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1Las Been Gri . - 4, N! v~~4TZ.9 7%rz Just before you reach Indian Creek and shuts from sight the big stone house that cost $4, 000. the last southern outpost of Kansas City that is sprpwling out and epgulfing all this rolling prairie. You look for the old bee tree and there is a catch in your throat when you miss it-but no-that clump of walnut trees hit it for a moment. The ax of the real estate speculator has not come quite that far yet. Those bees flitting far up among the dead brances against a background of gray sky are the oldest settlers of this county. The colony was there in that same tree long years before a white man set foot in Missouri. There are men living who knew that tree and Its wild bees sixty years ago. Turn to the right after you cross In dian Creek and go about two hundred yards to where the stream pours in a broad white waterfall over a low ledge of rock and drifts lazily in a wide pool with a streak of silver bubbles down its center. The banks here are rock, with hollows gouged in them and overbang ing shelves that cast black shadows upon the stream. Watts's mill squats low upon the op posite bank. The weathered gray of its sides and root is the exact shade of the limestone beneath and all around it and the old mill seems to merge with it and is a part of it. You look ia vain for any line of cleavage be tween mill and rock. The years have bleaded them into one somber gray. An Atmosphere of Gray. The naturalists tell of birds and lesser creatures of the wood who take on the color of the bark or the grasses upon which they live. You think of this as you see the miller in the door way. His clothing, even to his cloth slippers. his long beard, his soft felt hat, sprinkled with four, are a unl form gray, the gray of rocks and mill. Stubbins Watts, great-great-grand son of Daniel Boone, is 76 years old But the old water mill is older than he. It was built in 1830 and for eighty two years has been grinding corn and wheat within ten miles of Kansas City. The hands that hewed its walnut beams and fashioned the hickory pins that keep Its weathered boarding in place moldered into dust a half con tury ago, but the old mill grinds on aust as patiently, as fatihfully, as un mindful of passing time and genera tions as It did long years before this city was dreamed of. You pass your hand over the sur ace of a walnut beam, hewed out by the ax of John FIltshuh, eighty-two years ago, and lay your fingers in a gaping notch just as his ax blade left It, and think of the changes that have come to Western Missouri since then. Westport Landing grew out along the old wood road until it bridged with paved streets the miles between it and Westport and overflowed south ward and yet the old mill wheel turn ed and the corn was ground to meal between the homemade stones of rock quarried on the bank of Indian Creek Since this mill was built the com merce of the 8anta Fe Trail came. , flourished for a time and died; and o then the rush of forty-niners to Call- a fornia flowed past it, and after them the railroads came and passed on to c the Pacific, and with them the legions s of pioneers like the clouds of locusts , overspreading all the land beyond to the westward. The Mormons of Inde pendence, who brought their grist to this mill, departed to found a new em- b pire beside the dead se in the un- . known desert Past this old mill, Just two hundred yards to the east, where the big elm leans out over the creek. armies of the Civil War hurried, splashing wildly through the ford, the Southern amy in flight from the defeat at Westport, the Northern forces hot In pursuit. u Indian Creek Has Never Hurried. A great city of tall bnfldings and f all things modern has made the coun try to the north like a teeming ant hill, where all is hurry, hurry, hurry. but Indian Creek has never hurried: its stream has flowed placidly, basking lag the sun, pausing in the shadows of its tree; and just as placidly the old mill wheels have turned, their slow t creaklngs attuned to the UIquid mur- t -murtnpg of the waterfall I Placidly has 8tubbins Watts gone In and out amos the turning shafts for sity-two yers, barring tbose four years of strife when