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The Washington bee., 1909-08-14
Dogs Around Blacksmith Shops.

Two or three dogs are nearly al
ways to be found loafing about every
blacksmith shop. This fact Is 50
we'll recognized that detectives when
sent cut after valuable degs that
have been lost invariably visit first
all the blacksmith shops In the neigh
borheod. The reason why dogs visit
the blacksmith shops is that they
love inordinately the odor and the
tasts Of burning hosts. They sniff
the odoT as q woman zntas 3 rsss.
and they eat the hOOf pArings - =
gourmet eats trufnes.-MiHReapSlis
Journal.
The Washington bee., 1909-08-14
A InHR 2aan

An astonishing trance case has
come to light In Berlin. 4 clerk.
aged 46-a healthy normal maH-
suddenly fell asleep in June 1904.
All Efforts to awaken him were un-
successful and the slsspsE since thsn
has never opened hia eyes. He
breathes regularly ana swallows his
food mechanically, bat IL insensibls
to the seYerest attempts ts arouse
him.
The Washington bee., 1909-08-14
Dead Historians.

for my part believe in the dead
Historians. glory In the posses
sion of seme hundreds of volumes By
them. A great deal OF cant is talk
sa ana written on this subject. There
h an idSa IN sene minds that beck
ea htstaxy 70 be good must be new.
In ni0s cases cut Of ten the new book
h 3 commonplace re-statement Of
facts that we're better presented By
"a oldsE wr4ssr.-The Sphere.
The Washington bee., 1909-08-14
Lace Cwsaaaa

Lacs GlnGew curtains sheuld al
ways lie soaked for an hour IA cold
water 20 which = little borax has
been added. before bSlnG pat into
warm suds, Thts gs4g Sat the
smoky smell that = sSmskEmss 80
noticeable Ia curtains that hxVs
haze been used In 9 city.
The Washington bee., 1909-08-14
IAfn In Gormanu.

Every ens who has travelled Ia
Germany is familiar with the word
'Verboten"-ferbiddsa. He hAds lt
is yerboten to almegt everything
which he thinks he has been socus-
toned to do IN ths Unitsa 8tatsA-
Chicago Standard.
The Washington bee., 1909-08-14
A Valuable ReEf

A thirteenth century soppsr sad
silt ciAoriam. Supposed to have come
from Eaimeebury abbey, wss solo
by auction IN LONDON for sS0. .oo0.
The Washington bee., 1909-08-14
Nan aad aWOmap.

4 nAA1s idea OF being styIishIp
aESss& is 60 wear something In
wAasA Ae 1eoks atrociously bad; q
SaMszS te wear something no ether
GSMaa can duplicate.
The Washington bee., 1909-08-14

Hi siT = '7s s4s.S
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-06-01
FOX SAYS he IS INNOCENT
NOW IN ioINIIENTfAT.Y. &AKFS
STATEMENT ABOUT WATSON
MURDER.
Especial to News and Observer

Especial to News and Observer
Wadesboro, n. c., May 28.-The sad
story Of the killing of w. S. Watson
on the night of February IS in a ware
room of the store of w. n. PinkstOn
received another chapter yesterday
when the statement made by John L.
Fox, now in the ~penitentiary serving
a sentence Of twelve years for the
murder of Watson, was made public.
Watson was a rural mai carrier
and was found dead in the ware-room
about midnight. Near the body was a
were Identified as the property Of
John L. Fox, proprietor of a barber
shop and a close friend n ~neighbOr
of Watson. The police arrested Fox
in bed at his home. When the case
was tried Fox did not testify and has
side of the case. A negro Wonan
testified that she was standing in the
door of the room and saw Fox shoot
Watson three times without ~provOCa-
ton. The defendants attorneys proved
that this woman could not have seen
this, standing where she claimed to
have been standing. Fox was CON
victed.
In his statement which is lengthy
and recites all of the occurrences Of
the evening, Fox asserts his innocence
but states that he had beer drinking
Will WdtSOI ana I1uhStoH ali tlE0uSl
the night. He claims that he went
into the Ware-room to get some water
stumbling fell, losing his hat and
glasses and heard voices and three
shots. He states that Watson went
into the room Immediately after him
and spoke to him just before the
shots were fired. o says that when
the shots We're fired he ran out from
the Ware-room by way of the front
door and that some one was just ahead
Of aim. He Immediately went home
but did not know that Watson had
been shot until the police came and
told him several hours later. He in
S1Sts that the negro woman was in
the room and that she knows who the
man is who did the shooting. Fox
pleads for the sympathy of his friends
and also urges all of his a~cQuaint3nces
to let Whiskey alone, for to this h
aScrlbeS his trouble.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-06-01
The Old School Exhibition.

