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Show I h f I WIRE FENCE BIRDS LARDER. Us of California Songster Make Queer Storehouse. When the barbed wire fence first rsme Into Use In California, cattle owners cursed the inventor. Not so the butcher bird. The butcher bird it a creature about be size of a small crow, and he lives on Insects and smaller birds. At first the farmers who instituted the barbed wire wondered how so many grasshoppers, beetles, field mice and small birds became impaled upon the barbs of their fem e, wires. They soon learned, for the butcher bird Is not a secretive creature. When grasshoppers and other bugs were plentiful. he gathered great stores and stuck them on the barbs of the fences. When hard times came, the barbed wire fence was to him like a free lunch counter. Now, In winter time. It is no rare thing in parts of California to see the butcher bird hopping along the fence wires, continually plckirg his meals SS he skips from barb to barb. Under the caption, The Union PaRailroad and Louisiana Territory, the new Worlds Fair folder by the advertising department of the Union Pacific, which has attracted such general attention, recltea these Interesting facts; While the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad, its trials and triumphs, are a part of the history of the United States, the important part played by this railroad tn the. development of the Louisiana Purchase can hardly be estimated. In the building up of this vast domain' it has been one of the chief factors. One hundred years ago the population of the region was estimated at 20,004. Up to the Inception of the Union Pacific (In 1860) it bad Increased to 3,233.629. Ip 1900 it numbered over 13,000,000 of Inhabitants. In this wonderful growth, with Its stupendous Increase in all the many-sidephases of commercial, material and intellectual pros; erlty, the Union Pacific as a glance at the map will show has had a conspicuous share. It has opened vast regions of fertile country to settlers, and brought great areas of an unknown and unproductive wilderness Into close communion with metropolitan' centers and markets. Thriving cities, towns and hamlets, through Its efforts, have sprung op In every direction. It may be of Interest to know that the total number of manufacturing plants, and the value of their outputs, combined with that of the national products as reported In the censua of 1900, give an aggregate production for the Louisiana region of 13,600,000,000 annually, or 223 times the original purchase price. The same censua reports (1900) also show the total population to be 13,343,255, of which 8,303,096 Inhabitants are living in the state and territories reached by the Union Pacific. On the 1900 censua figures, it is estimated that the true wealth of the Louisiana purchase can be stated at 7 about 813,061,868,369, of which it represented in the states reached by this great railroad. Easterner Complains He Purchased HUMBLE CRITIC WRITES OF WAGNERS MUSIC Domestic Harmony at Frightful Will Stick to. Ragtime. Cost-Here- after rather easy time trying not to fall When Shakespeare wrote "The man no music in himself, nor is moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for trtasous, stratoeems and spoils he lived in an aue that knew only tlutes and lutes of that inoffensive sort; age when people who sang only carolled and trolled about flowers and love and shepherdesses. Shakespeare never heard a piano, nor a Gei man brans band; nobody had invented operas, comic or explosive; it was not considered bad form to admire a ballad; ami no one was expelled from society or considered ignorant and uncouth for liking a mtluJy tn love with a btout, elderly and shopworn princess or prophetess, who was lovely enough to btop a clock in any climate, or drive the east wind out of that hath Boston. The real things In this music drama are not opWagner's things or eras a. lot opuses were om-eof strong, strenuous young ariaved in nighties and carn-pa'and armed with ox pu.cN, who hutted in periodically with arid shrieks, while the conductor out in fronL threw fits, foueht with his batonJrnd worked up n cific is-su-e d d $9,360,-621,38- First 'German Woman Doctor., The University of Halle mentions the Interesting fact that this Institution was the first In Germany to give the medical degree to a woman. It wan In 1754 that the university ere ated a daughter of Dr. Leporin ol Halle a doctor medicine." Her studies had been csrried on under the direction of her father, but