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THE DALTON CITIZEN, TH URSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1912.
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STROLLING IN THE GARDEN.
C. R. Vance.
This world is one big and beautiful
an d wonderful garden. Are you a
gardener?
I had no letter in The Citizen last
week or the week before, and the
reason was I was busy in the garden.
L 3S t week I ran over to Siloam
Springs, Ark., and spent two days
and fi ve dollars. A beautiful place is
this Siloam Springs—health giving
springs scattered here and there and
all inclised in rutsic stone masonry.
Beautiful parks with rustic seats,
lots of shady oaks and chinquapin
t-ees, lovely flowers, etc. Well, I
sat around in all this loveliness and
drank the crystal aqua, smoked my
cob pipe, read the magazines and
just rested. I fell asleep on a bench
on one afternoon, and such a nice,
quiet, restful, slumber. Two hours
did I thus rest from every worldly
care, and if a goldarn acorn hadn’t
cracked me on the dynamo, I guess I
would be sleeping “till yet.” So
much for the resort on the Kansas
City Southern railway, near the Mis
souri line in “Arkansaw.”
A short jump put me in the little
town of Westville, Oklahoma—an
other little patch in the great garden.
Here things were different; I noticed
a little knot of natives gathered on
the corner, and, upon investigating,
found a typical western crowd tak
ing up a collection for a roughneck
who said he would saddle and ride a
wild, bucking broncno for the nom
inal sum of three bones. Money was
fortcoming soonly, and the cow-
puncher made his word good after the
crazy, flea-bitten animal had bucked
o v er half an acre of ground. Well,
this was a change of scenery, to say
the least. I spent a night in West
ville at the Bates Hotel, a hostelry
known far and wide on account of the
clever and peculiar proprietor, “Old
Man Bates.” He is nearing eighty
and plays pitch till midnight with the
boys, and ’tis said that for twenty-
two years honey and waffles have
been served for breakfast without a
miss. So much for Westville, Okla
homa.
Next morning I boarded a motor
car on the Frisco for Tahlequah, Ok
lahoma-still another picture was
presented. Sitting opposite me in the
car was a genuine redneck, country
boy and his new wife. “Oh, you great
big beautiful doll!” They were hold
ing hands. She was attired in a sky
ble sateen dress with blue cotton
stockings intended to match, a pair
of faded, black cotton gloves. Both
were chewing gum, and never a time
did they unclasp hands. This af
forded me much food for thought.
Here they were as green and illiterate
as hell; but what of it? They were
as happy as a dead pig in the sun
shine, and the world was bright.
Even though she cast the dying calf
look toward this prince of the pines,
it was her gracious privilege, and the
garden was as free for her and her
lover to roam as ’twas for me.
Tahlequah at one time was capital
of the Cherokee nation, and here is
one of the finest and best schools in
the land of the Indian. Tahlequah is
a good business town, and, as there
are a great many full-blooded Indians
in and nearby, some of the larger
stores employ interpreters.
It’s only one dollar and seventy
cents from Tahlequah to Muskogee, so
I blew this ‘One 0 Seveny’ and spent
half a day in this wondrous city of
the new State. Muskogee is a big,
fast-growing business town. Ten
and twelve-story skyscrapers are
there and in the building. Nothing
old about Muskogee but the name.
Via the Midland Valley Railway I
arrived in Fort Smith Saturday nigh*
at nine fifty, and spent a pleasant
Sunday morning at my home. Then
in the afternoon I blew out for Little
Rock, and, switching trains there, I
traveled back mountainward to Bates-
ville, Ark, where I have been lost in
the mountains for a week, away back
forty and fifty miles from the rail
road, where folks are living as they
did thirty years ago. Spinning wheels
are still in use, and old ash hoppers
in the back yard, long strings of red
pepper hanging from the joists, an
long-eared hounds sulking around. Ail
the houses are single and double log
cabins, with stick-and-dirt chimneys.
