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E. FORBES PIANO CO. 1909 Ttiird Avc. Heart To Heart Talks When the Boy Comes Home THERE'S something doing when the boy comes home. It gets so quiet in the house when the children are all gone.
After HO years of living together father and mother are where they were when they began the two of them. About once a month the boy comes home. He alams the door, drops his grip, grabs the little mother and shouts, dad! which makes quite a the boy comes home. There's a lot to tell. Mostly the poy talks to his mothertalks about everything and sometimes about the best girt he wants to marry some lino future lie talks to father mostly about the boy comes home.
He Is a big boy now. He throws his hat in a corner and scatters the newspapers over the door just as he did when he was a knee breeched kid. And mother doesn't scold autte so strongly ce le(j the boy comes home. comes Saturday evening and er Sunday. Sunday dinner! The kind that nakes of fried chicken, with gravy and the fixins the boy is tile kind that mother used And father piles the plate II and then the boy comes iiume.
When the boy goes away? Why, mother sets the old alarm clock Sunday night two hours ahead of the boy's Mondej morning train. And the two of them slip quietly down, mother to the kitchen and father to Btir up the fire and set the table and carry in the grub, They let the boy sleep till the very last minute. And then father shouts up the stairway, breakfast's And mother hustles to get some red apples Into the boy's valise. And as she pours the coffee she reminds the boy again about that heavy underwear should the weather turn colder, But that's another story. something doing when the hoy comes then mighty quiet.
Fred Geis. Capitalist American another name for opportunity? Freddie Geis of Dos Moines, aged IS, newsboy and capitalist, says it and has proved it. He started ten years ago selling newspapers. Two years ago he bought a home costing $30on for his people and bus a thousand or two in bank. Fred's father deserted the sielc wife, an old grandmother and two children.
That is why ho started out at 5 o'clock on a cold morning ton years ago to sell newspapers. Tils cash capital was 4 cents. Four Today he has a regular stand with newspapers-and magazines. For-a long time his stock in trade was contained in a canvas bag. He pre-empted a street corner and had to light to hold it.
Fred Is won. Young Geis ifc enterprising and employs tact and politeness. He is alert to get the attention of his customers and knows by name thousands of persons. When lie cries out. his hand invariably goes to his cap.
Behind Fred Gels Is a staunch old grandmother. The mother is an Invalid, but the grandmother is a forceful character. The young mall loves his mother, but lie banks on bis grandmother, and they do some great team work. The old woman is thrifty. When the deed to the home was turned oyer to the family the purchaser carried away in small coins a satchelful of savings.
Grandma has her doubts about banks. Fred does not share in her belief in tills respect. Opportunity? Why, Freddie Gels saw her on the streets peering around the corner, flirting with him. He merely opened his eyes. Tills young Irish boy.
a capitalist at rt, puts lo shame the lolling young fellow who sleeps till ft in the mornnlg' and asks his mother to keep hts warm or the loafing lad who frequents the billiard or pool rdoms and who is accustomed to say: no chance for a young man nowadays." No chance? Fred Gels made his chance. Loss of Power A large percentage of the energy that ia in coal is lost. Jt goes up the Chimney in smoke. Much of the working power of machinery is lost by friction or by transmission. The same is true of humans.
Man as is a perfect machine, but because of loss of energy or friction or transmission much of bis power is wasted. One writer calls a human being an engine which is a fine figure. Do you sup pose the engineer of a locomotive would treat bis engine as some of us treat ourselves? If he knows his business the engineer WillKeep his engine clean. Me will get Just enough fuel in the firebox to make steam and no more. Me will use nothing but water to generate water, which will nut coat the tubes of the boiler.
Other liquids will not do so. Before he starts his engine he will look carefully over the working- parts to be sure everything: is In good order. He will start on time and if possible keep on time, so as to arrive at the terminal on schedule. Now, do we run our way? Do we keep mind and body strictly clean? Do we use Just enough and not too much food fuel? Do vre use only water to g-et up the necessary steam? Do we go carefully over our human machines before each day's run to determine their capacity to do the work, or are we And are the working parts of our mental and physical engines in such shape that we can keep them going from 1 to 5 as from 8 to 12? Do we do the last part of the run as easily as the first? Are you losing power? Something is wrong. Illness aside, you should work up to your full capacity, whether it is a ten horse power or a hundred.
