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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-11
WIT. D00ley's Philosophy
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will ring an he'll hear voice sayin':
 Hurry up over to Hinnissys. He never felt so well in his life All right. I'll be over as soon as l can hitch up tn horse. Take him away firm tn supper table at wanst, give him pipeful of tobacco an walk him three times around tn block But whin a mans sick, he's sick, an nawthin' will cure him or annything will. In tn old days befure ye an I were born, tn doctor was tn barber, too. He'd shave ye, cut ye'er hair. dye ye'er mustache, give ye dhry shampoo an cure ye iv appendicitis while ye were hayin' ye'er shoes shined beth naygur Ivry gineration iv doctors has had their fav'rite reme- dies. Wanst people were cured iv fa- tal maladies be applications iv blind puppies, hair firm tn skulls iv dead men an solutions iv bats wings, just as now they're cured be dhrinkin' tayspoonful iy very ordinary article iv booze that's had some kind iv pizenous weed dissolved in it. Dhrugs, says Dock OLeary, are little iv pizen that little more iv wud kill ye He says that if ye look up amy poplar dhrug in tn ditchnry yell see that it is "A very powerful pizen lv great use in medicine I took calomel at his hands fir nanny years till he told me that it was about tn same thing they put into Rough on Rats.
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be again this fatal epidemic that is .agin' inside iV ye? Besides, mus tard plasther wud hurt. So tn good woman, friyilous crather that she is, goes back to her wurruk singin' a light chune. She knows shes goin to have to put up with ye fir some time to come. A mustard plasther, Iiinnissy, is tn rayl test iv whether a pain is goin' to kill ye or not. If tn plasther is onbearable ye can bet tn paiH undherneath is not. 'T1s tn same thing through life. I've known nanny broken heart to be cured be a toothache or a whaeli on tn funny bone.
 But ye know ye are goin' to did an we're not sure whether yell sind f'r Father Kelly or tn doctor. Ye finally decide to save up Father Kelly fir tn last, an ye sind fir tn Dock. Hayin' rescued ye firm tn jaws iv death two or three times befure Whin ve had a sick headache, tn Dock takes his time about comin', but just as ys are beginnin to throw ye'er boots at th' clock an show other signs " what he calls rigem mortar, he rides up m his fine horse an buggy He gets out slowly one foot at time, hitches ms horse an ties a nose bag on his head. Thin he that's fir two hundherd years with th' polisman on the peat. ne tells him good story an they laugl harshly. Whin tn polisman goes HIS
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way tn Dock meets tn good woman at tn dure an they exchange a few wurruds about tn wether, tn bad con oiition iy tn sthreets, tn health iy Mary Ann since she had tn croup an ye'er- silf Ye catch tn wurruds, Grape Pie Canned Salmon,' 'CastIron di- gestion.' Still he doesn't come up. He tells a few stories to tn childher. He weighs tn youngest in his hands an says, That's a fine boy ye have, Mrs. Hinnissy. l make no doubt he'll grow up to be a polisman.' He examines tn phottygraft album an asks if that isn't so-an'-so.. An all this time ye lay writhin' in mortal agony an sayin' tu ye'orsilf: 1nhuman monsther, 10 lave he perish hrlc while he chats with callous woman that l haven t said anything but "What?" to f." twinty years
 "Ye begin to think there's a con spiracy against ye to get ye'er money befure he saunters into tn room an says in gay tone: Well, what dye mean be tyin' up wan iv tn gr-reat industhries iv our nation be stayin' away firm wurruk fir a day?' Dock, says ye, in feeble voice, I've a tur- able pain in me abdumdum. It reaches firm here to here malin' a rough sketch in tn burned disthrict undhe" th' blanket. T felt it comin' on last night, but I didn't say anything fr fear iv alarmin' me wife, so l simply
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groaned,' says ye. While ye'er de- scribln' ye'er bangs he walks around tn room loollin at tn pictures Afther we've got through he come over an' says: Lave me look at yeer tongue. Hum,' he says, holdin' ye'er wrist an bowin' through tn window to a frind iv his on a sthreet car. Does that hurt?' he says, stabbin' ye with his thumb in tn suburbs iy tn pain. 'Ye know it does, says ye, with groan. Don't do that again; ye scratched me- He hurls ye'er wrist back at ye an stands at tn window loolIn' out at tn fremen acrost tn sthreet playin' dominoes. He says nawthin' to ye, an ye feel like tn prisoner while tn foreman iv tn jury is fumblin' in his inside pocket fir tn verdict. Ye can stand it no longer. Dock says ye, is it annytAing fatal? Pm not fit to die. but tell me tn worst an I'll thry to bear it. We'll says he, 'ye have slight interioritis iv tn left follum- bular duck. But this prescription ought to fix ye up all right Ye'd bet ther take it over to tn dhrug store an have it filled ye'ersilf. In tn mane- time I'd advise ye to be careful in ye'er diet. I wudden't ate anything with glas or large percintage " plasther iv Paris in it. An he goes away to write his bill
 q wondher why ye can always read q doctors bill an ye niyer can read
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1t that 1t would buy his seed at prlee above that of the market. The seed, which has come in from that venture IS enough to plant 1000 acres this year, and this Is to be distributed at cost price to such farmers as want 1t.
