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The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1909-08-12
Testing Plant Life
on Fort Brown Land
remarkable Results of Experiments Foreign GrOWths In
Guiding Cork Oak and Bamboo Cotton Plants Crossed

oak. The acorns from which these
trees sprang were brought from
Spain. A barrel of the acorns are
being planted each year. The trees
are Of slow growth, but are valuable
when they attain a commercial size,
which is at an age Of about twenty
years. It is from the cork oak that
the cork supply of the world is OBJ
tanned. There is one of these trees
on the Jagua ranch, near Fort Brown,
which is fiourishing at the age of six
teen years II is stated by Professor
Green that when a cork oak has at
tanned the age of twenty years It Is
good for one hundred years of pro-
duction. The cork oak trees which
are now growing in the Fort Brown
gardens are doing splendidly.
The growing of bamboos is anoth-
er feature OF these gardens. owing
to the strong Gulf winds, which pre-
vail almost constantly in the lower
Rio Gande Valley, the need Of wind
breaks to protect the growing crops
Is felt upon the farms, particularly
where certain delicate kinds Of gar
den truck are raised. It is the opin-
ion of Professor Green that bamboos
are the coming windbreaks of the
valley. When planted from the seed
the bamboo stalks make a growth of
twelve feet in one year. The second
years growth is twenty to thirty feet,
and, with irrigation. the stalks grow
to height OF sixty to a hundred feet.
the timber is from four to eight
inches in diameter, and is hard and
straight. This bamboo timber is good
for use as rafters in houses, and is
valuable in a thousand other ways.
BY moistening and splitting, hand
some and durable furniture and mat
ting can may be made from 1t. The
bamboo stalks which are growing up
on the gardens here demonstrate that
they are we'll adapted to this soil and
climate.
The experiments and investigation
that have been made in growing date
palms in the Fort Brown gardens
show that the raising Of this fruit is
domestic proposition in the lower
Rio Grande Valley. The trees thrive
and produce an abundance of fruit.
1t is probable that these gardens Will
have more than 1000 date palm trees
ready for distribution next year.
Exhaustive experiments are being
made with cacti. There are now 225
varieties of cactus growing in the
Fort Brown gardens OF this num-
Der sixteen or seventeen varieties are
perfectly spineless. The enormous
production and great value of the
cactus as forage product are we'll
known to the stockmen of the South
west.
Much attention is given to growing
native fruits, vegetables and grains
in these gardens. A Mexican variety
Of corn, which has unusually long
and thick husks, that protect 1t from
the weevil, is being grown. This corn
is said to be we'll adapted to Texas.
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1909-08-12

Travellers through Servian villages
often see dolls suspended in the win
dows of cottages. The dolls have
nothing to do with child life, but sig
nifty that a manageable daughter or
a widow lives in the house.
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1909-08-12
The aNredlcinen Ration.

The best medicines for the hog are
well-balanced ration including a
wide range of green foods which he
must harvest for himself, freedom
from lice, dry sleeping quarters and
a clean place 70 eat.
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1909-08-12
Dutch Dragging Makes Convenient
Corners and is Simple.

Dragging Dutch fashion" is moth
ing new. learned II more than
twenty years ago. still, It may be
new to some and prove of value. Its
advantages are that 1t drags neither
Jengthwlse nor square across the
burrows and makes easier corners
than the ordinary diagonal dragging.
Plain Dutch fashion is shown in dia-
gram above. Commence by striking
out" from A to B. Turn to the right
and go back on the left side Of first
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1909-08-12
Cardinal Points.

The two cardinal points OF profit
able hog-breeding on the farm are:
(l0 by all means use a pure bred
male: (2l when you have deeld'd
on a breed. don't change.
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1909-08-12

The total number Of negroes in
the United States in the year 1900
was 100000, speaking in round
terms, and in 1900, S,S41,OO0.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-10-06
TAX COLLECTORS ROUNDS.

