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The Ocala evening star., 1908-05-01

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The Ocala evening star., 1908-05-01
BEST HEALER IN THE WORLD

Rev. F. Starbird. of East Raymond,
Maine, says: IT have used Bucklen's
Arnica Salve for several years. on my
old army wound. and other obstinate
sores. and find it the best healer in
the world. I use 1t too with great sue
cess In my veterinary business" Price
25c. at all drugstores.
Connecticut western news., 1908-09-03
WHAT SHE GRAVES.

While there may be now and then married women whose desires are sat isfied if they have all the clothes they want and a modest sum of spending money, it is more then likely that the lives of a great many are unhappy and cheerless for lack of love and ap- preciation for the humdrum work Of life which so many perform uncom- plainingly. When a woman goes as q bride to the marriage altar she dedi cates her life to the happiness and welfare of her husband in q far moro complete and unreserved manner than he does to her. This Nonsideratc husband will keep in minN He has interests which properly take him abroad among his fellows. Hers keel her much at home. This he should try to make bright and attractive not only with paint and paper. but with miles. appreciation ard consideration
 n the vast majority of instances lomes are not unhappy Because Of lack of clothes. furniture or ready mo- ey. but for lack of unselfishness and sincere affection. The greatest bless ings of life Ne thus within reach o! the poorest. yet are often unrealized in the homes of the most wealthy.
Connecticut western news., 1908-09-03
A ouAck GRASS WARNING.

A reader of a central Iowa paper in which these notes appear regularly contributes to its column a very timely article touching the need of. greater precaution with a view to preventing the spread of the quack grass pest. He points out the danger, previously emphasized in these notes, of allowing the grass to seed along highways. fence rows and in vacant lots because of the possibility of a subsequent spread of the seed in the form of litter or manure to gardens and farm lands in the vicinity. He attributes the rapid spread. of the grass in his own and other localities to the careless way h which hay is made of the roadside grasses after the quack grass is headed out, the same being used on the farms of the abutting landowners or sold and fed out in other localities. He asserts that the man who would set his barn afire is a gentleman compared with one who would knowingly sell him hay containing Quack grass seed. AS re- suit of ten years experience with the pest he recommends summer fallow- ing of the land that is infested with the grass, with disking as often as any of 1t shows head above ground. a deep blowing. of the land in the fall and the growing of corn the next two years, with the cleanest and most care full cultivation possible. SEven with this method tufts of the grass are like ly to be found at the roots of the corn in the fall of the second year, when They should be dug up by hand. root and all, and burned. He estimates that the value of land thoroughly infested with quack grass is decreased one half. The danger from the source in dicated can hardly be overemphasized. Every farmer should be keenly alive to the situation
Connecticut western news., 1908-09-03
PRACTICAL FORESTRY.

Among powerful agencies which are taking up the matter of forest planting and preservation in q practical and effective manner is the Pennsylvania railroad. The demand for lumber to be used in the manufacture of freight cars. bridges, stations, etc, and for telegraph poles and railroad ties has become so great that this company, one of the most extensive in the country
 has purchased farm lands, which are used as nurseries for different varic ties of trees which are needed. The company the past spring planted owe" 600,000 trees, while its total planting to date, including this years, aggrc- gate 2,500,OOO trees. This years plant ing included 20ao00 imported seed. lings, which were placed in the com pany's nursery at Morrisyille, Pa When railroad companies, which are, as a rule, dominated by only the most mercenary consideration, take such ar interest in the subject of forestry, it ought to be a thought provoker for many a farmer who is quite likel! growing crops with indifferent success on land that during a term of years would give him as large or a better revenue per acre if set out to trees.
Connecticut western news., 1908-09-03
THE LEAK IN WEEDS.

