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The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-05-17
TO THE FARMERS OF TEN
NESSEE.

BY Capt. T. F. Peck, Commissioner Of
Agriculture.
want to talk this week to the farm
er who is either Indifferent or antag-
onistic to what he has styled book
farming. want us to get right down
to our own experience and forget for
the time that any books have been
written on this subject. We will not
go outside our own experience TO
prove the value of the things want
you to do and l will not ask you to be-
gin with mora equipment than should
be found on every farm in the State
Of Tennessee.
Every farmer when he gathers his
crop would like to have so instead Of
Is bushels per acre, It requires less
work to prepare. cultivate and gather
q crop on 10 acres than on 20 acres.
Now l want to ask you farmers II you
do not always make better crop
when you have SUFFICIENT rain than
when you have a drouth? You have
the same land but it produces better
when you have tho right amount Of
moisture.
F, Now did II ever occur to you that
you could regulate that matter so that
you can have enough moisture for
your crop even tho 1t does not rain
during the growing season? The rez-
son you do not have enough now Is
because your soil is not broken deep
enough to hold it. You have been
breaking your soil about four inches
deep and below that is a hardpan that
water cannot penetrate, so when the
rains come the thin coat of soil gets
30 full of water that 1t washes easy
and when dry weather comes It soon
dries out until there Is not sufficient
moisture to keep your crop growing If
1t does not rain often. and you make
very little crop. Another thing you
know that nine out of every, ten farm
ers do, that is to take az Of the crop
off of the ground and in ma y cases
even rake up and burn the grass and
cornstalks. You ask what good will
they do. ! will tell you. In most
cases you find your land inclined to
break up cloddy and the longer you
work 1t, year after year, you find II
more that way want to ask you
If you ever find rich new ground that
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-05-17

the vegetable matter to 1t all at
once, but for your own sake do want
you to try say 10 acres, the way 1
have suggested and see the result.
You are entitled to the comforts of
life, if you are willing to work for
them. l want your work to bring it's
true reward and 1t will il you work
intelligently.
The suggestions l have made are
simple enough for any man to follow
and the reward will certainly justify
the effort on your part.
II the farmers of Tennessee would
do the things suggested in this talk,
pillow twice as deep In preparing the
land for crops, turn under vegetable
matter to loosen the soil, select the
right kind Of seed, cultivate shallow
but thorough and often, their cropa
would be double what they now are.
Then II they would keep q cover crop
OF rye and crimson clover on their
land in winter, to keep the land from
washing and TO turn under In tho
spring. their farms would become more
fertile each year.
The exercise Of good common sense
Is the best fertilizer and tie best
book on farming ever written.
Let's use It freely. It IL hard for a
farmer to understand all at once ali
that has been discovered BY our scien.
lists concerning improved methods Is
farming, but there is rnuch that he
can understand and prove its value
from his own experience No one has
been able to grasp at once what It hes
taken years Of patient toll to work out
and prove. Do not try to do it all az
once, but do no throw the whole pro-
position up because you do not under.
stand 1t all, but do want you to take
up such propositions as you can grasp
and put them in practice. often talk
to farmers about some Of the practf.
cal things they can do to improve
their lands and crops and they agree
that 1t is right and would be of value
but they had gotten in the habit Of
the old way Now are you doing your
self and those dependent upon YOU
justice to continue a system that is do.
priving you and them of the comforts
and advantages you could provide?
AT least let's do what we can and
every step we take will make the next
one easier. Let US do our best.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-05-17

