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Connecticut western news., 1910-05-26
One of Trauers' Jokes.

When William R. Travers was in the directorate of the New York Gen. tral railroad Jay Gould was running the Erie in opposition, and his man. agement of that system betrayed a constant and intimate knowledge of what was going on in the Centrars star chamber. Commodore Vanderbilt was naturally eXasperated, and one day, after expressing how helpless he found himself to outwit his rival, he turned to Travers with the query:
 ''Well, Billy. how can we stop Gould from getting knowledge of what we are doing?"
 "W-w-why." suggested the genial wit-"w-w-why d-don't you m-m-make him a d-d-director of the N-N-New York C-C-Central"
Connecticut western news., 1910-05-26
HAND THINNING OF FRUITS.

When danger of frost is past and it is apparent that the trees have set more fruit than their size would seem to indicate that 1t will be possible for them to bring to good sized maturity, hand thinning should be resorted to. This will not only reduce the number, but will at the same time improve both the size and quality of the fruit re- maining, the total weight or volume of fruit not being reduced by the process, but simply being confined beneath fewer skins. The thinning in most of the western orchard districts is done when the apples are about the size of a shelled walnut, and the practice is to leave no fruit on the trees closer than six inches. The same rule holds for pears, while for smaller fruits, such as peaches and apricots, the distance at which the fruit is left apart is about four inches, varying somewhat upon the variety and size which it usually attains. If the thinning is carefully done much defective fruit may be eliminated in the process, thus reduc- ing the number of culls which will have to be handled at harvest time.
Connecticut western news., 1910-05-26

Both the quality and quantity of the fruit from the average home garden strawberry bed could be greatly i'm proved were the number of plants al- lowed to set for bearing reduced by half CT more. This would give the plants remaining more room, more light, more fertility to draw on and would thus greatly increase their thriftiness and bearing capacity. Some of the best yields of strawberries on record have been made by, beds in which the plants were set closely in the original bed, but allowed to send out no runners whatever, being culti- vated according to the hill system, as it is usually known. It is too late now to help beds that are ready to bear, but the bed set this spring for fruiting next year can be so handled as to pre- vent this crowding and stunting of the plants, while beds that are bearing their first crop this season can be so thinned after the bed is renovated as to bring about the right conditions for next season. If the row system is to be followed in the new bed no more new plants should be allowed to take root than will comfortably fill the row, each plant being allowed a space of seven or eight inches square.
Connecticut western news., 1910-05-26

The pulling up of a dead stalk of corn in the fall gives but faint idea of the extent of the plants root sys- tenn. Careful Investigations show that instead of the roots being eight or ten inches long, as one might readily sup pose from superficial examination, they run from five to eight feet in the aver age hill of corn. A knowledge of this fact should not only be helpful to the corn grower, but also to the orchardist who may use corn as a between TOW crop among little trees. The corn draws largely on the moisture of the soil and if planted too close to the trees will consume that which they should have for their best develop ment.
Connecticut western news., 1910-05-26
WormX.

Shopkeeper (o small child, who has brought back a recent purchase)- Whats the matter with the cheese, my dear?, Small Child-Please, father says when he wants any bait for fish ing he can dig lem up in our back gar den.-London King
Connecticut western news., 1910-05-26

The nettle, while not a noxious weed in the same sense as quack grass or the Canada thistle, is hard to kill out because it multiplies by root stalk growth as well as by seed. The best way to dispose of a small patch is to dig up carefully to good depth, col lect all the loose roots, let them dry in the sun and burn them. Tn the course of a couple of weeks the patch should be dug over a second time, when any roots left in the ground will have be- gun to grow. These should likewise be removed and burned.
Connecticut western news., 1910-05-26

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," a 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 a tree is injured by cultivator or scratch ed by the house cat.
Connecticut western news., 1910-05-26

Now and then one runs across a fel- low going by the name of farmer who will let the stock go thissty on hot day when the windmill refuses to work rather than expend a moderate amount of elbow grease in working the pump handle for their relief. This kind of chap is usually of the husky yet lazy type that is there with both feet when it comes to nealtime and makes big fuss if there isn't an abundance of stuff to eat and drink.
Connecticut western news., 1910-05-26

In buying a team with which one is not acquainted it is well not only to have from the owner a guarantee that they are sound, but that they will pull even and are not balky. Many a horse sound as a dollar iii it's legs and shoulders isn't worth a continental because of q seeming Arrangement of its brain cells, and this latter defect is often not apparent until the for1er owner has made good clearance of his bargain
Connecticut western news., 1910-05-26

