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The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-31
News of Wetumpka.

Wetumpka Dec. tSpeclaI.l-Dr. and Mrs. J. w. Gamble have spent the past six months in Birmingham, but are now at home with their sons, w. M Gamble and J. R. Gamble.
 Nick. Thomas and Miss Florrie Bell Thomas have been called to Birming ham on account of'the serious illness of Mex. Thomas. Jr
 Commissioners Court met today and will. at this term of the court, take up the question of accepting the new iail building.
 H. R. Penick who spent the Christ mas holidays with his sister. Mrs. Me Brvde. in Nashville. has returned home.
 pr. and Mrs. T. H. Street of AleXan- der City are the guests of Hon. and Mrs. W. L. Lancaster.
 Mrs Otis Thomas of Alexander City is visiting her mother. Mrs. Gillian on North Bridge Street.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-31
necntnr,s Junior Order.

Decatur, Dec. 30.-(SpeclaI.J-WI IHU, na Council No. B. Junior Order United American Mechanics, has elected oHl , cers as follows for the ensuing term or six months: Councilor. w. E: Master snn. Vice Councillor, E. N. Johns; Re cording Secretary. John E. Moodey; As sistant Recording Secretary, H. A. Lit tie; Financial Secretary, Walter d. Nesbit; Treasurer. Frank Pierce; Con- ductor, w. D. Cobb; Warden. w. G. Page; Inside Sentinel. Jesse Maynord; Outside Sentinel, Joe Spain; trustee, Representatives to the State Council, which meets in Birmingham in April 1908, John w. Bailey, John E. Moodey' W. s. Smith, A. E. Greenhill; alter nate representatives, S. A. Lynne, W. E. Todd and R. G. Ross.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-31
COURT SAYS LAW
 IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL

Huntsville. Dec. 3o.-(Special)-The act of the Leglslature, creating the Spragins Board of Education for the City of Huntsville was held to be un- constitutional by Judge Tancred Betts in the Law and Equity Court today.
 The decision was renedered on the courts everything demurrers to the al legation on the quo warranto proceed ings filed against the Board by Pro- lessor w. J. Humphries.
 Judge Betts holds the law is uncon- stitutional on three grounds, one being that 1t is a special act upon subject already provided for by a general law.
 The case will be taken to the Su- preme Court immediately.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-31
Rrvnu to stop in Decatur.

Decatur, Dec. O.-(special. )-Mayor Samuel Blackwell. of New Decatur, has received a message that William Jen- nings Bryan will pass through Deca- tur on the morning of January 23 on his way from Nashville to Birmingham. MT. Bryan will be met at the union de- pot in Decatur by a committee or nroninent local Democrats and 1t is quite likely that he will make short speech here. Mayor Sam Blackwell will accompany MT. Bryan from Deca- tur to Birmingham.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-31
AUAsHED INDICTMENTS.
Fifty Prominent Defendants are Re-
 leased from Prosecution.

Denver. Colo. Dec. 30.-Judge R. E. Lewis of the Federal Court today auas shed all indictments and sustained an the demurers in coal land fraud cases, thereby releasing about nIty prominent defendants from prosecution.
 Among the defendants who escaped urosecntion are: $. w. keltel anu fourteen others of St. Louis, comprising the Yampa Coal Company; Charles E. Hurr of Durango. Robert Forester. Salt Lake City: Beniamin F. Freeman of Durango, and George Coe Franlln or Durango.
 Recently Judge Lewis quashed the indictments for alleged tlmper trauds and today's action brings to naught the work of the snecial grand jury call ed last May.
 The Government attorneys gave mo- tice that thev will take the case to the United States Court of Appeals
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-31

officers for the six months term com mencing January 1: Noble Grand, James Grove; Vice Grand. J. P. Johnson: Secretary. John W. Bailey; Financial Secretary, Frank Pierce; John Thomson; Represen- tatives to the Grand Lodge which meets in Montgomery, May, 1908; $. c. Lee, S. G. Forellnes, Sam w, Foster and William Wade.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-31
NEGRO SHOOTS ANOTHER.
Quarrel in Decatur May Result in Two
 DeathA.

