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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-24

nifty, breadth and intellectual grasp.' "To a smooth, rich
tone the artist adds a reliable technic,'' " displaying tempera-
ment and musical intelligence of the highest order,'' great
tone production etc., etc.
After you have listened for several long, serious hours
to this Grand Voice sounding the depths Of melodic utter
ance, and the seat has grown hard and rocky under you, and
your mouth gets dry and dusty, and the worlds deep need
Of alcoholic stimulation is borne in upon you as a flood,
somebody comes out and goes three short, snappy, twenty
minute rounds with the piano, until that instrument is
groggy and shows signs Of exhaustion when it is being
rubbed down in its corner.
You remember the cosy fire in the CRATE at home and
think of the deep easy chair and Trollope on the table, and
play and LILLY Dale'' and t'Hazel DELI, sob and die
away along the halls Of memory, and you think Of four or
five OF your old best girls, now married and carrying out
some of the national administration policies, and you re-
member the old baseball nine in which you played short
stop and the old barn where the COW kicked you when
"BANG!! crashety bang!! Brrrrrrrrrr, r%ubadubdub
%adubadub, bang!!! Bangety, bang!l BANG!N BANG!!l
The piano solo is over and the concert too, and every
body is glad to move and to get outside and to breathe
the free air Of heaven.
4. It's all over, and it cost you: a dollar.
For getting rid Of money, give us mining stock.
M4
The Litchville On. d. Bulletin man, desiring riches be-
You'd the dreams Of avarice, has conducted a land business,
disposing Of ~thirty-two quarter sections this season; owns
about one thousand acres of cultivated land in the Litch-
vile country that requires time, and has successfully operated
an automobile with no runaways to his credit and the death
of only one dog, while between times he has looked after
the interests Of his great family journal. In this latter stunt
Mr.: Wells wrote up the show given by the Litchville Dramatic
club Tuesday night, at which the entire populace turned
out.
There was Nels Nelson, the life Of the show, who was
ridolized by all the high school girls. Nels was a typical
matinee idol and was irresistible in curly blonde wp q
false mustache and the most ravishing goo-goo ewes that ever
shot glances across the footights.
Just as the play had reached the sentimental stage in the
third act, and things were leading up to a climax where Nels
was going to embrace the prima donna, one of those folding
chairs in the front row kicked up and let Ted Cites down
on his back with a siokening thud, somewhat spelling the
effect Of the scene. Nels had to let 90 and wait until Ted
was picked up, and take a new holt. -.. '..
Altogether it was a great show, and, barring a slight in
jury to Mr.. Cites %vertebrae, 1t will be looked back to for
some time to come as one Of the bright spots in the social
existence of a great many Litchvillians. :"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-24
What Women Want to Kno1u

TO REPAIR A RROR. have a large mirror in my
L dresser that is crumbling off, caused by the heat from
a lamp. Can I do anything with it? If it can be dressed
over with quicksilver will you please tell me how to do it,
"A Subscriber.
Pour upon a sheet Of tinfoil about two drachms Of quick
silver to the square foot of the foil. Rub smartly with a
piece Of channels skin until the foil becomes brilliant. Law
the glass upon a fiat table, face downwards, place the foil
upon the damaged portion of the glass, lay a sheet Of paper
over the foil and place upon it a block of wood or piece Of
marble with a perfectly fiat surface. Put upon it sufficient
weight to press it down tight and leave it for a few hours,
The foil will adhere to the glass.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-24

The cat is said to have nine lives.
Would the cat, If she came back, as she
is alleged to do in spite of all, have nine
ghosts or only one9 Here is a question
that is likely to give the Society for
Psychical Research some considerable
pause. One cat you can stand without
much effort, but if in the other world
It IS necessary to put out nine cat ghosts
at night, it is clear that there are prob
lens that follow us into the future,
problems Of which we have little concep-
ton today.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-24
The Chaperon Speaks

SIMPLY could not help it. There was an
u%nbearable evaporation in watching the
Whole-souled and complete way Irene has
passed her time since she made her debut
putting her very dainty and well-shod
foot in it, to be slangy!
She recognizes no half-tones in con-
versation, which is about as fatal as TAX
ing a dose of prussic acid and having
done with it. If your new gown proves
trying to your special brand of complexion
and you happen to hit on Irene as thu
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-24
With the Long Bow
Eye rafnrs's walks, shoot folly n II fiss -

