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Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1912-12-13
ECZEMA SPREAD OVER BODY

R.F. D. No. /, Lewisburg, Ky.--"Fif-
teen years ago / was badly affected
with eczema upon my scalp first, then
It spread all over my body and con-
tinued to grow worse for four years.
It began with a dry rash. After form
ing thick scales or scabs the irritation
forced me to scratch the scabs off and
the hair would come out with them.
Upon my face and body the sores
would get infiamed and they disf1g-
ured my face. 1t was worse where
my clothes irritated them. The erup-
ton was a yellowish watery kind,
sometimes bloody. In warm weather
It was so bad was not able to work
on account of the raw irritating sores
on my head and body.
after trying various medicines
without relief / tried Cuticura Soap
and Ointment. After using four cakes
of Cuticura Soap and four boxes Of
Cuticura Ointment and one bottle Of
the Resolvent was entirely sound
and we'll and have been for eleven
years" (Signed) w. H. Williams,
Mar. 10, 1912.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample of each
free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address
postcard "Cuticura, Dept Boston"
Adv.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1912-12-13
POINTED WAY TO SALVATION
Preachers Advice Was All Right but
His Friend Also Had Something
Wise to Say.

Senator Samuel A. Ettelson, speak
ing recently at a banquet, told the fol-
lowing
"A colored preacher stood up on a
Sunday and said, My text this morn
Ing, brothers and sisters, am what
shall ] do to be saved?" To me there
seems only one way to be saved, and
that am to quit this'ere extravagant
living. Back to the simple life, say /,
There am going to be no chance for
you to be saved so long as you keep
up this high living. If there is any
thing that is going to kill our race 1t
is these'ere Injuries. Better go hun
cry and cold like the wolf. Go out
and face the rains and fight the
storms. Go wade like the crane. You
will grow rugged and you will grow
tough, but you'll walk like a man.
Yes, sir, that am de way to salvation,
that am de way to get saved
Just then tall colored man, lis
ing from his pew in the rear Of the
church, interrupted the preacher,
shouting; This am no way to be saved.
You just jump right through that back
window and run Just as fast as your
legs will carry you, for the county
sheriff am here with a warrant for
your arrest for stealing them chickens
from Massa Martins coop last Friday
night. Chicago Tribune.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1912-12-13
TROUBLE IN DINING ROOM
Little MlNup Between Ladies Accepted
PhllosophIeally by the Torpid
Vile Landlord.

AT one time yesterday 1t looked
like we was going to have a little
trouble here in the dining room, but 1t
didn't come to nothin' much" related
the landlord Of the Torpidville tavern.
Maxine and Sylphie. the young ladies
that are waitin' table, got to SQUAD
bin about pint of etiquette, or the
merits Of their respective fellers, or
something hathaway, as ladies' is
everlastinly dom, and Sylphie, reck-
on 1t was, told Maxine, or mebby Max
ine told Sylphie- anyhow, one told the
other that she wasn't no better than
she ort to be. And Maxine, or
Sylphie, whichever it was, got sorter
fussy about 1t and answered that she
was too, and she didn't care who knew
It! And then they kind O. tied in on
each other and went round and round
as 1t were, and 1t took 'em quite a
while after it was over to wash the
ketchup and broken glass out Of their
Golfers, as they call their hair. But
that's all it amounted to- and there's
no use in firm 'em, for ladies will be
ladies and there amt no help for It,"
Kansas City Sun.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1912-12-13
HORTICULTURAL
: EQH4OTES8Bse

The ounce is an attractive and
profitable fruit.
Storing apples in crates makes 1t
easier to detect rot.
Almost any old time is good time
to spread manure in the orchard.
It pays to scatter loose mulch
over the strawberries after the ground
is frozen.
Common window screening makes
good protection from rabbits for the
young trees.
The outdoor pit would make a fine
place to store apples If they did not
take on that earthly flavor.
Corn stalks or other litter about the
trunks of apple trees invite the mice,
and girdled trees are the result.
Do not purchase trees from I'M
known parties, no matter how fine
their pictures and their promises.
The ounce, properly planted, yields
almost as much fruit as the pear. and
is even more profitable than the pear
in some localities.
Field mice like to take up their
winter quarters in the orchard be.
cause here they are usuBlly safe from
the hawks and owls.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1912-12-13
New Way to Get Money.

