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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-05-21
Pages Like Page.

Senator Carroll S. Page OF Vermont
has got on good terms with the Senate
pages. all because his name is page,
Appropos of this, he tells the story
that when he WIS governor OF Vermont
he went to the chamber of the senate
Of the state Legislature one day and
about a dozen pages fiocked around him
lust as a friend OF his from the rural
districts walked in.
Governor" inquired the friend from
the country who are all these little
bCyS?'
''They are little pages"
well, I'll be burned, Governor" OBJ
served the rural visitor. Il never knew
YOU had so many children.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-05-21
Bradley a Story Teller.


Senator Bradley Is one of the best
story teIlers that ever struck the Capt.
toll and this is saying good deal 1t
is asserted by his friends that none OF
them has ever caught him telling the
same story twice Which, as win he
admitted. is some storytelling. Anoth-
err Bradley trais is his rare capacity
for remembering the names and faces
Of his political friends When a Ken
tuclzian Just from the mountains ven
lures with hat in hand timidly to en-
ter Bradley's sauctum at the Capitol,
he is instantly put at his ease. Tie
chances are that before he has fairly
planted his feet inside the door, Brad
lev will yell from the inner office: why.
hello, BIZ, Is that YOU? Blime your old
picture, now are your ~. in. sit
down and tell me the news
And tf.en the visitor fOrgets his TIM
idity. and Bradley proceed to eternal
~ put the clamps on another vote IN
ACE BIus Grass State.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-05-21
To Sail For Europe.

DR.. Charles W. Needham. president OF
George Washington University. and his
daughter, Miss Grace Needham, left
Washington this morning for New York
where Miss Nesdham will sail tomorrow
for a five months stay in Europe. Miss
Needham viii 90 abroad with a party
headed by Prof. Wilhston Hough. OF
George Washington University, and
they viii spend the most OF their time
in Berlin DR. Needham Will return 20
Washington Sunday
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-05-21
Hostess At Luncheon.

Mrs. John r. Mclean was hostess al
Luncheon today at Friendship. having as
her guests a delegation OF midshipmen
from Annapolis aud number of girls
prominent in the younger set in Wash
ington, whom she invited to meet the
naval cadets. The midshipnlen came
from Annapolis to present Mrs. Mclean
With a handsome silver loving cup as
a token Of their appreciation OF her
hospitality at Inauguration time.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-05-21

Washington society is considerably in
terested IN the success which Is attend
ing the production of the little vauGe-
vile skit. The Outpost" By James T.
j. Archibald, which opened a few days
ago 10 Pittsheld. Mass.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-05-21

Mr. and Mrs. Charles H Poor, ac-
companied by their daughters. Mrs.
Roscoe G. Bulmer. wife OF Captain Bull
mer, u. 5. n. and Mrs. Marion p
Maus, wife of Colonel Maus. q. s. A
VIII leave Washington Nav 81 for their
summer home at Skaneateles, at Lake
SkaneateleS. New York
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-11-26

are taught the rudiments of book
edge essential for the up-to-date
farmer.
In the spring after these farmers
have returned to their work in the
fields 1t becomes the duty of the teach
ers VINO instructed them during the
winter to travel from county to coun-
ty and to act as advisers to the farm.
ers. Much good results from the tray
els of these teachers. BY practical sug-
gestion to the farmers they induce
them to make valuable improvements
in the cultivation of their farms.
The wandering teacher helps to
form cooperative clubs for the joint
interests of a number of farmers in
one district. From time to time the
teacher has to lecture in these clubs
on any subject which might prove Of
interest to the members. These visits
md lectures to the different district:
are entirely free to the people, since
the state ssum all expenses. There
is probably no other country in the
world in which so much Is done by the
state for its rural inhabitants as is the
case In Bavaria. Other German states
have these agricultural schools, but
their teachers are not sent in such a
practical way direct to the places
where they can do the most good, a.
is done in Bavaria. The results of this
commemorate care have been very
gratifying.'
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-11-26

