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Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-09-07
FortIfyino Experience.
You dictate all your letters?"

You dIctate III your IetterB!
"Yes," replied Senator Sorghum.
Sometimes you can get a pretty good
idea of how little attention your let.
ter is going to receive by watching
the manner and facial expression OF
the stenographer."
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-09-07
SUSPICIOUS Dad.

PA, may I Join the suffragettssf'
mot II It calls for another gown."
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-03-24

masses over their tops. Black grama
is one of the most nutritious grasses
we. have, and it is very drought re-
sistant. Its many fine tangled stems
remain green throughout the winter
seasons and that is why all kinds of
stock like it so well. 1t does not
| stand close grazing or trampling,
however, and hence disappears rap
idly with these conditions. Old set
tiers and campers tell us that form
erly black grama was one of the most
abundant grasses and that almost
anywhere on the mesas with a few
minutes work with a hoe one could
gather enough of it from among the
bushes to feed a team of horses over
night.
l might also mention hairy grama
and side-oats grama, two equally
valuable grasses. But I must tell
you about the splendid increase of
spruce-top grama, another very val
liable grass. This is one of the fine
leaved grama grasses so abundant at
attitudes of 1000 to 5000 feet through
out Arizona. On a small area in
Guiding but 16 square feet, not 16
feet square. l counted nine mature
plants of this grass and 254 seed
ling plants. Think of the reprodue-
ton here. OF course all these young
plants cannot continue to grow even
with favorable conditions. But as
many will grow as there lis moisture
in the ground to support, and this
condition is never possible on the
open range. Regardless of the rain
fall. the only plants growing on open
ranges in Arizona are those that cart
be eaten out or that happen not to
have been eaten and trampled out.
You will observe that thus far
have mentioned only grama grasses.
These are among our most abundant
as we'll as most nutritious range
grasses. They cure naturally with
our dry falls and winters and remain
in fine condition for grazing over the
winter season. / do not think / am
overstating when l say that there are
as many different kinds of grama
grasses in Arizona as in all the rest
of the United States. Texas included.
The home of the grama grasses is in
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-03-24

S6na Experiment Station have al
lowed nearby settlers to come i'm
and cut for their own use 4. oand
of 1900 sheep is grazing there now.
and il graZed there last year as long
as there was any water. Under open
range conditions there was never
enough grass to start a prairie fire;
at present there are occasional prai-
rie fires, due. l think. to careless
ness. on the Outs;,s of the fence
on this same class Of land there isn't
enough grass to start to cut with a
machine or to rake up. And this
change has come about in seven
years. Why. | can stand at my third
story office window and look south
for thirty miles over the desert and
see the outlines of this grazing tract
from the heavy stand of grass. Here
is practical demonstration of how
it is possible to build up our arid
grazing ranges by fencing them from
stock for a time. This land will
carry double the number of stock
that the adjacent area would do I'M
der open range conditions. Smaller
areas recently fenced adjacent to this
large range reserve tract but situated
in the foot hills more favorably as
concerns rainfall have recovered even
more quickly than the enclosure
have just spoken of.
Let us examine some of the
grasses growing in this large pasture
There is not much of the annual
growth because the perennial grasses
crowd it out. And that's a good
thing too. Perennial grasses are
better than annual grasses any time
The most abundant of the perennial
grasses is crowfoot or mesa grama
1t has done so well than in many
places ii is as thick on the ground
as it can grow under ordinarily fa-
vorable conditions. 1t is fine to see
a big patch of this grama grass. Then
there is black grama which always
grows among the shrubs. When this
land was first fenced you could find
only an occasional plant of this
grass. Now it is growing in n large
number of the shrubs. and occas-
ionally out i'm the open. 1t fills the
shrubs full and grows in tangled
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-03-24
SOME OF THE new PARASOLS

