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The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1907-01-22

the weather will keep his cold shoulder turned
longer and give a more days of winter weather.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-05-10

to the school. All sorts of games
will serve to amuse the children
during the day. A picnic lunch
con being served at noon. A spe-
cial program of foot races, etc.
will be carried out in the afternoon
List your lands with ROwsOn & Co.
NJ Tot.
FOREMAN WANTRD.-On nur-
sery, who understands farming and
truck growing On large scale, who
can speak English and Spanish,
and successful with Mexican labor.
Permanent employment with good
salary for right man. Either Amer
lean or Spaniard. Address, P. O..
Box 4, Sarita, Texas.
The examining trial of Customs
inspectors Anglin and DeL1ng, 'on
charge of assault with attempt to
murder. will be held tomorrow at
10 a. N. at the house where the
wounded man, Higinio Garcia, is
staying.
House for Rent and New Furni-
ture for Sale. Inquire one door
south of Louis Kowalski residence.
&C. EvERTSON.
WANTED: "A good hustler in
every town to sell our perfect wa
ter filters, retailing from Sl.5O to
$500, 100 per cent profits to
agents. exclusive territory. Seneca
Filter Co. Seneca. Mo. At
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-05-10
For Sale.

One yoke 0. oxen and fifteen head
of Durham and Jersey COWS. Ap-
ply to J. Y Adams, Brownsville,
Texas. - m9-6t
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-05-10
LOCAL ITEMS

For RENT- The Fromme cot
tage on Elizabeth street. Mrs. w.
]. Collins. M 1-tf.
Wedding cakes a specially
Prices S. to SIS. Call and inspect
my line of ornaments for fancy
cakes before ordering elsewhere.
CLAWS BAKERY. Phone 81.
Marriage licenses were issued
during the past week to the follow
ing couples: John D. Riley and
Eva Chambers, Leonard Layton
and Norma Skeen, Cecilio Olvera
and MERGED Cantu.
For SALE.-Two fifty b. p.
boilers and two forty-fve b. p.
engines in good condition. Adj
dress HIDALGo CANAL Co.
M-1-12t. Hidalgo, Texas.
Visitors from Hidalgo report the
finest rains in several years in that
county the past week.
The Staff of Life, Good Clean
Bread, pies and all kinds of fancy
cakes to your order; to be had only
at Clay's Bakery. Phone 81.
WANTED:-A young man, not
afraid of work, who knows some
thing about irrigation on alfalfa
farm. Good place for right man,
at $40 per month and boad. Ad-
dress c. A. Everts. jr-, Hidalgo,
Texas. m9-1w
A beautiful sight att the Puteg-
nat drug store is a large rubber
plant in full bloom. The bios
SONS, which are quite large, have
FIVE snowy petals with a golden
center, and are very fragrant, and
the glossy dark green foliage affords
very effective contrast to them.
The plant is the admiration of all
who have seen it.
Naples Velvet Finish, a high
grade fiat paint for interior pur-
poses where an egg shell finish is
desired. Can be used on steel Cell
ing. Plastered walls or wood work,
and gives soft velvet finish. Made
in all the soft and rich shades.
! pply for further information and
color cards to J. S. & M. H. Cross
Lumber c.. M-9-1wk.
WANTED:-Young men to pre-
pare for immediate Railway Tele-
graph Service. Only few months
time required and situation sure.
Can't supply demand for operators.
Write for particulars. Dallas
Telegraph College, All Main ST.,
Dallas. Texas.
Weather permitting, the pubic
school children will enjoy a picnic
at the public school grounds :
morrow. The program includes a
parade by about six hundred
school children through the streets
Of the city, beginning at 9 q. NJ,
he line OF March being from
he school building down Jeffer-
ION to 14th street, along 18th. to
Elizabeth, up the latter to the
:orner of 9th., and along 9th back
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-05-10
Another Big Excursion Coming

The regular nomeseeker's ex-
cursion from Chicago and Kansas
City is due here tonight or tomor-
row. Ten cars of excurslonists,
numbering FIVE hundred, are en-
route to Brownsville this trip, hav-
ing started Tuesday morning.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-07-25

