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The Democratic advocate., 1907-01-04
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Subterranean Farm Drains.

The plan of De Kalb county (Illinois)
farmers to get rid of their surplus drain
water by draining it into drain wells OF
considerable depth has become so success
full that it promises to spread over large
area of Northern Illinois. When farmer
has no run, creek or stream of any kind
into which to drain low piece of land he
digs a well and keeps on downward until
he strikes subterranean vein OF water.
He relies on this vein to carry off the water
that he drains into it, and failures have
been few. Any kind Of a flowing OR arte.
sian well that will throw a stream out OF
the top of the we'll will not answer, but a
stream that rises in the well to certain
height marked as its level will do the work.
1t was the idea Of Joseph F. Glidden,
the inventor of barbed wire, to try this
plan of draining the water from low piece
of land. 1t has been in working order for
six years, and is an out-and- -out success.
In the swamp is dug pit 6 feet in di-
ameter and about as deep. In the center
of the bottom of this pit is started a finch
bore that in some instances has been sunk
to depth of $50 feet. The water from
the subterranean fount rises to various
heighth in the bore, which is cased with a
metal tube. From the bottom of the pit
to the point to which the water rises in the
tube is the fall, which ranges all the way
from 40 to 60 feet
The pits are now being built Of
brick and concrete, with an inner circular
wall about 6 inches from the outside wall
This inner wall is constructed Of porous
brick, through which water finds its way.
The water from the swamp is drained
through several lines of ordinary drain
pipe, and is emptied into the space between
the inside and the out wall of the pit. The
inside wall serves as a strainer that takes
out all sediment so as to prevent the filling
up of the deep bore.
The well sunk by Mr.. Glidden is on his
farm near Elva; it is ia feet deep. The
drain pipe is inches in size, and the well
tube is only inches. Another well was
sunk for George Fleming, This one was
24O feet deep, with 3-inch tube. In
one instance living stream was found at
the depth of 20 feet below the bottom of
the pit.
OF course, the pit is properly covered
with planking to prevent cattle from get
ting into it. One of the wells that has
been in operation for 6 years has cost little
or nothing for repairs. The work on all of
the wells was done by Robert Ferguson, of
De Kalb, ILL., One of the wells, the deep
est one, cost about $500, which represents
the total outlay.
The Democratic advocate., 1907-01-04
The ZOO.

Director P. J. Mundy announces many new
features for this week at the Zoo. He has
delved into his stock of novelties, and as a
result will present a particularly interesting
and attractive program. Just how we'll Mr..
Mundy has pleased the public so far is demon
strated by the attendance at the Zoo. Rain
or shine the three floors of the building are
always we'll filled and some of the
regulars already know most of the animals.
and take great interest in them. Local ar,
lists have found the Zoo great institution
where they may pursue studies of real animal
life Every morning at least ten knights OF
the pencil and pad may be seen before the
elephants, camels, and the lion and tiger cages
hard at work sketching the animals.
First among the features of this weeks pro-
gram will be M'lle Eulallie Lascells, direct
from the London Dippodrome. The lady is
and it is said she has few, if any equals. With
her group of animal actors she presents a
series of tableaux that are artistically dis
played. Major Crawford. known the world
over as the Lion King, will appear again with
his fierce group of huge lions. Madam Loie,
the queen of leopards, will introduce group
of treacherous jaguars and leopards, SIX in
number, and Signor Louis Abbe Abdul De
Ballistrear the youngest animal subjugator in
the world, will appear with his matchless
group of forest bred lions, tigers, bears and
boar hounds.
One of the most popular novelties at the
Zoo is the baby lions fondled by the ladies
and children. 1t is pleasant stu y TO see the
little ones tenderly carrying in their arms the
little fuzzy lions, while the mothers exhibit
the mingled expressions of maternal dignity
and delight. Upon entering the Zoo. the lit
tie baby lions, all brothers and sisters of the
same age, are exhibited on an open platform.
The babies are as gentle as Kittens and it will
be some time before the inborn ferocity OF
their nature will show itself, as lions do not
display these characteristics until they arrive
at the age of ten months.
The Democratic advocate., 1907-01-04
Love Laughs at Floods.

