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F THOSE unmitl gated nuisances who go around tell ing bow they make a practice of study ing human nature ever watched the way in which a woman holds her dress In the street thev would find lots of deductions to make as to her pecullnritles in other ways, says the New York Herald. If you show a philosopher bow a woman clutches her dress, no doubt he can tell you who she is and what she is thinking about But tha ordinary man who sees a woman pass him on the street notices only how che looks, and draws no inferences from the wlldness or tameness of her clutch. The left hand probably Is the one with which the dress can be held up most rationally, if there is anything at all rational in the system that makes it necessary to hold up a dress at all. Then in the right hand can be clasped the gloves, purse, key. umbrella and any little parcels, and things that have been acquired en route. It is correct to hold out the purse a little more prominent than th other things. One reason for this Is that the wealth may Impress the beholder and the other Is that the sneak-thief may have less trouble In sifting it out from the other effects. All he has to do Is to grab wildly at the woman and he can't very well miss the purse, and then sprint for his residence. To hold the dress as 6ome do it, clinch the teeth wildly, wrinkle the forehead with desperate determina tion, put the left arm back about fif teen Inches abaft the shoulders, seize a handful of the dress at a point as far down as you can reach and fasten on to it with the same mad energy with which the drowning man gets hold of a straw. Then continue your triumphant career up or down Broadway, as the case may be. When the bell skirts were abolished there was a cry of dismay from women. "We've held up our trains for so many years." said they, "that it has become a second nature to us. If we haven't anything to hold on to what shall we do with our hands? A handful of frock is to a woman what a walking stick is to a man." And the dressmakers replied: "Well, hold onto the dresses, anyway, if you like. There's no law against It Break yourselves of the habit by degrees." And that is why a woman whose skirt clears the ground by some inches, any way, can be seen clutching at it to keep it out of the mud. The prettiest dress clutch many think is the plain everyday "perpen dicular grip." The arm is allowed to hang straight down by the side and the dress seized. In this grip there is no dislocation of the shoulder or wrench ing of the arm to get hold of the dress too far back. It is found that it is just as effective and much more comfort able to keep the arm perfectly straight This dress clutch is especially adapted to the stout If the arm goes too far round it Is not only tiring, but it tends to change the center of gravity, and the woman wabbles along seme what like a soft shell crab scooting for two places at once that are at opposite ends of the earth. It- Is the same prlnclplo that causes a boat with two oars on one side and one on the other to deviate from a straight line. If a person Is blindfolded and turned loose on a prai rie and told to walk perfectly straight, he will describe a large circle. But if a woman who is holding her dress up with the backward sweep were blindfolded and told to do the same thing the change of the center of grav ity would be so great that she would describe a very small circle Indeed. Then there 13 the pose with the left arm akimbo same attitude as your cook assumes when she says she won't stand it any longer, but will leave at once, except that she docs it with both arms at once. In this pose the left hand with a little bit of the dress rests pressing closely against the side. The elbow sticks out into the middle of the street, sweeping all comers be fore it Long steps often accompany this pose, and the- poser walks very fast Sometimes the extreme end of the dress is brought round toward the front and folded over gracefully. But the whole thing of diminishing the area of frock must always remain a puzzle to the male philosopher. As a sailor would put it: "What's the use of hav ing so many saik if they're always reefed?" The word "reef" aptly de scribes what some women do to their dresses in rainy weather. Her Hour of Ite'eat. An amusing Incident occurred at a fashionable wedding In London. One friend, who determined to save her money and credit at the same time, took a broken earring to a famous Jew eler of Bond street and ordered the lit tle stone to be set as a scarf pin for the groom. As she sagely remarked: "It does me no good, and coming from such a famous establishment they are sure to prize it and think I paid a lot of money. When the package was re turned from the shop the wedding guest failed to examine her proposed present and merely dispatched it with her card and