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The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-05-12

five, seven, or more in well-defined
spots, which he terms ''oases," like
so many spokes converging in a
wheel-hub. In other words, there Is
nothing haphazard in the arrange
ment of these canals as Professor
Lowell sees them. They are to him
so artificial that they are the SYM
bols of an intelligent race who have
sunk all political and international
disputes in the one vital problem Of
postponing the day when their orb
must eventually dry up and they
themselves perish.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-05-12
900 Converts at Yakima.

North Yakima, May 12.-As the
by Charles Reign Scofield, who has
been conducting revival meetings in
the Christian church, over 900 con-
verts have been secured.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-05-12
4 True SOutherner.

Senator Beveridge was praising the
savoir-faire of southern congress
man
His savoir-faire. said the sena-
tor. never deserts him. I once sat
next to him at a banquet. Sudden
ly there was a Gathering fall and a
clumsy waiter spilled a plate of soup
clear down his back. He just bit his
lip
1t was thick soup | asked for,
he said, in slightly reproachful
voice to the man. Washington
Post
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1909-10-07
THE ESSENTIAL STEPS
In Making Cotton Despite the
Boil WeeviI in South
mississippi.

I. Reduce your acreage. Where
a family has planted II or IA acres
in cotton let them plant 6 or 7.
This must be done to keep the cot
ton perfectly clean, well worked,
and in growing condition. Boil
weevils will eat up your cotton if
it gets grassy. Remember this.
2. Plant your thinner upIands-
lands that will make cotton quick
ly. A rich, rank-growing, late
bottom land is no place for cotton
with the boil weevil. 1t will not
make the seed you plant on it.
These lands should be in corn,
anyway. Even on your warm up
lands it is best not to plant cotton
where the stalk will grow. over 8 Il
or 4 feet high. Be sure to give
plenty of distance. Air and hot
sunshine are fatal TO the weevil.
8. Burn every cotton stalk on
your place before Oct. 18th this
fail. Experience has proven this
to be by far the most important
factor in controlling the weevil. If
you don't know the reasons for
this get the State and United States
bulletins and learn them. You eau
destroy your stalks for so cents an
acre, and by SO doing you are IN
suring your cotton crop, IT you
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1909-10-07

From Boy TO rlan.

A seventeen-year-old boy talked
with me freely but a few nights
ago. And while he talked | no.
ticed that in thought, in action, in
experience there was more of the
man than the boy. And yet but q
little time before l knew him as z
boy; and tomorrow when l play
ball with him out under the skies,
he will be a boy again. How
strange a mixture he is! Where
does the boy cease and the man
begin?
But no study of boyhood will be
quite fair which fails to take notice
of the critical years from sixteen
up-critical under any conditions,
doubly critical if we have not
reached the boy before his later
teens.
In the earlier period he has faced
the personal physical temptation;
now he must meet the social evil.
Its pleasant to STIR up the sub.
ject OF the social evil. There are
many more pleasant things to talk
about, and there are sins not SO
repulsiye with which Christian
men would prefer to deal. But
the social evil is here; and the
young fellow who listens to you in
Bible class, or who ushers people
to their places in the sanctuary on
Sunday morning, or who visits
your daughter is sup against this
temptation; and, all too often, has
gone down because of the Ignor-
ance imposed upon him by silent
home.
Such young man needs the in
struction Of Christian physician
but he needs it before he is poll
luted. He needs the friendship
in a peculiar way of a virile, sym
pathetic man, who can help him
over places which he, as a boy,
had to climb.
Long before he is twenty-one
The boy should have outgrown the
process of playing recipient, and
should be doing for others. If
there is one secret of attaching the
boy to. the church which the
church has been slow to learn, it
IS this: The boys religious life
seeks expression, and usually finds
40 chance for it,
The young man Of eighteen to
+wenty-one makes a capital "big
brother for some homeless little
chap; it win keep them both
He may make a choiceI
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1909-10-07
AN IMPORTANT rIATTER.
Labor Should Be Encouraged to
Remain on the Farms.

