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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-08-11

That chauffeur who inherited $780,.
900 must have felt almost as happy as
when he reads his taximeter after an
all-day shopping excursion.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-08-11

Pekin stripe e q blue and vhits
6nk or china or foulard weave show.
ing perfectly even arrangement q
Size anl HlIIa
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-08-11

Two prisoners in the jail at CooperS
town, N. Y, sawed their way to free
dom with a razor blade. That kind
of razor blade is common enough.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-08-11

Size is not the only thing that
reaches the home base when the Ques-
ton Of championship is about to BE-
settled.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-08-11

New York persists in the thought
that It is q worlds fair In itself. II
has all the sideshows, anyway.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-08-11

Going shopping for porch furniture
and bathing suits seems worth while
even on the hottest day.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-08-11

II the world were your oyster would
you open it now or wait until the oys'
ter season begins next September?
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-08-11

Though the aeroplane could not con
duct a war all by itself It could give
the enemy q severe nervous chill.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-08-11

There are some knotty problems
that will have to remain unsolved un'
I'll the hot wave passes.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-08-11

Whenever invented the hobble skirt
must have had an awful grudge
against womankind.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-08-11

AS q matter of fact, It is generally
supposed to be warm at this season
Of the year.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-08-11

Peoria wants to borrow $5,000,000
There are others but they haven"t
the nerve to mention It.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-08-11

Poverty may be a blessing. but Ov-
cry man IL willing to turn his share Of
the blessing over to the other fellow.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-08-11

It is the duty of the law to punish
the man who is not now merciful to
his beast.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-08-11

No other man appreciates helping
hand like q man IN trouble.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-08-11

The air will be free for year, the
leourts decide. Save your airl
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-08-11

Pr. Risres,s PsIls.s n.n T.ga;E.SSS,sss, ss 2
liver and bowels Do not gdpe.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-08-11

Lewis Single Binder &c cigar eQuals'
IN quality most l0c cigars.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-08-11

Many q budding genius has devOl-
oped into blooming idiot.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-08-11

Boiled down, the hot weather I'D.
vice calls for temperance In all things.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-08-11

! Aviation is rapidly becoming the
cations favorite outdoor sport
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-08-11

Say. now. aren't these the days you
wanted two weeks ago?
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-08-11

6quilbob-That fellow over there
would make q splendid magazine poet
SQuilligan-A genius. ehH
SQuillbob-No, but he has dyspepsia
80 bad that he would't get 30 hungry
living.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-08-11

Ice water suzzling can be ovsrdons
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-11-02

not the man with the haysced in his hair who
feels 1t first but the man with the pen behind
his ear. Month by month the price of each
separate commodity puts a little large pune
ture in his salary, until by the end Of the year
his savings, which began hopefully, as an un-
known quantity, have ended as "X=n nothing"
He it IS who knows the cold dread of middle
age; for unless the land can be induced TO
yield abundantly prices will not settle down to
the point where the man on a moderate salary
can live free from fear. Farmer and clerk
alike, We are all vitality concerned in this
problem of maintaining and increasing the fer
tiltty of the soil that is fertile, and Of restor-
ing soils that have been cruelty exploited.
Fortunately they can be restored. Intelli-
gence is more potent than avarice ard can
undo the evil it has wrought. Even those soils
that have been exploited to the point of appar-
ent ruin can be nursed back to health. DR..
Cyril Hopkins, head of the agronomy depart
ment of the University of Illinois, a soil spe-
cialist of national reputation and the author of
numerous pamphlets and a book entitled "Soil
Fertility and Permanent Agriculture" Is one
of the most enthusiastic workers along this
line. He is a man of hard facts and loves
pretty theories even as the devil loves holy
water. Every fact that he gives out must
prove itself over and over again in tests upon
his own farms, or these belonging to the uni
versity or upon one of the various experiment
tai plots. There are about thirty Of these plots
scattered through the state Of Illinois, where
the soils are carefully examined and then
cropped according to their needs. | could tell
you tales of what Mother Earth has done in
the way Of corn, wheat, oats, or clover when
she has received proper treatment that would
set you 10 building castles in the air upon an
earthly foundation. The corn yield upon one Of
the university farms in 1909 was 81 bushels
to the acre, due to treatments with limestone
and PHOSPHORUS. But before we go farther
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-11-02
Corpletely Pauperized.

