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Show CACHE AMERICAN. LOGAN. UTAH Cheaper Feed for More Profit Some Other American Banners You May See Flying on Flag Day Grains Can Increase Farmers Margin. 'Home-Grow- By ELMO SCOTT WATSON luit the M mhohlrig lu the MMle House iny clung In Its blue field the pohiilun of presid. nt MiKmlty arid Ihe army lo Its red field. It was as ronirniiiidi-- r In chief of the arm) not until the nett administration and wan the fint war flag of lie that de bled slops toward uniform kind that had thus ever bx-- Used Ity were taken. On June 21, lfM2, Hut fur some unknown reason the and again on October 29, 1012. Prcs-Id- i nt Taft Issued executive orders navy Presidential flag, which would Hint "the color of the field of the symbolize Ida position us commander In chief of the navy, was not thus President's flag shall be blue" But the army did not Immedidisplayed. Hie aimy Presidential flag waa first exhibited publicly at ately conform and a difficult situthe peace Jubilee celebration In ation arose at tha Inaugural care In IStei and again at a similar monies of President Wilton In latter celebration In Philadelphia March, 1913. The reviewing box both the arm) ami the navy flags In front of the White House wae weie twite hung In the main decorated with two President's of the White House during flags, provided by tha War departarmy and navy receptions but the ment and the Navy department army flag was never hoisted until The Navy department's wat blue, Xlardi 4. l'sil, when It flew over the but the War department'! wae Presidential reviewing stand at the red! second inauguration of Mihinlev. hull-wa- y (Cl'.A 1 tr f ;' Army-Nav- y Controversy The first controversy over the Presidential flag came up In ls'i'i. The War department order of had definitely dlrci ted that the official coat of anna on the central star should be "as determined by the State department" and the units referred to are those shown on the great seal of the United States, which Is In the custody of the le purtment of State. The shield thereon had always displayed seven red and six white bars, alternately red and white, which was slrleily In accordance with the act of congress of June 20, 172, establishing the great seal. In ivip when the eiulp mein ollliers at New York and Mure Island, where flags for the nn) are made, were furnished their dig books for the year, they called attention to the fact that the aim Id on Ihe President's flag erroneously displayed seven while ami s! red stripes. Instead of the reverse It was discovered that the design had been copied from a publication of the State department, enll'ied lhe Seal of the United Slates The matter was taken up unnfll clnlly with the Slate department and ended with an admission from officials of that department that there was no logical reason for the reversal of Ihe colors which was presumed to be the result of an ar- - 18 To Julio Nance Garner of Texas (shown above) haa been given the distinction of being tlm first Vice President In our history to hne a banner emblematic of Ills office. It wa only recently designed and pre aented to him a shite banner on which appears the national coat of arms and four blue stars. Now that the year 1936 has seen another (lag added to our national stand olf colors" and we will soon (on June 14) he celebrating I lag day again. It teems appropriate to consider some of the other AmerUan Hags which have their part In our national tradition, even though they are not so well known as the Stars and Stripes. First of all, there Is the President's flag, the personal banner of the Chief Executive. It's a blue flag, edged with white and yellow silk fringe, bearing the Vnlted States coat of arms In the renter and a white star In each corner. The Presidential flag has had an Interesting history, Inasmuch as the question of a proper design for It has resulted In a seriea of heated controversies over several points of heraldry Involved. Its history hat been one long record of changes and restorations until finally In 1916, under President Woodrow Wilson, there evolved the President's flag at it Is today. Before that time each President had the right to select ths design for hit own flag and most of them did. But the Presidential flag used by President Wilson has been used by our Chlef Executives sines that time. A distinctive flag for the Tresl dent had Its origin In the navy. On April IS, 1S03, Gideon Wells, secretary of the navy, Issued a set of naval regulations, prescribing that on the occasion of the visit of the President on board a the American ensign should be displayed at the main. Tills was the first official order to designate a flag denoting the presence of the President aboard a national ship. A change was made the next year when the rectangular Union Jack of dark blue, bearing horizontal rows of white stars, one for each state, was adopted as the President's Sag when on board a national vessel. Double Display of Colors This revived the old controversy ami when again lu l'.'I'i there whs a double display of colors Ihe mat ter assumed a serious aspe t. It was pointed out to President Mil son (hat an agrei ment should he made and a slumlord flag adopted for both brain Iks of