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THE RICHMOND PAILADIOI AXD SUN-TELEGRAM, SUNDAY, DECE3IBER 12, 1909. PAGE TEN. SEDATE TO TAKE LIFE VERY EASY Of Interest to the Farmers To Follow Go-as you-please Style' Until After the THE BEFORE STORM PROBABLY MOST IMPORTANT AC TION THIS WEEK WILL BE CON SIDERATION OF THE NICARA GU AN AFFAIR. This matter must not reprinted without special permission. (American News Service) Washington, Dec.

11. The Siate will follow a go-as-you-please program from now until after the holiday recess. It is not the purpose of the leaders to undertake any legislation of importance during the coming week and when the senate meets again on Tuesday it is expected an adjournment will be taken until Friday. The sessions on both days are likely to be brief and de voted to routine business unless something should happen in connection with the Nlcaraguan situation which would demand attention. It is probable that the most noteworthy matter considered next week will be the resolution offered yesterday by Senator Rayner of Maryland, empowering the president to bring President Zelaya to justice for the killing of Groce and Cannon in Nicaragua.

Has Studied Subject. The Maryland senator has devoted much attention to this subject and had a long conference with Secretary Knox about Nlcaraguan affairs and the circumstances attending the killing of Groce and Cannon before, he offered his resolution in the senate. He is very much In earnest in the matter and has given notice that he will address the senate some time next week on the question. Just what steps President Taft should take to bring Zelaya to trial and punishment fs somewhbt of a problem, but Senator Itayner believes that whatever force it is necessary to exert to obtain justice for this offense should be used. It is likely that the resolution will be passed.

There is also a possibility that the Borah resolution authorizing an investigation of the civil service by a committee of the senate may be reported and actd upon. VERY LARGt HOTEL Being Built at St. Paul Now at i Cost of a Million Dollars. SOME TUBERCULOSIS STATISTICS -Probably no state in the Union has made a more determined or more successful warfare on bovine tuberculosis than Wisconsin, and some figures have been lately published relative to this campaign are interesting and should also be profitable' to dairymen In other sections." The education al campaign has been conducted by means of addresses, printed bulletins and postmortem demonstrations given In co-operation with the state live stock sanitary board. Since the tuberculin test was first applied, in 1892.

72.638 animals bare been tested, over 66,000 of this number coming within the paBt three years. The state has paid the owners two-thirds of the appraised value of reacting animals, receiving in return whatever was paid for the carcasses of those animals passed by the federal inspectors. There has been a decrease in the per cent of reacting animals from 17.7 per cent In 1906 to 5.6 per cent in 1908. In 1900 almost half the herds which were tested were found infected, while in 1908 leas than one-fourth bad the disease. In 190G 12 per cent of the animals tested were found to be infected, and in 1906 leas than 4 per cent.

The data which the station officials have gathered shows that the most common method of herd infection is through the purchase of diseased animals, 203 out of 363 herds found infected in 1908 being infected through purchase. A law requiring a clean bill of health with each animal sold is strongly urged, as is also legislation requiring the pasteurization of factory byproducts. THE FOLLY OF TEMPORIZING. Pity it is tbat there are not more farm papers of the type of a few which might be named which have looked the situation touching bovine tuberculosis through to the end and have uncompromisingly in season and out of season advocated a thorough testing of affected herds and the eradication of all animals found diseased. One of these papers is Hoard's Dairyman, printed at Fort Atkinson, and the service which it has performed for the dairy interests of tbat and adjoining states can hardly be estimated.

Those papers which have followed a temporizing policy opposed the testing of dairy herds because the immediate loss to the owners seemed heavy have caused dairymen who have followed this advice tremendous loss In the long run, 'as laws which prevent the sale of milk from diseased cows have been passed in many states, while the job of ridding a herd of diseased animals and building it up again on a new basis is one tbat requires much time and attention. The rest of the agricultural papers should move over to the other side of the bouse in this vital matter. teeth bled off" by sutue competent veterinarian. In case the teeth are in bad shape in other respects the feed should be ground. A rather odd appeal has been made to the French colonial office by the province of Uganda.

