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The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1911-03-10
General Treatment For Potatoes.

For scab, soak the uncut tubers for
two hours in thirty gallons Of water
and one pint of formalin (can be Sc
cured Of any druggist). This solution
can be used several times. Do not put
treated tubers back into crates or bags
that held scabby potatoes. Make the
treatment only few days before
planting, If possible. Do not plant
upon land that has recently grown
crops of scabby potatoes or beets.
When large quantities of potatoes
are to be treated, formaldehyde gas
may be used to advantage as follows
Place seed tubers In bushel crates or
shallow slat-work bins in tight room.
For each 1000 cubic feet of air space
in the ROOM spread twenty-three
ounces Of potassium permanganate
evenly over the bottom OF large,
flaring pan or pail placed in the middle
of the room. Pour over this three
pints of formalin. Close room at once
and do not open for twenty-four or
twenty-eight hours.
For blight and bugs, begin spraying
with bordeaux mixture and poison
when the bugs first appear, or when
the plants are about eight inches high,
and repeat about every two weeks as
long as the plants are growing. Spray
often in warm, muggy weather; it Is
not as necessary in dry weather.
Use bordeaux mixture (six pounds
copper sulphate and four or FIVE
pounds of lime to fifty gallons of wa
ter, and put in the poison, about one
half pound of Paris green or two
pounds Of arsenate of lead, or one
quart of the stock solution of Kedzie
mixture).
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1911-03-10
For Blight. (Late).

For Blight. (Late).
taken to keep it we'll agitated. The
mixture settles rapidly, and unless
well agitated 1t will not be evenly
sprayed. With the last spraying use
fine nozzles and give the trees a uni
form coating of a mist-like spray.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1911-03-10
Reports From City Officers.

Aid. BRANDED presented the report OF the
street commissioner for the weeh ending
March 9Th and on motion same was received
and filed.
Aid. Brown presented the report OF the
justice OF the peace showing $33. 10 received In
fees and fines during February, and on motion
same was received and filed.
The City Attorney reported on the claim OF
Wolaver. Geek & Brewer for interest on por-
ton withheld on contract for Oliver & Wash
ington street Pavement, recommending the
claim be disallowed.
The City Attorney recommended that the
claim OF Mr.. Underwood for refund OF one
sewer benefit on North Washington str, ct
sew er be disallowed
The City Attorney reported that he has
requested the New Haven Coal M ming Co., 10
remedy the condition that causes water to
stand on Comstock street.
The City Attorney reported that he has
taken up with the Lansing q Northeastern
Railway and the Owosso Il Corunna Electric
Rv. the various matters referred TO him by the
Council and asked that Mr.. Atwood be per-
mitted to address the Council, and by unani-
nous consent Mr.. Atwood addressed the
Council regarding the bridge over Cute street.
the sidewalk around said bridge and the matter
OF better car service to Corunna He requested
that a committee be authorized to consult
with him regarding wide ming South Washing.
ton street when track is laid. On motion OF
Aid Washburn the subject was referred to the
committee on streets and alleys with power to
act
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1911-03-10
General Treatment For Pears.


Spray same as for apples.
Strong lime-sulphur for San Jose
scale. blister-mite and pear-psylla, if
present. For scurfy-scale use lime
sulphur as late as possible before buds
open. Bordeaux mixture will poison
as directed for the apple.
Whenever blighted branch Is
found, cut back to sound wood and
burn.
Systematic inspections made during
fall, winter, and early spring, short
time before blossoms open, to remove
all winter hold-over" cases, Is very
beneficial.
After each branch is cut, disinfect
tool by wiping with a cloth or sponge
moistened with per cent carbolic
acid.
II "slugs" appear. spray with an
arsenical, II not too near ripening OF
fruit to be dangerous. In case of early
pears, dust with fresh hydrated lime.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1911-03-10
COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.
Council Room. City OF owosso.

