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Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1910-07-19
AROUND THE FARM
Building Up the Soil

tSDurfng farmers week I'm Burlington.
VI. says correspondent of tho Amer.
lean Cultfvator. an expert of tho United
states department OF agriculture. l.. IL.
Dodge. spoke on the management of
tns dairy farm. He said New Eng.
land farms did not produce MS heavily
as they should. This he attributed TO
lack OF rotation of crops aud to heavy
FEEDING and cropping OF pastures and
meadows without adequate return of
plant food; also TO the waste of stable
manure and its improper application.
A good rotation Is corn. grain. clover
Hay land should be top dressed with
stable manure. and best results are
obtained by applying this little and
often. Where land remain. in grass a
long time light seeding OF clover from
time TO time is beneficial. reseeding In
summer after the hay crop has been
removed.
Pastures may be top dressed and
should not be grased too carly in
spring nor to heavily. Where pn4tures
can be piowed It is advisable TO plow
and reseed occasionally.
Inc raising OF clover, corn and for
age crops furnishes larger amount OF
protein for cattle. and less feed will
need to be purchased.
The more fodder the more cattle
can be kept, and there win be an In.
creased amount OF fertilizer 10 apply
TO the land
Crops should not be sold that will
carry a large amount of fertilizing ele.
ments on the farm.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1910-07-19
Poultry Jottinos.

A lack of clean, sharp grit f. re-
sponsible for half the cases Of bowel
disease.
IL eggs are the object don's overfeed
on meat, but allow all the green food
the hens will consume.
Poultry houses and runs that are
kept clean the year around, disInfect-
ed often and never oyercrowded with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-27
Investigating Senator LOrimer'S Election

The Lorimer investigation is to proceed regardless of Lorimer's convenience or the political situation in Illinois, and, best of all, the committee proposes to take testimony regardless of the techni- cal rules of courts of law. The commit tee is not a court It was appointed to ascertain the truth as to great political scandal, and it need not reject anything that points to the fundamental truth. Democratic members of the legislature were bribed to vote for Lorimer, and the question naturally arises, who did it? Who supplied the money to seat a re- publican ward boss in the senate? This is the real question. and the committee will, let us hope, expose the entire trans action.
 It has decided to let the Chicago Trib- unes lawyer appear at the hearing, and
  ton will be searchingly thorough% Thus far no signs appear of a coat of whitewash for Lorimer, who is a regular, a standpatter and a machine man. He . is a man who has stood by the admin |fstration through both good and evil re- port--though the Balinger business and I also the Aldrich tariff
 All of the democratic legislators who voted for Lorimer should be summoned l to Appear. The country demands a full and complete investigation, and Senator Johnston will we may be sure, stand first, last and all the time for presenta-
 tion of the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. He is, however but one of twelve members of the com voiftee
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-27
testers do oft prove prophets.
 king Lear.
Baltimore Rises to Explain

All of the large cities of the country, New York and Cleveland alone except ed. show a decreased rate of growth. Chicago declined nearly one-half, to S per cent: St Louis went down from 23 to 1e per cent. Boston from 27 to %, and Philadelphia in like proportion In Balu- more the increase was but 97 per cent. while in Cleveland the rate of growth was 4s.9 per cent. The result is, Cleve- land takes sixth place, and Baltimore has to be content with seventh place. The list at the ton now reads in order-New York, Chicago. Philadelphia, St. Louis Boston. Cleveland and Baltimore. These are the country's big seven.
 Baltimore says her fall to seventh place is due to two things-it has not annexed suburbs freely and it has not been dili- gent in attracting manufacturing plants The area of Cleveland is 50 per cent greater than Baltimore's and Cleveland has sought far and near diversified indus tires. These two things no doubt account for the high percentage of the one and the low percentage of the other. The neglect to add suburbs also accounts for Cincinnati's low rate of increase.
 Baltimore, too, says the presence of 1ooooo negroes in it's city as against 5000 in Cleveland has been factor in the race All in all, Baltimore is not dis couraged. It has a large trade and a contented population, and it proposes to learn lesson or two from the present census with a view of making better showing ten years hence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-27