It is that the lions be protected from as they alone are able to rid the country of the herbivorous animals that destroy their crops, including elephants, rhinoceroses and deer. Much tne same situation has existed in some portions of the west, where the killing of the coyotes has been followed by an alarming increase in the number of rabbit pests. A section of northern Vermont has established a reputation with the agri- That American corn is rapidly get- culturai department at Washington of jig a foothold in foreign countries is producing a type of seed potato which nicely shown in the marked increase is. virtually free from disease and tne recent exports of the cereal, largely blight resistant. For this rea- Qm exports for the week ending Oct.

sou the seed is in great demand in the og were 510.448 bushels asuinst 39V Tbe railroads seem to have survived the anti-railroad agitation and legislation of the past three or four years to the tune of an increase in net earnings for the year ending June 30. 1901). of $90,718,357 over the earnings of the preceding The total gross earnings of the last fiscal year were These figures would seem to indicate tbat transportation companies have been more scared than hurt. southern states, where the blight due to excessive moisture during the growing season is both prevalent and very destructive to the potato crop. The Mongolian pheasant brought from China to this country several years ago and turned loose in the chaparral covered sections of Oregon and Washington seems to have found Its new home a congenial one and Is said to be multiplying rapidly under the complete protection which is being given it under the laws recently passed.

Ranch owners frequently see the beautiful birds in their orchards but a few rods from the house. 592 for the week preceding and bushels in 1908. For the seventeen weeks prior to Oct. 28, 1909. the exports of corn amounted to 2.700.0S5 bushels, while for the corresponding period last year they were but bushels.

Through the liberality and enterprise of the publisher of a well known Iowa dairy paper the dairymen of Wiscon sin will be given an opportunity to take part in a contest in which prizes ranging from $30 to $500 will be offered the owners of single cows and herds of ten which make the best i showing in butter fat production dur ing a stated period. Any dairyman of Judging from the recent election re- the state wishing to participate in the suits in -New York state affecting the contest may secure full particulars by primary, it appears that the grangers of the Empire State are interested intelligently in new political methods as well as the latest improvements in agriculture and dairying. They have looked into this system of direct primary nominations and have given it their approval, notwithstanding the adverse report of the legislative committee which was selected to give it a black eye. A lesson that many a corn grower seems slow to learn is that it is the freezing of corn while the kernels contain moisture which is fatal to the germ. Dried thoroughly, seed corn will stand almost any low temperatures.

On this account every effort should be put forth to dry the ears before a freeze strikes them and to store them for the winter where they will not gather moisture. As a rule, seed corn is done for and worthless February. With the condition of the fellow -who is more or 'less dependent upon his employer's whim aud economic circumstance for the holding of his Job addressing Professor F. W. Woll.

Mad ison. Wis. A first hand inspection of a good many newly set fruit ranches in several famous valleys of the west leads the writer to believe that a. whole lot of fellows donot seem to have got on to the fact that to sell an orchard tract to the best advantage just as scrupulous care should be given it in the matter of pruning and cultivation as If the owner were. going to keep It for himself.

We have seen tracts tbat were not managed with this thought in mind whose prospects for future productiveness were not worth a continental per acre. "Come all who long lor Chrlstm is Cheer For Santa's Treasure House Is here." TIMELY Suggestions CHRISTMAS MEIUPIFIUIL, HENTS; A Plenty to Be Gleaned by an Inspection ol oar stcelr This great store is now a Christmas store house. Each department is a-bnm with Santa Claus goods from which the right gift at the right price can be easily and quickly selected. Bring your Christmas problems here and they will be problems no longer. Our Christmas preparations have been made on a larger scale than ever before.

Everything was chosen with great care so that none but goods of worthy quality are here. VISIT THE STOKE (DETEFtf The Christmas spirit permeates every department IT HAS UNIQUE FEATURES St Paul Dec. 11. The new $1,000,000 Saint Paul hotel, which is nearlng completion, is to have an addition of 10,000 square feet even before Its opening, to care for the business in Bight. Ground has been broken for an annex which will occupy a corner close to the new structure on which a hand- some three-story building will be erect- cd at once, providing for large sample rooms for traveling representatives of business houses.

