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Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1904-01-21

The German government intends to
erect at Marburg a state institute for
the preparation of all known curative
serums for human beings and animals.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1904-01-21

The peasants of Ponsibaud, in the
mountains of Auversne, are acquainted
WIN singular summer formation of
ice. presume bly, due TO evaporation of
Underground moisture and consequent
All in temperature. OF this phenomena
they have for many years taken advan-
tage to cool and harden their cheeses.
which are deposited in certain caverns
where this ice IS found to be present
ana thus keep. good during the hottest
summer months
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1904-01-21

DR.. Jotnstone stoney has calculated
BY application of the dynamic theory of
gases. that any water vapor Introduced
into the atmosphere of Mars would es-
cape into space, the graNitation being
there insufficient 10 retain it,
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1904-01-21

When Chinese worlnnen apply for
Jobs TO the Russians in Manehuria
they are informed that heathens cannot
be engaged. and that they must first
become Christians. This makes them
uesist invariably.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1904-01-21

The Agricultural society of Lom-
oardy has decided to found and main
tain in Milan a trial station for the
testing of agricultural machines.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1904-01-21

1t is believed that the artificial cam
2hor now being made in Germany will
PROVE particularly useful in the man
usacture of safety explosives.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1904-01-21

Ferocieus sharks which have not
been seen in the Baltic for more than a
century, have again appeared off the
Danish and German coasts, and give
the fishermen much trouble
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1904-01-21

Bids are invited for the construction
of the first section of the railroad
which is to start from San Juan Baut-
ista. Tabasco. Mexico, or from a point
on the left bank of the Rio Gonzales.
touching at the Towns of Nacapuca
Jalpa and Cunduacan. and terminating
ct a point on the bank Of the Rio s;eco.
II is understood that the road is TO be
narrow gauge, s14 millimeters Ghrec
teeA between the rails. and from 20 to
, kilometers G3 to Is miles) in length.
1t is to be operated by steam.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1904-01-21
Iowa Supreme Court.

Des Moines, Ia, Jan. I6.--SUprelne
court decisions:
State VS.. Starchvich, appellant, Ap.
panoose, stricken from docket: Ear.
hart VS.. Cowles, appellant, affirmed:
Mcintyre VS.. Ward, appellant, Potta-
vs.. City Of keokul, superior court, az
tirmed; Anderson ct al, appellant, KS
Cameron, superior court of Meokuk. at.
flrned; Moetzel & Muttera VS.. Koch
appellant, Scott, reversed; Murray W.
Wilcox, appellant. Story, reversed
Murray VS.. Wilcox, appellant, sstor;
reversed.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1904-01-21
THE Mind of March

Up from the sea. the wild north wind is
blowing
Under the sky's gray arch;
Smiling. I watch the shaken elm boughs
knowing.
1t Is the wind Of March.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1904-01-21

=, Markneukireilen. Germany, sold in
the United States last year sls7 .ooo
worth Of violins. $4,000 of bows. $780,
40 OF strings and s132. coo of accordians
slu cancertinas. All the raw material
20 .vase articles is imported; the stock
tor Strings all cones r.on Russia.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1904-01-21

OF the eighty or more beet and cane
sugar factories of Spain, all except two
or three have just been merged il a
sugar trust.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1904-01-21

The longest canal in the world is that
which extends from the frontier of Chi
ma to ST. Petersburg, 4,472 miles In
INDIA there are 1900 miles of canal, ir-
rigating 5000 geo acres of land.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1904-01-21

No more striking example of tie vail
ne OF science TO agriculture can be
found than the two discoveries that
cream could be separated from milk by
mechanical means. and that the fat
content of milk could be determined by
simple operation. part mechanical
md part chemical. The contingencies
butter is a thing of the past. and the
fashioned churn and springhouse
nave given place to the modern cream
cry. With Swimming stalinns
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1904-01-21

One hundred Yale students of the
scientific school Will attend the worlds
fair in body next June. Captain A.
S. Smoke, the United States Instructor
IN military tactics at the school, will be
in command of the company
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1904-01-21

In Peru travelling agents are free to
transact business. They are exempt
from ali taxes and need not produce a
trade license or other papers. Sam
pies without value arc free Of duty. All
others are subject to the regular duty.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1904-01-21

There are 14,oUOOeo people In tai,
who can neither read nor write.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1904-07-30
Ly on FoHnty
NEWSPAPER LAW.

