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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-19
DISAPPEARING VILLAGES.
Swallowed Up by Encroachment of
Sea on English Coast.
From the London News.

From the LONDON NEWS,
Even the least sensitive will feel some
thing akin to a shock at the announcement
made yesterday at the national sea defense
conference that 115 square miles of land
have been swallowed up by the sea on the
Yorkshire coast alone, and this in time that
has elapsed since the Roman invasion.
At the close of the meeting. T. r. Mat
thews said
'aThe annual loss on the whole east coast
of England Is larger in area than the Island
of Heiigoland. And although many thou
sand acres of land have been reclaimed IN
Lincolnshire, Cheshire and elsewhere. the
balance is still several hundrd square miles
on the wrong side. and the best authorities
deny that this gain has ever equaled the
loss.
..The constant reduction in area of the re-
mainder of the British isles is also consider
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-19
Indian Debt Paying.
,rom ana World,s Work

From the Worlds Work
The Indians are honest, but their rent
money is not always enough to pay their
debts: SO the debts continue. Mr.. Miller
declares that they now owe him $4,000
One owed him 5000 on a certain settling
day He owed another man $500. He was
receiving from the agent $500, 500 Of which
he had immediate need for. He tucked
away his own 500, and then paid the other
man.
Look here" said Mr. Miller, where's
my $1,000"
The Indian drew him aside, confidentialiy.
me no like other feller.' he said. Bad
man. Pay him. He go way. You stay
here: me stay here You good man. Me
pay you some other time =
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-19

tive. In 1866 the chancel of the then Kiln
sea Church, on the Holderness coast, was
ninety-fve yards from the cliff, but this
church was swallowed entirely by the sea
many years ago, and the whole of old Kiln
sea has been absorbed within the last GEN.
fury. The present Kilnsea or New Kilnsea
is likewise suffering heavily.
The Blue Bell Inn, in the neighborhood,
has a stone IN the east wall inscribed:
Built in the year 1S47; distance from sea.
534 yards In September. 1876. 1t was 39z
yards from the sea. that the loss has
been five yards per annum.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-19
Once Was Enough.

From Puck.
Mrs. Crawford-"Why doesn't poor Mr..
Henpeck pluck up courage once in
while?
Mrs Crabshaw-"Perhaps he remembers
the time when he plucked up courage and
proposed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-19
KEYS OF FLORIDACOAST
ONLY FIFTY OF THE LITTLE IS
LANDS INHABITED.
People Go to School and Church In
Boats-Great Beds of Coral and
Sponges-Rich Vegetation.

From the Geographic Magazine
The Florida keys are so peculiar and diff
ferent in every way from any other part
of the United States that the traveller who
has never been there may rest assured that
there Is still one novel and enjoyable ex-
perience IN store for him.
These little Islands, or keys, set In waters
of many coIors, about which cluster legends
of pirates wrecks and treasures, will soon
be closely linked together by the railroad
now IN process of construction. Although
these keys have been more or less Guilt
waited for many years and have produced
enormous quantities Of pineapples, lines,
bananas and other fruits and vegetables,
the natives. or "Conchs," as they are called,
who come from England via the Bahamas
have devoted themselves mainly to wreck
ing, sponging and fishing.
There are at least fifty of these islands
or keys which are inhabitable and produce
tive, and hundreds, perhaps thousands,
of smaller ones of little or no value at pres
ent, but which may some day be elevated
and improved. These keys extend dis
lance of 16J miles from Miami to Key
West. Twenty miles further to the west
are the Marquesas Keys, and still fifty
miles further are the Dry Tortugas. Sand
Key, q small island south of Key West,
on which a lighthouse is located, is the
most southern point in the United States.
Key West is about 100 miles from Havana,
while Miami Is about half that distance
from the Bmlnis Islands of the Bahamas,
the nearest foreign territory
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-19

strange perversities, was really there, real
ly hers never to be obliterated
Wrapped up in lavender, wsh blue rib
bon bound, should every true lovers mis-
sives he kept to be the sweetest memory
of old age and perchance of isolation,
woman can possess.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-19