The innovation pro-; vides a separate building for sample rooms, which will be finished with special reference to the demands of this class of trade. Charles O. Roth, resident manager, has arrived from Cincinnati and has taken charge of the new property, which is rapidly nearing completion. The new Saint Paul has 300 rooms, each with private bath and owing to its add location, every room will be an outside room, and every room practic-, ally a front room. Rooms which do not face upon two.

main streets, have an outlook over Rice park, one of the most attractive down-town breathing spots. The site for the new structure was 'given by the business men of St. Paul. The building and furnishings represent an" expenditure of $1,000,000, added to which is the cost of the new three-story building. The building is eleven stories in height, occupying very high ground, overlooking the city, and upon its roof are sun parlors, a roof garden and the first wireless station in the northwest.

The outlook from the roof is over the Mississippi valley in both directions, giving a better view of Saint Paul and its surroundings than is obtainable from any other point excepting the lantern of the dome of the new Minnesota state capitoL The sugar crop of the world for the year just closing is placed by clans at 14.710.000 tons, which is an" increase over that of UWS of 244.ftlHi tons, or 1.7 per cent. The figures show that there has been au increase in the world's cane sugar crop of 4.D per cent, or 370.ti0t tons. A few years ago the cane sugar output was less than tbat from beets, but last year the cane product exceeded the beet by becoming more and more uncertain 663,000 tons, while this year it will an ever increasing number of level surpass it by 1.160.000 tons. There was beaded people, including1 both men and a decrease in the European beet sugar Malay houses are Invariably built on posts, ao as to raise the floor from four to six feet above the ground. The floor Is composed of bamboo, with Interstices between slats, the earth beneath becoming the receptacle of the drainage of the establishment.

The universal plan of the well to do natives la to build the bouse In two divisions, the front one for receiving visitors and lounging generally, while te rear portion is rerved for the women and children. Elepkaat 9aretty. A remarkable instance of the sagacity of a female elephant which had lost her young one in a pit trap has recently been related. The mother made strenuous attempts to rescue her offspring by throwing quantities of earth and branches of trees into the pit, but all her efforts were In vain, as the hunters arrived before the pit was sufficiently tilled to allow the young one to clamber out. A vie.

Widow (tearfully Yes, my daughters are now my only resources. Friend Take my advice mod husband SW resource welL PRACTICAL. CO-OPERATION. A number of farmers living near Rogers, in Hennepin county, have, according to a farm paper published at the Twin Cities, put into practice this year a most commendable type of co-operation. It has consisted simply in getting their heads together and agreeing to plant a single variety of potatoes for their held crop.

with the thought in view tbat with a large quantity of potatoes raised buyers would come and offer a good price for the crop. They exercised a good deal of pains in the growing and care of their spud crop, and their hopes have been fully realized. The tubers yielded on the average 175 bushels per acre, were of one variety and of uniform size and quality. The buyers came and paid the growers 46 cents per bushel at the cars, nearly 10 cents more than growers in many other sections received. This idea of co-operation in vegetable and fruit production is very practical and profitable, and its benefits can hardly be too strongly urged.

THE ROUTINE PALLS. Many a lad leaves the farm for city occupation because of the dull monotonous routine of its work, iu the doing of which little effort is made by the farm owner to adopt new or up to date methods which recognize the place of intelligence as well as sheer muscular effort as an important factor in getting work out of the way. There is absolutely no field of endeavor where the application of brains will yield a larger net return than in agriculture, and it's about time a whole lnt nf fflllnn-a u-hn hnra hcon rnntunl- to make a occupation of it were rubbing their eyes and awaking to the fact. It can only be viewed as a tribute to agriculture as an occupation tbat so many who have been engaged in it have been able to make a living and something besides, following as they have such slovenly and Indifferent methods and applying so small an amount of gray matter to the work they had in hand. The Russian moujik.

or peasant la borer, receives 34 cents a day for his spring work and 4 1 cents a day during haying and harvest and boards him self. The man who is looking for a new location agriculturally can hardly go astray if he picks out a piece of land in a section where either clover or alfalfa will grow, and this holds whether the district is under ditch or has its moisture supplied in the shape of snow and rain. It is about a standoff as between the dweller In the warmer southwestern climes, who has to put up with fleas and dust, and the. resident in the northern states east of the Rockies, who has his pancake batter freeze under the hard coal stove on crisp midwinter nights. The value of alfalfa as a forage and hay crop is well a nested by the plump and sleek appearauce of horses, cattle and hogs which have access to it and are not furnished with any grain ration.

