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The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-03-02
March, April and May,

Iconcluded to try 1t. One bottle gave me so much
relief that took four bottles and since then have
not been troubled with rheumatism, and my gem
eraI health has never been better. My appetite Is
increasing and am gaining in flesh. l attribute
my whole Improvement to taking Hoods Sarsapa-
rila, and earnestly recommend 1t to all who are
troubled with like disease consider it the grand
est medicine ever put up.n-WM. +. TAYLOR, EN-
porium, Cameron Co.. Pa.
II hereby certify to the foregoing facts as stated
JoNArHAN CLIFFORD, Justice of. the Peace. Euipo-
rum. Penn. -.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-03-02
Hoods SarsapariIIa

.sodbyall druggists: 81; six for So Prepared only
by c. /. HOOD Is CO.. Apothecaries, Lowell. MasA
100 Doses One Dollar
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-21

among our roses, sends us for this week
more complete drawing. and says nc thinks
we did not clearly understand his former
favor Magnified under power Of 80
diameters the fungus appears about three
fourths of an iuch i'll diameter. The germ.
seed or nucleus appears about the size of
cabbage seed with minute vines. SO to
to speak, radiating out from it in every di-
rection, throwing out laterals as they go.
These latersls Irvine together, forming
finally the main plant, three-fourths of an
inch in diameter as seen under the micro
scope. In his accompanying note he says:
"You will notice that the parent cell sends
out branches, which, at each joint, seem to
make an angle with the right or left, gener-
ally at first to the left, thence to the right
and left; in running that way they run into
each other and form union or a joint, and
at that point or union seed or cell is de-
veloped. In due time this becomes parent
cell for starting new plant. IL some of
the older buds was found an abundance of
the broken fibers, showing presumably that
as the bud becomes more decayed the cells
become released from their network. These
cells are extremely small--so small that
1000 of them placed side by side would not
more than reach around a human hair
But small as they are, they are yet large
enough to play sad havoc with our roses
where they happen to get fairly started
Wonderful IS the microscopic.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-21

comfortable support and lay up handsome
surplus from the high cultivation of these
small holdings. Let our American farmers
determine to own less land and to command
some ready working capital, in the place of
useless areas, wherewith to enhance the
pleasure aud profit of the cultivation of the
soil.
We are firm believer in this doctrine as
preached By our contemporary. Great
farms like we have in some sections of
Texas, SO long as every acre of them can be
cultivated with the same care as if but a
small farm, they are all well enough, but
great farms badly cultivated on account of
their greatness are mournful mistake.
They are against any country, and the
American ambition for large farms, as pre-
vailing with a past generation, and under
different circumstances. particularly in the
South, is rapidly dying out, we are pleased
to note. The great farms of thirty years
ago are now being cut up into small farms.
1t is the small farms well titled that give
prosperity to country, and general pros
perity is what a country like ours is earn
esty in search of.
The preceding article well illustrates this
thing. The small truck farms about Mo
bile, Ala, are now yielding an annual in
come of 100000 Those truck farms all
thrown into one large farm would not bring
in 800, 600 yearly.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-21

shoes and rattle OF other things. leaving
you'safe and soUnd for the time being. at
least. y little looking out for number ore
will prove far more efectua! IN this case
than would world or murrnurinq over
what might be that is not. and what ought
TO De-
If there is rather too much fast driving
in Fort Worth it is undoubtedly due 10 the
temptation held ont by her beautiful am
smooth streets, therefore she herself is
mainly responsible for IT, IL it is in the
spirit Of her dream that lively driving must
so she made sad mistake when she bought
that great steam roller and started il about
over her streets, making them look as if
she was fixing up for the people to pass
their moonlight evenings visiting each
other on roller skates. To now rebuke the
people for what she has so prominently en-
couraged by making magnificent drives.
would be like giving candy TO child and
then boxing its ears for eating the candy on
the plcG that candy was unwholesome for
children. II Fort Worth had '1corduroyed"
her streets with blocks of wood, d. had
rocked them over with plugs of granite or
cooblestones like some other cities we
know of, ther. would not now be much fast
driving over them, but we have no notion
OF asserting that there would be less cruelty
to the animals driven. 1t is safe to maintain
that there is no more fast driving in Fort
Worth than there is in any other city whers
all the principal streets are as broad, and Us
straight, and as smooth, and as inviting as
are the celebrated shell roads of New
Orleans and Mobile. But this is not i'll
tended to encourage fast driving. 1t is a
mere statement of plain facts. Too much
fast driving is probably little more than
than just enough-unike the Irishmans
let US drive little slow
if we can. and our teams will permit of it.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-21
THE PLUM CURCULIO.

