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Smyrna times., 1905-07-05


lat silking time; bottom of board repre-
sents soil surfaced
70 maintain constantly a loose soil
mulch till the corn has attained its
growth. To this end a greater number
Of civilizations will be necessary when
rains at intervals of about a week
cause the surface soil to run together
and crust. This crust must be broken
and the soil mulch restored or evapora-
ton will soon rob the soil Of its mOls-
fure. 1t is a mistake to think that the
larger the drought the more frequent
should be the cultivation. After a fine
mulch of about three inches In depth
has been produced its frequent stirring
rs not necessary except In 80 far as 1t is
required to keep weeds from starting.
The essential object Of cultivation ls to
restore the soil mulch as soon after a
rain as the condition Of the ground will
pegmit. If this time is allowed to pass
and the ground becomes hard and
baked dry, the crop will suffer greatly,
for the cultivation of hard, dry ground
breaks 1t up into clods, allowing the air
to penetrate to greater depth and caus-
ing more injury than IL such cultiva-
tion had not been given at all.
Many crops are cut short by stopping
me cultivation, because corn is too tall
for the use Of a double cultivator with
out breaking down the stalks. If the
condition Of the soil demands 1t shall
low cultivation should continue. even
though the corn is tasseling.
Smyrna times., 1905-07-05
EvaporatInR Potatoes.

New York farmers who have held
their potatoes too long may be interest
ed to know that report has been re-
ceived at the agricultural department
from the Oregon experiment station to
the effect that potatoes have been
sliced, evaporated and stored away for
ten months with satisfactory results.
At the end of ten months the potatoes
were soaked in water and fried. The
report states that they looked fresh
and tasted very much the same as
fresh potatoes. If this method Of pre-
serving potatoes proves practicable it
will enable them to be kept over from
one year to the next and thus largely
overcome the wide difference in value
for which this crop is noted.-Country
Gentleman.
Smyrna times., 1905-07-05

Leave Porter for Delaware City S.5S a. m, 1927
3.3I, 4.?4 ard SPA D. m. week days. Returning
leave Delaware City 7.55, $50 and iO.2S a. m, and
3.l5 and S.56 p. m. weekdays.
Leave Massey for Chestertown and way sta
tions 9.56 a. m. and $40 p. m. weekdays Re-
turning leave Chestertown 708 q. m. and 2.32
p. m. weekdays.
Leave Townsend for Centreville and way sta.
at 9.29 a. m and 4.43 p. m. week-da Re
turning, leave Centreville TAI a. m. and 2.SO p.
M, week days.
Leave Clayton for Oxford and way stations at
942 a m. and 4.5S p. To- Returning, leave Ok
ford 643 a. n. ana 1.45 p. IN. week days.
Leave Seaford for Cambridge and interme.
diate stations at 11.l7 a. m and 624 D. m. week.
days. Returning, leave Cambridge at 80 q. m.
and 2.32 p. m. weekdays,
CoNNEcTIoNs-AtP Porter. with Newark & Della
ware City Railroad At Townsend, with Queen
Annes6 KentRailroad AtClayton with Delaware
d chesapeake Railroad and Baltimore & Delaware
Bay Railroad. At Harrington, with Delaware
Maryland & Virginia Railroad. AtSesford, with
Cambridge & Seaford Railroad. At Delmar with
New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk, WicOmico d
Pocomoke, and Peninsula Railroads.
w. W. ATTERBURY, General Manager
J. R. WOOD, Passr Traffic Manager.
GEO. W. BOYD, General Passenger Agent
Smyrna times., 1905-07-05

! could have raised ten pounds of weight
from the ground, the pain was so severe.
This was my condition when 1 began u.s.
ing Doan's Kidney Pills. They quickly
relieved me and now 1 am never troubled
as l was. My back is strong and 1 can
walk or ride long distance and feel just
as strong as did twenty-five years ago.
/ think so much of Doan's Kidney Pills
that have given a supply of the remedy
to some of my neighbors and they have
also found good results. If you can sift
anything from this rambling note that
will be of any service to you, or to any
one suffering from kidney trouble, you
are at liberty to do So"
A FREE TRIAL of this great kidney
medicine which cured Mr.. Corton will be
mailed on application to any part of the
United States. Address Foster-Milburn
Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Sold by all dealers !
price, fifty cents per box.
Smyrna times., 1905-07-05
Lurking Danger.

