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A SINGULAR CROP.
How Ilia Cochineal tnirnt It Prnpared
for 1'iirpoien of MerrhnmlHr.
Tho cochineal Insect Ik a fat, ilnrlf,
Bphcrlcnl llltlu creature, lootclti lllco
n blnck currnnt nml with mmhar
bead, legs, nor lull, to the cntiin'. ob
server. In fuel ho Is bo Inanimate
that one may crush lilm between lin
ger nml thumb without any iUiilnisot
conscience. He Is nothing but a black
currant, sure enough, though thu
bright carmine or lake cxusiiui from
Ills body which Msrves him for blood
and us for dye, Is n bettor color than
tho juice of tho currant.
It was tho cultivation of lb,.
pleasant littles Individuals which,
more than u hcorn of years ago, put
no less thun forty percent per annum
upon Investments Into tho pockets of
1 he cultivators. Such prosperity was
too good to lust.
The Insect was not introduced Into
Tonertffc until I8'.'5, mid for a tlmo It
oould not bo encouraged to propagate
.ucccssiuiiy. a priest had the honor
of being tho discoverer of this right
method of tiurturc.and to him it is duo
that from 184ft to IHftfl un annual crop
of from S,ooo,000 to 0,000,000 pounds
if cochineal whs produced.
A cochineal plantation has a singu
lar aspect. Tho larvic, being very
delicate and rather thick-witted,
bavo to bo tied upon tho cactus plant,
which Is to be their nursery and their
nourishment nt tho Kama time. Thus
one ices hundreds of the shoots of thu
prickly pear tho cactus in ouostlon
nil bandaged with white linen, as If
they had tho toothache.
In this way tho Insects nro kept
warm and dry during tho winter, and
induced to adhere to the plant Itself.
When they aro full grown they nro
ruthlessly swept from their pricky
quarter, shaken or baked to doath",
nnd dried In tho sun. Tho shriveled
corpses are then packed in bags and
bold as ripe merchandise at about $"
hundred weight.
ECZEMA
Pram r.irlv rlilM.
hood until I was '
grown my family.
I 1 viiv m luiiuiie
trying to cure me of tills disease. I '
visual nut springs, anu was treated
by the best medical men. but was nnt
benefit'. PB ". ui..n..ii'
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tnngsnau fallTJH failed I
ueiermineu to try 5. S. S., and In
fOlir months It.lo mllulu rurmA Tl.
terrible Ecrema was gone, not a sign
of It left my generariiealth built up,
and I have never had any return of
iU'nuiinunnn
recommended 2JlVlllUU
5i. i. . In m fiiimk aJ MahJ . . ai
msm, and have never yet known failure to
Cure. UfcU. W. IRWIN. Irwin u.
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Never falls to cure,
ven after all other
rymwuri oare. our
jreaiiMon Hioodnnr
fnetoanraddreta. '""" -'""
SWIFT 8PECIRC CO., AHmU.Bi.
PROFIT IN FISH.
A OrowlnB Inilmtry or lUUInz Tliem
far tho Market.
The prnctlee of raising good fish for
market bus become of lata a very
proHtahlo Industry, and in some parts
of the country is being carried out on
un extensive scale.
The equipment of a llsh farm, as it
is called. Is 11 very simple an iuexpon
tdvo operation, band which would be
valueless for ordinary farming may bo
used for tho purpose, tho only require
ment being 11 plentiful supply of good
running water. Tho best slto for a
lish farm is a hilly or mountaluous
district whc.ro the water runs swiftly
nnd is interrupted by waterfalls, since
tills serves to aerato and refresh the
water. I he Hah farms aro usual
ly provided witli three ponds,
each of which Is reserved for fish
of about tho sumo size. As tho lish
grow they are changed from one pond
to another. The fry is usually bought
t the state or other hutchorv and
placed in tho first pond. The food
for tho lish is tho principal expense.
There lire 11 variety of prepared fish
foods on the market, but It has bjon
found that tho llsh fed with the pro
pared food have a decidedly beefv
flavor. A plan very generally adopted
is that of planting tho ponds with un
ubundanee of fresh water .shrimp.
These grow very quickly ami soon
provide a plentiful sumdv of .i,ni...
homo food.
It will bo seen that tho fish require
little attention, and thu consequent
inconiu from such 11 crop is almost
clear prollt In tho season tho pro
duct of fish farms sells in tho market
nt SI n pound, and out of soason. if
the sale bo permitted by law, a much
higher price may bo realized.
