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The Paonia newspaper., 1911-04-21
Butter.
Eggs
MISCELLANEOUS MARKETS.
Eastern Live Stock.

Kansas City. - Cattle Market
steady TO shade higher. Native
steers, s5.i066.30; Southern steers,
s4.50Q6.OO: Southern cows and heif-
ers. $500 500; native cows and heif.
ers, s3.00G6.25: stockers and feeders,
s45OG $50: bulls, $4,000 SIS; calves.
s4.50G6.25: Western steers. $1,000
6.10: Western cows. sS25@5.25.
Hogs-Market steady to l0c higher.
Bulk OF sales. s6.20G $40; heavy, s6.15
66.25: packers and butchers, $4,000
$40: lights. s6.S5@6.45.
Sheep-Market steady to strong.
Muttons, sS.50G475: lambs, 5000
$50; fed wethers and yearlings. $500
Q5.25; fed Western ewes, sS.50G4.25.
The Paonia newspaper., 1911-04-21
Novel Froude Didn't Write

tional muttonchop side-whiskers. He
was about six feet tall. although lit
tie stopped at the shoulders. His
clothes fitted him perfectly. When he
took any one OF the long walks of
which he was SO fond when In the
United States. he was accustomed to
wear a suit of rough gray Scotch mix
ture, and II became him exceedingly
we'll
Upon his return to New York after
his visit TO New Haven. Conn. where
he spent several days. Mr.. Froude
spoke OF the inspiration which he had
received there for a romance which. he
thought, could be made as interesting
and as powerful as any of the histor-
ical romances written In the English
tongue. excepting those of Scott
Il went to New Haven partly to visit
Yale college. with some OF whose pro
fessors ! have had a pleasant acQuain-
tance." said Mr.. Froude to his Ameri-
can friend. the late Parke Goodwin.
who. as editor OF Putnam's Magazine
in the ffties. had become well ac-
quainted with Froude, but also
wanted TO look at the burial places of
the three regicides. Dixwell. COTE and
Whalley. who | knew were buried at
New Haven. and | was especially anx-
ious to visit the cave in which COTE
and Whalley were secreted at the time
the agents OF King Charles II. were
searching for them in order to appre-
put them to death. was taken to the
-
throw OF Yale where there still remain
the mutilated headstones which mark
the graves of COTE and his son-in-law.
Whalley: a modern monument has
been erected there to the memory of
Dixwell. Then took a walk OF some
five or six miles to a mountain beyond
the confines Of the city. and was shown
the cave in which Goffe and Whalley
were secreted. learned enough to
assure me that the tradition is no
myth: those two regicides. or judges
OF Charles l.. who pronounced the pen
atty OF death upon him, were actually
secreted there became interested.
The story of their wanderings. their
hiding places. and the miraculous ap-
pearance of COTE at time OF great
danger because OF the advance of In
dians. seemed to me to furnish the
basis of an exceedingly interesting ro-
nance. of which. of course. the back
ground would be the Long Parliament,
the sentence OF death upon Charles l..
the restoration. by which Charles II.
became king. and the flight of the
regicides to save their lives. There is,
also. the possibility of portraying the
life In Connecticut of those who first
made settlement and afterwards Gre
ated government there. l have now
another romance in mind. the scene OF
which is laid in Ireland. and when I
have finished il hope l shall be able
to take up the romance of the regi-
cides who escaped to America"
Professor Froude departed for Eng
land still enthusiastic over this pro
ject He did complete and publish his
Irish romance years later. but whether
he ever mapped out the romance OF
the regicides none Of his American
friends was able to tell.
Copyright, 1910. by Z. J. EdwardA All
Rights Reserved.)
The Paonia newspaper., 1911-04-21
Salt on Land.

One of the effects of the use of salt
on land is to increase the capacity of
the soil for retaining moisture. About
one barrel per acre has been known
to beneft grass during periods Of
drouth. the salt being applied in May.
Kainit contains a large proportion of
salt, as we'll as about IL per cent
OF potash. and may be used in prefer
ence.
The Paonia newspaper., 1911-04-21
Just So.