A farmer who was much troubled Dy
trespassers during the nutting season
consulted with botanical friend. The
botanist furnished him with the tech
nical name of the hazel, and the farmer
placed the following notice at conspicu-
Gus points about his premises:
''Trespassers take warning! All per-
sons entering this wood do so at their
own risk, for, although common snakes
are not often found. the Corylus avel-
lana abounds everywhere about here
and never gives warning Of its pres
ence."
The place was unmolested that year,
and the farmer gathered his crop In
peace.
Smyrna times., 1905-07-05
EARLY Ont Alfalfa

At the Utah experiment station
steers made a most rapid gain when
fed upon early cut alfalfa either with
or without an accompanying ration OF
grain. By early cut hay was meant
hay cut just before bloom. The gain
upon this early cut alfalfa hay was
one-third more than that upon hay cut
when in full bloom or later. 1t was
also found that more hay was pro
duced from the early cuttings and that
the third crop gave more rapid gains
than either the first or second, which
latter are nearly equal in this respect
Smyrna times., 1905-07-05
CULTlVATlNG CORN.
Shallow Cultivation to Maintain a
Loose Soil Mulch.
By c. p. HARTLEY.

By c. P. HARTLEY.
Many comparative experiments Of
deep and shallow cultivation have been
made, and ON the whole the results are
in favor of shallow cultivation. There
are but few occasions when deep culti-
walton Is preferable. If excessive rains
have packed the soil and kept it water
s-SS1Ged deep cultivation will help to dry
and aerate the soil. Breaking the roots
Of the plants must be avoided as far as
possible. If roots are broken the plants
will rapidly produce other roots, but it
will be at the expense of the vitality
and food supply. After the plants have
reached a height of three or four feet
the soil even in the middle of the rows
should not be cultivated deeper than
four inches, and three inches is usually
better. For retaining soil moisture a
loose soil mulch two or three inches In
thickness should be maintained
The best answer to the question Of
how frequently cpyn should be cult
waited is thgt-Itss should be cultivated
often enough to keep down weeds and
Smyrna times., 1905-07-05
A ROOmy Hotel.

A story is being told in Athens OF an
American woman who visited Greece
on a cruise of the Mediterranean. When
she entered the train at the Piraeus in
order to reach the city she was OBJ
served by a fellow traveller to be visi-
bly, disturbed and was asked to explain
the reason for her distress. "Oh," she
replied, ''Tve been wondering what we
shall do. l hear we shan't be able to
get rooms at the Acropolis. and don't
know the name OF any other hOtelr'
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j. B. Corton,
farmer and lum-
b e m a n, of
Deppe, n. c.,
says II suffer-
ed for years
with my back.
1t was so bad
that 1 could
not walk any
distance nor
even ride in
easy buggy. I
do NOT helievo
Smyrna times., 1905-07-05
II Rninea.

When highfalutin editor Is in a
hurry he doesn't waste words by say
ing, ut rained." He simply writes,
after many days of arid deslccation
fbe vaporing captains marshaIed their
laundering hosts and poured out upon
scorching humanity and the thoroughly
incinerated vegetation few Inches os
aqua pluvialis,"
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ss,a4ss.z4S-
aGARMoF
A 4An GARDEN
PARASITES ON HOGS.
Spraying "A Very Effective Remedy.
An Ingenious Device.

-" . C11HOu" F1cC'
BY EARLE c. STEVENSON, bureau of
animal industry
When the necessary apparatus is
provided, dipping the hogs is the most
convenient and rapid method Of apply
ing insecticides. Experiments, how
ever, have proved that spraying liquids
over animals is equally effective if
thoroughly performed. A force pump
If fitted with hose Of sufficient length
to permit freedom of motion to the Op-
orator may be used. A spray nozzle is
attached to the end of the hose or, as
has been done in the absence of a
suitable nozzle, the end of the hose is
Smyrna times., 1905-07-05

saturated with VI
the kerosene
percolating through the pine plugs.
Two quarts Of oil daily are required
the first three or four days and after
ward one quart week. Riedel re-
marks that every hog wanted to be
first at the post and. that the lice in
the herd soon disappeared. A plat
form should be built around the post
in order that the hogs may not make
a wallow about its base.
Byrn tells of Kidding a herd Of lice
by digging a basin, or wallow, In the
yard, pouring in water and throwing
in small quantity of kerosene. He
states that the pigs frequented this
place, and the lice soon disappeared.
Smyrna times., 1905-07-05
Couldn't Lift Ten Pounds.
Doan's Kidney Pills Brought Strength
and Health to the Sufferer, Max.
ing Him Feel Twenty-Five
Years Younger.
hCdho dOIASCEs

