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t ' FARM HINTS. Breed In May for fall pigs. Don't get Into the habit of trading boraei. The oiled collar wears itself and the horse's shoulder less. A crust is a gcod thing on pie, but a ba dthing on a corn field. If you have a rough pasture, fence It and turn In brood sows. Teasing or tickling horses renders them vicious and Irritable. Be sure there are no lice on the colts when they are turned out to pacture. Don't let too many chicks run to gether. Big flocks are prone to disease. A stout buckskin string tied to some part of the harness often comes mighty handy. , Be sure that your cows are treated kindly and not hurried to and from the pacture. The cows should be milked both clean and quickly, and at the same hour ev ery day. If the Utile colt does not get milk enough feed it milk with oat meal gruel in It. The duck Is the coming fowl. Post up on raising ducks and Increase your ank account. Clean, fresh water Is indispensable for poultry. Don't let them suffer for It this summer. Keep the hens well supplied with grit to keep them healthy and to produce firm-shelled eggs. Instead of throwing stones at the scratching hen, mend the garden fence and keep your pets tame. You can afford to pay a good price for a good bull. A poor one is a reck less extravagance as a gift. The earlier the weed is killed the eas ler the task, the more effective the job and the less Injury to the corn. If there Is no fishing In your neigh borhood make some. It Is a poor farm that won't support a fish pond. The, corn planted In ground In good condition will pass the corn planted two weeks earlier In cold, wet ground. Corn put In cold, wet ground will make only a sickly plant, but the grass and weeds will make a good growth The folly of farming without fun Is fully found when the boys begin to talk about enlisting for a campaign of aln in town. If corn and potatoes are not up, har row promptly when the soil Is dry enough after a heavy rain. There Is money In It. Attractive appearance often makes a market where none existed, and the appearance of things Is usually In con trol of the producer. A well that la not clean and so con structed as to keep out all contaminat ing leakagea Is misnamed. It should be known aa a "sick." Keep a sharp eye on the laying qual ities of your hena, ao that when the time comes to cull you can get rid of the unprofitable one. If your horses or cowa shrink from you in fear when you approach them It Is evident that some one about the farm needs a lesaon In klndnesa. It takes lota of good aervice from a dog to pay for the fleaa and foul smells he produces; and It's lucky for the dogs that ao few of us caat up accounts. A flower bed Is not so contemptible as to be unworthy of a few minutes cf a man's labor. It may afford s much pleaaure In Ita way aa a cornfield or a cow, Keep a barrel of lime In the hen house, with a shingle stuck In It. Ev ery few days then It la handy to acattcr lime around where It will do the most good. Time la not gained, but lost, by planting corn before the ground Is well warmed; and the ground may be cold when the sun and even the air are quite warm. The man who would get up a corner In the r.ecersarles of life and reap a fortune therefrom ia r.o better than a thief, and ought to le ar.t to the pen itentiary. If you have all the p'ana laid out for your season's work It may be a good Idea to let your wife take a kodak aquint at them to ac-e if they are prac tical or not. If you have been breeding from pure bred alrea, and have high bred grade atock, don't Improve them further by Introducing a new breed. That Is the road to acrubdom. Horses oyer twelve yeara old often auffer from toothache, which prevents mastication and rauaea poor condition. Every horae ahould ba examined an. nually by a veterinary dentlat. It paya. I have found out that !t paya to let the wife have her way In the garden i- fati.t.. in th knma anil . . .... ... fired it point blank into his wife's face tact I have com to think about It. It la mmctlngwounds in both eyea-onVol Mwalty M wall to let her etert her In. I which aha haa completely loet, the ath jLjaass aiaaaat aawhare. er belag severely Injured. The weeds are Inclined to laugh when they see a cultivator coming into wet ground, for they know it will not hurt them much, and it will put the ground in bad condition and that is good for tune for them. It is a good plan to spend some time training the colts when the weather will not permit active field work. Colts should be taught from youth up to do what will be required of them when older, thus paving the breaking re quired of green horses. The hen doesn't create eggs from nothing, though on some places It seems apparent that she does. She is simply a machine for turning out eggs from the raw material. If you supply a hen with the material she will do the transformation act. It Is easier to cultivate corn that is Just coming up than It Is to cultivate after the leaves have spread, and it is knowledge of this fad which enables the wide awake farmer to do with a harrow what the other fellow cannot do with a shovel plow keep the field clean. It Is a lamentable fact that some men would rather make (?) 