Takes things as they come. eh7"
Yes: he's one OF the best backstops
In the country"
The Paonia newspaper., 1911-04-21

CPrices paid by Denver Jobbers F. o.
b. track Denyer).
Colorado upland, per ton 1850 q 1850
Nebraska upland, per ton 1880 q 14.5o
Second bottom, Colorado
and Nebraska. per ton. .11.00G 1900
Timothy, per ton ... .13.50d1 1880
Alfalfa, per ton lu-oul ll.oV
South Park choice. per ton 16.00G17.0o
San Luis Valley, per ton 13.50G14.50
Gunnison Valley, per ton. .13.50G 14.50
Middle Park, per ton -. .14.oOd 1900
Straw, per ton ....... 4.00q 500
The Paonia newspaper., 1911-04-21
Sheep.
Grain.
q 10 OTATIo N s

IF. o. q. Denver. carload price)
Wheat, choice milling, 100 lbs ..$1.22
Rye, Colo, bulk, 100 Id. . LIS
Nebraska oats, sacked .-... .L22q1.2t
Corn in sack ........ 1.02
Corn chop, sacked .. LOB
Bran, Colo, per 100 lbs $50. LIS
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1911-12-19
MARK ANTONY'S TRICK.

It Worked Like Charm Till Cleo
patra Learned tho Secret.
According to Plutarch. Cleopatra
was votary of the piscatorial art. and
so keen did the rivalry become be-
tween her and Antony that be resort
ed to the meanest artifices to insure
victory Mortified and irritated by
the queens superiority. he engaged
divers to take live fish and place them
on his hook. This was done so ex-
pertly that he pulled up fish after fish
in rapid succession. Learning in some
way the secret OF his sudden success.
Cleopatra pretended to congratulate
him and to admire his dexterity. and
at the same time she devised cum
ming means of revenge.
Another match was arranged, and
the fishing began in the presence OF a
large company Of friends. Antony
soon had a bite and pulled up a large
salted fish to his great disgust and
amid the loud laughter of all present.
The secret was out; Antony's trick
was exposed. and once more woman's
wit had proved too much for mans
ingenuity. A diver. specially instruct
ed by the queen. had got the start Of
Antony's and attached the salt fish to
his hook.-Mathews in "Angling."
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1911-12-19

the most important crop is corn. The
value reported for this cereal is nearly
three times as great as that of wheat,
nearly four times as great as that OF
hay and forage, and over five times
as great as that reported for oats.
The cereals other than cord, wheat
and oats are relatively unimportant.
The acreage of corn is nearly two and
half times as great as that of wheat,
a little more than twice that of hay
and forage, and about three times that
OF oats.
In 1910 the total number OF farms
owned in whole or in part by the
operators was 14S,5O1. OF this num-
ber, 89,S47 were reported as mortgag
ed, and for lao no report relative to
mortgage Indebtedness was obtained
twenty being foreign born white. Only
SO5, or O.4 per cent, of all farmers,
are non-white, 7S5 being negroes and
twenty Indians. OF the native white
people, 30.7 per cent are tenants, as
compared with 1873 per cent, among
foreign born white people, and 39.5 per
cent. among the non-white farmers.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1911-12-19
VICTIMS OF HUM0R.
Proctor Knott and Sunset" Cox Be.
walled Their Funny Tags.

walled Ineir Funny 19S.
The late Proctor Knott seems to be
remembered chiefly as the author OF
the facetious Duluth speech. says the
New York World. Yet he was Il great
lawyer, and is chairman Of the house
committee on the judiciary he had to
do with serious and vastly important
affairs. Mr.. Knots single appearan nee
as a humorist fixed his reputation for
all time. and no amount Of profoundly
serious work could change il.
Samuel S. Cox had similar expert
ence with greater reason. for in early
life he had cultivated the risibles
quite devotedly. Mr.. Knott lived long
enough to perceive that he was to be
identified not with learning or public
service. but with an ora atOrical Cxag-
geration. and Mr.. Cox found in his ma
turity that the speakership. the goal OF
his career. was denied him because it
was no place for a funny man.
Although never humorist. Proctor
Knott accomplished something with
satire and irony in which most mer
fail. He made himself understood.
EVERYBODY knew that be was joking.
Nobody ever demanded an explana-
ton Of his remarks on Duluth or re-
traction or an apology. From that
viewpoint. therefore. he was one Of
the successful men Of his generation.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1911-12-19
CHINESE ART.
Materials the Painter Uses and His
Methods of Work.