Thus we succeeded in considerably di-
minishing their number; about two
thirds. We read in sheep paper that
Did ewes needed succulent food.
Stralghtway their rack was filed with
nice green succulent alfalfa. newly
cut, still with with the glistening dew.
There must have been something
wrong with the dew. The few who
survived to tell the tale are now TAX.
ing Epson salts.
In the bunch were some breeding
swes, natives-blue bloods-so saith
the sheep breeder and inveigled us in
TO paying a fancy price for the fancy
co stock. Along comes sheep man
and pours forth his wisdom: Now
you are new at the business Now let
them ewes out and give 'em exercise.
let 'em on pasture a couple of hours"
guoth he. 4 short distance lay our
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HOW TO SELECT SEED POTATOES


When digging, hills will be found.
all the tubers of which will conform
to the ideal toward which the potato
grower is striving If these tubers
be saved and planted, large part
though not all of them ought To pro-
duce potatoes like the seed. These
should be selected again by hills and
all should be discarded except pota-
toes from those hills which approx.
mate the ideal type.
Tho longer this selection is carried
on. the greater should be the proper
tlon of tubers like the original select.
ed type.
The usual objection to this selec.
tlon. in practice. is that at digging
time when the work must be done.
the grower is too busy getting in the
crop 20 take time for improvement Of
future crops. The selecting can be
done, however. without taking
great deal of time. When the digger
Is running one man should follow
with a basket and select the most de-
siraDle specimens of tubers from hills
that conform to his ideal type of that
variety. Ordinarily the machine will
leave the tubers in such shape that
the individual hills can be separated,
In this work do not look for perfect
tubers only. Select perfect tubers
from hills in which all OF the tubers
are of good shape and of sufficient
number to give a good yield even
though some of them are too small
for market.
With this system of selection
seed potatoes ought to be secured in
one day TO plant at least one acre
of land. These potatoes should be
sacked. labeled and put in a cool place
by themselves. The following spring
they should be planted at one side
of the field, where they can be staked
cff from the rest of the crop. Most
growers prefer to plant potatoes that
are intended for seed, late. A very
rich soil is not desirable for growing
seed potatoes because OF the tendency
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-07-25
John Henry
on the
Benzfr1e
Buggy
b. HUGH McHUCH
(GsorSs v. HoBarfl

kgeorfe " hoborU
A cross-country dub named Mont
rose has been doing the shine spe-
cialty around Clara Jane lately.
He began to call evenings and
bring a bunch of readygrown flowers
with him as big as a hay stack.
Then he'd spread around the parlor
and tell her how he won the long.dis-
tanco running jump In the 'O1 Yale
class.
As you approached him from the
front the first name you saw was
Clarence-Clarence Edgerton Mont
rose.
Wouldn't that slap you!
don't think Clara Jane considered
him the real kittens, but he could talk
fast and use long words and she found
him pleasant company.
She said she loved to sit and shade
her eyes with the eightdollar fan
gave her and listen to Clarence Ed
gerton Montrose while he discoursed
about Palestine and the Holy Land.
II he was ever there he went In a
hack
That's the trouble with some of
those college come-outsl The pro-
fessors beat them over the head with
q geography and then as soon as they
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then started down the road at the rate
of 100000 miles a minute.
why don't you stop it?" screamed
my lady friend.
'Ill be the goat; what's the an.
swer?" l said, clawlng the lever and
ducking the low bridges.
We met a man on a bicycle and the
last saw of him as we whizzed by he
had found a soft spot in field about
four blocks away and he was going
into It head first.
We kept his bicycle and carried II
along on our smoke stack.
l couldn't stop the thing to save my
life.
Every time l yankod the lever the
snap would let a chortle out of his
puzzle department Ond fly 400 feet
straight through the air.
We were headed for an old ash
heap, and my market price had gone
down 20 three cents a ton.
Don't jump" yelled 10 my lady
friend, but the wind whisked the first
half of my sentence away.
Clara Jane gathered her skirts in
a bunch and did flying leap out OF
the crazy cab.
She landed right in the middle Of
that heap of fresh ashes-and she
made good.
All / could see was a great, gray
cloud rs pushed on to the next stand.
About half a mile further down the
road the machine concluded TO turn
into a farm yard and give the home
folks treat.
1t went through window in the
barn, out through a skylight, did the
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-07-25
SHE Up W0MANy
q AUCK q

