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Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-07-19

deep. If rain should nov come, all
the better; if not, water the straw
heavy and watch your potatoes close
ly. Keen the straw moist, not too wet,
in about ten days or two weeks small
sprouts will appear on the potatoes.
When the sprouts are IA or ia
inches long the potatoes are ready to
plant in the field.
Planting.
1t is very important, when planting
potatoes in the fall, that the ground
is well prepared, by deep blowing and
narrowing. Lay off your ground In
rows two and. half feet apart and
drop your seed in the fresh opened
cool, moist earth; cover at once and
not let the furrow dry out and let the
sunshine on your sprouted potatoes.
Past results have pointed to the
fact that potatoes must be planted
deeper in the fall than in the spring
at least six inches deep-away
from the hot top soil and rays of the
hot sun.
When these directions are careful
ly carried out good stand may be
expected
Fertilizers.
The most complete fertilizer for
Irish potatoes we ever used on one
acre was:
Cottonseed meal ...,... 300 pounds
Acid phosphate .......... 200 pounds
halnet ...,.......,..s.,... 200 pounds
Total on one acre. 80. ZOO pounds
There are many other good CONNER
cial fertilizers, that can be used to
advantage, and which can be procured
from our advertisers. We can not re-
commend green stable manure for fall
planting of Irish potatoes as 1t is too
heating.
AS soon as potatoes are up or even
before, the crust should be broken and
kept broken by constant cultivation
to allow the cool winds to penetrate
the soil and it also serves to retain
the moisture idlhe ground, which is
Essential CO.., ~ gardening
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-07-19

warm place in the sun or under the
stove in the winter and keep moist.
In less than "a hours many seeds,
such as onions, turnips, etc, will show
sprouts; for others, such as tomatoes
and beets, 1t will take two or three
days to show life. When ready to ex-
anime after "a hours. roll the flannel
and dirt carefully to one end of the
box and you will see exactly what
percentage you can depend on and
plant your seed accordingly; from 80
to 80 per cent should be fair aver
age; very small seeds may be placed
on the flannel promiscuously and ON
examination the looks Of the young
sprout will easily determine the vi
tally of the small seeds.
Every gardener that expects to
make a success should test his seeds
when received, forewarned is foro.
armed,
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-07-19

Palestine, Texas. July AT the
rate of two cars day the Fruit and
Truck Growers Association is now
loading and shipping liberia peaches.
The fruit is unusually fine. The man
agement of the international and
Great Northern has placed the i'm
mense cotton shed south Of the Rea-
gan street crossing at the disposal Of
the association. where the packing Ia
bles are set up, and the fruit is being
brought in in wagons as fast as 1t can
be handled The greatest care Is be-
ing taken in the storing and packing,
SO that Anderson county Elbertas will
be the first among their competitors
this year Ezell & Mathews, shipping
independent Of the association. win
from Monday on get out about one car
a day The excessive wet weather is
causing the fruit to ripen slowly.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-07-19

The towns of Golinda, Robinson,
Rosenthal and Gurley are close to-
gether and at all the places named
business has been, in large degree.
suspended ever since the outrage was
committed.
The messages received here con-
flict in some particulars and it will
be several hours before all the facts
reach this city.
All the messages however, agree
that a negro has been hanged, but it
is feared here by some of the officers
that instead of hanging the guilty ne
gro, the lynchers hanged one Of them
who had aided and abettod the flying
criminal. One Of the messages receiv-
ed here last night came from County
Judge Baker, stating that the guilty
negro had been hanged and that he
was hanged at Golinda. Fear is ex-
pressed also that the great crowd Of
lynchers assembled had worked them
selves into such frenzy that they
will hang others who refuse to d.
vulge the hiding place of the fugitive.
The sheriffs OF Falls and McLennan
counties and many other officers are
on their way to Golinda, which is 15
miles from here, and not connected
by telephone.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-07-19
INQUIRY STARTED.
secretary Wilson Institutes Investisa-
ton Of Tobacco Statistics.

