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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-09-21
Qualifications for BaIIoonists,

British officers can not take course
in ballooning unless they are good
sailors" and not over 100 pounds In
weight
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-09-21


She drank ), antilles of water, ate 10
. OF s'a - foods.
Absta med i.om exercising every day;
She assimilated Tactic and a case Of malt.
ed goods,
But II seemed her fate to have to fade
away
She so mourned attenuation, with Wis.
age like an owls,
That smile upon her face was never
seen;
While below her mouth We're wrinkles,
and above her eyes were scowls.
And her nose was like Ratchet in be-
tween.
But one Cay she fell to laughing In a
strange. hysteric way,
Just in thinking how ridiculous 1t
proved;
And 1t melowed to a cackle that was
sane enough, they say.
Till at last she giggled every time she
moved.
Why. she chuckled out her wrinkles, and
she snickered off her frowns.
And then took to all the things she
shouldn't do;
Now she's grown as fat as butter, and
has tgi own all her gowns;
But she laughs away at that disaster,
too.
Elliot Walker in the Woman's Home
Companion.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1905-09-25
TEXAS STATE FAIR.

Pcstponcu'ent Enables the Manage.
ment 20 SecIrs More Attractions.
The postponcmcnt of the opening of
the State Fair of Texas until October
2S will enable tho MANAGEMENT TO Sc
cure some fine attractions which could
MT be had until the close of the
Northern summer resorts, whore they
rae under. contract for the season.
Aftcr the close Of the grand racing
circuit AZ Memphis, October 2l, many
famous horses will be shipped direct
to Dilias-hOrses which could not
hsYg participated In the Dallas races
II thr fair. had come Off as originally
Advertised.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1905-09-25

Nos. 8. 6. 10 and 20 are local trains
while Nos. ~ and rs stop at the small
er stations only on being tagged.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1905-09-25

A losfcr on the street, whose wife
was probably at home getting out a
neighbors washing To make money to
buy the children shoes, asked n busy
man the other day il he ever saw a
bald-headed woman, No | never did, -
replied the busy man. And l never
saw woman waltzng around town in
her shirt sleeves with cigar in her
teeth and running into every saloon
she saw. Neither did | ever see "A wo'
man sitting all day at the street cor
nor on a dry goods box telling people
how the secretary of the treasury
Should run the national finances. !
have never seen woman go fishing
with bottle in 'hcr pocket. sit on the
bank adj day and 80 home drunk at
night. Nor have | ever seen a, woman
yank of her coat and say she could
lick any man in town. kansas CIT!
Journal.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1905-09-25

Tao SepJembet Term Of The indian
Tcr1tory Court of Appeals has ben
postponed until October %
u Is announced that no oral argI.
mcnts will be heard at this term uD-
Tess by special permission Of the
court 4 large number Of decisions
will bN handed down. Tho following
ia the official assignment of cases a.
announced:
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1905-09-25

skill and the purest Ingredients In
sure best results from your prescrip.
tions II Ne put them up.
- =. j. RAMSEY, Druggist.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1905-09-25

The Almighty puts long tails OF
horses and mau cuts them OF.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1905-09-25

Avoid serious results OF kidney or
bladder trouble by taking Foley's Kid
uey Cure. City Drug Store.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1905-09-25
ga WELL EQUIPPED SHOP

Ample facilities, plenty of
parts and the knowledge
and willingness TO make the
best use of them fit us TO do
exceptionally excellent re
pairing of carriages, wag-
ons, and painting and trim
ming. We know our busi-
ness and attend to it
promptly, pleasantly and
at fair charges Serious
break downs and triffting
defects receive equal con-
sideration here.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1905-09-25

The Ardmoreite for all the news.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-14
Waited for the Widow.

