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Reseedinq the Plains,

The reseedins of the plains grasses,
while important. is no light task. The
cattle and sheep herder on wild lands
cares nothing about the future. Find
ing good feed, he continues to overpas-
ture and overrun. until the earth is
tramped solid and the plants virtually
eaten down to the roots, and then
seeks pastures new. going on with the
work OF destruction over and over
again. The soil. also, produces less
and less. until at length the land be-
comes a bare desert, and the i'll effects
OF this savage procedure is felt hun
dreds and hundreds Of miles away. In
b summer the parched and heated
earth gives rise to cyclones and ST.
moor winds that scorch and wither
vegetation even to the Mississippi riv-
er and eastward. It will take more
years to again cover the plains with
grass than 1t has taken the reckless
squatter herds to feed 1t of. In fact,
1t can be done. unless stock can
be kept OF the seeded ground for
three years. or at least SO carefully
pastured the second and third year as
to leave the ground fairly covered with
foliage. -Jonathan Periam in Inter
Ocean.
The Columbus journal., 1902-07-30

In q gown that is q vision
Noted for its close adhesion
TO the figure it Is privileged to
pinch
To the figure in its shaping
Like the hOurglass 1t is aping.
Swelling out in both directions from
the cinch.
With her soft eyes proudly blink
ing.
As the pretty queen is thinking
OF the envious admiration she will
win,
Charming Bessie looks so queenly
As she gracefully. serenely.
Lifts her skirts and mounts her auto
for q spin.
Down the avenue she's sailing
While . film of steam is trailing
In her wake q fleecy Is a bridal veil:
At the knob her foot Is banging
And the gong is loudly changing
At pedestrians who turn a deathly
pale!
See them rushing helter-skelter.
Seeking for q place of shelter.
While the fair 'mobilist's features
flash q grin,
For it is her sweet opinion
None dares question her dominion
When she's put upon her auto for q
spin.
In q reckless way she forces
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the celebrated Tayernier diamond.
one a the crown jewels Of King
Louis XV.-tAe Kohinoor Of the
French crown.
The Tavernier diamond was bought
In India In the early part Of the eight
eenth century by . French traveller.
Il was said 1t that time to have been
one Of the royal jewels Of the Pha-
raOhs Of Egypt At any rate. it was
brought to France and sold to the
king.
In 1872 It was seized by the revOlu-
tionists along with the other crown
jewels and placed in . strong box in
the Gardemeuble. From there It was
stolen more than 100 years ago. and
no trace Of 1t has ever been found. In
1880. however. q trader named Dan
lei EliasOn appeared In London with
. blue diamond about half the size
Of the missing Tavernier gem. Of
which he could give no history. This
was sold to Henry Thomas Hope.
ancestor of the present Lord Hope.
In 1874 there turned up In Geneva
another blue diamond. ext city match
Ing the Hope diamond In size and
color. and experts believe this gem.
known as the Brunswick diamond.
and the Hope diamond. are the halves
Of the lost Tavernier jewel.
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The boys played tricks on one an
other even when under fire." says .
writer In the Chicago Inter Ocean. On
occasion after u line of battle
had been formed the color-bearer
stuck the flagstaff in . hole In q
stump, behind which he sought shelter
from the bullets of the enemy's sharp
shooters. For . time the rebel fire
centered on that stump, OF rather on
the nag waving from 1t, while all the
time the cOl0r-bearer. curled up behind
the stump. smiled at the efforts OF the
rebs to cut his nag down.
Soon the firing became regular and
the boys relaxed from the high tension
of the opening session. The color-bear-
er, rs the boys settled down to regu.
lar business. drowsed OF to sleep, his
nag still flying from the stump. I. N.
Cook, now of Guilford, ILL.,, thought
the c.-b. was having a Iretty easy time
and he crept up. lifted the flagstaff
out of the stump and let the colors
fall to the ground. The boys yelled,
Raise the flag.' and the cOlOr-bearer.
waking up, crawled around to the
rebel side of the stump, caught up the
nag, examined it for bullet marks.
and finding none. was greatly mysti'
Ho6
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devise some plan by which they could
be pulled rapidly. The roots do not
grow deep and It does not take great
power to pull the average stump. A
machine which was set up over the
stump and worked by hand was first
tried. but It proved to be too slow
work, and 1t was too cumbersome to
move. As a cheap and efficient means
to aid in this work, I devised q simple
stump-pulling tackle. consisting of two
triple blocks and 800 feet Of oneinch
rope. One block 70 anchored to q sol.
i'd stump and the other is attached to
the stump 1t Il desired to pull. When
secured In this way the oxen are
hitched to the rope and driven up
slowly. and the stump usually comes
out without trouble. The method of
using this tackle is srown in Fig. 4.
'"The illustrations show the method
Of attachment when the stumps are
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THAT story Of Sergeant David u.
Nc Collough," said the captain, re
minded M that I was almost at Nc
Cullough's side when he was shot. He
was carrying the colors of the Fifty
second Ohio when he met the assault
On Kenesaw. June %, 1864. He was
ut the abattis in front of the main
rebel works when he vas shot through
the shoulder. AS one of the color
guards caught him and lowered him to
the ground McC ollough handed Major
J. +. Holmes. then in command of the
Ffty-second, the colors and said:
Take them. major; they never
touched the ground
The major grasped the colors, gave
them to one of the corporals of the
color guard, and led the way through
the distractions. At first the colors
planted on top Of the rebel works.
When they we're shot down and the
Aagsta6 s~plintered, the boys cut a can
teen in strips, repaired the stan, and
planted the col0rs in the loose earth
1t the foot Of the works. remem.
Der. that . rebel captain vas killed
In trying to get the nag while 1t was
On top Of the works. and when the
burial parties went out between the
lines to look after the dead. the adju-
tant Of the Rock City guards told me
that he saw Cob Dan NcCook sa top
q the works, and said further that
o@cen and men we're amazed to see
him there and to hear him coolly de-
mand their surrender. For q minute
no one fired. Then came the fusillade
that fatally wounded the colonel
Chicago Inter Ocean :
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The Grand Army
Now York Writer Points Out
What He Considers q MiSt0l