X great benefit resulting from early stacking of the grain is that if shccn are on the place and 1t Is properly fenced they can be tusned on to the stubble and will devour and destroy no end of weeds, thus keeping them fSom maturing a big crop of seed. Where there are no sheep the same result can be attained by an early blowing of the sfubble. This will kill weeds about to seed as well as mature other weed seed in the soil. Not the least of the leaks or, the average farm is the an, nual loss sustained in the work of fighting weeds and in the toll which they take on the fertility of the soil. Hence any nefhod, by which the weed nuisance can !be 'ahate1 should be pushed vigorously and consistently.
Connecticut western news., 1908-09-03
ARE YOU LOOKING FOR THE SCHOOL

That gives every pupil square deal and tells the whole truth every timeP
 Which employs ten teachers and sharpens young people to earn a livingY
 That grows more influential every year and never had any set backss
 That gives the students individual assist ance and teaches everything correctlyy
 That fulflls every promise and does better work than 1t advertisesf
 That has first-cilss rooms, proper furniture, and where the principal takes personal interest in every pupilY
 That gives office training free from nonsenseg t. .
 That placed 2,776 graduates and students in situations in the 140 months ending July l5thS
 That lifts every pupil n bit higher than it finds him and has proven a guardian ta thousands of young people who had no friends in businessf
 About which competitors say, Hunt singers Is SO far in the lead that it stands in class by itselfy"
Connecticut western news., 1908-09-03

People often wonder, particularly those who have travelled for hundreds of miles through the corn belt, what becomes of the enormous amount of corn which is grown every year. The Crop Reporter for June seeks to an swer this query. Some of the statis- tics presented are of interest. In the year 1899, when the total crop was 2,666,000,000 bushels, 241 100000 bush els were consumed in flour and grist- mill products. s,00O,000 bushels in the manufacture of starch, 9,000,000 for malt liquors, 100000 bushels in the production of distilled liquors, 10000 900 for glucose, 190.o00,0o0 for export and 13,000.G00l for seed. making q total of 51S,000,000 bushels, or 19.3 per cent of the entire crop. The remaining S0.T per cent, or ?, S,OO0,OOO bushels, seems to have been used almost entirely for feeding purposes. It Is an interesting fact that about so perA cent of the corn crop grown, roughly the above amount, was shipped out of the coun ties in which it was grown.
Connecticut western news., 1908-09-03

The St Petersburg Academy Of Science has recently dispatched an ex- petition into a district in northern Si- beria for the purpose of excavating the remains of a mammoth which has been discovered 200 miles from the viii lage of Kasachia. The head and q part of one leg were exposed through the action of the water. and the foxes had begun to eat the flesh found ad- herring to the bones. The remains of the mammoth are to be transported over the first stages of the journey by fifty sleighs drawn by reindeer. Rus sian scientists are much interested iu the find, because the specimen now on exhibition in the museum at St. Peters burg is believed not to have reached an age of more than twenty-five years. These mammeths are thought to have lived about 100000 years ago. The re- mains of the first specimen discovered were in such a state of preservation that after being thawed. salted a.
 cooked portions of the flesh were actually eaten out of curiosity by some of the Russian scientists.
Connecticut western news., 1908-09-03
New JeWelry Store
 In Canaan

1 have established myself in the jewelry and. watch and clock re- pairing business in the Garfield Building in Canaan Cover Rhoades' barber shop and solicit share of your patronage. My stock con- sists of watch Gobs, charms and chains, gold pens, fountain pens and stylographic pens, neck chains, silverine chains, automatic eye glass holders, gold cuff buttons, gold shirt waist sets, brooches, shatelaine pins, gold hat pins, reading glasses, nickle alarm clocks "Tattoo" alarm clocks, spectacles, photograph supplies, etc.
 Repairing is my Specially.
Connecticut western news., 1908-09-03
LEGAL NOTICES
OF CANAAN ss., Pr

DISTRICT OF CANAAN ss., Probate lI Court. August 18th 1908,
 Estate of Patrick Callahan hate of Ca naan in said district, deceased.
 The Court of Probate for thefDistrict o< Canaan hath limited and hllowed six months from date hereof, for tho creditors of said Estate to exhibit their claims for settlement. Those who neglect to present their accounts, properly attested, within said time, will be debarred recovery. All persons indebted to said Estate are re- quested to make immediate payment to
 WALTER 1. KELLOGG. Administrator.
 Falls Village, Conn.
Connecticut western news., 1908-09-03

