The Prague Patriot. (Prague, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 11, 1904 Page: 4 of 8
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THE PA'
INDEPENDENT IN ALL THINGS
Published Every Thursday In the Interest
ei Prague and Vicinity.
W. S. OVFRSTREET, Proprietor and
Business Manager.
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Subscription Price $I.OO
Per Annum
Advertising Kntfn Mad* Known on Appt cation
1 Perton or b/ Letter.
When It is announced that a new
golf club is going into business, every-
body knows that the people of that
community are thirsty on Sunday.
President Schurman says "no man
has a right to lead a single life." Dr.
Jekyllg who have been doing Hyde
stunts on the sly may therefore chj-ei
up.
Every cloud has a sliver lining.
No hard-hearted, tight-fisted trust has
yet been inhuman enough to raise the
price of rice at this season of tht
*ear.
The girl who got engaged at col-
i so considers the correspondence
course methods a good ileal better
than nothing during the summer va
cation.
A Boston paper publishes a story
entitled "The Naked Soul." It is
however, taking the precaution to dr
it when most of the Boston ladie-s are
out of town.
Bandit Ralsuli has decided to get
married. There may be trouble in
the Raisnli family the next time he
brings a strange man home to din-
ner without notice.
Charles Ci. Stlllman, a New York
multimillionaire, is working as a bag
page smasher in San Francisco. Prob
ably needs the exercise, but wants to
be paid for taking it.
Mark Twain's former school teach
er is dead. But he did not die until
he had lived a hundred years. Here
is our sincere hope that he taught
Mark Twain the trick.
The St. Paul railroad traffic depart
ment has issued orders for the ex
termination of the festive English
sparfow all along the line. Which
reminds us that it's very easy to give
orders.
An astronomer at the Lick Ob-
servatory has found 100 double stars.
But there are many other gentlemen,
not astronomers, who are prepared tc
prove that this isn't the record b?
►everal.
ti
A clublady has discovered tha
woman has a keener sense of humol
than man—and goes on to establish
■ the great fundamental truth thai
nearly all man's failings are due t<
hi* natural conceit.
George Ade may mean well euoug'
in writing a farce about the collegt
vldow, but isn't it a little cruel t<
arouse certain painful memorii
that a man's accumulating gray
hairs had almost enabled him to for
getT
By a series of careful experiment
and observations, the Department ol
Agriculture has learned that as insect
destroyers and weed-seed eaters, quai'
are worth thousands of dollars a yeai
to the farmer. Still, when he is a
little shy of pocket money he does
not hesitate to take the old double
barrel and cash In a lew of them at
a much lower rate.
Carrie Nation is going abroad. Am
*he may as will understand now tha
if anything happens there will bo uc
hustling round for ransom money oi
"Mrs. Nation alive or Raisnli dead'
■business in her case.— Milwaukee
Sentinel.
^ burglar sneaked Into the room oc
cupied by Mr. Wong Kai Kali, China's
commissioner to the world's fair. an<
stole $2,000 worth of diamonds. It is
understood that Mr. Kali is mora uu
alterably opposed than ever to th
open door
There is every reason to doubt this
story about Lulu Miller of San Fran
cisco, who is said to have cast aside
a millionaire for a penniless plumber
Lulu may have passed up 'lie million
aire, but where could she find a pen
niless plumber?
If you own a chunk of radlun:
higten to return it and g<>t yotM
money back before 1,000,000 year!
have elapsed. A University of Chica
go professor has fixed that as th<
limit of time within which all rn.lluo
aii'lvel up tuod pass awnv
Don't Borrow Trouble.
D""'t borrow troubh : it comes '>t Itself.
• >r If it .lo.s not. nil tin- better for you.
l he care <>i to~morrou k-t'H jay on the
I*or \\ (irr\ s on ugly and petulant
shrew,
Don't borrow trouble; the debt must be
paid.
And. oh, but the payment Is heartache
and wr.-, k
Alter- :il). when the lanln have been
shuffle,| Hint played.
rour Hffv. you'll And, were allowed to
your deck.
