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The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-05
AMERIcANs FOND or FRUIT.
vast Amount Expended Each Year for
 the Various Kinds.

vast Amount Expended Each Year for
 the Various Kinds.
 Leslie's Weekly.
 We Americans possess an amazing fondness for fruits and we spend lot of money to sratify 1t. For strictly. orchard products which found markets and presumably were consumed during the year ending June 90, 1905, the Amer lean farmer received $s3,751.s4o, and we raised in American vineyards dur ing the same period l.50O ,000, 900 pounds of grapes, which crop brought our American vineyardists over Si5,o00,000 more Nearly one-third of these grapes went into wine. but the bigger portion went to the consumer in eight and our-pound baskets and were presur1- ably eaten. American subtropical fruits brought the producers nearly $l0,00O,- 900 and we imported from the West Indies and Southern Europe s25.0oo,Oo0 worth of tropical fruits.
 We paid the American farmer over $25, 100000 for his berries during the short summer season of 1905, and, put ting the latter in the lists with fruits, we enriched the producers of the yari- ous fruits which found the American markets within the time mentioned, above nearly si7o.0Oo.0o0.
 In selecting our fruits our first choice is for apples, for American orchard ists marketed 2.00o, 100000 bushels of this healthful fruit as against ie,00o,- 000 bushels of peaches. 7,00O.000 bush els of pears and s,00o,0o0 bushels Of plums.
 The packing. shipping and retail sale of our fruits and berries give eni- ployment to thousands of persons and create numerous related industries of no mean size.
 The idea of selling berries from at- tractive quart baskets found expression less than thirty years ago and up to very few years ago orchard products and grapes never found the markets packed temptingly In indiUdual pack ages. But just think how the Idea has expanded into it's present universal practical adoption Why, the manurac- turing of fruit and bery baskets alone brings to the various factories over $7,000, 900 annually. and the ultimate annual cost to the fruit and berry rais- CTS is, with the middleman's profits added, between ss.000.0O0 and s10,0oO.- ooo This branch of the carrier husi- nes produces i.2S0.000,060 berry bas- kets, over 1O0, ,000. 900 four quart peach baskets and over 10,000,000 eight and four pound grape baskets. California alone uses 500. 100000 carriers of vari- ous kinds for fruit shipped east of the Rockies.
 The making of crates Is almost and in some sections wholly a separate branch of the carrier industry. Man ufacture of baskets Is carried on In from 5000 to 5000 factories" situated all over the United States and ranging in size and lmportancn from single work bench to a vast establishment with wonderful equipment and em- ploying hundreds Of persons.
 IHere at Padueah. Ky, have visited by far the biggest enterprise of this kind in the world, where almost ev- cry bit of the work is done by ma chinery, and I am told 1t is the only factory in the world where the actual process of making the baskets is per formed wholly by automatic machines.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-05

Not if you row straight ahead" she suggested. That ought to be easy.
 If I had anything to steer by." he admitted. but the trouble Is cannot see where am going"
 You should carry compassss she declared. T thought all boats had to carry conpasses thought it was tho law
 Not rowboats on iand locked lake" he corrected. You are sup- posed to be able to tell where you are going"
 There's land" she exclaimtd. point ing ahead Its darker over there.~
 He glanced ahead and 1t seemed to him, too, that there was a shadow ahead. Desperately he pulled for it. and presently the boat grated on tho shelving bank Ted sprang to tha shore. drawing the boat up. and starf- ed to explore the beach. Presently ne returned. This in the island" he said. dlsguat- edly. T just ran across the fire soms of the boys made this afternoon"
 Well" she smiled, i've at least know where we are. You can start from here and row right
 He pushed off the boat and started | to TOW right" For half an hour ho labored at the ears ana then struck beach again run aground on the only island in the lake. This time he had come up on the opposite side. He push- ed off and bent over the oars again only to come fo the same island. Daisy. khivering and crying in the stern. broke down, Long ago Ted had insieted upon wrapping his coat about her, but this was scnnt protection against the searching cold
 Ted drew the boat well up on the beach, and presently there was X roar lng fire. blazing Tn twenty minutes Dalsy had forgotten her discomfort. Tn half an hour she was positively com fortable. Ted butt. up a back rest of 1. boughs. and she dozed on at intervals. finally dropping into a deeper slumber.
 It was some hours later that Ted gently reused her. "It'a five o'clock" he said, land there is plenty or light. The fog has lifted We can make shore in time for you to catch the train.'
 Do look like sightT she demands
 'As if you ever aid" he laughed. You look all right
 T can sleep on the tram, she plan ned, "and I'll be all right by the timo I reach town"
 In less than an hour the boat drew handed her out and reached for the suit case. silently he followed her to the platform.
 Don't you think" he said at Last, That since you are SO fond of we.i- dings you ought to have one your self2" If you are stili willing" she smiled
 Do you suppose I was rowing you around. the lake all night for pure love of exercise3 he Femanded.
 I'd rather think 1t was for love of me-" she whispered.
 You win," declared Ted, ferventiy; and under his breath he added And SO do I. Bless that fog!''
 (copyright. 1908. by M M. Cunning ham.l
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-05