so years we have been grazing these
lands under open range conditions
without any thought whatever about
their future usefulness. and during
this time they have gradually de-
creased in their stock carrying ca
pacity from year to year, until to-
day much of these once valuable
ranges are grazed out. Until it is
possible to fence these lands so that
they may be guarded against over
grazing, we have no right to expect
them to improve; on the contrary
they will continue to grow worse
OF course they improve for a time
during favorable years, which is all
the more proof that they would ulti-
mately become fully restored with
protection and restricted grazing.
/ should like to mention also the
instance of the fenced section of land
owned by the Empire Land and Cat
tie company This has been used
mostly as a winter pasture for graz
ing animals. The Seeding plants
grow and become established in the
summer. and the mature plants ripen
and drop their seed in the fall be-
fore a large number of stock are
run on the land. This area lies at
an altitude of 5000 feet and enjoys
a good summer rainfall, SIP in
ches or occasionally more. In
this pasture the growth is as
heavy each year as the annual rain
fall permits. since there is always an
excess of seed to grow; while, on the
adjacent open range the yield of
grass is certainly not more than one
half what it is inside the fence. This
land makes a heavy growth of grass
every season, as grass Yields go in
the southwest, even with close graz
ing during the spring months.
The San Rafael Land Grant is an
other instance. AS a whole this area
has been fenced but nine years. 1t
has a heavy summer rainfall and
is covered with a fine growth of
grama and mesquite grasses during
seasons; 1920 acres are al
lowed for each grazing animal. while
on the adjacent open range 30 acres
are necessary and tn n the stock
often have a starving time of it,
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-03-24

the Southwest. including Arizona,
New Mexico and west Texas. There
are a number of other perennial
grasses that have also increased re-
markably within this large enclosure,
but l cannot take up each one in de-
tail. Silver top blue stem is one.
cotton-top grass is another, and
southwestern buffalo grass and Tex
as poverty grass are still others.
Now this grazing land that l have
just spoken of is typical of large
areas of open range country in Ari-
IONA and New Mexico which are
yielding but a fraction of the forage
that they would do if the bunch
grasses were given half a chance to
re-establish themselves | firmly be-
lieve that every acre of bunch grass
land in Arizona under open range
conditions can be made to produce
two or three times as much feed as
it is doing now, if the number of
grazing animals on it were restricted
for a time, and if it were fenced per-
manently and administered intelli-
gently More than that, / believe as
strongly that every acre of land that
formerly grew perennial grass COW
ering. but that has been denuded of
this by Overgrazing and trampling.
can be made to grow it again. The
climate has not changed. neither has
the land. The last remnants of nu-
tritious grass plants have been graz
ed out leaving none to produce seed,
ana so ungraZed and unpalatable
weeds have taken possession. Des-
troy these weeds. fence the range
against stock for a time, and l sim
cerely believe in a good number of
cases the grass viii come back. even
without being sOwn. For the above
reasons, am heartily in favor of
fencing all the public grazing bunch
grass lands i'm the Southwest. |
don't care whether the general gov
eminent does it or gives to the states
the right to do it. it ought to be done
before it is entirely too late.
The perennial grass lands are our
most valuable grazing land in the
Southwest. and the perennial grasses
are by far the most valuable of all
our forage plants. For more than
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-03-24

Two to three times as many plants
grow on the land under protection
as on the open range, and this is
why more feed can grow in the one
case than in the other And this
in brief is the principle on which
range restoration is based The
more plants you have growing on
the ground, the thicker will be the
vegetable growth there. When you
kill out these plants by overgraz-
ing and trampling. you lose their
growth and seed production for flu
ture years.
Now let us look briefly at grazing
under fenced conditions from another
standpoint. viz: that of the stock
men.
1. Stockmen are able to handle
the public range under fence, pre-
cisely as if it were their own lands.
They know in advance their grazing
resources and they can handle their
business accordingly
2. The cost of caring for cattle
in pastures. once these are built. is
less than on the open range. Less
paid help is necessary, and the in
drstry is more intensive.
3. During prolonged droughts
weak and starving animals can be
kept nearer to supplies of feed and
water in pastures than on the open
range.
4. Better care can be given to the
mothers and their young. and the
season of the calf crop can be con-
trolled.
5. On enclosed ranges it is practi-
cable to improve herds by breeding
with high grade animals; on the open
range it is not
8. The incentive to OverstOck
grazing ranges is removed with
fencing and moderately lOng-term
leasing. Under these conditions it
becomes desirable to build up the
range to its greatest stock carrying
capacity.
Z. On fenced ranges a systematic
alternate grazing and resting of areas
is possible. Where the stands of
grass are thin. the plants can he al
lowed to mature and drop their seed
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needs from
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The Washington bee., 1911-11-25
WHISTLER AND MOORE.
Two Versions of the Famous Gaming
Incident at the Drury Lane
Theater.