Don't borrow trouble: the ^re of to-day
! • "arV l,° 111 ,t'1 ♦,asy to rout;
It s only the iroul.le from over Ihe way
U-av* iik the victims of terror
and doubt
It as easy to Kay "To-morrow 'twill
shine."
As to moaningly mutter, "I'm sure It'
will rain."
It s ;is asy t<> smile as t< weep and re-
pin*.
And the loriner, you'll iind, is an Infin-
ite «ain.
Don t borrow trouble. Wf worry and
fret,
I h# ti rind in the end that we've worried
for naught.
>\ e build mighty hills In our pathway to
Then find th# obstruction was child of
our thought.
lou'JJ Mud on reflection that half of your
«*a re
Is a son of to-morrow that merely has
starved.
The load of to-day is sufficient to bear;
bo don t borrow trouble—the debt must
be paid.
• Sunset Magazine.
NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD.
Items of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.
President Samuel fionipers of the
-k F. of L. will be Labor day orator
in I'tica, N. Y„ this year.
James <Iilien of l>nv<ll has been
elected vice president of the Amal-
gamated leather workers' union.
The bricklayers have one of the
strongest and wealthiest unions in
the country, numbering 85,000, with
621 locals. .
Glass bottle blowers' convention at
Buffalo last week appointed a scale
committee to arrange a new agree-
ment with the bosses.
Shoe workers in Mexico work from
ll-'i to 12 hours a day, receiving from
15 cents to $1 a day, American
money. They are not organized, but
will be in the near future.
The supreme court of West Vir-
ginia has issued an injunction against
the United mine workers of Amer-
ica, forbidding them from organizing
the mine workers of that state.
W. B. Wilson, national secretary-
treasurer of the I'lilted Mine Work-
ers, Is to be proposed for the demo-
cratic nomination for Congress in the
15th Penn district. Wilson resides at
Blossburg.
George II. Gosline of Worcester is
the general secretary of the new na-
tional union of die makers: formed
at New York July 4, and which has
applied to the A. F. of I., for an in-
ternational charter. •
Chicago will have no Labor day pa-
rade this year. The central body de-
cided to hold a picnic instead. I.ast
year tJ2,000 paraded, forming the larg-
est procession <}f organized workers
In the world's history.
1 he University ot Wisconsin has es-
tablished an Innovation for the sum-
mer months. The students will lie
given a series of lectures on. trade
unionism, the union label, the open
shop, the boycott, and kindred topics.
Six hundred and firty-six Boston
employers, representing forty-eight
different industries and having on
their pay roll thousands of employees,
have perfected an organization for
"self protection" in connection with
organized labor.
Thomas Duffy of East Liverpool.
O.. was re-elected president of the
National Brotherhood of Operative
Potters a I the Trenton convention.
Duffy is the youngest national presi-
dent of a labor union in the world.
He is 2ti years old.
The Journeyman Tailors' National
union was lormed at a convention held
in Philadelphia in August. 1883. Pre-
vious to that time several attempts
were made to unite tin* separate local
unions of tailors throughout the coun-
try, but without success.
I he two factions of window glass
workers which have been holding ses-
ions in Cleveland formally agreed
upon amalgamation and met as one
body. The new organization will be
known as the Amalgamated Window
Giass Workers of America.
The appointment Is announced of
J. C. Skemp of San Francisco, third
vice president of the Brotherhood of
Painters and Decorators of America,
as secretary-treasurer of that organi-
aztion. This appointment is to fill
the vacancy caused by the recent
death of Michael P. Carrick, and lias
been indorsed by the executive board
of the national body.
A strike of 30,000 textile workers
has begun. By a toial vote of 1,510
to 39t> the mill workers' unions of
Kali River voted to walk out in pro-
test against a 12i£ per cent reduc-
tion in wages. A meeting of the ex-
ecutive committee of the United Tex-
tile Workers i f America was held.