is still hitehed to a business picture two decades old-you have not kept the pace the south has set in It's mar velous regeneration.
 "'The purchasing power of Richmond is very large because so many of Rich mond's citizens are turning their time into money. How popular this occupa- ton is may be gathered from the fact that Richmond has 1753 manufactur- ing plants, employing S1,3Ss hands, and selling annually eighty-five and half million dollars worth of products. It has one of the largest purchasing powers of cities of its size in the south. Now these figures are best under stood when we compare them with the figures of 10 years ago. In the last ing plants in Richmond has increased Al per cent The number of hands employed, 4S per cent. The amount of capital employed. 97 per cent and the annual sales have increased s44,- 000,000, or 106 per cent Bank clear ings have increased nearly $200,000, 0o0, which is POT per cent. Postoffice receipts have, increased nearly s4o0,- 900, the figures for 1909 being s6s1,- 2o5, which means the postoffice has grown 159 per cent"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-27
A BIRTHDAY SCRUBBING
the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
 An uniterary man to whom Samuel Johnson was hardly a name astonished his family by remarking that he guessed it was about time to celebrate the doc tors birthday.
 How do you know?" asked his wife.
 q saw some folk scrubbing statue erected in his honor,' said the man. That is a sure sign. Even fellow who has scarcely passed the twinkle, twinkle little star stage of literature can't help finding out when the big writers birth days come around if he keeps an eye on their statues. When the anniversary ap- breaches some admirer sallies forth with pail and scrub brush and treats the statue to good washing. Soldiers and states men usually spruce Ip on their birthday, too but the followers are not such stickers for cleanliness as the literary set '
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-27
Mir. Taft'S Pork Barrel

The items for Goose creeks in rivers and harbors bills and the items for public buildings in towns of small population and small business are, it is true, noth- ing but graft. The government is held up in order to let some congressman whose fences need repairs secure share of the loot contained in these bills.
 The President said in his recent Cin- cinnati speech that the pork barrel busi- ness must be stopped even if he has to interpose vetoes in that direction. But he has no power to separate the sheep from the goats in an appropriation bill and if he strikes at pork barrel items by using his veto power he will necessarily postpone at least meritorious items.
 No one considers appropriations for the deepening of the channel in Mobile bay, for example, or the placing of Jocks in the Warrior up 10 the heart or tnlS d1s- trict, pork barrel appropriation. Whether a bill devoted to necessary and important improvements can be passed when pork-barrel items have been elim- mated remains to be seen. Perhaps it can be in these days of uplift and an in creasing moral sense in public duties. but in the past it would have been impossi- ble. The new public conscience is in fact, of more importance than the new nationalism that MT. Roosevelt Is ex- pounding
 The President is wholly right in the po- sition he has taken, and his appeal to public sentiment is not partizan. Ii should be kept non-political. and in that way perhaps d public sentiment can be aroused that will demand from even the next Congress a rivers and harbors bill that contains no appropriations for the Goose creeks and duck ponds of the coun-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-27
Enchanting Landscape Effects

As an evidence of Birmingham's bound ing progress. next in importance to the magnitude of the industrial expansion now under way is, perhaps. the wonder ful development of new residential sec tions on moutain terraces and in Shades valley.
 Only a few years ago home building on the side of Red mountain stopped at Highland avenue. When visitors had ridden over the North Highlands and the South Highlands they had viewed about all there was to be seen in the matter of beautiful houses with expansive lawns and landscape effects. But the developer and the engineer and the landscape arch iteet have been busy. and as result Of their joint labors Birmngham's more re- cent growth has been up Red mountain toward the very summit Scores and scores of handsome resldehces aie ho" seen high on the mountain side and some of the most splendid driveways are near the top.
 That Altimont road is almost com pIeted. It is a mile long and its road bed will make it the equal of any boule- yard here. It should be and doubtless will be extended westward to Twentieth street. With this done that high noun tain driveway will have a length of something like three miles.
 The summits of Red mountain and Shades mountain afford prospects as en- chanting as any scenic attractions in Tennessee, Virginia or North Carolina. The work of development along rhountain beautiful and valley beautiful lines here abouts has been pushed rapidly, and what has been done already iF the way of transforming rugged stretches into hanging gardens is indeed marvellous.
 At the fast rate Birmingham is growing it's population in two or three years will be close to the 2o0,O mark and 1t is safe to say that a very large percentage of it's prosperous citizens will then have hacon,a rnounfa in -d walters and reVelers in the beautiful.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-27
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
PrOsneritx Abroad