About Mutollln.
Ono of our neighbors, Mr. J. II.
Heath, living a short distance from
Oencva, suooecded in raising tho best
field of corn in this neighborhood.
His method is to use n lister with a
subsoil attachment. He runs the
lister ten inohes deep, the subseil at
tachment loosening tho soil three or
four inches below that. He believes
in thorough cultivation, and this sea
son his corn averaged 'JO bushels per
aero.
Wo append both tho ohomical and
mcohauieal analysis of the soil, to
gether with a letter from Hon. J.
Sterling Morton, also woathcr roport
from the government station at this
point.
Respectfully,
Yot'NORRH & Co.
Geneva, Neb., Deo. 15, 1801.
Itoiutt or a Meat Diet.
Mrs. Hart, who bus covereJ the
Iflobe with her notebook, declares tho
lhigllsh people to bo the mot garrul
ous and quarrelsome of any she lias
vneouiitered. She says there is more
bickering and distemper in tho I'ug
lishinnn's family and more homes are
mode unhappy by domestic squabbles
thun in any other of tho nations she
Ins visited. This condition sha at
tributes chlelly to the Anglo-jaxons
fondness for a meat diet. She says
the great moat eating people uro
notably lll-tcmnored. We are only
nnlmnls, and the soquoneo of moat
und lits, as demonstrated in tho aui
1 kingdom, has a slgniflcaacs in
delation to tho human animal. Mrs.
Hart has gone further than this, anil
has studied tho gentle Japanese, the
mild Mongolian, and othor light-living
races, which research confirms
her Ideas touching lleMi-oating utul
family jars.
Hitol I'raolli-o In ,Xii,.
"Wo hnvo 11,010 mutilated and worn
fiilver dollars in our vault," said a sub
treasury olllclal. "Wo also have SJU,.
000 half-dollar, quarter and d'me
pieces which have become too thin
foru.se. It Is a curious thing that
the mutilnted dollars that w receive
from Texas are deeply indented. This
is a result of thu tar,'Jt practice In
Jexas. The crack shots down there
think that n silver dbllur is the best
kind of n murk. Do we give a good
dollar for n mutilated ony. That, d.
ponds upon the etent of the mutila
tion. Wo lmve 11 discretionary power
in tills respect."
A Notpil Aliiilltlcnil.t.
Nov. Dr. King, tho noted abolition-
1st. who died recently at Chatham,
Ontario, is said to have bjon thu one
from whom the character of Clayton in
'Uncle 'I om's Cabin" w.is drawn. H0
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t'rn planter, but smuo timu before ibniuuiih culiivuimi.
tlie civil war, dceUluir that s'm,,'.i.... ...1 1... .. . .,',. .....
"as wrong, ho fw,, slaves mul ""''"" ' ""' ",UI ""
Ihoso of his wife, and securing n grant ,n,re'ori: l''ics tho subsoil contain
f Inn I from tho Ciuiidluii "govern- anything whiesi enr el.c tho suifaoo
fit4 till this day. J improvement resulting from subsoiling
and cultivation due entirely to the
From the Daily State Journal, Lin
coln, Neb., Sept. 3, 1894:
Tho unprecedented drouth seems
to have uudo tho utilization of every
partiilc of food product for live stock
tho all-important question in Nebras
ka and other states similarly situated.
Whilo the various methods of provid
ing for present aeeds appear to bo
paramount, intelligent farmers aro not
neglcoting to provide for the future,
thus hoping to prevent to a great ex
tent tho recurrence ot a state of affairs
in which many now liud themselves.
Some who look ahcud pUcu (jrnut faith
in irrigation, notwithstanding the
counter claim that only a small per
oentage of Nebraska lands is deemed
susceptible to irrigation. On the
other hand subsoiiitu :s presented by
others as a plan iluit ought to be
tested before irrigation ditches are
constructed. The general advantages
deiived from .subsoiling, both us a safe
guard against drouth and bcnoGt to
bo deiived in ordinary sorsonn, arc
oleaily set forth iti a letter from Hon.
T. Sterling Morion, .secretary of tho
department of agriculture, accompan
ied by an analysis of (he soil from
Fillmore county by Milton Whitney,
chiet of tho divi-ion of agricultural
soils. Thrao documents were 10 have
been laid belure the irrigation con
veution in hincoln. In view of the
fact that the convention was not held
at tho timo appointed, tho reports arc
presented by the Journal, as follows.
