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The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1912-05-14

the kettle, and both have gone
dry and are burning over the
fire, Lincoln Monitor.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1912-05-14
Roosevelt a Maniac, Says Wat
terSOn.

The spectacle of a president O.
the United States engaged in az
unseemly public quarrel with ar
ex-president of the United State:
may be, as the saying hath it
"a sight for gods and men," but
from the viewpoint of a people
proud equally of their country's
dignity and powers of the earth,
it is tragical.
One is moved to ask, is the
White House worth it to either
of them.
Considered from the viewpoint
OF their antecedent relations it is
pitiable. 1t is even CHASTITY.
Yet Mr.. Taft might have taken a
shorter cut to the truth. He
might have said, Il personally
know that Theodore Roosevelt is
of unsound mind, and | refuse to
right a mailman" That is near
er just epitome of the situation
than will be any of the specific
counts in the indictment the Re-
publican party first, as most re-
sponsible, and the American peo-
pie, second, as more deeply con-
cerned. must draw against the
man whose insatiate thirst for
power and love of display have
brought so great a disgrace upon
us.
If that one of the CAESARS who
goes by the name of Nero was
insane, Theodore Roosevelt, as
piring 20 be an imitation Caesar,
is insane.
He carries all of the marks
typical of the perverted under
standing; the devilish streak OF
viciousness, the ignoble maligna-
cy. the logical intensity and mac
curacy of the lunatic. Not one
of the issues he has raised will
support his claim, or bear him
out in the argument. His plan
OF campaign from start to finish
has been just such an insane de-
fusion and snare as a topsy-turvy
mind would conceive to b.
able to deceive; the crazy
jungle hunt, the wild hun. smar
at home again; the coy patriotism
and prize-fghting exploitation
the artfuliy cooked-up popular
demand, the bunco steering gov.
ernorS; the theatrical ringmaster,
booted and spurred, waiting the
word; the final bursting Of the
star performer into the ring,
throwing his hat first in the all
and then in the sawdust, anc
shouting, Have at we all, W
bucks in the gallery; NEE foot S
upon NEE native heath and NEE
names McGreeol !"
That is the long and the shor
of it. The man is a maniac
He knows not clearly what he
does, or says. Never an utter
ance of his will bear discussion
or dissection. Never an act o.
his can be defended. That hi
should cast friendship to the
winds. intellectual dignity to the
dogs, his own antecedents to The
kingdom-come, were proo1
enough that he is mad; as mac
as Hamlet. That a few self
seeking politicians and traitorou:
newspaper editors should follow
him is proof only that vanity anC
greed are still factors to be reck
oned with in public life. That
outside of these he may get any
votes at all is proof of the adagC
that a fool is born every minute
and that the poorest fake proph
ct can get up a religion, and an,
quac!; doctor a rio ~ prof a i
patent medicine.
Let his family and his friend
take him to an asylum before h,
does something irreparab'e a
it is too late. Henry Waiter
sons Editorial in Louisville Cou
rier-Journal.
They are Telling the Truth.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1912-05-14
War or the Mexican War.