Have You Heard that Great Voice Ring Out Grandly Thru
the Hall in 80 Milo! de dam Oar Showing Great Range
and %Flexibility in Pnutti's Masterpiece, Adding an Ad-
mirable Technic to Temperament and Musical Inteli-
J gence?
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-24
QUESTIONS FOR TOMORROW,

BREAKING SHOES.-Will you please tell me what will
stake the squeak out of a pair of shoes that have Just been
halfsoledY Also how to wash feathers, if it can be done?
- "A Constant Reader.
FRYING DOU~GHNUTS.-Will you please tell me why
%doughnuts get rough and break open on the top when
~rying?-Creatore.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-03-09
CHURCH NOTICE.

Owing to the s. s. Institute, Of the
Strong River Association to be held
with the D'Lo Baptist church begin
ming Friday evening before the 3rd
Sunday in March, will preach al
Dry Greek on the 4th Sunday snd
Saturday before, instead Of ths 3rd.
Brethren Byrd and Leave.ll will both
be with Us at D'Lo and very one in
terested in s. S. work IS cordially in
vited On Sunday Prof Leavell will
deliver his splendid lect1lre on sThe
finished product Of the Missionary, {
which il rare treat FOR any. one.
@. =. WEIGH, Pastor.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-03-09

LOST srnday, Feb. %. 1900, BE-
tween Pelah atohie and Waits nos'n
Rankin. pocket boob containing w
$l5 in bills and IS n gold, oid wsecn
oh;lin and &. Of r. receipt, also cneok 9
TOR piece Of bagi ihge g Eowa1os
H'onte. a liberal rewaro W. e
gjven i reformed ID oarl ssinglly s
E elahatchie, o. NeJ Office nusens
g frnham.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-09-19

Hacks-Shaughnessy q Clancy
$50.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-09-19
Opening of Polo Tournament.

NEW YORK, Sept. 19.-The series
Of contests for the polo junior cham
pionship, the polo championships and
the open championship began at Van
Cortlandt park today in the presence
of large number of spectators. The
junior championship will be for a cup
presented by Samuel D. Warren and is
open to teams of four whose aggregate
handicap does not exceed 20 goals. No
player with a higher handicap than
goals will be allowed to compete.
In the polo championship a cup pre-
sented by William Waldorf Astor,
through the Tuxedo club, will be
played for. 1t will be open to teams
of four representing any club in the
polo association. The open cham
pionship is for prizes offered by the
polo association, open to teams Of
four without handicap. The teams
may be composed of players of differ
ent clubs, which are members of the
association. The entries for all three
classes are numerous and a spirited
and interesting contest is expected.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-09-19
IRRIGATION STATISTICS
RETURNS SHOW THE AVERAGE
VALUE OF IRRIGATED LANDS
is S47 PER ACRE.
Eighteen Projects Have Been Approved
BY the Secretary of the In
terror as Feasible.

Assuming that the irrigation statis-
les gathered by the census bureau
in 1900 were approximately correct, it
can be demonstrated with ease that
the national reclamation law is a
mighty good thing from a business
standpoint, aside from the good it will
accomplish in retaining desert lands
and providing homes for millions of
needy people, is the report that comes
from the national capital.
The census returns show that the
average value of irrigated land in the
United States is SAT per acre. At the
has set aside s32,S7OOO0 for the recla
nation of 1,S50,000 acres of desert
land. On the census basis, it is APP
parent that the expenditure of this
$32, 003, 900 will ada $S7,373 900 to the
taxable property of the United States
in land values alone, and this good
will result within the next five or ten
years at the outside. But going fur
tner. the census figures show that the
annual income from irrigated land is
SIS an acre. On this basis an income
of $27,SS5 600 per annum may be eX-
pected from the vast area that is now
about to be irrigated under govern
ment projects.
No other investments which the
government has made will yield such
liberal returns as the investment as
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-09-19
HANDS NAILED TO STAKE.
Severed Portions of Humanity Found
Near Camp in Wilderness,

