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Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1912-03-20
DEEP SHOWS AND ORCHARDS
Danger to Fruit Trees and Shrubs
Where Food supply Of Cotton
tail ia Covered Up.

When SHOWS cover the ground foi
long periods. there IL danger TO tho
fruit trees and shrubs. The supply Of
food for the colonial Is covered, AND
he is driven 20 the trees
Many small trees viii be Injured
the present winter. says Homestead.
and owners must be vlgllant 10 avoid
damage The shotgun and the trap
viii do something to thin out the
rodents. but they cannot be depended
upon for perfect protection. Feed
may be supplied by throwing down
apple trimmings, Poison may be
used strychnlne In sweet apples. Also
there are Atty applications for the
bari, which cause the enemy to avoid
the trees which have been treated.
Grease. blood, fetta-each has It's al.
voCates.
If veneer protectors are put on now
press them down well into the snow
and see that they are long enough 80
that, II drifts form about the trees,
the rabbit will not get free passage
into the tops. Large trees are prac
tically safe from the enemy, because
he cannot stretch his mouth to NJ
them, but the small tree makes bis
| opportunity.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1912-03-20
HAS WEATHER NOTES
CHINA is OFFERED MILLIONS
American and British Flnanelers Have
Vast Sum Ready to Pay for
OIL and Minerals.

shanghal.-Two hundred and fifty
million dolle-s was offered for control
OF the national resources Of China
This vast sum will be guaranteed by
committee OF American and British
fnanciers, numbered among whom are
the interests afillated with Standard
OIL company, the moment the re-
public Of China is recognized by a
single world power. In return is
asked a monopoly of the development
Of the oil and mineral wealth OF
China.
The republican leaders regard the
plan fair, but Japanese and Russian
inanciers working together, are press
ing their demands for consideration.
They profess TO be able to give Just as
much money as the American British
combination and are backing up their
demands with suggestions OF interior,
ence by both Japan and Russia,
should preference be shown the Amer
| leans.
The fact that British flnanciers have
united with the Americans, has anger
ed influential Japanese, and the Jap
anese-English cordially may BE-
threatened Realizing this, and also
that both Russia and Japan are IN
strategic positions, where they coult
interfere at any time in China under
the pretext Of restoring order" tbs
republican leaders are sparring fol
time.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1912-03-20
Philadelphia Has Records For
122 Years.
Family Diary shswS Temperature
Kept by Each Generation, Along
With Daily Chronicle Of
Other Events.

Philadelphia.--One hundred and
twenty-five years OF weather records,
kept by three generations of the same
family. side by side with comments on
men and things long ago passed from
memory, form the interesting contents
of large library of diaries. the prop
erty Of Jacob r. Elfreth.
True 10 the tradition OF his Quaker
.forbears, this seventy. year-old chro-
nologist Of the weather since 1870 has
written in black and white the story
OF the mercury's vagaries as he OBJ
served them, and his records stand
against the hazy contentious OF any
oldest inhabitant" who may venture
fictitious tales OF how cold it used to
be.
The story Of the curious diaries
which make up this Interesting wealth
er history is bound up with the growth
of Philadelphia. From 1889 to 1850
Caleb Pierce, native Of Chester
oaunty, kept the Irst records. He was
the maternal grandfather OF Mr.. FL
freth. His diaries we're not so COM
plete as those of his, son and grandson,
but their interest and worth are en-
HANGED by antiquity.
Most of these writings were done at
his home, Seventh and Arch streets,
where he lived while the Quaker town
was booming into her early twenties.
He kept a hardware store in Market
street above Second, but before he
plodded along the cobble stones OF a
cold winters morning to open up the
little shop he recorded the tempera.
ture.
Long before he gave up the writing
OF his diary Jacob r. Elfreth, ST., took
up the work in 1912. Sixty-eight vol
umes OF nearly uniform size, painsta
hngly relating the happenings o
those often troublous times, are nov
in the possession of the aged son.
To ]. r. Elfreth Jr. the task of keep
ing these records was then assigned
and he has kept them faithfully since
1870. They, together with the others
will be given to the Friends Historical
society when the last entry has beer
made, for the present writer is thu
last in the direct line OF ancestry.
Not infrequently he is historical
contributor to the local newspapers
In the Darby Progress he recent
published a statement showing tina
January, 1912, was the coolest within
the span of the family records. Anon
other things he states that the aver
age temperature at 6 a. m. has bee
IS degrees. On the 18th the mercur
was 8 degrees below zero. On the lat
6 below; on the 10th. zero"
The years 1915, 1920, 1921, 1873,
1910, 1874, 1857, 1866 and 1881, h
states, were especially cold durin
I this month. The coolest days of whic
he has record, in succession, wer
s February 10 to TO- 1899. The coldei
I record was New Years. 1881, whic
+ was % degrees below.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1912-03-20
ROUSES BEAR FROM SLEEP
After Stepping Into Hole, Surprised
Lad Has a Busy Time for
Next Few Minutes.

