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oV Via Union Pacific. Millions
)y\ have been spent in the improve
ipjl ment of this line, and all human
indfLingenuity has been adopted to
Tobrotect its patrons against acci
’eply:\ent. The line is renowned for
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1 \nt Fast time, shortest line,
he L.Whest track. Tourists sleep
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$9.55 for the round trip; return
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ONE-WAY RATES.
Every day from September
15th to October 15th, 1904, inclu
sive, the Union Pacific will sell
)ne-way tickets from Missouri
River Terminals (Council Bluffs
to Kansas City, inclusive) as
follows :^ 4 44
$20.00 to Ogden and Salt Lake
Hity.
$20.00 to Helena and Butte,
Montana.
$22.50 to Spokane and Wen
itehee, Washington.
$22.50 to. Huntington and
Nampa, Idaho.
$25.00 to Portland, Tacoma and
Seattle.
$25.00 to Vancouver and Vic
toria.
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Oregon, via Portland.
$25.00 to San Francisco, Los
Angeles and San Diego.
Correspondingly low rates to
many other California, Oregon,
Washington, Montana, Utah, and
Idaho points.
Through Tourist cars run every
day on Union Pacific between
Missouri River and Pacific Coast:
double berth $5.75. For full in
formation call on or address,
J. H. Lothrop,
903 Olive St., St. Louis, Mo.
18tilOct. 10.
$100 REWARD, $100.
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MOST POPULAR NUMBERS.
Seven and Thirteen Are Fixed Upon
in the Minds of the Greater
Number of Men.
“Ask a man to pick out some num
ber between one and ten, and you can
tell him nine times out of ten what
number he has selected, though his se
lection is made mentally,” said a man
who, according to the New Orleans
Times-Democrat, is fond of the old
things, “and when you come to think
of it, the task of naming the correct
number is not a difficult one. In the
course of an hour the other day I
asked ten men to think of a certain
number—any number between one and
ten—and I wouiu tell them what num
ber they had fixed their mind on.
In nine cases out of ten I wat correct,
missing it only once. The minds of
nine of the persons selected the num
ber seven, and one of them selected
nine. It is not difficult to understand
why the mind 'should run to the num
ber seven. Even in the case of the
man who fixed hi^ mind on the num
ber nine, he told me when it was all
over that his mind had first run to
seven, but he quickly changed to nine
without knowing just why it was that
| he changed. Seven is the most prom
| inent figure between one and ten. It
; is the most popular number in the line,
and is assosiated W'ith more things
than any other number, and it is quite
reasonable that the mind should light
on seven. I made another test the
other day with five persons, asking each
of them to write some number between
one and ten, and give it to a sixth per- j
son. When the slips had been handed
to thp aivth man T aafri* ‘Rpuon fa thp
number on each of the slips.’
“ ‘Correct,” said the man to whom
they had been handed, and the five
men were a bit bewildered for the
moment by the fact that they had all
hit upon the same number, and that 1
was able to tell what the number was.
It would be quite as easy to name a
number between 10 and 20, though I
have made no tests along this line. I
dare say that 13 would be the first
number to flash In the mind, simply 1
because it is the most talked of, and
the only number between 10 and 20
that has the widest association. So
you can tell there is no trick about it,
and it doesn’t require any knowledge
of the occult philosophies.”
EXTENDING BOUNDARIES. !
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Some of Our Larger Cities Have An*
nexed Ground Far Into Adja
cent Farm Lands.
According to a recently issued census
bulletin, the real rank of cities is not al
ways indicated by the order in which
they stand in the tables of population.
Some great centers have a considerable
part of their massed population lying
outside the municipal boundaries. Bos
ton is a good example; about 1,200,000
people live in sight of the state house
dome, and less than 600,000 of them are
governed by the Boston mayor. Other
cities have annexed far into the farm
lands of the adjacent country, says
Youth’s Companion.
