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Omaha daily bee., 1906-09-19
LITTLE PROGRESS IN CUB.
Negotiations Between Government an
Insurgents Almost at standstill.
LIBERAL LEADERS RELEASED FROM JAI
Both sides Wish 10 Have Plan
Ready to submit TO Secretary
Taft on His Arrival
Today.

HAVANA. Sept. .p.-Notwithstsndln
some appearances Of activity. no decisv,
progress was made today in the peace ne
gotiations A few peace-seekers went west
ward in automobiles with the idea of reach
ing and comforting with Pine Guerra, the
insurgent leader in Pinar del Rio province,
and others visited Loynaz del Castillo, the
commander of the insurgent forces in Ha-
yana province, hut the only definite thing
reported IL that the insurgents In the field
are not willing to enter on negotiations un-
I'll all the conspiracy prisoners shall have
been released. While II Is possible that
those most highly responsible may teach. a
basis OF agreement In time to present II to
Secretary OF War Taft and Assistant Sec
rotary OF State Bacon. when they land
here tomorrow. there il nothing to show
that such a basis has been reached az yet
and there IL every evidence that II II has
been reached II will not be accepted by the
insurgent following.
Considerable earnestness has been shown
by some OF the leaders looking towards a
settlement upon acceptable terms. but 9TH
ers. and notably among the moderates.
appear TO be satisfied to let the case rest
as It is until It can be adjudicated by Pres
ident Roosevelt's representatives.
The liberals are more anxious TO place
themselves in a position which may be
considered at least equally as strong AZ
that OF the government and consequently
they are more perslstently active.
General Menocal. the chief OF the veter-
ans peace commission. stated ( othe As
ISOLATED Press tonight that the important
part OF his mission was ended when he
brought the leaders together. The liberals
feel that they accomplished something in
procuring the release Of the alleged con-
spiritors more recently arrested and in in
duclng a cessation OF hostilities Part OF
their leaders also remark on the fact that
the cessation of hostiiities was the act OF
the government. ."'}
Fight Near Los Pelacios.
Alfred Zayas, president of the liberal
| party, Informs the Associated Press that
Colonel Avalos. with 200 mounted men, at
tackled a rebel force under Pine Guerra
yesterday near Los Palacios in Pinar del
Rio province. The rebels had one mar
killed and two wounded. The government
soldiers had eighteen killed and thirt.
wounded A second attack was about TO
begin when Guerras brother, in the ca
pacity OF peacemaker, arrived from Ha-
vsna and urged an armistice. which was
speedily arranged.
The oficial report of this engagement
says a party of Guerra's men came 10 Los
Palacios and sent in emissaries with an
Omaha daily bee., 1906-09-19
DEATH RECORD.

SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 1s.-R J. Tobin.
one OF the founders OF the Hibernia bank
and is former president died early today
after lingering illness. He formerly was
police commissioner and was one of the
best known citizens OF San Francisco.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-09-19
Charles W. Lennon.

SIOUX CITY. Ia, Sept ls.-charles W.
Lennon. local manager for Armour 4 Co..
died al his home here this afternoon OF
Brights disease. He was born In Ireland
and was So years old.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-09-19
FIRE RECORD
Barn and Contents.

nicola. Ia, Sept. l7.-(special.)-A barn
containing eighty tons OF hay and agri-
cultural implements on the premises Of
william Duff. residing eight miles south
Omaha daily bee., 1906-09-19
"Katy" Paint shop.

sEDALIA, Mo-. Sept. 1s.-The paint shop
Of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas RAILROAD
burned here early today. Eleven cars and
coaches. including the private car Of p
Allen, vice president and general manager
Of the company, were also destroyed. The
loss is estimated at 100000. The cause of
the fire Is not known. rr
Omaha daily bee., 1906-09-19

II you have anything to trade advertise
Il IN The For Exchange column OF The
Bee Want Al page.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-09-19

east OF this city, was struck by lightning
during the storm last night and was con
sumed There WAS an insurance Of ,oO
on the barn, but there was none on thu
hay. The loss will reach 1880. H
Omaha daily bee., 1906-09-19
Important, Too.

Now, do a, little hard thinking when you.
get ready TO buy your new black silk
iress Thompson. Baden g. Co. have sold
Haskells silks over ,ftenty years Pretty
good record. isn't ~ OF first importance,
price tickets andtnewspaper ads do not in
dictate value. Seeing is believing. Come
and examine Hasl1elfs. silks; look them
over. Do not hesitate to ask all the ques-
tons you want-assnred. Get samples: show
them TO your friends This. great cut-price
sale on Hsskelrs siiks IS to further ad-
Sertise them. Come ana bring your friends
Note: Samples will be mailed to our out
of-town customers.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-09-19
Telephone Douglas SIS.
@s5ssi "a, Men.
ATrAAcfiNELY PRIcEp.