And you can do so If you will out out unnecessary friction and waste of energy, if you will keep your engines clean and workable, if you will take as good care of yourself as the average engineer does of his engine. Sleep Get plenty of sleep. If you get on the average much less than eight sleep in 24 you do not get enough for good health and long life. Napoleon affirmed that six sleep was sufficient. Often he got only four iiours in the 24, snatched at such times as he could get a chance.
Napoleon died at 52. Moreover, some historians say he lost the battle of Waterloo because of loss of sleep. On the other hand. Victor Hugo lived to be 83. He permitted nothing to deprive him of his eight hours and invariably took a short nap at noon.
Hon. G- C. Cole of Des Moines, exjustice- of the state supreme court and practicing at 84, says the secret of his vitality and longevity is the nap he has taken for years In the middle of the day. Balzac, the novelist, robbed himself of sleep in order to write. He died, a physical wreck, at 51.
George Washington believed in plenty of sleep. Invariably he withdrew from company at 10 some member of the family coming in to say: and gentlemen, the general bids you all a very good Early hardships and experiences like those of Valley Forge shortened his life. Yet lie lived to be 07 and died of an acute attack. We are like clocks. We must be thoroughly wound up every 24 hours.
There are no human eight day clocks. Shakespeare tels us that sleep up the raveled sleeve of and it is nature's surest restorer. One may not burn the candle of life at both ends. One cannot filch ffom nature. Physicians say that loss of sleep Is often the source of ills attributed to other causes.
Poor Richard was right when he said: Early to bed and early to rise Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. Victor Hugo puts the same truth in a couplet which, being translated, reads: Dinner at six, bed at ten, Life to last ten times ten. Mrs. Fisher, Ironmistress Tired of reading stories" about I men? I Well, one of a woman. Wu Ting Fang, the ex-Chinese minister, has called her "the most wonderful woman in woman referred to is Mrs.
Clark Fish' head of an iron works at Trenton, N. J. I' childhood Mrs. Fisher loved ma-1 chinei but it was her illness and the womanly desire to help out that led her to enter the machine works, of which Mr. Fisher was the head.
'T went in as she says. I soon learned that if I was to respected by the employes would have to know more than they Therefore site, began as a regular apprentice. She learned how to steel, to chisel the face of an anvil, mold vises and make She learned the business from melting iron up to bidding for big contracts. And before she was through she to love the work with iron and steel, the whir of the machinery and the sound of the 1,1 Mr. Fisher was killed in a railroad accident, v.
days after the funeral Mrs. Fisher went back to the iron works, donned her loose working blouse and started to straighten out a tangle of afiairs would have appalled most men. There wns a strike on. I lie Delaware river, overflowing its banks, had flooded the shops. The machinery was rusty, and everything was topsy turvy.
Cuing her tact, Mrs. Fisher soon had the employes back to work and had begun to set things in order. It required more than ordinary ability to get the shops going and to provide the finances, And There is no more prosperous business of Hs kind anywhere. Mrs. business acumen vas shown when she outbid competitors on the contract for American and Cuban Crop Very Good HELP MONEY MARKET Foreign Loaned Money Will Soon Keturn and He Placed in Domestic Will Not Slump IIy PRESTON C.
ADAMS New York. December doubtless will be good news to the housewives of the United States to know that sugar soon should be at a price which will permit the use of two lumps in a cup of coffee and warrant the average family to have a dessert eevry day with a pound of candy occasionally for the children. American sugar crops, including the Cuban crop which goes largely into the United States market, will probably produce this year a total of 4,000,000 ton of sugar. of crops throughout the United States and in our non-contlguous possessions point to good yields under improvements in weather conditions. The grinding season in Louisiana and Texas is under full headway, in California it is about ended.
