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Show CACHE AMERICAN. UxIAN, CTAII Bmiui Flaer Smut Found uk Mountains Sear Their Mam in Winter Wheat Its Presence Is Reported in Three States by Federal Experts. (pver4 Do you krvou I uho they are? 'V-- U X. r t'l : v . rS.S ' i r' V 7 , j M NwH- - pos-albl- s 4 IUV by the rirk. Flag smut, a arrtous wheat d'.s ease la Australia, and one wow found la Illinois Missouri tad Kan ms to this country. Is spreading persistently, although It has nut reached dangerous proportions. authorities fear (lag smut tnsy get Into semlsrid winter wheat regions In th West, under growth conditions mors Ilk those la Australis, wher th disease Is a serious problem, sad for that reason they tr doing everything to check It In Its prraeot stags. la Illinois th plant dlsess men found (Ug smut In on county, Ms con, when It had not been found before. Counties la which It bad not been found befort and was pres ent this year were: Logsn. Hancock. Green. Madison and 8L Clair. In Missouri they found th dag smut la Si Louis county. U was found ta Leavenworth county, Kao taa, where It bad previously been reported, and the aeoute alto U to four Held south of Watlula In Wyandotte county. Harvest Queen wheat continue more susceptible than other rtri etlcs to Hag smut Michigan Won dor Is tomewhst mors resistant than Uarrest Queen, while many of the tandard varieties bar proven very resistant In experimental tests at Kan. The governLewvenworth, ment men visited Kay and Nobile counties In Oklahoma, as that Is a Harvest Queen arm. and they feared a new Infection there. No flag smut has been reported from Oklahoma. Flag smut la a disease In the stem and leave of the wheat which robs the plant of Its food and prevents It from beading. Treating the seed prevents the smut except where the disease la In the soil, when the use of seed of resistant varieties Is th best preventive. The departwith the Kanment, In sas State Agricultural college. Is testing about 250 varieties snd selections st Leavenworth, Kan, In the winter wheat belt to develop wheat resistant to flag smut MhM.1 tW; , By ELMO 8COTT WATSON IX'KN'l l.Y llie announcement Keep 1 Wevk colony of beaver dsra they bar hats say dm built they keep on adding ta sad Items Strengthening th structure. that have pesred lo be complete whm they were 20 feet long snd a f.iot or t high hsv eventually grown lo a length of several hundred feet and bright of til Or even feet or more. So loeg tt fr Knew Aey Older? of (be oldest arhonlbousee to America stands st Round Bond, near Bristol, Maine. It Is on bun dred snd five years old. Th Irence piece near Yarmouth, Mss., has a barn on It that was built before the hoy Georg Washington started chopping cherry tree. It Is constructed of timber from local woodlands. On Beet Thief Are Neareet beat thing Tli are nearest: breath la your nostril, light la your eyes, flower at your feet, dutle at your haad, th path of God Juat you. Then do not graap at the atara, but do life plain, common work aa It romea, certain that dally dutlea aad dally bread ar the w cel cat thing of life. It, I be-Fo- First Corkscrews Fas Hawed Lest la 3ad Tli corkscrew was Invented after During a fox bunt In Ueyn, cork stopper were mads In the days of tb Eighteenth century. These Wales, bounds ran a fox Into tb first ones were fashioned of metal sandhills. Three valuable dog dug with a ring at the top, though later o deep Into th sand Ibat they were the ring became a bar. Its Inventor covered and wer lost for three le still a matter for research, since days. After many boor huntsmen he remains a perron shrouded In and farmer succeeded In tunneling nearly 100 feet Into tb sandhills, mystery. Bnding two of tho bounds alive. Had Left Hem Ceeety Old English Casio. When organizers of a Idcealer The member of th bon of com(England) pageant plsunrd to show tom of tb breed of Leicester mon. London, must remove their sheep created 200 year ago by Rob- bats when coming In, going out, or ert Bskew ell. they found that not a making a speech. In short, whenBut specimen could be found In the dis- ever they ar on their feeL trict, snd all were being bred In a when seated, bata ara worn. Collier Weekly. rival county. Not Hard to Learn of Alabama freshman taking a military science test the following definition: gave "Drowning la the science of being able to get enough water Into the lungs to keep from living." Indianapolis News. A University man In wai named In honor of Crants right-hanmade that the United State geothe Civil war, and commander of tho army graphic board had approved of the a hen It waa engaged In aubdulng the Indiana the names which had been selected In the West, Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman. Cap Horns Discoverer for three hitherto unnamed peaks Some time ago Idaho honored her famoue senHorn Is tlie southernmost Cape In