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service. The more dangerous the serv-,
ice the more ardently it is coveted. 1t
is esteemed the greatest of good for
tune to be sent to the front. Those
who remain behind are not less Jealous
in their attachment to the cause. 1t is
indeed war of the nation and not of
the government. Much has been writ
ten OF the cheerful and unreQuited Serv-
ice rendered by the women and those
who for any reason cannot go to the
seat of war. 1t is said that at Hiro-
shima, where the armies are modified
and sail for the mainland, the whole
city has been keeping open house for
several months. Every home in the
pretty seaport has had from two to a
dozen guests at time, and all have re-
fused to accept any recompense-
1t was the universal opinion at the
beginning of the struggle that time
would soon exhaust the resources of
the japanese; that the longer the con-
f1ict was prolonged the more favorable
would be the outlook for the Russians.
Such an experience would be drain
on the vitality of any nation, but Japan
shows less evidence of the hurt than
does her more ponderous enemy. She
is an adept at concealing her scars, and
she regards her sorrows as too sacred
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pan into the sea" and the series of re-
verses for the Russian arms is regard
ed by great numbers of the il1iterate
moujiks as direct evidence of divine
disapproval, the intense patriotism of
the Japanese is one of the little en-
pire's chief assets. One may traverse
the islands from one boundary to an
other without hearing a single dissen-
tient note. Seriousness there is and
grief that cannot be concealed, but crit
icism is conspicuously absent and en-
thusiasm is boundless. Instead of re-
garding the increase in taxation as a
burden to be endured in suI1en apathy,
these patriots deny themselves cheer
fully and never complain. No sacrifice
is considered too severe and no labor is
deemed too exhausting.
Every Japanese is eager for active
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; J: z: J"
Il 1[@=@@FS prosperous agricultural
81 HI season in the United
BE 3. States suggests the
"a fact that husbandry is
;s;.s ~ 8 keeping pace with all
I'LL iI I.s.ii the other industries
which are so essential
to the development of great nation.
In no other American industry have
there been so many and such radical
changes within the present generation
as are to be observed in what is popu-
larly known as farming. The haphaz-
ard methods of extracting values from
the soil which have made the avocation
of the husbandman burden and al
most a reproach no longer prevail, and
the whole matter of securing ade-
quate return for the labor and expense
of land cultivation has assumed the
proportions of a business.
This does not mean that the small
farmer, the man who is the owner of a
homestead which is not reckoned by its
hundreds of acres. is in any danger of
becoming extinct. On the contrary, the
man of a few productive acres is the
one for whom the gradual introduction
OF systematic tillage and improved
methods has done the most. 1t is by
the employment of these aids to the
intelligent pursuit of agriculture that
the owner OF fifty acres is able nova
days to do much more than wiring a
pittance from the scanty soil" 1t is
not that nature has grown more gem
erous, that the seasons have become
more propitious or that the soil has de-
veIoped a new fertility. 1t is nothing
that has come to man of its own Volt
ton and with no exercise of that fac
ulty on his part 1t is man himself who
has made the advance.
Now. nature helps those who help
themselves. Farmers may help them
selves by becoming acquainted with
the best results of mechanical inven-
lions and applying the knowledge
which experience or possibly the agri-
cultural college has taught them. The
wonderful results which have attended
agriculture conducted on a large scale
in the great grain belt west of the
Mississippi and in the central west it
self show how the old time uncertainty
has been converted into surety.
Thirty years ago the thousand acre
farm was so unusual in the United
States that the proprietor of such an
estate was known by reputation
throughout the land. In the early sew
enties there was only a single thou
sand acre cornfield west of the Missou-
ri river. It was situated in the beau
tiful valley Of the Kansas river about
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plies and endorsements were being
hurried to the Manchurian bases with
all the speed and capacity that the
home government could maintain 1t
was the universal testimony of the war
correspondents, who were certainly
qualified to speak. since they were eye
witnesses, that 1t taxed the resources
of the Transsiberian railway to land
more than 1000 men in the province on
any one day. At that rate it would re-
quire many months to place the new
army in the field.
1t will probably occur to some of
those who are interested in the subject
that the financial stress in Japan
should prove not less insurmountable.
At the beginning of the war the island
kingdoms financial condition was far
better than that of her mighty oppo-
nent. She had been long in preparing
for the initial outlay, and she had paid
as she went She had done better than
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has become convinced that Russian ex-
pansion in Asia has encountered actual
opposition, has decided to bring his
Manchurian effective up TO 100000 men,
a force amply sufficient, in his opinion,
to restore his empires waning prestige
in the east. In spite of the general i'm
preston that Russia's financial re-
sources were inexhaustible, it is begin
ming to be understood that the money
question is at present one of the most
disquieting features of Muscovite
craftsmanship. The enterprise of keep
ing an army of 600, 900 men in the field
would tax the financial ability of any
country in Europe. England sent only
half that number to South Africa, and
her taxpayers grew FESTIVE under the
burden. The taxpayers of any civilized
nation would soon turn out of off1ce any
government which was so foolhardy as
to engage in an unpopular war. The
boast of the war party in Russia that
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-15

