Good Farm and Fruit Lands,
Hark I All 7e Investors and Homo*
less Psople.
Would you like to buy a farm where the
land would increase in value (3.00 per acre
each year for the next five years? Or, if
you aro renting, where the payments would
be less than the yearly rent that you ara
now paying; where you will be only bo miles
from Houston, a city with 16 railroads?
where crops will net you from (15.00 to
(85.00 per acre a year; near, whero 13 acres
, of pears have netted a farmer over (5,000
per annum; where you can in December go
into your garden and get for your diunor
fresh lettuce, radishes, peas, beans, cab
bage, beets, celery, onions, new Irish and
sweet potatoes, and on your way into the
house gather crysanthcmums, roses and
other varieties of flowers for your table;
where the climate is mild and delightful;
where frosts rarely over come; where your
stock can maintain itself on the prairie
nearly the year around; where you don't
have to spend in the winter all that you
make in the summer; but, instead, can
raise something almost every month in the
• year.
All this and more can be had at Chis
Tcrvilli, Texas, where we have a tract
of land 8 by 12 miles, with two railroads run
ning through it and two towns on it. Write
for our pamphlet, ‘‘Fertile Farm Lands,”
price, terms, etc. Also as to cheap excur
sions via the Kock Island to Ft. Worth and
from there over the Santa Fe to Wallis,
Texas, and San Antonio & Aransas Pass to
Chesterville, as well as how to secure
FREE FARE TO TEXAS.
Southern Texas Colonization Co.,
John Linoerholm, Mgr.,
110 Rialto Building, Chicago.
Christmas Gifts of Honey.
“If, after thinking for a long time,
you cannot decide what she (my poor
girl friend) would like best,” writes
Ruth Ashmore, in advising girls as to
their Christinas-giving in the Decem
ber Ladies’ Home Journal, “and yp«
know well enough to leave to her the
choice of the gift, then send her the
money that she may spend it for her
self But make this money look more
like a chosen gift, and less like that
which is so hardly earned by her;
trouble yourself to go to the bank and
put it in gold.or at least in a new bank
note, and inclose it .in a tiny little
purse.”_
Merchants Hotel, Omaha.
corxrr fifteenth and fabnam STS.
Street cars pass the door to and from
both depots; in business center of city.
Headquarters for state and local trade,
Rates (2 and S3 per day.
PAXTON & DAVENPORT, Prop’s.
To Change Cotton.
A new method has been devised for
‘animalizing” cotton—that is for. giv
ing1 it the character of animal fiber, so
that it can be dyed by the processes
that are used for wool. Heretofore
this has been accomplished by im
pregnating the material with albumin
or casein; but in the new process the
cotton fiber receiver a thin coating of
wool. In preparing the bath for this
purpose a small quantity of wool is
first dissolved by boiling with barium
hydrate. The barium is then removed
by carbonic acid gas, and a little form
aldehyde is added. The cotton cloth
is wetted with the solution so prepared
after which it is dried, steamed and
washed. It can then be dried directly
with any acid or basic dye, although
the colors obtained are not so fast as
on wooL
Hope for the Dull One*.
Dullness is not always an evidence
of a lack of brains. Parents should
not be discouraged because their child
ren are not always as bright as those
of their neighbors. When Isaac Har
row was a boy he appeared so stupid
that his father said, if God took away
any of his children he hoped it would
be Isaac. Yet that boy lived to be one
of the greatest divines of the Church of
England. Douglas Jerrould was also a
dull boy, and Napoleon’s teacher said
he would need a gimlet to put learning
into the head of the future conqueror
of Europe. Sir Walter Scott, Chatter
ton and many others were notably dull
boys.
Heseman’. Camphor Ice with Glycerine.
Cures Chapped Hands and Face, Tender or Sore Feet,
Chilblains, Files, &c. C. G. Clark Co., New Haven, Ct.
To Purify the Cistern.
If you suspect that the cistern water
is foul, suspend in it by a rope a mus
lin bag containing three or four pounds
of charcoal,, and it will become pure in
a few days. Hake the charcoal and
you can use it the same way again. To
keep out the charcoal, toss into the cis
tern one ounce of permanganate of
potassa. All the refuse will settle to
the bottom and the water become clear
and odorless. —Washington Evening
Star.