the Ahsaroka range on the In South America, on th last William E. Borah by naming the highest ator, point boundary between Yellow stone Na Island of the Fucglun archipelago, point In the state after him (Borah peak, 12,655 tlonal pnrk and the Shoshone Na and was named by Scbouten, Its disfeet) and Alaska has peaks named after three tlonal forest In Wyoming. So Arother famous senators Henry Cabot Lodge of coverer, In 1616, In honor of his thur teak. Cody peak and Plenty Mussachusetts, Joseph Benson Foraker of Ohio birthplace, Hoorn, In the Nether t'ooa teak, perpetuating the names and Klihu Root of New York. Also It might be lands. of a President of the United Stutes, mentioned that Alaska baa a peak named for a famous scout, Indian fighter and a man upon whom American boyhood looks Immeei Damage by Rata showman and a noted chief of the with the deepest affection Daniel Carter Beard, Damage by rats to properly and of list mountains the that Crow InJ.ans, join the pioneer In the Boy Scout movement. In the United States products serve as everlasting monuments to individuals The list of scientists who have left their amounts to about $200, 000,000 annuThese names were suggested by the Cody names on our high places Is a long one. Perally. Rats affect a larger percentclub of Cody, Wyo., the national park service haps the outstanding one I Louis Agassis, the age of the population than any other end the national forest service. In response to Swlsa naturalist who became a teacher In tills In existence. pest R. of William made Helena, a request Handy by and whose name Is preserved in mouncountry State pubcadastral engineer of the United tain peaks In Arizona, California and Utah. Nothing New About That lic survey otlke, that these peaks be named. California also haa honored In the same way Great Vitality of Seeds A naturalist tells us that certain Mr. Bandy has had charge of the boundary can summon a whole flock Joseph IL Whitney, American geologist; John Proved by Experiments birds survey between the pnrk and the forest, which Muir, the Scotch naturalist who won his greatwithin a few minutes. Weve watched r v baa been In progress during the past year and Heres weed news for the farmer, them doing It Just after weve sown est fame In this country; Samuel P. Langley, the he discovered three prominent unnamed peaks American astronomer and pioneer In aviation; but Its bad. seeds In the garden. London Seeds of wild morning glory, Cody peak, with on elevation of 10,500 feet, John Tyndall, the British physicist; John Lewas named In honor of CoL William F. Cody, almost 30 for burled years, sprouted conte, the American entomologist; Chnrlee Dar(Buffalo Bill). It la located near Pahaska win, the English naturalist. Immortal for his at once after being unearthed snd Sleepless Goldfub : . .a built '2, waa , by the which bunting lodge Tepee, T theory of evolution; Alexander Wlncliell. Amer- planted, the United States Departi .; A V. like other fish, do not Goldfish, of Middle creek Colonel Cody at the Junction ican geologist; and John Ericsson, the Swedish ment of Agriculture reports. have no means of closand the North Fork of the Shoshone river, many ; The seeds were burled as part of sleep.theirThey and Inventor and designer of the craft that revoluthey derive the eyes years ago. Here Buffalo Bill" entertained many tionized navi. I warfare, the Monitor of Civil an experiment to discover how long ing rest which comes to higher animals distinguished visitors whom he took on bunting war fame. Utah has a peak which bear the seeds may He In the soil and still name of Ferdinand V. Hayden, American geolo- grow, and to discover bow long during sleep by merely remaining trips through this region. The peak can be seen quleL from the Cody road leading through the Shoseeds must be burled to be killed. and explorer. gist shone national forest Into the Yellowstone naThe morning glory will be given To Colorado goes the distinction of having Worth Remembering tional park. ab In honor of the Cadmus of the Cherokocs,1 perhaps the best known mountain peak In the further opportunity to prove Its To open a fountain pen that has Arthur peak, having un elevation of 10,420 Sequoyah or George Guess, the Indiaa artist United States Pikes peak, named for Zehulon staying power," as some seeds stuck through being screwed too feet, was named in honor of President Chester who devised an alphubet for his people. Montgomery Pike, a native of New Jersey, buried 30 years ago are still In the tightly wind a rubber band tightly to enter President was first who the A. Arthur It is said that New Hampshire leads all other whose fame as an explorer came to a tragic ground and will not be removed for around the part to be unscrewed to the Yellowstone park In 18S3. The peak is lo- American states in the number of mountains end during the War of 1812. Pike's