KfCl
How Weeds Come In.
at which it was voted to sanction I , W*eds Come into new re8 ons large-
whatever action might be taken by ! , ',hroUfe'h tbe carelessness of the
I land owner. One of the commonest
; ways of bringing them in is to import
the unions
P. T. Barry
of Boston was re-
flected International president of the
theatrical stage employes' alliance.
1 he convention, which was held at
Milwaukee, decided that in any fights
them In screenings from flour mills
or from other mills that clean grains
and sell the screenings. Probably
none of our states have a law like
that in the Northwest Territories of
against theatrical managers every ef-! i,"" , northwest lerritories ot
fort would he made not to involve Canada' xvhich Prohibits the sale of
men from the traveling companies. ^^'nES eXfpt ,0 feeders o1', sl'eeP'
The convention gave .Springti, Id the i S ! under certain restrictions,
jurisdiction over Westfield, although f ?gS c)onta,n, almost a" liintls
Holvoke is nearer | ,eed seeds, and trom these they
Five thousand miners from Spring ' 'Tt "'.t .TT P''e a"d are rar"
Valley. LaSalle. IVru Oglesbv I add T onto the land and are placed in
Sea,onville. MarquetteSue and 1 S°" U'e Very b6St sha'5e for
Dalzell assembled in Spring Valley j Fre1"ently the far™r pro-
I" . July 18. and took part in a deni- „ 7hee<is °" one Part of his
onstration denunciatory of Gov Pea , „ ra screene<i out when
btfdy of Colorado. There were 10,000 Su^e int 18 ,hrashed and "hovels the
persons present. Gov. Peabody was ' J."1® man"re, p,'e or 'nto
as w =.! r1Ti<rr
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One permanent result of the strike are cut with the hay and fed at a
conditions in the building trades at time the weed seeds are enough ma-
Detro" will be the number of new j ture to resist the digestive efforts of
firms that have started into existence. ' the bovine stomach. They pass
These new master plumbers, paint- ' through and out into the manure and
ers and sheet metal workers and the next year start new centers of in-
unionists, who have had enterprise to
start in and capture some of the work
fluence in all parts of the farm. A
good deal of care needs to be exer-
l wv , i.Bic iiccub iu ue exer-
that was "going begging," during the; cised in this case. The greatest trou-
slrike. The venture proved so profit
able that they continued their own
shops alter the strike was ended, hir-
ing union men at union wages, and
competing with their former employ-
ers.
Four thousand New York union car
penters who have been locked out bj
the Building Trades Employers' asso-
ciation have decided to remain idle
indefinitely, pending a hard and fast
interpretation of the general arbitra-
tion agreement under which they re
cently labored, with especial referenci
to that part binding the employers tc
use only uniou men. The lockout was
precipitated by the alleged employ-
ment ot nonunion men by one con-
tractor. One union agitator declares
that the struggle will completely check
building operations unless the con-
tractors come to terms.
According to statements made hi
labor leaders the American Federa-
tion of Labor is behind the strike of
the bricklayers at the arsenal, at
Washington, anil is determined tc
make a test rase on the issue ol
nonunion men being employed by .the
government. Work on the war col
lege buildings, for which the govern
ment appropriated $700,000, is tied uj
on account, of the strike. For the
ble is that the farmer does not
know the new weeds till they have
been thus successively sown and re-
sown.
Good and Poor Seed Corn.
Recently in passing a new field of
corn, a resident farmer remarked to
'he writer on the variability of seed
corn, as to germinability. In the field
a large part of the corn was coming
up beautifully. In the other part of
the field almost none was to be seen,
the demarcation between the two sec-
tions being as distinct as if a straight
line had been drawn through the field
and one-half left unplanted. Yet the
whole field was planted on the same
day with corn bought from two neigh-
bors. The corn, too, was of the same
variety; yet the seed corn saved by
one man came up well and of the oth-
er hardly at all. The farmer was
asked what made the difference and
replied that it must have been in the
way of taking care of the seed or of
the maturity of the corn at the time
it was harvested. It is easy to sup-
pose that the farmer that furnished
[the worthless seed planted his own
[farm with it and had his work all to
do over again. This is a lesson as to
— I the value of good seed corn, and the
first time in its history the union has ; ;unwisdom of planting seed without
knowing whether it is good or not.
