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All ODO ENDOWMENT
Philanthropist Gives Kansas
College a Cemetery
In Time This Unique Gift Is Ex
pected to Net More Than One
Million Dollars to Bene
ficiaries. Topeka, Kan. Nearly all colleges
have large endowments of money, se
curities and real estate given by
friends and by people Interested in
the cause of education. The funds are
all Invested In bonds, stocks and real
state, which do exceptionally well If
they return more than five or six per
cent, on the investment. Many re
ligious organizations have similar en
dowments. But Washburn college of
Topeka and the Topeka Young Men's
and Young Women's Christian as
sociations have one of the most novel
endowments In the country. It is a
cemetery and as far as known this Is
the only college in the United States
which numbers among its chief as
sets a share in the profits of a ceme
tery. Many churches have cemeteries,
but the Topeka Y. W. C. A. and Y. M.
C. A. are believed to ie the only non
sectarian religious organizations with
an endowment of this kind. '
A. B. Whiting, a Topeka merchant,
decided to leave a permanent endow
ment to the two Topeka institutions.
He selected $25,000 as the beginning
of his endowment and then began
casting about for some plan of invest
ment which would actually net the
greatest Income to the three institu
tions to which he desired to contrib
xiate. He Investigated all kinds of
business ventures, bond and stock
returns and real estate Investments
and finally decided upon a cemetery
as the best possible Investment for
the college and Christian associations.
His investment of the modest endow
ment Is expected to return to the col
lege and the two young people's asso
ciations considerably more than a mil-
lion dollars before the sources oc
revenue from the sale of" lots in the ,
cemetery are cut off.
Mr. Whiting bought the Mount Hope !
cemetery grounds, 160 acres, one and '
one-half miles west of Topeka, The
land alone cost $16,000 and left $9,000
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Cemetery Entrance and Donor.
to begin the improvement work. This
was four years ago and the permanent
Improvement work of the cemetery
has been going on ever since and will
continue forever. The property has
been deeded to a board of trustees, of
which Mr. Whiting Is president and
also general superintendent of the
cemetery. This board has been incor
porated for 1,000 years and it is bound
to maintain the cemetery forever. No
grave can ever be neglected, as under
the terms of the charter the board is'
compelled to set asffce a certain part
of Its revenue to go into a perpetual
care fund, the interest on this fund
being sufficient to care for the prop
erty. The college and the Christian asso
ciations receive two-thirds of the en
tire sum obtained from the sale of
lots in the cemetery, and they can
use the money for any purpose they
decide. No one except the actual work
ers In the cemetery receive a salary
and no dividends except to the col
lege and Christian associations are
declared. The college receives about
one half of the total amount received
from the sale of lots. The Young
Women's Christian association re
ceives the next largest share and the
Y. M. C. A. the next division. All the
rest of the money from the sale of
lots and the amount received for open-,
lng graves and caring for lots goes
Into the perpetual care fund of the
cemetery.
Dog Saves Boy From Cow.
Rushville, Ind. A shepherd dog
that has been for several years the
companion of John McKlbben's son
saved the life of the boy by holding a
cow that had attacked him until Mc
Kibben went to the rescue. The cow
had knocked the boy down several
times and was stamping him with Its
front feet when the dog Interfered,
grabbing the cow by the nose and
holding It
Elbert Hubbard Loses Locks.
East Aurora, N. Y. On a bet of
$500 with William Marlon Reedy of St
Louis, Elbert Hubbard Invaded the Til
lage barber shop and let the local hair
destroyer apply the horse clippers.
Fra Elbertus emerged minus the flow
ing locks lie has worn for years. The
$500 was paid to him immediately.
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LOCATE A PIE FARM
TELEPHONE MEN'S SPADES LAY
BARE PASTOR'S SHAME.
Pennsylvania Preacher Must Now Ex
plain Why He Buried Pastry
and Cakes That Overzealous
Parishioners Donated.
Tidioute, Pa. What Rev. Murray
Wrexler, the pastor of the Union Re
formed church of Tidioute, has been
doing with the cakes, pies and crul
lers which his fair parishioners have
been showering on him for two years
was found out in the absence of Rev.
Mr. Wrexler.
-As for sentiment among the donors
of the pies in question, mere words
cannot express it. No punishment
would be too severe, they say, for a
man guilty of such an act as that
with which Rev. Mr. Wrezler is
charged.