compliments. Imagine her disgust when strolling through the rooms where the bridal gifts wtre displayed, to find a dozen people aDout her offering, and each one smiling. For a moment she hesitated, and then pressed forward, and lo! there was the precious white-satin covered box bear ing the prized name, it is true, but alas! below, "From repairing department" and even worse than all, resting on the blue cotton beside the pin, was an old broken bit of earring returned by the conscientious firm. Said of the Batatas. The Russian breathes the air of Europe and thinks the thought of Asia. Ills foAf AM Al tr)A rriBkn1J aa. century, yet his head is stiU in medieval times, ne mimics ine sryie or tne West European, yet follows the habit of the Tartar. His aspirations aje never very high, and his passions are often very low. Rev. Joseph Krauskopf. Wheellas; Iato Siberia. The cyclist has already crossed Asia and run through China, but he has never yet pedaled his way to central Siberia. This is now to be done by Mr. R. L. Jefferson, the English cyclist who in 1894 rode to Constantinople and last year to Moscow and back. HE WAS THERE. Alkali Ik Tails What 1 the Wedais ate AttaaWM. "Did you attend the wedding oat at old man Juckett's place last night, Ike?" asked Judge Springer, the well known Oklahoma jurist. "Yep," answered Alkali Ike. Had a lively time. I presumer "Eh yah! Some ways It was mld dlln' lively an other ways It was slow er than snails," writes the humorist of the New York Herald. "Thar was no shootin an the licker was mtaable. But take it all around, np one side an' down the other, it was what yon might call a nleasant affair from start to fin ish. The preacher didn't show up at the appointed hour, but we didn't miss him for quite a spell, owln to the fact that the bride's mother, who 'peared to be an advanced woman, sorter ob jected to Klckapoo Pete, who was sup posed to bo the groom, and got aner him with the soap paddle or snthln of the kind an chased him all over tne lot "She needn't have out herself to the trouble, for the bride got to thlnkln the matter over an conclnded that she'd Just as soon marrv Three-Fingered Babeock. who had sorter been shlnnln' nronnd her some time before, an she didn't know but she'd a little sooner. Nacheral enonah. this kinder riled Klckanoo. nn him an Three Fingered got to Jowerln over It an I reckon thev would have fought It out If Jim Wblnsaw from the Rattlesnake place ranch hadn't pacified 'em an got em to playin' cards to settle the ques tion. "This promised to satisfy all parties concerned, but the bride found out that Three-Fingered had put up $2.60 on his side against her hand In marriage, which Klckanoo had staked, which made her so blamed mad that she swore If they didn't value her pure affection at more'n $2.60 she'd be hanged If she'd marry either of 'em! This sorter com plicated matters again, but Jim Whip saw soothed an' comforted her an when the preacher showed up. by gosh. Miss Daisy an Jim stepped forward, hand in hand, to be married. "Meanwhile Klckapoo had put np $2.60 against Three-Flngered's stakes an' they were playin along as con tented as a couple of kittens. They slipped their hands into a book an gave It to Appetite Bill to hold while the preacher was glttin' off the solemn words that made the two young hearts one. An' then, after they had congrat ulated the bride, thar came the call to supper an' so they concluded to make It a show-down. Accordln', Appetite Bill opened the book an burcussed If both hands didn't consist of four aces an a king. Thereupon they divided the stakes and shook hands. An' then everybody adjourned to the supper ta ble, feelin that it was indeed good to be thar." THAT TERRIBLE BOY. He Explained Matters Which lib Mother Did Not Want Known. A woman, accompanied by her son, who was about 9 years old, was a pass enger on the Staten Island boat the other . day, says the Detroit Free Press. She was a very nervous woman and he a boy who wanted to see what was going on. He wanted to see the boat leave the slip, but the mother seized his arm and said: "Harry, what did I tell you? Now, you sit right down and keep quiet" Later on he wcuted to see Castle William and Ellis island, but she gave him a cuff on the ear and exclaimed: "Harry, must I whip you before all these people?" "But, can't I see anything?" he pro tested. "Yes, you can look around the cabin." He was quiet for five minutes and then edged away to look at an ocean steamer. He had only reached the win dow when the mother was after him, and as she shook him and flopped him down she said: "I don't know why I brought you along." "I do," ho answered. "The idea of your acting as you do." "You brung me along," he continued, in a voice which reached every part of the cabin, "because you was going to get married and give me a new pa, but when we got there he didn't show