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Show BEAVER PRESS .IV If M TkX .&"5.SV It ""Ik IT l . II - A. If I DAIRY If Back Hurts i Begin on Salts - Flush Your Kidneys Occasionally by Drinking Ouarta of FACTS- . Good V; .'if . -- ,',Ms. (.',.( . A ST? l WiffJV n , I'? ''' vJ V By ELMO SCOTT WATCON LOSING days of 1923 witnessed the trans-Mississip- seven-weeks-o- ld o n high tribute: ,hnf "ven J" of service It wan C!,rn"' help and Influenre that th ""'"'snre of hut ten white Indian" In rherk with no trnn-- d m"fl" hl" h' orlRlnnt mounted lhrmr' i h.iMi lt tinli " ik of nf'v-hl'iod- I men In wlth'n Ind'an we orKHnlicd. which n iarcely . W,n,Mr of h tSOn.fll r "iff of haHnta I wna m,mhPf to Pine ordpred ,0 ,ftfl efter the Intense of the etilT ouihrcnk M'eeleh or ;hr.a( hl h pPh,1i" nf Prmnl',d In thf dlMnntroun huttlc was innnrl Knc. anr there Oarnptt. nn iioiifil, ffvinn between hie people and th (tnvlr . RIr) l nnr hia a ih , . fn A' th ,hrf)u'sh " Cr"' " i inlluom-- S.the In of the w "i hy my Cral hoFtHi. White norlh-I- " hoetllt to Indil-'- of si-rt- "p fi",,r, H'lll r pnM In rt,,rin' my Inrumhenry . "n" and work rtkbi d.-- r K", Miir, llv t ids en.rgy. 'ut lnrflv thnl Home.. h le rnanHaprii nf R"lln-.- Urt.rf and h B h, - -- pouni-ll- Fnlher, 1877 north. 1h SEnt, o when the out (By Q. A. Williams, Purdue University) The Importance of a liberal supply of pure fresh water for the dairy herd during the winter season should be given careful consideration on every farm. Many herds are undersupplled at this time. There are more than eight gallons of water In each 1(H) pounds of milk. The cow must have water to assist in digesting the food which makes the milk. Then the body gives off moisture in addition to the other needs. It requires nearly seven pounds of water for each quart of milk which a cow produces. This must come from the feed or the water trough. During the winter season a large part of the ration consumed is dry roughage. This necessitates the drinking of larger amounts of water than if pasture were a part of the daily feed. When the water consumed is insufficient the effect is not long in reaching the milk pail. Watering the milking herd once Such a daily is not often enough. practice forces the cow to consume live, eight or perhaps ten gallons at one time. Although the stomach of the cow Is larger than that of any other of our farm animals, taking this largo quantity of liquid into the stomach at one time tends to Interfere with the digestion of the feed. This Is especially true if the temperature of the water Is near the freezing point. Water at a low temperature must be raised to approximately body temperature before It can be assimilated by the Issues. Heat must be absorbed from the body to accomplish this. Inasmuch as part of the feed which an animal eats goes for the production of heat and energy, the consumption of large amounts of cold water tends to Increase the food supply used for this purpose. Dairy cuttle in milk should be supplied with water not colder than 50 degrees Fahrenheit. Even In winter water pumped from the well will not be colder, but as it stands in the trough on a cold day the temperature apMany proaches the freezing point. dairymen ure finding the tank heater a very profitable Investment for the dairy herd where a water system Is not installed In the bnrn. The expense for fuel required to heat the water consumed by the stock 13 almost negligible. Some dairymen It Is use corncobs for the purpose. poor policy to use a well balanced ration to Increase the mill; flow when the herd is not receiving enough water. The water supply is an Important Item on the dairy farm In winter. I . vk (If a troop of cavalry to advance and having found "(Dbtx tfje &vtat DtoiDe" both officers killed he voluntarily assumed command and under a heavy fire from the Indians advanced the troop to Its proper positiou." Happily for posterity which would know the e true cowboy as he was, and not as' the movies and fiction writers have misrepresented him, Charles SIrlngo had written "Rinta and Spurs" before