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The Miller County Liberal MN , vou X. OLNER AJUCKER He So Styles Himself Re garding Bunco Canal Deal, HIS ANGER IS AROUSED Declares He Was "Whanycioodled” ty Roo.cvelt and is Preparing a : Hot Roast for Nation’s • Chief Executive. Wi liam J. Oliver, contractor, is mad clear through as ther esult of ths way In which he has been treated by t._ auu ,.„.. A , ovxvxa the of the canal contract, says a Wash ington dispatch. He states very em phatically that he has been “whang doodled,’' and proposes to tell how it was done. He is preparing a detailed statement of the case that will, i) is believed, equal In many respects the sensational feature of the epistolary deal between President Roosevelt and th Storers. Mr. Oliver announced that he spent “bout 140,000 in incorporating the construction company which was to assume the obligations of digging the canal, being Ina-iced to do this by assurances, which h<a declared clearly indicated that the contract would finally be awarded him. "Do i look like a fellow who wov id invest 140,000 in rainbows’’ he in quired. Not only Mr. Oliver himself, "but several of those who were in his con fidence, have declared that he had pos itive assurance from headquarters that ho would get the job, when he straightened his hand. He declared emphatically: “I dug up the men and the dollars. My bid was the low est, and according to the terms re quired. I have been handed a very diminutive line in exchange for $36,- 000 or $40,000 of my good, hard money.’’ Mr. Oliver illustrated his condition by reciting a story of a spiked poker game out west, in which a "whanc °vßr'■fbur' aces,.a“<l took » tenderfoot. The next night the rules were changed, in order for four ace» to beat the tenderfoot's "whangdoo dle.” • ‘ln this case I’m the sucker,’’ an nounced Mr. Oliver. “I entered the canal game, made the lowest respon Bible bid, called Ihe administration hand, and got ‘whangdoodled out ot the job.’’ Because Oliver was too sure of suc cess and indulged in a species ot boasting, or because some newspaper men assumed to send out premature reports as to what. Oliver proposed to do, is given as the explanation of the president’s action in turning down the Oliver bid. The same explanation is made to ap ply to the acceptance of Engineer Stevens' resignation. Stevens had done well, it is admitted, but he ranted to complete the work with out any dictation or intervention by a contractor, and wrote the presi dent that he wpuld resign if Oliver was given the contract. It is de cla.xq ]j e was very much surprised when »5 S resignation was really ac cepted, although another story has it that he really aid not aspire to be known as the' “mwn who built the canal,” but resigned take a posi tion with a western contractor, at twice hie e<*l**e s . In accordance with the president s instructions as set out in his letter to the isthmian canal commission dis posing ot the bids received for the construction of the Panama canal, Mr. Rogers, the law officer of the commis sion, sent a notice Thursday to Mr. Oliver, of the decision to reject all uo.,.>i-r. sic nwn. The certified check which accompanied Mi. Oir evr’s bid was also transmitted to him. but was returned by him to the keep ing of the commission until later. SENATOR BACON APPOINTED By Governor Terrell to Succeed Him self for Interim Term. Governor Terrell of Georgia has ap pointed Senator A. O. Bacon to suc ceed himself for the interim term between March 4 and the meeting of the Georgia legislature in June, at which he W>“ De elected United States c nator for another term of six years. ' In a letter to Governor Terrell Senator Bacon stated that he had found ample precedent tor such an appo’nunent. BROWNSVILLE INVESTIGATION Is Adjourned to March 11th by Com mittee on Military Affairs. The Brownsville investigation by the senate committee on military af fairs was adjourned at Washington on Wednesday until March 11. By that time it is expected that white officers of the discharged battalion ot negro