Key Largo Is the largest OF the keys. Il
Is thirty miles long, and varies from about
a quarter of mile to two miles in width.
The post office on this key is located at
small conch settlement called Planter.
The railroad after leaving Miami, which
has been for several years the terminus
connecting with boats for Key West ana
Havana and Nassau, passes through rocky,
pine-cOvered land, through dense tropical
hammoCks, through everglades and muddy
mangrOve sWamps across q tongue of Iand
of mangrove-Covered mud to Key Large.
The railroad is now IN process of construc-
ton on this key. 1t passes down the center
of the island through a thick tropical jun
gle. or hammock, where mahogany is as
common as maple In New York; by fields
of plneapples and groves of lines, and by
houses of the natives, which are located
on the ocean side and are surrounded by
cocoauut palms, sapodilla trees, sugar
apples, bananas and other tropical fruits
and vegetables.
ing railroad will probably cross as much
water it does land. There will be miles
of bridges and many draws, because the
creeks separating these keys are in several
instances wide and much used by sponginS,
fishing and pleasure craft, The road must
be high to escape the waves, and the jour
ney from Key Largo to Key West, a dis
tance of over a hundred miles, will be like
a trip at sea. with the broad Gulf of Mex
leo on one side and the Straits of Florida
on the other. In spite of water and mud,
stiff currents, storms dense jungles, rough
coral rock and millions OF mosquitoes, the
work is being pushed. To one who Is IA
miIiar with the region it appears an i'm
possible task, but money and Engineering
skill accomplish wonders, and already
machinery. barges, households, water
boats, tons OF cement, timber, laborers,
mosquito netting and insect powders are
being rushed TO the scene of action. That
this road is to be built quickly there can
be no doubt Hustling in the close jungle
in the summer time in the midst of clouds
Of pungent smoke from the burning hard
woods to keep the mosquitoes from de-
Vouring one alive is not an enviable lob
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-19
Preliminary Training.

FROM The Chicago IrIbune.
Uncle Josiah-'First time you ever MIXED
a cow, is it? Well you do 1t ;hunderin'
sight better than most city fellers do"
Visiting Nephew-"It seems to come natu-
raj somehow. I've had a good deal or
practice with fountain pen"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-19
Railroad to Key West.

In not more than five and probably not
less than three years Key West will be
the most southern railroad terminus in the
United States. 1t is point Of call for
many passing ships, and besides the regu-
lar steamship lines which stop there, sail
ships run to the Bahamas, Cuba. Bonaca,
Caymen and to other out of the way places
1t is place where many ships come to be
repaired, and where the affairs Of many
ships which are wrecked upon these dan
gerous reefs are finally adjusted. II is a
dirty, unattractive city, with q large pro-
portion of negroes and Cubans In a popu-
lation of about 10000
There are no roads on these keys People
visit and go TO school and church in boats
Although these people are very pious
church is postponed If a wreck IS on
When there is nothing doing on the sea
they cut the hardwood timber on q patch
of land and burn 1t. In the ashes they plant
pineappies. No fertilizer is used and after
a few years the field is abandoned and al
lowed to come again in forest.
The soil is mostly solid coral rock In
places broken, and in the hollows there are
patches of rich red soil and humus, in
which bananas and vegetables grow with
great luxurlance in midwinter. There are
many fruits, but the one the Conch loves
best is the sapOdila. This tree grows al
most wild and bears an enormous amount
of fruit. From the juice of the green fruits
of this tree "chicle gum" the basis of
chewing gum, is manufactured and shipped
in immense quantities TO this country from
Mexico. The Conchs call this fruit Oily
for short. In the woods there is a so-called
wild dilly," a close relative to the famous
South American tree. which yields the vaIu-
able balata gum of commerce. 1t is here
where vanilla Will grow, and perhaps coffee
and many other tropical things which have
never been tried. On his plantation on Ill
liutts Key the writer has picked in one day
cocoanuts, bananas, lines. pineapples pa
paws sapodillas, sugar apples, sweet pota-
toes tomatoes, eggpls.nts and peppers.
Along the shores on the ocean side there
are coral sand masses of broken coral
fingers, shells, sponges and the flotsam and
ietsam which is carried hundreds of miles
from the coasts Of South and Central Amer
lea Great floating islands.fTom the mouths
OF tropical rivers are waited nOrthward by
the gulf stream. They are broken into bits
by its ChOppy waves and are piled upon
the shores of the keys. The foliage, incIud-
ing lumber and wTeckage, forms an inter
esting museum, so that beachcombiug is an
exciting and often profitable pleasure.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-19

