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The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-08-07
40 IMPRovE WATERMELoNs.


To improve watermelons the plan
adopted by Mr.. Swink- perhaps the
most famous of any of our Western
melon growers-if not new is certain
~ conmendable, and will no doubt be
suggestive to those who grow melons,
no matter whether the number be
large or small. a
When picking in the field, at any
time during the season, Mr.. Swink
keeps a watchful eye upon the melons
ms they are gathered, and when a
fine specimen Of his ideal melon is
taken It is marked with by cross on
the skin; and when sent in,-with the
load 1t is laid aside and the seed
taken from it is, the following year,
planted in separate patch from the
regular market field. This is his seed
patch, and when the melons In this
patch are matured they are all used
for seeds which are to be planted in
the market field. This seed patch is
planted each year in new piece Of
lRnd.-W Weekly Witness.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-08-07
Tribute to the Apple.


How pleasing to the touch! love
to stroke it's polished rondure with my
hand, to carry it in my pocket in my
tramp over the winter hills, or through
the early spring woods. You are COM
pany, you red-cheeked spitz or you
saImon-feshed greening! You are so.
alive. You glow like a rudy flower.
You look so animated almost ex-
pect to see you move! l postpone eat
ing you, you are SO beautiful! How
compact. How exuuisitely tinted.
Stained by the sun and vanished
against the rains. An Independent
vegetable existence, alive and vascu-
lar as my own flesh; capable of being
wounded, bleeding, washing away, or
almost repairing damages. john Bur.
roughs.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-08-07
GETTING Even with Fra EIbertus.

Gilbert Hubbard says he was near
ing the end of lecture before one
thousand attentive inmates of a state
insane asylum, when an old woman
came screaming down the aisle, wav-
ing her arms frantically.
MY God! | can't stand this non.
sense any Longer" M
THAT, said the superintendent to
Mr.. Hubbard. as the first sign she
has shown of returning sanity
Success.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-08-07
LET US HOPE so.

William" she said, means good,
james means beloved, l wonder /"
A flush mantled her cheek.
II wonder she softly murmured,
what George means?"
George means business, I hope"
said mother, looking up from the East
er wedding announcements in the
evening OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Bulle
tin.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-08-07
KEEP YOUR SKIN HEALTHY.

TErTER1NE has done wonders for suffer-
erg from eczema, letter, ground itch, cry
sipelas, infant sore head, chaps, chafes and
other forms of skin diseases. In aggravat-
ed cases OF eczema its cures have been mar
velous and thousands Of people sing it's
praises. SOC. at druggists or by mail from
j, T. SHUPTR1NE, Dept. A, Savannah, Ga.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-08-07
A Question Of Faith.

EFF de Bible said dat it wuz rat
tlesnake dat swallered Jonah, I'd be-
lieve it," said the old colored deacon,
but. thank de Lawd dey wuz no rat
tlesnakes in dat day!"-Atlanta Con
stitution.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-08-07
NTonis1n.

Monfsm is the doctrine of the one
ness Of all things. Mind and matter,
God and the creation are one and the
same thing. There is no supernatu-
Eal. "All are but parts of one stu.
pendous whole" the various phenom-
Ana being merely incidental to the
great unity. - &-
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-08-07
BOYS FOR THE BEEF INDUSTRY

BOYS FOR THE BEEF INDUSTRY.
Dairying is no easy task and re-
quires considerable labor at best. A
great many boys on the farm have no
taste for the work. Such boys seldom
prove to be good dairy farmers. They
would probably find beef stock-rais-
ing and fattening to be more con-
genial and under favorable conditions
as profitable. Weekly Wkness.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-08-07
M Farm Topics. H l{l
SHOEING DIE MULE.

The mules hoof, being smaller and
tougher than that Of the average
horse, does not need shooting unless
worked on hard roads great deal.
1t lis better not to have them shod 1T
confined to work on the farm, unless
used to haul heavy loads on frozen
ground.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-08-07

Government experts are investigating
seaweHd with the object of determin-
ing its economic value. ag
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-08-07
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The fish candles of Alaska are being
sent over the world in quantities as
curiosities.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-08-07

A word to the wise is sufficient
if he is paying for it at his end Of the
telephone.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-08-07

John R. Dickey's old reliable eye water
cures sore eyes or graduated lids. Don't
hurt, feels good; get the genuine In red box
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-08-07

