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The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-04-15

entrance and living upon the sap
and starch, multiply rapidly. If they
gain entrance along limb or trunk,
they live in the inner bark and cam
bium-layer,-that layer which adds
yearly to the growth of both bark and
wood.
1t can readily be seen from this that
they are we'll covered, and cons quently
spraying does no good. The only rem
edy thus far found has been and is
the careful and continuous use of the
saw and pruning knife. All diseased
shoots and limbs should be cut off at
from inches to l foot below the
place of evident infection or injury,
as the bacteria have always gone down
deeper into the limb than seems to be
the case from the outside. Many
primers have the habit of splitting
down the bark to see how far the dis
ease has proceeded but this practice is
to be condemned, as they never can see
how far the disease has proceeded, and
the incision of the knife may carry
the bacteria from diseased to healthy
tissues. If the blight is bad, the
knife or saw should be sterilized
each time it is used, by either pass
ing it through a flame, or dipping it
into weak carbOlic acid water, or
into kerosene. The pruned Hmps
or fragments should be collected
and burned and both pruning ana
burning should be done mainly in the
dormant season, before the sap has
started, the bacteria have awakened,
and the bees are visiting the orchard.
This is the best time for pruning and
burning, but not the only one; 1T should
be done whenever the disease makes
IFS appearance. All large wounds
should be painted over with paint as
soon as the tree is trimmed, to prevent
the re-innoculation through the expos
ed tissues. Where the blight is bad,
even young shoots or water-sprouts
should have their cut bases painted,
for it has been shown time and again
that the limbs and even the trunks
have been innoculated through these
cut stubs
The pear is much more easily pruned
for this disease than the apple. On the
former it commonly manifests itself
in dead or dying shoots, limbs, or the
trunks, which can readily be cut away
below the progress of the disease. On
the apple, however. it rs commonly the
shoots all over the tree. and especially
the fruit spurs and their clusters OF
flowers, which are most affected. Prun-
ing here becomes a much more diff
cult and even serious undertaking
Where only a few shoots and fruit
| 10 ont
away close to the tree, and the wound
Immediately covered with paint. Where
however, almost all of the fruit spurs
on the whole tree have died, the best
way is to cover the wounds with paint
and stimulate the production of new
shoots and subsequent fruit spurs.
1t has been often noticed that rapid
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-04-15
Deeds.

Deeds.
ID All conveyances of real estate,
or any interest therein, and all con-
tracts creating or evidencing any in
cumbrance upon real estate shall be
by deed.
(2) A deed shall be in writing,
signed by the party bound thereby, and
acknowledged by the party making 1t;
before some person authorized by the
laws of this state to take the acknowl-
edgment of deeds.
CD The addition of private seal to
any contract in writing shall not at
fects it's validity or legality in any re-
spect.
(4) All deeds, mortgages, and as
signments of mortgages, shall be re-
corded in the office of the county aud
itor of the county where the land is
situated. and shall be valid as against
bona fide purchasers from the date of
their filing for record in said office;
and when so filed shall be notice to
all the world.
81 Acknowledgment of deeds,
mortgages and other instruments In
writing may be taken, in this state,
before a Judge of the supreme court,
or the clerk thereof or the deputy OF
such clerk, before a judge of the SUI
perior court, or the clerk thereof, or
the deputy clerk, or before justice
of the peace, or county auditor or
qualified notary public.
co A deed executed through fraud
or duress may be avoided.
Cd Deeds executed by infants and
insane persons may be avoided.
81 The property and pecuniary
rights of every married woman at the
time of her marriage or afterwards
acquired by gift, devise, or Inherit
ance. with the rents, issues and prof
it's thereof, shall not be subject to the
debts or contracts Of her husband, and
she may manage.
Answer to P. P. Tax, $500 exemp-
ton:
A householder, as designated IN all
statutes relating to exemptions, is de-
fined to be: Cd The husband and
wife or either. (2) Every person who
has residing with him or her, and I'M
der his or her care and maintenance,
either: (a) His or her minor chlld,
or the minor child Of his or her de-
ceased wife or husband (2) The min
or brother or sister, or the minor child
of a deceased brother or sister; CD
A father, mother, grandfather or
grandmother; (4) The father, mother,
grandfather or grandmother of de-
ceased husband or wife; (e) An I'M
married sister, or any other of the re-
latives mentioned in this section who
has attained the age of majority, and
are unable to take care of or support
themselves.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-04-15
Ranch Legal Department
Edited by R. J. BORYER.

