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The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-03-20
Wanted.

"a capable man who has had eXpe-
rience on a farm conducted in an up to
date way can obtain a permanent stu
alton. Wages the best"
The above advertisement appeared
recently in a newspaper. 1t is significant
in this particular: 1t shows that a de-
mand is arising for men skilled il the
science of agriculture, the kind of men
who are now being turned out by our
agricultural colleges. More than ever
before are men of capital looking to the
farm scientifically conducted as a safe
and very profitable investment for
their money. This fact should be of
no more than ordinary interest to the
young men of the country who may be
debating what employment to select as
a life work. There is a large excess of
doctors, lawyers, teachers and all other
professional men being turned out of
our colleges each year, who find it
more and lore difficult to secure salts
factory positions. The educated farmer
has and always will have a large field
of opportunity opening for him and
will meet less competition than in any
other business in life. If you are study
ing what to do with that boy, perhapg
this article may give you a hint.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-03-20
MY LADY NICOTINE.
Curious M%cditations Upon the Smok'
ing Habit.

There must be a great army Of men
who smoke an ounce of tobacco a day.
Such worthy smokers are, OF course
men OF o philosophic and rejecting dis
position, although they do not always
care to favor the world with the results
of the high m~editations due to the in.
fluence of the soothing weed.
1t will be new, even to many of these,
to know that it would take no less than
So years to dispose of a ton of tobacco
at this rate of consumption, says Tit
Bits, and it will be still more surpris-
ing to consider the magnitude Of this
amount under various aspects.
The smoker of an ounce a day is al
most invariably a faithful disciple OF
the pipe. He may submit to a cigar or
a cigaret to please the ladies, but the
pipe remains his true love. Hence we
will first suppose that out ton of tobac-
co is to be sacrificed to My Lady Nico-
tine in the homely pipe. If the ordinary
ounce packets in which the tobacco Is
probably bought were piled in a single
column they would tower to a height
of 200 feet. Arranged in a solid block
they would form a cube of packed
"shag" measuring 10 feet in every di-
r%ection, or more than twice the height
of a man.
We might conceive a pipe specially
built to consume this mass. Such a pipe,
If built on the plan of the familiar briar
would be 100 feet long, and the bowl
would be 20 feet in diameter. This bowl
could accommodate 700 men. Should
the smoker of such a huge pipeful pre-
fer the church warden" he would OBJ
tain a graceful clay 500 feet long.
On a low average two matches are
used to each pipe of tobacco. After his
10000 pipes the smoker would have
used as many matches as would stretch
from London to Coventry, or Bath or
Gloucester, if placed end to end. The
timber would be barely contained in a
grove of 20 stalwart trees each 40 feet
high. The heat energy represented, and
which is largely water, would serve TO
run a locomotive a considerable dis
lance.
We must not forget that there are
many who prefer the mild cigaret. Let
us consider our ton of tobacco in this
form. There will be a considerable diff
ference in the actual number of cigarets
consumed If the smoker makes his own
in preference to buying them ready
made. In the former case he will burn
no fewer than LOCO 900 in fragrant
smoke; a quantity which is placed in
order would make a thin white line
from London to Brighton, and in the
latter case they would stretch for 81
miles. Placed side by side, they would
pave a small pathway five miles long.
Could we make these cigarets into
one huge whole, we should obtain a
cigaret 10 feet in diameter and nearly
100 feet long. A man built in proportion
to enjoy this little smoke would be a
mere 1920 feet high. The consumer Of
this tobacco may, like Svengali, be a
lover of the big cigar of the Havana. If
so, he must'Sbe prepared to spend at
least $4,000, of which 500 pounds will
be wasted in fag-ends.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-03-20
$40