It is customary to speak of the popula
tion of a state, “in proportion to its
size.” Such a comparison is seldom
made of cities, although it might not be
uninteresting. Pittsburg, for example,
has a population of a third of a million
on 18,000 acres of ground; New York’s
population, little more than ten times
as great, spreads over nearly 12 times
a9 many acres.
Chicago was long famous for its an
nexation habit, but since 1890 New York
has annexed much more territory than
Chicago’s total area. New Orleans has
a slightly larger area than Chicago.
Each of them covers six times the area
of Baltimore.
Washington, which occupies the Mary
land part of the ten miles square set
aside for a national capital, is a fair
sized city as area goes, for this genera
tion. It may seem small a century hence,
although it looked abundantly ample for
all the purposes of urban development
when laid out.
In the case of cities, as well as of other
I corporations, consolidation is plainly
one of the tendencies of the times. More
than one-third of those in the United
States have added to their territory by
annexation since 1890. Townships and
counties are occasionally subdivided, by
reason of local interests, but the cities
seem to be steadily pushing their boun
daries outward. There are some eco
nomic reasons for this, but the reason
In many cases has been the desire of
their inhabitants to make a “good show
ing.”
In the Bight Boom.
At the latest of the ladies’ clubs a
“pets’ room,” with little stalls for dogs
and cats, lemurs and lizards, all the
small creatures that a lady finds neces
sary as companions, is provided.
One of the most enthusiastic members
was showing her friends of her own sex
over the establishment, and opened the
door of the “pets’ room with proper
pride.
There, in the center of the room, on
two chairs, sat two immaculately
clothed young men, grave of face, but
with a wicked twinkle in their eyes.
“Don't you know this is the ladies’
‘pets’ room?’ ” asked the enthusiastic
memoer, with some acerbity.
“That’s why we are here,” replied the
more serious of the two young men, with
becoming gravity.—Sporting Times.
Longevity of Birds.
Small singing birds live from eight to
eighteen year6. Ravens have lived for
almost 100 years in captivity, and par
rots longer than that. Fowls live 10
tp 20 years. The wild goose lives up
ward of 100 years, and swans are said to
have attained the age of 300. The long
life of birds has been interpreted as
compensation for the great mortality
of tfcstr
HYDROGRAPHIC RECORDS.
Practical Benefit Derived from Them
Illustrated in Geological
Survey Work.
The parable of the sower is appli
cable to all educational work. Much
of the mission of the great departments
maintained by the government, espe
cially the scientific bureaus is educa
tional in its nature. The government
Is in the position of a progressive and
ambitious instructor in a modern col
lege, who, surrounded by every labora
tory and library facility, spends part
of his time in making original investi
gations and part in communicaiiug to
his pupils the results of his studies.
The seed he sows falls on all kinds of
soil, but, however poor the ground, it
is sure to bring forth fruit in some
measure, if there is life in the kernels
that he sows. There is great varia
tion in the returns from the different
kinds of educational work prosecuted
by the government. The ultimate
value of much of it can be determined
only after the lapse of many years,
but some of it seems to bear fruit a
hundred fold from the very start. An
instance of this is seen in the results
that have followed the hydrographic
work of the United States geological
survey in many quarters. The cases
in which it has been of benefit to the
one state of Colorado, for example, are
numerous and interesting.
None of the irrigation work contem
plated by the government would,
ordinarily, be possible without long
delay, were it not for the hydrographic
data accumulated by the survey dur
ing many years of observation and
measurement. In addition to that,
the work of private individuals is con
stantly facilitated by the same records.
No large engineering enterprises ar®
now undertaken without reference to
the survey’s records concerning the
supply of water available at th®
chosen site. The South Platte Land
and Reservoir company, which has
under way canals and reservoirs that
probably aggregate $500,000 in value,
has established stations at Orchard
and Kersey, Col., because of the
superior hydrographic advantages of
fered by these localities. The choice
of those points is directly traceable to
the data compiled by the survey.
