Show INTERESTING SERIES OF Constipation Forever EXPERIMENTS WITH ALFALFA JYanishes Relief— PenuuMBt Core Hew Jtosr Dairy Department of University of Illinois After Thorough Test Shows Value of Feed for Cows Jgr ic iTSSwartis Why Seward Bought Alaska Hit Believed In Future Commerce the Pacific and 8aw a Chance to Head Off Great Britain of When Seattle’a exposition was at its height last Bummer I was fortunate enough to meet the venerable Frederick W Seward assistant and acting secretary of state under three presidents— Lincoln Johnthe son and' Hayes Quite naturally conversation turned on Alaska "I presume” said Mr Seward “that the belief there will’ always prevail that my father when he was Johnson's secretary ‘of state brought about the of Alaska from Russia pripurchase marily for the purpose of paying a national debt of gratitude to Russia for the moral assistance that she gave the There la Union during the Civil war the slightest foundation not however of fact for this belief know personally what I am talking about fbr while for the purchase of the negotiations Alaska were on was both father’s assistant and confidant "It was in 1866 that Cyrus W Field to finally and definitely demonstrated the world the feasibility of binding the with submarine continents together Until thls'poch-marklncables telegraph was made to demonstration the satisfaction of the entire world Russia had given no Indication of any desire to part with her North AmeriIn fact until the subcan possessons a sucmarine cable was pronounced dreamed cess Russia had long of the key to her conas Alaska utilizing trol of an Intercontinental telegraphic land system The telegraph could easily have been carried across Bering strait which Is only 36 miles wide at its narrowest point and to this day you may see In Alaska the relics of a part ot the lntercontinenal plant that Russia began to build there as early as the late fifties When however the news came of Field’s success Russia was led to believe that Alaska would be of no further material value to her and about that time she and Great Britain tentatively entered Into a diplomatic discussion regardng the possible cession of the territory to the latter nation some way or other “My father learned of this intercourse between the two nations and was at once deeply Interested For many years he had held tenaciously to the opinion that the United States had mads a grave mistake in not insisting on running its r northernmost boundary to He had been a firm advocate forty of our control of the Pacific coast line from the end of Lower California to the top of the continent believing as he did that the Pacific would ultimately be the seat of the world’s greatest commerce So when he learned that Alaska was to all tntents and purposes on the market he saw an excellent chance of adding to our Pacific coast line and at the same time of keeping Great Britain’s Pacific outlet down to the smallest possible minimum that Russia from her “Reasoning past attitude towards us and with no consuming desire to have Johnny Bull miles distant from Sionly thirty-siberia would favor us over Great Britain as a possible customer for Alaska “Only a few of the more Intimate personal friends of Colonel Roosevelt know that his service In the Spanish more than war cost him considerably his salary as lieutenant colonel of the rough riders" said a high ofllcer of the New York Central railroad to me had a few days after Mr Roosevelt in been nominated for 1900 for believing “I have reason for his that in governor of campaign New York he would have been seribut for ously embarrassed financially the timely contributions made to his personal funds by a few of hla perknow I and that sonal friends also when he became governor It was with the knowledge that his official salary of $10000 a year and his private income would be no more than suffIf icient to meet his yearly expenses his household was managed with conAnd yet when an siderable economy was presented to him to opportunity efTect a considerable economy In his personal expenses he did not hesitate a moment to turn It down “At the time when he became govof officer ernor a law forbade any New York state accepting a pass upon a railroad my road had Previously extended the courtesy of a pass to ocbut cupants of the executive mansion was to be no such courtesy clearly the portion of Governor Roosevelt It was however suggested that the president of the company send an annual for her use pass to Mrs Roosevelt for we knew and that of her children that it would be necessary for her and her famlly to make frequent trips between Albany and New York city This was done the pass being sent to with an expresGovernor Roosevelt sion of our regret that the law forbade our including him In the courtesy ‘‘By return mail the pass came back with It a letter and while I have tiot that letter at hand I can quote U substantially “ fully appreciate your courtesy In