the Service. The President railed In I lent. Cum. I!) run MeCamtless, able lo Ihe secretary of Ihe niivv, and requested ldm lo prepare a design for the Presidential stand, ird. he new flag was to consist of a bine field with four w Idle stars In the Corners, since the flags of nil admiral nnd of a general hear four stars as a sign of command, and the President Is the highest ranking admiral mid general. Inst), id of an ex.n t reproduction of llio gnat seal President Mil son express, d a desire lo have Ids personal seal, a uiodlllratlon of Ihe great seal usi d on the President stationery In Ihe White House, on the flag. This seal ditfers from the great seal In that the eagle' head Is turned to the sinister (Its left) nnd the star above the eagle are differently arranged. The new design was prepared by the bureau of construction and repair tinder the direction of McCandles and was approved by the President In an executive order dated May 29, 1910. So 1 also have their own emblems. If Ihe Secretary of war Is making an idllelal visit, there I displayed a red flag, bearing the United State coat of arms (with gome minor difference from that shown on the President' flag) and four white stars In the corner. If If the sec rotary of the navy. It's a blue dug with a white am her In the center ami the four star The Secretaries' Flag If It's the secretary of the treas ury, you will see another blue dug but the design on It Is even more complicated. Two crossed anchors are surrounded by a ring of tblr'een while stars. In front of the Inter-se- i lion of the anchors a shield biarlng In t lie top half a pair of s ales (of the balame tvpe) and In Ihe lower half a key. 'Hie symbolism of these Is, of course, clear The sisretary of the treasury holds the key to the nation s strongbox nnd from the earliest dav the balance siales were used In weighing precious metals The secretary of commerce also has a blue flag with the four white star but In the center I a white Klilelil, at the top of which sails a vessel and helow a lighthouse cast Its beams abroad The secretary of labor ha a white flag adorned with four blue lars and the seal of the Department of Labor In the center. This Include an escutcheon surmounted hv a spread eagle and bearing upon Its field the plow and other devices which proclaim the dignity of labor. The Hag of Hie secretary of the interior bag a light green field bearing In the center the golden figure of a bulTalo and a five pointed star in each qunrter. Besides the national banner with its 13 red and white strles and Its 48 stars, emblematic of the 48 states In the Union, there are also 48 ( r one for each American flags of those commonwealths. About one half of these are blue banners bearing In the center the state seal or some other figure emblematic of that state and a few notably Ohio, Vermont and New Mexico are I three-maste- th-e- H in one farmer Is making M the no of the Improved prices for (lain pro n is bv adopting economical fed g method Saving made feeding throi di none eiomunhul me of the many way In are o' mors who ure member of who h dab he Improvement associations are nn hu- - that tiny can Increase their r. ' irus mori of homo grown grains Si, for o n i vpen-lv- e protein feeds vvl'li replacement of part of the urn In out are two ways by wblili i! r men are finding It pos Ihle to i ui feed ioMs without lowering tin r herd prrnluetlon aver one larnier Increased Ills ag nion' tv net Im mile from 17 rows by floss u Hi a less expensive ration Oats m 'mil a part of rhe corn In the r i ' 'll, thus rediu Ing the cost of feed u 1'ioxlm itelv 24 (cuts a p"nl" His herd also 'I more pounds of hntterfat ' on the i lo II riper feed An Or ik reused his net Income 11 Vi a month through the same kind f n ration change. A third il'ilrvman used a ration of corn, oats nnd distillcompose er's grim Instead of corn and a high protein supplement previously used and was aide to cut feed cost by nine enis a hundred pounds, the protein content was the same. 'I he cheaper ration reduced Ihe fud cost of butferfat by five cents a pound and the feed cost of milk hi II cents a hundred pound ! vv forty-nint- h tr TALL TALES ( T ' -- 88 I- J Pat Scanlans Triple Play ' film-dr- e pro-dli- o ' Control of Erosion Important to Farmer Controlling erosion, tho thief of fertile topsoil, I a prominent feature of ho new soil Improvement 'lhe soil building and progrmi conseivmg crops advocated under the now program serve to chock erosion In severtl wnvs. While- - these crops are growing, their roots form a thick mat which holds the soil particles In place. Thev also chock the runoff of rain water bv Impeding its flow down hill and bv Increasing the capacity of the land to absorb water In large quantities. Then after they have been plowed under, the building and conserving crops add organic matter to the soil that makes It soft and spongy. Rain soak Into such soil and Is held for long periods, Soli well filled with organic matter also has a groat tendency to remain In place Hum grlttv sand or clay soils. When the soil absorbs large quantities of water it prevents floods during hoavv rams and keops the land from drvlng out so com pletely when rilnfall Is scarce. On an 8 per cent slope a field