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HAMMOND FOUND A WAY
John Hays Hammond is not only
S one of the foremost, mining engineers
in the world. He is also a "good
i m sport." story: took charge Some as is of years illustrated the ago Colorado Mr. by Hammond this mines little of
r t an the Springs English books promoter a syndicate, claim for $35,0C0. of and t found Colorado on
I ant the and Hammond phone talked The got, with latter hold him of Said about the that it claim- over he
A any could proposition do nothing must about go it through and that his
v s lawyer. He agreed to meet Ham-
Mb I V ■f mond in Colorado Springs anti talk
m ■ to him further about the case.
: : Hammond came down from the
mm mines, armed with a blank eheck,
determined to wipe the claim off the*
company’s books, even if be had to
pay the claim, as business was good.
Hi ■ Most, promoters and miners, he rea-
mm v soned, have the gambling instinct,
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and he decided to resort to a game of
chance if he failed to reach an agreement with the claimant in any other
way.
He found the man immovable on the proposition to split the difference
and settle the case. Finally he said to his man: "I^ook here, you and 1 are
business men. If we let the lawyers fight this matter out what will you get?
Practically nothing. Tell you what I'll do. Let’s toss a coin. It’s $35,000 or
nothing.”
It was agreed to and the claimant tossed the coin "Head," called llara-
mond, and heads it was. And the case was settled then and there, the loser
signing a release of all claims on Hammond's company.
Cl BUSY CHAIRMAN M’COMBS ]
William F. McCombs, chairman
of the Democratic national commit¬
tee, practices law in New York be¬
tween campaigns, but he does not
neglect the important task intrusted m
to him by the leaders of his party.
He keeps in close touch with the
sentiment of the country, and Presi¬
dent Wilson considers him one of his 'I
most valuable advisers concerning
proposed national legislation. Occa¬
sionally Mr. McCombs runs down to
Washington and confers with the \ ii
president, and recently after one of 1
these trips he said he was planning
to call a this meeting spring of the national com¬ 1 v
mittee and that its mem¬
bers and others probably would have
a big dinner to celebrate two years of
Democratic national rule.
Already Chairman McCombs and
his associates are laying their plans
for the campaign of 1016, and they 1
predict a sweeping Democratic vic¬
tory. This forecast they base largely
on the personal record of the president, and during the campaign especial
stress will be laid on that record, whether or not Mr. Wilson is a candidate
for re-election.
President Wilson’s friendship for and confidence in Mr. McCombs are
based on long acquaintance, going back to the time when the latter was a
Princeton student of the class of 1898. After his graduation he went to the
Harvard law school. Receiving his degree of LL. B. in 1901, he at once began
practice in New York city. Twelve years later lie married Miss Dorothy
Williams of Washington.
DR. BERNHARD DERNBURG
Dr. Bernhard Dernburg, former
imperial secretary of state for colon¬
ies, who is now in the United States
fe. ML on behalf of Germany, is one of the
foremost men of his country. He is
well acquainted with American his¬
torical, political, economic, financial
and social conditions, as he received
ft his early training in the New York
« office of Ladenbufg, Tlialmann & Co.,
bankers, and since that time has
* been a frequent visitor to the United
m States. When he was German im¬
X perial secretary ot" the colonies, Doc¬
1 tor Dernburg spent eight weeks in
this country investigating the cotton
question with a view of applying
American plantation methods to cot¬
mM ■ ton lords was emperor's In in called the 1913, into jubilee, German on the the Prussian Doctor colonies. occasion Dernburg house of the of
as a life member. This was an
indication of special royal confidence,
lie is honorary doctor of the political
science faculty of Munich and of the law faculty of Koenigsberg. The Ber¬
lin faculty has also appointed him an honorary doctor of law.
FROM MAIL CAR TO CONGRESS J
Throe short years ago Carl C.
