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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-08-25
GRIFFITH TABoos
WINTER BASEBALL

Cincinnati, O.-The members of the
Cincinnati team will not play bail on
the coast or in Cuba this winter with
the consent of Manager Griffith.
Playing ball in tha winter" said the
Red leader, ruins "a man for his best
work in the good old summer time. 4
have been watching it for 20 years,
and I have never known case where
a player was out on the coast playing
ball in the winter and then showed
mis- best form in the league games in
the summer. Baseball is a sport
which taxes the nerves as we'll as the
muscles, and man is sure to go stale
unless he has plenty of time to recup-
crate. A good ball player, who is al
ways in the game. gets all that he
can stand during the regular season.
None of the Reds Will be allowed to
hurt themselves for next year by play
ing winter ball. Any man who does
it will find his contract considerably
cut in the spring, for it is cinch he
will not be worth as much to theclub
as If he had put in the off-season rest
ing up. There will also be clause
in the Red contracts next year requir-
ing the IGayers to live up on the hill
tops during the summer months. We
have not had single case of illness
this year among the boys who live up
there, while nearly every man who
stays downtown has been off his feed
at one time or another"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-08-25
GROW BETTER FRUIT.

One-third of our fruit is fit only
for the swill pail, because we neglect
to feed the trees, work the soil and
protect from insect pests.
The first thing to do is to stop the
incoming of apples selling to-day for
ten cents each, by making more crit
ical selection of stock going to mar
ket.
Very few take pains to grow good
fruit.
1t is not question of "can" but
"will."
Instead Of few firsts and many
seconds, make it the reverse. We
have two broods of inse.ts in Massa-
chusetts against five in Utah, yet they
produce better-looking more uniform
fruit, because they spray five to seven
times.
The end tests Of our packages are
not the true measure. Make the mid
die as good sId the market will re-
spond. Grow more fruit, but grow
better fruit.-Massachu Station.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-08-25
LEWIs-BuRKE BATTLE
WAS SENSATIONAL GO.

New York.-It was the general opin-
ion among sporting men that the
contest between Willie Lewis and
Sailor Burke at the Fairmont A c.
August 13, was one of the most SEN
sational seen here lin many years.
Willie ] evils won fairly and by a.
.echnlcal knockout, he played in great
luck. 1t was not until Charles Har-
vey, Jem Driscoll's manager, ordered
Lewis to cut out the trading of
swings" and use short left uppercut
or hook to the jaw that Burke's
chances for winning disappeared.
In the first three rounds the slug
ging was terrific. A moment before
the third round ended both men
swung right-handers simultaneously
and fell together in corner. Lewis
luck was in evidence right there, for
as he fell backward his shoulders hit
the ring ropes. If this mixup had
taken place near the middle Of the
ring Lewis head would probably have
hit the floor with crack and he
might have been seriously injured. AS
a matter of fact, Lewis was so close
to defeat at that period of the fight
that when he staggered to his corner
his seconds were clearly ratified. 1t
was then that Harvey. took hand in
the proceedings.
"If you keep on exchanging swings.
p,,rlyo will 1yrooly r-oI1,. baa1 off Hp
has got terrific wallop, and is after
your jaw. Take your time, stall bit
and wait for chance to hook your
left to his chin"
Lewis obeyed Harvey's Instructions
to tie letter. Lewis, o.ear-headed
and as foxy as they make 'em, allow
ed the sailor to bore in again. The
round was half over when Lewis sud-
denly got the opening he was looking
for. His left shot up to Burke's jaw
after going about six inchesy and the
blow had so much steam that the tar
was groggy. Lewis rushed in like q
bulldog then anG literally belted
Burke to the floor, where he remained
10 seconds.
Burke has borne the name Of quit
ter for years. His unwillingness to
stand up and take punishment from
Jack Johnson at Bridgeport several
years ago convinced ring followers
that he lacked gameness. But It
Burke had shown the courage OF
Ketchel it is believed that Lewis
would have experienced greater diff
flculty in landing the bacon.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-08-25