Commenting on the Reveille's
article, keep the Labor Here, =
the Fayette Chronicle well says
The foregoing is timely advice,
applicable to Jefferson county as
we'll as Claiborne. The removal
of the labor from the county would
mean disaster; lands would be rem.
dered valueless except as a specula-
ton and the hope of securing 9TH
er labor; the absence of labor will
necessitate the closing of stores, for
the merchant is dependent on the
agricultural laborer for patronage;
an exodus of labor would mean, to
a great extent, depopulation of our
towns; our doctors and lawyers and
even our county officials are depen-
dent for prosperity on the labor
which tills the soil and produces
wealth.
It IS true that the business out
look is dark, and the prospect of
fair returns on investments in the
immediate future are not roseate,
bit what will these prospects be a
year or two years or ten years
hence if the labor Is permitted to
become discouraged and leave?
The negroes who labor in the
fields as we'll as the white farmers
need moral as we'll as financial en-
couragement from the stable busi-
ness intrests and the land owners.
We all feel that brighter day will
dawn and new era Of prosperity
will come-why not talk about that
instead OF holding membership In
the calamity howlers' brigade.
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1909-10-07
Teachers Recital ct Port Gibson
Female College.

On last Friday evening the peo-
pie of our town were given rare
treat in the Faculty Recital of Port
Gibson Female College.
Early in the evening the doors
of the College chapel were thrown
open to the public and an appre-
ciative audience soon filled the
hall.
The platform of the auditorium
was simply and tastefully decorat-
ed with ferns and cut flowers,
making pleasing background for
the performers.
Miss Herring delighted her hear
ers by her skilful rendition of sew
eraI piano solos. Her dextrous
finhering and true Interpretation
place her in the rank of artists.
The selections given by Miss
Boykin were well chosen and re-
ceived munifcenl applause. Miss
Baykin is a gifted reader of pleas
ing address who easily gains and
holds the sympathy of her audi
ence.
Miss Stephens is already known
to US as a singer of extraordinary
talent Her solos were peculiarly
adapted to her voice, and brought
out its clear lyric qualities in notes
that were truly bird-like.
The College management is to
be congratulated upon having such
gifted young ladies as members of
its faculty.
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1909-10-07
farm Department

on the other part they were allow
ed to stand until in the spring be
fore planting time. Forty acre:
on the farm on which the stalk:
were destroyed made IS bales,
Forty acres on the other farm
made 8 and Il bales.
Experiments conducted by the
Louisiana State Crop Pest Com
mission are summed up in the fol-
lowing extracts from circular No.
28:
"Where the cotton plants were
destroyed before October IS, only
3 per cent of the weevils survived
the winter to infest the present
years CROP. "Where the cotton
plants were destroyed before Oc-
tober 18th and October 27th, an
average of about IS per cent of the
weevils passed through the winter
successfully" Where the stalks
were destroyed between November
Ist and 25th, an average of approx
imately 22 per cent of the weevils
survived the winter. "Postpon-
ing fall destruction of the cotton
stalks until the middle of Decem-
Der, or later, permitted over 43
per cent of last seasons boil wee
wills to survive the winter and at
tack the next CROP.
AS noted above where the stalks
were destroyed before October I 5th
only 8 per cent of the weevils pass
ed the winter. Where the stalks
were destroyed on December 18th
over 43 per cent of the weevils
the winter. These figures
will certainly silence all opposition
to the early fall destruction of cot
ton stalks.
No definite rule can be laid
down to the exact time for uproot-
ing and burning the cotton stalks
in the fall. However, the rule
should be to uproot and burn the
stalks at the earliest possible mo-
ment in the fall. 1t is much bet
ter to uproot and burn the stalks
on or before October 18th and burn
a small amount of cotton than to
defer the work until later date.
Some farmers say that the cotton
cannot be picked out before Octo-
Der 18th or November Ist and the
stalks destroyed. | just simply
say to such farmers that they must
pick out their cotton before Octo-
Der 18th or November 1st and up
root and burn the stalks or they
will have very little cotton to pick
0ut next year.
Now let US all do our duty. De-
stroy our cotton stalks and there
BY burn hordes of weevils in the
immature and adult stages. About
line tenths of the weevils that es-
ape the fire will starve for lack of
ood. Only very small per cent
will survive the winter.
G. H. AFFORD,
Special Agent, Fayette, Miss.
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1909-10-07

