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Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-30

Sam Buckalew was lone policeman
in a little town in Tennessee. His
main duties were to look out for trou-
BILE in the negro part of the town down
by the creek, especially on Saturday
nights. Came one night a general
fight in the bottom, after dance in a
cabin. The engagement, starting in
side, grew too large to be accommo-
dated in doors, and continued outside.
Rocks were handy and the fracas ex-
tended Sam Buckalew heard it all
from a safe distance, but made no at
tempt to drive the enemy across the
Yalu. The justice of the peace called
Sam to account next day.
why, looky here, Tom Keel-you-
all's honor, l mean," Sam Buckalew
protested. Them rocks was flynn
near as thick as wheat boards. May
be they wasn't amin to hit me, but
don't you,all know tpeks amt got no
eyes?"
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-30
SPRAYING MACHINE
is BIG NECESSITY
Common Water Sprinkler for Ap-
plying Mixtures Does Very
Little Good.

A spraying machiue is-as. necessary
for the garden as the orchard. Some
folks use common water sprinkler
for applying spraying-mixturcs; but
this does little good, because 1t is not
only a great waste of material, but
the plants are not fully covered in
this way.
The liquid should be put on in a
fine mist, not as a heavy rain. To
apply Paris green in water various
cheap hand sprayers are on the mar
ket now.
They need not be of copper for thia
purpose, as Paris green will not cor
rode iron any more than does water;
but when Bordeaux mixture is used
as carrier for the arsenical poison
land we would strongly urge that this
be done in every case, as it must be
done If we put our potato growing op-
erations on safe basis), then the
sprayer must be made of copper and
brass-iron would be eaten up in
short time.
The modern knapsack sprayer.
which is possibly the best implement
by far for spraying smaller patches
of potatoes-up to three or four
acres-cucumbers or other vines. and
for general use as a spray-macbine
in the garden and small vineyard, will
involve first expense of from s12 to
SIS, but 1T will pay in any large sized
garden.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-30
THIN OUT FRUIT
ON APPLE TREES
Deserving Of as Much Alteration
as Keeping Away Injurious
Insect Pests

The proper care and looking after
fruit trees constitute one of the best
methods of ensuring success.
1t might be supposed that this was
stating a truism and, indeed, 1t is do
ing SO; but unfortunately all too
many orchards are neglected, hence
the necessity for on all suitable &C.
casions recurring to the subject.
Now, the thinning of the fruit on ap-
pie trees is a matter which deserves
quite as much attention as the keep
ing them free of insect pests, and
yet it is very much neglected. 1t is
beyond a doubt that the intrinsic
value of apples is often increased by
thinning, the fruit being superior in
size, color and general quality.
The thinning generally improves
the color, and I prefer doing the
work when the fruit has grown to
about ~ inches in diameter. When
ever the trees bear we'll, thinning has
the effect of increasing the size of the
fruit, more especially in the case of
the Balwin.
No exact rule for thinning apples
can be laid down as the requirements
vary with the different trees and even
with the same tree in different sea-
sons. The amount of thinning, how
ever, should be suited to the condi-
ton as shown by the ages and states
of the tree, and of course by the dis
tribution of the fruit on the tree. All
wormy and inferior apples should first
be removed. Thinning sholld be
done by hand, as the thinning pro-
cess produces a better apple it de-
ponds upon the grower himself to
market such better quality to the
best advantage,
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-30
MIGHT HAVE MADE A MISTAKE
cindy Claimed Caller Was Her Bro
ther, but She Was Willing to
Take Another Look.

The woman left the eirl arranging
the dinner table and went to the
kitchen for something. great, hulk.
ing negro was sitting in the kitchen
rocker. Indignant, the woman hurried
back.
"Cindy," she demanded, what have
told you about having your beaux in
the kitchen?"
Laws, miss, he amt no beau! Why,
he's muffin but my brudder."
Somewhat Modified, the woman
went back to the kitchen.
so you are Cindy's brother?" she
said kindly.
Law bless yo' no, miss" she an.
swered. Il amt no 'lation tall to. her.
Use jes' keepin' comp'ny wifi her"
The woman sought Cindy again.
: "Cindy," she asked sternly, why did
you tell me that the man was your
brother? He says he's no relation"
Cindy looked aghast.
''Fo' de Lawd's sake, miss, did he
say dat? Jes' yo' stay here mint
an femme go look ag'in." Chicago
RecordHerald.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-30
AGED survlvors Of our Wars.