Pekin, China.-American partlci-
patton in the Eankow and S=e-Cnuen
railroad loan was assured at the
Offices of the Foreign Board by Henry
P. Fletcher, the American Charge
d'Afraires, and Lang Tun-Yen, presi-
dent of the board. The loan is to be
increased from S27.500,000 to S20,-
O00,O 900, and American bankers are
tc get one-fourth. the three-fourths
going to British, French and German
interests.
Americans are to have equal op-
portunities to supply material for
both the Sse-Chuen and the Canton
lines and branches; they will appoint
subordinate engineers, and they will
have also one-half of all future loans
of the Sze-Chuen Railroad and its
branches, with corresponding advan-
ts@es.
TIE details of this settlement will
he arranged after the arrival here of
Willard D. Straight, the representa-
tive Of the American financiers. The
protest lodged byMr. Fletcher against
the completion of the loan with Brit
'sh, French and German interests
lone will be withdrawn, and an edict
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-08-25
USE HAY CAPS

An Eastern farmer, who has used
hay caps for several years, says he
has saved the cost Of the caps in {.
single season, while they are good for
a score of years, IL properly handled.
He uses heavy unbleached cotton
cloth forty-five inches wide, and cut
in squares This cloth may be made
water proof and durable by dipring
1t into good raw li9seed oil, or pt ict-
Ing it with a mixture of three pints
of this oil with one ounce sugar Of
lead and four ounces white resin;
heat together in an iron kettle and
apply not with a wide brush. The
caps ere held in place by pins a foot
long passed through loops in the cor
ners Of the clio tn, into the shock Of
oats or hay.
Among the advantages of the hay
caps are that they allow you to cut
without reference to the weather, and
save the crop in good condition, no
matter how long the rains continue.
One farmer testifies that his hay,
protected by the caps, was worth on
the average one or two dollars ton
more than his neighbor's hay that
was not capped. Others say that they
often pay more than their cost in one
season, by the increased value of the
protected hay over what it would
have been worth If left to take the
rain.-Indiana Farmer.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-08-25
arm Topics
ORCHARDS MUST BE FERTILIzED
soooooooocoocoocooo

ORCHARDS MUST BE FERTILIzED
The constant return to orchard soil
of all vegetable matter produced will
keep up an adequate supply of nitro.
genous material, which will be an
nually increased if the application OF
acid phosphate is kept up in liberal
way. Few orchardists realize the
amount of these mineral matters TAX
en- from the soil to produce great
tree, or in the production Of apples.
A good crop of apples will remove
from the soil three times as much
potash as a crop. of wheat on the
same soil, and while in the decaying
vegetable matter we can get what nj
trogen the trees need the supply of
the mineral matters must be kept up
If we expect to get large and perfect
crops of fruit.-Farm Progress.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-08-25
AMERICA WINS SHARE IN THE IIANK0VV LOAN
China Agrees TO Increase Amount From S5000 10 S00O000 One
fourth Which to Come the United States and lhEeeOuthS
TO Go to British, EFelCh and German Interests.

will be issued authorizing the UNDER
taking.
This settlement prevents actual
American investment in the aban-
doned Hankow-Canton line, but it is
the opinion here that American capt.
tai has been placed on an equality.
Washington, D.C.-The news from
Pekin that America would have
share in the Hankow railway loan
was received here with intense satis-
faction. The settlement of the issue
is victory for the State Department,
which has insisted on the fulflment
of the promise made to Minister Con-
ger in 1904. The State Department
has fought successfully the alignment
of the European group which sought
to exclude it. It's victory, department
officials say, augurs we'll for the fut-
ure, as the dispatches from Pekin in
dicate that American capital will be
placed on an equality with foreign
money in the empire.
Z The result is another step in the
consummation of the policy Of the
open door in China, so steadfastly in
sisted on by the American State De-
partment.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-08-25

Is in reality not a tax upon the pr1vil-
ege of doing business, whatever it
may have been meant to have 1t be,
but is, according to the fairest con-
struction, tax on PROFITS.
The officers of the internal revenue
bureau have collected evidence from
all sover{the country as to the number
of corporations, and conferences were
held asE to the methods to be pursued
In. coll Cling the tax. No definite
plan Will be formulated until the new
commissioner Of internal revenue
takes Office. The Congress appro-
priated $150,000 to assist the Treas
ury Department in organizing a spe-
cial force for the collection of the tax.
The officers Of the internal revenue
bureau express the opinion that this
sum will not be sufficient. and the
next session CT Congress will be asked
to make an additional appropriation.
The tax is to be paid on the earnings
os corporations for the calendar year
ending December 81. Returns must
be made before March 1, 1910, and
payment be made before June 80, or
heavy penalties will be imposed.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-08-25
TREES FOR BARREN SPOTS.


