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3* .tfSV 1 IIS- kL mMMm ffi" \^2K®WS«t^ AivKS -v larger body than the total number of their sex in the thirteen colonies dur ing the memorable year 1770 and if they voted solidly might decide the presidency, as their Strength exceeds that of the usual presidential plurality. Wyoming women are the suffrage pioneers of the six states which let women vote. Wyoming women have voted since I860, a year after the ter ritory was formed. Official figures say that 9 per cent of them register and vote regularly. Thoy serve as jurors and have been named for public po sitions, frequently as school superin tendents aud city treasurers. Women of Washington voted when Washington was a territory. Woman suffrage there was declared unconstitu tional in 1887, and women were denied the ballot until 1910. Utah women have voted since territorial times, and Colo rado women were enfranchised in 1893. Idaho women first voted in 1896. Cali fornia women have yet to cast their first vote for a president. This they will do this year. NOTABLE ANNIVERSARIES The United States congress on March 28, 1802, passed an appropriation of $13,000,000 for new ironclads and vot ed its thanks to John Ericsson for creating the Monitor. President Jef ferson Davis of the Confederate states sent to congress at Richmond on March 30, 18G2, a recommendation to enroll sill citizens in Confederate territory be tween the ages of eighteen and thirty five for military service. On March 81, 18G2, Henry Wilson of Massachu setts precipitated a debate in the Unit ed States senate by a speech urging the freeing of negroes held as slaves in the District of Columbia, John God frey Saxe, American poet, died aged seventy-four, on March 31, 1887. LADY DAY Lady day, on March 25, Is one of the quarter days in England and Ire land, when rent is made payable. In the Roman Catholic church it is cele brated as the Feast of the Annuncia tion, and it Is observed as a feast by the English church. In France the day is called Notre Dame de Mars. The earliest evidence of the celebra tion of the annunciation of the Virgin Mary is found In a canon of the church council of Toledo, held in 656. st 1* THE PROHIBITIONISTS The .basis of representation as fixed for ,the national Prohibition convention at Atlantic City, N. J., on July 10 is as follows: Each state and territory la entitled to four delegates at large. Each state is entitled to an additional delegate for each 200 votes or major fraction thereof cast for Eugene W. Chafin for president in 1908. The District of Columbia is entitled to two delegates. Each state, terri tory and the District of Columbia is entitled to as many alternates as its number of delegates. ANOTHER INQUIRY Investigations being the order of the day, Representatives Frank Clark of Florida aud F. If. Bathrick of Ohio recently demanded one made into the department of agriculture. The in quiry relates to the alleged attitude of the department of agriculture toward companies exploiting under water land In the Florida everglades. These companies, which were sub jected to the investigation of the fed- Kin-1C 'WBteh are how covered with Survey of the World's News least 1,000,000 women will be privileged to vote for a presi dent of the United States next November. They constitute a Who Di* Fldrida Evarglades Inquiry. advertised extensive United States and, collected millions of liair Obtained at 50 .cents %cMjf.«f»d sold as high as f60 an (AttRkpO CENTENARY "^-Tunittee formed undw the *of 0euera! Baron de Heiwch the ftgiotpation en Jaw or decision to a council of British, Ger man, Dutch, French and Belgian art ists, will consist of a mass of dark porphyry, on which the principal group, carved in white marble, will stand out in relief, with bronze figures around it representing the various nations en gaged in the fight. All the bones found on the field will be laid within this mausoleum, which will thus in a measure become the tomb of all who fell at Waterloo. A PICTURESQUE STATESMAN One of the two spokesmen in con gress for the recently admitted state of New Mexico, George Curry, has laid a busy career. He was born in Bayou Sara, La., April 3, 1863, and has worked 011 a sheep ranch. He was a member of New Mexico's territorial x" v, -f4 *li*K 0 Photo by American Press Association. George Curry, One of New Mexico's Representatives In Congress. senate, 1894-0, and was a captain in Roosevelt's rough riders in the Span ish-American war. He served as sheriff of Otero county, N. M., for a short time in 1899 and then became a lieutenant of scouts in the Philippines. He was chief of police of Manila and organized the first civil police force under American government, August, 1902. He was governor of the province of Isabella, P. I., 1904-5, governor of Samar, 1905-7, and became governor of New Mexico in June, 1907. It is told of Representative Curry that during his war service in the Philippines he