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edge OF desert vegetation cannot fail to
yield results Of the greatest economic
value, If. indeed. botanical research does
not prove TO be the surest guide to the
ultimate reclaiming Of desert lands.
II was the presentation Of such facts
as these that led the executive commit
tee of the Carnegie Institution TO ap-
propriate $1,000 for the establishment Of
the Desert Laboratory and it's mainte-
nance for one year The committee also
requested Frederick V. Covine. chief OF
the division of botany OF the Bureau Of
Plant Industry of the Department OF
Agriculture and DR.. Daniel .Tremb5y
MacDougal. first assistant and director
OF the laboratories of the New York
Botanical Garden. TO find a suitable site
for the new laboratory. They selected a
small mountain near Tucson. Ariz. The
laboratory will crown the crest OF the
mountain, which commands q view OF
miles of sandy plains on which are
giant cacti attaining at times a height
Of seventy 20 eighty feet.
The building will be completed on
September l. Dr. W. A. Cannon. now
assistant in the laboratory OF the New
York Botanical Garden. has been ap-
pointed resident investigator Of the
Desert Labo -atory. and will resign his
present position in the garden on Sep
tember 1 10 assume his new duties.
Botanists interested in the study OF
desert vegetation viii be welcome TO the
Tree use of all that the new laboratory
is expected TO develop in the way OF
data and the complete scientific appa-
ratus with which it is equipped. and it
is expected TO soon become the Mecca
OF such students from all over the world.
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women Of advanced years taking courses
You are surprised? Well. Just go down
to the Business High School when they
have the night classes and see II I'm
not telling you the straight truth
at the age when n woman formerly
considered herself ready to go on the
shelf and renounce most of the active
interests Of life. the modern woman Is
Just setting out on a career. Be she
maid. wife or widow. if she fits herself
properly to do the things she sets out
to do her thirty or more years viii be
no hamper to her progress. will be. in
deed. rather an advantage as giving
people confidence in her seriousness of
purpose and good foundation OF ex-
perience for her to work upon,
1T is a common thing now to see be-
hind the bargain counters more mature
great army OF clerks demonstrators.
cashiers and managers are women whose
girlhood is long way behind them.
The women who make a striking sue
cess as book canyassers. as agents for
real estate and insurance firms and
as sellers of goods on commission. are
all well past the girlhood period. Indeed.
1t is their assUredly uncertain age that
helps them on their way.
1t is almost proverb that If a middle
aged man gets out OF a job three times
II Is next to impossible for him to get
one again." remarked enothcr observer.
That is not the case, however, with
the woman OF the same age. Provided
she is competent. there are many more
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Il will be. never fear. A willy rat with
much urging viii stand on the edge of
the wharf. throw a chest" and dive
over, coming up under the very wharf
where you are standing After he has
sat on specially prepared board two
feet above water for what he considers
a good minute. full measure, he will
swim under water and come TO the sur
face with a loud "plop." After being
helped to the top OF the wharf he viii
lie down and pant with the violence OF
his eXertiOrs This is done to the end
that you may make the quarter a half
dollar
For money the wharf rat will spar
with his bosom friend. Whoever wins
is bound to stand treat for the conquer
ed and you may see the contestants
bruised and weak from the battle
smoking chocolate cigarettes or eatinf
chocolate creams in the greatest friend
Illness.
Story of a Drowned Rat.
a rather touching tale is told OF 2
wharf diver who always brought a little
dog along with him. Rags was a canine
Of mean end low degree. but he had the
instincts of a gentleman and was be-
loved by every rat on the wharf It was
his custom to sit on his masters
clothes while he took his dip and woe 70
the rat who dared 10 meddle with those
clothes at that time,
One day the shaggy sentry was noticed
on guard long after the last bather had
gore home. Hour after hour he kept
watch. and the boys found him still at
his post in the morning when they came
down. They grew alarmed then for
there was fierce. unnatural glare in
his eve. and he Jumped 10 his feet with
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they are 'fashy' and, as a rule. not
trustworthy. 1t is different in the
street car. Men and women are off
dress parade; they are more like their
own selves. Here. IL you are shrewd
and have enough enthusiasm for the
game. you may watch line and Iiga-
ment: study facial expressions; listen
10 the chatter, and thus arrive at some
idea of the moral bent of the individual
Anyone who has a heart in his vest
would rather read the faces OF his fell
low-men than any newspaper that vas
ever printed. even though Horace Gree.
ley wrote the heads
Il know good many men in Wash
ington who do a little work here and
there for the newspapers. write up the
odds and ends of life, incident, humor.
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on. When they have bored through the
flooring Of the wharf above and the mo-
lasses barrel that rests on Il, they VIII
catch as much of the liquid as they need
in 4 little keg and, plugging the hole,
steal Off
Almost, there. now? Hey. chick"
Almost" says the borer. breathless-
~. cit yer bari ready" Suddenly. the
chicken thus appealed to. gives a
strong upward thrus, and the auser
rises half an inch. A wild yell comes
from above. there is a frantic stamping
and a volley of cries for 'perlice."
The rats row quickly of, for they have
bored into the watchman by mistake
as he was sleeping close beside the bar
rel cs no,asses.
As they dart behind the white hull OF
yacht they catch sight OF the watch
man praneing up and down the wharf
and making the night hideous with his
yeiis-
A Close Association.
New members are initiated without
exception in one way They are thrown
Observation-Disclosures they can swim or
not-and kept in the water until the
rules OF wharf ratdom are satisfied. This
simple ceremony is seldom varied. and
every boy who attempts 70 join the an
cient and honorable company Of wharf
rats may expect 10 be put 10 the test
in this way. They are always sure OF
large audience, these same rats, when
ever they deign 10 show their accom-
plishments- Ladies and gentlemen stand
on the bank and watch their antics with
evident delight. In fact, II seems as if
the older peOple were wishing they
themselves were young again. with tho
freedom and inexperience OF youth
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hour with stories OF their daring an
phenomenal luck.
A Midnight Venture.

