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The Washington herald., 1907-02-03
Farm and Garden Hints.

From the Toledo Blade
It is now claimed that feeding hens on
egg plant doesn't help much
Turnips Should he planted before they
are sent 10 market
Paris green is decidedly good for to-
mato worms. farmer down at the
corners took a very small dose the other
day and has not been troubled with
worms since
1t is advisable TO haul oats 10 market in
wagon as rolled oats bring a much
higher price.
After careful canvass of the situation
IL has been found that the hardest crop
to raise in this section is mortgages.
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03
Omitted SENTENCES.

Prom the Cleveland Leader.
There are some people captious enough
TO think that the report of the Interstate
Commerce Commission on the Standard
oil Company would have been improved
if few fines and perhaps a half-dozen
Imprisonment sentences could have been
inserted.
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03
sTr. wares philosophy.

From She Boston Herald.
Eugene T. Ware, ex-Commissioner of
Pensions, who used to write funny poetry.
now cultivates the philosophical muse.
At Kansas dinner in New York he read.
among other stanzas, this. which he APP
plies TO the game of life:
do not ike the way the cards are shufied.
But still like the game and want 20 play
81. through the long long night viii !. Unruf7ed,
Play what I get until the dawn Of day.
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03
why Schvvab Is Unanimous.

From the Ohio state Journal.
Steel plates in England so: in the
United States, S35; but Mr.. Schwab says
that steel can be made in this country
cheaper than any place in the world. SO
the trust is unanimous for stand-patism,
and Mr.. Schwab objects 10 taking the
duty off till he gets his S5.0O0O0O house fin
ishad
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03
NAUGHT FOR ONE TO ATE.

Ny dearest wife" the note so read.
IN bring a friend 20 sup
Please cook a good and tasty meal,
Then quickly call me up.
we afe IN haste my dearest child.
So do not make us wait
Just take the number down, my dear.
It's 04l2s
Ny dearest John. the answer read.
pray you change your mind.
The laTder is quite empty John;
No food there can 7 find.
Just give your friend the tip, dear John,
/ give it 20 you straight.
l cannot cook the supper, John.
There's Q &"
-Cleyslaud Leader
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03
wanted-Another Message.

From the Providence Journal
President Roosevelt would touch a re-
sponsive popular chord if instead of send
ing 10 Congress any further special mes
sages on less important subjects he should
indite a vigorous one at once on the I'M
just Philippine tariff schedules and appeal
directly TO the Upper Chamber to do tardy
justice to our island wards.
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03
MORSELS OF MIRTH.
Prom the Minneapolis Tribune.
SO Dear and Yet So Ear.

Prom the Minneapolis Tribune.
80 Dear and Yet so Far.
Strawberries now in Texas
Or so the papers state.
Are selling for a dime a quart
By measure or by crate:
Why are We kept so far apart
BY a remorseless fate?
Our Army's New Beverage.
No more the fragrant coffee pot will
grace the soldiers mess;
They're going TO give him tea instead,
although he likes IL less.
They're going 10 give him China's herb,
bohea or sOuchong.
or may be twill be Ceylon with a dash
OF old OOlOng
They say that he will fight as well and
look as fine as silk
On steady course of hysOn, with a bit
Of swcetened milk.
And when ne goes to battle all the war
gods now agree
He'll get "a double ration in his pot of
steamiGg tea.
Cheap Enough.
well. there seems 20 be one necessity
Of life that hasn't advanced in New
York"
"Eh, What's that?"
You can buy fuli-sized alderman for
only $500
Handler and Safer.
Yes. I've got the kitchen filed up with
all the latest electrical contrivances. Do
you see this row Of snnunciators here?
They are individual instructions to the
help. And look here-this Is a little idea
Of my own"
What's its nature?"
III tell you I can sit In my library
and press the button. Instantly this little
brass label falls down here IN the kitchen.
II reads. Cook, YOU are discharged I
find IL both handler and safer than the
old verbal system"
More Prosperity.
What are YOU doing now?"
Gone into bee culture"
'How's business"
'Humming "
How He Did IL.
"The real hero Of the fire was little
Crimmius. Did YOU see him run into the
blazing house and carry out the stout
lady?'
Yes. I can't imagine how he devel-
oped the strength"
why, he lived In the suburbs dozen
years or more and worked up his muscle
carrying home packages at night"
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03
One Way of Looking at 1t.