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in the popular ribbed style none better for
At: colors, brown. dpijfe and ecru.- Drawers
have double seat; SStra good value a, SOC
ser garment. 49, ,NLs y
Medium-w weight natural wool underwear.
excellent finish throughout, Just the- tight
weight for now. PRICE, 81 per garment.
Main floor. -. 4
Omaha daily bee., 1906-09-19

chusetts, who has been appointed first
secretary Of the American embassy at
Toxic.
Amador ledger., 1906-08-17
RELICS OFJAMESTOWN.
Site of Exposition battle-ground of
Conflicts Between Early Settlers
and Indians.


OF all the Smiths who have ever
lived, Captain John is becoming the
most famous, due to the prominence
given to his doings, incident to the
jamestown Exposition. The romantic
days of Pocahontas and Captain John
Smith are wildly recalled by the old
Indian and frontiersmen's relics which
have been dug up in preparing the
ground for the Jamestown Exposition.
The site selected for the celebration
of the three hundredth ar .versary of
the first permanent English settlement
in America was once an Indian village
occupied by the Powhatans, the most
powerful tribe of the early American
Indians, who roamed over the country
east of the Ohio River several cen
turtles ago.
Near the State Exhibits Building
stands majestic live oak tree, the
"Powhatan Oak" estimated to be
nearly 1000 years old, which was a
favorite camping ground of the In
dams before America was discovered
by the Palefaces.o Here were held
councils of war when the only weap-
ons in use were stone hatchets, stone
war clubs, spears with stone points
and bows and arrows. The arrow
heads used were made of flint, Clipped
down to a cutting edge, almost as
sharp as a knife, every arrow head
representing many hours of hard and
patient toll. Scores of these flint ar
row-heads are being found on the Ex-
position ground, in excavating for
streets and buildings. Some of them
are broken, perhaps by striking some
foe of the Indians in battle or some
wild animal-in those days the woods
about Hampton Roads were alive with
deer, bear and other animals. At Sc
wells Point where these relics are
found were fought bloody battles be-
tween the early English settlers and
the Indians and, according to old In
dian traditions, this was also the
BATTLE ground on which warning In
dian tribes desperately contended for
the right of domain, long before the
occurrence of the historic event which
the jamestown Exposition commemo-
rates. The valuable fisheries of what
are now called Hampton Roads and
Chesapeake Bay, tie beautiful hunt
ing grounds along the water courses
and the many attractions peculiar to
this locality made this particular
point of land very desirable, and for
its possessions Indian tribes warred
with one another. Now, after CEN
turtles have gone by and the old In
dian nations that once controlled this
region have passed away their an
cient battle fields have. been trans
formed into a magnificent information
al exposition ground, just outside the
corporate limits of the city of Norfolk,
Virginia.
Amador ledger., 1906-08-17
MAQAzine Section.
DIVA OF GRAND OPERA.
SIMPLE LIFE FOR MRS. JULIAN
STORY WHEN SEASON is OYER
FOR EMMA EAMES.

Noted Singer Flies to Husband at
Italian Home as Soon as Last Note
of Contract Season Falls from Her
Golden Throat.
There are thousands of Madame
Emma Eames' admirers who, hearing
her sing this season, will think they
know her well. They will have seen
her in the trailing robes of Juliet, or
the simple gown of Marguerite; dark
skinned as Aida or fair and white as
the young bride, Elsa. They will find
In her a neighbor, giving plenty of
heart and strength and personality to
those who weep or thrill as they listen.
Sympathy is meat and drink to the
singer; but, in the spring when the big
theater home Of her triumphs is
closed, Madame Emma Eames flies to
Vallombrosa where sympathy awaits.
As soon as she reaches her Italian
estate she becomes Mrs. Julian Story.
1t is the beginning of the simple life;
Of household duties and dairy superin-
tendence; of the friendship of little
chickens, new puppies and old ponies,
OF favorite flowers in a personal gar
den, and the companionship of a
husband.
Mrs. Story was reared in New Eng
land; Mr.. Story in Rome. They have
luxurious house in Paris, but it is
this sunny mountain slope in Italy
that awakens a responsive throb when
the home longing is keen and the ap-
plause of the public fails to reach the
heart.
OLD VALLOMBROSA MONASTERY.
Many years ago, W. w. Story,
travelling for his health in Italy
found the beauty Of the Apprentices
to eliminate in the stretch of land
known as Vallombrosa. The monas-
terry of the name, founded in the tenth
Amador ledger., 1906-08-17

