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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-02-16

vaether With "A A." tor Alice Roose,
Noll or "a A." Tor Mrs NicEic Long.
worth Another matter Of Interest Is
a. to phore the mark Is located
Mccall t 10 said. is about 10 pay
tho debt of nature A. his lie is ia.
suTed in ais Own company d wul be
seen ,ha, even ia dyinghe gets a rake
90
A strike of c0al miners in PeuasyL
Nania seems almost a certainty This
hocame a fuTvgoue conclusion When
haer Who claims 90 be representing
God uas placed ou tae commrte. by
tae operators.
Nick longNor,hs grandfather vas
a uucuItuTist made his money by
mshiug wine and hodiug on 10 laud
in aRd anaund Cincinnati Ohio. aad
Was familiarity known as Long John
lOugworh
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-02-16
X-RAYS

Carrie Natlou has hruken ioose with
her ul,le haichet again in tho hatcA
d uuo Carrie Il a regular Incubator
Why noi lel standard on and the
chinoso svtie che boyvoit Rockciol
ler vii shed usht IA thc question for
hem
sss
Nov hsi everything else about
Aligcs Wartrohe haE been told the
public aNat's sIAiosisb Information
a. 90 hov ter ungerie is marked -
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-02-16
sioo READING for SOC.

Madame Zazell. the wonderful pa.s
ist and elalryoyant. remains oalI "
days longer.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-02-16

p.d you ever have bad breadg You
didn't use Wild Rose -Four then.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-10-31

six or seven feet high without limbs
If planted in the lawn the ground
should be kept spaded three feet
around the base of the trunk and dur
ing the first summer in very dry wealth
er the soil should. be drenched in the
evening with water two Or three times
week.. In the morning the surface
should be raked, to break the crust.
Ordinarily bearing starts at five or
six years and continues annually.
Transp1anted trees start to bear when
three or four years set. In my exper-
fence trees bear sooner and oftener if
planted in groups of three to six.
This is probably because the pollen has
a better chance to reach the p1stlls.
The staminate blossoms on individual
trees open at slightly different times
and thus insure better fertilization Of
the pistilate blossoms.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-10-31
Trouble on Sand Mountain.

The following, from the Rural New
Yorker, is No. 1 Of a series which is
to tell of the experiences of city man
on a Southern sandy farm. Have any
of our readers ever known any thing
similar?
The die was cast We moved into
the woods on Sand Mountain, Alabama,
tore up the bridges behind us, and now
we must make our living from this
SO-acre farm orwell, we must, that's
all. The strong red clay Of the valleys
would have been richer, but harder
to work, not so we'll adapted to fruit
and, the climate being hotter and more
malaria1, and the water hard, not so
healthful as the mountain. But had
the valley land been better in every
way we were too poor to buy there!
So i'll health and poverty sent us to this
wilderness mountain plateau, where
we began at the very foundation. 1t
happened that Joe, Our son, owned this
80 acres, having acquired it in trade
some years before, and had moved
upon it, with Mamie, his faithful wife,
determined to "be his own boss here
after, and hither we too (Mother and
y, warned by failing health that office
work and city life must soon stop,
came a few months later. Joe had al
ready cut trees, hauled the logs to
mill, had them sawed into lumber and
with it built rough board shack or
shanty containing two rooms and an
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-10-31
Fruit Candy.

The following recipe given by Mrs.
Gray, in the Metropolis, for making
fruit candy, may help some one in
search of sweet meats for the holidays
Dissolve loaf sugar in water, 20
which has been added the white of an
egg, and allow it to simmer, and then
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-10-31

boil until, when pressed between the
fingers and suddenly pulled apart in
cold water, it cracks. Place the pan
in a pail of hot water to keep it hot
and in it gently dip sections of orange,
grapes, cherries, English walnuts, al
monds and hazelnuts. In the same
way sections of fig are also very at
tractive. Place each piece on oiled
paper to cool and dry.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-10-31

