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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-07-01
WOUND IS
NOT SERIOUS
Nicholas Boy viii Recover
From Acct 9nti Silver City
Team Defej 5 Picked Aggre-
cation in Fl t Game.

Fort Bayard, n. NJ, June 2a.-Doe-
tors Jones and Priest Of the Fort Bay
ard medical staG returned home yes
terday morning after treating the
young son OF REV. w. a. Nichols OF
the "Children's Home Society of New
Mexico" now living az Lone Moun-
tain, who accidentally shot himself
through the ~ while handling a gun
that had lal& eglected in n bureau
drawer for o. two years. The
plunger was shne and his parents
thought the gun useless. With an in
yentive power that might have been
devoted to a better cause, the young
boy Of twelve fixed a nail TO take the
place Of the last %plunger. IN fooling
With IL the gun went Off, as there
m old cartridge in it. and shot
him through the leg. The two doc
tors were Immediately teiephoned for
ana found that the wound was not a
bad one. They located and cut out
the bullet and the young man will in
u short time. IN all probability, be no
worse for the experience.
The Holly chieftain., 1908-08-14
THE SIN OF lAND-MURpER.
Seriousness of the Situation Not Gen
orally Realized.

The deterioration of fertility under
cultivation that is lacking in care for
the future is far more noticeable in
some portions of the south than in the
middle west The Progressive Farm
er, recognizing the seriousness of the
situation, speaks as follows:
The truth is, that it is time now to
see that man who wears out piece
of land sins-just as a man sins who
wears out a human body with drunk
enness or dissipation. We are coming
to the time when man will be as
much ashamed of owning quilted
hillside as of owning skin-and bones
horse. AS James J. Hill, than whom
there is hardly greater American
living, declared in Washington:
North Carolina was, century
ago, one of the great agricultural
states of the country and one of the
wealthiest. To-day as you ride through
the south you see everywhere land
quilted by torrential rains, red and
yellow clay banks exposed where once
We're fertile fields, and agriculture re-
duced because its main support has
been washed away. Millions of acres
in places to the extent of one-tenth of
the entire arabic area, have been so
injured that no industry and no care
can restore them
And the seriousness of this land
murder is not appreciated by one man
in thousand. You see an acre Of
land ruined and you say: Well, there
is $40, 500. or $50 loss, according to
the price of land in your community
But the truth is, that the merely tenn
porary estimate put opon land values.
as indicated by present prices, does
not indicate at all the farreaching
extent of the damage. Three hun
dred years ago you could have bought
that land from the Indians at ten
cents an acre, but if an acre of it had
been ruined then, would the damage
as we see it now, have amounted to
only ten cents? A hundred years ago
the same land may have been worth
only dollar an acre; but we know
would have meant more than dol
lars loss And so the price OF land
to-day is no criterion by which to
judge the damage and the sin against
posterity wrought by the man who
murders an acre of dqd's heritage to
the human race-a heritage he meant
to last as long as time itself. The ma
tion does well to give the matter seri
Gus thought"
The Holly chieftain., 1908-08-14
CIeaninu Paints,

Oil-painted walls must be washed
with soap and water, using soft fan
mel cloth, and taking care to wiring it
well before using. Use cold water to
finish. and dry well with linen dus
ter.
Vanished woods should be rubbed
with chamois leather wrung out
of cold water, then polished with soft
duster.
To polish vanished floor rub well
with equal quantities of beeswax and
turpentine. Another method is to take
equal parts of olive oil and spirits of
turnpentine, wet soft cloth with
these, rub the wood hard, then rub
with dry cloth. This is also good
for black walnut furniture and sewing
machines.
Where paint is stained with smoke
some ashes or potash lime may be
used. A soft linen cloth should be
used for wiping dry
The Holly chieftain., 1908-08-14
Trans-Mississippi Congress.

