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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-07-26

Lady Clare,--To trim the nails put the
fingers In bowl of warm water for a
few moments. Dry them and then trim
nails at each side, cutting them all
each side of the top Of the nail slightly
and rub with the emery board Take care
not to use file or emery on the fiat sur
fact of the nall.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-12-18
SOUTHERN " FARM " NOTES.
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TOPICS INTEREST TO WEPAETEs sTOcRARO TRUCK cRowEa
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not sufficient TO supply the thirsty
plants. Keep the crust OF ground
broken and clear Of weeds and grass.
Use culuyator and narrow hoes. a
harrow sweep that runs fat 70 the
ground answers a good purpose. The
culture must be shallow. 1 find Well
rOtted stable manure broadcasted be-
tween the rows to make the best top
dressing for a strawberry bed. Work
Il Into the soil with cultiyatog or sweep.
Strawberry roots extend out from the
plant TO q great extent Ashes and
fowl manure are both excellent for
top dressings. Keep off all runners.
am often asked what are the best
varieties TO plant? The question is a
most difficult one to answer SO much
depends upon the kind of SOIL loca-
ton and manner of treatment they
are going 20 receive Accllmated plants
raised from selected acclimoted ones,
bred up to a high degree, are the ones
to plant II you want choice fruit. and
VIII give the necessary attention and
labor.
The fruit bearing capacity Of plants
of the same variety differ very much
Now, when young plants are allowed
to make Unfortunately from the
good and bad, and allowed to keep on
making tailend and internode runners
until the ground becomes a solid mat,
they become weak and unreliable.
Such are dear as a gift Breeding
up" is the watchword Of tho successful
strawberry grower.--J. P. II. Brown.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-12-18
FANCY vELvETs.

It IS a pity stamped velyets were
doomed because they became common.
About two years ago these velYets
were shown in a wonderful assert
ment. The stamped velvets Caught
on" at once. Imitators found they
could reproduce these velvets cheaply.
In fact. some we're sold at sixty nine
cents a yard. and the woman who had
paid seven times this sum for material
for her carriage robe felt lmpelled to
give away her questionable gown.
Crushed velyets are always good and
many women will return to gun metal
gray and pure blacks Fashion de-
crees that these velvet robes be
trimmed with fur and net lace, as for
uerly.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-12-18
IIollow 1Torns in CniiIc.

Veterinarians and others who write
on the subject Go not seem to be &C.
Quainted with the disease called hol-
low horn. know that all cows horns
are hollow, but when you bore the
horn Of a healthy cow the horn is
warm and will bleed, while one with
what is called hollow horn, the horns
are cold and will not bleed when
bored.
I do not think that the disease is in
the horns alone, and perhaps not in
the horns at all, but likely in the
head and spine, and affects the horns
so as to dry up the blood.
Cattle in the South have little or no
protection in many places, and in win
ter and spring have both so-cdlled
hollow horn and hollow tail.
l hold that If the cattle are well
protected in winter and the middle
properly filed the ends win be all right
with no hollow horn or hollow tail
Correspondence, Farmers Tribune.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-12-18
BQDQIR

Secretary Shaw reports that women
are in charge of thlrty-three Govern
ment lighthouses.
Ex-Queen Ranavalo, of Madagascar,
will pass the winter with her sister
and her niece at Yic-Sur-Cere, in the
Department Of Cantal in the south Of
France.
Nearly one-third of all the employ es
in the Government departments at
Washington are women. Several re-
ceive over $4,000 a year and a large
number from $1,000 to $1,000.
Arrangements are being made for
500 Wellesley College girls to assist
in taking the religious census Of Bos-
ton, which will be conducted under
the direction of The associated
churches.
The Public Improvement Society Of
Denver, Col, of which Mrs. w. S.
Peabody is president, is an association
Of men and women for the purpose of
identifying tic public parks and
driyevays.
Sir John Cockburn, an eminent Eng
fish authorities on matters medical
and surgical, says that women are less
nervous than men in surgical cases,
and ere altogether better Fitted than
men to become doctors.
The Governor General Of Canada has
Just presented to Miss Georglna Pope
! the Royal Red Crag? Il .9cognlt,c2g
OF her hurslng services In South AZ
RIGA. She is the first woman in Canada
to become the recipient Of this honor
Mrs. Caroline Scott. Of frankfort
Pc. is member of the Philadelphia
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals. Her special work is tc
put to death painlessly animals aflict
ed with incurable disease or wounded
beyond hope Of recovery.
Rochester, n. Y, has a Council Of
Women composed Of two representa-
lives from each women's club in the
city. Five members of the council
have just been appointed a commit
tee on woman suffrage in the city
schools Of New York State.
The Office of master of hounds has
just been conferred on Miss Gretf
Pomeroy, one Of the fashionable sum
mer residents Of Newport, by the Mon
Mouth Country Club. She is a daring
horsewoman and is always the mos
persistent member of the chase. SHIT
is also a slillful sportswoman.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-12-18
DRESS GLOVES.