death summoned hlra on October 19. For in that book he told the story of the boy, born in Texas February 7, 1S55, who took to stirrup and saddle when he was eleven years old and drove cattle north over the old Chlsholm trail in 1876, who knew the life in the roaring cow towns of Kansas in the heyday of the Texa3 cattle trailing days, who knew such famous outlaws as Sam Bass and Billy the KIJ, who later hunted other outlaws Butch Oassldy. Kid Curry and members of the "Wild Bunch" in Montana, Wyoming and Utah as a Pinkevton detective, who was an Oklahoma "boomer" and of whom, as a peace officer, it was said, "Wherever crooked trails led, from Texas to Alaska, he followed thera skillfully and patiently, usually to bring back with him a man or two who had up until that time outridden the law. Wherever there was trouble, there was Charlie SIrlngo." The "great race passes" yes, but it Is not entirely gone yet. Billy Garnett and "Yellowstone" Kelly, two really great scouts, are dead, but In Columbus, Neb., still lives one other. lie Is CapL Luther H. North, brother of MaJ. Frank North, organizer of the famous Pawnee Scouts. Captain North served against the Indians in the wars of 18G7-6and one of the highest and of 1876-7authorities on frontier history, a man who knew most of the famous scouts of that period, says. "Lute North was the greatest of them all." "Taps" have long since sounded for most of the army officers who won their spurs against the wild tribes of the West In the sixties and seventies. But in New Jersey still lives Gen. Edward S. Godfrey, the only surviving officer of Custer's Seventh cavalry on the day It rode to Its death on the Little Big Horn (he was a 'leutenanf then) and the best authority on the Custer battle. And Milwaukee, Wis., honors as one of her greatest citizens a man who, despite his eighty-fiv- e years, still has the soldiery bearing and rides his horse with the same easy cavalryman's grace as he did when he wns adjutant of the old "Fighting Fifth" In the days when Merrltt and Cnrr led that regiment to fame against the Sioux. Apaches and Utes. He Is Gen. Charles King, wearer of the Congressional Medal of Honor for gallantry In battle with the Apaches more than half a century ago. historian and author of a number of charming romances of army life old-tim- Garnett, scout and Indian Interprttar October 16, 192S Charlea Siring o, cowboy and peac officer October 19, 192S Ezra Meeker, pioneer oi the Oregon Trail December 2, 1928 Peter Thompson, survivor of Battle of UtUe Big Horn December 3, 192S "Yellowstone" Kelly, scout and Indian fighter December 17, 192S Brig. Gen. Oscar F. Long, U. S. A, Indian fighter December 23, 1928 WHUam prospects were good for a "buffalo hunt on Ghost oreek," tut hs never weakened. He Is about the last survivor of the old scouts He had few equals and" no and interpreters. superiors. "Yellowstone" Kelly was a great scout. No less authorities than Gen. George A. Forsyth and Gen. Nelson A. Miles, both great Indian fighters, have testified to that Born in Geneva, N. Y., July 27, 1849, he served In the Civil war and upon his discharge on the Minnesota frontier, he set out to seek adventure along the Missouri river, then the heart of the hostile Sioux country. He became a dispatch bearer between the military posts along that river when no one else would dare to take the risks which that involved. Despite the warnings that he would never return alive, he went on hunting expeditions into the Yellowstone country, where he lived a "lone wolf existence In constant danger of losing his scalp to the Indians. But he became so well acquainted with that country as to make him Invaluable to General Miles in his campaign which broke the power of the Sioux and to give to Kelly the sobriquet of "Yellowstone" Kelly. After his scouting days were over, Kelly was la the general service of the War department from 1892 to 1S93 and tn the latter year was In guide for Captain Glenn's exploring expedition Alaska. He was back In Alaska the next year with the Ilarrlman expedition and then became captain