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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-12
WEEK END NOTES IN
 THE SOCIAL WORLD Garden Party and Afternoon
 Receptions for Today NOTES HERE AND THERE Visiting Women Being Entertained h. f. Il a,lI
NOTES HERE AND THERE
Visiting Women Being Entertained h. formally at Luncheons and Small
 Dinner Partles-Enter-
 tainIng for Bishops.

The week has been filled with informal events in compliment to the visiting bishops, their wives and to the many visiting clergynen and the ladies attend ing the conference. While no large affair has yet been given. there has not been a day without informal entertaining. Small and congenlal parties have been Invited to meet the several distinguished bishops. the dinners at which they have assembled coming as a delightful relaxa- ton from the tedious routine of the con- ference. They have been brilliant the guests making mp the parties being those who lead in the world of religious thought and who are renowned for their elo- quence.
 Meeting informally for luncheon, or at the dinner parties of the week have been the visiting ladies from all parts of the south. There are probably over a hun dred, fully seventy-five having registered at the bureau of information, which Is located in the basement of the First Methodist church. These women, at least many of them, are well known in the diff ferent fields of work of the Methodist Episcopal church. south. many of them have travelled abroad and resided for many years in foreign lands. They are conversant. with conditions in the foreign field and in their systematic organiza- ton they have supplied themselves with facts concerning certain sections of this country. where industrial and educational work of all kind is most needed.
  brings together a group of women repre- sentlng the Methodist church in some branch of work, and the result of which work is told In the interesting experiences of life in the orient, of the work on the Pacific coast of the work that extends from the mountaineer people of the Caro- linas to the immigrants on the shore of Florida
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p4.5O g; sf5sESaS %!ssGzfzz Es!z $500

One hundred of these hats for tomorrow's business Beautfuand all the more beautiful because they fresh from the Workrooms The charm of newness sits upon them as prettly and dantly as morning dew upon the lust bloomed May roses.
 Of ProyXyline and Leghorn, bedecked with garands, wreathS and sprays of foWerstrimmed too bads and Shmmerng satin bbonSWh now and then touch of velvet
 Looks as if the Workroom had put it's best foot for wad-tor these are each and all exceptional hats Your choice at S45O and $500 today
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Secretary Resigns.

Cincinnati, May 11.-At n special meet ing the executive committee of the Freed mans Aid and Southern Educational so- ciety here today the resignation of Dr. w. P. Thirkield, who was recently elect ed president of the Howard university at Washington, was accepted Dr. Thir- kleld's resignation takes effect August 31 next. Dr. Thirkield has been correspond ing secretary of the Freedmans society for the past three years.
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Superior to Lemonade

HORSFORDS ACID PHOSPHATE A teaspoonful added to glass of cold water with sugar, makes delicious sum- mer tonic.
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White Maine Sailors, untrimmed; five shapes, either round or square. Two hundred of these just arrived. Special at $2.25, worth more.
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FOR SALE
 Established Grocery Dusi- ness in prosperous suburb. Address A x L., Age Herald.
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RAILWAY SCHEDULES

Showing the arrival and departure of passenger trains at the Union station. Bif' mingham: Affective Anril 2a 1q06l
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Ready-to-Wear Tailored Hats worth $2.0O at 98c. Today. Several jaunty and different shapes. Trimmed with quills and braid.
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Totals .. :. ....$ 7SsS2S33 243 -. Not included in totals because contain ing other items than clearings.
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Queen and .
Central of ceorqIa Railroad.

Richmond .. e:10 pm Richmond :. e:ss am Richmond Ill :55 am Richmond :. s:H pm
 All trains run by central time. Trains marked thus Cs1 arc daily except Sunday.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-11-21
The Orange Harvest.

