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Show ALFALFA LOST TEMPER WAS COSTLY. Poet Banker Threw and Bou'"' Back Hit Own Property. Edmund Clarence Stedman, the poet banker, had a high temper and was wxceedingly sensitive One day, exasperated by the crass stupidity of a servant, he threw a book at his head The boy ducked and the book sailed out of the window. After it hurried the menial, but he was too late; a passerby had picked It up and walked off with it. Stedman began to wondr what book he had thrown away, and to his horror discovered that it was a quaint and rare little volume for which he had paid $50. His chagrin was Intense, as the work was almost unique and the prospects of replacing it were remote. Some time afterward, when browsing in a second hand book shop, our splenetic jKet banker perceived to hlg great delight a copy of the very book he had lost. He asked the price. 'It's very i re," replied the dealer, "but as you ai an old customer I'll let you have it 'or $40; nobody else could have it or less than $60." Stedman gladly pa (1 the $40, got home with his treasure is soon as possible, and sat down to gloat over it. A card dropped out of the leaves. It was his own. Further examination showed that he had bought back his property. It cured him of casting books at servants' heads. New York Press. 1 Application Put on File. The Needy One I say, old man, could you lend me a dollar for a day or two? The Other One My dear fellow, tho dollar I lend is out at present, and I've several names down for it when it comes back. Harper's Weekly. The Wicked Husband. "Why does a man lie to his wife?" asks a woman writer. Dear me; does he? Duluth Herald. ONLY ONE "UliOMO Oi;iNINF." That I a l.AXATIVK HUOMO OtflNlNK. IxkiS fnl the nlgnaturn nf K. W. liKOVK. Usk1 tho World oTr to Curo a Cold in Uno Daf , 'Sx:.. If a young man sits half the time on a hot stove and the other half on a cako of ice it's just like being in love. CASTRO DEFIES UNITED SMS tion of Claims. Resuit of Controversy Will Now Be Brought to the Ajt'ention of the Senate, Which Haa Asked for Information. Venezuela bai again Washington declined to arbitrate the question of controversy which have been pei ding for some time between the Castro administration and the American government. This time the refusal Is made specific with respect to each ct the questions separately, and differs from the last refusal to arbitrate in that the refusal was made as to all questions en bloc. It was explained at the state department that the presentation by Minister Russell of each of the five points in dispute with a request for arbitration leaves no foundation for a future representation by Venezuela to the effect that she was not asked to arbitrate any of the questions sepThis would seem to clear arately. up the situation by making it plain fiat diplomacy can accomplish nothing further toward settling those controversies. That this deadlock will be made to appear to the United States senate when it receives the contents of tho dies of the state department respecting Venezuela information for which it asked last week there can be no doubt. in asking arbitration of the differences, the American government has left open the question of machinery pi the arbitration to be employed. This government would have been glad to have hrd the controversy go tc The Hague. Failing in this, it is believed any other duly appointed tribunal would have been acceptable. OF MILLIONS. Grave Charges Made by Missouri Congressman. Washington. The startling charge g that the railroads of the country mails had robbed the people out of $70, 000,01)0, was made in the house on Tuesday by Mr. Lloyd of Missouri. He declared that the new system of weighing mails was an admission of the postmaster that the general weighing in the past twenty-seveyears had been fraudulent. He called for an investigation of the postofflca department, and Mr. Wanger of Pennsylvania, chairman of the committee to control the expense's of that department, promised that an inquiry would be instituted. car-tyin- BaA aL BaB jffW &SJv- BSj :.'4SacV n After suffering for seven years, this woman was restored to health by Lydia E. Pinkliam's Vegetable Compound, Head her letter. THE NORTH. Discussion of the Best Methods of Se curing a Stand. President of Venezuela Refuse to Listen to Demand for Arbitra- ROBBED