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The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-03-12

guage of his faith. Occasionally hei
even dispenses liquid refreshments;
with his own hands, and it seems queer
to hear his mild voice asking. What
will thee have?" The other day there
was a crowd in the bar, and one of the
men had already been imbibing too
freely. Nevertheless he lined up at
the bar with the others, and loudly
called for whisky. The old man
looked at him severely, and remarked:
james, doesn't thee think thee has
had enough of the strong stuff? Thee
had better take 'pariila.' There was
no appeal, and James drank a glass
of sarsaparilla.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-03-12
ON THE HOBO LIMITED.
Tramp Mistook Eccentric Millionaire for
a Brother Mandecer.

Tramp Mistook Eccentric millionaire for
Brother wanderer.
One of the newest and best equipped
cities in the United States is Spokane,
now boasting $4,000 inhabitants.
Twenty years ago it began its exist
enee, and one Of its founders, Col. ].
kennedy Stout, who drafted its charter
and served as its first city attorney, is
still a young man, and is now private
secretary to United States Senator
George Turner, from the state Of
Washington.
Few people realize" said Col. Stout,
"whas strides the west has made. 1t is
not many years since the only railroad
in our state was miserable little line
with wooden rails, running from Walla
Walla to Wallula, a distance of thirty
miles. Dr. Baker, an eccentric million
aire, built it. He advertised both fast
and slow freight schedules. There was
but one train of cars in the entire sys-
tenn. Fast freight was loaded on the
front cars, and SLOW freight on the
rear ones.
BOILED shirts had not yet invaded
the land to any extent, and this print
tive railway magnate was particularly
Indifferent as to dress. A jumper, over
alls, brogans. and an old SLOUGH hat
usually constituted his costume. Most
of his cars were fiat cars The road did
a big business, and its earnings, to-
gether with the presidents invest
ments in real estate and mines, in
creased his millions.
"One day while, roughly dressed as
usual. he was riding on one of his fiat
cars and munching a sandwich, he at
tracted the attention of a hobo, who,
crouching behind some sacks of wheat,
was stealing a ride.
"Sit down. sit down." shouted the
tramp to the millionaire president
"Sit down, or the conductor'll see you
and put us both off!'-Saturday Even
ing Post
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A Long and Short Count.

Apropos of the discussion of the SUI
periority of the long or the short
skirt a Broadway promenader sta
toned himself about o'clock the other
afternoon at Twenty-third street and
Fifth avenue and counted for one hour
the number of long and short skirts
that passed. The crossing was muddy
and allowing for any inaccuracy in the
counting of the gentleman the count
showed the short skirt to be the most
popular. OF the 800 women whose
skirts were counted "a wore long skirts.
while ESQ wore short ones. This ratio
of to l proved the popularity of the
short skirt.-New York Times
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Volunteer Plums.

From Farmers Review: In your
issue Of January 18th 1 notice an arti-
Gle on the Wild Goose plum. l have
something remarkable to say about
that plum. Ten years ago purchased
a farm in Wayne county, Illinois
There was one plum tree on which the
plums began to ripen about the 25th Of
June. Some plum sprouts came up
and l saved them. In three years
they bore fruit. which was a little late
in ripening. l began to save other
sprouts that came up, and now have
plums till the first of October. These
trees bear heavy crops every year, and
the fruit is Of a fine quality. How can
this be accounted for? l have never
transplanted, but have just saved the
sprouts as they came up. l would like
to know if any of the readers of the
Farmers Review have had similar
experience with the Wild Goose plum;
or is this some other kind? The plums
are bright red in color and large in
size.-J. M. Ffdler.
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KEPT TIME BY HIS BELT.
New York Work man Had Unfailing
Method of Measuring Hours.