of the Fortieth United States volunteers In the Phllllpine insurrection, where he saw service under General Gates. In 1900 he was placed In command of Daputan. Mindanao, and the next year was made provincial treasurer of the province of Surlgao. Be was acting governor there when bandits and escaped criminals took possession of the principal towns. comHere for eighteen hours Kelly and a few of Filipinos. Tob eff 4 stood bowling panions For his conduct In office In this troublesome President Theoperiod. Kelly was commended by friend of his. a was who personal dore Roosevelt, Scotland. De Peter Thompson was born In worked as a and as a youth came to this country enlisted In he twenty-siof the age At miner. C troop was Seventh cavalry. Company C of the of Gen. commanded by Copt. Tom Custer, brother famous of that commander the George A. Custer, 23. 1876) (June historic day that On regiment. on the Mttle Big norn In Montana, Thompson death for the did not ride with C troop to Its and he was out had rlnyed horse his reason that from falling narrow escape a left behind. After In Jo succeeded he Sioux the of hands Into the the part of the Seventh, commanded by Major on the bluffs and Reno, which was beleaguered won the Congressional Reno with while fighting to him on Medal of Honor which was awarded The gallantry. for distinguished 1S77. Aucust 29 voluntarily "After having citation tells the story: in which effort he brought water to the wounded more wns shot through the hand, he made two aotwlth- same purpose, for the ucceful trips -standing the remonstrants "i Indian battle that New Yorker P.rla. (Jen. Oscar F. Long, a young k ivist Point and then a second lieuof medal his won tenant In the Fifth Infantry Miles sl.'ge honor Tills occurred during General his Nez and Chief of Joseph of the stronghold Paw In the cornered had he whom perccs for their epic after Montana fash bor-dcmountains In r freedom from 1reron toward the Canadian (so I.kute.ant 80 lmg young On September to order reads the citation) "having been .Vrocted x n :" r Buckwheat Has Feeding Value for Dairy Cows Buckwheat has a fair feeding value for cattle. The woody hulls of the buckwheat kernels have little feeding value themselves, but may be used to ndd bulk to a ration of other grains. Buckwheat middlings, which are separated from the hull In milling, contain 28 per cent crude protein and a fair amount of fat. Buckwheut bran is, of course, less valuable than buckwheat middlings, and when' the bran does not contain more thnn half hulls as It Is regarded as about four-fifth- s valuable as wheat bran. Such bran l as about 10 per cent protein and 24 per cent fiber. Buckwheat prodncts Lelp to produce a large flow of milk when fed intelligently to dairy cows. If buckwheat Is not given in excessive amounts It Is not Injurious to the quality of the butter produced by a herd. 8 much-discusse- In the man or woman can make a JN'o mis- by flushing the kidneys occasion authority. ally, says n well-know- n Hi ? Vater take Cow Must Have It to Aid in Digesting Food for Milk. F 1 passing, rvithin the short space of sixty days, of six men whose lives epitomized the whole splendid pageant of the frontier. It may be that not all of t'uese men were historically Important But the types which they represented were Important to the history of the Ur;ited States, and If modern race of Americans have any regard for 4 the pt'pntlal virtues of manhood onirajif. endurance, loyalty and the like then it can be said that they were "great" men. These six men of the Old Frontier who have recently gone over the Great Divide need no praise to add to their stature. The faers of their lives speak for themselves and need only to be set down In stark slmplicity to justify the statement that their deaths marked another step !n the passing of a great race. Perhaps the best known of the six was Ezra Meeker, the pioneer of the Oregon trail, whose life was devoted to awakening public sentiment and stimulating legislative action In properly marking that historic highway and preserving the memory of those