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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-03
Concerning
Wen-knoWn PEOPLE.

the keeper Of the general store to remove
it. There was nothing to do but cover 1t
with tarpaulin and leave 1t out all night
In this there was no risk. though. The
lot.
They're an honest lot here muttered
the storekeeper. as he drew a tarpaulin
over his dried fish, and just then he heard
cautious footsteps. He looked up and there
vas old Eliphalet Hoskins cycling the
mound of fish gloatingly.
1.-THE storekeeper gave a grunt of vexa-
ton. Then he selected couple Of fish and
extended them to the old man.
'Eliphalet,' he said, I've got to leave
this pile Of fish out here over night. Now,
II give you these two fine fellows, will
you promise not to steal none Of the
others?
''Eliphalet looked at the two fish in the
storekeeper's hand. Then he looked at the
mountain of them underneath the tarpaulin.
That's fair offer. Mr.. Smith, he said
slowly, but-well-I dunno. I think I can
do better"
The Puzzle-A PLAY.
Henry Arthur Jones, the English play
wright, at dinner in New York praised
directness in play writing
There Is nothing like going straight to
the point" he said you have heard, per-
haps. of that interesting and direct play
about the puzzle? No? Then I'll repeat
1t to YOU"
And with a laugh Mr.. Jones began:
ACT I.
Mr.. Pitcoe-"Heres a toy I've bought
Willie to amuse him on the long winter
evenings. It's one Of those puzzle things.
All you have to do Is to put the red ball
In the star"
ACT II
Willie-'Let me see that puzzle. papa,
won't your"
Mr.. Pitcoe-"Go to bed. You ought to
have been In bed two hours ago."
ACT III.
Mrs. Pitcoe-"Will. are you going to sit
up all night?
Mr.. Pitcoe-.I'n be there In minute.
It's almost In now"
ACT w. .
Mrs. Pitcoe-"Wil Pitcoe. you've been
up all night"
Mr.. Pitcoe-''That's my business"
WilIie-"Where's my puzzle?'
Mr. Pitcoe-eIn the fire."
When It's Wicked.
Surg Cen R. NJ OReilly was talking
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he Is Carefree, he is happier than I am
Let word be sent that shall give him au-
dience tomorrow and I shall then ask this
merry fellow three questions-frst. how
much the moon weighs; second, how much
his king is worth. and, third, what l am
thinking? If he answers one OF these ques-
lions wrong he will be hanged.
Now when Carefree heard OF his ap-
proachiSg royal audience he was In de-
spair But La Guerlche said to him:
1--WE are both in love with Ninette.
Surrender your claim to her and l VIII go
to the king tomorrow In your place.
"Carefree shook his friend warmly by the
hand. ..,,
What is girl alongside of ones hfef
Heaven bless you. La Guerliche.'
Next day La Guerliche appeared before
the king.
We'll, you, said the monarch, fiercely.
how much does the moon weigh"
Just hundredweight, your majesty
was the answer.
"'How do you make that out?
"'Does 1t not consist Of four auartersT
Right said the king. Now tell me
what you put my value at?'
Twenty-nine pieces OF silver, sire
"'What do you mean, scoundrel"
"'Ah, SIRE said La Guerliche piously.
you have forgotten that our Master was
sold for thirty pieces. AS good Christian
must put your worth Just ia little nn iow npd
now tell me what think!
"T will, sire. You think I'm Bailif
Carefree'
Yes
"sWell, I'm not. I'm La Guerliche.'
"T appoint You secretary of state on
the spot cried the king, enthusiastically"
A Generous Boy.
A missionary bishop told at dinner in
New York a story about F. Marion Craw-
ford, the famous novelist.
"Mr. Crawford went to school," he said.
Sin Concord and one day he was taken to
call at a Concord clergyman's.
1.-THE clergyman had a missionary-box on
his drawing-room table, and. time hanging
heavy on the boys hands, he amused HIM
self with trying whether silver dollar-it
was all the money he had In the world. and
he had converted 1t into that gigantic coin
for safety-would go into the slit In the
box's top.
sit was close it, but unfortunately it
did go, and the coin slipped out Of the en-
bryo authors fingers. There was a terrible
crash-a crash Of silver falling among cop
pers-and then the boy as the novelists
say. knew no more.
when he came to himself he found the
clergyman and his family in raptures over
his generosity"
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peaches. apricots and cherries do well, and
all fruit Is finely favored and sound. All
common varieties of small fruit produce
abundantly.
The home garden of a quarter-acre will
supply family and furnish produce for
sale. Potatoes yield from 300 to 400 bushels
per acre. and the demand far exceeds the
supply at the present price of pa cents per
pound.
There are splendid opportunities for
stockmen in the valley to raise blooded cat
tie, sheep and hogs Hog raising is des-
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HANT a farm free? Especially
would you like one in a favor
NNS able location with good eli
mate, fertile SOIL good mar
ket and a $1,000, 600 irrigation
plant attached? There are at present about
800 elghty-acre farms of this sort in west
ern Nevada, for which the government
wants bona-f1de settlers. They are home
stead farms and therefore cost nothing
except that as they are irrigated the water
rights will cost the trife of SIG an acre.
But this will be divided into ten annual in
stallments without interest, and can be paid
off from the proceeds of an acre or two of
potatoes
OF course. taking up one of these farms
means work. and plenty of it. And a man
with a family would not want to settle on
the land without little money, say 81 200,
to put up house, cattle shelter and fences
and to buy farm machinery. But after the
first two years of work he ought to be per-
fectly Independent and commence to accu-
mulate money at fair rate. The farms
are In what is known as the Carson Sink
valley. They are sixty miles away from
the Sierra Nevadas, but in that country,
with the altitude and the dry air, the noun
tains look almost though they We're
just across in the next lot. 1t is an out
door climate, the altitude $500 feet, and
the thermometer has never been known to
so over 105 in the summer. In that dry
Climate. however, this is only equal to
about 50 degrees in the east. During the
winter there are few days of snow, but
this does not last and there are few days
when one wants an overcoat. The average
OF clear sunshine is about 800 days a year.
The water that has been brought to water
these farms is from the big Truckee-C Car
son irrigation project, on which So 25O, 900
has already been spent and which will cost
when completed about 100000 Water
has already been turned into the bitches to
supply 2l.OO acres of land and there Is
water enough available already for $4,000
acres, If there were the settlers for it.
The land that has been selected for irri-
CATION Is the most suitable and free from
alkali in the region and it has been
scientifically drained so that there will he
no excuse for alkali ever rising on II If il
- properly handled. The soil is of all sorts
running from light, sandy loan to rich
rfver-bottom clay. and some of it has been
cropped continuously in the same valley
Tor forty years without showing any signs
OF wearing out. AS to what can be raised
on IL. there is chance for ANYTHING that
VIII grow in the north temperature zone
=
One man who settled in the same reeion
two years ago raised 16O bushels of pota-
toes to the acre for his first crop and 2,J
Tor his next crop. the first crop always
being the lighter till the land gets watered
down well. AS potatoes were worth 2h
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-03
When It's Wicked,