always made 1t a point to get as mnch sleep as I needed, and do yet.
 am not one of those persons who believe that man, young or otherwise. should not have his fun; that he should not sometimes overstep his rules a bit. I had my fun and was no worse for It. What one should guard against IS not to have tooy much. not to forget that business must not be negiected. little round of what is commonly known as fun doesn't hurt any man in good health Neither am I one of the persons opposed to vacations for young men. They are necessary, and ones years should not be lessened by lack of them week or two or three of rest and play freshens man up, and believe he should have a respite if he can do so without losing his grasp on his affairs.
 Work the Real Elixir.
 Many times I have been asked what one should do to keep young while the years creep on. and my answer has always been the saFne--wori, live a regular life, don't abuse yourself and get plenty of rest. Exercise and fresh air are esstntial. of course. One cant lay down a set of rules to be followed, because what might suit one would not suit another. Each person must make his own rules, using the basic principles I have outlined, and stick to them. My custom has always been to eat heartily of good food and have never worried about diets and prepar- ed thipgs.i. /
 His attention being called to the as- sertion often made that the strain up- on men engaged in big financial affairs frequently requires a stimulant and that, therefore, the habit of alcoholic indulgence is to be exeeused, he said =
 That is absurd. I have heard 1t. No matter how extensive his interests, may be or how varied his responsibil- ities, no man has to lean to stimu- lants., The moment he does that he Is uniting himself for the very work he thinks he is equipping himself to do. The man who aims to succeed in any business should guard against drink. When he gets to that 1t Is the end of him. The thing for q man to do when he feels That he must have stimuiant. Is to rest. That Is the best stimulant, because it really stimulates. Leave his business and his worries at the office and go home and sleep. That is what keeps a man In trim to grap- pie with big problems and the nitric ate affairs of life.
 T go to my office every Tuesday and shall continue to do so--hew long Il can't say. of course, because 1 am get-I ting pretty well along Tn years My children tell me I oughtn't to do it at all, that I ought to remain right here, with my mind free of all business cares, but I think I am better or for busying myself. I attend meetings and enjoy it just as much as I ever did"
 Drifting to the subject of industrial conditions of the country, Mir. Sloan became enthusiastic.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-05
LIFE OF GRINDsTONE BRIEF.
Injured by Exposure to the Sun nm,
 Rain, Says Expert.

