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The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-04-12
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Copyright, 1919. by Associated Literary Press.)
By JOHN PHILIP ORTIZ

c-,rdma Burbanks had a little
u.,rdson. six years old, and that lit
tIo grandson and ) cents worth of
Jaw reanuts brought about a cas OF
tho colo, a thunderstorm, a misun-
as-stsnding. a case OF love and a very
bapny marriage. When all was over
the old lady thought she had done
very well for a woman of her age.
II was the grandson that bought
tbp raw peanuts and brought them
home TO divide them with grandma.
There are various remedies for
coljc There are hot drinks, mustard
masters and whisky with pepper in
il and it may be cured in ten min
utes or everything may be found use
less. After Miss Dorothy had worked
away for half an hour she decided
that the doctor must be sent for.
rs that DR.. Holiness" she asked
when she t~elephoned in to the vii
lagp. three miles away.
the doctor is out and not expect
cd back until after midnight was
the reply.
Dr. Winchell was tried, He was
also out. The druggist thought he
could put up something for that collie.
hut he had no boy to send. Grandma
groaned out with every breath that
that breath was the last she expected
to draw in this world, The girl must
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-04-12

One of the most interesting investl'
cations eve made by a government
department has just been reported by
the coast and geodetic survey. The
general theory has been held that con-
tinents and mountain masses lave
been held up by the rigidity OF the
earth's crust, which, undergoing a
gradual cooling Of the interior.
wrinkled as the core shrank, and thus
developed the great inequalities of the
surface. But the recent investigation
declares that this theory is incorrect.
and that the land areas axe ioated by
a defect of matter beneath them, and
the ocean bottoms are depressed and
held in place by an excess of matter
beneath the ocean rea To the lay
mans mind, this can be explained by
stating that the thicker and greater
mass OF matter is beneath the ocean
beds and the lighter mass beneath the
continental land surface, and IS the
attraction Of gravity Is proportionate
% me weight ard consistency of mat
teF, the force is supposed to depress
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-04-12
Fertilizer for CantaIoupes.

If manure is to be applied on the
ground on which you are to raise can
taloupes next spring, spread It now
four or five inches thick over the en-.
tire land to be planted. Then by
means Of an iron pillow or spadlng fork
mix well with the soil to at least n
foot in depth as early next spring as
possible.
Follow this with a disk or tooth
harrow or long toothed iron rake,
using this implement until the soil is
fine and level. II irrigation is to be
used, throw up beds or ridges six feet
wide by five inches high, one foot
apart, and the longer the better; or a
simpler method Is to open a furrow
five inches deep and one foot wide
every six and one-half feet, with a
double shovel pillow, thus leaving Sly
foot beds.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-04-12
FRAUD IN OLD BILLS

original issue was then sanctioned by
law, The smallest denomination OF
these early issues was $50, for the
treasury hoped that means might be
found for using silver and gold in
minor transactions. Before the end of
the year the authorized issue had
again been exceeded, and in spite OF
oft renewed good resolutions the Con.
federacy by July, 1853, had $1,000, 000.-
600 Of notes outstanding. For a few
months devoted Confederate patriots
permitted their gold deposits to get
into general circulation, but soon
everybody who had gold boarded 1t or
sent It out Of the country to a place
Of safety.
Almost at the very end OF the Con
federacy Jefferson Davis vetoed a bill
for the issue Of $50, 900, 900 in paper
and congress passed the measure over
his veto. The funding plans resulted
In a temporary contraction of the cur
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-04-12
MarconI Expert Says ceyIon station
VIII Be Best in E~ast-First Mes.
sage In a Month.

Colombo,-~Mr. Rice, the Marconi
expert, who came to Ceylon recently
to s%uperintend the erection of the
new wireless station, says the site is
excellent, although a long way out,
and that the station, when completed,
will be one of the most up to date
in the east. The apparatus is of the
best, and includes the latest inyen-
tons. The station will have a guar
anteed range over water Of 450 miles.
At night, he thinks, under favorable
conditions, this distance will be ex.
ceeded considerably, and he puts a
range Of 1000 miles as not outside
the realms Of possibility, He consid-
ers that both Bombay and Calcutta
may occasionally be reached, and that
ships In Madras harbor should be com.
municated with without difficulty.
The work of erecting the masts is
progressing very satisfactorily. Bar.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-04-12
California Men Kept Strange Vows for
Many Years--Arrest of n
Reveals Compact,