hour with stories OF their daring and
phenomenal luck
A Midnight Venture.
But hold, Here Is a company os Gar
ing rats creeping down TO the waters
edge. They crouch low as they pass
the lights in Mrs. Maginn's cut rate
grocery and the leader tears out ard
casts from him a sepulchral ''hls-t-J-tr'
II is after O'Clock and they are not
in bathing tOgs. What means this mid
night foray? They leap 'nto a sklh be-
longing TO an absent iongshoreman and
drop down the river in the moonlight.
The rowers take the incest care to avoid
the "plash" of oars AID the rattle OF
the thoIe pins. Quietly. Ike a shadow
themselves. they steal in aEd out among
the dark shadows. rornd and about
boats. tugs. wharfs. schOOnCrs. and stop
silently under a particular wharf. be-
tween the wet, green piles IN the cool
darkness.
Listen" says the leader in a low
tone. From above there comes an
Homeric snore-uz- -uzzzz- -uzzzzzz-the
watchman is asleep! Behold, bold rat
stands erect Or a seat and. ateadied by
his companions. drives an auEcT into a
spot marked privily in the evening by
a spy He plies the auger diligently and
without noise. The only sound IS The
watchman thinking in his sleer and the
soft lap-lsp-lap OF the water OF the old
piles.
In a few moments he grows tired fer
his footing is unsteady an1 be has 70
hold the brace and bit aloft. A willing
comrade takes his place ald he quick
"suzuzuzuz'' Of the aueer goes nerriIv
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CHANCES IN THE BUSINESS WORLDt

