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The Grit-advocate., 1906-04-20
Miscellaneous.


Two officers and five men we're
killed and IA men injured by an ex
plosion on the battleship Kearsarge
while in Cuban waters.
Grave anti-Jewish manifestations
took place at Tangier Sunday during
which the Jews were threatened with
death. The agitators paraded the
streets and afterwards hanged and
burned eftigies dressed in Israelite
costumes.
Maxim Gorky, the Russian revolu-
tionary writer, who is i'll in New York,
has issued statement that he
came to America to regain his health,
and not to seek assistance for the
freedom of Russia.
The National Live Stock associa-
ton proposes to bring suit against
the live stock commission men in
Chicago and Missouri river points
on the ground that they are mem
bers of a trust and are restricting
trade.
The anthracite coal operators, have
rejected the miners proposition for
arbitration, and submitted a new one
which has been taken under advise
ment by the miners.
An immense thrGng of people greeted
John Alexander Dowie upon mis- ar
rival in Chicago recently. He took
rooms at hotel and delayed his visit
to Zion City until armed with proper
legal documents which he believed
would place him once more in power
He expressed fear of bodily harm
from his enemies in the churcn.
A violent earthquake occurred Sat
urday morning in the southern part
of the Island of Formosa.
]. E. Bilby. a wealthy stockman
of Claremont, Mo-, was indicted by
the federal grand jury at Topeka on
a charge of perjury growing out of
land frauds in western Kansas.
A mob at Springfield, Mo-, broke in
to the Jail Friday night, took three
negro prisoners out and hanged them.
Corporal Tanner, commandcr-in-
chief of the G. A. R., in his annual
Z address requests that Union veterans
decorate the graves of Confederate
dead on May 80
President J. Hampton Moore. of the
National Republican league, has issued
call for the biennial convention at
Philadelphia June II, IS and 10. The
occasion will mark the 50th anniver-
sary of the first republican national
convention.
Pitsburg, Pa, is suffering from an
epidemic of typhoid fever. The hos
pitals of the city are taxed to their
capacity, more than 500 cases being
taken in in four days recently.
The average condition of winter
wheat on April /, as reported by the
agricultural department, was S91.
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Growth of Los AnoeIes.

Los Angeles, Cal.-The population
of Los Angeles, according to the city
directory census of April l, 1906, Is
22S,29s. The population, as given in
the directory for May l, 1905. was 1877.
GA. On this basis the city has In
creased 3o,6s4 in population In eleven
months.
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Arrestina the Whole Town.

Cody, Wyo.-The wholesale arrest OF
Big Horn county citizens continues
and thus far LOSS indictments have
been returned against citizens of this
city on the charge of gambling. The
least fine that can be imposed is $500
and at this rate the bridge fund of the
county will profit from this town alone
to the extent Of something like $780,
600
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Attracts as Place of Residence.

HE attractions OF
the capital city
us a place Of res
idence are grow.
ing more c n d
more. There are
a great number
of residents in
Washington who
were at one time
part of its official
life a n d W h O
grew SO much in
love with the city
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Not Always Provident.

NCLE SAM Is not
the most provi.
dent old fellow in
the world. He is
apt some times to
bo carried away
by the penny wise
and pound fool
ish practice. For
instance, right in
this city he is
paying in rent for
buildings needed
for public service
The Grit-advocate., 1906-04-20
The Fashionable Vice.

HERE is a fever
Of 6 a m b ! i n 6
among the society
women of Wash
ington, those in
official, diplomat
ic and private
life. Ministers of
the Gospel are
preaching against
the craze, which
seems to have the
society butterflies
In its grasp. Now
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European Customs Introduced.

HESE whist clubs,
it Is claimed, are
demoralizing So
ciety. The wom-
en- have the gamb.
! 1 n g I e v e r.
Friendships have
been ru!hed. for
there Is no such
thing as friend
ship when 1t
comes to for
giving q gambling
debt. There are
~ Of o@cial WON.
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WASHINGTON GOSSIP
SECRETARY TAFT PREFERS THE
WOOL SACK.
AND NOT THE PRESIDENCY
How the Fever Of Gambling Has
Taken Hold 3'society Woman
Foreign Residents Eager for
Amers;tn Game.

