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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-04-18
abe Cola. Chronicle
SATURDAY, APRIL Is, 1908.
The COwpea-f'Od W.evil, an Eu-
envy to Young CoGtOn.

The Cowpea-Pod W.evil, an Eu-
envy to Young CoGtOn.
The time has now arrived when
the Young cotton plants will be
subject to the attack of a number
of insects.
While the boil weevil is the ene-
my most to be feared after the cot
ton has reached the fruitiug stage,
the one likely 10 do most damage
to the cotton just as it appears
above ground, and shortly after
wards, is the cowpea-pod weevil.
For several seasons past these
weevils have been abundant during
April and May and there is no rea-
son for believing that they will be
less numerous this spring than
heretofore. The following infor-
nation concerning this pest, and
the suggestions for avoiding it's ill.,
jury, are therefore not amiss at the
present time.
The cowpea-pod weevil is a small
black beetle, about the same size
as the boil weevil. The appear
ance of the cowpea-pod weevil up
on young cotton plants during
April and May often causes great
alarm to farmers who mistake j.
for the boil weevil, and as it some
times feeds upon the cotton quite
voraciously for a few days, is a
pest of some little consequence
when exceptionally abundant
The natural and favorite host
plant of the cowpea-pod weevil is
the cowpea, and when cowpeas are
available it does not attack cotton.
The eggs of this insect are deposit
ed in the pods of cowpeas aud the
little grubs Matching from these
eggs develop inside the pods,
emerging in late summer as adults.
The winter is passed by the adult
cowpea-pod weevils, alternating in
much the same manner as does the
boil weevil. In spring these adult
cowpea-pod weevils leave their
winter quarters before cowpeas
have come up, and, needing snbsls-
lance until their favorite food plant
is provided by the farmer, turn
their attention to the tender young
cotton plants, eating into the leaves
aud stems. Their favorite poiu,
for attacking the small cotton plants
appears usually 10 be the main stem
Just where the leaves branch off.
A hole eaten into the stem at this
point of course soon causes the
plant to wilt and die down.
Treatment of the cotton plants
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-04-18
The WORLD
Takes off It's Hat to the Tyler CONNER.
cidl College, of Tyler,
Texas.


The world loves winner This
school won over all other CONNER
cial schools in making the largest
enrolment for day students for 1907.
1t is sure to win the same honor
again In 1898 If the present large at
tendance Is any Indication
The Tyler Commercial College was
the first school tOreduce the time for
completing a thorough practical
course of shorthand from six to eight
months down to three; 1t was the
first to reduce the time for taking a
bookkeeping course from six to four.
notwithstanding the fact that 1t
adds "a thorough course Of business
training to IL. 1t was also the first
to reduce the time Of combined
course OF bookkeeping aud shorthand
from ten months and a year to five
months. Other schopls now are loud
In theirclninls that they can do what
the Tyler Commemorate oIlege Is doing.
| the same systems and opportunities
ia offer. What folly! They are SIM
ply wanting tn ride I'm our wagon
of progress. II they have the same
systems. the same me thods and could
offer You the same Inducements, why
do not some Of them enjoy the honor
III being the largest commercials school
IN America, they are much older than
! we?
A prominent travelling man, who
has been travelling over Texas for the
past II years. remarked tina his busi-
ness put him In touch with the bust
ness Offices in the various cities
throughout the State, and that II
was his experience that y out Of
every 10 bookkeepers and stenogra-
pliers he met were from Tyler Com
mercial College. There IL but one
Tyler Commercial College; IT, IL locat-
ed at Tyler. Texas. and when other
schools tell you they can offer you
the same systems. the same methods
and advantages as-this school IL Of
feriug, yon can put 1t down right
then and there they are trying to de-
ccive yun. We own and control the
, copyrights III the famous Byrne Sim
plitied Shorthand ands Practical
Bookkeeping and Business training.
and allow no other school in the
Sunth .ru States to teach them, &c
how eau they have tbese most mod.
ern and wonderful systems?
When We first introduced these sys.
TENS and modern methods, many ol
our competitors were advertising
that we could not make good, Oul
systems would not du; now they
have turned right around and claim
they have the very same thing. They
are just as far wrong now as they
were before. Write for our ca dialogue
and be convinced of our superior sys-
tems and methods. Every state
ment made in our catalogue Is back.
ed 10y $40 cash guarantee.
Tear out and mail: Send me cata-
logue. Name.......................
Address................
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-04-18

