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TAKE CENSUS OF IRRIGATION
II VIII Give Only the Acreage and
Yield Of Crops and Total irrI.
gated Area.

Washington Census Director Dur
and has given out statement to cor
rect what he designated as an erro-
census bureau will collect relative to
irrigation. Mr.. Durand said that it
has been reported that facts and fig
ures relative to irrigation projects.
both government and private. would
comprise new and important feature
OF the 1910 census reports and a.
consequence the census bureau had re-
ceived many inquiries concerning the
subject.
Mr.. Durand's statement said that .
request of the National Irrigation con-
census bureau has been taken as the
intention Of the bureau toward the
subject of irrigation The congress
desired the bureau to collect data re-
garding the number of acres under ir-
rigation in 1908 and 1909; the crops,
their acreage and estimated value for
the two years: the number of people
engaged in and depending on irriga-
ton for livelihood, the capital in
vested in irrigation concerns and the
companies engaged In irrigation In
each state.
Mr.. Durand said that the census bu-
reau's agricultural schedules would
call for the acreage and yield of the
various crops that are under irrigation
and the total irrigated area In the
United States. but was not authorized
to go further. He said also that there
was a daily increasing demand from
the public for statistics and informa-
ton relative to water power. The bu-
reau expects to develop data along this
line in connection with its census OF
manufactures that will be valuable II
followed up with complete and care
full census. the money for which con-
gress is expected to provide in the
near future.
The Ordway new era., 1909-12-17

NCE more the New York
woman is arraigned at the
bar OF social opinion. And
all because In a recent
sermon Rev. Oscar Hay
wood. pastor OF the Col
legiate Baptist Church OF
the Covenant in West
Thlrty-third street laid the
downtown tendency of
New York city's morals
at her door. says the New
The Ordway new era., 1909-12-17
ALFALFA A VALUABLE CROP
BY Flowing Under a Crop a Great
Amount Of Nitrogen Is Added
to the Soil.

Nitrogen Is found in abundance In
the air. but ordinary crops cannot
take 1t up and utilize it in its gaseous
form. The so-called nitrogen-fixing
bacteria which are found in the nod
ules on alfalfa roots take up atmos-
pheric nitrogen and elaborate 1t into
heterogeneous compounds (protein)
which are assimilated and stored up
in the leaves and stems Of the alfalfa
plant. 1t is this protein which makes
alfalfa such a valuable forage. The
root growth of the plant and the de-
cay and renewal of tubercles on the
root enrich the soil with nitrogen.
Leaves dropping OF also add some.
BY plowing under n crop OF alfalfa .
still greater amount Of nitrogen Is
added to the soil. In these various
ways alfalfa enriches the soil.
Were 1t not for the fact that tho
cultivation Of alfalfa and other leg
umes add nitrogen to the soil we
should. in addition to the utilization OF
all stable manure. be obliged to pur-
chase expensive commercial nitrogen
such as nitrate OF soda and guano and
apply them to the land.
To supply the deficiency Of nitrogen
Is imperative on our new land. as
there Is no cheaper or more practic-
able way Of making our soil fertile on
any considerable scale. The various
field crops yield nearly II not twice
as much after alfalfa has occupied
the land as before. A crop Of alfalfa
turned under is worth ten tons OF
sugar beets per acre.
The Ordway new era., 1909-12-17
HORTICULTURAL NOTES.