 Fertilzing Egypt.
 The government is trying to induce the farmers to use artificial fertilizers. It be- gan this six years ago, when it was able to distribute $3O,0O0 worth of chemical ma nure. The demand had so increased for such fertilizers that more than ten times as much was distributed last season
 With our knowledge of the Nile lands it seems a queer thing to talk of their artificial fertilization. but there is no soil on earth where manuring pays better. On the grain lands, where this stuff has been used to the extent of about 8 per acre, the crops have increased from SIS to $20 per acre. and the probability is that the demand here for fertilizers will steadily grow. During the past year the government has lent to the agricul- tural department $500,000 at per cent per annum, with the understanding that the money is to be used in buying and dis tributing manures
 In another letter I will describe the wonderful fertility of the Nile valley and tell you something of the Abyssinian mud of which 1t Is made. It has been farmed for ages with almost no manure whatever and the conditions are such that if ma nure at all is to be employed it must be- brought in from abroad. As 1t is now, the drcppngs of cattle are gathered up by the women in their bare hands and patted into cakes to be dried for fuel, and about the only manure that Is saved is that of pigeons. which are raised hy the millions throughout the valley of the Nile
 Another fertilizer is that afforded by the ruins of the ancient towns, which were built of unbaked clay and which now are mere mounds of earth. Out of thess mounds. made of the rubbish of a thou sand years, comes a kind of earth con taining a large percentage of soda am monia and other salts. This stuff Is car red by the peasants out to the cotton fields and sprinkled over the ground, and the result Is an extraordinary increase in the yield
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The first picking begins in September. After that the land Is watered' ana second picking takes place In Oetoper, There is q third in November the land being again irrigated between times. The first and second pickings yield the best fiber. They are kept apart from the thlsd and sold separately
 CaneIs and Cotton Bales.
 After the cotton is picked it is put into great bags and loaded upoa camels. They are loading four such beasts in that iield at the side of the road. The camels lie flat on the ground with their long neeks stretched out. Two bags are a load for each camel, and together they will weigh about 600 pounds Each bag is as long and wide as q single bed mattress, au about four feet thick. Listen to the camels groan as they load them There Is one which Is actually weeping You can see the salt tears run down his checks
 Now watch the camels get up. Each rises back end first the bags swaying to and fro as he does so. How angry he is. He goes off with his lower lip hanging grumbling and grooming like a spoiled child. How odd the camels look as they travel. The bags on their backs reach almost to the ground, and each ungainly beast seems 10 be walking on six legs.
 Looking down the road, we can see long caravans of camels loaded with bales and on the other side of that little canal is a small drove of donkeys bringing m cotton. Each donkey is hidden by bds which covers it's back and all but its little legs. It looks like bed tick walking off upon legs.
 In this way the cotton is brought to the railroad station, and to the boats. The latter go out of one little waterway into another until they get into the Mahmud- lyeh canal, and thense to Alexandria.