Asphaltic layers have been found In
Syria, near Kfcrie, village about
rs miles northeast of the port Of Lat
aka, along the road leading toward
Aleppo, which have been declared by
competent mining engineers to be not
only rich in asphalt. but also practical
ly inexhaustible. ss
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-08-07

A screen for electrocuting flies IS
easily made and offers source OF
much amusement. A device of this de-
scription was made by a Chicago man
and was found to work admirably. The
screen was made with the wires run
ming in one direction connected to one
terminal of a small dynamo and the
cross wires connected to the other ter
minad. The two sets of wires were in
sulated from each other. AS soon as
the legs of the fly came in contact
with the wires of the screen the in
sect stiffens out and dies instantly
and painlessly.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-08-07

Don't be kicker; but if you must
kick make it swift and sure.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-08-07

Hicks Capudine Cures Nervousness.
Whether tired out, worried, overworked, Or
what not It ol re5re aas The, the brain and
lOc., DC, and 5Oc., at drug stores. -S'
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-08-07
ALL RUN DOWN.
Miss Della SfyOe5e, svA0 had com.
1letslyI L0st Heys lzsalkss loNnd
Rekef1yOm Ps-y.-sra at once.
Read W1Hat She Saws.

MISS DELLA STROEBE 40 Rich
1VA nond St., Appleton, Wis, writes:
"For several years I was in run
down condition, and J could find no IL.
lief from doctors and medicines.
could not enjoy my meals, and could
not sleep at night. I had heavy, dark
circles about the eyes.
"My friends were much alarmed.
was advised to give Peruna trial, and
to my Joy I'began to improve with the
first bottle. After taking six bottles I
felt completely cured. I cannot say too
much for Peruna as a medicine for
women in run- doyn condition"
Pe-TU-ra Did Wonders.
Mrs. Judge J. r. Boyer, 1921 Sherman
Ave-, Evanston, Ill, says, that she be-
came run down, could neither eat nor
sleep well, and lost flesh and spirit. Pc
runa did wonders for her, and she thanks
Peruna for new life and strength.
Lots of people look thoughtful
then let it go at that.
Hicks Capudine Cures Nervousness.
Whether tired out, worried, overworIed a.
what not. 1t refreshes the brain and
TGJ- IL. "AA1e
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-08-07

Prof. Carl Won Noorden, addressing
numbers OF prominent scientists at VII
emma on the subject OF Food and Nour-
ishment," declared that the reason SO
many men begin to get fat immediate
ly after they have married is because
their wives give them their favorite
dishes on every possible occasion.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-08-07
Pe-ru-na Did Wonders.

Lots of people look thoughtfuI-
then let it go at that.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-08-07

Prof. George P. Merrill, head Of the
department. of geology Of the United
States national museum, has gone to
Butte, Mont, to be present at num-
Der of deep borings to be made in
Canyon Diabolo crater, the cause OF
which has been a puzzle to biologists
ever since it was brought to their at
ton. Some men of science believe the
depression to be an extinct volcano and
others to be the record of the impact OF
a huge meteor which struck the earth
centuries ago.
New-York tribune., 1908-03-23
CHARLES H. KEEP CHOSEN
Succeeds Il. Foster Higgins as Pres.
ident of KmckerbOcker Trust

