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Some Essentials to Pumping.

With the perfecting Of centrifu-
gal pumps and the designing of
engines capable of running on cheap
fuel. the matter of pumping for
irrigation has become great fac
tor in the development of the
Southwest Not long ago it was
;hot that water could not he lifted
more than q or 30 feet for alfalfa,
but il il now demonstrated that
more than double that lfl still
leaves / handsome margin for the
farmer to apply to his bank
account.
The value of water depends very
largely upon the value of the crop
to which it is applied. If high
priced crops are raised water can
he raised from Il greater depth, and
the same ratio Of profit exists.
! Hence the range of water valuation
! is large from $40 to 800. or
| course. in connection with this must
! he taken into consideration the
| amount of labor necessary Ia ralS'
the given crops. Some high price,
crops require a great amount OF
care while others demand littl,
labor Here again the question 81
profit is eQualized.
Again. the quality of water ap
piled 10 crops has much to do will
the crop yield Quality is largcI'
determined by the character of thu
soil thru which the water passes
II the soil contains alkali the waite
is rendered valucless, according I
the amount. Where the soil is III
tainted hy mineral substances tn
water pcrcolating thru sand an
grave strata, becomes almost a
purr as when distilled or filtered.
Quantity of water for irrigatio
depends upon the catchment are
and the amount Of rainfall on TIA
area together with its Topography
. altitude, etc.
- Again. the railroad faculties ~
market locations and demands q
ter upon the determining of Il
crops to be raised.
The initiation which has bee
taken by the Mimbres Valley
pumping for irrigation has Gauss
other valleys of the Southwest
make tests of their underilows.
In the Mimbres Valley conditio
approach near unto the ideal. i
" water conditions approach near I
- ideal. The water lift. in gener
- is shallow: the supply has he
ing proven to be the purest in
dis world. and practically inexhaustih
the the soil is exceedingly fertile a
deep. while the railroads and M
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1912-06-07
Annual Stockholders Meeting.

Notice is hereby given that the
annual meeting of the Northwestern
Colonization & Improvement Company
of Chihuahua, will be held on the 10th
day of June, 1912, at ten clock a. m.
at 1929 Garfield Building, the Office of
the company, in the City of Cleveland,
State of Ohio, for the purpose of
electing directors of said company,
and such other business as may
properly come before such COM
pany at such meeting or any adjourn
ment thereof.
ID. J. CABLE.
Secretary.
Dated June |, 1912. jun7.ll
~. .l.,e.l ..,n.to. ara. hlanka for au a.
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The one word in the English Ian
guge that IL always popular. salts
faction. We guarantee II and u
don't cost any more than it does TO
guess, Deming Lumber Co.
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Won can look to us for everything
!, the building line. We wont dis
nnro;rt Won. for we have got the
Goods Deming Lumber Co.
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1912-06-07

New chattel mortgage blanks for sale
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1912-06-07

Stationary Engineer
Architect
Architectural Drai,aman
Contracting and Bnilding
structural Engineer
Structural Craftsman
Concrete CONSTRUCTION
Heating and Ventilation
Plumbing Inspector
Estimating Clerk
Agriculture
Poultry Farming
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-30
EVENING CHAT
BY RUTH CAMERON.

