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The Ekalaka eagle., 1914-12-11

~ the breaking out Of the revolu-
~ ton in Russia some years ago
went to st. Petersburg-no
letrograd- business He had stud
led before going the Russian language
under Il Russian instructor and could
converse fairly well III that tongue
On the train between the border and
st. Petersburg he fell in with a young
RUSSIAN who on hearing that he was
an American chatted with him agree
ably, expressing much interest in the
great American republic.
Where are you going to stop in st.
Petersburg:" asked the young Russian,
who gave his name as Peter Alexan-
drovich
II suppose l shall 60 to a hotel until
can find apartments Alan replied.
Il have rooms in the house of an old
lady who is very motherly and is al
ways attentive to her lodgers' wants.
! dare she say she may have some va
cant rooms"
Alan jumped at this chance of get
ting settled, for he disliked hotels and
was glad to avoid them even tempo
rarily. He went to the lodging house
and waited in a reception room while
Alexandrovich interviewed the land
lady. Then he and the landlady rejoin-
ed him, and the latter said that there
were no rooms vacant at the time, but
an occupant was soon to go away. If
meanwhile the American would accept
n nf 80 n .$<,1,s Sc,
suit that he did not need he would be
welcome to them.
The landlady. Nine. Groutsky. was
indeed motherly woman. Her face
was especially benevolent: her hair
was white; her features bore the
stamp Of suffering. 1t seemed to
Chandler when he looked at her that
he was gazing upon one Of the Chris
tan martyrs who had lived nineteen
centuries before. He had only a few
hours acquaintance with Alexandra
yich, too short to warrant his trusting
the man. but was so drawn to Nine.
Groutsky that he resolved to accept
the offer for the sake Of effecting an
entrance to the old lady's house.
There was but one other roomer in
| the house besides the American and
Observation-Disclosures Pole. He
was seldom there. but when he was
there he and Alexandrovich were sew
eral times observed by Alan to have
their heads together. Stanislaus was
the person who was expected TO va
cate his rooms. But day after day
passed and he showed no sign of do
ing so.
Meanwhile Alan was taken i'll. He
was so carefully nursed by Nine.
Groutsky that when he recovered he
would not leave her on any account.
although there was something mySte-
riouS about AleXandrovich that excited
his distrust. Alan could not discover
that he had any occupation. He would
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CORNSTALk DANGERS.

AS death from cornStalk dis
), ease is generally sudden and
there is little opportunity for
> treatmcnt," says Il government
, publication. ''animals should not
: be turned into a field with stand
!" ing stalks"
, There are good reasons aside
from loss by this mysterious dis
) ease why the stalks should not
!. lc fed off in the field. and for
!" this reason. if for no other, we
. join in the advice. The feeding
of standing stalks is usually safe,
) but every man who practices it
runs the risk of finding dead in
5 his yards valuable cattle which
were ready to help in making
) profits the day before.
Nobody seems to know just
what there is which occasionally
gets into a field of stalks that is
, deadly poison to cattle. But we
do know that if the stalks are
, cut ut the proper time for max
in" fOl,lcr. cured and removed
: from the field the danger is
5 avoided.
Stalks fed in the bnrnynrd are
) safe and better than stalks fed in
the field because they are cut
> when all the feeding value is in
!. them. or should be. Stalks shred
, ucI and fed in the barn or yard
are better yet because the stalks
), themselves will be eaten. Stalks
5 made into silage ut the proper
time are better still, because they
. will not deteriOrate on the ap-
: proach of spring. They are juicy
) and palatable to the stock and
!. will be eaten NJ clean.
!. In these days of, SiloS. rather
= low priced shre,l,lcrs and cutters
. and efficient engines. every man
: should try to avoid both waste
I. and cornstalk disease by feeding
!, his corn in the most efficient
!. way.-Farm and Firesile.
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STOCK HINTS.

Sheep require less labor during
the busiest seasons of the year
than do various other kinds Of
live stock.
1t is best to have foals come in
the early 5. ring.
The cleaner the feed and feed
ing places, the better the quality
Of the pork.
In grazing over land sheep add
greatly to It's fertility.
AS rule the main point to
consider in growing hogs for
market is, How many pounds
can l put on that hog?
Farm horses that are not to be
used through the winter should
have Il rOony paddock in which
to exercise every fair day.
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Wet Salt For Butter.

