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HOW TO PIT POTATOES.
chic Farmer Describes n Method
Which He Found to He Success
= full for Several Years

Having had some experience in pit
ting potatoes and with good success
i will give my method. Select a slop-
ang spot of ground. Take your spade
and make a ditch three and a half
feet wide and eight to ten inches
deep, throwing the ground to either
side. Make the bottom smooth so
you can use a wire scoop next spring
when you take the potatoes out.
Make the length of ditch to suit the
amount. Dump in your potatoes, pill
ing them as high as you can. Now
shovel earth right on them to tn
depth of six inches. Let them alone
now till cold weather. Let all the
rain that falls till then go right
through them. 1t won't hurt them, 1
tell you, for l tried it. 1t Will surely
keep them from sprouting in the
spring. When cold weather APP
proaches cover them with six inches
of straw, on top of this put six to
eight inches more Of earth. Let it
freeze within two inches of potatoes,
then put on a good coat of manure,
which will stop the frost from going
any further, and when you open in
early May you will find them perfect
for seed. BE sure and have the out
side ditch as deep or deeper than the
one' in which the potatoes are. II.
Cutler, in Ohio Farmer.
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TIE RTUA


Of the great Altheim Medical Dispense
~, 1928 Butterfield Building, Cincinna-
II, Ohio, has just made the startling an
nouncement that he has produced a com
pound that grows hair ON any baldhead.
The doctor makes the claim that after
experiments, taking years to complete,
he has at last reached the geal of his am
bition. To the doctor all heads are alike.
There is none which can not be cured
by this remarkable remedy. The record
OF the cures already made is truly mar
velous and were it not for the high
standing Of the great physician and the
convincing testimony of thousands of
citizens all over the country it would
seem too miraculous to be true.
There can be no doubt of the doctors
earnestness in making his claims nor
can his cures be disputed. He does not
his or any one else's word for it but he
stands ready and willing to send free
trial packages Of this great hair restora-
tive TO any one who writes to him for it,
enclosing cents stamp TO prepay pos
tage. In a single night it had started
hair to growing on heads bald for years.
IL has stopped falling hair in one hour
1t never fails no matter what the con-
d1tlon, age or sex. Old men and young
men, women and children ali have prof
tied by the free use of this great new
discovery. Write to day if you are bald
If your hair is falling out, or if your hair
eyebrows or eyelashes are thin or short
and in a short time you will be entirely
restored
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-01-25

feet, at which point the soil water or
water table is found i'm this case. 1t
viii be noted that the roots reach a
depth of 20 feet, and are then IL feet
above the water table or soil water
In the soil. 1t will also be noted that
the spread of the tree in nowise cor
responds to the spread of the roots in
the soil. 1t has been popular fancy
that the spread of the branches of a
tree represents the spread of it's roots.
This fallacy should have been explod-
ed without the use of diagrams, but
IL has not been. We all know that
Syhe0 trees are grown in tubs the
branches cover square area very
much greater than the surface OF the
tub. The most important lesson to
be learned from this illustration is
fhat soil of proper texture is able to
support trees with very little surface
moisture. This explains why some of
sur apple and peach orchards have
been little affected by the droughts
shat have destroyed other economic
plants
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-01-25
Good Grape for the West.

The r. w. Munson is one of the
best varieties of grapes that has
fruited in the experiment station
vineyard at Saltwater, Okla During
the past summer, it has shown its
ability to withstand almost any
drought. 1t was the only one of
about so varieties in the vineyard that
was not badly damaged by the green
leaf hopper or thrip. Its foliage re-
manned free from these insects and
retained its dark green color through
out the season. Vine large, rapid
grower; cluster, medium to large
cylindrical, often shouldered; berries
large, round, black, evenly ripened;
skin thin, tough; pulp tender, juicy
sweet, very good flavor, ripe just be.
fore the Concord.
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GROWING SUGAR BETS.
Prof. kedzie Gives Seven Good Rea-
sons Why This New Industry
should Prosper.

