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were allotted at the same time. The
Iowas, however, number but a few IN
comparison with the Sacs and Foxes.
Among the most prominent Iowa In
dians soon to receive titles is Thressa
Roubideaux, daughter of that Joseph
Roubideaux who founded st. Joseph.
Mo. She Is now 100 years old. and
rules the tribe as a queen. The Okla
homa Iowas came here in the fall OF
1868, following a quarrel with the
mother tribe in Kansas.
They arrived in Oklahoma, on the
banks of Deep Fork, in mid-winter.
without food and on the point of star
walton. They were befriended by the
Sacs and Foxes. Each one OF the
Oklahoma Iowas is now expecting a
payment of $40 from the government.
the last annuity payment due them
when they left the Kansas reservation
for Oklahoma.
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were for him and that they must be
shipped at once direct to Alton. He
would take no more chances by ship
ping them to Washington as he feared
that they might be sent to the White
house, and he very much desired that
they be kept in his block OF houses at
Alton, where every family Is priv
ileged to have as many babies as 1t
pleases without fear of being COM
PEELED TO move out OF the houses on
account of the children.
The stork, Mayor Beall said, was to
be the emblem of his big block OF
houses, the best kept tenement houses
in all Alton. When the birds came to
Alton they were warmly housed for
the winter and are being given close
attention so they will grow big. and
Mayor Bealls hope may be realized
that they will build a nest on his chin
ney and bring him and his neighbors
good luck.
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Doll Furniture from Paper.

Miss Alice Spinney, a Milwaukee
girl, is carrying on dainty and fas-
cinating industry. She Is making
artistic doll furniture from paper.
Bristol board is the foundation for the
furniture and water colors are clev-
erly and artistically used to produce
mahogany, forest or weathered oaks
or ebony and graceful decorative
touches in abstract line are added.
Miss Spinney has designed all the
patterns and the furniture Is wrought
out on the most approved lines.
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permanent bitches already contruct-
ed than to locate and excavate bitches
to suit land that has been graded and
leveled.
Farm bitches should be located in
the right place at the start. 1t is a
mistake to build bitches for the lower
part of a farm and then in after
years, when there is a desire to irri-
gate the remainder, to be obliged to
build a second series of bitches for
the higher land. Sufficient water
should first be conveyed from the
canal or other source of supply to the
highest point and from there dis
tributed to the various subdivisions.
In laying out these permanent bitches
an effort should be made to locate
them along field or fence boundaries,
IL possible, in order not to obstruct
the passage of teams and implements
in fields. When the grade is too
steep to permit this a curved location
through fields should be chosen.
These curved locations for supply
bitches can be so laid out as to add
greatly to the beauty of an irrigated
farm. They become the margins of
fields, by the side of which lanes are
graded, fences built, and shade trees
planted. While the plan of locating
supply bitches around the margins
of square or rectangular tracts is per-
haps more convenient for farm opera
lions the curved lines produce a more
pleasing effect.
It often happens that farm is
more or less cut up by ravines or de.
pressions which intersect or separate
fields, and the supply bitches have to
be extended across these low places
/ This is usually done in one of three
ways. When the depression is not
more than a few feet deep levees are
built on each side; in other cases
fumes are built on grade from side
to side, and, lastly. the water may be
carried across In pipe laid In the
form OF an inverted siphon. The
earth levee is the cheapest, but 1t Is
subject to leaks and washouts for the
first few years. The wooden fiume
answers the purpose well, but It Is
subject to early decay. and the clay
OF cement pipe laid beneath the sur
face, although dearer In first cost, Is
really the cheapest In the end.
The Yale expositor., 1907-01-04
Keen Your Blood Pure.

