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Show AN IMPOSING STATUE GRANITE AND MARBLE PILE AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. FAR-OF- F MAIL ROUTES SHOWN Second Assistant Postmaster General Hat Maps Covering 8andwlch Ip I lands, Guam and Philippines. the office wall of the second assistant postmaster general bangs the On IK Will Be Unvalled Next Month Preparations Being Made for Big Parade Which Will Include Many Organizations. At tbs gateway of tbs national tbo plaza of tbs Union atatlon, tbs United States cap-itta- j; will, government on Saturday, luns 8. unveil an Imposing memorial to tbs memory of Co Christopher lumbus, tbs discoverer of America. By act of congress, signed by President Roosevelt, $100,000 was appropriated for a memorial to Colume bia. Tbs act provided that tbs of the bill be executed by a composed of tbs chairmen of tNr committees on the library of the Jinnee nnd senate (Representative and Senator IVetmore), Secretary of State Root. Secretary of War Taft and the Supreme Knight of the Vatehta of Columbus (Edward L. fleam). The commission organized noticing Secretary Taft chairman fy tbc of commission, and appointing the twzperlrtcndent of public buildings and SfrwnMls (Colonel Bromwell) the e officer of the commission. Tb commission went to work with wattem-asm- , and after a thorough of the available and desirable tohcw for a Columbus statue In Washington selected the plaza directly In tfnwd of the Union elation. This rail 'way terminal at the national capital, team lamest In the world, Is an pur-poe- coin-wriwlo- Me-CW- exec-4Ztfe- map of mall routes covering the Sandwich Islands, where Captain Cook lost bis life, and it la Interesting to note that even In far-of- f Guam, extensive mall routea have been established. So dotted is the postal map of the Philippines that It looks like the rural routes of western states. The development of the mall service through the postal union has worked wonders. Nearly all the countries of the world are Included In the memberahlp, and It la expected th&t China will join at the next meeting, which will be held In Madrid next year. The Chinese have been greatly In terested In the American post office tn Shanghai, which bandies all the mall from the states to Americana tn China. this malt was bandied Formerly through the American consul general, but now an American postmaster has been installed, and all mall from the states la dispatched by him to different a points. Mr. John M. Darrah of has perhaps the most novel Ills postal force of any postmaster. slleut Chinese clerks present an unique eight to one who Is familiar with the , bustle and chatter of the usual and the "special delivery squad, with their bicycles, seem to have no fear of catching their dangling pigtails In the wheels. The bome-llksign on the building, American Post Office," Is most welcome to Americans passing that way. Reports Indicate that the development of mail acuities tn China Is keeping pace with the wonderful advancement made In railroad and other methods of transportation. Penn-sylvanl- post-office- e archl-fWThnr- CAPITAL SMART SET FAVORITE , memorial takes the form of an Simnanfw shaft, at the back of a foun-n1- . Miss Leslie Page, a California Girl eurmounted by a huge globe Who Made a Hit" In Washing- of the world, upon which Is ton Society. tfc&wited the western world In relief, site comers of the globe being guard-1Of the many society lights who have crglee In stone. The figure of visited Washington during the season f'VAiwbus Is seen standing on the JuBt ended. Miss Leslie Fage, of Lo f a cnraval, which projects V'rcrv The fountain. On either aide of e'hc whaft are replicas of two men, one Kotfhnilve of the Old World (an sgert tttr1.m-h)- , while the other represents ! Kow World (an Indian). The of the shaft carries a medallion w Ferdinand and Isabella. The arrangements for the unveiling acm )a the bands of a commission of wwo. competed of Col. Siencer Cosby, ampciintendent of public buildings nnd .grotmils, and Edwar L. Hearn of New Tork vlty, past supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus, who, during his .sna of office, was a member of the eCMamhua Memorial commission, and M was In the nature of a graceful to Mr. Hearn, on the part of tae order and the commission, that he "wna invited to assist tn the arrange-TOcnt- a with the government Ttf treasure. com-'fome- repre-wcnntlv- .Vne e. r Knights of Columbus, a fraternal organization, with about TSfrfl.tW members In this country, Mex-- . 