'MKWS OK SEtHlETAllV MORTON.
United States Department of Agri
culture, Oflicoof the Secretary, Wash
ington, D. C, August 11, 180.
Hon. A. J. Sawyer, Lincoln, Neb.
Dear Sir: This department reaently
received from the firm of Younger &
Co., Goneva, Neb , a sample of the
surface soil and corresponding sub
soil which is supposed to represent
a large amount of soil in that section
of Nebraska. These samples were
tubicctcd to mcclnnicil uiuhsis in
the division of nciioulturaj soils The
Vesults of this ruiulysi are so exceed
ingly interesting lint I beg to call
Tour attention to them ir.d to nik vou
J to present tin m to the irrigation 001 -vcntion
about to usemllo in wir
I stale at L!ncolu.
J I ei.close you herewith a copy of
. the division of ngricultur.il soils ami
nlio n tabulated h atcmeut of tho anal
ysis, accompanied by specimens of the
(hili' rent iugrtdii'til:i contained in thu
samples arranged ho m to mskn i.n
interesting obj-jet lesion of the re-
Milt.
Experience lias slmwn that this soil
U very refractory aid very diflioult to
improve. In dry seasons it produces
ahuo-it nothing. It l.ai alno been as
certained by experience that this soil
i greatly benefitted bv sulmoilini'iind
The question
loosening of tho soil ? Tho analysis
shows that tho Utter is tho truo ex
planation. A ohcmical analysis of tho samples
is being mado and will bo reported to
you later, but sufficient has been done
to show that there has been no con
siderable amount of lima or other
chemical substanco in the subsoil to
cxnlaln the favorable results of sub-
soiling, These favorable results must
thereforo be wholly duo to the looson
ing and opening up of an otherwise
imporvious soil.
Tho table and accomnanunc speci
mens will prove to the eye that this
toil and subsoil are both composed al
most wholly of very fino sand, silt
and clay. There is also a large
amount of organic matter containing
coosidcrablo nitrogen. Cultivated in
the ordinary manner, a soil of this
character remains impervious to water
and air. and therefore very subject to
drouth, and although it contains
many elements of fertility, these can
not becomo readily available,
wur not sunsoib?
Tho nraotical auuircstion which I
wish to submit to our friends is: Why
not subsoil and cultivate more thor
oughly ? Instead of digging ditohes
let us first try subsoiling as a means
of catching and holding tho water
that nature supplies as on the spot.
The success that Messrs. Ytungtr
& Co. have attained by subsoiling
their land, as now explained by this
mechanical analysis, suggoits (hat
this is tho pussiblo solution of the
question that the irrigation oonven-
tion is called upon to solve. My
prodosition is, therefore, instead of
digging ditches, subsoil and cultivate
thoroughly.
I remain, with warm oersoual re-
r 4
Tarda and best wishes for the success
of tho oonvenven of irrigatiouists at
litnroln, very truly yours,
J &TERMNO MORTON, JVC y.
(To bo Continued)
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy gives
the best satisfaction of any cough medi
oino I bundle, and as n seller leads till
other preparations in this market. I re
commend it because it is the beat medi
01110 I ever handled for oonghs, colds nnd
cronp. A. W. Ualdridge, Millersville, III.
For haIo by Deyo nnd Urice.
If wo know how to aim, the bigger tho
gatno tho bottor tho mark.
SIiIIoIi'r pnrn Is Holilnn n irnnrnntnt.. Tt
cares incipient constipation. It iI thu
beHt Cough Cure. Only one cent n dou.
J5 cts., fiO ct-i., and 81. CO,
Tho swift packing company has
housed (10,000 tons of ice nt Ashland.
liaay penplo havn no time, and senaibin
llfnnlH lmv.4 mi ilw.lItiiiHnn tit na. n atnnr
remedy. Oim Minnie Cough Ctiro nots
priimpiiy nuu givu pennniuni reanus.
A young men's chribtinn iissociution
hue bvou organized at Lyonw,
. .
Mo.it peoplu euu not alTord to experi
ment. Tlmy want immediittt) relipf.
That's wliy tiiey use One Minute Cotigli
Care.
Another pur.or; it is unnnunccd, will
soon bo started nt Uomingford.
"Qrango blortsom'1 in nnfo and linrmless
na a Flax Seed Poultice. Any ludy can
uiu it heraulf. Hold by C Tj. Cotting.
