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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-11-15
HOUSE MUSIC STORE

Where buying a Piano Player Piano
or Victrola is a:pleasure. Our motto:
Courteous treatment to ALL"
We would like to figure with you
on your Christmas purchase We han
die 20 different makes of pianos. i'll.
Guiding Chickering. Emerson, Ivers
G. Pond, Kranich & Back, Lester,
Kurtzman, Kohler e. Campbell and
many Others. Our prices are right.
Our terms are right, and we will treat
YOU right. Come in and sec us.
Store open until 8 p. N.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-11-15
Denartment Meeting.

The Art and Literary departments
of the Woman's club will meet ON
Monday afternoon AT o'clock i'll the
Public Library parlOrS. In the ah'
scncc Of the chairman, Mrs. D. |.
Woodlry, Mrs. George Drb"It VIII
have charge OF the meeting.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-11-15
MIS- Hartman EntertaiNel

Miss Edith Hartman entertained a
few friends informally last evening
at her home on Brnomi avenue. The
guests included Misses Irene IloIbert.
Lucille Shaim. MesSr5. Victor Shaw.
Harry Brass ana Edwin Ga&I6Il
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-11-15
Po,,,,,;no Next Week.

Miss Irene and Martha hutchinson
who are in philadelphia spending sew
oral weeks, are expected HON" early
next week.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-11-15
DIR. L L. L. Y0sT

Practice Limited TO Office.
Chronic diseases and Special TheEa
peutiel Hours-J:SO a m. to $3.50 p.
m. daily; Sunday 2-5 p. m, by appoint.
ment
Office over nj. City Drug sterse.
2s4 Main street. Con. Phone 3d.
Residence. ia High St, Con. Phone;
$751;.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1913-05-15
IMMENSE PREPARATIONS
Chaffanooga's Plans for Entertain.
ing Confederate Veterans

In commemoration of the bloody
battle att t'Cbickamauga so years age
Chattanooga announces perfection
of the plans for entertainment oi
the United Confederate Veterans
and the Sons who. will hold their
23rd annual Reunion May 1928.
High officials of the G. A. X.
state that Chattanooga's expendl-
lures for entertainment and amuse.
ment, etc., will be on more Law
ish scale than was ever necessary
for their meetings, even surpass-
ing the high water mark at Los
Angeles.
1t is expected in Chattanooga
that upward of $4,000 veterans
will be- rendered free lodging and
meals at Camp Alexander P. Stew
art. Some fellow with love for
statistics has figured that this
means the service of LA, 900 free
meals in the course of four days.
The requisite number of Govern
ment tents and cots have been loan
ed by the War Department. The
year 1918 will perhaps mark the
last pilgrimage of most of the vet
Grams of 1863 to ground made
sacred by the heroes of the Blue
and Clay on the heights and in
the shadow of Lookout Mountain.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1913-05-15

cultivating both sides at once, ant
the dirt thrown to the plants ol
away from them as desired.
The mulch harr wv does goot
work, especially when crops are
nearly mature. The tooth bars
are slightly curved downward SC
as to conform to the rows. The
lever adjusts the angle of the
teeth SO that they run quite deer
when it is thrown forward. BY
shifting the lever backward the
implement becomes smoothing
harrow, and breaks only the thin
crust on the surface. 1t has about
sixteen teeth, arranged as with the
ordinary smoothing harrow. The
cost is approximately 81.
The ordinary one-horse culti-
vator, used mostly in vegetable
fields, does good work in tall crops
working between the rows when
the crop is about mature. The
best of these machines are equip
ped behind with rake-like attach
ments to smooth the ridges made
by the cultivator feet, and drag
out or bury the grass and weeds.
Most riding cultivators have va
rious attachments suitable for diff
fercnt crops. One of the most
useful of these is the three disk
attachment, especially in making
beds fer sweet potatoes. If after
making the beds they are still too
fiat, the disks may be Sc. to throw
the soil higher when going over
the beds second time.
The same disk cultivator can be
used for cultivating tie beds after
the plants are growing, or for
running over the sides of the bed
with these)disks, and then revers-
ing on the same row so as to force
the loose soil hack. (The fender
attachment between the plants
and inner disks prevents covering
the small plants.) This can be
until the plants have
made considerable growth. "A.
P. Spencer, Florida Experiment
Station.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1913-05-15
Florida Board of Health

