THE SEMI-WEEKLY TWIUHE LRA L. BARK, Publisher. TERMS, $1.25 IN ADVANOB. fJORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA 3 MAN WITHOUT A PAIN. Hurrah for tbo man without a paint It ho 1b not tho salt of tho earth, then tha earth must surely remain unsalt cd. Ho feels no Inward burning ne cessity of breaking into nowspapora with consUint declarations as to tho badness of men and things. Ho Is not full of suppressed resolutions as to tho wickedness of everybody else, says tho Chicago lutcr-Occnn. Ho lias no spo cial yearning to ascend Chautauqua platforms and feed full tho listening throngs with all tho horrors of exist ence. In private Ufo ho is tho cltli ten who looks after his family, who is regarded as a good neighbor and who gains and deserves tho respect of all those who know him. In tho busi ness world ho is the man who docs his work without a lot of nolsodnd wasted motion and thereby earns tho gratl tudo of his associates or employers. In public llfo ho Is tho man who sees that tbo business of govornmcnt gets attended to and leaves to louder states men tho honors of big headlines and Chautauqua lectureships. After hear ing or rending tho studied and labori ous complainings of tho other variety, tho thought of him Is llko the murmur of pleasant wators. It cools, refreshes and strengthens tho Jaded spirit It reminds ono that everything is far from being lost, that the world's work Is silll being efficiently done; that tho republic Is safe, and that tho sun is still shining. A Boston restaurant keeper kept green turtlo on Its back In his win dow and was tried on a chargo of cru elty to animals. A Harvard university professor testified that tho turtlo was moro nearly related to tho birds than tho fishes, but tho defenso took tho ground that it was not an animal, but a fish, and tho Judgo Instructed tho Jury to bring in n verdict of not guilty. Whatever intellectual Boston may hold as to tho status of the rep tiles, thcra is no good reason why tho laws forbidding cruelty to animals should not bo broad enough to cover moro than warm-blooded animals. An Oak Park professor. Is advocat ing tho establishment of a school la which the art and sclenco of courtship may be taught. Good heaven 1 Has the man no knowledge of human na ture? As soon as courtship is made a thing that people will have to study and) work at nobody will wish to In dulge, in It The way to make court ship popular wnlch scorns to tbo Oak Park professor's object Is to enact a law prohibiting it i Tho sick friend ia serving useful purposes. Ho has long served as an excuse for the belated homcfarer who 'has been sitting by his bedside. Now he is coming in handy for tho speed ing motorist who Is hastening to his dying bed. It would bo a great shock to his loving friends if by some mis chance this convenient scapegoat should suddenly rocovor. That Pennsylvania fanner who took a cldb and proceeded to batter up an automobile whoso driver refused to stop when the farmer's cattle became frightened, possibly acted contrary to law, but his deed shows the dangerous ' state of mind engendered In the publlo by autolsts who decline to- act reason- ably on 'the road or who Ignore the rights of pedestrians. A savings bank offlclal reports that a strange number of bogus coins find their way Into baby's bank. Playing a trick like that on a baby Is more rep rehensible than putting buttons In the contribution box. A Harvard professor says Gray's "Elegy In a Country Churchyard" would be rejected tt submitted to the editor of a modern magailno. Of course, Us length would bo against It at first sight. The, young Callfornlan who sang, "I'd rather have fingers than toes" will be surprised to learn that a Jury In Chicago has assessed tho latter at exactly four times tho valuo of the former. . An Ohio man beat his wife with a baseball bat because sho had moved his bed during houseclcanlng time fine wouldn't have minded, perhaps, it be had got mad enough to beat a rug or two, The Harvard professor who advises us to study Greek to take our minds ott money making overlooks the fact that money making is all Greek to the youth who tucka his diploma undor his arm and goes out to look for a Job. . Phlladelphlans are searching In Lon doa for details of the early history ot "William Penn. Ia future ages Phlla ielphlaas will be writing