Edited by r. J. BORYER.
This department is open to all the patrons
of The Ranch Inquiries on legal matters
will be answered free in these columns. II
a reply by letter is desired enclose fee OF
One Dollar to R. ]. Boryer, care The Rancn,
Seattle
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-13
SELLING Thermometers.

Thermometers? Yes, We are selling
lots of Them" said the young woman
behind the optical counter in the big
department store. Our sales always
jump in weather like this, and in, ex-
tremely hot weather in summer. Dur
ing a long spell of even weather, when
a winter is not extraordinary cold or a
summer not extraordinary hot, there is
little demand for thermometers. But
just let very cold spell set in in win
ter, or very hot spell in summer. and
it makes all the difference in the world
in the sales of our department, al
though thermometers are simply re-
garded as a side issue. Suburbanites
are especially eager buyers, particu-
larly at this time of year, when the
temperature in the early morning is
several degrees lower in the outlying
districts than it is in the city proper.
It's a great source of satisfaction to
the suburbanite to come in town.. see q
thermometer registering z degrees
above zero, and say with great COM
placency: why, the thermometer on
my porch was 1 degree below when
left ."-Philadelphi Telegraph.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-13
WHAT IS A NEW YORKER?


speak English. They are hard and fast
New Workers. Their parents were
Germans and Italians and Frenchmen
and Jews and Greeks, but they were
born in New York and they speak
English.
Child-Then, papa, they are the real
New Workers, aren't they?
Papa-We1l, I believe that they they
are considered to be the most patri-
otto New Workers because their New
Yorkism is so new, but, my child, in
this city of which we are speaking, this
city of nearly four million inhabitants.
there is a little class, without much
influence, to be sure, but still self-re-
speeding and respected by others. a
mere handful, it is true. but very in
telligent handful.
Child-And who are they, papa?
Papa-They, my child, are the native
American New Workers, whose parents
and grandparents and at-grand-
parents. to the third and fourth gener-
alton, We're born and brought up in
New York.
Child-And who always spoke Eng
lish?
Papa-well no. They spoke Dutch
originally, but they have spoken En-
glish longer than the majority of the
rest. Those are the real New Workers..
Child never heard of them.
Where do they keep themselves?
Papa-One of them is the president
of the United States.
Child-Oh, yes, of course. So he is a
simon-pure New Yorker?
Papa-Well, no; come to think of it.
he isn't because l believe his mother
was a Southerner.
Child-Well, do the simon-pure New
Workers sign their names as from New
York?
Papa-Yes, my boy, they do, and
they would like to be able to sign in
a special colored ink to make it more
emphatic.
Child-Well, papa, 1 suppose that if
they could have kept out the foreigners
and the English-speaking aliens and
the Yankees and the Southerners and
the Westerners, and just left New
York for the real born and bred New
greater than it is?
Papa-No, no, my boy. No city ever
gets to the top of the pile unaided. 1t
is because of all these people who have
come in to show New York how to
misgovern itself that she is the great
est city on the Western hemisphere
and is destined to be the greatest city
that the sun ever shone upon.
Child-And what will become of the
real New York New Yorker?
Papa-They will disappear after a
while
Child-Why, papa?
Papa-Because it is getting to be the
fashion to be born in the country.
Child-Oh!
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-13
Flow of Rocks,

A hydraulic machine, capable of pro-
ducing a pressure of 12O tons to the
square inch, has recently been set up
at the McGilI university in Montreal
for the purpose of investigating the So
called ''f1ow of rocks" For it. is, a
fact that a rock can flow, and it is of
Importance to science to know how and
why. Under such a pressure as the
machine can exert, marble, limestone,
granite and other solid rocks exhibit
this queer phenomena, though the rate
of motion is very slow, of course. The
Carnegie institute has just made a
grant of $4,000 for the purpose of this
investigation. The shaping of the
earth's crust under the force of grav-
ity is the study to which the informal
ton thus obtained will be applied
Philadelphia Record.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-13
BY CHARLES BATTELL LOOMS.