15 trading horses than to take proper care of their cows, pigs and chickens. It is belter to make an honest dollar producing some thing that will contribute that much to the sum total of good things of this world than to make $5 in some doubtful speculation, the chance for which may never occur again. Do not set milk or cream In a cellar where potatoes or other vegetables are stored. Do not set a trap In your corn crib door; you might catch your neigh bors" fingers In it. Do not et a hen In the horse trough, old Dobbins will eat the eggs. Do not nt still when Im portant work needs to be done. It Is well enough to set, and of vast Import? ance to set everything properly. Cattle often have rough brown spots on the skin, something like large warts. These should be touched or washed with carbolic acid, diluted about one third. Two or three applications are usually all that Is necessary, and then apply salted grease. These spots are caused by an insect which burrows un der the skin. They will spread if the Insect is not killed. It Is mange. Strawberry Shortcake Mix thorough ly one pine bread flour, half teaspoon salt, two level teaspoonfuls baking powder and one tablespoonful of sugar, and rub In one-fourth cup of butter. Beat one egg very light, add one scant cup milk (about seven-eighths) without mixing .and stir this Into the flour. Beat well and then cpread the dough on two round shallow pans. Bake and when done split, butler and spread with fruit, sweetened and mashed. The plow that ulll prow up bread. butter and contentment, is a good one whether It cuts fourteen or sixteen inches wide. To make a bad plow go well, the plowman should have happy thoughts and he will not abuse his team Our thoughts Influence our ac Hons and actions speak louder than words. I have observed dogs that could tell when their masters were out of humor even If they said not a word. and I once owned a religious cow that would kick a profane hired man aa fast as he could get up. CARE OP FRESH COWS. A very large proportion of the cowa In the country arr bred to calve In the spring, and with the late season gcod care will be r.eeded for the prevention of the troubles to common at calving time. Especially will 11 be necessary to exercise care with the milk cows. No cold water nor any of a much lower temperature than blood heat, should be given for at leas', a week after calving. During this time at least, and often for a long.- period, the cow Is quite fever ish and very thirsty. If allowed to drink water of the temperature of the atmosphere, all the heat of the body will be exhausted In raising the temper- ature of the water to that of the blood. This produces external chills, which ,ln turn. Intensifies and protracts the fever. As long aa the fever lasts, too, no grain should be fed, but, instead, only bran slops made with warm water, and nothing but laxative food should be given. Keep the udder milked clean, and be on the lookout for any tender ness of the teats. With milk cowa the calf should be removed at least as scon as the milk becomes normal. Many do not allow It to such more than once a day and some not at all, but Instead milk and feed the colostrum, which It Is necessary that the calf should have In order that the digestive apparatus may be regulated thereby. NEW CURE FOR DRUNKENNESS. Curtain lectures are, as benedicts know to their cost, one of those amen ities of life that might with advantage b dispensed with, says the Berlin cor reipondnt of the London Dally Tele graph. And perhaps wives who live on the Rhlr.e will henceforth avoid ad ministering the cold water cure .when thelt husbands return home In a Hate of Intoxication. The police court at Mayence has sentenced an old man of 61 to a year'a Imprisonment for the mode In which he resented his wife's Ideas of applying a remedy against drunkenness. He re turned home one night visibly In his cupa, whereupon his wife gave him a very sharply worded curtain lecture Not being one of those who are satis fled with Inflicting stlnga by linguistic combinations alone, ahe added forct to her scolding by pouring- a bucket uf ice cold water on his head. The man thereupon took up loaded pistol and THE IDEAL HUSBAND. (Mrs. Clark-Hardy, Red Cedar. Wis.) With advancing years one's Ideals are likely to become slightly modified. Ex perience teaches us that humanity must even be of the earth earthy ways and we are willing that It should be so, realizing that we ourselves, having so little of the angelic in our makeup, are much happier walking in close compan ionship with one who has his share of the faults and frailties of humanity, than we could possibly be with a being so perfect in his spiritual nature that he would never be able to make allow ance for our own inherent depravity; and so, roy ideal husband is Intensely human, and ever will be until he at tains to that sphere where they neither marry or are given In marriage. But my ideal husband must be first and always a Christian gentleman. He must be clean, morally, mentally and