''oNN Di'i e'iiu was SISdIly ulSdp
pointed when the Senate refused
to pass the bill. However, he is
heartily in favor of the compro.
mise measure as the best that
could be done under the circum.
stances. twill benefit hundreds
of old soldiers in West Virginia
and should satisfy those who ia
vor an age pension as we'll as
those who favor service pen
sion as it combines the provision
of both.
The Supreme Court has been
asked to confirm the majority re-
port of the commissioners an
pointed to mark the boundary
line between West Virginia and
Maryland in conformity with the
finding of the Court as to the
proper line. When this report is
confirmed it will end case
which has been pending before
the Supreme Court of the United
States for more than 20 years, in
which West Virginia has won on
every contention.
Bills introduced by Senator
Watson have passed both Houses
OF Congress as follows: Grant
ing pensions to James Barr and
Benjamin F. Spencer, Wheeling;
Henry A. Fernald and Daniel
Powell, Clarksburg; David C.
Morgan. Buckhannon; Bernard
f. Morrow, Cameron; Benjamin
Reed and Hilleary A. McBicker.
Fairmont; William B. Taylor,
Newburg; John r. Tolbert, Tria-
delphia; William Wyatt, Contra
liza; John Boiler, Kanawha Station;
David Cain, Walker; Alex W.
Barnes, Andrew ]. Board, Chas.
E. Craddock, William ]. Davis.
Davis E. Leech and William
Plate, Parkersburg.
Bills have been introduced by
Senator Chiffon granting pen
sions to Edgar E. Cummins.
st. Adams and Hiram Campbell.
Burning Springs. Senator Wat
son has introduced a bill grant
ing a pension to Mary D. Pier
son of Parkersburg. Senator
Watson has introduced an amend
ment to the war claims bill ap-
propriating $3.50 for the M. E..
Church South at Ravens wood.
Through the efforts of Senator
Watson the Postoffice Depart
ment has established a rural
route between Griffithsville and
Julian, Lincoln County.
Failing in his efforts to have
Joseph Fritz of Morfantown adj
mitted to a Naval hospital, Sena-
tor Watson will undertake to put
through pension bill for him at
this session. Mr.. Fritz was for
merly employed in the Navy
Yard here, but is now sick and
helpless. Because his illness oc-
Cured after he left the Navy
Yard he could not be admitted to
the hospital.
Congressman Hamilton has
been receiving congratulations
by mail from his constituents
and in person from his colleagues
upon the speech he made recent.
ly in support of his resolution
providing that the federal gov.
eminent shall pay West Virgin.
las portion of the old state debt
The speech was made before the
judiciary Committee and will bt
printed in pamphlet form by tha
committee. But, the speech
made so deep an impression upor
members Of the committee tina
they will ask to have it printed
in the Congressional Record as
cart Of the proceedings Of tn,
House, 50 that it may be distri
buted wherever the Record i
sent. So far the Judiciary Com
mittee has taken no action on hi
resolution, but the matter i
evidently under very serious con
sideration by that body, and Mr.
Hamilton is hopeful that he ma,
, get a favorable report.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1912-05-14

Congressman Hamilton has in
troduced bills granting pensions
to Hiram Campbell, Cresto; E. p.
Daggett, Elizabeth and John L.
Barnhart, Parkersburg.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-07-17
EASTERN NEWS.

Father Edward F. Hannigan, ad,
dressing meeting of young people in
st. Patrick's church in Long Island
city, denounced turkey trot" dancing,
advocating lengthy jail sentence for
parties convicted.
The long dock at Point Breeze,
Plumb island collapsed, precipitating
sixty persons into the harbor. Three
lives were lost.
The United States battleship New
Hampshire collided with the Fall Riy
er line steamer Commonwealth near
the Newport naval training station.
The collision was due to a dense fog.
Both ships were damaged.
The injuries sustained by the battle
ship New Hampshire in her collision
with the Commonwealth are estimated
at $4,000 III.
Mrs. Rene B. Morrow, Chico go
society and clubwoman has been
placed on trial for the murder of her
husband.
George MacReade Beale has just
died in Washington at the age of SO.
He was a member of the Fremont ex-
petition in 1854.
The national convention of the pro
hibition party is meeting in Atlantic
City. There are numerous candidates
for the presidential nomination.
Government immigration cruisers
chased two boats up the Coast from
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-07-17
MAIL SERVICE'T0 STAR UELET

Mexico and caught them as they were
trying to smuggle Chinese into this
country.
The steel and iron factories of Pitts
burg will not suspend work this sum-
.mer, regardless of the intense heat.
This is the first summer that they
have not closed down for at least a
month.
John d. Rockefeller entertained sew
eral friends at his Cleveland home o.
the occasion of his 73rd birthday.
Meeting group of youthful ball play
ers on his way home from church he
told them that the way to make a sue
cess Of life was TO make up your
mind what to do, and the ndo it.
Congress will not adjourn for q
week or ten days owing to the pla,
of the house rules committee for con.
sidering certain special legislation.
The Siberian tiger in Central Park,
New York city, was nearly overcome
by the intense heat, and It was neces
ssry to play the hose on the lions
every fifteen minutes.
An international congress will meet
at Washington soon to plan an e.
fectual fight against the hook-worm.
A young Porto Rican suffragette Wis
ting in New York wore trouserettes
on Fifth Avenue The police forced
her to button up her coat.
Roosevelts campaign manager,
Senator Dixon of Montana, has issued
the call to the people of the United
States who are in sympathy with the
progressive movement to send dele
gates to the national convention TO
open August in Chicago
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-07-17

