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Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-15
HE RAISES A FAMILY ON $500
Swiss Farmer Shows What Small
Capital Can Do.
HAS MONEY IN THE BANK NOW
Henry Dupertuis Wins Success by In
vcsting Three Hundred Dollars
I'm LOgsed-Off Land I'm
Lewis County. t

CHEHALIS, WASH, July H-(Special. y
What can a homeseeker accomplish in
western Washington with a cash capital
of 81 000?'' Is a most interesting story as
secured by Secretary e. r. Merrell of the
Citizens club of Chehalis from Henry
Dupertuis, a well known farmer living near
Adna, on farm about six and a half
miles west OF Chehalis. The story follows
in part:
; Mr. Dupertuis was born in Switzerland.
in the French speaking canton Of Vaud.
There the family farmed nine acres of
mountain land, fair sized farm In that
denseiy populated district. whore all tilla-
BILE land was overcrowdedy in some In
stances a frugal family existing from the
produce of less than three acres. From a
friend. who had emigrated from switzer-
land to Kingman county, Kansas, the
Dupertuis learned of the broad and fertile
acres available in the middle west of the
United States.
In April, 1889. they left Switzerland and
located in Kansas. moving In 1892 to a
homestead claim in Oklahoma, at Bel
mont.
Move to Washington.
Finding the hot climate OF Oklahoma un-
healthy for them, and learning of the
milder climate OF western Washington, they
bought tickets to Seattle and stopped off
at the city of Chehalis. December 20, 1900,
where they looked for fertile land low
enough in price to be bought with their
$500 cash capital, remaining from expenses
of their journey from Switzerland to Kan
sas, Oklahoma and across the continent to
western Washington with their family Of
fourteen persons.
They bought the 100 acres Of cut-over
timber where they now reside for $500.
: which was the price in 1900 Of cut-over
land that was literally covered from sight
with tree tops. old logs and fir and cedar
stumps.
Mr.. Dupertuis rented a small residence
nearby and proceeded to clearing his land.
The $500 remaining from the purchase OF
the land provided temporarily for living
expenses; while Mr.. Dupertuis and the
elder sons worked in nearby lumber mills
for ready money to pay for team and tools.
seeds. berry canes and plants. but made
the clearing of their land the main work
putting under cultivation each square rod
as soon as It was cleared. IN garden truck
and berries.
Becoming self-SuppOrtinG.
In q few years they got under cuItiva-
ton garden truck. raspberries. biackber-
ries. logan berries and strawberries
enough to maintain the family and &c
build a comfortable residence and large
barn and other buildings. and 60 plant an
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-15
DOGS AND DIAMONDS COSTLY
Compete Report of County Assessor
is Interesting.
AUTOS AssEssE ; AT slG8 APIECE
For the First Time the value of TAX
able Property In Douglas County
Goes Beyond r,vo Hundred
Million Dollars.

For the first time the total value OF tax
able property in Douglas county as re
turned by the assessor goes over the 500.
Vo.OO mark. AS shown BY the final report,
which w. q. Shriver county assessor.
tul ned in to the state Board II ..qLauz -
ton yesterday, the total Is scr. 2s5. s25 Las.
year IL was SiS9.4is.9s5.
The tax Is levied on only one-fourtb of
the total. or $4c250.2s5 Last year the state
board raised the assessed value OF the
county's property s2s2,OsO.
The assessors report shows some inter
esting details. There are 5O1 dogs in Doug
las county, whose assessed value is $685.
making their actual value $3.50
The assessed value of the diamonds and
other precious stones i'm the county on the
one-fifth basis is $ig,55S. Last year 1t was
s2l, 4l0
Automobiles Raised.
Automobiles show a surprising increase.
This year there are LOO machines at All
assessed value of one-fifth, worth Sl7S,7s
or s15s.65 apiece. Last year there were
only $50 machines at an assessed value OF
Sl04elO. The difference is due in part to
the fact that this year there we're four
men detailed to automobiles as their special
work
ACCORDING 10 the assessors report the
pianos are not very far behind the auto
mobiles in value. $3.50 of them being placed
at an assessed value Of s1S5,6o5.
The total personally at the one-fifth as
sessment value is $14,6s9. 1865. Last year II
was fl2, 1914
The greatest item on the real estate side
is the improved city lots, with an actual
total value of s35,s72s5s and an average
value of $780, Unimproved city lots total
an actual value OF sl4.24s,265 and an average
value OF $3.50. There are H.554 improved
lots and 5O.226 unimproved lots.
The country lands, OF which there are
17s,l4e acres. total an actual value of $11,-
1si, 40 or an average value per acre of
$64 IS The improvements on the country
lands are estimated at t1,7sS,s5O. or 5000
per acre.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-15
Boy scouts mt coOper's Grove.