Deaths.
 Decatur. Dec. 30.-tSpeSialD-Ast the result of a quarrel over a negro wo- man. Hatt Gill. negro Is dead and Will Sparks another negro, is serious ly wounded. The tragedy took place late yesterdav afternoon in the negro portion of the city on the west side.
 Both negroes had been paying atten- tion to the same woman and became jealous of each other. Yesterday after noon thev met and commenced shoot ing al each other. Both were badly wounded Gill died a few hours after the shooting and Sparks is dangerously wounded and may die. He is locked up in he county tail
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-31
Odd FeII,,,yn of Decatur,

Decatur. Dec. SO.-(Speclai)-Deca tur Lodge No. 52, Independent Order of odd Fellows. has elected the following
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-01-12

the crop, while the larger application
of unground rock will supply it's later
wants. 81"
In the Ohio station experiment, the
important information was developed
that when the pulverized rock was
sprink1ed on barnyard manure at the
rate of 40 pounds to a ton of manure,
it not only acted as a preventive of
loss of nitrogen, but was itself made
more available as plant food. The
phosphate was as effective as gypsum
and kainit as nitrogen preservative,
while at the same time it reinforced
the manure in phosphoric acid in
which it is usually deficient.
In AZ tests made by the Ohio sta
ton, covering seven years, the aver
age value Of farm manure was found
to be $1.99 per ton, measured in
increased crop yields produced, while
when 40 pounds of finely ground rock
phosphate were added to ton of.
manure the total average value was
found to be 1928 per ton, 40 pounds
of phosphate thus increasing the
value $1.24 per ton. The cost Of this
40 pounds of phosphate was about Is
cents. S.ir:s@ r., I \ .. RI.
i. The chemist of the Ohio. station
who conducted these experiments, ad-
vtses the; use Of 100 pounds Of pulver-
lied rock phosphate to each ton OF
manure, best applied by sprinkling It
over the manure pile each day. /. !.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-01-12
A Cheaper Phosphate Fertilizer

There has been practical over
turning of the old theory that Florida
and South Carolina rock phosphates
vast underground deposits of the
bones of antediluvian animals-was
unavailable as plant food unless treat
ed with; sulphuric acid, converting it
into what is known as acid phos-
pilates. This process itself costs as
much as the raw phosphate, the prices
of the untreated and the chemically
treated phosphates being respective
ly, in Washington, for instance, about
Sc and $12 ton.
Now, it appears from experiments
instituted some years ago. y by the
Maine experiment station, and con-
tihued by half a dozen other stations,
that the southern rock phosphates,
simply pulverized, become entirely
available as plant food, although not
so Immediately taken up by the plant
as the chemically dissolved phosphate.
The department of agriculture at
Washington has in press. a: very in
teresting statement on this subject.
1T is of immense Importance to- farm
Eers generally, as the Tuse" Of undis-
solved: rock means q great decrease
in the cost Of fertilizer. The bulletin
can be obtained free Sof cost by ap-
plication to the secretary OF agricult-
ure for farmers bulletin No. So y. !.
/ j*Itz us suggested that for certain crops
IT may be prof able to combine the
two kinds }of phosph tee; the dissolved
rock rs hasten the e. growth s.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-01-12
Trimming for the Hat,

wonderfully interesting effects are got
by daring contrasts.
Plumes are as good as ever they
Were-and better even than that, ii
that be possible they fire almost
invariably the uncurled XII md.
Buckles share in the trimming hon.
ors Of every sort of hat, from the
smartest of large hats-alm0st picture
types, which seem so much more
dressy in that very difference Of size
from walking hats. One stunning lit
tie hat was a simple black felt sailor,
simply made by the way wide plaid
ribbon was drawn through great jet
buckle, crushed round the crown, and
tied in great, smashing bow low on
the hair.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-01-12

