The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, March 17, 1904, Image 6

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Mg?2?'*'*? ,.- ^ Kfv ?-??? it, f n vs* . | Miss Rose tfennessy, well known as a poetess and elocutionist, of Lexington, Ky., tells how she was cured of uterine inflammation add ovaritis by the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. 44 Dear Mrs. Fi^kham :?For years I enjoyed the best of health and thought that I would a: ways do so. I attended parties and receptions thinly clad, and would be s*j<ddenly chilled, but I did not think Jri the results. I caught a bad cold eighteen months ago while menstruating, and this caused inflammation of the womb and congested ovarie?v I suffered excruciating pains and kibt getting worse. My attention was called to your Vegetable Com* $ pound and the wonderful cures it had performed, and I made up my mind to try it for two months and see what it would do for me. Within one month I felt much better, and at the close of the econd f. was entirely well. Kg: " I bave advised a number of my lady friends to use it, and all express themselves as well satisfied with the results as I was." ? Miss Rose Nori Hsnn^JST, 410 S. Broadway, LexingB&" ton, Ky. ? $5000.forfclt if original of cbaoe let tut pruning petal rr-rnt h* produced. * By gt^ning round after round .of apnlanr-o /iratnr rlimKfl ladder of feme? . Um Allen's FooNKsm. It is ti'i only car? for Swollen, Smarting. Tired, A jblng, Hot, Sweating Feet,Corns ana Bunions. Ask for Allen's Foot-Ease, apowder to be shaken into the shoes. Cures while yov walk. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Don't accept any substitute. Sample senl Fbxx. Address,Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N.Y. Many it man would be glad if his wift would talk to herself. . . An Untimely Death. An xbstimely death so often follows neg lect of slight cough or cold. If Taylor's Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum and Mullein is taken in time it will prevent anv evil rerblts. It cures coughs, colds and consumption. At druggists, 25c., 50c. and $1.00 a bottle RespOst for the man who is a better financier than yourself doesn't indicate that vou would oe willing to let him run |?'?- / your bu?iness. Earliest Green Onions. The Jjhn A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse,' Wis., always have something new, something valuable. This year they offer among their new money making vegetables ?? nr?n T7!afin<r Onion Tt is t I -winner, \Ir. Farmer and Gardener! JUST SEND Tins NOTICE AND 16c. ?nd thej will send you their big plant and seed catalog, together with enough seed to ?row 1,000 fne. solid Cabbages, 2,000 A^licious Carrots, 2,000 Blanching, nutty Celery, 2,000 rich, buttery Lettuce. 1,000 splendid Onions, 1,000 rare, luscious Radishes. 1.000 gloriously brilliant Flowers. In all over 10,000 plants?this great offer w made to get you to test their warranted vegetable seeds and * ALL FOB BUT 16C. POSTAGE, providing you will return thia notice, and i? you will send them 20c. in postage, they will add to the above a package of the famous Berliner Cauliflower. [A.C.L.] 'As a rule the man who isn't afraid to stand up for his rights imagines that he has a right to anything he wants. (Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup forchildren teething, soften the gums, reduces inflammation allays pain.cureswind colic. 25c. abottle In the production of lumber California now holds second place among the States. RESTORED TO HEALTH. Many weak, suffering women do not Pknow that their kidneys are sick. Backache tells of sick kidneys, and so caan do urinary disorders. V^| Sick kidneys make bad bl??d, and bad blood 1 makes bad digestion, beart palpitation, dizzy headaches, nervousness, sleeplessness, sci atica. rheumatic pains Mm and constant depression. MH Can't be restored to health until the kid* JHB9?9| neys are cured. Read how one woman was restored by using Doan's Kidney Pills: Mrs. H. A. Van ^ - Sickle, 311 6th Ave., S. W., Roanoke, Va., says: "Kidney trouble was hereditary in our family, and I had been so continually afflicted with the disease *.1 ^ T ! + UlHC i uepu lu ueapau vt eicu icuii/uiary relief. Sometimes I suffered so se__ verely that i was confined to my bed. aching in my back was intense, g|^^^^^kthe kidney disorder caused ah exof uric acid in my blood which im^^^^HPured my digestion. I was compelled deny myself of many of the little delicacies a? diet The doctors diagnosed my case as congestion of the kidneys. I had about given up hope when I began using Doan's Kidney Pills, but I took only a few doses when their curative powers were proven to my satisfaction. I have never been without them in the house since." Doan's Kidney Pills are sold by all dealers; price. 