Kansas City.-Many subjects of
general importance are included in the
call for the nineteenth annual session
of the Trans Mississippi Commercial
congress, which is to meet in San
Francisco October 9th, 7th, Sth, 9Th
and 10th, and which has just been is
sued under the signatures of J. b..
Case, president. of Abilene, Kansas;
Thomas F. Walsh of Denver, chair
man of the executive committee, apd
other officers.
The call says:
THE executive committee submits
the following subjects as germane to
the objects of the congress, and upon
these a free and full discussion is in
vited. They follow:
Irrigation and drainage: river and
harbor Improvement; leasing of public
lands; dry farming; Alaska; state
hood; parcels post and postal banks;
trans-Pacific trade; closer trade rela-
tions with Latin republics: public
ownership of utilities; Panama and the
canal; Hawaii and the Philippines i'm
migration; live stock industry; ma
tional and state aid for highways: SUI
gar beet industry; Alaska-Yukon-Pa-
cific exposition; national finances;
an enlarged and improved consular
service in the far East; the Pan-Amer,
lean railroad; interstate commerce.
The Holly chieftain., 1908-08-14
Hot Chicken Salad.

One tablespoonful of butter, melt
add one tablespoonful of -four mixed
with pinch of salt, little pepper
cayenne, and if liked celery salt, or for
a change few drops of onion juice
Use about a cup of milk to make a
cream. Stir in Il beaten egg, then
carefully a cup of chopped chicken
meat. Don't stir much after adding
the meat. Veal is good instead of
chicken, and lamb can be used, but
cut it into little dice instead Of chop
ping it. Serve on toast with fried
potatoes.
The Holly chieftain., 1908-08-14
HOW TO MAKE COLD MEAT LOAF.
Far Better Than Any Warm Hash
During the Summer.

Avoid warm hashes in summer,
and have in their place a meat loaf
that can be served cold" writes Chris
tine Terhune Herrick in Woman's
Home Companion. Chop your rem
nants of steak or roast fine, mix with
them one-third as much cold boiled
ham or tongue, season well, and add
couple of raw eggs beaten light. If
rather dry, moisten with gravy or
stock, turn into a creased mold with
plain sides, cover, set mn a baking pan
with hot water about it, and bake for
an hour. This loaf may also be made
with raw beef, but then it must cook
for two hours. Let ii get very cold
before turning out, and slice. Veal
loaf may be prepared by this recipe
and even cold roast lamb may be
treated in the same manner The
main point to be borne in mind is the
seasoning. Be careful that this is well
done and you will have popular
dish"
The Holly chieftain., 1908-08-14
Care for Leper Wife.

Tombstone, Ariz.-The pathetic case
OF Gen. d. X. Wardwell a veteran Of
the Mexican and Civil wars, and his
wife, who is a leper, is in a fair way
of being disposed of by the territorial
officials, and it is possible that the
devotion Of the husband will prevail
and he will be permitted to remain by
his afflicted wife. 1t is proposed to
isolate the couple near this place, and
keep them under the care and treat.
ment of the county officials. The fact
that the form of leprosy from which
the woman is suffering is not COM
municated by ordinary contact, makes
the solution of the problem possible
The Holly chieftain., 1908-08-14
PRESIDENT APPOINTS FIVE MEN
TO INVESTIGATE COul> 10y
CONDITIONS.
SEEKS BETTERM M INT
WOULD GAIN lNFORMATiC, ON
SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC
QUESTIONS.

Oyster Bay, l.. I--AssertinE Il be-
lief that the increase of the w,u icing
of the American farmer has Mr. kept
Iace with that of the count! Us a
whole, President Roosevelt his re-
Quested five experts to serve as
commission on country life ana con-
duct an investigation aimed at bring.
ing about substantial betterment of
the social sanitary and economic
conditions on American farms.
He has asked that this commission
seek a solution of the problem as to
how farm life can be made less soli-
tary. more replete with opportunity,
freer from drudgery, more comfortable
and more attractive.
The men invited to servc as men,
bers OF the investigating commission
are Prof l.. H. Bailey of the New York
State College of Agriculture; Henry
Wallace of Wallace Farm, Des
Moines. Iowa; Kenyon l.. lutterfield,
president of the Massachusetts Agri-
cultural college; Clifford Ptnchot, of
the United States Forestry service;
and Walter H. Page, editor of the
Worlds Work
That the appointment of commits.
sion to investigate country life by
President Roosevelt marks an epoch
in the history of the countrv and also
inaugurates one of the Presidents
greatest policies. is the opinion of Gif-
ford Pinchot, chief of the forest SER
vice.
THE Presidents appointment of
this commission" he said. marks the
Inauguration of the third of his great
policies, the central idea OF which is
to see to it that we have not only bet
ter crops, but also better happier,
more conterted and more efficient
men and women on the farm.
My understanding of the idea in
the Presidents mind in appointing the
commission is that while progress in
the country has been rapid, it has
not been sufficiently rapid to keep the
farmers boys and girls from going to
the cities.
Farm life ought to be made so
profitable and attractive that the farm
ers' boys and girls will be ambitious
to spend their lives on the farm"
The Holly chieftain., 1908-08-14