way? No, because it is so full Of We
getable matter the soil is loose and
porous it will hold a great deal more
water than your tight land; it will
hold more than double the water for
the same number Of inches of soil.
Now II you want to put your ground
in condition so 1t will not suffer for
rain, you must fix it so 1t will hold
moisture and enough OF 1t to supply
your crop while 1t is growing. A pint
cup will not hold as much as a quart
cup and ground ploughed four inches
deep will not hold as much as ground
rulY' rized eight inches deep, and tight
cloddy land will not hold as much as
loose losmy land, so II you want the
moisture, instead Of blowing four
inches deep, let your pillow down eight
inches deep. To make your land loose,
never burn anything. turn under all
the vegetable matter, the moro Of It the
better. Now when you get your land
broke deep and the vegetable matter
1t will keep the water from running
on and you can keep the sun from
pulling It out IL you viii stir the sur
face thorough and often, not deep,
but thorough and often. Do your dcep
plOwing before you plant, after you
plant work the surface often 40 Il
should be and your crop will grow
right on IL 1t don't rain, because you
have the moisture in the ground and
It is doing its work.
l have explsised to you before that
in every 100 pounds Of green crops
only about three pounds came from
the mineral plant food in the ground,
the rest came from the air and water.
You do not have to bother about the
air farther than to give 1t chance
to get isto the ground and we have
shown you how you can have an abun.
dance of water. We have not asked
you to use anything but what should
be on every farm. or course It is 60
ing to take more work on an acre to
fix it right than to half prepare it, but
it is work that will pay you better
thas the work has paid that you have
been doing, and at the same time II is
making your land better every year
You are getting the use OF plant food
that the way you have been working
It, has been locked up.
Now I do not ask you to break all
the land on a big farm deep and add
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-05-17
Y. M. /. c. NOTES


The club is always kept busy try-
ing in some way to broaden it's scope,
thereby placing it in full view of the
public Our methods of proceed
ing are not selfish, as is thought by
many, but we will add, that after one
makes close observation of us. our
work and purpose, all doubt will be
re eased. We have appealed for the
sympathy of the public for quite a
while. from which we are reaping won
derfully, for occasionally we are Wis
tied by those who are fully capable
OF rendering US aid materially, and
whose knowledge Of our work needs
no commentator, for the tiny bits
dropped with us are as seeds sown
in fertile soil. The club was favor
ably surprised by a visit from Rev.
DeBerry, of Springfield, Mass. who is
visiting our city In search of rest, but
through the strategy, we might add,
displayed by our friend, DR.. Caruth-
ers, who is always trying to lend his
able assistance to our club in many
ways and occasions, we were able to
hear this wonderful spirited man. He
expressed himself as being favorably
impressed with our work and his sym
pathy was ours. The club is formula
ting plans for an annual sermon to be
had on the last Sunday of this month
(26th), the place to be decided at a
meeting of the committee on arrange
ments that is to meet Tuesday even
ing H. Jordan Stockard, chairman;
Messrs. Marshall, Scruggs and Ander-
son. The program for the past meet
ing was as follows; Life of Irving
b. S. Scruggs; selection, Quartette;
Success" T. w. Anderson; original
poetry, A. R. Stockard
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-05-17
PASSED AWAY IN Chicago.

Mrs. Emma Sewell, departed this
life Sunday, May 9Th. For a num-
Der of years Mrs. Sewell had been
a devout member of Sylvan Street
Baptist Church, and a resident of
East Nashville, but a few years ago
moved to Chicago, where she died.
Funeral services were held at Sylvan
Street Baptist Church on Wednesday,
May Sth, Rev. VIM. Haynes ofIiciat-
ing. She leaves to mourn their loss
six daughters as follows: Mrs. Ella
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-05-17
DELEGATION OF VISITORS.

Rev. 8. c. Thompson, Prof. w. D.
Ellington, Miss Charlia Cannon, Phil
adelphiR; Elder George Henry, Mrs.
Geo. Henry. Chattanooga; Rev. R. H.
Goodloe, Birmingham, Ala; Elder
walter Shears, Rev. J. NJ. w. De
Shong, Fayetteville. wore callers at
the once making complimentary Re-
marks as to the Negro business en-
terprises, especially the clean, read
able matter Of the Globe, which
seemed to met their approval.
Monday night, May 10, the visiting
Commissioners and delegates to the
General Assembly and Sunday-School
Convention, which met in Dyersburg,
TenR., May IA, were banqueted at
Holman Street Church.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-05-17
sPINsrERs' CONVENTION.