Methods Of Work.
Chinese painting is very frequently
described as calliGraphic-that is to
say. closely allied to or derived from
handwriting. Inasmuch as Chinese
handwriting is brush work OF high
order. it follows that every Chinese
who can write well has the making OF
a skilled mechanical artist in black
and white. He has a fine deiicacy and
f1exibility OF touch. so that. If he pos
sesses any bent for transferring to pa
per representations OF objects OF ma
ture or the Imagination. he would be
expected to produce work having a
special character.
The nature Of the material used,
such as slightly absorbent paper and
sized silk and thin water color. also
leads to work having special charac-
ter. A member OF any western race
would have great difficulty in painting
a picture on kind OF blotting paper
with Chinese pen filled with thin
watery pigment. These characters.
however. give the Chinese painting its
chief charm. Birds and flowers and
landscapes and figures are put in once
and for all with no possibility Of sub
seQuent touching up.
They are painted with unerrinG
strokes Of the brush. and the result is
clean. vigorous and living picture,
The Chinese artist. as rule. spends
long time thinking out his picture
and then rapidly dashes it in.-Chica'
go News.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1911-12-19
IN 10 YEARS FARM
VALUES DOUBLED
Indiana Land on Average
Would Bring 1926 Per
Acre Now u. S. Says.

WASHINGTOE, Dec. 80 A bulle
tin just issued by the Census bureau
dealing with farms, live stock and
crops in Indiaaa in 1910 says: Indiana
ranks thirty-sevcnth in area and ninth
in population among the states and
territories OF continental United
States. 1t has passed out OF the class
Of states that are adding materially to
their total farm acreage, having in
TACT less land in farms in 1910 than
1t had in 1900
The average value of the farm land
an acre for the whole state is $62 3G
In group of four counties, just north
OF the center OF the state, the average
value of farm land is from 500 to $125
an acre. Clustered about the latter
countries Is IA larger group in which
the average value is between SIS and
800 an acre. In two countries on the
outer edge OF this area the average
rises above 1925 an acre In most of
the countries in the two mort hcrn tiers
and also in the greater number Of
counties in the western tier, the aver
age value is between $40 and $25 an
acre are in the south central part of
the state
Between 1900 and 1910 there was an
increase Of more than $4,000. or 7.3
per cent. in the number Of farms. and
decrease of 319.SOO acres or 1.5 per
cent. in the acreage of farm land
Since the relative decrease in number
OF farms was greater than that in farm
land, the average size OF farms in
creased, the increase amounting to
IA acres.
Farm property, which includes land,
buildings, implements and machinery,
and live stock domestic animals, poul-
try. and bees), has increased in aggre-
gate value during the decade $780,
619.444. or $40 per cent. This great in
crease is made up of increases Of $64O-
$4,000 in the value OF land, $111.977,-
600 in the value Of buildings, and ST.
?79,OOO In the value of farm equip
ment. which includes implements and
machinery and live stock About five
sixths OF the increase in the value of
farm equipment or $f4309. 900, repre-
sents a gain in the value of live stock
and about One-sixth the increase in
the value OF implements and machin-
cry. In considering the increase OF
values in agriculture the general in
crease in the prices OF all commodities
In the last ten years should be borne
in mind.
The average value of farm with
3ts equipment in 1900 was about four
thousand and four hundred dollars.
while ten years later it was about
eight thousand four hundred dollars.
The average value Of land rose from
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1911-12-19

Special attraction at Coli
scum, Tuesday and Wednes-
day evening. Miss Adelaide
E. V-VOrak of Cleveland, O.,
champion fancy and trick
skater, will give an exhibi-
ton; she also challenges any
fast skater for a mile race.
Harrison Fry has accepted,
Price of admission, 1Oc. 1s-3t
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1911-12-19
STOP COUGHS
SAVE MONEY
The Advantages Of the "Looos Plan"
Of Home Prepared Remedies.

The Advantages OF the "lo0os Plan"
Of Home Prepared Remedies.
AS is well known, the great majority
of reliable cough remedies are nine
tenths "simple syrup and one-tenth
real medicine. This is all right. be-
cause the medicine is too strong to
take alone.
But why pay the high prices asked
two dollars for fifty cents worth of
medicine mixed with pint of syrup?
That is what most reliable cough rem
edies cost you. Why not get YOUR fifty
cents worth of medicine for just fifty
cents and supply the syrup yourself
for what it is worth, thus saving al
most $3.50 on every pint.
That is the advantage of the "Logos
Plan" 1t gives you full two dollars
worth Of logical, effective, reliable
and safe cough syrup at d cost of
about Sc cents.
Follow this recipe: Dissolve one
pound of sugar in half pint Of water;
add two ounces of Logos cough rene
dy Extract; shake and it is ready for
use.
II you can't get the Logos cough
remedy Extract at your druggists,
send fifty cents in stamps direct to
Logos Remedy Company, Fort Wayne.
Ind.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1911-12-19

Cologne Cathedral.
The cathedral in Cologne. which was
commenced in 1248. was completed
Aug. IA. 1880.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1911-12-19