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 down in the waters of the Nile at the time of the floods. That mud Is brought to Egypt by the Atbars and the Blue Nile and Is poured over the land during the seasons when the cotton needs it least. The most of the water used for cotton raising comes down during the summer. This is from the White Nile. which is almost as clear and pure as the water you drink on your tables. The fertilizing properties must hence come from the silt deposited during the flood or from manure and other fer tilization.
 l am told that cotton. as it is grown here exhausts the soil and that the people are injuring the staple and re- ducing the amount of the product by overcropping. It used to be that cot ton was planted on the same ground only every third year. the ground be- ing used for other crops or allowed to lie fallow during the remaining two years. At present some of the cotton fields are worked every year and oth CTS two years out of three. On most farms cotton Is now planted every oth- CT year, whereas the authorities say that in order to have a good yield not more than 40 per cent of ones land should be in this crop from year to year.
 Fighting the Boil WeeviI.
 Egypt has had a lot of trouble with the boil weevil. This pestiferous cotton worm is to be found all along the valley of the Nile, and I am told that it is doing great damage on the plantations of the Sudan, d thousand miles above Alexandria It Is said that more than $10000,O00 worth of cotton was destroyed by it in 1901, and that hundreds of smaller farmers were ruined. In the meantime the government has been doing all 1t can to wipe out this plague, but it Is working under great dis advantages. The Egyptian Mohammedans are fatalists, and they look upon such things as the boil weevil as a judgment of God and think they can do nothing to avert them. The government has had to inaugurate a system of forced labor in consequence. It has made the boys and men of the cotton region turn out by the thousands to kill the worms under the superintendence of the officials. The re- suits have been excellent and as those
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-11
BY F. P. DUNNE

Thin I stopped. If I've got to die, want to die on tn premises.
 But, as he tells me, ye can't stop people firm takin' drugs, an ye might as we'll give thim something thatll look important enough to be inthro- juced to their important an fatal cold in tn head. If ye don't, they'll leap fir tn patent medicines. If man wud ralner take thim than dhrink at bar or go down to Hop Lungs fir a long dhraw, he's within his rights. Nanny a man have l known that was a vic tim iy tn tortures iv a cigareet cough who is now Twin comfortable an happy as an opeem fend be takin' Doctor Wheezo's Consumption Cure. I knew a fellow wanst who suffered firm spring fever to that extint that he niver did a days wllrruk Today afther dhrinlin' a bottle iv Gazooma. he will go home, not on'y with tn strength, but tn desire to beat his wife. There's dhrug store on ivry corner, an they're goin' to dhrive out tn saloons onless tn governmint will let us honest merchants put little cocaine or chloral in our cough-drops an advertise that it'll cure spinal minigitis. An it will, too, fir a while"
 Don't ye iver take dhrugs?" asked MT. Hennessy.
 "Niver whin I'm we'll" said Mr. Dooley. ''Whin I'm sick, I'm so sick I'll take anything"
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 I'm a sick man." said MT. Hen messy.
 since tn picnic?" MT Dooley sug- gested.
 Now that I come to think iv it, it did begin tn day afthsr tn picnic, " said Mir Hennessy. I've been to see Dick OLeary. He give me this (pro- duoing a bottle of dark and sinister looking liquid) an these here pills an some powdhers besides. An dye know, though l haven't taken amy iY thim yet, feel betther already.
 Well. sir said MT. Dooley, lis a grand thing to be a doctor. A man that's doctor don't have to buy amy funny papers to enjye life. Tn likes iv ye goes to a picnic an has pleas ant, peaceful day in tn counthry dancin' breakdowns an kickin' q foot ball in tn sun an iVry fifteen minyits or so washin' down a couple iv dill pickles with bottle iv white pop Tn next day ye get what's eomin' to ye in tn right place, an bein' q sthrong, hearty man that cudden't be kilt be anything less than a safe fallin' on ye firm twinty-stocy Luildin', ye know ye ar-re goin' to die. Tn good woman advises mustard plasther, but ye scorn tn suggestion. What good wud a mustard plasther
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-11

The railroads are filled with cotton trains during the harvesting season. and Just now there are long strings of cars load ed with cotton coming into this city. Some of this cotton has been ginned and baled upon the plantations; other is sent in in the seed and ginned here. There are also ginning establishments at the larger cotton markets of the interior, many of which are run by steam and which have as up-to-date machinery as we have. At these gins the seed is care fully saved and shipped to Alexandria by railroad or by boat
 How They Plant Cotton in Egypt.
