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AGRICULTURE IN THE CANAL ZONE
and receiving radius will be about
3,000 miles direct reach, to the
Arlington station, to San Francisco,
and to Valdivia, 420 miles south of
Valparaiso, on the Pacific, and Buenos
Aires on the Atlantic. It would
cover a vessel anywhere on the east
coast of the United States, and com
municate with St. Vincent. 600 miles
i west of the coast of Africa
Air Adulteration.
In view of the recent decision In a
; New York court declaring the smoke
! ordinance of the board of health un
constitutional. the New York Medical
Record asks the question. "Why make
laws against food adulteration, in the
consumption of which there is at least
some choice, when air adulteration Is
allowed to go unmolested?" High
Tomatoes Ripening in February.
By H. H. BENNETT.
The climate of the Canal Zone is
humid and typically tropical. With a
very narrow annual range in tempera
ture, but with marked contrasts in
quantity of rainfall, the seasons are
aptly divided into dry and rainy. The
dry season proper begins usually
about the middle of December, al
though there are occasionally con
siderable variation from this. Fairly
heavy precipitation sometimes occurs
in the dry season, particularly on the
Atlantic slope.
Normally the Beason is character
ized by cloudless skies, constant
winds, and such scanty rainfall that
many crops which made steady growth
throughout the rainy months, hasten
to maturity, practically cease to grow,
or are completely parched unless irri
gated. The prevailing type of corn
planted about December 1 usually
matures the latter part of February.
Northern vegetables are unable to
survive the dry season, but certain
tropical species and many tropical
fruits are uninjured or only slightly
retarded in growth.
Many trees shed their leaves at this
time of the year, which corresponds to
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Canal Zone Farm House.
winter or the dormant season of
plants in the temperate zones.
The growth of vegetation during the
rainy season is phenomenal. An
abandoned or untenanted clearing is
quickly covered with a dense tangle of
rapidly growing plants, whilo un
seasoned fence posts cut from soft
wood trees, driven into, or in many
cases even laid upon the ground, take
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Section of Highway Constructed to Open the Rich Agricultural Lands of
the Canal Zone.
with respect to moisture, that is not
soggy or sticky.
Among the important temperate
zone vegetables that have been more
or less successfully grown are cucum
bers, eggplant, lettuce, beans, cow- ;
peas, radishes, carrots, peppers and
pumpkins. In fact, there is little i
reason to doubt that with knowledge
gained through systematic experi
mentation a sufficient supply of vege- j
tables will be produced'to replace, in %
large measure, the canned and cold
storage products at present consumed
by the white inhabitants. It is true
that many obstacles will be en
countered in the establishment of an
agriculture upon a modern business
like basis, and much remains to be de
termined through experimentation, es
pecially as to manurial treatment and
as to the best varieties of native and
foreign plants.
Wireless at Panama.
The proposed wireless station at
Panama to be erected by the United
States government will be known as
the Darien Radio station. In its gen- |
eral equipment it will duplicate the j
station at Arlington except that all 1
three towers will be 600 feet high,
whereas at Arlington only one of the
trio reaches that. height, the other
two being 150 feet shorter. The low- |
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medical authorities have pointed out
the ill effects of a smoke-filled atmos
phere upon the mental as well as the
physical health of the community, 6ays
the Indianapolis News. It has been
shown that catarrhal affections, with
their long train of sequelae, particular
ly tuberculosis, are increased. It has
Native Long-Horn Type of Cattle.
been clearly shown that the chief
benefit resulting from a vacation of
two or four weeks spent in the moun
tains. at the lakes or on the seashore,
where there Is an absence of the
smoke and dust of the city, is to clear
the head and lungs and make life
worth living until one gets all stuffed
up again with the deadly effluvium of
civilization. It is held that the gen
eral efficiency of a community is ap
preciably lowered under smoky condi
tions, and that the expense of the com
munity in the increase of disease and
death far overbalance the industrial
gains that come from an unrestricted
output of dense, black smoke.
Fine Jail Not Needed.
Guthrie, King county, Texas, one of
the few remaining stands of the cattle
kings and real cowboys, has a $lo,000
jail which has not contained a King
county prisoner in three years. The
sheriff and his family live in the low
Cucumbers Ready for Shipment in
February.
