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The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1905-09-07
Difference of Irrigation and Rain.

Orchard and Farm
Under the clouds the farmer 3
business is lottery. lie is never
sure of harvest. lie sows, hut
he does not know that he will
reap. The seed goes into the
ground but he can not be sure of
moisture enough TO mature "A
crop. Will it rain? Will it rain
enough? VIII it rain at the right
time? Will it rain too much?
He watches the clouds; he lies
awake at night; he goes through
anxious days, says II writer IN
California. A dry season or n
wet one, drouth or floods, keeps
HIM on the rack. The years har-
vest hangs in the balance. No
other business could bear the
element cf uncertainty which is
inseparable from the farmers
work wherever he depends upon
the clouds
Under irrigation his business
becomes half scientific. He
knows what he can do. The ele-
ment Of chance is eliminated.
Farm work becomes n matter of
skill and intelligence. Crop fail
ure is reduced to n minimum. He
gets moisture when he wants it
and sends it where he wants it.
If the summers are rainless, the
situation is all the more to his
mind. His alfalfa field needs
flooding, but his sugar beets are
maturing and need the sunshine
to store up sweetness. That
strawberry patch is getting dry,
and he can water it, but the or
chard just now would be harmed
by a day of rain
Then III larger way: "Under
irrigation" Professor Mead says,
1.-THE farmer is practically sure of
n crop each year. In ordinary or
extra dry years the crop is ill.,
creased two and sometimes three
fold. The crops are always of
superior quality. grading number
one" Major Powell SAID, many
years ago, that there is probably
not an acre of land in the United
States the productive capacity of
which would not be ut least
doubled by scientific irrigation.
And Secretary Wilson of the De-
partment Of Agriculture says,
THAT in those communities of
the West which have been created
by irrigation, the farmers have
learned that forty acres well
titled will yield more profit than
100 farmed IN the old haphazard
way"
The three prime factors Of pro-
duction are fertility. temperature,
and moisture. Given these, and
the farmer IS almost master of
the situation. If he is not, the
fault lies with himself. In Cali
fornia the man in the field finds n
fertile soil, and over it mild and
dependable climate, If, now, his
land can be irrigated, he is mas
ter of the forces CT production.
There is Egypt, for centuries the
granary of the world. Agricul-
ture there supports more than
100000 people, an average of
SAB to the square mile. But there
is more irrigable land in the San
Joaquin Valley than is watered IN
Egypt from the Nile
There is the valley of the Pc, in
Northern Italy, where 5000, 900
acres under irrigation support in
comfort 100000 people, Yet
the San Joaquin Valley IS as fer
tile as the plains of Lombardy,
and Piedmont in the valley of
the Po-has n climate as kindly
and three times the acreage.
What a population will it not
support
Irrigation means intensive
farming; it necessitates small
farms; small farms mean near
The Lamar register., 1905-05-24
Manners School for Rich

of at an unfavorable moment. and the
sum | received at the death of my
father only produces an income OF
some six hundred a year.
81 have been carefully educated.
first at Eton and afterwards at Ok
ford l belong to several of the most
important clubs in London, / know all
the prominent men and women In So
ciety,' and am known to all the best
tradesmen in the west end, for l have
always dealt with them and paid
them.
1T has occurred to me to start
school for backward millionaires. My
wife and are prepared to teach them
how to dress, how to behave, how to
pronounce words and names, how to
amuse themselves intelligently and
whom to know and to avoid. We
shall teach them, so far as 1t can be
taught, the difference between good
and bad taste; we would train them
to discriminate between good and bad
cooking, wines and cigars; we will
make them understand the qualities
horse should have and tell them how
tleir carriages should be turned out
and how to manage their servants. In
other words, we will convey to them
for a fee of a thousand a year much
of the information which we have ac-
quired by education and experience.
The Lamar register., 1905-05-24
Statement by Mrs. Chadwick.

