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Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-12-29
R,l,ous Collie Prevented.

Take a double dose of Chamber
lain's Collie, Cholera and Dtarrhoea
remedy as soon as the first indica-
ton of the disease appears and a
threatened attack may be warded
eff Hundreds of people use the
remedy In this way with perfec'
success. For sale by c. w Grier
Capt. Eph Wells lett this afIe:-
noon for Boston from which point
h. will leave next Saturday 90 his
trip to the Holy Lands. He ex =
poets to be absent three months.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-12-29

The Ice was running thick and
heavy when we went 70 press this
afternoon, and In all probability
will close at certain points along
the river tonight,
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-12-29
A Promising Oil Country.

The Greek, Usage and Cherokee
Nations In Indian Territory are re
ceiving wide recognition as pro.
missing oil country, and capital and
development have so far brought
handsome results. The oil IS OF
superior quality; the territory Is
reached directly by the Frisco Sys.
tenn, who issues free o. charge a
booklet, giving full data concerning
the country and Its possibilities
Mailed to any address upon request
to Sidney VanDuseu, 700, Park
Bldg, Bittshnrg. Pa It'll
Wine OF Lite cures all stomach
troubles. Price ST.. For sale by D.
A Henderson,.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-12-01

of the top crop, it is not a loss when
the other recommendations of the Di-
vision of Entomology are followed
A crop can be obtained which will ma
ture before the weevils have al on
portunity to do considerable damage.
and this is brought about by the use
of a rapid-growing variety accom-
plished by the planting of northern
seed. This must be planted earlv
when the season permits; the rows
must be planted at a somewhat wider
distance than has been the practice.
and a thorough cultivation of the
crop must follow. In this way it has
been shown the past season that from
a half bale to a bale per acre can be
cropped in territory where under the
old system one-tenth of a bale more
or less is secured with difficulty.
By these methods it is possible to
produce the staple at a margin of
profit that will compare favorably
with that realized in the production
of most of the staple crops of the
United States, even though the large
yields of cotton occasionally gained
in earlier years seem no longer pos
sible in the districts affected by the
weevil.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-12-01
Standardization.

A good many farmers are disposed
to laugh at the idea of soil-inocula-
ton to enable it to grow clover and
other legumes. They regard it as a
sort of scientific fad. Look here,
my conservative and old-fashioned
friend, you had better take ONE les
sons from your wife. We suspect
that. she knows a good deal more
about incubation than you do.
When she told you yesterday to get
her two cents worth of compressed
yeast when you went to town, she had
incubation in her mind. She intend
ed to i~noculate a batch of dough with
the bacteria of yeast. We have not
the slightest doubt that incubation
would be successful, and still less
doubt that if she had not been prac-
ticing this ever since you were mar
ried you would have been a very bad
dyspeptic by this time, and possibly
in your grave. The yeast is simply
bacteria, and when YOU laugh at the
United States Government sending
out bacteria in cotton in a bottle
corked up tight, remember that 1t IS
doing just what your wife has been
doing all these years in order to
promote your health and comfort
She sends for this yeast only When
shells out of bacteria at home. She
could just as we'll ave some OF the
raised dough, and thus keep bacteria
in stock, as not, but now that the
bacteria is kept in stock by the stores
she thinks it better for you to pay
two cents, and thus save her the trou-
BILE.
Possibly you have a pond on you
place that has been recently dralned'
and is full of peat. You have not
been able to grow anything on II
this summer. Suppose you take a
wagon-load of horse manure ana
scatter it over that pond. For VIVA
you say? Simply to inoculate 1t WIN
another kind of germ altogether
germ that promotes the decay OF
vegetable matter. Try r"-"~
lace's Farmer.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-12-01