explorations ten more years. cated south of Reservation peak on the divide named for famous persons. Although her Still Lives peaks In the West included an expedition to trace between Middle and Canfield creeks. of Australia, long are not as high as those In other states, she the Mississippi river to its source in 1S05-0The Hints Gardening The highest peak of these three was named makes np for this In the numbers and In the nnd an exploration of the Louthought extinct, has been rediscovAzaleas and rhododendrons need ered In honor of Chief Plenty Coos, for many years of tlie names. She has a Presidential isiana territory In 1S0OO7. It wns during the dignity by H. H. Flnlayson of Adelulde an acid soil This can be supplied chief of the Crow Indians. It has an elevation range composed of peaks, all of them more than latter expedition that be "discovered the that country. In a letter peak university, the around and oak leaves of 10,935 feet, nnd is located between Arthur In Nature, a scientific periodical 5,000 feet high, which bear the names of five which now bears his name, although It Is pretty by piling Atkins peaks. Plenty Coos died on March 4. of our early Chief Executives Washington, certain that he was not the first American to base of the planL and letting them In London, be points out that this year, at his home at Pryor, not knowing Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and else- gaze npoa that lofty summit That had been rot there, or to some degree, by since 1S43 It has been feared this that this honor had been conferred on him by where in the state mountains honoring two oth- done several years before by an American ad- working granulated peatmoss Into queer animal had become extlncL the United States government er Presidents Jackson and Lincoln. Then there venturer, named James Pursley or Purcell of the soil and using It for a mulch. The wrrlter claims he has not only remust be however, remembered, Plenty Coos Is the Anglicized version of the are two honoring men who nearly became Presi- Kentucky. More than that. Pike himself never It discovered the long lost desert In, Crow Indian name meuning dent Clay and Webster, one In honor of a reached the summit of this mountain, that hon- that these plants are very surface-rooted- habitant, but has obtained specireand the utmost care Is "many achievements" or plenty coups" (coup famous foreigner who was a friend of the or falling to the lot of a later explorer, Ed mens in all stages of developmenl being the French word for stroke" or blow"). young republic, Lafayette, and another which win James, the botanist and geologist who ac- quired, while performing tlie above They live In the sandhill country bedisor to from Coos task son a was he of chief. brenking keep the Is a perpetual reminder of that most versa- companied the exploring expedition of MaJ. Plenty Though tween the Diamantlna and Coopers When plantdid not Inherit his title but won It on the field tile American," Benjamin Franklin. Other his- Stephen H. Long to the Rocky mountains In turbing these rootSL rivers. They are marsupials and masses oak of of battle, for during his career as a warrior toric names on peaks In the White mountain 1818-2In recognition of his feat of climbing ing rhododendrons, In which they carry possess pouches botagainst the tribal enemies of the Crows he state are Hancock, Field, Clinton, Willey, Starr the mountain, Long named It James peak but leaves should be put at the their young. counted coup" no less than 80 times. During King and Crawford. In later years that was changed to honor the tom of the hole, and a thin skin of he led the Crow althe Sioux war of 1870-7Other states which have named their moun- name of Its discoverer and became Pikes earth placed over this. These leaves No Mystery There lies of Gen. George Crook and performed valor- tain peaks for Presidents are Washington which peak. rot, and over a long period of time And while the little Teller Story desirable the with the ous service at the Battle of the Rosebud on has a ML Adams, Oregon which has a Mt Washplants Not the least of the fame of this mountain supply boy was sitting In his chair all alone June 17, 1870, when Chief Crazy ITorse of the ington and a ML Jefferson, Colorado which has lies In the fact that an expression coined dur- acidity. he heard a horrible, horrible wall Sioux fought Crook to a standstill and then a Lincoln, a Wilson and a U. S. Grant, Mon- ing the gold rush to Colorado in the late fifties behind him. What do you supretreated to the big Indian camp on the Little tana which has a Cleveland, Nevada which has has become a symbol of American determinaof Pastures right Palatability It was? pose Big Horn river where the Sioux Chief was the a Grant and Utah which has a Wilson. And In tion. On the canvas tops of the prairie schoonA group of steers "voted legumes Modern Youngster