The life of an S-inch gun Is about
two hundred rounds.
The annual production Of wool in
Australia amounts to about s125, O00,-
900.
Among the products of this years
cod fishing in Norway are 47,000 bar
rels Of cod liver oil.
Transatlantic communication will
be greatly facilitated by a submarine
line from Manhattan beach to New
fouudland.
The exterior walls Of the new Penn
s%ylvania terminal station in New York
city are nearly half a mile long and
contain 100000 cubic feet of granite.
Greece is a large consumer of edi-
Bile Oil. Her population Of about q
100000 use annually 10000 to $4,000
tons Of oil, or eight to ten kilos per
capita.
The French League of Pioneers in
Aerial Navigation is being formed in
France, with the primary object of
giving assistance to inventors and eX-
perimenters in a~eronautics.
Mr.. Edison recently stated that
there was no doubt that in ten years
flying machines would be used to car
ry the mails. They would go at a
speed OF one hundred miles an hour.
and would carry passengers.
An irrigation project to cost $685.
600 900 is on the cards in Argentina,
the principal railways to do work and
be paid by the government in S per
CEN irrigation bonds, with the water
rentals to take care of the bonds.
Miss Harriet May Mills, represent
ing the National American Woman
Suffrage Association, is said to have
delivered the most noteworthy address
heard at the conference of the League
Of American municipalities recently
held in Montreal.
Miss Ellen Day is said to be the
oldest organist in London. She is
81, and has been before the public
ever since she was s, when she created
so great a sensation by her skill on
the piano that she was called to play
for Queen Victoria. Miss Day knew
Mendelssohn, List and Chopin and
gave music lessons to the children of
Balfe.
A Mexican newspaper tells of the
proposed railway plans to run Pull
man ears from Seattle to Panama. 1t
is to be part of the Southern Pacific
railway system, which is now being
pushed IN to Guadalajara, and a con-
cession has been secured for a line
from Acapulco to Salina Cruz, the Pa
cifc port terminal of the Tehuantepec
railway.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-11-26
Wit Of the Youngsters

Little Fred-Are you a lawyer like
papa? DR.. Smith-Oh. no.; I'm a ply
sician. Little Fred-Then you are the
man who goes to see sick people before
they die.
Teacher-Now remember. Nellie, thai
anything you a see through is trans
parent. a YOU name something thai
is transparent? Small Nellie-Yes
ma'am. A keyhole.
Little Edgar Gagged 5)-Uncle John
did you used to be a little boy like
me? Uncle JohE-Yes, Edgar. Little
Edgar-Didn't you feel awfully quee,
for a few days after you got to be
a man?
Johnny" said a mother to an in
corrigible youngster, don't you know
hat your face is awfully dirty?'
We'll, what if it is?' he rejoined
"The face Of the earth is dirty, but
nobody makes any fuss about it,
Small Harold-Papa, won't yor
please give me 5 cents? Papa-Nol
now. Run along. I'm very busy.
Small Harold (holding his hands
Joined together)-Well, papa, just droy
a nickel in the slot and see me go.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-11-26
MONEY FROM LITERATURE.
Many Authors Have Failed to AmnHs
Observation-Disclosures Big Fortunes.

Observation-Disclosures Big Fortunes.
The case of Stephen Phillips, the
poet and playwright, who is in very
straitened circumstances. has opened
the question as to whether English
writer's can on the whole be called sue
ceSsful financially, a New York Suns
London letter says. Mr.. Phillips has
had many plays produced in England
and America. yet he is now in actual
poverty, which he attributes to tl"e
failure of his last two plays, The Los;
Heir" INC Faust" both Of which were
presented in London.
The very recent death OF John DaV
idson because he was tired of stru9'
Cling to make a living from his.
poetry: the death OF Francis Thomp-
son, also without means; the case Of
Matthew Arnold. who, after all his
years Of successful work, left but
$4,000, and that Of Charles Godfrey
Leland, author OF Hans Breitmann's
Ballads whose estate was valued at
about $4,000, are instances cited, which
are balanced by the case of Lord Ten
nyson who left nearly $500, 0OO; OF
NV *, IL III o'Nl PiSHpSNNJ "'-N
of Robert Browning, who left $4,000.
AS to authors Of successful books.
many have amassed considerable for
tunes. Henry Seton Merriman, Edna
Lyall, John Oliver Hobbies, Mrs. Isa-
bella Lucy Bishop and George Mere
dith all left estates of value; but
Florence Marryat, Mary Kingsley and
even Lewis Carroll left such small
sums as 1895, $17,055 and $4,000.
Publishers in many cases left very
large fortunes, the chief among them
being G. Smith, of Smith, Elder & Co..
$3,SO9, 500; Thomas Nelson, OF T. Mel
son & Cassell. Peter & Galpin, $2,606,
sos; Alexander Macmillan, of Macmil-
Ian & Co., $736,305: George Lock, Of
Ward, Lock & Co. $595,050.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-11-26
CONSERVING TIMBER SUPPLY.
One Acre of Forest Land Needed for
Each Citizen.

