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toes, with wonderful rapdity often dstancing
horse for several hundred yards.
Perching birds have, rule three toes In front and
behind. They have most admirable arrangement,
certain all together
joint bent, when bird squats down
of falling the act OF
clnces it's around the
port, only be loosened by rising '
quail grouse and related birds make use OF their
scratching leaves and soft dirt for insects
perchng birds also scratch as the chewn
which backward with both feet at once In
of the ruffed undergo curious
change to meet walking in soft On
of horny fringe out which
snowshoe to help support the weight
of the bird
Spurs found in pheasants peacocks, turkeys ana
structure correspond to claws or
nals but instead Of the placed
usually sharp and can be MADE TO 90
in fights between individual BIRDS Inc
have in their toes and claws
weapons ofense which they are sk1ul IN using
downward, and we'll landed
blow beast instantly
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-30
THE JOURNAL JUNIOR
SALUTiNG MT. VERNON.

sALUTiNG Mt VERNON
Beautiful and Impressive Ceremony Observed Vessels Of
War Passing the Home Of Washington.
THE United States dispatch boat Dolphin making her
the Potomac from the to Washington A
winters cruise in the tropics just ended and the
change of the brilliant scenery Of the West Indies for the
softer atmosphere of the shores to
her 1t day in the early summer, and the
graceful craft powed through the yellow waters of the river
with the afternoon full her snowwhite Sides flashing
from polished guns outlining her
sharply against the background of the rivers bank she
made the central object of beautiful picture.
The captain navigator officer of the deck
the bridge plotting the vessel carefully through the
bends of the keeping sharp lookout for the
landmarks buoys, following the of the ship
spread of
bridge.
navigator looking up from his observation of the
chart turned toward the captain who gazing fxedy
through binoculars trying Of
the nautical term, "pick up buoy which the ship
Mount Vernon is just ahead, sir" he said.
VERY hands
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the time when he wished to become
an actor. It was Just before he
went to the war, and when he was
a clerk in hat store in Cincinnati
at few dollars a week.
He had occupied a gallery seat
witnessing the Shaksperean plays
as presented by the great tragedian,
Edwin Forrest. The personality Of
the actor grew upon him.
Imagine my feelings" he said,
with that kindly twinkle in his eyes,
when Forrest came into our store
one day to make a purchase. I
rushed to the front in order to
serve him-my ideal hero of the
theater. The sale, however, was
made by an older clerk. but I was
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no means confined to target prac-
tice, either. When she was Prin-
cess of Montenegro hunting was her
favorite sport, and she has had
many exciting adventures with big
game.
When she went to Italy as Prin-
cess Of Naples she missed her hunt
ing more than any other feature of
her girl life. The prince had targets
put up in the gardens at Capo di
Monte villa, and shooting matches
were held there. The princess in
variably carried off the honors,
even when pitted against her hus-
bands men friends or the prince
himself. Still target practice did
not quite take the place of real
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hunting her husband tried again This time he his
wife the island of Monte Criso, to have
hunting sport
her d her dogs until the assassination Of
King Humbert called her to the throne
killing and has back target shooting,
does not neglect her practice enthusiasm.
pleasant story is told of Richard Harding Davis and
courtesy upon another even
a. personal: :Fisl/ ,-.
Walking near old Fulton Market New York one mornne
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he saw coming toward him an Ital-
ian fish dealer and his wife-the
wife with a heavy fish basket bal
anced upon her head, and the hus-
band walking empty handed and
empty headed, so to speak, by her
side. -
Mr. Davis flushed with indigna-
tion- See there!'' he said to his
companion.
Then he walked up to the Italian.
''Takc that basket" he command
ed. Garry it yourself, and be quick
about it. We don't let women do
this sort Of thing in America"
The woman trembled and looked
deprecatingly from one man to the
- cho u,01111
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PEOPLE LUHO DO THINGS