Lost in the mountains, camping
with the plainest, best people God
ever created, I am trying to arrange
to put in one solid month back here
where there will be no daily papers,
, no noise save the houn’ dog and the
/ wolf. I have a Swiss army rifle and
plenty of cartridges, and my whole
soul seems to respond easily to the
call of the wild. The leaves in the
forests now are beautiful. I walke
six hours this morning, gathering
hickory nuts and chinquapins. My
only regret is that I wasn’t bom
twins, so the other one could help me
explore Adam’s garden.
J have a little “male” friend with
me, however, who loves nature equal y
well, and we are even now starting
for a stroll in the mountains.
See you later.
New York grown apples are bring
ing from $2.00 to $3.00 per barrel.
Humboldt, Tenn., growers shipped
135 cars of strawberries, 17 cars cab
bage, 197 cars of tomatoes; total 349
cars against 345 for the year 1911.
Was Cod for Woodward?
Macon Telegraph.
An Atlanta “special” to one of our
state exchanges makes this curious
statement:
Marion Jackson, leader of the
Men and Religion Forward Move
ment, cheerfully and frankly ad
mits that he had the wrong dope
from the celestial regions on the
mayor’s race in Atlanta.
His slogan is still “God is in
our midst,” and he announces that
he and his associates have come
to the eminently Christian con
clusion that God was for Jim
Woodward all the time in the
present race.
Before the second primary, Mr.
Jackson published many bulletins
in which he declared quite posi
tively that God was for Mr.
Chambers, and that the Almighty
would never let Mr. Woodward
win.
But the conclusion of the race
has not jarred the honest faith
of Mr. Jackson either in God’s
divine providence or in His
watchfulness over the future of
Atlanta. He and his friends
were simply mistaken, they ad
mit, in assuming to know on
which side the Almighty stood.
And, after all, being gentlemen
of wide learning as well as deep
religious sentiment, they are not
altogether surprised at the out
come, for the Woodward race was
by no means the only struggle in
which God and the preachers have
been on opposite sides.
Granting that Mr. Jackson has
ben correctly quoted, and also that his
conclusion is correct as to which side
he Lord was on in this late mayor-
lty race, it teaches him and his late
•o-workers in that political contest
;n important lesson which we hope
he and they will take to heart. The
next time they spent thousands of
dollars to inform the public which
side God is on, the next time they use
he pulpit on Sundays and week days
to pronounce themselves as the vice
regents of God and employ that sa
cred name as a pawn in a political
game, the people will stop and ask
them how correct they were afore
time when they declared that God
would not allow Woodward to fbe
elected. They will say, “You were
alse prophets then, how do we know
that you are true and anointed pro
phets now?” That “according to
your own confession God brought you
. name and confusion then, how do
.re know that He will trust you to
speak for Him and in His Name
now?”
The Telegraph believes in an over
ling Providence in the ’affairs of
men; that is, a Providence who has
pat in operation certain laws of con
trol which must be general; that, in
that system, man figures not as an
automaton, but as a free agent, al
lowing his reason to be employed by
him for his good or his undoing. A
man may act according to his rea-
si n, and he may act contrary to his
reason. It is well known that men
•o both. A man’s reason may be
sound and it may be unsound. The
conscience of one man may be con
trary to the conscience of another
man—but both conscientious.
These facts are of common knowl
edge. How, then, can one man or
set of men afford to set his or their
reasoning, his or their conclusions,
ais or their consciences up as the will
and decree of God, ard demand of
other men to surrender their reason
ings, their conclusions, their con-
' cnees as of non-effect and of the
devil ?
When the “tree of knowledge” was
et before the first pair they were
ma le free to choose, and they made
the wrong choice. It is a common
dogma that the will of the people is
.he will of God—Vox Populi, Vox
Pei—but there was never a greater
>ro.anation of His Holy Name.
God gave to men certain standards
f morality and civic virtue to be
c.'.pted or rejected. Too often those
'ion,lards are rejected. They may
li.r/e been rejected by the people of
Atlanta in the election of Wood
ward. We shall not pass upon that
'hase of the case. Our purpose is
to show that it is great heresy to
make the Divine responsible for the
act of a majority of the people, ex
cept in a remote sense—in the sense
‘hat He made them free to act for
themselves, and in the sense that He
overrules for good all the acts of
mr.'.n so far as consistent with His
un -hangeable and immutable laws.