IN for Wisconsin and the of growing this wonderful plant in our northern latitudes was the theme of an interesting and helpful address by Prof. K. A. Moore of the I'niversity of Wisconsin before the 1908 meeting of the eheesemaker' Prof. Moore believes association. that alfalfa, while yet in its experimental stage in Wisconsin, has come to stay. A thing most Important in the production of alfalfa is testing the seed In recent years alfor germination. falfa seed has tested as low as ten ppr cent, germinating quality. Much of the germination power is ruined in the way alfalfa seed is occasionally handled through heating before being separated, etc. The remedy for farmers is, of course, to put the seed through a germinating test before seeding. The usual process may be followed, taking for example 100 seeds and placing these on a moistened pad of cotton cloth, a similar pad placed on the top of these between two plates, where they may be left at the proper temperature for a few days to Then remove the top germinate. plate and pad and count results. If the seed tests below 80 per cent, you may begin to feel suspicious of It. In securing this crop in these north era latitudes the farmer should first learn how, experimenting in a small, though practical way. Put in an acre, or a half acre, to begin with, and then start in to get conditions right. Do not seed on low, level valley Select a gentle slope. An ideal soil for alfalfa is a clay loam on top of gravel. This plant wants a soil it can penetrate. You, who are at all familiar with alfalfa, will remember that it sends down a taproot occasion-oil10 to 15 feet and more. Where alfalfa will be grown to advantage in the near future in Wisconsin is in the older, subdued soils of the south central counties. Further north in the state its development must necessarily be slower. Alfalfa is easy on a soil. It is a legume and has the power of taking nitrogen from the air, a most wonderIn ful and valuable consideration. preparation of the soil we like to sow alfalfa in rotation with other crops. We like to use a thin nurse crop of either oats or barley, preferring barley, if this does well on the land. Make a fine seedbed in the spring and sow one bushel of oats or barley to the acre and 20 pounds of good alfalfa seed. Put in only one or two acres at most at the beginning, and not 40 acres. We must largely learn by doing, even though we understand the principles of alfalfa growing. It is often found best to cut this crop the first year, in order to prevent the nurse crop from smothering the young alfalfa plants. Cut the oats the first year for hay and you may possibly cut a second crop of alfalfa the same seaAlfalfa son. In harvesting, cut in the morning after the dew is off the ground and on a fair day. In the afternoon rake into windrows and cock it up, even if it appears quite green to the eye. You will thus save the leaves through excessive drying off. They will not Mrs. Sallie French, of Pauoaunla, Ind. Ter., writes to Mrs. l'inkham: MISTAKEN POLICY. " I had female troubles for seven nerso all and was years of News Legitimate vous I could not do anything'. The Suppression Leads to Wildest Exaggeration. doctors treated me f or d i ffe ren t troubles but did me no good. While in this conRome. The municipality of Home dition I wrote to Mrs. l'inkham for adhas pursued a mistaken policy in envice and took Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and I am now strong deavoring to suppress the news of an outbreak of smallpox In this city in and well." the of away FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN. the feartouristfrightening constitrade, which spring For thirty years Lydia E. tutes a large soiltce of revenue to the Vegetable Compound, mailo Oapital, Instead of pacifying the pubfrom roots and herbs, nas been the lic fears, the method pursued in prostandard remedy for female ills, hibiting the sending of telegrams reand has positively cured thousands of to the outbreak has given rise ferring women who have been troubled with to the Spread Of the wildest and most displacements, inflammat ion, tilce ra- exaggerated reports. There Is praction, fibroid tumors, irregularities, tically a panic In Rome over this periodic pains, backache, that bearing- smallpox scare. -down feeling, flatulency, nervous prostration. CARGO OF POWDER EXPLODED. Why