The people of Florida have
come to have such a strong senti-
ment of confidence in its State
Board of Health that threat of
impending epidemic has few fears
for them. They believe that how
ever great the danger, this board
will ward it off somehow. just how
they don't know, but somehow.
When pestilence or smallpox over
takes any community its victims
and those in danger appeal to the
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1913-05-15
Cultivation Implements

grass is kept below the surface
the roots will soon die. The i'm
plement has two sections with a
lever for each. When cultivating
between rows, if it is desirable to
throw some dirt up to the plants
the levers are thrown backward,
while to throw the dirt to
the middle the levers must be
shifted forward. The cultivator
is also equipped with tenders, so
that the row may be straddled,
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1913-05-15
SCIENTIFIC GARDENING
Efforts TO Improve What we Have
are of Recent Date

Ihe agriculture department OF
our federal government has now
some thirty thousand vegetable
importations which are being "as-
similated," while we are TO be ed
ucated to their use and cultivation.
Since the Asiatic civilizations are
older than ours by so many GEN.
turies, and since some of their
peoples have been compelled by
necessity as we'll as lead by the
peculiar bent of their minds to ex-
pertinent with natural productions,
it is reasonable to believe that we
can find among them many vege-
tables, if not some, snimals, that
would be valuable to us. Until
the wizard Burbank began his in
vestigations we were content to
improve the acquisitions we had
made in haphazard sort of way,
and even intelligent efforts to i'm
prove what we had are but of re-
cent date. While the government
may waste many dollars as it did
in experiments with tea culture,
we may promise ourselves that
something more valuable will be
found than was implied in the
proposition that we eat bamboo
shoots or in proporal of kindred
department that sharks become an
article Of food. We seem now to
have narrowed our ideas somewhat
and to content ourselves with Sc
curing the seeds or roots of vege-
tables already brought to an ac-
ceptable condition at first hand.
Coming into possession of a new
world it would seem that the Eu-
might have done more than
he has accomplished along these
lines-the barbarian gave us maize,
and we have not troubled ourselv-
es to repeat the experiment with
other wild plants that might have
proved useful under more intelli-
gent handling; we have accepted
the foods we found in use and
have seldom troubled ourselves
about other wild plants that
might have been made useful.
We have improved the pecan, for
instance, but why not take a fine
of the scale bark hickory
and do something for its fruit9
One of these varieties in the
South is naturally much finer than
;he native pecan. Many plants
which in a wild state furnished
,ood to the aborigines have been
entirely neglected Florida has
many of these which are remark
.ble both for their nutritive quail
les and for their beauty. If the
LANCER of exhaustion really hangs
,ver our land we might adapt its
natural productions to more ad-
than imported and unac-
limated varieties. .-Florid4 Times
Union.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1913-05-15
WORLD WIDE CAMPAIGN
For the Protection Of Migratory Birds
Sentiment Developing

When Congress passed the
Weeks. Mclean law to give FEEDER
al protection to migratory birds
throughout the United States, il
was winning only skirmlsh in !
campaign that will soon be world
wide. The next step is information,
al action in behalf of certain spe.
cies of birds that are in danger oi
becoming extinct. Senator Roo,
has already introduced a resolution
requesting the President to pro.
pose to other American countries
that they join in negotiating treat
les to protect migratory birds.
Even in Europe, which in some
respects is behind our country in
such matters, there is new interest
m the movement to protect birds.
In recent address in London,
Lord Curzon made a strong plea
for better laws to preserve the
song birds and the insect-eating
birds of Great Britain, and also
for laws to regulate if not wholly
to prevent, traffic in the skins and
plumage of tropical birds.
He pointed out that this traffic,
of which London, Paris and New
York are the great markets, will
soon result in exterminating
the birds of paradise of New
Guinea, the white egret of China
and other lands, and the beautiful
humming birds of Brazil and the
West Indies. In three of the six
sales held in London in 1911, no
fewer than 20,7O0 birds of para
disc were sold. The tame sales
included 100, 900 specimens of the
egret, and Al 900 humming-b birds.
The same destruction is in store
for many other beautiful species
that, every year are killed out in
vast numbers to tickle the vanity
of women.
Tho laws that Lord Curzon sug-
gested go to the root of the mat
ter. So long as the law permits
women to wear the skins and feath-
ers of birds, men will deal in them
and there can be no effective way
to guard the species. Those who
profit by the traffic will fight the
proposed legislation. But if the
European and American women
of wealth and fashion would only
heed Lord Curzon, how prompt
and far-reaching the victory for
the birds would be!
There is some excuse for the
poor peasant of southern Europe
who, to satisfy his hunger, kills a
nightingale or a warbler. There
is no excuse for the women who
encourage the slaughter of birds
to adorn themselves-a slaughter
lIl the more wicked because in
many cases the plumage that is de-
sired can be got only at the nest
ng season, when the killing of the
Did birds means the starving of the
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1913-05-15