Shakopee. Minn.--A party consisting
OF John Kelm and wife and Frank and
Walter Gelser have returned from
ten days hunting trip. bringing with
them four deer and large black bear
weighing $50 pounds.
Walter Geiser, eighteen years old.
while walking in the woods suddenly
stepped in a hole, thinking 1t a sink
hole Of some kind, but, to his sur
prise, he routed out a bear.
The boys rife went to bis shoulder
and he shot the bear in the eye.
Bruin made a lunge for the yO2th,
and before the brute could get out OF
the hole the boy fired a second bullet
into the animals breast A third shot
from bis rifle dropped the bear three
feet from the lad
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1912-03-20
United States Has Sold Twice az
Mueh 90 Great Britain az Ameri-
cans Bought.

Washington.-Mor than a billion
dollars worth of merchandise passed
between the United States and British
territory in the ten months ending
with october, for which statistics have
been compiled. The bureau Of stats
tics of the department OF commerce
and labor reports that exports from
the United States to British territory
In the period named, aggregated
$759, 100000 and imports therefrom
1888 ZOO, 900, thus indicating that for
every dollars worth Of merchandise
imported from the territory in ques-
ton two dollars worth of American
products are exported thereto.
To the United Kingdom, the largest
British market for American products,
our ten months export increased to
$419, 100000 in 1911; those to Canada,
from $201, 100000 In 1910 to SEAS, OO0,-
900 in 1911. Australia and New zea.
land rank third, with ten-months' to.
tai of $40,0O0,000. To British Africa
the ten months exports increased
from $12,OOO,OOO in 1910 to s19, OOO.O OC
in 1911; those to the British West In
dies from 100000 in 1910 to $40,
000,000 In 1911 and those to India, 81,
$50, 900 in 1905 to $6,50O,0OO in 1915
and 100000 in 1911.
The remaining British communities
which show in each case total in ex
cess of $1,OOO,OOO in the ten months
include Hongkong, in which our ex
ports in ten months were valued al
$7,O00,000; Newfoundland and Labra
dor, $4,000,000; the Straits Settle
ments, $1,75O,00O; British Guiana, 81,
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1912-03-20

4z..aM NOTES
do vel in a cool NOS

Blackberires do we'll in cool mOisl
soil
Bordeaux mixture is only fungi.
eide, it has no effect on insects.
Lime sulphur washes are consid-
cred good insecticide and fungicide.
Have a goodly supply of white and
neutral flowers to separate the clash
ing colors.
The larvae of the blister beetle or
potato bug will subsist almost wholly
on grasshopper eggs,
It is claimed that string beans grow
in the dollhouse very proliflcally, and
are tender and delicious.
According to reports from the vari-
Gus strawberry districts the acreage
is greatly increased this year
The arsenites viii only destroy
chewing or leaf-eating insects, has
no effect whatever on sucking insects,
Sucking insects, chewing insects
and fungus are the three things we
spray for, and the only things to spray
| for.
Peach trees can be trimmed easily
as they are being set, because all the
branches are trimmed of to a single
stem or whip Of from "a to 30 inches
] long above the ground when set
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1912-03-20
Nearly $4,000, 900 Tons Are Burned to
Keep the Eastern City Warm Dur
Ing Blizzard Season.

