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Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1905-06-29

leaves, and they must be fed from
four to six times day. The feed
ing season will last thlrty-two days
provided there are no great irrcgu-
larities III the weather., for every
change from warm to cool retards
the development of the silk worm.
After the worm has finished eating
it will look for place to spin, call
ed ''spinning hut" The huts or
cabins are made Of twigs or weeds.
When they have found a suitable
place for spinning they begin their
task. They spin from four to five
days, and on the tenth day the ball
of silk (called cocoon) is picked and
killed, that is, if they are intended
for market; otherwise they will eat
thru the cocoon and Il moth Will
appear. When the worm begins to
spin It will not eat bit Of a leaf,
but they seem to run away from it.
Even after the moth peeps forth, no
food is necessary, for the moth lays
the eggs and thcn II dies.
This is Il brief sketch Of the life
Of the silkworm. 1t is not hard
matter to ralsc silkworms from
which our most precious and valua
bic garments originate.
This is an industry that can be
introd duccd in any country where
the mulberry tree or hedge grows.
1t is an industry that never fails,
for mulberry trees and hedges nev-
er fail to have leaves, and if there
are leaves, then the worms can be
fed, and if the worm can be fed, then
it can spin the silk.
Now, many persons who see Il
cocoon might say there is no profit
in the business. But there is, or
why does the government spend
thousands Of dollars every year to
introduce it in this country? Why
does 1t say: "Save the s75,000,00O
which goes to China, Japan France,
Italy, and other countries"
This is quite Il sum and if kept at
home means something to our peo-
pie, in more ways than one. Ev-
cry pound Of cocoons is worth
from rs cents to 81. and from 800
to 900 cocoons weigh q pound.
And furthermore, if the silk is reel
ed and spun here its value is in
creased from $50 to 475 per cent.
Thus it may be seen that an
industry holding such an important
place in the commerce of our coun-
try may, with effort and enterprise,
become valuable to our people.
The business VIII thrive here, for
mulberry trees and hedges grow
without any trouble.
Under the management of DIR.
Fred. VIM. Melchcrs, aided by the
best citizens, it has been demon
strated that it can be made pay
ing industry in Bollinger county
and it can be made Il profitable in
dustry for Southeast Missouri.
According to the government re
port Leopold produces as good silk
as can be produced anywhere in the
United States. Then let us be en-
couraged and encourage those
whose enterprise and industry have
established this new enterprise in
our midst. B. l.. IL.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1905-06-29
silk Culture in BOI-
|ingGr County.
Rev. John Rothenstelner Tells the
Federicktown Democrat-News
Interestingly Of this New
Enterprise in Our County.

my visit to Leopold. Bollinger coun
ty last week, | had the pleasure o
witnessing the introduction 0fa new
and very important industry int
our state, namely that Of siIkworn
culture
| The United States department o
agriculture sends out to responsible
persons, free of cost, the eggs of thG
| silkwOrm, which were originally 0 b.
ttained from China orJapan. These
eggs arc about the size ola mustard
seed. hut under favorable conditions
Of warm and dry weather, they
quickly develop into large cater
| pillars, the so-called silkworm. 1t
is about three inches in length and
has Il bare, white body. The silk
worm Is very tender and must be
| kept under roof, aS the least mOis-
ture is fatal. Its food consists of
mulberry leaves. The grown worms
are kept on large open trays, arrang-
ed like the drawers IN your type
case, one above another. almost up
to the ceiling. On these trays the
| leaves are spread four times every
day. The silkwOrm is voracious
| eater. The large room where they
are kept in Leopold, was filled with
the subducd noise of many busy
mouths. Like every other caterpil-
lar, the sitkWOrm spins q cocoon,
wherein it is to be changed into Il
butterfly. When this time arrives for
the silkworm, its mouth closes up.
1t becomes restless, seeking retired
place for its short period of trans
formation. And now it begins to
spin its silk cocoon. There are two
small openings in the head Of the
worm, from which two fine silk
threads are drawn, together with Il
gelatinous substance to bind the
threads together. Slowly the worm
envelopes itself in its grave clothes
and shrivcls up. 1t is not dead how
ever, but undergoing change. In
short time It would break its liga-
ments, and issue forth as Il white
butterfly. In order to save the silk
thread from being broken, the CO.
coon is placed in steaming water;
thus the chrysalIs is killed, and the
geiatinc binding the threads tegeth-
cr is loosened, and the silk can be
wound on spindles, and spun into
the silk of commerce.
Doubtless the original home of
silk culture is China. The earliest
mention Of silk in authentic history
occurs in Genesis II, 42. Speaking
Of Pharao and Joseph, the holy
writer says: "And he put upon him
robe Ofsilk." See also Esther SIS
and Ezechiel Pig The silkworn
was introduccd into Eur.nc dnr,nn
the rcinn Of JDstinian A D $50.
The csrlv Catbohc missionaries sus-
+o;nod4ho ,,roo+oe+ d,naors and d;H
cnltics in br;nrino tho first sill
uorros 4o r4rrn,o Tho rb;roso
Government had forbidden tho ex.
ror+o+;o, forrso,d ooooo,s,raor
main Of death The sontborn CONN.,
fries of Furonc have long beon noted
for tbo;r boan+,f,I tohr;cs 11;no
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1905-06-29
The New
Bridge
Is Open

