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Barbour County index., 1910-08-03
PLANT LOOKS LIKE INSECTS
Spots on Orchid Resemble Flies and
Bees-lmitations Are PuzzIina
to Flower Scholars.

Orchid limitations are a puzzle to
flower scholars. The whole appear
ance of the flower is suggestive of
some insect, sometimes to quite a re-
markable degree. 1t does not seem
easy to find any real purpose that
could be served by this resemblance,
yet no one imagines that it can be
accidental.
Any one who knew of the bee or
child, a native of Europe, and came
upon it for the first time would at
once recognize it. 1t seems to be a
large velvety brown backed bee
variegated with yellow The two
lateral petals might serve well for the
wings of the insect.
In the center of the lip of the fly
orchid there is a small blush spot
like the body of a fly. The two lateral
petals are slender and curiously like
the antennae of an insect The whole
Illusion is complete and suggests to
the casual glance that few f1Ies are
hanging on the stem of some plant
which has cast its flowers.
Barbour County index., 1910-08-03
LEADING MISTAKES IN LIFE
Writer Has Recorded Ten, of Which
Most of Us Assuredly Have
Our Share.

Some of us may be glad to be told
that there are only ten life mistakes,
for there seem to be SO many more,
but recent writer has catalogued
them. Perhaps these are only the ten
leading ones from which the smaller
errors arise. Let's look over. the list
and see how many of them are ours:
First, to set up our own standard of
right and wrong and judge people ac-
cordingly; second, to measure the en-
joyment of others by our own; third,
to expect uniformity of opinion in this
world; fourth, to look for judgment
and experience in youth; fifth, to en-
deavor to mold all dispositions alike;
sixth, to look for perfection in our
own actions; seventh, to worry our
selves and others with what cannot
be remedied; eighth, to refuse to yield
in immaterial matters; ninth, to re-
fuse to alleviate, so far as 1t lies In
our power, all which needs allevia-
ton; tenth, to refuse to make allow
ance for the infirmities of others.
Barbour County index., 1910-08-03
Immense Saving Possible.

In a preliminary bulletin on the
cost of maintaining a tuberculosis
sanatorium, the National Association
for the Study and Prevention of Tu-
berculosis announces that the average
cost per patient per day in thirty
semi-charitable sanatoria scattered in
all parts of the United States is
$1.669. These institutions represent
an annual expenditure of over $780,
900 and over $4,000 days of treat
ment given each year. The bulletin,
which is part of an extensive study
the National association is making for
its bureau of information, points out
that the country could save annually
at least 50,00O,000 If the INDECENT
consumptives were properly segre-
gated.
Barbour County index., 1910-08-03
Boom In Beet SUGAR,

Beet sugar factories are now in sue
cessf1l operation in 16 states, Colora-
do, California and Michigan being the
leaders in the order named The
largest o. the factories handles three
thousand tons of beets per day. They
pay the growers $5.35 per ton and the
acreage has increased to eight times
the area of ten years ago. The busi-
ness seems to be profitable for the
growers and improves the market
value of farm lands in the neighbor-
hood of the factories. The by-products,
pulp and molasses, are fed to stock, In
creasing the amount of cattle kept and
fed in the factory districts.
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The implement here illustrated is a
mechanical substitute for a humble
bee, and its purpose is to cross-pol-
lenize clover.
The machine consists of a platform,
the under side of which is covered
with a myriad of minute fibrous
fingers arranged like the bristles of a
brush, says Popular Mechanics. The
end of each fiber is covered with a
rubber-like substance to which the
pollen Of the clover will cling.
When driven across a field, the plat
form, or frame, moves up and down,
the little fingers reaching down into
the heads of the clover All that is
required of the operator of the ma
chine is to know when the pollen is
in the proper state to be carried from
one blossom to another by the ma
chine.
The clover pollen, unlike that of
most plants, is heavy and has a ten
dency to adhere to the heart of the
blossom. The period in which the
pollen can be carried from one bios
som to another lasts not longer than
Barbour County index., 1910-08-03
LARGEST ANIMAL IN WORLD
Represented by Colossal Skeleton Of
Whale Eighty-seven Feet Long
in New Zealand Zoo.

