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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15
MIGHT EXCHANGED IN.

If the Rockefeller 100000 is too
badly tainted for the colleges to use.
they can probably swap it for new
bills at the United States treasury
Baltimore Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15

Perhaps "Scotty' is trying to star
4 real estate boom in Death Vale!
real estate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15
SURE.

It seems to be inevitable that the
trolley car you have selected for your
delightful trip into the open country
should be the same trolley car that the
rest of the population has decided to
take.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15
PERIT, FOR THE PLANETs

An Ohio man has Invented a sue
cessful flying machine. Inhabitants of
nearby planets who depend on political
patronage will soon have to fight for
their pickings.-San Francisco Bull
1etin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15

Mr.. Scott, OF Death Valley, will
probably not 90 home as fast as he
came east.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15

Already Mr.. Root has a full f1edged
presidential boom on his hands.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15

malaria and yellow fever germs. They
thrive on it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15
THE DUMMY.

The hen-pecked husband is a sort
of domestic dummy director.-Wash-
ington Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15
A Lesson for Husbands.

The late Mary A. Livermore liked to
tell story of a young friend of hers
in Melrose, for she believed in this
story lay a lesson for husbands.
Mrs. Livermore' friend was passing
a month alone, her mate having been
summoned to Europe on a business
trip.
"And you are very lonely without
your husband now?" the elder said to
the younger woman one morning.
"a little lonely" was the qualified
answer.
but surely said Mrs. Livermore.
''you miss your husband very much
now he is away?"
The other laughed rather bitterly.
ooh, no." she said. Sat breakfast
just stand his newspaper up in front
of his plate and half the time forget
he isn't there. buffalo Enquirer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15
Vegetarian EGGS.

A vegetarian had an amusing ex-
perience the other morning while at
breakfast. His family was out of
town, and he went to a restaurant and
took seat next to a stranger.
The vegetarian took occasion to adj
vertise his creed by telling the stranger
that all meat was injurious and that
the human diet should be strictly veg
etabIe.
But" replied the stranger, 81 sell
dom eat meat"
You just ordered eggs said the
vegetarian. "An egg is practically
meat. because it eventually becomes a
bird"
THE kind of eggs I eat never be-
come birds" answered the stranger
quietly.
Good heavens!" cried the vege-
tartan, what kind of eggs do you
eat?"
principally boiled eggs" said the
stranger Haven Register.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15
A sATURDAY sERNfoN.

For the love of money is the root of all
Ill Timothy. 6:10
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15
The Threatened Revival of Crinoline.

Times are not dull: there is abun-
dance of news; and yet there creeps
into the papers a rumor of impending
crinoline. 1t comes from London,
from Paris, from Chicago, from Pitts
burg-that is. the rumor comes, but
crinoline doesn't, and won't. The evil
doors who invent fashions would be
glad to distribute any new fashion that
made women's clothes cost more and
require more material, and that made
all gowns now in use or in stock look
hopelessly out of date. Fashions are
changed in order to sell goods. They
are changed just as much and just as
often as the traffic will bear. The
ASTRONOMERS would doubtless be
glad to impose crinoline on the Chris
tan nations (the other nations don't
bother much with fashions), but it
cannot be done. There is not room
enough in New York for crinoline. It
could not exist here. McAdoo would
not tolerate it. No fashion that will
not do for New York can pervade the
United States; so the country is safe
Harper'S Weekly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15
The Bachelors Hard Lot.

It is hard to be bachelor in America.
The president abuses you in few we'll
chosen words. The women of the coun-
try hold a congress and debate upon you.
Even the senate joins in the fray. Sen
ator Beveridge, through the medium of
a Philadelphia paper. has been telling
the bachelor what he thinks of him.
President Roosevelt chastised the un-
happy man with whips, but the SEN
ator takes to scorpions. you are no.
body says he, genially, eff you are
merely an individual. Both nature and
society have use for you only as one
of a pair. If your arm is not strong
enough - carry aloft your children in
a sort of grand gladness, you are really
not worth WHILE This doubtless is
So And yet the fathers whom one oc-
casionally meets in the street carrying
aloft their children do not seem to be
feeling a very grand gladness. That
probably is their mistake. When presi-
dents and senators puff matrimony like
this, we realize how much valuable ex-
hortation we lose by making a bachelor
our premier.-London Telegraph.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-01-31
A Sociesy Game Tn Lond on.