with Paris Green or other arsenical
poison would he of doubtful effici-
ency as the insect, after tearing off
the surface tissue, feeds on the in
ner portion of the stems where pol
son could not be made to reach.
Fortunately, expensive treat
ments involving all outlay for poi
sons and labor, are entirely unnec-
essary, for the farmer can save n
good stand of cotton, despite the
attacks of these insects, by judici-
GUS management of the "chopping'
The attacks of the cowpea- pod
weeviI are not long continued and
it is very raae indeed that they
destroy over one-half of the plants.
Chopping of the cotton should be
delayed until the bulk of the dam
age is over, or as nearly to that time
as circumstances will permit, and
SO while the insects are at work,
their injury will be distributed
among the greater number of
plants. After the extent of the
damage is ascertained the chop
ping can be done aud enough heal
thy plants will by that time have
escaped the insects to permit a
good stand being left. If cotton
be chopped out when the insects
are actively at work on the cotton,
their attack would be concentrated
upon the few plants left and much
danger would thus be incurred of
the entire stand being destroyed.
When cowpeas appear above
ground the cowpea-pod weevils
leave the cotton and turn their at
tention to the cowpeas, where they
remain for the balance of the sum-
mer Although it is not impossi-
BILE that this wervil may in future
years increase to such an extent as
to be serious enemy of cowpeas,
its injury to the cowpea crop thus
far has consisted mainly in reduc-
ing the yield of seed; the yield of
hay and forage has not been ma
terially affected.
During midsummer a few cow
pea-pod weevils are occasionally
found on the cotton plants, and
doubtless they now and then pune
ture n boil or square for feeding
purposes, but several years obser-
vatons have failed to reveal a sim
gle case in which they deposited
eggs in the squares or hollis; injury
If any consequences by them to the
fruiting cotton need not be feared.
The cowpea-pod weevil, being
so nearly the same size Ms the boil
weevil, is often mistaken for the
latter. The cowpea-pod weevil is
shorter and more robust in form
than the boil weevil. The body of
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-04-18

just received a spring line of Kant
bebeat clothing. J. W. Duncan Go.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1908-08-26

arc compelled to say to the Church
that our treasury is absolutely empty,
with $4,000 due the men on the
firing line at the close of the quarter.
Has the committee been less prudent
in its economical management of it's
great trust? BY no means The ex-
PLANTATION is very simple and significant.
Just as the necessity for enlargement
arose, several splendid legacies came
to us in the providence of God. By
their means, we have been able recently
to meet demands far in excess of our
receipts. These legacies cannot last
forever. Now the needs of this en-
larged and increasing work press and
Cypress us. We have never been
alarmists. We nave never used high
p1 essure methods, nor made appeals, ex-
cept in the months of September and
January assigned to us by the General
Assembly for our work. We now make
this appeal to the Church for recogni-
ton of its own and most successful
work. Will the ministry, who largely
control the situation, give us their
hearty support and cooperation? Will
the whole Church meet heroically the
situation and make a response worthy
of her work, of herself, and of her
Master?
S. L. MORRIS,
HOMER MCMILLAN,
Secretaries.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1908-08-26
LEXINGTON PRESBYTERY.

The Presbytery of Lexington met on
the call of the moderator in the par
1ors of the First PRESBYTERIAN church
in Stanton August 18th There were
present five ministers and two ruling
elders. A quorum being present, the
following business was transacted:
The pastoral relations between the
Philippi and Belington churches, in
West Virginia, and Rev. A. w. Wood
were dissolved, and call from Oxford
church, in Rockbridge county, was
placed in his hands and accepted by
him. Mr.. Wood takes charge of Ok
ford in October.
The pastoral relations between Rev.
b. M. Mebane, Phi. D.. and Golfers
town church we're dissolved, and Mr..
Mebane was given permission to labor
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1908-08-26
S. L. MORRIS,
HOMER MCMILLAN,
Secretaries.
SEPTEMBER SUPPLIES.

