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Show Page Six THE MIDVALE JOURNAL o n'lenteo ~ e l>O'H\ ' \fE ? Bowie. It waa Intended to answer the purpose of blazlnc trees and of a hunt· ing knife. The colonel carried this name "Bowie knife" Is weapon tor ftve or six years, when the as inseparably linked with dreadful conflict, yet fresh In the recolthe history of the Ameri· lections of many, took place In the of .Mississippi, a circuml!tance can frontier as are the state which at once gave It an unrivaled of those other reputation. All the steel In the country weapons which played . was Immediately converted Into bowietheir part in the winning knives. ot the West-the "KenSeveral years ago In a "Centennial tucky rifle" (which, lncl· Edition" o:t the Arkansas uazette there dentally, should be the appeared an article called "The True Pennsylvania rifle," since History of the Bowie Knife, with a It was first made In that biographical sketch o:t Its Inventor, state), the Sharps buffalo gun, the Win· James Black," written by Dan W chester and the Colt's six-shooter. It Jones, governor of Arkansas from 1897 1lgUFed In Innumerable bloody aft'rays, to 1901, who knew Black Intimately for some ot which have become classics in 30 years. This, in brief, Is his story: Western history: It was a Bowie knife Black was born In New Jersey In which Wild Blll Hickok was said to 1800, ran away :t,rom home at the age have wielded In the fight which gave ' of eight to Philadelphia where he was him the "Wild Bill" nickuame-the so- apprenticed to a manufacturer of silcalled "flght" with the "McCandles ver plate. After serving his apprengang." It was a Bowie knife with ticeship and becoming expert at tht' which AI Packer, a prospector, klJled trade he emigrated to the West In 1818. his four companions while they were eventually coming to the town of Washsnow-bound in the San Juan moun- Ington, Ark,, where he found employ· tains of Colorado and won for himself ment with a blacksmith. Washington the dreadful title of the "San Juan was a frontier town, where all men Man-Eater." The Bowie knife bas fig- went armed, the favorite weapon being ured In tales of Jim Bridger and Jim a knife. Black began manufacturing Baker, Kit Carson and California Joe, knives which soon became famous for and a dozen other border notables- the temper of their steel. He was acsome of the ;arns authentic and others, customed to make them to order from no doubt. the product ot the dime a pattern of the exact size and shape novelists. desired by the customer. He plated Being such a famous weapon It would them with gold or silver and his price seem that its history should be well ranged from $5 to $52, depending upon known. But attempt to trace Its origin how they were plated. But the quality and see bow far you get I Out of the of the tempered steel was always the maze of conflicting testimony, only one same, according to Jones, who confact emerges clear-that It was named tinues: for one of the Bowles. But was It About 1831 James Bowie came to Resin, John or Jaues? As for the Washington, and gave Black an order inventor of the Bowie knife, consider for a knife, furnishing a pattern, and deslrln.r It to be made within the folthis evidence : lowing 60 or 90 days, when he would Read almost any encyclopedia and Cl\1. for it. Black made the knife according to Bowie's pattern. He knew you will find it described as: Bowie well and had a high estimation An American hunting dagger named of him as a man of good taste as well afier Its Inventor, Col. James Bowie. as of unftinchlng courage. He had In a melee near Natchez (1827) In which never made a knife which suited his 11lx men were killed and fifteen own taste In point of shape and conwo',mded, the colonel dispatched an op- cluded this would be a cood opportunpollent with a knife made out of a Ity to do 110. bla~ksmlth's rasp or big file; and this Consequently, after completing the knife he afterward had fashioned at knife ordered by Bowie, he made anPhiladelphia Into the weapon with other, ani when Bowie returned Black which hla name Ia associated. showed both of them to him and exEdward S. Ellis, one of the earHest plained the difference, at the same time biographers of Davy Crockett, devotes giving him his choice at the same price. Bowie promptly selected Black's considerable 11pace tG Rezln and James pattern. Bowie and Shortly after this Bowie became lnRespecting the Invention of the fa- 1'olved In a dlftlculty with three desmous Bowie knife, an Intimate lady peradoes wbo assaulted him with friend of the Bowie family, In a note to knives. He killed them all with the the writer, under date of December, knife Black had made. After this, 1878, and written In New Orleans, says: when anyone ordered a knife from TJI:e knife was Invented by Rezln P., Black, he would order It to be made brother of James, for the purpose of !Ike Bowie's, which ftnally was shorthunting