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The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-02-13

A learned biologist named Conrad
has just discovered that sauerkraut
contains microbes, says the New York
World. 1t is they that eyhale the gas
that gives to this dish its characters
bodies. and each is provided with tiny
hairs. However, they are absolutely
innocuous, their dlscov5:er announces,
and one can eat his sauerl.vaut with
impunity, microbes and all.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-02-13
"Chesiy" got into the dictionary list

"Chesty" got into the dictionary list
last summer and perhaps no longer de-
serves quotation marks. Now ito jol.
~" has made its way into a Circuit
Court decision and thus become e.lgi-
BILE for photographic honors. as n
word conveying a shade of meaning
for which there is no synonym it is
doubtless entitled to place among
regular terms of speech.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-02-13
An Inhabited Volcano.

About forty miles from the Japan
ese town of Kumamoto there is a
seemingly eXtingulshed volcano, in the
crater of which a town numbering
some 10000 inhabitants has been built.
The surrounding SOL, cs usual in those
places, is extremely fertile. The loca-
ton Of this city is certainly unique.
The iNhnbi.onts seldom leave their
city, which Is surrounded by high
wall.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-02-13
It appears from statistics recent

It appears from statistics recently
published by the military authorities
at Tokyo that the recruits for the Jap.
anese Army are growing taller. The
measurements show that the number
above the mean height OF five feet four
inches has increased two per cent,
while the number of recruits below
that statue has decreased six per cent.
The Russians declare that the heads
OF the japanese have grown bigger
since their war with China. Here Is
one race, at least, which shows none
OF the symptoms Of degeneracy which
have so greatly alarmed British
prench, German and other European
statisucians.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-02-13
Secretary Shaw, in n recent a

Secretary Shaw, in recent address,
in Chicago. declared that single
Western city (Minnear olls) now manu-.
features and sends abroad carload
Of flour for every ten minutes of Gay
and night. tie year round. He said
also that the Detroit River lone OF the
links in the Great Lakes traffic. carries
four times as much tonnage as does the
Suez Canal. The significance o. these
figures Is tremendous; but It must be
remembered that they represent only
small fraction Of the whole com.
merce.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-02-13

Cats in Japan almost universally
have short tails, says an authority, and
If q cat does come into the world with
a lengthy caudal appendage it is usu-
ally chopped off, for the Japs detect a
likeness to snakes in the long tail and
cannot endure it. The Japanese cat
has the usual number OF bones in its
tail, but they are not developed.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-02-13

Elaborate explanations of the fail.
ures of flying machines may make iii.
teresting reading, but such explana-
tons accomplish nothing Of practical
value and do not silence the skeptics.
The way to resume specie payments
was to resume, and the flying machine
which does not fly is little better than
cheap junk.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-02-13

The suicide OF girl student at the
Nebraska State Univ ersity is attrib-
uted to mental depression habitual
with her as a result of having been n
travelling hypnotist's subject" 1t is
just as well to have nothing to do with
such uncanny experiments, either
through mere curiosity or bravado.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-02-13
THE SPELLING BEG.

The s2eilin' bee wuz started fine
With Susy near the head,
An ! wuz mex to her in line,
An saw her checks 90 red.
got through "phthisis," "extrophy,s
And 'voltigeur" all right;
But lookin' in her eyes, they both
Got into "rhyncholite."
An some way, then, ! don't know how
Our hands begun to jine,
An Susy spells her last name now
The same way | do mine.
-McLandblrgh Wilson, in the New Yor6
Sun.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-02-13
No Race Suicide Among the Fishes.

Perhaps few people w..o eat tishballs
and salmon salad know that II 1t were
not for the persistent work Of the
Fisheries Commission both the cod
and the salmon would be exterminated.
In fact, constant battle is going on
between the Fisheries Commission and
the enemies of the cod and salmon,
These two kinds of ash cannot repro
duce themselves fast enough to sur.
vive and have to be protected by tine
United States Government.
The latest report of the Fisheries
Commission says that 44,000,000 sal
mon are Matched every year in the
Government hatcheries, and more than
3S, 900, 900 cod. Three steamships, six
special cars and twenty-five hatcheries
are now in use. ut would take sever
nj books" says the Scientific Ameri-
con, ito tell tile whole story Of the
work done by the Fisheries Commits
Sion" Some day perhaps. the Gov
eminent may do as much to help the
tiny babies OF the slums as 1t does now
to protect young Goldfish.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-02-13

