Methods o f Increasing Crop Output
Will Bs OitcuMsd.
The Dry Forming eon great Is nos
organised, with some persistency a »!
determination to be heard from in tk<
matter o f urging Us claims upon the
das try.
I t is not surprising thst there an
the doubtful, the skeptical, the unbe
Never in converting the dry land o f tfe
arid West to agricultural purposes, th<
growing o f crops, the cultivation o)
orchards and forests, the establishinj
o t bomes and thè building up o f com
merciai intercala and induttrice ot
theae landa; ws say tbat it ia not sur
prising tbat tome beaitate, that thej
doubt the availability o f aufBeienl
moisture to grow crops; that they fore
cast seasons o f drouth, ate. A ll these
things bad their period and have exert
ed their influence to discourage and
prejudice the mind Of the public as the
settlement o f the country baa pro
gressed westward for the last fifty
years, and y et cultivation has been the
civilizing influence that has conquered
drouth, hot winds and the Harrenneas
o f the plains and prairie countries that
are now the dependence in production.
The Fourth Dry Farming congress
win hold its meeting at Billings, Mon
tana, October 26, 87 and 88, 1909.
This w ill not only be an institute for
dry farming farmers and dry farming
instructors and teachers, but it w ill be
an exposition o f dry fanning products
such as this or no other country has
tvar witnessed. There are pledged al
ready exhibits from thirteen Weetern
states that are engaged in dry fanning
work. The organisation by states, to
show what eadi is doing and oapabie
o f doing in the raising o f grain and
vegetable crops, without irrigation, ia
a feature never before undertaken in
this distirct and promises some great
surprises for visitors.
The ares o f tillable lands ia the
United States not y et turned to culti
vation ia comparatively email, and un
der present conditions o f demand by
the homes tender w ill last but a few
more years at moat. I t ia only the part
o f good business judgment tbat tbe
dry farm ing districts be investigated
by those who contemplate gettin g a
borne under the foes homestead law.
Good lands and the best locations w ill
be the first taken. Each year w ill re
duce the quality o f lands to be disposed
Tbe Dry Farming congress w ill be
a good place to visit next October, in
view a t getting dry farming informa
tion and dry farms on which to put it
iqto prsetiee. The Dry Farming con
gress announces that there are 200,-
000,000 acres o f arable land awaiting
A p p r o p r i a t e B re e d .
-The aeronaut who is going to try
that long flight w ill take his pet dog
llcmg.“
"W hat kind o f a dog Is I t r
"A skx« terrier, of course.” — Balti
more American.
T b a H e a l T h in g .
1 must congratulate Jack on his
golden wedding.” I
“ Golden wedding? Why, he’s only
lust married.”
’1 know, but the bride la worth a
Boston Transcript.
million
H ld d e a .
Her fatal gift of beauty
Never caused the pit-a-pat
Of anybody’s heart at all
She wore a modem hat.
■Houston Post.
eently celebrated his ninety-seventh
birthday in Washington. He is Major
General Dental H. Rucker, U. 8. A., re
tired, born ninety-seven years ago—
April 98. 1818. In the whole history
of the military seVvice of the United
States there is ho record to parallel
his, declares O. F. Schuette in the
Chicago Inter Ocean. Probably in all
the world there !e no soldier who can
look back seventy-two years to the
date of his first commission. For it
was in 1887 that the future general re
ceived his first commission as a second
lieutenant from President Andrew
Jackson. He was then a man of 95—
little dreaming that he bad before
him threwquartere of a century of life.
I f hp lives three years longer, and
with his present vigorous vitality
there is no reason he should not, be
w ill cross the century mark of life
and celebrate the end o f three-quar
ters of a century of membership on
the military lists o f the United States
government.
Away back in the dawn of our na
tional greatness, our school book h is
torles tell of the war o f 1818. Tet
Daniel Rucker was two months old
before the first shot of that war was
fired. A year later came the first
Creek Indian war. Five years later
came the hostilities with the Semln-
olee in Florida And then came out
break after outbreak of Indian con
flicts. It was in this Indian warfare
away back in the ’80s that he saw his
first service. He won his first pro
motion for bravery in the Mexican
war. Then again he participated tn
Indian warfare. He was 48 years old
when Fort Sumter was fired on. When
the 8panlsh war broke out he was 88
years of age.
But he had retired
from active service sixteen years be
fore, with forty-five years of service
to his credit.
