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The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-04-21
SEED CORN.
Profitable Way of Growing Corn
BY Lea Beatty, Special Agent
Department of Agriculture.

The superiority of and great ben
eft to be derived from the use of
pure bred seed corn is now conceded
by all progressive, practical farmers,
The agricultural experiment stations
of the States, the United States de-
partment of agriculture, as well as
many practical, reading, thinking far
mers, have demonstrated beyond the
possibility of a doubt the great value
of carefully selected seed corn. A
step in the right direction has been
made, object lessons have been pre-
scented to many of US, which We should
strive to initiate, with a confident
hope of developing in a few years
strains of corn which will yield from
ten to forty per cent. more per acre
than we now raise, by the use of or
binary seed corn. The average yield
of corn in the South is entirely too
low, considering the rich soil availa-
bic for corn growing. Texas, for
the last ten years, has an average
of 1873 bushels, Louisiana 1853 bush
els, Mississippi I4.8 bushels, Arkan-
sas 1871 bushels, Oklahoma 2I.6 bush
els, Florida "a bushels, Illinois 81
bushels, while Is to 100 is frequently
made by those who pay special atten-
ton to corn growing. Lately, some
run the yield to rs to 40 bushels
by special cultivation.
The question, then, is how can we
increase the yield. There are three
ways
First, select the best developed ears
those with small cob-which gives
the greatest percentage of grain
perfect grains, straight rows. The
tip end should be covered with grains.
we'll shaped and fully developed
grains These should be selected
from well. developed stalks. Where
one is breeding corn for sale, or ex-
poets to save seed from his own
farm, all barren stalks should be cut
out as soon as they show to be bar
rem; this will lessen the number of
poor ears in the field
Second, a thorough preparation OF
the soil, by breaking very deep in
the fall and narrowing once or twice
in yinter. By narrowing as soon as
the corn is up and blowing three or
four times, being careful not to pillow
too deep or close after it is two or
three feet high. After it is that high
| it is better to run sweeps shallow
or use surface ploy, making dus,
| mulch and keeping down grass and
/ WS(dS. ~ tAS adSt pi0WilR BOW COW
| peas, or later sow white or burr clo-
yer, and mix with clover, Essex rope
| The clover and rope will make a fine
winter pasture, especially for hogs
Some plant their corn in rows ST,
feet apart, and plant goober peas il
the middle. The cultivation of thu
corn answers for the COOLERS Al
the last blowing plan cow peas. II
the fall gather the corn and turn tn,
hogs in; they will soon fatten ant
leave the land in fine condition.
These are the three ways by which
the yield of corn can be wonderful,
increased in the South. The careless
farmer who pays no attention to see,
selection often bestows as much Ia
Dor on an acre of corn IS his neigh
Dor. He will harvest twelve to -four
| teen bushels. while his neighbor. B,
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-04-21
Don't Borrow Trouble.

It is a bad habit to borrow any
thing, but the worst thing you can
possibly borrow is trouble. When
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by the pains and poisons of dyspep-
STA, biliousness, Bright's disease and
similar internal disorders, don't SIT
down and brood over your symptoms
but fly for relief to Electric Bitters
Here you will find sure and perma.
nent forgetfulness of all your troub.
les and your body will not be bar.
dened by load of debt disease. Al
Finlay's Drug Store; price so cents
guaranteed.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-04-21
Interesting Proposition.

An eleven-room house, including
kitchen and bath, large back and
front galleries, large stable, coal
house, etc. Size of lot, II3 225 feet
The best LOCATION. Particulars on ap-
plication to Emery Realty Co.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-04-21
chrysanthemum Plants for Sale.