white and usually 8x10 inches. The
packer takes an apple with his right
hand, a glance telling him if the size
is right and the apple fit. His left
hand had loosened a sheet of paper
The two are quickly slipped together,
and with quick twist the paper is
wrapped around the fruit. So rapidly
do these men work that it takes up
little longer to wrap the fruit than
it would to put it in unwrapped. For
sale in the east, wrapped fruit is pre-
ferred. It gives softer packing for
the fruit, takes up slack space in
case of shrinkage, helps to hold the
perfume of the apple and also pre-
vents decay, should this by any pos
sible chance appear in the box. Good
Judgment is required in selecting and
wrapping fruit so that the different
rows in the package may come out
even, and the last row go into the
box without too much tanning or
crowding. It is also necessary to Sc
lect or turn the apples SO as to make
bulge or crown on the center of the
box, as in this way cover will fit
closely without smashing the fruit.
Honesty and uniformity should be
the motto hung up over every packing
table, for the apple at the middle or
bottom of the box should be just as
good as those on top, and every one
as good as the orchard can furnish.
With the name of the packer on the
box, the number of apples therein and
the figure IL when the fruit is under
colored, it is easy to trace mistakes
down to the individual, and dock him
If necessary. Where the overseer is
not critical, the packers are inclined
to work too fast, which makes faulty
packing. 1t is reported from some
places that packers have put up more
than 100 boxes per day, yet very few
of them can do more than SO and pack
we'll. Some of the boxes are labeled
where they are of the highest quality
This is good plan. We are told that
in Canada the following section is
found in the fruit law:
Every person who, by himself or
through the agency of another person,
packs fruit in closed package, in
tended for sale, shall cause the pack
age to be marked in plain and indel-
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-01-12

easy to a beginner, but represents
long months of steady practice and a
quick hand and eye. The box itself
should be clean and neat. Our Illus
tration, made from original photo
graph by Rural New Yorker, shows
two men at packing table beginning
operations. The packer at the right
is just putting in what is known as
layer Of paper. This is a piece of soft
cardboard just the size of the box, and
is laid in the bottom. The lining pa
pers are folded and hung over the
sides of the box, tapping over the bot.
tom. The paper hod hung. on the
edge of the box contains the wrapping
paper. The packer wears a rubber
stall on the thumb or first finger,
which enables him to pick up a sheet
of paper easily. This paper is a clean
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-01-12
Boxes Displacing Barrels for APPLE Packing

1t may seem like an easy thing to
a beginner to pack box of apples.
but let such man attempt the lob in
one of these western packing houses,
and it is doubtful if they would let
him finish the first box. Great skill
and a peculiar knack is required to
fill the boxes exactly without leaving
slack places or squeezing the fruit too
hard. There are several ways for
packing. The three most common
are known as straight, diagonal and
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-01-12
>*y> 1Sa !. - #~ ~ ~
"A Revolution IL / Panama
By Frank Lille Pollock.

San Sebastian village is merely an
hppendage to the big coffee plantat ion,
and in its 80 or 40 mud and grass huts
dwell the cultivators with their. fam
lilies. It stands near the river and
upon the great trail that runs clear to
Panama, down which the coffee Is
sent on mule-back. -
Fitzgerald, as the manager of the
plantation, exercised Anglo-Saxon SUI
premacy over the black, brown and
yellow poems in his pay.
Usually the village had furnished all
the labor necessary, but this particular
season the work languished for lack
Of hands, while the war plague was
likely to descend upon the plantation
at any moment At the capital the
government was lettering; the presi-
dent was in the field with half the cab
met. The other half was also in the
field, but with MONTH";, the pretender,
who, with three or four thousand va
rlously colored mercenaries, was
sweeping in irregular lines of destruc-
ton across the country.
One. day when Fitzgerald rode out
for his early morning inspection he
was astonished and annoyed to find
the coffee rows deserted.
'*Now, what's the meaning of all
this, Pepper" demanded Fitzgerald of
his administrator "Where's the
gang?"
+: The administrator gasped. out that
the troops were coming into San Sc
bastian.
''The deuce they are!" said the
American. "Who is 1.-THE revolution
or the government" .
THE revolution, senior. The soldiers
of Gen. Casal."
"You go back, and tell them to get
back to work at once" shouted Fitz-
gerald.
The native scuttled away, and Fitz-
gerald went back to the house, fun
ing with vexation and disappointment.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-01-12

ible manner, before it is taken from
the premises where it is packed
(a) with the initials of his Christian
name, and his full surname and ad-
dress;
(b) with the name of the variety
or varieties; and
. (c) with designation of the grade of
fruit, which shall include one of the
following six marks: for fruit of the
first quality, No. 1, or xxx; for fruit
of the second quality, No. 2, or Xxx;
and for fruit of the third quality, No.
8, or K; but the said mark may be
accompanied by any other designation
of grade, provided that designation is
not inconsistent with, or marked more
conspicuously than, the one of the
said six marks which is used on the
said package.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-01-12