A ASHINGTON. - II
is pretty we'll un-
derStood that Sec
retary of w a r
Taft will accept
the place upon
t h e s u pr e m e
bench to be made
vacant by the re.
tirement Of Jus.
tice Brewer. al
though he h a S
made no public
announcement of
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CONVERSATIONAL.

Railroad rate legislation was the
topic at recent White house con-
ference participated in by the presi-
dent and Senators Nelson, Simmons
and Overman.
The resolution of Representative
Norris, Of Nebraska, providing for the
election of United States senators by
direct vote of the people has been fav-
orably acted upon by the house COM
mittee on elections.
The house committee on labor has
acted favorably on a bill prohibit
ing interstate commerce in prison
made goods.
James S. Sherman, of New York,
has been elected chairman of the ie-
publican congressional campaign COM
mittee. ....,sass.est. =. 1
For more than four hours recently
Senator Bailey, of Texas. held :he
undivided attention of his colleagues
while he discussed the railroad rate
bill. The speech was one of the most
notable in the recent history Of the
senate.
1t is expected in Washington, that
at least one more week will be con-
sumed by Senators in a discussion of
the railroad rate bill before a vote
on the measure is reached.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-04-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings Of the
Past Seven Days.
Intere.tInR Items Gathered from All
parts of the World Condemned
Into Small Space for the
Dcpeft Of Our Readers.
Person al.

Prof. Nathaniel s. Shaler. dean OF
Lawrence scientific school of Harvard
university and an emminent geolos.st,
died recently of pneumonia.
Claud Rozwadslii. for II years itai-
ian consul general at Chicago, is lead,
James A. Bailey, of the Barnum q
Bailey Shows, died recently at his
home in Mount Vernon. N. Y, of cry
sipilas.
The date for the wedding of King
Alfonso and Princess Ena has been
definitely fixed for June l.
Capt Duncan Kennedy, OF the
United States cruiser Charleston
died recently at Guantanamo, Cuba, as
the result of an operation for appen-
dicitis.
Lieut.. Gen. John c. Bates was Sat
urday placed on the retired list OF
the United States army. having reach
ed the. statutory age.
Gov. Pattison. of Ohio. according tt
the physicians. passed the best da!
Sunday since arriving at Christ hos
pital in Cincinnati. His condition
Sunday night was reported as being
very favorable.
Mrs Chauncey Depew who has been
living abroad since the publication OF
her husbands connection with insur-
ance matters returned Sunday.
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veil founded rumors of omcial wom-
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The Forrest City times., 1906-03-30
St. Joseph's
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The Forrest City times., 1906-03-30
LIVER DISTURBANCES NINE YEN

Mir. " A. Kelly, of M,v. cha, s. C., was afflicted vi, liver troubles for many ye,n
 and the following letter ,el, how he uses St. Joseph's La CT Regulator and
The Forrest City times., 1906-03-30

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The Forrest City times., 1906-03-30
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The Forrest City times., 1906-03-30

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The Forrest City times., 1906-03-30

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The Forrest City times., 1906-03-30
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The Forrest City times., 1906-03-30
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The Forrest City times., 1906-03-30

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her desire for becomingness and style.
Summer gowns are real summer
gowns this year. and Mistress Fashion
seems to be more in Harmony with
comfort than for some years past.
Waists may be deliberately inset with
lace or embroidered, but they are
simply made and with lacey collars or
low, round or Dutch square necks.
Everyone is wearing elbow sleeves ex-
cept those with scrawny arms. and for
them there are sheer undersleeves
which conceal any number of ugly
lines. --Guimps, too, are popular fea-
ture this year, and may be purchased
reasonably in all manner OF pretty
styles or be made at home? Some OF
the daintiest effects are realized I'm the
combination OF Valencinnes and swiss
or lawn.
The delicately colored slips are ap-
pearing again, and under the sheer
white dresses are quite enchanting. A
white embroidered Swiss over a pink
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ASSsF=ss No ExS77A
ExS$ssga 81 TO BREED RESISTANT PLANTS. yum ~
ET4SH SPpS Proof Against Insects Disease eSI9YI51
HSH&S Be Grown by the Farmer SIJ493S
NS S5$Al1
o BREED RESISTANT PLANTS
GUY ELLIOTT MITCHELL.