The Executive Committee of Home
Missions is prepared to furnish envel-
opes, leaflets, circulars, and everything
needed to assist pastors and sessions in
laying information in regard to Home
Missions before the people for infu
eEcing the response to the collection in
behalf of Home Missions.
1t has been our custom in the past
to send these supplies to all of our
pastors But we have learned by ex-
pcrience that many pastors are, at this
season, on their vacation, and cOnse-
quently these supplies are not ordi-
narily received in time for use. For
this reason we now send only to those
among our list who have requested reg
ular supplies. In addition to this, we
hereby notify all parties that we will
cheerfully and promptly fill all orders
and furnish these supplies free.
Please order in abundant time, so
there will be no danger of failure to
secure them in time. Besides these
circulars we have tracts and pamphlets
on all the various phases of Home Mis-
sions, which will be sent, if the breth-
rem will let us know exactly the nature
of their wants.
S. L. MORRIS.
HOMER MCMILLAN,
Secretaries.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1908-08-26

outside the bounds of the Presbytery.
He goes to Florida this fall
Calls from Union and Loeb Willow
churches, in Augusta county, for the
pastoral service of Rev. Mr.. Johnson,
of Academy, in GreeMbrier Presbytery,
we're found in order, and permission
granted to those churches to prose-
cute these calls before Greenbrier Pres
bytery.
The request of Rev H. G. Richard
sor for the dissolution of his pastoral
relation with the Clarksburg, W. Va,
church, and to dismiss him to the Pres
bytery of Maryland could not be taken
up, as there were no papers bearing
on the matter before the Presbytery.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1908-08-26
S. L. MORRIS.
HOMER MCMILLAN,
Secretaries.
THE -ASSEMBLY'S COLLECTION FOR
SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES.

The General Assembly has ordered
two annual collections for schools and
colleges, one to be taken on the third
Sabbath in September and the other on
the third Sabbath in March. The col
lection in March is distributed by
the Synods and Presbyteries and is used
to aid schools and colleges to meet
their running expenses. We need not
speak further of the March collection
now.
The object of this leafet is to ex-
plein the purpose Of the September col
lection. What does the General Assem-
bly, propose for the Executive Commit
tee on schools and colleges to do with
the money which is contributed for thls
cause on the third Sabbath in Septem-
Der? We answer by naming two very
specific things.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1908-08-26
WEST HANOVER PREsBYTERY.

WEST HANOVER PRESBYTERY.
West Hanover Presbytery met at
Browns church, Cumberland county,
August 18th, at II o'clock A. M. There
were only five ministers present and
eleven elders out of a possible forty
four. Those absent missed a most
enjoyable meeting of Presbytery among
the most hospitable people of Cum
berland, where old-time Virginia hos
p1tality still abounds. Rev. G. M. Rar-
rell preached the opening sermon. and
Rev. w. j. King, of College church
was chosen moderator, and Rev. H. TT
hudson clerk. Rev. J. A. Christian
was received from the Presbytery of
East Hanover and examined for ordi-
nation, and order taken for his instal1a-
ton at the Scottsville group of
churches. Mr. H. w. Shannon, a can
uldate, was received from Kings Noun
tam Presbytery and licensed Revs.
3. K. Winn, d. D., M B. Porter. both
of East Hanover Presbyterv. and n
Booker, of Lexington Presbytery, were
present as corresponding members.
A commission consisting of Revs
John II. Davis, H. H. Hudson, J. G.
Fa1nter, and Elders r. p. Valentine and
O. e. Harris, were appointed to visit
the Amherst field and investigate mat
ters in that field
The Rev. NJ B. Porter was heard
in behalf of the Bible cause.
The Rev. Boiling Hobson made a
touching appeal for the Orphans
Home at Lynchburg, and collection of
$4,000 was taken up.
The Rev. w. J. King preached the
presbyteria1 Sermon on Infant Bap-
tism and Church Membership"
The Rev. J. e. Booker was heard
on Synod's Home Mission work.
Elder G. B. Stevens, of the Char
1ottesville church, was heard with much
interest in behalf of the Laymen's
Movement
In connection with Presbytery,
Sundayschool institute was held, and
the Rev. M. B. Porter, Rev. John H.
Davis, G. B. Stephens and others were
heard
Presbytery adjourned Thursday af-
ternoon, and on Friday morning the
Ladies Missionary Union of West Han
over Presbytery met, and was adj
dressed by Rev. j. G.. Painter on Home
Missions, and was followed by DIR.
James Woods, of the China Mission,
who gave a most interesting account of
the famine relief work in China, and
the afternoon on medical mission work
in that country.
Gordonsville place of next stated
meeting, and adjourned meeting at
'Scottsville October 1 9th, at 1880 P. M.
!. G. PAINTER. S. G.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1908-08-26
WHAT THE SEPTEMBER COLLEC-
TON INVOLVES.

