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The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1912-05-03
Experience.

young woman applied to an
English surgeon for a position as
nurse in his institution. He asked:
Have you had any previous expert
ence?"
She dazzled him with a reassuring
smile.
"Experience?" she cried, 81 should
think so. Two of my brothers play
football. another has tried to cross
the channel in an aeroplane of his
own make. mother is sufrragette
and father keeps a motor car"
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1912-05-03
4 Fellow Believer.

Bishop Talbot tells of an adventure
Bishop Kempel had in the early days
OF Kansas. Dr. Kemper was travelling
in stage coach which was held up
one night. The bishop demonstrated
with the road agent, saying: Surely,
you would not rob a poor bishop en-
gagged in the discharge of his sacred
duties?'
You're bishop, Ell? What
church, said the man behind the gun.
THE Episcopal church"
You don't say so. Why, that's the
church | belong to. Go ahead, driver.
Good night. Bishop. Exchange.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1912-05-03
They Had = Fellow FeeIlno

The new Swede cook, who had come
into the household during the holi.
days, asked her mistress.
Where ban your son? l not see-
ing him around no more?"
My SOM" replied the mistress,
pridefully. "Oh, he has gone back to
Yale. He could only stay away long
enough to stay until New Years day,
you see. miss him dreadfully,
though"
"Yas. I know yoost how you feel.
My brodder, he ban in vail six times
since Thanksgiving. Rams Horn.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1912-05-03
Reconnoitered,

Mamma was dressing when 7-year-
old Freddie burst into the room with
loud Boo"
why. Freddie. dear" expostulated
she. you mustn't open my door with
out knocking! | mightn't have been
dressed at ALL"
"Oh. this was all right said Fred
dy. Il looked through the keyhole
first Judge
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1912-05-03

LIST. Free watee or the water
found between the soil particles Of .
saturated soil
End. Capillary water or that which
Is held in a thin film around each OF
the soil particles of a moist but not
saturated soil. This is the water used
by the plant in its growth.
Bird. Microscopic water which is
the water he'd by the soil but which.
In all probability. is not used by the
plant
Only aqueous or water plants can
grow in soil containing free water.
Hence our problem is confined TO the
regulation OF the capillary water only,
and to the conditions which govern
plant growth.
There are three ways by which soil
moisture can escape:
LIST. By sinking into deep soils out
Of reach OF the plant roots, ana escap-
ing by under drainage.
End. BY evaporating from the sur.
face.
Bird. BY passing through the plant
Itself in process known as trans.
piration
Each OF these losses can be gov
erned to certain extent The first
by making lighter applications OF
water at each irrigation. The second,
or surface evaporation, can be check
ed by cultivating the surface suf6
cient to form a dust mulch. thus clos
ing up the opening of the capillary
tubes which form when the surface
soil begins to dry out. And the third
or Transportation can be checked by
the addition of soil fertility or by or
binary cultivation. Thus, the last two
can be governed by the simple opera.
ton OF stirring the surface after an
irrigation.
The thought is prevalent among
farmers that a certain amount of
water must be used by a plant in or.
der to produce certain weight of dry
matter. AS early as 1899 Woodward
found that it required less water to
produce pound of dry matter In a
plant growing in rich soil where the
plant food was evenly balanced, than
m one OF opposite nature. Later, in
1878, German Investigator found
Shat the yield of dry matter was
greatest where Transportation was
least He also found that the enrich.
ing of the soil enabled the plant to
produce dry mater with less water.
Now the question may arise In your
minds Why should cultivation de-
crease the amount of water actually
used by the plant? Cultivation per-
mits the air and sunshine to enter the
soil more readily, causing conse-
ouent liberation of plant food, which
Is equivalent in effect to the addition
of the food artiticially.
That cultivation actually decreases
the amount of water used by the
plant is shown in the results of ex.
periments conducted at the Utah ex
pertinent station in the vegetation
house. Certain tanks were planted to
corn. An equal number OF tanks con.
tanning the same kinds of soil were
left bare for a check on the evapora-
ton from the surface Forty eight
hours after each irrigation and then
every week, half the surfaces were
cultivated while the other half were
left bare. Table No. ! shows the re-
suits.
TABLE NO. I.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1912-05-03
TABLE NO. 2.
Relative Amounts Of Wafer Required
by Different Crops TO Produce
One Pound Of Dry Matter.

