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m wursf,X"' ff " fe- -;-jFrz spa!.. ,. r --, --.- - 'i: A aPKB Rs ill- '' t . ? - i I u. g . 4-' --. :- ' r- ; '. ? - :a . - ? a- 4- a"- - i . 1. h ! i -' We or Oae Hundred Dottera rcwmri . for may cue of Catarrh that caaaot cared by Hall's Catarrh Care. F. J. CHENEY 4c CO.. Toledo. O. We. the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and be- lleve hint perfectly honorable In all business transactions, and financially able to carry out any obligations mate by their firm. WALDING. KIXNAN MARVIN. . Wholesale Druggists. Toledo. Ohio. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken Internal ly, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testi monials sent free. Price. 75c per bottle. Bold by all druggists. Hall's Family Pills. SSc. Electricity ea. the raraa. Electricity is likely to be an impor tant factor in the agriculture of the f a .ture, according to the Italian professor : A. AolL who has collected evidence showing' that both terrestrial and at mospheric electricity are favorable to "the germination of seeds and the growth of plants. cm Wart tar m - That's what we say, because it's the . best. Salzer's Wisconsin grown seeds " are bred to earliness and produce the .earliest vegetables in the world. Right alongside of other seedsmens earliest, hls are 20 days ahead! Just try his -earliest pcaf, radishes, lettuce, cabbage, ' etc! He. is the largest grower of farm : and vegetable seeds, potatoes, grasses, clovers, etc! If ea will eat tfcU eat aad aead it to the John A. Salzer Seed Co.. La Crosse, Wis., with 10c postage, you will get sample package of Early Bird Rad ish (ready in 16 days) and their great catalogue. Catalogue alone 5c postage, eluding above oats, free. w.n. George Elliot is said to have written "Middleinarch" in four months. The world's wheat crop of ISM was 2,471, 742, lt bushels. II the Baby U Cattlag Taetau. Be tart and use that oH and well-tried remady, KM. WikhjoWs Sootbixo Stcct for Children Teethinf. Motley took six yearn to write "The Rise of the Dutch Republic." PITS-AIl FltestOMwd free by Dr.KUae'n Ores erreKeatawcr. MoFltoafterthellrstday'saaa, Marveloiucum. TremtleaiiilSStna.lbKllefreeV tttcaie. Send to Vr. Kllne.TO ArchSU.ridhL.ttfc Every man needs a wife to apologize for him. A Cot'cn Should Not be Neglected. "Brown's -Bronchial Troches" are a simple remedy and give immediate relief. Avoid imitations. Any girl old enough to take a valentine seriously, is too old to get one. Scrofula Jlanilests itself in many different ways, like goitre, swellings running sores, boils., salt rheum and pimples and ether eruptions. Scarcely a man is wholly free from it, hi some form. It clings tenaciously until the last vestige of scrofulous jxiison is eradicated from the blood ly Mood's Sarsatarilla. Thousands of voluntary testimonials tell of suffering from scrofula, oftea inherited and most tenacious, positively, per fectly and permanently cured by Hoods Sarsaparilla The One True Wood Purifier. All druggists. $1. Prepared only hy C I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass. u , act iiarmoniously with rlOOdS PlllS Hood's Sarsaparilla. 2Sc The Greatest ilcdical Discovery of the Age. KENNEDY'S MEDICAL DISCOVERY. MMU KWOY, F MOURT, MASS., Has discovered in one of our common rasture weeds a remedy that cures every ind of Humor, from the worst Scrofula down to a common Pimple He has tried it in over eleven hundred cases, and never failed except in two cases (both thunder humor). He lias now in his possession over two hundred certificates of its value, all within twenty miles of Boston. Send postal card for book. A benefit is always experienced from the first bottle, and a perfect aire is war ranted when the right quantity is taken. When the lungs are affected it causes shooting pains, like needles passing through them: the same with the Liver or Bowels. This is caused by the ducts being stopped, and always disappears in a week after taking it. Read the label If the stomach is foul or bilious it will cause squeamish feelings at first No changed diet ever necessary. Eat the best you ca.i get, and enough of it Dose, one tablespoonful in water at bed time. Sold by all Druggists. ARUEST OTATO FOR DO YOU KNOW . . . That the finest vegetables in the world are . growa frcra -mixcr'm sceJ? Why? Be cause they are Kortbern-grown, bred to earliness. and sprout quickly, grow rapidly and prodace enormously! 3$rackafCsEarHcstVefctabfcSccds,$l. POTATOES IN 28 DAYS! Just think of that! Von can Iiavetbcmby plant ing Silver's seed. Try it this year! LOOK AT THESE YIELDS ifl IOWA. Silver Mine Oats, ..... 197 bo. per acre. Silver King Barley, . .... 95 bu. per acre. rroiinc spring Kve,. .... nu on. per acre. Marvel Serine Wheat. ... 40ba.peracre. Giant Sparry, ....... Staasperacre. Giant Incaraat Clover, . . 4 tons hay per acre. Potatoes, ..... 