Council Room. City OF Owosso,
March 9Th, 1911.
Regular meeting of the Council Mayor
Wallace ID. Burke presiding.
Aldermen present At roll call Mcdonald,
Re'neke. Wren, Clark, Brown BRANDED, Con.
ant, Palmer Wa hburn. Later Chavey.
The minutes OF the last regular meeting were
approved as printed.
Presentation OF Accounts.
Aid. Conant presented the claims and &C.
counts as noted below and on motion same
we're referred to the committee on claims and
accounts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-24
Free List and Wool

The old guard in the Senate, an- gered by their loss of power, have re- ported the Free List bill and the wool schedule, adversely it is true, but the two bills are now before the Senate instead of the Penrose finance com mittee. These two bills and the reciprocity bill are tangled together, and no one at present can tell when or how they will be untangled.
 The average senator regards the tariff as a local issue, to use General Hancock's phrase, and he refuses to regard the good of 90,000,000 people as one whole. If he has a factory un- der his nose at home he votes to suit that factory without reference to all the other people in his state.
 This means a deal of cross-firine
 and scheming and caterwauling, but
 in the end the people will be able tc
 see who are in favor of downward revision in the interest of ultimate consumers, and who are not. About all the extra sesion can do is to clari- fy the situation, making it plain to the plain citizen who will go to the polls next year and decide the great issue between consumers and hand ful of grasping producers.
 Let no one doubt the result. The House democrats are sitting steady in the popular boat and Chairman Underwood is the man at the rudder. No one is cooler or clearer-headed than the man who is doing the steer ing, and perhaps no one more greatly enjoys the turmoil that coalition of insurgents and democrats has created in the Senate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-24
The sbnckied Prisoners

"I was much gratiied to notice last night when the city prisoners were clean ing the streets that they all were cleanly and fully clad" said member of the Humane society
 "The horrible shackle was still in evi- dence, but from the general appearance of the unfortunates their treatment has undergone a change during the past few months The sight of chained human be- ings on the streets of our city is a de- grading spectacle and shocks the visitor beyond measure when first seen, but when in addition to the cruel chains the poor wretch Is scantily covered with filthy rags, as was their condition a short time ago, the spectacle was truly revolting.
 'I was much pleased to notice the pris- oners were decently clad fin overalls, but more pleased to notice that the overalls were clean. I trust the time is not far distant when further reforms will be made In the disposition of city prisoners and that the chains and shackles will be forever abolished"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-24

will be able to put it through the Senate. The entire bill was published in The Age-Herald yesterday moin- ing.
 The proposition extends barge navi- gation in the Warrior without injur- ing it a particle, and at the same time it offers possibilities of power near this city that would surely be- come valuable. The bill would simply render the Warrior additionally use- ful, and the hope is that Senator Johnston will be able to secure it's passage in the Senate. It does not enhance the cost of the river improvement, and there is no reason why the bill in the Senate should not be passed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-24
. DICKENS ON THE BOARDS

From the New York Herald.
 London.-With MT. Martin Harvey play ing "The Only Way at the Lyceum, MT. Bransby Williams impersonating MT. Pickwick In the vaudeville houses, and a stock company giving a series of Dickens dramas and comedies at the Savoy the atre, there is a distinct revival of in terest in the novelist of the plain peo- pie" of England. The Dickens dramatic festival at the Savoy, in which the act ors are all devoted admirers of the novel, ist, has enlisted the friendly interest of the Dickens family.
 Mir H. F. Dickens, K. C., welcomed the idea of performing fresh plays from his fathers works. He thought that in the past the dramatic versions of Dickens had not been satisfactory because they were padded with an excess of detail that interfered unduly with their action. Mrs. Perugini Miss Kate Dickens), the authors eldest daughter, and MT. Alfred Tennyson Dickens are deeply interested in the project too. "Dombey and Son." the first of the plays at the Savoy, was warmly received by a housefull of Dick ems admirers.
 l Early Victorian dresses helped to make a charming picture of the great reception 1 scene, and the chintzes were of the same design as those that were supplied foI the furnishing of Gadshil when the nov.
 elist moved out there.
 David Copperfield" Bleak House. L"Piclxwck," Great Expectations" anC F"The old Curiosity Shop" will follow
 "Dombey and Son.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-24
Let Us Talk About It