l am informed by the United States
pension Office that the last soldier
of the rebellion will die in 1855. Tina,
is the estimate made by those who
make study of vital statistics. Ii
the last veteran survives until that
date he will have lived ninety years
after the surrender of Lee.
Kronk, who died a couple of years
ago in New York state. was the last
soldier of the War of 1912, and he
lived considerably more than ninety
years after peace had been signed
Brakeman, the last soldier of the
Revolution, lived for eighty-six years
after the peace of 17S3.-Philadelphia
Public Ledger.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-30

be kept down by spraying with so.
luton of three ounces of potassium
sulphide in six gallons of water.
The reason that SO many of our
beautiful plants and vines are destroy
ed by bugs is because we are too lazy
or unable to fight them all the time.
We must remember that the bugs,
mildew and blight work while we
sleep; but if we keep after them
while we are awake they cannot last
long.
A garden pond is sometimes thing
of beauty and 1t is certainly JOY to
the birds all summer long, but it
brings mosquitoes
A dozen goldfish placed in the water
will take care of most of the mos
quitoes and will also add to the at
Effectiveness of the pond.
border of well-selected stones
next to the water and inside of them
few aquatic plants will also help.
Very often frogs are attracted to
these little ponds and will help the
fish to take care of the mosquitoes.
Sometimes they become quite tame
and make their winter bed in the mud
and are ready to greet US in the
spring with their songs-if you like to
call them that,
Keep the Towering plants from ma
turing seeds, both the perennials and
the ANIMALS, If you want them to
bloom late.
When you water your plants do not
merely oprinlrle little with .hc wa
tering pot. 1t is better to take of
the spout once week, perhaps oft
ener and give the ground a thorough
soaking.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-30

A man suffered from infammatory
rheumatism, and his wife nursed him
patiently. He had very fault-fndine
disposition, but she was very patien;
and also very fond of him.
After an especially severe attack, q
friend called to inquire after him
The patient wore a mournful expires.
sion.
Well" said the friend, cheerfully
how are you today?"
Very badly" replied the rheumat.
ic sufferer, land it's all my wife's
fault"
Why" cried the friend in astonish.
ment. rs it possible?"
YES" moaned the invalid, you
know, the doctor told me always to
avoid damp places; and there my wife
sits and cries just to make the air
moist around me-"
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-30

He that hath so many causes of joy,
and so great, is very much in love with
sorrow and peevishness, who loses all
these pleasures, ana chooses TO sit
down upon his little handful of thorns.
Enjoy the blessings of this day. If
God sends them; and the evils of it
bear patiently and sweetly; for this
day only is ours. We are dead to yes
terday and we are not yet born to
the tomorrow. But il we look abroad
and bring into one days thoughts the
evil of many, certain and uncertain,
what will be and what will never be,
our load will be as intolerable as it
is asonable.-Jeremy Taylor,
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-30
Pentwater, Mich.
very weak and the

began taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound and now am strong
and healthy. Mrs. ALICE DARLING,
RID. No. 2, Box n, Pentwater, Mich.
Observation-Disclosures says;
Peoria, nl.-"I had such backaches
that l could hardly stand on my feet. I
would feel like crying out lots of times,
and had such heavy feeling in my right
side. / had such terrible dull headaches
every day and they would make me feel
30 drowsy and sleepy all the time, yet I
could not sleep at night.
"After had taken Lydia e. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound week began to
improve. My backache was less and
that heavy feeling in my side went
away. ! continued TO take the Com
pound and am cured.
"You may publish this if you wish"
Miss CLARA L. GAUWITZ, R.R. No. 4,
Box 60, Peoria, Ill.
Such letters prove the value of Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for
Uoman's ills. Why don't you try it?
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-30

Not long ago Washington scient-
list, an enthusiastic student of natural
histo1 captured fine specimen of
beetld On reaching home he, in a
nome It of haste, pinned the beetle
to a library table with his diamond
scarfpin-
When he returned to the library
from his dinner, he found the captive
had got loose and was flying about
with the diamond pin glistening from
his back.
Man and bug made rush for the
window at the same instant. says
Harper's Weekly The beetle got
there first and triumphantly sailed
away, barely eluding the scientists
hand. Neither bug nor pin has since
been seem.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-30
Truck Farming Profits.