4 new pastime. called the orange game. that affords considerable fun and requires but little skill has been very popular in London society during the holiday season, says the Chicago Record Herald. Sides are taken. one couple playing against another. These face one another. and behind each cou. pie is row of four oranges. which have to be picked up in a spoon by the couple facing them. while the other pair similarly devote their attention tO tie other row. The oranges must then be carried to the side of the room from which the pair in question started. The fun of the game lies in the fact that il Is Bo easy matter to carry an orange in q small spoon. and the difficulty is in creased bccause of the opposing cOu- ples in their sOlicitude tO get their oranges home first run the risk of jos ting one another. thus. of course. caus- ing the fruit to fall
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-01-31

alive with them in the spring, and in many cases they would destroy not only the fruit. but in some cases even the trees themselves. Of course these birds carry on their warfare all through the rest of the year. eating ants, caterpillars and crawlers of many kinds by thou- sands, but the farmer, being busy with other matters, will not be so likely to see them at it.
 Perhaps the next bird to appear may be nuthatch, bird much smaller even than the downy woodpecker and quite different in appearance and manners. It may be hite-breasted or red-breast- ed nuthatch, but in either case he will be seen to be very important little person. age; not a harder worker than the wood becker. perhaps, but with a greater ap- pearance of hustle.
 Or our farmer may see band of chickadees. of whose identity no one can ever be in doubt. since they repeat their own name over and over. wherever they go. as they swing, often head downwards. among the twigs. Very tame they are at this season. and with but little patience, they will feed from ones hands CT lips. as they did from mine more than hun- dred times last winter They are en- gagged in the same work as the woodpeck- CTS and the nuthatches. viz. the exter- imitation of myriads of insects. which if allowed to increase unchecked. would make the work of the fruit grower heart breaking and unprofitable.
 Let the farmer now look over the fields beyond the orchard and observe that clear-cut figure of hawk. sailing in cir cles against the sky. If he will but be- lieve it that is feathersd servant. work ing conscientiously from dawn until dusk. and without pay. to rid his farm of the rats. mice and other rodents which play such havoc with his property at all times of the year. It has been estimated that the hawk will destroy in one year 1 1.000 mice or their equivalent in noxious insects. aDi the farmer need not be told what a thousand mice can do to his fruit trees in the course of one severe win ter. He knows. only too well. perhaps. tha: they can kill more than as many trees by girdling them with their teeth. as I saw many hundred trees killed last winter in the same way. Now and then hawk of some species will get chicken from the poultry yard. but let him not be hasty to revenge the act. What other workman can he get to do so much hon. est work at so small a wage,
 1.-the farmer will only study the habits of the birds he sees before undertaking 10 shoot any Of them. and then shoot only those which he proves have done him more harm than good. his crops will be larger. and his bill for powder and shot will never keep him awake at night
 ERNEST HAROLD BATNEy
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-01-31