Albert W. Febberd, New York's
charity expert. said at a recent din
ner:
The great danger of charity Is ita
pauperizing effect. This effect must
be avoided, or the recipients will all
become Jack Ranches.
Jack Hanch, on the cor Of bad
health, never worked, and the pastor
of the Methodist church. a man whose
heart sometimes outran his head. sent
the idler and his family weekly gifts
of food and clothing-supported the
whole crew, in fact
"A church visitor, after listening to
Jacks complaints n day, said:
Ives, of course, you have had bad
health. We know that; but n thing
at least you ought to be thankful for,
and that is our pastors kindness in
sending you all this bread and meat
and jelly and blankets, and so on.
Don't you think it is good of him to
look after you SO well?'
"'Good of him. said Jack, impn-
tiently. Why, what's he for?'"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-11-02

thc. nnlvp lnlDIOVS
orv irrigation, even crop rotation al are
80 Gov Extracting from the soil the rlch'
nos. tbat is in it, net for returning any or the
fcod elements of grain building All OF taess
nat,ods Of soil stimulation are excellent IN
thoir rrnv n rsed in connection with Methods
~ ,o+,,rning the elements Of plant focd; out
~ rs,d without them they are means OF
Fastening the impoverishment OF the SOIL
IN return to the question Of limestone one
+,n n the acre finely ground Will correct the
acid condition of most soils. II Is ho"eFet'
in the end cheaper and easier to apply more
and TO aprly' it less often. AS muca as teu
TONS to the acre was applied to the SOIL OF oae
of the experiment fields in southern Illinois
and the crop Yields there have oeen sFsSle'
tba, unon any other fields IN that district.
A question that has been given mrcn al
tention lately Is the question or crop Fota
ton. Undoubtedly 1t IS absolutely essential
for successful grain farming but 1t ls not
the universal panacea some would nave eS y 10
lieve. For instance, a group OF tpsor!s1s
have declared that fertilization Is unnecessary
that crop rotation will keep the soils IN per
fect condition.. The idea is that plants do not
inirre the soil because they use its plant 1000
elements but because they throw or poisonous
evcreta as animals do. Therefore a so'cal!ea
worn.out soil simply has become saturated
with this excreta. Plant a crop |c:cn WIN
ncutra!ize the poison Of the last crop ard tHe
soilso:l will be sweetened and the breasts OF
Mother Earth kept dripping with plenty Tor
ever. This is very attractive-as a theory IL
has, however, 10 foundation in fact As IT
Hopkins mas said, the rotation of crops mas just
the same effect uron wealth in the sooil as
the rotation OF the check book among tae
members OF the family has upon the "ea!ta
in the bank. Plant food elements Cannot Do
used ~ ard ret returned without resH!tlns
in jruruycr::hcc-t Of TIE soil.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-11-02
ASg2LEa--gNa~zOe5 Ap1aAzAG& 9@ A7DITS H~z So@N
ZN0CCLazE0 NTH .SAGNERXA