Some remarkably large profits from
truck farming on a small scale in the
upper part of Michigan are shown by
figures compiled by refining pre-
serving company which buys and cans
much of the truck farm products.
One man raised six acres of toma-
toes and received for his crop $1,000,
which is an average of $1S1.75 an
acre. Another $343.S3~ for cucumbers
-3-acre crop. For half an acre Of
wax beans, $119.5O; for crop of
string beans grown on one acre. s214.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-30
City Grass is Different.

A remarkably interesting fact was
brought to light by Lord Redesdale be-
for the advisory committee of the
King Edward memorial fund for Lon
don, which was discussing the laying
out of Shadwell market site as a
pleasure garden. It was curious, he
said, that grass brought from the
country withered away in London, on
the other hand, grass from London
grown seeds flourished, That is a
striking example of what scientists
call adaptation to environment,-Lon
don Globe.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-30
500 In One Summer.

1t was made by girl in the coun-
try, and this is how she did 1t. She
put up a white sign on her gate-post,
which said in blue letters:
Fresh milk ........5 cents per glass
guttermilk ........5 cents per glass
Homemade bread
and butter ........5 cents slice
Passing travellers could not resist
these simple delicacies.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-30

(By l.. M BENNINGTON.)
We would suggest that you keep the
formal flower beds out of the lawn. No
flower can add to the beauty of we'll
kept greensward.
Mass the flowers and plants around
the house and along the edges OF. the
lawns and walks. They make most
delightful setting for the rich green
lawn.
Simplicity in the laying out of home
grounds should always be kept in
mind, and any tendency to fancy
shaped flower beds and grotesque
wood or metal flower stands should be
firmly suppressed.
The woman who loves her flowers
always has somewhere handy a
heap of compost from which she can
draw as needed-and she always
needs it,
Kerosene emulsion will kill plant
lice more effectively than hellebore.
Kerosene emulsion is easy to make
Cut up half pound of soap and boil
in a gallon of water Add two gallons
of kerosene while the water is hot
(but remove the kettle from the fire
before doing so or you may not live
to use the mixture), Churn briskly
for FIVE minutes. For spraying. dilute
this with seven or eight parts of wa
ter.
When you see the little ghostlike
winged creatures rising like tiny
clouds from your rose bushes be sure
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-30

The new agricultural school of the
Columbia university will be located
on the Hudson river-Fishkill-on.
the-Hudson. 1t is announced that
William Blodgett has turned over to
the university in memory of his
mother, farm of about $50 acres for
this purpose. 1t is planned to put IN
an engineering and mining station in
connection with the agricultural
equipment.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-30

Madge-Did you have a good seat
at the opera?
Marjorie-Lovely! We were near
enough to one of the boxes to hear
every word the society people said
Judge.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-30
Damage by Ground sn,lrrsi

Report says that the ground squire,
in California is destroying every year
over $10,000,000 worth of fruits, nuts
and cereals and worse still is a menace
to public health. The ground squirrel
has become infected with the bubonie
plague through the rats of San Fran
sico.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-30

Where's your aeroplane?"
my aeroplane?"
Certainly. Didn't you say you had
dropped in for flying visit?"
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-30

Coin to move again this year?"
asked the office pest.
Nope. Can't afford to-"
What cha goin' to do, them"
WELL" said o'Beetle, we've made
arrangements to have new street num-
bers put on the houses ON our block"
Judge.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-30

The newest Atlantic liner has IL
decks. This is almost as bad as a sky
scraper reversed.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-30
WOMAN COULD
NOT WALK
She Was So Ill-Restored to
Health by Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable
Compound.

o c L AOub di5pidSo
ment. / had back
ache aud bearing
down pains so bad
that / could not sit
in a chair or walk
across the floor and
/ was in severe pain
all the time. / felt
discouraged as l had
taken everything [
could think of and
was no better. 1
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-30

his buslne65.
From the way that fellow has been
talking to you. judge he is a hot air
artist"
so he is-advertising agent for
new furnace"
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-30