once secured the sur render of 2,000 mon by mere force of argument, advancing under a flag of truce in the company of but a single priest and convincing the insurgent general that the latter's bread was buttered on the American side. 2 ALL ELECTRIC TRAINS That within twenty-five years elec tricity will entirely supplant steam in locomotives on all railroads of the country was the recent declaration of President F. P. Ripley of the Santa Fe Railway company. "It seems probable," he said, "espe cially in view of the remarkable evo lution of the application of electricity during the last few years, that the next generation will see electricity used as a motive power of all trains, freight as well as passenger and transcontinental as well as local.' 1, UNDERWOOD'S STATE April 1 is Democratic presidential primary das in AlaDama, ajid April 16 is Democratic state convention day, when delegates to the national con vention will be selected. Alabama is Oscar W. Underwood's home state, and when Mr. Underwood was listed among presidential aspirants bis Alabama fol lowing promised to make things hum for him at convention time, •5 NATIONAL FLOWER SHOW The Society of American Florists and Ornamental Horticulturists through the national flower show committee has closed a contract and will hold an inter national flower show in New York the first week in April, 1913, when more than $15,000 will be offered, in prizes. A number of societies will contribute gold medals and other trophies. Representatives of foreign florists in this country will exhibit flowers and plants in competition with the products of the United States. ft ft A FOOTNOTE "Rings on her fingers, bells on her toes, she shall have music wherever she goes." Now it reads, "Rings on her fingers, and feathers on her toes, she shall be noticed wherever she goes." In other words, birds' plumage for milady's feet is a new whim of the Parisian milliners. It is a trans fer from head -to feet. They have de creed that femininity's walking part shall radiate a riot of colors. These gaudy buds will be gummed on to the leather. The golden pheasant, birdsV paradise and the ibis will be utilized for milady's low cut, high heeled shoes, with which buckles of paste or little pivots o^aigrets or feathers are But {pood nl^l. coB^es"' from London It is to the effect that young English men are gradually discarding socks that rival the rainbow and the peacock and Inching their feet in how witb 0k foanich flnvniDk siLjL «2 Not only commercial bodies, but se cret societies, social organizations and even schools, can assist powerfully in the work. But the board of trade or similar body under whatever name called must take the lead aud set the pace. Such an organization, holding regular weekly, semiweekly or month ly meetings, with subcommittees to look after different departments of the work, will find innumerable ways to help the cause along. New industries can be procured, the surrounding terri tory can be canvassed for trade, and, above all, local spirit can be kept alive. The very fact of the existence of such a body has a suggestive value of great power. Organize for your own town. CITIES ARE BUILT NOT ALONE WITH WOOD AND STONE, BRICK AND MORTAR, BUT OUT OF THE PUBLIC SPIRIT OF THEIR PEO PLE. A Helping Hand. A dollar spent in your own town is a dollar saved to the community. The purchasing power of money spent around your home is much more than its purchasing power if spent away off yonder. It buys the respect of your neighbors and a standing for yourself as a loyal citizen. It is funny to hear a fellow preach and prate about town loyalty when he makes a habit of using the mail order catalogue as his saleslady or sales man. Now, isn't that a fact? Maybe the reason that young friend of yours resigned his job in the local store and moved to the big city is that you have been helping to build up the city stores at the expense of your local stores and your young friend's sal ary at home suffered accordingly. Did it ever occur to you that the com munity feeling, so to speak, is the thing that makes life worth living in any town? By the community feeling is meant, of course, that condition where neighbors are mutually depend ent and helpful, one recognizing the right of the other to be considered first in any deal rather than an outsider, and vice versa. And the motto of the community feeling is this: "Patronize home industries." If the mail order trade is hurting your town, and in all probability it is and you know it is, suppose you pause a moment and ask yourself what part of the injury you are inflicting. Why not? THE QUIET HARVEST. Along the street are sounds of fife and drum, And, lo, the people shout that strength is come! But mightier far, tho' trumpeted $ the less, Is strength that walks in ways of quietness. The music fades, the luster dis appears Into the mist of long forgotten years, And scarce the echo lives a mo ment's span In the impulsive consciousness of 1 man. -x '.sr.5 -.i.?.