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Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-03-18
Horse for the Farmer.

Speaking on the most useful horse
for the farmer before the West Vir-
ginia Live Stock Breeders Associa-
tion, G. e. Lewis said in part: The
heavy horse has signal advantage In
some farm operations. In blowing or
operating manure spreader or haul
ing the crops to the barn or to market
the heavy horse Is Just what Is want
ed, but in narrowing he does not have
an advantage proportionate to his size.
For drawing moving machine the
lighter horse is better. Hitch heavy
horse to the shovel plow or cultivator
and start him up and down the corn
field, with scarcely room between the
three-foot rows for him to put his pom
derous feet, walking on two rows at
once and breaking down more corn in
each than a little horse could in one,
and you will quickly decide that he
was not made for that kind Of work.
Besides, to carry 1000 pounds Of sur
plus, useless horsef1esh over the soft
ground Of the cornfield takes a great
deal of energy, and that energy has to
be supplied by an extra amount of
feed. Then through the long winter
months Of idleness it requires a great
deal of grain to keep the heavy horses
huge body in repair.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-03-18
Early Flowing for Corn.

Some Of the best corn crops of last
season, a season Of poor crops in all
corn sections, as rule, were from soils
plowed in March or early April. Ex-
perience has shown that this early
spring blowing is to be preferred to
fall plowing, for corn. The stable
manure is hauled to the field during the
winter as made, and in March, as soon
as the ground can be worked, 1t is
plowed, the plowing being rather shall
low. This plowing Is done in the regu-
lar manner, but nothing more is done
until complaining time, when the
ground is further prepared for the crop.
The seeding is done with drills and
the summer system Of cultivation start
ed with the weeder early and continued
as long as possible. The plan is COM
paratively new in some localities, but it
has brought good results, and is well
worth irving,
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-03-18
Before God Learned How.

containing pictures of various animals.
Mamma, who made camels?" he
asked.
"God, my DEAR" replied the mother.
"Many years ago people used them in
stead of horses"
''That must have been before God
learned how to make horses" COM
mented the little fellow
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-03-18

Jonah's Own Discovery.
Teacher-Johnnie, can you tell me
who first discovered whalebone?
Johnnie (promptly)-Yes'm.- Jonah.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1902-05-31
Ms. shannon. Fable

Winona Shannon is said to be de-
veloping into q writer Of fables. Here
is n Of Miss Shannon's most recent
efforts:
There was once a great actress who
had for years been on intimate terms
of acquaintance with q very convent
ent sore throat.
Zone day the great actress was
walking in the fields when she saw a
savage bull approaching her at a BUSH
nesslike gait. She tried to scream for
help, but the throat. which had never
up to that time been really sore. sud
denly struck for shorter hours, and re-
fused to speak above a whisper.
why do you thus fail me in my
hour Of need?' asked the great actress
in despair.
Because. answered the sore
throat, you used me SO often when
my services were not needed that l
think it Is just about time ! got q
whack at the game.'"
This fable teaches that poor excuse
is a friend indeed.-New York Times
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1902-05-31
DR.. Burton. A,r.hlp.

DR.. Burton, who is now conducting
experiments under the British war Of
flee, claims to have completed an air.
ship better than that Of Santos
Dumont. 1t is a combination Of bal
loon and a%reoplanes. By a system
of aeroplanes and framework be-
tween the balloon and the car he
claims to have conquered the. problem
Of rising and descending without hav-
ing ecourse to dropping ballast or
emitting gas. An automatic water
balance apparatus keeps the airship
horizontal. Even passengers walking
about the deck would not disturb the
ships equilibrium. The balloon will
be 100 feet long, eighty feet more than
Dumont's, with a deck Of 104 feet.
driven by six propellers Of entirely
new form set i9emotion in pairs by
three petrol motors 45-horse power
each. One pair is placed in the bow,
one amidships, and one in the stern.
The three motors, fed by ZIG gallons of
petrol distributed in thirty-six cylin-
ders, will weigh 1,150 pounds. The
ship will carry seven men and will
be capable Of remaining in the air
forty-eight hours, maintaining a speed
of twenty-five miles an hour.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1902-05-31
when tn. Besf, Trust squeezes.