send you by this mail a few plums and
peaches. OF course you will notice that
they have some sort of insect in them.
mich of my fruit is affected in the same
way. Can you explain the trouble through
The GAZETTEl The peaches ripen in June
but on account of this insects work they
are rotting on the trees and falling prema-
turely Jos. B. CozZo
Anneta, Parker County. Tex
The insect found in the fruit is a small,
whitish, legless grub near one-fourth of au
inch in length. Both peaches and plums
contain the same insect. 1t is the plum
curculio. known to science as Conotra-
chelus nenupshar. One Of the worst pests
of the orchardist, and at the same time one
of very wide range, being about equally
common in all parts of the country from
the Gulf of Mexico to Canada. For time
they claimed to be exempt from it in Cali
fornia, but of late it seems to have put in an
appearance there, and 1t is now bidding fair
to soon be giving the Pacific slope orchard
ist as much trouble as it gives the orchard.
ist anywhere else.
The plum curculio, so-called, works on all
stone fruits, as plums, peaches, necta-
rines, apricots, pruneS and cherries, APP
pearing to have no particu AZ preference as
to species. The perfect insect is small
brownish and black beetle not more than
one-eighth of an inch in length. 1t is capa-
BILE of flying and so passes from tree to tree,
puncturing the young fruit and depositing
in each puncture an egg, which soon matches
out the worms that do the mischief When
the worms have attained to full growth the
fruit falls. and they come forth. going into
the ground to pass through their trans
formations to the perfect state. They be-
gin their work when the fruit is the size of
wren's egg, and keep it up from genera
ton to generation so long as there is any
fruit hanging on the trees.
As yet no perfect remedy for this cur
culio trouble is known. 1t may be much
cut down in its work by promptly gather
ing and destroying all fallen fruit before
the worm has had time to come out and go
into the ground. Some orchardists spread
a sheet under the tree late of an evening or
early of a morning, and then give the tree
sudden jar by stroke with mallet. When
the beetle mp among the leaves of the tree
feels the jar it ''possums" and falls to the
sheet, where it can be seen and destroyed.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-21
j. P. STEELE, EDITOR.

interior, as Water Valley, Miss, for In
stance. Water Valley is about as far from
the coast as is Fort Worth and yet Water
Valley carries on an immense trucking bus
mess. The fact is the coast cuts no kind of
figure in the case-it all comes of how a
particular locality starts in and interests
itself.
convert the region round about Fort Worth
into as great a trucking region as could be
found anywhere. We could soon be ship
ping off our half million dollars worth of
early products-why it should not be a
million dollars worth has no adverse reason.
Then in addition to this, we could be can
ming. evaporating and pickling another mil
lion dollars worth of products, just as well
as Baltimore is now doing it. This kind of
thing would help US good deal, can't you
see2 It is certainly worth working for,
and the right kind of work would undoubt-
eddy bring it about. Those things center
where the right kind of boom happens to
draw them
Extensive truck farming is simply one
species of manufacturing. 1t is manufact-
turing something from the soil, so to speak.
We do our level best in favor of an estab-
lishment of iron foundries to work up the
materials of distant regions, and in favor of
carriage factories, and plow factories, and
countless other plants operating upon pre-
cisely the same plan. But we leave uncon-
sidered such rural industries as would work
up our raw materials as existing in our
own superior soils. The great factories
named are all well enough, but why not ex-
tend our exertions in some kind of con-
certed action to working up of these mex
haustible soil materials of our own? The
greatest greatness of Texas must be dug
from her own soils.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-21
THINKS IT A FUNGUS.

