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Washington telegraph., 1927-06-17
WRITES OF EARLY
DAYS OF COUNTY
Former South Arkansas Man Says
Telegraph Was 81 Year
TELLS. OF OLD, MURDER CASE
Several Prominent Families Are
Mentioned in Letter From
DR.. A. X. Bishop.

Editor The Telegraph;
Seeing in Sundays Arkansas Ga
zette where you had bought The
Telegraph brings back in my mind
many fthe past events OF many
years ago.
Nv father, Col. Harmon Bishop,
was subscriber to the Telegraph
before the Civil war and after it
closed when the subscription price
was 81 per year.
During the Civil war when blank
paper got scarce it was printed in
various colorS- just any color they
could get.
We lived then on the Bishop
farm on the road leading from
Nashville toa Mineral Springs. The
Etters were in control of the paper
the greater part of the time; how
ever. | remember that the late Ex-
Governor Dan w. Jones was editor
and my, what trenchant pen be
did WELD against the "carpetbag-
gers" At about that time Washing
ton had greater assembly of legal
talent than any other city in the
state.
Some of the earlier events Of the
county: Sly Carruth, an exemplary
young man, was deputy tax collec-
tor and on his rounds he was shot
and robbed of the county's funds.
A man was arrested and brought be-
fore Mr.. Carruth (as he lived sew
eral days after the shooting) and he
said There is the man who shot
me-" The prisoner pushed his own
hat back on his head and replied:
MY friend, be sure, as my life is in
your hands" Then Mr.. Csrruth
said Maybe | am mistaken"
Judge A. II. Darlington Jr.. who
was reared at Washington, is now
living at Wichita Falls. Teras. He
has been district Judge here and was
last week appointed as one of the
nine commissioners who will super
wise the running of the state peni-
tentiary system.
The wheat crop is very light here;
fall oats are good; the spring oats
are not worth harvesting. Not
much corn planted but what there
is looks fine. The cotton crop is
looking well.
With best wishes for your sue
cess with The Telegraph-if the
people knew you as | know you
they would give you a rousing pat
ronase and loyal moral support.
DR.. A. b. BISHOP,
Iowa Park, Texas.
Washington telegraph., 1927-06-17
TENANCY INCREASES
SLOWLY ON FARMS
Majority of Tenant Farmers Are
Young Men
LANDLORDS ACTIVE FARMERS
Department of Agriculture Gives
Interesting Facts Regarding
Tenant Farmers.
ACTIVE FARMERS

Tenant farmers in 1928 comprised
1886 per cent of all the farm opera
tors in the United States. Yet there
is very little absentee landlordism.
More than nine-tenths of the cOun-
try's rented farms are owned by
landlords who live nearby. Only )
per cent of the rented farms are
owned fy landlords who live out of
the state in which the farms are To-
Gated. The number of farms owned
by persons not living in the United
States is insignificant. Moreover,
most farm landlords are ex-farmers.
These facts are brought out in a
study of farm tenancy by the United
States department of agriculture.
apparently large numbers Of men
are still climbing the ladder from
wagedom to tenancy and eventually
to farm ownership. Out of $4,000
farm landlord correspondents of the
department, more than four-fifths
had obtained land by purchase. Only
q small percentage, less than one
sixth, had obtained all their land by
gift or inheritance.
The average American farm land
lord has less than two tenant farms
of about 100 acres per farm. About
four-fifths of the owners of rented
farms own only one farm. Signi-
ficant of the fact that tenants fire.
quently become owners is table
showing the ages of farm tenants.
They are mostly young men. Ap-
parently about three-fourths of our
farmers under % years of age are
tenants, whereas only one-fOurth OF
the farmers of 81 years and over are
tenants. An Investigation among
tenant farmers showed that almost
one-half of them had previously
worked for wages. Tenants com
monty become interested in buying
land after few years experience
as tenants.
Nevertheless, men slip down the
ladder in considerable numbers
About one-ninth of our farm ten
ants once farmed places of their
own.
Net changes in tenancy was rather
mall for The country as a whols
from 1920 to 1925. There were only
1924 more tenant-operated farms in
1925 than in 1920, although in the
same period the number of owner
operated farms declined 56,756.
This, of course. is one measure of
the decline in the number of farms,
resulting from abandonment or from
the consolidation of farms into
larger units.
Tenants decreased in number in
California. Georgia, South Carolina,
Alabama and in nearly all parts of
the section east of the Mississippi
and north of the Ohio and Potomac
rivers, and increased in many parts
of Texas, Oklahoma. Kansas, Louisi-
ana and Missouri. Decreases in the
percentage of tenancy from 1920 to
1925 were most CONSPICUOUS in New
England anu in the Pacific coast
states.
Washington telegraph., 1927-06-17
TOMATO CROP EXCELLENT