I Subscribers rho do not gire express notice 10
The contrary are considered ieishng 10 continue
their absorption.
2 ifsu5scribers order the discontinudnce Of their
periodicals. the publisher may continue 10 send
them until all arrears paid.
ifSubscribers neglect refuse 10 take their pc.
rodicaLs from the office 10 ,chich they directed
they held responsible til they hare settled their
biH aud ord red their paper discontinued.
II subscribers more to other places leithout
Informing the publisher, and the paper Is sent 10 the
former direction they are held responsible.
8 The courts hare dec ided that refusing 10 take
them ancatted for is pTiaG fGeie eridence Of tnten-
tional fraud
8. Any person ThO receives a nstospdper aud
makes use OF IT, t0hethsr he has subscribed for Il or
not. ts held ia lac subscriber.
2. The Postmaster iohO neqiects 10 giue the legal
notice Of the neglect Of person 20 take from the Of
nee the newspaper addressed 10 him liable to the
publisher for the subscription price.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1904-07-30

average is one COW to the acre
The best cows will net profit of
from 81 to S. per month, or $50 a
year upon the average.
The climate of San Benito
county is an ideal one for the
dairy business. During the
winter there is no snow and but
very little stormy weather. 1t IS
not necessary to house the cattle
during the year. Open sheds to
turn the rain in winter answer
every purpose of protection, and
milking is done in the open air
during the greater part of the
year. Sickness among the cattle
is practically unknown. For the
convenience of dairymen, skim
ming stations have been establish
ed at central points, and the cream
only is gathered up by route
agents and conveyed to market.
This does away with the expense
of hauling and enables the dairy
products to go greater distance
seeking market. Numerous in
stances of success might be given,
but brief trip of investigation
through the dairy district, with its
elegant homes, substantial barns,
green fields and sleek-looking
stock, will tell the story more elo-
quently than the relation of a
thousand instances. San Benlto
county wants more population
wants more dairymen, more poul-
try raisers, more orchardiSts, more
small farmers.
The above was written for the
California Promotion Committee
by the San Benito County I'm
provement Club, and what has
been said will aptly apply to
Mason Valley.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1904-07-30
Why lie Locked Like a Hearst Man.

The South is passing around
with great glee the story of a
physiognomist who dropped into
a saloon and announced that he
could tell a mans political prefer
ences by his looks. Knowing
that, of course, they were all
Democrats, he correctly identified
a Cleveland, a Parker, and a
German politician. Then turning
to shopworn individual, he said
"And you're for Hearst"
The victim shot out, you're a
liar I've been sick and in Jail.
That's what makes me look like
thatl"
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1904-07-30

tride with the diseases peculiar to he:
sex. Neglect to-day means worse con-
dition tomorrow.
DIR. Pierces Favorite Prescription is
safe and reliable remedy for the cure Of
diseases peculiarly womanly. 1t estab-
fishes regularity, dries enfeebling drains,
heals Inflammation and liberation and
cures female weakness.
uMy wife, Mrs. Mary Estes, has been taking
your medicine and received great benefit from
It, writes Mr.. Geo. VIM. Estes, of Springgrove,
Va WAS troubled with female weakness.
heavy, bearing down pains, severe pain in back
and head, and tired, worn-out feeling all the
time Tried all the remedies we could hear OFF,
but they did no good Finally we wrote to you
and my wife commenced taking Favorite Pre-
scription.' Took ten bottles, and is in better
health than before in long time We shall
always recommend DR.. Pierce,s Favorite Pre-
scription to all who are thus afflicted"
vFavorite Prescription makes weak
women strong, sick women we'll. Accept
10 substitute for the medicine which
works wonders for weak women.
The Common Sense Medical Adviser,
1908 large pages, in paper covers, is sent
free on receipt of twenty-one one-cent
T.arnps to pay expense of mailing only.
Address Dr. R v. Pierce, Buffalo. N. Y.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1904-07-30

