anaheim-gazette 1909-11-18

FACTS OF THE FARM CENSUS ADVANCE STATEMENT OF INVENTORY DESIRED More Complete Enumeration of Country Property to Be Taken. Than Ever Before—Uncle Sam Wants to Know Value of Farms, Buildings and the Implements—Other Items (Continued from page 1.) the annual inventory is taken on January 1, April 15, June 1, or some other date. The date decided upon by congress for the census of 1910 is April 15. It marks the beginning of the crop year for the greater part of the country and for this reason is a logical time to take stock. The advantages of always having on hand for ready reference a detailed written statement of one's real and personal property are readily understood by everyone and will be most keenly appreciated when the census man calls with the long list of questions next April. The value of the census figures of farm wealth depends upon their accuracy, and accuracy can only be secured through the co-operation of the farmers themselves. In no way can the farmer extend more practical assistance to the Census Bureau, and in no way can he render himself a greater service than by getting out his pencil and notebook on the evening of April the fourteenth next and making up a statement of his farm property. In order that this inventory may meet the census requirements, I have obtained from Director Durand an advance statement of the questions to be asked concerning farm property. essary for preparing an inventory. An ordinary notebook answers all purposes, but it should be large enough to admit of carrying the figures for at least five years in parallel columns. This facilitates comparison of the figures for different years. Some may find it more convenient or desirable to take stock on January 1, than on April 15. It will be a simple matter to bring such an inventory up to date when the census enumerator calls, as it will only be necessary to take into account the changes that have taken place during the brief intervening period. OKLAHOMA WANTS IRRIGATION Two Million Dollars from Land Sales Is First Sum Asked Woodward, Ok., Nov. 11.—Western Oklahoma farmers and business men want the $2,000,000 accumulated in the United States treasury from the sale of government land in Oklahoma territory, used for irrigation purposes in Oklahoma. Under an act of congress all federal land sale moneys are used for reclamation purposes. A memorial was adopted by the Northwest Oklahoma Irrigation Congress, in session at Woodward during the past week, asking Secretary Ballinger of the Interior Department to investigate feasible irrigation projects in Oklahoma, especially east of the ninety-ninth meridian and north of the South Canadian River. William Little of Harper county, one of the northwestern counties most desirous of irrigation facilities, was elected president of the congress at Woodward, with L. B. Lane of Woodward county, S. W. Lumptin of Ellis county, S. E. Thompson of Climarron county, E. Lee Adams of In no way can the farmer extend more practical assistance to the Census Bureau, and in no way can he render himself a greater service than by getting out his pencil and notebook on the evening of April the fourteenth next and making up a statement of his farm property. In order that this inventory may meet the census requirements, I have obtained from Director Durand an advance statement of the questions to be asked concerning farm property. They are as follows: 1. Total value of farm, with all buildings and improvements. 2. Value of all buildings. 3. Value of all implements and machinery, including tools, wagons, carriages, harnesses, etc., and all appliances and apparatus used in farming operations. 4. Number and value of domestic animals, classified as follows: - Cattle—A. Born before Jan. 1, 1909. Cows and heifers kept for milk; cows and heifers not kept for milk. Steers and bulls kept for work; steers and bulls not kept for work. - B—Born in 1909: Heifers, steers and bulls. - C—Calves born in 1910. - Horses—All horses born before January 1, 1909; colts born after January 1, 1909; colts born after January 1, 1910. - Mules—All mules born before January 1, 1909; mule colts born after January 1, 1909; mule colts born after January 1, 1910. - Asses and burros (all ages.) - Swine—Hogs born before Jan. 1st, 1910; pigs born after Jan. 1, 1910. - Sheep—Ewes born before Jan. 1, 1910; rams and wethers born before Jan. 1, 1910; lambs born after Jan. 1, 1910; goats and kids (all ages.) 5. Number and value of poultry over 3 months old; chickens, ducks, turkeys, geese, Guinea fowls, pigeons. 