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    RICH LAND FOR SETTLERS
Uintah Indian Reservation Is to Be Thrown
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Open Next March.
Considerable interest attaches just
bow to the Uintah Indian reservation,
because of the provision in the last
Indian appropriation bill, providing
for the opening, and which carried an
appropriation of $5,000 to complete
the surveys, begun some time ago.
The original bill fixed October 1st,
1904, as the date of the opening, but
because of the amount of work to be
done, in allotting lands, and making
the surveys, it was found necessary to
postpone the opening until March 10,
1905, which w as done by action of con
gress.
The Uintah reservation lies in Uin
tah and Wasatch counties, Utah, in
the northeastern portion of the slate.
In area it consists of two million
three hundred and thirty-four thou
sand acres of mountain and valley.
There are several fine streams of
drater that rise in the Uintah range on
')ho north, and traverse the lower val
)3ys, finally emptying themselves into
green river. The principal streams
are the Duchesne and Uintah rivers,
with numerous forks, all of which can
be easily diverted for purposes of ir
rigation; making it one of the best
waiered sections of the state. From
the foot of the Uintah mmmtains to
the south line of the reservation are
a continuous succession ot oencnes or
soli that is admirably adapted to all
kinds of crops that can be grown any
where in this latitude.
In altitude, the reservation ranges
from 4,000 feet in the lower valleys to
13,000 feet on the summit of the lofti
est peaks of the Uiutab range—the
highest in the state.
In selecting lands for the Indians,
the allotments have been made prin
cipally along the river bottoms, while
the bench lands, which are usually the
most fertile, are practically untouched
and will provide homes for many
thousands of people.
In climate, soil and crops, the reser
vation is identical with the Ashley
▼alley, twenty miles to the east, which
is, without question, one of the garden
spota of the west. In this valley are
grown magnificent crops of grains of
all kinds, and alfalfa hay yields three
crops a year. The whole of the Uin
tah basin, which comprises all the ter
ritory lying south of the Uintah range,
draining into Green river, and em
bracing all of the Uintah and Uncom
pahgre reservations, and practically
all of Uintah county, is adapted to the
growth of small fruits, especially, and
the apples produced in the Ashley val
ley are the finest in the world. This
crop is unusually fine this year, the
orchards, in many instances, breaking
down under the burden of fruit that
is without blemish. In some parts of
the Ashley valley, the finest of peaches
are also grown.
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The Denver, North w -.stern & Pa
cific railway, better i nown as the
“Moffat” Line, crosses Uintah county
with its survey, and follows the Du
chesne river and Strawberry creek
across the reservation, and will thus
open up this virgin section ut once,
and make every acre of tillable laud
valuable.
The Uintah railway, which is being
constructed across the Book Cliffs,
from Mack, Colo., a station on the Rio
Grande road, to tap the extensive gil
sonite deposits of the White river
country, will have for its terminus, at
present, a station called Dragon, on
the head of Evacuation creek. Dragon
is fifty-five miles southeast of Vernal,
and a flr^t-class wagon road will be
constructed between the two povnts.
The climate of the whole Uintah
basin is an ideal one. The Uintah
range on the north, with its towering
peaks, tempers the hot winds of mid
summer, and the nights are delight
fully cool, even in July and August. It
Is doubtful if there is any place in the
world where vegetation grows ?.s lux
uriantly, and yet the heat is not op
pressive. as is the case in the Uintah
country.
That Uintah county and the terri
tory now embraced in the Uintah res
ervation is destined to become a rich
and prosperous section, is beyond
question. With its marvelous produc
tion of crops of all kinds, and a great
transcontinental line passing through
it, opening the markets of the west to
its produce, it is bound to become the
great distributing point from which
will be drawn the food supply for
hundreds of miles around.
The immense deposits of gilsonite
i and other kindred minerals, to tap
which the Uintah railway is being
constructed, will form the basis for
a great industry, and will create a
good home market for the farmers of
the Uintah basin.
All around the Ashley valley, and on
some parts of the reservation, are de
posits of coal that furnishes cheap
and convenient fuel, and the foothills
of the Uintah range are covered with
a dense growth of cedar and pine,
which is easily accessible.