While a big ado is made about the high cost of the necessaries of life, hardly line is penned relative to ex- penditure in the United States alone of $1.6OO,COO,OOO annually for whisky and beer, this total not including the additional enormous burden borne by taxpayers in the shape of criminal court expense.
Connecticut western news., 1910-05-26

Whatever else may be said of the California grain grower, he is entitled to a measure of credit for the bit of sentiment he seems to show in leaving numerous live oaks in his fields, which show up in striking relief against the golden yellow of the ripening grain. While these trees make trouble for the blower and reaper, they add much to the beauty of the landscape for the passerby.
Connecticut western news., 1910-05-26

Twenty thousand acres of farm land in eastern Oklahoma are to be sold at public auction to the highest bidders each month of the present year. Maps giving location of tracts of land, to- gether with descriptions and prices will be furnished any readers who ad- dress Dana H. Kelsey, superintendent United States Indian service, Musko- gee, Okla.
Connecticut western news., 1910-05-26

That tuberculosis can be transmitted from cattle to hogs has been quite forcefully demonstrated in some ex- periments which have lately been con ducted by the Iowa animal husbandry department. Out of twenty-eight healthy pigs which were kept in a pasture three months to clean up after a car load of cows affected with tuber- culosis twenty-two showed unmistak- able lesions of the disease when slaughtered short time after removal from the feed lot.
Connecticut western news., 1910-05-26

Where there are no trees in the pas ture which will furnish ample shade for the stock during the heated months of the summer some kind of shelter should be provided, if nothing more than a shed made of poles and thatch- ed with straw or old hay A number of instances were reported during July of last year where many head of cat tie died from the heat, being found piled up in a seeming attempt to gain the shelter of a little patch of shade.
Connecticut western news., 1910-05-26

Quite accurately the spread of the root system of shrub or tree is indi- cated by it's visible spread of branches and branches at the time of trans planting and also in the cultivation and care of trees after they are set, including the growing of titled crops in orchard tracts.
Connecticut western news., 1910-05-26

With string and sticks as cheap as they are we never could see a good excuse for crooked rows of vegetables and berry bushes in the garden. Such rows are not only unsightly from the house and the road, but they make the work of machine cultivation difficult.
Connecticut western news., 1910-05-26

Notwithstanding the thousands of acres of burdock that yearly mature .heir unsightly crop of seed in vacant lots all over the country, we neyerthe- less import annually from European countries 135,O00 pounds of dried bur- dock root, those preparing it receiving from to 8 cents per: pound for it.
Connecticut western news., 1910-05-26

Now and then you come across fel- low who is always dicke-ing and swap ping-sometimes horses, sometimes ye- hicles and now and then machinery and other stuff: We have seen prem ises belonging to fellows of this stripe which were literally covered with trash of one kind and another, a good per cent of it being junk picked up at near by auction sales. We have heard of chaps who swapped wives and kids, too, and the latter were doubtless glad of the change.
Connecticut western news., 1910-05-26

The new canes in the raspberry patch-those which will be bearing fruit next season-should be tipped when they are about three and half feet high. This will result in a sturdy, well branched bush, to the maturing of which all the plant energy for the rest of the season will be devoted.
Connecticut western news., 1910-05-26

Rubbing a fresh ink spot in sweet milk will remove much of the stain, while a thick paste of starch will ex- tract blood from things that can't be washed, being allowed to dry and scraped off with a knife.
Connecticut western news., 1910-05-26

The easiest and most effective prun- ing work that can be done in an OF 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 i'll 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.
Connecticut western news., 1910-05-26

The reason for deep early cultivation of the cornfield and shallow cultiva- ton later lies ill the fact that from the time the plants reach a height of a foot and half they rapidly develop a root system which spreads out as well as down, comprising numerous fine roots which lie near the surface The aim of the later crlt.vations should be to keep tho surface of the soil mellow to prevent baking and a rstoppage of circulation of air and moisture.
Connecticut western news., 1910-05-26

A scarecrow is sometimes effective in keeping marauding crows from the cornfeld, but better still are two or legs on poles and placed at conspicuous places in the field. We have tried this plan, and it works like a charm.
Connecticut western news., 1910-05-26

Roses seem to appreciate an evening bath on hot days &s wei as do Lien and animals. In addition to supply. Ing the bushes with needed moiStua2. the applying of the shower bath under good pressure will keep the leaves and flowers free from most of the slugs, red spiders and aphides which attack them
Connecticut western news., 1910-05-26

