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Connecticut western news., 1907-05-23
THE MISSION OF ARBoR DAY.

With the gradual consumption of the forests of the country in the manufac- ture of lumber and paper products and use as fuel, increasing interest may be looked for in the matter of Arbor day observation and the importance at taching thereto. While it seems to have been quite largely commercial greed that has been to blame for the ruthless and careless destruction of the forest areas of the country, it seems likely that pure patriotism and sentiment will have to be invoked to right the wrong and bring about a change for the better. It may be O charitable view to say that it is in- difference and failure to realize the importance of q perpetuation of our forest resources that are most largely responsible for. the deplorable con- dition in which matters have been al- lowed to get. President Roosevelt is entitled to the thanks of all good peo- pie for the stand he has taken on the question of preserving our forest areas and for the public sentiment which he has been able to arouse on the matter This sentiment must be kept alive and deepened if possible. In no way can this be done more effectively than by Investing Arbor day observances with increased interest and meaning and a still further development of the thought that trees are in a very true sense friends of man and are not to he valued merely from the standpoin. of their CO1yprtihility into dollars ond cents. The children of today will be confronted with the forestry problem of tomorrow. The teachings of Arbor day will help them to realize their re sponsibility.
Connecticut western news., 1907-05-23
ABOUT MANURE.

Instead of viewing the production of manure and the putting of it on the land as a necessary evil, where oper- attons in both respects should be re- E. s'Gicted to the smallest possible scope a view held by many In days gone by tde intelligent farmer now aims to pro- duce just as much fertilizer on his premises as possible. A plan which would greatly facilitate this would seem to be that of covering the barn. yard and field lots with a fifteen to twenty inch layer of the straw produc- ed on the farm-wheat, oat or other kind. This would not only serve to keep the ground from getting miry in wet times. but would tend to absorb and retain the droppings and liquid manure, furnishing a very large quan- tity of first class manure that could be cleaned up with little trouble In the spring and put upon the blow land, where 1t would do some good. The losses In this country annually through the improper handling of manures Is estimated at $7OO 900, loss which the plan suggested would do a good deal to reduce.
Connecticut western news., 1907-05-23
THE GREEN BUG RAVAGEs.

The green bug, q little insect be- longing to the aphid or plant louse family, which has done the crops in southern states considerable damage in some years during the past twelve or fifteen, is this year proving a very serious menace to the wheat, oat and other small grain crops in several of the southern states, especially Texas, Oklahoma, Indian Territory and Kan sas. The eggs of this insect are laid In the fall. which hatch in d few days as females, some winged and some wingless. They are viviparous, or produce their young alive, which ac- counts for their remarkable repre- ductive power and capacity for de structiyeneSs. In ordinary seasons the pest is hefd in check by its natural parasitic enemies, but due to the un- seasonably cold weather which has prevailed this spring the propagation of these parasites has been held in check, with the result that the green bug, so called, has multiplied without restraint. In some grain growing sec tions of the south as high as 90 per cent damage has been reported in wheat and oat fields, and even greater damage will result unless the para sites develop very soon. The agricul- tural department at Washington. to which a great many inquiries have been sent, reports that practically nothing can be done to hold the pest in check, but that if fields of small grain have been seriously damaged the only thing to do is to blow them up and plant corn, potatoes or other later field crops. AS the warm weather comes on the parasites referred to will get busy and put the green bugs out of business.
Connecticut western news., 1907-05-23
General Markets

