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The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-08-30

new volume is called Little Mistress Good
Hope" and will be illustrated in color by
Jessie Wilcox Smith.
To the literary pessimist who Is ~continu-
ally crying that in these commercial days
no one buys nor reads poetry, 1t must be a
little disconcerting to learn that the Bowen
Merrill Company announces that the first
edition of The Ship of Silence and Other
POEMS" by Edward Ellington Valentine,
Is entirely exhausted. Mr.. Valentines
verse has been reviewed seriously and
praised in high quarters. and the poetry
loving public showed its appreciation by
Its purchases. The book is temporarily out
of print, but the publishers hope to offer
the new edition within q few weeks.
The new English edition Of The Worlds
Work is to be edited in England by Henry
Norman, NJ. P, to make 1t a thoroughly
English magazine. But it will be set with
American type on American machines. and
printed on American paper with American
presses.
Edmond Gosse is writing a history of
English literature and his admirers insist
that no living man of letters is better fitted
for the task. These admirers include some
OF the most prominent critics of both Eng
land and America, In connection with the
matter. someone has revived the story Of
Mr.. Gosse's application for the place OF
Clark Lecturer at Trinity College, Cam
bridge.
There were many candidates., and each
handed in a host of testimonials from more
or less famous men of letters. Gosse pre-
scented only three testimonials. but those
three were written by Matthew Arnold,
Alfred Tennyson and Robert Browning. He
was appointed.
Professor Arlo Bates Of the Massachus-
etts Institute of Technology, is travelling in
Europe this summer and happened to be in
Venice on the day that the Campanile fell.
HIS latest novel, THE Diary of a Saint
will be published next month.
The Century Company is about to bring
out an edition of the Bible for children. The
appeal of the Bible to chiIdren's minds is
both natural and simple, yet there are some
things in 1t which careful parents would
keep from their children. and in reading It
aloud to young children one often skips
what seems unsuitable. These omitted
parts include genealogies also, and what
ever We regard as Improbable for the
young listeners. The present issue of the
Century Company has been arranged by the
Reverend Francis Brown. D. D., of the
Union Theological Seminary, New York,
and Bishop Potter furnishes the introduce
ton. 1t aims to be made up entirely of the
parts OF the Bible suitable for children, and
it has been so divided into subjects as 10
form complete stories. The life of Jesus has
been put together in q continuous account
taken from the four Eyangelists.
The book will be printed in two colors and
will be very beautifully illustrated with
full-page illustrations from the old masters.
1t is to be sold at a low price.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-08-30

ForesterE' League Cairo Excursion.
Sunday, Aug. 81. Leaves Union Station 7:50
q. m, via. NJ. &. o. Tickets SEQ.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-08-30
Judge Reagan stilI Improvipx.

REPUBLIC
Dallas, Tex, Aug. IA bulletin from
Palestine tonight says:
Judge Reagan is doing nicely. He has
no fever and has been sitting up all day."
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-08-30
W GROVE PARK CONCERT.
Programme by Seymour's Band on
To-MorrOw Afternoon.

Seymour's First Regiment Band Will give
a concert at Tower Grove Park tomorrow
afternoon between $50 and $50.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-08-30

The Seton Indians" are cropping up in
various parts OF the country. These are
boys who go out in camping parties to
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-08-30
SPECIALTIES.

@ tends TO kill the hair and turn II gray
Parkers Hair Balsam Tenews color and life.
Hindercorns, the best cure for corns. I5cts.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-08-30

The elaborate production Of "a japanese
Nightingale" which is promised theater-
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-08-30

Three Days I'm Chicago
$500,
Via Illinois Central Railroad. August .
and 30.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-08-30
MARRIED.
DEATHS.