New York-Basing their estimates
on the unusually cold weather which
visited this city during the month Of
January, experts now predict that Fa-
,ber KnickerbockeT' coal bill for
the wear 1912 will exceed the enor-
NOUS figure Of 100000, 900, figured on
The prices paid by consumers, thus ex-
ceeSing even the record-breaking fig
rra for 1911, which have Just been
compiled.
New York has an hnenviable right
IN the claim that it is the greatest
coaI-consuming municipality in the
world. No other city at home OF abroad
has so high a consumption Of fuel to
the unit Of population.
II this city's supply Of coal for q
12.month were loaded In 50-ton
cars they would stretch from here tc
salt Lake City. 2,452 miles.
The amount Of coal consumed and
distributed within the city bounds last
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1912-03-20
Are you?
Belatsd Information.

Albert Morris Bagby was being con
graduated at the Waldorf-Astoria in
New York on the success OF his "mu
steal mornings"
Il impute my success" he said, TO
the fact that engage no talent tnat
don't know thoroughly. In entertain
ment, as in matrimony, knowledge is
most important"
Then Mr. Bagby smiled and said:
Two ladies we're talking the other
day about the Chinese revolution. The
younger lady said:
Isn't it dreadful in China? wo-
man doesn't know her husband till she
married him
THE other lady, a Divorce, answer.
ed bitterly:
81 didn't know my husband till
married him, either st. Louis
Globe Democrat.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1912-03-20
New HuckIeberrx Picker.

and curve in so that anything scraped
of by the bars will roll down them
INTO the hollow body, where barrier
inside prevents it rolling out again. In
this way one person can pick buckle
berries from as many bushes in q
day as several dozen persons could
pick by hand, meaning decided saw
ing in time and labor Another adj
vantage of this picker is that 1t af.
fords some protection to the hand
from the snakes that so often infest
huckleberry patches.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1912-03-20
A WOMAN DOCTOR
Was Quick to See That Coffee Poison
Was Doing the Mischief.

A lady tells Of a bad case Of coffee
poisoning, and tells it in way so sim.
pie and straightforward that literary
skill could not improve it.
81 had neuralgia headaches for IL
years." she says, land have suffered
untold agony. When l first began to
have them l weighed 140 pounds, but
they brought me down to 10.
Il went to many doctors and they
gave me only temporary relief. So
suffered on, till one day, woman
doctor advised me to drink Postum.
She said l looked like l was coffee
poisoned.
80 l began to drink Postum, and
gained Is pounds in the first few
weeks and am still gaining, but not 80
fast as at first. MY headaches began
to leave me after had used Postum
about two weeks-long enough, ex-
pect, 10 get the coffee poison out OF
my system.
Nov that a few months have pass
ed since began to use Postum, I can
gladly say that l never know what q
neuralgia headache is like any more,
and it was nothing but Postum that
relieved me.
Before ! used Postum never
went out alone; / would get bewilder-
ed and would not know which way to
turn. Now go alone and my head
is as clear as a bell. My brain and
nerves are stronger than they have
been for years" Name given by
Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
There's a reason" and it is explain.
ed in the little book, THE Road 70
Wellville." in pkgs.
Ever read the above letter. new
one appears from time 10 time. They
are genuine, true and fun Of human
Interest.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1912-03-20

an apparatus to protect vegetation
against the wlntry blight A metal
vessel is designed to be filled with
one Of the slow-burning liquid fuels
and carbureting and draft passages in
the pot to keep the fuel burning all
night long. There is SCOT collector
over the top OF the pot and a cowl
over all so that rain cannot put the
Are out The SCOT collector and the
cowl prevent the SCOT from settling on
vegetation. A number OF these pots
stationed throughout an orchard or in
an enclosure where especially fine
fruit is grown will give out enough
heat to protect the crop from an or
binary frost.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1912-03-20
Plant Food in Soil.

Plant food in the soil is largely in
an unfavorable condition. Before the
potash, phosphorus and nitrogen be-
come available the soil must pass
through the stage of disintegration
and chemical change, which can take
place only under favorable conditions.
There must be present moisture, heat
and air. These are largely controlled
by cultivation and climatic conditions.
The method of cultivation which will
bring about these conditions is the
one that is best for the farmer who is
handling the land.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1912-03-20
WORKING WITH THE FLOWERS
Window Garden Should Not BE
Neglected Even Though Plants Are
at Best-Wateh for Pests.

