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TRAVELETTE
BY NIKSAH.
The Navajo Reservation.

Probably few Americans know that
there is in the southwest an Indian
domain about twice the size Of the state
Of Connecticut where some ten thou
sand red men lead an independent ex-
istence upon the lands they have al
ways occupied.
The Navajo reservation, which is the
largest in the United States occupies most
OF the northwest corner Of New Mexico
and laps over into Arizona. The Ma
vajos are a unique people, unlike other
American Indians. and holding them
selves vastly superior to all others.
They are as nomadic as gypsies, and
are born horsemen, all. 1t is hard to
imagine how the Navajo got along be-
fore the Spaniards brought the horse to
America By way of a home the Ma
vaJo builds a structure Of twigs and
mud. which he calls hogan" and
this being quick and inexpensive to
build, he frequently moves three or
four times year.
In the days before Kit Carson con-
quered them, the Navajos roamed all
over New Mexico and Arizona, preyed
upon the Pueblos, the Mexicans and
adventurous life of freebooters.
people, but have given up pillage for
sheep-raising. The wide. barren up
lands of the Navajo reservation are
ideal sheep ranges, and the Indians
are the most careful of shepherds.
When the spring billiards. blow they
bring the little lambs into the hogans
for warmth, and sometimes when the
ewes die, the squaws nurse the lambs
at their own breasts.
Leading. as they do. very independ-
ent lives. the Navajos have customs Of
their own which would hardly be ap-
preciated by the white man. Marriage,
for example. is largely a matter of bar
her debutante daughter to the highest
bidder, and couple Of ponies and a
small flock of sheep are not too high a
price to pay for a buxom Navajo dam
sci.
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plot, and Buster was SO excited, they

plot, and Buster was so excited. they
said, that he danced up and down.
The boys all went to Browns for the
trap. and it was so nearly dark then
that they had to take a lantern to see
to set it. / think they did have more
or less fun with Buster getting safely
out of the woods, but the real joke, as
Jim and Ned understood it. was that
Bud" was to get Buster up at 4
o'clock next morning to visit the trap.
They seemed to think 1t was almost
as good as leaving a snipe hunter out
all night holding the bag, and as soon
as they got up in the morning they be-
gan to watch for the return Of the early
risers. We were Just sitting down to
breakfast when we heard "Buster's'
voice outside.
Hey, Jim! Hey. Nedi" he shouted.
Just lookee here what we got!''
Jim and Ned Surprised.
I followed them to the door. to see
Buster" holding UP q muskrat al
most as big as a poodle dog. while Jim
and Ned were SO surprised their eyes
almost popped out Of their heads. Fat
Busters" air of triumph was worth
going miles to see
Jim and Ned looked kind of bewil-
dered when bud" announced that in
view of the fact that he and Buster"
had got up early to visit the trap they
would split fifty-ffty on the price of
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lures drew forth from him a little ex-
| PLANTATION of how Carthage was out
| lined by Queen Dido, who cut bull S
| hide into strips and took as much land
| It's, Of course, one of the things that
stick in the minds of youthful Vir-
gillian students.
Well, young Mr.. Heriot was the prize
| clown Of the school and Old Man Jones
was the Latin teacher who hated any
] one in his class to get fresh" Mr.
I Heriot, however. had no use for the
| stilted English used by his classmates
| in transferring the thoughts of the
| Aeneid into their own tongue. He
lingo in his translations, and the essay
| he wrote on Carthage, which brought
him both fame and disgrace, was intro
duced somewhat in this fashion:
Carthage was the big league town
south of the Mediterranean. It was the
Chicago Of that time. while Rome was
the New York. There was just as much
rivalry between Rome and Cartha ge
as there is today between John Nc
Graw's Giants and the White Socks.
only it was short swords instead of
willow-tree bats that decided the game.
THE town site of Carthage illus
trates the first known example of 60
ing into real estate on a shoestring.
enough to be covered by bulls hide
She, therefore, cut the bulls leather
into shoestrings and put one over on
the Libyans.'
There was more of this. but my fall
tering memory fails me. Suffice to say.
Mr.. Heriots afternoons were taken up
the rest Of that week.
\ +
How to write scenarios for motion pic
lures You see them every day. For in
stance, here's one from real life at 18th
and G streets northwest. this city:
Scene: The Rialto at 18th and G streets
northwest.
Time: The present
Cast: One large bulldog, ono fashion,
ably attired woman leading same by chain,
one street faker. two Imitation bulldogs.
made of tin, operated by string attached
Fashionabiy attired lady meanders up
18th street, bulldog smiling the air in
search Of adventure. Faker working tin
bulldogs who hop around in active man
ner. Cries his wares: Here yare. life
like bulldawgs. on'y NIT cents piece
Here y'are." Bulldog hears voice.
pricks up one ear; sees mortal enemy in
tin imitation: stops short. Growls
Leaps. Breaks chain from silk-clad lady's
hand. Parabolic curve through air, land
ing plumb in middle tin dogs back. Lady
shrieks. Faker swears. Bulldog rushes
to middle of street with mortal tin enemy
and crushes it absolutely. filings remains
aside, leaps back to sidewalk and seizes
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Files Answer to Wife's Charges.