! that he was born in the South, and if
he doesn't his tongue will do 1t for
him, but he glories in being citizen
of New York. The New Highlander
feels that he has honored New York by
coming to it and that without him New
York would not amount to much, but
he, too, signs his name in the register
as from New York.
Child-How about the Jerseyman,
papa?
Papa-The Jerseyman is an alto
gether different proposition. Six Jer-
seymen out Of ten do business in New
York, and of these six five were born
in Brooklyn when she was just Brook
Ign. The Jerseyman is not, strictly
speaking, New Yorker. If New York
is in disgrace he thanks his stars that
he spends his nights in another state,
but if New York wins a point he pats
himself on the back and says: TN
here most of my waking time" The
Jerseyman also is sorely tempted to
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-13

Darby found himself flying down a
wide, high passage, which grew lighter
as he went along. He heard the
opening behind shut like a trap, and
his heart almost stopped beating, for
this was the fairies home in the
heart of Sleive-na-mOn. He was
captured by them!
When Rosie stopped so stiff were
all Darbys joints that he had great
trouble loosening himself to come down.
He landed among a lot of angry faced
little people, each no higher than your
hand, every one wearing green vel
vet cloak and a red cap, and in every
cap was stuck white owls feather.
We'll take him to the king says
a red whiskered wee chap. What he'll
do to the murtherin' spalpeen'H be
good and plenty!"
With that they marched our bould
Darby, a prisoner, down the long pass
age, which every second grew wider
and lighter and fuller of little people.
Sometimes, though, he met with
human beings like himself, only the
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-13
DARBY OGILL AND THE GOOD PEOPLE
Byt S.

BY HERMINIE TEMPLETON.

never kept company with any other girl
till this day. But that'll never be-" she
says, because must stop here till the
day of judgment, then I must go to
-" says she, beginning to cry, but
if you get out you'll bear message to
Bob for me, maybe?" she says.
tits aisy to talk about goin' out, but
how can it be done?" asked Darby.
There's way says Maureen. wip-
ing her big gray eyes, but it may take
years. First, you must know that the
Good People can never put their charm
on any one who is willing to come with
them. That's why you came safe.
Then, again, they can't work harm in
the daylight, and after cock-erow any
mortal eye can see them plain; nor. can
they harm anyone who has a sprfg of
holly, nor pass cover leaf or twig Of
holly, because that's Christmas bloom.
Well. there's a certain evil word for a
charm that opens the side of the noun
tain, and I will try to find it out for
you. Without that word all the armies
in the werruld couldn't get out or in.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-13

Copyright by Mcclure, Phillips & COD
A THOUGH only one living man of
AZ his own free will ever went
among them there, still, any well
learned person in Ireland can tell you
that the abode of the Good People is
in the hollow heart Of the great noun
tain Sleive-na-mon That same one
man was Darby O'Gill, cousin of my
other mother.
Right and left, generation after gen
Grafton, the fairies had stolen pigs,
young children, old women, young men.
cows, churnings of butter from other
people, but had never bothered any Of
our kith or kin until, for some mys-
terius reason, they soured on Darby
and took the eldest of his three foine
pigs.
The next week second pig went
the same way. The third week not a
thing had Darby left for the Balinrobe
fair. You may aisly think how sore
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-13