Send me your order for chrysan-
themum plants. I have the finest
varieties. and if desired viii send in
structions with every order how to
grow those large fine ones. Plants
$T.oo per dozen. Frank r. Smith,
a1ndfanoia, Miss.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-26
GEN. JOE WHEELER

In the death OF Gen. Joseph A.
Wheeler has passed away one OF the
last and most noteworthy of the galaxy
of Confederate soldiers that made the
southern army famous throughout the
world. lie had the fighting instinct
and opportunity gave to him
the trade OF soldier. His work
under Gen. Bragg, Gen. Johnston and
in conjunction with "Stonewall' jack
son advanced him higher and higher in
official service until. when the war
closed he was lieutenant general.
Like Gems Grant and Lee. Gen. Wheel
err quit fighting when the war was
ever and gave his best thought to the
restoration of the Union. Then when
war came again, President Mckinley
called upon Gen. Wheeler for help and
made him a major general. He met
every responsibility of life bravely and
his memory will live long in the his
tory of his country.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-26
BELASCO SUCCESS WILL
RUN FOR ANOTHER WEEK
m MANAGEMENT is FORCED TO
CONTINUE PLAY
Great Demand for Seats For when
Knlghthood Was in Flower" Cam
not Be Accommodated In Seven
Day Run

The biggest theatrical success of re-
cent years, "When Knighthood Was I'm
Flower" the current attraction of the
Belasco Theater Stock company is to
be played another week commencing
next Monday night.
This has been made necessary on ac-
count of the literally enormous de-
Inand for seats for the presentation OF
the dramatic version OF Charles Majors
fascinating love story of Mary Tudor
and Charlese Brandon. Since the first
production Monday night there has
been steady and unbroken line OF
ticket purchasers in front of the Belas-
co box office Wednesday evening 1t
became apparent that when Knight
hood Was in Flower" was going to an
initiate the "Old Heidelberg" financial
returns, and plans We're laid to post
pone the production of Clyde Fitch's
comedy, "The Girl with the Green
Eyes" which was scheduled to be given
at the Belasco next Monday night. Last
evening Charles Frohman wired his
consent for the postponement of the
Fitch play for one week.
The Belasco mana cement makes the
announcement that persons who have
purchased seats for 1.-THE Girl with the
Green Eyes" expecting to witness the
play next week, may either have their
money refunded or their tickets ex-
changed for the production of the Fitch
comedy during the week commencing
Monday, February 5.
Persons who have seen when
Knighthood Was in Flower" are wildly
enthusiastic over the delightful per-
Torrance and are telling their friends
that it is the most brilliant theatrical
production in the history of local stock
companies. Since Tuesday night sew
eral thousand people have been turned
way from the Belasco box office. The
entire capacity of the theater for the
weeks performances was practically
disposed of twenty-four hours after the
first performance.
The sale of seats for the second week
of when Knighthood Was in Flower"
will commence this morning.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-26
A CHASTENED COUNCIL

The promptness with which the city
council recalled it's repeal of the
utility ordinance is evidence anew that
the members of that body are honest
men, for the most part, and that they
have no intention at any time Of will
fully betraying the public interest"
Sometimes they may remind one of
the placard in the western saloon.
which read, Don't shoot the piano
player; he is doing the best he knows
how" but it is foolish TO rush upon
the housetop at every turn and shout
stop thief and recall" These cues
have been sounded so often and 50
ridiculously that the city council is not
frightened by them, while their reit-
GRAFTON has only served to deaden the
public conscience. Crying wolf" all
the time, when there is no wolf, is the
which the council made in repeating the
/ whole utilities ordinance, when the in
tention was only to abolish the gas i'm
| spectors office, was the result of haste
and inattention. That mistake has
been promptly rectifed and hereafter
the council will undoubtedly be more
attentive to it's business.
And while the council is in softeneo
and penitent humor it should get to-
gether on the board OF public works
question. Councilman Kern rlghtfuIl,
says that too many public improve,
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-26
FAULT OF THE BACKBONE