The soil and climate of the Uintah
reservation and the Uintah basin in
general, is especially adapted to the
culture of the sugar beet. Tests made
on beets produced in the Ashley val
ley, show them to be above the aver
age in saccharine, and the yield im
mense.
It is not known w here the land office
will be established for registration,
and will not be until the n^xt session
! oi congress; but as Vernal is the
closest available town to tho reserva
1 tion. it is presumed that the land
< otP.ce will be located at Vernal.
REWARD OF A SAMARITAN.
Well-Intentioned Lady Got No Credit
for Interference.
“The proverbial fate of a person who
interferes between a quarrelsome hus
band and wife,” said a woman who
■pends most of her afternoons read
ing in Central park, “seems to apply,
pioft, to a mother and her child’s
nursemaid. I W'as sitting near th°
Jiall the other afternoon when a child
tfe 11 and began to scream. The nurse
maid, who had been reading a novel,
|an to the little one and gave her a
good trouncing—so severe, in fact,
that I felt called upon to interfere. I
was insolently told to ‘chase myself.’
“I followed the girl home to a house
in Centra! Park West, and sent in mi
card to the lady of the house. In a
word or two I told her how cruelly
her child had been whipped by the
nursemaid, and said I thought she
would like to know it.
“ ‘I don’t know why you should come
to me on such an errand,’ said the
mother haughtily. ‘My little girl had
a fall, and was crying because she was
hurt. The nurse has just told me so.
Mary has been with me ever since the
baby was born, and would no more
think of ill-treating her than I should.
I ain sure yon must be mistaken.
Good afternoon.’
“The time-honored proverb that it is
a good thing to mind your own busi
ness has been ringing in my ears ever
cince.’’—New York Times.
i A Lesson in Boxing.
"What are you. going to do, Henry?”
asked Mrs. Uptodate, as her husband
unwrapped a pair of boxing gloves.
"I’m going to give Willie some les
sons in self-defense,” he answered.
“Every boy should know how to take
eare of himself in an emergency.
Come on, Willie, I won’t hurt you.”
Twenty minutes later Mr. Uptodate
returned with a hand up to his face.
“Get me a piece of raw meat to put
•n my eye, and some arnica,” he said.
“Why, you don’t mean to say that
Willie—’’
“No, 1 don’t; of course I don’t. I’ve
discovered that the’only way to teach
that boy is with a strap.”
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Red Tapism Run- Mad.
A woman teacher in a school at
Westphalia bad to make an official
communication to the German min
ister of education. She used for the
purpose what is called “eagle paper,”
having the royal eaglf upon it as a
water mark, and duly dispatched it to
Berlin through the sehoor board of
Essen. After a few days the letter
wtm« back, with an intimation that
ft must be rewritten, as the eagle an
‘ poured up m it head downward. Gor
maa red- tape could not endure this
Irregularity.
Food Problems.
The problem of what to eat and
Kow to cook food is of greater mo
ment than the question of overeating.
:jua editorial is The British Medical
journa. of a recent date states the
actuation aptly iir the following
fmords: “What to eat and what to
4riuk will always he decided by na
«<—«i custom and individual prefer
ence, so far as the public Is eon
mrasd, but both may be Influenced
!■ the right direction by the guidance
«f.akllled medical opinion.”
THEIR SALARIES ARE SMALL.
Insignificant Sums Paid to Two
Tamous Men.
It may t>e some comfort to laboring
men to know that the salary of the
Poet laureate of England is $360 a
year and a hogshead cf wine thrown
in. Of course, this represents only a
fractional part of what Mr. Alfred
Austin really earns; still it is all that
he gets for being poet laureate to the
English speaking race. This salary
is without any prospect of a raise,
although it was increased to its pres
ent munificent proportions when Lord
Tennyson died. Some time before his
death it wTas decided to increase his
salary to that amount, but the gov
ernment did not decide till after his
death. Thus the present poet laure
ate came in for the raise intended for
Lord Tennyson.
Even this small sum is more than
the official salary of the bishop of
Winchester, in his capacity of minis
ter to the chapel royal. He receives
$33 per annum. It is an office which
ret]uires his presence at Windsor sev
eral times each year and the total
railway fares from Winchester amount
to about five times the amount of his
salary. The vice consuls of the sec
ond class towns in Russia are also
badly paid. Their salaries vary from
$23 to $130, but two-thirds of them
get $23.