Near Garrett, the county seat of Ander-
son county, Kansas All bottom land ex-
cept about 80 acres where buildings are
located. Creek and timber on land. The
bottom is all cleared and no better land
anywhere. Thirty acres timothy and Glow
er meadow, 10 acres alfalfa. Twenty acres
of clover plowed up last fall and put in
wheat; also 80 acres adjoining in wheat,
making 60 acres now in wheat. which In in
fine condition. The improvements are
good. House 20X32 with 20 IT. studdlrg,
wing 16x36 with IA TT. studding; two large
porches, good cellar, good cistern and
pump on porch. House well painted and
insured for 81, 800, Big horse barn, tool
house, chicken house, hog pens, % with
shingle roofs. Large hay barn with sheds
on each side, equipped with carriers and
room for machinery. Spring runs into a
trough breast-high for stock, located be-
tween house and barns; water also runs
through cement trough for cooling milk,
etc. There is a tenant house of six rooms,
barn and sheds. The alfalfa will pasture
two head of cattle eight months each year.
Price $50 per acre, For further informal
ton address c.. o. HALL, Agent,
Creston, Iowa.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-03-20
How One Man Lost His Hogs.

Lightning killed two steers for a
farmer late last fall. He sold the car
cases to a travelling Junk peddler, who
took the hides. In his wagon was a
freshly skinned horse hide bought of a
man miles away who happened to have
an outbreak of hog cholera on his
place. Before SHINING the steers he
spread out the horse hide on the
ground to dry. A bunch of small pigs,
getting scent of it, came UP and COM
menced to nose the horse hide around.
Four days after the cholera broke Il
among< his herd of hogs and made a
clean swA ep of $500 worth OF choice
hogs. Seen
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-03-20

a regular professorship of railroading
is to be created at the Technical high
school of Berlin. Since 1901 q course of
six lectures on %railroading has been
delivered at this school; but as this
limited course was not sufficient for the
important branch (for which a program
of instruction has been agreed upon in
conjunction with the management of
the state ~railroads), it is now proposed
to establish a full p~rofessorship. Much
more attention has recently been paid
ip the school to the construction of To-
cpmotiyes and to signaling.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-03-20
OUT oF THE oRDTNAEy.

Herbert Spencer has for years tur1o
out an average of $50 words of rcvise
manuscript per day.
The city of New York has a consider
able amount Of property which it rent
to private tenants, but it is also q ten
ant under 403 leases, which cost an.
nually for rent SS17,0 900.
A writer in Charities places the NUN.
Der of crippled children who applied fey
relief at the New York hospitals dur
ing the visit of DR.. Lorenz at 5000
nearly all of whom we're sent away be
cause of the inadequacy of the hospital
for their care.
P. s. Devine of st. Louis owns a sun
dial made by Thomas jefferson. The
authenticity of the relic is attested by
documents duly sworn to. In order to
tell the correct time the dial must be
set by the north star.
Buffalo physicians, in an operation
the other day, took out of the patients
stomach nearly 500 lacks, knife blades
and nails. That stomach must have
been used to hard wear.
An insurance company in New York
has just paid 500, 900 for a f~ive-foot
strip of land, in order to keep the win
dows Of it's building from being closed
up by another structure. The phrase
free as air" is not Of universal ap-
plication.
Lawrence McAlpin Of Philadelphia
has Just celebrated his Tooth birthday.
He was born in Ireland and laid the
first rail on the Madison G. Indianap-
oils railroad. He has had II children.
He lost track of four of them-two sons
and two dauEhters-several years ago,
but thinks they are now living in Can
ada.
A curious recognition of the right
of women to hold public Office has,
with little ga.lantry, been made in Pike
county, Penn ~sylvania. Porter township
has so few voters that Mrs. Sarah Mil
Ter was placed on the Democratic ticket
for school director, there being no 9TH
er available candidate, one Democrat
being the nominee for three local Of
fees.
Congressman Heatwole of Minnesota
is a continual u of envy among col
leagues whose digestion is not of
pristine vigor. The Minnesota man at
tacks and assimilates all sorts of in
congruous feeds. The other afternoon
his luncheon in the house restaurant
consisted of a milk punch, a chicken
sandwich, an oyster stew, a piece of
custard pie and two cups of coffee.
In compli nee with appeals from
many patriotic citizens of Hartford,
Conn, Philip Hansling, Jr., superin-
tendent of streets, consented to forego
his determin ltion to cut down 1.-THE
Washington elm," opposite the Wads-
worth athene I'm on Main street, that
city. He tr mined the o~verhanging
limbs, which might fall during a gale
and do iniur to persons or property
and gave the chance to the old tree to
add a few ye'rs to it's history. There
is a tablet OF the trunk of the tree
placed there by the Daughters of the
American Re olution in memory of the
time when W arlington visited Hart
ford and stop bed beneath the tree.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-03-20
Senator wark. who is a member of