Correct styles Of dress gloves for
women to wear are now seen in the
shops
White. gray and tan gloves in glace
kid and Suede or soft undressed kid
are in request in hand-sewn material.
The strapped wrist glove, and also
the gauntlet, are purchased by auto
MODELLING women and for driving and
riding with horses.
BY this time the girls have usually
come to the bottom Of their glove
boxes, and they are glad to replenlsh
the stock of "handschubs.' a hand
shoe, as the literal and ridiculous
translation from the German has It,
"Outseam Cape" gloves give salts
faction for hard wear and knockabout
uses. -. ,sqrs4.ss ~, WI.
re-fNgi<--N re +'@,li.r 60
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-12-18

There's nothing do now-or, at least.
very little. Freak entertaining has
gone out OF fashion Paris has given
Il up, London frowns severely upon
II, and most Of the innumerable CO..
teries OF American society are begin
ming 70 look upon It as bad form,
though one still hears Of freak dinners
in Chicago and Pittsburg.
1T Is now the correct thing 10 have
the dinner table simply but richly
adorned. and to serve nothing which
Is not In season. Forced fruits and
vegetables are no longer provided. a
few months ago the dinner table used
to be covered with all kinds Of ribbon
and lace decorations Now you never
sec a bic Of Il. There used to be dozens
OF queer kinds Of knives and forks and
spoons by each plate Now there is
only one knife and one fork, and they
are changed for each course.
"The trend IL toward simplicity. It's
a good thing, no doubt. but It's a very
bad thing for women like me. Stlll.
we manage TO pick up a living. Many
hostesses don't know how TO combine
simplicity with elegance, and so they
have TO call us in"
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-12-18
Green NTnnnrInl Plnnts.

The great value of green manlres
for the light and humus-lacking soils
of the cotton region is now generally
appreciated by all the more intelligent
farmers. It is we'll known that soils
lacking in humus burn out in dry sun.
mer weGther-rarely giving over hall
the crop that similar soil we'll stocked
with humus affords, when both soils
get the same amount OF fertilizer and
tillage. There is an unfortunate ten
dency among cotton growers to doI
pend too much upon commercial fer
tllizer for making the crop, CONNER
cial fertilizer is always profitable
when applied to soil rich in humus,
but on humus-lacking and therefore
droughty, soils neither commercial fer
tllizer nor anything else can insure
good yield in dry seasons. Owing to
the mild winters of the cotton region,
there is no reason why all cotton fields
should not carry winter crop Of
some legumine, which viii furnish a
good supply Of vegetable matter to
turn under in spring in plenty of time
to prepare the land for either cotton
or corn or almost any crop grown in
the Southern States. ,a.asrggSie r-sfss'SgsltS
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The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-12-18
GIRDLING CRAZE VINES.

The glrdllng, or ringing. Of grape
vines Is done to increase the size Of
each cluster. 1t Is not practiced ex-
clusively however. although some find
the method profitable. The bark is en-
tlrely removed below the fruit clus.
ter about q month before the period
Of rlpening, which hnstens rlpening
about a week or two In advance, and
enlarges the bunch and berries. The
sap ascends through the pores Of the
wood to sustain growth. but the elabo-
rated sap descends through the wood
and the bark, and can go no lower than
the point ut which the girdle is made.
where 1t stops and is utilized in feed
ing the grapes. Some injury is done
the vine below the g,rdle. and it may
not pay to girdle on an extensive
scale.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-12-18
HUN1Us IN THE ORCHARD.

