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Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1910-06-24

The easiest and most effective prun-
ing work that can be done in an Or
chard is with the thumb and finger or
a small knife during the first year fol
lowing the setting of the young trees.
This should include the shipping off of
all shoots but the five or six which
will later make the framework of the
tree, and if this elimination work is
done early in the growing season the
remaining branches will be just so
much more vigorous. If one has the
time at his disposal this work can be
augmented by shipping off the tips of,
the young branches in August. This
will tend to season the wood as well
as increase the diameter of the
branches.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1910-06-24

A Royal Ann cherry tree in Eugene
'ielded 22O0 pounds Of fruit.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1910-06-24
Special
nu.as.nnmua
Excursion
Rates
manEnaHnnzunmzsn
and special train service to
Falls City, july q
Falls City, July Z
RoUND-TRIP RATES OF FARE:
SPECIAL TRAINS
In Addition TO Regular Trains:

In Addition TO Regular Trains;
Leaving West Salem at $50 A. NJ,
Dallas s:1O A. NJ. arriving at Falls
City at 9:45 A. M.
On second trip leaving West Salem
12;45 P. NJ, Dallas 1:25 P. NJ, arriv-
ing Falls City P. NJ.
Trains returning to Dallas and West
Salem from Falls City, leave Falls
City at $40 p M. and $3.50 P. M.
Black Rock and Falls City.
Special trains from Black Rock to
Falls City, leave Black Rock SEAS A.
M and l P. M.
Returning to Black Rock from
Falls City, leave Falls City at 4:sO P.
NJ. and $3.50 P. M.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1910-06-24

Woodburn at last is to have a sys-
tenn of sewerage, something long
needed.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1910-06-24

An Astoria girl weighed IL pounds
at birth.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1910-06-24

A S73 acre ranch near Cresweil sold
for $50 an acre; it may be sold in
small tracts.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1910-06-24

scientist has 40 acres of land near
Stanfeld and has been visitit it.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1910-06-24

a Jasper man. with the aid Of his
dogs. killed two large bears in one dav
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1910-06-24
Foleys
kidney
Pills
What They Will Do for w..

what lney Will Do for You
They will cure your bactoo.
strengthen your kidneys, Cor
rect urinary irregularities. h,,;,s
up the worn out tissues, and
eliminate the excess uric acid
that causes rheumatism. Pre-
vent Bright's Disease and Dia.
bates, and restore health 90
strength. Refuse substitutes.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1910-06-24

There may be readers of these notes
who have fruit trees in their home gar
dens or small orchards which. like
the lily of olden time, neither toll
nor spin," condition of barrenness
doubtless due to too much kindness
and barnyard fertilizers. Under these
conditions the production of fruit next
season may be induced by pruning
such trees rather sharply during the
month of July. including the thinning
out of branches in the body of the tree
and the cutting back of limbs longer
than they need to be. This treatment
tends to produce fruit buds for next
season. The same principle-the pro-
duction of fruit from a reduction of
the trees vitality is sometimes
brought into play accidentally when
tree is injured by cultivator or scratch
I'd by the house cat
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1910-06-24
We Don't Have 10

Fruit raiser near Candy Is building
$1,000 bungalow.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1910-06-24

A cement factory may be built in
Klamath Falls.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-20
AIabama'S Soil Full of HOOkWOrmS