Sick kidneys cause a weak, lame or
aching back, and a weak back makes
a weak man. Can't be we'll and strong
sntil the kidneys are cured. Treat them
with Doan's Kidney Pills. Here's the
testimony of one man cured.
Smyrna times., 1905-07-05

twelve inches
into the top of
the post. A one
and One-fOurth
inch hole is bOr-
ed from each
side of the post
to open the bot
tom of the lar
ger hole. Soft
pine plugs are
driven into the
small holes and
burlap or old
cloth is wrap
ped around the
post, covering
the pine plugs,
and bOunddown
with wire. The
hole in the top
of the post is
then filed with
Kerosene. In q
short time the
ra gs become
saturated with
Smyrna times., 1905-07-05
SMYRNA DIRECTORY.

TOWN OFFICIALS.
>ldent of Couneil-Samuel J. Re- nOlds
Secretary and Clerk of Council Harry B. Grieves
Tom Freasuser-Ezekial V. Cooper
Alderman-Eugcne Crow.
Grief of Police-B. W. Turner.
Councilmen: LIST ward, John e. StOebley; 2nd
ard. Samuel ]. Reynolds; 3rd Ward, Harry B.
Grieves; 4th Ward JOS H. Wright; 5th Ward,
John P. Hudson; 9Th Ward, Charles C. Thornley,,
james G. Robinson.
Council meets the second and fourth Fridays
il each month.
The San Francisco call., 1905-06-18

most thrilling moment of my infamous
career, say it was that moment. There
l st7od at the bottom of those narrow
stone stairs, inside the strongroom, with
the door a good foot open, and l didn't
know whether 1t would creak or not. The
light was coming nearer-and l didn't
know! i had to chance 1T. And it didn't
creak bit; it was far too solid and we'll
hung; and couldn't have banged 1t If l
tried, it was too heavy; and 1t fitted so
close that 1 felt and heard the air
squeeze out in my face. Every shred of
light went out, except the streak under
meath. and 1t frightened. How l blessed
that door!
No. he's not down there. I heard,
as though through cotton-wool; then the
streak went out, too, and In a few sec-'
onds ventured to open once more, and
was in time to hear them creeping to my
room.
well, now there was not fifth of
second to be lost, but I'm proud to say l
came up those stairs on my toes and
fingers, and out of that bank Chey'd gone
and left the door open) just as gingerly
as though my time had been my own. I
didn't even forget to put on the hat the
doctors mare was eating her oats out of,
as well as she could with bit. or it alone
would have landed me. 1 didn't even gal
lop away, but just logged off quietly in
the thick dust at the side OF the road
Though own my heart was galloping).
and thanked my stars the bank was at
that end of the township in which really
hadn't set foot. The very last thing I
The San Francisco call., 1905-06-18

