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4 & :- i r f j -H --. - '"-' r" "V ,."-""' t -t i . tr... w- . r-' IB V : . . J The new stables of the emperoi of Germany arc to cost about $2,000,000. and will accommodate 270 horses and 300 vehicles. There will also be lodg ing rooms for fifty married grooms and coachmen and their families, and for eighty single hostlers and other ser vants. Two riding and racing courses, both under cover, will also be builL Automobile watering carts are in use in Paris. Luther said that if a man were not strong at 20. handsome at 30, learned at 40 and rich at SO, he never would be strong, handsome, learned or rich. One Year's Seeding, Nine Years' Weeding. 90 &Cegtected imparities in your blood w2T JDtu seeds of disease of which you may never get rid. Jf your Hood is even the least bit impure, do net delay, bat take Hood's SarsaparSh. at once. Jn so doing there is safety; in delay there is danger. Be sure to get only Hood's, because 3&odSaUafi Doctor Have you taken any remedy for this trouble? Patient No, doctor. I have not; but I have taken a powei of medicine. Harlem Life. tats or Ohio, citt or Toledo, i Lucas Count v. . . Frank J. Clienev makes oath that ho It the enior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney &Co., loins business in the City of Toledo. County ndState aforesaid, and that said ilrm will pay tbeT sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for ach and rrcry case of Catarrh that cannot lM cared by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. j FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before mo and subscribed in my nnsence. this 6th day of December. A. D. 188& (SEAlJ A.W.OLKASON f-' Votarv Public. Ball's Catarrh Cure Is taken internally. .. u..i..n IiIximI :i-ii mucous surf; KWt UI1CVHJ V" ... ......... ... 7 i m Ol the system, uexsu ior n""-' 'l V. J. CI i i:nk Y & CO.. Toledo. Sold by DniKKists. 7Tc IlaU'b Family rills arc tho best. The cnimity between Senators Chandler and Gallingcr. of New Hampshire, was caused by a dispute regarding a postofficc appointment. Ask Your Ir:tW-r for Allen's Foot-Easa. A powder to bhake in your shoes. It rests the feet. Cures Corns, Bunions, Swollen, Sore, Hot, Callous, Aching, Sweating Feet and Iiigrowinp; Nails. At all dnitftf ists and shoe stores, 2." cts. Sample mailed FKEE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Koy, N. Y. Vegetables are like fresh air indis pensable for our health; they cool and purify the blood and add a necessary acid to it. Wori: for AIL Thousands of men are making good wages in the harvest fields of Minne sota, North and South Dakota. There Is room for thousands more. Half rates via the Great Northern Ry. from St. Paul. Write Max Bass, 220 South Clark Street, Chicago. The Chinese tael is a coin which has never existed. It is simply a unit used for convenience. raultlent Starch. There nro ninny starches on the mnrket tut only one " Fa'ultless." AH grocers sell it. Every good housekeeper uses it. Try it and Le convinced, Iugo package 10c. Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit. Ben Jonson. IT. S. 1'aW-tit Office Ituftiiir. G. A. Carpenter, of Fort Morgan, Colo., has been allowed a patent for a fly exterminator. A frame made of a single piece of wire and the ends of the wire twisted together and extended at an angle is covered with bibulous paper and the extension inserted in the top of a bottle in such a manner that the frame will be retained in a horizontal position and poisonous liquid will, by capilary attraction, kecpthc paper moist and flies taking the liquid will die. C. F. Nelson, of Exira. la., has been allowed a patent for a boot and shoe cleaner adapted to be fixed to a door step in such a manner that the bot toms, sides and heel portions of boot and shoes on the feet of wearers can be advantageously scraped and cleaned thereby. Flexible material fixed to the metal parts contacts with the "uppers" and prevents scratching or damaging the leather. We do all the work required in pre paring drawings, specifications and claims and filing and prosecuting ap plications for patents for inventions. Correspondence solicited and advice free. THOMAS G. ORWIG & CO., Solicitors of Patents. Des Moines. la., Aug. 5. '99. The truths we least desire to hear are those which it would be to our advantage to know. Mrs. WlnMow's Soothing 8yTap. Fnrchlldrea tecth'.ne. sotten the roic. reduce! tir Cimmatlua. allay pain, cure wind colic 25caboCUa Probably nothing grows so monoton ous as having a collector come around with the same old bill every mont'i. Ai Does your head ache? Pain back of youreyes? Bad taste in your mouth? If your liver! Avers Pills are liver pills. They cure constipation. headache, dyspepsia, and all liver complaints. Z5c. All druggists. Want your moustache or heard a baautUul brown or rich black ? Then nu BUCKINGHAM'S DYE $,&. MC-. Or Sur.