VOLUME II. NEWPORT, ARKANSAS. THURSDAY JULY 24, 1902. NUMBER80
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Millinery, hats trimmed and untrimmed at half
price.
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Physicians and Surgeons.
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VEGETABLES TO ORDER.
Wonderful Progress In Garden Truck
Culture.
If one was to compare the flavor,
substance, appearance and general
good quality of the vegetables sold
ten years ago with what are in the
market today, the difference would be
striking, even to those who know
little of such matters.
Probably no more- striking example
of the progress made in the time
mentioned can be found than is fur
nished by tne tomato. Here is an
humble product of the garden, beloved
by all men who have a proper fond
ness for good things, that has been so
changed and improved of late as
hardly to know itself. And it is
strange, yet true, that the improve
ment in the tomato has been due
largely to the discovery of that pop
ular ailment appendicitis.
When the surgeons first established
the fact that appendicitis and colic
were not one and the same thing, and
began to operate for the relief and
cure of appendicitis there was much
discussion as to the cause of the then
dread affliction. The conviction then
became general that it was due to the
presence of foreign bodies in the ap
pendix, such as fruit and vegetable
seeds, and, thereupon, the doom of
the tomato was sounded because of
the many seeds contained in it. There
were large and small and highly col
ored tomatoes in the market but all
were full of seeds. Here then was a
serious situation confronting the big
tomato growers as well as gardeners
generally.
There were then and there are still
men who make a specialty of tomato
growing and who originate all the
new varieties that are offered to the
growers. These did not despair, but
said if the public wouldn’t eat to
matoes with seeds in it, they would
grow a tomato without seeds. And
they did. Not entirely without seeds,
to be sure, but with so few seeds in
them to justify the assertion of the
originators that they had produced a
seedless tomato; whereupon the to
mato was restored to public favor.
But that was not the only change
made in the tomato. Without the
great number of seeds they were
found to be far sweeter in flavor.
This flavor was retained, \vhile the
size and solidity were increased, until
today there are tomatoes running up
to six inches in diameter, from two
to four pounds each in weight, that
are as solid as A piece of meat, defy
all sorts of weather, that last from
first picking until the coming of frost
and of which as high as twenty tons
have been taken from a single acre.
Tbe tomato specialists are justly
proud of their accomplishment.
But improvement in other directions
have been just as great and often
without such good reason. Many
gardners objected to the old way of
growing lima beans. They didn’t
want to go to the expense of cutting
poles and sticking them in the ground
for the beans to run up on, and it took
the beans a long while to mature any
way; so they turned out a bush lima
bean, which grows only two feet high,
needs no support and upon which the
beans mature quickly and in great
quantities. While they were at it
they originated a new lot of string
beans which were ready for the mar
ket all of two weeks earlier than tbe
usual kinds, which were really string
less and so tender they snapped when
not picked carefully. That was an
other big stride.
Then the men who know more than
most folks could dream about- straw
berries, thought they would see what
they could do. First they increased
the size of the berries until they had
shown specimens almost as big as
one’s fist with whole fields averaging
a dozen to a full quart measure. Then
they improved the flavor of the big
berries until they were as sweet as
' the wild berry. After that, varieties
were introduced that were earlier
than others which extended the sea
son for this fruit Not satisfied with
that, a progressive Frenchman brought
fourth a strawberry that is a marvel
in its way, for it produces three crops
in a year and is practically everbear
ing until killed by frost. These ber
ries can be picked in the spring, in
the summer and again in the fall.
France was so proud of this achieve
ment that the originator received a
certificate from one of the big so
cieties.
In the meantime the fellow whose
hobby is a perfect cucumber was not
idle. Someone objected to the irregu
lar shape of the cucumber, and so the
cucumber sharp grew a strain of cu
cumbers that were of a uniformly
perfect shape and deep green in col
or and seemed about perfect until
another grower thought there were
too many protuberances—warts the
growers call them—on these latest
ones, so he went to work and grew
them so there were very few warts
on them, and the spines or ribs were
all even and regular distances apart.
Another cucumber man thought they
were mighty fine on the outside, but
ought to have fewer seeds, and so he
grew them with fewer seeds. It
seemed that nothing more could be
done when an enterprising “Jap”
probably disliking to see the cucum
bers soiled by lying on the ground,
placed before the world a climing
variety that grows on poles and which
like the Frenchman’s strawberries,
bears continually until killed by
frost.
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various lines continued, and slowly,
like the tortoise, the humble onion
pressed forward for recognition.
