davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-01-04
How East a BADGER Works.

During the daytime the badger
sleeps deep in his burrow, far out on
our western plains and prairies. and
at twilight he starts forth on nights
foraging.
He is a dreaded enemy of the
prairie dog and the ground squirrel,
and when he begins to eXcavate for
one, nothing but solid rock or death
can stop him. With the long, blunt
claws of his forefeet he loosens up
the dirt. Dig! Dig! Dig! He works
as though his life depended on it, now
scratching out the sides of the hole,
then turning on his back to work
overhead.
AT first he throws the dirt out be-
tween his hind legs, but soon he is
too far down for that, so he banks
it up back of him, then turns about
and using his chest and forward parts
as a pusher, shoves it out before him
He works with such rapidity that ii
would be somewhat difficult for q
man to overtake him with a spade
st. Nicholas.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-01-04
Lost Her BabY.

The sheep is usually set down for
model of stupidity; but gentle
man who has just returned from a
three years trip in the West tells the
following story Il was on horse
back great part of the time and
often visited large sheep ranches. One
day, while riding along, a mother
sheep trotted up to my horse bleat-
ing pitifully. AT last made out that
there was something wrong off toward
the left. followed the sheep in that
direction and soon found the cause
of her distress. Her lamb had fallen
into a shallow pit and could not get
out. l lifted the little thing up, and
the gratitude in the mother sleeps
eye will always be a source of conso-
lation to me.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-01-04

The thought of a general purpose
horse is one very firmly fixed in the
mind of the average farmer that has
not settled down as a specialist. We
often hear the specialist say there Is
no such thing and that the general
purpose idea is humbug. We are
ready to admit that people often hold
to this idea when a special purpose
idea would bring them greater meas
ure of success.
The general-purpose farm horse is
one that can be utilized in ordinary
farm work of all kinds and can also
do the limited amount of road work
needed in connection with the work.
ing of the medium sized or small farm.
A horse called a chunk" in market,
standing fifteen to sixteen hands high,
weighing from LOO to 1,400 pounds,
compactly built, with good feet and
legs, a tractable, lively disposition, a
good, clean, rapid way OF going at
walk or trot, is, in brief, the kind of q
horse I would call general-purpose
horse. This kind of horse has place
on the farm of the Northwest, and we
may say Is the most valuable class. SO
far as farm work is concerned AS
described above you will note that
he partakes of the qualities OF both
the draft and coach or heavy roadster
types, in both his conformation and
disposition George McKerrow, In
Bulletin 1877 Wisconsin Station.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-01-04

Away to the far Northwest, sitting
alone in her tepee, old Ma-wa-nee
lshivered.
The wind came hurrying along,
'clattering the reach-poles overhead,
,on which were stretched half-tanned
coats from wild animals. Playfully
the flap at the opening was raised
and lowered, as If by unseen hands.
81 am old, and my blood runs slow
W said Mawa-nee. 81 wonder how
many winters more"
Again the wind shrieked and the
flap was raised, this time not by the
breeze for in crept a score of little
IhdiaN boys and girls who had come
to hear old Ma-wa-nee tell stories.
Tell us the story of the bears and
the Dark Moon," said one, and all the
rest clapped their wee red hands in
approval. To them the story was ever
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-01-04
HORTICULTURE
NSk 6(N aSYa
&441ii - eJeV
TSGf4. % IL
NSssSAaSsxxssS
Brown Rot Of Plums.

Last summer the writer visited the
farm of a prominent fruit grower OF
Northern Illinois. He had consider
able number Of plum trees, but the
fruit was worthless, as 1t had been
taken by the brown rot. The trees
had bloomed full and the prospects for
large crop of fine plums had been
excellent. But before the time came
to gather the plums the dreaded brown
rot appeared and soon spread among
all the trees. The plums soon began
to drop. and the ground was covered
In a few weeks with hundreds of the
decaying plums. Thousands of the
plums still on the trees were affected
on one side and 1t was seen that the
crop was ruined.
This disease is known scientifically
as Monilia fructigena The spores at
tack not only the fruit, but also the
blossoms, leaves and twigs. The proc
ess of its development is about as fol.
lows: A spore falls on wet plum
and sticks there. 1t sends filament
into the skin of the plum. This fila
ment develops into thfead-like
growth that permeates the pulp of the
plum everywhere. 1t is the food-gath
ering power of this mycelium or mass
of threads that causes the breaking
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-01-04
Why2-HoW?-When2
Hurryl Hurry!

