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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-20

lit being reported from London that Rudyard
Klpling IS engaged upon a series of parodies Of
the colony beyond the Styx, was deputed TO reply
in kind.l
What ben We people readynge now?" inquired
We Bookyshe Shade.
''Ye parodyes. ye parodyes." We Ghostile Sales
What Parodyes be these you speaker inquired
EYE ones Rud Kypynge turneth QUITE" We
Ghostlie Salesmanne sayde.
He VS. pickynge quite outeIandyshe wordes. soc
difflculte toe spelle.
And twystinge up we poetrie that we have writ
And-here he hath We bulge on us,-he knoweth
howe toe selle
Ye parodye he maketh evere mornynge."
Lest we forget, lest we forget" we Bookyshe
1T beates ye bellies of Mandalaye" we Sales
name made reptile.
Butte that's another storie" sayde we Shade of
Brookyshe mynde
"A penne. page. a horne of ynke" we Sales
manne theme outlyned.
He VS. gryndynge QUITE goodbye lot of 'ye.'
and 'whych.' and VS.
And tanglynge uppe ye alphabette inne thys new
For Kyplynge hath a goodie eye-a goodlie eye
A parodie he maketh everie mornyge."
"Eres to you. fuzze wuzzie:' smyled ye
ut beates ye just So stories" sighed We Sales
name all forlorne
LET Homer smash hys bloomynge Tyre" 70
Byte Shakespeare asks that privilege" ye
Salesmanne theme did shoute.
"Byle Shakespeare saves butte waite untyile thys
kypynge turnes toe himme.
And theme his chances Will be smalle and
wylle be myghtie simme.
'odsbloodi II irketh to Kyp's purse fyIled
toe We brimme-
parodie he selleth everie mornynge"
w ID. Nesbit in Chicago Tribune.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-20

New York Times.

New York Times.
Mr.. Francis w. Halsey formerly literary
editor of the New York Times) has pre-
pared a small book which is designed To
instruct authors in the purely mechanical
requirements of authorship. the preparation
of manuscript. the correction OF proofs and
the like. II begins with an apology to the
few authors who know how these things
ought 10 be done. but Mr.. Halsey, who must
be compelled TO glance. at least. over some
thousands Of authors manuscripts every
year, undoubtedly has a clear idea OF the
general ignorance OF writing folks In regard
TO their relations TO the printer He has
attempted politely TO put instruction within
the reach of these persons He cannot en-
dow would-be authors with imagination,
taste or style. but a reading of his book will
inform any one how TO prepare manuscript
for the printer so as 10 earn that formida-
Bile persons good viii.
Probably manuscript thus carefully pre-
pared stands better chance Of careful
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-20
In the Literary World


of Pennsylvania, or an Edison of New
Jersey turned loose to work with his own
hands gets a lot of fun out of il, and
can't see the tragedy in it, But for real
Blake of Virginia the humiliation is SUI
preme. His heart is filled with deep, dark
thoughts of revenge; nothing but blood
will wipe out the yellow stain of the to-
bacco on his fingers. How that revenge is
accomplished is told in the 500 pages of the
novel. The whole structure of it's motives
seems to belong to an alien peop.e. Its
standards of honor, its foolish pride, its
hate and revenge and love-all read like the
vagaries of spoiled children who are fright
ened at shadows and fight windmils.
Hamlet of Denmark and Don Quixote OF
Spain ought to have been born in the to-
baCcO belt.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-20
The Abiding Record.

4 man of Nineveh wrote on bricks of clay.
Firc-tried and hardened to preserve his fame
But nothing of his records left to-day
To stir mans praises or evoke his blame.
A man of Memphis heaped great piles OF stone,
That memory OF his deeds might never die;
But changing years that record have undone
And made IL barren TO the human eye.
A man OF Galilee wrote on the sand
sad faced and Thoughtful. rocking not OF fame;
And To- the world still has his message, and
The nations know and reverence His name,
&C. J. Augustin, in Chicago Inter-Ocean.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-20

AVE youse got the Cinderella
book?"
Say, do you know If any Of
the Little Colonel stories is
in?"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-20

is a very big country, and the ap-
petite for fiction in recent years
seems to be as big as the coun-
try, says a writer in Golfers
Weekly. Millions of people must
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-20
Chaucer RetOrts.

lit being reported from London that Rudyard
Kipling is engaged upon series of PAROLES OF
the English poets Godfrey Chaucer. as dean OF
the colony beyond the Styx, was deputed TO reply
in kind
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-20

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The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-06-10
ALL AROUND THE FARM.