soldiers will be available as wit nesses. FOR DAUGHTER’S MURDER John Bullard is Sent to His Doom In Marietta Jail—Died Protesting Tnat It Was an Accident. John Bullard, convicted of murder ing his 17-year-old daughter, was hanged at Marietta, Ga., Friday. The execution was private. Bullard stuck to his last statement Chat the shooting was accident;.!, and done in a fit of coughing. He called reporters to 1- a while standing on the gallows, and said he wanted the people to know that he uno th, truth, and that he, hßd made .his peace wua ms God. The trap was sprung by Sheriff Frey at 11:15 a. m., and JI minutes afterwards B»u>~ * It on Monday motalng, Stp ten> b * r 24th ’ &t rar 'y breakfast, his daughter, Ruby, was murdered. She was out the night before attending religious services, and came home in company with friends, and spent some time outside the house in friendly conversation, during which several matches were lighted. Bullard had retired, and claimed he was disturbed by the noise of striking matches, and the talk. At the breakfast table the next morning he claimed to have reprov ed his daughter for making so much noise, and disturbing him. Some words followed, Ruby going to au adjoining room and putting on her bonnet. Mr. Bullard claimed he went to bis bed, secured his pistol, and started to put ft in his trunk, when Ruby re turned to the room, and picked up a fork from the table. Bullard alleged she started to attack him, and he threw up his hand to protect himself, and in doing so the revolver was dis charged, the bullet finding lodgment in her head. He said: “I saw her stagger, and I thought she was dead, so I might as well fire the rest of the shots, which 1 did.” Bullard was tried and convicted at the October term of the superior court, and sentenced to be hanged. His case was appealed, the decision of the lower court being affirmed. It was then claimed. Rnitard insane, and a special commission ap pointed by Governor Terrell examin ed him, and declared him sane. His case was then carried to the prison board, who. in turn, rcffisw As a last effort to save his life the governor was appealed to for a stay of execution, on the claim that Bul lard’s physical condition was such that it was only a question of a few more weeks until Bullard would yield his life to the dreaded disease, con sumption. Governor Terrell sent a committee of doctors to Marietta Thursday morn ing to examine Bullard as to his pry sical condition, and they reported his tempera:ure slightly above normal, and pulse normal. With this report, all hope for clem ency from the governor fled, and Bul lard resigned to his fate DEFENSE SHIFTS PLEA. Unwritten Law Relegated in Trial of the Strothers. The defense in the Strother trial at Culpeper, Va., Friday shifted from the "unwritten law” to “emotional in sanity," and almost the entire day was devoted to argument on the prop er form ot a hypothetical question, which was asked Dr. Charles N. Clark, who was called as an insanity ex pert. The prosecution showed no sur prise whatever when the defense set about to establish a plea of emo tional insaiiit*. w ■ REDUCED FARES FAVORED. North Carolina Senate Adopts Report on 2 1-4 Cents Per Mile. The North Carolina senate, Friday night, after prolonged discussion, adopted the report of the conference yprJ»trinE MSPnoor rates to 2 1-4 cents per mile on roads of more than sixty miles in length, and abolishing first and second class fares. w JAP FOR fDN-IN-LAW Meets No Objection on Pert cf Govern or Carter of Hawaii. According to advices from Hon olulu, nothing that has happened in a long time in Hawaii has created the tame widespread interest as Governor Carter’s announcement in an inter view that he had been willing that his daughter should marry a Japan ese. It is the subject of discussion every where The newspapers are bombard ed with communications condemning it JAP COOLIES LANDED. Over Two Hundred Reach San Fran cisco and Allowed to Disembark. Two hundred and thirty-one Japan ese steerage passengers arrived in port at ’Frisco Tuesday night on the Pacific Mall liner Mongolian. No orders werq received from Wash ington by the local officials relative to debarring them from California snore, and, after a perfunctory exam ination, they were allowed to land. COLQUITT. GA. WMESDAY. MARCH 6. 