DICKSON-Entered into rest. on Friday
August %, 1902. Marie Pauline, wife OF ,Josenh
Dickson. sr.. in the %ffty-flrst year OF her age.
Funeral on Sunday. the Slst inst, Mt 2:sO o'clock
p. m. from the family residence. No. 3513 Nor
gan street. Interment private.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-08-30
BEAUTEEUl DELMRR,

Every night, s:l5. Saturday matinee. $50. "Th5
Geisha,'' as produced at Days Theater: Ne-
chase, Midway, Restaurant IN Cottage. Reserved
seats at c. & A r r. office
Sun, AUG. S1-"A Runaway Girl" Take any cax>y
Extra Matinee Monday-Labor Day.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-08-30

REPETITION Friday, August %. 1902. NJ 1.a5
o'clock a m, Ambrose Tony Repetto. beloved
son OF Rocco and Mary, Repetto (nee Beggo). ami
Imperial press and farmer., 1902-02-08

They arrived at the conclusion that there is too much alkali in the soil, and if that alkali came to the surface it would kill the vegetation, but it might go down instead of coming up, in which event it would be harmless.
 When a valley is so located that it would fill up with water. so that the surface water which was originally fifty feet below the surface comes up so that it stands only one foot from the surface, then the alkali comes to the surface. This is admitted. But when the land is so located on mesa or slope of the valley, with a heavy and rapid drop off into valley be low, the water does not fill up the soil and come to the surface, but it runs off into the valley below and takes the salts and alkai with it.
 This is the case at Imperial. The Imperial lands are located on a pla- teau over two hundred feet above the level of the Salton sink, only u few miles distant, and there is a rapid fall towards that sink. There are also two old deep river channels running through the plains towards the sink and into these channels the entire
Imperial press and farmer., 1902-02-08

Imperial country can be easily drained.
 Then again, there is stratum of sand a few feet in thickness, located few feet below the surface, into which the irrigation water percolates through the surface soil, carrying with it the surplus alkali and salts, if there be any.
 If that country had been made to order by an eXpert-a real expert it could not have been improved upon for it's capacity to drain itself, with a view to washing out any deleterious substances from the soils.
 But the reader may say that this is theoretical How about the prac- tical? Let us see.
 They say that irrigation will bring the alkali to the surface. That is true under some conditions, but it is not true under other conditions Which class of conditions exist on the Colorado Delta?
 It is known that for ages past the Colorado River has annually in June sent a flood of water through the Carter River and New River Chan nels down into the Salton Sink. In doing so, large tracts of land have
Imperial press and farmer., 1902-02-08

they could not get enough water at Pomona for the elephant to drink.
 Ontario didn't have enough water, although a Baptist minister, who had criticized the water question, asked that the proprietors of the town do- nate a couple of lots for a Baptist church and was met with the query whether he thought there was enough water there for Baptist church.
 The list is a long one-too long for publication-but the program is ever the same, and the result always sat isfactory.
 And now comes the Imperial Set dement's. The same damaging stories are circulated, some of them in good faith, some of them through dense ig- norance, and some of them by so- called experts, who fail to take into consideration all the points in the premises and therefore reach wrong conclusions.
 Two government soil experts came out from Washington and spent sev- found it-but they did not have time, to find the conditions which made it an easy matter to get rid of that alkali
Imperial press and farmer., 1902-02-08

we know, that collection has not been taken up yet.
 Then came Redlands and Ontario and Etiwanda and Corona and other localities that received the same treatment from Riverside that River side had received from the people of San Bernatdino-all except the col lection business
 Then there was Pomona. It did not have enough water and could not get it. In the early days of that set clement a small circus with one ele- phant stopped and showed at Spadra
Imperial press and farmer., 1902-02-08