TION INVOLVES.
There never was more urgent need
of liberal response to the Assemblies
appeal for its aggressive mission work
than during the present month.
The wide-open doors in the growing
West, the promising fields inviting Gull
tlvat1on, the increasing number of un-
churched and unreached multitudes in
our own midst, and the consequent
necessity for charging the work, con-
strained the recent General Assembly
to set the standard of liberality at one
dollar per member as the least amount
adequate to meet the demands of our
work. Will the whole Church hear
this call and meet this crying need
for the enlargement of its own borders?
The success of the past few years chal-
lenges still greater effort. The Exec
utive Committee has been compelled
to enlarge it's operations. few years
ago Oklahoma contained only seven
ministers and twenty-One churches. 1t
was impossible for us to stand still
without losing our hold on that rapidly
developing and promising section. The
needs and new openings compelled us
to attempt to occupy as many new
fields as possible. AS the outcome, we
now have on our hands and on our roll
the new Synod of Oklahoma, with it's
thirty-Seven ministers and sixty-seven
churches. Not only must they be sus-
tanned, but the constant call which
comes from the field is "Advance!' 1t
impossible to halt without being re-
creant to our trust.
The money spent on Texas has been
like bread cast upon the waters. 1t
is returning to us multiplied an hun
b 6IG0-fOl6
nent it has BEEN AS the result, Texas
is to-day the third Synod in strength
in our Church, having passed all except
North Carolina and Virginia. It's con-
tlibutions to Foreign Missions alone
more than paid for the outlay of funds
i'll Texas. 1t will pay dividends in
definitely.
VIII this call from the West never
cease? Not in the near future-not
while million of our people are
moving annually to the West; not while
we are reaching such numbers of Next
cans in Texas that we have just been
compelled to organize the Texas
Mexican Presbytery; not while hum
dreds of new towns are springing into
existence with each rolling season; not
while the East is contributing her sons
and her daughters, the very flower of
our Church, to the West The Church
cannot give her children to the West,
and then withhold from them the
means of grace.
All of this is very perplexing to our
Executive Committee o. Home Mis-
sions, when, with these calls and op-
portunities confronting us, we are
facing debt for the first time since the
present administration began, seven
years ago. 1t is the first time that we
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-03-27
Out of SIuht.

Washington Star: Philetus NJ. Hell
fer has established a college among the
prisoners at Auburn, N. Y, the faculty
being composed OF convicts, who are
graduates Of oxford. Harvard, Yale
n other great universities.
Discussing his odd college scheme re-
centlv Mr.. Heller said:
but anything is good for convicts
that interests. cheers and encourages
nag at them, and you rouse the latent
evil in them ever as it was reused the
other day in a frail and beautiful New
York typewriter girl.
This refined creature worked for a
rather cranky old broker. The broker
found a good lea of unjust fault with
her, but she was gentle and patient.
and put up with him in silence.
"One morning, however, he turned
up in a quite insupportabTe humor.
Look at my desk!' he roared. All
in disorder All in confusion! All
But, sir the young girl interrupted
mildly, you have often told me never
to touch your desk
We'll, / dot want you to disturb
my papers he admitted. And then his
eye caught a sheet of postage stamps.
But look at these stamps. / don't want
them here he shouted.
"She took up the stamps.
Where shall l put them, sir?' she
said.
"'Ah.' he snarled, put 'em anywhere
anywhere out of sight
'She flushed.
VERY well, sir she said Jelly; and.
giving the stamps a quick lick with her
pretty tongue, h stuck tie big sheet
on his bald head and departed to Took
for another job"
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-03-27
WOULDN'T YOU LIKE
TO OWN THESE PETS
Naturalist in Hamburg Has a
Brood Of Young Pythons,
First Born in Captivity.