The tax books of Terrell county,
Georgia, will be open for the pay
ment of taxes for the year 1903 on
and after October IS, 1909, and Will
close December 20, 1909.
will be at the following places
on the dates named below;
New Eleventh District-Thursday
Nov 4th, 8 a. M. to II noon; We'd
nesday, November 10th, 8 a. m. to
y noon; Tuesday, November 10th,
a. m, to II noon.
Old Eleventh DistriCt-Thursday
November 4th, / p. m. to p. m;
Wednesday, November 10th, l p. m.
10 4 p. M; Tuesday, November 18th,
p. m. to p. m.
Fourth (Doverel) District-Frl-
day. November 5th, 8 a. m. to noon;
Thursday, November 18th, 8 a. m.
to noon; Wednesday, November 17th,
a. m. to noon.
Third (Herod) District-Friday,
November 5th, 1 p. m. to p. M
Thursday, November 18th, 1 p. M.
to 4 p. m; Wednesday, November
nth, 1 p. m. to p. m.
ParrOtt Observation-Disclosures, Novem-
Der Sth, 8 to IL noon; Friday, No
rember 18th, to IL noon; Thurs
day November 18th, to II noon.
-Sasser District-Monday, Novem-
Der Sth, 1 to 4 p. M; Friday, No.
vember 18th, / to a p. M; Thurs
day, November 18th, / to p. m.
Twelfth District (811)-Tuesday,
November 9Th, 8 a. m. to II noon;
Monday, November 18th, 9 a. m. to
2 noon; Friday, November 18th, y
d, m. to IL noon.
Brentwood District (1143)-Tues-
DAY, November 9th, / p. m. to p.
m. Monday, November 18th, 1 p m.
10 p. m; Friday, November 18TH,
l p, m. to p. m.
At Court House in Dawson-Mon-
day, November 22nd, 8 a. m. to 4
Q, m. Wednesday, November oath,
> a. m. to 4 p. m; Friday, November
18th, a. m. to p. m; every day
during November term superior
court; every day from December 18TH
to December goth.
On all other dates, except the
above, | will be in my office in the
Baldwin Building, where the books
viA be open for the payment OF tax
sS fvsm 8 a. m. to p. m.
s. d. BOWMAN.
~ @elISssar TsgrsH Oew@tg.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-10-06
GEES THERUM DEMONS FINISH
The Champion Boozers Of Antiquity Have No Modern
Rivals, Says This Bartender

..r+ is nv firm belief" said an in
,.ractual Baltimore street bartender
=. baltimore Sun writer, that the
ovid is getting more temperate ev-
cry day.
.Tbirty years ago, when l received
dinloma and set up practice as
4edgeling bartender, there were
@,I,v 40 per cent. more confirmed al
obolics in Baltimore than there are
today.
ON many trades and professions,
.odaod. drunkenness was so custom
arr It excited no remark. Ninety
.,. cent of the BARRIERS in the city
a that time got drunk every Mon
dow and 80 per cent of the plumb
ors we're half drunk all the time.
.,onq lawyers, big and little, you
ton1dn't find ten teetotalers in the
r,bole town. Among drummers
4bora we're only three-and know
all three OF Ihem.
Among physicians it was almost
&C had The average surgeon of that
dow nerved himself for an operation
NTH kimmel or prunelle. Some of
+bo most popular old-time family
doctors had to be helped in and out
of their buggies. Alcoholism was
common among all intellectual men,
ond even bartenders drank.
To-day there is much less wine
bibhing. The average Baltimore law
yor drinks very little, and the aver
age doctor not at all. Even bar
hers. college professors, plumbers,
nolice captains, ward executives, au-
tbors. undertakers, journalists and
tugboat shippers, all of whom drank
coniously until late in the eighties,
are now as sober as the scholars of
medieval Toulouse.
"A bartender who drinks is now
as rare as the tabled behemoth OF
HOLY Writ. | myself never touch a
dron. save with my fingers. l have
not been really petrified since my
college days, where 1 studied under
old DR.. Hugo Knortz, inventor OF
the cocktail, at Heidelberg.
Il don't know the taste of a high
ball. 1t was invented after had
stopped drinking forever.
The cause of this gradual scratch
ing of the rum demon 1 don't know.
Whatever it's nature it has been in
operation for ages. The men of to-
day drink less than the men of yes
terday and the men of yesterday
drank less than men of last year.
Go back a hundred years and you
will find that wholesale sOusing was
the rule in all civilized lands. James
Boswell, the biographer of DR.. john
son, was a confirmed sot, as we are
informed in Macauley's brutal
phrase.
DR.. Johnson himself, though he
afterward boarded the water wagon,
as often fell off. Many time he
and Sir Joshua Reynolds rolled down
Fleet street at dawn fairly awash
with spiced port.
AT the Thrales Johnson swan IN
small beer; at the literary club he
drank oceans of sherry. On his trip
to the Hebrides with Boswell he was
drunk eighty-three times.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-10-06
PLAYED OWN FUNERAL MARCH
VioIinist Chose Peculiar Method For
Committing Suicide.

