Nebraska Newspapers

    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.
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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.