ers here are getting very busy just now
The packing house people and grow
preparing Tor the orange harvest which
Will commence early in November.
We have made some inspection OF the
crop in this district of late and have
learned several facts concerning it
that will be Of interest to the public
in general at this time. In the first
place, two weeks ago the trees
showed an enormous crop which ap-
peared at that time to be possibly a
week later than usual with the fruit
a tr1f1e smaller. It was claimed by
many Of the growers that the fruit
was, however, farther matured in
side than usual. Since this inspec-
ton unusually warm weather has
continued right up to this time with
the apparent effect that the fruit has
grown very rapidly during the past
two weeks, and in fact has now been
sizes, which condition promises us
the greatest yield for several years.
Many Of the trees have become so
heavy that propping the branches
was necessary. AS to whether the
fruit will be early or late is now
somewhat OF a speculation. 1t can
not be more than a week later than
usual i'll any event, and with cold
weather coming on at once it would
be matured very rapidly and posi-
bly, a week earlier Both the yield
and prospect for good market re-
turns were never brighter than at
present time, and the increase of
Llndsay's output will be very large
Lindsay (Calif.) Gazette
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Golden Dates at Sanibel.

Mr.. Carl Woodring informs us that
his mother has several bearing date
trees at her place ON Sanibel, from
which the ripe and matured dates are
now being gathered. These trees are
from golden date seeds from dates
purchased at the stores, and the fruit
is as fine as the imported fruit The
fruit is so delicious that all kinds Of
birds swarm around the trees trying
to get the fruit as fast as it ripens.
This is the first instance where we
have learned of this fruit maturing in
Florida These dates contain the hard
seed of the ma tured fruit. The islands
are known to be much dryer than the
mainland Of Florida, and this is prob
ably the reason that the fruit natures
there.-Fort Myers Press.
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only short roots left, and 70 or 80
per cent was all we got to live first
year. The second year we got stump
puller (differentia1 pulley and bored
holes right through the stem-size &C
cord1ng to size of tree, some 1O-inch
diameter trees took 1 1-2-inch rod-put
steel rod through and hooked on each
side and started pulling, and as we
felt root lifting drove chisel down and
cut that root. We had chisel made six
inches wide with long handle AS tree
lifted we worked the dirt off roots,
and so filled holes as tree same out.
We got all the roots we were willing to
cover, and using force pump and plenty
Of water to pack the dirt, we got a
rapid hrst-class job and at less cost
per tree. We moved more than 500
trees the second year without losing a
tree, and 1t was very satisfactory to see
how rapidly the new tops came on.
We had some fruit second year Nov
ed this way, [ believe "Maine Reader
would the fourth year, get as much
fruit as those trees bear now.
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Moving Large Trees.

lhe Rural New Yorker published,
some weeks ago, an article asking what
should be gone in the case of an apple
orchard in which the trees had become
so large that they were crowding, or
as it was put, locking horns Many
and varied answers have been printed
from prominent apple-growers in all
parts Of the North. The last number
contained one from Mr. F. G. Samp-
son, an orange grower Of this state
His experience may be of interest to
other owners of large groves, which
were planted too closely.
About the apple orchard that 'locks
horns, page 725, all the authorities
agreeing that the crowding trees
should come out, perhaps my expert
ence might help. Our original grove
was natural sour orange, with over
ooO trees per acre, which we grated,
removing. whole top at once Having
all the roots, the sweet tops came on
very rapidly, so that the third year the
tops began to crowd Then we began
to transplant the usual way of cutting
around and digging them up, but found
that nlne-tenths of the roots we cut
belonged to the surrounding trees.
which hurt my feelings nightly. Then
while we started to give trees good
roots the digging split up the roots so
badly that by the time we got them
clear and in shape to plant there were
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w I'LL T e FL Y

