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EL PASO HERALD
I AMERICA'S FARM PLAN FOR SOLDIERS
I WILL BE DONE IN BIG BUSINESS WAY
By-
Frank G. Carpenter
(CopyrUM. 191$. by
Frank a. Carpenter).
"Your Sweetheart For A Real Victory
if
ByNELLBRINKLEY
Copyright 'II. International Feature Serv.ee s
I An Empire Is To Be Reclaimed Amid Deserts Richer Than Egypt and Five Times
Its Size and Work Will Be Done by Heroes Prom France.
TTeek-End Kdition December 7-8 1918.
fr IM 11 III I
XTTASHINGTON" D. C Dec 7 i
W "Farms for soldiers!
Yes and for every man who is Trtll-
j to work -when ha comes home
fr -m France!
Not for hundreds or thousands .but
far hundreds of thousands and per-
laps millions If that many converted
bj the open air life of the arfiiy
should -want to go back to the landf
This in brief is the project upon
winch the government Is working. It
is a big project bigger than the nuas-
tion involved In. giving life work fpr
tbe soldier. It is a project whiah
thus beginning- promises to develop
into reclamation of waste land that
w.ll increase our national wealth by
b;iaons of dollars and add a new en-j.-re
to the active' working forces cf
tne American people.
But first the farm for the soldier!
That Is the kernel from which Is to
grow this great tree of national de-
velopment. We shall look at it as it
lies in the nutshell. It is to reclaim
the deserts swamps and cut-over
lands of the United States through the
soldiers as the employes of Uncle
Sa-n. and to enable them to buy the
farms thereby created upon a series
t low interest payments which may
run through a tnira or nan a me
t.mt
Tne worfc of reclamation will be
dor. by the soldiers. They are to be
g ven the opportunity to continue in
the employ of the government con-
structing dams and canals blowing
out stumps and clearing brush dlg-
g icg ditches for drainage and in
sJjort. building group settlements in
practically every stnte oi tne union.
Community Center.
The settlements will be model com-
munity centers comprising townsites
surrounded by 40 or 80 acre farm
homes with all the advantages and
none of the loneliness or ordinary
. 'untry life. In doing this the sol--iier
tv ill receive the current wages
r-.r the special kind of labor for which
j e enlists. If he Is an engineer he
may lay out the canals. If a carpen-
tpi he may work at building the
Louses and barns and if & mason be
ma v be emnloved on the dams. The
laborers will receive their wages from
the government and there will be
well paid out of door work for alL
fter the settlements are completed
ihe houses and barns built and the
soil put into shape each soldier will
be given the right to pick: out a Xarm
home of his own and to pay for It at
a low rate of Interest on long time
covering perhaps 20 or 40 years. Stock
a.rd farm Implements furnished by
the government may be paid for in a
period of from five to ten years and
the whole will be so arranged that
there will be no element of charity or
pensioning In the transaction. The
soldier will earn all he receives and
.! e government will get back in ac
tual casn every cent it exponas ana
:so add greatly to the food supply
u.nd wealth of the nation.
Lane Originates Scheme.
Thi scheme which orginated with
secretary Lane has the approval of
the president. Congress has already
appropriated $200000 for the prelimi-
nary investigations and another ap
propriation of 1000000 will probably
have passed the senate before this
1c tier J s published. The plans are
now being worked out by the trained
ec pntists of the interior department.
T uder the general direction of Arthur
r Davis cnier or tne reclamation ser-
-t .re the government engineers are
traveling over the United States In-
vestigating the possibilities. F- E.
"Weymouth the chief of construction
of the reclamation service has taken
charge of the so called arid region
formerly known as the great Ameri-
can desert. This Is In the Bockles
and the far west. It comprises the 17
arid and semiarid states with the
exception of the eastern parts of
North Dakota South Dakota. Ne-
braska Kansas Oklahoma and Texas.