50 cents, or mailed on receipt of price by Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Write for free trial. EIir I GEORGE WASH j - - This natural wonder is located abc Angeles, in the Santa Susana Mounta; A chiseled monument could scarcely he ington than this chance picture, cut or boulder. Tffi MEXICAN CQI PLQHQTOjp j-?^sgsA-RMERS and fruit growers mill tiHI bave been fighting injuriQ| p | II ous insects ever since there 1111)1 ??1 H were any farmers and fruit lSj~TT7~)S)} growers. It would seem as if, after these many years of experience, .they would have learned good remedies for every insect pest They have learned many, and the scientific men who are constantly working on this very important problem have found excellent economic means to destroy the great majority of injurious insects. But every few years there appears some new insect pest, which is so strong and prolific, or which lives in such a peculiar way, that it is able to do enormous damage, to destroy millions of dollars' worth of crops, and sometimes to alarm more than a single country and affect the relations of many civilized nations. A few years ago the San Jose scale, ' a minute creature which Injures fruit trees, spread all over the United States and occasioned the passage of edicts and laws in many foreign countries by which American fruits and fruit trees were praptically barred from interna- 1 tional commerce. And now another of these great insect scourges is affecting the cotton crop of Texas, and threatens to spread all through the cotton States. It is partly due to the great damage which j this insect has done that the price of cotton last year went up to almost un! precedented figures, so that ^otton AN ADULT BEETLE, mills have been obliged to stop, thousands of operatives have beep discharged, and the wages of thousands more have been reduced. THE COST OF THE WEEVIL. Eighty per cent, of the cotton crop of the world is raised by America, an'l of the cotton raised in the Unit States Texas produces nearly cnefourth. All the richest cotton counties of Texas have been invaded by the weevil, and the loss in cotton destroyed by its depredations in the past summer has surely been as great as $15,000,000. Spurred on by the high price of cotI nn/1 Kw nrACnonti/^or>omr* nf ! IV/U UliU KJJ LUU ytVOJL/tV.111 t UU ti^v 1 V a great lessening of the American j crop, foreign nations are making every i effort to raise their own cotton. The j i English colonies are particularly ac! tive, and the German colonies, as well. Russia is also making every effort to push the growing of cotton within her I territory. Other nations are doing the I same. The trade balance of the entire ! world may soon be affected if efficient I remedies for the pest are not discovI ered and used. I The weevil itself is an insignificant | creature, a little gray 6nout bettle i about a quarter of an inch long, but it I breeds very rapidly, multiplies enorj mously in the course of a summer, and - T . INGTON ROCK. ! , .. . . . < ' ' ' ' ... . * "* * , : : ' , ji , _: ' ; . v 'v.* .J":' -? ;s ' lii^ '' ?ut thirty-five miles northwest of Los ins, just ?out6ide of Chatsworth Park. >ar a truer resemblance tjo Geo. Washworn on the ragged contour of a giant PDI1WEVIL ?/ United Slides iom olo giji p? works during the critical period of its; , life absolutely protected from any application which could be made to the cotton plant. Stowed away in old ornstalks, in ; clumps of grass, under the bark o:f trees and logs, and in all sorts of shel- ; MA.TUBE BOLL CUT OPXX, PlaCeS, ( showing full-grown the weevil ? labva. passes " the' \ Promptly a s j ? h e c0**00 1 I PIantcomesuP (WMwmm Iin sPrins Iand earI^8um" xMH I mer wee* vii& v;u ui c fortb' fiy t0 [ ?' T^rr* i "hp plants, and j as soon as the forming ^?^"LATB rxiJi ?onn, shotting e r, causing HOtt beetles hidk b?