Cleveland, Ohio, May 19.-Mrs. Cas-
sic l.. Chadwick made statement
last night concerning her affairs in
which she said:
"Since January 1, 1901. I have had
s3.21O. 900. OF this amount l borrowed
not over 5000, 900. the remainder com
ing from a trust fund and some sales.
I'm April or May. 1901, owed only
$50. 900. l paid that debt. i was then
induced to make an investment which
called for almost 100000. l took no
security for this investment and the
transaction, so far as l was concerned
never materialized. The investment
was made upon the advice of a friend.
.In February. 1902. after my return
from Europe, / was informed that my
investment was a loss and that l was
in debt 100000. Besides that sum
there was an additional loss which l
had incurred of 100000. In order to
meet these obligations l made large
loans, for which l paid heavy commits
sions. o =,
81 have borrowed in all 100000. i
obtained $175,O00 on my own note. A
loan of $4,000 was secured by men on
the Endorsement of prominent New
Yorker. The other 100000 l have
mentioned before
The Lamar register., 1905-05-24

Those who had little have much and
those who have much have little-that
is the condition which the rapid tran
sition of circumstances has developed
in England. says a London special
cable to the New York World. 1t is an
important moment in the history of
the race, for the English are chang
ing manners.
The men who have been taught to
spend money are being replaced by
those who have been taught to make
money, and it is one of the most cruel
circumstances of the situation that
many of the former are earning their
livelihood by teaching the latter to
live in luxury. These thoughts have
been suggested by the following letter
in London newspaper.
Sir: | enclose my card, but not
for publication. You will see by it
that 1 am younger son of Lord -.
who inherited large estate in the
midland counties. which has been in
the possession of the family for sever
al centuries. The extravaganza of my
my father, agricultural depression,
mismanagement and large family
made it necessary for him to sell the
estate, together with all the contents
of the house. The money he obtained
through the sale was comparatively
little. for the property was disposed
The Lamar register., 1905-05-24
Glands for the Plain S

other, known as the Livingston eland,
striped. 1t is one of about 200 species
of antelopes found in south Africa.
where animals of this genus seem to
have undergone the most extraordin-
ary differentiation. Some of them
are the swiftest runners OF all ami
mails and certain kinds are so wild
and wary that hunters can not pos
sibly get within gunshot of them un-
less by the help of what is known as
an artificial ostrich. n Hottentot con-
trivance consisting of the skin of an
ostrich arranged to disguise a man.
who holds the head of the supposed
bird aloft by means of a stick thrust
through the neck.
Glands are becoming scarce in
south Africa. Though they seem to
be the most desirable species for i'm
portation into the United States, there
are others which might be valuable
notably the springbok, which is
graceful creature less than three feet
in height, of a beautiful fawn color.
a prolific breeder and suited to the
conditions, climatic and otherwise,
of the arid regions of Arizona, New
the arid regions of Arizona. New Mex
leo and southern California.-Satur-
day Evening Post.
The Lamar register., 1905-05-24

Were the men who built the pre-
historic structures at Zimbabwe in
Africa of the same race as the AZtecs
and other native races that have left
pyramids and monuments of various
kinds throughout Central and South
An erica? This speculation takes its
ris.s from the uncovering at Umtali in
Africa of an "arrastre" stone. An
arrastre is rude apparatus used in
Me xico and in some parts of the
United States for grinding, and. at
the same time, amalgamating ores
containing free gold and silver. 1t
coniists of a vertical axis with hori-
zontal arms attached. To these arms
huge masses of rock are fastened by
chains and dragged over the ore,
which is placed on bed of fiat stones.
within circular inclosure usually
about twelve feet in diameter The
arrastre stone at Umtali was dis
covered by mining engineers in the
region of the prehistoric gold mines.
1t is believed that the people who
built the old temples and courts at
Zimbabwe must have been the same
as those who ground and amalgamat-
ed the metallic ores with those crude
implements.
The Lamar register., 1905-05-24
Aztecs and Africans Allied :!

"A marvellous field of speculative
archaeology is opened up" says
writer. 1T has been demonstrated
by Herodotus that the Phoenicians.
who went very nearly everywhere.
paid a visit to South Africa in the
year 900 b. C. The ancient ruins of
Rhodesia have been ascribed by more
than one authority to these hardy.
enterprising people of the old world.
It has been contended, also, that the
natives of South Africa, other than
those of Spanish stock. derived their
origin from Phoenician immigration.
The word 'Phoenician.' in Greek.
means n red man. The builders of
Tyre were a mixed race. Semitic and
Monaghan. Does not the American
red man possess facial characteris-
tics peculiar to those two nations?
"A well-known mining engineer
says: 4 have been much struck with
the great similarity between these
ancient ruins and those of the Aztec
Indians in Colorado and New Mexico
II would be a strange coincidence IL,
with the aid of the arrastre stone. a
relationship were traced between the
early gold diggers in South Africa
and those pre- Columbian miners OF
South America
The Lamar register., 1905-05-24

