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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-20

There is some uncertainty as to what
Congress will do in other matters, but this
much is sure: Mr.. Smoot will be vigorously
and frequently denounced.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-20

The efforts on behalf of Patrick should
command respectful interest in that they
do not make any illusions to an unwritten
Iaxy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-20
The Futility of Wisdom.

To wisdom each of US pretendS
And in his heart declares
If wisdom paid big dividends
We'd all be millionaires.
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Poultney.
From the Terre Haute Star.

The way Poultney Bigelow has bean
sloshing around in the papers within the
last year or so gave the public the I'M
preston that he was too young to leave
his mother but here comes the announce
ment of his daughters marriage. The
literature of these literary fellows is very
deceiving.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-20

The discovery that w. r. Hearst made
surprising gains in the rural vote may yet
persuade him to tuck his trousers into his
boots and try again on new lines.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-20
Danger.
From the Milwaukee Wisconsin

From the Milwaukee W1sconain.
Now that the hunters are putting away
their guns. the thin ice Of the opening win
ter is providing items for the casualty col
umns Of the daily newspapers. Impatient
skaters should take warning.
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Paterson.
From the PHILADELPHIA Inquirer.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Paterson, N. j., had partly redeemed its
bad reputation when the discovery of a
powder magazine under the opera house
gave it another setback.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-20

1t is remarkable how something so in
definite and intangible as the north pole
could make so many men famous
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-20

1t ought to be safe to venture another
prediction that there will be no more hot
waves for some months to come.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-20

A large portion of the Presidents later
public utterances has been devoted to I'M
pressing the fact that he has not changed
his mind
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-20
Bachelors Preferred.
From the Newark News.

From the Newark News.
There Is reason to fear that bachelors
are going to have the call on important
diplomatic positions hereafter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-20

The word reciprocity now reappears in
the discussion of public affairs. 1t claims
the welcome of good old friend.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-20
Progress in Missouri.

From the Kansas City Star.
Six months ago Missouri had only nine
counties without saloons. Now there are
.thirty-nine that are arid.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-20

CIn order to avoid delays on account Of
personal absence. letters to THE sTAR
should not be addressed to any individual
connected with the once. but simply TO
THE STAR, or to the Editorial or Bust
ness Departments, according to tenor or
purpose
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-20

The courts have decided that Count
Castellanes next wife will have to take
his debts along with him.
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Not Dee-lighted.

From the Boston Transcript.
The new spelling. Dee-feated.
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For the Boy.

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For the Housewife.

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Some are duplex, others are plain on
one side-filled with pure
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or light coloring. si.75 eOo0. VO
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1906-06-22

Congress finally has decided on TAX
ing action looking to adequate protec-
ton for the sequoias, or big trees of
California. A joint resolution was
passed by the senate this week taking
over the Mariposa grove by the fed
eral government and including it in
the Yosemite National Park. For forty
years the state of California has had
control of this grove. which includes
many of the finest specimens of this
tree in existence. A conflict Of author
ity, however, recently arose between
the state and national officials and as
a result several of the trees were de-
stroyed. The California legislature
thereupon offered to turn over the
grove to the federal government, and
the proffer was accepted. United
States rangers and trops hereafter will
see that no damage is done to the
giants.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1906-06-22
MISS ALTA PEARSON GIVES
PARTY FOR MISS WILCOX