thin on the ground, 1t is there the best
berries are always found. Many plans
of placing or spacing runners have
been tried, and nearly every grower
has his own distinctive way, which he
varies from time to time when he
thinks he has discovered something
better. 1t really does not matter so
much what arrangement of the run
"ners is made, provided they are given
plenty of room. Next to spacing them
is the labor of cutting off the surplus
ones that are not needed. An early
set, vigorous plant will send out null
\ 'itude of runners during the growing
season and keep it up till freezing
weather has stopped growth. Pinch
ing or cutting them off with a knife
or scissors is slow work and requires
constant STOPPING, which is relished
neither by old nor young. This work
may be lightened as follows:
Take worn-out hoe, says Orange
Judd Farmer. and have the blacksmith
straighten the blade on line with
the shank. You can have it any width
the hoe will admit. For cutting around
for narrowing in the side of row the
wider the blade the better. For mar
rowing the row an ordinary plow
counter may be used. 1t may be fas-
tened to the cultivator or it may be
attached to handles, whetted sharp
and trundled along by hand.
After the raspberries and black
Berries are through bearing is the
best time to cut out the old canes. An
other simple instrument is also made
out of an old hoe for this work, only
Yin this case the hoe blade is turned
in a sickle shape, so as to catch firmly
around the cane. This allows the man
TO do all the cutting while standing
erect. His left hand should be pro-
vided with strong glove TO hold the
canes and pull them out. The illustra-
ton shows how the cutter looks when
completed.
The Holly chieftain., 1908-08-14
EGG PLANT IN TWO WAYS.
Stuffed or Escaloped. II Will Be
Found Excellent.

Stuffed Egg Plant-Cut the egg
plant in two, lengthwise, and scrape
out the pulp with spoon, leaving the
smell nearly half an inch thick so that
1t holds its shape. Cover the shells
with boiling water adding salt. and
place the pan, covered, on the range
Keeping ii at almost the boiling point
while preparing the filling. Allow the
smell to become tender, but not soft
Chop the pulp rather fine, add to it
one level teaspoonful of salt, dash
OF pepper, and simmer in tablespoon
ful of butter till soft, stirring to pre-
vent burning. Add half a teaspoonful
OF grated onion, a scant half teacupful
OF minced cooked veal or chicken. half
a teacupful of bread crumbs: mix well
and fill the shells. Place them in a
we'll buttered pan, sprinkle with
grated bread crumbs, add light
sprinkling of salt and pepper and bits
OF butter. Bake for As minutes, hav-
ing the tops nicely Drowned.
Escalloped Egg Plant.-Cut the egg
plant lengthwise into quarter inch
slices and cover with boiling salted
water. When cool enough to handle,
arrange half the slices on a well but
tered baking dish; then add layer of
bread crumbs to which has been added
a little finely minced parsley and salt
and pepper to taste. Place the re-
naming slices upon these, sandwich
ia hion, pour melted butter over them,
fnl1nwa1 hl- n it,ly Of
crumbs, lightly salted and peppered.
and finish with sprinkling of grated
cheese. Bake in oven to a fine brown.
The Holly chieftain., 1908-08-14
A Delicious Icing.

