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JACKSON COUNTY JOURNAL. SYLVA, N. C.
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OUTDOOR EXERCISE HELPS.
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CABINET
MO
MINE
IS
TO
BE
Trees in Forests Must Be Re
placed or Great Scarcity
Result.
SAW MILLS SMALL FACTOR
Pulp Mills Eat Up Many Millions of
Spruce Every Year Scientific
Forestry Has Not Caught Up
to Tree Slaughter.
4
TMngor. Me. When the world gets
! r m! -h with Its arguments about war.
j !.. ine or n) League of Nations
! ' ! all that Is expressed in the
1 "i-i ::nd ugly word "rum," it should
t.: .i its mot serious and intelligent
i -.niion to tree farming. Positively,
tli. 'iv must be many more trees, or a
f-'irarit and liberal replenishment of
1h listing supply, or presently we
.!:.!! suffer great inconvenience from
t!: varclty of many useful and some
on ; mental things.
I i the simple and innocent old times
!-v was juu so much standing lum
:. :;nd lumber was cheap. Within
memory of men of middle age
-lass spruce logs sold in I3nnirnr
it: H to $M ppr thousand feet. The
!.). i: who cut the logs were paid $13
t. a month and board, the board
enuring chiefly of a bunk to sleep
i;i .in.j Deans twenty-one times
a
v.'.k. ine men who "drove
SiH:;e logs, that is, personally
the
con-
(.--.! them down the roaring brooks
r.n i raging rivers, received for their
In!"cs and hair-raising risks, $2.25 to
5" i day. according to their athletic
fkiii and their fame as "white water
n r.." and of course all hands were
ftv. although the menu was character
ize! by monotonous simplicity and
tb- service subject to many irregu
l;iri;ies and postponements. These
?:.::ie logs were sawed in mills that
crrnmonted the banks of the Penoh
for fifty miles or more, chiefly
t,'tw..n Milford nnd Bangor, n dis
r.!!.v of about fifteen miles. The mill
h:r..ls went to work very earlv in the
.filing and kept at it until long af
ter everyone else had quit for the
l:y. being rewarded to the extent of
chour jO) a month and all the corned
Iwf. eabbage, etc., they could eat In
mcn;. to tnirty minutes, three
or
iur tunes a day, according to
sea-
fun.
Profit to Manufacturer.
Tlu- sweet-smelling spruce that was
?H.v.l off by the saws was worth
$14 to $21 per thousand feet, accord
in.' to quality and dimensions. This
'"-.Id seem to allow of slight profit
to the manufacturer, but there are
Prions ways of measuring logs and
!u::i!.r woods scale, boom scale and
liiill sralo and during the golden era
f l'.angor's spruce trade the jugglery
of figures was such that 1,000 feet of
b'om scale would "saw out"
iT.vl:er. from 1,150 to 1,400 feet of
Itituber. 1.200 feet being a fair aver-
So, even in the gloomiest days,
"uIm'ti heavy spruce dimensions were
p-lliiu' at $21 to $23 and the Bangor
men would sit In their offices
chewing tobacco and cussing the hard
t:ni.. thoy were In fact making a
-nni tiling especially if they
ii.il-P"tieii to own the land
vcfp cut from.
the logs
Tien, last of all, the coasters
carried the lumber to Boston,
who
the
"'"lti.i and New York got $1.7.r. $2.25
nrl .$'.".() per thousand feet for de
'ry at those several destinations
tliat Is, the rates quoted prevailed
3uritiL: fairly good times. In dull
tinier lumber was carried from Ban
to Boston as cheaply as $1.25 to
1 .0 per thousand, to Long Island
"'ind ports at $1.75 to $2, and to New
at $2 to $2.25.