Cotton Belt Route trains
now use the new bridge across
the Mississippi River at The
bes, ILL.,, doing away with the
ferry transfer and shortening
schedules about an hour.
The new bridge is one of the
finest pieces of engineering
work in the country, giving
the Cotton Belt an unbroken
track of solid steel, between
st. Louis and Southeast Mis-
souri,, Arkansas, Louisiana
and Texas.
Two daily trains are operat-
ed to and from st. Louis, as
follows:
O2arrive st Louis 6:3ja M.
No 4arrive ST Louis 6:O1 p m,
NO1leave ST. Louis 9:32 p. m.
MOB leave st. Louis 9:20a. m.
Trains 3 and + carry buffet
sleeper between Shreveport
and ST. Louis, Trains | and 2
carry sleeper between Texas
aud st. Louis. All trains carry
chair cars.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1905-06-29
IT, Tue Whitewater Valle" Stock Farm.

Firstclass stock bought and sold
at all times. Fancy herd Of Short
horns always on hand, ard thorough
bred Berkshire hogs. High class
mules and horses specially
J. H. ESTES, Prop,
Burfordville, Mo.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1905-06-29

visited Miss Nellie Lutes Saturday
and Sunday. VIOLET.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-02
CHURCH ADVERTIsrNG.

over in Leavenworth the First Pres
byterian church has a new pastor who
believes in advertising. run the
church on a business basis and you'll
get results he says. 81 believe in ad-
vertising. I've tried all kinds. window
cards. dodgers. handbiIls. biIlboards.
but the best way to get to the people
every time is through the daily papers.
More people read a newspaper ad than
any other kind. A theater advertises
its attractions, why shouldn't the
church, to draw the attention OF the
people to the fact that the church is
awake and doing business in the Kings
name? Advertising will draw the
people. but only ability win hold them.
The public soon finds out if man
can't deliver the goods A business
man can't fool a customer twice.
neither can a preacher"
It is not at all improbable that the
time will come before many years
when churches will use advertising
space just the same as any business
enterprise does. OF course a church
must have something besides business
enterprise back of it, but business
AAEL4AO0b VIII aA4 NAAC 'A-S~@N ~
church in reaching the people.
The newspapers of late years nat'lr-
ally give considerable space to church
announcements, because the people
are Interested in them, and most news
papers wish to help along a worthy
cause whenever possible. Yet there
are pastors who not only neglect to
take advantage of the kindly disposi-
ton of the newspapers towards them,
but who place obstacles in the way OF
newspapers securing news about their
churches. In the larger cities church
announcements Of Sunday services are
paid for and in not every town IN
Kansas are the notices Of services
printed free as they are here.
Such pastors are becoming fewer as
the years go by, and the time will IN
doubleday come when churches viii
not only take advantage Of the free
notices which newspapers give them,
but when display advertisements VIII
be used and paid for to announce ser
vices out Of the ordinary to which the
churches wish to draw the people.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-02

ton or evasion of the law may be de-
tected. This is not a revolutionary pro
posal on my part for I only wish the
same power given in reference to rail-
roads that is now exercised as a matter
Of course by the national bank exam
liners as regards national banks. NY OBJ
ject in giving these additional powers
TO the administrative body represent
ing the government-the interstate COM
merce commission, or whatever It may
be-is primarily to secure a real and
not a sham control to the government
representatives. The American people
abhor a sham and with this adherence
I cordially syn1pathize Nothing is
more injurious from every standpoint
than a law which is merely sound and
fury. merely pretenses and not capable
of working out tangible results, hope
to see all the power that think it ought
to have. granted to the government, but
I would far rather see only some OF II
granted. but really granted, than see
pretense of granting all, in some shape
that really amounts to nothing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-02
Ordered OF the Field.