England. Young Corbett is going to the
wall. These few tips Of how soon a
fighter can go TO the bad when he don't
look out for himself ought to be warm
ing to such promising material as Phil
aoelphia Jack OBrien and George Gard
ner, two men who did look good to me.
O'Brien has met Hugo Kelly four times
a draw in Kansas City, in Chicago when
O'Brien won, in Philadelphia when no
decision was given, but O'Brien was evil
IDENTIFY on top, and last in Indianapolis
when Kelly won. Gardener was walloped
in Salt Lake City while ago by Mike
Schreck. who had no license to do any
thing of the kind. and the man who
stored away Jack Root and gave Fitz-
simmons one of the toughest fights of his
career took a drop backward.
Both O'Brien and Gardner have come
up through hard work. O'Brien went
away from Philadelphia. where he wasn't
England. Gardner went away from home.
where he wasn't taken seriously, and
after hunting out the best men he could
fad in Africa and Australia. came home
to make good Foolish living Is doing
them both up. I'd like to get the pair OF
them together long enough to bat some
sense into them.
I've been through the mill and advice
from me on the score OF silly living is
worth dollars to any boxer with wit
enough to take a brace and come back"
If they don't brace they will both be
counted out very soon. This is no pipe
dream. It's as cold a fact as they will
find in days hunt.
Bubble-BIOwers to the Tall Weeds.
The three-cornered taffy-passing sworry
goes on. Jeffries says Fitz Is the real
thing for heavyweight champ after him.
F'itz saws jeff is a great man and that
fo f17exe
world has ever seen. Corbett OWNS up
that Fitz, middleweight, is a better
man than he is a heavyweight, and he
saws that Jeff is a better man than 7
am because he has fought US both and
ought TO know. Fudge, pish. tush, rats.
F'itz has delivered the goods and is en-
titled to all he has. He never got his
reputation because Of educated feet. But
Jeffries has not only sidestepped yours
truly but he has ducked Marvin Hart
after a dozen promises to meet him. As
for Corbett, when he puts footracing be-
fore straight-and-abo above-board fighting he
might as well try to prove that cruiser
is a better fighter than a battleship be-
cause it can run away from a fight
Those who make a trade Of fighting know
better. Had been able to make Corbett
pause long enough in his running to let
me hand him one in his pantry OF on the
law he would have different notions in
his noddle when he woke up.
1 carry more lard near the belt than
used to do, but the swelling has not gone
to nv head The lard is being trained
from my front and a few more months
of the kind of work am doing will put
me in shape to make some Of these bub-
ble-blowers put their flags at half-mast.
To begin with I'll give history jolt
backwards by landing on Charley Mitch
ell in September and unless am a four
fiusher of the two-fer size the tall weeds
will be populated by prenoms and long
distance pedestrians. II I don't, may
never see Boston and Billy Hpgarey
again.
The San Francisco call., 1905-06-18
RAFFLES NO. 3---LE PREMIER PAS -

heard was the two managers raising Cain
and the coachman. And now, Bunny
He stood up and stretched himself,
with a smile that ended in a yawn- The
black windows had faded through every
shade of indigo: they now framed their
opposite neighbors, stark and livid in
the dawn: and the gas seemed turned
20 nothing in the globes
But that's not all?" cried.
I'm sorry to say it is" said Raffies
apologetically. The thing should have
ended in an exciting chase. know, but
somehow it didn't 1 suppose they
thought I had got no end of a start;
then they had made up their minds that
I belonged to the gang, which was not
so many miles away, and one of them
had got as much as he could carry from
that gang as it was. But I wasn't to
know all that. and I'm bound to say
there was plenty of excitement left for
me. Lord. how I made that poor brute
travel when 1 got among the trees.
Though we must have made 1t over
fifty miles from Melbourne, we had
done it at a snaifs pace, and those
stolen oats had brisked the old girl up
to such a pitch that she fairly bolted
when she felt her nose turned south.
BY JOye, 1t was no joke. in and out
among those trees and under branches
with your face in the name. told you
about the forest of dead gums? 1t look
ed perfectly ghostly in the moonlight
And found it as still as had left it,
so still that pulled up there, my first
halt, and lay my ear to the ground for
two or three minutes. But I heard
The San Francisco call., 1905-06-18

mine. The Doctors got out their dinky
little saws and things and began TO cut
the bad all out of me.
They put me down and while 1 took
their count they found that L had rup-
ture of the bowels, and that I'd had 1t
from birth. / took their word for it.
They had to go back over my record to
be convinced that I'd lived SO many years
without complaining.
"I never made any complaint at being
alive" / told them, although some 9TH
ers had
They thought it wonderful that I'd
been able to train and fight so long.
told them that in 1885, some time after my
three hours fight with Mitchell In
France. during March of that year Sc
we're illness got me and / was in my
mighty in bed for nine weeks, suffering
with typhoid fever. gastric fever, imam
nation of the bowels, liver complaint and
heart trouble-all at the same time rms
sounds like some of the things you hear
members of Congress and skinny women
telling about in patent medicine adver-
tisements, but its sure enough truth
The San Francisco call., 1905-06-18

whereas 1 might have been gone ten min
utes, there cane a violent knocking at
the outer door.
Bunny, il was the outer door of the
banking chamber, My candle must have
been scent And there l stood, with the
grease running hot over my fingers, in
that brick grave of a strongroom
There was only one thing to be done.
] must trust to the sound sleeping or
Ewbank upstairs, open the door myself.
knock the visitor down or shoot him
with the revolver / had been new chum
enough to buy before leaving Mel
bourne and make a dash for that
clump of trees and the doctors mare.
Ny mind was made up in an instant,
and / was at the top of the strong-room
stairs, the knocking still continuing.
when a second sound drove me back. 1t
was the sound of bare feet coming
along a corridor.
My narrow stair was stone. I tum-
bled down it with little noise and had
had left the keys in the safe. AS / did
thanked my gods that 1 had shut every
chap. ones caution doesn't always let
one in.
who's that knocking? said Ew-
bank up above.
II could not make out the answer,
but 1t sounded to me like the irrelevant
supplication of spent man. What Il
did hear plainly was the cooking of the
bank revolver before the bolts were
The San Francisco call., 1905-06-18
By f. w. Hornung

