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LOSS OF SOIL BV EROSION
One of the Larprcst Leaks For Money
on the American Farm
The moving of soil by water is not
confined to large streams as many
farmers know to their sorrow Every
tiny rill trickling down the slope car
ries off some of the finest and richest
soil on the farm After a heavy rain
the spring is soily and the puddles in
the hollows are muddy with it The
deep furrows left up and down the
slope by the cultivator teeth become
miniature water courses and the tric
kling water exacts a tribute of rich soil
before it joins the large rill by the
road The soil of the cornfield that
was left bare all winter has lost some
of Its best loam by planting time
Gullies appear on the farm here and
there widening and deepening after
every rain The soil on the knolls and
hillsides becomes thin and yellow for
the rich black surface part of it has
hurried off to help build up some excel
lent farming land about ten miles
downstream
After a heavy rain the farmer can
see the best part of his soil creeping
running racing away from him A
thousand murky rills slowly meander
across his plowed ground and gather
forces in the hollows A hundred tur
bid rivulets pour down the hollows and
join the water in the gulch A dozen
muddy brooklets rush down the gulch
swell the brook into a creek and race
downstream bearing away tons of
the rich silt and loam that make plants
grow When the rain is over and the
soaked soil has dried out enough to
till there are gravelly places that the
farmer finds it hard to make pro
ductive and rocks are exposed that
lave never been above the surface be
fore
Unchecked erosion has ruined many
farms and seriously hurt many others
Thousands of acres of valuable farm
ing land particularly the red clay soils
of the south and the loose shaly soils
of the north are gouged and gullied
every year until they become practical
ly valueless for cropping I have seen
many hundreds of acres ruined by
washing in the Carolinas Tennessee
and Georgia On most farms however
the loss is less conspicuous and more
insidious Every farm that has an ir
regularity of surface however slight
pays tribute to the force that does
more leveling In an hour than all the
patent leveling machines have ever
done or ever will do
A very important problem for the
farm owner to consider is how to check
erosion cheaply and effectively The
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plan that wiTTbe mosF successful de
pends upon the locality the lay of the
land the kind of soil the crop and
many other local matters In extreme
cases it has been found necessary to
retain wooded areas running across the
slopes that are subject to washing and
otherwise disposed so as to prevent the
gathering of water The water course
should be looked to carefully A little
work directing streamlets into legiti
mate channels is time well spent There
are various methods of holding the soil
with plants A cover crop of rye clo
ver vetch etc sown in the orchard
or cornfield in late summer may do
much to prevent surface washing dur
ing the winter Steep banks may be
held with quack grass slopes may be
put into meadows Cultivating across
the slopes instead of up and down will
save many tiny leaks that amount to a
serious loss in some cases Many other
methods of checking erosion will sug
gest themselves to the man who has
this problem to solve and the methods
born of personal need and local expe
rience are apt to be most efficient
The loss by erosion is I believe one
of the largest leaks on American farms
today It is bound to increase as our
wooded area decreases This loss can
not be entirely prevented as long as
the rain fal s upon land that is not per
fectly level But a large part of it can
be prevented How to do this is worth
considering by every man ho the
problem on his hands Country iie In
America
COMFORT FOR THE EYES
Kryptoks are a source of comfort
and preservation for the eyesight as
this lens is so constructed that it is
achromatic and the changing from the
long to the short focus lens is accom
plished without annoyance Most of the
objectionable features in the old bi
focals are entirely eliminated You
who are burdened with two pairs of
glasses can now lay one of them aside
and breathe a sigh of relief
The Kryptok Invisible Bifocal
Lenses have come to stay and will
entirely fill the place of two pairs of
glasses They are superior to any
other bifocal lenses now on the mar
ket both as to workmanship and fin
ish To the casual observer they do