In the university halls she had dfr fended a set of theses that secured her these academio honors. She is o donbt the pioneer of the modern university movement among the women of Germany. . Excellent Opportunity to Arrange for Your Reception at St. Louis, During the Fair, Free. If you Intend gclng to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis. Missouri. opened by President Roosevelt April 30th, 1904, it will be very much to your advantage to correspond with Mr. F. H. Worsley, No. 411 Dooley block, Salt Lake City, Utah. Mr. Worsley has arranged to have all kla parties met at the St. Louis depot and escorted to their lodgings, which wilt be reserved in advance. Information relative to passenger ticket limits, betel rates, stop-overrates and all other necessary information asked for will he cheerfully given free of charge. This will especially be Of benefit to thrse desiring to travel wtth Utah parties or In parties of four or five. School teachers will also hear something to their Interests by writing above party. s, Something Unusual. Little Bessie was so accustomed to Being the baby crawl around the room on his bands ard knees that she thought It was his natural mode of traveling. One day he succeeded In Standing up with the aid of a chair, and Bessie, very much astonished, ran to her mother and exclaimed; Oh, come quick! Baby Is Eamma, fcis hlrd legs. and throwing bricks at those who made a noise. Shakespeare was quite a fellow In his day, and knew almost as much as a spouting police geyser; but hfi neither knew nor anticipated the late lamented Herr Wagner of Bayreuth, Germany. Wagner was a man who had a lot of music In himself, but he failed to keep It tn. Music worked in his system like steam; and when It broke out it made trouble. Wagner tried his music on his chum, a lunatic and king; and if he was pleased, it was considered a proof that the rest of us would want it I am rather shy about saying much about Wagner; every fellow that plays a fiddle, or a mouth organ, or a cornet, or forty-fivethinks Its up to him to defend him; and you are pretty sure to be called names and accused of Anarchy and beating your wife if you rouse Under the circumthe Wagnerites. stances, It Is Just. as well to be Judicious and Speak soft and low. Some people understand Wagner; some try to understand him; some pretend to understand him; while a vast, vulgar, Ignorant majority can neither stand nor understand him. I suppose I am numbered among the last lot; and, while I am willing to concede that Wagner is great, I prefer Sousa, Creatore and ragtime. Confidentially, I think he was born too soon and died too late. The easiest way to distinguish a real Wagncrite from the imitation is to hear them pronounce the great The real things Call man's name. him Vogner; the Britannia metal Wagnerites call him Wagner, or Just Waggoner, if they are lately from Cheyenne. When a man has a wife who can cut frills on a pianola, or who wants to be in the swim, he Just naturally has to get down In Ms pocket once In a while and dig up a couple of fives to put the Wagner trust on Eay street As I have said, 1 dont reallv enjoy Wagner; but in the end it Is easier and cheaper to take four hours of tho great Germans spasms than four weeks of your wifes obligatos in C sharp. Four weeks of domestic harmony Is cheap at $10; a divorce will cost more than that. The last time I sampled Wagner's wares it was under domestic duress; and the particular riot which 1 endured was called the Valkyries. There wero several characters in It who reminded me of certain statesmen; they had large voices, long whiskers and These people garments. peculiar didnt make much trouble, though semewhat clamorous; and they had a s, of distributing old maga-aine- s and papers to employes and residents slong the lines in Texas was recently adopted by tbo Southern PaRepresentative Richardson of Tencific. During the first week 1,600 pa- nessee tells of an old darky living pers were turned over to thirty-tw.near Nashville who, has according to section foremen, and in this way 376 his theory, been dying for many, many families were reached. years. Notwithstanding his persistent I belief that he Is near deaths door, Where the Ladies Propose, Between the mountains of India and this darky, Isaac Botts by name, is toPersia Is a powerful tribe among apparently as well and Whom an extraordinary custom was pr as ago. years he forty day palls. Womens rights have apparLatently, rays Mr. Richardson, Isaac ently received full recognltion. for