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THREE BANZAIS! PRACTICAL ADVICE ABOUT DIVERSIFIED FARMING Serious Books vs. Fiction I By E. S. HE habit of reading the more substantial books seems to have taken hold of a much larger proportion of the people of the British Isles than of us Americans. And even that is not all. We stem not to be gaining the habit, for the proportion of l1 r light reading in the current mass of new nteraiuie semo w Vbe increasing. - - VVhy that is, and whether It is a temporary condition or something more serious, is matter for discussion. I suspect it is nnvf the. habitual conmlaints of literate mankind that the readers of the generation just passed read better books than those of the generations in being. It is no fauXof the publishers, for there are plenty of publishers who are eager to print the best books they can hope to sell. They won"t print many books that no one will buy, because such a practice as that, If it became habitual, would be incompatible with continuance in the publish ing business. But they have an interest, which is more than a mere pecuni ary interest, in what they publish, and would much rather find their necessary profit in a book that thty can be proud of than in one which can never do credit to their name, however much it may help their pocket. To be sure, the more substantial books are in competition wtih all the great books that ever were printed. If readers neglected the good new books In order to read the good old ones, we might regret it as something detri mental to the book publishing business and the interests of living authors, but we would not find in it a sign of decaying culture or degenerating taste. But it is net the competition of the old books that limits attention to new ones, for whoever has teamed to read the one is by so much the likelier to read the other. Who has the habit of good reading and the appetite for it will read what suits his appetite if he can get it. The trouble is that the appetite is not oitener formed. If you are to make a silk purse, you must have the silk. You cannot make a reader of good books out of any human material that comes along. You must catch a mind proper for the job. Not all good minds are adapted to much reading. You find very able people who read few books, mostly trash, and people of lets ability who read more, and much better ones. You find also interesting differences in the facility with which different people take in the cense of printed words. Some people frcm childhood read very much fas ter and with lass effort than others. Their eyes seem to connect quicker with their brains, and their perception cf words and rows of words is almost instan taneous. Other people never entirely get past the need of pronouncing, men. tally, each word. Harper's Magazine. The 400 is Jow : : : : "1 he 1100 Zy F. Townsend Mar! in. HAVE been interested in society ever since I was eighteen years old. New York society has gone through its forma tive stage. Its society now resembles that of London, the oldest and most absorbing society in the world. People say, casually, "The great balls of the past have been discontinued because the city is too large." That is not the point. Society is too large not the city. Society grows with the city. I should say there are 1,100 persons in soe.tetv. I daresav this fisrure is staggering, revolution o Ho fl u ary, but I believe this number is accurate. Yet I know some women who would say that 100 covers completely the number of persons they would care to know. New York society is beset by a new idea, which is as unsatisfactory as it is perilous. It develops a narrowness of thought and the most extreme boredom. Society is set-ridden. There are the Meadowbrcok set, the Tuxedo set, the Southhampton set, the Winchester set, the Lenox set, the Aiken set, the set that meets in Palm Beach, in Aiken, and in Paris. Mrs. William Aster's retirement as the leader of society marked a new epoch. There has been chaos since her influence and her annual entertain ment have been discontinued. There is no social leader in New York today. Perhaps there will never be another, because the requisite qualifications are rare. Each little set has its leader, who rules arbitrarily and is looked up to, even idolized. But it is manifestly difficult to think of a woman who can unite the little sets. Leadership, like monarchy, carries with it endless work and endless responsibility. All of the important women in society would na turally like to succeed to the popularity and prestige of Mrs. Astor, yet there are limitations to each, which cannot be denied. . 