wild cattle on the plains of the ened Into ·'make me a Bowle-knl!e."' Opelousas. The first one was manufac- Thus this famoua weapon acquired Its tured by one of his slaves at the pri- name. Bowie himself was not a mevate blacksmith shop on his plantation. chanic of any kind. He was killed In It wt.s never Intended for any other the Alamo with Davy Crockett, and the use except that of a simple hunting· legend runs that his body was surknife, nor was It ever used otherwise, rounded by dead Mexicans whom he until In the duel at Natchez, when bad ktlled with that same knife. J'ame11 Bowie acted as second, and all Other men made knives In those days. the seconds were drawn ln"to the fight. and ~hey are still being made, but no one has ever made the '"Bowie-knife'" In May,l836, the New York Star said except James Black. Its chlefest value of this knlfe : was In Its temper. Black undoubtedly possessed the Damascus secret. It It was Invented by Cal. James Bowie, came to him mysteriously and It died who was killed by the Mexicans at the with him In the same way. capture of the Alamo. About 18 months ago, three brothers named Bowie, In Such Is one story of the Invention of the etate of .Mississippi, bad a deadly the Bowie knife, which sounds auconft.lct with Beven other persons armed thentic. But, says another story, the with evecy species of weapon, the brothers being armed only with a large real inventor of the knife was Jesse knife. This weapon 'they handled with ClUfs, a blacksmith employed by tb"' auch dexterity aa to decide the confllet In their favor. although numbers were elder Resin Bowie (father of the three agalnat them, and It has since been Bowie boys). Some time after the called the "Bowie-knife." Invention of the knife James engaged The Red River Herald of Naebl· in an altercation with Maj. Norris toches, La., copied this article and In Wright which resulted in Wright shootJune printed it with the following: ing at James. The latter was saved This account Is entirely Inaccurate. when a silver dollar in his pocket deThe first weapon of this description waa manufactured In the parish of flected the bullet. Drawing his own Rapids, In the state of Loulalana near pistol, James aimed at Wright but the the plantation of Capt. Charles Mulhol- trigger snapped. His father then gave land, on Bayou Boeuf, In 1820. This knife was made according to the In- James the knife, saying, "This will structions of Col. James Bowie, then never snap." It was this clrcumstanct! known by the appellation of "Big Jim" that led James Bowie always to carry By ELMO SCOTT WATSON H1D1t Big Treasure Location of a great treasnre, burled 500 years ago with the coffin of the first Mlng emperor, may be traced fol· lowing the recent discovery of a mys· terious tunnel in a hill near Nanking, China. The tunnel fs seven feet high and three feet wide, and Is lined with blocks of stone. The secret of the horde of gold jewels and jade en' tombed with the ruler has puzzled his- torlans and treasure seekers for centuries. When the emperor died, Nanking, his capital, had 13 gates. Through all these coffins were borne simultaneously and 13 tombs were erected at as many dift'erent pll;\ol!es, according to records, in order to Laffie enemies and ghouls. Mouae Brought Death Frightened at a mouse, Mrs. John Shlllnn stepped back int.o a threshing mill at Garlleston, S('otfand, recently, and was killed Friday, July 26, 1929 Improve Peanut · Ration for Hogs Value of Tankage Studied in Series of Tests Made at Beltsville. Keep Poultry Yaids "' Clean and Sanitar-Y - ....... Parasites Undermine Health and Sap Vigor of Birds. (Prepared bJ> the Un!ted St1.tea Departmeat ot • On the . Funny Side ~ .. A~rrlculture.) Care exercised In keeping poultry (Prepared b:y the United Btatea DepartmPnt yards clean and In sanitary condition of Agriculture.) Peanuts are used to a considerable bas a double function ln keeping the extent in bog feeding In the peanut- flock clear of parasites that undermine growing areas of the United States, the health and sap the vigor of the says tlie United States Department of birds. The Injury by mites, lie~. fleas, Agriculture, and are usually fed alone and other parasitic organisms Is someSUCH LUCKJ or with mineral supplements only. times obvious, bnt It also happens 4 The eftl.clency of pe~nuts for growing that some Insects and other small A Knife Sue-What's • the marter, girlie! pigs is very materially increased, how- creatures are carriers or Intermediate You look mad enough to need a shot used by ever, according to the department. hosts o:t some of the Internal para· of that hydrophobia serum. I<it Carson when tankage Is included In the ra· sites of p<~ultry. Belle-Ob, It's that oil enn I'm enFor example, according to specialtlon aR a protein supplement. the knife on hls person thereafter. gaged to. Ists In the United States Department There Is still another story of the Sue-Wassamatt