Ivuiuors have been started that Oma
ha is to hnvo it piiBsengor depot.
Mr. II. Kennedy, mining broker nt
Lo Angelo, Cut., knows what ho wauta
and is bound to have it. He writes:
Haller Proprietary Co., Gents. Will you
kindly direct me as to where in Southern
California I cun proevru a bottle of your
excellent remedy nt Norfolk, Neb., some
three weoks ago whilo passing through
there from the Black Hills. I think it
the beat cougli remedy I have evor oscd.
It works liko inagio in cases of orosp,''
A lariu linttla can tie hnd for '-'. nt Drn
& Orlcu'a dtiigatare.
It is established that thuro nro 2,000
p?nuileBB vagrants in Omuhu.
II ul let's Sarsapntilla and Ilnrdook
puntlei and onrielius the blood brinn
new life nnd increased energy. Yon fCel
its beneficial inll'ielicii from tho Urat dose.
It will do you nil that is possible for a
blood purifier to do. We sell nod guar
antee this remedy. Doyo & Uriee.
For every fault v.o seo in others we
bnve two of our own which we overlook.
-Apply
HhIIit's Australian Salve to the
chapped hands. If you have a cot,
scratch or liny kind of a sore and want it
miinklv IiohIiiI. 11 n tlun anlvn. Dr. .1.
C Doiiham, prupriotor of a largo liospi.
1111 111 I'uiiiiiwii, town, uuya it in gross
Iota, and volunteers thu statemetit Hint
'It la n good one and a woudhrful healer.
Use. this ualvt for piles. Bold by Doyo &
Ciricf.
An efTort will be inudu to organize a
lodgo ot tbo Amorican Senators at Tildon
Captnln Swi-imey, U. S. A., San Diego.
Cnl. aaya: "Hhlloh'a Catarrh Remedy la
thu that, medicine, I hnvo over found that
uoald do mo any good." I'rlco Me.
Tho noxt onenmpmont of tho Nobrn3
ho O. A. It. will bo hold in Omaha.
Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder
A Pure drape Cream of Tartar Powder,
A much irlnrrlcd Man.
Tho little village of Mt. Claru and
tho surrounding country arc consider
ably wrought up over tho doings of a
gay dcncivcr named Hrtdshaw, who
camo to that place last full and was
shortly afterward married to Mrs.
Sarah A. Blaine, a highly-respected
lady of the place, tho widow of Chas.
Blaine, who at tho time of his death,
about four years ago, was agent for
tho Missouri I'aoifio railroad nt Mt.
Clare. Mrs. Blaine was left in good
ciroumstanccs by her first husband,
and at tho timo this story begins kent
a hotel or boarding house in tho vil
lage. Soon after tho marriage, which
ooourrcd on November 7, 1894, it is
aid Uradshaw induced his wife to soil
off her personal cffoUs on the plea
mat no was going to Hortun. Kansas.
- , ,
near whioh plato his wifo had rcla-
tives, to ongago in business, and in
pursuanoo of this plan most of thu
household goods wcro sold, but on or
gan, sewing maohincs and some other
articles were given to Bradshaw to
storo and brought by him to Suporior.
where, instead of storing them, it is
claimed bo sold them for $20 and
pocketed tho money. Tho famil
then moved to Kansar, and it was
thero liradshaw was arrested for soil.
iog a team belonging to his wife's
brother and appropriating tho money
to his own uso. It was thou ho made
tho several unsuccessful attemnts t
suicide, montion of which has been
made in tho daily press dispatches.
Previous to coming to Mt. Claro ho
lived in St, Joe, Missouri, and tho
tierald of that city lias tho following
to say of
HIS CAIIKUR.
When Frank A. Bradshaw was
arrested at Horton, Kansas, on a
charge of stealing a team and buggy
it was supposed that was tho nnl
charge against him, and when he at
tempted his own life, first by shoot
ing, second by tryiog to choko him
self to death with a handkerchief,
and lastly by cutting his throat with
a penknife, peoplo thought it was
through remorso for tho theft. But
events show that tho stealing of tho
team and buggy is not tho only crime
Bradshaw is guilty of, but from ap
pearances is gu"liy of attempted mur
der and bigamy as well as theft and
appropriating money not belonging to
him. It has been developed tiiat
Bradshaw has another wife living and
it was trom her that n Herald report
er gained tho following statement:
She i-aid sho was married to Brad
shaw, October 23, 1881, in Toledo,
Iowa; her muiden m.1110 was Kilu
Lower, and they had until two ycnr.i
ago, lived at Aberdeen, Dakota.