9 dry Coming l Fy United States Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts. T -A IIE RePubIic of tne United States is in no danger of ruin in tfo?33lZ3arJJ o hncinoac nv in otiv nthpr wav. The resources of the & M , -vr- Lb u i.. . v . n country are greater than they ever were before, rhe en ergy of the people, ii it is not paraylzed by too much sub stitution cf government for individual effort, if it is left to march along the old roads which it followed from the days of small things to the present days of greatness the road of independence, the road of individual enterprise, of determi nation to succeed in the battle of life will assert itseir. Let those old American habits continue to dominate in the United States and tread the doctrines of socialism under foot. The wealth of the world is here In our soil, in our mines, in our factories. This decline of values is but a passing, ripple on the surface of the great sea of American life and action, and all we need to do is first to try to prevent a recurrence of that alarm which so paralyzed business last autumn, then to aid in the restoration of pub lic confidence, and lastly to perfect a banking system worthk. of our time and country. I believe that the Aldrich currency bill will tend strongly in this direction and serve our initial and immediate purpose. I believe it will bring back in a large measure the confidence which has been impaired, and help to set the great car of American business moving ence more upon the pathway of triumphal progress which it has followed for more than a century. When Wealth Getting Ey John Ji. Governor of ERSONTAIXY I would would live a hundred that would enable those who inherit it to live for genera tions in luxury, and yet the amassing of wealth may be o vast industrial service to the country and to those who seek honest work and wages. But WEALTH GETTING BECOMES A CRIME when th man obtains It by the sale of all his finer instincts, by the eacrinte of his character, by the violation of the nation's laws and bj trespass upon the rights of others to the pursuit of liberty and happiness. II Is this spirit and not the thing which determines the sobility of a career and the degTce of success. !?- TTTriTTtr'q-n vrrTllRfFS! MAY Martin. 3 ? if ? : iw Vj9 ecomes a Crime Johnson, Minnesota. rather be able to write a boo;, that years than be able to amass wealth PFS vir AT THB WORT.n it A T T JI ' JTffft GS , 'i?, MAC G0LC0N0A FOUND IN Commissioner Collins, of Washington, D. C, Says LI f Is Pleasant and Living Economical at ColonIndians Tr.?ric In Gold NussetsGambling Not Popular A1J American Games Pursued as Outdoor Sports. Kov York City. After spending fourteen months on an investigation along the canal zono regarding the allegations that have been brought against certain officials in tho employ of the Canal Commission, J. H. Col lins returned from Colon, en route t TVasHnston. T. C. to make his sai oic. 1-io declined to discuss it be fo:'3 submitting it to the authorities. .Tr. Collins said last month was a rrcord one for the amount of money r-'nt to the United States by men em-j-iored along the canal. Ho found them all in good spirits a.d i?vA of brpeball, bowling, tennis, rowing, ard all kinds oAhealthy outdoor p-irrts. Gambling is not popular nor drln'ring to any ettent, Mr. Collins found, and this had been so marked (V-rlm: the last year that many of t'n saloon and gambling house pro- 't.ors in Colon and Panama have clc-.:l up and gone to pastures new. '..'ho health of the employes as a r.' o'e was good, he said, and the labor conditions at the present time ia'isfactory. Excellent food at cost ys'cs is s"3ut down by the Canal Com-r-iisnon twic3 a week for the em ployps and their families. "Just bsfore leaving Panama," mi 1 Ilr. Collins, "I met Baron von T oh sr. He was sent out by the Cm'thscnian Institution to study the conditions of the San Bias Indians, who live in the interior of the Re P"hlio of Panama, about seventy r-ils3 un the coast on the Pacific -'l. ITo told some of the most JAPAN'S CORDIAL WELCOME. 4 "i.e. Kcccijlion of Hie American Fleet Was CI a be rote and Perfectly Carried Out. Tokio, Japan. The reception ac corded the American Atlantic fleet by the Gova-nm"it and people of Japan is conceded by the American naval officers to be the heartiest and most perfectly carried out of the many re ceptions received by the fleet since it eai!ed from Hampton Roads. Rear Admiral Sperry fi.'d that he was ut terly unable to say how it. had been accomplished, but that the welcome given the flee!: aud its officers and men here had been so carefully planned and carried out to the most minute details that lasting impression has been eampsd upon the mind of every American who has witnessed it. It is impossible to doubt the sin cerity of the Japanese. The Ameri can officers and sailors are already beginning to understand the fact that the evident desire on the part of the Japanese for the friendship of Amer ica is not founded upon opportunism, but finds its source in a sincere wish to show that such friendship, at least