Probably most hopeful of his gone by
expected the time when but little
class orator at Harvard
university. for Roscoe Conkng
Bruce of the Mississippi name had
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his than 1t now and the pach
given shoulder by OF his brother
Conkng the first white man
negro the hand of welcome and he did
genuinely friendly that it touched
the black senator from the south who went home
his newly born little boy Roscoe Conkng 1t is
baby manhoods who has brought
himself his Harvard He is most
popular Harvard students because Of qualities that
respect friendship the world That his
useful to be fore
conclusion.
Queen Italy expert with rifle and revolver
husbands best target although he has
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p ~ = y = = g @vvS
aSkz 2S6R
RAINY-DAY FRIENDS

n ne lonesome day felt so bad,
~ Because it rained, you see;
I couldn't go to see my friends,
Nor could they come to me.
Then mamma said, I'm make some
friends
With whom you'll like to play"
And so she folded paper up
A sort of fanlike way.
G he shipped and shipped with scissors
- then
The paper opened wide, =.
And such lot Of little girls
Before me then I spied!
They all took hold Of hands, like this
Just so they wouldn't fall,
And I made noses, eyes and mouths
with penciD for them all.
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this honor visited upon him. Young
Bruce is an undergraduate at Har-
ward and a young fellow Of splendid
intellectual attainments that he is
developing by the hardest kind Of
work. He is a born orator." and
few young men of his years think
more deeply or reason more logical
ly. He is interested heart and soul
in the welfare Of his race, and
after his graduation he is to become
a teacher at Tuskegee Institute.
where his mother is now engaged
in teaching.
His father named him Roscoe
Conkling for the reason that at the
time when Senator Bruce entered
the senate the prejudice against
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than be the innocent
cause of husbands anger
The Italian slowly gathered what Davis meant and his
big fists doubled up, with ugly scowl he made
step toward the novelist.
But Davis undaunted. and something in his look,
something in his posture, made
Italian pause.
basket, and take quick! cried Davis
mandatoriy before; and the Italian giant hesated
basket her
walked off it, while the trotted silently at his
side.
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unparalleled privilege Of pressing stretching the
great actor stood observing the work.
I deliberate In pressing that hat
tragedan apprecative of the work. Of
the events of my youth"
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terS, was the reply.
Sound to quarters, SIR" This to
the officer of the deck from the
navigator.
AYE, aye, sir. Bugler, sound to
Quarters:" rang out the voice of the
young officer who then had the
deck. He was but lately graduated
from the naval academy, and the
hardships of sea life had not yet
roughened the youthful freshness of
his voice. +
A moments pause, and the as
sembly call rang out over the silent
current Of the river and echoed
back from the heights above it's
banks. The white pillars of Wash
ington's beautiful home flashed out
through the deep green of the trees
high up above the ship, as the Off A
GERS and men, hurrying from ALI
parts of the vessel, ranged them
selves at their quarters. r
Form on the port side, facing
outboard!' came the sharp order
from the bridge, and later, Sound
attention."
The bugle again broke the still
ness. The Dolphin was now abreast 7
VI VIC AASSVAAS AoNLV VI. LlC AIio
chief magistrate of the country; all A
hands were lined up along the port
side OF the ship, standing at atten-
tion and facing the shore. AS the
order, ''Sa1ute!" came sharply cut and al
the right hand of every officer and man y
and remained there while the ships bell
slow, solemn strokes, one for each gun
The venerable mansion, with the whi
like giant sentinels on: guard, looked do
through a framework of majestic trees
AS an old gray-bearded patriarch rece
youth, so this dignified monument to
government seemed to receive the passi
resentative of the government Of to-day
With the last stroke of the bell car
the retreat''
The bugle answered, and as the last
the shore, Mount Vernon disappeared be
trees.
Every vessel Of war of the United st:
Of Washington observes this impressiv
The effect of it upon one seeing it
thrilling, and it loses none of it's dignity
tition. 1t is a good custom, and tends
hearts of our country's defenders on tn
Grafton and love for the one whom ever.
learns to consider the first soldier and st
try's history. May customs like this
all classes Of Americans-soldiers, sail
help US to a like spirit of respect for
reputation, and for the people identified
Companion.
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Coming to the hawks eagles have Of
feet armed with long, claws taons the
these used the and then
to cliff where it is be evoured The harpy
thick legs, and taons which pierce almost anythng
The strength of all these birds golden eagle
which gets fair grip cannot be made to let and
caught this cutting the tendons the
birds legs is release VICTIM
The osprey along shores, lives entirely
smost difficult objects to catch and holdso nature has
provided this birds toes with sandpapee surface which,
combined with the ncurved taons reversible outer
efficient fish trap The condor and other vuures
their
firmly while they apart with their beazs It
to mention the wonderful paddles and propees which
find webooted BIRDS but the snakebirds swim
around their tank in pursuit of their fnny
beautiful adaptation
the leg used the of the stroke but
the toes curl and uncu brought forward through the
rolled into small compass and then spreading out
broadly possible the
propelllng mechanism could not imagined.
Here everywhere in nature adaptation is the keynote
and whenever notice popularity in the foot
bird animal may be is good pur~
not for appearance.-New York Tribune.
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Robson actor that the occasion Of
Mckinley the latter told him of
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-03-28
FAVORS PUBLIC OWNERSHIP.
Chairman of Interstate Commerce Commission
Says Government Should Operate Railroads.