At the very outset of the so-called
arisen, who is the prosecutor? and who
is the defendant? Is the proceeding on
behalf of Miss Jones? Her attorneys
say no. Is 1t on behalf of the library
might be, as puzzled Kentuckian once
said larry one or both" for all the
public knows or cares.
But Mayor McAleer, who has bad
habit of taking the center of the stage
on public occasions, readily answers
that he is, at least, the defendant, as
he imagines the whole proceeding is
aimed at him. In a measure it is, but
only as an act of defense.
Now if the mayor will pause and
consider this absurd case for moment,
he will recall-if that word may be
used without a shock-that a group of
club women originated the agitation
against the library board because it ex-
ercised its legitimate function in de-
posing Miss Jones from the office Of
librarian and appointing Mr. Lummis
in her stead, for the good of the SER
vice" The library board claimed then
and still claim that in their action
they mad the advice and consent-if not
the actual original suggestion-of the
mayor himself. When this defense be-
came known, and the womens clubs
swooped down upon the mayor, his
/ observation-disclosures in the history OF
| local yellow journalism-seemed t.
| shrivel up. He declined to face thu
! music, as he should have done, but
lodged behind an investigation. H,
should have met the issue squarely ant
| bravely. He should have admitted tn,
facts, stated his reasons, and boldl.
shouldered his share of the RESPONSE
bility. If he had done this, there woult
have been no investigation" and n
prolonged agitation over small Incl
dent which the public desires shall nov
be closed and dropped out of tenth
story window to a real hard pavemen
below.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-26
RAILWAY TO GIVE BOY MEDAL
Young Norval Mari Discovered {
Broken Rail and Had Express
Stopped in Time

Special TO me f1STdlu.
OXFORD, Pa, Jan. pa 9-year-old
boy saved the Baltimore express from
being wrecked near Barnsley. For this
act Norval Mari is to be awarded a
medal by the railroad company.
The boy was playing near the tracks
when he noticed that a piece about a
yard long had been broken from one
of the rails, leaving a wide gap in the
track He realized that unless some
one stopped it the Baltimore express,
which was due in a few minutes, would
be wrecked. He started to run TO the
nearest signal tower, about mile
away When he was nearly exhausted
he met one of the railroad section
hands, told him as quickly as his
breathless condition would permit
what had happened, and the man had
just time to flag the fast train.
The broken rail lay in a walled cut
and had not the boy observed it in time
and acted promptly a wreck would
have occurred, which, 1t seems certain
would have cost not a few lives and
many serious injuries, besides great
loss of property.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-26
Why socIALrsn THalvEs

Making Socialists Every Minute"
ought to be the sign above the cham
Der door Of the United states senate
and upon the offices of the trusts and
corporations.
The people Of this country have for
years demanded the regulation Of rail-
road rates and protested against those
forms of discrimination which created
the STANDARD Oil monopoly and its
brood of lesser oligarchies. Wonder
full patience they have shown, too In
waiting TO see the results of the film
flam and milksop legislation thrown
al them from time to time to quiet their
demands.
But the people are tired Of 1t all
now. The president of the United
states has championed their cause and
declared they are right. lie has re-
quested of congress that it enact a
law that will give to the people some
relief from railway exactions, In order
that they may have at least modi-
cum of justice in place of the old rule
of charging all that the traffic will
bear"
At this juncture, however, the presi-
dent has discovered n most remark
able condition-a condition, by the way,
which the Democrats have been trying
to warn the country against for many
years-and that is a senate of the
United states composed almost wholly
of millionaires, railroad lawyers and
the special agents of the great Amer
lean trusts. This remarkable body,
deliberately assembled by special and
vested" interests, now seeks to polit-
ically destroy the president. His
every act is by that body being be-
Titled and every effort is being made
to attach scandal and obloquy to his
administration. Caught in a corner,
where it must do something for the
public or acknowledge it's ownership,
the senate's energies appear now to be
directed wholly toward the defeat of
all measures bearing the administra-
ton stamp.
The situation is serious. The presi-
dent appreciates Just how serious 1t
is, and this TACT gives credence 10 the
story of Jacob Riis that Mr.. Roosevelt
would consent to become candidate
of the people for a third term If his
services should be deemed necessary
in the contest with special privileges,
corporate power and established mon
opoly.
Socialism is a deadening dead
level, but opportunity is the high
tide of sophistry and people who are
drowning reach frantically for the
first object that happens along. If we
would avoid the quicksands of the
Socialist fad, we must have at once
"a government of the people, by the
people and for the people, that shall
not perish from the earth"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-26
PERSONAL