on the part of the Japanese, has ex isted alwaj-s, and that this visit of the FORTY FOOT -lo Tyrannosnurus Rex Now For Natural History Museum. Isrew York City. Dr. Henry Fair field Osbor:., president of the Ameri can M.isum of Natural History, re ceived word from Great Fails, Mon., that a research party from the mu seum, headed by Barnum Brown, had discovered part of the skeleton of the Tyrannosaurus rex, a prehistoric ani mal, in the Bad Lands several miles south of Glasgow, Mon. The fossil, which is forty feet long and twenty-two feet high, ha3 a per fect skull, an entire set of ribs, back boT3e 3nd hip girdle and practically supplements the specimen discovered in the same ssction in 18 02. Ever since the first fosil of the "kins of the reptiles." &s tha Tyran- Ncbraska University Orders Girls to Co Bareheaded. Lincoln, Neb. The State Univer sity senate adopted a rule forbidding young women students to wear hat,3 in classrooms. . The order was made necessary by feminine headgear which had grown so large that it not only t-seted the capacity of the classrooms but interfered with recitations. An other r.ile ad6p.ted prohibits students indulging n shirt-tail parades or kid naping class officers to break up so cial gathering, on penalty pf imme. diate expulsion. Cartoon by Triggs, in the New York Press. THE CANAL ZONE. thrilling adventures I have evet heard. His companions, two Ameri can boya, were killed by the Indians last January. "The Baron described the San Bias country as being very rich and the natives warlike. He was certain there Is plenty of gold back in the mountains, as the Indians traded for merchandise in gold nuggets, which had evidently been washed down some mountain stream. He said that the difficulties to be encountered in the San Bla3 country were very great, as there were no roads at all, the only means of travel being by canoes and navigating tortuous waterways, where an exploring party could b easily ambushed. In addition to th Indians there was the malignant black-water fever to be contended with. "The Baron is making monthly ex peditions into the San Bias country on behalf of the Fanaroa Govern ment to teach the natives how to get rid of the swarms of locusts that de stroy their crops. He stays in as long as his provisions la3t. He Is ac companied by his brother, a Heidel berg student. The baron Baid it would be perilous for any white "man to attempt t reach the mountains in ssareh of the gold, as the natives have never allowed any strangers to penetrate into the interior. He was only there on suffrance, and had to be always on the alert. Their coun try is rich in coal and all kinds of minerals." fleet has merely afforded the Japan ese an opportunity for that expres sion. Admiral Sperry was received at the imperial palace. On the next day the admirals and captains of the fleet were .the guests of the Emperor at the palace. Admiral Sperry conveyed to tho Emperor a message from Pres ident Roosevelt. This message breathes a spirit of friendship and sympathy and expresses keen expres sions of the traditional .friendship be tween the two nations and an earnest wish for the strengthening and con tinuance of the friendly relations of the past. Three thousand sailors from the American fleet were granted shore liberty da'ly, and it is remarkable that notw'thstanding their long con finement aboard ship not a single dif ficulty has-been reported, bearing out the statement of Admiral Sperry, made in one of his speeches here, -that the American sailor of ,to-day ia the result of that development and-education which Japan is seeking in every department of her national life. FOSSIL FOUND. American nosauru3 rex is called, was found, re search parties from the American Museum have be i searching through the Bad Lands for a-specimen that would complete the missing parts. The first fossil had good hind limbs but incompliio back bones Dr. O3 born said ; iat he believed the two specimens f - aout the same size ana mat il.s muae'mi will now be enabled to mount the animal com plete. During tne fi7a years of search fragments of Tyrannosaurus rex have Deen round from time to time. Dr usoorn earn zoologists would be Align iy elated over thi3 Becond dis co very. Shirt Sleeves For Church, Says Bishop Hamilton to Ministers. Boston, Mass. Eishop John W. Hamilton, formerly of California, speaking to Methodist ministers of the immigrant and how he should be assimilated, said: "I return to New England and I find a new New Eng land. I tell you to gather them into the churches. Break down your prej udices, social barriers. They will come in if you want them. Get dowr to ehirt sleeves and make a pair of them tb3 Methodist church's cat of a ins." Bitter Kot. The apple disease known as bitter rot occurs in very'destructlve form throughout the Piedmont and eastern sections of North Carolina, though