No one can be happy, light-hearted
and healthy with body full of blood
that cannot do it's duty to every part
because of its impurity; therefore, the
first and most important work in hand
is to purify the blood so that every
organ will get the full benefit of a
healthy circulation. There is no rem
edy so good as that old family rem
edy, Brandreth's Pills. Each pill con-
tains one grain of the solid extract OF
sarsaparilla blended with two grains
of a combination of pure and mild
vegetable products, making it blood
purifier unexcelled in character. One
or two taken every night for awhile
will produce surprising results.
Brandreth's Pills have been in use
for over a century, and are for sale
everywhere, plain or sugar-coated.
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shovel and removes part of a shovel
full of earth. The level is then car
ried forward until the shorter leg oc-
cupies the position vacated by its
mate, when a second mark is made.
This operation is repeated until the
line is laid out and furrow is run
connecting all the temporary marks.
Tracts which produce native
grasses, low cacti, rabbit brush, and
the smaller forms of brush can be
readily plowed without first removing
the larger plants. Such land should
be plowed deep, the larger growth af-
forwards removed and the surface
thoroughly narrowed, graded and
smoothed. In blowing for the first
time two acres is a fair days work
for a man and three horses, and the
cost of removing the larger plants sell
dom exceeds so cents an acre. Tracts
which produce tall, coarse sagebrush
from three to five feet high, in clumps
from four to eight feet apart, with
more or less nutritious grasses grow
ing in the open spaces, are more diff
fcult to put in shape for irrigation.
The methods used to remove native
vegetation of this kind in the Yakima
Valley, Washington, are described by
Prof. o. L. Waller in the Report OF
Irrigation and Drainage Investigations
for 1904, and the following brief de-
scriptions of methods employed and
estimates of cost have been obtained
chiefly from that source. The brush
is first rallied by dragging a 60-pound
rail from 10 to 16 feet long across and
back over the same strip in opposite
directions by hitching a team Of
horses or mules to each end. Some
times the rail is bolted to a heavy tim
Der. Others use a chisel-sharpened
plow-share steel bolted to a 12x12 inch
timber and dispense with the rail. The
loose brush is then gathered into wind
rows or piles by brush rake and
burned. These rakes are made either
of wood with teeth OF round oak or
pine joists or of steel and resembling
a strong and heavy self-dumping hay.
rake. The brush which Is not torn
out by the rail is grubbed out with a
mattock.
The cost OF removing and burning a
heavy growth OF brush in the manner
Just described is about $3.50 per acre.
The Yale expositor., 1907-01-04

The margins of supply bitches on
most irrigated farms are the breed
ing ground of weeds. The seeds of
these fall into the water and are
widely scattered by the irrigating
stream. The banks of bitches should
be graded and smoothed so that the
weeds which grow along the sides can
be readily cut and burned. A rapid
growing forage crop like alfalfa also
tends to keep down the weeds and
may be sown along the banks for this
purpose.
In laying out supply bitches an en-
gineers level and rod are the most
convenient instruments. The dis
tances may be estimated by pacing.
When such instruments are not avail
able, a useful substitute consists of an
ordinary carpenters spirit level at
tached to a portable wooden frame, a
sketch of which we show. When first
made and placed on a level surface
the bubble should be in the center of
its run. Then one leg is shortened by
the amount of the grade per rod (see
table of grades). The device is oper-
ated by one man, who first places the
shorter leg at the surface of the water
in the main canal or supply ditch and
swings the other end around until the
bubble comes to the center. The 10
cation of the longer leg is then
marked by a helper, who carries a
The Yale expositor., 1907-01-04
Peru Claims KurokI.

Gen. Kurold, the famous Japanese
soldier, has been variously described
as of Polish, Russian and German ex-
traction. Another interesting chap
Ter has been added to this genealogical
symposium by an official publication
in the Official Gazette, Of Lima, Peru,
which makes the claim, and submits
a plausible statement Of facts to prove
II, that Kurokis father was Peruvian
patriot whose name was Trarsito
Charroqui II is also declared that
the generals father was a descendant
Of the Incas, who themselves are be-
lieved to have been descendants OF an
Asiatic race. so KurOh is an atavism
and has come into ais own in the land
Of his fathers.
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A Mailman
nCOgnifO

Copyright, by Joseph y. BOvies.)