e fought In the Southern army. In those years he was aroeud and filled with a fervor that A ot him bonorable mention more than c soes for deeds on the battle front. But b when it was over he returaed to In a kln Creek and the old mill and the " rgihalng of the water as it ran under i he floor soothed him Into a ealm philoogihy and he talks but little w "Ye,. be says. "It's pretty bere; I th my thereos no petter bit of to n a in Minssri. I lhe to bhag ti at the window here and watch the o a-bles and the shadows, and Ulste to the water ad the wheels, well -I Just couldt live without them." TBo old man wth the Seur dusted I diSig and beard has a distingished n , and ia the family Bibl e rhe e deuamets to pruee it, M Ris arsanrrthe, bamui Watts, was In a , temr soldier ia the army of Ge-I - L aet* which ena trim ea niae and gsht with Vashsten C. emdpunrsro War. the rio a - .w thet he was wa~sJ thaes n•~rc , r . rsmr ia ".' . ni t.srltish in Charleston and that after Ian the war he settled In Shelby County. the Kentucky, and that he was a member $4,- of the Lewis and Clark expedition that )Ot went up the Missouri River to the out mouth of the Yellowston. He married ie. Sallie Dodson, a great-granddaughter and of Daniel Boone, and settled in 8t. ben Charles County, Missouri. of In 1850 Anthony B. Watts, '- son. The came to Indian Creek and bought the has water mill. He brought his family with him. Stubbins was one of the the children. Iof To look at the old man, stooping at his his bins and gathering a deposit of hat white flour as a bee gathers polli dte from the flowers into which it dips are one would not imagine he had been nd fighting man, but, as he says: "The gurgle of the water through so In- many years sort of lulls you to sleep." red There is no modern machinery in ma this mill except the turbine wheel. Ig Years ago the old wooden wheel was ool taken out and the turbine put in. All its else is as it was eighty-two years ago, ith even to the wooden pegs in the Soor og- ing, the wooden hinges on the doors we and the wooden cogs in the wheels. Op DRUG HABIT GAINS IN PARIS Its f Wholesale Degeneracy Threatens City, d a Prominent Physiolen ok Investigations following a recent succession of fatalities in the Quarter I Latin have revealed that the drug habit has sained on Parisians. In I nd one store alone dope fiends buy so 1 he less than one hundred pints of cocaine es and morphine every week. of So prevalent is the dope habit that Dr- a prominent physician declares he do th teots Its victims by the score every sit time he takes a round of the cafes. al- Ether is no longer thhionable, but iI. I especially in the artist quarters mor. id- phine is used recklessly. Even the d uninitiated can detect those addicted w to it In an evenig's stroll. 1 Paris, in the opinion of this physi ad can, is the most drug-cred city in y. the world, for while rich women of it other capitals secretly indulge In va. * rious dangerous ways of stimuating t their Jaded forces, the dope habit in a' Paris has spread through every class a until wholesale degeneracy is threat a- ened.-Brooklyn Eagle. a- c is Mission Weddings. c Within two minutes after the cab ' stopped at the mission door the report i 'I spread up and down the street that a a 1O wedding was taking place inside. f a Within another two minutes the room was packed to the very doors. That n e sudden rush of the crowd to the eanose Steary plesed the mission superin- I1 e tendent h "If I had money to spare," he said, a It "I would pay a bonus to young couples k for getting married in a mission. The moral effect of one wedding is worth a dosen sermons. To get the best of k feet the ceremony ought to be per t formed in the puiddle of the service. a I- No innovation that I have ever intro. - R. duced has had such a sobering effect d on the congregation. The example of a - a man once as far down maybe in the tU n social scale as themselves having be- i o come sufficiently regenerated to u u* sme the responsibilites of life stirs bi . every bit of manhood there is in them. 51 o "The trouble is, I can persuade very d Q few couples to be married in a mis 0o son. The bridegrooms do not mind, but the brides want something more 2 exclusive." It