Rev. Mr. Wrexler's congregation is
made up largely of women, young and
old, of various denominations, who
vie with each other on giving samples
of their pies and cakes to their be
loved minister, who invariably ac
cepted the gifts with gracious smiles
and profuse thanks.
An oversupply of cakes, pies, tarts,
muffins, etc., accumulated in the par
sonage's pantry and a problem con
fronted the young pastor. An athlete,
he dared not eat the smallest gem of
the lot, he could not 'give them away
for fear of offending his parishioners,
nor could he refuse to accept them for
the 8 ame season.
Tactfully he presented the matter
to Mrs. Dolan, his housekeeper, who
had been much annoyed at the fre
quent visits to the parsonage of wom
en and girls bringing their baskets of
pies and cakes. Mrs. Dolan didn't
know what to do, so she called in her
husband, the sexton. He said the only
thing to do was to dig a hole in the
far end of the garden and bury the
stuff.
The minister readily agreed to this
novel idea, and, swearing the sexton
io eternal secrecy, instructed him to
wrap the picnic provender in heavy
paper and bury it at dead of night
Dolan did so, and each evening after
that he would call for such pastry as
had been brought during the day.
This had been going on a long time
when some telephone men who had
been digging up an old pole discov
ered the pie graveyard, and trouble
iwaits Rev. Mr. Wrexler.
THIN HOSE IS VERY NAUGHTY
Cincinnati Judge Declares Young Girls
Shouldn't Dress to Attract the
Attention of Men.
Cincinnati, O. Hazel Arnold, fifteen.
and Ida Thomas, fourteen, were
brought before Judge John A. Cald
well of the juvenile court (because
they had been saucy to the police
when officers objected to their al
leged actions.
"Young girls like sou must not wear
rats and bangs and Grecian bands
around the hair," said Judge Caldwell,
criticizing their appearance. "I pro
pose to do all in my power to break
up this kind of costuming by young
girls the kind of dressing that at
tracts the undue attention of men. It
Is one of the greatest causes of juve
nile delinquency, and I do not see
what any mother is thinking about to
allow her daughter to get herself up
tn any such fashion.
"I believe In modern attire for
young girls. It hurts me every time I
go along the street and see a young
girl in short dress wearing fancy open
work slippers and thin, fancy stock
ings with a slip of a dress and a rat or
a Grecian band in her hair or with
her hair bobbed down over her fore
bead. A girl in a short dress should
never wear a low-necked costume."
HE STOLE A "SOUL KISS"
Smack as a Finale Arouses Pittsburg
Man, Who Attempts to Shoot
Purloiner.
Pittsburg, Pa. Awakening at mid
night from a light sleep to discover
his bosom friend surreptitiously tak
ing a "soul kiss" from the woman at
his side, C R. Shaum, drew his re
volver and attempted to shoot his
friend. In the struggle which follow
ed Mrs. Hill, from whom the kiss was
"stolen," was shot in the right thigh,
the bullet, after passing through the
flesh, embedded Itself in the door
frame.
Shaum is an overseer at the West
ern penitentiary, at Pittsburg. Mrs.
Hill is the wife of a wealthy oil op
erator now in the west The shooting
lollowed a celebration wlUl a iy rido
and bubble water trimmings.
Daufen, it is alleged, tiptoed into
ihe room where Mrs. Hill and Shaum
were sleeping on the couch. Bending
over the woman he planted a long
and fervent kiss on the mouth. The
"smack" as a finale aroused Shaum
and the shooting followed.
Dog Gave Life for Child.
Patchogue, - N. Y. Three-year-old
Jennie Schwartz, daughter of Freder
ick Schwartz, was playing in the
street In front of her home and Bob.
a bird dog owned by Charles Murdock,
was lying on the sidewalk, apparently
watching her. An automobile shot
around the corner. The child was
ilrectly In the machine's path. The
dog sprang up, ran into the road and.
living the child a push with Its bead,
ihoved her out of harm's way. It
was itself killed.
SPRAYING FOR CONTROL OF
INSECT AND FUNGOUS ENEMIES
Marked Increase Has Been Noted Withln'Past Decade Work
Largely Due to Work of Experiment Stations in
Demonstrating; Effectiveness of Operation
and Profit Attending it
Some Injury.
