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haif a Million viii Die.

Victoria. u. C.-Further advices
from the famine district of Central
China received by the steamship Tar.
tar state that smallpox has broken out
in the camps and in consequence ON.
cials are breaking them up. The peo-
pie are numbed by suffering and pa.
tiently submit TO being driven. Teie-
grams to the Jill Shimpo say upward Of
half a million people will die of starva.
tion or disease incidental to the terrible
conditions prevailing in the famine
district. Relief measures adopted are
stated to be inefficient and the Nth
amid which the unfortunate famine.
stricken people live is described as
shocking. No sanitary measures of
any kind were adopted and II was In
evitable that a pestilence should fol.
low.
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SANTA Fe PENSIONS.
Liberal Payments to Old or Disabled
Employees.


Tho following details Of the pension
scheme adopted by the Atchison. To-
peka and Santa Fe railroad system
are given In a statement Issued by
the general passenger agent:
"The pension system the company
has devised IL one OF the most liberal
In existence. No additional restric-
tions are placed ON the employment OF
new men and no employe will be arbi.
trarily retired because he has reached
the age OF sixty.five or seventy years.
Employees will be retained In the serv-
ice as long as they are able to perform
their duties satisfactorily. For those
who are weakened by reason OF age or
accident the company will cndeavor to
find some new duty that In less ardu.
GUS and exacting than that at which
they were originally employed. Re-
tirement will be for incapaclty alone.
and the board OF pensions. OF which
George @. Tunell Is the secretary. will
have full power to decide when man
Ia incapacitated.
''The Santa Fe plan distinguishes
between men who have received small
salaries and those who have been reg
ularly paid larger amounts. The mnI1
salaried men have not the opportunity
to lay aside as much money as those
who are better paid and the pension
board will keep this fact In view when
Il awards pensions.
Twenty dollars month will be the
smallest pension given any pensioner.
Exceptionally long and eiiicient serv.
ice will result In the pensioner receiv.
Ing twenty-five per cent. Increase OF
tho regular allowance. The basis for
the amount OF the pension Ii fixed on
the highest salary pensioner has re-
ceivcd during his connection with tho
road. Fifteen years actual service will
cntiile an cmploye to q pension as n
result OF old age. Employees incapaci.
tated as n result Of an accident will be
pcnsioned regardless OF the length OF
service.
"Aii employees whose highest aver
age wage was $50 or less month will
be given n pension equal to one and
onc-fourth per cent. OF his wage for
each year OF service. An cmployc who
has been In the service thirty.cight
years NJ nm average wage OF et5 would
receive e:i.39. The amount Of pen.
sions for better paid men In deter.
mined In n similar manner. but n man
whose wages exceeded $50 will only
get ono and onc-fourth per cent on tho
hrst $50 OF his salary and three. .fourths
per cent on the remainder. Tho high.
est pension will not exceed S7s a
month.
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Japan's Knowisdes Of the Wor

The fact Is. We suspect. that the
Japanese understand tho rest OF tho
world better than tho world under
stands them. for the reason that since
the opening" Of that country Il has
been n very serious part Of Japan
ESQ public and private business to
study the rest OF tho world and to
learn n much NJ possible about Il.
Japanese students have been numcr'
Gus In almost every civilized land. &C
quirins not only tho general arts and
sciences but also and particularly tho
especial knowledge which was to b
gained OF tho individual countries thus
visited. This knowledge. says the
New York Tribune. has In turn been
impaired to and has been eagerly
sought by tho entire Japanese people
While tho world at large has intcr'
c~tcd itself In Japan largely because
Of It's picturesque charm. tho Japan
csc have interested themselves In al!
the world In tho most practical. sys
tcmatic and busincssiike way. While
wc have looked AT jlnrikishas ant
cherry blossoms they havo studied
constitutions and industrics-
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MAIL STATISTICS
POSTAL BUDGET As PREPARED IN
THE HOUSE.
LARGE SUM Is CALLED FOR