don't you try it ? Don't hositate to write to Mrs. Explosion Causes a Train Wreck and Two Men are Injured. Pinkham if there is anything run-dow- crack and become lost. I favor the use of hay caps to protect alfalfa from It keeps the plant palataBUB and air. ble to stock. We like, if possible, to let alfalfa go through the sweating process in the cock before taking tu tho barn. Pink-ham- 's REPAIRING BUGGY WHEELS. Holder Which Will Make the Task an Easy One. eight or ten inches square at the bottom and six inches square at the top, 3 to 3 feet tall, as about your sickness you do not Litchfield, 111. A cargo of powder understand. She will treat your carried by a llig Four freight train letterincoiifldenoeandadviseyou while the train was running ever Mo exploded woman free. regretted her, and because of her at full speed, two miles from here. writing vast experience she has helped The train was badly wrecked and sevthousauds. Address, Lynn, Mas eral cars were burned. The concus- THE WET WEATHER COMFORT AND PROTECTION afforded by o Slicker? Clean - Light Purable mm i n ii Guaranteed Waterproof 32 Everywhere to ao owt sion shook houses and battered wint a sharp curve dows for many miles. the two cars containng the powder were blown high Into the air and tho whole train was wrecked. Whole cars were blown titty feet from the track and debris whs scattered over twenty acres of ground. Two men who wero riding In one of the cars were Injured. Annexation Plan. and the King Leopold Belgian government have come to a complete agreement on the question of annexation of the Congo Independent state. It Is stated in official circles that the agreement was made possible by an important concession by the king In consenting that the parliament have control, of the Congo budget. In addition, the king trans-Jerto Helgiuin the magnificent domain of Cnpe Ferrat In the south of France, reserving for himself the use of it, however, during his lifetime Congo nrussels Fig. Wheel Ready to Paint. 1 shown In fig. 1. Have your blacksmith make a screw hook and eyebolt of half Inch iron of a combined length to match the box. Screw the hook Into s HEART IHMIMBF. Ilnn.trr.ta Incur)) toon thought l M urI nt homo floe torn fall.. A wlj known MiMN'lal 1st will orud II ro Nim fi- -r S i Mtblc rnatmaat fr ft a triftl. Horn trtttnrntB Valvular, Khninfttl Weak, i.tu N and r iifi fOivt. abort tnth. palpitation,' lropj mnOiarl trr.vninr (Vtlft. rutin nwtirti anklr rtr Thirty vmro' p,rien,, tnttrful mil". 7AanlMatitM for Writ ftivl Knlftrirvxl un Neuropath? Im relief. Andrew, n. is. i.i,. b.. Hit Klkhttrt, I tit limit. how for T"vatTmDt. many rem r kit Mr grrwt. Hpeo1y M(vku l to lOW II, mm M ii I ii i PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM Ciranwa I nd Falli Nvr Hair to ita Cure nan !" ai !ieaiitifii the ha.lt. imunmit frowth. d to Hritore dray Pnln. Vnntl.fl hiiTTaTliML i- - fj ltnifj-l- a E8l8l"lnnl ANAII XI M I K fallof. HK II .1 .irijrtrl.t" "r I'T III. II. Hni.l F it K K. Aililrv,.. PILES "ANAKESld" Trtbuu. II. I, Niw You. to Resume Business. Kansas City. It Is announced that the National Itnnk of Commerce of this city will reopen Its doors Monday, March ;W. In its own quarters In the new CommerOt building with cash in Its vauirs. W. B. Uldgeley, comptroller of the currency, according to the announerment, will Kilward be president of the bank: Uldgeley. his brother, will be cashier, and (ieorge T Cuts, the government receiver now In charge, will be first lce president The biard of Jlrec-or- s will Include ninny local men Bank Fig. 2 Support for Wheel. the shop floor, explains the Prairie Fanner, place the box over It, catch the eyebolt Into the hook, place the wheel on top of the box with a board washer and tighten the nut on the eye-boto hold the wheel while at work, as in fig. 2. MINES AND MINING JOB. ON Brother Dickey Thinks He Was Ove rated as Patient Man. marked The closing of February the addition of another dividend-payinmine to Bullfrog s list the Gold Bar. it is announced from Boston that the annual meeting of the Utah Consolidated company will be held on April 21. The treasury department last week purchased 113,300 ounces of silver for delivery at Denver and San Francisco r.t 55.6GG cents per tine ounce. There are persistent rumors of a possible resumption of mining operations at the Anaconda mine, and