All kinds of stock are fond of the legume and seem to know instinc tively that It is good for them. women, are quietly Investing their surplus earning in parcels of land which will not only appreciate in value, but will give them a living and a competence in later years. The person who owns fertile land tbnt is capable of producing the foodstuffs that the earth's ever increasing millions will want is going to be independent in the years to come. The proper time for the transplanting of shrubs, fruit or shade trees depends largely upon the time of the rainy season. In the large territory east of longitude 100 degrees, where abundant moisture may be counted on from March to July, the early part of this period is the best season for output of 2.7 per cent as between last year and this, while the output of beet sugur in America shows an increase of 13.2 per cent for the same period.

In sections where rodents rabbits and mice abound and are likely to damage the young fruit trees by gnawing during the winter months it is none too early to be safeguarding them against such attacks. This may be done cheaply by wrapping the young trees at least two feet up from the ground with several ply of old newspapers. Tar paper and strips of wood veneer are used, but the newspaper properly fastened will answer the purpose nicely. In localities where the snow is likely to be deep and drift transplanting, depending a bit upon Into the branches such wrapping as the latitude. On the Pacific slope and described will not furnish protection south of central Oregon from Novem- except to portions of the trunk cov- 8 ber till the latter part of February is considered the best time for this work, as the ground does not freeze to prevent plowing, while the interval named is the wet season, which insures the transplanted things sufficient moisture for their proper growth.

Dentists who keep abreast of the times incline to the view that in these days of prepared premasticated and predigested foods folks do not have chewing enough to do to give their teeth the necessary exercise, it being their contention that foods of a rougher and harder type should form a larger part of the bill of fare. Pressure on the teeth in the process of mastication causes a circulation of blood in the little ducts near the roots, this making possible a ready nourishment of the nerve and dental tissues. This argument would seem to have common sense at the bottom of it and ought to be kept in mind. It is likely due to this very fact, the mastication of rough and coarse foods, tbat the remarkable durability of the teeth of wild and domestic animals is due. If corn fodder properly secured is worth 00 per cent of good hay.

ton for ton. it is well nigh impossible to estimate the annual loss that American farmers sustain by allowing it to bleach and blow to tatters in the laid. ered; hence an effective warfare by means of shotgun, ferret, traps and poison should be waged continuously against these orchard enemies. To dis courage the mice, shocks of corn and other litter in which they may nest should be removed from the orchard. A LOVE TRAGEDY.

QUAINT MISSION PIECES That satisfy a desire for something a little unusual. Easy Chairs, Desks, Rockers, all priced very low. Our Library Tables range $6.75, $11.50, $14.00, $17.50 and upward. DINING TABLES A mosi varied line, moderately priced. See our Round" Tables, priced $12.00, $16.75, $20.00 and up to $45.00.

ACEY. SECTIONAL BOOKCASES The best Sectional Book Case. Separate sections in Golden Quartered Oak, only $3.00 each 3 Sections, top and base, only $13.00. HOOSIER KITCHEN CABINETS I Tho great step saver, cuts kitchen work in two and does away with drudgery. Have one placed in your borne Christmas, pay later.

Priced $22, $25, up to $27.50. People are Turning More and More to Practical Gilts and Furniture is Ideal. Shop early and get tbe BURDEN oil your MIND YOU'RE ALWAYS WELCOME LATE Cor. Ninth and Main Sto. It is pretty rough on the rats, but a farmer who has tried It recommends putting concentrated lye in the boles and runways of rats.

Tbey first get it on their feet, which begin to burn. They try. to lick it off their feet, get it In their mouths, and this does the business. We read of a farmer the other day who was bewailing the fact that his fine quack grass pasture was showing signs of debility and likely to die out. We know of other fellows who would be mighty glad to have this fellow come and dig up carefully the scattering roots on their places.

The best season in which to do pruning work in the orchard is that just prior the time when the trees will make the most rapid growth and thus heal over the scars made in cutting. It is for this reason that fall pruning should be discouraged beyond that involved in the removal of dead or diseased portions of the trees. If it is bard to get the horse in good flesh and much of the grain fed passes through the animal whole it is fair to assume tbat the teeth are not doing their work properly, due to the fact tbat some of them project so far as to prevent proper mastication. This defect can. be remexivd hr ha las the Ruskin's Adoration of the Lovely Rose La Touche.