WARREN, Ark, June i5.-Thc to-
mato crop in this section is in ex-
cellent condition, and good yields
are expected. Some of the fields
will average around three-fourths OF
car of tomatoes per acre. Charles
+. Warren, horticultural agent OF
the Missouri Pacific railroad al
Wynne, Ark. estimates that there
will be from 80 to 60 cars of green
wraps shipped from the Warren
territory. Shipments of potatoes in
carlots began to move the first weeL
in June and a good crop seems as.
sured
Washington telegraph., 1927-06-17
SHIP CARLOAD OF VEGETABLES

GLENMORA, La. June i4.-The
first carload of mixed vegetables
consisting of cabbage, corn and
other stuff was shipped from here
on June 8. Glenmora has become
the farmers clearing point for
radishes, Strawberries, and sweet
potatoes. A growing interest is re-
ported in these crops and greatly
increased acreage in all of them is
expected for next wear.
Washington telegraph., 1927-06-17
PLANT PEACH ORCHARD

AGUSTA, Ark, June l5.-Interest
in peach growing at this point is
increasing A total of 400 acres of
peach trees were planted here in
the spring. Most of the trees are in
excellent condition and are being
well cared for as result of the
demonstrations and instructions
given by Charles +. Warren, horti-
cultural agent of the Missouri Pa
cific for Arkansas.
Washington telegraph., 1927-06-17

Eric Lestricher of Lausanne is
charged with swndling AZ women he
had wooed, several of whom he had
married.
Washington telegraph., 1927-06-17

Henry Watson Of Mansfield, Eng
land, who had been drawing a
charity dole for unemployment, left
a nestate worth 100000.
Washington telegraph., 1927-06-17
BE CAREFUL OF FIRES

chmnys
defect that be apparent the Arkansas Fire Prven
but fires
defective ue and safer would be discover
that ues defective before the fires rather than AFTER the
fues fire
the risk them least twice and thus safe
guard life and property.
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nment Assists City Residents in Practical Gardening