Ailanthus trees are not very at
tractive in appearance, especially
when young; and many of them,
though not all, give off an unpleasant
odor during their time of bloom, yet
they possess advantages that more
than counterbalance their poor quail
ties. In the first. place, they grow
very rapidly on the poorest soil and
elso under adverse conditions. They
spread fast, and in comparatively
short time there will be good
growth of wood on piece of ground
planted to ailanthus, or where they
have grown up naturally, that might
be useless otherwise.
They will grow among other and
larger trees, as they can get along
with little sunlight. In this case,
however, they should be cut out at
Intervals so that they will not,
through their rapid growth, crowd
the better trees about them or hold
them back in development. In this
rapidity Of growth they bear a close
resemblance to weeds, and seem to
take the place among trees that weeds
do among smaller plants.
Ailanthus trees are easily cut,
sawed and split, and while the wood
from them will not burn as long as
most woods, it answers fairly we'll
in this respect, but does best when
used with other woods, such as locust,
hickory, chestnut, etc. Posts for
light fencing, such as wire or lath,
are easily and quickly made from
ailanthus. These posts, however,
should be dipped in boiling tar when
green, or treated with some prepara-
tion like carbolineum before being
set in the ground; otherwise they will
rot more quickly than If made from
harder woods.
No insects trouble or harm the foli-
age of ailanthus trees. In fact, in
sects seem to have great aversion
even to the wood itself. 1t therefore
can be used to advantage in perches
for chicken houses, and if boards
from the wood could be readily OBJ
tanned it would make fine lining
for a poultry house. The chief value,
however, of ailanthus trees is for
firewood. With the continued de-
crease of the forests, wood is becom-
ing more and more valuable. Allan
thus trees growing so rapidly in poor
soil, under adverse conditions and
in shady localities, act as substi-
tute for other woods, and thus q
good gain can be made through them
in retaining the better woodland on
the farm.-Indianapo News.
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fndustriaIis1n is %

Paris.-Concluding a series of i'm
pressions of America which he gained
during a recent visit to that country,
Guglieln1o Ferrero. the Italian his
torian, finds that the anti-plutocratic
movement is essentially a struggle
between the old traditions or the
Puritan democracy and civilization,
gold, luxury and PLEASURE repetition
under modern and more complicated
forms Of the struggle which rent
Rome for three centuries.
The rapidity of development,
lightning changes in customs and the
creation of a multiplicity OF new
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-08-25
OLD AMERICA PASSING.
IS Destroying Conditions of Early Days,
FerrerO Says

needs, he says, ,eat up the large earn
ings of the people, who are living bet
ter than the Europeans.
Signor Ferrero believes tiat while
the anti-plutocratic movement Is a
triumph in some directions, it is des-
tined to fail in others.
"Industrialism," says Signor Fer
rero in concluding, seems to be de-
stroying part Of the old-time Amer
lea Of Franklin and Washington and
creating an America less American
than that of the past. When and
where this destruction will cease
no one can say
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-08-25
Among the Workers.

Fourteen countries in Europe pro-
hibit night work for women.
Boston plasterers, now receiving
sixty cents an hour, want sixty-five
cents.
Three hundred Jewish bakers on
strike at Montreal threatened bread
famine.
The latest figures show that the
number of separate unions in Eng
land is close to 1900.
The street car strike in Evansville,
Ind, was declared off after long ne
gotiations. Forty Of the union men
will return to work.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-08-25