$31Sl an acre in 1900 to $62.36 in
1910, or Sc per cent.
In the sixty years since 1850 the
population of the state has almost
trcbled increasing from 9SS,41G to O.
7OO.S76.
The total wealth of the state in the
form of farm property is $1.SO9, 135. 900.
Of which $SS.l per cent. is represented
by land and buildings, 2.3 per cent by
implements and machinery, and SO
per cent by live stock. The relative
gain (S4.9 per cent? in the total value
of farm property from 1900 to 1910
was greater than that during any 9th
cr decade since 1860, while the alb.
solute gain (sS3O.519,0OOO was more
than three times as great as the larg-
est increase reported for any other
decade. Each census from 1860 to
1900 showed smaller percentage of
gain in total value of farm property
than the preceding. Very decided
fluctuations, however, appear in the
decimal rates of increase for imple-
ments and machinery and for live
stock
The average debt of mortgaged
farms has increased in twenty years
from 1872 to S1,432. or Ala per cent,
while the average value of such farms
has risen from $3,2O9 to s6,2S2. or al
most doubled, SO that the Owners S
equity increased on the average from
$2,237 to $4,819, or more than doubled.
AS a result of the greater relative in
crease in farm values than in farm
debt, the mortgage Indebtedness,
which represented 30.3 per cent. of the
value of the farm in 1890, had decreas-
ed to .22.s per cent. of this calue in
1910.
The leading crops of the state in the
order Of their Importance. as judged
by value. are corn, sos. .43S 900: wheat,
$33,593,OOO; hay and forage, $24,S33,-
600. and tobacco, $2.145,OOO. BY far
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1911-12-19
Ruined BY Jestinq.

The Antiochenes themselves brought
about the ruin Of the beautiful city Of
Antioch. the ancient capital Of the
Greek kings OF Syria. These people
We're famous for their biting and sour
rilous wit as we'll as their ingenuity
in devising nicknames. When the Per-
slams under Chosroes invaded Syria in
53S the Antiochenes could not refrain
from jesting ut them. Ample revenge
for this was taken by the Persians.
who totally destroyed the city.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1911-12-19
CSrAoAS IAaooa.

As to the reproduction Of London
place names elsewhere. the city OF Lon
don in Canada is far and away the
most prolific example. Not only Is It
situated in the county Of Aiddlesex
and built on the banks OF the Thames.
but all the historic localities in old
London-Pall Mall. CharinE Cross.
Chearside. the Strand. etc.-heve been
appropriated in the naming Of the new.
Rendiso. Australia, also has Pail Mall
and a Charins Cross--London Chron.
icle.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1911-12-19
Generous,

$50 you are a bill collector" said
Mr.. Pinchpenny.
"Yes. Here Is one
keep it. my boy, keep It. You seem
to have a nice collection there. Far be
1t from me- to break it up."-Phnadel-
rhia TELEGRAM.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1911-12-19
Would Do Ills Own Ritina.

Would Do Fis Own Biting.
The British gentleman new to our
shores stepped up to the cigar counter
and requested Of the "clark" cigar
"What will you have, a bit cigar:''
asked the "clark.'
''No; I'd rawther bite it myself" re-
piled the Briton. - San Francisco
Chronicle
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1911-12-19
nishoneSt

Harduppe-1s Wigwag honest? Bor.
rowell-Well. he came around to my
house the other day and stole an um-
brella l had borrowed from him.
Philadelphia Record.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1911-12-19
Men Aro 8eacons,

Every man Is the center Of perpetual
radiation like luminous body. He is.
as it were. beacon which entice~ a
ship upon the rocks il it does not guide
1t into port.-Amiel
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1911-12-19

The time honored London tavern.
the Castle. at Cowcross and Earring
don streets. enjoys the unique dis
tinction of being also fully licensed
pledge shop. Any one may here nego-
tiate loan upon his personal belong
ings without being under the necessi-
ty Of first calling for refreshments.
This strange combination Of business
dates from the reign OF George w..
who. after attending cockfight at
Hockley-in-theHol applied to the
landlord Of the Castle for Il temporary
accommodation on the security of his
watch and chain by royal warrant
a few days later he invested that
obliging boniface with the right Of ad-
vancing money on pledges, and from
that time down to the present a pawn
brokers' license has been annually
granted to the Castle. This hostelry
is mentioned once or twice by Dickens
in his novels.-London Answers.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-10-09
Lure of the City Reaches Out to Farms