IS, and stood revealed in striped white and blue overalls and jumper. He had come ten miles, right from his t-rn, in a $1,500 auto car, with $2O0 fur coat over $o.50 suit of overalls, to find out if the young professor could tell him something about seed corn he did not know. That man eight .SarS ago was forester in Bohemia. His torm is but a few miles from one of the several do- mains owned by Uncle Joe Cannon in that section. ..-,
 The lectures which these so called "corn sharps' are delivering to farm CTS are models of their kind. Into thir- ty minutes speaker crowds the re. suits of many years of experiments and successes. These professors for the time become Gatling guns whose mis- siles are new facts based upon proved results.
 On this series of trips the seed corn special has to do solely with the mat ter of selecting seed corn for next springs planting. Later however, a special is to go into the semiarid belt of some of the western states There the farmers, who are fighting nature herself in their efforts to grow crops where water is so precious that it is measured out in quarter inches, will be shown the wonders of soil inoculation. Bacteria which breed nitrogen will be carried along for distributiOn-bacteri which are done up in packages and are so marvelously reproductive that a handful of the dried up germs is enough to vaccinate ten acre field. And with these bacteria, these nitro gen producing organisms which double and treble the yield of alfalfa and clover, will grow new varieties of wheat and oats that need so little water that they flourish in sandy wastes and thrive in almost totally arid regions. It is the firm belief of Industrial Con- missioner Manss and the agricultural department of the University of Ne braska that in a few years the semi arid western plains will be numbered among the most productive territories of the United States.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-01-31
STREET FOR CHICAGO ELITE
Mrs. Potter Palmer Plans q Prom enade-FashionabIe Drives Too,

Mrs. Potter Palmer Plans q Prom- enade-Fashionable Drives Too. Chicago is to have fashionable promenade in the business district-a walk in which one will meet all the women of wealth in the city, walk to be lined in time with beautiful dis play windows, tea rooms and all manner of shops for femininity, says the Chica- go Tribune.
 This is the suggestion advanced by Mrs. Potter Palmer and indorsed en- Enthusiastically by those friends to whom she has confided it. The latter have told their friends, and those friends other friends, until the idea has come to be widely discussed and generally approved.
 Chicago, it is pointed out, is sadly in need of such a promenade. When this city was merely business town." given over to commerce, manufacturing and money making, the lack was not so greatly noticeable, but times have changed, said those who recently dis cussed Mrs. Palmer's plan. The leisure class now Is an important factor in the life of the metropolis.
 But the plan suggested by Mrs. Palm CT contemplates even more than the es- tablishment of promenade Chicago is so vast. it Is declared, that one sel- dom meets ones friends while driving unless downtown. where greetings are drowned by the roar of traffic. There fore it is proposed to select one after noon fin the week on which the fashion able will drive in Lincoln park bOule- yard and the Lake shore drive. On an other afternoon the fashionable drive will he fin Michigan avenue and the other boulevards of the south park system. Such display of glittering equipages as Chicago could muster would add much to the attractiveness of the city. it is asserted.
 Just when the idea will take concrete form and society women begin their afternoon walk or drive is yet to be decided on. While thus far the selec- ton of the promenade is likewise unde- cided, suggestion for the walk has been put forward. It is that the fash ion leaders each afternoon walk north in Michigan avenue from Congress street probably as far as Monroe. then turn westward to Wabash avenue and south in that street to the Auditorium. This would give a walk a mile long, sufficient. 1t is pointed out. if one wish es to avoid fatigue and not requiring too much time.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-01-31
THE WINTER BIRDS.
WHAT FEATHTRED FRIENDS OF
 THE FARMER DO FOR HIM.
They Hunt Out and Devour Myriads
 of Insect Enemies of Orchard | Trees-Even the Hawk Is Useful.

The intelligent agriculturist no longer allows prejudice and superstition to in- terfere with his interests; he desires in all cases to actfrom knowledge and req son, based either on his personal obser- vation or on the experience of some one whose authority he knows to be reliable.
 The easiest way for the farmer, or for anyone else for that matter, to find out in general way, which of the birds are beneficial and which are harmful to us, is to write to the secretary of agricul- ture for free pamphlets on this subject. The best way for him to get the same in- formation is to go out on his farm and into the country surrounding it, and watch the birds at their daily work; not just when they happen to be in the cher ry tree or the poultry yard, but all through the year. He may not have time to do this during warm weather, but even in winter he can get some slight idea of the value of wild birds, by cer- fully watching those which are on his premises at this season. Let him go into his orchard and see for himself what some of the birds are doing for his fruit trees
 Probably one of the first he will see will be woodpecker of some kind, and in that case he is sure to see very use full bird. Of the 40 odd species and sub species of woodpeckers in this country, only one is sometimes destructive to the trees. This is the yellow-bellied sap sucker, but as he does not usually winter north of Virginia, it is not likely that he will be seen here. Ten to one it will be a downy or hairy woodpecker. These two are much alike in general appear ance, except that the latter is consid- erably larger than the former. In either case he will be found very busy search ing for and devouring insects eggs. lar vac and adult insects of one kind or an- other, which have their home on, in or below the bark of the tree. Some of these insects are pests of the worst sort, and if they were not gathered up by the birds in the winter the trees would be
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-01-31