ed until another dwelling could be put
up.
To move into the forest intending
10 cut down the trees, tear out the
Stumps, and Wrest living out of a
poor sandy soil very deficient in hui
mus, is hard proposition for an ex
perienced pioneer, but for two men,
neither of whom was able to stand real
hard, heavy work continuously, and
with little experience in such work,
it was almost foolhardy But the
bridges were burned behind us, and
the forest was before us. We had put
our hand to the plow, and could not
look back About this time Mother
had a few hundred dollars come to her
very unexpectedly. It was veritable
Godsend. With tive we're able to buy
lumber for rough cottage for Mother
and me, and for barn and henhouse,
also wire for a fence and few neces-
sary farm tools. That is how we
started.
Our soil is a fine sand with just a
Little clay mixed through it in streaks.
It is inclined to be '1eachy," I think,
contains very little humus even when
new, and is too poor to grow beans"
At depth of two to six feet comes the
solid sandstone. The surface is rolling,
and except for occasional lodges of
sandstone, nearly every foot of it can
be plowed- the stun1ps and root
are out. The timber is oak, pine AM
hickory; not very large-six inches t
two feet ia diameter-but we'll rooted
Besides the trees there are innumerablc
grubs (scrubby oak and hickory bush
esq with roots that cling to the soil
tenaciously. The leaves have been
burned from the land every spring for
generations, hence the deficiency Of
humus. Not foot Of this 80 acres was
cleared We two men, with the help
of the mules, must do everything. The
nules-yes, they must do all the hard
est OF tie work SO far as possible We
had not the capital to buy all kinds
of implements and machines, but on
account Of the tremendous job we had
tackled we decided it was necessary to
save ourselves as much as practicable
by using mule power. 1t is short
sighted management for two men to
work one hour digging out a stump
when two mules with a good machine
will pull it out in one minute! So we
bought stump puller, windlass with
lot of wire rope, pulley blocks, ETC.
Then when we raised Our barn 1--WE did
our own carpenter work. we hitched
one mule to the machine and raised
eight heavy bents without the aid of
living soul and without lifting The
mule did it ALL The barn timber was
mostly oak, green and heavy, but with
the mule, stump puller and rope and
tackle every beeam that could not be
lifted conveniently by hand was elevated
and put in place, and SO stick by stick
braces, points, girths, rafters, went up,
and then roofing and siding we're put
on and our farm animals and tools
were comfortably housed. 1t took
L Il
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1906-03-10
The Culture Club.

Last Sunday the culture club
rendered d very appropriate me
mortal for Paul Laurence Dun
bar with beut,ful quotations.
Thos. b. Lyons will make the
race for probate judge. He is d
young right man.
Park g. warner is the republi-
can candidate for county clerk
Cora Hubbard left this week for
Chicago.
Mrs. Bowman of E. Enos av.
and daughter, are in Alton.
Mrs. Lillian McCoo and son Jor
d ce, have returned to Chicago.
Mrs. e. Rhienheart is i'll.
Mrs. Cabbel, who has been i'll
for the last three weeks. is rap
idly improving
Miss Mary Maxwell of e. Cap
ltol ave-, is enjoying GONZALES
ence, after severe illness.
Mrs j. G. Cousins will move
to 1915 E. Washington st. soon.
Mr.. Chas. SpilIer has taken
back set and is confined to bed
Mrs Salisbury left Thursday
for st. Paul, Minnesota.
Mrs, Smith, of So. Paffeld is
very sick.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1906-03-10
Voice From The People.
Editor Forum, Sir

Editor Forum Sir.
1t seems strange that there
are some people who stood SO
high IN the best circle and vet
SO weak minded and don think
for once Of the prosperity God
has giveu them and their sur
rounding which might be plea
sure for any zone in life in this
day and time. for it is hard to
tind true home, and we shall al
ways think twice before we leave
and fall in tho gutter and try to
pull out by offering our hand.
trying to pull up and hold up our
heads and smile to those whom
we once stood in rank with for
they only laugh and snub us and
think of where we were once aud
where we are to day; the compa-
ny we once kept and the compa.
ny we keep to day, fol- the world
has poor experience of So
called lady or gentlemen who do
associate with such for the shake
OF hands smiles do not make it
any better for us. We must think
OF what we ought have done at
home first and how rough our
paths may yet be in life, for we
should regard our people and
frlends's feeling, if we hope to
be blessed. We lose so much
self respect that even our pres
ence in the house of God throws
a chill over the audience and not
even beautiful bunch of flowers
can warm them. But oh how
sweet a home would be in the
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1906-03-10

We are pleasantly Informed
that there are nearly 100 colored
deposltofs Of the First Trust Co
and Savings bank.
The new city committee as or.
gained, is composed of Yates
men and A. G. Murray is chair
man.
ln this issve of the Forum is
NE announcement of Jno. H.
McCreery for alderman to sue
ceed hlmaelf from the 9TH ward
he Is to Well'known to need anv
elaboration made and is the pre-
sent alderman from the 9TH
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1906-03-10

The COlored American Maya
zine for March is a master
piece-Cne of the finest since it's
inception into the field. There
will be some copies here for sale
about March15. All parties
desiring copy had better leave
their order at this Office or 500
E. Washington.
His Advise. w. J. Butler, is
in the city. You lesserlights had
better trip lightly.
725 E. Washington Street,
trip lightly. Look ont, fare war
ming.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1906-03-10
For Alderman Of 9TH
Ward.
Vote for L. E Lawson

Mr.. Lawson is the Republican
candidate for alderman Of the III
ward and solicits the support of
the voters of that ward. He is a
man Of good qualities and is com
petent. vote for l. & Lawson,
election April Sd 1906
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1906-03-10
Type-Write
your speeches &
Essays.