There are many ways to get money
from people, and in these days when
1t is often necessary to raise various
sums for missionary and other church
work, the ministers of the gospel
make all sorts of moving appeals.
But the preacher who takes the prize
in this line Of endeavor SO far is an
old colored man down south.
I'VE has a collection to take up dis
mawnin,'" he said: "a collection for
a mos important cause, an we needs
as much money as we kin git. But,
fob de sake Of your regulations,
whichever of you stole Mr.. Jones'
turkeys don't put nothin' in de plate I"
That was how he got money out of
every member Of his congregation
Popular Magazine.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1912-12-13
GRAPES FOR USE IN WINTER
Placed In Department Of House Cellar
Without Any Artificial Heat
Some Keep Well.

What pity 1t is that grapes will
not keep longer. Every autumn
place In e department Of my house
cellar, where there is no artificial heat,
baskets of various varieties Of grapes,
says a writer in Green's Fruit Grower.
! do not expect the Worden, Concord,
Delaware and Niagara to keep long,
therefore consume them first. After
these / consume the Brighton, which
is a fairly good keeper, but which
shrivels up considerably. Barry has
kept well with me this season. Gaert-
ner, red grape. has kept perfectly
up to Thanksgiving.
Mills, a black grape with very large
compact cluster, is the best keeper of
all that / have tested, being in per-
feet condition on Thanksgiving day.
/ hear of many methods Of keeping
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1912-12-13
push Sale Of Bed Cross Seals

The American Red Cross has al.
ready printed over 85.000.000 Red
Cross Christmas seals and probably
the edition will number 100000, 900
before the end of the campaign. II
the anticipations of the anti-tubercu-
losis workers are realized, no less
than 100000 will be obtained from
the sale Of Red Cross seals. Practic-
ally all Of the money remains in the
state or city where the seals are sold,
only very small percentage of it is
going to pay for the cost of the print
ing and distributing the seals and for
the expense of running the campaign.
In case any persons cannot obtain
seals in the community where they
live, they can secure them by writing
to Red Cross Seal Headquarters, 715
Union Trust Building, Washington, d.
G. Red Cross seals cost one cent
each and every seal sold is bullet in
the fight against tuberculosis.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1912-12-13
DEEP FOR ORCHARD
Il ls Of Utmost Importance to Exam.
Inc Shoots Of Young Trees for
Harmful Little Borer,

In planting a peach orchard the
ground should be plowed deep, fol
lowed with a sub-soil plow In the same
furrow, the deeper the ground is bro
ken up the better Before planting,
1t Is Of the utmost Importance to ex-
anime the shoots Of the young trees
for the borer. Generally nurserymen
send out peach trees without taking
out the borer. A tree planted with a
borer In It Is sure to die In a few
years, very often in its third year aft
er planting 1t puts the beginner in
the uncertainty to know what is the
cause Of the death OF his trees. They
often look as If they were suffering
with the yellows, while 1t is the borer
killing the tree. Two years ago we
had three trees that to all appearance
had the true yellows. When taking
out the treee we found two and three
borers in the crotch of the roots where
1t was impossible to see any signs of
a borer.
The trees should be examined every
spring and fall. and the borer taken
out with the knife.
A peach orchard should be started
low. The young trees should be cut
back when planted from is to "a
inches with not a side branch on
them. They will put out side branches
and make low, bushy tree for five
or six years. After that, they become
large and high, bearing fruit almost
from the ground to the top Of the
tree. For the first three years, the
new wood should be cut back from
third to one-half After that 1t re-
quires not SO much cutting back. Only
where leading branch takes posses
sion of the entire growth such lead
er should be cut back on level with
the head Of the tree. All the dead
wood should be taken out after each
crop.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1912-12-13

BOrers in Young Trees.

