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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-21
ROOSEVELT NOW A "FAN."
The President Gets Pass a.a VIII See
 Ball Games.

President Roosevelt has promised to attend a few of the American league baseball games this season, says a Washington special to the Philadelphia Press. He has joined the ranks with Secretary Shaw, Secretary Taft. Sena- tor German and a number of other dis tinguIshed public men who are lovers of the great American game. He re- gently promised President Johnson of the American league that he would at tend as many games as he could fni time for.
 This promise vss made during a vIs- it of the American league president st the White House for the purpose of presenting the president compliment sry pass for the season of 1908 t0 all gzmes played In the league circuit The psssbook fs neatly bound In a sezl skin case. with the gold mo1oxrau 1T R- The printing ls all in gold Ihe p1sshook Es for the president and ~pzrty.- thus enabling him to take ir with him zs many friends a be,zu teslre.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-21
MAXIM GORKY
How Russia's Famous Peasant Author Rose to
 Champion the Underworld's Cause
Bohemian Instinct He Is Proletaan to the Limas Made Himself One With Tranps and 0utcasts-Tall Straight, Deep Chested and Large Bcned, He Is Self
 Possessed Masteru
Possessed and Masterful

more natural rnan that he should have fed them to the station masters grunt- ing porkers? No wonder he inquired If this was part of his duties. For member of a melancholy race the quaint humor by which the question Is introduced is rather delicious, Is it not? Fortunately the slop carrying, pig feeding episode was about at the end of Gorky's hard times. His pen was growing busy, and that should soon bring him fame and mans part in the worlds work. He was coming into his own. Happy Is that man who finds himself, for then all men may find him. Misery comes from being out of place, from doing that which is not for us; happiness results from reach ing our own niche and doing that which is for us. When one can express the highest and best that is in him he is on the true path to the kingdom. Sometimes he must travel through the "sludge and murk" to find this true path, but it is worth all the hardship and suffering. When Gorky began his stories he had found his niche, had reached his path. He knew himself then and hence was to be known of all men. He felt the fierce joy of doing battle for the cause his soul loved. He was to be force in the social and po- litical upheaval of mankind.
 Voice of the Sums.
 Who can measure the impulse in the heart of man? Who can describe the processes b- which a soul groDes its
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-21
e.rn.. Ar-r Erp<rf-e.t.

6eFman AFnT EHD<ffnent
 Three German bsttzIio1s at Metx are to experiment with grzy and Gay- green uniforms. the metal parts being Of duII brown Ihe kaiser is not yet satissef as to the comparative invisi- biITty of the two shsde4
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-21
The ResI Gorty.

GOrkyis physical type Is maIIsned by most of the photographs pubIisbed In these he lOoks DervO1s. anzenie. hunt ed sentimental The real Maxim Cor ky is a tall straight. deep ehested- large bo1ed man In features hs is ss far removed from the refined uesk
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-21

the harsh e.y Uf those who still abide down there and who have let me come up to bear witness to their suffering"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-21
rashiouabIes Flee h Bare Feet.

all along the two avenues of fashion not brick chimney was left standing. In every block there are tons and tons of vrecksze. Clans Spreckels' home oa Van Ness avenue had it's e0rnices and parapet crumblei Ike a pie crust. Walter Hobart-s house. that was built for Amy CrUcker when she became Mrs. Porter Ashe, has sH one side wrecked
 The St Dunstan. at sutter and Van Ness, one Of the smarJest apartment houses. built cf stone. has it's top story tumbIed O1 and it's s1lid walls crack ed At McNuft's sr1zL nearly op- posife the St Dunstsn. on Sufter street. ths patients who could be moFed had been drought tg the door and sidewak. and anxIous fnquireTs were rushing ID to ert news of dear oaes within Who gre bedrstIen CT recently operated cpoo-
 Ths uev nstiousI bank oa Polk street
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-21
Children Turn Thieves.