biographies ef Connie Mack. ENEMIES OF ALFALFA Woods Constitute Worst Factor Plant Has to Contend With. Especially True In Humid Sectloni Where Bulk of Rainfall Comes During Comparatively Mild Winters How to Eradicate. (Dy J. M. WESTOATE.) Over a considerable portion of the country weeds constitute tbo worst enemy of alfalfa. This is especially truo In tho humid sections uij in tboso parts of tho west and south west wiicro tho bulk of tho rainfall comes during tho comparatively mild winters. Witch-grass or couchygrasa In New York nnd tho Now England statos, crab grass In tho eastern states south of Now York, bluo grass In tho blucgrass sections, and Iho "foxtail" or wild millets and crab grass in tho central states aro the worst enemies in tho respectlvo sec tions from tho standpoint of tho nl falfn plant In tho Irrigated sections of tho west, especially In thoso sections character ized by rainfall during tho compara tively mild winters, tho growth ol tho wild barloyB is a decided draw hack to tho successful production of alfalfa. Thoy maturo shortly boforo tho first cutting of nlfalfn, and tbo beards of the grnss heads sometimes ruin tho first crop of hoy, which is somotlmos burned to destroy tho grnss seed. Thcso wild barleys aro also known as foxtail grass, squirrel tall grass, and wall barloy. Slnco nlfalfn Is not usually n clean cultlvuted crop tho problem of weed destruction Is a serious ono. Disking Is usually tho most effectlvo remedy for woods, as tho alfalfa Is generally bonofltod by tho oporatlon, whllo tbo Mature Dodder Plant on Alfalfa Stem. weeds uro grontly Injured, owing to their dlfforont root systomB. In sec tions whoro the wild barloys aro troublesome It is sometimes thought necessary to burn tho first crop ot hay. Another mothod is to cut tho first cro'p whllo tho wild barloy la still immature and feed tho mlxturo o' alfalfa and gross hay. Tho objoction to this mothod Is that It necessitates tho cutting of tho alfalfa whon too young, A heavy growth of crab- grass Is somotlmos burned In the early spring. Dodder is ono of tho worst weeds so fnr as alfalfa is concerned. Tho doddor seeds germlnato In tho ground nnd tho young plants soon attach themselves to tho nlfalfn seedlings. As soon as tho threndllko stem Is firm ly attached to the alfalfa plant tho stem connecting it with tbo ground withers away. Thenceforth tho dod der lives entirely on tho alfalfa. It la very difficult to oradlcato when ouco established, and tor this roanori great care should bo taken to avoid intro ducing it with the alfalfa seed at soed lng tlmo. Grnzlng close with sheep has boon recommended as being effec tlvo In holding doddor In check. It dodder appears In Isolated Bpots through the field, It Is ndvtsablu to cut tho affected alfalfa plants vory low nnd rcmovo thorn. Destroying tho dodder by burning with different ma terlals has occasionally proved suc cessful, but It is apt to be moro oxpon sivo than tho removal ot tho affected portions ot tho plants. If tho stand of alfalfa Is badly affected with dodder, tho nlfalfn should bo plowed up bo foro tho doddor goes to soel anil tbo land kept In cultivated cropB for two or moro years. Care of Orchard. In addition to growing nud turning under clover crops and feeding the soil with mineral fertilizers, It s profltnblo to dress tho orchard soli frequently with stable manuro, tho best of general fertilizers, If flvo or ten ncros of orchard aro handled In tho manner ot toll treatment, nnd, tho trees cared for in a proper man ner, and tho fruit packed and shipped in the highest upproved manner more clear profits will be realized than from forty to eighty ncros that Is simply planted nnd left to tako caro ot Itself. Preventing Weeds Going to Seed. Weeds should be kept down till thoy will not bo capable of further Injury. Tho main object Is to sco that they do not produce seed, for nn ture In nor desiro to provent tho extinction of any species, endows thorn with tho power of producing seed when very young and oronlL Yhe morning glory, cockle burr, and many other weeds will make seed pods when sot over six inches high. LOCUST TREES FROM SEEDS As Soon as Plants Break Through Ground Thoy Should Be Given Cultivation and Irrigation. my ii. O. LONOYEAIl. Colorado Afri- cultural College,) Any person who can securo eedd of black or honey locust