who traveled over It. He made his first trip over the trail, accompanied by his young wife and their baby, In 18o2. In 1900 Ezra Meeker at the age of seventy-si- x made the last trip ever made over the trail In a covered wagon. The cities through which be passed were filled with those who were passing into an Industrial age and who marveled at the sfrauge sight of the wagon which took twenty-twmonths on Us trip. He proceeded alont over the route to Its termlnun at the Missouri river and thence to New York and Washington nnl hen East. He was met at the capital by President Roosevelt. Later he made the trip across the country several times by train, twice by automobile and In 124. as a climax to his trail blazing, ho Journeyed frnm Seattle to Washington in an airplane In 24 hours. From covereil wagon to airplane this mnn'd life had spanned the whole history of the Great West! Those who saw William Harnett In his declln-Iyears on the I'inc Ridge reservation In South Jnknta had little Idea of the romance that lay of this man. For in Rilly Oarnett's veins fl''ed proud blood-t- hat of the F. F. V. and that or those "first-clas- s fight In' men." the Oglala He was the son of Col. Richard Garnett. a of General Sheridan at West Point and In the fifties commandant at Fort Laramie where a Sioux woman of Red Cloud's band became his amnion law wife. When Colonel Garnett returned ' Virginia to cast his lot with the Confederacy at ,l" opening of the Civil war, the boy and his nmther stave, with her people and Hilly grew up "an Indian. Durln? the grenl Sioux war of 18,(177 he served as a scout and Interpreter for "le arm v nf n. n.i T. McGlllyeuddy. formerly a surgeon with the pond and Third cavalry, wns appointed agent Oglnlns on the Pinp Rldgr reservation, he made p,niy ns (,n,ef nterprpt(ir por ppypn yPHrn '"rripft served In that capacity Several years when he applied for a tils claims pension, re supported by bis old "chief." who paid him this able ys t-: A 'V nV"fwi W rL 5 r WATER SUPPLY IS IMPORTANT ITEM d : Dairy Facts Charlie SIrlngo Is dead not "with his boot on.' cows. as died so many of the peace officers of the! For wnshln and rinsing utensils, a frontier and so mnny cowboys who rode north safe water supply Is absolutely clean, "trailing Texas cattle." But out In Colorado Springs, Colo., Ml lives Andy Adams, who also rode north over the old Chlsholm trail and who long ago gave to the world that epic of the cattle trade "The Iig of a Cowboy." And down In Arizona still lives Col. William Brenkenrlde, "Billy" Breakenridge they called him In the days when Tombstone was "running wide open and wild" and he was a deputy sherllT. , Ont In Berkeley, Calif., lives Dr. V. T. McGilly. cuddy, who had no such spectacular career a some of these others, but who was nevertheless one or tne real neroes or the old wild West days. He Is Imlled by all historians as the grvatost and most fearless of nil Indian agent In the days when It took courage of Hie highest order to conjrol several thousand' turbulent savnge freuli from the warpnth. The story of what tr. did with Reel deiud's Sioux on the Pine RhUe reservation Is an epic of heroic nelilevc l wi Iho mcnt. and had he been In charge llie-ryear 1S!MI opened, 'lliere would have been no Woiinvled Knee trqgedy nor ;iisi lijni'-- "wier " with lis useless waste f valuable lives both re.) and white. "The great race passes" but, fertiin:itely for later generation of Americans, there ti remain, sueh men as these-- , even thuugli tln m-In of their lives. l remind its of their pal In making enir nation iiiki nf our !M te tin a. wilderness breakers and pioneers. And m, lony i one of them lives. -- Finis" cannot ! vrlitu i that jjlameirous -- h;ipier In Aim-ri'jlroi) necesFary. The dishcloth may be Justly charged with being responsible for a lot of the unclean utensils now being used to handle milk and cream. The main essentials In housing dairy cows In winter are to keep them dry, out of the wind and 'drafts and to proof fresh air and sunlight. vide she said. The proprietor, knowing the husband's