'Canada and the Philippines, has Twaturally taken a large Interest In the waning up of this memorial to Colum-na- . Columbus la the orders patron .and Ita members treasure his memory achievements; therefore, the 1.600 ;nd councils of the order have been with great zeal tn the preparations Tor their participation In the unveiling. 81 has been positively stated that up to date 80,000 Knights of Columbus have announced their Intention to be In Washington for the unveiling. The railways have granted a special Cath-oli- work-Vtn- g Miss Leslie Page. Angeles, Cal., may be named aa one of the favorites. Miss Page .spent the winter In the capital as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. John Hays Hammond and was .a prominent figure at prao llcally all of the many social gather Ings. Her beauty and varied accomplishments pointed her out as particw rale of one ami one-hal- f fare for well fitted for the sphere Id ularly round the tickets to be on ,,tbe trip, tote June 7 and 8 and limited to re-- t which she moves. turn Bose IQ The opening feature of the exercises "Flimflam" Lawmakers. ' wrlll be a parade headed by an unusual Alfred Spivey, thirteen years cld, wwmblage of government soldiers, and Leo Hancock, twelve years old, orations and mhrlnes and civic bodies. came very near fleecing the entire Todowlng the government display of personnel of the house office building men in arms will be the Knights of They faced Judge De Lacy and exOdumbus division. James A. Flnhr-:t- y plained In detail their method of exf Philadelphia, supreme knight tracting money from a score of legis'.of the Knights of Columbus, will be lators and their secretaries. The youngsters visited the office Abe marshal of this division. Mr. Fla- fieri y will have as his aides the most building and told the representatives distinguished men of that order, rep- that a local newspaper was offering a resentatives of the various Jurisdi- set of baseball suits to the team proctions of the society tn the United curing the moat subscrlptfona. They State and Canada. urged tbelr victims to subscribe to Various other bodies are coming to the paper for a month at least. The 'Washington to participate In the great victims, unconscious of being fleeced, paid for the paper a montn In ad.pageant. " vance. When the youngsters were arrested r a list of the names of the victims, Easy for Bachelor. To a congressman who la also a written on a sheet of office building bachelor, the cost of living proposition stationery, was found in the clothing fa practically a- negligible quantity, of each boy. It contains the name ft shouldn't cost him much of anything of many prominent lawmakers. to live. He can rent a comfortable 'toota where the landlady will give Hard to Get First Million, Kiim a simple breakfast for a nominal "Remember, my boy, the hardest aunicat a bowl of milk and crackers thing In life Is to make your first milat the house restaurant each noon, and lion dollars." then catch up at dinner time The "I will, father." demand for unmarried congressmen You may be 20 years or more fill In" at fashionable dinners Is that. I was, but after I had doing to made always several Jumps behind the sup- my first million I made a million a men such and as Catlln of Mis- month after that and didnt work any ply, aouri and Glllett of Massachusetts, more than two day a a week." tor example, wouldnt really need to bay more than one dinner a month. No Change. "That poet says he la going to give At the Boarding House. up writing and become a gasman." "It won't make any difference. He I wonder," mused the inquisitive ' will never succeed In getting bis mater boarder, what baa become of the man who used to speak of rtghL too year eighteen hundred and froze An Electrical Effect to death? " T think," spoke up the taciturn ".The policeman gave the electrician boarder, seeing that no one else had who waa annoying you a shock when ho grabbed him, didnt he?" smaything to offer, be married the woman v who . used to call "Indeed, he did. The fellow had no Idea he was a spark arrester." t soda saleratuz. - - . . FRUIT ON A DRY FARM method of saving moisture Much Can Be Gleansd Who Raise Profitable Method Given to Make It Absolutely Drouth Proof. HIM WHO THINGS THAT WORRY Crop must work There Is much that can be of the dry from the method sr farmer who raise profitable tha" crops tn regions with le If the practices Inches of rainfall which they follow to