In some Ontnri" experiments it was
found that salt added to butter in Il
wet condition was better distributed
and more in solution than We're the
dry salt lots. The average percentage
Of moisture retained in the finished
butter was practically the same with
both saltings.
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The Last Straw.

Eddie. what's the matter: Had a
fall off your motorcycle:'
NO. | tried to hang some pictures
and stood some dictionaries on table,
and they slipped from under me-"
"Words failed you. | SUPPOSE
Cleveland Press.
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The Fall Born Calf.

DO not fail to give the calf good
start in life. Almost invariably the
fall born calf will he stronger and
heavier at the same age than the calf
born in the spring. The fall calf needs
Il little grain just so soon as he will
eat it. He will he /, much better calf
Ivy spring too.
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No, Indeed.

Blk You may depend upon it that
your friends won't forget you as long
as YOU have money.
Dix That's right. especially it YOU
have borrowed it from them.-Roston
Transcript
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An Application For WorI

"1ave you any experience in the
lunch busineSS:" asked the chef Of the
man who applied for work "Why. I
should say So replied the energetic
youth i've been Mnching for almost
twenty years. 1.ippincotts.
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Misquotations.

Bishop Berkeley wrote "Westward
the course of empire takes its way
Yet his line is misquoted daily. West.
ward the star of empire takes its way
Pope's fine line. "Welcome the com.
ing. speed the going guest" is spoiled
in the misQuotation. "Welcome the
coming. speed the parting guest.
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Gix,in& Happiness a Boost
Caustic.

EthclFerdy is losing his memory
Keeps forgetting things.
Edith-How long has it been 60
ing on:
Ethcl-TWo months
Edith-Dear me! He must have for
gotten all he ever knew by now, then.
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Wasn't Particular.

Butcher Well. yer know. mum. meat
is very dear today.
Mrs. Guh'ins IIo. Then gimme Il
pound - yesterdays steak, please. -
Sydney Bulletin.
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coal Love letters,
wv llO

"Who writes you so many letters,
dear:'
"a Young lawyer.
"Aud does he write nice lctters:"
"ln legal way. yes. He says
have beautiful eyes and is constantly
alluding to what he calls the aforc-
said eyes. orbs or visual organs. -
Pitt Sburgh Post.
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A New Machine,

Gentleman Farmer tbuying a barome-
tcr,-But what | don't understand is
how to set the thing when you want
it to rain.--St. Louis Post Dispatch
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Might Be Stylish at That.

Mrs. \inkum - Why do you think
that Mrs. ScadSoueau's clothes must
he very stylish!
Mr.. Ninkum Because every time |
look ut her ! want to laugh. PUCK.
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Modern Way.

Mrs. J.--DO YOU walk by faith and
not by sight" as the New Testament
says: Mrs. X. ,hnughtily,-l never
walk: we have four motorcars. En-
change.
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Cause For Worry.

What is Owens worrying about, his
debts:
NO: because he is unable to con-
tract new ones. S.'-bostOn Transcript.
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A Case Of Necessity.

"Do YOU write often to your hus-
band when YOU go away for the sum-
mer:'
"YcS. I have to. He never gives mo
money enough Ht one time to last very
long" Detroit Free Press.
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Sure of Il.

'DO YOU believe he's sinccre:"
II ito. He says such lot of dis
agreeable but truthful things. DE
troit Free Press.
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Forewarned.

"If I were musician" said Mr..
Growcher, II believe Id like to play
the drum and cymbals.
"Why:"
$50 that l could know when the
crashes We're coming and not be star
tied by them. .'-Washington Star.
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4 San Francisco undertaken has
built funeral automobile that carries
thirtyseven persons in addition to q
casllet and ample space for 1oweys.
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Merely Habit.

"Your daughter" stammered the
young man. has promised to marry
me.
Don't worry: she won't do it," said
her father reassuringly. "Shes made
that promise half Il dozen times.
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7,oothsome Extracts,

Dentist-The teeth in this glass case
were all taken from prominent literary
men.
Nisitor-Extracts from some popular
authors, SO to speak. New York Jour
nal.
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A Hero.