In a recent installment of these notes tansy was recommended as con. sidered effective by some in driving ants from the food cupboards While this may be true of the smaller black and red ants, 1t is not so of the large black variety which still raid the sugar box, feeding on the sugar by day and roasting on the tansy at night
Connecticut western news., 1908-09-03

Cantaloupe growers in portions of southern California report serious dam age to this years crop as a result of the devastation of the cantaloupe lice, which have killed all the vines in cer- tain sections.
Connecticut western news., 1908-09-03

Tne glrl who would '- ntL- in oeiS and graceful in carriage should rr~ member that these characteristics are usually the result of getting plenty Of sleep, breathing pure fresh air, the eating of wholesome food. but, more than all else, the taking of abundant physical exercise. It is generally agreed that for all around development there is no exercise that Is more ben eficial than housework. including sweeping washing and ironing while dishwashing will make the finger tips pink. Walking. horseback riding. swimming and rowing are all excellent forms of outdoor exercise and should be indulged in moderately whenever occasion offers. The girl who spends a good share of her time lounginx around, lying in n hammock and read Ing dime novels galore may long to bc queenly In form and bearing. but she will never realize on her expectationx-
 A farmer residing in the community in which the writer lives has reputa- ton for miles around for the uniform ly good crops which he raises. This N especially true of his corn crops. We learned the other day one of the secrets of his success. At a time when otber good farmers in the neighborhood had cultivated their fields of corn three or four times, he had gone over his seven times. He deemed this necessary this year because of frequent driving, heavy rains which packed the ground and caused 1t to bake in the sun. The ex- tra tending given this field of corn has already put 1t ahead from ten days to two weeks, which insures a sound and mature crop of corn even in case of m early killing frost. A general charse teristic of this mans management oi his farm work is that he is, as a rule forehanded with his work rather thau behind with it and having it drive him This way of doing makes work more profitable in dollars and cents as well as more satisfactory.
Connecticut western news., 1908-09-03

In times of drought the work of wa tering the garden can often be most easily done by frequent and thorough culeivations or hoeings. This keeps the surface mellow, with the result that moisture in ample quantities is pumped up from the subsoil and made available for the thirsty plants.
Connecticut western news., 1908-09-03

1t is a fair assumption that if the man enjoys and Is refreshed by drink of cool water in having time and har- vest his horses. which usually work as hard as he, take about the same view of the matter. The careful driver will see that they get a sip of water once or twice between feeds during the hot days. They will enjoy the water and work the better for 1t.
Connecticut western news., 1908-09-03
BUSINESS CARDS

]. F. HOLMAN, CANAAN, CONN.
 Boot and Shoe Repairing. x
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-10
EASTERN

President Roosevelt hotly denies
that he used federal patronage to aid
candidacy of Secretary Taft.
Republican state convention in Ohio
almost certain to indorse Taft for
presidency.
Robbers blow up bank in Arkansas
and ateal large sum of money from
safe.
thousands will attend banquet to be
given in honor of Taft tonight in Kan
sas City.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-10
SOUTHERN PACIFIC FACING FOUR THOUSAND REBATNG CHARGES
WOMAN BUILDS AN
AIRSHIP; SHE is
SURE 1T WILL FLY
Feminine Inventor Will Launch sky
Craft Soon and She Hopes to
RevoIutIonize Aerial
Travel

NEW YORK, Feb. 9.-Miss Eliza
beth L. Todd has invented an airship
which, she says, will fly. 1t has not
been tried yet, but there is going to
be launching party in week or SO,
somewhere on the Jersey meadows, and
Miss Todd says there is no doubt of
the result of the experiment.
Miss Todd, an energetic woman OF
middle age, came from Washington
twenty years ago to make her own liv-
ing. She has been housekeeper, a
stenographer and a private secretary.
For the last two years she has had an
office and living apartments in an Of
fee building at 131 West Twenty-thrd
street, on the third floor, back.
1t took her two years to complete
working models of her flying machine.
She made seven, until she hit what she
considers was the right one. From this
a ship forty-two feet wide and eight
feet high was constructed in sections
in her small room, and this will be let
loose in Jersey. The boxlike aeroplanes
are stretched along in line, on either
side of the passenger car or basket,
which swings upon an axle. and its po-
sition may be regulation by apparatus
governed by wheel.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-10
KISSES AT AUCTION
BRING GIVER THEIR
,s1 WEIGHT IN GOLD
Bank Refuses to Honor Check for Os-
cuIations and Requests That
Maker Appear in Person
to Pay