climatic conditions, or of bringing
about a degree of resistance on the
part of the plant, control the insect
where it has existed as an enemy of
the cotton plant for a much longer
period than in the United States. He
found what he supposes to be the
original food plant of the insect in
the "Algodon de Rinon" Or Kidney
Cotton of that island. He failed to
discover any parasites at all and did
not succeed in finding any important
tendency towards immunity on the
part of the five distinct varieties
studied.
WILL COVER THE COTTON BELT
The steady extension of the terri
tory affected by the weevil year by
year until the northern boundary is
far north of the center of cotton pro-
duction in the United States has con-
WINGED all observers that it will even
tually be distributed all over the cot
ton belt. Although its progress has
been comparatively slow during the
time it has been in Texas, it has dis
played no tendency toward dying out.
The fact that several European
governments are sending agents to
this country to procure seed to be
used in experiments in producing the
fiber in their colonies calls attention
to the probability that the weevil may
be carried to remote portions of the
globe. Although the insect does not,
except accidentally, hibernate within
the hull of the seed, every seed house
attached to a gin in the infested ter
ritory harbors many that are brought
in from the fields in seed cotton
They crawl into the seed bins as they
would crawl anywhere for protection
All danger could easily be avoided by
fumigation of the seed or by leaving
IL SdCACO III SGO1d'C 4OOAu0 A0OAoCOO
from new cotton for a year previous
to shipment.
NO DIRECT MEANS OF FIGHTING IT
The work of the Division of Ento.
mology has demonstrated that no di
rect or specific means, such as poi
sons, will ever be of much avail IL
fighting the weevil and that there il
little hope for the artificial propa
CATION of diseases or in obtaining
variety that is in any sense resistant
Experiments, however, with cultura
methods have been highly successful
and have obviated the necessity Of
looking to direct ones.
The cultural methods consist of re
ducing the number of the pests in tn,
fall by early destruction of the plant
and in fastening the maturity of tn,
crop the following spring by ever!
means available. Fall destruction
consists of blowing up and burning
the plants as soon as the pests hav,
multiplied to such an extent as t,
render the picking of any more cot
ton doubtful. Under normal condi
tions this should occur some time il
October The ono6+S racu1+inr from
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-12-01

caused no general damage. 1t will
require nearly two years for it to
reach such numbers as to materially
reduce the normal production. Al
though many conditions make it very
difficult to reduce to figures the dam
age caused by the weevil, calcula-
tons made in the Division of Ento-
mology of the q. S. Department of
Agriculture, based upon statements
showing the production of cotton in
10 leading counties in Texas when
the boil weevil was absent and when
it was present, and showing the in
crease in 10 other counties when the
weevil was absent at both similar pc
RODS, appear to justify the estimate
that the total damage caused by the
insect is about so per cent. Upon
that basis the Texas planters have
suffered a loss of SIS, 100000 during
the present season, and this estimate,
it is stated, agrees with those of con-
servative cotton statisticians. AS the
normal cotton crop of the United
States is estimated to represent a
value of $5OO,OOO,OOO the probable ul-
innate damage, when the pest has be-
come spread over the entire cotton
belt, providing nothing were done to
check it, would be in the neighbor-
hood of 25O,OOO,O 900 annually.
Nevertheless there are conditions
at work that seem to indicate that
planters in weeviI regions are grad
ually adopting changes in their sys-
tenn of producing the staple that have
a tendency to avoid damage.
WORK OF h DEPARTMENT OF
AGRICULTURE.
The work of the u. S. Department
of Agriculture with the boil weevil
consists of field experiments and lab
oratory Investigations. Mr.. W. D.
Hunter, of the Division of Entomol-
ogy, assisted by several entomolo-
gists, has charge Of the investiga-
tions in Texas, and MI. E. A
Schwarz of the Division has conduct
ed studies in Cuba. The field work
comprises tracts of cotton grown in
such manner as to constitute demon,
STATIONS of the means necessary in
order that the staple may be pro
duced proitably in spite of the
weevil. These fields are located in
six different points representing the
five regions in Texas, which, by rea.
son of variation in climate and soil
constitute as many distinct cottor
districts. In these fields every expe
dent that has been found to be use
full in avoiding damage by the weevi
is being tried. The work of the Di
vision of Entomology during the sea
son of 1902 demonstrated that it il
possible to produce cotton proftably
in spite of the weevil; the work O.
the present season shows this again
under different conditions of climat,
and soil, and in addition furnishe
practical demonstration of the vaIu,
of the recommendations of Division
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-12-01
THE MEXICAN COTTON BOIL
WEEVIL.