5Q0 to 1,100 ba. per acre. Xow,above yields Iowa farmers have bad. A fall list of farmers from your and adjoining states, doing equally well, is published in oar catalogue. Enormous stocks of clover, timothy aad grass seeds. rrowB especial ty.lowes ur tor seea. ah, it's nae: Highest qnality, lowest prices! V YM MLL COT THIS MIT M IT With 12c in stamps,' leofPi logae seioa aad a sample of Pumpkin yon' rill get oar big catali Yellow Wate satioa. Catalogoe alone, 5c,teHs how to get that potato. rHN SALZER SEED CO. ft CROSSE. WIS. W N IK .Ai2t... t:r. Aafc HAaa fe!f wjmlmtu amJMm, because it has redactd the cast ot rw i.vvui icwaaa it bm t sranch rnrrnritl nnltnrinaB iin Lat roar door. IteaaaaddawteraWia . seaar arucw lor mi : louwrs. it Geared. Steri. Oalvaaia ODmBtarjea Wlamllla THUag mi Saw I Vtod t nzrd Stfol Tar - - frame, flumi fimmi rmin . kCriadetS. fmannllesHan Marin et these artfelM that it sin huk 2aiDe. I'M 1 1 snee. k "i"P at aii anas, m JfoOae is to Blame but yourself, if your ticket to St. Joseph, Kansas City, Denver, Deadwood, Helena, or Batte does not read via the Burlington Roate. The local ticket agent has tickets via the Burlington to these and all other raathern and western cities. He will furnish yoo with one if you SK 1W 11. XBt tUU lUU&fc ' ' ask for it. Letters of inquiry address cdto the undersigned will . . receive prompt attention. J. Jaaxa?, Ceu'l Pass'r Agt, Omaha, Neb. ICaS KIBworl l"JRaTflaTaTaTaVsmTaraBCrHPBi9 aavjaaaaaaaarPPaBkfc a vsA 1 .tBVKTiBaBHHalBVBl .dBaaaaKaaaaaaaaaam$-aaaaam m iRaRaRaRaHH-H MMia Bm?M FARM AND GARDEN. MATTERS OP INTEREST AGRICULTURISTS. TO Va-te-Data Htato Abeat CaUlva- ttoa the Sett sad YUlda Theraef Hartlealtwa, Yttlaltara sad Klori cmltars. HE strawberry crop of the season, of 1895 was, taking all in all, the most un satisfa c t o r y for many years. In the south there was a very large crop and prices ruled very low and returns were very unsatis factory. In the north and northwest frosts ruined nearly the entire crop, and the results were very discouraging. Yet with all these discour agements we must see a great ad vantage. It should stimulate planting la large quantities with better care and by being more careful in selecting vari eties that are best adapted to our differ ent soils and locations, and above all things don't neglect mulching. In New Jersey and other states where marsh hay can be secured it makes an excellent mulch; in the southern states where pine (tags) straw is plentiful and where labor is so cheap it is unneces sary to market any dirty berries; the cost of putting it on your berries is worth more than it costs for manure alone. I have tried both and know whereof I speak. In the west where prairie hay and plenty of wheat straw is thrown away, in no place will it pay better than mulching strawberries. But whichever is used, be careful to have the same as free from grass and weeds as possible, that are liable to come up among the plants, particularly if the plants have to stand over another year. For my part I do not advise carrying a bed over two years. There is a pecu liarity about an old bed north and south I do not understand. In Ohio an old bed will have berries on to pick some days before a new bed, but here in Virginia it is the reverse. Will some one explain to me the reason? Varieties that nave done best with me the past season are many, but I must put the four leading kinds, Tennessee Prolific, No Name, Rix, and Lady Thompson, first. These varieties are now thoroughly tested all over fhe United States, and the plants can be bought very reasonably, so that one can afford to plant them even for the gar den or for commercial purposes, and as they all have a perfect blossom, can be planted alone, and for fertilizing Haver land, Bubach No. S and Warfield No. 2 none are better and few as good. Of new ones for late, Sunny Side is simply wonderful. Its shape, color and pro ductiveness is wonderful and bound to please everyone. I notice the New York experimental station at Geneva in the 1893 reports says it is the most product ive berry on its grounds that year. It will produce ten quarts to Gandy's one, and being so late extends the season so long. Fendrick. This is a berry not yet introduced. I have it on trial. It resembles the Nilson, but such healthy foliage, has a perfect blossom and in productiveness is simply wonderful in earliness. I have not seen a berry that would pick as many at one picking. Earliest. This is a seedling of Mi chael's Early and resembles it in plant and fruit, such a beautiful shape and color, makes plants quite freely. I have bad it on trial for two years. It has a perfect blossom. Clarence. Thin is one of the most peculiar berries, much needed ow ing to its firmness and shipping quali ties. It is without exception the best shipper I have yet seen. When it com mences to ripci? it has little scarlet streaks running all around it and as soon as they appear is ready to pick. It will keep for days and ripen all over alike in one or two days after pick ing; it has a most beautiful light crim son color and is so firm that it can be shipped hundreds of miles. If you do not wish to ship them you can pick them green and they will ripen just as pretty as when picked from the vines. Edith Pistilate. This is still the larg est berry I have yet seen, but yet Sam uel Miller of Bluffton, Mo., writes me Sept. 29, 1895, that he measured one that was ten inches one way and seven and one-fourth the other in circumfer ence, and weighed two aud three fourths ounces. Haveriand, Bubach No. 5 and Warfield No. 2 still have their places as old standard varieties. Carie is a seedling of Haveriand and is sim ply wonderful and again lead's the pa rent, both in making plants, product iveness of fruit, color and firmness. Timbrell, Luella, Jessie, Hatfield, Ac comac, Bidwell, Bonita, Bowman, Burt, or Capt. Jack, Daisy, Fulton, Glendale, Lady Rusk, Leader, Lydia, Manchester, and many others of the old standard sorts have been plowed under. M. T. Thompson, Sr., in Farmers' Review. lasportaaee or Green Manuring. The agricultural department at Washington gathers in a bulletin the following results of experience in the practice of green manuring for the improvement or the preservation of the fertility of land: Green manuring Improves the physi cal properties of the soil by making the soil more porous and adding to Its sup ply of humus. It brings up the dor mant plant food from deep down in the soil and deposits it near the surface, where it can be used by plants feeding near the surface. Green manuring with buckwheat, Hungarian grass, and other