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The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-01-17
lBANURlMG rHE GARDEN.
Work That Can Be Done In Winter 20
~ Make II Productive. -

Work That Can Be Done In Winter; 70
3::, Make It Productive. 81 : 4
Cabbage, onions and other: gross
feeders require more manure than sucn
vegetables as peas or beans. Hennouse
droppings and hen manure are coioi
but very rich, and should be put II,
large quantities ION the plat where
you expedite plant onions, cabbage Or
celery. Do not manure the potalu
patch with hen manure. .
Ashes are good for. the onion bed, SIS
they are for most vegetables, If prop
erly used, possibly being better for the
grape vines and strawberries, as these
plants require large amounts of pot
ash, says a writer in Farm Progress. ]
have heard 1t said that tomatoes do not
need fertilizer, but J. have not found
this true. Well rotted COW manure !
consider the best for plants requiring
warm soil. as the tomato, eggplant,
.okra and pepper: Peas and beans will
require some manure, but less than
any other bles. Lima beans. viii
stand consid derable fertilizing. -.
Stable and farm manure Is better
Tor the garden than commercial fer
tilizer, because it brings out a better
mechanical condition Of the.soil, en-
abling It to stand both drought and
excessive wet much; better, when it
contains leaved vegetation. In case Of
beans Or sweet potatoes, for instance,
rotted straw, which contains but little
elements OF fertility, IS ample because
1t is more essential to keep the soil
loose and moist than to manure .exces-
sively. ;{.;5:. .;;i5a:z s.
7; break the garden In the fail and
apply. manure In the winter, harrow
Ing it in when the ground s:dry In the
spring.. The plat where late cabbage
and celery are to be grown should be
manured heavily and replowed late in
the spring after the weeds have
started. a:sl+-.rl Is.
Every one should compost every
available bit of manure. Build rail
pen in the garden, and into this throw
all the ashes and trash about the place
that win rot anG become fertilizer,
Pour the wash water into it, for it
has some value. The pile will be
ready to scatter over the garden in the
spring. ~. y,
There is O place for commercial fer
tilizer, too, though I use"it sparingly.
Two hundred pounds! to the acre on
the. strawberry bed at blooming time
will work wonders in both yield, quail
ity and color. +: ..e
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-01-17

Julian Rosenwald. a wealthy Jew
ish merchant Of Chicago, has just
announced that he will give $4,000
to every city which will raise $751;
900 towards Y. NJ. C. A. building
for negroes. Negroes" said Mr..
Rcser valid in giving his first $4,000
to a Chicago organization, "haVe not
yet in their own ranks sufficient
number Of persons whose means
would enable them to establish and
equip such a building, and it is, in
my Judgment, the duty Of the white
people to aid in supplying this
need"
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After 4 Fashion.

Renorter-Senator, If mistake not
your 1ame has been mentioned once or
twice in connection with the pres1-
dency.
Senator Lotsmnn-Why, yes: Lon
don journal, ! believe. once remarked
that If the Office Of president Of the
United States was for sale WOULD
probably buy it.-Chicago Tribune.
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Keeoinu CABBAGE In Fall.

Early in December turn each head
over 10 the north and bank the soil
over the stem and base Of the head,
leaving merely the top exposed. Some
make the mistake Of turning the heads
south, and the heads Will be certain to
get damaged, for the stem and base OF
1 the head are: the most tender parts
and these will be to. The north, while
the morning sun will strike the open
head to the south when frozen and
damage 1t. says Progressive Farmer.
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Well Guarded.

"Wuz yew guarded in yore conduct
while yew wuz in teown. son?" asked
the old man.
ashore thing. dad" replied the boy.
IT wuz guarded by two perhcemeo
most Nv tn Chicago News.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-01-17

Top OF u post Us
shown In the sketch.
Then boreSa small.
hole through the
handle, Of q, hammer
and fasten.. it with
a twenty-penny nail
to the post about
six inches from the
top. A twelve foot
post set eighteen
In c b es itto the
ground is q b out
right. This gives
you a first class IS!
serviceable far N
gong. Farm and
Fireside.
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digestive condition than it does well
ground grain feed. For that and
the other reason given the addition
of, say, four to six pounds Of good
grain ration is a profitable thing.
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chorus Cowed tho Cow.