(By W. W. BONNS. Maine Agricultural
Experiment Station.)
The spraying of economic plants for
the control of insect and fungous ene
mies has markedly Increased within
the past decade. This is largely due
to the work of experiment stations in
demonstrating the effectiveness of the
operation and the profit attending it
Great improvements in spray machi
ary and materials have helped much
towards the adoption of spraying as
an annual farm operation, and espe
cially Is this true of the fruit growing
industry. The progressive orchardlst
today recognizes, the necessity of
timely, thorough and, intelligent appli
cation of insecticides and fungicides
in order to sell his fruit in the best
and most profitable markets.
The Increase of spraying operations
has, however, been accompank'd by
serious problems for the solution of
which- the grower turns to the experi
menter. Thevuse of bordeaux mixture,
for many years the standard orchard
spray, and even today recognized as
the best ail-around fungicide known,
has been accompanied by injury to
fruit and foliage.
Complaints of such injury have been
increasing with each season and are
not confined to any section of the
country. The severity of the injury
varies in degree and in different .sea
sons. It has long been known that
bordeaux mixture cannot be used with
safety on the peach and Japanese
Ink
Lime Sulphur
perlor to concentrated home made
stock solutions when these are prop
erly made and stored. The former
are, moreover, considerably more ex
plum when the tree is in leaf, although
Cordley and Cate report the use of
5-6-60 and 3-6-50 formulae on peach
foliage without injurious results.
Commercial lime-sulphur prepara
tions now on the market are not su-
Hydrometer and Cylinder.
pensive. At present prices of mate
rial the home made concentrate can be
made at a cost of one-third to one
fourth that of an equal volume of a
commercial solution if the materials'
are bought in quantity. This does
not include the original outlay for a
cooker and barrels for storage. The
commercial preparation is a conveni
ence, requiring nothing but a knowl
edge of its density before diluting.
The home made concentrate can be
made at any time and if properly bar-
PROTECTION FROM CUTWORM
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To protect tomato and other plants
from the cutworm, take stiff paper
and mould it around a 3-lnch shaft
fastening the edges with small tacks
making tubes 4 Incbes long. These
reled and kept from freezing can be
stored indefinitely. Home made lime
sulphur can' also at present be made
cheaper thañ the home-prepared bor
deaux mixture, so far as cost of In
gredients are concerned. The choice
on grounds of economy Is, therefore,
merely between the expenditure of
money or time and labor.
Home made boiled concentrated
lime-sulphur may be made as follows:
Sulphur ..100 pounds
Lime, best grade 65 pounds
Water sufficient to make 60 gallons.
Slake the lime, mix the sulphur into
a thin paste with a little water, add It
to the lime, add sufficient water to
make 60 gallons, bring to a boil and
boil vigorously for 30 to 45 minutes.
The sediment is then allowed to set
tle, after which the clear dark amber
colored liquid is drawn oft and may be
stored in casks for future use.
In making this solution a large iron
kettle or cooker of some sort is neces
sary. A stock feed cooker of large
capacity will answer. Fig. 1 shows a
satisfactory form. The solution can
also be made with the use of direct
steam, and this means has been fre
quently employed when large quanti
ties of the material are made. t
With our present knowledge, the
strength of lime-sulphur to use de
pends upon its density. This may be
determined by a cheap and simple
instrument called the hydrometer.
This consists of a hollow, glass tube,
El
Cooker.
its lower end terminating In a weight-
id bulb (Fig. 2). Placing this in. a
liquid, it sinks until the liquid dis
placed equals its weight In light so
lutions, therefore, it will sink deeper
than in heavy or dense ones. The
gradations to be read are marked on
the scale on the neck of the Instru
ment and are in degrees Beaume, or
in terms of specific gravity. Some in
struments give both scales. The
Beaume is the one most generally
used.
These Instruments are absolutely
necessary for the proper use of lime-
sulphur solutions.
Kohlrabi. .
The kohlrabi is one of the most
popular vegetables In European coun
tries. In America this vegetable has
never been popular because very few
people have tried it and, therefore,
are not familiar with its merits. When
produced under proper conditions it
is more delicate in flavor than tur
nips. This vegetable should be planted
in moist soil and the plants thinned
In the row so that they will not stand
more than six or seven inches. The
rows should be about 15 inches apart,
if to be cultivated with a wheel hoe,
while they should be 28 to 30 Inches
apart if a horse cultivator Is to be
used.