New YORK, March 12.-Martin A. Knapp,
chairman of the interstate commerce commits
sion, delivered lecture, tonight, in Cooper
Union, on Transportation" i'll which he ad-
vocated the government ownership of all rail-
roads. In part, Mr.. Knapp said
GAS l view this matter, the state has as
much right to farm out the business of collect
ing its revenues or preserving the peace, and
allow the parties intrusted with these duties to
vary the rate of taxation according to their
own interests or to sell personal protection to
the highest bidder, as it has to permit the
great function of public carriage to be the SUBJ
ject of special bargains or secret dicker, to be
made unequal by favoritism or oppressive by
exturtion."
Mr. Knapp went on TO say that the highways
from the earliest period of mankind were con-
sidered as public property, and was no more
just and proper that all railroads should be un-
der government control. So long as the rail-
roads were owned by private corporations, he
said, those railroads would be taking unto
themselves the civil rights which belonged
only to the government
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-03-28

it is the garnered wisdom of the ages, that that
which the race stands most in need of is light.
Light is simply a knowledge of truth-all
truth-religious truth, political truth scientific
truth, economic truth.
We need to know who and what we are and
the human race has sailed its vessels. Gener-
ally, its vessels have been wicked upon the
rocks of conditions that need not have prevailed
if the people had had more light.
The light that will save tine human race is
the knowledge that joint ownership of the
earth is the common heritage. 1t is natural
law, in God and God in natural law Under
joint ownership, a deteriorated manhood in
England would disappear. Parents in France
and America would assume the duties of rails
ing children with pleasure.
The criminal tendencies of the human race
would be gradually eliminated. Health, intel
lectuality and longevity would steadily move
upward. A nearness to God would become
all-prevailing.
Joint ownership of the earth would hurt no
one and help everyone. The Rockefellers and
Vanderbilts could not be injured, either within
themselves or their posterity, and the great
mass of poor people would be vastly benefited,
not only within themselves, but in their pos
terity.
We are close to the time when the nations of
the earth will have reached the parting of the
ways-back to extinction or forward to higher
destiny. In the light of the past the human
race cannot move forward burdened with pow
erty and crime. Even the Vanderbits must
finally succumb to the avengng Nemesis that
pursues the wrong-doer The mighty Pharaohs
of Egypt, in themselves and their posterity,
have as literally and as absolutely porished
from the face of the earth as naked II en- who
wore out their lives on the indestructible pyra-
mids that stand to day to proclaim the supreme
folly Of the ancients. Fitness to survive was
not in ruler, ruled, or in the works of their
hands. The Roman emperors have no de-
scendants, and the blood of Rome's mighty
warriors have, long since, ceased to flow in
human veins. The fttest to survive is the
wise and the humane. Itis not the man of
crowns or billions of wealth. The men of
crowns and billions of wealth erect slaughter-
houses for the 6ttest, and in the general ruin, a
similar fate oveftakes all.
We have seen that the decay of the human
race is not necessity-not an memorable law
pertaining to existence. There is no reason to
believe that deterioration is other than the re-
suit of debauchery at the top and starvation at
the bottom; of no work and over-work; of no
development because of over goiging, and no
development for want of sustenance. The evil
is all.pervadiug. Too much is as bad as too
little in final result. The rich are too we'll fed
and too indolent. The poor lack energy for
lack Of food. The rich are toe full to be
I, Iconeluded on editorial page:
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BACK OR FORWARD.