High water played all sorts of havoc
with the wedding plans Of Ghauncey Lewis
Cell aud his intended He had to buy two
marriage licenses and to pay his hard
earned dollars into the Golfers Of two states
before way was legally paved.
Mr.. Cell appeared at the county clerk
Office recently. He stood under the old
wedding bell there for moment and then
asked. f'Can I buy marriage license
here?"
Deputy County Clerk Cupid Rose in
formed him that he could, and soon the
papers were made out.
"How much p asked Cell.
"Three dollars was the quick reply.
"Well, I guess I'll have to pay up, |"
said the prospective bridegroom, ''but its
pretty tough to have to buy two licenses to
marry the same girl. bought marriage
license over in Cathlament, Washington,
but we became frightened over the reports
of high water and came over here. l
was told that my Washington license was
no good here, so 1 am getting this one. 1t
has cost me So SO far for licenses alone.
Wonder what the preacher will want y
The Democratic advocate., 1907-01-04
Why Rockefeller Abstains.

The Young Mems Bible Glass of the
Fifth Ave. Baptist Church, N.Y., of which
John d. Rockefeller, Jr., is the leader,
held its tenth annual banquet last night at
the Broadway Central Hotel. Ice-water
flowed freely and Mr.. Rockefeller told
why he was total abstainer. He said :
''To drink glass of beer is not in itself
more harmful than to eat some kind Of in i:
digestible food. The single action is not a
sin, but it is the abuse that the first glass
leads to that is the sin. I believe not only
in temperance, but in total abstinence, and
this for two reasons. First, because both
my father and his father. as we'll as my
mothers father, were strictly temperate;
second, my mature judgment is that while
there may be no harm in one glass, that
one glass may lead on to more.
Therefore, I say that one glass is one too
many"
The Democratic advocate., 1907-01-04
Corpse" Sits Up.

GALVESTON, TEXAS, December 2l.-
G. J. Dickson, of Hallettsville, who hac
been ailing for some time, on Tuesday was
pronounced dead. At the wake on Wed
nesday night the "corpse" came to life
and sat up. The Interpretations rushed from
the house. Paul johnson, farmer, leaped
from a window and suffered internal inju.
ries which it is feared will prove fatal.
Mrs. Jane Anderson, a cousin of Dickson,
tainted and was crushed in a narrow hall.
way as the walkers fought to get out of the
room. She may not recover. Dickson was
quickly removed from the coffin and is still
alive, with some chance for, his ulti.
mate recovery.
The Democratic advocate., 1907-01-04
Divorce to Live With Wife.

Lincoln Neb., Dec. ia divorce
from his own wife in order that they might
live together, was the curious step taken
by Robert F. Eaton in compliance with a
letter from Mrs. Eaton, in which she
wrote: eff we could live and work to-
gether as friends and lovers would gladly
wish to be with you again. Unless you
get divorce we can never do SO.
When obtaining his decree from Judge
Frost, Eaton declared that his wife was a
devotee of magnetism and free affection.
He introduced letter containing the
above assertion. 1t was signed "Yours
for freedom and love, Anna.
Another letter, evidently written in re-
Spouse to an answer to the above, contains
the woman's views on matrimony. She
writes as follows:
'Dear Robert: received yours. Have
been too busy to write until tonight, and
can only write short letter to you even
now. 1 am very glad to hear from you
very much. Desire to correspond with
you until we meet. I am going to reply
to few things you say and may seem
unkind or severe, but you are so blind and
so foolish by sentiment that you need plain
talk, especially from me.
"You say you are glad l have found
someone to love and be happy with, and
some way or other l can't help but think
you are married again. Now, see here,
once for all, / am not married and have
no intention to marry soon. have found
a few sweet, lovable men who would glad
ly marry me, and some hope l will yet de-
eide to gladden. their lives, but not yet. |
have work to do and am doing it.
II don't believe in marriage any more.
There is a higher law than the law of
church and state. Now, see, you and |.
| know that you love me and desire to be
with me; you know as we'll as | that |
love you and desire to be with you. But
see what a mistake and loss in every way
our marriage was. Where if we had
stayed as friends and lovers we would have
been reasonably happy together, and as it
is now will never again live with you as
your wife.
eff you get divorce we can and will
come together as friends and lovers, and
when matters are righted, might even mar
ry again, but the law of attraction only
will hold us together. l will not tell you
if l get a divorce in Deadwood, as you
have not good sense enough to keep
anything to yourself, but peddle every
thing you know or would write with the
air of much injured husband, ETC., but
1 will write you letter on which you can
get divorce, etc.
The Democratic advocate., 1907-01-04
"His objections were received with