Do you know what intensive cultiva-
ton is?
agriculture and he had great deal to say
about intensive cultivation. And this is
what it means.
In days gone by there was so much
spare land that men could just scratch
the surface of the earth and get plenty
to feed the world. But the world is
growing very fast. The spare lands are
rapidly being taken up and by and by, II
we kept up the old-fashioned methods,
there wouldn't be enough food to go
around. This is where intensive cultiva-
ton comes in 1t is the science of MAX
thorough study of it's possibilities and
by the use of modern methods. 1t is ne
opposite of extensive cultivation. Ex-
tenSlVe cultivation means that when you
want to produce more you cultivate an
other acre Intensive cultivation means
that when you want to produce more you
make one acre do as much as two.
You have all heard of the efficiency
movement in manufacturing. Well in
of efficiency engineering.
And now, you are wondering, what has
all this to do with me?
Wen, in the first place, think it's a
tremendously interesting movement in
itself, and in the second place it is tire
mendouSly suggestive.
Are you using intensive cultivation ia
farming yourself?
You regret that you haven't a larger
farm. In other words, that your oppor-
tunities are not wider, your capabilities
bigger and your efficiency greater, but
are you getting every possible bit OF
value out OF what you have?
You feel sure you could rise in the bust
ness world if you only had more influen-
tial friends. Are you making the friends
you already have eager to help you when
it lies in their power?
You wish you We're better looking. Are
you applying intensive cultivation to the
good looks you now have?
You know you could do a great deal more
in the world if only you were stronger.
Well, are you sure you are not wasting
any of your precious store of vitality by
foolish and careless habits? Are you sure
that every inch of your acre of natural
physique is being cultivated and de-
veloped after the best modern methods?
You have such a meagre education COM
pared to your neighbours splendid store of
knowledge. Yes, but there have been
many cases when intensive cultivation OF
a very small plot of education has yielded
more than careless usage of vast tracts
of knowledge.
Intensive cultivation in agriculture fair
ly astonishes those who apply it by its
wonderful results.
A word to the wise, etc.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-30
A Man Among Men.

Plato was a man of the world to his
finger-tips, as well as a poet and philos-
opher, and have no doubt whatever that
ne was always ready to discuss the Olym-
pic games with his disciples whenever [ lie
celebration of a new Olympiad became the
topic Of the day and the chances of the
local team of athletes were being dis
cussed at every street corner The pose
of the modern artist, who wishes to be se-
garded as a parsonage apart from his fsi-
low-creatures, and for that reason holds
aloof from such crowd-compelling affairs
as a test match, championship contest
at the National Sporting club would GER
tainly have kindled Platos smile of
bane contempt-the same with which ne
SO often confuted the haSty generalization
of popular sophiSt.
The Greeks had all the redeeming vices
OF modernity: for example they were
pTodigious deal of betting the Olym-
pic games. Tons of money, to use moi
ern expression. would be lost on the type
of runner mentioned in a Greek epigranl,
who ran in a race with five others anc
came in seventh, the sixth place being
taken by his trainer, whose pace-making
and cries of Keep it upr were laEor
wasted. In all probability Plato RETAINED
from betting himself Che knew that
wagers are the arguments of fools), but 1
am sure he would not have frowned on
well-bOrn pupil who had made book"
on the games.
The notion that the Greek philosophers
were rather like certain modern head
masters, whose morals stick out all over
them like the candypeel in a cake, is
which has done much to dehumaniZ5
the most human of all the peoples of an
tiquity. The ancient Greeks were rich in
all the social vices; cordially agree with
Mr.. Hilaire Belloc's assertion that no race
has ever produced such an infinite variety
of exuberant blackguardism. But they
were incapable of the hypocrisies half III
tellectual and half emotional which veX
the modern world 1t is impossible, TO
take specific instances. to translate the
terms ''priggishness" and artistic tenn
permanent into the language of Hellas.
Plato was a great artist and he knew it.
But he was we'll content to remain a man
amon9 men. man of the world among
men of the world. and to interest himself
in whatsoever interested the society which
found him interesting. So that 1 for one
should not be in the least surprised
Though greatly gratified) If a fragment
of a dialogue, bearing his name and dis
cussing the cult of the Olympic athlete.
were presently discovered in the dust
heaps of Oxyrhynchus or some oth"r
waste-paper basket of oblivion.-Nine- f
teenfh Century and After.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-30
4 MOVING pICrURE STORY.

