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Eastern Colorado times., 1913-06-27
Working the Land.

the utmost. AS land gets higher we
will have to come to it. More inten.
sive farming and less extensive will
make better farmers that will get
more out Of life. There is no use to
have money invested and pay taxes
on two acres II you can make the
same grow on one acre. This we can
do by increasing the fertility and Civ.
ing better cultivation. II you are go.
ing to cultivate it, you would better
have medium-sized farm than q
large one.
Eastern Colorado times., 1913-06-27
Interesting Pointers on Garden
ing for the City Man or
Suburbanite.
WHAT TO PLANT AND WHEN
Advice by an Expert on Agricultural
Matters-vines and Climbers
When to Plant Shrubs
Raspberries.

BY PROF. JOHN WILLARD BOlTE.
The function of vines and climbing
plants in landscape art is to screen
and soften mechanical features, to hide
unsightly objects, to blend together
into harmonious whole, various dis
cordant elements.
Varieties are a matter of taste. and
II you will leave to your wife the -ques-
tion of proper location for vines. you
will not go far wrong. from an ar
tistic standpoint. The truth is that
good vines are almost always in har-
mony, no matter where they are
placed. Use them freely where you
have bare place.
Many an untidy fence can be made
Into bower of delight by properly
placed vines. The honeysuckles, wood.
bine from the deep woods, Kudzu vine,
wild grape, clematis paniculata. and
many others, can be secured at a tri-
aing expense, grow quickly. and are
hardy.
In the more southern states, Smiths
hybrid moon-vine is particularly de-
lightful.
The jewel of porch climbers is the
Jackmanii type of clematis. White.
lavander and pink. the blossoms come
in reckless profusion. and If you
are careful to get strong pot-grown
plants, plant them in rich. deep
earth, without disturbing the roots,
and do your transplanting about June
/, you will almost certainly succeed.
Be sure to plant in sunny spot,
where water from the caves will not
compact the earth. Water well until
the plant gets good start.
A fast growing, pleasant vine for the
new porch is the Japanese Ivy. A
few plants put in the soil alongside the
porch in the sun will rapidly spread
by way Of the roots, and will form q
thick, fragrant curtain of light green.
clear to the top Of the porch by the
middle Of summer. This plant in
creases SO rapidly that one must be
careful to prevent its crowding out
other less aggressive neighbors.
Scarlet runner beans are great ia
vorite in northern climes for yearly
planting, as are the wild cucumbers
with their tracery leaves and tendrils
and their cool prickly fruit pods.
OF course where climbing roses can
be successfully grown, there is abso-
lutely nothing to compare with them
in their gorgeous magniffcence They
call for the same soil conditions and
care as bush roses, but they are less
hardy as rule in the inland and
northern states.
In the eastern states and anywhere
that cool, moist summer and even
winter temperature prevails, the Eng
lish Ivy grows in profusion. Nothing
can be more satisfactory, particularly
in connection with stone or brick
structures of massive appearance. 1t
seems to live forever in hospitable
environments, and it will frequently
cover an entire house, even to the
chimney top. 1t is we'll to prevent it
from covering wooden surfaces, how
ever, as it's thick foliage holds moist
ure- and hastens the decay of the
wood, the rusting of nails, etc.
Many ways of supporting vines are
used, from strings to graceful wooden
treliises. Chicken wire may be used to
advantage; and will last number Of
years.
Planfinn ShrIihS
Eastern Colorado times., 1913-06-27


Fourth
in
cities exhibition
has be
Eastern Colorado times., 1913-06-27
HOW TO CELEBRATE.
Many Cities Join Movement for
Sane Fourth of July.
Casualty Lists Have Been Greatly Re-
duced-Flne Example Of Proper
Observance Set by Spring.
field, Mass.

REPORT published by the
Russell Sage Foundation on
How the Fourth Was Gel
ebrated in 1911" gives con-
elusive proof that the
movement inaugurated in
many cities for a sane and
safe observance Of the day
resulted in reducing the
death roll The number Of
casualties by fire and acci-
dent was 1.603. In 1909
Eastern Colorado times., 1913-06-27

Some of the greatest men this coun-
try has ever produced succeeded in
retaining all their fingers.
Eastern Colorado times., 1913-06-27
Harness Punch Is Handy.