It is very natural for members or the human race to look upon the dark side of picture and be very pessimistic regarding all questions connected with future develop ments. The weather is the most pro- life subject for unfavorable comment It is too hot or too cold, too wet or too dry, or too windy, too stormy, too sultry.
 In the spring the farmer finds the season too late and too cold; after little it is so wet that the seed will rot in the ground; then it comes off pleasant and a drought threatens to destroy the crop, then there is too much rain again; then an early frost does it's work, and after the crop has been destroyed four or five times, the farmer finds his harvest very satis- factory.
 Here in California the formation of a new settlement must pass through the same ordeal. The wise ones know all about it. The new place is not properly located; it cannot get suffi- cient supply of water; there is too much frost; there is so much alkali in the ground that seed will not germ mate and if it does germinate, it will not mature a crop, and if it does ma ture a crop the first year it will not do it a second year, for the alkali will come to the surface and ruin every thing. How many times these pre- dictions have been passed from mouth to mouth and published from paper to paper!
 Take the settlements of Southern California as illustrations.
 Orange and Santa Ana would be wind-swept, so that no fruit could ever be grown there.
 Artesia would soon be a barren waste because of the alkali which would come to the surface, although as a matter of fact there is not as much alkali in the Artesia Settle ment today as there was twenty-five years ago.
 Riverside could never support a population, because the first canal was built on an up grade, so the | water would never run through it; | then these barren plains would never produce anything, even if irrigated; the winds would be so severe that fruit could not be grown and the peo- pie could not stand the heavy blasts. | The people of San Bernardino said it ! was not right for these people, who knew nothing about this country, to come out from the East and locate on ! a barren plain, squander all their | and then compel the citizens 1 of that county, as an act of charity, | to take up a collection to send them back East to their friends. This pie ture is not overdrawn, but so far as
Imperial press and farmer., 1902-02-08
WHAT ABOUT THE IMPERIAL SOILS?

WASHINGTON SOIL EXPERTS REPORT COMPARED WITH THE FACTS-A HASTILY PREPARED REPORT TELLS ONLY A PORTION OF THE TRUTH SOME OF THEIR CONCLUSIONS ALREADY DISPROVEN- PROF FILGARD CALLS IN QUESTION SOME OF THEIR STATEMENTS-WALTER L.
 VAIL KNOWS WHAT HE IS ABOUT
 AND IS SATISFIED-OTFER VERY
 POSITIVE EVIDENCE.
Imperial press and farmer., 1902-02-08
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signs of alkali? Not at all There is not single instance on the entire Colorado Delta where this annual flooding has developed alkali. If there is, it has not as yet been found
 The Cameron Lake has been filled annually to depth of ten or fifteen feet. It then dries down and gets SO low that the fish die on it's banks. and yet there is no alkali to be found on the banks of that lake or in it's al most dried-up waters. With the irri gation system established, that lake and other lakes can be kept full of water and in healthful condition.
 Last season irrigation water was used in the Delta lands for the first time. Over two thousand acres of land were planted to sorghum, millet and other crops. Not single acre failed to grow and produce bounti- fully. Some of the land that was so thoroughly soaked last summer has been planted to barley this winter, and now that crop stands foot in height and some of it is heading out at much greater height, but there is no alkali
 But, say the the experts, the land may produce all right for one or two years and then the alkali will ap- pear. Why didn't they give the con ditions that will make the alkali ap- pear? It is true that the alkaIi will appear under certain conditions, but on the lands under discussion those conditions do not exist
 Wherever the annual floods for ages past have soaked the soil, there have been crops of wild hemp, arrow weed. and what back East is called pigweed. that have come up after the subsistence of the waters and these crops have grown so rapidly and so vigorously that a mans varacity is liable to be called in question if he tells the truth about them. The pig weed is known to grow from twelve to fifteen feet in height and the stalk one IOOC dDOVe the ground mas Deen known to measure from six to ten inches in diameter. If this is an alkali country where the alkal comes to the surface after few irrigations why do not these annual fioodings bring up the alkali and thus kill off these crops of wild hemp, arrow weed and pgweed-or. as some of the settlers call it. out of respect for it's size-hogweed. This entire desert does not how in any way any of the alkali plants so common to alkali countries
 We hope to be pardoned if we call in question the reliability of these Washington experts, for we would not think of doing so except upon the very best of evidence.
 While Mr Holmes one of these ex- perts was at work in Imperial, he told MT. w. F. Holt that on one cor ner of his half section of land adjoin- ing the town of Imperial on the south the quantity of alkali and salt in the soil was so great that nothing could be made to grow therein, and it was doubtful if the seed planted there would even germinate Mr. Holt
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-03-04

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We lead, others follow. Hunter-sale
Drug Co.. birthplace of pure drugs.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-03-04

Wood and Coal CODey 9 Parker.
Wallowa chieftain. [volume] (Joseph, Union County, Or.) 1884-1909, 1902-08-07
Paid His Suhscrintinn

