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The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1905-09-14
ODD WAGER is EASILY WON.
Flesh and Blood Leg No Match In
Endurance with Cork One.


Endurance With Cork One.
II was in the commercial room and
the conversation had turned on the
topic of the powers of endurance
shown by men of the past and present.
During lull in the conversation a
young commercial man said:
ANY man, If ne Las the will power.
can endure pain or fatigue; know
can" Silence for moment, and an
'old man of the road replied. OIL
bet you a dinner you can't hold your
foot-boots on--in a bucket of hot
water as long as | can"
The bet was taken and two buckets
OF hot water were brought in and a
kettle of boiling water to raise the
temperature to the point of endurance.
In went a foot of each bettor The
young mans face began to pale, but
the other called for more boiling wat
err. What the deuce is your leg made
OF, sir?" yelled the former, suddenly
taking his foot from the bucket.
Cork, sir-cork." was the cool an.
swer and the other gentleman felt
that he had, indeed, Chicago
Chronicle
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pvino. Thought Of Reputation.

Sergeant Weir of the Scots Grays
as paymaster of his troop. was exempt
from active service at the battle of
Waterloo, In which he nevertheless
fought and fell. When the field was
searched for the dead and wounded,
Corporal Scot of the same regiment
found the body of Sergeant Weir with
his name written in blood with his
dying hand upon his forehead This,
explained the corporal, was obviously
done in order that the sergeants body
might be found and identified, and
that thereby all suspicion of his hav.
ing absconded with the money of his
troop might be averted.
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COST OF THE WHITE HOUSE.
sum Required Annually to Maintain II
and Other FIGURES.

and Other Figures.
Inc white house up to date has cost
about 100000. of which nearly one
third has been paid for furniture and
interior decoration. Originally the
state of Virginia gave $3.50. 900 to build
1t, Maryland adding 1000. To main
tain the white house costs from S25 600
70 $4,000 year, the appropriation for
this purpose varying considerably.
But every now and then there is some.
thing extra to be paid for and congress
Is called upon to give an extra 10000
or $4,000. The biggest pull of this
Kind ever made was for s550,000
which was spent a couple of years ago
In partial reconstruction of the in
terror and in the addition of wing
like terraces and an office building.
Every now and then new set Of
china has to be provided. and usually
that costs about s25. 000-rather q bis
point of view. Repairs run UP 10
large amount annually, white paint
being an important item,
The president gets his pay every
month In the shape of check. or
more accurately speaking, war
rant for s4,i6667, which is sent by
messenger to the white house. A
memorandum of the amount due Is
made out by the auditor for the state
department and is sent to the war
rant division of the treasury, where 1t
is examined and marked as approved.
the secretary of the treasury signs
IT, the comptroller certifies it as cor
rect and then Mr. Roosevelt receives
his money, The smallest warrant
| ever issued by the treasury depart
ment was in favor of a president of
| the United States. II was for one cent
and was forwarded from Washington
to Mr.. Cleveland at Gray Gables, the
sum being due to close the account of
salary for the fiscal year. Saturday
Evening Post
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Old Eenoes Are ualuahls

The fate of the rail fence was de
clared less than twenty years ago
when the value of walnut, oak ant
poplar timber increased to such fig
ure as to make wire fences cheaper
In the worm fences still in existence
there are thousands of walnut anc
poplar rails in an almost perfect state
OF preservation. The walnut ones are
valuable. An enterprising Chicago
concern recently made that discovery
and its representatives have purchas
ed many carloads of the rails.
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their approach. This was my condi.
ton for four years. Doans Kidney
Pills helped me right away when |
began with them, and three boxes
cured me permanently"
roster-Milburn Co. Buffa.o, N. Y.
For sale by all dealers. Price, so
cents per box
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A Contributor.

Have you ever contributed to the
happiness of your fellow man?' aske,
the very serious person.
Sure have" answered the sardon,
&c citizen. 81 am one OF the polio
holders whose premiums bougat fang
dinners and paid family pensions.
Washington
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Unlocked For.