1t was in his capacity as editor Of
the Hawk that the late Augustus
Moore, a journalist and playwright of
no little nOtoriety, enacted an unre-
hearsed comedy with Whistler that
created no end OF a sensation at the
time. 1t happened in the vesdbule of
Drury Lane on the first night of the
production of "a Million of Money"
Whistler, it appeared, had been an
noyed at sundry references to himself
in the Hawk and, coming up TO Gus
Moore, who was calmly smoking a
cigarette. struck him across the face
with a cane. A struggle followed, and,
, although opinions varied as to the ac-
! tuaI course of the conflict, there was
mo doubt about Whistler having ulti-
mately to pick himself up from the
floor.
Each Of the prOtagOnists afterward
Igave his version of the incident. 81
;started out" said Whistler, ''to cane
this fellow with as little emotion as I
|ould prepare to XIII a rat. did cane
him to the satisfaction of my many
friends and his many enemies, and
that was the end of il" Il am sorry"
wrote Mr.. Moore for his part, ''but I
have had to slap Mr.. Whistler. My
Irish blood got the better of me, and
before I knew it the shriveled up little
monkey was knocked over and kick
ing about on the floor"
The notion, however, that he was
knocked down was characterized by
Whistler as "a barefaced falsehoOd."
He cOntended that Mr.. Moore never
touched him. 81 am sure" he added,
'T don't know why, for he is much
bigger man than I. My idea is that
he was thoroughly cOwed by the
moral force Of my attack. l had to
turn him around in order to get at
him. Then I cut him again and again
as hard as I could. kissing out Hawk!
with each stroke. Oh, you can take
my word for it, everything was done
in the cleanest and most correct fash
ion possible I always like to do
things cleanly."-New York Tribune.
The Washington bee., 1911-11-25
HAD FURNISHED ROOMS.
And He Had a Sign Out to Let His
Rival as Well as His Neigh
bors Know.

In a little settlement on the outskirts
of Chicago two houses stand out more
boldly than the rest. These two are
the domiciles of tw . Italians Of means,
who, although being very ignorant
men, We'd with each other for the
social leadership of the locality.
One day a newcomer, in search of
temporary lodgings, attracted by a
conspicuous sign in the window Of the
first of these two houses, stepped TO
the door to make inquiry.
u see you have furnished rooms
here" he said to the swarthy man who
answered his knock.
"Ya," rejoined the foreigner, point
ing to the furnished room sign, 'dere's
da sign"
"Well, if you have one that's suitable
I'd ike to rent it for awhile"
1--WE no rent da rooms" was the be-
wildering declaration. 81 got my fam
lily in here, and dey take up all da
house"
Don't rent any rooms? Why, then,
have you that sign stuck in the win
dowY'
'I'u tell you. Las week dat fellow
next door hang such a sign in his front
window, an wen I see dat I put one
Of da same kind in my front windoW,
Just to show da people dat he amt
only man in dis place dat have his
rooms furnished"-Judge's Library.
The Washington bee., 1911-11-25
Perfumes.

Civet is an aromatic substance Of
the cOnsistence of honey and is OBJ
tanned from a pouch on the civet cat.
an animal from two to three feet long
and about ten or twelve inches high.
The best known of animal odors Is
musk, which is obtained from the
musk deer. China furnishes the best
quality. Twenty-Five pods or sacks
are packed in OblOng boxes composed
Of plates of lead inclOsed in a caddy
made Of pastebOard. Musk is obtain
ed from Assam, Siberia, the Altai
mountains and other parts of northern
Asia. Ambergris is another animal
OdOr. 1t is Secreted in the intestines
of the spermaceti whale. 4 very curl
Gus fact Is that ambeTgris is only ac-
cumulated by disease-that is, it is
only secreted in a sick whale 1t is
very hard, of Il light gray color and is
found in quantities varying from twer-
ty to fifty pounds. 1t is worth about
&c an Ounce-LOndOn Standard.
The Washington bee., 1911-11-25
CARRYING PIG IRON.
The Way Scientific Study Increased
Results and Wages.