From Illustrated Bits.
First Lawyer-Was that suit that you
undertook for Giltbonds a success?
Second Lawyer-Eery much so. II has in
volved him IN complications which wiz
necesSitaIe at least eight other suits
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03
In Frozen Dog.

THAT young feller from the East wants
to git up a party TO hang a man Ia efiigy."
We'll, I don't keer bout ridin' very
fur on d cold night like this. Amt there
some feller here in town that needs
hangin ?"
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03

Bishop J. W Hamilton was in Kings
ton when the earthquake occurred, and
also in San Francisco when that city
was shaken IN. A little more from the
bishop. and he will be put down as a.
tirst-class hOodco.
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03
a SNAIL. Of Crntitude.

How is il you never abuse the trusts?'
Il don't feel AS If l had ought to.
AN why not?"
why, you see I made my money sellin'
ndependent-made goods"
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03

The Charleston News and Courier says
it * possible to make seventy-three diff
fercnt kinds of cocktails with South
Carolina dispensaTy whisky II would be
extremely hazardous to dispute such ex-
pert evidence.
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03

this doesn't cause a shudder of dismay
to agitate Georgia. then that State is
hardened beyond belief
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03

There is general but unwholesome
to know what Admiral Evans
said when ne heard about Gov. Swctten-
ham, says the Philadelphia Inquirer
Our guess is that il was something rhym-
ing with ham"
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03

some OF Capt. Kids letters have been
found We certainly thought that old
pirate had sense enough to burn them.
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03

TO fully appreciate liberty you must
be deprived of its blessing, says the
Baltimore American. That is something
like dying to beat the life insurance COM
pany
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03

From the Charleston News and Courier.
What pity the editors who have given
Shont5 a dig have no access to the canal.
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03

Hon. Hoke Smith says the fight he made
for the governorship Of Georgia Will seem
as a Maytime zephyr compared to the
rumpus he viii kick up when he finds
himself safely landed in the Office. II
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03

A fun length portrait Of President
Roosevelt is to be hung in the Peace
Palace at The Hague. No doubt about
that making them behave.
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03

The present crisis has caused Capt
Hobson to fire few more thirteen-inch
shells of thought.
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03

The whole trouble with "Salome" seems
10 come from the scene wherein Jokannon
refuses to weld 10 her wooing. She ought
to have known that Jokannon would
stand pat
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03

\ London meteorologist says the moon
Is responsible for the recent earthquakes
Perhaps the moon fell off the New Years
water wagon with the customary fright
fui bump.
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03

Belgium could beat the United States
on land, says an enthusiastic but mis-
guided patriot of that country. Doing
what; playing push pins?
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03

A New York grand jury has indicted
the theatrical trust Perhaps some of the
actors viii also get their just deserts in
time.
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03

A contemporary points out that il was
men like Swettenham who lost this coun-
try 10 England ia the first place. Per
haps. after all. Swettenham may be a
blessing in disguise.
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03

II see that 'Salome has been suppressed
in New York"
Through what agency"
Press agency, have no doubt
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03

Crin-visaged war must have a hard
time keeping his face straight when he
reads the present output of jingo talk
concerning this country and Japan.
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03

The Scranton health authorities have
forbidden the hospital nurses 10 kiss the
typhoid fever patients This should cause
prospective patients TO carefully avoid
this partlcular ailment
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03

"A st. Louis walter rents a S95 fiat on a
$40 salary" says the St. Louis Republic.
Must be an uncommonly modest chap
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03

If the New York screamers are to he
believed, Harry Thaw will enter every
plea in defense known to criminal pro-
cedure except an alibi.
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03

why should grapefruit have a plural?
Isn't one enough for any person to de-
vOur2' asks the Baltimore American.
Oh. but that is a VillainOus and humanity
dodge Suppose person should happen
to want to devour more than one of the
pesky things2
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03

Members Of the Indianapolis Humane
Society object to the secretary because
she IS too pretty. She ought not 10 have
much trouble getting a job with some
other society where they are not 50 Pc
culiarly humane
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03