of nitrogen is may be seen from the fact thai
a 100-bushel crop of corn takes from the SOIL
almost 100 pounds of nitrogen in the corn and
about 4S pounds in the! stalks. Rich, welIbal-
anced land in the corn belt contains about
5000 pounds Of nitrogen. Therefore, II the
process of subtraction Of nitrogen goes on
year after year with never an addition, 1t can
be seen clearly that the farmers finances can
not multiply. Rotation plans for grain farm
ers always should include a crop of legulnss.
Wheat, corn, oats and clover is a satisfactory
rotation; also wheat, corn and cow peas; also
cotton, corn and oats and COW peas. The first
of these rotations should include a catch crop
of clover seeded the first year and plowed un-
der for corn as late as practicable the second
wear. The other two should include eaten
crops of legumes whenever possible. Legumes
when plowed under perform valuable services
besides supplying the soil with nltroSen-as
they decay they supply organic matter to the
soil which helps other dement's OF plant 1000
to free themselves from the earth and into the
farmers bank account.
Now that the question of nitrogen has been
outlined, suppose we turn to the problem or
phosphorus, the only element Of plant food we
ever shall have to buy. AS to the Importance
of the use of phosphorus upon the common
soils of the United States, DR.. Hopkins has
this to say:
phosphorus is the key to permanent az
r~iculture on these lands. To maintain or In
crease the amount of phosphorus in the soil
makes possible the growth of clover or other
legumes and the consequent addition of nitro
gen from the iIexhaustible supply in the air;
and with the addition of decaying organic mat
ter In the resiGues of clover and other crops
and in manure, made in large part from clover
hay and pasture, and from the larger crops OF
corn and other grains which clover helps to
produce comes the possibility of liberattng
from the immense supplies in the soil sufficient
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-11-02
WAYS OF CARRYING MONEY
Scorns Pockethook, Which Is
Used in France and Germany.

1T is interesting to rote,' says ar
o%bservant New Yorker, the various
methods in which Me of different ma
tionalities carry their WORLDLY wealth
The Englishnan carries gold, sill
yer and copper all loose in his trouS
ers pocket, pulls out a handful of the
mixture in an opuient way and selects
the coin he needs.
The American carries his 'wad' OF
roll in pretty much the same way
the average man here looking with
contempt upon the pocketbcok as in
dicative of a tight disposition.
The Frenchman makes use Of q
leather purse with no distinguishing
characteristics. The German uses
one gayly embroidered in silks by the
fair hands Of some Lottchen.
The half-civilized capitalist from
some torrid South American city car
ries his dollars in a belt with cunning
ly devised pockets to battle the gentle
men with light fingers. Some Of these
belts are quite expensive.
THE Italian of the poorer classes
ties up his little fortune in a gayly,
colored handkerchief secured with
many knots, which he secretes in some
mysterious manner about his clothes.
"A similar course has charms for
the S%paniard, while the lower class
Russian exhibits a preference for his
boots or the lining of his clothes as q
hiding place for his savings"
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let us consider a few fundamentals Of crop

let us consider a few fundamentals of crop
growing.
First. there are six positive, absolutely es-
sential factors. They are: (D the seed,
(2) the plant home, .(3) the food Of which the
plant is made, () moisture, (5) heat, co light.
Now, except in the case of the seed and plant
food these factors are largely beyond the farm
er's control. Dame Nature can, however, be
trusted to attend to them satisfactorily. How,
then, has the farmer made use of his ability TO
control the two factors? By exercising judg.
ment and care in the selection of seed and by
ignoring the matter of plant food entirely. The
result? When the land was worn out and had
no plant food to give the good seed the agricul-
turist arose irately in farmers institute and
told what he thought Of the seed seller. The
trouble all the time was not with the SEED but
with the soil. which had had the elements OF
plant food removed In previous crops, and as
q consequence could not respond to the call Of
the seed.
What are these elements? There are ten
in the list, but eight are provided abundantly.
Three-oxygen, hydrogen and carbon-come
directly from the air and water. Most nor
NAL soils contain enough potassium, magne-
SUM, iron, calcium and sulphur, although some
times the first must be supplied. The problem
of plant food, therefore, narrows itself, in most
cases, to maintaining and increasing the phos-
phorus and nitrogen.
Now nitrogen is as easy to catch as the
measles if one knows how. The air contains
it in inconceivabie amounts. Dr.. Hopkins has
estimated that the air above an acre of ground
contains about $4,000. 900 worth, if sold over
the counter at ordinary commercial rates. In
order TO induce this nitrogen to enter the
earth. where it may reappear rs food for man,
all that is necessary is to plant clover, alfalfa
reas or any legume. By means OF the bacteria
uDon the roots these legumes draw the nitro
gon into the soil. How necessary the element
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OF the stream, but some fernlilie name
that was easily traceable to some
shocked feminine taste from the outer
world. Half a mile on l got a dinner
of cold beans and cold cornbread, and
joined by a ~20-year-old school teacher
on a big black mule, turned my face
toward Jackson. This young school
teacher was making money in his ma
tive mountains in order to study law
outside; he had gone to school In the
Bluegrass and he knew my books.
'ust then he was electioneeriEg for
his brother, who was running for q
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-11-02