On Tuesday evening at the home OF
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John w
Pearson, on Fort King avenue, Miss
Alta Pearson entertained compliment.
ltary to Miss Mamie Wilcox, of Gaines
vile, who is the guest of the Pearson
family. Miss Pearson entertained her
guests with the poular game of forty
two" there being ten tables, and the
game was played progressively.
Assisting the hostess was Mrs. Pear
son, Miss Meta Jewett, Miss Louise
Gamsby and Mrs. C. V. Miller.
The young ladies' prize was tied for
by several, and on the cut was won
by Miss Alice Bullock. 1t was a pref
ty little chatelalne mirror, and Miss
Bullock presented this pretty souvenir
to the honor guest The young mems
prize was pretty pen sketch, the
work of the hostess, and was won by
Mr.. Howard Walters. The score cards,
dainty pen sketches, were also the
work of Miss Pearson.
AltST the gaines TSlI0Snm0uIS were
served and during the evening Miss
Scott and Miss Bullock sang, Miss
Easterling, of Montezuma Ga, played
several selections and Misses Mervin
Ray and Eileen Broken, of Palatka,
recited several delightful pieces.
Miss Parsons guests were the fol-
lowing: Misses Mamie Wilcox, Eloise
Miller, Grace Hatchell, Louise Scott,
Alice Bullock, Annie Mathews and her
guests, Eileen Brocken and Mervin
Ray, Maragret Walters, Loca Mae
Easterling, Louise Harris, Anna Mix
son, Annie Atkinson, Edna Dozier,
Fannie Rogers, Beatrice Sinclair, Flor
rie Condor, Leafy Sylvester and Victo-
ria Rayser, Messrs. Charles Flippen,
howard and Harry Walters, Harry
Palmer, Alfred Beck Robert Mathews,
T. H. Harris, w. ID. Taylor, Emmett
Robinson, John Pelot, Harvey Clark,
James Taylor, Ralph Robinson, Sam
league, DR.. Dozier Leitner, MIR. Chas.
Stillwell, of Silver Springs, and Mr..
Cooper, of Tampa.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1906-06-22
THE EPwoRTH LEAGUE CONFER
ENcE.
Morning Session Wednesday - The
Presidents Annual Adress-After-
Noon and Night Sessions.

The conference assembled at $3.50
O'Clock Wednesday morning. Meeting
called to order by President Pasco.
A half hour religions service full OF
feryor md interest. was led 10y Rev
]. M. Glazier, Of Ne~ Smyrna.
The roll call was then called, and
an organization effected. At the morn
ing session ninety-one delegates re-
ported
Rev. Frederick Pasco D. d., OF Live
Oak. the state president of the Ep-
worth League, then delivered his an
nal address, which was as follows
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1906-06-22

All the Epworth Leaguers are in
love with Ocala.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1906-06-22

The reports of the officers were
then heard and they proved to be most
interesting.
During the recreation at the morn
ing session two little Cuban boys, wac
are in attendance at the conference
sang several hymns in s, anish. ana
they we're very much eujoyea.
The conference adjourned at l.
O'Clock until the afternoon session.
The sea coast echo., 1906-06-16
BUSINESS METHODS IN FARMING
Successful Kansas Farmer Who Has
Kept Trace of Receipts and Ex-
. reuditrres for TWenty Years.


the Kansas City Journal of the sue
cess of A. L. Hollinger, a well-to-do
Kansas farmer who opened set OF
books when he began farming twenty
years ago and who has kept his ac-
counts as accurately as bank does
it's. The other day he struck trial
balance and found himself $4,000 to
the good. He has now retired from
the farm and will make q tour of
America.
The compilation of his long record
beginning with 1886 shows the total
figures given as follows: He has
raised 5,265 acres of wheat, yearly
average of over 263 acres, and on
that area has raised 9S,791 bushels, or
an average per acre for twenty years
of 1915 bushels. During all the two
decades he never hadan entire failure of
wheat, although an average of ~
bushels an acre in 1895 came very near
to it.
His corn record is equally interest
ing. He has raised 2,S46 acres of
corn, yearly average of 142 acres.
The total number of bushels was 72,-
672, or an average per acre for twenty
years of 251a bushels. The corn
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and other necessities is not 90
high as i'm the colder parts Of
the country, as much of it is
usually produced near at hand. All
of these things combine to make the
regions of Southern California most
attractive to poultry growers, who may
be seeking a softer climate to lessen
the aggrayation which the rigors of
winter heap upon some member of
the family. Many have gone there
seeking place merely to benefit their
health, and have been much improved
by so doing; but they have also been
able TO make living for themselves
and their families through the COM
hination above described.
ALL CANNOT SUCCEED.
All do not succeed. This can not be
in any following of life. Those who
do succeed usually have more or less
experience I'm the business before they
embark upon 1t. The failures come
to the inexperienced, and those who
are unable to contend with the dill
culties always confronting one In the
upbullding of a new home in any 10
cality. .
cisco market as range" eggs, the Nc "
York market designateC as ''fresh-laid"
eggs. Ranch eggs of California are
the fresh-laid eggs that are brought
direct to the market and sold as such.
During November and December last
this quality of eggs sold in the mar
kets of San Francisco as high as fifty
one cents a dozen, and as low as thirty
cents, Influenced, no doubt, by the SIP
ply and demand, governing this pro-
duct in every locality.
Eggs sold in Chicago during the
year of 1905 as low as fifteen cents.
In San Francisco the lowest price
quoted for the year was fourteen
cents. When the lesser expense Of
caring for them is Considered, the ad-
vantages or profit from poultry grow
ing should be fully equal to, if not bet
ter than would be the same pursuit in
Illinois.
The sea coast echo., 1906-06-16