land. Later the term was applied to
those who leased land for the purposes
of agriculture. In time the title OF
farmer came to be applied indiscrimi-
nately to all persons who looked to the
tilling of the soil for some financial re-
turn. To be up to date and accurate. q
new definition must be constructed. In
the light of latter day agricultural
achievement this will prove to be an
easy matter. One might go further and
fare worse than to characterize a mod
ern farmer as a man who, having brains
and the capacity to apply them to his
own advantage and to the advantage of
others, does not hesitate. The modern
farmer neither undertakes the axpe-
rience of those who have gone before
him nor refuses to accept the teaching
of the present.
CHARLES M. ADAMS.
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The Comparative Resources of Russia and Japan;
Indications Japan Be Driven tn

egg OF her generals in Manchuria has
given her a standing in the money cen
tiers that her rival can only diminish
by depriving her of future successes.
She cannot offer the apparently I'M
limited security that her enemy can
produce. but as long as she remains
the certain victor her credit will con-
tinue to the good.
Another powerful influence for Japan
is her economy in conducting the war.
1t is evident that the campaign is cost
ing her rather less than $15,000,000 a
month, about one-third as much as
Russia is pouring into the insatiate
nav of the war monster. Under any
circumstances the expenses of the war
can never be more than half those of
her enemy, for the latter's remoteness
from the scene and lack of facilities will
always mean an enormous outlay, a
drain upon her treasury which final vic
tory will scarcely cure. Japan, on the
contrary, could in nowise better herself
in the matter of location. AS long as
she retains control of the seaboard her
communication will be perfect and
speedy and her base of supplies may
embrace the entire empire.
While the Russian masses are not in
sympathy with the effort to drive ia
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Nature has been a generous mother
to the islanders, and the little wen LiIleo
farms and gardens have yielded album
dainty. There is no serious obstruction
to Japan's commences; she may seek the
markets of the earth with all her usual
freedom and buy and sell as she
chooses. Her efficient navy is capable
of further telling service. Her armies
in the field are fired with the enthusi-
asm of success, and they have never
experienced the gloom OF defeat. 1t "
incredible that Russia can recover the
prestige she has been obliged to yield
to the little brown heroes OF the orient.
GEORGE H. PICARD.
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ANGRY TREE

There has just been discovered in the
far east a species of the acacia tree
which closes its leaves together in coils
each day at sunset and curls its twiEs
to the shape of pigtails. After the tree
has settled itself thus for a nights
sleep. if touched the whole thing Will
fiutter as if agitated or impatient at be-
ing disturbed. The oftener the foliage
is molested the more violent becomes
the shaking of the branches, and at
length the tree enits nauseating odor,
which if inhaled for a few moments
causes a violent dizzy headache. It has
been named the angry tree.
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dant time to develop crude resources,
and Russia has no time to spare. She
has two other available means of rails
ing the money-by issuing paper cur
rency beyond the gold reserve and by
increasing taxation and diminishing
expense. 1t is Questionable whether or
not the 1otation of a deprecated paper
currency would succeed in so ignorant
and mixed a population. and it is GER
tain that increased taxation would TO-
ment revolution in the provinces, which
are already grooming under the burdens
imposed by their rulers. The Russian
government is painfully aware of the
fact that it would precipitate disaster
to put on the screws more vigorously
than it has already done. Just at this
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-15
A CURIOUS BUSINESS.