London. = Thes first shipment of
Chinese hogs to England bids fair to
be- the last. The Peninsular and
Orient Steamship Company believed
that the carcasses could be brought
in large quantities in refrigerating
slips, and that the trade might prove
a competitor with frozen beef and
mutton.
The carcasses sold we'll in the
wholesale market, but the retailers
find that the public will not have it.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-08-25
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sssssasessa@esa4aas ~Stp~"aAssaSaasAG a
College Girls Less Fond
Of Matrinzony
find Fe1per Children to Mother
Ey President G. Stanley Hall of Clark
Nniuersifu
find :Fe1Der Children to a Mother

the which ended with the
$40 graduates, Of whom by the
married, being 427 per cent Ihe
W. marriages been 3l5 an aver
H. ~ vi of is 199 married mem
ber Of the classes having no chill
Z II OF these children &c died.
: Smith classes ending with and including
being graduates classes
% mother II to
member children OF these
children, died.
decades there
that children
than cent of the
Smith Radcliffe 1907 were
married.
Radcliffe
occupations the business
the total Of both Smith College and Radcliffe
College
100 become phil
library actresses two architects
900 80 occupations
Radcliffe
married and 19 cupaions..
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-08-25
JENNINGS Has Star.

Memphis, Tenn.-How would you
like to be manager of baseball team
and have on your waiting list for next
season a youngster you considered
only about $3.50, and then, when you
were wondering how you would
strengthen next season, to pick up
the paper and see where the $3.50
pitcher had performed in hitless
game in which but one man reached
first base and Is windmilled?
Well, that's just the sensation
Hughey Jennings, the masticator of
incipient hay, had creep over him a
few days since.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-08-25
Exercise fer the Eyes.

An oculist says that shcrt distance
looking is responsible for much of
the trouble women have with their
eyes. He advises them to go to a
high roof and look down, as that will
do in part what long range Of Wis
ion in the distance Of the plains
might be able to effect. Persons
who have wide expanse of sea or
plain to look at do not, as general
thing, suffer with weak eyes.-Louis-
vile Herald.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-08-25
Mutes in Census Work-secretary
Z Uses Them to Operate Machines

Washington, D. C.-Believing that
deaf and dumb mutes will make good
operators for the puncturing and tab
ulating machines to be used IL max
ing up the returns of the next census.
Secretary Nagel, of the L artment Of
Commerce and Labor, is inclined to
appoint them to such positions IL ca
pable ones apply for the places. This
work requires great care in its per-
formance, for the reason that there is
no way to obtain check on the re-
suit
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-08-25
Mint at Denver Robbed-Employe
Allowed Gold to Splash on Clothes

Los Angeles, Cal.-Charged with
one Of the rarestl offenses ever COM
mitted against the Government-that
of abstracting gold from a mint
Charles w. Dakin, an employe Of the
mint at Denver, COL, was arrested
here. Dakin is said to have sold gold
to local dealers in small lots. The
employe allowed the melted product
to splash on to his clothing while at
work in the mint, and then scraped
it off and kept it for his own use and
nrnfit
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-08-25
Around the Bases.
Be It observed that Uncle Cy
Ynnnn ir still In tho game

Be It observed that Uncle Cy''
Young is still in the game.
Connie Mack is believed to have
strings on more than fifty players in
the minor leagues.
Lave Cross is now the manager OF
the Charlotte, IN. c., team and is
PLAYING second base.
Brooklyn runners are again cur
rent that Billy Keeler will be the Sh-
perba's manager next season.
Worcester's sensational third base
man, Hugh F. Bradley, has been
bought by the Boston Club for Sep
tember delivery.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-08-25
How Elephants Sleep.

In captivity elephants stand up
when they sleep, but in the jungle, in
their own land, they lie down.
The reason given for the difference
between the elephant in captivity and
in freedom is that the animal never
acquires complete confidence in his
keeper and always longs for liberty.
The Watchword.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-08-25
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Age Tends TolDard
JMaterialisn1
BY United States attorney Generai
George III. EDickershGnl


sA technical knowledge nave nos en-
] !:
the in social and pohucal ile w.
N ~ 4 accomplishments in their OWL pr
/ the fact that theT trainine I
= technica they have speclalzeo oo go
in cathohc up
y n which sDecal trainin based
the full OF ne
merely technical euueatoa
civilization
and literature nor
aginaionhe value OF poetry ss
inspiring practical results
Importance history OF man.
example, warning and for emulation
development the
exaltng of practical m
tangible OF STUDY
of who nave
practical sciences disposition TO @
and undervue or not at al "
purely technical
greatest discoveries in science
the intellectual awakening which known as the
been
poncn
the
which him subject to
widespread
technical training when ne
with decided
ideals purely technical with broad
opportunity becoming merely engineers
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-08-25
NO CHINESE HOGS FOR THEM.
Even London,s Poorer Strong Prejudice
Against Foreign Porlers