Profitable Partnership.
A traveler on a Kentucky road that
runs along the Ohio river came upon
an old Harky hauling driftwood into
his farmyard. As there was already
a stack of it almost as large as the
two-roomed farmhouse, the stranger
remarked:
“I see you've gathered a lot of fire
wood, uncle.”
“Oh, dat’s only half what I’ve picked
up this season, said the negro proud
ly, stopping the mule.
“What did you do with the rest_
sell it?”
“No, suh. I hauled It to Mr. Tuck
er's, de white man what lives in dat
big house yander. We’s pahtners, we
is, an’ he lets me have half of all I
kin pick up.”—New York Times.
Pitch for Dusty Roads.
Experiments with pitch as a dust,
preventative are beiDg made abroad
with the most excellent results. The
European highway authorities are
using hot pitch in many places, and
the system is reaching a high degree
of perfection.
The principal suburban boulevard
of Marseilles has just been treated
with a coating <of pitch. Of course,
the roads need to be well macada
i mized first to receive the best effects,
j bllt a rr>ad properly treated is found
I to be well-nigh dustproof.
Sheep fer Warm Climate.
The department of agriculture has
recently Imported five woolless sheep
—four etoes and a ram—for use in the
extreme southern states. A heavy
crop of wool is a burden in hot, dry
districts, resulting in a direct ill effect
on the quality of the mutton. These
sheep are being experimented with
by the bureau of animal Industry.
They are hardy and are easy keepers.
They are brought from the Barbadoes.
where they have proved profitable.—
Country Life in America.
SEEK TO STAY PNEUMONIA.
Commission Investigating Diseases of
the Respiratory Organs.
Few more important investigations
are under way in this country than
the one now being undertaken by the
commission on acute respiratory dis
eases in New York. Pneumonia has
come to be the scourge of modern city
life, and the increase in the number
of its yearly victims has been so rapid
that health commissioners are con
tinually bewailing their helplessness
against it.
The physicians who compose the
commission are men of the highest
standing in their profession. Dr. Jane
way of New York is the chairman, and
such men as Drs. O-’er and Welch
of Baltimore, Dr. Tneobald Smith of
Harvard and Dr. Frank Billings of
Chicago are among the members.
They hold that the:se diseases, includ
ing pneumonia, are essentially com
municable, and that theoretically at
least they a«;> to a greater or less ex
tent preventable. They propose to
devote themselves to the task of find
ing methods of prevention. Their re
searches will undoubtedly lead them
mto a study of the conditions of life
in cities, and especially, we presume,
iu fiat buildings, and they may per
haps in the end make recommenda
tions concerning everyday hygiene
that will have value even beyond the
special object which tl^ commission
seeks to attain.
If all the money spent on the gath
ering of health statistics by our large
cities had resulted in nothing more
than the showing of the increasing
ravages of pneumonia alone—a show
ing so clear as to stimulate the best
scientific brains of the country to seek
at once for the remedy—it would have
been money well spent. The health
bureaus cost little in comparison with
their enormous dividends in lives.—
Chicago Record-Herald.
LADY DILKE IS DEAD.
Sudden Demise of Wife of Eminent
English Statesman.
I.ady Dilke died at her residence at
Woking, England, Oct. 24. as a result
of the rupture of a b!cod vessel. She
pa&rgMJ&r
was the wife of Sir Charles Wentworth
Dilke, to whom she was married in
1885.
Lady Dilke was noted as an essay
ist and art critic. She was born in
1S4‘>, and was twice married, her first
husband having been the late Mark
Pattison, rector of Lincoln college, Ox
ford. Lady Dilke. whose maiden name
was Emilia Frances Strong, was an
eloquent speaker and a keen sports
woman. Among her writings are a
biography of the late Lord Leighton,
and a monograph (in French) on
Claude Lorraine. It ha3 been said of
her that she was a brilliant exponent
of the higher education of women.
Poke Fun at St. Regis Hotel.
Some of the London papers are pok
ing fun at the new St. Regis hotel in
New York—the establishment where
only the very rich can afford to look
in. One society journal, telling of the
magnificence of the new hotel, gives
its readers these few tips: “All bills
are payable hourly; one patron hav
ing a servant who does nothing else
but pay bills. One of the beds in the
hotel was twice owned by a czar of
Russia. The waiters appear and dis
appear through trap doors near the
tables. Patrons are shaved by elec
tricity. One family pays £250,000—
not dollars—for five rooms far a year.