Great men have nearly always compre-
hended the Importance of letter writing as
an accomplishment, and many of them
have made IT recreation and a resource
In times Of stress and mental tension. And
"Stonewall" Jackson, whose name stands
as a synonym for the life strenuous, wrote
letters to his second wife (the first one only
lived fourteen months after her marriage
to hinN. brimful of ardent love. My pet.
my darling. my sunshine my little some
body, he would call her; this great being
whose life was sacrificed for his country.
Love letters have played their part as
balm to wounds that otherwise would have
bled unstanched many and many time.
To take out and read the written records of
devotion that death has struck aside Is
10 the bereaved deep consolation, and to
remember what once was, as revealed IN
loving missiVe. is to feel that, after nll,
though times have changed, we. too, have
been In Already. 1t was when he heard
how his poor little hayward wife had treas
ured his letters to her that Lord Mel
bourne, after Lady Melbourne's DEATH
knew that the old love he had felt for her.
that he had deemed killed by her many
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-19

Children should be seen and not heard.
Adults should remember that they are
merely grown up children.-Pnck.
The Winslow mail. (Winslow, Ariz.) 1893-1926, 1906-04-14

interpreter Justice of
the Peace court -. so
Al, d. E. Hanks, fees, of
ficer Justice of the
Peace court II 20
~, G. P. Sampson, MD,
services examiner in
sane commission 49,. ) 90
43, G. L. Hathaway, NJ.
D.,serviCes examiner
insane commission. 90
A, Thos. E. Dye, servi
Ces interpreter Pro
bate court. . 2 80
10, Chas. Savage, bounty
killing wild animals 90 90
46, j. w. Richards, rail
road fare WinSlow
County business. 49,. 2 20
A, Evan Larson. bounty
killing wild animals 8 90
As, William Armbruster,
making branding
iron wild animals. =. l 80
40, w. B. Woods, tele-
grams County bust
mess. .... 30
so, Tomas BaCa, digging
grave, pauper ... > 90
81, A. NJ. Boyer, making
box, pauper. .. S 90
90, M. E. Blevins, wash
ing for prisoners 49,. % 45
50, Louie Sam Kee meals
for prisoners .. 1914 90
"a, G. NJ Funston. pub
fishing and printing 259 Is
SO. B. F, Ketchum, keep
ing of horse held as
evidence ..... 30 90
SO, Moroni Adair, bounty
killing wild animals 10 90
The following demands on
road fund were submitted, aud
tied, found correct and approx
ed and ordered paid from road
fund:
Road Fund Warrant No:
/ 1, P. A. Bushman, Road
Overseer Road District
No. 2, work done. 49,. S II 90
2, E. Smith. Road Over
seer Road District No.
3, work done. .... 10 10
3, H. B. Smith. cement
for bridge, Road Dis
trict No. 3 ..... 81 %
4, John Standifrd, Road
Overseer, work done
bridge, Road District
No. 6....... 40 -
5, A. L. Willis, Road
Overseer, work done
Road District No. s.. "a 90
S12O so
The Board hereby finds that
! I
The Winslow mail. (Winslow, Ariz.) 1893-1926, 1906-04-14
April 3. 1906.


At s o clock a. IN. this date
the Board cOnvenes. All pres
ent. Minutes OF last meeting
read and approved.
The following reports of JUS
tees of the Peace were audited
and approved:
C. L Finn, Winslow, fees
to County as per checkS30 90
A. F McAllister. HOl-
brook, fees to County as
per Treasurer's receipt. 10 90
7. A. Freeman, Snowflake.
fees TO County as per
check ....... ....... 2 80
Total Justice of the Peace
fees LIST quarter. 1906. $40 80
Report of j. L. Fish, Justice
Of the Peace. Show Low, sub
mitted and action deferred
The following demands we're
submitted, audited and approx
ed and ordered paid from ex
pense fund:
Expense Fund Warrant No:
80, G. Hess, Jr., supplies
to County. IS IA so
SO, Augustin Tapia, sup
plies to County, 4 so
81, j. G. Lathrop. sup
plies to County,. 20 IS
IS, Smith & Smith. sup
plies to County,. 38 SO
80. A. G. NJ. l., supplies
to County . 4 90
40, Bonafacio BaCa, fees
The Winslow mail. (Winslow, Ariz.) 1893-1926, 1906-04-14
PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
BOARD OF
SUPERVISORS
OF
NAVAJO COUNTY.