physique, said: "These are the largest, but I think they will be too long for your husband." "I want them long, so I can cut oft the legs for patches," replied the shrewd wife Acidity The common cause of digestive difficulties is excess acid. Soda cannot alter this condition, and it burns tha stomach. Something that will neutralize the acidity Is the sensible thing to take. That Is why physicians tell the public to use Phillips Milk of Magnesia. One spoonful of this delightful preparation can neutralize many times its rolume in acid. It acts instantly; relief is quick, and very apparent All gas Is dispelled; all sourness is soon gone; the whole system Is sweetened. ,, Do try this perfect and remember It Is Just at good for children, too, and pleasant for them to take. Any drag store has the genuine, pre icrlptlonal product anti-acid- PHILLIPS Milk of Magnesia Politician and Statetman "Are you a politician or a statesman?" "Both, answered Senator Sorghum. "In order to gain any positive Initn-enc- e as a statesman yon are obliged sometimes to assert yourself as a Damp Plata "Walter, this plate Is quite damp." "Pardon me. sir, that Is your semp." Lustlge Kolner Zeltung. Within the Reach of every woman health and strength. They're brought to you by Doctor Pierce's Favorite Prescription, which if sold by druggists. It will ple-nt- ( "With good breeding to produce cows of high production, never hesitate to give an Individual all the feed she can t. effleleritly convert Into milk and , McG'l-lycudd- e Thrifty Wif thrifty housewife was buying her husband some coveralls at a general store In an Indiana village. T want the largest size you have." A i!e It costs money to grow feeds for Old We3t, Too much rich food creates acids which clog the kidney pores so that they sluggishly filter or strain only part of the waste and poisons from the blood. Then you get sick. RheuUver trouble, matism, headaches, nervousness, constipation, dizziness, sleeplessness, bladder disorders often come from sluggish kidneys. The moment you feel a dull ache la the kidneys or your back hurts, or if the urine is cloudy, offensive, full of sediment, irregular of passage, or attended by a sensation of scalding, begin to drink soft water In quantities; also get about four ounces of Jad Salts from any reliable pharmacy and take I tablespoonful in a glass of water before breakfast for a few days and your kidneys may then act fine. This famous salts Is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined with llthla, and has been used for years to help flush clogged kidneys and stimulate them to activity, also to help neutralize the acids In the system so they no longer cause Irritation, thus often relieving bladder disorders. Jad Salts Is inexpensive and cannot injure; makes a delightful effervescent Hthla-wate- r drink, which everyone can take now and then to help keep the kidneys clean and the blood pure, thereby often preventing serious kidney complications. Milk that has curdled will separate wUh diriculty. Previous to separating, such milk' should be thoroughly nilrcd by pouring from one can to nn"thor. breaking up the curd as finely as possible, en as m( to clog the ma- chine. Dei not neglect cooling your ndlk and re:; in even though the weather Is cold AUrt ceild wnfe-- r Will cool your mil' eir cream 21 times as fast as nlr. It I tmi'ortunt to always set your mil' U cold water regardless of the ten porature of the air build up, itrengthe?n and invigorate the nervous, or delicate woman. One who has used it remarked: "For over two yean I was in miserable health brought on thru woman'i trouble. I got so weak I would have fainting spells every day, my nerves were all gone and I was not able to do anything. Finally I was advised I took r take Dr. Pierce's medicines. evfral h'llc Mrh of thr Timrlte TrtKtiy "run-down- ," nd the 'GoMcn Mt'liral D;criv!!rT,' Ion' nd ir.r.lii ine mtoreA me to hraHh. i have rll woman ever lira and In my wort I Dr. Pimr'l lwiv rrro-imf- nd ivning -inHnnn whfr I think &ni rr nreJ'd. " lr ). B. UikiicU. Ml Giovt St., Uo.m, )! rcn 1 |