Plants derive their substance chiefly
from the air, as all the carbohydrates
are supplied by the air, and those ele-
ments come into the plant through the
leaves and comprise many times the
bulk Of that derived from the soil.
On many farms there are muck
swamps that might be made a source
of value, especially where nitrogen is
wanting in the other soils.
The cow pea is worthy of more at
tention that it has received, though
it is receiving attention every
year.
The larger part of a deeayed plant
Is of no value for manure, but may
help the mechanical structure OF the
soil.
There was never a time ia the his
tory of the world when agriculture
was as popular as at the present time.
The exhaustion OF the humus in a
soil frequently renders it almost un-
tillabie.
The first carr Of tie farmer should
be to maintain the fertility OF his
land.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-06-10
PICKED PERSONALITIES.

1t is claimed that no man in the world
knows more about affairs in Asia than
Col. Younghusband.
President Roosevelt has delivered $40
speeches within two and a half years. 1t
is said he has broken the record.
J. P. Morgan is n of the great smok-
ers of the country. His black cigars are
made especially for him in Havana.
Representative Hardwicke, of Georgia,
is SO young looking that visitors to the
capitol building often mistake him for
a boy.
Senator Beverage, Of Indiana, takes
great interest in military affairs. He
failed of examination for West Point
years, ago.
Alfred bennett, at one time famous
for the ownership of restaurants in
numerous cities, Is in the insane asylum
at San Francisco.
Sir Henry Thompson, an eminent Eng
lish surgeon, who died recently at the
age Of "a, was one Of the most earnest adj
vocates of cremation.
Sallis ]. S. White, Kentucky's first fe-
male negro lawyer, will receive her de-
gree from the law school of the colored
state university on May 10.
John E. Parsons, for 20 years presi-
dent Of the General Memorial hospital
of New York has worked steadily during
that time to find a cure for cancer.
Miss Alice Dunlap, of Peru, Ind, has
been a telegrapher in the Western Union
Office at that town for IS years and for
% years has been the manager of the Of
fee.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-06-10
MISTAKES TO BE AVOIDED,
Cultivation of Drilled Corn Is Not Eff
fective Unless the Work Is
Done Right.

1t Is generally conceded that more
corn can be grown On an acre in drills
than in hills, but in weedy land the
great trouble is to keep drilled corn
clean and free from weeds. The great
mistake in c%ultivating drilled corn
usually is made at the first working,
when shovels Of medium size are used
and small burrows left close to the
rows. We find it no harder to keep
drilled corn free from weeds than it is
to keep hill corn clean, by using the
smoothing harrow across the rows Just
as oon as the corn is up. In foul or
five days a second narrowing may be
given and then the cultivators be set
to work.
Avoid leaving any furrow close to
the rows, and also be sure not to throw
a ridge Of earth up to the plants. Keep
the land just as level as possible the
first two OF three workings and then
as the plants begin to shade the ground
they will do much to smother out
weeds. The later cultivation OF any
corn is best given by a one-horse five
shovel ~cultivator, instead of the two
horse riding implement, as with the
former one can go very shallow and
keep at any desired distance from thu
growing corn. We believe there are too
many high-priced riding cultivators
and not enough small one-borse imple-
ments used. The latter, diligently
used, insure clean crops.-Farmers'
Voice.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-06-10
WALL P N

They are suitable for pretty parlors.
drawing-rooms, reception rooms and
boudoirs.
Papers of this kind, when used in g
single gentle color, give an air OF rich
ness and luxury to an apartment.
For libraries and dining-rooms there
come other fabric effects as burlaps,
canvas weaves and gobelin tapestries.
Fabric effects are seen in some Of the
new wall papers, silks. satin and water
or moire surfaces being faithfully rep
resented.
Soft old rose, canary yellow, nan
DARN yellow, silver and green and rob-
ms egg blue are delightful in silken
surfaced papers.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-06-10
Sleeping Gar Service to worlds Fair.