(csPyrght, by JosspA n Bouies)
It was my first experience of fash
ionable hotel life. and II was an agree
able novelty to a country mouse like
myself, to see the stream of smartly-
dressed women. with their husbands,
brothers, and SWANS, pass along the
wide corridor to the great dining
room.
Rodney" said Aunt Sophy, putting
down her long-handled eyeglass, and
addressing my brother, do you re-
member Lurline Jones?"
"Of course / do. Why, she was my
first love! What do you think l am
made OFF"
Unless I'm mistaken" responded
sitting near the third window. She Is
wearing a black lace gown-the wo-
man with the elaborately-dr hair
and white face. must say she is
Shockingly altered-but all the same
I'm sure 1t is Lurline."
"Yes-and quite the smart society
ady-and he is a good-looking fellow
but rather cadaVerous," l put in.
His name is Rainsford, and i be-
ieve he is enormously rich," contin-
ued Aunt Sophy. "Lurline met him
Abroad very short uooing-a quiet
wedding, exit Miss JOnes!"
Never to return" added, signih-
cantly.
"He has a fine place-near the Dor
der-and Lurline took to her new posi-
ton with alacrity, aid dropped her old
friends"
"Of course, a woman must adopt
her husbands peOple-especially when
they are wealthy" snoered Rodney.
Ten minutes later we were sitting
on the lounge-Aunt Sophy deep in
the evening paper-when Mr. and Mrs
Rainsford passed by.
They sat down within few yards
of us-and Mrs. Rainsford yawned
and famed herself languidly. All at
The Yale expositor., 1907-01-04
".Stork" Mayor a Busy Man.

and that he who touches them to do
them harm would be visited by all
forms of dire calamity, is charm
that protects the birds from any mo-
lestation. Efforts to get the birds for
Mayor Beall proved futile until some
one discovered a nest on a building on
the Hagenbeck place. The young
birds were captured and put in crate
and shipped to New York, from there
to be sent to Washington to be accli-
mated and thence to Alton.
The fact that they were to go to
Washington caused misapprehension
that they were for President Roose-
welt, and 1t was eight days before the
mayor finally persuaded the express
agency at New York that the birds
The Yale expositor., 1907-01-04
CRIED EASILY.
Nervous Woman Stopped Coffee and
Quit Other Things.


No better practical proof that coffee
Is a drug can be required than to note
how the nerves become unstrung in
women who habitually drink it.
The stomach, too, rebels at being
continually drugged with coffee and
tea-they both contain the drug
caffeine. Ask your doctor.
An la. woman teba. the old story
thus:
II had used coffee for six years and
was troubled with headaches, nervous
ness and dizziness. In the morning
upon rising used to belch up a sour
fluid regularly.
often / got Sc nervous and miser-
able would cry without the least rea-
son. and 1 noticed my eyesight was
getting poor.
After using Postum a while, I OBJ
served the headaches left me and soon
the belching OF sour fluid stopped (wa-
ter brash from dyspepsia). l feel de-
cidedly different now, and / am con-
vinced that IT Is because l stopped
coffee and began to use Postum. can
see better now. my eyes are stronger.
"A friend of mine did not like
Postum but when told her to make II
like II said on the package, she liked
II all right" Name given by Postum
Co.. Battle Greek. Mich. Always boil
Postum well and n will surprise you.
Read the little book. -The Road 10
Wslfviile" N pigs. there's a res
The Yale expositor., 1907-01-04
Rotbsebllds Never Prosecute.

While the. Bank of England makes
It a point never under any circum-
stances to relinquish the prosecution
Of those who have defrauded it in the
slightest degree. being willing, If need
be, to spend thousands Of pounds to
capture and prosecute people who
have robbed It Of even few shillings,
the Rothschilds make it rule never
to appeal to the courts ~ to the police
In such matters. OF course, they are,
like every other banker, occasionally
the victims OF dishonesty, but neither
the police nor the public ever hear
about the matter This has always
been a principle OF the heads of the
house, who take the ground that IL Is
better TO bear the loss in silence than
to disturb popular confidence in the
safety of the concern by allowing 1t
to be seen that it's treasures are not
adequately safeguarded.
The Yale expositor., 1907-01-04
Horses Still In Demand.

Happily the horse has faculty for
upsetting the gloomy predictions that
he is fated to be put out Of business
by the automobile. The horse business
has kept right on developing in spite
of the fact that the automobile indus
try has been engaged in similar I'M
dettaking. The demand for horses is
still great. The supply Of some
classes of them is inadequate. The
prices are high. The automobile may
scare the horse into the ditch, but
it isn't likely to crowd him to the wall.
There will always be- field for the
horse, as there will always be field
for the tomobile.-Hartford Times.
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and dizzy spells also, but my worst
suffering was from renal collie. After
/ began using Doan's Kidney Pills
passed a gravel stone as big as a
bean. Since then / have never had
An attack OF gravel, and have picked
up to my former health and weight. I
am a well man, and give Doan's Kid
ney Pills credit for IT,"
Sold by all dealers. so cents box.
roster-Nilburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
The Yale expositor., 1907-01-04

then for a hospital, and later for a
stable Soon after the war the war
the church trustees put in a claim for
damages, but the government refused
1t, and allowed only small rental.
During the last congress Senator War
ner introduced a bill for $1,000 dam
The Yale expositor., 1907-01-04