Mr.. IVlnalow’a Mootliln. a,rap
For children teething .softens the gums, reduces inflara
. nation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25 cents a bottle.
An average sized cocoanut produces a
pint of milk.
The largest kitchen in the world is that
*£ of the Bon Marche, in Paris.
> ...
: | Suffering !
Women, ;;
k
n
Alas I women do : •
suffer. Why, we : I
often cannot tell, but ;;
we know there is ;;
one great cause, and <;
that is weakness. : •
The tifadacV, the '
■ depressed reelings, the pains, the
discouragements, indeed, almost
all the misery has a common
cause—weakness. At such times
a woman always needs a friend
that can be relied upon, and such
a friend, for more than twenty
years, has been that greatest of all
remedies,
By its purity and its power it
furnishes a prompt relief for
women in their hours of need,
and if the grateful expressions
which come up from the homes
of the land about what SAFE
CURE has done were printed,
they would fill volumes. If you,
reader, ate a sufferer, can you
nqt take hope from this sug
gestion?
Elrge bottle, or new style, smaller one* st your
druggists.
IlliutMUtHMMMtttWWtJ
DAIRY AMD POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
How Successful Farmers' Operate This
Department of the Farm—A Few
Hints as to the Care of Live Stock
and Poultry.
CCASIONAL mess
es of boiled pota
toes mashed up and
made thick with
meal may be given
to vary the feed,
but do not feed
these or other
cooked vegetables
too freely, is the
opinion of a writer
in New England
have not grass, cab
bage or turnip-leaves may be used as
a green food, but should not be given
until after the regular feeds, and in
limited quantities. At noon and night,
give good, sound wheat or corn, the
latter being preferable for the last
meal of the day, which should be giv
en just before they go to roost. In
preparing the mash use boiling water,
and cover it up to cook through
until cool enough to feed out.
This not only makes it more
digestible, but actually adds to
the nutritive value. Oats are very good
for growing chickens, but are not fat
tening enough for this season, nor is
wheat as good as corn. Plenty of clean
gravel and pure water are indispensa
ble for fattening fowl. If not conven
ient to give the hot mash as early as
they desire their breakfast, give a light
feed of corn early, and follow with the
mash as soon as it can be made ready.
See that the hen houses are closed
against all draughts of cold air during
the night, but guard especially against
such as would blow across the roosts.
A cold at this season will take oft flesh
more rapidly than cornmeal can put it
on. A temperature of sixty degrees in
the hen house at night is not too warm,
but they should not be bo crowded as to
get more than that when the glass is
held near them while on the roost, and
a few visits about 9 o’clock may be
necessary to know whether this tem
perature is exceeded or not, as the flesh
or fat can be sweat oft as well as
worked ofT. Of course lice must be
kept off by using kerosene on the
roosts and walls, and by blowing in
sect powder among their feathers if
necessary. A little grease on the back
of the head and under the wings may
be needed to dislodge one species of
large gray louse that frequents these
points more than elsewhere. For old
fowl the treatment may be nearly the
same, but if they are already fat and
are not laying, care may be necessary
to see that they are not fattened too
much, so as to cause death from apo
plexy before slaughtering time comes.
Sick Chickens.
My chickens are troubled by some*
thing that causes them to die very sud
denly. They begin to droop, and act
as if they had no appetite. They stand
around, paying no attention to their
food. Sometimes a bird that appears
well in the morning will be dead before
noon, with no apparent cause for it.
My neighbors complain that their little
chicks and old fowls do the same. In
every case the wings droop, and they
lose appetite. Will some one explain
the case.—M. A. H„ Kingsley, Iowa.
We wish that when correspondents
write to us on the troubles of their live
stock they would give us more definite
information as to the previous treat
ment and feeding. It is impossible to
form a correct opinion from a few ex
ternal symptoms. In the present case,
these symptoms might be present in
many different diseases. We would like
to ask a few questions: In the case
of the fowls whose wings drooped, were
there not lice also present?’ If this was
the case with the chicks, it would ac
count for the mortality, because lice
kill more fowls, big and little, than
any disease. If the fowls had no lice,
we would suppose from the meagre
description that there was indigestion.
This would result from feeding too
much and too continuous grain rations.