Improvidence in this matter is the
cause of the failure of many a fa--
mer.
Digging Potatoes.
When a good many acres of pota
toes are to be harvested a potato dig-
ger should be used. This implement
will prove of great value and will fre-
quently save in one season enough
money to pay its cost. It does not
pay to use the cheap make-shifts
that are sometimes sold for potato
diggers. Such implements usually
carry soil, potatoes and all along
with them and the tubers have to be
dug out of the heap, which is more
trouble than digging them with a fork
or hoe in the first place. When onlv
a few acres of potatoes are to be har-
vested, hand digging will prove to
:be the acceptable method. As soon
as dug the tubers should be picked up
and barreled or sacked as the case
may be. The practice of making
great piles that lie in the sun for
hours should not be tolerated, as this
injures them to some extent. The
soi ting will generally be easiest done
in the field at time of picking up. The
merchantable ones can be picked out
by one man and another can take all
that remain.
decided to come out flat-footed on the
point that wherever the government
employs a nonunion workman the
men holding union badges will throw
down their tools at once. At ths
War department it was said that the '
government would not recede from j
the position it has taken.
Sympathetic strikes should never
be sanctioned or countenanced by this
organiaztlon," said President D. J.
Ktefe of the International longshore-
men. marine and transport workers'
association, in his address to the 13th
annual convention at Milwaukee last
week. "Where the case is worthy we
may give moral support, but our honor
and integrity as an organization is
bound up in our contracts and agree-
ments and our very manhood is at
stake. To violate these agreements
ami contracts by a sympathetic strike
would 1>. suicide and dishonor. Pub-
lic sentiment says that arbitration is
the most equitable medium for the so-
lution of differences between indus-
trial forces. It is a common and dan-
gerous error of a portion of the pub-
lic and some of opr members to be-
lieve that wt must have a law to gov-
ern all our relations with our fellow
men."
The biennial convention of the in-
ternational piano and organ workers'
union is over. Many Important
changes in the financial system and
arrangements of the union were made
to improve and protect the manifold
benefits it pays its members, sick,
strike, out-of-work, "victimization"
antl death benefits being included 111
its system. The convention refused
to change its laws so as to admit
women members for less fees than
men. The convention adopted the
suggestion that the international es-
tablish a factory, and ordered the
question submitted to a referendum
vote of the entire membership for
final decision. It was decided to as-
sess every member 13 cents a year
for the special purpose of advertising
and advancing the union's label.
Charles J. Morgan of Boston was re-
elected third vice president, p. ,j
Forestry In Texas.
The United States Department of
Agriculture is making estimates of the
forest areas of Texas. We generally
think of Texas as a state of immense
prairies stretching in every direction.
It is found that Texas has the largest
wooded area of any state in the
Union, that area being now not less
than (14.000 square miles. Of this at
least 27,000 square miles consist of
merchantable timber. This does not
include the chaparral growth. About
CO varieties of trees commercially im-
portant are reported. The most valu-
able forests arc those of the eastern
part of the state. This is because the
rainfall here is abundant and the
trees grow to a larger size than in the
central or western part of the state.
Grass in the Apple Orchard.
Grass in the orchard has been the
'heme talked on by many a speaker
; at farmers' institutes. There have
been a few men that have said it was
a good thing, but more that have pro-
| nounced it to be one of the greatest
j enemies of apple growing. Grass in
j the orchard is a sentimental idea, far
removed from that of practical use. It
is very pretty to talk of lying under
the apple trees looking up into the
blossom-laden branches. Whenever
the artist draws a picture of an 01-
ciiaid, be it full of blossoms or of
bright red apples, the ground under it
is covered with a rich carpet of grass,
on which the ripe fruit may fall when
it is ready for the hand of the gath-
erer. The city man that buys a farm
in the country with an orchard on it,
takes not kindly to the idea of plow-
ing up the sod of his orchard. He
would far rather keep it cut short by
the use of the lawn mower, that it
might be a play ground for his chil-
dren. Well, wherever a man can af-
ford to put sentiment at the front the
sod in the orchard is all right. The
man that wants a summer home where
the red apple falls onto a green car-
pet of verdure can perhaps afford to
put up with a less crop of apples and
probably he gets his money out of it.