"His objections were received with
murmurs of disapproval.
"''It amt too much" asserted my
host. It's jest what he dissarves, and
it II prove an example to the others.
I" There was some more discussion; then
1 was informed that on my arrival Pete
Stanford, member of the gang, whose
still I had aided in destroying some time
previously, but who had escaped from the
officers, had come under the guise Of
friendship to land them all in prison, and
that [ was to be left in the hut.
"This failed to strike terror to my soul,
however, as I supposed they would merely
leave me there over night, and should
then have a possible chance Of escape.
Had known the true nature Of my pun
ishment, 1 would have begged my captors
to mercifully put bullet throug gh my brain.
"They carried me to the hut, and one
of the men carefully opened the door and
peered in. He took torch and thorough
ly inspected every nook before entering.
Finally, bound hand and foot, 1 was laid
on a pile of husks in one corner. Then
the men departed without even closing the
door. 1 was highly elated at this over
sight, and lay endeavoring to muster
strength to break my bonds, when heard
rustling, gliding sound in one corner of
the room. Could it be that some other
human creature was imprisoned with me =?
No, it must be wind outside. Then from
the long dark opening used as fireplace
came similar sound, another and another.
What was it? What could this mean?
"Suddenly 1 felt something glide across
my legs as they lay bound on the foot Of
the bed, and the awful horror of the situa-
ton that my prosecutors had devised
dawned upon me. | was in den Of
snakes! If | moved was dead man E.
Sick with terror, 1 became unconscious.
~ awoke lying beside the road. The
moon was shining full in my face, and
bending over me was the girl had met in
the afternoon.
"'Twar clus call for you un, she
said 4 heered pap n the fellers a. talkin'
ez how they left yer here, an when | got
er chance l come to you.
"'How did you do it ? gasped.
"'Huh! I'm used ter snakes, but
but
''The girl began to sob.
{" What is it," 1 asked, moved by her
distress.
"II dassent go hum, fur dad will
kill me-
"That's how my hair got white, said
the major, as he threw away the stump of
his cigar.
''But the girl p said l.
''Oh, she is in the next room with the
children; she is my wife. y
The Democratic advocate., 1907-01-04
Resetting Old Orchards.

The experience of orchardists is against
resetting. The place where an apple tree
has lived and died is a hard place for a
successor. Gen. j. B. McAfee planted
an orchard near Topeka many years ago
Being fastidious about the appearance of
his place, as we'll as anxious to maintain a
good stand as more profitable than broken
stand, he spared no labor to make new
tree grow in every place where one died.
He dug enormous holes and filled them
with soil from another field and added
abundance of manure. For all this labor,
his resetting did no good.
A few years ago the writer was looking
through fine young orchard near Tonga
noxie, in Leavenworth county, the prop
erty of Judge Fred Wellhouse, the "apple
king We were admiring block of
Jonathan apple trees. Every orchardist
knows that the Jonathan is a good tree.
There was fine stand of clover in this
orchard. A more attractive sight could
scarcely be imagined. Suddenly square
was reached in which there were no living
trees, save few Indifferent ones around
the edges of the square. ''What's the
matter here?' was the natural inquiry.
Here is where we raised our trees for
setting the orchard, was the reply. The
clover grew as rank among the dead and
dying trees as elsewhere in the orchard
but the apple trees would not grow where
apple trees had grown before.
The fruitgrower will find it more profta-
BILE to plant a new orchard on other land
than to try to grow young apple trees in
the old orchard Peach trees may do well
in the old apple orchard and be made to
occupy the vacant places while the other
old apple trees last.
The Democratic advocate., 1907-01-04
Dairy Cleanliness.