Senator Wark, who is a member Of
the Canadian parliament, and who ex-
poets this year to attend to his legisla-
tive duties, as he has annually for over
half a century, is probably the oldest
legislator in the world. He is in his
Tooth year, and has been n of the
legislators for the province of New
Brunswick for upward of sixty years.
He was an old mar when the provinces
were confederated into the Dominion.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-03-20

Returns made to the bureau of navi-
cation in the treasury department show
that fifty-five vessels of %, 9O6 gross
tons were built in the United States
and officially numbered in February.
Not a single one of these vessels was
for the foreign trade. The largest
vessel, S.671 tons, is for the Hawaiian
trade, the next largest for the Old
Dominion steamship company, and the
third for the lake trade.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-03-20

The New ngland Historical Genoa
logical society has appointed a COM
mittee to ascertain, if possible, the ex-
act place of rendezvous of the Boston
Tea Party when it. assembled, Dec. 16,
1913, preliminary to throwing the tea
into Boston harbor. The stories of the
place handed down by tradition have
been conflicting and many of the mem
bers Of the society think the effort will
be in vain.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-03-20

The second and third weeks Of a
cows tactical period are the ones dur
ing which she will, under normal feed
and conditions, give the largest yield
of butter.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-03-20

The ordinary average farm of the
corn belt is just the place to raise the
heavy draft horse, and there should be
a pair of good well bred draft horses on
every quarter section farm.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-03-20

Drought caused a s~hrinkage Of 49,
900, 900 sheep and 275, 900 head Of cattle
in New South Wales last year.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-03-20

A point worth remembering in the
tile draining of land is that if the tile
are laid in the neal vicinity of willow
trees or hedges the fibrous roots of sr"h
trees will seek the tile drain for the
moisture it contains and by filing 1t
with a mass of roots thus render the
drain worthless. The roots once inside
Of the tile win travel an almost unlim-
tied distance.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-03-20

The owners of the rich Nile valley
lands have to pay an annual tax of So
per acre. We know of men who kick
at a tax of rs cents per acre.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-03-20

At the late poultry show at Kansas
City a three-year-old hen sold for'$101.
This beats $4,000 for a boar pig or $12,-
500 for a Shorthorn bull and beats
Shamrock, who only brought about so
per pound, including all the prizes he
won.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-03-20
Correspondence Solicited.

We note a recent sale in England Of
choice Shire two-year-old mares at ST.
5000 to S1,400 each.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-03-20

No apple grown in the West has been
the recipient of more unstinted abuse
than the variety known as Patterns
Greening, and still a fruit grower in
central Iowa who has eight acres Of
this variety told us recently that he
obtained a gross return of 5000 per
acre from these trees last year. This
would indicate that the criticism re-
ferred to is not altogether impartial and
fair,
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-03-20
G4O Acres

Located within two miles of a railroad
town, and five miles from Butler. the
counJ seat of Bates county, Missouri.
One mile to school and church. The land
lays nice and level; good soil, fenced and
cross-fenced: good wells and springs. fine
orchard and all kinds of fruit; $50 acres in
cultivation and balance good tame grass.
Good house of five rooms, large barn and
a number OF outbuildings, all in good re-
pair. This is a very desirable farm. Price
$40 per acre.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-03-20

The dairy COW expected to give a flow
of milk during the winter season should
be provided with some kind of a sue
culent ration, either roots or ensilage.
In the line of roots there is nothing
better for her than sugar beets or car
rots.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-03-20

The tendency has been in the keep
ing Of butter in cold storage to grad
ually lower the temperature year by
year of the room where the butter is
stored. This season the butter which
has kept in the most perfect condition
and which shows practically no loss
whatever of fine quality and flavor has
been kept at a temperature of from six
to ten degrees below zero.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-03-20

