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Show GRICULTUIi I THE FRENCH j Persons and 5 CAPITAL ? MAGNIFICENT MlKonrl Fruit lltpnrl. L. A. Goodman, secretary (Special Letter.) CONSPICUOUS feature stock, in lSou. 1; a Parisian In the gay life of the to the backbone. With his right eye French capital this spring armed with a monocle he was for is the great number of years a familiar figure at Tortonl's, Americans. These folks which, indeed, he only ceased frefrom over the sea are dis- quenting when the landlord died and tinguished by the wonder- the cafe put up Its shutters to reopen ful elegance of their cos- as a brasserie. tumes and their apparent enjoyHis biting gibes led him Into many ment of all attainable luxuries, a scrape. Perhaps the most serious of without regard to expense. Presumed- these was when one of the victims of ly, a big throng has come over from his attacks, instead of challenging him the United States to participate in the to a duel, calmly broke a champagne pranka of the coronation season In bottle over his head at the Cafe Riche London, and this whirl in Paris Is a and nearly killed him. Of course there real giddy preface. Anyhow It la clear was a lady In the case. The least said that hundreds of Americans with lots the better about his marriage with of money to spend and hundreds mod- Miss Irene Perkins, the daughter of erately supplied with cash will tour on the brewer, which only lasted a brief this Bide the Atlantic thiB year. space before a judicial separation was Of course tradesmen and hotelkeep- obtained, in camera, before the French ers Indeed, all industries in Europe courts. Aurelien Scholl made no pretense expect quite a financial harvest from this unusual number of sight and to any political opinions. Gifted with health seekers. an abundant dose of sparkling wit, e e e he would simply Bit down at the cor The bands of latter-daner of a table and dash off a column VTruands which now inhabit some parts of Paris or two of brilliant epigrammatic writing, turning somebody or something into ridicule. Ills contributions to the last commanded fancy prices. Moreover, he was a man about town, a vlveur, who enjoyed all the good things of this world that he could lay hands on, and considering the pace at which he went through life, the wonder is that he attained, within a year, the age awarded by scripture to the best of us. ? Alkali Soil. of the In different parts of the West there has been much complaint of alkali soils." In all cases complained cf these soils have been under cultivation. the alkali at first not seemi&g to affect the crops. The rendering barren of the soli has occurred after the application of Irrigation water, and usually after a number of years operations. Year by year these barren tracts have Increased till it has become a question of some moment as to what should be done to reclaim the lost areas and to prevent other areas from becoming also infertile. On careful investigation it has been found that the alkali In these soils was so distributed through the soils at first that it was not harmful to plants. Thus, in a layer of earth three feet deep there would be a certain amount of alkali, enough to be decidedly harmful if It were moved from its position in the subsoil and accumulated In the first foot of soil. The irrigating of the fields and orchards has brought about this very thing, as the amount of water applied was not sufficient to more than supply the needs of the crop and of evaporation. Had Indeed. the water been sufficiently abundant Cherry trees are loaded with blos- to have supplied a good quantity for soms and the prospects now are for drainage the alkali would have reat least a good average crop. mained largely distributed through the Boil. As It was, the water In three Grape prospects are still good. The strawberry plantations suffered feet of soil was gradually drawn upmore last year than for many years. ward by capillary attraction and took Prom icports received, the acreage the alkali with It. Thus the alkali will be less than of last was brought to the surface and deyear, and many of these even will posited in a thin layer. A continuance show a light crop. We can only re- of this process Increased the alkali to d of the usual supa point where It destroyed all vegeport about of berries Missouri. from tation. The Arizona station has apply The raspberrry and blackberry also parently solved the question for all were so badly injured by the drouth localities that are subject to flood d waters. These should be used to flood that we can count on only lf to the usual supply of these these lands, covering them to a depth berries. While the blackberry vines of eight Inches or more. The result did not die, yet they grew so little, be- would be the carrying away cf much ing loaded with berries last year, that of the alkali and the washing of other we cannot expect a full crop of them. portions Into the subsoil. Missouri State Horticultural Society, sends out the following report: Apple prosppcts are fairly promising In all parts of the state where orchards have been well cultivated, and are not too old, or did not have an overload of