I've heard of many strange time
pieces" said a buyer for a New York
ice company, but I ran across some
thing entirely new in that line last
week. l went to a lake back of New
burg to estimate the ice crop. Among
the men working there was a heavy set
fellow who was dressed in blanket
clothes. He kept his trousers in place
with a narrow leather belt, and several
times in course of the morning 1 no.
ticed him tighten it hole at time.
What time is it?' l asked him, for
my watch was not running.
He glanced at his belt and an
swered promptly, '11:30.'
Seeing that he had no watch I
asked him how he knew. and he ex-
planned his system of telling the time
by his belt. After breakfast, which
was eaten at o'clock, the belt was set
at the last hole. Every hour during
the morning he was forced to take it
in hole. He knew it was thirty min
utes after II because he had taken in
five holes and the belt was just begin
ming to slacken. After dinner he would
let it out again to the last hole and it
would mark off the hours during the
worthy as the best watch he had ever
owned, and several tests proved that
he was right"
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MANY cared Corn.

From Farmers Review: If were
to call at your Office and found some
Illinois farmers there, when 1t was
learned that ( was from Northwestern
Minnesota, ON the line of the Northern
Pacific railroad, the conversation
would quite likely be about crops and
farmers chances and prospects In my
section of the country. AS the Illinois
farmers raise corn with profit, they
would want to know what we are DO
ing in that line OF farming, and the
results. / should tell them that dur
ing the last two years we have In
creased our corn area more than ten
fold, and that the results have been
great satisfaction. both as to feed and
fodder for the stock, and from now on
farmers will plant about one-ffth OF
their land to corn.
Corn has been raised in this vicinity
in small patches and felds-ever
since settlement, twenty-five years ago,
and showed remarkable productive
ness, but as in all new countries where
wheat can be raised the farmers paid
their whole attention to wheat. But
now, since two or three years ago,
they wished to go more into stock and
diversified farming. they have natural
ly turned to corn and clover as the
two crops necessary in the new style
OF farming.
At the Tri-States Grain Growers and
Stock Raisers convention, held at
Fargo, N. D.. January 7th to 10th. in
elusive, it was not uncommon to hear
a farmer talk about his 300, 500. 1000
and 1000 acres of corn. 1, being only
a small homestead farmer. can only
talk about five to seven acre fields. and
say that eighteen or twenty years ago
l had one stalk of corn that had i've
ears on 1t. Three of them were good
size, sound and perfect, and the other
two would be classed as nubbins.-D.
L. Weilman, Becker County. Mime
sofa.
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WERE OPPOSED TO HURRY.
Good Story Told of Inhabitants of
Small Western Town.

Good Story Told of Inhabitants of a
Small Western Town.
'T had business in small town out
West" said Boston man, as reported
in the Boston Globe, and left the ad-
dress at home, so that some important
letters could be forwarded to me. l
figured out about when they ought to
arrive and went down to the postofice
to inquire for them.
mo letters here for you, said the
postmaster, who was also a justice of
the peace.
They ought to have been here yes
terday,' ! said
Couldn't have got here yesterday,
as old Brown, who carries the mail,
was drunk and didn't go over to Iosco
after it
land how about to-day?'
well, he's sober enough to-day,
but his old woman has cut her foot
But there will be a mail to-mor-
row. l queried.
"'Skassly, sir. We don't have no
mail on Thursdays
Then how about the next day?'
Fridays is sort of off days with the
Iosco postmaster, and he generally
goes fishing. If he don't, he sends the
boy over. ] never count on it, how
ever
You seem to have a slipshod way
of running postal affairs out in this
country l said as l turned away.
WAL, dunno but we have he ad-
mitted, as he looked at me over the
top of his spectacles, but as long as
nobody but Uncle Bill Simpson ever
gets any mail, and that's only circu-
lar about how to kill cockroaches, we
kinder take things easy and let the
United States run along without bus
tin her biler.'"
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-03-12
Ere j,.,iice Against Insurance.