1907. CURSES BY BAILEY Heaped Upon His Enemies in Texas Legislature. HOUSE EXONERATES HIM Senator Wins Out With Flying Colors l.n Galling Investigation and Comes Back at His Traducers In Hot Fashion. By a vote of 70 to 40 out of a pos sible 128 votes, 13 members being ab scu., i.nitca State, , .senator Joseph W. Bailey was exonerated by lr „ , er house ot the Texas legislature at Austin Wednesday night ot charges of irregular acts in public life, as al leged by Representative Cocke of the lower house on January 14, last. Action which resulted in this exon eration was precipitated at the time stated, after three days of private consultation between house members and friends of Senator Bailey and con cludes some six weeks of investiga tion that has occasioned Senator Bai leys constant attendance In Austin. On Monday last, by a vote ’of 15 to 11, the senate exonerated Senator Bailey without waiting to hear the re port of the investigating committee, and Wednesday night the house look like action to the extent ot acting on the recommendation of a majority of the investigating committee for com plete exoneration without the submis sion of the evidence. Tho opponents of Senator Bailey pleaded to have the evidence submit ted before being asked to vote, but the Bailey forces, slightly In the ma jority, forced a vote and won out as outlined above. The galleries of the house had been crowded with spectators, many la dles being present since early after-, noon awaiting thu drams tic event, and once Senator Bailey's exoneration was assured by the adoption of the majority report declaring that there xvuc? n.rthlmy in 1 lift G i.A*axxo<* Im way reflecting upon him, the climax was reached when Senator Bailey ap peared and addressed the house. H —-vvg every evidence of labor w the past few especi.«lJ*”.wth its intense mental strain, and delivered himself of a speech decidedly critical and emphatic in the matter of review ing those who have seen fit to oppose him during the investigation. Senator Bailey, while bitterly abus ing those who opposed him, announc ed that he was going to continue as United States senator from Texas for at least three terms. He raid in part; "You have just concluded the most remarkable campaign ever witnessed In any state of the American union, and be it said to your honor that you have concluded it in accordance with the will of the sovereign people. The conspirators have been given a wholesome lesson. Never win they attempt it again within this genera tion. Never again will they wear lhe honors of Texas democracy in their life. Such inen would betray a repub lic if Hessians were for hire. The leader of the contest was a man who has gambled with negroes, and it he attempts to deny it I Will prove it on him. “One of them was convicted of em bezzlement and yet he, is here draw ](eScrnno’Xep the democratic com niandmcnts. •These “ re hard words and 1 ln ” vj mem to be. I wish 1 had words '‘.hate with which to criticize them. See what they have done. They have lied about me. Their master is Hearst, who has led this fight against me in Texas. The leader in this fight is the man who had this telegram publish ed lying on the legislature, claiming that it was corrupted by wine, wo men and song. Hearst has his emis- Kfirkocrxmta in thxx Tovqq lC4fja iatine today. "They seek to destroy my useful ness, but thank God I am too far above them to hurt it.” WRONG MAN WAS NABBED. Sleuth Hotel Keeper Thought He Had Absconding Banker. Harry Buckley, of the White House at West Point, Ga., won't get $5,00) or any part of it for, the sleuth act he played a few days ago, an act re sulting in the arrest of a man in Ope lika, Ala., Friday, who, Buckley de clared, was William F Walker, the defaulting New Britain, Conn., bank cashier. After passing twenty hours in th* Opelika jail the prisoner, who gave his name as W. Harper, was released by order of Mayor Williams. / HONDURAS OPENS HOSTILITIES. Nicaraguan Town Attacked, But In vaders Are Defeated. A special from Managua, Nicaragua, says: The troops of General Bonilla, president of Honduras, at 3 o clock, Monday afternoon, attacked the fore es of General Zelaya, president of Nicaragua, which were guarding the Nicaraguan frontier. Alter many hours fighting the army of Honduras was defeated. THEY JU ON bailey. Hl» Cauetio Causes Storm of Wrath A|i|'g Opponents in Texas .