The hotel Is perfumed with violet in
the morning, geranium at noon and
rose at tea time.”
Bishop Once Noted Athlete.
Rev. Franklin Spencer Spalding,
who has been nominated to the bish
opric of Salt Lake City by the Epis
copal house of bishops in Boston, is
the direct antithesis of the old-fash
ioned austere clergyman. In Prince
ton he was a noted athlete, being one
of the best lumpers who ever entered
that university. He also won fame as
a runner. About seven years ago he
was one of the first party that ever
succeeded in scaling the summit of the
Grand Teton, in Wyoming. For eight
years he has had charge of St. Paul’s
church in Erie. Pa., having been emi
nently successful.
Insists on Time for Reading.
Mrs. Clarence Mackay. wife of the
young California millionaire, is an om
niverous reader and persistently turns
a deaf ear to social demands that in
terfere with her daily period of de
votion to boohs. She is an ideal host
ess and a merry guest, but read she
will so many hours in every twenty
four, and all her arrangements are
framed to fit that requirement. The
young matron nevertheless finds plen
ty of time for other pleasures, be
cause she economizes the moments
most women waste.
Inheritance in Japan.
According to old and established
custom in Japan, the eldest child,
whether male or female, must, under
all circumstances, abide and inhabit
the home. By this means a con
tinuous fttccession is assured, and the
estates cannot pass into the hands of
Btrangers. Prom this arrangement it
follows of necessity that no eldest
child can marry and live with an eld
est child of the opposite sei. When
an heiress weds,1 her husband must
assume the family liame.
BANDIT'S LIFE A LONG ONE.
Servian Outlaw Ha3 Reached the
Great Age of 117.
A noted London journalist has jus',
interviewed the famous Servian ban
dit, Stovan Zikitsch, who is 117 years
old and proves it. The old fellow
wears heavy clothes the year round,
drinks about three-quarters of a litr
of brandy a day and affirms that in
his youth he drank twelve litres oi
wine a day without any harmful con
sequences. On the other hand, he
has never taken coffee or a smoke.
Early in life, while in Greece, he
knew Lord Byron and is proud of
telling of the “curly-headed English
man.” Zikitsch has twice been mar
ried and has four daughters. He
boasts that he has never worked in
his life. “All I can wield is the gun
and the dagger, and, thank God. I
have earned enough by them to live
comfortably now’,” he shouted after
his interviewer as the latter was leav
ing.
NO DISTURBANCE IN PANAMA.
Gen. Davis Declares Rumors of Trou
ble Without Foundation.
Gen. George W. Davis, governor of
the Panama canal zone, has authorized
a denial of the reported disturbances
at Cuiebra or at any place in the
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GENOmWMftS
zone or in its vicinity. President Ama
dor confirms Gen. Davis’ statement.
Investigation by the military authori
ties has proved that the report was
without foundation, and that no dis
content exists among the Pauamans.
Mrs. Platt a Good Housewife.
When Senator and Mrs. Thomas C.
Platt purchased an estate at Highland
Mills, N. Y., and named it Tioga lodge
it was with the intent to establish a
home there free from all the rush and
bustle of the town—one for rest and
pleasure. They are now in a fair
way to accomplish their purpose. Mrs.
Platt has already won in the village
the reputation of being a splendid
housekeeper. That comes in part
from the fact that she does her own
marketing, and does it in a way that
provokes the admiration of the vil
lage shopkeepers. Mrs. P>tt shops
usually early in the day—in fact, long
be fore most fashionable folk are
breakfasting.
Boy to Be Wei! Rewarded.
Leroy Irvcn Dixon, the boy who
saved a Denver and Rio Grande train
from destruction as it was approach
ing a rock slide at a curve a few days
ago, stands a good chance of attaining
his great ambition—a thorough educa
tion. The boy, son of a poor ranch
man, was going to school when he saw
the peril to the approaching train, and
by waving his red bandanna handker
chief warned the engineer to stop.
Officials of the road have communi
cated with George Gould, principal
owner of the line, and young Dixon
is likely to bo in a first-class educa
tional institution ere long, this being
the only reward he covets.