Making Clover Hay.
My method Is to cut It down after
the dew is off in the morning or late
in the afternoon. Before It gets very
dry I start the tedder and run over it
three or four times with this machine.
Late in the evening I put it up in tall,
slender shocks, which stand there
until next morning, when it Is hauled
into the barn and a large quantity of
it put together the more the better,
but It Is not tramped in. If the
weather is fair I often allow it to
stand rn the shock for two or three
days and it dries out in the shock.
PAltf- nt t fot Hvn u0
can be placed around the planta a
shown in illustration.
Pigeon manure is imported Into
England from Egypt
WILL SHOOT TO KILL
OKLAHOMA "MOONSHINE QUEEN"
TIRED OF REVENUE MEN.
Angered at Lover's Arrest She Is
Crack Shot and She Promises
to Do More Than Scare
Officers.
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Muskogee, Okla. Revenue officers
whose hats were shot off by Maude
Black, a comely dark haired girl, when
they went prowling into the Kiamichi
mountains, seeking "moonshiners," are
not going to get off so easy next time,
according to her declaration in court
here. She is held as a witness in a
case against John Thompson and
"Jim" Cantrell, captured in a raid
near Eufaula. The girl is Thomp
son's sweetheart, and, angered by his
arrest, she threatens to take better
aim hereafter.
She declared she was an expert
rifle and revolver shot, and in answer
to a query as to her marksmanship
said calmly: "Oh, I could shoot that
officer's star off his breast at 100 yards
without any trouble. Once I shot two
officers' hats off their heads at about
that distance when they came nosing
around too near. I could have killed
them, but didn't . want to do that I
stood guard, you know, while John
and 'Jim' worked the still."
Maude Black is barely out of her
teens, but has earned the title of
"Queen of the Moonshiners." Her hair
is of the darkest hue and she wears
it in two long braids over her shoul
ders. Questioned as to her knowledge of
the art of making "white mule," the
monshlne whisky of the Ozarks, she
professed to know all of the tricks of
the trade, saying she had learned them
while a small girl. Although living in
a part of the state where the worst
desperadoes of many state, have fled
to escape the meshes of the law, she
declares she freely mingled with these
men with perfect safety and that they
are all her friends.
The still is located in a section of
the mountain region where one wild
ravine follows another, and the only
habitations seen for miles are the lit
tle one-room cabins of the men, who
have gone there to get away from civ
ilization or from possible apprehen
sion and punishment for misdeeds. It
Is at the head of a deep ravine of
more than a mile in length, and ac
cess can be obtained only by entrance
at the lower end or by a tumble of
200 feet or more down the steep sides.
A path leads down in a zigzag man
ner from the cabin on the ridge above,
and along this the girl says that she
has sat for many hours at a time on
guard while the men worked in the
little still ehed below. It was while
she was away and the men were
asleep that the officers made theit
rush and captured the two men.
BEEN IN BED FOR 40 YEARS
Crossed In Love New Englander Nev
er Got Up and Now His Legs Are
Entirely Helpless.
Milton, N. H. Because Joseph
Plummer, of this place was prevented
by his father from marrying the wom
an of his choice he has remained 40
years in ' bed. He is now 71 years
old. The woman he loved is dead, but
the old man has not been told, In fact
he refused to speak of her from the
very day when he said to his father:
"Since you will not let me have hei
I have no other ambition and may as
well BDend he rest of my days in
bed." Joseph went' to bedT Joseph
did net get up. He continued in bed
day after day, .week after week, year
after year, until the sensation of his
course waned and be became more 01
less of an institution in Milton.
Now he is so weak from Btaying in
bed so long that he has lost the use
of his legs. He could not walk about
now If he tried.
"HOBBLE HIP" LATEST PERIL
London Physician Adds Phrase to
Medical Dictionaries and Warns
Women of Danger.
London. Now comes the "hobble
hip" to take its place In medical dic
tionaries. According to a London
physician wearers of the hobble skirt
little realize the bodily dangers which
may .come from incasing their hips In
these limb-fettered dresses.