-.'... f-. But, while in dust the pomp and pageant roll, The quiet harvest of an earnest soul Shall stand forever, heedless of decay, And grow more perfect to the perfect day. —Pall Mall Gazette.. A Schoolgirl's Ribbon Case. A pretty case to hold the schoolgirl's hair ribbon is made by covering two strips of cardboard, eighteen inches long and six inches wide, first with a layer of cotton wadding which is sprinkled with a sweet sachet and then with flowered silk or cretonne. Whip the outer covering on with small stitches and lay the two finished strips side by side. Sew inch wide ribbons along tjie edges of the two strips to serve as a sort of hinge, like the back ing of a book, and On the other sides pieces of ribbon with which the case* can be tied together.^ If the ribbons are laid out smooth in this little case when taken oft for the night they will last much longer than when pulled off and thrown on the dresser until heeded again. AVi Inducement to Behave. Minister (visiting at dinner)—And what good little children you acre! What makes-yon so very, very well behaved Johnny—Because pa said hfe'4 knock ooiS 'hloclcB off if we Louis T'y 'iniV^i• irfiti .. -Si 1 VALUE OF ORGANIZATION. How United Effort of a Town's So cieties Can Boom Home Trade. The work done by the boards of trade and other commercial bodies in the larger cities can be duplicated by similar organizations in the smaller cities and towns. This is not a mere matter of theory, but has been proved in practice hundreds of times. It mat ters not what the body is called. It is the purpose, the enthusiasm and the intelligent work for local betterment that count. It should include business and professional men and all others in terested in the community's future. The many services it can render are INVALUABLE. It can advertise the town on any and all occasions. It can decrease local misunderstandings and differences, allay mere factional spirit and harmonize these, at least to the ex tent of uniting for the common good. In the upbuilding of a town, in hold ing and increasing home trade, ia get ting improved railroad facilities, in procuring cleaner streets, more sightly houses and lawns and in the general effort for town progress all citizens are interested. These results can best be brought about through UNITED AND ORGANIZED ENDEAVOR. 1 -f* i'1" -V v^"* J"^ {^V' *. 1 .- r» ?~^x M.r* I* GETTING RID OF THE BUGS WHICH SUCK PLANT JUICES. How Oregon Expert Deals With Pests Which Cau3e Great Loss to Grsenhouse Owners. The tarnish plant bugs (Lygus pra ten.sis linn), referred to locally in the greenhouse as skippers, are common pests all over the United States, caus ing much injury, especially to tender greenhouse plants, by piercing the bud steins and sucking the juices, thus killing or blighting the buds. A. L. Lovott of the entomology department of the Oregon agricultural college has made a special study of the insect and gives the following remedial measures to be taken for their elimination. Any arsenical is useless, since the bugs suck their food instead of eating Photo by Oregoji Agricultural college. it. Kerosene emulsion is the-standard contact spray and should be used where practical aud convenient. To bacco emulsion will kill them in their early stages, especially if supplied in the morning when the bugs are slug gish and do not get out of the way so readily. Jarring or brushing the insects off the plants onto a sticky paper or into a vessel of some sort is also effeca cious. though the use of an insect net is even better. A little practice will enable one to sweep the net over the plants in the early morning and catch nearly all of the bugs without injuring the plant buds. Methods of destruc tion after they are in the net will sug gest themselves. Where the bugs are particularly nu merous it may be well to use wire gauze and screen them out of the greenhouses. A block of growthy plants just outside the greenhouse may also be used to detain the bugs. They will feed there instead of going inside. One point in ridding the premises of the pest is of great importance—clean up all rubbish. The mature insect passes the winter in trash piles and under debris about the yards and in fence corners. If this is all collected and burned in the fall there will be fewer of the pests in the spring. SWEET CLOVER FOR STOCK. Sheep and Mules at Least Do Well With It as Fodder. The question has been asked whether sheep will eat sweet clover. Yes thej will eat sweet clover and seem to es pecially relish the plant both green and in the hay. The statement has been made by a large sheep raiser that sheep can be successfully raised on an entire sweet clover diet, 110 grain being needed. Now, as this plant will grow 011 rough land and sheep do well 011 it, good results can be had by sowing rough hill land to sweet clover and al lowing sheep to graze on it. In this way you can make your rough land profitable. As ground does not have to be plowed for sweet clover it is well to sow during the cold weather. When the growing weather comes it will grow and flourish. Sweet clover would also be a fine plant to grow in sections where mules are raised. It has been proved by actual experience that they, like sheep, can be raised on sweet clover alone. This is meant for growing mules, but the working mules should have some grain feed. There is one thing noticeable, and that is stock fed on sweet clover looks well and when butchered is found to be nice and fat. Traders like to buy sweet clover fed animals.. There must be a good reason for this.