There are many important ques- tions at the present time for adjust ment on the part of the people of Bir- These matters should be freely and publicly discussed through the columns of the newspapers, and The Age-Herald will welcome and be glad to publish letters, signed by the full names of the writers, not to ex- ceed three hundred words in length.
 Let the people discuss the bond issue, and the proposed election to decide upon the method of handling the liquor problem in Birmingham Also the agitated 5-cent fare to Ems ley and Wylam, street lighting, street paving, good road building, the work of the commissioners compared with the old aldermanic system, and all other questions directly concerning the public welfare.
 Don't be modest, but talk out in plain black and white and freely ex- press yourselves, in parliamentary language, of course, through the col umns of The Age-Herald.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-24
Boil Weevils in Sumter

Squares have been punctured on two farms in Sumter county and have fallen from the plants that bore them, but the evidence as to what did this is still inconclusive. It is believed that boil weevils did it. None of them have, however, been caught, and it may be that the great invasion has not yet been begun in our blackbelt counties.
 It will come, however, either this year or next year, and the landlords who have been working their lands through tenant farmers should get ready for the great change. If they do not, the story of Louisiana and the Yazoo delta in Mississippi will be re- peated in this state.
 The boil weevil is due this fall in Sumter county. Sumter, Greene and Pickens have no more than the pres ent year for getting ready to face and fight down the Mexican pest. The battle in the three counties will be watched with the deepest interest and the deepest concern in the other DOT tions of this state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-24
NATURES DELIGHTS

By John Keats. O maker of sweet poets! dear delight Of this fair world and all its gentle livers; Spangler of clouds, halo of crystal rivers. Minglor with leaves and dew, snd tuin-
 bling streams; Closer of lovely eyes 10 lovely dreams; Lo-er ot loneliness and wandering Of upcast eye and tender ponderinz! Thee must I praise above all ether
 glores
 That smile on us 10 tell dcight:u stories: For what has made the sage CT poet
 write,
 But the fair paradise Of Natures light? In the calm grandeur. of a sober line We see the waving of the mountain pine; And when a fnle ia beautifully stald, We feel the safety of a hawthorn glade: When it Is moving on luxurious wings, The soul is lost in pleasant smotherings; Fair dewy roses brush against our faces, And towering aurels spring from dia-
 mond vases; Oerhead we see the jasmine and sweet
 brier, And bloomy grapes laughing from green attire; While at our feet the voice of crystal bubbles
 Charms us at once away from ell our troubles. So that we fael uplifted from the world. Walking upon the white clolds vrsathed
 and curled.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-24
The Iron Market

"Without any question there has been an improvement in the pig iron situ- ation during the past week; not that prices are stiffening any, but inquiry Is very much more general and the sales made represent a very nice az gregate tonnage" says Matthew Addy & Co.,
 "A surprising large number Of buy CTS have not bought a pound of iron for delivery beyond the first of July, and as that date approaches 1t Is in- teresting to note the different tactics that they are employing. They have succeeded in forcing the price of pig iron down to the point that short time ago they considered bottom. and still they are timid and show a he's itancy about what 1t is, best for them to do. Some have concluded to let things drift for a. while and to buy only what they may need from week to week; others are sending out in- quries for delivery extending as far into the future as possible--many of them far into 1912. Aside from these there are some of our biggest concerns who are working quietly, submitting
 
 their tonnage at advantageous prices without notice or comment, for they ap- preciate the fact that any reported buy ing movement would start things up ward Still they are all interested and that fact in itself Is important, for only few weeks ago a perfect apathy ex- isted.
 Furnace men are almost a unit In declining to consider any business be- yond this year at today's prices. A large percentage of them losing money at current prices and would blow out rath- CT than continue the loss. They argue and with good reason, that conditions must improve in the near future. There are large crops to be harvested, rail- roads cannot let their rolling stock SC much longer without replenishing ant there is vast amount of iron that mus
 be covered by foundries and mills gen l erally."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-24
Another Big Gas We'll