1t is gratifying to notice that some dairy
men wash the udders and teats of the
COWS at every milking time, wiping with
clean towels, avoiding every chance of filth
entering the milk, but such dairymen get
good prices, which are secured by their
reputation for skillful management of their
COWS and products. The importance of
putting upon the market milk that is clean
and Of good quality should be special ef
fort on the part of dairymen, for the rea-
son that the consumer is willing to pay
more for it if convinced of the fact of the
superiority of the product. Milk passes
throug gh SO many hands from the COW to
the consumer as to render the matter of
obtaining pure and clean milk difficult
one The dairyman consoles himself with
the fact that he strained the milk before
selling it, but the strainer does not remove
soluble filth. Any substance that is dis
solved by the milk will remain in the milk.
Dairymen are aware Of the fact that it
is not unusual for COW to get down on
the floor of her stall to rest, without regard
to whether the floor is clean or covered
with manure and her udder and teats may
have rested during the night on heap of
fresh manure. The COW is not as clean as
the hog, so far as selecting suitable place
for resting is concerned, and where the
dairyman himself is careless and does net
keep the stalls clean, as we'll as brush the
COWS and wash the teats and udders it is al
most impossible to have clean milk. That
cleanliness adds to the profits has been de-
monstrated by many leading dairymen,
who find it profitable to sell only the best
and cleanest milk they can offer, the best
price being secured when the farmer can
sell his product himself, or when the deal
er handles milk only from well-regulated
farms.
The Democratic advocate., 1907-01-04
RELIGIOUS NOTICES.

Ascension Chrrch-Sunday services-7.3O a. m,
and Sermon; 4.3O p. M, Evening Prayer and
Lecture; P. m, Service and Sermon in Chapel
Rev. Frank NJ. Gibson, Phi. D.. Rector
Salem Lutheran Charge-St. BenJamin's-D1vine
service at p m. st. Johns Qeisters) Sunday
School a. m. Divine service at 10 q. m. Y. P. S.
C. E. att m. r. W. Doty, Pastor
Carroll Charge Reformed Church-Divine Service
at Benjamin's at 10 a. m Pleasant Valley at D. m
James B. Stonesifer, Pastor
Centenary NJ. E. Church.-Sunday School at $50
q. m. Preaching at 10. 80 a. m. and 7.30 p. M Ed
worth League at 645 p m. Choir practice on Wed
nesday evening at !.30 O'Clock.
Harold NJ. Rider. Pastor
st. Paurs Reformed Church.-Sunday school at
$50 q. m. Divine service at los and 700 p m
C. 8. Slagle, Pastor.
Grace Lutheran Church-Sunday School at a.
m. Prayer Meeting, Wednesday, at 7.30 p. m. Di-
vine Service at 1890 a. m. and 7.30 p. m. Y. P. g.
c. E. at 645 p. m. Junior Catech!se on Saturday
p d. Miller, D. D.. Pastor
Methodist Protestant Church, Rev. L. F. Warner
Pastor.-Sabbath Services.-Preachinga at 80 q. m.
and 7.30 p. m. Y. p. s. C. E. at $50 p m. Sunday
school $50 a. m. Mid week Service in the lecture
room Wednesday evening at 7.30 o'clock.
st. Johns Church -Sundays-Low Mass at 7.15
and High Mass at 10 q. m. During the week-Mass
alta. m. Joseph b. Cassidy, Pastor.
Reformed Church, Silver. Run-Service 1880 q.
m. every other Sunday, and at p. m; Sunday
school at $50 q. M, and p m. Preaching every
two weeks ut p m.
The Democratic advocate., 1907-01-04
EXECUTORS SALE
~ OF A DESIRABLE
HOUSE AND LOT,
In Melrose, Carroll County, Md.