He knew this Casal by reputation for
a Spanish-American of a sort that has
unfortunately become almost typical.
Now he was Montije's chief lieu
tenant, and Fitzgerald expected to be
blackmailed at the least, in spite of
the American flag that he had ordered
to be hoisted over the buildings. After
a period of impatience and anxiety, he
decided to ride down to the village
and see what was going on.
The village was full of men
ragged, unshod, straw hated negroes,
Indians, half-castes, everything but
whites. There were, perhaps, 500 or
600 Of them. All: were furnished with
American Remington rifles and ma
chetes, and belts, wherein brass cart
ridge heads sparkled symmetrically.
Brutality, stupidity, ferocity were the
characteristics of the faces.
They were listening to an officer who
was addressing them from his horse
In the middle of the square. This was
certainly Casal himself-a banana
Eomplexioned man, showing his negro
blood plainly, too fat to be healthy in
the tropics, and wearing uniform
that consisted largely Of worn gold
braid.
Here, you mustn't do that" cried
Fitzgerald, pushing his horse into the
plaza. "You let my men alone. 1 need
them blazing sight worse than your
gang does!"'
ARREST that man." shrieked Casal,
after speeches. moment of surprise.
"You go to thunder" retorted Fttz-
gerald. 'I'm an American citizen.
This is an American plantation"
He was interrupted by a rifle butt
that struck him on the head. He lost
his balance and fell from his horse.
not quite stunned, but momentarily
dazed. A great number Of people
kicked him as he lay on the ground,
but as they were all bare-footed, this
was not bone breaking. He struggled
to get up, but was crushed down and
bound. T. 81 j. 3 .,.l
At an order from the general, they
dragged him across the plaza and
flung him into one Of the grass huts,
where he tumbled helplessly upon. the
mud floor. .=N% ;: >4s'}s 4: +
His snfferings !: did not last very
long, however. Early in the afternoon
a file of men cond ted him down to
the river: bank, where he 81 discovered
himself IN the presence sof Gen. Casai.
81 have ID 8 IN form Is :v01i; s = Sentn,r
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-01-12

offset. In straight packing the apples
run straight across the box. They
make the neatest appearance of any,
yet this method is hard on fruit, as
each apple is squarely against it's
instead of slipping gently
Into the recesses between them. The
size of the apple determines the num-
Der of rows or tiers in box A five
tier box is about the largest size pack
in the west, although six-tier pack
would be possible.
The operation of packing looks
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-01-12
Leather Trimminq:

They are going to trim gowns with
leather this fall and this, while it may
be good news to the woman who can
afford leather, is sorry tale for her
who cannot aspire to it. But, for, the
woman who cannot afford leather, it
may be related that there are dull
silks which take the place Of suede
very nicely. >, If she does not care to
buy dull silk, the woman who is doing
her own home dressmaking, can get a
very good lightweight cloth of dull
finish. This lis quite as good as leath:
er, for it resembles it so closely. j..
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-01-12
How to Preserve Health.

than sickens with scarlet fever and
another with whooping cough, and
another falls from a tree and breaks
an arm or a collar bone. Your part
ner in business is grumpy, your best
stenographer announces her engage
ment and the clerk you depended up
on goes to another house, while the
one who was inefficient and incapable
stays on your hands. You don't want
to dismiss him because you have a
soft-hearted feeling that if he is out
of work his wife and children will SUI
fer So it goes. At the best of times
there is occasion for lot of worry
in this world unless we make up our
mind firmly that worry is both weak
and wicked and that we will not walk
this road carrying it as a pilgrim-pack
to crush our strength and bow our
shoulders. Take the road cheerfully,
friend. Philosophy and faith and re-
ligion combine to bid you cease USE
less worry.
Goods in His heaven,
Ais right with the world
keeping an easy mind takes high
place.
Avoid drugs. Avoid stimulants.
Avoid crutches. The habit of resort
ing to piek-me-up of some sort when
one feels the faintness of exhaustion
is fatal. Drugs should never be taken
except by the order Of physicians who
have a reason for prescribing them.
Whether they excite or depress the
heart( whether they give transient
sense of increased power, or, tran
you and me to NEEDLE with. Especial:
ly unwise if you wish to keep we'll, is
the yielding to temptation in the mat
ter of bitters, cordials or other liquors
and syrups having an alcoholic basis.
Tea and coffee are the only stimulants
in ordinary use that may be taken
with safety, and it is an open question
whether or not nine-tenths of us
would not be much better if we used
them sparingly. The effect on the
nervous system of too much indul-
gence in either tea or coffee is mark
acknowledges slavery to any article
of food or drink. We should rule our
diet, not let it rule US.
In order to keep we'll, we must eat
regularly. Three meals a day is a good
rule for some; others may need four
or five, and others may do better and
be more comfortable if they limit
themselves to two. A good deal de-
ponds on ones tendency to leanness
or to flesh, and good deal also de-
ponds on the work one has to do
Dyspepsia is due to eating too much
or eating when one is over-tired, so
that the brain cannot supply enough
nervous fluid to aid digestion. For
our national tendency to, dyspepsia
there is not the slightest excuse 1t
is always blunder and often a crime.
Violation of Gods laws written so
plainly that we may read them with
out spectacles, is at the bottom of the
anguish and irritation of dyspepsia.
If you would keep we'll, do not for
get that the wasted tissues of the
body are repaired by sleep. Plenty
of sleep in we'll ventilated rooms, with
a good conscience will do much to
make you well if you are i'll, and to
keep you well in ordinary circumstan-
ces. "Tired natures sweet restorer,
balmy Sleep" "sleep that knits up
the raveled sleeve of care is the hand
maid to perfect health
Copyright, 1906. by Joseph B. Bowles)
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-01-12
TOO FEW SEEM TO KNOW HOW
TO KEEP WELL.
Art That is Worth Studying-Prin-
cipIes Are Very Simple and Can
Be Told in Few Words-Be-
ware of Worry.
BY MARGARETE SANGSTER.