-gislature A special frof satin, Texas, says; The aftermath I he premature end ing of the inwr.gation ot charges against United 9 .« s. W. Bailey came n tne how-,.- ot i representatives?) ■ at 3 oclock Wednesday in a. sslng himself to resentative rose denounce Senator- Bailey for tiw Itijttage he had used last evening in L< easing him-elf to the men who iil.oted against him. Senator Bailey j&ertlmis were ds- 1 nouneed as lie ids language as la- I decent and abut*!, end nrs man it I an insult to th/ se of represents ■ nt Toxae- pretl'Utat ■ ' —"U JohStoii, l)Iie O s I 0 , ,1 nounced Senate, malicious and prt Stated liar Representatl vt Beatty w>. tremely sarcastic . his remarks, auu spared neither t senator’s public or private recoi . atty claimed that Senator Bai . ,p,. ot been all | that was good d o .ole, back in Mississippi, and 1 ottered to pay the- I expenses of any amber ot tne legis < lature who want, a fyv to Missis sippi to find our. 'I. r to ' exception to Bal-’s i.ts, mad* 3 by innuendo a;;atst p.ember ot the house, to themed that "he had gambled with netoes, and had been used as an examje by the ministers of his home tow.” Representative chitins, author of the minority repcrjfpndemning Sen ator Bailey, plerfW guilty to the charge of once hiring been a popu list, but said he recame a populist when the Democrtic party had vic lated the priacjl«s*of the demo cracy. Representative n frien< * of Senator ; e to a question of perso::,>^P rlvil( gi W eulogize Sen ator Repijs-Xtative Dodd, a mend ot the sentSi also spoke in his behalf. In consequence >f SAntor Bailey’s caustic speeah, jam-maht Governor Davidson and a the minor- u» meubersiMv ' ■ rhe nouse have announced , erfcdldacy two years hence, an > Bailey to defeat t* ifil, T - ..R--”.v.'gir. Fl., . Thurs ERRING ACCESS KILLED. Brunswick, Ga., | sts Into Limelight With Rc ’ n Tragedy. Lillian Davenpc. an actress, was i shot and almost hantly killed, and ! W. H. Brown, a rcemler, who was i with her, was a_> shot, and will probably die. In 1 secluded part of Windsor Park, n Brunswick, Ga., Wednesday night. R. L. Davenport, manager of the Mjestlc theater, : id husband of the dad actress, was ar rested, suspected >f the killing. I < -was soon release, however, having proven an alibi. Brown and tb actress went to Windsor Park togther. They were seated upon a be h in a secluded part of the park, : d had been there only a short while not knowing they were being watch I, when a pistol report sounded, Ivo shuts followed this. Brown was * d Mrs. „ . . ,xl to delend him Davenport, who it ~ L . .... assailant, was and started toward . ~ , . started to bring herself shot. Bros , “ . ♦>, ...unded woman, out assistance to the v. . .. , . . .p could arrive, she dim' . crown told it) police that he thought the shoolig was done by Davenport. Later,he stated that he was not positive tat Davenport did tho shooting Brown only iociv 1 in Brunswick a short while ago, ad is a bartender at the Mecca salon. Davenport arrival in Brunswick last January with re Parker Amuse ment Company, an is new manager of the Majestic th ter. He and his wife came from If - Mrs. Davenport . m on the •vjuj, aiin njsv hille ’■ t the’'leading attrition of the com pany which DavlporT brought to Brunswick. She ’as about 20 years o" age. WOMAN’S CO PANION DIES. Double Tragedy n Brunswick Re mains The shooting * th actress, Lil lian Davenport, id her companion, A. R. Brown, ini secluded pot in I a park at Bruns ck, Ga., is stin