5ecretary Wilson Institutes lnvestga-
tlon Of Tobacco Statistics.
Washington, July 15.-Through the
receipt of numerous communications
from the South and statements ap-
pearing in the press at various times
that the statistics of the Department
Of Agriculture on tobacco were being
manipulated in the interests of the So
called tobacco trust, Secretary Wilson
has begun an inquiry into the subject
Pending the investigation the publica-
ton of the tobacco statistics of the
several districts will be held up, al
though the regular monthly figures
by states will be given out on Mon
day next.
1t was stated at the department yes
terday that special agents have been
sent to the dark tobacco districts of
Tennessee and Kentucky to verify or
correct the departments figures. This
action, Mr.. Hyde, the Chief Statisti-
clan, said was in Difference to the
sentiment which had been engendered
that the department figures were who'll
ly incorrect
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-07-19
ReIton Potato shlpmenta.

Bolton, Texas. July 9.-Diversifica-
ton in crops in this county is being
thoroughly tested this season and so
far the results are fiatterlng. Yester.
day the Farmers Union at this point
shipped out the nineteenth car Of
Irish potatoes and there are many
more to be loaded. One other car was
shipped by an individual. The yield
was good and the Bell county product
has gained a reputation for Texas po-
tatoes. which thus creates a market
favorable to this section of the state.
Fruit and truck growing, as well as
stock raising is gaining favor daily
with the farmers. who used to plant
only cotton and corn.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-07-19
AN ANGRY MOB LYNGHES A NEGRO.
Fears Expressed That Wrong Man Has Suffered
Frenzied Crowd May Hang Others.

Waco, Texas, July 15.--Telephone
messages received here last night
state that the negro who dubbed, cut
and otherwise injured Mrs. Benjamin
Robert last Tuesday, the 18th inst,
was lynched yesterday afternoon near
the scene of the crime. Many of the
officers who began the pursuit the
night following the crime returned
yesterday. Several of them on fresh
horses have returned to Golinda. The
correspondent is informed that the ne
gro was caught in the Brazos bottom,
taken to Golinda and swung up by
lynching party consisting of five
hundred farmers and cattlemen.
Wild scenes, say messages, occurred
in the vicinity of Gurley yesterday, a
town four miles north of Golinda. The
neighbors of the Robert family, re-
inforced by armed and mounted men
from Falls county and from the por-
ton of McLennan county south of this
city, gathered and arrested a dozen
negroes known to be acquainted with
the one, charged with the crime A
negro who admitted giving the 'fugi-
tive a revolver and money was sin
gled out and the impression here is
that he was compelled, under the lash,
to divulge the hiding place of his
friend.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-07-19
.xIMosvILLE TRUCKERS PROSPER
But They Could Have Done better
Under Organization.


Kingsville. Texas, July $50 far as
your correspondent has been able to
learn, the truck growers of this vicin-
ity did very well with their first years
crop, considering everything, with the
exception of the prices sometimes Of
fered on account of not working to.
gether While some people seem dis
satisfied with the result, it seems to
be the consensus of opinion that II
they all pull together better prices
will be maintained. No fault has
been found with the service given by
the Gulf Coast Line in transporting
the product, cars being furnishe'
promptly. Next year will see hundreds
of acres OF new land cultivated by ex-
perlenced farmers from all over the
country. 1t might be mentioned that
one colony of thirty Danes and Swedes
from North Dakota has already pur-
chased land and will come to Kings
vile in the fall just as soon as their
crops are gathered.
Kingsville is experiencing steady
growth in many lines New resi-
dences and business houses are going
up, modern improvements being add
ed all the time, and everything to
make a first-class city is coming our
way
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-07-19
YELLOW 1--WE on IsrAMva.
A Texan In the Panama Disburslns OF.
flee pronounced a Fever Case.

