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Loup City Northwestern J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher. LOUP CITY, . - - NEBRASKA. It would be quite a Joke on Prof. O’Brien should Prof. Jeffries recon sider. The emergencies that never turn up are the ones we always feel able to cope with. Mr. Harriman says he is not a phil anthropist, and yet no one seems dis posed to take issue with him. May Yohe wants a divorce from Putty Strong. In other words, May finds it impossible to stay Put. In many respects Santo Domingo is a delightful country. Its only serious defect is the quality of its inhabi tants. Before marriage a girl talks about how often her betrothed writes. Afterward she talks about woman’s rights. In St. Paul it has been decided that a kiss is not a caress but an assault. It shows what a bracing winter cli mate will do. Jacob H. Schiff, the New York banker, gave his cook, Lena, $5,000 for a Christmas preseat. Mr. Schiff’s cook will stay. After this the United States Steel corporation should insist that its pres ident’s pay envelope be sent straight home to his wife. The battleship New Jersey is to be launched in the spring. Of course everybody knows what she’ll oe “christened” with. A New York dentist who shot his father-in-law has been held for mur der. It does not pay the dentist to use lead for a filling. Old 1905 must have been glad to go. He had aged fearfully from men tal worry over strikes, revolutions, and insurance scandals. One of Mr. Carnegie’s Christmas gifts was $1,250 to a Methodist church in Catawissa, Penn., for a new organ. That beats Russell Sage. It has been nearly a century since a Russian czar said to an English dip lomat, “There is a sick man in Eu rope,” and Turkey is still alive. President Eliot complains that the average barber makes as much as the average school teacher. Yes, but think what a mine of information he is. As Santo Domingo always keeps a large surplus supply of presidents on hand the disappearance of one now and then cannot make much differ ence. Mrs. Leslie Carter has with her on her tour this winter an automobile, chauffeur, man servant, footman, a Chinese chef and three maids. Also her press agent. Prof. O’Brien lost his pocketbook and diamond stud to a Philadelphia pickpocket. This may soften Just a trifle the bitterness of Prof. Fitzsim mons’ melancholy. Mme. Nordica bravely stopped a fire on the stage by putting her foot on it, but the question whether she would have stopped a mouse in the same way is undecided. A Minnesota woodchopper found pearls in an abandoned bird’s nest. This is probably the only case on rec ord where a last year’s bird’s nest ever panned out anything. It is announced that 2.000 new biog raphies will be added to the next edi tion of “Who’s Who in America.” The important people of the United States are being rapidly discovered. Those brewery workers in Cincin nati who preferred a nine-hour day with free beer to an eight-hour day without probably figure to use the ex tra hour up getting their beer. Twenty-two coal dealers in Cincin nati have been indicted for a conspir acy to raise prices. What would their sentence be. In case of convic tion, if it were left to popular vote? The kaiser moved his seat from one box to another, to be nearer the stage, when Geraldine Farrar was singing "Tannhaeuser” in Berlin. King Ed ward would have gone behind the scenes. The Chicago man whose wife beat him over the head with a poker and pushed him out of doors because he didn’t bring her home a Christmas present ought to know what to do next time. A Philadelphia man committed sui cide because the girl he fell in love with could not prove that she had a long line of illustrious ancestors. Philadelphia has reformed politically, but refuses to give up the grandfather Idea. The superintendent of Bellevue hos pital backs up Dr. Osier’s statement about the rarity of deathbed visions, and adds that women are vastly more courageous in meeting death than men. So they are In most of the emer gencies of life. Women are killing so many of our birds to wear on their heads that it is time for fashion to make a change. Mice are suggested as appropriate, or cats, or infant kangaroos. When will a woman learn that she is the attrac tion, and not the dead animal she wears?