Just as the warm season comes
He pulls himself together
boy, he II 1.-The buring deck
AND minds the weather.
On piney platforms, high and low,
We see him rise and shine;
He tells US Of the soldier brave,
From B1ngen on the Rhine"
And the little girl in calico,
With cheeks like roses bright,
Informs Is of the curfeW
That shall not ring tonight"
And we sit and listen,
The tides Of Memory flow;
Perhaps you were that boy-that girl,
Some forty years ago!
Prank L. Stanton, in the Atlanta
Constitution.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-06-01
You Can't Afford to Buy a PIANO OR ORGAN

About which nobody nov anything except b seler-nor an instrument
that has nothing to commend it Ut a wv price. Don't let a Low price
i'd tn truth of he matter. Try to think ut the problem of time, talent
labor material and non tied up IN u factory. An 1ntelhSent study eff
these facts will ell o n O goo trura car be sol Tor nx to nothing.
reasonable price n get a relable guarantee. When Q ar iaSru-
way from hon there's nobody to complain to, if hing g o wrong.
h greatness of his store, the hing o II which it chiefly prides itself. is its
IONS record of uuare an upright deaing-it is a record of selling reliable
Instruments at he 1Owestp prices to be u in n store, in n part of this
vas country. OF the hundreds of people h ave bought instruments of
attentive and fair. Come in and see how cas- We ca max terms that
will enabe you to u a goo Piano or Orga right here at home, d a
laramie la means something
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-06-01
Why Men Wear Trousers.
providence JournaI.)

lPrONldence JOurnaI.)
No living man of this age eve de-
llberatelN, chose to "adOpt trousers.
He was forced into them and all other
eccentricities of dress by n IN
the very earliest sartorial experience
Of every man he is sWathed in 4 queer
bundle of ncoherent ~bandages by a
woman. Later she puts him into cute
little dresses SO that the ~neigAbOr5
can't tell him from his little sister.
Still later she cuts Off his cErls and
puts him into knickerbockers, and he
puts on long pants when she gives
the word and not before. That is all
that man has to do or eve had TO do
with wearing trousers. Woman
forced him into them in the first place,
and now he is afraid to wear anything
else for fear Of making a sensation.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-06-01

and growing towns and cities. The
statement 1 saw put South Car0Ijna's
population in Texas at nearly $4,000
While crediting North Carolina with
only about 1000. I do not know what
it is now but I would be surprised
to learn that it was less than 1000.
Wilmington, \. c.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-06-01

[ recall that several years ago it
was asserted that Of twenty-eight
states and Territories represented
then in Texas among the inhabitants
there were in all 314,245, and that in
many other States and Territories
there We're a few emigrants to be
found, recalling in all some $4,000
or more. and Of these North Carolina
had but a handful-some three or four
hundred. It is probably different now.
Iexas grew very rapidly in popula-
ton, and now has probably over s.
100000 people. It is of great extent
being about 700 miles in length and
600 in breadth. tits cursed with large
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-19
FOUND AN EM!GRANT CACHE
contained Articles Buried by Party Of
Gold Seekers When Attacked
by Indians.

investigating the truth Of the legend
which told of the attacks of Indians
on party of emigrants bound in 1854
from Missouri to the Rogue River Val
ley, Ore, their fight through Nevada
and their killing of oxen and their
burial OF all except necessary articles
OF travel Mr. and Mrs S. J. Sill of this
city uneafthed few days ago the re.
mains OF the emigrant encampment
ana discovered an oak barrel contain.
ing articles of food knives, scissors.
whisky, nails and hammers and other
accessories of the trip across the
plains in the prairie schooners.
The achievement of the Stills is
looked upon as particularly creditable,
as many searching parties have made
attempts to discover the buried arti
Giles in canyon 40" on ranch 40,
owned by j. T. Cummings of Wood
land.
Cummings assisted the Stills in tn,
search, and after several days thu
buried articles were found and III
'arthed The unearthing of the barre
equired picks and shoyels and severa
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-19
EUROPE FAR BEHIND AMERICA
phones in the World Are in
This Country.