up, and I hope he rever will." During the next ten minutes that boy had the range of the boat, while his mother sat bolt upright and kept her eyes fastened on the ceiling. A Modern "Marchioness. The waitresses of London want their champion. A very bitter cry has been raised by them and for them in many quarters of late, and never more pa thetically than In the Shoreditch coun ty court recently. Hero a girl of 13, who may be -described as the "Mar chioness" of a coffee tavern, sued her employer for two months' wages, one for work done, the other for notice due on summary dismissal. She had been discharged for coming down late in the morning that is to say, at 5 o'clock instead of 4:30. It turned out that she never got to bed till 12:45 a. m. and for these twenty-odd hours of labor a day minus two hours for rest in the afternoon she received Just 12 shil lings a month. Her interesting em ployer represented that on the morn ing in quesion, "sho was crawling about and could not do anything." 'l don't wonder," was the simple and suf ficient answer of the Judge. The un happy girl was so poor that she actual ly could not pay the hearing-fee until seme unknown benefactor in court handed her the money. Of course she won her case with costs, and with an additional four shillings for her at tendance. Twice twelve is twenty-four and four are twenty-eight the poor "Marchioness" has probably more cap ital than ever she owned In her life. She will be sorely tempted to spend the whole of it in a good fortnight's sleep. A sleeping-match of coffee tavern wait resses might be no bad idea for the next competition at the Aquarium. London Daily News. Greatest American Kicker. The largest mule that ever walked on American soil Is now, or was recently, the property of one George H. Johnson, a farmer living a few miles east of Honey Grove, Texas. His muleship is exactly l&hi hands, or 6 feet 2 inches in height, being exactely 7 inches higher than the famous Los Pecos (Old Mexico) mule, which was so widely ad vertised in 1890-91 'as being "the most gigantic specimen of the mule family the world has ever known." The Honey Grove mule is not slim and raw boned, but is built in proportion to his height weighing 1.619 pounds. The Salvation Arsny. I would to God that every church in America was animated with the spirit of the Salvation army. If so. what a golden stream of treasure would pour into the storehouses of heaven from from what has been regarded as the waste-heaps of human life. Rev. L. A. Banks. DAIRY AND POULTRY. INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. Haw gacccaafal Tmrmtn Operate Tads Oeaartaaemt mt the Vteaa A Hints aa t th Car f U a Femltrr- RESIDENT of one of the large cities last summer com plained to the writ er that the milk of his milkman soured on his hands after be had bad it only a few hours. He saw no reason why this should be so, since other milkmen were able to sell milk to their customers that would keep for days in a fresh state. He therefore re solved to change milkmen and get one that would be more honest In his deal ings, for it was very evident to him that the milk he had been getting was old milk, perhaps several days old. He was answered that the fact that tho milk soured In reasonable time un der the influence of more than usual heat was to the credit of the milkman and not against him. It proved that his milk was in a normal condition and not doctored up with boracic acid or like antiseptic.. This leads to the thought that in our great city milk trade there is always a premium being put on dis honesty. It takes a very conscientious man to hold to the straight path, when even his honesty is charged up against him, and his pocket is made to suffer for his well-doing. Ex. Ioss on Poor Stock. The farmers of America lose millions of dollars in the aggregate by keeping scrub fowls. This Is a proposition that cannot be controverted. And many of them lose money by keeping no fowls at all for market purposes or fowls for revenue. There is great difference be tween mongrel and scrub fowl. The mongrel may be a large, composite fowl of pure blood that is, it may be made by a cross of pure bloods upon pure bloods, or a cross of pure bloods npon common stock. In either case It Is far removed from a scrub, which Is a meas ly little common fowl without a trace of good blood In Its composition. Such fowls, even at maturity, do not dress more than from one to two pounds, and it is a good specimen that will dress the latter weight A few days ago a year-old hen was dressed at the editor's home which weighed 5 pounds when ready for the pot. And it was a mon grel hen, too, a cross of Brown Leg horn cock on Plymouth Rock hens. The hen was fat, but we could have put a pound and a half more fat on, making the bird weigh seven pounds. Now, suppose every grower of poul tryall breeders of fowls was to put