= | I~~~s"~~~ r-r~ ~~eN .otNs'@tAOAs
They make it the last resort al
though the organization would
prefer to be first. 1t advocates
and works always for prevention
and to ward off the necessity of
curative assitance.
1t is clothed with mighty power
in it's control of the sanitary situ-
alton. Its rules have the force of
law without'the special enactments
of the Legislature, but it prefers
to control through reason and per-
suasion, rather than by arbitrary
methods. According to the high
est legal authorities in the State,
this Board has the authority to
enforce compulsory vaccination,
but it has nuver used this power
and probably it never will.
Its record since its organization,
25 years ago, has been that Of in
creasing efficiency. This record
is familiar to all who have resided
in Florida since the board began
its existence. DR.. Brunner, of
Savannah, one of the highest med
ical and sanitary authorities in the
South. said in recent public ad-
dress: "With the exception Of
Florida, not State In the South
has Board Of Health worthy Of
the name.'
The equipment of the Board at
present is ample and well fitted to
deal with any acute health prob
lens that inay rise. 1t has three
laboratories for the accurate dag
nosis of communicable diseases,
one at Jacksonville, one at Tampa
and the third at Pensacola. 1t has
an able man in charge of the vet
eahary department, who has two
assistants. 1t has corps of as
sistants in the field working for
the prevention and suppression of
disease among Florida's citizens.
1t maintains an educational sys-
tenn of lectures and publications
by and through which 1t is gradu-
ally bringing abouta a better under
standing of things that make for
sickness and health.
AS its headquarters the Board
occupies its own building at Jack
sonville, constructed at cost Of
about forty thousand dollars, on
lot donated by the city, which is
worth at present market values
not far from fifty thousand dol
lars. The building is of brick and
reinforced concrete and is admir-
ably adapted for its purposes.
The board also has its own build
ing at Tampa, brick edifice cost
ing about seventeen thousand dol
lars on a lot donated by the city.
The laboratory of Pensacola is
quartered in the municipal build
ing, rent free. The total value of
real estate holdings by the board
is between $l35, 900 and S14O, 900.
The Board furnishes free to the
citizens of Florida, laboratory ex-
aminations, diptheria antitoxins,
typhoid vaccine, tetanus antitox-
ins for the INDECENT when used for
prophylactic, or preventive pur-
poses, the Pasteur treatment for
the INDECENT, and smallpox vac
cine free to everybody who pre-
fers it to the disease itself. 1t
sends out literature free on any
and all diseases affecting man or
the lower animals; it makes exami-
nations of sanitary conditions
everywhere, and on request it
gives lectures on public health
matters. Jacksonville Metropo-
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young ones.

young ones.
"This," says the London Times,
sis not relic of barbarism, but
barbarism surviving in all its pris-
tine cruelty. youths Compan-
ion.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1913-05-15