as 1 great a mystery I- A. R- Brown, dentftr companion oi thad' died at city hospital a 1 lock Friday • morning. Before is th he made a statement, in ich he exonerated the husband of tl actress. much mail vjs DESTROYED. Three Hundred ouches Burned in Recent Wreclon G. S. 4 F. It is estimated /•' the postoffice de p’artmeut at Wmingtou that 300 sacks of paper ijil from Macon and Atlanta, and pols »<... aud north west of those Ices addressed to points in FloridiAnd Sorth Georgia were burned inlhe wreck on the Georgia Southerland Florida, near Unadil'a, Ga., oiFebrunry 25. • / L AROUbft) GARDSON CHURCH, Malmesbury a Region Rich In Historic ! Interest and Picturesque Ruins. No account of Gardson church and i manor, and tbe Washington traditlwns ' which enrich them, would be complete that did not make mention of the beautiful region, riefj in historic in terest and In picturesque ruins, which I lies ebowt "■.• In.* . :: -re has naaociatlons wutc>> would I make it, even if it were not In its stately decay a monument of exquisite beauty, a structure of vivid and path etic interest, and the region is or.e rich in memorials of earliest English history. To Malmesbury came, at one r ,r j.ither. some cf the most i r _,i.c- in carl.’-r English i ecrteslwetfcat >.wrsr ( - life. The I if.?,’.* -ho cottes here must, uiueea . |tr .sida a little frem t.:e wentod ; paths of ths tourists; and for this re a- ; I son Wiltshire is far less known than it shot*!;! be But modern English literature has made every reader fam iliar v.!t\ iinth, and though Bath is n- ross the country l.n# Ln Somer ■.ets'.ire, it is easy to" tax's Malmes bury on the way. And It is worth while. Malmesbapy I : bbey dates back to the tiweJfth cen- I iiry, and long before that picturesque , ucture was completed a monastery I. d existed in Malmesbury, And Wil lii. ii of Malmesbury, a monk and man of letter?!, had written in T.atin a his torx work whir*, r i . th**, "Sax- OE ' - ■ ... . considered the most valuable autn orltiy for Anglo-Saxon times. Here, in a portion ot the old f>bey, restored end adapted to the uses of a modern parish church, Is shown the tomb and recumbent effigy of King Athelstan; and in t.:e neighboring street stands an old market cross of beautiful de sign and a admirable preservation Beycud this, the road takes a trim, and the traveler comes in sight of the “Kings Afifca.” It is here that the visitor to Oars don Church may wisely tarry. He will find an English inn which has preserved every best tradition of an institution now rapidly vanishing from the face of the earth, and in It£ landlord and landlady & host and hostess whom it will always be a joy to remember. —From Bishop Potter’s “The Graves of Three Washingtons" In the Oentury. ' ' "Senator Bris-cum says he will not try to be re-elected at the end of his sraseuf term, because he is -V ’>le - 4 -v*e uicAlilnston on. .!5 000? Senator Roxieigh, ’is lie one of the fools who think a statesman has no right to re present a corporation between ses flionsf”«-€hfcafio Record-Herald. THEY'RE RUN UP ENOUGH. He.— Everything in this house looks run down 1 She. — But, dear, you bavin's seen the bills this month! —Det oit Free Frees. MORE BOXES OF GO .ID And Many Greenbacks. 825 boxes of Gold and Greenbacks trill be sent to persons who write the most interesting and truthful letter? of experience on the following topics: 1. How have you been affected by eoffee drinking and by changing from soffee to Postum. 3. Give name and account of one or more coffee drinkers who bate veeii ’ll art L»y 11. auu < ee?i 111- duced to quit and use Postum. 3. Do you know any one who has been driven away from Postum be cause it came to the table weak and characterless at the first trial? 4. Did you set such a person right regarding the easy way to make it clear, black and with a snappy rich taste ’! 