Van Dyke sorted mail in a railway MM
post office car. 3 %
Today he is in Washington, cer¬
tified as the new member in the house
from the Fourth Minnesota district,
to succeed Frederick C. Stevens, Re¬
publican, who for nearly a score of
years again by the from had young been this Democrat district returned until who again beaten came and w S
almost directly from the mail car to
make his campaign. r%
Van Dyke is not yet thirty-five \ '
years cular, "fighting” brown of with age. chin a countenance Big and the of frame jaw predominating in and and which clear mus¬ a 11 mmm
eyes are
features, he looks the part of a man
who has "fought his way up,” as he 1
has done. gpJflB
Van Dyke claims to be a Scan¬ mm
dinavian, his mother having been a
native of Norway. He himself was i
born in Alexandria, Minn., of which
town he is still a resident. He served through the Spanlsh-American war
with the Fifteenth Minnesota regiment, and after its close became a railway
mail clerk. He interested himself in obtaining better working conditions for
the mail clerks and later became president ot their national organization.
He is the only Democrat in the new Minnesota delegation.
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WINTER WORK IN ORCHARDS
When Ground Is Frozen Is Favorable
Time for Hauling and Spreading
Manure—Add Bone Meal.
The winter when the ground Is
frozen hard is a favorable season for
hauling out with cart or sled the ma-
Iiur e needed. In spring the ground
j s too soft to haul over and other
work is too pressing; the result is
this important matter is put off for
another year. The manure should be
hauled and spread evenly over the
ground. lJo not place directly around
the trunks; it only affords a harbor
for mice and insects. The manure
should be rotted and from grain-fed
cattle or horses. Straw and corn¬
stalks, mixed with a little animal ma¬
nure, is poor stub and is only valuable
as a mulch. This kind of manure
should be hauled out. to the orchard
and piled. Mix a half-bushel of raw
bone meal in each two-horse wagon
load of manure ns it is piled and make
a compact heap, which will soon rot
down, and, when well rotted, should
be spread. About one to two bushels
is the proper quantity tor each large
tree. The manure should be spread
in a circle as far out as the branches
extend.
Practical growers are now using
from 400 to 800 pounds of animal bone
and potash fertilizer per acre. The
fertilizer is drilled in with rye m ths
early fall, the r f ye is turned under in
April—for green manure. This metfl-
od is found to be the cheapest and
best method of fertilizing the orchard.
SPRAY FOR SAN JOSE SCALE
Best Remedy for Pest Is Thorough
Treatment With Lime-Sulphur Mix¬
ture Late in Winter.
i By C. P. GILLETTE, Colorado Experi¬
ment Station.)
San Jose scale is one of the worst
pests attacking orchard trees in this
country. It is extremely important
that orchards should be so treated as
to exterminate the scale from them
and prevent its spread to surrounding
orchards.
Undoubtedly the best remedy for
this scale is a thorough treatment
with lime-sulphur mixture late in the
winter or early in the spring, before
the buds begin to open on the trees.
If the commercial concentrated lime-
sulphur mixtures are used th^y may
be diluted in the proportion of about
one part of the concentrated prepara¬
tion to ten parts of water. If home¬
made lime-sulphur sprays are used,
probably there is no better formula
than the following:
Good lump lime, 15 pounds;
Flowers of sulphur, 15 pounds;
Water, 50 gallons.
The lime should be slaked in warm
water and, as soon as the slaking has
been well started, the sulphur should
be added and enough water kept in
the receptacle to keep the mass thin
and sloppy. Boil for at least forty-
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Preparing Mixture for San Jose Scale.
five minutes, or until the liquid is a
deep brick red in color; then dilute
to fifty gallons and apply at once.
Protect Grapes From Mildew.
To protect grapes from mildew
which may or may not attack them
they should bo dusted or sprayed
with sulphur. For a few vines or the
family vineyard a good way is to put
tlie sulphur in a piece of burlap or a
grain bag and shake tile sulphur over
the vines. A sprayer which will
force the sulphur among the leaves
more completely is of course more
effective.
Fruit for Home Use.
In pruning fruit trees for home use
let there be no varieties of inferior
quality selected.. There is nothing too
good for the home use It is a pleas¬
ure to hunt' out these good things
and to take an interest in getting
them started in the home garden and
orchard.
Combat Fungous Disease.