soils is an effective means Of in
creasing crop yields. In many
cases the success or failure of a
crop depends on the cultivation
during the period from first plow-
ing to harvesting. Farm lands
in Florida would be more prodnc-
tive if the moisture supply were
controlled by judicious cultivation.
Soils that were deeply plowed
early in the season and have a
liberal supply of humus have suf-
fcient moisture now stored up, to
produce a good crop yield, even
little or no rain should fall be-
tween planting and rlpening, pro-
vided the moisture is not unneces-
sarily permitted to escape by evap-
Grafton or taken up by weeds.
Permitting grass and weeds to
grow into sod, and then plowing
the middles out with q turning
plow, is almost sure to result in q
low yield of corn. The scooter
plow or one-horse plow is not suit
able for cultivation. The ordinary
sweep or small shallow working
tool is better, but will not do
enough work per day. One of the
most useful implements is the ad-
Unstable weeder. 1t costs about
$12. 1t is light, and one horse
can haul it. When working over
the crop mot between the rows),
it should cultivate from 8 to 10
acres per day. ltcan be run over
corn, cotton, sweet potatoes, some
vegetables and even winter pas
ture crops. All the surface should
be cultivated right up to the
plants. This can be repeated un-
til the plants are two feet high.
Then the weeder can be adjusted
to run between the rows, until the
crop is made. If this is done reg
ularly once a week, little or no
hoeing will be necessary.
A light smooth harrow will
answer similar purpose until the
plants are twelve inches high, if
the teeth are set SO as not to tear
up the crop.
The surface two-horse cultiva-
tor with knife-like attachments
working like sweeps does excel
lent work. 1t is adjustable to any
width or row, and is made to work
shallow. 1t is light, and will cul-
tivate six to eight acres Il day. 1t
costs about SIS. 1t straddles the
row and cultivates one. half the
middles tn both sides.
& riding two-horse cultivator
would he IL good Investment for
any farmer with 25 or more acres
in cultivation, providing the land
is mostly cleared from stunps.
These machines are equipped with
levers and adjustments making it
possible to run between any width
of row or cultivate to any desired |
depth. Six or eight acres per day
can be cultivated when the rows
are four feet apart. The machine
will cost about $45.
For larger farm a better tool
is the double two-horse riding cul-
tivator. 1t cultivates the entire
middle of two rows, will cover
from IA to II acres per day. 1t
has various attachments and will
cost about $55. Such machines
have many uses.
The Diverse Spring Tooth Cul-
tivator is especially good for keep
ing down Bermuda Or nut-grass in
cultivated crops. The long spring
teeth will cover most of the grass
they fail to tear out, and if the !
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1913-05-15

'Tis the good old summertime.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1913-08-07
REDUCTION IN
EXPRESS RATES
ORDERS OF INTERSTATE CON-
MERGE COMMISSION WILL
CUT REVENUE.
ESTIMATED COST TO COM
PANIEs $26,ooo,oco.
Greatest Reduction is Made on Small
Parcels Going Short Distance
TO Become Effective Octo-
Der 18th.

Reductions in express rates which
will cost the companies fully $26,000,-
000 a approximately 10 per cent
Of their gross revenue, were ordered
by the interstate commerce commits
sion to become effective on or before
October 10, 1913.
Notable reforms in practices also
were ordered.
The most important change pre-
scribed by the order is by way Of
modification of the present graduated
scale of parcel rates. One hundred
pound rates for short distances either
have been left unchanged or slightly
reduced; for longer distances they
have been lowered; for 90 pounds or
less all rates have been practically
reduced. For packages more than
four pounds going more than 200
miles and less than 1000 the new ex-
press rates are generally lower than
the parcel post rates; for more than
5000 miles the rates are practically
the same.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1913-08-07
Ambassador Wilson Resigns.

Secretary of State Bryan, acting for
President Wilson, accepted the resig-
nation Of Henry Lane Wilson as am
bassador TO Mexico. The resignation
will go into effect at the end of 60
days. Ambassador Wilson was closet
ed with the secretary of state for
about two hours discussing matters
connected with the administration in
Mexico. On leaving the state depart
ment he said he had no comment to
make on any policy or proposed policy
of the president or of the secretary
of state and added mat the presidents
plans for peace in Mexico have not
been discussed with him. The ambas-
sador said he was sure the president
and the secretary of state were actu-
ated by motives of the highest patriot
ism and that he is sorry that he-can-
not consider himself in accord with
their ideas.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1913-08-07
pIaz VIII Run for President.

Felix Diaz, special envoy from Mex
leo to Japan, said at San Francisco
he intended TO sail August 10 from
Vancouver B. c.
Il am going only to express to his
imperial majesty, the emperor, Next
co.'s appreciation of Japan's action in
sending in 1910, a representative to the
celebration of the centennial of Next
can independence" said the general.
Mexico Is wholly friendly with ia
pan and the Japanese are very well
come to come to Mexico. We need
all the labor we can get"
Concerning his candidacy for the
presidency Of Mexico, Diaz said he
would be the candidate of the liberal
democrat party, the aim of which,
he stated, is the separation OF church
and state.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1913-08-07
To Run Road AS Electric Line.