'I thought would introduce real
COW into my comic opera"
"How did It work?"
"Didn't work at all. The milkmatds
frightened the cow."-Pittsbu1g Post
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-01-17
E. Er,.t ';-S.s.
Tho Corn knlfo,

a good corn Knife makes the work of
cutting com corn easier. One With a"strap'
for the wrist relieves the ache won
derfully. !"
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Ifyour neighbor's crops are BET
ter than your own don't be Too
proud to discuss sthem.with him and
find OUT why il possible. Then
strive to raise be,ter:crops.

An Effective Farm Gong. &
Get q disk from an old disk plow
and drive. a bolt through 1t Into, the
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-01-17

Watch for opportunities. Things ara
best done in season.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-01-17

Farmers Union Bureau.
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some QUEER TRADES
Unusual Occupations Revealed in
Census Report.
Kansas City Man Who Bottles Smoke
Unique Task Performed by Gov
ernment Employees in Washing
ton-Raise Frogs for Profit.

Washington.-As part of the task
Of compiling the thirteenth census Of
the United States, the bureau will pub
tish report on the various occupa-
tions by which men and women in this
country earn their daily bread Though
1t will be many months before this re-
port will be given to the public, a
conservative estimate places the num-
Der of classifcations of industry at
between 1000 and 5000.
1t seems a safe prediction to state
that there will be found but one man
In the entire country making a living
from bottling the smoke of burning
hickory wood. This man, who lives
in Kansas City, contends that his bot
tied smoke, let loose III an air tight
compartment in which meat has been
placed, will produce the same effect
upon the meat as though cured by
hickory smoke in the usual manner.
Nor. would the uninitiated expect to
find profit in raising bullfrogs for their
legs. Two New Jersey women, how
ever, are making good livelihood by
so doing and a certain California wom-
an obtains over $100 an ounce whole
sale for the seeds Of petunias.
In some Of the reports of the census
.enumerators in the field are found tab
ulations so unusual that they require
no end of labor in properly classify
ing them at the bureau. One man
frankly asserted that he was a "booze
fighter" and another. who works in
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GEESE ON THE STAGE REBEL
Object to Understudy for Singer in
Halle Performances of Humper,
dinck's "konigskinder."

Berlin.-An amusing incident oc-
Cured this week at a performance of
Humperdinck's "konigskintier" at the
Halle opera house.
Live geese are employed for the
Halle production In contrast to the
papier mache variety which indulge In
make believe caekleSgat- Berlin. The
prima donna who regularly sings the
part of the goose maid was taken Ill
suddenly and It, became necessary to
obtain an understudy. When the lat
ter, however, went on the stage the
geese rebelled against the intrusion Of
stranger. They became SO enraged
they threatened to do the singer bod
fly injury.
The conductor Of the orchestra had
to stop the performance until the
geese could be queued. They refused
to subside until the familiar figures Of
the wood chopper and the broom max.
sr came upon the scene.
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LoNGEvous GEESE.

Geese will live to great age. and some few
years ago came across a very venerable goose
(male female cannot say in Westmoreland In
unexpected circumstances was walking from
Milnthorpe TO Arnside and at Ganaside found an
acquaintance sitting on seashore bench feeding
a pet goose with biscuits STEPPED in ale He told
me that this goose had been in his family for over
40 years and was partial to beer, stout and even
gin. One of the most remarkable records of tba
longevity OF geese with which am acquainted il
to be found IN an old book entitled Travels in
Scotland" by the Rev. James Hall, NJ a.. London
two volumes, 1907 On visit to Mr. Charles
Grant OF Eichles Stiringshire, the author was in.
formed OF gander that had been killed by accident
after living at the same place for above so
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Less Lonely Club