—Brooklyn Eagle. Some Inquisitive person wants to know why the man who waters his milk is put in jail, while the man who "waters” trust stocks is called a great financier. But is the man who waters his milk always put in Jail? THE CALL OF THE CANADIAN WEST. Ths Greatest Wheat Crop of the Con tinent. The year that has Just closed has done a great deal toward showing the possibilities of Western Canada from an agricultural standpoint. The wheat crop has run very near to the 100,000,000 bushel limit that was look ed' upon as too sanguine an estimate only a short time ago, and the area that has been broken to fall wheat for the coming harvest will go a long way towards epabling the farmers of the West to overlap on the 100,000,000 bushel estimate next year. And while the spring and winter wheat have been doing so well during the past few years, the other cereals have been keeping up with the procession. Rye and barley have made Immense strides, and peas and flax have been moving steadily along. Dairying, also, has been successfully carried on in the new provinces, and in every stage the farmer has been "striking it rich.” To such an extent has the success of the West taken hold of the outsiders that the rush of our Ameri cans to Saskatchewan and Alberta, which was looked upon as marvelous last year, bids fair to be largely ex ceeded in 1006, and as there are still millions of acres of free homesteads available, which the building of the new railways will render accessible fo the markets, new wheat lands will be opened ere long. Amongst the first to avail himself of the opportun settler. In a large number of Amerl lty presented will be the American can cities Dominion Government Agents are located, who are able and willing to give the latest and best in formation in regard to the new dis tricts which the railways will open up, and there will be no abatement of the rush to the Canadian prairies dur ing the coming season. Some time since a poet in the columns of the "Toronto Star” had the following stirring lines, which throb of the Western spirit: There’s a stir in the air, there’s a thrill through the land, There's a movement toward the great West; And the eyes of all men for the mo ment are turned To the country that we love the best. For ’tls Canada’s day in the world's calendar. And to this merry toast let us sup: "Here’s to the land, the young giant of the North, Where the prairies are opening up!” They come from the East, and they come from the South, They come o’er the deep rolling sea— They come, for they know they will dwell ’neath a flag That makes all men equal and free. Then, once more the toast, and let every man rise And cheer ere he sips from the cup: "Here’s to the land, the young giant of the North, Where the prairies are opening up!” A Lesson in Good Manners. A well-known lawyer Is telling a good story about himself and his ef forts to correct the manners of his office boy. One morning, not long ago, relates the Brooklyn Citizen, the young autocrat of the office blew into the office and, tossing his cap at a hook, exclaimed: “Say, Mr. Blank, there’s a ball game down at the park park today and I am going down.” Now the attorney was not a hard hearted man, and was willing the boy should go, but thought he would teach him a lesson in good manners. “Jimmie” he said, kindly, “that isn’t the way to ask a favor. Now you come over here and sit down and I’ll show you how to do it” The boy took the office chair and his employer picked up his cap and stepped outside. He then opened the door softly and, holding the cap in his hand, said, quietly, to the small boy in the big chair: “Please sir, there is a ball game at the park today. If you can spare me I would like to get away for the afternoon.” In a flash the boy responded. "Why, certainly, Jimmie, and here is fifty cents to pay your way in.” There are no more lessons in man ners in that office. in. ta Hanna, Wyo., Jan. 15th (Special)— Delays are dangerous. Don’t wait un til all the awful symptoms of Kidney Disease develop in your system, and your physician shakes hts head grave ly as he diagnoses your case. If you suspect your kidneys, turn at once to the great Kidney Specific—Dodd’s Kidney Pills. You can do so with every confidence. A few of Dodd’s Kidney Pills taken in time have saved many a life. The early symptoms of Kidney Disorder may be (he forerun ners of Bright’s Disease, Diabetes and Dropsy. Dr. W. H. Jeffries, a resi dent here, tells beiow how he treated an attack of Kidney Trouble. He says:— ‘‘Before I commenced taking Dodd’s Kidney Pills, I had always a tired feeling every morning when I got out of my bed, and my Kidneys were in very bad shape. There was always a dull heavy pain across my loins, and I had hard work to stoop. I took two boxes of Dodd’s Kidney Pills, the tired feeling and back pains have entirely gone, and I am now cured.’.’ It is much harder and more meritor ious to ask another to do a charitable thing than to do it ourselves when it is in our power. Every housekeeper should know that If they will buy Defiance Cold Water Starch for laundry use they will save not only time, because it never sticks to the iron, but because each package contains 16 oz.