~ ! SNdU III tIlG FdldInH BatBuTaiUN VIZ
flee pronounced a Fever Case.
Panama, July 15.-Up to yesterday
morning the yellow fever situation
looked brighter for Panama, and IL
was supposed that following the
death of Lee, the chief painter, at
Colon yesterday, there was no one that
looked like a dangerous case. George
H. Sharper of Magnolia, Texas, a
clerk in the disbursing office, was di-
agnosed Thursday as yellow fever
case, and died yesterday morning. In
consequence the list OF designations
was visibly swelled yesterday.
It seems that the very efficient san
itary board is held back in its efforts
from false idea of consideration OF
the feelings OF the Panamans. The
leaders of public opinion in Panama
recognize that the yellow fever is
holding prosperity back and favor the
same drastic methods that were used
in Havana.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-07-19
HOW TO PLANT IRISH POTATOES
FOR A FALL CROP.
lErom Houston shiprers, Guide. !

Notwithstanding the low price of
Irish potatoes in the South at this
time, we advise the planting of Irish
potatoes by all of our truck growers
as fall crop.
Nearly all of the Irish potatoes CON
sumed in the Southern States during
the fall and winter months are import
ed from the Northern and Western
States. The freight charges on these
potatoes range from 40c to SOC per
bushel. No matter how cheap the po-
tatoes may be In the North or West
the freight has to be paid, and there
fore Irish potatoes during fall and
winter months sell from Use to $1.OO
per bushel in any Southern market. In
fact, they have got to sell at those
prices to leave any profit to the North
ern shippers. 1t follows, If we grow
the potatoes in the South and save on
ly the freight charges, we are bound
to obtain fair prices for every bushel
of potatoes we offer in the fall and
winter months. There will also be a
good demand for seed for spring plant
ing. Why should we pay one dollar
and dollar and half for seed pota-
toes. when we can grow them just as
good in the South If we try? Many
growers even claim Southern seed po-
tatoes are the best. We know by ex-
perlence that they are just as good
We therefore say again, plant Irish
potatoes now and up to Sept. 1, and
you will be rewarded for your labor.
The most difficult part of planting
Irish potatoes in the fall is to get
them to come up even. Irish potatoes
for fall planting must never be cut
They must be planted whole. Some
growers advocate to sprout the pota-
toes before planting. Others condemn
1t. When properly done, sprouting the
potatoes before planting is by all odds
the best.
sproutlng.
Clear off sunny piece Of ground,
well drained, and lay your small seed
potatoes from to 6 inches deep. Now
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-07-19
MarrIaue Record II Dc.

Beeville, Texas: SO far this year
total of fifty-six licenses to marry
have been issued by the county clerk
of Bee county. OF these twenty-nine
were sold to whites, twenty-five to
Mexlcans and two to negroes. To the
same date last year fifty-eisht had
been issued, and the Mexicans were
leading with a safe majority.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-07-19
A Reckless Assertion.

II notice that the Washington Post
Aays that Wall street men must live"
Strange, isn't it, that even the most
careful and conscientious Of journals
will at times indulge in excusably
reckless assertions"
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-07-19

A scientist says that the vital proc
esses of the body are carried on by
chemical substances called "hor-
mones." Presently we shall have hor-
mones controlled by a trust and sold
in bottles at all drug stores.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-07-19

The boy who stretched himself two
inches to make himself eligible as a
midshipman has the kind of stuff in
him that may enable him to o'ertoT
his classmate.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-07-19
Benefited.