FTdVHGoS TU15STI 70 rIdTIuys
Got harness punch? 1t costs only
a quarter, and with package of cop.
per rivets breaks can be mended In a
jiffy.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-06-07


four-game series against the Cubs.
McGraW has not shaken his team
into a fast clip, but they are going
much better than the West Siders,
and EVers' men will have all the
work they want getting an even
break. Tesreau, the big spitban
pitcher, has finally come around aft
er bad start, but the Cubs are not
liable to draw him in the first game.
1t looks more like Marquard. In his
last few games the RUDE has been
good, and the present Cub team is
not noted for the way it slugs south
paws.
Ping Bodie is something like a
horse. When he gets out on the
green grass he begins to feel pretty
good, and the only way to relieve his
feelings is to roll around in the clover.
The fact that the Sox may be in the
midst of a hard-fought game makes
no difference to Ping. He feels like
rolling. He rolls.
Ping rolled a game directly into
the hands of the Boston Red Soxs
yesterday. He showed symptoms of
the horse feeling early in the game,
when he tried to score from second
on a single, and was thrown out try
ing to scramble back to third after
Kid Gleason had gotten a toehold
on him to prevent his sure death at
the plate. Ping has as much chance
to score on the hit, which was a short
one, as Chance has of winning the
pennant.
The big stu ffcame in the twelfth.
Russell passed Speaker with two
out. Then Duffy Lewis jammed 4
double to left field, which runs up
hill to the scoreboard. Ping pursued
the pill up the incline, slipped and
rolled down the hill like an Easter
egg. Speaker scored. If Bodie had
been able to control his legs Iris
would have been held at third, as
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-06-07

their suffering even extends to their
hands and feet. Art Phelan and Vic
Safer pulled pair of shutters yester-
day that forced the Boston Braves
to accept a game they had no license
to get.
Lefty Pierce established himself as
one Of the dependable members of
the home heaving crew by letting the
Braves down with six hits. He
passed four, but errors were respon-
sible for all the runs but one. Lefty
himself made one bum chuck trying
to catch batter at first that allowed
one man to reach third and another
second. Both scored. Even though
he lost, Lefty looked good. This
makes three good games he has
pitched in a row, almost record on
the West Side.
Dickson was no puzzle to the
Cubs after two men we're out. Six
of the Cub swats were wasted in
this manner. Only in the third and
fifth could the home athletes score,
three hits turning three runs in the
third and two hits manufacturing
the final count in the fifth. Even in
the fifth the Cubs did not hit until
two were out, single by Safer and
triple by Phelan doing the business.
After the game one fan remarked
that the Cubs were playing a new
brand of inside baseball. Instead of
the delayed steal they were using the
Il 81
Heinie Zim was chased for disput-
ing a decision in the fourth. Before
departing Zim had pasted in two
runs with a double. Phelan took
Zim's place, and on the first ball
pitched the batter bumped to Art.
The latter made a bum chuck to
first and a runner who was on third
scored the fifth and winning run.
Three double plays pulled Dickson
out of some bad holes.
Il II
The Springfield herald., 1913-05-30

smiled at me, land so Just acted like
a man, walked into the barbershop
sat down In the chair and ordered a
massage.
when the night Of the first day
came, my face was as sore as boil.
The next day decided that l had bet
ter change my method until my face
got over the various rubbings 1t had
received the day before, and SO found
that my hair was giving me a head
ache and needed a good combing
Ten times that day went into barber
shops and had my hair combed, then
dressed by the manicurist. No luck.
Nor were the candy stores any
more enlightening. The men l saw
were sordid brutes. They had no more
poetry in their systems than a block
of wood. began to realize that I was
working on mighty slim clue, to be-
gin with. that 1t was wild In the ex-
treme and that there was little chance
of me winning out in my fight to catch
man simply through the fact that
there had been some poetry written
on tissue paper. But persisted just
the same.
And things steadily grew worse.
The loop district was covered. I di6
every barbershop and every cardy
store in the radius of the confires of
l. structures which go to make up the
real business district of Chicago. In
not one of them could find a man
whose face or whose personality at all
tailed with that of the one sought.
After all, / had been foolish. had
spent lot Of good money on a quest
that l should have known. before
started. would be frujtless. Vet some
thing impelled me to keep on.
II visited every shop in the tougher
districts of the city. Not an item of
evidence did find. l went out into
the residence districts; and then. in a
small, two-man shop. saw some
shaving paper of exactly the kind of
which the fake money bundle had
been prepared. ] took h0pe-then lost
it again. The owner of the shop was
small and dull-cyed and glance at
him showed that by no possibility
coull ne the man described by the
various victims. The other barber
was nearer the size | sought, but it
seemed that there was plodding
something. a characteristic about him
that never had been described. But
The Springfield herald., 1913-05-30
HANDS BURNING, ITCHING