HE business woman Of today must
be older than her sister Of ten
years ago. Not under twenty
eight" is a phrase that appears in many
advertisements in The papers. About
thirty or so" is considered the ideal
age for the woman Of affairs.
THE business woman Of the butterfly
type has not so much show nowadays, -
said the observant man to a Times re-
porter the other day. Time was when
the pretty incompetent could make more
headway than her palmer but more
efficient sister. That day has passed. In
the strenuous life we live now every
employe must be worth what is paid for
her.
Competition IS keener The business
day is shorter. and there is more and
more tendency TO separate business from
play and prevent any merging OF th,
one with the other.
Few business men have time TO waste
with fiighty women helpers. and thev
don't want their men clerks bothered
with them either. SO 10 be on the safe
side they secure women clerks of an age
to be steady going and discreet. while
yet young enough TO be progressive and
ambitious.
There are number Of positions
which belong more appropriately to the
woman of thirty than ever before. An
a rule the age mark for women clerks
has been advanced ten years and some
times more.
In all business colleges you Will fnd
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w sIdered by right minded
people as an ideal form OF
exercise. as well as the best
way to see the country. Horseback rid
ing has its charms-a sweet stretch of
green sward fve-minute gallops and
a few stiff fences thrown in-what more
can heart desire? But then girths have
a habit OF parting, stones lodge in
hoofs, and the best horseGesh that
ever came out OF Kentucky will go lame
on occasion
A train ride is just as If you stepped
into a parIor. somewhat narrow and a
trife long, and watched a panorama
OF hills and dales ground out past the
windows Your train-rider's day is made
up Of this series Of mental snapshots. an
endless clatter and jar. the hot, stuny
smell OF plush seats, and the pungent
dust of a railroad car. which is unlike
any other dust in the world.
But your pedestrian tastes TO the full
the bracing air, the sense OF freedom,
the glow OF health. which are his prop
er reward. There is a strain OF gypsy
blood in many Of us. Of the old Romany
craving for travel. that delicious sense
OF being OF" which once a man gets
well into him and be must travel on
and on until he dies.
J. Foster Allison and Albert T. Clarke.
two young Washington drug clerks,
have studied something else besides
their pharmacy. They determined this
year 70 have a vacation which should
be unusual. and 10 which they could
revert during the long winter evenings
with pleasure.
They determined. after much smoking
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,GTHE street car is a good plac

kLT street car is a good place
to study human nature" said
the observant individual TO
Times man the other day. as the two
boarded a west-bound car on the Me
tropolItan line. There are many rea-
sons why this is so. To begin with, If
you want to study human nature you
must catch It when not looking. I
haven't much regard for the detective
exploited in the modern novel, who can
tell mans profession. character. and
even thoughts from a glance at his
countenance. There are crooks in New
York today whom you couldn't tell from
an. honest man. II you gave 'em time 10
put on their pious mask.
"Short human nature studies may
be pursued in the streets, I grant, but
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-11-20
THAT WHO'S WHO BOOK.

The 4443 people who induced to furnish brief
autobiography and doubt to subscribe for the book
including the and biographies of people prom
be left out constitutes publication about which
there has occurred considerable newspaper criticism Foi
any publisher declare that eighty
million people the United there are than
fifteen thousand worth mentioning is not only alb
surdty but would be beous but the lack respon-
sibity. One of the garing absurdities the work
the fact that the worth mentioning are
nearly all college bred live in either Boston, New
York Washington Chicago or Philadelphia. OF this
14.443 of who's who" there included only 1899
onethrd of whom would give their age and
onehaf of whom did respond to the request
formation touching their education OF course the enor-
mously wealthy ignored or overlooked AS con-
temporary observes is interesting 10 there
1444S Americans who distinguished for having
achieved less fame but out of population of
about S0OO0OOO there considerably more than that
number who be said have exerted and are still
welding influence for good among their fellowcounry-
men. If their enrolled in special volume
their lives and work held grateful remembrance by
all who knew them
The unmentioned in every community is a man or
woman who disikes public notoriey and pursuing the
even tenor of his or her unosentaousy lending
hand TO those who have been unfortunate While the
phianthropie rich generously doing their part to
smelorate deplOrable social conditions in every com
aunity the in pocket are idle but helping along
the lines according their means for the poor are
proverbially good to the poor
Every one be notable for achieving something Of
Il IT..
in their sphere and are appreciated and admired
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-11-20
THE LEGISLATIVE DOODLE CASES.