OF 100000 telephones in the world
100000 are in America, 100000 in
Europe and the other 500, 900 scattered
over the remainder of the planets sur
face. Commenting on these recent es-
Inmates and their probable correctness
the National Telephone Journal of
London SAYS:
The reason why Europe cuts SO
poor a figure in con parison with
America is that Tour Or five o. the
most civilized and populoous coun-
tries are extraordinarily backward in
telephone development France, Aus
ira, Hungary, Belgium, Holland and
ltaly-in the first four of which the
telephone is entirely in the hands of
the government-may be tnstanced. In
the whole of France there are less
than 10000 stations. and in Austria
and hungary combined there are act
ually fewer telephones than in the
city of Chicago
ancient cities of universal renown,
counting 100000 or 500 900 inhabitants,
ana moreover Of greater commercial
Importance. such as Lyons, Marseilles.
Naples, Antwerp and Prague are far
behind American towns with $4,000 to
100000 inhabitants, such as Peoroia,
81 Joseph, Dayton and Norfolk, Va,
when few Europeans have ever heard
or; while Vienna, with a population
OF nearly 100000, has not so many
stations as San Francisco. with $780,
600 souls. If the countries of cen
tral and western Europe were as we'll
developed telephonically as even Great
britain ana Germany, to say nothing
of Scandinavia. the comparison with
America would be vastly more fat
tering."
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-19
A Youthful Admirer.

Miss Ethel Barrymore's maria
has not affected her popularity. r
proof of this'lies in pretty story:
Every night during an engageme
in Boston a tiny bunch of violets W
sent to her. She always left the "
lets in her dressing room, but OF
night she pinned the purple flowe
to her belt, and the following da
when the usual fresh bouquet came
her, this scrawl came with It,
Deere friend, Miss Barrymore:
seen you wear my vilets, so kno -
got them Tonight locke at me, | W
be in top gallery first roe in my shi
sleeves and my legs hanging over Il
front of the GALAXY.
Miss Barrymore looked. Her adm
err, bootblack of s or years, W
In the place and attitude he had pro-
Used, and she rewarded him with
smile and nod of recognition.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-19

dairy COW, is returned to the soil be
cause butter-fat is not a plant food,
As somebody has aptly said, but
ter and sugar are nothing more or less
than crystalized sunshine. 1t is
carbon. If We grow up the dairy cow
on the farm, keep her there and make
her product into butter, sell nothing
but butter from the farm, and when
the COW passes her period of useful
ness We compost her and put her bones
and fesk back into the soil, We have
not removed anything in the way of
plant food from the soil.
But, besides that. the physical con-
Gition Of the soil has much TO Go with
its producing power? Many soils
in shis state that will not produce pro-
ftable crops today are in that condi-
ton, net from the fact that they do
not contain enough nitrogen, phos-
phoric acid and potash, but from the
fact that a poor system of farming has
depleted the soil Of vegetable matter
-humus-and the soil has gotten into
poor physical condition In order TO
have a productive soil We must have
vegetable or organic matter in it as
we'll as soluble plant food
When we grow crops and sell them
from the farm we are removing all the
vegetable matter from the soil and in
a short time we will get that soil in
such condition that We cannot grow
profitable crops because of the fact
that its physical condition does not
make it congenial home for plants
to grow in, but when we feed those
crops to animals and put the manure
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-19
pAlavIno AND SOIL FERTILITY
value Of Herd on Farm and the
Care Of the Fields.

Plant food is stored up in the all
and In the soil. We do not have to
bother ourselves about the plant fooe
stored in the air. the plants have
way of getting that food, the carbon
and oxygen of the air, so the farmer
does not have to worry about Ii. Many
of the plant foods in the soil are very
abundant so the farmer does not have
10 bother with them, says the Michi-
gan Farmer. We do not talk abo II
iron as plant food yet plants cannot
live without iron but all soils contain
sufficient iron to grow maximum crops
for an indefinite period of time. There
are other elements of plant food which
are not sufficiently abundant in all
soils to maintain profitable agriculture
for any considerable length Of time.
The three most important of those,
the three essential elements OF plant
growth, are nitrogen, phosphoric acid
and potash, and so when we talk about
fertilizers We always confine ourselves
to the three essential elements OF
plant growth, nitrogen. phosphoric
acid and potash, and the plant gets all
CT these from the soil
When you grow crops upon the soil
those crops take OFT of the soil these
elements. II we sell these crops from
the farm to get our income, we simply
sell the nitrogen, phosphoric acid an
potash from the soil. If we raise hay
and wheat, and oats, and corn, and
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-19

