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were so insensible to the claims of seillaise. The vibrations were trans
propriety, of loyalty and to the favors mitted to the brain by an apparatus
which the good old Queen showered attached to the head independently
upon everyone in her entourage, as of the ears. He showed a photograph
to appear to enjoy her funeral. King of a deaf boy with a sad, gloomy ex
Edward and the royal family are -in- pression and his photograph after the
censed at this lack of reverence, lact plates bad been fitted to his head and
of gratitude, lack of common good just as his brain was receiving the
feeling, and while some other cause first vibrations of the Marseillaise,
will be assigned for their eventual His expression in the second photo
- dismissal' from the iobs tbattbey-have graph was transfigured. Another in-
held for years, it is on the cards that strument made a blind boy see.
and the earth develope in Held flow
ers, in fruits and in nuts. It is not
at all a Gibsonesque beauty but men
and women who like the brown up
lands of autumn and the untended
hills of summer, who can translate
the lines of a wide neutral-tinted
marsh into beautv aDDreciate these
constitute the field of investigate n.
About May 1, two representatives. ,f
the division will begin work at Piatt
mouth and go up the river, examin
ing and classifying the growth f
trees. Especial attention will be paid
to the distribution of species, and t
all efforts to cultivate considerable
they will resign and resign soon. The
biograph as a witness can not be con
fused or induced, on cross-examination,
to contradict Itself. It tells
the same old story, over and over
again without much sign of fatigue.
It will take hundreds of repetitions
to fade or rattier dull the outlines of
the good story and the appreciative
guffaw on the faces of the two offic
ials who stand near the coffin while it
is being raised on to the decks of the
Alberta. Reporters and lookers-on
"When a bird flies in the air, we do
not actually see a bird, we get a per
ception of vibration. The little ma
chine produced the vibrations of a
bird flying and when the blind boy
put his thumb on it, be actually saw
the bird. A third instrument showed
that by means of electricity, sound
waves can be collected in one room,
carried to another and exactly repro
ducedthe principle of the phono
graph. A student of vibrations might
easily convince an audience that their
indeDendent, farmer women, freckled, bodies of timber. In the investiRa-
brown, who study the market and the tion of tree-planting experiments the
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read the season's prophesy and plant be noted, for it is desirable to obtain
the fields so as to be ready for its ful- all possible information on thesub
fillroent. The intellectual effort to ject.
must have noticed the merriment but impressions were produced by spiritual
nobody said anything about it until
the biograph indubitably revealed it
to thousands and started the gossips.
The incident l like what has so
of tea happened in America on funeral
trains made up of senators and repre
seatatives escorting the 'body of a
dead president'or senator to the home
town, wh(e citfxens are waiting in
manifestations and start a show that
would attract the multitude.
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Women m Agriculture
Booker Washington has discovered
that women like farming and are
readily taught its various branches.
The Tusicegee school is graduating
real grief and awe for the body of the mistresses of bee culture, cotton and
man who was their own familiar
friend. These trains are stocked
with consoling coW bottles so gener
ously .that when the little town is
reached the dead-man's comrades not
only do sot feel sorrowful but are only
able by a great effort to tone down
tobacco raising, butter and cheese
making etcetera. American travelers
in Europe when they -see a woman,
yoked to aplowwhpse handles are
held by her husband are shocked.
But these French, German, Swiss and
Butch women are strong, stocky wo-
tbeir raptures to a resigned expres- men, of no nerves. They live to a
sion. good old age, withered, brown, wr ink-
There is also another reason for led, with very bright, deep-set eyes,
hilarity, on the sly, at funerals. The 'These old women are a feature in the
sight of a dead body, the presence of picturesque, and characteristic-sights
the dead among the living is an an- of Europ3 though the guide books do
nouncement in a loud voice from the not exploit them. It is brutal for the
grave: 'Thus far sbalt thou go and male peasant to make the weaker
no further." Life disputes it, defies sex do the hardest work andAmeri
it, laughs at it. It is the human ns re especially shocked by the
healthful impulse to put off disaster, 8bt of the little women tugging the
to be brave and confident when con- heavy -burdens while the wooden-
faced men stalk heavily after them.