Equally important is the fact that
projects that would have resulted dis
astrously have in numerous cases been
abandoned after a study of survey
records that throw light on the prob
able outcome. Data concerning the
flow of water on the Arkansas and
South Platte rivers prevented the ex
penditure of great sums of money on
the state canal in the first instance,
and upon the Pawnee pass reservoir
project in the second.
Survey data seem to l»e in great
demand as unimpeachable testimony
in the legal controversies that have
arisen in this state in regard to irriga
tion matters. A most notable instance
is the case of the Colorado & South
ern railroad vs. the Denver Union
Water company, in which the sum of
$100,000 was involved.
Data obtained by the survey in re
gard to the amount of water power
available at certain pThces have influ
enced the plans of the Qlenwood
Springs Light and Power company,
the New Century Light and Power
company, and also proposed power
companies on Clear and St. Vrain’s
creeks. None of these projects has
yet been carried to a conclusion, but
some of them will undoubtedly be
eventually constructed.
Colorado cities seeking a suitable
water supply have frequently con
sulted data obtained by the survey.
In the case of Durango, in southwest
ern Colorado, the discharge of Florida
river was especially studied in order
to ascertain whether a gravity water
system would be feasible at that point.
The location of various manufactur
ing industries has been determined by
report from survey engineers on the
available water supply.
AN OXEN CAVALRY CORPS.
Natives Queerly Mounted for Police
Duty on the Island of
Madagascar.
The oddest cavalry in the world is
maintained on the west coast of Mad
agascar by Governor General J. G. Gal
lieni. While the French troops in that
country are ample to meet the occa
sional revolutionists, the governor gen
eral makes use of native talent for po
lice work in out-of-the-way localities,
says the New York Herald.
On the west coast of Africa is a
tribe of natives, possibly radically
connected with the Hovas, who are
known as the Sakalova, the most war
like tribe of the country. The natives,
in imitation of French troopers, or
ganized an oxen cavalry corps, under
command of a French officer. They
are armed with modern long-handled
lances, or spears, and side arms.
“Their uniform is khaki, with skull
caps. They ride barefooted, without
stirrups, sitting on their equipment,
cinched like a saddle, with cords made
of the native fiber plant, and a sort
of bridle of the cord, passing through
the nose of the beast.
The oxen are neither slow or scared,
and it is assumed would create havoc
with their horns among horse cavalry.
Servian Army’s Big Drum.
A curious feature connected with the
Servian army is the manner in which
most of the regiments carry the big
drum. It is not, as in most countries,
slung in front of the man who plays it,
but is placed upon a two-wheeled cart
drawn by a single dog, which has been
so trained that it^ keeps its place even
through the longest and most tedious of
marches. The drummer takes up a po
sition behind the car and performs on
the instrument as the animal pulls it
along
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My little girl was playing and fell knock
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All good druggist sell it in 25 cent, 50
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DIRECTIONS FOR USE:
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WORLD’S FAIR RATES.
Louisiana Purchase Exposition,
St. Louis, April 30th to Decem
ber 1, 1904. Rate for ten day
excursion ticket will be one fare
and one-fifth for the round trip.
Tickets on sale daily April 27th
to November 30, 1904. Rate for
i sixty day excursion ticket one
‘ fare and one-third for the round
trip. Tickets on sale April 25th
to Nov. 20th. Rate for season
EXCURSION TICKETS eighty j
per cent, of double the standard
one way fare for the round trip.
Tickets on sale daily April 15th
to Nov. 15th, Final return limit j
Dec 15, 1904.
Tfos. H. Reamey, Agt.
THE FAST*TRAINS.
To California are run over the
Union Pacific. Via Omaha 16
hours quicker to San Francisco
than any other line. No change
of roads, no detours, “The Over
land Route” all the way. Be
I sure your ticket reads over the
Union Pacific. Inquire of
J. H. Lothrop, G. A.,
903 Olive street,
St. Louis, Mo.
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