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The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-05-20
As the Engineer Explained Il.

1t is said that unless one can impart
information one does not really pos.
sess 1t. The late Prof. Angelo Heilprin
used to tell story. says the Washing.
ton Star, illustrative of this point. The
professor himself had a most learned
and lucid mind. Not only could he
master question; he could lay 1t so
clearly before you that you became
master of 1t. too.
Two commercial travellers on the
way from Reading to Philadelphia
once got into an argument over the &C.
ton of the vacuum brake.
ITS the imitation of the tube that
stops the train" declared the first
traveller.
Wrong, wrong!" shouted the sec.
ond. ITS the output of the exhaus-
ton"
So they wrangled for an hour Then,
when the train arrived In Philadelphia,
they agreed to submit the matter for
settlement to the engineer. That gen.
tleman, leaning condescendingly from
the window of his cab, listened with
an attentive frown to the two travel
ers' statement Of their argument.
Then he smiled, shook his head, and
said:
well. gents, ye're both wrong about
the workin' of the vacuum brake.
Yet it's very simple and easy to un.
derstand. When we want to stop the
train we inst turn this 'ara tan and
then we fill the pipe with vacuum
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-05-20
WHEN A MAN ouEERs HIMSELF.
HOW orummer's Joke Made a Good
Thing for Others.

oh, yes, l am on the road for the
same old firm and at the same old
wages said the drummer as look
Oh disgust crossed his face, land
never expect to get anything better.
When man queers himself good and
hard once he seldom gets another
look in"
Something happen to your" was
asked.
Two years ago when I had a west.
ern route, struck the LATEST, sleep
lest village in the United States.
never saw such place before or
since. Dead asleep. and don't believe
the whole population had hundred
dollars In cash. was put out at
not being able to do business, and
thinking to play joke on the town
asked the landlord of the inn what
he would take for his place. 1t was
worth perhaps thousand dollars, but,
OF course, he doubled the sum.
SAID Id take 1t as soon as the deeds
could be made out. Then went out
and bought shop, a store and six
dwellings in the same way, permitting
the owners to name their price. With
in half day l had 'em woke up. l
offered to buy three or four farms
in the country around"
All for joker
All for joke. hadn't $50 to
my name. The usual result followed
Every one became suspicious that I
had a big thing on and refused to
sell. The excitement continued, and,
as a matter of fact, a big manufac-
tory was located there, a railroad
was built, shops established, and to-
day 1T is bustling little city. l gave
1t its start. If I'd have gone at it
like a business man | could have Sc
cured hundred options and been in
the swim, but as 1t was | was left
out of the good thing and never ex-
pect to strike another. I'm not kick
Ing. That's the drummer's luck.
Sugar goes up and sugar goes down,
he stays right there -Rehoboth Sun
day Herald.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-05-20
Has Found Rivers Sources.

Dr. Sven Hedin, the Swedish ex-
plorer. states that he has discovered
the true sources of the Brahmaputra
and Indus. The Brahmaputra, he says,
Is the kubitsampso. which rises from
an enormous glacier on the northern
side of the northern.most parallel
range of the Himaiayas. The Marium-
chu, which has hitherto been regarded
as the source, is merely small tribu.
tary flowing in from the west.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-05-20
The Proud Maid.

Robert Barr, the English novelist,
was entertained at dinner by North
Woodward avenue family. The men
adjourned to the smoking room and
the hostess fingered to give orders to
the maid.
Co." said the young girl 81 was so
proud to have been able to wait on
Mr.. Barr. He is the first famous man
I have ever attended"
And then In burst OF maidenly en-.
thusiasm, she exclaimed:
Perhaps some day l may be called
to wait on Shakespeare. Detroit
Free Press.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-10
To Tan Sheen Skins.

The Country Gentleman gives this
method of tanning sheep skins which
any farmer could easily follow in tan
ming the skins wanted for home use:
Wash the hide in warm water, re-
move all fleshy matter from the in
ner surface and loose dirt from the
hair side. Now wash in strong,
rather warm soapsuds. The old-time
soft soap made from wood ashes is
best. Either rub by hand of gently
on washboard. AS soon az thoroughly
cleaned and rlnsed. press as much
of the water out as possible. Add
the following mixture to the flesh
side: Common salt and grotAl alum.
one-fourth ounce each, and one-ha!f
ounce of borax dissolved in one quart
of hot water. When sufficiently cool
to work with the hand add enough
rye meal to make a thick paste
Spread the mixture on the flesh side;
fold and let il remain in shady.
airy place for two weeks; remove the
paste and wash When nearly dry
scrape the flesh side thoroughly with
a dull knife; rub with the hands
until skin is soft and pliaole.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-10
BURMESE BUDDRISTS.

