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loup City Northwestern j J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher LOUP CITY, - • NEBRASKA NEW ENGLAND'S VITALITY. One or the striking features of the revival of business Is the great Indus trial activity in New England. The number of new mills, building or planned, the odditioons to old mills and factories which are being made, and the general increase in productive resources afford evidence of expand Ing traffic and greatly augmented wealth. This industrial growth is on a larger scale than It has been for a long time. It is abundant proof that New England is full of vital force, in business and In all productive activi ties. The greatest gain in the num ber and capacity of mills is in the tex tile Industry, the field the best part of which superficial observers of bus! ness conditions and changes have said the south was fast capturing, says the Cleveland Leader. Southern cotton mills have indeed multiplied rapidly and prospered greatly, but they have merely taken a part of the increase in the vast industry built upon the fiber of the cotton plant. They have not cut down New England’s output of cotton goods. They have not even prevented its strong and almost con stant expansion. Yankee skill and capital, the experience of New Eng land manufacturers, the prestige of their products and the machinery 01 distribution in their hands, all unite to defend the cotton industry of that section from injury by competition in the region where the raw material is grown. Once upon a time, the seasoned gos sips of Washington say, you could spot a United States senator at sight. But now. they declare, it. is hard to tell a solon of the upper house from a stock broker. It is ail in the mutter of clothes, says the New York World. The long frock coat, the expansive shirt front and the big. soft black hat of old have yielded to modern business attire. We mention these things be cause a Washington dispatch stating that 55 members of the house ap peared on Monday in wholly new rai ment suggests a general thought of the clothes of congress. A British M. P. who visited this country n few years ago remarked that our national legis lators did not know how to dress. To which a traveler from home rejoined promptly that they were lucky if they did not know how to dress like mem bers of the house of commons. Be that as it may, what meager particu lars we have of the new suits of vari ous representatives indicate that the increased salaries of congress have fallen amid exponents of sartorial progress and good taste. It is likely , that ali 55 of the freshly clad would pass muster on brightest Fifth ave cue. Sir Robert Bond, former premier ot Newfoundland, who has been conspic uous for many years as an opponent of American fishermen who ply their calling in Newfoundland waters, aud who has been largely instrumental in inflating the fishing imbroglio to pro portions which compelled internation a! consideration and submission tc. The Hague conference, was badly beaten in the election which took place in Newfoundland. This fact will be accepted as evidence that New foundlanders are not opposed to Amer lean fishermen, aud that they find in the presence of the Americans an ele ment of business which makes for the prosperity of the coast fishermen, who not only work for the American fish ing vessels, but also dispose of their fish in a legal manner, under the limi tations of the Jaw. Here Is one point on which the im migration laws might easily be strengthened. American citizenship is not a right, but a privilege, and it should be so construed, says the New York Tribune. If the country offers exceptional opportunities to the strong and intelligent of other coun tries, it is worth their while to prove that they are entitled to share in these opportunities. No one can find any legitimate fault with this pro cedure, except the criminal and the incompetent, and the American people need consult t$elr wishes only in so far as It may be desirable to find out what they would prefer and then act to the contrary. That wife who made her husband account for every cent she gave him was only getting back at some hus bands. A young woman In tin metropolis was saved from serious danger In an accident by her peacb-baBkct hat. Bui this is a doubtful good, as far as socl ety is concerned. Nothing which tends to make tne present millinery monstrosities popular is a thing to bt welcomed. There is no immediate demand fot the annexation of Cubn. but there may come a time when It will be necessarp lor this government to take over that fertile but troubled isle. It is pretty difficult to kill off the gambling spirit. The Cuban house of representatives has voted to establist a national lottery. It is Cuba's luisi ness, of course. But other ways oi raising money for government pur poses would have been more