The forcible letter of Mr.. Victor
Hagemann, which you published yes
terday on the editorial page Of the
Times. strongly and clearly points out
the great error which the Grand Army
OF the Republic commits in admitting
to its membership every n who at
any time during the civil war las we
nov politely term it, was in the mill
tary service Of the United States for a
period Of thirty days.
: Under these liberal terms of admis-
sion thousands and tens of thousands
Of men belong to the Grand Army
and attain the highest positions in 1t
without having in the least degree
participated in the war or aided in the
suppression of the rebellion. Every
member of q militia regiment that
was hurriedly called into service for
Q brief period land which was passed
in Notifications or other duty far re-
moved from the field, has now bios
somed into q veteran and is associated
In the common mind with all the bat
ties and great campaigns of the war.
Men without the faintest knowledge of
actual war, who came within
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fifty miles of q battlefield or heard q
bullet whistle in their lives, command
Grand Army posts and are conspicu
u in the public view IS representa-
tive Grand Army men.
I have now before me the roster Of
a large and influential post having
about 500 members. By actual count
3O5 of them gained their membership
by the fact that they had belonged tc
militia regiments which were under
the national governments orders for
q few months, or even thirty days. but
saw service. All who know
these men and what constitutes their
ward record naturally Judge the Grand
Army and its veteran members by
them, and conclude, not unnaturally,
that its claims and character are UNI
founded and fictitious.
Let it reOrganize itself, classify its
members by their service and record
in the field, and then it can demand
and will surely receive the considera;
ton and public confidence which !
fear 1t does not now wholly possess
Tenth New Jersey, in New York
Times.
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cut high, or when they ire very small.
When the stumps are II inches in d.
ameter. OF when cut low 20 as to At
ford no leverage. We use . device of
two timbers about six feet high, fas-
tened together In the form of . letter
A. To the top Of this A IL attached q
chain or wire rope some four or I'VE
feet long and Terminating in q hook.
The A leans against side Of the
stump and the hook r. attached to q
large Ioot ON the other side. The
power Is then applied to the top of
the A, and ~ this is raised up the
stump il tilted over. This device sim
ply affords greater leverage than when
the block II secured directly to the
stump. as shown in the illustration.
The Columbus journal., 1902-07-30
Piano With a. History
Was Played Within tho Breastvvork.
During the Siogo of Vicksh,rr