-T P B. P Hn a CO IUmi w. w $0E ! flSfl BRKtf POMMEL The Bert i Coat. Keeps both xiltr aol stdile per- fcptlv r. In IS. Ii..4..i L "- J ... mtR.i WMBl. sunwintt win jivippont. Ask far x8a7 Fish Brand Pommel Slicker your town. "write for catalogs fa A. J. TOW5R. Boston. Mass; It IS enurel v new. If not f nr ul. la RtrtirtasiN DOUBLE QUICK Write CAPT. O'FARRELL. Pcaatoa Acaat, MNcwYrkAvaMe. WASHINGTON. D. C ON joiin w.aiesuu aaiw av. i taTtRtacSjaSBxaai i Train civil war. 15 at! inar TJ. Fraaloe 1 IS adiudicatuis claims, attyunec K-0flf ?md fW Dcycinuc I M GHUIRSatUUJKta.nIS BCeoBB6rrHi -ImtmOooA. MB B aattea. fchliTrM0jaiJi CAMPFIKE SKETCHES. GOOD SHORT STORIES FOR THE VETERANS. The Old Soldier. Story The Coa feder ate Meateaaat Palled the Trigger That Eaded Hie On Life A Noted Kane How She Coaqaered the Germans. Play the Game. There's a breathless hush In the Close tonight-Ten to make and the match t cln A bumping pitch and a blinding light. An hour to play and the last man in. And It's not for the sake of a ribboned coat. Or the selflsh hope of a season's fame, But his captain's hand on his shoulder smote: "Play up! play up! and play the game!" The sand of the de.ert is sodden red Red with the wreck of a square that broke The gatling's Jammed and the Colonel dead. And the regiment blind with dust and smoke. The river of death has brimmed his hanks. And England's far. and Honor's a name. But the voice of a schoolboy rallies the ranks: "Play up! play up! and play the game!" This is the word that year by ycar While in her place the school Is set Every one of her sons muKt near. And none that hears It daffe forget. This they all with a joyful mind Bear through life a torch In flame. And falling fling to, the host behind "Play up! play up! and play the game! From Onward. y The Old Soldier's Stttiry. "I do not get a pension," said the reteran, who had trotted his first heat at Bull Rua, breaking into a wild gal lop before he passed under the wire at Washington, and finally stopped to re tire from the turf at Appomattox "nor do I want one, though I suppose if I were not In comfortable circumstances I might try for it; and still X had abodl as much of the scrap a anybody I know of, for 1 began early and quit late. Luck is with some people, though, for I came out without a scratch, and I didn't lose a day on ac count of sickness. But I am flying the track. I think you said yod wanted that story about the man who killed himself trying to kill me. "It was one of those Innumerable small fights that were happening la Virginia all the year round, and was so little that it did not even get a name. I was In an Infantry regiment, and a detachment of 150 ot us had been sent to the front ot the skirmish line Id feel around and see what we might find that we did not want to find, namely, some part of the enemy's advance. In a cluma of trees we found it in the shape of a hundred or so cavalrymen, wearing the gray uniform we had seen a good deal of in that neighborhood. It meant business, of course, and in a very few minutes there was a mixing of contending forces which was, to say the least of It, extremely democratic. The troop of cavalry was composed of hot-headed young Southerners who had no idea of anything but rushing right into the midst of us, yelling and swinging their sabres around their heads as if they were riding in a tour nament at one of their county fairs. They seemed to be utterly regardless of our feelings, too, and before we could say 'scat' they had ulashed the scalps off of half a doeeu of our boys and were cutting up the rest of us like a lot of young butchers out for a pic nic At the same time we were not entirely idle or neglectful of such op portunities as might be presented, and I may say that the general result of the meeting, to the eye of the casual observer, was real 'hot stuff,' if I may use a bit of modern language "I had had very little experience in military affairs of any kind, and up to that time Bull Run had been the only real battle In which I had taken an ac tive part, the activity on that occasion not having been of the kind, you may remember, which gives a soldier a wide experience in fighting, notwithstanding there was enough experience in con ducting a retreat to last a lifetime. Gee. how we did run that day! It makes me warm to think about it even now," and the veteran smiled at the thought and puffed mildly in reminiscence of his run. "As I was saying, being inexpe rienced In fighting. I didn't kAo just what to do, as is the way with most new soldiers, so I kind of ducked down my head and went into it on the blind luck style, trusting in providence and keeping my powder dry. In such a scramble nobody ever knows what is going on or how best to do the things he has to do. It is slap, bang, shout, shoot, slash, jab a rush and roar, a throatful of nasty sulphur smoke, pos sibly a bee sting in body or limb, a fall in the leaves or dust or mud, a sense of something one scarcely knows what, and the end has come, either to the fight or to the fighter. I had reached the slap and the bang period and was feeling