Birds that are sick with liver com
plaint also act in much the same way,
but this disease can be known cer
tainly only by holding an autopsy. It
might be said, however, that in the
case of liver disease the combs get to
be a light yellow. When cut open the
fowls thus affected show immensely
swollen livers, while the rest of the
body is depleted of blood. We request
the correspondent to write again, tell
ing us more of the facts relating to the
points we have mentioned.
wiit^n ih a vri'amiTj' uiiBiiiiru.
The Kansas state board of agricul
ture sent out the following question to
the prominent dairymen of the country
and received the answers which follow
it:
Question—What is the smallest num
ber of cows or average daily milk sup
ply that will justify the building and
operation of a creamery?
Answers—Hoard.—Cows, 300; milk,
4.000 to 6,000 pounds. It takes this quan
tity to pay the expense and leave any
profit on the investment.
Haecker.—Probably 400 cows and
6.000 pounds of milk.
Wallace.—Not less than 300 cows
should be pledged.
Farrington.—In this part of the coun
try a creamery receiving 5,000 pounds
of milk per day ought to be fairly pro
fitable, and its prosperity will increase
with the milk supply.
Wilson.—There should be 10,000
pounds of milk daily to justify a good
creamery outfit.
Dean.—Three hundred cows, within a
radius of five miles, or a dally milk
supply of 6,000 pounds.
Wing.—Two hundred cows and 6.000
pounds of milk.
Goodrich.—Three hundred cows, or
a daily average of 4,000 pounds of milk.
Alvord.--From 250 to 300 cows, or
5.000 pounds of milk.
Curler.—There should be 4,000 pounds
daily for the season.
Gould.—From 250 to 300 cows.
Dawley.—Three hundred.
Mathteson.—“Hoard’s Dairyman” has
placed the number at 300; that is cer
tainly small enough. I think 500.
Carlyle.—In Minnesota and Canada
we consider that it requires 300 good
cows, or a daily average of about 5,000
pounds of milk, to justify the building
and operation of a good creamery.
There are instances, where the pros
pects are very bright for a largely in
creased number of cows being fur
nished, where a creamery might be
started with 200 to 250 cows.
Adams.—Not less than 200 cows.
Boardman—The answer to this ques
tion depends upon a number of condi
tions and circumstances. If the terri
tory is partially occupied by other
creameries, thereby limiting the
chances of a gradual increase of pat
rons, a large number of cows should be
obtained; but if dairy herds are small
and an Increase can be expected and
territory can be extended, a smaller
number will warrant the beginning.
Would say from 300 to 500 cows, or
6.000 to 10,000 pounds of milk per day.
Brandt—Milk, 6,000 pounds daily,
cows, 300.
Morgan—From 600 to 800 cows. At
present the margin or profit is small,
and should low prices continue the
smaller factories will be driven out of
the business.
Nissley—An average daily supply ot
3,500 pounds at the start, with fair
prospects ot increasing to 6,000.
The Same Confidence Game.
We were shown a letter a short time
ago to a creameryman in one of our
neighboring states, from a house claim
ing to be in the commission trade in
Chicago, asking and soliciting a con
signment of butter from the creamery
man, basing their claims upon the fact
that the market was in an advancing
condition and that prices were from
one to two cents higher in their mar
ket than the actual quotations and sales
on the day the letter was written,
with the usual amount of taffy that is
usually found in letters of this kind;
they had learned of his ability to pro
duce high grade goods, and their trade
was demanding more of that class of
stock than they were receiving, there
fore would like to have a shipment
from him, guaranteeing that they would
make prompt returns and handle the
business honorably and justly, says El
gin Dairy Report. The bait, of course,
was the extra price that was quoted for
butter, a price which would be impos
sible for this house or any other to
secure at the time the letter was writ
ten. It is doubtful if we will ever know
how many creamerymen have been
caught with this kind of literature, sent
out so freely as it is by commission
men in the various cities. Chicago has
been well supplied with this class of
people, but it is to be hoped that with
the efforts of the straight, regular
houses of the city, and other influences
that are at work, that their number
has been very much reduced. We would
advise creamerymen to go slow in ship
ping to parties who write these letters.