Mulch the shrubs. vines and hardy
flower beds with stable manure.
Keep the seed pods picked Cd. II
you want flowers.
Treat the lilac shoots as weeds. Cut
of all seed pods II you want flowers
next year.
Mulch the hybrid perpetual rose
bushes; keep the soil underneath
moist.
Pull weeds.
Pick of all seed pods from the hol-
lyhock when they appear. The plant
will thrive better.
Cut away all but the strongest canes
half a dozen are enough to leave
on the climbing roses. Prune the
June rose bushes.
Gloxinias, fuchsias and tuberous
rooted begonias are summer bloomers.
Let them rest during winter.
See that plunged pots are not al
lowed to dry out. Even In wet sea-
sons the soil inside the pot may be-
come too dry.
Oleanders, lemons. oranges, hydran-
geas, chrysanthemums and nearly all
tub plants are best wintered in the
cellar. Keep growing now.
The SCOT recommended as ferttliz-
er for garden plants is that from wood
ashes. Coal ashes has no value.
Water the sweet peas lavishly about
the roots and be generous with the
blooms. Allow no seed pods, II you
want flowers.
Cut everlastings and grasses a.
,o,r a, tho aovora aro fullv onened
tie in punches. hang head down and
dry in the shade for winter bouquets.
Fasten dahlias and other brittle
stalked tall growers to some support
to protect them from storms OF wind.
The Ordway new era., 1909-12-17
BY Mrs. e. L. Fernandez.
vice-PresIden, Professional '

Nice-Presldent Professional woman's
League.
II MAY be old.fashioned. yet | am
continually engaged in questions
OF the day. see and hear things.
and participate in affairs that In.
terest the public. But my old.fash.
ioned views inspire these comments
on DIR. Haywood's interview:
The trouble with New York women
Is their lack of interest In their
home surroundings. They feel no in
terest whatever In their homes. Home
Is place to sleep. perhaps even to
eat In when the bank account runs
low and they cannot spend the accus.
toned amount In public restaurants.
In many households there is little
love OF family. Women do not wish
to have children. This condition In
itself Is enough to wreck the morals
or n country. for no matter how bad
the woman II she has child the
spark OF goodness and womanliness
still burns. On the other hand. the
woman who deliberately shuns the
motherly duty becomes hard and bad
at heart.
This lack of home ties leads to dis
sipation. The Idle wife must be
amused. Once she begins to drink
she Is forever restless. The wCrld
holds not enough to divert her. She
must go out every night and then to
supper and to drink some more. She
must lunch and, dine here. there and
everywhere and liquor accompanies
every meal.
Her home bores her She escapes
from It as every opportunity. She is
OF with other men because they In
terest her for the moment and furnish
excitement. She begins to regard her
husband as a human bank account,
and resents the situation when she
finds she has overdrawn her account.
This condition nine times out Of ten
will end with divorce. To-day, even.
divorce In the eys Of some women is
a diversion. 1t gives them something
to do. It furnishes excitement to
jaded sensibilities.
Smoking represents exaggerated
stimulation OF minds and bodies. Vul.
gar1ty In dress Is the natural result
Of the woman's deadened sense OF de-
cency.
When woman drinks she turns
reckless Her first recklessness may
hardly be apparent even to herself.
but gradually it becomes more
marked. As a result she will say any
thing she desires: she will do any
thing. no matter how disgusting. that
she wishes to do. and she will wear
the most outrageous clothes imagin-
able.
Analyze the nervous. high-strung
woman Of to-day. the woman who
fiaunts her petty vices in the face OF
society, and you will find that the
word home" means nothing to her.
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Make cuttings o. orapevInes.

Now is good time to make cuttings
of grapevines and many ornamental
shrubs or vines. After the leaves are
off, select well-ripened shoots Of the
last summers growth and cut them
into lengths six to ten inches long,
each containing at least two buds. Tie
into bundles and pack away in saw.
dust or sand in the cellar. until plant.
ing time In the spring.
The Ordway new era., 1909-12-17
BY Mrs. Harriet Johnston Wood.