Would Increase Pay Of Clerks and Car
rIsrs-Postmssts General Reports
Amount Of second Glass Matter
Handled At One Cent Pound.
Washington.-The postofice appro-
priation bill. which the House commit
tee ON postofhces and post roads
have prepared will carry S209. $780,
56l. This IL the largest amount
ever carried for the annual ex'
penditures OF the postal service. The
total recommended In the bill is more
than $4,000. 900 In excess of the amount
estimated for by the department. and
Is an Increase of 3l7.509.562 over the
current appropriation.
The salaries OF postal clerks and of
both city and rural carriers are IN
creased to a total Of 100000. a
provision Ia inserted In the bill for the
classification OF postal clerks and the
positions OF clerks and carriers arc
made interchangeable.
There are various provisions In the
bill Intended to reduce the pay to rail-
roads for carrying the malls. II II es.
timated that this reduction VIII
amount to something like $4,000 900
year. The rate for hauling daily
from 5000 to $4,000 pounds is reduced
Ave per cent. from $4,000 TO s0.ooo
pounds ten per cent. and the present
rate Of e2i.37 per ton for nmounts
above 10000 pounds is reduced TO VIE.
These reductions. II In estimated. VIII
amount to 33.oo0.0oo u year. a SAVING
ri 81 ,000. 900 more Is estimated ns
- In
I,fficc pay. The bill cuts on all pay 10
loads for hauiin. empty mall sacks
which is estimated will save between
t3 .000. 900 and 3t.o00.000 year. The
requirement Shat the nails shall DC
weighed seven days q week and ths
kmount divided by seven instead OF six
ps heretofore. provision placed In
he bill to-day nj the suggestion OF Rep
tcsentatiyc Murdock Of Kansas. VIII. II
IL estimated. save e5.0o0.oo0.
Postmaster General Cortelyou has
reported To Congress the record from
July ! to December 81. 1906. OF all sec
ond class mall matter received Tor
free distribution at the ono cent
pound rate. In compliance with q pro
vision In the current appropriation net.
II was found that more than DO per
cent. OF all second class matter ori
Einatcd In ~ cities. Tho total wctSh'
Of this class Of mall for the period was
5;0. 0.00s.9ls pounds. The weight OF
daily newspapers was fu.l:J.sae
pounds. all OF which was carried mn
average Of :ss miles: weekly and
other newspapers carried weighed ~.
:5s.sss pounds. hauled $50 miles: sci
ratinc periodicals. t.%ts.sss. hauled
79s miles: educational periodicals
:.sas.1Ss. hauled su miles: religion,
periodicals. :o.tss.ss5. hauled ~.
miles: trade journals. is.dss.eis
hauled 7oT miles: agricultural period
Icais, li.its.asi. hauled s:s milcs:
magazines. ss.i5s.oss. hauled s:s
miles: miscellaneous. :i.soo.'s:
hauled sso miles.
Tho percentage OF sample copies In
each class il as follows: Daily news
papers. o.ss per cent: weekly and
other than daily newspapers. a!s pot
cent: scientific. s.s:: cducaiiona
5.ss: religious. i.ss: trade journals
7.:l: agricultural. sa1: magazines
ii.o:: miscellaneous. s.:s: all classes
tis.
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tn e D e NvE R

Ttss oaiy dry eilm,i. is<s.
kains nsnafsrsst-i. susrs
eet-s-i N hssAra 20 t-s e~a..
of fsstits efxs vsrir fss eir.
sutsf ~ tetis al sf.rst them
and ths t>ss l,sv-~isss a.
eassh. can - .t-sns.i 10 81.
yS:.s: y,ss:s n Irm.Es, Ir.s,, pESs!:ts .!.S
Caottotuta sssves.
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Rocky Ford Enterprise
aocK1 FORD. COLORADO
COLORADO
Tho Worship Of Diamonds.

A McGill professor. lecturing on the
diamond the other night demonstrate
ed dramatically the weil.known fact
that diamond Is merely crystalixed
carbon. by burning q couple of small
stones In an electric arc. Flakes OF
graphite fell from the sides. and the
whole became q mass OF coke. Yet
what has not been bought and sold
for diamonds? It requires an expert
to tell the difference between some Of
the limitations and the real stones.
Paste diamonds are worn to great as
semblies by great ladies' while their
genuine Jewels repose safely In the
vaults at home. Still. says the Mon
treal Herald. this does not induce 9th
or ladies'. who cannot afford the gen
uinc. to be quite as content with
the paste. II some one were to dis
cover a mine" OF diamonds and food
the world with them-if scientist
should learn how to make them-If.
II is said. the present diamond miners
were to put on tho market all they
couid-the value would 20 down. In
the two former cases It would we'll
nigh disappear. Yet to-day people
will coin the toll Of many men for
long years Into diamonds and wear
them as symbols Of wealth. This II
n curious world In some ways. Yet,
perhaps. not 30 curious. We gen
orally want chiefly to have what 9th
cr people cannot have.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1907-02-08