when the Beef Trust squeezes.
A party Of sightseers stood in the
gallery overlooking the floor Of the
produce exchange, says the New York
Commercial Advertiser. One young
woman in the party. %supposing she
was viewing the stock exchange.
asked her city friend which crowd on
the floor represented the bulls and
which the bears. The city friend In
formed her that the bulls and bears
were In the south end Of the building.
Where Is the beef trust?" asked
the young woman.
1.-THE beef trust doesn't do business
here.' was the reply. n
Il am so sorry, said the young
woman; we were told that the beef
trust was squeezing, and We did want
to e IT." #E& ssi4 is.s
."'The beef trust, answered the city
friend, is very human. It prefers u
do It's squeezing on the quiet"
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1902-05-31
DERIVATION 81 WORD .LoAFran

Originally Came from spsin-Josh Bl.
liags' Famous Dennition.
The question as to the derivation OF
that word "loafer." which Mr.. Rhodes
will is likely to elevate from the slang
dictionary, is already getting acute.
Despite "Notes and Queries" and the
derivation. through Hans Breitman,
from that lofer (lover) Of yours al
ways hanging around here" the word
is Spanish, and, like galoot, and 9TH
ers, came from Mexico, through Tex
as to the states. It is the Anglicized
or Americanized form of gallofero, ian
idle, lazy %vagabond," passing as any
student Of Bartlett knows. through
glofero, and glofer, to lofer, and end
ing up with the pretense Of having
something English or American about
it, as ~"loafer," a man who has no casu-
al connection with the loaf he does not
earn. p.
OF the loafer, Josh Billings has given
in his"Alminax' a description which
would have gone to Cecil Rhodes
heart, as of the type of man who was
not to inherit Dalham or any other
property that was his, If he could help
it: 'The loafer is a thing who is will
ing to be despised for the privilege of
abusing others. He occupies all grades
in society, from the Judge on the bench
clear down to the ragged creature who
leans against lampposts and fights
flies in August. He has no pride that
is worthy and no delicacy that any
body could hurt. During his boyhood
he kills cats and robs hens nests. Dur
ing middle life he begs all the tobacco
he uses and drinks all the cheap whis-
ky he can get at somebody else's ex-
pense, and does die at last" The loafer
in America would seem to be more
pronounced than his British brother, If
we take MI. Henry w. Shaw-Josh
Billings-as authority.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1902-05-31

Rev. Mr.. Bayard, the rector, came run
ming to the spot in great excitement
and ordered them to stop.
Paine's friends then remembered
that in his will he had reserved for
himself twenty square feet on his
farm as q place Of burial; but, un-
fortunately. he had omitted to name
a location. They, proceeded to the
farm to. carry out his last wish, but
Nehemiah Purdy, who had acquired
possession, refused to allow them on
the premises. In this dilemma they
were obliged to bury Paine's body in
the right Of way to his farm.
The present monument is supposed
to mark the spot where the body was
buried, but those who raised the shaft
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1902-05-31

~ SA, oSS0 0NSSA NA01 "OWA01
Aunt Judy, "Ah'll frail yo' to. q
FRAGILE, end!"
light. mo, All d. know bout dat,
elder" she said thoughtfully. The
water was cold and the poles were
anything but comfortable, but Aunt
Judy wal built of sterling stuff. Ma
poleon began to hedge.
wat was you gwineter promise,
aunty?" he inquired with affected care
lessness. \
well, eff you-oh. All d. know
neider,"
Go on, aunty."
"Well, looky here, boys, II youth
only help you po' ole aunty out. Ah'll
get you all the doughnuts and crack
Inns you kin hole"
'Nossir," said Napoleon. "You got
ter promise not to tech a ha'r O. our
heads TO we let's you out" There
was a long pause.
Then Aunt Judy said, well. boys,
guess Anil halter do it."
In ten minutes she was out, foun-
dering on the grass. They helped her
to her feet. 4.
"Now, boys" said she, still retaining
a grasp on each muddy black paw, "Ah
amt gwine tech a, hair on you heads.
but Ise des natchelly gwineter frail
you backs till de world looks level"
Old Uncle Pete, owe in the clearing
behind the trees, stopped hoeing and
listened for a moment to sounds which
came floating on the evening breeze.
"Huh! Pears lax dem folks oveh
todes de bayou is always a-killin'
hawgs", he said to himself.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1902-05-31