can readily grow his own trees of these two spo clcs. Seods that havo been kept dry, oven eight or ten years, will grow almost as readily as those that have been gathered but ono year. In either caso tho seods aro so hard that If planted dry, as' ono would peas ot beans, many of them will fall to gorrn- lnata and all of thorn will bo very slow. They should first bo treated with hot water, in tha following man ner: For about one-halt pound of soed placo the seeds In any can or Jar that will hold about ono gallon nnd that vrll not bo broken by hot water. Pour about two or thrco quarts of boiling water upon tho seeds, cover, and al low to stand over night. When tho water Is poured off, It will bo found that many ot tho seeds havo doubled In slzo and becomo softened. TbeBO should bo takon out nnd mny bo planted Immediately, whllo thoso thnt remain hard should bo troatod In tho snmo manner until nil of them hove Bwollen, Plant In good garden noil, In rows nbout three feet apart, planting tha seed about ono Inch npnrt, In tho case of tho black locust, and three Inches apart for tho honey locust. Covor tho, former two-thirds ot nn Inch, and tho lnttor one Inch deep, nnd firm tho soil upon thorn. As Boon as tho plants break through tho ground thoy should bo given tho snmo cultivation and Ir rigation no n crop of corn. The young trees will probnbly need thinning, so ns to mnko thqm nbout four to llvo Inches apart In tho row, This will glvo much stronger seedlings than to allow them to grow much thicker. At the end of tho growing season It Is bcBt to dig tho young trees Just be fore tho ground freezes nnd bury thorn In a well drained situation, cov ering with at least six Inches of noil, first tying them Into bundles or 25 to CO trees each. They should bo dug the following spring, In the latter pnrt ot March or tho first ot April, and planted in permanent quartors. Tho Chestnut Blight. This began Its flrBt noticeable rav ages about flvo years ago in Long Island nnd Now York city. Thero nro now standing In Forest Park In Brooklyn moro than 10,000 dead chest nut trees and tho mnlndy Is traveling fast over tho Island. In Now York city there aro very tow llvo chestnut trees left, and Connecticut, Now Jer sey, Pennsylvania, Mnryland and to a less extent even Massachusetts, hnvo suffered from tho Invasion of this deadly fungus. In this Instance it Is not an Insect that causes tho trouble but a disease that appears to bo con fined to this particular spocles, Sclenco seems helpless beforo Its rav ages. Tho spores from tho canker aro formed In the fall and disseminated In tho spring by billions, wherever thero Is a crack In tho bark they find lodg ment and sap tbo vital forces of the trco. Commercial Fertilizers. A recent bulletin ot tho Michigan Agricultural Experiment station, giv ing tho fertilizer analysis for 1910, offers good ndvlco on tho uso of com mercial fertilizers Especially well stated nro somo things that fertilizers will not do. Commercial fertlllzort cannot tako the placo of cultivation Commercial fertilizers cannot compen sate for lack of moisture. Common clnl fertilizers do not add humus to tho soil. DAIRY NOTES, Careful feeding ot tho bull la neces sary. Tho breed docs not always indlcnU good milkers. Tho siro you use will determine which kind you will get. Tho sire wisely selected should lm provo on tho present herd. Whitewash Is a good -disinfectant It should be used liberally In tho cow stable. There are poor cows In all breedi and tho selection should be made on tho merits of tho Individual cow. Should you desiro to build up b good reputation for table milk in yout town, it might bo well to hnvo two breeds. To bo prepared to proporly selccl a bull suitable for your herd, you should know your own herd thor oughly. Absolute sanitation nnd cleanliness are necessary from tbo time the cow leaves the pasture till the butter It) consumed. Tho prcsenco of bacteria producing n bitter flavor Is the cause of the but ter becoming strong in three or tour days after churning. Next to getting rid ot tho pooi cow, the greatest need In dairying to day is better methods ot feeding and caring for tho dairy herd. Tho udder and teats of the cow should bo washed and dried before milking, and the milking should bo dono with clean dry hands. Corn sllago nnd alfalfa mako an cx cellcnt ration