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The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-19
WITH SENATOR VEST.
Doleful Experience of an English
man.

New York Sun: Senator Vest has
told many stories, but one experience
of his has not reached the general read
er. 1t occurred many years ago, but
the senator telling it not long ago was
still chuckling.
In his younger days Senator Vest was
an ardent hunter and an authority on
the wild life of the prairies. He was
living on the advance line of civiliza-
ton and his home was known far n
wide for it's cordial and abundant hos
pitality. There Mr.. Vest one day re-
ceived a visit from a rich and famous
hunter from London who brought a let
ter of introduction from a friend liv-
ing in the English capital. And the
Englishman had brought with him his
W hunting dogs. Senator Vest had
dogs of his own and he could not re-
press his surprise, but the Englishman
asked him to wait and see. The ami
mails from the other side of the sea
would do wonders when they got to
work.
In order to get the best shooting
quail was the game sought-it was nee
essary to drive far out on the prairie
beyond even the suggestion of civiliza-
ton. The hunters and the attendants
got in the big wagon and the dogs fol-
lowed. They drove for many miles and
finally the wagon was left in the care
of the men, and Mr.. Vest and the Eng
lishman started out on the quest. They
did well. The dogs of the Englishman
were not worth much, but the Missouri
breed gave excellent sport.
Just wait and give my dogs a
chance" declared the Englishman. "All
they need is a stronger scent"
They got it," said the senator, tell
ing the story. Eyes, they got it. Some
distance away was a little hill and in
the side of the little hill were little
holes. Suddenly the Englishman's dog
got the stronger scent and started for
the little hill with the little holes.
"'Call them back l shouted to the
Englishman.
"'Oh, no." he replied. Now they've
got it. Now they've got it."
They will get it if they don't keep
away from there l answered. But
with all l could do l could not call him
back. He would not listen and he got
sc excited that he started on a run at
ter his dogs.
well, it was my time to be moving.
too, for | knew what was coming; so l
called my dogs and made for the wagon
as fast az the good Lord would let me.
Just as l crawled in l turned and saw
the show, and never pitied anybody in
my life as much as l did that English
man with the dogs that wanted a
stronger scent. Out of the holes came
little animals and you never saw such
q mix-up in your life. The dogs ran for
the ~Englishman and jumped around
him for protection. Then the English
man tried to get away from the dogs
for protection, too, and the whole conf
bination started for the wagon.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-19
Wnn,t Hurt Than

Where there are more women and
girls around the farm house than there
are men and boys it is all right Tor the
women to take a hand in the lighter
forms of the teamwork. We have seen
bonnet hiding her beauty, seated on a
sulky pillow, driving three big Perche-
ron horses and doing as nice a job of
blowing as any man could do. This is
lots better than for her to have laced
herself up tight as a drum in a spring
corset and be working a blue yarn dog
barking at a req moon on canvas while
her mother was peeling potatoes in the
back kitchen for the family dinner.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-19
The Good Years,

The farmers of the country have had
three prosperous years. Aside from the
actual profits derived from farm prod
ucts raised and sold, there has been a
very large increase in the value of the
land itself, equivalent to over 81 900
per year for three years for every man
who owned a hundred and sixty acre
farm. This increase of wealth has been
v~ariously used. Much of it has gone
to clear off the old parasite mortgage;
much has gone into better houses and
farm buildings; ome has gone to help
the boys and girls through college; a
a large sum for more land; some to give
the boys a start; some into home securi-
ties and bank stock, and altogether too
much into wildcat schemes-mining,
oil and real estate fakes. The present
good times will continue another year
at least-perhaps longer. The wise
mar will improve his opportunity.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-19
Does Not Cross a Foot of Cultivated
Land.

H. B. Carpenter, a civil engineer, who
has just completed the survey of the
southern line of Utah, says the bound
airy between hat state and Arizona
does not cross a foot of cultivated land.
1t traverses a desert, which is cut up
by great canyons hat are almost i'm
p%assable. The length of the line is PIT
miles. Landmarks along the line will
make it possible for the boundary to
be located without any difficulty in the
future. Just east of the Colorado river a
sandstone butte rises 1000 feet above
the plain, and the very peak of this
butte is exactly on the boundary. Mr..
Carpenter named the peak State Line
Butte. Not far from this butte is an
other, which stands 1900 feet above the
plain, and was named Tower Peak.
These two gigantic stones will always
be a guide to persons who have enough
curiosity to penetrate the desert in
search of the state line.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-19
Creating Wealth