Bordeaux mixture is the best rem
edy .... for spraying melons and
cucumbers, but does not completely
control the common disease of either.
Half strength Bordeaux (2-2-50)
causes less injury than the full
strength (4-4-50), and is almost as
efficient in controlling the diseas*.
Probably a proportion midway be
tween these two would give best re
sults.
Spraying with a very fine spray and
avoiding the formality of puddles on
the foliage gives best results.
With cucumbers the spray should be
directed especially at the center of the
hill and not allowed to come in contact
with the blossoms any more than is
necessary. There is no danger in dis
figuring the fruit with the spray mix
ture.
Recommendations for melon grow
ers include:
GOVERNOR WOODROW WILSON.
Democratic Nominee For President of the United States.
MRS. J. BORDEN HARRIMAN.
President Woman’s National Wilson and Marshall Organize Ion.
MRS. STEPHEN B AYRES.
Corresponding Secretary of the Woman's National Democratic
League.
The Women's National Democratic league, of which Mrs Woodrow WU
eon and Mrs. Thomas R. Marshall, wives of the leading Democratic candi
dates, are honorary president and honorary vice president respectively and
Mrs. John S. Crosby Is president, has opened headquarters at 1123 Broadway,
New York city, In charge of the corresponding secretary. Mrs. Stephen B.
Ayres, wife of Congressman Ayres of New York.
The work being accomplished daily by Mrs. Ayres and her corps of ste
nographers and aids is not for the campaign moment only, but foundation
building for the future of Democracy. It is the first strictly woman's na
tional political movement to be organized in the United States and. as such,
appeals to thinking women everywhere.
“It has not declared for or against the question of equal suffrage nor
Bhould It be expected to do so any more than it would discuss the questions
of religion.” said Mrs. Ayres from her post as “live wire” of the league.
“We are simply good Democrats banded together for ‘the greatest good to
the greatest number of American housewives, who today are required to pay
more in this country for American goods than they would have to pay for
the same goods In a foreign land.”
She is especially Interested In the tariff on articles In constant feminine
■se and has developed into quite a speaker at the “housewives’ ” meeting
•f the tariff committee of the national Democratic commltte*
Will The REAL FREEMEN
Uphold Wilson’s Hands?
Woodrow Wilson has refused emphatically to accept contributions to
his Campaign Fund from the Interests, from corrupting influences, from
any questionable sources.
He has given us, the Democratic National Committee, to understand
that he will go into the White House with clean hands or not at all.
Who Is Getting The Money
of The Trusts?
So sure has been Wilson's stand, so well known his incor
ruptible purpose, that no private interests hart dared to
approach either our candidate or his committee.
We have not been offered a penny by the trusts, and
we certainly have not solicited a penny from them. The
money of the Interests is being spent against Wilson. No
matter for whom—we need not discuss that here it is now
common gossip that the money power of the nation is being
used in an attempt to defeat Woodrow Wilson.
What Is a “People’s Campaign?”
We are addressing ourselves to the real freeman of
America, the upright, Progressive Voters of the country
who are doing the work of the nation and not the work of
trusts and bosses.
We realize that the salvation of every righteous cause
rests with you.
Often this cry of a People's Party or a People's President
Is raised by the very forces we seek to defeat and whom we
must and will defeat. But look to our standard and our
Standard bearer and decide yourself as to which is the
People’s Campaign and must, therefore, be fooght with the
People's money.
Woodrow Wilson Has Clean Hands
Woodrow Wilson is the cleanest man in national politic
He came of illustrious forefathers, who laid by blood and
heredity the foundation of a future President throngh gen
eration after generation of upright record.
If Wilson is to be elected it must be by clean money and
there is only one source of such money—from the voters of
the country who realize the importance of having a govern
ment uninfluenced by the almighty dollar.
Wilson’s hr^ds are clean.
Will you uphold them?
How Much Money Will You Give?
How Much Can You Raise?
There are big campaign expenses to be met if we are to
win on Election Day in November. We must tell the voters
of the country about Wilson, what he is, what he has done
We must show them his record. We must show them his
platform. We must point out to them the features of his
platform which mean so much to this nation. This great
work will cost a lot of money. We must meet the usual
heavy toll necessary to present a platform and a candidate
t* a hundred million.