Uearest production, it would be all a subject of guesswork. Especially is that true of the Kansas field, where the trends | are contrariwise and sometimes cross each other In case of doubt I should let the driller pick the spot and abide the result. Even the first hole is no indi- | cation of the value of lease. I have known of as many as five holes drilled on lease in this field and every one of | them dry, when some ten0erfoot would come along and get good oil wells on that same lease. I have in mind the , case of firm that drilled some holes 1 around here 12 years ago and reported that the district was dry, when, within a stones throw of these dry holes, are some of the best producing wells in the district.
 T remember also case at Richburg, N. Y. The men drilled 13 holes, an un- lucky number, and did not get oil. Aft CT that came man who got oil in every one of the 15 holes he drilled If the original promoters had surveyed the ground they could not have gone around the oil-producing territory nearly so closely as they did by accident You have to take your chances, and that is what I am doing.'
 "It is easy" said the witch. All have to do is to take out my divining rod and go out into territory to be developed and put 1t on the ground. If there is oil there the instrument will show 1t at once. You cannot fail if you have the proper kind of an instrument. The trou- ble with these people is that they are not sufficiently posted in metallurgy to know that you can discover the presence of mineral in the ground by the sim pie device of divining rod. But you can do it all the same. have located dozens of wells in this district, and never failed yet. And in other districts where no wells have been drilled have located good oil wells which eventually made money for their owners. With the rest of the fellows it is guesswork. but with me it is 'cinch.
 And if it is 'cinch' with you. wh, don't you get rich out of it, instead of making the other fellows rich?" the witch was asked. But he looked out over the tops of the buildings at this and said he had an engagement with a promoter down the street.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-01-31
LOCATING OIL WELLS
SPOT FOR THE BORE IS STRUCK MAINLY BY CHANGE.
The Promoter and Driller Admit as Much, But the "Witch" Main tains It Is His "Rod"
 That Finos It,

Alo now dO you strike oil in wild eountry?' was ashed driller, promo ter and the witch" Each answered after his profession and his kind, and each believes himself infallible. It is comparatively easy, says writer in the Kansas City Star, in well-developeo ter ritory. with producing wells on all sioes, to pitch the site for derrick almost anywhere and get the oil. But in re- mote districts, where the drill has neve CT made hole and where the derricks are not in sight, it is another story.
 Well,' said the driller man, after . pause, Tit is like this: You don't know thing about it. and the more you look at the land and the more you think about 1t the more muddled you probably will become. Some rather take their chance on hillside and others in the valleys. some follow so-called surface indica- tlons and others follow the advice of the witch. It is all guess, however. and when all is said and oone, you prob- ably will find 1t one place as we'll as another. l had a contract not so long ago to drill hole for fellow who want cd it on ridge. He had picked out the exact spot and marked it off, SO that all had to do was to put up rig and begin.
 We started for the place on a wagon, but in the river bottom the wagon got stuck in the mud. We fused around for awhile, and then saw we were in for 1t. My man got tired and finally said he believed he would locate the we'll as close to the place where we got stuck as possible. We did it, and got good oil well. After we got the we'll in the river bottom we moved up on the hill- side to the spot he had first picked out and We got dry hole.
 T knew another fellow who went to wild country. When he came to pick out site for the first we'll he shut his eyes, whirled around two or three times and threw a rock as far as he could. Where the rock fell was the site of the well. He got oil. There was still an- other fellow who used to tell us to drill any old place and he sometimes found oil. But these are merely samples of experience. Every man to his notion"
 T try" said the promoter, appearing as dignified and wise as an owl. first to find out the nearest well and then the direction the pool seems to take Then l take ruler and measure off the line of the trend and place my derricks somewhere along that line. But if were distant. say ten miles, from the
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-01-31
Very Sharp.