Put cup of granulated sugar with
stirring until 1t spins a heavy thread.
Beat very stiff the white Of one egg
and into it pour slowly the hot sugar.
Let the sirup cool little before put
ting it in the egg or it will cook it.
Beat steadily until the icing is smooth
and creamy.
Just before it is too cold to stir
longer, add one ounce each of can
died cherries, chopped citron, candied
pineapple and blanched almonds.
COD SHEETS
The Holly chieftain., 1908-08-14

that 1t works to perfection, being
much less troublesome than the old
fashioned jelly bag, says writer in
Farm and Home.
Clean plain wooden kitchen chair
thoroughly, and then turn it, legs up
ward, on kitchen table. Tie clean,
single or double piece of white
cheesecloth securely by the corners to
the chair legs; being careful not to
allow too much fullness to prevent too
much sagging. Place bowl under
meath the bag on the under side of
the chair seat and then pour some
boiling water from the kettle into the
bag. When it has run away. and the
cloth is still hot, quickly remove full
bowl and put another in its place, and
pour the hot fruit to be strained into
the jelly bag. Again change bowls
and pour the first juice back into the
jelly bag. Then throw a clean, white
mosquito netting over the chair. and
leave the jelly juice to strain all night.
OF course, chair, table, floor and every
utensil used as well as the cheese
cloth and mosquito netting, must be
scrupulOusly clean.
The Holly chieftain., 1908-08-14
Colorado Editors.

Canon City, Colo.-AbOut fifty dele
gates of the Colorado State Editorial
Association gathered al the opening
meeting in Elks hall Monday after.
noon. Matters pertaining to legislation
were discussed. In the evening the del
egates. with their friends went on a
moonlight excursion through the Royal
gorge. The train stopped at the
hanging bridge one hour David Elliot
of Colorado Springs will talk on the
Midsummer Meeting" G. G. McCor-
mick of Fort Collins will address the
editors on Advertising Rates." How
to Hold Circulation" will be the sub
1ect of an address by ]. II. English of
Trinidad
The Holly chieftain., 1908-08-14
Premium For Girls.

The Colorado State Fair. Pueblo.
Colorado, offers one hundred dollars
to the Colorado girl, between the ages
OF fourteen and twentyone, who docs
the most efficient work in preparing
certain food products and giving the
best reason for using her methods.
Gasoline stoves will be used which
will be furnished by the management.
as will sweet milk, royal baking pow
der, and all utensils and equipment
necessary to produce the best results.
Address, Immediately, secretary of tbs
State Fair, Pueblo. Colo, for informa.
tion in regard to entering this contest.
The Holly chieftain., 1908-08-14
FARM NOTES.

Cultivation should be mostly to
skeep down weeds
Stock barns should be light, dry and
well ventilated.
Dairying is the one branch in which
no man should engage who has not a
real liking for COWS.
When the potato vines are half
grown they have filled the ground
with lateral roots. Cultivate over the
roots and not through them.
The dairy COW requires five times
as much of the carbon in her food as
of the protein because she must from
that produce both heat and energy.
The Holly chieftain., 1908-08-14
Thirty Years Of Dairyina.

In so years the dairying of the world
has been revolutionized The various
inventions to save time and protect
the milk from contamination and keep
the butter made have SO facilitated
the production of milk and milk-prod-
ucts that it is safe to say the aggre-
gate production has been enormously
increased. In so years the business
has become one founded on the most
scientific of principles
The Holly chieftain., 1908-08-14

one to the straw
berry grower. Too
commonly t h e
runners are al
lowed to run and
form a dense mat
at their own
sweet will. Plac-
ing runners is no
easy 10 b, a S
everyone m u S t
admit who has
tried that back
breaking labor.
Yet it is demon
strated every year
in every planta-
ton that it is the
only method of
raising uniformly
large and bright
ly colored berries.
Wherever a spot
Is found where
from some cause
the plants are
The Holly chieftain., 1908-08-14
Canned Pineapple.

Pare ripe, juicy pineapples, cut into
slices an inch thick. To one pound of
fruit allow one-fourth pound of sugar
Put them into preserving kettle to-
sether, and add very little water if
the juice is not enough. AS soon as
they are well scalded put into hot jars
and seal at once.
The Holly chieftain., 1908-08-14

of 5s-inch iron and cut a thread on
the other end, says the Prairie Farm
er. A is wooden brace and b is
wire hooked on the iron c which is
turned till the wire is taut
The Holly chieftain., 1908-08-14

Fresh manure has forcing effec.
and tends to produce stems and leaves
at the expense of fruit and grain. 1t is
therefore better for early garden truck
grasses and forage plants than fCr
cereals or fruit
The Holly chieftain., 1908-08-14
STRAINiNG JELLY.
Handy Device Made Out OF a Turned
Up Chair.

pupil from the high school class
of cookery, South Kensington, Lon.
don, Eng, told me about this substi-
tute for jelly bag, and l have found
The Holly chieftain., 1908-08-14
eRAcuNe A CORNER POST.
Here Is Another Good Way of Stiff
ening a Fence.