Senators Foraker and Aldrich look
alike"
THAT sO2''
eyes. So do Senator Cullom and
Speaker Cannon"
'Uh, huh. And femme tell you some
thing
What is it,"
''They all look alike to Roosevelt
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03

Turn on more ale" sings a ST. Louis
poet. VIII nothing ever queBch that St
Louis thirst?
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03

The prime minister Of Abyssinia is
called N Ilg;" that is. they call him
that when they have plenty of time.
though il is suspected they have some
cute little pet name when they are In a
hurry and want to save time.
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03

Billy Sunday. the baseball evangelist,
says he viii flight sin until hell freezes.
and then chase the devil across the ice"
This is one Sunday that doesn't propose
to stand for his lid being screwed down.
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03
In February,

The poet has a stove;
Sonnets for fuel, too.
But the dryads IN the grove
What do the dryads do?
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03

Evelyn Nesbit Thaw seems. Judging by
the printed pictures TO resemble every
body from Lydia Z. Pinkham 10 Marie
Corelli-and they have not finished
''sketChing" her vet
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03
A LITTLE NONSENSE.
THE INEVITABLE.

Another day!
We face it must
AS best we may;
With hope and trust,
Or with despair
And vain regret.
The day is there
And must be met.
Another day
It's length unfolds,
And pleasures gay
For some It holds.
But perils yawn
To some alright
Ere 1t is gone
Into the night.
And thus il goes
Throughout the strife
Until the close.
And prankish life
Unto US things
OF mortal clay
No longer brings
Another day.
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03
A LAY SERMON.
BY LAYMAN.

Old Mother Hubbard
Went 20 the cupboard
To get her poor dog a bone;
When she got there
The cupboard was bare,
And SO the poor dog had none.
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03

Since the Congressional salary has been
revised by its friends, is the nation TO
expect the friends Of the tariff to get
busy?
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03

Columbia River salmon has advanced
in price according TO, market report.
What's the matter? Has the supply of
Mississippi River catfish run low?
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03

'Harriman's methods aired" saws a
headline in the New York World. 1t
must have been hard on the neighbor-
hood.
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03
SCOTT c BONE. Editor.
Telephone Main $500. (Priv.r, Branch E1ch.nf..)

carrier in the District of Columbia and at
Alexandria, Va, at 50 cents per month,
daily and Sunday, or at p cents per
month without the Sunday issue.
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03

Although it has not been the fashion
in Maryland to give a governor a second
term. you can predict with safety that
Gov. Warfieid Will be his own successor"
said Mr.. p J. LOngman, Of that State,
at the Raleigh.
Gov. Warfield, while In most things
pursuing an independent course. has not
omitted putting his friends where they
viii do him the most good He is not
a machine man in any OdOus sense. and
yet there is a pretty clever Warfield ma
chine in existence that will help his re-
election nightly. In addition, he will
have the solid support Of the independ-
entS, and there are many Republicans
who will give him their quiet assistance.
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03

THE Sultan Of Morocco will adopt an
entirely new line of tactics against
RaisouH,' says a cable Since he has Just
purchased q new automobile, we presume
it will be gasoline.
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03

New York once. Nassau Beekman Bldg. LaCoste x
Maxwell. Managers.
Chicago Once. Marquette Bldg, LACosto & Max
well. Managers.
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03

Nevertheless and notwithstanding. "Sa-
lone is said TO have drawn like a cap
sicum porous plaster.
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03

Entered as second-cIass matter, October
E. 1906, at the post-ofice at Washington,
D. c., under act Of Congress Of March
g. 1879
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03

So the Corey-Gilman wedding is set for
April /? Most appropriate day in the en-
tire year for it,
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03

My notion is that the obtaining OF a
contract to dig the Panama Canal would
ultimately prove a white elephant and
that is the view of many Of the biggest
contractors in the country" said Mr.. T.
c. Lutz, of Chicago. vice president Of one
OF the heaviest dredge and dock COM
panies in the United States, TO a Herald
reporter at the Raleigh
Il know Of firms that are splendidIy
organized to do the work, but would take
no part in the bidding. The risks are too
great, and the chances Of failure too
many The ambition of any man 70 org
the ditch is laudable. but the undertaking
is so peculiar and so stupendous that 1
do not wonder that men of conservative
Judgment prefer to let some one else have
it
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03