Static I leading figure In overwhelming Custer's Sev Alaska In the lofty grandeur of Its 20,300 feeL ers which wound their way across the praisuch as clovers, alfalfa and enth cavalry. the highest mountain In North America, stands ries of the Great West were painted these the most popular pasture No one can be a good preacher or After the Indian wars were over Plenty Coos ML McKinley, named In 1896, In honor of Wil- words Pikes Peak, or Bust! and that exled It's people In following "the white mans liam McKinley, so soon to become one of our pression Is still frequently heard when an plants at an experiment conducted lawyer or editor by not hurting anyroad." lie was the first of the Crows to take martyr Presidents. Alaska also has a Quincy American declares his firm purpose to reach In Maryland. bodys feelings. They registered the vote" In a up farming and he became a successful cattle Adams to recall the fame of the second of that his goal no matter what difficulties He before Twenty-fivseries of pasture trials. raiser. The outstanding leader of the Crows, he line who served In the White House. him. different grasses and represented his people at many councils In Statesmen, generals, explorers, scientists and Not only was a member of the Long expedi- were sown In one field and legumes governWashington and on November 11, 1921, he was a great variety of other notables who left their tion the first to climb Pikes but It also the leading representative of the red race at Imprint upon our history have also left their climbed another peak which peak bears the ment pasture specialists observed today which was grazed most. the burial of the Unknown Soldier In Arling- imprint upon our geography In mountains name of Stephen H. and Longs peak In The legumes led. Next came ton. At the time of his death Plenty Coos was named for them. Harney peak, the highest In the Rocky Mountain Long National park Is second brome-grasFollowing were Italthe last of the really great chiefs so that It South Dakota, Is named for Gen. W. S. Harney, only In fame to Its sister mountain in Colo- ian and perennial ryegrass, and Is singularly appropriate that a mountain peak Mexican and Civil war veteran and famous In- rado. Colorado has Recently added to meadow fescue. A mixture of the in the range which bears the name of his peo- dian fighter. Fremont peak In Wyoming recalls Its list of mountains which honor another famous men ple (the Absarokas or Absarokes, the Sparrow Gen. John O. Fremont, the Pathfinder, West- by giving a peak the name of that fearless ex- standard pasture grasses ranged Danext to those In palatability. Hawk people" or Crows) should perpetuate his ern explorer. Civil war general and Presidential plorer of the air. Col. Charles Lindbergh. kota Farmer. fame for future Americans, both white and red. candidate, and Colorado has a ML Sherman, Not all of the peaks in the United States Rut Plenty Coos Is not the only Indian chief which bear the names of men pay tribute to whose fame Is preserved In the name of a Fertilizer Boosts Profit Americans alone for two famous mountains on In the White mountains of New mountain. the Pacific coast are named for British naval George B. Harreld, Grant county Here the Answer! Hampshire there are peaks named for Osceola, officers. In Oregon Mount Hood raises Its Indiana, has found that there is the Seminole who gave the United States govIf yon ara unable to identify the men head high above the surrounding country hoary more profit In tomatoes and roast and ernment so much trouble about a century ago, whose pictures are shown above, they are looks down from the height of 11,000 feet upon lng ears than In field crops. Last the following: and for Tecumseh, the great Shawnee leader, the Columbia river. This mountain was first year he raised 156 tons of tomatoes Col. 1. W. F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) whose resistance to the white race ended only Cody discovered by white men In 1792. No one knows on ten acres. The crop brought peak in Wyoming; elevation, 10,500 feet. with his death at the Battle of the Thames durwhich member of Vancouver's expedition $2,170. He also raised 30 acres of just Pike-Pi- kes 2. Gen. Zehulon Montgomery ing the War of 1812. Colorado has a mountain first saw It and gave It a name In honor of sweet corn. Though It was a dry peak in Colorado; elevation, 14,110 named Red Cloud to recall the name of the Admiral Samuol Hood of his majestys navy. feet. year, the corn averaged three tons and Washakie Needles war chief Sioux the great 3. President William McKinley Mt. McPeople In Washington have had a long dis- an acre. ia Wyoming Is a perpetual monument to noble Kinley in Alaska; elevation, 20,300 feet. pute over one of their most famous peaks. I must give a lot of the credit old Chief Washakie of the Shoshones, who, like 4. Chief Plenty Coos