"Do you enjoy a holiday"
NO" answered thescandid person,
"but derive benefit from one. After
playing baseball or riding in crowded
cars for six or eight hours ordinary
work seems much pleasanter."
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-07-19

Foreigners may be able to get along
without American wheat, but how they
can get along without American corn
and rye we don't see.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-07-19

Sir Henry Irving read poem by
Alfred Austin" cables the foreign cor
respondent Sir Henry is a wonder
fully robust man, considering his age,
but he really oughtnt to take chances
like that.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-07-19

The Pneumonia Commission wants
to send scientist to the polar regions
to look for germs. What's the use of
soaring those benighted Eskimos to
death?
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-07-19

The wheat crop is going to be
either S4O,OOO,OOO bushels or 425,OOO,-
900 bushels, according to which ex-
pert you patronize. Anyway therell
be enough.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-07-19

Still, when Henry James referred to
some Americans "untldy language"
he may have been thinking of Ad-
miral R. Evans
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-07-19

What you want to bear in mind all
the time at this season of the year is
that it really isn't so much as it
seems-meaning, Of course, the
weather.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-07-19

But If Luther Burbank does evolve
"a cobless corn won't it seriously inter
fere with Missouri's justly celebrated
meerschaum industry?
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-07-19

If Pharaoh's daughter could have
foreseen that Alma Tadema was going
to get $4,000 for his picture OF "The
Finding of Moses, she would have
been differently dressed for the occa
sion.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-07-19

The king of Spain, it is stated, is
very early riser. Perhaps he realizes
the great ticks Admiral Dewey once
put in before breakfast.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-07-19

Women love to talk about the hus-
band of the future, but they are pretty
well satisfied with the husband with
present.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-07-19

Did you ever act as dummy di-
rector? OF course, we don't mean to
insinuate anything against your status
in the domestic establishment.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-07-19

1t is reported that the man who first
said that woman could dress on $65
year has gone into bankruptcy owing
$4,000 for his wife's milliners and
dressmaker's bills.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-07-19

An article in Harper's refers to Fran
els Drake as pirate. The Spanish in
the West Indies call him the devil.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-07-19

Jim Corbett and Bob Fitzsimmons
are going TO fight for the championship
of the world-the next world, we pre-.
,sume.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-07-19

A Philadelphia man made $1OOO,OOO
through forgery, but died and had
fine funeral before anybody found It
.out.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-07-19

Stop worrying about how fast the
Ice in the refrigerator melts, and
cheer yourself up with the thought
that there is nothing doing in the ash
producer in the cellar.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-07-19

How 1t must make the old-time
schooImaster ron in his grave to hear
the modern professor planning to
make the schoolroom as easy as pos
sible for the boys and girls.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-07-19

1t will be recalled that the heather
Chinee was peculiar, even in the time
of Truthful James.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-07-19

Tomato Shipments from jacksonville.
Jacksonville, Texas, July TIP to
date 146 cars of tomatoes have been
shipped from Jacksonville. The Cot
ton Belt has had 83 cars shipped over
that road and SO cars over the Inte.
national and Great Northern.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-07-19

With Nick and Mix both in favor OF
peace, it ought to come eventually.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-07-19

Sarah Bernhard says mems attire is
ridiculous. 1t is, Sarah. Don't wear it
again.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-07-19

Henry James says Americans say
"Cubar," "vaniller" and "cigah.' Does
Henry think Boston is America?
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-07-19

If you would have your last words
widely circulated, spend your life in
robbing banks.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-07-19

Bandit Raisuli may now point with
pride to the time when he constituted
the Morocco question.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-07-19
sproutlna.

Clear off sunny piece Of ground
well drained, and lay your small seed
potatoes from to 6 inches deep. Now
cover with straw or hay inches
The sun., 1905-12-17

when they go to Norway. You would be
surprised at the beautiful coloring of shells
from that mort hern coast.
@No, | don't know whether the weather
or the climate has an effect on the coloring
OF shells or not. Still, it seems to me that
the southern shells are richer in coloring.
an the summer there are some very
rare shells on the beach at Shelter Island,
There are men who peddle them, sell them
to tourists as souvenirs or te make por-
ii res oJ
1T is impossible to use ordinary leading,
such as most mosaic artists use, in this
work of mine, | use cement My uncle
has used it for one thing and another for
twenty years or more, which proves its
durability, but it is a secret Of our family.
You couldn't cement pebbles with lead,
Il use little stained glass in my work,
but not much-only where perfectly
fiat surface is necessary. i attain an al
most fiat surface with split pebbles. There
are those who make business Of splitting
Them scientifically.
The sun., 1905-12-17