not differ from ordinary spectacles
yet they answer the purpose of two
for distance and reading If you are
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Court Denver Colo and they will
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ulars
SEEING A JOKE
Sometimes One Mar Be Discovered
Where It Does Kot Exist
A joke depends almost entirely on Its
environment for appreciation Lots of
our jokes -would fall mighty flat I
guess In Zululand or Siberia just the
same as the funny stories of those
countries would be a dead weight over
here Every country has Its own par
ticular brand of humor and to appre
ciate It to the full you must have been
born in that country or lived there for
many years The Laplanders appear
to us to be a pretty solemn race but I
dare say they have their little jokes
about the quality of the oil they some
times have to drink and other subjects
interesting to their mode of living
In every country too there is a cer
tain percentage of the people who
couldnt see a joke however broad it
might be There are humorously dull
people in Ireland as well as humorous
ly bright people In Scotland Why
some time ago I received a letter from
an Irishman saying that he had read
all my books from cover to cover and
he considered they were the most se
rious things ever published lie thought
most of the stories would go fine if
they were dramatized and put on the
stage In the form of tragedies
As to the British sense of humor be
ing less keen than the American
theres nothing in it English men and
women are just as quick to see a joke
as we are sometimes a good deal
quickei and I know I never want more
appreciative audiences than those I got
in London Why theyd start laughing
before I began and when Id come on
to the platform and look at them in a
solemn kind of way some of them
would double up with merriment
Sometimes however anticipation is
a bit awkward as for Instance when
a humorous lecturer being unable to
appear his place was taken by a min
ister who wished to discourse on the
evils of intemperance The audience
it appears was not informed of the
change there might have been a riot
and when the good man came on the
platform and stated that his subject
for the evening would be the curse of
rum those present went into convul
sions of merriment The more grave
and solemn the lecturer became the
more the people rolled on their seats In
ecstasies of mirth until at last the as
tonished divine closed his book with a
bang and retired Now I dare say in
that case the real lecturer would hard
ly have created so much amusement as
did his substitute which proves that a
humorist with a reputation has some
thing of a pull over the unknown man
though the latter may really be fun
nier Mark Twain
Origin of the Fair- Cinderella
It has been said Not one girl in a
thousand knows the origin of the friend
of her childhood Cinderella Her real
name was Rhodope and she was a
beautiful Egyptian maiden who lived
G70 years before the common era and
during the reign of one of the twelve
kings of Egypt One day Rhodope
ventured to bathe in a clear stream
near her home leaving her shoes
which were very small lying on a
bank An eagle passing above caught
sight of the little sandals and mistak
ing them for a toothsome tidbit pounc
ed down and carried off one in his
beak The bird unwittingly played the
part of fairy godmother for flying
over Memphis where the king was dis
pensing justice it let the shoe fall di
rectly at the kings feet Its size beau
ty and daintiness immediately attract
ed the royal eye and the king deter
mined to know the wearer of so cun
ning a shoe Messengers were sent
through all the kingdom in search of
the foot that it would fit Rhodope
was finally discovered the shoe placed
on her foot and she was carried in tri
umph to Memphis where she became
the queen of King Fsammeticus
Heres a Spelling Lesson
Students in a London school were re
cently asked to write this A glut
tonous sibyl with her glutinous hand
complacently seized a sieve a phthi
sical Ichneumon a noticeably supercil
ious irascible and cynical sergeant an
embarrassed and harassed chrysalis a
shrieking sheik a complaisant prose
lyte and an anonymous chrysolite
These all suddenly disappeared down
her receptive esophagus She simply
said Pugh Not saccharin She
then transferred a billion of bilious
mosquitoes an unsalable bouquet of
fuchsias lilies dahlias hyacinths and
phlox a liquefied bdellium an indeli
ble defamatory inflammatory synchro
nism and a debatable syllogism to the
same capacious receptacle Peaceably