One serious drawback to the coop
erative creamery business is the SEEM
ing necessity which compels Sunday
work during the summer to properly
care for the milk. OF course the cows
must be MIXED on Sunday just as on
any other day, and this seeming neces-
sity of running the creamery on Sun
day has in most cases overruled what
ever moral sentiment there may have
been in the community against Sunday
work. We notice, however, that quite
a number of creameries are giving up
this Sunday work, the patrons having
made arrangements to care for their
Sunday milk at home. Wherever it is
possible to do this it should be done,
as any form of labor or the Sabbath
has a demoralizing influence on the
community at large.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-03-20

the deceased Still fgbt8 his way
through life free of any religious trust.
This state of affairs should operate to
turn the granger's thoughts toward re-
ligion when he finds that the trusts are
too many for him.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-03-20
Pansy Blossom

Natures remedy for women. Is a safe
and sure cure for all forms of Fema10
Weakness and diseases. All drugg
or write TO
Diamond Speciality Co. Mattoon,Ll
Price 75c per box, making a month
treatment.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-03-20

A little pest and brute almost I'M
known in the West thirty years ago
the civet cat or small skunk-is con-
stantly increasing in numbers SO that
in many sections it has become an in
tolerable plague and N to all poul-
try raisers. We know of just two farms,
and these adjoining a city Of 5000 pop
ulation, where last season we're killed
no less than 35 of these pests.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-03-20
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Scarlet Geranium, per lb.............. 800
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The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-03-20

Molasses as a by-product of the sugar
factories has always until lately been
regarded as little better than a nui-
sance. 1t is now known that when it is
properly mixed with other foods it
makes a most valuable stock ration,
especially for horses. In France and
Germany it is now being used in i'm
mense quantities as food for horses,
and they are being kept in the best of
condition at a cost Of only SO per cent
of the old-time grain ration.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-03-20

A friend writes asking why apples
shrink up and wither when kept in a
cool cellar. The air is probably too
dry and subjects the fruit to a steady
process of evaporation. When kept in
a cellar, apples should not be exposed
to the air. They keep well packed in
moist sand or in an underground pit,
just as potatoes are kept. If kept in
the cellar, cover them with something
which will prevent the evaporation.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-03-20
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Acres

OOV HGbCS
Near railroad town and about ten miles
from county seat of Clarke county, Iowa.
Two hundred acres nice level land. bal
ance gently rolling. Farm well improved.
improvements worth over s., 900. The farm
Is fenced into several fields and pastures.
Abundance of water, which is pumped by
windmills into tanks in every field on the
farm. school house within one-half mile,
church three miles. Price $5 per acre.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-03-20
Do You Want to
Buy a Farm?

SGO Acres
Near Clarence, Shelby county, Missouri.
Well improved. good house and barns.
fenced and cross-fenced. Good grain and
stock farm. Price SIS per acre.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1903-07-11
hmm gFsaci6A1
de PueE.1to Rico
PARA MEJl'C0

