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Tanana leader. [volume] (Tanana, Alaska) 1909-1910, 1910-04-07

household discipline It is we'll do live long
authority questioned You have already changed submits
sive wife to arrogant and selfreliant
Yesterday told her to 20 and the and she
Strengthened her full height and told myself
Il have always been kind and thoughtful her. When she
had to in the gulch in the winter after rewood
shielded her from the while in the cabin through the
long hours could other unseshness
part, but will not take up your time
She smoking tobacco and kicks my verebrae into
hat the unlocked for She does love
any more, and life to me is only hollow mockery.
Death with it's wide waste of eternal calm and its shorees
eff rest is glad relief to but leave your midst
kitts and able bodied widow who will make Rome howl
queah her to this She yours, gentlemen She is all
have to give but in giving her to feel that unmey
death will always be looked this guc dire calamity
The day will come when you will look back upon this awfu
night and wish that alive again. but it will be too late
will be My will be in the land domestic
felicity and cold feet enter Bury the foot
Vinegar HILL where the hen and the fuzzy humble bee
gambol o'er my owly grave"
When Calamity had finished mprompu called
and when it adjourned Calamity went home to his cabin tc
surprise his wife She hasn't fully from the surprise
to press-BiI Nye.
Tanana leader. [volume] (Tanana, Alaska) 1909-1910, 1910-04-07

1t is surprising to learn that Great Salt Lake is
higher than at other time within the memory of white
Such is said to be a fact Six years ago it
nounced positively that the lake drying up, and that
it only question of two three decades before
Americas great natural features would disappear.
The present swelling of the lake is not due to heavy
rains but is apparently in conformity to its habit Ac
cording to Indian tradition says Outside paper it has
regular rise and fall each extending period Of
thirty forty years. The lake has been known to civ
izaon long enough for these statements to be verified by
scientific observers but the legends of primitive and
people usually based on fact.
The phenomenon of Great Salt Lake ::ds it's
elsewhere has been shown that the Great Lakes them
selves have steady rise and fall although their case
is slight, and at points the is known to be
croachng the land while at others the order reversed
Rash observers startling discoveries and predict
great disasters but the face Of are makes permanent
changes slowly that tell any difference
hundreds Of years.
Tanana leader. [volume] (Tanana, Alaska) 1909-1910, 1910-04-07

The contention by the Chamber of Commerce that
terms of the district court should be held at Tanana has
had its logic forciby demonstrated during the present
closed the of the United States deputy
marshals. For months at time of them
the trail from Fairbanks of business
Tanana points beyond. During the last open
their coming and going perhaps frequent While
of from peoples viewpoint the matter is looked at
principally affecting their convenience it would
appear that economy and dispatch Of business wonld be
the Department of Justice to change the present plan
In the past few days number of Koyukuk mining
in Tanana and manifested deep interest in the
matter To them chance call to it is at present
located would be calamity and actions at law costly
that cheaper to suffer great wrong than to seek legal
redress All that the people here do is to them
that the matter will be laid before the proper authorities,
and that favorable consideration is hoped for.
Tanana leader. [volume] (Tanana, Alaska) 1909-1910, 1910-04-07
II FRONTIER
nv CEDE w T

Calamity the of who lvesn the gold of
Cumuins City, He NAME nobody
what is has been off the wrapper someway
boys call him Calamity.
He is of singular mind and construction. The
iceabe feature about Calamity his supesous dread Of
lar activity Some people will tackle kind of
erpse Friday Calamity the victim of this
superstition and has dread of beginning work of
Week, for fear that disaster may befall him.
Last spring he had little domestic trouble and his wife
complaints that Calamity had old long handled shovel
her. trying convince her about theory his
The testimony seemed rather against Calamity the
told him that they the rush little and had
leisure they would have to hang him.
They hoped he would take advantage of the hurry
and because they didn't want hang him early the
But Calamity didn't away He stayed because
easier stay than He did of pine
the notorey being the first hung the young
rather than pull stakes and place where
death calmly in whatever form might evening"
after the work of the day and the boys had
of them suggested that it would be good
to hang Calamity So they things shape and
the Big Laramie bridge Calamity with them. They got
things ready for the exercises begn then asked the victim
if he had anything He oosened the his
little with hand that he could speak with freedom
and holding his pantaloons with the other, he said:
Gentlemen of the convention, call you witness that this
public demonstration toward is entirely unsought
have courted notorety.
Plugging along comparative obscury good enough
This is the first time have addressed audience
That is why am embarrassed and ill ease.
you have brought here hang because
with wife, You have entered the haowed
of home life and assumed the rerogave of subverg
Tanana leader. [volume] (Tanana, Alaska) 1909-1910, 1910-04-07
RAMPANT AND VICINITY