physically, and love must be the dom inant principle of his whole life. Love for his family and his home. I think that the Apostle Paul had an Ideal husband in his mind's eye when he said "Husbands, love your wives even as Christ loved the church." Such love as this will secure to the wife perfect confidence, perfect peace and perfect happiness and will be a safeguard to the husband in the hours of temptation, precluding all dishonor or unfaithfulness. To my Ideal husband home will be the deareBt spot on earth, and the home circle the very best society, and he will remember that marriage is a yoke which must be borne equally by hus band and wife, and as she has given up much that was dear to her heart, the home of her childhood, the tender, pro tecting care of her parents, and much of girlish pleasure to become his wife, and all for love's sweet sake, he, too, will gladly forego many of the pleas ures .and the freedom of his bachelor days for the sweeter Joys of domestic life. He realizes that the word hus band signifies "house-band," the band which binds the home and family to gether, and he willingly gives them as much of his society as Is possible, while he tolls uncomplainingly that his loved ones may be maintained in comfort, and he finds in the love and apprecia tion of his family a fitting recompense for all his labor. His home Is to him a safe anchorage from all the storms of life, and In its peaceful moorings he finds his greatest earthly happiness. My ideal husband is kind and courte us to his family, and remembering that love is a wife's wages, he does not skimp In his pay. He remembers also that loving word3 and kind deeds are the flowers that make glad the heart of the living, while green grass on a well kept grave gives no Joy to the pulse- lees heart that lies beneath. My Ideal husband understands that, as his wife gives of her time for the making and maintaining of -the home, even as he gives of his own for Its support, she is lustly entitled to share equally with him in thf proceeds of their Joint labor, and he never forgets that she is not only his wife, tut an Individual whose rights are at sacred as his own and these rights he is bound to respect and protect. In conclusion we will say the Ideal husband is not so rare as some people suppose. There are plenty of them, as many a wife will testify, and may their number never grow less. Is not this just auch an ideal hus band aa one would expect our friend, Mra. Hardy, to depict? Mrs. Hunn portrays her Ideal In rhyme, and really does It all In the very first verse, though the second and buc :eedlng verses add touches to the pic- lure which make it one not easily to be forgolten: THE IDEAL HUSBAND. (Mrs. F. J. Hunr., Arrlngton, Kan.) My Ideal husband A man must be Whom I can be proud of. Who'll be proud of me. With lots of affection Not hidden away. Rut convenient and ready For use every day. A constant companion, My pleasures to share, All my Joys to Increase By his loving care. He need not be handsome. May even be plain. But a dude or a fop I will always disdain. His breath must be free From tobacco's vile smell, And alan the odor Of strong drink aa well. In vulgar, bad language He must not take part, For the words of the llpa Proceed from the heart. He must not seek pleasure Where I cannot go, Nor have sly companions Whom I must not know. Should he meet misfortune. And troubles press aore, My labors shall help drive The wolf from our door Should alckness assail him, Or accident malm, I'll shoulder his burden And carry the same. Thus we'll double our Joy And our aorrows divide Aa we travel through III Walking aide by side. Then leaving this world For a home up above We'll dwell there forever In Joy, peace and love. FRILLS OF FASHION Velvet cord neck chalna strung with coral beada are one of the seaaon'a nov. eltlea. The new molra allk woven with floral deelgne la aa toft and pliable aa oriental aatla. Vary pretty are the coetumea of allk. warp mohair, drap d'eta and crepon etu, trtmmed wHb shepherd's-orook Ilk la vartoua mw arttetle eoter aal (arm SANTA CLAUS POSTAL SERVICE Reindeer will Ba Brought From SI berlato Carry Klondike Mall. There will be a new field for poetrj and romance when the United Stater reindeer postal service Is started ir Alaska. What tales of Journeys ovei mountains, river and glaciers to taki to some lone miner or trader the news of home will be told by those who ar drawn by the swift animals! Wha lives will be saved by the tidings ol privation that will fly over the snow and Ice and the quick return of succor From the frozen shores of. the Arc t'c, far up where the whalers go lr summer, to the shores of the North Pacific the swift, patient animals wll' make their track. Gold hunters, trap, perg, lumbermen will hear of stirring affairs of the world and of loved oret at home. The pony express gives way to the reindeer and the sledge. The problem of Arctic transportation since the rush to the Klondike has caused much anxiety to the postofflcf department, and has been finally solved only after an expenditure of much time and money by the choice of the domesticated