conaerw were follow for Before Planting Single Tree Two Year Moisture Is Secured by moisture crops Plowing Year Ahead and Keepmore closely by farmers eterywn Ground Cultivated, ing . i ... mild P -- appro-proximat- at night. . IIM.K BnwwnuiN SHERLOCK LAO HOLME J leu Ten Milkman, Iceman. Hucksters, Agents and Long Procession of Other That ConNoisy Nuisances Awake. Him spire to Keep I used to think old man Edison waa batty when he said four hours Lewis sleep was a plenty;" Fatty aa be rubbed a pair of bloo shot eyes, "but I've changed my mind Edisince I've been working nights. of owls, full son was wiser than a tree and If a guy working nights could get four hours sleep hed be willing to pay demurrage charges." or InYou dont look like a victim "At replied. Smith Hurrah somnia," weight much least, youre not losing "Im a victim of a series of pesta rethat should be squelched," Lewis Just morning this "I tab kept plied. to see bow many flatheada disturbed my resL First guy that came along had was the milk man. Mrs. left yesterday's bottle and a ticket out where he could get 1L Yet he had to boiler Milk when he left. You de-dar- IW" H a. The land Is plowed deep 10 8etw I a bed of mellow soil which statement that trees and cropa could good hold moleture. It l then packed the be raised anywhere on suitable sou make tt firm, which holds the to between the Rocky mountains and Misand the surface t harrowed souri river, without irrigation. Every- moisture, few hours to let the air Into a within body laughed, some went as far as to the top soil and form a surface mulch molesay that such exaggerated atatementa of dry soil which prevents the only hurt the state, a few took the ture from below going up Into the air. bint, others besides myself had arThe thoroughness with which these rived at this truth, and there are now are done determine largehade trees and family orchards all operations On most the size of the crop. ly over the state, few and far between region east of the seml-alrifarms It la true, but quite enough for proof the place of the take roller the may nnd now after twenty years every sub surface packer If It Is used with word of this statement la accepted aa discretion. fact The roller Is particularly valuable Now I make another statement, to use after plow In late summer which even the Colorado writer and and early fall when the ground la professors are afraid of, and which dry. It should- - be well weighted and the eastern papers altogether decline follow the plow closely. But used to print or believe, yet which Is capa- when the ground Is wet It will do ble of proof and will be generally ac- more harm than good. cepted In another twenty years, and Go over the ground after the roller that la that any man can plant n dry the same half day with Acme or orchard according to the following smoothing harrow and harrow again method and make It absolutely drouth after each rain before the seed Is Proof. sown. If the ground ts plowed eight This knowledge wilt do you more to ten Inches deep and well pulverized 111 work up from the good now than twenty year hence and the moisture I submit It not for the enlightenment subsoil, but the surface mulch will of Mr. W. C. Curtis, Mr. Wallace and keep It from evaporating and a fine, othere who affect to see little or so moist seedbed will resulL Soil moisture moves quickly up good In dry farming, but for the beneIt fit of the few who can grasp a truth and down but slowly sideways. In advance of the popular belief and quickly evaporates If there Is nothing turn It to their own advantage. on top to prevent IL If the surface Before planting a single tree we go Is stirred frequently It breaks up the to work and secure two yeare mois- myriads of tubes through which the ture for that tree by plowing a year moisture rises from below and goes ahead of time, keeping the ground cul- off Into the air. The dry land farmers find that It tivated and digging the boles In the fall to catch anow and moisture all pays them to barrow tbelr grain In the winter. Now Is the time to get to spring, not only to destroy the weeds, work. Plow the ground as deep as but to establish a new soil mulch. you can and arrange your lands so as Other farmers would find even greats to bring your dead furrows where the er profit In using the barrow or cultirow of trees Is to be; by doing this vator In their orchards and cultivated the surface la dished toward the tree crops after each rain all through the and If there Is any run off