1t is an important point in farming
to preserve the humus in the soil
where there is 10 hdmus. Humus
has a value distinctive from that Of
the fertility it contains 1t holds moist
-ure in the soil and also holds some
forms of fertility. To increase it in
the orchard a good way is to grow
legumes Of some sort and plow them
under at stated seasons. Not only
does the cultivator thus increase the
humus in the soil, but the nitrogen is
increased, as it has been caught from
the air by these plants. Some fol-
low the practice of not blowing or
spading under the green crop, but of
moving and leaving 1t on the ground.
But to our mind this is 6 very inferior
way Of getting the good OF decaying
humus. The ar must in that case rob
the crop mOWn Of a paTt Of its fer
tility, especially the volatile portions.
Moreover. the roots 10 the ground can
not get hold Of this decaylng vegeta-
ton. and We see little. chance Of their
benedting by It. We believe that BIZ
all means the crop should he turned
under in come way. The soil viii then
grow more perfert in ulechanical suuc.
ture from year rear and "a roots
q.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-12-18
" SUCCESS WITH CALLAs.

Contrary to the usual rule OF the Cor.
lists 10 give Gala lilies complete rest
during the summer months b. turn
Ing the Jars over on their sides under
a bust and Withholding water, / have
found by eight or ten years expert
ence that I obtain most satisfactory
results by setting the Jars in a shall.
low brook, which never becomes dry.
In August 1 take out the bulbs, some
times wash and scrub them with a
brush, though not always, replace them
with fresh earth containing plenty OF
COW manure. and plant as many as
eight or ten IN a ten-inch pot Water
freely, never allowing the saucers TO
become dry.-Sallie Story.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-12-18
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Fringe is very noDular.


Maggie combinations are as good as
ever.
Chenille frlnses are among the smart
things.
DrooDing wings are a pretty black
finish to many a hat
The over and over stitch in embroid-
cry is used a great deal
Black chiffon with Chantiny ap-
pliQucs over white is in high favor.
Twisted plumes are a variation on
the regulation ostrich curl
Cords, as edglng and drapcry, are
conspicuous on cloth costumes
Zibelines boast all figures from
Scotch plaid suggestions to snowaakes.
Quaint little triple capes that dwindle
away to nothing at all at the front are
effective.
Chinese or Indian embroidery in
bright colors is used for collars and
cuffs on jackets.
Rhinestone buttons and handsome
enamel and oxidized silver ones are
used q great deal.
Gold lace, gold braid. gold buttons
and embroidery make the darkest OK
cloth gowns splendid.
RhinestOncs are combined with en-
hrO3dpqsfps for evening rozuna-a d :. LA.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-12-18
A NEW FAD FOR WOMEN.


Enamel work and the designing Of
jewcleG ornaments have become Seri-
Gus racrcqnons for the artstlcally
minded members Of society. Our New
port woman produces beautiful specI-
mems OF enamel work, as the friends
who are t65 foTtunato recipients of
specimens Of her handlcraft can fully
testify, and Is singularly happy in her
combination Of co,ors and metals;
while there are not a few other smart
women who are prodigiously proud
and rightly so-of tho exquisite hat
pins and meLallions and quaint chains
which their clever fingers have fash
toned. Truly a pretty pastlme and
useful one to boot; and N view of the
fact that the era of jeweled lace has
already dawned this Is a craft which
women will co we'll to cultivate.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-12-18
N ''1lss .s-lzs-'vg-.~r'' S4'If - r.
Put Away Farming FOOLS Now. ~

The season Of active farm operations
is drawing to a close. Some fall plow-
ing is on the programme, and the corn
harvest will soon begin, but the now
er, the binder, corn planter and cult
vators, garden tools and other nipple
ments should be housed for the Win
ter, A farmer is known by the imple-
ments he keeps, and still more so by
the manner in which he keeps them
The best investment on the farm is a
shed room for tools Nothing pays so
well. How many sons OF Adam are
housing their farming machinery on
the lee side Of a bar0-Wire fence, or
at best under a cottonwood tree? The
sun and wind and rain are peeling the
paint off, cracking the wood and rust
ing the iron parts. Machinery well
cared for lasts twice as long as that Of
the shiftless agrarian, and the salts
faction Of using sharp, clean tools in
good repair more than pays for cheap
lumber.-H. A. BERGMAN, in Colman's
Rural World.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-12-18
Strawberry CnItnre.