Then big road machine screeching along, a red, fat faced man standing up in 1t hopping his brow, his eyes searching for the building that holds his business, and little street boys darting in and out, snatching what they can get, throwing that away and snatching more, like children wanton- ly picking wild flowers. I see one little creature capering with three hats on bis head that he had taken from a show window.
 Before the banks and safe deposit vaults the men and boys employed there are busy pulling out drawers full of ledgers and valuable papers, carrying them away in their hands. loading them into wagons and even into wash buckets.
 On the step of one bank, with the fire only block away. see man wringing his hands and crying aloud: "Will he never come? Will he never come with the combination? My God, why doesn't he come?''
 can't get to the Postal telegraph of- flee for the dead line of the police and the crowd. find the Western Union wrecked. with bewildering clerks re- beating All wires down! All wires downr' to the pale faced and dirty faced men and women who want to send messages out reassuring their friends.
 Every few seconds there is boom ing sound that adds to the horror. the confusion and fearsomeness of the scene. It comes from the dynamite detonations where they are trying to check the spread of the fire by blowing up buildings.
 A theatrical man comes running along telling how the Grand Opera House has fallen in and is on fire with all COnried's grand opera settings and the singers beautiful things going up in smoke. He laughs idiotically. poor chap. and says. Sudden close of the opera season. isn't it?''
 The newspaper offices still stand. but this Is only o'clock. and with their power cut of there Is no way to get oil the extras that would sell Ike hot cakes. I see before the door of every one my fellows gathered in silence. for once. and dazedly looking on. It is too awe@One a scene even for the newsps- per men
 try to make my way to the ferry. first down one street and then down another leading to the -ater front Each one as I try. from Post to Wash iDgton. Is closed by fire CT wreckage. and there is no way through On Washington street. opposite the old pOstOtfce. a building has completely collapsed and under it's edges are horses struggling and dying At last find an open way oa the next street. and with the warmth of the blaze of water front saloons on my back. I Ihur- " across the upheaved street and twisted car tracks This Is made ground and the earthquake played with it zs q child plays with card board cracking. eressias and bending t. On the bay side of the ratsr front
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-21

near Surter street, is wreck. with It's plate glass windows in splinters on the pavements. All Sutter street as l look ahead seems m avenue of ruin. The Granada, big fashionable hotel, has its top and front shattered. Whole houses, I can see, are tumbled down. I must pick my way among tho middle of the streets between the heaps of ruins. find the streets swarming with people, white, wide eyed, still awed, and others, again, exceedingly voluble iA their terror, telling to every one their story of what has happened to himself. M
 Van Ness avenue Is swarming There are no cars, of course. Every ono smust walk who has no automobile or car riage or wagon. Automobiles are tear ing and honking madly in every direc- ton, filled with frightened men and women and children, some dressed as though for promenade, others partly dressed or wrapped in bedclothes. Never were stranger automobile par ties than these.
 I see one little woman carrying her baby, her tear wet face clinging to its baby cheeks, and she wears only her -nightdress and a kimono, and her ten der bare feet batter across the side walk from a mansion door to an auto mobile. Here again is an old, old wo- man with wrinkled face, paper white, somebody's grandmother she is, and she is being trundled along in an in- valid chair, her family, with hastily made bundles of clothes and valuables, all about her. - .-- h4s
 It is only when I get as, far as the top of Leavenworth street and look down into the city's heart that I can get a glimmering of what an awful thing an earthquake is to city. Great clouds of smoke rise dull and dark on every side and red angry flames shoot long tongues through them.
 Mighty Roar of Flames. ! hear the roar and cracking of fire unrestrained, and with every blow I feel the heat on my cheeks and the cin- ders and ashes sitting down upon me. When I come to Powell street see the St. Francis hotel still standing and the cinders and brands pouring upon it's roof. Remember this is only o'clock. In Union square the grass is covered, every inch of it, with frightened, hud- dled people who have sought the open.
 From Powell street down the shop windows are broken and the window displays lie exposed in the drug stores with broken bottles trickling their con tents over everything. in the dry goods and millinery shops offering loot to ev- cry grasping hand. Kearney street and Montgomery street are highways of confusion.
 The poor south of Market street, thus suddenly thrown out. are in exodus toward Telegraph hill, dragging and trundling such household goods as they have managed to save. Here are boys and a thin, flat chested woman trundling a sewing machine along. A drawer of it falls out, and they halt to gather up the precious scattered spools. Poor little seamstress, this is her all now.
 Here is a wagon fitted with bedding and cooking utensils, a crying woman and a baby on the seat, a birdcage dangling at the tail and two men talk ing the part of horses. Then a crazy nighthawk hack, white faced wo- man dragged from her sickbed in it, fainting in the arms of another wo- man.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-21

Who can measure the impulse in the heart of a man? Who can describe the processes b- which soul groDes its
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-06
BIRD MIGRATION.

There is no more interesting sight to
be seen in the fall Of the year than the
vast focks of blackbirds getting ready
for their southern migration. Grouped
in families as they were bred in the
swamps, they at first live an independ-
ent sort of life. Later, as the fall
days come on, they commence to gath
er in small flocks, which constantly in
crease in size as the days go by I'M
til just before they migrate they may
be seen in fiocks containing thousands,
wheeling with a military precision in
their flight or massing and swarming
in the tops of the cottonwood trees, all
chattering like a lot of women at a tea
party, evidently discussing in their bird
language the time for their departure
and the route to be taken, and then the
day comes for them to go, a day just
before the coming of the snow, the
frost and the cold north wind, and cir
cling round few times to take last
look at the old home they head for the
south and in undulating flight seek the
marshes, the rice and cornfields of a
warmer latitude A few stray birds,
perchance the very young and ineXperi-
enced ones or those that suffer from
some infirmity, linger all winter through
the cold and the storms, seeking the
shelter of an evergreen grove in the
vicinity of some farmers corncrib.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-06
SOMETHING TO LEARN.