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root and soon produce trees. Many
northern flowers and vegetables are
forced by the warm, humid climate
into wood and leaf growth at the ex
pense of blossoms and fruit. Cowpeas
and cucumbers fruit fairly well
throughout the rainy season, so do
also a number of other vegetables.
Most of the indigenous plants make
rapid development until checked by
the scant supply of moisture attendant
on the rapid drying out of soils in the
dry season. Owing to the great sur
face inequality of the country and the
imperviousness of the clayey soils,
run-off is extremely rapid. With a few
days of sunshine exposed soils dry out
sufficiently to cause excessive baking
and cracking- When land is to be
broken by plowing, advantage should
be taken of the first favorable weather
during the latter part of the wet sea
son, due care being taken in all cases
that the soil is In proper condition
Snap Beans Bearing in February.
est part of these towers will be 180
feet above sea level, and they will
be arranged in a triangle measuring
900 feet on each side. The sending
er part ot the Jail building. Guthrie
has no county attorney and there is
not a practicing attorney in the
county.
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DIAGNOSING AIR CURRENTS
Air currents at a height of 50
miles above the earth are discussed
by J. Edmund Clark in the Quarter
Journal of the Royal Meteorological
society, on the basis of observations
made at many places in southern
England and northern France of the
drift of a particularly bright and per
sistent meteor train seen on the
night of February 22, 1909. Mr. Clark
himself saw the train for 1M minutes.
The most remarkable conclusions
drawn by the writer relate to the ve
locity of the upper winds at various
levels, as indicated by the movement
of the train. Between the altitudes
of 49% and 51 miles the streak lay
in a west wind of over 170 miles an
hour, while at 51% miles the current
was> almost from the east, with a ve
locity approaching 200 miles an hour.
These conclusions hardly agree with
] the prevailing conception of the
stratosphere as a region of gentle
winds.
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Economical Mabel.
Percy fsitting on the parlor sofa
with Mabel by his side)—It’s just this
way. Miss Mabel; I truly wish to get
maraied, but, above all things, the girl
who consents to be my wife must be
! economical.
| Mabel—Say, Percy, this is getting
’ interesting. Wait a moment till I turn
j down the gas.
Horse in the Show Ring.
A young borse that has done little
ought to be sound; he has no more
excuse for unsoundneas than a man
who never stole anything because he
never had a chance. It is at this point
with young horses that the show ring
should fill one of Its most important
functions in awarding premiums not
only to horses that are sound but have
a chance to remain so. There are now
adays a sufficient number of draft
horses of horse character in the ring
so a selection can be made of a horse
that combines bulk and conformation
that promises to remain sound or re
cover from accident, and not from
those predestined by faulty conforma
tion to unsoundnese.—Breeders’ Ga
zette.
“Extraordinary” Experience.
“Yes," said a budding woman, given
to the inordinate use of big wards, “I
had a pretty bad tall yesterday on the
consecrated sidewalk in front of the
new church. Why, I was unconscious
for two whole hours."
New Sanitary Appliance.
An individual shaving cup for each
shave or shaver is the latest sani
tary barber shop innovation, for which
a patent has been obtained by a Ver- J
moot man. The cup is made of para
ffin paper, with a thin layer of soap
sufficient for a single shave, coating
the bottom. When this has been used
it is intended that it should be thrown
away. This greatly reduces the
chances of any exchange of disease
germs taking place through the me
dium of the barber's ch»tr
PROMINENT PLAYERS IN WORLD'S SERIES GAMES
SOUTHERNERS IN BIG DEMAND
Wonderful Work of Willie Mitchell
That Caused Scouts to Look
Over Players in Dixie.
Southern collegians with baseball
proclivities are in great demand at the
present time, says a Memphis writer.
II was the wonderful work of Willie
Mitchell, the Mississippi rah-rahster,
that first caused the baseball scouts
tc readjust their itinerary so as to
take in the Dixie knowledge factories.