on which nothing hut corn is grown will lose 2.7 per cent of its rainfall by Immediate run off anil an average of 67 tons of soil per acre through erosion each year. But If the field Is in a good crop, it will lose less than 5 per cent of its rainfall and only a few hundred pounds of soil per acre. When corn, wheat, and clover are grown Id rotation, the average runoff of rain water is less than half the amount from a Held kept continually In corn, and the soil losses are ODly as much. and split branches Punky are favored hibernating places for the codling moth. All dead branches and stubs should be removed in pruning, and the ends of broken branches cut off smoothly so they will heal over. Limbs removed in the regular pruning should be cut off close to the point of origin. Stubs heal very slowly or not at nil, and usually develop Into excellent places for codling moths to hibernate. Pruning cuts more than two Inches In diameter should he protected by wood preserving paint to facilitate healing and prevent rotting. Missouri Farmer. Agricultural Notes No one thing does so much to im prove a herd as a better sue eath time a change is made. A farm woman who does not have running water yearly carnes two tons of water two miles. The best time to immunize hogs against hog cholera Is before any sign of disease appears. Losses caused by the yellow dwarf disease of potatoes in 193a were probably the worst that New Yorlt state has yet experienced. y More Ohio farmers are using farm account books than In receLt years, and books closed for last year Indi cate a general gain In farm Income. Small amounts of bonemeal mixed with the wet mush or even the dry will be of decided benefit in supplying the bone growth for any and all farm animals and poultry. The champion and reserve champion carload lots of cattle at the 1935 International were fed corn on pasture until August 10 and September 1, respectively, and then finished In dry lot. Told to: grandfather of James K of Evanston, III., was T. D. Soanlan, one of Ihe pioneer who laid the first transatlantic cable out of Hearts Content, Newfoundland, lie was also the father of Jim's uncle, Batrlck Sianlan. Iut Scanlun was one of the most powerful swimmers and fishermen Canada or New England has seen. Often he plunged Into lukes and swam them with a surveyor's chain In hls mouth. And while doing this. Bat always had time to select the likeliest fishing pools. Ills finest fishing Is family history, handed down to Jim McGrath. It happened In upper New York state and Jim Is positive It's true because Bat yelled so loudly It shook the MvGrath house, down In Brooklyn. You see, Pat wa fishing In this lake he had seen while nibbling a surveying chain. It was near dusk and lie was casting three honks near the shore for fish lie sometimes lo shallow water when It gets dark. Iat cast and hooked a trout. He played the fish a short time, then gave a determined jerk to estuhllsu who was boss. As Bat jerked he snared a muskrat on the seemd hook. That was too much so he whooped and threw the double catch high In air, casting trout, muskrat and line back toward the water with a mighty swoosh. And when Bat heaved the line toward the water he caught a humming bird on the third hook. Ha always claimed It was the only unassisted triple play of that season. THE i , A FRANK E. HAGAN and ELMO SCOTT WATSON . i wood 'two-mast- T il v Where Codling Moth Lives An Unfortunate Choice f I n h Although tills was the first distinctive flag for the President, It 's t "' iwas an unfortunate choice. In the navy the Union Jack at the foreThese flags, representing every state in the Union, were handmade by H. I. Sherritt of Richmond, who mast Is a signal for pilot. Thus In is seen (right outside circle) exhibiting this unique collection with the aid of Richmond Business College the case of a ship with only one girls. The picture was made from the top of the Virginia World War Memorial carillon at Richmond. (Photo mast, the display of the Union courtesy Virginia State Chamber of Commerce). Jack might mean either the President or the pilot; In the case of a bitrary heraldic license." In 1902 at last the controversy was ended modifications of the parent Stars the signal would be conthe acting secretary of the navy is- and a President's flag, uniform for and Stripes. fusing; and since, at that time, a sued a memorandum that "the State both branches of the service, came Others are emblems signfieant of Jack at the rigging was a signal of department certifies that the shield Into being. the history of the state. The state distress, Its use for the President has seven white and six red bars, But though the army navy con (lags of Alabama, Mississippi, North was hardly one complimentary to alternating white and red, and it Is troversy over the President's flag Carolina, Tennessee, Missouri, Arthe highest officer In the land. ordered that such shall be the seal was thus ended, there are those kansas, Georgia and Florida are on the President's flag." who are not yet satisfied with the remlmsient of the Stars and Bars In 1809, however, the national enTlio Texas flag Meanwhile the army continued to President's (lag. They point out the of tlie Confederacy. sign was again designated as the .President's flag and it remained make Its flag with the seven red fact that the seven white and six is nNo reminiscent of the Lost thus until 1882, when William E. and six white stripes on the shield red bars on the shield, even though Cause ith its two broad bars of Chandler, secretary of the navy, is- In November. 