credita hie. Judging by the numerous rerrnr rjsges of divorced Couples, there is t" fle’d for some enterprising author wht can hammer together u book on "How to be happy though divorced." NEBRASKA IN BRIEF NEWS NOTES OF INTEREST FROM VARIOUS SECTIONS. ALL SUBJECTS TOUCHED UPON Religious. Social, Agricultural, Polit ical and Other Matters Given Due Consideration. R F. Clark, a pioneer of Polk coun ty. hanged himself last week. Betty, the llyearold daughter of F. M. George of St Paul, was severely kicked by a vicious horse she was try ing to lead Her skull was fractured and she is in a serious condition. Fire starting in Michael’s restaurant at Sterling destroyed five business buildings, causing a loss of about $10,000. The flames were chocked just in time to save a large two-story brick building on Main street. At Fremont one Fletcher felled his wife with an alarm clock. The woman grabbed a pistol and lie double quicked from her presence. Mow she has left him. and gone back to her folks at Cullinville, Wash. A telegram was received in Ne braska City telling of the sudden death of Charles M. Hicklin at Den ver. Colo. The deceased was born and reared In Nebraska City and was aged 43 years. Orville Sloggett. the 12-year-old son of Alfred Sloggett. a well-known farmer living five miles east of Broken Bow, is dead from the effects of in juries received by a horse falling on him. Seven farmers in Kockford town ship, tinge county, living along Mud creek, lost over 100 acres of wheat owing to the high water. The grain had been cut and was in the shock when the high water carried It away. Sheriff Mencke of Blair went to Herman, where he searched the resi dence of J. A. West for liquor and found five large boxes, containing 155 pint bottles full of whisky, which were seized and stored to be used as evi dence. Reports from the southern part of Gage county are to the effect that hundreds of acres of corn and wheat are standing in water and will be a total loss. Thousands of bundles of wheat have been seen iioating down stream. Stevenson (Wash.) dispatch: Pros per Marion, wanted at Bolling Springs. Neb., on a charge of having killed John Murphy in 1884, was arrested here this afternoon, and is being held awaiting instructions from officers in Cherry county, Nebraska. Peter Unruh, former postmaster at Tyndall, S. D„ after languishing in Jail at Madison, Neb., for over a year awaiting trial at the fall term of the district court, was released on $3,000 ball, and he left for his home and family at Tyndall. A young man by the name of Mar lott, of Long Pine, was run over by a train between Long Pine and Bassett and was literally cut to pieces. It Is not known how- the accident happened hut it is supposed he was riding on the rods under a car of the east-bound passenger train and fell off. Due to the negligence of the en gineer or fireman at the Hastings asy lum, so Dr. Baxter, superintendent, has written to the state board, the holler exploded there, and it will cost $400 or $500 to make repairs. The letter said the water was permitted to get too low in the boiler. N. C. Abbott, superintendent of the Institute for the blind at Nebraska City, is making a campaign for more pupils for his school. He has written letters to all the junior normal schools and to the ministers he knows and to "school teachers, asking them to send him the name and address of any blind child they may know. Some of the farmers in Gage county have equipped their harvesters with a small gasoline engine, which is at tached to the gear of the machine, for the purpose of assisting them in cutting their wheat in muddy weather. The idea is to operate the harvesting mechanism by power from the engine, thus relieving the team of the extra work of furnishing power for driving the machinery. I lull.' Hi V Uflllfi IUI muuiicu IV, mill bine the next boys' and girls' agricul tural contest for Adams county with the projected county institute and have the two held in Hastings in Oc tober, in connection with a stock show and exhibition of grains. The scheme contemplates a county fair on a some what miniature though intensified scale, with the institute as the chief feature. Dr. .1. G. Neff, "a dentist of Sterling, was brought into the county court at Tecumseh on a statutory charge, his 17-year-old daughter, l.ora Neff, sign ing the complaint. The case was heard before Judge James Livingston, J. C. Moore appearing for the state and E. R. Hitchcock for the defend ant. Dr. Neff refused to plead. He was placed under bond in the sum of $1,000 to appear for trial at the dis trict court.. For years Mrs. Minnie Green has been a trusted employe in the store of Miller & Paine at Lincoln. She was ambitious and thrifty and was allowed to buy stock in the enterprise. Now she is In jail, and will have to account for about $2,500 worth of purloined goods. Mrs. J. E. Caldwell, formerly of