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Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-11-08
Save Seeds OF Euy Them?

One of the most prominent seedsmen
that the demand for cheap seeds was
alarming. He said he knew, as every
trained scotsman knew. that cheap
seeds could only bring unsatisfactory
results, but as a merchant, he could
do nothing but supply the demand. OF
course, there are farmers and garden
ers who still buy the best seeds, but
they are in the minority when the num-
Der of seed buyers is considered. The
unfortunate part of this condition is
that the demand for cheap seeds comes
from farmers. The man with the small
garden wants the best seed and pays
the price; the man whose entire income
depends upon his crop buys the cheap
seed.
Some of the smaller seedsmen have
given up handling anything but the
cheap seeds and our friend was afraid
that after a time all seedsmen would
be forced to a similar situation. Many
of our correspondents complain that
the seeds they buy are poorer each
year, which bears out the statements
of u scotsman friend. Farmers can
control the seed situation for them
selves if they will learn how to save
good seed and in view of the impression
that seeds as a commodity are becoin-
ing poorer, certainly farmers should be-
gin to look into the question of obtain
ing the best and then selecting the
best from each crop until they are il
dependent of the commercial seed sit
uation, at least so far as the seeds Tor
the main crop are concerned.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-11-08

fifteen pounds, and the females ten and
twelve. Their plumage is beautiful
and they are exceedingly hardy. They
are fairly good layers, yet they are
proving less popular each year.
Why this should be is hard to under
stand. as it is a pity hat so meritorious
a breed should be neglected or forgot
ten.-Home and Farm.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-11-08
Clever Work of Detective.

In examining a jewelers. window in
Oxford street, London, which had
been broken to permit Of the extrac-
ton of nine watches, a police sergeant
noticed a little blood on the glass.
Later on in Soho he observed a mar
with a cut finger, so he arrested him
and found the stolen watches in his
pocket.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-11-08
GARNISHING THE r

A fllet of beef or a veal roast is eff
fectively garnished with artichoke
hearts, trimming with new peas. each
choke placed in a nest of green. Deli.
cately grilled, they are even more in
wiling surrounded with asparagus tips
OF little hearts of blanched lettuce.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-11-08
For Reas

for heaVy feeding some kind of
.eeoer should be used. Little wooden
uoughs are best, and may be made n
slze desired. The best kind is a two
'nch oiock suttered out by cutter heads
or wabble saws, cutting SLOTS half an
ihcn VIDE and having stationary cen
Tres OF an eighth of an inch thick to
give the bees a foothold, which keeps
tnem from drowning in the syrup.
"neh open troughs are used, some
noatlns material should be placed on
the syrup to answer this
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-11-08
FOR VASES.

It will be found that vinegar and
tea leaves are excellent used together
for cleaning vases that have become
discolored by flowers.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-11-08
@HoUSEHoLD
~ AFFAIRS
B&8
TO IMPROVE THE FISH.

Salt water fish are much improved,
says Good Housekeeping, if they are
soaked in sailed water for half an
hour before cooking.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-11-08
The Rambling Dog.

Dogs are, no doubt, excellent things
In their place. "a place for evervthinc
and everything in its place." is put
to seorn when a community that are
in the sheep business allow q lot Of
useless ours to run about at andom
Get rid of the ours, for if Won don't
they will get rid of your sheen.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-11-08
sc|Ei(EAfl4AIucs
@:~~,

Soda, in a 2-per-cent. solution, is
recommended by Professor Esmarch,
OF Gottingen, as the best means Of dis.
injecting eating utensils.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-11-08

Life is short at best-and perhaps
that is the best thing that can be
said about it. So. 45,
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-11-08
OyerSAilf Effect.

A lovely evening dress is OF white
Irish crochet. and is composed of 8
bolero and a broadly Vandyked skirt
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-11-08
The Populous Chinese Empire.

United States Consul Anderson, at
PekiE, reports the latest estimate of
| the population of China as 49,, 00o, 900.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-11-08

Flue dust mixed thoroughly with a
small portion of clay has been used
successfully as fuel at the Johnstown
plant of the Cambria Steel Company.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-11-08
Co-Operation in Cattle Breeding.