averaged for the twenty years 251a
bushels per acre. In al these figures
the number OF acres sown Is given and
the number OF bushels harvested
During the twenty years" said Mr..
HolIinger, 81 have aimed to carry
enough cattle to use up the rough
ness and the corn raised on the farm,
usually from 100 to 400 head. OF late
years I have paid more attention to
cattle and alfalfa, and have found
that it was a far more reliable COM
bination than purely grain farming in
which I was chiefly engaged in the
earlier time Of my experience. There
is no question but that any intelligent
farmer can make competency, and
support his family in abundant COM
fort in central Kansas. / have done
no more than any OF my neighbors did
or might have done. Each year the
same income approximately can be Sc
cured if the work is carefully planned
and such crops are raisedas areadapted
to Kansas soil and Kansas climate"
AS an example of Mr.. Hollinger's
stock raising it may be mentioned that
he came to Kansas City recently with
$500 worth Of stock which he sold
off his farm. He has lived on the
same place for thirty-three years and
is not leaving Kansas because he is
entirely satisfied with his wealth but
because he wants to give his family
a broader education and to secure
recreation for himself. 81 think l
have enough to keep me from want"
he said, "and / am entitled to get some
thing more out Of life than / have
heretofore DONE"
The sea coast echo., 1906-06-16
GREAT BEAR COUNTRY.
Representative Bede of Minnesota
Tells the President About Big
Game Hunting in Duluth.

How it happened that the war cor
respondents at Washington found out
about J. Adam Bede's conference on
bears with President Roosevelt does
not appear. However, a full report OF
the Minnesota Congressman's tales
has been made, and was made public
in the New York Evening Post. 1t
makes an alluring document. Mr.. Bede,
who is the acknowledged wit OF the
House, sought the President with the
friendliest intention. 'You like to
shoot BEARS" said "Jadam," diplo-
matically. Mr.. Roosevelt admitted it.
But you don't have to go into the
wild West for your sport" went on the
Minnesota statesman. "Think Of this
fact: thirteen bears were shot in the
streets of Duluth last year-in Du-
luth, the pride of the Northwest, that
beautiful city on the great unsalted
sea-" The statement had perceptible
effect on the President. and Mr.. Bede
was encouraged to go on. ''It's the
only place in the whole world, Mr..
President where you can go bear
hunting by trolley car, under the cleo
trio light, and on asphalt pavements.
We have all the conveniences so dear
to the heart Of the true sportsman,
and without leaving your hunting
ground you can walk across the street
to the mail box and drop in postal
card to your friends, telling them all
about the game you have bagged.'
With the Congressman was a Duluth
constituent, lady with first-hand
knowledge of bear hunting in that
city. She added her corroborative
statement: ooh, yes, Mr.. President, q
short time ago friend of mine heard
a noise outside his window, and on
looking out saw that it was bear try
ing to climb a telegraph pole. He shot
that fellow without leaving his bed
room" Then, to the joy of the Pres Il
dent, Mr.. Bede took up the tale: why,
bears are common things with US up
in Minnesota, Mr.. President. Last yea
five bears held up one Of our trolley
cars. They were two old ones and
three cubs. This occurred right In the
streets of Duluth. The big fellow got
in front of the car and put his paws
on the dashboard, driving the motor
man off, while mamma and the Gu bS
went around after the conductor. After
they had had enough of this sport tn ey
raised the siege and trotted off toward
the outskirts of the city. oh, no, we
don't let the bears trouble us much.
When they get too bothersome we turn
them over to the police, who drive
them out of town; but it's a great bear
country up there, and I'm sure you
would like to see bit Of it." Now, If
it Is announced that President Roose-
velt means to take vacation up in
the Minnesota woods, the correspond
ents may go straight to Duluth, where,
as Mr.. Bede is a true prophet, the
great bear slayer may be found sitting
in the door of an up-to-date hotel, a
rifle across his knees, waiting for the
promised sport.
The sea coast echo., 1906-06-16