1. 1t is the means by which the peo-
pie can subvert huge monopoly.
?. 1t is a legitimate industry,
brought to marvellous degree of per-
lection by American skill aud ingenui-
ty, and the people have a right to its
full benefits.
B. The large amount of capital in
vested which deserves protection.
Thirteen sugar factories have been
erected in our state at a cost of ST.
100000. Next year the number of fac
tories will be increased to 20. There
are now growing GO, 1000 acres of sugar
beets in our state.
4. 1t is the money-getting crop for
our farmers. Last year there was
paid to Michigan farmers 81. SOC. 900
for sugar beets. In Bay county in
1900 the mortgages on 81 farms were
paid of by money received for sugar
beets. The price of farm lands near
sugar factories has increased by five
to ten dollars an acre.
s. IL is n home industry, and the
benefits abide with our people.
8. 1t is the natural antagonist of
monopoly, and by it's very nature is
incapable of forming a trust of any
kind.
q. It, is the only great manufacture
ing industry in which the farmer must
secure his share of the profits.--Dr.
kedzie, of Michigan Agricultural Col
lege, in Detroit Free Press.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-01-25
CIearIne an ola Orchard.

A correspondent reports to the
Rural New Yorker of novel method
he employed in clearing an orchard
Apf old trees. Many of our western
eaders may find in the experience of
is New York orchardist sugges-
n worth trying for themselves. He
s ne ''had 1000 old peach trees to
in out, and found it rather slow
k with ropes, pulleys and team.
thrashing traction engine for
ollarz per day and coal fur.
had stout chain 20 feet
hd two men to hook and un.
to and from the trees. Re.
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THE DEPTH OF ROOTS.
seii of Proper Texture In Able to Sup
port Trees with But Little Sur
face Moisture

} How deep will trees root? The an.
tswer is impossible to give at this time,
m not sufficient data has been collect
I'd to give the information desired
even for a single variety. But the
tdepth of roofing of most plants is
Hound on investigation to be far great
er than has been suspected. In the
accompanying Illustration we show a
peach tree that was grown at the
Arizona experiment station. The soil
or earth is shown TO the depth of "a
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suit, pulled 500 trees in ten hours.
roots and ali, clean from the ground.
The soil is stiff loan, and was pref
ty dry and hard. The trees stood Is
feet apart, and it was very seldom
that the engine had to back"
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HIS Missfon.

at is your aim, of course" said his
intimate friend, ito make people
think"
"No," replied the popular lecturer,
in burst of confidence, "my business
is to make people think they think
or, rather, to make them think j
think they think. Tribune.
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new SToREII FRESH DRUGsiI

Have you paid year subscription
If not de 50 at once.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-01-25
MARVELLOUS GROWTH
OF HAIR.
A Famous Dsctsr-C Chemist Has pisccy.
cred Compound That Crews Hair
en- a Bale Head In Single
Night.
Startling Announcement Causes Bee
tiers to Marvel and Stand Dumb
founded at the Wonderful
rurAa
The Discoverer Sends Free Trial Packag,
to NIL who Write.

About half q century spent In the lab
oratory, crowned with high honors for
his many werld-famous discoveries the
celebrated physician chemist at the head
The Savannah morning news., 1902-02-28
An American Prince.

good story which is going the
rounds in New Orleans, and causing
much amusement, has been brought up
by well known Philadelphian who has
recently returned after the Mardi Gras
carnival festivities, says the North
American.
All through the South many of the
old families have long kept as relics in
their garrets trunks full of Confederate
money, which was fioated in such great
quantities during the Civil War A
prominent young Louisianian, of an
cient lineage, by name Hugo Carriete
has been reaping great popularity and
favor this winter among the French
chorus girls and singers, which are
every year imported for the French
opera season in New Orleans, by gen.
erously giving away to them large rclls
of this worthless old Confederate long
green.
He is now known in the professional
opera circles by the endearing term lie
Prince Americain," and the girls with
true French thrift have been carefully
boarding and sending home the wind
fall
Two of his friends let the story out
and now his comrades are laughingly
waiting the day of discovery and reck-
oning
The Savannah morning news., 1902-02-28
Personal.

