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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-08-12
JAMES STAPLES & GO.
 Bankers and Brokers 189 State Street Bridgeport. Conn.

. FIRE INSURANCE SORETY BONDS REAL ESTATE Bought and sold on Commission
 Loans made on Approved
 City Real Estate
 SAFE DEPOSIT VAULTS-We re. ceive deposits subject to check and al. low interest on balances of $500 and -wer. We will act as Trustees and administrators of EstateC. P. L. HOLZER F. T. STAPLES
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BUSINESS AND CORRESPONDING
SCHOOLS

LEARN JEWELERS. ENGRAVING by mail Begin
learn better engraving from six months than in
years of rigid apprenticeship Ask for Cataog free The
Engraving School, Dept %. Page B'dg, Chicago.
WANEN
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Nature of Heat

THOUGH all know that heat is energy
and can be converted into mechanical
energy, the conception as to the nature of
heat is not so general. Just what happens
to d body when it becomes hotter or colder?
Most people are content in saying that the
body gains heat or loses it.
1t is a well established fact that bodies are
made up of very small particles called mole
cules. For all temperatures we are able to
produce these molecules are found to be in a
state of very rapid motion. If piece of iron
weight is added to it. How, then, can it pos
sibly get larger? The conception is that the
molecules are made to 60 faster than before,
consequently striking one another with
greater force and showing the outermost
molecules away; so finally all of them are at
greater distances apart and the body is
measurably larger.
This can be proved; for, although we can
not see the spaces between the molecules we
can force certain gases through hot body
that will not 60 through the body cold. If,
when body becomes hot, the molecules go
faster, and that is the only change we can see,
we are justified in concluding that heat is
nothing but the energy of moving mole
Guile; in other words, simple mechanical en-
ergy of the molecule. Just as we can turn a
wheel by means of our mechanical energy,
we can make a body hot by means of molecu-
lar mechanical energy.
When is body absolutely cold, then?
When, and only when, the molecule is not
moving at all. This state of affairs takes
place at what is known as absolute zero of
temperature, which is 273o below zero Cent?
grade or 459o below zero Fahrenheit. Moth
ing can get colder than this temperature,
for coldness is simply an absence of heat, and
as heat is merely the energy of moving
molecule if the molecule is at rest it contains
no energy.
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Plant Circulation

TT is generally known that plants have a cir
1 culation comparable with the circulation
of blood in animals but it is not so we'll
known that their force of liquid propulsion
is vastly greater than any animals blood
pressure, even the elephants. The force of
an animals blood as it Circulates through the
largest arteries is incapable of raising a COL
umn of water over seven feet high, whereas
the force of plants sap, even of a small
vine, can raise column of water from forty
to eighty feet high, exerting a pressure of
over two atmOspheres.
The way this is shown in the laboratory is
to tear off small branch of tree and fix it
air-tight into rather large short tube filled
with water. To the bottom end of the thick
tube is attached a small thin tube filled with
colored water and having it's lower end i'm
mersed in d vessel of colored water. This ex-
pertinent simply shows the rate of absorp-
ton of fluid by plant. The colored water
IS seen to rise in the small tube at COM
paratively rapid rate, an inch or so a minute
To show the height to which the pressure
can force water, a tube has to be fitted into
the bark of a plant and the root supplied
with water.
Hales first showed this with small vine,
which he severed and to which he applied a
tube The fluid rose to over forty feet. De
Candolle tried other plants, and in one in
stance secured height of eighty feet, or over
two atmospheres' pressure. The cause of
this force was long considered due to capil-
larry attraction caused by the hairlike tubes
in plants. This failing to account for the
enormous force developed, microscopic ex-
animation showed that these vessels had a
progressive contracting motion similar to
that in the arteries of animals and that the
explanation in each case was the same.
Thus the vitality or principle of life that
allows this motion is in all cases the direct
cause.
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By Florence L. Clark