—one full pound—while all other Cold Water Starches are put Bp in 94-pound packages, and the price Is the same, 10 cents. Then again because Defiance Starch is free from all injurious chemicals. If your grocer tries to sell you a 12-oz. package it is because he has a stock on hand which he wishes to dispose of before he puts in Defiance. He knows that Defiance Starch has printed on every package in large letters and figures "16 ozs.” Demand Defiance and save mnch time and money and the annoy ance of the iron sticking. Defiance never sticks. UNCLESAM'SNAVY HOW ONE CAN RISE BY ATTEN TION TO BUSINESS. AN OMAHA BOTS EXPERIENCE Good Treatment That Government Gives to Its Naval Recruits and the Opportunities They Have to Ac quire Knowledge and Promotion. An interesting account of the life of an apprentice in the new navy ap pears in a recent issue of the Omaha Bee. It is from the pen of E. L. Benson, an Omaha boy, who enlisted about five years ago, and who rose during his first four years to the rank of chief quartermaster, which post he now holds on the United States ship Illinois. His letter indicates the op portunities for a young man of ambi tion and industry in the new navy: At the time of his enlistment he was accompanied to the west by sixty four young men, who, like himself, proposed to serve their country in the naval branch of service. ■“Journeying overland,” says the correspondent, "we finally brought up at Goat Island, our first future home and training quarters. Our quarters were the old ship Pensacola, wnere hammocks were served to the recruits in addition to two nice white blank ets and a hair mattress for each man. “Each received a station billet, tell ing of duties at fire quarters, collision drill, the division to which attached, watch, number, etc. In the evening before ‘taps’ and ‘lights out,’ the boys danced to the music of the naval band, and all enjoyed the new life and duties upon which they had en tered. “At 7:30 breakfast call went, and much to our surprise ham and eggs was the meal. It now began to dawn on us that the old navy was no longer in existence. We were now among good young Americans and all of us decided to appreciate the kind treat ment and food we were getting. Be fore we enlisted everybody seemed to know all about the navy and said: “You mark my words, you'll get starv ed and bullied and mistreated,’ etc., and now we saw that people who were never in the service were in no posi tion to judge at all and that their advice was the result of a deep-set prejudice fastened by untruthful stories and books describing the mer chant marine and not our manly blue jacket or his career. “Our naval careers really commenc ed next morning, as we were provided with uniforms, white and blue, and were detailed to divisions for drills and instructions. Those who had former military training, such as high school cadets, private school boys, and other soldiers, were chosen by the officers to command the various divisions. “Each day we received instructions in physical culture, fencing, artillery and rifle practice, infantry drill, set ting sail, furling sail, making knots; also instructions in signals, ordinance and gunnery; how a ship is built, its many decks, masts, holds, etc. Row ing was our chief exercise and amuse ment and each day we would visit some new part of the bay and har bor. “After a few months under shore training we boarded the United States ship Mohican, with three rousing cheers for those who were unfortun ate enough to remain on the old Pen sacola. Only 150 could go aboard for the eleven months’ cruise, and I was one of the chosen ones, in fact, all the Omaha draft was taken, as it was their turn to go for further in struction and training before board ing a battleship of the line, as real, true, man-o’-warsmen.’’ giving an account oi me eleven months cruise covering thou sands of miles, and the sights and scenes attending the trip, the corre spondent touches upon the matter of advancement in the navy, how it is earned, etc. He says: “In the eight months’ interval great events transpired. We were urged by the officers to take the examination for seamen and many of us passed with honors. A few of the boys would not study at all, some developed bad traits of character and these were discharged as “undesirable” by our captain. "I liked to steer the ship, take soundings, make signals, keep the weather report and have charge of the man at the wheel, so I put my best endeavors forward and studied so that I might be able when the time came to hold a quartermaster's positfon. At Bremerton. Wash., one of our quartermasters was paid off, so I was examined for and given an actual appointment