Some 5000 hogs were brought over
on a trial shipment and placed on
sale at the shops for the first time
at twenty-five per. cent. below the
prices charged for other imported
hogs.
But the public prejudice, even in
the poorer classes, was so pronounced
that the butchers had in most cases
to raise the price Of other pork, such
as American and European, before
thew were able to sell II,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-08-25

The government tests at Washing
ION samples of the chain to be used
on the gear Of the Panama canal locks
withstood tensile tests Of $4,000
pounds to the square inch before the
metal parted.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-08-25

There are two Pasteur Institutes
In India. In the last year the one at
Coonor treated $40 cases, only two
resulting unfavorably.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-08-25
A Remarkable Episode.

"What was the most remarkable
episode you ever witnessed?"
well, l once saw woman close
street car door" kansas City
Journal.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-08-25

Jennings has large hawser upon
Frank Allen, college left-hander,
whose parents refused to let him quit
school until he received his degree
The boy couldn't report to Jennings,
so that foxy Tiger trainer traded him
to Mobile, along with George SrSgs,
for Pitcher Lelivelt.
Allen refused to join Mobile and
played Independent ball. Just be-
fore he pitched his hitless game he,
stated that he had not gone down
Mobile" because his arm had been
bothering him, but that he was then
ready to report. /.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-08-25
Warrants Out for Promoters.

Terre Haute, Ind.-Under direction
of Governor Marshall nine promoters
Of boxing matches at Shelburn, all
members of the Shelburn A. c., have
been arrested. Warrants are also out
for Mike Schreck, Marvin Hart
Mickey Ford, of Indianapolis: Will
lam York, Thomas Scanlon and Andy
Howell, all fighters; Harry Rodgers
referee; James Shepard, timekeeper,
and Richard Wernecke, announcer.
Screck and Hart fought here July 26.
Hart's jaw was broken in two places
,od he woe so,--S f-o-, ,Srcc1-nnt
by his trlemus IL the fourth round. 1t
was this fight that led Governor Mar
shall to condemn the so-called boxing
exhibition as prize fight.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-08-25

Los Angeles. vicious assault
made by big Jim Barry upon Phil
Brock, the Cleveland light weight, and
McGinty, Brooks trainer, has done
NOR to hurt the prize fight game in
Los Angeles than any other event
since the infamous O'Brien Burns
fake fight three years ago. Accord.
ing to the most authentic accounts
Barry flew into towering rage over
nothing, cracked Brock over the he Z
with the hard end of a door mop AID
then rammed the broken end of the
thing into the abdomen CT Trainer
McGinty, who had come to Brooks
rescue.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-08-25


programs agtators
charities
ibIe
aspiration
legitimate
furniture rgheousy efficient then
with wisdom and conservation improve their the
conditions Of life.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-08-25
&a1slsass,
fSs~sse<e sss@.aas
5 The Church in Danger
BY the Req. Julian c. Jaynes betcs,e the
american Unitarian Association essGs-.A~se~Aa~sS

years. the Church has been summoned to the bar
of judgment From all quarters of public opinion various
charges have been made The poor say that it is the
cred toy Of the rch and the rich that is panderng to
socialistc notions Of the Some declare that
conservative others that is too radical too
exclusively sentimental others too ncusively practical
The Church. smarng under this criticism part of which
fs has been undlY alarmed tempted ahan
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-08-25
sy z. C. McUane

ignorance theory
I make deaths from heat prostraion
nothing criminal hot brings forth
II Of COOL" people
seldom, il is there
ssesees thing advice An eminent physician
with the suggestion to dress lightly
fannels pork July and August.
will prophet tell
should md drink, will Of itself.
have little knowledge myself,
yman,' therefore. not entitled to teach.
schools nothing
tell
knowledge, had to do?