two or more additional pounds of meat on the body of each fowl he raises, would it not make a difference of mil lions of pounds, taking the country over? It would more than double the total of pounds for consumption of food. Where a million pounds of poul try are now raised, two million pounds would be marketed, and thus double the income of the farmer or grower from this product alone. The estimate Is based on the growing of scrub stock, which is a waste of time and feed. Rut this scrub stock can be improved and doubled in bIzo by the introduction of a few pure bred females and a good male or two, depending on the size of the flock. Besides more eggs would be produced, and of better quality, and these would add to the farmer's profits. Let farmers everywhere improve their fowls. There Is good money in it Ex change. Slse and Shapo of Boosts. Roosts in shape should be round or half round. It is a question which of these two forms Is best We have al ways supposed that the all-round roost was the kind meant by nature, as the feet of all roosting birds are so con structed that they naturally grasp a round object. An Australian poultry keeper, however, believes that a roost flattened on the under side is preferred by the birds. He put both kinds in his hen house and the fowls left the round ones for the ones that had been partly flattened. He believes that the toes of the birds can grasp the latter kind of roost much better than the all-round ones. As to the size of roosts, that must de pend somewhat on the age and size of the bird. Most of our poultry houses have roosts of one size, and the fowls are expected to like them whether they fit or not A chick that weighs one pound must certainly find some dis comfort in clinging to a roost made for a rooster weighing eight pounds. The roosts of our poultry keepers vary in diameter all the way from one to three Inches. What is the best size? Prob ably it would be better to have different sized roosts in every pen and let the birds choose for themselves. The Country Batter Bayer. "We refer to the country grocer who buys for goods the butter made by his customers. He Is frequently at the mercy of the poorest butter makers In his township. They can't sell their butter to private customers or to the commission houses; hence it turns up at the grocery. The grocer pays 10 or 12 cents a pound for It, and that Is frequently more than It is worth, as the same butter If sent to a city would be graded as "'grease." Does the grocer tell the farmer his butter is not good? Far from it; he can't afford to lose a customer. Often he gives the butler a word or two of praise, which convinces the farmer that his wife Is not to be beaten as a butter maker. It would never do for the groceryman to set himself up as judge over the butter of his patrons. MUklas Machines Yet Theoretic. In spite of the fact that It has been many years since the first appearance of the milking machine in some form, we yet have practically only a milking machine in theory. That is, it has not passed beyond the experimental stage. It is true, a few of these machines are being used by the experimental farms and by a few big dairymen, but even in those cases the use is merely to demon strate the possibility of using the ma chines and cot because any great ad vantage is gained by them. We would be glad to see them a success, for they would remove from dairying some of its worst features, but to the present time the progress has been so slow that the encouragement for the immediate future is not great. Farmers' Re view. Fire from Spontaneous Combustion. The Pennsylvania experiment station reports a fire from spontaneous com bustion of second crop timothy and clover. Many tons were charred that did not take fire, the latter event being prevented by water being thrown on the hot mass as soon as it was exposed to the air. Im am Iowa convention, Mr. Cowmle spoke aa follows on shepherd dogs: Tt would he utterly Impossible to raise sheep In Scotland without dogs. One dog there Is worth fifty mem In taking care of sheep. It would bo ab solutely impossible to take sheep away up lato the mountains and tramp them for twenty miles as they do without two or three dogs. A shepherd there will take care of a thousand to three thousand sheep. He will go at the head a whole day, walking along and he will have a dog behind them and perhaps one at each side and they will keep their places and when the sheep come home at night they are yarded down at the foot of the mountain or in.some valley. As they go Into the yard' the shepherd counts them and It Is surpris ing how fast a man when he has had experience will do that He will count those sheep going into the gateway and count them ten, twen ty, forty, sixty. Many a time there will be two or three sheep missing, and the dog is told to go and get those sheep and he has to go. It