The United States Department of Agri-
culture Describes the Pests Habits
and the Damage It Has Caused this
Season.
The United States Department of
Agriculture has just issued the fol-
lowing special press bulletin IN the
Mexican cotton boil weevil, and in
view of the widespread interest in the
subject, we are glad to lay the official
opinion of the Department before the
readers of The Progressive Farmer:
The most serious menace that the
cotton planters of the South have
ever been compelled to face is the
Mexican boil weevil, which is ravag-
ing the cotton fields of Texas. The
weevil has not been found outside
that State except in the instance
which occurred in August at the
Louisiana Sugar Experiment Station
at Audubon Park in the environs of
New Orleans. In that case the cir
cumstances have led the Louisiana
authorities to the conviction that the
pests were purposely placed in the
cotton plots by some interested per-
son.. The station authorities prompt
ly destroyed all the cotton of the ex-
perimental plots by picking the fall
len fruit, uprooting and burning the
plants, and subsequently plowed and
flooded the land after it had been
thoroughly sprayed with crude petro-
leum. As there are no cotton fields
within 10 miles of Audubon park, and
several examinations by the station
entomologist failed to reveal any
weevils, it is very probable that the
colony was completely exterminated
NATURE OF THE PEST
The difficulties in the way of con
trolling the boil weevil lie as much in
it's habits and n of work as in
the peculiar industrial conditions in,
volved in the production of the sta.
pie in the Southern States. The wee,
vii lives in all stages, except the ina
60, within the fruit of the plant vel
protected from any poison hat may
be applied, and in hat stage take.
food only by inserting its beak within
the substance of the plant. 1t is re
markably free from the attacks O:
parasites and diseases, occupies bu
fourteen days for development from
eggs to adult, and the progeny of
single pair in a season may reacl
134,000, 900 of individuals.
The weevil adapts itself to climati
conditions to the extent that the egi
stage alone in November may occup
as much time as all the immatur
stages together in July or August
These factors combine to make it on
of the most difficult insects to cor
troll.
THE MONEY LOSS TO SOUTHERN
FARMERS.
The territory at present afecte
by the boil weevil is entirely in Tez
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-12-01

The territory at present affected
by the boil weevil is entirely in Tex
as. The nearest approach to the
Louisiana line is in the immediate
vicinity of Timpson, 25 miles away.
The nearest approach to Shreveport
is in Wood County, about 100 miles
distant. On the north it has been
found in the vicinity of Sherman just
south of the Red River. In the re-
gion between the latitude of Green
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-07-22
POOR PREACHERS
SHOULD QUIT
That Is the Advice Given by Noted
Divine of Chicago in Address
to Students.

ChlcagO.-"f you cannot make
good living in the ministry-quit.'
This is the advice which the Rev.
l.. A. Crandall, pastor of the Memorial
Baptist church, gave to divinity stu
dents at the University of Chicago
last week in the course of a lecture
on THE Minister'S Personal Quail
ties"
Some Of the young ministers who
believe that they were called to
preach and that they should continue
to preach all their lives, even if they
starved to death in doing so, were
shocked at Dr. Crandall's practical
way of looking at the matter.
DR.. Crandall also told the students
that if they would be successful minis
ters they must be good mixers. dress
we'll all the time, and have ''gumption"
enough not to turn their spiritual souls
wrong side out for the inspection Of
the public.
Eight things were enumerated by
DR.. Crandall as going to make up the
personal characteristics of the sue
cessful minister, as follows:
1. The good minister is not lazy
man.
g Avoidance of egotism.
g. Stunning Of dictation and bos-
sism.
4. Plenty of grit.
s. Good clothes.
6. A good mixer"
T. Care in meeting financial obliga-
tons.
8. Possession of what is known as
''gumption."
In explaining what he meant by
these things, DR.. Crandall said, in
part:
The minister has great tempta
ton to shrk, because his time is prac-
tically his own. If we were cOmpell-
ed to fill out ministerial death certi-
icates of many men who molder in
the great ante mOrtem graveyard.
they would necessarily read: Died of
that tired feeling The successful
minister is not lazy man.
Many ministers fail to fill out the
full measure of usefulness because of
tendency to lie down. l do not
mean laziness, but lack of grit.
The matter of personal appearance
is a delicate one, but it needs serious
consideration. A certain neatness of
apparel is absolutely essential to sue
cess in the ministry. A farmer has a
right to look like a farmer; he would
be a fool if he tried TO look like a
minister But a minister has no right
to look like man who earns his living
by day labor.
when a man has 'gumption' it
means that he has not been turned
out half baked, that he does not deal
in slop and gush, that he does not
whine, that be does not turn his soul
wrongside out for the inspection of
the public while he is describing the
spiritual experiences through which
he has passed-or imagines he has
Dr. Crandall said that the personal
qualities OF ministers could be i'm
proved by an increase Of The number
Of men on the faculties OF the theOlO-
gical seminaries, which would make
it possible for each student to come
in perSanol contact with men Of
strong character and wide experience
in the ministry
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-07-22
TRY THE ELECTRIC BATH ROBE