for dairy cows and good ylcldB of milk have been reported where nothing else was fed. Tho average Holsteln cow will prob ably produce more milk than other breeds, but with a lower fat content than the Jersey or Guernsey. A heavy piece of canvass well moistened and placed over cream cans while going to creamery will aid greatly la keeping cream cool in sum mer. Frame New Rule WASHINGTON. Chief Justico White ot tho United States Supremo court has appointed u commit too" to reviso tho ruloa of equity, prac tlco in the United States courts. Tho commlttco is composed of hlniBelf, Jus tices Lurton and Van Doventor, the only members of the Supremo court who havo bad exporionco on tho bench of tho United States circuit court, Jus tico Lurton since 1893 and Justico Van Deventer slnco 1903. This movo is the Initial step in a grcnt reform in fedcrnl court pro cedure, which has long been advocated by Justice White, who has often criti cised tho nntlquated practlco on tho chancery sldo of thoso courts, Tho present rules wcro promulgated In 1842. They aro adnptcd In their en tirety from tho nnclont rules of the high court of chnncory of England, nnd nro cumbcrsomo nnd complicated In tho highest degreo, landing them reives to dolnyo and embarrassing liti gation rather than expediting cnusos. It Is significant thnt tho rules from Nation Has a Great THE fnto of tho battleship Toxns, once the pride of 'ho United Stntes navy, recently sent to tho bottom of Tangier sound, In Chcsapeako hay, by tho guns ot her sister ships, as nn ex periment In nnval science, has called public attention to tho prodigious slzo ot tho nation's' navnl scrap heap. Not only Is tho government spending moro than $06,000,000 on its now Dreadnaughts now under construction, but It Is throwing away annually mil lions of dollars' worth of battleship construction ot tho oldor type, now considered out, of date. On tho naval Junk pllo In tho last ten years 36 vessels hnvo been dumped. Thoy cost tho government to build, or to buy ready built, $9,803. 495.60. From tho sale ot tho refuso barely throo per cent., or $289,029.41, has been received. Tho ships which have been destroy ed outright nro but tho smnllor pnrt of tho number of nbnndonod nnval ves sols which total 36 in tho past ten years. Tho grenter part aro thoso which, whllo still technically counted ns a public asset, would bo ot no valuo In war and would never again bo used for that purpose. Thoy aro In uso as trnlnlng vessels for tho nnvnl re serves ot various states. The monitor Prosecution a Check to Mail Frauds THE sleuths of tho postoffico de partment are growing stiff in the Joints from lack of exorciso, the offi cials of the attorney-general's office are dozing at their desks, and tho ma chinery thnt usod to be grinding out fraud orders so morrily Is rusting from disuse. The world seems to be growing bet ter, or at least that part of it , which formerly Indulged In so many get-rich-quick schemes scorns to bo less active than In days gone by, and the postofllco officials declare that It Is all due to tho vigorous measures token by tho present administration to stamp out public fraud and protect tho unwary. "Months have passed slnco wo hnvo issuod a domestic fraud order," said jesso Suter, the authorized publicity agent of the postofllce department, "whereas in "former times scarcely a Maine Uncovering ARMS engineer officer's at Havana have estimated that it would be at least two months after work be gan on pumping out the water in the coffer dam about the battleship Maine In Havana "harbor beforo an expert opinion could bo formed as to wheth er It was an Inside or outside ex plosion that sank the vessel. . With tho water over the wreck lowered four feet, tho top and sldeB of the wreck's afterdock nro In view. U haB boon expected that whon he water was lowered enough to expose the top deck this would probably loom up aa a bank of mud as tho wa ter In tho harbor is very muddy and the vessel has been "collecting" de posits Jor 13 years. When work on the upper deck Is completed, there will bo moro pumping and more mud until tho water Is lowored to tho deck below. Inspection of this deck will then be undertaken without un due baste. It Is believed that the lower down the water goes the more difficult will be the work of clearing for Federal Courts which tho United