It drains season. towards tbelr roots. These dead furrows are also of great advantage as QUALITIES OF HONEY LOCUST snow catchers. Now a piece of land prepared In Drought Resisting Tres May Well Be this manner will accumulate during Grown on Most Farms In the an ordinary season from three to tour Northwestern States. feet of moist earth from the surface down, and In the boles after a wet The honey locust is a most beautltul winter even five or six feeL tree and one that might well be grown Now to dry all this moisture out In to some extent upon most farms. It a cultivated area without cropping belongs to the legume family or pod would take two years or more without producers and baa a beautiful coma drop of rain, so that when a young pound leaf. It grows very large and tree Is planted two or three feet deep baa sharp thorns on both the branches In all this moisture It Is as 1 contend and trunk of the tree, says a writer In absolutely drouth proof, for In the the Dakota Farmer. When closely set past thirty years the .longest drouth In the form of a hedge, It makes a baa been only a few months duration, most formidable barrier against any drying out no more than the top six kind of stock. The Colorado station or eight Inches, which ts of no value In a recent bulletin recommends the whatever to the tree anyway. honey locust as the most drought reThen we go to work and Impound sistant of any species of deciduous very year ten times as much mois- trees. When this is taken Into consideration, It will be seen that this ture aa the tree needs, aa follows: A young apple tree just planted tree deserves a much larger use In the It does not sucker as uses up n few hundred pounds of northwest. does its closely related species, the moisture every year, but we give black or yellow locust, and Is not these trees an area of 40 feet square, as subject to the attack of the nearly plume and cherries, 20, small fruits locust borer. The writer baa in mind 10. Now If you figure out the a specimen of the honey locust In Jeron an area of 60 feet square, auld county. South Dakota, which la 1,600 square feet, you will find that It one of the handsomest trees he has amounts to about 60 tons per annum. seen In the Dakotas. It la about ever Now an apple tree from 13 to 20 years twenty-fiv- e feet high, very spreading, of age will use up only from 30 to 40 tons per annum, and can live, If and haa proven a rapid grower. Northwestern highly recomnecessary, on half of that, ao that It Is mend thisnurserymen tree and offer seedlings and to understand that while the tree easy trees at low prices and the DaIs growing up the orchard Is gaining young Farmer would urge a larger trial kota an enormous amount of moisture for of this beautiful tree In its territory. future use and even when the tree la full grown you will have several tons to the good each year, which you hold by cultivation In your subsoil, and even if your trees should need more moisture yet when they get, say 30 or 40 years old, they can be thinned out to bO feet apart, which would give each tree about 240 tons per annum, so that there is no need whatever to take any chances. You make tne moisture question tn the orchard as exact a science as building a bridge or a battleship. In fact, ir I knew a man would follow these Instructions ImNo animal that gets feed only plicitly, I would pay him a thousand enough to support life can make a dollars for every tree lost by drouth. gain or profit We keep every weed out of the orCorn fodder that Is dry and dusty chard and cultivate from ten to twelve will be Improved a little by sprinkling times during the season with a home- In the mangers. made cultivator about ten teet wide, The man who can double the prowhich cultivates about twenty acres ductiveness of his farm more than a day. doubles its value. Provided your cow 1B a good me. Every year from the start tne surplus moisture sinks deeper and deep- the more she Is fed along right lines the more she will give. er Into the aubsoll. Haphazard methods of breeding 1 have followed It down foot by foot, never pay with dairy cattle. The best year by year, until now It reaches a herd bull Is none too good. of depth nearly twenty feet The apof the One chief reasons for buttet ple trees that are forty feet apart stand In a cube of moist earth 40 feet becoming rancid at an early age la fact that It la not washed thorsquare by twenty feet deep, contain- the oughly. 