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MAKING A PIECE OF NEWS.
Remarkable Dispatch Evolved by a
wide-Awake Canadian Editor.

A good live piece of news may often
be made by accident. Readers ol
Barrie's novel. When Mans SIN
Gle" will recall the telegraph editor
who thought a dispatch beginning
'"The Zulus have taken umbrage re-
ferred to the capture of post ana
gave U1nbrage the benefit of capl-
tai. A dispatch in the Ottawa Even
ing Journal. dated "Dauphin, Man.
June 49," and announcing the re-
suit of the voting in the kinlstlno
district in the territorial elections,
states: LAS result of the vote,
Meyers and Mott Shadd. a negro
have been elected for the cvnstltu-
ency." 1t should be, of course "Mey-
srs and not Shadd.' In this case the
wide-awake telegraph editor in the
Ottawa Journal Office added: Shadi
is the first .full-blooded negro TO be
elected to a legislative body in Can
ada" And he headed it up: FIRST
Negro to Sit in a Canadian Assem-
bly," Mott Shadd Has Been Elected
in the Territories
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Fright after the reunion of confed-
crate veterans at Dallas, Tex, l wit
messed a rather comical, and yet. a
rather pathetic thing on one of the
trains which pulled out of the city
on the day after the celebration had
closed" said a visitor from Texas.
Call the coaches were jammed to the
windows. Men and women were even
packed into the aisles. and there was
of course -eavy sprinkling OF the
old fellows in gray uniform. When
night came oI the veterans began to
make themselves as comfortable rs
possible, many Of them pulling of
their coats and shoes. 1t was some
time after midnight when gray
bearded and stopped man reused from
his sleep and began to look around
for his shoes. He did not have on
the uniform Of the confederacy, ana
had not been to the Dallas reunion.
up and down the coach he went
in his sock feet. looking for his shoes
but it was to no purpose. He was
about to despair when young gen
tleman, who occupied a seat neal
him, remarked that he had seen al
old gentleman take pair OF shoes
from about that place in the aisle
and suggested that he had probabl!
gotten hold of the wrong shoes. He
said further he thought he could iden
tify the man. Forthwith they wen
in search of the man who was sup
| posed to have gotten the shoes. The,
found him. He was a grizZled. Ole
confederate. and he. too. had beel
playing in bad luck SO far as his shoes
were concerned. But he thought NJ
had found them. 'Pardner.' said thu
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Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors"
was first given in 1894. Other famous
figures of the old Gray's Inn were
Thomas Cromwell and Lord Burleigh.
The gardens where cnce the gall
lants and grand danes of the town
used to gather, and where Raleigh S
tree was planted. still remain almost
as they were but now there is hlgn
iron fence around them, the public
is not admitted and the jaded folk
who pass through shabby Gray's Inn
road, look longingly in at the grass
and old trees.
Oldest of all these. oldest, some
say. OF all the trees in England. ls
the veteran catalpa. that came from
"Virginny" In fact, it is so old now
that it has rOtted a good deal and
has to be Kept in place by means of
braces. The consequential rocks
which still live in the gardens esteem
! the tree greatly as perching place.
In fact. they have made 1t such 4
| permanent headquarters that barrel
| filled with drinking water for them
! has been set just beside the catalpa'
| This barrel stands just on the spot
where Sir Francis Bacon had bench
placed for his own enjoyment. The
seat remained there for years after
the philosophers death until one
night it disappeared and thereafter
could never be traced.-LOndOn Core
| spondence of the Boston Journal.
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F1LJMOR IN COLLEGE T..
tales That Show the Lighter side Of student Life.