San BenitO county that OF dali
rying is rapidly forging to the
front, adding to the wealth of the
community generally and making
the dairymen independent.
While dairying upon a small
scale has been carried on from an
early period, the development of
the past few years has been some
thing remarkable. The old
methods in vogue-that of milk
ing herds of graded cattle only in
the spring of the year when wild
feed was abundant-has given
way to more scientific and sys-
tematic methods that place the
industry upon sound basis and
make it an all-the-year-round
business proposition.
Improved methods of manu-
facture and handling of dairying
products have brought greater
profits to the dairymen. No long
er is it necessary to await the re-
turn on sales from commission
houses. The dairyman sells his
product for cash and in turn can
pay cash for his own supplies,
and thus a constant stream OF
cash, very circulatory, instills new
life. The old-time dairyman ran
yearly accounts, generally settling
up in what was known as the
"spring flush" His cows were
common stock that were MIXED
only while the grass lasted. The
dairymen of to-day pays as he
goes, for whether he sells to
creamery or factory the money
for his product awaits his call.
He has permanent, prosperous
business that builds good houses,
good barns, buys better stock,
sends the boys and girls to schools
and colleges and puts money in
the bank.
The basic principle of the
dairy business is the feed. Land
is here in endless variety, and
where it can be reached with
water the soil will grow anything
that will grow elsewhere on earth.
The standard feed is alfalfa, which
grows here to perfection.
Underground streams of water
are abundant in all sections OF
the county, and to the extension
of the pumping system is largely
due the development OF the dairy
business. Due north of Hollister
is a Ioo-acre tract of alfalfa be-
longing to Daniel McCloskey.
From three wells the water is
raised thirty feet and carried over
the tract in bitches. Steam is the
power used, with oil as fuel.
The oil is laid down at the plant
for 72 cents per barrel. A care
full accounting shows the cost OF
irrigating this tract, including
labor of irrigating, engineers
wages, etc, to be SIPS per acre.
Near the McCloskey farm is the
Buttingham place, also irrigated
by steam power. Three wells
furnish water for fifty-fve acres
of alfalfa at cost of SI.2o per
acre. Upon this place six crops
of hay were cut last year.
Farther south is the forty-acre
tract belonging to R. Hardin, irrl-
gated with two wells and gaso-
| line engine. Still farther south
IP. ]. Dooling, manager OF the
creamery, has seventy-hve acres
/ a
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1904-07-30
SOME DAIRYING FIGURES
A California County Gives an Example Of
What Gould be Done in Mason Valley.

average of three crops before
pasturing. There are numerous
other pumping plants, the owners
of which are preparing land for
alfalfa, or pumping water for the
use of others, Anywhere in the
valleys water can be obtained at
an average depth of thirty feet,
and centrifugal pumps easily lift
it to the surface. In the heat of
summer, when Old Sol has turned
the alfalfa fields to yellow and
seasoned native grasses, the alfal-
ia fields stand out like oases in
the desert, the cattle waxing fat
and their owners waxing wealthy.
Land suitable for raising alfalfa
may be purchased at from 500 to
SIS per acre. This is not land
under the irrigation canals, but
land upon which water can be de-
veloped and the pumping system
installed. The cost of such in
stallation varies from $40 to $50
per acre. The West Side Irriga-
ton Company, an association OF
landowners, is now completing a
plant northwest of Hollister
which, it is estimated, will irri-
gate 800 acres at primary cost of
$3.50 per acre.
The large Hollister Creamery,
now in its sixth year, has never
received milk enough to work up
to its full capacity. Tests of
milk are made twice a week, or
oftener if demanded, and the
test determines the price to be
paid for the product. For milk
averaging 4 per cent. butter fat,
payments will average about 81
per 100 pounds the year round.
The highest price ever received
for butter was 38 cents per pound,
and the lowest 10 cents. Taking
out the cost of manufacture, and
a slight profit, the balance is
divided among the dairymen.
Scattered all through the country
are innumerable cheese factories,
some of them upon the cooper
ative plan, but others individual
enterprises. All are meeting with
success and disposing of their
product in the various markets
of the State.
But a new and greater market
is looming up for the dairymen of
San Benito county, a market that
will call for a fourfold expansion
within a very short time. In one
of the suburbs of Hollister there
is now in course of erection an
evaporated cream factory, which
was located in Hollister through
the California Promotion Com
mittee. This institution will re-
quire many tons of milk daily to
meet the demand for its product,
and expects to have milk shipped
in from all points within fifty
miles of it. That this may be
possible, an extremely low freight
rate per hundred pounds has been
guaranteed. The factory will
have a capacity for working up
twelve tons of milk daily, and its
product will only be limited by
the amount of milk obtained.
A careful estimate is given of
the number of cows that can be
kept upon an acre of alfalfa.
Where the growth is vigorous
and constant, each two acres will
easily feed three cows and allow
IL
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1904-09-07
The Children.
The Beautiful Land of Nod.