non-leguminous plants adds practically nothing to the soil which was not there before, except a mass of vegetable matter, which decays and goes to form humus. Green manuring with clovers, peas, beans, lupines, etc. (leguminous crops), actually enrich the soil in nitrogen drawn from the air. These plants can grow with very little soil .nitrogen. They store up the nitrogen of the air as they grow, and when plowed under give it up to the soil and to future crops. It is the cheapest means of manuring the soil with nitro gen. But animals, as well as plants, re quire nitrogen for food. By feeding' the crops of clover, cowpea. etc., only about one-fourth of the fertilizing materials of the crops is lost if the manure is properly cared for. As the nitrogen of the air Is the cheapest source of nitro gen for plants, so it is the cheapest source of protein (nitrogen) for animals. The leguminous crop is best utilized when it is fed out on the farm, and th eTn manure saved andypplied to the soil. The greatest profit is thus secured, and nearly the same fertility is maintained as in green manuring. For renovating worn or barren soils, and for maintaining the fertility when the barnyard manure is not properly cared for, green manuring with such leguminous crops as cowpea, clover, and lupines is recommended. A dress ing of potash and phosphates will usual ly be sufficient for the green manuring crop. It has been proved tufflciently that, while clover, peas aad other crops of the leguminous 'are the moat valuable for this use. yet they are most useful on at least moderately fertile soil, and will not grow sufficiently on poor land. For such land, then, it is necessary to grow less exacting crops, as buckwheat, or even a crop of weeds, and turn these under, thus filling the soil with humus and decayed vegetable matters.on which the nitrogen germs may feed, and thus prepare the way for clover and its re lated crops, which then complete the process of improvement. The practice of green manuring on medium and better classes of soil is irrational and wasteful. The farmer should mend his system so that the barnyard manure will be as well cared for as any other farm product. Loss from surface washing, leaching, fer mentation, and decay should be guard ed against. Then the feeding of richer food will mean richer manure and bet ter and cheaper crops. The system of soiling or feeding green crops in the barn in place of pasturage enables a larger number of animals to be kept on a given area of land and the manure to be more completely saved. For this purpose leguminous crops are extremely valuable. Hay from leguminous crops is about twice as rich in protein as hay from grasses. In one case this protein (ni trogen) is obtained very largely from the atmosphere; in the other it is drawn from the fertility of the soil. Legumi nous crops yield larger crops of hay to the acre than grasses. Hence the production of food materials on an acre, especially protein, is several times larger with leguminous crops. If allowed to ripen, the seed of the cowpea and soja bean furnishes an ex tremely rich concentrated feed which can be ground and fed in place of ex pensive commercial feed3. The straw for it is richer than ordinary hay. Grow more leguminous crops. They furnish the cheapest food for stock and remaining may be fed as coarse fodder, the cheapest manure for the soil. They do this because they obtain from the air a substance necessary for plants and animals alike, which costs in the form of fertilizers and feeding stuffs from 15 to 25 cents a pound. Farmers' Review. Salt Box for Cows. Live stock should have a quantity of salt fed to them regularly. The better way is to place a quantity of salt where it will be accessible to them at all times, and this is done in no more satisfactory way than by the use of a covered salt box similar to the one shown in the illustration. The box is 14in. long, 9in. wide, 8in. high at the back and Gin. in front. The box is firm ly nailed to the fence board or to a ijpp post or side of a building, as most con venient. The cover is hinged, and has a bevel-shaped piece (E) nailed at the top to prevent splitting, also to cause the cover to fall back into position. The front end of the box (A) is cut away, exposing the salt, and in trying to get it the cover is raised. Cattle readily learn to raise the cover when they are salt hungry. The stake placed under the box in front holds it firmly In position, and the whole makes a cheap and convenient arrangement, as from a week's to several weeks' supply of salt can be placed in the box at once. Grooming Farm Horses. Horses on the farm do not have the sleek look that horses in city liveries have. Neither will they accomplish so much work. The difference is partly owing to the fact that the horse in the city has a larger proportion of grain, while the farm horse, even when work ing, gets most of his nutrition from hay. But grooming has also a good deal to do with the superior sleekness of the city horse's coat. The curry comb is not 60 much used as it should be on farm horses. Ve know many places where the brush and curry comb are seldom used except "while the horse is shedding its coat. But used at any time it promotes the secretion of oil, which moistens the coat aud makes it shine. A well-groomed horse is usually well fed. But if the grooming were thorough ly done at least once a day the horse could keep in good condition with less feed than it now receives. Good groom ing undoubtedly aids digestion, as rub bing the body promotes digestion in people, and is an excellent substitute for exercise for those who do little mus cular work. American Cultivator. Planting Peach Pits As long as we till land, no matter how little, in a locality where