sending the pass’ wrote the governor ‘and I am sure that It was sent In all sincerity and without any ulterior motive — without any thought of placing to me under a sense of obligation It Is a courtesy anybody concerned would undoubtedly which If accepted effect a considerable economy In my personal expenditures which as governor are very heavy as you well Yet I am compelled to return know the pass and to say to you that while of course the use of it would not be In violation of the letter of the law It would In my view be a clear violaI betion of the spirit of the law should be oblieve that all laws to their served not merely according the liver E POWELL University of Illinois) Mr Farmer why are you raising and feeding so much timothy hay? Ten to one because your dad did Timto custom othy hay la a concession not to tbe cow It fills the cows' stomachs not her udder It makes cud Befor her not coin for you Why? cause It does not contain protein Protein must be In supplied concentrates and fed right Now Mr along with the timothy Farmer what’s the matter with you raising bay that In itself supplies this Alfalfa does It True it protein? will put you to the expense of buying more milk cans but then you will soon get over that The dairy department of the Unicomhas recently versity of Illinois pleted an interesting aeries of expert- (By PROF B Stop alto dinner on alfalfa than upon timothy dirt Moreover In were the cowa cweauli better condition statins isi prove lbs coreplexioa — brighm Now Mr Dairy Farmer more tons tte eyes Seull Fill SaeU Dese Ssull Price of alfalfa can be raised upon an acre Genuine Signature of ground than of timothy Alfalfa will perform an Important service to Over each acre of your soil also dolyour farm la about ten million lars’ worth of nitrogen valuing it at Better a naglesa wife than a horseordinary commercial rates By means less carriage of the bacteria upon its roots alfalfa will coax a large quantity of this niOr Florae's Plmaant Pellet aril pet ep veers Tbe repulete end Invlforete etomeeta Urs( trogen into your soli Don’t you think end bowels tiny grenulee It Is time to forget the practise of and old father the remember your A Treasure gentleman’s precepts which certainly “Your new maid looks very diswere to get all you could while you creet” were getting? “Indeed she is She even knocks In the bran experiments the same at all the drawers before opening basal ration was fed to each cow but them’’ — Pele Mele one lot received eight pounds of bran duced hay - And They Wondered Nicholas Judge Longworth who used to sit on Ohio’s supreme bench looked unnaturally grave and a of his facial in recognition neighbor named a pet owl “Judge depression Longworth” It waB the very next day that an excited maid broke up his “Oh madam” wife's garden party said she "Madam! Judge Longworth has laid an egg” Try Thin This Summer The very next time you're hot tired or thirsty step up to a soda fountain and get a glass of It will cool you off relieve your bodily and mental fatigue and quench your thirst At soda fountains or delightfully carbonated In bottles — 6c everywhere Delicious refreshing and wholesome Send to the Co Atlanta Ga for their free booklet “The Truth About Tells what la and why it is so delicious reand And freshing send 2c stamp for the Baseball Record Book for 1910 — contains the famous poem “Casey At The Bat” records schedules for both leagues and other valuable baseball information compiled by authorities ofRubber Huntington ’s Dream — Financier 8ome Years Ago sidered That Product Ranked Commercial Importance Wlth Wool and Cotton Great Con- In f Although the late C P Huntington the real creator of the- Southern Pacific railroad and the maker of one of the greatest American fortunes could not rival James J Hill or Andrew Carnegie as a public speaker or at least never tried to do that nevertheless he was one of the most entertaining and instructive of men when He engaged in private conversation had a fund of anecdotes he was intensely Interested in all the greater undertakings of American capital and he had made a study of the personalities of the many of the great leaders of his time in railway and Industrial development It was my good fortune to meet Mr some Huntington years before his death when he was in a very chatty Pass that Roosevelt Returned Refused to Accept the Favor Because He Thought It Would Be a Clear Violation of the Spirit of the Law ha opened negotiations with the czar’s for tbe sale of the terrepresentatives ritory to us At once Russia showed of her preference for our ownership Alaska and so anxious was father to defeat Great Britain’s aims on the territory that there was very little discussion about the price we were to pay for it In fact as I recall it now we without accepted question Russia’s terms of seven million two hundred thousand dollars “Here then was my father’s sole reason for purchasing Alaska At the time of the