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Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1909-10-02
OBJECTED TO BEING SHOCKED
Partisan Purveyor of snalls Went Too
Far in His Efforts to Prevent
Petty Larceny.

Electrifying shop wares to prevent
larceny is an ingenious practice in
Paris. A man who sells snails near
the Bourse found that gourmets in
passing frequently 'pinched" a hand
full of them and disappeared. He had
a brilliant idea, and connected the
wire baskets in which the snails are
offered for sale with an electric bat
terry in his shop. When a genuine
customer came along he cut off the
current. The snails themselves were
permanently electrified without appar-
ent harm. Anyhow, they did not OBJ
ject audibly, and they seemed just as
good to eat after the treatment as be-
fore, when boiled and seasoned. But
a party of schoolboys passed the shop
and 'pinched" some of them. They
had no sooner done so than they set
up bowls which brought crowd. In
quiring bystanders touched the snails,
also, and similarly yelled. The cur
rent was not strong enough to kill
the snails, but transmitted a shock
which made the shocked persons
dance. Having recovered, they rushed
into the shop and went for the shop
man. Some of them were dancing
upon him and others were wrecking
his establishment when the police
came and rescued him.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1909-10-02

The yellow pines of the eastern and
southern states are being cut at the
rate of 13,O0O,O00,000 board feet a
year. The total stand at this time is
approximately 40O,OOO,OOO,OOO board
feet.
One discouraging condition on cut
ever lands in the southern states is
the lack, for various causes, OF ade-
quate young growth. Much of the
cut-over land has grown up to scrub
oaks with very little widely scattered
pine reproduction A realization of
these unfavorable conditions is be-
coming apparent all through the
south, and there is a manifest inter-
est in reforesting such lands.
Successful renewal of southern pine
forest lands depends essentially up
on conservative numbering and ade-
quate protection from fire. The prob
lem of fire protection, however, is both
a serious and difficult one.
Reforestation of southern pine
lands can probably be effected by di-
rect seeding, but such efforts would
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1909-10-02

BY seeding grass seed in the fall
the seeds of weeds as we'll as those
of grass terminate, and the early
frost will then kill the terminated
weed seeds and not hurt the germi-
mated grass seeds.
In this manner weeds that might
otherwise do positive injury to young
grass are put out of the way alto
gether.
1t must be remembered that grass
seed and cereal grain seed will germi-
nate and grow at much lower temper
atures than most of the really hurtful
weeds.
Those weed seeds not terminating
will not cause annoyance to the grass
plantlets when those plantlets have
once become we'll established. Fall.
grain seeded with grass will help To-
hold a covering of snow upon the land
during the winter and so tend to
shield the grass from harm.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1909-10-02
LOW COLONIST FARES TO THE
WEST AND NORTHWEST.

Union Pacific Passenger Depart
ment announces that Colonist Fares
will be in effect from Sept 10 to Oct
is, 1909, to all points In the West and
Northwest.
This year the West looks more
promising than ever. Now is the time
to secure land at low prices, and, at
the same time, to visit the many inter
esting points in the West and North
west, at which liberal stopover ar
rangements may be made.
A better estimate of raw lands can
be made now than formerly, because
these lands are in proximity to new
farms that are producing wonderful
crops.
For descriptive literature, write
to e. L. Lomax, G. P. A, U. P. r. r..
Omaha Neb
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1909-10-02
BENEFITS DERIVED
BY FALL SEEDING
Many Injurious Weeds Are
Destroyed by Planting erase
Crop in FaII-By w. Hanson.

There are farmers everywhere who
cling most tenaciously to the notion
that fall seeding of grass with fall
grains is best that they obtain bet
ter stand and a better yield of hay
than from spring seeding.
This fact suggests that the business
of farming is not one Of absolute but
of relative achievement. The kind of
soil. lay of land and condition of
weather, all these operate seriously as
to results.
What may be successfully carried
out in one locality, one field, will not
do in another locality and in another
field.
The fact that frequently better and
more hay may be secured through fall
than through spring seeding in some
cases may be attributed to the follow.
ing reasons:
1t may happen that the soil is of
loose texture and is easily worked !;
one that otherwise cannot long retain
moisture in the early summer and in
times or drought; wnere burning on
of spring-sown grass might follow, and
where location of field is such that in
the winter the snow will evenly cover
it, thus preventing it from freezing
and heaving out.
When grass seed is sown upon early
plowed grass sod the autumn-even
very late-is better time for seeding
than the spring.
At season when rains are fire.
quent there will not be as much rea-
son to bring the sod into good capil-
lay action as there would be in the
spring, at a time when the young
plants are forced to depend in a
grGa, measure on the store of moist
IRE that the land has accumulated dur
6 :.&e w.a.e:.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1909-10-02
VALUE PAINTED ON.