the was seized with oae of his spalls. ladles of the tribe can choose their A week or so passed, but Isaac, acAll a single woman jswn husbands. cording to his own statement, grew no Las to do when she wishes to change better. One day a neighbor, in passLev state is to send s servant to pin a ing the Botts domicile, chanced to obhandkerchief to the hat of a man on serve Mrs. Botts standing at thfi gate. Whom her fancy lights, and ho la How is Ike this morning! asked bilged to marry her, unless he can the neighbor. how that be Is too poor to purchase Only tolablo, only tolable, replied Ler at the price her father requires. o able-bodie- d ' the fiddles and bassoons until the root quivered. As I understand It, the VaV kyrles were the Carrie Nations of ancient Germany, who were trained to hover over battlefields, keeping tabs on the patriots who went to the front too much; and when these heroes were knocked out by the hated foemen, the Valkyries swooped down on them and hustled them off to a sort of reservation, called Valhalla, where the departed patriots sat around drinking beer and bragging about their war records. A patriot and hero would have to be very dead to enjoy the company of these shrinking young ladles; for, as they floated around In the atmosphere on broncoes waiting for a chance to post-morte- n The Difference In Mankind. Theres men and men, said Tommy the Tout, when he got back to Broadway from Jamaica the other Just to show you. take Bill day. Pa wins two Daly and Bud May. races with Daly and Amberjack, and Im broke. I know him and need a dollar. Thinking be ought to stand for a touch I asks him for a plunk. 'I aint got a dollar in change, says he, but heres a dime I can let you have. I needed money bad, and when I Yrnt CwCTiCuxAmont MKieK.$ Aj-J- TIME Swedish Invention That Will Prove a Great Convenience. A portable telephone Is the latest thing out, and it Is the conception of a Swedish, not an American, inventor. The specimens of the device that have been sent to other countries have elicited unstinted praise from Austrian, Russian, Greek and Turkish experts, who have tested them, and. while large demands and Inquiries for the new phone have come from Frence, Germany. Italy, Spain, 1 and the United States, those from Great Britain have been even mo-- e noticeable. Within the cylinder of the telephone s a small dry cell, the whole apparatus (including both receiver and mouthpiece) being small enough to go in the pocket. With each instrument Is a coi! of thin copper wire, and it is reckoned that a soldier could easily carry 13.000 feet of this wire with him. The uses suggested for the portable telephone are Innumerable, military considerations being kept specially to the front. Outposts it is declared, could by its aid keep in constant communication with the main force, and it !s pointed out that it would furnish a valuable means of keeping in touch with headquarters for police and fire For use between railway brigades. coaches on a moving trains, for engineers at work underground or on great public works, for steamers, for cyclist and in many other fields it would be most desirable. .WILL HAVE TO EXPLAIN. Anticipate Congressman Wachter Trouble With Constituents. Wachter of BaltiRepresentative more ran around in circles in the Last house of representatives Saturday Miss Alice Roosevelt, Count Cassini, the Countess Cassini, and Secretary I.oeb and Mrs. Loeb rode over to Baltimore in an automobiie. The Baltimore papers printed the story and said that Representative Wachter entertaired them at luncheon. When Wachter got to the house this morning several members met him with the cheering cry: So you are a Russian sympathizer, are you? Wachter went up in the air. I am not a It's false. he said. I didnt enterRussian sympathizer. I don't tain Cassini at luncheon. know him. I never saw him. I I to-da- I and Words failed at this point Wachter simply sputtered. Later in the day it developed that nearly all the people in Baltimore who emigrated from Russia and Poland live in Wach-ter- s district and have votes. Washington correspondence SL Louis Post-Dispatc- Wealth. Blessed is the man who sees spiendor Hid In the landscape, though toga roll. Whose heart bv Love Is kept and tender That fogs or tempests never soul. the royal the thick so warm . reach hla The flowery hills and dates are robbed of beauty. Earth is a desert with no fertile spot To him whose life has only toil and duty. To whose lone hearthstone sweet love cometh not. His home mav he a