One Pound Of Dry Matter.
To produce one pound dry matter
potatoes required 1,778 pounds water
To produce one pound dry matter
oats required 1908 pounds water.
To produce one pound dry matter
wheat required 1.049 pounds water.
To produce one pound dry matter,
sugar beets required 1,020 pounds
water
To produce one pound dry matter,
corn required 1853 pounds water.
This table shows us not only the
different amounts OF water required
by various crops, but also gives us an
Idea Of the immense quantity used by
these plants for a small amount of
stored up material.
The results of other experiments
will give us still further light on the
subje~ of the most economical
amount of water to give the various
plants.
In Table No. We see the yields Of
various crops as result of the APP
olicatiOn of different amounts of
water in terms OF the depth in inches
over one acre. The yields ara given
per acre.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1912-05-03
Disturbed the Residents.

A former resident of Missouri
town was asking about the old place.
Il understand they have a curfew
law out there now" he said.
mo" his informant answered,
they did have one, but they've aban-
doned it."
What was the natter"
We'll, the bell rang at 9 O'Clock
and almost everybody complained that
it woke them up"
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1912-05-03
A Bad Bargain.

Eleanor tagged fve)-How much did
you pay for the baby, mother,
Mother don't know; he isn't paid
for yet.
Eleanor-Do you think It Will be
more than 50?
Mother think so.
Eleanor--Well, | certainly think you
got stuck on that baby-Harper's Ba
Ear
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1912-05-03
Just Snam Eiohts

Il don't know whether / ought t.
take you seriously or not" says the
fair young thing to the gallant officer
who had just proposed. "rve heard
that you were engaged to ten girls
last summer"
My deer. those weren't real en-
gagementS- They were just-er-
sham OktrmiShOS"
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1912-05-03
Startling News

The captain swan ashore" repcr
ed certain newspaper, describing =
wreck. AS did also the stewardess
She was insured for $4,000 and car
ried 200 tons of pig from"
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1912-05-03
The Wall of the Husband.

Critique-Your wife has very good
taste for dress.
Caustique-Good taste for dreos
Great Scott, man, she's got more than
taste. She's got a ravenous apDo-
lite for II.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1912-05-03
Her View of IL.

Teacher-What is it that binds us
together and makes MS better than we
are by nature?"
"Corsets, sir" piped wise little girl
OF eight.-Chicago Socialist.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1912-05-03
No Doubt.

What will happen when women
ruler"
There will be numerous oomplica-
tons. Among other things, sup-
pose the chieftainess of police will
have to go around every morning and
kiss all the patrolwomen."
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1912-05-03
She Was Too WILLING.

He told her that he would gladly
die for her."
THE same old bluff Did he catch
herr
mo. She told him she would gladly
let him. Stories.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1912-05-03

eiSby has published little book
~ verses which he calls 'Cnildren Of
My Brain"
4 bad titie. To my certain knoll
edge lie has Kidnapped seven OF tncD /"
New York Sun.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1912-05-03
Fair Weather Com,no

Believe me, sir. / have seen better
days"
80 have /, but cheer up. the :.
ometer 10 rising. "-Fliegsnds BlAettar
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1912-05-03
ECONOMICAL DISTRIBUTION
Of IRRIGATION WATER
b. l. N. WINsoR, Utah Agricultural
College.
Oregon Short Line Railroad Dem
onstration Train Lecture.

Continued from last week.
Further experiments at the Utah
experiment station give us these re-
sults:
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1912-05-03
Duty and Measurement
Of Water &&
in Charge Of irrigation lnvesti-
cations In Idaho.

Oregon Short Line Railroad Dem
onstration Train Lecture.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1912-05-03
TABLE NO. 3.

Amount Of Water in Acre-Inches W.
Yield Per Acre.-Average for
Four Years.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1912-05-03

Cultivation VS.. Transportation. Aver
age for Three Years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-25
LAID DOZEN EGGS A DAY.
Connecticut Farmer Makes Mistake
in Killing Valuable Hen.