There is still a prejudice against life
assurance among a certain class of re-
ligious people, on the ground that such
provision betrays a lack of trust in
Providence. Such assumption is the
basis of a blazing pamphlet which has
just reached us, in which the author
argues, from three texts in the Ser
mon on the Mount, that the principle
of life assurance comes from the
father Of lies-the arch fiend-who de-
lights to get Gods people off the right
lines by trying to make out that God
is a liar" He says: will God look
after your family after you are dead?"
eve cannot reproduce the pamphlets
variety of prtnt) Of course the same
argument would prove the wickedness
of all invest ments-even of the laying
in Of Goals against the winter Aad
general experience has shown that
Providence does not interpose miracles
to save the idle and careless from the
consequences of their folly, even when
those consequences have to be borne
by others as well.
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80 fhat Would Maiss
: Good Sized State
% be Drained.

- y V
s length The work has been done
pder the supervision of the St. Fran
levee boards of Missouri and Ar
psas. acting in conjunction with the
Tied States government. The ex-
6nditures of the two boards together
TO date amount to about 81, 500, 900,
while the government has expended
about $750,000 addition. Already the
reclaimed land has appreciated in value
many times its original valuation, and
Is now held at $50 an acre. Railroads
now intersect the reclaimed area in
several directions, numerous industrial
establishments have been built. the
population has been doubled. and q
general prosperity has appeared where
originally there were only waste
swamps.
1t is, however, not only in the ex-
tent Of the undertaking that the st.
Francis basin reclamation is notable,
but in the very low cost at which it
has been accomplished. The work of
retaining about $500 square miles OF
the Nile valley in Egypt is now being
carried out by the building of dams at
Assouan and Assiont at an estimated
cost of $25 ,OOO, 900, while the entire re-
clamation of the $500 square miles OF
the st. Francis basin will not cost
more than So, OOO,O 600 all told, or only
81, 430 per square mile, compared with
$40, 900 in the Egyptian reclamation.
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the best possible qualities, adapted 70
different parts Of the country, and to
provide the best possible resistant
stocks upon which to graft the VIM
fera (wine grape) varieties.
His work has necessitated a careful
study Of the botany Of the grape and
a thorough knowledge Of every native.
introduced and cultivated species and
variety. In his work with these, more
than $4,000 seedlings, mostly hybrids,
have been grown, and OF this number
scarcely 100 have been considered
worthy of introduction for market.
When, however, it is remembered that
no variety with fewer berries than
Lukfata nor smaller berries than Tala-
quah nor inferior in quality to Con-
cord has been considered worthy OF
Introduction, some idea will be OBJ
tanned OF the rigid system OF culline
and selection observed.
Mr.. Munson considers the results OBJ
tanned in his experiments with native
American species most encouraging,
and the field of future development
along this line practically unlimited.
Our native species excel in many
points the Old World grapes. Some
have rare, delicious favors, unknown
in the Vinifera varieties; others, great
size of clusters; others. very large
berries; others, small and few seed;
all OF great vigor and resistance to dis
ease and adaptability to our variable
climate. And our experience clearly
shows that all species can be inter
mingled at will by the intelligent n.y.
bridizer.''
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OUR bhTIEAURhCE WITH death,
BALLAD or THE DRIVE


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4S % a sS e & S s$ III ii; ssss,ss boat,
es$ s:s :s s: :S s 's, n@. ' enough
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The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-03-12

The heaviest pig in these filters
weighed SO pounds at birth and the
lightest lie pounds, the average for
the lot being 2.5 pounds. During the
first week after birth the pigs made a
gain of 19 pounds. Overlooking ir-
regularities, we may say that the pigs
made a weekly gain of three pounds
per head the fifth week after birth,
four pounds the seventh week, and five
and one-half pounds the tenth week.
At the end of the seventh week after
weaving, when 119 days old, they were
gaining more than seven pounds each
weekly, or over a pound a day.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-03-12
Early Gnins of Pig