But the farmer that has to make
money out of his orchard has a dif-
ferent proposition. He has to set sen-
timent aside. The poetry of life would
cost him too dearly if made the basis
of his orcharding. He must put in
the cultivator and the harrow and
prevent the ground from bearing any-
thing else than apples, provided the
orchard be not on a hillside that would
wash in rainy weather if left bare of
grass. He cannot afford to have the
roots of the grass using up the plant
food that should be given to the roots
of the apple trees. He cannot afford
to have the moisture that falls from
the clouds arrested by the grass roots
before it gets deeper down to the
roots of the apple trees. This loss of
moisture is a very serious affair in
times of drouth when the amount of
water falling would be hardly suffi
cient for the trees themselves. There
is no question that on level land the
soil of the apple orchard should be
cultivated so thoroughly that no
weeds will grow unless it be late in
the season, and then they should be
turned under by the cultivator in the
spring.
Tub Grown Lemon Trees.
The growing of lemon trees in tubs
is becoming something of a fad in
some of our northern localities. Doubt-
less a good many of our readers have
tried at various times to grow lemons
and have succeeded in getting good-
sized trees, which, however, never
bore anything of value. The trouble
was that the tree had not been grafted.
The lemon tree that is to bear good
fruit must be grafted from a tree that
is bearing good fruit, and in most
cases the tree from which to do the
grafting is not at hand. Probably If
anyone wants to raise lemons
in tubs, the best way is to secure a
tree from a reputable nursery that
handles such trees and that has guar-
anteed that the tree has been grafted
from some good variety. It is re-
ported that in some parts of the north
people that have these trees in tubs
get trom them a great many lemons
yearly, the quality of the lemons be-
ing better than of those imported. At
any rate the lemon tree is an inter-
esting object. Grown in a tub it may
be kept out of doors in summer and
in the house in the winter. The lemon
was unknown to the Greeks and Ro-
mans and is supposed to be a rather
modern fruit. It was introduced into
Spain by the Arabs in the fourteenth
century and in the very end of that
century lemons found their way to
England, having been grown in tha
Azore islands
Wllmot of Cambridge w as elected Ttlp s, le forest lands have been sold
seventh vice president. Frank H.
Murray of Boston, who was A. F. of
L. delegate last year, was elected an
j alternate for this year.
off til! 95 per cent are in the hands of
private owners.
Pweet potatoes grow best in sandv
soils. '
Fertilizers For Fruits.
No hard and fast rules can be given
for fertilizing fruits, so as to secure
fine specimens. The kind and quality
of fertilizer to be applied depends
upon the kind and condition of soil.
I he following facts are important,
however, in determin!"«- how to fertil-
ize a given fruit plantation:
1- The effects of fertilizers upon
orchard trees are usually more appar-
ent in the second year than they are
during the year in which the fertil-
izer is applied.
2. Nitrogen promotes wood growth
leaf growth and general vigor of tile'
tree itself. Potash and phosphoric
acid, especially the former, promote
fruit production.
3 If a tree is making weak growth,
if Its leaves are pale and sickly and if
, the annual wood growth of the main
- limbs is less than one foot in length
i it probably needs nitrogen. On tho
j other hand, if wood growth is strong
j and vigorous and the leaves are of a
dark, rich green color, and especially
j if fruit is not forming sufficiently, pot-
j ash and phosphoric acid are probably
| needed. Too much nitrogen tends to
j cause the tree to run to wood and
j l£af growth at the expense of fruit.
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