Each Citizen.
According to a bulletin issued by
the Forest Service, there is at present
an unfortunate lack of authoritative
scientific information in regard to re-
production, either natural or artificial,
Of American forests, to their growth,
and to the best time and methods of
cutting them, the New York Pos says.
The recent endowment of the Morris
K. Jessup chair of s~ilviculture, at the
Yale Forest School, should render pos.
these subjects and its widespread dis
semination. The bulletin says:
The United States has been so rich
ly endowed with natural resources thai
the thought Of conserving our woods
has come late. We have been unaVoid-
ably ignorant and therefore excusably
needless. BY careful conspectus
the wooded area of the country, it has
been learned that our total stand of
timber is now between 1900, O0C. OOO,-
900 and 1000, 900, OOO, 900 feet. In a
score of years consumption has been
doubling on population, and lumber
prices lave shot up.
In President M~adison's day the
States "a of the Mississippi com
prised over 1000, 900 square miles, or
zoe, 900, 900 acres. To-day there are
not over 30O.O 900 square miles, or 21O,-
900, 900 acres of m~erchantable forest
left in this section. At present about
Fl per cent of our lands is devoted to
agriculture, a half century hence it
will probably be so per cent.
I'VE had 113, 900 acres in farms
in Lincoln's day. we have 415, OOO, 900
to-day. For each citizen there is re-
quired one full acre of forest land, if,
in the coming years, the United
States is to be self-sustaining as re-
CARDS its lumber supply. At present
each citizen has seven and three
fourthS acres to draw from, but in
truth he is actually drawing from an
accumulated surplus of sixteen acres
per inhabitant. At this rate we face
a timber famine in a comparatively
few years.
'Our national forests form only
about one-f1fth Of our wooded lands,
four-ffths being private forests. It is
essential, therefore, to have the gener-
al principles Of forestry understood
and practiced. This endowment will
help materially toward actual conser-
walton of our wooded areas and refor-
esting of those already laid waste"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-11-26
Legal Information


An acceptance Of a building or
which contains latent defects either
in the character of its workmanship
or the quality Of material used, is
held, in Steltz VS.. Armory Co. Is Ida.
ho, 551. 80 Pac. 9S, Ira. (N.S.) S72,
not to amount to waiver of such latent
defects; but, on the contrary, it is
held that the owner may maintain his
action against the contractor for
breach of the contract at such time
as he discovers the extent of the de-
tects, or after he has had reasonable
time and opportunity, by due dill
gence, to have discovered the same.
The mere affixing of a price to each
bushel Of a crop contracted to be
threshed is held, in Johnson VS.. Fehse.
feldt, LOG Mimi. 202, lis N. W.. 797,
20 Ira. (N.S) 1863, not to be sufi-
cient to make tie contract severable.
An agreement by a retiring partner
not to engage for the next two years"
in the same city In competition with a
business sold. in "the manner afore-
said" is held, in Siegel VS.. Marcus
On. d. 119 N. W. 1853, 20 Ira.
tN.S.) 100, to be violated by the en-
tering of such partner into the en-
ploy as a managing clerk, Of a third
person whom such retiring partner
was instrumental in procuring to open
a rival business adjacent to hat of the
original firm. and it is held thai such
violation should be enjoined at the
suit Of the purchasing partner.
Tho South Carolina Code provides
that no party to an action shall be
examined respecting a transaction or
communication between him and a
person at the time Of the examination
deceased, as a witness against a party
prosecuting or defending the action as
executor, administrator, heir at law.
etc. The agent of appellant in selling
to respondent, the owner of a small
store, a fire insurance policy, had as.
sured him hat it was not necessary
for insurers of small stocks of goods
% comply with that clause Of the pol
icy which compelled the keeping of
the books in an iron safe. Before the
trial the agent died. In Berry vs..
Virginia State ms. Co.. GA Southeast
ern Reporter, $50, payment Of the in
uranc was refused on account of the
violation Of the terms Of the policy.
The South Carolina Supreme Court
held the representation OF the agent
a waiver Of the iron-safe provision in
the policy. and the defendant, not de.
Tending the action as executor. adj
miaistrator. heir at law or any other
person named within the statute. It
does not apply, * as to make inadmis-
sible the testimony OF the conve, satiou
IF the deceased agent"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-11-26
BOHEMIAN TWINS MARVELS.
Two Girls Joined Together by Pee
culinr Bonds of Flesh.