Frenchman of Many Names.
A polite and dignified young man
made application for citizenship pa
pers to a clerk in the United States
court in New York. “Your name,
please,” said the clerk. “Jacques
Marie Joseph Maurice des Rosieris de
Belaine,” was the reply. “Where are
they?” asked the clerk. “I am he,”
answered the polite young man.
“Well, what is your name?” “Jacques
Marie Joseph Maurice des Rosieris de
Balaine.” “One at a time,” said the
clerk, getting out of patience. It final
ly dawned upon him that the polite
applicant owned the entire lot and
Jacques Marie, etc., got his papers.
Rich Gift to Orphanage.
A citizen of Charleston, S. C., has
made a gift of $100,000 to the Charles
ton orphan house as a memorial to W.
Jeffers Bennett of that city. The giver
prefers that his identity should not
be made known. It Is supposed, how
ever, the the gift was made by A. B.
Murray, president of the Bennett
Ryce mills, who was reared at the or
phan house and was adopted into the
family of Mr. Bennett when a youth.
Gen. John C. Fremont, first candidate
of the Republican party for president,
was an inmate of the orphan house
for several years of his boyhood.
Police Chief for Panama.
Mr. McAdoo, the commissioner of
police of New York city, has recently
been asked by representatives of the
Panama republic to name a good man
to organize a police force for the new
country, especially in the cities of
Panama and Colon, where an efficient
force will be needed during the activi
ty coincident with the building of the
canal. He recommended John McCul
lagh, chief of police in 1897 and later
superintendent of elections. Mr. Mc
Cullagh is now living in Goshen, N. Y.
Rapid Photography.
An Italian named Luciano Butti has
perfected a photographic apparatus c»
pable of registering the incredible
number of 2,000 photographic impres
sions per second. The most minute
and least rapid and casual movements
of birds and insects on the wing,
which have hitherto defied science,
can It is claimed, be registered with
accuracy, thus opening a new world
of natural observation to ormitholo
[ gists. The films nsed cost £2 a sec
1 ond for the 2,000 impressions.
3TOESSEL OF GERMAN BIRTH;
Defender of Port Arthur a Native of
Saxony.
Gen. Carl Stoeseel. Russian com
•r.ander in Pert Arthur, i3 of German
birth and ancestry, bora in Saxon?
some fifty-four years ago. He served
.Id Emperor William in the engineer
corps, but in the early ’70’s obtained
his discharge and joined the Russian
army, rising rapidly to his present
rank. Gen. Stoessel is a bluff, soldier
ly man, peppery and perfervid of
speech, with a fondness for oratorical
effect which at times gives him the
appearance of being a braggart. He
i3 a strict disciplinarian, as was
shown soon after he took command
at Port Arthur. The war cloud was
gathering when he found a party of
officers carousing in a cafe one even
ing. He put them under arrest and
later had them sent to prison for sev
eral weeks.
GREATEST FIGHTER OF BULLS.
Spain’s Champion Matador Now in
the United States.
Luis Mazzantini, who recently ar
rived in the United States, is th^>
greatest bull fighter in the world ant
has killed more bulls in the aren:
than any other matador. He is oj
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bis way to Mexico, where he will be
seen in the arena for the last time, as
he intends to retire from the bull ring
upon his return to his native Spain.
He will enter politics as a candidate
for the chamber of deputies. Mazzan
lini has s2sin in the ring 3,000 built.
Czar Honors Countess Cassini.
The highest order of the Russian
Rod Cross has been conferred upon
the Countess Cassini, the adopted
daughter of the Russian ambassador,
and Mire. Boutakofi, wife of the Rus
sian naval attache, for their services
in raising a considerable sum of
money for the Russian Red Cross so
ciety. A personal letter from ho
czar of Russia to the Countess Cas
sini accompanied the decoration. Very
few persons possess this order, and
the fact that it has been conferred or
Countess Cassini and Mme. Bonin
koIT is considered in the light of a
great honor not only to the recipients
but to the Russian ambassador ar
well.
Berth for Naval Officer.
Capt. Ira Harris, who succeeds Rob
ert S. Rodie as chief steamboat in
spector of New York, was graduated
from the naval academy in the clar,.-:
with Rear Admiral Robley D. Evan.'.