as a third-class quartermaster, and received $30 a month. “Six of we boys decided to stay on the old Mohican, and we stayed; were all put in petty officers’ positions of trust inside of ten months after com ing on the ship. This was the third epoch of my seafaring career, and the fourth came after I had served as quartermaster, third-class, one year, when I received an appointment as quartermaster, second-class. “Shortly after this I was placed in the position of the chief quarter master, who received an honorable discharge, and which position I held until the ship sailed for the Philip pines. “After serving six months more I was given an appointment as a first class quartermaster and sent to the Naval School of Gunnery at Wash ington, D. C., and Newport, R. I. “ ‘Eternal vigilance is the price of success,’ and coupled with this was the kindness and consideration of my superior officers, one of whom was Lieutenant Matt H. Signor, now at the Omaha recruiting station, with whom I was personally associated in the line of duty for two years. It was he who pushed my application through for the gunnery school. “On the way to Washington I was given twenty days in which to report, but could spend only two at home. Labs than three years in the service and 'homeward bound. ‘Hurrah for Omaha again.’ “My friend, Bressman, another Omaha boy, was sent to the gunnery school through Mr. Signor’s influence. Comrades, when manhood was dawn ing, we were faithful to our duty and each other, in the school we studied and experimented on electricity, in all its physics, torpedoes, submarine mines, explosives, stream diving, the manufacture of smokeless powder, guncotton, fulminate of mercury and other high explosives; also the manu facture of large and small guns, sights, targets and submerged torpedo discharge tubes. We did practical coppersmith and forge work, learned to work on lathes, shapers, drills and milling machines, as we made small guns, mounts and tools for same. We studied every type of gun and mount turret, and construction of which is used in the service; spent a week at the Indian Head proving ground, fir ing at and testing armour plate, shells and powder, obtaining velocities, etc. “While in the school I received the appointment as chief quartermaster and was paid off at the end of my four years with a sum of money bor dering on the $1,000 mark. “Now, boys, the United States naval service is not what people paint it in their vivid imaginations, but it is just what you yourselves make it Be sober, quick and attentive to duties, and your future will be assured. “I am sure that had I .devoted my time to working for a private corpora tion I could not have received the salary I now command, even had I stayed there ten years. “This, you see, is the thought which comes to my mind: ‘Can you do as well in private firms as you can do in the United States navy? Can you study and rise as your own abili ties advance?” Think this over. Then decide.” She Always Made Home Happy. A plain marble stone, in a New Eng land churchyard, bears this brief in scription, “She always made home happy.” This epitaph was penned by a be reaved husband after sixty years of wedded life. He might have said of his departed wife that she was beauti ful and accomplished, and an orna ment to society, and yet not said she made home happy. He might have added she was a Christian and not have been able to say, “She made home happy.” What a rare combination of virtues this wife and mother must have pos sessed! How wisely she must have ordered her house! In what patience she must have possessed her soul! How self-denying she must have been! How tender and loving! How thought ful for the comfort of all about her! Her husband did not seek happiness in public places, because he found en joyment, purer and sweeter, at home. Her children, far away, did not dread to return, for there was no place to them so dear as home. There was their mother thinking of them, and praying for them, longing for their coming. When tempted they thought of her. When in trouble they remembered her kind voice and her ready sympathy. When sick they must go home; they would not die away from their dear mother. This wife and mother was not ex empt from the cares common to her place. She toiled; she suffered disap pointments and bereavements; she was afflicted in her own person, but yet she was submissive and cheerful. The Lord’s will concerning her was Ler will, and so she passed away, leav ing this sweet remembrance behind her. “She always made home happy.” The Proper Title. Titles of respect and courtesy are of universal application, and to omit them in addressing others, except those with whom we are on terms of the closest intimacy, betrays