Apropos of the interest which is
being excited by The publication OF =
novel by Disraeli, the story of his
courtsllip or rather an episode o!
that courtship, may be worth repeat
ing. The statesman was in love with
u widow, Mrs. Wyndham Lewis. One
day when he went to call, the lady
sitting in the widow, saw him APP
preaching and ordered the servant to
say that she was not at home. When
the maid reached the hall the states
man was hanging up his overcoat.
Mrs Lewis, sir, is not at home,
said the hurried maid.
Il did not ask for Mrs. Lewis" was
the calm, statesmanlike reply.
But / don't know when she viii
be back" urged the maid.
Neither do H. philosophically re-
Piled Disraeli, but / am going to
wait till she comes back, SO please
give me cup of tea"
He did walt. he got his tea, and he
married the widow.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-14
CHURCHES AND TINE THIRD PARTY.

The president Of Bowdoin Collegs:
says the church Is DESERVING the pro-
hibition party. The reasons given by
DR.. Hyde for this desertion is because
the advocates of prohibition thru leg
islation ARE not thinking out the
needs of workingmen in the great cit
les The settlement worker cares more
for the porlsingmen than the prohib-
itionists ever did. because he knows
them better. and instead of trying to
take from them their only recreation
tries to solve the harder problem of
substituting some more enjoyable leis-
ure than drunkenness affords. Prohi-
bition has been standing still while the
church has been moving on" DR..
Hyde insists on the fact that temper
ance does not gain largely by the ef-
forts put forth by partisan prohibits
ionists.
This from the president of a great
school in the prohibition state of
Maine is worth considerations DR.. Hyde
IL doubtless right in his statement that
the temperance cause is not being
greatly ;lded by third partyism. He
knows his own state. The statement
Is essentially true Of the west. The
temperance cause has little of progress
that may be attributed to the political
prohibitionist. 1t Is doubtful that the
desertions OF the church from the
third party Is as noticeblae west as in
Maine. The reason Is that the churches
here have never affiliated with that
party. Individual church members are
third party prohibitionists, but COM
pairing the prohibition vote in Iowa
with the church membership of the
state the conclusion Is that compare
lively few church members vote with
the third party.
The reason is the same in Iowa as
in Maine. The churches have been
advancing. They have marched away
from the prohibition party and left it
impoten: where 1t stood years ago.
Church members, hopeless Of changing
the face Of the world in day, are vot-
ing to improve conditions, content per-
force to reform slowly. They are maxi
ing the only choice left them between
the worst and the better and trusting
God AMI time for the best. In this
there is no compromise with evil, but
an exercise Of the ordinary common
sense which unable to secure all it
desires makes certain Of what 1T can
ret.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-14

am. these rdtcs are 80 near Che ience
that 1T is Impossible to again place
the soil where II belongs. These ridges
arc produced by improper ploWinG'
There is u large per cent of our farm
ers who still pillow around land ana
leave n dead furrow In the middle or thc
field. All such according to our deli
! milton of blowing are poor plowers. III
is impossible to continually p]ow
around Il land and not get our fields
fun of dead burrows and ridges along
our fences and border OF our soughs.
I The writer of these lines has been on
the farm he now occupies for twenty
six years, and today our fields are as
level as when we first turned orer the
virgin soil, and during these twenty
six years we have not ploWed around
a half dozen lands in. that time. We
make 1t a rule never to plow across
the ends OF the land being plowed. We
keep around our cultivated fields
strip seeded down from sixteen to
twenty feet wide and this strip we use
to turn on when blowing. and blowing
corn to be the outside Of our fields when
into small grain. We NOW this strip
from year to year. and when the grass
on 1t and 1t is as good as ever Our
back burrows are eight rods apart and
of course the dead burrows the same;
and we take dead furrow for our
back furrow and thereby keep our
land level We always aim to plow
even width on each side of our lands
and thereby have straight dead fur
row so as to have straight land next
year. AS to tools. the writer uses
gang pillow. and 1t is our opinion that
where farmer has from sixty to
eighty acres to plow he cannot afford
to be without one. With four good
horses a man can plow from five to six
acres a day and plow 1t well. Never
try to turn q 14-inch furrow with
12-inch pillow or 16-inch f,rrow with
q 14-inch pillow or a 20inch with
16-inch nlow. Some try to do this but
all such are not first class blowers.
AS to depth. There is very little of
our soil in which a furrow plowed
six inches deep will produce rs good
a crop as deeper. IL a piece of stubble
land is freshly MANFRED from four to
five inches is sufficiently deep. Sod
ground plowed in the fall from three
to four inches Is about right, In the
spring about an inch deeper. Ground
plowed in August or the fore part OF
September will produce from 10 to rs
per cent more than in November the
cause of this Is that early plov5ing de-
stroys the weeds an the elements
have longer time to act on the soil
and thereby increase its fertility.
Should you strike a stone take 1t out
at once or mark it so that H. can be
removed before you pillow again. II
your boys do the blowing insist on
first class work and they In turn will
do the same when they have children
to do their blowing. We have noticed
as rule that farmer who does his
blowing in q slovenly manner is gen.
orally slovenly In his other farm oper-
ations Always use q rolling coulter
and IL you have much trash to turn
under use weed hook or chain to get
ii under the furrow. When you are
thru with your pillow for the season put
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-14
KEoKux's BOW or PROMISE.