IL
Nothing but gutter will Civ
up at the first approach Of adversi
ty, and our people are not cutters
Cheer up, and cheer your neigh
bor with words of faith in the fiji
ture of this fair land of ours. Jef
ferson county, with All altogetheI
unfavorable season. and with al
unusually bad infestation of weevils
will, according to the estimates OF
very conservative business men,
make forty per cent of a cotton crop,
and the biggest corn crop in years,
aud the cotton and cotton seed are
bringing the best prices obtained in
several years, and, fits any con-
ISOLATION, there are lots of folks in
the world who are worse off than
we, so let's have cooperation-com-
munity of interest, to certain ex-
tent-and work together for the
common good; this is not a time
for pessimism or selishness.
Let's get ready for fair fight
with next years crops of weevils
by burning the cotton stalks as
quick as the last boil of cotton is
picked-within the next two weeks
if possible, and not later than No
vember 1st by all means; we are
assured that this will starve most
of The weevils which will other
wise hibernate and live through
the winter. Burning stalks is the
first lick in the fight, and usually
the fellow who gets in the first
lick wins in any kind of a fight.
Don't neglect to burn the stalks
and let the weeviIs get in the first
lick next spring.
Our business community can al
SO render substantial service to the
laboring class by advising against
the foolish sacrifice of corn at 6fty
or sixty cents per barrel which it
will be necessary for them to buy
back at materially advanced price
next spring.
Let the proper disposition be
shown and we VIII have no trouble
in keeping the i Dor here-Fay-
cite Chronicle.
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1909-10-07
JEFFERSON COUNTY OIL.
Indications Are Good and Expert
Will Begin Drilling In
Course of Few
Weeks

Fayette, Miss, Oct. 2.-(Speci-
al, Mr.. H. B. War6eld, represent
ing Haywood Bros, is here today
and states within the next two
weeks he will begin drilling for oil
on Mr. Abijah Hunts plantation,
about ten miles distant from Fay
cite.
Mr.. Warfeld stays the indica-
tions are excellent for striking oil.
He has worked In the Beaumont,
Anse La Butte, Jennings and Caddo
fields and should be very good
judge of indications. Natchez
Democrat.
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1909-10-07

do not destroy your stalks you may
not. Burn every cotton stalk by
Oct. 18th.
| q. Make fine mellow seed bed
for your cotton by preparing your
land well. If this is done your
cotton will get off in hurry in the
spring. Cotton can not come up
and grow off well in mass of
clods. Break well and use the
harrow.
S. Use sparingly of stalk-making
fertilizers, either homemade or
commercial. Nitrogen makes
stalk while acid phosphate hastens
fruiting. Remember this, and in
mixing fertilizers for cotton cut
down the amount of nitrogen as
low as possible. Put most of your
nitrogenous fertilizers on your
corn.
6. Plant only early maturing va
riety of seed. Triumph, Simpkins,
and Cleveland Big Boil are all
good, ranking about in the order
named. But try all three of them
if possible, as different conditions
might produce different results.
Every man should test for himself
several of the best varieties and
keep those that are best.
7. Practice rapid, clean cultiva-
ton. Experience has shown that
where a field is allowed once to
get grassy the weevils will ruin it.
Rain or shine, cotton must ke kept
clean and growing if you are to
make anything despite the weevil.
s. Destroy all punctured squares
that fall. By doing this you de-
stroy young weeviIs that would
produce millions of destructive off
spring later on. Squares can be
picked for the entire season for
$I.5o or 200 per acre, and it will
pay you.
9. Write to all the experiment
stations in Louisiana and Missis-
sippi and the U. S. Department of
Agriculture at Washington for all
their publications relating to the
weevil. Too few people are well
informed concerning this most Sc
rious menace to the south's cotton
crop.
The above, IN brief, are the es-
sential steps, as worked out by
two years careful observation and
experimentation, in making cotton
in spite of the weevil in South Mis-
A chain is no stronger
than its weakest link, and not one
Of the above essentials can be ne
elected. Experience has proven
that their careful, conscientious
observance will result in from 70
per cent to 90 per cent of a normal
cotton crop. The non. observance
means crop failure.
B. L. MOSS,
Special Agent, U. S. Department
of Agriculture.
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1909-10-07

