The Syracuse Journal, Volume 3, Number 15, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 11 August 1910 — Page 3

MLk KIDNEYS weaken V THE WHOLE BODY. chain is stronger than its weak* link. No man is stronger than ' - L ~~ his kidneys. Overll i-Jj'ev«ry RichS work, colds, strains, etc., weaken the kidneys and the whole 1 body suffers. Don’t I | neglect the slightest |r*Y iUZ \ I J kidney ailment. Be* \ gin using Doan’s Vg* Kidney Pills at once. The y are especially r" for sick kidneys. pag£) I h Mrs. George LarQ/ A Joie, 162 W. Gamble | St., Caro, Mich., says: “I had lost in flesh until I was a mere shadow of my former self and too weak to stand more i than a few minutes at a time. My rest was broken and my nervous system shattered. Had Doan’s Kidney Pills not come to my attention, I firmly believe I would be in my grave. They cured me after doctors had failed” Remember the name—Doan’s. For sale by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.

WELL QUALIFIED. IL—. O’ Squilbob—That fellow over there would make a splendid magazine poet. Squilligan—A genius, eh? Squillbob—No, but he has dyspepsia so bad that he would’t get so hungry living. "SCRATCHED SO SHE COULD NOT SLEEP - *1 write to tell you how thankful I am for the wonderful Cuticura Rem* edies. My little niece had eczema for five years and when her mother died I took care of the child. It was,all over her face and body, also on her head. She scratched so that she could not sTeep nights. I used Cuticura Soap co wash her with and then applied | Cuticura Ointment I did not use quite half the Cuticura Soap and Ointment, together with Cuticura Resolvent, when you could see a change and they cured her nicely. Now she Is eleven years old and has never been bothered with eczema since. My friends think it is just great the way the baby was cured by Cuticura. I send you a picture taken when she was about! 18 months old. “She was taken with the eczema when two years old. She was covered with big sores and her mother had all the bbst doctors and tried all kinds of lalves and medicines without effect antll we used Cuticura Remedies. Mrs. H. Kiernan, 663 Quincy St, Brooklyn, N. Y., Sept 27, 1909.” . I Merely a Prevaricator. A doctor reflates the following story: ; “I had a patient who was very ill and who Ought to have gone to a warmer climate, so I resolved to try what hypnotism would do for him. I had a large jsun painted on the ceiling of his room and by suggestion induced him to think it was the sun which would cure him. The ruse succeeded and he was getting better rapidly when i one day on my arrival I found he was dead.’’ “Did it fail, after all, then?” asked one of the doctor’s hearers. “No,” replied the doctor, “he died I of sunstroke.” 1 The Good Old Times. F There is a lot of talk about the ' "good! old times.” There weren’t any “good old times,” if you are talking about wash day or house cleaning. > Those! tasks meant red hands and headaches and backaches and trouble. Easy Task laundry soap Vrould have made j them “good” old times indeed. It does half the work in washing and cleaning; it drives the dirt ouv and not th; it doesn’t shrink flannels or streak linens, and it hasn’t any rosin in it to rot the fabrics. If your grocer Isn’t living in the good old times he sells Jt —lots of it! Qualified. A prominent western attorney tells of a boy who once applied at his office fqr work. “Thjis boy was bright looking and 1 rathef took to him. I " ‘Now, my son,’ said 1,, ‘if you come to work for me you will occasionally j have to write telegrams and take down telephone messages. Hence » pretty l high degree of schooling is essentlajl. Are you fairly well educated? 1 “The boy smiled confidently. “ 1 be,’ he said.”—lndependent. Dr. 1 Pierce’s Pellets, small, sugar- ’ e&3y to f ake as candy, regulate and invigorate stomach, liver and bow- 1 cis and cure constipation. The supply of talk always exceeds the demand. RED CROSS BAM, BLTTE J Mould be in every home. Ask your grocer fiw it. Large 2 oz. package only 5 cents. • j No tether man appreciates a helping 1 hand like a man In trouble.