Surg. Gen. R. M. O'Reiily was talking
about the abolition Of the army canteen, in
consequence of which. he holds. intemper-
ance has increased among soldiers
1.-THE cantsen," he said, was only harm.
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HARDSHIPS ENDURED BY
CREWS OF LOST WHALERS

- the lookout on the whaler
which once SO familiar
- on the seas-is seldom heard
nowadays, and the ancient
blunt-nosed. square-sterned ships that for
merly floated about the trackless waste in
seacr OF the sperm whale. are now almost
all gone. Some have been lost through ship
wreck, some have foundered, some have
been dismantled by storm, and are roam
ing aimlessly and dangerously about as
derelicts. while others have been taken to
New Bedford, Mass, and either trans
formed into coal hulks and barges or have
been broken up to make fuel for open fire.
places. And these old skeletons of whaling
ships make splendid fuel in the fireplaces
for the timbers soaked for years in whale
oil and copper paint give forth a fame that
shows all the colors of the rainbow
Many members OF the crews that went
out in search of the monsters of the deep
never returned to land. and their emu has
remained a mystery that will never be
solved. Others endured perilous adven-
lures and hardships and after absences of
months and even years have found their
way into some port, bringing narrowing
tales OF exposure, starvation and thirst.
But or all the whaling vessels that have
gone down at sea. only three, so far as is
known, nave been sunk by whales. The
first ship that was victim to its prey was
the Essex. which was cruising in the South
Pacific Having almost a full cargo of
whale oil. the captain was making prepara-
tons to square yards for Cape Horn and
then home TO New Bedford, Mass when
the lookout shouted that familiar cry,
Thar she blows off the port BEAM The
captain and crew sprang to the deck and
spied an enormous whale, which had come
to the surface about 200 fathoms from the
vessel. The monster evidently regarded the
ship a foe. for before the boats could
be gotten over the side the whale came
ploughing through the waveJ with tre-
mendous speed and a moment later had
crashed into the port side of the vessel,
making large hole forward the beam.
The crew had scarcely time to get three
boats over into the water before both the
ship and whale sank to rise no more car
rying three of the crew down 10 death On
taking stock of their provisions the sur
vivors found that they had only one two
gallon cask OF water and one box Of ship
biscuit. This was divided equally among
the three boats, and they headed for the
nearest land the Island of Juan Fernandez
, $50 miles to the south. During the first
night the boats became separated. The
boat commanded by the second mate was
lost and nothing was ever heard afterward
of the fate OF Its occupants. The captains
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One Of Them.