The coming in of another big gas well in the Faystte field is gratify- ing news to the entire Birmingham district. In addition to increasing the immediate available flow of gas in that section it indicates that the field in which the Providence company is operating is at least nine miles long and over a mile wide.
 So large a supply practically as- sures pipe line to Birmingham, and this great manufacturing city will prosper IS never before with an abundant supply of natural gas.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-24
ELIZABETH BIGLEY,
 wife of l.. S. CHADWICK, M. D. 1S59-i907.

This small monument in an out-of-the- way Canadian cemetery serves to recall the daring ventures in high finance or Cassie Chadwick, who created world wide sensation and who died in Column bus penitentiary four years ago. still, she is already forgotten. Her name With scores of others is rapidly passing into oblivion The old Chadwick home at Flu cid avenue and East Eighty-second street. Cleveland. has bene torn down, and upon its site Jewish synagogue is be- ing erected
 Woodstock felt highly important when the world turned toward 1t to watch the burial os Cassie Chadwick. But now even Woodstock has forgotten. A party of friends who remembered Mrs. Chadwick before she began her manifold operations in 8 financial way were motoring through Canada recently, and while passing through Woodstock remembered that 1t was in that village Cassie l.. Chad wick was buried. They drove out to the little cemetery, and there saw in Will derness of small headstones the shaft that marks the last resting place of the unfor- tunate woman. >
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-24
Currency Reform

'In reading about the Aldrich plan seeking to provide against financial panics I am reminded of the old Arkansas story.n said a local banker. "on a rainy day traveller who stopped at cabin whose roof had almost rotted away and furnished little protection from the elements, asked the man of the house why he didn't mend his roof The reply was, When it's reaning l cannot work on the roof The stranger asked why he didn't mend 1t in dry weather. The old fellows reply was that when it was dry he didn't need any roof.
 "It is very much that way about cur rency legislation. During Wall street furry there Is no time for legisla- ton, and when everything is running smoothly in the financial world 1t is almost impossible to get action in Con- gress."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-24
Modern Steamships in Modern Har'
 harz

On one day our largest battleship, tke Utah, steamed away from the shipyard for her official trials, and on the following day the largest mer- chant ship in the world, the Olympic, steamed through fog into New Kork harbor after trip through the deep blue sea we'll up toward the record. She Is as fast as she is large.
 The Utah is no match in size for the Olympic. Even the greater Ar kansas, already launched but not yet in commission, is but $50 feet long, with displacement of 26,000 tons. The Olympic is 882 feet long, with 50,000 odd tons displacement. The new White Star liner far exceeds in size any battleship afloat.
 But the Olympic's glory will be of short duration, for the Hamburg com pany is building 910-footer, and the 1000-foot merchantmen is plainly a-coming. All of these will crowd present docks and harbor facilities, and some of the docks will have to be rebuilt and some of the harbors deep ened.
 Naval attaches see no obstacles to the building of larger and still larger ships if harbors and docks will accom- modate them. The deepest harbors and the longest docks will get the biggest ships, and if New York can not shelter them Montauk can, and it is only two or three hours away by fast trains.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-24


 From the Washington Post.
 "Untold wealth in gold, silver and cop per lies hidden in the plains and noun tains of Colorado. awaiting only discov- cry by the prospector.' said John A. Heron, a wealthy miner of Denver at the New Ebbitt. T make this assertion on the authority of mining experts and en- gineers who have gone over nearly every foot of territory in the state. One old miner of Colorado recently declared that the San Juan country In Colorado IS so full of minerals that to tell of it would sound like a fairy tale. He declared that lic discovered the riches of that section so long ago as 1S60 but that it has never Teen touched because the region where ore abounds is almost inaccessible. When It becomes possible to develop the mines of San Juan, believe it will be found to be the best mining field In Colorado.
 This statement may seem inconsistent with the recent figures of the census bureau in Washington, which show that in the last eight years the number of men employed in mining, milling and smeltng in Colorado has been cut almost in half. In 1902 these industries had more than 5000 men on the pay rolls, but in 1910 the number had been reduced to less than 20,000 I believe that the time IS not far distant when there vii be a re- viyal of the great mining boom which years ago induced thousands of persons to flock to Colorado in search of wealth. Skilled miners and scientific engineers and geologists agree that hundreds of miles of mountains of Colorado are mineralized. Quantities of gold are awaiting those who will search for it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-24
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Former Citizen Visits Birmingham