Keol1uk, cuddled between the Miss
| issippi and Des Moines rivers a jewel
on the finger that Iowa points past
Missouri at Illinois is booming. Real
estate ii is stated has risen 25 per cent
in value since congress passed the blll
which permits damming the Mississ-
| ppi Just above the city. keokuk Is
! an old town and in the flush times of
| the big river was as busy as crah-
berry merchant. 1t kept the gate to the
| big government canal a splendid aque-
duct about the rapids below the CITY.
The decay of the river Industry left
Keokuk struggling. Since then Its
greatest productions have been shoes
and writer's of fiction The editor of
the Gate City may be said to belong
in the latter class only when exploit
ing standpat political themes or de-
tending j. W.'Blythe. keokuk has not
been dead but the drop from the activ-
ity lent by the river traffic had
of the big dam there is no limit to
her hopes. no horizon to her prospects.
The project is epitomized in sections
| and of the specifications before
congress:
Il. 1t is proposed to build dam
across the Mississippi river at the foot
OF the Des Moines rapids, between
KeolSuk Iowa, and Hamilton, Ill., with
the crest from thirty to thirty-fi five
feet above standard low water, and
with length of 5000 to 1000 feet, the
precise location. length and height to
be determined in the final plans. The
project will produce 10000 horse pow
err constantly, and this is to be utilized
for industrial and other purposes in
the vicinity and for transmission to
outlying cities and towns within the
economic radius.
Added to this is lower dam to
drown the rapids and produce more
power. The estimated cost of the
dams is about $6,0Oo,00O and it Is con-
fidently stated that the money will be
found. No wonder Keokuk is jubilant
and figuring on the problem If 'one horse
power will lift the town so many
inches in minute how high will
hundred thousand horse power hoist
Keokuk in ten years?
OF course the dam isn't built yet,
but there is dam site in full view of
Keokuk and her people are hopeful and
happy. Incidentally considerable real
estate is changing hands at advanced
figures and even tho something I'M
toward might delay the building of the
dam it is an i'll wind that has not
blown some good. All Iowa hopes the
dam may be finished soon and the
shoulders of the Mississippi crowd
i<eokuk into prominence as the man
unfacturing center Of the midlands.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-14

adlan, Mexican and other Baptist con-
ventions. This movement is looked
upon as epochal by Baptists generally.
The Baptists are outnunbetea only by
the Methodists among the Protestant
denominations of North America.
A rural route carrier of Rock Port,
when asked to define his district
wrote: MY route begins at the liv-
cry stable and runs all around and
ends at the postotficc. "--Sedalia, Mo-,
Bazoo.
The desire of the Porto Rican legis-
Iature which wants TO discard the new
coat of-arms made for the island some
time ago. and go back to the old one
inherited from Spain, should be frown-
ed upon. Next thing we know the
Porto Ricans will want to discard the
pantaloons that came in or on with
the American ADMINISTRATION and re-
vert to u paper collar rs full dress
Senator Newlands of Nevada. is one
OF the few American statesmen who
love puns The senator often regales
his colleagues with puns, original and
quoted. It is generally admitted that
he is an excellent judge OF this sort Of
wit.
Here" said Senator Newands. the
other day. SIS n Nevada pun
IAN old farmer sat on the door step
smoking his pipe. His favorite hen
pecked near him. He regarded the
hen indulgently as he puffed the smoke
into the clear evenin gair.
"All OF a sudden he gave start Of
establishment.
by lingo he said the hen is eat
Ing stray tacks. Can she be going to
lay a carpet?'"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-14
THE SCOTS INHERENT PRIVILEGE.