In Italy there are any number o.
matrimonial brokers, and the business
is quite a regular institution. In their
offices there are books with the names
and particulars of all the marriageablo
girls, rich or poor, who live in the dis
trict, and the brokers go about endeav-
oring to arrange engagements in ex-
actly the same way as they would de
ordinary trading business It depends
entirely upon their success whether
they receive any payment for their eff
forts or net
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his granary doors and calmly an
nounced his intention of waiting for
something to turn up. Something did
turn up. The next season was marked
by a drought of such persistence that
not a bushel of corn was harvested in
the valley. Comparatively little had
been kept over, and the market soon
began to soar. The fortunate and
brainy amateur opened his granaries
and sold corn to the amount of $65, 900.
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Otable Advance Made by American Agriculture

a dozen miles west of Topeka, then
struggling and typical town of less than
5000 inhabitants. The owner of the
land was a wealthy iron manufacturer
of Ohio who had been charmed with
the region in it's wild state and had
determined to develop it to it's fullest
extent. He began by having built in
the center of the land a large stone
farmhouse from material gathered on
the property. Then he had a number
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stance the owner of one of 5000 acres in
Iowa has in the bank the comfortable
balance of $4,000, the profit of one good
crop year. In other words, every acre
of his farm Melted him over So, count
ing in 400 acres of woodland. This
Iowa farm is also called corn farm"
but the title is something of a misno-
mer. In addition to corn, there were
1000 acres of wheat and 500 acres of
oats. Corn is the principal crop, but in
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was planted in corn. 1t proved to be a
good corn season, and the farm yielded
the phenomenal average of seventy five
bushels per acre. The enthusiastic
farmer found himself the owner of 75,-
900 bushels Of the finest quality of Dent
corn, with absolutely no market to be
had for it.
1t was indeed a problem, bat the
amateur farmer kept his head. He
made up his mind that the ability that
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of substantial and spacious barns and
granaries constructed and finally
fenced the entire plot with an excellent
barbed wire stockade. That first sea-
son ground was broken, and the fol-
lowing spring it was made ready for
planting. An army of farm workers
and all sorts of agricultural implements
were put at work, and the entire farm
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He had made his thousand acre farm
and had covered all the expense of the
crop.
This, of course, was an extreme in
stance. AS a pioneer example, how
ever, it was vastly significant of what
might be done. Today it is not uncom-
mon to find farms in the west several
thousand acres in extent. As an in
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was capable of turning iron into gold
was the kind needed to perform the
same alchemy with corn. His skeptical
neighbors, Squaw men and cowboys
for the most part, advised him to i'm
port a herd of Texas cattle. The
scheme did not look impracticable. but
he did not have sufficient faith in it.
He stored his golden harvest. locked
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order to keep the soil in condition of
proper fertility a rotation of crops must
be kept up. The land in this farm is
estimated at $50 per acre. That would
make the value of the land $4,000
The improvements swell the total K
$25S 500. If the owner had this capital
invested where it would command 5
per cent interest his income derived
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-15

He recent appointment
of Prince Syiatopolk-
Mirsky as the sue
cessor to the assassi-
mated De Plehve is an
event which is calcu-
lated to stimulate the
curiosity of those who
49, ~~>It.~xy which Rms
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1904-02-25
TRUSTEES SALE
or A
VALUABLE FARM
IN cHAPTIco DISTRICT.