The utmost publicity rather than the utmost suppression should be ap- piled to the hookworm trouble in this state, for now is the time to educate every physician up to a discovery of the pest in patients and the proper treatment of them. Alabama is full of hookworm cases-that is the long and short of the matter. and not one physician In 20 in the rural districts has the facilities for detecting the pest. pr. T. H. Young, a field physician of the Rockefeller commission, says: T am confident that two men cannot rid this county in five years. The soil around many houses, springs and wells Is full of worms. New cases will de- velop, so that eradication is not go- ing to be the task of few months. It will require years.
 'I think the commission should vis- it rapidly all the counties, demonstrate the diagnosis, and treat a few cases. Get the doctors to equip their offices with microscopes. Then the commits sion might pay some for the treat ment of such patients as were unable to pay for their own treatment.
 'It is ludricrous for two men to at- tempt to do the real bedside work all over the state"
 More physicians should be put in the field. The entire state is infested. It is idle to say that hookworms are confined to Houston or Lamar coun- ties. All the counties harbor the pest, and the utmost the Rockefeller doctors can do is to train the local physicians to the task of fighting back the pest. Unless the rural physicians will take hold of the task in earnest the worms cannot be driven out of the state. Let no one call for suppression of informa- tion on this subject What the state needs is the utmost possible publicity and the utmost possible cooperation on the part of local physicians.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-20
BeSSemer'S Fine Showing

Bessemer makes a most excellent showing in the census report It has crossed the 10000 line. Twenty years ago Bessemer had a population of 4544. In 1900 1t had increased to 6354 and in 1910 to 1O,S64. This Is a per- centage gain of nearly 14O per cent in 20 years and of TO per cent in the last decade.
 It is a noteworthy fact, too, that Bessemer has populous and thriving envfrons. It is safe to say that if the limits had been extended mile or two, after the municipal fashion of the day, its population would be fully 15,- 900. Bessemer is really the center of a teeming population. Great mining camps are only two or three miles away and If a line were thrown out six miles for population Bessemer would belong to the 25,O00 class. It is one of the uncommonly solid cities of Alabama, and its growth will be continuous. It has everything to induce steady growth and nothing to hamper it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-20
Commission GoYernment for All Cities

The Florence Times says that if the commission form of government is good thing for the three larger cities of the state it would fit towns of the size of Florence. The lesser towns, it is Said, feel what they call the evils of the old ward system. and they propose to ask the legislature to extend the commission plan to every city in the state that wants it.
 There is no reason in this world why the plan to concentrate responsibility should not be made available in the les- ser cities as we'll as in the three larger ones. State Senator Screws bill does in fact seeks to, extend the plan to any city that will take steps to adopt it in a referendum.
 The Florence Times can count on secur- ing the help of all right-thinking men in extending the commission plan to all cities big or little in the state. Let the Times, however, keep up it's agitation, for some opposition to the measure may arise from the politicians that would be busted from office by it. The bill is destined, however, to go through simply because it is never prudent to get in the way of the will of the people.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-20
AUTHOR AND PLAY

Rachel Brothers, in Harper's Bazaar.
 Another disagreeable thing which a playwright or director very often has to do is to get certain results, to bring certain qualities out of the actor by methods which often seem at the time most cruel and unkind. I remember after this play had been running for some time, Helen Ormsby, who plays the little miniature painter so well, and whom I bless every time look at her being the reincarnation of the character, had lost her first freshness and had grown hard and suited in her scene of breakdown and tears. wanted to make her really cry, to make her go all to pieces herself in order to bring her back to her best work. As walked up and down in front. doing all I could to make her cry, and feeling, oh so sorry--I knew perfectly well she was thinking I had suddenly grown absolutely unreasonable and hard to please, but she forgave me that night when the burst of applause came after her scene
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-20
ToY-MAKING IN GERMANY

From Harper's Bazar
 In and near Nuremberg toys of all most every known kind are made, but 1t is more especially the home of toys that have some metal connected with them; of lead, tin, and pewter soldiers of mechanical toys; of animals that walk and birds that fly; of dogs that bark and dolls that talk; of all the most inconceivably quaint conceits that one cannot even imagine until sur prised into making their acquaintance each successive year. A queer little old man invented the scheme of mak- ing what Is known as the "edifying soldiers" These are of lead, tin, or pewter, and the armies illustrate cer- tain we'll known battles and cam paigns. so that they may be used in the schools for educational purposes as we'll as for play. The warehouse where these armies of metal soldiers are made Is a mysterious old house on a little island formed by one of the picturesque rivers of old Nuremberg and Is called the Troedel Market Here the little old man guards his secret well, and the leaden armies march forth in thousands to delight the hearts of boys the world over.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-20