If you desire your Essays, orations
or business letters typewriter, call
to see The FORUM Will guaran-
tee satisfaction Price: lOcts. per.
foolscap page. Office. 1861 So. 9Th
Phone, old, 99S New. Re. 1892
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1906-03-10
Bakery goods.
Phones New, 7O7--.1849.

time of sickness and death for we
know not when theyIshall come.
A. hint to our soft minded weak
Drained friends. M. H.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-08
Plant Compasses

THE means of telling north from south by
the bark tree is already well-known
to the average person; yet few seem to be
aware of the fact that there are several plants
which may be termed almost infallible guides.
These are the compass-plants, so-called.
The most common one is the rosin-weed.
The discovery of the "compass-plant" was
first made in 1912 by a company of western
pioneers and in the following year Major AL
word of the United States army made report
in which he verified the statements of the dis
Coverers, and at last the compass-plant was
duly classified and recorded.
Several theories have been advanced to ex-
plain why the leaves of this plant are attracted
to the poles; for they stand perpendicularly
with their faces to the east and the west and
their edges to the north and the south But
it remained for DR.. Asa Gray to give true
explanation. This was that both sides of
the leaf being similarly constructed and both
equally sensitive to light, both sides would
therefore make an equal struggle for sunlight,
causing each leaf to twist upon the stalk until
it became perpendicular, thus exposing one
side much as the other. Further micro
scopic examinations proved the truth of
these deductions.
Nature lovers will find it a pleasing study
to examine this plant the rosin-weed, and
personally collect data upon the subject. If
the plant mentioned is not to be found, select
for the experiments instead the common gar
den lettuce, which, if allowed to go to seed,
will be seen to point the leaves along its stalk
directly north and south
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-08

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-25
Rural Ideas of the Way the Govern
1memG Should Conduct Its Business
By HENRY A. CA STLE
Formerly Auditor for the Post-Offce Department

Republican postmaster in Tennessee took his
pen in hand" to say that he thought the Post
master-General should send him a small present,
just to rub vitrol on the wounds of the Democrats
in the neighborhood. nice watch" was sug-
gested as appropriate token of esteem and, said
the postmaster, 1T would do much good to tell
wher got the Present from"
Not all the freak epistles to the departmental
chiefs with modest requests for donations
fagrant1y ihterate. An instructive account of the
peculiar letters which reach the Postmaster General
tells of postmaster who wrote that he had just
had addition to his family. This enterprising
citizen said that he going to name the boy for
the head of the department. and when he grew up
going to tell the young hopeful to be poll
tican. There was no false modesty about asking
money on the part of the fond parent He said he
would take check, money-order draft, or any
other equivalent of real money recommended for
mailing purposes. The Postmaster-General was
expressly told not to send Christmas cup, cups
are foolish"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-25
Keeping Uncle Sam Posted

A RURAL postmaster in New-York State as
"A sumed that it his duty to notify his
colleagues of the character of suspicious
people removing from his bailiwick to theirs. A
Southern eX-postmaster presumably of color, off
color makes this complaint to the department:
P. N general Sir have complaint against the City
of gilead the police crippled In 1901 commit
offence and the city fathers there humbuged me, and
drove of town contrary to the laws of christ
and the protects, and all nations, tribes and clans.
So pray you to lift your finger and do something about
it want to get paid for my property up tenicee
to beg the price of suit of CLOVIS but back and
want them to settle that claim with
P s. tried to get before the last Congrs and got in
the worlhouse.
A letter from Georgia was addressed to the
Honorable T. Roosevelt, Protector and Guardian
of the Colored Race" 1t was signed by a negro
postmaster who was also pastor emeryitis," says
the man who claims to have seen the effusion 1t
stated that there was a shortage of thirty-two
dollars to pay off a mortgage on the church. 1t was
suggested that if the President would remit thirty
dollars without delay the pastor emeryitis could
raise the remaining two bones without vast
deal of trouble
One of those unlucky postmasters whose juris-
diction about to be invaded by a rural-deivery
route running from another Office thus painfully
voiced his pardonable vexation:
Postmaster General Sir as this Took of Rheua free
the of the Patshron Being you and if you
will Nodes, will See that Several Names Appear
Boath Patishrons and About Nine of Evrey Ten
Assign for Rheua Free Delivery Mail Surves Dissaths-
fde and doant want hit and SEES they Fool Lyde
in to sign the Patishron for Rheua Free Delivery
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-25

