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found elsewhere
The Cuban Scare
Although the diplomatic entanglement
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fluencing tho stock market Wall street ex
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serious cumplicntion with other maladies
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The most effectual means to this end is IIos
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A Target lor Letter Writers
The Princess of Wales receives prob
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person in the world They come to her
on all sorts of subjects often however
inclosing presents Recently she re
ceived a small box with holes punc
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THE CANADIAN GOLD FIELD
They Do Not All Lie in the Yukon
The ex
citement ol
the past
few months
has drawn
a great
many peo
ple to the
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Yukon in the search fee gold and has
diverted the attention of niauy others
But in order to get there it is necessary
that a man should be possessed of the
best of health strong powers of endur
ance and considerable means He leaves
his wife and his family for a considerable
period and the hardships he has to endure
are all unknown to him
Canada has other gold fields though
They are the fields that produce her gold
en grain This year the crop of Manitoba
lying directly north of North Dakota
yielded 21000000 bushels of wheat alone
The current price averages 76 cents
which as a local paper puts it makes
the product in gold this year for wheat
alone equal to a value of 15960000
Twenty thousand farmers did this or an
average to each producer of about 798
But these same farmers are not living
by wheat alone This is only one source
of revenue to them out of many They
have also beef butter potatoes oats
barley and poultry to sell and sometimes
other things so that it may be fairly es
timated that their incomes will average
at least 1000 per farmer Thus Mani
tobas fields have yielded this year fully
20000000 in gold divided among 20000
actual producers and a general popula
tion of about 200000
After counting the cost of stamp mills
expenses of men etc rich as is the Klon
dike such vast wealth as is being taken
out of the soil in raising wheat in this one
province cannot possibly be secured in
any mining district Of course mining de
velopment assists agricultural develop
ment and that is why the Government of
Canada feels so much assurance in pre
dicting prosperity to all who take up farms
in Canada Western Canada to day
promises more than any other known field
that is open to immigration Farms of
160 acres capable of producing the best
No 1 hard wheat yielding thirty to forty
bushels to the acre are given away free
Railways markets schools churches all
are convenient The Canadian form ot
government is one of the most liberal
known and a hearty welcome is given to
settlers of all nationalities Already there
are many settlers gone in from the States
and the reports from them are highly fav
orable Those desiring information as to
free homestend laws low transportation
rates etc will have pamphlets etc sent
free on application to the Department of
the Interior Ottawa or to any agent of
the Government
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At present Canada supplies one
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Providence has allotted us each at least seventy-
years in which to fulfill our mission in
life and it is generally our own fault if
we die prematurely
Nervous exhaustion invites disease
This statement is the positive truth
When everything becomes a burden
and you cannot walk a few blocks
without excessive fatigue and you
creak out into perspirations easily
and your face flushes and you grow
excited and shaky at the least provoca
tion and you cannot bear to be
i crossed in anything you are in dan
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store womans health we know of no better or more inspiring medicine than
Lydia E Pinkhams Vegetable Compound Your ailment taken in time can be
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Here is an illustration Mks Lucr Goodwin HollyW Va says
I suffered with nervous prostration faintness all gone feeling and palpi
tation of the heart I could not stand but a few moments at a time without
having that terrible bearing down sensation
44 When r commenced taking Lydia E Pinkhams Vegetahle Compound I
only weighed 108 pounds and could not sit up half a day before however I
had used a whole bottle I was able to be about I took in all about three bot
tles of the Compound and am entirely cured now I weigh 131 pounds and feel
like a new woman stronger and better than ever in my life
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THE FaRM AND HOME
MATTERS OF INTERESTTO FARM
ER AND HOUSEWIFE
How to Set and Cultivate n Hedse
Pence Butter Should Be Shipped in
Good Condition Keeping Squirrels
from Corn Cribs
To Moke Hedpe fences
I have ou my farm 134 rods of osage
orange hedge Up to the end of the
fourth year at which time it was a
good fence it cost me 1 per rod Some
farmers consider a hedge a nuisance
but if given the proper attention this
is not so The chief aim in making a
hedge fence is to have it tight near the
bottom To accomplish this set the
plants five inches apart The secret
in getting a good fence is to get a good
start of plants at the first setting The
soil should be rich or heavily ma
nured Cultivate the same as corn
It is a difficult task to keep a hedge
within a prescribed limit Start it
three feet high and six inches thick
then trim closely each time In spite