cluded that he would gain in both
purse and pleasure by going back to
the farm. Such young man, and
there are many like him in the Norton
County High School, would have well
coined an agricultural course, and
would have gone back to the farm
much better prepared for the duties of
life than he was with a business train
ing. So the county superintendent of
schools and the other members of the
board of trustees decided that an
agricultural course should take the
place of the general science course, and
hired graduate of the Kansas State
Agricultural College to teach agricul-
ture and other sciences in the high
school. Secretary Wilson of Agricul-
ture, while making trip through the
"short-grass country" learned of the
enterprise, became much interested in
it, and in response to an appeal for
aid sent a. representative of the Office
of Experiment Stations to Norton to
help start it. The president of the
Kansas State Agricultural College also
responded to call for assistance and
made one of party of four that toured
Amador ledger., 1906-08-17
The Homer Pigeon.

The homer pigeon, when travelling,
seldom feeds, and if the distance to ita
home be long, it arrives thin, exhaust
ed, and almost dying. If corn be pre-
sented to it, it refuses to eat, con.
tenting itself with drinking a little
water, and then sleeping. Two or
three hours later it begins to eat with
great moderation, and sleeps again
Immediately afterwards. If its flight
has been very prolonged the pigeon
will proceed in this manner for forty.
eight hours before recovering its nor
NAL mode of feeding.
Amador ledger., 1906-08-17

"It's simply fine in you to come.
Have some seltzeri" cried the lady. A
hearty laugh from the group on the
terrace broke in upon her greeting and
made her call hastily. Don't tell any
stories about me. Let us go over
there" she said, rising, "one can never
afford to miss good laugh, and Ger
man dialect is too rare on these prem
ises to be'shghted Iloften wish that
had one of my own, or that Joe Weber,
Lew Fields or Sam Bernard could hear
some of the attempts at English that
reach my ears during the opera season.
AS it is, can only enjoy them for a
moment and repeat them afterward to
some one who can perpetuate the in
cident. Oh! we have drol1 times"
Mrs. Story has a keen sense of hui
NOR, and quite loses herself as she
listens to a group of story-tellers. I'm
like most strong personalities, she
does not rob those around her of poise
and ease, but possesses the rare fac
ulty of bringing out the very best that
is in them. '-.i
After dinner that wonderful even
ing music came in for its share The
last Wagnerian production to the popu-
lar songs of the season was the range.
A fragment Of "Tammany" was sung
by that voice which will go down in
history, and the chorus was taken up
in many keys by the dinner guests.
All had heard the voice before, but it
was not Madame Eames of Grand Opera
who sang. 1t was Mrs. Julian Story
singing to her friends.
Amador ledger., 1906-08-17
Want Industrial Training.

Resolutions were recently adopted
at the closing sessions of the Ameri-
can Institute of Instruction at New
Haven favoring the installing of in
dustrial departments in every efficient
school system. The institute also
placed itself on record as holding that
in view of recent developments of dis
honesty in high places and of the in
crease of crime in different directions,
it is the duty of the teachers to per-
sistently train the American youth in
honesty, integrity, and uprightness.
Amador ledger., 1906-08-17
JUVENILE GARDENING.
JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION. HAS A
MODEL school, -GARDEN OF
80 A HJNDREDsBOYS.qs ~.

Practical demonstrations by Departs
ment of Agriculture and Various
States-Landscape improvements
and Beautifications. ,g';
Among the many novel features at
the Jamestown Exposition is the gar
den work by school children. One
hundred boys from the public schools
of Norfolk, Newport News and Hamp-
ton, near the Exposition grounds, were
selected by their teachers to carry out
the plans for a school garden at the
Exposition. Special trolley cars con-
veyed these young gardeners and their
Amador ledger., 1906-08-17

for smut and potatoes for scab; spray
ing trees and garden crops for insect
pests and diseases, and making plans
for farm buildings, roads, water sys-
TENS, etc. Such work could be done
largely by the pupils at school or on
the different farms on Saturdays. It
would be educational and at the same
time would make the farmers feel
that they were getting some Immediate
tangible return for the taxes paid In
support of the school.
Amador ledger., 1906-08-17
FARM HIGH SCHOOL.
GREAT IMPROVEMENT IN EDUCA.
TIONAL METHODS IN THIRTY.
.e ING KANSAS TOWN.