Worship of the image of Buddha
as practiced in Burma is wildly de-
lineated in the photograph on this
page. 1t is the boast OF the Burmese
that nowhere, unless possibly in Cey-
Ion are the teachings of the great
Gautama preserved and followed
with the purity that they are in
Burma. Yet taking the teachings as
they have come down to us, no one
can conceive of the teacher accepting
or in any sense approving the rites
practiced by his followers of this gen.
GRAFTON; they are SO utterly alien to
his doctrine as We conceive it. The
Buddhists priests have their own waY
of reconciling the Formally, the rites
and ceremonies of the worship in
their temples with the Buddhism that
Gautama taught, but to us it seems
that it is removed from it as far as a
pontifical mass in st. Peters is from
the simplicity of Quaker meeting
The extraordinary fact is that Gau-
tama, born as is supposed in $40 B.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-10
Fertilizer For Corn.

AS | am reader Of your valuable
paper and seeing an item of great
Importance to the farmer in regard
to fertilizing of corn, will say, on ac-
count of not getting stand of TO-
yer two years ago | purchased an
attachment for my planter for the
purpose of using commercial ferti-
lizer and applied in the hill about
eighty-five pounds to the acre, and
SO well pleased with the result that
j will try it again this season. My
farm is of clay timber land and
considered rather poor land. l have
been raising from forty to fifty bush
els per acre for the past six years
on clover sod. but last year with the
addition of fertilizer l raised better
than sixty bushels per acre of good
corn. Now there is difference in
the quality of fertilizer, | prefer the
best. as it is the cheapest in the end.
OF course. 1t costs more per ton, but
We get less ground stone in the bet
ter quality. Some will tell you if
you commence using it you have to
keep 1t up. Now that is all bosh.
OF course, a farmer should raise clo-
yer by all means. Glover seed will
never be so high but what it will pay
to sow it. paid s25 per ton for
my fertilizer.-W H. Wilson, in the
Indiana Farmer.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-10
A Tree 1000 Years Old.

Whatever the age of the trees in
this country, the Prince of Wales can
assert that he has seen one in Japan
twelve hundred years old. A giant
pine. with its branches supported by
stout props, it is permanent sacri-
flee to Buddha. Kobo Daishi built
a pagoda in honor of Buddha twelve
centuries ago, and in front of it he
set his pine as perpetual Offering,
in place of flowers, which should in
the ordinary course be offered.
Twelve hundred years is long per-
iod in which to trace the history of
tree, but it is only half the age
Of the present dynasty, and they were
able to tell the prince as plain tale
of the pine trees growth as of the
descent of their present emperor
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-10

C.-about the time that Ezra and
Nehemiah were gathering their peo-
pie to return to the Holy Land by per.
mission of Cyrus-began to declare
his faith in opposition to the Brah-
manism which had dominated the
thought of India for more than a
thousand years, should have been
that in our time, twenty-five centuries
later, it survives and is the creed of
five hundred million human beings.
AS far as we can gather from the
traditions that have come down to
us, Gautama revolted from Brahman-
ism, and like Ecclesiastes, sought
spiritual peace by various means. He
first tried philosophy, and then bodily
austerites by which he nearly lost his
life. At last he made his great dis
covery, as he states in his sacred
writings, that ITO cease from sin, to
get virtue, to cleanse ones own heart,
is the only way to peace. This" he
said, lis the doctrine of Buddha "
To die to desire, to make absolute
self-surrender to God, to be utterly
Indifferent to the world, sustained
by the inward life, ito be nothing, "
until finally individuality was swal-
lowed up in the Nirvana, that was
Buddha's idea as it appears to the
modern student. 1t is difficult to I'M
derstand how such a doctrine could
have become corrupted into the Bud
dhism that kissed the toe of an image,
if we had not seen men prostratins
themselves before crucifix and pray
ing before a relic.-Christian Herald
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-10
Money in Horses.