Oscar Bergman, Joe Koninsky George Shirley and Jimmy
Lawrence old Ramparers who reported be the
Of the lower brought indicating that their ground
will yield big
George Shirley, 35a Hunter creek, 100
feet with signs of bedrock The deepest hole heretofore put
down that vicinity IS feet and body wondering what
the outcome will be- He is in wash gravel with good
boulders.
Christian Dubacb representing Joseph (Mo) people, will
install seamshove on Hunter creek this He has ee
graphed Frank Graham 1000 cords of wood the
ground this His holds leases from G. B. Allen
Baou Mann. Ernest Floyd Louis Iverson and Frank Gra
hamthe understanding being that the receive 10
and not declared from work until the
each Of the respective claims is believed the has
fine chance make money
O. c. Clemens would his ground
above terms and is taking winter dump He has been
ing expenses off paintings and pckups.
Frank & Graham will splash going
Manook the coming They have 1000 ground
tending down from the upper end of la These
expert in the spasda process and that they have
held for their waste they snre to get satisfactory results
Clinic Cummings Nelson a. Little Manook have dump
of about buckets Their pcups
500 No has been worked since 49, and credited with having
much gold left.
E. Fl Chapman Tom Evans have a very good dump
on pa Little NIanook
On Dawson creek, Charley Johnson Buck Berg
Bros all have dumps. While they fairly WE'LL
suits will equal what the dirt indicated early in the
Over Quail, Cassidy & Olson take consdera
BILE the coming Last fall the shoveed in
400 20 days. working the backed from Trouble
With adequate drain much better results would be had
The ground has been
uniform 1t is shallow and the only thing that
stand in the of its yielding handsomely good bedrock
drain
Tate taking grubstake dump at the mouth of
Florida creek, miles from Rampant They
and is known that rich silver float picked the
district has impressed them greatly However,
they have made in looking for the ledge Silver nuggets
occasionally found in creeks rare in
mineral deposits.
Tanana leader. [volume] (Tanana, Alaska) 1909-1910, 1910-04-07
Big Mexican irrigation Project

John Hays Hammond has just organized SIS 1000
install immense irrigation project the Yuqu valley
OF Sonora Mexico which covered with and mesquite
and has long been considered hababe only by warning Yqu
Indians Besides Mr. Hammond other capitalists who
ested in the proposition Harry Payne Whitney, Leigh Hunt
who has been interested big Chinese Egyptian
sons; Cortland E. Palmer L. G. Snnard former president
National Irrigation congress- Richardson
Los Angeles who secured the original railroad along
the coast More than 100000 of land will made
susceptible to cultivation by this project
Tanana leader. [volume] (Tanana, Alaska) 1909-1910, 1910-04-07
Wouldn't Stand for the HinduS

Portland Ore March 29-Three hundred Hindus driven
from the village of ST. Johns and this last Thursday morning
they had de themselves obnoxious the employees
the mills for working for less than being paid the
white labor On the night previous attack made the
by the white aborers the ST. Johns mills they had
seek the protection the police They decided rather than
risk another attack they would leave
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-05
The Spots DISAPPEARED.