On June list the Minneapolis 81 st. Louis
i-naugurated another through sleeping car
between TIE Twin Cities n st. Louis.
which is evidence OF the Increasing popu-
iarity Of the through st. Louis service es-
tablished by that lime q little more than d
year ago. The new car is of Pullrran's
best, and leaves st. Paul on train No. 9,
800 o.. M. daily except Sunday, Minneapo-
lis 9:35 q. M, arriving at st. Louis Union
Depot 7:l5 q. m. following morning.
As with the through sleeping car now
running on No. 8, .sThe North Star Linn
ited,n the above service will be very popu-
lar and convenient for Worlds Fair visit
ors. The train will arrive at Worlds Fair
Station Opposite main entrance to the
grounds) at 700 a. M, thus ~obviating the
necessity and Inconvenience to passengers
of going into the Union Depot and return,
as well as the saving Of at least two hours
time.
Prospective visitors to the Exposition
should not fail to consult agents, or adj
dress A. B. Cults, g. P.&T. a., Mime
apolis, Mimi, for further information as
to our low rates, car service, etc. Also
ask for Guide to the Worlds Fair"
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-06-10
VARIOUS ODDITIES

The BAMBOO has been known IA or,u
two feet in "A hours.
While riding q pig around q ward in
Paris, a young butcher named I,aeire fall
on, fracturing his skull n dislocat-
Ing his ankle.
A~nye-year-old Philadelphia who was
sent across the continent with a tag di-
recting him to his destination. reached
San Francisco safely.
A Chicago woman had all winter a
tame butterfly that has Just died. It
did not cost much to keep this butterfly,
Tor all 1T ate was one drop of honey eyery
three days.
A plumber Of White Plains, N. Y.
while digging a trench near his home
last Saturday, found a solid silver button
that had been worn by a British officer
in the revolutionary war.
Because the bride could not under
stand English and the bridegroom could
not understand German, County Judge
G. w. Murray, of Springfield, Ill, found
1t necessary, the other day. to perform
a wedding in the two languages.
~ IAS1O 10 tuS AuSpeCtlOu Oh S1lVcI
coins before they come from the mint
hat a defective piece is a rare thing.
Yet Eugent Young, Of Portsmouth, N.
H, has a dime OF the coinage of 1903, and
it shows where the die slipped and
pushed the milled edge over. Bank
clerks claim that it is extremely rare
than such a piece is seen.
The largest pillow in the world is owned
by Richard Grid, Of San Bernardino
county, California. This immense agri-
cultural machine stands IS fest high and
weighs $4,000 pounds. 1t uns by
steam, is provided with IL 12-inch plow-
shares, and is capable OF blowing so
acres of land per day. 1t consumes from
one to one and a half tons of coal per
day, and usually travels at the rate OF
four miles an hour.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-06-10
LOTS or FARMS LEFT YET.
Public Domain Is Not by Any Means
Exhausted, as Some Would
Have Us Believe.

Tho material development Of the
country is quietly progressing at a re-
markable rate in one direction which is
not given much popular attention.
More than e. 24,2 99 acres of the pub
lie lands were turned over to private
individuals last year. This means that
an area almost equal to that of tho
state OF Indiana has within that time
been added to the productive regions
OF the United States. Most of these
newly opened lands were homesteaded
by farmers. as will be seen from the
following figures: There were 81, 1865
patents of all classes issued within tho
year. OF this number AZ, ,654 are classed
as agricultural, 1904 as Indian allot-
ments, 1,104 as mineral patents, 200 as
coal patents, z76 as private land claims,
l87 as railroad patents and 40 as
swamp land patents. The total sum
which the government got by way of
ices and commissions for issuing these
patents was $11,024,744. Under a re-
cent law the most of the receipts from
the sale of public lands will hence
forth be set aside for retaining arid
lands by irrigation.
In the public domain there are still
unappropriated 3So,979,3O7 acres Of
surveyed lands and 591, GIG, 1863 acres Of
unsurveyed lands, a total of more
than $685. 900 acres. A great many
tracts in this immense area, of course.
Will always remain uncultivated ana
unsettled, but it has been estimated
that when the contemplated system of
irrigation shall be put into working
order SO much good land will be
opened that a population as large as
the whole nations present population
could find room there to thrive pros
perously and contentedly.
Rapid strides are now being made in
the developing Of the public domains.
The excitement and uproar of former
pioneer days are absent in this work.
put h process is marked and very eff
fectiVe. The passenger traffic on west
ern railroads is evidence of this fact,
Agreeable reflections arise in contem-
plating that the United States still
owns so much arabic public land. The
dangers OF an overcrowded population
oy immigration or natural increase are
stllI remote. The census for MANY
years yet to come will not show an ex-
cess OF people above what the ives.
VIII need in settling up its vacant
lanos.-kansas City Journal.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-06-10
WORK FOR GIRLS.
Government Will Give Help Free to
Those Who Want to Try Silk
Worm Culture.

