioneers who carr ness the rifle and , The story of th mission at Schoen ter mission towns inadenhutten is a heroism, a tale o and tragedy. All « the names of two John Heckewelder berger—and most From 1737, when | years old, until 18 he gave every day one years to the ¢ sion of nis life- Christianity to th Middle West. Early ‘in 1771 over into Ohio an that yea arrived chunk, the principal ware tribe (now Ohio) where he Protestant sermon Ohio. He came bac 1772, and, the chief having suggested t mission among the gan to look around While doing this sparkling spring w name of Schoen Spring) and resolve mission there. So Pennsylvania to re later with 28 Chris work was begun at Ing of homes, a chu On August 23, Heckewelder and R with more than 200 arrived and the next aries and their Ing out the | town of | formulated the first adopted in the state governr.ent of thei middle of September finished and services For awhile the m perous and peace reigned in the tow The “Ohi Do you remember post at the corner of the Ohlo road? It was a simple bos filozer point, and mq post; once upon a t painted white, with Probably that was as time when that nan had some meaning, fi dle of the last centur
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