NOGALES, Ariz., Sept. 19.-Four
human hands, nailed to a wooden
stake, found driven into the ground
near the ruins Of a deserted camp not
far from Caborca, in the Altar district
of Sonora, Mexico, it is feared may
prove the last that will ever be found
of four Arizonans. T. F. Grindell, Olin
Rolls of Douglas, David Ingrams ox
Bisbee and Lieutenant Hoffman, who
was an officer in Roosevelt's Rougl.
Rider regiment, who passed through
Nogales last June with the intention
of exploring Tiburou island in the
Gulf of California.
The grewsome find was made by a
Mexican cowboy while hunting cattle
1t is reported that E. P. Grindell of
Tucson was at Hermosillo a few days
ago seeking information of the party
The tragedy indicated by the horrible
find is unexplained.
Tiburon island is a large island in
habited by savage tribe of In
dams, who have resisted all attempts
On the part of the Mexican government
to civilize them by retreating to mac
cessible mountains.
The natives are cannibals and a few
years ago killed and ate the captain
and crew of the curio schooner named
World" of San Diego, for which many
of them We're deported by the Mexi-
can government.
1t is feared that Grindell and as
sociates may nave shared the same
fate. as the natives often ravage the
mainland.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-09-19
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irrigation works. This is not exactly
an investment of government money.
but money which the government ad-
vances to the settlers, so that in reali-
ty it is the settlers who are making
the expenditure, and the settlers who
are bound, according to past records,
20 reap nearly three dollars on every
course the profit is greater on some
projects than on others, but the aver
age is so high that it is apparent that
every project undertaken by the gov
eminent must in the end materially
benefit the farmers holding lands un-
der that project.
There are eighteen projects which
nave been approved by the secretary
of the interior to date, II of which
are now under course of construction.
The other seven are still under exam
nation, and may be taken up at any
time, except the Palouse project in
Washington, which has been temper
arily set aside because of its excess
sive cost.
1t is true that almost every project
can and probably will at some future
time be extended to embrace a greater
area than will at first be reclaimed.
AS development goes on, as the price
and value of irrigated lands increases,
it will be possible to install pumping
plants as an adjunct to most of the
gravity projects, and this will be done.
But nothing of this sort will be at
tempted at present. Other and
cheaper projects will first be taken
up and constructed.
On the basis of the figures contained
in the foregoing table it can be CAL
culated readily to what extent the
various states will benefit from the
national reclamation work In round
numbers, the Minidoka project which
is being pushed to completion in Ida
no, will add nearly 100000 to the
taxable property in Idaho in it's land
pays no taxes, will within year be-
gin to pay taxes on about S3,000,000,
@Iot
be made to that land as settlement
continues.
The klamath project, of which about
10000 acres lie in Oregon, will, on
the basis of census figures, add more
than 100000 to the taxable prop
erty of Oregon, and the Malheur pro-
ject, should it be built, would be near
ly $5,00O,000 more. Until the situation
in Washington readjusts itself it will
be impossible to figure on increased
land values, for it is not known where
the government will irrigate, or what
areas will be reclaimed, since the Pa
louise project has been set aside. That
project alone, however, would at the
average figure Of SAT an acre, add the
sum of $4,000, 900 to the taxable prop
erty of eastern Washington. The Pay
ette-Boise project means ain increase
in Idaho land values of at least $12,-
900 600
1t would seem that the national ir-
rigation law is going to be a good
thing all around. 1t will provide
homes for the homeless, will give
value to deserts that are worthless
will afford tangible property which
will become taxable, and incidentally
will afford employment to thousands
Of men in need of work. 1t is a Won
derful law.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-09-19
IMPORTANT MEETING OF CON-
GRESS WAS CONVENED AT
LUcERNE THIS MORNING.
Question of Reduction of Armies and
Navies by all Countries Will
be Discussed.