To brace corner post in the way
shown in the accompanying illustra-
ton bend a hook in the end of piece
The Holly chieftain., 1908-08-14
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@sSNN&AM)aE,N
DEVICE FOR BERRY GROWERS.
Cutting OF the Runners Made Easy
for the Worker.

The problem of disposing of the sur
plus runners is always a perpldxing
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1908-12-30
On Country Life.

The following are the questions
which are being asked by the Country
Life Commissioners appointed by
President Roosevelt:
I. Are the farm homes in your
neighborhood as good as they should
be under existing conditions?
II. Are the schools Of your neigh
borhood training boys and girls salts
factorily for life on the farm?
III. Do the farmers IN your neigh
borhood get the retnrns they should
be under existing conditions?
Nv. Do the farmers in your neigh.
borhood receive from the railroads
highroads. trolley lines. etc., the SER
vice they reasonably should have?
v. Do the farmers in your neigh.
borhood receive from the United States
postal service. rural telephone, etc.
the service they reasonably should ex.
pect?
vi. Are the farmers and their
wives in your neighborhood satisfac-
torily organized to promote their mu-
tual buying and selling interest?
VII. Are the renters Of farms in
your neighborhood making salts
factory living? si
VIII. Is the supply Of farm labor
In your neighborhood satisfactory?
TX. Are the conditions surrounding
hired labor on the farms in your
neighborhood satisfactory to hired
men?
x. Have the farmers la your neigh.
borhood satisfactory facilities for do.
ing their business in banking, credit
insurance, etc?
XII. Are the sanitary conditions OF
the farms in your neighborhood salts
factory?
XII. Do the farmers and their
wives OF your neighborhood get to-
gether for mutual improvement, enter
tainment, and social intercourse as
much as they should?
XIII. What. in your Judgment, is
the most important single thing to be
done for the general betterment of
country life?
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1908-12-30
The Bright Side

Let's ortener talk Of nobler deeds.
And rarer Of the bad ones,
And sing about our happy days.
And not about our sad ones. q
We are not made to fret and SIGH
And when grief sleeps to wake it:
bright happiness is standing by
This life is what we make It.
Let's find the sunny side OF men.
Or be believers In It;
A light there is In every soul.
That takes the pains to win it,
On! there's slumbering good in all
And We perchance may wake it:
Our hands contain the magic wand
This life is what We make It.
Then here's to those whose loving
hearts
Shed light and Joy about them!
Thanks to them for countless gems
We ne'er had known without them.
Oh! this should be a happy world,
TO all who may partake II;
The faults our own IL it is not
This life is what we make II.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1908-12-30
MASTERS SALE.

BY virtue Of a Decree of tn. Court
OF Common Pleas for Sumter County.
in the State Of South Carolina. in the
case OF Aston Westberry and Friday
Kershaw against Robert Ramsey and
others, I will sell at public auction. to
the highest bidder, at the Court House
in the City Of Sumter, in the County
and State aforesaid, on Sale Day i'm
January. 1909, being the 4th day Of
said month, during the usual hours OF
sale, the following described real es-
tate, to wit:
"All that piece, parcel or tract of
land, situate and being in said County
and State, containing one hundred
acres. more or less. lying on the public
road leading from Sumter Court
House via Providence to Camden. and
adjoining lands now or formerly of
the Estate Of Furman, Joshua Myers,
Henry Williams and others; being the
same land conveyed to me by said Al
ston Westberry and Friday Kershaw,
the description Of said premises in said
deed Of conveyance being herein in
corporated into and made a part
thereof in all respects"
Terms Of sale: one half cash, bal
ance on a credit of twelve months
from day Of sale, the time portion to-
be secured by the bond OF the pur-
chaser and mortgage of the premises
sold, the bond 10 draw interest FROM
the date or sale. the dwelling house ia
oe insured and policy assigned.
The Judgment IN this case has been
IA ~eroro1 assigned in part to fan
Mo.e as appears by the record here
in.
II. FRANK WILSON.
Master.
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