Business conditions are improving rap idly in all parts of the county. so far as can learn,'' said L. L. Waterman of Philadelphia.
 T have not been in the west recently, but l hear directly from that section through correspondence; and western people are optimistic over the way crops are turning out. The business situation in the east is certainly far better than it was two months ago. and in Phiadel- phia and New York business is fairly humming.
 As for the south, I have never seen prosperity so much in evidence, and have been visiting the south from time to time for ten years or more. Business in Atlanta Is very brisk: Jacksonville is booming, and l have never seen Bir- mingham look quite so well from a pros- perity point of view as it does today. l think Birmingham is by far the best town in the south; that is, it shows mar Velous growth for a young city, and 1t has magnificent future. There are children now living who will probably see Birmingham in the 100000 popula- tion class"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-27

looo. while among men who have not
 been inoculated it is s2s. or nearly 10 times as many. The Japanese report even more remarkable results. During
 the war with Russia they well nigh stamped out typhoid among the men in Manehuria by the use of the Haffkine vaccine, and since then vaccination has been compulsory in their army and the greatest military plague has practically disappeared.
 In 5000 recorded vaccinations in pri- vate life there has not been a single fa- tality. or even a case of serious illness. A slight reaction occurs. but the patient quickly recovers, and in a few days is in normal health.
 The evidence in favor of the vaccine is as overwhelming as is the evidence in favor of vaccine against smallpox, and yet the latter is freely used, while the former outside of armies is not. Popu- lar prejudice against vaecines and anti toxins is yet to be overcome before the new vaccine will be used freely enough to conquer in private life the worst dis case of the temperate zones.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-27
BEAUMONT DEMOCRAT

The Beaumont Enterprise recently is- sued a 60-page edition to mark the visit to that town of party of Unit make a report on the deep water prob lem which has been engaging the at tention of Beaumont for some time. This edition was exhaustive in it's treatment of Beaumonts growth and development, together with its re- sources and it's prospects for the fu- ture. From a tumultuous oil boom town, sufficiently wild and picturesque, Beaumont b<s grown into substantial city and one of which all Texas may be proud. The Enterprise is an able exponent of the latter-day Beaumont and is doing great work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-27
MAKING ASSASSINATION EASY

In an editorial suggesting a national law restricting the sale of deadly weap- ons capable of being concealed on the person, and compelling a record 10 be made of every such sale, Hampton's Magazine for October says:
 "The pistol is distinctly an American institution, and pistol-carrying an Amer ican vice which calls for immediate eradication. We can never consider ourselves highly civilized so long as men carry deadly weapons about them, pre- pared to commit murder in a fit of rage or sudden insanity.
 "In forty-five years nine men have been elected Presidents of the United sinated, every one shot to his death with pistol No half-civilized country has record to match that
 within a much shorter period the most casual recollection recalls the as sassinations of Mayor Harrison in Chi ago, Governor Goebel in Kentucky. Sen ator Carmack in Tennessee, and the at tempted assassinations of Francis J. Heney in San Francisco and Mayor Gay nor of New York.
 "The statistics of homicide In this country. the data concerning boy ban dits, car-barn killings, crimes of jealousy and barroom murders, constitute such an indictment against our lax laws and their laxer enforcement that the merest suggestion inspires a shudder of horror
 This national scandal Is largely due 4. e-x ulatons of the sale and bearing of fire arms. Most states have innocuous laws on the subject Some cities make feeble efforts to suppress the vice. But the regulations are generally ineffective, merely touching upon such matters as recording the names of buyers and sell CTS of weapons in locality To Know who sold or originally bought a9 fgun'' Is sorry comfort for the bereaved family"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-27
Vaccine Against Typhoid

