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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-06

Mrs. Astor was in the habit of allowing her secretary to give out for publication the list of her guests when 1t was re- quested. It seemed little out of the ordi- nary, therefore, to read that she had an- nounced that one of the dinners in her regular series should be in honor of this inconspicuous Roman count. It was, of course, the gentleman himself, who, for his own reasons, had sent to the newspa- pers the statement that Mrs. Astor was giving dinner In his honor.
 The matter came under the eye of the leader of society, who forthwith sent a letter through her secretary to request the newspaper first making the announcement to say that the Italian was merely among her guests and not the person for whom the dinner had been given. The count turned up for dinner with no signs of be- ing the least embarrassed. But he was never invited again.
 Mrs. Astor's indifference to stationery would astonish many climbers. An in- vitation to one of her dances was for years sought after most eagerly in New York by persons who wanted social classi- fication. Yet the same plate was used after Mrs. Astor moved uptown, and the large number of impressions made from it had so obliterated the engraving that 1t was indstinct in many places. No ordina- ry hostess of exalted social ambition would have been content to use such plate, but Mrs. Astor stuck to 1t up to the date of her last ball.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-06
Just Like a Man.

From the Boston Post.
 "Queer thing about the laughter of the average man." remarked the woman who observes things.
 whats queer about him?" asked the sweet girl graduate.
 Nearly every time he laughs it is at something he has said himself" replied the feminine observer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-06
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-06
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-06
STORIES ABOUT
 4 SOCIAL RULER Customs That Marked Her Rule
 In New York HER CHARACTERISTIC HABIT Had Simple Dinners and an Unaffected Dislike of Notoriety-conspicuous
 Figure at the Opera.
 Her Jewels.
HER CHARACTERISTIC HABIT

From the New fork Sun.
 Perhaps if she had not lived as regular and sane life as she did in spite of her exacting social duties Mrs Astor would not have enjoyed the health that permit ted her to rule society in New York for so many years. Few persons are aware that as the hostess at the most distin- guished dinners New York has known for the last 20 years she rarely if ever touched the food on her table. She knew 1t was of the best, for her chef was fa- nous. But for her own dinner, served regularly every day at 6. no exacting de- mands were made on his art.
 Mrs. Astor dined invariably on very simple food two hours before she took her place at the head of the table about which her guests had gathered. Her din- ner generally consisted of a soup, a roast and a salad so simply prepared as to af- ford a marked contrast to the elaborate banquet which the chef provided for the dinner downstairs.
 Mrs. Astor was very careful as to the manner in which her dinner invitations were treated. One winter-about the last in which she entertained to the usual ex- tent-a titled Italian brought letters of introduction. He was in the course of events invited to dinner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-06

observed in the family, as an upholsterer to do some small job about the house and when the curtains had been repaired and delivered he supposed that in the nature of events his bill would be paid within short time.
 The indebtedness was incurred toward the end of May, and when after some days he sent in his bill an answer came within a week. Opening the letter he expected to find a check for the amount he had charged, but there was instead printed slip saying that Mrs. Astor paid her bills twice year. The date of the May payment had just been passed. So it was the first of the following January before he could expect his payment. From that time he was better satisfied With the custom of humber patrons.
 Mrs. Astor always wore her jewels at the opera and was in fact rarely seen without a diamond ornament of some kind In this particular she was ahead of the taste of her time.
 She was one of the first of New Yorks s wealthy women to decide that diamonds need not be limited to evening wear. In fact, she was the first woman to wear diamonds even on shipboard, and her reg ular ornament on ocean trips for seven years was a diamond cross. Her most valuable possession was commonly sup posed to be the diamond stomacher, which was a piece of the jewellers art that dated from the eighteenth century and contained rarely pure and large stones.
 Mrs. Astor's aversion to being taken by surprise caused her much unhappi- ness after the institution of the rubber neck wagons that run up Fifth avenue She never left her house until the coach man had opened the door of her carrl- age, and then, protecting herself with parasol held by footman, she ran down to the vehicle.
 She used to tell her friends that she was even afraid to go to her window, as on every occasion she had seen one of the wagons pass she had heard the man call out description of her house and add that Mrs. Astor might be seen there every day So great was her aversion to any such prominence that she kept away from the window and gave up altogether her habit of going into Central park for a walk.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-06