GREENWICH. Conn, July 25.-Frank
f. Sands secret of furnishing eggs by the
dozen, strictly fresh. leaked out yester-
day because mistake was made by his
hired man in killing d chicken for the
market Sands has a fifty acre farm at
Middle Patent. near the two-thousand-
acre farm of Edmund G. Converse He
has been competitor of Mr. Converse
in the egg business.
No one could tell how he produced so
many eggs with 50 few hens Now il Is
known. and the farmer is shedding bitter
tears. for he fears his roosts Will be
robbed and soon every one will have hens
like his own
The hen which was killed by accident
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-25
IN SESSION
Maryland State League Con-
venes at Ocean City-Ad-
dresses by Westinghouse.

OCEAN CITY. Md, July 25.-The fifth
annual convention of the Maryland State
League of Postmasters is in session
here.
The meeting was called to order by
George f. Lane of Queenstown. president
Of the league. followed by prayer by Rev.
j. L. Rushbridge of Ocean City. Judge
Booth of Washington, D. c., made the
address Of welcome. which was responded
to by President Lane.
The membership of the league is COM
posed of postmasters of third and fourth
class offices. Secretary c. F. Myers of
Brentwood and Treasurer Robert S. Nc
Kinney of Taneytown read their annual
reports, which were accepted.
Address by c. A. Stillings.
c. A. Stillinss. president of the Post
masters Advocate of Washington, d. c.,
delivered an address on practical organi-
Zation work.
The convention today will be opened
by Rev. 8. A. Potter, rector of St Pauls
Episcopal Church Of Ocean City and Ber-
Of the money order division of the Balti-
more post office. delivered an address on
Money Order Business. j. 0. FitZ-
gerald. superintendent second district,
gave the pOstmaSterS a long talk, and
Representative j. Harry Covinston of the
eastern shore also delivered address.
The postmasters last night We're enter
tanned at the Windsor Theater by Edward
NJ. Scott, postmaster of Ocean City.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-25
THIRD PARTY ELECTORS
SUBJECT OF DISPUTE
Claimed and Denied That
They Can Be Nominated by
Petition in New York.

According TO present outlook there is
going to be a mix-up in placing the names
of presidential electors on the rival re-
publican tickets in some of the states
Difficulties have been arising from time
to time. the situations in some cases be
ing very puzzlng and embarrassing
The latest development comes in New
York. where the question has been raised
whether the bull moose party" can get
their electors on the ticket at all. which
would mean that in the Empire state the
voters would not be called upon to choose
between Taft and the third-term cand-
date. but to conf1ne their choice to Taft
or Wilson
Election Commissioner Livingston, who
is chairman of the republican executive
committee in Kings county, in an inter
view yesterday said:
The legislature enacted a law proyid-
ing for the nomination of presidential
electors by the state committees Of the
regular parties. which names are 10 BE-
submitted to the vote of the people a
the general election. Hence the state
committee of the party is the only bodr
authorized BY law 10 nominate the presi-
Dental electors of that party.
While the Law makes provision for
the nomination of public officers b. pc
tition. il does not apply 10 presidential
electors. for the law specifically provides
that presidential electors arc not state
officers The Supreme Court has held
that they are not federal officers
This view is contradicted by other au-
thorties. and il may require a decision
by the courts to settle the mooted cues
ton. State Chairman Hotchkiss OF the
progressive party scouts the idea that the
voters can not express their choice. and
he holds that any law preventing the
voters from full and free expression or
their Will would be declared unconstitu-
tional.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-25
CONGRESS SETTING RECORD.
Total Of 80, 1888 Bills and Resolutions
Introduced Thus Far.

With still another session of the Sixty
second Congress to be held, the number
of bills and resolutions already intro
duced at this Congress has surpassed all
previous records. BY March 4. 1918,
when the SiXty-second Congress ends, it
is confidently expected that record
will have been made which will stand for
many years.
There have been 1884 bills introduced
i'm the House thus far and 1910 in the
Senate. In the two houses combined
there have been introduced LOOP single
resolutions. requiring the action of a
single house: 4S4 joint resolutions, and
73 concurrent resolutions. The Senate
has printed Ss1 public documents and
aG2 reports on bills: the House. SIS docu-
ments and 1,053 reports.
The extent to which Congress is
swamped with measures never enacted
into law is indicated by the fact that up
to Wednesday. when these figures were
compiled, only 235 public and private
laws. AZ public resolutions and 1 private
resolution had been passed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-25
CHILDREN ON OUTING.
Members Of Veritas Club Enjoy Pic
mic in the WoodN