Your dollar, your 15, your $10, your $30 is needed. And
den t mistake—we want the man who can only afford the
one dollar. IV e need him. We need woman who can
only give one dollar. We believe in this kind of loyalty—.
it's the kind that wins.
Let every one contribute to the Woodrow Wilson Cam
paign by the first mail. Let's have as big a fund as the cor
porations can supply the other parties. For the people are
mightier oven ia meaty then the Combination*—when they
get together.
A Call To Those Who Will Club
Contributions
No live progressive voter can do more for Wilson's cause
than to head a list with his own contribution and then to
have his fellow-workers and friends swell the total with
their names and money.
If you work in an office or factory, mill, warehouse, on a
railroad, ranch or farm, start the ball rolling. Line up the
Wilson men. Sign up as many contributions as you can.
And mail to us.
How To Contribute To The Wilson
Campaign Fund
Sign ths Coupon in this corner and fill in the amount
you give. Then attach your money to this Coupon and
mail today to the address given on the Coupon,
Issue ell cheeks, money orders end address all contribu
tions to C. R. Crane, Vice Chairmen Finance Committee*
Democratic National Committee, 900 Michigan Avenue*
Chicago, IiL
Then write a letter to this paper giving your name as a
contributor and stating your reasons why you believe
Woodrow Wilson should be elected President of the United
States. In this way you will be listed as a Wilson contri
butor. A Souvenir Receipt, handsomely lithographed, well
worth framing, will be sent to you. Your letter will help ths
fight by encouraging your friends.
Woodrow Wilson Campaign Fund
LOYALTY COUPON
To C. R. CRANE, Vic* Chairman Finance Committee.*
The Demeeretic National Committee. 900 Michigan Aranas,
Chicago. IMinoie.
As s believer in the progressive ideals of government repre
sented In ths csndldacr of Woodrow Wilson for President of the
United Ststes. and to the end that he mar take the office free
handed. nntrammeled. and obligated to none but the people of the
country. I wish to contribute through you the sum of }
toward the expensos of Gov. Wilson's campaign.
Name
Address
R. F, D State
Endorsed by
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Of Interest to Fanners
From Southern Fruit Grower
THE DISTRIBUTION OF FRUIT
CROPS.
The greatest question yet remain
ing to be solved, and one that means
more to the fruit growers than any
thing else, is the question of proper
distribution of fruit crops. The sea
son just past has 'been a disappoint
ment to the most of the peach grow
ers, especially to those who did not
make enough to pay expenses. Peach
growers are producing first class
fruit, and it certainly looks bad to
have such excellent fruit crops bring
ing in poor returns. If peaches were
properly distributed, it makes no dif
ference how large the crop, there
still would not be enough to go round,
and the prices would be good.
As we have stated many times be
fore, we believe that the growers
and associations controlling the dis
tribution of peaches, have a fine field
in the smaller cities, where they can
make use of a car every day, or pos
sibly one every two days. There are
hundreds of such cities scattered
throughout the United States, but in
stead of working out these towns,
growers shoot their loaded cars into
the large towns, and consequently,
the smaller towns get no fruit. It
is entirely practical to ship by the
single car, or two cars to these towns,
and even though proper connections
cannot be made for handling the cars
in these small towns, it would pay
handsomely to send a competent man
there and have him right on the spot,
and let him look after sales and col
lections. It couldn’t possibly be worse
than the present method.
IS YOUR SCHOOL A SUCCESS?
Many of our schools began some
weeks ago. By this time they should
be in good working order. The ma
jority of the pupils should be advanc
ing steadily. If this is not true of
any particular school there is some
thing wrong somewhere.
If the teachers, are competent and
the pupils well equipped for their
work then what have the parents
done for the school? Have they
made a special effort to meet the
teachers who have their children in
charge, and show them some little
courtesy, which will warm the teach
er’s heart and go very far toward in
dividualizing their child in his sight?
To recognize the individuality of
each child is one of the things that
the best teacher is constantly endeav
oring to do and the parents can help
so much in this if they will but make
a little effort.