At the School.
Il never saw such heads as you
girls have! Who's got your rats?"
"Old Miss Prim-the cat"
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-30

Hicks CAPUDINE is the best remedy
no matter what causes them-whether
from the heat. sitting In draughts, fever
ish condition, etc. 10c., Csc and Soc per
bottle at medicine stores. Adv.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-30

Literal.
Walls have ears"
y should say so with all those die
tagraphs hanging on them"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-01-25
DRUGGED AND ROBBED.
Man, Hurrying to III Wife, Wakes up
in The Woods.

Lynchburg, Va, Jan. 25.-One of
the boldest highway robberies occur
ring in this section in some time took
place Thursday night when James E.
Wood of this city, was chloroformed
and relieved of $50 while riding upon
freight train between the Kinney
yards and Appropriations.
When Wood recovered his senses
from the drug he was lying upon the
ground in the woods two miles this
side of Appomattox, towards which
he was going. 1t was about day and
he had evidently been in the power
of the anesthetic since baut ten
o'clock Thursday night, when he was
attacked by two men. lie was on his
way to see his wife, sick in Apo
1nattox, and took freight because no
passenger was scheduled near that
hour.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-01-25
VIRGINIA BEATS WEST.
Germ Club Boy From Amherst Sew
enth in List in Country.

Richmond. Va, Jan. 25.-Virglnia
distanced all northern and western
states in the showing made the past
year by corn club boys under the
farm demonstration work. Frank G..
Brockman, of Amherst, the prize
winner from this State, VINO was il
Washington this week seeing the city
as the guest Of the Department,
raised f67 bushels of corn on his acre,
while the highest yield made in any
state north of the Mason and Dixon
line was in Illinois, where the limit
was 150.45 bushels.
This is regarded as remarkable
showing considering the fact that
the middle west is the home Of corn
growing. The Illinois yield, compiled
this week ranged from 50 10 $50 bush
els.
The prize-winner in Massachusetts
raised 5nly 60.9O bushels. Or the other
hand the Iowa boy raised HAS bush
els at an average cost Of only 9 3-8c.
Young Brocknan stands seventh in
the United States for total produc-
ton Of corn on an acre. First place Is
taken by Ernest NJ. Joyce, Of Vent
ers. S. c., with 207 bushels, and sec
onA place by Carlous Reddock. Of
Summerland, Miss, with 20G06 bush
els
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-01-25
ALLEGED KIDNAPPING.
Mill Operative to Bring Matters to
Attention of Court.

Danville, Va, Jan. 25.-Following
the alleged kidnapping of his 14-year-
old son by police officers. E. D. Ham
let, Sehoolfeld mill operative, has
employed counsel to make formal COM
plant in the county court and to set
on foot an investigation which may re-
suit in charge of misfeasance being
preferred against J. c. Thornton, Off
Ger at Schoolfield.
Gus Hamlete, his fourteen year old
son, is wanted at GateWood, North
Carolina, on charge of rocking a
schoolhouse nearby. Before the war
rant was executed the family remov-
ed to Scheduled. and last week the
boy was arrested at his fathers home
by Officer Thornton in the presence
of the two North Carolina officers. 1t
is claimed that Thornton insisted that
the bow being turned over to the Car
DINA officers and this was done, the
boy being taken to Gatewood that ev-
ening, tried and held for the grand
Jury. Thornton maintains that the boy
consented to go with the officers. but
Hamlet is emphatic in stating that the
officer insisted on the boy being car
ried over the border and that he was
not given chance to secure extra
dition.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-01-25
RACE TRACK PROCEEDINGS.
Holds That Circuit Court is Without
Jurisdiction.