200 300 between and tons waot ing The bigger the ears of corn when ter; we make our estimates by taking are put In the silo, the bigger tamplea all through the aforesaid they milk flow will be when the the silage cube, weighing tbem, then drying fed. la , them out thoroughly, then weighing milk utensils The must be free again. This gives us the exact amount seams and cracks, it g imposof moisture tn each sample and by from sible to keep them clean If thl Is not e running an average, we get an case. the estimate of what eacn cube warm weather comes Before contains. a cool place for the milk and prefer cream. By comparing y ltb other cukes on Make the milk and cream room cooli which no trees are set, we are able to sweet and clean. .ell almost exactly wbnt each tree is One advantage of succulent feed It ising up. end by comparing with the the fact that It not only provides the precipitation cun compute the loss by cow with more moisture, but at thv un off or evaporation same time ts more appetizing. (By K. R. PARSONS.) Twenty years ego 1 published MANY DAYTIME PESTS lunged guy who leaves the Ice came and kicked a square foot of paint offn the back door. Ruined $2 worth of paint to sell a dimes worth of Ice. With these two disposed of I thought I'd take another nap. I didnt no moren get my eyes closed until a huckster's parade went racing down the street with every one of them Romans bawling out: Potatoes, apples, nice ripe tomatoes. and extolling the virtue of a lot of other Junk that grows In the ground and on trees and bushes. Three rag men drove down the alley and whooped It up some more. The collector for a life Insurance company; the tea and coffee man; the butter and egg man; a sewing machine agent; a solicitor for a magazine; a vacuum cleaner agent; a guy selling wringers, rugs, lace curtains; a demonstrator for a charcoal flatiron; a woman with a wonderful face lotion; an old man selling fruit trees, rose bushes and shrubs; a woman selling peanut butter; the grocer's boy and the butehere order clerk followed each other In rapid succession to the front door. Three of the neighbors dropped In the back way to either borrow something theyd forgotten to get for breakfast or to return something they'd borrowed. The young men who read the gas and water meters paid us a visit. The telephone operator rang the bell four times. Once there was "no one on the line and the other three times It was the wrong number. "Our kid raa away three times and each time Mrs. Lewis brought him back squalling and yelling at the top of his voice. He got three paddings all of em right under my bedroom window because be was making so much noise Mrs. Lewis was afraid he'd wake me up. That gave him a hunch and the first time she wasnt looking he sneaked up to my room and Just to see If he did wake me up." Must be a fierce proposition trying to sleep under those conditions." Hurrah admitted. "Well, if you have any doubts about It Just try It once," Lewis replied. There aint 10 minutes In the day that some pedler or agent aint at the door trying to separate your wife from some of your salary. But Ive got a plan to get even. Im going to try and get elected to the council and get th&t ordinance against Harboring Vicious Dogs repealed. Kansas City Star. The fox bolds a place In Japan legend much worse than that gp him In the folklore of Europe, un viable aa that Is. His attributes far beyond mere cunning and In man guile; he la a wizard of blackest type, wielding demon powers, master of all the evil ma that can do hurt to man. Foxes ter Into demoniac possesion of hun beings, and work all the wlckedn and more, that was ascribed to witches and warlocks of the mid ages In Europe. They live for mi centuries, and at the age of a th sand years they become white quire tails and have enormous era. Every fox Is to be dreaded pi the worst of all Is the man-fox- , wh can assume the appearance, vole i manner of any human being at a i meat's notice. The extermination all auch creatures was a sacred d of every knight-erran- t In ancient ble. that made her look old " Yea." So she traded hats wit teen-year-ol- "Yes." sister, Ann And the very first time Ann s hat In the street old kins came along and said- gracious. Jane, 1 thought your mother. " The Start cf th What happened to friend at the meet? fame?" "No. He was left b lew into a passion." Example of Good Deductlv. Ing by'i Ing the Home of Child, - Elght-Year-Ol- ... H . d rlB If e tb rlc vuuSSn.r iwn Heights. Brooklyn, who. aith0l' only about 8 years old, as !. k reasoner