speaking, by the term New Yorker is
meant one who lives in the city of New
York, and that is why a Chinaman
out on Staten island is New Yorker.
Child-Papa. does a man have to be
foreigner in order to live in New
York? hi'* 80
Papa-What a question, my child.
OF course not. There are many living
in New York whose native language is
English.
Child-Oh. they were born there?
Papa-Not necessarily. Some were
born in Great Britain and Ireland and
some in the British possessions, but
they all speak English and they live in
New York and are New. Workers.
Child-Then if I understand you
Alright, my dear father, man who
lives in New York and, who speaks En-
glish must have been born either in
Great Britain, Ireland or somewhere
in the British possessions.
Papa-Not at ALL There are native
Americans who speak English and who
live in New York.
Child-And where are they found?
Papa-Some were born in New Eng
land. some on the Pacific coast, some
in the Middle West and some in the
South.
Child-Then they are the real New
Workers.
Papa-Not necessarily. Any man who
| lives in New York for any length Of
| time becomes New Yorker, no matter
! where he may have been born. When
he travels he registers from New York.
Child-Is it in the air?
Papa-It is in the air. The Westerner
| despises New York until he has made
a fortune, and then he comes to New
York to spend it, and after that he is
! a New Yorker. The Southerner who
has come to New York to live may say
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-13

sign his name as from New York when
he is out in Chicago, for instance. and
when he is in Europe he does do it.
Child-Well, papa, you have told me
about foreigners who were New York
ers, and about English-speaking peo-
pie who were New Workers. and about
Americans who were New Workers, but
1 want to know if there couldn't be a
more perfect kind Of New Yorker than
any of these-one who was born in
New York and who spoke English?
Papa-Why yes, my child; there are
thousands born in New York who
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-13
rHILD-Papa, what is a New Yor

HILD-Papa, what is New York
err?
Papa My child, New Yorker
is one who lives in New York-who has
his residence there. A New Yorker
may be a Chinaman from Pell street
of Polish Jew from Rivington street
or Syrian from Washington street or
an italian from the Italian quarter or a
Greek or Jap or Swede or any nation
atty at all, provided he lives in New
York city.
in Brooklyn.
Papa-He is New Yorker.
Child-Well, If a-Portuguese lived in
the Bronx?
Papa-He would be New Yorker.
OF course, my child, in a large sense,
all Inhabitants of the state of New
York are New Workers, but, generally
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-13

that no neighbor was stirrin', and when
Bridget and the childher We're in bed,
Darby sat by the fire, a noggin of hot
punch in his hand, arguing an getting
news of the whole worruld. A little
man with goo1d crown on his head, a
green cloak on his back and one foot
trun over the other, sat feminist him
by the hearth.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-13

of their heads I'd hurt more than need
be-" he says.
Some way or other the king heard
of this saving, an was SO nightly
pleased that the next night jug of
the finest poteen was left at Darby's
door.
After that, indade, many's the win
ter night, when the snow lay so heavy
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-13
A DANGEROUS Statement.

Newitt-He's anxious to be consid-
cred "A man of some social distinction.
Bunker-He's taking a queer way
about it.
Newitt-Why?
Bunker-He says golf is mere TOM
myrot.-Philadelph Press.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-23
State Bar Association.

The twenty-seventh annual meeting of the Alabam State Bar association will be held at Montgomery on Friday and Satur- day, July sth and 9th.
 The meeting on Friday will be held in the hall of the house of representatives and will be opened at 10 o'clock a. m. by the annual address of the president, Ed ward de Graffenreid.
 This will be followed by report of cen tral council, report of treasurer report of executive committee, report of the com mittee on jurisprudence and law reform by the chairman Charles G. Brown; an- nual address by Fablus H. Busbee of North Carolina, on 'The Southern Law yer and the Negro" paper by c. P. Me Intyre on Civil Procedure;" paper by H. E. Gibson on Delay of the Law as an Excuse for Lynching;" report of the committee on judicial administration and remedial procedure, by the chairman, John c. Anderson; report of the commit tee on legal education and admission to the bar, by A. s, Van de Graaff; report of the committee on correspondence by the chairman. Hon. r. c. Bromberg.
 The meeting on Saturday will be held at Jackson's Lake and will be opened by the report of the committee on legislation. by R. F. igon
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-23
pinqleYIsm Before the People,