Consolidation of the : Sod-House
schools into a Large. and We'll
Equipped High School-Students
,lmbibe the Spirit of Village lmprov-
ement.
Actual examples of successes-of
things that already have been done
are more convincing than a thousand
plausible arguments to prove what pos
slbly can be done. The Department of
Agriculture cites case in Kansas,
showing the practical operation of a
county high school, which has done
much for Norton County, and which,
if faithfully worked out, in other in
stances, would give a tremendous i'm
petus to any other county in any
state.
Kansas has local option in the es-
Enlistment of county high schools.
AS result several sparsely settled
counties or counties in which there
are few large towns are supporting
such schools. Norton County, which a
few years ago was 6otted with sod
school houses, and which still has
many sod dwelling houses, now sup
ports good county high school in the
village Of Norton, a town Of 1900 in.
habitants, located near the geopraphi.
cal center of the county. The high
school building is of brick, stories
high, over we'll lighted basement
and is located on the outskirts of the
village, where land can be easily Sc.
cured. The basement contains fur.
mace and fuel rooms, lavatories, and q
gymnasium. On the first floor is a
physics and chemistry room, natural
history room, a music and art room
and the rooms of the business depart
ment. The second floor contains an
assembly and study room and two re
citation rooms The apparatus and
other equipment for the work in ply
sizes, chemistry, and natural history
are exceptionally good for small high
school. There is also good library
and a reading room with current news
papers and magazines.
The expense of running the school
in 1904 was $9.5SS, including $4,43C
for teachers salaries and S5,158 fol
buildings, grounds, and incidentals
This was a year when considerable
sums were spent for furniture, appara
tus, supplies, and additional land. The
running expenses for the first :. six
months in 1905 were S3,775. Hereto
fore five teachers. have. been employed
but this year there are six
NO FARMING TAUGHT.
Previous to this year-the Norton
County High School has offered college
preparatory, normal, business ana gen.
eral science courses, 'but no course re.
lated in any direct way to the leading
industry of the county-farming. The
county superintendent of schools said
that his attention had been forcibly
directed to this lack in the curriculum
of the high school by the experience
of young man who came to the school
from one of the many large farms in
the vicinity, took the four-year bust
ness course, spent one year in local
bank at $50 month. and then con-
Amador ledger., 1906-08-17
From Above the Clouds.

The view Of storm-cloud from above
is one of the most interesting sights
ever beheld by man. According to a
famous aeronaut, a storm view from
that position has the appearance of
a vast sea Of boiling, upheaving snow.
The falling Of the rain can be distinct
ly heard, making noise like water
fall over precipice. The thunder
heard above the storm-cloud is not
loud, and the flashes of lightning ap-
Amador ledger., 1906-08-17
JOHN WESLEYS "POEM."
Representative j. W. Gaines of Ten
nessee, Created Roars of Amuse-
ment in the House, During
Closing Days of Session by
+ - -Reciting .Mhen Democ.
- y l.. .racv Will Die ., 80 ~

Closing Days of Session by
/. = = -Reciting "Mhen Democ.
racy Will Die" @tt p
when the lions eat grass like an OK.
And the fisherman swallows the whale:
When the terrapins knit wooden socks,
And the hare is outrun by the SMALL
When serpents walk upright like men,
And doodle bugs travel like frogs;
When the grasshopper feeds on the hen,
And feathers are found on the hogs;
When Thomas cats swim in the air,
And elephants roost upon trees;
When insects in summer are rare,
And snuff never makes people sneeze;
When the fish creep over dry land,
And mules on velocipedes ride;
When foxes lay eggs in the sand,
And women in dress take no pride;
When Dutchmen no longer drink beer,
And girls get to preaching. on time;
When the billy goat butts from the rear,
And treason no longer is crime
When the humming bird brays like an ass
And limburger smells like cologne;
When plowshares are made out of glass,
And hearts of Tennesseeans are stone;
When sense grows in Republican heads,
And wool on the hydraulic ram;
Then the Democratic party will be dead,
And this country not worth -
Amador ledger., 1906-08-17

