The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-14
To Raise Poppies.

Chicago News.
To Raise Poppies.
Poppies. with their gorgeous flowers
and graceful stems, are exceedingly
simple of culture. The ANIMALS should
be sown early in the spring, before the
ground is dry and hot. The perennials,
If seed is planted in the spring, do not
bloom the first year. 1t is better to
get plants that have been grown from
seed planted in the late summer or
early autumn. The seed of the ANIMALS
are very small and need not be planted
thick. 1t should be lightly covered
with soil and gently firmed. When the
plants are well up. they should be
thinned out, to be ten twelve inches !
apart. A rather light, rich soil, some |
what sandy, is best, although peoples
do well in almost any soil. If the bed
is somewhat protected from the sun |
and drying winds a longer blooming |
season will result. Some gardeners |
try a succession of planting, so as to |
have blooming plants through all the |
summer, but unless the weather Is |
cool and of uniform temperature, re- |
suits from late planting will not be
good.
Perennials, if the seed is sown IN |
late summer or early autumn will |
grow and become established plants |
before winter. Slight protection should |
be given them in the cold weather, |
and in the spring they will produce |
flowers of immense size and brilliant |
colors providing the soil is rich. While
the perennials excel in brilliancy,
their blooming season is comparative
ly short and it is a good plan to use
the ground for other purposes after
the blooming season is over. Asters,
Verbenas and plants of like character
may be planted between the peoples
and will furnish a desirable bed the
remainder of the season.
Not the Same.
Governor Elect Hughes, at a dinner
in New York, talked about disorderly
political meetings. "a friend of mine"
he said, was once a good deal an
noyed while addressing meeting by a
man on the front row who howled like
dog. At every telling point in my
friends argument this man would emit
frightful howls and spoil the effect.
My friend asked the name of the man,
and was told that it was Harry Loft.
Then he said in a loud voice:
Mr.. Loft, it is plain that our friend
Goldsmith had you in mind when he
said:
1.-THE watchdog's voice that bayed the
whispering wind,
And the loud Loft that spoke the va
cant mind"
He said that, did hep cried Loft
furiously, and he turned and struck
a fat little man behind him a hard
blow on the head. 1t was only after
a five minutes scrimmage and much
profane abuse that Mr. Loft was con-
WINGED that the Goldsmith referred to
was the long-dead poet, and not the
little fat man of the same name.Y-
Exchange.
Pump Yields Both Fish and Water
Ranchmen at Hynes, six miles north
of Long Branch, are raising great
quantities of clear, fresh water from
the earth's depth. and with about ev
ranging from six to twelve inches In
length, are drawn from the under
ground stream and sent with rush
down the sideways to the irrigation
bitches, many miles from the nearest
surface waterway, and six miles from
the ocean.
Charles Luther, a farmer from Maine.
who is caring for 20 acres owned by
Mrs. Selvert, of this city, when he first
saw the fish didn't believe his own eyes,
and it required the testimony of his
ney Fredericks, to convince him that
they were not only live fish, but good
to eat.
Since the first fish was captured. cook
ed, and eaten, many hundreds have been
and the ranchmen have ceas-
ed to wonder, as Luther expresses the
opinion that Hynes is directly over a
great undergraduates. Fifteen ranch
es are supplied from one pumping plant,
owned jointly, and there is water for
all, and plenty to spare. No one has
!
see, although all that have been caught I
have eyes.-Los Angeles Dispatch to
New York American. I
The Irish of 1t. {
Before Nine. Kalich became cele-
brated English-speaking star" she
was for years the idol of thousands of :
Yiddish theater-goers of New York .
Down at the Thalia theater on the
she drew admiring throngs
who fairly raved about this remark ,
able woman. Indeed. so great was her +
reputation many uptown people made Z
to lower Third avenue to :
see her and, though they did not I'M
a word of the language which /
she then spoke, they were held by the {
greatness of her art. II
One of the stories which Nine. Kalich 2
likes best to tell of those times Is how s
one day when she was entering the
theater for rehearsal she saw two Irish {
men, evidently recent arrivals from the =
old country, standing and gazing in '
open-eyed wonder at the poster in front '
Of the playhouse.
This poster was printed entirely in '
and Nine. Ka1ich's name even c
in Hebrew characters.
Can We read that, Mike?" asked 7
one. 7
Sure. an I can not. Pat" answered /
the other, but If 1 had a fiddle, '
could play 1.-THE Bohemian. /
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