surrendering her daguerreotype to the
ecstatic aeronaut she descended with
her parachute a synonym for ba
roucheand grievously terrified the
xpiiT squalid yeomanry already tor
ruLd by the heat 101 Fahrenheit
A Boole For the Married
When the civil ceremony of marriage
is performed In France the official who
conducts it passes to the newly wed
ded pair a little book which is the wed
ding gift of the French government
This book contains an official record
of the wedding and a number of blank
spaces for future births marriages and
deaths in the family The most impor
tant feature of the small volume how
ever is contained In about six pages
tliat are devoted to the special instruc
tions which the Academy of Medicine
has prepared on the care of young chil
dren These Instructions number thirty-five
In all and they refer to the
feeding and clothing of Infants and to
the further protection of the helpless
child This curious little wedding gift
was Inspired by the deep thought which
the government has given to the sub
ject of the reduction of infant mortali
ty a problem of the utmost Importance
in view of the backward movement in
population in France Boston Globe
LEWIS EMERY JR
Foe of Standard Oil Who la Up For
Governor In Iennaylvanln
Ex State Senator Lewis Emery Jr
of Pennsylvania nominee of the Lin
coln Republicans of the Keystone State
for governor was the star witness at
the session the Interstate commerce
commission held In Cleveland to ex
amine Into the operations of the Stand
ard Oil trust It was at this hearing
that he made the startling declaration
The Standard has never Invented any
thing It has always stolen what
somebody else created Mr Emery
Is president of the only existing rival
to the Standard which has a pipe line
from the oil regions to the seaboard
He declared that this company the
LEWIS EMERY JR
United States Pipe Line company
would be driven out of existence but
for its pipe line and that the Stand
ard has complete control of the rail
roads He is considered the most suc
cessful antagonist of the oil trust re
maining in the fray
Mr Emery was born in Chautauqua
county N Y in 1S34 but spent his
early youth in Michigan He served an
apprenticeship in a woolen mill at
nineteen became a country school
teacher and two years later Joined his
father in the manufacture of flour In
1S04 he removed from Michigan to
southern Illinois and later found his
way to the oil fields of Pennsylvania
Years of struggle and vicissitude fol
lowed this venture and it was not un
til the opening of the great Bradford
oil field that he emerged from difficul
ties a man of independent fortune He
was first chosen to the Pennsylvania
legislature In 1878 and has served in
both house and senate always being
noted for his independence
COLONEL GEORGE F HUFF
Pennsylvania Conffressnmn
Mine
Owner nncl Capitalist
Colonel George Franklin Huff of
Greensburg Pa whose testimony as
to relations between coal companies
and railroads is wanted by the inter
state commerce commission is one of
the largest individual owners of coal
lands in Pennsylvania and president
of the Keystone Coal and Coke com
pany This company is among the cor
porations which aresupposed to have en
joyed special favors from the railroads
and his explanation of how such alleg
ed special privileges were obtained is
desired A subpoena server In the em
ploy of the interstate commerce com
mission sought him at Greensburg and
reported that Colonel Iluff had evaded
service by taking refuge in a cellar
and had afterward flagged the Penn
sylvania Limited and gone to Washing
ton Mr Huff however denied that
he had tried to evade the summons of
COI1ONEI1 GEORGE F HUFF
the commission said he had been all
day at his office and on leaving had
gone to the basement by the elevator
as usual in order to take his carriage
which was kept in a rear building He
said he would appear before the com
mission as soon as congress adjourns
Colonel Huff once sought the seat in
the senate of the late M S Quay He
was one of the old guard of 30G
who under the leadership of Roscoe
Conkling voted for General U S
Grant for a third term as president at
the Republican convention of 1SS0 He
was born at Norristown in 1S42 enter
ed the Pennsylvania state senate in
1SS4 and in 1S90 went to congress
where he has been since with the ex
ception of one term He served In the
Union army during the civil war
A Lesson In Japanese Courtesy
I remember many years ago u dinner
at the palace a great olllclal dinner
where among the guests were many of