1t turns out after official investigation, ahat there
is charge of grating by the members or by
the officers of the last legislature While it is
admitted that the Republican majority Numbered in fol-
lowing the Pop precedent rewarng ward strikers and
precinct pushes with Partnerships and the like in such
inexcusabe numbers, there appears to have been no
steals except instance wherein the of an
appointee who refused TO serve forged by
known person. whereby the state defrauded in the
sum of something like $50 The responsible officers for
the most part gathered Topeka demanding inves
CATION Auditor of State Wells after going carefully
over the list appointees his books and hav
ing examined vouchers, is satisfied that the great
cry has little wool in it. Auditor Wells thereupon makes
the following official declaration:
after thorough investigation of the house and SEN
ate payros l believe there fraud practced and
there were no straw rolls Practically every
who drew pay has been accounted for The only
evidence of fraud was the Brakeman The man
Ritter supposed be clerk for the enrolling
committee the house. has yet been accounted for
but O. c. Billings, chairman of the house enrolling com
mttee and Fred Knapp journal clerk think they re-
member him. The records that Samuel Jamison
ceived the money for vouchers in his
and quite certain that all the signatures in the
same handwriting. While there have been numerous
irregularities things show up fair and the face
If had any regarding matters they have been
satisfied The discrepancies and irregularities in the
payros vouchers and warrants comparatively few
considering the horde of employees around the legislature
think that barring the that the legislature had
large number of useless employees people
have nothing hang their heads in shame apologize
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-11-20
COST OF NAVAL PRACTICE.

Some people fancy that the of keeping the
navy are almost wholly to increased naval contruc
ton, repairs and contingent expenses.
a navy after it has been constructed at immense
has to be playing constantly in order to
keep it from rusting.
One OF the diversions which has to great
prominence in the navy is target practice It high
but the they must have it. This item of throw
ing away good shot for practice is TO about
So 900 900 per annum.
But target practice, while it keeps the navy from
growing rusty is not the expression of the waste
war uses up deal of valuable ammunition but this
playing otherwise inics material destruction of
property.
Perhaps by and by all naval warfare may be reduced
target practice If the country assured that
going to only for fun it would cheerfuy
shoulder the naval expenses.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-11-20
THE CANCER TERROR.

The ravages of cancer getting to be something
quite rightful in these days and all kinds # things are
cited TO account for it-even to the spots
But persstently this rightful disease gains head
persstently do the bacterologists pursue
the parasite that is supposed to it, but with
what doubtful success.
The announcement from England that Dr. Otto
Schmidt of Germany claims have isolated the parasite
that causes and discovered serum the Of
which will that disease has been received
with much interest by New York physicians and surgeons
who have made special study of carcinoma cancer.
And certainly Dr. Cyrus Edison, who is great
specialist remarks other disease making such rapid
strides AS population increases increases in
greater ratio until it bids fair to become the Of
civilization
The trouble with bacterology is that while if it
fesses find the parasite that accompanies disease is
successful in finding the remedy that will
suppress its growth.
Dr. Gaylord the active pathologist Of state
laboratory at Buffalo has reported the discovery OF
animal parasite-not bacterium-which is present in
every case cancer only in the diseased tissue but
in the blood of the patient No successful however
has yet been found.
But science is nevertheless making great progress.
if it fails to produce anttoxin that will
kill the parasite, while know that quite number of
cases have been cured by the X-ray.
Let hope that the dreadful scourges will final
~ made yield science. The who succeed in
stamping out the germ of consumption and will
richly deserve monuments.
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a tfr4ws
WOULD RUIN WICHITA.

From the Kansas City Star.
The Wichita Eagle suggests, remedy for petty
legislative grating in Kansas removal of the state
capital Wichita other yirtuous CENTER This
proposition absence of Colonel Murdocks usual
ripe discernment If he will pause to reflect it is doubt
full whether would give his consent arrangement
which might make Wichita the of place that To-
peka although the contention might be set that
the legislature little to do with the instinct for graft
ing that permeaes the Kansas capital since it extends
to many truly good citizens there who in politics
ALL Still the removal of the capital to Wichita
other virtuous would involve the risk of spelling
two towns since nothing could reclaim Topeka
from it's present ways Wichita might gain few thou
people if the capital removed to that city, but
doesn't Colonel Murdoch know that the fewer politicians
town has the better it is off? Let Topeka alone; it is
welded to its idols But don't agitate that
might ruin Wichita.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-11-20
THAT COLORADO COAL STRIKE