their fourth year in the Law school
The other day man who had passed
seventeen and half courses came In
to the dean, to see If he could not ar
range to get his degree without pass
ing the other half course, as he
wished to spend the next year In the
Law school, and did not wish to pass
the summer in the summer school In
order to make up the full number OF
courses. "You know" he remarked
to the dean, 'there are no good
courses in the summer school. none
that a man wants to hanG around
Cambridge to take" The dean lis
tened quietly, then talked with the
student bit, without promising any
thing definite, and the young man
rose to go.
by the way" he remarked. In
leaving, "are you going to be in Cam
, bridge this summer. Mr.. Hurlburt?
The dean smiled. Yes he said,
! "you know, l give three courses in
the summer school"
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The master of a large. school or
the dean of a college. II he is pos
sessed Of q sense of humOr, has much
in his routine life to amuse him.
and must close the door after many
an interview with a smile on his face.
Prof Briggs, who was for so many
years the dean of Harvard college.
tells the story of father who came
to him and complained of his sons
love for strong drink. Il don't see
where he got his taste" said the
father. Il swore off before I was
married"
Prof. Byron S. Hurlburt, who has
Just succeeded Prof. Briggs as dean.
the other day had his tale of an
amusing interview, too. this time with
q student, and the dean did not fail
to do his part in creating the situa-
ton.
To get a degree at Harvard 1t is
necessary to have passed satisfac'
torily eighteen full courses. Many
men do this in three years, and spend
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old man who was not uniformed.
you've got my shoes sho's yo' born.
and sure enough, on closer eNamlna'
ton, the old confederate soldier found
that he had made a mistake. and he
proceeded to unsheath his feet. He
handed the old fellow his shoes, and
began to pace up and down the coach
es again. in his old. white, homemade
yarn socks. looking for his shoes.
The man who had recovered his
shoes became reflective. These coach
es air all filled plum up with rebels.
he said, an most of 'em have Their
shoes off, an it looks awful funny to
me that my shoes should be picked
out when they amt as fine as some
of the other shoes. or course it's
| Jest a mistake, kinder curious
caper of fate, guess. that an old
rebel should look over the shoes Of
his comrades. an jest by accident
take a pair that belongs to feller
on the other side And the old fellow.
who was on his way to the G. A. K.
encampment, lapsed into silence. A
little later, when he saw the old con
federate soldier. still in his sock feet
hobbling across the platform at the
station where he had to change cars
he Strengthened up, his eyes mois
tened and glistened and he said. witt
infinite pathos: 4 guess l amt a:
good a soldier as I used to be, for il
the COS l guess I'd seen my right arr
cut off plum up to the shoulder be
fore I'd made that old fellow give
I'D them shoes. if they wus mine.
1t is easy to make men measure III
1,,- h1.in king Gods standard down.
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Probably not one in so Of the folk
London every year and go on their
way rejoicing in the Thought that theF
have done the metropolis thoroughly
sees a relic that to Americans ought
to be one of the most interesting here
an old catalpa tree that Sir Waiter
Raleigh brought from Virginia, ana
that Sir Francis Bacon planted III
Gray's Inn Gardens.
That American travellers miss the
historic tree is no reflection on their
sightseeing industry. Even Baedeker
seems to have overlooked 1t. ana
probably few people in London. out
side the officials of Gray's Inn. know
it's history. That history is unusU u
ally interesting. however. Nnen Sir
Walter Raleigh brought the tree 70
England his idea was to have his
good friend and patron, Queen EilZ-
abeth. plant it in Gray's Inn Gardens.
then a favorite strollins place with
the fashionable folk. 1t was fully
understood that the Queen would DO
so. but Just before the time came her
majesty was taken i'll and she deputed
Bacon to take her place.
Gray's Inn, for centuries devoted to
law and lawyers, got its name from
having belonged to the Lords Gray
as far back as the 1300's. 1t first got
to be a law school in 1871. when the
Elizabethan Hall, which contains
some of the finest oak carving in
England, was built. Here Queen
Elizabeth came often. and here
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APPLIED AT WRONG OFFICE.
Montana County Officers Have litt!
Sympathy With Tramps.

There are persons in this neck o
the woods who seem to think the Of
Ace Of the auditor of Silver Bow
county is an easy place to raise the
wind for swift sail. To-day man
who failed to leave his address paid
the office a visit and asked for mOneT.
Where did you come FROM!
asked Assistant Auditor Lachman.
sizing him up.
"Kalispell, Montana" was the re-
ply.
Been here long?"
Nope; just arrived to-day"
Are you broke?''
yep; dead flat"
What did you come to Butte for?
"Why, to see my motheT-in-laW
end my faith er-in-law.
What do you want with money!
'To live on, of course. What do
you suppose l want it for?'
Then there was swish in the at
mosphere and two streaks of human
ity flew through the corridor, but one
had twenty feet the start of the other
and distanced his pursuer before the
street was reached.-Butte Inter-
Mountain.
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Eeedino Farm Horses.