II used 10 be in the newspaper busi.
ness myself, in a sort Of way" said
Colonel Moses Taylor. OF Atlanta. Ga.
as he puffed a big black cigar in the
Continental Hotel lobby.
1T was a good many years ago,
though; shortly after the war. The na.
tives Of the little town where l was
running the Weekly Guide didn't alto
gether appreciate my efforts. probably
because | had some union ideas that
didn't strike them favorably.
About / o'clock one morning a mask.
ed mob routed me out and gave me a
dose Of tar and feathers. Fortunately
there didn't seem to be so much tar as
feathers, but l was in a pretty bad
mess at that. | made my way back to
the shack that by courtesy | called my
office, locked the door and started 10
clean up.
1t was slow work. and after about
three hours had passed an old cracker
named Adams came along and began to
pound on the door. | stuck nv head
out OF thc window and asked him his
business.
'Sfistah Taylah,' he said, 81 owe
you 81, sub. foh a yeah's subscription
TO 20 papah.'
All right; III be right down said
Hof on. sub, he continued. with
a grin. 1 have reason to believe suh
that the gentlemen that gave You a
dose Of tar and feathers this mawnin'
took a mattress from my clotheslipe
value that mattress at mo- than 81,
sub, but since you already have the
feathers, l am willing to call it square
suh.'
Shortly after that" concluded the
Colonel, according to the Philadelphia
Record, Il quit the newspaper business
and started to study law"
Wallowa chieftain. [volume] (Joseph, Union County, Or.) 1884-1909, 1902-08-07
ENGLAND'S QUEEN.
Alexandra Is Nearly 81 Years Old, but
Appears Young.

Queen Alexandra is 80 years old. and
nearly 61, yet she does not look a day
over 40, and in certain lights and in GER
tain shades she would pass for 3S.
There are very few women who can
cheat Father Time out OF his due by as
much as five years. let alone twenty
i've. Her daughter Louise, who Is un-
der 10. looks older than she. Her un-
married daughter. Victoria, who is 81,
looks no younger. Her baby" the
Princess Carl OF Denmark, aged 81, is
about the same age in looks.
When Alexandra. the daughter OF the
Sea King. as old King Christian is
called. was born, she came into the
world the first daughter Of a family
that was destined to have many daugh-
ters and sons. Christian, then an insig.
nificant prince, reared a large family,
and his wife Louise looked after their
virtues and education. They grew up
beautiful. every one OF them, from
Frederick. the Crown Prince, TO the
three daughters and the younger sons,
George and Waldemar.
And they were accomplished. won
! derfully accomplished. Have you ever
known a Dane; If you have, you have
known one who could work and who
was willing 10 do so; one who could
be industrious, accomplished and pret-
" all at once. The three daughters Of
the Sea King sewed and painted, sang
and worked in the garden. They lived
not so much rural as a town life,
though they spent their spare time OF
AT little Daish castle where the city
ways never crept. Their mother taught
them all the pretty arts of the world,
and at IS they were ready to make q
debut into the courts OF Europe
The bride came to England thirty
nine years ago, and England went wild
over her. She rode through London in
the royal carriage, and Englishmen
wept al sight Of her. So much lowell
ness brought to their shores! Alfred
Tennyson. then poet laureate. wrote an
ode to her. and she found herself well
come in an English home.-Baltimorc
American.
Wallowa chieftain. [volume] (Joseph, Union County, Or.) 1884-1909, 1902-08-07