fected by the revelations in Washington, but were
not exempt from pointed insinuations We quote
an item from Bacon Ridge;
Postmaster Eyes, sir an that married Mrs. Fresh
was watching with eye an flirting with Zeke
Crossby's hired man with the other"
Farmer Ryetop: DO tell l swan these post-ofice
scandals are gettin worse every day"
Ignorance and illiteracy are not always synony-
nous, and it must be confessed that there are some
attributes of the former that mere test of scholar
ship might not disclose One of these attributes is
inordinae curiosity and is often specially developed
in the village postmaster and his female relatives
A man had away at school, The son had
the postal-card habit He wrote even the little
things of the most private nature postals His
father went to the post-office for his mail. On
one occasion postcard that the daughter of the
postmaster had seen she could not find. She
searched in every nook and corner but finally
gave up the search in despair and said: Well,
well, where could have put that card2 But per-
haps l had better tell you that John only said he
needed suit of Clothes
Sometimes the aggrieved official resents insinua-
tions and seeks revenge. For example:
Bill Axetree: Il can't understand why there amt
any mail for I never done anything to you
Rural Postmaster: You haint, hey? Didn't you
mail postalcard last week saying you bet I'd read every
word it,"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-25
Post-Offce Sanitation

4 NEW postmaster in Pennsylvania seems to
"A have inferred that it was prerogative of the
Department to look after the sanitation of his
surroundings He thus applied to headquarters for
the aid of Inspector:
1t time that Your expacter looks Up der nooshans
in roots Adshun Laws said that No shud be put
Manure in de Aeway back of Nickels Barn schme Xix
a Slacter Hose.
Perhaps some postmasters lapse into illiteracy
good spelling, etc They have much correspond
ence from unlearned patrons, witness this
request:
Please to send my male out by the Bore. Ny papers
come D. T. Tucker and my letters in my fool
Daniel Tucker.
Al1o the following addressed to a postmaster in
a New-York village from a man who afixes the
title Justus of the Peace" to his otherwise unim-
pressve name:
l have received complaint against you or family
That You Keeping Post Office for U. s. A. and that
you have Dog that is Cross and unsafe and Hope if
this the Case you will See that your Dog chained UP
for the Safety of the PublcShoud eny be Harmed
Killed by your dog you will be Reliable after this
Notice if the dog is Proven to be dog liable
Bite Travellers.
Sometimes the insolence of patrons overshadows
their presumptive ignorance and hides it from
sight. stranger came to the post-office and
asked to have his mail forwarded to another town.
What is your name?'
what difference does that maker"
why want to write it down"
'Wel, its of your blanked business! Just write
that down"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-25
Easy Nest for the Robbins

I Asst year the receipts of post-ofice in North
- Carolina had increased sufficiently to warrant an
advance into the presidential class Postmaster
Robin notified that he would be continued in
service, and asked to send to the Department
the names of four persons to be appointed to the
newly created subordinate positions under him.
When his letter of recommendations was re-
ceived it read as follows:
I, George Washington Robin, postmaster at Rocky
Mountain N. c., recommend the following persons for
appointment under
As assistant postmaster. Stella Lincoln Robin.
AS stamper, Alexander Achilles Robin.
As assistant stamper, George Washington Robin, Jr
As clerk, John A. Logan Robin.
The letter created no little establishment at head
quarters and the cause of some facetious semi
official correspondence between divisions. The
final result was that Robin senior notified that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-25

of applications filed in each administration is many
times that number. 1t seems odd that the number
should be so great when it is borne in mind
that none of the fourth-Cass postmasters receives
over one thousand dollars in annual compensation,
that more than half the number serve for less
than one hundred dollars year, that fourteen
thousand receive less than fifty dollars, and that
hundreds of them are expected to be in constant
service for only ten or twelve dollars year. 1t
has happened, too that some have served for even
less than ten dollars, for there is file in the
Department at Washington this facetous accept
ance from man in former Congressman Vespasian
Warmers district in Illinois:
But anyhow this time I am unanimously through
fddng and this here 1eventh and last resignation
of mine has got be accepted let the chips fall where they
may. Along about four oock this afternoon passe of
best citizens informed me IN no uncertain tones that
wasn't up and gone by midnight they lowed to tar and
feather and ra-de out of lawabidir little city
for small matter that it amt necessary for to go into
details present; and spell ago friend let know
that they had reconsdered the extent of decidn to
make it nine o'clock instead of midnight and already
a-blin of the tar.
So you can see for yourself that it is high time
step down and out. No more at present from,
Yours truly,
T. J. WACKERBACK.
P. S. It's eght-forty-two right and I'm gone.
Oddly enough, it is sometimes difficult to
let go of an appointment than to procure it,
evident in the case of disguised postmaster in
Arkansas, who sent the following u1tinatum to
headquarters:
feel honored, as in duty bound, by my appointment
and glad to know the salary to be the here
tofore namely nothing year; for I'd hate like thunder
to pay anything.
But perhaps the most singular thing of all in
connection with the oddities of fourth-class post
masters is the queer conception some of them take
as their duties and their attitude toward the
members Of the community they supposed to
serve.