Just when we think we've fixed the gold
en- mean
The diamond point on which to balance
fair
Life and lifes lofty issues-weighing
there,
With fractional precision, close and
Keen,
Thought, motive, word and deed--there
comes between
Some wayward circumstances, some
jostling care,
Some temper's fret. some moods unwise
despair
To mar the equilibrium, unforeseen,
And spoil our nice adjustment! Happy
he
Whose souls calm equipoise can know
no jar,
Because the unwavering hand that holds
the scales
Is the same hand that weighed each
steadfast star
Is the same hand that on the sacred tree
Bore fore his sake the anguish of the
nails!
Margaret j. Preston.
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Child is Mature.

There is living at Recife, near Per.
nambuco, a child of five and one-half
years who is four feet and two inches
in height, and who boasts mustaehe
and a deep bass voice.
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small of the back
and had such fire.
quent dizzy spells
{ h at | could
s scarcely get
about the house.
The urinary pas.
sages were also
quite irregular.
Monthly periods
were so distress
ing | DIRE a d @ d
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'EA
You can see how much
your confidence in us is
worth. 1t is the making of us.
Disappearance Of the Raven.
Your grocer returns your money II you don't lik
Schilling's Best

The raven is passing. Already the
bird has almost entirely disappeared
from the British Isles. Formerly the
American raven was common in New
England and in the lower ranges oof
the Allegheny mountains. To-day the
bird is rarely seen in these ancient
haunts.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1905-09-14

In case certain funeral ever does
come off in this town there are going
to be some mighty cheerful looking
mourners.- Atchison Globe
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m RaIl0ws College
~ SALT LAKE CITY, uTAH ----,
|plsDIEG AND DAY SCHOOL
,r,Olss RESUMED SEPTEMBER 7ih

.-,,, Primary. Academic. Col
hVd Post Graduate depart
sss Special attention to Sol
ms mathematics. Music and
snssneroial branches. Courses
CVosystoal culture, Military Drill.
pm.,dents are prepared for West
at Annapolis and all depart
.ta of the Civil Service. A
".,nlete corps of able and ex-
.rlsnoed professors. A limited
lumber of private rooms. for
Mich application shout d be
de early. For further partiou-
'.rs call on or write to the Very
rev. President.
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A woMAN's suFFERiNea.

Weak, Irregular, Racked with Pains
Made Well and SO Pounds Heavier.
Mrs. Il. w. Wright of 172 Main st,
Haverhill, Mass says: 'ln 1898 | was
suffering so with sharp pains In the
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Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken OF as
o cough cure.-J. w. O'BRIEN, 800 Third Ave.
N, Minneapolis MINI. Jan. 6. 1900.
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DON'T FORGET
Mo- Names Mentioned.

A large 2-oz. package Red Cross Bah Blue, only
s cents. The Russ Company, South Bend, Ind
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Relio of sun Worshlp,

kelAC OF Gun Worship
The feeling in favor of burying on
the south side of a church is probably
traditional one. dating back to the
time of sun worship.
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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-01-28
some Potato Experiments.

Potato growers will be largely inter-
ested in the following summary of re-
suits brought out by some recent ex-
periments of the Texas station:
Potatoes planted three inches deep
matured earlier and produced larger
crop than those planted four and one
half and six inches deep. Level culture
proved more profitable than bedding
and 'shilling up" the rows. The gray
sandy-clay soil, with gray subsoil, at
Trouble station responded more profit
ably to application of acid phosphate
than to any other single fertilizer. In
complete fertilizer, potash over six
per cent, was Improbable, while un-
usually large percentages eight per
cent. and 10 per cent? of phosphoric
acid greatly increased the yield. Cot
ton-seed meal applied only few days
before planting was too slowly avail
able to prove a desirable fertilizer for
early potatoes.-Midland Farmer.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-01-28
SAVED cHILD's LIFE.
Remarkable Cure Of Dropsy by Dodd's
Kidney Pills.