What is claimed as the largest ami
NAL in the world is represented by a
colossal skeleton in the museum of
Christchurch, New Zealand. This is
the remains of a large specimen of
the blue whale stranded on the coast
of that country. This whale is prob
ably the largest of all living animals.
The length of the skeleton Is 81 feet,
and the head alone is 21 feet. The
weight of the bones is estimated at
nine tons. This gigantic whale gets
its name Of blue whale from the dark
bluish-gray of its upper surface. The
tinge of yellow on it's lower part has
led to the name sulphur bottom" by
which 1t is known on the western side
OF the Atlantic. 1t is otherwise known
as Sibbald's rorqual (Balenoptera sib-
baldii).
The chief food of this gigantic ami
NAL is small marine crustacean
CTrysanopoda inermis), known to the
whalers as "kril." Another species of
the same shrimp-like group has been
obtained in thousands from the stom-
achs of mackerel caught on the Cor
nish coast. The nearly related opos.
sum shrimps, found in enormous mum.
Der In the Greenland seas, form the
chief food of the common whale,
Some of the thysanopoda are phos-
phorescent and contribute to the
luminosity of the sea.
Barbour County index., 1910-08-03
BOYS IN INTENSIVE FARMING
Twelve Thousand Southern Lads
Show How Productiveness of Land
May Be Increased.

More than $4,000 southern boys less
than eighteen years old planted and
cultivated an acre of corn each year
under the direction of the department
of agriculture. Persons interested in
the experiment in Arkansas, Missis-
sippi, South Carolina and Virginia of.
fered to pay the expenses of a trip
to Washington for the boy in each
state who raised the greatest amount
of corn on his acre. The winning
boys will soon visit the national cap
ital
The average yield of corn to the
acre in 1909 was little more than
| twenty-five bushels The South Caro-
lima boy, who made the best record,
produced 1921, says Youths Com
panion. If they should be followed ex.
actly the yield of corn to the acre
could easily be doubled in a single
year.
Intensive cultivation Is worth while
on all crops. The average yield of
potatoes to the acre in 1909 was 1O7
bushels, but the Maine farmers aver.
aged 225 bushels, and some of the
more progressive of them dug 400
bushels to the acre. The yield of corn
and potatoes depends more upon cult.
vation and fertilization than upon the
soil, and there is practically no part
of the United States in which these
crops cannot be raised successfully.
1t is beyond doubt that larger crops
can be produced from ten acres thor
oughly titled than from two or even
three times ten acres cultivated as
they usually are. The fact that the
South Carolina prizewinner raised
more corn on one acre than the aver
age farmer produces from six tells a
story that should not be lost upon
those for whose benefit the expert
ment was made.
Barbour County index., 1910-08-03
BICYCLE" HAS FOUR WHEELS
Improvement Recently Made in Mo-
torcycIe Design, Bringing it
Nearer to Automobile.

An improvement has been recently
made in the design of the motorcycle.
which brings it nearer to the automo-
bile class. 1t has carriage body and
seat which gives it more the appear
ance of an automobile, but the great
est innovation is the Introduction of
auxiliary wheels, one on either side,
by which the vehicle is instantly
transformed into four-wheeler. This
change is desirable when the operator
is vending his way through crowded
streets where it is necessary to move
slowly or when it is necessary to come
to stop. The additional wheels are
Barbour County index., 1910-08-03
GOOD FARMING
IS PROFITABLE
How Three Men and a Boy Operate
Successfully 16O-Acre Farm
Finds s Time to Give
Nei2hbOr q Lift.
CBy A HIRED MANI


The owner of our farm and another
man besides myself and a sixteen
year-old boy as chore boy and mes
senger, farm 160 acres of land and
farm it right too. In the spring we
put four good horses on riding plow
or three on the big disk and keep
them hustling along. We harrow
mostly with four horses, because in
this way one man and the team can
cover nearly as much ground as two
men and two teams. We hitch two
horses to the drill and always use a
two-horse riding cultivator for the
corn.
When haying time comes we use
a hay loader and side delivery rake
and the hay fork with the horse on
the end of the rope makes the job
comparatively easy.
Sometimes We help out a neighbor
and he gives US lift later l notice
that the boss always takes care OF
his own hay and grain first before
he works out any trade. Somehow
he seems to be always a little ahead
of our neighbors so that this arrange
ment works we'll Our grain is al
ways stacked. although some of ou1
neighbors thresh right out of the field
This saves time. but our boss seems
to think that wheat that goes through
a sweat in the stack keeps better In
storage. Our threshing is done by a
man with his own machine and crew
Barbour County index., 1910-08-03
NOVEL COASTER FOR YOUTHS
HeaIthfuI Device Can Be Used az
Racer, Cart, or to Glide MerriIy
Down Any Hill.