Confident that New York Is the loneliest city in
all this wide world, the New York World says,
several men and women have organized the Less
Lonely league, with headquarters at 81 East One
hundred and Twenty-sixth street.. The purpose is
to provide a suitable meeting place for persons of
rennement and education who are denied home
life. -'.E
L. j. Wing, q weto-do manufacturer, is the
originator and president of the Less Lonely
league. His own lonesomeness is responsible for
the movement which is expected to gather thou.
sands of recruits in New York and throughout the
United States when 1t gets fairly under way. It
was through letter to newspaper that Mr. Wing
got inetouch with the other men and women who
fell in with his plan
Long ago I realized that New York was a
mighty lonely place." Mr.. Wing said. Il mean for
one accustomed to associating with cultured per-
sons. At first thought that through a church
might meet congenial people. I attended one in
Central Park west, but it didn't take long to con-
vince me that no friends were to be made there.
I attended another church in Lenox avenue The
result was the same Now don't attend any
church. but on Sunday jump into my motor car
and take ride into the country and let nature
preach to me.
1T Is tough on the young man who cares nothing
for the smoke shop or the barroom. The same
with the young woman who must remain in her
hall bedroom because there is no place to go. Our
clubrooms will furnish place for them to meet:
there will be entertainments from time to time.
We have received nearly 100 applications"
Lawyers, publishers, teachers and others have
written asking about the club, and Mrs. Taylor
has had printed circular setting forth that -four
walls and door don't make home
And this from Hoods Bridge Of Sighs" ID
added:
Oh. it was pit1ful, near whole city full.
Home they had none.
Every other Tuesday an entertainment will be
given, although the club rooms will be open to
the members any time. Mrs. Mary E. Medberry OF
Beasonhurst, L. L, is arranging the program Miss
Edith North. grand opera singer is interested in
the work and sang for. the members the other
evening.
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sAUERKRAuT LONGEVITY !. \ All
Rev. Flynn Of California Makes Some
Peppery Remarks on Diet and
Fat-Two Meals Enough.

Cincinnati.-..sAny man who is so
tat that he cannot see his feet while
walking, ought to be arrested" said
the Rev Earl Flynn Of Berkeley. CAL,
to a. Y. M. G. "a. audience the other
day. 1.-TWO meals day are enough
for the average person to eat and
remain in healthy condition. The
person who eats three meals day
needs u hours sleep to refresh him
self. 2 y +.
Mr.. Flynn, who is IS years old, con-
tinued
The food which collects the long
evity germ Is sauerkraut. The man
or woman who keeps on diet OF this
kind, ought to live a century or more.
Sauerlnaut is very nutritious and
should be on the table Of everybody" !"
Continuing his health talk, Mr..
Flynn wound up with saying: ITO be
healthy every minister must sweat
twice a week. a good many minis
ters only sweat once month, when
they draw their salaries
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Shows Danger in Digging Wells.

Shows Danger in Digging Wells.
saloon, styled himeslf as destroyer
Of men,"
Such occupations as 'pouncer," in a
hat factory; "tobies." a maker of
stogies; whittier" in a straw works;
"dock walloper," longshoreman; "vi-
brator," in clock factory; "tonger," in
connection with oysters; "teaser," in a
glass factory; "scabbler," in quarry
ing; "fosser," in a corset factory, and
"dubber," in ship building, are all
unusual occupations that must be
listed.
In Washington especially are there a
large number of persons who earn their
living by performing unusual tasks. The
majority Of them are employed by the
government. There is young man in
the National museum-Henry Hendley
who is known as the official portrait
bust maker of Indian features for
unique portrait gallery of the North
American redskins.
I. B. Millner is an expert modeler in
papier mache Of things past, present
and future for the National museum.
Along similar lines is the work of
Edwin Howell, maker of maps. In
his workshop he evolves relief maps of
certain sections Of the country which
not only indicate rivers and mountains
and towns, but all the minerals, rocks,
flowers. trees, and varying soils to be
found there.
One of the most interesting of his
maps was made for the marine hos.
pital and public health service. It is
intended as warning against allowing
people ignorant Of geological condi-
tions to dig wells, and as plea for
the artesian well.
There are expert tea and coffee tast-
ers in the treasury department who
tell the value and grades of these COM
modities by placing few grains on the
tongue. And in the department of
agriculture there is squad of young
men who eat drugged foods to deter.
mine just how poisonous they are.
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the initial run with a carload of mail
was made from Hannibal to st. Joseph
in record time, the mails properly dis.
tributed and ready for the overland
stages, couriers, etc. "
: The, first trial was so satisfactory
that other cars were brought into re-
QUESTION and soon most remarkable
change for the better was made in the
receipt and distribution of mails. The
great railway mail service had been
inaugurated! ..s@
The problem Of forwarding overland
mails without delay was solved, and
Mr.. Davis was soon made special
agent Of the department and given full
charge of the branch of the service
which he had originated.
William A. Davis, inventor of the
railway mail service, was born in Bar
rem County, Kentucky, in September,
1909. In early youth he went to Vir-
ginia, where he entered the postal
service, at Richmond and other places,
and with his career in st. Joseph he
had been in the postal service about
fifty years.
The first car for the distribution Of
the mails was an old-time "way" car,
fitted up with pigeon holes. Extra
windows were arranged and the dis
tributors" used candles to assist in
lighting the cars. Mr. Davis made a
trip on the first car as far as Palmyra,
Mo-, and then left the work with an as.
sistant while he returned to Hannibal
for the second car. There are many
old .railroaders yet alive who remem.
Der the first mail cars.
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CATTLE GUARD is EFFECTIVE
Wandering on Rails and Meeting
Injury.