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URING the first week In February, 1910, the Cuban National HorticultuMw ral society, an organization the mem/7 £ bership of which is almost exclusiveAmerican and Canadian, held Its fourth annual meeting in Havana. In A connection, a horticultural show was XJxTA open; among the exhibits were cltrus I ru lts from every section of the island. The fruits were large, juicy., byyvj clean, thin-skinned, heavy, beautifully /kj colored and delicious in flavor. Flor- / Ida had sent across grape fruit and oranges from famous orchards of the peninsular state, to facilitate invidious comparison, and the comparison, when made, showed that Cuba can produce citrus fruit of first-class quality, and, moreover, that she Is doing so. Citrus-fruit culture is the principal Interest of American and Canadian settlers throughout Cuba. Cubans and Spaniards are growers of no citrus fruits save pineapples —the grape fruit and orange groves belong to the English-speaking colonists. Orange and grape fruit culture is the business which has been boomed mercilessly by land companies advertising largely and sometimes unscrupulously all through the United States and in Canada during the past ten years. Their customers, arriving in Cuba, have insisted upon growing nothing but grape fruit and oranges. even in regions where other crops would assuredly have proven more Immediately profitable if not the better investment in the long run. |jS For instance, there are Americans and Cana-

dians growing citrus fruits in the heart of Vuelta Abajo and - in other parts of P1 na r del Rio province on lands that might be made to produce tobacco of the qualities wMch have made western Cuba famous the world around for this one crop, were the owners willing to co-operate with Cubans on the partidario system, accordi ing to which the newcomer furnishes the requisite capital and the native furnishes the skill no less necessary to success in the delicate- undertaking. It is a notable fact that few Americans or Canadians who themselves do the actual work in their to-

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baeco fields have found this crop profitable. There are “tricks in the trade” of which Cubans ire masters, especially those persons whose families have for generations cut of mind engaged in tobacco culture entirely. They seem to be! possessed of an intuition which enables them to handle the seedling, the plant and the leaf, when : germinating, when maturing, and especially when i coring, in a manner to Insure a better outcome than any foreigner is likely to compass. To grow the very best tobacco requires capital. The venture is a gamble, the result of which, however, Is known in a single season. If the planter [wins, he probably rakes in “big money.” If he loses, at least it takes him only months, not years, to find it out In the Isle of Pines, which was formerly a cattle and hog country, producing especially valuable draft oxen for sale in Cuba proper* American citrus-fruit growers consume large quantities of canned condensed milk, at high prices, as well large amounts of canned meats and vegetables, Aspite the fact that Some good pasturage exists, while still more could doubtless be planted, and the further fact that fine vegetables in remarkably large variety can be grown along the river banks, or, really, almost anywhere else where irrigation is possible. They also Import hay and feed at ridiculous cost. AH this into a region where corn at least can be grown and large herds used to “find” themselves. In central, but most particularly in eastern Cuba, Americans and Canadians are developing groves In lands admirably adapted to sugar cane, which is a quick, certain and profitable crop, sold either In the field, oh cut and delivered wherever there Is a mill near enough to buy up the; cane. They are growing their trees on sites natives would assuredly prefer for coffee and cacao, or, more wisely, for the numerous Indigenous ■ crops (names, boniatos, etc.) for which there is constant and remunerative demand. American and Canadian settlers in Cuba, inI eluding the Isle of Pines, are cltrus-frult mad. In Pfnar del Rio, in the Isle of Pines and In central I and eastern Cuba there is, nevertheless, In their I madness so much method, plus grit and utter Inability to realize the; odds they are “up against,** that it seems to be very probable they will succeed regardless. Money, time and hardship are to (hem no object at all. Pinar del Rio Is a province possessed of most fertile lands in certain ‘districts. Thebe are among the foothills and in the “Organos”! themselves rich valleys; unfortunately, some iof the choicest are as yet 4lmo't ’'iac '-> s'-ible. Tfiefe Is good land always along the streams, and [arable areas are to be found, here and there, [everywhere. Also here and there and everywhere . ' ■ i ■ I . ' :