Office of the Board of Supervis
ors of Navajo County,
HolbrOok. Arizona,
April 2, 1906.
Regular quarterly meeting of
the Board of Supervisors con-
vened this date at p. m. All
present. Minutes of last meet
ing read and approved.
The following quarterly re-
ports of County officers submit
ted, audited, found correct and
approved, showing as follows:
County Superintendent of
Schools.
Total disbursements
LIST quarter. April
1906, Of school funds IS, 964 %
County Recorder
Fees received during
January .............S As 80
Fees received during
February. ....... 36 90
Fees received during
March. .............. 81 10
Total 1st quarter, 1906,
as per Treasurer's re-
ceipt .$116 10
Clerk of Board of Supervisors.
Cash orders draw n on County
Treasurer 1st quarter, 1906.
Cash order No:
/, Jan. ), Alexandra
Baca. INDECENT IS S 90
>. Jan, 6, j. P. Nuanez.
INDECENT $50. 49,. s 90
3, Jan. 6, Juan Jortez,
INDECENT .. S 90
4. Jan. s, A. G. NJ. l.,
supplies to County. 45 40
5, Jan. s, A. Carlisle
Company, supplies
to County .. - 90
g. Jan. II. L E. Divel-
hess, stamps County
officers ......... 10 co.
Z, Jan. 81, William H.
Daum, freight on
supplies .. 5 10
s. Feb. 9. J. j. Nuanez,
INDECENT .......:. s 90
8, Feb. 9, Juan Jortez,
INDECENT. ......... s 90
TO- Feb. II, l.. E. Divel-
bess. stamps to Co.
officers 10 90
II. Mar. 9, Juan Jortez,
INDECENT. .......... s %
u. Mar. 2, j. p. Nuanez,
INDECENT. .......... 5 90
Total 1st quarter, 1906. .S139 so
Sheriff and ex-OffiCio Assess
The Winslow mail. (Winslow, Ariz.) 1893-1926, 1906-04-14

To be continued next week.
The Winslow mail. (Winslow, Ariz.) 1893-1926, 1906-04-14

Total 1st quarter, 1906. .S139 so
Sheriff and eX-OffiCio Assess
or.
Gambling licenses, less
commissions .....$ 598 30
County licenses, less
commissions ... IA 60
Total paid as per
The Winslow mail. (Winslow, Ariz.) 1893-1926, 1906-04-14

01ZO on
The Board hereby finds that
by the foregoing minutes that
the sum IF 81, 39S. % has been
expended for 1st quarter, 1906,
as follows:
By salary fund. ....$ $3.50 90
By expense fund. 1,7S3 81
By cash orders (charg
ed to expense fund.- 139 so
By road fund. 100 50
By school fund. 49,. 1864 OF
Total. ST. 1913 %
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1906-08-08
Alfalfa Practicable.

Prof. w. ]. Frazier of the University
Of Illinois in recent interview on al
falfa as forage crop said:
alfalfa is one Of the best crops to
grow for soiling, for two reasons:
Be sure it furnishes larger amount of
nutriments per acre than any other
crop grown and because it grows up
rapidly after being cut off and fur
nishes continuous supply Of green
feed. When fair sized field Is cut
over, a portion each day as needed for
feed the first side of the field is ready
for cutting again. Under proper con-
ditions this crop will yield four tons
Of hay per acre With yield Of four
tons i furnishes more than twice as
much protein as clover at three tons
per acre and about three times as much
protein as corn at sixty bushels per
acre. Many farmers have failed in
attempting to grow alfalfa, but it has
been proven repeatedly In most Sec
tions of Illinois that alfalfa can be
grown successfully II attention is giv-
en- to llmeing. inoculating tho soil
and getting all the conditions right"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1906-08-08
nairv Eornn Is important.

Seeing the intimate relation between
dairy form and production, many dairy
men have sought to improve their
herds by selecting what may be called
extreme dairy form. They have select'
ed the "V" shaped breast and narrow
wethers, and lost sight Of the fact
that while so doing they have in the
highest degree brought the four legs
close together and narrowed the dis
tance from side to side between the
shoulders, which has made the chest
capacity so small that respiration and
heart action are weakened. Extreme
dairy form has limits which may not
: be safely passed without hazard Give
more attention to the development OF
the dairy habit and not quite so much
to the form.-Prof. Thomas Shaw.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1906-08-08
VIII Pay For Looting.

Governor Swanson and Adjutant
General Anderson of Virginia have
written j. A. Spence, merchant here
and manager Wright of the Union
News Stand at the Releigh Union Sta
tion that steps will be taken at once
to remunerate them for the large
quantities Of fruits and other adibles
that were taken from their places Of
business last Friday by the Virginia
troops while the train that was con-
veying them to Chicamauga was in
the Union depot, the men having it
is alleged, helped themselves to large
quantities of fruits, Sandwiches and
other articles on display without offer
ing to pay fer them. Col. Vaughan of
the list Regiment has been directed
by the Governor and Adjutant General
of Virginia to make thorough inves-
tigation and report to them as soon
as this is done. The two Rcfeigh mer-
chants will be compensated for their
losses.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1906-08-08
Bioness In Dakota.

