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pRESTnENT DTAZ
PRESIDENT DIAZ.
The Mexican Executive, Though
Aged, is a Tireless Worker.

Washington Post: 81 I'M inclined
to think that if our president were to
cease his routine of hard work he would
die" remarked Mr.. Juan Cortiza of the
City of Mexico, who is To- in this city.
"At half-past 8 every morning General
Diaz goes to his Office and works until
about 1870 p. m. At 4:40 he goes back
again, and scarcely ever leaves before IL
and often not until midnight. His time
is spent in the hardest sort of labor,
and the president would be miserable
# he could not carry out the daily pro-
gram.
THAT is the reason why, in my opin-
ion, he will never make any trip to for
eign countries. A journey of any mag
uitude would break into his settled
habits. He is a remarkable man in his
personal habits. He takes no intoxi-
eating liquors, and is never known to
partskke OF food at a banquet. Wheth-
er he will serve another term as pres
ident rests with himself. The people
want him to stay in Office as long as he
lives.
THE City of Mexico is being made
into a beautiful capital, much after the
fashion that Ex-Governor Shepherd em.
ployed in Washington. Lately blocks
of houses were tori down, and the cost
ly National theater, a handsome build
ing of large capacity, demolished in
order to afford easy entrance to the
Alameda, the great public promenade.
| Some grumbling was occasioned, but
the government will construct a new
! and more magnificent theater than the
old one. and in the end the improve
ment will justify all the expense"
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-04

There is to take place in Miller coun-
ty, New, this month what is described
with pardonable excess of s~uperlatives
as a most unique picnic" In 1855 a
man named Wilson died, and was
buried in a ave with a demijohn OF
whisky in his coffin. 1t was his dying
request that at the end of seven years
his coffin should be opened, the demt-
loan be brought out, and at the mouth
of the cave where he lay buried his
friends should gather and enjoy SO
much dancing, feasting, drinking and
laughing that his spirit would join in
the revelry. The end of the seven years
came Just in the middle of the civil
war, and the demijohn and cave and
Wilson's ,ast reque,t were forgotten
Since tn. end of the war Miller coun-
ty people have been planning to hold a
picnic. a. which the demijohn should
be opened. but the idea has never been
carried out. Nova grandson OF VIII
sons living at Brumley, Miller coun-
ty, has taken the matter. up and pro-
poses to hold a picnic, to which all the
people of Miller county are invited.
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ODD BOOSTERS FROM JAPAN.
Two Specimens With Eleven-Foot
Tails Now Here.

Japan raises not only fully developed
trees a few inches in height, but also
ROSTERS with tailfeathers IL feet long.
There is one known case of a bird with
an 1S-foot tail, but 10 or IL feet is the
average.
The American Museum of Natural
History, in New York, has just received
four specimens of the long-tailed fowls,
two cocks and two hens. The tails OF
the two cocks are each II feet long and
those of the hens are about eight inches
long.
Although undoubtedly descended
from domestic fowls intended for poul-
try, the l~ong-tailed birds are of no
value except for museum collections
and to show what can be done by selec-
ton in bredeing. The exact origin of
the breed isn't known, although it has
been traced as far back as 100 years
ago.
At that time Japanese raisers in
Shinowara, in the province of Tosa,
produced these cocks and hens as curl
osities by mating birds with unusually
long tails and keeping up the process.
The proper name of the fowl, derived
from the place of its probable origin, is
S~hinowara-to.
The breeding of these birds is now
carried on principally in Kochi, in the
same province where the fanciers get
SIS for q cock with a 10-foot tail and
s25 for every bird with a tail longer
than 10 feet. The hens are o foI
$3.50. f,
The cocks not only have abnormal
tails, but the body feathers growing
from the shoulders of a good specimen
are about four feet in length.
The hens lay in the spring and fall
and each bird produces about 80 eggs
a e She isn't allowed to hatch them
herself, as that might muss her tai
and in course of time cause the breed to
deteriorate. The mental work Of sitting
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-04
AT THE CORONATION.
The Mistaken Idea Entertained by .
Gentleman From America.