county Office and he shouted his @iJ'
gan to some native playing baseball
up the creek, to the porches of the
houses as We passed, and when we
met a voter in the road he stopped.
while l rode discreetly on, and he new
er failed to overtake me with a wink
of success. I'd like to wager that the
brother won. Hell-fer-Sartain Creek
had once deserved It's name, he SAID,
for there had been a heap Of devil
ment" done up there. There had been
several fights in the schoolhouso
where where I had heard preaching,
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WISE WORDS
A Physician on Food.

A physician, of Portland, Oregon,
has views about food. He says:
81 have always believed that the
duty of the physician does not cease
with treating the sick, but that we
owe it to humanity to teach them how
to protect their health, especially by
hygienic and dietetic laws.
With such a feeling as to my duty
l take great pleasure in saying to the
public that in my own experience and
also from personal observation l have
found no food equal to Grape-Nuts,
and that I find there is almost no limit
to the great benefits this food will
bring when used in all cases Of sick
ness and convalescence.
1T is my experience that nc physi.
cal condition forbiGs the use Of Grape.
Nuts. To persons in health there is
nothing SO nourishing and acceptable
to the stomach, especially at break
fast, to start the machinery of the hui.
nan system on the days work.
IN cases of indigestion l know thai
complete breakfast car be made OF
Erape-Nuts and cream and think it is
lot advisable to overload the stomach
at the morning meal. / also know the
yreat value of Grape-Nuts when the
stomach is too weak to digest other
food.
"This is written after an experience
of more than 20 years, treating all
manner of chronic and acute diseases,
and the letter is written voluntarily
on my part without any request for it."
Read the little book, "The Road to
MELVILLE" in pkSs. There's a Reason"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-11-02
A Perennial Mystery.

Average Man-These Sunday papers
just make me sick! Nothing In them
but commonplace personal items
about a lot of nobodies no one ever
heard of.
Friend-I saw a little mention Of
you in the Sunday Cannon.
Average Man (half an hour later, to
messenger boy)-Here, rush around to
the Cannon Office and get me forty
copies of the Sunday edition.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-11-02
Deadlock.

"Who Is that man who has been sit.
tire, behind the bar day after day."
inquired the stranger in Crimson
Glitch.
That's Stage Coach Charley. He's
in a peculiar p~redicament. He went to
town last week and got his teeth
fixed. Then he came. here, and, bein'
broke, ran up a bill on the strength Of
his seven dollars worth of.gold film
Charley won't submit to havin' the
nuggets pried out an the proprietor
won't let him git away with the col
lateral, and there you are!
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-11-02
M,ranu Guess.

1t was exhibition day at No. 3. and
as the parents of Jack Grady, the
dullest pupil. were listening hopefully.
the teacher tried her best to help the
boy. How did Charles l. Of England
die?" she asked, assigning the easiest
question on her list to Jack. AS he
looked at her, with no indication of a
coming answer, the teacher put her
hand up to her neck. Jack saw the
movement and understood its mean
ing, as he thought. Charles I. of Eng.
land died of cholera" he announced
briskly.-Youth's Companion.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-11-02