David Thompson. formerly of Birming- ham, but for several years resident Of Cleveland, was here yesterday. He was one of the most popular of the younger citizens of this district, and was con nected with the Republic Iron and Steel company of which his father was for a long time president. He now heads furnace company, with headquarters in Cleveland.
 "I have met many of my old Birmins- ham friends an have appreciated thelr cordial greeting" said Mir Thompson Birmingham is going ahead fast. It IS what I expected to see and l have noticed the big improvements with high de- gree of satisfactio
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-24
WRITING PLAYS TO ORDER

From the Chicago Record-Herald. ."HE lure of dramatic authorship Is
 great in the land. There seems to
 | the uninitiated no more royal road to fame and fortune than that which Is nightly illumined by the glow of the call clum lights. Tales of the fabulous earn ings of successful playwrights, who. after writing a single successful play. have been able to exchange the demo- cratic discomfort of benches in Central park for showy suites in the great rococo alaces of upper Broadway and Fifth ave- nue. have acted as a powerful stimulus 10 dramatic authorship, with the result that Broadway managers are buried in a Good of manuscripts of all degrees of badness.
 The first steps of the amateur play wright are both easy and inviting; they involve no expense; all that is required is a pad of paper and a few steel pens. The novice attends a performance at the theatre. A play, he sees, is nothing but talk An actor comes on and talks and relres. His place Is taken by another, who also talks and retires. The hope full author has been talking all his life; it will be odd If he cannot make set of characters talk for two hours.
 Ard so he sets himself to the task of writing a play. But his manuscript is unaccountably returned with a curt note from the manager. It seems that the manager Is stupidy prejudiced against taking on any new talent The amateur tries again and Is again unsuccessful Finally he begins to wonder whether there may not be something wrong with lis play.
 It is usually at this critical period, when the first doubts as to his own trans cendent genius have assailed the authors mind that he receives from Q school for dramatic authors a most alluringly worded pamphlet. The school evidently has friends at court who furnish the names of aspiring young authors. The
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-24
TOM L. JoHNsoS,s START IN LIFE

In his autobiography, which is now be- ing published in Hampton's Magazine, the late Tom L. Johnson gives the following account of how he got his start as a money making monopolist:
 Having attained the advanced age of Il years, I began to look for something to do. My family was then living at Staun- ton, Va, and one railroad train day commenced to run into the town imme- diately after Lees surrender. I some how struck up a friendship with the con- ductor, which was to prove not only i'm mediately profitable to me, but which probably decided my future career. One day he said to me-
 How would you like to sell papers, Tom? I could bring 'em In for you on my train, and I wouldn't carry any for anybody else, so you could charge what ever you pleased.
 "The exciting events attending the close of the war naturally created a brisk de- mand for news and I eagerly seized this opportunity to get into business The Richmond and Petersburg daily papers l retailed at b cents each, and for picture papers I got 25 cents each. My monopo- ly lasted five weeks, and then 1t was abruptly ended by change in the man. agement of the railroad, which meant also change of conductors.
 "The $50 in silver which this venture netted me was the first good money our family had seen since the beginning of the war, and it carried us from Staun- ton, Va, to Louisville, Ky, where my father hoped to make a new start in life among his friends and relatives.
 "The lesson of privilege taught me by that brief experience was one I never forgot, for in all my subsequent arrange ments I sought enterprises in which there was little or no competition. In short, l was always on the lookout for some body or something which should stand in the same relation to me that my friend the conductor had"