Prof. W. A. Henry, in his book on
Feeds and Feeding" says: At the
Wisconsin station the writer kept rec
ords Of the birth-weight and also
weekly gains of twelve itters, num-
boring sc pigs in all. for a period OF
ten weeks, at the close Of which they
were weaned. After weaving, the
records were continued with eight lit
tiers. containing GO pigs in all, for
seven weeks. The dams were pure
bred or high-grade Poland-Chinas or
Chester Whites The results are
shown below:
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-03-12

liamentary debate, You ought to be
made king" recalls the fact that this
is not the first tine the colonial sec
rotary has been recommended for a
higher post than he seems likely to
reach. The first recommendation.
however, was not made in irony but
in the good faith of perfect tipsiness.
1t was at the time Queen Victoria Wis
tied Birmingham, fifteen years ago.
Chamberlain's carriage was blocked
for some minutes q. / he found him
self the object of a fluent and some
what disordered harangue from a
member of the crowd who had fortt-
fed himself extensively against the la
bors OF the day. Yer amt in Office
now. joe" ran the peroration. but
III tell yer what l sees in the future.
q sees Hengland and Hamerica union
lated into one republ!c-yus, and you'll
pc the fust president
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Larsest CROP os popoorn.

A. L. Scaeffer of Edgar County, Tlli-
nois, last year harvested the largest
crop of popcorn ever gathered in the
world. From his 102 acres he had
1.S0G bushels, yield of little over
seventeen bushels to the acre It cost
him SIT an acre to raise. sort, shell ana
pay ground rent.
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Develnping New Grapea.

For more than twenty years T. v.
Mnrson of Texas has given his at
tention to the subject of improving our
native rapes-collecting the hest wild
and cultivated varieties. testing them
side by side. and intermingliDg them
by crossing and hybridizing for the
purpose of producing new varieties of
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-03-12
Monks Get Back Their Land.

South Germany's oldest monastery,
the Benedictine abbey of Wessobrun,
founded in 735 and confiscated in 1903.
has been restored to the Benedictine
order by Baron Won Cramer-Klett, a
Protestant, and will soon be reoccupied
by the monks. The baron bought all
the lands and remaining buildings of
the old abbey for 100000 marks from
the Bavarian state and sold them to
the Benedictines for nominal sum.
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HORSE Meat
kRIED ON AT LINNTON, OREGON.

| cares to put brand on them. They
are wild horses, and nobody wants
| them; but each of these animals takes
| as much range as would be required
for the sustenance of a steer that will
dress 1000 pounds. The stockmen
want the range for their cattle, and the
railroad companies are glad to assist
In taking the useless cayuse ponies
out of the country SO there will be
more room for stock that will yield
money to producers and carriers.
Therefore the railroads are willing to
make a very low rate for carrying the
cayuses to the Linnton abattoir, and
the movement thither will soon be re-
sumed
The average cayuse pony taken to
the Linnton sbattoir yields only about
sixty pounds of merchantable meat,
the rest of the carcass going into fer
| tilizer, glue, leather, etc. This meat
is carefully picked in tierces and is
shipped to market in France and Hol-
land where the prejudice against horse
meat is not so strong as it is in this
country. These horses bring from
$2.75 to SO each, delivered at the rail-
road. They are mostly owned by the
Indians, the animals owned by whSe
men seldom being SO useless as to find
their best market at the SHAMELESS
Portland Oregonian.
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There is an old suburban inn near
Philadelphia kept by a Quaker who,
amid the incongruous surroundings of
his bar. still clings to the plain Ian
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-03-12

Half a ton of sawdust contains 1eo
pounds of charcoal, $50 pounds of
acids, 24s pounds of water and 162
pounds Of tar.
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blue mody ks Of Tonnes
lessee! that sleeping beauty
oped empire, " lose head is
yhere the morning sunlight
} SUBMITS of the Unaka
|! whose body is clasped in
lis arms of the Tennessee
erland, and whose feet are
the turbid waters of the
|asissippi. Grand and ma
n6-ks~ bosom heaving
usn ess of undeveloped
wer, her head crowned
of the Appalachian for
Hvell-beloved Tennessee!
Der when her towering
led to stand on tiptoe
nni.clnnds. I have seen
gether
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dashed to spray on the rocks Of indif-
ference
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Charms strike the sight, but merit
wins the soul.
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FARM AND GARDEN.
MATTERS OF. INTEREST TO AGRi-
CUlTURlSTS.