The Ameer of Kabul rescued his peo-
pie from a cholera epidemic by order
ing them not to eat vegetables or fruit
until further orders. This is the bor.
ror Of living under despotism. The
freeborn American would have died OF
cholera before he would bave Welded
his right to eat what he CHOSE.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-02-13

Good Health says that meat owes its
harmful properties chiefly to two
things: First, the germs. or microbes,
which may give rise to disease In the
flesh which is eaten; and. second, poi
sons which may naturally exist in the
flesh or which may have been produced
in it by putrefac,lon. The germs are
killed by cooking, but the poisonous
substances found in meat either n
the result OF decay, as has frequently
been observed in canned salmon. 3r as
the result of ordinary tissue activity,
are not destroyed by cooking. All
flesh contains these poisonous sub.
stances. Uric acid Is present in beef
steak in the proportion OF fourteen
grains TO the pound; nineteen grains
Of the poison are found in pound Of
liver. and seventy grains in n pound
Of sweet bread. The poisonous sub
stances gradually accumulate in the
body and give rise to neurasthenia,
Bright's disease. calculus and numer-
GUS other maladies. The poisons pro.
duced by putrefactlon are often very
rapidly deadly. Meat far advanced in
decay, condition frequently found
In wild game and canned meats or
fish, in which the putrefacslve pro.
cesses have begun, all contain polsons
which are deadly in very small doses,
and the cooking Of such substances
does not to any appreciable degree
lessen their poisonous properties, ms
these poisons are not destroyed by
heat.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-02-13
An effort is being made in Missouri

An effort is being made in Missouri
to save the deer from complete de.
struction. The wanton destruction of
such animals in this country is ap.
parent. and law in their favor would
be welcomed. III New England legis.
lation has caused multiplication Of
the deer that is surprising.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-02-13

Secretary Wilson suggests that tho
way to provide the people of India
with three meals day, In place of
one, is to teach them to raise beans and
peas to 20 along with their rice.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-02-13
walked on tho Thames.

A middle-aged man II white Jersey
the other day performed the feat of
walking along the Thames, going
ashore near Waterloo Bridge. Two
planks, painted white, and about three
yards IN length, were fixed to his feet.
He carried single oar, which he
scarcely uSe2
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-02-13

According to learned Scientist, an
ahle.bodled sunnower sucks up las
pounds of water in its life time" and
1t doesn't grow in Wall Street, either.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-02-13
g:,!5!ssSSIs>4e
@TAsTEe
Some fools aud their money are part.

- - - -
Some fools aud .heir money are part.
ed only by death.-Puck.
Algy-"Oh, your sister is out? win
you tell her | called?' Eloise--"Why.
l did."-Puck.
An open confession may be good aor
the soul, but 1t is a bad thing for the
lawyers for the defense.-Puck.
The man who owes you money may
or may not think great deal of you.
but 1t Is certain that the man to whom
you owe money thinks of you great
deal.-Puck
Wife docking up from paper)-
what was 'Hobson's choice, any
wayT Husband-"Mrs. Hobson,
suppose. Chicago Daily News
And so Professor Gustavus has at
last discovered the missing link!
Where did he find it?' "Under the
bureau, | suppose. "-Baltimor News.
with hash and stew and 'potpie,'"
Cried Eoarder Number One,
This doing roast beef over
Is being overdone."
Philadelphia Press.
Charlie Is so unpractical!' whats
he done nowY' 'Why, the poor fell
low was down In the kitchen trying
to press his trousers with a waffle
iron" baltimore News.
Actor-"Hdrry. or wen miss tho
train" Actress-"I can't find my dia-
monds or my purse" "Oh, well. never
mind" YES, but the purse had $40
in it."-New York Weekly.
Shell noticed every time they
cheered or yelled, the speaker took
long drink OF water" He-"Yss, he
was trying to help them drawn his
voice. "-Yonkers Statesman.
Mr.. Mann-"My, but you're fright
in those things. Where's the cook ?"
Mrs. Mann-"Sh! Don't disturb her.
She's taking her piano lesson in the
parlor. chelsea (Mass.) Gazette.
To-day no credit comes to you
For being nobe wise OF great;
The advertisers say it's due
Entire.y TO the foods you ate
Washington star.
Sniff. II see that an ancient poem.
supposed to have been written by HO-
mer, has just come to light" Shave
"Ah, he had SEM it to some magazine
that paid on publication, suppose
Judge.
Towne-"Blll Kayrliss tells me YOU
vent with him ON Il cunning trip last
week. Have any luck?" Browne
Splendid" Towne-"You 1idp
Browne-"Of course. Here l am b. elk
safe and sound, amt IT'-Philadeiphi
Press.
"Oh, we've got an easy thing this
time" said the confidence man who
had been prospecting for a victim"
sure" "Oh, positive. Why. I've
rounded up fellow who thinks he's
too smart to he done by any ONE
Chicago Evening Post.
Mrs. Wunderiy-"Why, thought
you had two little boys?" Mrs. KnOwL
toni did have two, but since the
Fourth Of July, when Tommy didn't
.inow the giant firecracker was light.
ed, / have had only one and frac-
ton" -.Iarpers Eazar.
"What can be more pathetic" said
the sentimental woman, than man
who has loved and lost" "Well," re.
piled the man OF experience, "a fellow
who has bet on a sure thing and lost
cuts quite figure in the pathetic line"
Chicago Record-Rsrald.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-02-13