found that his friends body had been
stolen. On making this discovery he
hurried to New Rochelle and in
formed the constable Of what had
happened. That oficer Immediately
organized a party to pursue the grave
robbers.
Anticipating the possibility Of pur
suit Goblet urged his team to a brisk
trot, and ratified over the rough high.
way al a great rate of speed. For he
knew that II he could cross the Kings
Bridge without detention he would be
safe from arrest, az he would be in
New York County, beyond the turis.
diction Of the officers of Westchester.
But the constable was hot on his
trail. A mile, from Kings Bridge pur-
suers and pursued came within hear
ing of each other. The constable's
men could plainly distinguish the
sound Of wagon wheels ahead, and.
realizing that those with the body
were making every EFFORT to escape
them. whipped their horses to 9 fu-
.rious gallon. But It was in yain./. Mr..
.NOUUOIS 1CoS4SU IAC hlu60 OTlO80
ahead Of them, and dashed over 1t to
safety, just q they came galloping up
on their painting steeds.
Numerous theories have been ad.
vanced q to Mr.. Cobbett's DISPOSE.
ton OF .Paine's body. The corpse 10
supposed to have been taken to Eng
land, Mr.. Goblet intending to demand
its interment In Westminster Abbey.
But the people OF England refused to;
receive, It. and MI. Corbett. It 10 said.
to avoid arrest threw It into the
Thames. Others say that the body
was taken to the East indies, The.
mort probable story Of Ill, however,
10 that which credits Goblet With
having given the body decent burial
IN srenots NnSlish churchyard. ~
though some authorities ~ it nsstos
sMHyra1es-1sswTHos Fork Tt1be1 s
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they had done. hesitated about LEAVING
the stronghold Of the log. but soon
saw that Aunt Judy was wedged fast
between the two poles, and her ample
extremities were we'll fastened in ;he
mud. -
What's the matter? Is you fell
through" inquired Napoleon. sam
kept a discreet silence.
NO, 1se asleep in bed" howled Aunt
Judy. wen All gets outer dis. AhJl
Trail you to a FRAGILE end. OATS wat
All will"
Now, Aunt Judy" said Napoleon.
what you gwineter frail us TO-? Some
body mus er fixed dat bridge whist
we vas er sittin' on de log. l believe
you mus er fixed it to ketch us on de
way back.
Aunt Judy gasped. Such impudence
was too much.
"say,Aunt Judy" went on Napoleon,
Re we helps you out, will you let us
on on de whippin'?"
"Nossir," said Aunt Judy. "Ah'Il
des maui you"
Den stay dere," said Napoleon, get
ting holder as he realized that Aunt
Judy was really helpless, and with a
nod to the awe-struck Sam. he started
back to the log. 1t vas too much.
"'Poleon, oh, 'Poleon! Come help
you po' old aunty QUIT"
But the wicked Napoleon was steely
hearted as his namesake. He could
not afford to let mere emotions inter-
fere with future prospects.
EFF you'll help me out, 'Poleon, Anil
mex a promise"
What" said Napoleon, eagerly.
Aunt Judy was beginning to see a
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1902-05-31
Relics of the Lire and
DEATH Of Thomas Paine

fL.Z-~- r -E'Hl ALIgE-- -LE
In the suburbs of New Rochelle, fac
ing North street on the east, stands a
granite obelisk. Enclosed by a stone
fence and overshadowed by trees. 1t
is the monument erected in 1889 in
memory of Thomas Paine, the author
of THE Rights Of Man." Common
Sense" and 1.-The Age of Reason" by
the Paine Historical Society.
The ideas expressed In his age of
Reason" raised a storm of popular in
dignation against him. and when on
his return to America he took up his
residence among the descendants of
the stern Huguenots of New Rochelle
they treated him as an outlaw.
Indeed, he appears to have enjoyed
little comfort in his country home. He
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1902-05-31

made an error as to the exact loca-
ton. About thirty feet south Of it
stands a f1ourishing hickory tree, and
near it are the stumps of two locust
posts. Years ago, the father of Henry
M. Lester, of New Rochelle, placed
these posts, with two others that have
long since rotted away, at the four
corners of Paine's grave, and subse-
quently the hickory tree sprouted
from the mound.
Several years after it's burial the
corpse was taken from it's grave by
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idol lay in a neglected wayside grave.
without a stone to mark its location,
he was indignant. and resolved to take
It away and give 1t honorable burial
elsewhere.
For this purpose he engaged the
services of two negroes, and, having
sworn them to secrecy, awaited a IA
vorable opportunity to put his project
in execution. Selecting q dark, cloudy
night, he hired q team and wagon,
and, accompanied by the negroes,
started out from New York. They
reached Paine's grave shortly before
midnight and disinterred the body.
AS they were In the act of lifting
the comm into the wagon, Andrew Con-
tant of New Rochelle, a former friend
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1902-05-31
HICKORY TREE WHICH HAS oRowN our or PAlNe,s GRAVE.