Prof. C.. w. Burkett of the New
Hampshire experiment station mas
been conducting some experiments In
the feeding of horses. The investi-
CATION included the amount OF water
consumed. the cost OF feeding and the
method of feeding. The trials extend
ed over two years. The amount OF
water consumed was recorded In all
the tests. Both the ration consumed
and the amount of work performed
influence the quantity Of water drunk
by workhorses, alth ough the individ-
uality of the horse has the most
marked effect. In the present inves-
tigation the quantity of water varied
from 25,S95 pounds to 32,997 pounds
per year. Following are the princi-
pal conclusions drawn by the author:
Any food stuff or combination or
foodstuffs furnishing the desirable
nutriment at least cost should be con
sidered in preparing rations for
horses.
mixture of bran and corn. hall
and half, is good substitute for corn
and oats for feeding work horses.
Corn stover is good substitute for
timothy hay for winter feeding OF
horses because Of its feeding value.
the yield per acre. and commercial
value.
A change from grain mixture,
consisting partially Of linseed-oil
meal, slowly or abruptly. does not
cause a decrease in weight in horses
if a proper substitute ration is fed.
The average cost per year for act
ual food supply per horse was $74.33
The average cost for feed pei
hours work done during two yeaI
| was S4 cents.
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Our Farm Plants.

The value of the knowledge Of
our farm plants does not end with
their production. 1t enters very large
ly into the disposition that is to be
made of them. Our study and knowl-
edge should follow the circle from pro-
duction to consumption and final re-
turn to the soil. In other words our
working knowledge must be thor
ough one. In the crops we raise then,
we should remember that the soil and
it's cultivation should be such that the
plant may have food moisture. and
air, and that it may also be able to
make the best possible use of the heat
Of the sun The more nearly these
conditions are supplied the more near
ly will the plant be able to develop
perfectly and the better satisfied will
the producer be with his eDorts.--F. S.
Johnston.
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Shetland Ponies.

Real Shetland ponies, says CGunti"
Life il America, are SCaTcer thai ms
persons imagine. AT last account
there were only couple of thGuSaIs,
roughly speaking, on their naive isiG
and trey are rapidly being exported
spoiled by the admiXture of ether q" :
larger breeds. There are compa at
ly few bred Shetlands in this cGun, !
and many of the ponies cfiere
sale by dealers as such are really ha.
breeds or Iceland ponies.
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Renefit Of Grindiro Grain.

Twenty head of young grade calves
were purchased by the Kansas Expert
ment station during April and May.
1901. The feed of these calves was
gradually changed to skim milk. with
what grain they would eat. composed
of mixture Of whole and ground
Kaffr corn. On June l9, these calves
were divided into two lots, as nearly
equal as possible. the lot to receive
ground kaffir corn weighing loo
pounds or l57 pounds per calf, and the
one to receive whole kattir corn
weighed 1917 pounds. or 1911 pounds
per head. Each lot was fed all the
skim milk, grain and hay the calves
would eat without securing.
Ground kahir Corn Lot.-For the
112 days under experiment. these ten
calves consumed HAS pounds OF
skim milk, 1884 pounds OF ground
kafir corn, 2,3Sl pounds of prairie
hay, 12o pounds orchard grass hay
and 6.222 pounds alfalfa hay. The to
tai gain OF the lot during the expert
menl was $50 pounds. or LII pouncs
daily per calf. With skim milk at l,
cents per hundred weight. grain at 81
cents per hundred weight (p.us ) cent;
per bushel or cents per hundred
weight for ssrinding), and hay at $
per ton, the feed cost Of raising these
calves amounts to $41.3I. or S4.!3 pei
head. The cost per hundred pound
of gain is as follows: Skim milk. $l.4o
grain. $V.49; roughness. Sl.lu, total
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Feedinu Stock in Idaho.