Well painted is value added wheth.
er the house be built for one thousand
dollars or ten thousand. Well painted
means higher selling value, and high
er occupying value - for there's an
additional pleasure in living In the
house that is well dressed.
National Lead Company assist in
making the right use of the right
paint by sending free upon request to
all who ask for it, their "Houseown-
ers' Painting Outfit No. 49," This
outfit includes book of color schemes
for either exterior or interior paint
ing, Dock of specifications and an
instrument for detecting adulteration
in paint materials. Address National
Lead Company, 1902 Trinity Build
ing, New York City. and the outfit
will be promptly sent to you.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1909-10-02
Pests Worried by Pests.

Since the Dutch philosopher Leu
wenhoek discovered that the pupa OF
the flea was sometimes preyed on by
the larvae of mite, it has been we'll
known that various small insects have
their external parasites. And re-
cent communication to the Complies
Rendus of the Biological society Of
Paris by M. Bruyant, shows that many
mosquitoes carry about mites in the
larval stage. Those described belong
to four different genera. They prob
ably feed on the integumentary
structures of the mosquitoes.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1909-10-02
Like Weeds in a Niqht.

"Of course children outgrow most
youthful vocations," said the observer.
Little girls grow too tall for cash
girls, little boys spring up out of the
size of bell hops in a night or two, it
looks like, but the most pathetic
specimen of sudden and untimely out
growing is the flower boy who sells
roses in the downtown Italian cafes,
who one season stands hardly higher
than the table, looking at you so visit
fully out of big, sad Italian eyes that
the money comes out of your pocket
of itself, and the next season towers
over you like football player, all the
sympathy you felt for the infant
flower seller crushed by his gigantic
size"
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1909-10-02
Life of Asparagus Beds.

How long will the asparagus bed
last? A suburban market gardener
says he has a large bed about 20
years old which has about run out.
The roots have grown a thick mass
all over the field, says the New Eng
land Homestead. The rows of sprouts
have widened until it is difficult to
cultivate at all and the stalks have
become small. Repeated losses by
winter killing have left large gaps in
some places. To renovate such a field
is hopeless job and to kill out the
asparagus is almost equally difficult
Perhaps the easiest way to reclaim
the land will be to chop up the surface
with wheel harrow and SOW to oats
and barley, followed by rye. 1t will
take several seasons to kill out the
plants. It may be said here that an
asparagus bed will last much longer
than 20 years If the plants arc set in
wider rows and farther apart in the
row. Plants which have plenty OF
room for their roots will send up large
sprouts when so years old in land we'll
MANFRED and clean. In the bed above
mentioned the plants were crowded
only six inches to foot apart. with
!cza thaa scGr ccc. between the roWx
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1909-10-02

prove futile unless the lands were
protected against fire. The Forest
Service has made plans for several
private landowners and companies in
the south for direct sowing of pine
seed on the permanent sites. Because
of the more rapid growth of loblolly
rlne it is preferred where the soil and
moisture conditions are favorable.
The feasibility of establishing loblolly
pine plantations by sowing broadcast,
on prepared ground, has been deter
mined by experiments and by observa-
ton on the natural reseeding of this
tree on abandoned fields The perpet-
uation of loblolly pine on sites suited
to it is therefore not matter of much
concern. But there are vast areas
on which the less eXacting but slower
growing longleaf pine is the only one
that will thrive. Artificial regenera-
ton of longleaf pine, either by sowing
seed or by transplanting seedlings, is
still in the experimental stage. Long
leaf pine seedlings grow very slowly
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1909-10-02