William Goblet, the celebrated politi-
cal writer, who at the time was an e.
lie from England, on account Of an at
tack he. had made upon the British
government. Goblet was one of
Paine's most ardent admirers. He
regarded him as I'M Of the greatest
of English writer's. So. on coming an
exile to America, he made q pilgrim
age to Paine's grave, to show the deep
veneration in which he held his mem
DRY. On finding that the body of his
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1902-05-31

had lost his wife the year following
his marriage to her, and had separat-
ed from a second by mutual consent.
He afterward had as a companion a
Nine. de Bonneville, a Frenchwoman,
whose husband had been ruined in
England by publishing "The Rights of
Man." With her two sons, she, ac-
companied Paine to America and took
up her abode with him on his farm.
Here they lived a life of the strict
est %seclusion; for, although Paine was
occupied in a variety of active pur-
suits, his attacks upon religion had
greatly narrowed his circle of &C.
quaintances and rendered him an OBJ
ject of aversion to his neighbors. I'm
der the leadership of the clergy, they
instituted a crusade against him with
the avowed object of driving him from
town.
His last days were spent in his city
house, Nc. 2O3 Blocker street, New
York. 1t was q melancholy ending to
a brilliant and active areer Suffer
ing from a complication of disorders
brought on by his habitual intemper-
ance, he dragged out the last hours of
his life propped up in a chair by a
window, porting over the pages of a
book and drinking at frequent inter-
walls from a bottle OF brandy that
stood on a table at his elbow. 1t is
said that as death approached, the
noise in busy Blocker street caused
him e%xcruciating agony, and it was
found necessary to remove him to a
house in Grove street, where he
breathed his last on June 8, 1909. #
Paine had been born among Quak-
ers in England, SO permission was
asked to bury his body in the Gem
etery Of the Society of Friends. This
was refused on account of his de-.
istical writings, and it was found nee
essary to seek elsewhere for a place
Of burial. At last permission vas OBJ
tanned to bury the body in, the grave
yard Of Trinity Episcopal church, New
Rochelle, and the vestrymen ordered
a grave to be prepared for its recep-
ton. The funeral procession started
from New York and proceeded along
the old Boston Post Road, and, as it
passed by several churches along the
route, was greeted with demonstra-
lions Of intolerance that it is dificult
for the present generation to under
stand. The clergymen, seeing the
procession coming, ordered vigorous
ringing of the church bells to indicate
their joy in the great deist's death.
On arriving at New Rochelle the
procession went to the little cemetery
Of Trinity Church. where the grave
diggers were awaiting its arrival by
the side Of the grave they had pre-
pared. The comm was lifted from the
hearse and lowered into the cay
ton; but, as the ~gravediggers were in.
the act Of covering 1t with earth the
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of Paine's, happened to drive by, and,
noticing the glimmer of lanterns by
the roadside, stopped his horse. He
saw the shadowy figures of three men
moving mysteriously about Paine's
grave, and a team and wagon waiting
close by. Presently the men lifted an
oblong object from the ground, de-
posted it in the wagon, mounted to
the seat and drove off in the direction
of the city.
According to this story Mr.. Contant
then hastened to Paine's grave and
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.o@11T@<l~x1
a FLORIDA WATERLOO
By w. II.

" copytshs 1907, Daily Story Pub. ca :
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-07-03
BRYAN NOT MENTIONED
Georgia Democrats Give Promi.
hence to Liquor Question
Commend Their Senators.