can be rapidly pumped into
the holes has been tried with varying sue
cesses in some localities. Millions of the
creatures have been drowned out in irri-
gated areas at the first flooding of the land
North Dakota attempted to expedite the ex-
termination of the pest by authorizing the
different counties to offer bounty. 1t was
tried in a few instances; but with such a
piling up of slaughtered dogs as result that
bankruptcy would have followed if the law
had not been speedily rendered ineffective.
The United States Government under di-
rection Of the Biological Survey has under
dogs by employing men to give their full
time to the work of poisoning and hunting
them out.
While the barrenness of dog town would
suggest that the inhabitants choose I'M
fertile areas for their homes, yet, when such
ground IS brought under cultivation the
contrary is proved true. A Dakota farmer
two years ago plowed fifty acres in the CEN
ter OF large dog town and seeded it to flax,
thinking thereby to drive off the colony.
The exiles from new watch towers looked
with interest on the growing and ripening of
the crop, and when the proper time came cut
and carried it away almost to a straw. Last
spring the wrathful farmer with the help of
his family strewed the dog town with poison
and sowed the fifty acres again, this time to
wheat. He harvested seventeen hundred
bushels from it.
The story that burrowing owls and rattle
snakes often inhabit burrows with prairie
dogs seems to be authentic.
The dog towns are scenes of great hustle
and activity in the fall, when the inhabitants
are filling their granaries for winter A good
ly store is needed as the prairie dog keeps
well under cover through the cold season,
coming out only on warm, sunshiny days to
watch from his burrow. Next to man he
mostly fears the coyote.
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tier over the Western plains;
but he does it leisurely, moves by short
stages, and generally preempts claim near
by, in order to be conveniently located to
reap the homesteader's crop for him.
Despite the fact that national and State
Governments have long Joined forces with
stockmen and farmers in making war on
these destructive little creatures, they still
exist in enormous numbers in the Dakotas
Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado. Their
towns more properly known as cities,
as they often contain thousands of inhabi
tants-stretch in some sections miles over
the prairie. They are cities, however, of
variable location, since it is the custom of
the dogs, as soon as they have destroyed veg
citation, root and stalk in one townsite, to
move in widening circles over the prairie,
gradually embracing new feeding grounds.
Now and then residents of suburb depart
en- masse to establish a new town. Occa-
sionally an independent couple take French
leave, dig burrOw at some remote spot,
and, being prodigious breeders, soon have
a f1ourishing village of their own. Wherever
and however the prairie dog goes, he is sure
to leave desolation behind.
The casual visitor to one of their towns re-
ceives the impression that the prime occupa-
ton of the inhabitants is to sit in large family
groups on their burrows and bark necessarily
in sharp. ierky, puppy fashion Tipping their
tails in unison meanwhile. They are bold,
saucy creatures and often allow one to ap-
proach quite near, though should such one
at any moment of his advance raise hand
or make other menacing gesture, with amaz-
ing haste they turn tail and pop into their
holes. Some believe that the burrows in
parts of the towns are connected by under
ground streets and avenues.
Many devices have been tried to rid the
prairies of this native pest; but poisoning is
the only method that has been successful in
destroying them over large areas. A few
years ago Kansas cleared them off tract of
two million acres by such means. A mixture
composed of strychnine sui hate, potassium
cyanide, green coffee, alcohol, whites of eggs,
and sugar syrup was prepared at the State
College of Agriculture. This was poured over
wheat or green alfalfa cut in short lengths
and the poisoned food scattered about the
mouths of the burrows. This method, with
variations as to poison used, has been gen.
orally employed since with signal success in
other infested States.
Smoking them out Of their burrows with a
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THE KIND NEEDED

DEAR me- said the first young woman
- taking her initial lesson in golf, what
shall do now? This ball is in a hole!"
Well, let me see,' said her companion
rapidly turning the leaves of book of in
structions, 81 presume you will have to take
a stick of the right shape to get it out
"Oh, yes, of course was the somewhat
cynical reply. We'll, see if you can find
one shaped like dustpan and brush"
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Summer
Face Care