Will Eichinger of San Diego is IN Los
Angeles on business.
III. K. Chenoweth of Los Angeles is in
Sonora on mining business.
George MCGUIRE, a San Francisco at
torney, is registered at the Westminster
hotel.
Maj. w. Arthur Phipps and family
of Pittsburg, Pa, are guests at the
Angelus hotel.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. ]. Sonnenscheln,
German-Jewish tourists from Austria,
are staying at the Angelus hotel.
DR.. II. c. Fuller of Los Angeles has
arranged to go into the drug business
in the new town of Alpaugh, in Tulare
county.
Mr.. and Mrs. George C. Powers and
Miss Helen Powers of Ventura are
guests at the Angelus hotel. Mr..
Powers is a prominent attorney.
Mrs. b. p. Schwerin has apartments
at the Van Mugs hotel. Mrs. Schwerin
is the wife of the vice president of the
Pacific Mail Steamship company,
Mr.. and Mrs S. Goldsmith and Miss
L. Goldsmith of Boston have secured
apartments at the Westminster hotel
for the remainder of the winter.
Ferd. K. Rule, O'Day Rule, A. Bel
ford and r. j. Belford are members OF
the Rule Belford company, to operate
in real estate, investments and mining
property.
Antoine PETER and two daughters
late of Illinois. have located per
manently near Long Beach, where Mr.
PETER has purchased lots and erected
a dwelling.
Frank Virgins, secretary of the Los
Angeles chamber of commerce, has
gone to San Francisco to attend {
meeting of the state commission which
had in charge California's exhibits a
the Portland exhibition.
President q. L. Doheny of the Mex
lean Petroleum company and c. A
| Garfield, one of the largest stock
holders in the company, have gone t.
Elbano, Mexico, to inspect holdings o
| the company.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-26
WAR OVER VERB ITO READ"
Ludlow Mill, Mass, People Dispute
School Superinte
Definition
Special to The Herald.

Special to '|ne hSrdlu'
LUDLOW, Mass, Jan. ga siren
uous contest is being waged in TINS
town between superintendent of
Schools William e. Gushee and the mill
people, the latter including both the
employers of the Ludlow mills and their
employees, over the meaning of the verb
'to read" George II. Martin, secre-
tary of the state board of education,
backs Mr.. Gushee in his stand, and the
mill people threaten to apply TO the
courts for a ruling of the word read
The state law requires that AFTER jan
uary 1, 1906, every minor under 10 years
of age employed in any business shall
be able to read, and the mill owners
realized three months ago that some
thing would have to be done or else
many of the minors working III the
mills would have to leave their jobs.
Accordingly, at their own expense, they
established evening schools, which were
attended only by pupils who We're EN-
ployed i'm the mills, or children or EN-
ployes who had a desire to go to work
The only connection of these evening
schools with the public school system
was that the children could not go 10
work in the mills unless they had a
certificate from Supt. Gushee that they
could read the English language.
But when thirty-siX OF THESE evening
school pupllS were eAdliihSu ~ "ut
Gushee all but six We're rejected the
superintendent contending that TO re-
peat words in a parrot fashion was not
reading.
"To read implies an understanding
of the meaning of what is read, de-
clared the superintendent, ana not
repeating words like machine" He
explained that he asked each OF the
pupils to read Aesops Fable OF the
Fox and the Sour Grapes" and after
the reading he asked each pupll
whether the fox got the grapes or not.
! All but six thought he did, and the
superintendent promptly turned down
ali but six of the candidates Tor GER
! tineates to work in the mills.
The mill people, on the other hand,
insist that ITO read means pronounce
ING the words on the page before them
in such a fashion that they are in
telligible 10 a listener who himself
understands English,
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-26
AUDITORIUM WILL OPEN TO
SCHUBERT PRODUCTIONS
BIG THEATER WILL ESPOUSE
INDEPENDENT CAUSE
Los Angeles PIaygoing Public VIII Be
Permitted to See Companies for
Which There Now Is No Room In
This city--S. M. Berry to Manage.