DO not neglect the window garden
even though the plants are at their
best Turn the plants once week;
stir the surface OF SOIL wash the pots
with strong soap suds; give plenty Of
fresh air daily; shower the plants
once a week watch for pests. See
that the warm sunshine does not
scorch your plants.
Plants that are intended for bed
ding should be shifted as they All
their pots with roots and give plenty
of sunshine and air. Otherwise they
viii be weak and "leggy."
II you wish to get specimen cannas
and dahliss start a few in the house
early Remove roots, stocks and un
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1912-03-20
Puzzle Of Livina.

Religionists chided about their ina
bility to agree on points of faith might
point out that they differ only in Incl
dentals, and not essentials, whereas
the scientists differ on everything.
Take the science of living, A week
ago you would have died if you drank
water with your meals" Now they
say 1t doesn't do any harm at all. One
variety says: Eat meat, lots of it, to
build good, rich blood" Another says
meat is poison; that vegetables are
the only food A third declares meat
and vegetables both increase debility,
and that you will live twice as long
on raw fruits and nuts Some say
Talk with your meals, laugh; it
makes the food digest" Others insist
silence is never so golden as at the
table.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1912-03-20
Paint Tree Wounds.

Observation and experience tend to
the conclusion that white lead is the
best and cheapest application for cuts
and bruises on the fruit tree.
1t is rated first and grating wax
second. 1t prevents checking and
seems favorable to quick healing.
Coal tar should never be used-for
it seems to actually hinder the process
of re-barking. Keep a pot Of paint
handy, and by filing the vessel with
water. drying out is prevented.
In thousands Of orchards the paint
pot should be used this winter, while
the delayed pruning is being done.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1912-03-20
Natural Avoidance.

Mayor Gaynor of New York was de-
Tending his anti-suffrage views:
Woman has her place and man has
his he said, and when ! think of
the confusion that would come from
intermingling their places. l am re-
minded of an anecdote about Lady
Holland. Lady Holland once said to
Lord John Russell: Why hasn't Lord
Holland got a post in the cabinet?'
Well, if you must know Lord John
answered, it is because nobody would
work in a cabinet with a man whose
wife opens all his letters"
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1912-03-20
Plenty Of Work.

The live fruit grower finds enough
to keep him busy, even in winter.
There is a lot of miscellaneous trim
ming The old canes must be re-
moved from the raspberry and black
berry patches.
The mulching of strawberries must
have attention, and manure hauling
may well take every idle day.
Where wood is used there is the
preparation of the summer supply
Shop work comes in now, with its
repairing of tools, and all the odd
jobs which have accumulated the past
season.
There is work enough in this sup
posed leisure season to prevent the
formation of lazy habits.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1912-03-20
Younoest MlnIater In country.

Barberton. o., has the distinction
of having the youngest minister in
the state, II not in the United
States, in Arenzo Scales, aged l6.
He is a member of the senior class
Of the high school and never studied
for the ministry, but he often took
part in religious meetings. So when
the Methodist church at Johnstown
Corners was without a minister, he
was assigned to the pulpit. He ex-
poets to enter theological seminary
after he graduates from high school
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1912-03-20
inv.nts = "Ernst Alarm. ,,

San FranciscO.-Warning Of APP
preaching frost Is to be given by an
ingenious device invented by Prof. A.
G. Meade, chief Of the local weather
bureau. Prof. McArdie is in receipt Of
news from Washington that a patent
for the contrivance has been granted.
The inventor has been at work on the
frost alarm" for fifteen years. and
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1912-03-20
Our Trade With England

100000; British Honduras, $1,750, 600,
and Alden and Bermuda, each about 81
100000.
To Gibraltar the total was about
100000; to Malta, GOA, ETC., about
100000, and to British China, the
Falkland islands and miscellaneous
other British possessions as a whole,
about 100000.
Raw cotton, meats and breadstuffs
form the bulk Of the exports from the
United States to the United Kingdom
though certain manufactures, such as
agricultural implements, leather and
machinery, are important articles In
the yearly sales to that country.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1912-03-20
Gotham Has Big Coal Bill

year was almost 10000 900 tons. Dwell
ing houses, stores, theaters, halls.
public and private institutions, con-
sumo 10000, 900 tons a year. Factories
and gas and electric companies con-
sumo 100000 tons year. and
steamships buy at this FORT almost
100000 tons a year.
That the ashes resulting from this
enormous consumption would make a
very fair sized mountain is evidenced
by the fact that In the last ten years
they have been sufficient to all In rs
square miles of marsh and lowiyinV
lands in this vicinity.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1912-03-20
SEE BLACK FOX IN INDIANA
People Of the KNOBS" Get olImpseS
Of a Valuable Fur Bearer-May
Be Freak Of Ordinary Species.