the biologists were loaded for rabbit,
so to speak, and they furnished the
forest people with a harmless wash
to soak their pine nuts in before plant
ing, and with a cheap dip for the
nursery stock which a self-respecting
rabbit will no more nibble than will
an ordinary human being smell auto
mobile odor for a perfume.
In this the biologists confessedly
took a leaf out Of the book of the
Piute and other desert-dwelling In
dians. The Piutes have been caching
food supplies Of pine and pinion nuts
in the desert for hundreds of years
and they found that the rabbits, the
ground squirrels and prairie dogs
would clean out their cache. But
they found by experience that there
was a little desert weed that the
ground animals disliked excessively
and that anything dipped in tea
stepped from the bark Of the weed was
rabbit-proof for long time thereafter.
So the rabbits were checkmated on
that play and the forest officers have
no more trouble from that quarter.
PLAGUE OF THE WOLVES.
But it is the very presence of the
forest reserves that has bred the
present plague Of timber wolves in
the West. No hunting is allowed III
the reserves and they form nurseries
for game of all sorts. But it seems
that they breed wolves quite as fast
as they breed anything else, of which
fact the cattle raisers have been made
painfully aware.
In the days of the buffalo on the
plains, thousands of wolves lived on
the herds. When the buffalo were
killed off the wolves disappeared also,
till there was not one where there used
to be a thousand. Then the cattle
men began to stock the ranges, ana
the wolves found conditions much the
same as in the buffalo days. They
promptly multiplied and increased till
they are now doing an immense
amount of damage, aided largely by
their asylum in the forest reserves.
The biological survey has sent out
Mr.. Vernon Bailey, one of its best
men, to study the wolf problem, and
he has been skeeing and snoWshoelng
through Wyoming and Montana Whlle
the snow was on the ground ana the
wolves were particularly easy to track
and study. He has not done any
shooting, but is trying the effects OF
poisons and traps. But the wolves are
about as cunning as foxes, and after
YOU have trapped and poisoned few
in q given district the rest grow wary
The sea coast echo., 1906-06-16
Efforts of the plague Among Destructive var

Did you ever see a rat or mouse or
wild rabbit sick from what might
be termed natural causes? Any
one who can contribute such an animal
to the Department Of Agriculture may
unwittingly confer a benefit of mil
lions of dollars annually on this
country, What the Department wants
is a fatal and contagious malady,
which it is working hard to get now,
but up to date the work is merely
promising, there having been no salts
factory result to record. So if any one
has a hutch Of rabbits swept off by
a sudden and mysterious disease, or
If he notices any swift and sudden
mortality among the rats and mice
In his locality, that may be the very
thing the Department is looking for,
The sea coast echo., 1906-06-16

