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The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-11-05
WISE WORDS.

1t is never too late to mend, but
don't put it off until you forget how.
The fellow who is stuck on himself
is frequently stuck on an insurmount-
able obstacle.
No man knows what large follow
ing he has until he goes to his own
funeral.
Wise is the man who, knowing lit
tie, says less.
Only fool would presume to guess
at the age of an egg or woman.
The only idea some people have of
sincerity is to say disagreeable things
to their friends.
Some girls go to the chiropodist be-
cause they are never happy unless
they have man at their feet.
When man boasts that he never
tells the truth, don't believe him.
He's an Internal liar
People who are weighed in the bal
ance and found wanting always COM
plain that the scales are out of order.
The fellow who puts up bluff at
hustling makes the rest of us tired.
A man never realizes that life is
full of contradictions till he gets
married
If it were true that we profit by
our mistakes, we would be making
them all the time.
The only solution to the servant
girl problem is to engage men. Men
are used to being bossed.
Where charity is concerned, some
give according to their means and
some according to their meanness.
There is quite difference between
taxidermist and taxicab, in spite
of the fact that they can both skin
YOU
1t sometimes happens that when
an American heiress marries a for
eign nobleman she forgets to remove
the price mark-From Musings of
a Gentle Cynic, in the New York
Times.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-11-05
MEDICAL STUDENTS.

Women medical students are win
ming laurels this year Miss jean
nette Miller, of Massillon, Ohio, has
just been graduated with the highest
honors of her class from the Cleve-
land College of Physicians and Sur
geons. The day after her graduation
DR.. Miller took charge of the Mater
nifty Dispensary Hospital in Cleve-
land. She will remain there three
months and then take to private prac-
tice.
For the first time in several years
a woman graduate delivered the val
edictory address for the graduating
class Of the Eclectic Medical College
of New York City. Her name is Miss
Stella Schaffer, and she is also the
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-11-05

prohibitions and restrictions that this
is less easily within his grasp than
within that of his country cousin.
Narrow streets with thronged side
walks overhung by slzyscraping build
ings, crowded thoroughfares where
public and private conveyances pass
to- and fro all day long, and police
men at every corner forbidding
wholesome play, make against the
most healthful conditions for the
child of the town. This assertion
does not, of course, apply to the
broad avenue and the stately man
sion. This child spends at least half
the year in the country. The city
schools have the finest appliances,
the most thoroughly equipped teach
ers and the advantage of the most APP
proved modern systems of pedagogy,
and city children are wide awake,
alert and ambitious at an earlier age
than is usual with children in the
country.
Having admitted this much let me
vote in favor of country life for chill
dren. The lad brought up on the
farm has not only free scope for rum
ming, jumping, climbing hills, fishing
and enjoying outdoor pastimes; he
has, besides, tasks about the home,
the farm animals to feed and care
for, and numbers of things to do that
develop in him real manliness while
insuring his healthful growth. In
every one of our great cities statistics
might be taken that would show how
the country boys forge ahead in the
contests of business and the profess
sions. They come from the noun
tains and the seashore, the sturdy
lads who had their earliest prepara-
tion in district schools and by the
farmers hearth; they come from the
little towns and villages and the
pleasant suburbs and in their young
manhood they take honors in college,
and later on they take honors in
life.
A firm physical basis on which a
sound mentality builds is the best
preparation for success wLen child
hood is over, and in country or city
we should aim at giving it to the
children for the future.-Margare e.
Sangster, in Woman's Home Cons
panion.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-11-05
Brown Rot on peaches.

