WHAT ARE YOU GOING TQ DO ABOUT IT 7 n
Meaning of Bumper Crops
Fertility Is Being Exhausted Rapidly and
Must Be Restored
Ey . C .Erown, La Grange, III
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UMPER crops mean that unusual amounts of crop-making
elements have been taken from the solL So It must fol
low when soil Is put In such good condition that crops grow
abundantly and produce above the normal yield that greater
pains must be taken to return a much larger amount of fer
tilizing material. This very thing was brought to my
notice a few days ago, while I was traveling through Central
Illinois. The case in point was a farmer who had a thor
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oughly kept farm. He had worked out successfully the
problem of keeping his land In good condition. This he had done by a care
fully laid system of drainage and by knowing when to plough a field
He had worked out successfully ten problem of keeping his land in good con
dition. This he had done by a carefully laid system of drainage and by
a carefully laid system ow drainage and by knowing when to plough a field
and when to leave it alone. Up to twelve years ago mixed farming was prac
tised here, and a considerable portion of the farm was constantly kept In
meadow and p&nuros. Twelve years ago stcck feeding was stopped and the
whole farm was turned into grain fields. The natural result was that that
farm soon became famous for Its big yields of corn, oats and wheat. These
unusual crois were taken off for nine years, and then the yields fell off alarm
ly. What was the trouble? No doubt there is still a large amount of nitro
gen in the soil, but It has been thrown out of balance by drawing too heavily
on some other elements. Thousands of fine farms In Central Illinois are In
precisely this condition today. Upon these farms cattle and hoRs U3ed to be
fed. and little, if any, of the crops were ever hauled away from the farm.
But after twelve or fifteen years of 75-bushels-an-acre corn crops farmers And
that they have to go to the bottom of one of their soil bins. If these lands are
handled right they are good almost Indefinitely, but allow this one-sided crop
ping system to go on and on and the soil conditions here will soon be on the
same basis as In the southern section of the state. The thing to do is to
keep this land In condition to produce bumper crops, but not to lose sight ol
the fact that a 4D-budhel wheat yield an acre has used up a correspondingly
largo amount of food elements.
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p Typical Bostonian
Does He
Ey M. Jl. Tie
F the careful student
struct from the recorded impressions of observant visitors
and critics an imaginary city, It must bo said hat nearly all
the counterparts of the actual city would be found among
his materials. He would probably discover that some ot
the materials are provided in excess and others insufficlont-
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ly. The nature of most of them could be summarized by a
further condensation of the reports here brought together.
Such a summary might be desirable were this a more exten
sive compilation. As It Is, there is need only to add a single consideration
for the reconstructive student who, for one reason or another, may not pur
sue his studies on the spot. The possibility of scrutinizing the "typical Bos
tonian" the man who has created the Impression which the word "Boston"
brings to mind Is a diminishing possibility. This person, moving dally
farther frcm the East, Is fading by degrees into the light of common day.
For the sake of fifty righteous men, Abraham persuaded the Lord to spare
the city of Sodom, and with an admirable process of "jewing down" brought
the number through forty-five, forty, thirty, and twenty finally to ten. The
submerging wave of modern conditons has not yet brought the number or
typical Bostonians so low as the highest on which the bargain for Sodom was
struck. But it will poll onward; fifty will be reached, and possibly by dread
ful degrees even ten. Lower than that the imagination refuses to go, and if
It must go so far there will be comfort in the knowledge that ten complete
Bostonians will be enough to preserve for their city something of its ancient
quality. Harper's Weekly.
f Socialism and Human
Haiure
Ey Vida
ORAL preparation for the New Order! It might well be the
watchword of the hour: It Is the last thing of which one
hears. The militant socialists are too busily engaged in
aggressive propaganda, so preoccupied with their vision of
healing and liberation for the body that they lay them
selves open to the charge of feeling slight interest In the
soul. Yet in the confusion one fact is clear: Should social
ism come otherwise than as the result of an Inward trans
formation, affecting the deep springs of will and love, It
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wouiu prove the worst disaster of any experiment In collective living that
the world has seen. Matthew Arnold, wisest of Victor4an critics, pointed out
years ago the perils with which the advance of democracy is fraught, unless
It be achieved through a common enlightenment and a pervading social pas
sion. Socialism Is democracy pushed to an extreme. It would involve im
mensely elaborated machinery. Unless the spirit of the living creature be
In the wheels, one foresees them grinding destruction. Should socialism be
other than the expression of a general will very different from that Of today,
it would be an unbearable tyranny. The only comfort is that it could not
endure. The truth is that we are forced to agree with our tedious friends
who Insist that we "must alter human nature" If socialism is to be a suc
cess. From the Hibbert Journal.