Come, cuddle your head my shoulder, DEAR
Your head like the golden rod,
And will go sailing away from here
To the beautiful Land of Nod
Away from lfe's hurry and furry and worry
Away from earths shadows and gloom,
To world of fair weather we'll float off together
Where roses are always in bloom.
Just shut UP your eyes, and fold your hands,
Your hands like the leaf of a rose
And we will go sailing to those fair lands
That atlas shows.
On the north and the west they bounded by rest,
On the south and the east by dreams;
IT'S country ideal, where nothing is real,
But everything only seems
Just drop down the curtain of your dear eyes,
Those eyes like the bright blue bell,
And we will sail out under starlit skies,
To the land where the fairies dwell.
Down the river of sleep our barque shall sweep
Till it reaches that mystical isle
Which man hath SEEM but where all have been,
And there will pause awhile.
| will Groom you song float along,
To that shore that is blessed of God.
Then no for that fair land we're off for that rare
land,
That beautiful Land of Nod.
Ella Wheelsr Wicor.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1904-09-07
ITO be Continued
Roth and Naomi.

Edith" said grandma, a lonely little girl went
up the road "why don't you play with Amy now?"
Grandmothers have time to think although their
fingers are the busiest; and this grandma has seen
Amy dropped from the little circle of paynates She
knew, too, what trouble had come to Amy's home
81 don't know" said Edith
You used to go to Amy's often, and no one en-
Joyed her carriage than Edith"
'She always asked me- grandma, and her mother
was glad
Wouldn't she be glad to have you now?"
Perhaps" said Edith; "but things seemed so diff
terent after their home Sold 1 felt queer and
Amy felt queer So stayed away"
If L were Edith" said grandma speaking SLOWLY
to some one far away, I'D go to Amy and give back
some OF the pleasure she gave me long ago"
Grandma went on sewing, and Edith read her book
Suddenly She sprang up, dropped the book on the
table and not long after another little girl went I'D
the road.
Amy said Edith, going into the tiny parlor "Pve
brought you some of the apples you like from our
orchard Didn't we have fun bobbing for them in
your kchen?"
"OhP said Amy. Then what do you think she
did? Sat down and cried
why, Amy aren't you glad Gamer"
80 glad, I'm just finding out how sorry [ wasr
"Pll never stay away again." said Edith. putting
her around Amy
did you play Ruth and Naomi?" asked grandma.
when Edith told her about it, with flushed cheeks
Il don't know what you mean grandma"
Ruth said with Naomi when she needed her
badly-when she had lost everything else"
Amy hasn't lost everything else but she won't
lose me either, grandma, darling"
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1904-09-07
Seq TENDER Z,