Walter Mcdonnell has filed an answer
to suit for a legal separation brought
against him by his wife, Lucy B. Nc
Dounell. He denies the charges made
by the wife, especially the statement
that he called her a "she-devfl." He
declares his marital infelicity is due
to the infatuation of his wife for a
dancing teacher, whom she described
to him, he asserts, as younger and
better looking and having an auto
mobile" The husband tells the court
that the wife took auto rides with the
dancing master. from which they re-
turned as late as 2 O'Clock in the morn
ing. Attorneys Leckie, Cox & kratz
appear for the husband.
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|If Backachy or
Kidneys Bother
Eat less meat and take a glass
of Salts to flush out Kid
neys-Drink plenty =.
water.

Uric acid in meat excites the kid
! news, they become overworked;
get sluggish, ache and feel like
Jumps of lead. The urine becomes
cloudy; the bladder is irritated
and you may be obliged to seek re-
lief two or three times during the
( night. When the kidneys clog you
I must help them flush off the body's
urinous waste or you'll be real.
J sick person shortly. At first you
feel a dull misery in the kidney
I region, you suffer from backache,'
! sick headache, dizziness. stomach
gets sour, tongue coated and you
feel rheumatic twinges when the
weather is bad. ,
Eat less meat, drink lots of waS,
ter; also get from any pharmacist
four ounces of Jad Salts; take a
tablespoonful in glass of water
before breakfast for few days
and your kidneys will then act
fine. This famous salts is made
from the acid of grapes and lemon
Juice, combined with lithia, and ,
has been used for generations. to2
clean clogged kidneys and stimu-
late them to normal activity; also
to neutralize the acids in urine, so
it no longer is a source of irrita-
ton, thus ending bladder weak !
ness.
lad Salts is inexpensive, cannot !
iniure; makes delightful effer-
yescent lithia-water drink which (
every one should take now and /
then to keep the kidneys clean and (
active. Druggists here say they (
sell lots of Jad Salts to folks who I,
believe in overcoming kidney trou-
BILE while it is only trouble, {
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Bv Earl Godwin.

Tom Grant tells stories faster than
the human brain can count. and the
one he was telling at o'clock Thurs
day night was this:
Jemima was leaning over her tub.
scrubbing at a weeks wash, when one
Of her clients came in:
"Mawnin'. Missy said Jemima,
flows yo' all dis mawnin?"
Very well. thank you, Jemima. Are
all these children outside yoursr'
Jemima called out the window and
wash and surveyed the large aggrega-
ton Of pickaninnies rolling around in
the grass.
"Yas'm. Them's all mine.'
What are their names? asked the
lady.
"Jemima called out the window and
ordered the troop to stand up In row.
Then she went out into the yard her
self with the lady and started at the
left-hand end Of the aggregation:
This yer fus one, she's Mignonette;
dis yer ones Pansy; dis yer ones Apple
Blossom; dis yer ones Daisy; dis yer
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BY Pop.

back to owner. lady in silk. to be petted.
She pets him. Faker demands one dol
lar. Lady declares, "The idea"' walks
ahead with nose in air. Faker swears
again. Curtain.
X x
Answer your doorbeI, Listen. This is
what happens II you don't.
A woman who has nervous fits every
time she sees a dog or hears something
walking behind her was working about in
her apartment and would not answer the
doorbell when it rang. She was too busy.
and just let it go unanswered, although
1t buzzed several times.
Five minutes later the fire alarm in
the apartment went off like a torpedo
explosion, the nervous woman leaped
over several chairs and burst through the
door, went downstairs one whole flight
to a step and rushed into the front hall
where the janitor was standing in pose
like a mid-Victorian hero:
Fire! Fire! Fire!' she shrteked. why
aren't you doing something? The alarm
rang. and I'm the only one of all these
people to get out Same them, Save
them
Madam" replied the janitor. II in
formed every one in this building that we
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Claims $4,000 for Personal Injury.