LUCERNE, Switzerland, Sept. 10
One of the most impressive peace
congresses ever held opened here to-
day. The tide of arbitration and of
peace is now running so high in all
the European states that many of the
most influential men in all parts of
the world are in attendance at the
conference to discuss questions of
great national Importance which are
to be presented at the sessions.
Most important among the many
vital subjects outlined for the pro-
gram of the fourteenth international
peace congress are the questions of
the reduction of the armies and the
navies of the nation and of the estab-
lishment of stated international
congress for the regular consideration
of all international matters Both of
these questions viii probably also
engage the second Hague conference
which it is now stated on good author
ity, will meet as soon as the present
hostilities in the east are settled.
A feature of the program which ap-
peals especially to our own people.
is the prominence given to the subject
of naturalization. At the Boston con-
gress of last autumn, this subject re-
ceived a degree of consideration that
was greater than that accorded to it
at any previous peace congress and
since that time through the declara-
ton Of the Massachusetts board Of
trade in favor of naturalization of GER
tain zones across the Atlantic, it mas
wel-known fact that the problem of
naturalization applied to the Philip
great nations would remove many of
the most serious obstacles in the way
of their assumption of independence.
Above all the course of events in the
war in Manchuria has brought the
subject of naturalization to the front
rank among the important questions
of the day.
The inspiring note of the Lucerne
congress is constructive international
organization. With the establishment
of the Hague tribunal, international
arbitration secured decisive recogni-
ton. What now occupies the atten-
ton of the peace advocates is proper
international organization and con-
struction and that is the fundamental
groundwork of the present congress
and the subjects brought before it
for discussion.
The American representation at the
Lucerne congress is much larger than
that at any European congress since
the revival of the congress in 1889.
The American Peace society, the peace
societies of Philadelphia, Cincinnati
and other cities as we'll as various
commercial bodies like the New York
board of trade are unusually we'll rep
resented. Besides the number has
been augmented by a large proportion
Of the delegates to the interna rional re-
ligious conference held at Geneva dur
ing the latter part of August. Alto
getner, this promises to be one of the
most notable gatherings in the inter-
ests of universal peace held thus far
and in consideration of present events
and conditions, the discussions and
their results are of world wide i'm
portance.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-09-19

The case Of Mrs. Carter, Is years of age, sur
passed in SUFFERING the description in Dante's
Inferno. FIFTEEN YEARS of suffering with
terrible ECZEMA, combined with MALIGNANT
ERYSlPELAS. Itching and burning with UN-
TOLD AGONY Face swollen so SHE COULD
NOT SEE. Ears enlarged to THREE TIMES
their natural size. ENTIRE BODY COVERED
WITH ECZEMA. Looked as though BRAND
or like the body of person DENUDED OF
CLOTHING BY FIRE. VEINS SHRUNKEN so
they could not be distinguished Left side EN-
IIRELY HELPLESS with PARALYSIS. The
most powerful opiates had no effect whatever It
was pitiful to hear her PRAY and BEG FOR
DEATH. SEVEN SKILLED PHYSICIANS
gave her case up as HOPELESS. Patent nos
trums, germ killers, etc, were tried freely, yet
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-09-19

Just Received-Ten thousand Pip
ket. Upton's Second and Alder st.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-21
Cape to Cairo.
from the Boston Transcript.

From the Boston transcript
A lost missionary and a phenomenal feat
of newspaper enterprise in finding him have
led within a generation to letting In a flood
of light into the dark continent" of Africa,
revealing poteutialities before undreamed
of and tempting the vanguards Of colonial
ton, Industrial development and frequency
of depreciation from many countries. Some
of the greatest engineering feats Of modern
times or of any time have been achieved in
that great territory. Spheres of influence
and centers of exploitation have been es-
tablshed, and from them there are working
outward and onward the forces of so-called
civilization. Doubtless these movements
have been and are being in many cases dis
graced by greed and marked by gross
cruelty and injustice; nevertheless they ap-
pear to be along the lines that destiny has
so often followed in reaching for higher re-
suits.
Perhaps the most interesting public work
to commerce and civilized industry is the
Cape to Cairo railroad, which will, upon
completion. connect Egypt with South AT
RIGA by line 800 miles in length. or per-
haps the longest In the world, unless 1t
may be the Siberian railway. There has
been considerable progress made on this
longitudinal highway About 1,400 miles
have been built from the north and shorter
stretches at intervals, some of which are in
limited operation. All this has been brought
conspicuously into public notice by the re-
cent completion OF the bridge over the Fam
best river and the passage of the first en-
CINE across 1t, the general details of which
have been given In the news columns
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-21
Buying Old World Art.