An entertaining and healthful de-.
vice for children has been invented by
an Ohio man. 1t consists of a triangu.
lar base portion with two weels in
back and steering wheel in front
From the steering wheel a handle
rises high enough to be within com
Portable reach of person standing on
the footboard in the rear. With one
foot on this board and pushing with
the other foot, boy can attain a re-
Barbour County index., 1910-08-03
FINGERS AND FORKS.

You must not use your fingers. dear,
A fork will do instead"
Mamma looked down upon her SON,
And gravely shook her head
'It is not nice for little boys
To use their hands that way
I'm sure. tn hold a knife and fork
You learned the other day"
But why?" asked Jacky. little rogue:
His eyes aglow with fun.
He glanced from mothers earnest face,
To breakfast just begun.
Tn sure in ev'rybody's mouth.
This silver fork you've seen,
My fingers only go In mine,
And they are nice and clean"
Barbour County index., 1910-08-03

quite small, but large enough to an
swer all purposes and are controlled
from the handle bar. This improve
ment will make the motorcycle avail
able to many who otherwise are
afraid to make use of it, on account
of the necessity of maintaining a
rather high rate of speed in order to
keep the machine in an upright posi-
tion
Barbour County index., 1910-08-03
Ingredients of Best Fertilizers.

The highest agricultural value in
tertillzers is found in those that are
manufactured mainly from animal
matter, such as animal bone, dried
blood. animal tankage. nitrate of soda
and high-grade potash salts.
Barbour County index., 1910-08-03
Durable Bubbles.

To make bubbles that can be blown
big and will last take a piece of pure
white soap about the size of walnut
and cut it up in cupful of warm wa
ter. Then add teaspoonful of gIycer-
inc. Stir well and blow from a small
pipe. Strawberry juice viii make pink
bubbles. and orange juice viii make
yellow ones.
Barbour County index., 1910-08-03

The south has resented the intima-
tion that the hookworm disease is ex-
ceptionally prevalent in that section
and practically unknown In the north.
Now that pronounced case Of hook.
worm ailment has been found in Phil
adelphia some Of the southerners will
be inclined to indulge in II told you
90 comment
Barbour County index., 1910-08-03

So completely does the thresher man
take this job off our hands, that fire.
quently only one man is left to our
crew to check up the work done, while
the other two are at work on another
part of the farm.
Barbour County index., 1910-08-03
To Prevent Gapes.

Gapes have been prevented and
cured by using oil of sassafras. Place
few drops in the food for prevention,
and for cure drop down the windpipe
with medical dropper Put it on the
head "nu under the wings for lice.
Barbour County index., 1910-08-03

A Tibetan hootookatoo, who was be-
headed by mistake three years ago.
II to be reincarnated by Chinese i'm.
perial decree. That is easy as falling
on log when you know how. They
Just take an innocent baby and ap-
point It to I'LL the vacancy.
Barbour County index., 1910-08-03

In the interest of public health,
those who are determined to make
way with themselves are requested to
keep out Of the lakes that supply the
people with drinking water.
Barbour County index., 1910-08-03

A society has been formed in New
York which proposes to reform the
calendar. We trust it will be able to
prevent February and May from
trading places UP in this section of
the country.
Barbour County index., 1910-08-03

The queen OF Bulgaria asked for
cigarette and the French ambassador
didn't have a single one in the house.
Being diplomat, he restrained him.
self from offering her a nice five-cent
cigar.
Barbour County index., 1910-08-03

A Milwaukee woman is to get a be-
quest Of 100000 II she marries, and
only the interest from that sum II
she remains a spinster Her decision
may depend good deal on the rate
Of interest the money is drawing.
Barbour County index., 1910-08-03

Milwaukee girl, according to the
terms OF her mothers will. is to get
$4,000 provided she wins husband.
OF course. that is a terrible handicap.
but she may be able to find some
fearless young man who will assume
the responsibilities of wealth for her
Bake.
Barbour County index., 1910-08-03

That was a Solomon Of a market
reporter who stated that eggs have
receded one cent a pound He neg
lected to say how much sugar was a
dozen.
Barbour County index., 1910-08-03

A steamship which is to be nearly
BOO feet long has been launched in
Germany. Owing to the fact that 1t
II not to be war ship 1t will not be
necessary for England to hasten to
launch larger one.
Barbour County index., 1910-08-03

A hotel porter at Helena, Mont,
found a quarter and laughed so hard
over 1t that he died. If it had been a
~tp" he would probably have grum-
bled because It was so little.
Barbour County index., 1910-08-03