nalaoe; yet he loses l'he sweetest treasure that life can im- part,or failure comes as each one chooses Whether his wealth shall be of purse or heart. Succe-- s Love and contentment goodness, hopes ethereal. the possessor give the greatest w ealth For gold becomes a curse, and all material That robs us of our birthright, heaven and healtn. Blessed is the man whose happy soul hath To ; risen From I he dead plane of sense, through faith and trust; Blessed Is the man whom Love hath led from prison Where life is heart to heart, not dust to dust. Eliza Lamb Martyn. Ike XAST -- ITuE I 5AMP7EP WABrE? inpuh c IT DUSteji 1 5 HAH. drag out a battered patriot they made rolbo crouch to make a D. A. R. convention seem liko a prajer meeting in comparison. The night I rat shuddering at this 'bricking sisterhood Kritzi Scheff was one of the Valkyries; but as she shortly afterwar! eloped from. Wa-u- er and vert into comic opera and brief clothes, 1 Imagine she was cloved by Warner as much as 1 was. Tie difference between us was she was paid to yell at me; ard I paid to hear her yell. Men are dead easy. I was glad when it was over, when these shrieking Sutherland sisters K.iotC butts into May I makes up my mind to try him, but Major Pelham had been beaten out and I didnt want to make it too strong, so all I asks for is a quarter. 'I haven't got a quarter, Tom. says he, but heres $2, if Its all the New York Times. same to you. It Was Wished On. Johnnys sister has a ring that Johnny is very rond of. He Is allowed to Wear it sometimes for an hour or so, when he has been very good, or has promised to be. One day he suddenly found that he wanted to wear that beautiful little gold band, and so he informed his sister. She wasnt Just In the mood, so she told him, as he insisted, that she couldnt take It off because it was wished on. Johnny said Lttle and thought much, and the next afternoon, when his sister had callers he rushed in and plumped down on an ottoman In the middle Mr. Botts' better half, a wtary c;rer-sioof the room. into her face coming reminded his sister, Johnny, That's too ha 1. responded the your cap, dear. I hud neighbor, sympathetically. Oh, returned the boy. Innocently, hoped he would be well by this time, I can't take It off. Sis; It's wished lie is no wore? " No. he ain't no worse. wer( on tap on. wife, dejectedly, an at de nino t.rne Costly Railroad Tunnel. he ain't no better. It's all. is dis war. One million dollars a mile Is the Fust he's worse an den hes better. estimated cost of constructing a tunDen he's worse agin. Alius dis way! nel, four miles in length, on the line Pon mah soul, honey, ole Botts beea of the new Moffat railroad, from Dendoin dia way everslnce I kin rememver, Colo., to Salt Lake City, Utah. ber. Contractors hesitate about bidding for Then, after a long pause, as if in the work, because of the hardness of deep reflection, the darkys w fe add- the granite through which the tunnel ed. In a plaintive tone: must be bored. Sticks of dynamite Honey, 1 do wish ole Botts ud do make little Impression on the rock, somethin definite! New York and the railroad coraoanv. Itself, may Times. have to bulM the tunnel Tired of the Delay Papers for Employes. A plan were chased off by the scene ahlftera; and though I was dead tired and stone deaf, I went out and tackled lobsters and Welsh rabbits in a restaurant and cheerfully faced nightmares. I knew when I got the nightmare I'd forget the Valkyries. In my time I have faced Tannhaus-er- , Lohengrin and other Wagnerian things; and it looked as If I might acquire the habit and stand around like other weak sisters pretending to be enraptured every time a bull fiddle fell foul of a base drum; but, after the Valkyrie campaign I threw up my hands and abandoned Wagner. This is a shameful confession to make, and argues a defective musical and moral sense. I am willing to admit the trouble lies with me, not Wagner; I have not been trained up to him; and I have neither money, cor strength enough to try. I was not distressed when Boston refused to give 4up Its I was dividends to Herr Conried; proud to know Boston could control itself even In the face of Wagner; and I was secretly and vulgarly happy when Conried and his Valkyries started for Chicago, where they are accustomed to cyclones and explosions. Outside of the music drama, I like Germans and things German; some day Im going over to Germany to see where the frankfurters, hofbrau and bull fiddles grow: and I'm going to If look up Herr Wagners grave. they have a marble monument on his chest and his tomb cemented and I shall rejoice. Id like copper-riveteto come back with the certain knowledge that he cant get up and start iu again making raw material for brass hands, hand organs and Valkyries. I don't want his sacred remains disturbed. When the last day comes, and people are slow In responding, I know aswhere Gabriel can get a first-clas- s sistant to rouse the sleepers and wake dead; but until that day, I hope no van&l hand will monkey with the great mans tomb.