Stntcs court rules ot equity prnctlco wero adnptcd hnvo long since been displaced In the Eng lish practlco, nnd In njmost every minor Jurisdiction In tho United States whero they wero in force In tho last century havo boon abandoned for codo proccduro or nmonded in accord with modern ideas nnd prnctlco. Members of the bar in commenting on tho proposed reform without excep tion commend It Thoy say that tho rules as they now stand, If rigidly en forced, would Involve litigation In on endless snarl, nnd thnt tho present rules bnvrf boon tolerable only by ren son ot tho disregard of ninny ot them which hnvo been found impractical of enforcement In modern procedure But In such ensos thoy sny thnt special or ders and short cuts In suits aro mado to fit the Individual case and thus tho wholo proccduro Is "up In tho nlr" or in tho "discretion ot tho court," which is In many cases Just as bad. No intimation wos glvon by Chief JuBtlco Whlto or either mombor of tho commlttco Just what form tho revision will tako, but It is ngreed thnt it will look to tho expediting ot causes, and the relief of litigants from tho almost prohlbltlvo expense ot tho present oqulty procedure. Tho committee 1b expected to roport Its recommendations to the Supremo court enrly in the fnll term. Naval Scrap Heap Amphltrito, destined for uso at St Louis, is a typo of thoso ships which aro useful only In providing posslblo future recruits for tho service. Tho Texas was tho first modern bat tleship constructed for tho navy. It was surpassed In speed by tho Iowa, the Oregon, and other vessels In the battle off Santiago, but its nnmo was written as largo ns any on tho page which records thnt dny's fighting. And It will now bo but n few yonrs, according to the lnexorablo rules ot the navy department, beforo tho Ore gon, Massachusetts, Indiana and Iowa follow tho Texas as targots for the projectiles of newer vessels or aro relegated to tho Ignominy 6t the Junk heap. Tho Oregon, most costly of tbo old type of sea fighters, cost the govern ment less than $0,000,000. Tbo Now York, biggest of tho Dreadnoughts now bulldlng'ot eastern shipyards, wilt I cost nearly $13,000,000. day passed -without the Issuance of ono or moro against Individuals or flruiB who wero fleecing tho people. As a matter ot fact, tho get-rich-quick schemers are coming to tho conclusion that tho postofllco admin istration will not 'stand for' them and that In consequence It will bo healthier for them to keep within the bounds of the law. "Thoy know that If they conduct shady enterprises nowadays they face, not only tho penalties of a fraud or der, depriving them of tho uoo of the mails, but also stand a very good chance ot getting Into the peniten tiary. Tho victory of the government In tbo Harrison case In Cincinnati had' a very salutary effect, and the prosecution now being pushed against tho officials of tho United Wireless in New York is another object lesson, showing that tho government Is very much In earnest In Its determination to send moneyed crooks to Jail, Just as readily as though they were men of no means at all. "The pnly cases that we are called on to handle nowadays seem to be tho moll for lotteries In foreign coun tries." Has Been Gradual tho mud away. The problem of In spectlon also will bo made moro dlffl cult as tho successive stages of pumping out progress us daylight will not penetroto Into tho hull ot tho ves sel and work will hove to be done with artificial light What can be saved of tho Maine and what it is most expedient to do with the vesel can only be well de termined when sho la exposed to view, Majny engineer officers fear she can nerervbe floated and will have to bo taken apart in soctlons It It Is decided to sava her at all. oth er officers believe she will break and fall to pieces when the unwaterlng of the eofferday gets well under way. WESTERN CANADA'S GOOD CROP PROSPECTS YIELDS OF WHEAT WILL LIKELY BE 25 TO 30 BUSHELS PER ACRE. In an lntorvlow wjth Mr. W.' J. White, who has chargo of tho Cana dian -government immigration office In tho United States, and who has re cently mado an oxtonded trip through tho provinces ot Manitoba, Saskatche wan and Alberta in Western Canada, Ho said that evory point ho visited ho was mot with tho ono roport, uni versally good crops of wheat, outs nnd bnrloy. Thero wlU this year bo