I had been to Hell-fer-Sartain, n
I had heard preaching there. II |
went back now the way | had come |
should save six long weary miles. l
was tired, as was Old Faithful, but |
had not been to the mouth of Hell-fer-
sartain and l had not seen the church
there, and while my curiosity was sat
lsfed, my conscience wasn't, n SO
from sheer stubbo-nness l saddled Old
Faithful and rode on down Heller
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-11-02
On HeU-Fer-Sdrtan Greek

Sartian through an avenue OF cucum-
Der trees. Never had I seen so many
cucumber trees in nv life as were on
that one rocky r. and had they
only been starred iii their great
creamy blossoms they would nave
been compeny' 'on 1or the whole toll,
some trip. l.. appointment awaited
me at the mouth Of the creek. Inc
church there was closed. and above
its doors was not the picturesque title
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-11-02

III everything nal QCieted down
there, as it was quieting down all
through the mountains, except over
toward Jackson. Yes, the good old
times were gone!-John Fox, Jr, IN
Scrihner.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-11-02
A a Weapon,

Artist Ito friend.-Yes, ! use the
p~alette-knife a good deal. Knocked a
child's head of in the morning and
sold it in the afternoon. NERVOUS old
gentleman gees out hurriedly at next
stoD.)-M. A. P.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-11-02
First and Foremost.

My wife has a great deal to sey to
he about her first husband"
Nonsense; you're wife was never
married before"
81 know It.. That's what makes her
reflections so palnful."-Puck.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-11-02
Her Tribute,

Randall-How did you like the mill,
tary parade, Ida?
Miss Rogers-Glorious! l never saw
enough men in all my life before
Harper's Bazaar.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-11-02
CNRYEZADw NSS2i4
%1H g yEAR 1GzXN1N
NJ

is exactly the same as when men are
exploited in workshops and nothing
returned to build up their bodies. You
cannot haul phosphorus and nitrogen
in oats and wheat and corn from your
farms year after year and maintain
the fertility Of the sell, if you give
back no phosphorus and nitrogen in
return. Twelve thousand abandoned
farms in the state of New York alone
testify to this. After sixty years Of
cultivation the lands Of the corn belt
are beginning to hint at the same
thing.
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She Probably Could.

Senator La Toilette, apropos Of GER
tain scandals, said at a dinner in Mad
ison: These things recall the legisla-
tor who remarked 70 his wife, with a
look of disgust One Of those land
lobbyists approached me today with
another insulting proposition"
"Tho wife, a young and pretty wom-
an, clapped her hands. oh, good!'
she cried. 'ThenI car have that sable
stole after all, can't l. dear?'"
Anything left to be dor at your
leisure seldom gets done.-S. Martin.
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pusands of years; whereas If the
lsureiy Of phosphorus in the soil is
) steadily decreased in the future in &C.
Gordalce with the past and present
SmosE common farm practise, then
s5pdferty is the only future for the
people Who till the common agricultu-
raj lands of the United States"
Phosphorus may be applied in lib
eral amounts-as much as 1,C0o pouncs
to the acre every three or four years
and it costs about 81 a ton.
After the problem Of returning the
elements to the soil has been solved
the farmer may find another condition
Of the soil which must be corrected
before his farm will produce as 1t
should. This is the tendency of GER
tain soils to acidity. Glover, alfalfa
and other valuable legumes' cannot
thrive upon soil that is sour. Some
times on acid soils when applications
of farm manure are made, the legumes
will seem to grow well, but examlna'
ton reveals the fact that the nitrogen
gathering bacteria fail to develop
properly. Hence the most valuable
contribution the legumes have to make
to the soil is largely lost. Upon GER
tain fields belonging to one OF the
most famous agricultural stations IN
the world, that Of Rothamstead' Eng
land, applications Of natural limestone
were made a century ago. They are
still moderately productive, although
other fields near by, which have never
received the application, are extreme
ly unproductive.
Care should be taken that lime
stone is used for the n and only pur'
nose of correcting soil acidity.
And while we are upon THIS
subject Of soil stimulation, have you
ever thought that most of our I'M
provements have that in view ana