—National Stockman aud Farmer. s- Use For a Split Spade. Do not throw that spade away, even if you have split it up the center of the blade while prying small rocks out of the ground. I would not take it to the shop and have an inch or two cut off the bottom either, for that will make it thick and stubby, and no amount of grinding will then naake it right. I know this from experience. Just take such a spade to the fa rip workshop and with the emery wheel or grindstone (or a file will do) grind a shaped cut into the blade as deep as the crack extends, and it will crack no farther. Then you will have one of the easiest tools to throw out dirt while tllff draintng imaglnable. A spade like this will push Into the soil easier than one with straight edged blade.— ter in Farm journal. [13 A] 1PWB sjHn«f" w-rsHf* s.wwKS'fp'st •jraMK»»*«HBa«iai'f*»-M WUM -.V« ,H i-v 54-:« ^"J rs '"^''V^r-V 7j "-^v ^'IV -'-^r v* •e r1 'v\ S a.^ t. -)vt" Jr Going Through Greenhouse For Skippers 1 57 A^ ~rtf fV, .=• _, ^1 -. V%x », h* J'' X* ,v/' 4 Timely Agricultural Topics ALFALFA WISDOM. Alfalfa may be successfully raised on almost any type of soil provided that it is well drained, free of weeds and in a reason able state of fertility. Good drainage must be pro vided. The ground must be made free of weed seeds. Soils lacking in fertility should be well manured, as alfalfa re quires. large amounts of plant food. If .sufficient manure is not to l»e had it should be supple mented with a commercial ferti lizer rich in phosphoric acid and potash. If the soil is sour it must be limed before alfalfa can do well. Inoculation of the soil will generally be necessary.—Farm l'ress. SPik4VM'*'m^ Save the Wood Ashes. If you are using wood for fuel save the ashes for lye. The lye, which is leached from a barrel, is invaluable about the farm, but especially so where your fruit trees are infested with scale. A lye wash properly proportioned and applied leaves the bark clean and smooth. YOUNG man stood with his hand on the latch of a house in tho country, admired the cheerful appearance of the place, then knocked and was admitted by an old man. "You are Deacon Merivale, are you not?" asked the visitor. "Speak louder. I am hard of hear ing." "Are you Deacon Merivale?" the questioner repeated, raising his voice. Still he was unheanl and shouted the question in the man's ear. "Yes my name's Merivale." "You had a son, Edgar, who ran away and"— "Edgar? What do you know about Edgar?" '''I am Edgar's"— "You Edgar? Can it be that my son lias come home to be with me during the last few years I have lo live?" "I was going to say that I am Ed-, gar's"— "My boy, my boy!" sobbed the old man, falling on the stranger's neck. Meanwhile the two had drifted from the hall into the living room. As the visitor looked over the old man's shoul der a door opened, and he saw the face and figure of a young girl 011 the threshold. The situation was awk ward. TTle deacon did not see the girl or hear her. She looked at the new comer for an explanation. "lie thinks I'm Edgar," he said. A quick intelligence passed over the girl's face. "Don't try to disabuse his mind," she said. "He has been talking of my brother continually of late. Ilis mis take may turn out a fortunate one." This Avas With the Short Story Writer A Happy Mistake "By WILLIAM H. JEyVJVIf^'GS' a great relief to the sup posed son. Now that the responsibil ity was on another he resigned himself to play his part. "Father, forgive me," he said, with feigned emotion. The old man raised his head and saw his daughter. "Emily," he cried, "Edgar, your brother, has returned to us!" Here was a new embarrassment. Any brother returning from a long ab sence would naturally take his sister in his arms for an affectionate em brace. Any sister would naturally fly to the arms of her brother. Yet these two stood, a part. "Daughter," said the old man severe ly, "I have forgiven Edgar. It is my wish that you welcome him home." The spurious Edgar advanced peni tently and/ gently putting his arms about the girl, who blushed red as a rose, kissed her. That night after the old man had gone to bed, thankfulness in his heart at the return of his son, the stranger told Emily Merivale the story he-had tried to* tell her father. Edgar Meri vale and Frank Tucker were joint pros pectors In Colorado. Having acquired a. valuable mine, it was decided that a 1 LOSSES IN STORED CORN. Government Tests to Learn Amount of Shrinkage In Storage. Farmers who hold large quantities of corn in storage may learn some prac tical lessons from recent tests by gov ernment agents in' Baltimore as to the amount that corn shrinks in storage. The observations were made on '2S, 000 pounds of shelled corn stored in a wooden hopper of a Baltimore ele vator from Jan. to May 14. 