During the practice at yale today
(Friday) one of the players violently
swore at another player AS II nap
Dene6. the student body, led by a
band. was practicing over the new
songs that yale intends to hurl
against Princeton on Saturday NOW,
these overstrenuous remarks were de-
cfdedfv above a stage whisper A
rumble came from the grand stand,
followed by a dead silence. Jack
Owsley, Yale's head coach, and
Johnny Mack, the trainer, were on
their feet in a moment The lad
whose tongue had run away with
him was asked for. Head lowered, he
came forward, and was promptly or
dered from the field for the rest of the
season. The player was one looked
upon to be a regular, yet he was made
a most conspicuous example. The sem
fiment expressed by President Roose-
veIt, the general feeling for good,
clean sport, made this rather harsh
sentence 5ustifable The spectators
appIauded.-New York sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-02
oUAKER REFLECTIONS.

LFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
The hand-shaker may be a leg-pull-
er in disguise.
Flattery is the sugar that draws the
flies Of discard
Love makes the world go round,
but so do cranls.
Even an idea will seldom strike q
man when he IS down.
Some people get vertigo from look
ing down on their neighbors.
A figure of speech sometimes
doesn't cut much of a figure.
It is possible to be g man of many
parts and still be bald-headed.
Wigwag-''Do you ever bet on a
sure thing?'' Skinnum-''Not unless I
get the right odds"
The fellow who tells you what he
would do if he were in your place is
seldom to be believed.
Sillfcus-'sT They married in haste. SO
I suppose they viii repent at leisure .
Cynicus-'.Y es, If not sooner"
Wig-'fHe may be handsome and
all that. but he is OF no earthly use. .
Wagg-''I suppose that's why the girls
all say he Is just heavenly
Nell-''RErs. Henpeckke prices her
self on being woman OF liberal edu-
cation Belle-'"Well, she's always
ready to give her husband a piece Of
her mind"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-02
JAYHA WKER JOTS

Down in Montgomery county a
farmer. Sam Conner, heats and lights
his hog house with natural gas.
Weir City is to have a new paper.
A newspaper man from Kentucky
proposes to ind the field for it.
The Wichita Eagle suggests that
about the best advertisements inn
migration agents can send out this year
are the bank statements of western
Kansas banks.
Emporia is inclined to walk chesty
because ". H MarstOn, millionaire
banker from New Hampshire, hap
pened to be there the other day and
took in a rabbit chase along with Nit
White and various others.
There are four Washington hand
presses still in use in Butler county.
Muscogee Red had a recent experience
with one and he Immediately went out
and crawled on another brake beam
and got out of town.
It doesn't take much more to lay
out the Arkansas City street car sys-
TEN than it does some others. A
Gently and traffic was stopped on the
system because the mule refused to
go by until he was dragged out of the
road.
The Coffeyville Record, which re-
Gently changed from a morning to an
evening paper, gets out a Sunday
morning edition which is a credit to
both the Record and to the town. Tt
has heretofore been the only Sunday
morning paper in that part of the
state but it is now announced that the
Independence Star viii also start a.
Sunday morning edition.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-02
BalIooning as a Pastime.

The French are beginning to make
nghr OF going up in the balloons; ana
aeronauts tell US that it is rapidly be-
coming the way to travel. Oh! there's
no danger at all when you know how to
steer; If you keep about z. 200 feet above
the surface of the earth, the air is
pure, and highly recommended to con-
sumptiyes as healing to their lungs. At
that height you are sure not to meet
obstacles on the surface of the earth,
nor any in the skies. Indeed, aeronauts
and "chauffeurs" agree that it is not
nearly so dangerous as automobiling,
certainly not for pedestrians, and
Count de Ia Vauix, who was the victor
in 1900 for long distance ballooning,
said; Formerly, when / was practicing
with balloons, there was very serious
reason why Siderable balloons were i'm
practicable; there was no motor. Now
that the problem has been solved, am
ready at any time, when given sufficient
funds, to go anywhere in tolerably fine
weather. What keeps aerial navigation
backward is the enormous cost in the
construction of balloons; the silk en-
velope costs about $1,000; it costs nearly
81 600 to fill it. Then there is the shed
to shelter it, then the workmen. Now,
when ballooning comes down-no play
upon the word meantime danger viii
not keep men from INDUCING in it. In
another ten years we will be so used to
seeing aerial transportation, that it viii
no longer be d curiosity to look att
Brooklyn Eagle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-02
GLOBE SIGHTS.
IFrom the Atchison Globe