The republican party has at last been delivered of an American plank. Never did a plank have so hard a time a-borning. It was first drawn up by Bosom Friend Lodge, and then it was modified and remodified, to be again licked into shape and re-licked, until it stands as we see it.
 ,2The trouble consisted in the desire Ito say nothing. The beneficiaries of the Dingley tariff are the contributors to the campaign fund, and they must in no way be offended. And yet the common people must in some way be deceived with false promises.
 The effort really overtaxed the Eng fish language, even that part of it which was given to conceal thoughts. The standpatters got of course the best end of it. They really won out. But still there is fine phrase or two
 
 that Dingleyism affects.
 After all Abraham Lincoln's observa. ton will be found to hold true-you can fool some of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time. This Is the plight Ding leyism and republicanism finds itself in. The people begin to see that sneaking indirect taxation is a delu- sion and snare-that it makes mil lionaires and tramps with equal facil. ity--that it robs the many for the benefit of the few. If they do not vote it down and out in these hard times, then they will deserve to be robbed. They will deserve the hard times that Dingleyism and republican, ism have brought upon them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-23
Richmond p. Hobson.

Capt. Richmond Pearson Hobson passed through Birmingham yesterday af- ternoon on the Pan-American en route to ment to deliver a series of lectures While away he will make a number of speeches in the interest of the democratic presi- dential ticket, and will not return to Ala hama until the first of September.
 His first engagement willsbe tonight at Cincinnati, where he delivers a lecture for the benefit of the Young Mems Chris tian association of that city. Thence he will go to Boston where he will begin his series of lectures In the east The first of July he will leave for the north west, and while in that part of the coun- try will make several politicaI speeches.
 Captain Hobson is In excellent health and spirits. Since the campaign he has been taking much-needed rest at his home in Greensboro.
 The answer that Captain Hobson sent to the Hearst News company when of fered s15,000 per year to act as their special correspondent in the Russian Japanese war Is regarded as very pa- triotic utterance. When being pressed to accept the hattering offer he replied, M life work is in America"
 After Captain Hobson returns from the northwestern tour he will probably offer his service entirely to the democratic committee, and will perhaps be called up- cn to make a number of speeches in the doubtful states.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-23
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
skopec soIIloouIzes

Well de bunch seems ter be on de to- began slide ergin." said skopec. as he lighted his weed. Dis town suffers fun CT hoodoo an dere aint no use in talkln., It makes no diffunce whut kind CT ball ehasers we gits. dey can't do nuthin wid de hoodoo. Fact is dat It must be der name can't see nuthin' else to count fur it. and de only hope is fur de Coal Barons ter become de Ballyhoos or some ting else .whut can't be hoodooed.
 FUv cose yer can't expect CT team ter win all de time, specially when it's away fun home, but de Coal Barons don't seem ter be in it anywneres. Dey has CT healthy hoodoo dat must be shook, or dere won't be anything doin fur de spotes whut puts up de money. I'm CT cheerful loser mesef-dat is when dere ain't no chance ter back down-but I can't afford to lose inny more dopes on dis aggrega- tion."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-23
Mellowd by the stealing hours of time.
 -Klng Richard III.
Attempted Relief of Port Arthur.

General Kuropatllin ordered General Stakelberg to march southward along the railroad, while the Vladivostol1 fleet was ordered to sail south also. The entire movement was a desperate effort to relieve Port Arthur.
 General Stakelburg met General Oku at Vafangow and Telissu, points close together on the west coast of the Liao- tung peninsula. about twenty-five miles south of Niuchang, and about twice that number of miles north of Port Arthur
 General Stakelburgs advance was repulsed with loss of about ten thous- and men, and he at once began to re- treat northward. Whether General Kuroki will attempt to cut his line of retreat or fall on his rear remains to De seen. At any rate the attempted ,elief of Port Arthur has failed, and hat fortress is left to it's fate. Neither he Vladivostok fleet nor the army of General Stakelberg accomplished any hing, except to hurry on their own destruction. The army can, however, .etreat to Harbin if it be hard pressed by General Kurod.
 The Russian situation is rendered more de7perate by the stakelbers iexsnaerA-- It's hsiplesspess s~s<ow apparent, and military tacticians do not hesitale to say that Kuropatkin has blundered. l-e may have checked the Port Arthur campaign for a few days but that is all. Only three out of thirteen laden troop and supply ships were destroyed by the Vladivo- stok fleet, which is hastening back to cover.