am entirely of your opinion as to the
'strouble among the roses"-it is the work
of fungus. have over 100 rose bushes,
and have had thousands of flowers this
spring The buds and flowers were quite
perfect until this fungus began getting in
its work. 1t first attacked the roses during
the cool and damp weather of May.
While believe the trouble on my rose
buds and flowers is fungoid growth of
some kind, am not sure it is the same as
affects my other plants. For my other
plants l dust with fours of sulphur while
the leaves are moist with dew. first remov-
ing and burning all apparently damaged
foliage, and all damaged buds or flowers. l
regard this removing and burning as of
special importance in preventing the spread
of the disease.
The white mildew another fungus) has
appeared on my annual phlox this year and
proved very destructive. I use flours of
sulphur on this and also on my perennial
phlox. If the sulphur gets washed off by
rain the mildew promptly puts in new ap-
pearance. 1t Is probable that wood ashes
might prove effectllal in some localities, but
find that too much of either sulphur or
ashes Injuries the foliage of the plant.
When fungus has commenced its growth
on ones fayorite plants it is natural that
we should undertake the application of
remedy, yet in my opinion prevention is the
better thing, and l think that prevention
can be best found in cutting and burning
everything showing signs of disease l do
not mean that the entire plant should be
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-21

destroyed, but rather such poi tons If il as
give indications Of tbe funroid see.
Mrs. y. {. BAG ON.
Sweetwater. Nolan County, Ten
Please see what Dr. Howard says in an
other column about this rose trouble. We
now know it TO he fungus. for the doctor
has seen it. Like yourself, we could not be
sure that the fungus on Your other plants
was the same as that on the roses-we'd
rather incline to the opinion that it was
not.
A few weeks ago we gave formula for
making Bordeaux mixture, which is now
the main remedy for fungus growth on the
grape. This, made very weak, would prob
ably be much better for your plants than
either fiours of sulphur or ashes.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-21
THE MARIANA PLUM IN TEXAS.

| send you some specimens of Mariana
plumS. They were grown on tree in my
yard on East Third street. j. C. MARTIN.
Fort Worth, Tex.
They were extremely fine. We have seen
in full fruit the tree claimed to be the or
iginal of the Marianna still growing in the
ne!ghborhood of Mariana, Fla, but there
were upon it 10 specimens so fine as those
mentioned above. From this fact we infer
the Mariana plum has found in Texas GER
tain conditions better suited to its wants
than exist in the region where it started
out as new variety. But there would be
nothing in particular to wonder over on this
account for it is about the same way with
everything adapted to our Southern climate
that is grown here, it does better in Texas
than it has been known to do anywhere
else
Since receiving these specimens from
Mr.. Martin we have seen considerable
quantities of the Mariana plum on sale at
our fruit stands, all said to have been raised
in the neighborhood of Fort Worth. They
were quite uniform in quality, and entirely
fine. And thus we have it clearly settled
that one variety of plums, at least, may be
depended upon as a success in Northern
Texas
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-21
OUR CORRESPONDENTS.

This department is devoted to answering
such questions as may be asked by our sub
scribers, which may be Of general information.
Inquiries of personal character that require
Swer by mail should always have stamp in
closed. Please give full name and postoffice
address in addition to any such signature as
Subscriber" or "A. G. D.. not for publication,
If against the will of the writer, but TO admit of
direct communication should such thing be
deemed necessary. Address as directed at head
of this page
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-21
A i,EMEpY FOR .GRApE ROT. :,

1send by this mail two punches of dis
eased grapes for your inspection. The
punches are from a thrifty v1ne-a cutting
of two summers gro wth-iocatcd on a very
high and rocky piece of ground. AL the
other punches on the vine are affected like
the punches sent, anu mary of the leaves
are blasted. Some other vines of a differ
ent kline are not at ali affected. though only
about ten feet away. l am regular reader
of IRE GAZETTE and would like for YOU to
let me know through the paper the cause
OF this disease and the remedy for it, if
there IS one. 5. F. OZBURN.
Meridian, Tex.
The grapes on each bunch are near all
dried up and dead, not more than per cent
being still alive, and even these are more or
less affected.
YOU have form of the regular grape
blight: or grape rot, - which is caused by
fungoid growth. The probability exists
that it will eventually extend itself to all
your grapes, unless checked. We cannot
make out from the specimens sent, what
variety of grape IS so seriously affected on
your place. If your other grapes get
through all right it would be OF interest to
know what variety was destroyed and what
varieties, only ten 1eet away, we're LETT I'M
affected
1t is now too late in the season for you to
apply any remedy that could save your
grapes for this year We would recon-
mend cutting off and burning every affected
bunch and all affected branches, as this
might lessen your trouble in this same di-
rection for next year.
The remedy most highly recommended
by the United States department of agri-
culture is weak solution of bluestone and
lime, in water, known as the Bordeaux
mixture. Full directions for preparing
and applying this mixture was printed in
these columns some time ago, which please
see. The application should be made in
spring, just as the fruit is setting.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-21
THAT ROSE FUNGUS AGAIN.