Miss Ella Sheppard Moore is the
last survivor of the famous jubilee
singers of Fisk University, Nashville,
and is still connected with that insti-
tuition. AS a member of the company
she Travelled five years in Europe and
six years in America, and has sung
before Queen Victoria and many of the
crowned heads of Europe.
The principal hobby of the Queen
Regent of Spain is the collecting of
playing cards. She possesses a large
number of curious packs, many of
which have no little historical interest.
One set, made Of ivory, is believed to
have belonged 10 Prince Eugene, who
fought with the great Duke of Marl-
borough, and to have accompanied him
in all his campaigns. Queen Christina
also owns some exceedingly rare cards
OF Egyptian. Arabian, French and
Spanish manufacture.
THE family name of the new Presi-
dent of Cuba is Estrada, and not Pal
ma" said 4 Cuban to the Washington
Post. Estrada was his fathers fam
lily name and Palma his mothers. Fol-
lowing the Spanish custom he writes
1t Estrada Palma, but he should be
addressed as President Estrada. and
rot as President Palma. The old-fash-
Toned way of writing it would be
Thomas Estrada y Palma, but only
the highest and Oldest Spanish aristo-
eracy and the lowest and most igno-
rant class now use the y. The mass
OF Cubans have abandoned it, and
those who have much business with
Americans are either placing their
mothers name first, according to the
American custom, or dropping it en-
tlrely. Palma, by the way, is pro-
nounced Palma, with the sounded. -
The Savannah morning news., 1902-02-28

There seem to be many difficulties
In the way of getting the President
down 10 the Charleston Exposition.
First his son got sick and the trip
had to be postponed in consequence,
and now the Lieutenant Governor of
taken it upon himself to practically
inform the President that his presence
in South Carolina is not desirable. The
withdrawal of the invitation to the
President to deliver a sword to Maj.
Micah Jenkins can be construed to
have that meaning. 1t is Col. Tillman's
official position that makes his tele-
gram to the President of Importance.
Whether 1t will influence Mr.. Roosevelt
in the matter of his visit to the Ex-
position remains to be seen. We are
quite sure. however, that Col. Till
mans position does not reflect
the majority sentiment of the
state. Meanwhile it is interesting
to note that the sword that has been
prepared for Maj. Jenkins has en-
graved upon it's scabbard certain
words of President Roosevelt's uttered
in commendation of Maj. Jenkins
bravery and services. Thus, unless a
new scabbard be provided, at consid-
cradle cost, President Roosevelt will
be associated with the presentation,
whether he delivers the sword to Maj.
jenkins or not,
The Savannah morning news., 1902-02-28
BRYAN EXPECTS TO BE CONSULTED

1t is evident from his talk at Column
bus, Ohio. the other day that Mr..
Bryan expects to be consulted in the
making of the next national platform
of his party. Among other things he
said: The platform of 1904 will be
written by those who believe in Demo-
cratic principles. The Kansas City
platform will be reaffirmed. and the
party will also present such other
questions as the time and the public
welfare dictate. Those who supported
Mr.. Mckinley, the foremost apostle of
the high tariff doctrine, will find 1t
difficult to make the public believe
that they regard the tariff as an i'm
portant question. The Democratic
party occupies the position on this
question that It has for years past,
but 1t is not likely. in my opinion. to
be the paramount issue in the near fu-
ture."
II is plain from this that it is the
purpose of Mr.. Bryan to use all of his
influence to have the Kansas City
platform reaffirmed. 1t is just as plain
that ex-senator Hill, from what he
said in his speech at the Manhattan
Club dinner on February %, intends
to use all of his influence to have the
tariff made the paramount issue in the
next national campaign.
Unless the situation undergoes a very
great change within the next two
years the factions which faced ench
ether at the Kansas City convention
will be opposed to each other in the
next national convention, but there
are signs that the faction that domin-
ated then will not dominate again. A
Gay or two ago we called attention to
resolutions recently introduced into the
legislature of Mississippi proposing
that the South form an alliance with
the North and East. Should the scnti-
ment contained in those resolutions
prove to be the sentiment of the South
Mr.. Hill, and those who are in SYM
pathy with him, would dictate the
next national platform of the party,
Notwithstanding the fact that Mr..
Bryan thinks that those who figured
at the Manhattan Club dinner viii
have but little to do with designating
the issues in the next national CAM
paign.
The Democratic party is anxious TO
win in the next presidential campaign.
That being the case it will likely elm
mate, to as great an extent as posi-
BILE, from its platform the things which
contributed to its defeat in 1896 and
1900. In that event Mr.. Bryan will have
to take a back seat.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-02-28
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