Now everything is changed. Of
iitieN normal log cut of 1,000,000,-
XM) fK.t nt enst 60 per cent ff0ea
to pulp and paper. The native W-
Pt. who swung a sharp ax skillfully
f i to $20 a month and was con
tent to live on baked beans and
a!roi tisi,f ,as Deen SUCCeeded. by a
iHvdot mob that uses saws lan
fi'lly at $50 to $G0 a month, de
jn'ls hotel fare, frequent payments,
IM'.'e treatment and every few weeks
vM-aiion. The logs for the most
itre cut into four-foot lengths,
ri'l they go to the big pulp and paper
Mil- owned by corporations that long
u" l.ought up hundreds of thousands
cr llf'!t s of the best timber in Maine.
TESTING DOCK FOR SUBMARINES
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''IS IS film . i... .
arrt i j mithi vjt-inmu sjuuiw.-.i .ut? contrivance!!, wmen has beeu
uacrd to the allies. It is a testing dirk for submarines.
er
-"u j iuarch
a" seasons.
Now it goes on at
Saw Mills Small Factor.
saw mill o o c i. - .
Th
the irrpn 7 ouiau iactor m
S inHgillne f tUrning Maine for
per th?;f ?ney' The long log.
driven nrQ cinct- Tne big sawmill
of h e.V,0mre- This is the
uij of the "four-f not ot,,. ,
waives un mnst k .
business to
w unves an(1 giveg
111! lie nr.
railroads. The nnln
of snrn p 7 7 many mHlions of fet
tieni 1 specu,ave and statis
tical persons wonnW
I'
cerneMh f0r 08 Maine is n-
f amine J" b? n fear of
" er but at the pres
ent rate of cutting there is bound to
be a scarcity in the United States with"
kiting 5'earS that WH1 Seml Prices
The present annual consumption of
pulp wood east of the Mississippi
owVu fhT I"!00-000 cord8 or 3'500--
000 000 feet. That is using wood at a
eckless rate, even with a big supply
in sight. But there is a greater drain
upon our wood resources. Fire takes
more than the mills. The eastern
slope of the Rockies Is 75 per cent
burnt land, and the timber map is
splotched with great black patches all
the way from Puget sound to the
Penobscot. In some parts of Maine
the burnt area greatly exceeds the
green. In the South the pine and the
cypress are being cut awav at an
alarming rate, and in the Pacific states
the Douglas fir and other growths are
being turned into money as rapidly
as possible.
1o make up for all the cutting lit
tle is being done. Scientific forestry
Is making some progress, but as yet
efforts in that direction are as nothing
compared with tree slaughter Re
forestation is being carried on in some
states, as on a small scale, in Maine,
but a tree doesn't grow in a da v. A
big spruce may be felled in five 'min
utes, but its reproduction will re
quire 40 years.
It is not altogether a question of
wood supply, either. As the forests go
the floods will come, waterpowers
will fail and all industry will suf-
f, rni. n . I
-iiiereiore, mere must be a lot
of tree planting in this country, else
pretty much everything will go tr- the
board.
Advance in Pulp Wood Values.
The advance in pulp wood values
within 30 months has been remark
able, even for the times. Before the
entrance of this country into the war,
peeled wood delivered in the mill yard'
in Maine was worth $9 a cord.
Now the price is $18 in Maine and in
New York state $2G a cord. This ad
vance is due in part to higher wages
and in part to a little profiteering or a
turn of thrift by the land owners.
Wages before the war, that is, up to
NEW EYELIDS MADE FROM LEG
Operation Restores Sight of Maine
Man Injured Forty-Seven
Years Ago.
Bangoi Me. Forty-seven years
without closing his eyes, then a period
of total blindness, followed by com
plete restoration of sight, this is the
experience of John Randolph Watson
of the town of Standish.
Mr. Watson was a photographer in
Indianola, and in 1856 an explosion of
chemicals burned away his eyelids, al
though the sight was not affected. But
with unprotected eyes he continued
for nearly half a century, three years
of the period being spent in Alaska,
where the severity of the climate
caused cataracts to form on both eyes
and results in loss of sight.
He went to Philadelphia later, where
he formerly lived for a time, and was
at the Hahnemann hospital, and by
grafting flesh from his leg he got a
new set of eyelids. The success of the
operation is now assured. The cata
racts were removed and the sight has
been restored.