While Illuminating gas slowly as
phyiated him Salvatore CerranO, a
,violinst of Chicago, fifty years of
age, calmly played Chopin's funeral
march until overcome by the poison
Gus fumes he died. He had broken
the sas fixtures in order to commit
suicide.
His violin was heard by other
roomers in the house, and soon after
the strains ceased the smell of gas
came.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-10-06
Tunuel Cost sc. OOO. 600

The Gunison tunnel just opened
by President Taft cost the United
States government $6,OOO,0O0, but
it will make available 100000 acres
Of land for settlement, and it is said
the valley OF Umphagre will grow
fruits enough Ser great state.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-10-06

Foley's Honey and Tar clears the
air passages, stops the irritation in
the throat, soothes the inhamed
membranes, and the most obstinate
cough disappears. Sore and in
famed lungs are healed and strength
ened, and the cold is expelled from
the system. Refuse any but the gen.
uine in the yellow package. Daw-
son Drug Ce and Peoples Drug
Store.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-10-06
HAS TOO MANY CHURCHES
CITY OF LONDON MAY DISPOSE
OF SOME OF THEM.
With a Population of 10000 1t Has
80 Churches, the Sites of Which
Are Worth $50, 100000


They are again discussing in Eng
land the plan of selling some of the
surplus churches of the city of Lon
don and applying the proceeds to
church work in other places where
money is more needed BY the city
or London is not meant the English
metropolis with its 100000 or more
people, but the old city, which still
preserves its separate corporate ex-
istence and which has an area of one
square mile. It's population is es-
umated now at about 10000 per-
sons, and most of these are care
takers OF business buildings and
thelr FAMILIES, for excepting a mar
row fringe at the eastern end, where
the city merges into Whitechapel, the
city is given over entirely to bust
ness. This square mile with it's nom
ulatlon of 10000 has no less than
"a Anglican churches, with a seat
ing capacity of 22,3S0, and a total
income exclusive of clergy houses
and rich fees, of more than 5000
600 year. In other words. every
man, woman and child in the city
could be accommodated in the
churches of this denomination alone,
and there would be about 400 seats
to spare. This estimate, it must be
remembered, takes no account of st.
PauIs cathedral, whose clergy re-
ceive $40, 900, exclusive of the $50
900 a year paid to the bishop of
London, and which easily could sup
ply all the religious needs of the
city, says writer in the New York
Press.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-10-06
Religion Comes High.

Many of the clergymen never go
near their parishes at all. The SER
vices are regularly held every Sun
day by poorly-paid curates, while the
man who draws the salary lives COM
fortably in the country.
The church work is carried on at
great expense. The church expendi-
ture in the city of London is s6.16
per head of the population annually,
while in West Ham, a populous and
poor district outside the city of Lon
don, it is four cents.
Some Are Beautiful and Historic.
Some of these churches are worthy
of preservation because of their ar
chitectural beauty and historic asso-
Citations. One is ST. Bartholomew S
the Great, in Smithfield, which is
one of the oldest churches in Eng
land, and one of the most perfect
specimens of Norman architecture in
existence. 1t is one of the two
churches remaining that escaped the
great fire. Then there are at least
two beautiful churches built by Sir
Christopher Wren which no one
would think of demolshing. They
are st. Brides, Fleet street, which
has the most beautiful spire in Lon
don, and ST. Mary lie Bow in Cheap
side, whose tower contains the ia
nous Bow bells, and which is the
home of the historic Court of Arches
where all offenses against ecclesiasti-
cal discipline are tried.
But most of the churches are
neither beautiful nor useful, while
the value of their sites is great, and
it is these that English churchmen
are contemplating disposing of.
Whether the needed reform is car
ried out or not, the necessity for it
lis apparent.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-10-06
An OVer-Churched City.