round, with mock courtesy now and them if far
enough from her pursuer, until at last captured by
the Spanish knight; after which the play
peated until all the daughters were taken.
ms game as is very apparent, recalls something of
the manners and customs of ancient times when am
bassadors were sent from SPAIN and many other
lands, with gold and jewels, to purchase bride for
their royal masters, incidentally for themselves
1t has been perpeuated for many centuries and be-
longs to class of games which are interesting and
Of value for their historic associations.
Another singing game called Goats peas beans
and barley grows" might as the forerunner of
the kindergarten plays of the present day. 1t was
certainly with great delight that the children of a
generation ago formed in ring and crcled round,
singing:
Oats, pease, beans and barley grows,
Oats, pease, beans and barley grows.
YOU nor |, man knows
How oats pease, beans, and barley grows"
Then one OF our number, with great dignity and
Importance, stepped into the middle of the ring and
sang the following lines, with appropriate motions
IN which all the others joined:
"Thus the farmer sows his seed
Stands erect and takes his ease
Stamps his foot clasps his hands,
And turns around to view his lands"
This game, with equivalent formula is played
IN sweden France, Germany, Spain, and Italy and is
doubtless survival of the choral dance of the ancient
Greek peasants.
In all of these pastmes, as has been noted the
music the words and the action of the game combine
to give zest and interest to the play These elements
appeal directly to the child nature. All children have
an Unborn love of rhythmic notion and play that
would be dull with only its words becomes delight
when accompanied by music and action This is
recognized principle of which the modern kindergar-
ten teachers take advantage as they weave into
their school plays many songs of nature of science
and of patriotism well of manners and morals
FOrVard
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1904-09-07
The Folklore of Childhood.
BY EMMA HUNTINGTON MASON.
The Games of Dor Childhood.
London Bridge is falling down,
Falling down, falling down,
London Bridge is falling down,
Nv fair lady,"
My fair lady"

Are there any American boys and girls, in these
days, who have not played London Bridge? If
they have missed of the greatest pleasures of
childhood, for this game, which very popular
generation ago, is of the most spirited and de-
lghtul in the long list of sports known to children.
1t has the combined charms of song, of rhythmic
movement, and of dramatic action Its interest
flags and it ends with a climax of intense excite
ment Wv"
Tn playing this game, two children usually chosen
by the time -honored Counting out method repre-
sent the arch of the bridge by claspng each others
hands and holding them high they reach
The rest of the players form in endless chain and
march under the arch while all sing
London Bridge is falling down,
Falling down, falling down,
London Bridge is falling down,
My fair lady"
At the word Gladly" the arch descends and cap
lures the unlucl<y child who happens to be caught
beneath Usually, however, there is much hurrying
and scurryng at this point child darling ahead
and others holding back that they may not be caught
and thus sometimes, amidst shouts of dscomhting
laughter the Inundated Bridge is obliged to lift its
arch and try again at the next repetition of the words
"My fair lady" When one of the players is cap
tured the chain again closes, and the rest Of the
children march round singing:
"Of to prison she must go
She must go, she must 60
Off to prison she must go,
My fair lady"
When all the children captured and put in
prison they called upon by the two leaders who
have formed the arch Of the bridge, to choose sides
whereupon both parties join in a rough-and tumble
conflict known the tug O war; at the close Of
which London Bridge and all the participants in the
game pretty thoroughly demolished.
This is a game which has been equally popular
with boys and girls for many generations. When or
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1904-09-07

where it first played, we do not know but it is
certainly of very ancient origin The rhymes as here
given are popular form, evidently derived or sug
gested by the interesting old English ballad entitled
London Bridge" and beginning:
London Bridge is falling down,
Dance DER my lady Lee;
London Bridge is falling down
With gay lady"
The Washington times., 1904-11-27
COTTON MARKET CLOSING
MANY POINTS HIGHER

NEW YORK, Nov. 2G-LiverpOol
cables were surprisingly firm today.
Due TO come about . points lower. the
Liverpool market opened at a decline
OF 9 points. but was rapidly rallied and
closed at a net advance of 405 points.
This was probably the result Of cover
ing, and local traders in the absence OF
private advices, jumped To the conclu-
sion that leading local bears had had a
hand in the rally with "a view 10 max
ing a selling basis i'm the local market.
This view was sufficient 20 keep the
room element bearish, and those who
had covered short lines on yesterday
showed a disposition 20 put ont fresh
contracts.
The market consequently, after open
ing firm at an advance of Gul points,
ruled easier, and had an unsettled look.
with trading fairly active. The market
closed very steady. with prices TO u
points higher
The spot market closed quiet. with
prices unchanged to the basis of go for
middling upland.
Today's closing: November, 924a9 %;
December 92lu92S; January 93Sa93g;
March. 3.5JH3a5. May, sos asked July.
e.7309.l5