BY Mrs. Harriet Johnston Wood.
Vice President Of the Woman's Equal
Suffrage League.
0VYHAT is the matter with the
. New York woman? Her hus.
w II she has no husband, then
her men friends. For New York men
are directly responsible for what New
York women are to-day.
Does a woman smoke? Then 1t Is
because her husband demands her
companionship even In smoking. he
may have travelled in countries where
women smoke. He has become accus'
toned to this, and misses 1t II his
wife does not Join him in cigaret
after the salad, or with their co1ee.
His selhshness leads her into the
habit.
Does she drinkf Then her husband,
or her men friends. have asked her
To do 80. They go out to dinner to-
Rether. The first question asked by
the man is: What sort of q cock
tailf" Or II he has learned her pref
erence the cocktail is ordered before
abe has drawn OF her gloves. She
drinks at first not because she likes
the taste Of the cocktail. but because
the man expects her to be his good
pai." When she finally learns 70
crave the liquor he taught her 70
Srint 10 man condemns her.
poes she wear low-cut gowns or
The Ordway new era., 1909-12-17

rk World
Following this sermon with n direct
b,snent to the Sunday World. DR..
ysood says:
I say without hesitation that the
y York woman OF today Is drag
g down moral standards. not only
the next generation OF her own
but for the men among whom she
pres and whom she endeavors to at
VI BY means to which her mother
her grandmother would never
Ne stopped. II her influence did
extend beyond the confines of
aahattan Island the situation would
less appalling. but. alas. she is
sseted as model by women all
u the country. women who see her
er environment or as a guest In
ef home towns or who read OF her
fentricities. her attractiveness, her
ing In the public press and period
as OF all sorts. Indirectly as well
directly she thus becomes a source
contamination.
"e~ York may well be termed a
oylon. 1t is poisoning the very
4aaation OF our national social
sth by drawing women of other
aes to itself-and away from the
loesome standards. forms and hab.
OF generations past.
Inc women OF the household are
'0nsible for the moral slough Of
York. Take the single question
saere the family of the typical
Yorker shall live. For the sake
us children the husband and IA
~ would be quite willing to live
Me suburbs. enduring all the incon.
s'enees Of committing. But his
VIII not bury herself in the
soly dullness" Of a quiet suburb.
~ wants to be where she can see
oe seen. She demands excite.
.at the social life and the night
peculiar to this city. She insists.
.se.' on being in the swim. and
s IN the swim In New York she
ZINES means indulging in all sorts
Is''pation. not only in private.
y. III public. so that all who come
~ see that she knows Just what
@ sn women are doing.
Soncerning the modern habits Of
en, Sa'. let US first consider smoking.
/, s'a y, mat smoking. especially cigar
esas women to a far lower point
Sesradation than drinking. Many
,. n or woman who drinks Is not
.' om. bad, but the average man or
,... Susn addicted to cigaret smoking
s .i,,. moral standard that is ap-
lug, .a strikes a criminal note that
my aochins and shows a decided ten
:. NY. toward degensracy. And fig-
nj no., 50 TO show that more women are
nv lang cigarets In New York to-day
.r .n .ney ever have before.
!. .Drlnking follows cigaret smoking.
'ae combination IL fearful. Won.
!, "no indulge in these two habits
~. : wreck community's morals. for.
n.., noer, the old generation IL dis.
= ns' and the oncoming genera
: !. wiii look to the woman Of to.
" no' OF Yesterday. for It's example.
. Ano what sort Of an example does
: s S IN dress. for instancef In
~. .oom at the theater. on the
~. ~. the New York woman leaves
ua. us TO the imagination. The
NY ,sS youth. Watching her pass.
ss s,.s At the vision Of exposed
,~'. eiingfns. suggestive skirts.
.ss necks beneath open firs, the
!. Iau.ned down over the eyes ~
+ n.t-vsil the invitation to admire.
sok at this woman and ask. II
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pooooooooooooo0oooooooe
,veoe JUDGMENT OF REV.
DR.. HAYWOOD.