She was known, of course, to more New Workers through her attendance at the opera than through their social acquaint- ance with her. For years the Astor box has been the most conspicuous In the par terre, being No. '. This box she divided with her son, Colonel Astor, but 1t did not often happen that they occupied it together.
 Mrs. Astor came in always an hour after the performance had begun. Just as fn- variably did she depart before the last act One peculiarity of this departure all ways seemed incomprehensible to the spectators, who found as much interest in watching her box as in listening to the singers.
 Mrs Astor waited through the intermis- sion that preceded the last act and re- ceived her friends In her box. Then when the curtain was up and the music had be- gun she made her preparations to leave. That was for years the signal for the parterre row to get ready to leave. AS soon as Mrs. Astor had retired others began to drop out from time to time until within quarter of an hour after her exit the parterre was empty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-06

Her objection to sitting in a light box compelled MT. Conreid during his first year at the Metropolitan to go to consid- erable trouble. Mrs. Astor did not like light in her box, but the electric wires for lighting the boxes had been so arranged that it was impossible to turn the light off in one without accomplishing the same re- suit in all of them.
 Mrs. Astor gently but firmly made MT. Conreid understand that while there mighi be rules for other parterre boxes, there was none for Mrs. Astor's beyond what she wished. So the Astor box was all ways shrouded in gloom during the acts, while in others the tiny electric globe burned under it's pink silk shade.
 There was no means of keeping the b x shaded during the intermissions, so Mrs. Astor had curious fan which she held up to protect her face. It was of lace and in design not unlike the shades that hang on one side of a lamp to keep the light from being too strong there.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-06

Mrs Astor in recent years not only held this fan before her face during the inter missions, but in the lobby as well, while she waited for her carriage. Her devo- tion to this shield led a year ago to the report that she was suffering from skin trouble, but her use of the fan was prob ably nothing more than the result of the desire of a woman no longer young but still much before the public to protect herself from too close observation.
 Mrs. Astor never showed the present tendency to throw open her doors to opera singers and actors, and the musicales she gave were never of the most elaborate kind. She never spent the sums demand ed by the great prima donnas. The last musicale held in the house by Mrs. Astor mot by her daughter-in-law-had as it's chief soloists Fritzi Scheff and Giuseppe Campanari.
 Some of the singers were welcomed at her balls and at the inevitable Sunday afternoon receptions, which were always very informal. She was careful as to the conduct of those whom she entertained even if they/dd happen to be professional and had no sympathy with the present. day view that the further the artists de- part from the conventional standards of morality, the more Interesting they are
 At the balls given by Mrs. Astor, to which persons of all ages were invited. the favors were tasteful and pretty but there was about them nure V the extrav- agance noticed at some of the houses whose hosts distributed gold and jeweled favors to their guests. There was always a cotillon at these balls As the number of dancers increased Mrs. Astor intro duced the custom of having a leader at each end in order that the dance might hafo n the Co11Dlaa ba q had a chance to dance.
 Until she had her cotillons arranged in this way the habit of leading from both ends had been in use only in the public dances. It was his selection by Mrs. As- tor to lead her cotillons along with Elisha Dyer and other well-known leaders that gave Harry Lehr his first social import ance in New York.
 The Astor business system was rigidly
Putnam patriot., 1908-08-07