New York, May H. FLOUR-Firmly held. but dull; Minne- soto patents. s4.90a5.45: winter patents s4.15a475; winter straights, s3.S5a4.25; win ter extras, $Sa310.
 RYE FLOUR-Firm; fair to good $4a 425; choice to fancy, S30a4T.
 WHEAT-After opening Bc. higher wheat became strong. advancing about : cents on covering of shorts, further bad crop reports from Kansas and Nebraska rather light northwest receipts and in sympathy with outside markets, July, s1.04Ssa1. .O6I4; September, s104&a1.O61k; De cember, Sl.05ssa1.07A.
 CORN-Opening a shade lower on good weather and realizing, corn reacted on covering and with wheat; May, 62lss, July, 61a61Ac.
 BUTTER-Creamery.e extras, per pound 241kc. Mercantile exchange, official quo- tation, extras, 24c.); firsts, 22I1a24c.; sec onds, 20a22c.; thirds, 19c.; held, 1Sa22c. state dairy tubs, fancy, 2s1ta24c.; good to prime, 22a23c.; common to fair, 1Sa21c.
 CHEESE-New, state, full cream, col ored. small, best, 12s4c.; white, 121kc. large, colored, best, 12Aa121kc.; white, 12a 12I4c.: large and small, fair to good, 1la u%c.; inferior. Sa1oc.; light skins. 1oc. half skins, best, 8Aa9c.; part skins, prime 7a71kc. fair to good. 5ha6kc. com mon, 3a5c.; full skins, 1a2c.
 EGGS-State, Pennsylvania and nearby. selected. white, fancy. 1sc; choice. lsa 1S11c.; brown and mixed, extra, Isc.; frsts to extra firsts, 16l5a171sc.; dirties 131hsl5c. {; checks. 11a13c.
 TALLOW-Steady; city, 6%c.; country. 6Aa67sc.
 HAY-Firm; shipping. soaS5c.: good to choice, S1. 20a1.5.
 STRAw-Steady at eoa65c.
 WOOL-Steady: domestic fleece. 35a3sc. LIVE POULTRY-Steady and in fair demand; fowls, 15c.; old roosters, 11a12c. {; spring chickens. 2sa32c.; ducks, old, 1Sa 14c.: spring. do., 15a16c.
 DRESSED POULTRY - Firm ard in good demand: fresh killed fowls. choice, 16c.; do., fair to good, 12a121ac.; old roost- CTS, 101sa11c.; broilers, S5a3sc.
Connecticut western news., 1907-05-23
THE BOSTON CITY HOSPITAL

Training School for Nurses offers three years course of training in general nurs- ing, Surgical, Medical, Gynaecological Infectious, Obstetrical, Children, includ- ing operating room training and emer- gency hospital work. A part of the three wear offers optional courses. The hospital has three sub-departments, and gives ex- perience not usually found in a general hospital. Please send for prospectus of terms and conditions. Address Dr. George H. NJ Rowe, Medical Supt., Boston City Hospital, Boston, Mass.
Connecticut western news., 1907-05-23

Neither red clover nor alfalfa should be sown on land on which water will stand any considerable length of time after rain. On such low and poorly drained soils alsike is the proper le- gume to sow.
Connecticut western news., 1907-05-23

The prompt payment of wages for work performed is both a courtesy and right that every laborer is entitled to, and the considerate employer will see to it there is no ground for con- plaint against himself in this regard.
Connecticut western news., 1907-05-23

The butter fat removed from sep arator milk which is to be used for a calf ration may be replaced by a cheap CT substitute in the shape of flaxsced meal Calves will do well on this con- bination.
Connecticut western news., 1907-05-23

A crop rotation which includes clover not only means a conservation of the fertility of the soil, but it means that the cultivated fields can be kept free from weeds with far less effort than Is required under a system in which clover forms no part. There is advan- tage every way in the growing of the leguminous crop.
Connecticut western news., 1907-05-23

The fellow who loafs on his en- ployer's time just because he isn't watched is in all essential aspects as dishonest as if he filched his money outright, for he is very plainly getting money under false pretenses-for labor which he does not perform. There is altogether too much haziness touching the ethics involved in this matter.
Connecticut western news., 1907-05-23

Ostrich raising has been carried on in this country for the past twenty three years, chiefly in California and Arizona. The last named state seems to furnish the most favorable climatic conditions. for the rearing of the bird. and 1t is here that the finest feathers are nrOduced
Connecticut western news., 1907-05-23

Any bovine that can't stand the showing of the Babcock test should be sold to the butcher.
Connecticut western news., 1907-05-23

An incident of very rare occurrence for the season of the year was the death of hundreds of hogs from the heat as they were being shipped to the Chicago stockyards during the warm spell in March. A temperature of close to 90 degrees, with little air nov ing, they were not used to at that sea- son of the year, and many shippers were heavy losers as a result.
Connecticut western news., 1907-05-23
May Irwin to Marry Her Manager.