the tree, sometimes, especially in the
case of young trees, almost entirely
girdling them, thus running the trees.
The methods of fighting both round
and fiat headed borers are much the
same. Two or three methods are
available for making the control of
borers more easy. In case of older
trees, probably the most important
method is by mounding, that is heap
ing up little mound Of earth around
the base of the tree. This forces the
insect to deposit it's eggs higher on the
tree SO that the worm will be located
higher. It is much easier to level
this mound of earth down around the
tree to find the borer than to have to
dig away the soil when it is left level.
However, mounding may not be prac-
ticable in very stony land. In case OF
younger trees, the best method is to
wrap them with a wood veneer wrap
per. And mound very small amount
of earth around these wrappers. This
makes it very difficult for the parent
of the borer to get its eggs deposited
in the trunk Of the tree. In sections
where the borers are rather numer-
Gus, while this practice of wrapping
should be followed, it should not be
wholly depended upon, but the exam
lining for the borer should also be
done. II the wooden wrappers
are used it may be necessary to spray
inside of them with kerosene emulsion
or lime-sulphur for the woolly aphis
are apt to accumulate there.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1912-12-13
Tree InsuIator.

says the Popular Electricity. 1t is a
rectangular piece of wood that may
be placed on wire by means of two
crosswise grooves deep enough to
meet a shallow groove on the face.
The wire passes from one crosswise
groove along the face groove and out
by way of the second groove, the mid
die Of the insulator thus held by the
wire bearing against the limb or tree
without the use of nails or other fas-
teners. The wood for the insulator is
thoroughly waterproofed.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1912-12-13
Good JOB.

Nov, Johnny" said the teacher
after she had explained the meaning
of the word. 81 wish you would write
a sentence containing defeat"
After struggle which lasted for
about twenty minutes Johnny an
nounced that he was ready to be
heard.
please read your composition" the
teacher directed.
When you git shoes OATS too tite, .
Johnny read, 'ft's hard on de feet"
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1912-12-13
Not Used to nHlnh Lie. :

An old farmer was in London visit
Ing his son, who had got on in the
world, and who kept large house,
servants, etc.
When the two sat down to dinner
the first night a manservant waited
upon them. and was most assiduous
in his attentions to the old farmer.
After watching his antics fora bit the
guest exclaimed:
What the mischief are We dancin'
about like that for? Can We not draw
in yer chair and sit down? I'm sure
there's enough here for the three of
us. London Mail.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1912-12-13
Quantities ., Water.

Consider the kind of plant you are
watering. Soft-stemmed kinds, espe-
cially those with large leaves, will
require much more water than hard
wooded, slow-growing kinds. While
the former easily recover from drouth,
the hard-wooded suffer permanently
from extremes.
The seasons and time Of day should
also be watched. Plants not in active
growth should be watered sparingly
until they have regained their foliage.
Watering in the evening just before
dark greatly aids fungous diseases,
as the foliage remains wet through
The night.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1912-12-13
Two Guesses.

WELL" said the proud father as
the doctor entered the room, what
is it--a boy or a girl?"
I'll give you two guesses, and even
then you won't guess right" said the
doctor.
"Tush! nonsense!" said the proud
father. "Boy?"
Nope" said the doctor.
"Ah-girl. then?" said the proud
father.
Nope" said the doctor
All know" said the proud
father, sadly-Harper's Weekly.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1912-12-13
THANKSGIVING Query.

A little girl on awakening Thanks
giving morning was asked what she
was thankful for.
t"Oh, big turkey dinner and no
school," was the prompt reply
But" inquired her mother In sur
prise. "are you not thankful that you
have papa and mammal"
"Oh, can be thankful for them any
day"
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1912-12-13

First Angler-Look, this fish was
almost Caught before; see the broken
hook in its mouth.
Second Angler-It should have had
sense enough to steer clear of hooks
after that.
First Angler-Oh come, you can't
expect a fish to exhibit more sense
than human being.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1912-12-13
FIGHTING THE BoRER PEST
Insect Works Injury by Cutting Into
Bark and Sap Wood Of Tree, Espe-
claIIy Young Ones.