Tn Louisiana cooler weather has checked the growth desirably, and the fields are yielding heavily. The subtle cane has been entirely worked up and the factories are starting on their plant cane. The yield In specified cases are from 116 to 157 pounds of 5)6 degree sugar test for each short ton of cane. Outside of product of probably 400,000 short tons this year, the Porto Rican crop is of interest. October there was particularly favorable for cane growing on account of moderate rains.
The sugar return is certain to be high, and although the harvesting usually begins in January the campaign at several factories may be inaugurated a full month in advance. Porto Rico should contribute 430,000 short tons under the favorable conditions for the latter half of the season. Our Philippine possessions whose harvest begins in December, should this year produce 250.000 tons, practically all of which is export sugar. The Hawaiian Islands. whose campaign is now under way, may be counted upon to produce 550,000 short tons.
The Hawaiian Islands, together with the Philippines and Porto Rfco, will produce 1,200,000 tons. Beet sugar crops of the Unfted States have just had a week of bad weather, inteferring somewhat with the progress of the campaign in the western states. Rains in California have put the ground in good position for fall plowing and seeding. The of grinding the beets is turning out with good results in Michigan, and the supply is good everywhere throughout the Interior. Sugar content in Kansas, Wisconsin and Michigan satisfactory.
Increased acreage and enlarged factory capacity is being provided for next season in several states, as a result of improved prices. This beet sugar crop should be 600,000 tons. The principal banking firms which bring out new capital issues are prepar- I ing for a greater measure of activity. Already the absorption of short term notes has quickened. Bonds, too.
are salable when the income yield is attractive and the safety reasonably assured. The expectations of a broader market are founded mainly upon the plethoric state of our money market and the certainty that funds will become even more plentiful within the next few months. Europe has overcome her nervousness. After the new year, if not before then, the huge sums lent by New York, Chicago ana other American cities to European bankers will be repaid, and the only; visible oulet for this money lies in the direction of investments. The railroads will not hesitate to raise pretty large amounts, fer no matter how stormy political agitation may become the growth of the country cannot be permanently restrained.
All of the large railroad systems maintain industrial and land departments for the encouragement of business along their lines, but not many have gone about the work of fostering agriculture In their territory in just the way the New Haven proposes to adopt. This company has taken an option on 3G.OOO acres of farm and timber land in Maine, part of which will be used as an experimental farm by the Maine Central. Later on the tract may be colonized, w'hen the settlers will be told what products experiments have shown can be most profitably grown. An agricultural publication has been purchased and will be conducted for free distribution among farmers. The New Haven has also erected a large warehouse at its Harlem River terminal for the purppose of furnishing storage for farm products sent to this market.
Mr. Mellon appears to be applying to the New Haven methods which were followed on the Northern Pacific, of which he was president for several years. mere is no occasion in my mlmi for any fear that the business of the country will take a slump." said A. Brodus of Louisville, manager of a branch of the Louisville and Nashville railway. "The last statement of the Louisville and Nashville showed an increase In business over the corresponding period of last year, and all railroad men know that last year was a good one in the railroad business.
1 look for a. first class season, and do not think the alleged uncert((pinty as to the result of elections will have any material effect on trade conditions." Four months ago mercantile firm raised on commercial paper for six months, but so little need has it for borrowed money that It has prevailed upon ffio broker to repurchase the whole of It merely on the call money rate. This means that on paper, which he paid originally better than i per cent, he will receive for two months less than 2K per cent. This is not ail isolated transaction of the kind. Manufacturers and merchants never were less in debt than I hey are at this moment.
Commercial borrowers are offered money at such low rates as are now prevailing simply because they do not want it; were they In need for facilities the charge would be raised. The position Is suggestive of the very healthy boy who begrudged the delicacies handed to but not enjoyed by bis sick brother. He begged his mother to let him have a chance at tlie good things, but was told that when lie was sick he could have them. lie walled, "when we are sick we are not able to eat them." AVere merchants healthier the attractive discounts would not be held before them. Kven tlie effete easterner must find that tlie following figures have made a rent In the pessimistic garb in which lie wraps himself; they come from an able optimist, who first remarks that, though It covers only 5.9 per cent of the world's area and has but 5.9 per cent of the world's population, the United States produces: 76 per rent of the corn of tlie 79 per cent of tlie nlshing anvils and vises for work on tlie Panama canal.