1902, It was decided it does have the Indorsement of ttie white ami red, but more particularsued an order, which was approved that something should be done to Stale department, Is not in conform ly does its blue field with one large reconcile the difference In the de- itv with the arrangement of those white star recall the fact that It by President Chester Alan Arthur, that the flag of the President of sign on the shield. A committee colors us prescribed In the act of was once the Lone Star republic. the United States shall consist of a from the M'ar department and the congress of June 20, 17S2, adopting California also recalls the fact that blue ground with the arms of the Navy department called on Presi- the gieat seal of the United States, it was a republic with its single red United States In the center." It was dent Roosevelt and suggested that nor as prescribed bv the act of con- star and the figure of a bear on a not until 16 years later, however, since other nations had but one flag gress of April 4, ISIS, prescribing white field across which is emblathat the army followed the lead of for Its chief. It was not consistent alternating red and white stripes lo zoned the words California Rethe navy by adopting a distinctive for our President to have two. establishing the American flag. public " flag for Its commander In chief. But more serious than this, acThe flag of the territory of HaSo it was decided to adopt a new ,When It did Its action marked the flag, closely patterned after the oldwaii, which hopes to place the cording to heraldy experts, is the beginning of a series of contro- er navy flag, but with several modistar In our national flag, looks fact that on the President's flag versies which were to last for near-jl- fications. A short time later orders more like a British flag than an the eagles head is turned toward two decades. American. It preserves the crosses the sinister, that is, away from were issued by the secretaries of of St. Andrew, St George and St. the flag pole. It is one of the anUnder a general order, Issued the two departments that the colors Patrick In Its canton and carries March 28, 1898, from the adjutant on the shield, as certified by the cient rules of heraldry, they say, that no bird or animal ever look eight stripes three red, three white general's office by direction of the State department (seven white and and two blue. Some of the Southaway from the staff, for if such a secretary of war, the Presidents six red bars) be followed and on ern states retain the cross of St. ffiag for the army was designated as November 21, 1902, It was otfic'aily flag is carried into battle, the head thus turned would maks it look a flag of scarlet bunting with white announced that the controversy beAndrew, which was used in the battle flag of the Confederacy but Hastars In each of the four corners tween the two departments over the as though the bird were retreatwaii Is the only American soil over and in the middle of the field a large design of the President's flag was ing from the enemy. On all other blue star, outlined in white and at an end. The only other change which float the three crosses that flags on which the eagle appears, were a cantonal feature of the first its head always faces the stiff, bearing In the center the United was to make the eagle white, heavStates coat of arms. Around this ily stitched in black. flag of the United Colonies of regardless of which side of the central star were other white stars flag one looks at America, the flag used by the ConDespite the agreement, however, In addition to distinctive flags for tinental army until the adoption of representing the states of the Union. the flags used by the two brances the Stars and Stripes od June 14 During the Spanish American war of the service were not yet the the Preside! t. and now the other high othri.iN in Ihe 1777. the army Presidential flag was hung same. True, both used the same deupon the wall of the cabinet room vice as to the eagle and Hie shield. executive hr'm h of our government C Western Newspaper Union. IN GUADALAJARA ' V '""V If J'- - V fT- - '"1 111, Skin Peddler In Guadalajara. altars on stiff old knees. Girls knelt with crowns of thorns on their venerable city brows, and small boys clutched at GUADALAJARA, la one of Ihe crucifixes. Mexico's tourist uieccas. From Guadalajara out to the subSleepers run from Los Angeles urban church at Zapopan Is but a Ralls short through to Guadalajara. trip by traincur; but during also link the city with the aeu at an August feast peons hobble out another system to It on their knees, Manzanillo; taking all day. the with Mexico with ties It City, M lien prayers are over they stage a borGulf of Mexico, and the Texas costume play depicting the Spanish der. These railways, with the na- conquest of Jalisco. Then Indian tion's 8teadll.v growing net of motor players dress and act the parts of