"Income Unsettled."
Amsterdam. "Income Unsettled"
was the return made by ex-Crown
Prince William of Germany, in re
sponse to the Dutch collector's request
for de.ails. The collector is asking the
government. "How about it?"
: ... ....
Private Renner and his wife and
children at the farm used in connec
tion with Ward 55, Columbia Base'
Hospital No. 1, where the experiment
is being tried to determine whether
nnt outdoor exercise hastens
covery.
re-
the spring of 1917, were $30 to $35 a
month and board. In 1918 and 1919 the
rate jumped to $G0 to $65 a month, and
income instances as high as $75 or
$85 has been paid. Just now. bemuse
Maine is pretty well stocked, the de
mand for labor and the price show a
declining tendency. But in the United
States as a whole the supply of wood
is short of the demand, and there
seems to be no prospect of lower
prices either of labor or product.
One operator in Maine, a Massa
chusetts man, who got into the lum
ber business through his love of na
ture, cut last year on Molunceus and
the east branch of the Penobscot
30,000 cords, or 15,000,000 feet, of 'pulp
wood and 5.000.000 feet of long logs,
and will cut this year 40,000 cords, or
20,000,000 feet of pulp wood, employ
ing 600 men at $G2 a month and
board or for piece work. $3.50 to $3.75
a cord.
The common impression Is that all
wood pulp is made into paper and
that the increased demand for news
print alone is responsible for th2 fle-
nuuauon oi our Torest lanos. it is
true that most of the pulp goes to
satisfy the appetite of the printing:
presses, but there have been devel
oped in recent years many and vari
ous other uses for the fiber of the
spruce and poplar. Innumerable
articles are now made of wood pulp
doors, dishes, buttons, boards, boxes,
pie plates by the million, trunks and
car wheels, and milady who parades
the avenue, proud of her gown of
tricolette, may be surprised to learn
that in that silken fabric is woven
the fiber of the spruce that she owes
something of the luster and durable
texture of her finery to the fragrant
forests of Maine.
Vermin Adds to Cost
of Producing Pork
Washington, D. C Lice add
a cent a pound to the cost of
producing pork. This has been
found in tests just completed
at the experiment farm of the
United States department of
agriculture at Beltsville, Md.
Twenty-four lousy hogs were
secured and divided into two
lots as nearly equal as to quality
of animals as possible.
The two lots were managed
and fed the same way with the
exception that one lot was treat
ed to prevent lice. The animals
were weighed at regular inter
vals and at the end of the fat
tening period it was found that
the hogs infested with lice cost
a cent a pound more to fatten
than those which were free of
the troublesome pest.
The officials of the depart
ment who had charge of this ex
periment give an interesting
side light in connection with
securing the lousy animals.
They communicated with some
of the department's field men,
asking them to locate lousy
hogs. It was some time before
a reply was received to this
surprising order. After the
lousy hogs were purchased the
owner learned why, and he im
mediately built a dipping vat
and began to treat the animals
to prevent lice.
Coming Fast for Fideie.
New York. Within the space of six
hours, the stork left
I , nil ctr
i boys at the home of Fideie Cataldo
his rabbit presented him with ten new
: bunnies and the family cat announced
, two new arrivals. Cataldo. who" was
ui tfijiiu cmiciren on
..-u per day, is looking
work.
for extra
Girl's Steer Gained.
Goshen, Ind. Maxwelton, a thor
oughbred steer, fattened by Miss Ber
nice Gallup, residing east of Goshen
has gained more than 200 pounds since
April 3d. A gain of 150 pounds waf
brought about in one month.
thn,,iCndenination with its allied
r,rodn,3 an,d emotions has been
f?"tlve .of a far neater loss In
"..wcL.ve, in will-power.
and of a
mi CTeatpr
dpffroo rt 1 j j
than , mental and Physical,
ized 11 V have P'raps real
ized Ralph Waldo Trine.