CoOPERsTOWN. N. Y. July A,-The
Boy Scouts attending the first national en-
campment OF the organization. marched
from their camp grounds on Lake Otsego
this morning TO the grave OF James Feni-
more Cooper, the great scout novelist, and
passed around the grave in single file.
bareheaded.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-15

and especially for more than day or two,
are rare in this state.
Following the close Of the first cutting
Of alfalfa, the harvesting OF the hard
winter wheat crop has commenced. and
with the completion of this, the spring
wheat fields win be ready for the har-
vester.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-15
VETERANS ARRANGE REUNION
Douglas County Pioneers to Meet at
Florence saturday to Perfect
Their Plans.

four-day retfRion, with annual exercises
and festivities. will be held at Florence
by the Douglas County Veterans associa-
ton beginning Tuesday. August Is. The
veterans have put the affair in the hatY1s
of committee. of which Charles w. Allen
Is chairman, and a meeting to further ar
rangements will be held at Florence Satur-
day.
The speaker for the special days have
not yet been definitely chosen, but there
will be several prominent men. Saturday
following the four-day session the veterans
will retire for the county pioneers, who will
continue the affair in their own name with
the same arrangements.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-15

GoI4DENDAIaE Ore, July 1.-THE Col
dendaie Fruit and Produce association has
established free bureau OF Information
and employment office for the benefit OF
the farmers and fruit growers of the Kick
itat Galley.
Information relative TO the cultivating
end caring for OF orchards and the growing
OF crops Of all kinds win be furnished.
The association is arranging TO maintain
permanent exhibits OF Klickitat products a,
Seattle. Portland. Spokane and Lyle
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-15

In q few years they got under euTtiva-
ton garden truck. raspberries. blaekber-
ries. logan berries and strawberries
enough TO maintain the family and to
build a comfortable residence and large
barn and other buildings. and 60 plant an
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NYHAWxER JOTy

B U forget drop in urd pay that s
you owe on subscription, is the way the
Canton Pilot puts it.
Remarks Editor Knox in his Alma
Signal: Curtis and Bristo4 both voted
against reciprocity, which would seem
to put it up to the Sultan Of Sulu to
control Kansas patronage.
An unusual man lives at Sabetha.
John Cummings, reports the Herald at
that place. says he does not believe IN
kicking on taxes because he feels that
the more taxes he pays the richer he is.
It is claimed that Socialists are all
eranks, says the Galena Republican
and it continues: Well, so be it; it
takes cranks to run any kind of ma
chlnery. Why not cranEs to run the
government?
According to the Canton Pilot. four
thousand, nine hundred and ninety
nine cases have been filed in the dis
trict court since Mcpherson county
was organized. The first was q divorce
suit a1.1 so was the last one.
w J. Leak, of Seneca, is doing the
outside of his residence with a fresh
coat Of paint. reports the Seneca Tri-
bune. In other words Mr. Leak is
fixing UP his house so it won't wear
out quickly and begin to leak
A coed washing machine costs from
Circle editor of the Havensville Re-
view but a Washboard can be bought
for twenty-five cents. This kind of
economy gives a good many men a
chance to look for a second wife.
An old lady was telling her grand
children about some trouble in Scot
land in the course of which the chief
of her clan was beheaded, relates the
Elk Falls Reflector. 1T was no great
thing of a head, BARNS, to be sure, -
said the old lady, but it was a sair
loss to him"
Writes the Elaader correspondent of
the Oakley Graphic: How quick some
people are to take advantage of other
peoples misfortune. This part of the
country is being flooded with would be
cattle buyers who are offering prices
away below the market value, thinking
the people here will have to sell for
want of feed, but as the grass is good
and strong and there is lots of range,
so far the would be hold-up men are
getting very few cattle.
There is a young lady l. Atchison
who doesn't do anything except to
work on herself She was never in a
kitchen longer than necessary to tell
her mother that she was wanted at the
phone. and she never so much as
sewed q stitch in her stocking. Last
night the young lady was sitting on the
porch with a group of persons, consist
ing of father. mother and a visiting
aunt An Atchison young man, who is
VIGOROUSLY lazy. passed by He is
such a worthless sort of = fellow" said
the young girl. Il simrly can't un-
derstand why he doesn't go to work -
'Well, I'd like to know" said the old
fashioned aunt, why you cont go to
work." Mother jumped in and de-
Tended her daughter, and tn row that
followed resulted in the cid fashioned
aunt leaving for home this morning
Atchison Globe.
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cisco, which has suffered much in the
past from such calamity as may befan
any city on earth at any moment, has
cause to fell aggrieved at the exagger-
ated reports of a mild visitation where
by she suffered nothing except in the
damage done her reputation by those
reports. The sources that furnished
and the newspapers that published
those reports would have done the city
only simple justice if they had used
the incident to show how we'll the work
of rebuilding has been done. 1t was
not, in truth, a severe tsst of recon-
struction. but it was the first test. and
so might have been given values as
news of a constructive and helpful
character
The newspapers of san Francisco,
in sending out this authoritative mat
ter. are merely asking that justice be
done their town, and the State Journal
is glad of the opportunity 20 extend
whatever aid it can in thes- premises.
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THE SKINNER or THE SOUND.