When the Temple auditorium shall
have been completed and ready for
business, it will afford home for the
theatrical attractions of the Schuberts
and their associates, known generally
in theatrical circles as the indepen-
dents, who are now barred out of Los
Angeles While the Schubert interests
will not have the exclusive booking and
control of the auditorium, it will be
open to them. No playhouse in Los
Angeles is, at present, and no Schu-
bert attraction can now play here, as
the Syndicate refuses the Mason, and
other houses have their own arrange
ments.
Scott M. Berry is to be manager of
the auditorium, and he admitted last
night that the house would be an in
dependent one and that any show could
play there.
IT have a contract with the Schu-
berts for all their shows, and that
means all that they control, including
the Belasco productions and the ike,
the ever growing hosts of non-syndl-
cate attractions. which the people OF
Los Angeles now may not see.'
1t has generally been supposed that
the Majestic would be erected for the
care of the Schubert shows, but such
does not seem to be the case. No steps
have been taken toward the erection
of the Majestic lately, and there seems
some doubt about the carrying out OF
| this project. Land on Broadway Is
so valuable that it may not pay now
to build a theater there where 1t would
have been a rich venture a year ago
Business of the highest class is cen
tering there and that makes a differ
ence.
But the Majestic, if it is built, it is
declared, will not be open to the In
dependents; a stock company will play
there. alternating with one in Sar
Francisco and one in Oakland, undei
the same management. Besides, Berry
has the Schubert contract and tha'
would seem to settle 1t.
"And we will have the finest stage II
America" said he last night, "anc
can accommodate anything. The aud
itorium will be so arranged that fol
theatrical productions it's capacity car
be reduced to 1900 This will make
it cosy and agreeable, but will still
hermit the use of the huge stage.
cannot state when the building viii
be completed, but it is certain that thu
Schubert attractions will be in it whei
1t is DONE"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-26
BEAUTIFUL BOOKLET
Handsome in Type, Gorgeous in Pic
lures, Is the Book Entitled 1.-THE
Road Of a thousand Wonders"

AS sumptuous u piece Of printing as
was ever issued by a railroad is the
gorgeous booklet, 1.-The Road of Thou
sand Wonders" advance copies of which
have just been received by its spon-
sors, the Southern Pacific railroad. In
type work, pictures, cover and makeup
it is quite beyond anything Of the sort
ever seen. And that's saying "A good
deal for no one issues better printing
than do the railroads.
The subtitle shows that this is "a
story told by Sunset the magazine of
the west" and it is from the Sunset
press, right here ON the coast, that it
is issued, which is all the more reason
to be proud of this remarkable book
As is quite fitting, the cover of the
book gives a vista of mountain and
beach and sea, i'm purple. gray and gold,
while IN the immediate foreground is
the typical tower of the mission. The
contents Of the brochure take one on a
tour over the Southern Pacific from
Los Angeles to Portland giving "A brief
description of the many delights and
surprises EN- route. The frontispiece il
a map Of the coast-Shasta division
and the story starts in Los Angeles
where are pictured some of the city's
beauty spots. including the Plaza
church, Westlake park, a palm drive
thu lily beds and, just beyond, tn,
great squad farm. Up the line, Cam
ulos, San Fernando mission, Oxnarc
sugar works. the oil wells in the sea
Miramar, the joys of Santa Barbara
! its mission, lei Pismo, Santa Cruz, tn,
4 big trees, glimpse Of Frisco and Sac
ramento and on up through the wilde
| lands-all these are pictured lin color
absolutely true TO life while the stOr,
! itself reads like a fairy tale.
The books are not quite ready 70
| distribution, but that there will be
demand for them later goes withou
| saying.