New York, May 22.-Miss May IT, win, the comedienne, contided to her friends that on Sunday next she would be married to Kurt Eisfelt, her man. ager for the last two seasons. The wedding will be at Miss Irwin's island home in the St Lawrence river. Her first husband. Frederick Keller, died several years ago. MT. Eisfelt is thir- tv years of age.
Connecticut western news., 1907-05-23

. If your fields were pretty weedy last year go and have a talk with your neighbor and find out how he likes the knife or surface cultivator. While 1t does not do good work if the soil is wet, 1t is by all odds the most effective and satisfactory tool when the soil is mellow, killing lots of weeds-morning glories, wild roses. milkweeds, etc. that the shovel cultivator will hardly touch.
Connecticut western news., 1907-05-23

Provided soil conditions are at all favorable there is no tool on the farm that is as good as the harrow for the killing of weeds in the corn, bean or potato field in the few days immedi- ately after the seed is sown. A lapse of three or four days will allow the weed seed to get nicely germinated. and if the harrow is then put on and kept going until time for the seed to come through the ground an amount of weed killing will have been done that it would take weeks to do with the shovel cultivator.
Connecticut western news., 1907-05-23

Careful tests prove beyond question that as a feed alfalfa is superior to wheat bran for milk COWS, brood sows and young pigs. It Is to be hoped that the variety of Siberian alfalfa brought to this country by Professor Hansen of the South Dakota experiment station may prove to be adapted to the north ern states, where the common variety, which is such q boon in the warmer and semiarid portions of the country. tees not seem to do we'll.
Connecticut western news., 1907-05-23
To Post Card Collectors

Send us 25c and get 12 souvenir postal cards bearing views of New York, Mas sachusetts, Connecticut and other states.
 THE CANAAN PRINTING co.
Connecticut western news., 1907-05-23

The old time county fair, which in many states used to be the gala event of the season, but which of late years has been overshadowed and overlook ed because of greater interest mani Tested in the state fairs, cannot be eff fectively resuscitated until it ceases to be run by small coterie of spectators and is reorganized so as to secure the hearty cooperation of farmers in every township in the county with view to emphasizing its practical and benef- cial rather than its purely amusement features. When this Is done, something may be expected from the county fair, but not much until then.
Connecticut western news., 1907-05-23

Since, as rule, quite a per cent of sweet pea seed from even the best houses seems to be defective or lack Ing in vigor, 1t is we'll to sow the seed rather generously. This may be done just as soon as the frost is out of the ground. The seed should be planted at a depth of five or six inches, the soil being enriched with a sprinkffng of wood ashes or we'll routed manure Just before the plants break through the ground 1t is we'll to rake the sur face thoroughly, so as to break any crust that may have formed
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1907-05-30
and the desert place shall

wilderness and the desert place shall
rejoice and blossom as the rose.'
And now, 10 you, bravaold heroes
of the Confederacy, let d j. say: We
are proud to be called the sons and
daughters of the bravest men that
ever looked rpcn a battle flag or
sang battle song, and We feel that
we can give you no better assurance
of our purpose to honor your noble
memory and cherish the glory of
your immortal deeds, than that con-
tanned in the recent eloquent words
of Miss Grace Lumpkin, your spon-
sor in the Palmetto State:
Confederate Veterans, your
daughters will beat into history the
true story of the blood, the scars and
the storm the storm-swept nation of
the men who wore the gray. They
will keep your memories until there
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1907-05-30

shall be nations no more, and when
you brave Did men shall 60 out one
by one, when the trumpet shall
sound for you the last great battle,
the battle of grim old death, your
daughters will keep the viglls OF
Camp Hampton and Camp Gordon
and Camp Robert E. Lee. IA
Your daughters will meet esg r
year, and for the love they bear
you and your glory, will salute yos>
old battle-Aag and tenderly place
the roses above your silent hearts"
NoTE:-For many of the facts
here presented We are indebted to
"Some Truths of History" by Z K
Oglesby (The Byrd Printing Co.,
Atlanta, Ga. }, which volume is es-
pecially recommended to those de-
string larger presentation of his:
torical matter on this subject.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1907-05-30