- j the square to rtntnx iktolucbb drop. The AXD B0LL* grub changes to a pupa within the , bud, and the full grown weevil emerges soon after. When such of the tlowers as escape 1 this first attack mature, and the cot- ' ton boll forms, it is also pierced by the ( weevil's beak, an egg is laid, and an- | other grub begins to feed on the inte- ( rior of the boll, destroying all the form- j ing cotton lint, reaching full growth ( and changing to pupa and emerging as a weevil. In this way the insects increase in geometrical ratio until, by j late summer, they occur in countless ( millions; often hardly a boll matures. , AN INVADER FROM MEXICO. ] A bale of cotton contains from 450 : to 500 pounds, and in former days to i raise a bale or a bale and a half of 1 cotton to the acre in the best parts of ] Texas was almost a rule. Where the < weevil '-.as made its appearance, how- i ever, it is often difficult to raise a bale ] of cotton on ten or even fifteen acres of land. The weevil came to Te~as from Mexico, where, in certain places, it had 1 absolutely stopped the culture of cot- ! ton. It crossed the Rio Grande at . Brownsville, and was carried north across a great extent of grazing country in cotton which ?as taken to be N15WLY HATCHED LiBVA Iff TOUJSG S AB?i ginned at a place called Alice. From Alice northward and eastward cotton culture is continuous, and the weevil spread at the rate of about seventyi five miles a year from 1894 until th* present time. It has now reached prac| tically to the northern border of Texas, ' -X _ vv.-= i.J. ... ' ? - - MOT" ~p . and is on the east within a few miles / 3f Louisiana. During all this time the / United States Department of Agriculture and j the State Agricultural College of Texas have been studying the insect and trying to find some means of fighting it successfully. Eight or nine years ago * it coulci have been stopped and all | this damage prevented by abandoning * the culture cf cotton in a rather un- 1 productive section. Or, if the planters ( could have oeen induced to cut down * and burn the cotton stalks in the fall, I it is probable that the insect would not 5 have spread, and would eventually * have been exterminated. ( All sorts of experiments have been 1 made with different insecticide mixtures and with many different kinds of machines. The most careful studies have been made of the life history and habits of the insect. Experts have been sent to Mexico, to other portions of Central America and to the West Indies as wen, to stuay tne insect In its natural home?for it is evidently a tropical species?in the hope of being able to find some parasite or natural enemy which might be introduced. into the United States with beneficial effect. IS THERE A REMEDY? Although no*-such parasite has be?n found., and although no poisonous application has been discovered which will destroy the weevil, and although no practical machine has been invented, we have, nevertheless, through our Intimate knowledge of the life history of the weevil, found a way to grow cot- ' ton in paying quantities in spite of the destructive creature. In the spring the weevils are few in number; the great majority of them 1 have been killed by the long winter. 1 Comparatively few come out of hiber- ' ttEABLY PULL-GROWN LARVA IN BOLL. 1 nating quarters in the spring to lay \ the eggs for the coming generation. A ] single female will have millions of de- , scendants by autumn, but these mil- \ lions are gradually developed. 1 . It was the old custom to pick cotton In Texas until past Christmas, and in late $utumh the weevils are at their height in point of numbers. If plant- ? ers use Northern cottonseed, the plants J from which develop much more rapidly than from Texas seed; if they plant their rows a little further apart than * has been the custom, if they cultivate 1 the crop and force it to early maturity, ] they will be able to raise a good quan- 1 tity of cotton before the weevils have i become so.numerous as to destroy the i great majority of the bolls? 1 In this way, on experimental plots i aggregating seven or eight hundred 1 acres, in. different parts of Texas, the ( experts of the Division of Entomology, 1 of the United States Department of 1 Agriculture, have been able to raise i and pick, before the middle of October, s from two-thirds of a bale to a bale an acre, whereas from crops not thus planted and treated, only a Dale from eight to twelve acres has been secured. Then, after this amount of cotton has been picked, the cotton stalks are cut down or plowed up, left to lie for i while until dry, and are then burned.' Very many weevils are destroyed in this way.. The few that escape have a much long.er period to wait before the crop comes up, and many die. The lumber which will be found on hand to attack the cotton on these fields next year will be v >ry small. The result is that more cotton can be raised jrear after year. Thus cotton can be raised in spite of the weevil. But the weevil will not be exterminated; it will probably con- . A An/I If lo a 1 fA/vnfli ULiut: ij^irru, auu u 10 ci* likely that it will invade the other cotton-growing States. ~r The work on remedies, however, is J 3till going on; the search for parasites In tropical countries still continues. * Congress will probably appropriate at . this session a large sum of money to 1 help in the work, so that although j the outlook Is rather ?ad, i* is by no 1 r-.eans hopeless, and the prospect that i the United States will lose her su- c premacy in cotton production on ac- J count of the weevil is, in my mind, not 1 greatly to be feared.?Youth's Com- T panion. 