con este titulo pubLica TN ina,
portante diario mejica no ell ST
guiente sue1to,. que r. .prodnci-
mos a titulo. de informa cion:
"De regreso de Merida, + 'roereso. v
Qinntana Roo. Sc encuentran de nuevo
en- esta capital los sefiores Ranfrez
Konda y Colberg. eomisionac los para
tratar de Ia inmlgraei6n paerto rriouef5a
q esta Rep1blica. --''
ROY martes continuarun srl viaie
Puerto Klco, por. la via. de Nue va Yorl
y empezaran ocuparse desde l1,eoro
de los trabajogsde IA enpresa one ies
traJo este pals, pnes desean traer 4 10
mayor brevedad sl primer corltinaente
&c lnnlgrantes con destino al territorio
de Quintana Roo.
Ult1mados. Satisfacto-ian1erte todoe
los detalless con la. Compaflfa Coloni1o
dora de la Costa Oriental de Y,"eats,,
= dada Ia rlqueza de ese Estadc, con
fian en- que sus productos agrfcolas ten
dran facll salida en- les mercados vi
c-tecos precios, remuneradore es-
i,erando aslnlsno que los isle6os ha-
ilaran eacaz aYuda, tanto por par.e de
Ia Compaflfa Colonizadora cauo nor
as vlgentes leyes de colonization & in
inigraclon, cnyas liberales faanouicias
Permlten augurar TN feliz exito 4 Ia
colonla. No dudamos que esta sera,
con tales allcienteS, 10 purnerosa t1,1e
permlte aquel territorio fGrtil v viroen
La Compaf1ia Coloniza dora ofrsce 4
los innlgrantes, entire osras m.chas
ventajas las siguientes:
PasaJe gratis desde q punto de ST.
residencia.
Antlclpo de Una cant;dad para 10 qus,
puedan necesitar.
Titles de agriculture y anin1sles nara
Ia labranza. f'Fl7'
Casa, medico y rnedicinas qratt,ita- :
rnente en- todo tien.po.
Reserva de terrenos confio1os ,aro
!oS inmlgrantes qle continden vniendo.
Cerdos y galliaas para el fomento
! de estas crias.
tryabajo b{en remunerado para el
ConnpafIfa. w i"
La CompafIfa tambi6n les conprar5
al Frecio de mercado algunos de sus
trutos y los otros Sc los vndera sin CO..
bro de comisi6n.
Sea V rdaderamense halagadoras las
condiciones Ell que pueden traba1ar los
eoionlzadores, y no dudamos, por 10 tan
90, que. los territories en- que Ia eompa-
MA rlensa operar Sc vean pronto CON
VeI Iioos eu IN venero de riqueza.
.ke>tanos deSear 4 los distiaeu;dos
m]oS dc Puerto Rico IN feliz via je."
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1903-07-11
BRILLANTE FIESTA
Noche- de enSllenoS
OH,, HERMOSA JUVENTLTD
Guayama, 9 de Julio de 1908.

OuaySma, oe JULIO &c 1908.
En- la noche del z del corriente, Sc
lley6 a efecto, en- la morada de los dis
ting1idos esposos Dominguez, de esta
ciudad, una brillante y animada jara :
|nita.
Las notas preludiadas al piano por
las agalis y fnfsimas manos de la Sc
ffora dofia Enriqueta Bruno, Viuda de
Lopez, nos dio q comprender que ter
minaba desde ese instante, ell silencio Y
mutlsmo gus nos embargaEa horas an
gtes, saliendose 8 danzar en- los amplios
salones con la algeria y bullicio de esta
Juventud. La luz proyectaba sus cla-
ros rayos sobre los resados y angelicos
rostroS de nuestras femeninas.
iAlll estaba 10 mas hermoso poeti-
co del bello sexo!
Era aquello un verdadero palacio de
FAINT aSticas hadas.
Becquer, Campoamor nj Zorriills, no
hublesen podido dar siquiera una re-
quefla idea de aguel Incompatible on
Junto de virginales ninfas.
Las miradas de ojos azules como cl
cielo y negros cual Ell azabache, nos
electrizaban La vista, como Ell brillante
relampagueo del firmamento.
La diosa Terpsicore. fue adorada
aauella noche, por dugeles celes i.bles.
Un jaraln dc t1agantes y perfulna-
das flores, no las hubiese tenido, como
las que contena planes en- aquel.
Sc agitaban de aquf y ALA, como las
mariposas 10 hacen al aletear al soplo
de Ia brisa.
FL jardln de que hablamos, era fel-
mente represen+ado por las encantado-
ras seforitas Capo, Villodas, Monies de
Oca, Giordani, Brenes, hermanas DAT
mau, Alvarez, Arevalo, Rocafort una
infnidad que nuestro lapiz no pudo en-
numerar.
Tersfpcore, rendida de cansancio,
Sc entrego en- los bra4os de Morfeo,
la una de la madrugada, hora en- que
Sc disipo Ia fantasia y el bullicio como
una uube en- el espacio.
Licores, refrescos y la mar de dulces
fueron repartidos 4 Ia concurrence en-
suma abundancia.
Nuestra plura es demasiado pobre
para dar q conocer 4 nuestrcs anables
lectores, 10 galante y obsequiosos cue
esuvieron, como slempre, los distingai
dos esposos Dom1nguez y su simpaticc
hijo Dom1nguez Rubio.
LIE damos por clio, desde, ,estss colum-
mas nuestra mas expresiva felicitacion
olempre Allegro,