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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-01-22

Detroit puts out 4,OOO,OOO,0OO pills
a year, and yet has no burning desire
to be known as the Pill city.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-01-22

INJURED his last prayer for the day, the
brass bowls shone in the sunlight, and
the women went gayly off in their
lovely-colored dresses, and we walked
dreamily out into the sunshine, and
were presented with a necklace OF
jasm. ne, for which, of course, we paid,
and walked up once more, and with re.
gret, to every. lay life in the practical
present.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-01-22

The gambling hall at Monte Carlo
will clear 100000 this year. 1t is
almost as profitable as trust.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-01-22

Students of ancient history are new.
er up to date.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-01-22

There is only one way not to say
the wrong thing: say nothing.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-01-22

Happy the horse whose fastest mile
ls not protested.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-01-22

the yoke is worn little bolero jacket
of cotton, entirely covered with en-
broidery in lovely colors, several of
which we bought, for eight cents each.
On the head is little embroidered
cap, with long point falling behind,
and over this is chudda of some
lovely shade of cotton, edged with a
gold braid.
We were very anxious to get the
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-01-22

AS the twig is bent the small boy ID
inclined to make himself scarce.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-01-22

Temptation is the balance in which
character is weighed.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-01-22
Farmers Pay RondhoIders.

Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
says the farmers have paid the for
eign bondholders.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-01-22

Arbitration would be more success
full if men were less arbitrary.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-01-22

fake Halls Family Pills for constipation.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-02-03
Origin of Life Insurance.

T don't have to have my life IN
sured," said the business man to the
agent, but I do want to know how
life insurance originated. Can you
tell me-" 81 can" the agent an
swered. ut originated in 17O6 in
London. In that year there was
formed the first life insurance COM
pany. 1t was called the Amicable So
ciety for Perpetual Assurance Of
fee. 1t was a mutual benefit concern.
Each member, without reference to
age, paid fixed admission fee and a
fixed annual charge per share on one
TO three shares, and at the end Of q
year a portion Of the fund Accumulate
ed was divided among the heirs of
those who had died, in accordance
with the number of shares each dead
person had held. Out Of this company,
with its crude and imperfect methods,
life insurance as 1t exists to-day has
grown. Did you, by the way. know
that emperors and kings can rarely
get their lives insured. so great is the
peril of assassination that they stand
nY'--Philadelphia Record.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-02-03
The Surfacing of Roads.

A great difference in roads lies in the
nature Of their surface. On well
made gravel road one horse can draw
twice as much as he can on well
made earth road. while on hard and
smooth stone road he can pull four
times as much. Consequently, where
we have good gravel roads. In
stead Of earth ones, II is possible to
make one horse do the work of two.
while on stone roads one horse will
do the work of four. On level steel
road one horse can do the work OF
twenty or more horses over a level
common road.
After road has been properly locat-
ed. graded and drained, the important
qualities of hardness and smoothness
should by all means be secured. The
various surfaces for good country roads
will be considered in the following
order: Earth, gravel and stone.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-02-03

The interest of towns and cities In
good roads is easily demonstrated, and
in many cases is already well under
stood by these communities. The
whole people have equal rights on the
country roads. and those living In the
cities and towns have often greater
need of them than the farmer, who
at a pinch could live upon what he
raises. while the cities raise nothing
and could not live day without the
country roads.
The farms of the United States COM
prise less than one-fourth of the total
property of the country, yet that small
fraction pays the whole cost of build
ing roads. The injustice of this sys-
TEN. which we have inherited from
the old countries, but which was abol-
ished there many years ago, is not yet
fully appreciated by the farmers of
this country, and the greatest diff
fculty now experienced in road i'm
provement is in getting the farmers
consent to have this injustice wiped
out, and in inducing them to accept
the aid which the cities and towns are
willing and anxious to give to the
general improvement of the highways
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-02-03
PHoTocRAPHlNc THE MOON,
Special Plates and Apparatus Used t.
Secure Negatives.