The Maryland Biscuit Company Is
named as defendant in a suit to recover
$4,000 damages for alleged personal
injury filed in the District Supreme
Court by Lyle A. Rice. special mes
senger Of the Post Office Department.
Through Attorney w G. Gardiner and
L. L. Handy, the plaintiff says an au-
tomobile of the defendant collided with
a bicycle which he was riding January
IL last at sachusetts avenue and
11th street and knocked him, to the
ground and injured him seriously.
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more than 1t might otherwise. even If
there is no salary attached.
We have decided not to begin remod-
cling the house unit lth elatter part of
April, at the earliest. For one thing. the
contractor who fs to do the work is
busy just now with several pressing
jobs. Another reason Is that 1t is go
ing to make things mighty uncom-
Portable around the house. and we pre-
fer to wait until the weather will per
NIT spending as much time. as possible
out Of doors. j.. S. NJ.
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Ned's Ambitions Fluctuate.

Ned. who Is two years younger. finds
so many outlooks on life attractive that
he isn't able to stick to one ambition
more than a week at a time. 1 must
give him credit for broad views and a
wide horizon. One day ho will be con-
vinced that a locomotive engineer is
the most to be envied of mortals. and
a few days later he will have made up
his mind to earn a living by being
President Of the United States. The
salary of the President appeals to him.
as does also the allowance for travelling
expenses. He can't understand why Mr..
Wilson sticks around" Washington SO
much. when he might just as well be
on seeing the country.
The ambition Ned cherished longer
than any other was to go to West Point
and be an officer in the United States
Army, but he has dropped that entire
ly since the war in Europe began. Al
together too many soldiers are getting
"hurted" over there. he thinks, to make
the business attractive to young man
of reasonable caution and love Of life.
He still has his arm in a sling as a re-
suit OF his runaway accident, and
though he has managed to extract a
considerable amount of enjoyment from
the role, he is convinced this thing Of
being hero isn't all it's cracked UP to
he
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TAKING A FAMILY
BACK TO THB SOIL
Being the Experiences Of . Gov
ernment Clerk Who Sets Out
to Lower the High Cost Of
Living.