it is possibly less destructive' further west. In a recent trip through the middle of the State, the writer saw dozens of orchards ruined by this rot which, but for the presence of the rot, would have yielded largely. In many of the orchards visited, the tree3 were in fino condition, showing suitability of soil and climate, and they bore an abundance of fruit, but closer examination showed that the ground under the trees was com pletely covered with rotten apples and that the apples still on th8 trees had numerous specks of soft, brown rot. In many villages and towns all apples offered for sale in stores were affected with this rot. This rot has been known in de structive form in the United States since 18G7. It Is estimated to have done $1,500,000 of damage in four counties in Illinois in 1900. In the Middle States the losses are estimated to be from one-half to three-fourths of the entire crop. The president of the National Apple Shippers' Associa tion estimated the damage in the United States in 1900 at $10,000,000. There are many different types of apple rot; some are hard, some are soft, some wet, some dry, some of one color and some another, etc. The bit ter rot of the apple, sometimes called the ripe rot, is a soft, wet, yellow rot, occurring usually as circular spots on the fruit. These spots, of which there may be from one to twenty or more on each apple, enlarge rapidly, run together, and the whole fruit becomes a soft, rotten mass. The disease us ually begins while the fruit i3 still hanging on the tree, and as the dis ease progresses, many of the apples fall to the ground below. This rot is caused by a fungus, known as'Gloeosporium, the spores of which fall upon the apple, grow, pene trate it, and cause the decay. The spores are produced in immense quan tities in small pustules, which appear upon the rotted surface. In many in stances tbe fungus passes the winter in cankered spots on the twig3 and bark. There are two forms of treatment, both of which should be followed. First, inasmuch as the fungus is known to winter in the canker on the branches, it is very important, when the leaves are off the trees, to care fully inspect the orchard, hunt out these cankers, cut them out and burn them, and thus remove 'the most dan gerous source of spring infection. Second, the trees should be sprayed with Bordeaux mixture in order to kill all spores which fall upon the fruit or twig3. Sprayings should be applied before the buds begin to swell in the spring, just after the blossoms fall, and every ten or. fourteen days thereafter until the fruit is almost ripe. - These two treatments combined will, to a very large extent, serve to control this very serious disease. F. L. Stevens, Biologist, North Carolina Experiment Station. Spurs For Ponltrymen. Use milk freely to develop chicks and to make hens lay, but use care to keep the vessels clean. Milk left in the vessels, day after day, even if in only small quantities, begins to rot and cause bowel trouble. The open front poultry house is always good in the South; and during the hot weather it is almost a neces sity. Do not force the- chickens to steam their strength away by sitting on roosts summer nights in houses that have insufficient ventilation. Removing and burning lh9 old hay or straw in the nests a number of times during the summer is one of the best means to keep down vermin. Before the new material is put in, give whatever treatment is preferred for combating vermin; but do the work thoroughly. After the drink vessels have been scalded and well washed, put them out awhile where the bright sun will shine into them well. Sunshine is an excellent germ killer. Vessels con taining disease germs are responsible for many deaths, the cause of which is undreamed of. Very fat hens are likely to die of apoplexy in hot weather. Preventa tive measures are better than cures, which are not often accomplished. To keep them from being too fat, cut down their ration,-especially that part of it that tends to make fat; and force them to hunt more for their feed. Over-fatness ia not good for any end. If you belong to the class who keep their house lawns looking like a vel vety carpet by the frequent use of a lawn mower, the lawn will- look all the better if the clippings are caught in an attachment put on the mower for that purpose;-and If the clippings are stored in a dry place to cure, they will hfl rnnvpnient ne-rt -uHnfo,. . . . .11 Li i.J& I throwing down for the poultry to work ovejv Some of the clipping. Persistent. "She fries so hard to be young." "Yes, and seems to me that 6he is bound to succeed." "Does it! Why!" "She has been at it so long." Her Steady. "I hear you have a show with the new j'oung man." "Show! I should think so. It's a continuous vaudeville." which will be hay at that time, may be eaten; and what ib not eaten may; be used