1 suffered a long,
long time with my
back and felt
drasgy and list
less and tired all
the time. i lost
from my usual
weight, 225, to
10. Urinary pas
sages were too
frequent and I
have had to get
up oftsn at night.
/ had headaches
The Yale expositor., 1907-01-04
RULES TRIBE LIKE A QUEEN.
Daughter Of Founder Of ST. Joseph,
Mo-, 100 Years Old.

Guthrie, Okla.-The descendants Of
some of the first families of Chicago
are now receiving in Oklahoma con.
siderable attention from the United
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Federal Troops Used a Missouri
Church as a Fort.

Kansas City.-During the civil war
federal troops used and occupied the
Christian church in Sturgeon, Mo-,
part of the time for soldiers quarters
The Yale expositor., 1907-01-04
TORTURED WITH GRAVEL.
Since Using Doan's Kidney Pills Not
a Single Stone Has Formed.

Capt. s. L. Crute. Adjt. VIM. Watts
Camp, u. @. w.. Roanoke, Va. says:
The Yale expositor., 1907-01-04
Latest Results.

His Wife-Harold. the boy hasn't
left you any paper this morning. l
wonder what's the cause?
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States government. They are Sac and
Fox Indians who are receiving titles
to their land allotments, which they
took about Is years ago, when their
reservation in eastern Oklahoma was
opened to settlement. The same con-
sideration is being shown their pres
emit neighbors and friends. the Iowa
indians In Oklahoma. whose lands
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Harold

His wife-Ne dear; that's the 70.
suit
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-21

taking, one or two half bitches, and then
stumbled over the slippery stones after the
gull. caught him just as he was futtering
into the water and turned toward my boat,
prize in hand.
The sight that met my eyes almost took my
breath away. There was the oar just as had
left it. But my boatl Instead of the five or
SIX feet which the painter should have allowed
her to drift off, there good twenty feet
of water between her and the ledge, and the
gap was widening every minute.
| dropped the gull and ran as fast as l
could across the rocks By the time l got to
the oar, my boat was all of thirty feet away.
Without hesitating second, ] jumped into
the water and swan after her.
But before l had made six strokes saw
about, and the wind carried my boat two
feet to my one.
1t was all l could do to get back to the
rocks, but did it after hard struggle, and
pulling myself out of the water, sat down to
get my breath and to think the matter over.
For the first few minutes ] couldn't think
of anything but the Emma. There she was,
drifting farther and farther away, her sail
Tapping in the wind, while the sheet whip
ped about in the water.
| saw that she was done for, as the wind
was carrying her on the west shore, where
the rocks would soon grind her to pieces.
At first the thought of losing her drove
everything else out of my mind. / knew at
once how she had happened to get adrlft.
In my hurry to get the gull, had taken
only one or two loose turns of the rope around
the oar, and these hadn't been enough to hold
her in the strong wind that was blowing. l
was angry enough with myself for being so
careless.
But it wasn't long before I began to think
about my own danger. There l was on a
bare ledge in Penobscot Bay, with night clos
ing in and heavy storm coming.
What was l to do? The wind was blow
ing harder every minute and dashing bigger
and bigger waves against the ledge, wetting
me with spray.
In half an hour the tide would be sweeping
over the rocks, and ! realized that / was in
danger of being swept away. The only thing
| for me to do was to climb the Monument.
Taking the oar, / scrambled over. the rock
weed to the southern end of the ledge, and
! by wading through six inches or so of water,
reached the foot of the Monument.
| 1t was about sixteen feet high. built of rough
granite blocks, forming pyramid with square
top, from which rose an iron staff, bearing a
small keg.
After falling back once and bruising myself
badly, / managed, with the help of the oar
to get to the top. Climbing up the north side
I was sheltered from the wind.
| But the minute my head rose above the last
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-21