When a farmer from his eighty acre
farm produces and sells produce and
stock to the amount of $1,500, the
world is the richer by that amount,
for he has created original wealth;
when the miner digs out and sells ST.
500 worth of ore he has done the same
thing; when the factory takes the farm
er's corn or cotton OF wheat or the
miners ore and by manipulating it
gives it an added value the same wealth
creating process is repeated, but when
a man buys a horse or a farm or any
other commodity and sells it for nor
than he paid, while he may have made
money, the world is none the richer,
for he has created no new wealth.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-19
PROPERTIES OF RADIUM.
One of the Most Interesting Discov'
cries of the Age.

cries OIL Tie age.
Cosmopolitan. If not the most /.
important certainly one of the most in
teresting discoveries of the age pertains
to that new metal or substances which
contains in itself such an infinite en-
ergy that since the very beginning of
creation it has been emitting streams
of material particles projected with the
velocity of from 60, 900 to 80, 900 miles
per second. The total mass of this ma
terial thus far collected weighs only
about one-thirtieth of an ounce. So
rare is the substance that to produce
one ounce, it is estimated, would re-
quire an expenditure of more than
$500, 900. The name given this posses
sor of these startling qualities is radi-
I'M.
Though the experiments thus far
made have been very limited, a long
line of suggestions has been indicated.
A triling particle of radium brought
nto the vicinity of an e~lectroscope de-
suits n the discharge of it's electrical
into the vicinity of an electroscope re-
diant activity is such that the air be-
comes a conductor of electricity suffi-
suits in the discharge of its electrified
of the gold leaves. The ray sen out is
apparently a conductor of electricity
almost as if it were a copper wire.
Glass brought into contact with this
metal becomes permanently of a brown
or violet-tinted hue.
Oxygen is converted by radium into
ozone.
These are but a few of the many curl
Gus changes which take place in the
presence of what has become known as
the Becquerel ray, in honor of the pro-
found studies of ~Bacquerel, through
whom the marvellous properties of ra-
dunn came to be known to the world of
science.
These rays are so powerful that not
only do they furnish light, but pene-
trate the most Opaque bodies. Still
more powerful, they not only penetrate.
ut seem to impart for a length of time
their powers of radiation to the sub
stances with which they come in con-
tact. Still more contradictory in at
tributes, these rotations seem to pos
sess the doumble character of the diver
tible cathrode ray and the indivertible
X-ray of Roentgen.
Some have estimated that but a small
weight of radium would furnish a light
for economic purposes so brilliant that
the human eye and body would have to
be protected from its influence. Once
in place, however, it would be installed
for all time.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-19
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The readers of his paper will be pleased
. learn that there is at least one dreaded
disease that science has been able to cure
n all its stages and that is Catarrh. Halls
|atarrh Cure is the only positive cure
now known to the medical fraternity. Ca
tarrh being n constitutional disease. re-
luires a constitutional treatment. Halls
Catarrh Cure is taken internally. acting
directly Upon the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system, thereby destroying
he foundation of the disease, and giving
he patient strength by building up the
constitution n assisting nature in do
'ng its work. The proprietors have so
much faith in its curative powers, that
they offer one Hundred Dollars for any
case that it fails to cure. Send for list of
testimonials.
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Toledo, o.
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The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-19
The Strenuous Life.

One of the presidents old cowboy
friends pushed his way to the rear plat,
form and told him that he had followed
his advice of some years ago and had
been married. AS an afterthought he
added that he also had six children
He knows what a strenuous life is.~,
Baltimore American.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-19
PASTIME NOTES.

In the spring the liars fancy lightly
turns to thoughts of fish.
The novel the william of which doesn't
hiss should be a bowling success.
The subtitle mind is only submissive
when submission subserves its interest.
Vain imaginings" bring some people
more misery than does hard reality.
Absence makes the heart grow fond
er" when it comes to the bill collector.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-19

A writer in the Lancet says that chill
dren should be taught to use the nasal
douche when they are taught to use the
toothbrush. If the organ were daily
cleaned, he says, with a slightly astrin-
gent douche, such as a weak solution of
sea salt, colds and germ diseases would
be much less frequent.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-19
Exploring a Chicago Simmer

A Chicago woman had two painters
arrested for stealing $4,000 from her,
and then found the money in an old
slipper. Knowing the size of the Chi
cago foot, n can imagine what an
exploring job there was before that
money was located. Talk about explor-
ing the Mammoth cave!-Los Angeles
Times.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-19

The name of the owner of the farm
printed upon the rural mailbox in front
Of his house is no little convenience to
the travelling public. Only the men
who have old, ramshackle places, with
hogs in the d%ooryard, down fences and
the mark of shiftlessness all over, OBJ
ject to it. The man with a neatly kept
farm home is creditably advertised by
his name on tie box.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-19