Lincoln, manager of the Reneau hotel, n Broken Bow. nearly made a fata! mistake when she unconsciously sub stituted a bottle of carbolic acid for ane containing medicine. Doctors worked long and vigorously before she was out of danger, R. E. Parker, a young man from Brady Island, was severely hurt by jumping from train No. t at Grand Island. Parker thought the traiu was going on through Kearney without stopping, and wishing to get off in Kearney he jumped He was taken to the hospital seriously injured. D. H. Begole was elected president of the Beatrice Commercial club. The club is making an effort to increase its membership and is meeting with pood success. A new rural route, twenty-iwo raile.i in length, l*as been established a; Leaf :tce. CHCSING OF JUDGES. Secretary cf State Junkln Given Some Instructions. County clerks have been Instructed by Secretary of Slate Junkln to in clude state officers in getting out th^ir election notices. This means that un less the supreme court overrules the decision of the Lancaster district court in declaring unconstitutional the non partisan judiciary act, candidates for supreme judge and regents of the state university will be nominated at pri mary elections. Numerous county clerks have called the secretary over the telephone and have written him for instructions and one of them when instructed to include the state officers replied that the gov ernor had not yet issued a proclama tion for a primary election. The secre tary of state holds this makes no dif ference. The secretary hua been man damused to place the name of John M. Kogan on a primary ballot as a repub lican candidate for supreme judge and he will follow the instructions of the lower court unless this decision is set aside by the supreme body. To Study Fish Diseases. Dr. H. B. Ward of Nebraska univer sity, accompanied by George La Kue of Spencer, la., a university student, and Edward Davis of Lincoln, also a uni versity student, have started on a trip to Alaska for the purpose of studying the diseases of the salmon. They ex pect to be gone until September l and will travel over a great deal of Alaskan fishing territory. Dr. Ward goes under the direction of the government bureau of fisheries and the expenses of himself and one of the boys Is borne by the govern ment. The University of Nebraska bears the expense of the other assist ant. As a result the university will receive a large number of valuable specimens. The party will be given assistance not only by the government, but by all the large salmon canners, who are interested in the work. Fleets of boats will be at their command, as well as the aid of a number of expert fishermen. The salmon, according to Dr. Ward, have been suffering from a large num ber of diseases which are rapidly de creasing the supply. It is to find some means of cheeking and preventing the spread of these diseases that Dr. Ward is being sent on this mission. He is a well-known expert along this line, his work in connection with the white fish industries on the great lakes being especially commended. New Laws Ready. The first copies of the session laws were received by the secretary of state last week from Timothy Sedg wick. The book is smaller than that of two years ago, cost less and Is printed on book paper and ie pro nounced by the secretary of state to be the best looking yet turned out in that line. Burlington Wants Rehearing. The Burlington road has asked the supreme court for a rehearing in the Wilber I. Cram case, wherein the court upheld the constitutionality of the act of 1907 which reuires live stock trains to move at the rate of eighteen miles an hour on main lines and twelve miles an hour on branch roads. .Judge Barnes dissented from the opinion of the corut. Live Stock Pavilion. The State Fair board will buy the piles and drive them in order to have a solid foundation for its new live stock pavilion. The price asked for tlie piles by the contractors was more than the board thought it could afford to pay. so it secured them at a cheaper rate by doing its own buying. Good Wheat in Hitchcock County. The labor bureau has received word from Hitchcock county that B. B. Har rison of near Trenton has 200 acres of wheat which will average thirty bushels to the acre. Mr. Harrison ex pects to receive $1 a bushel for his wheat, which the labor commissioner believes, taken altogether, makes an extremely good showing for Hitchcock county. Want to Raise Rates. Lincoln.