apples last year. The orchards showing best are the young trees. Reports now justify about CO per, cent of a crop of apples. Pears have withstood the drouth better than the apple, and where the blight has not injured the trees a full crop can be expected. Peach prospects are good in southwest part and extreme south central lortiou. The cold of last December killed virtually, all the peach buds norili of the Missouri river, and there will be only a few scattering peaches and seedlings in all that district. South of the river and in southwest part of the state, we find the injury getting less and less. We can report from this district CO to 75 per cent of a crop and at the same time some special localities report a full crop. Plums being much more hardy In bud, give promise of a very fair crop The prince and princess of Monaco seem to be resigning themselves to the inevitable, and to be giving up hopes of living in anything like accord. It Is understood that they have at last agreed upon one thing, and that is that they would both be the happier for a legal separation. The fact is that each Is passionately devoted to a hobby which has no sort of interest for the other. The prince delights in posing as an expert among men of science, and he grudges neither money nor time In pursuit to his end. He lavishes his revenues on his Bteam yacht, which Is fitted up In the most extravagant manner for ocean exploration; and In her he has sailed the seas from Sumatra to Spltzbergen dredging, surveying, mapping, measuring considering himself well repaid by soma cephalopod or crustacean which his trawl has been the first to wrest from the bottom of the Beas. The princess hates the Bea, and she hates the slimy, unsavory sea beasts even more. She is devoted to music, and gathers about her artists, men with long hair and soulful eyes, whom her husband detests with a vigor that rivals her hatred of his trawl. No wonder there are ructions" whenever his highness and madame la princess one-thir- one-thir- one-ha- TIi Campbell Method Approved. Several years ago, when Mr. Campbell was publishing through the country the wonderful things that his system of soil culture would do, he received small attention. We thought then, and think now, that his system la of no particular use In Illinois, Wisconsin and adjoining states or in other states where the supply of soli moisture Is ample In most years. Th system seems to be particularly adapted to the lands In the more arid regions, especially where those lands have the soil water long distances from the surface. For some years now the system has been tried in Western Kansas, and favorable reports are received from it Professor H. M. Cottrell, of the Kansas Experiment Staenthusiastic In tion, is particularly He relates of Kansas. for it support many circumstances whore it has given good sized crops where all others have failed, and says that every farmer in Western Kansas should give It a trial. Mr. Campbell has purchased a farm at II111 City, Graham County, Kansas, on which he is showing what his method can do. The farm was one of the most unproductive ones in the county, the crops generally falling on account of drouth. Mr. Campbell has changed all that. The crops grown on his lands last year were good ones, while crops grown by other methods failed. It may be that the Campbell soil culture will yet push the line of profitable farming further west. Work la Rnathorn Illinois. The department of horticulture of the Agricultural Experiment station at the University of Illinois Is preparing for extensive field worti In southern Illinois during the present season. Although there are many problems requiring Investigation, the most Important one now confronting the fruit growers Is the control of the bitter rot of the apple, and this has been selected for thorough study this year. This disease has been most diss astrous In Its attack upon the of southern Illinois, and unless some effective means can be discovered to keep the fungus In check, it will render the production of apples a rather precarious business in uiany sections of the apple growing districts. The experiments this season will be conducted upon a practical scale In three large orchards, portions of which have been placed under the immediate control of the department by the owners. Orchards at Tontl, Flora and Taniaroa have thus been secured. In addition, the department will have the hearty supof a number of port and growers In southern Illinois; thus a thorough Investigation of the subject is assured. The main line of work will consist of experimental spraying with two points in view; early spraying as a preventive measure will be tested, and the efficacy of later applications for the control of the disease after it makes its appearance will NrtMiH In 1orto Rlrn. In order to facilibe determined. when to plant? Is a The work question tate the headquarters will be puzzler to the Porto Rico agriculturestablished at Salem, where a horticultural and botanical laboratory will ist. It seems to make no great difference when a crop Is planted the rebe fitted up. sult Is always the same a good harvest. Some yrai'3 ago, one of the