NEW YORK, Feb. 9.-When the
breach of promise suit of Mrs. Mar
garet Ives, a widow of Newark, N. j.,
against Edwin G. Koenig, an ex-wid-
over of Newark, comes up for Jersey
adjudication next spring the friends
of both litigants promise to attend IN
large numbers.
Mrs. Ives, who at the decease of her
husband was supposed to be woman
of large means, began her suit against
Koenig yesterday. She sets forth that
until 1T was known that the late Mr..
Ives had left little instead of much she
was besieged by suitors, of whom Koe-
mig was the most ardent.
Koenig, she AYERS, wrote her eighty
one interesting letters and gave her 0
check that she couldn't cash. She VIII
produce all the literature in court.
The check is on the Federal bank
and is for zone thousand Kisses" pay
able to Mrs. Ives. The check was duly
presented, it seems, and a facetious
teller wrote on the back of 1t:
Bank cannot honor. Maker Will
have to pay in person"
Mrs. Ives asserts that Koenig made
three separate proposals of marriage
to her in 1906 alone.
There is no denial that of all the as
pirants for Mrs. Ives hand Koenig
lasted the longest. When all save he
had fled he still pressed his suit with
perfervid earnestness = according to
Mrs. Ives. But, alas, he married an
other woman and now Mrs. Ives de-
nands $4,000 damages.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-10
WARSHIPS IN
BATTLE WITH
GREAT TS7ORM
FLEET FIGHTS WAY THROUGH
STRAITS
Squadron Spread Out Over Consider
able Distance, Owing to Winds
and High Seas-Chi!ean
Cruiser Leads

By Associated Press.
PUNTA ARENAS, Straits of Magel-
Ian, Feb. 9.-The Pacific Navigation
steamer Orita. which arrived here this
morning, reports having passed the
American fleet in the strait at 6 O'Clock
last evening, twelve miles east of Cape
Pillar. The Chilean cruiser Chacabusco
was leading. The weather was very
stormy.
The captain of the Orita said that he
sighted nineteen vessels in the fleet,
these being the sixteen American bat
tleships, the Chilean cruiser and two
others, possible Golfers. He did not
sight the American torpedo boat flo5
tilla, which accompanied the battle
ships from this port, but which turned
north at Smyth channel, thirty miles
from the western end of Magellan
strait, to proceed through this passage
to Telchahuano.
Owing to the heavy weather the
warships were spread out over a con-
siderable stretch, but all seemed to be
making splendid progress in the face
of the strong winds.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-10
DEATH OF INFANT
CAUSED BY POISON
Some One Supposed to Have Delib-
erately Poisoned Baby with Car
boIic Acid During Absence
of Parents

BY Associated Press.
STOCKTON, Feb. 9.-The six weeks
old son of Mr.. and Mrs. j. f. Peters
of this city died early this morning as
result, the police believe, of the de-
liberate administration of carbolic
acid Yesterday afternoon. Mr.. and Mrs.
Peters had gone to the country to
view a home which Mr.. Peters is con-
structing. The baby was left in charge
of Mrs. Little and the only other per-
son in the house was the cook, Mrs.
White, and her 14-year-old daughter
Florence. The latter, IL is said, has
been sufferer from epilepsy. All
stoutly deny guilt, but the authorities
think 1t impossible that the infant
could have obtained the poison ltset
Mr.. Peters and Mrs. White quarreled
Yesterday before members of the house
hold because, it is said, Mrs. White
refused to cook for the nurse, who was
Obliged to get her own meals on occa-
sions.
The district attorney states that
though he has been investigating the
case all day. he has been unable to
bring the crime to any one as yet, ana
will investigate further There have
been no arrests and there will be no
inquest, the physicians who attended
the infant in it's last hours being fully
satisfied as to the cause of death.
The circumstances of the child
death have been the main topic of con-
versation and many theories have been
advanced as to the guilty parties and
the motive for the crime.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-10
SPANISH ROYALTY
SUES FOR PENSIONS
Question of Making Annual Allowance
for Infant Alfonso, Son of Carlos =
of Bourbon, Approved by
Council
r.. Associated Press.