American men have progressed a de
gree or two beyond this crude asser
tion of superior strength, but after
all It does not count for much. By
fronted by another proot of dissolu
tion. 8ome people like to go to funer
als because it puts them in such good
spirits; acting upon their tempera
Beats like a strong stimulant. Per
haps these English courtiers belong to" r tne forger number of unmarried
this type. - or wiuowea women must earn their
j jt own living, yet there are few em-
1.. ,,.., ,-... ..-.I. .- PloJerswbo are willing to pay the
lauiriiincnMfTy at tae tt nm Mine p to female and male em
Professor Dussaud, of Paris, France, pioyes. None of the ardent and viru
in a recent lecture on the senses dem- lent opponents of women's rights
onetrated the definition of "sense" by denies that most unmarried women
experiments. At one of the sessions - must earn their own living. Yet so
of the International Institute of Psy- long as the .ballot is denied the work
chology Professor Dussaud rendered era female labor will be underpaid
the usual definition of sense as "a and underestimated,
perception of vibration." He said by Agriculture Is a method of earning
applying this theory he had been able one's living in the open air and in
to make the Wind see and the deaf healthful and beautiful surroundings.
bear. Originally there was only one In America there will be no yoking of
sense which by a long process of evo- the woman to the four-footed ox and
tion became differentiated into five, in agriculture political disfranchise
By the principle of the conservation of mentcan have but little effect upon
forcea each of the five means an inter profits. A farmer is an emperor upon
changeable vibration called sight, his acres and an intelligent, energetic,
hearing , smell, taste and touch ac- healthy woman who understands
coriiagaa it is received by the eye, stock-raising can succeed. Thenum
ear.Bote, palate or the entire surface btr of rfell-to-do women who have
of toe body. Therefore if by any conducted market gardens success
neaae vibrations, corresponding to fully is very large, not in Nebraska
natural oeeecaa be artificially repro- but in the neighborhood of large
daced asd transmitted by a perfectly cities, where vegetables and chickens
receptive organ to . the brain, the are higher priced and sell more quick
same impressions must be received as ly. Tramping over the electric earth,
if the brain received the impressions and acted upon by the most effective'
ttaroogh the organs created to carry of medicinal agents, the sun and the
that kind of message. Prof. Dussaud air, these farmer women laugh at
demonstrated this rather obscure Lydia Pinkham's insistent advice,
.statement by three instruments. One and they laugh last too. These farm
was an apparatus by which the deaf ere are not very beautiful. They are
had been made to hear. Bymechan- only wholesome, brown, prosperous
ical means Professor Dussaud repro- and therefore cheerful. They have a
doced the exact vibrations of the Mar. beauty such as the sun and the wind
understand the signs and act upon
them promptly rescues her life from
monotony and keep her this side of the
insanity which has driven so many
farmer's wives insane. In this state
whole families work in the sugar beet
fields. In New York, near Lake Cham
plain, a duck and bee ranch of three
acres produces yearly two and one
half tons of honey under the skillful
managementof a girl who had to relin
quish a stenographer's position in the
city on account of ill-health. Booker T.
Washington has organized the Wo
man's Barn-Yard Auxiliary Society.
It flourishes in several states and has
a membership of twenty-five hundred,
some of whom have gained twenty;
It is expected that Kearney will be
reached before July 1. At this point
the party will be increased to six
members and will be equipped with a
complete camp outfit and saddle
horses. The following four months
will be spent in work that will prac
tically cover the western half of the
state. The line of travel will be from
Kearney to the western boundary of
the state, along the Platte, thence
northeast to Crawford, and then in a
general southeasterly direction
through the sand hills, and down the
Middle Loup river to Loup City.