block, a sudden gust swept away my hat and
made me hold hard to keep my footing. Gain
ing the top at last, | stretched myself out on
the rocky platform four feet square.
Must stay there all night? l had to con-
clude that L must. unless some boat should
take me off. A glance up and down the bay
gave me no encouragement. No boat was In
sight.
-Four miles to the south, the light of Owls
Head flashed out across the angry waters.
10 the north the lamp in the tower on Indian
Island was glowing brighter and brighter in
the deepening gloom.
1t was barely possible that l might attract
the attention of the light-keeper there. If
wanted to do so, | must act at once, for it
was almost dark.
stood up. and taking off my jacket, waved
1T to and fro for some minutes. At times the
wind blew hard. that l had to cling to the
staff with both hands.
But my efforts to attract attention were
useless Convinced that I must spend the
night where | was, I put on nv coat and
again stretched myself out on the granite.
The waves, lashed into foam by the wind,
were rolling against the base of the Monu-
ment, and hinging their spray high in the
air.
ing over the sky were now united in one black
mass, from which few drops of rain were
falling.
| strained my eyes toward the mainland to
catch a last glimpse of my boat. Against
the, dark shore-line. white with breakers
could just make out her sail, swaying violent
ly as she tossed in the surf
L felt that I'd seen the last of the Emma
for no boat that ever was built could help
pounding to pieces in such sea.
looked as long as 1 could see her sail. and
then turned my eyes to the ledge beneath me.
Already the tide had almost covered it and
as 1 looked, one wave, higher than the rest,
swept away the dead gull, the innocent cause
| of all my trouble.
Soon the water was foaming over the high
est point of the rocks. and before long they
had altogether disappeared. 1t had now
grown quite dark. and / could just make out
the outline of the opposite coast.
Scattered lights were twinkling from the
farmhouses along the west shore, and beyond
the harbor's head the lights of the village
cleaned .cheerfully out against the blackness.
Toward these looked longingly, and 1 am
not ashamed to say that lump rose in my
throat when / thought of the folks at home.
1t was no use. however, to wish myself there.
was in for it now. and must bear it the best
way could.
Heavier and heavier fell the rain and the
force Of the gale increased. Though my coat
! was thick now began to shiver with cold.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-21

The loss of my hat, too, had left my head
uncovered.
The narrow limits of the Monument did
not allow me to move about much, and soon
became stiff and cramped. The force OF the
wind, as it shrieked by, actually made me
afraid that / might be blown off into the sea.
Luckily found a stout cord in. my pocket,
and, after tying my left arm to the staff, feic
more secure
I've seen some pretty heavy gales along the
coast but I've never known it to blow hard-
er than it did then. 1t is bad enough TO De
on shore on such night. Think what IL
must have been out where was!
/ A southeast gale was blowing from the
open Atlantic, rolling huge masses. of foam
ing water upon the land S. Ihe ram irSare drree1
lay, upon little pyramid ~, of rock, in the
very teeth of the storm. Ihe spray, winch nt
wet me to the skin. and was shlverlng as II
Gradually the lights on the mainland went
out except few which twnkled family
here and there in the village. The lights on
the shipping in the harbor reeled to and fro
Nearer to me the lamp in the tower on Indian
Island shone steadily out through the stormy
nigbt and as | gazed upon it's clear, calm ra-
dance / felt cheered and consoled, as IL by
human sympathy.
plenty. The sea about me was lit. with
dim, weird, phosphorescence, showing the
monstrous, mon white-crested pillows racing past
No matter where turned my eyes / still saw
the furious whrl and rush of the foaming
water. | grew faint and dizzy as looked
across the tossing waste.
The time dragged slowly on. Lying face
down l watched the waves rise higher and
higher on the Monuments side. Thin sheets
of water, scooped up by the wind, hissed by
in spray. The granite blocks beneath me
were ouivering with the shock of the pillows
oud above all other sounds could hear the
thunder of the breakers upon the ledge to
the north Now and then, in the lulls of the
storm, the faint. hollow boom Of the fog-whis-
tie on Owls Head was borne by the wind to
~ was now suffering good deal from bodily
pain. The steady drenching that l had been
getting had taken all the strength out of me.
AZ one moment felt chilled to the bone; at
the next was burning with fever. AS | look
ed forward through the dreary hours that
must pass before I could hope for rescue, it is
no wonder that my courage sank.
I became still more gloomy when I remem-
bered that it was about time for the cline
gale" If the present storm should happen
to be that blow my chances of escape were
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