One Of Them.
John Mitchell was talking to a reporter
about the wide interest that the world now
takes in socialism and the labor question.
Socialism and what 1t stands for" he
said, has become a complex science, like
astronomy.
There was a labor meeting in session
behind closed doors the other day and O
friend OF mine tried to get in to it.
what are you the doorkeeper asked
sternly, 'positionist, communist socialist,
Marxist solutionist. Sinclairist or collec-
tionist?
o. faltered my bewlldered friend. why,
lam a machinist.'
Somewhat Tardy.
'That was a bad break" said an auto
mobilist apropos Of an embarrassing error.
'It reminds me of the automobile dinner
w. X. Vanderbilt. jr., gave last year.
at was large dinner of 200 covers or
more. and some Of the invitations were to
motorists that Mr.. Vanderbilt only knew
slightly. A declination that he received ran
like this:
Mr.. T. Willis Pitcoe died last March
or he would. no doubt. have taken great
pleasure in accepting Mr.. Vanderbilts kind
invitation for dinner Thursday"
Not Removable.
winter has many drawbacks said
Henry ]. Woodhouse, the meteorologist,
land not least of these Is the winter fog
that drops down SCOT upon mems faces.
Some day we shall dissipate this fog with
electricity. but that day is distant"
Mr.. Woodhouse smiled.
In a restaurant on foggy, sooty
day. recently. couldn't resist leaning over
and whispering to well-dressed man at the
next table:
:" Excuse me. sir. but there's speck of
SCOT on your nose
1.-THE man smiled agreeably.
No. he said. No, that isn't SCOT. It is
peculiar kind of mole, and you are the
seventh man since breakfast to ask me to
wash 1t or My average for foggy days Is
ten.'"
At the Kings Command.
Prof. Strcbel, general adviser on interna-
tional law to the Siamese government, has
travelled much, and at q recent dinner in
Cambridge he told a story of his travels.
''The speaker" he said referring to a
famous wit. reminds me OF the famous
La Guerliche of Flanders. La Guerliche
was never at loss
Once the King of Flanders was passing
through La Guerliche's country and he adj
mired the fine farm Of Carefree the bailiff
"Carefree the bailin's. sire" was the an
swer.
" 'Carefree. eh?' said the King. Wei II
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"In New Mexico several companies are
preparing to launch great works on streams.
the waters Of which were long ago appro-
priated, and whose supply is not sufficient
for the present needs of old canals.
"It is no province of the government to
warn these people, though It would seem
properly the duty Of the Post Office Depart
ment to exclude their literature from the
mails, when an investigation would show
the fraudulent character of the schemes and
the utter impossibility of their being car
ried out
lone word of warning to all who are look
ing for investments in the west: Do not
buy anything without carefully investigat-
ing. Do not buy water rights until you are
convinced the water is there and the COM
pany financially able to deliver it. If you
are going to make a home in the west do
not buy until you investigate in person on
the ground. The west is full OF opportuni-
ties for homeseekers. and there are plenty
of legitimate irrigation enterprises in which
your investment will be safe"
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Fallon. New. furnishes information concern
ing the Truckee-Carson irrigation project
and no seeker for a home need run the risk.
as in many reclamation schemes, of dscov-
ering that he has been taken in by fakirs
-
THE generous publicity which has been
given to the national work of reclamation"
said an official of the Department of the In
terror, 'is being taken advantage OF by q
number Of shady promoters who at
tempting to revive questionable irrigation
schemes. especially in Arizona and New
Mexico. The arid west has suffered greatly
in the past by reason of the operations OF
this class of promoters. and legitimate pri-
vate enterprise has suffered unnecessary
hardship and delay In the prosecution OF
the laudable work of settlement and COLI
niZation.
las every fake scheme works to the det-
riment of honest companies, the government
as well as the bona fide promoters is in
terested in driving out this brood of swim
dlers who are seeking to fatten their pocket
books at the expense of innocent investors.
Down in Arizona a pseudo-religious cor
poration organized its principals say for
the extension of the true faithD has been
deluding innocent people into buying water
rights in irrigation scheme which has
much chance of ultimate success q
lace curtain in fiery furnace. The com
pany has neither land nor water, and no
hope of getting either. Yet the government
mails full of letters from the victims
asking for information If these people
had been as anxious to inquire before in
vesting they would not now be out OF
pocket. These inquiries indicate that the
company is prosecuting its work largely
through the religious press, a rather singu-
lar medium to use to perpetrate swindie.
die. and the victims seem to be generally
from the east and the south.
"In New Mexico several companies are
prana ring IN launch great works on strea ms
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One man who settled in the same region
two years ago raised 16O bushels of pota-
toes to the acre for his first crop and 2,J
for his next crop, the first crop always
being the lighter till the land gets watered
down well. As potatoes were worth 2h
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EDITORIAL FILINGS.