5. Have you ever found a better way to make it than to use tour heap ing teaspoonfuls to the pint of water, let stand on stove until real boiling begins and beginning at that time when actual boiling starts, boil fail 15 minutes more to extract the flavor and food value. (A piece of butter the size of a pea will prevent boiling over.) This contest is confined to those who hare used Postnia prior to I ■ -........ Be honest and truthful, don’t write poetry or fanciful letters, just plain, truthful statements Contest will close June Ist, 1907, and no letters received after that date Willie admitted. Examinations of letters will be made by three judges, not members of the Postum Cereal Co., Ltd. Their decisions will be fair and final, and a neat little box con taining a fi (1 gold piece sent to each of the five waiters of the most inter esting letters - containing a gold piece to each of the 20 next best, a I 2 greenback to each of the 100 • nex t boot, and a SI greenback to each I ut the 200 next best, making cash prizes distributed to 325 persons. ' fivery friend of Postum is urged to write and each letter will be held in high esteem by the company, as an evidence of such friendship, while tho little boxes of gold and envelopes of money will reach many modest writers whose plain and sensible let- ■ ters contain the facts desired, al though the sender may have but small faith in winning at the time of writing. Talk this subject over with your friends and see how many’ among you can win prizes. It is a good, honest competition and in the best kind of a cause, and costs the competitors ab solutely nothing. Address your letter to the Postum Cereal Co., Ltd., Battle Creek, Mich., w Ring year owp mime and address Ci- arlX, :-- - Carrabelle, Tallaha : \ x Gc- Railroad. I _ _ H . I 11, II M I I _- _ - I I ■ ——- —• —* ~ - —. „ - . Passenger Train Schedules Co rjeted to June 22, 1906. -, - - . m -w 1..* >■' - • -w. ,i i - NORTHDO rnuri ! D’ly Sun Sun D’ly June 22 190 - D’iy n " ■: it”" A.M; P.M. A.M A.M, I’ M PM. M 7:00 L<v . Apalachicola . Ar 35 6:00 8:00 11:35 . Carrabelle 2:Sr. .1-. 6:45 8:20 11-50 . . . Lanark . . . it 7:21 9:14 12.22 .... Sopchcppy . . . - 7:45 9:53 12:45 .... Arran . . 1 i ' -> <’ •<-*'*> Ar . Tallahassee . . Lv 12. ' I , 6:40 8:50 ■■ T-n*' *unssee . ■Ar 12:46 j 7:17 9:25 4:0 ,Ar . . t’av. nn . ... 7 2 7 8:1.4 6:25 3:00 Lv , . Quincy ... Ar 1:1 . . on ’ 7:10 3:45 Ar . . Havana . . Lv 12:30 9:2 Note: SBelow. 7:17 9:30 . 4:05 1- Hat Ar 12:02 7--”> 8: is 8:25 10:25 f:l3 3a’.nb- . . 11:00 9:23 Ohio . . Coin , . . 9:59 10:16 7:20 Arl-.n .... 9’lo [ 10:45 7:4'. . K' .... S:3£ 4:45 | 11:35 B:3’J Ar <'’tt. t .It 5C | Through Coatfect'er.s . -r Tallahhassee. A.M PM PM A.M. P.M. P.M 11:1a ib.o . . rows- -»ia A.M. A M Via Ba.abridge 9:40 9:40 9:40 Ar . Savannah . . Lv 6:45 6:45 9:40 6:15 8:05 8:05 . . Montgomery . . . 6:15 6:15 6:50 p.M. P M. Via Cuthbert. P-M. 1:00 9:49 Ar . . Smithville . . .Lv 6:83 2’50 4:10 12:50 , . . Macon . . . . 8:35 11:35 7:55 7:10 . . . Atlanta .... 12 01 P.M. A.M. A.M. A A- - trains, dally: Lv Havana 7:35a 1 Quincy 8:20f Lv Quincy 11:00;- «>■ Havana ’ ' 1 , . WILLIAMS, G. P. A. ~ e j, r” United S'ta.ics k s ?XSSillg iTOIFi Age gs Individualism Wat:e’K?lism By Dr. Lvman Abbott , --A. Au iur, trial a- ivity .< sms, *"■ from t-g» .■ IF I ut ii f. r lilr ** I has poured out untold wealth, ami we have .. “<’• it,” and men have •! no if. A man of .whom I knew put $60,000 ! ' n, ° a £ r ‘d mine and in two years, without doing a stroke of *ll iiiSii if work or usit:;; his brain, took out $2,000,000. Thli system Is not just and we are going to leave it. in the rear When ! I say this 1 do not mean Hint we will leave it in the rear by socialism c’-omal i ism as times that all functh ns can be done by the government. ThL nmy be bo, but it is not prosen. We do not want the State to own al' : • mo's oi' p:odaction, but we want the democratization of industry am fl .o o-4'r<“. >f industry by the people for their own good. A corporation is in its essence a democratic contrivance by which a largo I number of men combine their money and share in the distribution of profits. I If a corporation was honestly administered it would be beneficial. The thing to do is not destroy it. lut to