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Women May Be Graceful
Z V ty Flore nem Jlugmtlne t .
ITH strengthened muscles and nerves normally In hand any
v w a sen-respecting woman ougm to be able to maintain a grace
. i,ful carriage and well-bred appearance at any social runo-
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movement Is comfort, that the graceful thing Js the easy
thing. A graceful pose, sitting or standing, 1 a comfortable
pose, n once you have gained control over your muscles,
they will fall naturally into comfortable, graceful postures.
Tet grace to be attractive must be unstudied, uncon
scious. This, if anything, is the most conspicuous ear-mark of the well-bred
. woman feer total' lack of aelf-coneclbusness. Sore of herself, sure of her
clothes, but forgetting them, her attitude of mind is that of the kings of
old: 1 can. do no wrong." She moves' with easy superiority, because she has
no desire to impress with her superiority; she feels that It speaks for Itself.
She is neither;, haughty not aloof,: because she doesn't have to fight for "a
place." She la not. cold or stiff, but merely reserved, mild, unruffled, slightly
Uslnterested, and grave, bat always alert, kind and courteous. One's innate
- feeling is bound thus to show in one's bearing, and true breeding is not a
thing of birth: or brains or property, but something of the spirit From
Smith's Magaxine. , ' ' , ' ' " ' '
Exist?
Wolf Howe
of Boston should undertake to recon
Scudder
Cartoon by
STANDARD GIL CASH IS
Individual Stockholders Reinvest in Restaurants and Pharmacies-Thousands
in Soap and Also in Candies-Busy Department at No. 26 Broadway
Seeks Opportunities Far and Near-Has Enough in Petroleum
-No Increase ot Capital rossible Because the Com
pany Has Ail It Needs In Oil.
New York City. Standard Oil
men, with Standard Oil dividends, are
reaching out for the larger retail
trade.
They are applying to the field of
investment the Standard Oil methods
which have proven so potent in every
line of competitive business to which
they have previously been applied.
The retail lines which have recent
ly attracted the nttentlon of the men
who have been trained by the master
hand of John D. Rockefeller embrace:
Drugs.
Soap.
Candles,
Peanuts,
Milk.
Starch,
Glucose products,
Restaurants.
For more than a year the work
of absorbing or, at any rate, gaining
a controlling interest in enterprises,
which in many instances seem to
have no connection with the produc
tion of oil, has been going on quietly
but actively, and the complete roster
probably would make interesting
reading.
Acquiring Many Businesses.
Some of these concerns in which
Individual stockholders of the Stand
ard Oil Company are heavily inter
ested are the Hegeman Drug Com
pany, Chllds' chain of restaurants,
the Corn Products Refining Company,
the New York Glucose Company and
the National Starch Company. But
there are more to come Reports,
which bear every evidence of verity
are current that a great candy estab
lishment with many branches In New
York and other cities has recently
passed into the control of Standard
Oil interests.
Peanuts and milk probably will be
next on the list, for the same reports,
based on excellent authority, are that
these oil interests have already ob
tained control of what is known as
the peanut trust, and will soon, if
they have not already, acquire one of
the most extensive milk producing
businesses in the country.
All these transactions are the out
come of what is known as the "in
vestment department" of the Stand
ard Oil Company. This is entirely
for the benefit of the large stockhold
ers and the work is conducted in an
unobtrusive manner.
Money Must Not Be Idle.
So thoroughly does the Standard
Oil Company now cover the ground
and the earth that it has all the capi
tal that it needs and is practically Im
possible to put more money back Into
the industry, which yields annually
millions in profit Standard Oil divi
dends, therefore, are constantly seek
ing reinvestment, tor it la one of the
axioms of John D. Rockefeller him
self that money must not be idle. The
head of the Investment department
or bureau was until recently a man
who is now a banker, and broker In
Wall street. There has been a reor
ganisation lately, but the search M?
good opportunities is under the gen
eral direction of an accomplished
financial scout who has a corps of
trained assistants.