The borer is one Of the most seri-
GUS pests orchardists have to contend
with. We have both the round-head-
ed borer in which case the worm or
larva is in the wood during parts OF
three seasons and the flat-headed
borer which lives in the trunk of the
tree only one season.
The injury done by both is in cut
ting into the bark and sap wood OF
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1912-12-13
INsULAToR FOR THE TREES
Wood Used Should Be Thoroughly
Waterproofed to Prevent Branches
From Forming.

Part of the telephone lineman's
work consists in keeping the wires
clear Of trees and their branches,
which often afford a good ground. The
Morse tree insulator here shown is
simple and quickly placed on the wire,
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1912-12-13
Rest EartlIIyar

Unleached hardwood ashes is one of
the best fertilizers for fruit trees of all
kinds Thirty bushels per acre is a
good dressing, but even more would
be beneficial.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1912-12-13
Cool the Ashes.

Ashes for fertilizing the grape vine
should be cooled before applying them
and then they should be so placed that
they win not come in contact with
the vine itself but rather enter the
ground and fertiIize the roots.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1912-12-13
Just SHOPPING.

Tired Clerk lover piled up counter)
Can show you anything else,
madam?
Costomer-Yes; the nearest way
out.-Boston Evening Transcript.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1912-12-13

teething, softens the gums, reduces iniamma-
ton, alays pain, cures wind collie CSC bottle Ady
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1912-12-13
PersnIcuous.

Percy Gust introduced)-Ah! So
you're the chap who makes mud
heads?
sculptor-Not all of them.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1912-12-13
Real Thinns.

who was this great god Pan yor
read about who worked on pipes?"
Il guess he was a boss plumber"
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1912-12-13

The honeymoon is on the wane
when hubby quits taking wife every
where he goes.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1912-12-13

Dr.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets regulates invig-
crate stomach, liver and bowels. Sugar-coated,
tiny granules, easy TO take as candy. Adv.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1912-12-13

Every woman should have an aim
in life, even If she can't throw stone
with any degree of accuracy.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1912-12-13
ExcentIon.

you can't put water colors in an
oil painting"
you can. sea blue, can't your"
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1912-12-13

If one gave voice only to ones
thoughts one wouldn't talk so much.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1912-12-13

Advice From an Acquaintance.
Now If l can get some acQuaint-
ance to indorse my note"
Better try some stranger"
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1912-12-13

ITCH Relieved IN 30 Minutes.
Woolford's Sanitary Lotion for all kinds o.
contagious itch. At Druggists. ADV.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1912-12-13

Dropsy cured Swelling quickly reduced. shortness
Of Breath relieved IN few hours. SAMPLE treatment
free COLLEEN DRORsx RKnRDY co.. ATLANTA, GA. Adv.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1912-12-13
Innnnrtani an lnnfhara

Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that it
Bears the ~ 1w
Signature Of IZzLZx
In Use For Over so Years.
Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoria
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1912-12-13
m nRIur am nrArARIA

AND BUILD UP THE SYSTEM
Take the OLD Standard GROVES TASTELESs
CHILL TONIC You know what you are taking
The formula is plainly printed on every bottle,
showing II is simply QGlnne and Iron in tasteiess
form, and the most enectual form. For grown
people and clAlldren. % cents Adv.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1912-12-13

Borrowed money often causes
total loss of memory
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1912-12-13

Only poor love letter can be
spoiled by weak spelling.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1912-12-13

Ella-Dick is very promising fel-
low.
Stella--Why don't you sue him for
breach of promise?
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-10-13
CURRENT COMMENT
Where Fraud Was Impossible.