In the long simmer of the Sound
May some day be laughing found,
Part of its restless to and fro,
humble worker OF the tides
That travel round the sleepless world,
Changing the sea shell to strange pearl,
And in the rock and drift of things
ooh, how the seaweed sways and swings.
Is it her hair-has she been found
In the long simmer of the Sound?
Do some small task 1 90 not know
Oh, maybe help the mussel grow
A mute compassion of the waves
That toss within their moonlit graves
Is it a king, or but girl?
And all the while she sings and sings,
And waves her white hands to the shore,
That singing water called the sea,
Mysterious sister of the world,
ooh, tell me- was this seaWeed found
In the long simmer of the Sound?)
Richard LIE Gallienne, in Smart Set.
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d DO something


Fellow workmen in the painting
trade call Evan Shermon, who is so
years old, and lives at 200 West 121st
street, "Nine-Lives Dutchie," and his
old schoolmates dubbed him kitty,
the Human Cat" both sobriquets hav-
ing to do with Shermon's ability to
fall from heights varying from 10 to
100 feet without hurting himself. He
himself estimates that he has had
about 100 falls. But he shows him
self without a scratch, ana is sure that
he isn't going to die that way.
He fell eight stories thursday from
the Scott & Bovine building, near the
Brooklyn bridge, about 100 feet. But
he was still the Human Cat" of
youth for he landed on the fagstones
on his feet. And it wasn't because of
injuries that he went to st. Gregory s
hospital. His trousers were torn and
he went to the hospital 80 wait till an
other pair was sent him. His knees
were somewhat bruised, and one hand
lacerated.
He was standing on the outer sill of
a window in the eighth story when he
slipped and pitched out into the air
Cries of horror arose from those who
saw him from the street, and they
turned their heads away to avoid the
sight of seeing the man killed. But
'Nine-Lives Dutchie'' saw on his way
down some telegraph wires, and he
grabbed for one. He caught it, but
his weight tore the wire from his
grasp. However this act broke his
fall. He landed on his feet and sank
to his knees. For a little while he
was stunned but when the ambu-
lance got there he was sitting up.
1--WE been falling ever since 1 can
remember" said Shermcn. "I started
by falling out of my high chair When
was boy, the other boys called me
Kitty. the Human Cat I was always
climb bling up somewhere and falling a
good part of the time. + have fallen
out of fruit trees about 25 times, ]
guess have toppled off barns or out
of the haylofts about twenty times.
too. I've fallen off fences about 50
times off boats S. and bicycles IS.
"Only two weeks ago 1 tumbled off
the fourth story of a building, and I
wasn't a bit hurt. I've had so much
practice that I've kind OF got the
knack of falling on my feet like the
pussy cats do"
The human tumble-bug said that
during his fall he had his faculties
with him all the way.
when I started to shoot down, ]
kind of got a bunch that my good
luck wasn't going to desert me-" Sher-
mon explained. But this was sure
the biggest fall I ever got. You bet
my brain was working fast. New
/ York World
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IFrom the Philadelphia Record
All the worlds a race, and most Of
US are also-rans.
It's all right to pray for rain. but a
surer plan is to get up 2 picnic.
Even an exploded theory doesn't al
ways make q noise in the world.
We really only get things coming our
way when we go after them
The fellow who never gets to the
top is apt to blame it on the elevator.
No, Maude dear, il isn't the MISSY
willow that makes the doEwood bark.
The bill collector is also in rursu.. Of
wealth, but ii is generally somebodv
else's.
A woman never knows her own mind
till she has changed it five or six times
Blobbs-"Shc's rather narnish. .sr't
she?' Slobbs-'.Yes, she even dishes
shopping"
Nell aude always uses a fountain
pen" Belle-"Her letters are rather