Those sections and the northeastern
Tart of the country including also all
the land east of the Mississippi and
north of the Ohio river is in charge..
ox w . id anna another reclamation
engineer. It contains a large area of
c n-over and swamp lands which can
be redeemed. The southeastern s?c-
t.on which has the bulk of such lands
U being investigated by H. T. Cory
tne man who shut the Colorado river
oiit of the Salton sea for the Southern
Pacific railway and who has long
oeen connected with reclamation
for eight years before that connected
with similar work In Australia
Enormoni IVrrlf orv
The amount of territory we have
for such schemes is enormous. I
have talked with the reclamation
engineers and can give a faint idea
of the possibilities. According to
them the area of desert swamp and
cut over janas mat can be reclaimed
Is more than 300000 square miles.
It Is bigger than the wnole German
empire bigger than Austria and
Hungary combined and bigger than
France or the Spanish -peninsula. Put
it together and it would make a ter
ritory seven times as big as either
Ohio. West Virginia or Kentucky ten
times as big as South Carolina and
27 times the size of Massachusetts. It
would equal sir New Yorks five
Georglas four Minnesotas or two Cal-
if orn las.
Some of this land Is In the deserts
and it will be reclaimed by irrigation.
There Is about 15000000 acres of this
character- an amount three times as
great as the cultivated parts of the
Nile valley which supports more than
11000000 people and which In 1914
gave products for export amounting
to $120.000.060.. Much of the Nile land
Is worth $500 per acre.
Will Produce C0.
Fifteen million acres! it f lust
about ten times the area we have al
ready turned Into farm settlements
by our Present reclamation nroJects.
We have now 1500000 acres of those
lands In cultivation and there are
uixier water &00.OOO acres more which
will soon be in use. The amount al
ready reclaimed represents an Invest-
ment of S120.00O.00O and the cross
from It this year will sell for more
than half that amount. At the pres-
ent prices every acre will produce $60
or upward per annum ana every cent
that the government has laid out
UDon th land will tinvA hfn nnM
back by the farmers within 20 years.
Those tracts are now Inhabited by
50.000 families who own taxable farm
property worth more than $300000.-
uuo. xnev are now Droducimr ctods
which will annually sell for $100000-
000 or seven million dollars more;
than all the told taken out of the
United States In 1916. In other words
the lands we have already reclaimed
are yielding more than all the gold
1 In tbe east every one of which has
more than a million acres of swamps
and there are twelve others each of
which has xrom a Quarter or a mil
Hon to one million acres that can be
easily drained.
Th average stay-at-horas cf the east
looks upon California as arid rather
than tret. Jieverthelfss that state has
soma or oar ricbest iffimp lands Tne
Sacramento valley Is several hundred
miles Ions and its basin haa millions
ox acres or tret ianas wnicn tne yovcrn-
mrat ceographera have recently mapped.
Drainage Is coins on there and land
wnicn a few years aeo wai -worth ntn-
Ins is now btlas fold as fast as it can
be reclaimed at from J10O to SlOftO an
acre. In the Sacramento river they have
put dikes about an Island and pumped
oat the water and that island has now
the largest asparagus farm of the world.
In other places along the river the re-
deemed lands are devoted to celery and
they are now shipping carloads of that
and other vegetables from there to the
east.
MLImIddI Delta.
The delta of the Mississippi has
swamp lands that are far more valuable
than the Irrigated lands of Mesopotamia
about the Tigris and Euphrates for which
the kaiser planned his railroad from to
Bagdad. The swamps there include more
than 20.009.009 acres and they are
rich that any 40 acres will make a good
farm. When tbe land Id redeemed It
Is worth $100 or upward per acre and
reclamation projects have already been
undertaken by private parties here and
there through it Some of these are
right on the edge -of the cities. Imrlng
my last visit to New Orleans I rode In
a motor car Xrom the principal hotel
out to a 7040 acre vegetable and fruit
garden which had been lifted as It
were ont of the bed of the nwamps. The
land is only five miles from the heart of
tne city ana it is ncner tnan any part
of the delta of the Nile or the Ganges.