Some Up-to-Date Hints About Culti-
vatio. OF tho Soil and Yields
Observation-Disclosures. viticultare and
Horticulture.
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Environment will no more save q
man than a new case will regulate
an old watch,
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or spoke in re-
E4es x. Polk"
(6ociety at st.
His peroration
daughters of
[left the old
fortunes with
Eous city, and
Ae destinies
be that, as
hairs, dim
ktsteps, you
gins looks to-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-06-15

Frank Russell, the assistant cashier in
the National Bank OF Commerce. tells
an amusing story about an incident Of
the Decoration Day parade az Caldwell.
Kansas.
Frank had been out west and came
back through Caldwell on the morn
ing OF last Decoration Day. They hap
psned 20 be four men on the train that
had lost leg or an arm and one
unfortunate man had lost both hts hands.
Ely Ingram. who travels for the Cudahy
Kansas CITY packing house. was one of
the unfortunates and Ely r. considerable
Of a wag
They all got together and told how thsy
had been uniucky. one man had his
shotgun sitting In the buggy By MS side
and the dog Jumped in and discharged fl.
tearing OF his arm: another had his
hands cut on IN a harvester ard 50 they
went round with their stories Of misfor-
tune.
a station or two cut from Caldwell tvo
old crippled soldiers got or the trsiin with
two boys. each with = drum. The old
soldiers said they were gosRg to Caldwell
70 take part n the Decoration Day ser-
vices. when they arrived az Caldwell
the two old soldiers lined w. behind The
two boys with the drums end zig ingram
told MS unfortunate friends 10 fan IN and
il was no sooner suggested than done.
People cheered the heroes 81 ths var
Tor the union. and none u them ever
stopped 20 reason that the fosr o1ipBic5
soldiers bringing az the rear must hsss
been mighiy young soldiers along Or tie
sixties. Prank Russell said % him the
incident was very sFnusing Tor ingram
was IN the height Of his glory ~ that
procession.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-06-15

a PARTY Of young people drove out 10
a farmers house and ate watermelons
One member of the party was q young
man from Cleveland, Ohio. who was too
swell 70 wear cast-off duds or perhaps he
did not have any with him. He were a
suit OF light gray cloth when he started
but when he came back that suit was ey
ely color of the Arkansas valley soil and
watermelon juice. When he first landed
at the house he ran TO q big pile OF
watermelons and hearing that the proper
way to cut a melon when there was
good supply was TO drop it on the ground
and then take the heart" He did this
and picked out fine melon and dropped
II and a heart" as big as a common
water bucket fell out He picked 1t up
and had just taken one bite OF the deli
iousc melon when the farmer, supposing
that this fellow was not particular about
his clothes walked up and smashed that
piece OF watermelon all over the fell
lows face. The juice ran down over
him. wilted his collar, and billed shirt,
END ran in streaks down his coat. The
young man got mad but the crowd laugh
Cd and finally he entered into the spirit
of the thing and shot melon seeds and
washed others faces with the rest of
them and he carried that suit of clothes
home In a separate package and now has
it hanging in his room labeled Water
melon Suit
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II Wasn't Dunn.

The night after Up. Dunn escaped from
the st. Francis hospital Charles Bourman
and John Young. employees at Gill's un-
dertaking establishment, went TO the hos
pitG after a corpse.
After they had taken the corpse TO the
undertaking establishment Mr.. Young
started out the rear door to do some work
about the dead wagon. Just as he opened
the door he saw Policeman Osborne peep
ing in. When the door was opened the
policeman ran.
What do you want?" called out Mr..
Young. After chasing the policeman
around few minutes the bluecoat said:
I only wanted to see who you had in
there
About this time Detective Sutton came
rushing in the front door and back 10 the
room where Mr.. Bourman was preparing
TO lay out corpse.
'ewho have you there?" asked the de-
teetive.
"A woman who died at the hospital. .
was the reply.
Let me see her
Mr.. Bourman turned back the cloth
which covered the dead womans face
oh thought it was Mrs. Thompson.
an old friend of NINE said Detective
Sutton.
1T is not Mrs. Thompson" replied Mr..
Bourman quietly.
And thus another attempt to find Dunn
failed.