Most people know That vipers bring
forth their young alive n that the
common English grass snake deposits
it's eggs to be Matched by the heat or
d~ecaying matter. Some OF the great
constructing snakes. however, exercise
a cert,in amount of care over their
eggs, gathering them in a heap and
%coiling around them till the young
make their way out or are helped into
the world by the kindly Offices of the
keepers who break away h hardened
shell.
A case of this kind occurred with rhf
Indian python in the Tower menageric
In the early part of he last century.
and Others are on record at the Jardin
des Plantes in Paris, the Regents Park
gardens and at a later date in those
at L.eipsic. An incubation which has
been unusually successful is just re-
cord from the Tierpark of Herr August
Fockelmann at Gross-Borstel, near
Hamburg.
In August last he bought a large
reticulated python from a sailor trad
ing to the East. Within a month she
began to lay eggs. and when n was
examined it was found to contain a
partly developed embryo. AS time went
on Others were opened, and in this way
the proprietor obtained a series of
specimens of young in different stages
of development. The mother python
paid the greatest attention TO her eggs,
leaving them only at night, when she
went tor a time into the bath.
The general results appear to be far
better than have hitherto been OBJ
tanned. At Regents park. though it
was found that the eggs had been fer
tilted, no living were produced. AT
Gross-Borstel twenty-seven young py-
thons came out, and their owner de-
scribed them as very lively little rep
tiles, with much the appearance Of
common grass snakes, measuring from
% inches to 80 inches In length inc
biting readily at anything offered to
them with sufficient force to make an
impression on ones finger.
On November 20 they took food for
the first time-white mice of a pretty
good size. All appear 10 be in the best
possible condition and should they
reach maturity the act Of their having
been Matched in confinement will no
doubt enhance their value considerably.
for this appears to be the first instance
in which this particular species has so
bred.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-03-27
An unappreciative Son.

San francisco Chronicle: Just after
his election as Governor Of Massy-
2huSetts," says Representative Mccall,
Mr.. Crane sent his son Robert TO at
tend a military school In New TOrk
Th" lounges Crane. bv reason of his
manly ways and modest disposition,
soon made himself solid with the facul-
ty. There was an oral examination one
day. during the course Of which young
Crane was asked to give the name OF
The governor of Massachusetts. After
A moments hesitation Robert replied.
II don't know, sir
Amazed at this unexpected answer.
The teacher exclaimed:
e What, You don't know who Is the
governor of your own state? Reflect.
my boy
. Very sorry. sir, said the boy quiet
~. but | really don't know
why Robert cried the Instructor.
'duu't you know hat your father is
the governor of Massachusetts,
oh, come TO think of it, responded
the y~oungester, I believe he did tell
me something OF the sort; but I didn't
take much stock in l.. I thought he
WAS iOShing me-
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-03-27
Married 100 Years.

A worlds record has just been created
by the celebration in the little village OF
I~sonbolgi, Hungary of the anniversary
Of a wedding which occurred just 100 years
ago. All Hungary is interested, and the
emperor has asked the authorities to for
ward TO him official particulars, so tina he
can personally congratulate the couple.
The long welded couple are named SZath-
mari. The husband is 100 years old and the
wife 116. They have hundreds of descend
ants in and around the village. A score
of years ago there was a celebration in
honor OF the mans Tooth birthday, and APP
plication was made to the Hungarian gov
ernmen for a pension. 1t was granted
after the records Of the village had been
examined and the mans age verified. Four
years later the woman also was granted
a pension. The old people live in a modest
cottage, and are we'll looked after by rela-
tives. They are nearly blind and deaf, and
sleep nearly all the time. The man, how
ever, still enjoys his pipe and glass OF
wine. and neither is bedridden. 1t is a
strange fact that in all their years they
have never left the village, and know
nothing of the great world outside OF
~Isonbolgi. They were both born there.
INC have lived continuously a quiet and
peaceful life. The celebration OF their Tooth
wedding day was participated in by the
entire village, which Is proud Of having
established, without any doubt, a worlds
record.