end 2 cents for each additional pound. No package would therefore carry more than a z5-cents transportation charge.
 The Philadelphia Inquirer, a Penrose organ, tells the republicans that " if they don't give the country this important reform, the democrats soon will, and then they will claim and get all the credit for it." Very true is this.
 The assertion that only the large mail order houses in the great cities would be benefited does not apply to parcels post limited to rural delivery routes, for they could not possibly take advantage of the limited extension as they could a general parcels post. There is in short no good objection to the plan proposed by the President and the Postmaster General.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-20
Mnnta0marY,S Municipal Wharf

The fame of Montgomery's excellent up-to-date wharf is spreading far and wide. The towns in the Missouri valley have heard of it, and they propose to establish copies of 1t all along that great valley. Engineers say 1t is the acme of design and construction for the purpose for which it was designed. Recently over 1000 bales of cotton were hendled from the warehouse at the top to the barges of the boat line, in that time being re- ceived, from the wagons, transferred to the elevator cars, lowered to the landing stage and packed in the barges at the rate of six bales a minute. By the old method it would have taken nearly two days to get that much cotton on a steamer.
 The value of this wharf to Montgomery begins to be appreciated. It now costs but 50 cents to take a bale of cotton from a Montgomery warehouse and place it in the hold of cotton steamer in Mo- bile bay. From the municipal warehouse at the top of the bluff 50 cents covers the entire cost, for a donkey engine lifts the cotton in Mobile bay from the barges to eta a4o int the hold while the steamer Is at anchor In the bay.
 As cotton Is handled, says the Mont gomery Advertiser. so is other freight Montgomery is rightfully proud of it's wharf and it's busy barge line. That town has demonstrated how valuable the rivers of Alabama really are.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-20
THE THEATRE HAT

From the Louisville Courier Journal.
 The Brooklyn Eagle views with alarm the revival of the wide hat nuisance in the theatres in New York and Boston. At concerts given by the Boston Symphony orchestra, according to the Eagle it has been necessary to request women not to wear their hats. The custom of sitting in the last row and wearing hats has developed into habit of sitting elsewhere and not re- moving them Now automobile veils and wide hats are quite commonly seen here and there in the theatre, and the unfortunate wretches who happen to be behind them are kept constantly duck ing and lodging in their efforts to see the stage" A legal remedy is called for before the old-time fashion begins again to be general and theatres look like millinery openings"
 It is to be hoped that a sufficient spirit of courtesy will prevail to pre- vent the recrudescence of the theatre hat evil and the bitter discussion of rights which 1t occasioned dozen years ago. Only the woman who has no consideration for others sits in a theatre with wide hat upon her head, and, in Louisville at least. there are now very few of that type in evidence. There are, however. quite good many thoughtless wearers of wide hats who place the climax of the play in eclipse by beginning to put on their headgear in advance of the fall of the final cur tain. Their bayonet-length hatpins so alarm persons in their vicinity while
 the hat is being adjusted that the disappointment incident to the shutting
 off of the view of the stage is less an-
 moving that the fear of losing an eye
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-20
EtoWah Jail Condemned

pr. ". H. oates, state inspector or aails and almshouses, did humanity d service when he exposed the condition of Etowah county jail. In 1t the races have not been separated, and he de- r,ares the jail unfit for the housing Of dumb animals. much less of human be- ,ngs.
 The county commissioners of Etowah .ra soon +o met and no doubt that pros osrous county will bring its Jail up to standard. The subject has been an issue in the county long time' ana .+ one time a proposed issue of bonds for that purpose was voted down. finder the Oates report something Will have to be done, for if the jail Is not speedily put in sanitary condition Dr. Oates will remove all prisoners from 1t. He has the power to do this and no doubt he has the courage of his convictions.
 Let us hope pr. Oates will De as un- sparing and earnest and thorough Tn every other county as he has been Tn Etowah- The jails of Alabama need good cleaning out The fee system fills the pockets of officials, but 1t does mt conduce to decency and sanitation in the jails themselves.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-20
IN HOTEL LOBBIEs
Population of Alabama Cities