Atlanta, Ga, July Georgia Demo-
Gratis, in state convention here today,
nominated the following ticket:
For governor, Joseph NJ Terrell.
For secretary of state, Phil Cook.
For treasurer, Robert e Park
For comptroller, General A. w.
Wright
For attorney general, John c. Hart.
For prison commissioner, Thomas
Fason.
For commissioner of agriculture. o.
B. Stevens.
For state school commissioner, w. B.
Merritt.
For associate justices of the supreme
court, A. j. Cobb and Samuel Lumpkin.
For United States senator, A S Clay.
The action of today's convention rati-
fed the results of primaries held
throughout the state June s.
The platform deals almost entirely
with state issues, prominence being
given to the liquor question The Kan
sis City platform is passed over in
silence, and the name of w. ]. Bryan
is not mentioned,
Upon the liquor question, the plat
form says:
perance should be a political issue in
this state. The best interests of the
people, as well as the furtherance of
that cause, demand the complete sepa-
ration of this question from party poll
ties. we approve the wisdom and safe
ty Of the non-partisan policy which
characterizes our present legislation
upon this subject"
The services of Senators Bacon and
CLAW and of the Georgia delegation in
| congress are commended and approved.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-07-03
VESSELS NOT SIGHTED
St. Paul Brings News That
Neither of the Missing Steam
erS Have Been Found.

San Francisco, July 2-The Alaska
Commercial cOmpany's steamer st.
Paul arrived this morning from Cape
Nome with news Of the steamers Port
land and Jeanie, which does not agree
with the report received here through
the steamer Centennial at Port Town
send two days ago.
The report now is that the revenue
cutter Thetis was spoken in Bering
straits on June Is; that she had then
been out ten days and had seen moth
ing of the ice-imprisOned vessels.
Everything that the st Paul tells OF
the ships is at variance with the Cen
tenniaI advices. The fact that the
former left Nome on June %, two days
after the Centennial did, would make
her report seem more reliable. and be-
sides. she belongs to the same people
who own the Portland
The whaling bark William F. Bailey,
Captain Cottle. arrived at Nome on
June 20 and reported that natives of
the Diomedes islands told him that the
whaling bark Belvedere, the steamer
Jeanne and a passenger steamer sup
posed TO be the Portland. drifted
through the straits between July 1 and
g. the whaler passing on the LIST, the
Portland on the 5th and the Jeanne on
the Sth.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-07-03
TROOPS KILL RIOTERS
Russian Strikers Wreck Factories
in the Name of the
Gar.

London, July IA dispatch to the
Reuter- Telegram company from St
Petersburg says there have been labor
riots for the past few days at Rostov-
ONION, in the province of Ejatrinso-
Law, southern Russia There have been
numerous collisions between the troops
and the rioters. The troops fired and
many of the rioters We're killed or
wounded.
The outbreak at Rostov-on-Don, con-
tinues the Reuter- correspondent, some
what resembles the peasant riots in the
central provinces of Russia in the early
spring. The leaders of the last riots
were strangers in the districts
They were dressed in fantastic uni
forms and adorned with decorations.
They proclaimed themselves agents of
the 4czar, and preached the destruc-
ton of all machinery which reduced
the number of laborers and brought
the masses to starvation. A fanatical
mob, infiamed with this idea, declared
war on the factories in the name of the
car, and had already wrecked many
manufacturing establishments by the
time the troops were called out.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-07-03

q EATTLE, Wash, July 2.-Advices re-
ceived from Olympia tonight state
~ that Tracy, the escaped Oregon con-
Wet. stole a gasoline launch this morning
at south Bay and started no the sound.
The launch is the largest of the KIND on
Puget sound and has 800 gallons of gaso-
line. or enough for a 1,0oo-mile run. Be
fore starting, Tracy said he intended lir-
ing a few shots at the penitentiary on
Mcneil island. He said that he had muir
dered Merrill, but the statement Is not
believed He gave as the reason for the
alleged deed that Merrill was growing
faint-hearted Tt is believed, however.
that the latter is in the vicinity of his
sisters home at Shelton
Tracy. according to advices, must nave
nassed through Olympia about midnight
At o. clock this morning he appeared at
the pIant of the Capital City Oyster COM
pany at South Bay and entered the of1lee
occupied by Horatio Alling, one OF the
employees Another employe, Wlil Latl-
ridge was in the house Tracy tod VINO
he was and began to prepare his break
fast the two men being warned to keep
u1iet. While Tracy was cooking. his food,
crank Scott and John Lessenger. also
en1ploves of the company, entered The
convict then made the four stand with
their faces to the wall, holding up thelr
hands At this jucture Captain Clark OF