From the cleveland Leader.
One of the silliest cries Earring upon the
ear of common sense nowadays is that
raised In Europe over the purchase by
Americans of old world art treasures. One
might gather. from all the hubbub, that
we pilfer these objects of art as some fash
ionable people do souvenirs from the tables
of their hNts. The French first. now the
English, are beating their breasts and call
ing for thunderbolt to strike down these
impious invaders who bid bit higher than
the collectors over there care to go.
These laments, however, are not new.
When the yenetians attempted to corner
the beauties Of the world In their island
city no doubt the nations of that day, along
the Mediterranean, lifted an outcry over
the vulgar. despoiling merchants of the
Adriatic. The Greeks. the Egyptians. the
Carthaginians. probably forgaye tho Ro-
mans for their abuse of the firebrand and
the sword far easier than they did their
stripping of temples rich in sculpture and
carvings. War was poor war which did
not bring priceless loot home to the Inn
perial city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-21
The Advance Of Cholera.
From the Medical Recor


The sudden appearance of cholera in east
ern Prussia and the presence of sixty or
more cases of the disease among Russian
emigrants in Hamburg awaiting transpor-
tation to America gives cause not for popu-
lar alarm, but for increased watchfulness
on the part of our sanitary guardians.
Epidemologists have for some time been
watching this gradual advance of cholera
from the east on one of It's periodical in
cursions into western Europe. The move
ment began in the latter part of 1899. East
ward the disease advanced from India rap
Idly, invading China and Japan. From
Hongkong 1t passed to the Philippines.
working havoc In Manila and the provinces
despite the best efforts OF the medical off,
GERS of the army and marine hospital serv-
ice.
Its progress westward through Arabia
and Persia into Russia has been more
gradual. Cholera appeared In Mecca in
1902, and thence spread throughout the
Mussulman world, being heard of in Egypt.
Asia Minor and Persia, finally establishing
Itself firmly in Teheran. From this point 1t
followed the caravan routes into Anatolia.
TranscauCasia and Transcaspia, thence
reaching the banks of the Volga. Here 1t
rested for nearly eighteen months, being re-
strained by some mysterious influence, the
nature of which students of epldemics have
never yet discovered, and only now has 1t
resumed its march westward
Why should 1t have remained so long in
Russia and then suddenly crossed the from
tier? Raftsmen were coming down the
Vistula past Thorn and Kuhn, and emil
grants were leaving Poland and western
Russia for Hamburg and Bremen, sailing
thence for New York, but the disease re-
manned behind The Russian health officials
did as little to throttle the epidemic then as
they are doing now, and the communication
between the Volga, where the cholera hi
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-21
Improvement in Locomotives Needed

From Casters Magazine.
1t is not complimentary to engineering
talent that while locomotive boilers have
increased enormously in size during the past
ten or twelve years, close on to 100 per
cent in point OF heating surface and CRATE
areas. very little has been done to tighten
the labors of the locomotive fireman.
In stationary boiler practice mechanical
stokers long since demonstrated their fit
ness for the work In hand, and 1t is I'M
usual nowadays TO find plant of appreci-
able size in which they have not been made
to supplant manual labor. Aboard ship
mechanical stoker progress has been slower
very much slower, in fact-while in con-
nection with locomotives beginning has
scarcely been made. Both afoat and ashore
in locomotive practice the mechanical
stoker seems to have suffered primarily
from the oyerruling aim to save weight
and space. and it Is these two consdera-
lions which will have large part in shap-
ing its future in this service.
Firing by hand locomotive with upward
of 5000 square feet of heating surface is,
however, tax upon human effort much
beyond which 1t will be inexpedient, If not
impossible, to go; hence either mechanical
stocking must shortly be made amenable to
the ways of the locomotive designer, or
there must be restriction in locomotive fire
box dimensions or at least in their further
growth.