Sedgwick, Ark, July 1.-THE case Of w.
S. Taylor's little son is looked upon by those
interested in medical matters as one of the
most wonderful on record. In this connec-
tion his father makes the following state
ment:
'Iast September, my little boy had
Dropsy; his feet and limbs were swollen
to such an extent that he could not walk
nor put his shoes on. The treatment that
the doctors were giving him seemed to do
him no good and two or three people said
his days were short, even the doctors, two
of the best in the country told me he would
not get better. / stopped their medicine
and at once sent for Dodd's Kidney Pills.
gave him three. Pills q day, one morning,
noon and night for. eight days; at the end
Of the eighth day the swelling was all gone,
but to give the medicine justice; gave bin bin
in ali and he was entirely cured. / consider
your medicine sayed my child . life. When
the thirty-five PILL, were given him, he
he was an invalid in his mothers arms
from morning until night"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-01-28
any experienced road-builder knows
We must adopt the method that viii
give the best results.-Fred Grundys -
Farm and Fireside.
IMPROVING THE SOIL.
The Value of LeguminOus Crops In
Restoring Fertility to
vermont Soils.


In one of the year books of the de-
partment of agriculture, Washington.
considerable space is given to a dis
cussion of leguminous crops. 1t Is
pointed out that modern agricultural
chemists have discovered that legumi-
nous crops are not only consumers Of
available plant foods, but they actually
manufacture the most valuable and
most essential heterogeneous compounds,
using the free gaseous nitrogen of the
air. This transformation of an inert
gas takes place through the agency of
minute, almost infinitesimal bacteria,
living within the tissues of the roots Of
plants of this order, producing knot
like swellings or gals upon them.
Each variety of legume has its own Pc
culiar bacterium, on whose presence it
is dependent, and unless its particular
species of bacterium comes in contact
with and infests the roots. the plant
cannot get more nitrogen than could
be secured by the roots of grass or
tobacco plant 1t can then only take
up such nitrogen as is already present
in the soil in available or soluble form.
If these bacteria are entirely absent
from the soil, the clover or bean will
not fully develop unless an abundance
of soluble nitrates are present.
The wonderful dependence of plants
of the clover family upon the minute
bacteria which live within the root It's
sues offers an explanation of the fail
ure of such crops when tried upon soils
not previously devoted to their culti-
| walton. 1t has been found by expert
ment in this country and abroad that
| such new leguminous crops may be
successfully cultivated by inoculating
the land either with artificial prepare
| tons or cultures containing these
germs, or with soil from field where
this crop has been previously grown.
Good results are also sometimes Sc
cured by treating the seed preliminary
to sowing. BY such an incubation the
| yield of total dry matter has been in
| creased sometimes from tenfold to
thirtyfold. Moreover, 1t is found that
there are no gall tubercles formed on
the roots of leguminous crops when
these nitrogen-bacteria are not present
in a soil, and hence there can be nc
utilization of gaseous atmospheric nj
trogen by them.
Nitrogen is the most important plant
food 1t is the most expensive fertili
ger when purchased in artificial ma
tnures. 1t is also the most necessary
element of animal foods; for when II
is entirely absent. or present In suff
cient quantities, there can be neither
growth nor the complete repair Of
WORKOUT tissue. Hence, it can readily
be understood why the abundant cul
tivation of leguminous crops is so nee
essary. The legumes are the only
crops which will, when plowed under
increase the total of fertilizing mate
rails of the soil.
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TWO PAT ILLUSTRATIONS.
In Which the True Source Of Physical
Strength Was Well
Set Forth.

Speaking of toads, with incidental ref
erence to other salatory animal life, re-
calls mot attributed to one of the jus
tees of the supreme court, which has
been giving the Washington gossips q good
deal Of amusement of late, says the New
York Evening post. He was dining the
other evening with the family of dis
tinguished ex-senator, who are noted for
their extravagant advocacy of the vege-
tartan diet. Over the delicacies of the
table, which included pretty nearly every
form of edible plant life suited to the
season, conversation turned upon the f.
miliar theme; and the hostess, after try.
ing in vain to convert her beef-reared
guest by arguments based on the chemical
constituents of various food, pleaded:
But surely, Mr.. Justice, you must ad-
NIT that vegetarianism means strength
and agility, when you remember that the
rabbit, which feeds wholly ON vegetables,
can make such great leaps through the ali
from hiding place to hiding place."
"True, madam" answered the jurist,
gravely, but we must also remember that
the minute creature for which naturalist
claim the ability to jump more times its
own length than any other, belongs tc
the class of pure carnivora."
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sEEDLEss ACE IS COMING.
Agricultural Department and Private
Experimenters at Work to
Hasten Its Advent.