,1H . vt luwcreu VI-
DISHES FOR QUICK LUNCHEON.
A choice may be madp frnm wQ
dishes, depending upon the foods at
hand. With tomato soup
and croutons for a be
ginning follow up with
Ox Tongue and Spin
ach. The canned tongue
may be used as well as
the canned spinach. Heat
the cooked tongue and
place on n niotto
snced. Surround with chopped sea
soned spinach, garnished with sliced
hard-cooked eggs.
Cornbread or gems mnv ho aamaA
, meaI' French fried Potatoes
and finish with
Pineapple and Coconut Cup Cut
canned pineapple in cubes and sprin
kle with grated coconut; make a
layer of each ; sprinkle with sugar and
erve in glass cups. Strawberries and
pineapple, covered with a sugar sirup
make a most tasty dessert. Almost
any kind of fruit or combination may
be used.
Tuna Fish and Rice. Boil one-half
cupful of rice until soft and mix with
a larsre cin nf t, ...i.- , ,
... tulltl vxm;ii nas
been flaked with a fork. Moisten with
cream sauce, using one tablespoonful
each of butter and flour and a half
cupful of milk. Cook until smooth
nnd thick. Season, put into individual
ramekins and sprinkle with sifted
crumbs over the top. Bake in a hot
oven until the crumbs are brown.
Corn Fritters. To a can of kormlet
or finely chopped corn add two beaten
eggs, half a teaspoonful of salt, one
tablespoonful of sugar, and flour with
a teaspoonful of baking powder to
make a drop batter. Drop by tea
spoonfuls into hot fat and cook until
brown.
Peach Mallows. Fill halves of
canned peaches with marshmallows.
Take a cup of peach juice, add a tea
spoonful of corn starch and the yolk
of one egg. Flavor with a few .Irons
of almond extract, added after cook-
ana pour when cool
peaches. Serve very cold
over, the
in glass
dishes or stemmed sherbet cups.
Corned-Beef Hash. Emptv a can of
corned beef and grind it with five po
tatoes through the coarse part of the
meat grinder. Mix and season well.
Put into a hot frying pan a table
spoonful of sweet fat; when hot add
the hash. If too dry. moisten with
broth, milk or water. Cook slowly
until well browned, then turn out on a
hot platter. Arrange poached eggs
around the hash and serve hot.
How sweet and grnclous, even in
common speech.
is mat fine sense which men
courtesy!
call
Wholesome as air and genial
as
Welcome in every clime as breath
of flowers
ii transmutes aliens Into
friends.
trusting
And gives its owner passport round
the globe.
James T. Fields.
FROZEN DISHES.
There is nothing so appealing to the
palate during hot weather as refresh
ing frozen things.
Maple Pa rf a it. Pour
a cupful of boiling hot
maple sirup over the
well-beaten yolks of four
eggs; add a pint of thin
cream when cool and
freeze as usual, by pack
ing in ice and salt.
Golden Parfait. Cook
together one cunfnl of
sugar, the rind of an orange, grated
and one-half cupful of water. Pour
tne not sirup over the well-hpntan
yolks of four eggs, add a pint of cream
or ncn milk and freeze.
To make Nesselrode pudding, add
one cupful of cooked and mashed chest
nuts, one cupful of minced candied
fruit soaked in orange juice until soft
and one cupful of pineapple. Flavor
with almond and rose and freeze as
usual.
Cocoa Parfait. Boil a cupful of
sugar with one-half cupful of water
ten minutes : pour the sirup over four
tablespoonfuls of cocoa which has been
beaten with four egg yolks ; cook over
hot water until of the consistency of
soft custard. Beat until rokl n.iri t-
cupful s of cream which has been beat
en stiff, a teaspoonful of vanilla and
one-quarter of a teaspoonful of salt.
Turn into a mold and pack in equal
measures of ice and salt. Let stand
four hours; unmold and garnish with
sweetened and flavored whipped cream
piped around with parfait.