The scandal of this condition of
affairs is all the greater when one
remembers the crying need for
churches and church workers in 9TH
er parts of the country. 1t is not
uncommon to find clergymen in the
Church of England whose income is
less than $3.50 a year, and whose
daughters have to earn their living
as domestic servants because their
fathers never have been able to edu-
cate them to anything better. The
church papers are filled with appeals
from needy clergymen for financial
aid, and sometimes even for gifts of
old clothes
The over-churching of the city has
its basis in history. Church build
ing was a favorite method adopted
by the pious merchants of the middle
ages for getting rid of their surplus
money, and in the days when the
churches were built the city was a
much more populous place than it
is now. There were 80 churches in
the city before the great fire of 1866.
OF these SO never were rebuilt and
a few have been demolished, but
the churches that now stand were
nearly all built soon after the fire.
and their revenues are based on the
enormously increased value of their
holdings of land and other property
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-10-06
Sites Are Worth 900, 900.

The site value of some of these
churches is enormous. That of st.
Mary's Woolnoth is placed at So
100000. The site of ST. Peter lie
Poer, with an income of $4,000 and
congregation of 80 persons, is val
ued at 100000. The site of st.
Thomas, Charterhouse, is valued at
$500, while that of All Hallows,
Lombard street, is stated to be worth
$4,0OO,O00. The ground on which
st. Michael's and ST. Peters, Corn
hill, is built is valued at $500, 900.
All told, the sites of these dead
churches are worth not less than
$50, 100000, and it is safe to say
that on an average fewer than 800
persons attend the services on Sun
days.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1909-12-24

his return 10 civilization took some Of
the smack off the supposed triumph.
| began to weaken decidedly when
Dr.. Cook left us all without so much
as goodbye. When a man runs
away you can't expect his friends TO
fight for him. and Cooks flight-for
that's what it seemed to me to
amount to-killed all my interest in
him and his affairs Before that
never had reason 10 doubt Cook and
his whole course in the matter seems
ineXplicable to me.
Sick OF the Whole Thinq.
Il am sick of the whole blooming
polar business and | don't want to
hear anything more about the North
pole or any OF its attributes" was the
characteristic way in which Mr.. Brad
ley summed ND his attitude.
Charles Wake, Dr. Cooks closest
personal friend and the only person
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1909-12-24

that has ever interested me much in
that connection anyway
AS for Dr. Cook, | haven't seen or
heard from him since he left the Wal
dorf-Astoria TO go to BrOnXville. to
prepare his records for submission
TO the University Of Copenhagen.
was not in communication with him
while he was at the Grammatan and
as a matter of fact hardly had an
hours solid conversation with him all
the while he was here after his return
from the Arctic
Il discounted this decision from the
University of Copenhagen some time
ago continued Mr.. Bradley. In
common with the rest OF the world |
was delighted with the nrst news
from Dr. Cook, that he had discovered
the pole. His actions, however. and
his failure TO make more than the
meagerest statements which followed
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1909-12-24
BAKING ECONOMY
knots al

By the use of perfect baking powder the
housewife can derive as much economy a.
from any other article used in baking and
cooking. In selecting a baking powder.
therefore, care should be exercised to pur-
chase one that retains its original strength
and always remains the same, thus making
the food sweet and wholesome and pcoduc-
ing sufficient leavening gas to make the
baking light.
Very little Of this leavening gas is pro-
duced by the cheap baking powders, max
ing 1t necessary to use double the quantity
ordinarily required to secure good results
In using Calumet Baking Powder you
are bound to have uniform bread, cake or
biscuits, as Calumet does not contain any
cheap, useless or adulterating ingredients
so commonly used to increase the weight
Further, it produces pure, wholesome food
and is baking powder of rare merit;
therefore, is recommended by leading ply
scians and chemists. 1t complies with all
pure food laws, both STATE and Ma
TIONAL.. The goods are moderate in
price, and any lady purchasing Calumet
from her grocer, if not satisfied with it can
return it and have her money refunded.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1909-12-24
DR.. FREDERICK A. COOK.