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there are worn-out fields, sun baked through years, which wear, however, to the inexperienced eye, the aspect of virgin, though lightly wooded or savannah lands; there are also other sections —desolate palm barrens —where no man save the sort who purchase real estate “sight unseen” would think of attempting to grow anything. There are, too, south of the mountain range, on the plain which drops gradually from its skirts to the Caribbean sea, certain sandy, gravelly

reaches, poor in plant food. It is here, however, with proper fertilization and care, that growers are developing orange and grane-fruit groves. These lands will produce the trees, if food to support them is supplied in* the shape of fer- . tilizsr, and the trees will bear citrus fruit of tho very best quality-bright colored, weighty, full of juice, inclosed in smooth, thin rind. No fairminded person can longer doubt that they will do so after seeing fruit of the quality which growers located at Taco Taco exhibited at the latest horticultural show in Havana. These gentlemen had, however, the money to keep their trees properly nourished. Many others who have failed to succeed as they are suceeding owe that failure to the fact that they did not have the money to do as much for their groves. Some land companies doing business In western Cuba deny overtly or by Implication that fertilization Is necessary, but no prospective owner of a citrus-fruit grove in western Cuba can afford not to include In estimate of expenses the cost of fertilizing early and often In amounts properly augmented as years pass. Fertilizers in general use In the groves of the region mentioned cost, on a fair average, about $45 a ton. This is the situation in the Isle of Pines, as well as in the western and central mainland of Cuba. “The soils are all poor in plant food compared with the average soils In the United States, and the gravel ridges are especially so,” states Mr. H. C. Henricksen, secretary of the Cuban National Horticultural society, referring particularly to the Isle of Pines, “but I have never seen the effect of good fertilizers so sharply outlined as In these very soils, and from experience In Florida and Porto Rico -I would predict an abundant crop of fruit of superior quality wherever the groves are properly treated.” The vital question in these regions is, then, whether the owner is able to afford proper treatment. He will, eave In exceptional cases, where the soil is too “American” for any use whatsoever, get his crop provided he has the money to supply enough fertilizer. For there are richer lands in Cuba than those on which Americans and Canadians are developing their groves in western Cuba and the Isle of Pines. Along the Cauto river, to mention but one locality, there are exceedingly deep, fertile, virgin soils which need no fertilizer to produce citrus fruit groves. Such lands must, at the very commencement, be cleared, at some expense, of the thick woods that cover them, and groves, once planted, must at a’’ costs be kept fairly free of weeds. Secondary crops—corn, for instance — may be grown between rows without detriment to the trees; in fact, it would seem wiser to do

so than otherwise, for, exactly the opposite of the case in the west, these far eastern lands need to be reduced. They are almost too rich, and the fruit of trees they produce, particularly young trees, is apt to be coarse-skinned, too big, and pithy. These defects, nevertheless, time remedies, for as groves age they lessen the supply of plant food. Eventually it will become necessary to fertilize the trees, and then growers, by selecting their fertilizer, can control the quality of their fruit. They have, meanwhile, acquired their grove without the expense for fertilizer the grower in the west has been put to in order to produce his. He. on the other hand, has been to less expense than the man in the east in the matter of clearing. and he has not had to sit up nights weeding to keep his grove from disappearing under a tangle of tropical vegetation. The obvious conclusion, is therefore, that six is one-half dozen. Groves in both eastern and western Cuba will produce trees and good fruit, but neither will do so for any owner not willing to pay the price under one head or another in cash and also in hard work. It is conservatively estimated that no man should undertake even a five-acre grove anywhere in Cuba unless he has at least $5,000 where he can lay his hands on it. If he is a lively, capable man he will probably not need that amount of money, but no matter what his ability he should be able to command at least that sum before embarking in the citrus fruit business here. He may need it all. and more. While no complete statistics are available, it is the writer’s impression that in western Cuba, including the Isle of Pines, the acreage of oranges is more than that of grape fruit, while in the east it would seem that the grape-fruit acreage is the larger. The older groves seem, usually, to be orange groves; the younger the grove the larger the proportion of grape fruit in it Problems of transportation to market demand careful study from all growers, prospective or established. Groves situated at a distance from railway 1 are handicapped at the start, for although ■* are many good roads in Pinar del Rio provii . and all over the Isle of Pines, every foot of haul counts, and where the roads are not excellent, it counts heavily, most especially in wet weather. Americans and Canadians have plunged headforemost into eltrus-fruit culture in Cuba. They are building up against odds, by their indomitable courage and optimism, an industry into which preceding owners of the lands they hold did not venture. The Spaniards and Cubans did not so venture may have been because they were blind to the possibilities, lacked specific knowledge, or the energy required; or possibly they were outmatched by adverse conditions in past dec- i ades. Then again, it may be they were deterred not by these things at all, but by a true under- j standing of basic conditions here; by a realization of difficulties in the way of competing, not to i ■ say controlling, in the markets where the citrus fruit of Cuba must be sold; and, especially, by a keen appreciation of more profit to be made more 1 quickly and inexpensively elsewhere. In fine, < they may have been governed-by caution, which does not notably distinguish the Anglo-Saxon when engaged in opening up fields to him new. New to him, be it noted, but In Cuba’s case not in themselves either new or untried. This Island is not a virgin wilderness in toto. It has been under the domination of white men for 400 1 years. Not all these white men were idle and 1 Incompetent. They appreciated the country and in developing its resources—not to the fullest ex- I tent possible nowadays, to be sure, but as far i as was possible to them in their times —they < made fortunes. 1 The Spaniards devoted all the energies they < had for agriculture in Cuba to sugar cane and to- i bacco in the eastern and central provinces, and 1 especially to tobacco in the west. For four cen- | J turies they held fast to these two products, thus i demonstrating that they were possessed of no more versatility than the American and the Canadian who, in Cuba, insist upon discovering no future save in citrus fruit f From tobacco and from cane the Spaniard, and < the Cuban with him, has wrested the “wealth of i the Indies ” “Rich as a Cuban planter”—planter ( of cane tobacco, not of oranges and gripe $ fruit—is mlficant English phrase. To attain i to the wvc. tii and* the ease it implies has been i the ambition of the adventurous and the avail- < clous from 1492 to the nresent tlma.