905 Lowell Place. Chicago. ILL.,
1.-THE trouble began by my hands burn
ing and itching and l rubbed and
scratched them till one day l saw lit
tie red sores coming out My hands
were disfgured and swollen. and trou-
bled me SO that I could not sleep.
They were cracked and when the
small sores broke white matter
would come out. could not do any
hard work; If I did the sores would
come out worse. For two years no.
body could cure my eczema, until one
day thought would try the Cuucura
Soap and Ointment. l used warm wa
ter with the Cuticura Soap and after
that 1 put the Cuticura Ointment on
my hands twice day for about five
or six months when I was cured"
(Signed) Sam Marcus, Nov. 2S, 1911.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample of each
free. with 32-p. Skin Book. Address
postcard "Cuticura, Dept. l.. Boston"
Adv
The Springfield herald., 1913-05-30

Then 1 gasped. l heard him begin to
whistle the first few bars of The
Melody in F.
And then i understood l was on
the right track after all. Putting two
and two together, Judging from the va
rious descriptions OF the men who had
been fieeced, here was a man who had
the power, seemingly. of not only
changing his face, but his whole
bearing whenever 1t suited his pur-
pose / had studied his appearance in
the barbershop had taken in every
detail of his clothing, and had it not
been for that and for that fact. too,
that had seen him leaving the shop,
l never would have been able to rec
ognize him. But now was sure!
"A great feeling of relief surged
through me; l knew now that l could
go to the captain And tell him a diff
ferent story from the one | had been
planning short time before. More
than that, l would be the means of
bringing in criminal who was dan
gerous in the extreme, who would rep
resent all the finer arts of trickery
and anom it would be triumph to
rat behind the bars of a penitentiary.
Hurriedly / started toward my car,
that / might hasten to police head
quarters and arrange for the arrest
the next morning.
Then, just as suddenly, halted.
and although a queer fear-ran through
me, l could not help laughing at the
funny possibilities of the situation.
Just suppose" Miss Clement began
to chuckle as she thought of 1t, Just
suppose that this man should have
still another face which had never
been used, So to speak, and no one
could identify him? And that iden-
tity would be all upon which could
have my case. 1 had none Of his para
phernalia. not a witness had been able
to tell where he was taken when the
money machine did its work and
ground out the supposed fortunes, and
SO all / would have to show to a
court would be a group of disgruntled
men who would swear that they had
been robbed but in a place they could
not point out and by man. they could
not identify. decided all at once
that this was not a time for making
arrests There must be evidence and
it was up to little Alice to get IT.
She smiled as she said that, and
The Springfield herald., 1913-05-30
Where Tommy Came In.

Saucy Tommy had been listening to
the talk of his elders, and when his
stern father, angry over the young
ster's neglect of his simple farm du
ties, took him to task Tommy was
ready with his provoking reply: You
don't do thing that you should. and
almost everything that you shouldn't
do you delight in" stormed papa. I'D
like to know what good you are IN
the world anyway" What good am
II" retorted the naughty lad. putting
a safe distance between himself and
his parent. why, dad, I'm a con,
sumer. and I'd like to know what
would become of the farmers If the
consumers were not around?"
The Springfield herald., 1913-05-30
Forgotten Novelist.

Ninety years ago there died nov
elist of whom it would have been con-
sidered sacrilege to suggest, in her
own time. that she would ever be for
gotten. The friend of Mrs. Montagu,
Mrs. Piozzi and all the blue stockings,
she married William Radcliffe, editor
of the English Chronicle, and set the
town on fire with her novels. Scott
wrote of her that the praise may be
claimed for Mrs. Radcliffe of having
been the first to introduce into prose
fiction a beautiful and fanciful tone of
natural description and narrative
which had hitherto been exclusively
appropriated to poetry" For The
Mysteries of Updolpho" she received
c 500. and a later books produced
ES00-great sums in those days, and
beyond the reach of many excellent
noYelists today.
The Springfield herald., 1913-05-30
A Modernized Green Goods Game
(Copyright. BY ". q. Chapman.)