Kearney. Neb. And there came a
dme when we wanted to go into the
sheep business. I'VE" are a woman.
An early English writer says: "A
aouseband cannot thryve by his corne
without cattell; nor by his cattell with
put corne. Sheep in my opinion 10 the
most profitable cattell any man can
nave"
We procured a flock at consldera-
ole cost; bought them OF an old sheep
Srader who know his business n we
eidn't ours lie topped the market
when he sold us his half fat lambs
1ice. big lambs-the yearllng kind
Of lamb prices. His bunch of old ewes
changed hands at q notch lower.
DO not buy old ewes They have a
way of passing into the mysterious be-
yond in such rapid manner that Il
shocks one! We think he succeeded In
unloading all Of the original flock,
those recorded in early history. on our
nands. Anyway. they had come down
through the dingy past In that we
feel we have benefited humanity. No
Dne viii get any more OF that genera
ton The evening sun OF their life
was set when we closed our gates up.
on them. The aged creatures were
turned into a paddora by themselves
Some hobbled on three icgs, some wob-
bled on four. A collection of the an.
tique. They were put on two pounds
Df corn per day. per feed, per sheep
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Jane was down and In the kerosene
caravan.
Clarence hadn't arrived.
Somebody must have put aim next,
but l knew where he lived and / fig
ured II out that after we came back
from Lonely Lane I'd send the landau
around and around the block he
camped in till made him dizzy.
Clara Jane was the feature OF the
game.
She was the limit In ladies' Dress
goods.
For a chaser she wore oae OF those
feather boas that feel cool because
they look so warm.
Well, turned the horseless gag into
the she'll road and cut loose.
We were doing about 43 miles an
hour and the brides were singing on
the way.
Clarence Edgerton Montrose was
working In shaft No. 3, back In the
mines-my lady friend told me so.
She was having the time OF her life
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eph B. Bowles)
what timidly, chat the sun over here
is going to be uncomfortaably warm
after awhile"
Kitty laughed-but with almost too
much enthusiasm for It to be gen.
inc. Il don't mind that" she re-
turned, with her head in the air. I'm
fact, IL like i'll" She gave her
minutest attention TO the rearrange-
ment of a refractory lock. as Roches-
ter walked off in the direction of the
beach.
Several minutes passed in dead
silence. When she trusted herself to
look up again. he was coming toward
her rapid There's an awful storm
brewing" he said, gravely; wed bet
to- try to hunt up place Of refuge at
once"
Kitty rose quickly, aud together
they plowed through the heavy white
sand in what seemed a hopeless quest
for shelter. But finally they came in
sight of dilapidated old structure
the property of quondam campers
and were soon established under its
I rickety but friendly ROOF.
81 hope this delay is not going to
cause you too much Inconvenience"
observed Kitty, the first to speak
1T will probably interfere with an
important engagement" answered
! Rochester, with a little inward smile.
Kitty turned inquiring eyes upon
him.
She felt her heart start painfully.
Marie Kensington! Surely that was
the name of the girl with whom gos-
sip had tried to connect his-Billy's
name since-since-well since she
no longer had a right to think Of
himl
Was It so very important?' she
asked in a colorless tone that tried
vainly to be casual.
"All engagements are, more or less.
are they not?" He gave her a pointed
glance.
But Kitty did not see 1t. Her eyes
were down now, to hide the pain aud
shadow that she could no longer con-
ceSl. and her cheeks were whittier than
he had ever seen them.
For half an hour they sat in ST.
lence. 1t was now past three o'clock.
The storm had at last worn itself out,
and desultory patches of blue showed
through the hurrying clouds.
Rochester rose and walked out into
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to produce overgrown tubers. This
may be overcome to some extent by
planting more seed TO the hill or
planting the hills closer together
When digging time comes the same
process of selection and elimination
should be gone through again. In this
way the Improvement of type and
yield may go on from year 20 year.
Many growers prefer green or i'm
mature seed to that which is fully de.
veloped. Experiments along this line
with plants produced from seed rathSr
than by vegetative parts have shown
that immature seed tend to produce
an early maturing plant. aud also one
that tends TO produce more fruit &c
the amount OF plant tissue but at the
expense of vitality and size of plant
This law does not necessarily hold
good with the potato since the repro.
duction is accomplished by means of
the vegetative portion of the plant
Experiments along this line with the
potato have not been carried far
enough TO give definite results.
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, "a her candv boy for surc.