Miss Pas>ce--Have you heard Of my
engagement:
Miss Cutting-Why, no-cr-who's the
plucky man?-Judge.
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Revenge.

First Lawyer | got even with that
reptile DE Mudde,
Second Lawyer How:
First Lawyer His wife came to see
me about dvorcing him. and | praised
him up SO highly she's decided to stick
to him. Boston Globe
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Young Wife Everybody tells me how
nice hook in my new dress, but YOU
haven't said Il word
Hubby Your friends. my dear. pay
You compliments: ! pay your bills. St.
Louis Globe Democrat
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THE TRUE IMPERIALISM.
Here. where the tide Of conquest
rolls
Against the distant golden
shore,
The starved and stunted human
souls
Are with us more and more.
Vain is your science. vain your
art.
Your triumphs and your glo-
ries vain.
TO feed the hunger of their
heart
And famine of their brain.
Your savage deserts bowling
near,
Your wastes Of ignorance, vice
and shame
Is there no room for victories
here.
No field for deeds of fame?
Arise and conquer while We can
The foe that in your midst re-
sides
And build within the mind Of
man
The empire that abides.
William Watson.
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As Usual.

Hill-HOw did her singing strike you:
Jill-Oh, as usual. was the innocent
Observation-Disclosures Statesman.
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Early Tanco Teas.

Very distinguished ancestry, judge.
Mixed up in the Boston tea party, |
understand"
"As to how"
Great great grandmother was pa
troness, | believe" ."-Pittsburgh Post.
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STRAW FOR STOCK
Good Ration Combined With 81.
lage and CottonSeed.
II IS ORDINARILY WASTED
Agricultural Station Utilized Wha
Farmers Nearly Ignored, With tn,
Result That the Latter Had to Sci
Their Herds.