Find out in some manner whether they
are responsible, both morally and finan
cially, before entrusting your goods
to them. They are at long range, and
it costs money to collect any bills, even
if they are collectable, which many
times they are not.
wum or nail Milk.
Dr. Gerber, the Swiss scientist, class
ifies the causes of tainted milk as fol
lows:
1. Poor fodder.
2. Poor, dirty water, used not only
for watering cows, but also for wash
ing cans.
3. Foul air in cow stables.
4. Uncleanliness in milking.
5. Keeping the milk too long in too
warm and poorly ventilated places.
6. Neglecting to cool the milk
quickly after milking.
7. Lack of cleanliness in the care
of milk.
8. Poor transportation facilities.
9. Sick cows.
10. The cows being in heat.
Water Not Butter.—Mr. Robert Gib
son, a dealer in Irish butter, tells the
creamerymen some plain facts about
their methods of buttermaking. One
point we note for the benefit of our
makers who have leaned to the belief
that water could be sold for butter.
“The roguery of intentionally making
water stand upright by the aid of some
butter, and selling it as butter, is of
much too frequent occurrence. This
is a wrong. Only yesterday (August 10)
I had a lot supposed to be creamery
butter, the firmest of which showed on
analysis no less than 22.05 moisture,
and from its appearance, and its ap
pearance while being analyzed, there is
no doubt that the water being there
was no accident, but that it was delib
erately forced into the butter. It is wo
ful, wilful, wicked waste to make stuff
that is not wanted except at miserable
prices, while it is so easy by care to
malce the choicest, which is so much
wanted at good prices.—Ex.
Failures in Cooking Feed.—The fail
ures consequent upon feeding cooked
feed to hogs have resulted from bad
management. Through carelessness
the hogs may have«been allowed to
gluttonize themselves and lose their ap
petite. The ration may have been de
ficient, the feed may have been ground
too coarse and then not thoroughly
cooked, the feed may have been made
too sloppy, it may have been too dry, if
may have bee... fed too hot or too cold, i
it may have been fed in filth and dirt,
it may have been fed too irregular, and
if fed to young pigs it may have been
allowed to sour, and then failure would
of course follow, and the short-sighted
feeder would attribute it to cooking the
feed rather than to .his own careless
ness. »
A VIRTUE WOMAN LACKS.
Punctuality I* the Pink ot Perfection
So Some Men Ray.
Among other virtues a woman should
endeavor to cultivate that ot punctual
ity, says the Galveston Tribune. Nay,
she ought often to take more pains
about fostering this good quality than
about many others, not because it is of
itself more highly to bo esteemed but
because most women are so lamentably
wanting in it. The prompt and punc
tual woman is a sort of pleasing,
though strange, phenomenon to her
men friends, and she is sure to gain
their approbation for her most unusual
quality. It is a standing Joke' with
men that women are never exactly
punctual in the fulfillment of any en
gagement they may make. Thus, when,
a girl arranges with her brother to go
out riding with him at 4 o’clock he
generally quietly orders his horses to
be brought round at 4:30, feeling sure
that otherwise he and the groom would
be kept waiting about for an hour,
greatly to the hindrance of their differ
ent occupations. A man may laugh at
a woman who keeps him waiting when
ever she has made an engagement with
him, but he does not like it any better
than we like being kept waiting on
those comparatively rare occasions
when our men folks turn the tables on
us. Busy men are generally the most
punctual, for they realise the truth of
the old adage, “time is money,” and
therefore are careful neither to waste
it for themselves nor cause other peo
ple to do so. The want of punctual
ity in a business man is perhaps more
noticeable a fault than In a woman
living at home, but even in her it is
a very 3erious defect. It is perfectly
easy, too, to remedy it If only you will
set your mind to do so. You perhaps
have a way of always being a little
late for meals—Is it not due to your
allowing yourself rather too little time
to get ready for them? There Is no
reason, then, why you should not start
your preparations a little earlier. You
are quite right to like to make yourself
fresh and dainty before sitting down
to a meal, so don’t put yourself in the
wrong by not doing this at the right
time.
DIDN’T LIKE EXPERIMENTS.
They Listen to the Story About Bene
dictine.