xYes, sir" resumed the Dakota
farmer, as the crowd OF agrlculturlsts
seated themselves round little Ia
BILE: eyes, sir, We do things On rather
a stable scale. I've seen man on
one Of our big farms start oat IN the
spring and plow a straight furroW un,
I'll autumn. The he turned AROUND
and harvested back. We have some
big farms up there, gentlemen. a
friend OF mine owned one which ne
had to give mortgage on, and
pledge you my word the mortgage was
due at one end before they could get
it recorded at the other. You see,
It was laid out in counties. AND
the worst of it is it breaks up lam
lilies so. Two years ago | saw
whole family prosirated with griet-
women yelling, children bowling anu
dogs barking. One Of my men mad
his camp truck packed Oh seven lour'
mule teams, and be was going roun'
bidding everybody gocaby."
Where was he going?"
He was going half way across the
farm to feed the pigs" replied the Da'
kota man.
Did he ever get back to his fam
ily?"
1T isn't time for him yet. Up
there ne send young married couples
out to milb the COWS, and their cnll'
dren bring home the milk. -ll'
Bits.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1906-08-08
Vitality of Alfalfa Seed.

A remarkable test of the vitality of
alfalfa seed is reported in Bulletin
No. 10 of the Colorado Agricultural
Experiment Station. 1t is generally
considered that seed must be perfect
ly new in order to come up freely. In
Bulletin No. 35 Of the experiment sta
tion some tests were given Of seeds
ranging from one to six years old.
DR.. Headden has retained samples of
the same seed and tests have been
again made when the seeds has been
from eleven TO sixteen years old, and
the tests have shown that from eighty
eight to ninety-six percent terminated.
The screenings showed less vitality,
the first quality of screening running
from fifty to 1912 percent; second
quality, thirty-elght percent, and third
quality forty percent.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1906-08-08
Give Less RANCE to Turkeys.

When the turkeys are few weeks
old they may be allowed to go about
the farmyard premises, and called up
regularly for their feed. This custom
should be made rule all through the
season for once they have been trained
to get their feed at stated intervals,
they will almost without fail form the
habit of coming home at evening to
roost. This appears to be one of the
bad features in raising a crop Of tur--
keys, and is often made worse when
the owner leaves them In neglect to
shift for their own keeping.
AS soon as the turkeys show signs Of
shifting for themselves, which occurs
as soon as the foster mother deserts
them, little effort in special feeding
on the part Of the owner will generally
overcome the instinct of roaming.
About this time they also begin to
form habit of perching at night and
seek out some elevated position, usual
ly the fence row or nearby tree
This Is a splendid time to take the
habit in hand and with little feed
and SLY coaxing they can be prevailed
upon to take up their perch upon some
pole roosts arranged about the farm
yard in an inviting manner, most
properly arranged Under shed open
to the east or southern exposures,
where they will take up their perch
and remain until autumn market is at
hand.
There is more carelessness in the
raising of the turkey crop upon the
farm than Of any other line Of poultry
industry, and 1t is not just plain why
it is SO unless it Is from the fact that
the turkeys show a strong instinct to
shift for themselves, and the owner
through busy cares of other farm work
allows them tn roam about and do so,
often causing much loss at the end Of
the season and great deal Of bad
feeling in the neighborhood.
apolis News.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1906-08-08
Squash Bugs and Beetles.

Rose beetles appear some time In
June and in sandy localities are liable
to cause very serious injury. 1t is
difficult to destroy these insects either
with poison or whole oil soap solu-
ton, and, as a rule 1t would pay TO
shield more highly priced plants by
covering them with mosquito netting.
The striped cucumber beetle and the
nauseous squash bug begin operations
about this time. Young plants can be
protected by while from both with
light screens. Tray the squash big
under shingles laid near the plants,
and kill the bugs each morning. The
striped cucumber beetle is held in
check by spraying with a poisoned
Bordeaux mixture or even busting
heavily with land plaster or ashes.
The asparagus beetles and their
gruEs are frequently abundant at this
time and young plants at least should
be thoroughly protected with a pois-
oned spray.
The young of two of our common
scale insects, the scurfy scale and oys-
ter scale, appear the latter part of May
or carly in June, and there is no bet
ter way Of keeping them in check
than by thoroughly spraying at this
time with an insectlcide like the whale
oil soap solution, one pound to five
or ELK gallons Of water, or the stand
ard kerosens clnula!on, diluted with
shout nine parts es water.