Is already n th gE; Holmes class. Ills name if' ( Sullivan, and be la best knows i! e Us neighborhood for his devilment an freckle and hla pure boyishness ea The other day Jimmie went ;alb house of Mr. Saltta and InauiJ lean little boy lived there and If ire ' lost. There la a little boy wu i? tl in that bouse who haa a bai pencW losing himself He la the son 0i pfre cook and la about 3 yean old it o long ago be wandered about i . the and a half from home and vu to six or eight hours. A little Ut oast toddled over to Van Pelt Manor a 8 was picked up In a cemetery. ji a r however, did not know any of u tor things. He did not know, ewn, it n there was such a little boy. Ho com Just following up a perfectly deg clue. has Mrs. Saltta asked Jimmie Se re ll a what sort of a little boy It wM", Jimmie described Joe. Jimml ,ov aph plained that the wandering infant arrl been found at Seventy-nintstrew. Thirteenth avenue. There wasb, '71 dii dog with him. No one ever had s ba the chllLor the dog In that nel;': to hood before Some one had te!ept(l ,'rei for a policeman, who came In course and conveyed little Joe to ild del Btatlon house at Eighty-sixtFifth avenue, via a trolley Jammle Sullivan had been an It rs ested spectator of th proceedingAa the result of the Information so Jimmie gave Mr. 8altta and la of the family hasten s. I the police station and there found ; (00 she perfectly happy, sitting behind desk alongside the lieutenant. ad One thing that Mr. Saltta could I quite understand was how J'anmit all llvan ever discovered that the lost d :iow belonged to his house. Not only Joe a stranger to Jimmie, buf Jlr thr had never seen Mrs. Saltta or me member of her household. The t' dlS rea dog was also a stranger In these been adopted by the Sr 1C on last St. Patricks day. reeelvlnz i a name of Patsy In consequence, if e. mo all these facts In mind Mrs. made Inquiry of James why he', and concluded the lost youngster e; ibei have belonged where he did. lltr "Oh, thats easy, responded Jte: ini an It waa no trouble nonchalantly. all. When the cop took the baby tl on the car I Just followed the log and knew he would go hack boma tsi ' he and the kid must live In then: house." . h h - r i S& it Etiquette on a Liner. Etiquette on the great liners bat difficulties, to Judge from the folt The question of pr Ing letter; dence makes a morgue of the Brat ner on board, when a few (ore titles happen to let their cemle blood boll over Into the soup. Ot recent voyage, the commander told by the chief steward that tl1 were two Austrian ladles of title e board. One waa an elderly other was higher tn rank, t quite young. Both were determine! alt on the right of the skipper. O en to despair, he aald: 1 will let ! ladles settle the matter for tic selves, and I won't go down till d! la half over. We had reached t cheese when the unhappy commit! crept warily to his Beat Both hi were still standing frigidly beside empty chair. He had to do eomett" ao be gave the younger warrior-sea- t of honor, while the vanquii baroness looked chain lightning at J enemy." C -- St old om; :di be ;i to 4) 'ISO ad baron-th- Character. Character Is the quality that bf1 us always ourselves. It stands sc est to that Innermost part of us t each calls myself," sometimes even hard to distinguish the two. I like to keep Character In mf guard. Character stands Arm chan every trial, If we give It the eneml to do so. It says to all the k' temptation, discouragement, bad -'' othersthe blues, and hosts of may defeat the rest cf the army, you dare not come near the Is the quality that !fl remln&a me that I am myself stands Juat next to myself and F on repeating, "Be yourself! Dont ' Rot who you are; dont act CM yourself." Wherever It began, bodyg" acter Is the first In our He will never desert A boy or f who has character, who keep ch11 ter Btrong and alive, can never h1 be defeated. St Nicholas. B How He Was Hurt. ' Sunday School Teacher And the prodigal son came home, happened, Tommy? Tommy Hla father ran to meet1 and hurt himself. Teacher" School Sunday where did you get that? Tommy It aald hla father ran t' fell on Tils neck. I bet It would you to fall on your neck! Judge tad eat ft 3e tC am n t( n 1 at,1 e 1 .1 t If 1 ft :D0i 7. II eali la ( ft lu It ko 111 i o 0 eri i a. '& of 'If C v !0l B loi lm it fui 'III ai 711 Not by an Old Hand. Mrs, Exe It Isnt right to Willie with taking that money your pocket. Why dont you t c1"1 1,1 ot ctl ft me?" ent arms Mr taken. Exe Because It wasnt T |