At last l grasped one close and held 1t
closer to the light. l read:
Sunset and evening star
And one clear call for me,
And may there be no moaning of the
ba-
When l put out to seal
Il whirled. Something had flashed
through my head. Here on the evil
dence of thievery, someone had writ
ten stanza of Tennyson's Crossing
the Bar. l approached the captain,
for wild idea had come.
III you please, l would like a little
expense money on this case told
him. 4 may be wrong in my belief,
but I've got little lead that may turn
out something
II received the money, and then
started out. The loop district looked
like the best chance for me and SO
started around there. The first day |
made eight barbershops and"
Made them?" l interrupted. ~
don't believe l quite understand"
Why" Miss Clement answered, II
simply covered them like a salesman
would cover line of stores. And in
cidentally, l had become a salesman.
had figured 1t out that my man would
be either a poetic barber or a poetic
candy merchant of some kind. knew
someone who had something to do
with tissue paper Of that size was
either a barber or candy man. In
one place 1t would be used for the
shaving. In the other, 1t would be
used in putting the dressing in candy
boxes. And SO, I got Job with a
candy manufacturer l knew and start
ed out to drum up trade.
And you know" Miss Clement
added with smile. "in walking around
Chicago. where the wind is always
blowing. ones face gets mighty grimy
and dusty. There is nothing that takes
the dust away like a massage. And
SO, between every candy store, would
manage to become grimy enough to
need the assistance of a barber. al
ways did hate to go to these feminine
hairdressing establishments" she
The Springfield herald., 1913-05-30
Fertilize the Language.

Surely there must be something the
matter with the vocabulary of our
young people when they have to de-
pend so exclusively upon such words
as Sure" Dandy" and Wonder
full" to express their principal emo
tions. What is most extraordinary
about all this is that the Vocabulary
of young women does not seem to be
improved by college career. One
would think that it would be quite I'M
possible to study Latin and French
and German, literature and philosophy
for a number of years (even though
studied In the most superficial man.
ner) without acquiring enough variety
of words to carry one through any
common experience. The method OF
studying English in our schools is
entirely wrong. There should be
classes in adjectives-Life.
The Springfield herald., 1913-05-30

OF love. The next day when l came in
for my usual headache cure he asked
II l was not late.
"T hardly think so.' answered,
why?
Nothing. he said slowly, only it
just seemed had been expecting you
for good while, that's all
Cute, wasn't it?" Miss Clement
laughed. Let me tell you that Ter
ence Laffan (Which wasn't his real
name at alb certainly knew the game
Of love. They tell me that barber is
the most dangerous love-maker in the
world, anyhow: at least, that's what
the new detectives down at headquar-
ters always have said. And certainly
Terry didn't miss out on any of the
fine points when he was going to col
lege-."
Barber college, of course" l sup
piled.
Here, we're getting away from
the story Miss Clement broke in.
What was trying to say was that
within the next two weeks, Terry Laf-
fan managed to work up the finest
SdoC VI loNc at you ever
heard of. The fact that he was only
a barber while was supposed to be a
rich woman, didn't worry him In the
least. And then the poetry began to
spring forth. And all the time, under
stand, he was changing the bills I
gave him and handing me back clean
new money. Once or twice, Just to
see what would happen, 1 asked him
what 1t meant how he happened al
ways to have new money. He only
smiled at me. Then he would recite a
little strain of mystic verse to me as
sat in the chair, something that
would show he was far better read
than 1. And then one afternoon came
the clincher. He pulled bit of tissue
paper from his pocket and handed 1t
to me.
81 was thinking of you when 1
wrote that this noon. It's bit Of
Omar's philosophy. | often pick up a
scrap of paper here and scribble on
it
And then, / read;
'Ah love! could you and l with Him
conspire,
To grasp this sorry scheme of things
entire,
Would we not shatter it to bits and
then.
The Springfield herald., 1913-05-30
The Effects Of opiates.
Room for the Cat.