teTe include struggle el tit feossvs To retain their aower in lhe senate in efdet t0 eocfce tic o'a, etnor in his et' farts to carry hts reform measures, which aw manly to eiSe back To the people the power 10 control The pellll. cal affairs et the State which has been exercised hs the ieadeFs--a party trust to the deiFiment al the state.
 Intelligent people oi ether States will watch the coming struggle with deep interest, as a victory for Governor Hughes will mean an overthrow ot the state bass element which may arouse the people ei other States 10 regain the political control of affairs which has gone into The hands of party leaders through shresd manipulation ot eau. cuses, and setling plisnt tools elected to every tf,iee where their assistance could ee used to perpetaate their power. In his statement, made public, Gov. ernor Hughes defines the reasons which he says av responsible for the action which he has jus; taken. His state ment K as follows.
 have received so many inquiries as to my attitude toward Fvnomlnstion that ! have decided Ia make the for , lowing statement:
 some time ago 1 said, priy yateIs, that l did not desire FSnominatlon and that l fell that l could not undertake
 10 serve second tenn. This. however,
 was for reasons entirely lefsaaal, Gp- oa further reflection l am convinced that have no right te fesaFd these reasons ss controlling, aud that Ii Fe-
 nominated l o0gns to aecSpi.
 hut il k my desire that the viii ei
 the party lo which | lseiong should be faeely expressed, and that Ii shail take
 such ae.lan as shall he mosi closely in
 accord with public sentiment. 1 k.
 AeSe thai lliv people thoroughly ande . stand lie principles which l have
 soug II 10 apply in admialstFsGi n, and !. 1..sy so aeslre, l shall rvgaTa u as a
Putnam patriot., 1908-08-07
Hsfepmeis Sale Price s24s The Byron ugbee Corporation. l'ugbee Bargain Centre

and one half barrels nme at sI.o,. S2 03. twenty-six and one-half pounds paris green at II cents, S3.71 forty hours labor for team at 25 cents. Sl0: forty hours for man. at l5 cents. St. wear on sprayer Sf. total. S45 IS or S3.05 an acre. Al this rate the cost of each spraying was 76a cents. The market price Of potatoes at picking time was 6o cents a bushel Al that subtraeting S3o5 fihe cost of spray ing. the net profit is S3715 an acre.
 There are many plants little known to the market gardener that. if rightly pushed, would enjoy ready sale. Sea kale. for instance will furnish q spring vegetable ahead of asparagus
 From seed soHn iii May good plants can be set into a permanent bed In August or September and will remain for years. Earth is lightly piled oxer the bed to q height of about foot in early spring. and when the shoots eut of To the roots This gives one stalks Of kale much resembling eel. cry Pun the leaves apart as you would celery. cook in boiling salted water until tender and serve with drawn butter melted butter CT with or without vinegar. as taste desires This is a most delightful dish and being extremely early. would. along with rhubarb, te a money maker
 These are only instances of the way that intelligence may make profitable
Putnam patriot., 1908-08-07
F arm ano
 Garden
ENTERPRISE PAYS.
Progressive Methods - Good Staples
 Are tho Secrets Of Success.

The progressive farmer k the one who scores at the markets Good meth ods in raising crops. the selecting of staples for which the demand k great er than the supply, these are the eon- alterations that count for success
 One farmer In New York experiment- ed with spraying apparatus In rais- ing potatoes and results justified the eXpense because the increased glin of sixfY-sexen bushels an acre gave q cash profit of S37 l5 an acre. CT s40 % on the Held The spraying cost only S3.e5 an acre for labor. materials etc
 The experiment was tried on fifteen acres of potatoes. which were sprayed four times to prevent injuries by blight and insects. Three rows 6S0 feet long and 2ia feet apart were left unsprayed for a check. Bordeaux was applied at the rate of sixty gallons an acre at each spraying. The soil is sandy leam, and the variety of potato Carman No 8 During the season plant lice and flea beetles were abun- dant in all parts of the fieid. but there Was no early blight. Owing to the great press of work it was impossible to make a fifth spraying and also give the tieid attacked proper attention in
Putnam patriot., 1908-08-07
Con,inn EieId Mestinas.