The early years of the twentieth
century bid fair to be known as the
seedless age. 1t may be even referred
to as the period when appendicitis was
forever banished from among the ills
that beset this flesh of ours. Events
of the past few months lend much en-
couragement to such a set of views.
Not only the agricultural department,
but individual growers themselves are
busily engaged in experiments to de-
velop seedless apples, plums without
stones, grapes without seeds, and per-
haps most wonderful of all, the
Georgia watermelon, seedless, but
luscious. Some of these experiments
have reached that stage where definite
announcement is about to be made. In
the case of the apple, Investigations
carried on in Colorado have developed
an apple which grows from the bud
of the tree and not from the flower,
which has a little bag or cavity on
the end, like the well known navel
orange, and which is said to be quite
free from the numerous diseases which
grow up with the apple as the result
of the development of eggs laid on the
blossoms in the early springtime
This feature of the matter is alone
worth the most serious investigation.
as it promises to effect a material saw
ing in every seasons products. The
work with the plum is proceeding with
n
nouncement has been made with re-
spect to the efforts to secure seedless
watermelons, but those engaged in the
work believe that they can demon
strate that their theory is a practical
one. We hope all this may prove true
but for several years more, at least
we will have to worry along with seeds
in everything, just as. our ancestors
did before the flood. Rural World.
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HERE AND THERE.

You may set it down as a rule, that
poor weak plants produce poor weak
seeds; while good strong plants pro-
duce good strong seeds.
A certain farmer Whipped team
of colts for getting scared. Now that
team invariably get scared at that par
ticular place every time it passes It,
Frightened horses should not be whip
ped.
"A very light sprinkle is sufficient
to drive the boys out of the field and
from work, but l notice that even a.
heavy downpour has not the power 10
induce them to quit fishing from the
creek bank or in a boat.
The annual fiy-season is again with
us and the premises should be cleaned
I'D to prevent the Matching of millions
of these pests. The greatest breeding
place is manure, and for this reason
the barn-yards should be well cleaned
up.
AT St Louis agriculture is given
the premier place among exhibits. Tho
Palace of Agriculture, which surpasses
in extent all other exhibition struct-
ares. is 900 feet long and cost over
half a million dollars.
Shade is as essential to the COM
fort of live stock in the summer season
as food 1t is just as good economy to
spend a few dollars for shade as to pro-
vide a ton of bran--if it adds to the
comfort of the stock.
A balky horse has been started as
often as any other way by.taking up q
| front foot and tapping on the shoe, TO
divert the horses attention, then let
ting it down quickly, AMI promptly
starting the horse. The whip does III
| tie good.
| Mules come to working age sooner
than horses. A mule two years old
with his mate, will do as much work
as q four-year-old horse. A mule at
weaving time is worth SIS to $40. In
a year and half ne can be at work.
and can be sold for SIS to $125.
-Lettuce-seed is not difficult to
grow and to gather. There are r,any
varieties, and numerous, really good
ones. When the family gardener gets
hold of one that just suits him, the
best way is to let few plants go Y
seed. and be sure to gather the sect
when ripe. He can thus make sure
of having lust the lettuce he want:
another season
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-01-28
Bombay's Population.

The greatest density of population in
the world is claimed for Bombay, and 10
only disputed by Agra. The popula ton
of Bombay amounts to 100 persons per
acre in certain areas, and in these sec
tions of the street area only occupy.
ing one-fourth Of the whole. If the en-
tire population were massed in the
streets for any purpose the density
would equal a.o40 persons per acre
Indian Engineer.
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CLOSE PLANTING OF TREES.
It Is a Common Practice, But One
Which Inevitably Causes
Loss Later On.