American farmers would be aston
ished at the results if they should ap-
ply the same careful, intensive and
sensible methods to the cultivation of
the soil and the care of their stock
which obtain in some Of the old world
countries Denmark, Holland, the is
land Of Jersey and France-where a
little area OF land is so treated that it
produces twice and thrice as much per
acre as is produced in this country.
When our land was cheap-S25 to $50
per acre-it is perhaps true that any
sort Of intensive agriculture did not
pay, for this cheap land was new and
very fertile and able to stand a good
deal of abuse which has been applied
to it without stint. Now, however, that
these same lands run in value from
$50 to $50 per acre there is much in
these advanced methods Of European
farming well worth considering. We
have not yet learned how to properly
feed the land-that is, to so rotate and
fertiiize it that it will do it's best or
anywhere near it. Good farming will
always keep up and increase the fer
tility Of he soil This but few do, and
half of the land will not now produce
more than one-half as good crops as ii
would fifty years ago. Continuous
cropping with grain has removed the
humUs and depleted the available sup
ply Of nitrogen and potash. We know
of several instances where foreigners
from the countries mentioned have be-
come possessed of a small tract of land
here and by carrying out their old
country methods are obtaining the
most astonishing results, making more
money from twenty acres than their
American neighbors are from eighty
acres and not working any harder Ell
Their. We have much to learn from
these people.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-06
GRASS AS A MEAT MAKER.

All through the corn belt men have
placed too much dependence upon corn
as a meat maker and not enough on
grass and other crops. Meat made
from grassland by grass we mean
clover, alfalfa and blue grass-is al
ways cheaply produced, while meat
made from corn has often to be sold
for less than it cost But few men un.
derstand the real value of a good pas
ture as meat producer, and altogeth-
er too little attention is paid to keep
ing pasture lands up to high state Of
prOductiveness, the most common sin
being in connection with overstocking
them and never giving the grass any
kind of show to grow. We know Of
men who would hardly be able to sleep
nights if they had pasture which car
ried a heavy and luXuriant growth Of
grass and would not rest until they
had got enough stock into it to keep
it down." as they express it. Grass
must have some sort of a chance to
grow above ground if it is to have Z
good, strong and vigorous root system.
Where grass is weakened by overpas-
turing the weeds are quick to take adj
vantage of the fact and soon swarm all
over the field to still further help kill
out the grass. A blue grass pasture
unfed from July. l till winter will fur
nish one of the best and very cheapest
winter rations for the colts and for
cattle and sheep as well provided the
snow does not get too deep.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-06
NEW TYPES.

We are asked by what process the
new varieties of strawberries and po-
tatoes are originated. New varieties of
strawberries are not originated from
the runners, but from the seeds of the
berry. New kinds Of potatoes come
from the seeds in the seed balls and
not from the tubers. The new sorts
are prOpagated by the runners and tu-
bers of the plants thus originated The
same rule as to new varieties holds
good with all our fruits which carry
seeds-apples, pears peaches, plums.
With our cereal grains-tomatoes GU
.cumbers, melons and squashes-with
most flowers, the OriginatiOn of a new
variety comes as a sport or freak the
result of natures mysterious methods
Of cross fertilization, such sport being
selected for propagation by seeds or
cuttings from it. Many new things are
developed by mechanical cross fertili-
cation where varieties are purpOsely
crossed by the agency of man, and no
field of research is more fascinating or
is attracting more attention at the
present time, Luther Burbank of Cali
fornia being the high priest in this line
of wonderful work.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-06
Ilats and PIague

Skinner States tLat examinations of
the habits Of the rat, 50 far as they are
known, do not bear out the theory that
he is the source of the disease. He
does suffer from plague, and were he
the source the epidemic should be most
acute when the rat is in most intimate
contact with the human population.
There is nothing to show that destruc-
ton of rats decreases plague incidence.
Rats avoid 'ime, as it burns their feet,
so that the free use of unSlaked lime
will keep them away. 1t is when rats
and men are out in the fields that they
are liable to attack by some agent
common to both as causing plague. and
this cause decreases to a minimum
when rats and men are most closely
associated during the rains.-BritiSh
Medical Journal
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-06