Judge: The gorgeous procession had
passed.
The blare of trumpets and the throb-
bling of the drums died away in the dis
lance.
The gayly-caparisoned horses capered
and curveted beneath their knightly
riders.
Slowly the British crowds dispersed.
while the STRENGTHENING department
came out to sweep up the dropped his.
Come on, papa" urged the Ameri-
can girl; "it is all over"
Not yet, my child" he muttered.
Surely a h%oarse-voiced mar will yet
appear to that gentlemanly
agents will pass among the audience
to sell tickets for the grand concert and
minstrel performance which forms q
fitting finale to the big show"
Alas, poor man! He had seen SO
many of them at home, and could not
imagine that royal circuses were any
different
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is done by an ordinary bird.

is done by an ordinary bird.
The life of the bird is about 8 years.
He never loses his tail feathers or the
long body feathers by moulting.
The cock roosts on a bamboo perch
near the top of a narrow cage 10 feet
in height, with openings at the top for
light and air. The bottom of the cage
is kept dark, for a light below would
tempt the rooster to hop down and ruin
his tail in a snarl. i.HHHl
He is washed once a month and taken
out of the cage nee in two days for an
airing with an attendant holding up the
end of the tail to save it from being
soiled or mussed.
The long-tailed fowls are fed on rice
and greens and they drink a great deal
of water. About all of their strength
goes into their quilts.
Two of the specimens at the Ameri-
can Museum of Natural History are
snow-white and the other two are red
dish-brown, similar in color to game
cocks.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-04
Got Rid of the Hired Man.

A friend who has about so acres IN
crops to care for and who usually keeps
one hired man to assist him is get
ting along without help this season and
doing pretty we'll at 1t, too. He keeps
two teams of horses, and he went and
bought a gang pillow which requires
the two teams. He got a rs foot drag
and rugged a little cart behind 1t, so
that he rides all day. He will use a
hay loader in the field and a hay fork
at the barn. His wife has agreed to
milk the two cows and look after the
garden and drive the horse on the pull
ley when he fills the barn with hay, in
consideration of not having a hired
man in the home to provide for, and,
while he may not have wholly solved
the problem this year, he says that he
will so shape his work another season
as to be independent of hired help. even
though he does not do quite so big a
business,
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-04
GROWTH OF PosToFFICEs.

An interesting pamphlet on the post
Offices in the United States has lately
been issued by the postofice depart
ment at Washington. 1t shows a won
derful growth in this department n
is indisputable evidence of the expan-
sion Of the country.
We CLEAN, fromrthe pamphlet that in
1859 there were only 75 ~postoftices es-
tablished, the length of the post routes
being 2,275 miles and the gross reve-
u of the department being only ST.
$40. The expenditures for the same
year were 81, $3.50 and of this only ST.
657 were paid in salaries to postmasters.
There were in 1901 1854 postoffices
in operation, 81, sos miles Of post
routes, 466, lac, 059 miles of mail ser
ice performed. The gross revenues OF
the department were Sill, 631 1913, the
expenditures $115, 039, 607, and $751;
113, $50 were paid as compensation TO
postmasters.
From June 80, 1S47, to June 30, 1851,
4,6O3, 200 postage stamps were issued,
while in the single year Of 1901 1929
273, 696 stamps were used by the peo-
pie of the United States.
In 1853, the year in which stamped
envelopes were first issued, 5000, OOC
were used, while in 1901 the total was
TIP, S39, 600.
The first years issue Of postal cards
-1S73-numbered 1904, 900, while in
1901 659, 614, 800 were issued.
The registry system was started in
1856, and in that year the registered
pieces numbered 629, 1922. In 1901 they
numbered 20,S14,50
In 1865 money orders to the amount
of 81, 360,1 2 were issued, while in 1901
the total amounted to $274,546, 067.
The number of pieces of matter of al
kinds mailed increased from 800 ,OO(
in 1890 to 7,424, 800, 1929 in 1901.
What a quarter of a century hence
will show in this department! i
nromiseS to continue to expand.
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Corn for FODDER Crop.