Nineteen hundred and two will prove
a very productive n in spite of numer-
JUS storms, floods and isolated crop dis
asters. A friend tells us that he has more
potatoes this year on one square rod of
ground than he had on an acre last
years, another that he will get nor
oats from Is acres this year than he got
from 40 acres last year. while the yield
of hay is more than six times as great
as that of 1901,
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-19

We have a friend who is always a
little behind-always behind in meeting
his financial obligations, behind in
meeting appointments at a specified
hour. behind getting in his crops, car
ing for them and harvesting them. He
is always late for dinner, gets left by
the cars, and his whole life is largely a
failure for the simple lack of promtness
and punnctuality. If your boy is taken
this way, lose no time in taking the
kinks on of him or he will be handi-
capped all his life long.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-19
Menace of the Coal Strike.

1t is not only the individual that suf-
fers from the coal strike. The public
schools in many cities are likely to be
seriously affected by the enhanced cost
of coal, and If the strike continues UNI
pleasant retrenchments may be neces-
sary in more than one town. In Wash
ington, d. c., real uneasiness on the
part of the school commissioners is re-
ported: and the borough of Brooklyn
is troubled at the prospect of closing
several hools.-Springfeld Republic
can.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-19

The state of Illinois produces two
thirds of all the broom corn grown in
this country. Just why, we do not
know, as any of the corn belt soils will
produce broom corn. Like tobacco
growing, the culture of peppermint,
onions, celery ana some other of what
may be termed special crops, the bust
ness develops in certain localities and
is confined to them.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-19

We find some comfort in the fact
that even the best farmers we know
have this season more weeds than they
know what to do with.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-19

Three Victoria crosses, 10 distin-
guished service medals, 2 promotions to
commissioned rank and A mentions in
dispatches have fallen to the lot of re-
form school lads in South Africa, says
Lord Leigh.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-19

1t is less trouble to kill off the rabbit
in the vicinity of the orchard than it is
to let the rabbits alone and try to pro-
tect the trees.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-19
Six million three hundred thousand

Six million three hundred thousand
French women work for a living-that
is, they do that kind of work which in
this country is usually assigned to men
and not women. A large percentage
of them work on the farms of that
country and do the blowing, digging,
hoeing. milk the cows, feed the stock
and market the farm produce. There
are plenty of them who could lay out an
American hired man in the shade when
it m to hoeing potatoes or pitching
hay.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-19

The rush for land in the Northwest
continues with undated vigor, and the
fine crops which are being secured in
all the Northwest section are serving
to intensity it.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-19

Just as soon as a woman has learned
how to make good soups not so much
good meat is thrown out to the pigs
and chickens.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-19

While two different crops may be
raised in one year upon the same piece
of land, it is always a mistake to try
to raise them at the same time.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-19

We know of a man who manages to
keep a family of small owls in his big
barn, and he tells us that as mice
catchers they beat cats all to pieces.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-19

The crop experts are guessing on a
$500, 900, 900 bushel corr crop for 1902.
This would mean 70, 1000, 900 tons of
corn, or 2,333,333 carloads, or 46,666
train loads of 5 cars each. But only a
small part of this immense crop will
ever be handled by the railways, for it
will seek a market as beef, pork, NUT
ton, butter, cheese, milk, wool, poultry
and eggs.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-19

The hen which can be made to lay
an egg every day in the year is much
farther away than the horse that will
trot a mile in two minutes.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-19

No weed that we have to deal with
gets such a grip on the soil as does the
suuirreltail grass. Its hold is worse
than that of a mortgage.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-19

Meats are high priced in all coun-
tries-England, Germany, France, Aus
tralia-everywhere save in the Argen-
tine.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-19

The daisy will run out blue grass,
and for this reason the men who live
in the blue grass country want to look
out for the coming of this Eastern
plague.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-19

Tho tile draining of land results in
making the soil dry in a wet time and
moist in a dry time. 1t works both
ways.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-19

Mothers will find Mrs. Winslow's Sootn-
ing Syrup the best remedy to use for their
children during the teething period.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-19

The war between the cattlemen and
the sheep herders has reached an acute
stage out in the range country. Cattle
and sheep cannot be herded on the
same territory, for where the sheep run
there the cattle will starve. The cat
tlemen are slaughtering the f1ocks of
sheep and threatening to eXterminate
the herders. There was the same old
trouble in Abrahamic days.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-19

If all flesh is grass, as 1t is, why is
not the meat eater a vegetarian after
all?
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-19