Prepared by Kansas State Agricultural
colleEe.J
1t doesn't pay to burn wheat and oat
straw. says W. \. Cochcl. professor of
animal hu>ballry in the Kansas State
Agricultural college. Sufficient feed
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criticism day
 As the hand of the clock pointed to the hour of his visit, the master was placed at the door as a scout to give warning of the first footstep heard in the hall below. A raised finger was the signal. At the sign, the jovial student who was entertaining the others with the latest music-hall song broke off in the middle of a strain and a silence fell on the class. e4t
 To man they all rose and stood like statues beside their easels. Duran dp- preached with measured tread. A deep in. cline of the hand of the students, a sligat raising of an eyebrow of the master and chair had been placed for him. Again with. a well calculated bodily poise he was seated. During all his term of pro- fessorship he never varied his pose. II will go down to posterity, for Sargent painted him in it.
 Carolus-Duran had a long, brilliant ca reer, both artistically and socially, bct this success was his ruin. sargent ara quietly gained the ascendency Tn the arr tistic world and too late the French mas ter found himself a follower, not lead CT. It whs then that he made heroic efforts to get back fame and fortune. He still had influence with the govern ment and succeeded in having himself made director of the Villa Medicis in Rome, the abode of the Grand Pri,. dc Rome students of the Beaux Arts. the most famous art institution in the world.
 Here he refound in measure his lost prestige. The Italians were wildly en- enthusiastic at having the French mas ter in their city. Duran was feasied and toasted. Photographs of him were in all the shop windows and the boys renped a harvest selling post card photos
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of him in the streets.
 The Roman beauties repeated the acts of worship; they had their portraits painted; they courted his praise At the Villa Medicis' he lived like monarl h The special rooms sets aside for him were on a scale of grandeur somewna; approaching his Paris hon-e Night ard day liveried lackeys stood in state at the entrance door and Duran himself donned q wonderful red cloak fo r,he state occasions when he received.
 During all his stay in Itaiy he had but one experience to mar his pressure. In 1907 Duran and d'Auumzio met at a re- ception given by one of tne ladies at the court of Queen Elena. Duran un- pended before the genious of the Italian poet. He actually forgot himself loug enough to praise, the beauty or the au- thor's Triumph of Death.' D'Annun- zio listened with a supercil.ous smile and when Duran had finished coolly remarked
 Tn France you have a very good paint er--that Is Besnard.
 Six years afteryard it was this same Besnard who was appointed to fill the position of director left vacant by Du- ran,
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(Copyright 1914, by Curtis Brown.) @ AR1S. February 2S.-(Special.) )-Will H carolus-puran, the Beau Brummel ! of painters, end his days as a sen ator? Carolus-Duran, he of the many ups and downs, who first wanted to be famous, then rich; who attained both of his ambitions and lived to see both riches and fame dwinde away. Will he be honored in his old age by the French government or will he be doomed to pass his last years alone with his elegance, a negative quantity in art and still the father of the school of painting now so much in vogue in France, England and America?
 Carolus-Duran "discovered' Velasquez 1t was he who brought attention to the fact that the neglected Spanish master was unequalled in technique, the clev- crest brush workman who ever lived. Co., rolus adopted the same school and treated modern subjects and modern color combl- nations in the same way He became the favorite portrait painter of his time.
 Beautiful and wealthy women, men of prominence, came from every country to
  painted His earnings were fabulous. He became immensely rich. His mansion was a storehouse of wonders brought from India, Japan and Turkey.
 His dinner parties were renowned. The rarest viands and choicest fruits graced his table The gourmands spoke in reverent awe at the very mention of the peerless vintages that had been sent di- rect from Persia Capri and Syria. It is said that the fountain in his reception room ran pure champagne from early evening until early morning on the occa- sions of his numerous celebrations.
 Gathering rare silks, and jewels. cham pagne fountains, buying art treasurers from the east. all distracting the painter from his work, quickly ran into bills so enormous that one day the artist Beau Brummel awoke from his dream to find he was simply celebrated painter whose debts far exceeded his earnings and had the chagrin of finding that his most famous pupil, Sargent. the American, had surpassed him in that which he thought his own.
 It was then that he was made dirac- toi tl tHc Nlild MeulclS at Rome a his own request position he held until few months ago.
 Carolus-Duran was born with tba instinctive genius of elegance. From babyhoood he was the autocrat of dress and bearing. In the book of records carolus-Duran is registered as plain Charles Durand Now Charles Durand in France is common as Bill Jones of Charley Smith in the United States This name was terrible blow To the boy and was a constant irritant to his pride. A name was everything to Charles Durand
 He was only 12 when this revelation came to him. Young Durand was then pupil at Lycee. He had just finished school composition and was about 10 sign his name when the weight of this banality fell upon him in full force It was then the transformation began. That paper bore the signature, "Caro- Jus" Durand, and the Charles never re- appeared.
 It was the career of chemist that his parents planned for Caroius. put
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proportions. When the late Mrs William Astor was on one of her annual trips to Europe she was taking the cure at Ak les Bains It so happened that Duran, who was then at the height of his fame, was stopping at the same hotel. 1T should like you to Introduce Carolus-D Duran to me" said the American woman to a friend
 Yes Mrs Astor," answered the friend, who had been drilled in thes formalities necessary before one could approach the painter. T will go and ask his per mission immediately"
 A quick wavesof astonishment passed over the countenance of New sYork's so- ciety queen, but before she could get control of her habitual- sang -frold she felt herself grasped <by the arm by her friend who practically dragged her across the sun parlor to the spot where stood a group of simpering women all paying their daily homage to a self-conscious, over-mainicured, startlinsly dressed man.
 The following summer Duran had a commission to paint the portrait of the Queen-mother of Portugal. The Queen was so delighted with the painting that after his return to Paris she sent him two perfectly matched white mules
 It was indeed an eccentric turnout for the streets of Paris. Duran gloried in this added publicity. When Bouguereau saw this startling equipage he turned to Delcluse and said. Mon Dieu. who IS riding behind that circus Yagon?" Why. that is CaroIus," responded Delecluse. .Umph." grunted BouGuereau, three of a kind"
 Duran is the true egoist. As profess sor in the Beaux-Arts many stories are in circulation which prove the assertion A we'll known French painter who was student in hfs class thus describes a
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compounding drugs and rolling pills clashed with his idea of elegance He rebelled. The army was then suggested by his parents but here again he had no predilection for the hardships of barrack life. He announced that he would be a painter. &H
 As a student at the Beaux- Arts Caro- Jus was the wearer of the brightest ties and finest waistcoats. The pre- valent phase of a slipshod Bohemian student was never passed through by him. He was always a distinct and sep arate figure through his immaculate at tire. However, with all this thought given to dress he never lost sight of his preconceived plan of becoming great celebrity; he worked and worked and mastered every detail and difficulty in his profession. He won two three, 20 medals. Fame looked near. Another mutilation of his name was decided upon. He slashed the I'd" making the more euphonious name of "Carolus- Duran" as he is known by the general public today
 Then came a world adulation over his painting of the Woman With a Glove now hanging in the Luxem- bourg gallery. This notoriety was re sponsible for bounding increase of those cherished waistcoats. They leaped to the fifties, according to- no less an authority than the Duchesse dUzcs, who says she counted them. What was more. Duran designed the patterns, which were specially woven for him.
 The belles and beauties from the four roints of the compass flew to Paris to have their portraits painted. To be done by Duran was a satisfying achievement. and was spoken of in the papers and talked about in the clubs.
 Success added to his bombastic nature. Duran's self-esteem reached skyscraper
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American Silks in Paris