-Beets. brussels sprouts. cabbage,
late; caulif1ower. celery, corn, sweet;
kale, peas, spinach. turnips.
EXCESSIVE watering is as harmful
to your garden as no water at
all. Even frequent light sprinkIings
are injurious. The best method for
refreshing your crops is to open slight
burrows alongside the rows of plants
and let the water run along these
burrows. When you think the water
has soaked into the ground, the wet
earth in the burrows should be covered
with dry soil. to prevent baking. In
this method of watering the moisture
feeds upward In the soil like the oil
in lamp wick. The roots OF plants
require air as we'll as moisture, so that
frequent stirring of the surface soil
admits the air and at the same time
conserves moisture. After a rain be
sure to stir the ground of your gar
den just as soon as the ground is dry
enough to work, as this frequent stir
ring of the surface soil will stimulate
the growth of the garden and control
the weeds.
1t is astonishing to see how some
people can extract really a. great
amount of food value from a small
area. Ask yourself. "How shall I
plan my garden so as to get a work.
able scheme of things and thus be
able to get the most out of it?" AS
suredly the answer to this is to keep
every part of the garden entirely oc.
cupied by successive paintings. 1t
would be wise for the amateur gar.
dener to stick to few standard va
rieties and let the size Of his garden
determine the crops to be grown.
If you are looking for a vegetable
that will produce a large quantity OF
food quickly on a limited space, you
will find that the bean crop heads the
list. 1t only takes a half pint of seed
of snap beans to plant about 100 feet
of row with five seeds to a hill and the
hills IL inches apart. One hundred
feet of row will be enough for one
planting to supply the average family.
Where one needs to conserve space,
the pole or climbing lima beans may
be grown on fence or q trellis COW
ering the back porch. When planting
beans of any kind the seed should not
be covered over two inches. and on
heavy soils they should not be GOV.
| cred more than one and a quarter to
| one and a half inches.
Root crops. which include beets, car
| rots. parsnips. satisfy. radishes and
| turnips, also form most necessary food
crops for the small garden. These
root crops are peculiarly adaptable
| for the home garden because of the
fact that the rows may be made as
close to gether as II or IA inches and
the plants three or four inches apart
in the row, thus enabling the gardener
to grow large quantity of food on a
small area.
The most popular plant of all is
the tomato. To have tomatoes early
in the season, the seeds must of
course have been sown in a hotbed.
AS soon as all danger of frost has
passed, set your plants in the open,
and since you will probably prune
them to one or two stems and tie
them to stakes, set them Is inches
apart in rows feet apart. The
Agriculture Department advocates
tying your plants to stakes, as it
makes cultivation easier. the fruit il
Continued on Seventh Page)
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Solid oak panels-BoomM Boom! Hear
that?? va can't git that to-day fer
love nor money!! Boom! Bo-'
Looy-Ha, ha-Wot's dat shanty
dere-de porter's lodge, 1 suppose
Oops? Wot's dem?? De hounds-ha,
ha, de foiSt time l ever seen hounds
witt long tails leapin' around ballroom
witt hunks Of cheese in dere mouths
an trap on one leg!i Oh, well desc
estates y'knOw. Trow der shoes un-
der de bed an 10 minnits later va hear
splash!
Mr.. Beltch-It belongs to a French
count; he wuz offered forty-five last
Spring, but we want the right kind of
people y'know-Now lookit. see dat
tree? Amt another one like in New
Yawk! Yessir, at trees worth $1,000;
at tree is
Mr.. aum-Hm-rilly-Is dees
a fect-You dun't falling me-! So
you'll beeld oss maybe a mast we
should moof1ng in de tree, maybe Cd
der you'll wait 1t should come alung
a femily from cheepmonks so you'll
Moo geeve anodder boom boom de
walls it should fall don anodder chen
delier by me In de head, ha?? Moo so
how notch for de hoption you want
Mr.. Beltch-Here 1t is. sir-sign
here! Fifty dollars, please-thank
you---
re-Baba-They're duppig gar
badge odd the back yard-I saw theb
before, baba-There's a big wire fence
add there are men screabig at be next
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retreat, ha. hal! ATS a hot wrinkle.,
Ha, hal Well we'll. Have Jeeves
stop around de lunch wagon an pick
me up in de open coach!! o Boy, diss
is gonna be hot:
buy add estate like they have lid the
boovieS?
MR.. AUM-Estates you
nidd ha! (SMACK) like de moof1es-A
private sweeming pull you need maybe
you should putting in dere witt Nut
timer MeetZic-pollywock witt tad
poles, ha! (SMACK-odder on de scots
from harmon you should making in
site from dem fires maybe ha!
(SMACk-Goblin tepistrizz we nidd
maybe you should wiping by dem de
Dolby faZe. ha! SMACK
LOOY-Ha, ha-Well-if dat PENN
sula of nose of his keeps sproutin'
in size it'll take acoupla tapestries to
cover it, ha. hal!
Mr.. Beltch-Well, we'll. here we are
folks.
Mr.. Feitlebaum consulting piece of
paper)-Noo- So how far we here
from de sobway? Hommotch is de
muggidge-Wotll Como be de toims
for wot ammont dey assessing de
property und how nhotch'll matirillize
texes-Wot dey want cash don-How
far Is a school-Hommotehll gonna
take away de ceety from de property
-Wot kind is here RESTRICTIONS
Wot'll deyH building acruss de
stritt-~
Mr.. Bsltch-Look q here. will va!
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| yard is low and damp, then such crops
as celery, late cucumbers and onions
ought to be put there. On the other
hand, it is best to place early crops
where your yard is dry and warm.
A dark, sandy loan with retentive
subsoil is ideal for the garden, because
it warns up earlier in the Spring and
makes early crops possible. In order
to carry your crops safely through
periods of drought, it is essential that
plenty Of organic matter be in the
soil. 1t is not wise to work the land
before it is sufficiently dry in the
Spring, and the usual test of it's fit
ness is to press d small quantity of
soil in the palm of the hand. If it
is too wet for working, it will adhere
in solid mass and retain the i'm
print of the hand. but if dry enough
to work, it will crumble apart. When
the soil evidences its fitness for work
ing. then rake or hoe your land which
was plowed or spaded in the Fall to
depth of or inches. In case the
soil was not worked in the Fall be
sure to spade it just as soon as it dries
out sufficiently in the Spring, after
which the top ought to be thoroughly
fitted.
1t is excellent to mix leaves with
heavy soils, but they should be fairly
we'll rotted first. us it advisable to
use coal and wood ashes on garden
soils?" many gardeners ask. Coal
ashes will tend to tighten heavy soils,
but are Of no value as a fertilizer,
while, on the other hand, wood ashes
contain potash and lime and thus
make an exceptionally fine fertilizer.
There is always a tendency to use
too much commercial fertilizer.
From 40 to so pounds of a standard
fertilizer is enough for a plat OF
ground 80 by 60 feet. The best re.
suits, the agriculturists say, are OBJ
tanned by the use of commercial fer.
tilizers where there is plenty of or.
ganic matter in the SOIL. The soil for
vegetable growing should be rich and
well supplied with humus. THE ma
nure must be applied far enough in
advance Of planting time to allow it
to decay.
X X X
BEFORE ordering your seeds, de-
eide just exactly the amounts you
will need. For aid on this question it
would be well to follow the quantities
figured out by the Agriculture Depart
ment for a family of four, as follows:
Beans, bush lima. / pint; pole lima,
pint; snap, to 2 quarts; beets, 4
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COnnaut oF1yEk LEncre Instructions Bd nE
Department heB dI Household