peaches can be grown, we will not fail to raise, occasionally, a few 6eediings for budding. This plan gives us good trees without a cash out lay, and we know what we have. Be sides, the operation of budding is easily learned, easily performed, and quite interesting to the amateur. In a recent issue of Country Gentleman the following directions are given for pre paring the pits for planting: "Place in moist earth any time after being taken from the peach, and better not let them become dried through. It is desirable that they be placed where they will freeze in winter, and if they have been kept moist, the seed of the pit will till the cavity and freezing will expand the seed so as to open the pit preparatory to its growth. A very good plan to manage a few pits is to place tbeiu on the ground only barely covered with earth, and over them place a board, which will sufficiently assure their moisture and will not prevent their freezing. At the opening of sprfng they will be found sprouted, and car be planted where desired to grow." Cost of Pork. An experimenter says that one bushel of prime corn will make oyer ten and a half pounds of pork, live weight, and from this deduction, with corn at 25 cents per bushel, pork will cost the producer 2A cents per pound. When corn Is worth 34 cents per bushel, pork will cost the producer 4 cents per pound; 50-cent corn, pork 5 cents per pound. He further says that a pig at its birth should weigh about three pounds and increase in weight month after month as follows: 15, 30, 48. 63, 103, 135, 170, 210, 225, and on the tenth month should weigh 3uu pounas. aiso inai me cost of a und of pork is 50 per cent greater if ade in the tenth month than in the fifth month, in food consumed. Ex. Annual Loss from Poor Roads. Gen. Roy Stone, government engineer in charge of the department of road in quiry, said at the National Good Roads conference at Asbury Park last year that there are about 500,000,000 tons of freight hauled over roads every year in the United States, and 60 per cent ot the cost of doing it was due to ba1 roads. He believed that the loss fronj poor roads in this country would aggre gate no less than $23,000,000 annually. , n --- J.. A SUGrAE BEET BOOM. NEBRASKA WELCOMES THE SACCHARINE VEGETABLE. Aad Will Da What It Cam t Eacwaraaw Growth of the Saase-Mach Kalhxhtaa aaeat ea the Sabjeet hy Kea Who Have Made Sagar Beet Caltare a Stady Beet Sogar Factories, the BonatyQaes tloa. Etc.. Etc. Nebraska's Coaling Iadastry. There was deep and absorbing inter est in all the proceedings of the Beet Sugar convention held at Fremont. On the second day of the meeting the first matter taken up was selection of place for holding the next convention. Several points were considered. Grand Island finally being chosen. The date was left to the executive committee, with a recommendation that it be fixed at a time when the Grand Island fac tory is in operation. Harry O'Neill, who represents the new method known as the Masse-Cuite process, intended for small factories for reducing the crop to raw sugar for the refinery was introduced. The clar ified juice, he said, after being treated with lime and all the impurities taken out, is put through a copper cylinder, through which a current of ' hot air passes. An experiment was made at Grand Island on juice 8.6 per cent su gar and 1)1.4 per cent water After passing twice through the cylinder the result was 8.5 per cent water and 91.5 per cent sugar. With the assurance of a continuation of the bounty law the process will be rapidly developed. If the bounty law remains unchanged after the next leg islature the company will be ready for operations. In the discussion following Mr. O'Neill's talk it was brought out that a plant with the capacity of 100 tons a day would cost about $30,000, The company will encourage co-operation and will not sell the machines.' Chairman Furnas of the committee on resolutions reported. The resolu tions favor a state and national bounty for the encouragement of the sugar in dustry; recommended the formation of county associations; indorse the trans Mississippi exposition at Omaha; in dorse the Nebraska club, the state irri gation association and the irrigation fair at North Platte. Thanks were ex tended the state board of agriculture for its work. Improved methods of soil culture is favored. The beet sugar enterprise was recommended and thanks extended to the citizens of Fre mont for their hospitality. A resolu tion by Peter Jansen was submitted and adopted, thanking ex-Governor Furnas for his long and arduous labor in helping to build up Nebraska. Superintendent Granger of the Utah sugar factory was present and address ed the convention from the factory standpoint The first crop was raised in Utah in lS'.tl, when 9,'JtiO tons were produced and made up, and in 189. 38,000 tons were made up. The aver age of sugar per ton of beets was 190 pounds. The factory cost 5750,000. Last year a dividend of 10 per cent was declared. The factory lost money at first, but the business has grown steadily. This is one of the factories that is wholly American. The factory pays.4. 