is probable that the miners OF Colorado had
good grounds for their strike but hitting very hard
the working people of the cities Colorado not only in
Gened cold but other directions The closing Of
the coal mines caused the shutting the iron and
steel works for lack of fuel and this resulted
charge Of the Now these discharged iron and steel
workers reported to be taking the places by
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-11-20

oA1A
"io''''N its officials will have to meet
INFRINGEMENT some public Improvement prob
r"o0N1"'' lens One of these is the paving
of some of the more important resident streets ma
jority of the property two three Of the
decide on the paving and ready for the extra cost
of the work This paving will throw onto other streets
and avenues such surpusage somwater the pres
ent sewers cannot carry Douglas avenue at the in
tersecton with Market with Topeka, and William
street at its intersection with two three
times the past been flooded So it is evident that
for sanitary and economical stowaer sewage
will soon be a necessity especially for the districts with
paved streets. The mayor and members of the city
council have been consulting engineers and looking up
this question of disposition of sormwater for some
past and the they look into it the more are
they convinced that will only question of short
time before the problem will to be solved by put
ting storm-water The idea OF the mayor and
his official advisers define two three more dis
ricts and then with probable cost ascertaned OF
the amount which each lot would stand good for
call upon each every resident OF such district
and having explained the have him or no
over his own signature In this way there could be no
misunderstanding while good round majority OF ayes
would be warrant sufficient the execution of the work
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-11-20

LAS a man thinketh in his heart 80
is he saith the scripture. Now, if | had
a hundred millions. Ia give ten dollars to
charity once Il year regularly.
(-)....t-j
One OF the humorous things about the
Panama business is that the Colombian
embassy en- route to make a canal treaty
were in quarantine while the Panama
embassy was signing treaty
t-)....(-l
IAN OUNCE OF PREVENTION
Perry Enterprise-Times: When it be-
comes absolutely necessary for two OF
our citizens to engage in a personal com
bat. owing TO a difference of opinion, IL
should be the duty of an officer of the
law not only to command the peace. but
see that the law is observed in every re-
spect. This does not apply TO anything in
particular that has occurred. but is Of
fered merely IS n suggestion should such
a condition appear in the future. The
use OF obscene or profane language on the
public streets is against all law and de-
cency. and anyone violating this law
should be amenable to the penalty Good
government is the one thing to be OBJ
served in any community ana no discrimi-
nation should be shown to friend or foe.
=
When \ asks b. Can YOU Think" \
really wants to know if b sees some pe-
litical point just as A does. II doesn't
then & doesn't know how 10 think.
10. 10
Wichita surely has good grounds for a
damage suit against Melba. If she is the
one that has melted all these concerts.
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Soma of these days a street car load of
people will get killed in crossing the
tracks on East Douglas avenue and some
lnotorman will lose his job.
to-. .(O)-
y millionaire may be a philanthropist
and yet be no better than his poor neigh
Dor. In fact. the poor nsighbor will freely
assert that ne would give away a great
deal more than the millionaire does il he
had the money.
Tor. fol-
If H. c. Landis' electrical fountain has
that lovely attachment that the cleo
trical fountain had 1t the carnival a few
years ago. ne viii have trouble in Keeping
the mob back.
-(o). .(O)-
PIECE OF GOSSIP
A Wichita young man fell in love with
his nurse at the hospital (which hospital?
Guess?) The gossips say she don't love
him. II the gossips are right. this is the
last chapter of the story.
(:J-f:)-(:l
THESE ARE FAT YEARS FOR THE
AUDIT COMPANIES.
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John Vance Cheney.

Did you ever in noticing switch engine bump into
battered old box side track speculate TO the
number of miles it had probably covered the many
tons it had made the wrecks it had been in and the
value OF the nnumerable and different kinds OF things it
had been loaded with in the of years? Old Cy Le-
land reminds of of these old freight cars
viewed at rest side track Cy. has never been
sdetraeked for often long but like the loaded that
ever on the move with new kind or load every day
from Manitoba TO Matagorda Bay, from the coast of
Maine to Tacoma still good except looks