fodder crop. It's a big thing and hard
to beat. We prefer the fore part of
June for planting. Drill in a bushel
of seed per acre DIETER more than
less, plant regulation width and aim
to give the crop two civilizations. There
will be nubbins on the stalks so plant
ed, the stalks will be stall and slim and
may be cut, bound and shocked with a
corn harvester. and IL properly put up
an acre of good corn land will thus fur
nish four tons or more of the best fod-
der on earth, every article of which
will be eaten by the stock. Where the
land a be spared this Is ever a better
way than to cut up the field corn, as
it is so much nicer to handle. Try it
for the dairy.
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LOUISIANA LEVEES.
Thirty Millions Spent on Them by
the State Since the War.

Ainslee's Magazine: If you picture in
your mind an enormous sickle, having
a handle also at the hooked end, you
will have the Mississippi river as 1t
flows in yellow swiftness past the city
of New Orleans. A hundred miles to
the southwark it pours through it's
many mouths into the broad blue gulf.
In the crescent of the sickle. which
gives to the city its name. lies New
Orleans, and no sharp blade in the hand
of the husbandman thrust into the rip
ening grain was ever surer of its de-
structiveness than would be this vase
crescent of the Mississippi when once
it should be given sway. Sometimes
when the river is at food it's surface
will rise 20 feet above the level of the
city's streets. In the center of the
stream it will be nearly 200 feet deep,
with a powerful current, which, were 1t
not for the protecting levee about the
city, must sweep everything before 1t.
This giant river, which has made this
city possible, drains an enormous basin,
it's watershed being greater in area than
that of any other river on the globe.
The volume of water which flows past
the city is equal to $50, 000. 900 cubic
yards.
There are now nearly 1900 miles of
levees on the lower Mississippi. and
Louisiana alone has spent since the
civil wal nearly $50, 000, 900 on the river.
while it costs the state 81, 200, 900 n
ally to maintain its leyees. Strange as
it may seem, the deadliest enemies OF
these great earthen embankments are
the Insignificant crawfsh and the
muskrat, for. once the slightest hole is
made in the leyee by either OF them,
the relentless river finds its way
through and vast loss ensues.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-04

Aid in pastilles is the latest novelty.
The invention is the work of M. Georges
Jaubert, of the Ecole Polytechnique,
Paris, who has discovered a combina-
ton which, when dissolved in water,
gives off oxygen. Two pounds Of air
pastilles made of this combination will
produce $50 liters of oxygen, and the
benefit of the invention in theatres,
hospitals, mines and submarines Is evil
dent at a glance. 1t means, In fact.
that a trip to the seaside is to BE
bought from the nearest chemist and
enjoyed in ones WI room.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-04
Look Out for the Borer.

We have been on our annual hunt
for the borer in our orchard lately.
This little beast is by all odds the big
gest nuisance which the apple grower
has to contend with, the cause Of the
death Of more apple trees than all the
other enemies with which the apple
has to cope. Sometimes two and three
borers are found at work on one tree,
the tree as yet apparently in perfect
health, but unless the borers are Dug
out it is as surely doomed as though
it had been struck by lightning. Sharp
eyes and a sharp knife are the only
remedy we know that counts against
them.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-04
Poor Seeds.