The Michigan Central will discon-
tinue operating the Allegan division
from Battle Creek to Allegan, Septem-
Der l, when the Michigan & Chicago
Electric Railway Co. will begin oper-
ating it as a third rail electric.
1t is said the Michigan Central and
Lake Shore will continue to operate
the line jointly from Tecumseh to
Battle Creek. The division point will
be changed from Homer to Hanover
or Moscow, and the Michigan Central
will continue in charge OF the railroad
shops here.
Passenger trains which now run as
the Tecumseh-D Dundee branch will run
through to Battle Creek, giving the
line two passenger trains each way a
day instead of one. The west local
freight will be discontinued.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1913-08-07
MAY ASK FEDERAL
INVESTIGATION
" EFFORTS OF GOVERNOR FOR
CONFERENCE BETWEEN oP-
ORATORS AND MEN FAIL
LOON TO "MoTHER JONES" TO
AID REQUEST.
Miners Feel That Inquiry Similar
to That in West Virginia Would
Aid in Efforts to Obtain
Living Wage.

Federal investigation of the copper
country, similar to the congressional
inquiry into West Virginia conditions,
may be requested by the Western Fed
Grafton OF Miners. The union an
nounced that if Governor Ferris failed
to bring about a conference between
the operators and miners that they
would, in all probability, make such
= move. They hold that an inquiry
into the cases leading up to the strike,
The strike itself, the conditions under
which the miners work, their wages,
BONES, etc, would improve greatly
abe lot of the underground workers.
On Mother" Jones much depend
snce is placed to further the bringing
about of such an inquiry. The union
holds that she was largely RESPONSE
ble for the investigation in West Vir-
ginia and as she is coming hope is
expressed for a similar one for this
district.
Deputies, wearing their stars on the
outside of their coats, appeared on
the streets of Calumet for the first
bAhiC oAANN Allt lAONAhSs htg NNAt alA
big men, picked evidently for their
physical ability, and they moved
about the streets as though they had
no fear of being stripped of stars
again. This is due to the fact that
instead of being armed with clubs
alone as they were last week, they
are now carrying revolvers. They
Travelled in couples. The force is
large. The temperance of the depu-
ties leads to the belief that the oper-
ators have been informed that the
troops cannot remain here indefinite
ly, that the cost to the state is too
great and that the soldiers must get
back to their business. Therefore, it
is up to them to organize protection
as best they can. Whether these
men are loyal employees of the Calu-
met and Hecla, or whether they are
underlings of Strikebreaker Waddell
could not be learned. 1t is fact that
Waddell is still on the ground, and
is acting as deputy for Sheriff James
Cruise.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1913-08-07

]. II. Nield, Lansing, is the promo
ter of an experiment in the training
of high school students that is being
watched with interest by educators
all over the country.
Lansing is the only city in the state
to provide an industrial cooperative
course for the students. The aim is
to meet the needs of the boy who
wishes to become competent and eff
cient as a tradesman; and any boy
who has an eighth grade education
may take up the work on this course.
1t is Of four years duration. The
first is all devoted to school work.
The second and every year thereaf-
ter the boys work in pairs; one be-
ing at school and his mate at the shop.
These students alternate weekly. No
boy is allowed TO continue a trade
unless he shows his interest in it at
all times.
A salary is given to the boys for
the time they put in at the shop. The
first year they receive 10 cents an
hour, and they are raised to IL IL
cents in the second year, while in the
third year they are given Is cents an
hour. BY working steadily boys may
make several hundred dollars, placing
some on a self-supporting basis.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1913-08-07

Attorney-Genera1 Fellows held that
child under IL years of age may
be sentenced to the industrial school
by the judge of probate without a
hearing in the justice court, unless
the offense be a felony. In another
opinion the encouragement held that
it is not mandatory that officers Of
rural school boards be elected annual.
ly.
The state railroad commission de-
cided that the Pere Marquette rail-
road will have to construct a new de-
pot in Port Huron to take the place
OF that which was destroyed by fire
on January 2, 1913. The company has
been using an abandoned freight car
to accommodate its patrons since the
destruction of the depot there and It
is said has repeatedly ignored the
demands o; the city to erect another
station.