The undersigned executor by an order OF
the Orphans Court of Carroll County, Nd,
will offer at public sale, on the premises, on
SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1907,
at D. M, that Desirable House and Lot,
situated in Melrose, Nd, formerly owned by
Henry S. Bucher. This property is improved
with log frame weatherboarded house and
barn, and is convenient to churches and
schools.
Terms of SaIe-One third of the purchase
money TO be paid on the day of sale, or upon
the ratification of the same by the Court;
balance in two equal payments of six aud
twelve months, the deferred payments to be
secured by the notes of the purchaser. with
approved security. bearing interest from the
day of sale; or all cash at the option of the
purchaser. For further particulars apply to
PETER GEIMAN. Executor,
dec 2s-ts Melrose, Nd.
The Democratic advocate., 1907-01-04
Was Swindled by Bogus Inventor

Scientific inventions as rule do not in
terest Miss Helene o. Connor, waiting maid
at Watsessing (N. J.) hotel, but when
wireless telephony is intermixed with love
and diamond engagement ring that looks
good, it is different. Not many days ago
handsome stranger appeared at the hotel
describing himself as an electrical engineer
with fortune Miss O. Connor, serving
him, was interested with the others. The
stranger got many postal cards. One Of
them read, "Hold on, hold on tight I"
The hotel help discussed the enigmatic
words on the back stairs and decided it
looked good.
The handsome stranger began to pay
court to pretty Helene O'Connor, and she
was called lucky. Friday afternoon came
another postal. 1t read:
81 will give you $3.50 for your wire
less telephone.
The mystic name of Thomas Alva Edi-
son was signed to it, and the hotel help
were rejoicing with Helene long before the
stranger got the postal. In fact, it was
passed around the block before it was de-
livered. To the great joy of Helene the
handsome stranger sought her out and
placed. ring on her finger. The ring
held stone as big as hickory nut. He
said it cost $500.
CAN is good fortune to me-" said he.
'In day or two 1 will have enough
money to close my contract with Mr.. Edi-
son and get $1s, 900. Then we will
marry"
The happy and fond-hearted Helene
waited for no other word. She ran to the
bank where in her thrift she had aceumu :
lated $500. She drew it out and pressed
it into the hands of the handsome stranger.
He hurried to New York.
He is still gone. Helene began to sus-
pect something yesterday afternoon, and
she went before magistrate. She was
advised to swear out warrant for his ar
rest. He had given his name as Seymour
Granger. The warrant was made out.
.But how about this diamond |? queried
Helene, who was scarcely persuaded.
cit is; worth just 10 cents" said the
court officers.
The Democratic advocate., 1907-01-04
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EARM FOR RENT, situated 2 miles
Il from Gambler. near the Beasman road.
on big Morgan Run. The land is in fine state
of cultivation, cannot be surpassed for pasture,
and water of the finest quality at buildings
and in pasture; well suited for keeping stock
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MO. 4l64 EQUITY.

In the Circuit Court for Carroll County.
Louis I. Clark, Attorney, VS.. William E.
Blizzard and Elsie NJ. Blizzard, his wife.
Ordered, this 22nd day of December, A.
D., 1906, that the account of the Auditor
filed in this cause be finally ratified and con-
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next;provided a copy of this order be inserted
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The daily tribune., 1907-02-20
TRACKMEN ON WESTERN
ROADS DEMAND RAISE

Chicsgo. Feb. 20-A committee
representing several Thousand train.
msn employed In construction and
repair on Western railroads met yes.
terday and prepared WAGE demands
which include . minimum af % day
for ordinary section hands and e75 =
month for the foremen OF gangs. An
eight hour working day. also IL listed
In the request which the trsckmen
will make upon the companies shortly.
The daily tribune., 1907-02-20
rHAwS DYNAMITE IN HOT
WATER, BLOWN IN SHREDS

Gate City. Va. Feb. 20-While
engaged in the novel method Of thAw.
ing . quantity Of dynamite by placing
it in . tnb of warm water and stir.
ring it with . stick. Worley johnson
was blown into shreds In . tunnel on
the Southern and Weitsrn railway.
No part Of his bod, was left intact BY
which he might have been identified.