er with him! Teat. at Beltsville. of .Agriculture, one variety of roundorigin of the Bowie knife-ancl anothPr Belle-l've done everything posslbl6 This conclusion Is the result of a Inventor o:t It I This story names as series of feeding tests recently com· worm must develop for one stage of to make him brealr the engageme11t the father of the weapon a Tennessean pleted at Beltsville, Md•• by 0. G. Han· Its life outside the poultry It affects. so I can sne him tor breacb of promnamed John Sowell. who fought with klns and J. H. Zeller, of the animal The roundworm lays its eggs within Ise, and be's 10 erazy about me he'l Jackso in the War of 1812. then husbandry division o:t the bureau of tile chicken and they are eliminated determined to marry me, so I suppose moved to Missouri and finally settled animal industry, and conducted ht con- In the droppings. They will not ma- I'll have to W'llt and get alimony. In Gonzales, Texas, In 1829. Being a nection with the study of peanuts tn ture if picked up by a fowl. They do mature if ft water flea picks up the blacksmith, be began plying his trade the soft-pork problem. WHAT SHE WANTED eggs. Then If a hen takes In the wa· there. Then, the story as told by Because many young pigs are com· ter flea wltb her drinking water the Sowell descendants in Texas, con- monly fed peanuts without . protein round-worn parasite o:t the flea detinues: aupplements, the question arose as to James Bowie often passed through · whether the prevailing method o:t velops into a poultry parasite. Many slnH!ar examples are known, Gonzales on hla way East after a trip prospecting In the mountains to the feeding was produc•ng the best pos- and others are suspected. The grasaWest, and he cenerally had 15 to 80 sible results. Three experiments were men with him-all Indian fightera-and undertaken In which different ration!! hop_per, for Instance, bas recently bee" shown to transmit at least one impor· they had many encountcra with the Comanches and other tribes. In one of were compared. In the first e:speri· tant parasite of domestic poultry. these fights Bowie thrust at an Indian ment, the Investigators fed two lots Sanitation and cleanliness which with his butcher knife and his band of pigs shelled peanuts and minerals, prevents such insects from having acclipped over the blade, cutting him very one lot with tankage and the other cess to the droppings may thus break badly. Thill cut suggested the Idea of a guard between the handle and blade without. In the second experiment a cycle through which Infestation and he cut a pattern from a piece of the rations were the same as In the reaches the flock. The insects in wood and In passing through Gonzal<'s first except that the peanuts were unthemselves may not be harmful to stopped at Sowell's shop and asked him 4helled. The third experiment was If he coul·1 make one like lt. Sowell poultry, but It they have had an op· Eimilar to the second except for a portunity replied that he could and, selecting a to feed on contaminated piece of steel, turned out a knife that change In minerals. droppings they may be the means of pleased Bowie very much. Mr. Sowell The results are noteworthy in show· spreading asked Bowie If he (Sowell) might give these particular parasites. Tlml<l Sultor-l'm afraid you'd lhe knife a name. Bowie replied In the lng the value of tankage as a supplestarve it you married me. aftlrmatlve and Mr. Sowell said, "I will ment to peanuts and minerals In the Anxious Deb-That's flne-1', ~ name It In honor of you, we will call ration for young pigs, and are dis- Factor in Increasing duclng It the 'Bowie Knife.' " anyway I cussed In Technical Bulletin 110-T, enProduction of Crops "Who Invented the Bowie knife?" titled "Correcting the Inefficiency of Wiadom aad Sileace Let him who can, read that conflicting Peanuts for Growth In Pigs," just IsLast year farmers bought more fer"This rule 11.pplies," testimony and then give a reply which sued by the United States Department tilizers than in many years. This inSaid Cynics long ago. he can be sure Is correct I creased use of fertilizer was a large of Agriculture. "You should be wlsfactor In Increasing crop production. But not tell all vou know.• ,. Results Summarized, The American farmer Is learning gradEruption of Volcanoes As an average of all the experithe lesson offered by the EuroAmbitioa Ascribed to the Tides ments, say the authors In summariz- ually pean farmer who spends more on Blinks-Any craving to be a mult1Not all active volcanoes erupt, as Ing the results, the feed cost of 100 fertilizer per acre than any other mllllonalre? did Mount Etna recently, like a boiled- pounds of gain, not including minerals, farmer in the world. Hollan(] is con· Jinks-No; I'd be content to be just over pot. Many explode, shooting dust was $9.92 for the tankage-fed pigs tinually enriching its soil, which makes moderately rich. r and ashes miles into the air. The non- and $17.86 when no tankage was fed. possible the Intensive methods of the Blinks-Yeah? And what Is modexplosh·e character of Etna Is ascribed The cost o:t the minerals did not ex- country and puts It at tile bend of the erately rich? ceed 35 cents per '100 pounds gain for by volcanologists to the fact that Its lfst o:t nations In the crop yield per Jinks- Well, rich enough so the either group. Ia va Is a relatively thin liquid which acre. Where the American :farmer leftovers could go Into the garbage The results also show that peanuts allows steam and gas bubbles to was inclined formerly to plant over a pall Instead -:>f Into nash.