. leader of Bible class of younge
boys, but the school has been re
luctant to try him out. Giving
him a few papers to distribute a
a Sunday school session or few
books to gather up is no adequate
channel for the expression of the
surging life that bounds within
him. He needs a higher rating;
and when we give him that, we
will be little concerned about
"holding" him. We may even
have to be alert to keep up with
him in his zeal.
Said a young chap to me: "I'm
a failure; | shall not be a credit
to anyone" My reply was:
"Keep steady, old man, I've been
through it, I know the sensations.
When | was at that period of my
life, older men had faith in me,
and came through all right. So
will you. Be satisfied that you
know two things: That there is
sin, and you don't want it to rule
you: that there is care for sin
in the acceptance of Jesus Christ
as a personal Saviour.
~
And SO even while we are look
ing at him and wondering at the
changes through. which he is pass
ing, our boy will grow to man
hood. What kind of man will
he make: The kind of man we
want him to make, IF WE WANT
THIS IN REAL EARNEST. l live but
one life, and may live that one all
too poorly, but ! have a vision of
a better life, that some man COM
ing after me may live.
I spend my time, my thought,
my money, my very self, in impart-
ing that vision to a few young |
boys. They see It'll They 1--we it!
And my life, weak and faulty, is
reincarnated in theirs, stronger, |
finer, greater than I have ever
dared to be.
Is it worth whileP
Eugene c. Foster.
The Delta independent., 1909-03-19
New Christian Tabernacle
Successfully Dedicated.

The dedication of the new tab
ernacle last Sunday was a great
success. At the morning and
evening services the handsome
sum of S2525 l3 was given in cash
and pledges. and others not pres
ent will add to this amount so
the $50 0 asked for will probably
be reached. The series of evan
gelistic meetings closed the same
evening, there being So acces-
sions to the church and the church
left in good condition for future
growth and service. Evangelist
Doris goes to Paonia for . short
meeting and to dedicate the
handsome stone church just COM
pleted. He made many warm
friends while in Delta and &C.
complished a great deal of good
by his powerful preaching.
The Delta independent., 1909-03-19
VIM. SILSBY, Delta. Colorado

to foreign lands. The number is also
profusely and beautifully illustrated
and is printed on good grade of book
paper. That fruit growing is profitable
in this section of Colorado may be
learned from sworn statements of or
chardists which state that apple or
chards yield net returns of from $500
to $500 and 500 per acre, per annum.
That is going some. e.-Cannonsberg,
Pa, Daily Notes.
The Delta independent., 1909-03-19
Several Hundred Deer
around Gunnison.

Ranchmen coming up from lola re-
port deer everywhere on the rocky
points, and one herd of nine elk has
been seen. The animals seem to be in
pretty good condition. but the hard six
weeks of the winter are ahead and it
may be necessary for the state game
and fish commissioner to attend to the
feed question.
Snow is not so deep along the river.
indeed it is sinking to foot, but feed
on these lower foot hills is now well
used up in the fall months by the cattle.
The Delta independent., 1909-03-19
Fine Sample of West
ern journalism.