reindeer as the only prac ticable and speedy method of distrlbuc ing the Alaskan mail. Now, to carry out the plans the revenue cutter The tis is being fitted out for a cruise along the Siberian coast to secure the swift est of these animals from the Siberian herders. Lieutenant D. H. Jarvls, one of the most experienced of Arctic offi cers, will be in command. The nearest market of the domesti cated reindeer Is on the east coast of Siberia, Just across the Bering strait. Here the animals have been herded and trained by the nomadic tribes that roam up and down the coast, sub sisting mainly on the products of the herds and bartering skins with the coast natives for tobacco, firearms, am munition and other commodities. The Thetis will meet these tribes along the coast, purchase the best of the deer and transport them across to the Alaskan oast. The present methods of transporta tion In Alaska are by dog trains, Indian packers and boats. By boat it Is impos sible to travel nine months of the year, and dog team travel is limited, slow and uncertain, as the greater part of the load has to be taken up by food for the animals. The history of every expedi tion that has penetrated into the coun try with Indians or dogs has been one of great Buffering and hunger. Not only in carrying the mall will the reindeer be of service, but to explorers, miners, missionaries and settlers they will prove a pure means of transportatlng supplies and will greatly aid In exploration and development. The reindeer rcpjepses all the re quisites for Arctic travel. They are swift, tractable and self-sustaining. The moss upon which they feed covers the whole of Northern Alaska and they reach It by burrowing through the snow with their deeply cleft hoofs. A swift reindeer can make 150 miles a day under favorable conditions, and twelve miles an hour Is the fair average rate of speed drawing a load of 300 pounds. The aver age price of the reindeer Is $10. In order to teach the Alaskan Es- qulmeaux the art of handling the rein deer experienced Lapland and Siberian herders, with their families, have been employed by the government at a sal. ary of $27 per month and food. The gov ernment station le at Port Clarence. The reindeer, besides furnishing transporta tlon, provides food, clothing, house. furniture, Implements, weapons and harness to the natives, and to the white Inhabitants reindeer clothing Is the most serviceable. The most remarkable reindeer trip on record, and one which undoubtedly In fluenced the postal authorities In chooS' Ing that animal, was made recently by W. J. KJellman, superintendent cl the station at Port Clarence. With two herders and a reindeer team he trav eled 1,000 miles through a trackless country to the valley of the Kuskowim river, south of Yukon, to obtain mall. The deer at the nd tf the trip were In good condition, and after a few daya foi rest and feeding the return was made to Port Clarence without miBhapa oi lessening of speed. The first of these animals were taken to Alaska in 1892, through a bill Intro duced by Senator Teller, appropriating 115,000 to Introduce Into the territory reindeer for domestic purposes. They were to furnish a permanent supply of food for the 20,000 natives who were at that time on the verge of starvation. The revenue cutter Bear made several trlpa to the Siberian coast and took fifty reindeer to Port Clarence. Varlou other stations, with additional herds, have since been established. A systematized reindeer mall express will be of great Importance to the own era of whaling fleets, who have millions of dollars and 1,000 Uvea at stake. Suck a service would have saved much anx iety laat winter If It had given Informa tion that the icebound whaling fleet waa In no peril. To the half hundred missionaries Ir Northern and Central Alaaka, aa well ai to the thousands of Ice Imprisoned sea men who yearly have to apend th dreary Arctic winter at Point Barrow this new aervice will be a boon. Onlj once a year haa the curtain been llfteC for them, upon the arrival of the steam er with provisions and mall. With thi proposed reindeer service a monthl) mall packet can be established. A unique little candle haa Ita owt electrto plant all to Itself. The candle stick la of Iron, with a compartment In the baae Into which can ba fitted I small battery. The battery la connected with th little bulb at the top of the opaqui white glaaa candle. The Incandeacen light thua produced la Just the props hM for the flame of a real candle, an the whole can ba carried about tt ovat with tntlra safety. INSULTED A HOC. 720,000 Damages For Defamation of trie Porker's Character. George C. Council has begun a suit In the circuit court in Springfield, III., to recover 120,000 from Charles A. Vigal because Vigal has said the hog that Council sold to a syndicate as a famous porker known as Klever's Model was not Klever's Model at all, but just a plain, every day "ringer." Now the term "ringer" as applied to swine does not mean merely a pig adorned with a ring in its nose to keep it from the un pleasant habit of rooting up young on ion beds. The syndicate that bought the