We have run up against a lot of poor
garden seeds this spring-not one sort,
but several sorts. They were purchas-
ed from one of the most reliable seed
houses in the country, but for some I'M
known reason not over so pc. cent Of
the corn, beans, radishes, lettuce, beets,
peas, lima beans n parsnips had VI
tality enough to terminate. This is a
very aggravating thing. The COM
plant is quite general this spring and
may have its origin in the abnormal
heat and drouth of last season. In
this connection we might add that
there is less complaint of poor seed
corn for field planting than we have
ever known before.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-04

The Fl. F. Brammer Manufacturing
company of Davenport, Iowa, have a
unique puzzle souvenir, which they are
sending free to persons writing for
same. The Brammer company are
manufacturers of the o. X. Washing
Machine, one of the best machines ever
placed on the market. Any goods bear
ing this company's stamp may be relied
upon as being what the trade mark i'm
plies, 20. K" ~v.S-a14a9ElT-
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-04

We would like to see the agricultural
fairs and associations offer a good,
substantial premium Of, say, $50 for the
largest value of crops raised on a small
tract of land, from one to five acres.
The time Is fast coming when the soil
must be worked better and made more
productive, and small tracts cultivated
in competition for such a prize would
be splendid object lessons slong this
line.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-04

There is one advantage on the farm,
and it is no small one, either, and that
is the impossibility of there ever being
an organized strike among farm labor
ers. No business could be taken such
advantage of by laborers as that of the
farm, and it is fortunate that 1t is from
the nature Of things exempt.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-04

Kansas has passed an entire year
without.a BANK failure within its linn
it's. There are now $40 banks In the
state, of which 413 are state banks,
124 national banks and "a private
banks. The state and private banks
are under the control Of the state bank
commissioner. b.
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One Of them drew his months wages
and then went to town and blew his
money in a doggery. When he started
for home, he was full as a tick, and,
falling out of the buggy, broke his
neck. Another one had some trouble
in the shape of another fellow getting
his girl away from him, and he strung
himself up in the barn. Both Of these
men lacked sense.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-04

A Western granger raised a colt
sired by a thoroughbred road horse.
The youngster shared the rough and
tumble life of the draft colts in the
cornstalk fields and winter pasture.
At 8 years Of age he was broken in, in
a rural way, to drive, and a local horse
buyer, seeing him, got him for $1,000.
Being better trained and fitted up, the
buyers sold him to a city buyer for
$3.50, and the colt was then shipped to
New York, where he sold at auction
for $1,000. Good blood tells.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-04

Farmers seem to lend a willing hand
to the bears on the boards of trade by
Dragging too much about the prospeo-
tive yield of their crops
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-04

Nature very reluctantly combines
size and good quality in any Of her
products. The largest things of a CIV
en- type are by no means the best.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-04

The curse Of the mustard follows
close in .the wake of the fax crop
through'a all the Northwestern territory
where fax is grown. 1t is an easy
matter to get a farm infested with this
pest, and a very hard thing to get rid
of it,
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-04

These are the days when the man
who set out a strawberry bed last year
is reaping a rich reward. One man in
about 20 will have all the delicious ber-
ries he wants; the other 10 might, but
won't, because they won't take the
trouble. This is a grest -rste nf op-
"ortnrity and privilege.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-04

June butter is going into cold stor-
age at about % cents per pound this
year, nearly 4 cents higher than it has
been for many years.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-04

We have come to the time when 1t is
unlikely that anything new remains to
be discovered about the mystery OF
milk and the making of butter. A
more interesting thing than the evolu-
ton NJ butter making and the dairy
has newer been witnessed in this couD-
try.
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as mercury will surely destroy the sense
of smell and completely derange the
whole system when entering 1t through
the mucous surfaces. Such articles should
never be used except on prescriptions
from reputable physicians, as the dam
age they will do is ten fold to the good
you can possibly derive from them. Halls
Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. D.
Cheney & Co., Toledo, O., containes no
mercury, and is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system. In buying Halls Ca
tarrh Curde be sure you get the genuine.
1t is taken internally and made in Toledo,
Ohio, by F. ]. Cheney Is Co. Testimonials
free.
Sold by Druggists, Price 75c per bottle.
Hal Family Pills are the best.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-04

People get awful queer notions some
times. Here is a lady who was told
that the proper way to start an aspara-
gus bed was to have a big trench dug
and filled with old trash-broken crock
cry, tinware and old understanding
this with earth. The bed was so
made and proved a dead failure, as
might have been expected. If she had
substituted al old horse or the cats and
dogs which the community could well
have spared, the result would have
been very different.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-04

