The enterprise-recorder., March 24, 1910, Image 3

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Song of the Beo,
BuniMo, luiiiihlo. thrm:uh tin ktiius,
T'jriMiKli tin Bftn t new elovcr;
11-nr me hh 1 nuli'kly paas,
ll.il'py little rover!
Sun Just ilnen o'er the hill,
liew nr-n tlu bh.ssonis Ktlll.
Unlit of lirnrt ami Hi-.ht uf wins,
TIiIn the nu-HHatie Hull 1 bring
God Is wiilehing- over!
Eiiiiililc. bumble, throuKh the uross,
Tnroiiuli tin; Fweet new clover,
H. ht me iir 1 iu)ckly iju(3,
Happy little rover!
lleur the inejKRKe that I tell,
FI,lnK over leu Hint dell,
'l iny iniriio but strong cif heart,
(ir en-iition still a iiitrt
Gi'.l Ik tvnli liliiK over!
lleslna Itellly, In St. Nicholas.
Leatherback Turtle.
Tlic largest turtle is the leatherback,
which lias been known to weigh 1,000
pound. These sea creatures live to
a great nge. They cannot be kept alive
In captivity, a, fact that was proven
some lime ngo, when one of tlieni was
received at the New York Aquarium.
Tliis animal weighed 806 pounds and
lived only twenty-two days, which was
a record. Washington Star.
Little Girl Savei Boy.
Th? presence of mind of six-year-old
Viola Anderson saved the life of her
play ate, Henry Hollands, Ave years
old.
The children stopped to play along
tie railroad track toward an approach
ing train, waving her stocking cap,
and attracted the attention of the en
gine driver, who stopped tha train
within a car length of the boy.
A Selfish Father.
William and Jack are eight and six
years old, respectively. Both were lib
erally remembered at Chrstmas time,
and when the first excitement bad
subsided and presents bad been again
Inspected Willie said to Jack: "What
will you do with all your books when
you have read them?"
"Keep them foij my children. What
will you do with yours?"
"I will never give away the books
dad gave me."
"Not even to the children?"
"No, I want to keep dad's books."
"Oh, you selfish father." New York
Tribune.
' Lighthouses.
Years ngo few of the shores of the
world were provided with lighthouses.
The few towers of light which existed
bore little resemblance to the giant
guides which shine out across the wa
ters today. In those days the raging
billows broke upon high cliffs, often
carrying with them the wrecks of ves
sels which had run upon the covered
rocks. Instead of finding lifeboats
manned with brave seamen ready to
risk their lives to save others, the
wrecked crews ere often met by rob
bers who prowled the shores ready to
plunder the half-drowned mariners.
When lighthouses were first built they
were of little use at best, and were
so Insecurely constructed that the an
, gry waters would carry the towers
themselves away. ,
The lights, too, were of little use
compared with the use of the fiery
rays of the modern lighthouse. At
first the light was made by the build
ing of wood fires at the top of the tow
er and later by burning coals. Some
arly lighthouses, gave their light
from many candles Inclosed In lantern
like contrivances furnished with re
flectors to add strength to their light
power. Later many oil lamps were put
together and placed In front of a me
tallic reflector.
As time went on various kinds of
lighthouses were tried before the en
! glneers were successful In building
powers where they were near enough
to the shores to guide the mariners
and Btronge enough to withstand the
power of the sea. Today we have light
houses rising right out of the water.
In some of these modern structures
the light is furnished by compressed
ftas supplied to the lighthouses In
tanks or made within the towers by
combination gas machines. These ma
chines work automatically making gas
from gasoline and furnishing light
which can bum from .thirty to ninety
days without attention. In some light
towers acetylene gas Is being burned.
The lighthouses which used electric
light have abandoned this Illuminating
Power, as Its brilliancy was dazzling
i- to the pilots and the shadows cast by
Its rays misleading. In the United
. Slates the use of Incandescent Wels
bach mantles with light made form
Petroleum vapor is gradually being ex
tended. Washington Star.
A Family April Fool Frolic.
March had come In like a Hon; had
supplied thirty days. of wind, cold,
8itw;, tall, sleet, and. rain; and was
now ending up in a gray, bleak, and
Chilly 31st. ' .:, "
v "Sty! but It' cold as Greenland!
i shivered Millie Dale, snuggling down
under her blankets for a last flv piin-utes.