cause today, is dearer to the South
ern heart than the "Lost Cause" "
the cause of liberty and free-agencY.
It's the cause of humanity, it is the
doctrine of God. And since by as.
persion, perverslon and misrepre-
sentation the South is frequently
placed in false position by those
who seek to hide the spirit of greed
and Imperialism that is the menace
of our country today. we, the sons
and daughters of the Confederacy,
must keep swept the dust from an
tique time, uphold the facts of his
tory, and wait for the truth that
once crushed to earth, shall rise
again.
In 1861 the American Union was
composed of thlrty-three States,
joined in voluntary political as
sociation, partnership or govern
ment, called the United States of
America. The people Of eleven Of
these States, numbering about s..
100000, finding that under that
union, their safety and peace were
constantly and seriously threatened
and disturbed, instead of being
secured as contemplated by the
union, decided to institute a new
governmep:-one that 20 them SEEM
ed more likely to effect their safety
aud happiness. In accordance with
with the principle enunciated IN the
Declaration of Independence, they
instituted such a new government
aud called 1t the Confederate States
of America; wherein non, the people Of
the other States, numbering about
22,O00,O0O, IN defiance and subver-
sion of the great principle of the
Declaration of Independence, made
war upon the eleven Southern States
to compel them to renource the
government of their choice and come
back under the government from
which they had withdrawn because
it had ceased to secure 70 them the
ends for which it was designed.
1t must be remembered that the
craftsmanship of the South had
always consistently maintained that
the Federal Constitution regarded
ultimate sovereignty as resting, not
IN the nation as a whole, but in the
individual States themselves, as
supreme and Independent common
wealths. According to the view Of
the South, these sovereign States
had entered into a league of union
for purposes of mutual advantage,
and this partnership, like Others,
was to endure only SO long as its
original purpose was maintained
with regard to all the States. Events
seemed to indicate that the time for
the dissolution of the compact had
arrived.
In the first place the balance of
political power was passing rapidly
into the hands of party lnimical to
the interests of the South-a party
not only pledged to the abolition of
slavery, but also to a commercial
system of Projection which was
peculiarly unfavorable to an agri-
cultural community. AS to slavery,
it is unfair to represent the South
as, in the abstract, devoted to
servile system. Many of our great
est statesmen deplored the existence
of slavery as an economic and social
injury, and that question would
likely have settled itself if it had
beeI given an unmolested opport.
unity.
The truth is, it was the ill-judged
zeal, and ungodly greed and envy of
Northern extremists that precipitat-
ed the trouble. 1t was the crusade of
extremely bitter and violent de-
nunciation and indiscriminating
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-28
Gail for an Extra Session

"It looBs," says Governor Conner, practically certain that it will be nee essary to call the legislature to meet in extra session." This he says at the beginning of circular letter addressed to the members of the legislature. He explains in the sentences that follow that there are in this state recalci- trants of the law. He wants the de- fyers transformed into obeyers Of the law. The plural forms of these nouns may be unusual but they are trench ant and they fit the case admirably.
 The defyers in question are two re- calcitrant railroads, and it is really up to them to say whether or no an extra session shall be held for the purpose of transposing them into obeyers. Good politics would dictate self-trans- formation in their cases rather than transformation at the hands of a firm and even obstinate legislature. The Age Herald has repeatedly asked them to become pendente lite obeyers of the law, and they now have splendid op- portunity--an opportunity that if i'm proved would commend them to the favor of the people and the good will of the officials.
 The situation is deeply interesting, and unless the recalcitrants furnish a lively chapter in the next ten days the course of events will move steadily on in accordance with the plan outlined in Governor Corners circular letter. This would mean stirring times in leg islation and in transportation, and the just as well as the unjust, the obeyers as well as the defiers, would feel alike the halter draw.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-28
OLD KING COLE.