- There are numerous firms or com
panies which have an established rep
utation and feel that it they had ad
ditional capital they might greatly
extend their business. While they
are making inquiries they may re
ceive a visit from an agent, who says
that he has heard something ef their
endeavors and intimates that If the
enterprise meets the appro vsl of his
principals it would - bo possible to
coma .to an agreement. - ':'
Millionaire E. 3. Barney, 73,
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" Dayton, Ohio.- In the face of the
bitter opposition of his daughters, E.
J. Barney, who Is seventy-three years
old and the wealthiest man In Dayton,
was married to Mrs. Elinor Chapman,
widow ot State Senator W. W. Chap
man, who is In her thirtieth year.
Mrs. Chapman was governess in the
Barney family for several months af
ter the death ot the Senator, and it Is
believed that the wedding will cause
a complete rupture between Barney
.and his two daughUwtv - '
D:ivonport, in the New York Evening Mail.
PUT IN FOOD AND DRUGS
"Can you make a statement," is his
usual question, "which will show that
increased capital will develop the
business and return a good profit?"
These statements are analyzed by
experts and a report is made showing
the nature of the territory in which
it Is proposed to locate new branches
of a business and the probabilities of
the various regions developing. The
agent takes an active interest in the
industry or the business if the con
tract is made, and the capital is like
ly to come from a bank which is in
touch with the Standard OH group.
From Restaurants to Oil.
Operations such as these have been
conducted for the last three years,
and as a result the country has seen
chains of drug stores and an ever in
creasing procession of popular priced
restaurants.
It was admitted at the office of the
Hegeman Company that several of
the Standard Oil men had as individ
uals invested in the corporation. Its
president is John H. Flagler.
According to Samuel Chllds, vice
president of the Chllds Restaurant
Company, dividends from his enter
prise find their way to No. 26 Broad
way. A. Tydeman, of the Bureau of
Purchases and Supplies of the Stand
ard OH, Is among the investors in the
Chllds emporia.
E. T. Bedford, a large stockholder
in the Standard Oil and until recently
a director of that corporation, is the
president of the Corn Products Re
fining Company, of the New York
Glucose Company, which has the tall
chimney at Shady Side, N. J.
Four ot the corn products compa
nies have offices at No. 26 Broadway,
and there also is the headquaters of
the National Starch Company. Re
ports that the Standard group had in
any way become interested in the
manufacture of candy are denied by
leading confectionery companies, and
one of them has within the last week
sent out a circular to the trade ex
plicitly stating that there has been no
change whatever in the management.
G. T. White, assistant treasurer,
who has an office on the fourteenth
floor, was asked if there were any
truth in the report that the Standard
Oil Company was becoming extensive
ly interested in outside ventures.
"That is not the fact," was his em
phatic reply.
Mr. White referred to the various
glucose companies as being under the
control of men also affiliated with
Standard Oil and to the National
Starch Company rs a subsidiary cor
poratlon of the Corn Products Com
pany. As to the "Investment Department"
which the officials and stockholders
of the Standard find so nsef ul, he said
that if there was such a thing it was
news to him. Among the larger op
erations of financiers of the Standard
Oil group as individuals may also be
mentioned the Amalgamated Copper
and the United Metals Selling Com
pany, in which H. H. Rogers Is in
terested," and the railroad and hotel
interests of Henry M. Flagler la Flor
ida. ' ;V '" ,
i Paragraphed Pickings. -. T ', ,
The Pittsburg Club has sold short
stop Charlie Starr to the Boston Club.
Work is being done in the matter
of unionising the brewers la El Paso,
Texas., k,:- -. ,, .,.;; . ; ., . , .
Reports of the various New York
City railway lines for the last quarter
showed assets of tSS4.000.000. w
' Sixteen hundred men employed In
the collieries at Abereman. Wales,
were locked out. .
Find Six Out of Every Tea S
rM. 'Children Hare Tuberculosis.
i Des Moines,' Iowa. An Investiga
tion conducted by the Des Moines
Tubercular ' Association resulted !in
the amaslng discovery that six out ef
every tea children examined In the
city are infected with the dreaded tu
berculosis. '..;- V . -:.., V
- Most of the cases are incipient, but
la many the disease has progressed to
a dangerous degree. The association
is considering the establishing of a
children's tubercular camp tor scisn
tlfl treatment -
XHE LAND OF LIE-A-BED.