Cal. insane asylum is trying new
course of treatment for the insane,
that of re-education, which gives Sur
prising results in a partial cure at
least.
An armed and crazed ex-convict held
the town af Mountain View, CAL at
bay for twenty hours before officers
through strategy got into his home
and captured the convict and his ar
senal.
Representative William Kent OF
California, who sometime ago an,
nounced that he would not be a can
didate for reelection, now says that
he will run, but as a Progressive net
as a Republican.
Postal Savings Banks are a great
success in California and particularly
IN San Francisco where $421;090 is on
deposit.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-07-17
WESTERN NEWS.

Health officials are urging the Sen
ate to restore the full appropriation
of 100000 for fighting the plague in
San Juan, Havana and Porto Rico.
In an explosion at the Copper Fall
pit, Ely, New, nine workers were
blown 1000 feet and instantly killed
A fire in the tenderloin district OF
Sacramento, CAL, caused $125, 000
worth of. damage.
Twelve damage suits aggregating
100000 have been filed against the
Pacific Coast Steamship Company by
passengers on the Santa Rosa, which
was wrecked on the coast off Santa
Barbara last year.
A Chester, Pa, girl fell in love with
w. H. Aitken, a professional aviator,
but absolutely refused to marry him
until he gave up his flying. He has
done so.
Geo. Pine, county treasurer and tax
collector of Yuba County, CAL, has
been arrested. His accounts are
short $4,000. His populations have
been going on for twenty years, dur
ing which time he has been deceiving
the county officials
"A 5S-year-old man has been found
in Liberty, Mo, who has never been
outside his town in Al years and who
hasn't seen a telegraph instrument,
moving pictures or street-cars.
Mrs. Sarah Sophia Plat Decker, one
of Americas most prominent clubwo-
men and suffrage workers, died at the
Adler sanitarium in San Francisco
after an eight-day illness. Mrs. Deck
er was taken i'll while attending the
biennial convention of women's clubs.
A violent earthquake rocked the
Alaskan peninsula continuously for
forty seconds. A foreman of mine
on Dome creek was suffocated beneath
a slab of earth loosened by the quake.
Jewels to the amount of $4,000
were stolen from the house of Edward
w. Hopkins at Menlo Park, Cal. The
theft was committed in the afternoon
while servants we're in the house.
In a battle between union and non
union workers in a lumber mill at
Grabow, La, four men were killed and
four seriously injured.
A New York expert at the Stockton,
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-07-17
LATEST NEWS BULLETIN

immigration inspectors crossing San
Francisco bay with a boatload of cool
les used as a decoy for smugglers, act
ed the part of smugglers so well that
they were chased by revenue cutter
and nearly fired on. Only the pres
ence of many other boats in the bay
prevented a fire being opened.
Miss Azalea Keyes of San Francisco
was suddenly married to the Count
Leawithaupt Falkenstein. a wealthy
and aristocratic nobleman.
Rene Bedel, famous French avia-
tor, was instantly killed while alight-
ing when his machine caught in some
unseen telegraph wires.
Twenty-Five Americans, including
the United States consul. were held in
house in Juarez yesterday while
General Orozco's rebels demanded S5,-
900. The railroad chiefs paid up and
the Americans were finally released.
|. Miss Helen Keller, the noted blind
girl, is visiting Mrs, Thaw. the mother
of Harry Thaw.
Katherine Force, sister of Mrs. John
Jacob Aston. is reported engaged to
Henry c. Harnickell, successful
young Brooklyn broker.
Sixty-nine miners were killed in an
explosion in the Cadeby colliery in
the Conissborough district near Lon
don.
Advocates of women's suffrage in
Louisiana lost their fight in the legis-
lature for a constitutional amendment
to permit women to serve on school
boards.
Woodrow Wilson nearly upset the
bosses cunning plan originated by
Mack for dual leadership of the par
ty.
Portugal has summoned all of its re-
serves to arms in an effort to quickly
crush out the royalist uprising which
is beginning to assume threatening
proportions.
At a reunion of family in Angus
ia, Ca, poison was placed in the food
as result of which three are dead,
thirteen may die, and twenty-four are
quite i'll.
All the Camorra chiefs, sentenced
to long terms in Jail. have appealed
through their lawyers to the Court of
Cessation.
The East is sweltering from heat
wave and already there have been
thirty deaths and great number of
prostrations.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-07-17
LIBERTY BELL
MAY FALL APART