Hiram Crovfoot believes in getting his moneys worth drawled the farm CT on the cracker barrel.
 What nov- asked the champion .heeker player.
 when he vent in the side show he thote twasnt worth dime. 60 he sharPened his knife on the ossihed Daily Nevxs
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-01-31
\ Prediction About Locomotives.

Il predict said Senator De7ew the other night at the annual dinner of the Transportation club in the Hotel Man haitian New York. that within ten years the steam locomotive of today will be seen in the museum for the ill., spection If the antiquarian and we will be able tc proceed over the rail roads by means of electricity at a rate of seventy-dve miles an hour We do not even despair of transportation by means of airshipS.-
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-01-31

S10 worth, 100 Hunt Stamps, with SS worth, 80 Hunt Stamps, with . S2 worth, 20 Hunt Stamps, with :.
 A worth, 40 Hunt Stamps, with . $3 worth. 30 Hunt Stamps. with . S3 worth, 30 Hunt Stamps, with . S2 worth, 20 Hunt Stamps, with . S2 worth, 20 Hunt Stamps, with .
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-01-31
Die on Bare Ground.

Every good Sikh prefers to die upon the bare ground. Regardless of rank or age no rug must intervene between him and the earth when he breathes his last.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-01-31
Boot Hint.

To soften kid boo.s which have been hardened by getting very wet. clean them at once and rub them with cas- tor oil.-Household.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-01-31
Dense Fog.

During the recent fog in England a drover lost a drove of sheep in the streets of Manchester. The animals scattered all over the city.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-06-01
benefits to be derived from a visit to

benefits to be derived from a visit to
Washington. To the student of
ancient history it is delight to
ramble through these rooms and
study the art, the architecture and
home life of the ancients.
The meeting of the club was held
in the Assyrian throne room, and
the addresses we're made from the
steps of replica of the throne OF
Xerxes upon which sat wooden
image of Sennascherib, while around
the walls of the room were frescoes
from Assyrian history.
One could imagine themselves back
in the land of Shinar and in the
country between the Euphrates and
the Tigris, where, according to the
Hebrew Scriptures, mankind came
into being. They could recall the
struggle OF the Assyrians for indie
pendence from the Chaldeans, and
the wonderful names of the Liglath-
Pileser and Assurpanipal, forgotten
since school days, as these enthusi-
astic speakers argued tor the beauti-
fication of Capital of nation whose
past is but the beginning of its great
ness.
After the lecture we wandered from
room to room, and in memory we
walked the streets of Babylon,
Ninerar, Erech, Accad and Calneh.
Usually in museums Egyptian life is
presented as gloomy. One is forced
to think of it as a nation of mummies.
Here the pictures presented is nearer
the imagined one of Egypts greatness,
and as one listened to the plans for
the glorification of Washington,
surrounded by such picturesque
examples of the greatness of Ancient
nations, and remember what Paris
and other modern nations have done
to rival the splenders of Greece and
Rome and all ancient nations, they
become convinced that the words of
Mr.. Smith are true, washington
must become the glory of the Republic
beyond its possession of national
force; in its resources for knowledge:
its grandeur of art and architecture,
as Greece materialized its intellectual
conceptions and ASPIRATIONS on the
Acropolis, America will hencefourth
centralize the illustrations of it's
achievements and aims within the
National Capital. They will rear its
counterpart from Athens with accord
ant Temples of knowledge