The Spinst9rs' Convention, o one
act comedy, full of wit and humor,
will be presented by Called. Glass No
16, of Mt. Olive Baptist Sunday-School
on Thursday evening, May 30, at Odd
Fellows Auditorium. The young la
dies promise all an evening of rare
amusement. The characters in their
unique costumes, with furbelows,
handbags, cats, parrots, corkscrew
curls and fat lunches, will present a
comical spectacle. The President Of
the Ladies Single Blessedness Soci-
ETY., Miss Josephine Jane Green, will
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-05-17

the excursion rates to Tuskegee. He
states that every road in the S. e.
p. A. or their representative are to
have this round trip rate plus the
tariff expense. These tickets for the
Congress are to be on sale Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday, June 3rd,
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-05-17

All railroads in those states lying
south Of the Ohio and Potomac and
east OF the Mississippi Rivers that
make up the Southeastern Passenger
Association have announced a one
fare round trip rate plus on account
n the Congress.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-05-17

Fifteen minutes will be given for
general discussion.
Exposition on the Sunday-school les
son for Sunday, May II, by Rev. A. w.
Porter.
Closing Prayers. P. Gregory, Su-
perintendent. First Street Baptist Sun
day-School
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-05-17

over privilege at Nashville, Tenn, for
all who pass through Nashville com
ing to the Congress. 1t will be re-
membered that the stop-oyer is to be
made on the return trip from Tuske-
gee. The Secretary wishes to state
that special train with sleepers, day
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-05-17
PROF. e. d. BUFORD,
Master OF Ceremonies.
DAY At STONE
RIVER CEMETERY.

Decoration Day services Will be held
at Murfreesboro National Cemetery
Thursday, May 30. A special train
will leave College street at $50 a. m.
Returning will leave the Cemetery at
p. m. Services will be conducted by
Liberty Post No. 20, G. A. r.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-05-17
REAL ESTATE DEAL

Mr.. ]. c. Haynes, of Whites Creek
Pike, who has been specializing in
real estate, disposed of a most beau
tiful and valuable tract of land, 5Ox
$50. The deal was made between
Mr.. Haynes and Mr.. j. c. Carter, his
nephew The people of that commu-
nifty are always glad to welcome new
desirable residents.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-05-17

The long expected information con
corning the exact rates for the round
trip to the Sunday-SchoOl Congress
at Tuskegee has been obtained. This
is the statement made by the Secre-
tary of the Congress, who has in
his possession the tariff authorizing
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-05-17
ROBERT HUTCHINSON LOST.

To the Nashville Globe:
st. Louis, Mo-, April 2S-Please in
sert an inquiry for one Robert Hutch
inson, who, when last heard of, was
attending school at the State Univer-
sity, but is now supposed to be in
the ministry l am his mother and
desire to hear from him. Please give
this your consideration. Any informa-
ton leading up to his whereabouts
will be highly appreciated.
MRS. MALINDA PICKRIA,
TIA N. 18th st. st. Louis, Mo.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-05-17

coaches ard baggage cars will leave
Nashville Tuesday night, June 4th,
at 9:O5 for the benefit of those living
in the southeast territory. He de-
sires to announce full round trip
rates from stations mentioned below.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-05-17

Harris and Mrs. Katherine Williams.
OF Chicago; Mrs. Willie Lee Sewell-
ferris. of st. Louis; Mrs. Addie L.
Pergan. of Seattle, Wash; Mrs. Hat.
tie Shepherd, of Oklahoma, and Miss
Rachel Sewell, Of this city.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-05-17

4th and 5th, on all trains reaching
Tuskegee, June 5th. The return limit
on these tickets does not expire till
midnight June 18TH in other words,
a Congress ticket is good for ten
days.
The tariff further provides a stop
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-05-17

deliver her annual address in a most
eloquent way. Betsey Bobbett, with
her original poems, Belinda Blue
grass, suffragette, Rebecca Sharpe,
dress reformer, and many others will
present striking arguments to support
their pet theories. Don't fail to hear
them in their new roles on Thursday
night, May 30, at Odd Fellows Audito-
rum.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-05-17
WALDEN HoNoRs PRESIDENT
LAAE

Walden University conferred upon
the president Of Lane College. Jack
son, Tenn. the degree Of Doctor Of
Philosophy, at their recent commence
ment.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-05-17
suMpAYscHoL UNION.

The Nashville Baptist Sunday
School Union will hold its regular
monthly meeting at Fifteenth Avenue
Baptist Church, Rev. A. w. Porter.
pastor, Sunday, May IL. All Baptist
Sunday-schools Of the city are request
ed to have their teachers and oflcers
present at this great meeting.
Program.
Opening Song.
Scripture Reading-Bro. s. s. Page,
Superintendent Mt. Nebo Baptist Sun
day-School.
Song.
Prayer-Bro. Reed, Superintendent
Fifteenth Avenue Baptist Sunday
School
Song.
Paper on general subject for dis
cussion-Bro. S. H. Johnson, Superin-
tendent Pleasant Green Baptist Sun
day-School.
Subject for discussion, "How Shall
We Save Our Boys?" led by Rev. Jno
B. Ridley, Assistant Superintendent
Mt. Olive Baptist Sunday-School.
The Holbrook news., 1912-01-12
STYLES FOR THE BRUNETTE
Vivid coIorIngs, So Popular Just Now, Need Dark Beauty to Set
 Them of.