of careful work the width will increase
so that a periodical reduction by cut
ting off some of the old Avood is neces
sary every few years Two trimmings
a season are usually sufficient except
during a wet summer when growth is
rapid Cut when the shoots are yet
tender damp rainy weather being
preferable One man can trim a mile a
day if done at the proper time A care
less or lazy farmer should not think of
growing a hedge for he will not take
care of it Orange Judd Farmer
Ship Butter in Good Conditiou
I believe says a correspondent of the
Creamery Journal that butter can and
ought to be made so it could not be
substituted It is an article that has
been in use a good many years and will
remain a necessity and command a
good price if properly made Now let
every one who is interested in the dairy
business stop so much kicking and put
his shoulder o the wheel of progress in
the manufacture of pure creamery but
ter Let every owner of a cow who
sends milk to a factory do his utmost
to help his butter maker The butter
maker should attend to his work care
fully and see that there is nothing left
undone in making and preparing his
butter for the market and I think it
would give better prices make it more
pleasant to do busiuess make better
times aud better people
Squirrels in Corn Cribs
Wherever squirrels are prevalent
care should be taken to prevent them
from getting at the seed corn It is not
a good plan to hang the seed corn in the
crib as the open slatted sides to allow
ventilation the squirrel can easily enter
and his agility makes it impossible to
keep seed corn from him no matter
how carefully it is braided and hung
where neither rats nor mice can get at
it The squirrel does not care for the
bulk of corn in the crib He is very
dainty in his food and is sure to take
that which is hung up and carefully
dried for seed The provoking part of
it is that he destroys far more corn
than he eats He cares only for the
chit or germ leaving all the rest as
only fit for hog feed Exchange
About the Hog
Must our breed of hogs be abandon
ed For a century or more the hog has
been bred for an aptitude to fatten
until it has been brought to a form in
which tho suout is disappearing and
its body is too heavy for its legs Fat
has been the object and also attained
but it is claimed that the hog has been
so changed that itis now more sus
ceptible to disease than formerly while
the quality of the flesh has diminished
One breeder in the West crossed his
Poland Chinas with a razor back
from Georgia and reports that his pigs
are hardier and the bacon brought bet
ter prices In England and Canada the
farmers are using boars of the Tain
worth breed which produce more lean
meat than fat and the bacon from the
hogs so produced brings from 15 to 17
cents per pound in England while that
from the United States abounding in
fat brings from 0 to S cents per pound
The celebrated Smithville hams from
Isle of Wight County Virginia which
have held their reputation in market
for half a century are from the razor
back breed and the Irish breakfast
bacon is from hogs of the Tamworth
and active Irish breeds
Churning with Bull Power
In winter we feed thirty pounds of
ensilage and ten to twelve pounds of
hay and a grain ration consisting of
two thirds bran and one third cotton
seed making about four quarts a day
per cow
Our ensilage is made from northern
corn which is cut five eighths of an
inch and put in when the ears begin
to glaze The corn being matured
makes up for the extra grain ration
and also makes it unnecessary to in
crease the grain ration during the win
ter months Our price for the year for
butter is 27 cents per pound and the
cream is 30 cents a quart We raise
our cream with a separator which les
sens the work in the house and is far
ahead of any other method of making
butter Our separator and churn are
run by a tread power which is operat
ed by a two-year-old bull who enjoys
it very much The power is located in
The carriage house with a fourteen
foot shafting running to the creamery
New England Farmer
The Cow Stable
Twice a year at least the cow stable
needs a thorough renovation Spring
and Fall Renovation should mean in
this instance a rigid cleansing of the
floor walls and ceiling so that there
is no dust or dirt or persistent bad
odor clinging about the apartment
Flavor now plays such an important
part In the quality of dairy goods that
it must at all hazards be retained un
impaired especially In winter made
stock To do this the winter stable
must be kept not like the ill smelling
place that it often is but a clean
sweet airy apartment After you have
once got it set in order it takes but a
nominal amount of lalwr to keep it so
and you have as a reward healthy
cows clean pure milk and more of it
than though no especial attention were
paid to this Of course the more mod
ern your stable the easier it is kept
clean and sweet Ohio Farmer
The Shropshire Ruin
The Wisconsin station found that by
using a selected well bred Shropshire
ram with ordinary ewes excellent re
sults could be obtained The lambs
were dropped in March aud in April
were given oats bran and corn meal
In July ground peas were given in
place of commeal and in September
the quantity of peas was doubled until
October when oilmeal was added The
roughage was clover hay all summer a
little green clover and some rape The
result was that yearling lambs over
one year weighed 220 pounds live
weight and lambs dropped last March
weighed 120 pounds in November It
is possible that if the ewe lambs are
retained and mated with a pure bred
Shropshire ram better results mi be
obtained next year
Barn Ventilation
An ingenious way of securing ven
tilation on a long barn with two cupo