| potatoes, and ship them out TO feed
/ the people of the world, we are simply
mining the nitrogen. phosphoric ACID
and Potash which kind Nature has
Gerosited in the soil; we are taking II
out CT the soil AMI shipping it away
to feed the millions of the world
On the o her hand, if, instead of
taking those crops which are produced
here and selling them off the farm,
we first feed those crops TO an animal.
what is the result? On careful in
vestigation we find that the animal
does not utilize, does not need, all OF
he nitrogen, phosphoric acid and
potash which the crop took out OF the
soil for its growth and sustenance.
The balance is waste product and
can be returned to the soil in the form
OF manure. The percentage of the
plant food which can be returned de-
ponds somewhat upon the age and
nature of the animal 10 which we
feed the crops, for instance. young
growing animals. where they are de-
veloping bone and muscular tissue,
take more nitrogen and phosphoric
acid from the soil because they have
to develop bone and tissue, which are
composed largely of these elements.
When we grow those animals and fat
len them on the farm and sell the
carcass OF the farm to get our profit,
we sell that much more plant food
than We feed those crops to the dairy
COW and manufacture the animal pro-
milk--into butter, because in
that case, practically all of the plant
food the crops took ont of the soil,
which furnished suStenance for the
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-19
WhY Run Risks?

A Canadian author wrote an anthcl
for a recent celebration in Toront,
Toward the end Of the exercises
when the people were going out fe'
at a time, the author rushed to tn
conductor and said:
lis 1t over?"
Practically
But great Scott, man, they haven
sung my anthem"
well" said the conductor, 80 Ion
as the people are going out PEACEFUL
and quietly, why sing it at all?"-Sa
urday Evening Post.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-19

back in the soil We have practically
saved all the organic matter. None
goes OFF the farm: it is put back into
the soil and maintains its physiesl
condition. Now IL people will become
interested in dairying there is no rea-
son why the soil cannot be maintained
at its present dcgree of fertility and
more, it can be Improved and what
is the use of waiting until we cannot
grow good crops on our farms before
we commence this better system of
agriculture.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-19
What VIII the Doctors poa

There are, it is estimated, 1860. 0Ot
persons in the United States who. in
stead of calling in physician wher
they are sick, resort to some one o.
the many forms of drugless healing
Of these systems at least two-third,
are mind cures" Ten years from nov
Judging from the rate of increase dur
ing the past ten years, there will be-
55,000000 persons relying on non
medical methods.-Van Norden Mag
a2ine.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-19
hours work in a deem CANYON.

According to legend the emigra
were pursued for several days by
Indians, who shot many of their OK
and they were forced to make the (
on foot. In order that the jour-
could be made the more quickly fr
the hostile country of the redmen
barrel of articles which has jus: be
unearthed was buried. --Berkeley {
respondence San Francisco Call.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-19

The color of the eggshell is no in
dex TO the flavor, nutrment or other
qualities OF the egg itself. according
to government experimtns. This
does not mean that all fresh eggs
taste alike or are equally determined
by the feed, and conditions under
which the fowls live The age of the
shell has also something to do with
the case.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-19

In flock of sheep there is always
a little attention that is necessary just
before the Landing season, 1t is not
alone such things as have 40 do with
the successful growth of the lamb,
but with the well-doing of the mother
as well
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-19
Profits in Advertising.

The fruit growers who make the
most money are usually the men
who sell their product by means OF
business like advertising. Several
growers Of our acquaintance sell
all their best fruit direct TO private
customers
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-19
And He Wasn't Hurt.

Can | recover?' gasped the injur.
ed man
No, | fear not, replied the physi-
cian shaking his head.
But your wife can assured the
Damage suit lawyer from the other
side of the bed Houston Post
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-19
Fully Exclaimed.

How much amused Mrs. Pinkletop
seems to be over her husbands stupid
jokes
Yes. It's the only way she can
get new hat ont Of the brute"
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-19
Touching.

I'm almost sorry / went into mol.
ictios."
Why SOP"
It's heartrending to meet so MANY
prominent citizens who are dead
broke"
sssna,sssaa ~ t1asy,-,z~-st
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-19

Our photographs are art work
they are true portraits, bringing out
all that's best in character and indi
vidualty. LIE Blocks studios.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-03-26
"MOTHER LOVE"
DROVE WOMAN TO
STEAL REDES BOY
Family and Police Now Search
ing for Kidnapped Youngster
on This Theory.
CHILD WAS GREAT PET.
Mrs. Redes, Nearly Insane with
Grief, Believes Her Baby Is
Hidden Near His Home.
CHILD WAS GREAT PET.