the old leadera of rebellions old up
holders of the shogunate The last
shoguu himself Prince Tokugawa
proud silent grim sat opposite to me
and I wondered if any human emotion
could show Itself on that Impassive
face At Unit moment the emperor
raised his glass and bowed in kindly
smiling fashion to his ancient oppo
nent The face changed was suffused
ior one illuminating moment wnn a
glow of responsive fire It seemed as
if the emperor was once more thank
ing the shoguu for his splendid pa
triotic act when after years of strug
gle he voluntarily laid his power and
his prerogatives at the emperors feet
for the good of the country and as
If Prince Tokugawa looking back
and looking forward for Japan said
to himself once more It was well
done Mary C Fraser In Worlds
Work
FIfirurcH Thnt Stngprer
It used to be that astronomy with its
stupendous magnitudes Incredible ve
locities and inconceivable distances
seemed to make the greatest demand
on mans belief says the Loudon Tele
graph Today it is physics We read
for instance that Hertzs oscillations
give rise to 500000000 oscillations per
second Where Is the man who can
conceive of anything happening In the
five-hundred-millionth part of a sec
ond But this Is quite a long period
compared to some of those now accept
ed as inevitable optics According to
Maxwells great theory a light wave
Is a series of alternating electric cur
rents flowing In air or interplanetary
space and changing their direction
1000000000000000 times per second
And this is supposed to be true of ev
ery form of light coming from the sun
the electric lamp or a lucifer match
Who can think of anything happening
in the part
of a second
LnndRccrH Valet
Sir Edwin Landseer the famous ani
mal painter had an old servant his
butler valet and faithful slave
named William who was particularly
assiduous In guarding the outer portal
No one could by any possibility gain
direct access to Sir Edwin Tho an
swer would invariably be Sir Hed
win is not at ome The prince con
sort himself once received this answer
when he called amplified on that oc
casion by the assurance that he had
gone to a wedding an entire fiction
on Williams part as the prince found
out for on walking boldly in and round
the garden he noticed Sir Edwin look
ing out of his studio window This
was the faithful attendant who one
day when a Hon had died at the zoo
and his corpse came up In a four
wheeled cab to be painted from star
tled his master with the question
Please Sir Iledwin did you border
a lion
Thatched Roofs In England
The thatched roof which makes the
English cottage picturesque is doom
ed said an architect For some
years it has been going gradually
Soon It will be altogether a thing of
the past Fire Insurance Is the cause
of the thatched roofs disappearance
No company will Insure a cottage or
its contents if the roof is thatched
They who want Insurance must sub
stitute for the roof of thatch a tiled
one As long as the English cottager
remains very poor so that his house
and furniture are not worth insuring
he keeps a thatched roof over his head
As soon as he begins to prosper and
lays In household goods of value he
takes out a fire policy and away then
goes his thatched roof Louisville
Courier Journal
His Style of Hitting
And now Mrs Sullivan said the
counsel will you be kind enough to
tell the jury whether your husband
was in the habit of striking you with
impunity
With what sor queried Mrs Sul
livan
With impunity repeated the coun
sel
Well he was sor now and thin
but he struck me oftener wid his fisht
sor
His Remark
I wont do any more work for that
man Hopkins
Why
Well he passed some remark I did
not like
Did he What was it
He said Brown you wont be want
ed after this week
Constant Advice
A woman should always depend on
her husband for advice said the de
voted wife
Yes answered the visitor but it
does grow monotonous not to get any
advice except to economize Wash
ington Star
Lost Yonth
A man looks back with regret but
without bitterness to his lost youth a
woman however vehemently she may
protest to the contrary seldom if ever
attains to this same calm serenity
Gentlemans Magazine
FlctltiouN
Angel Child Aunt Daisy what i3
meant by a fictitious character
Aunt Daisy That means one that Is
made up dear Angel Child Oh yes
Then youre a fictitious character
arent you auntie
Learn to be pleased with everything
with wealth so far as it makes us
beneficial to others with poverty for
not having much to care for and with
obscurity for being unenvied Plu
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