The lazy Land of Lie-a Bed
Has two fat pillows at the head,
A downy comfort spread aU neat
And restful from the head to feet;
A drowsy, dreamy place to stay
And yawn, "I'll not get up to-day,"
And many children like to go
To wonder-wander here, you know.
It is a pleasant land, and yet
If I were you I would forget
The pathway there, and follow back
The shining Merry-Morning track.
The Dream-World lies too far awav
From honest work and happy play,
And you must heed what you nave read.
Ana snun me jjana oi iiie-a-Jiea.
-Alice Van Leer Carrick, in Youth's Com
panion.
AN IDEA FOR THE BOYS.
They Use Many Devices to Trap Rab
bits In Australia.
In Australia rabbits are so numin
ous that they are hunted as pests
and destroyed for the protection of
crops. Many devices and trap3 are
used to catch them, but norm in -mora
simple or efficient than the one shown
in this illustration. A pit is dug in
tne ground along a rabbit run and
two pieces of board, swinging on a
In But Not Out
pivot, placed over It As the rabbit
strikes the board it inclines and
pitches him Into the clt. swlnelnz
back into position again by the
weight at the other end. These
traps, which are large enough to
hold 100 rabbits, are In common use,
are made by the wholesale and sold
by hardware and Implement dealers
generally.
Other death dealing devices for
exterminating the rabbits are the
poison carts, which sell for about
$100 each, and fumlgators, costing
$50, for pumping deadly gases into
the traps.
THE LAUGHING BEAN.
Wouldn't you be surprised if you
went into the garden some warm
summer day , and the cabbages or po
tato vines or berry bushes commenced
to laugh? You don't think such a
thing would ever happen outside of
Fairyland? Well, perhaps not just
that, but there are plants that do
things Just as wonderful plants that
eat Insects, some that eat animals,
others that tumble about wherever
they want to go, and now a traveler
tells us of running across one that
gets influenza and coughs Just like
a boy or girl who has a very bad
cold.
"I heard a cough and looked be
hind me nervously; for I was stalk
ing gazelles in that lion-colored
waste, the Sahara Desert; and, hav
ing gotten rather too far south, I ex
pected at any moment to become a
pincushion for the poisoned darts of
the dread Houaregs," says the trav
eler. "But no one was there. The flat
desert quivered in the sunshine, and
here and there a dusty plant stood
wearily. But, though I commanded
the landscape for a radius of fifty
miles, not a living creature was in
sight Another cough. I swung
round quickly. The same plant, yel
low with dust, drooped In the dry
heat That was all.
"'Hack! Hack!' It was at my left
this time. I turned again. A like
plant met my eye. The thing was
growing rather ghastly. As I re
garded this last plant, a cough came
from it. It shook all over, and then,
tightening up as a man dpjea when he
is about to sneers, it gave a violent
cough, and a little cloud ot dust
arose.
"I learned afterward that the plant
Is the coughing bean, which Is com
mon la many tropical countries. In
the long, dry heats, v this wierd
growth's pores become choked with
dust, and it would die ot suffocation
were it not that a powerful gas ac
cumulates inside it, which, when It
gains ' sufficient pressure, explodes
with sound precisely like the human
cough. , The explosion shakes the
plant's pores free of . their dust, and
the coughing bean Is tn health again.'
Home Herald. .
THE LILY OF THE VALLEY., '
Once upon a time, a long while ago,,
there lived in a tiny house hear a
large garden a fairy mother with ever
and ever so many fairy children. i.
All the children were dressed alike,
in green slippers and stockings, white
suits, and white pointed caps with a
dewdrop shining on top.
One evening the fairy mother said:
"Yon may take your small ivory buck
ets and fill them with dew from the
flowers in the garden, but be sure to
come borne before the sun rises,"
Off they started, , running and
swinging the buckets (n their hands;
but, when they reached the garden.
Instead, of working, they began to
teeter on the grass blades, and play
hide-and-seek among the flowers.
-: And, do you know, they played and
played all that night, and forgot all
about the dew and the Ivory buckets,
till tne greet rod sua could bs seen.