The face 1OlH chap, tan, freckle and
sunburn, unless you give it care. The
changing temperature, harsh winds,
and sun are bound to have an injuri-
Gus effect.
You must 60 deeper than the surface
to remove all the dust and SCOT.
If you want a clean and clear COM
plexion, you should use Pink Blush,
the cream that 1CiU cleanse, beautify
and protect the skin.
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WOMEN

kNOT-LESS-iIoOk Entirely does ay with tying
knots an clothes lines sample Champion ,himney
holder prevents lamp chimney from king Sample
knotless Hook Co, SIG Union ST. Rockiand, Mass
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PASSING OF THE PRAIRIE DOG

bellows syringe continuance
by means of which smoke
can be ranidlv numned into
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CORPORATIONS

INCORPORATE YOUR BUSINESS IN ARIZONA
Least Cost Transact business, keep books anywhere Pres
ident Stoddard former Secretary OF Arizona Free Laws
bylaws and Forms. Reference Any Bank in Arizona
Stoddard Company, Box Phoenix Arizona
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THE gregarious prairie dog
l gives way before the set
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The Laclede blade., 1910-06-24
Ed. j. MAYBE DIES SUDDENLY
Stricken With Heart Failure In Chicago Last
Sunday and Buried Here Wednesday

The many friends of Edmond j
Maybee were shocked Monday
morning to learn of his sudden
death from rheumatism of the heart
last Sunday evening in Chicago.
He and Mrs. Maybee were at park
when Mr.. Maybee felt the attack
coming on. They started home and
had nearly arrived there when Mr..
Maybee fell and he was dead before
help could reach him. The body
was brought to Laclede and funeral
services were conducted at the
Methodist church, of which he was
a member, Wednesday afternoon at
1:3O. He was an honored member
of the Masonic fraternity and the
local order had charge of the
funeral services. Interment was
made in Laclede cemetery.
Although born in Canada, Mr..
Maybee spent most of his life in La
clede, where he. was engaged in bust
ness for many years. Here he raised
his family, two boys, Harry and
tRoy, who with the wife and one
brother, George W., survive him
and have the deepest sympathy of
the entire community. For several
years he had been general sales
manager for the Newman Bros.
piano company and lived in Chicago.
He had long suffered from the
disease which carried him away,
and had been advised by his physi-
clan that the end could not be far
off, but his friends here were not
expecting the sad news of his
death to come so soon. We will
print the obituary next week.
The Laclede blade., 1910-06-24
Gasoline Enqine Demonstration

Next Saturday, June 25, G. G.
Moberly will give practical dem
onstration of the working of the
"New-Way" air-cooled gasoline
engine. Our farmer friends are
invited and urged to bring in some
feed and have it ground in No. 4
Stover mill, absolutely free of
charge. The engine will also be
used on Marseilles two-hole corn
shelter, and if you are present you
can see for yourself just how the
engine works and how easily it
runs the machinery you need on
the farm.
The "New-Way" is claimed to be
the simplest engine made and is
warranted to be first class in con-
struction, workmanship and mater
ial, and when properly operated, to
deliver it's full rated power in sum-
mer or winter, for any length of
time without overheating." Think
of it. No tank to freeze up or go
dry, and absolutely no danger Of
overheating because it cannot get
hot. Experts will have charge of
the work all day and you can find
out from them just how the engine
ought to be run and cared for.
The New Way" is the very
latest thing. in gasoline engines and
is not covered with rods and gears
like most other engines. It will do
any work that any engine will do
eyn a farm, and in this day and age
of the world a farmer cannot afford
to be without the very best there is
in machinery, from a wheelbarrow
up.
just this week Mr.. Moberly re-
ceived car Of new hay tools that
you will want to look over. and he
has a big stock of everything you
will need on the farm in the next
few weeks-except help, and the
labor saving machinery he can sell
you will do away with lot of the
extra help you expected to need.
He will welcome you and be glad
to show you anything in his big
warehouses whether you expect to
buy or not. Remember the date, !
Saturday, June %.
The Laclede blade., 1910-06-24
THINGS YOU MAY WANT 70 KNOW
Pungent Paragraphs Picked up BY Our Peram-
buIating Pencil Pusher.