nothing-not a thing but the mares
below and my own heart. I'm sorry.
Bunny, but IL ever you write my
memoirs you won't have any difficulty
in working up that chase. Play those
dead gum trees for all they're worth.
and let the bullets fly like hail. I'll turn
around in my saddle to see Ewbank
coming up hell-to-leather in his white
suit, and I'll duly paint 1t red Do 1t
in the third person. and they won't
know how it's going to end
But I don't know myself" COM
planned. did the mare carry you all
the way back to Melbourne?"
Every rod. pole or perch. had her
well seen at our hotel and returned her
to the doctor in the evening He was
tremendously tickled to hear had
been bushed. Next morning he brought
me the paper to show me what I had
escaped at Yea"
Without suspecting anything?
"Ah," said Rafies as he put out the
gas. ''that is point on which I've never
made up my mind The mare and her
color was a coincidence-luckily she
was only bay-and I fancy the condi-
tfon of the beast must have told a tale.
The doctors manner was certainly diff
ferent. I'm inclined to think he sus-
pected something. though not the right
thing. 1 wasn't expecting him. and
fear my appearance may have In
creased his suspicious"
I asked him why.
"I used to have rather a heavy mus
tache." said Raffes. but lost Il the
day after lost my innocence
The San Francisco call., 1905-06-18
] ROARED OUT
A FEW NOTES
OF a 5ONG

When 1 was turned loose by the doc
tors in the hospital / was partly para
lyzed, my legs being on strike and refus-
Ing to work. With the use Of crutches |
was able to get around to meet the boys
and see if the supply of coffin xarnish
was holding out 1t was six weeks be-
fore l gave the crutches the glad heave.
Threw Away His Clutches.
1t was In the latter part of December,
1883, that / chucked the crutches. Stick
a pin in this date and then remember
that on July 8, 1889, I fought Jake Kilrain
at Richburg, Miss, that battle lasting
seventy-five rounds. What do you think
of that? And 1 let that battle go seven
ty-five rounds on purpose to show that l
was able to go any distance any living
fighter could do. I'll tell you in my next
how | let Kilrain do all that was in, him
in that fight, holding off the knockout till
everybody was tired of the battle. just to
show that | was still the champion, and
the crutches didn't show in the count.
/ have brought out these facts at this
time to show that | can recover from
anything to good enough notch to put it
over the twenty-round ladybirds who are
to-day doing vaudeville stunts and call
ing 1t fighting. / have it in me to press
the button for the best of them and they
can't talk down the facts of the past any
more than they can duck the dead sure
things that I'm futuring for them
The San Francisco call., 1905-06-18

sistants he told them to hold the muscles
of the arm, and he, taking hold of the
hand as if to shake it, gave it a wrench
and broke the arm.
Mind you, my good right was free and
III working order all this time, but that
doctor never turned a hair, although
there wasn't a heavyweight fighter in
the world that didn't fear that same
right, and he didn't know what / might
do when he snapped the bone. You must
remember that had a record as rather
impulsive fellow, even If my folks did
think when / was younger that they'd
have me enter the priesthood.
you've got sand, DOCTOR, said /.
There's more money for you in the ring
than in saving bones"
He smiled, set the arm in plaster cast
which / wore for five weeks, and before
long the arm was doing business at the
old stand and has been on duty ever
since.
How nm Amateur Scrnpper Got $500
From John L.
In town near Pittsburg. Pa, made a
one-night stand, offering $500 to any am
bilious gent who would take chance of
staying with me four/rounds. Up comes
big youngster Weighing over 200 pounds
He had hands like baseball mitts, and
was half iron worker and half farmer.
II ken lift 500 pounds. Mr.. Sullivan, and
once 1 threw Farmer Browns bull, and
when it KEN at me agen 1 knocked it
down with this said the candidate for
the $500, showing his right fist. He also
brought Farmer Brown along to prove
the QUILL part of the story. He didn't
bring the bull, but offered to get it.