1 During bloodhound trials near Leam- 1 Ington, a hunted man, who was grant- 1 ed an hour's start, was tracked down i in thirty-five minutes. < Art in Modern 1 X,. .-'1 J#l NEW YOfcK'S CUSTOM HO w! >./' . v ' : "k:-:- T^v-'TT. fLAGAZIISE TACKHAMMESt i \ Machine That Operates on the Magazine Gun Principle. Patterned after the magazine gun is he newly invented tackhammer that ias recently been patented at Washngton. The head of the house who eturns from his office after a hard lays work and is assigned the delicate ask of putting down the parlor carpet will unquestionably relish the poslession of one of these latest improved lammers. Besides not having to both?r himself with a box of tacks, he will lave the added comfort of being able i THE MAGAZIHE TACKHAMMEB. :o .use both hands in stretching and hammering instead of .being obliged :o employ one in holding the tacks'-in; place as he makes futile attempts to strike them on the head. Any one tvho has gone through the experience or Hanging smaii pictures n high out-of-the-way places will also ippreciate the new hammering tool. The mechanism is not complicated.ks thte illustration shows, it consists-' >f a hammer, whose jointed handle; s so arranged that a long row of tacks is fitted into a channel, which, discharges them one at a time in position inder the head of the hammer. The rammer is magnetized so that the .acks are automatically held in place until a sharp crack sends its point into :he carpeted floor or other material. 1NPK0VING BOAS GROUNilS The Ground Plan of an Attractive Design. . While the illustrated design may seem too elaborate for application to farm home grounds, and they will apply quite as weH to town or small cityilots, it is not expensive, for the main tem is that of labor. . One's house may lot be so pretentious as that shown in :he plan, but that will not interfere vith the application of the design. It vill be noticed that two things in the lesign are prominent?the preserva:ion of w large, eapanse of lawn and the grouping of. the shrubbery Id nasses instead of dotting individual shrubs here and there over the lawn. ' ' . '-rt AN ATTRACTIVE DESIGN. Then the drives are in simple curves >y which the symmetry of the plan is reserved. The back yard of the farm proper, f it extends back from the rear of the louse, is shut off from the road view )y a line of shrubbery at one side on i line with the rear of the house and >n the other side from a little back of he middle of the house. At the joinng of the drives (which are also the valks) is made a bed for flowering jlants, other places for such plants leing provided afc the corners of the reranda. The whole plant is simple, )ut very harmonious and artistic, and nay be readily carried out from the lesign shown. Architecture. ^ ~ SE AS IT WILL APPEAR. j % z - V . rmpress Eu<stwnr8"jcwet*r' How They Were Carried Thrttffch In* t dia and Sold to a Native Prince. The story of the Serviah^'jewels must recall to the cx-EmprdsS; Eu- t genie her own experiences when the waves first began to dash a&oat her throne. She determined to sell the greater part of her jewels is hope to do something to save the dynasty. Pnbliciity had to be avoided; and a market wa3 not to be found in Europe, newly thrilled by the horrors of Sedan. The EmpresaTloolrad to the East for a markets- An English- ?. man was on his way home for a holiday. A telegram at Bombay awaited him from one of the greatest European financial houses and informed him of the determination of the Elm- * press. The difficulty had been to, find a man with sufficient influence to be able to approach the princes of India in secret with a view to seflinf them the jewels. Not less :h$jrd was it to lay hands on the man wh(? had moral strength sufficient to carry with * him surreptitiously hundreds of ihonsands of pounds' worth of jewel# in lands where the Queen's writ did not run, ana wnere tne protection or tne constable is not immediately available. i Every care had been