Secure Negatives.
With the application of photograp ply
to astronomy much attention has nat.
urally been given to lunar photogra-
ply. In 1910, less than one year after
DaSuerre's discovery, DR.. John w.
Draper obtained the first Photograph
OF the moon, but with small and i'm
perfect apparatus. The exposure time
required was twenty minutes. In 1862
'63 very great advance was made by
his son, DR.. Henry Draper, who used q
powerful rejecting telescope of his
own construction. The image Of the
moon on his photographs was slightly
less than one and one-half inches in
diameter.
Ten years later DR.. Lewis NJ. Ruth
erford, of New York. secured many ex-
quisitely sharp lunar photographs,
using a very different form of instru-
ment, thirteen.inch refracting tele-
scope with Photographic corrector''
an additional lens, by means of
which his visual telescope could be
converted into Photographic one.
BY the use of a method perfected by
the writer in 1900. the Yerkes refrac-
tor is made available for direct photo.
graphy of the moon. planets, star clus-
tiers and so on. The method is ex.
tremely simple and economical and is
applicable to all visual telescopes. In.
stead Of the ordinary blue sensitive
Photographic plates, isochromatic
plates are used, which are very sensi.
tive to yellow light. Mounted in the
plate holder close in front Of the sensi.
tive plate is large, brilliantly trans
parent yellow color screen or ray filter.
This excludes the out-of-focus blue
light, which would otherwise destroy
the sharpness Of the photograph, and
allows only the sharp yellow or visual
image to reach the sensitive plate.
With this arrangement the great tele-
scope photographs the moon with an
exposure of less than one second. On
account of the size and length Of the
telescope and the effectiveness of the
color screen method the resulting neg.
atives show smaller details of the
moons surface than have been photo
| graphed before.-Harper's Magazine.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-02-03

MI. Morehouse the next morning nj
breakfast. 81 think brother had bot.
ter let the developer alone until he
gets Older. But | think sissy is old
enough to hold on"
Then she will have to do ms tell
ner; not as you tell her. No. sissy.
girls don't skin cats. 1t isn't proper"
Inc ropes were raised one set of
rings.
That morning mamma was busy
below stairs when she heard sound
which was at first interpreted as the
sliding of snow from the rooe. She
paused with heart in her mouth how
ever, and presently we'll known cry
came to her ears from the gymna stun.
Running upstairs, she saw sissy rails.
ing her head from the Dashboard and
SLOWLY getting TO her feet. As Mrs.
Morehouse described her daughters
appearance to her father afterward.
her race was pale and spotted. and by
the time her mother got the camphor
bottle, there was bump on the back
OF her head us big as teacup.
'Sissys grip proves to he too weak
Tor the developer. too" said Mr.. More.
house.
Yes. for such development as you
teach" said his wife.
Il left them both to your tuition
after the first day"
Yes. but papa's example is stronger
than my preccpt."
What was she trying TO do?"
Tying to kick de medicine bottles
OF de top of de secretary" cried little
brother.
Mrs. Morehouse hung the developer
handles on the hooks in the ceiling and
sighed.-Waverley Magazine.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-02-03
WORDS OF WISDOM.

A wise man forgets old grudgea
One lash to a good horse; one word to
a wise man.
Riches come better after poverty
than poverty after riches.
Dig well before you are thirsty
(be prepared for contingencles).
Borrowed money makes time short,
working for others makes It long.
The gem cannot be polished without
friction, nor the man perfected without
trials.
Murmur at nothing; II our ills are re.
parable, it is ungratcful; IL remediiesA,
it is vain.
He who wishes to rise In the world
should veil his ambition with the ferns
Of humility.
Large fowls will not eat small grain
great mandarins are not content with
little bribes).
There is only one rule to observe If
you want to live long, and that is to
let the other fellow do the worrying.
The best thing is to be respected and
the next is TO be loved; 1t is bad to be
hated, but worse still to be despised.
Practical wisdom consists in saying
the obvious thing at the right time.
True courage consists in doing the OBJ
yious thing in an emergency.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-02-03