The doors of certain new house
had shrunk horribly, as is the way
of the modern door made Of unsea-
soned wood and left to shrink in
use. The builder would not send the
joiner to replace them. So the
householder tried the ironclad meth
cd and wrote:
Dear Sir: The mice can run un-
der most of our doors, but our cat
cannot follow them. VIII you please
send man at once to make room un
der the doors for the cat. and much
oblige?"
Next day the joiners came.-Man-
chester Guardian.
The Springfield herald., 1913-05-30

for q few moments we walked along
in the mist, I whistling, she taking
in the bright freshness of the trees
and the grass and shrubbery with her
swapping. liquid eyes. By and by she
took up the thread of her narrative.
"I resolved that If 1t took me n
month, I would get that man to talk to
me. And the next day began my
campaign by walking into the barber
shop and climbing into his chair.
"I believe you are g. wizard said
to him.
Why's?
"'Whyr i laughed. For three months
l have been suffering from afternoon
headaches. Yesterday l came in here
and had you comb my hair And when
I walked out. my headache was gone.
I'm back for another dose of the same
prescription
"Oh. fattery!" laughed Miss Gle.
ment, your power is greater than
even gold! My little speech pleased
him. He laughed and there came a
bit of the light to his eyes that had
seen in them on the street
Live in the city?' he asked after
n long time.
..Yes, answered. I just came here
from Louisville. had always lived
there, but, when my husband died.
Just determined that I'd sell out every.
thing and move away to bigger city
1t took a great deal more time than
Imagined added innocently, be.
cause when we came to look things
up, my husband had about three times
as much property as l had thought
THAT was Just another bit of bait
upon the hook and l was wondering
whether or not he would swallow It,
He gave no evidence of interest How.
ever. there was smile of geniality on
his countenance as he finished the
brushing OF my hair and stood to one
side while l dressed it.
docs your head feel better now?
he asked.
Very much answered.
"'Then perhaps you will come back
tomorrow
Assuredly So laughed in an.
swer You are the best doctor l ever
knew I reached into my bag and
handed him a 500 bill. He did not go
to the cash register with 1t. Instead,
he took from his pocket three IS bills
and four ones and handed them to me.
I saw that they were absolutely clean
and new, evidently just procured from
some bank that morning. And
walked from the shop with a little
thunp of gladness in my heart.
knew he had been impressed by my
story of wealth and had decided that
he woult. get portion of my supposed
fortune
"And he began to play on me game
The Springfield herald., 1913-05-30

Just the same. determined to take a
chance. got into his chair and called
for massage.
las he worked tried to study his
face whenever could keep my eyes
openD to see II there could find the
criminal lines that would depict the
kind of man | sought; or II could
find that softer something which
would show that he was the sort Of a
man who could appreciate poem Of
the depth and the beauty of Tenny-
sons Crossing the Bar But II was
useless. For once In my life was
stumped. have always prided my
self that ! can read faces and see the
case with the other man l had studied
I had even been able to tell what
their best girls looked like. But
here"
Miss Clement shrugged her shoul-
ders, pursed her lips and spread forth
her hands to the drizzling rain.
turned pair of inqu.ring eyes to her.
What was the trouble?" | asked.
Simply this: that mans face might
expression was concerned. There did
not seem to be a single bit of express
sion to the eyes, and his face did not
change once. 1t interested me. that
countenance, studied it and studied
1t, yet could derive nothing from 1t.
determined that as soon as the mas
sage was over, would get my. hair
combed for about the 900th time and
see II conversation would do any good.
And for a half hour I talked, trying
to draw him out, endeavoring to learn
whether or not he knew anything OF
literature; but his answers were al
most invariably In monosyllables.
gave up the attempt and left the shop.
THAT night as l was returning to
my apartment. CHANGED, in changing
cars, to again pass the little shop
where l had wasted SO much Of my
good time. was tired, more than
that, was weary. ready almost to go
to the captain and tell him that l had
made a failure Of everything and that
my great clue had been nothing more
than the wild dream of a woman's
brain. intangible. impractical. 1t was
Just about at that moment that
noticed my shoe string had become
united. / stopped to retie 1t. and as l
rose, a figure approached and passed
me. That figure l knew, there was
something about the general bearing
of the man that was familiar, mighty
familiar to me. And yet. 1t seemed I
had never seen the face before. True.
the contour was similar, the color of
the hair and the eyes was the same as
that of the man in the barbershop.
But that was all. Almost involuntarily
I turned and followed him a few steps