The voting trustees or the knckerbocker Trust
Company-Henry c. Frick, Myron T Herrick and
Lewis Cass Ledyard-announced yesterday that
Charles Hallam Keep. formerly State Supern-
the reoabili-ated company succeed A Foster
Higgins. resigned. Nh. Higgins chosen presi-
dent TO succeed Charles T. Barney the night before
the company closed its doors October.
Ii was also announced that the board OF di-
rectors- which formerly consisted of thirty-one
members had beer reduced TO fifteen Two mem
oers of the old knickerbocker drectorate-Mr Bar
ney and Leopold Wallacf-have died since the COM
panF has been in the hands of the three temporary
receivers All The other members resigned subject
10 the action Of the three voting trustees and In
accordance With he plan fer the resumption of
business
tanned five follows: Frederick G. Bourne G.
Louis Boissevain, Charles F Hoffman William A
1cEer and Payne Whitney These men are all
large deposit7rs and We're no; connected with rba
former mana agement
or me ten remaining places on the hoard tho
7 'US'eeS decided 10 men who had
"eeh identified with the Knickerbocl,er
IFust company in any way To date seven or
e ne" directors have been named and have
consented TO serve. and the aecen-arcas % .to
laliliIlS taree are expected to-day The new direc
are FRANKLIN - Brown, Of II. 5. Redmond &
o. bankers; Dumont Clarke. president of the Amer
lean Exchange National Bank; Edward Fl Clark
manager of the Hearst estate: 7 Horace tI..t
OF ( d Barney & Co. bankers: Charles H Keen
TIC ne" president Of the company: Hinsdiu Par
sons Nlce-president of the General Electric Com,
pahy' Herbert l. Satterlee OF Ward HAYDEN g.
Satterlee, lawyers
Justice Clarke has announced that he will dis
elarse The three temporary receivers-Ernst
iHaIh1ann George L. Fiives and Henry G Ide-
.o-"orro"' and the company viii open its doors
Tor business on Thursday after suspension of
FIVE months
Ar- Keep is graduate Of Harvard University
80 80 u o., and OF the Harvard Law School. After
nelns admitted TO the bar New York State in
Fie county ne practised Ia in the city of Buffalo
IN IsVS ne was appointed Assistant Secretary Of
'le treasury. where he remained until January
Iso'. when he was appointed Superintendent Of the
aA1Iis department Of the State OF New York bv
Governor Hughes. In June of last year he was
transferred by Governor Hughes to the Prblic
service commission for the I'd District of New
iorh OF which he is d member
""ie ASSISTANT Secretary of the Trea slIry Mr.
heep was appointed by President Roosevelt as
CHAIRMAN OF the so-called Keep Commission to
improve the business methods OF the executive
departments. This commission revised TO a con-
siderable extent the methods Of doing business in
'ie departments OF the government at Washington
New-York tribune., 1908-03-23
POLICY OF p. s. BO4RD.
StOcL and Bond Issue I4IIOzced. De-
spite alleged Overcapitali=ation.
IBy Telegraph to The Tribune. ]

Albany March 2o-The Public Service Commits
! sion Of the I'd District has decided TO grant the
application the Watertown Light and Power
/ Company for a stock bond issue. although the
Mayor and city attorney of Watertown contended
that under order OF the old State Lighting Com
| mission the company greatly overcapitalized
City officials argued that careful valuation of
the property of the company should be made be
fore granting the application for an increase of
capitalization.
In AL opinion written by Commissioner Thomas
NJ. Osborne this contention the policy of the
commission as existing capitalization and ex-
pendftures for public service corporations for pur
poses other than pubIir service is laid down Com
missioner Osborne deciQes:
Erst-The existing capitalizaton Of % public
sT1ned fntp BEFORE authorization Of securities
under Section SO Of the Public Service Commits
sions law The material question on such appl-
cation is whether the desired issue of securities
is necessary for one of the purposes specified in
Second-Public service corporations may be
purposes other than public service. n Such eX-
penditures are on properly TO be used ultimately
Third-The purchasers of securities authorized
by this are not f EXEMPT ron a fhe fh
corporation issuing the securities being over
capitalized
An issue OF 10000 per cent gold bonds. to be
sold less than 80. and sl02.Joo stock at par
was authorized oy the commission. The order pro-
vides that if the bonds realize more than 50 the
excess is he applied reduce the issue OF stock
The WdterTOVn Light and POWER company TOOK
over the proDerty of the Remington & Sons Pulp
and Paper COmUany. This concern owned vaIu-
able water power. The commission approved this
as a proper business venture. likely to aid
development OF the company in its capacity q
public service corporation furnishing light to the
city and vcI7ity.
The commission in its order disaUowed the
amount set down for improve vements made upon
the Remington property prior 20 June 4 1906.
amounting to s14,1S4 IS These improvements
made before the date of the fling Of the
original application herein referred 10. and in our
opinion these amounts properly regarded a
included in the capitalization allowed by the for
Commission of Gas and Electricity. also sI7J
for rent of contractors office, s7Sf % for i'm
provements to buildings not used for the light or
power purposes. s7425 for salaries and s3.725
representing excess rental Of contractors plant.
making i total Of s27t63 -. In addition 1919 g
was withdrawn by the applicant during the pro-
ceedngs the application
The city Of Waterfowl. az repre- -ented by its
mayor and city attorney. insisted that tie COM
pany. under the order of the former Commission
Of Gas and Electricity. allowing q capitalization
Of s700.000. was greatly OyeTCapitalized. and ar
gued that before granting t,Ls application
careful valuation of the property of the corpora
tion should made
New-York tribune., 1908-03-23
c. F. U. DELEGATES IN WRANGLE
Expulsions May Follow Investigation of
Members on Graft Charges.