Nor were the Morgan horses the
only noted horses in New England
The farmers of Maine were sufficient
ly adventurous and enterprising to
secure in earliest times a son of the
renowned imported Messenger, who
elevated the horse stock OF the State
to a higher level, and left his marx
that is clearly in evidence to-day. al
though sadly lowered By Indifference
and neglect. General Knox was an
other New England horse that LETT
his mark and made a fortune for his
owner; the first horse in the country
for which the then fabulous amount
of $4,000 was offered and refused.
Since his time s125,OOO has been
paid for a single horse by a resident
of New England to more enter
prising farmer ana breeder in a West
ern State.
A few years back the sale cata-
logues of an auction firm announ cing
a sale of valuable blooded stock, con-
tanned a map showing Boston as
central point, and including the
country within a radius of five hun
dred miles. From their many pre-
vious sales and tabulations they
learned. and so published in this cata-
logue. that seyenty-fve per cent. of
all the fine horses bought. and the
long prices paid for them-the kind
that sold for one. two, five. ten and
fifty thousand and upwards were
bought and paid for by residents
within the territory shown. And yet
with this great market ut their very
doors it is unnecessary to ask how
much all this profited the New Eng
land farmer. And yet we are told
by them that horses cannot be profit
ably raised in New England. Save
the mark. Cultivator
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-10
LEPRECHAUN APPEARS.
Little Man in Red Seen Again by Sun.
day School Children.


The Leprechaun is reported to
have reappeared in northwest Meath.
Since the sensation created a fort
night ago by a report that the little
man in red had been seen in that
district. the superstitious country
folks have been eagerly searching for
him to bring them good luck, but he
seemed to have vanished as mysteri-
ously as he had come, and fortune
seekers were disappointed.
Yesterday, however, it was report
ed from the neighborhood of Killu-
can that as three children were re-
turning from Sunday school they
were suddenly confronted by what
they described as little man wear
ing shoes. gray stockings, corduroy
Knockers. red coat and a green cap.
Doffing his headgear, he stepped
toward one of them, a little girl, ex-
tended to her note with his right
hand. She was frightened and
turned to run away, but little boy
with her called that he would catch
the Leprechaun and ran to grasp
him.
The Leprechaun, however, eluded
him. and led him for a short distance,
until, having succeeded in distracting
the Youngsters attention, he disap-
peared with a quaint laugh, nor
could trace of him afterward be
found.-London Evening Standard.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-10
Demand For Good Horses.

Farmers must take to breeding
good horses. Such are not only
needed on the farms. but it is as easy
to raise a good horse which will sell
at long price as it IS to raise a scrub
for which there is no market. The
demand for heavy horses was never
better than at present. and it is likely
to increase rather than to decrease
The population is centralizing in large
cities. These naturally become the
great distributing centres, and with
increase in distribution comes in
crease in the demand for heavy dray
horses so extensively used in such dis
tribution. This means. therefore.
that the breeding of such horses is an
entirely safe venture on the part Of
those who will take 1t UP on intelli-
gent lines. Those who engage in it
need not be harassed by fear that
they are putting their money into a
plant that will soon become useless
because of depreciation in the price
of horses. The great mistake in
rearing horses for dray uses lies in
the fact that they are too lacking in
weight. Any number of horses can
be bred which weigh between 1900
and 400 pounds The number IS
not large that weigh more than 1900
pounds, and yet it is the latter class
that is most wanted.-Farmer Ad-
vocate.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-10
A Feat of Communication.

The story of what may be called
a remarkable feat OF communication
is told in Harpers Weekly. Thirty
seTen years ago, it is recalled by the
writer, 1t took Stanley nine months
of travel through the vast equatorial
forests of Africa to reach Ujiji and
find Livingstone. During almost his
entire journey he was lost to COM
munication with the outside world.
At 1890 p. NJ. on Wednesday,
March 90, cable despatch was sent
through the Western Union Tele-
graph Company from New York to
Nairobi, in British East Africa. q
station thirty days march from Liv-
ingstone's headquarters; and a reply
was received through the Postal
Telegraph Cable Company shortly
after noon on the following Friday.
an interval of less than fifty hours
The cable despatch was transmitted
first to the Azore Islands, and thence
to Lisbon. Gibraltar, Malta, Alex
andria, Port Said, Suez. Alden, Fan
zibar and Mombasa. on the Eas'
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-10