Islands most enthusiastic agriculturists, in endeavoring to force Nature to divulge her season secret, planted a patch of corn each month consecutively for a year with the result that sixteen months from the time of the first planting he was rewarded with his twelfih good crop. There was a slight apple-crop- me Xlktel dee Inv-lId- M, are not ordinary criminals, but are the Truands that Jean Rlchepln described In his study of the fifteenth century life in his brilliant play at the Odeon three years ago. They are outlaws, by Inclination and destiny. As a rule, they are the finest looking young fellows in a populous quarter, and every one has his pseudonym, which Is generally of a picturesque and even poetic character. It is very difficult to enter one of the bands, and, once entered, Freemasonry knows no oaths such as these blackguards have to answer to. CIIIRCU OF NOIltlS IIAMK DR FAltl They are Immediately branded with have attempted to reside together in a caustic pencil or tattooed, so that that palace of theirs, which might be they cannot escape from one band to in the very Garden of Eden itself as another. A revolver of heavy caliber far as environment of beauty goes. and a dagger are issued to every member. Kiid then the officers are selected Queen Nathalie of Servla, who has in a formal manner that would sug-sethe greater part of the winter passed a meeting of a board of guar- at wh re sip? now Is, (l:;i 'I.it has, tip orthodox abjured apiiiiirr, Tii-voting papers are placed in an faith nml gone over to Ibuue. without eb-led chiefs return Muyimly but her iiiia.edin.ui:. :r.id the t har.l.s in divnifed king'iure. Iri m the wiser. Tbc ce.i amny of her tiiii! Moment tho-- e aimed and nrgan-- i hupti.-u- i niid p! inn Into the Itoinish ' the police and :i,ds w Iiirh i iiiii'i li. vaciinducit d very wlm at Tlv pain be took pl.:.-i- ' a day nr t ,vo ago 'i'ib'Hy, i lies dare i.ot dcnonnei- them. in the i,a;l cf the Cu.iii rracliaud the wealth:. r Id th..- - boulevards an w. who ireipi-- nt m in league with them supply lie I't nil! " ; Hold de is i ol tic e y for order a. a a heppv .iust pro-- j having v u some of them are arrested. il and her piaster with an-th-me ib J.uyui-Imy. Tinbaby l I! of Aurelien the d has pn tu ait as to the iuie:-'- t Jimrna V.ii'iii lof.i-- one of lit tie Ft ranger, who is ll.o third son of Uelginn burn to tiie ie fast1 llar.es. Horn at - Rorek-sur-Mo- i - ; T ' ' ' ; an ".'i ' '. I ' . u . t " ! are vy day .'o r run- - I ' d.-'- i i ; i trud-'sfolks- r . - - 1 j i ho.-phn- h I 'i': m.: t.'iti' Vii !' ":lir 1 1 ) : - I t. . 1 iv:n:-- a i I' ', '!( I ' ; ri v. 2 hi ill t.) the Mis- - ,:ii society will !' to 12. The . i. f-- -t if , '' i ! nt t it n , i n r.il 1 at SHAFT Ilea re il to tha llpuiorj of tho Soldier of tbo War. Who wouldnt die for another star In the flag?" These were the last words of a hero n of the war, who, a moment after their utterance, fell upon San Juan 11111, pierced by a Mauser bullet. They were words worthy to be Inscribed upon the scroll of immortality, yet this hero was but one of many brave Americans who gave their all for their country and battled for the flag and humanity In the tropjes. It is in honor of these that a monument has been erected In the Spanish war Bectlon of Arlington cemetery, which was unveiled Wednesday with impressive ceremonies. The shaft it 40 feet high and Is surmounted by s massive cannon ball encircled by th Spanlsh-America- words In God We Trust Perche,. on the cannon ball Is a great American eagle with outstretched wings, clutching In its talons a quiver of war arrows and a sprig of laurel signifying victory. The National Society of Colonial Daipes Is responsible for the magnificent memorial. GREAT AMERICAN EDITOR DEAD Lawranee K. Godlcln, Critic and Reformer, Famet A war la England. Lawrence E. Godkln, retired editor of the New York Evening Post and The Nation, and one of the most noted reformers In the United States, passed away In England, aged 71. Ha became editor of The Nation In 18G5 and of the Evening Post in 1881, and his analysis and criticisms In the two ispers of men, measures, and Institu . tions gave him a national celebrity a. a critic ami reformer. -. t 'I MEMORIAL y oue-ha- lf Orchard Events I . I i I - de-it- pi!,-i-- s r Uui'di-uux- I . j I The Drought'! Aftermath, A sail reminder of the destitution wrought by last years drought In certain portions of Missouri was afforded in the arraignment before tho federal eonnnissloni-- r at Jefferson City the oilier day of a dozen or more citizens of Camden eouuly on the charge of cutting niid si lling timber oil government lands. The men did not deny Hint liny had cnmmiHod the act barged, nml Ihi-wire licit! in tlm mm of f2o own on l!n-iof tip? to awn it tipmHand j .ry. of tin ki explained tint the I'lnh.r cut lari Mimmer nml fall. :.fe- - the Linar of I he crops au-- l laid left lii m !y n .n in bn Mnrwiiiim wa. Tip-;.f.icc. niel h:nl r.iirvd nolTi-ithey had no i.iiani ui- suppori, m l!ry ci't Minn t in In r ami made ties mil Fold lliet'i. If lip .iveriiiiP lit Mauled to pun:.--h lln m I'm1 lint cifi n e, ho baid, tln-- would mil romphiin. - - iilis-il'i:- - f i |