Fungi infected nursery trees for sale-as follows:
Brown fungus on sour seedlings only, 2 years old,
II to "a inches, branched 20 EACH 800 for 100;
"a to 36 inches branched, Is each $4,000 for lOO
prices infected with red pink fungus only. Bud
ded trees, orange. grapefruit and tangerine One
year buds partly branched, Is G. each, $1,000 for
$4,000 for iOO, threea year ubuds heavily branched
SO each, $1,000 for 100; to feet sweet, sour
and lemon seedlings heavily branched are worth
35 c. each or $4,000 for 100. All f. o.sb. Orlando
Fla. G. A. BOONE. If
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wisdom and caution must be exercised
to the fullest measure.
| trust that some of the facts called
to your attention may command your
careful consideration [ hope that you
will think Of Our scant population in
the South Of 81 persons to the square
mile, and picture some of Our waste
places peopled with those who will
engage in some Of the branches Of agri-
cultural, commercial and industrial en-
deavor that we are neglecting so woe
fully | trust that you will then, as one
man, join in the invitation to the
'Landless men to come to the Manless
land and that we will be able to
bring the South to the commanding
position agricultura11y that she occu-
pied before the scourge OF war de-
vastated her princely plantations and
LETT her people to face future with
SO many economic difficulties Here
totore we have been meeting and reso-
lutlng. The time has come for action.
BY pulling together for the common
good OF Our beloved Southland and Of
our common country we can accom-
pllSh wonders. Let us face the condi-
tons as they are; study what others
are doing and reap the benefits of their
experience. Let us map Our course
In prudence and with patriotism and
precaut1on, and bend all our energies
to its successful prosecution. When
this has been done, then indeed can
we point with pride to our achieve
ments and wave on high the flag Of
Dixie, saying to the world that the
Newer South has fulfilled her destiny
and utilized to the fullest the rare OBJ
portunities Offered her by a gracious
Creator. Then will we be a happier
and more prosperous people, Then
will the Southern states be represented
by the brightest of all the stars that
acorn the banner OF our common coun-
try. hen can we join in the song Of
the South.
And tell the world that since the
world began,
No fairer land hath fired the poets
lays,
Or given a Home to mani
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that locality is to be successful and

beneficial.
There are only three methods of
locating immigrants open in the South,
and each has its advantages:
In the first place. there is the matter
Of locating immigrants and emigrants,
sing1y and in families on farms as
farm laborers, and in saw-nills and
other plants as wage-laborers. In this
work the precautions, | have outlined
should be observed as far as possible,
and it is best to place such in adj Joining
communities, extending the territory
no more rapidly than is prudent.
In the second place, we have the
share-crop system, which has many ad
vantages to both the landowner and
the immigrant, and from which I have
obtained most gratifying results; lead
ing, after a time, to the immigrant
purchasing small farm and setting up
for himself. Great care and caution
must always be displayed in locating
this class This gives us small farm
er class, the very class we need to
build up our idle lands and our white
citizenship.
The most effective plan Of settling
up the large unocoupied areas OF my
state, I have found to be colonization.
We are pursuing the policy of starting
colonies Of from 5000 to 10000 acres
of land in different sections of the state,
the landowner entering the under
taking and selling the small farms Of
from 20 to 40 acres in the colony on
easy terms and long time. In putting
the people in such colonies care is
taken to SO locate the houses that
social life in the evenings is provided.
The great advantage OF the colony is
that it serves as an object lesson in
any locality, and soon neighboring