II this season continues and finishes
as auspiciously as It has begun It is
going to be a great one for folks who
live in rural parts and till the soil for
q livelihood. For the first time in sew
eral years we had lot OF rain last
winter putting abundant moisture in
tho soil. Comes March with almost no
rainfall. which puts the soil in as
good condition for plowing now as 1t
ordinarily is in late April or early May.
Yet the spring Is not unusually for
ward. There has been no spell OF
weather warm enough to bring the
FRUIT buds to a point where q frost
will injure them. The season now has
reached a point where the chances are
that fruit is safe. This is an important
matter to US, as the success of our
program for this year depends largely
on an abundance Of cheap fruit for the
large pack Of jellies and preserves Jane
fs TO put up for sale through a Wash
ington merchant
n got a man and team on the place
Tuesday morning and have four acres
plowed and half of It narrowed and
ready to plant. This Is all the ground
I shall break this year except about an
acre which lies rather low and Is not
ts no hurry about this, as 1t Is to go
in corn 1t is in grass, mostly weeds,
with some clover, and by letting this
covering get a good start it VIII be
valuable to turn in for hurnus.
No Rush About Garden.
The fact that conditions permitted
early plowfng doesn't mean that am
going to be in any great rush to plant
my garden. The ground is still too
cold for any general planting. l have
IN bushel of carly potatoes and am
going to plant another bushe1 next
week also have planted several
tows of early Alaska peas. but that
will about let me out for the present,
though I may decide to take chance
on a row OF two of early yellow sweet
corn The odds would be about three
TO one against its growing. but the seed
isn't expensive, and If 1t did grow there
would be a lot Of satisfaction in hav-
ing corn so far ahead of the usual time.
y had decided I wouldn't bother with
a hotbed, but the pleasant weather.
with it's invitation to work out Of
doors, wrought a change of mind, and
( have one about completed. It's an in
expensive affair with nothing fancy
about 1t. but I can't see why 1t should
not serve the purpose as we'll as
more elaborate one. The only ma
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,erials I bought were two sashes, with
glass for them. The lumber 1 used was
old stuff, picked up around the place.
The bed is three feet wide and twelve
feet long. Half is the hotbed proper.
covered with glass, and the other half
n cold frame for hardening of the
plants, which I shall cover simply
cavated foot deep and filled In with
fresh stable manure. Six inches of
good. rich garden soil covers both the
ffotbed and the cold frame.
Plans Some Fancy "Stunts.".
L am going to start my own tomato
and lettuce plants, with few peppers
and some early cabbage. 1 am going
to save room. though. to try some
fancy stunts" One of them Is to be
sweet corn. which I shall start in the
bed and transplant to the open when
the ground warns up and all danger OF
frost has passed. I've read that corn
may be had several weeks earlier this
course. on any considerable scale, a
couple of dozen stalks would make an
Interesting experiment
Another thing j am going to try in
the hotbed is cantaloupes, just enough
Hor a couple of hills. Successful trans
planting of cantaloupes by the ordi-
nary methods is exceedingly difficult,
hut / am going to plant the seeds in
the little paper pots which florists use.
Then, when II comes time to transplant
I'll simply put the pots in the ground
without disturbing the roots The pa
per will soon rot away without inter-
fering with the growth of the plant.
Last year / got poor stand OF my
eArly-planted lima beans. and / doubled
them UP by transplanting from one
" a 10
transplanted beans lived and made a
crop. though they were slower coming
IN than those which had been undis-
turbed II limas can be transplanted
IN the open II seems feasible to trans
plant them from q hotbed TO the open.
snd am going TO try It with q few.
Chance for High PriceA
sBecauss thsy require plenty Of
warmth for germination. lima beans
cannot be planted outside until late
SAd the hotbed should furnish beans
haily three weeks earlier than straight
paanting. When lima beans first come
IN TO the Washington market they
bring 25 to 20 cents a quart. and 1
have seen iimas from Florida selling
AZ high as 7s cents quart. II by
tpansplanting from hotbeds man
could get in q crop of limas TO be
ready between the crops from Florida
and the Norfolk district, there ought
20 be money in It II my little expert
nent succeeds this spring. maybe I'll
make a bigger hotbed and try IL
commercially next year Market gar
dening has no place in the program we
have adopted for Sunny Knoll, but II
could have q few hundred quarts OF
lima beans to sell at about so cents
a quart IL would be q nice little pick
UP as q side line.
just now the subject Of cows is en-
crossing our attention. Our COW hal
been turned dry for a period Of si1
weeks before she freshens. and the in.
convenience Of being without a suppl,
Of milk has brought up the question Of
keeping two cows instead OF one With
two cows in milk the supply would bt
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Soon to Become Owners.