DR.. G. J. Engeman has written pamphlet
in which he claims that the birth rate in Amer
ican families is decreasing more rapidly than III
France. The decrease in the birth rate in
France is so alarming as to engage the atten-
ton of the French government. France is
alarmed over the outlook for men for army pur-
poses. No alarm is felt in the United States
as yet on that score or any other, because the
decrease is not noticeable, owing to tue large
foreign immigration.
Engeman says that "the figures show the
passing away of the native American" The
cause given Is the unwillipgness of Americans
to be burdened with large families, even at
cost of morals and law. The Doctor further
says that the popular impression that maternity
is against womens health IS false. He says,
"Health is the common badge of motherhood,
while exhaustion and premature decrepitude
are the results of avoidance of maternity. He
stgmatizes the false sentiment as "baneful," !"
"degrading' and "great crime" committed
in the "nane of woman's freedom" Have
wrong conditions given rise to false sentiment
and unnatural action? Do we follow Rome?
In line with the foregoing comes the state
ment from England that the men have so deter
iorated as to render difficult the enlistment of
strong men for army purposes. No children,
or degenerate chidren, in this great day of un.
paralleled commercial prosperity. The world
seems to have reached the point when the rear
ing OF strong race or the rearing of no race
at all are questions Of no Importance. We are
killing the golden-egg goose in our mad rush
for wealth with such rapidity that it is only
question of time when there will be no golden
eggs.
1t we want men and women, we must take
the necessary steps to raise men and women,
the same as we take the necessary steps to raise
cattle and horses. Physically, man is All ami
NAL, and will not thrive on sops for food, or in
uncomfortable and filthy dwellings, any more
than cattle will do on brush for food, and can
be sheltered from incement weather behind
batb-wire fences.
To be able to raise armies, mine, farm, build
and operate manufactures and railroads, we
must have men and women. Health and in
tellect are before armies and commerce. The
mau is infinitely superior to wealth. Our race
is laboring under strong delusion. We are
cinging to dead old past--the idea that the
mass of the human race was created to become
the sport OF few of their fellows who pose as
kings and putocrais.
The principle has been, and is, to feed the
masses on brush and corral in bard-wire lots.
1t is admitted that conditions are be ter now
than formerly, but Eow long can conditions
continue favorable unless there is q change fof
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-03-28
H0rsewhipped the Mayor.

Miss Mary Boies, Of Topeka, horsewhlpped
May or Parker, of that city, Monday morning
She did not like the Mayors policy regarding
the JOINTS so she called at his office, found
him alone, and administered the chastisement
The Mayor took the whip away from her,
which, she said, saved Governor Stanley from
Mayor Parker's fate. She said the Governor
is lust as bad as Mayor Parker.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-03-28

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT thinks that it is aw-
fully bad for man holding job under the
government to take hand in politics, but, he
is also of the opiuion that it is all right for
Teddy to be president, and at the same time
leg like the mischief for second term. Con-
sistency is jewel not possessed by presidents
eny more than by common mortals The
Truth, Corsicana, Texas,
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the peter, and change in the near future?