Madame Isabella Ellen Bayeas r;.
Governor Grand Lodge OF Free Nas,..
of England, in letter from Hotel San,
toga, Chicago. H., SAYS:
This summer while travaT,,.
contracted a most persistent and N.
noying cold. My head ached, INV ev.,
and nose seemed constantly runnir,
my lungs were sore and lost NV -.
petite. health and good spirits. M.
tors prescribed for me all manner y
pills and powders, but all 10 no mn.
pose.
81 advised with a druggist and \
spoke so highly of n medicine caI.i
Peruna, that he induced me 10 try nv
first bottle OF patent medicine. iiOs.
ever, il proved such a help 10 me TIA,
! soon purchased another bottle ,ai
kept on until was entirely well.n...
Madame Isabella Ellen Baveas.
Summer colds require prompt trs,i.
ment. They are always grave, n,
sometimes dangerous. The proma.
ness and surety with which Perm,
acts in these cases has saved mxr
lives. A large dose of Peruna shoah
be taken at the first appearance di
cold in summer, followed by small 1al
oft repeated doses. There is no eta
remedy that medical science can iun
ism, so reliable and quick in its attn
as Peruna.
Address The Peruna Medicine Cau-
pany, Columbus, Ohio, for free bst
entitled Summer Catarrh," via
treats OF the catarrhal diseases peglr
10 summer. ~
Wallowa chieftain. [volume] (Joseph, Union County, Or.) 1884-1909, 1902-08-07
souNoLINes IN DEMAND.
Not Enough of the Little Casta"ays 70
Brighten Lonely Homes

-
r. is surprising 10 discover what a
rushing mail-order business for babies
eould be transacted. Inquiries for ha'
bies come 10 the State Charities Asso-
citation and the Guild from all over the
cou. Try. Recently the Mayor OF q
flourisbing Massachusetts city wrote
for a baby. inclosing plans and speci-
fications for the same. which included
blue eyes. light hair, girl, anywhere
from 10 months 10 years old.
From q colored family in Pittsburg
was received request for "a boy any
where under . years, not black. Must
be light colored."
From as far west as Denver and as
far south as Alabama come the re-
quests. and il investigation proves the
parties 10 be really responsible the
founding does his tirst travelling. IN
less the child Is legally adopted II Is
always under the supervision or the
organization that indentured II. Rare
" does IL happen. however. that the
child is taken away, even If II is not
legally adopted. Legal adoption is an
expensive AFFAIR for parents OF moder-
ate means-the class thar usually OBJ
tain the children-and the formallty or
drawing up the necessary papers is Of
ten omitted. But the founding is TO
the satisfaction OF its foster parents
regularly adopted and treated as such.
Only one instance is on record where
a child was returned as unsatisfactory.
That was when woman. angered by
the visit ot one Of the State Charities
agents, who called To make Inquiries rs
Ia the care that was being taken Of the
child. resented the investigation and
sent back the infant.
That the founding never quite gives
up the hope OF discovering who his real
parents We're is shown in many Il pa
Jhetic incident in the office OF Mrs.
Dunphy the superintendent on Ran
dall's Island. where the records OF New
York foundlings for the past twenty
years have been kept by her
Often man. sometimes prosperous
looking. Oftener with the stamp OF the
tOiler upon him, will ask to see the
books OF the infant hospital for a GER
tain year. Running his finger down the
page Of entries, he will pause at a
name and ask II there Is any record OF
parental inquiry after the infants ad-
mission 10 the hospital.
II is the founding come back. with
the haunting hope that ne may. after
all. find out who he really is.
But the founding never does find out.
And so. even II he rise TO be Gov
ernor or manufacturing masnate. he is.
beyond everything else, pathetic TO the
end.-Ainslee's Magazine.
Wallowa chieftain. [volume] (Joseph, Union County, Or.) 1884-1909, 1902-08-07
The Romance OF Gum-Gatber,ne

In 1ucatan the gathering Of the ia.
nous chicle chewing gum is an occupa.
tion apparently full OF romance, not
unattended with considerable danger.
Bands OF men. known as "chicleros {"
go into the deep forests, under expert.
enced leaders, armed with heavy
knives OF special make and pals and
ladies for the sap each one is also pro.
vided with strong rope, more than 30
leet long, TO be used in climbing the
iofty sapota trees from which the pum
Is procured. The sap flows from gasbes
cut IN the bark. A camp Of cbicleros
where the sap is boiled. resembles In
some respects an American maple su.
gar camp. After months of work tbe
chicleros return from the forests laden
with bricklike blocks of aromatic gum
Inc hnest gum, known as 'sicte" " is
collected from the fruit of the sano,a
mostly by the native women. and is sci.
dom exported because It is too we'll
liked az home.