If the earth must quake. why doesn't 1t turn i'll and rip nice. wide crack across Panama = Richmond Times Dispatch
 The Shoot trial has cost the govern ment $23 .o00. Sometimes it takes more money to get man out of the senate than 1t does to put him in.-Toledo Blade dnd.1
 Some day somebody will invent q model street car. and then people will complain because fl doesn't provide any place for anybody 10 stand up Boston Globe
 There is q crying demand for reform of bridge rules Like all other games, the bowling need Is for some rule by which the loser will not have to lose Washington Post
 Indiana Dunkards recently decided that the telephone was a device of Satan They must have been trying to get somebody when the wire was busy. Chicago Record Herald.
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Senator Robb Dies of Pneumonia

Little Rock. Ark, Feb fo.- Senator Howard Robb. who rep resents the Seventh District, composed of Drew and DeSha counties, died at his home at Ar kansas City this morning Sen ator Robb was taken sick with pneumonia about ten days ago and returned to his home. where his condition grew worse three days ago.
 He was 45 years old and na- tive of Mississippi. He was q lawyer and had considerable prac- tice in Eastern Arkansas. Sev- eral years ago AIr. Robb was sec rctary of tile Arkansas State Railroad Commission. That po- sition and the senatorship were the only political positions lie ever held.
 Senators Montgomery. Good win and Sims left tonight for Arkansas City to represent the Senate at the funeral tomorrow.
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THE HALL OF FAME.

John perugini, for many years iden- titied with light opera as singer, has become Wall street broker
 George Q Starr has succeeded the late James A Bailey as manager of the biz Barnum x Bailey circus He is former Philadelphian.
 President Roosevelt is sitting for q portrait in oil to be made by Irving l. Wiles of New York at the suggestion of the emperor of Germany and others to be placed in the University of Der lin
 The Earl of Harrington was born sixty-tWo years ago and succeeded his father ia the title in lNSi. He iS one ot the peers who have dabbled in trade h lS94 he opened a fruit shop iH Par lament street in London.
 The only negro officer of the army who k West Pointer is Charles Youne It present oil duty as military attaehe 1t Port au Prince, Haiti. Cap tain Young entered the Military acad- emy II 1881 and WAS graduated in 1889
 To Ralph Talbot. Jr., a second lieu tenant of the Twelfth cavalry, belongs the distinction of being the youngest commissioned officer of the United States army. He was born in 1881 and was commissioned five days before his minority expired.
 Richard Burke, the Englshman. has given up hunting and viii sell his es= tablishment and go to San Francisco to help in the reconstruction of his damaged property there. He is part owner of many buildings i'll San Fran cisco and is married to wealthy American. Miss Donaghue.
 Bonnet Burleigh. the English war correspondent, has about recovered from long siege of pneumonia. Mfr. Burleigh s the oldest of war core spondents now on the active list, hay. Ing first smelled gunpowder in the civil war over forty years ago. Since then he has served in half the countries of the world
 NJ Jusserand the French ambassa- dor, since his residence In Washington has largely added to his reputation as an orator. lie has always been known ra ther as a profound scholar and stu dent, but in the speeches he has made in this country he has shown original ity of research and Il high degree Of forensic ability.
The Springdale news., 1907-02-15
AROUND THE HOUSE.