Glass for bath and toilet odds and
ends is wrought into towal racks, comb
and brush racks, soap trays, tooth
brush holders, sponge racks, and en-.
tire bathroom sets.
Maplewood made into a bathtub is
originally patented and can be turned
upside down and become n chair when
its lavatory duties are done.
A bath trunk is quite as unique and
is loved by the tourist who goes to out
of-theway byways and highways of
the earth. 1t is made Of composition
stuff that suggests leather, and has q
close-titting cover to shut down. over.
tapping like trunk lid, and all Of It
looking eminently respectable when
faulty strapped and duly labeled.
One medium sized can be metamor-
phosed into a tabouret when occasion
demands.
Aluminium is one Of the new bath
materials; paper mache is another. ia
panned ware and divers sorts Of zinc
and tin lined with porcelain and glass
have their admirers.
There are self-adjusting rubber
baths which jump into shape at the
turning of a screw. and have stands
SO that they may be lowered and raised
at will.
English bath modes lead. Canadian
follow, and Bombay and other tropical
ideas are well known to the occiden.
tai maker and buyer of fine baths
Chicago Tribune.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-02-03
Newspaper Names.

~ make study OF the names OF
newspapers" said an eccentric man.
Rare names hail with JOY. Common
ones | despise. The commonest name
of all is, probably, Times; what town
hasn't it Times? Other common
names are Chronicle, Express, Fri.
June. Post, Star. Sun, Republican,
Democrat. News. Press, Herald, Adj
vertiser, Telegraph and so on. An
odd name is The Epltaph of Tomb
stone, Ariz Other odd names are the
Punxsutawney Spirit, The Rakasek Of
Pittsburg. The Jean-Baptlste of Paw.
tucket, the Greenvllle Cotton Plant.
The Dixie Miller of Nashville, the Aus
tin Firm Foundation. The Opera
Glass of Galveston, the Norfolk Cor
nucopa, The Packages of Milwaukee,
and The Grit of Williamsport. These
are papers with names of imposing
virtue-with such names as Reveille.
Monitor, Guardian and Waterman.
The town of El Dorado, In Texas, has
a paper that calls itself The Paper
Philadelphia Record.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-02-03
The Logical Waitress.

At a London restaurant the other
day a middle aged woman entered the
place and, taking a seat at one of the
tables, carefully scrutinized the bill
Of fare. She concluded to try some ice
cream pudding. After 1t had been
served she looked 1t over carefully, and
calling the waitress back, said:
"Do you call this ice cream pud-
ding?"
"Yessum, and it's very nice. too"
"But where is the ice creamr
"Oh, that's only the name given
that peculiar make of pudding. We are
making a specially Of it. I'm sure
you'll like 1t when you taste It,"
ut seems to me that you ought to
give ice cream with 1t as long us you
say 1t is ice cream pudding"
I'VE don't give cottages with cot
tage pudding" quickly replied the
witty waitress. This retort convinced
the middle aged woman, and she or
dered second plate.-London Tele-
graph. ...
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-02-03
The ACE EoR MARRIAGE.
Highest In sweden. Lowest in EngianA.
StenhIIY Kislng Here.

The average marriage tor men does
not differ materially in those countries
which keep accurate marriage records
It is highest. thirty.one years, In
Sweden. aud lowest in the United
States tweuty-siN and one-half. Among
women II is also highest in Sweden.
twenty eight years and lowest In Rus
sia twenty-five.
Some countries fix a minimum mar
rIagc age. below which marriage can
not he lawfully performed. In most
parts of Germany it Is fixed at TWEEN.
ty-uuc for the bridegroom and eigh.
teen for the bride In England IL II
sixteen and fifteen. respectively. In
France II is eighteen and fifteen re-
spcctivcly. In the United Statea
where fixed. 1t is usual twenty one
for the men the exceptions being Cali.
fornia, Tennessee, Utah and Idaho,
AMI for women. usually eighteen. ex.
ccpt in Maryland. California and Ten.
ncssCc. The different State statuteA
however. make it possible for two resi-.
dents OF a state To he married In an.
other state, the laws of which are
more lax.
In European countries generally the
| marriage laws are made exclusively
for the benefit of actual residents. and
choice of foreign country for such
purpose Is. therefore, so unusual a.
, to become an exception.
There Is only one record In history
OF II law which fixed a maximum age
| for marriage and under which the mar.
rlage OF men over sixty and women
over fifty was prohibited. 1t did not
! last long.
The European country In which there
| is the largest number Of marriages Of
men under the age of twenty-one 10
Russia. and the largest proportionats
number of brides under the age Of
| twenty-one is Russia also. Generally
| speaking. the manageable age II low.
est in rural districts and in countries
chiefly devoted to agriculture. and
highest in those countries which have
the largest number of big cities.
| In respect to marriages made late IN
life France, among European coun.
tries, stands first as to men and Bel.
| GUM first as to women. Denmark.
the country which has the lowest
minimum marriage age. has very few
marriages Of very young persons. In
the United States the average mar
riage age is steadily rising.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-02-03
Toll Roads For Motor Cars,