This fungous disease is one Of the
most common and destructive pests Of
all stone fruits, and is controlled Only
with great difficulty. The disease
passes the winter on mummied fruit,
hence the removal of such fruit be-
fore growth starts, from limbs and
from the ground beneath the tree, is
imperative. The trees should be
sprayed with Bordeaux mixture be-
fore the bloom opens and at frequent
intervals during the growing season.
A weak Bordeaux mixture (2-6-5O)
should be used on the peach when
an attack Of brown rot renders spray
ing necessary, as peach foliage is apt
to be injured by o stronger spray.
Thinning the fruit so that they do not
touch, is one of the best means of
preventing the rapid spread of brown
rot. The selection of resistant varie-
ties is one Of the most important
measures in evading this trouble. The
use Of self-boiled lime-sulphur spray
for brown rot is promising, but is only
in the experimental stage at present.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-11-05
why Truth Goes Naked.

Secretary Meyer, at a Newport
luncheon, answered an interesting
question.
why" naval cadet asked, edo
we always speak of the naked
TRUTH"
Secretary Meyer smiled and an
swered"
There is an ancient fable, and one
very appropriate to this hot weather,
which tells us that on summer after
noon Truth and Falsehood set out to
battle together. They found crystal
spring, they bathed in the cool, fresh
water, and Falsehood, emerging first,
clothed herself in the garments Of
Truth and went her way. But Truth,
unwilling to put on the garb of False
hood, departed naked. And to this
day Falsehood wears Truths fair
white robes, so that many persons
mistake her for Truths very self;
but poor Truth still goes naked. -
Detroit Free Press.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-11-05
CLEAN HOUSES AND
DIRTY TOWNS.
Mary F4eaton Worse Points Out
the Classification Between Home
and Town in Success Magazine

II your city is smoke-laden, If its
streets are full Of litter and dirt, If
every vacant lot Is repository of
rubbish, the individual dustpan and
brush will be of little avail. Even
though your house may be a model
one in every matter pertaining to
health and though you set your chill
dren the highest example, it may
profit you nothing. You can not tell
at what moment your children may
suffer in health because Of some dis
ease-breeding district that you did not
feel it was your business to know
about, or when your growing boys
may come in contact with depravity,
bred by undertaking and overcrowd-
ing.
So, in the final analysis, we find
that everything that has to do with
town sanitation has direct bearing
on the individual household. We
know that Notwithstanding
slums are a menace to those of us
fortunate enough to be living in pleas
ant and well-ventilated homes. 1t
has been demonstrated, time and
again, that clothes made under un-
sanitary conditions, in sweatshops,
are disease-carrying agents. So it is
increasingly difficult to tell where the
business of the home ends and some
body else's business begins. One
thing is sure: the relation between
municipal housekeeping and good
homemaking is a close one.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-11-05
Clearing Up.

Clean up all fence rows and ditch
banks. There is nothing that SO dis
figures Southern farms as the hedge
rows OF bushes and the tall weeds ON
the line Of open bitches and on the
old-fashioned terraces and bitches.
If you think you must have terraces,
make the broad Mangum terrace that
can be cultivated, and prevent the
hideous line of weeds seen on thou
sands of Southern hillsides. But do
not leave piles Of brush lying around
to make the wintering a bore Of
chinch bugs and terrapin bugs, but
burn everything like brush, and haul
the grass and weeds where they can
help in making manure, in the barn
yard. Never burn anything that can
be rotted for humus.-- Progressive
Farmer.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-11-05

GREEN-AND-BLUE A REST CURE.
1t is a comfort to know that if you
wish to get through lot of work all
you need do is to rush to a chalk cliff
or snow field. At a recent medical
convention abroad doctor offered
the idea that there was need of care
full choice of colors in picking pleas
ure resorts. Complete rest, he said,
might be obtained by the shores of
the Lake of Geneva, blue lake, or
on the italian lakes, which are green.
1T seems almost unnecessary to say
that a holiday spent in manufactur-
ing town would have distinctly bad
effect. Gray skies and black earth
would cause depression, with conse-
quent lessening of vitality. My adj
vice to holiday-makers, the doctor
went on, is, spend your leisure as
much as possible in blue or green sur
roundings; or, if it is more activity
than rest you want, make for chalk
cliff or snow fields, which have slim
ulating influence. For the man in
search of perfect rest the ocean voy-
age is ideal. The green of the water
and the blue of the sky induce per-
fectly restful state of mind. New
York Press.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-11-05