Pictures in the Alexander Museum.
In the afternoon we went to the
Alexander museum, very beautiful
building between two gardens, which
was once the palace of the Grand
Duke Michael Palovitch, and made by
Alexander III. into a national museum
of arts.
The pictures are all of the modern
Russian school, some of them very
fine, and among them many by Vere-
schagin-scenes of the war of 1912
with Napoleon and a number of his
small oriental paintings.
After looking at them we walked to
the Alexander Memorial church, built
over the spot where he fell, which is
preserved under a canopy of bronze,
the rough paving stones upon which
his blood was spilled looking very
pathetic among so much gold and
mosaic.
The church, which cost 100000
rubles, is most gorgeous in color, the
interior being entirely of mosaic, and
in the sanctuary, into which l was al
lowed only to look, the silver candle
labra and the icons are most costly
st. Petersburg Letter to Vogue.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1909-10-02
REFORESTATION OF PINE
LANDS in THE SOUTH
Successful Depends Essentially Upon
Cons laundering and Adequate
Protection

in height for the first four to six years,
but in the meantime develop long,
fieshy taproots. This habit OF growth
makes it very difficult to transplant
them successfully and makes some
method of direct seeding necessary.
A planting plan for the lands of
the Graniteville Manufacturing Com
pany, Graniteville, S. c., has just been
prepared by the Forest Service. The
plan provides for direct seeding of lob
Jolly and longleaf pines on about 500
acres. 1t recommends that loblolly
pine seed be sown broadcast on the
cleared lands which occur on the
lower slopes. Longleaf pine seed is
to be planted on the high seedy land
Ia seed spots, prepared about six feet
apart each way. The plan also in
cludes detailed directions for prepar-
ing the ground and sowing the seed.
1t is estimated that the cost OF
planting will be about $3.50 per acre
for broadcast sowing of loblolly pine
and about $685. per acre for seed
spot planting of longleaf pine. A con-
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1909-10-02
Devices for a Sore Foot.

The sufferer from enlarged joints,
better known as a bunion, usually is
in great discomfort in hot weather.
There is device that will give relief
by protecting the bunion from rub
bing of shoe.
This is a simple piece of leather cut
and bent in such a way that it fits
smoothly over the portion of foot
where the bunion is. The casing Is
lined with soft felt and an opening Is
provided for the enlarged joint, while
the surrounding leather holds off the
shoe. The protector is so shaped that
there can be no rubbing from a bad
fit
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1909-10-02
When the Umbrella Took Fire.

Thomas Simpson, the Detroit MALE
able iron man, is a grave and dignified
person, but once he made joke.
He was sitting with a party of
friends, one of whom was smoking an
enormous cigar. The friend had diff
Guilty in keeping the cigar going, and
by his repeated lightings had frazzled
the end of it until it was about twice
it's original size. But he kept bravely
at it.
Suddenly Simpson began to laugh.
what are you laughing at, Tom?"
asked another member Of the party.
81 was wondering what Jim would
do when that umbrella he is smoking
begins to blaze" he said.-Saturday
Evening Post.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1909-10-02

sentative estimate of the time re-
CURED to produce merchantable crops,
tho yield of each pine and the total
cost Of producing lumber, per thou
sand board feet, compromising the
initial investment at four per cent.
are about as follows:
Loblolly pine, 40-year rotation, 49,
900 board feet per acre; cost per NJ
board feet, $685..
Longleaf pine, 7O-year rotation, H.
900 board feet per acre; cost per NJ
board feet, 1857.
Thus anything above $3.65 for lob
lOl.y stumpage will be in excess OF
four per cent. compound interest on
the investment. 1t is also apparent
that unless the stumpage value for
iongleaf pine advances considerably,
plantations of this pine will yield con-
siderably less than four per cent,
return. On the basis OF the estimate
the cost at three per cent compound
interest would be $4.47 per thousand
board feet.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1909-10-02
Feeding English School Children.

For year or more the Nottingham
school authorities have provided
meals for pupils whose parents were
too poor to feed them sufficiently.
About 500 children, representing some
200 families, are now being fed Ar
rangements are made with several
restaurants to supply breakfasts, din
ners, or both, to children showing
proper vouchers. Each month approx
imately $4,000 meals about equally
divided between breakfasts and din.
ners are supplied. costing roundly
$3.50 GSoGt for cents a neal.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1909-10-02
And All with Company There.