-CincinnatJ escape rea <lily. In explosive vol- with only mineral supplements are not wide area of land of questionable fer- Enquirer. canoes the lava Is thick. It holds efficient f{}r pigs In the early stages of tlllty, be Is coming to realize that back steam and gas stubbornly, cans· growth. ThE> addition of tankage Time to Lea1'e Town with more intensive methods, proper more than doubled the dally gain of ing immense pressure beneath and fertilization, and greater attention to ·'Peggy confessed at the party ,last the pigs in the experiments. eventually a violent eruption. the culture of his fields, he can make night that she had reaehed the lld· 'fhe amount of ea~b nutrient con· Because practically every active vol· more money with lesa labor and acre- vanced age ot eighteen:• cano In the world Is locate•l not far sumed per unit of gain was also much age and undergo lees anxiety from "Then I reel sorry for the editor from large bodies of water, the theory Jess for tRe tankage-fed pigs than for plant diseases and frosts. of the 1\Jorning Sneeze." 111 advanced by Dr. Wllliflm Bowie of those not receiving tankage. "How's tbat?" A copy of the bulletin may be obthe United States coast and geodetic "The pnper said that Peggy's thlr· survey and others that the kneading tained free as long as the supply lasts, Soy Beans Are Popular ty-year-old twin brother was visiting action of the periodic tides t wlsts the by writing to the office of lnformn· as Protein Supplement her." earth, forcing up the lava and causing tlon, United States Department af AgSoy beans are proving a popular vglcanlc activity. riculture, Washington, D. C. Different Perspective• protein supplement In Indiana. TwenPeN=~nective m~tkes all tile di!TerenC'e ty-one of the twenty-four members of Planned to Put Girdle Early Cutting of Soy the Howard-Miami Dairy Herd Im· In the worHL AD Pngineer 11t1d a layof Green About London provement ussoclatlon are feeding soy man friend recently oroviJril Into· a Beans Most Profitable beans John Loudoun, a famous landscape to their herds, according to L showroom to see a brand new lllle of When so.v hean hay Is cut too early 0. Holliday. cars. gardener who lived a century ago, was "Pretty, Isn't It?" said tbe latter. the author gf a scheme to put a per- the yielu Is reduced but when cut too The demand tor linseed oiJ meal wYea. I understand that cmnkC'ase manent "green girdle" around Lon- fat& It Is bard to cure. The best time and cottonseed meal Is Increasing don. In 1820 Loudoun proposed to to cut soy bean hay is after the beans each year. As the need for such pro- casting Is a one-pleee proposition," was form a tree-planted boulevard round ha,·e become well formed, but before tein-rich feed!!' as a supplement to the engineer's reply. the metropolis. His Idea was to the beans have reached the stage home-grown feerls for dairy cattle bewiden Euston road-then known as known as half-grown. comes more fully realized the demand HIS WORSE HALF With most forage crops the later for such by-products in New road-and continue this through dairy dis1\larylebone, across Hyde park and via you cut them the easier they are to tricts will continue to Increase Some SI oa ne street to the river, over Va sx- cure. It Is not so with soy beans be- other source of protein must be sehall bridge, and then by way of Ken· cause as soy beans mature the propor· cured. Present Indications are that nlngton, Camberwell and Deptford to tlon of beans In the bay increases. the soy benn may play an Important Early cut soy beun hay Is much more part In the solution of this Important Greenwich park, where it was to repalatable to the stock than the late problem. cross the Thames on a high viaduct cut hay. Early cutting means reand return by the City road back to du~·ed yield. The greatest yield Is New road. A beginning was actually obtained at maturity when the leaves Disk Before Plowing Is made, but the cost of the echeme have begun to tum yellow. ' Advantageous Practice proved too great, and the only portion carried out comprised the Imposing It has been pretty definitely proved turnings o1T Edgware road !mown as Mechanical Corn Picker that pulverizing the top layer of the Oxford and Cambridge terraces. soil with disk harrow before plow· Reduces Number of Men