make it serve th l puryos. for whi'h It was intended. Wrat we want to do is to bring the corporations under governmeat control, rhe same as we have the banks. A labor union 1 ’ liatlon. tVe want to make the unions broaden out and r- >: capital are partners In a common enterprise. The InrPv’.ri ... Inspired our country in the past has lei to vices for self-conceit, self-will and greed. The remedy lies in the recognition of society as .1 unit In government, too, we are petting away from the old indiviifualisi; if oi l Id. a that the only function of government is to protect life an pc a ■ and lib-rty Is wrong. We no Itu-.-r regard government as simply a night watchman. Municipal government ownt water and lighting plants ami ex ercise.-. sanitary functions Tin State educates the children, the federal gov ernment widens harbors and does many other things for the welfaru of. the The Unwisdom gj | the Ancientz By Agnes Repplier. I #“= M "' a “'*ATIN finds mischief *or idle hands to do.' SHe doesn’t. How can he, when every moment of his ■ ■ able time is taken up with laying out work for 1-usy hands. 11 n—w 1■ w planning and contriv ng mine new invention tht trious going? it has alv ays been as much e Hittm o i run panting along with the- active oner earth, channels of ids own the tide of their aetivi’ics vV:--s 1. idleness I that fought the Thlrb ms’ War, or tent Napoleon's -irmh c*? "" ’ .A ..J ’ ‘ “1 VA'WAVk UiUle >V<l\S ill -• U Alb! 1 progrS'S 1 ? Have the genth hands of idleness fastened b*? 1 ■ ' Our”backs, or sent us down to be a nursery governess to fr.i .Ic. \re the idle- rich who ent e.-.-.-fy strawberries as devastating as t: -- -J .4. ~_t r U rinK wh.O tW ?B.p tile h-'U 1 : </£ xl. • *» 4+ «Hlo»v<va« that would snatch from out hands our old familiar sp. looks vitui, j content with depriving us f our honor and our humtnopathy, -' ’ ■ . let our cats purr (as If ant -at in Christendom could pur: i ar.' that h.i. I impious hands upon the Decalogue? Societies for badgering the universe have i never been organized by the idle. Automobiles and gramophones »r r -t invented by the idle. Maxim guns and torpedo boats are nut the pet i lav- ■ things of the idle. And If Satan, with all these object lessors on his hands, finds ever a n-omt-n. to spare, he isn't going to waste it hunting up some ■ trifles of mischief for idle hands to do. The busy and chpable ha ds of •;artu await his inspiration. -Life. Saving the Farmers’ Millions By James Linn Nash. ' much Professor Bolley, of the North Dakota Agricultural C< i j lege is accomplishing for the farmers of the world through is : I M ■ patient and thorough investigations and unique experiments in ITO . yiltUf plant life it is not easy to estimate. A single •ue of his dis ■ yOgjnn coverice—that cf the formaldehyde treatment fur smut —has al- [ ready been iworth many millions of dollars to the agriculturists <f the United States and the entire world. Thirteen years ago j he found that this hitherto unconquerable enemy of the graimgrower cm I be effectually prevented by bathing seed in a simple and inexpensive s®*”' leal solution made by dissolving one pound of formaldehyde, forty p strength, in forty-five gallons of water and using three-fourths of s . >n of ■ this solution to a bushel of wheat, oats or barley and ode-half to a | bushel of flax. For man - years he could not persuade a single farmer to , ? plan. They looked upon him as a scientific dreamer, an 1 neuter - and laughed at his theories. It was in 1900 that the farp-'' rs f" i regard Professor Bolley and hie. ideas seriously. Then v 0 : progressive and wealthy ones, who own. 3 large tr-ncvs of .. and ft. ; they could afford to experiment, decldei* <> test his preseti;-.. n for wheat i sm..t This was the first time the treat. ■> had been tried ■ v' extensive | sci.' 'y practical avTlculturlsts. and the experiments prove) <u remarkabt" ’’ BUCCL- siul. The farmers suddenly awoke to the fact that tiiere wa». i to be gained by tho scientific treatment of plant diseases. —The world I°' Day. ‘ ' NO. 29