25 for beets with 11. SO stan dard. A larmer is selected in every community to do business between the farmers and facto-. No beets less than the standard are taken at any price. Hon. C J. Green gave an eloquent and stirring address on the importance of the sugar question, of its vast con sumption and small production in this .country. His address was the most elo quent, one of the convention. He re viewed at length the tariff legislation of the country, with an appeal for its application to the sugar and other manufacturing interests of the day. "The Possibilities of Nebraska"' was ably treated by IL 31. Allen, president of the association. The experience of Nebraska as a sugar-producing state was compared with otiier states and countries, showing that they did not always meet with success. The crop in Europe was very rich. Their beets arc firmer and contain more sugar than is possible in this country, which may be due to climatic conditions and to sccu. Germany can produce four and a half more tons of beets to the acre. with 2 per cent more in raw sugar thau is possible here. In Russia the indus try is under control of the government and possesses all the elements that go to make sugar culture profitable fertile soil, cheap fuel and low priced labor. ISeets have been tested with as high as :!." per cent of sugar. To com pete witii these countries it is apparent that we need protection. We want a duty on sugar that is fair; not an ex acting one. .Mr. Allen gave his hearers an insight of all sugar-producing coun tries the world over and also as to the yield. Here in Nebraska we have a good field, the right altitude, rich soil, imd with skilled labot and a study of this subject we may Le able to save much which is now lost, and make dis coveries of vast benefit to beet culture. .1. S. Hoagland addressed the associa tion on state legislation. If the bounty law only tended to the enrichment of the manufacturer it should be voted down, but if it was a source of revenue and made the state prosperous it should be sustained. He referred to school taxes and the wolf scalo bounty and proved that the law was beneficial. When the industry is established it will enhance the value of land and prop erty, make a demand for labor and in crease the population. He was in favor of amending the corporation laws so that large stockholders could not crowd out the small. He would .nake it so there was only one vote for the man, not a vote for share of stock. Under this basis he would organize dis trict factories and county associations. Hon. W. G. Whitemorcof Valley read a paper on the subject "What Now?" He regarded this convention as the most important of any that has con vened in this state since that which prepared our constitution. We may well congratulate ourselves and return to our homes with this sentiment, "Ne braska is the place and sugar beets the stuff."' Men differ because the facts which form the basis of their judgment arc not understood by them alike. He failed to see how those people who had signed a contract with thcOxnards to raise beets of a certain standard of purity and saccharine contents could kick because the company refused to take beets which did not reach that standard. He did not believe that the Oxnards would pursue a course which must inevitably lead to failure, and the kickinc of certain parties he as cribed to the old tendency which began in the Garden of Eden. The other fel low did it The discussion which had arisen here, he felt sure, would recon cile the differences existing between the producer and manufacturer. He 1 ascribed the failure of the Valley beet syndicate to the fact that their beets did not ripen, and that the land was not in the best condition for their growth and develop ment of their sugar qualities. The conventiou was unanimous op one question. That was that Nebraska is naturally and peremptorily adapted to the beet sugar industry. We want, further supervision of the factories by having the analysis made by state chemists, who are in nowise interested in the factories. When this is ac complished, and the farmer has the same degree of confidence when he sends a load of beets to the factory that he will receire the fair treat ment he would receive were he to take a lead of corn to an elevator then the industry would advance. II Al. Norton, state weighiuastcr of the Norfolk factorv. r?aii u naner on the production of the Norfolk factory. Since the factory has been in operation it has paid for beets the sum of 492,J 427. Unas paid to employes 974,600, and the estimated amount it has re ceived for 'the sngar it has aaannfac tured is 886,633, which, after paying for coal, coke and lime and other sup plies, does not leave a very large mar gin of profit, though it shows that the factory is, a success. M. A. Lunn of the Beet Sugar indus try addressed the convention on how to secure factories. His talk was relative to his experience in endeavoring to se cure eastern capital to erect them. with no subsidy other than the land on which the factory was bailt They would do nothing without a guarantee of acre age. Mr. Lunn reviewed the ground covered by other speakers and told his experience from actual experience. B. W. Reynolds of Fremont read a most interesting paper on practical raising. He raised forty acres of beets this season and cleared 95 an acre after allowing S4 rental per acre. The treat ment received from the factory was so satisfactory that he will plant 100 acres to beets this season. Congressman Meikeljohn made a short- address on the merits and pur poses of the Nebraska club. Its object is to advertise the state and encourage immigration. It belongs to all and is not apolitical organization. Every cit izen should help to advance the associ ation, which is for the state. The past two years had blighted its good name and it would require much labor to get it upon its old footing. NEWSY MORSELS. Emigration from Ireland 13 said now to have sunk to its lowest ebb since the year 1851. "Grab all In sight and rustle for more," is the picturesque motto ot the Kalama, Wash., Bulletin. In the early days of gold mining In California waiters in the hotels were paid 5 a day for their labor. A team of fox hounds hitched to a wagonette with pneumatic wheels will be a feature of the Fourth of July pa rade in Sanilac Center, Mioh. The ink used in printing the Bank of England