culinr Bonds of Flesh.
There have just arrived in London
from Liege the Misses Rosa and Josefa
Black, who are. no doubt, the most
extraordinary examples of human abb
normality in existence.
Probably no physiological curiosity
of equal interest has been seen, says
the st. Louis Post-Dispatch, since Eng
and Chang, the Siamese twins, were
exhibited by Barnum about forty years
ago, before settling down in a south
ern state, where they married two sis
ters, who reared healthy, normal tam.
lilies.
The physical condition of the Misses
Black differs little from hat Of the
late Slamese twins. The bodies OF the
latter were connected near the chest;
in the case Of these young women the
adhesion occurs for some distance up
the side, terminating slightly above
the waist. Their heads are not quite
on a level. Josefa being somewhat the
taller of the two. Although the girls
of necessity spend their lives side by
side, they cannot look into each others
faces. The most that is possible is a
sidelong glance that Rosa IS enabled
TO take of her sister.
Physically their actions are interde,
pendent, but mentally the girls have a
separate existence. Nor do their tastes,
i~nclinations or temperaments coincide.
Consequently they live in a state Of
constant compromise. The couple-ii
the plural is permissible-appear very
happy and contented.
The sisters enjoy the usual compile,
kiIent of limbs. They walk with q
sprightly, nimble movement, but, OF
course, four feet are seen in opera.
ton, and when the necessity arises for
them to lift 4 heavy article four arms
and hands are extended for the pur.
pose.
Born In Prague, the capital OF Bo-
hernia, the win are 26 years of age.
They speak no language save their
native Czech. Franz Black, the father,
Is a successful farmer. His eldest
daughter, who is quite normal. mar,
ried some four years ago and has now
four children. Mr.. Black has also a
son, II years OF age.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-11-26
One Point Settled.

A new family had moved into the
house next door to the Townsends, and
little Kitty Townsend, on the back
porch of her own home, was cultivat-
ing the acquaintance of the little girl
on the opposite porch. about ten feet
away.
whats your name" she asked.
Florence" answered the newcomer
What's yours?"
Katherine, but they always call me
Kitty. The name of the folks that
lived there before you moved in was
Jones'"
Our names Thompson"
Ours is Townsend. You didn't
know the %Joneses, did you?"
NO"
They was awful for borrowing.
They used to send over to our house
once or twice every week and borrow
a cupful Of coffee for breakfast, and
they never paid it back. You folks
don't do that. do you?"
NO"
she says they don't. mammal" call.
ed out Kitty. turning her head and
speaking to somebody back Of the din
fng-room window curtain.
A man lately committed suicide. Il
hear" aid . brakeman, that hs
swallowed . ,thirtysight"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-11-26
OUR FUTURE RAILWAY RIVAL.
1t Will BE Russia, Which Now Ia