Bradshaw was a gambler there, and
one night a dispute uro.su with the
dealer and Bradshaw shot him. He
was arrested and placed under bonds,
but jumped his bond and camo to St.
Jo. The sllootiliL? oiiuiirml .Inlr 'i
"" '" M (
lSD.'l. Bradshaw and his wife were
both employed at tho Pacific House
but ho at first started gambling rooms
but lost all ho had and hud to go to
work. Ho was third cook but was
afterwards promoted. Tho couple
had two childron, n girl now 12 and a
boy of 8. In October last Bradshaw
lost his job and told his wife ho was
going to look for work. IIo wrote
her affectionato letters, but it seems
ho went from hero directly to Mt.
Clare, laid siego to tho widow's heart
and married her as stated.
Mrs. Bradshaw Ne. 2 has been in
tho city and has met Mrs. Bradshaw
No. 1, who gavo hor her marriage cer
tificate to ho used in nrnaecHtini
Bradshaw for bigamy, when ho gets
tnrougii witii mo courts on the
charges of nnnronriutinir monov Hint
didn't belong to him and stealing tho
team ana Duggy, Mr. Bradshaw
No. 1 showed tho reporter a picluro
01 ner husband; ho is a lino looking
man, with conj black hair and oyes;
wna :10 years old last July. Sho also
showed a picturo of a ioung woman
and child who she sivs Bradshaw wu
husband and father to six years ago
in Holion, Kinsas. She also s.tys ho
had arranged to clopo with a girl
nnmed Mansion in this city, and that
sho was in Horton when he sold the
team in Powhatton and was arrested.
Lawrenco Locomotivo.
(jyORYillpOAR
FORTY MILLION QAKE5 YEARLY.
TM PROCTER 1 OAM3LK CO, CIHTJ.
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TIFTEEV 4?, It LOADS
II en Hi V KIIIIIkhuS laii,.
KnnEiis City and u Kuubub City houso
enjoys the distinction of having recoived
the Inrgpst single s'.ipmont of nmnufne
tured paints ever made in the world,
consisting of u solid und opccinl train of
fif toen carloads, weighing '1GO.O00 pomnds
This train was run through from Chicn
go over tho Santa I-V road on special
schedule time of v. little less than eigh
teen hours, and now this enormous
quantity of paiutR is storod in tho largo
wnrchouBo of tho Cumpboll GIiibh &
Paint Co.
Tho shipment consisted of 18,102 gul
Ions of Heath & Milligan'a propared
paints. 30,000 pounds of "Climnx" und
"railway" leads, j:f,rT3 pounds of colors
ground in oil ami japan. Kvory gullon
nnd very pound of these goods wero
manufactured by tho Hoaih & Milligan
M'fg Co. of Chicago, which is now by far
tho largest manufacturer of high g'rndo
paints in tho world.
Tho actual working timo consumed bv
them at their factory in filling this order
completo nnd ready for shipment, with
out any previous preparation, or extra
help, was only sixty-threo hours nnd
iifti'en minutes, and this without in nny
way interfering with othor orders. The
entire shipment wus hauled by their own
teams, and th fifteen care loaded and
ready to go out in exactly eeven houm
mill mrth utivlift tititia.nr.
Tim 1 " iiuuiurr,
i..,,boil?.IH,,u-"D.ff,"n tho K"i,n-a
City Star iMdi..'.. ami tin. entire line is
for sale by Dfu & Grice.
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Webster llii Stable
RED CLOUD, NEBRASKA.
Feed, Sale and Exchange Stable,
Finest Turnouts in the Citv
Your patronage solicited. First door south Marble works
A seyore rehumntio pain in the left
shoulder had troubled Mr. J. H. Loper, a
well known druggist of Dls Moines, town,
for ovir six months. At times the naln
was ro sevore that he could not lift any
thing. With all ho cauld do he could not
got rid of it until he applied Chamber
kin's Pain llalm. "I onlv made three
nppllootlona of it," he saya, "And havo
siuco tieuu freo from all pain." IIo now
rucommett-'s it to peraons eimilarlv
ntllirteil. It la for sale by Deyo & Qrloe.
Children Cry for
Pitcher's Cat toria.
PURE
NL
BEWARE
ol Imitation trade
marks and label.
is the whole story
about
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