Perhaps the only way in which auto
mobilists will get good roads as
speedways for themselves alone may
be by revival of the old toll road
system which prevailed in New Eng
land in former generations. 1t is now
found in Indiana and few Western
States. and quite frequently in the
South. Such roads are constructed by
private interests, which demand vary
ing dividends in the manner Of any in
vestment. II the automobilists are
willing to pay toll toward an auto
mobile road this will be their privilege.
Any road that the government may
build will be for common use and
would probably be monopolized by
ILe farmers, who still look askance at
the automobilist-Bos Advertiser.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-02-03

William Lyman Underwood, writin8
in the Popular Science Monthly with
regard to tie length of life of the mos
quito, says that it Is not known just
how long mosquitoes can live, but their
average life Is much longer than Is or.
dinarily supposed. Thousands of them
live through the winter, alternating in
dark places in barns or house cellars.
In sparsely settled localities, where
they cannot find such places for shell.
ter, they live through the winter in
hollow trees, in caves and holes under
upturned trees. Even though the tenn
perature may fall below freezing they
are not winter killed, but on the APP
proach of warm weather become ac-
tive again. Mosquitoes are frequently
seen flying about in the woods before
the snow mas wholly left the ground
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-02-03
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The advantages to he derived from
good stone roads are so manifold that
all other material should be discarded
for their construction and mamtc-
nance. hut II is greater economy to
rsc earth or gravel than TO 20 to the
expense of macadamizng iouds with
too soft. too brittle. or rotten material.
Many MS, this because II is more easily
prepared. \ road should never be sur.
faced with anything short of trap rock
or serpcntine Inferior material may
Often he used with imp'.nlty for the
first layer or foundation. but even this
should he selected with great care.
The ellis resulting from improper
consti elton Of stone roads are even
greater than those from the use Of
improper material. John l.. Macadam
never intended that heterogeneous
conglomcration o. stone aud mud
should he called macadam road.
Neither did he intend that the name
should be applied to roads constructed
OF large and small stones mixed to
gether and spread upon the surface.
The surface of n road built I'm this
manner IL constantly sturbcd by the
.arger stones. which work TO the sur
face and which are knocked hither and
thlther by the wheel of vehicles and
the feet of animals. Such methods OF
construction can not be too severely
condemned.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-02-03

Chicago Record-Herald says: "The
announcement of new discoveries re-
garding the cause and infectious ma
ture OF tuberculosis is naturally fol-
lowed by new theories of prevention
and cure. The worldwide prevalence
of the white scourge' invests these an.
nouncements of the doctors and scien-
fists with more than ordinary public
interest. While tuberculosis Is robbed
Of much of its terror through the dis
covery that the infected lung tissue is
durable. at the same time the public
is impressed with a new sense Of Its
dangerous character through the very
discovery that it is communicable and
that no one is immune from it"
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-02-03
A Convincing Demonstration.