may he sunrise next morning, but he doesn't come hack until he brings the sheep with him. But It Is entirely different here. The sheep are kept in fields and there is probably not the necessity for dogs that there Is there. There it would be an Impossibility without dogs. No man can go over those mountains and into those recesses as a dog will do and search for them as he will do; and where there are. as in Scotland, moun tains where different shepherds have their flocks of sheep, they sometimes meet and get mixed and the flocks will get together, and no man can separate them. The dogs invariably do that I have seen at a fair held at the town where I was born where there were over twenty thousand sheep for sale, all kept in small pens, probably one or two or five hundred, where they were to be sold. A storm came up and blew down the fence, or the gates as they were called. They were made like the gates dove-tailed together as you see fences along the railroad, and removed after the fair. A heavy storm blew down all those fences and the sheep became mixed. Those shepherds would have been utterly powerless to separate the sheep without the dogs. Each shep herdand there were probably fifty or a hundred of them, that had come from all parts of the mountatins with their sheep to be sold at the fair each one took bis place and called his dogs, and the dogs went into the great flock, pick ing out the sheep in bunches of ten, twenty and thirty, and brought them out, and the moment they came out they were told to go back and bring out more sheep, and those dogs worked there for hours on a cold November day, with their tongues rolling out as if it were in July, to get those sheep, and there was never a shepherd among them. Over there if you talk to a shepherd and tell him that he could get along without a dog he would think you didn't know anything about the sheep business. Symptom of Ifos; Cholera. Symptoms vary much according to the severity of attack, says an Indiana Experiment Station bulletin. Often the hog will be found dead before It is known to be ailing, while in chronic cases it may be sick for two or three weeks. The condition of the eyes give early indications of disease, the mucous membranes become reddened, the lids gummy and. glue together. The pigs appear chilly, and He In tho hot sun when they would ordinarily remain in the shade. They will hunt for litter or bedding under which they can se crete themselves. The appetite Is lost and a dlarrohea Is developed. In the earliest stage, constipation may be present, but diarrhea nearly always en sues before tho attack is over. The attack may be or may not be attended with a cough which may be frequent or only when the animal gets up from its bed. In breathing, the ribs seem to remain quiet, and a quick Jerk is seen in the flank at each expiration. Lame ness in one or more limbs, stiffness of me DacK, imcKing ana cracKing of the ears, scabs on the skin, purpleness of the belly or patches on the body arc all attendant A common expression from the farmer is that "No two die alike." In swine plague the respiratory symp toms are early developed and more characteristic than in hog cholera. On post mortem, the intestines and lungs are found to be the points of attack. Poultry Notes. For egg production variety of food is desirable, though not absolutely nec essary. e e Among wild birds the greatest egg producers are those that subsist more largely upon seeds than upon animal food. e Egg production generally pays better than the raising of poultry for meat, except where "early broilers can be pro duced. e e e To breed poultry for the early mar ket we should select rapidly growing breeds such as the Plymouth Rocks or Leghorns. e e e We hear a great deal of the corrraon fowl but arc of the impression that most of our flocks have been modified by the introduction of birds of stand ard breeds. You had better not be too ready to dispose of the rooster after his first season of service. Knep him. as he will be more valuable for a breeder next year than this. Why Moses Prohibited Xork. An institute worker says: With re gard to the prohibition against the use of pork by Moses, there are differences of opinion. One writer supposes the law prohibited swine because of their filthiness and observes that it is well known with what care and precision the law forbid3 all filthiness and dirt, even In the fields and camp, as well as In the cities. Another states that the Jews abstained from it in conse quence of a leprosy, from which they had severely suffered, and to which the hog, in those climates, is very sub ject; that throughout Palestine leprosy is an epidemic disease, and, the Israel ites being overrun with it at the pe riod of their quitting Egypt, Moses found it necessary to enact a variety of laws respecting it, and prohibiting the use of swine as an article of food was one of these. A fad for this autumn's brides has f- ...... ,- nr kninir eeneihin tu -.! : friends of the bride give her a farewell dinner and each guest brings to the . - !.