I saw thousands of orange trees and
hundreds of acres of corn and cotton
growing npon that land aid was told
that the cost of maintaining the drain-
age after the land had teen cleared
and the pumping arrangements installed
is only SO to 15 cents per aert. per annum.
The tract I referred to Is kept clear by
pumping. Its steam pumps are dally lift-
ing hundreds of millions of gallons of
water from its canals and throwing it
into the streams which carry It off into
the Mexican gulf.
Swamp Lands.
There are extensive swamp lands In
Alabama and Georgia and the same Is
true of Arkansas and Mississippi. A corn-
mines of the United States lnclndlnclpanr has been orranlzed and plans made
tnose or Alaska and that notwIth-t reaeem a nan cuuion acres in ine
Kt3Tirilfir thn rnnntrAct hnrn I Tazoo basin. There are ether schemes
now in the draft were raw red babies . 501n f" ia thr 1' n
those lands were as barren and dry" Vt. " "ilir "Ji "".J"1 1 t.r. Jr
woiof various kinds. In addition
to '.ese men the department has se-
cured the services of Dr. Blwood
Mead recently In charge of the land
settlement problem in California and
as the most arid Dart of the Sahara.
All this comes from 1500000 acres.
ana the engineers say we have ten
times as much which can be devel
oped as homes for the soldiers. The
reclamation lands are now yielding
the government about $9000000 per
annum wnicn is applied to new pro-
jects. It is believed that similar re-
sults will be had In connection with
the farms for the soldiers.
Deserts Small Factors.
But the deserts are the smallest
factor in this great reclamation prop-
osition. Their available lands are not
one-fifth as laree as the svamos. We
have scattered over the United States
swamp lands having an area of 75
or SO million acres underlaid with
soil as rich as that of the deserts. The
total is larger than Great Britain and
Ireland and equal in extent to the
three states ox Indiana Illinois and
Ohio. It is ten times as large as Hol-
land a drained country which is now
fee dine almost six million neoDle.
and at the same ratio it could feed
60 million or more than half of our
whole population. Holland is now
draining the Zulder Zee to get more
land and the work Is costing in the
neignoornooa ol $.uu per acre jiany
of our swamps can be drained for a
lew dollars per acre and the sur
veys and plans for some of them have
already been made. Before the war
in Europe began the topographers of
tne geoiogicat survey haa mapped out
about 10000000 acres and the work
Is so organized that they can tell us
Just where the swamps are and what
nas to be done to reclaim them.
Close to Population.
These swamp lands are In many
cases close to the centers of popula
tion. j.ney are to ne'xounu in almost
every state of the live uo to date
east and some of them near the big
cities. Others are surrounded by
farms worth $100 an acre and nearly
an are accessioie by water and rail
to the markets. There are something
like 72000000 acres east of the great
plains and 20 or 30 million acres in
the Mississippi delta. Minnesota has!
about 4.000.000 acres and Maine three1
or rour millions. We look upon Illi-
nois as thoroughly settled; It is the
heart of the corn belt and It has
oodles of land worth $200 an acre.
Nevertheless there are more than
2.000000 acres of flooded lands In
Illinois that might be redeemed and
every acre will be as rich as any now
farmed. There are 17 different states
being reclaimed. Tbe available lands In
Florida are almost as great as the whole
state of Scuth Carolina a state which
itseir nas a large area of swamps in
North Carolina aod Virginia we have wet
lands that will add greatly to our food
supply. In North Ca'-ollna. Lake Matta-
muskeet has been pumped out and Its
se.QBtf acres is row cut up into small
farms. The tract Is called New Hol
land. The settled lands about it are so
rich that farms bring $190 and upward
per acre.