a much Increased acroago over last year. Many fnrmers, who hud but ono hundred acres last year, have in creased their cultivated and seeded acreago as much ns fifty per cent. With tho prospects ns they are ot present this will mean from $12 to $15 additional wealth to each. Ho bow many lnrgo fields running from 300 to 1,000 acres in extent and It ap peared to him that thero was not an aero of this but would yield from 20 to 25 or 3Q bushols ot wheat por acre, whllo tho oat prospects might snfely bo cstimnted at from 40 to 70 bushels por acre. In all parts of the west, whothor It bo Manitoba, Saskatche wan or Albertn, north and south, cast and west nnd la tho districts whero last year thero was a partial failure ot cropB, tho condition of all grain Is universally good and claimed by most of tho farmers to bo from ono to two weeks in advanco of any year for tho past ton or twelvo years. It does not seem that thero was a slnglo foot of tho ground that was proporly seeded that would not produce. Thero aro thoso throughout western Canada who predict that thero will be 200,000,000 bushels ot wheat rniscd thero this year, and It tho present favorablo conditions continue, thero does not seem any reason why these prophesies should not como true. Thero 1b yet a possibility of hot winds reducing tho quantity in somo parts, but with tho strongly rooted crops nnd tho sufficiency of precipita tion that tho country has already boon favored with, this probability la reduced to a minimum. The prices of farm lands at tho, present tlmo aro holding steady and landB can probably still bo purchased at tho price sot this spring, ranging from $15 to $20 per acre, but with a hnrvested crop, such ns la expected, thero Is no reason why theso snmo lands should not bo worth from $20 to $25 per aero, with an almost abso luto assuranco that by next spring thero will still be a further advance In prices. Mr. Whlto says that thoso InndB are ns cheap at today's figures with tho country's proven worth as they wero a few years ago at halt the price when tho general public had but' a vaguo idea of tho producing quality of wostern Canada lands. Tho land agents at. the different towns along tho lino of railway are very active. A largo number of acres are turned over weekly to buyers from tho dlfforont states' In the south, whero lands that produce no better are sold at from $150 to $200 per acre. The homostoad lands are becoming scarcer day by dny and thoso ,who nro unoblo to purchase, preferring to homestead, aro directing their atten tion to tho park acres lying In the northerly part of tho central dis tricts. It bus been found that whllo thcso aro somewhat moro difficult to bring under tho subjugation of tho plow, tha soil la fully as productive as la tho districts farther south. They possesB tho advantage that tho more open prnlrlo areas do not possess; thnt thero is on theso InndB nn open acreago ot from fifty to seventy per cent of tho wholo nnd tho bnlnnce Is mado up of groves of poplar of fair size, which, offer Bhelter for cattle, while tho grasses aro of splendid strength and plentiful, bringing about a more activo Btago of mixed farming than can be carried on in tho more open districts to tho south. The emigration for the post year has been the greatest in the history of Canada and it Is keeping up in record shape. The larger number ot thoso, who will go this year will be thoso who will buy lands nearer' the -line of railways, preferring to poy n llttlo higher price for good location than to go back from tho line of rail ways somo 40 or 60 miles to home stead. Mr. Whlto has visited tho different agencies throughout the United States and he found that tho correspondence at the various offices has largely in creased, the number of callers li greater than ever. . Any ono desiring Information re garding western Canada should apply at onco to tho Canadian Government Agent nearest him for a copy of the "Last Best West" Real Optimist. Dull Dog Gee, but you look fierce with that can on your tall. Cheerful Dog Ah, got out! That's Jowelry. Beautiful Post Cards Free. Bend 2c "tamp for nvo samples of our very beat Gold Embossed Birthday. Flow, er and Motto Post Cards; beautiful colors and loveliest designs. Art Po-t Card C St.! 751 Jackson St, Topeka, Kan. 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