The introduction of Glands into the
United State is likely TO be attempted
before long, the department of agri-
culture having given its approval to
the idea. All that is needed is money,
which congress will be asked to give.
The animals, which are the largest
of I'll antelopes, would be very valu-
able in the desert regions of the south
west as source of meat supply. They
reosire almost no water, are accus-
tor4 ed to forage for themselves and
are quite tractable.
The Gland is nearly six feet high at
the shoulders when full grown and
weighs 1.600 pounds. 1t is not par
ticilarly swift, unlike most of its con-
gel ers, and a man can sometimes
ovsftake 1t by running. Its flesh is
cor. sidered delicacy. Commonly, it
browses in herds in the waterless de-
sei1s of south Africa, to which it is
naive. its ability TO get along for
mcnths together without water being
a mystery. To some extent doubtless
it depends upon moisture derived
fro>i succulent plants such as wild
watermelon.
There are two varieties of Gland.
ono being reddish in color and the
The Lamar register., 1905-05-24

Prof. Mylius Eriksen, writing of the
heather Eskimo in northern Green
land, says: He lacks imagination.
but his powers OF observation are
very acute. In spite of the fact that
his life is an uninterrupted struggle
for existence, the Greenlander is al
ways in good humor. and his bolster
GUS laugh can be heard sounding far
over ice and snow fields. His way of
telling stories is short and abrupt. but
comical features are strongly empba-
sized. His stories consist generally
of his own adventures, old legends
about fights with neighbors and wild
animals, about severe winters and
great famines. about the creation of
the world and about supernatural be-
ings: 1t is considered highly credit
able to be able to tell stories so long
that the audience is lulled to sleep.
An orator who achieves this feat is
solemnly welcomed on the next morn
ing. and every one thanks him pro-
fusely for the pleasure which he ae'
corded the night before.
The Lamar register., 1905-05-24
eirlloff Given Chief Command.

St. Petersburg. May 20.-Vice Ad-
miral Biriloff. who has been named for
the supreme naval command in the Pa
cific, will leave for Vladivostok May
25th, to assume charge there and make
preparations for repairing and refit-
ting the vessels of Vice Admiral Ro-
jestvensky's fleet when they arrive.
BY imperial command Vice Admiral
Biriloff will have all the rights and
powers of commander of the army.
and the commander of the Vladivos-
tok garrison will be subject to his or
ders, thereby avoiding the possibility
of any conflict of authority in case OF
a siege, as at Port Arthur.
II have no intention of relieving
Vice Admiral Rojestvensky of the i'm
mediate command of the fleet If he is
well and able to perform his duties
on his arrival at Vladivostok." said the
admiral. who is small of stature and
scant of hair, but keen and alert in
bearing.
81 have high respect for his qualifi-
cations as a fleet commander. and
there will be plenty for us both to do"
The Lamar register., 1905-05-24
Deafness Served Him Well

smith shouted. It's whisky. / want
a bottle of your best whisky
YES. but you see.' said the land
lord. argumentatively, they're long
way off. and it'll be very late before
"'Oh. want bottle of whisky. 1
don't want a horse
THE blacksmith was by this time
flushed and annoyed. The innkeeper
smiled reproachfully.
NO he said. No. John. They'll
be too tired when they get back.
Darn you. you old fool said the
blacksmith in low tone, and he turn
ed his wagon and drove off.
After he was gone an elderly hos
tier said to the landlord:
BOSS. rSou're getting as deaf as
post 1t wasn't horse, 1t was bot
tie of whisky that the man was askin'
for
"I heard him WELL said the land
lord, smiling; but he didn't pay for
the last bottle he got .'"-Pittsburg
Chronicle Telegraph.
The Lamar register., 1905-05-24
Laws Should Be Obeyed.

