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Let whoever fancies that the strenu-
GUS life is a product of Occidental re-
publics study the career of the Ameer
Of Afghanistan. At 10 he resigned an
important post because his father
would not let him govern according to
his own ideas. When a youthful exile,
he refused to bow before foreign poten-
tates, making them rather consider it
an honor to take his hand and sit by his
side. Surrounded by hostile army of
5000 soldiers, he mingled disguised
among the crowd, caught the leader by
the throat, and from that vantage COM
PEELED him to make peace. Through the
rigors of winter campaigns, sitting all
night in the snow or dragging himself
through the drifts by his horses tail,
captured by the Russians, deserted by
his followers, Abdurrahman's courage
and faith in his destiny never failed.
In 1880 the English established him on
the throne of his fathers, and he
plunged into single-hearted work for
the improvement OF his country. Euro
pean reforms, public education, scien-
tific and mechanical inventions and a
Straightforward political policy charac-
terized the Ameer's dealings with the
outside world. Lying, as his country
does, between aggressive Russia and
India with its English forward move
ment," Afghanistan must be regarded
as one of the strategic points of mod
ern civilization, and the Ameer as nc
impotent factor in the bewildering
Asiatic problem.
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Ex-President Cleveland is famous for
his forcible expression. The following
utterance on the subject of hazing is
not less true now than it was when Mr..
Cleveland gave it: "The offense of
malreating and abusing new cadets
by upper-class men is so mean and cow
ardly, and SO opposed to every trait
that should characterize a gentleman
and a true soldier, that severe punish
ment should not be necessary to its
prevention" 1t is to be hoped that the
effect of the anti-hazing agitation will
not stop with West Point and Annap-
oils. There are great many private
schools where the practice obtains with
equal abomination.
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Kentucky Tales.

An old lawyer here tells of two anus
ing things which, he alleges, occurred
in Kentucky many years ago. On one
occasion a wealthy man died, leaving
a fortune, and the heirs became so dis
satisfied with his will that they went
to court to break it. One witness was
called who furnished fun for the crowd.
In giving his testimony he stated that
the deceased did not wish to make a
will because of a dream he had had.
He was intensely superstitious, and
this vision rather dampened his enthu-
siasm with regard to making a will
''And pray" asked one of the lawyers,
what was this remarkable dream
your friend had?"
"Well, sir" replied the witness, che
dreamed that he made will, and just
as he signed it he saw a lawyer COM
ing in the room with big bag to take
all his money away"
At another important trial which
kept things lively witness was vain,
conceited woman, who fancied she
could teach the lawyers a thing or two.
While one of them was cross-examin-
ing her she became very saucy, grimm
ed at her husband, who sat in sight,
and remarked tartly: ''Mr. Blank, you
needn't worry me with them questions;
you Just can't cotch me-"
Madam" said the lawyer; heaven
knows l don't want to cotch you, and
your husband looks like he was sorry
he ever did,
She was swept up and carefully re-
moved from the stand.-Louisville
Times.
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Firm as Adamant.

1t was before the fall.
adam" said our first mother in a
serious tone, 1--WE certainly are living
beyond our means"
That's exactly my own opinion,
little woman" said the father of his
kind. 'And what do you propose to do
about it,"
1--WE must economize," said the uni
yersal mother.
YES" said Adam, "we must, and 1
am ready to second anything you sug-
gest. But, wait! There is one item of
expenditure that positively must be ex-
copied from the pruning shears"
"And what is thatT"
twill not" said Adam with strong
emphasize will not have our laun-
dry bills cut downw-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
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AMONG THE DERRICKS