I see in the Southern Cultlvator
that some Of its subscribers now and
then ask questions in reference to the
culture of strawberries. What have
to say is not from the standpoint of
a nurseryman but from thirty odd
years as a grower Of this most delici-
!. Gus fruit Tor market It is presumed
SlNRt you want to grow nice, we'll de-
aAped berries for your table or for
ket. These are the only berries
a cultivated taste would apDre-
Ute. In fact, they are the only kind
at are fit to eat No one can raise
t'class berries without an observ-
= of all the conditions necessary
their production.
First, the location and soil must be
.Alst right. A sandy loan with a clay
soil and good drainage would be
ssble. 1t should be free from nut
FIJohnson grass and joint or Ber-
ia grass. Such grasses are a pest
a great nuisance to the strawberry
yer and market gardener. They
1ble the cost of cultivation.
-gBroadcast the plot Of ground with a
twO-inch coat Of well-rotted manure.
Turn allunder with a turn-plow. Har-
row. Then pillow 1t and cross-plow 1t
with bul-tOngue. Harrow again. The
...Gbject is to get the soil thoroughly pull
rized and mixed with the manure.
fore the last narrowing q top dress
= e of 1000 pounds to the acre Of 400
pounds acid, 400 pounds kainit and
200 pounds cotton seed meal can be ap-
piled with benefit. Lay OF rows three
feet apart and set plants eighteen
inches in row and keep in hills. In our
climate the matted row system win
not do for the growth Of choice fruit
Fully ninety per cent. Of a s9rawbe
is water, and when grown a
rows the amount of
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-12-18
POWER OF THE WIFE.

The influence Of the wife for good or
evil is irresistible. Home should be
the seat of happiness. A good wife
is to a man wisdom, courage, strength
and endurance in one. A bad wife
sows the seed Of confusion, weakness,
discontinue and despair Where a
wife possesses frmness Of decision and
economy no situation is hopeless. The
bravest man cannot long endure bad
management and Incidence. He needs
all his moral force and courage in his
battles with the world, and even these
will soon give out under bad domestic
influence. Home should be to him a
place of repose, of relaxation and Of
happiness. But if he find none of these
he is justified in becoming completely
discouraged.
If 4 wife does not exercise her pow
crs and prerogatiyes as a wife she fails
in her highest mission-that Of help
neet.-NIrs. S. Carpenter.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-12-18
DAILY NEWSPAPER For WOMEN

The Daily Mirror n daily journal
for gentlemen" is soon 10 be issued
IN London. 1t will be a journal which
has as its first aim the giving in very
readable form Of all the latest tele-
grams and other news OF the day, to-
sether with a mass of all that vast
fund Of information in which women
take an interest.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-12-18

a good fertilizer for Strawberries IS
the following: 200 pounds fine bone
meal and ten pounds Of potash, mixed
thoroughly. Good for one acre. II
good ashes can be had use 200 pounds
In place of potash, mix with bone meal
and apply this fall or spring. The fer.
zen can be soTn broadcast over lhe
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-12-18
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The sweet potato Is par excellence
the root crop OF the Southern States,
because II Is suited 70 climatic and soil
conditions as found in these States. 1t
is also one Of the most profitable and
satisfactory crops that the Southern
farmer can make either for market "a
a1se2e use, and only state what Is a
known fact, that there is not an
crop so universally grown as
)p, because II can be found on
st piece OF cleared land, where
ndation OF the future farm Is
aid, to the large fields Of the
5ntadons where they count their
by the thousands At this time
year a great many inquiries
to hand from parties newly
Owed into the Southern States, par
ticularly the Gulf States, as to the
best method Of getting q satisfactory
and profitable yield from this crop, for
p 1t appears to be a well recognized fact
that to the newcomer this is one OF
the crops that be can hardly fail in
making something from IT, TO such
inquiries l would say first Of all see
that your land is we'll broken and put
in good tllth If the land Is old plow
as deep as your soil will allow you, and
q little deeper. If the new land is
being used, don't plow deeper than
your top soil is, but pulverlze thor
oughly what you do not plow so as to
make a thoroughly mellow bed for the
young potatoes to grow In. On our
tough wire grass sod Of the long leaf
pine lands It is not advisable to cut O
large fuTrow slice, and a very small
plow of the one-horse type is recon-
mended to make beginning with, be
cause a large slice Will take a Ions
time In decaying and getting incorpo
rated with the other soil. What
specially recommend and have beer
practising personally for a number Of
j, years Oh this kind Of land is a very
narrow scooter, say about two inche.
wide, cutting and cross cutting thu
land at the very first and going abou
six inches deep. This method 0,
breaking new land mixes it all vi
thoroughly and goes deep enough Il
Go little subsoillng at the same time
/ This followed with the turning plov
few inches deep and again wltf Ihar
row and culuvator makes an excel
lent Job on our stubborn wire gras
sod, After the blowing, either oil
land or new should be treated with
good application Of high grade fertil
Ter. The claim is often made tina
new land does not require fertilizin
for a first crop, Perhaps not In
certain sense, but the farmer who take
the fertility from his soil that natur
put there for a crop, therefore crO
without adding some more to it t
make that crop, is a SCHROEDER, an
the results will come back to him i
after years. For it is we'll reco2
nized fact that among all our bes
agriculturists that every crop grow
on the farm must be provided with III
necessary plant food for that crop +
he form Of the proper fertilizers 70
amea The fertilizer for sweet pota
oes should contain a liberal amour
Yof phosphoric acid and potash. Til
nitrogen is not SO imperative, as i
most of our soils enough nitrogen /
already present An excess of nitro
gen will promote the growth Of tn
vine at the expense Of the root prC
dPction and it is root we are after.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-12-18
DUTTER GIRLs oE RERLIN.