American expectations of wood
have increased so per cent. during the
past nine months. The breakfast
food industry is to be congratulated
on this sudden boom in its prosper
Ity
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1907-02-08

The United States senator from Ne
braska who wants the post Offices
closed on Sunday will receive the
thanks of all the mail clerks for his
efforts. even II many business men
think he is getting more than a
shade too puritanical.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1907-02-08

The vacancy In the. animal hus.
bandry department Of the State Aeri.
cultural College caused by the transfer
Of Professor Cottrpll to institute work.
was filled today by the acceptance of
the position by Prof. George +. Morton
OF the University Of Wyoming. Profess
sor Morton holds bachelor Of science
degree from the Colorado Agricultural
College. He graduated with the class
Of 1904.
The Arkansas Valley Electric Com
pany has sold its abandoned electric
plant at Florence to a Denver com
pany. who will dismantle the buildiE1
and ship IL to Denver. The Florence
Electric Company is securing its cur.
rent from the Colorado Power Com
pany at Canon City. The Arkansas
valley people have been awarded the
contract to furnish electric lights for
the town of Rockvale. and wiring the
camp will be commenced soon.
The remains of Arthur A. Fears. son
OF A. A. Fears of Boulder. who met
death by freezing in Wyoming bliz-
.ard January 1ith. were buried at Boul.
der, January 31st. Fears. who was
twenty-five years old. was married last
October to Miss Caroline Schwinke of
Boulder. and removed to Wyoming. In
attempting to go from one ranch to an
other, near Hackson's Lake. he was
caught in blizzard and lost his way.
His body was found several days later
some miles from the trail. A pathetic
note. telling of his extremity, was
found on his body.
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Napoleon Trusted His Omens

NAPOLEON always had unlimited trust in
~ his presentinents. When the came to him
that of the Nile River boats, the of which
was L'Italie had been wrecked and the crew put to
death, he gave up all hope of completing his
conquest of Italy by annexation. Napoleon be-
lieved that the stars exercised occult influence
over human destines. When General Rapp at one
time his aide de camp, returned from the siege of
Dantzic, he found the Emperor gazing with concen-
trated attention at the heavens. Look there!"
shouted the Emperor. 1T is my star? The fiery
red one, almost as large the moon? 1t is before
you now, and all how brilliant! 1t has aban-
doned me for single instant. I see it all great
occasions. 1t commands me to go forward; it is
my sign of good fortune; and where it leads will
follow"
That shoddy ADVENTURE and charlatan the third
Napoleon, inherited his uncle's superstition, if
nothing else. He for a long time the dupe of
American spirtualist who affected to foretell the
future, and his unwillingness to withdraw the
French troops from Mexico due in great meas
to the fact that this prophet had displayed to
him whole panorama of glory centered about the
figure of the unfortunate Macmillan.
Another victim of this American seer, according
to Lord Odo Russell, the contemporary Car of
Russia, who used to guide the most important
actions of his official and private life by the pre-
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Madonna face was white and drawn with all
mothers suffering, but Mr. Davis seemed to me the
very personhcation of grief agony, and pain with
out one outward sign, a tear, the quiverlng of a
muscle even. All about him mourners sobbing
for his grief and the sound of the James River dash
ing over the rocks came up in the golden fash
ing of the setting sun. There great many
children, all bringing flowers, and each with bunch
of evergreen. There was little girl with an
apronfu of white vioets. She went directly to the
gray haired man standing still and erect by the
grave and said to him:
1" Toe and l were watching these volets coming
out all last week. and I've picked them, everyone,
for him.
Mr. Davis bent over, lifted her in his arms, held
her over the grave and whispered to her She opened
the apron and let the white volets fall upon all that
remained of little Joe. AS he set her down and
stepped back Mr.. Davis drew his hands slowly
across his eyes, His burdens almost greater
than he could bear
Less than year later sitting in St. Paul
in the midst of communion service, when letter
from the Secretary of War was handed to the Pres-
dent. l think all watching him. How
could we help it in that terrible hour? We saw him
read the letter then calmly rise and leave the church
with all the dignity that always his. But we
knew. DR.. Minnegerode instantly began fervent
prayer, and sobs and cries went up with it. We
knew that great calamity had thrown black
veil the sunlight of that beautiful morning,
and were not surprised when we learned later that
the letter from the Secretary of War had announced
the impending fall of the Capital.
Civil war brings with it conflicting entanglements.
One of the men whom Davis most highly esteemed
President Lincoln. They were born the same
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received the delegation, saying: This is my last
day of freedom. Tomorrow l shall belong to the
people
After the Colonel Parsons, who had belonged
to the Federal army, came to Richmond with his
family. His children had toy soldiers with
which they and my two little boys would fight great
battles, the Confederates being permitted to win
day and the Federals the next. Mr.. Davis
came in day when the star of victory shone
the Southern side.
Il am glad l came to-day" he said Il like to
see the Confederates win
There is memory of Jefferson Davis that
fingers with me nearer and dearer than all the
1t was long after the war. We still living in
Richmond. Our little boy lay his deathbed 1t
was the last time that Mr.. Davis to us. drew
up chair for him. but he said, " No; may not sit
on the bed beside hm?"
l do not think the child took his eyes from Mr..
Davs's face in all the time he sat there talking with
him. Oh, but that face was so awfully, pathetic
changed Every expression, the sound of his
the look in his eyes, the echo of broken he TT.
Only the harmony of motion and the melody of zone
remained. They part of him. 1t after
he was gone that Corbe asked what it in his
throat that made his voice sound SO n.uscky.
Corbel was always interested in stories of
his fathers fighting in Mexico, and Mr.. Davis
told him of those battles. He far outranked Cen
eral Pickett in that war, but when Corbell asked,
"Were you in papas company, Mr.. Davis, or was
over his father in the boys thoughts, Mr.. Davis
replied: "
General Robert E. Lee had recently called and,
speaking of the visit, Corbell said
Mr. Lee kne
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President Grant and Dreams