San Bernardino, Cal-Nevcr to set
foot upon each others sidewalk, and
always to be prepared to shoot to Kill
IL they should meet outside the city,
Is the strange compact that for fifteen
years has been in existence between
C. W. Richardson and Joseph and
John Shafer. prominent business men
Of this place. Their places Of busi-
ness are opposite each other on Court
street.
This compact wal violated last week
when Joseph Shafer, trying to catch
a better glimpse Of an aviator, crossed
to his enemy's sidewalk. Richardson
came forth with a jump to make an at.
tack. Shafer fed to his own side Of
the street, but hurled back a chal-
lenge. This aroused Richardson. whose
h~igh-yoiced reply made it possible to
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-04-12
Confederate Money Still Used to
SWindIe Immigrants.
First Issue of Currency In South
Problems That Confronted the
Treasury of the confederacy
During the War.

Boston Confederate money Is still
a favorite medium OF the confidence
man In his dealings with the raw i'm.
migrant, though 1t is hardly a cur
rency to deceive any man acquainted
with the country's history or even
with the negotiable paper money of to-
day. 1t is not surprising that confed,
crate money Is so plentiful after a
half a century as to make 1t more
valuable to the confidence man than
to the collector when one realizes the
immense amount turned out by the
industrious presses Of the Confed-
eracy,
The Confederate treasury kept on
printing paper money almost up to the
fall Of Richmond. A note dated Rich
mond, February IT. 1864, declares
upon its face: The Confederate
States Of America will pay $40 to bear
er two years after the ratification of
a treaty Of peace between the Confed-
crate States and the United States Of
America" When the Confederate
treasury began business there was a
clear enough perception among the
public men of the C~onfederacy that
cheap money would be one of their
governments periIs. They had been
brought up In the old democratic
monetary theory of a currency com.
posed of gold and silver at a fixed
ratio intended to correspond with
their relative bullion value, and paper
money based upon such currency.
Almost exactly fifty years ago the is
sue of $4,000 900 in Understanding
notes was authorized. This was the
earliest Confederate paper money is.
sued. BY July of that year the treas
ury had exceeded the authorized
amount, and the issue of double the
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-04-12

harness the pony and drive to the vii
laga for the remedy. Grandma might
die during her absence, but she prom
iSed to live ii she possibly could. AS
she was deaf, the house would. have
TO be locked up.
Miss Dorothy was so ratified that
she dAn't notice the thunderstorm
coming up until she had driven a mile
or more. Then a flash and a reverbera-
ton and a few drops showed her that
she was in for a time. Five minutes
later and the pony refused to face
the storm. When held up to it he
wheeled and started for home on a
gallop, and did not pause until he had
brought up under a shed. The girl
ran for the house to discover that she
was locked out. A spring-Iock and
her mislaid key had done 1t. She
tried window after window in vain.
II was no use to call to a deaf woman
in her bed upstairs, or hope to awaken
the boy whose peanuts had brought
the trouble about. The girl was cow
ering on the veranda, lodging the
flashes and scolding herself and all
others, when the lightning showed
her the figure of a man with a bag in
his hand coming up the walk. He
looked long and lank, and he dripped
gallons of water.
The stranger was after shelter. He
did not ring the bell, but got what
shelter the Yeranda afforded and did
not even look around him. Miss Dor
othy was ten feet away, and believed
the stranger a tramp until he NUT
tered:
Well, of all the blank fools In
this state you take the cake!"
He had the voice of a gentleman,
and he swore like a gentleman. A
real gentleman's swearing is not
swearing. 1t is only for emphasis.
Instead of being shocked, Miss Dor
othy waited to hear:
No hurry to start out tonight, and
yet YOU were blank fool enough to
think it would be a romantic walk!
Well, you've got the romance of It!
Soaked from head to heel and more
coming!"
Miss Dorothy liked the voice. She
liked to realize that she wasn't the
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-04-12