|
 Tt is gratifying to see that nearly all the cities of Alabama of the smaller class have grown" said business man. Selma, with population of 1S.64s, shows large growth, having almost dou- bled in 20 years. Anniston has grown from 9695 in 1900 to 12,744 in 1910 and Gads- den from 42S2 to 1O,557. Bessemer has also done well in crossing the 10000 mark. Bessemer, within a radius of two miles, has between 1S,0OO and 20,Oo0, but only the official census is accepted by the outside world now.
 Tuscaloosa makes fairly good show ing-s4O7-but it will give a much better account of itself in 1920 It will probably then have population of 2O,dOO to 25,ooo.
 'Talladegas growth has been slow with in the past 1C years, but large compared with 1890. In that year it had a popula- tlon of only 2063. Ten years ago 1t was 5O56 and now it is 5s54 Talladega used to be noted for high class whisky trade. I have been told by gentlemen of the old school that about the finest brands of whisky to be found in Alabama were car ried in stock by Talladega liquor mer- SiohtS. u may pe thdl proiilpitioh dc- counts for the recent stunted growth of the town.
 ''As for Huntsville, its census should be taken over again. I have visited that city often within the past five years and have remarked its apparent rapid prog ress Tt is certainly much larger than it was in 1900 and yet the census figures indicate A slight falling off Going back 20 years the official census population of Huntsville has been 1895 in 1890; SOsS in 1900 and 7611 in 1910. My guess would be that Huntsville contains today not less than l0, 900 souls"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-20
NO ELIMINATES ANY MORE

The last words of Mark Twain. The glow Is fading from the western sky. And one by one my comrades, as of
 yore, Have given up their play and said good
 by; There isn't any one for me to play with
 any more. Don't cry, dear heart! for I am worn and
 old; No longer have I largess in my store: Fer loves best gifts to me I could not
 hold, There Isn't any one for me to play with
 any more. I miss the tender hand claps of old
 friends; The kisses of the loved ones gone before: Iris lonely when the heart first compre-
 hends There isn't any one for me to play with
 any more need these loving hearts, so fond and
 leal: I want them in my arms. as heretofore When they are reached-I shall no longer
 feel
 There isn't any one for me to play with
 any more.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-20
FAvORITE FICTION

From the Chicago Tribune.
 'so Glad You Happened In, Mamma! Harry and I Were Afraid We Were Co., ing to Be All Alone This Evening"
 Take Seat, Madam; Your Change Will Be Back In a Moment"
 T Shall Call Your Attention Briefly This Morning, My Friends, to the Fol lowing Passage in the Lesson Just Read"
 Mrs. We're de We're Deeply Regrets That She Will Be Unable to Accept Mrs. shykes' Kind Invitation for Next Thursday Evoning."
 All Our Candies Are Guaranteed To Be Absolutely Pure"
 MT. Isaacs. a Friend Wants Me to Find Out How Much He Can Raise on This Watch"
 Gentlemen of the Jury, All Ask for My Client Is Justice"
 T Just Dote on Shelley; Don't You?'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-20
crRcUs MAxIMUs NO MORE