Injured by Exposure to the Sun and
 Rain, Says Expert.
 Charleston News and Courier Most persons" said the hardware drummer, have the idea that if there is one thing in life a man doesn't have to buy twice it is a grindstone. The fact is that they are among the best sellers we have.
 The life of a grindstone is not very long. From two to three years on farm and from a year to a year and half in e blacksmith shop put most of them to the bad. It sometimes hap pens if a man draws a poor stone that 1t will be out of service Inside of six months.
 There are a good many things about grindstone that most persons don't know. For instance. mistake most farmers make is in leaving the stone uncovered. When I was a boy the usual place for the grindstone was out by the orchard, where 1t would be ly the sun has damaging effect. The wise man nowadays houses his grind stone.
 Let a good. drenching rain come along and the stone will absorb @ lot of moisture. Often 1t never becomes wholly dry again.
 Some people have the idea that let- ting the sun shine on a moisture-l laden stone VIII bring IL our atl FlsnI. usual ly the sun has a damaging eectff. The defect will not be noticeable for time. but the stone becomes soft and crumbles.
 Most of the grindstoAes used in this country come from Ohio and In- diana Cleveland Is the great center of the industry Grindstoaes are made of a quartzlike sandstone. Every grinding leaves new points of the stone protruding and they never, as rule, wear perfectly smooth.
 Another reason why stone Is cast aside after a couple of years service Is that 1t wears down considerably and too many revolutions become necessary to sharpen the tools This year Is usually most on the softest part of the stone and 1t acquires jiggly motion that is not pleasant.
 There is practically no difference in the quality of the stones turned out and the difference In price, ranging for ordinary ones from $5 to ST, is due to the character of the frame and the quality of the wood used Many of the stNhes sold to the big ranches and far mers are equipped with power attach
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-05

seems the most dreaded fate in the universe. So universal is the desire for wealth and for the iuxuries and privileges that wealth makes possible,
 that various crimes and coruptions
 have found their way into places that once would have shuddered at the thought of them and scorned their very name.
 How can sentiment live and flourish in a time when gold and greed are the Id ,ls of meas hen. ts?
 For the fiourishing of sentiment leisure g needed. Not only Is the present generation ambitious for ma- terial prosperity, but 1t Is in hurry to get on. People no longer live con- tentedly year after year, in the same place; they do not strike their roots deeply anywhere; they are always on the road. California or the Bahamas. Europe or the far east. allure peo- pie from their firesides, and globe trotters are so common that their coming and going eiicits no comment.
 Time was that a great traveller was a lion. but in these days he has lost prestige, and nobody pays him much attention. The age Is one of bustle, haste and a thousand crowding en- agreements. Without leisure we can not have serenity, and without sereni- ty we do not have sentiment Con- seauently, the men and women who came to maturity when standards were high and there was time enough for all one had to do, are the sur vivors of beautiful ahy-gene time. and in them sentlment' still lives and comes continually to bloom and fruit
 fin Owen Wistef's charming south ern story Lady Baltimore, there IS an atmosphere Of tender sentiment in complete contrast to the vulgarity, noise and display of time when di- voice is, not singular. when marriage. is a matter of bargaining. and privacy mas flown from the domestic hearth.
 It Is needfui only to read m tne same month Edith Wharton,s terrible arraignment of a portion of modern society in sThe House of Mirth." and Mir Wister's exquisite and wonderful ly artistic story of YKings Port" to see what has, been wrought for us In the way of mischief, hy the decay of sentiment. Look on this picture, and then 6n that. Having done so, take "a lantern and search for the dear souls in whom sentiment still ahides. and sit down beside them and let them give you lessons in sympathy. in chivalry, in womanly reticence, in manly devotion and in all that makes life really worth living. Not until you do this and until you absorb the sweetness of their spirit can you nope to understand what the poets mean when they sing of love. In the exT quisite entertainments of fairy-lore and of the old mythologies you find love and life forever hand in hand.
 There is a practical style of think ing and of acting that deals death blow to sentiment, but fortunately with most of us. there is yet the capability of being awakened to TO- nance and charmed with its potency if only we will lot go our clutch at the things that perish and reach out a hand for the things that are eter- nal Love of home, love of little children. joy. hope. mirth. belief In good men Gnd good women, are the altar of ross we call sentiment Shall we let the o c people have the monop- oly of these?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-05
AFTER THE FOG.
Hy .Jaunea Baxter.