Tarther north In "Virginia. not far :
from Norfolk lies about ltO.OflO acres
that will acme day be a winter market
garden tor New Torx and Boston.
refer to the great Dismal swamp the
edges of which have been already re-
deemed. The lake Is surrounded by
lands devoted to trucking and the boll
under It Is exceedingly rich. The first
crop usually raised after clearing' such
ianus is wnat is Known as stick corn.
For this no plowing or cultivation Is
needed. The kernels are planted In holes
In the ground made tor a stick and the
corn eprlncs ud amonc tne s (.thuds con
quering the weeds and yielding large
crops Tnu is czJr at first. After
year or so the land must b trerted like
that of other farms ef similar soil.
Cut-over Lands.
Coming: to the cut-over lands which
comprise the bulk; of the area possible
tor the new proposition. I have had a talk
with H. T. Cory who has Just return ea
from a trip through the greater part of
tne soutnem states wnere ne nas reen in
vent! rx ting this subject for secretary Lane.
He tells me that lands of this character
are to be found all along the coasted plain
rrom Virginia to Texas. Tney ere tne
lands where the timber has been cut off
by the great lumber companies and other
parties xrom tune to time. Tne stumps atui
stand and new trees have crown en among
teem corresnondlne' in size to tne time
wnicn nas elapsed sues tne xirst clearing
was done lip Cory says that there H
something like 200.090000 acres of such
ana in tne sou in. ana mat a large propor
tion of it has as good soil as the average
farm of Indiana. At the abort estimate
those cut over lands -trivia make about
nine states th size of Indiana or eight
states the size cf Ohio Kentucky or Vir
ginia. Reduce tbe estimate by one naix
and the available territory would b big
ger by the size of Kentucky than tne
United Kingdom of Great Britain ana ire-
land wnicn now nas aometmng nke fa-
OOO.OGO neoole.
A great deal of this cut over land Is be-
ing reclaimed by private parties and some
of It is paying more than its original price
oy tne xirst one or two crops itr. eery
told me of a man who bought a cut over
xarm two years aco ana paid one tentn
down. This year the seller told him he
would be glad to accept the crop on the
land for the balance tut his offer was not
r . v-v i . Trrr -yn i life. T-'wf
UKE you an "I should woiry"viil who ia out of things far
"at the tail tnd of the inarch of thh cpuntry with her shonl-
ders prondiy aligned with the Allies all the heroic Canadians
the spleadid Scots the Britons who die for their conntry with
tie sane smile with which they lose or win a game the wonder-
ful thinking French of undying patience and spirit who did not
call for peace as onr enemy the cowardly Hen does now. the
glorions in deeds the Italians fclfilling their great destiny-
great in conrage "withont reproach" th; host of nations who
are "ont after" the criminal nation the Indian the colored tha
Arab the Fiji who hare all scorned Germany and Wred her
Ti.TharianV At. nn mVI - .... .
(.- -2ritl eractlv what we fnnrht for. wlin vA t..- v v.
moment the tide of battle wis mnninr arainst to' 7Z . f....- ... ...... f. JSL?."" Doys 0Ter laele 4ntieir "otry
" " .MMttl vu MM ivlilUiC J fllltflM U UC1UUU I MTlil r
taken Som such lands are used for rals-t?waw
Ing peanuts which Is now one of the
profitable Crops of the southwest; others 1 1
are turned Into rrstlnn nlntflAn. mwr1 .
others to corn. These lands are usually 1 1
field In large tracts. They are owned by
lumber companies and Individuals who fjmmm
-IfELL BHOTKLEY.