From Farmers Review: The con-
dition of ranges here is good this year.
They consist of bunch grass, brance.
and short grass that comes in the
spring and sometimes in the fall, If we
have the rains to start it. All the
ranges that lie next 10 the valleys are
pretty we'll fed off for from ten to fif-
teen miles north and northeast. From
that on the range increases in good
ness for 100 miles or more. 1t is
stocked with cattle, horses and sheep
more sheep than any other stock,
which are owned in flocks of 5000 to
10000. divided up into bands con-
venient for one man to care for and
then a camp tender looks after the
wants of the several bands. AS gen
eral thing stock are taken from the
feed yards in March to the ranges and
brought back in November or Decem'
Der to the feed yards where hay car
be bought for 81 to s. per ton in one
hundred-tcn lots. Horses winter or
the ranges without any feeding al
most every season. and so do cattle IL
some places. The horses consist o
conAon range stock. Some good cat
tie are being brought and lots o
blooded sheep are being placed on tn
range. We have good wool marke
and that, like our beef and mutton, /
shipped either east or west, but ou
horses generally go cast. The blood
ed stock are more tender than nauv'
animals and need more care, but the!
bring a better pr.ce.-Jason Hallock
Washington County Idaho.
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NO, sir hesitated the janitor, his
eyes sticking to the floor.
The Ladies' Aid remembered to
breathe, while the president had to
grip her hands hard to keep from
taking the case from her husband.
See here, Mr. Brown" continued
the prosecution, you'd better tell the
whole truth. What have you done
wit. the carpet?"
Brown raised his long lashes and
looked helplessly into the blue, brown.
black and gray orbs of the Ladies
Aid His glances clung to the tear
splashed face of the secretary.
MY wife wanted one so. ma'am,"
he murmured to the secretary.
Wanted WHAT" cut in the crisp
tones of the president.
"A carpet, ma'am," his regard still
| anchored in the fearful sympathetic
secretary She hasn't any carpet.
She used to have them at home be-
| fore she was married. She wanted it,
| ma am, and so l took it home to her.
ma'am. She don't have much now.
The silence throbbed. The secre-
tary wiped her eyes and DR.. Her
rington went over and laid his
benevolent hand upon the young fell
| lows shoulder
Did you take all that carpet up
last night, Mr.. Brown?' resumed Mr.
! Warren.
Yes. sir gulped the prisoner.
And took it all home on wheel
barrow"
oh. no, sir! Just a part of it. An
ME was so happy over it, sir. S.
tackled it all down to-day" added the
ianitor. almost enthusiastically.
Where is the rest of it?" pursue
Mrs. Frances Almeron Warren.
In the basement" the gleam OF
sunshine vanishing from his face as
if a lamp had been suddenly tiown
out.
There was a fiutter among the La
dies Aid.
DO you know. Mr.. Brown, that you
have committed a crime and can be-
sent to the penitentiary demanded
Mr.. Warren severely.
The young fellows sallow skin
paled greeniSh white.
The pen; oh, sir, don't send me o
the pen. What could Annie do with
retary.
Thou shalt not steal" said the
president of the Ladies' Aid, impress
sively.
A sweet spring wind from the blue
Ouirrn mountains against the bluer
Utah sky waved the gay plumage
of the Ladies Aid and a
murmur stirred among them.
Ladies" interposed the rector, III
Mr. Brown replaces the carpet at
once upon the floor, just as it was,
can we not forgive him this time?"
The Ladies' Aid tinllled and f1utter
ed and nodded like summer garden
full of birds.
Come into my study. my son,
competed the rector and he and the
janitor passed out.
Whereupon the chorus and arpeg
gios of musical voices, fearful. pity
inc. excited, resentful thankful, i'm
mediately resumed in the only way
to resume.
g Il aides" suggested the subdue(
president, finally, there is the OLE
). red yestry carpet-couldnt we Civ,
e her that?'
On the following Lords Day tn,
8 red vestry carpet covered the foo
!. of the adobe house on Seventh West
O rejoicing to the uttermost the hear
q of the ianitor's wife, while the fee
# of the Ladies' Aid sank into the blu
l. softness of the carpet for which q
l. much had been sacrificed.
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fAGRICULTURE)
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Formation Of Swamps.