Following Mitchell along the baseliall
highway came Derrill Pratt, the Ala
bamian, now with the St. - Louis
Browns; Red Smith, the Auburn prod
duct, at present with the Brooklyn Na
tionals; Eppa Rixey, the Virginia
giant, who ie part and parcel of the
Philadelphia Nationals; “Mary” Cala
houn, the Georgian, who is toiling with
the Boston Braves; J. Bradley Hogg,
the Mercer Marvel, recently turned
back by Stallings to Mobile of the
Southern league, and a host of others.
Nor has the year of 1913 been an ex
ception in this respect. Among the
oiore prominent collegians to advance
from the amateur fold to the profes
sionals Is Percy Hinton, the Arkansas
university star, who is elated for a
tryout with the Cleveland Americans.
”oaeh Bezdek recently told Manager
Birmingham tljat Hinton with a year's
experience would prove a first-class
wonder. Captain Gordon of Sewanee
turned down an offer to pastime in
the majors, preferring a modest start
with the Macon club of the South At
lantic league Instead. Then there is
young Collins of Vanderbilt, who re
cently cast his lot with the Boston
Nationals.
Decision Causes Argument.
Umpire O'Brien In the American as
sociation has pulled a decision which
will only increase the discussion as
to why is a foul tip anyway? In a
recent Louisville-Indianapolis game
Clemons of Louisville, with two strikes
called, swung at the third ball, hitting
a foul tip w hich glanced high off the
mack of Catcher Casey. The catcher
caught the ball as it descended, and
Umpire O’Brien ruled the batter was
cut on three strikes. There was a
lot of argument but the decision seems
to be correct.
Yankees Need Scouts.
The New York Evening Telegram
says the Yankees need a couple of
?ood scouts and suggests that John J. j
NlcCloskey should be one of them. It j
rails attention to the fact that Me- I
Dloskey ‘'discovered" two of the
greatest players in the game in Fred
Clarke and Mordecal Brown and
.hlnks he should still be able to know
me.
May Manage From Bench.
A report has been going around
among the players that Manager Joe
Tinker may manage the Reds from the
bench, the same as Frank Chance,
Connie Mack and others do. Although
Tinker has denied it, strength has
been added to the report from the fact
.hat Groh is being used at shortstop
ind Egan at second base.
Smith to Birmingham.
Pitcher Frank Smith of Montreal
will, according to rumor, go to the
Southern league next season as a
manager. Birmingham wants him to
succeed Molesworth. Smith says he
:s tired of pitching, though if he goes
;o Birmingham he probably will taka
hie regular turn in the box.
What’s In a Name?
One newspaper on the American
league circuit says Catcher McGhee
jf Detroit is doing good work and an
other paper on the circuit also com
pliments Catcher McGee. All of
which makes McKee wonder if there
;s anything in getting his name in the
papers, after all.
Shutout Record.
William Whittaker, pitcher for Keo
kuk in the Central association, pitch
ed 21 scoreless innings in a double
header against Waterloo. He won
both games, the first 1 to 0 and the
second 2 to 0, in 12 innings. Allowing
anlr five hits in both contests.
Manager Dooin has done great work
for the Philadelphia club this season.
• • •
According to Manager Griffith, Joe
Boehling is the most natural hitter on
the team.
• • •
Outfielder Jimmy Sheckard is a to
bacco salesman when not careening
around the ball field.
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Tommy Connolly. the Braves’
young outfielder, was a pitcher while
in the Central league.
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Berlin of the Canadian league does
not reserve Manager White and will
look for a new leader next year.
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Clark Griffith claims that if he had
another winning hurler he would have
ran away with the pennant this sea
son.
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Griffith believes that his team
would have a great advantage over
any team it might meet in a world’s
series.
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The veteran George Davis, once a
great shortstop, says that Fletcher of
the Giants is the best shortstop in the
game today.
• • •
Ty Bober of Portland continues the
leading hitter of the Coast league,
with Walter Doane giving him a chase
for the honors.
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Trainer Buckner of the White Sox
says there is no doubt in his mind
that Ed Walsh will come back as a
winning pitcher.
• • •
Atlanta broke the record for at
tendance at a single game on Septem
ber 5 when 12,140 pai<j to see the
game with Mobile.
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Bill Carrigan as manager of the
Red Sox will get S8.000 next year, it
is said, with a $2,000 bonus if he wins
the American league pennant.