With our daily press and magazines
filled with recita1s of shortcomings of
trusted individuals. of obligations for
gotten in the mad rush for money. it
is certainly refreshing to flash upon the
curtain of events even an occasional
incident where gratitude stands SUI
preme. writes H. H. Windsor in the
November Popular Mechanics Maya
zine. Really the world is not nearly so
bad as represented. for it seems to be
a perverse element of human nature to
ma gnify the wrong and minimize the
good. Here is a true story which came
to me unknown to the principal: in fact.
I took no chan4es on asking his permits
sion to print it. fearing he might re-
fuse.
Some years ago a young man with
more ambition than money went west
in search of fortune Through no fault
of his he finally found himself fur out
on the plains without friends or money.
He was fighting his way across the
Rocky Mountains. walking by day and
catching what feee ides he could on the
night feight tains. At last he found
himself at water tank, miles from any
habitation, thinly clad. penniless, weak
from hunger and exhaustion. Life SEEM
ed failure and not worth the battle
A freight stopped for water, and the
engineer seeing his pitiable condition
told him to climb into the cab. The din
ner pail was brought out and one of
the two had hearty meal. At the end
of the run the young man was awaken
ed and found himself literally over the
mountain. in a land of sunshine and
plenty. With tears of gratitude he told
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-30
A Profanp Nran,s Crave

A strange story comes from Watauga
county, N. c., across the Blue Ridge
from East Tennessee, in connection
with a recent burial in an old cemetery.
near the county seat of that county
The story is vouched for by the editor
OF the Watauga Democrat, q weekly
newspaper published in that county
This editor relates that while attend
ing the burial referred to, and which
occurred only a week or two ago, his
attention was directed to a grave that
emily as hard on the surface as the
packed dirt of public highway. He
was informed by persons residing in
the community that this grave contain
ed the dust of a man named Hatton
who died 40 years ago
Although all these years have elaps-
ed" said the editor, mot blade of
grass nor a flower of any kind has
grown upon the grave" He inquired the
cause and the mountain folk explained
that the man hurled there was extreme
" profane. He was wont to curse and
rave at everything which was not ex-
actly to his liking, it was related, and
few things ever were. During his last
illness. as related to the editor by old
residents. he grew fIightfulIy rebel
ious, and drew his last breath with
curses upon his lips for his Creator
The condition of this grave is made
the more strikingIy significant by the
fact, as described by the editor of the
Watauga Democrat, that all other
graves in the little cemetery are cover
ed with a carpet of grass while upon
some of them roses and other flowers
are growing--Bristol. {Tenn.) Dispatch
to Chattanooga Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-30

the engineer he would never forget
him.
Ten years passed and both fame and
fortune had smiled on the chance pas
senger. He had foreseen the possibilities
of a vast business, then new, but now
found in every city and town. He had
made inventions and improvements
which contributed largely to its de-
velopment and success. He was worth
his millions; his name was known
throughout the world wherever moving
pictures flash. One day in taking
short cut through the park he hurried
" passed a most wretched-looking man,
"a eyed and thin, who was sitting on a
bench with bowed head, a picture OF
despair Banker and capitalists were
even then waiting to hold an important
directors meeting. and time was pre-
cious But something in the I'M
fortunate seemed to especially call for
sympathy, and retracing his steps he
stood before the bench. He spoke to
the man. who had been a locomotive
engineer in Mexico, was doing well, ran
over native had to flee the country;
been unable to secure run on reaching
his own land and was now at the end
of his resources.
Yes. he proved to be the same en-
gineer and his former passenger made
good He dressed him and gave him
money: he rented a place of amusement
and set him up with the finest moving
picture esta blishment in the city, where
he prospered, and now owns fifteen
movies and is worth a million dol
lars. The story would make good
subject for a film.
Not every kind act can turn out as
proftably as this did, yet every kind
act brings it's own reward in the doing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-30
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCTIIsON GLOBE.
az THE

Comparatively little of the midnight oil
Is burned in study lamps.
There is never as much overconfi5e,, "a
as the noise one hears might indicate.
A game is rarely too one sided for the
man who has a bet on the winning team.
1t doesn't often happen that a mans
responsibility is as great as he thinks it is
There are several other hopeless tasks
pesldes running on the independent ticket
Although the unguarded moment has
been relocated to the cannery, most of
them are like that.
In the interest OF peace and harmony a
man should leave home while house cIea
ing is in session.
What has become of the old-fasbiona,7
mother who covered her chiIdren's schooi
books with calico?
A6 Adkins says his daughter. who IS
studying domestic economy has increa sea
the. grocery bin a good deal by her en-
periments. "a
You may know that the teacher. who
has short shifts and long vacatiors
spends most of her spare time Keepiag
Up With Her Work. 9
Then there are patriots who prefer IN
show it by getting half shot on marion II
holidays than by going the full distance
in national defense.
Possibly, when the frost is on the Dunln-
kin. the pumpkin doesn't know it. Where
in the pumpkin resembles some candidates
who should know better
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-30
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
TFrom the Philadelphia Record