Children
"And tomorrow the 1st of April!"
exclaimed Rillie, "of
April the fairest month of all the
twelve,
When verdant' "
"April 1st of April!" shrilly piped
Llllle, sitting up in her crib; and,
climbing into bed with her sisters,
she cried: "Oh goody, goody! Oh,
won't you please help mu play April .
fools on everybody? on father and
mother nnd ves, and 'specially on
Willie! Won't you ph nr-e, girls?"
For the next ten minutes the air
W'as full of suggestion, remonstrance,
amendment, ndvlce, and giggling gen
erally; and the real of that thirty-first
day of March was devoted to prepar
ations for fooling the family on an ex.
tensive scale.
April 1st dawned so bleak and black
ly clouded that rather Halo never
woke up until the clock struck seven,
"Gee, Whitaker!" he groaned as he
slipped into some necessary clothes
and hurried into the kitchen to start
the fire for breakfast. What was his
pleased surprise to see the range red
ly plowing, the kettle humming, and
the oatmeal comfortably simmering In
the double-boiler which had tied to its
handle a paper streamer saying "April
Fool!"
"Gee, Whitaker!" repeated father,
turning to the pantry door from
which Issued suppressed sputterlngs
and snlckerings; and, as he laughingly
pursued his fleeing flock of April fool
ers up the back stairs, mother came
hastening down the front Btaircase to
see to the breakfast-table before
creaming the potatoes and frying the
eggs. Snatching her kitchen apron
from its nail she ran Into the dining
room to find the table carefully set,
and a paper tied to the sugar-bowl
knob, bearing the words "April Fool!"
"Those precious, ridiculous lambs!"
laughed mother, calling up the stairs
as she Jmrrled into the kitchen, "Hur
rah, for the 1st of April and April
Fool's Day-"
Willie, meanwhile, was struggling
with his toilet. He was, owing to his
unusual April fool activities, much be
hind time, and was fruitlessly rum
maging In mother's machine-drawer
for a new boot-lace with which to re
place the old and knotted one he had
been obliged to cut last evening.
3.Y...pru j-t;nnll shrdlu shrdluuinun
"Make haste, Will!" admonished
Millie from the next room. We will
want to go down together."
"Breakfast's 'most ready," said Ril
lie, "I smell the bacon." 1
"Hurry up, slow poke" cried Lillle,
dancing up and down on one foot.
"Oh, shucks!" snapped Willie, cross
ly, diving under the bed for his shoes,
and then he gave a long, loud whistle;
for each shoe had been neatly sup
plied with a brand new shoe-lace from
one of which dangled an old advertise
ment card Inscribed, In shakily print
ed capitals, "April fule."
It was a jolly family that took Its
place at breakfast. Millie colored with
pleasure when she saw ber own much
prized coffee-cup from which the oth
er day she had carelessly broken the
handle replaced by a dainty new one
with an "April Fool" banner floating
over it. Rillie whose delicate diges
tion forbade any but coddled eggs
was charmed with her pretty egg-cup
tied tip with a narrow strip of paper
inscribed "April Fool!" And Llllle
squealed ecstatically to find her school
primer neatly encased In a pink cali
co cover with "April Fool!" lightly
eorawled across it in white chalk, and
her paper pad with a tiny rubber
eraser for which there was generally
an excited hunt every morning and
a new pencil and an "April Fool" flag
securely tied to it,
"My!" remarked Rillie, as she was
putting on her school Jacket, "the
sky's black as ink."
"Looks Ike a thunder shower," as
sented Millie.
"O mother!" cried Llllle, much
alarmed, "will there be lightning?"
"Geeeeee!" shouted Willie, "it's
snowing! There's going to be a snow
storm, and that on the 1st of April!
"Then bo sure and wear your over
shoes," said mother, bustling about
to help her family off to office, school,
and kindergarten. "Here's your um
brella," she said to father; "and I do
hope you won't be late coming home
with boats and trolleys all delayed by
the snow."
Following her departed dear ones
out on to the doorstep, she continued:
"And, if It snows very hard, honeys,
don't try to come home for luncheon,
I'll leave some sandwiches at the
school-house for you as I go to market.
Turn up your collar, Willie Where's
your tippet Rillie? and, Millie, hadn't
you better" And then she stopped
short and Joined in the aughter of the
others who were gayly shedding their
rubber shoes and stacking their um
brellas; for there was the roundly
glowing sun shining forth from be
hind the clouds in golden splendor,
flooding sky, street, and houses with
warm, mellow light.
. "O mother look!" cried Llllio, "the
sun's laughing at us and calling out
'April Fool!' to us."