In the setting out of orchard trees
this spring, the distance apart should
be given more consideration than is
usually given it. 1t has always been
a general fault, at least in this coun-
try, to set the trees too near together.
We have seen apple trees planted so
close that by the time they were
ten years old their branches inter-
locked and the foliage produced a
semi-twilight below. We have never
seen such an orchard loaded with fruit.
That mistake was made generally 40
wears ago. Since that time men have
been coming to realize the fact that
close planting is very detrimental
to the producing of fruit. First the
apple trees were planted rod apart.
Then the distance was increased to 20
feet and then to 25. Now our best
orchardists are planting their small
growers 30 feet apart and the large
limbed trees 35 feet apart. Some
planters are even putting their trees
40 feet apart each way, especially II
they are of the larger growing varie-
ties.
In the matter of pears some varie-
ties should be set at least 30 feet apart
while straight growers may be sci
20 and %. Peaches are not generally
large growing trees and will do well
If set as close as 20 feet each way
Plums should have at least Is feet. and
some of the varieties should have q
feet. OF course dwarf varieties OF al
kinds of fruit can be planted much
closer than standards. 1t is mistake
to plant close with the intention Of
cutting out half of the trees. Th'
cutting out is never done.-Farmers
| Review.
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MOMENTUM OF RAILWAY CARS
the Wreck OF a Passenger Train
at Toledo, Ohio.

The momentum of a train of heavy
passenger coaches and Pullmans is
well known to railroad men, but its
potential power is not realized by lay
men not initiated into the mysteries
of car construction, says the Chicago
Chronicle. A passenger coach is sew
eral times as heavy as freight car,
and but little lighter than a locomo-
tive.
The dynamic force developed in the
impact when a train of coaches and
sleepers going at the rate of so miles
per hour. strikes an obstacle was man
ifested in peculiar manner some TIM
ago in Toledo, where wreck occurred
on the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton
railroad. Half dozen cars loaded
with wheat were standing on side
track, when fast train came plunging
along. The switchman was at the
switch trying to close it, and until
the train was few rods away hoped
to succeed in time to avert crash.
But he failed and the thousands OF
pounds of steel and iron dashed past
him before he was able to give warn
ing signal.
Less than so yards from the switch
stood the cars of wheat. Before the
engineer had time to reverse the lever,
there was a crash, and a grinding and
crunching of timbers. Neither the en-
gineer nor fireman attempted to jump
They staid at theft posts, and to this
they owe their lives. tttt
The high rate of speed at which the
train was running and the heavy
weightbehind the engine drove it along
The front trucks became dislodged
ana wedging these under the end of the
first freight car, an inclined plane was
formed by the engine, up which the
huge mechanism ran on through the
| end of the box car. 1t began to burrow
its way through the wheat. By thu
time the engine had reached the fur
Their end of the car, the wheat cars were
under way, and they started down thu
track. The impact had transferred
all the momentum to the freight car
and the passenger coaches remained
on the track not much the worse fol
the collision.
When the .wrecking crew appeared
on the scene, sight such as none hat
ever seen before met the eyes of tn
startled men. Half mile from tn
train of passenger cars was the engine
hidden in box car. The side of tn
car was there, and the engine, will
the exception of the cowcatcher, tn
forward trucks and the smokestack
stood quietly in the car, almost hid
den from sight. The top of the ca
was broken down, imprisoning the en-
/ cineer and stoker, but neither of ther
was harmed.
The total damage amounted to abou
$500, the small amount being due t
the fact that none of the cars left tn
track. The enormous expenditure Q
energy had been accomplished by fore
ing the engine into the car and startin
the cars down the track. Railroad mel
who came to look at the wreck, sal
unanimously they had never seen no
heard of similar freak of engine an
cars. The wreck occurred after dar
and before morning the wreckage wa
cleared away, making it impossibl
for photographs to be taken.