The Central Federated Union had an exciting
Eaif-hour yesterday. when Timothy HeaIev Of
the Eccentric Ffremens Union, brought I'D the
subject Of investigation OF his charges OF Illegal
transactions among members OF the Central Fed
Grated Union involving 5000 and a meeting or
protest held in the Murray Hill Lyceurn in 1901
The investigation is not yet finished. but Chairman
harris Of the investigating committee said yes
terday that. charges were made against other
delegates he wanted to know II all the charges
could he investigated the one time so as 10
Gear up the situation.
It was decided. after many personal wrangles
among delegates, to Investigate every complaint
that has been made Of graft or using the Cen
ira Federated Union for political or other pur-
poses. and that in the charges were proved
the guilty parties would expelled. on the other
hand, IL case the charges not proved by affi-
davit the parties making the charges are TO be
expelled. =
New-York tribune., 1908-03-23
BOYS CAPsIZED II HUDSON RIVER.

After clnging to the bottom of an overturned
skT in the Hudson River i63d street for an hour
three boys were rescued and -akeu To the Washing
ton Heights Hospital Yesterday They ere able 40
go home hours.
Ray ana Robert Tyler OF Nso U5 West I1ct1
street and Mortimer Seanou. Of No ia Shakes
peare avenue The Bronx. we're on their uay 70
Inrood in fra boat. and overturned ~
10th street. They tried right the craft and al
most completely exhausted themselves Fafiiu IN
this they cIung the bottom and shouted for help
Several members Of the Audubon Yacht Club AZ
1896 street to the boys In = boat and
dragged them from the water half unconscious
from the cold Dr. Quittner. the ambulance sur
geOn attended them
New-York tribune., 1908-03-23
TO DOUBLE SIZE OF HCTEL AsToR
Fourteen Houses VIII Be Torn Down to
Make Room fer Addition.

Ground will be broken for the extension Of the
Hotel Astor on April l. which will practically
double the capacity cf that house The hotel now
covers POE feet by I62 feet whereas tho addition
to BE- finished July l. 1853 viii 200 feet b. 10
feet more. This means the tearing down OF four
teen houses. This addition will increase the num-
Der Of bed chambers to more than thousand
and the bathrooms to more than seven hundred.
The ground floor will contain the largest hall in
New York as practically all the space will be
given up for that purpose On special evenings IS
Intended this room into grand garden, -
be used in place of with the ''OranGerie." There
Will be a special entrance for this auditorium from
45th street.
The roof garden. already the largest in the
world. Will doubled il size. with a continuous
promenade than a thousand feet length.
and Will be 4 stiH greater feature OF the house
than evtr
New-York tribune., 1908-03-23
DEN0UNCEs TENEMENT HOUSE BILLS
Jacob Riis Says That Children Are Expected
to Live Where Plants Cannot.

Jacob A Riis bitterly Condemned tie tenement
house bills introduced by AssembIymen Sberida =
and Strauss and Senator Gilchrist in his address
to the West Side Branch-ur the Young Mems
Christian Association yesterday afternoon He de-
clared them TO be working against the tenement
house law.
Sixteen bills introduced last year in the
Legislature attacking the tenement house law.
this year have the Sheridan bill which if
the power Of the tenement house law: the Gil
christ bill, which viii permit bakeries to do busi-
ness again at night in tenement house ba sen1ents
in that manner exposing thousands of families To
death by fire. know OF what | talk because |
fire reporter in that district for MANY wears
and that OF the disastrous fires at night
were caused by these bakeries;-the Straus bill
which permits the occupation of unventiIated
rooms. and another, introduced by the same man
which calls for board of appeals which shall use
its discretion IL forcing landlords TO comply with
the demands of the tenement hoJse inspectors
A resolution passed voicng The associa-
tons disapproval Of the four bills limiting the
powers OF the tenement house Law. A copy Of the
resolution Will be sent 10 the Legislature
Although progress has been made" Mr. piis
went on. we must not consider the battle won
Under the new tenement house law 56 600 rooms
are lett in ouI tenement houses TO which neither
light ror air can penetrate These rooms are nur-
series for tuberculosis baciIli- II has been found
pect children 10 grow up there. Do you think good
citizens spring from such homes?"
Happening mention President Roosevelt Mr.
Riis called forth round of applause AT which he
smiled approvincIy. DO you know" he said
everywhere so fellow will bet another that
VIII mention Roosevelt "a certain number OF times
- ave minutss- The nrst fellow always wilma"
New-York tribune., 1908-03-23
FIND SERIOUS WEAKNESS.
Tra1is-Lee Amendment Hight Make
Future SubzCay Building Uncertain.
[By Telegraph TO Tho Tribune.