, And then father and his four went
1dWn'the steps and along their several
ways, ..while mother turned Into the
house and went at her dally house
work. Kate.. Hudson in the Christian
Observer.
Fortune in Old
One day last week a man in a buggy
stopped at a farm in Eastern Jackson
county, hitched his horse to tha fence
and climbed over Into a fluid where
several big stumps protruded from the
plowed earth. He bent over tho
stumps and examined them closely,
says the Kansas City Star. Then he
crossed another fence into another
field and examined somo walnut trees
that grew there.
A few minutes later he went to the
farmhouse and wan talking to the
owner. Ho told the farmer that he
was buying walnut timber and that
there were a half dozen trees In the
walnut grove on his place that he
would like to buy. They agreed upon
a price and then the stranger said:
"Now, I'll give you $10 more for
those three stumps In the plowed field
and will dig them out for you and
carry them away."
The farmer snapped at the proposi
tion. For forty years he had been
plowing around thoso massive stumps
and a thousand times ha had "curaed"
when the point of his plow or a corner
of his harrow had caught in them. He
had an Idea that the man who offered
to hig them out and give him $10 Into
the bargain must bo a little bit in
sane, but, anyway, he was glad to get
rid of them.
One of those old stumps was worth
$300. The others were worth not
much more than the expense of dig
ging thera up and hauling them to
Kansas City.
Made Into Fine Veneer.
The slumps came to the mill of the
Penrod Walnut Corporation, on the
bank of the Blue river, near Sheffield.
There the stumps will be trimmed
and steamed for hours and then fast
ened Into a veneer machine, where tlrey
will revolve agnlnst the cutting edges
of a great knife that will slice off a
thin veneer as the stump turns. This
veneer will be used for covering pianos,
the finest kinds of furniture and cab
inet work and the Inside finish of Pull
man cars.
This one Btump was particularly val
uable because of the wrinkles and
burls and warts that ran through It
The veneer sliced from It would have
a beautiful waving grain with bird's
eyes and all sorts of curious convolu
tions. The more of these a veneer has
tne more valuable it is.
There Is not one walnut stump In a
hundred that Is worth anything to
the veneer mills. TBere is not one In
a thousand that Is worth $300." And
there is not one man in a million who
knows the value of a stump by looking
at it In the ground. The men who do
know this and who spend their time
looking for these stumps are called
"cruisers." They drive all over the
states of Missouri and Kansas looking
for walnut timber and stumps that are
good for veneer.
Only Old Trees Are Used.
The men who buy these stumps and
cut them say that stumps of young
trees are of no value. The best ones
of trees centuries old. The more aged
and gnarled the tree the richer the
stump will be In burls and bird's eyes.
Some of the most valuable stumps are
of trees that were cut fifty years ago
by the pioneers of this country. The
best of them are found along the riv
ers, where the lands were too rough
to be cultivated. From these tracts
the trees were cut for lumber or fire
wood ar. the stumps remain to be
dug up a half century later and used
to decorate some parlor In a modern
house.
The men who cut those stumps Into
veneer do not always get them for a
small price. Many farmers know their
value and demand it. In the yard of
the mill near Sheffield are stumps for
'which the owners paid from $30 to
$200 and there is one for which tho
man who dug It out demands $30u.
This stump Is nine feet in diameter at
the butt of the tree.
This mill has been sawing walnut
lumber for fifteen years. In that time
it has cut 90,000,000 feet of walnut
lumber the greater part of which bus
been sent to Europe, but shipments
have gone from here to Australia, Rus
sia and China.
Now the sawing of walnut Into lum
ber is to be abandoned and the mill
will cut only veneers. Tho reason Is
that nearly all the large walnut tim
ber is in Missouri and Kansas, but it
does not pay to cut It theblack heart
is too small and the white sap Is of no
value. It la the black heart of the
tree that has the fine grain and makes
the rich black polish.
The Penrod mill has 3,000,000 feet of
flue seasoned walnut In Its yards now
for which there is no sale.
Mahogany Is Much Cheaper.
Owing to the scarcity of big walnut
logs and the, Bmall lumber that has
gone to the European market In recent
years, the demand for it has fallen off
and it has been supplanted by ma
bogany. . There are other reasons why mahog
any lias taken the place of walnut,
Mahogany Is 30 percent cheaper in
Europe than walnut. It la. much larg
Walnut Stumps
er, too. Walnut logs from which seg
ments four Inches thick may be cut
are scarce, and walnut logs from which
such segments twenty-six feet long
bay be cut are almost impossible to
get now.