Laura A. Smith, In the Indianapolis
 Star.
 Alas, nothing remains of the Circus Maximus today. It's site Is occupied by that most unsightly of all modern build ings. an immense gas tank, black and girt about by red iron supports. Old sheds and factories cluster about 1t and even the most vivid imagination can not reconstruct the old circus on Its present site. There is one ray of hope, however. The Italian government has become aroused to the fact that the world pours into Rome not for It's pres ent attractions, but for It's past glories. Therefore, all these unsightly buildings are to go. and the entire territory about which so much ancient history revolves archaeological park in the world. The ruins are to be dug out. If 1t were mine I would build kind of worlds fair structure out of stuff reproducing the old temples, palaces and circuses. It is very hard, especially if your early education in Greek and Roman history has been neglected. to look at a bunch of tottering, crumbling columns and blocks of marble and try to see whole buildings peopled with noble old Ro- mans among them.
 One has but to go to a modern circus to understand the old Roman ones. The shape Is oblong, stretching over 7S0 yards. There were three tiers of seats which were called caves. Down the center of the circus, where the perform ance of the acrobats is given today, was the high platform called the spina. On this were placed the gods. At the beginning of each performance was first a procession around the arena with the gods; these were then placed on their various pedestals. Today the grand entrance and procession of the circus, the riders. the beasts and all the splendor Is the descendant of the splendid procession of the gods and the contestants in the old Roman circus. They were real contests in the Roman ones. Ben-Hur. you remember, played with the blue-eyed giants from the Rhine and the hornless bulls of Sarma- tia as if they were will-o'-the- wisps."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-20
Parcels Post By piecemeal

No matter, how urgently and cogently Postmaster General Hitchcock and Pres ident Taft may urge the establishment of . parcels post on rural delivery routes there will be hot fight when the sub 5ect comes up The four express com panies are big and rich and they will assail the proposition both on the sur face and under 1t. The House committee on postoffice and postroads is known to be packed in the interest of the express companies. Some way will, however, De found to bring the Presidents recom- mendation before Congress before it ad- journs next March.
 The adoption of a parcels post on the rural free delivery routes would be in expensive at the outset and it would prove wonderful convenience on the farms. As a rule the rural free delivery carrier carries about 25 pounds of mai matter when he could readily carry t times as much, thereby serving the farm gxs and at the same time overcoming .hs postal deficit. No one who is not tied to the four express companies will op pose a parcels post limited to rural fret delivery.
 It Is proposed to let rural carriers carry parcels up to Il pounds in weigh at the rate of cents for the first pound
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-20
GoIdnlu smith,s Religion

'"The death of Prof. Goldwin Smith, publicist and man of letters, has natur- ally revised many interesting remints- cences of Oxford, where the eminent man was a student and where he was reguis professor of history, 1SSS-1s66,' said a member of the literary set.
 Twenty years ago I heard prominent Presbyterian minister who had made the famous Englishman's acquaintance at Cornell, say that Smith was singularly cold in his temperament and was decid- edly cynical in his agnosticism. Since then have heard other clergymen speak of Professor Smith as being not only an agnostic in religion but to all extent and purposes a pagan. But even If his views were those of an agnostic or a pagan, it must be admitted that as a literary man he contributed much of real value to the world of letters. His posthumous papers which have appeared in the New York Sun and in one of the magazines have been full of interest and have been marked by grace of feeling as well as charm of expression.
 'Now, just where Professor Smith did stand in the matter of religious faith could never quite make out; but he was unmistakably agnostic and was fretful when writing against orthodoxy as he frequently did. But one who knew him best in these later years, perhaps, was President Schurman of Cornell, has re- gently delivered a lecture in which he holds up and discusses with profound ap- preciation the, departed scholar as a modern Socrates And in that lecture he gives this kindly sketch: The churches of rigid orthodoxy of course denounced and excommunicated him. But he him. self told me he was unwilling to cut him self off from the religious life of his generation, and therefore connected him. self as an adherent, thought not as a member, with an inconspicuous little church in Toronto which he also remem- bered in his will. Thither he went Sun day after Sunday, even after his hearing became impaired. And though the creed of the members of that church was differ ent from his they seemed to feel that In spirit Goldwin Smith was at one with them. Perhaps what he said of John Stuart Mill, whom he calls "the most strictly conscientious man ever knew" may be applied to himself: T have al- ways looked upon him as a notable in- stance of the division which is taking place between the dogmas and the ethics of Christianity, the dogmas remaining with the orthodox, the ethics often going to the infidel. Upon the ethics 1t is to he hoped Christendom, will reunite." Gold win Smith, I say, like Socrates, was reverent inquirer after truth and right, not only in history and politics, but in morals and religion also.'"