! Albany, March 2c.-According to legislators who
have given the question much study. the present
form of the Travis-Lee constitutional amendment
designed exempt subway bonds from the New
York City debt limit contains serious weakness
which would throw open the doors fer all kinds
OF wildcat expenditures and render uncertain fut-
subway building The bill omits a safeguard
which contained in the original amendment
before Controller Metz redrafted it after consul
tations with the Mayors advisory commission
! taxation and finance.
Then the bill contained this clause:
Any increase in the debt incurring power of
the city of New York which shall result from
any such order for the exclusion OF any debt here
tofore or hereafter incurred shall be available only
for the requirement construction of property of
the same kind that for which the debt
cluded incurred"
Without this a similar provision. Legislators
{ believe, there would be absolutely no guarantee
that the additional borrowing power placed at the
ctys disposal would be used for subways For
instance. if the proposed constitutional amend
Tlent should pass. the first bond issue be
ciuded from computation in the debt limit would
be the si500.0oo issued pay for the present
subway, Thus the city would have the right to
borrow $4,000 GO more. but there would be moth
ing in the laws stipulate that this money must
be used for new subways- which is supposed to
be the intent OF the proposed amendment
On the contrary. the argument raised that this
money could be used for salary increases jobs,
automobiles for Tammany heads of departments
and countless extravagances 20 asyravate the al
ready serious financial condition of New York City.
Assembiyman Bennett. in supporting his resolution
for detailed informa ton about the ctys bonded in
debtedness and expenditures. has pointed out that
even some Of the equipment in the Street Clean
ing Observation-Disclosures and harness the auto
mobiles for various department heads and similar
articles perhaps sary bu not Indispensable
IS paid for out of the proceeds of long term bonds
on which the city must pay interest Many legis-
lators here maintain that larger surplus for the
city under these conditions would in their judgment
mean merely an increase in such details Of admin
istrati0n rather than the construction of new sub
ways or other important public improvements
Mayor Mcclellan and Controller Net have an
nounced that the s23 100000 supposed have been
set aside TO build the Fourth subway to
Coney Island has been spent. and the Controller
says the Board of Estimate cannot appropriate
the money for this project That is precisely what
could be done under the form of the Travis
Lee constitutional amendment. its adversaries main
tain. At the hearing this amendment last week
nothing was said by the city officials who advocated
II bout this point
New-York tribune., 1908-03-23
CT. U. TO PETITION PRESIDENT.
Wants House Plumbers Restored to List at
NAVY Yard

on the request of Plumbers Union No. 49s the
central Federated Union decided yesterday to pc
ritiou President Roosevelt order that the trade
Of house plumber. which has been taken by the
board Of wages from the classified list OF trades in
the Brooklyn Navy Yard. be restored 10 the list
OF trades employed. The wages Of ship plum bsr
81 a day. wink the wages OF The house plumb
s. a day
il also stated In the petition that the Sec
retary OF the Navy had approved OF the decision.
and that the members "astonished' to find the
house plumbers taken from the classified list. IL
went on say That the average OF wages paid by
three hundred outside employers plumbers in the
vicinity of the navy yard s. a day.
New-York tribune., 1908-03-23
C. F. U. COMMITTEE SEES GOVERNOR
Latter Says He Can't Investigate Metz
Without Specific Data.

A report was made yesterday 10 the Central Fed
Grated Union by committee appointed a week
ago 10 demand Of Governor Hughes that he have
the city finance department investigated. because
Controller Metz. il alleged, had made conflict
ing assertions about beginning work on new sub
ways and OF the ability Of the city raise the
money for them. The chairman said the Governor
told him he had power TO order investigation
unless specific charges made in legal fashion.
The committee on subways Of the Central FEEDER
sted Union met afterward. II said later that
enough data had been obtained for a specific state
ment 10 be sent TO Governor Hughes.