notes was formerly made from grape stone charcoal, but now it is man ufactured from naphtha smoke. On May 15 a pure white crow was picked up near Sherburn Colliery sta tion. England. The bird, which is a young one, has the bill, feet, and legs white. A committee has been appointed to raise an endowment of $250,000 for St. Paul's school. Concord, N. H.. which became so famous under the late Rev. Dr. Coit. On an almost inaccessible knob near Towesville. Ky., stands a gloomy old house with stone walls of castlelike thickness, only reached by a winding path about the cliff. King James I. bought of a Mr. Mark ham the first Arabian horse ever owned in England. The price was $2,300. lie was disgraced by being beaten by every horse that ran against him. Every able-bodied male In Norway has to serve in the army. The first year he serves fifty-four days, the sec ond twenty-four, and the third year twenty-four. He gets only his board. Two thousand nine hundred and ninety-two pennies have been taken up in the Canton, O., schools as a collection for the Francis Key monument which is being erected at Frederick. Md. The Kinzua viaduct, near Alton, Pa., was designed and finished in eight and one-half months without the use of scaf folding or even a single ladder. It is 2,100 feet long and 300 feet high. Canada's debt is now $316,029,502. That means about $65 for every man. woman and child In the country, and it costs about $12,000,000 a year to pay the interest and charges at the low rates now prevailing. It Is worth remembering that Mount Logan, near the boundary between ,Utah and Wyoming, is the highest peak in North America. Professor Mendenhall, formerly chief of the const and geodetic survey in Washington, made this statement. The largest raft ever floated down the Mississippi river is now on the way to St. Louis. It consists, with its load, of over 7.000,000 feet of lumber, mostly white pine. If carried by rail thi3 lumber would make nearly 600 car loads. Allowing forty feet to the car the train would be over four and a half miles long. CURIOUS FACTS. While we write from the left to the right, the Japanese write from the right to iert. There are two hundred thousand fac tory girls in London, one twenty-second of the whole population. A curious present for a deaf person has been Introduced in Germany a fan deftly concealing a tiny trumpet in its stick. Berlin is the most cosmopolitan of large European cities. Only thirty seven percent of its inhabitants are Ger man by birth. There are something like forty thou sand public schools in Japan. The buildings are comfortable and education is compulsory. In many European countries the practice has been adopted of planting nut and fruit trees in place of merely shade trees along the highways. From the top of the cathedral spire in Mexico you can see the entire citv. and the most striking feature of the view is the absence of chimneys. There is not a chimney in all Mexico, not a grate, nor a stove, nor a furnace. All the cooking is done with charcoal in Dutch ovens. Nearly every engine on roads running Into Chicago blows Its whistle in a dif ferent way upon entering or leaving the city. A good many members of the crew have wives or sweethearts within hear ing distance of these whistles, and the signals announce to them the arrival or departure of the train. One of the most rcmartirtble churches is to be found at Freudenthal. in the Black Forest. It is built on such a plan that the men are unable to see the wom en, and vice versa, for it Is composed of two wings, which meet at an angle where the pulpit stands. The right wing Is allotted to men and the left one to women of the congregation. A recent instance of the dangers of blood poisoning is almost unparalleled In medical history. Recently, while sealing an envelope, a Brooklyn man pressed the mucilaged portion of i: across his tongue. The edge of the en velope was sharp, and cut his tongue so that it bled a little. The next day his tongue began to swell anu piin him. The symptoms of a serious case of blood poisoning were manifest to the doctor, followed within a very short time with fatal results. THINGS A WOMEN MAY DO. Six of them can talk at once and get along first-rate, and no two men can do that. She can throw a stone with a curve that would be a fortune to a base-ball pitcher. She can say "no" In such a low voice that it means "yes." She can sharpen a lead pencil if you give her plenty of time and plenty of pencils. She can safely stick fifty pins In her dress while he Is getting one under his thumb nail. She can come to a conclusion without the slightest reasoning on it, and no sane man can do that. She can appreciate a kiss from her husband seventy years after the mar riage ceremony Is performed. She can dance all night in a pair of shoes two sizes too small for her, and enjoy every minute of the time. She' can walk half the night with a coilicky baby in her arms without once expressing the desire of murdering tec infant. She is as cool as a cucumber hi half a dozen tight dresses aud skirta, while a man will sweat and fume nd growl In on loose ihlrt What la a Beawtlfal Haad? First of all.it isn't a fat .hand. A besntifnl hand is slender at the wrist, broadens proportionately, has long fin gers, that shape out like .tapers, and when the hand is laid flat the tip of the thumb shond always touch the very be ginning of the first knuckle of the fore finger. A short thumb is an evidence of a lack of brain. Wasn't it Sir Isaac Newton who said," ''Show me the im print of a man's thumb and I will tell yon the strength of his mind?" The nails should be thin, oval and pink. To give them an extremely high polish is in very bad taste, and to make them extremely pointed is to suggest that they