The farmers too greatest foes are
insects and plant diseases. He can,
by n proper rotation OF crops and
fertilization, convert a poor into a rich
soil, and he can stimulate plant growth
by plenty of fertilization. BY the
same process he can keep down the
weeds which rob his crops OF nourish.
ment and moisture. He can, to a great
extent, overcome, with but little
trouble, all the various smaller hin.
ORANGES TO crop growing-all but the
bugs and the blight. These twain are
hard to handle. None Is so arrogant
as to profess Indifferent to their at.
tacks. Not many years ago they were
expected, not the less dreaded, espe-
cially the blights and the rots and the
mildews; they were the natural vista.
tons OF providence. There was no
use trying to combat them. IL they
came, they came. The farmer prayed
that they might not come that year.
Now, science has shown us that they
can, in most cases, be overcome. IL
not overcome. they can be prevented.
Yet the process is often fraught with
great trouble and expense to the
farmer.
Now suppose a man could develop
a strain of plants so hardy that
blights and rust would pass them by
In disgust and so bitter and unsavory
for bug that the hymenopterd, the
coleopterd and the other coughs" OF
the insect trust would pass by and
prefer to eat oak and hickory leaves?
II would be n cinch for that man.
would IL not? He could sit in the
shade and hire myrmidons to do his
work, directing those close at hand
In person and those at a distance by
telephone. Such a condition may be
possible. The man who gets in first
would be the one to sit in the shade
and reap the advantage. Eventually
we would all get on to the scheme,
and. unless the population OF the world
increased with accelerated rapidity.
there would be an over-production OF
food products and prices would eventu-
ally get back to their present level,
so that we would all have to work
again.
The Department OF Agriculture and
some or the experiment stations have
been working along this line OF Sc
Letting resistant plants with the idea
or at least giving the enterprislng
American farmer n good big start.
In the aggregate enormous crop
DISSERTATIONS and millions-are
caused by the attacks OF insects and
plant diseases. In dry weather in
scots are particularly abundant, and
In wet weather plant diseases -four
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ish, while In average weather both do
the best they can to gather the crop
ahead OF the farmer. Many plant dis.
eases and insects can be controlled by
the various poisons. sprays, and cul.
tural methods already discovered, but
Tor some-as, for example, the rust of
wheat, peach yellows. clover-seed fly.
etc.-satisfactory remedies have not
yet been discovered.
Some instances may be cited to show
Just what Is meant by resistant or Inn
mune varieties and their value. Grapes
furnish a striking example. Euro
pean grapes planted I'm this country
fail wherever the American grape-root
louise Is present. because the louise is
able 20 attack and destroy the roots
OF these varieties. The roots OF ma
tive American grapes are also attacked
by the same louise. but are so hard and
wiry that the louise can not destroy
them In other words they are re.
sistant
The unusual resistance OF the Keif
fer pear 10 blight has made It pos
sible 20 grow this pear I'm the South.
ern States, where most other varie.
ties fail because Of blight The va.
riety Of cOwpea known as Little Iron
has proved so resistant TO wilt disease
that in some fields Il has survived
when all other varieties have been
Killed. American Rooseberries are but
little subject 10 the mildew which Sc
rlously affects the larger English va
rieties when crown here With nearly
every crop grown. some OF Us vari.
etieG are more resistant or immune TO
some disease or insect attack than
others
Some varieties Of the same plant
are but little affected by a disease.
while others are badly injured Va.
rlatlons in this respect also extend
10 individual plants of a given variety.
These facts have been utilized ~
ZONE extent in the originatiOn ~ the
various sO-calied "diseasc-proof' va.
risties which have been introduced
into culiure-as. for example. the
"ruci.proof' varieties Of wheat oats
etc LAS n rule. however. these varie
ties have not been developed by any
Systematic. scientific methods ~ &C.
lection and breeding. and although a
few show merit. most Of them have
not measured I'D 70 the claims made
for them. They have. however, served
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grown from the seed OF one scotsman.
Many OF the hills from this strain of
Rockyford seed remained green
throughout the season and produced
a good crop of melons. Further obser-
vations in the muskmelon fields of
that neighborhood also showed that
wherever this strain of Rockford seed
had been used many hills were unaf-
fected with rust, while with other
strains Of seed OF the same variety
the vines were all dead.
The Investigator selected a quantity
OF seed from the rust-resistant hills
and planted them in comparison with
ordinary seed. "On the rust-resisting
hills the melons were hidden under a
healthy growth of vines, and were
large, solidly netted, with thick. firm