- nr r.i- nf fino Hn ..tk..in , no !, t .1. : twice as fine as it was before, the feed contribution to the linen closet of the . .M hi, .,. 'hoa honn bride elect. It is a pretty, inexpensive and sensible fad. I" ft1saMnAnf Ifttn aac a Dwakakhm IIha iciui":. -: . ri.uu,e.- wuBu.cuuiUMusuurcac.a preservatives when by using the great ' forces of heat and cold we can pre- serve milk as long as it should be kept?. To use preservatives of a chemical na- ture is to endanger tbe lives of weak , children and even adult invalids. Hertlemltaral Cm (Reported for Farmers' Review by B. S. Floxie.) The Pear Tree on Wisconsin Soil, by W. J. Mosl. of Yorkville: Mr. Moil Is an enthusiast im fruit growing and mentioned that his taste in this direc tion was early acquired by creeping through the hedge on his hands and knees when a mere lad to get the pears which lay on the ground of the neigh bor's pear orchard, and he then pro posed, if he ever grew up to be a man he would have a pear orchard of his own. Mr. Moil Is In a favorable location for pears, mear Lake Michigan, but would not urge fruit growers throughout the state to plant extensively of this fruit. Thinks the price of young trees Is so high that manar do not care to plant on that accotfbt. The Kelffer latery hardy bujtpoor fruit as compeared to other varieties which bar can grow. 3eeds from the Kelffejaawell as from some of the Japanese varieties, are hardy, and he Is using these for stocks to bud on. This in two years' time will give you trees large enough to set In orchard. Would give open cultivation for his locality. Mr. Kellogg, of Janesvllle. gave his experience as adverse to pear growing. Mr. Dartt. of Owatonna. Minn., stated that the Longworth pear was doing well there at the station, as also some of the Japanese varieties. Mr. Coe, of Fort Atkinson. Introduced the matter of a monthly publication' of the transactions of the society some what on the plai of Minnesota. After some discussion of the question, a com mittee of three was appointed by the president to consult with the state printer, and 'If satisfactory arrange ments could be made, then the proceed ings to be published in monthly parts, with four to eight pages of timely mat ter each month as a distinct feature of the work. The committee reported fa vorably to the publication of 400 copies each month, with 4.000 additional copies for gratuitous distribution in April and November. The report of the committee was adopted, and by vote Mrs. Vie H. Campbell, of Evansville. was chosen as local editor, leaving the editing of the transactions solely with the secretary as formefiy. After receiving several applications torAhe summer meeting, which were referred to thewrecutlve board, the soflety adjourneTsine die, Fralt for a Qaartewlere Gardes. The following varieties, and number of each well cultivated, will give a suc cession throughefft the season and fur nish an ordinary family with whole some fruit, fresh canned dried or pre served during the entire year. 50 blackberries. Ancient Britton, Sny der. 50 black raspberries, Palmer, Ohio, Gregg, Nemeha. 50 red raspberries, Marlboro, Cuth bert, Loudon. 25 raspberries, Shaffer's Colossal. 25 gooseberries, Houghton, Downing. 50 currants. Red Dutch, Victoria, White Grape. 300 strawberries, Warfleld (p), Van Deman (s), Michels (s), Haverland (p). Crescent (p), Beder Wood (s). 12 grapes. Moors Early, Worden, Brighton, Delaware, Concord. The above varieties are well tested and do well in most localities. There are other good kinds having special merit for special locations and taste. M. A. Thayer. Getting Back Feed. When we feed a ton of bran to a fattening steer al ready fully grown we get back almost all the mineral matter and nitrogen in the manure. When we feed this same bran to a cow in full flow of milk, we get back about seventy-five per cent of all the mineral matters and nitro gen. Provided. In all cases, we save all the liquid excrement If these are wasted, most of the nitrogen and pot ash are lost. The phosphoric acid only for the most part passes off in the solid excrement. Let no more speak against the great value of manure made from bran or any other food for that mat ter, until he has carefully saved both the solid and liquid portions. W. A. I Henry. Avoid Hog Cholera. Little is known regarding the life history of the germs outside of the body, but it is known that the disease cannot develop without their presence. As medical treatment of the diseased animals has given very unsatisfactory results, and it was found to be far more important to prevent the disease getting an en trance into the system than to at tempt to cure, it became the ob ject of this preliminary study to determine whether the disease could be prevented and whether the means of preventing it were practicable. There is little ttouble in finding an occasional pork producer who has been In the business for years and has never lost a case, while his neighbors have lost re peatedly A. W. Bitting. The Hog In Old Times. If we go back in our researches to the historic page we find that the bog was at that timer of much, importance. The"an-' cicnta used iJork as an article.