The Northwestern line. One Of the
most interesting series of articles on
the subject of the great railways of
the country that has appeared recent
ly, is that from the pen of Frank III.
Spearman recently published in the
Saturday Evening Post, and since
printed in book form by Scribners.
The chapter descriptive of the Chi
cago & Northwestern Ry. has been
published by the passenger depart
ment of that line in pamphlet form
for general distribution, and will be
sent to any address on receipt of 2
cents for postage.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-06

ing tigress is more terrible than the
male. At the rustic of a leaf as they
worked they trembled and fell fat or
fed in panic, and when a squirrel
moved in the bushes or an OK switched
his tail they trembled and screamed in
fright.
Many hunts were organized, but
most of them she eluded The car
casses of fat cattle and choice sheep
were filed with poison and left for
her. but she refused them. English
men and Engiishwomen sat night
after night on platforms in trees wait
ing for a shot at her. But her roll Of
victims grew until in November she
encountered a great hunter. This man,
Roger O'Hara, swore to kill her OF die
IN the effort. At great expense he
bought the body Of a native, stood it
upright against little tree deep in the
jungle and climbed a tree to wait for
her appearance.
Just after sunset the famous man
eater leaped into the clearing, tearing
the body almost in two at the first
stroke Of her great paw, and at the
same instant the Englishman fired.
The bullet struck her, she rolled over
and then, with a wild roar of rage,
leaped against the tree in which OLA
IA sat, striving to catch him. The
shock of the impact almost threw him
from the tcee, but he chung to it for
life. Before he could recover and shoot
L i
the depths of the jungle to nurse her
wound. She was not heard of for two
weeks. Then she killed head Shikari
during a hunt, falling upon him and
dragging him away in the sight Of
twenty men and devouring half his
body in short time. That same night
she killed little boy three miles
away.
In January Soondargowry made a
mistake. She killed an Englishman
The victim was Arthur Jonathan, a
young English sportsman, who deter
mined to use human bait for the man
eater. jonathan at first attempted to
purchase from a man dying of CON
sumption his body or his services. The
man refused, preferring to die in his
bed, and jonathan was forced to I.ur-
chase the body of pauper who had
died. This he arranged in spot to
which the tigress had dragged one Of
her victims, placing it in a seated po-
sition in 4 small clearing. He then
erected a light, frail platform in a
thick clun.p of bushes, being deter
mined to get perfect shot as near on
the level a. possible. At o'clock in
the morning, with a bright moon, Do
nathan was crOuching on the platform
when a native in a treetop screamed
wildly. Jonathan, angered, turned
The tigress EaS behind him. almost I'M
der him, creeping forward, her tail
flashing the ground, her eyes on him
and not on the bait. Jonathan had no
time to I'VE his gun. AS he turned
So0ndargoNvry sprang, and the Eng
lishman, desperate, grasped at her w tn
bare hands. Together they crashed
through tie frail platform to the
ground. The natives, dropping from
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-06
Change In the
Limekiln Club
Constitution and Bylaws Altered by
Brother Gardner and Ratified
by Members.

copyright, 1905, by K M. Whitehead
u was known to the first members
who arrived at Paradise hall for
the regular Saturday night meet
ing that something unusual was
afoot, and the news spread as other
members continued to arrive, but moth
ing definite could be learned until the
meeting opened.
The rumor that Brother Gardner was
dying and that Giveadam Jones was
planning to seize the reins Of govern
ment was the last one started, but that
was set at rest by the appearance of
the president in person and seemingly
in the best of health. He appeared to
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-06
The Mathematician,s Love Song.

I loved you 4 the longest time
With passion true and 10-der;
This love which I send you
Doth perme-8 the sender.
With metaphy-6, all in vain,
I tried 2 pluck asunder
My thoughts and you, but the result
Was just to make me 1-der
How Cupid has with 3-fold might,
Though satur-9 besought
To let mems peace alone, the plans
OF cynics brought to O.
Baltimore American.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-06
AS He TURNED, SPONTANEOUSLY spRANG.

the trees, ran in, and the tigress, drop
ping Donathan's body, fed to her
lair.
The death Of Jonathan aroused the
English, even at Calcutta, and plans
for the execution of the most famous
man eater Of modern India were com
p.ated. The hunt was ordered to con
tinue until she is slain. Soondargow-
rvs forty-eight victims sweIed the t.
tai of Indias losses Of life for the year
During 1904, according to the British
government reports, 2,749 human be
ings were Killed by wild animals in In
dia, 1871 OF them by tigers.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-06
Selfish Considerations.

"Don't you enjoy seeing a man called
when he is blufing?" asked the ener-
getic politician.
NO" answered Senator Sorghum.
Il can't say do. Every time bluff
is called people get more suspicious,
and it is that much harder to make the
next one go through" " Washington
Star.