~ Associated Pfess.
MADRID, Feb. 9.-The question of al
lotting pension of $50. 900 pesetas to the
infant Alfonso, son of Don Carlos
of Bourbon and the prince of Asturias,
of Orleans, has received the approval of
the council of state, and now goes be-
fore the cortes.
The question has raised many COM
plications, not the least interesting of
which are suits for similar allowances
Alfonso XII by Elena SAM, a former
well known actress and natural cou-
sin of the king named Carlos Allen
Perkins, a second rate but popular
actor in the music halls of the capital.
Perkins claim goes back to his great
grandmother the famous Infanta Car
lotta, who provoked the Carlist war by
obIiging Ferdinand VII to admit the
principle of the Salic law. 1t was she
who slapped the face of Calomarde, the
premier, and drew from him the his
toric letort:
What hands are not offensive?"
Perkins birth is not recorded in
Gotha, but he insists that his real name
is Don Francisco Carlos Pho Rose AL
fonso Luis Fernando Allen Perkins
Guerowsky Bourbon Lutheran Hossen
Drichma Vrichina Ottendorf and conse-
quently a blood relation of most of the
reigning sovereigns of Europe.
The suit of the heirs of Elena Sanz
for recognition as natural children of
Alfonso XII is now in progress.
Mel Quadres Alvarez, republican
deputy, is the lawyer for the plaintiffs.
Among the witnesses are some of the
grandees of Spain, Marquis d'Altaville,
duke of Sesto and marquis of Borga,
who was master of the royal palace
during the late kings reign.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-10
MOTORISTS READY FOR
10000 MILE JOURNEY
Last Details of Race from New York
to Paris Arranged-Four Ma
tlons to Be Repre-
sented
BY Associated Press.


NEW YORK, Feb. 9.-The last de-
tails of the start of the New York
Paris automobile race next "Wednesday
morning were arranged today. Six
teams are to be sent away in this con-
test Four nations are to be repre-
sented, and this fact. in addition to the
territory to be traversed, will give a
world wide interest in the race.
Three French crews, one German,
one italian and one American will
make the start next wednesday when
word to go is given by Mayor George
b. Mcclellan of New YORK. The place
of the start is at Times square, in the
heart of the city, and the first stage
of the long journey leads up Broadway
and Riverside drive to the city limits.
Two hundred or more automobiles are
expected to accompany the racing cars
as far as Yonkers.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-10
GUNBOAT WILL BE SENT TO
WEST COAST OF AMERICA
BY Associated Press.

by ASSoclsteu Treas.
the unsettled conditions on the wes-
tern coast of South America, the navy
will withdraw the gunboat Yorktown
now at Acapulco, and that vessel will
proceed to Magdalena Bay for target
practice.
The commander of the cruiser Albany
now also at Acapulco on the way to
Magdalena bay, has reported the ex-
istence of forty-three cases of small
pox at Acapulco.
The torpedo boat destroyer fleet is
scheduled to stop at Acapulco on Marcn
2S' on the voyage to Magdalena bay,
where coal and supplies will be taken
aboard. The prevalence of smallpox
at Acapulco win not interfere with that
program.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-10
ROBBERS BLOW UP BANK,
STEAL $500, ESCAPE
Daring Thieves Enter Small Town in
Arkansas, Get Money and Ride
Away Before Officers
Arrive


BY Associated Press.
JOPLIN, Mo-, Feb. 9.-Four men
early this morning blew open the vault
of the Bank of Sulphur Springs, Ark,
and secured over $500 in cash, besides
notes and other valuables.
The citizens of Sulphur Springs were
aroused by two explosions. but by
the time the officers reached the down
town district the work of the thieves
had been completed, and four men
were seen to mount their horses and
ride westward, In which direction the
mountains are Allied with many gorges.
and it is believed the men have made
their escape,
The bank building is badly wrecked
and the vault is totally destroyed.