It is not best to mention the child’s
minor peculiarities of disposition. The
teacher will soon become acquainted
with all those, therefore when parent
and teacher meet they should have a
pleasant social time together. If
both are deeply interested in the
school, and in certain individual pu
pils it is quite sure that there will he
enough said on those subjects, before
they separate, to let each determine
what is the other’s point of view and
to establish a bond of sympathy be
tween them which shall contribute
much to the good of the school as well
as to the personal good of those par
ticular pupils.
One who has looked at this matter
from the standpoint of both teacher
and patron says that it is absolutely
necessary for teacher and patrons to
understand and co-operate with each
other, and the patrons are many, this
essential is brought about much more
quickly if the patrons will make the
proper effort instead of waiting, as
the custom of many is, till the over
worked teacher finds time to go to
see each one.
SELECTING APPLES FOR SHOW
PURPOSES.
Ihe demand for better fruit on the
part of the consumer is increasing
and, on account of this, competition
between the different fruit growing
sections is quite keen.
This competition is not only found
m the different fruit markets, but
is shown at our fairs and apple
shows. The people in every apple
growing section like to see tneu
fruit win the highest recommenda
tion and approval wherever it is
found on the market or on exhibi
tion.
The lack of knowledge in selecting
fruit on the part of the apple grower,
is often the reason why the best rep
resentative specimens are left, while
i some overgrown, poorly colored ones
are expected to win the premiums.
For this reason it would be well for
every orchardist to study the different
points upon which apples are scored
and judged.
The following score card for plate
exhibits is one that has been used at
the American Apple Exposition, Den
ver, Colo.:
For perfection 100 points
Size (normal) 10 points
It will be noticed that size counts
for but one-tenth of the points given
for all requirements. The apples
should be of good size but not over
grown for the varieties. It is much
better to have fine apples of medium
uniform size than it is to have them
of different sizes, even though part
of them are large.
Uniformity and trueness to
type 25 points
These two conditions are very im
portant ones and should receive spe
cial attention.
The five apples should be so uni
form in size that they resemble so
many peas in a pod; one should
compare one apple with another and
see if they are exactly alike in form
and size.
A pair of measuring compasses
will facilitate matters in securing uni
formity of size.
In selecting for trueness to type,
one* should know what the correct
type is for the variety. Look over
carefully the different trees of the
same variety and fix in mind the
prevailing type.
Color 25 points
The color should be the best ob
tainable for the variety. Do not
rub or polish the apples, as this de
stroys the natural bloom and many
judges will disqualify apples when
thus treated.
Texture and flavor 20 points
The time of picking, care and man
ner of handling have much to do
with texture. If the apples have to
be kept for any length of time
they should be picked when they
reach maturity and stored where
uniform temperature of 34 degrees
Fahrenheit can be obtained.
With the proper management of
the orchard regards pruning, thin
ning, spraying, irrigation and culti
vation, much good can be obtained
in securing better texture and flavor
of the apples.
Freedom from blemish, 20 points.
This means that the apples should
be free from all worm holes or bites,
frost and hail marks, limb bruises,
spray burns, etc. The stems and
calyxes must be intact and they
should be of the correct size and
length for the variety.
Be very careful in picking and
packing not to bruise nor unneces
sarily to rubs the specimens, as this
may have much to do with determin
ing the decisions.
R. S. HERRICK.
1. Selection of early maturing va
rieties. 2. Select a warm location.
3. Start plants early. 4. Use quick
acting fertilizers. Basic slag at rate
of 600 pounds to the acre has given
excellent results in hastening maturi
ty. To this 200 pounds each of ni
trate of soda and muriate of potash
may be added. These are best applied
as a top dressing about the time the
plants start to run. 5. Where prac
ticable avoid using the same land two
years in succession. 6. Spray three
or four times with 3-3-50 Bordeaux.
The first application should not be
made untik just before the disease is
expected to appeaT. 7. Occasional
rows should be planted further apart
than others to accommodate the spray
outfit. The spray should be directed
by hand, using a man for each lead
of hose and a third man to drive and
operate the pump.