Next Thursday title is to pass and
we will become full-fiedged property
owners. Also my year Of residence is
up and coincidentally with becoming a
taxpayer I also may become a citizen
and voter. I have consented-at the
earnest solicitation Of my neighbors, of
course-to celebrate my attainment of
citizenship by standing as candidate
for the school board. Naturally. as the
father Of three children, am interested
in the schools, and / will be proud to
have hand in their management Pos
sibly because had lived in the District
holding an elective Office appeals to me
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No man over acquired a lasting brand
of popularity by knocking.
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Frank Edward Johnson's lecture at
| the National Museum one day last
disastrous attempt at being funny
which was the feature Of Latin class
in one OF the big private schools Of
Massachusetts few years ago. Mr.
Johnson was showing pictures Of Car
thaginian ruins of both Phoenician and
Roman antiquity, and one of the pic
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the skin. but they couldn't dig up any
argument with which to combat the
fairness of the proposal.
Jane, knowing boys, guessed that the
'trappers" would be hungry and in
vited them in to breakfast, an invita-
tion which they accepted with alacrity.
We had ham and eggs, and Buster"
expressed a great liking for the ham.
1T isn't as salty as the kind you get
in town." he explained.
glances between Jim and Bud"
That's because my father knows
how much salt to feed the hogs" Jim
said. his face serious and with Just a
touch of hlial pride in his voice.
You see." he went on. Salts cheap
to sell to other people feed their hogs
50 much of 1t that the hams get too
salty"
Nothing at All But Salt.
Il knew a man." Bud" chimed in,
who didn't feed any corn at all to his
hogs to fatten EN-. just nothin' at all
but salt for q month before he killed
'em. The hams were so salty you
couldn't eat EN-"
Buster" seemed nightly impressed
with this display Of wisdom. and pom
dered 1t long and earnestly. Il sup
pose." he said, as he passed his plate
for another helping of ham. that the
reason Goldfish and mackerel are SO
salty Is because they live in the ocean"
Sure" responded Jim and Bud" but
there was a minor note Of doubt in
their voices. And I'm little In doubt,
too, as to whether Buster" is proving
as easy" as the boys thought he
would be.
Ned became more or less convinced of
this when he made an unsuccessful at
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But a married mans dollars won't
last long unless his wife has sense.
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Sweet are the uses of audacity-when
a brave young man and a kissable girl
meet.
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The path to success Is paved with
good intentions that were carried out.
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No man ever loved q certain woman.
They are all more or less uncertain.
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A wise man may not know much, bu
he is wise enough to keep others fror
knowing it.
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III yaller ones Marigold; dis yer ones
Peach Blow; dis yer ones Rose; dis
yer ones vi'let"
She had named them all but one.
And what about this last little ono.
Haven't you a garden name for her?"
mo. Missy" said Jemima, sadly. 1--WE
done run out er real flower names, so
we had to call dis las one Artificial"
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Plan to Grow Popcorn.

The boys are going to try popcorn
again this year, planting about four
times as much as they did last. They
made a nice little sum from their ven
ture, and the merchant who handled 1t
says he will take more. II Ned doesn't
brace up and do his share Of the work
this year I am not going to consent TO
an even division of the proceeds. l was
opposed to it last year. but Jim. who
had done the bulk of the work, wanted
to split even, and didn't feel like We
tofng his generous impulse.
Ned isn't lazy. He does we'll in school
and works hard at anything in which
he Is interested, but I'm afraid he
wasn't cut out to be a farmer. Jim, on
the other hand. likes farm work and
says he Is going to make 1t his busi-
ness. He announced not long ago that
he intended saving up his money and
taking course at an agricultural col
lege. He's twelve years old now. and
If he is of the same mind four years
hence I'll back him in his ambition to
the limit of my ability. I am con-
WINGED the man in the next generation
who has q good farm and knows how
to farm it Is going to be among the
most prosperous as well as the most
Independent of Americans
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

Hard cash that comes easy soon
melts away.
But contentment and ambition have
nothing in common.
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tempt to unload his rabbits onto BUS
ter" at price that would show a profit
on the investment. Ned has decided to
give up rabbit breeding. There's no
money in it, he declares. Jim has
made $18 in real money selling pigeon
squads, besides largely increasing his
flock. while the credit side of Ned's
rabbit ledger continues to be blank. He
has a few more rabbits than he started
with, but most Of his young ones have
perished in one way or another, due
chiefly to lack of attention. Cats got
several of them. and some of the others,
l think, just got tired of confinement
and hoped away. I have had to warn
Ned several times about his careless
feeding methods, and only last week
issued an ultimatum that If they went
another whole day without anything to
eat the warren would have to be closed
up,
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Only those who don't need your ad-
ice are willing to take 1t.
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Whom Was the Joke onp

One Of the tricks over which Jim and
Ned did q lot of advance chuckling
didn't pan out exactly as they had ex-
pected, and l haven't been able yet to
mako up my mind whether Bud"
Brown put one over on my boys. or
whether he, too. was surprised by the
outcome. Thursday evening the four
boys started at the pond on our place
mile or 30 to where 1t runs through
q rather dense woods. I don't think
they had any very definite program.
but were leaving 1t to chance whether
by Indians. At q certain place on the
creek bank Bud" grew wildly excited,
declaring that q hole he pointed out led
to the home Of a muskrat.
urged. "and his skin1u be worth a lot
Of money"
Jim and Ned fell eagerly in with the