While it isn't so necessary as in the case of small plant or shrub, the good sized shade tree will make a more thrifty growth if the soil is spaded and mellowed up a few feet about the roots. We saw this fact nicely proved one \day last fall in the case of two white oaks eighteen inches in diameter, one in a cultivated garden patch and the other but a couple of rods distant in a dry, hard packed pasture. The first had thrifty, glossy leaves, with a foot and half of new growth, while the second had a decidedly jaded and drought stricken appearance. It was a forceful object lesson and indi- cated a fact too often overlooked.
Connecticut western news., 1910-05-26

It was not the Delaware peach crop which was ruined this year by the April freezes, an exception to what has seemed to have become a very general rule
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-04
Assisted 2O3 People to Buy Prop
erty in Topeka.
Helped Others to Improve Their
Homes and Property.
POOR MANS FRIEND.
Is the Capital Building and
Loan Association.
Systematic Saving Leads to
Wealth." Their Motto.

In its financial institutions, Topeka
Is certainly fortunate in its Building
and Loan associations. This thought
is called to mind while reading the
report of the Capitol Building and
Loan association published in anoth-
er column. This association itself
has assets amounting to $1,267. 039.47
an increase for the year 1909 of $751;
4OS.S9- One of the remarkable facts
of this associations report is that
during the year they paid out or cred
tied as dividends SIS, 1853 and paid
the matured shareholders $50, 134.
The business was transacted at a cost
of $9,325.3S, or 70 cents for each 500
of assets.
Another fact worthy of mention is
that Sc per cent of their loans are less
than $4,000 showing that they cater
to the small borrower and not the
heavy one. A still further fact show
ing the value of such an institution in
Topeka is that they assisted 203 peo-
pie to purchase homes during the
year and 1T to build new homes and
AZ to make improvements, leaving
only 81 for all other purposes, show
ing to certainty that their object is
to assist the home builders.
On the other hand their motto that
Systematic Saving Leads to Wealth.
is well shown by the number of peo-
pie who deposit monthly in this asso-
citation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-04
HOBOES ELECT OFFICERS
Miss Jane Adams of Chicago Is Chos-
en- Trustee.

Kansas City, Feb. 4.-The conven-
ton of unemployed. or, correctly
speaking, the Brotherhood Welfare
association, which has been in session
here for the last three days has adj
journed after electing officers. Those
chosen for the ensuing year were:
Mrs. Georgia Ferguson. Washing
ton, D. c., president; James Eads
How, St. Louis, vice president; Mrs.
Cora D. Harvey, Hinton, Ok, secre-
tary; n. o. Nelson, st. Louis, treasur-
err; Miss Jane Adams of Chicago was
elected trustee.
The pet plan of Brother" Nicholas
Klein to send a delegation of hoboes
to visit John D. Rockefeller in New
York and ask him to turn over part
of his wealth to the unemployed was
voted down.
t'It's work, not money, we want,
said a hobo in the course of a vehe-
ment speech
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-04
WILL SEE The BOOKS.
Grand Jury Is Looking for Evidence
of a Conspiracy.

New York, Feb. 4.-The inquiry was
pushed further in the cold storage sys-
tenn matter in metropolitan territory
today. The reported discovery of meat
ten months old in one Of the plants
across the Hudson has stimulated the
interest of the New Jersey inquisitors
and today's session of the Hudson
county grand jury which is investigat-
ing the Jersey City warehouses, prom
Used interesting developments.
Prosecutor Garvan made it evident
that he was looking for evidence to
show conspiracy in an effort to ma
nipulate the food products market by
use of the storage system.
Lackawanna & Erie railway officials
were asked to produce before the grand
jury way bills and bills of lading show
ing the amount of stuff received and
shipped by the various concerns over
their lines in the last year. These will
be compared with the books of the cold
storage companies which officers of
these concerns have been subpoenaed
to produce.
In all metropolitan territory eggs
seem to be the only staple food product
to show a downward tendency. Meat
prices today showed, if anything, a
tendency to advance. Consumption Of
meat is still away below the normal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-04
1T MAKES HIM RICH.
Man Has Oil Stock on Which Forty
Years of Dividends Are Due.

New York, Feb. 4.-"From 81 a day
to a shareholder in the Standard Oil
company would be an apt title to a
history of Irving Pearson, the only son
in family formerly well known in
struggling along for two years on 81
a week, provided by a trust in COM
pliance with his mothers will, and
doled out to him at the rate of 81 a
day, Mr.. Pearson suddenly has found
himself in possession of oil stock
worth $4,000 on which no dividend
has been paid for forty years. Mr..
Parsons father died several years ago
and the young man, who is now only a
little more than Is years old, received
bequest which was not large then,
but is so now.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-04
NINE MAZARIN FAINTS.
Collapses on Stage at End of Her First
Appearance as "EIektra.''

