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Potash is one of the sloppy words of English. Originally it meant wood ashes (potassium carbonate). Now it may mean caustic potash (potassium hydroxide) or even pure potassium oxide, an excellent fertilizer. By potash people mean potassium, a, metal absolutely essential to plant life.* When drained from the soil potassium (as one of its salts) must be replaced in the form of a fertilizer, else only weazened crops will result. The primitive farmer manures his plot with stable gleanings and slaughter-shed offal. The Chinese peasant assiduously gathers the dried plaques of cow dung, the desert agrarian those left...
...registered fo' de pas' ten years, and I is always jes' too late or jes' too early." (Other States give the sceptre to the Nordics by making constitutional knowledge prerequisite to the ballot, in which case Negro political aspirants are asked what is meant by the four kinds of ex post facto laws as set forth in the case of Calder v. Bull. One grinned his reply: "Boss, Ah guess dat means us niggers don't vote...
...most important. SERIOUS THE GREAT GOD BROWN-Confused but compelling history of a man who bought another's personality for gold. LULU BELLE-Heady adventures among the Negro night clubs in Manhattan. Principally Lenore Ulric. CRAIG'S WIFE-A carefully cut image of a woman whose home meant more to her than her husband. LESS SERIOUS THE LAST OF MRS. CHEYNEY- Ina Claire nearing the end of her run in the witty tale of thievery among the British peerage. AT MRS. BEAM'S-The horrible case of Mr. Bluebeard in a careful English boarding house. WHAT EVERY...
...Franco-Spanish frontier, eagerly questioned travelers from Spain declared: "Weyler is after Primo's scalp again." They meant, of course, General Don Valeriano Weyler y Nicolau, Marquis of Teneriffe and Duke of Rubi. He had, it was reported, lent the weight of his notorious influence to a band of his henchmen, who counted on marching from Barcelona to Madrid and Power-even as Dictator Primo made exactly that same "march à la Mussolini" (TIME, Sept. 24, 1923). The active leaders of the revolt were 18 generals and a round dozen of Liberal and Communist politicians. General Aguilera, onetime Minister...
...South. He was considering a lucrative offer from London; Charles Kemble wished to produce Weber's opera, "Oberon," at Covent Garden. The emotional strain of such an event always left him weak for days afterward and he did not want to go to London. But going meant an inheritance for his wife and two baby sons, while living on aimlessly a few years more meant leaving his family in poor circumstances. Bravely he cast for London and separation from those he loved. "Oberon" was fitted out with an English libretto and Weber himself took up the study of English...