From the Washington Herald.
 There were two originals to the hero of the jolly nursery rhyme, Old King Cole. They were legendary kings of Britain of the third gentry. Cole l pre- cedes the son of Porrex, and Cole II was succeeded by Lucius. the first convert to Christianity. A large earthwork in the city of Colchester, which is supposed to have been a Roman amphitheater, is called King Coles Kitchen" The "mer- ry, old soul'' has also been identified with Edwy brother of the Saxon King Edward surnamed Ironsldes, and who, on account of his popularity with the peasants, was called King of the Churis Other authorities have traced the merry hero to "Old King Coul," of the Scotch, who fiourshed in the fifth century and to one Thomas Cole wealthy clothier of the fifteenth con,dr' who was fond of going from ReadD- o.London and mak- ing merry. His exploits were set forth by Thomas Delony in work entitled "The Pleasant Historic of Thomas of Reading, or the Six Worthy Yoemen of the West" Coles name appears in sev- eral plays. the first of which was issued In 1902
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-28
"FUNNY MANI AND HIS WORK

La Touche Hancock in the Bohemian
 There are other humorists to be taken into consideration besides those who merely write. The comic artists nearly all evolve the fun of their illustrations out of their own brains. Sometimes they allow the head of their particular art department gives hs assistance, but in the majority of cases the jokes one sees in the daily and Sunday papers are the artists own original conception.
 F. Opper, a prominent humorist-artist of the Sunday newspapers. takes a very serious view of the situation.
 "I cannot reeall.' he says. that any particular outside or Inside incident ever suggested an idea for a Joke for me, or for any series that I have undertaken. Concentrated thought with the assistance of some of my editors, has drawn out, I may say dragged out, my jokes. May be some of my things are comic. I leave that to you, but they are by no means evolved spasmodically Tn fact, the more comic an idea is. the more serious work it requires to evolve it. This seems quite a paradox, which, however. loses its force when put into practice. It is possible the cars, in society, will suggest joke, or series of jokes. but it is not often that I strike oil in that manner"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-28
Sheriff liindcn's htport

The figures covering the first six months of the present term of the sheriff of this county are so curiously presented that it is not easy to deter mine how profitable or unprofitable the office is. Sheriff Higdon says the revenue ofsSh office in the first six months of the term was $5344, while the outgo during that time was Sll,667. But these figures do not include jail expenses." If the phrase "jail ex- penses" means the feeding of prisoners we find that the sheriff paid on that account sl3,773 in the six months, and tat he received from the county ST. 431. He lost in general revenue, in other words, in the six months $6323, and he gained from the feeding of prisoners $366S. His net loss in the 1,rst six months of his official service was therefore $2654. He has nine periods of six months each to serve, and if he goes on as he has begun he will go out of office in debt to the extent of Sl3,SS6. And it would be just like the board of revenue to re- fuse to vote him that sum in order to let him go out of office without loss.
 If Sheriff Higdon has any supple mentary or explanatory figures he does not present them. As they stand they ar very disillusionizing. and it may be difficult hereafter to get man to serve as sheriff of this county. Sheriff Higdon had no intention to put the county in a hole, but his figures seem to do it, and he clinches his figures with the Sly remark, "I have had to borrow money to pay the running ex- DC lses of the o-Fice" Jefferson county, it is plain, is not what it has been cracked up to be.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-28
The Rishon of London.

"The Right Honorable and Right Rev. Arthur Foley Wilmington Ingram, lord bishop of London, who Is now in this country, having come on the invitation of the Episcopal church to deliver the opening sermon of the general convention in Richmond next Wednesday, is one of the notable men of the Anglican church, ," said Q churchman "The adherants of the Church of England in the American col ony were under the special care of the bishop of London, hence the fitness of in Vlting Dr. Ingram to take part in the Episcopal general convention of the Uni- ter States, which now celebrates the 3oOth anniversary of the Anglican communion on this side of the Atlantic.
 "Dr. Ingram, like several of his prede- cessors in the see of London in modern times, is total abstinence man, and is a vigorous leader of the temperance move ment In his church. In England the pre- fix title of Right Hon. signifies that the person so addressed is a member of the sovereign's priyy council. The prime minister and the leading members of the cabinet are always privy councillors; likewise the archbishop of Canterburg and the archbishop of York; and many of the hereditary peers But the bishop of London is the only prelate below the archbishops who Is thus honored, the other lord bishops being styled merely Right Rev"