Louisville, Ky. - Residents Of the
Indiana knobs" opposite this city.
have caught glimpses of rare black
fox, whose fur is the most valuable OF
any of the North American foxes,
and an old fashioned hunt is being or.
ganized by sportsmen in the hope of
catching it. The black fox is a native
Of Alaska, and 1t is thought this one
may be freak Of the ordinary species.
A year ago a Canadian silver fox was
captured among the knobs and its fur
was sold in this city for $500.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1912-03-20
PREVENTS DAMAGE BY FROST
Californian lnVents Apparatus 70 Pro
teet Vegetation Against Wlntry
Blight.

Frost is one big bugbear OF fruit
growers. They can guard against
drought by irrigation, but a killing
frost may fall one night and destroy
a seasons crop. Out In California.
one Of the great fruit growing sec.
lions Of the world. man has invented
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1912-03-20

you can't pillow corn with a Greek
root, and Latin verb won't bake good
light bread" declares q Missouri edu,
Gator. but Radcliffe graduate de,
clared the other day that with a col
lege education a woman can wash
dishes better.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1912-03-20

An Ohio expert says that the incu-
bator is causing the hen to lose her
motherly instincts. Evidently, fear is
heing felt in the poultry world, as
well as by the human contingent, that
n the female Of the species refuses to
scratch for the living OF the family
while the male of the same is doing
abe growing. dire things are sure to
happen TO somebody.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1912-03-20
WALK 80 MILES TO MARRY
Kentucky Mountaineer Runs Away
In Binding Snowstorm With
12-Year.Old Cousin.

Whitesburg. Ky. - Thirty miles
through binding snowstorm, with
mountains to cross and angry parents
behind them, came James Coombs, Jr..
and Miss Virgie Coombs, his cousin,
to be married. They routed the clerk
o. courts from his bed early to give
them a license and then persuaded
the Rev. James E. Bradford to unite
them.
Later in the day they left Whites.
burg on the trip back to the Perry
county line, where they have both
spent all their lives.
The bridegroom is 20 and his wife
has just passed her twelfth birthday.
The bride wore dresses which came
just below her knees.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1912-03-20

Connecticut man who has been mar
fled "a years has compiled ten com
mandments for married folk, Having
been at the receiving end of the com
mandment game for n years he is
entitled to do little commanding on
MS own hook.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1912-03-20
HANDY PICKER FOR BERRIES
Georgia Woman lnvents Device With
Row Of Little Bars That Serapes
Fruit Into Box.

Berry picking is certainly being re-
Iuced to a science. A Georgia WON.
an has now patented a huckleberry
picker, which is a metal apparatus.
The apparatus has a box,like body
with handle on the back. A row
Of picker bars extend along the top
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1912-03-20

The scientist who claims that not
Ine boy in a thousand is fundamental
" bad probably would change his
mind If he CHANGED to pass a crowd of
healthy youngsters in good SNOWFALL,
ing weather.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1912-03-20

has brought it to a state of practical
perfection.
The inventor asserts 1t will mean
the saving of many millions Of dollars
annually to fruit growers.
The instrument records varying hu-
Nudity in connection with the temper.
allure.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1912-03-20

Two Minneapolis men are playing
checkers by wireless telegraphy. No
wonder there is a movement afoot to
put these amateur wireless outfits out
Of business.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1912-03-20

An alleged washington scientist as
serts that he can teach hens to talk
hut he does not show that talking will
increase the egg product, which at
this season of the year is the pivotal
issue of the hen industry.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1912-03-20
protectlnu Plants From Snow.

A good way to prevent the settling
of the snow, during the winter thaws,
from injuring the plants is to scatter
ashes or sand over the crust. This
melts the snow in spots, and the
branches are able to break through it
easily.