6. Number and value of swarm of bees. The Census does not ask the value of household goods, nor that of hay, grain, or other farm crops on hand on April 15. These items should be included, however, by all desiring a complete inventory of their farm property. The value given to the farm should be, as nearly as can be judged, the amount that could be obtained for it if offered for sale under normal conditions. Current market prices should be carefully considered in estimating the value of live stock. William Little of Harper county, one of the northwestern counties most desirous of irrigation facilities, was elected president of the congress at Woodward, with L. B. Lane of Woodward county, S. W. Lumptin of Ellis county, S. E. Thompson of Cimarron county, E. Lee Adams of Harper county and Hugh M. Bixby of Beaver county as vice presidents. E. L. Roberts of Texas county was made secretary, S. A. Manns of Ellis county treasurer, and R. B. Quinn of Texas county, delegate to the legislature. Resolutions adopted by the congress ask Gov. C. N. Haskell to call a special session of the legislature to enact laws that will assist in the installation of irrigation plants and in the building of railroads in the western portion of the state. Home manufacture of all products raised in the state was advocated, together with the building of flour, alfalfa and woolen mills in the northwest. Further demands were made in the resolutions as follows: That Congress pass laws that will encourage the construction of pipe lines to carry cheap fuel from the oil and gas fields of this state into the Northwest. Control of waters and other natural utilities by the state and nation so that water for irrigation purposes may be supplied at the lowest possible cost. Conservation of forests without depriving settlers of the use of agricultural lands. Planting of trees annually by farmers and construction of dams to conserve the water of streams, and propagation of fish and game within the state. That the State Legislature enact a law providing a state irrigation engineer and making an appropriation for a corps of able assistants. That the territory between the ninety-ninth and one hundredth meridians be made a basis for freight rates. Demanding of senators and representatives in Congress to secure an appropriation from the reclamation fund for Northwestern Oklahoma, the fact being set out that this region is compelled to import sugar beets, when with irrigation the product could be grown in Oklahoma. Diversification of crops, good roads While this cost cannot be almost beyond vision of man yet any such cost may affect the annual expenditure on a nation are making and the rapidity with which appropriations that account were per cent of our total. According to the Treasury Department on April thus far during the selected from all salaries receipts,$493,387 that date we had count of the army account of the nation total of $206,483,932 have expended the account of preparation cent of all our reckount of wars passed our revenues, or of 72 per cent o thus far collected fiscal year on account said we are prepared wars which we past. But this startling not indicate that ed the maximum The expenditures the coming fiscal er than they are have been increase ormously year with us but with tions of the world vocates of armed to suggest a limit increase shall not The average arm for our army have than $24,000,000 eight years imminent Spanish war 000,000 for each ending with the at the last session the fiscal year 1974 period the average ue of household goods, nor that of hay, grain, or other farm crops on hand on April 15. These items should be included, however, by all desiring a complete inventory of their farm property. The value given to the farm should be, as nearly as can be judged, the amount that could be obtained for it if offered for sale under normal conditions. Current market prices should be carefully considered in estimating the value of live stock. Although the Census merely requires a statement of the total value of all implements and machinery, it is believed that a classification of these items under the following four heads will be found valuable: 1. Vehicles: This class comprises automobiles, wagons, carriages and sleighs, and equipment used in connection with them, as harnesses, blankets, whips, etc. 2. Heavy farm implements; comprising all implements and machinery operated by any power other than hand power, as plows, harrows, rollers, reapers, mowers, hay-loaders, feed grinders, etc. 3. Hand machinery and tools; including carpenters' tools, hoes, shovels, scythes, forks, grindstones, fanning mills, etc. 4. Miscellaneous articles; including all such minor equipment as kettles, pails, barrels, baskets, ladders, ropes, chains, etc., not included in the first three classes. Many farmers greatly underestimate the total value of their possessions of this character when considering them in the aggregate, and it is only by preparing an itemized list as suggested above that an accurate estimate of their worth can be made. The value assigned this class of property in the inventory should be the estimated amount it would bring at public auction under favorable conditions. No special blanks or forms are needed for a corps of able assistants. That the territory between the ninety-ninth and one hundredth meridians be made a basis for freight rates. Demanding of senators and