She is now rated as worili several million dollars, Her successful career pretty effectually disposes of tlie wornout theory concerning the mental Inferiority of woman. These 500 Boys and Girls A.re Leaders in Steel Toy Voting Contest Here are the names of the 250 boys and the 250 girls who had the most votes-when they were last counted. Please note that leaders are not set down in the relative order of their standing, hut alphabetically, in order to facilitate reading. This list signifies little beyond that these boys and girls are off to a good start. For the contest has just fairly got under way, and anyone may win.
It is more than likely that the list we shall print next week will show many changes. If your favorite boy or girl is not in this list, therefore, remember, that it will require only a little work on the part of you or your friends to get her there. See if you put your favorite among the leaders for next week. The votes that come to you on your purchases will do it. Some of the 500 prizes that the lucky boys and girls who obtain window and on ledges on first floor.
the most votes will receive are now on display in our show First Five Prizes for Girls Are: Princess Dorothy, her English oabarette and pony. Princess Effie, her English cabarette and pony. bicycle, pneumatic tires, coaster brake, etc. A beautiful large jointed kid body doll. Another large jointed kid body doll.
245 more prizes also for girls. First Five Prizes for Boys Are: A fully equipped electric train that RUNS. Very practical toy automobile, fully equipped. Gendron bicycle, a very high grade wheel. A toy automobile, fully equipped.
Another high grade bicycle. 245 more prizes also for boys. The 250 Girl Leaders Abril, Camilla Adams, Mabelle Adams, Martha L. Atkins, Adalade Anderson, Frances W. Arrington, Hazel Austin, Karreen Arrico.
Roscillio A1 verson, Floyce Baird, Virginia Bmrgin, Josie Brasfield, Adelia Ballard, Elizabeth Brown. Margaret Barrington, Edna Baker, Mildred Barber, Doris Bar, Alice Bernhardt, Mary L. Beasley, Ruth Bethea. Elizabeth Beck, Lera Boyd, Floy Brabston, Mary V. Brazeal.
Edna Mae Brown. Bidrie Brown. Emily Butter, Frances L. Bullock, Jo Elizabeth Bullard. Martha E.
Black. Ruth Brown, AtneliH Buruum, Clara Belle Byrd. Annie C. Baker, Sarah Button, Elizabeth Calane Gabrella Cameron, Virginia Coffin. Tvelyn Collins.
Lucile Cook, Christine Carney, Margaret Caffee, Margaret Childress, Dorothy Chisolm, Katherine Cohn Eunice Collins, Mary M. Cook, Caroline Crawford, Edna Ruth Creagh, Daisy Lee Coulborn, Mary M. Coe, Frances S. Cole, Katherine Calms, Mary May Corrlck, Aline Dill. Pauline Dawson, Dorathy Durham, Elenor Dryer, Lenorie Dyer, Virginia Dozier, Elizabeth Dryer, Nettie Douthit, Louise Eastman, Virginia Ellis, Aline Ekwurzel, Anna Edward, Margaret Edmonds, Julia Eanes, Sarah Faris, Julia Forrester, Irene Floy, Edna Fletcher, Elenor Falk net, Essie Farmer, Mary Gould, Gladys Greathouse.
Mary Gunn, Anna Belle Gay, Mary B. Ghoster, Margaret Graves, Sarah Havely, Katherine Hicks, Doratby mil, Martha Hughes, Cornelia Hall, Grace Harris, Hattie Howells, Bessie Heflin, Isabelle Holton. Ida Belle Hoke, Evelyn Hart, Elizabeth Hicks, Alice Ray Herring, Ruth Holcomb Elizabeth Hicks, Dorathy Harty, Rose Hersch, Lillian Holt, Corrle Holmes, Nettie Haley, Freances Jones, Nannie M. Jones. Gerline Mary L.