-sAY without hesitation
r that the New York wom-
OF to-day Is dragging
down moral standards,
feE not only for the next
w generation Of her own
!, M, for the men among whom
1, moves and whom she endeav-
IA attract by means to which
!, mother and her grandmother
r..ls never have stopped. " her
,ausnee did not extend beyond
1. eonfnes OF Manhattan Is
VA the situation would be less
Iso,llina; but. alas! she 10 Sc
Ee,sd as a model by women all
,rr the country-women who
Z. her In her own environment
\ ua guest in their home
Isxn, or who read Of her eccen.
kr,f,Ies, her attractiveness, her
L,rino In the public press and
EsriodieaIs Of all sorts. Indirect.
N - we'll as directly. she thus
kesomes a source Of contamina.
bon.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1909-09-16
Cdtarrh Cannot Be Cured

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reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh
is blood or constitutional disease,
and in order to cure it you must take
internal remedies. Halls Catarrh
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directly on the blood and mucous sur
faces. Halls Catarrh Cure is not a
quack medicine. 1t was prescribed
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country for years and is regular pre-
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the mucous surfaces. The perfect
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Take Halls Family pills for consti-
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The Sauk Centre herald., 1909-09-16
WOMAN COACH AND REFEREE.

Washington Teacher Cffioiates at Grid
ircn Contest and Trains Team.
AS far as is known Miss Lillian
Merrell, a school teacher of Kalama,
Wash, is the only woman who has the
distinction of having refereed foot
ball game or basketball game
plo yed by men.
Saturday high school teams repre-
senting Kalama and Castle Rock
played in the former town, and Miss
Merrell was the referee. Her work
was entirely satisfactory to both
teams. More than this, Miss Merrell
COACHES basketball and football in the
X IL ma schools. She is well versed
in tie rules of both games, and when
in college was a star basketball player
herself.
While refereeing a game she wears
short skirts, and is fast enough to be
ca hand to pass on any close play.
Every one knows that the play shifts
RAPIDLY from one goal to another, and
it ms slrost impossible that a
wcman would be equal to the task
Ct octing as referee. But Miss Mer-
el! ceoleres she has little difficulty
seeing ell the Llays and that she has
studied the rules until she knows
them by rote.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1909-09-16

Potts" she began again, you are
not very Imaginative, are your
mo, ma'am," the maid answered,
because it seemed to be expected of
her, though she had never thought of
the matter.
do you think you could possibly
be mistaken about voice, If you
didn't see the person who was speak
ing?'
I'm what way, ma'am"
II mean, do you think you could
take mans voice for a woman's at
distance?"
"Oh, see!" Potts exclaimed. "As
it might be, at the telephone?"
"Well-at the telephone, if you like,
or anywhere else. Do you think you
might%
1T would depend on the voice,
ma'am," observed Potts, with caution.
"Of course it would" assented Mar
garet rather impatiently.
We'll, ma'am, I'll say this, since you
ask me. When 1 was last at home
was mistaken in that way about my
own brother, for heard him calling
to me from downstairs, and took him
for my sister Milly."
"Oh! That's Interestingly" Marga.
ret smiled. What sort of voice has
your brother? How old is he?"
Hes eight-and-twenty, ma'am; and
as for his voice, he has a sweet coun
ter tenor, and sings nicely. He's a
song-man at the cathedral, ma'am."
Really! How nice! Have you a
voice, too? Do you sing at all?"
ooh, no, ma'am!" answered Potts in
a deprecating tone. "One in the fam
lily is quite enough!"
Margaret vaguely wondered why, but
did not inquire.
"You are quite sure that it was
your brother who was speaking, I sup
pose." she said.
"Oh, yes, ma'am! I looked down
over the banisters, and there he was!
Margaret had the solid health of a
serious trouble indeed that could
have interfered with her unbroker
and dreamless sleep during at least
eight hours; but when she closed hel
eyes that night she was quite sure
that she could not have slept at all
but for Potts comforting little story
about the brother with the counter
tenor" voice. Yet even so, at the mo
ment before waking in the morning
she dreamt that she was at the tele
phone again, and that words in q
strange language came to her along
The Sauk Centre herald., 1909-09-16