The department of agriculture is in
vestigating the possibilities of silk
worm culture in the United States. To
persons wishing to experiment, and
who can furnish proper food for the
worms, the department is distributing
free of charge a small quantity of silk
worm eggs, and also a manual Of in
structions. The proper food for silk
worms consists of leaves from &ne diff
ferent varieties Of white mulberry tree
and the Usage orange. The paper null
berry with the fuzzy leaves) is not
suitable, o is the common red null
berry. AS the season is now open ap-
plications for the eggs should be made
at once, and must be accompanied by
a statement as to the number and kind
of mulberry trees or the amount of
Usage orange which the applicant pos
sesses, otherwise the eggs will not be
sent. IT the variety OF the mulberry is
not known to the applicant a sample of
large leaves should be sent to the de-
partment. The department Of aericui-
ture buys the cocoons which the worms
spin, paying for them CATER they have
been dried IS cents to one dollar a
pound, according to their quality. The
work will prove an ~intere.ting pastima
for women and children who can do
vote to It odd minutes during the day.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-06-10
LINZ TATIoNs OF GENIUS.
Men Who Are Great in One Profess
sion Are Seldom Fitted
5af Isl for Any Other.

10 be a great lawyer is incompatible
with being a great poet, a y Notes and
Queries. Nevertheless, Shakespeare was
fond OF showing his little legal knowl-
edge and Bacon has written some verse.
There have been writer's of eminence,
like Walter Scott and Thackeray. who
were lawyers by profession, but they
must have made law quite subordinate
to literature, although some of them.
like Walter Scott, have got money by
following the law. Hoffman, the author
Of THE Pot of Gold,' and other mag
NATIVE stories, was a man of genius, who
was also a judge or a magistrate.
think, however, that his legal duties sat.
lightly on him. His connection with the
law seems somewhat similar to that of
Walter Scott. 1t vas neither absorbing
nor permanent. Politicians TURF to lit
erature. literary men, like Chateau
BRAND and Lamartine, have held high
places as politicians, but they never
were real statesmen, and l should not
call them men of great genius. A man
of action may be great in o fields
than one julius Caesar and Napoleon
Bonaparte were statesmen andgenerals,
but they were not, and could not be.
poets, though Julius Caesar was a writer.
Among the ancient Greeks, and the later
Spaniards and Portuguese, we find poets
who were soldiers, and even generals.
They, however, were not wholly mil
itary. Only a part, and sometimes a
small part, of their lives was spent in
service. Horace's experienced of war was
very short, and, although he was a milf
tary tribune, he was not a distinguished
soldier. A man may be excellent in
more ways than one, but he cannot be
a man of genius in two different ways.
"A few instances, such as that of Sheri-
dan, might be given which seem to be ex-
ceptions to the rule; 1 doubt whether
they are so. The same inclination made
Sherman an orator and a writer OF COM
edy.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-06-10
PROFIT IN ILLICIT STILLS.
The Evil Will Hardly Ever Be
Stamped Out So Long as It
Pays So Well.

