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Show TOE BEAVER COUNTY WEEKLY PEES3. EEAVES. UTAn : IT IS OF UTMOST IMPOoTAIICE TO USE ! CARE l!l CUTTIIiQ SKINS FROM ANIMALS . ' " A. M' II rdf 0 wad some power Tp -, the piftieaie lis j To see oursels as itherssee usl : Robert Burns T ay W.7 Skin .vl '.'rx i DraiTlghYfUIpe Work With Knlf. by the United StaUt (Prpxtd ment of Agrtcultur.) hide Is to skin the annual's head,, cheeks and face. This should be done who devote the little extra while the animal . Is still suspended. time necessary In skinning animal Always keep the. tide free from meat. carefully possibly only three to Ave as one of the common faults of country minutes in taking off the skin of a calf, bides Is the presence of more or less or IS minutes In the case of a beef hide meat, usually cheek meat The next : can Increase the value of the hide step In the operation Is to lower the severaL times, aay specialists of the animal on Its back and remove the United States department of agrlcul-- j skin from the legs, .following tali the ture.: Tbf Is of utmost Importance in hide should be ripped down the belly view of the present urgent demand for from the sticking cut to the tall, makleather, and the increase In price which ing a neat, straight rip, free from unscored hide bring on the market Jagged edges. The aides are then It Is essential and even necessary 40 skinned, working forward to the briskexercise, .the .utmost care In removing et and then back to the Inside of the skins from farm animals. hind leg. Lift away the bide with the Country hides and skins'make up ffee hand and. stretch, it tlghtfy by d mar thn of all, the hide pulling outward, and upward against. and skins produced in the country, Jbut the knife or wooden, stick, '' x ' t. too often the value of country hides" Pone By Blood. for leather maklnr' is less than that - Blood Injury Is objectionable on hides, par of packer hides. The tanner pays rooreH tlcuUrly In the, summer, as it Is likefor packer hides! thntf Jor. those rotfrom" farmers or country slaugh- ly to cause the hair to slip from or "when the hides ting decomposition terers. This Is due in part to better are packed. This may result: In havfacilities In 4he large packing houses ing otherwise good bides placed In the for .curing and storing the" hides, but No, on the market. 2 Care to the fact that such hides should grade principally taken be to avoid any placing have been taken off properly. The tan hldee in the,pack until they are, free ner knows that country hides are frefrom animal heat - Allow them to He quently removed by unskilled work- folded from three to five hours or sufmen and are often cut and scored, to allow the animal heat When such hides come from a tanner, ficiently long to get out of them. If this Is not done, scores show very plainly and Jn many of decomposition may result, cases one-haof the thickness of the patches and such hides, though carefully releather is lost by such defects. Imbe reduced In - market moved, may can be avoided and the perfections one cent or more a farmer Tan make more money by care- value at least ful use of the skinning knife, by keep- pound. v Preparing Hides far Market ing the hides dean and free from blood The preparation "of hides and akin and by proper storage and packing. for market la of great Importance, for How ta Skin Animals. . f, '. if they are not properly prepared and, When animals are skinned on the shipped they are subject to great defarm, the operation should be per- terioration. 'As a rule, hides are foldformed oa a dean, bard spot under a ed with the hair aide out It la estree, If possible, or, if done Indoors, sential to fold In the bead and neck' In a room with a concrete floor. The on the body of the bide, flesh surface limb of a tree may be used for sustogether, and to turn In the tall In a pending the carcass, but when the similar manner. Then a narrow fold hides are removed indoors a block and should be made on each aide by throwtackle must be provided. ing back the body edges and leg keepI The animals should be cleaned off, ing the lines of the folds parallel . curried and brushed thoroughly. In or8tacklng Up Hldee, der to remove all dirt The skinning In building up a pack of bides the knife should be sharp, though It should not be used any more than Is absolute- outer edges should be kept a little ly necessary. The use of the knife higher , than the middle, so that the may be avoided In taking off calf skins, liquid or brine, formed by the dissolvexcept on the bead, neck, legs and ing of the salt In the natural moisture flanks, as the body skin may be drawn of the hides, may be absorbed by them. or fisted off. Where It is necessary to If the pack la low outside, or Is built "use the knife, the, skin should be drawn slanting like a shed roof, the brine taut with one band, while the knife Is will seep out causing the hides to used with the other, spedal care be- shrink In weight. In preparing bid: la free from ing taken to hold the back of the blade for market use salt that close to the skin. If this Is done there large lump or dirt Dirty salt