Will Sprowls of Cedaredge, Colo
rado. has our thanks for a copy of the
resource edition of the Delta county
(Colorado) Independent. This paper
contains is pages of interesting matter
pertaining to the great resources of
this prolific section of the great Cen
tennial State. Delta county, which is
noted for its fine and abundant fruits
Last year was an off year for fruit in
Western Colorado, yet 100 carloads
of fruit were shipped from the county
to various sections of this country and
The Delta independent., 1909-03-19

Deer are in quantities on Alder
creek. and in fact along the low
er valley points. A bunch of
eighty head is reported near
Stewards peak. Tuesday w. II.
Corum, superintendent of the
state fish hatchery here wired
the state game and fish commits
sioner about the matter. The
commissioners are feeding about
twenty five at the county farm
on Beaver creek.
The Delta independent., 1909-03-19
Youthful Horse Thieues.

Claud Woods and C. G. Chap
man, two Delta youths, were ar
rested Sunday in this city for
stealing a couple of horses-one
from young Woods father and
one from VIM. Heald of Delta.
The boys appeared at the Gill
livery barn about four O'Clock
Sunday morning much the worse
for booze. The horses also were
in a deplorable condition from
over exertion. After few hours
sleep at the stable the young
men rose up and started out to
seek more liquor which it is said
theyIwere able to secure in some
wny.
About this time word came
from Mr.. Head who had reached
Olathe in pursuit of the fellows
asking that they be held until
his arrival. When he arrived it
was learned that one of the
horses belonged to him and was
valued at $400. He was very
much chagrined when he saw the
condition of his horse and inn
mediately telephoned the Delta
county sheriff to come up and
get the boys. He signified his
intention of prosecuting the boys
to the limit on the charge Of
horse stealing. The other horse,
il is understood, belonged to the
father of young Wood. Mont
rose Enterprise.
The Delta independent., 1909-03-19

For SALE-New modern room house
on South Main street $4,000. Inyesti-
gate at once.
WEIGH & MERRILL.
The Delta independent., 1909-03-19
Reward
s, ,28621

Record, p. 2:I5a. Sire Of 7
Standard Performers:
Helen Gould, p, 2:O94
Way Back, p., 2:12i
Echo, 2:194
Juliet, D.. 2::14a
Little Girl, p. 2:173
Uno, p., 2:19
Jimmy Hards, p. 2::22A
The Delta independent., 1909-03-19
FIRST NATIONAL
A n k
DELTA,

Al Delta. In the State Of Colorado al the close
OF business. February 5th. 1863.
The Delta independent., 1909-03-19

Will make the season
of 1909 at $500
the season. Prop
erty of VIM. Silsby,
Delta, Colorado.
The Delta independent., 1909-03-19
p, 6Z.Zo
and here is the proof, Read it

Being letter the condition of the market from Mr. a. W. w
South Water Street Chicago of the largest most extensive
addition market the letter contains valuable ss
the profits his orchard
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-05-14
DR.. HIRAM BINGHAM RETURNS . .
FROM LOST CITY OF lNCAS

last year which was digging for buried
treasure.
"To get there required weeks hard
travel from Cuzco, the ancient capital
of the Incan empire. Most of the time
we were hanging on to the side of n
mountain almost by our eyelids. We
had to descend into n valley 5000 feet
deep, cross an otherwise impossible
river by suspension bridge made of
four telegraph wires. wade through
jungle for sixteen miles. and then
climb up 5000 feet. Choqquequirau lies
at an elevation of about $4,000 feet.
~ believe that the place was fort
built by the Incas to protect them
selves against attacks of the Amaze
MAN Indians. / found traces of forth
fications made measurements, opened
two graves and found many interest
ing relies. The buildings are made
not of the finely-wrought stone of the
palaces in Cuzco. but of rOughly-hewn
stone cemented together. and the in
teriors In some cases are piastered.
The houses are not unlike In appear
ance to some of those of New Eng
land, a story and half high with "a
gable on one end.
1.-The old waterworks remain, and
several reservoirs are in good condi-
tion. There are three separate groups
of buildings besides the fortifications,
and on three sides of the place are
steep precipices."