The Rural New Yorker recomr ndcd
for family use apples in boxes ~ poet
erence to barrels or other packages as
most convenient and economical.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-03-25
So; 1se y !! X1lllfS
g. 3
like AS A FATHER."

Sent up to bed in the dark, alone,
Where all of tho corners were weird and
And the shapes and the shadows waited
At every turning-my little son.
Sent for some childish mischief done
At the hour when childish hearts are high
With JOY Of the evenings revelry-
And his fault at worst was tiny one!
"A wistful moment his feet delayed,
Waiting to let my face relent,
And then, a pitiful penitent,
His faltering, frightened way he made:
But up in the stairways deepest shade
heard him pause where the shadows
crowd
And whisper, ''Father," and sob aloud,
Father, go with me. I am afraid!'
Quick as his calling my answer leapt,
Strong as his terror my shielding arms
Folding him close from the nights alarms,
Sheltered and comforted while he wept;
And up in the nursery's light kept
A tender watch until he smiled again,
Till the sobs of his half-remembered pain
Lessened and hushed, and the baby slept.
Father Of love, when my day is done
And all Of my trespasses written in,
Not for a thoughtless or willful sin
Send me out in the dark alone;
But so as I remembered by little son,
Come to the prayer of my pleading breath
And lead me safe through the night Of
death,
Father of light, when my light is gone!
Nancy Byrd Turner, in Youths Com
panion.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-03-25
An Ho2lNG 4 SAND DUNE.
Vegetable Growth Prevents It from
Spreading and Engulflng
Arabic Land.

The shifting sand dunes that abound
In many places along the seashores and
in the neighborhood Of the great lakes
OF the country have long been looked
upon as a nuisance by people generally,
for not. only are they barren and utter
ly useless themselves, but they fire.
quently shift their location, being driven
hither and yon by the waves or the
winds, and not infrequently trespass
upon and destroy arabic tracts near at
hand. But so much attention has been
directed to the work that is being done
In retaining the arid and semiarid
lands of the west that the reclamation
work along the Atlantic coast is almost
entirely overlooked. The familiar sand
dunes, characteristic of the coast from
Cape Cod to Cape Fear, while perhaps
artistic, constitute menace to adjacent
cultivated lands and are useless in them
selves. Massachusetts, at considerable
expense, has been endeavoring to re-
claim the sand dunes that form so large
portion of the Province lands on
Cape Cod
It has been found that sand is readily
bound together by grass roots, and that
if sturdy varieties Of grass suitable for
sandy soils are planted and cared for
while obtaining foothold and matur-
ing they will gradually cover large areas,
Transforming them from shifting,
worthless lands into veritable fertile
cultivable fields. Many years of fores-
try work in Europe have shown that
after the grasses have made start trees
can be successfully raised on these erst-
while sand piles, which may thus be
made to yield revenue. Some of the
most extensive and mobile sand dunes in
the United States, however, are found in
the west, and it is the ambition of the
bureau of forestry to cover these with
permanent forest growths
Along the Columbia river, in Wash
ington, the sand is very light in charac-
ter, owing to the large proportion of
mica it contains, and consequently is
easily blown about by the winds. In a
portion of the lower Columbia river val
ley great orchards have been actually
engulfed with the shifting sands, and
the railroads have experienced great
difficulty in maintaining their tracks in
this district in passable condition. In
order to make practical test as to the
best method of treating these dunes a
strip of land on the Columbia river, be-
tween Willow creek and the John Day
river, has been set aside by the govern
ment for extensive experiments based
on the work done in Massachusetts,, re-
ferred to above. In the east tree-plant-
ing plans for owners of sandy tracts are
being prepared, thus extending the scope
of the practical cooperation begun by
the bureau of forestry.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-03-25
A MARY'S LAMB MYTH,
One Story of How the Long-Familiar
Rhyme Came to Be
Written.