Velvet Sherbet. Take two cupfuls
of sugar, the juice of three lemons and
a quart of good rich milk. Freeze and
let stand for two hours to ripen.
Strawberry and raspberry ice cream
are most delicious. Mash a quart of
the berries, strain carefully and sweet
en with a sirup made of sugar and
water cooked together and cooled. Add
a quart of rich milk or milk and cream
or thin cream, which is better; then
freeze. A pinch of salt should be add
ed to all frozen dishes. The sirup used
instead of sugar in this recipe insures
a firmer frozen dish.
textile Tvuwtfifi.
ORPHANED LAMBS AND PIGS
Patience, Care and Good Nursing Hav
Brought to Maturity Many Un
fortunate Animals.
(Prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
Many weak "orphan" lambs and
pigs, requiring too much care for the
average farmer or ranchman to bother
with, are salvaged by the boys and
girls belonging to the clubs organized
by the United States department of ag
riculture and the state colleges. Pa
tience, care and good nursing by a
A Club Boy and His Three Orphans.
youngster have brought to maturity
animals which otherwise would not
have survived infancy. As a result,
the meat supply is increased and the
boy or girl is enabled to earn money.
The father of a little girl in Anson
county, N. C, who was very anxious to
join a pig club, repeatedly refused to
give her a pig. One of his pigs did
not do well last year and he tried to
sell the "runt" for SI. but could nor
find a buyer. His wife persuaded him
to give the friendless pig to the little
girl. Care and careful feeding brought
It to maturity. After a while the club
member's herd was increased to six.
The little girl traded the best two of
the litter to her father for sole posses
sion of the mother hog, and sold the
other three for $15. Having now ac
quired a membership in the pig club,
she plans to continue in the work.
CO-OPERATIVE SHIPPING PLAN
Boys of Florida County to Market
Their Pigs in Carloads Engaged
in Feed Contest.
(Prepared by the Upited States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
The pig club boys of Madison coun
ty, Fla., are planning to market their
pigs next fall in a co-operative car
load shipment These boys are now
busily engaged in a feeding contest
and arc working for one of a number
of prizes offered for the most success
ful feeders. Peanut meal and corn,
with rape and rye pastures, make up
the present rations of the club pigs.
The local county agent has already
informed a number of livestock com
mission companies of the plan of mar
keting the club pigs, and states that
the buyer will have to bid above the
market price to get them.
FATTENING ON SELF-FEEDERS
Hogs Fed in This Manner Save Feed
and Labor and Are Fit for Market
Much Earlier.
(Prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
Fatten hogs on self-feeders as far
as possible. Hogs fed in this way save
labor, save feed In proportion to the
gain In weight made, and are readv
for market sooner than those which
are hand fed. Less feed is actually
required to fatten when hogs are self
fed. The system is therefore econom
leal In every respect.
TOC
The horses should be given plenty
of fresh water regularly every day.
Regular feeding Is of paramount im
portance in keeping stock In a healthy
condition.
Pasture lands devoted to sheep have
greater possibility of their own sus
tenance than any other.
The rule is that it i-s better not tc
milk the cow before freshening un'ess
it become absolutely necessary.
There is nothing like a self-feedei
to give pigs a good start, and it is the
start they get that tells In the wind
Dp. P.y providing good pasture crops foi
'mttiI.s after weaning, a set-back in
-rowtli may frequently be avoided and
"e '.r.mbs marketed at an earlier age
K
frM
Should Read Mrs. MonyWi
Letter Published by
Her Permission,
Vegetable Compound helpedtne so much
curing the time I
was lookingf orward
to the coming of my
little one that I am
recommending it to
other expectant
mothers. Be for
taking it, someday
I suffered with neu
ralgia so badly that
I thought I could
not live, but after
taking three bottle
of LydiaE. Pink
ham's V e ge table
Compound I was en
tirely relieved of
neuralgia, 1 had
gained in strength
and was able to go
my housework. My baby when seven
months old weighed 19 pounds and I feel
better than I have for a long time. I
never had any medicine do me so
Sit?he1ndrMrS- PEARL M0NYHA
Good health during maternity is a
ASt um?ort,nt f actor to both mother
and child, and many letters have been
received by the Lydia E. Pinkham
Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass., telling of
health restored duringthis trying period
Lute use oi iyciaii P mkham'sVeei
rege-
tauie Vyompound.
iokness
Caused by
Agidatoms!h
If peoDle onW dMt. i ... . .