The peach or plum rot has done a
great deal OF damage to the fruit
crop in Oklahoma. In the summer
of 1906 it was very bad on the en-
tire crop. In the summer of 1907
it did a great deal OF damage to the
early peaches and plums but was not
so noticeable on fruit ripening later
in the season. This disease is wide
spread and very we'll known. 1t is
known by several names as: ripe .'ot
of stone fruits, brown rot of peaca
and plum, fruit rot, and twiS blight.
The disease attacks the twigs early
In the growing season and causes
them to turn dark and shrivel. The
leaves also turn dark and wilt. Later
in the season, the fungus attacks the
fruit. The twigs have not suffered
to any considerable extent in Okla
homa from the presence of this dis
ease. 1t appears shortly before the
fruit Is ripe and attacks the fruit
at this time. The spores of the dis
ease find Judgment ON the surface
and during moist, warm weather the
spores terminate rapidly and the fun
gus then makes its entrance into the
fruit and develops rapidly. Soon
after the fungus makes it's entrance
into the fruit small, brown circular
spots appear on the surface. These
brown spots go deep into the flesh
of the fruit and spread very rapidly
over the surface. If the weather is
favorable, the entire fruit will be
discolored in one or two days, the
skin ruptured by many small pim-
Piles that throw out large quantities
of an ashy gray of dove-colored pow
der that entirely covers the surface.
This powder Is the spores of the dis
ease and is easily spread by the wind
to neighboring fruit, and there finds
Judgment and in a very few days
repeats the entire process of destruc-
ton. Warm weather is especially
favorable to the development of the
disease and the early soft-aeshed va
rieties that mature and ripen during
moist warm weather are especially
subject to the attacks and are some
times very difficult to protect from
the disease.
Spraying the trees with Bordeaux
mixture has been found in several
States to be entirely effective in pro-
tecting- the plants from the disease.
The trees that have been attacked by
the disease should be sprayed before
the growth starts in the spring All
the old mummied and rotted fruit
that is on the ground under the trees
should be gathered and burned
Oklahoma Agricultural Experiment
Press Bulletin.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-10

Although she has good home she
has had her troubles. Her worst trial
was her worthless sister, Carrie.
Carrie was continually calling on
Sarah for help, and Sarah would no
sooner get her fixed up respectable
and think she had a little money
saved for herself when sister Carrie
would come whining around again.
We felt it great blessing when
Carrie died. Sarah's many friends
were anxious to help make Carries
funeral elaborate to please the sister
who had striven so hard to make the
hayward ones life easy. The sexton
of their church was the most gener-
GUS. Sarah confided to Aunt Harriet
that the section had sent her "a
beautiful CASTOR She meant 'casket.
you know.
I'VE went to the funeral, not out
of any fondness for Carrie, but be-
cause of our affection for Sarah. 1t
really was handsome CASTOR and
there was an array of flowers. All
Sarah's friends came and sat on the
mourners' bench, wailing and moan
ing during the eulogy. There wasn't
much to say for poor Carrie, so the
preacher thought it wiser to confne
himself to the truth, but we were
quite unprepared for such a bald ex-
posture as he gave u.s. Some seq
said he, Sister Carrie was a fool.
Praise Gawd! She was a fool,'
'A-a-men! walled the mourners.
Sarah among them. l knew | should
disgrace myself if stayed. so l quiet
ly left. New York Tribune.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-10

One of the tricks of the Hungarian
jockeys is to tie a Glove of garlic
to their racers bits, when the horses
that run against them fall back the
moment they breathe the offensive
odor. 1t has been proved that no
horse will eat out of a trough If the
mouth of another steed in the stable
has been rubbed with the juice of
this plant. l am surprised that out
home jockeys have not used this
means of stopping their opponents.
Perhaps they have tried it without
our being put WISE"
A celebrated army physician tells
this: "A horse of mine was in the
same stall with one belonging to a
brother officer; mine fell away and
refused his food, while his companion
throve uncommonly we'll. / at last
discovered that German groom, who
had charge of The prosperous ami
NAL, had recourse to this vile strata
gem of rubbing his horses nose with
garlic. New York Press.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-10
White Africans.