BY MARGARET e. SANGSTER.
Considering the trouble we all take
about getting we'll when we are i'll, it
is extraordinary that some of us take
so little pains to keep well.
The latest theory of science is op-
posed to common belief that some
people are born well and others born
i'll. The babe in the hut and the
babe in the palace each arrives in the
world with a certain capital stock on
which he may draw. Whether we &C.
cept this or deny it, the probability is
that most of us could keep we'll after
childhood if only we knew how. We
play with our health as boy plays
at marbles. We take risks, we do
foolish things, we leave undone things
that we plainly ought to do. Every
body has seen, for instance, the frail
tenure of life held by an invalid who
is always looking out and protecting
herself from peril; such an invalid
often outlives care-takers who are
;vong and neighbors who are over
flowing with robust vitality. We have
seen, too, a man of active tempera-
ment, brisk and impulsive and full Of
business, have marked him as one who
has long life before him, and have
presently been Mortified when he falls
exhausted by the way. He did not
know how to keep well.
The art of keeping we'll is worth
studying. It's principles are very SIM
pie. Nothing particularly occult or
particularly puZZling belongs to it.
They who wish to keep we'll must be-
ware not of draughts, not Of fresh air,
not of sunshine, or rain, but primarily
must avoid too great fatigue. The nor
NAL human being who is in good
health is able to endure certain
amount of strain and to carry GER
tain amount of weight
It is not doing the days work that
tells upon health and brings it to the
breaking point; it is doing the bit too
much that in the end causes WEAKNESS
of mind and body and makes a person
what is called rundown. To be run
down in nerves or in strength is per-
ilous.
II took cold when I was tired" is
common expression and describes
common experience. Don't get tired
and YOU won't take cold.
Another prescription for keeping
well is eliminate worry Worried peo-
pie are very seldom we'll people. Wor
ry frets mind and body as moth frets
the fabric of beautiful garment.
Worry corrodes the soul as rust cor
rodes metal. From all sides comes
the protest, lit is easy enough to say
don't worry, but how is one to help it,
if he be of a worrying disposition or if
things are contrary"
Days dawn with frowning faces and
through all their course they seem to
bring nothing but disaster, disappoint-
ment and defeat. Nothing goes right
from morning till night. The letter
you expected does not come, the bar
gain you hoped for falls to pieces and
the money you counted on is delayed
You thought the children were safe
in school or at their play, and one of
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-01-12
MARGUERITE Luncheon.

= At a Marguerite luncheon, described
In "What= to; Eat there was a small
glass bowl of the white marguerites at
each cover and a large bowl in the
center. The ice. was served ,in:1daisy:
cups and the. salad decorated il with
daisies made Of hard boiled egg white,
and zyolks. The cakes were .ssrrinkled
with petals 81 slices of almonds. ..s y.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-01-12
New and Old Combinations Are Both
in Style.

Felt trimmed with velvet, is an old
combination, but velvet with felt is a
new one. Nine out of ten hats show