One hundred and twenty-five little chill
dren, members OF the Neritas Club. an or
ganization founded by Mrs II. Il. Har-
ring. plunged deep into the woods today
on an outing arranged for them by Mrs.
Harring. The children assembled al the
northern headquarters OF the Associated
Charities, 1O1 Rhode Island avenue, al =
O'Clock this afternoon. There they We're
met by two large motor trucks. loaned
by business men interested in the cluh
which took the INTO the woods, and will
bring them back to the city when they
ready to return.
". L. Jones. general manager OF the
Chesapeake Beach railway, informed Mrs.
Harring that the railroad would like to
be host to the children again this year.
The outing OF the club TO Chesapeake
Beach last year was greatly enjoyed by
the children.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-25
TOMBSTONE KILLS CHILD.
Falls on Little Boy During Funeral
at Poughkeepsie.

POTGHkEEPSIE. July ga tomb
stone weighing a ton toppled over IN
the Madalin cemetery while the funeral
of John u. Rockefeller of Tivoli, a
distant kinsman of the Standard Oil
man was in progress. and crushed 10
death "A child named Raymond Calender.
aged four. Who was playing hide and
seek with his little sister at the base
Of the stone
The marble slab was raised with diff
fcufty from the chiId's body. He vas
dead when Or. f.. l. Pritchard arrived.
AR and Mrs. William Calender. the
parents If the boy. live in Bridgeport
ana were visiting friends in Tivoli.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-25
POLICE CHIEF ARRESTED.
Elks Having Frolic Encounter Of.
fcer Lacking in Humor.

WOONSOCkET. -. l.. July o3-Chief
OF Police jeremiah j. O'Neill of Milford
Mass. was locked up in cell in the
Woonsocket police headquarters for an
hour. He came to this city with twenty
FIVE Milford members of the Elks bound
for Rocky Point All were costumed as
farmers, and at Depot Square, where
they were to change cars for Providence
they started to chaff the traffic officer
at that point.
Police Lieutenant O'Connor ordered
them 10 move on. The police say that
O'Neill refused to obey and they placed
him under arrest He was locked up
until the arrival of Chief of Police Bos-
ton of this city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-25
URGE THREE-CENT PIECES.
Well Known Men Ind0rse Bill fol
Their Coinage.

The Endorsements of Andrew Carnegie.
Gov. Woodrow Wilson. Col. Theodore
Roosevelt, Mayor Gaynor of New York
Louis D. Brandeis of Boston. Jane Ad-
dams of Hull House, Chicago: Mayor
Blankenburg of Philadelphia. President
Hadley of Yale. Judge Ben b. Lindsey of
the Denver Juvenile Court. Lyman Abbott
of the Outlook and others of the bill for
the coinage Of three-cent pieces We're laid
before the Senate finance committee yes
terday.
The bill, introduced by Representative
Buckley of Ohio. has been passed by the
House and is now pending before the
Senate finance committee. The smaller
coins are especially desired in Ohio be-
cause of three-cent car fares.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-25
MAKES GIRLS SWIM TO SEA.
Instructor Goes Insane-Only One
Pupil Disobeys Her.

COPENHAGEN. July "a woman
teacher of swimming went mad yesterday
while instructing girls in the sea near
Helsingberg.
She started to swim out to sea and
ordered all the girls to follow her to
Elsinore, five miles away. All obeyed
but one, who swan ashore and called for
help.
Several motor boats fastened to the
rescue of the girls and picked them up
at various places.
The teacher was picked up just as she
was going down near Elsinore- She was
placed in an asylum.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-25
LINERS RUN FARTHER SOUTH.
Atlantic Travel Lanes Shifted Be-
cause of Ice Danger

Dangerous ice in the normal steamer
lanes to which the transatlantic liners
recently returned has caused the route
to be shifted TO two degrees south of
those used when the Titanic foundered.
The lanes which the photographic of
flee now consider safe cross ~ degrees
west longitude at 40 degrees &, minutes
north latitude. westbound, and A de-
grees west longitude at 10 degrees north
latitude eastbound.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-25
Lynchburg Faces Heavy Tax.
'iai DISPATCH IL The Star