The seasou for ieid meetings r
 proaching, and much efficient work al be done for the building up of granas| throughout the state at these puss| gatherings. We believe that the Il dresses on these occasions should M| be Of too general a nature. They iF| for the benefit of the grange, aa| speakers should talk grange. Tbey rl recite what the grange has accompsf ed and make strong appeal at essT such meeting for the farmers to x come members of the only farmers '
 ganization that is worth while A| there bc plenty ot music and na1s much of the social features after nt| speaking is over and before. DV z expect audiences to stand for hoas and listen to addresses. but rathe' Y that seats and benches are prssaa Convenience has much 10 do Win a size of the audience sometimes.
Putnam patriot., 1908-08-07

the way of cultivation. Large weeds covered the potato plants re such an extent that 1t would have been impos- sible to reach more than half the plants with spray.
 The test rows were dug with dou- ble meldboard niow Get. Is and yield ed sprayed. l3I bushels S6 pounds marketable tuhers: unsprayed. 6a bash. els 2s pounds. making gain of o' bushels \ pounds an acre. The yield of culis was a5S. bushels an acre on the sprayed and 70 2,3 on the un sprayed The loss from rot was some- what greater on the uu>ptayed rows than on the sprayed. but not large in either case. Ii Is doubtful. however, that the gain represented WAS due wholly to spraying The owner says both sprayed and unsprayed had prac tically the same chance. but II any thing the unsprayed rows sunered somewhat more from insects, which were treatei once with paris green sp- piled with q powder gun, white the sprayed rows received one application of paris green in bordeaux at the first spraying
 The cost of spraying fifteen acres four times was as follows. Thres
Putnam patriot., 1908-08-07
THE WHITE GRUB.
A Dangerous Insect Enemy of tn,
 Fruit Tree.

A Dangerous Insect Enemy of the
 Fruit Tree.
 The peach horer CT white grub. which hores hoies through and under the bark of the roots of peach trees weakens aud often kills trees and may he considered one of the greatest enc mics the peach has To contend with "! I44EE.. Insect changes from worm to q fly in August or September At that lime the worm comes to the surface of the gronnd. constructing | cocoon aa inch in leuzth which is attached 10 the base of the tree or perehed on the greaa4 end tpw.ird Tn q few weeks il appears as q Roth e.i1 begins to de pasi, k small eggs on the body of the ttce near tlie ground Each body lays 3t1 or more eggs and dies within two weeks In October or November the eggs hatch, and The little borers. scarcely large enough to be seen. make their way GoWn 10 the ground at the base of the tree When warm weather and increase rapidly in size, working first in the bark Of the roots nearest the base of the tree and then extend ing down four or six inches into the lower roots eating their way as they %. The worst work is done in May. tHue and July. anl these are fhe months when the peach trees should have most eare ful attention Young neach trecs require more attention than 7ilee trees The roots of older trees Ire often Sa large. coarse and tough IS not to bf susceptible to serious in iRry. l4nt the young trees may be de Strcye,l by oae grub,
Putnam patriot., 1908-08-07