wi;t Is less danger of cutting or scoring the stain the flesh side of the hides. One skins. In lieu of the knife, some butch- pound of salt to each pound of the bide ers use a sharpened wooden stick la the rule. r, If the hides are to be stored, they shaped Uke a man's thumb, and employ a knife only on the portions of the should be placed In cool (60 to 63 degrees Fahrenheit) cellars, from which body mentioned. ' The first operation In removing a the outside air Is excluded. t Farmer - - Depart -- One-thir- lf . E DIVERSIFIED Congressional Directory, Congress," whlcli Is now off the government press, might very well carry the subtitle, "As Congres Sees Itself." For It contains as usual a biographical sketch of each seuator and representative with one excep- tion, -- And these biographies are To be sure, there is a sort of censor who Is supposed to see to it that the authors do not hand themselves too many flowers.. This functionary came into being because a former Kansas senator a few years" ago made the whole country . snicker. - But human nature is the same in-- congress as out and most of the contributor to this exceedingly Interesting volume seem to be possessed with the Idea thst they must explain why they are exartly the men for the place so exactly that they were of necessity elected. And as the ideas of the qualifications of a member of congress are about as mRnT th writers, the autobiographies do not ' lack variety. The one exception referred to Is Representative James O'Connor of Louisiana? he simply gives his name. - In contrast, many other members need nearly half a page to set forth the details f their wondrous past. Ql those whose portraits are herewith given, Unt', J?e!.Cannon'!i account of himself Is condensed, even laconic ; Champ Clark's Is about three times as long. Incidentally It may be said thnt J"? Jttltude of brotherly love of the two foriier speakers is for pictorial purposes strictly. Joseph Ourney. Cannon, Republican, of Dan- vlllo,'' the directory says, "was born at Guilford, N. C, May 7, 1836; Is a lawyer; was state's attorney In Illinois, March, 18C1, to December, 18G8," Then It is stated that he was elected to the Twenty-secon- d congress, and that he was elected speaker in. Ihe Fifty-eightFifty-nintSixtieth and Sixty-firs- t That's all congresses. there Is to" the seven lines of bis autobiography. Champ Clark takes 20 lines. Outstanding farts set forth in it are that he wasthe "youngest college president in America'; "a hired farm In.- - the Bal tlmor-e- Democrfttle band i"..-- ".tional convention of 1912 for the presidential nomination on 29 ballots, receiving a clear ma ACTIVITIES" III ONE UONTH Sixty-Sixt- h tcj-- i en- .he-w- Cm iliiiMaiSMjvtyxft .1,1.1) 5 j :'JmSLti - was-wlnne- r ; Fifty-sixt- r -- . " ,Tr..'"v";' : -- ." . . i The County Agent Will Take Chance at Anything. , A county agent In one of the eastern state believes in diversified activi ties, lie reports as follows for, one month's work ; Burned up 00 gallons of Trailer broke gasoline, five quarts of oil, had six puncture and one blow-oaway and upset load; pig fell out of the car and was caught with difficulty, afterward Jumped from sty and was run over by an auto. Burled three pig with all the profits ami lost $23 bewldes. Tore best trousers getting ever ptture f 'nee; broke watch crystal loading corn planter; but outn!u of a fr tnlnor troubles bad a tery satisfactory BiontVs work ut Sixtieth,- - Slxty-flrs- Fifty-nint- . ? ; ; Sixty-secon- r, -- Sixty-thir- become the second of, period icals in tne, ynitea Htates. Aner obtamtng sn " education In the common schools of Garnett, Kan, he learned the printing trade on the Garnett Jtfurnal, went to Tbpeka In 1884 and became , a typesetter on the Topeka Dally Capital, "of " was. madej brevet brigadier general by President which he la now owner and publisher." Incident- - ' ', Lincoln February 16, for long and faithful service ' and conspicuous gallantry at the battles of Re-ally, It may be stated that he owns Household.' Missouri the Atlanta. Franklin and Nashville; member Capper's Weekly, Talley Farmer,: the Farmer's "Mall and ' Breeze, the Nebraska , of Loyal Legion and G. A. R." , Farm Journal and the Oklahoma farmer. Ill So only 'seven Civil war veterans are members of publications are mid to have a combined clrcula- - '' the SIxty-sIxtCongress 54 years after the close tlon of about 1,T25,000. And he is Intensely In-- ' of th memorable struggle between the North and Souths'1 Soldier representation In congress was terested In the repeal of the, postal soae law, which Is regarded as exceedingly beneficial by at Itspeak between 1880 and 1890. the publishers of the country dally and, weekly The fact that the period between 1880 and 1800 marked the larger sofdler representation In conr:f.;,'r newspapers.'' Representative John Miller Baer of North Dagress Indicates that tnont of the soldiers who kota sets forth that he Is the first Nonpartisan were In their twenttesrat the close of the war in eleded to congress ; Is married to the "daughter ; '1805 did not begin to aspire to congressional of the North Dakota