probably at the North Butte and Butte Coalition mines at Butte. Perhaps no district has been born resurrection in Nevada during the period of mining that has had such a hard fight to fame as Rawhide. The camp is over a year old, and the boom has just started. transmission line The that is to carry electric power from the Beaver County Power company's plant to the Cactus mines and mills of the Newhouse company, is now nearing completion. The mines of the Boundary district of British Columbia during the year pounds of 1P07 produced 35,500,900 10 from cost a at ranging copper cents at the Granby to 14 cents at the Dominion mines. About the only argument one hears against the use of silver now adays, says Mining Science, is that it is too heavy and clumsy for common use; that a pocketfull of silver pulls the clothes out of place. 13 Today silver is selling at about cents per ounce less than it did a year ago, when trade expansion required a larger supply of small coin and when the more important buyers who ship to the far east were in need of tho metal. Advices from Iron county are to the effect that a remarkably heavy fall of snow has occurred there and the result will be that freighting from Lund into the Virgin River oil country will be retarded for perhaps twenty days. The Graehl Mining and Milling company of Brigham City has filed a certified copy of its articles of incorporation in the office of the secretary of state. The company is capitalized for fl00,000, and owns nine claims near Brigham City. On account of the labor troubles at Goldfield, the production of its mines continues to be nominal. The Combination mill reduced during the last week in February 600 tons and the Kinkead mill 175 tons of an aggregate value of about ?31,000. At the Yampa smelter, Bingham, an average of about 600 tons of ore a day is now being reduced to base bullion, and this is being shipped to the refineries at Crome, N. J., for refining. Gradually the smelting works are being brought up to their highest point of efficiency. New rollers and screens are being installed in the Shoshone mill, says-.hBeatty Miner. Work in the mine nas not abated. The fact that the ore chute has been entered on the level of the mine, and the ore found to be richer than in the levels above, places the Shoshone on a par with the best mines in the state. of Daniel Guggenheim, president the American Smelting & Refining company, says: "Copper, in my judgment, has taken the place formerLy held by steel and iron as the index of business conditions. The metaL felt the reaction last year months in advance of steel and general mercantile enterprises. Indications point to a turn upward in the tide." Sarah E. Karrick has filed an action againt W. B. MacSherry, in the Tnird District court, to recover $2,000 and 1905, interest from January 23, amounting in all to $2,493.33, which she paid to the defendant for 4,000 shares of stock in the Sierra Nevada Exploration company. Ore buyers in the Salt Lake valley are now prepared to take all the ore they can get, it is said, but operators are apparently i,; no hurry to resume production so long as the metal market remains at its present stage. And yet metals are not so low as they were four years ago. A mining corporation capitalized at $13,000, with shares at one cent each, has been organized in Ogden, under the name of the Rare Metals Mining company. It Is the purpose of the company to develop its property in the Weber mining district in Weber county at an early date. The enormous sales of copper for to in February export, amounting considerably over 100,000,000 pounds, has called forth statements to the effect that the American consumer had much to learn from his foreign competitors in the matter of securing low cost copper supplies. Thus far in February the United States Metals Selling company has sold 89,000,000 pounds of copper, the bulk of It to England and Germany. These sales have cleaned up the surplus supplies of copper held by the concerns which sell through the Unit ed Metals Selling company. reliable mining A prominent and man, after a visit to Rawhide, Nevada "Never in my mining experisays: ence have I seen as much f:ee gold, and gold that Is gold, as the camp of Rawhide showed to me." He predicts that the Rawhide boom will eclipso anything ev. seen in Nevada. Clark Miller, lessee of the Ophir mine at Statellne. Is Increasing his working force to ten men and is extracting a very fine quality of gold and silver ore Owing to the In aw fall of snow and the freezing up of the water supply, shipments of ore from the mine Is being delaj d CHILD, COLE CO. g "I dunno what dey call Job a patient man fer," said Brother Dickey, "kaze of all de growlers I ever hearn tell on he sho' wuz de growlinest. But he sho' did have enough ter make him De devil say: growl dat he did. 