A well is to be drilled on the Dick
ey ranch in Buckhorn.
1t is stated that sixteen rigs will be
at work shortly in Humboldt county.
Vacaville Oil company is about to
begin drilling near the town from
which its gets its name.
The uce-McMurty syndicate will
put in three rigs near Tres Pinos, San
Benito county.
Feather River Oil company is put
ting in heavy machinery for drilling
on the Wick ranch, near Oroville.
Tapo Oil company is reported to have
a little oil in it's well at Buckhorn, at
a depth of seventy-five feet.
National Development company will
begin drilling on April rs near the
Mountain House. Colusa county.
Porterville people are advancing the
claims of suppose oil land on White
river, where no development work has
yet been done.
Carriso creek has been made into a
mining district by tn men who have
filed on land there for oil purposes.
L. A. Wright and H. E. Mills of San
Diego, are president and secretary, re-
spectively.
Some of the Kern River companies
have braced their derricks with four
strong wires substantially anchored in
the ground. Such practice would
have prevented considerable damage
IN Los Angeles during the remarkable
windstorm of the last two days. 49,
G. w. McCutcheon has been ab-
pointed administrator of the estate of
w. G. Wallace, deceased, at Bakers
field, with bonds placed at $4,000.
Wallace went to Bakersfield less than
two years ago without means and ac-
quired property valued at $4,000
through the oil industry.
Southwestern Oil company, in the
middle of the old field, Los Angeles.
has just completed a derrick and will
begin drilling on No. z. Its deepest
well is thousand feet The company
will complete this we'll and begin on
erations in the Newhall district. where
it has 100 acres.
Freeman G Nelson Company. in New
hall, is pushing development work. It
is now down 200 feet on No. 3.
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Early Breeding

A heifer's calf is smaller and less
hardy than one from mature COW.
This is something of a loss to the beef
grower, but the milkman it is an adj
vantage. The heifer that is bred at
eighteen months comes in milk sooner,
and, if properly cared for, makes a
better COW on the second calf. In a
good milk breed like the Jersey, the
heifer with her second calf will in
crease from SO to 70 per, cent in her
milk. yield. The higher the grade in
milk the more difficulty in raising the
calf. The milkman or farmer will
bless the day when he began to wean
his calves. To an old Floridian, it is
an eyeopener to see COWS and calves
running together, the latter all I'M
aware of the relationship. One must
begin this with the heifer; it is impos-
sible to teach old cows new tricks
Florida Agriculturist.
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Make books your friends. They will
repay you, never desert you, never let
boredom come near you The happy
men of the world have been made hap
by through book knowledge. CARLYLE
says that collection of books is a real
university. A wise fellow, who was
thinking and writing while Caesar was
fighting, said that a room without
books Is like a body without a soul.
That wise owl was Cicero. Do not be
led away by new books until you have
read the best of the old ones: cage is
a recommendation in four things-old
wood to burn, old wine to drink. old
friends to trust and old books to read"
The best of the books written in n
thousand years are better, of course
than the best written in a dozen years.
Darwin advised Sir John Lubbock to
'read what interested him most" when
asked to map out a course of reading.
But that advice is not sound for us all.
Learn which are the good books. Read
them, give your mind a chance to form
Its own opinion as to the best writer's,
and then take up some special course.
Every good book read makes you a bet
ter and ADLER man. Every good book
really understood is positive addition
to your best possessions Sir John
Herschel said: ''If were to pray for a
taste which should stand me in stead
under every variety of circumstances
and be a source Of happiness and cheer
fulness to me through life, and shield
against its ills, however things might
go amlss and the world frown upon
me, it would be taste for reading"
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King Victor Emmanuel has done that
which becomes a true man, and there
fore something not unbecoming king.
lieutenant Bresci, brother of the assas-
sin of King Humbert, has had to en-
dure such suspicion and dislike, be-
cause of his relationship with the MUIR
derer, that his position became intoler-
able, and he forwarded to the King his
resignation from the army. Not only
was the resignation declined, in words
which revealed the generosity of a
manly mans nature, but the King, as
a proof of his confidence in the loyalty
Of a gallant and deserving officer, pro-
NOTED him to captaincy with. the COM
mand of fort on the Austrian from
tier. 1t was magnanimous thing to
do, and the young King has given evil
dence that he possesses at least one of
the qualities that made his father and
grandfather worthily popular.
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Cuban Post Rates

Washington. = Postmaster-Genera
Smith, in accordance with the decision
arrived at by the cabinet, has issued
the following order:
"Postmasters are informed that on
and after April 1 next, the United
States domestic rates of postoffice and
classification shall apply to all mail
matter passing between the United
States and Cuba. Notices of this
change should be displayed in post
Office corridors and given to the public
press when acceptable as news item.
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Filters at Union Iron Works Strike

San Francisco, March 24.-i'he strike
of sixty filters at the Union Iron
Works Saturday night is but a pre-
lude to a much greater walkout, ac-
cording to resolutions adopted recently,
which is scheduled for May 20. The
machinists have signified their inten-
ton to demand on that date a decrease
in hours of labor from ten to nine and
an increase in pay of 121R per Get.
The strike may become general ond
extend to every shop in the city and
State where machinists are employed.
1t may go even further and extend
Throughout the United States.
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TeIephones i'm Russia.