Soap aEd wood ashes are excellent for cleaning zine tubs and pails.
 When laundering lace curtains if q creamy shade is desired add clear strong coffee to the starch.
 Sprinkle the mating with Indian meal and then sweep it thoroughly, sweeping out the meal and the dirt with it.
 Whiting and sweet oil mixed to a paste and rubbed on silver with piece Of flannel will brighten l. Wipe with q soft cloth and polish with chamos skin.
 Widths of mating sewed together with I loose stitch, using carpet thread makes the floor covering look heater and wear better than when staples are used 10 fasten it down.
The Springdale news., 1907-02-15
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

Stolen sweets are often hard to di- gest
 More men are willing to lend an ear than T hand.
 After # is all over l man wonders why he was worried.
 II taxes a born diplomat to observe without being observed.
 \ whipping doesn't hnrt man so much IS the thoughts of being whipped.
 No girl with a new engagement ring can understand why any one should want to wear gloves
 Forgiying without forgetting is good deal like giving q receipt for mon ey without signing your name to it. Chicago News.
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Good Expuse.

Being thoughtful wife she is nat. urally concerned for her husband s health, and when she sees him eating heartily of pie she reminds him
 Now, my dear, you know very well that if you eat so much pie you will have another attack of indigestion: I cannot see why you insist upon eating It when you know 1t keeps you con stantly suffering"
 II would not eat it. my angel" he answers, helping himself to more, were 1t not that the last time did so I dreamed of you"
 Realizing that she is witnessing one of those sublime evidences of true af- lection of which we sometimes read she smiles happily upon him and Is sllent.-Ghieago Tribune
The Springdale news., 1907-02-15
OLD FASHIONED.

What has become of the old fash toned woman who was accused of prinking?
 What has become of the old fash toned man who always asked his tall friends. How is the weather up there?"
 What has become of the old fash bned man who said to visitor when dinner was ready. "Set up and have bite2"
 What has become of the old fash toned man who said in abusing a neighbor. "He hasn't the sense he was born with ?"-Atchison Globe
The Springdale news., 1907-02-15
In 1850.

What are all those men doing so busily out there on the lawn around the treasury building2"
 They are government white wing forces, gathering in the income and inheritance taxes with muck rakes."
 And what are those funny men dancing about so for, with chains around their necks that the man with the big stick is holdng?s
 They are the tame millionaires caught in the wilds of frenzied finance to be trained for the public zoos''- Baltimore American
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scared Himself.

That didn't hurt much . said the man ill the chair. gazing in I surprised way at the extracted molar
 Thought Il would kill you. sup pose" remarked the dentist You must have been reading jokes about my profession
 Heading 'em Why, man. l write 'em regularly. Houston Post
The Springdale news., 1907-02-15
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CIRCUS MANS TALK.
How His Language struck the Dirt
 Faced Intruder

Faced Intruder
 Say young feller, roared the fierce looking manager of cheap circus to 8 smooth shayen kid of six years who had found his way into the eaHvas by way of his stomach what do you sup pose would ultimately become of this mammoth maStodOuie aggregation of pompous aud glitterine splendor. this gorgeous array of majestic beasts of the fafaHaF Africm forest. Sl1rrlIv trained by masterly hands of fearless men at enormous expense. lhls maguili- cent exhibition of genuine chariot horses direct from the Roman stables and these royal elephants with their stately equipage and. mind VOL this brilliant experimentation of 3.000 bare back riders-What would become. I ask you, of the whole consarn outfit if we allowed every blooming idiot to crawl into our tent without Hquidating the usual price of admission. which is the small sum of 50 cents. pr half price for children :"
 "Whatcher say. misterse answered the bewildered. dirty faced intruder
 II said, responded the manager of the cheap circus. that you could go over wonder and select the best seat in the reserved row Don't you under stand plain English ?"=Judge.