Some people would like to travel over
the road to success in a private car.
No change is so welcome as that which
varies the monotony of an empty pocket
The brightness of many a young man
consists largely of Waistcoats and neck
ties.
In spite of the theory that alTs well that
ends well, it is just well to begin
right.
There isn't anything in the whole world
quite so proud as a girl of Is with her
first real beau.
Travel broadens a man, but on the 9th
er hand you can stay at home and get a
tailor to pad your shoulders.
Mrs. Gnaggs-''You have told me a bare
faced lie.'' Mr.. Gnaggs-' Nonsense. nv
dear. That lie is old enough to have
whiskers."
Wigwag-'Y son is certainly a bright
little boy" Youngpop-"Yes. have
actually known that kid to refuse a sec
ond piece of pie
Blobbs-fI wonder what would happen
If should all follow the golden rule.
SloDbs-''Wel1. for one thing the law
yers would all starve to death"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-30
SAYS UNCLE CAV

The time approaches when the
tumuIt and the shouting die and
few American citizens who remember
will demand that the candidate take
his principles out of his platform and
put them into practice. It's all very
we'll to hang a motto over the door or
put a placard in your show window,
but the habit OF inviting the maker
of promises to make good is growing
like jimsen weed in June, and 1t ism
entirely confined to politics.
Those who have the motto craze
are likely in the end to find that what
looked like bait for suckers was
boomerang. In the good old days,
when your business was the business
of nobody else and you could tell the
self-appointed food inspector to go
home and mind the babies, notices
were a good safe place to hang up your
principles, and forget them. They
were safe from moth and rust and the
fool who wanted you to follow them.
But in these days, when every man
is the keeper OF his brother and his
brothers goods, when news of init
mate personal doings travels the world
over faster than scandal through the
village sewing circle, you've got to
make good on your conspicuously-
posted bluff or the neighbors will talk
until you take it down.
Political platforms are gradually
getting away from the proverbial pie
crust. A merchants advertisements
are practically as good as his bond.
Personal pretensions are accepted at
face value and society, aided by the
bill collector, the assessor, the news
paper and the copper on the corner,
cheerfully undertakes the task of see
ing that you live up to them.
This is getting to be a cheerful, fair
play sort of world. Buncombe is slip
ping away to join the divine right of
kings, the federal system, witchcraft
and alchemy. You've got to live up to
your platform. You've got to take
your principles out of that f1y-blown
motto and put them to work Not
only is every tub required to stand
upon it's own bottom. but it's COM
PEELED to live up to the label on its
side.-(Copyright 1912, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-30

Every report from every section of
the country is favorable and the gen
ersI business situation is not only very
active but is entirely healthy" reports
r. G. Dun & Co.'S Weekly Review of
Trade, and it continues: Taking it al
together there has never been a more
remarkable uplift in American business
than that now in progress at time
OF foreign disturbance and of an i'm
portant domestic campaign This is
food for reflection for every voter in
tie land. There are political and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-30
HAPPINESS A BUSINESS ASSET