flaxseed king;" that he has or forty service until had reached thirty-fiv- e John M. Baer In un, son who Is the eighth years of age. Many of them were between forty broken sequence born In America, and that, he .and fifty when $hey took their seats. There has been much conjecture as to how resigned from a postmastershlp to engage In carv soon the veterans of the War of 1917, as the tooning and Journalistic work. Senator Nelson of Minnesota and ' Senator recent world war has been officially designated will occupy a majority Bankhead of Alabama are veterans of the Civil by the war department, war. The latter merely says of this : "Served of seats In congress. As a majority of those who four years In the Confederate ' army, being actually saw foreign service, which will be the wounded three times." Senator Nelson says: larger political factor as the years go by, were "Was a private and noncommissioned officer In years of age, It between twenty and twenty-fiv- e the Fourth Wisconsin regiment during the Civil - may be safely calculated that It will be at least 15 years before there will be another soldier war, and was wounded and taken prisoner at Port Hudson, La., June 14, 1863." congress. That will be In 1034. It may be sooner There are live other veterans of the Civil war: If the newer custom of electing young men is continued. The average age of congressmen has Union, Senator Francis E. Warren of Wyoming, decressed in recent years. Several of the presRepresentative Henry t Z. Osborn ' of California and Representatl ve' Isaac' R. Sherwood of Ohio; ent members are In their early thirties. The West Confederate.' Senator Thomas S. Martin of Virshows the greater tendency to elect young men. ' and Charles' 'M. Two veterans of the War of ,1017 are already Stedman Representative ginia In It when they put ufrthCaroltnar-T:- ; '"t. :: "1nthe house lo fact,-wer- e Senator Warren,' fought In the same' battle in on the unlfdrnv' They are F. LL La Guard ta ot which Senator Nelson was wounded and capNew York, who was a major In the air service, and Royal C. Johnson of South Dakota, who tured. , Senator Warren served as a private and noncoinmlMloned officer In the Forty-nintfought In the trenches and was wounded. King regiment. Jle received .the Congres- Swope, a. returned soldier, has been elected a sional ipelal for, gallantry on the bnttlefleld at representative from Kentucky to fill a vacancy nd has Just taken his seat His election has the .Iege. f,(Fort Hudson, . .These ,tvo...teirana . th no mcians wonaennc inasmuch as ha . frequentlyln-"flRbt!n-ovethe-bar find pleasure ttle was elected' on the Republican ticket In a Demo-which meant ao much to them. TO and wa, opposition Osborne servetit "watic TteprVsentirttv j second 'New York regiment.- - He enlisted at the the League of Nations. Ludan Walton Parrish of the age of sixteen, r Thirteenth Texas district not only had the dls- Senator Martin, was ducoted at the Virginia Unction of winning a $T0 gold prlie as the best Military 'Institution. While ftbere juuch of his debater In his last year at the University ot time, was spent In the cadet battalion of the Instibut won 'his election by the use of a "fllv-verConfederate Texas, the state. tution serving . . prior to entering the He says: Stedman With served General Repreaentatlvei he had never sought or held for congress the war. ,rnce He wonnded Vns Lee's army throughout 'public office' or emolument; he had. however, three times. Enlisting as a private he was musbeen active In public affairs, as president of the tered out as a major. as president of the chamber ot Representative Sherwood was a fighter and Is . school board, and had held other like of Henrietta, commerce His of In reuds It autobiography part: proud positions of trust. C F. 8wncer of Moutague Democrat, of Toledo; was born In Stanford. county and E. P. Haney of Wichita county were Dutchess count. N. T Augimt 13, 1833; was his opponents In the race for congress, and boQ educated at Hudson River InKtltute. Claveraek. of them were seasoned politicians, Mr. Haney N.-at Antloch 'college. Ohio, and at Tough-keepri- e five of the 12 counties In the iiw conecefenllsterf April 1(1. 1HC1, as a having represented In the legislature of Texas dlatrlrt congressional Ohio Fourteenth was and the in Infantry private been county attorney of Mr. having and Spencer a mustered out as brigadier general October 8, Montague county, and at the time be entered 1W. by order of the secretary of war; was In the race was district Judge of Depton, Montague, nd,.153, ..4ay jmuj'rftce. jytd..-aa.tf.,4a 4atUe arof 'cbokV'eou'nt'leaT anil" 'SwTu'ea waa'mred'' In time complimented In s)HclaI anil general orWise county, giving him an extensive acbattlefields on the by commanding genders and quaintance In these four counties of the diserals for gallon! conduct ; commanded his regitrict, while Mr. Pnrrlshwa practically unknown the In' the battles of Atlanta camoalitn, all ment In any part of the eastern district With Mr. and after the battle of Franklin and Nashville, In the east and Mr. Haney in the west, of officers Spencer the Trnn. upon recommendation .of lb prophet were quite sure Mr. political all bis brigade and. .division, and on the'"Indorsement no chance to win. However, with bad ! I'arrUh Schoflefd. the army, of General comimmding ; ent com--mun- lty tts i characteristic determination, he made. an until ing and vigorous campaign. In an automobile day and night, speaking from one to four tlmoH a 'day. and reached practically every When the result f In the 12 counties. the first primary was known, Mr. rurrish by 253 totes."