flesh. small seed cavity completely
filled with seed. On the rusted hills
the plants were almost devoid of leaves
and the small melons were premature
| ly ripe, with thin, watery flesh, open,
large seed cavity, and practically of
no market value"
In tracing back the history of this
strain Of seed IL was found that some
years before scotsman had saved the
| first lot from a single healthy melon
taken from a field of rusted vines. 1t
| had therefore been developed by the
simple process of saving seed from
the best melons produced by plants
which withstood attacks of rust when
surrounding plants were destroyed by
| this disease. What was thus accom-
plished by one farmer with one crop
| can probably be accomplished by other
| farmers with the same or with other
crops, II they will be alert, while the
| crops are growing, to select and mark
individual plants which show excep-
tional merit along the lines OF pro-
| life yield. early maturity, resistance to
| disease, or other desirable quality, and
save seed separately from the plant
| showing such qualities. Marked va
| riations which may be profitably util-
| lied in this way are constantly occur.
| ring and are plainly evident on all
! farms.
The point to be emphasized is that
| improvements in farm crop varieties
nearly always trace back to individual
plants. No one is in better position
to notice these exceptional plants than
the farmer. He Is In his fields, gar
den, or orchard, every day, where these
exceptional plants are produced. II
one plant I'm a rust-infected wheat
field stands up green and free from
the disease, that Is a plant to save
seed from as the basis OF a rust.re.
sistant strain. If one hill of pota-
toes in a blighted field remains unaf-
fected by disease. seed from that hill
may produce bllght-resistant variety.
II a squash pint is found that Is dis.
tasteful to the squash bug. seed from
that hill may produce squash vines
which the bugs will not modest
The important fact is that some
plants are much more resistant to dis
ease and insect attacks than others.
Il is a question Of seeing the resistant
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Vermont, where experiments in breed
ing and selection for increased re-
sistance are under way. These results
have been correlated with information
recently secured by a circular of In
quiry addressed to a large number of
potato specialists in the Northeastern
States and in Canada From these IL
appears that a wide variation is shown
in disease resistance among the varie-
ties now In cultivation in America,
but that no one variety is prominent.
Among those which have been wide
~ tested, the following deserve men
tiOn as Of the resistant class: Dakota
Red. Rustproof. Irish, CObbler. Sir
Walter Raleigh, Doc Pride, and White
Beauty.
In tests made at the Vermont sta.
ton IN 1905 the following varieties
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very useful purpose I'm turning tba
thought OF scientific and practical men
as well, In the direction of the do.
yelopment OF disease-resistant varieties
with results which promise to prove
OF great practical utility.
POTATOES.
During recent years the disease 70.
sistance OF potatoes especially has re.
ceiyed attention by several OF the
agricultural experiment stations In the
united States, notably those of Maine
Minnesota, and Vermont. A recent
bulletin of the Bureau of Plant In.
dustry OF the Department of Agricul
ture. prepared by l.. Il. Jones. of the
vermont Station, summarizes and dis
cusses this work, and that along sim
liar lines abroad. as well as the ex.
perience OF practical growers. Sum.
marizing the results. Professor Jones
draws the following tentative con.
illusions:
Disease resistance I'm potatoes "a
relative, not absolute. no variety
known being wholly proof against late
blight and rot. 10 seems related To
general vegetative vigor. and is. there.
fore, In n measure dependent upon
cultural and developmental conditions
and tends to decrease with the age of
the variety. IL can be restored by
originating new varieties from seed.
especially OF hybrid origin. Not ali
seedlings show superior disease re.
sistance.
Early varieties may escape the dis.
ease by maturing before IL becomes
epidemic, but when similarly exposed
they are, as class, less resistant than
late varieties.
The source of seed tubers is a mat.
ter OF Importance, northern-grown
seed giving plants the superior disease
resistance In Europe. Seed from a
crop that was not too highly fortified
Is probably preferable. Possibly tub
ers are better for seed purposes If dug
before they reach full maturity. High
fertilization, especially with nitro
genous manures, lowers the power OF
the plant to resist both blight and
rot.
So far as skin characteristics are an
index, the red varieties with thick
and rough skin seem more resistant
as class than the thin-skinned white
| varieties. So far as stem and foliage
characters are concerned, the EVIL
dence favors the stem that is hard
rough. and rather woody at the base
and the leaf that is small, somewhat
| rough, and dark colored.
In America trials as to disease re
sistance have been conducted at some
OF the experiment stations, notably II