"T have wept until there are no more
tears. Ny child has been stolen"
The mother OF Tony Redes. the four
year-old boy who disappeared from in
front OF his fathers mea, shop at
Seventh avenue and Eighteenth street
nearly six weeks ago, spoke. She is
now convinced her boy was kidnapped.
The police and the neighbors and all
who have been interested in the boys
DISAPPEARANCE are also sure he was
stolen.
That mother love" prompted the
stealing OF the lad is also the belief OF
the family and the police. The search
Is now for some women chldless 0,d
OF middle age. who knew and admired
the child.
Puzzling as Whitla Case.
The mother OF Tony has grieved over
the loss of her boy all these long days
and nights. and scarcely any one out
side the block in which the family lives
mas kho"h ahE'h'ng Oh .n's '''o'hef
terrible SORROW me "ho'e 'ouh'!
was aroused over 'he disappearance Vi
the WhitIa poy-re"ards o' 'nousa''uS
oi doiIars were oilefeu ahc ne ponce "
a dozen states and thousands OF pro-
fessional and amateur detectives as
sisted In the great search.
Not one whit more dear to his moth
efs heart Is While Whltla than Is H.
tie Tony Redes. whose disappearance
"alle NOT so theatrical IS Just as h'ys-
terious,
lohy's parents are poor HIS iather'
hu'cher' oHereh y" lot MS poS return
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-03-26
,CAS1RO, BLOCKED,
RAILS At GOMEZ
When French Steamer Refuses
Garry Him to Venezuela
He Frees His Mind.

BORDEAUX. March Eff | am a
criminal why haven't my accusers the
courage TO allow me TO return to Venez-
uela and defend myself" exclaimed
Ciprlano Castro to-day. when an agent
OF the French steamship company OF.
flcIally informed him that lie must leave
the steamer Guadeloupe. on which he
sails to-day. before that vessel reaches
Venezuela.
The former Venezuelan President Was
furious at the action taken by the steam.
ship company. He entered an automobile
and was driven to the offices Of the COM
pany, where he INDUCED in q TRADE
against President Gomez. OF the Re.
public
All | ask Is a fair trial" he declared.
Il am prepared 20 accept the result. The
| Refused OF Gomez to permit me to enter
! Venezuela Is overwhelming proof that
/ they have no case against me, but real.
lie that II ! set foot on Venezuelan soil
their game is up"
! Castros protestations were all In
vain. however. and he had to accept
| tickets to Port-of-Spain Trinidad only
HIS words here leave no doubt Of his
intention to try to organize a revolu-
ton to overthrow his enemies and re-
establish himself at Caracas.
After Castro returned to his hotel
from the steamship Office he had a long
conference with Mr., Roy, the agent
OF Paris company engaged In the
manufacture OF arms 1t is believed
that the matter OF shipment Of arms
was discussed
AS the party was leaving for PAUL
lao, where they Will go on board the
Cuadeloupe, Carmelo Castro the for
mer Presidents brother said the Pres.
ident" was awaiting important tele-
grams which might affect his pla.s
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-03-26
CANADA TO GIVE SHIP.
Dominion Thinks II should share
Naval nurde of Britain.

OTTAWA, Ontario, March ?S.-The
Canadian Government will make an Of
fer OF naval assistance TO Great Britain.
Since the announcement Of the British
naval budget there has been a feeling
in Canada that the Dominion should
take share in carrying the naval
burden OF the British empire Up 10
this time Canada enjoyed the protection
Of the British navy without contribut-
ing toward It's support. Canada now
proposes TO offer aid to the mother
country. but will inquire what will be
the most acceptable form.
The feeling among the Canadian min.
listers In that the Dominion should build
a Dreadnought OF possibly two Of them
and control their movements, probably
USING them In the training Of nsva
militia. should war break out the 81
vessels would be placed at the disposal
OF the British naval authorities.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-03-26
SUPERRLUOUS HAIR
DISAPPEARS
LIKE MAGIC
Lady Will Send Free to any Sufferer
The Secret Which
Cured Her.

From childhood was distressed and
Inundated by an unwelcome growth OF
hair on my face and arms. tried all the
depila'ories. powders, liquids, creams and
other rub-ou preparations | ever heard OF,
only to make II worse For weeks | SUI
tered the electric needle without being rid OF
my blemish. | spent great deal OF money
on various things 10 vain. until friend
recommended a simple preparation which
succeeded where all else failed