If q mar could take his money with
him when he dies, there are some men
in this country whose death would
cause a serious contraction of the cur
rency.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-19
gQPYRIeHL lobby
CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED

We V saw smartweed grow to 9
height of five feet until this year.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-19

We have found the weeder an utter
and complete failure for the cultivation
of crops this season, and this not be-
cause of any inherent fault with the
tool itself, but solely owing to the pc
culiar climatic conditions of the sea-
son-too much rain. This is essential
ly a dry weather tool and of no more
value in a wet season than a boat would
be on a dried up lake bed in Manitoba.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-19

Many a nan who is a walking ency
c~lopaedia is anything but a perambulat-
ing bank.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-19

The Chester White hog does not re-
ceive the attention among our hog rails
ers to which it is entitled. 1t is not to
its disadvantage that it is not as early
a maturing hog as the Poland-China.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-19

There is more to encourage n to
take up the poultry business today than
there has ever been before. Having the
use of an acre or so of land, almost any
one, using ordinary intelligence, can
take up this business and be reasonably
sure of a profitable one.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-19

The Cuban grown pineapple is on
the market this year in large supply
and at very reasonable prices.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-19

A syndicate of well-to-do farmers
came to the conclusion that it would
be for their interest to invest in a good
stock horse, so a company was formed
with $4,000 capital, twenty-five men
taking a share Of 500 each. The horse
was purchased. a heavy, handsome,
we'll groomed specimen. He was sold at
the end of the year for $40, as he prov
ed to be utterly worthless. Twenty-Five
men know more about the ways and
tricks of the willy horseman than they
did before, and by common consent the
subject is never to be referred to by any
Of them at thrashing bees and church
sociables.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-19

w do you feel today?" ask
ed the editor of Uncle Bill
as he sauntered in with a
smile on his face and seat
ed himself as usual where
he could make the editor
listen, whether willingly
or not.
"Eircf rofo OWL, I,po
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-19
Ask Her.

We wish that every man on the farm
who reads this would just ask his wife
what he could do to make the home
work easier and the home itself more
attractive. If this were done. a whole
lot of funny things would come to the
front. One wcman would ask for a
woodshed, another would want soft
water, another one a place for the men
to leave their dirty barnyard clothing,
another a cleaned up dooryard, another
a better chicken house, another a more
convenient water supply, and not me
in ten of these women would want any
thing other than that which was SEN
sible and practical and which almost
any man might furnish. The Egyptians
required their bondsmen to make bricks
without straw. and there is just lots
of the same sort of business going on
in many a farm home today.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-19

Query-So long as it has seemed best
for the United States to acquire large
areas of sugar producing territory, why
not let this territory be developed to
the fullest extent in supplying the needs
of the American people?
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-19

Crop experts place the value of the
cereal crop alone of 1902 at the enor-
nous sum of So, 900, 900 900 for the farm
ers of the United States. This is all new
created and original wealth. No other
country on earth ever before made such
a showing.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-19

The time is not far off when a new
Indictment will be returned against the
sparrow. When this bird becomes more
plentiful, which will not be long, vast
flocks of them will descend upon the
wheat and oat fields just as the grain
gets in the dough, and if unmolested
they will literally ruin the crop by
squeezing the pulp out of tie kernels.
All over the country a persistent and
organized warfare should be kept up on
this bird.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-19

A supposed perfectly worthless house
cat that for long had persisted in max
ing the front porch by our bedroom
window a trysting place where duels
were nightly carried on deposited the
scalp and nose of a large rat on the
doorstep one night recently, done, we
suppose, to prove that his reputation
was not as bad as we took it to be.
But we are not sure hat some other
cat did not kill that rat.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-19

Where Canada thisties have got a
foothold in the West they propagate not
from the seed, which is infertile, but
from the sucker roots. The only reliable
way in which to get rid of them is to
keep them persistently cut off during
the growing period as soon as a sprout
shows above ground.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-19

The battle with the weeks has been a
hard and a long one the past season.
Weather conditions have favored an alb
normal growth of weeds and the germi-
nation Of such seed which has lain in
the ground dormant during the dry
years. Then man who has a garden or
field free from them in August Is en-
titled to a credit mark.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-19

The condition of hay in the stack
varies so much that it is difficult to de-
termine the exact number of cubic feet
of hay required to make a ton of hay.
Where the stack is of timothy and it
is not less than - feet in height when
it has settled solid about 425 feet will
make a ton, while if it is of clover at
least 450 feet will be required.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-19
WHERE THE BOUNDARY LINE Is

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