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, June 25. -
Wilfred Jordan, the curator of the In
dependence Hall Museum, says that
the liberty bell ought not to be re-
moved again, as the old crack has
opened for more than six inches in
the past few weeks and the relic
shows signs of disintegration that
may cause it to fall apart. An effort
will be made to find some way in
which the relic may be preserved in
definitely.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-07-17

You can have funds for a vacation
next year if gou start Savings Ac-
count now and deposit regularly each
month some part of your earnings.
Bank of Hawaii Ltd Capital and Sur
plus 81 200, 900.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1912-12-15
A FINE NEW APPLE.

Il. B. Fowler, Shaw Island, San
Juan county, Wash, has sent me some
apples that are certainly worthy of
being propagated. This is his letter:
81 am sending you under separate
cover sample of Seeding apples. [
want your opinion whether you think
they are worthy of propagation. The
tree stands in the sod, never has been
cultivated, pruned nor sprayed. 1t
is in good creek bottom land. 1t is a
regular brush heap for lack OF .prun-
ing. 1t bore three or four apples last
year and about two dozen this year.
l know this to be a Seeding as L
planted the seeds myself, and took up
all but two trees in the row and this
is one of them. The other never bore
at all. -
[ confess no little surprise on re-
ceiving these apples. They are large
and we'll colored and of very good
flavor. They BILE to some extent
the King, but not quite the shape of
this famous apple. They are red and
somewhat striped. We could hardly
class this as winter apple as the ones
sent me we're mellow and in fine eat
ing condition the middle of Novem-
Der. For the fall market they ought
to be good sellers. At that time of
the year the apple market is likely to
be overstocked with windfalls and
prices are not very good. How long
the apple will keep 1 do not know
the ones sent to me were too good to
keep very long.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1912-12-15
Horticulture

expense. He can, by natures pro-
cess, manufacture all the nitrates he
needs without one cent of cost. The
legumes, such as the clovers, alfalfa,
the vetches, peas and beans, trefoil,
mellilotus, commonly called sweet
clover, and many other plants grow
ing their seeds in pods, are nitrate
factories worked on natures plan and
will give the intelligent farmer all the
nitrates he needs for his lands.
These crops will give enough feed to
pay for their production and besides
that fill his soils with nitrates as good
as that imported from Chilli or man
ufactured by DR.. Eyde. l never buy
any commercial nitrates for my lands
I grow them by natures process.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1912-12-15
NAMING APPLES.

My friends can hardly know how
much trouble they cause me by send
ing me apples to be named. l cheer
fully do the best I can but in good
many cases I am not as well satisfied
as I would like to be. Ii the parties
sending the fruit are not satisfied,
they have the grace not to say so. 1
wish I could do better. Recently L
received the following letter from V.
R. Herbert, Albion, California:
"Under separate cover l am sending
you some apples, and would be very
much pleased to have you settle a
dispute. Some call them Wealthy,
some Jonathan and some Bethel, and
for this reason l would be pleased to
get your opinion on the matter. l
have been a subscriber to The Ranch
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1912-12-15

for quite long while, and with
great interest [ look forward for each
new issue.
From Mr.. Herbert's letter head |
learn that he is the proprietor of the
Westside Fruit Farm and grower of
choice apples. Mr.. Herbert sent the
apples by express at a cost to him of
60 cents. l am in doubt whether he
gets the worth of his money. There
we're six very fine apples. One thing
is sure to me and that is ii Mr..
Herbert can raise such apples in large
quantities he can make money at the
business. If [ am confined in my
naming to these three varieties, [
would unhesitatiDgly say that they
are Jonathan. The dispute Of which
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1912-12-15
APPLE SCAB.