Special Dispatch To- The Star
LYNCHBrRG. Va. July EFF the or
der OF state Auditor Morse. by which
revenue producing property owned by the
cities OF the state is not estopped by the
courts, the city OF Lynchburg will he as
sessed more than half a million dollars
on property in this class the property
being valued by the city at more than a
million and q half dollars.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-25

was cut up for fricassee in the household
of See Fred Lyon. real estate operator
and editor of the Greenwich News. The
cook reported that the hen was unusually
plump. Sands said she weighed seven
and a half pounds. She looked it. The
cook took up her carving knife, then fell
in a faint.
Egg after egg rolled out of the hen
until there were dozen, shell and all.
The family came to the cooks rescue. and
then the farmer was found and told OF
the eggs. He CRASHED his teeth, declaring
she was too good a hen TO have met such
a fate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-25

Fire Tuesday destroyed the large bank
barn on the farm of Emory 4. Perry.
along the road leading from keedysville
to Eagles Mill. Nd. together with all of its
contents. including more than 900 bush
els of wheat and about twenty tons of
hay.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-25
Address by c. A. Stillings.
Battleships Near Completion.

The battleships Arkansas and Wyo
ming. the latest work in ships of the
United States Navy. will be placed in
commission about September l. Capt.
Roy c. Smith now on special duty at
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-25

the Navy Department, will command the
Arkansas. The commander of the Wyo-
ming. which will be the flagship of Rear
Admiral Hugo Osterhaus. commander
in-chief of the Atlantic fleet, has not been
selected.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-25
independent Good Templars Meet.

ST. PAUL. Mimi. July o3-The Ma
tional Grand Lodge of the Independent
Order Of Good Templars began its an
nual session here today. Mayor George
F. Cotteril of Seattle, president of the
order arrived last night.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1912-02-28
ONCE A WIDE CANAL.
Broad Street, New York, Where the
Curb Brokers Now Operate.

oroad Street, New York, Where tho
Curb Brokers Now Operate.
The curb brokers of New York. who
now operate on Broad street. would
have been forced to conduct their bust
ness from gondolas or canal boats had
they made use Of that thoroughfare in
early days, for where solid pavement
now stands there was wide canal.
Many people nowadays. wandering
through the narrow streets of lower
Manhattan. have wondered at Broad
streets unusual width. Still more Pc
culiar was such breadth Of thorough
fare in the olden times. when streets
were nearly all narrow. and to dis
tinguish 1t from the alley like byways
that surrounded it the thoroughfare
was referred to as the broad street."
The Dutch called it the "Heere Graft"
(The latter word had far different
meaning In those days.) It was not at
first street. but the principal canal
of the city. This canal. wide enough
for heavy boats to pass each other,
ran into Broad street at the southern
end and continued north almost to
Wall street. A similar but smaller ca.
nal ran through Beaver street.
Peter Stuyvesant In 1867 had the
canals sides planked. and few dec
AIDES later the waters were gradually
replaced by a street.
As that street perforce followed the
canals former lines. it was much the
widest thoroughfare in all lower Man.
haitian and well merited its name of
Broad street. Had New York real es.
tate been worth one-twentieth a. much
then as at present Broad street would
have been shaved down to
the width of Nassau or Wall street.
New York World.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1912-02-28
News Of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
FINDS CASHIER NOT GUILTY
Minneapolis Jury Acquits Joseph D..
Bren, Accused Of Embedding
University Funds.

Joseph D. Bren is not guilty Of EN-
bezzling state university funds. II
took the jury at Minneapolis which
tried the former University of Mime
sofa cashier and assistant treasurer
three hours and fifteen minutes to ar.
rive at it's decision.
Bren still has four indictments
standing against him and County At
torney James Robertson says he will
proceed against him under one OF
these.
The first intimation of anything un-
Usual regarding the treasury of the
University of Minnesota came about
noon Of June 2, 1911, when Mr.. Bren
burst into his offices proclaiming he
had been robbed of little more than
$4,000 by highwaymen on the campus
His arrest followed and the police de-
MED his robbery story. Four indict-
ments, each charging grand larceny,
were returned against him.
Examination of his books showed
them to be in chaotic condition and
Dec. 10 the grand jury indicted him
again, this time on a charge of mis-
appropriating university funds.