Hurry is a word we Americans use
every day-too often, in fact. II we
hurry too much over things we do,
especially when we are young, they
are apt to be pretty badly done.
Do any Of you know where this word
came from? Why, just from the
noises made by drivers Of mules and
horses to make them go faster. The
Germans say huri, while in France and
Germany arri or harri is the form en-
ployed. AS for the Spanish muleteer,
he shouts all day long to his donkeys,
"Arri! arri!" 1t is said, too, our an
cestors, the old Anglo-Saxons, used to
speed their horses by crying "Harrer!"
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-01-04
IVZY NNZNI5I9az2zSZZN&&ZRO

the edge of the glass. Do the same
on the bottom and on the sides, only
when doing the sides, do not paste
all across, so that when you come to
the end of it, instead of gluing, cut 1t
bias so that it will form an angle.
When you use "A mat, paste the picture
on it first and cut the glass as large
as the mat and paste the tape on
just the same.
Great care must be taken in using
the different tapes to have the colors
blend well with the picture. If you
wish to frame the picture of an In
dams head in red and it did not
match the red in the picture, 1t would
be better to use dark green or
black.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-01-04
Forest Reserves,

More and more the national gov
eminent is taking an interest In
the matter of reserving tracts OF
land for forest growths. In most
cases the tracts reserved are not
valuable for agriculture of any kind.
1t is not perhaps known to mosb
Americans that the United States has
a forest reserve in Porto Rico. ; 10
in the eastern part of the island and
embraces about $4,000 acres, or about
100 square miles. The region is very
mountainous and at the present time
is unsurveyed. A great variety Of
woods are, however, found on the res
serve.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-01-04
(Monilia Fruotigena)

(Monila FruOtigena)
down of the cells that compose the
pulpy mass and reduces it to Shiny
substance that we designate as rot.
The skin indicates what is going on
inside by turning brown in one or two
spots. These spots enlarge in all d.
rections and this indicates the spread
Of the rot At this stage the parts of
the mycelium that develop at the sur
face of the plum begin to bring forth
fruit In the form of ash-colored spores,
which give an ashy hue to the decay
ing plum. These are the spores that
continue to spread the disease.
Many of the rotten plums continue
to hang on the tree till winter and
are known as mummied plums. They
have shrunken and dried till they are
hard and unsightly, but to them cling
enough spores to spread the disease
the coming year. In some cases, even
the mycelium or thread-like plant in
side the plum retains its life through
the winter and under favorable con-
ditions in the spring begins to grow
and will produce new crop of spores.
lhese spores are scattered everywhere
and even fall and terminate on the
blossoms and tender leaves. We show
cluster Of these mummied plums.
They should be picked off now and
burned. Not one should be left on the
trees or on the ground. Next spring,
If any rot appears on plums, the fruit
so affected should be picked off and
burned at once.
In addition, the trees should be
sprayed with diluted Bordeaux mix
| ture. Spray first before the blossoms
open and again as soon as the fruit
is well formed. Spray twice later, at
intervals of two weeks. Where the
disease has been in an orchard for
several years, more than one season
may be required in which to eradi.
cate it.-Farmers' Review.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-01-04

just as they had asked the same ques-
ton many times before.
Yes, they went" replied old Ma
vance. "lf they hadn't my story
would end here" Then she resumed:
"The moon came out bright before
they had gone very far, and as the
little bears passed along they took
careful notice of the surroundings, so
they could find their way home; just
as red men do, and at last they came
to the forks of the stream they had
been following. They were not the
first there, however, by any means,
for many, many animals were there
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-01-04
watehlno for Fairies.