Johnson, Cecil Grey Johnson, Maggie Jones, Irene L. Kendrick, Lillian Kenney. Evelyn Kirkland. Elsie Kennedy, Margaret Kelley. Katherine King.
Barbara K. King, Dolly Kinney, Mary ennamer, Susie Leonard, Mary Lewis, Mae Lee, Katherine Lefley, Frances Lappage, Harriet LeCrene, Doris M. Lafan, Ruth Latham, Lollio I Sarah ixigan, Thelma Lova Andalee Elnor Little, Jeanette Libby, Carolyn Langerd, Annie Lester, Bessie Moffett, Frances Morefleld, Alice Miller, Marion Meyers, Julia Meyers, Vartitia Middleton, Frances Massey, Elizabeth Malone, Elizabeth Mathews, Mabelle Micheal, Lenora Moore, Carolyn Mackey, Ethel Metzler, Elsie Mills. Eulia Montgomery, Kathleen Massey, Etan Malone, Bettie R. McDorman, Frances McCullough, Mable McClemlor, Margaret McGraw, Sarah McNutt, Dorathy McRicheal, Mary McGee.
Kathleen McBride. Lucile North, Elizabeth Nebria, Mary Orr, Frances Osburn, Mildred Ozane, Ruth Orr, Frances Orr, Mildred Pinson, Vivian Pinehard, Frances Pfppen, Edith Elizabeth Parker, Maybelle Pointer, Ruth Parrish, Virginia Penter, Mary Plosser, Maybelle Prutt, Mary Pen rode, Sarah Porter, Frances Philip, Josephine Theodore Perry, Carolyn Rickie, Fay Runecke, Marie Rice, Fay Ruff. Virginia Richardson, Elnore Rogers, Frances Rosemond, Dorathy Ridenhour, Mildred Reese, Margaret Riden, Elizabeth Strickland, Izora Sparkman, Anui 3 Smith, Elizabeth Simmons, Catherine Starnes, Anna Stollnick, Eelia May Smith, Sarah Sparks, Helen Smith, Edith Stoners, Dorathy Smith. Margaret Smith, Estha Stewart, Bernie Smith, Bertha Skinner, Ruth Shropshire, Margie School, Elsie Sims, Eillie Schoolar, Elizabeth Sims, Eucile Simpson, H. Sweatt, Bobbie Smith, Beverly Sirs, Freda Taylor, Eaura Tate, Julia Thonlas, Dorathy Tutwiler, Margaret Thomas, Jessie Taylor, Margaret Tomkins, Frances Tours, Florence Taylor, Katherine Trice, Aline Tracy, Susie Tribb, Georgia Turner, Margaret Thelmh Turner, Lucy Wheellock, Kathleen Wood, Sal Warzel, Anna Wood, Sarah Wood.
Eselyn Williams. Emma Watikins, Mary Webb, Anna Wallace, Catherine Worth, Emily Weldman, Byner Wessing, Mary Wattley, Vida Wilson. Constance Wallace, Margaret White, Ruby Waldrop, Annie L. White, Jannie 250 "Topnotchers Among the Boys Allen, Hall. Adams, L.
G. Anderson, David Alexander, Ged. Anderson, Dunvard Archibald, Vincent Aird, Henry E. Armstrong, Lee Roy Alcaury, Louis Allbrech Mike Atkins, Dan Acton, Paul Allen, Vasser, Jr. Alexander, John T.
Bivins, John Jr. Baugh, Berry Blake, Campbelle Blanchard, Eugene Burchner, John M. Burnett, Chas. Boyle, Shelly Bradford, Miles Brown, Richard Bynum, Frank Curtain, Joseph Connelly, Hugh Chancy, Bryan Coarn, Fred Clarke, Fulton Cane, James Cocke, John Cadden, Eugene Cox, Raymond Carlisle, Roy Cannon, Garret Cannon, Henry Caldwell, William Chandler, Rawlstou Chamblis, Earl Currie, W. Jr.