After serving in the navy for fifteen
years and attaining the rank of lieu
tenant commander he resigned to en
ter private business. At the begin
ning of the Spanish-American war he
re-entered active service in the navy
yard and was assigned to command
the repair ship Vulcan, which per
formed service with Admiral Samp
son’s fleet in Cuban waters. After the
war he becan^e supervising engineer
and inspector in the army transpor’
service.
Ancient Timekeeping Methods.
Ancient timekeeping has received
new* light from two remarkable
stones lately unearthed by the Ger
man explorers on the site of the old
Ionic port, of Miletus. These stones
are the remains of calendars, ot
which one is shown to date from 109
A. D. The year was divided into
twelve zodiacal signs, and against
each month the motion of the remain
ing signs was given, with a note pre
dicting the weather. On the left side
were thirty holes, a wooden peg being
moved forward one hole each day,
thus giving the astronomical date.
Oldest Ship in the World.
Readers will be surprised to learn
that the oldest ship in the world is
not running as a ferryboat on one of
our New York ferries, but is the
Italian ship Anita, registered at the
port of Genoa. It resembles Christo
pher Columbus’ ship, the Santa
Maria, and was built in Genoa in 1548.
bne made her last voyage at the end
01 March, 1902, from Naples to Ten
eriffe, and there she rests, to be bro
ken up. The Anita is of tremendous
ly stout build and has weathered
countless storms and tornadoes in all
parts of the world, but she is also the
slowest ship afloat.
Sheep Show Prizes.'
The awards in the world’s fait
sheep show developed that the Cana
dian breeders are carrying off the
bulk of the prizes. The types in
which they excel are the Southdown,
the Dorsets, the Merinos, the Ox
fords, the Leicesters and the Lincolns.
Practically all of the prizes in the
classes for rams in these breeds have
gone to theme In the Sbropshires, the
Cotswold and other types the breed
ers from the United States are win
ning the blue ribbons.—SL Louis Re
public.
Violinist Victim of Joks.
Fritz Kreisler, the violinist, was the
victim of two mischievous American
girls, who filled his brain with slang
in the pretense of teaching him Eng
lish. The result was that one eve
nlng he gave a certain charming and
rather conventional hostess something
of a shock. “I hope you are very
well, Herr Kreisler,” she said, graci
ously, as she greeted her distinguished
guest. “Oh, yes," declared Herr Kreis
ler. "And you? I hope you are hot
stuff, also, madam!”
Cured of Fishing Habit
Persons who have 'become addicted
o drinking intoxicating liquors to.
jxcess occasionally reform, gamblers
ince in a while lay down the cards
ind work for a living, but once a man
•as allowed the mania for fishing to
■ecure a firm grip on him he rarely
ecovers until disabled by old age
ir accident. It will therefore sur
mise many to learn that within the
last week three fishermen of this city
lave been cured of their disease, and
! ;o more desire to fish. One of them
s J. Edmonston. whose chance for a
lay's sport on Labor day was ruined
iy his boy losing the net with which
le was fishing for minnows under a
wharf. He determined to have an
ither try, and so rigged up a coil or
grapple of barbed wire and undertook
o fish up his net. He pulled up lots
if brush and rubbish of all sorts,
which had collected under the wharf.
Hit could not catch his not. Finally,
is he was hauling up his grapple for
:be last time, he heard something
Irop and found that his costly hunt
ng case gold watch, with a gold fob
chain and diamond-studded emblem at
tached. had dropped into, tie- river • i:
account of his stooping too low. jp.
held his breath, and stopped boding
at his grapple for a minute, t ; ....
had bet himself $500 that his u
had not been caught in the grapp *
Then he pulled up slowly, and r.
was his watch and fob. all ri_d ip.
let his net stay in the river, tin. ,
grapple away, and on the spur w . ,t
solemn vow never again tx> p.. -,,r
cnything. and to always consider his
last catch his record one. The other
two were cured of their mania by
walking ten miles in the dust, smoke
and heat down to the mouth of the
Willamette, and then pulling a boat
for hours, fishing for bass, and never
getting even a bite. They are both
men of mature years and of sc und
minds, and when they found out that
the slough is fished by farmers w •
set nets every night, and the mark. •
supplied in this way. they put th- r
fishing tackle, including new ba •
buckets away, and said they will fi-_
no more.—Portland Oregonian.