Some critics Of Mr.. Carnegies eX-
preston of first love for his mother
country are inviting the ironmonger
to take his clothes and go back to
Scotland and Skibo and stay there
The trouble came about thus: Mr.. Car
negie spoke at a banquet in his honor
given by the Builders Exchange of
Cleveland. Among other things, he
1t is my motherland. Next to my
motherland is the love, reverence and
devotion I bear this republic" In this
touchy Americans found insult to this
country, and like jealous women, are
insisting: that Mr. Carnegie go back to
his preference.
Eternal vigilance for an opportunity
to find fault is characteristic not en-
tirely peculiar to critics. It is an
American prerogative to find fault Men
who become prominent must guard
their words and actions or take the
consequences of carelessness. Much
of our criticism Of public men is de-
servedly just, but this latest cry Of in
suited Anericanism against Carnegie
is as silly as it is comical. To call
vociferously upon the star spangled
banner and the goddess of liberty, to
cry aloud and spare not, just because
candy" Carnegie warned wi brose and
whusky, confesses his love for his ma
is to invite mirth. There are too many
OF our countrymen who, hearing
America mentioned, imagine 1t is their
duty tc, step to the front and make a
noise like an eagle. And the shang-
hal effect produced makes it as funny
rs it is foolish.
Mr.. Carnegie loves Scotland. And
why for no? II there is one Scottish
born and bred who. deep in his heart,
does not hold the rocky and inhospit-
able soil Of the land of his nativity
above the smiling fertility Of all the
outside world, ne is ma true Scot and
be'ones,seut owre sthe border. Scot
land sIs q AAisieA. in Scotland. i, Its;
peas1& aaa Mtsyaeife, the tradition y sot.1
itsstsiae ssdashe folk songd sof its
iu bnttRsy xss@ love and prideE o,9
cddhssy arsk' hst and all the time.
Fneisjls nsAher p6thy NOR mansion in
SGotfNAd %hefs pAtfioti1m is not al
eta, dht Mheh in a far Country old
A1bi6yE sen.adiha with sentiment Tand
GleaiasH, ~ p speak. it is only nat
Va, asA thsi hearth and mouths over,
daFR With her praise.
d Gs n6t tecassary to banish the
Anrsfenembsfs hssbirthplace. It
Is dcaSFsS aecsssaryEfo become in
suaesd Snd1Utlatie liksa turkey cock
when hs Says he loves best Scotland
or Erin or any other country which
men iove afid where they starve to
death. Mr.. Carnegie has shown his in
tersst in the country where he made
his money OF the enormously rich he
Il probsi,ly uearest to our ideal Of |
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-14
A popular amusement in Venezuela
seed corn is in effect not much of
BROOKLYN Earlo