A presentation of more than ordi-
nary interest was made in New Or
leans the other night, and thereby
hangs . story. Just after the fall of
vicksburg. when Gen. Sherman's
army was marching on Jackson, Gen.
Joseph e. Johnston made q determin-
ed stand in the suburbs of Jackson,
Miss. The famous Washington Artil-
lery Of New Orleans constituted q por-
ton of his forces. and they were sta
toned ut what was known as the
Cooper residence, two miles west of
the town. 1t was known that every
thing in the Cooper house would be
ruined II not burned. wherefore the
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Men who drive the vulgar horses
To skedaddle from the middle of the
street.
And she doesn't care q penny
For the blessings 60. which are
many.
That are fired at her with fervid vocal
heat.
And the wheelman whom she
grazes
Fill the air with dark blue blazes.
But for that she doesn't care q safe
ty pin:
To the curb they must go scOOtin'
Or she'll smash them sure as
sho0tin'
When she's burning up the roadway
on q spin.
She's of modest disposition
In her home. You'd think her mis-.
sion
On this planet was directed from
above:
Not q sweeter smile was ever
BY an angel flashed-nO, never.
And her eyes are gentle as the eyes
of dove.
But her traits SO meekly humble
From their base take a tumble
And a spirit of wild recklessness
creeps in
When she grasps the waiting lever
In a fit of scorching fever
And is on upon her auto for a spin.
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a Final Decision.

1t was while Judge CelOra f. Martin
Of the New York State Court Of Ap-
peals was on the Supreme Court
bench. says the New York Times. that
a self-important young lawyer was ar
guing a motion before him. firing of
the attorneys grandilOquence. Justice
Martin interrupted him and started to
render an adverse decision.
But your honor does not under
stand the case" still urged the attor-
ney. who saw that things we're not
coming his way. Permit me to ex-
plain the law. ! have here some of
the latest decisions of the Court of APP
peals in which il Is held"
Motion II denied with costs" again
interrupted the justice. Have you
any later decision than that.
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~sELF.PRoTEcTED PLANTS.
Southwestern Vegetation
Armed Or Armored.
Either

Southwestern Vegetation Either
Armed o. Armored.
Writing in The Century Of ths
Southwest (Arizona and New Mexico
particularly, Ray Stannard Baker has
this to say of the self-prOtected plants
of the desert spaces:
In the green hills one loves o lie
ON the grass. to brush against the
trees. to pick q twig here and there
and taste the tart sap. but the desert
allows no such familiarity Every
thing that lives within its confines Is
either armed or armOred. Every cac-
tus stalk is covered with a myriad
of spikes and hooks as sharp as
needles, that warn one to keep his
distance. Thread not on the cactus
with your heavy shoes ever for the
barbed spines will often pierce thick
leather; every rider of the plains has
had the experience of picking cactus
spines from his bare flesh. The mes
quit tree, which is a near relative to
the honey locust, Is covered with
thorns, SO that you trespass at your
peril; the cats claw strikes at you
o pass. tearing your clothing and
your skin. Even the agavcs
and the yuccas. the green foliage Of
which looks soft enough in the dis
are armed with leaves each III
which Is q double-edged sword with
a spear point. The leaves Of the
punches of bear grass.
which covers a thousand desert hills.
often are so stif. needle-pointed. and
that no animal ever rem
lures to touch them. Even the grease
wood and the strange paloverde tree
the green pole of the Mexicans. I
tree with branches, but with almost
invisible leaves-while having 40
yet know well how to protect
themselves. Break on q twfg Of either
and the smell of il that clings to your
will cure you OF further de-
side to meddle."
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piano. q handsome instrument for
those days, was picked up by the sol.
diers. and carried within the breast.
works. One Of the members of the
artillery company. in a spirit of reck
less fun. sat down to the piano and
played q lively air while the shot and
shells were whizzing all about him.
When the enemy came close he grab
bed up his gun and got in the firing
line. where he remained until the
Federals repulsed leaving several
hundred dead on the field, when the
daredevil young Louisianian resumed
the music. 1t is that battle-scarred
Old piano that was presented to the
Washington Artillery.
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The Famous Apple Tree

81 have carried from that day to this
. square inch of the apple tree Of Ap-
pomattox. which came to me In this
way: There was q general impression
that Grant and Lee met under an ap-
pie tree for their first informal talk
over the terms Of surrender, and the
particular tree vas guarded by both
Unionists and Confederates." says an
old soldier. But, as soldiers passed.
twig after twig was broken on, and
finally c~avalrymen broke of large
limbs rs they rode by. At this juno
ture . squad OF cavalry rode down on
the crowd about the tree. dismounted.
and two men proceeded to cut it
down. the chips flying out among the
The Columbus journal., 1902-07-30
The Feeding OF Hoas.