Heat and electricity combined for
the treatment of all cases where heat
and electricity are Indicated Emf
nent physicians pronounce it perfec-
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obtained in Muscular and Nervous
Troubles, Neuralgia, rheumatism,
Diseases of Kidneys, Heart, Stomach
and Liver, Scrofula and Syphilis, also
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Of these cases have been brought to
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We also sell the robes to doctors,
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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-07-22
WALLA MARKETS
REVISED DAILY.

Retail Prices.
The selling quotations on the local
market are:
Sugar-Per 100 lbs, $500.
Cheese-Per h., 25c
Vegetables-New potatoes per sack
IL. Less quantities, per pound &c.
Fruits-Oranges per doZ. soc to COO.
Lemons per doz 35c.
Eggs-per doz zoe.
Butter-COuntry per roll As to SOC.
Creamery per roll Coo.
Flour-Per Dbl. $500 to $3.50, Ora
ham -four per 50-lb sack, s1.10.
Whole wheat -four per sack, s1.10,
Rolled Oats per ID sc.
Hay baled per ton-Alfalfa, $40;
Grain $40.
Bran-Per ton $1,000, per sack zoe,
Shorts. per ton $4,000, per sack Csc,
Rolled barley per ton SCI, per sack
S5c. Wheat per ton $24. Oats per
ton S25, per sack $1.40.
Fish-Per ID. Salmon 15c. Halibut
121ac, Soles 10c, Perch i0c. Rock
Cod 121hc, Herring 10c. Catfish 121Ac.
Crabs 25c.
Neutrality-suspicious. steak
171a. sirloin steak, 15c round steak,
12kc. shoulder steak, 121ac. No. /
prime roast. 121ac, common roast, 10c.
boiling beef. &c to Sc, leg of mutton
15c, chops, 121ac and 15c, pork roast
121sc, chops 12hc.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-07-22
STRIKES IN A FOG.
The North Pacific Goes O
Craven Rock.

Port TOwnsend.-At o'clock Sun
day morning the steamer North Paci-
ic. bound with passengers from Sc
attic for Vancouver, B. c., lost her
bearings and brought up on Craven
Rock, a small menace to navigation
near MarrOwstOne Point.
At first it was thought the ACCIDENT
was of slight consequence, but in
yestigation by Capt. Soderson and his
crew developed the fact that the old
side wheeler was in imminent danger
of going to the bottom with all on
board, the contact with the rocks
having made a bad hole in the for
ward part of the ship, into which the
water rushed in torrents.
Distress signals were sounded and
brought prompt response from the
Everett tug C. B. Smith, Capt. Smith
which was at the time picking her
way along in the fog. By the time
the Smith swung alongside the North
Pacific two of the boats of that craft
had been launched
The two ladies', the only ones of the
gentler sex among the fourteen cabin
passengers the vessel was carrying
were given first place in the boats.
The passengers who remained on the
North Pacific were. with the crew
transferred to the Smith, and the tug
then bent tow line, with which she
started at once for the beach, in the
hope of grounding the side-wheeler
before she went down.
Effort Is Fruitless.
1t was but few moments, however
before the Smith herself grounded
and it became a case of self-preserva-
ton Capt. Smith called to the North
Pacific to cast off the hawser and an
Choir and had this instruction been
promptly carried out, it is probable
that the North Pacific would have been
beached in shallow water. Instead
however, before the anchor was final
ly put over, the vessel had drifted out
again in the tide and was in deep
water where her short chain availed
but little. The last seen of the North
Pacific by the Smith was when she
disappeared in the fog, apparently
settling by the head.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-07-22
A SHOCKING TRAGEDY.
Two Young Women and a Man Are
Drowned While Boating.