representatives in Congress to secure an appropriation from the reclamation fund for Northwestern Oklahoma, the fact being set out that this region is compelled to import sugar beets, when with irrigation the product could be grown in Oklahoma. Diversification of crops, good roads and national and state supervision of roads were indorsed. The next session of the congress will be held at Guymon on March 10, 1910. JOHN D. SEES JEFF Pays a Half and Joins in Applause of Big Fellow One would not have thought it, but this is what a New York dispatch says: John D. Rockefeller, with his secretary, occupied two 50-cent orchestra seats in the Plaza Music Hall here tonight. Mr. Rockefeller was there to see that other great American, James J. Jeffries, but apparently he enjoyed the rest of the show like a boy let out of school. It was plain that Mr. Rockefeller was in the house with a purpose, and that was made apparent when the audience began a mighty yell as signs at each side of the stage announced "James J. Jeffries, undefeated champion of the world." As the cheering and stamping and shouting continued, Mr. Rockefeller leaned forward. And when the mighty Jeffries stepped into the gymnasium scene to go through his paces, John D. Joined in the applause. Then as Jeffries skipped the rope to the tune of "The Keel Row" and shadow-boxed to the air of "Come Down Dar, You Darkey," Rockefeller ANAHEIM GAZETTE laughed and clapped his hands. And when Sam Berger donned the mitts with Jeffries with three three-minute rounds there was no move of the mighty clever bout lost on Mr. Rockefeller. "How did you enjoy yourself, Mr. Rockefeller?" was asked as he was leaving. "Very much, indeed," said he. "What do you think of Jeffries?" "He's a great man—a fine man," said he, with much enthusiasm. COST OF ARMED PEACE What the Nations of Earth are Paying to Prevent War Extract from speech of Hon. James A. Tawney at National Peace Conference at Chicago: The total expenditures of the United States, England, Germany, and France during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1908, on account of their armies and navies, approximated, in round numbers, a billion, or ten hundred million, dollars. Add to this the sums expended for the same purpose by other nations of the world and you will have a grand total cost of armed peace so large that the human mind can scarcely comprehend it. While this cost is so enormous as to be almost beyond the comprehension of man, yet an approximate idea of such cost may be gathered from the annual expenditures which we as a nation are making for this purpose and the rapidity with which these expenditures have increased in recent years. Our total expenditures for the army, navy, and fortifications in the fiscal year 1908 aggregated $204,122,855.57, or 36.5 per cent of our total revenue, exclusive of postal re- A FAMOUS SENTENCE. Steele’s “To Love Her Was a Liberal Education.” The remark which Steele made in reference, as is generally supposed, to Lady Elizabeth Hastings has often been quoted and almost as often quoted incorrectly. Steele wrote, “Though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behavior; to love her was a liberal education.” There are two curious misquotations of this bright and famous sentence, which Thackeray declared to be “the finest compliment to a woman that perhaps ever was offered.” One is in the essay on Pope contained in James Russell Lowell’s “My Study Windows.” “Was it not in this age,” says Mr. Lowell, “that loose Dick Steele paid to his wife the finest compliment ever paid to woman when he said ‘that to know her was a liberal education?’” Here are two distinct errors committed by so careful a writer as Mr. Lowell. Yet he is not alone in this. Arthur Helps in his romance of “Realmah” has this sentence: “Steele also did not ill describe, though briefly, the charm of being with a woman whom he greatly admired when he said ‘that to be much with her was in itself a liberal education.’” We are also told that Leigh Hunt once in quoting the remark incorrectly ascribed it to Congreve. Here, then, are three distinct writers of high rank who have shown how in a moment of careless composition they were led astray by an inaccurate remembrance. They had no desire to misquote their author, and they gave the substance. But they grievously failed in the words themselves and one of them at least in their application.