It is a far cry from the clumsy,
mussle-loadtng flint lock to the noise
less, smokeless, rapid-fire rifle of to
day. And it la a further cry from
the wooden frlgatea that formed the
fleet of the United States and won
those splendid naval victories on the
great lakes, when be was a babe in
1819, to the marvelous squadron of
fighting ships that sailed home from
a triumphant trip around the world.
, When General Rucker first Joined
the ranks of Uncle Sam’s defenders
there was no such thing as breach-
loading muskets, no aixteen inch guns,
no torpedoes, no mines, no lyddite
shells. No warship was propelled by
steam and all the fleets of the world
were at the mercy of the wind and of
the waves. Then came the Civil War
and the first Ironclads.
General
Rucker had passed th e 'h a lf century
mark of his life when the first battle
of armored ships was fought and the
triumph of the Monitor in beating ofl
the Merrlmae and turning the tide of
the Confederacy on the eeaa Tot
that was but a toy experiment of what
was to follow. Progress was slow, and
It was thirty years before the armored
vessel of to-day really came into be
ing. General Rucker was 87 years old
when the navy of the United 8tates—
worthy successor o f the plucky little
fighters of 1819— sent to the bottom In
two hemispheres the successors of the
proud Spanish armada.
It is a long Jump from the clumsy
frigate, with Its mussle loading guns,
its shaking sails and Its limited range
of action, to the Dreadnoughts of to
day, with their heavy armor, their
speed, their powerful englnee and
their wonderful range; and there have
been other marvels Just as grsat In
the progress of his profession. When
he took his first commission, and
rode 200 miles on horseback alone to
his post, no one had thought of auto
mobiles or airships or wireless tele-
Tfc* K ind You Have Always Bought has borne the signa
ture o f Clias. H . Fletcher» and has been made under his
rxonal supervision for over 3 0 wears* A llo w no one
deceive you in this. Counterfeits* Imitations and
•* Jyist-as-good** are but Experiments, and'endanger the
health o f Children—Experience against Experiment.
C
What is CASTORIA
B ears the Signature o f
In Use For Over 3 0 Years.
graph, much leas of their revolution
ary use in actual warfare.
When General Rucker was born Ab
raham Lincoln was a 3-year-old babe
In the backwoods of Kentucky. Gen
eral Rocker was 10 yean old, minus
Just one day. When General Grant
saw the light of day, April 97, 1822.
Only one President of the United
States died before General Rucker was
born— George Washington. He was 14
years old when John • Adame and
Thomas Jefferson died on that same
Fourth of July In 1898. When James
Monroe, the fourth ex-Presldent to die,
succumbed, on July 4, 1891, General
Rucker was 19 years old. And out of
the nation’s twenty-six ex-Preeldents
General Ruckar has survived all save
one. Theodore Roosevelt
General Rucker Was but a boy whan
his parents moved from New Jersey
to Michigan. It waa there he got his
first taste of army Ufa, at a frontier
Michigan army post Hia father was
averse to his Joining the army, and
his mother even more so; but the fu
ture general won ou t and ha applied
for a commission as second lieutenant
There was plenty of work for Uncle
Sam’s soldiers la those days, with the
boundless West Just opening its
wealth to the onward march ot civil
isation. He was assigned to the First
dragoons, then on duty at Fort Leav
enworth. Lieutenant Rucker made hia
way overland by stage coach until he
got to the nearest point which the
stage coach service o f those ¿lays could
bring him to the Kansas outpost He
wee then still 200 miles from hia desti
nation.
He had hardly settled down tb the
comparative ease of hia frontier poet
before he was ordered lqto the heart
of the Cherokee country, and for half
a doaen years he was kept busy with
hie soldiers driving off marauding In
dians, protecting settlers and emi
grants’ caravans and holding the hos-
Ule rede In check. He was still busy
in this hazardous campaigning when
the First dragoons were ordered off
to Mexico as part of General Zachary
Taylor’s expedition. He took pert in
the battle of Buena Vista, and dis
tinguished himself by an act of per
sonal gallantry in the field. It was
an act o f bravery under the eye of e
commanding officer, who recommended
him for a brevet commission as major.
When peace waa declared Major Rnck-
er’s command was sent across the
continent to Los Angeles.
The discovery of gold brought the
rush o f ‘49. and then there was more
than plenty to do. It was a feverish
C ra sh ed
DAISY F L Y KILLER
Aaraia.
lira . Denham— Do you think that I
■hall be* a good looking old woman?
Denham— I don’t know why yoa
should expect any such radical change
—New York Press.