G t. LOUIS, MO.-Sixty per cent. OF
- the young men who wear blue uni
forms on the trolley cars are farmers
sons. Most of them have pulled and
tugged at plow lines ver the backs
of refractory mules long before they
ever pulled a bell cord in this city.
Half the clerks in the big railway
Offices in ST. Louis r boys from the
smaller cities and the little railway
| stations where the fast trains never
stop. Fifty out Of every hundred of
the young men who are putting kinks
In their spines and running their eye
sight over long columns of freight
earnings and ton miles," know when
to plant potatoes and how to plow
i corn.
Every other waitress In the quick
country Iassie. That is, they were
born and raised up in one Of those lit
tie towns that dot and speckle the
state maps. Thirty out of 40 OF the
men who run trains, hammer tel
egraph keys and make out bills Of
Iading for the railway systems were
recruited from the farms. Many of the
little stenographers who scurry In
and out OF the ofic buildings at lunch
hour were once upon a time little pig
tailed iassies, who played about the
big yards of some little half forgotten
town with elm shaded streets.
When a middle aged man or woman
xoes into the city to make his OF
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-10-09

~
The desire not to make any mans
case appear worse than it Is,
prompts the EVENING NEWS to
state voluntarily today that while
a certain person in this city, refer
red to in our editorial Saturday, did
not plead guilty to forging checks
drawn on q local bank, he did plead
guilty to passing a check that was
forged. Thus while the forgery was
not admitted 1t would eem to those
who are not on the inside OF the
grand jury room that such a plea
as was made, together with what sd
ditional information the authorities
doubtless had, would come very
near being evidence enough to at
least let the man stand trial that he
might be proven guilty OF iunoceri
of the charges made.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-10-09

not wanted as employees because OF
their actions in connection with the
Morse trial.
If there is any n place in the
country where we look for honesty
and where the upright clerk is sup
posed to be rewarded for his truth
fulness, it is In a bank. Yet In this
instance, 1t seems, If district attor-
ney is correct in his supposition, the.
clerk who tells the truth is boycott.
ted and punished, while at the same
time he sees his colleague, who ig-
nored the truth and served the Of
icials by keeping mum on what he
knew, advanced in position and 9TH
erwise honored.
A position in a bank LIS always
looked upon as a place of honor and
u uSe duN w bC AAuo cmQlOJC0 AdS
always given the young man a repu-
tation for truthfulness and a high
standing in a community. But
what are we TO think after reading
the words of District Attorney Wise?
1t is no wonder that young men are
often led astray and tempted to
steal, with such rewards for dishonS
esty placed before them.
TIE more the money powers are
studied the more we are convinced
that Governor Wilson is right when
he says that the greatest evil that
confronts the American people to-
day is the money trust. Their in
6uence is extending into every
OF business and in many in
stances it is based on a policy of rule
and ruin.
Before confidence can be restored
to general business in this country
the men back of financial institu-
must mend their ways and
the people that they are worth
being trusted.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-10-09

M
tearing down the field.
He was the very limit in the strenu.
Gus pastime;
To ask a man to tackle him was
nothing but a crime.
He was the strongest man they'd had
In twenty-seyen years.
He always left the field bestrewn
with arms and legs and ears.
His bicepts were as hard as nails, he
had a mighty chest;
OF all the athletes in the world he
was one of the best.
His limbs were like the sturdy oak
and he could grab a mule
Right by the tail and swing him
round and toss him DER the
school.
He could bend railroad steel right
up by using his bare hands;
The muscles of his brawny arms
were strong as iron bands.
He'd pull a tree up by roots and
carry It away
The grandstand would be crowded
every time that he would play.
But, back home in vacation time, his
strength just failed, / VOW.
He was SO weak he couldn't think Of
following the plow
He couldn't hoe potatoes and he
couldn't split the wood.
Although he told his parents he
would like to if he could.
He simply seemed to pine away and
dwindle as a rule,
TILL in the fall when time came
round for him to go to school.
Then he'd recover suddenly and take
an awful brace.
In feats of strength a deal depends
upon time and place.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-10-09

her home there, It Is nine chances to
ten hat they have failed at every
thing they have ever tried In the lit
tie cities, and have come to the big
town to start a boarding or a room
ing house.
And nine out of every ten of them
is certain that the city, any city, is
the very wickedest of wicked places.
Back in the country, where they come
from, the big town was held up to
them AS a symbol of sin. The older
folks talked in low tones Of its snares
and pitfalls, Of the sin and degrade
ton that were everywhere In the big
town. Why do they conner Many of
them fail to drag Themselves back to
take up life where they left it out on
the farms.
The great majority manage to live
on the salaries they receive or the
wages they are able to earn. A few of
them become wealthy and successful,
and are able TO 90 back and buy up a
whole township around the old home
| stead, IL they desire.