Plenty Coos peak Is It proper to say Mount Tacoma or Mount for my good tomato yield to fer in Wyoming; elevation, 10,935 feet. Plenty Coos, fought on the side of the white Rainier? Seattle Insists upon honoring the tilizer, said Mr. Harreld. I used 5. Gen. Stephen H. Long Longs peak in man In General Crook's army against the Sioux name of Rear Admiral Rainier of the British 200 pounds an acre of I 6. Colorado; elevation, 14,255 feet. and Cheyennes In 1870-77- . Ami down in the navy rather than that of Tacoma, a rival wouldnt try now to raise toma6. President Chester A. Arthur Arthur Great Smoky mountains of North Carolina they city. peak in Wyoming; elevation, 10,426 feet. toes without fertilizer. Capper's are talking of naming a 6,000-foo-t peak Sequoy- U by Western Newapaper Union ) Farmer. tV. 6 newly-acquire- d pub-Ushe-d 8 Hietery Repealed building a war memorial on Mootfaucon, In th Argoana, th worker discovered th foundations of an eld rsatle built In 1070, This furtreea ai destroyed and reconstructed In th Eleventh, Thirteenth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries. It waa also th ecen of an American attack on an enemy position In 1014. la Aacisat Skipping "Record An ox bone, raised by a dredge on th Deaer river, bore wbat expert believe la Iba oldest record of German shipping. Carved on It wer several Saxon letters, and the outline of Fourth century freight vessel Not Mack Cbaeca Albert 8. Osborn, handwriting expert, haa figured out mathematically that the chance of two people writing exactly alike, without any distinguishing trait to tell their hands apart. Is one In 68,000,000,000,000. Nsw Orleans Pumped Dry New Orleans, located la a natural bowl with no outlet for rain water to flow by gravity to tlie Mississippi, has 16 pump removing 60,000 cubic feet of storm water each every minute of the day. commend of English troops 'whirl? bad gone forth to build a fori on lb Ten of th French Monongabela. force wer kilted and th rwt raptured. Washington loat on killed and three wounded. Eiplal.log "Clederells" The name Cinderella mean Just, what It sayn The girls namt waa Ella. During th period of her pee-- 1 aecutlon and employment a a kitrb-- j ea mild alia sat among tb clndera at lha hearth. She waa given tb name of Cinder Ella which. In the repet Irion of the tala became Cinderella. Washington Star. First Steamboat Eaperlmowt It la claimed that Robert Fultooa first ateamboat experiment waa made on th min pond Of Rock creek, ta Washington, D. OL, tn 1806. Fultoa was lb guest of Joel Borlow tad th boat was mad la th barn back of hi bona by local Joiners and blacksmiths FU-- b Worry Worry baa always killed morn men than work. Aod th pity of It I that this toll la so utterly nee-- 1 less. Try meeting your problems, a you do your notes, when time for settlement Is at band. Worry Is merely Interest on trouble before It falls due. Grit i Pioneer Ice Boot first Ira boat built la tbs' States of which there la ao-- j record was built by Oliver at Poughkeepsie, N. T, In' 1790. It was aquare box mounted, on three runner, shod with rongh Iron, with a rudder post and tiller of Th United tbectlc Booth wood. Pelicans Holdieg Own While there are fewer white pell-- j cans In the United State than there were 60 year ago. there la Ilttl evidence that tbera baa been s marked diminution In numbers during recent years, according to th National Association of Audubon Bod-- 1 ettea; j Qneatiag Romance Every ship la a romance object, ex--, cept that we salt In. Embark and the romance quits our vessel and hangs on every other sail In tha bo- -' rixon. Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoted In the Golden Book Maga-xlu- e. i India Poitowoea Snakes la estimated that about 20,000 Regret persons are killed annually In India An exchange tells of a widow who by polsonoua snakes. Moat of these' haa had so much trouble with law- snakes ar various specie of cobra. yers In settling the estate that she About 60,000 or 60,000 snake are sometime wlshea her husband killed annually In India. hadnt died. Florence (Ala.) Herald. . Spiders Have Experience I begin to understand the world Many Species of Bamboo very well and I believe that fliee The bamboo la classified as a are devoured by apldera because There are more than 200 they bave no experience and hence grass. specie of about 20 genera of these do not know what a spider web la. perennial, mostly treelike; tropical Prince Matteralcb. and subtropical grasses. Sharks Croat Swimmers Sharks have a most extraorProsperity meant. In ancient dinary power of swimming, great enProsperous Greece, hopeful Only In late Roman durance, and a rapidity of motion. times did the world become IdentiMany large ones Inhabit the open fied with hopefulness rewarded or ocean, following ships for weeks.1 success or fortune. 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