Meeting - Palestine Commandery
No. 7. K. T.
Special Notices--Notice to Ladies. B.
H. Levy & Bro; Andrew Hanley Com
pany.
Business Notfces-We Are Doing the
Business, The S. w. Branch Company.
Bankruptcy Notice-In the Matter
of Martin George, Bankrupt.
Resorts-Virginis Hot Springs on
the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway.
Cigars-Humboldt Cigars.
New Wash Fabrics-Daniel Hogan.
Suits to Order-B. II. Levy & Bro.
An All-Day Friday General Bargain
Sale-Leopold Adler.
musements-Adelaid Thurston To-
day, Matinee and Night, at Theater;
Mary Mannering in Janice Meredith"
Tomorrow Night.
Watches -Waltham Watches.
Uneeda Biscuit-National Biscuit
Company.
Washing Powder-Pearline.
Medical --Cascarets; Castoria; Yald;
Mothers Friend; Munyon's Cold Cure;
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters; Dead
Shot vermifuge; DR.. Hathaway Com
pany; Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets;
Paine's Celery Compound.
Cheap Column Advertisemeuts-He
Wanted; Employment Wanted; FoI
Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Mis-
celianeous.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-02-28
Chiid.s Dimculty with Verbs.

1t has been truthfully said that chill
dren learn more during their first six
years CT life than during the eight
years spent in the ward schools, says
the Milwaukee Sentinel. During this
period the child shows remarkable pre-
cocity in learning the mother tongue,
and appears to learn two languages as
easily as one. He will learn a foreign
language, if thrown among foreigners,
better during these first six years than
he can in a complete course In school.
This is proved by the thousands OF six
year-olds in this city who speak good
English while their parents cannot
speak English at all.
The strenuous effort of these little
ones to acquire a medium for the ex-
preston of their quaint ideas. as we'll
as their desire to speak correctly, was
shown the other day in a conversation
between a little student and her mann
ma. The child had experienced much
difficulty in mastering the various
forms of the verb Ito be- and had been
corrected times without number by the
mother. who believes that the time to
teach correct English is during the
first stages OF progress. The child per-
sisted in mixing her ANS" 'weres'
and "beens" to an alarming degree,
and had been corrected. until the
mother had lost all patience. and at
last told the child that in the future
she would not answer questions not
properly framed thinking this plan
would make the child more careful in
the selection of words.
The other day the mother was sitting
crocheting a jacket for the baby, and
Lucille stood near, wondering what her
mamma was doing. Finally her curl
ositv became so strong that she said:
Mamma, what is that going to be?"
The mother, busy counting stitches,
failed to hear the question, and con-
tinued her count without answering.
The child, thinking she was not an
swered because she had made another
horrible blunder, thought while, and
at last said:
Mamma, what is that going to are?"
This the mother heard, and stimuli
taneouslv recalled the first question
of the child. Wondering what would
come next, she maintained silence, and
the little one stood in perplexity, first
on one foot, then on the other. After
some weighty thinking. she said;
Mamma, what are that going to
is?
No answer. and another period of
silence. then:
Mamma, what am that going to
were?"
Still no answer, and tears filled the
blue eyes and the red lips became
pursed with perplexity. The eyes
filled and ran over, and still the moth
er sat unmoved. with a mischievous
smile lurking in her eyes, waiting for
further results, and determined to make
up for all this anguish by a bountiful
supply of hugs and kisses.
In one supreme effort, as though real
izing that this was her last chance,
Lucille burst into a mighty sob and,
breaking the bonds of self-restraint
with which she had bound herself,
, screamed ont:
Mamma! What was that a-goin'
to was!"
The Savannah morning news., 1902-02-28
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The Savannah morning news., 1902-02-28
Eyarts' Elevator Joke.