builder will find worthy of following.
This fence is eight feet high, made OF
several strands of wire, and running
over the wire in. every direction, COM
pletely covering it, are vines of honey
suckle, crimson rambler, rose and
trumpet ci'eeper, making what seems to
be an immense hedge of towering
? k.1s HOME IMPROVEMENTS.
rsH the Exposition results in imbuing
its many. thousand visitors with the
spirit of home improvement and with
a determination to go back home and
make of their own towns, or houses
and grounds models of beauty and con-
venience, it will go far toward proving
a national success.
Rustic benches and bridges, pretty
walks under canopies of vines and
flowers, shady lanes and streets and
a thousand other interesting things at
the Exposition are studies for the peo-
pie, worthy of the most careful at
tention. 1t will not be an exposition
Amador ledger., 1906-08-17

terests Of the new course of study.
AS a result, considerable interest was
aroused in the proposed new work
a tentative agricultural course was out
lined, and arrangements were made
with the three farm implement dealers
OF the town to open their warehouses
to the classes in agriculture and fur.
nish experts to give instruction on the
mechanics, care, and use of farm ma.
chinery.
STARTING IN AGRICULTURE
The agricultural work of the course
includes botany, with special reference
to variation, development of species.
hybridization, and the influence of
light, heat, moisture, etc., on the plant:
soils and tillage; plant physiology.
farm crops, grain judging, and horti-
culture; farm accounts; farm manage
ment, including farm plans. methods
of cropping, farm machinery and its
care, and rural economies with spe-
cial reference to the problems of a
business nature that will be met on the
farm; animal production and stock
judging, and dairying. The teacher of
agriculture reports that the implement
NSoASio hoNO 6ANCA evidence
of their interest in the agricultural
course by offering prizes aggregating
Sllz IN value for a grain-judging
contest, open to all young men in the
country, and that these prizes have
been supplemented by SIS suit OF
| clothes from clothing dealer. Con-
tinuing, he says: 81 am well pleased
with the way the boys take hold Of
the work. Out Of 20 boys we have 9
enrolled in the agricultural course, and
think most of the first-year boys will
take it up when they get to 1t in the
course. 1t is proving popular in the
school and entirely free from the pre-
1udice had anticipated at the outset"
This is the nucleus of an important
experiment in education. Norton is
just in the edge of the great semiarid
region of the Middle West. Agricul-
tural practice in that region differs ma
terially from that of the more humid
regions on the one hand and from
that of the irrigated districts on the
other. The teacher of agriculture is
thoroughly familiar with the agricul-
ture of the'region, and has but recent
ly graduated from an agricultural col
lege which is devoting much study to
the problems of the hundredth meridi-
an belt. The agriculture of this belt is
extensive. Here one man works as
Fmuch land as four or five men in the
East; he cultivates three rows of corn
at one crossing of the field, and does
other things on an equally extensive
scale. Improved farm machinery makes
this method Of farming possible. 1t
is therefore of the greatest Importance
I hat much attention to farm machinery
be given in the agricultural course
ut the Norton County High School.
The cereals (corn and wheat) are the
leading field crops, hence the import
ance Of grain-judging contests and
other school work relating to these
great staples.
The county superintendent of schools
has expressed the hope that the school
may also do much work that will be
of immediate practical benefit to the
agriculture of the country, such as
testing seeds for viability, or germin-
at1ng power, and milk and cream for
butter fat; treating oats and wheat
Amador ledger., 1906-08-17

In the Friends burial grounds, in
Salem, N. j., there stands the largest
oak tree in the State and possibly the
largest in the United States. 1t is now
used as the trade mark" of the New
Jersey Forestry Association.
Amador ledger., 1906-08-17
PRIZES FOR BEST GARDENS.

Those who have made success of
their gardens this season will be given
preference next year and will have
their same gardens. The Exposition
Company will give prizes or medals for
1the best cultivated garden on the
Exposition grounds and the young
gardeners will be given some valu-
able lessons in agriculture. The U. S.
Department of Agriculture and some
of the state departments will have ex-
the Exposition as object lessons to
the young as well as Older gardeners.
The young minds amonglthe visitors
which have bent toward agricultural
pursuits will have an opportunity to
learn much Of value in the way Of till
ing the soil. They will learn when to
plant, what to plant and how to plant,
to get the best results They will
also be given an opportunity to study
soils and their treatment, and how to
enrich and improve them. Tree plant
ing and transpIanting will constitute
another phase of Uncle Sans object
lessons, as are done at other govern
ment experimental stations At the
st. Louis Exposition Uncle Sans gar
dens and the children's gardens proved
exceedingly interesting as well as in
structive to the farmers who were
wise enough to appreciate the bene-
fits to be derived from them. At the
jamestown Exposition it Unexpected
the Agricultural Department will
broaden its scope of instructions in
many ways and surpass its efforts 9at
st. Louis. tn at - gag ~