hog of Council calls it a "ringer" because, Its members say, it is not the hog that Council claimed it was at all. The hog the members of the syndi cate wanted to buy was a proud, aristo cratic swine of the Poland China breed called Klever's Model, and they paid $5,100, said to be the highest price ever paid for a hog In the United States, for one they thought was Klever's Model. But after they had the animal In their possession they claimed to have discovered it was, Instead, only a low, common, base-born porker known as Columbia Wilkes, which they say would have been hard to dispose of at $40. They refused to pay a matter of some $1,000 on notes they had given Council when the hog was bought. Council sued on the notes. They had Council Indicted by the grand jury. There have been suits and cross suits. The litigation over the hog already has cost over $10,000. The last time Coun cil sued to recover on the notes the Jury declared him in the right and gave him Judgment. Now he has start ed after the men who said Klever's Model was a plebeian hog in disguise and haa begun by suing Vigal for $20, 000. . The story of Council, the syndicate, and the hog is a long one, but every child in Sangamon county knows it by heart. It began in 1897 at the State fair grounds in Springfield. Council decid- d to publicly auction off a famous hog he owned, known as Klever's Model The hog came of an ancient and highly espected race, and. his fame was known the country through, so when he was put up on the block on September 8 to be sold to the highest bidder stock men from all over the country were there, anxious to secure the prize. The bidding rose higher and higher and finally Klever's Model was sold to a syndicate for $5,100. The syndicate was composed of James E. Snare of Wyoming and George A. Heyl and A. M. Caldwell of Washington. They es- :orted Klever's Model home In triumph. All was serene until Council's hired man whispered about the country a oorrlble secret. He was a Swede, named named Arthur Thlelander. He said his :onfclence troubled him bo that he felt ne must ppeak. He declared the big Poland China hog that went under the name cf Klever's Model was not Kie- ver s Model at an. me real severs Model, he said, had died nearly a year before the auction sale of one of the pestilences peculiar to the hog race. The hired man said he had been with Klever's Model when It lay down and died, had been chief mourner at :he funeral, and had acted as under laker for the deceased porker. He re ated how at the dead of night by the tlckly glare of a barn lantern, he had mid Klever's Model in a grave. The .iext day, he said. Council built a straw itack over the grave and put a new ,low oorn heg, Columbia Wilkes, In the place formerly occupied by Klever's nodel. This degraded hog waa Intro duced around aa Klever's Model, so the .tired man alleged, and finally sold as the original animal. When the members of the syndicate heard the hired man's tale they were greatly exercised. They sent a man to exhume the remains under the Btraw stack on the Council farm. The grave waa opened, but Instead of finding the skeleton of one hog they found all that remained of two. Council had not de nied the existence of hog bones under the straw stack, but said they were those of two hogs that had died of cholera, and he had burled them to pre vent the disease from spreading. Nei ther of these hogs, he declared, was Klever's Model, which he Insisted he had sold to the syndicate. The ayndlcate men, however, were not satisfied. They took the hired man over to see the hog they had bought and the hired man pointed his finger at it and said, like the hero of a melo drama. "I know you now. You are not the aristocratic Klever's Model, but the base-born Columbia Wilkes." So the syndicate men posted off to Springfield and put the hired man In the grand Jury room, and the hired man told the grand Jury his story and Council was Indicted. The case came up for trial and the state's attorney waa preparing to wage a vlgoroua pros ecution against Council and the false Klever's Model, when he received an affidavit from Thlelander atatlng that he had aworn falsely before the grand Jury and that the real Klever'a Model was alive and not mouldering In the lonesome grave under the haystock. The state's attorney thought this set tled the matter and dismissed the case, but it waa not to end here. The syn- Jlcate members claimed Thlelander had been bribed, a position In which they were enthusiastically sustained by the versatile Mr. Thlelander himself dur ing the trial of a suit which Council brought against the membera of the ayndlcate to recover on the note. In the flrat trial the jury disagreed. In the second both sides brought experts from every part of the country to swear for the defendanta that Klever'a Model waa Columbia Wllkea la disguise, and for the plaintiff that Klever'a Model waa the only original. Over eighty witnesses war examla ad, and the Juror were aa muddled aa they had been at the first trial, when Council won his suit by checkmating a move -f the defence. The defence had exhibited to the Jury the