pretty good, seeing that I had knocked a man or two over and hadn't been knocked over myself, and was getting into the spirit of it in fine fettle when I ound myself hand to hand, or musket to sabre, with a j-oung lieutenant about my own age and build. He came straight at me. cutting with intent to kill and I tried to shoot him off of his horse, for I had somehow got a load in my musket and was ready for that kind of business, but he was so close that shooting was out of the question, and I could only use my gun as a guard to keep off the fierce on slaught of his slashes. I made several enorts to swing around so I could shoot, but he saw what I was after and kept it so hot for me that I did not dare to take away my guard long enough to use it on him instead of on myself. I put up the best defense I could, try ing to punch him with my bayonet, but the young fellow evidently had some military training, in sword exercise at least, for he knocked my gun around pretty much as he pleased. Indeed, he had such success that he was wearing me out fast, and I felt that if some thing didn't happen for my side verv cosn there would be one more bluecoat grave to dig on the morrow. He saw his advantage, too, and with a yell he came at me again, swinging that big sabre of his so high and strong that it seemed to me to be the sword of Mi chael or of some other of those picture people I remembered to have seen in my books, and I made up my mind to give him one more poke with my bay onet for luck and let him have my scalp if he wanted it. But he would not give me a chance to do even this much. He banged that confounded sword around my head until I couid only hold my gun up and try to save my face so that my friends wonld have someuiing to identify me by after the battle was over. He ra!ned his blows so thick that I weaken id fast and just as I began to sink from ex haustion he reached around with a ter rific blow to settle me once for all. I had sunk down half to my knee3 with the musket fallen forward, and as he let the sword fall it struck the ham mer of the gun instead of the barrel and with a crack that I could distin guish in all the row and the rumpus, my old musket went oS with a conems sion that threw It clear out of my hands and sent the entire charge square Into the face of my fee-. Even under the exciting circumstances I realized that something out of the or dinary had happened, though I could not tell what it was, and I cast my eye up as I stumbled forward. The face of the lieutenant was not there. It bad been blown off by the discharge of the gun, so close ta the fight We were, and we went down together, both covered with blood hie blood. But, only one of us ol up again." A Noted Kane. There died recently in Paris Mme Ooralie Cahen, according to the Jewish Messenger, one of the most noted attri es of the Franco-German war. One story of her work on the teld ts well worth repeating. The greater pari t her nursing was done Ift Vendome, where, aided by two tettrses and seven Christian sisters ot mercy, she received thousands ot French and German 8l dters. When the Prussian. Occupied Vendome they wished to bold the hos pital and plant f. it the German flag. But, warned of the enemy's intentions, Mme Cahen. ejriy one January morn ing, visited the Prussian general, who, surrounded by his staff, was about to Seize the building. "Sir" she fat claimed, "we have recetveil your wounded and titirseu' Inem as though they were e'nr own; we will continue to dft So, but we will remain in a French ambulance; we will not have It con verted into a German ambulance." "Madame," was the reply, "We are mas ters." "In the town It may fej nere, no!" was the answeft "We are pro tected by the Red Cross and the French fla 50U have no right to touch either I and from that tiay tne utmost admira tion was bpfeniy evinced for her by the Germans. When, after the signature of peace, the German medical staff were about to quit Vendome, the sur-geon-in-chief asked leave to take a public farewell of the French woman. Accompanied by the military doctors placed under his orders, he laid: "Madame, we cannot leave France without thanking yoU not alone in tft.e name of the German nation, but in the name of humanity. We can he'vet for get that yott tompelie'd us to yield In 3 thfe race both of your patri6sm ftnil of your benevolence." atVtlVary laeotDpetrnre of the Chinese. Some of the stories of Chinese ig norance and incompetency in military affairs narrated by Lord Charles Be resford are amusing and yet pathetic in a way. The viceroy asked their dis tinguished British rector to inspect certain forts and give a candid opin ion oh them. "In one of these forts there was a heavy battery &t sixty-ton muzzle-loading gSns, which were load ed ?iy depressing the muzzle into the magazine. I ventured to point out to the general the danger of this proceed ing, and the likelihood, through care less sponging, of the ttagatine being blown up. The general congratulated me 'oh my acumen, and immediately showed me where a magazine bad ex ploded the year before from the same cause, and had been rebuilt for a prob able repetition of this accident, which cost no less than forty-two lives,. At another fort I asked to see the pow der used In the heavy guns, and was shown Eome powder of Chinese Manu facture. 