-of food; the ureeKs'anu uomans maue ine an of breeding and rearing swjne a study, and everything was dosffto impart a finer and more dcIicaC flavor to the flesh. The poor anmals werefed. crammed and tortusjw to graty the gluttony of the Jrople. Wehre in formed by oneJfriter that swine were fed on drledyflfs and honeyed wine in order to produce a disordered or dis eased liver. Use Vigorous Plants. A weak plant In a garden is expensive, even if it cost nothing. Farmer Smith sent away for some of the best settings for his small fruit patch. Said a kindly neighbor: "Why don't you get something cheap er?" Smith repnea: "i can t afford it I'm too poor." He voiced a most im portant truth. The League of Argos, formed B. C. 421, was a combination of Argos, Cor inth, Elea, Mantinea nd Chalcidice against Athens. It was designed to -curb the power of the Athenians, but its purpose was frustrated shortly after by the unexpected incident of Athens joining the league and becoming one of its members. ' Butter Too Much Washed. Recent ly one of the staff of the Farmers' Re- iview was being supplied by a grocer with good creamery butter. It was, however, so flavorless that it bad the Itaste of oleomargarine. Chemical analysis showed it to be pure butter. It had evidently been washed and worked no death. . " ,, , Fining tho Garden Soil. This re- .mark is getting to be worn thread-bare, but ,U s ta "? th?t should not be overlooked. When the soil is made ?!., ... , ,,, rofl,,0 ,,.. , -T. "- IUC WV1A Ul L11U. Ko TrOBbIe to the Honae. B (. re8taurant)-See here, WZ, r watted for that steak half an nou'rt j Waiter (cheerfully) O, that's all: right, sir; you needn't worry. Our i dinner - time lasts from five to eight o'clock. Troth. Wards OaT Charity Haatera. A well known judge has invented rather a neat reply to the letters of busybodies soliciting subscriptions for useless societies. He fills the first page on the note paper with these words, written in a bold hand: Dear sir, in reply to your letter. I have much pleasure in subscribing" here the secretary joyfully turns the page to find the conclusion of the sentence on the following leaf "mvself, your obedient servant, John So-'and-so." St. James Budget. Fios Cure for Consumption is our only , 'w cougns ana colds. Mrs. V. cik, k etn Ave., Denver, Col., Kov.S,- Well and Happy When she Had Kaoech. We once knew a woman, an inmate of a county infirmary, who attained the rina , nt in.- i . i 7 J "" un iimr ivwi-rs Willi mat Jvn II f,, "V whoh?d aysfahrase. which cannot therefore betray spTVIl 3Q lnvlprAiA neap W aKmMAA r .-.. w - . ---. Mk, v u uaL-L-uwa 2r?JSiS? JSS: ??!" IV 11 ury not easily obtained. To economize in its use, she first chewed thenlntr ml dried the quids, from which she made a tea and drank of it freely, then the res idue was carefully redried for consump tion in her T. D. pipe. The old lady proudly affirmed that she had never been ilL Cleveland Medical Gazette. Jaat haw It It la eat the aanllM. It fcenuuith to know tbaillmdercurnn takes out tho co.ns. and a very ilealncr..-lief It Is. 15c.at druggists Nearly every citizen of that he "mado" it. a town be'ieves I hare trlrd rarkrr't Glaser Toale ami bollere in l".y, a mother and towil yon say when fatniii ir with itsrvTitalizii g profrlles. A lie must be thatched with another or it will soon rain through. There are Dictionaries and Dictionaries hut the noblest Roman of them atl seems to le Welster. It is still easily in tho lead in the preat race for insularity. Srealer Reed denies the report that he studied for the tcinistry. It the Baby la Cattlar Teetau 3e rare and nse that old and well-tried remedy. WutsLow's Sootiiuo Stdit for Children Tccthine There are twenty creeks in the country wun tne name oi tne liter. PITS -AU Fitstopixil free !.r Pr. K llae'a O rest Arrre ICeatorrr. N.Fltsaft-rtl-tiriUT-su. Mart i-luus cure. Trrativ:tnlSCtr.uIUttlvfre t litiiuk. :udtuljr.KliuKilArcnM.,fIala.,l'a. 1 hero are fifty-one anarchist papers pub- nsneu in ungiand and America. IOWA PATENT OFFICE REPORT. Dr.s Moines. April 3. Patents have Iheen allowed to Iowa inventors as follows: To II. Mcndenhall and F. B. Davis, of Audubon, for important im provements relating to a feed trough for nnimais. for which patent No. 33l,91 was issued to the said Menden hall April 13. 