New York. Feb. 4.-For the first time
in America Richard Strauss music
drama "Elektra'' has been produced in
the Manhattan opera house All was
was like a meeting of he Richard
Strauss clans. and the question upper
most was, rs 'Elektra' going to be
another 'Salome?'"
oNthing occurred to mar the smooth
hess of the performance until the very
close. Hardly had the curtain closed
after the final crashing chord, when
tumultuous applause began. Out came
the principals, headed by Nine. Mari
cite Mazarin, who had sung the title
pearance of the singers the chain
heightened. Jacques Coini stage man
ager, was applauded when he appear
ed; so was Mr.. De La Fuente, the con-
ductor. He shared his honors with the
orchestra, for he advanced to the foot
lights and pointed to the men who had
labored faithfully under his baton. Os-
car HammerStein was brought out next
and the audience sent up a cheer.
Nine. Mazarin flung her arms around
Mr.. De La Fuente and kissed him to
show her appreciation, and then, to the
amazement Of everyone and amid the
gaSpS of sympathy, she tainted and fell
heavily on the stage NJ Huberdeau
and NJ. Duffalt-the Drestes and Aeg1-
thus of the cast-caught her up and
physicians from the audience rushed to
the stage The audience waited and
Suppressed further enthusiasm For
the last time some of the other princi-
pals came out reassuringly and bowed;
then the asbestos curtain slowly de-
scended as a signal that the perform
ance was over. In a depressed, hushed
mood the audience trooped out.
Nine Mazarin collapsed as a result
of the strain Of the evening and of the
previous rehearsal. Once before, a few
DAYS ago, she tainted and the rehearsal
had to be stopped. She had exhausted
her nervous force She was quickly
restored and was said to be suffering
nc serious consequences.
After all. it seemed but a natural
climax to her evenings work. She i'm
personates Elektra, a woman mad with
Vengeance Her father has been muir
dered by her mother and favorite'
Aegisthus Elektra does not rest in
her breeding of revenge until her broth
er, Orestes. has slaughtered both her
mother and Aegisthus. Then her JOY
knows no bounds and she begins TO
dance wildly, dropping dead in ecstasy.
In this fiendish role Nine. Mazarin
achieved triumph. She not only sang
this terrifically difficult music with Won
derful endurance. but she acted the
part with dramatic intensity. In every
gesture was mirrored her madness. She
was deserving of all the applause be-
slowed upon her.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-04
ADAM HAD BROTHERS.
From One of Them Descended the
Negro, 1t Is Claimed.

ST. Louis, Feb. 4.-That the negro
did not get his color from Ham and
that he is not even a member of the
race of Adam, but a descendent of
one of the four or five brothers Adam
must have had, is the belief of the
Rev. Doctor Edwin H. Richards, for
thirty years a missionary in Uganda,
Africa.
DR.. Richards is attending the Lay
mems Evangelical convention which
began a four days session here with a
banquet for the 1000 delegates.
1.-The negro never came from Ham
You can't get a black man from a
white one, either by time or condi-
tions," said DIR. Richards today. THE
black man is eo-adamic with Adam.
Adam probably had about four broth
ers the Bible does not mention, and
it was from one of these brothers that
the negro must have descended"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-04
WOODRUFF CAUSED ROW
Prince of Tonight Makes Two Impress
sions With Young Folks.

Seldom do two people see a perform
ance through like 1.-THE Prince of To-
night" without forming different opin-
ions of the star. Two young people oc-
cupied two seats in front of an observ-
ing old bachelor last night. He listened
to the discussions and differences.
"PI watch them after the show
thought he, "she will arraign him right
on the way home" Arm in arm the
couple made a straight line down Jack
son street, east On Eighth and into
Burt's Cafe. They were of one accord
as to where to secure the best service
and good things to eat. AS the bachelor
passed the fashionable cafe he thought
again, IT see now why I am a bungling
bachelor"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-04
THEATER AT SEA.
shman Will Present ''The Climax
on the Mauritania.

New York, Feb. AT last the sea-
going theater is a fact. When Charles
F'rohmau announced some time ago
that plays at sea would be his next
theatrical innovation. some said it
would be a long time before plays on
the transatlantic circuit would be
practical. But Mr.. Frohman has ar
ranged to start the ocean theater next
week on board the Mauritania of the
Cunard Line on her run from New
York to Liverpool.
He has arranged with Cunard
Steamship company to present Marie
Doro in 1.-THE Climax in the saloon of
the Mauretania on Friday February
IL, when the liner will be two days
out from New York and in the gem
eral vicinity of midocean. Mr.. Froh-
man is sending the company to Lon
don for an engagement in the Globe
theater, beginning February FL.