St. Louis, May 1s.-Governor FOLK OF
Missouri, addressing the general bap-
tist convention, said:
missouri has an idea that means
the enforcement of laws. Laws that
are not enforced add just so much to
the support of good government as
sores do to the strength of the human
body. Law breaking has become
alarmipgly common. 1t is one OF the
greatest dangers that confronts free
government, for when all laws are ig-
nored there can be no such thing as
free government.
MANY men obey the laws they like.
but think they have political iDerty
to disobey the laws that are obnoxious
to them. The trust magnate looks with
abhorrence on the pickpocket who vio-
lates the larceny statute but considers
n entirely right to break the laws
against combinations and monopoiles.
The boodler detests the law breaking
of the trusts but considers the law
against bribery as an infringement on
his personal liberty. The dram shop
keeper regards the law against murder
as good. but the law against operating
his dram shop on Sunday Is, In MS
oninion. puritanical and tyrannical.
n each citizen were allowed to de-
termine for himself which laws ne con-
sidered bad, the result would De an
archy-we would have no laws at all.
THE only safe rule is that OF the law
on the statute books must be observed
There has been to much OF making
laws to please the moral element ana
then not enforcing them to please the
immoral element"
The Lamar register., 1905-05-24
CANON CITY RAILWAY.
Meeting of Business Men to Forward
the Project.

Denver, Colo May 1S.-A Republi-
can special says that a meeting of rep
resentative business men of Canon
City was he a Tuesday to discuss mat
tiers in relation to the Canon City
Great Western Railway Company. for
which a charter was recently granted
by the secretary of state. with capi-
talizatior of s.. 100000. The company
proposes tn build and operate road
from Canon City to Beulah. Pueblo
county, about forty miles. with
branches into the various coal camps
of Fremont county and the lead dis
trict in the vicinity of Ilse, Custer
county. Two surveying parties are
now in the field. and as soon as the
line has been established contracts VIII
be let for building the grade.
The incorporators are Frank ID.
Heath and j. P. Fleishel of Canon City.
c. F.. Weller of Omaha, Senator A. G.
Forney and Hiram Hitchcock of
Wichita, Kansas. and A. G. Griffin OF
Kansas City, Missouri. They are
backed by the Denver & Rio Grande
Railway Company and the proposed
line will become a valuable feeder Tor
that system.
A contract was let last week to a
Chicago company for twenty-five miles
of steel rails. and others for 1lo,ooo
ties, to be delivered within two
months. Two locomotives and twenty
freight cars will be ready for delivery
by June 1st.
The proposed road is but a link In
an important railway system which
ultimately will be extended from Colo
RADIO Springs and thence into Texas.
with Galveston as its objective point
The meeting was presided over by
F.. A. Reynolds. president of the Ere
mont County Bank. and committee
of five citizens was appointed to con-
fer with officers Of the railway com.
pany to ascertain in what way local
people can best further the enterprise,
and report at public meeting to be
called later.
The Lamar register., 1905-05-24
St. Louis Fair Expenses.

Denver. Colo, May 1s.-Harry casa
day. treasurer of the st. Louis WORLDS S
Fair Board for Colorado, has submit
ted his official report to Governor NC
Donald. The expenditures or the
board. which were pretty thoroughly
gone into as they occurred. and were
criticised for their generosity. were as
follows:
General expense department. $l2.-
143.94; educational department. s1l,-
S31.36; forestry. fish and game depart
ment, $6.329.1O: agricultural depart
ment, $13.526.ss; horticultural depart
ment, $13.S61; mining department
$3O.1s3.O4; general salary, $9.323.2I;
colorado board of worlds fair com
missioners, s2.913.sO; live stock.
$5b46O; Paul Wilson, commissioner IN
chief. expense account. $1.13275;
juvenile court, $500; rent account,
s3,O63.27; building department. VI .O20'-
IL; transportation department, s20O;
School of Mines department, $2,9l3.6O; ;
art department. $191.19; school for
deaf and blind, $500: office depart
ment. s4O525: advertising, 1882; to-
tai. $110, ,627.12.
The Lamar register., 1905-05-24
Tooth Brushes.