a want of refinement that in some cases amounts to actual rudeness. Mr., Master, Mrs., and Miss are al ways prefixed to the name, unless some professional or official title takes their place. Mr. has no English plu ral, but its place is supplied by Messrs., a contraction of the French Messieurs. The want of a plural of Madam is supplied by the word La dles. To denote seniority in the case of two or more unmarried daughters, the eldest alone is Mis3 Brown, while the others are Miss Jane Brown, Miss Mary Brown, etc. When all are ad dressed or spoken to together they are the Misses Brown. A married lady generally uses her husband’s name if he is living, with the title Mrs. before it; thus, Mrs. Edward Brooks. She may, however, use her own name, Mrs. Mary Brooks, and if she is a widow she should do it. Turned from World to Philanthropy. Lady St. Heller, since the death of her husband. Sir Francis Jeune. the famous divorce judge, has led a re tired life. Once one of the greatest of society leaders, she now spends her time In charitable and philanthropic work. May Use Stranger’s Auto. A New Haven (Conn.) Judge recent ly rendered a decision In which he stated that there Is no law In that State which makes it a crime or mis demeanor to take and use an automo bile without the owner’s permission. A Dangerous Proposition. "It does not follow that a safe open ing Is necessarily a secure sort of busi ness,” muttered the burglar as he be gan his drilling, "especially as one has to do so much blowing about it”—Bal timore American. Tea Raising In India. More than 524,000 acres of the soil of India are devoted to the raising of tea. The total yield last year was 222, 208,661 pounds. The capital engaged amounts to $60,778,000. Great minds, like Heaven, are pleas ed In doing good, though the ungrate ful subjects of their favors are bar ren in return.—Rowe. In the gates of etefnlty the black hand and the white hold each other with an equal clasp.—Mrs. Stowe. Original Type of Corn. The corn plant, as now known to man, U an artificial product. It was, doubtless, developed gradually througn long generations of selection, by the aborigines of Mexico, Central and South America, who evidently made their selection Instinctively, choosing the best ears for seed. It is believed that the original corn plant produced almost no seed, and, in fact, was with out seed when grown in the lowlands in the tropical regions. It is sup posed that cnly on the highlands did it first produce fruit occasionally. Bar ren stocks were then the' rule rather than the exception. The barren stocks in the fields to-day are perhaps illus trative of the law of atavism, that is, the tendency of varieties to revert back to an original type. On the high lands in the tropical regions, where the temperature was comparatively low, some of these plants doubtless produced grain quite freely, and this grain was found by the Indians good for food. The orig inal type of corn was very inferior to the present and required an Immense amount of work to prepare it for hu man food. It was not enough to shell the kernels from the cob. It was also necessary to dig out the kernels from each little husk in which it was in cased; for at that time not only was the ear incased in a husk, but each kernel was tightly incased in a husk. In time some of these varieties of corn produced ears on which the ker nels were free of husks, and these were extensively planted by the ab origines. Even to-day, after thou sands of years of evolution, we find certain varieties of the corn plant re verting back to the original type, and here and there the varieties, if allowed to deteriorate, produce ears with each kernel Incased in a husk. Some years ago at the Illinois State Fair a man had an exhibit of a large number of varieties of corn that he had pro duced by aiding reversion. He had se lected ear by ear the poorest corn and that most inclined to revert, and by so doing had worked back, as he be lieved, to near the original type. A continuation of such a process should bring the scientist back, at last, to the original form growing luxuriantly in the low lands and producing no seed. We can not see what value there would be to such a proof, and yet sci ence has been able to utilize many such proofs and make them valuable to man in ways that could not be fore seen.