Shooting for a Wife, r Lubinka Vutchitch, the youngest E i granddaughter of an octosenarian peasant of Tchatchak, Servia, was t given in marriage a week or two ago to the beet sharpshooter in the town. In accordance with a family tradl tion, old Vutchitch's granddaughters, 8 famous for their beauty, were each wedded to the frst suiter who could Sshoot an apple fixed on a pole over the gate. Velko i8mitch won the prize in a keen contest with a rival. The young p men, determined to risk their fate in at the same hour. started their horses of together at the appointed distance le from the gates, and fired at the apple C1 in passlng through them at breakneck so speed. be Surgery by Wireless. Surgery by wireless is the latest. t A laborer on Swan island, whoeo only connection with the outside world is t by means of wireless telegraphy, had Sa foot crushed in an acident There th Swere no medical books at hand, and there was no one near who had any surgical experience. Thereupon the wireless operator called up tie sr geon of the nearest ship, and got him to explain in detail how an amputa p tion should be carried out-landefI Mail. Ta eattsq Tere Peat. aIdd--Tbekre your old feed De Broke coaminS acros the sewt. M Id-h TLt right. Oh. yes, he sees m rIll 1m ahed and mest him. I *nst to belr a dobar. BSek in momentL Re haries demw rd set the comis m. resmert he Vn rms laIe-Why sheuld e eek a Bmho by a deisr? Dei--a tase s we hi thI a s to ak me r te. -e KNOWLEDGE NEEDED TO SUCCEED WITH HORSE Excellent Types of Farm Horses. Kndtrledge and skill are two things that are necessary to success in horse breeding. Theory may be of some as sistano but knowledge and expert ewce are the main things that lead to ter success. tY. 1e may reason out that such and per such a thing is proper, but experience at may prove that our reasoning was eon he tirely wrong. The breeder must hard some knowl edge of the market If he expects to raise more horses than he needs for his own use. He must know what o breed will come nearest to comply nly with the demands of the market. The man who breaks animals that suit his own fancy may have some thing that there is no demand for. of Different sections of the country seem to furnish markets for different P s of horses. In a region where the test demand is for carriage and saddle animals it is not a very good so place to sell draft horses, nor is a p."country where there is a great deal in of hauling to be a done, a good place el. for selling fancy driving horses. a The breeder must consider these Ill go. 'is The south is thoroughly attached to the mule for farm work. Shorts are more economical feed for sows and growing pigs than corn. at Late in the fall is a good time to er hatch spring chicks in some sections. sg The deepest mudhole and steepest In hill measure the real distance to mar soket. is Keep the cow out of the weed fields If you do not wish to drink tainted at milk. Where there ae plenty of skimmed 7 milk, beef scraps for hens used not b, a. bought t Where the hogs fall to gain at least a pound a day it is time to say goodby Sto them. The method bf estimating value of mules by number of hands high, is go gin out of use. Oats proved to be slightly better for work horses than corn when fed with timothy or prairie hay. In order to Insure uniform growth the pigs should be fed when all of t" them are at the trough. A bull ten months of age is scarcely old enough for service, but if used carefully it will not injure him. b An occaslonal plowing of the poultry -t yard and runs disposes of the filth a and keeps the premises from getting s. foul. La Ld, sulphur and a lttle coal oil. it mixed up well together, are recom - mended as an effective cure for scabby legs. Some one has told us that the best 4 time to prune fruit trees is when your Sknife is sharp but judgment must be Sused. It is not altogether the fault of the cattle business if one finds that he cannot make money raising a scrub steer to three years of age. t One of the little things that lessens expense and adds to profits is to fat ten and market the surplus cockerels In spring broods as early as possiblea One point in favor of the hollow brick silo is that it will not shrink and tell to pieces