1 suggested that such powder was not suitable and might burst the J gun. The general in command replied: 'Yes, It does; we have Iateiy blown the breech off twA twelve-inch fifty-ton Kriiftt guhs. and killed and wounded thirty men.' Before this conversation I had observed in a fort, some distance off, two twelve-inch Krupp gnns fitted with Armstrong breech mechanism, and on inquiring the reason had been informed that the breech had been blown off, owing to the use of Chinese powder at exercise." It seems incred ible, but Lord Charles found some of the soldiers still practiced In hooting with bows and arrows at a target. When at Pekin, he shw them practic ing In an open space near the observa tory. Hitting the target is a detail of niinoi- importance; the real merit con sists in the position or attitude of the bowman when discharging his shaft General Grant's Straggles. Gen. Grant resigned from the regti lar army at the close of the war wilh Mexico because his pay Was Insufficient to support oven his small family. He says in his Memoirs: "I was now to Commence at the age of 32 a new struggle for our support." Through lack of means and sickness he failed first as a farmer and then in the real estate business, and he could not even secure an appointment as county en gineer, in 1860 he became a clerk in his father's store at Galena, 111., but, as he remarks, "I was no elerk, nor had I any capacity to become one. The only place I ever found in my life to put a paper so as to find it again was either a side coat pocket or the hand of a clerk or secretary more careful than myself." Had not the rebellion broken out Grant would probably have died obscure. Even then his offer of services to the United States adjutant general was never answered, and only through a slight and accidental ac quaintance with Gov. Yates did the great soldier obtain his first command. His modest estimate of his own powers is set forth in his Memoirs in the state ment that he felt quite as capable as the other volunteer colonels command ing a regiment. AraiT aad Nav). The process of turning John China man into a British "Tommy" is auc ceeding beyond anticipation and the satisfaction with the experiment is so great that the British are going to in crease the regiment formed at Wei-Hai-Wei from four to eight companies. 1 ne physique of the men is very good, the average height being 3 feet 7 inches. When Maj. O'Connor of the Ninth Massachusetts succumbed to the dread ed fever in front of Santiago he was buried on the slopes of San Juan hill, which his regiment had helped cap ture. A private soldier of the District of Columbia regiment took from the roof of a house near by a red tile, which he inscribed with the officer's name, rank and date of death. Having no tools to cut the inscription. Private Maboney used the point of his bayonet and a stone for a hammer. Under the circumstances he did a very good piece of stone-cutting and it proved an excel lent marker for the grave. When the remains were removed from Cuba to the United States for final burial the tile was also shipped. Now it is set in a beautiful piece of white marble over the grave of Maj. O'Connor in Calvary cemetery. Boston a picturesque re minder of the valor of the American Spanish war soldier. Women are a new race, re-created since the world received. Christianity. FABM AND GABbEN. MATTERS OP INTEREST AGRICULTURISTS. TO Cp-toDatt Hut AhWt tTal- ttoaUoa ( fa Bwil aad Yields ThcnMr Hortlcaltara, Tltlcaltare aad fclwMcaltare. " 3?F . Browa Potato Rett B. T. Galloway; This disease oc curs in many parts of the Bouth. and, In addition to attacking i'he potato, is found to sericusiy injure eggplants and tomatoes, ta Vhe fcase of the potato, tee rcaV'es, steins, and tnWerS ire nf--recte. The disst- usml"l manifests Itself fei, t .Sudden wilting of thefqllaa antt Soon the. whole plant may teeome affeeteo the. leaves and llems shrivel ing and then turning brown or black Tlie disease reaches the tu ners through the stems, producing a brown or black discoloration of the tilsues and ultimately a complete breaking down or rotting ot all the parts. Brown rot ii caused by a bacil lus, a minute organism, which multi plies th the tissues and thrbiigH .lis action produces th? effects mentioned. Dot a to: wlltinr of stem and leaves and browning of tubers. Various insects, such as Colorado beetles, flea beetles, and blister beetles, serve as carriers of the disease. These insects may feed en a diseased piant, and In their visits M adjoining healthy ones iurect the tissues through bites and possibly in other ways. . . , ,, Treatment. Throughout he f&tlSi. namely-, In South Crillua, Mississippi, Alabama, and adjacent