Some nights / try to keep awake
n To see how fairies really look.
you have to watch so sharp and still
"A So says my mammals fairy bookD
I squint my eyes a tiny ways
And then see them, one by one,
Come trooping in from fairyland
With funny little hop ana run.
They nod and whisper to themselves
They sCamper off across the floor
As II they'd never, never seen
IA little boy like me before!
But II YOU ask me how they look
Somehow ] can not seem to tell.
For pretty soon they've slipped away,
81 And then-I hear the breakfast beil'
h -Lippincott's.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-01-04

have the edge uneven. Then cut a
piece of cardboard the same size as
the glass.
Now when you have these cut you
are ready to put the tape on, stand
the three up evenly, cut your tape the
size of the top of the glass, fold it in
half, wet it, and paste it so that the
Gold in the tape will come snugly in
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-01-04
Passenartout Frames.

Passepartout tape comes in small
rolls, twelve yards long and nearly
an inch wide in all the different col
ors. 1t is glued on one. side all ready
for use. When you have selected
YOUR picture (Which may be put in
q mat or not as desired) cut the glass
the same size but be careful not to
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-01-04

AS fine quality of silage can be
made from sorghum as from any
other crop, and there seems to be lit
tie difference between the feeding
values of sorghum and corn silage for
beef production.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-01-04

Take a trip now and then out to the
orchard and see that the snow is pack
ed down we'll about the tree trunks.
Mice often make terrible work bur
rowing under the snow and girdling
the trees.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-01-04

In the fall and winter prepare for
spring. The spraying apparatus must
be ordered in the winter il 1t is to be
ready for use in the spring.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-01-04

The winter is good time to hunt
up the bag worms on the trees.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-01-04

In fall and winter plan the work for
spring and summer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-06-29
UNDER EAGLES WING.
joint Resolution for Placing There tho
Isle of Pines.

Washington. June ga joint reso-
luton providing a temporary govern
ment for the Isle of Pines was today
introduced in the senate by Senator
Dick. The presentation of the bill
created immediate interest and at the
request of Senator Morgan it was read
and referred to the committee on Pa
cific Islands and Porto Rico. It ap
plies the canal zone government to the
island and in addition declares a policy
with reference to it. It Is as follows:
That until it shall be otherwise
provided by the act of congress or by
treaty with Cuba, the government Of
the Isle of Pines rightfully belongs to
the United States of America.
THAT until congress shall other
wise provide by law all the military,
civil and judicial powers as well as the
power to make all rules and regula-
tions necessary for the government of
the Isle of Pines shall be vested in
such person or persons and shall be ex-
ercised in such manner as the presi-
dent shall direct for the government of
the said Isle of Pines and maintaining
and protecting the inhabitants thereof
in the free enjoyment of their liberty,
property and religion"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-06-29
OFF THE MARKET.
standard Oh Company Withdraws
High Grade Gasoline.

Cleveland. June 29.@The Standard
Oil company has sent out circulars
notifying all it's customers that high
grade gasoline, testing from IA to rs
degrees, has been Withdrawn from the
market. This action is taken as a re-
suit of the enormous demand for the
product and the inability OF the Stand
ard company to supply the same. The
high grade gasoline made is used ex-
naphtha launches, etc. It is stated that
gas engines generally can be altered
so as to permit the use OF the common
or stove gasoline as fuel.
The Standard company also has re-
duced the selling price Of Eocene re-
fined oil from IL u to liz cents per
gallon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-06-29
MRS. DEvLIN'S CLAIM.
Referee IoOmis Is Listening to AppIi-
cation for $62O, 200.

The hearing of the claim for $500, 900
which Mrs. c. J. Devlin makes against
the Devlin estate will be had before
n. H. LOomis, referee, this afternoon.
It is not probable that he will come to
any decision today, taking the matter
under advisement and announcing his
decision later. Harkless, Crisler &
Histed of Kansas City, are appearing
for Mrs Devlin, while Mulvane & Gault
and J. S. Dean represent the interests
allied against her. The amount of the
claim IS the life insurance in which she
was named beneficiary and which she
turned over to the bank as collateral
security. The insurance was paid over
to the bank and Mrs. Devlin now brings
in a claim against the etnire Devlin
estate for the amount. She basis 1t on
a species of surety claim.
Additional property. interests and
facts concerning the Devlin estate are
coming to light the deeper the investi-
cation into the estate is carried. The
appraisers of the property believe that
they have discovered 80 acres of farm
land in Illinois of which no record ex-
lists. Nothing was known of this land
until county records were gone over.
This goes to enrich the First National
since Devlin made a blanket deed of
all his Illinois property to the bank.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-06-29
WHlzZED AWAY.
Ten -Year-Old Girl Abducted in an
Automobile.