—The application of the rail roads for permission to raise the rates on milled feed to the same rate that applies on raw feed from Humphrey, Norfolk, Albion and Oakdale to Omaha was heard before the railway commis sion. With it was incorporated the pe tition of the roads to make the Mis souri Pacific put its flour rate on a par with its wheat rate from Crete to Omaha. Call for Health Records. Gov. Shallenberger and Attorney General Thompson of the state board of health passed a resolution calling upon the board of secretaries of the board to turn over the records to the new board of secretaries appointed by the governor under the new law. Motor Car Without Smoker. The state railway commission gave permission to the Northwestern to run its motor car between Lincoln and Fremont without a smoking compart ment. The new law provides a smok ing compartment and toilet room on all cars, but it specifies that the state railway commission may set aside the law if the railroad can show the same is not necessary. Says Assessment is Too Low. Attached to the history of a bond issue of the village of Cambridge is a certified statement from the village clerk. W. J. Holley, to the effect that for bond issue purposes and for taxa tion purposes the property of the vil lage has a different valuation. The part of the certified statement bearing on that subject is as follows: Tha as sessed value of real estate and per sonal and other property, equalized in 1908. is $109,125. The assessed valua tion is the same as returned by the assessor for 1908. Receipts of Express Companies. Rate Clerk Powell of the railway commission has completed a compila tion of the revenue received by ex press companies operating in Ne braska during the month of April. All of the companies operating in Ne braska received $91,447.85 during the month of April. 1908. and for the same month in the year of 1909 received l $103,828.70. an increase of $12,350.85. | The Pacific Express company showed I a small loss in business for April, 1909, and the American and the Adams com* j panics show the greatest gain. II TEST BE SAMPLES INVESTIGATIONS BY THE NE BRASKA SEED LABORATORY. RESULTS THAT WERE SECURED State Board of Assessment Completes the Work of Valuation of Railroads. The experiment station bulletin No. 110 presents In a popular form the most Important results secured by the Nebraska Seed Laboratory from the time of its establishment to July i, 1008, together with a statement show ing the various tests made up to May 1, 1909. A grand total of 463 samples was received and 636 different tests made during the lirst year and 617 samples and 950 tests during the second year up to May 1, 1909. Over 60 per cent of these samples were received from the farmers and seedsmen of Ne braska. Alfalfa—The 201 samples of alfalfa examined varied in purity from 56 per cent to 99 per cent; in germination from 56 per cent to 100 per cent and contained from 0.1 per cent of inert matter and from 0 per cent to 36 per cent of foreign seed. Four species of dodder were found in varying amounts. Oue sampic of alfalfa con tained over 9 per cent of dodder and if this seed had been sown at the rate of 16 pounds to the acre there would have been sown 16,365 dodder seeds to the square rod. Buokhorn. wild carrot, wild chicory, lamb’s quarters and the seeds of about 75 other weeds were found in the alfalfa samples. Red Clover—The 61 samples of red clover examined varied in purity from 75 per cent to 99 per cent; in germina tion from 07 per cent to 100 per cent and contained from 0.3 per cent to 12 per cent inert matter and from 0.1 per cent to 22 per cent foreign seed Clover dodder seeds were found in eight of these samples and a total of over 7u other more or less noxious weed seeds were found in the various clover samples. Buckhom, for ex ample, waF present in nearly 50 per cent of the clover samples. Brome Grass—The 20 samples ot awnless brome grass examined varied in purity from 33 per cent to 90 per cent; in germination from 0 per cent to 80 per cent and contained from 2 per cent to 40 per cent inert matter and from 0.1 per cent to 5G per cent foreign seed. The various species of wheat grass are most frequently found In awnless brome grass, though com mon cheat and other sorts of brome grass of little or no value are often present. Pure Seeds and Sure Seeds—Farm ers should not buy and plant weed seeds. The Nebraska Seed Labora tory Is prepared to undertake, without cost, the study of any samples of seed sent to it for the purpose of determin mg the ifnts: 1. Presence of adulterants or dod der. 2. Mechanical purity. 3. Germination. The bulletin may be obtained free r>f cost by writing the Nebraska Ex periment Station. Lincoln. Neb., and asking for Bulletin No. 110. Franchises Are Assessed. The state board of assessment met and completed the work of placing a ’•aluation on the franchise and rolling stock of the various railroads. This valuation will be distributed to the various towns of the state under the terminal tux law according to mileage of the railroads. The actual value per mile of the franchise and rolling stock of the I'nion Pacific and its branches is the same as last year, while the North western Is Increased from $10,000 a mile to $11,500 a mile. The Missouri Pacific is decreased on its main line from $18,000 a mile to $16,000. Both of its branches are also decreased. The following tabic* shows the value 'if the franchise and rolling stock per mile of the various railroads of Ne braska fixed by the state board of equalization: Union Pacific .