The Way Scientific Study Increased
Results and Wages.
No work seems more simple, more
unlikely to be subject to scientific
study, than the art of carrying pig
iron. This, however, has been sub
jected to the most careful scientific
study. Men at Bethlehem, Pa, were
loading pig iron on cars at the rate of
about twelve tons a day. Certain pig
handlers were given extra wages for
doing this work under special direc-
ton. An attempt was made to ascer-
tain the relation between the amount
Of horsepower which each man exert
ed and the fatigue which he incurred.
Long continued experiment furnished
a vast amount of information, but ap-
parently no law. Finally f. W. Tay-
lor, VINO was conducting the expert
ments, handed the data over to an
associate who was apt at mathemati-
cal problems. Very soon he reported
that he had discovered the law-that
fatigue varied in proportion to a GER
tain relation between the amount of
load and the period of rest-for exam
pie, man carrying a ninety-twO pound
pig had, in order to avoid fatigue, TO
be at rest IS per cent of the time The
discovery of this law involved a great
amount of data, including certain phys
iOlOgical facts concerning the poison
Gus effects of waste tissue upon the
blood and difficult mathematic fOrmu-
Ia, including the plotting Of curves.
As a result the pig handlers were di-
rected exactly how to lift and carry
their loads and when to rest, and the
amount of pig iron handled by each
man every day increased from twelve
and a half tons to fOTty-seven. OF
course the men received a great ad-
vance in wages.-Ernest Hamlin Abb
bOtt in Outlook.
The Washington bee., 1911-11-25
SEEING THE FAR EAST.
1t Should Be Viewed Through the BIZ
BILE and ARABIAN Nights"

II Should Be Viewed Through the BIZ
BILE and "Arabian Nights"
The best books on the east, as every
one knows, are the Bible and the Ara
bian Nights" and yet l found most
travellers were saturating themselves
with snippity descriptions Of monu-
ments and places, with tablOids of his
tory, with technical paragraphs on ar
chitecture and the ethnic religions,
with figures about the height of this
and the length of that or condensed
statistics Of exports and imports and
the tonnage through the Suez canal
and dates about the PharaohS and the
MughaIs. No wonder they see nothing,
know nothing, enjoy nothing and come
home bringing few expIetives, adjec-
tives and photographs which can be
had for a small price in either New
York or London.
The first thing to do in going to the
east is to turn your education out on
your desk so that you can get at the
bottom of it, and there you will find
the Bible and the Arabian Nights"
and the odyssey" and ''Iliad" and
Virgil and "HerOdotus" and Keno
phon," and you will realize what a
fool you were not to have devoted
more time to them when you were
asked to do so. Guide books can get
you to the east, but they do not get
you inside 1t is temperament, not
trains, that cOunts.-Price Collier in
Scribner's Magazine.
The Washington bee., 1911-11-25
MuciIane and Gum.

Il went into a stationer's shop in
London one day," said an American,
land said to the shop assistant:
q" DO you keep mucilageE
"'NO, sir the young man answered.
we try to take in all the papers, but
there are so many new ones coming
out. Still, I can order mucilage for
you, sir. Which number did you
want"
= learned afterward that I should
have asked for gum. They don't have
the word 'mUcilage' over there in Eng
land
"But an Englishman travelling on
one of our railways stopped a train
boy and said:
"'Have you got any gum?
ono; 1 don't use it. boss the boy
replied in friendly fashion, but I can
let you have a chaw off this here
plug Washington Star.
The Washington bee., 1911-11-25
Plumber.

NIulHgan, the contractor, put up d
church building. Dunn was building
inspector then, and when he saw the
church he said, pat, it isn't plumb"
That made Mr.. MulIigan pretty mad
He climbed right up and began to take
measurements. Having sqUinted down
the plumb line in a dozen different
places, he was ready to report. There
was a ring of triumph in his voice.
Mr.. Dunn" he said. come and look
at it y'rself Plumb, Ell? By tn piper
that played before Moses, it's more
than plumb,7-Cleveland Plain Dealer
The Washington bee., 1911-11-25
Il Worked.