hog which they had bought as Klever's Model, but which they said was Columbia Wilkes. Council went out to his farm and came back with a hog that he proved to the satisfaction of the Jury was the original Columbia Wilkes. With Columbia ac counted for, the jury decided that Kle ver's Model could be none other than himself. So the case was decided for Council and now he has begun suing the men who have insisted that Klever's Model was Columbia Wilkes with another ring in his nose and his tail trimmed off. Meantime the hired man is silent and mysterious and is expected to come forward soon with a brand new sensation. PLANS A BAND A-WHEEL. Salvation Army Musicians will Now Mount Bikes and Pursue Scorchers. In order not to be left behind In good works, and realizing that his satanic majesty utilizes all up-to-date methods, the Salvation Army officials have put a bicycle band in the field against the co horts of sin, says the New York Jour nal. Adjutant Anderson, In the finan cial department in the Fourteenth street armory, is the leader of the bi cycle band, and in a few days from fifteen to twenty members, Including bass and snare drummers, will start out to carry their warfare Into the midst of the bicyclists who spin up the bou levard to Grant's Tomb or down the bicycle path to Coney Island. Accom panying the band awheel will be the bicycle squad connected with the ar mory headquarters, numbering between twenty and thirty wheels. "We have had considerable difficul ty," said Adjutant Anderson, "in han dling the baas drum, You see, it is an unwieldy instrument and offers much surface to the wind. Aside from that it is a difficult instrument to manage In a crowded bicycle path with the 'scorchers' and racers dodging in and out. Lieutenant Stimson, however, has about mastered the situation, and by an arrangement of heavy wires he has so adjusted the drum in front of the handle bar that he can steer his ma chine with one hand and pound away with the other. "Then, again, you know, we all play more or less 'by ear," so that we do not have to carry music with us. If we used notes the necessity of gazing at the music would istract our attention ) and render our career decidedly wob-1 bly. Then our snare drummer, if he ; goes alone, will have to play with one( hand, but we are trying to arrange a double wheel, which will give the! drummer the use of both hands. AMI of the other instruments are so ar-. ranged that a one-hand manipulation! will furnish all the music we are after. We expect to be ready in a few days to start this branch of the army out; upon the war path and we expect good, results." All the army officials are exhibiting much interest in the bicycle musician and while a number of the officers and "lassies" have already mastered the wheel, others are dally practicing, so that before the summer Is over the . bicycle squad will be greatly In creased. "We recognize the fact," said an offl- cer, "that bicycling has taken a firm hold upon the people and that many ; have deserted the church service to speed away to the country on the Sab- I bath and holidays. The only way to' reach those people is to go along with ( them. The only way to get near them : Is to utilize the bicycle and keep abreast of them as well as abreast of the times. "The bicycle squad and band will wear no different uniform, but will carry a haversack upon their shoulders to contain their traps. The men will; wear clasps on the bottom of their trousers, while our women will wea; sklrta slightly abbreviated. There will , be no divided skirts Just the plain blue affair." Potato Cure For Rheumatism. Among the many curiosities pulled out of an Irishman's pocket one day in ; a vain search for a coin was a little, black object that looked like a hard, ' round piece of agate. A friend ex pressed astonishment at the man's car rying such a thing In his pocket, and asked him why he did It. "Why, man alive," Pat exclaimed,' "that is not a stone, but Just a potato, and, sure, I carry it with me to cure me rheumatics. I have two about me," said Pat, diving down in his other pock et and bringing forth the mate of, the first curious looking potato, as Pat swore It was, Upon investigation It was found that Pat had much method In his madness. Potatoes among old country people have been looked upon for many years aa a preventive of rheumatlam. Small, round, smooth potatoes are chosen, and are put In each pocket of the trousers. Soon the potatoes become black, but they never rot; they seem to be petrl. field, and it Is claimed they take the poison of the disease out of the system. At any rate, the remedy la a elmpl one and well worth a trial. "I gave that poor man $1 a few days ago and told him to come around and let me know how he got along." "Oh, that waa good of youl He waa your bread cast upon the waters." "I suppose he waa. Anyhow, ha cama back 'soaked.' "-Philadelphia Bulletin. Dentist Did you aver taka gas be fore T Farmer Haycede Look her smarty, that Joke's gona fur enough, Vfoah 'Imlghtyl Reckon that oonaaniad total (rttrk'a Mra tail's, ran about It, taa. ,i - '. - J .h m, ii . 3 - i." . i "V '