By virtue Of 4 decree OF the Circuit Court for
SC. hary's county, sitting as Court OF Equi.
~, passed In q cause wherein John Il. Hurst
Co. are complainauts and Robt. c. Combs
and H. Harris Camalier, administrations OF A.
9. Beale. and others are defendants. and bear
Ing date OF February 8. 1904. the undersigned,
Trustee, will sell by public auction. nc the
Court House door In Leonardtown, on
TUESDAY, March 90, 1904,
between the hours of L ~ and Q r. n that tract
or parcel of land. called and known az
Coles and Suffers Range,
containing
~ ACRES, more or less.
This property Is situate in Chaptico district.
SC. Hary's county, and 10 improved by Dwell
ling and necessary out-houses-all new. The
soil 10 fne.
TERMS OF SALE.-One-half cash on the
day OF sale-baiance In one year, the deferred
payment 60 be secured by the note Of the pur-
chaser, with approved security. and bearing
interest from the day Of sale.
10. r. MORGAN.
Feb Sta. Trustee.
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Fourth-Only citizens Of Maryland
win be permitted to.lease lots, and
assignments Of lease to non-resi-
dents are forbidden. ANY resident
OF the State may lease bottoms
beneath the open waters OF the bay.
In waters within county lines the
right 70 lease is restricted 10 resi-
dents or landowners of the respec-
tive counties. landowners have
the first right TO lease, boatmeu, the
second right and then other citizens.
Fifth-LOts vary in size from 5 to
80 acres in county waters. In the
open waters Of the bay an individ ual
may take up 100 acres. The term
OF the lease is % years. The an
nual rent per acre is from 90 TO -.
No corporation is permitted to lease
or acquire in any manner any oys-
ter land. No individual can acquire
in any way more than 30 acres in
county waters or 100 acres in the
open waters Of the bay. This is
deemed an absolute safeguard
against any monopoly.
Sixth-The revenues arising from
oyster lease are to be applied, first,
to the expense Of conducting the
system. the balance to be paid to a
special road fund, The road bill
accompanying this provides that this
fund shall be distributed among the
counties, 70 be expended in making
good roads.
1t is estimated by Professor
Brooks that 400, 900 acres of land
under water now unproductive can
be utilized and made enormously
productive.
The bill introduced by Senator
Robinson today differs in some res
poets from that of two years ago.
In includes Worcester county in its
provisions, which that of two years
ago did not.-Smn.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1904-02-25

Baltimore is bestirring itself. Its
business men are earnestly at work
to rebuild and restock their houses
and the spirit Of progress and i'm
proyement animates them all. The
city will arise from its ashes and the
wider streets and improved build
ings will be monuments 20 the ener-
CIV and courage Of its citizenship.
The whole State Is vitality interested
In the reconstruction and restora-
ton Of Baltimore and everywhere
the deepest interest Is manifested in
the plarIs proposed by the Citizens
Emergency Committee. Everywhere
too, unstinte6 praise is being accord
ed the Baltimore papers for the part
they are playing in bringing topub-
lie attention the lessons taught by
the fire. The new Baltimore will
owe a great debt to it's newspaper
workers for their tireless and pains
taking work in cleaning all the facts
connected with the great fire and
presenting them to the public for
consideration. The importance OF
their work may be overlooked and
forgotten. but none the lest, nothing
has contributed more to arousing
enthusiasm and encouraging Balti-
moreans to believe in the future Of
their city than the energy and push
of its newspapers. The fire that
swept their plants seems TO have but
increased their faith in Baltimore.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1904-02-25