DIR. William r. Howard of Fort Worth,
mentioned by US last week as having dis
covered the fungus causing the "blight"
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-21
ON GOOBER CULTURE.

VIII you please give through THE GA
zETTE. for the probable benefit of many. Il
few plain directions touching proper cul-
ture of the peanut, quite commonly called
the ''gooberl' | have a small patch as an
experiment, so to speak, and having never
seen the crop grown l am at Il loss Us to
how the plants should be cultivated. An
old Texan advises to cover up the vines
with soil. This | cannot indorse. as they
have not bloomed as yet. and | feel certain
that ii 1 cover the vines they will die.
What say Voul
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-21
WILLIAM Il. LONG.

Center City, Tex
We say cover nothing That idea of
covering the vines, or a portion of them, is
an old but very erroneous one. It is 10 be
presumed that you worked your soil deep
and mellow at the preparation. If you put
in your crop correctly YOU left the land en-
tirely level. Now al that there is for you
to do is to keep it entirely leve! and to keep
out weeds and grass by occasional surface
workings Deep working between the
rows would be against the crop. The vines
will send down runners into the soil to
bear nuts. and they don't want any kind of
help about it. If you undertake to help
them you will accomplish no kind of good,
but lots of harm. You may depend upon
this as correct, for it comes from one who
has raised peanuts as a regular crop and on
q large scale
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-21

the world a SET of most magnificent pictures
entirely ont Of the old and threadbare rou-
tine
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-21

No apple vine .r1ee06d IS the best. and
the best and pn apple vinegar always on
tap at Turn 8 Dllgses.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-05-20
THE TARRYTOwN DISASTER.
Little Remains at the Scene to Tell OF tn
Great Wreck.

Little Remains at the Scene to Tell OF the
Great Wreck.
TARRYrowN, NY, May 20.-Little remains at
Hoes Pond, mile from here, on the New York
Central road, to tell the tale Of the explosion
which yesterday morning killed thirteen per-
sons and horribly wounded twenty-five others.
The workmen had filed up the hole made by
the explosion, repaired the tracks and piled
away the debris. Travel was going on as usual.
Undertaken Vanderbilt is embalming the bodies
of the dead men which we're taken to his shop.
Their funerals will probably take place to-
morrow.
rangements. Chief Detective Humphrey Of
the New York Central road and his staff met
Coroner Mitchell here at IL o'clock this morn
ing to confer with him regarding the inquest,
which will probably be held on Monday. Yes
terday it was reported that thirteen men were
dead and i've others missing
THIRTEEN WERE KILLED.
This morning, SO far as can be ascertained,
the number of dead are actually known as thir-
teen. This ia official from Coroner Mitchell
The coroner reports from the informa ton that
ne has he still believes that there five bodies
in the river.
The coroner says these mems names or
numbers have not been checked off from the
list OF those who are supposed to have been on
the car at the time of the explosion and the
men are still missing. The river is being
dragged for their bodies. Two men who were
fishing on the banks of the river near the scene
OF the explosion are reported to have been
blown into the river. This report, however,
cannot be verified until the men who are
dragging the river have completed their la
bors.
Coroner Mitchell has given permission for
the burial OF the bodies of the dead Italians.
They will be buried tomorrow in the old Sleepy
Hollow cemetery.
1t is now said that the explosion was caused
by spark from pipe that was being smoked
by one Of the Italians who sat upon the fat car
containing the dynamite.
No additional bodies have been found in the
river and the work of dragging for bodies has
ceased.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-05-20
Real Estate Matters.