| simply asking my husband to come
and see him. ! went out to do some
work and did not return home until
evening. The letter had reached my
husband in the afternoon at home. |
suppose that since the letter did not
speak of a position, and as my hus,
band was conscious that he was guilty
OF the forgery, he became crazed with
the thought that his act had been dis
covered at the bank and that the letter
telling him to call meant that he would
soon be in the clutches Of the law.
q suppose the terror OF his posi-.
ton drove him insane, for he went into
a shed on the rear of our lot and killod
himself by hanging. The letter, taken
out Of the envelope, was In his coat
pocket, a mute witness Of the cause Of
his self-destruction. ! found his, body
later In the evening when | went to
the shed and was almost crazed with
grief, the sudden changes from despair
and fea TO Joy and then again to hor.
ror and anguish being more than !
could bear.
"The president Of the bank has lev.
er ceased to reproach himself for
what he terms his negligence in not
giving a more complete explanation
when he wrote the letter, and since
my husbands sad death the kindly
bank official has seen to it that | have
all The work at ~dressmaking that
can do"
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-04-12

SiOss 9eSb'On VI ~eihPoIdTy TotpSo'
cred with common window sash and
filled with twelve inches of manure
and two inches of finely pulverized
top soil is all that is necessary.
A temporary hotbed can be made by
making a foundation of coarse stable.
anu into a broad fiat heap and
thoroughly tamping it down. The
manure heap should be eight or nine
feet wide, IS to "a inches deep and
as long as may be necessary to fit
the window-sash. The frames, placed
on top of the manure.heap should
face the south and the front board
should be from four to six inch2s
lower than the back, so that the water
will drain from the glass.
After the top soil is put on, the
bed should be thoroughly sprinkled.
the sash closed and the bed left to
generate heat. If properly made the
heat ought to Il up to 100 degrees
or more but no seed should be planted
ullil IL IdllS " ABOUT on degrees.
This condition will generally occur
about the third day.
The seed should be sown In straight
rows and each variety marked with
the name on a small stick placed at
the end of the row.
The hotbeds must be watered slight
ly in the morning only. If watered al
night, 1t will tend to chill the bed and
retard the plant. The bed must al.
ways be well ventilated and on bright
days the sash should be removed In
order to give the plants all the sun
shine possible. On cool nights the
sash should be closed with the excep-
ton of about an inch, in order that
the plants may have ventilation.
By March 1st the hotbed should be
planted to cabbage, onions, lettuce,
beets, celery, carrots, tomatoes and
radishes to be transplanted to the
garden just as soon as the ground be.
comes warm enough.
Tomatoes, cabbage, %caulifower and
celery should be transplanted twice
in order to give the plants a good
root system and promote vigor.
Transplanting is not very much trou-
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-04-12
Husband Out Of Work FORCES
Wife'S Name to Check.
Banker Goes to Her Aid and Writes
to offer Position, But Woman's
Spouse, Fearing Prosecution,
Ends Life.

Chicago.-Recelpt Of a letter by a
Chicago mar recently, a letter which
should have brought employment and
happiness, caused the man who re-
ceived it to commit suicide. The
strange story of how her husband, who
had long been out of work, took his
life upon the receipt Of a letter which
meant the offer Of a job and future
comfort Is told by the suicides widow.
my husband, after being long de
~spondent over sickness and his inabil-
ity to obtain a position. in a moment
OF weakness took my bank book,
which recorded a small amount Of de-
post, and forged my name to a check
for s12. | know that he used the
money in an endeavor to find employ
ment and that he would have paid 1t
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-04-12
May Have 1000 Mile Range

ring untoward events, tho Job should
be finished In about four months. Two
steel masts will be put up, both 27O
feet In height, these being two Of the
highest erected by the Marconi com.
pany. They will be built in sections
of ten feet, and as some forty feet is
up already, 1t is anticipated that the
erection Of each will take about a
month. When both masts are up the
building should be ready for the install.
lation Of the apparatus, which work
will then be undertaken.
The first message should be sent of
in about four months time. The first
attempt, Mr.. Rice says, will probably
be to communicate with a warship in
Madras harbor, If one happens to be
there at the time.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-04-12
EXCELLENT FEED FOR HORSE
cottonsesd Meal Has Passed FAR Be-
You'd the Experimental Stage
Value as Fertilizer.