A giddy old man is bad enough, but
giddy elderly woman is the limit
How the turkey must hate that Love-
~ Character who started Thanksgiving!
AS a rule, women have worse colds
than the men, and smaller handker-
chiefs.
You will notice a cigar smell about
many man who can't afford more than
a pipe.
This is the season OF the year when
people whose favorite color is blue see
enough Of il: Blue noses.
A man may get more sympathy at
home by claiming that he caught his
cold in church, but he doesn't get it
down town.
Perhaps a mans eyesight grows
poorer with the years as a nerciful way
of preventing him from seeing his
wrinkles and gray hairs.
An Atchison man was trying to de-
scribe a pale, thin, red-headed little
boy. and said; HE looks like a tooth
pick with a cranberry on top"
A man ought to save uD money in
his youth, so that when age comes he
will have time to devote to arranging
the hairs across his bald spot.
A married man never looks natural
in new clothes because no one ever eX-
poets to see a married man dressed up.
unless it is when he is a corpse.
Some mean low lived person explains
that the reason there is no marrying in
heaven is that no preacher ever got
there to perform marriage ceremony
In a good many years from now. life is
going to be made so easy for the women
that turkeys and mince pies win be
served in tablets. and some fool man
will be the one to invent the plan.
The average man so hates to eat away
from home that when he is invited out,
arrangements should be made for send
ing q fire alarm from his house at the
time dinner is over, to call him home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-02
Driving Turkeys I.iIke CattIe.

Seven hundred and sixty turkeys
driven along the road for ten miles
like herd of cattle by three men was
the unusual sight witnessed by scores
Of people in Franklin county, Vermont,
yesterday. This novel method of tax
ing poultry to market was the result
of a wager. Franklin is the banner
county for turkeys, but they are usual
to market. With the expense of a big
dinner at stake, Adelbert williams,
Charles Wilson and Ezekiel Sumner OF
Richford bet a few friends that they
could drive all the turkeys the town
could gather to Enesburg Falls with
out losing a bird. They were success
full. The start was made amid a great
footing of horns, all possible noise
being made to scare the birds. One
man led the way with a bag of grain
and others used persuasion behind. The
trip was made in four hours.-N. z.
Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-02

in a typewriter and has hired a stenog-
rapher to operate it, and asks. Don
you feel sorry for these poor. abused,
half-starved Kansas earmers ?" The
Holton Recorder makes a careful search
but fails to md any Of that brand Of
sorrow, but it hands out some sympa-
thy for the farmers wife who has to
do the homework while the farmer is
debating to his photographer. But the
Recorders sympathy may be misplaced.
Very likely the farmers wife dictates
to the whole outfit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-02

Every once in a while said a trav-
cling man at the Albany hotel this
morning, 81 hear or read of somebody
who refused a reward for returning
some article which had been lost, be-
cause the amount offered was small.
The finder was usually insulted. That
doesn't seem right to me. Why should
anybody sneer at reward2 What
rights have we to expect any reward
at all for honesty? A few days ago
while walking down an Omaha street
I saw a man ahead Of me drop a pock-
etbook A messenger boy picked it
up. Just then the man missed it and
the boy returned it to him without
looking inside. The man gave the boy
quarter. The boy accepted it but
was Disguised.
g Is dat all I git for bein' honest? -
he asked. Yer a pretty cheap guy
g There's just SO in the pocketbook,
said the man.
" Wen, you oughter gimme dollar,
anyway, the boy replied.
HAD I been the man I'd have been
sorely tempted to add a kick to the
quarter concluded the travelling man.
And there are lots and lots of people
just like that boy in this world. Dem
yer Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-02

The agent was showing them the
apartment It was a modern apartment,
very modern.
"All this is yours said the agent,
for the ridiculously low rental of thou
sand a year. And downstairs in the
basement he added, there is a large
private bin for the storage Of your sur
plus cl1attels."
The house hunters. bride and groom,
caught gaspingly at the word large
Would it make any difference they
asked. half hesitatingIy, eff we lived in
the bin and stored our surplus chattels
in the apartment"
Was it true? Had they solved at last
the problem of the small fiat2-Puck.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-02
suRfNfER,s ABnICArToN.