John Clifford, in book on Practlcai
Forestry says: Vast areas of fertile
land consist almost exclusively OF the
detritus of the forest. Vegetable
matter in the form of humus, result
ing from the decomposition OF the
litter on the forest floor, has formed
in many places several feet In thlck-
ness. The acreage of swamp lands
that have been formed in tnis way IS
immense. In addition to large patch-
es of swamps here and there, there
are many miles of swamp or river Tor
est along our southern rivers. The
process of soil formation by the an
nual addition of vegetable matter may
be seen to good advantage in the DIS
NAL and Okeefeenokee swamp OF the
South. BY digging through tn, veee-
table accumulation Of the Dismal
swamp for several feet. one reaches
sand containing shells. This ind1'
Gates that the depression in which the
swamp was formed was once an arm
of the sea. 1t began. no doubt, as
salt marsh; later a few trees that
| could endure such conditions found
a foothold and now it is covered vita
a dense forest growth of many spe-
cies. Little by little the forest de-
tritus has increased in thickness un-
til the swamp has reached an eleva'
| ton higher than the surrounding land.
In fact, elevated swamps are common
in many parts of this country. A
swamp is usually defined as a tract
of land with or without trees. lower
than the surrounding country, and so
| saturated with water as to be unfit
for cultivation. The term swamp
in the South usually refers to wood
ed region that is higher than the sur
rounding land, and, when cleared and
drained forms excellent farm land.
Cause of Failure With Sugar 6eets
The raising Of sugar beets is not an
easy task, especially to the western
farmer. The eastern farmer is &C
customed to hoed crops and to giving
intensive culture, but the western
farmer has been in the habit for {
generation past of raising crops tina
about take care of themselves, a
least till harvest time. For him tt
attempt to raise a crop OF anything
that requires constant attention ant
the keeping down of weeds is littl,
out Of his line. Sugar beets demand
great deal of labor and prompt at
tention. 1t does not do to neglec
them for some weeks, while chea
help is being waited for. Not onl
must the weeds be kept down, bu
the beetS themselves must be thinne
as soon as they reach the size de-
manding it. This is task of good pre-
portions when the beets cover tel
acre field or larger Labor pays we
, when used in growing this crop, bt
, it cannot be stinted. That such labC
is difficult to get just when the beet
, need it most all farmers know. Th
heat of summer and the rains MAX
the weeds grow with surprising ra
idity, and it is at this time that labC
is employed in other things abou, tn
farm. If there come several days {
rains that make it difficult to get ont
, the land so much the worse for tn
labor problem.
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QUEEN 4 CRESCENT
- r Q u T E. y

The Fest Line to New York, ,Phila-
delphia. Baltimore. Washington, Gin
cinnati. Chattanooga. Birmingham and
all points in the East.
Through Sleeper, New Orleans to
New York via Chattanooga. Bristol,
Lyuchburg, Washington and Pennsyl
vania Railroad.
Cincinnati. 1A
York and Cincinnati Lines serving all
meals.
Coolest. Cleanest.
Full detailed informati VI furnished
On application.
Geo. H. Smith.
g. 2. -. 50
r. ]. Anderson.
: n a
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wheelbarrow in the soft ground be-
hind the churCn-though 1t might be
a bicycle.
Here the husband of Mrs. Frances
Almeron Warren brought in Brown,
the ianitor, who was delivered to the
president of the aides Aid 4.e
was young, with a suggested air OF
good breeding about his small, VEIN
ous hands, hopeless eyes and sensi-
tive lips under the drooping, soft
mustache. Life had defeated him in
the rather uncertain fight l.. had pu.
up. Mrs. Frances A. Warrer's nus
band took charge of the case.
1.-THE carpet, MIR. Brown was on
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Minnesota Creameries.

The present prosperity of Southern
Minnesota is due largely to the many
creameries which have made Mime
sofa the "butter State OF tne
Union.
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A disregard of appearances u ~
lack Of sense-(or dollars). S s
The life Of grass widow 4 ~ ~
ways green, nor does Il run - e9
seed H
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A railroad engine may be roughly
said to DO equal in strength to 900
horses.
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1t is easy to make men measure w
by shrinking Gods standard down.
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A wise man never takes penny
for his thoughts.
Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1902-07-16
MISSING STEAMERS.
No Tidings Received From the Port.
land and jeanne. Long Overdue.

Port Townsend. Wash. July IA
The steamship Oregon. from Dutch
Harbor. July 4. brings no news from
the missing steamers Portland and
Jeanne. long overdue at Nome. Many
searching vessels have returned with
absolutely no tidings from the over.
due steamers and the belief comes
more unavoidable that each has been
crushed in the ice and all on board
have persisted. The Oregon was forced
to return with jury rudder. her own
steering gear having broken down on
the second day after the vessel left
the sound. The cutter Manning re-
ports that there Is no truth In the ru-
NOR that the Jeanne blew up and sank
at Nunivek island
Seattle. Wash. July 1.-THE steam
er Portland arrived at St Michaels
July ?. according TO special dispatch
received by the Post IntellIgencer
from Dawson. The news was tele-
graphed up river to Nulato. where the
steamer Sarah brought II on to Eagle.
Thence II was wired to DAWSON The
vessel is in good condition and the
passengers and crew are well.