HOROSCOPE
SCHOOL DA YS
CofjrrlsM nil bj-
By DWIG
have made their profits out of the timber
and will be glad to get rid cf them at a
low price. I am told that there are so
many of them that the government can
OUT ail II neeOS tor fh lOM ff vnWmn
k uuivii us own terms.
ikeen It Ont Of Tnlifl
There Is one thlnr. howvr that nnt
be emphasized In connection with this reo
naauon. i nis is iait it i hiiiir.n
Iar proposition undertaken by a billion-
dollar country and that there are bil-
lions In It for the United State. If it can
be kept outside politics and handled after
scientific business methods. In reclaiming
the desert lands whteh. as I kiv aji
are paying their own way and furnishing
minions a year xor new projects tho gov-
ernment has developed a large division
of reclamation experts and through them
it will bo able to crranlze tha new scheme
upon an economical and business paying
leas uuia Erroposiuon. i.o ao tnis tne COD
gresslonal grant must be made without
cheese-paring- and all Pork barrel nrcmo-
sltlons kept out.
-me plan is to make xarms for the sol-'
dlers. but the soldiers ita tn nav
back to the government every cent
that It expends In their behalf. Now
It Is estimated that each farm of 0
acres with Its Improvements will cont at
least IS00. It 10 percent of the 4.000.000
men now In the army should elect to take
farms we shall have created 400000 farm
homes costing as a whole something like
J 2.003000.500.
Reg-Inning Of IWlamatlon.
But those farms will be only the beginning-
of the reclamation. They will be I
followed by the creation of others for
civilians who wish to go back to the land j
and for Immigrants and this will result in
the uslnr of a very large part of this 300.-
400000 acres. That amount turned into
new farms will increase the number of
farms now In the United States by more
than So percent and add more than one-
half to the acreage now under cultivation.
The average value of our farm lands per
acre In 1900 was $15 and by 1S10 It had
more than doubled being by the census of
mat aate zixea at viz. Tnese new lands
will be worth far more than the average
and they will form a live Interest bearing
Investment that will Increase tn value for
generations to come in another letter I
shall write more cbout this project and
now it is Demc worked out tor tbe rood of
the soldier.
TRAVELETTE
rir .viksaii.
jy7 jattnlsry-
THE CASTXE AT LXIRLA.
THE protecting fortress of Lelrla
Portugal stands In majestic soll-
tod on a high rocky hill above the
sleepy little country town. Below the
masses of nnmlo finw.p. that
. . I
.k. . 1 . . 1
sicai ivcitj- near ine cas.'.i
tie. He peaceful orchards and through 1
the lacework of their branches one! I
can see the cheerful red tiled roofs of
the little white houses In Lelrla. The
tiny houses seem to cuddle together
like a lot of drowsy white hens on the
low rolling green lands bound by the
silver ribbon .of the River Liz.
On the adjoining hill opposite the
stately ruins of the c-iafl. of t.mh.
stand the great white walls of the
conyeni ana sanctuary of the Incar-
nation. With Its ser.r.lv nl.ln v.it.
hidden by wreaths of Ivy. the convent
crumbling walls of the castle.
The prevailing spirit of seace that
hangs over everything the tiny white
.uwu mo mgniiiea convent the low
hills covered by pine and heather that
stretch away In the distance seems
to pervade even the mighty donjons
and grim archways of the castle. Only
.. yusHioio ecno or those
stormy days when armored knights
clanged their way through the valley
to the castle gates Is present in the
noble ruins of today.
The castle Is really a castle within
a castle for the original mediaeval
structure was built by the Moors cen-
turies ago. Then later in the 13th
century king DInex built about the
remains of the Moorish stronghold
the eiquisite Gothic palace that forms
the outer castle. Even now some of
the charming oval windows and the
slender pillars of the pointed arches
bear mute witness to the once grace-
ful outlines of the French nrhtt.t-.
of the castle.
SUXDAY DECEMBER S 1018.
ALTHOUGH the sun Is In beneflc
ti. aspect today' it Is not a very
lucky rule as Uranus Neptune and
Saturn are all adverse.
"While the sun Is in kindly sway it
Is an auspicious time to seek the com
panionship of persons of influence.
Visits to relatives are well directed
for out of social intercourse under
this planetary rule great benefits
may accrue.
uranus today Is In a place un-
friendly to orthodox faiths and fore
casts religious troubles. The stars
seem to presage outbreaks of lntol
erance and uncharltableness.