for burying grain in for the poultry to scratch out. However, the clippings will be rather short and pack'down too close for good scratch ing material unless used with longer stuff. There are two extremes In caring for poultry. One Is not giving enough, attention to tho work to keep the quarters in a sanitary condition. The other is in doing a lot of unnecessary, work, In fooling around in attempt to keep the quarters as clean as a well-regulated kitchen. This 13 im practical. As long as piles of drop pings aro not allowed to accumulate and lice and mites are kept under control, the quarters will lie sanitary, if kept dry and well aired. When that has been accomplished, all ha3 been done about -the quarters that' will yield a profit and profit is what poultry are kept for. Carefulness in feeding and watering Is, of courser necessary; but even in that work a lot of time should not be wasted. A' lack of a sanitary condition is the more common extreme, but the oppo site may be almost as foolish. Pro gresslve Farmer. Potation of Crops a Good Thing. One correspondent wishes me to tell why rotation of crops is a good thing. I will give four reasons: (1) Because no plants thrive long: m if compelled to feed on their own decay. (2) Different crops take, plant food in different proportions, and the same crop grown continuously uses up what is available in the soil of that which it particularly prefers. At Rothamsted, England, they grew po tatoes year after year on. the same land until it utterly failed to make potatoes. But when they .then put it in barley, it made seventy-five bush els per acre. .The potatoes needed the mineral matters, phosphoric acid and' potash, and had drawn them down till there was not a sufficient amount of .these to make potatoes, but still an abundance for barley. (3) Constant clean cultivation and exposure to the sun burn up the humus or decayed vegetation in the soil, the home of the soil bacteria that work for the farmer, and the bacteria perish, so .that the soil becomes lit- . erally a dead soil. Exposure to sun shine is death to the microscopic forms of plants that we call bacteria. Even those forms that are the causes of disease cannot endure the sun shine, and one of the very best means for sterilizing waste matters like sew age is to expose it to sunlight. (4) AVe Introduce the legume crop In our rotations because they furnish forage for stock and enable us to keep up the humus, making material in the nitrosren we need. whlcllMie .would otherwise have to buy! Tjp-M'icftl: point in any rotation is the main tenance and increase of the organic decay, the living soil, for, as has been well said, "sand and clay are only the dead skeleton of a soil, humus is its life," and in no way can we keep up this life in the soil but by1 a rotatioa of crops that will be restoring what is wasted in the sale crops. Your rotation would bo improved by sowing crimson clover among your corn to prevent winter waste and make a feed crop in the spring that will come off before sowing the peas for hay. Then wheat and clover one year, and then manure the sod and back to corn. In this way jrour land will always be protected in winter and will gain humus. W. F. Massey, A Land of Milk and Money. And while you are making the South a land of milk and money you"""" can make all the more cotton on a smaller area of land because of feed ing the cows or beeves. 1 Study that record from the A. and M. College herd. When a man niakes- $880 worth of manure in nine months, what a rrnn af rnrn ht. can make with that manure spread broad- J cast, and what a crop of small grain following it to be followed by peas and then to cotton, with cash in hi3 pocket to dictate prices to the fer tilizer men and no fertilizer to buy, except acid phosphate and potash for the peas. What an area of land you would have to cultivate in cotton that makes 150 to 200 pounds of lint per acre, to equal the amount of money that was made from these cows? I believe that you would never get there. But with, the cows and the manure it would not be long before you would be talking about 1000 pounds of lint per acre on only one-fifth the land that now makes the 200 pounds, and crops of corn and small grain that would soon be something mo're than "supplies," but would be putting money in your purse. But the men who imagine that it does not pay to grow anything but cotton will prob ably keep on with the 150 to 200 pounds per acre and keep poor and keep th'jir land poor. W. F. Massey. Dye Wouldn't Stick. "No use trying to convince him?" "None at all. He is a dyed in thau, wool party man." "Oh, well, if it is no worse than that, we will go after him. I noticed as we passed that he was almost bald." . -jirrcu-Tfoik that probably no one of tho cr.iV'Ute ,-iH ''t rouble much about tin "
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