Eighteen inches of snow in Berlin.
Doubtless Emperor William ordered il
especially for the benefit of his political
foes. the Socialists
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03

What are YOU doing n0w?"
Gone into bee culture.
How's business ."
fTumu7frc 90
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03
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The Washington herald., 1907-02-03

We'll. there seems 20 be one necessity
Of life that hasn't advanced in New
York "
"Eh, What's that.
You can buy a fuli-sized alderman for
only $500"
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03

-ClsYslaud Leader.
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03

Pableztion ofies:
"a FIFTEENTH STREET NORTHWEST.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1907-06-12
Fruit and Nut Culture Furnish Pleasure
and Profit.

cure ready growth after transplanting
If there is only the taproot, this be-
ing cut the root is liable to the at
tacks of wood-lice before it forms a
callus, and the trees vitality is de-
stroyed.
The pecan can be grown in con-
nection with the peach, also, if the
land is rich enough. 1t does not in
terfere with the peach, and when the
peach dies out, it is ready to occupy
the land. In all cases I would advise
both of these to be cultivated. True,
this is contrary to the "Strlngfel-
low Method. His may be best in
Texas, but I am sure it will not do
in Alabama.
Other nuts grow we'll and deserve
"a trial. The English and japan wal
nuts grow to perfection on the O. K.
Farm. Prof. Van Deman informs us
that the English walnut can be grated
successfully on the native walnut of
the South, thus procuring hardness,
and therefore it should be found on
every farm.
Much can be said in praise of these
important branches of horticulture, be-
sides others, and the adaptability of
the soil Of Our Southland to small
fruit culture, trucking, etc. The large
demand for these products, \together
with our excellent transportation ia
cilities and demonstrated success
should, and [ am happy to know, is
attracting capital to these industries.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1907-06-12
Food Value of Tropical Fruits.

In the Hawaiian Forester and Agri-
culturist, for October 1906, there is
an article by DR.. E. C. Shorey on the
food value of tropical fruits.
He defines fruits as those heshy,
seed-bearing plant products which are
eaten simply for their agreeable taste
as an accompaniment to or to give
relish to other food However, be-
sides being agreeable accompaniment
to staple foods, it is shown by analy-
ses that fruits have some food value
of their own; that they contain
more or less digestible proteids, car
bohydrates, or fats. But fresh fruits
consist usually in great part of water,
which forms nearly 90 per cent. Of
oranges and pine-apples, and more
than IS per cent. of many other trop-
lcal fruits. Fruits have very small
amount Of proteid, heterogeneous or
nleaty matter, and SO fail of being
complete foods. Thus bananas con-
tain I.3 per cent, avocados 10, or
anges o.8, and pineapples only o.4
per cent. OF this important ingredient
The chief food value Of ordinary fruits
lies lin the carbohydrates (c11iefy
sugars) which they contain. Of these,
bananas have Fl per cent, mangos
IS, oranges II, and pine-apples 8, on
the average. Few fruits contain fats,
the avocado excepted.
Many fruits include among their
components organic acids, which are
more Or less refreshing, and often
have important effects in the preser-
walton of health Vegetarians who
conform to diet made in great part
OF fruits, consume NUTS, ETC., in sufi-
clent quantities to supply the def
ciences of proteids and fats in the
fruits. In the case, for instance, Of
one Of the most nutritious of fruits,
the banana, it would be necessary
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1907-06-12
A safe, speedy and
positive cure for