$87,500 $87,500 Omaha & Rep. Valley Br.. 28,000 28.000 Kearney branch. IS.ooo 15.000 Central City branch. K'.OOO 10.000 North Platte branch. 2.000 2.000 Chicago & Northwestern... 10.000 ll.Oio c.. St. P.. M. & 0. 18.000 18.000 C.. St. P., M & O. extension 5.<’00 5.000 Rock Island . 25,000 25.000 3t Joe line. 18.000 18.000 Nelson line. 12.000 12.000 Missouri Pacific. 18.000 1G.C00 Missouri Pacific- extension.. 1 17.000 Lincoln branch. 19.000 17.000 Crete branch. 15,500 13.500 Kas. City & Northwestern.. 8.000 8.000 Pacific Ry. In Nebraska... 5,000 3,500 St. Joseph & Ruck Island.. 10,000 11.000 The Burlington system waa assessed different this year from last. Last year the assessment ranged from $3,000 to $55,000 a mile and this year the assessment ranges from $50,000 to $3,000. Extra Session Probable. "Should the federal court make per manent the temporary injunction against the banking law going into ef fect. it is my intention to tall a spe cial session of the legislature imme diately after the decision is known.” Gov. Shallenberger made this state ment. "The decision will set out just what is wrong with the present law and then it will be an easy matter to prepare a bill in accordance with the decision. I see no necessity for wait ing until the supreme court of the United States passes on the question." Ban '•n Bank Ad-». The state banking board is prepar ing a circular letter to send to al! state banks warning them against making unwarranted statements in re gard to the guaranty law in their ad vertisements. One instance has conic to the attention of the board in which a bank advertises the guaranty law goes into effect July 2 and that all de posits are guaranteed by the state The advertisement asserts a time cer tificate in the bank is ns good as a 1 state bond. The banking board hold the advertisement is unwarranted. 1 Mysteries of Nature By G. Frederick Wright, A. M. LL. D. ORIGIN OF WORLD'S FERTILE SOILS. It hardly reeds saying that in gen eral the prosperity of a nation is de pendent upon the fertility of Its soil. In some few eases, it is true, nations may prosper because they have a mo nopoly of mines, of manufactures, or of the means of trade and commerce. Hut the larger part of the things which minister to the necessities and the comforts ot mankind are the direct products of the soil. The study of the soils becomes a department of geology because all soils are rock in processes of transformation. The earth is cov ered by a very thin veneering of soil. At a depth of a few inches or a few feet, or at most a few hundred feet, solid rock is everywhere reached. The soils of the world have their origin in the disintegration of these rocks by ex posure to the atmosphere or to various mechanical agencies like that of run ning water and moving ice. The relation of the soli to the under lying rocks, however, is dependent upon the action of transporting agen cies which are at hand. Where there are no transporting agencies sufficient to carry away the disintegrated parti cles as fast as they accumulate over the surface we have what is called •‘residual soil," whose character will partake entirely of that of the under lying rock. If the underlying rock is a conglomerate or sandstone resid ual soil will be composed of nothing but sand and gravel, which is capable of supporting only a limited variety of vegetable life. It is fortunate, however, that these barren sandstone ridges alternate with the rocks of different character whose disintegration produces a residual soil of remarkable fertility. From one end to the other of the Appalachian chain □1’ mountains outcrops of limestone ap pear in lines horizontal to those of the sandstone outcrops, such as are cut through by the Delaware, the Lehigh, the Susquehanna, the Fotoinac and other rivers just before reaching the Atlantic coast plain. These limestones contain all the elements required by the higher class of vegetation, and the thin residual soil over them has fur nished the basis for Fome of the most prosperous communities of the coun try. The celebrated Wyoming Valley on the Susquehanna, the Shenandoah valley in Virginia and that of the up per Tennessee are illustrations of the agricultural wealth which is supplied by the disintegration of limestone rocks. In numerous places In central Pennsylvania as in the mountains south of Williamsport, there are limit ed outcrops of limestone over which have sprung up flourishing communi ties surrounded by barren sandstone mountains, as islands are surrounded by water in the sea. The blue grass region in Kentucky is similarly situated, being bordered by barren outcrops of Devonian