Who wrote MARY Had Little
Lamb?" If you answer quickly, you are
must likely to say, Mother Goose, OF
course That is not so, writes Richard
Hale, in Mary Had a Little Lamb and
Its Author" in Century. Mary's lamb is
more recent production-so recent, in
deed, that it is strange that controversy
can have already arisen about it's au-
thorship, but such is the case. 1t was
written at some time in the first third
of the nineteenth century. And by
whom? I sincerely believe and think it
can be proved, that it was written by
Mrs. Sarah Joseph Hale, as she says
it was, and not to Mrs. Mary E. Tyler by
one John Roulstone, as Mrs. Tyler says
it was. 1 am not even sure that Mrs.
Tyler says that.
To make my account Of the facts carry
to the reader the conviction of truth
which l feel myself, I must try to be
more than fair to Mrs. Tyler. Here
then, is her story as told by her at diff
ferent interviews reported in the news
papers, and told when she was a ven
cradle old woman in Somerville Mass.
If it loses anything by the omission of
details, it loses, perhaps, the color and
effect given it by her obvious ard honest
belief in her own story. Since no one
can doubt that belief, think that these,
which are substantially her very words,
give truly all she would herself have
thought essential.
0f
Mass, was born in 1906, and was about
II when her brother persuaded her to
take her pet lamb to school. The lamb
was discovered by her teacher. Mary
herself then took the lamb out and tied
it in shed until noon, when she united
it, and it followed her home John Roul-
stone, a student living with his uncle,
the parish minister, was visiting the
school that forenoon, and the qext day
he came to the little old schoolhopse and
handed Mary slip of paper upon which
were written IL lines, which are, she
says, the original lines. These were in
the form of three verses of four lines
each, and these MARY lost and never
knew what became of them" That
would be in 1917. When the written
copy had been lost for nearly quarter
of century, and many years after the
death of the lamb, Mary was surprised to
read a poem by Mrs. Sarah Josepha Hale
that contained three verses of eight lines
each, and the first IL lines of which were
the same as those written by John Roul-
stone in 1S17-''for Mary had them in
her memory" Mrs Hale is said to have
added the remaining lines. Such is Mrs.
Tyler's story:
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-03-25
Uniforms of Army Officers.

The similarity of army officers uni
forms to those of the rank and file, re-
sorted to in order to battle the sharpshoot-
ers, has its disadvantages. It is com
planned that the gallopers, carrying or
ders, are unable to find readily the Off
GERS to whom the orders should be deltys
cred
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-03-25
= = ) q. =,
a4ddloua.

TIE front porch i dreadfuny lirts
.ties, know. But the new eirl nv.
she won't wash it off until her trunk
comes.o z7.tzi S<s5 g. 8 IS -.-1-.S
:. .. .And what has her trunk to do With
'.She says she 9:ways wears her best
stockings when she washes porches."-
Cleveland Plain Dealer. .s /.
= Glbert-1 went to the lunatic asylum
yesterday" .Noyes-"And they let you
come away? Perhaps the places were al
taken" -Boston Transcript. 81.
In order to " popular, forget to say
~: d ""al.-Felix g. Prime. :7sz
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-03-25

To Cure q Cold In One Day.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
druggists refund money! it fails to cure. Csc.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-03-25

Unbldden guests are always welcomeat
when they are gone.-Shakespeare.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-03-25

Putnam Fadeless Dyes are fast to Ii
and washing.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-03-25

Ungratefulness is the very poison O
manhood.-Sir p. Sidney.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-03-25
It Cures While You Walk.