Kinds of sicknf n.i i- '
the Hves it ntr.i v -
ruard against It a. carefully wthw di
against a deadlv m-,,. N?". ibeZ d?
fheifl7.t "ylPPtom C acid-stomach
?,!?. f lndl9tln: distressing, painful
bloat: sour, sassy stomach; belching- food
repeating: heartburn, .to tx-v,' " 5j
stomach feel, th a way you should losi m
rt..ln puttlns to rights. If you flonX
serious consequences are almost sure to fol-
inZ.Vit? ",lnte?tn fermentation, auto
intoxication. Impairment of th rtl-
?UA."yHtem headach. biliousness, cirrhosis
of the liver: sometime v.n 11 it
stomach and intestinal ulcers and cancer
.Jl y.U a1 no feel,n right, see If it Isn't
acid-stomach that is the cause of yourlll
ern trll EATO?IC. wonderfu? mod
ern stomach remedy. EATONIC Tablet
2iJ."drely reUeve tn P,n- oa
rtom.??' nTdhea?burn that n"t add!
stomach. Make the stomach strong, clean
and sweet. By keeping the stomach ll
healthy condition ao that
"tltfil from your food' your Keneral health
steadily improves. Results are marvelously
quick Just try EATONIC and you will bo
as enthusiastic as the thousands who have
used it and who say they never dreamed
anything could bring such marvelous rellf
ho get a big 60-cent box of EATON IO
from your drugeist today. If not satlsfao
tory return It and he will refund your money.
ATONIC
MONEY BACK
without onestlon If Hunt's galv
n?'.. lnt.ho fitment of Scxema,
Tetter. Eingworm. Itch. eteTDoS
become discouraged because other
treatments failed. 11 unfa Salva
has relieved hundreds of such case.
T Ajr vplce75c. - d"" tores.
A. B. Kichards Co.. Sjernn,Texa
HAIR BALSAM
A toilet preparation of merit,
Helps to eradicate daadrafE.
F or Restoring Color and
B"y to Gray er Faded lUIr.
Cruel but Practical Limit.
Mistress Are you willing to serv
humanity?
Bridget Only two In the familj,
mum.
r,nTanHa,ated s". Inflamed Eye
One trial proves Us merit. Adv. J
If men were compelled to eat their
words there would be an epidemic of
Indigestion.
Back Giving Out?
That "bad back" is probably due to
weak kidneys. It shows in a dulL
throbbing backache, or sharp twinges
when stooping. You have headaches,
too. dizzy spells, a tired, nervous feeling
and irregular kidney action. Don't neg
lect it there is danger of dropsy, gravel
or Bright's disease! Use Dean's Kid
ney Pills. Thousands have saved them
selves more serious ailments by the
timely use of Doan's.
A North Carolina Case
J. W. Glover,
shoemaker, 11$ N.
Main SL. Salis
bury, N. C, says:
"I have suffered
at times from
spells of back
ache. The pain
was so severe at
times I couldn't
pet out of bed
without help.
Finally a friend
n ( V i -ma tn ,
Doan s xidrey Pills and a few doses
of Doan's Kidney PiJls stopped the
backache and sir.ee then when I have
any trouble a short use of Doan's haa
always made me well again "
Get Doan's at Anj Store, C0c Doz
DOAN'S VSSl
JlJRE A-NP AT DRUG I
5T0RE3ORMO0 BY HATL I
SAM E. RICHARDSON I
DRUGGIST URBANNA.VA. I
FOSTER-MILBURN CO, BUFFALO. N.Y.