The Berbers, who, although Afri-
can. are as white as Europeans, are
the oldest white race on record, says
an explorer. They are supposed to
have come from the south of Europe
in ancient days, the Dundee Adver-
tiser says, and, although their Ian
guage and customs are entirely diff
ferent from ours and their religion
Mohammedan, they are probably
closely akin by descent. Blue eyes
and fair hair are not at all uncom-
mon among the Berbers, and many
of them have rosy cheeks and feat
ures so like our own that were they
dressed in British fashion they would
easily pass as natives of the British
Isles.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-10

African coast. Thence it was sent
inland to Nairobi by telegraph, and
from that point was conveyed thirty
miles to the house of the recipient.
the total approximate distance being
Slightly more than 10000 miles. Ow-
ing to the difference in time between
New York and Nairobi, the message
lost eight hours in transmission, and
consequently was not received till
Observation-Disclosures the two days
occupied by its journey and the re-
turn of the answer might have been
shortened considerably.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-10
saccharine Feeds the Latest.

The history of the manufactured
short one. The man who left the
farm ten years ago and plunged into
other lines. forgetting his former &C.
cupation. smiles with incredibly
when he picks up farm or feed
journal and sees "Molasses Feeds"
advertised and discussed. But the
up-to-date farmer. ,.airyman and
feeder already understand the value
Of molasses or saccharine feeds The
Overwhelming demand for such feeds
prove this.
But the very fact that this demand
is so great has produced conditions
in the manufacture of saccharine
feeds of which feeders should be in
formed and of which they should
make a note.
Demand will induce a supply of
some kind, and where the demand in
creases rapidly. the supply is very
liable to be inferior tc What it would
be were the demand limited to sell
strictly on superior merit.
This rapidly growing demand for
saccharine feeds has induced scores
Of manufacturers to place such feeds
on the market under various names.
and with almost as various ingre-
dents. Analyses of many of these
feeds reveal the fact that they con-
tain a large amount OF indigestible
matter that is not even legitimate or
healthy roughage; in fact. much of
it is absolutely injurious to the stock.
Dat hulls, rice bulls. weed seeds and
other matter of neutral or harmful
character have been found in large
proportions by the experimental de-
partments of animal industry in the
various States.-Epitonist
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-10
Unique Bath Apparatus.

A novel bathing apparatus, the in
yention of an Oregon man, is shown
in the illustration below. This por-
table apparatus was designed to be
utilized for encasing all of the hui
man body, applying a vacuum about
it and supplying oxygen to the body
from the lungs only. By this method
poison can be driven out of the sys-
TEN. 1t is also designed for use as
thermal or sweat bath and for i'm
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-10
For Most Profit.

Cut out all the intermediates you
ean, and sell your product direct to
the consumer. If possible. The scale
Of profitable disposition Of dairy pro-
ducts is as follows. beginning with
he least profitable:
Homemade butter. with skim
milk fed on farm Whole milk sold
20 condensery Whole milk sold to
creamery. The use of hand separa-
tor, with cream collected by cream
cry. and fresh. warm skimmilk fed
on the farm Milk and cream
shipped for city consumption. The
retail milk route, selling the milk
direct to consumers.-H. A. Bere-
man, in the American Cultivator.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-10
How to Test the Acidity of Soils.


Supposed corrective treatments
are often given to soils supposed to
be acid, when as a matter of fact
an opposite treatment may be re-
quired. A recipe given by the De-
partment of Agriculture for deter
mining soil acidity is as follows.
Boil for half hour a sample of
the soil to be tested in a small guam
tity of water, say a quart. Allow
1t to settle, and when perfectly clear.
pour off the water into white dish
and test it with both blue and red
litmus paper. These papers can be
procured from any drug store for a
few cents. If the soil is acid, the
blue litmus paper will turn red. If
1t is alkaline. the red litmus paper
will turn blue. Ten minutes should
be allowed in the water for the lit
mus paper to change color. If at
the end of that time there is no
change, then the soil is neutral
neither acid nor alkaline.
1t should be understood that such
= test as this is not determination
VI whether or not a soil needs lime.
The question of lining of soil is still
a mooted subject. Much evidence
has been presented 10 prove that lin
ing of soil has been most beneficial
VIXEN the soil was In no sense .ur.
r. however. the soil does show strong