Indian wigwams in the corn lands,
Rows and rows Of ragged shocks;
Fields all polka-dotted yellow.
With the pumpkins golden blocks
Hastlres brown, with greening ribbons
w mere the springs come struggling down
meadows fading. gray the woodlands,
Summer throws aside her crown;
Casts aside her royal purple,
Folds her robes, all somber grown;
SILENT shadow like and weary,
Abdicates a tottering throne.
Frank Harrington, in Recreation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-02
JOURNAL ENTRIES

The scrimmages are over for this
year. but the Thanksgiving scraps are
stiu ON the boards-turkey scraps, you
know
Can anyone suggest a good excuse
for Washburn's defeat Thursdays
When the Washburn team was beaten
at Boulder it could be easily blamed on
the altitude, but that won't work this
time
Although it has been a good while
since John L. Sullivan was the cham
would be well to be somewhat careful
about expressing your opinion of John
L. until after he has made his visit to
Topeka.
You will find it mighty hard work to
make a turkeys mourning relatives be-
Heve In the survival OF the flttest-or of
the latest, either.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-02
KANSAS COMNENT
FROM IoR WRIGHT.

Again Senator Burton has been con-
victed by a United States court of SELL
ing his influence with the government
postal department to St. Louis get
rich quick concern. Convicted on
eight counts which means two year
sentence and a $4,000 fine. 1t may
be cruel at this time to mention it.
but we can't forget the time that this
same inflated hot air bubble went up
and down Kansas a few years ago
calling Pops regulators and declaring
that what the country wanted was an
honest dollar and a chance to earn it.
Smith County Messenger.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-02
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

IFrom the New York Press
It's awful hard work to try to es-
cape working.
No matter how pretty a girl is 1t is
safe to tell her she is prettier.
A woman seems to think all a man
has to do to have had habits is to be
married.
To save her life a girl can't help
feeling that 1t is inmodest for a man
to mention his suspenders.
There is great deal of satisfaction
in thinking that If you had had anv
money how many times YOU voni1
have lost it going into sure things.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-02
"PHILANTHROPIC."

The Wichita man, who recently
wrote a book defending the Standard
oil company's methods as ''philanthTo-
pists" of an angelic brand ought to
have inserted in his book that John D.
Rockefeller will draw $40,00O,000 in
dividends on his Standard Oil stock
for the year ending 1905. The author
OF this book wants the public to be-
lieve that they are getting oil much
cheaper than they would get it If the
oil productions were in the hands Of
competitive rehneries and companies.
Hill City Reveille.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-02
NIefeor FalIs ID ono.

F'lossie Fisher, the S-year-old daugh-
ter OF Frank Fisher, narrowly escaped
being struck by a meteor. She was IN
the yard of her home playing with a
dog. She heard a peculiar whistle and
sprang up, looking at the sky.
She noticed a missile coming toward
the ground with a trail back Of it. The
dog also jumped, but the meteor struck
it a glancing blow. knocking it sense
less. The meteor struck the ground
where the little girl had been at play,
and was picked up and taken into the
house. It IS as large as half q brick
ETassfllon Independent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-02
GRANDPA AND gHE car.

" hen grandpa steps on our old cat,
tie does it now and them
We see man of eighty-one
Made lively once again.
he does a funny little dance,
When she begins to howl:
and goodness me! you ought to hear
OLD grandpa cuss and growl.
Now. grandpa's sight is rather poor.
He never sees the cat
Curled up there by the heating stove,
Asleep upon the mat.
But when his foot lands on her tail.
She lets him know it. Geel
The way he hops around and kicks
Is funny as can be.
Each time old grandpa tells us all
He means to kill that cat
But we just smile because We know
Hes talking through his hat
I wish you could he there some day
When grandpa, half asleep,
steps on the cat and hops and Erowls
IWould tickle you a heap.
-Bide Dudley in Denver Post.