Xeptune Is held to encourage su-
perstition and occultism during this
configuration making for the spread
oi many xoreign cults ana new move-
ments ior the betterment of humanity.
There appears to be danger of some
xrouoie over oil and new line nf nr..
duetion that affect mlnlnc- Interc.t.
Agriculture js not wen directed dur
ing tnis government of the stars and
there may be heavy losses of live-
s lock.
Again the need of cnnerrfns InnA
will be great owing to certain farm-
ing conditions as well as to enormous
demand for aid from Europe where
foes as well as friends will ne.A n.
sistance. tne seers declare.
Un this day caution Is recomm.r-rtpd
to all Who deal in the rhnlc.r trlnd. nf
Organizers managers secret serv-
ice employes brokers and bankers
should delay making any plans as tin-
der this direction of the stars the
juaRmeni is not liKely to be trust-
worthy. The development of specialists in
all lines of work Is again prophesied
and this tendency in education may
be carried to extremes during the re-
construction period after the war as-
trologers warn.
Love affairs that are marked by
Impulses and even reckless disregard
of the conventions are foretold.
Persons whoso birth date it Is have
the outlook of a successful year
Money probably will Increase. It will
be wise to guard against deception
especially where the fmrvull e-r i.
concerned.
Children born on this day probably
will be generous kind popular and
respected. These subjects of Saglt-
tariusoften are victims of Intrigue.
ICODVTleht. -191R Kv -IT...
N'ewspaper Syndicate. i
JIOXUAY DECEMBER 0 191S.
T'HIS Is not a fortunate day accord-
i lng to astrology. Uranus and Sa-
turn are strongly adverse while Mars
Is In a mildly benefic aspect.
It would seem from n reading of
the stars that the war Is to be the
subject of serious and acrimonious
debates in legislative bodies but the
signs point to events more remark-
able than any that have- been fore-
told and great benefits are fore-
shadowed for tbe United States.
Many distinguished visitors will
come bearing gift or decorations for
the president It Is prophesied but
one great honor will be bestowed
which will be the first of its kind
and therefore of supreme historic in-
terest. The seers declare that friendly
forces from the occult world have
united to protect the interests of the
nation which will be divinely guided
for the realization of Its high (deals.
day seems to presage problems
for farmers and mine operators
Vision that is to give men in nlaees
of the sun the power to heboid the
rights of "the humble is nresared as
newerra.e Bltt that comes w'th the
The west has the forecast of su-
"e benefits. California cities and
ChMago are to be especially fortu-
The retmrr.5tnn Tnnt. i i- -
V-nrr . w-un.iju ana Holland.
w JLOrk come nnrf.r . . t. -
promises supreme achievements In
civle reforms and municipal affairs.
V . '"r oi commerce and
trade for the Unif.d ..
nostieated for the new year but Mars
in opposition to Jupiter at the begin-
ning of next month i ?
of fires robberies and murders.
e?ons.wlose blrthdate it is should
not travel or make changes In the
th??ar- e3rhouM M'eguard
.friV1 ani.vbe "reet In finan-
cial affairs. The young will court
and marry.
Children born on this day are likely
frfetlS5ate but errat! and ex-
travagant. Th.V TTlftV h.
and downs In nf . vi
to habits that insurVsue.r-(Copy-rlght
1318. by the MtOlnr -v.S;:
per Syndicate.)
i Bedtime Story For The Little Onesl
"TTTELL. I certainly
VY what It was." said
UIICLE WIGGILY THUIKS HE'S SHOT
Br h n vr a iiu n. caris.
I knew
wish
was." said uncle "WlggUy
Longears the bunny rabbit gentle-
man as one morning he looked over
the paper in his hollow stump bun
galow. I don't mean the wall paper;
I mean The Woodland News which all
animal folk read.
"What Is it you wish you knew
what was" asked Nurse Jane.