Woman Stopped the Train
She, timid, diminutive woman, was
'rankly boasting. “Once I was great
er than all railroad rules and regula
tions,” she was saying, “and I held a
.rain ten minutes. No, I did not flag
t, but T just kept everyone waiting
ill that time for me to get off. You
see, it was this way: When my sta
;ion was called I started up to leave
;he car and found myself yanked back
suddenly. Again I tried to rise and
igain I was rudely tumbled back into
:he seat. Then I discovered that my
Iress skirt was finely fastened be
:ween the cushion and the woodwork,
n some way it had worked under,
ind every time I tried to move I
mapped back as if there was an elas
ic hand attached to me. I tugged
md tugged, but I simply could not
oosen my skirt.
“I called to the conductor and ex
plained my predicament to Lim. He
ook up the cushion, but by that time
ny skirt had worked around until it
vas wedged fast between the frame of
the seat and the wall. It was an ex
pensive dress, and I did not want to
tear it. I was nearly in tears until I
heard the conductor give the brake
man orders to hold the train, and
then 1 nearly giggled myself into hys
terics.
“Two men behind me joined in the
tussle. They told me to stand up,
.hey told me to sit down. I expected
any minute that they’d tell me to
stand on my head before 1 was re
leased. Meanwhile the other passen
gers in the car had gathered around
and were offering assistance, and I
was nearly burning up with mortitica
' tion. Finally a man with deft, careful
fingers pulled my skirt out bit by bit,
while the (yowd audibly express*'!
their admiration every time he had
gained half an inch. Finally he
wrenched the last bit out, and I fled.
The brakeman smiled as he helped me
off and said admiringly:
“ ‘My, but you’ve delayed the train
ten minutes.’ ”
Was Same Old Mower
— —1 — - . 1 ■ "• .-; ::
“A neighbor of mine at Bath Beach
ast July,” said ex-Sheriff “Tom”
Junn, “used to bore everybody on
he train by bemoaning the vagaries
)t his lawn mower. He had about ten
jquare feet of lawn that he used to
ihave most conscientiously every oth
| :r day. His lawmnower, however,
■eemed possessed of a mischievous
J lemon of some sort. It would sulk
I tnd refuse to go. Then, when he
i darted to investigate the cause of the
! dcppa^e. it would start suddenly and
; *ut his linger to the bone. It would
| ilterr.ately fail to cut the grass at ail
md dig great furrows in the soft
urf. He tried to sell it, but no one
i
.vould take it as a gift. At last, one
norning be showed me an advertise
nent in a Brooklyn paper offering for
;ale at a ridiculously low rate a peer
ess lawnmower that was warranted
-o cut grass as evenly and as regu
arly as a patent razor. The owner’s
iduress would be furnished at the
>ffice of the newspaper.
“ No New York for mine this morn
ing!’ chortled my neighbor. Tm
going to get that peerless lawnmower
this very day and take it home to
my wife as a surprise this afternoon.
She’s been wild to get rid of our old
mower. From the description, this
new one is just what we’ve been
yearning for. And to-night I’ll throw
the old one into the ash-barrel.’
“The following day we were on the
same train again, and I expected to be
bored by a glowing account of the
glorious new lawnmower. But. to
my surprise, its possessor seemed try
ing to avoid me.
“ ‘How about the new lawnmower?’
I asked.
“ ‘There is no new lawnmower,' he
answered shortly.
,r ‘But the advertisement’
“ ‘But that advertisement.’ he re
plied, with terrible solemnity, ’was
inserted by my wife.’ ’’—New York
Telegraph.