A good many farmers who have but
small herds are using grade bulls be-
cause they say they cannot afford pure
hoods do in draft horse breeding, where
a good pure bred stallion is bought by
several farmers joining in the pur-
49, is kind Of cooperation
in purchase of d prime
a neighborhood could
tIheir common cattle till
III nearly double what
In {. few years by such
Operation The cattle could
I'd on the market more
grade baef cattle would
L fatted For the market
saving of grain and food
/ is remembered that such
be Dut finished on the
Ching more at two to two
nj years old thar common cat
s4be made to weigh at three years
I'D. Such a neighborheod bull would
1 really be a money maker for those who
|. are now using a grade sire. Such CO.
a operation partakes of the farm and
Purposes Of stock corporations in man
e ufacturing, where several persons join
their capital because no II of them
has enough for the business. 1t is not
a new feature of industry, but can be
extended to cattle and other live stock
breeding and growing as successfully
as it is i'll neutrality-suspicious.
Farmer. .:,ie
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-11-08

A storing of sun heat in some of the
small salt lakes of Hungary was OBJ
served as far back as in 1901 by
Kalecsinsky. who recorded the results
of his Investigations in a. paper before
the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
He showed the warm layer of the
Szovata salt lakes, which lies at a GER
tain depth below the surface between
two colder layers and which is sew
eral meters in depth. to have neces-
sarily derived its heat from the sun.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-11-08

The first Geographic longitude sta
ton in Labrador has been established
at Chateau Bay by DR.. Otto Klotz,
Dominion astronomer, in conjunction
with Sir William MacGregor, Governor
of Newfoundland.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-11-08

luck,
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-11-08

New York City.-No negligee has ever
become quite so popular as the kimono.
While it's accepted form is far from
being a replica of the one worn by our
Japanese cousins. it owes it's sugges-
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-11-08

From a small beginning two years
ago an arsenic mine near Elbe, Pierce
County, Washington, has been devel-
oped until it is now producing twenty
five tons each twenty-four hours. 1t
is the only mine in the country in
which the arsenic is taken direct from
the ore.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-11-08

1t has been suggested that the excel
lent showing made by steel cars in
collision is due to the fact that the
wooden cars in the train with them
acted as cushions and lessened the
force. of shock.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-11-08

At IN inquest in London. a medical
expert testified: 1.-THE man had a weak
digestion, and if mushrooms are not
quite fresh. when eaten they are apt
to have serious effects in the cases of
persons with weak d~igestions."
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-11-08

Walter Rothschild, NJ. P, who re-
Gently spent three weeks at Cauterets,
in France. near the Pyrenees. brought
home to England with him nearly 1000
specimens of butterflies to add to the
million he already has.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-09
The One-Sided Girl.

'She has pretty hair the athletic
girl admitted, but it is never dressed
evenly. The right side always looks
much better than the left
THAT is because she never moves
her bureau said the wise girl. Her
room is so small that she can't haul
things around. SO month in and month
out her looking glass stands in the
same corner by the window, and
month in and month out she dresses
with her right side to the light and the
left in shadow.
Consequently one-half of her face
and hair is well groomed, while the
other half gets only a lick and a
promise Any girl who would avoid
looking one-sided must dress one week
with her right side to the window, the
next week with her left side in the
light
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-09
Gen. Xmas First Order.

Comrade John r. King, Senior Vice
Commander-in-Chief of the Grand
Army of the Republic, assumed COM
mand of the organization, and issued
his first general order on July 10. The
order paid a high tribute to the late
Commander-in-chiefW ilmon W. Black
mar and directed that the colcrs be
drared for ten days at every head
quarters and every post of the Grand
Army of the Republic.
Comrade James M Schoonmaker,
at his own urgent request, is relieved
from his position as Chief of Staff, and
ComraGe J. J. McCardy, Past Depart
ment Commander of the Department
of Minnesota, is appointed in his
place.
The Adjutant General will continue
in the performance of the duties of his
Office during the remainder of the year
and until his successor shall be chosen
in the encampment-
All other officers of the staff are re-
specially requested to remain on
duty according to the appointments
heretofore made
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-09
REAL MEAN OF BILL.
Refused to Do Kind Act for His old
shipmate.

Shipmate.
CT wouldn't have thought it of him,
sir" said the old sailor-"him that had
sailed shipmates with me for years.
His name it were Bill Withers, and We
got away from a wreck in the Indian
ocean together in one of the quarter
boats. There came a day when the
water and food gave out, and l says to
Bill, says L:
"'Bill, we can go about three days
on nothing, and then L shall have to
eat you
"'All right, old ship says he, and
there was nothing more to be said
about it. Four days passed, and then
I says to Bill:
stand up and see if there's sail
in sight
?" mary a SAIL says he, after looking
around.
Then I've got to eat YOU
".All right, old ship; but let me
tell you that 1 have just taken big
dose of poison, and if you eat me you
won't be long arter me-
And was it so?" was asked of Bills
friend.
1T was so, sir. and what does Bill do
but swell up and die and fall over
board, and leave me to go on suffering
for four days more before bark sight
ed and picked me up. Would you have
believed there was as mean man in
all this world?"-Detroit Tribune.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-09
DR.. eordon,s "soft Snap"