Mrs. Dolan lived in district which
was not as favorable for the outdoor
household experiments recommended
by the Ladies Helper as it might have
been. This fact Mrs. Dolan was rapid
" assimi1ating, and in a manner not
so uncommon as It might be she
blamed the estimable periodical for
her difficulties.
Il wisht had a holt o. that woman
that runs the Handy Hints depart
ment, she remarked to her husband
one morning after an early excursion
into the back yard, whence she re-
turned in high dudgeon.
Il fought you fought she was a
grand wan" said Mr.. Dolan, cautious
ly testing his cup of tea.
We'll, I've changed me mind, as
I've the rights to do" replied his wife.
She said to put sody on thin stains
in the tablecloth, and rave it out over
night on the line, an they'd be gone
entirely whin morning come Sure tbs
the tablecloth that's gone-the de
saving woman that she is!''-Youth' S
Companion
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-05

of nitrogen is may be seen from the fact that
a 100-busheI crop of corn takes from the soil
almost 100 pounds of nitrogen in the corn and
about 48 pounds in the stalks. Rich, well-bal-
aneed land in the corn belt contains about
5000 pounds of nitrogen. Therefore, If the
process of subtraction of nitrogen goes on
year after year with never an addition, 1t can
be seen clearly that the farmers finances can
not multiply. Rotation plans for grain farm
ers always should include crop of legumes
Wheat, corn, oats and clover is a satisfactory
rotation; also wheat, corn and COW peas; also
cotton, corn and oats and COW peas The first
of these rotations should include catch crop
of clover seeded the first year and plowed I'M
der for corn as late as practicable the second
year The other two should include catch
crops Of legumes whenever possible Legumes
when plowed under perform valuable services
besides supplying the soil with nitrogen-as
they decay they supply organic matter to the
soil which helps other elements of plant food
to free themselves from the earth and into the
farmers bank account
Now that the question of nitrogen has been
outlined, suppose we turn to the problem OF
phosphorus the only element Of plant food we
ever shall have TO buy As to the Importance
of the use of phosphorus upon the common
soils of the United States, DR.. Hopkins has
this to say:
Phosphorus is the key to permanent ag-
riculture on these lands. To maintain or in
crease the amount of phosphorus in the soil
makes possible the growth of clover or other
legumes and the consequent addition OF nitro
gen from the inexhaustible supply in the air;
and with the addition Of decaying organic mat
ter in the residues Of clover and other crops
and in manure made in large part from clover,
hay and pasture, and from the larger crops OF
corn and other grains which clover helps to
produce comes the possibility of liberating
from the immense supplies in the soil sufficient
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-05

let us consider a few fundamentals of crop
growing.
First. there are six positive, absolutely es-
sential factors. They are: % the seed,
(2) the plant home, (5) the food of which the
plant is made (41 moisture, go heat go light.
Now, except in the case of the seed and plant
food these factors are largely beyond the farm
er's control. Dame Nature caq, however be
trusted to attend to them satisfactorily. HOW,
then, has the farmer made use of his ability to
control the two factors? By exercising judg
ment and care in the selection of seed and by
ignoring the matter of plant food entirely. Ihe
result? When the land was worn out and had
no plant food to give the good seed the agrlcul
turist arose irateIy in farmers institute and
told what he thought of the seed seller. The
trouble all the time was not with the seed but
with the SOIL which had had the elements OF
plant food removed in previous crops, and as
a consequence could not respond to the call OF
the seed.
What are these elements? There are ten
in the list but eight are provided abundantly.
Three-oxygen, hydrogen and carbon-come
directly from the air and water Most nor
NAL soils contain enough potassium, magne-
SUM, iron, calcium and sulphur, although some
times the first must be supplied. The problem
of plant food therefore, narrows itself, In most
cases to maintaining and increasing the phos
phorus and nitrogen.
Now nitrogen is as easy to catch as the
measles if one knows how. The air contains
1t In inconceiVab1e amounts. DR.. Hopkins has
estimated that the air above an acre of ground
contains about $1O,oO0,00o worth, If sold over
the counter at ordinary commercial rates. In
order to induce this nitrogen to enter the
earth. where 1t may reappear as food for man.
all that is necessary is to plant clover, alfalfa
peas or any legume BY means of the bacteria
upon the roots these legumes draw the nitro
gen into the soil How necessary the element
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49, or1IV
tilds on. .3e,tion even crop rotation, all are
= - for extracting from the soil the rlch
tta+ is in 1t. not for returning any OF the
60 o1an,ants of grain building. All OF tnese
methods of soil stimulation are eXceAene ~
their wav if used in connection Win Ineehous
- -o+rnine the elements of plant food; put
II read without them they are means o.
Fastening the impoverishment OF the son.
To return to the question of limestone, one
ton To the acre finely ground Will correct lhe
acid condition of most Soils IL Is however
in the end cheaper and easier to apply more
and to ann1v it less often. AS much as ten
TONS to the acre was applied to the soil OF one
of the experiment fields in southern lllnols
and the crop Yields there have been greater
than upon any other fields in that district
a question that has been given much at
tention lately is the question OF crop rota'
ton. Undoubtedly it is absolutely essential
for successful grain farming but 1t Is not
the universal panacea some would nave US pc
Heve For instance, group OF tneorlsIs
have declared that fertilization Is unnecessary
that crop rotation will keep the soils In per-
feet condition. The idea is that plants 90 nov
injure the soil because they use It's plant food
elements but because they throw of poisonous
excreta as animals do Therefore so-called
WORKOUT soil simply has become saturated
with this excreta Plant crop which will
neutralize the poison of the last crop and the
soilsoiI Will be sweetened and the breasts OF
Mother Earth kept dripping with plenty for.
ever This is very attractive-as theory. II
has, however, no foundation In fact. AS DR..
Hopkins has said, the rotation Of crops has just
the same effect upon wealth In the sooil as
the rotation of the check book among the
members of the family has upon the wealth
In the bank. Plant food elements cannot be
used up and not returned without resulting
In impuverishment of the SOIL
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-05
NEED MONEY FOR GOOD WORK
Plans of the National Association for
the Study and Prevention
of tuberculosis.