winner of the acknowledgements
prize-an electric battery.
A woman from far off Cavite, in
the Philippines, Miss Olive, Salaman-
ca, carried off the Agnes B. Robin
son-Mesner prize in anatomy, given
on competitive examination to a stu
dent of the second year at the Phila-
delphia Womans Medical College.
Miss Ethel Das, who comes from Fe-
rozepore, town in the foothills of
the Himalayas, near Lapore, is anoth-
er member of the class. Both
of these young women will go back
to their native countries to practice
medicine.-New York Tribune.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-11-05
More Important Than Exes.

The pretty young teacher was
struggling to impart spelling book
lore to small Italian boy. "Chief"
was the word under consideration.
Chief" spelled Tony laboriously.
"Oh, now, Tony" she said, you've
left out one letter. Can't you think
what it is?" Tony shook his shiny,
black head. "It's name is just the
same as something you have" she
went on, looking straight into his
eyes. II can see them looking at me
this minute, right out Of your head
two, big, brown ones" "Bugs!"
shouted Tony triumphantly.-
lineator.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-11-05
WHY Deeper Plowing Is Needed.


The value of deep blowing for the
purpose of increasing root pasturage
has unquestionably been much over
estimated Few soils are so hard as
to prevent the entrance Of the roots
OF plants which naturally tend to go
deeply if there were available plant
foods which they could obtain The
chief benefit Of deep blowing must
result from the deepening of the soil,
thereby increasing the size of the
storehouse for holding plant food and
water, A deep soil full of humus is
the ideal soil, therefore the blowing
should be done with the object of OBJ
tanning this end. To pillow soil deep
ly without incorporating with it veg
etable matter to decap and supply or
ganic acids to dissolve the plant foods
In the newly-broken soil may do ac-
tual harm; hence, the usual advice
to plow heavy soils only just little
deeper each year until the desired
depth is reached. Even this process
Is Of small value and may not pay
for the increased cost unless there
are humus-forming materials to be
mixed with the soil.
Sandy soils should be plowed about
the same depth each year, but deep
soil on sandy land is as important, If
not more so, than on heavy soils. To
break sandy soil even seven inches,
that has previously sbeen broken only
four inches, may do temporary harm
If vegetable matter is not incorpor-
ated with the freshly broken sand,
but a deep soil is essential to the
highest fertility and the aim should
always be to obtain such condition.
Heavy, damp soils may be made
more dry and warmer by plowing,
but for this purpose drainage is more
effective. Damp soils that do not
wash are almost always benefited by
fall and winter breaking.
Flowing to destroy insect pests is
not much practiced, but good illus
tration Of the effect of blowing for
such purposes may be given in the
case Of cutworms, wireworms and
corn-root worms, where corn is
planted on lands recently in grass.
These pests are largely destroyed by
blowing the grass lands that are to
be planted to corn in midsummer, in
fall, or in midwinter in cold climates.
DIR. TAFT Butler.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-11-05
BIanching With praln ave.

Drain tile four inches in diameter
and from twelve to fourteen inches
long is sometimes used for blanching
celery on a small scale After the
plants have grown to considerable
size the leaves are held close together
with one hand and the tile slipped
over the plant with the other. Where
only small number Of plants are
grown this method will be found very
satisfactory, but is too expensive to
be Employed on large scale.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-11-05
PRACTICAL ADVICE ABOUT
DIVERSIFIED FARMING
719ttt11

penetrate it freely. These are impor-
tant considerations at all times, and
in all sections, but in our territory,
where the effect Of frost action is
small, the washing during the winter
on freshly plowed soil, may more II
than counterbalance the beneficial eff
fects of the frost action. DIR. TAFT
Butler.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-11-05

A Connecticut farmer planted to-
bacco seeds that had lain in jar
for forty-fve years. The seeds raised
healthy plants and were declared to
be tobacco by factory experts just in
t!@e to save them from going into
the cold slaw.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-11-05