1t Will BE Russia, Which Now Ia
Second to Us III Mileage.
If 1t is a question merely of bigness
the Russian railway system is far and
= away the first in Europe. There are
already many more miles of railway
In the vast empire than in any other
country in the world excepting the
United States, and Russian railways
are still only in their infancy.
1t Is of course quite true that there
are now in the United States more
miles of railway than in all Europe
and almost as many as in all the rest
of the world put together, and tina our
territory is so large and as yet so far
from complete development that we
shall probably keep the lead as far al
railway enterprise is concerned for q
long time to come.
But in taking these large views,
says Moody's Magazine, we have for.
gotten that Russia is two and halt
times as large as all the United States
put together with a population more
than half as large again as our own:
that in territorial extent it Is more
than twice as large as all Europe: that
1t stretches across the world for 10
degrees of longitude-nearly half way
around the ~globe-and that it includes
one-sixth OF the land surface of the
planet.
1t is not surprising that in such .
country railways should have had .
large development, that already there
is a considerable mileage and that the
prospects in this direction seem to
have no limit. In the future Russia
and the United States are likely to d.
vide the railway empire of the world
hotuapn them
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-11-26
TELLS Or LYNN.
Faces of Street -AaGicncc Gave Min.
lister Inspiration for "i.ic. Liue...

Faces of Street .AaGicncc Gave Min.
lister Inspiration for Liz. Iiue.',
Surrounded by a model of a Lyle
gun, a piece of cable. life buoys. mega.
phone, wig-wag flags, ~tailboards con.
tanning instructions to sailors and two
life ropes. the lev. e. S. Ufford, of
Rockland, Me, evangelist and author
of the famous revival hymn, Throw
SOut the Life Line" sat placidly among
these mementCS of fearful storms
which have ragged along the New Eng.
land coast, in TIE Union station wait
Ing for his train to Minneapolis. the
Des Moines Register and Leader says.
The Rev. Mr.. ufford is an evangelist
and this paraphernalia, which has
been actually used in the rescue of
sailors from wrecked vessels and was
presented to him by captains Of life
saving stations at Cape Cod and Nan.
tucket, is used b. him in his evangel.
istic services to illustrate his
Il was aiding "A pastor in East Bos,
ton one Sunday night III 1884, and
when we were returning home after
the service the subject of conversation
turned on eyangelists and hymns. l
began thinking about a hymn that
would reach the people. My father
II grandfather had been choir lead.
ers before me and | had been praying
that | should write a song hat would
live long after | had passed away. On
the afternoon of that Sunday | went
to the village square and spoke to
non-church gOcrs. AS | looked upon
the faces of those about me-faces
upon which were written the story Of
sin-they seemed to be like perishing
men in the pillows of death. This
must have suggested to me the inspir-
alton for my version of the hymn. |
returned to the parsonage, sat down
and wrote the hymn at once.
1T has been often thought that 1
at one time must have been associat-
ed with seafaring men to give so
vivid a picture as the lyric depicts, or
that | had dashed off the stanzas after
witnessing a wreck Of some vessel.
Neither surmise is correct. 1t is sim
ply a mental picture which came to
me a quarter of a century ago, vivid
to be surs, but to which ! added the
color"
The Rev. Mr.. Ufford is building a
unique church by popular subscription
and from the royalties received from
his hymn. A large anchor is support
ed over the tower. The building is
divided into two parts. an auditorium
and a parlor. Over the rostrum is a
painting by the noted artist, Charles
c. Murdoch. and represents Christ in
the act of saving Peter from the waves.
The frieze around the auditorium rep.
resents Columbus caravels coming tc
America. The church is appropriately
located at the corner of Water and
Ocean streets in Rockland. His study
Is in the church tower overlooking the
bay.
MY church will be known as the
Temple of Galilee, or the Peoples
church, and will always be open to
people of all creeds."
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-11-26
IN r BAVARIA.
Where Every Man IL Taught the Es
sentimls OF Up-tO-Date FaFminx

Where Every Man IL Taught the Es.
sentials Of Up-tO-Date Farming.
In order to promote agricultural
interest the kingdom of Bavaria has
established agricultural schools in al
most every town. a a prominent
resident of Munich, Germany, who is
visiting in his country.
These schools are in charge of
teachers who in addition to an AGA
demic education must be versed in
botany. geology, chemistry, physics,
zoology n natural history. At a
time when nothing is doing in the
fields, from November to March, these
schools are open, and the peasants for
a nominal fee can attend courses on
cultivation and fertilization of the soil,
the proper rotation of crops on the
same land, the best sources for good
seeds, irrigation and the raising of
stock. They are made acquainted with
improvements and new inventions in
agricultural Implements, the adoption
q Which caA b recommended. f1hGy