The rules are very, very strict
In Bugtown. so they say;
And so it's very hard to battle
Upon a summers day.
For instance, on a pitcher
or lukewarm milk a crowd
OF bugs once spied this warning:
mo Bathing Is Allowed"
One bug. who was more daring
Than all the rest exclaimed:
"I'll show you that I'm not afraid.
And make you all ashamed"
So he put on his bathing suit.
And took a little dive
The bugs who were less daring
Are even now alive
Barbour County index., 1910-08-03

New York makes It unlawful to
eatch more than ten pounds of trout
In one day. This Is farcical Who
could catch 48 trout in New York in
pne day?
Barbour County index., 1910-08-03

two or three weeks. Consequently, it
would take a vast army of humble
bees to carry the pollen from every
head Of clover to some other head.
even in small field The pollen can,
not be carried by the wind, and the
bumblebees are disappearing, there
fore, machine to do the bumblebee's
work is necessary.
Barbour County index., 1910-08-03

Reckless aeroplanists may yet run
lown innocent automobilists leaving
them helpless and bleeding on the
road. The world do move.
Barbour County index., 1910-08-03

The back-to-the-farm movement is
VTry popular with those who could not
90 If they would and would not go If
they could.
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Where He Came In.

Have you ever figured in divorce
suit?"
NO; the lawyers did the figuring.
just paid the bills"
Barbour County index., 1910-08-03

The sultan Of Sulu will visit the
United States, bringing $25O,OOO worth
Of pearls. He'd better bring a body
guard. while he's about it.
Barbour County index., 1910-08-03

While 1t may be cruelty to mi
rrobes, the human society announces
that there will be no prosecutions
against bakers who wrap their bread.
Barbour County index., 1910-08-03

Correspondent asks anxiously why
20 many weddings take place in June.
Because In this season the contracting
Parties aren't SO likely to have cold
feet.
Barbour County index., 1910-08-03

In hot weather, too, the iceman has
An exasperating habit of failing to
see the card placed conspicuously in
Vrur front window.
Barbour County index., 1910-08-03

Showers OF sandbags and monkey
WROnches will mark the course of avia-
hon. The pedestrian suffers at every
turn from every innovation.
Barbour County index., 1910-08-03

Aviators now get $4,000 day, but
the prospect is that their wages will
be cut down at least ten per cent.
Barbour County index., 1910-08-03

That Texas man who has adopted
dollar bills as his calling cards will
probably find the folks at home at any
time.
Barbour County index., 1910-08-03

In the economy Of modern civiliza-
don the fly has no place. Swat him.
and swat to kill!
Barbour County index., 1910-08-03

These are busy days for electric and
base ball fans.
Barbour County index., 1910-08-03

Does any one remember the big
Snowstorm of last winter and the fear
ful oaths that were uttered then?
Barbour County index., 1910-08-03

It will be difficult to make a fool
proof automobile.
Barbour County index., 1910-08-03

The man-bird who sees his supply
Of gasoline running low becomes a
subject of ridicule to the other birds.
Barbour County index., 1910-08-03
Initials,

What are Mr.. Wise's initials?"
Cant say. He has been taking SO
many college degrees that nobody can
keep track of them"
Barbour County index., 1910-08-03

Halley's comet and Theodore Roose-
velt are now retired from the spot
light
Barbour County index., 1910-08-03

Keep in the shade, but not shady.
Barbour County index., 1910-08-03

The man-birds are beating the other
birds in their own speciality.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-05-06

me Season and the Crops Abroad.

The Season and the Crops Abroad.
Spring smiled early over pretty much
the whole of Europe. If the cessation
of frost marks the opening Of spring.
The season opened exceptionally early
in many countries. Seeding, therefore.
was early and vegetation of autumn
sown crops very forward. But in Eng
land and France excessive rains and
in Spain a. prolonged drought contrib
uted to the injury Of growing crops
and delay Of tillage.
France had a mild winter. with an
unprecedented rainfall, but still there
were frosts sharp enough to freeze the
unprotected roots Of plants. In Eng
land vast areas were described as wa
terlogged from almost daily rains in
winter" Belgium and Holland were
visited by downpours in March, which
caused floods that interfered with till
age. But in Germany. southern Rus
STA. Austria-H Hungary. Roumania and
OLuef SUITES euSL du duNillCcu oldhC VI
vegetation was reported for March.
Italy reported a normal crop. but pros
| poets Of an early harvest. with an in
creased wheat yield because of an in
creased acreage sown with that crop.
British 1ndia's sowing of wheat is
100000 acres larger than last years,
with The prospects of a normal yield
per acre.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-05-06
POLITICAL NEWS.