It was past time tor going home
and too late-to gather dew.
What would the fairy mother say?
"We'll hang our Ivory buckets on,
these stems, and to-night come and
fill them," they said.
Then 'they went home, and theyj
felt very sorry when they saw how;
sad their fairy mdther looked.
As soon as the sun went down they,
hurried to the garden. First one
little fairy, then another and another,
tried to pick his bucket from the
stem where he had left it, but It waa
of no use. All the buckets were
tightly fastened to the stems and
turned upside down.
They have been fastened that way)
ever since, and perhaps, if you look
In your garden, you will find some of
the fairies' ivory buckets. Home
Herald. y
THE DOG IN THE GO-CART.
There is a dog in New York that ..
never goes on the street except in a
go-cart. He Is a little spaniel, black
as Jet, and as pretty to look at as
any dog of bis species. The reason
why he always rides In a cart is be
cause he cannot navigate without
one, having lost the use of his hind
legs, which are entirely paralyzed.'
The cart has been built especially for
him, and supports the rear half of his
body. He Is fastened into it by a
neat-fitting harness, and the two
wheels act in place of his disabled
members.
The little chap appears to be per
fectly happy as he patters along on
two feet with his body coming after
hm on wheels in a most luxurious
manner, and his outings are marked
with quite as much display of inter
est in the outside world as Is evi
denced by dogs that enjoy normal
locomotion.
That this dog -.Is a household pet
is plainly evident, and as he does
not suffer in the least, the go-cart
fills every requirement of his necessl .
ties and permits him to enjoy life
with all the advantages which of,
right are due him. He can be seen
on upper Broadway almost any pleas
ant day, and, strange to say, a sight
of him brings a smile rather than a
sigh of pity, for the very sensible
reason that he Is so unquestionably.
well suited with his condition. Phil
adelphla Ledger.
WHAT'S MY THOUGHT LIKE
A variation of the old guessing
game, "yvnats My inougnc uner
may be arranged for a change. To
play it the leader begins by saying.
I am thinking of a proverb which,'
illustrates," for example, "the ten
dency ot inferior character to take
advantage of any absence of authori
ty." The other players are allowed
to ask questions concerning it thus:
A How many words does this pro
verb contain?
Answer Nine.
B Is it a familiar saying?
Answer Among the most familiar.
C How many times does the word
the" occur In it?
Answer Twice.
D Does it begin with the word
"when?"
Answer Yes.
E And end with the word "play?"
Answer It does.
F Is there a mention of certain
animals in it?
Answer There is.
G Is it, "When the cat's away the
mice will play?"
Answer That is it ioma tier
aid.
THE PONY AND THE PANTHER.
a ntnrv in told about a nony that
saved a little girl from being torn to
pieces by panthers. ;, ; : ry-v-.-
The girl was twelve years old and
she lived in Oklahoma. She nad a
mail 'nnnv ' and many a fine gallop
over .mountain trails she enjoyed
upon Its back, once sne was out tor.
. .. .m i Mtnterlnt . merrily - alone
through a canyon, when suddenly the
pony stopped. Two panthers croucnea
in the path. They sprang upon the
girl, dragged her from the saddle and
began to claw her clothing off in
strips. But the pony was quick as
the panthers. Instead ot running:
away, "as any frightenea .. anunai
miof u ATiMcted to do. It wheeled -
and began to kick the panthers witU
the power oi iu - strong, - osru.
hoofs. And its blows were so tlerce
and fast that the panthers could not
endure them, but slunk growling;
war and whnn the little tirl looked
up she, saw no panther at. ail, bub
Just her pet pony . standing quietly;
beside her. Detroit xews-ixtouuw.
- - - Called His Bluff.
fa In a pretty fix, I can tell yon," ....
said an Oxford undergraduate- to bis ,
pal toward tbo end'of the last term
"I wrote to my father tip other day, ,
giving lm a list of books I urgently;.
needed, and asking" him-1 send m.
money to buy them."
"And didn't he?" asked the pai. ;
"No; he sent " the books." Tit..
Bits.
Still Hungry. s
' The Thin One "Say, your dog bit
me. He's not mad, is he?"
The Fat One "No; - only disap
pointed." Brooklyn Ufa. , ...
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