The charges made by Ogden l.. Mills, that
gross frauds were practiced in the Roosevelt
interest in the primaries in New York county,
ignore the fundamental distinction between
campaign for Mr.. Roosevelt and a campaign
for any one else. The facts may be as charged.
and probably are, undoubtedly they would
amount to electoral frauds in the case OF any
other candidate but the character and mission
OF Mr.. Roosevelt such that fraud or
crime can be committed In his interest
The end justifes the means If the bosses
work for Mr.. Roosevelt, they are men of faith
and vision" whose souls flame with the fires
of Righteousness" Bat If the bosses work for
the president or for Wilson, the latter are
hopelessly compr--ised and convicted of being
their tool. The money of corporations given
to any other candidate is a corruption fund
contributed for the purchase of influence and
the control of legislation. But when the cor
porations give money to the Roosevelt cause
1t proves them to be permeated with altruism
Whatever ia done for Mr.. Roosevelt is done for
a good cause. and 1t Is sanctified by the pur-
pose to which 1t Is devoted Hence the pur-
chase of votes and the stufing Of ballot boxes
and other devices of that sort are undoubtedly
criminal when employed for bad man. but
they are noble and heroic achievements when
committed for the advancement of the Third
|Termer.-Philadelphia Record.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-10-13

defend his snaction when the progressive spir-
its whom he now presumes TO lead work
ing hard for reform but he cannot defend a
record that has no existence. His record on
the tariff question is the same az John l.. Sui
Ivans record in the pulpit or the Bhsop OF
Loudon's record in the prize ring This mae
ton he does defend There was demand
for tariff revision during his administration.
lie pleads. This is to La Toilette, in
whose state he was speaking This will be
news 10 senator CUmmins. father OF the Iowa
idea. II living Senator Dolliver would hear
it with surprise. Senator Aldrich. who re-
tired because he though, he saw the rising
tide of sentiment against the Republican pol
icy OF protection coming to sweep the stand
patters from the Congress of the United States,
will now regret bis preeipitancy in surrender
ing his seat.
Those senators who were called standpst-
tiers. the name becoming odious during Col
onel Roosevel's second administration. had
that name applied 10 them because they re-
sisted the demand for tariff revision. A Dem
oeratic congress was elected two years after
Republican party. led by Roosevelt -and his
man Taft. had failed to perceive this demand.
Taft had his eyes opened by the cataclysm, but
Roosevelt is still blind
After making this remarkable statement,
after saying that there was no demand for
tariff revision during his administration, when
that very demand gave birth to the Progress
sive party he himself now leads Colonel
Roosevelt processes to be unable TO under
stand why Senator La Toilette is opposing
him. The logical result Colonel Roosevelt
could never see. That alone can explain why
ne should be surprised that La Toilette is do
ing the only thing one who believes as he does
could do.
II any one has any influence over this stub
born deyotee of his own mistakes, he should
gently, but firmly, lead him from his discus
sion OF the tariff and guide him toward those
subjects about which he knows something
They are many, and in greater numbers still
are those things Of which neither Roosevelt
nor any one else knows anything but on
which the Colonel can talk interestingly.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-10-13
Likes Richmond

Not only should Richmond feel proud of the
great fair that has been in progress since Mon
day, but the people OF the entire State should
feel proud of the marvellous exhibition.
1t Is the best ever held in Virginia, and, we
believe, excels any ever held IN the South. The
exhibits in every department are superb. Moth
ing appears to be lacking. Thousands are
there and all appear to be enjoying the exhi-
bition with unalloyed pleasure.
1t is well to go to the annual fair in the
lovely city on the "Jeems,' not only to see the
exhibitions at the fair, but to behold the rapid
progress that is going on. One who has not
been in ~ city for several years would scarcely
recognize some of the streets. Stand on Main
and Ninth and behold the number of sky
scrapers, beautiful magnificent
Wonderful improvements have been made
along Broad street. 1t is fast becoming one
of the most beautiful streets in any Southern
city.
The more we see of the Capital City the
better we like it.--Exchange.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-10-13
CHARACTERISTIC.

William r.. Hearst scolds Governor Wilson
for his tariff views and announces hat he be-
lieves in protection.
Champ Clark, whom Hearst supported en-
ergetically and for whom he turned loose some
of his money, is as ardent tariff revisionist
as Wilson, If not more 1t he who said
that if he had his way he would level to the
ground every customs house in the country
Governor Wilson may we'll be pleased that
Willie is not enthusiasts for him, but it
would be better for Willie's reputation for
sense il he could find a better excuse for his
But poor excuses for. exercise
OF his spite has always been of the char
acteristics of the man.