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Pitcher BUI Luhrsen, who to date
lias made good with the Pittsburgh
team, comes from the Albany club In
the South Atlantic league.
• • •
Since his return to the big show,
Guy Zinn, the former New York
Rochester player, has done some re
markable work for the Boston Braves.
• • •
It is said that Larry Schlafly of Jer
sey P<*y will succeed Bill Clymer as
manager of Buffalo next season, the
latter raking charge of the Wllkes
barre team.
• • •
Reports have been sent from the
Pacific coast that Walter- Johnson
was to go to Australia the coming
winter with Mike Fisher’s team, but
Walter denies the story emphatically.
• * •
Manager Dooin says that Chief Wil
son. the Pittsburgh outfielder, is one
of the greatest ball players he ever
saw. “He’s one player of whom we
don’t hear a lot, but who does a lot,”
said Dooin.
• • •
BUI Borton, from back of the cigar
counter in St. Joseph, announces that
he expects to play ball again next
season and that before spring he “ex
pects to reach an agreement with the
Jersey City club.”
• • •
Clark Sriffith says that he would
give $100,000 for Tris Speaker as wiU
ingly as be would give that amount
for Ty Cobb. He does not admit,
however, that he would give the sum
for the Detroit slugger.
CHANGING NAMES OF TEAMS
Terms of Endearment Found in Every :
District of United States—Inade
quate List Is Given.
Persons who talk lightly of discard
ing all but place names for baseball
clubs are plainly unfamiliar with the
magnitude of the task. The National
and American leagues are but a small r
part of the show. The country is di- !
vided into innumerable districts and
subdistricts, and the fanciful terms of
endearment are multiplied accordingly. !
A very inadequate liBt from the Pa- !
cifie coast gives SealB, Oaks, Angels. :
Tigers, Beavers, Wolves, Bruins.
Down in the sunny south they have |
Gulls, Barons, Billikens, Crackers, .
Steelmakers, Hornets, Capitals, Patri
ots, Twins, Navigators and Bronchs.
An account of a Texas-Louisiana en
gagement between clubs of colored
players recites the achievements of
the Black Buffaloes and the Smart Set
In the Missouri river country we
read of Antelopes, Jobbers and In
dians.
Occasionally the town name is used,
but it is evident that what was at first
fanciful has taken possession of the
common speech. It is not the reckless
reporters alone who call to their aid
the inhabitants of the air and sea and
the beasts of the field and the forest
The fans talk casually of the menage
rie as the most natural thing in the
world. It comes easy for them, and
who is going to prevent and how?
Great Bend Is Winner.
Great Bend won the pennant in the
Kansas State league by taking the de
ciding series from Lyons. The deem
ing game, by the way, was the first
that Pitcher O’Byrne had lost on the
home grounds at Lyons. He had won
14 straight and finished the season
with the best record In the league.
Riley was the hero for Great Bend
in the deciding series. He won both
games of a double-header, then came
back and saved the next game. Riley
won ten straight games for the new
Kansas champlonB, but the credit ror
the team’s shewing Is given Manager
Affy Wilson, w ho has kept them play
ing fast ball at all stages and boasts
he has never been over the salary
limit, a lesson for a few minor league
clubs.
Latest Freak Play.
From Knoxville, Tenn., that home of
peculiar plays, comes a story of a
new one from a truthful correspond
ent. In a recent Appalachian league
game, with a man on third, Schiefley
of Knoxville stole second. The Bris
tol second baseman dropped the ball
and Schiefley sat down on it. While
a search was being made for it the I
man on third “stole” home. The um- J
pire, sayB the correspondent, refused j
to allow a claim of "Interference.”
Johnston's Good Record.
Jimmy Johnston smashed a South
ern league record for Btolen bases last
season, although some of the fastest
fellows who ever burst Into the big
show came from that circuit. He has
nearly equaled Zelder's Pacific coast
mark. Johnston has pnrloined nearly
ninety bases already and the cham
pionship season on the Pacific coast is
the longest of the big minor league
circuits.
American League Meeting.
The annual meeting of the Ameri
can league will be held in Chicago ia
October instead of at the usual time
in December, according to an an
nouncement by President B. B. John
son. The earlier date was chosen on
account of the world's tour of the Chi
cago club.