"What happened to Jolly Longtail.
the mouse boy and to me last night
when I went for the cheese" replied
Mr. Longears. "There was a flash of
fire and a boom but it wasn't tnnnder
or lightning. And I don't see anything
t paper aoom an earrnquaice or
a volcano. It is very queer. Guess I'll
take a walk and see if any of my
xzienas neara anytning.
"Better be careful." said Uurse
Jane. "This is the hunting season you
know and von mleht iret shot"
"Oh. I guess not." spoke the bunny
raoDic. casual llKe ana confident. Tn
a pretty good runner and I would like
10 Know wnat it was scared Jollle and
me."
So off be started over the fields and
through the woods asking all the
friends he met if they had heard of
the big glaring light and tbe puff-
bang sound which had happened to him
and the mouse boy the evening before.
"I don't." said Dr. PflMtim "I'm tno
busy 'tending sick animals that have
tbe epizootic to listen for things like
that. You're not sick are vou. Uncle
WlggilyT'
-o. rm clad to say I m not." snoke
the bunny.
hen IH hurry along to some one
woo is saia ut. .possum and curl-
ing his tall tighter around his medi-
cine bag away he hurried.
Mr. Whitewash the Polar bear who
was nappy now because It was cold.
..?ut.for " that. Uncle WlggUy
dldnt feel any pain and pretty sooa
ne stopped rolling over in the snow
and eat np. He didn't seem to be hurt
at air. and he wasn't really shot -f
course or I couldn't write any more
stories about htm. which might be to
bad. So the bunny uncle lookei
around and he dldnt see any hunter
but there was something black on the
snow near the carrot and what t
was ni tell yoa la the next story
when. In case the baking powder
doesn't shoot the soda cracker and
make It get dust oa the nutmeg
grater you sholl hear what Uncle
WIgilly found out. (Copyright lsli
by McClure newspaper Syndicate.)
"Furnace Cornels" Gnly
Known To PitlsburgeTS
Called "Northern Lights"
PKtsbursr. Pi Dec 7. "Fnnum"
comets" are known only to PittsburT-
ersers and this is the season for thej
When the atmospheric conditions
are right the heavens are beautifully
uiuaiara wun aazznng ugat. some-
times the display is so brilliant that
even the oldest inhabitants who are
familiar with the phenomenon m-s-take
it for old Aurora Borealis.
"Only furnace comets" was the ex-
planation of scientists who smiled
when ther read of manlferatinnt of
northern llahts appearing in the east-
ern sky.
Pittsburg's "furnace comets are
caused by reflections from the flames
of a Bessemer steel converter on fro-
zen particles of moisture above the
furnace. The ley particles act as a
mirror and reflecting the bright
white lights of the molten steel give
off a shower of varied and gorgeously
colored lights In comet tail effect
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HOGWALLOV NEWS
ConyrlghPe?illTOamlsCCPI'AR "rtRESPOVDE
aniiiiiiiu.uuiiiumRu.iL I iiMnre ninxraam.t
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RAZ BARLOW who has always been
an advocate of good whisky at-
tributes the nation's going dry to the
manufacture of such bad liquor. He
says had the business been kept ex
uutlvcly in the hands of honest
men the results might have been
different
Tobe Moscley has lost seven of -his
fourteen dogs from the strange dis
ease that broke out In the family a
few weeks ago. H ehas the sympa-
thy of the entire community in his
The HocrwallOW Imnrnv.m.nt .n
clety has voted and so ordered that
e posimasier snail comb hls-halr at
least once each day. It Is expected
that the same action will be taken in
the case of the mall cairler.
Dock Hocks's anvil was lost In the
celebration the night following the
signing of the armistice and his
blacksmith shop will not be able to
hit a tap until it Is found. He says
it Was about the tnnst hand tnjil h.
had about the shop. The last he has
neara oi it it was Just a little before
daylight when he was trying to
snatch Just a little sleep before time
to get up.
The postmaster savs he does nnt
See how the Dostmaster crene-nl ir.tj.