Chadwick, Robert Cawthorn, Crich, Harry Duncan, W. J. Davis, Herbert Dillon, Wentworth Drake, Robert Dunlap, Samuel Dinsmore, Raymond Donahoo, Raymond Douglass, Edward Dunlap, Robert Ewing, R. W. Edwards, Franklin Endwich, Stanley Estes, Howard Eubanks, Tommie Foster, John S.
Fitch, C. E. Fisher, David Franklin, W. Jr. Frazier, llarrold Fontilla, Paul Farris, Clark Fanar, Charles Fish, Roy Frazier, James Farsythe, Will G.
Glodsteiner, Harry H. Griffin, Geo. Glass, Norman Goldstein, Marvin Givens, Edward Garret, Lester Grummer, William H. Greenlee, Noel Girham, Benjamine Gresham, Harry Gribbs, Frank Holcomb, Leonard Garland, Stanton Hays, Geo. Huddleston, Prentice Henderson, Fred 4 Hessler, Harry Hughes, Frank Hoppins, John Hubes, Scott Hightower, Robert Harrison, John D.
Higgans, Geo. Hyde, J. F. Hayden, Edwin Hillman, Daniel Hart, Hollis Herbert, William Herzog, Edwin Harlam, J. B.
Hamilton, Foster Haley, Roy Hames Raymond Hill, Leon Hester, Clyde Jones, James Jones, Dwight Jones, Marion Jones, Frank Justine, Jack Keener, Ross Knawlton, Frank Koening, William Kresh, Earnest Reiser, Charles Lyde, Eugene Lakey, Hicks Leton. Harry Loveman, George Lovett, D. J. Lytle, Michael Lee, John Minns. Joe Myatt, Louis Maussco, Sykes Milner, Pet.
Mobley, Julian Metzler, Leo Maughan, Coleman Morgan, Wallace Mennyfield, Mills, Janies Antis Mackey, J. C. Morliu, Thomas Morris, Turner Macon, J. T. Moreland, William Meade, Thomas Martin, Cleo Mandy, Geo.
Massie, Drew Monger, Robby Mandy, Arthur Morton, Tazwell Maggeno. Anglo Mann, Deralse Merrill, Adderson Means, Francis Moore, Walter Montgomery, William Morton, Hugh McWane, Willie McPherson, Frank Mclver, Alison McCarty, Justin McKerral, Greham McCalley, Langston McLellan, Charlie McGhee. Jas, Crawford McCulla, James McGuire, Frank, 11 Newmae, Carl Nichols, Robert Newby, Frank Osment, Clarence Osby, Walter Pebbles, Orrin Point, Chas. W. Perkins, Billie Pattillo, Wm.
H. Perkins, Bdwarcl H. Pool Derwben'y Parker, Jno. Bake Pearson, Kink Pearson, Lewis ProBton, Romaine Pray or, Victor Roberts, J. B.
ltodegers, Thomas Richmond, Cafet Rlchert, Louis G. Renfroe, Thomas Ransom, Richard Rubel, Morris Richardson, Clarence Lee Rutherford, Nathaniel Rubenstein, Harold Renfroe, Goley Smith. Jim Starr, Leo K. Shaw, Horrace Snell, Robert Sikes, Cleo Schollar, Thomley Sheer, Milton Strickland, Louis Salmon, Herbert Shannan. Norman Smith, Jack Sirdy.
Forsythe Scott, Pingee. 2nd Smith, Raymond Stallings, J. W. Sanndels, Robert Slaten, Jno. Guthrie Smith, Joe Spanks.
Baldy Sharp, William Neutor Schutt, Otto Smith, Leroy Thomas, Jack Torrent, Henery J. Thompson, J. Cary, Jr, Taylor, H. W. Torplee, Scott Thomas, Lanney Ti-ubs, Ray Tuma.