G.. g. McCollom, Chico, Wash,
writes under date of November 9th,
as follows:
ga week ago today I left some
apples at your house and intended to
call you up later but was not able to
do so. Will you kindly let me know
what causes the spots on them and
also what kind of spray should be
used?"
These apples are affected with scab
which is one of the fungous diseases
common to the Puget Sound country.
We can not do anything to amount
to much after the fruit is once attack
ed; that is, we can not cure the at
tack that year. The fungi are vege-
table productions but do not produce
any seeds but multiply by producing
Spores We can kill these spores and
thus prevent recurrence OF the at
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1912-12-15
THE ENTERTAINING STRAW
BERRY.

| have received several letters from
parties who grow these berries. l can
not find space to publish all of them,
but one of them seems to present
the matter so clearly and satisfactorily
that l give it as a good answer to my
inquiry j. w. Bradburn, Issaquah,
WASH, who is personally known to me
writes follows:
Gin a recent issue of The Ranch l
noticed an inquiry concerning the
everbearing strawberry. We have one
row of them this year and they have
few blossoms and berries on them
now November 14th. We have pick
ed few handsful each month during
the season and find the flavor good.
Our neighbor has nice patch of them
and has this to say: 'The everbearing
strawberry is good for family use but
l would not recommend it for COM
mercial purposes. We have had them
on our table almost every day for four
are of medium size and have good
flavor. They do not ripen in sufficient
quantities to make them profitable
for market gardens unless one plants a
great many. We are using them at
home and could sell dozens of boxes,
if we had them, at price far above
spring markets.
From all the reports l have received
about these berries can say that they
are good; that they sell well and are
worthy of cultivation for home use
but are not money makers. If lived
where l could raise them for my own
use, | doubtless should try to do so.
Ii those who have plants to sell would
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1912-12-15

state all the known facts about these
berries, it is doubtful If many plants
could be Sold One thing must be
kept in mind relative to these berries
and also any thing else in the fruit
line, viz, can not publish state
ments in their favor that seems to be
intended as an advertisement. Some
letters l have received show this
feature quite plainly.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1912-12-15

tack the next year. The thing to
know is where to find these spores
and then spray with fungicide. The
spores of the apple scab winter over
on the leaves of the apple trees, to
some extent on the limbs and any
dried up apples left on the trees. 1t
is a good plan to carefully rake up
these leaves and burn them or cover
them with six inches of dirt. Then
we should spray the trees with some
good fungicide before the leaves put
out. What fungicide to use is mat
ter of some discussion among our
scientific men. 1t was thought a few
years ago that the Bordeaux mixture
was the one fungicide above all others
to use in the destruction of these
spores, but a new claiment has sprung
up to contest this view and that is
the lime sulphur wash. Some prefer
this wash to the Bordeaux mixture;
some think them equally good and
some still stay by the old remedy.
Personally l prefer the Bordeaux
mixture to the lime sulphur wash.
One thing can be said in favor of the
lime sulphur wash, and that is it will
act as fungicide and kill spores and
it will act as an insecticide and de-
stroy the San Jose scale. Where a
person has to spray for the destruction
of the scale he will not often find it
necessary to use another spray ma
terial for the destruction of the spores
that propagate the apple scab. With
us in the Yakima valley we must spray
about once in every two years to de-
stroy the San Jose scale and we never
have any apple scab to amount to any
thing. Where you can kill two birds
with one stone, you need not hurl the
second stone. But the San Jose scale
is not bad in the Puget Sound country.
If friend McCollom does not need
to spray for the destruction of the
scale, then he would better use the
Bordeaux mixture in fighting the apple
scab.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1912-05-25

standard. From the voiceless -veldts
to the venerated vatican, from the
palace of the Khedive to the Coliseum,
he did not encounter single savage
instinct which he did not subdue. or
meet with a civilized principle he
did not amend. In government bound
by no law, in life bound by no policy,
in intercourse bound by no attach
ment, in debate bound by no record,
in society bound by no conventions,
in conduct bound by no tradition, in
attack bound by no strategy, in re-
treat bound by no order, in ambition
bound by no limit, he towers today
the embodiment of conscious and I'M
constrained power. He is the final,
conclusive and dognatic answer to
the riddles of the universe"