sub carboniferous conglomerates and sand stones, while the thin covering of soil resulting from the disintegration of the Silurian limestone supports a veg etation which furnishes the elements most necessary for the best develop ment of cattle and horses, and so in considerable measure accounts for the pre-eminence of that region in those departments of industry. It would not be strange, also, if the pre-em inence claimed by the Kentuckians for the beauty of their women and the strong physique of their men were due to this gift from nature of a richly endowed limestone soil. The agricultural richness of Pales tine is traceable to a similar cause. Soil there which would seem to a west ern farmer worthless, produces the finest vineyards and the most flourish ing olive groves, because the disinte gration constantly going on in the fragments of limestone rock that cover the surface annually supplies the ele ments needed for these most impor tant ministers to human need. Put so limited are the deposits of rock containing the concentrated ele ments of fertility that an undue por tion of the world would be barren if it were not that nature is provided with elaborate means of transporta tion, whereby the richness of one sec tion is carried to another, resulting in a commingling of elements, which is of the highest advantage. During the long geological ages water, ice and air had been engaged in transporting and depositing in distant regions the residual soils which were accumulat ing thousands of years before man came upon the scene. The flood-plains of nearly all rivers are rich in agri cultural possibilities because they have brought to them the elements of soil supplied by the entire river basin. The Mississippi valley from Cairo to the gulf is a deposit of sediment to which the whole upper portion, extend ing from the Rocky to the Allegheny mountains has furnished its quota, and so it is with nearly all the larger river systems of the world. In the northern part of Europe and of the United States and in the south ern portions of British America gla cial ice has been the plow and the harrow and the scraper which have prepared the region for its most suc cessful occupation by man. The north ern part ot the United States is liv ing to a considerable extent upon the richness of Canada. Everywhere down to the limits reached by the ice of the glacial period Canadian bowlders are found, mingled with the finer grist of j Canadian rocks which were ground off from the highlands by the ice and car ried in its movement south for hun dreds of miles. A European expert has taught us how to enrich our soil by grinding up the granite rocks, con taining a large amount of feldspar (which Is the basis of clay) and other elements of value, and spreading it. An eminent authority in the United States recently asked me if we could not accomplish that purpose In the United States by grinding up the Cana dian bowlders. The answer at hand was, nature has already performed that work for us. The ice movement of the glacial period ground a large part of tlie elements it brought witli it to the finest of powder and spread it far and wide. It Is estimated that on an average the deposit of glacial grist over the northern part of the United Stntes is 100 feet thick. When I had nearly completed the survey of the glacial boundary in Ohio 20 years ago I chanced to meet Prof. W. I. Chamberlain, the accomplished sec retary of the board of agriculture, and showed him the line across the st^te. He at once remarked that that line separated the more productive agri cultural portion of the state from the least productive. And still Canada has enough remain ing. In Ontario, between the lakes, it has reserved a vast glacial deposit of indefinite depth und unbounded fer tility. The valley of the St. Lawrence is one of the richest soils In the world, resulting from the deposit of glacial material in a temporary arm of the sea which existed during the closing portion of the glucial period. But per haps the most remarkable of such ac cumulations is that in the bed of the glacial Lake Agassiz. The unrivaled richness of the Mis souri valley, where it passes through South Dakota. Nebraska, Iowa, Kan sas and Missouri, is due almost entire ly to the “loess," which is principally the fine portion of the glacial grist de posited during the extreme floods which characterized the final melting of the ice-sheet from the northern part of the United States. In many places, as at Sioux City. Omaha, St. Joseph. Mo., this fine silt has accumulated upon the edges of the valley to a depth of more than 100 feet, and all along it is spread out on either side to a distance of 40 or 50 miles. In Europe the glacial deposits play an equally prominent part in furnish ing fertile soils for the agriculturist. All the lowlands of northern Germany and western Russia consist of glacial