Daisey looked anxiously up and down the dock, It would be erabarras- sing to have to ask Ted to row her across the lake but if she wanted 10 she must get over tonight.
 Ted. with an air of preoceupation too exaggerated to be sincere. tied and un- tied the painter of the little skin from which he had just landed. He hoped that Daisy would so away. It was not pleasant to meet the young women who only that afternoon had handed him back his ring and had declared that he was to much of fliirt ever to make good husband. and yet
 But instead of going away, Daisy Sp- preached him. Three times she called his name, but it was not until the third repetition of her MT. Cosgrove" that he raised his head.
 Were you speaking to me3'' he ask ed In mild surprise.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-05
EDISON TO MOLD
 COMPLETE HOUSES
Will Cast Buildings of Concrete. Complete in
 Every Detail, in Form.

I purpose to have metallic molds made to correspond The mold for each house win be made in detachable parts. There will be separate plates and small molds that can be screwed to- gether easily to form one mold for an entire house. That d fine finish may be obtained. the inside surfaces of the parts will be nickel plated
 After the mold for the whole house Is set up 1t will be simple matter to pump the concrete Into every nook and cranny After four days the parts of the mold will be nnscrewed and taken off and the solid concrete house will remain"
 Edison says the plan will be car ried out in such detail that dormer windows, chimneys, spouts, and orna- mental designs will be molded with the whole and that inside cupboards, fireplaces. atairways. with ornamental banisters, mantel pieces, and even hathtubs will be formed in the cast in which the house proper will be made.
 Plumbing Also to he Nodded.
 The house will be so complete that when the mold is removed the installa- ton of electric wires. window sashes, etc. will be all that will be necessary before the furnishers and carpet lay CTS may go to work. Even the plumb ing and gas piping will be of concrete and nodded in the original cast.
 AS a practical demonstration of what may be accomplished by the pro- cess Edison has built a complete chicken house in his back yard. mold ed out of concrete. It has many com partments and doorways and decorated cornices of intricate design.
 The original cost of each mold, with all it's component parts, the inventor estimates at s25,0ooi From each mold, however. he says an unlimited number of houses may be produced. Because the parts of the mold are to be de- tachable 1t will be portable and one mold may be sent with little difficulty from town to town. About ninety houses could be built in one year by the use of a single mold, at a cost of from $500 to $500 apiece.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-05

New York Special
 Whble houses molded in a single casting out of solid concrete. which win provide cozy homes for working
 men at a cost of from $500 to ssoo--
 much less than the average mechanic
 pays today--is the goal which Thomas A. Edison Is striving to reach. He IS confident of success. Combined with economy of construction and mainte-
 nance the inventor aims to embody sr- chitectural beauty and practical inde- structibility.
 MT. Edison intends to make his first practical experiments next year In his
 new village in Warren county, N J.
 One of the big Edison industrial estab-
 Hshments Is situated there, and he purposes to erect the homes by the new process for the families of the
 hundreds of employees ef the plant. IT
 he succeeds In demonstrating the prac-
 ticability of the scheme he will intro
 duce 1t generally.
 House Nodded In Four Days. He already has conceived every de- tail of the project. Four days at the outside Is the period Edison estimates will be necessary to cast and turn out
 whole housss with from eight to ten
 rooms each, complete in almost every detail and ready to be furnished and carpeted. The actual time for pumping the concrete into the metallic molds will be only a few hours, and the rest of the time will be consumed in dry ting out and hardening Whole cities of concrete may be reared in the brief period of four days, If only enough molds and men are provided. MT. Edison thinks that the time is near when the world must fad somo substitute for brick and lumber. Tho yellow pine forests of the United States will be destroyed within fifty years if the present drain upon them
 is maintained.
 Mir. Edison Taal<s of Plan. Describing the plan in detail Edison said:
 "The fist step will be to employ an architect to design, say. dozen
 dwelling houses of different patterns.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-05
Feminine Finance
Weekly.