radish at one time, but make success
sive paintings, about two weeks
apart.
The horticulturists say they can
give US no general rule concerning
the depth of planting, due to the fact
that different kinds of vegetables and
soils necessitates various practices.
However, the smaller the seeds the
shallower the covering should be: in
heavy soils the covering is lighter
than in light earth. Plants require
the action Of air upon their roots, and
an excess of water in the soil will
keep out the air.
Plants started in hotbeds or cold
frames ought to be transplanted when
they are from one to two inches high.
a tendency to produce uniform stocky
plants with an exceptionally sturdy
root system. Plants that are started
in a hotbed should be hardened off
before being transplanted to the gar
den; by that We mean that after dan
ger of frost is past, the covers should
be left off of the coldframes at night
to accustom the plants to outdoor
conditions. Do your transplanting on
cloudy day or just before nightfall.
To insure scientific gardening the
United States Weather Bureau deter
mines the dates for planting. Plant
ing tables are issued, together with
frost zone maps, which are based
upon records of the Weather Bureau
covering period of 20 years and are
for the purpose Of serving as guide
for determining the earliest dates
that the various garden crops may
be planted in the Spring; also. the
latest dates that it will be safe to
plant certain crops and have them
mature before the first killing frost
in the Autumn.
BY writing to the Bureau of Publ
cations of the Agriculture Depart.
planting table which gives the cor
rect depths of planting, distances
apart for rows and plants and the
time for planting seeds in every sec.
ton Of the United States. By fol
lowing such scientific gardening rules
it is difficult to see how one may fail
to have a perfect garden this Spring.
Naturally enough, the entire garden
plat should be fully occupied the
whole season and as soon as one crop
is taken out another ought to be
planted in it's place. The following
list. compiled by the Agriculture De-
partment. shows which crop may pre-
cede or follow others:
Crops occupying the ground all the
season-Beans, pole; beans, pole lima;
cucumbers. eggplant, melons, okra.
onions, from seed; parsnips. pump
kins. peppers, potatoes, irish, main
crop; tomatoes, squash, potatoes,
sweet.
Early crops which may be followed
by others-Beans, bush; beets, cab
bage, early; carrots. corn, early; let
tuce. peas, potatoes, early: radish.
spinach, turnips.
Late crops which may follow others
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habit in the colleges of calling them
women women" of the first
year. for instance For a long time
the professors, except in the depart
ment of romance languages, were too
shy to say to them, Now, girls
This same tendency to seriousness
led lot of them to take up such
studies as physics, mathematics and
even political economy. 1t took them
often two or three years to recover
from these courses. Now, all girls
know enough to take such courses as
romance languages. philosophy, social
and domestic science, and so on
One thing that for a long time went
against the college girls was the fool
ish idea that they must not fail in
their examinations. They had silly
notion that the honor of the whole
race Of women was at stake. They
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-05
Presenting Truth About College Girls
AS Graduation Day Rapidly Approaches