when the hot, dry t days come at a time when it is empty. t Sheep Thrive on Weeds. Sheep eat and thrive on weeds on the farm'that other stock do not relish. o Every fence corner, fence row and D weed patch will be more completely t cleaned by a band of sheep than by n the scythe or hoe. There is no farm ila tho intermontain -eglon too large ] or too small to su.Y ln a band ofl bsheep. They are the sreat scavenprs of the farm. Market for Dairy Products. In practically every town there is a good market for first-class dairy prod. ucts and fresh egs, as well as some of the other farm products at the leading hotel, restaurant or bakery. Cultivate this trade and you will be surprised to see how profltableo it can be mada. Lousy Fowls. If there is a fowl In the flock a lIt. te oat of condltion that bird I apt d to prove the most lewsy member of the fek. Feedng of Lambs. The ccewnal feein of lambe de pends largely on their benlg ofoered p great varliety of food while inL the g yards. Culean Up the Orehard. eep ali the rotten feed woel eleaned up arund the ocharl, as the constitute the winter quartrs ef ameroeus orchard peats. Clean ME Utaed s. T*r thwrgly elom milk utras the rt shdM be srlasd wtth at l water to remove an paurlem at mt / 1gs things and endeavor to raise animala rse that will moeet the demands of his as- market. Si- It is necessary to acquire a thai to ough knowledge of the various breeds of horses, endeavoring to ad learn the merits and failings of each. ioe so that one may breed what he can a. get beet prices for. He must acquire knowledge that will enable him to ai- breed his mares to such stallions as to will produce what he desires. or The breeder should read the gricul at tural press and the government bul tins to learn what other breedes are et. doing. In this way be will learn many things of great value to him. He will also learn much at the institutes, and by attending the fairs and horse shows he can see for himself what ry others are doing. He should he on the at lookout at all times for things that e will enable him to do his work to bet ad ter advantage. ld There is a natural trend toward In a provement in all things at all times. l The horse breder must keep step oe with these if he expects to be num bered among the ones who are mso so ceasfuL CULTIVATION OF CORN CROP Few Points on Deep and Shallow Work-Cutting of Root Mdaks Off the Food Supply. to The discussion over shallow and deep cultivation of corn is on again. r Thee is really not a re deal to say on the subject but a few points w are o vital Interest. Investigaton s. has shown that by far the largest at number of the roots of corn plants -are found in the first 1 inches of sol and they are especially abundant with is 4 inches of the surfacer ys the d Difierence of an Inch. Parmers Mail and Breese. Until corn a is 2 or 3 Inches high the roots have b spread out but little and the first cultivation may be deep for this ro b son. But long before the plants are f i inches high the lateral roots have extended themselves half way across the row and thee first roots come I nearest the surface. To cultivate deeply then means that the food sup. ply will be reduced to just the extat that the roots are broken of. CultS. vation should not be more than 2% 1 or Inches deep at thi time and the shovels should not run too closely to the plants. From that time on the t corn should be worked merely for th d purpose of keeping down weeds and 1 Sstirring the soil. FATTEN HOGS ON SOY BEANS Combhted With Corn It Will Pre duce Remarkable Reeults-4aln of One Pound Daily. Those who live n the regions where the soy bean thrives-a pretty big area that-may find that crop a money-maker as a means of fatte g I hogs, says an Alabama bulletia. Corn alonI, a Is now well reog nised, Is a deficient food for pig, al though many farmers still use it e. clusively. But combine it with a pase turege of such material as the say beu and the results are remarkable In Alabama the average daily gala fqr hogs fed on corn alone was twoofths of a pound, whereas whep soy bean pasturage was substituted for part of the corn ration the gain was raised to more thn a poundally. Expressend ante war, tt ent 7% oents a pound for the hog's in