Grape rot is a fungous disease. The
only way to combat it is by spraying
with bordeaux mixture when the buds
swell in the spring, and repeating sev
oral times during the seas
TRACTS CLEARED OF MALARIA
Gratifying Progress Has Been Made
by Those Interested in Conquer¬
ing the Disease.
Malaria, to which children are sus-
septible, has been made largely a pre¬
ventable disease by a study of the
nios ' |,li,a carrier, its breeding places
1 and natural history, and by inocula¬
tion experiments on animals and man.
It was proved by Italian observers
that the mosquito disseminates bird
malaria in the same manner as in the
human subject.
The iinal upshot, of these investiga¬
tions has )>een that large tracts of
hitherto waste and dangerous land
have been rendered safe and produc¬
tive. A widespread cause of debilitat¬
ing sickness, and even of death, has
thus been removed.
In such areas the saddest sight has
been the stunted, anemic children,
with enlarged livers and spleens, the
evidences of chronic malarial poison¬
ing, that can now be obviated by put¬
ting modera knowledge into effect.
SAGE TEA DARKENS GRAY
HAIR TO ANY SHADE. TRY IT!
Keep Your Locks Youthful, Dark,
Glos6y and Thick With Garden
Sage and Sulphur.
When you darken your hair with
Sage Tea and Sulphur, no one can
tell, because it’s done so naturally, so
evenly. Preparing this mixture,
though, at home is mussy and trouble¬
some. For 50 cents you can buy at
any drug store the ready-to-use tonic
called “Wyeth's Sago and Sulphur
Hair Remedy.” You just dampen a
sponge or soft brush with it and
draw’ this through your hair, taking
one small strand at a time. By morn¬
ing all gray hair disappears, and, after
another application or two, your hair
becomes beautifully darkened, glossy
and luxuriant. You will also dis¬
cover dandruff is gone and hair has
stopped falling.
Gray, faded hair, though no dis¬
grace, is a sign of old age, and as we
all desire a youthful and attractive ap¬
pearance, get busy at once with Wy¬
eth's Sage and Sulphur and 'took years
younger. Adv.
PUT WARFARE ON NEW BASIS
Use of Field Artillery at Crecy Marked
the End of the Mail-Clad
Fighting Man.
Of all the world’s great battles
Crecy possesses a unique interest. The
English used only three pieces of field
ordnance. They W’ere small cannon
made of trees, bored, and bound with
iron hoops, and the missiles were of
stone, scarcely larger than basebalis.
Doubtless this rude artillery made far
more noise that it effected damage.
It was the longbow and the broad¬
sword that won the battle, but never¬
theless guupow’der was henceforth to
play an ever-increasing part in the
strife of nations.
Explosives wrought a vast change
in fighting methods on land, for many
of the old-time weapons were rendered
quite useless in face of death-dealing
ball and shot. Warfare afloat, too,
would be revolutionized. Hitherto the
fighting ships had been largely car¬
riers of soldiery 'in order to board and
fight, as on land; whereas the time
was at hand when ships could be rid¬
dled with cannon balls without the
crews coming into actual contact.
All His.
“How much does Rogers get a
week?”
“All he earns; he's a bachelor.”—
Boston Evening Transcript.
Up and Down.
"Do you believe that truth crushed
to earth will rise again?”
"I do—to be floored the next min-
ute.”
ii Quality Food for Quality Folks •S
* I HE quality folks can’t get a daintier
i 1 or more delicious breakfast dish
than Post Toasties, and yet, they’re
so economical that everyone can enjoy
them.
Post Toasties
4. 5
—the Superior Com Flakes, are made
of the best of selected Indian Com;
cooked, daintily seasoned, rolled into
thin bits and toasted to a delicate golden-
brown.
These crisp, delightful flakes come
in FRESH-SEALED packages, all ready
i to serve—just add milk or cream and
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sugar, or any kind of fruit.
Post Toasties are Mighty Good!
Sold by Grocers everywhere.
French Market Coffee is
Southern Through
nd Through
Shipped from the coffee countries New Orleans, through warm cold climates summer
seas to the Southern port of no
affect, injuriously, the delicate coffee beans. Roasted and blended by South¬
erners, especially for use in the Southern climate.