FOB SHORTER TERM Gen. Wood Favors Smaller Period for Soldiers’ Enlistment. New Head of the United States Army Talks of Air Machines as War Craft—Prefers Dirigible Balloons. New York.—Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, the new chief of staff of the United States army, thinks the term of enlistment of regulars should be cut down and favors younger men for Un- ! cle Sam’s fighting forces. “You know I have recommended, in formal reports, that the term of enlistment should be cut down,” said he. “This would serve to turn back into civil life a larger proportion of men who In emergency could be called upon. They would constitute a reserve. How to arrange that they would be subject to a call to the colors for occasional maneuvers is a mere matter of detail. Further than this General Wood would not comment upon what he would advocate when once he has taken up work as chief of staff of the United States army. His recommendations of a shorter enlistment would send back to the population 20,000 to 30,000 men a year. The plan would cut off a greater part of the “retired pay” and a greater part of the pensions. The United States standing army is now practically a veteran army. It appears to be General Wood’s Idea that it should not be an army of men of ten to fifteen years’ or twentyfive years’ service. Younger sinews are required for spirit, dash and efficiency, he believes. “We need extra officers,” the general said. “There are just officers enough Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood. j for the present army. In time of war ! the army would be stripped.” Twenty officers of the army of the Argentine republic are coming to the i United States army to be trained. This is one consequence of the offiI cial visit of General Wood to the cen- ■ tennial celebration of the independence of the southernmost nation protected by the Monroe doctrine. | » The significance of thife was not al- ! luded to by General W’ood, but from other sources it had been learned that the circumstances was important, as | Germans, who have be&n frequently reported as unsympathetic toward the | United States policy regarding European ambitions in this hemisphere, are now instructors of the Argentine army, and Germany, next to England, holds the largest share of the Argentine trade. “Would you,” General Wood was ! asked, “go that far into army questions as to say what you think of flying machines as an adjunct in war?” “Yes, I will say that I think the smallest dirigible, one that can carry the engineer and four dr five men, is going to be important, especially when we can geT-them with a reinforced envelope able jo withstand the required pressures. Their utility Is already as- i sured for reconnoitering. “Our army’s front is now twenty or ’ thirty miles long. If we can put up ! men who can swiftly skip along over : that and see the enemy’s lines of com- i munication, his field works, bridges, ■ etc., obviously the information would ‘ be of enormous assistance. “I don’t think the aeroplane will be I as useful as the small dirigible until it Is made large enough \te carry at least one man besides the driver. They ; should also have a duplicate engine. But they are Improving aeroplanes so fast that I don’t predict—l only speak of the present moment, when I say I prefer the small dirigible.” Trial by Ordeal In Japan. Tokio. —Trial by ordeal still exists In some parts of Japan. If a theft takes place in a all the servants are required to write a certain word with the same brush. The conscience Is supposed to betray its workings in the waves of the ideographs written. Tracing an ideograph involves such an effort of muscular directness and undivided attention that the service often leads to the discovery of the guilty party. The test is, at all events, more humane than the ordeal by boiling water, to which accused persons were formerly submitted In Japan. . — ! Purchase Expensive Snuffboxes. < London. —The craze which somfetimes possesses rich people to obtain curios was exemplified in London when seven snuff boxes brought $2).000 each and the othflr five averse. SIO,OOO each. None of Ftlie articles v. worth very much inti'insicaily, the : | value resting in their age and asso- I elutions. j