weight when he was fed cors, but only 3 cents a poeud with the ocm men feed. The diereo is ra ther a nice margin of profit. Sure Dandanh Kker. What is said to be a sure dandeieo * killer is to pour creoote through a can from the top of the plant. This It Iwll folow the root to Its base, baumr ing it so that it will never grow c Eradicating Weed. One weed pulled up by the rts while the round is sft Lbeats a h . of dred cut off with scythe or siekle for the latter are mt persiste nd ~1 S grow again and go to seed some dap wi when one Is not looklng. Plaedg Tres. If all of the arde spaoe is t rew proftable crops, no larg tre- mist saud closer than thirty to fty Seer te from the gardo tens 6ive th Cdlf a Cn . at The car that is peted to adslsp P into a stro proftable eow sho he - am all the eihs ce ib dUr it early period aci e Forage ftr LU lg . orf a obrag Iedi he l a aiii last emtelM b diagh rs pg ea fa trsm at asc ag, a OuT Or TkO CURING DISEASED METALS It has bees disovered that the met Ua aluminum ham a disease. and a caretl diagnosis by chemists dit •ioee tho fat that it s proably due to the actio of water containing lme. Yln is made o1 by estreme cold, and ome other metals have their pests aust as planat and veetable. have. and It tael careful tnavestigato and a long aeree at experiments to laku the source of the trouble. The lonm tum Illaea was treated first by Pro tewors Heyn and Bauer of the labos tory at GOres-Lchterfelde nar Be ~ Cooking utensils were found to be most aeeted, and the eperlimats O we begun oa several pots which Swere made by cold rolling, Numerous to spots on their surface lay na prtlcu ah. directions. running straight on the a at bottom, sad in curved lines on the Iconvex sides. They corresponded to to the direction of tretching of the mot a l. Chemical tests of the deposit at the spots ndicated showed the prs sae ofe water, alumina sad lime. 8m liar metal was then subjected to all ia the conditions that had surrounded the ue of the kitchen utensIls. It was early concluded that neither Impuritles In the metal nor atmospheric changer were responsible for the disesse. at It appeared, howver, that city ws ter had a deleterious elect on the t general health of the aluminum sheets m ndergoing th ttest The thickest sheets were attacked by the city wa Ster. After analysing the water and I Scontanuing the experiments with dif- I M ferent kinds of water, Professor Heys I - was able to decide that lime asits 4 were probaly the caase of the di. I me. and suggests that aluminum I uatemls be subjected a little as po sible to limy water. ABRAHAM'S OAK, PALESTINE a a a- t aa t t p tn o untir Ito ttl rc d Pr lavas TI.. and Seloos r throutm to tha stast of tOia noatd A atr te lokin to os f tn.brahd iedst the tred serw itrs. a l It a te ad as Aburlhd's oan ad u d pmdatt a ewla tp" t thed . droop - t of the humped tte h a rtow nt la the remrkbl dg e r at telarbs the most nteo st o a la to the crosenl s of tho trpe with our H"------------ -------- Part of Wall of Hadrian he geat Roan barrier in Great rltain, known as the Wall of Hadrian, lends oem esnses on h the olwy to walheusn on the Tyne, and s 7V, miles-l lengqth. It erves from a st· t line eny to t ake In the beodet evaiJm an i ts route and it never bere I a warve but alwarl In an angle It was b to epel the "rln ,the satrthe barberlans Into the terrl. tory oosupied by the Romans The pert of the well her .hows Is at Ceddy% QUEENSL AMV 3WIFL FISH Ther. I. sMd to u"u I the watrs of aarthwan Qms.ma~aa a lbh. Maeo urtog afleat tom Maein m Leagk sam aasr r qai asuad and a al is weigt, wbib gamin the reiaruhia power of "bo s' Us prey. Th "rIlwSbib, It is saUled, Ia l lesad to awv Idrlymv sfoat the Mai a low babes balmw te sop beabsa the lsas Sm s.ad .ther oies that sawe is the Lanins. eaves aid twom r s th mbta. ao the Watr pinlu wbo, the mdi A" aW , dlse ....s1 fa the Duns..º It dalaeabarIn at Its liat a amy Jet o ball of wa. tar wa. gi du Stu t bare the prq -o the 8m, where It in IS, st utly wre by the uaabt. -Onm -m RAL Pum no" .Goes.