DR.. S. H. Arnold gives some interest
ing facts and good advice in regard
to that daily friend, the tooth brush:
Nearly all brushes are made from
bristles taken from the wild hogs of
Russia or China. The handles are
common beef bones. They are made
mostly in Japan, France. England and
Germany. and by one firm in the
United States. Probably English
brushes are the best made and worst
shaped. The French are next in quail
ity, but far ahead in form. Germany
ard Japan are generally imitators.
Some of the most expensive English
and French. and all American brushes.
are made in factories under more or
less sanitary conditions. but the cheap
er grades, including all German and
Japanese brushes. are made in the
huts of the peasants, where cattle,
dogs, swine, fowls and humans are
herded In common. The bristles and
bcne are given out by the dealer and
taken into the country. where they are
assorted by the aged and young chill
dren and diseased persons, the strong
er members of the family working at
more remunerative employment.
These cheap brushes are often in
the most unsanitary and wretched sur
roundings imaginable, and It Is sig
nificant fact that after being made
they are seldom sterilized before
using.
The English brushes are generally
very much too large to be efficient.
The French are better shaped. but are
apt to be too long of head. making
much waste to the brush, and are too
long of bristle.
A wide brush is not advisable be-
cause 1t limits the movement possibly
longitudinally to the tooth. Long bris-
ties are not the best, because they
bend when the brush is thrust back
between cheek and teeth, and stay
bent till the brush is withdrawn, thus
missing the interproximal spaces so
much in need of cleaning. Soft bris-
ties become softer when wet. and
utterly fail to enter the spaces at all.
If the surface of the bristles is con-
caved longitudinally to fit the labial
curve of the teeth. then when the
brush is reversed and used on the lin
quail surfaces. only the ends of the
brush engage the teeth; hence. more
teeth are missed than cleaned. and
the user is deceived into thinking he
has cleaned his teeth because he has
brushed them.
Studying the brush over and what is
The Lamar register., 1905-05-24
Among the Heathen Eskimo

ideas of beauty are peculiarly de-
veloped in the heather Eskimo. He
regards beauty solely from the stand
point of utility. For instance, rock
projecting out of water only appears
beautiful to him when 1t is visited in
summer by water birds which breed
there. A foaming torrent is only beau
tiful IL IL contains many salmon.
Clothes are not put together with any
idea of regularity of color, only their
practical utility being considered.
Huts are made of snow and stones.
with domed tops. but without any
architectural design.
only the spirit conjurers tanga-'
koks) occupy an exalted position. be
ing regarded as priests and doctors.
Their task is to establish connec-
tion between the visible world and
the hidden spirits. and in this way
they obtain a certain influence over
their neighbors. The angakok asks
his spirit for advice. and then informs
the invalid that his Illness has been
sent by the spirits as punishment for
certain deeds"
The Lamar register., 1905-05-24
Consumption Can Be Conquered.

The universal interest in the Anti
tuberculosis movement Is shown in
every convention held to consider this
work. The discussions are practical,
not theoretical. The audiences are
popular. not merely professional. The
whole people are intereted.
In session just closed at Atlanta.
Georgia, many important and interest
ing phases of the prevention and cure
of consumption were considered. DR..
C. p. Amber gave a concise review OF
the duty of the physician in charge.
to the patient and family. His paper
was enthusiastically received and
adopted as the sense of the League on
this subject.
His points were as follows: First.
tuberculosis is not the fatal disease
commonly believed.
Second-While communicable 1t can
be made practically harmless by the
proper course on the part of the
patient.
Third-The chief cause of the high
mortality is late diagnosis.
Fourth-Late diagnosis is caused
by Indifference of the patient to early
symptoms and carelessness on the
part of the physician consulted.
Fifth-By thorough. systematic In
struction of the patient better results
can be accomplished than by medica-
tion.
Sixth-Instruction of patient. fam
lily and friends, and close observance
on their part of the rules laid down
will practically rob the disease of Its
method and means of extending.
The Lamar register., 1905-05-24

Judge Leonard A. Giegerich of New
York told a story about rural inn
keeper.
"The innkeeper' he said. stood at
his door, smiling the frosty autumnal
air when blacksmith drove up.
Hello, Francis. Fine day, amt it?
said the blacksmith.
".Hey?' said the innkeeper.
81 say it's fine day, the black
smith repeated.
"Indeed 1t is. Fine seasorable
weather. said the innkeeper.
THE blacksmith nodded. Then he
bawled:
"Let m. have a bottle of your best
whisky, will you.
"'Hey?'
"I want a bottle of whisky. the
best
I'm sorry.' said the innkeeper,
but the horses are all out. | don't
know when any of them will be home >
Its not horse l want. the black
The Lamar register., 1905-05-24
Evils of PIANO Playing.

A French scientist of note maintains
that large number of the nervous
disorders from which girls suffer are to
be attributed to playing the piano.
He shows by statistics that OF ono
thousand girls who study this instru-
ment before the age OF twelve. no less
than six hundred suffer from nervous
disorders, while OF those who do not
begin till later there are only two
hundred per one thousand. and only
one hundred per one thousand among
those who have never worked at 1t.
The violin, he says, is equally inju-
rious. As remedy he suggests that
children should not be permitted to
study either instrument before the age
Of sixteen, at least, and in the case of
those possessing delicate constitu-
tions, not till a later age.