are on incapable hands, Ameri can women, as a rule, have small hands, but they do not have beautiful hands, English women have large hands, but usually they are well shaped, white and soft, though firm in grasp. French women have small hands, but dark hands; but it is among the Spanish and Italian women that the most beautiful hands are found. In India the hands of the women are beau tifully formed, exquisitely dimpled; in deed, have every attribute of beauty; but they correspond in color with the slightly dark faces that belong to their owners. A GREAT CHANCE TO MAKE MONEY. Mr. Editor: I read how Mr. Jones made money. I have c better job taking orders for the new Fireproof Deposit Case for storing deeds, mortgages, notes policies, receipts, moaev and valuables from fire. Every familv or farmer buys. I sell for World Mfe. Co . ( F S6) Columbcs. O. , cleared 937 first week. 39 second, first month tli7. Sister made S23 last week selling National Dish Washer for same firm. Light, easy work, honest firm, anronc can make money by writing them. J C B Alt RET. A Remarkable Echo. A Killarney tourist, so the story goes, was assured by a guide that the echo on Loch tiill was worth hearing. So off went the tourist to hear it, and hired two men to row him out, accom plishing the transaction so swiftly that there was no time for them to arrange for the usual echo to be in attendance. In despair they broke an oar, and one swam a shore to fetcii another. The echo began. "tJood morrow.' cried the tourist "Good morrow," said the echo, with a brogue "Fine day, tJod bless it," cried the tourist "Foine day, God bless it," said the echo. "Will you have a drink?" cried the tourist "IJegorra. I will!" roared the echo. Cee's Crnsgh Balsam Is the ohlest and best. It will break tin a Coin quick, enhaa anything eise. It Is always reliable. Try It. Chicago sells $H'.IM!0,000 worth of hides every year. Piso"s Cure for Coiisunii tion has leen a God-send to me. Wni. 1". McCIel.'nn. Ches ter. F.'orida, Sept. 17. 1. There are al-otit I4.W1J mi'cs rai'roads in the United State. of street Mother wh have awed l'arkcr's t;inir.T Tunic f ryeaminsiMihatii bt?n H stuorMlianoiliTim'ili Jii.es; every form of liim- ami weakness i.4d to It Weekly wages for skilled land vary from ?J to 11. lalor iu Kug- Hlodercorn Ian alnple rem-dy. but it tnk- nut the corns, aiulwli it .1 con. a ion it is! Makes walking a ile:su e. loc ;it ..rtiCKists. Nearly $1(X,000 worth of whetstones are I roduced every year in this country. The Personal Side ot Washington. Ueneral A. W. (irevlcy. of Arctic fame, begins, in the March Ladies' Home Journal, of Philadelphia, his ar ticles on George Washington, which are expected to create considerable discus sion. (Seneral Ureelcy lias read over 200of Washington's private letters, and he writes in a frank, unbiased way of the personal side of Washington. His first article will deal with the loves and courtships of Washington and his final marriage to the widow Curtis General Greeley's articles are not iikeh to con firm the estimate of those who regard Washington in an ideal way. IStit they are truthful and admirably portray the man as he was in reality. Notice. Drs. II. II. Green fc Sonscf Atlanta, Ga., are the greatest dropsy specialists in the world. Cure more patients than the entire army of physicians scattered over this beautiful land of ours. A val uable discovery outside any medical book or published opinion. Uemoves all dropsical symptoms rapidly. Ten days' treatment mailed to every suffer er. See advertisement in other column. Floral Tracery on Metal. Ky chance it has been discovered that even the most delicate tracery of the petals of flowers can be reproduced in metal. During the trial of a new fuse the other day a small leaf fell between a dynamite cartridge and an iron block -on which the cartridge was fired. As a result, a perfect imprint of the leaf was left on the iron. Dnrrah for 1'eonaylvanla. The farmers of Pennsylvania are to be congratulated. M. M. Luther. East Troy. Pa., grew over 207 bushels Sal zer's Silver Mine Oats on one measured acre Think of it! Now there are thirty thousand farmers going to try and beat Mr. Luther and win $200 in gold! and they'll do it. Will you be one of them? Then there is Silver King Barley, cropped on poor soil 116 bus. per acre in 1895. Isn't that wonderful and corn 230 bus. and potatoes and grasses and clovers, fodder plants, etc., etc. Freight is cheap on seeds to all points east, west, north or south. If yea will cat tlila oat and send it with 10c postage to the John A. Sal zer Seed Co.. La Crosse, Wis., you will receive their mammoth catalogue and ten packages grains and grasses, in cluding above oats, free. w.n. The Review of Reviews for February contains an article which, in compass of two pages, makes perhaps the most telling and effective exposure of the recent Turkish massacres that has jet been attempted in the English lan guage. The article is based upon full accounts of massacres, written on the ground by trustworthy and intelligent persons French, English, American, Turk, Kurd, Armenian who were eye witnesses of the terrible scenes. The article estimates the number of killed in the massacres thus far at .".0,000, the property destroyed at 540,000,000, and the number of starving survivors at i:.o,ooa Houghton. Mifflin & Co. will publish about the middle of February a volume entitled "Visions and Service," con taining discourses preached in college chapels by Ilishop Lawrence of Massa chusetts. Mr. Francis C Lowell, a lawyer of IJcston, has written a volume on "Joan of Arc," in which he has made a very careful study of all the phenomena in this unique character, and has given special attention to the trial. Houghton, Mifflin &. Co. will