At a recent style show held In Washington under the patronage of a committee of society women the liv- ing models chosen were girls with brown hair and brown eyes. No mat ter how beautiful a girl of the blonde type might be. she did not have chance of being chosen for the show. The blonde girl is not admired this season. for she does not bring out the good points of the new creations" and "dreams" launched by the Paris dressmakers for the winter season.
 Poiret, the most daring of the Paris dress artists, still clings to the orien- tai in his latest models. He has final ly acknowledged his "jupe pantalon" or Turkish trouser skirt to be a fail ure, but the wonderful vivid colorings of the orient still hold his attention and in some of his startling new after noon and evening frocks he has com bined vivid reds, blues and greens color schemes which would be lurid and terrible except when combined with the master hand of a Poiret and worn by a woman of the right type.
 The fair beauty of blonde model is eclipsed when she dons one of these frocks with its vivid color notes. She is not the woman to set 1t off to best advantage. so an olive skinned, al mond eyed beauty is chosen in her place. It Is said there will be no fiaxen haired models employed at any of the big style shows held in this country or Paris. Only the languor- ous beauties who suggest the mystery of the orient are in demand.
The Holbrook news., 1912-01-12
PekIn,s New Paper.

Pekin. the home of the oldest news paper published, has new daily, Le Journal de Pekin, printed in French in the legation quarter. It's editor and publisher is Marcel van Lerberghe, an explorer of some note.
 The new daily IS an ambitious pub ncation of eight pages. with tele- graphic service, reviews of all the Chinese papers. and editorials on all the questions of the day.
 An interesting item from the first number gives a list of the buttons which, worn in the center of the cap, mark the different classes of manda- rins, this Is ruby for the first class, and, in order. coral, sapphire, lapsis- Iazun. crystal, moonstone, plain gold. engraved gold and silver, which latter marks the ninth class.
The Holbrook news., 1912-01-12
Abstraeted Lawyer.

The great attorney sat engrossed in small slip of paper that he held In his hand. He stared at the docu- ment, or whatever 1t was, as If 1t con- tained the solution of the whole prob lem Of life. The client waited, for the sheet of paper occupied the whole attention of the great legal mind. Standing first on one foot and then on the other, and back again. the client waited. Then he took a chance on seating himself. almost stealthily. He did not desire to interrupt the chain of thought that might even at that mo ment be planning out a pleading in- volving millions. He waited, just waited.
 At last the lawyer looked up, aware for the first time of the others pres ence. He cleared his throat. That gas company" he remarked, "has got me charged up with 4s cents worth of gas for the month of April, during which time we were not at home more than two days. It's absurd. New York Times.
The Holbrook news., 1912-01-12
Not a spendthrIft.

In the state of Georgia lives a bank or who Is known behind his back as the Human Safety Clutch. He has been accused of being nearly every thing except spendthrift.
 He lives a mile from town on Q plantation. One Sunday he remem- bered that he had left some important papers on his desk, and he gave an aged negro servitor on the place his keys and sent him for the documents.
 It was a hot day and the road was dusty. but in an hour the old darkey returned with the papers intact. The owner felt in all his pockets.
 That's too bad Uncle Jim." he said finally; 'I thought had a nickel here was going to give you"
 "Marse Henry" said Uncle Jim, you look again. Elf ever you had nickel you got it yit."- ."-Saturday Evening Post
The Holbrook news., 1912-01-12
The Human Machine.

It seems that the body will ordi- narily give out per day no more exter- nal work than about one-fiftieth of the energy consumed in the shape of food. The adult human mechanism, while more efficient than a large steam plant, is less efficient than a small producer-gas plant, assuming all plants of the same capacity. This does not mean, however, that the body Is incapable of working at greater eff ciencies. Under extraordinary condi- tions the body is capable of perform ing an amount of work far in excess of the amount theoretically latent in the food consumed. as witness some of the remarkable results among our athletic records. It Is even possible for the human mechanism to perform external work without taking food at all. the work so done being at the ex- pense of the bodily tissue. This Is the case especially in test of endur- ance, where the extra energy is drawn from the animal cells.-Cassier's Mag azine.
The Holbrook news., 1912-01-12
Fashions In Tombstonss.