Now, children" said the mother,
as a whole roomful of company had
come in, suppose you run off and play
by yourselves"
"All right, mother" replied Edith.
Can we go up and play hamlet and
Ophelia?"
Certainly" smiled the mother,
while her guests looked on at the
tableau.
"Goody!" replied Edith; then, turn
ing to her sister, she said: Nov,
Maude, you run up to mammals room
and get all her false hair that you can
find."-Judge.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1909-10-02

Recent dispatches from Paris told of
the arrest of a quartet of American card
sharps who were accused of swindling rich
tourists from their own country at Euro
pean watering places. 1t is sad day for
the Yankee crook who gets caught fleeing
people by means of cheating at cards on
the other side of the Atlantic. l was in
Italy some three or four years ago when
the police of Naples bagged a couple of
American gamblers who had robbed we'll
TODD and unsuspecting countrymen of
theirs of large sums of money One of
these men was formerly in the United
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1909-10-02
Adjustable.

Aunt Anne, an old family darby,
was sitting with knees crossed in the
kitchen, when the young daughter of
the house entered and, impressed with
the hugeness of the old woman's feet,
asked what size shoe she wore.
well, honey" replied. Aunt Anne.
IT kin wear Fights; / ginerally wear
mines; but desc yer Use got on am
twelves, an de good Lawd knows dey
hu'ts me!"-Everybody's Magazine.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1909-10-02

Although the United States govern
ment has force of shrewd agents con-
stantly on the watch for opium smugglers
at oriental ports as well as in American
cities, the willy Chinks are forever bringing
the drug into the United States without
paying a cent of the tremendous duty
about 100 per cent-imposed on it by our
tariff law.
A pair of Chinese sailors were caught
in my town the other day who had several
hundred dollars worth of Struggled opium
which they had brought over in a freight
steamer from Canton. As this boat had
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1909-10-02
FREE LANDS IN WYOMING.
& North Western Railway.

Send for booklet telling how to Sc
cure 800 acres of u. 8. Government
lands in Wyoming free of cost, and
describing various irrigation projects
and the most approved methods Of SCI
entific dry farming. Homeseekers'
rates. Direct train service from Chi
cago. w. b. Kniskern, p. T. NJ. Chicago.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1909-10-02

to lift very suddenly palmleaf fan in direction at
right angles to the plane of the leaf e., lift it 'fa
wise" The handle of the fan will snap, due to the
resistance offered by the air. The same fan can be
lifted more slowly, however, without injuring it.
This explains why the force of dynamite is Eek
erted downward" In scientific parance, the iner
tia of the atmosphere is greater than the cohesveness
Of the rock.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1909-10-02
Opium
SMUGGLING
Never
Ceases
By Capt. A. H. CHENNEvILLE

making regular trips New Orleans for months it
thousands dollars the
Chinese sailor gets low but he hide few
tins of the poppy product and dispose of in the first American
he reaches he will fortune After the stuff gets the
hands of a local dealer he finds a ready sale for it,
The enough for
smoke at cost of 25 cents Opium fend will four
these cards day when they have the price, and they will
in the calendar get the whwith for the indulgence
umng passion
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1909-10-02
Strictly BusinessIike.

He-American girls who marry for.
eign titles don't deserve any credit.
She-They don't ask any; they pay
rash.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1909-10-02
Exploding.
Carries with
Equal Force in
All Directions
By G. WELLESLEY BRABBIT

YNAMITE explodes with equal force in all directions IhiS
in response query by E. B. Barnard That force how
ever manifested all other forms of force in the
direction of least resistance AS Mr. Barnard says he pop
uar belief is that expodes with greater force downward
Like most popular beliefs it is founded experience wrongly
interpreted BY explosion mean speaking physically
the rapid transformation of comparatively small mass OF
liquid solid into enormous mass of gas. A cubic
inch of gunpowder when gned, is changed into many
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1909-10-02