-Bosto- -- Joseph Smith in Herald. NEW IDEA IN TELEPHONE. Is Against Large Battleships. Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge, who has just retired from his post as commander of the British fleet in Chinese seas, doubts the wisdom of building big battleships. These large vessels, he says, lack in practicability; they are not sailors ships. When one of them is crippled or sunk the loss is too great, and Sir Cyprian thinks two ships costing together the same amount would be much better than one of the floating giants. Girl Diver Does Good Work. Miss Inez Callamore. a handsome San Francisco girl of 24, after repeated rebuffs, was given permission to descend in eight fathoms of water off the Golden Gate for the purpose of examining the hull of a sunken vessel. Four men divers had been there before her, but she accomplished more than all of them put together. Miss Callamore's father has been a diver on the Pacific coast for many years. Good Samaritan Rewarded. Gregorio Zelieh. keeper of a restaurant in Oakland, Cal., taking pity upon the apparently urgent needs of an old Mexican. Magin Castho, gave hifa food and a place to sleep for a considerable time. Castro died the other day, and in his will bequeathed to his which benefactor all he possessed, proves to be a large Interest in an estate in Mexico valued at several hundred thousand dollars. Birthplace of Thomas Hardy. The mother of Thomas Hardy, the novelist, died at the age of 91 in the little thatched cottage which she had occupied all her life on the heath at In Bockhampton, near Dorchester, which Thomas Hardy was born. Thence he used to trudge daily to the national school at Dorchester and later to his work at an architects office la the same town. to ACT. When the back ache and you ar always tired de- Ills, Its to act time The pressed sad nervous when sleep is disturbed by pain and by orinary kidneys are sick. Doane Kidney Pills cure sick kidneys quickly sad permanently. Here's proof. Mrs. W. S. Marshall, R. F. D. No. 1. 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Lhrlnglbpeclmens of a queer Insect have lately been shown in Cambridge England. They were brought from Rangoon by CapL C. EL Williams. The Insect is a species of mantis, and Its body and legs are both shaped and colored to resemble a beautiful flower. It feeds on butterflies, and while It Is lying In wait for them under a spray of leaves it looks exactly like a blue blossom with a black spot in the center resembling the tuba of a corolla. The black part of its body Is drawn out Into a long green stalk. The resemblance to a flower is perfect, and butterflies and other Insects light on It in search of nectar and are Immediately seved by its falal claws. Philadelphia Record. Piaos Cure for Consumption Is an Infallible medlolne for coughs and colds. N. W . Oooaa Grove, N. J., Feb. 17, ISM! Manufacture of Milkstone. Mllkstone, or gaialith, is manufac tured in the following manner: By chemical process the casein is precij itated as a yellowish-browpowder which Is mixed with formalin. 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In December, 1895, it was said that they had been heard yet the men struck again, whereupon work and could not be Induced to r sum e it until the government inspect or had made a close examination ol the workings and reported all safe. la July, 1902, another instance of a colliery strike, founded upon the sams superstition, occurred in England. Important ta Mothers. Examine carefully every bott'e of CVSTORIA, S safe and rare remedy for infants and cbildrao, and tee that It Bears the Signature of la P L Use For Over 30 Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought. France Would Buy Trusts. French economists are asserting that .when a nv! . puiv '.."come injurious It should ba tj ..tit by tbo state and maunged in the interest of tho public. Thi3 quet-liohas gon 0 far beyond the theory that th Dtlnister of finance has seriously Thought of taking hi band ths rsfiftt lag of oil t V out, |