as no surprise to scientific circles
here and to many of his friends who
had been prepared for the result by
the early indications that DR.. Cook S
claims would not be favorably passed
upon.
DR.. Cook now is in Christiansand,
Norway, according TO his brother, Will
liam l.. Cook, who said that the doctor
had greatly recovered from the nerv-
Gus breakdown from which DR.. Cook
was suffering when leaving here.
Mr. Cook declared that the explorer
was ready TO go TO Copenhagen to
give the university further informa-
tion concerning his claims
DR.. Cook mysteriously left the Ho-
tel Grammatan in the Bronx Nov "a
where he had gone TO prepare his rec
ords supporting his claim that he had
pears that he sailed Nov q on the
steamship Carona for Naples, where
he remained for several days. This
information was contained in a letter
the explorer sent to his brother. who
said:
DR.. Cook has authorized me to
announce that he is in Europe try
ing 10 gain much needed rest.
and that is all that | can say. At
the proper time my brother will
make statement for publication.
and until he sees fit to do so there
will be nothing for his friends to
do but to respect his wishes and
allow him 10 remain in seclusion.
"FooIed Us ALL" Bradley Says.
He has fooled us all from the king
Of Denmark down." was the exclama-
tion OF John X. Bradley. DR.. Cook S
backer in his Arctic trip, when ap-
prised Of the news frcm Copenhagen.
And he fooled me with the rest. -
Mr.. Bradley added.
las matter of fact" continued
the sportsman. Il long ago lost all
interest in DR.. Cook, the North Pole
and everything connected with it.
Polar bears and the wild life of the
Arctic in general is the only thing
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1909-12-24
New Source For Food SuppIv

Sydney, Nova Scotia.-That Labra-
dor may become an important source
of food supply exporting large quanti-
ties of meat, cereals. etc. as we'll as
her present fish shipments is the opin-
ion of DR.. Wilfred Grenfel the min
istry.
DR.. Grenfell and his bride, formerly
Miss Canadian, OF Chicago. are on their
way from the United Sites to Lab,a.
dor. The doctor is enthusie tic over
the outlook for extending his leeds of
reindeer. imported from Iapland. to
all parts of Labrador.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1909-12-24
COPENHAGEN BRANDS
DIR. COOK A FAKER
Committee of Scientists Declares He Fails
to Prove He Reached the Pole.

Copenhauen. Dec. 21.-The Univer-
sity Of Copenhagen. the first institu-
tion Of earning to recognize Or. Fred
erick A. Cook as the discoverer Of the
North Pole. today solemnIy declared
that the explorer had failed TO esatb-
Ish the claim upon which his high
honors had been based.
The committee appointed by the
university TO examine Or. Cooks rec
oros recently presented its report to
the consistory Of the university which
reviewed the deductions of the ex-
perts with the greatest care, and dis
cussed the findings from every stand
point That both the committee and
the consistory were disappointed was
soon known.
The consstory met and adopted a
written report 10 the effect that the
alleged records submitted for examin-
alton by Or. Cook failed 70 prove his
claim that ne had reached the North
Pole.
The report Of the committee, Of
which Pref. stromgren was chairman.
declares that Cooks papers, as pre-
sented TO the consstory, are without
any value; that his report to the uni
versity Is practically the same as that
published In the New York Herald up
on his return from his Arctic expe-
dtion. The copies Of his notebooks
submitted. the committee says. con-
tain no original calculations of OBJ
servations but only results thereof.
Accordingly the committee concludes
that he affords no proof of having
reached the pole.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1909-12-24

into his claim that he had scaled the
peak of Mount Mckinley in Septem-
ber 1906.
The committee. of which Marshal
H. Sayille. professor of archaeology
at Columbia university, is the chair
man, completed its investigation some
days ago. and its report has been
written and signed. The verdict, ac-
cOrding to Professor Saville, will be
submitted to the directors of the Ex-
plOrerS club at meeting next Fri.
day.
While Professor Saville did not
make any denial when asked if the
report was true that the decision will
be unfayorable to DR.. Cook, from an.
other source information came that
the committee had been unable to sat
isfy itself that the explorers asser-
ton that he scaled Mount Mckinley
had been sustained by any evidence
obtainable. 1t is likely that if the
committee reports decisively against
him. he will be expelled and his
name stricken from the club records.
Professor Saville was asked if the
committee had been able to get all
the evidence it sought
We have gone thoroughly into the
investigations right to the bottom of
it, and our own report will be based
or what we found out, was the reply.
1t was recalled TO Professor Saville
that DR.. Cook, appearing before the
committee last October, had promised
to respond at any time the investiga-
tors desired and explain the points
that might need clearing up. He
never went before the committee after
that, and disappeared from the city
month ago without notifying the
committee. This appeared a distinct
violation of his word. and Professor
Saville was asked if the doctors ac.
Iion had in any was embarrassed the
committee.
You may judge that for Yourself"
was the reply We did expxect DR..
Cook 10 come before us. We extend.
ed the invitations TO him as a matter
of fairness to him and he did not avail
himself TO it,