DR.. George A. Gordon, pastor of the
Old South Church, tells this on him.
self: DR.. Gordon, who was in early
manhood an ironworker of some sort,
met one of his former comrades of
the forge shortly after coming to the
Old South, and his salutation was:
Good morning, MikeI"
How are We, George?" was Mikes
reply.
How are you getting on, Mike?''
asked the minister
s.Only fair, George. All the hard
work 1 want; but what are you driv-
ing at, George?"
'Oh, I'm pastor of the church you
see over yonder."
What, you preacher in that swell
church with the steeple out of plumb p
Yes, Mike, I'm the pastor" replied
DR.. Gordon, an amused smile on his
face
by Cd, George, but you've strucE
soft snap!-Boston Herald.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-09
AROSE IN HIS WRATH.
Report Interrupted With Question OF
Personal Privilege.

personal privilege.
Jay PhippS was entertaining at
Beaufort castle, Lord Lovat's Scot
fish estate, a party of Pittsburgers.
In the smoking room, one evening
the talk turned to the humor of the
Scotch, and Mr.. Phipps suddenly
laughed.
THE Scotch" he said, "have a con-
scious and an unconscious humor.
Both are good, but 1 prefer the latter.
l heard a good example of it, the other
night.
I'm hall near here 1 attended a
meeting. The orator of the occasion
was an eloquent and distinguished
mana member, in fact, of the House
of Lords and below him, as he
spouted forth his eloquence, sat a
bald-headed reporter, taking down
eagerly every word.
THE hall was an ancient one, and,
as the evening passed, it grew hot and
damp. Moisture, gathering on the
gray stones and pillars fell in big,
cool drops on the assemblage.
We'll, as the orator spouted a fiery
stream of rhetoric, the bald reporter
writing away furiously, received on
his bare and glistening skull a huge
drop of moisture.
He interrupted the speaker at once.
He leaped to- his feet.
What's that sputterin'?' he cried
sternly."
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-09
A Pin Tip to Women.

1t took a dozen pins to fasten the
ruffe at the bottom of the skirt
'sIt looks all right now" said the
owner of the torn gown ruefully, but
the pins will all fall out before I have
walked a block"
"They wouldn't if you had put them
in right" said the woman who knows
things. In pinning on a fiounce or
mending round and-round rent of any
kind, never put the pins in length
wise They will be sure to work out
If you do Just stick them in head up
and they will stay in place through
miles Of pedestrianism-"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-09
His First Stem.

Look here, Halton, why in creation
did you lure me into buying a ticket
for the lawn fete?"
why, did you pay out much?'
Much? Why, they charged me SO
cents for a lemonade and a dollar for
ice creami"
THAT was exorbitant."
Then l was lured through the
Maze of Mystery Witches Caldron,'
etc.. and by the time they finished tell
ing my fortune 1 didn't have a penny.
THAT was tough"
"Oh, could have recovered from
that, but it was the sequel. When 1
reached home dead broke my wife
accused me of playing poker and hasn't
spoken to me since. Chicago News.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-09

Magazine writer's are discussing this
question: "Is it a sacrifice to take
great office?" 1t may be, but If it is,
it only shows how se1f-sacrificing the
average American can be when called
upon to accept a public trust to which
there is attached salary.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-09

An owl sat in a jack-oak tree
And blinked his big, round eyes at me;
At Rose and me beside the brook,
In calm, sequestered, moonlit nook.
Then screeched the owl with bold
halloo,
And brashly queried, "Whoo? Whoo :?
Whoo?' ire
Its only Rose and l." 1 said,
And you would better go to bed,
Instead of rudely staring thus
With your big eyes a-down at u.s."
But Mr.. Owl, with much ado.
He petulantly hooted 'Whoo?"
Its Rose I said; "just Rose and 1;
Beside US two there's no one nigh.
We're sitting here upon the brink
And what is more, 1 do not think
It's extra nice to thus pursue
Your impolite, persistent 'Whoo?
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-09

Barney Oldfeld badly bruised, Earl
Kiser minus a leg. Primary cause:
An excitement craving public.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-09
curious church coIIection.

After the annual Sunday school SER
mon had been preached at st. Ann
Nottingham, Eng, collection was
made in aid of the sick and poor. The
gifts included thirty-fve oranges, 21a
eggs, forty-six pots of jam, 1O2 ba-
nanas, ffty-six tomatoes. sweets. tea,
dolls. and toys
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-09

The chorus girl who after being
married to an old gentleman year
became a widow with fortune of
$5.OOO,OO0 is probably convinced that
skill in the matter of choosing is more
important than luck.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-09
Winning the Medal of Honor.