What "a Million for tuberculosis
from Red Cross Seals" will do in pro-
viding some of the 275,00O beds need
ed at once In the United States for
consumptives, is explained in recent
bulletin of the National Association
for the Study and Prevention of Tu-
berculosis. There is just about one
bed for every ten INDECENT consump-
tives, and if all tuberculosis persons
in the country are counted, both rich
and poor, hardly one for every % or
80. If sufficient hospital accomoda-
tons are provided only for those
who are too poor to pay the full
price for their treatment, fully 275,000
more beds in special institutions for
tuberculosis would be needed at once.
The immense outlay necessary to pro-
vide and maintain SO many beds in
hospitals, make it imperative, the
National Association for the Study
and Prevention of tuberculosis de-
clares, that such institutions be erect
ed from public money, either NUM-
cipal, county or state. In order to
get appropriations for public hospitals
for tuberculosis, agitation is neces-
sary, and in order to create a cam
paign of agitation, organization is de-
manded. But in order that an organi-
cation may carry on an effective cam
paign, funds are needed.
These funds it is proposed to secure
a., Ia
from the sale of Red Cross seals.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-05
rhe Most NotIeeable chanae.

$50 you have lived in Europe for Is
years. That's a long time for man
to be away from his own country
Yes, it is, and I'm mighty glad to
be home again.
81 suppose you notice great many
changes? ?"
Eyes, many"
What, if l may ask, is the greatest
change that has come to your notice?"
'eThe greatest change, it seems to
me, is to be found in the fact that the
vice-president of the United States
succeeds in getting his name in the
papers nearly as often as he might If
he were a baseball player or prom
Using lightweight prizefghter."
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-05
An Exaetina Parsonage.

81 suppose you find life easier
since the summer boarders have
gone?
Nope" replied Farmer Corntossel.;
were workin' an worryin' just as
much as ever trytn' to keep the hired
man contented.''
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-05

ANS best friend is his
mother-the earth. All
she asks is the oppor-
tunity and she will
yield him the wealth of
an account that has
been growing for ages.
And he has treated her
as he usually treats his
best friends. He has
taken all she had to
give, bought an auto
mobile and a house in
town and then hid his
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-05
No Hurry.