—Argonaut. A LESSON IN LOGIC. Lord Erskine’s Way With a Ruffianly Horse Beater. It is only within the memory of liv- While this cost is so enormous as to be almost beyond the comprehension of man, yet an approximate idea of such cost may be gathered from the annual expenditures which we as a nation are making for this purpose and the rapidity with which these expenditures have increased in recent years. Our total expenditures for the army, navy, and fortifications in the fiscal year 1908 aggregated $204,122,855.57, or 36.5 per cent of our total revenue, exclusive of postal receipts, which are not included for the purpose of comparison, as the positional revenues and expenditures are a balanced account. Our expenditures during the same year on account of wars past, including all objects for which appropriations are made on that account, were $180,678,204, or 31 per cent of our total revenues. According to the daily statement of the Treasury Department at Washington on April 30, 1909, we have thus far during this fiscal year collected from all sources, except postal receipts, $493,027,989.69. Up to that date we had expended on account of the army $110,107,924.96; on account of the navy, $96,376,012.41, a total of $206,483,937.27. Therefore we have expended this fiscal year on account of preparation for war 41 per cent of all our revenues, and on account of wars past 31 per cent of all our revenues, or a total expenditure of 72 per cent of all the revenues thus far collected during the current fiscal year on account of wars it is said we are preparing to avoid and wars which we have had in the past. But this startling statement does not indicate that we have yet reached the maximum cost of armed peace. The expenditures for this purpose the coming fiscal year will be greater than they are this year. They have been increasing rapidly and enormously year by year, not only with us, but with all the principal nations of the world. None of the advocates of armed peace are willing to suggest a limit beyond which this increase shall not go. The average annual appropriations for our army have leaped from less than $24,000,000 for each of the eight years immediately preceding the Spanish war to more than $83,000,000 for each of the eight years ending with the appropriations made at the last session of Congress for the fiscal year 1910. During the same period the average annual appropriation shown how in a moment of careless composition they were led astray by an inaccurate remembrance. They had no desire to misquote their author, and they gave the substance. But they grievously failed in the words themselves and one of them at least in their application.—Argonaut. A LESSON IN LOGIC. Lord Erskine's Way With a Ruffianly Horse Beater. It is only within the memory of living man that legislation has undertaken to protect domestic animals from the cruelty of their owners. Ownership was held to be absolute by most, but there was one man in England a hundred years ago who could demonstrate the untenable nature of this theory. This man was Thomas Erskine, one of the greatest lawyers and advocates of his age. A tradition survives at Hampstead, the residence of Lord Erskine, which Charles G. Harper has put into his book, "Rural Nooks Round London," and which shows how this legal authority would have administered more recent laws. It is related that the celebrated Lord Erskine, walking one day, on Hampstead heath, saw a ruffianly driver shamefully thrashing a miserably ill cared for horse. My lord demonstrated with the driver on the cruelty of it, whereupon the fellow retorted: "It's my own. Mayn't I use it as I please?" Then he started whacking the wretched animal worse than ever. Erskine, greatly annoyed, laid his walking stick over the shoulders of the offender, who, crouching and grumbling, asked my lord—this is the drawing room version, not a verbatim report, which would read rather differently—what business he had to touch him with the stick. "Why," said Erskine, "the stick's my own. Mayn't I use it as I please?" Clearing House Operations. A clearing house is an agency established by the banks of a city to which all checks drawn upon one city bank and deposited in another are sent for payment. Every morning there is a clearance, or settlement, of accounts, in which the checks deposited in each bank and the checks drawn upon each bank are separately summed up and compared. If there is more deposited in a bank than there is drawn upon it the bank receives the difference in cash. If the reverse is the case the bank pays the balance instead of receiving it. The term clearance means either the act of settlement or the sum of all the checks presented for payment. The amount of business done by the clearing house is a pretty sure index of the general condition of business.—New York American. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON A MAP OF THE WORLD At the Fifth International Geographical Congress, held at Bern in 1891, Prof. Albrecht Penck, a well-known geographer, proposed that the enlightened nations that were engaged in making maps of their own territory and of other countries should unite upon a common plan for the preparation of a general map of the world. He suggested that the scale of the map should be 1:1000,000, or about 16 miles to the inch, and that the separate sheets of the map should be so bounded by meridians and parallels that any two sheets representing adjacent areas should match, except for distortion of projection, no matter by what country either sheet might be made. This proposal led to resolutions and discussions at subsequent geographic congresses and to the preparation of several tentative maps by Germany, France, England, and the United States, in conformity with the general plan proposed by Prof. Penck. At the Ninth International Geographic Congress, held at Geneva in July, 1908 a resolution was presented by Henry Gannett, of the United States Geological Survey, providing for the formation of an international committee to which should be entrusted the arrangement of details for a closer and more definite cooperation in the preparation of the proposed world map. That resolution was adopted and in conformity with its terms and with the recommendations of a committee appointed at Geneva the British Government has recently invited Austria-Hungary, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, Spain, and the United States to send their representatives to a meeting to be held in London on November 16, 1909, to provide for the standardization of an international map on the scale of 1:1000,000. The British delegates will consist of representatives of Great Britain, Canada, Australia and India. At this conference various details that are essential to the preparation of a uniform map will be discussed and it is hoped that an agreement may be The average annual appropriations for our army have leaped from less than $24,000,000 for each of the eight years immediately preceding the Spanish war to more than $83,000,000 for each of the eight years ending with the appropriations made at the last session of Congress for the fiscal year 1910. During the same period the average annual appropriations for our navy have increased from a little more than $27,500,000 to more than $102,400,000. In other words the increase in appropriations for the army for the periods named exceeded $472,000,000, a sum sufficient to cover the whole cost of constructing the Panama canal, with nearly $150,000,000 to spare. The increase in the sums appropriated for the navy for these same periods is approximately $600,000,000, a sum largely in excess of the total appropriations for the support of our entire government for any fiscal year prior to that of 1898. The combined increase in the appropriations for the army and the navy for the eight-year periods named amounts to $1,072,000,000, a sum exceeding by more than $158,000,000 the total interest-bearing debt of the United States. So great has been the increase in this cost of armed peace these last eight years over the eight years ending scarcely ten years ago that the sum total of the increase is even larger than the stupendous sum appropriated for all governmental purposes for the fiscal year 1910. I have some good property to exchange for Anaheim ranches. Let me list your ranch. Robert Johnston. (over Beebe-Weisel store.) 11-11-tf Walk-Over Shoes at Ahlborn & Raymond. A Bavarian Apple Pie. One of the most delicious ways to use apples in cookery is in a Bavarian pie: Line a deep dish with pastry. Fill it with breadcrumbs and bake it until the pastry is done. Then remove the crumbs and fill the cavity with chopped apples and nuts and some stoned raisins. Sweeten with sugar and flavor with nutmeg and cinnamon. Sprinkle with cake crumbs and bake till it is brown on top and the fruit within is thoroughly cooked. Spread over the top a lemon flavored meringue and let it become a light brown in the oven. Set the pie away to cool before serving.—New York Tribune. The Next Best. "Hubby, I haven't had a new dress for a month." "Times are slow for me, my dear. Better go in for literature and pretend to be superior to the fashions."—Kansas City Journal. Her Discovery. Husband—Think of it! Here is a hairpin I have found in the soup! Wife—Yes? Now I know where our things have gone. A shoe horn disappeared too!—Harper's Bazar. Just as Well. "Statistics show that Japan has two earthquakes a day." "Gee, a man might as well be married as to live in Japan!"—Houston Post. A famous Chinese proverb says, "Everything is easy at first." COLLECTS OIL DEBT FROM RAILROADS Galveston, Tex., Nov. 11.—The state has recovered nearly $200,000 from railroads and other institutions indebted to the Standard Oil company, against which judgment was rendered more than a year ago for violation of the anti-trust laws. The state has been unable to secure services on the Standard, but discovered that the Santa Fe road owed the company $62,000, the Southern Pacific $43,000, the Security Oil company and the Navarro Refining company $60,000, and the Texas and Pacific $28,000. The state secured garnishment on these funds and collected the money. It cost about $10,000 in detective fees to find out that this money was due to the Standard. Arctic to Tropics in Ten Minutes No oil heater has a higher efficiency or greater heating power than the PERFECTION Oil Heater (Equipped with Smokeless Device) With it you can go from the cold of the Arctic to the warmth of the Tropics in 10 minutes. The new Automatic Smokeless Device