There are a great many ways de
vised for avoiding jury duty.
The story is told of a man who was
noted in the county because of the bad
ness of his son. Finding that there
was no way of escape from serving.
he had an obliging friend telegraph
him at the courthouse.
The telegram read, Your son is no
better" The judge was so amused at
the ingenuity that he let the man off
Judge.
The Washington bee., 1911-11-25
An Accomplished Linauist.

did you learn any French while you
were in Paris?" asked Bildad, meeting
Slithers shortly after his return from
Europe.
"Oh, little" said Slithers. Not so
very much, though. I got so I could
say cigarette in French"
"GOOdP' said Bildad What is ciga-
rette in French?"
Cigarette" said Slithers.- -Harper's
Weekly.
The Washington bee., 1911-11-25
A Cool Soldier.

a French grenadier who was exas-
perated at some injustice that had
been done him by a field marshal
pointed his pistol at the marshal and
pulled the trigger, but it did not go
off. Without moving d muscle the
veteran cried, -Four days in the cells
for keeping your arms in q bad stated"
The Washington bee., 1911-11-25
Taking Away From the Subject

When Frederick Robertson of Brigh-
ton, the great preacher who had writ
ten much about Tennyson's poems and
for whom the poet had a high regard,
first called upon him, 81 felt" said
Tennyson, "as if he had come to pluck
out the heart of my mystery, so I talk
ed to him about nothing but beer"
The Washington bee., 1911-11-25
Where the Joke Was

"All the publishers in the country
have turned my song down"
Cheer up. Think what a laugh you
have got on the fellow you stole the
music frOmv'-ToledO Blade.
The Washington bee., 1911-11-25
sa@s5A
A New Directory

THE DOUGLASS DIRECTORY CO.
directory of all the Negro business places city, alphabet
caIy arranged.
If not registered with this Company card and
representative will call.
To do business you be known the
THE DOUGLASS DIRECTORY CO..
900 F Street N. w
The Washington bee., 1911-11-25
As Il Impressed Him.

Glow about the Nile: Great. eh?"
''Yes. As I remember it took up
several pages in the guidebOok. =
Washington Herald.
The Washington bee., 1911-11-25

Some people seem TO think it is use
less to do right unless a crowd hap
pens to be Chicago Record
Herald,
The Washington bee., 1911-11-25
This Tells The Story C0pyrighted March 2Itb, 10
Woman, Stop, Wait, Listen, Read
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The Washington bee., 1911-11-25

o. department of Literary Training.
T. department of Industries.
8 Extension Home Classes
Ihere special scholarships deserving men and
women III the departments of Theology and Religious Training
The next Summer School and Chautauqua will open 1912
For further information and catalogue, address
PRESIDENT JAMES E SHEPARD
Durham n c.
The Washington bee., 1911-11-25
Thanksgiving Goods at the ASTORIA PHARMACY
Sd and Streets, Northwest

1t be thankful to
and young find everything in the line of choice toilet preparations and
fresh
Lilly Cologne?
Be straghtner We in anC
1t makes the
according
that awake what will
you We give satisfaction hing sell
THE ASTORIA PHARMACY,
andG SITS, N W.
Pure Drugs preparations a
The Washington bee., 1911-11-25
Fosters DYE Works

FOSTERS DYE AND CLEANING
WORKS.
(You Street, between nth and 18th
Streets, Northwest.)
Business and Display Office,
nth and You Streets, Northwest
GALL AND INSPECT OUR
WORK.
Ladies suits a speciality.
Gentlemen's suits cleaned, pressed
and sponged.
Gloves cleaned.
Ali goods look like new when they
leave our works
FOSTERS DYE WORKS.
The Washington bee., 1911-11-25
ETS77R 1~I
.sEs 10 - li

Offers superior advantages the training young women
in many departments of work.
The following Departments in successful operation.
L Department of Religious Training. This department
intended especially for the training of Y M C. A Y W. c. A
Secretaries Settlement workers. Deaconees and for Home and
Foreign Missionaries.
2. Department of Theology.
3. Commercial Department.
4. Literary Department.
5. Department of Music.