Aliens Foot-Ease is a certain cure for
hot, sweating, callus, and swollen, aching
feet. Sold by all Druggists. Price Csc. Don't
accept any substitute Trial package FREE.
Address Allen S. Olmsted, lie Roy, N. Y.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-03-25

Just as you are pleased at finding
faults, you are displeased at finding per:
fections.-Lavater.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-03-25
This Il Miraculous,

Manhattan, Kans., March l4.-Ons Of
the strangest cases that has ever been
heard Of in Riley Go. is that Of the three
year;cld daughter Of Mr.. Jonas, Brubaker
Of this place.
=. Some time ago the little girl took whoop-
ing cough, which was followed by pne,l.
monia: When the pneumonia left her, she
was taken down with malaria fever with
at times symptoms of Spinal Meningitis,
through these troubles; but after the fever
Bright's Disease set in and the doctors
gave her up. Her father tells the rest of
.he story: <'.4 T..
1--WE began to give her Dodd's Kidney
Pills and after she had taken about three
and half boxes, she was entirely cured:
Now she is well as any. child, running and
playing as if nothing had ever been the
matter with her. The doctors said she
was beyond the reach Of medicine. Dodd's
Kidney. Pills certainly saved our little
girls life, when she was so far into the
chronic stage of Bright's Disease that we
thought nothing could save her.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-03-25
Not Biroted.

Brown! thought you were 4 vegetari-
IN: but hear you eat mutton.
Robinson-I am not a bigoted vege-
tartan. ! only eat the meat Of such ami
mails as live on vegetable food,-Stray
Stories.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-03-25
Salser's Home Builder Corn.

So named because so acres produced so
heavily, that it's proceeds built lovely
bone. See Salzer's catalog. Yielded in
1868 in Ind. Isl bu., Ohio 100 bu., Tenn.
go b.. and in Mich. 220 bu. per acre.
You can haat this record in 1904.
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THESE YIELDS
PER ACRE?
l2o bu. Beardless Barley per acre.
go bu. Salzer,s New National Oats per A.
1000 bu. Pedigree Potatoes per acre.
Il tons of rich Billion Dollar Grass Hay.
60 000 lbs. Victoria Rape for sheep-per A.
leo 600 lbs. Teosinte, the fodder wonder
81 900 lbs. Salzer's Superior Fodder Corn
rich, juicy fodder, per A.
Now such yields you can have, Mr..
seeds.
JUST SEND THIS NOTICE AND 10c
in stamps to John A. Salzer Seed Co., La
Crosse, Wis.,, and receive their great cata-
log and lots Of farm seed samples. TX. IL
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-03-25

PA, how much is Mr.. Rockefeller
worth?" "Oh, about billion dollars, my
SON.; 'How much is that in doughnuts,
pa"-Town Topics.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-03-25

lAc 1OChS were Sl1ppeTy.
What was that old tale of the boot
less bene?' " the colonel shouted in his
ear: isn't it here the boy jumped
across, Tib?"
Tried it," his companion answered.
See yo' that rock at points across an
dips. That's where t wor. Fro tn
other side it's simple, but not this, for
no man alive"
''1ll go and look at it." said the
colonel.
He finished a second sandwich and
then rose, leaving lib to gather up the
tackle. He was little nervous, but
felt no hesitation, no doubts of himself,
and, without a glance either at. the
fierce water or about him at the para
disc which these fine woods resemble,
he carefully scrutinized the rock in
face. His leap must look like a real
attempt. Presently he turned away,
satisfied, and waited for the old mans
eye. He waved a hand.
Old lib shouted, but it was not for
this that Col. Sale, with the first step
desperately taken, stood rooted where
ne was. He had seen Jack Alleyn's
face above tie opposite brink, a few
PAGES down stream
Jack advanced quite slowly, until his
I pert little figure showed complete,
from Panama hat to brown shoes. He
was looking intent at first, as if he had
not recognized his friend. but his red
face relaxed in the funny little smile
down Ills nose chat Sale knew He
' danced. 81 little canoe above the tor.