purchase be knew that the Alaskan fisheries would be valuable but he had no Idea of the real value that the territory would ultimately be to us But after bis trip to Alaska in 1869 two years after he had purchased it for the nation he was persuaded that almost unknown to us we had secured control for a mere pittance of the world’s greatest treasure houses a territory of inconceivable wealth — and all because Its purchase helped him to realize in good part his old ambition of seeing tbe United States In control of all the continent's western coast line north of the tip of Lower California" by E J Edwards) (Copyright letter but also with equal strictness to their spirit’ ” "There was only one thing for us to do after that” concluded my authorAnd all ity “we cancelled the pass the time that Mr Roosevelt was governor he and Mrs Roosevelt and their children rode on purchased railroad tickets sometimes economizing by riding In a day coach between Albany and New York city Instead ot using a parlor car” according (Copyright 1910 by E J Edwards) Dramatic Suicide strenuous efforts to earn Despite an honest living an old woman of Lisbon Portugal and her three daughters were unable to pay their rent and so decided to commit suicide They chose a spot near Estoril where a great perpendicular rock stands high above the ocean a terrible forming abyss called '‘Hell’s Mouth” The four women kissed one another goodbye and placed themselves In Indian file on the edge of the precipice Making the sign of the cross the mother first Then the two elder plunged The followed youngest daughters however seeing her mother and sisters wildly struggling In the waves and bearing their screams of agony hesitated As she lifted her hands In a prayer for courage she was seen by fishermen They rushed to the spot and were In time to sleze her by the skirts and thus to save her It is feared that she has become Insane The three girls were all good looking the youngest being remarkably beautiA ful Many Roomed Chinese Houses “In China a bouse of human habitation is a very different affair from what It Is In the United States" said Ellis O Habberton of San Francisco “We think of a house over here ordinarily as the abode of a family of at least a limited number of Individuals but not so in the Orient For Instance my wife and I stayed once for some weeks in a native temple but our occupancy was merely an incident and did not Interfere In the least with the regular business of the priests “Their structure was a huge ramto bling affair and they were glad rent us some of the unused space The Chinese bouses low and spread out over a vast expanse have a multitude of rooms all ranged about a rectangular courtyard giving shelter As and communicative mood he talked he stood leaning over the marble counter of a financial Institution with whose officers he was on terms friendly Finally somebody mentioned the word ‘‘rubber ” and at once Mr Huntington’s manner took on the ear marks of tbe enthusiast “I have heard It stated that this is the iron age the railroad age the electrical age” he said “but I have sometimes that It might thought I be era called rubber the properly regard rubber as standing In' equal rank almost with wool and cotton as a factor in modern industrial develOf course it does not rank opment with grain for grain is converted Into food and food is of first necessity But as our industrial development goes on there are bound to be larger and larger uses for rubber and am sure that there will come a time when for years the world’s supply will not be equal to the demand “Nevertheless am satisfied that rightly handled there is a practically inexhaustible of supply trees throughout the entire equatorial belts of South America and I am satisfied that the presAfrica ent methods of rubber production are I am told that there Is an wasteful destruction of trees But unnecessary am also satisfied that U a set of earnest and capable young men would an adequate corporation organize penetrate the equatorial regions with a satisfactory and reasonably swift of communication and go system about systematically and scientifically cultivating rubber trees that there is no other industry which would begin to yield tbe profits these rubber men would obtain “To my mind the scientific care of rubber trees and production of rubber offers extraordinary It opportunities should appeal to the ablest and the most ambitious of the young men who careers desire to make great and Were I a young man great fortunes would be tempted to go Into the rubber Industry myself But— oh well I don’t suppose that I shall live to see the day for I am getting along In years now but am willing to predict that many men now of middle life will realize before they become old that perhaps the greatest industrial staple In the world excepting cotton and of course the food grains Is rubber” This conversation with Mr Hunting-totook place In the middle nineties