and Truckers Journal in order to
call attention to the value of local
shipping station associations for meet
ing such conditions as those imposed
by the 25o-crate minimum for a car
load. In this weeks Duplin Journal
a specific case in point is noted, and
it affords SO good an illustration of
the very thing we desired to impress
that we quote the following extracts:
At Faison Monday the price Of
strawberries was ranging from So to
$3.50, and some few at 81 a crate.
Several growers combined and loaded
$50 crate carload, and before ship
ping it was sold for Sd crate, saving
to the growers so to Is cents crate,
or $I25 to $3.50 a carload. Carload
lots Of strawberries will always bring
more on the local markets than crate
lots, because the crate lots may not
fill a $50 crate car, or may overf1ll
it, leaving crates for the next days
train, while a carload lot, already
packed, is a complete lot ready for
shipment at once, and will always
bring more money from buyers, who
will be the more anxious to compete
for carload lots than crate lots
This single instance at Faison Mon
day morning demonstrates the great
need Of local associations at shipping
stations, and growers should see such
need and organize at once for their
protection, SO that they can ship or
sell at highest prices. Besides this,
the growers could then send their
berries to market by any small boy
or hired man, and not spend so much
time looking after the shipment of
their crops, as their time now is valu-
able
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for man to eat about ID -
pounds of bananas every day to get
the amount of proteid necessary to
keep his body in condition while do
ing normal work. This would give
him more sugar than he required
There is no reason why fruits should
not be considered more as actual foods
than as pleasure-g giving accessories,
and, when the cost will allow, they
should have more prominent posi-
ton in the diet of many, combining
as they do, from a dietary standpoint,
pleasure with profit.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1907-06-12


tells how he combines fruit and nut
culture, and finds them very profit
able. 1t will be seen that he con-
dennis the Stringfellow method of
growing trees, saying that while it
may do for Texas, it will not do for
Alabama. There is no doubt that it
has been a success in Texas and also
in New Jersey. 1t is possible that the
writer has not given the method fair
trial.
Your Journal stands for an industry
in which [ find much pleasure and pro-
fit. Fruit and nuts comprise the chief
products of the 0. K. Fruit Farm, at
Flora, Alabama, consisting Of I,Ioo
acres in peacheS-I6o,ooo trees, and
100 acres in pecans- 500 trees. This
is the result of the efforts of twenty
five years Of pleasant exercise
labor, as it would seenl-of the propri
etor, twenty years of whose life were
previously spent on a cotton farm, and
with degree of success. True, cotton
is the chief product Of our Southland,
and would say, that it should be the
crop Of all who own land that is best
adapted to it; but as all nature is di-
verslhed, SO is the soil of the South,
hence Investigation on the farm is
reasonable
We often err by persisting in plant
ing cotton on land unfit for it's
growth, but we'll adapted to fruit To
illustrate: Six years ago tract of land
containing 43o acres was added to the
Q. K. Fruit Farm, and from it the
owner received three bales of cotton,
or $3.50, as rent. This farm was then
planted to peaches. The first and sec
ond years expenses were met with
cotton, peas, etc. The third years
crop returns from three year old trees
were 10000; the fourth or last years
crop amounted to forty-three solid
cars of peaches, Or $4,000. AS it is
often asked, how the profits compare,
[ give these facts, which can be sub
stantlated These lands are unfit for
cotton, though we'll adapted to the
peach; other lands we'll adapted to
cotton are, as rule, totally unfit for
the peach. On all such land the pc
can can be successfully and very pro-
ftably grown, and in connection with
cotton, the two being congenial in
habit, and the ordinary cultivation CIV
en- cotton is all the pecan needs until
It comes to a profitable bearing age
Again to illustrate: On the o. K.
Farm is tract of land, suited to cot
ton, cleared thirteen years ago and
planted to pecans, cultivated only in
cotton every year since The trees
bore a few nuts at six years of age,
increasing each wear, until this year
at twelve years, the crop of nuts was
worth over $1,000. The rental of 81
per acre was received for the land.
The trees are seedlings; some are very
fine, others not SO satisfactory.
| am often asked which to plant,
nuts or budded stock. would say, if
to be planted on large scale, for
economy of means, I would advise
planting the best nuts, and all trees
not satisfactory after bearing can be
top-worked If the first cost is not
an item, the best budded varieties are
advisable. In which case the purchas-
er should see that he is supplied with
stock with good lateral roots to pre-
vent loss by the trees dying, and to Sc
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1907-06-12

One Of Our exchanges says that ST.
900 net income on the farm is better
than an income of So. 900 in the city. Of
course, many of our: readers will not
believe this, but it is true, neverthe-
less. The man who has $1,000 clear
on the farm after all expenses are
paid had better not change places with
the city man whose total income does
not exceed $1,000 and out of which
he has to pay all expenses.