Show TALKS WITH TRAVELERS american sculptors toro hilll be well represented at tile tho purla exposition in DO sold said C I 1 13 dailly tho the famous 5 sculptor rat ill the kenyon kenyan 1 I have already received notice from washington to submit tile the lilies 0 of such ot of my an Y works work 8 a as I 1 intend to exhibit I 1 have decided dicle cd to show but one work the man which I 1 exhibited at the paris salon ration till year I 1 consider his Is in my masterpiece und and in the salon i L upon it I 1 recollect received athin four 1 marks of 0 tile hie highest honor ever conferred upon an american sculptor while I 1 in n P parla ris I 1 became mall ell acquainted quain aisted ted N i ti I 1 bartholdi aho demig designed ned and executed the statue ot at liberty l in new york harbor ile he has a wonderful strong personality Is 18 till nn ardent vor Is of republican and Is he as heroic lt bolc jai in mature Pta ture proportionately proportion a t 1 r speaking as his famous statue ot of the goddem of liberty most of the american art students in patin live in tile the latin fuai ler v v here rat for a mere song they are furnished with m ith a 96 coopy coolly little room usually meveral aloois above the mid walk most of them rio aie poor aal struggling but withal so devoted to their work that they forget about their poverty t gilcken I 1 L on surroundings bui and skimpy I 1 taie RIO 2 mr I 1 r dallin stated that the rood good puritanical iollia folks of doblon could not tand tho the presence or of tho the nude statue of bacchante and drove the linc unchaste lasete work from tile tha city tiivi limits to new cv where tho the work nork of art was wai received with open arms lie ile like nipo state that the th quaker city had barred art in ill tho the nude stopping slopping at the cullen ja Is jared W smith of the bureau of aarli naho Is a in utah making an official ln lit of the extent and method of alfalfa culture in this and stator state 1 I have been instructed by ill the e department laid cald mr smith to make mak 0 rai an of the extent and value of tile tho alfalfa seed need und and bay industry in utah nebraska and IVY wyoming om ing the T thice foremost producers 1 in I 1 I 1 the country I 1 will ascertain the acreage devoted to tile the cultivation of tile the seed and the possibility anil and desirability of increasing Inc reusing the iho present acreage I 1 vill hilll ulso anscel join the beet methods of 0 cultivation ti harvesting harve Eline and cleaning the seed in order to increase tile the yield and value of tile the seed ci crop op I 1 mill also make a study of the origin of the seed from ellich dodder and aarl other dangerous deeds have been derived terl ved and also propose a an method thod for their crad teat ion utah U produces the bet beat be at alfalfa seed in the united blues and n d in quantity about two thirds of 0 ai all 11 the seed used in the country the average yield this ear in utah will be about four bushels per acre and the total production I 1 fit equal about one and n u quarter million pounds or about I 1 carloads alfalfa was vas first raised in france later it mas cultivated in spain and tho the seed was wag blought to 10 mexico during tile iho spanish conquest in the cirit alfalfa it was fridoun in california we now export t hundreds of tons of tho the seed geed to europe grid and the iho industry has grown crown to bo be one of the standbys stand bya bys of the farmer 1 I have lived in nebraska twenty live years yearn and during that time I 1 was ten tell years president of tho the state board of agriculture Arri culture but I 1 hake haic never seen such a a wonderful crop of everything gron by la a farmer as tho the one tali this year said paid S ill barker of silver creek neb at the white house why in ISM whon when tile the calamity hoi bov ilein lei s hamed about 6 cent corn and the gold dollar 8 cents we was a a good food price for corn and in lots of pi places aces it was vas burned for fuel now 13 19 c centi is 19 the minimum mum price tor for old corn and the farm farmers ersi are jubilant prosperity a has spread over our state with n till a a rapidity thai surprises even the republican Republic republicans anI lr jr barker Is 15 1 5 here with nearl nearly y head of nam bollet lct and dei h 1 I that he lias has sold to tho the sheep men of the states to improve their herds |