OUR own great General and President, Ulysses S.
~ Grant, placed much confidence in dreams. He
believed that it was sure precursor of good luck to
dream of crockery. On occasion just before his
appointment to the colonelcy of Illinois regiment,
he dreamed that he in field filled with the most
dainty china, and in the morning informed his wife
that prosperity was finally coming for him. Then
there was Admiral Farragut who declared that
while he was at the masthead of his flagship at
Mobile Bay just before he the gauntlet of the
Confederate FORTS he distinctly heard voice at his
saying, Keep on Keep on!" The English
naval hero Nelson who broke the power of Napoleon
always carried horseshoe on his flagship.
Not long before his assassination Abraham Lin
coin was deeply moved by vivid dream in which
he his own body lying in state. His contem
porary, old Thaddeus Stevens, the tyrant of Con-
gress during the Reconstruction believed it unlucky
to pass pins, and he always stopped to pick up any
that might be in his road. James G. Blaine, de-
feaed for the presidency by Cleveland would never
turn back to enter his home after leaving it,
though he had forgotten something Secretary
Carlisle believed Friday to be unlucky and secre-
tary Folger under the impression that the
Der three governed his life.
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down by the bed and prayed for
me and asked the good Lord to
make me well.
Il should like to do that, too"
Mr.. Davis said, and, holding the
child's hand, he knelt beside the
pillow A strain of deeper mel
ody thrilled through his voice
as it went up to Heaven in that
heartfelt prayer.
The last picture of Jefferson
Davis in my mind and heart
is as he bent over the bed.
bidding the little invalid fare
well.
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1EITHER education genius seems able
IN wholly to Danish the strange instructive
belief in signs and omens, and there are
many of the worlds most prominent figures who
secretly subscribe to the following frank Statement
of Lord Woseley, until recently the commander in
chief of the British army: Il not only believe in
many superstitons but / hug them with
affection. They link me, if not with spiritual
world of which know nothing, at least with a
glorious and artistic and picturesque past of which
in amulets. l have out the rims of several
hats since l have been in Dublin through my saluta-
tior of single magpies. would not any account
walk under ladder, etc. In fact, l am prone to
adopt any superstition l told of which l find
others believe in"
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year and within a few miles OF
each other in the same State.
In childhood one was taken
north, the other south, leaving
the world to wonder what the
result would have been in his
tory had they each taken an
opposite direction-so much de-
ponds upon the accident of
environment. But their whole
lives were interviewer.
At the opening of the Black
Hawk War General Scott sent
Lieutenant Davis to Dixon, Hi
nois, to muster the State troops
into the service of the nation,
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SUPERSTITIONS OF GREAT MEN