| Lee Love was here Sunday for a
short visit with his daughter, Mrs
Frank Weaver, and other relatives
He was on his way to Chicago to
resume work as a tourist conductor
on the Burlington.
The Brookield Elks will hold a
Fourth of July celebration at the
fair grounds in Brookfeld. Horse
races and baseball game are the
principal attractions. Special trains
will run from Milan and Carroll
ton. ---
Clair Lomax of st. Joe arrived
in the city the first of the week to
assist at the Parker store during
the big sale. Mr.. Lomax is an ex-
pert dry goods salesman. .-Camas
Prairie Chronicle, Cottonwood,
Idaho.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. w. Carothers
and daughter, Miss Ruth, arrived
Mouday for a visit with relatives
and their many friends here. Mr..
Carothers has sold his business at
Las Animas, Colo, and after a
month or so will move to their new
home at Los Angeles, Cali.
Vice-l' resident Mansur P. Ben
son of the Allen Benson Banking
company has been the proudest man
in town this week as a result Of the
arrival Of fine young republican,
Cornelius A. Benson, at his home
Monday morning. Mother and son
are doing we'll and the father will
be able to resume his duties at the
bank in few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. A. David re-
turned home Tuesday from
pleasant visit of three weeks with
friends at Walnut and Coffeyville,
Kansas. Mr.. David says they left
our old friends down there all we'll
and prospering and that crops of
all kinds are looking fine. They
also took a trip through Oklahoma
and liked that state we'll.
On Wednesday, June Is, 1910,
at the home of the Baptist minister
in Linneus, W. E. Phillips and
Miss Ida Stutsman were united in
marriage, Rev. Truck officiating.
The bride is the charming daughter
of G. T. Stutsman of route one and
the groom is the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. VIM. Phillips. We extend
our heartiest congratulations to
these splendid young people. They
are now at home at the Caywood
residence In North Laclede.
Mrs. Jane Dick was Very pleasant
ly surprised last Saturday afternoon
when about twenty ladies called to
her that it was her birth
day and to congratulate her on the
fact. Although Mrs. Dick was
very much surprised, she, as we'll
as the other ladies, enjoyed the
occasion very much. Mrs. Dick is |
one Of our best citizens and her
many friends ehope that other
events of this kind may help to |
keep bright the sunset years of her
life.
Amana lodge No. 356, 100. F.,
will observe Memorial day Sunday
June 26, 1910, at 2 p. m. All
members of the order and the public
n general are invited to meet them
1t their hall. From the hall they
will go to the M. E. church, where
i sermon will be delivered by Rev.
D. Beistle of Linneus, after which
hey will go from the church to the
,emetery to place flowers on the
The Laclede blade., 1910-06-24
SHORT PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS
Brief Mention Of Those Who Come and GO
During the Week

IN. DyrHe was GOWN from CHllll-
cothe yesterday.
Mrs. Geo. G. Denbo was in
Brookfeld Tuesday.
Mrs. Thos. Dorrell left Tuesday
for a visit in Wyoming.
z. Walters is here visiting his
son, Morris Walters, and family.
Edward Barton was down from
Linneus visiting relatives Tuesday.
Miss Dougherty of Chillicothe is
the guest of Miss Lettie Dougherty.
Bert Glenn of Kansas City was
the guest of Miss Della Smith in
Laclede Sunday.
Fred Alexander and Vale Calhoun
left Wednesday for the harvest
fields Of Kansas.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Kraft left
Tuesday for a visit at Bethel,
driving through.
Mrs. Ed. DorrelI and children re-
turned Tuesday from a visit with
her mother at Keota.
E. F. Cornett of Little Rock,
Ark, is visiting his uncle, j. G.
Cornett, for few days.
Jasper Henderson was here from
Monroe City Tuesday looking after
his poultry business here.
Mrs. N. E. Fletcher and Miss
Emma Edwards visited in Brook
field the first of the week.
Mrs. S. W.,Cotter and daughter
Virgie left Monday for a visit with
relatives at Gibson City, Ill.
Mrs. Ell. Markham and sons,
Percy and Eddie, of Brookfeld
visited LacIede friends Sunday.
Geo. W. Thompson Of Sumner
spent couple of hours with. friends
in Laclede between trains Tuesday.
Rufe Cassidy came over from
Brookfeld Sunday and spent a
day with his family on route two.
Mrs. A. L. Loomis of Meadville
is visiting her daughter, Mrs. M.
P. Benson, and family in Laclede.
James Anderson and his mother
visited W. E. Randall and family
at Hunnewell the first of the week.
Mrs. J. W. Henniug of Hennepin,
ILL.,, is visiting her sister, Mrs. L.
N. Whitaker, and family on route
one.
Mrs. Emma Byrne of Chillicothe
was the guest of her mother, Mrs.
Phoebe Fifeld, Tuesday and
Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Markham
and N. E. Wanamaker of Brook
field attended the Maybee funeral
1ere Wednesday.
Mrs. Joe Reeder and daughter of
-ola, Kansas, arrived Monday for
1 visit with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Wood.
Drs. Kathryn and E. D. Standby
If Brookfeld attended the lawn
party at DIR. 2. T. Standly's
Wednesday evening.
Internal Revenue Collector Allen
If st. Louis has spent the past
week here with his father, Rev.
calvin Allen, whose health is very
,oor.
Mrs. N. "A. Tracy, who had been
listing relatives here the past
month, guest Of Miss Marietta
Welsh, left Monday for her home
t Van Buren.
Miss Violet Woods left Tuesday
or Pleasanton, Iowa, to visit her
lister, Mrs. John Painter. Mrs.
v. h. Woods and Mrs. &C. Big
The Laclede blade., 1910-06-24
Additional Locals