One of the Massachusetts congress
men Jives near Boston, says the Wash
ington Post. He has a beautiful estate,
his admiration for which is shared by
his coachman, Mike. The other day
Mike brought a couple of his Irish
friends upon the place, and after escort
ing them around the grounds and
showing them the stables ushered
them into the hall. There, somewhat
to his surprise, he met his employer,
but the latter was determined not to
be outdone in hospitality by his coach
man. “Bring your friends right into
the dining room, Mike,” he said, and
into the dining room the trio followed
him. “Now, my men, of course you
can have what you like,” he remarked
as he stood by the sideboard, “but I
have a drink here that I think you will
like. There is a story to it, by the
way,” he added, which may interest
you. It is called Benedictine, and it is
made by monks up on the Alps. They
fill a little flask with it and send out
their St. Bernard dogs to find travelers
who may be overcome by the cold.
When a poor, half-frozen fellow is
found he drinks a little of this cordial
from the flask, and then he is able to
follow the dogs to a place of shelter.”
The men listened to the story in si
lence. Finally one of them mustered
up courage to speak. “Have you any
gin?” he asked.
"Certainly,” said the congressman as
he laid aside the cordial. “Help your
self.”
The men took a good, substantial
drink of gin and smiled happily over
its familiar taste.
“That wasn’t bad,” said one of them.
“Now bring on your dog liquor!”
Want Royalty's Autograph.
While King George of Greece was
staying at the Park hotel at Wiesbaden
a few days ago, he noticed in a window
a pane upon which his father, the King
of Denmark, bad cut,bis name with a
diamond. King George took off his own
diamond ring and engraved his name
below his father’s. A few hours after
ward the czar saw the window and im
mediately cut his i^ame. Then came
the kaiser, who added his name to
those of the three royalties. A British
diplomatist and an American million
aire are now trying to outbid each oth
er in order to get possession of the
illuminated piece of glass.
FLOTSAM AND JETSAM.
A lump of sugar saturated in vinegar
is efficacious in most cases of hic
cough.
The latest craze among the women
of Melbourne is the parting of the hair
on one side.
Phineas Stuart, of Livingston coun
ty, Mich., has just celebrated the one
hundred and third anniversary of his
birth by giving a fishing party, at
which he himself was present.
Experts have come to the conclu
sion that what kills trees in London is
not the soot flakes, or the want of air,
or the drought, but sewer gas, which
attacks the roots so that the tree soon
withers and dies.
Aunt—Come here, Fritz, at once!
Fritz- -Not unless you promise me an
other piece of cake. “No more cake
to-day.” “Then I won't come. I'll see
if I can’t cure your stubbornness.”—
Fliegende Blatter.
In Paris, where pneumatic tifes have
been introduce.! on some of the cabs
in consequence of the lessened shock
to the vehicles, the cost of repair has
been reduced 50 per cent, to say noth
ing of the saving to the nerves of the
aisengers.
Advantage of Sleep*
In reply to the question, ia it wise foi
n man to deny himself a few hours
sleep a day to do more work, Tesla
the great electrician, said: “That is i
great mistake, I am convinced. A mat
has just so many hours to be awak«
and the fewer of these he uses up each
day, the moro days he will last; that
is, the longer he will live. I believe
that a man might live 200 years if he
would sleep most of the time. That it
why negroes often live to advanced old
age, because they sleep-so much. It i;
said that Gladstone sleeps seventeen
hours each day; that is why his facul
ties ore still unimpaired in spite of hit
great age. The proper way to econo
mize life is to sleep every moment that
it is not necessary or desirable that
you should be awake.”
Color In House Furnishings.
Even the iron bedsteads have turned
green. IVhen combined with bras?
knobs and rails they look well in
rooms of white and green, or pink and
green, but not as well as those of white
and gold or all of brass. A pretty bed
room furnished in green has wicker
chairs of lght olive, the bedstead brass
and green, and a green dressing table
witli brass trimmings The wall pa
per is a chintz pattern showing green
leaves and pink roses on a white back
ground. The chair cushions are cov
ered with cretonne that matches the
wall paper.—New York Post.
Farmer Wanted
In Every township,' three days a week,
during winter, to distribute samples, col
lect names of sick peop'eand work up trade
for their druggists on the 3 great family
remedies: Dr. Kay's Renovator, Dr. Kay's
Lung Balm, and Kidnevkura. Cood pay to
man or woman. Hend for booklet and
terms. Dr. B. J. Kay Medical Co.rWestem
office, Omaha, Neb.