Although the makers Of illicit whisky
are punished by heavy fines whenever
they are detected, nearly all of them get
rich. At least, few abandon the occu-
patton until they can retire from it with.
a competence, says the Chicago Chron-
icle. One of the most experienced of the
federal revenue inspectors, who has
raided scores of stills during his official
career and who has had many battles
with the outlaws and heard the bullets
from their guns whistle past him, who
has often crouched behind rocks and
stood behind trees, and WHIP has done his
share in trying to stamp out the mis-
c%reants, said recently, in speaking of
blockaders and moonshine whisky:
Il have been a revenue officer for
about 25 or 80 years and have seen all
kinds of service, under all kinds Of cir
cumstances, and l don't believe blockade
ing or Illicit distilling will ever be
stopped. The reason for my belief, and
am not the only one, is simply this:
There is such a large profit in the BUSH
ness that the temptation is too great for
most of that class of people regardless Of
the law, not needing what has befallen
fellow m~oonshiners. Even forgetting
n a they nave once been caught or sus-
pected and that the eyes of the officers
are on them, they go fright ahead and dis
TIL the grain. But at the same time they
are on the lookout for raids, and have
their guns ever ready to send a piece Of
lead into their discoverer. They are
good shots, too, hardly ever missing
when they have a fair opportunity to
take aim.
Twill give you an idea of how cheap
ly moonshine whisky is made and the
immense profits that are reaped from
its sale. They take one gallon of cheap
black Tnolasses, which costs about 80
cents; two bushels of meal, costing 65
cents per bushel, and some water. This
Is made into a mash, allowed to ferment,
and the stuff then goes through the
process of Evaporation. This amount of
meal, water and molasses makes four
gallons of whisky, which is sold for two
dollars a gallon. Anyone can see the
immense profit from this illustration.
"Latterly brown sugar has been used
instead of molasses, and is a great deal
cheaper. The sugar costs about four and
a half cents a pound; there are 800
pounds in a barrel, making it cost $3.50
per barrel. An immense amount OF mo-
lasses is made from a barrel of sugar, and
the profit is almost twice as great as in
using the first method. Distillers are
captured every day, and when they are
sent 70 prison others take their places.
n thu the perpetual flow of white
lightning"
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-06-10
Her Solitude.

They had just telephoned from down
town that hubby was seriously injured
and fast losing consciousness.
The poor wife was distracted.
Grief. perplexity, evaporation, were
on her face.
At last she gasped into the mouth
piece of the telephone:
suspect | cannot get down there in
time for my new hat hasn't come from
the milliner's yet, But If | can't, please
ask him, before he loses consciousness,
what he did with the theater tickets for
tonight.
And6then, her grief obtaining mastery,
she fell in a dead faint.-Baltimore
American.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-06-10
When Cutting Short Grain.

When cutting very short grain with
a harvester. considerable dIficulty is
often experienced. as the short cut
grain will accumulate upen@the sickle
bar in such quantity as to clog the
sickle. And It will be found that If the
reel is lowered enough to prevent this,
the short grain is thrown too q back
upon the platform ard scattered so
badly that it cannot be properly bound
into bundles without great loss. TO
avoid this, get some very heavy can
vas. ten inches wide, and fasten it with
tacks the full length OF the reel Stats,
and this will sweep the grain gently
onto the platform and thus avoid
WasteSFarm Journal.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-06-10
TURN OVER TIME
when Mature Hints About Food

y HE+ LSNE A.E-E
When there's no relishto any food and
all that n eats doesn't seem to do any
good then is the time to make a turn
over in the diet, for that's Natures way
of dropping a hint that the food isn'tthe
kind required.
For a number of years / followed
railroad work, much Of it being office
work Of a trying nature. Meal times
were u busiest and eating too much
and too quickly of food such as is com
monty served in hotels and restaurants,
these together with the sedentary habits
were not long in giving me dyspepsia
and stomach trouble which reduced my
weight from 205 to $50 pounds.
There was little relishin any food and
none of 1t seemed to do me any good. It
seemed the more I ate the poorer I got
and was always hungry before another
meal, no matter how much / had eaten.
Then I commenced a fair trial OF
Grape-Nuts and was surprised how a
small saucer OF it would carry me along,
strong and with satisfied appetite. until
the next meal, with no sensations OF
hunger, weakness or distress as before.
have been following this diet now
for several months and my improvement
has been SO great all the others In my
family have taken up the use Of Grape
Nuts with complete satisfaction and
much Improvement In health and brain
power.
american people undoubtedly eat
burriodlv no Nc 1nfc ~ n,orrx, +b,sc hsnd-