Chicago.-The old STORY about some.
one asking, George Stephenson, the in.
ventor Of the locomotive, what would
happen to a train if COW wandered
on the line, to which the latter re-
piled, he would 'fbe very sorry for the
cow" seems to have found sym.
pathetic echo in the western states in
the form of novel cattle guard on
railways, the practical utility of which
Is demonstrated in the illustration.
The device claims to effectually pre-.
vent cattle straying up the railway
line and thus meeting with injury or
death from oncoming trains. AS the
COW walks along the track she meets
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d @ ---a=s.s. a=s':s..s.:ssss;ssss K
: WK TRAIK CROSSING TIL ELGT RIVER +

3 49, e r.
work, secured the hean and hide and
climbed back to the summit.
Our game supply now consisted Of
three deer, three goats and one elk.
Charles decided to stay in the valley
with Marsh until he shot an elk, while
the rest of us took p part OF the pack
train. loaded on allEour game and left
at noon next day for the railroad.
By no means the. least interesting
part Of this trip was, the chance to
view the Lewis and Clark National
Forest. where for ten days we lived
near to Nature, the only evidence Of
mans having intruded there being
the cut out pack-trail and the forest
rangers cabins. The timber ranges
in size from the giant Norway pine of
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Noted Inns to Go.

New York.-Two Of New York
.city's famous hotels-the Hoffman
house and the Gilsey house will
close their doors Immediately. The
Gilsey house win be converted to
business purposes. Both hotels in
their day have had the names Of
many men of national prominence
,Don their registers.
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ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS MINI. 49,
ORIGIN OF MAIL CAh'
Railway Postal Service First OPP
Grated in Missouri.
William a. Davis, Before the War,
Postmaster at ST. Joseph, Devised
System Now in Vogue for Dis
tributing Mail En- Route.

st. Joseph, Mo.-Progress in the
carrying and distribution of United
States mails has been remarkable in
this country in the last fifty years. A
half century ago, the 1rst railroad west
Of the Mississippi river, from Hanniba!
to st. Joseph, Mo-, was constructed,
and on this road the railway mail serv-
Ice Of the country had its origin and
Inception. Then, only the mails for the
whole western country came in bulk
on freight and passenger trains to be
distributed in ton lots and carried to
many destinations by courier, by buck.
board, horseback and stage lines, the
only methods In those days.
It remained for William A. Davis,
postmaster at st. Joseph from 1855 to
1861, to invent and inaugurate the
great system now in vogue. Before
this time the mails, all mixed and in
bulk, were carried to some central dis.
tributing point. Independence, Mo-,
was one Of these and st. Joseph later
was another. When the railroad was
built the task all came to the st. Jo-
seph office, in distributing the entire
overland mail. -.5
The idea occurred to Mr.. Davis that
these mails could be distributed while
In transit It seemed to him in every
way possible and desirable So he
wrote to the people in Washington for
authority to fit up some cars on tho
Hannibal e. st. JoseDh railroad to try
out the experiment The authority
came and Mr.. Davis went to the rail
way headquarters at Hannibal and su;
Eerintended the arrangement of sew.
eral way cars with pigeon holes, doors,
windows and other conveniences and
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stuff Rabbits With Quail.