Norfolk, Va, jan 25.-Judge J. F.
West sitting in the Jamestown race
track prosecutions by special desig-
nation of Governor Mann has decided
THAT under the statute law of Virgin
lila, as written, the circuit Curry courts
|of the states are without original con-
current jurisdiction for the trial Of
indictments charging race-track book
making, and that the pending prosecu-
tions; must be heard in magistrates
. court, where original jurisdiction lies
exclusively.
The trials were set for hearing at
ocean View yesterday.
Judge West, in giving decision, said
hat The best interest of the state of
Virginia demands that the laws be
therwise, but as he found them writ
en- he was forced to decide that the
lrcuit courts were without concurrent
risdiction and that original juris-
rtion lies solely in the magesterial
urt. The cases can therefore not
hch the uper court for trial except
the event of conviction in the lower
urt and then on appeal by the de-
knSe
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-01-25
EXCITEMENT IN NEWPORT
NEWS.
Negn ace used of Brutal Assault
c nfesses Crime.

NayportI News, Va, Jan. 20
While waxing for train to this city
at the MAI street station Richmond'
Thursday, James Goode, alias Joe
Jones the|negro wanted for. the bru-
tai assault last Monday on julius
Smith Merchant is said to have
confessedhis crime to Detective Ser
seant S. d Pearson, Of the local force.
cooda inn licated another negro, Rob
OPT Rated who has been suspected
from thI first and who was jailed
Thursda4. Feeling against the ne
eroes r,hs. high among the. ,colored
neonlo # this city. and the sergeant
bro,,pbtl his man back three hours
ahead il scheduled time to avoid
troubled Goode told the sergeant, it is
said. thlt ne and Bates had planned to
kill Ch{rles Fisch, a well known man
about town. about 2 O'Clock Monday
morniyE but that Fisch dluded them IN
some tHay. He is; known to carry
large Gums of money on his person
Failing to get this man the negroes
waitd for Smith to open his store.
The Two entered, and. according to
GooR, while the latter watched the
front door, Bates took the merchant
to the rear of the store to get some
woqd, and then struck him down with
two foot spike which Bates was
carrying concealed in his trousers.
Two blows were struck. Smith is still
living, but has not regained consci-
BUSINESS and according to the ply
sicians cannot live.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-01-25
NEWS OF THE OLD DOMINION.
BOY SHOOTS SISTER.
Ycungster Wounds Girl While Play
ing With Revolver.

Richmond, Va, Jan. ,25.-Ethel
Parkinson, thirteen years old, daugh-
ter Of Mr.. and Mrs. ". Z. Perkin-
son. of 2417 Venable street. was shot
and dangerously wounded Thursday
afternoon by her 5-year-old brother;
Waverly, who was playing with a
3s-calibre revolver. The bullet en-
tered the girls right cheek below the
eye and passed out bac!; Of the right
ear. She may recover;
The shooting took place while Mr.
and Mrs. Parkinson and other MEM
be.s of the family were away from
home. While his sister was reading
the boy took the revolver from the
bureau drawer.
The child snapped the trigger sew
aral times and there was only harm
less clicks as there was but one cart
ridge in the weapon. When he AIM
cd it as his sister and pulled the trlg
rer the hammer fell upon the she'll
and the bullet was discharged. The
ri,! fell from chair in which she was
sitting but did not lose consciousness
The girl was soon taken to the city
hospital.
When he saw that. he had wounded
his little sister the little fellow burst
into tears.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-01-25
VIRGINIA.

n the Clerks Office Of the Corpora
tion Court of the City of Alexandra.
on the 10Th day Of December, 1917.
= William Albert Berkeley,
VS.. In Chancery'
Edna Ellen Berkeley.
Memo. III,
The object of this suit is to obtain
a decree amensa ct thoro from the de-
PENDANT Edna Ellen Berkeley, on Tie
Ground of wilful ,desertion and aband-
onment without lawful cause or en-
cuse:and that the complainant, Will
liam Albert Berkeley, be decreed such
flrther and other relief as to equity
is right.
r. appearing by an affidavit filed in
this cause that the defendant, Edna
Ellen Berkeley, is nonresident OF
This State: 1t is Ordered, That the said
defendant appear here within tltteen
laws after due publication OF this or
icr. and &c What is necessary to pre-
tecr her interest in this suit, ARD that
topy of this order be forthwith IN
.e1ted in tie Alexandria Gazette. a
): wspaper Published in the City IT
Alexandria, once week for four sue
ce,;sive weeks, and posted at tn. trent
IL or of the Court House of this city.
A Copy-Teste.
Chas. E. Corgan. P. @.
NEWELL S. GREENAWAI,
Clerk.