Only recently, he. said, a young
woman complained to him that after
a day's shopping she felt herself suf
fering from a kind of semi-paralysis
In her hips and legs a feeling like
that experienced when one has al
lowed her feet to "go to sleep."
"I discovered that she was a wearer
of a hobble skirt" said the physician.
and a 'hobble hip' was the natural
outcome. If women only knew that
90 per cent of their illnesses have
been due to tight lacing they would
not Incur further risks by tight skirt
ing."
Watch in 'Gator Fifty Years.
Galveston, Tex. A large open-face
silver watch of the build known in old
days as a "turnip," lost 50 years ago
by Frank Strome, has been curiously
recovered. An alligator was killed In
Double bayou and the time piece was
found in Its stomach.
Monkeys May Pick Cotton.
Savannah, Ga. An attempt is to be
made In Fulton county by French cot
ton experts to teach monkeys to pick
cotton. If the experiment succeeds a
colony of monkeys will be imported
ind put to work,
ícarrie nation passes away
Saloon Smashing Made Her Famous
She Realized a Fortune From
Selling Hatchets.
Leavenworth, Kan. Carrie Nation,
the Kansas saloon smasher, who re
cently died here, was born in Ken
tucky in 1846. Her maiden name was
Carrie Moore and as a girl, it is said,
she was absolutely fearless. In her
early life she married a man addicted
to intoxicants, which created in her
an intense aversion to the saloon.
When he died she determined to de
vote her life to the suppression of the
'iquor traffic. Later she moved to
Mrs. Carrie Nation.
Kansas and married David Nation,
who sympathized with her temperance
principles.
During her career Mrs. Nation
wrecked hundreds of saloons, using a
hatchet, which became as well known
as she. She was absolutely without
Fear, invading saloons, demolishing
mirrors and furniture and assailing
bartenders and proprietors without re
gard for her own safety. She had
many narrow escapes from Injury and.
was roughiy handled on several .occa
sions. 3
So great is the extent of her fame
that down In the heart of the Pana
manian wilderness, there is a wayside
native saloon, with the rough sign
conspicuously displayed:
"All Nations Welcome Except Car
rie!" Carrie Nation regarded herself as a
woman with a mission. She declared
that hers was the right hand of God
and that she had been commissioned
to destroy the rum traffic 'In the
United States. The emblem of her
mission was a hatchet and her cam
paign against the saloon was country
wide. She suffered imprisonment,
abuse, ridicule, was even called in
sane, and at the end of nine years re
tired with money enough to enable
her to buy a farm in Arkansas. A
good deal of her money was derived
from the sale of souvenir hatchets
and the remainder from lectures.
HISTORIC OLD FORT SNELL1NQ
Man Whose Name Fortification Bear
Was Father of Minnesota's First
White Child. rfj
St Paul, Minn. February 10, 1819,
Lie'ut Col. Henry Leavenworth then
in command of the Fifth U. S. in
fantry was ordered to proceed with
his regiment, 98 officers and men, to
the mouth of St. Peter's river and
erect a fort. The regiment arrived
September 3, 1819, and preparations
were made to build the fort but the
work was noj actually commenced
until August, 1820, when Col. Josiah
Snelllng, of the Fifth, arrived.
The corner stone was laid and in
October, 1822, the roops moved into
the log fort which Col. Leavenworth
hud named Fort St. Anthony, but in
1824 upon the récommendation of Gen.
Old Round Tower.
Winfield Scott its title was changed
to Fort Snelllng. In 1830 stone build
ings were erected for a four company
post a stone hospital was begun and
some preliminary work done on a
stone wall surrounding the fort
These Improvements were not com
pleted until 1849. Col. Snelling's child
was the first white child born in Min
nesota. The stockade which bounded the
camp of the 1,600 Indians captured at
Camp Release, who were not adjudged
guilty of any crime that would war
rant death or long imprisonment was
located just under the guns of Fort
Snelllng on the Minnesota river bot
tom. This was their place of confine
ment during the winter of 1862 and
1863.
Crow Whips Blacksnake.
Bangor, Pa. In a remarkable bat
tle between a crow and a blacksnake
at the Hazel sandpit at Mount Bethel,
the bird vanquished the reptile. The
crow evaded the fangs of the snake
and pecked the reptile's eyes out
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