In 1S5S, when Ituskin was in his fortieth year, he was asked by a friend to give some lessons iu drawing to a child named Rose La Touche, whose name, indeed, was French, but whose family were Irish. There sprang up between Ruskin and this young girl a very charming friendship, which, of course, at the time could be nothing but a friendship. They wrote each other letters and exchanged drawings, and then for awhile they did not meet. Ten years passed by before they saw each other. Meanwhile the child, whom he hud remembered as a blue eyed, clever little blond with ripe red lips and hair like fine spun cold, bad become a very lovely young woman of nineteen.

They resumed their old acquaintance, but in a very different way. Though Ituskin was now nearly fifty, be gave to Rose La Touche au adoration and a passion such as he had never felt before. On her side she no longer thought of him as "very ugly," but was singularly drawn to him despite the difference in their years. The two met often. They took long strolls together in the pleasant fields of Surrey, and at last Ruskin begged her to make him happy and to be his wife.

Oddly enough, however, she hesitated, not because he was so much older than herself, but because he. bad ceased to be what she regarded as "a true believer." Some of the things that he had written shocked ber as being almost atheistic. She was herself, underneath all her gaiety of manner, a rigid and uncompromising Protestant. She used phrases from the Bible in her ordinary talk, and when she spoke of marriage with John Ruskin she said tbat she could not endare to be "yoked with an Yet her heart was torn at the thought of sending him away, and so for several years their intimacy continued, he pleading with her and striving bard to make her see that love was everything. She, on the other hand, read over those passages of the Old Tea tamest seemed to bar all com promise.

At last, in 1S72, when she was twenty-four and he was fifty-three, she gave him her final answer. She would not marry him unless he could believe as she did. His honesty forbade him to deceive her by a pretended conversion, and so they parted, never to see each other again. How deeply she was affected is shown by the fact that she soon fell ill. She grew worse and worse until at last it was quite certain that she could not live.

Then Ruskin wrote to her aud begged that he might see her. She answered with a note in which she feebly traced the words: "You may come if you can tell me that you love God more than you love me." When Ruskin read this his very soul was racked with agony, and he cried out: "No, no; then I cannot go to her, for I love her even more than God!" to measure the' age of the sea. 'Nevertheless Professor Joly undertook the task, basing his estimate upon the ratio of the amount of sodium It contains to that annually contributed by the washing from the continents. He thus reached the conclusion that the ocean has been in existence between 80,000,000 and 170.000.000 years. This does not seem a very definite determination, but then in geology estimates of time in years are extremely difficult because of the uncertainty of the elements of the calculation.

The most that can be said for such results is that they are probable. Couldn't Signal It! During some tactical operations one of the ships of the squadron bad made some bad blunders, and at length the admiral completely lost his temper. lie stormed about his quarterdeck and in- frtCTnol life lion ra.r gt tifa nnininn nf hen sfce died, as sne am soon aiter, tne oaceT in command of the erring the light of his lire went out ior kus-kin. Lyndon Orr In Munsey's Maga- WILL PROBE CHARGE CAmerlcan New? Service) Copenhagen. Dec.

11. The charge made by George H. Dunkle and Captain A. W. Loose of New York that they prepared the "proofs" of Dr.

Frederick A. Cook's alleged trip to tho north pole, will be investigated by tho university committee- to which Dr. Cook submitted bis data. This was decided today at a meeting of the committee. The Investigation of the new accusations win delay the announcement of the result several days.

WmsI Act Miss Prue Dent Papa says you an improvident and that be will never consent to my marrying a man tbat Is zine. The Ocean's Age. The ocean, of course, is not as old as the earth, because it could not be formed until the surface of the globe bad sufficiently cooled to retain water upon but It seems to trr tl1v WVt AV tlA WO IISAil Sft Wfl f1 tU Am breath he turned 1 to the signaler and JF-T I said to him, "And you can tell him that, sirr The man scratched his bead modi tatlvely. "I beg- pardon, sir," be vest tared, "but I dont think wo nave quit enough flags for your don Harduppe Well. shall never be able to do so.

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