outshining from the lamp, suggests what
the artist does in more ambitious schemes
with his strange media.
On a beach in the summerti ime the pebbles
catch all the colors Of rainbows, but who
save an artist who had listened to the sea
would think of turning a handful OF sea-
born pebbles into bunch of grapes to gleam
through the light of a reading lamp on
table in New York?
There was little hanging lamp at the
private view made entirely of pebbles.
They were Of a rich, soft, reddish hue,
with the light showing through. They
had something the look of soft ripe apples,
"My friends are very much interested
in my work." the artist said on Sunday
"They bring me shells and pebbles from
everywhere.
Here are some little barnacle shells they
brought me from the coast of Africa. These
ink shells are from Bermuda. I hey grow
exquisite shells on the coast of Africa and
in Bermuda. These pink apple blossoms
are made from Bermuda shells.
Il have friends who gather shells for me
The sun., 1905-12-17
JUSTICE GAYNOR PAID.
Imposed Fine OF 800 on Poor Farmer
and Then Drew n Check.

The announcement Of Justice W j. Gay
nor's recent purchase of the Col. Clinton FL.
Smith farm at st. James, l.. l., was pleasant
news to the farmers in the rural regions en-
braced by the district in which he holds
court. He is very popular with farmers, be-
cause they know that he was farmer boy
himself and that he has sympathy with
farmers.
One instance Of this sympathy occurred
at a term Of court at which he presided in
Newburgh a few years ago. A farmer from
the back country was charged with having
offered for sale milk which fell below the
standard set by law.
The accused was a poor wrinkled and
toll worn specimen of humanity. He pro-
tested that he had not diluted the lacteal
fluid and was inclined to blame the cows for
not producing the goods.
Their shortcomings did not help his case
any and he was convicted by the jury of the
offence charged against him. Justice Gay
nor imposed fine of 500
Later in the day Justice Gaynor called
County Clerk William G. Taggart to him and
said:
MIR Clerk, l desire to pay that poor old
farmers fine but as do not want it so to
appear l will ask you to give me your check
for slO0 and | will give you mine. The
amount s more than this man can afford to
pay. know how hard it is to eke living
from stony little farm, for lived on one as
a boy up at Skeeterboro, in Oneida county,
and Il some one had imposed fine OF 500 on
my father the payment of it would have
crippled him for years. SO will help this
oldfellow out, and you and will say nothing
about it TO any one"
I Thus Justice Gaynor paid the fine that he
had himself imposed, and it was not until
long after-when Mr.. Taggart s term of
Office had e1pired-that the County Clerk
told the story. This is only ono of many
acts of kindness by which Justice Gaynor
has won the affection of those who dwell in
farming communities. They are glad there
fore that he has bought farm and that for
part of the time in every year he will be
farmer as we'll as Judge. 1t pleases them
also to think Of him as laying aside his judi
cia dignity to get the hay in or fix the fences
or drive the cows home.
The sun., 1905-12-17

son Of Horace vernet, he was associated
with art from his early days. He was
trained In Paris and Munich, and, naturally
enough, In the stirring history OF his own
country, Poland, he found subjects con-
genial TO his brush.
Having devoted himself to the painting
Of military subjects, he also made practical
acquaintance with soldiers life, becoming
an officer in the Austrian cavalry. Several
Of his pictures were bought by the Emperor
Francis Joseph, and the soldier-painters
fame spread to other European countries.
Commissioned from Berlin to paint the
Crossing OF the Beresina" in the form OF
a panorama, he did 10 with such success
that the work brought him to the notice OF
the Kaiser, whose favorte war painter no
then and there became. For nine years
De Kossak worked almost exclusively for
the Kaiser, being present at all the reviews
and manpuvres and receiving many, marks;
OF signal favor. The Berliners soon learned
when they saw the Kaiser riding along with
his staff that the officer of the Austrian