propositions for the capitulation of Metz, because,
he himself declared he would do nothing of i'm
portance a Friday, much less on Friday the
niversary of Hochkirch Jena, and Auerstadt. At
another time he called the attention of his Generals
to the fact that one of the few German defeats of
1hat sustained Friday. While there
is evidence to show that Bismarck had any
fdence in astrology. it is known that he believed
that his life was governed by mystic number.
1ieve in God but he had most intense fear of the
devil. Byron believed in supernatural apparitons
and ghosts, and regarded Friday unlucky day.
Even the ponde[ous Dr. Johnson Nv was not tree from
venence while walking in order to touch every post
he passed. in the fear that misfortune would follow
if he missed one When entering door gate
he always Unanswered that his right foot would
precede his left.
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and the young Lieutenant administered to Captain
Abraham Lincoln the oath of allegiance to the
United States, fact to which Lincoln often called
attention in later years.
After his arrest Davis being driven to the
railway station in old barouche drawn by miser
able bony horses surrounded by guard of cavalry.
An old Confederate soldier ran beside the barouche,
determined to do honor to the last to his fallen
chief when one of the Northern soldiers called to
him:
Il say, Johnny we've got your President!'
And the devils got yours!' the man shouted
back angrily.
Mr.. Davis leaned out and shook his head sadly,
saying My friend if his President had lived yours
would not be in this condition"
A Presidents Prejudice
DAVIS himself never felt the resentment of some
II of his friends, for he understood. The man who
had succeeded to the presidential chair had petty
personal grievance against him, dating back from
the time when they both Senators of the United
States Mr.. Davis stranger to most OF his
fellow members and had slight acquaintance with
their former occupations. In argument in favor
of military education, he asked who thought that
the results at Matamoras could have been attained
by tailor or a blacksmith. Without reason, An
drew Johnson regarded the query as a personal
insult, and he had an excellent memory for affronts.
He himself at least never forgot that by profession
he tailor.
Mr. Davis loved children. When the delegation
to escort him to the Capital of the Confederacy
to take the presidential oath he mending toy
for child whom he held on his lap He finished the
work, put the child down and said, Here is your
toy, my dear, good as new" Then he rose and
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By J. C.. O'MAHONEY

dictions of the inpostor. One of the most accom-
plished diplomats of England excluded from the
Russian court, as it afterward found out, merely
because the American had declared that he had the
evil eye"
The father of Nicholas II. was also an adherent
of the occult sciences, and sent his head
trologer off the weary journey to Siberia because
the train which he travelling wrecked by
Nihilists the very day that the unfortunate
had proclaimed to be the most propitious in the
The late King Humbert of Italy lived in constant
dread of the evil eye, and preCaut1on always
bracelet studded with bezoar stones, which
he believed to be sort of antidote. Whenever he
wished to make recognition of any exceptional
service the part of a subject, he would always
present him with of these stones.
Most of the Eastern potentates victims of one
another form of superstition The Shah of
Persia not only has court astrologer, but also
rieS with him when travelling ring of amber which
of Mohammed, and which the Shah believes renders
its invulnerabe. In addition to this he has
Jeweed star the particular virtue of which is to
make conspirators confess.
Official Astrologers Maintained
THE Empress of China, King Menelik of Abys-
i sinia, the Ameer of Afghanistan, the Sultans of
Morocco and Zanzibar the Khedive of Egypt, and
the Prince of Montenegro all maintain official
astrologers. Even Isabella, ex-Queen of Spain,
is said to believe in the potency of the heavenly
bodies.
As more astonishing instance than any of these
must be mentioned the hard headed German Chan
cellor of blood and iron, Prince Bismarck. Count
Bismarck Boflen is the authority for the statement
that day in 1870, when the Prince gave dinner
celed because Bsmark would not be one of party
of thirteen gathered at table On another occasion
in the year, Friday, October l. Bismarck
fused to receive the envoy of Marshal Bazaine with
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1907-11-30
Carrying Your Hogs Through Winter.
low IL Profit in tho south Where tho
Grazing Favorable Than West

Editors Gazette: There may be
some question ~ 10 tho advisahili'y
of carrying fall pigs through tho
winter in the North and West he.
cause OF the cold weather they have
to contend with. But there Is no
doubt In tho writer's opinion ae tn
the proflt that may be made on III"
winter pig by IN" Southern farmer
who will take tho pains 20 provide