For the last month or so all England has been greatly excited over the In the rubber stocks due speculation It Is said to the world's demands for rubber practically being greater thao the visible supply (Copyright by E J Edwards) Pigmies of New Guinea The news that a fresh race of pigmies has been discovered In New Guinea by a British expedition presently exploring the interior is Intersince no one esting to ethnologists expected anything of the kind In that has yet been Nobody great Island able to determine whether the pigmies of the Aruhlml Forest discovered by Stanley and before him by Herodotus are degenerates from the normal type of mankind of whether they are merely a primitive type that has persisted In Its original form The huge Island which Is the pigmies' home contains more unexplored perhaps territory In proportion to Its size than any other portion of the interior Including as has already been hinted survivors of antediluvian creatures By one of its lakes a tribe of webfooted men has already been discovered to many things A rich Chinaman with a big assortment of wives can Tools of Trade "So you pardoned that convict bedispose them conveniently under the same roof and yet not have them in cause he was a poet?” such proximity as to provoke friction "Yes" replied the governor “I or strife" want to encourage American literature We have tried our best with The Fatal Cure midnight oil and a fountain ppn Now The men die of their remedies and let’s see what we can do with a dark not of their diseases — Moliere lantern and a jimmy” Prompt CARTER’S LITTLE LIVER PILLS liiL Purely set surely but gently ea Alfalfa Plant Grown on University ments Alfalfa hay was compared with timothy hay and with bran Sixteen cowa were used in the exwere divided Into periments They two equal lota and were fed after a three weeks’ trial period upon timothy hay for nine weeks and then upon alfalfa hay for the same time The object wag not to compare the two lots but to compare tbe ditorent The feeding periods In the same lot same basal ration was fed to all the cowa the hay was the only difference in their diet The result was overwhelmingly In favor of alfalfa hay An average of was pro177 per cent more milk SPLIT-LO- G Farm the other eight pounds of alfalfa hay As in the case of the timothy the obto compare the cowa In the ject was same lot Alfalfa bay la very much cheaper feed than bran but the results were slightly in favor of the alfalfa hay was higher alThe milk production of butter fat though the percentage was a trifle more when bran was not enough fed however to bring the entire yield up to the alfalfa hay mark This differs slightly from the and Pennfindings of the Tennessee sylvania stations but may be accounted for by the fact that at Illinois very choice alfalfa hay was fed FOR ROAD DRAG Keeping It Dry An old woman of a wealthy New Jersey family was going visiting The coachman who had not been in this country long had just been equipped with a new uniform and a new silk hat Before they had gone far it began to sprinkle and the old woman told the coachman to fasten down the side curtains of the wagonette He drove up to a hitching post beside the road and dismounting hung his new hat on the post and begun to fasten the curtains The old woman noticed his bare head and asked him where his hat was "01 took It off me head mum so aa Is wouldn’t get wet” the coachman replied Doll House Library A search for a child’s short story "The Griffin and the Minor Canon” In a volume all by itself revealed to a persistent city shopper the thought and money that afe expended on the of dolls’ houses Book furnishing stores had not the story In a single volume but in a department store one young woman Interviewed had recently been transferred from the toy department and was able to contribute a helpful hint ”1 think” she said "you can find it In one of the dolls’ houses down- stairs” On behalf of a number of farmers prove even sandy soils though It cannot make a hard roadbed of such mawho wish to construct splltlog drags terial with an Illustration plan together The dimensions of is given herewith Picking Emerald Gem the several parts are indicated In the Remember that the Emerald Gem illustration Mr D W King of Missouri who has been the most prom- melon should be picked as soon as it will separate easily from tbe stem and inent advocate of this road Implement describes it as a leveller for smooth- kept In the house a couple of days be ing down the rough places and pack- fore using If allowed to ripen on the ing the surface soil Best results are vines it will acquire a mawkish faon clay roads obtained It will lm- - vor Curiosity had by that time become a sauce to literature so the shopper hurried downstairs to Inspect the doll houses Three of the most expensive houses contained libraries consisting books and of a score ef diminutive each 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