Professor W. A. Henry. dean Of the
Wisconsin Agricultural college. and
perhaps the greatest practical animal
feeder In the world, under the head.
ing. "Cottonseed Neal for Horses"
quotes %approyingly Gebek. a recog.
nized authority on horse feeding, as
follows; Draft horses do well on
a ration containing two parts OF cot
tonseed meal" He then adds on his
own account: The use Of cottonseed
meal for horses will be greatly eN.
tended at the south If experiments re,
veal equally good results" Numer.
Gus experiments have revealed and
confirmed these very results
In truth, cottonseed meal as a feed
for horses has passed far beyond the
stage of experiment. To put cotton.
seed meal into the ground without FIRST
running it through the inside OF an
animal seems to me to be a direct in
suit to a bountiful Providence. If our
farmers We're to take their " freight
free, cottonseed meal, feed 1t first to
their farm animals and next to their
farm lands-oh, what would come
OF It?
There are in the 10 cotton produc-
ing states today 5,69S,ll4 head OF
horses. 2,594,199 head of mules; each
one Of these should eat at least one
pound a day or four sacks Of cotton.
seed meal annually. This would mean
a brand new demand on the cotton
seed meal market alone In the states
where it is produced, or 1.65S.46 tons
per annum, or a half million tons more
than Is actually made.
The value of the commercial fertiI-
izers is determined by the amount and
value of their three ingredients-am.
monia, phosphoric acid and potash, in
the same way the value Of a horse feed
may be a~scertained by determining the
amount and value of its three principal
components - protein, carbohydrates
and ether extracts. One Of the latest
estimates based on the value Of many
different animal feeds, places their
value as follows: Protein one and one.
half cents per pound, carbohydrates
one cent per pound, and ether extrac
hVe cents per pound.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-04-12
Old Fued Comes 10 Light

secur Richardson's arrest for disturb.
ing the peace.
AT the trial the strange compact
was made public. Richardson was
found guilty, but the jury recommend.
ed mercy. The feud started fifteen
years ago, when as a bachelor Rich.
ardson and the Shafer brothers occu.
pied adjoining houses. Richardson
broke the bachelor atmosphere by
marrying, and the fight was on. Sew
eral court cases have grown u OF
seemingly trivial quarrels between the
contestants.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-04-12
ARE LOCKED IN BY BURGLARS
Family Penned Upstairs by House
Breakers After Alarm Wires
Are Cut.

Woodbury., N. ~J.--Burglars made
another call on Postmaster Isaac
Haines, but they took precautions not
to meet the fate Of a midnight visitor
at the Haines home two years ago,
when an intruder was shot by the
postmaster. On this trip the burglar
locked the postmaster and his family
upstairs, detached the alarm wires
and then opened all the doors on the
first floor, 30 a hasty retreat could be
made. The telephone boxes and
money drawers were looted and con-
siderable stock was taken from the
store. The store OF Charles Hughes
was also visited, and the haul from
the two places was large enough to
fill a wagon.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-04-12

renCy and q fail in prices, with the
consequent enrichment of some Of the
desperate gamblers that hung about
Richmond and fattened upon the hard
ships of the C~onfcderacy. After each
contraction Of the currency the con-
venient presses were set going again.
and instead OF a circulating medium
of $175, 600, 900 as the treasury once
planned, Of Of 5000, 600, 600 M 1T
planned at another time. the outstand-
ing paper money swelled and swellcd
until 1t had exceeded the $l,OOO.G0o.-
600 Of midsummer, 1863.
The banks Of Virginia tried 10 pro-
teCt themselves and the treasury by
refusing to receive tho deprecated
currency, but in vain. When soldiers
In the trenches OF Petersburg were
paying $40 for Il tin plate from which
to eat their frugal meals. and 5000 or
$500 for a pair Of boots, the people
were stIIl clamorIng for larger issues
OF paper.
You may still buy crisp, fresh look
Ing Confederate notes at prices vary
ing from two cents to two dollars per
hundred notes.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-04-12
Value Of Sheep Manure.