A wide strip of territory can be
studied on each side of the route, as
the partvtwill be mounted, and par-
five per cent on their capital which- ticular attention is to be given to the
was very small at first. distribution and reproduction of the
A recent Italian writer appeals to yellow pine. Nebraska is the meet
his countrywomen to take up agri- ing ground of the plains and mountain
culture, and instances beet-growing, floras, and if it were only for this
poultry-keeping and silkworm-rear- reason much valuable and interesting
ing as branches in especial need of information will be obtained. Co
operation -by -the people alcfng the
route will greatly facilitate the work.
The Division of Forestry has re
ceived sufficient encouragement from
work already done in Nebraska to
warrant the thorough examination
that is to be made this summer. The
fact that many tree-growers in the
state are already realizing substan
tial profits from planted timber is
noteworthy. A number of men who
have had wide experience in dealing
with the problem of forestry in Ne
braska have written to the Division
of Forestry stating that there is no
doubt of the possibility of increasing
the present scant growth of trees, and
agreeing that even the sand hills can
be forested. Among those who have
expressed such an opinion are ex-
the two Secretary of Agriculture J. Sterling
relative Morton; Professor Charles E. Bessey
of the university of Nebraska; C. S.
Harrison, president of the Nebraska
Park and Forest association; and F,
E. Stephens.
Timhar le an tniln nn nn.!iUnpil
nniiwi at.too n.nn,.nf f i ....i " "j ''""""'
t,r TnZZZiZ r.ir u croD wneat or corn- Improved tor
ture baa decided to make a thorough est commons in Nebraska means
S!!??!?!?1?0 cm,D5!um:'cheaperfuel,a beneficialinfluence on
m6,lul ""B'Wiu in bucauueui lrwjl Mlmat. lfh
trained woman labor. c He desires the
women of the upper classes to inter
est themselves In agricultural affaire
quite as much as the lower. Certain
ly as modern farming becomes more
scientific as rotation of crops, or the
Russian three-field system, is under
stood farms will grow smaller and
every clod of dirt will be induced to
produce its, full toll .to humanity.
This sort of Intensive farming is
peculiarly fitted to the strength and
limitations of women. "There Is no
stupid work, there are only stupid
workers." says the French proverb
and the woman-farmer who bad been
a clerk, who asserted that "There is
an independence and a scope about
this out-door life, beside which an
office position seems very tame,"
shows the contrast between
occupations as well as their
effects upon the spirit.
Arboriculture.
The Division of Forestry of the
a consequent
crease in the value of land.
in-
Nebraska. It Is hoped that the ex
amination and comparison of the for
est region with the treeless portion of , ji
Nebraska, the investigation Into the
enemies of trees and the methods of Dr. Hrrroo.
destroying them may increase the num.. It is strange how the spirit of re-
berof trees.. Killing the insectivorous, form will break in upon domestic
non-poisonous snakes, the wholesale felicity. The cases of Mary Ellen
shooting of quail and prairie chickens, Leeseandof Carrie Nation maybe
the wanton destruction of meadow- cited incidentally anil ntin another
case is that of Rev. Dr. George D.
Herron, writer, lecturer, socialist,
college professor and reformer. When
Dr. Herron was assistant to Dr.
Salter of the First Comrrefirational
larks and of all other kinds of insect
ivorous birds has left the grains and
forests of Nebraska unprotected by
their indigenous correlatives and
friends. Farmers have great faith in
a commission appointed by the na- church of Burlington, Iowa his domes-
tional government. Their next-door tic relations were peaceful and happy,
neighbor may be a naturalist of life- He had a charming wife and four
long ardor and intuitive knowledge of children, and their future seemed
plants, birds and insects, whose trees bright. When Dr. Herron received a
live and grow, whose crops flourish, professorship there was rejoicing in
who Is In direct communication the household, and when fame came
with the natural world. Nevertheless to the young man none applauded
the farmer disputes his conclusions more heartily than Mrs. Herron. But
and counts him a dreamer and an ex- from professor Dr. Herron developed
pounder of theories into a reformer, and now his wife is
The valley of the Platte river, from applying for a divorce on the ground
Plattsmouth to Kearney, and the en- of desertion, and asking for thecus-
tire western half of the state, will tody of their children. All of which
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