L ~~@~~-~~SS
to Brookfeld Monday.
About 5000 tobacco plants for
sale by w. S. Watson.
Coal oil 1Oc and gasoline 15c a
gallon at Dorrell & Sons.
The two beauties, oil and gasoline
stoves, at j. B. Patrick's.
Pure sugar syrup reduced from
85c to 65c gallon at Patrick's.
W. B. Calhoun attended Masonic
lodge at Browning Saturday night.
Now is the time to buy oil and
gasoline stoves. Patrick has them.
New line of parasols and UNI
brellas now on display at Hart
mans.
Mr.. and Mrs. Byron Lamme of
route two visited in Meadville
Friday.
Robert Creason and son of
Browning visited j. G. Gornett
Sunday.
Laclede Mill has all kinds of feed
on hand. All feed delivered
promptly.
We are showing fine new line
of trunks and suit cases. Hart
mans, Chillicothe.
Mrs. Grace Leech will sell her
Newman Bros. piano. Inquire of
Mrs. J. W. Haight.
All varieties of sweet potato
plants for sale by L. M. Wilson at
residence in West Laclede.
Try a sack of Deutschland -four,
only lao sack; guaranteed to
give satisfaction, at J B. Patrick's.
Another lot of all silk ribbons
worth up to SO cents at the bar
gain price, Is cents; Hartman's.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. W. Maybee
of Chillicothe attended the funeral
of Edmond J. Maybee here Wednes-
day.
New ling children's summer
dresses and ladies' house dresses
now ready at Hartman's, Chilli
cothe.
The best painters in town use the
only strictly pure paint-Mound
City Coz Horse Shoe brand. w. |
r. Barton.
Mrs. John Peer came down
from st. Joseph for a visit
with Mr.. and Mrs. j. FL. Peer and
family on route two.
Ladies and children, if you are
looking for a pretty hat at a big
bargain, 60 to the popular store,
Hartman's, Chillicothe. t
Fred and Miss Emma Gould at
tended the funeral of their old
friend, Charles Davis, at Wheeling
on Thursday of last week.
Rev. Gum, who has been hold
ing meetings at the BaptiA church
this week, will close the Meetings
tonight. Everybody invi ed to
come.
New line of room size rugs, all
kinds, and linoleums; also fine
line of lace curtains and shades.
Let us figure with you. Prices
lower than any catalogue or city
stores. Hartman's, Chillicothe.
Mrs. Dickhut of Fowler, ILL.,,
Mrs. FL. S. George of Boulder, Colo.
and Mrs. w. o. Warner of Mead |
vile are at the home of 2. r. King
on route one, called here by the !
serious illness of their father, j. A. j
Woollen. +
Mrs. NJ. E. Byars of Clarence
,ame in Sunday evening for short