las was as follows There were large
windows in the cupola and a stick ran
across from one window to the other
that was six inches longer than the
cupola was wide This stick fastened
on to these windows Now when the
south wind was blowing hard it shut
the south window and fastened out
the one on the north side and when
the north wind was blowing hard it
shut the north window and pushed
open the window on the south side six
inches and in that way formed a cer
tain amount of ventilation in tho top
of the barn From the stables there
ran ventilating flues that opened out
near the roof It was a very ingenious
way of securing automatic action by
the wind Hoards Dairyman
Bankiug Earth Around Trees
As it is often done the banking of
soil around trees in fall to prevent mice
from barking them does more harm
than good If any sod weeds or other
rubbish are included in banking up the
trde the object is not only defeated
but the liability to injury is increased
The purpose should be to oblige the
mice to climb up above the snow line
and expose themselves to their enemies
while gnawing the tree This they will
rarely do for much of this work is done
at night when their natural enemy the
owl is most watchful But if the inics
find vacant spaces around the tree as
they surely can if sod or rubbish are
used they can work under this pro
tection with greater safety than if the
tree were not banked at all Still it is
better to bank young apple trees at
least as high as the snow line usually
comes The warmth from the tree
makes a vacant space in the snow all
around it and it is under this protection
that most of the destructive work is
done
Spontaneous Combustion
The fact that fire sometimes arises
from the heat generated by fermenta
tion was illustrated in a big malt house
in Syracuse N Y lately The ware
house held 1S00 bushels of barley
ready for malting It was unfortunate
ly damp enough to begin fermentation
In so large a mass this soon started
smoke from the windows of the ware
house The fire department was called
out but as no flame was visible it did
not know where to apply water without
danger of causing the flames to burst
forth and destroy the wToodwork The
building was very old and inflammable
At last the grain was let out of the
room in which it was piled and by be
ing shoveled around so that it could
not set fire to anything all further dan
ger was avoided There are often
cases where hay is blackened by being
fermented too much Clover hay is
most apt to suffer in this way because
it has so much nitrogen that it heats
very rapidly Usually however there
is so much carbonic acid gas evolved
by fermentation that it suppresses
flame and the pile of fermenting mate
rial merely smoulders
Burning Potato Tops
Much of the difficulty from rot in the
potato crop comes from the general neg
lect to destroy the potato tops so soon
as the crop is harvested Potato rot
is a fungous disease which fastens first
upon the leaves and stems of the pota
toes and is thence washed into the soil
by rains It causes rot when it reaches
the tuber It is known that the germs
of the disease adhere to potato stems
and leaves until they are destroyed
and this can only be surely done by
burning them Yet we have known
farmers to carry potato tops to the
barnyard to be used as bedding and
composted with the excrement there
dropped No better means for propa
gating potato rot could be devised than
this unless it be feeding rotting pota
toes to stock and leaving the uneaten
portions to be trodden into the manure
pile Exchange
The Cabbage Stem Rot
This disease has been fully deter
mined by Dr Edwin F Smith of the
Agricultural Department at Washing
ton to be caused by bacteria The dis
ease can be induced in healthy plants
by Inoculating them with the germs
There is no remedy for plants so dis
eased but the disease only appears
when cabbages have been planted two
or more years in succession on the same
land By planting therefore on new
land or where some other crop has
been raised the previous year the dis
ease does not prevail Vicks Monthly
I GAMED FORTY EIBIIT POPDS
4A strong appetite for liquor was the
beginning of the breaking down of my
henlth I was also a slave to tea and
coffee I took the gold cure but was not
helped
This is clipped from the Daily Herald
of Clinton Iowa It might well be taken
for the subject of a temperance lecture
but that is not our object in publishing it
It is to show how a system run down by
driuk and disease may be restored We
quote further from the same
For years I was
unable to do my
work I could not
sleen nizhts or rest
days on account of
c o utinnous nains
U Af
back I was un
able to digest my
food Headaches
and painful urina
tion were fre
quent and my
hearts action be
came increased I
left my farm and
retired to city life
for I was a con
firmed invalid and
the doctor said I
would never be
well again
Soon after I
hnnnpnpfl tn n s i
k
four boxes of Dr 1 Retire i lo CUv Life
Williams Pink Pills for Pale People and
since then I have been free from all pain
headache and dyspepsia I eat heartily
and have no appetite for strong drink
and feel twenty years younger
My weight has increased 4S pounds I
cannot say too much for Dr Williams
Pink Pills and claim that they have cured
me JOHN B COOK
Subscribed and sworn to before in this
sixteenth day of February 1897
A P BARKER Notary Public
To people run down in health from
whatever cause drink or disease the
above interview will be of interest For
any further facts concerning this medi
cine write to Dr Williams Medicine
Company Schenectady N Y
The name and address of the subject of
above interview is John B Cook of 208
South 5th street Lyons Iowa
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