REASONS FOR THE MANICURE.
What is the advantage of being
particular about ones finger nails?
Because to be anything else is sign
of great unrefnement? Yes, but
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-11-05

Omelet With Crumbs-Separate the yoks and whites of
three and beat the yoks thoroughly adding
and salt Take cupful of bread crumbs and soak in
milk that is put in sufficient milk just to the bread
When the bread has absorbed all the milk add it to the
beaten yoks, putting in any milk that may possibly
Whip up the whites OF the and stir in lightly
very slowly and the pan you would
binary omelet
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-11-05
BEST LIFE FOR THE CHILD.

1t would be unfair to things as they
are to say that either country life or
city life is the ideal condition for chill
dren. A firm physical basis should
be sought for, and the child brought
up in the town is so surrounded by
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-11-05
Selecting Corn For Larger Yields.

{.
In selecting seed corn in the field
it should be done after the ears have
thoroughly matured and before cold
weather approaches. If possible, Sc
lections should only be made from
healthy vigorous growing stalks ON
which the leaves and tops have been
allowed to remain until the full ma
turity of the plants. II the ears are
harvested by hand in the usual way,
then let the seed corn be selected
from the field Just before this oper-
alton and select ears from stalks
which are bearing the most shelled
corn per stalk, as such seed when
planted will lead to better yields,
Any method of seed selection that
does not take the plant as whole
into consideration is not COINS to
lead to the best results; for the stalk
and leaves, which are the manufac-
tory of the plant, determine to a con-
siderable extent the size and quality
of the ears. In all our results it has
been observed that those varieties
which have generally been the best
yielders are those which produce
more than one ear per stalk. Ears
of medium length and size are pref
cradle to the long and large ones,
because the latter were generally
either produced on stalks that bore
but one ear, or else on stalks that
grew on some fertile spot in the field,
neither of which tends to the greatest
yields Seed from corn grown on
average land will do better planted
on land of medium fertility than will
seed from corn grown on rich land for
the same reason that stock accus-
toned to poor conditions will do bet
ter on an inferior pasture than stock
accustomed to more favorable sur
roundings.
Do not turn over the selection of
your seed to the hired man, but de-
vote your own best efforts to it, 1t
will pay you handsomely in increased
yields the following year for all the
time and thought you may have given
to this important matter. In fact,
there are but few, if any, operations
of the farm that Will pay as we'll as
the proper selection of seed from the
standing stalks in the field.
BY continually selecting and plant
ing corn possessing certain desirable
characteristics, such as production of
two good ears per stalk, it will be
found, as the selection goes on from
year to year, that these desirable
qualities have each year become more
thoroughly fixed.
In making selections in the field,
at least three to four times as much
corn should be gathered as is desired
for seed purposes the following year,
so that further and more careful Sc
lection can be made after the ears
have been taken to the barn and when
a leisure time presents itself. In the
final selection the ears should be ar
ranged conveniently on the barn floor
or ground, and with an ear Of the
type desired in mind or in hand, go
over the lot and remove all undesir-
able ones. The seed thus selected
should be transferred to box or bar
rel and covered with wire gauze or
something else that will permit of
thorough ventilation and keep out
the rats and mice. Store the barrel
or box in some dry place and let re-
main until the seed are wanted for
planting B. Williams, Director
Agricultural Experiment Station,
West Raleigh, N. c.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-11-05
How Flowing Affects Moisture supply.