cubic yards cubic inch of dynamite when vbad given
shock uch from decorating cap) transformed into ire
Dynamite placed of slab of rock and
then exploded will blast the rock gnpowdr similarly placed untame
little the rock The lies in the difference
time necessary effect the change from the solid Cor qud) form to
gaseous The gunpowder who combination the
solid gous) from different molecules in
therefore require comparatively long time to cause the
Explosion In dynamite or ntrogyn) the combining elements
hydrogenare the moecu hence the suddenn
and violence of the explosion.
the slab shattered by dynamite and not by gnpowde
less resistance the sudden explosive force than
consider the weight of the
atmosphere ordinary attitudes that the exploding dynamite
must do one of tngeher lift with almost instantaneous sud-
whole of the air pressure above else break the slab 1t
latter With gnpowder the comparative sownes of combustion
push the atmosphere than to
break the rock principle be illustrated by attempting
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-01-05

ACTING upon the suggestion of Gov
ernor Fort, the Board OF Pardons, at
its session in Trenton Tuesday, paroled
eighty-tiveState prison convlcts with
a view to relieving the overcrowded
condition Of that Institution. 1t
should be understood that in follow
ing the. Governors suggestion, the
Board had careful inquiry made into
every application for parole and only
granted those that possessed some
claim to clemency. In every case the
views Of the public prosecutors in the
several counties as to the propriety of
extending parole to the convicts were
solicited and duly considered by the
Board. This exercise of the latter's
power to parole prisoners would be
considered very large under ordinary
circumstances, but something had to
be done to relieve the congestion in
the State prison and there was no
other way available. The parties pa
rolled will be subject to surveillance
for the unexpired part of their sem
fences at least, and upon their good
behavior will depend their newly ac-
Quired freedom. 1t is worthy of re-
mark that so far as known the parole
system in the State has worked WE'LL
very few of those extended that Glenn
ency having violated the terms upon
which it was granted.N
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-01-05
Misses Garments

2566-M Misses ivy -pece Circular skirr.
closing with buttons down lpft side OF
front and having all invected DIX pIait at
cenee- back scam. One of the fail,' most
p.npn'ar models, made up in van,t "a
elt'eh. serge, G" 'vtat or tweed 33szts-
Ii to lTyeara 2482- Misses SIX TT closed
az left side. wish an Inverted hax-plait as
centeT-hack seam and with or withous
center 'front.' am Any of the sea,onabie
striped suitings make no well in this ssyle
8 siges-lS 30 Ia years 26H4-Misses'
Jumper dress, with an Attached one pieoa
plated skirt end SEPARATE guimpr. hav-
Ing long or three-quarter sleeves. In light
weight flannel, Cashmere or nuns'-yeilinr
trimmed with bias bands of striped ma
5erial, this Ia suitable for the every dav
aress OF best wear. sizes-l4 60 II YEAR,
243f--Misses Fve-gored Empire skirt
In challts. foulard. pongee, nuns Yelling
or voile.- this is simple ana becnminG
style for he slender girl. sizes--l8 Co II
years 2S91--Misses' Nine Cord Plated
SKIRT Thl' some of the most popular lf the
piaited mooels Made up in serge, cheyiot.
tweed or mohair; 1t is an excelltn5 skirt
LOT scnooi OF general knock about wear 4
izts--14 to II years
Free 10 cents. Address Tfa nhro.,o,.
Fashion Department.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-01-05

es some rare carrier pigeons. One pair
from Minneapolis to Boston, the last
thousand miles of it through driving
storm. The birds are of the same
breed as those that accompanied An
Dire on his dash for the pole.
Fumes so strong that all metals In
a town sixty-tive miles away are turn
ing black, while birds are dying in
great numbers and the eyesight of
many people far away is affected, are
the remarkable results Of the great
flow of the Mexican oil well at Dos
Bocas. Mexico. according to consul
lar report
Heretofore table salt has been made
from rock salt by the tedious process
of dissolving the latter and evaporat,
ing the brine. An Englishman has In,
vented a plan by which the rock salt
Is melted, then aerated by compressed
air, which leaves the salt pure and
white and free from impurities, which
the air drives out.
#. G. Hilton, president of the Egypt
Exploration fund, announced at the an
nual meeting the discovery In ono
of the excavated cemeteries in Egypt
of the bodies Of many pet dogs. One
Of the animals had ivory bracelets
round its legs, while several had col,
lars Of twisted leather. one with a
leather lead attached,