King. There is no possible question about it. It gives greater heat-power, a more rapid diffusion of heat conversion of all the heat-energy in the oil. In room, light the heater and in 10 minutes you'll have a that carries full content. Wick up as high as it will go—no smoke—no odor. thing that appeals to the provident and the fastidious, the Oil Heater, with its new automatic smokeless device, definished in Nickel or Japan in various styles. Everywhere. If Not At Yours, Write for Descriptive Circular to the Nearest Agency of the STANDARD OIL COMPANY (Incorporated) A CURIOUS CHIMNEY. One In Wales Two Miles High With a Brook Running Through It. W. Harold Wickett, M.D. Res. Phones, Main 8X3, Home 863. Herbert A. Johnston, M.D. Res. Phones, Main 82, Home 862. Drs. Johnston & Wickett Office Hours, 11-12, 2-4, 7-8. Office Phones, Main 81, Home 861. Offices, 310 S. Los Angeles Street Residence Phone Main 42 Office Phones Main 1141-Home 1401 DR. JOHN H. BOEGE DENTIST Office, Mullinix Building HOURS 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. 1:30 to 5:00 p.m. Evenings By Appointment DR. W. W. ADAMS OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN Graduate of American School of Osteopathy of Kirksville, Mo. Office and Residence: 116 Philadelphia St. Office Hours: 10 to 12; 1 to 4. Phones: Main 463; Home 1134 J. L. BEEBE, M.D PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office and res. cor. Center and Palm Sts Office hours: 2 to 4,7 to 8 p.m. Both Phones. ANAHEIM, CAL. VICTOR MONTGOMERY ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Attention given to Probate Business Commercial Bank Building. Santa Ana Tel. Black 791 au23-6n RICHARD MELROSE ATTORNEY-AT-LAW and NOTARY PUBLIC Office Center St Special attention given to Probate Matters ANAHEIM. H. V. WEISEL Attorney and Counselor at Law German Language 2d Floor Mullinix Bldg., Anaheim, Cal A CURIOUS CHIMNEY. One In Wales Two Miles High With a Brook Running Through It. Who ever heard of a chimney two miles high with a brook running through it? Yet such a chimney exists in connection with the copper works at Cwmavon, near Aberavon, in Glamorganshire, south Wales. This is how it came to be built: About sixty years ago the copper smoke from these works was the plague of the neighboring countryside. It settled upon and destroyed the grass for twenty miles round, while the sulphur and arsenic in the fumes affected the hoofs of cattle, causing gangrene. The owners of the works tried all sorts of devices to remedy the trouble, but in vain. Finally Robert Brenton, who was afterward a successful railway engineer in India, solved the problem. The copper works are at the foot of a steep hill. Mr. Brenton constructed a flue, or chimney, running continuously from the base to about a hundred feet above the summit, following the natural slope of the ground. The brick which lined it and of which it was largely constructed was burned close by. A small spring gushing out near the summit of the hill was turned into the chimney and allowed to flow through almost its entire length to condense the smoke. Once a year it is swept out and about a ton of preciplated copper obtained. Its top can be seen for between forty and fifty miles. BRAVE MME. ROLAND. Her Last Request Before Her Death on the Scaffold. How Mme. Roland bore herself on her journey along the via dolorosa of the revolution which led from the Conclergerle to the Place de la Guilllotin the world knows. No recorded pilgrim of the long train that fared that way in those heroic days showed a sublimer indifference to its terrors. A spectator who saw her as she passed the Pont Neuf wrote of her as standing erect and calm in the tumbrill, her eyes shining, her color fresh and brilliant, with a smile on her lips as she tried to cheer her companion, an old man overcome by the fear of approaching death. At the foot of the scaffold she asked At the foot of the scaffold she asked for pen and paper to write the strange thoughts that were rising in her. When the executioner grasped her arm to assist her in mounting the steps she drew back and begged that her companion might be allowed to precede her. The custom of the guillotine allowed her, as a woman, the privilege of dying first, but she wished to spare the infirm old man a scene that would augment his fears. Sanson objected. "Come, citizen," she urged him, with a smile, "you cannot deny a lady her last request." Her wish was granted.—Editor of "Hen Private Memoirs." Lost: Between postoffice and county road, west, on Saturday evening, a six-months' old dog, white with black ears, and one side of face is black. Short tail. Strap on neck for collar. Liberal reward for return to Frank Rosotto, on county road, west of this city. Drying preparations simply develop dry catarrh; they dry up the secretions, which adhere to the membrane and decompose, causing a far more serious trouble than the ordinary form of catarrh. 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