J. NJ. Gregory ct al. have bought for sIs,-
l2S.75, Of H. W. Garrett subs 100 and lOl.
square 1870 by 116 feet inches on New
Hampshire avenue between s and streets
northwest
s. B. Priest has purchased for ell 900 of E.
W. Clarke, who had bought for a nominal con-
sideration Of Z. b. Clarke. parts 10 and IL,
square 1870 by so feet on and lth
streets northwest.
H. L. Hodgkins has purchased for s7,695 Of
8. H. Giesey subs ia to l76, square 1927 by
100 feet on 1 between 18th and 18th streets
northwest.
F. P. Burke has purchased for s4.620 Of Ann
Joyce parts 10 and IL, square l54-25 by 50 feet
on 18th street between r aud streets north
west.
Wright 4 Stockett have bought for Ga, 365 GO
OF C. s. Montague lot /, square s64-lOO by 100
feet on It'll and c streets northeast.
C. c. Glover Of Riggs q Co. has purchased
two blocks Of land in Armsleigh Park. near
Tenleytown. ID. c.
A. b. McCreery has purchased of C. NJ.
Stevens for S1S.600 sub %. square 24s-24 feet
inches by 100 feet on l4th street between
and L streets northwest.
Jerome b. Burke has bought for sc, 500 of
John II. Oberly sub l50 square 77s, Is by 80
feet or E between Sd and 4th streets north
east.
I. G. Hensey ct al. have bought, in trust of
NJ. ID. Hensey for ell 500 lots and 8, block
II, LIE Droit Park
H. J. Tegeler has bought for a, 800 Of W.
Mayse sub 46. square 1920 by 100 feet on
between Sd and 4th streets northwest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-05-20
sIGNoR CRIsprs LITTLE JOKE.
Bogus Representatives of African Royalty
Foisted on the Court.

Bogus Representatives of African Royalty
Foisted on the Court.
Special Cable Dispatch to The EVENING stan.
BERLIN, May 20.-The Sddle Zeitung prints q
special dispatch from Rome giving the details
Of new scandal regarding ex-Premier Crispi.
1t appears that a few years ago, when the late
premier was intent on the establishment Of an
Italian empire in Africa, he brought to Rome a
so-called Abysinian princess and her two
brothers. Asa matter Of policy the dusky princes
and princess were treated with great considers
ton by the courts of the quirinal. Their object
in visiting Rome was to do homage to the SOW
ereign Of the new empire, and the occasion was
signalzed by a series of brilliat fetes given by
the king and queen and several of the highest
nobility. At one of these, Queen Marguerite
conferred the greatest honor possible upon a
subject by kissing the princess on the mouth.
The only cloud that marred the brillancy of
tho festivities in the eyes of the taxpayers was
the fact that those given by the government
cost 575.0 900 francs or S115, 200. which the
already overburdened citizens we're compelled
to pay.
The Sddle Zeitung now charges that the dis
way related to King John, was pretended.
Their visit to Rome was a scheme evolved
by Signor Crispi to rouse the enthusiasm
OF the Italians for African conquest and
make them willing to defray the cost
of his expeditions into the dark continent.
The pseudo princess was only a grande dame
Of the Cairo demi-monde, while her pretended
brothers were ignorant blacks who had been
carefully coached to play their respective parts.
The dispatch states that the proofs OF the
conspiracy are abundant and that the facts are
fully esta blished. The scandal has aroused the
greatest indignation and will be made the sub
ject Of an early Interpolation in parliament.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-05-20
Bull of Pope Alexander VI.

worlds Columbian exposition is very anxious
to obtain information concerning copy of a
little quarto published in Rome in 1893. con-
tanning the important bull of Pope Alexander
vi, by which he divided the new world between
Portugal and Spain.
Only two copies of this pamphletare in exist
ence, as far as can be ascertained. One is in
the royal library at Munich. The other was
sold in London at auction by Puttick and Simp-
son, auctioneers. on the oath Of May. 1854. and
was bought by Obadiah Rich for four pounds
eight shiilings, for some private library in the
United States which he declined TO name. Ii
has entirely disappeared from the knowledge of
bibliophiles. and no trace of if can be found.
Any person having knowledge of the where
abouts of this historical treasure viii be kind
enough to notify the Department of State, WASH
ington, ID. c.