—Amos Dibble, Clinton Co., Ia. Cleaner Seed, Bigger Yield. If there is any one question in par ticular that should interest grain grow ers, it is the selection and grading of seed grain of all kinds. The writer saw, during his travels the past crop season, thousands upon thousands of acres of oats that would hardly pay for cutting. The trouble in every case which I investigated was lack of any care in the selection of the seed As one grower put it, "the seed oats looked bright, and apparently did not contain many weed seeds.” In the first place that seed oats was light, weighing scarcely 30 pounds to the bushel. On this account the ground was not well covered, and this gave the weed seeds a fine chance to grow. Now the remedy: It never pays to sow light, chaffy oats. Unless you have good heavy seed, better get your supply from some reliable seedsman. If you have seed good enough to sow, then be sure to clean and grade it until it Is absolutely free of all foreign seeds, and you have left only the heav iest, plumpest, grains. If your land is already foul, it will call for heroic measures to get it clean again, but the first step in the job is to sow only clean, heavy seed, and seed of suffi cient vitality to push its way along and help you eradicate the weeds. What has been said of oats, will ap ply with equal force to wheat. Unless you have a variety that is giving you the maximum yield that your land will produce, better start fresh by getting new seed. Look up the work of your state experiment station and see which varieties are doing the best You can always buy these varieties from reli able seedsmen. If you are saving your own seed wheat make sure that it is cietui, uuu graue it over uuu um uu til you have a supply of only the heav iest grains. This will insure a good stand, and the seed will sprout quick ly and push itself rapidly* forward. Of all grain crops, and in spite of the constant suggestions of experi ment stations and farm papers, com is treated the most shabbily. It has been proved by repeated field tests that yields may be increased from 10 to 25 bushels per acre, by planting uniform size grain, so as to insure an even stand in the hills. All good planters will drop mechanically, but one can hardly expect the machine to discriminate between small and large kernels. The way to overcome that is to plant grains of as near the same size as possible. This is more im portant than any other thing in grow ing corn. There is no profit in tend ing a half-stand of com.* Get good seed; pay any reasonable price for it, but insist upon its being good. Then grade It until your planter will drop two and three kernels. Then you have started right for a big corn Crop. —L. C. Brown, Cook County, 111., in Farmers’ Review. Permanent Fences. The farmer should avoid building temporary fences, unless it is his in tention to remove them occasionally to make way for his rotation of crops. Most farmers, however, do not do this; but expect always to keep one fence in place. One cause of loss on American farms is the lack of permanency in the fences. A man should build a fence that will last a lifetime. He should select posts that will not decay and have them so long that he can set them deeply in the ground. In fact they should be set so that neither ;he frosts nor gales nor floods can shake them. It takes a little loneer 10 build a fence of this kind, but in the years to come the extra labor at the begin ning will be found to be economy. The Kieffer Pear. D. J. Hartzler of LaGrange County, Ind., in a letter to the Farmers’ Review says: “Will you kindly give your opinion on the Kieffer pear, which is not valued very much by most farmers? While the tree is young the fruit is not so good, but as the tree gets older the fruit gets better." The Kieffer pear is considered a rather poor pear, but is extensively produced. We cannot expect to have all the good qualities in any particu lar variety. Generally if a variety has a high quality it lacks something else of great importance. The Kieffer pear is only a cooking pear. In no sense can it be called a dessert pear. Its flavor is generally lacking. One thing against it also is its tough skin, which must be removed before the pear can be enjoyed. The things in favor of the pear are, the productive ness of the tree and its ability to withstand adverse conditions. In spite of its lack of flavor the Kieffer sells quite well in the markets of large cities. We believe the quality of the Kieffer pear can be much improved by thinning the pears and producing larger and therefore better pears Small Kieffer pears affected with scab are a very poor fruit. Spraying is often necessary to keep the scab under control. We have said above that the Kieffer tree is very produc tive, this is with the understanding that it is grown in the same locality with pears of other varieties that can act as pollenizers for the Kieffer. On many soils and in many localities the Kieffer pear does not respond to its own pollen; probably it needs more than any other variety to be crossed pollenated. It is therefore never wise or safe to plant Kieffer