was her candy boy for sure.
Just then s.,nothlng snapped snA
the machine started for Portland.
Maine. on the basis Of a mile in eight
seconds.
Clara Jane grabbed me around the
neck and grabbed the lever
THE eccentric has buckled the
thingamajigl" l yelled. pushing the
lever over to stop the carryall.
The thing gave me the horse laugh.
jumped over telegraph pole, bit its
way through a barb-wire fence and
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the open. 81 guess we can start now"
he observed. taking a sweeping in
ventory of the outlook.
Kitty rose quickly and made ready
for the walk. The air outside was
crisp and stimulating after the rain
fall, and they walked half a mile
without fatigue. But presently Kitty
began to feel her feet grow heavy.
and q pitiful little droop showed it.
self about the corners of her mouth.
But she held her head stubbornly
averted, resolved that Billy should not
detect her weakness.
Another 15 minutes, and the skin
loomed gratefully into view. Kitty
took her seat demurcly, and Rochester
sprang- into the one opposite.
An hour passed.
Again the stars bllnked out, one by
one and the moon rose round and
clear and golden. The mellow dip OF
the oars was the only sound that
broke the stiffness. After awhile.
Rochester spoke.
Kitty" he began, abruptly. don't
you think we've had enough of-Of
this sort of thing? God knows, have
Is It worth while? Couldn't we both
acknowledge ourselves just a bit in
the wrong, and--and begin all over
again?" His voice trembled strong.
" aa1sr it's veneer OF calmness.
Kitty did not reply at once. Her
gaze was fixed, distantly, on the gleam-
ing blue sheet of water, across which
the lights were beginning to flicker
dimly.
do you remember what day this
ls-what day 1t was to have been.
dear?" He bent toward her till his
warm breath brought the crimson into
her cheeks.
Kitty glanced up and met his eyes.
Her own bore look he could not al
together fathom.
"of what were you thinking, then?"
he asked. almost sharply. a shadow
deepening suddenly in his eyes.
Kitty gave a soft little laugh that
mingled musically with the delicious
rush of water against the sides OF
the skiif." ! was giving thanks" she
said In a low voice. "for YOU. Billy"
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field OF alfalfa, tender and sweet Al
the end OF the allotted time what few
responded 70 our frantic efforts TO get
them or that field. soon became a
dead issue, representing hundreds of
dollars
Then there was the thoroughbred
buck Don't buy grade bucks. Bay
this one. only S35," cried the sheep
trader. We thought this sheep should
have horns. but the more we became
acquainted with him. however. the
more we thanked our stars he was
not a horned beast If he couldn't go
over the fence he would go under; II
not over nor under he would go
through II and manage TO hang by one
or more of his legs until assistance
came After putting in the night with
his head between two fence rails we
were able the next morning to chron.
icle the passing Of our thoroughbred.
This sheep trader also said with a
great flourish: "They will keep your
lawn down" They did They also
downed my young orchard and every
green thing upon the place. Their
omnivorous appetite soon made our
spacious lawn, TO which we had de.
voted ourselves regardless Of labor or
expense and excelled In landscape gar
dening look like golf links; our or
chard like forest of bean poles. Nor
have we yet settled with our neigh
Dor for the wanton destruction of his
celery patch. nor a rose garden de-
voured by them belonging to fussy
old maid near by.
When they sickened and died we
sent for the sheep man. lie looked
wise. threw up his hands and vouch.
safed this information. when a sheep
gets sick ye cant do thing with
'em. They just up and die When a
sheep dies he dies quick" This sur
prisel and startled us. We mean 1t
did at first. It doesn't now. We are a
sheep man now ourselves. Feeding at
the rack full Of life and vigor one mo-
ment with promises of 50 much per
pound at the stock yards, you may in
ten more minutes send for the sheep
undertaken to carry them off at so
much the job. Life is not all sunshine,
neither is the sheep business.
We punched up the remainder OF
our several yards. made a carload lot
and consigned them to a local market.
BY getting top prices the salesman
succeeded in settling with the trans
portation company and paying his
own commission from the receipts.
We felt grateful to him for that
There is money in sheep, so saith
the sheep feeder. This may be true.
We are not here to deny 1t. Someone
made money turning over those sheep.