Dover, Del, June 29.-Annie Haas
has been abducted here by two men in
an automobile They seized the girl,
gagged her with a handkerchief and
whizzed away with her at the rate of
so miles an hour.
Haas acknowledged later that Annie
who is 10 years old, is an adopted
daughter, but insisted he and his wife
had her in their care for seven and
one-half years and love her as their
own. Haas is certain that the kid
napers are agents Of Annie's natural
mother.
A Ward In Chancery.
New York. June 29.-Annie Haas is
temporarily the ward of the court Of
chancery of Jersey City. The child
was the daughter of Annie Hessl leman,
formerly a servant for E. H. Harri-
man. Mrs. Hessleman gave the infant
in charge of a friend, Mrs. Hoffman Of
Brooklyn For two years and half
she paid the infants board and then,
unable longer to stand the financial
burdens. advertised her little one for
adoption Mrs. Haas answered the
advertiseme and Mrs Hoffman per-
mitted her to take the child. For
seven years Annie Hessleman kept up
the search for her daughter. Last
February she located her daughter in
the Haas family. then living IN Jersey
City Mr.. and Mrs. Haas refused to
give up the child. The mother brought
suit for her chiId's custody in the
Jersey court Of chancery and won it.
Soon afterward the Haas family moved
to Delaware.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-06-29
NO SPECIAL TRAIN.
Only Small Number of Topeka Demo-
Gratis at Fort Scott.

Although the Democrats of the state
have arranged for a big rally at Fort
Scott tomorrow, which will be in reali-
ty the opening gun of the state cam
paigns and which W. H. Ryan, chair
man of the Democratic state central
committee, has stated will be the larg-
est gathering of Democrats that has
been seen in Kansas in years, it is
probable that the gathering will not be
graced by the presence of many of the
Democrats of Topeka and its vicinity.
When the plans for this rally were
promulgated first Mr.. Ryan announced
that so much enthusiasm was evidenced
over it in Topeka that a special train,
carrying some hundreds of Democrats,
would leave here for Fort Scott over the
Missouri Pacific tomorrow morning and
return at night after the poW-WoW was
over. He talked of this excursion as a
fact within the last week and said that
easily six hundred good Democrats
would make the trip but his calculations
seem to have miscarried and no special
train will be run for enough Democrats
could not be rounded up to make it
worth while. As near as can be learned
exceedingly few Democrats from here
will make the trip to Fort Scott. Those
who are going, and they can be num-
bered on the fingers of both hands, win
leave tonight for Fort Scott via Kansas
City. All the railroads in the state have
put in a special rate of one fare plus
fifty cents FOL a return trip to Fort
Scott from all points in Kansas.
This rally at Fort Scott will open in
the morning with the meeting of the
Bourbon county Democratic convention
to which there will be more than six
hundred delegates. There will also be
meeting in the morning of the execu-
tive committee of the state central COM
mittee. This viii be the first meeting
that the new executive committee has
held since the state convention A
meeting of the state central committee
viii be held during the day.
A Democratic dollar banquet has
been arranged for the evening 1t will
be held in the convention hall and it
has been planned to set plates for fifteen
hundred All of the candidates on the
state ticket are expected at the rally
and most of them Will make speeches
at the banquet the toast list for which
as arranged is as follows:
Kansas" Senator w A. Harris, the
gubernatoria1 candidate.
Suppress the Trusts" Hugh P. Far
reilly
Estate Aid to Railroad Steals David
Overnyer.
THE Judiciary David N. Dale.
Equal and Exact Justice" A. NJ.
Jackson
Faith in the Courts" W. S. Glass.
Regulation of Railroad Rates, .
Judge S. James Humphrey
1.-THE Railroad Pass in Politics, y
Harry Mcmillan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-06-29
ALL FOR BENSON.
Kansas Senator's Committee Is
Given a Messenger.
CuIberson Calls for Light on the
Whole Business.
WHERE THEY PARTED.
TiIIman Tells How "Big Stick
and .sPitchfOrk' Separated.
Engages in a Quarrel With
Bailey About Lawyers.