N The medical profession has given to .e world protection against typhoid, uvvhich is certainly the worst of epidemic fevers. The evidence in it's favor has |been accommodating until it is considered |ronvincing beyond a doubt.
 In the last IS months 12,ooO soldiers in |fbaL regular army of this country have b6eu vaccinated, and among the 12.OOO 11l6re were but three cases of typhoid |ond no deaths. The three cases were oxcsedinkly mild.
 n the British army. in one group, 547a were vaccinzted and ss1o were not Of 1bn vacc.rated men, n were infected and 6ied. while of the unvaccinated IT were aufeoted and 2s died Taking the British nrusv in India as a whole it has been @rund that the number of cases per an
 - among inoculated men is s7 per
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-27

From the Boston Globe.
 Let not MT. Irving Bacheller, who has written wholesome and helpful books, be too cynical because the distractions of city life seem to have destroyed the read ing habit The author has many new rivals, he says in a whimsical inter- view with the New York Sun reporter.
 There is the automobile. the power boat, the aeroplane. the golf tournament. the whist party the theatre. Every one is on the move. Our homes are almost deserted and we rarely see the light of our reading lamps. Ministers complain. of empty churches. Men who used to kneel at the altar may be seen on the roads of a Sunday lying humbly on their backs in the sand. praying to a new god and trying to soften his heart with oil or open the gates of mercy with a monkey wrench
 So Mir. Bacheler will continue to write for the simple folk who live in the coun- try who, "contert with the old sim plicity and decency and the love of hon. or, call us back to those things which alone are safe and sane"
 The case is not quite so desperate There are unnumbered thousands in all the big cities whom neither automobile nor power boat nor golf nor whist en- trices You will find them among the patrons of the public libraries. Some of them surely read MT. Bachellers ex- cellent books. But blessed are they if they have discovered that reading is merely the thinking of another's thoughts after him and that many "well-read man. is in reality a very ignorant man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-27
Growth of Virginia Cities

"Richmond's population has not yet been announced but I am glad to. read the census report on Norfolk and Portsmouth" said A. V. Bishop of Washington, D. c.
 "I spend a good part of my time in Virginia and l have been struck with the steady progress of things ma terial in that old commonwealth. For a long time Norfolk grew very little, but within the past five years it has increased not only in population con- siderably, but in public spirit as well. It now has a population-accordi to the government census-of 67,452, d mouth, just across the river has pop ulation of 33,190-a gain of 90 per cent Newport News across Hampton Roads from Norfolk, has population of about 30, ,OOO. Include Fortress Monroe, Hamp- ton and several small resort places, and Norfolk, with it's surroundings, has a population of fully 150,000.
 "Richmond's population is supposed to be between 130,O00 and 140,000 But no matter what it's census figures may be it has made wonderful strides 1T commercial and industrial way. A Chicago publicat tion, which has beer giving good deal of attention tc the south recently, says among oth el things:
 "'You northern manufacturers, yol advertisers-do you realize the mag nificent field that the south of toda. presents? The industrial regeneration of the south is news to the world. l | Is big thing after years of adver sity You advertisers whose menta grasp of southern business condition
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-27
N. R. Hudson in City

w. R. Hudson, general manager of the Norfolk and Southern railroad, was in Birmingham yesterday. He came on special business and remained only long enough to hold a conference with three or four persons in Birmingham. MT Hudson before his promotion on the Nor folk and Southern was superintendent and general superintendent of the Southern railway in this district.
 Business as 1 take it is very brisk in all lines,' said MT. Hudson yesterday.
 Tn our state we have been sharing in exceptional movements for the greater part of the summer. The traffic has been far above what was expected. The rail- road interests, from every indication, are pleased with the outlook.
 T am always interested in Birming- ham and am very glad to get chance to visit here occasionally. This is one of the best cities in the entire country, and it will really be the most noted iron and steel center in the world some time"
 MT. Hudson left yesterday afternoon over the Seaboard for Norfolk.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-27
THE GAMBLERS CHANGE