debris largely ground off from the mountains of Scandinavia, and spread out over the area to a depth of oftentimes 100 feet of more. The ex tensive plains of black earth which cover southern Russia and have long been famous for their production of wheat, are covered with loess to a ! depth of 50 feet or more, precisely like that in the Missouri valley which has just been referred to. In the opinion of the Russian geologists this is a water deposit connected with the clos ing stages of the glacial period. Anyone familiar with the dust | storms on our western plains or on the borders of Mongolia will not he j surprised to learn that some of the j most eminent geologists believe that j the pleat deposits of loess in Cl*na, and even in our Missouri valley, wei<c originally derived from the arid re gions to the west, from which the ma terial has been brought by the winds. , Whatever may be true as to the agency of water in finally distributing this rich soil into its present situa tion. it is in China most probably a slow accumulation of dust blown by the prevailing west winds from the | vast plains of the desert of Gobi; while that in the Missouri valley hns I very likely come in a similar manner from the arid regions of the Rocky mountain plateau. Oftentimes on the borders of these regions the sun will he for a considerable time almost dark ened by the dust that fills the air. Thus by various methods is nature , able to transfer the richness which is superabundant in one region to other areas less generously provided, but otherwise more suitably adapted to the occupation of man. Auto Trip Through Arabia David Forbes, an Englishman, with a Party, Is the First to Make Tour. David Forbes, an Englishman, has had the novel and somewhat exciting experience of being the first person to traverse Arabia in an automobile. His route was from Alexandretta to Bagdad, and the journey consumed nine days. It takes the ordinary trav eler three days to drive from Alexan* drctta to Aleppo, and from there to Bagdad it is 21 days by caravan. The trip is not a safe one to take. Forbes had a party or five, an English chauf feur. an Assyrian mechanic, a Bagdact cook, an Arab and himself, and trav eled in an ordinary 4o-horsepowcr touring car. Gasoline was sent ahead to the caravan stations, and it took 1 jf, gallons for the trip. If is said the motor used a gallon in 12 mil s. which seems improbable, but allowing ten miles to the gallon the journey was 1 3flo miles, and this was done entirely without maps. The irrigation ditcher along the Euphrates offered serious trouble and the soft sand was bad. The Euphrates was crossed on a raft huilt for the occasion. The Arabs when they saw the car thought it was the railroad which had gone amuck, and become lost In the desert. Where to Live Long. Yarmouth Is living up to the reputa tion Charles Dickens gave It when he advised the purchase of an annuity and residence at Yarmouth to attain the age of Methuselah. The annual repi-.t of its medical of [ (leer of health, Issued yesterday, states i hat in 11)0,s the average rate of mor tality was much below the previous ! ten years and was two per thousand | lower than the corrected average [death rate for the 7U great towns, so i that on Its population of su.OOO no [fewer than 1 DO lives were saved last year as compared with the mortality : In the country generally,—London ; -Standard. MOKE PINKHAM CURES Added to the Long List due to This Famous Remedy. Camden, N.J.— "It Is with pleasure that I add my testimonial to your already long list—hoping that it may induce others to avail themselves of cine, LvdiaE. l’ii ik ham's Vegetable Compound. 1 suf fered from terrible headaches, pain in mv back and right side, was tired and nervous, and so weak 1 could hardly stand. Lydia E. Hnkham’s V egeta ble Compound re ntnroil nm to tion.lt h ami made me feel like a new person, nod It shall always havo my praise.” —Mrs. W. P. 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In the smoking-room of the Finland, discussing a June wedding. Andrew Carnegie said: "And thank goodness it wasn’t an international marriage, though the bride did have IS millions. "Not,” appended Mr. Carnegie, "that I object to international marriages wherein the two parties are good and honorable and well matched. But so many of these marriages are like one that a Boston cynic described to me. "‘Was it a happy marriage?’I asked this Bostonian. “ ‘Oh. quite,’ said he. ‘The bride was happy, her mother was over joyed. Lord Lacland was in ec stacies, and Ills creditors, I under stand, were in a state of absolutely endless and uncontrollable bliss.’ ” Royal Great-Great-Grandmother. The birth of a son to the youthful duke and duchess of Sudermania gives to royal Europe what it has not had for more than ten years, namely, a great-great-grandmother. 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