NMOLS SOMERS. » 0 to ta l* iba. Irseklja, A T.
A
L it e r a l C o n u a l .
-Beat It! Beat I t !” cried the mas
terful w ife to her meek and obedient
husband.
But he did not go a step.
She did not mean him to. She waa
referring to the carpet hanging on the
line.— Baltimore American.
Better than gold— Like i t
Hamlins Wizard Oil— tbe
remedies for rheumatism)
and all pain, soreness and
tion.
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"The writer you Introduced me to
the other day waa not at all imposing
In his appearance. In fact, I thought
he had a very pohr carriage.’*
T he Treatm ent Is to Accom pKsl
"That may be because he Is nothing
W h at Science H u Been Strug
but a hack.” — Baltimore American.
gling to A ttain for Centurion
M a n *, P e r l d r .
Lawyer— Too want to sue your hus
band for breach of promise? Why, mad
am, pardon me, but that's absurd.
Fair Client— Not at all, sir; he prom
ised me a divorce, and ha’s gone back os
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Stotneeh and K idaey troublra. «a d sB Private
Diaaaseso/M naadW om e».
A 8U V C CAM CER CU RE
Joat reeeivad fr o a Pekin. C k o a -ta fa ta te
aad rviiabl*. U . falHns in ita worka.
I f you rannot ealL. w rite fe e ay niptca» ldank
and circolar, la d ie s 4 centi In stampa.
CONSVLTATION O tte
Rucker was never wounded. What is
mors remarkable, in all the years of
service and hardship he waa never
111 for a single day.
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O ld R e tie o f R a w Y o r k ’s B o w e r ? Ia
M a r k e d f a r D e s t r a e t la a .
dite.) ThtH and W-hlnekm
The Atlantic garden, one of tbe few
remaining buildings binding the Bow
ery o f to-day to the old Bowery— the
Bowery which saw the wealth and
fashion of tbe town go nightly to the
Thalia theater and allp Ibto the gar
den'next door for a bite and a sip be
tween the acts— celebrated its fifty-
first birthday Friday evening under a
shadow. Tbe shadow was cast by the
Manhattan bridge, already looming
large to the east and projecting itself
nearer and nearer to the spot that
still has the savor o f the old days.
A rumor to the effect that The city,
deslrovs o f making a fitting approach
to the great bridge, had already mark
ed the garden for destruction, brought
the old timers there 1 » droves fTtday
night, the NOw York Sun says They
told stories of the old days, the days
when If you wanted to hear German
opera you had to Journey to the Tha
lia. whore Courted worked as a sops
and {»here Mme. Geisttnger drew her
Crowds The old passageway between
the theater and the garden is still
there.
The garden was opened on May 8,
1858, by the father of the present Kra
mers, and part of It is the original
Bull’ s Head tavern of the Revolution,
ene of Washington's many headquar
ters. It was the center o f the German
life of the town, aad there Kramer first
showed the great orchestra, the won
der of Its time, which he bought from
the grand duke of Baden. There, too,
tbs German regiments ef the C ivil
W4r made their headquarters and re
cruiting station, gad there played all
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Your Baking
Mother (nervously)— You know what I told yon. Johnnie.
Johnnie (who has boon told not to make personal remarks)— I
saying anything. ' I was only looking a t it.— London Weekly Telegraph.
tbe famous bands of half a Century
age. All thls thOM at the long table
recalled Frtday night as they dralned
thelr schooners of Rhtne wlne and 11t
the candles one by one.
■ R e e s e f C e la re aw A s l a s k .
The effect of color upon mind is
most easily noticeable in dumb ani
mala because they make no effort to
curb or control their emotions. Wave
a rad flag at a bull and he becomes
violently angry. Shake a rad skawl
tn front of g turkey gobbler and ke
will storm around fearfully. I made
an experiment In the country one sum
mer to ese if this same fact held true
o f ether animals. On my farm I had
an enormously tat, lady pig that dis
Ne
Operaltaae or C a tti«
liked nothing so much as to move.
Ail day long It used to lie asleep la
the sunshine, and sometimes even the
attraction of food oould not budge It*
I took a number o f pieces o f silk of
the same quality, but ef different
shades, and. after waking the pig.
waved each strip of silk in front of
I t For the blue and green it navar
moved, but when I waved the rad and
orange stripes it Jumped to Its fe e t
stamped about aad appeared to be
thoroughly angry. Tim e and again I
repeated this experiment and always
with the same result— Frank Alvah
Parsons fta Good Housekeeping.
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