highways, make Guadalajara an ac- Spanish knights and the local Intive distribution center. Here cheap dian characters of that conflict. In electric power, ample labor, and recent years education has been abundant raw materials stimulate taken away from the church, and various Industries. These Include the new generation tends to abanspinning and knitting mills, candy don thee mimetic dances and draand cracker works, and shops fa- matic rituals. mous for Ihelr beautiful tiles and The chief ediflie in Guadalajara mosaics. Is the cathedral; Its twin towers The arcades that shade the siderle over the city, visible for miles. walk before stores fating a plaa On feast days long strings of lights shelter many street vender. A hat Illuminate the tower, and at Eastpeddler walks majestically along er the bishop washes the feet of with 13 or 20 hats for sale, stai keil twelve old men, chosen at random on Ids own head, one mop the othfr"! street crowd. er, like a pagoda. Another curries Rushing to aid the king of Spain a long string of sandal. Some are In the Peninsular war went many of straw, others of raw tilde, and a men of Guadalajara. Legend says few made from old automobile tires money w as sent, too, raised by meltcut Into sole. ing gold and silver plate and candleCountry peons usually wear bug- sticks from the cathedra). In gratigy white drawers; hut custom now tude the king gave this church decrees that this badge of rural Murillo's great painting, "The Asservitude shall not he worn In sumption of the Virgin, still hangGuadalajara streets. So, at the edge ing In the cathedral though many of the city, "punts shops are open attempts have been made to buy or wheie trousers may be rented. purloin It. Just check your drawers there and Lose Popularity. rent a pair of pants, as Impecunious The bull ring Is here, of course; American students may rent evening but such sports as boxing, football, clothes for a party ! Changing sar- and baseball have robbed It of torial standards, however, are deDespite Its conpopularity. tinuous appeal to the peon, who stroying this simple Industry. Indians arrive In the city with glories In Its cruel, gory combats, baskets of assorted fruits, guavas, nnd survival of a few other hagourds, tiny lemons, cactus pours bitues, bull fighting as a business On the pavement is on the decline. and mangoes. Bulls from Spain are still sent to they arrange little piles one kind of fruit here, another there; then Mexico City, where tourists help they squat down, silently awaiting support the arena, and some fightbuyers. If you want fruit, buy It, ing animals are still raised on the but don't ak questions. Vet const ram lies for GuadalaToys, candies, sott drinks, post- jara. One of these is the old Rancards, newspapers, pottery, medal- cho San Jose de Conde, In Navarlt, lions of the saints, small melons which dates from 1550. It Is one of white on one side like a fishs belly America's oldest ranches. Its outeverything from mule gear and put of small, black, savage bulls old tools to carved wood sticks endwent on for generations. To pering in ornate filigree balls for stirpetuate the fighting Instinct, the ring chocolate are spread out for rule on this ranch was "Kill every sale on the sidewalk. bull calf that does not seem to hate Good Merchandise in the Stores, Such a plan Insures a bull inen. Insole the large stores, of course, ferocious as any wild animal. One Is modern merchandise. Some Ameryoung bull on this ranch chased a ican women, wise in local ways, say vaquero up a tree and kept him that if the stores don't carry the treed till he nearly died of thirst When Cortez conquered Monteparticular hat or gown they wish, clever native women soon make zuma and founded New Spain, he them copying, If need be, from no had with him one Don Nunode Guzmore than a picture from an Amer- man, who soon rose to nower and ican fashion journal. Most lingerie, grew jealous of his chief. Eager to dress goods, millinery, soaps, per- gain more honors and riches for fume, and jewelry are sold by himself, De Guzman, In 1529, quit merchants. French Machinery, the Aztec capital, with picked Spanhardware, and such heavy goods ish troops and many Tlaxenltecan are usually handled by Germans. Indian allies, to explore the unFew Americans are found In re- known regions farther west and tail trade; they, with the British, north. In their travels, De Guzman in mines, and his lieutenant, Cristobal de are more Interested ranches, power plants, railways, or Onate, came upon a huge Indian Nochistlan. banks. Fighting stronghold, If you buy any sizable article In ensued, and nearby the Spaniards a store, the merchant whistles tip a built their camp, a cluster of huts. street porter to carry It home for Though moved about later to variyou. Persons of position would lose ous neighboring sites, a town was caste carrying a big parcel thryugh laid out about 1530 It was named Porters even carry for De Guzman's home town In the street. big bags of silver coin to and from Spain, Guadalajara, from the Moorthe bayhs and for some reason are ish Wad al hnjarah, meaning River From the king of Spain seldom molested. of Rocks bread the new town got Its coat of arms Buy your dead mans here, a bakers sign may