Another factor in the disappearance
of walnut lumber is that mahopnny
Is much Bofter and easier to cut. The
I'enrod mill can cut 35.W0 feet of ma
hogany a day, but It will cut only 20,
ooo feet of walnut. A mahogany log
will tut. nearly three times as much
lumber ur a walnut log of the same
size and therefore It Is more economi
cal to cut mahogany.
Although mahogany is taking tho
place of walnut, over all the world, It
Is not nearly so good as walnut. There
Is no wood so good bb walnut for fine
furniture and cabinet work. The rea
son is that It Is hard, It will never
warp and It takes a beautiful polish;
It has a more varied and beautiful
grain, and the older It grows tho rich
er It looks.
A Circassian Walnut Fraud.
Instead of being sawed into boards
and posts the walnut will hereafter be
cut into veneers not much thicker than
a piece of blotting paper, and it is
only the gnarled trunks that will do
for this.
Circassian walnut, which is much
used for veneers, and costs more than
the American black walnut is not near
ly so rich In color and grain. It conies
from the Ural mountains In Russia. It
Is becoming exhausted, too, and is very
high In price. The wood of the gum
tree that grows In the swamps of Ar
kansas and elsewhere is used as an Im
itation and substitute for Circassian
walnut. It Is so nearly like it that
only an expert can detect the differ
ence. Millions of feet of gum logs are
shipped every year to Europe and there
cut Into veneers and polished and sent
back to America and sold at a high
price for genuine Circassian walnut.
Kansas City is knewn all over the
world as the greatest walnut lumber
center of America. This is because of
the business done by the Penrod mill.
Its output has gone everywhere.
In hundreds of homes In Missouri
walnut wood Is still used for firewood
But when a man burns walnut lum
ber he Is truly burning money, for,
while the market price of the log Is
Icsr now than it was ten years ngo,
and the demand Is loss, there Is a
time coming when tho lumber will
be worth twenty times what It is now.
When the walnut trees that arc now a
foot in diameter grow to several feet
through, they will be worth more than
any timber that grows in North Am
erica, There will always be a good
demand for timber of that Blze, and
the larger the tree the more value it
Is.
LONGLEVITY OF OLIVE TREES.
Groves That Have Been Productive
for Hundreds of Years.
The longlevlty of olive trees Is ex
traordinary. In Syria recently have
been found some remarkably ancient
olive trees whose ages are established
beyond question. A trust deed exists
which relates to an orchard covering
490 trees near Tripoli, Syria, the trust
deed having been issued 439 years
ago.
Though the trees look aged they
still bear fruit of fine quality In abun
dance and' are likely to maintain (heir
productiveness for many hundreds of
years yet. An olive farm near Beirut
Is admitted to be the third largest
olive farm In the world. Syrian fruit
farmers are extending olive culture
with much zeal and effect. One plant
er recently set out 300,000 trees in a
block for commercial purposes.
Under European systems of culture
the Syrians make the olive tree bear
each season, while In tho old days
one crop in three years was thought
to be all that the trees could produce.
Tho low cropping capacity of the
trees was due to the native method of
thrashing the fruits from the branches
with sticks, which seriously Injured
them.
The methods of grinding tho olives
for oil and picking the fruit are pecu
liar. Neither the grinders nor pick
ers receive wages, but are paid on
percentage. The pickers receive 5
percent of the actual fruit picked and
the grinders get 10 percent of the
fruit ground. Dundee Advertiser.
Not Specific Enough.
"I thought that tall fellow at tho far
tablo was lovely the first time I met
him," said she. "He talked so beauti
fully about his home and his wife.
Called her the llttlo woman. Talked
about his children.
"The next time I met him I asked
after her, 'How is tho little woman?'
I asked.
" 'Which llttlo woman?' said he."
New York Times.
George D. Shenoweth, of Wauke
gan, 111., has written tho Lord's Prayer
100 times on i piece of paper the
size of a United States povit card, in
all 7,100 words.
8PEAKINQ OF NAMES.
"Thlncs ore seldom what tliey seem"
In n liriiHt nn. often liears.
N' qmiltun Ich r.-im
Whs invented In Alters.
Turklxh fles nr re.illv Knneh;
'"I III Killl.v fnitll rii'iiual,
Il.lillhi;rK KtciiltH in-,. natuto fllkes;
hwlsK vlu-i-m. Isn't BwlBS lit ull.