seed corn is in effect not much OF .
| test after all.
| Professor Holden says "cover the
seed corn with two inches of sand,
earth, Or sawdust, moisten well, keep
| in a warm place and the kernels will
terminate in from three to five days"
Mr.. Green Qavoring something hot
ter in his) says 1.-The tray Is then filled
with sawdust or other material;
sprinkle we'll with hot water and set
1t by the cook stove or other conven-
| lent place where the temperature will
be from SIS to 70 degrees"
VIII Fl. Wilson i'm reporting on the
| variety test of corn at the county farm
mentions the fact that the best (the
highest percentage of a stand 02.5 per-
| centage) was obtained by Taylor
township farmer who planted the corn
i the last of June obviously nearing the
condition OF temperature Of Mr..
1 Greenes corn which is to be given a
hot bath and put "by the cook stove. "
This works well in obtaining a high
percentage of termination but is it
much of test for corn needed to plant
ut the earliest possible time to secure
a mature crop before frost?
In short / prefer to test under con-
ditions similar to those under which
the corn will have to undergo when
planted In early planting time when
/ the ground will not be as warm as the
"sawdust by the cook stove" nor will
the cold rains sometimes encountered
at that season serve to quicken germin-
alton like hot water "bath." What is
the matter with the out of door test?
s. b. PACKARD.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-14
HE PASSED THE HAT.

Everybody remembers the march OF
the Coxey and Kelley armies. The ma
jority of our western people watched
the movement with more or less anx-
iety while some derived a little a.
musement out of it, and one Burling-
tonian turned it to his own use. The
! Kelley army struck Abba on q beau
tiful afternoon. The town was full of
farmers and the townspeople turned
out en- masse, when the dusty, thirsty
and not absolutely uninteresting band
struck the town. They came in on the
deck of a long freight train. The sun
and the wind and the cinders had
turned their clothing all about one tint.
while the faces of the soldiers were all
of brick red hue. The impression
that they created was not entirely un-
favorable. and, Selling the psycholo-
gical moment, the man from Burling-
ton climbed into a farm wagon, and
began to address the crowd. He called
attention to the fact that these men
were not to be scoffed at, that right
Or wrong they, were enduring the hard
ships for a principle, that the way was
long and travelling hard, and, after
playing upon their sympathies with no
mean degree of skill, he suggested that
his hearers do something handsome
for these fine men. And then he pro-
ceeded in person thru the crowd, pass
ing plug hat that had seen better
days. And everybody responded cheer
fully and a very neat sum was con-
tributed.
And some years afterward the mat
ter came up casually in conversation
in this city. and Mr.. Lyman Cook,
president of the First National bank,
asked the man from Burlington, who
had taken up the collection on that
beautiful summer afternoon in Abba:
"And did you turn over the proceeds
to the ar1ny?'
And there still remains doubt, as
the reply came like a flash: Lyman,
do you think am a ID fool?"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-14

what money king should be. He has
disgorged after q fashion. He is not
ernment He is not a gambler or
fool. Let us give Mr.. Carnegie-who
is not the devil-his due, and as one
Of our adopted Americans, let us al
low him the inherent right OF all
Scotchmen, the privilege OF stopping
over" on Bobby Burns and Scotland.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-14
Not So Easily Pleased.

In a Pennsylvania town where the
friends abound a prime old Quaker
spinster one day attended the mar
riage of her granddaughter, young
person who had in the coures of his
81 years received much-needed disci-
pline at her hands, according to the
Youths Companion.
The old lady was at her best on this
festive occasion, and at a pause in the
wedding breakfast her young relative
looked over at her with a beguiling
smile. "Tell us why thee never mar
ried, Aunt Patience" he said, teas
ingly.
THAT is soon told, William" safa
the old Quakeress, calmly. 1T was
because was not as easily pleased as
thy wife was"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-14
How and When to Plow.

TT. +. Nash, in GAINESVILLE Start
There is no farm operations that
governs to such an extent the produce
ton of a crop, as the time and man
ner in which our land is plowed. Plow-
ing consists in turning the soil at a
proper width and depth and in such a
manner as to keep our land level from
year to year. There is scarcely a
farm in Floyd county, and what applies
to Floyd county applies to every coun-
ty in the state, but that you will see
ridge along the outside and division
fences. as well as along the sloughs.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-14

some axle grease on the bright parts
and when you come TO use 1t again you
will have no trouble In having it to
acour Keep your lays and coulters
sharp and thereby save horse flesh ana
besides do "A better job. by observing
these simple rules you will hand down
to postcrity Your lands In as good
shape as when nature turned them over
to you and you have no right to do
it Otherwise. Yours for plowing.
GEORGE r. NASH.