Seeking as we always do, to
Give our readers the best of every"
thing. we are about tosOffer you in
serial form, the unusual and an"
sorbine st cry. entitled
1.-THE WHITE COMPANY"
by no less great an author than
Sir A. Conan Doyle, who for the
past twenty years has been one or
the most widely read of modern
writers. His latest efforts, Inc
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
have been published and read
throughout Europe and America.
In fact, no writer of late years
has received more popular ar
tention or merited more praise
than this gifted Enelishman. MS
style Is most pleasing and his m
asinative power far above the
usual. ca
We have secured from Sir
Conan Doyle's American pubhsn-
ers the right to this novel. ana II
is with great pleasure that we are
able to announce its early appear
ance in the Magazine Section
BE sure to get the initial chapters,
as it is a stirring tale that viii hold
YOUR interest from first to last.
The sea coast echo., 1906-06-16
Egg Farms of California.
By T. f. McGREw.


Many years ago | assisted a friend
in the loading of car of poultry for
California. This car was shipped from
Central Ohio, and the fowls contained
therein were very well selected from
fiocks Of desirable varieties. The
owner of this car crossed the conti-
nent In care of bis birds and settled in
Central California. Reports from
there few years later told a direful
story of the impossibility of success
in poultry in California.
1t is unnecessary to relate the many
troubles experienced, except to say
that the amateur in poultry at that
time imagined that the birds would
live and prosper in the California eli
mate without proper shelter within
houses during the cold, damp weather.
A close study of these conditions
has entirely eliminated all these mis-
takes, and to-day there is no place
in the United States where there is an
enthusiasm equal to that found
throughout California with reference
to this industry.
The construction of proper houses,
the selecting of proper breeds and the
proper caring for them has built up an
enormous egg business through that
section of the country.
In the neighborhOOd of Petaluma,
more Leghorn fowls are probably kept
for producing the white-shelled eggs
for the California city markets than
can be found within the same number
of miles in any other place in the
world. One enthusiastic visitor to that
locality has made the statement that
every acre in the fifty thousand acres
visited contained a hundred Leghorns.
The climate of Southern California,
the beauties of the scenery, the pleas
ure Of fruit cultivation and the profit
able growing Of poultry have attracted
many hundreds to that section to en-
bark in these pursuits under pleasant
conditions.
A Mr.. Brownlow who purchased a
few acres of ground in that locality
ten years ago has built up for himself,
with the assistance of his wife and
children, most profitable combination
of poultry, fruit, bees and squads, all
of which thrive continually under the
softer climates Of that locality, ena-
bling these people to produce broilers
every month with a minimum amount
of care and attention, the fruit and
bees being a remarkable source of
profit during the greater part OF the
The sea coast echo., 1906-06-16

feeding the fowls; and the facility
with zero weather during the winter
months. Protection from rain, damp
and vermin is the most necessary ad-
iunct to properly constructed poultry
house when the poultry can not run
at large and range over the land.
There is no month in the year in which
they can not find more or less animal
and vegetable life for food upon the
range. This II months of food supply
reduces the expense very materially in
The sea coast echo., 1906-06-16
TO BREED UP A DISEASE.
GUY elliott MITCHELL

be bought by the pound and spread
on bread. The contagious quality
has not developed yet in any of the
foreign cultures tried.
THE RABBIT PEST.
The biological survey has been able
to do a good deal in a practical way
with the rabbit pest. Some time ago
the forest service set up howl of In
dignation. 1t had planted some hum
dred thousand young trees, nursery
stock, In one of the California forest
reserves, and the rabbits ate them
up in about a week. Then it seeded
several hundred acres with white pine
to restore the land after a fire, and
the rabbits cheerfully set to work, dug
up all the seeds and ate them. But
The sea coast echo., 1906-06-16
AN OUT FLOCK YOUNG LEeHoRNs

and the poisons and traps are rele-
gated to seat %. The wolves get so
crafty that they will not swallow
piece of meat without mouthing it,
and If they get the bitter taste of
strychnine or arsenic they drop it and
look for something else to eat
Whether or not the survey win be able
to kill them off with some contagious
disease is question, but they are
rapidly becoming as great pest and
far more dangerous than the smaller
ssvarmints."