Sister Mary of St. Micha. I or th. ' f10nB looking after all the postof f ices
Convent of tbe Good Sh.pard In N"w- tn the ' nHcd States when the one at
J""- w vim rroni'y ''let-rate -r 'wesaiiow nearly runs mm wild at
-vmiu wimot- is pmoaoiy tne oldest I times.
postoffice yesterday. The postmaster
naa rnisiaia nis specs somewhere and
-orinwitn aeciared a national holi
day.
Slim Pickens got choked on a per
simmon seed yesterday. The horse
doctor was called and performed some
--a oi an operation that made him
'" -ne seed xnere was no
serious results except that Slim and
his friends were pretty badly scared.
It Is thought if Slim cannot learn to
manage the seed better his diet will
have to be changed.
Miss Fruzie Allsop had the misfor-
tune to have the hem torn from her
brand new dress by an awkward step
of Yam Sims who was walking with
her from the postoffice yesterday.
Yam for some reason appeared a bit
downcast when he returned to the
postoffice.
Atlas Peck has put on his ear muffs
for the winter. ITnr tm1t ... .h.
always dreads to see this time of the
year come as Atlas cannot hear very
well anyway.
The stove at the postoffice remains
In a Critical condition nh. i.
missing Joint of pipe have never been
found Tho Hogwallow Loafers' club
Is beginning to --how some concern as
winter approaches.
The warm fall has been decld.llv
against the old miser as he bought a
load of coal r. al early and has been
ante To us out little of it It grieve
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wf Si? and llBht scared Uncle i -p" Out With Pencil
And so Mr. Longears went on snd
on over the fields and through the
woods asking all the friends he met
11 tney had heard or seen anything
strange the night before. None bad.
and Uncle Wlgglly was beginning to
think perhaps he and Jollile dreamed
it
"If It was after I'd eaten the cheese '
I would feel pretty sure It was a
nightmare." said the bunny. "But It
was before so It couldn't be. I wonder
what it was?"
Then all of a sudden. It began to
snow and it snowed so hard that
soon the srrOund was covered and
I nele Wlgglly's paws made funny 1
little marks in the white covering. I
Then pretty soon. Uncle Wlgglly '
sniffed and snuffed and he smelled '
something very good and sweet At :
first he thought It might be a crums
or two of cheese that he and Jollie
had dropped the night before but
when he sniffed again he knew It
wasn't that 1
"It's a carrot that's what It is" j
said Uncle Wiggily. "It's a nice red !
Juicy carrot and It must be bidden j
down somewhere under the snow." I
Then he began to sniff and snuff I
around and having a very good pink 1
twinkling nose for such work he soon '
smelled his way to where the carrot f
was. It was covered up with snow. I
but that didn't matter to Uncle Wlg-
glly. He scraped the white flakes to one
side and there as nicely as It it was
sleeping In a bed with a downy white
quilt was a carrot
"Oh Joyr cried UUnde WIggily.
He reached down and began to
nibble. At first he ws a bit tlmW.
thinking perhaps the carrot might be-
long to some one else but when he
looked all around and saw no one Mr.
Longears became very brave and bold.
"' bit harder Into the nice vegetable.
When he had eaten one side he sort
of took hold of it In his paw to raise
it up and pull It toward him In order
ihat he might take better bites. I
And men. all of a budden there
was a Minding flash of light Just
like that h. an.l Jollle Longtail had
e- n. and t'.re was a bur boom nnfr 1
and Uncle Wigglly. after holding him-
self still for a second suddenly tum-
bled backward over tn the snow
"Oh I m s of I m s"iot'' lie cried
:Nurse janf1 tt is risht Tne i.ur
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A man of wonderful renown
Is my biz brother he's a
Nobdy was able to get mart at the I fhfa manneV ted a" laj VeVenVrm sho.''' Cbrial!a" 'd"a' ' th? 4 tr0m 0ce to two aad -
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