- Monument to a Pig,
Until within the past few months no
monuments had ever been erected to
the memorry of a pig. The town of
Luneberg, Hanover, wished to fill up
the blank and at the Hotel de Villo in
that town, there Is to be seen a kind
of mausoleum to the memory of the
porcine raco, In the interior of the
commemorative structure is a costly
glass case inclosing a ham still in good
preservation. A slab of black marble
attracts the eye of the visitor, who
finds thereon the following inscription
in Latin, engraved in letters of gold:
“Passerby, contemplate here the mor
tal remains of the pig which acquired
for itself imperishable glory by the
discovery of the salt springs of Lune
berg,
Nasal Catarrh for Years,
SO-CALLED CATARRH CURES
FAILED TO CURE.
The True Way la to Taka the One True
Wood Former.
Catarrh is caused by Impure blood. The
best physicians say so. The only way to
cure catarrh is to purify the blood. Hood's
Sarsaparilla cures catarrh when all other
medicines fail, because Hood's Sarsaparilla
is The One True Blood Purifier. This is
logical, and that it is true is proved by
thousands of testimonials like this:
“I was troubled with nasal catarrh for
many years. 1 doctored lor it, and at one
time took a dozen bottles of a so-called
catarrh cure, but without beneficial effect.
1 had read of cases where others
Had Been Cured by Hood's
Sarsaparilla, and I determined to try it.
1 took five Lotties last Year, and was high
ly pleased with the relief oltained. 1
have had no particular trouble irom ca
tarrh since that time except a slight in
flammation when 1 catch cold. I have
proved, in my own case, that Hood's Sar
saparilla will cure catarrh, and I also de
rived benefit in a general way from its
use. It is an excol'ent remedy, and 1 am
glad to give my experience with it for ca
tarrh for the benefit of those who mav be
simi'arly afflicted.’’ Mas. John- Lkumax,
103 Wilkinson 8t., Ooshen, Indiana.
Ho Did Not Obey.
When they told her that the young
man whose suit she liad rejected the
previous evening had hanged himself
to the gate post directly he left her,
the beautiful girl shrugged her shoul
ders.
“It isn’t my fault,'’ she said, coldly,
“I specifically told him be mustn’t
think of hanging around here any
more.” __
Piso's cure for Consumption has been a
family medicine with us since 18H5.—J. R.
Madison, '-1400 -t'-’d Ave., Chicago. Ills.
The first year of a j resident's adminis
tration is one of appointments and disap
pointments.
•ays
Pretty
Poll
She’* just '* poll parroting."
There’s no prettiness in pills,
except on the theory of “ pretty
is that pretty does.” In that
case she’s right.
Ayer’s Pills
do cure biliousness, constipation^
and all liver troubles.
Ills Torn.
Willie (crying)—For gbodnesa
papa, don’t go in the house. Uannna’s
just thrashed me, and you’ll be next!
49 YEARS
A SUFFERER.
'■* feept. 9th. 1
Dear Sir*?—Am tl j-nim old and began _
medicine last April for RhcumiMflam, which 1 km*el
for 49 years, al«o for n weak heart. Hinco takhiy-t
tlrope” the Rheumatism has nil disappeared. I h» stiff
neaa la pone from nty joint*, and my heart —ear
tnlaaea a beat I am today a well, a trot** vruiam, m#
1 owe It to "ft Drop*.*' 1 only wish 1 could a—4a#
butflo of praixe loud enough to be heard all one ffb
world, and could convince every ouo tbafc *■& Rr«|r
1* all you claim it to be and more.
Mrs, D. T. OAteoau ”k
W Inalow, Stevenson Ca, Ok
Every one knows thiv| (“5 Drep* Mfr:
quick and permanent cure for llfetfR
■ant lam, Neural/lit. OMartl^
llyaaeiiala, ReivanauM** “ _
_ dt-l|»g»e« and kindred disease*.
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Companion for 1897.
Celebrating in 1897 its seventy-first birth
day Tits Companion offers its readers many
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In addition to the 25 staff writers Thr
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