Topeka, Stuffing cleaned rab-
bits with quail and shipping them out
OF the state has enabled many hunt
ers to evade the quail-shooting law in
Kansas this season. Prof. L. L. Dyche,
state fish and game warden, who has
just obtained proof Of the violations.
said warrants probably would be
sworn out for the hunters
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Forty Years in BIoomers.

tration at the time the bloomer move
ment first started 40 years or more
ago. What has become Of the other
Dloomerites no one knows, but this
particular bloomerite blooms on in her
quaint old costume, and doesn't conde
scend to notice skittish rivals who
prance up Broadway wearing duds that
are feeble variations of her original
dress &s
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PIONEER OF HAREM SKIRT
Woman Fell in With Bloomer Craze
Forty Years Ago, and Has
Kept It Up.

Jersey City alking of your Broad.
way beauties il their freakish harem
skirts, why not give little attention
to this old: lady, who has worn 'em for
ever since the early bloomer move
ment long before those Broadway
freaks were born and wears 'em with
entire satisfaction to herself at least
to this very day. She is Miss Fowler
of Vineland N. ]. She donned the cos
tune she is seen wearing in the illus
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six feet in diam
eter to the 6-inch:
lodge pole thick
ets. Tho vivid y.
green of these.
frightened by
thb yellow fall
tint Of the asp
ems, against the
s;n ow app e d
mountains l q made
O picture which
no camera nor
brush could do
J justice to, giving
one the feeling
that it was good
to be alive. ..
Small game was
numerous; three
v a ri eties S Of
grouse, Franklin
blue and ruffed.
Pine squirrels,
NY io o1yo
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a fitting platform between the rails
which tips up as she steps upon it..
The COW, imagining her progress to
be barred and not endowed by nature
with superabundance of intelligence
Ia fact which the willy inventor must
have borne in mind-instead Of walk
ing round the obstruction proceeds to
compliment the exceeding ingenuity
and foresight OF its originator by walk
ing off the line altogether.
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-magpies and@nany smaller birds added interest to
the trip. ~~~
The act of ex-President Roosevelt in setting aside
these immense tracts Of rough, timbered country
for national forests to be looked after by the gov
ernment, providing home for the wild life and
recreation spot for future generations, will stand
as one of the great acts of his administration.
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-
horses, six saddle horses and three
colts, started on the sixty-mile journey
to our proposed camp. ----. ....
We had travelled but few miles
north from the village, and into the
timber, when we came to the we'll
blazed line which marks the southern
boundary of the Lewis and Clark Ma
tional Forest, within which Glacier
National Park has recently been Gre
ated. Along the well-dehned trail we
were continually reminded by the
conspicuous signs posted by the For
est Rangers of the warning to all
campers in regard to fires.
The last days trip was over a
rough trail, crossing and recrossing
Young's creek. up and down banks so
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ling, Charles Hedges, Bert Hill and
myself. 49,. ...a
After an interesting ride through
the pines, and past the small ranches
along the Big Blackfoot river, we ar
rived at the town Of Ovando and took
quarters at the Goodfellow Hotel.
After supper we found Marsh" our
guide, and began mixing medicine for
the big hunt. We inquired as to the
prospects of game such as none of us
had ever hunted. We finally agreed
to hunt for the following: Deer, elk,
goats and possibly bear, as our two
weeks time was not sufficient to
make the trip to
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the sheep coun-
try.
T h e following
m O n ng was
spent in packing
up and talking
with the numer-
GUS guides, as
about 80 per cent
Of the towns in
habitants follow
this occupation.
s h ort ly after
noon, our train,
60 m p o S e d of
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l1L OlCou VI JC0A . was
soon to be realized, as
our h un t ing party
boarded the Northern
Pacific train, which
was to carry us to the
western part Of Mon
tana for a ten-days'
trip in the Flathead
country.
Our party was COM
posed of II. r. Arme-