gushing, aren't they?''
By the time a fellow is rich eno,.a
to be a girls husband he is genArsi1.,
old enough to be her father.
If necessity is the mother OF irvo,
ton she has a bigger family thar az
old woman who lived in a shoe 'ne
ADMINISTRATIVE you any LATE tr.,.
out to Lonelyvilie?'' Subbubs~- ~. -
Ali our trains are late
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rowed back to to town Mr.. Brown
sent me out this morning to tell you
folks he'd like his property
But it's my island" exclaimed two
voices.
The officer of the low grinned.
There are lots of islands around
here" he explained. None of EN-
are worth much. under wate- half the
time. and people camp on 'em in the
summer and are not too particular
about whose islands thev help them
selves to- Why don't you folks camp
on your own islands? You've each
got one with two shacks on it. Miss
Sheldon, yours is a mile north of the
town and, Mr.. Hay, yours is just be-
yond the next bend of the river.
After the officer had gone they sat
for some time in silence
TT is not my island" said Ethel.
att is not my island, and I am glad
of it. The cause of our trouble. the
ownership of the island, ia gone-it
never existed
But there would DO something
else
1T would vanish as this has. Be-
sides, you need me or you would not
have run to me last night when you
were frightened. You need a protec-
tor"
"A landlord may go u tenant for
help" But the rest of the sentence
was an unintelligible murmur against
his coat.-(Copyright 1911 by the
Associated Literary Press.)
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Problem OF the Navy.

How to induce men to enlist in the
navy is one of the problems which the
government has with it always. The
art department may work overtime
getting up highly decorative Htho-
graphs which picture the joys of work
ing on shipboard for the government,
but even art has its limits, and the
navy is as much in need of men as it
ever has been. Mr.. Meyer, however,
cooperating with the members of the
senate committee on naval affairs, be-
lieves that a satisfactory solution has
been hit upon The proposal is, in
brief. to retire enlisted men after six
teen years honorable service. on part
pay. The committee has already re-
reported such a retirement bill favor
ably, and what makes tho outlook still
more encouraging is that the navy de-
partment has been urging just this
kind of legislation for several years.
In fact, ever since the United States
started out to build a navy that could
compete with the navy Of any other
power the great problem has been to
supply the demand for enlisted men.
Recruiting stations have been multi
piled until they are to be found in
every city of any consequence in the
country. Large sums of money have
been spent in advertising for men to
serve in the navy. In spite of all this
it has not been possible for the de-
partment to keep the force of enlisted
men I'D to the strength called for by
the fighting vessels af1oat. A still more
serious problem has beer to persuade
men to re-enlist after having served
one term of enlistment Naval officers
point out that in the other great navies
of the world most of the enlisted men,
or the ue-jackets. whether enlisted
or compelled to enter the service, are
men of mature experience.
1.-The enlisted men of the navy" said
Rear Admiral Dillingham;, realize
that with the strenuous conditions
which must necessarily exist in a mod
ern feet, the average man may not
survive in good physical condition the
80 years service required by the pres
ent law, and, further, the enlisted men
of the navy find that. though they may
serve three, four, five, or six enlist
ments. and become incapacitated for
the service by causes incident to the
service. they cannot receive sufficient
means to enable them to live properly
after condemnation by medical survey
In other words, our retirement and
pension laws are not satisfactory. -
Washington Cor. New York Evening
Post.
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HUAOR OF THE DRY