 These Egyptians spend more work on their crops than our southern farmers In the first place, the land has to be plowed with camels or buffaloes and pre- pared for the planting. It must be divid- ed into basins, each walled around so that 1t will hold water, and have little canals inside each basin so arrangeS that the water will run In and out through every row. The whole field Is cut up into beds of this description ranging in size from twenty-four feet to seventy-fiYe feet square.
 The cotton is planted in rows thirty live inches apart, the plants being from foui . teen to twenty inches apart In the rows. It takes a little more than a bushel of seed to the acre. The seeds are soaked In water before planting and any which rise to the surface are thrown away. The plantinng is done by men and boys and the cost is something like a dollar an acre. The seeds soon sprout and in ten or twelve days the plants apepar. They are now thinned by hand, then water 's let in upon them, the farmers being care full not to give them too much The plants are frequently hood. They have water every week or so, and this is kept
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 ernment has decided to raise that dam. This will almost double the amount of water which can be used for the cotton crop. and that means more cotton and more money. Lord Cromer. the British governor general. says that the greater part of upper and lower Egypt can be made to grow cotton, and that the cot ton plantations will eventually cover more than 5500,0 GOO acres. If 40 per cent of this area is annually put into cotton. at the present average yield of 459 pounds per acre. 1t will produce something like 2.000, 000 bales per annum, or one-ninth as much as the present cotton crop of the world. Sir William Garstin, one of the greatest irrigation engineers of modern times, and the man who had much to do in building the Assouan dam, says that 100000 bales Is one of the possibilities of Egypts future, but that 1t will be ten or fifteen years before the crop reaches that amount. In addition to this there may be q fur ther increase by putting water into some of the oases which lie in the valley of the Nile outside the river bottom and also by draining the great lakes about Alex andrla and in other parts of the lower delta.
 Eaypt's Cotton Crop.
 Os if is now Egypt is fast taking higher place among the cotton countries of the world. The United States stands first. She produces about 12.0O000o bales annually. East India has had the second place. her annual product ranging from S0OOOO to 2,900000 bales, with Egypt far in the rear Since the building of the Assouan dam the crop of Egypt has been steadily increasing. until last year it was six and three-quarters million kan tars, which, at 100 pounds to the kantar,
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' HAVE spent the whole 7f today wan
 dering about The cotton wharyes of x Alexandria. They extend for mile so up and down the Mahmudiyeh canal. which joins this city to the Nile. and are flanked on the other side by railroads filled with cotton trains from every part of Egypt These wharves lie under the shadow of Pompeys Pillar and they eX- tend all along the canal almost 10 the harbor Upon them are great warehouses filled with bales and bags. Thera are cot ton presses nearby, and in the city people buy ana sell just as they do at Liver pool from the samples of lint whcli rep resent the bales brought in from the plan tatons.
 Indeed, cotton is as big factor here as 1t is in New Orleans, and the banks of this canal make one think of the great cotton market of that city. The ware
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A Crop Which is Making Rich
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gunIing the Nile valley from the Mediter- ranean to the eataracts, and the prospects are that he will make his country grow richer from year to year
 Cotton is now pouring about SS0000,000 of new clean money into the laps of the Egyptians every twelve months. and this means an average of about $40 per family. In addition about Sl0000,o00 are annually realized from the sale of cotton seed and cotton cake, so that every man, woman and child in the valley of the Nile has, on the average, S9 worth of new money from this crop alone.
 Not only this, but the cotton yield is steadily increasing, and with the new ir- rigation works now under way, it will soon be greater than ever. From 1895 to 1900 It's average annual value was only S45,00000O. After the Assouan dam was completed 1t jumped to $70,0O0,e0o. and 1t is now, as I nave said over $50, ,O0O,0O0.
 A Great Future.
 In the past few months the British gov
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who have been forced to work have been well paid the farmers are beginning to appreciate what has been done for them.
 The government has been helping the farmers in other ways It has an asrlcul- tural department which is working much as ours. Last year 1t sent out selected seed for planting 10000 acres in cotton, contracting with each farmer who took
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up almost to the time of picking. The planting is usually done during the month of March. and as l have said, the first picking begins along in September.