publish it shortly. Itirths in Holland. In several towns in Holland a birth is announceu uy wic exposing at tne door of a silk pincushion, covered and edged by plaited lace, the sex of the in fant being shown by the color for a boy red: for a girl, white. The house I which shows in this manner that the number of inhabitants has been in creased enjoys by an ancient law and custom various immunities and privi- I "egei I Prof. James llrycc, M. P., author of I '-The American Commonwealth.' is to contribute to early numbers of the Cen tury a group of three papers on South Africa, the fruit of his study of that re gion during a recent trip from which hn returned tn T.nndnn nlmnt. thi first. of January. At a time when public at- tcntion is so largely occupied with this interesting region, the dispassionate ' writing of a trained observer and phi losophical statesman like Mr. liryce cannot fail to have weight. Billiard tab'e, serond-hanl. for sac cheap. Applv to or address, H. C. Aeix, 'ill S. lfth St.. Omaha, Sex Kueeiie Sue rMiiired ck'litttn mouths to fti - produce the '-Wandering Jew.-' What Started the right. A Philadelphia man was arrested on a warrant, charged with assault aad battery on his wife, and was taken to the central station for a hearing;. His wife, on her oath, said he beat her so badly that she was detained in bed two days. When Magistrate South asked hint why he had beaten bis wife, the prisoner said, "Well, judge, yon see, I opened the door and threw my hat in side to see if it would be welcomed, aad when she threw it out I was so aad that I went inside and licked her." Very Awkward Iadeed. This is precisely the kind of mistake a man makes if he "turns out" on the wrong side of the road when a vehicle comes to waJ"1 rm ,css absurd is the error of the individual who lakes drastic medicines to relieve Ills liver. That nrirnn Is r.n th. vl.H -aide, and the road to its relief K Hostetter's stomach Bitters, a medicine aUo adapted to too reuei or uyspepsia. constipation, kidney and rheumatic ailmeut and malaria. A Professional Kschaage. Life: A doctor who occasionally walked in crooked paths and never went to cnurch was called to see a pious and orthodox old clergyman who had been taken suddenly ill. 'Am I going to die. doctor?" asked the parson. "Well, I guess not this time," said the doctor. "We'll make a bargain you keep me .out of hell and I'll keep you out of heaven!" A New l'ostofflc. ThelJniteti States government has established a branch office in the great seed establishment of the John A. Sal zer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis. So large and extended is the trade of the Salzer Seed Co.. that the government lor tneir own convenience to promptly expedite mail matter, located an otlice in their mammoth buildings. The editor is told that Salzer's great plant, seed and grain catalogue is mailed free to any one upon receipt of 5 cents post age by addressing them at La Crosse, Wis. Prettiest Woman ia Washington. In the opinion of a distinguished member of the diplomatic corps. Miss Kachcl Cameron, thedaughterof Penn sylvania's senator, is the most beauti ful woman in Washington society to day. Miss Cameron's beauty is not of face and figure alone, but her whole personality is imbued witii her inimita ble grade and charm, that render her irresistably beautiful and charming. The Modern Way Commends itself to the well-informed, to do pleasantly and effectually what was formerly done in the crudest man ner and disagreeable as well. To cleanse the system and break up colds, head aches, and fevers without unpleasant after effects, use the delightful liuuid laxative remedy. Syrup of Figs. Manu factured by California Fig Syrup Com pany. y 1. . -.. -. 4 THE KING CURE OVER ALL FOR Rheumatism, NfMflfflloriii Sciatica, m ml iffL. L&i jST.JMOBSgpJl t 1,A. v 1 '- I As good as cane made I regardless of price 1 (?IZ nnnfYc i 93 VH,W c for IO cents j j Other Brands Only j I rl Ounces I for I O cents 1 Doht take our word I i 1 for it. but buy a piece, I and see for yourself I iUUUUU j A Perfect Food I 3 ft "3 That is what Baron von Ltebig said & of good chocolate. All of Walter jfc Baker & Cos Cocoas and Choco- j tS lates are good, the best, in fact. j 'Walter Baker & ffiQfrfrwWWWWWrfWWWrFw MMA5 tine Army licet-, wiih ;hl: to in-. Sl.ca). Coed Heavy ! ck. wltu Bucklei. fl5e. teat prepaid on rrrelpt ot price. iVnrt M of noe n! measure of alf of Ik. I- C. ilbWl INCTUN 4 SON". Omaha- Write S smoke nun HEAT WITH JCikcu LAR.E.KR03ER& BIHLMIUON.PA. IiEC3-C5-rN"S ! Patents. Trade-Marks. i Eiaa.ir.atioa atd 1 rivics a. to- PjucaUtthty ot laveciion. 5cifcr"Kvenrori'Gnide1orHoTWt30 :ei " paths o?TZZix, v&amsvsss, ft a V. N. U., OMAHA 81 S0). When writing to advertisers, kindly mention this paper. gwurina cmtdwn i 2 There are children without food. They cry for it, and are not an- J swered. The pity of it! t w But often nature cries out 5 6 in other ways' that her C children need nourish- 9 ment. Is your child thin; actually poor in flesh? Does it get no benefit f from its food? Then I give something which $ produces flesh and maks rich blood. 9 Scotfo emulsion. i of Cod-liver Oil, with J 6 Hypophosphitesdoes J jk more than this. It i changes the unhealthy 4 5 action to one of health, J i thus removing the cause. J $ It acts on the nervous 5 system, which controls v all the processes of the 4 body, toning it up into 3 sound and vigorous ac- k tivity. It is food for fc growing bone and brain. J It makes the thin plump ; $ the pale, ruddy; the 4 weak, strong; it feeds t and cures. JUST AS GOOD IS NOT SCOTTS EMULSION. XfVC DROPSY XNEATU FRBC PoftltlTeijr Cured with Vegetable Remedies Hare rure.1 thuamU of ca-e. 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