When the members Of the Legislature
of Virginia visited the roads Of New
Jersey, they found them covered with
newly fallen snow, which the farmers
removed so as to show the firm, smooth
surface beneath. This demonstration
and the fact that wet snow dld not
make the macadam road muddy were
worth more than any amount of argu-
ment, and the Virginlans went home
to their impossible highways convert
ed to road improvement.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-02-03
ChiIdish Idena Of beauty ,

The idea of beauty in children is
strangely varied. A teacher at a GER
tain school gave thirty children five
minutes to think out the most beau
tiful thing they ever saw. Five chose
the moon and stars, two the sun and
one the setting sun. One Of the five
who chose the moon stipulated that he
meant only the full moon, Two chill
dren chose flowers, two scenery and
two birds. Not one chose human
face! The snow, the rain, butter.
fly, a tigers skin, salt silver and
gold. brooch and pink silk all had
one vote each.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-02-03
Lack of work turns men into tramps,

Lack of work turns men into tramps,
but it does not keep them tramps, de-
clares the Chicago Inter-Ocean. The
man and the Job cannot always keep
apart unless the man so wishes. The
proof is the fact that thousands of men
have been tramps and are SO no long
er. And these men did not owe their
escape from tramphood to anything
that anybody did for them. They owed
It entirely to themselves. Taking his
life through, the average tramp is such
because he wishes to be-because he
falls into the delusion that 1t is easier
to beg and steal than to work. One Of
those economic lulls known as hard
times" may have set him to tramplng,
But when this lull was over he did not
remain a tramp unless he wished to.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-02-03

Ten years ago the A lner'ca' FEEDER
alton Of Labor-the most Pow erfrl rep
resentative body in the United States,
comprising from two-tL lrds to three
quarters Of the forces of organized la
bor-had perhaps 100000 members.
President Gompers, at the last annual
convention in New Orleans, announced
that the organization in eleven months
to October. 1902, had added 100000 to
its membership, figure greater than
its total enrolment In 1898. and nearly
equal to its membership in 1899. The
present membership, in 1908, Of the
American Federation of Labor being.
let us say, 100000, and assuming that
the Independent organizations have at
least held their own since 1900, we
have total for the United States at
the present time of about two millions,
as against about 100000 for Great
Britain aud Ireland
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-02-03

George Shergold. who was credited
with having invented the safety bicy.
Gle, recently died a pauper in the pub
lie workhouse of Gloucester, England,
at the age of seventy-five years. 1t
would seem that of the millions upon
millions of dollars that have been made
out of this useful invention. the man
who first thought it out ought to have
had enough at least to make his de-
clining years comfortable. 1.-THE irony
Of fate" sometimes performs strange
antics, philosophers the LOS Angeles
Times.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-02-03

New York City now contains more
people than there were in the Ameri-
tic piquancy. They are busy little
can colonies when they achieved their
independence. 1t has a million more
inhabitants than the Kingdom of
Greece, over a million more than the
Kingdom of Servia, is nearly equal in
population to the Kingdom of Portu-
gal and also lacks not much of equal.
ing the Kingdom Of Holland. 1t has
larger population than any Of the
Central American Republics and more
than any South American nation. Bra
iii and the Argentine Republic except.
ed. 1t has about twice the population
Of Denmark and more than twice that
Of Norway.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-02-03

John Gilmer Speed has written for
Success about "The Romance of the
Savings Banks" According 10 stats.
tics, he finds that there are G,TIOS67
men, women and children in the United
States who own deposits in these banks
amounting to S2,II2,3SS,25G. The NV.
erage belonging to each depositor is
Si09.23. Women, it appears, are better
savers than men.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-02-03

Elliott Lee, the municipal inspector
of insurance of Anderson, Ind, is the
inventor of new steam heater which
can be carried from room to room and
will give out as much heat as stove
twice the size. The heater is small
radiator with boiler under 1t, and
this is heated by gas flame supplied
by a tube from some convenient bPack-
eft. The whole outfit weighs only about
eighty pounds.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-02-03
Mean Civilization and Economy.

There is civilization, enlightenment
and economy in good roads. Good
roads lead to prompt All steady at
tendance upon church services, school
room duties, neighborly intercourse
and social Advancement. Bad roads
lead to profanity, worry, trials and
fluctuations and the loss Of teams
vehicles, patience, opportunities for
good markets and lots Of time.