What are you In such a rush
about?"
promised to meet my wife at three
o'clock down at the corner"
well, there's no hurry. 1t isn't four
o'clock yet
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-05
ISldLEa-- aoLzaN1zz1G
-zkg7c0z1<azE2 azaGzEgna

We all feel the results; and it is
not the man with the hayseed In his hair who
feels it first but the man with the pen behind
his ear Month by month the price OF each
separate commodity puts a little large pune
ture In his salary, until by the end Of the year
his savings, which began hopefully, as an I'M
known quantity, have ended as 'X=nothing."
He it is who knows the cold dread of middle
age: for unless the land can be induced to
yield abundantly prices will not settle down to
the point where the man on moderate salary
can live free from fear. Farmer and clerk
alike, we are all vitality concerned in this
problem of maintaining and increasing the fer
tiity of the soil that is fertile, and of restor-
ing soils that have been cruelty exploited.
Fortunately they can be restored. Intelli-
gence is more potent than aVarice and can
undo the evil it has wrought. Even those soils
that have been exploited to the point Of appar-
emit ruin can be nursed back to health. DR..
CyriI Hopkins, head of the agronomy depart
ment of the University of Illinois, a soil spe-
cialist of national reputation and the author of
numerous pamphlets and a book entitled "Soil
Fertility and Permanent Agriculture is one
of the most enthusiastic workers along this
line He is a man of hard facts and loves
nrettv theories even as the devil loves holy
water. Every fact that he gives out must
prove itself over and over again in tests upon
his own farms. or those belonging to the uni
versity or upon one of the various experiment
tal.nlots. There are about thirty of these plots
scattered through the state OF Illinois, where
the soils are carefully examined and then
cropped according to their needs could tell
Won tales OF what Mother Earth mas done III
the way of corn, wheat cats, or clover When
sbe has received proper treatment that would
aet Won to building castles in the air upon an
certify foundation The corn yield upon one OF
the the university farms in 1909 was 81 bushels
to the acre. due to treatments with limestone
and phosphorous But before we go farther
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-05


address from his relatives of the soil
for fear they would bring their earthly
smell into his new residence.
With quiet Indifference old Mother
Earth endures this ingratftude, but
the time comes when she has nothing
for his greed. What happens then?
Look to India for one answer Ten
million of our own Aryan blood starve
there in a single famine year-starve
upon soil that once was, and still
could be, almost inconceivably fertile.
Russia offers another reply, where
with stomachs empty men enter
world that never fills them. Yet an
other answer, centuries old, may be
found in the Tigris-E uphrates valley,
which, once marvelously fertile. now
scorches uselessly in the tropic sun.
The necessity of man forged weapon
that brought him plenty; but the greed
OF man forged a weapon that brought
him penury. For do you think there
can be prosperity when the earth no
longer yields? Do not forget that the
shame of Rome was coineident with
the time when one bushel of seed re-
turned but four in the harvest When
the soil exploited, that is when 1t
is SO farmed that the essential ele-
ments are taken out in crops and moth
ing returned to build it up, the result
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-05

potassium, magnesium and other es-
sential abundant elements supple
mented by the amounts returned in
manure and crop residues for the pro-
duction of large crops at least for
thousands of years; whereas if the
supply of phosphorus in the soil is
steadily decreased in the future in ac-
cordance with the past and present
most common farm practise, then
poverty is the only future for tbs
people who till the common agricultu-
raj lands of the United States
Phosphorus may be applied in lib
eral amounts as much as 1000 pounds
to the acre every three or four years
and it costs about ST ton.
After the problem OF returning the
elements to the soil has been solved
the farmer may find another condition
of the soil which must be corrected
before his farm will produce as it
should. This is the tendency OF GER
tain soils to acidity. Glover, alfalfa
and other valuable legumes cannot
thrive upon soil that is sour. Some
times on acid soils when applications
of farm manure are made, the legumes
will seem to grow well, but examina-
ton reveals the fact that the nitrogen
gathering bacteria fail to develop
properly. Hence the most valuable
contribution the legumes have to make
to the soil is largely lost. Upon GER
tain fields belonging to one of the
most famous agricultural stations IN
the world, that of Rothamstead, Eng
land, applications of natural limestone
were made a century ago. They are
still moderately productive, although
other fields near by, which have never
received the application, are extreme
ly unproductive.
Care should be taken that lime
Stone is used for the one and only pur-
nose of correcting soil acidity.
And while we are upon this
subject of soil stimulation. have you
ever thought that most OF our I'M.
movements have that in view and