farmers can draw the labor they need
from the colony, and oftentimes the
members Of the colony themselves send
for friends and relatives, thus automat-
lcally, as it we're, and in a most de-
slrable manner, increasing the popula-
ton. The colonization process for
curing the demand for labor in the
South is necessarily slow, but it is
effective, and, once successfully started,
works out its own future and aids in
the material upbuilding of the state
One other feature and | am done
Throughout the South today rises the
cry for white domestic help. There is
no immediate prospect of meeting this
demand Ignorance of how to treat
white help, the utter lack of social life,
the fact that girls of the class that
would come alone so far from home
at Our scale of wages are not a safe
class, and many other things combine
to make the domestic help situation
practical impossibility at this stage.
The only solution I see is to locate in
towns and cities good families from
which these girls can be drawn and
then place them in sufficient numbers
to prevent them from being made to
feel what the occasional domestic now
feels in the South
In locating all foreigners I am salts
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RATES--Twenty words, name and address,
one week, ago.; three weeks, soc.
FOR SALE-Severa1 hundred very fine grape
fruit buds, two years old. Address, Box
217, Orlando, Fla.
FOR SALE-Rough Lemons. WILSON 4
FIVE, Miami, Fla.
CUT-AWAY HARROWS and repairs, E.
Hubbard, Agent, Federal Point, Fla.
FOR SALE-One IS h. p. boiler and one I,
h. p. Erie engine. Second hand; recently
in use. Condition supposed to be fair, but
not guaranteed Will be sold for almost
nothing to make room for other machinery.
Speak quick. THE E. o. PAINTER
PRINTING CO., DeLand, Fla. If
WANTED-Back copies of Horticultural Re.
port. would like to hear from parties who
have copies they wish to dispose of. E. o.
PAINTER, Secretary, Florida State Horti-
cultural Society, Jacksonville, Fla.
WANTED GOOD PARTNER-Who will un
derstand raising vegetables and fruits, in
rapidly developing section. Rare chance.
NOVELTY co., Box 81 Miami If.
suriss; Fruits and Flowers for the Southland,
Pecans and: their Culture a specially H. s.
GRAVES, Gainesvil e. Fla.
S. c. BUFF ORPINGTONs- Breeding pen
cock, nine hens. First $3.50 takes the
lot. Satisfaction. G. s. HARRISON. De-
Land, Fla If
RINGBONEs, sPAvINs. sWELLINGs. <4ll
lameness in horses successfully treated
Why let your horses die with collie or
big-head? Cure guaranteed. c. S. HAIR
RISON, DeLand, Fla. If
REMEDY FOR WHITE FLY.-Nursery trees
bearing Red (Anchersonia Aleyrodis), also Vel
low fungus, for sale. c. B. THORNTON, Orlan-
do Fla.
BROTHER, I have found root that will surely
cure that tobacco habit and indigestion, let me
write you about it, G. H. STOKES, Mohawk,
Florida
WANTED-Japanese Cane for seed Parties hav-
ing same for sale please quote prices to, n O.
PENNY, Vero, Fla.
sC.BUFF ORPINGTONs. Choice pen, one cock
nine hens, first $3.50 takes them c. L. HARRI-
SON, DeLand, Fla.
RINGBONEs, spavins, sweeneys, all lameness of
horses successfully treated. Don't let your horses
die with collie or bighead Cure guaranteed
G. L. HARRISON.
ORANGE GROVES FOR SALE.-Four fine orange
groves for sale within one mile of the thriving
railroad town of Bowling Green DeSoto coun-
ty, Fla Price reasonable; terms easy. A. E.
BERRY. 1-1-07
FOR SALE-Japa .Cane, in any quantity
Write for prices and state the quantity wanted
E. w. AMSDEN, Ormond, Florida +.aa 1906
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Write for prices and state the quantity wanted.
E. w. AMSDEN Ormond. Florida. %. e' 12-5-06
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WANTED-Japanese Cane for seed. Parties hav-
ing same for sale please quote prices to, n O.
PENNY, Vero, Fla
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BROTHER have found root that will surely
cure that tobacco habit and indigestion, let me
write you about it. C. 81. STOKES Mohawk,
Florida
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-08-28
THINGS INSIDE.