 White Nile Makes the Cotton.
 It will surprise many to know that the cotton crop of Egypt is not fed by the rich mud of Abyssinia. which comes
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houses are of vast extent, and the road between them and this waterway is GOV cred with bales of lint and great bagI of cotton seed. Skull-capped, blue-gownc1 l Egyptians sit high upon the bales on longlbedded wagons hauled by mule; Other Egyptians are unloading the cas- and boats and others are carrying tle cotton To the warehouses. They tote the bales and bags on their backs. and now and then man may be seen .arrying Il bag of loose cotton weighing a couple hundred pounds upon his head. The cot ton seed is taken from the boats in the same way, seed to the amount of 300 pounds often forming q load for one man.
 Late m the afternoon I went down to tine harbor to see the cotton steamers. They were taking on cargoes for Great Britain. Russia. France. Germany lnd the United States. Cotton forms tb' ee- fourths of the export of this country, and something like s7000OO worth Jf it is annually shipped to the j-alted States. Fhs is so notwithstanding we raise more than two-thirds of Ill the cotton of the world yhe total product of 1905 was almost 1S.G00.000 bales. of which we raised over 13.G0oOoo. Egypt. then, produced q little less than 1,100 oHt, and it's product brought more per bale by far then ours There is always big demand for Egypt ian cotton. It Is worth more on the aver age than that of any other country. anal it is, in fact, the chief money-maker of the Nile valle~
 Cotton is King.
 Cotton is the great white Pharaoh which the Egyptians worship. He has the ma ; jorty of te Nile farmers in his employ and he pays them royallN He has rolled up a wave Of prosperity which is now en-
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Cotton is Kinq.
MR. COOLEY ON DRUGs
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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1907-04-25

Chas. Olson OF Vanville, Ward
county, has opened his full
blood chicken ranch in the north
west portion of Minot. He is
raising White Wyandottes,
Brown Leghorns and Barred
Plymouth Rocks. He has 400
pure blood chickens now and by
fall will have 1000. He will pay
particular attention to raising
chickens for the market. He has
completed a new building lax
100 feet and will heat it by
steam in the winter, endeavor-
ing to induce the hens to work
the year round. He is feeding
the hens ground bone and other
good chicken foods. He will keep
each kind of chickens separate,
and in short will keep a model
chicken ranch. This ought to
pay him some good profits.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1907-04-25

Representative of the celebrated ST
monet Rug Co., Saltwater. MINI, max
ers of Fluff rugs, will be in Minot on or
about May |. Will pay to hold orders
until arrives. 4-4-4-25
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1907-04-25

Box elder trees for sale, So per
thousand and upwards, and as
paragus roots for sale, $1.OO
per hundred. Minot Green
House.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-05-15
A Word About Powdered Sulphur

Powdered sulphur, or as it is technically called, Flowers of sulphur" is a valuable remedial agent. Who doesn't remember the old fashioned sulphur and molasses giv- en in the spring 70 purify the blood. And it was valuable remedy too. But the form of sulphur makes it hard of assimilation makes it hard to get even small quantity of the sulphur into the blood. The greater part of the flowers of sulphur taken into the stomach is undigested and passes out with out doing any good whatever. The very little that is assimilated does great good considering its quantity. For this reason physicians and scientists have for years tried to find some way of holding sulphur in liq- uid solution so that all of it could be assim- Hated and taken into the blood or when ap- piled externally to sores, etc. be absorbed into the skin. Littell's Liquid Sulphur aecomplishes this with absolute perfection. It is assimilated perfectly and every part icle of it gets into the blood with not one of the wonderful sulphur curative and medi- cinal properties changed or lessened. Ap- piled externally it is rapidly and readily absorbed and actually brings the sulphur into contact with the germs of suppuration, modification, decay or disease which it rapidly destroys. Littell's Liquid Sulphur stops itching instantly and permanently re- lieves all forms of skin complaint, eczema, erysipelas, pimples, running sores, letter,
 ring worm, chaps, roughness, redness, or skin blotches. Sample bottle sent post paid to any address for l0c. Rhuma-Sulphur Co.
 St. Louis, Mo. 19