Washington, June 29.-When the sem
ate met today Senator Kean from the
committee on contingent expenses re-
ported favorably a. resolution authoriz-
ing the committee on documents to en-
ploy a messenger at 81 440 per annum.
How old is the committee?" asked
Senator Culberson.
1T was created for the benefit of the
senator from Kansas, (Ndr. Benson),'' re-
piled Mr.. Kean.
What is the necessity for it?" asked
the Texas senator.
THE purpose was to place the Kan
sas senator on a level with other ma
jority senators, all of whom have mes
sengers.' replied Mr.. Kean.
The resolution was adopted.
Senator Tillman called up the con-
ference report on the railroad rate bill
and renewed his attack upon the pipe
line amendment as being In the inter-
est Of the Standard Oil company.
About the time the Allison amend
ments were incubating'' he said there
was a great furore about the Garfield
report on the Standard Oil company
and we were told that the exposures
of its crimes would help the vote on
the rate bill and under the cover of
this dust, the president retired from
his advanced position on railroad leg
iElation and accepted the Allison pro-
vision. There the big stick and the
pitchfork which had been in alliance,
found themselves separated and the
pitchfork while doing duty on the f1r-
ing line, looked around only to see the
tail Of its associate hustling toward
the rear-sliding towards the Allison
base, to use baseball phrase. Tne
big stick was rushing in on all fours
to get between Father Allison's legs
He had no fault to find, he added
except that he considered that the
president had been inconsistent in not
coming to the assistance of the con-
ferees. He considered it a "little re-
markable that just when he might do
something to thwart the policy of this
gigantic monopoly he is as mum as a
mouse, except there is another hurrah
do to the Standard Oil in the way of
suits
He added that notwithstanding the
prosecution has been decided upon,
we are carefully told in advance that
the high officials such as Rockefeller,
Rogers and Archbold are not to be
mo1ested.
In the course of the debate Senator
Bailey and Senator Tillman engaged
in a very sharp controversy over the
latter's denunciation of the lawyers.
The Texas senator indicated an opinion
that this was demagoguery, and Mr..
Tillman, while contending that he re-
spected the attorneys Of standing, said
he had an utter contempt for shysters
and for men who pack political con-
ventions. There was intense feeling
for a few moments, but 1t passed away.
In the House.
Washington. June 29.-The confer
ence report on the bill creating a bu-
reau of naturalization and immigra-
ton was adopted by the house today.
This passes the bill.
The house also adopted the con-
ference report on the Lake Erie canal
bill. This passes the bill.
The public building appropriation
bill was sent to conference.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-06-29
BEvERIDGE GIVES UP.
VIII Let the House Have Its Way
About Meat Inspection.

Washington. June 29.-Senator Bev-
eridge. who introduced the original
meat inspection amendment to the
agricultural bill, has Withdrawn his
objections to the house substitute and
this is taken as an indication that the
senate viii today instruct its conferees
to accept the house provision. The
Indiana senator said he was in favor of
compelling the packers to pay the cost
of inspection and requiring them to
place the date of inspection on cans
of meat. He said that the house sub
stitute retained all other features of
the senate bill and that IN the interest
OF practical legislation to purify meat
products he would not stand in the
way because the government is re-
quested to pay the cost OF inspection.
The senate leaders believe the outcome
must be a concession to the house.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-06-29
DEAD AT THE THROTTLE
Engineer on Pennsylvania Express
Found Lifeless by Fireman.

Philadelphia, Pa, June 29.@The
Colonial express from Boston to Wash
ington on the Pennsylvania railway ar
rived here last night with George Max
well, the engineer, dead at the throttle.
It is customary to slacken the speed at
Frankfort in the northeastern section
of Philadelphia. When this was not
done. Fireman Hackett called to En-
gineer Maxwell. who was at his post.
Receiving no reply Hackett climbed
over to the engineers side of the cab
and found Maxwell dead, his fingers
rigid upon the throttle.