privilege and duty to continue in of- flee for another term.
 CHARLES l.. H1GuEs.
 Saranae Inn, \. Y, July Fl, l@'s,
 One of the personal reasons to which he refers k the sacrifice of about s}o, ,0oe above what his salary as Governor will amount To, which he can earn from his law practice. He will also have to en- gage personally in fierce political con test which while Il will deepen the pro found feeling of admiration fell for him personally and for his great services to hts Siaie and country, can add nothing to his fenoWn a~ statesman.
 In fiji article on Governor Hughes i'll March Met lufcs the following gimp ~es are given of him.
 "thnrles F.. Hughes was the son of a Welsh clergyman, who reared him in the nurture and admonilion of the Lord. Al an early age said the la ther, T taught my son thnt straight line was the ,hoftet distance between two points, a lesson he has had ocea- sion to use in his public career
 In lss4 Hughes passed the bar exam. nations with rating of 99 5-s--attracl- ing the attention of Walter \. Carter. one of New York < most successful lawyers. He became one of tarier's kids, and married his oldest daagher.
 It Is an interesting coincidence that the Carter firms largest client, when Hughes entered the office, was the New York Iife Insurance Co, whose irreg- uiarities he afierward 50 teutorSclessiy exposed. n The main, however, its business then and aiterward, was not derived from corporations. Hughes talents have never been utilized io maht millions tef large corporate inter e~ts by teaching them how Ia water stock. capitalize franchises, organize holding companies, and originate the other devices with which the public has been famtliarised in recent wears. on the other hand, he has preferred to show how to draw agreements, enforce contracts, and perform other offices which are similarly essential te the maintenance ef orderly business. Ike eefding to his partner, George Schur- man, general retalners, involving his commitment to any and every kind of serv ice, were never accepted hy him. He has acted upon the principle that indepence both ot lawyer and client K essential to the ideal relation between them.
Putnam patriot., 1908-08-07
An Essay Exchange.

The lecturers of New fors " grange and Michigan state sfanse la'7 recently instituted what is teri1e' < essay exchange. IL is for ihe pa'gs of assisting subordinate grange CTS and others. Essays are pFela' \ by competent writers upon 'a'N grange topics. and these essays a's - the command of the snhorhlllaN :. turers for their local grange VI. Mrs. F. D. Saunders Of hocs~ Mich. and s. J. Lowell Of 'e' N Y. will doubtless t'e giaa ]" nish further information 10 ass who may desire it concernins 'a- say bureau
Putnam patriot., 1908-08-07
The Farmers Autos.

The farm paper that constantly dis rounts the automobile is not very en. terprisins If you were to get at the facts you would find about as many road hogs who drive horses as who run ,utes The machine lS becoming polm Lar with farmers too One prosper. ous little Iowa town of ahoHt I.lm boasts of only three chug fNIggies. bat all through the surrounding country farmers own and use them extensively These arc conservative practical men too, mol sports. The self propelled ve- hlcle has many advantages, chief of which k a great influence on road i'm broVp.,4tnt
Putnam patriot., 1908-08-07
Dwight Anchor et Brown Cotton,
 sale Piies 25c per VI
Governor Hughes Accepts Nomination


 Governor hafles l.. Hughes, who k well fitted h be President af the hited States, in the estimation of the Republican party of other states than New York. has eouscnlea to be ean- dldale for Governor fer another term. There Is no question about hts election
 The work of reform which he under. took during the term he has served were not entirely carried out, because of lhe opposition of the ehesse leaders of hts party, who openly opposed many af his nteasufes ta abahsh Il grant wrongs that have been permitted to exit hN consent ef some nf the infla- entlal leaders of his party, one being the taee-ttHek gambling which was de. aaled once hA fhe ~enate afler passs ins the House bY ihe almost anmi. nous Note of his patty. The second eliorl saececded by ane maielits in the senate, although opposed hy the same party leadefs-
 fhe coming slate election will theie
Putnam patriot., 1908-08-07
WILD BIRD PROTEcTIoN
The National Grange Believes In ?,
 tecting Our Feathered Fr;enos

The following resolution was band
 up 10 the national grange at it's Esd ford session from the Connecticut ss
 grange, and it was approved by ' nationa body:
 Whereas, It is eonclasively shown na| the wholesale and widespread siaugH srl ing of wild birds throughout the Unas1 States is positive and dangerous nai ace 10 a agriculture through depriyiHs AAsI farmer of the aid of the creatures az| would otherwise destroy harmful ns
 and the seeds of noxious weeds m N speetfuily and earnestly request the ns| tional grange to urge on the vaa state. county and subordinate graass| throughout the country that they nd this matter an important departmem t| their general work and in every sa| strive to create q sentiment and Inias and enforce legislation in behalf oi n>| protection of the feathered friends a 1s| farmer. so neee ssary t5 his welfare a
 such an attraction to country fife at z's.