The growth of the telephone system
in Russia is now considerable, although
it has been slow as compared with 9TH
er countries. According to some recent
statistics there were in Russia an ag-
gregate of some thirty-five thousand
miles of telephone wires, about half of
which is state and half private con-
Germs. The use Of the telephone and
the number of subscribers are, how
ever, rapidly increasing, and some i'm
portant lines between some of the
larger cities are under contemplation
or already completed. In the Baltic
provinces there are some large tele-
phone systems, but they do not appear
to be altogether satisfactorily con-
structed, inasmuch as the different
lines, which are frequently of consid-
cradle length, have no connection with
each other This is attributable main
ly to government restrictions where
state telephones already exist.
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A London paper sums up the nine
teenth century in nutshell: 1--WE re-
ceived the goosequill, we bequeath the
typewriter" The steel pen is not men,
toned. 1t is said that the sale Of pens
has steadily decreased of late, and that
more than one manufacturer has been
driven out of the business. In lone
that excels the quirks Of blazoning
pens" Cassie Enthusiastically foreshad-
ows the reign Of the typewriter.
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Plague Scare Man Resigns

Ell Paso, Tex.-News reached here
from Austin that DR.. w. F. Blunt, who
has been for twelve years the state
health officer in Western Texas, and
stationed at this city, has resigned his
position. DR.. Blunt has been brought
into prominence during the past year
on account of the rigorous quarantise
he has maintained against San Fran
cisco becaused OF the alleged bubonic
plague at that place. Business men
and railroad companies operating here
will hail the news with delight.
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Emigrants Get In

Utica, N. Y, March 22-Many desti-
tute emigrants are arriving in Utica
from the north. Apparently the bar
rier which the immigration laws are
supposed to extend about the United
States is broken at some point on the
northern boundary of the state of New
York. Within the last few days the
police have picked up many, including
a family of destitute Russians
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Sprouting Garden Seeds

Much time is lost. as we'll as seeds,
in planting them dry. Even if they
grow the moist or sprouted weed seeds
get the start and render cultivation
much more irksome. Scientific garden
ers soak their seeds in tepid water two
or three hours, then drain the water
off by putting the seeds in a sack and
letting lie awhile. The sack should
be kept warm enough to sprout the
seeds, in a warm room at night and
in the open air if the day is warm, and
in day or two the little sprouts will
be seen at the ends of the seeds. Then
plant them, but not too deep. In
Southern California, in ordinary warm
weather, put them in two inches deep.
In three or four days they will push
the tender plants to the surface ahead
of the weeds. The writer treated al
falfa seed and sugar cane seed in this
way last year on the ranch near Long
Beach; also other seed, with entire sat
isfaction. He found it a great advan-
tage, especially in cultivating the little
slender cane plants, and the alfalfa
maintained its start ahead of the
weeds, which otherwise would have
fairly smothered it, as they were ia
vored by the thorough preparation of
the soil. A better stand of alfalfa
and cane could not be found. Treated
in this way the seeds of the tomato,
onion, cabbage, lettuce and like plants
may be put in where they are to stay
and grow. But the ground must be
we'll prepared for the hills or rows
and sprinkled little toward night if
the surface should dry out too fast on
account of dry wind or unusual heat
of the sun.
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TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE
Mrs. Coils p. Huntington Gives $4,000
for Its Endowment

New York.-Booker T. Washington
announced that. as a result of the
meeting held in this city by the Arm
strong association of the Tuskegee In
stitute, 500, 800 has been given or prom
Used, including $4,000 from Mrs. c. P.
Huntington, which may be used for
the endowment of the institution.
Toward the $4,000 for current ex-
penses necessary to be secured before
the gift of $4,000 promised by women
of Brooklyn is available, $13,SO0 has
been received.
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Ordered Deported