Roy Thomas, Reginold Tricks, Frank Thomas, Howard Tarrant, Geo. A. Turnipseed, Alfred Vance, Jas. Jr. Vlctren, Jack Vann, Robert Kay Weigh, Clyde Wood, Vash VVeingberg, Ralph Whatley, Edwin Wood, J.
H. Walpole, Wm Welch, James Walford, Thomas Wingo, Gus White, Ray Wegle, Wilburn Woodward, Williams Wright, Lamar Winslow, Robert S. Wilson, Wesley Wright, Milton Wallace, Robert Young, Frederick Yarbeogh. Mack Zall, Joe Zell, Henry Toy Voting Contest Department Toy Voting Contest Department cotton, 62 per cent of the petroleum, 59 per cent of the copper, 43 per cent of the pig Iron, 37 per cent of the coal, 31 per cent of the tobacco, 20 per cent of the silver, 26 per cent of the oats, 21 per cent of the wheat and 21 per cent of the gold. you predict a white or a green asked a customer, playfully of his broker, after making a five-eights.
"Neither; a blue one," was the grouchy reply, as the broker racked his brain to discover some way Qf earning rent. Pennsylvania is not the only corporation able to show a substantial gain in stockholders, although its record of 1000 per month increase has not been equaled so far as known. General Electric today has more than 1000 new stockholders over last year, due partly to the conversion of debenture bonds. COON HUNTING IS DECLINING Conservation Is Proving Unpopular to Those Who Delight in This Sport Prom the Louisville Courier-Journal. Coon hunting is on the decline over in southern Indiana, according to a report from Owensville, because the farmers and land owners have become timber conservationists and refuse to allow their trees to be cut.
Tt used to be that a coon hunt was not a success unless the coon was treed in a monarch of the forest, the tree subsequently being cut down by the ready axes of the hunters to effect the capture or the game. In days when timber was plentiful the landowners were not so particular, and It was not uncommon for a hunting party to chop down halt a dozen fine trees In a single night. The hunting party that would commit such a trespass nowadays probably would find Itself in serious trouble with the courts. For trees such as the coon hunters used to cut now have a big market value. They are growing scarcer all the time, and the landowner Is realizing the necessity of husbanding his resources in the timber line.
"In the good old an Incalculable amount of good timber was destroyed In this way. 'It was not missed at the time, for trees grew almost and lumber was not so much of Item as it is at present. The forests had to go in order to blaze the way for agricultural development. There was no especial demand for timber, and vast areas of It were cut down and burned that the land owner might prepare for growing- corn have been saved If the farmer had his land on any systematic plan, and Would have made him Independent In his later years. He did not realize the Importance of conservation, so he cut and slashed indiscriminately, and the coon hunters helped him, along with the hickory nut hunters, the chestnut hunters, the grape gatherers, the seekers after slippery elm bark and a great variety of hunters engaged in denuding the wooded lands df their products.
I Jt is well that the farmers of southern Indiana and the farmers elsewhere are beginning to take notice of the conservation movement. If the coon hunter must needs chase coons let him catch them on the level or climb the tree for his booty. INDIAN I have for sale Uie following INDIAN MOTOCYCLES that I have taken In trade for 1912 INDIANS that I will sacrifice. They are all in class condition and 1 personally guarantee every one: Gnu loop frame, battery Ignition, H. P.
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$130.00. One 1911 INDIAN 4 H. magneto ignition, machine enameled red. This machine cniy used four weeks and cost new $250.00. You cuu liardly tell this machine! from new and it carrys Hendee Mfg.
guarantee. A snap. $160.00. Olio brnml now H. P.
INDIAN. 1911 model, enameled red, Bcscli magneto. Now cost $226.00. Olio.191(1 I II. P.
INDIAN, enameled green; this machine Is In first class condition. Now only $140.00. Mr. remember this, that every Indian I sell, whether new or second hand. Is guaranteed, and remember that a second hand INDIAN la better than most new machines of other makes.
Terms fn responsible people. One 7 H. 1J. INDIAN, enameled red. Bosch magneto, free engine clutch; this machine cost f300 00 An exceptional bargain for some one, $180,00.
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