- J. Kuhlo Kalanlanaole, territorial delegate from Hawaii: "Republican of Waiklkl. district of Honolulu, islund of Oahu; was born March 26. 1871, at Kola, Island of Kauai, Hawaii; was edu- cated in Honolulu, the United States, and England; was employed In the office of minister of the Interior and in the customhouse under the monarchy; is cousin to the lute King Kalaknua and Queen Lllfuokalanl, mohurchs of the, then kingdom of Hawaii, and nephew, of Queen Knplolanl. consort of Kalakaua; was created prince by royal proclamation In 1884; married Elizabeth Kahanu Kaauwal, daughter of a chief of the island of Maul, October 8 189ft;. was fibjcted,d.e,egate to 'the - largest-publishe- ' ' f nine ballot.1'-- " . Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas worked 'as a reporter on the New.Tork Tribune and he has jority " f ?X h, , it - fifth iiud Quite a number of members in addition to the gentleman Jrom Hawaii have considerable to say about their ancestry. Several 'trace; their, blood back to members of the Continental congress. One announces that he Is a "direct descendant of the father of Hannah Dustln." An Ohio representative, however, easily leads them ail. Henry I. Emerson of Cleveland, representative Ohio district, sets forth from the Twenty-secon- d his ancestry back to the year 10G3 in this country and had the honor of being elected to the Sixty-sixt- h congress without a single vote being cast against him. Here is his story of himself : "Republican of Cleveland: was born in Litch field, Me., March 15, 1871, son of Ivory W. Emer, son, a veteruu of the Civil war. Mr. Emerson Is a dired descendant of (1) Michael Emerson, who came to this country in 1605 and settled in Haverhill, Mass., and was the father of Hannah Dustln, a famous woman of New England; his son (2), Samuel, was born In Haverhill, but moved , to Dover, N. Hn where his son (3), Timothy Emerson., 'was born; (4) Smith Emerson, born at Dover, N. -- -- lutlonary army and served under Washington at Trenton and Princeton; (5) Jonathan Emerson was born at Dover, N. H., but moved to Litchfield. Mer, with his son (6), Andrew Emerson, where (7) Ivory W. Emerson, the son of Andrew, was born; served in the city council of Cleveland In 1902 and 1903; practiced law in Cleveland since 1893, and hns offices In the Society for Savings building, was elected to the. Sixty-fourtcongress by 1,071 plurality, renominated at the Republican prima ries to August 8, 1910, without opposition; the Sixty-fiftcongress by 5,005 majority; was renominated August 13, 1918, without opposition at the Republican primaries, and had no opposition at the election. The Democratic committee Indorsed Mr. Emerson and the Socialists nominated no candidate against him; was elected to the .. Sixty-Blxtcongress, receiving, fiver. 32,000.. votes. and not a single vote being cast against him." On casual examination of the dtrertory it would . seem as If most of the members are lawyers. We find mention of occupations of many kinds Iron ni-.strwlr enwhnT. ,nli1oi hkfr - "11 trtut ' , "i . uiv.u..., physician, cheese maker, glans manufacturer, blower, lumberjack, miner, baggagemaster, farmer. etc. adoui w meinour are or nave neen news- paper men, although It la to be noted that several aH-- t mention .t&evW!W Among those who own up to newspaper counec- tlons, Randall of California simply says "newspaper editor and publisher." Osborne of the same atate. gives full details of his work as a printer and of his official connection with rotmrter .mi a v ""- - tho International Typographical union. Senator Medtll McCormlck of Illinois, a grandson of Joseph Medill of the Chicago Tribune, says "writer and publisher." Hardy of Colorado is an editor and publisher and is president of the National Editorial association. Cramton of Michigan Champ Clark says Is a newspaper "publisher. ' "edited u 'country newspaper." Senator Harding a been newspaper "has publisher since of . Ohio, 1884." Ashbrook of the same state has been pulc llsher ot the Johnstown Independent since lie was seventeen years old. Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin has a nmgnxlne bearing hU name, but he nays nothing about It In his very brief autobiography. Senator Ashurst ot Arizona says "Iuih pursued the following occupations: Lumberjack, cowboy, Ciers nuu vanmrr iu mures, nenxptiJMT reporter and lawyer." Senator Owen of Oklahoma says "ha served as teacher, editor, lawyer, bunker t , and business man." This Congressional Dlredory Is. In all serlou-ues- a, an Interesting book and may be read to advantage by all good American who re discriminat' ing reader.. h h h n . |