SHOULD HAVE BEEN bo SY. A i Old Lady—What are you crying ibout, my little man? Kid —Nothin’. Old Lady—Nothin! Rid—Yes. Me teacher ast me what ! was doin’ an’ I told her nothm’, and lhe said I ought a been doin’ sumthln* —an’ give me a lickin’. Wife and Country. Paul D. Cravath, the noted New fork lawyer said at a luncheon at th« sawyers’ club: “Vacation time Is tere, and already that dreadful song ibout the wife gone to the country s being resurrected. But a variant o the song was furnished by a conversation I heard the other night. “ ‘Hello, Smith,’ said -one man to mother, ‘l’m glad to see you back it the club again, old fellow. Wife iff to the country, eh?’ “ ‘No,’ growled Smith. ‘She’s got >ack.’ ” A Protection Against the Heat. When you begin to think it’s a per;onai matter between you and the suu o see which is the hotter, buy your* self a glass or a bottle of Coca-Cola, t is cooling—relieves fatigue and quenches the thirst. . Wholesome as he purest water and lots nicer to (rink. At soda fountains and carbonated in bottles —5c everywhere, lend 2c stamp for booklet- “The Truth kbout Coca-Cola” and the Coca-Cola laseball Record Book for 1910. The after contains the- famous p6em Casey At The Bat,” records, set e-dules-or both leagues, and other valuable baseball ’nation corr- had by au» horities. Address The Coca-Cola Co., Atlanta, Ca. There Should. Fritz the gardener was a stolid Gernan who was rarely moved to extraordinary language. Even the most provocative occasions only caused him .o remark mildly on his ill-luck. Not. ong ago he came back from the city n the late evening!after a ha/i day n the market place. He wasf sieepy, tnd the train being crowded, jthc baggageman gave him a chair in hia roomy car. Finally the train reached Bloom* ield. Fritz still slept as it pulled in asd his friend had to shake h.m and ;ell him where he was. “I tanks you,” said Fritz, as he ros slowly to his feet. The open dpor of the car was directly in front of him. He walked straight put of • The baggageman sprang to ’ook after him. Fritz slowly, picked himself up from the sand by the si .e of the track, looked up at the door, and said with no wrath in his Voice: “There should here be some steps.” —St. Paul Dispatch. Mathematical Request. Little Mary, seven years old, Ras laying her prayers. “And God,” she petitioned at the close, “make seven dtaes six forty-eight.” “Why,Mary, why did you say that?” asked her mother. “ ’Cause that the wav I wrote It In zaminatlon in school 4cday, and I want it to be right.”—-Lippincotts. r , '. > Freedom doesn’t always bring happiness, but you’ll notice that It is the f tied dog that howls.

✓ —--—4 Know How To Keep Cool? When Summer’s sun and daily toil heat the blood to an uncomfortable degree, there is nothing so comforting and cooling as a glass of Iced Possum served with sugar and a little lemon. Surprising, too, how the food elements relieve fatigue and sustain one. The favour is , deli- • cious—and Postum is really a food drink. **There’s a Reason” • MESW ; POSTVM CEREAL CO., Ltd. Eittle C’.'eelli ilicli. I ; P • ■ F