Sold to Southern merchants for Southern trade, blended, roasted, packed
and shipped in the South, Southern Through and Through. No wonder it
outsells all other brands ift the South.
French Market Coffee
The Wonderful Old Secret Blend
Endorsed by the best judges in New Orleans fifty years ago
and by coffee drinkers daily throughout the South. It is now
known as the National Drink of the South. There is a real treat in store
for those who have not yet tried French Market Coffee. Buy a can today.
Send lO cents for 12 cup sample and booklet
of the Story of French Market
1 Pound Cans ■•••$. NO ift
4 Pound Pails ... - 1. o
French Market Mills, New Orleans, La.
New Orleans Coffee Co., Ltd., Props.
BROUGHT ALL INTO COURT
Indictments Too Hostily Issued Caused
Some Commotion When In¬
terested Ones Appeared.
The Green Bag reports the recent ef¬
fort of Judge Wallace of the Kan¬
sas City criminal court to enforce rig¬
idly the Sunday blue laws. He had or¬
dered the indictment and arrest of all
keeper of shops, stores and parks, as
well as all actors and other perform-
ers. One of the places of amusement
was a hippodrome ot' wild animals,
and in its zeal the grand jury had in¬
dicted a number of actors at this place
on information furnished by witnesses
employed there. Warrants were issued
and the marshal was directed to bring
the indicted ones before the bar.
"Call Mary Garden," said the judge,
“Alary Garden!” yelled the deputy
marshal.
There was an appreciable delay, and
then suddenly the door opened and
into the crowded court room came two
men dragging, at the end of powerful
chain, an angry lioness, who ex¬
pressed her disapproval of the situa¬
tion by emitting a deafening roar.
When the stampede was stopped and
order restored the overenthusiastic
judge found that he had caused the
indictment of some hundred or more
animals, including lions, tigers, leop¬
ards, hyenas, dogs, cats and pigs, all
of which were at the court house
entrance creating such a disturbance
that the whole neighborhood had gone
into a state of siege.—Now York Sun.
Gave Himself Away.
The general was distributing medals
for special valor. Summoning Private
Bumptious to step forward, much to
the general surprise of the ranks, he
thundered out:
“Men, look upon this hero, and imi¬
tate his bravery! All through the
long night he stood firm at his sen¬
tinel’s post, although completely sur¬
rounded by the enemy, and there he
remained calmly.”
Private Bumptious turned deadly
pale. But before he fell in a faint to
the ground, he gasped out:
“Then they were enemies! I thought
they were our own troops.”
It isn’t heroism so much as the ac¬
cidental limelight upon it that makes
heroes.
WE WANT
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and will PAYCASH at MARKET PRICE
on day of arrival here. Good stock.
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JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA
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orders addressed to Dept A.
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list on finishing.
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KILLED WHILE ROBBING TOMB
Plunderer of Egyptian Sarcophagus
Crushed When Rcof Fell In, and
Companions Fled.
Professor Petrie, the eminent Egyp¬
tologist, while exploring about thirty-
five miles from Cairo, discovered a
tomb of the Twelfth Dynasty that
thieves bad broken into thousands ef
years ago. A tragedy attended the
robbery, as Professor Petrie also dis¬
covered. The Sunday School Times
calls it "a tragedy of providential
justice.”
"It appears,” says Professor Petrie,
“that the plunderers removed only a
i fetv bricks, so that a man could crawl
into the tomb. One of the men entered,
opened the coffin, lifted the mummy
out and laid it across the coffin, so
that he could easily unwind the band¬
ages. He first found a collar of beads,
which he passed out into the shaft,
where we found it. Then he came to
the jewels (a beautiful work of gold
and colored gems), and took it from
the body. Before he could do anything
more the root apparently fell in, and
crushed him and the mummy. The
other robbers, seeing the fate of their
accomplice, abandoned the tomb, and
filled in the shaft to hide their guilt.”
The explorers found the skeleton of
the robber beside that of the mummy.
—Youth's Companion.
Get in the push and you won’t need
a pull.