'crm.in pnnrnkox enmo frnm Rpnln,
NwitilKli (nn. l. tn from l'mi;
1'iviirh b.niiw mow. )it!i:ih you know,
Oh tile ..cins nl Tlmburloo.
Wlinfrsctinltzpi rom"s from Greece,
Irish hu-wh fn.m rnlistlnu;
l."Ntf th,. Ml,., ) . ,, iii n nil!",
Oiuws Diif s;1iTcJ Norway pine.
Why continue? All wr elnlm
ih a point n,.(.,i not press
Tle-re l.s noihiiiK In ii immo,
t-very day u litil,. 1. s.i.
ChlriiKO Tribune.
SHEARS
NONSENSE
"Money makes the mare go." "Yes,
but It takes a fortune for an automo
bile." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
"Experience Is a dear teacher, but
gen'ly she ain't the one tho av'rlg
schoolboy fust fulls In love with."
Boston Herald.
"When a fellow Is stuck on a girl,"
says the Cynical Bachelor, "he never
realizes how badly he Is stuck till he
marries her." Philadelphia Record.
"I want a license to marry the best
girl In the world," said the young
man. "Sure," commented the clerk.
"That makes 1,300 licenses for that
girl this season." Puck.
"But," continued the playwright bit
terly, "the audience sat through the
performance unmoved." "Not exactly,"
said the manager, "I saw five or six
sneak out," Philadelphia Record.
Boarder "Madam, did you put any
thing deleterious in this pie?" Board
ing House MlHtress (with dignity)
"Certainly, Mr. Fussy. I always do use
it In my pies." Baltimore American.
"Why, llttlo boy, what nre you cry
ing about?" "I don't get no Christmas
vacation!'1 "That's unjust. Why don't
you? Cans,' I ain't old enough to
go to school yet." Cleveland Leader.
Mrs. liliiks "Can they niHko King
Alfonso an absolute monarch. Henry?"
Mr. liinks "No. my dear." "What will
prevent it?" "The fact that he's a mar
ried man, my dear." Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Maud "h-'o Ik- had the cheek to ask
my iiro, did lie? Well, what did you
tell him?" Ethel "I told him I didn't
know positively; but 1 thought you
were just 21 on your thirtieth birth
day." Boston Transcript.
"I have just heard that Mrs. Flu'
ter's poodle Is dead." "If that's so.
I'll have to leave town for a day or
two." "Why?" "That fool woman will
probably want me to act as a pall
bearer." Birmingham Age-Herald.
"He is a modern Samson." "What!
That little, bandy-legged freak!"
"Yep." "You'll have to show me."
"Wait until ho removes his hat."
"What will that prove?" "That his
wlfo cuts his hair." Houston Post.
"I was In the hands of my friends,"
said the disappointed statesman.
"Yes" answered Senator Sorghum, "In
the political game being In the hands
of your friends is a pretty sure way
of getting Into the discard." Wash
ington Star.
Clancy "Ol'm after a ticket ter Chi
cago." Ticket Agent "Do you want
an excursion ticket? One that will
take you there and back?" Clancy
"Phwat's the slnse of me payiu' ter
go there an' back whin Ol'm hero al
riddy?" Hotel Register.
"Come, now, Willie, you must have
your bath tonight. We are going to
stnrt for grandpa's In the morning, you
know." "Yes, but what if I got my
bath tonight and then something hap
pened so wo couldn't go to grandpa's
tomorrow?" Chicago Record-Herald.
Tho Judge "Did you arrest this
chauffeur for speeding?" The Police
man "No, yer honor; I pulled 'im
in fer obstructln' th' road; he was
goln' only thirty miles nn hour, an'
ho was complained about by them
that was riding at th' regular rate."
Chlcairo News.
"All the pedestrians seem to stop
at your store." "Oh, I manage to in
terest "em." "What's your idea?" "I
have a thermometer that registers
lour degrees higher In summer and six
degrees lower In winter than any oth
er thermometer in town." Louisville
Courier-Journal.
The Best Part of It.
"Well, Bobby," spid tho minister
pleasantly, patting the boy on tho
back, "they tell me you are going to
school now."
"Yes, nlr," snld Bobby.
"And do you like it?" asked tho cler
gyman. "I like one part of it very much
Indeed," said Bobby. Judge. ,
Japanese chopsticks are delivered to
tho guests In a decorated envelope. The
two sticks already shaped from one
touguclike piece of wood are broken
apart by the guest.
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