The idea of the medal of honor
originated with the late Gen. E. D.
Townsend. adjutant general of the
army during the civil war. and the
regulations which govern the award
ing of it are so stringent that it may
be said to stand In every case for
heroic and distinguished service. Hun
Areds of those who wear it, IL they
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-09
"Reminiscences of Army Nurse.

Miss Adeline L. Miller, who resides
on Arapahoe street, Los Angeles, was
sent out from Chicago in June, 1861.
under the auspices of the sanitary
commission by Dorothy Dix, who had
charge of the appointing of nurses
For three months she was in hos
pital in Cairo, ILL.,, and was then trans
ferred to Paducah, KY, where she
served in various hospitals. In the
fall of 1862 she was sent to Columbus.
KY, to serve on a floating hospital
where contraband slaves who had fol-
lowed the army as it moved through
the country, were cared for, after the
soldiers had been removed to hospitals
on shore The following March she
was ASSIGNED to the floating hospital
Nashville at Milliken's Bend, where
Grants army was gathering.
'sAt Young's Point says Miss Mil
Ter, 81 witnessed from the deck Of
Gen. Grants boat the running of the
blockade. In the spring of 1854 was
sent to Nashville to care for the poor
whites in the refugee house there.
who had lost their all through the
fortunes of war. About this time the
Christian commission, in charge of
Mrs. Wittenmeyer of Philadelphia, be-
gan fitting up diet kitchens for the
special care of the very sick and from
that time my work was principally
along these lines. 1 was sent to the
Bragg's Barracks hospital and Con-
valescent's Camp at Chattanooga and
afterward to the Number Two hospital
in Nashville to fit up these diet k1tch-
ems In the crude state of affairs we
were sometimes helped out by the
regular kitchen force, who in some
places sent us a barrel of toast daily
which we prepared and served as hot
as possible to the poor sick boys, one
of whom remarked in apprecia-
ton, I know there is a woman around;
everything tastes so good
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-09

A New York girl who after being
Tilted vowed that she would find hus-
band within a month got him in fif-
teen days. She must understand,
however, that she has not broken any
records.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-09

A Pittsburg heiress has been disin-
herited for marrying a young attorney
of that city. Her parents probably
knew of an earl or a marquis whom
they could have got for her at a bar
gain.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-09

A Butte preacher won 81 500 at faro
one night. When parSon starts out
to fight the devil with fire he rarely
fails to make big enough blaze
Florida TimeS-Union.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-09
The RuqIer.

The BugIer.
Scorning the shot, and laughing at the
shell.
Behold the Bugler At his shrin behest
The haggard hosts press from hell to
hell
Until the flag floats proudly on the crest
sit
In slothful ease and comfort, while each
day
Our rights. are shelled and shattered;
We who knit
Our brows when Duty calls US, nor obey
Howard Sutherland. in San Francisco
Star
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-09
rwo wealthy Pittsburg famflie,

Two wealthy Pittsburg families
have gone to law over a game rooster
that is owned by one of them and
has disturbed the other by early
morning growing. If they don't watch
out they may not have enough left
when the lawyers get through with
them to buy titled husbands for their
daughters.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-09

There is fear of another Boxer up
rising in China. When people once
get t. figuring in the headlines it is
hard for them to settle down again
and he good.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-09

Paterson, N. J., has offered $4,000
for her lost mayor. This high price is
explained by the fact that he took
100000. If the finder returns tho
money. they will let the mayor 60
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-09

If the spots on the sun are response
BILE for the heat, as some of the scien-
tifc gentlemen assure us, a total
eclipse of the sun ought to be about
the hottest proposition that ever came
over the weather pike.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-09

Americans will be glad to hear that
Mary Anderson has a new baby, her
second born.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-09

Seats on the water wagon look at
tractive after one has been reading
the testimony in the Taggart case.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-09

Sir James Crichton-Erowne thinks
that we might live to be hundred
years oId if we would sleep fifty.
What's the use of being alive if you're
asleep?
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-09

1t is predicted that this years crops
will be the biggest the world has ever
seen. Cheer up.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-09

Japan disclaims all responsibility
for the honorable earthquakes that
are disturbing China.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-09

The English have taken to the bicy-
Gle. Always ready to adopt a worn
out American fad.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-09

Korea is ready to testify that being
called a "protectorate" does not make
the process of political determination
any less painful.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-09

The statement that ''bald-headed
men never have consumption" should
be soothing to the bald-headed men
who think they have it.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-09

The man who told his rich relatives
that thenceforth he would be as one
dead to the world went to Philadel-
phia.