The enormous wheat crop of 1901 has
been absorbed without any marked de-
probation of price. The short crops of
other cereals have made this possible,
wheat having been substituted for corn
as a fattening ration for cattle and
hogs.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-04

When a fat hog sells for $50 ana a
fat steer for 800, as today, it is nc
wonder there is a boom in farm lands.
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CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED

If abortion appears In the dairy herd,
n of the first things to do is to
change the sire.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-04

A woman gets a big contract on her
hands when she finds that she has
married a man who is bound to have
hot biscuit at least once every day, and
the worst Of it is that she is quite like
ly to have a cranky old dyspeptic to
cook for before he is a grandfather.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-04

Hay which will sell for 81 per ton
from the barn next winter is better
sold from the field when made at IS.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-04

Mothers will find Mrs. Winslow's Sootn'
ing Syrup the best remedy to use for theii
children during the teething period.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-04

The nutritive value Of 13 cents
worth of 8 per cent milk is equal to $
cents worth of round beefsteak.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-04

There never has been a time when
the simple factor Of weight counted for
so much in a horse as at present. The
1000 pound horse has adistinct advan-
tage over the 1,200 pound horse for all
farm work and town teaming.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-04

Some one says that the good mixer
needs to be a Christian. Maybe that's
SO, but we recall the case of one good
man who for the time being really re-
GREETED he was one as he went through
the experience Of trying to milk a
kicking heifer in flytime, his church
relations preventing him from doing
the subject justice.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-04

Cold storage has made it possible
for the producer to get 10 cents for
May and June eggs. Before the days
OF cold storage 8 cents was a good
price.
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There is one thing which a good
many readers Of these notes might do
to their p%roft--just sit down and figure
closely whether the cows which they
are keeping are really paying their
way. Weigh each cows milk, and If 1t
proves that she is giving less than g.
900 pounds a year you can figure out an
almost certain loss.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-04

The robins which have been Matched
In the tree on your lawn and which
have lived off the grubs in the garden
and the fruit in the orchard assemble
in vast flocks during the winter in the
cedar swamps of the South to feed on
the SEEDS Of the cedars, of which they
are very fond. At this time they are
caught in nets by the thousands dur
ing the night when roosting and sold
for about 70 cents a dozen, the poach-
ers making from 81 to SO for a nights
work.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-04

Some people will not let a Virginia
creeper decorate their porch on the
ground that it's luxuriant growth cling
ing to the woodwork Is liable to rot it.
This is a mistake. We have never
found that it had any tendency to dc
this.
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We are asked how late in the season
it is safe to put gratis in trees. If the
gratis have been kept dormant, a good
per cent of them will grow II inserted
ever when the tree is we'll leaved out,
but it is better to do this work during
March and April rather than later,
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-04

We think that we can see the time
zeal when a load of musty oat straw
will not bring IS when it is wanted for
stable bedding or to cover a strawber-
ry bed. The old granger won't work
this racket next winter.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-04

The Canadian Pacific railway will
shortly place the enormous amount of
23, 600, 900 acres of land on the market
for settlers. While these lands lie far
north and some Of them are utterly
worthless, there is much fertile soil,
and all the cereals save corn will grow
and do well.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-04

No moral training which the house
cat receives will eve prevent her from
robbing the young birds from the nest
in the tree by the door If 1t is possible
for her to get at 1t.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-04

Some farmers are becoming so wei,
fixed that they think they can afford tc
do their farm work with a $500 team
of horses, and it almost makes play Of
the work when done with such a team
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-04

So many American farmers are buy
ing land and locating in Western Can
ada that it is going to be nip and tuck
which shall be celebrated as a holiday
the kings birthday or the Fourth of
July.
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German Newspaper Law.

Actions against newspapers in Ger
many can hereafter be brought only in
the town in which they are published.
The reichstag has just passed a law to
that effect.
BEWARE OF oINTMENTs FOR
CArARRH THAT CONTAINS
MERCURY