Spain produced a large onion that
was fine grained, of mild flavor and
almost white. The native onion grow
ers thought it was fine and that they
could turn out something just as good
if not better. They tried and suc
ceeded, and during the proper season
the fine, big white onions on sale in
the fancy fruit stores, which the deal
ers call Spanish onions, are the re
sult of that effort. They are Spanish
onions only to the uninitiated buyer,
for they have been no nearer Spain
than Long Island or New Jersey,
where they are growTn.
Despite the fact that these onions
are often fifteen inches around, and
grow so freely that close to two
thousand bushels of them have been
taken from a single acre, they are so
mild and tender that anyone can eat
them without ill effect. Physicians
regard them with much favor because
they induce a natural sleep, and pa
tients who could by no means eat the
ordinary strong onion can partake of
them freely. As it is, the home grown
product today excels all the onions
brought from abroad, not excepting
the far famed onions of Bermuda.
What has been told here simply
furnishes an idea of the great progress
made in this humble line of industry.
Every vegetable on the market has
been improved so greatly that the
consumers would make a great fuss
were they compelled to go back to
what they thought was so fine ten
years ago. it is uwai tuctt mo
“brother of the ox” is doing his part,
even if he does it quietly.—New York
Mail and Express.
TO COLLECT TAXES.
Sheriff Fred Schader, of Little Rock,
is going to try a new and novel plan
to collect the tax on mortgages.
Heretofore a large per cent of this
class of investments have escaped
paying taxes, but those who fail to
come to time this year will find them
selves up against an entirely new
proposition.
The sheriff will proceed to garnishee
the makers of these mortgages and
hold up payment of the notes until
the tax is paid. This means that the
matter will go to the Supreme Court,
as the holders of mortgages will con
test the right of the sheriff to force
payment in the above described
manner.
In the meantime large sums of
money may be tied up by garnish
ments awaiting the decision of the
courts.
It isn’t so much the size of the space
in advertising as what is used in that
space which means gain or loss to the
advertiser when it comes to figuring
the result of an advertising experi
ment. Most advertisers do not ex
periment at all. They know what to
expect as the result of an action be
cause they have planned wisely know
ing as they did the natural results of
this planning.—Advertising World.
MR. REMMEL PROTESTS.
Chirinan H. L. Remmel of the Re
publican State Central Committee,
makes the following statement rela
tive to the appointment of the county
election commissioners:
“Never was power used with more
autocratic brutality than was shown
on yesterday by the Democratic
Board of Election Commissioners.
When we presented our list to rep
utable gentlemen for election com
missioners for the different counties
in the State, our recommendations
were ignored in nearly every instance,
and when we entered a verbal pro
test, the governor moved to adjourn,
and had it not been for the courtesy
of his associates we would have been
ignored [even the faint privilege of
one of the cardinal rights of an
American citizen. When asked if we
were to have no representation on
the county boards, this august, auto
cratic governor replies that we will
have the privilege of reading the list
after the appointments have been
made. That is what a great political
organization that polled over 40,000
votes in this state in the last election
is to receive as a renlv to a iust de
mand for rights guaranteed under
our national constitution. But under
the Arkansas election law there are
no rights to be obtained, if it is the
desire to use the power which the
law permits, for the power vests ab
solutely in the State Board of Election
Commissioners, all of whom are
Democrats.
“Talk about immigration into our
State; talk about encouraging capital
to invest in our midst and take ad
vantage of our boundless resources;
talk about exhibiting the products of
forest, farm, field and mine at the St.
Louis exposition, in order to bring to
us capital and immigration to develop
our great and unlimited resources—
all such efforts in expenditure of
time, money and energy are brought
to naught by one act of arbitrary
power unjustly used. Tne dearest
privilege of an American citizen is
his religion and political freedom.
Money is a secondary consideration,
and every right-minded citizen of
whatever political party, will protest
against this unjust, unholy act of the
Board of State Election Commission
ers, in arbitrarily using the power
which this vicious election law per
mits, but which every preceding
Board of Election Commissioners,
headed by Govs. Eagle, Clark and
Jones, since the law went into effec ,
have refused to avail themseives or,
but have steadily recognized the list
of Republicans requested to be ap
pointed as county commissioners by
the Republicans of the State through
their chairman and secretary of their
State committee.
“It is hoped that even at this late
hour this gross injustice may be rem
edied, for it is a clog in the wheels of
progress. that all men that have the
moral and material welfare of this
State at heart will want to see re
moved.”
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