lng Is done Is a very advantageous Under ordinary conditions, farmers practice. When the furrow Is turned Then the Trouble Began Bertie Baxter had but recently be· can profitably own a mechanical corn over the pulverized soil breaks away come engaged to a young woman who picker If they plant and harvest 100 from the furrow and helps 1111 up the wy es, my dear, l beard lllm SllY ne in three short years had managed to acres or more, yielding 50 bushels of furs·ow bottom much more effectively was going to buy a gold watch for Ills break the hearts of all the young men corn per acre, according to Prot F. C. than when the solid furrow Is turned better half." li'enton, Kansas State Agricultural over. In the latter case large openings in Bru.xton. "1 know that man had two wives. are often left which cause the soil to At a certain tea-dance her fiance, college, wonder where bls worse half lives?''" Tbe mechanical picker reduces the dry out rapidly and become too hard who was always telling his . friends number of men required to harvest to work down well. what a wonderful girl she was, took Or a Dolichodeirus and reduces the cost of harvesting In When using a disk for this purpose, a companion aside and mentioned the It seeme somebodfs alwaye fact that the latest whim of his af· some Instances to about half, Professor do not angle It too much. Let it run Trying to spoil our funFenton says. It also relieves the rather straight and it will do satisfacThey say the pleslosaurue flnity was a new type o:t lipstick. fumer of one of the most disagree- tory work. Is just a glyptodon. "O.h, yes," nodded the other Innoable and monotonous farm tasks. cently; "kind o:t orange flavored, Isn't Enduran~e it ?"-London Answers. +++++++++++++++++•++++++++ He-Do you think kiss1ng Is an· ~ Nests for Hens healthy? Perplexing Poultry specialists recommend one She-1 really Con't know. I've never M. Polret, the famous Parisian de· nest tor every five birds. If there are tt+++•l>+++++++>J +++++++•t++++ +! oeen-" signer of women's wearing apparel, sufficient nests, all hens are Insured He-What? Never been kissed? Give the bens plenty of water. had been established in his New York of a l!l'Ylng place and the eggs are She-No. I've never been Ill after • • branch only a few weeks when he more likely to be clean and of high Hog lt,-Pathflnder. lnts and pastures used year aft· went to an American friend In de· quality. In the weJI-planned bouse, spalr. nests can be removed easily and con· er year are one of the causes of runty Muat You Go? "Zis language of yours," he wailed, l"enlently for cleaning. Metal nests pigs. "1 shall nevalre, nevalre master it. bave ao advantage In this respect be"I mean to marry your daugl:ter, sl , There Is no such thing as too much and. what's more. I'm going to do lt. Tell me, tell me, my dear ft·iend, how cause they are easier to keep sanitary sweet corn. Don't be stingy with your Do you follow me?" It Is zat w'en ze gown does not fit, ze at."l they harbor fewer mites and bed planting. patron has a flL" "Yes, as far as the door!' bugs. ,. .i Agricultural Hints j; • • • • • • • Houaes for the Soul Make yuurseh·es nests of , pleasant thoughts. None of us yet know, for none of us have been taught In early youth, wht~t fairy palacPs we may huild of beautiful thought-proof against all adversity. Bright fancies, satisfied memories, noble histories. faithful sayings, treasure house of precious and restful thoughts whlcb care cannot rtlsturb, nor pain make gloomy, nor p'lverty take away from us-houses built wlthont hands, fo1 our souls to llve Ia.-Jolul P.tdkin. Success With Hogs The suc~·essful hug raiser has come to appreciate sunshine more and more. Mouern hog house plans provide for admission of plenty of sunlight to the pens. Hogs require an abundanee oJ fresh. pure air, which should he furnished without subjecting them to In jurions drafts. They suffer much in a close, confining, poorly ventilated plaee. Sunlight should sweep ull part~ of the floor each day, to destroy dis· ease breedlD,K "r;l'ni.Pl'\11 which may lu.~ ~resent. In recent years the soy bean has en· tered into the regular cropping system on a very large number of farms. The manure pile is a fertile source of danger through providing a breeding pla('e for flies. hut It Is also tbe most 'i'aluable single adjunct a mixed farmer can hnve. High Praise ... Mr. Hardfax- You seem to be grow· lng prettier each day. ..dlss l\luggs-Thank you for rbe compliment ; I'm glad you think so. .\lr. Ha r!lfax- Yes I If you keep on this way you stand a ch·ance of being· 11 fairly good looking old woman, Sweet clover llny should be cut be· fore the stnlks get too large to be good for llllv. It Is ulsn lmportunt to eut swPet ;.lul'er h:>fure t lte stalks get ver) coarse iu order to prevent killina: 1L . Juat One End, Please Barber-Shall J clip the ends ot your hair o1T, sir? Customer-.No, thank you-one end only. • • • • • • |