the wire in soft and caressing tone
that could only be a woman's, and
that for the first time in all her life
she knew what it was to be jealous.
The sensation was not an agreeable
one.
The dream-voice was silent as soon
as she opened her eyes, but she had
not been awake long without realiz-
ing that she wished very much to see
Logotheti at once, and was profoundly
thankful that she had torn up her let
ter to Lady Maud. She was not pre-
pared to admit, even now, that Kon-
stantin was the ideal she should have
chosen for a husband, and whom she
had been describing from imagination
when she had suddenly stopped writ
ing. But, on the other hand, the mere
thought that he had perhaps been
amusing himself in the society of an
other woman all yesterday afternoon
made her so angry that she took
refuge in trying to believe that he had
spoken the truth and that she had
really been mistaken about the voice.
1t was all very well to talk about
learning Tartar! How could she be
sure that it was not modern Greek, or
Turkish? She could not have known
the difference. Was it so very unlikely
that some charming compatriot Of his
should have come from Constantine
pie to spend few weeks in Paris?
She remembered the mysterious house
in the Boulevard Pereire where he
lived, the beautiful upper hall where
the statue of Aphrodite stood, the
doors that would not open like other
doors, the strangely-disturbing en-
caustic painting of Cleopatra in the
drawing room-many things which she
distrusted.
Besides, supposing that the language
was really Tartar-were there not
Russians who spoke it?s She thought
there must be, because she had q
vague idea that all Russians were
more or less Tartars. There was a
proverb about it. Moreover, to the
English as well as to the French, Rus
slams represent romance and wicked
ness.
She would not go to the telephone
herself, but she sent a message to Lo-
gotheti, and he came out in the cool
time of the afternoon. She thought
he had never looked so handsome and
so little exotic since she had known
him.
He was received by Mrs. Rushmore
and Margaret together, and he took
noticeable pains to make himself
The Sauk Centre herald., 1909-09-16

Mrs. Rushmore's delight was touch
ing, for she could almost feel that
Margaret had come to see her quite
for her own sake, whereas she had
pictured the Child" as she still called
the great artist, spending most of her
time in carrying on inaudible conver-
sations with Logotheti under the trees
corners of the drawing room; for that
had been the accepted method Of
courtship in Mrs. Rushmore's young
days, and she was quite ignorant Of
the changes that had taken place since
then.
Half an hour later, Margaret was
in her old room upstairs writing let
The Sauk Centre herald., 1909-09-16

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The Sauk Centre herald., 1909-09-16
A VILLAGE Power,

A Columbus firm had an account
against a man in small country town
in Ohio, and after Intellectual attempts
10 collect determined to do something
radical So they wrote letter to the
postmaster Of the town and asked
information concerning the merchant;
what his reputation was, whether he
paid his bills and what kind Of a man
he was generally, and said if he was
no good to give the bill, which they
enclosed, to the justice Of the peace
Tor collection. The answer they so
from the postmaster took their breath
away. 1t read something like this:
Gentlemen: | am the John Smith
about whom you are seeking informa
lion. l am also John Smith, post
master, and 1 am John Smith, justice
of the peace. Yours very truly,
John Smith"
The Sauk Centre herald., 1909-09-16
Both Away From Temptation.

A story is told of west country
bishop who rebuked the sporting par
son for his hunting procliviites. Il
hear you go fox hunting a good DEAL"
he observed one day. You ought not
to Go this; there is plenty of work to
be accomplished in the parish" But
protested the vicar, fox hunting is
merely healthy exercise; besides, I
her you were at a ball the other
right." I'm a sense that is so,'' re-
J. the bishop, "but, truly speaking,
as three or four rooms away from
tie bellrC ON
TIE vicar rmled and then retort-
ed. ~ 2m always three o. 70 II fields
I'D tEc TO, so whats he differ
'ntt?'
The Sauk Centre herald., 1909-09-16

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