` as Nlbt ofA* as * .Oaae h at ii -" - ..tits "a irw Simon De Montfort's To xi Am"ng the Intrs.tlng strueturs in the old eity of Caroaqamk or'n Frane, Is that here plotured, known a S U6on do Montf It I 4l thsel o ouwee were designed to represent (e. bows of a to enemisemerat the builder's af return from the orusade, - domestic cattle It has bee found I that the cros-breeds remia rlatively fhs ftro ticks while other stoe In I the sae pastures would be literally Scovered. with thes pests, whieh cause the dreaded "Tease ever." aeoeeslta Stas, the frequet quarmnuatnlg of the Swhole etthwestera cattle distriet The Bmhmmaa wee.bred eattle appear Ikewlhe to be less aeete by ether : aadt, and pestfereus tlase t, such as moeutees, hrsnles, pade'e. ete-, sad to witetand better the wary dry clmatm sad et er sem4roptal sndtt t·ae Ipremm t thl sO eoetles o- the United Sate thea do the sttol, S ti. It is also dalmed that they mate a rlade of beet sperlr that of the mative eatlk. bJ b e Isn uiae ioui aso leared that thowesd eatte makne xellest bet, the hump. wite soanetes reachm a wuight ad pDods, baetsg epalally - rnet About I N ype age a sumber of the seared catte weep lttedaed s Tase sd rl ere wi malve cattle, but as the oriaag l arsas a ura~,t detmeor ated, the depatment t agriclture was nsguesad by. A. P Uordea to mak a further Impeuatles at ladian catte skr the Piere rase with a view d aerl this etrain of blood. The etaury aed his this per ilt, but os seeoutt of the very das seres live steok d4seaes p-se n in sa the deaimest euntred the piesebIe presatloes to pro vest the lntroeduetes a y et thee eomtesom.. Net c were the a male purhoaed tasodrted bya npre sestativ. at the dsestlesat to ladia. but also ea their arrival here. was dueri e at these s to quarsatlae that t was dlsao re that three o the sees ere oeer~ ed with sare. Theese we rpmpdty kMid sud burned. bmucat"" es tosat'ssS showe others to be ifested with the ses-.. rembaby Carled- by lies and aoata--e these wre promptly killed. On November 14, MIP, the swereed~ e agriculture rlessed the nalaloe--S s amber-from quara tie, as the last seves erli of tet were smoeesively atlve saI Ias kaillng frost had already oeeurredo ne sultna Is the disappearase e a58 flee and mosfeutoe. Wtole the malorlt of sacred cattle on shbitle Ian iem d sool og She war besr Is el Cbarlntnm I. C. ami resaed ther Usd1 bhe uarns with Ieasc Goees wbin ee becmp the mehLr d terna dIivqa and weal to It " 8BeaM. TO ImwSto bet 'Aiars., Vim Guqeg sas to taoimi Med t MrsMd, at Mdo sa the. toes serr - 9 ed .,, e~siletd W " fleet ter Vh m as led mond e be e pdau t ere. They wer pub Inbo to 1715 with the this "-8aga for the NwerY, or Nether Goose, powe a b ~ ne..M Geese died In 17Ff. MORE SUGAR WANTED The .fdr mu, .h mas se thers et the peatrq4 r tie wold. hse haplug -m wita tie ewth t pow eo.L The ZIm t sdu et atI" I ~Seb W- and theb. - at t 0 - a Uebh old i ý ·~t os~ll -w " ww et paey a ' d oal gardes are o the Il weighing about two huadre4 I pounds and standing not y three fet, the types of -* selected for this ha at the larger breeds, stand e six feet and welighing p R. pounds. Ir Gr REAT PAGODA OF h i rThe maos pagoda. sbaut Mes, style of as* set tha Iateresting t anrd d progresstve Chaua the epital of the SHEEP OF THE The sheep a .the m re 1 fsh Ift e member of a hoot of thesegts c coral ret, or shoaI water, I t. id ar that atter, ad exalted about it, he will bn as though e wetrs •a t .oa charge unto deat we ler al aUt worad ad applaoded. And whe ae withdtaw from e at call there are alu l rawaiLnt gav to the scolpk tr asberae talcs at Me lleWot the We Se , er thm merilessyr helplessly stranded Is the hfor thi s Is an eeail e4 surpam ed only by a"" ptle d to a sip at a-tl rookound Coast. The felish h rew INs fre ibodie oar Is Is". u -i ober ad o "0~t vale iar all oeem 6, tseo s i r te m t o dsis to North Ahatlse1. the th blW h Ash and th aslun Cabe Cud Is the tlheyr mst tromett rug irtlelal watrrias of 4 ma. of th e rmeat oa r low eaa thug earth to l' turnse, ow ames ' e+ aasu lvely setles sand Italans ase plannlng to as this eat A boller is to bel at soma point where the of Vesuvis are accessible water Is to be piped to the oral sugar belt tasted pare inequently they aud It is only accidentally; but today, grat steamers make regular fromn Cuba and Hawall for em sgar 3a constantly gem tablo d t!e hmblelt lbonre iTheg Ignyse ps agod