'Looky yere, Job, you in my 4 a now, an' I gwlne ter 'fllct you 'All right; few biles.' An' Job say: I kin stan' it ef you kin.' But de biles commence ter break out so thick an' fas' dat Job say: 'Looky yere, man dese ain't no biles dis de smaJlpoi, sho' ez you bo'n.' An' he eetch ani eetch so dat he had ter scratch hls-e'- f wid a goat's head. Den de devil git In a high win' and blow down Job's house; an' dat wuz too much. So ol' Job lif up his voice an' he say por, 'Looky yere, I bargain fer biles, but I didn't want no harricane th'owed in fer good measure.' " Atlanta sixty-two-mi- Hog Cholera. The greatest drawback to the hog Industry which breeders in this country have to contend with is what Is lenown as "hog cholera" and "swine plague." Hog cholera is a highly contagious disease and unless checked is liable to carry off a great number of hogs in a v.ery short time. Mr. A. P. Williams, of Burnetts Creek, Ind., tells of an experience which he had with some hogs that had the cholera. "Five years ago," says Mr. Williams, "I was in the employ of Mr. J. D. Richardson, Lafayette, Ind., as his barn foreman. Some fine hogs that I was feeding took the cholera. I gave them Sloan's Liniment and did not lose a hog. Some were so bad they would not drink sweet milk and I was compelled to drench them. I have tried it at every opportunity sinee and always find it O. K." Write for Dr. Sloan's free book on the treatment of Horses, Cattle, Hogs, and Poultry. Address: Dr. Earl S. Sloan, 615 Albany Street, Boston, Mass. DIFFERENT EFFECT. Mrs. Goodsole My boy, it makes me sick at heart to see you smoking. Kid Dat's funny. It seems to ketch ma right in the stummick. Cause for Alarm. A young man had been courting a girl for nine years. "Jennie," he said, one evening, "I read the other day that in 50,000 years Niagara falls would dry up.'' Jennie clutched his arm excitedly. "Why, what's the matter?" he asked. "Why, you promised to take me there on our bridal trip. Don't you think you had better be a little careful that it does not dry up before we get there?" Give Them Titles? granting titles of nobility to American men we might stop the flow of good American money into the coffers of titled foreigners who marry American girls, but the remedy would be worse than the disease. By OLD SURGEON Make a box indiges-tion,dizziness,- DOM KNOW HI8 LECTURE Found Coffee Caused Trembia. Hands to The surgeon's duties reqttlre clear Judgment and a steady hand. A slip or an unnecessary incision may do irreparable damage to the patient. When he found that coffee drinking caused his hands to tremble, an Ills, surgeon conscientiously gave it up and this is his story. "For years 1 was a coffee drinker until my nervous system was nearly broken down, my hands trembled so I could hardly write, and insomnia tor tured me at night. "Besides, how could I safely per form operations with unsteady hands, using knives and instruments of precision? When I saw plainly the ha effects of coffee, I decided to stop it and three years ago I prepared some Postum, of which I had received a sample. "The first cupful surptlsed me. It was mild, soothlug, delicious. At this time I gave some Postum to a friend who was in a similar condition to mine, from the use of coffee. "A few. days after, I met him and he was full of praise for Postum, declaring he would never return to coffee but stick to Postum. We then ordered a full supply and within a short time my nervousness and consequent trembling, as well as insomnia, disappeared, blood circulation became normal, no dizziness nor heat, flashes. en"My friend became a Postum thusiast, his whole family using It exclusively. "It would be the fault of the one who brewed the Postum, If It did not taste goml when served. "The best food may be spoiled If not properly made Postum should be boiled according to directions on the pkg. Then it Is all right, anyone cau It ought to become tho rely on it national drink " "There's a Reason." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Read "The Road to Cre. k. Mich. Wellvillc." in pkgs. 100 Atla Block, Salt Lake City. Both Phonaa, No. 325. Telephone and Mail Orders Promptly Executed on ALL UTAH STOCKS Rafaranea I Any Bank in Utah. We Want Your Business Branch Office, Euraka, Utah. not help having birth- can you avoid getting nor days, a present occasionally. We have everything you need for birthday presents. Reasonable prices. aw You can CSTABUSIf fllL. aC A 1S62 170 4 e 600-fo- MAIN St SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH CAN ALWAYS Customs in Made TRUST CHINAMEN. Celestial Empire Have Dishonesty Scarce. "You soon learn in China that you. can trust a Chinaman to carry through anything he agrees to do for you," says Samuel Merwin in Success. "When I reached T'ai Yuan-fI handed my Interpreter a Chinese draft for $200 (Mexican), payable to bearer, and told him to go to the bank and bring back the money. I had known John a little more thwi a week, yet any one who kno vs Cnina will understand that I was running no The risk. individual appreciable Chinaman is simply a part of a family, the family is part of a neighborhood, the neighborhood is part of a village or district, and so on. If John had disappeared with my money alter cashing the draft and afterward been caught, punishment would have been swift and severe. Very likely ha would have lost his head. If the au. thorities had been unable to find John they would have punished his Punishment would surely family. have fallen on somebody." u A Lithuanian Funeral. On Sunday morning a strange funer al cortege passed through the Missioa streets. The hearse was followed by a procession of women walking in of the street. They wore dark skirts trimmed with bands of lace, embroidery, or colored strips, and all wore aprons, some of black silk or cloth, but more of sheer white embroidered corners, and fringed shawls, were over their shoulders. It was not a uniform, but more in the nature of holiday attire such as one sees in Italy and France on carnival occasion or fete days. The men in the procession wore conventional dress, but their bearded faces were not American. Inquiring as to the nationality of these odd figures who made such a strange picture in San Francisco, I found they were Lithuanians, and that there is a large colony of them here, mostly employed at a laundry over toward the Potrerc San Francisco Call. Would Rather Remain Vacant. little girl, aged four, whose father had houses for rent, heard some ladles who were calling on her mamma talking about an acquaintance who had made an unfortunate marriage. During a momentary pause In their conversation, the little lady said: "If I had been that lady who married that bad man, I should wish I had remained vacant." Illustrated Magazine. A Driving a Good Bargain. The barber's small son was in the habit of playing around his father'a shop, and he was always keenly interested in the patrons. Many a stray penny found its way into the little chubby hand, and sticks of gum were dropped in quite as though by accident. Judge Williams drifted Into the shop the other afternoon for a hair cut. The lad recognized the fact that the judge was a new patron, and so was more than ordinarily Inter-estein him. He hung at the foot of the chair and looked musingly at the Judge's bald head. Then he walked slowly to the back of the chair and surveyed the scanty fringe of hair from that point of vantage. He could contain himself no longer and burst out Incredulously: "Father, do you get a quarter for cutting' d that?" Llppincotts. Britain's Drunks and Gambler. John Hums, member of parliament and leader of the labor party In Kng-landeclared the cost of drinking and gambling, directly or Indirectly, in Great Britain is $1,070,000,000 a year. Simpler Conditions Needed. We are being too heavily penalized for our American manner of life To Insure greater longevity we must return to simpler conditions, to simpler tastes to a life which Is simpler la Detroit Free Press. every particular Hope to Find Ancient Buildings. The famous ruins of Tlntern Abbey, Monmouthshire, England, are being restored a far as the four great arches are concerned, and more excavutiona are being made nround It Id the hopa f finding new buildings. |