the peter, and change in the near future?
A careful study of the under surface will
show that French and American parents fear to
attempt to rear children because of the poverty
that inevitably attends the effort. They turn
away with dread from the certain to the hidden
uncertain, and with the result that the uncer-
tain has deeper pits, and as certain evils, as
the evils sought to be avoided.
Assure the great common people of America
OF homes and plenty In the fields Of industry,
and there will be no alarm over decreases in
the birth rate, of children, and, should Uncle
Sam ever need large army, plenty OF strong
men will be ready and willing. If the starving
process is TO 60 on, as in England and France,
cur people will be run down to the old-world
level of ignorance, decrepitude and wckedness.
There is no need to fear that the world will be
over. populated. The assumption is DEVILS
lie. The closest students on the eArth's re-
sources claim that her capacity can take en-
population seventy-6ve times greater than the
present population.
Under present conditions, the young couples
without homes can scarcely hope to acquire
homes. Price of land, with the rents and price
of farm produce, shut out the farm tenant from
ownership Few employees in mines, factories
or railroads are in position to acquire owner
ship of their dwellings,
Marriage, children, home, bread are the chief
cornerstone of civilization. The whole fabric
of human existence rests upon families and
happy homes.
1t is matter of history, without single ex.
ception, that the human race fourished in new
or undeveloped countries, where wealth was so
plentiful, home comforts were within the reach
of all. II is just as much matter of history
that, where the masses were reduced to poverty
through wars, famines or the grasping of
country's wealth by few men, the mass trav-
eled in the direction of barbarisn and extinc-
ton. Just as true of republics as of monarch
les, and will be just as true of America as Of
Rome, or Of Egypt.
In the destiny of the human lace, there is no
"survival of the httest." When Egypt finished
her course OF rnin, or Rome, there were no
''6ttest None were left that were fit TO
propagate the race, as we see fitness. For
time, the strong may survive, but the strong
are far from the ''6ttest." It was not, as
sometimes claimed, that decay and death OF
nations is a universal law, and inevitable.
A people will grow in knowledge and happi-
ness just so long as the conditions ale observed
that promote growth-no longer. We need
only to know what those conditions are, and
observe them, to grow on till the end Of time.
The Bible informs us that ''where there is no
y light, the people perish" 1t is the wisdom of
the ancients, the wisdom Of the Divine Being;
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-03-28

CECIL RHODES is dying, and will probably
live but few days. He will not be mourned.
He is greedy, selfish, unfeelug fellow. 1t is
through his insatiate greed that the was begun
in South Africa. He has great power through
his immense wealth, but he has no real friends.
His memery will be despised by the world.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-03-28

THE Republicans and the Hill'Gorman Dem
eetats are going to try to evade every true issue
;,f1oo4 by making "Negro disfranchisement"
lie issue Anything to throw dust in the
eyes Of the people.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-03-28

Reports from Washington show that that
there are a4,57I cases of smallpox in the Unit
ed States during the past week, 7o7 of which
were fatal. The report shows that the disease
is spreading rapidly.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-03-28
Funston Sold Cheap.

Down at New York, the other day, lot of
wax figures were sold at auction. Among these
wax figures was one of Fred Funston. The
fellow who bought the little fellow captured
him for Sd so.
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SPORTING ODDS AND ENDS.

\ fast bowler ordinarily delivers
a hall at n pace Of a little over so
feet n second, or about GO miles an
hour.
The pedestrian performance of Carl
Mann. the vegetarian. who won the
international match from Berlin to
Dresden. 125 miles, in - hours. 10
minutes and ~ seconds. beating the
next man, meat eater. by one hour
and 4j minutes. has, according to
scientists, surpassed the famous
Greeks run from Marathon to Athens
announcing victory The Greek did
the 40 miles in IS hours. against
Mann's 12j miles in 81 hours.
Much interest has been aroused
among yachtSmen in London bv the
announcement that Emperor William
has definitely determined to start his
American-built schooner Yacht Metc-
or in the race f. nm Hcligollnd to
Dover, July II, foI the Coronation
cup" Of GOO guinens. The British
schooner yacht Cecily, owned by &C.
ell Quentin. designed by William Fife.
and expressly built to challenge the
Meteor, being of the same tonnage
as the German emperor's yacht, was
launched at southampton and has
also been entered.
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THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER.

There is now made an opera glass
which folds Co the thickness Of half
an inch and needs no case.
Cast-iron anthony. and bismuth
all expand when they cool Most
other substances contract with cold
The white poppy is the only pois-
onous variety. From the black pop.
ply sweet oil can be prepared, and
used like olive-oil
a pitcher OF fresh water placed in
the bedroom at night is a great alb.
-orbcnt of poisonous exhalations:
but the water itself becomes unfit
for use.
Out Of the population of 100 900 in
Hawaii nearly 10000 are Asiatic, co.
300 being japanese and 10000 Chi
nese. There are also several thou
sand Porto Ricans