taken to Insure secrecy. The jewel3 had been taken to pieces; the gems removed from their settings; the latter "jointed" to admit of their holding x and being worn around the waist of their bearer in a belt of soft leather. The Englishman put on the belt, armed himself with a trusty revolver, engaged a trusty servant, and sat forth on his mission. For three months 1 he wandered over road, rail and river. The responsibility of his trust, the constant danger of discovery, the difficulty of disposing of his burden were worries that combined , ? almost to kill him. At last he was , * successful. The jewels were sold to a prince who esteemed them the more for-that they were the property Of 4><iis,tres3ed Empress.' Therej wpuJI have been troufcla, no doiffit h^jytip Matter been known at the India C?pe, but the man who discharged the Undertaking afforded an example erf courage and a solid worth in trying conditions which merit a place in the story of commercial integrity and disregard of personal danger. Far leas exciting enterprises have served to make popular novels before now.?St James Gazette. "Eve's Apple Tree." A fruit supposed to bear the mark . of Eve's teeth is one of the many y botanical curiosities of Ceylon. The . ^ tree on which it grows is known by the significant name of "the forbidden fruit," or "Eve's apple tree." The blossom has a very pleasant scent but the really remarkable feature of . the tree,, the one to which it owes its name, is'the fruit It is beautiful, and hangs from the tree in a peculiar man- ' j ner. Orange on the outside and deep - v crimson within, each fruit has the ap- ' pearance of having bad* piecet'Jjgjlten out of it This fact, together its poisonous quality, lad the Mahometans tor represent it as the forbidden " fruit of the Garden of Eden/and to warn men against its noxious properties. L - # ij A DISTINCTION. V ? He?Yes, I remembered you at cues ; as the girl I was engaged to in the >f mountains some seasons ago. "What a remaraaouj mouiv*/ , ? . faces you have, haven't you?" "No?for rings."?Life. FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervousness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer.$2 trial bottleand treatisefree ~v Dr.R.H.Kline, Ltd., 931 Arch St., Phila.,Pn The 15,000 convicts in England cost $3,? i 000,000 every year. i 80 B nab el* Macaroni Wheat Per Acre* Introduced by the U. S. Dept. of Agr. i It is a tremendous cropper, yielding in good land 80 bu. per acre, and on dry, arid lands, such as are found in Mont.. Idaho, the Dakotas, Colo., etc., it will yield from 40 to 60 bu. This Wheat and Spelts and Hanna Barley and Bromua Inermis and B^lion Dollar Grass, makes it possible to grow and fatten hogs and cattle wherever ? soil is found. ^ JTJST SEND 10c. AND THIS NOTICE to the John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., and they will send you free a sample of this Wheat and other farm seeds, together with their great catalog, alone $100.00 to any wide-awake farmer. [A.CJL] Most young men are too much infatuated y ; with themselves to be seriously injured in an ordinary love affair. - ;m ' \-,a Salaer's Earliest Cane* Another new thing. Can be cut six ''. '3 times during a season and sprouts again with lightning rapidity. Next to Salser's ' Teosinte it will make more green fodder than anything else, cheap as dirt and grows I everywhere. * Of Salzer'a Renovator Grass Mixture, just the thing for dying out pastures and y meadows, Mr. E. Eappold, East Park, 6a., ~ ar writes, "I sowed Safzeris Grass Mixture J on soil 'so poor two men could not raise a. fuss on it, and in forty-one days after ; sowing I had the grandest stand of grass in the county. Salzer's Grass Mixtures sorout quickly and produce enormously/* A1 100,000 barrels choice Seed Potatoes. balzkb's kxw national oats. Here is a winner, a prodigy, a marvel, enormously prolific, strong, healthy, vigor- J ous, producing in thirty States from 150 to 300 bu. per acre. You had best sow a lot of it. Mr. Farmer, in 1904, and in the * fail sell it to your neighbors at $1 a bu. for seed. [A.C.L.] The port of New Chwang, at the month of the Liao River, is the greatest bean market in the world. & I do not believe Piso's Cure for Consump- jtion has unequal for coughs and oolds.?Johjt F.Boysb, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 16,1900. It cost $318,366,047 to run New York City during 1903. ^ You can do your dyeing in half an hour with Putnam Fadeless Dtes. " ' ? r Liverpool has closed one-third of it* tt- ? loons during the last ten years. t % * "C r' -