sixtieth of all the money put down. This Is the mathematicaly sure result. no matter by what system the gambler plays-or whether he follows no system at all. Now since the profits of the bank amount to 60,0OO,0O0 francs per annum, or s12,000,00O, the players must place at least s720, 1000 upon the table every wear. Each one explains his losses in a differ ent way One says, q should have won had l not been nervous;" another, .I should not have lost if I had not played as I did" q made an error in my call culations." is a common complaint. But nerves cut no figure at the green table. Nervousness has nothing to do with losses. As nerves are as independent of calculation an dthe will of the player of calculation and the will of the player fly 'nervoushess' as factor in the gamblers ruin.
 No matter how skilful or ingenious a player may be, he cannot put up a suc- cessful fight on the banker in a gambling game. The banker always has raked in, and always will rake in. -sixtieth of all the money placed on the table.
 Many systems have been tried with a view to beating the bank" The most common Is that of doubling the stake after each failure, so that single sue cess will recoup the player for all his previous losses, when he stakes the minf- mum again. But a run of eleven se- quences against him will bring his stake up into tlfe thousands-and runs of il. F and even 15 sequences occur every day. This system known as the martin gale,' is one of the least promising of all.
 Sir Hiram Maxim has invented a little machine on which he can register lon a continuous ribbon) successions of results. giving not only the number and the color of each compartment, but the chances. The roll is about 12 metres long, and the machine weighs something over 30 pounds. The scrupulously exact record of this machine gives proof to the system player that, after certain period of time. he must inevitably lose The in- ventor of the machine has offered and is still offering to furnish duplicate of his machine to any one desirous of play
 ing according to system, to prove mathe- natically that the gambler must be the loser. Many gamblers, aroused by Max inns declaration that no one can win against the bank, have challengedN him to let them demonstrate their systems. Lord Rosslyn. who was one of the chal- lengers, was beaten after 5000 runs. His attempt proved that the man with a system cherishes a worthless and dan eerous chimera.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-27
THE PERFECT VOICE By Zoe Akins in October Century.

Dy ZLoC <1hhiS III CStOOCi SCHtuIy.
 (To Julia Marlowe.) Her voice is lovely as a fabled Tyre, And sweet as winds that sing the sea to
 sleep, And soft as mermaids signing fathoms
 deep, And splendid as the singing of choir: Glad and melodious as any bird A-thril in song in a leafy tree-top
 steep, And memorable as things that make us
 weep, And strong as armies when the foe Is
 heard. Pure music falls and rises in It's sound. It thrills with changing moods-the
 Herd-sirl's grief, violas mirth, or Juliet's despair; A deep hush and a silence fall around It's golden tone--as when rustling leaf Sends sound and silence through the startled air.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-27
"NO DEPRAvITY"

From Tit-Bits.
 A gentleman who was seated behind negro in a tramway car in Memphis vouches for this yarn: ly dressed young negress, evidently lady's maid, entered the car. The negro rose with a polite bow and offered her his seat.
 'I hate to deprive you, sah," she said as she took it.
 "Doan mention it. miss,' replied the swarthy Chesterfield, it ain't no de- pravity."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-27
INDIAN A FINANCIAL FRINGE
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
 At a desert station on the Southern Pacific railway an old Indian has been playing harp upon the stopping of ev- cry through train, gathering in coin from the passengers. ever since the road was built Tn dress and other appearance he is all over the Indian of tribal antiquity. But when there are no overland trains about he is a leading citizen. his ancient harp making him financial prince of the desert
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-27
CANNING PEACHES IN KANSAS From the Salina Journal.

The Abilene Reflector says: The Kansas City Star went into ecstasies the other day over Saline county woman who canned 800 cans of peach es. The Honorable Star should wait until the returns are all in. Mrs. J. w. Houser, north of Abilene, put up 750 quart cans and then her husband re- fused to buy any more cans. So she got in their $2000 motor car and came to town herself and bought three dozen more which she filled-a total of 7S6. We expect the star to make an humble apology.