E4ApPTNESS A BUSINESS ASSET.
! Human life is gradually becoming
recoenized as a business asset. This Is
a new fact in the DEVELOPMENT OF the
race. Life insurance companies are
! realizing that they can increase their
dividends faster by cutting down the
dea+h-rate than by increasing sales or
reducing expenses. Employers OF large
| numbers of human machines are reallz-
inp the surprising fact that, as cold
business proposition, it pays not III
sentiment but in dollars, to take GOOD
care of their employees. BUSINESS men
are learning that well-fed, well-clotheo'
contented men and women, working III
well-Iighted. well-ventilated quarters
and on schedules arranged IN accoru-
ance with our modern knowledge or
physiology, actually turn out more WORK
and better work than under-paid, dis
contented help, working under uncon-
Portable and insanitary conditions.
Therefore large corporations are spend
ing money literally in Fairgrounds
rest-rooms, libraries, gympasiums'
sanitary lunch-rooms, moving picture
shows. safety devices, venttlatinP sys-
TENS and similar devices for the we'll
being and enjoyment of their en-
plovees. If one asks these men why they
are doing these things. they will dis
claim any charitable or philanthropic
motives. This isn't charity" says one
firm, I'VE want that clearly understood.
This is simply good business manage
ment and common sense. A well man is
of more use to US than a sick man. A
happy, contented woman turns out
more work and better work than an
unhappy one. Therefore anything we
can do to make people who do our
work at ease in mind and body we re-
gard as good business mana cement,
Just as we regard fire insurance, i'm
proved machinery and labor saving de-
vices The firms that have realized the
enormous Importance of this discovery
are already reaping the benefits. The
conservation of the healtf of employees
will be a fundamental principle of good
business management in the future.
When it is fully recognized by the in
dustrial world that sickness is a ma
ferial liza bility and that health is a realiz-
able commercial asset, says The Jour
nal of the American Medical Associa-
ton. contagion and preventable dis
eases will be hunted down andextermin-
ated as relentlessIy as modern indus
trialism now pursues counterfeiters. |
forgers and other commercial criminals. |
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-30

into chicken sandwich and waited
for his answers.
The girl laughed.
It beat my diaphragm=not my
chestl It strengthens it. My people
live just below here in Raggen Jack
camp, and my voice is wistful be-
cause She stopped suddenly and
a blush sprang into her cheeks my
instructor says have never been in
love-"
Il think that, perhaps, IS good
ldea," he said. And then and there
he vowed, mentally, to see that the
dift1cuity was overcome-( Copyright,
1912, by McClure's Newspaper Syndi-
cate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-30
TIE VoTER,s IIrANY.

From de1nagogues and suffragettes,
from FOOLISH freak election bets,
Z rom tarlm plankS, and plans to bust
Inc power of any kind of trust
And other things that make me cuss:
rom party platforms, good and bad,
In IN TOO abundant verbiage clad,
FROM campaign banners flinging high
Ihelr gaudy legends to the sky,
Good Uncle Sam deliver us
From pictures of the candidates
On fobs as big as dinner-pIates
+ rom campaign songs with hating
rhymes,
from speeches on the troubled times.
from street-parades, and all the fuss,
from buttons fastened to your coat
10 SHOW the way you mean to vote,
from bosses with their knavish tricks,
From every brand of politics,
Good Uncle Sam deliver u.s.
-Minna Irving in LesIes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-30
AYHAWKER JOTsy

Stand up and take your medicine, ad-
vises the Yates Center News. The bad
taste won't last long.
Maybe the Hays City News-Republi-
can had its fingers crossed when it was
telling about coyotes in it's vicinity at
lacking and killing a calf.
When a hen cackles now the whole
barnyard joins in the chorus, says the
Jewell County Republican. They all
know that eggs are % cents a dozen
Smiling key" of ne Dresden Sun
flower, was in an unusually sympathetic
mood last week. Makes us feel bad .
he wrote, ito see those poor old flies
dying"
AS the Liberal News views the situa-
ton: The farmer who votes the Re
publican ticket and builds a silo does
his full duty toward his government
and toward the health and welfare of
his stock
An out of town gentleman who has
been hunting and fishing in this vicin-
ity recently, relates the Elk Falls Re
hector, spent quite a little time and
pains to catch a tree frog. He thought
they We're the kind to eat.
Maybe it won't be news to Vic Muir
dock that he is being doomed for the
presidency, but it surely will be to
some of his many friends The Haskell
County Republican has launched the
boom IN the following paragraph: The
newspaper fraternity are not taking
kindly to some of the late rulings of the
postal department. Be patient, keep
your heads closed and in the near IN
ture we will give Victor Murdoch the
Key to the White House and present
MN with new broom and then watch
the aust rise from the capitol dome.