Girls dressed IN gaudy red. black
md white uniforms are selling butter
and cheese IN the streets Of Berlin for
new company.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-12-18
FREAK DINNERS NOW FAD FoRl

There are in New York a number Of
women who make a handsome living
by arranging dinners and table deco
radOns for people who have more
wealth than taste. One Of these wom-
en- said the other day that business
was dull In her Tine.
"Our best time, " she said, "was when
so much freak entertaining was being
done in New York and at Newport.
Paris set that fashion with peacock
CiuneEs, rose bower teas, and all the
rest of il. The PINK tea, the yellow
dinner, the white luncheon and the
other color fads Tor eating followed
naturally, and every hostess was vie
ing With her neighbors to produce the
latest and most bizarre effects in her
dining room and her ballroom. OF
course It WIS a harvest time for WON
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-12-18
A GARDEN STRAWBERRY PATCH

y GAhBLN - liza " bt1blt1 1ALGd
I usually spade under three or four
rows Of old strawberry plants and set
rs many rows OF new ones. I cover
the grand next to the strawberry
rows where I want TO raise the rum
ners for plants for next year with
rotted manure saved for this pur-
pose. dig it in and place the plants
on this prepared ground. I I'll 100
small pots with rich earth and sink
them in the ground next to the rows
from which l wish to propagate. In
each pot place a runner, and keen 1t
there with an ordinary wire fence sta
pie. The great advantage Of potting
strawberry runners Is that they are
not checked in moving, but grow nice
~ by I'll and bear abundantly the
:,.At -as.. In fac. the aEst year Sey
usually bear the largest berries, but
not the largest quantity. never keep
a bed longer than three years and
sometimes only two-Alfred P. Edge,
Hartford County, Nd. ,sjga.,la7tFYgYg.
Wv rtttF
PREPARING ORCHARD LANDS.
An orchardist Of large experience
says: The general work Of preparing
the land for planting an orchard con-
sists in deep filth, and the more thor
oughly it is done the more certain is
success. The preparation had best be
done late in the fall, when It will be
ready for early spring planting or for
fall planting if preferred. Many sue
cessful orchardists, especially in The
Western States, prepare the land by
opening with heavy plow a furrow
where the rows of trees are to be set
and then back furrawing the space
between them, making a land section
with a tree row in the centre. This
method. affords a deeper filth under
the trees, and at the same time, sur
face drainage into the opening and
finishing furrow midway between the
rows, which will receive, and, if prop
erly graded, carry off any surplus
1 water which may accumulate from
heavy rainfalls.
The new age. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1902-190?, 1903-01-03
PROF. WAsHINeToN's STAR.

Among the news dispatches of Sat.
urday was one to the effect that
Booker t. Washington, the colored
scholar and leader of his race, had
delivered an address at one of the
California towns, and that the banks
and most of the business houses had
closed for the occasion. Thirty or
twenty, or even ten years ago who
would have predicted that within two
generations of the close of the war
such an honor would be shown one
of Booker Washington race as that
a community would take day off"
to hear him speak. This is an even
higher compliment to Booker Wash
ington than to have dined with
President Roosevelt. The latter
event was the whim of one man. The
California incident was the spon-
taneous tribute of an entire commun-
ity.-Standard.