18Sfi. To .1. W. Tcrman, of N w Sharon, for a composition for purifying and preserving butter, sweet milk, etc., and destroying bacteria or other micro-organisms therein. Rancid butter treated therewith and sterilized thereby is said to be as good and sweet as fresh butter. Valuable informatupf about obtaining, ..valuing and selling patents sentJifree to any njidrress. Printed conjes of the drawings and -pcciHcatuaAs of any Unifed States patent seiit upon receipt of 25 cents. Our practice is not restricted to Iowa and inventors in other states can have our services on same terms as the llawkcyes. Thoxias G. and J. RAr.ru Orwio, Solicitors of Patents. Tho duke of Saxe-CoburR and Gotha plays the frtd'e with fervor and skill. The I'ilgrlm Kuster Number. Will Ihj ready the early part of April. Everything in it will be new and orig inal, it will contain articles by Capt. Chas. Kinjr, U. S. A., ex-Gov. Geo. W. Peek, of Wisconsin, and other noted writers. An entertaining number, well illustrated, b'end ten (10) cents to Geo. II. HeaiTord, publisher, 41.1 Old Colony building-, Chicago, 111., for a copy. A I'rinco All ert coat often covers a mul titude of patclic!. I illinrd tab'e, serond-haml. for 5a!e cheap. Apply to or address, H. C. Akitc. til S. 11th St., Omaha, Xobt -- -- -" -A--nA. AAA. 4 Pain often con centrates all its Misery in ' Vac at once ST. JACOBS OIL ffif ftf fif AD. 1 at "K 'BaaBBBBBaaT " O . qj W r HI JBBaBBaH. " raaam'ZJa'aaB"aW Mr I PLUGWI 5 ounces for JO cents. You 1 C may have "money to burn," but even m V so, you needn't throw away 2 ounces J of good tobacco. For 5 cents you get w almost as much "Battle Ax " as you K C do of other high grades for 10 cents. Try Walter Baker & Co.'s Cocoa and Chocolate and you will understand why their business established in 1780 has flour ished ever since. Look out for imitations. Walter Baker & Co., Ltd., Dorchester, Mass. Tvavettafc Whether on pleasure bent, or business, take on every trip a bottle of Syrup of Figs, as It acts most pleasantly and effectually on the kidneys, liver, and bowels, preventing fevers, headaches, and other forms of sickness. For sale In 50 cent and It bottles by all leading druggists. Manufactured by the Calt lornia Fig Syrup Company only. Aa Iatpradeat Bat Gashlaa; Woaaaa. Young women who take books at the circulating library are imprudent to use their pages as blotters. They are doin? wrnnc nlu-i far it. is mit th. fjr8- A cPy of "Lord Orraond and .ftps Aminta." which has becu in use in af Philadelphia library, held in front of a mirror revealed the inscription, "I send you my heart with a kiss." AU women finish their letters with that fan- wmYthere. n n r rwui t tinv The Back, the Thaaahserew and the Hoot Were old-fashioned instruments of torture Ions since abandoned, but there Is a tor mentor who still continues to agonlzo tho Joints, muscles and nerves of many of us. Tho rheumatism, thiit inveterate foo to daily and nightly comfort, may bo conquer ed py the timo'.y ami steady ie of llotet ter sbtomach Hitters, which likewise eradi cates neuralgia, billiou. malarial, bowel stomach and nerve complaints. Lovely. "Oh, yes," continued the pirl of the prehistoric period, "we had birds twenty feet hisjh in those davs." "Dear me," exclaimed the fin do siecle person, "what lovely hats you must have had! Well, well'" Detroit Tribune. Ilal DiMowrwiMDni. H will break ap a Cold quloa. ertttaaaiurtahMtehe. it b always reilabl. Try It. The queen of Itotuuania fairly revels in literature. Half rare Excaraloaa via the Wabash. The vhort line to St. Louis, ami quick route East or South, April Slst and May 5th. Excursions to a'l points South at one fare for the round trip with fi00 added. JUNE lth, National Republican Convention at St. Louis. JULY i'd, National Educational Association at Buffalo. JULY 1'th, Christian Endeavor Convention at Washington. JULY hid. National People and Silver Convention at St. Louis. For rates, time tnh'es and further infor mation, call at tbe Wabash ticket ofticc. 1415 Farnam St., Paxton Hotel block, or write Uro. N. Clayton. N. W. Pass. Agt., Omaha, Neb. There are two great crimes; murder and slander. GASOLINE ENGINES. STEAM PUMPS. IRON AND WOOD PUMPS Kcllpv; aril t'alrti inks W'lrwN mllli, 'lowtTS. Tanks Initia tion Outfit. lkp. lleltlnc. (rlrulers rhvller. Wixxl vntf, Dr.ve 1'olnts. I lie. Fitting, llrasi ;!. and Falrbitaka Mtnadnrd Healaft. Prlr"t !mt. f!et tLo tart. cml fur OF ALL JOaCS. ljiurnie. Jr FAIRBANKS, MOl?SE t CO., II02 Farnam St. Omaha. Neb. Patents. Trade-Marks. Examination aixl Advice a to Patentability iSvration. H-nd for " Inventors ii:ld or How to Oei arattnt." IhSSSS. OTISSK VA3ZBI5TU& D. & A A A.A AA AA. i; Ayer's fif Sarsaparilla : ;; The Remedy with ; a Record. l if 50 Years of Cures jj; RHEUMATISM if you want to feel it con centrate its bcaMnfr in a cure. f t'T'T'T'?? 780. 4 t.' a v:- M i f A tA. ! f IS i ., . . Lt-ti -5 i!ii-ft?Bs4iB&i3 JUmrtfw it' waVrVWrVfri '4sJl