An analysis OF sheep n indi
Gates that it contains about 6.2 per
cent OF nitrogen, 7.3 per cent OF phos-
phoric acid and Sc per cent OF pot
ash. 1t is higher in p~hosphoric acid
than manure from cattle. In other
respects this analysis shows 1t to be
not dissimilar in composition to or.
binary yard manure. At prices pre-
vailing for commercial fertilizers, say,
Is cents a pound for nitrogen, four to
five cents for potash, 1t would be
worth about $685. a ton. or course,
it's value would depend on the care
and skill with which it had been
handled. 1t should be protected from
teaching by covering and from fer
mentation by keeping moist.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-04-12
GROWING GOOD THINGS
As General Rule Farmers Leave
Gardens to Women.
Good Seed, Proper Fertilization and
Care Are Essential to Profitable
Gsrdenins-Msin Thing Is to
Get Early Start.

tBy S. NJ, CLINTON, IIlinois)
The farm garden is usually left to
the Women-folk, but they manage TO
produce an average of over 5000 per
acre every year Sometimes four or
nVe times as much as the average
farmer produces from his general
crops.
As a rule farmers a little or no
attention to their gardens, although
they expect their wives to supply the
entire family with vegetables the year
round. The most the men-folk do
is to grudgingly pillow up a plot of
ground, harrow it perhaps once or
twice and then leave the rest to
Providence and the women
II more attention were paid to the
selection of good seeds and the use Of
proper fertilizers in addition to stable
manure, and II the women-folk could
have the services of the hired man
three or four hours a week, they
would be able to double their garden
crop.
Even If the farmers wife cannot
buy bone meal. nitrate soda and
other vegetable fertilizers, but must
depend upon what manure she can
wheel to her garden plot in a wheel
barrow, she can by proper methods
not only increase the yield of her
garden but do 1t with less work.
The main thing is to get an early
start with good seed. This requires
a hotbed, n of the simplest things
in the world but which is in use
in comparatively few farmers gar
dens. The hotbed should be made
early in February in the north, A
square box about IS inches deep COW
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-04-12

Bile and if properly done will double
the ordinary crop Of the plants named
above, beside producing vegetables
from one to two weeks earlier than
II the seeds are planted In the open
garden.
The garden should be located as
near the house as possible II good
drainage and southern exposure can
be had. The ideal location is one that
slopes gently toward the south or
southeast and protected on the north
and northwest. A hedge is a very good
protection. but the best windbreak is
a tight board fence.
Such crops as beets, onions and
radishes are sometimes grown on beds
of six to ten feet wide and raised
from six to eight inches with narrow
walks between. When the soil Is
ridged up and the plants set in the
top of the ridges the drainage is much
better, the ground ia more quickly
warmed and earlier crops will result.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-04-12
Effects of Good Stallion.

Can anyone estimate the value
brought to a community by the use
Of a good stallion? The increased
usefulness OF the colts and their
ready STABILITY are not the
only gains. A good stallion improves
the horse stock of the farm side, but
he also improves the men.
Every owner takes a pride in a
good horse, and a good horse il i'm
possible without an appreciation on
the part of mankind. Pure.bred live
stock is an educator, and is worth
its cost and keep for its influence
upon the boys and girls, If for nc
other purpose.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-04-12
Ground Limestone.

Numerous experiments have shown
that ground limestone or the natural
material finely ground is the best
form to put on soils, unless quick re-
turns are desired. All soils do not
need lime. Where leguminous crops
are grown, a good application may
help, especially II the soil Is all acid
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-04-12
Date Palm Culture.

Date-palm culture is attracting con
siderable attention in various sections
of the United States. In southwest
Texas a number OF experiments are
being made to pollenize the blooms
to produce the mature fruit, with a
gnod deal OF success.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-04-12
Poultry-F eeding Hopper.

| have a poultry-feeding hopper that
does not waste the mash. | use a soap
box, rs inches long, 10 inches wide
and with three-lnch lath across the
top, says a writer in an exchange,
The fowls reach down between the
lath and get the mash. They soon
learn to do this without any harm to
themselves and with no waste OF the
mash.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-04-12
Raw Phosphates.

Raw phosphates, that Is, finely
ground phosphate rock not cut or dis
solved with sulphuric acid, is not
much used in France. The thrifty
French farmers insist on using only
the highest grade acid phosphate or
superphosphates.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-04-12

Ancient Whale hate 10 be seem
ing to put On airs, but when one has
swallowed d live man, held interior
communication with him for three
days and tn ell
Ancient Shark-Now stop always
throwing UP Jonah TO us, VIII yon?