pears in large blocks. More than one such orchard has remained unfruitful; its owner did not understand the cause of it, and the orchard has been finally cut down When grown in the vicinity of the Garbar or other pear blooming at about the same season the Kieffer tree produces enormous crops. Poorly Keeping Apples. Poorly keeping apples are of little value unless they be summer and fall apples grown near a market that will take them all. The winter apple that is hardly fit for eating in the fall and yet will not keep in an ordinary cellai is of little use on the farm, and it should be avoided. No matter how good it is, if it must be kept in a cold storage bouse to remain eatable it if an impracticable apple for the farmer to grow. i Dougnt a Darrei oi apples a snon time ago from a neighbor. They were very fine in appearance when I pur chased them, but in a short time they began to rot badly. We tried to eat them up to save them from the rot and succeeded partially, but it is aD expensive method of furnishing tht family with fruit. I think it is just here that we have so much to bt thankful for in the Ben Davis, Baldwin Greening, Russet and other old stand bys. When we put a barrel of these apples in the cellar we do not fee. that we must hurry and use them up and exclude the use of all other fruit during the time they are being eaten It has been my observation that much of the poorly keeping fruit on the farm is due to farmers buying and planting the varieties recommended by the traveling agents. Many a farm er is soft-hearted and when the agent comes to him and talkB to him about his particular variety—his novelty— which is always high priced, he does not like to refuse to buy it of him. II he suggests that he would prefer the standard varieties, he is discouraged by the agent, whose motive is to sell high-priced trees rather than low priced trees. The novelties are generally poor keepers, because most of the apples that have been tried are poor-keepers Only now and then does an apple have the combination of good quality in flavor and texture and good quality as to keeping. There are young orchards on some of our farms that never will amount to anything even if they beat heavily, because the fruit is of varie ties that will not keep in cellars.— Milton Knight, Cherry Co., Neb. Cross-Fertilization of Cereals. “Within recent years new varieties of wheat have been produced by cross fertilizing. Most of the varieties of wheat produced by Nature have beeD produced by cross-fertilization acci dently obtained. It has taken Nature a long time to produce a few good varieties. Our scientists who have taken hold of the matter by pollenlz ing varieties with a pollen from other strong varieties, have been able to outstrip Nature in the work of produc ing good varieties. The evolution of the wheat plant is thus taken out of the domain of chance and introduced into the domain of science. Under the old regime a good variety was more likely to be pollenized by a poor Vari ety than otherwise, because poor vari eties are more numerous than good varieties. Man, however. Is able to combine the good qualities of the strongest cereals and by selecting the best of their progeny get immediate results. There are to-day forty or fifty varieties of wheat that have been thus created. Such varieties have longer heads, heavier grain and pro duce larger yields per acre than the old varieties and are at the same time better able to stand adverse condition. Within the next twenty-five years we shall see the science of wheat-growing develop greatly, with the result of more fully using the land devoted to wheat growing. Hard wheats will be evolved for use on the semi-arid lands, while softer wheats resistant to fun gous diseases will be produced for humid, localities. The Turkish Turban. Did you ever see a Turkish turban? If not, you have surely seen the pic ture of a Turk with his turban on bis head. To make one of these turbans of the largest size it takes about twen ty yards of the finest and softest mus Ua. AN EVERY-DAY STRUGGLE. Too Many Women Carry the Heavy Load of Kidney Sickness. Mrs. E. W. Wright of 172 Mala street, Haverhill, Mass., says: "In 1898 I was suffering ---- i y yaiUB I in the small of the r back and had such /' frequent dizzy spells ^ that I could scarce ^ ly get about the > house. The urinary V'lif-tifa? passages were also quite irregular. Monthly periods were so distressing I dreaded their approach. This was my condition for four years. Doan's Kid ney Pills helped me right away when I began with them and three boxes cured me permanently.” Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. The darkest shadows of life are hose which a man himself makes when he stands in his own light. FOUR YEARS OF AGONY, Whole Foot Nothing But Proud Flesh —Had to Use Crutches—“Cuticura Remedies the Best on Earth.” “In the year 1899 the side of my right foot was cut off from the little toe down to the heel, and the physi cian who had charge of me was try ing to sew up the side of my foot, but with no success. At last my whole foot and way up above my calf was nothing but proud flesh. I suffered un told agonies for four years, and tried different physicians and all kinds of ointments. I could walk only with crutches. In two weeks afterwards I saw a change In my limb. Then l be gan using Cuticura Soap and Ointment often during the day, and kept it up for seven months, when my limb was healed up Just the same as if 1 never had trouble. It is eight months now since I stopped using Cuticura Reme dies, the best on God’s earth. I am working at the present day after five years of suffering. The cost of Cuti cura Ointment and Soap was only $S, but the doctors’ bills were more like $600. John M. Lloyd,718 S. Arch Ave., Alliance, Ohio, June 27, 1905.’’ If the best man’s faults were written on his forehead, he would have to wear his hat well down over his eyes. Worth Knowing —that Allcock's are the original and only genuine porous plasters; all other so-called porous plasters are imitations. Every day is a littl e life, and our whole life is but a day repeated. A GUARANTEED CURE FOR PILES. Itching. Blind. Bleeding. Protruding Piles. Drug gists are authorized to refund money If PAZO OINTMENT falls to cure In 6 to 14 days. 50c. Fiction has no right to exist unless t is more beautiful than reality. Smokers appreciate the quality value of Lewis’ Single Binder cigar. Your dealer or Lewis’ Factory, Peoria, 111. No good word is done by men who do not put their heart in the work. Pfso’s Cure cannot be too highly spoken of as a cough cure.—J. W. O’Bbieb. 323 Third Ave. X., Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 6.1800. Don’t Be Too Sensitive. There are people—Yes, many peo ple—always looking out for slights. They can not carry on the daily in tercourse of the family without find ing that some offense is designed. They are as touchy as hairtriggers. If they meet an acquaintance who hap pens to be pre-occupied with business they attribute his distraction in some way personal to themselves, and take umbrage accordingly. They lay on others the fruit of their irritability. Their disposition makes them see im pertinence in every one they come in contact with. Innocent persons, who never dreamed of giving offense, aTe astonished to find some unfortunate word of momentary tactiturnity mis taken for an insult. To say the least, the habit is unfortunate. It is far wiser to take the more charitable view of our fellowbeings, and not sup pose that a slight is intended unless the neglect Is open and direct. After all. too, life takes its hues in a great degree from the color of our own mind. If we are frank and generous, the world will treat us kindly; if on the contrary, we are suspicious, men learn to be cold and cautious to us. Let a person get the reputation of be ing “touchy” and everybody is under restraint; and in this way the chances of an imaginary offense are vastly In creased. All the people in the universe be lieving a lie would not make it a truth. UNCONSCIOUS POISONING. How It Often Happens From Coffee. “I had no Idea,” writes a Dulutli man, “that it was the coffee I had been drinking all my life that was responsible for the headaches which were growing upon me, for the dyspep sia that no medicines would relieve, and tor the acute nervousness which unfitted me not only for work but also for the most ordinary social functions. “But at last the truth dawned upon me I forthwith bade the harmful bev erage a prompt farewell, ordered in some Postum and began to use it. The good effects of the new food drink were apparent within a very few days. My headaches grew less frequent, and decreased in violence, my stom ach grew strong and able to digest my food without distress of any kind, my nervousness has gone and I am able to enjoy life with my neighbors and sleep soundly o’ nights. My physical strength and nerve power have increased bo much that I can do double the work I used to do, and feel no undue fatigue afterwards. “This Improvement set In just as soon as the old coffee poison had so worked out of my system as to allow the food elements In the Postum to get a hold to build me up again. I cheerfully testify that it was Postum and Postum alone that did all this, for when I began to drink it I ‘threw physic to the dogs.’ ” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. There’s a reason. Read the famous little book “The Road to Wellville” la Dkgs.