Harpers WesKIy.
 not long ago spoke to his wife with reference to her account, which had been overdrawn. To his suggestion that the matter should be seen to at once, the wife replied that she would immediately adjust the difieulty. A day or two after that the husband in- auired whether she had done what he suggested.
 @Certainly," replied the wife; q ar- tended to that matter the very next morning after you first spoke to me about it. sent to the bank my check for the amount I had overdrawn."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-05
Most UnkIndest Act.

with reference to the humors of country society" reporting, Melville Stone, of the Associated Press, tells of the account of a wedding published in Kansas paper.
 The story, which described the mar riage in the usual iowery adjectives. concluded with this surprising an- nouncement:
 .The bridegroom's present to the bride was a handsome diamond brooch. together with many other beautiful thingS in cutglass."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-05
nInxersn NnveI prnn

Alexander Blendsoe, of Fayetteville, N C., who killed John Alexston on aii excursion train. has sued the AtIantfo Coast Line railway for damages. al- leging that the company is responsible for the crime because it placed him m a position where he was breed to kill Aiexston He says Alexston was drunk and threatened to kill him, and that he tried to avoid him, but that the conductor. disregarding his protests. admitted Alexston to the ear.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-05
One Empty Space.

Say" remarked the foreman of the Bungtown Bugle. T wish we had a case O some kind to put away these old advertisin' cuts in."
 "T3ut we ain't got nothin' like that empty list now," replied the editor and proprietor. "But, hold oni Yes we have. You might as well use the cash drawer"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-05

ments to be run by windmill force or gasoline engine.
 The farmer Is the best customer for grindstones. In later years the black smiths and machinists have pretty gen. orally taken to the use of emery wheels. These cost more. but they last great deal longer"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-05
EHE DECAY OF
 SENTIMENT

old Folk Only seutimentalists Left-- Present Generation Seek Money and Material Copiforts--Each Generation Receives it's stamp In Youth--Nar- riages for Convenience Becoming More Cemmon--Leisnre Necessary to Sentiment.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-05

Every generation receives it's stamp in the days of it's youth. The pres ent generation IS living in time of wonderful material progress. in a time, too, when to be rich is the am- bition of nine-tenths of the communi- ty and when to pine-tenths poverty
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-27
THEFTS IN SEMINARY.
SUCCESSFUL MEANS TAKEN TO
DETERMINE CULPRlT.
Searched and Stolen Property Is
Restored-kansas Child Dies on
Prairie After Wandering.

Fifty girl students of Washington sem
mary at Washington, Pa, left for their
homes the other night on their Christmas
vacation, all suferisg more or less from
hysteria following the discovery OF many
petty thefts and the subsequent method
OF the principal to find the culprit. The
fbefts were committed in one of the dor
mitories, and teachers as we'll as students
suffered. Articles of wearing apparel,
money and jewelry AVE been missing.
One day, when the time came to dismiss
the school. the girls in the dormitory were
summoned to cls pei, where the principal
announced that students would not be al
lowed to depart for home before they and
their rooms had been searched. Teachers
began their disagreeable duty, and one Of
them was notified that a student who had
reported a So bill stolen found the bill
crumpled up near the door of the room,
where apparently it had been throTn in a
hurry. Other reports of the hasty return
of stolen property were made. and soon
all who had lost anything had found it.
The search was stopped and the keys to
trunks were returned to the students. The
faculty and some of the students are said
to know the culprit, but her identity
In concealed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-27
BIG FIRE IN BOSTON.
STUDIO BUILDING is SWEPT BY
FLAMES.
Blaze Leaps to Other Structures, but
Is Held in Check by Ice-Incased
Ffremen-RObbers Ignite Hotel to
Cover Up Crime.

Fire caused heavy damage in the block
bounded by fremont, Bromfeld. Wash
ington and Winter streets, in Boston. and
although most of the damage was con-
fined to one structure, the Studio build
ing, on fremont street, the flames threat
ened for a time to cause much greater de-
struction. The fire broke out OF the
lower floor of the Eldridge & Peabody
furniture establishment and swept
through six floors of the firms section OF
the building. The roof fell and the fire
jumped across an alley to the roof OF the
Orpheum theater. formerly Boston's fam
Gus music hall, and to the top of the
building occupied by the Talbot Company.
clothiers. On Washington street. The
flames did little damage to these struc-
lures, but the Talbot building was flooded
by bursting hose. The hremen had to hight
in a narrow alley on ice-coated ladders
and fire escapes and with their hodies
incased in ice. A rough estimate OF the
loss places it at $150.0O0. of which Ed
ridge & Peabody bear about S1o,Ooo.