read in 1539; so it was really a white around All Souls day. At tiiat time, settlement nearly a century before some Mexicans believe, the spirits the English landed at Jamestown. of departed iciatives return to dine By 1500 Guadalajara had become The dining important. with their families Its chief activity was table becomes an altar, and some Indian slave hunting, and the drivfoods are served in strange shapes, ing of these to work in the gold and such as candy skulls, big nnd little, silver mines. Vast fortunes were homes luxurius with cherries for eyes, ribs and leg thus amassed, bones made of chocolate, or cakes wore built; and New Galicia, of baked In the form of coffins. which Guadalajara was the capital, Many churches in Mexico were then Included not only the present built on sites of ancient Aztec tem- state of Jalisco, hut much of what ples, the heads of whose Idols were Is now five or six other Mexican In states, reaching up to Sinaloa. cut off by zealous Spaniards. some churches fragments of heathen Visit certain old Guadalajara famidofs are built into the walls. After ily homes now and you are astonthe conquest, Spain built literally ished at the wealth and beauty of thousands of Mexican churches. heirlooms from colonial days. HandThey dominate Guadalajara. From made silverware, even table services here the padres marched, building of gold, heavy Spanish chests bound missions all the way to California. In leather and copper, miniatures, Devotion of the Peons. jewelry, crucifixes and old paintings, Horses and rebels were housed In guitars, Inlaid with pearl, historic some of these churches, with priests weapons, hand carved tables, and other furniture so heavy that it can and mins deported during the revoHie lutions. But the faithful carried on be moved oniv with difheully. Pious peons came for miles on their old hand made locks on front doors knees to the churches. Old women, are often so massive that the key itshouting the chants and itanies or self may be as big and heavy as a counting their bead, crawled to the coinmoD hatchet, say a foot lung PrpparM by National Geographic Society, ahlnKton, L C W N U Service. e The End of the Philly-Lo- o IS a well known fact that the ITphllly-Iobird Is extinct but accounts of tlie death of the last survive vary. Larry Flint a ennyl-vanl- a newspaper mnn, says he sw the tragedy out In Wyoming. was ferociously The phllly-Iofond of the holes In doughnuts. His method of eating them was unique; be backed up to them, slipped hls tail through them, then flicked It around In front and fed himself. An old timer out there, knowing of this peculiarity, sought out ths last surviving phllly loo nnd laid Beveral doughnut holes down In front of the bird. In order to eat the hole, the phiily loo had to move hls tall around Into the proper Juxtaposition. This brought about hls end. But F. E. Fuller of the Rhame (N. D.) Review has another version of the story. He says that he and another editor had the job of hunting, down the last survivors of the race to serve at a banquet for some visiting newspaper men. Near a mountain In the Bad Lands they flushed a covey and started chasing them. The phllly-loo- s began circling the mountains," relates Mr. Fuller. As they did so each bird grabbed the tail of the bird ahead and as they mounted upward and the circle narrowed, they swallowed to take up thq slack. They kept circling and swallowing until each bird had completely swallowed the bird ahead, and they entirely disappeared from before our eyes. All that Is left are a few tracks circling the mountain that look Just like those made by an automobile driven by a driver. Ive never seen a phiily loo bird since that time." o one-arm- Winner by a Nose of fellows who work In a were born In the great open spaces, nnd Invariably they retain their hankering for the hinterlands. Lewis W. Hunt, city editor of the Chicago Dally News, Is no exception. And sometimes when the boys aie having a chinning match he Is unable to conceal hls liking for the bad lands or his native Montana. So when a party from Kansas asserted that In his country It became so dry It was necessary to run water from the well through a wringer, and to throw gravel on the barn to delude the cons into thinking rain was falling, so theyd come out, Lewis asserted himself. Its cold we relish In Montana, One winter in declaimed Hunt. my home town the mercury sank so low that boiling hot coffee froze solid en route from pot to cup. And that was the year, lie concluded, that the man In our town with the longest tiose froze hls proboscis. A friend recommended the only possible relief would be to rub snow on It. The long nosed man rubbed snow on the part of his nose he could reach and threw snowballs at the rest. In nine days be was entirely recovered. LOTS W estern Newspaper Union Chalk Used on Farm Land Roman history relates that the Inhabitants of Gaul two thousand years ago applied chalk to their farm lands, taken from natural deposits several feet under the ground. Early In the Seventeenth century, lime Is recorded as having been used In England. Fresh-Wate- r Cla m relatives of the ovster are not called by that name, They are known as mussels, oi fresh water clams. Fresh-wate- r i H |