He-Don't you think she has rather a
good complexion7 Shelf strikes me as
being just trifle too impressionistic.-
Scribners.
Guest-1'H take some O. that. waiter
Some o which, boss? Guest-Some O. that
there. Can't you read? Waiter cuse
me, sub. amt had no education, Meth
er.-Toledo Blade.
Condensation. -"Do you use condensed
order quart day, and the milkman
squeezes it into a can that holds about
a pint.''-Toledo Blade.
why, year ago you told me this place
was easily worth SIS, 600. Now you esti-
mate it's value at less than 500 you
to sell 1t to you then. Now you want me
to sell it for you."-Chicago Record
Herald.
No Trouble Explaining
Gated Cook-If you please, mum, the
butcher says I'll get per cent on all the
Mistress-It means, Mary, that we shall
have another MISUNDERSTANDING
willie" said the brother, Il met in
New Orleans Mrs. Forester who is a
great admirer of yours. She said, though,
that 1t wasn't so much the brilliancy of
your mental attachments as your marvel
Charmed and deiivhted her .sFSg,1,,n mIi 4
cried William earnestly, that is a wicked
lie, but tell it to me Every body's
Magazine.
Il thought you were going to take a
day off and enjoy a trip in the country"
Had to give 1t up" replied the man with
a cheerful disposition. But we did the
next best thing. We got some hard boiled
eggs and some canned goods, and ate
them out in the back yard. "-Washington
Star.
Are you going to send the Sparkler girl
a wedding present. mo, old Sparkler
and 1 had a squabble yesterday" That's
too bad. What was the cause?' Il can't
afford his friendship. He has five mar
riageable daughters. cleveland Plain
Dealer.
"Grsce is having a grand time at the
seashore." Met a millionaire, perhaps?'
No; she met q young fellow who went
down with $500 saved up."-WashinEton
Herald.
That Held Him for While.-He during
the spat)-Well, IL you want 70 know II,
married you for your money. She-I
wish could tell easily what married
you for.-Boston Transcript.
Strong Enough for Her.-Authoress lin
search of "copy')-And suppose visitors
are not common in this out-of-the-way
place? Superior Waiter-Hindeed they
har-painfully so, most hof 'em,-London
Opinion.
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THE STATE FAIR.

It is only I'VE weeks until the open
ing of the state fair which is going 10
be staged in Topeka. And it will be
some fair-believe US. AS an agricul-
tural exposition, in the most compre-
hensive meaning of that term, there
is no doubt that it will surpass in ex-
tent and detail any similar one that
has ever been held in Kansas. It's
exhibits are to be housed in modern
and up-to-date fair buildings that are
the equal of any making up the equip
ment in this respect of any of the big
state fairs in the country. More than
100000 has been expended on these
buildings during the past two years.
But it is going to be more than
big agricultural exposition, excellent
as such an institution is all by itself.
There are to be many added attractions
to please and interest the multitudes.
And paramount among them is the
big intercity balloon race that is to
be started from the fair grounds on
one day of the fair. Already are there
entries from five other cities besides
Topeka. They include St. Louis, Kan
sas City. Denver, Omaha and Salt Lake
City. This will make the balloon race
one of the largest that has ever been
held in the country.
The weekly periodicals and monthly
magazines are not through yet with
their pictorial displays of the start OF
the national elimination balloon race
at Kansas city some time ago. And II
the people generally were not interest
ed to a large degree in these balloon
races. the magazines and periodicals
would not be devoting valuable space
to printing pictures concerning them.
And the balloon race that is to be
started from Topeka during fair week
will be as large and as interesting a
one as was the Kansas City affair.
Forty thousand people turned out in
Kansas City to see the start of its bal
loon race. There ought to be as big
a crowd in Topeka to see the start Of
the big race from here as there was
in Kansas City. And it wouldn't be
surprising if there was a bigger one.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

Much of the moss gathered by the
stone that doesn't roll isn't worth any
thing.
Nearly every human can be agreeable
if there is something to gain by it.
=
Nor is a quarrel without compensa-
ton if it is followed by a hearty MAX
ing-up.
It's so easy to find fault. the only
wonder is that even more of it is not
done.
About half as much material is now
used in women's dresses as formerly,
but they don't cost any less.