From the New York Herald
 Information was received in this city recently that Faul Poiret, the Paris dress maker, in his opening would spring a surprise on his customers and in sartorial circles by his use of American made silks in his new costume.
 No other great Paris dressmaker has avatled himself of the American woven article since silk was first manufactured in this country. more than 100 years ago. The American manufacturer who success fully matched his product against the tex lures of foreign make has received n message from MT. Poiret testifying to It's superiority and complimenting him upon his achievement
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nuggets. and there is more than 1O5,- c00.o90 cubic yards of gravel above the bed rock, which. it is estimated. will av- craze over 80 per cent Der cubic yard These placers are almost two miles above sea level, but the rainy reason makes 1t Impossible to carry on the hydraulic workings for more than 10 months of the year.
 The desert region of Peru has d large amount of desert land that is susceptibie of irrigation. This has been brought forth by recent surveyors and it vii probably be developed when the cana
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TopA trainload of Pura miio Peruvan live the pateau the This Ifmiles ahOvaSa alaun

who has surveyed the railway route from
 Cerro da Pasco to the headwaters of the Amazon. is about to opsn up placer des- poslts along the upper stretches of the Amazon river, In this article he says that the new mine is the largest and
 richest placer deposit in iae world L. day II is credited with having pro- duced in the past the most of the s12p,- ol0,eJ0 in gold that the Ssan;ards tou4s from the natives and the total value It the gold still to be mined is said to De twice as great as that taNen out by tine lncas The gold is in dast and small
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the railroads are built it can be reach, i
 from New York within b days att., leaving, As it is now it takes tht ec weeks or more to get t. tna nearest poi !. that Of lquitos, which is more than tid; miles from the mouth Of the Amazon. and this means connection with only the. northern part of the Peruvian Amazon.
 The potential value Of such a conncc- ton can hardly be estimated. TrauY- andean or Amazonian Pera as it misn; "e called comprises an srea equal to 5) states the size of Massacause or 10 as big as Ohio or Ken;uclSv and thr
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miles of the Pacific ocean. and when by an extension of the roads from ore of the valleys of northern f'eru. and tie road built thence to the Amazon at 4 cost not to exceed S2n00O,o 900. The dis . tance from the Pacific all told would be only 400 miles.
 l have already spoken of the possr'c extension of the railroads in Ecuador to the Amazon valley, so that rt will be seen that the vast region of the eastern Adj des may sometime be accessible to Us through the Panama cana; Almost an of transandean Peru l,es within aoo
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region has proportionately more gool land than either siate mentioned
 The value of this AmaZoA region is nos confined to it's aericult possibilities It has great resources in rubber, and Il ls known te be enormously rich in the pre- cions metals. It was from the headwatels of the Amazon tributaries shat the Incas got much of their gold, snc in the last number of the Peruvian Magazine. in an al tiele entitled, Peru of Today" whic.i has just come to hand, l sec that A4r Raymond McCune, the c;vil engineer