From Farmers Review: Last week
In travelling through our county I was
struck by the way the farmers hogs
T roofing up lots and pastures. At
CEDAR Hill Farm with over sixty hogs
OF all ages. there cannot be found q
SPOT that has been rooted up by the
hogs. When a hog is inclined to root
ne shows very plainly that he lacks
some food element to make him
healthy and contented. A hog must
nave q balanced ration Just as much
as q steer, COW or horse. l do not
think there is q farm animal that nays
such quick and good returns as q hog
that has his everyday food and care
well balanced. The brood SOW gives
us larger. healthier litters; the shoates
develop into fine hogs quicker, and
the whole transaction is one of pleas.
ure n satisfaction to the breeder and
feeder. One of the chief sources Of
profit we derive from our COWS is in
The large amount of skim milk We
have for the hogs. To increase the
milk quantity We r paying our neigh
bors 8 cents per gallon for their milk
that returns 4 pounds Of butter fat
per 100 pounds Of milk, we keeping
the skim milk. With this milk, plen.
ty OF rape pasture and gluten feed,
with a limited amount of corn. we are
making pork at q price that leaves us
a good pr0fit.-"Buff Jersey" Warren
County. Illinois.
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0eformed Chicks.

While the faults of incubation are
responsible for many Of the deformi-
tie found in the chickens. and un-
doubtedly weaken others in ways
which are not 80 apparent to us. one
cannot state that the chickens which
come from the egg In developed con-
dition and can eat ever die on account
OF weakness due to the incubation,
says q report Of the Rhode Island ex-
pertinent station. In my experience
30 far the weak chickens. when prop
erly handled, seem to have developed
and grown as rapidly as the stronger.
However, those which were Matched
incompletely developed or with Grip
pied members. as the legs or beak,
have not been able to survive in all
cases. Under the even temperature
system. however, the weaklings, when
separated into hovers by themselves,
grow Unexpectedly well, and may at
tain some weight. As q practical mat
ter, however, all such weaklings and
cripples should be destroyed as O
as Matched. To the poultryman who
can devote but little attention to them
they would prove an annoyance.
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Tricks of Soldiers
lndulsod In Boyish Practices
Even In the EAoo Of Deaf

He placed the colors again on the
stump and in a short time was asleep
again. Cook slipped up again and
dropped the flag on the ground. and
again the boys shouted, Raise the
nag and kept it up. They wanted the
color-bearer to expalin how the rebels
could shoot the colors out of the
stump and leave no bullet marks on
the stan. The cOlor-bearer replaced
the flag at great personal risk. and in
a few minutes seemed to be sound
asleep. But when Cook made . third
attempt to remove the nag from the
stump, the color-bearer. making Q
jump. landed squarely on Cooks back.
The two men clinched and were noon
engaged in q rough-and-tumble fight.
The colOr-bearer was swearing at the
top of his voice, our boys were yelling
in encouragement or derision, and the
rebels opened a furious fire on the
combatants. Finally some of our men
crept Up. separated the fighters. and
put the flag again in the stump. This
ended the incident, but not until years
after the close of the war did Cook
and the color-bearer become friends"
The man who talks but fails to act
---A2A
The Columbus journal., 1902-07-30