NV papa Is q doctor man,
An that is how he knows
Each little thing inside of me
An tells how it runs an goes.
ITO tells me I have whizzin' wheels
Inside nv head that spin
asst him met t. tell me how
The buzzin' wheels got in.
He put his finger in my mouth;
"Why, here's tiny door,"
An then he tweaked my nose an said,
AN here's a couple more;
An here's a little music box
It's full of cogs and wheels,
An every time you give squeeze
1t opens up an sdueals.
One day my papa saw me bolt
A great big chunk of later;
Look out!" he cried, you'll oVertaX
Your little elevator"
whats that?" l asst. "Oh, that" said
he,
rs Test little dummy
That carries everything you eat
Clear down into your tummy"
I'm full of springs, jest like clock,
An when I start t play,
MY pap looks at me an SEE:
you're all wound up today
Rrt onc't. when was sick, he said:
Lets quit tn stuff town,
An, move out t. tn country house
TIL boy is all run down."
Then, cause he couldn't wind me up
Ag'in, without a key,
He fed me castor oil-t grease
TIL cogs an wheels in me.
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PINkEY PERKINS

Pinkey sat at his desk, morose and
gloomy. The day to which he had
looked forward with such bright anti
cipation was a failure He wished he
could quit school and never see book
or slate again. Why did Red Feath-
er take especial delight in picking him
out as the one to use as an example
for all the rest 1t seemed that she
had decreed that there should be no
holiday just because he and Bunny
! had planned an afternoons enjoyment
on this occasion. Had he known that
the school board had authorized a half
holiday for the lower grades only, and
that Red Feather had nothing to say
about It, his indignation probably
would not have been so violent or SO
lasting. AS 1t was he merely knew
that those rooms below Red Feather
| had been excused, and he could not
see why his was not.
All the afternoon, and on the way
home, Pinkey kept revolving in his
mind different schemes by which he
! might show Red Feather that her pu,
pills felt that she had done them a
great injustice.
"What're you goin' to do, Pinkey?"
inquired Bunny, as the pair wandered
disconsolately homeward after school,
discussing their blighted afternoon
81 dunno, exactly" observed Pinkey:
but the more they talked about it, the
more abused they both felt and the
firmer became their resolve to do
something about 1t.
They separated, however, before
anything definite was decided upon
and 1t was not until after supper that
plan occurred to Pinkey which suited
him. Once his mind was made up, he
lost no time in getting operations I'M
der way.
Leaving the house by the front door
he stole silently around to the wood
shed, quietly procured the wheelbar
row and the shovel, and departed by
way Of the back gate for Bunny's
house.
Five minutes later Bunny's alert cal
caught the sound of Pinkey's low, sig
nal whistle and he knew at once thai
his presence was desired and that there
was something up that needed his as
sistance. He obeyed the summons as
soon as he reasonably could, for any
suggestion that there was any connec
ton between the whistle, in case any
one else had heard it, and his depart
ure might bring forth questions which
he could not answer.
When he came out he could not 10
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JUNIOR LETTERS.
BE- q Z
o.s..s.s:

Dear Junior:
l am sorry to say that this is my
last letter for the contest, think that
this is going to be the hardest to write
about yet I guess will write about
what have done this vacation, but 1t
is not very much have worked play
ed and visited. We have had picnics
and had good times there, but the
best of all there is going to be the
Sunday school picnic next week. One
of my chums and l went to the river
and stayed all day Wednesday,, we
waded and played on the island and
had very nice time. The tenth of
last month went to Ottumwa for the
circus and stayed three or four days
with my aunt The circus day I went
down town to the parade and in the
afternoon wanted to 90 to the circus
but couldn't find any body to go
with, so stayed at home. In the ev-
ening rode on the street car all ev
ening. had nice time while was
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WHAT i HAVE DONE THIS SUM.
MER.

This summer has been quite an ad-
venturous summer for me.
In the early part of the summer
we had a social on Saturday even
ing. We had a fine time, a large
crowd, and we cleared s9.15. We are
going to use the money to build a
fence around the school house.
When the Fourth of July came l
had a fine time shooting firecrackers,
and we had ice cream and lemonade
at home part of the day. and we went
to Fremont in the afternoon. There is
a beautiful level prairie land between
our home and Fremont, which raises
fine crops Of corn hay and small
grains.
My grandpa, brother and I have
gathered a large amount of blackber-
les from the timber, which my mamma
canned and made jellies and preserves
of.
During harvest helped to rake the
hay and to carry water to the harvest
hands.
l have been to several picnics this
summer and have had jolly times.
Papa shingled our summer kitchen
today and my brother and I were up
there pretending to help. but were
playing most of the time.
l study arithmetic in the evening
and my sister and papa help me with
the problems that I cannot get.
1 help to do the milking in the even
ing, but I do not get up In time tc
help in the morning.
NV uncle had Shetland pony, and
l used to lead him around and give
him sugar. but he sold him to some
other little boys'and I miss him great
deal.
Yours truly,
o1,iS
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EddYYille Iowa.
Dear Editor:


Dear Editor:
live in the state of Iowa, one of the
best agricultural states in the union.
1t is about four hundred miles in
length and two hundred miles in,
width. 1t is noted for it's great fields
of coal, which surpasses any other
state in the central west. It is bound-
ed on the east by the Mississippi river,
on the west by the Missouri river, and
South Dakota, on the north by Mime
sofa, and on the south by Missouri.
Des Moines is it's capital, which is
situated in Polk county, where our leg
islature convenes to make state laws
by which we are governed.
Iowa has ninety-nine counties, and
the best Of them all is Wapello sit
uated along the Des Moines river. OF
tumwa is the county seat, and ranks
second to none in manufacturing es-
adjustments. 1t also supports one OF
the best daily papers in the state-the
Courier. Eddyville is keeping pace, as
she now manufactures the Little Giant
Cement Brick machine. She also pro-
duces sandburs, etc.
l will close for this time and hope
I get the prize.
From your little friend
Georgia Miller, aged 10.