1010, the corn then being run out and elevated to the scale three times, after which it was allowed to lie eighteen days longer, making 147 days in storage al together. From Jan. to April '21 the corn remained in good condition, and the shrinkage in weight was approxi mately four-tenths per cent, but after the 'latter date the corn became sour and hot, with a maximum temperature of las degrees F., and up to May 14 had shrunk about 2.(i per cent more. During the three elevations to the scale the shrinkage was 1.03 per cent, on the basis of tho weight of the corn in the hopper just before handling. From May 14 to June 1, after the corn had cooled to 55 degrees by handling, the shrinkage was 2.G per cent. The total shrinkage during the storage pe riod of 147 days was 1,522 pounds, or about 5.4 per cent. It was also deter mined that as long as the corn remain ed in good condition its rate of shrink age was largely influenced by the weather—by the degree of humidity, for example, and the temperature of the air. Other facts learned were that on Jan. 5 the ."verago moisture content of the corn was 1S.S per cent, while on June 1 it was 14.7 per cent. On the same dates the corn showed power of germination amounting to S9.0 and 1 per cent respectively and a weight pe: bushel of 54.7 and 50 pounds respec tively. On Jan. 5. 117.1 per cent of the corn was sound, while on June 1. after the severe heating, only 1.1 per cent remained sound. In all probability corn stored on tho cob wonid not deteriorate so greatly as shelled corn, yet there would doubtless be some loss under such conditions.— Country Gentleman. Hens In the Orchard. liens do well in orchards of apple or plum. Thoy destroy insects and scat ter their droppings evenly. Do not put them in peach orchards. Tucker should go east and organize a company to work it. Just before Tuck er left Merivale died, having charged partner to 'near the news to his fa and sister. Emily dared not at •esent announce it to her father. She ermined to advise her neighbors of deception and for the present keen up. his ther det( the it Tucker was successful in his busi ness efforts and was making prepara to leave for the west. One even- lions ir Deacon Merivale entered the living" •oom suddenly to find Emily in Tiu-ir er's arms. "It beats all," lie said at a church so ciable the next evening, "what broth erly and sisterly love there is between my boy and girl. Last night they were sitting on (lie sofa hugging and kiss ing as if they'd been a pair of freshly hatched lovers." This speech was not long in gettin." to the ears of the pair. What was to be done? After long deliberation thev decided to be privately married and telling the old man that Edgar desired his sister to go west with him, talc their departure together. It was not an easy matter to perpe trate an act that must be known to a!l the world save one person and he of the nearest relationship, but the place was small, and every one thought It would be a pity to break the news of Edgar's death to the old man, he sup posing bis son had come home to him It made Emily's heart bleed to leave her father alone, but there was no w-iv to avoid doing so except by a confes sion. The couple were married in the dominie's study, then went home -nid bade adieu to the father. From their western home they wrote the deacon that the mine was doiii famously and as soon as its success was assured they would bring him out to join them or return to biin. ill neighbors were much interested in hearing thte okl man talk about h's children's affection for each otl.er-so great, in fact, as to render them insep arable. But as time passed and thev neither returned nor sent for him he concluded to make them a visit. He disappeared one day, and his neighbors at once inferred where he had gone It was generally admitted in the village that the secret would be out, but all hoped that the shock would not bre tl the old man's heart. In a A A. $ 6,1 ^r1 if v^*1 -fr- Jf !few weeks it was announced that he had returned. "\v If meet him was the Well, deacon," asked the: latter "have you visited the runaways?" "Yes," replied the deacoH, "and found them prosperous and happy. But nn ture will have its way. Emily to make up for her sacrifice in devo'tln her life to her brother, has adopted the prettiest baby you ever saw." A few months later the deacon diad happy in his children's happiness. The funeral sermon bore upon doing evil that good nuy com§. h.'7. y** tfarson. I-.m' •.