Work of a Recruit.
Yanncey Ayers, the Washington re
cruit with Richmond in the Virginia
league, had, according to recent fig
ures. fanned 312 men In 33 gamee.
and had issued but 23 bases on balls.
Not Provided For.
In an amateur game at Elyria, O..
recently, a triple play was made, but
the losing team protested on the
ground that the league rules did not
provide for a triple play.
Look, Mother! If tongue is
coated, give “California
Syrup of Figs.”
Children love this "fruit laxative.”
and nothing else cleanses the tender
Btomach. liver and bowels so nicely.
A child simply will not stop playing
to empty the bowels, and the result is
they become tightly clogged with
waste, liver gets sluggish, stomach
sours, then your little one becomes
cross, half-sick, feverish, don’t eat,
sleep or act naturally, breath is bad,
system full of cold, has sore throat,
stomach-ache or diarrhoea. Listen,
Mother! See if tongue is coated, then
give a teaspoonful of “California
Syrup of Figs." and in a few hours all
the constipated waste, sour bile and
undigested food passes out of the sys
tem. and you have a well child again.
Millions of mothers give “California
Syrug of Figs" because it is perfectly
harmless; children love it. and it nev
er fails to act on the stomach, liver
and bowels.
Ask at the store for a 50-cent bottle
of “California Syrup of Figs,” which
has full directions for babies, children
of all ages and for grown-ups plainly
printed on the bottle. Adv.
To Swell the Sunday Collection.
“Uh-weU, sah,” triumphantly said
old Brother Bulginback. "de church
wasn't never so prosperous befo’ In
de livin' world. Yo' see, sah. we all’s
got wid us Brudder Nick Smash, de
cullud p'liceman On Sundays he
shucks off his blue unicorn and takes
up de c'lection. and if a brudder don’t
pungle up 'bout what Brudder Smash
considers a finin' amount, on de fol
derin' Monday, when he's uh-repre
sentin’ de magnitude o’ de law, he
dusts dat brudder's head wid his club.
Yassuh!—de church am sho'ly rollin'
in clover since we done took Brudder
Smash into de fold!"—Kansas City
Star.
“CASCARETS” FOR
SLUGGISH LIVER
No sick headache, sour stomach,
biliousness or constipation
by morning.
Get a 10-cent box now.
Turn the rascals out—the headache,
biliousness, indigestion, the sick, sour
stomach and foul gases—turn them
out to-night and keep them out with
Cascarets.
Millions of men and women take a
Cascaret now and then and never
know the misery caused by a lazy
liver, clogged bowels or an upset stom
ach.
Don’t put in another day of distress.
Let Cascarets cleanse your stomach;
remove the sour, fermenting food;
take the excess bile from your liver
and carry out all the constipated
waste matter and poison in the
bowels. Then you will feel great.
A Cascaret to-night straighten® yon
out by morning. They work while
you sleep. A 10-cent box from
any drug store means a clear head,
sweet stomach and clean, healthy liver
and bowel action for months. Chil
dren love Cascarets because they
never gripe or sicken. Adv.
Direct Way.
“Can you tell me the most direct
way of getting to the City hospital?”
"Certainly I can. In an ambulance.”
Liquid blue is a weak solution. Avoid It.
Buy Ked Cross Ball Blue, the blue that'a all
blue. Ask your grocer. Adv.
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It ts the uncertainty of the weather
and women that makes them interest
ing
dOL FAMOUS DOCTOR’S
iniS prescription.
FOR
yspeps
Urrh or stoma*
Foley Kidney Pills Relieve
promptly the suffering due to weak, in
active kidneys and painful bladder action
They offer a powerful help to nature
in building up the true excreting kid
ney tissue, in restoring normal action
and in regulating bladder irregularities.
Try them.
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Try Us—It Will Pay Too
Consign yonr stock to ns for good prices, good fills
and prompt remittance. Write or wire ns for any
desired information regarding the market. Ail com
munications answered promptly. We are workiim
for yonr interest and appreciate yonr business.
FARRIS PURINTON £ MARCY
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Live Stock Commission
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