Prof. Behring. . noted German scien-
tist, has written . book on tubercu-
losis. in which he points out that the
disease in animals and in man il iden-
teal. He says that his book Is the re-
suit of six years trials in Marburg.
where he had the assistance Of two
other able physicians. He asserts that
the apparent difference in the bacilNi
In man and in animals arises from the
ability of the bacilli to accommodate
themselves to the organism in which
they live. The professor declares that
he has successfully ~inoculated cattle
with human virus and has thus pro-
duced fatal cases of the disease. He
believes that immunity may be re-
cured by vaccination. He regards this
as . great discovery.
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men who stood near. One of these
chips I put in my pocket, and I have
1t yet.
when the tree hail been cut down
the cavalrymen cut 1t in sections, and,
mounting their horses. carried all ou
toward headquarters. In five minutes
every chip and scrap had disappeared,
and the next day there was q great
hole where the tree had stood. the
relic-hunters digging down to get even
the smallest root branch. And, after
all, Lee did not surrender under the
tree, but rested under it while waiting
to hear from Grant, aud was met there
by Marshall and Babcock, who carried
Grants message to him"
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Methodo ct Removing Stumpo.
The clearing Of new land II . SCI
ence but little understood. For the
most part It u blindly pursued. This
II perhaps caused by lack OF general
Information on the subject readily OBJ
tainable BY the people that need It
most. The United States Department
Of Agriculture has taken up the mat
ter and has issued q bulletin on the
subject. From this bulletin We re-
produce q number Of cuts.
The first cut shows . stump ready
for blasting. the dynamite cartridge
being In position shown. It may be
placed even lower than this. but It Is
frequently very difficult to do DO. The
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lower It II placed. the better should
be the effects Of the blast.
Another method IL to hollow out q
pace in the soil under the stump and
place the cartridge in this. While the
stump IL not % thoroughly demolished
% In the other way, yet It II general
~ split enough to make its removal
possible.
In our second illustration We show
one method Of removing saplings by
the use Of q horse and chain. At time
of attempting removed by this meth
oc. the ground should be soft and
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Poultry Points Picked Un.

II . Ran wants to show birds he
must raise only good stock and that
In abundance. The man that raises
only . dozen birds . yeaf stands less
chance Of having winning birds than
does the man that can raise hundreds.
In that case he finds 1t easy to get
together . few exceptional birds. In
this connection We must remark that
in case the breeder is looking to con-
tests In the show room he will need
TO make study Of the points of birds
himself that he may when he goes to
the show take only his very best in
stead OF inferior stock.
Gull rtgidly. Always be on the look
out for the poorest specimens of birds
and get rid Of them as soon a. found
and as fast IS found. To permit the
culls to go right on producing more
culls or what should be culls IN a mis-
take. The best thing to do with culls
Is to send them to the butcher, and II
there is danger Of his selling them for
breeders send them to him dressed.
Hens should be made to lay when
eggs are high in price. This can be
done, but it requires attention to
something more than feeding. The
breeding must be looked after. The
hens must be raised from early spring
chicks and must be forced forward
from birth to maturity.
One should not attempt to winter
more fowls than can be comfortably
housed. Too many birds in q house
makes 1t extremely dificult to keep
the air pure or the floors clean. Lice
and disease are encouraged. The At
tempt to do this usually results in dis
aster Of some kind.
Eggs should be solI to private cus-
TONERS, II possible. ~ in that way the
farmer takes to himself tho middle
mans profits. Besides. private cus-
TONERS are usually well-to-do people
and IRE willing to pay . little more
than the usual customers Of grocery
stores.
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Prices for Poultry Products.

From Farmers Review: In a re.
cent issue the Farmers Review asked
its readers to report on the prices they
are receiving for poultry and poultry
products. In reply I will say. we are
receiving as follows: Eggs. Is cents;
hens, 3 cents per pound; broilers. &C
cordtng to size. LIN to Is cents per
pound. In Other words, We receive
within one and one-half cent per pound
OF the price quoted in the st. Louis
daily report Of the market Our coun-
ty Is traversed in every nook and cor.
ner BY huckster wagons. and the prod
ucts are paid for at the farmers door.
1t does not, therefore. pay the farmer
to take them to Marietta. L. Ham.
erton. Clark County, Illinois.
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A communication to The Farmers
Review from the Iowa Agricultural
college says: The department Of AMI
nal husbandry Of the Iowa Agricul-
tural college has succeeded in placing
. large number Of its. students on
prominent stock farms during tho
summer vacation. These positions arc
beneficial to the student in two ways.
First and most important, 1t affords
them an excellent opportunity Of IA
miliarizing themselves with the meth
DDS OF stock farming in vogue on the
most successful stock farms on the
continent. Secondly. they receive .
liberal compensation for their services,
which aids them in defraying their
expenses during the school year. Ex-
perience gained in this way serves the
q an excellent purpose in after
life. whether he decides TO return to
manage the home farm, to pursue ag-
r1cultural instruction work or to as
sumo the responsibility of managing q
STOCK farm. During the past few
the department has received q
great many requests for competent
men TO manage stock farms. Some Of
these positions have been filed. but
SO far the demand has been greater
than b supply. In the future. how
ever. b college should be in q Do
sition to supply men exceptionally
well qualified for this line Of work.