month of the graduation of her class
she married-one of the examiners.
There it is--marriage. I have men,
toned the fatal word that upsets ali
the theories about the status and the
career of women. For the college man
and the college girl are not at college
for the same purpose-the one faces a
career; the other an adventure. One
plans. The other dreams. The man
makes his fate. The woman gets hers
handed to her.
The question which outlook Is the
more attractive need not be discussed.
But at least there is a charm in the
vague uncertain outlook of the woman.
Perhaps she will marry an Italian
count and go to live in Italy, and
know Mussolini, or perhaps she won't.
She may marry the foreman in a
brewery and go to live in Lachine.
Perhaps she will marry a professor.
and in this case she'll be eruditious
Perhaps she will marry an artist and
never think of education again.
What her life is going to be. what
her ideas are going to be, what her
activities are going to be-she has no
idea.
There is also the gloomy perhaps
that she won't marry at all. In that
case, she will have to adopt a life
work and career. But no girl really
expects this-a girl ought to go to
college. though, as If she were not
going to get married And then keep
one eye open sideways.
In the world in which we still live.
nine women out Of 10, however, find
their destiny In marriage, or mar.
riages. Nine women out Of 10 are sup.
ported by their husbands and don't
have to work for themselves. Nine
women out OF 10 have, or ought to
have. children. These conditions may
be all wrong. Perhaps they ought to
work. Perhaps they ought not to
marry, nor have children. But so far.
this is life.
Girls who go to college ought not
to ogle and angle for marriage. And
they don't. But they ought to remain
girls, with girls outlook, in spite of
going to college. And they do: They
didn't at first, but they do now. And
that is why the college girl of today,
not afraid to be gay and even saucv.
is so far ahead Of her solemn sister of
a generation ago.
/ think that have now said enough
to get the topic thoroughly stirred up,
IL not mixed up. / am not lust sure
what 1t is that I am proving. But 1t
is proved.
What ] am really trying to saw ia
that the college girl of today is mona
the less a girl for going to college;
that she has lost lot of the foolish
Illusions that were built up like a
thick fog around the girls colleges:
and that / am all for her.
(Copyright. 1921 .x,sasfaass.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-05
BY STEPHEN LEACOCK.

THIS is the time Of year-indeed.
this is the very month-when
all over the country, from
i California to Halifax, the col
leges are drawing near to a
close and the pretty little college girls
are getting ready to graduate in
punches among the flowers Of lovely
June. The ugly. girls, imagine, will
be graduating also.
So the occasion seems ripe for me
to set down here what / really think
and what I really know about the col.
lege girl. In doing so wish it under
stood that these disclosures are abso-
lutely confidential. They must not go
beyond the readers of this journal and
any other persons to whom the read
ers of this journal may repeat them.
/ am old enough in college life to
have seen from its very beginning the
experiment of giving what is called
higher education to women. And I.
declare quite frankly that I do not
believe that it does them any harm.
Indeed, as I shall try to show, 1 don't
think it makes any difference.
1t was in my undergraduate days
that the colleges admitted the first
drafts, or droves, or bevies-I am not
sure OF the word--of college girls. 1t
was held, quite falsely, to be a solemn
moment. 1t was thought, quite
wrongly, that the world had taken
new step. Afterward it turned out
that like the women's vote and WON.
EMS rights and the representation OF
women, it didn't make any difference
The first lot of college girls took
themselves very seriously. They felt
that they had come to college with a
mission. They thought they had an
aim in life. They put on spectacles,
lowered their skirts two inches land
skirts were pretty low, anyway, in
1880 and wore boots with big leather
soles.
AS a result Of this three out OF the
first 10 married professors. 1t served
them right. But the timely warning
was not in vain. College girls gradu'
ally altered their point Of view in re-
gard to dress, sedateness. sobriety,
propriety. propinquity and things like
that. At present / am sure they COM
pare favorably with the girls outside.
Many of my young undergraduate
friends tell me that they would just
as soon take college girl out as any
other girl.
Far from uniting them for social
life, ii may even be said that their
education is an asset. They like in
tellectual things. 1t is much cheaper
to entertain them.
All these advances have come only
gradually. At first education sat
heavily on the girls. One thing that
put them to the bad was the silly