Washington, March 22.-Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury Taylor today
ordered the deportation of fifteen Span
iards who landed at New York March
en- route to Boise. Idaho, where they
were to engage in sheep herding. They
were refused admission on the ground
that they came in violation of the alien
contract labor law.
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Cans Will Go Up

Indianapolis, March 22.-The i'm
mense plant of the Dugdsle Can COM
pany, with an annual output of 25,-
900, 900 cans, was today transferred to
the American Can company of New
York, which has a capital; of $80,00O,-
900. This completes the consolidation
of all the large tin can manufacturing
ing concerns of the country.
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More Boer Fighting

Cape Town.-Severe fighting oc-
Cured Friday, March %, between the
British and the Beers at Hartbeeste-
fontein, east of Klerkdorp, Transvaal.
The bubonic plague continues to
spread here. There is an average of
six fresh cases officially reported daily.
Most of the victims are colored per-
sons
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Carrie DissoIves Partnership

Topeka, Kans., March 23.-Mrs. Ma
ton has dissolved partnership with
Nick Childs, the colored publisher. She
will hereafter endeavor to edit and
have printed her paper, The Smasher's
Mail, without his assistance. The
trouble grew out of the SUPPRESSION by
Childs of an editorial written by Mrs.
Nation scoring District Judge ,Hazen,
before whom she has appeared a num-
Der of times.
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Easy Money

Westinghouse Secretary Hay has
given to the Spanish minister, Duke
D'Arcos, treasury warrant for $780,
900, in payment for the island of Cay
agan and other islands near the Phil
ippine group. The payment was made
in accordance with the terms of a trea-
ty made last November. Today also
protocols were signed exchanging fl
nal notifications which confirm the til
tie of the United States to those ISL
andS
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Ten Tsin Dispute

London, March 25.-According to the
st. Petersburg correspondent of the
Times, wiring Saturday, Count Lams-
dorff, the Russian minister of foreign
affairs, has agreed with Great Britain
to submit the Tien Tsin railway siding
dispute to the arbitration and settle
ment of Count Won Waldersee.
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Plot Against Gar

London.-'The police have discov-
cred plot against the life of the Gear.
1t appears that a group of students
drew lots and that the fatal choice
fell to the son of a famous general.
The boy told his father and the latter
told the Car, imploring him to leave
st. Petersburg"
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Convict Killed Time

Topeka, Kan.-Gov. Stanley has par
doned convict Floyd Graham, who aid
ed Warden Tomlinson in suppressing
the instruction at the penitentiary coal
mines this week. Graham climbed 400
feet up the mine shaft and conveyed
story of the weakening of the convicts
on account of their deplorab1e condi-
ton. Graham was sent over from Fort
Scott in 1892 for fifteen years for hold
ing up shop keeper, and would have
had about three years more to serve.
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Father-I- shouldn't like to see you
marry that Mr.. Pinchpenny.
Daughter-Why, father?
Father-Well, I've noticed that he's
very close.
Daughter-Why, father, how did you
notice that? Surely you haven't been
spying on Philadelphia Press.
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Mothers Crime

Cass City, Mich.-Mrs. Nathan Town
send, who lives near here, poisoned
herself and her two children, a girl
of eight years, and boy of ten years,
with laudanum. All three died. Fam
lily difficulties are believed to have i'm
PEELED. her to administer the poison.
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Peru's Oil Discovery

Lima, Peru.-It is rumored on re-
liable authority that the Talara Pc
troleum company has lately discov-
cred new well which is a splendid
producer. This discovery, it is said,
will lead to export of oil to Central
America and Australasia.
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FOR THE FARMER
Texas Stockmen Breeding Up to Higher
Standard
Kind Old Father Time-Food Value of
Bananas-Cost Of SiIos-The Chem
istry of Soil