But 1t wasn't us. II was the othGf
fellow
However. we have acquired the
name of being good sheep man. and
as no one but the bats and owls know
of our misfortunes we blandly smile
and rest our laurels so richly won. To
be counted good sheep man is worth
its weight in gold.
In closing we might say we have a
sheep ranch for sale. consisting OF
some feed troughs. bin of. corn,
purchased when the market was soar
ing. half barrel of salt, and several
head of sheep that will do we'll on 80
days soft feed; that's because their
teeth are gone We would consider
cash or trade for a quarter section in
Kansas. CHARLOTTE WHITNEY
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get crowd around they begin to go
TO the places that struck them hard
est.
AS an honest, hard-working man II
was my duty to put the boots to Ed
gerton and run him down the lane as
far as the eye could see.
So l framed up Clarenoe's finish
with much attention to detail.
l looked over Clara James dates
ahead and found that Clarence had
rented the house for a Wednesday
matinee, so hired one of those horse
less carriage things and pulled up in
front OF the windows just about the
be playing the overture.
knew that Clara Jane you'd can
eel the contract with the mutt that
mixed in Just as soon as she saw tho
automobile snap.
l figured that the picture entitled
"The True Lovers Departure in the
Dream Wagon" would put a crimp in
Clarence about the size of n barn
door.
1t was my third or fourth time be-
hind the lever of the busy barouche,
but was wise that you pulled the
plug this way when you wanted it to
go ahead. and you showed 1t back
when you wanted II TO stop.
When 1t came to benzine bugges
| felt that my education was complete.
l was George ,Gazazza. the real Ro-
iando. when l pulled up in front of
my lady friends front gate.
My market price was $4,000 a
square inch.
In six minutes by the watch Clara
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hula dance over the lawn, and then fell
in the well and stayed there, painting
as though it's little gas-engine heart
would break.
When l limped back to Clara Jane
the storm signals were flying
She was away out or the ice.
The feather boa looked like the haw-
ser on a canal boat, and the ashes had
changed the pattern of her dress goods
We were stingy takers on the road
home.
1t will take me two years to square
myself.
Hereafter, me TO the trolley!
Me to the saucy stage coach when
I'm due TO gallop away and away
No more benzine buggies for yours
sincerely!
Never again for the bughouse bar.
ouche! Not me.
have only one consolation; The
chap we pried off the bicycle was Clar
ence Edgerton Montrose.
1t will take him about three years
and two months TO find all the spots
that foolish wagon knocked OF him.
Meantime. l hope to be Clara
James sugar buyer again.
Copyright. 1901. by c. w. Dillingham; Coz
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John Alexander Dowie had a grand
knack of putting things quantity and
forcibly. At one of his last meetings
he attacked the modern mother of so.
ciety, the mother who neglects her
children.
why" he said, II overheard the
most remarkable conversation be.
tween two nursemaids on car yes.
terday.
Are you going TO the picnic? said
the first nursemaid.
"'No, said the second, I'm afraid
shan't be there
"Why not?' cried the first. And
you so fond, too, OF picnics and dane
ing and young men and allsthat there!'
"'Oh.' said the other nursemaid. I'd
dearly love to go; dearly. But, TO tell
you the truth. I'm afraid to leave the
baby with its mother
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Wind and Soil Moisture. The wind
is a great consumer OF moisture tbs
is because IL acts as n pump In draw.
ing the moisture out OF the plants and
out of the ground. The principle is
the same as when the wind blows over
chimney on a windy day. The air
passing over takes hold of a column
of air in the chimney and pulls il
along with IT, The little capillary
tubes in the soil are minute chin.
neys, and the wind passing is drawing
the air out of them and with the air
is drawing the aqueous vapor. It
is tho same with the minute pores In
the leaves OF plants. Through these
pass the columns of vapor tc mlngle
with the ar.
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Honey Wasted.-Much honey pro.
duced by flowers goes to waste. as
there are not enough bees to ccllSct
IL
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Where He Got Il.

"Phwere did yez git tn blacl. eyer"
Fell on me back"
Yer eyes not In yer back"
"Nayther was tn brick Kelly threw W."
Cleveland Leader,