Eyerett.-Miss Edna I. Warner
| Miss Nina Soloman and T. V. Foster
were drowned in thu bay here Monday
afternoon by the capsizing of their
sailbOat. There was no witness to
the accident. The capsiZed boat and
three hats told the story of prob
able tragedy and not until several
hours after they were found was it
discovered who had gone to a watery
| grave.
At 3 o'clock in the afternoon Foster
telephoned the residence Of N. j.
Lannon, uncle Of Miss SolOman, where
the young women were calling, invlt-
ing the two girls to go for sail. Both
seemed reluctant, but after some
coaxing over the telephone accepted
the invitation which led to such an
untimely fate.
One hour later the capsiZed boat
two girls hats and the hat Of a man
were picked up on the Sound. At IL
o'clock Mr.. and Mrs. George w. Solo
man identified one Of the girls hats
at police headquarters as that OF their
daughter Mrs. Soloman became hys-
terical and is completely distracted
with grief. An officer was dispatched
to the home of Charles E. Warner, a
contractor and builder, and the War
ner home was then the scene of grief
, and sorrow.
Miss Soloman has been employed
by the local telephone exchange
about two years. She was an exceed
ingly bright young woman and was
best known in Everett as 5000" as she
held that important position with the
telephone company. She was twenty
one years of age and besides her pa
rents leaves one brother. Miss War
ner was also a bright girl and popular
For some time she has been teaching
school at Marysville. She recently
finished her term and was spending
the vacation with her parents.
Foster was an insurance agent His
identity in connection with the TRACE
dy is circumstantial. He did not APP
pear at his boarding place for supper
and at midnight had not reached his
lodgings at the California house. One
of his friends rOOming at the same
place heard Foster telephone two
young ladies, asking them to go sail
ing. and thinks the mans hat at pO-
lice headquarters is that of Foster.
Foster, came here four months age
from Marinette, Wis, where he has
wife against whom he began di-
vorce proceedings here last week.
He is also said to have discovered
wife in Green Bay, Wis.
He was As years old.
The girls were each q years of age
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-07-22
WILL NOT BE HELD.
Washington National Guard Will Not
Unite With Regular Army
This Year.

Observation-Disclosures General Drain
has received advices from the war
department conveying the information
that the plan for joint encampment
could not be carried out this year.
General Drain has accordingly set
September IS to % inclusive as the
time for holding the state .encamp-
ment. The state encampment will be
held at Camp Weisenberger, near Am
erican lake the same place as last
year. An officer Of the army will be
detailed as inspector at this camp.
Some of the regular troops will pos
sibly be encamped at or near Camp
Weisenberger at this time. 5
Cooking in the camp will, as here
tofore, be done only by enlisted men
of the command. Each company com
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-07-22
TRIB
The Worlds Greatest Liquor and =
bacco Cure.

Trib is harmless, positive cnr, .
either the liquor or tobacco hahn w
Read the words of the hes, ~,
most favorably known men in Oros..
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Rev. j. R. N. Bell, the Oldest rvi,,
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| have watched with interest," tha oo.;
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commend it to all in need.
Price for full treatment $3.50,
all druggists.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-07-22
BUYING Prices.

These are the quotations on the 10
cal market:
Onions-Per cwt. 75c.
Carrots-Per sack, Csc.
Beets-Per sack SOC, per box 40c.
Potatoes-Per swt. 75c.
Turnips-Per sack, 40c.
Green peas-Per h., &c.
Cabbage-Per lb. &c.
Cherries-Late Dukes, crate, 81;
Black Republican, per ID. &c.
Raspberries-Per crate 81.
Butter-Country SOC to Coo per roll
Eggs-Fresh, per case, $4.25.
Poultry-Chickens- per 10
Sc, BOOSTERS per ID. sc, Spring Chick
ems per ID. 15c, Turkeys per ID. 12c,
Ducks each 4Oc, Pigeons young per doz
81.
Choice Beef Cattle-Cows, &c, Steers
3A.
Good Fogs-Live SC; dressed &c.
Calves-Live &C, dressed SC.