Senator Robinson, of Hartford
county, introduced the Hannah Oys-
ter bill on the 18th. At the last ses-
sion OF the Legislature Senator
Robinson took q leading part in
advocating this measure, and it
is anticipated that he win make a
determined effort in it's behalf now.
He is q Senator of great influence,
and that the bill will pass at this
session is the confident expectation.
Of its friends. The provisions OF
the Haman Oyster bill are, briefly as
follows:
First-The bill affects all the bot
toms of the bay and its tributaries
except the natural oyster beds,
which will not be permitted to be
taken up. The definition of what
constitutes a natural bed given by
Judge Goldsborough, of the Eastern
Shore. is adopted literally. A ma
tural bed under this definition is
one where oysters grow naturally in
such quantities as to justify a per.
son in resorting to it regularly for q
livelihood. No such beds can be
leased.
Second-The law is to be admins
tered by q shell-fish commission, TO
be appointed by the Governor at a
salary of 5000 q year. The CON-
missioner has large powers, but the
right OF appeal from his decisions is
given.
Third-Provision is made for q
simple system Of conveyancing for
oyster lots.
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Mill Notice.

/ will grind on TUESDAYS, IL
fair or on any day that the saw mill
Is running.
LEO n. WATHEN
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Private Sale.

/ WILL sell at private sale farm in
and district called HAPPY ISLAM, con.
tanning 33 acres, dwelling, barn and fine
timber. Terms-One-haf cash, balance
in twelve months with interest.
J0. F. MORGAN,
Feb lin. Trustee.
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NOTICE

In pursuance OF the above ORDER hereby
give notice that have obtained from TIE Or
phans' Court OF Sc. Mary's county, Mary land,
letters OF administration on the persofsI e.
tate OF Michael Kelly. late OF said county, de-
ceased. All persons having claims against the
SAID deceased are hereby notified 20 exhibit
the same, with tine proper vouchers attached
thereto 20 the subscriber, on or before the&3rd
day OF August lsOl, they win otherwise by law
DC exec uded from the benefits Of said estate
All persons indebted 20 the deceased are re-
Quested 20 make immediate payment 70 the
subscriber. WIN. MEvkR3LL LOKRR
Feo SS-ows Administrator G. C. a.
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Transfers & Attachments,

The County Commissioners of st. Ma
rvs county will meet ut their Office in
Leonardtown on MONDAY and TUES
DAY, March 21st and 22nd, 1904, for
the purpose OF making TRANSFERS and
ATTACHMENTS.
All apprehension attachments must be
made under oath or affirmation requir-
ing parties applying to give into the Com
missioners all property they may possess
OF every kind that 10 assessable and not
to them assessed.
Persons who do not avail themselves
OF this notice cannot have any abate-
ments on their tax bills when presented
by the County Treasurer.
JOHN g. II. LILBURN
President.
Wa. MEvERELL LoKER, Clerk.
Feb. 26-td.
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NOTICE 10 CREDITORS.

Orphans Court Of Sc. Mary's county, Set :
Feb. 3. 1904.
Ordered by the Court, that VIM. Meyerell
L0ker. Administrator, c. l. O. OF Michael keI-
ly, late OF sc, Mary's county, Maryland. de-
ceased, give the notice required by law % the
that the same be published once q week for
SIX successive weeks In theSt Marys BEACON.
Test: J. PHILIP 0RlEENwREL,
Register Of willis for &C. Mary's county
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Out-Pensioners.

Out-Pensioners.
Office County Commissioners.
LeonardtOwn, Feb. %, 1904.
Notice is hereby given, That the Coun-
ty Commissioners of st. Mary's county
will meet on
TUESDAY, March %, 1904,
to strike the names OF all OUT-PEN-
SlONERS from the Pension List of said
county for the purpose of revising and
correcting said list. Names ofal worthy
and deserving persons will be reinstateti
on said list upon the filing of petition
signed by at least three taxpayers.
By order,
VIM. MEVERELL LOKER,
Feb. 25-td. Clerk.
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AsY Advertisements.
FOR SALE.

The beautiful estate on the Potomac <auaM
river, formerly the home farm OF the &
late Deminuo BLACKSTONE, containing ~
5OO acres. improved by good Dwelling -
ana necessary Out-Bui ldings and OF excelIen
soil.
ROBT. C. COMBS, Attorney.
req De Leonardtown. Nd.