The recent sale of pure-bred cattle
at Fort Worth showed that Texas men
are awake to the necessity of breeding
up to higher standard Not many
years ago Texas had the reputation
of containing the scrubbiest cattle in
the country, but now Texas has some
Of the best, and the thin, fianked, wild
eyed lOnghOrn has become a curiosity
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life through thought transference, but
will not predict results.
In a message received yesterday he
says: eff the man is guilty, when my
subject begins to read his mind it will
so surprise and astonish him that he
will confess. I will continue the in
vestigation day and night till I have
definite results
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When a man who has been married
Just five hours commits suicide be-
cause he Is not worthy of his wife,
there is little disposition to question
the accuracy of his conclusion.
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Americans who have it in for William
Waldorf Aston will be pleased to note
that there are excellent prospects for
the addition of duke to his family.
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The miser may carry his gold to the
edge of the grave, but he must leave it
there.
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Kruger Nav. Come

London, March 25.-The Geneva cor
respondent of the Daily Mail says it is
rumored that Mr.. Kruger, if his health
permits, will visit the United States
next month.
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If you see the lean twentieth century
girl slyly lift something from her vest
pocket and shoot 1t into her mouth you
may be sure it is an alfalfa tablet. The
matinee girl will also be seen MUNICH
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Remedying Damp House

Houses which are damp because of
proximity to undrained land may be
rendered more habitable by planting
the laurel and the sunfower near them.
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1t is said that Mrs. Nation was born
in old Kentucky. If this is a fact she
must have moved away very early in
life.
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that only 2 per cent of the material of
plants is derived from the soil, the
remaining SO per cent. being drawn
from the air and from water.
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Cold contracts, but when a man has
cold in his head it feels little bit big
ger than usual.
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Kind Old Father Time

Arthur Burdick wisely says: thine
mends as much as he destroys" In
farm lore it suits as we'll to say:
Time renews as much as he natures +"
Wise men who till the soil are they
who keep step with the march of the
sun. AS the years glide by and the
broad top trees in long rows stand
with boughs hung full of fruit, the man
of toll looks on and smiles, and then
the past comes to view when the
ground was bare and these fair trees
were naught but buds or seeds; and
his mind at ease, with good will for
all, he lifts his eyes and says: "Kind
old Father Time" The years pass on,
and the man of toll is old and stoops,
his steps are slow and his beard is
white. His trees are old, their limbs
are stiff and spare of fruit; but by
his side a young man stands and near
at hand are more broad-top trees, all
young and full of fruit. Near the
house d hale boy is seen at play The
sun is in the west, and the old man
smiles once more and says: kind
old Father Time" Thus time renews
what he natures.
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Smartness enables man to catch on
and wisdom enables him to let go,
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The London Geological Society is on
the verge of discovering a new kind
of horse. What's the use?
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Food Value of Bananas

An item going the rounds of the pa
pers without credit assures us that the
banana has thirty-four times the nu-
tritive value of the potato and twenty
five times that of bread. In the West
Indies the natives cut the fruit into
strips called pegs dry these in the
sun and grind them into flour, out of
which many excellent dishes are made
No cheaper food grows in the tropics.
The plant begins bearing fourteen
months after being planted. 1t re-
quires no cultivation and produces har-
vests uninterruptedly for eleven years.
A few feet of ground nourishes plant.
and the space of a dooryard will grow
plants enough to maintain a large
family"
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Pawning the engagement ring is =
pledge Of love.
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Cost of SiIos

The round-tub silos cost at Kala-
mazoo, Mich, f. O.. b., the smallest
holding thirty tons. made of either
tamarack, white pine, cypress, red
cedar or red wood; a two-inch thick,
before dressing, made of tamarack,
the cheapest, $91.5O; the best redwood,
$3.50, made of three-inch, both sides
dressed; cheapest, of white pine,
$162.5O; redwood, 1925. silo that will
hold 4O1 tons will cost $1O5O for the
best three-inch redwood, cypress or
cedar. Cedar is considered the best of
all. 1t takes about forty or fifty
pounds daily of silage to keep a milk
COW up to the fresh condition. We
need them in the summer when the
feed is dry. 1t has been observed the
square silo does not always do the
square thing; the silage hangs in the
corners and rots.-San Joaquin Valley
Farmer.
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Why not try the salt cure on some of
those fresh college hazers?