How Flowing Affects Moisture Supply.
When land is thoroughly pulver-
ized-that is, when the soil particles
are broken up very fine and of uni
form size-its capacity for absorbing
and holding water is greatly in
creased. Land that is hard and run
together neither takes in so much
water nor does it hold it so we'll. The
depth of blowing also influences the
storage capacity of the soil for water.
The deeper the soil the larger the
amount Of water it will hold.
The capacity of the soil to absorb
and hold moisture may largely infiu-
ence it's tendency to wash. A soil
with a firm, unbroken surface may
wash less than one loosely broken,
but on the other hand, a soil broken
deeply will require much heavier
rains to cause it to wash than when
broken shallow, because of the fact
that the deeper breaking will increase
it's capacity to take in and hold water.
If, however, the rainfall-the accu-
mutation Of water-be great enough
to move all the loose soil, then the
deeply broken soil may wash more
On lands having tendency to wash
terracing and an abundance of humus
in the soil may be necessary to pre-
vent washing, but in such cases deep
blowing will enable the lands to with
stand much heavier rainfalls before
they will begin washing. Lands.
therefore, which have a tendency to
wash should be broken deeply, but
they should not be freshly plowed if
they are to be left without a
growing crop on them--during the
seasons of heaviest rainfall
Flowing may aid the weathering Of
the soil in two ways-by turning up
fresh soil and exposing II freely to the
air, rain and frost, or by opening up
the soil so that the air and rain may
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-01-14
GRIDLEY CLUB TALK
lonia Maccabee Hall Not Availa bic
This Year

lonia Maccabee Hall Not Available
This Year
Although the Maccabee hall will be un-
available this year for the annual banquet
OF the Gridley club. plans are being laid
for the meeting of the Iona county repub-
cans. Three courses Of action are open
to the managers this year. The banquet
can be postponed one year; 1t can be put
off until the new armory is finished in the
spring; or it can be held in one of the halls
in lonia which can be obtained at the
present time. The latter course is the
one that will undoubtedly be chosen
President Ireland is not in favor of letting
year 60 by without the usual gathering
Of the republicans and this appears to be
the sentiment of many others.
On account Of the small size Of the halls
IT will probably be necessary TO limit the
number Of tickets. Not to exceed 800
can be accommodated at the present time.
However, nothing is certain yet although
it is practically assured that the latter
part Of January or the first OF February
will see the annual banquet in full swing.
Steps will be taken very soon to COM
plete arrangements and good program
Of speaking will be furnished as in other
years.-Ionia Sentinel
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-01-14
'OLIVET COLLEGE
GLEE CLUB
Is On Its Annual Tour OF the
State
VIII Come to Belding wednesday
Evening, Jan. 27-Under Au-
spices OF the College

The Ovet college glee club considered
one of the best musical organizations ir
the state, is now making its annual winter
tour through northern Michigan taking r
Lansing, lonia, Belding, Greenville, Big
Rapids and several other cities. This or
ganization has state wide reputation ano
they are out in the interest of the college
under the management Of the president
DR.. Lancaster. The doctor wired Mr.
Myers Tuesday that their date for the
27th was not filled and as Belding was
on the line between Ionia and Greenvile
the company would stop off here for that
night and give an entertainment in the
Congregational church.
The organization has appeared in Ann
Arbor, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo and
other large cities Of the state several
times to crowded houses and it is spoken
of in the highest terms Of praise. The
Ovet college glee club should be greeted
with full house
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-01-14

Rev. N. j. Myers the pastor offered a
fervent prayer for divine guidance in the
important work and for Gods blessing to
rest upon all. E. B. Lapham, clerk OF the
church, read the records of the last an
nual meeting, and also the intervening
special meetings, which were accepted
and adopted He also recounted some
statistics concerning the church since its
organization and read from the church
snsnua some interesting matter concern
ing It's constitution, its bylaws, its doc
trine. tehets and discipline.
From the statistics it shows that the
church was organized December 9th,
1892. with ChaTlss Deyo as pastor,
having membership at that time of
forty. He was followed in the pastorate
by B. v Childs, John Staley. James E.
Butler, Albert Secord and Noah Myers.
The membership at this time is 88 Of
whom SIS are women and 50 men.
The amount Of pledges made last year
for pastors salary and incidentals was
about $l4oo The pastoral year ends
June lst, 1909. Fl. A. Smith. the treas
urer. reported that the sum of S655 OF
the subscriptions remained unollected.