Strong Youth of Japan
One of the first things to impress
tself upon a foreigner in Japan is the
peculiarity and the excellence of the
physical training given to Japanese
voulh. They are a race of miniature
Jpartaps, and they have become so
hrough such patient, painstaking toil
ind endurance as would appall the av
erage American youth, inufed to soft
lesses. The Japanese schools are
pearly all modeled after American in
stitutions, or, as the people like to be
ieve, after a composite of ali that is
pest in the schools of America, Eng
land, France and Germany. The stu
dents are not, of course, trained in
modern athletics, and could hold their
pwn at nothing of this kind with our
magnificent college boys, but in sim
ple -physical training, making the very
pc * of what nature has provided, the
fa- nese excel any people I have ever
J€ \
y very first day in the little island
;n ire was full of exclamations
ib< it this constantly evident nation
al characteristic, which belongs to the
i lower classes and the great middle
class. The highest class in Japan is
remarkable, alas! for physical weak
ness more than for physical perfec
tion. a condition attributable to c.-iy
turies of an extraordinary sedentary
mode of life. The ship on which I
crossed the Pacific ocean had not cast
her anchor in Yokohama harbor be
fore she was surrounded by a great
crowd—"swarm" better expresses it—
of sampans, little heavy wooden boats
propelled by a single oar at the stern,
anl almost without exception handled
by boys apparently about twelve to
fourteen years old, and whose half
naked bodies, straining against the
heavy oars, looked as if they had been
modeled in bronze by some master
artist. Their training is the kind
which necessity forces upon the la
borer, of course, but it is none the
less splendid, and will have no less
splendid effect upon the future Japan.
—Leslie's Weekly.
The Kansas Farmer’s Song
.n the days done gone when the drought
was on and the chintzbugs chintzed
in the grain; when we jest raised
crops fur the thing that hops, an*
the cyclone dusted the plain: then
our reg’lar fare was bnt prairy air
as we follered the shinin' plow, an
our Sunday clothes would alarm the
crows, hut you bet it’s different now.
Oh! a farmer’s life is the life fur me;
I’m the winnin’ card in the deck;
!n these rattlin’ i^iys o’ prosperity
I am 4p it up to the neck!
Vly sufferin’ teeth I no longer gnash,
I’m a king o’ the rural rank.
With nuthin’ to do but count the cash
An’ carry it to the bank.
Our good ol’ wives in their hard lock
lives were togged in but tattered
rags; the waists on their backs
made o’ flour sacks an* the skirts
was of gunny bags. Now the gowns
they wear on their Aggers bear the
mark o’ the tailor’s hand, an’ their
jewels gleam like a fairy dream, an’
they’re stylish to beat the band!
Oh! a jayhawk life is the life fur me;
I’m the swiftest hoss on the track!
I ust to be howlin’ ca-Iam-i-tee,
But my howler’s knocked out o’ whack.
On the knocker’s bugle I ust to blow.
A regular downright crank.
But It’s riiff’rent now since I've got the
dough
In the Farmers’ and Drovers’ Bank
When the crop’s all sold an’ I’ve got the
gold we are off on a fnrrin tower,
an’ we make the trip on a high
toned ship that kin swim forty miles
an hour: an’ the togs wc wear make
the natives stare—oh! they rubber
neck at our clothes: an' the cash we
blow till you'd think, by jo! we was
playin’ it through a hose!
Oil! a faremr’s life is the life fur me;
I'm a king o’ the jayhawk blood;
I’m a-wallerin’ in pros-per-i-tee.
The happiest hog in the mud.
In society doin’s I cut a dash;;
I've a hefty roll In my flank,
An’ I've got a haymow full o* cash
In the Farmers' an’ Drovers’ Bank.
—Denver Post.
Made a Nice Distinction
Count Stirara of Paris has, like all
well-bred Frenchmen, a horror of im
moderate drinking. In course of his
recent visit to Newport, he said:
“I thought, till I went to England,
:hat all the English hard drinkers, the
four or five bottle men. had died ofT—
nad been killed off by their own pota
tions. 1 even thought that such men,
oerhaps, had never existed in the
fiesh, but only in the imaginations of
Fielding, Smollett, Lever and the oth
er novelists.
“In England, though, I was unde
ceived. In an inland English county
last fall I met a number of fox-hunt
ing and hard-drinking squires—rosy,
plump old gentlemen, as strong aa
iron, and as impervious almost as iron
to ale and port and sherry—and these
men drank from morning till bedtime,
and the only effect that liquor had on
them was to make them rosier, plump
er and more cheerful.
“One night at a hunt dinner a pale
London broker said that a certain la
mented gentleman had died, he be
lieved, of—ah—drinking.
“At this statement a rosy jquire,
over six feet in height and of two
hundred pounds weight, brought his
big fist down on the table angrily.
“ Died of drinking? Nonsense!’ he
said. 'No man ever died of drinking.
Some puny things have died learning
to drink, but no man ever died of
drinking.’ ”