The Indiana Democratic convention
endorsed John w. Kern, Democratic
candidate for vice president in 1908,
as the candidate for the United States
senate. The opposition made a grim
fight, under the leadership of Thomas
Taggart, former chairman of the Dem
ocratic national committee and him
self a candidate for the nomination.
AS the result of a conference at
Washington between Michigan Repub-
lican political leaders it is announced
that Senator Burrows will remain in
the senatorial race. At the Septem-
Der primaries Burrows and Represen-
tative Townsend both will be candi-
dates and will agree to abide by the
result Of the primaries.
Theodore Roosevelt for the United
States senate as successor to Chaun-
cey M. Depew is the way the political
prophets and w~iseacres in Washing
ton have the situation in New York
state figured out.
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UNFORTUNATE EVENTS.

With millions of acres of young cot
ton destroyed by the cold weather
which o%verspread the entire cotton
belt, with the unusual accompaniment
in many sections of snow and sleet,
the South has suffered the most 5disas-
trous financial setback perhaps since
the Civil war.
Fire Of an unknown origin caused a
loss estimated at $530,000 in the NAM
moth plant of the Anheuser-Busch
Brewing company at st. Louis and for
a time threatened the entire establish
ment with destruction.
Ten persons were burned to death,
a number are reported missing and
several were injured in a fire which
destroyed the Rossmore House and
annex and a number Of other build
ings at Cornwall, Ont.
Several persons were injured and
property damaged to the amount Of
several thousand dollars when eight
big bulls and one female elephant of
the Ringing show stampeded at Dan
vile, Ill.
Percy Honeychurch, aged thirteen
years, and Frank Perry, aged fifteen
years, were literally roasted to death
by an electric shock at Butte, Mont.
Fire entirely consumed the lumber
yards of the Humbird Lumber com
pany at Sand Point, Ida, causing a
loss of about $4,000, 900.
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news OF WORLD.
important Events Of tie Week
In Condensed Form
WASHINGTON MEMS.

President Taft has sent to the sem
ate the nomination Of Governor
Charles E. Hughes of New York as
associate justice of the United States
supreme court to fill the vacancy
caused by the death Of Justice David
]. Brewer. While it is expected that
Governor Hughes will be confirmed
with little or no delay it is understood
at Washington he will remain8as the
chief executive of the state OF New
York until next October and will not
take the oath of his new office until
the fall term Of the supreme court
opens the second Monday OF that
month.
Administration leaders in congress
are beginning to feel a good deal of
concern yer the chances Of putting
through several measures onwhich
President Taft has set his heart. Hot
weather already has settled down on
Washington and sitting days in the
executive halls are sure to create a
general desire among members of con-
gress to get away.
Indignantly denying that he had
been guilty of any wrogdoing, Richard
A. Ballinger, secretary of the interior,
made a bitter attack upon his critics
while a witness before the Ballinger-
Pinchot investigating committee and
characterized many of the sworn
statements of his principal accuser,
L. r. CLAWS, as "willful and deliberate
lies"
The heated and direct accusation
that former Secretary of the Interior
Garfield, Clifford Pinchot and Others
are engaged in a political conspiracy
to overthrow a president who is dis
tasteful to them was made to the con-
%gressional investigation committee by
Attorney ]. ]. Vertrees, counsel for
Ballinger.
1t has become apperent, much to the
surprise of treasury officials, that the
returns from the corporation tax will
fall $8,000,O 900 short of the original es-
innate of $30,0O0,0OO.
That the Panama canal will be open
early in 1914 is an unofficial declara-
ton from the highest official source.
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LABOR NEWS.

Following the strike that closed the
ore mines at Greenwood, B. 81 the
miners. union at Phoenix. b.. O. de-
clared a sympathetic strike, putting
also $500 meneout of work at CRANKY
smelter, Grand Forks, B. C. Thirty
Ave hundred men are idle.
Twenty-six coal operators Of astotal
Of about thirty-one In the Pittsburg
district have signed the wageecale
demanded blythe miners and willssoon
resume operations. s5MsSsss
The Erie railroads. wageSdiferenees
with It's firennen have been adjusted
BY an advance ofSs.2 per cent tosthlss
men. Il SBS3 s@@aSHfss
Columbus. (O.) street car conductors
and motormen are on strike.