The elevator in the Times building
was more than usually crowded, and
the elevator boy expounded his thread
bare joke about the elevation of i'm
mortals," says the New York Times.
Everybody, with one exception,
laughed. The exception was a gentle
man well known as a writer on politi-
cal and economic subjects. When the
elevator reached the eleventh floor,
however. he turned to a neighbor and
said, abruptly, as though starting a
new theme:
The best elevator joke l ever heard
was perpetrated by Secretary Evarts.
One morning Mr.. Evarts was very anx-
ious to reach an office in one of the
upper apartments at the Capitol. He
had hard work to get into the eleva-
tor, for on that particular morning it
happened to be crowded with appli-
cants for everything in the foreign
service, from the Court of St. James
to a consulship in a South American
republic. AS the elevator started Mr..
Evarts remarked with one of his Gu
rious, sedate smiles:
This is the greatest collection for
foreign missions that have ever seen
taken up!"
The Savannah morning news., 1902-02-28
Th2 Very Modest Man.

S. w. Gillian in Los Angeles Herald
II have no use for people who blow
round about their blood,
Who boast line of ancestry that dates
back to the flood;
My folks have been aristocrats since
first the world began,
But / don't boast about it," said the
very modest man.
"It makes me sick to hear men set an
spin out awful tales
About their own war records in the
land of cotton bales;
Why / have fought more battles
sides the ones 1 helped Grant
plan
That all these bloomin' boasters," said
the very modest man.
Sometimes a chap disgusts me when
he sets around an tells
About his eloquence that once held peo-
pie bound in spells,
Why I've made talks Already, that
would still the pipes o. Pan,
But / don't brag about IT," said the
very modest man.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-02-28
NOT AL OCCUPIED YET.

In his speech at the banquet of the
National Business League at Chicago
last night Mr.. Shaw, the Secretary of
the Treasury said: The only hope of
a material increase in agricultural pro-
duets is through irrigation of arid
lands" He did not advocate the irri-
cation of these lands by the govern
ment but he expressed the opinion that
the government should assist private
capital in irrdgating them. looking to
the sale of government lands thus i'm
proved for getting its money back. But
is 1t a fact that our only hope of in
creasing our agricultural products is
in irrigating these arid lands?
The Secretary seems to have over
looked the South. There are millions of
acres Of unoccupied lands in the South
and good lands they are too-which
have not yet been touched by the
plough. In Georgia there is land
enough to make twice as many farms
as there are at present within the
states limits-farms that would pro-
duce. in a very little while, as much
as those which are now in cultivation.
1t is true that these lands are not the
property of the government They can
not be hoinesteaded, but they can be
had at very low prices. For few dol
lars an acre land of an excellent quail
ity can be purchased. Some Of the
best farms in the state-farms which
produce a high grade of long staple
cotton-were covered with pine forests
a few years ago.
There is no doubt that there is land
enough in the South to produce 20 0O0O,-
600 bales of cotton a year, probably
25,000,000. 1t has been predicted by
those who have studied the possibilities
of the Southern states that they will
be producing double the amount Of
cotton they are now before this CEN
tury is half gone, and, in addition, will
grow food crops sufficient to supply
their own demands.
If this prediction is anywhere near
the truth what becomes of Secretary
Shaw's statement, that unless we re-
claim our arid lands we have pretty
nearly reached the limit of our ca
pacity for producing agricultural pro-
ducts? Evidently he has not made
| himself acquainted with the South. He
knows the West and has studied her
resources. 1t is probable that he has
not Travelled very much outside of that
section since he emigrated to Iowa
from his New England home. To him,
agricultural products mean wheat,
corn, hay and cattle. Cotton, sugar and
tobacco make very little impression on
him. Yet, if he will look at our agri-
cultural expczts. he will be surprised
| to find how lasse e share Of them. is
furnished by the South.
No, we have not reached the limit OF
agricultural production in the South.
If the Secretary lives to be a very old
man he will see the products of the
Southern states twice what they are
| now.