There are fashions in tombstones, just the same as in hats and clothes, l" said a monument worker, land even if they don't change quite as often we have to keep up with them. A few years ago broken columns were all the go. and we had our hands full executing such orders. Then came the St Andrews cross. It is shaped like an X, and most of our orders ran to that sort of cross.
 Now the Celtic cross is in vogue, and 1t Is quite the proper thing to have put on your monument. They of fer a considerable field for decoration and traceries, but I suppose they will have their run and something new will come in. An experienced tombstone maker can tell approximately when 8 monument was put up without looking at the date on 1t. If he has kept up with the fashions"
The Holbrook news., 1912-01-12
FORTUNATE IN HIS DEATH
Life Of Prince imperial Would Have Been but Hollow UnreaIity, Says
 Archibald Forbes.


 have seen Napoleon III. at the
 pinnacle of his hollow splendor. From
 the German picket line on the sec
 ond day of August, 1870, heard the
 distant cheering on the Spicheren-
 berg that greeted him and the lad
 whom he had brought from Metz to receive that day his baptism of fire. ' Again I saw him on the morning after Sedan, as the broken man-broken in power, in prestige, in health, in spirits-sat with Bismarck on the grass plot in front of the weaver's cottage on the Donchery road
 Next morning I witnessed his de parture into his Welhelmshohe cap tivity. T have seen him doddering about Brighton and stroIIing under the beech trees that encircle ChiseI- hurst common. And for the last time of all I saw that stolid, careworn face, as 1t lay on the raised pillow of the bier in the broad corridor of Camden place; and when the face was no more visible witnessed the coffin laid down in the little chapel among the Chiselhurst elm trees. I knew the boy of the empire when the shackles of the empire had fallen from his limbs and he was no longer a buck ram creature, but lively natural lad My acquaintance endured into his manhood. When the twilight was falling on the rolling veldt of Zulu land, and his days work in the stan tent was done, he liked. as 1t seemed to me, to gossip with one who knew the other side of the picture about the early days of the Franco-German war-a war that had wrought at once his ruin and his emancipation.
 And finally. poor gallant lad! l saw dimly through tears the very last of him, as he lay there dead on the blood-stained sward by the Ityotyosi river, with calm, proud smile on his face, and his body pierced by count less assegai stabs. Men have called his death ignoble. Petty as was the quarrel, wretched as was the deser- ton that wrought his fate, I call him, rather, happy in the opportunity of his death. Had he lived, what of arti- fciality, what of hollow unreality might there not have been in store for him! As 1t was, he had moved fin the world live ghost Better than this. surely, to be a dead hero-to end the Napoleonic serio-comedy with his young face gallantly to his assaiI- ants, and his life blood drawn by the cold steeI!-Archibald Forbes, "Sou. venirs of Some Continents"
The Holbrook news., 1912-01-12
nesIrabI. Millinery Furs.

Touches of fur are the rule on the winter models, says the Drygoods Economist. Ermine is a strong favor ite in high-class millinery and beaver is a high novelty. being used to edge and face brims, and in bands and bows encircling the crown Small. close fitting bonnets and turbans are shown in the short-haired furs with long or short empire scarfs and frequently huff to match. Mole is in prominent use, also sealskin and it's substitutes. as well as ermine and beaver. Skunk is used in large quantities for trim ming purposes.
The Holbrook news., 1912-01-12
TuIIe Theater caos.

Fur and tulle Is one of the incon- sistencies of the smart autumn mil Hnery. The charm of such a com bination Is nowhere more evident than in the quaint little theater cap seen in the best shops. These are of the most vivid shades of tulle-burning red, flashing green, brilliant blue. flaming orange. bright cerise. with wfsps of fur of a darker tone along the edges. A cap of deepest orange tulle was bordered with mink and had a huge pillow nun of the tulle and mink to correspond. Cerise tulls is striking with seal, and the deeper reds with ermine. Bright blue and moleskin is also favorite combinn- tion