states where this disease is known to occur, a thor ough system of spraying, such as rec ommended for early blight, ahoWd He followed. In addition, all 'diseased vines shbdid be removed and destroyed as 3odn as possible, and the tubers should be dug and either used at once or stored in a cool, dry place. In planting it would be well to avoid land which has just been used for tomatoes or egg-plants, and finally seed tubers from localities where the disease is ab sent should be Used If practicable. Disposing bt Udverftaafefct taada. There is A strong growing sentiment id 'many sections in favor of allowing the Western states to have 'control o the public lands situate'!, within their borders, n! Tease them t'6 stockmen, using the rental money for state Im provements, such as building Irriga tion works, improving land, etc-. The prejudice against allowing the govern ment to cede the public lands to the states & so fixed that those who have favored this policy have reached the conclusion that they will never attain their end; but the rental proposition is a comparatively new idea, and meets with very general favor. Some of the new states have very small settled areas, and it is claimed that it is un fair that they should be imposed with the burden of policing in some cases as much as 90 per cent of the state, which is government land, and from which the state derives no visible ben efit. If, however, this land should be leased for a nominal sum, It would do away with the range problem, Which is becoming a serious matter in the West, now that there is not room enough for nil the stockmen, and It Would bring in a cdnsideirable revenue 16 t'hS states and territories. Legis latures of new states are prone some times to do very foolish things, but it is argued that whatever they did with the money derived from the leases they could only squander the incomes while the title to the land would still remain with the general government until needed for actual settlement; A Cotlventeat Device-. The accompanying illustration will give a good Idea of how a box can be constructed that will greatly facilitate the filling of grain sacks. It is fur nished at the top of one side with heavy hooks, by which it can be hung onto the top of the bin boards. At the bottom of the box are other hooks that hold the bag. The grain can then be shoveled into the bags with ease and without a second person to "bold the bag." The Window Culture of Orchids, Orchid culture is simple, but to un derstand the matter one must go into the principles of the culture, and know the difference in the nature of the cul tivated orchids from most plants cul tivated in glass houses or windows. There is no reason why one who grow3 window plants cannot grow orchids wherever other flowering plants are grown. I know one lady who grows cattleyas splendidly in an ordinary window. Orchids are the latest result of creative evolution in nature's floral kingdom there are no fossil orchids and are the most interesting of all flowering forms for the amateur to grow. Many of the most beautiful of all are to be bought at moderate prices, and an added interest in lite would come to multitudes of people If they would take up the study and grow ing of the orchid. To make a beginning one should se cure a good manual of culture. By far the best practical manual on the subject is an LIngnsn work by Bar berry, orchid grower to the Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, M. P.. entitled the "Amateur Orchid Cultivator's Guide." An American edition of this work is soon to be issued by the Put nams. of New York. In a general a ay the points to be considered in the window culture of orchids are: First, that during the cooler season the plants are more or less inactive and SB BSSw a assshw MM LsllBBSBBaVBBSSB afBsaSclrBW- VasV 9bKT sun BaBSBBBSVBsTwSBTtsU:aV 90 BSSSIBBBm B Brown rot of the need little water. Second, that dur ing the. warm season, when growth is more rapid, the foots should be, more or leas continuay. nrrouna,ed by moist ft. Thlr&t that provision should be made to protect the roots from be coming dry during the period of growth, yet ailow a much mora free contact with air than la usual th thl case of moat other plants'! this is ac complished by the nature of the re cepUcle in which the plants are grown by using a fibrous pe&t and moss, for potting soil ahd f frequent waterings and dippings. trhleSs fresh rainwater, or 'ot'her.wi'ter c&ntal'nlng. the 'necesj sarV fertilizing elements, is used. o fee'd Morchius there wlll.be, gradual 'degeneration, Jn the constitution of the plants'; but this is a minor matter in the culture of a few plants which can be replaced at small expense. Cattleyas will usually survive a starving treat ment for ten or more years. Orchids are less particular about the ftrChttec tural nature ot their abode thin any Other plants. Enclosed windows or porch conservatories answer well.- Vicks-. Feeding ColU. The future usefulness of the colt depends upon nothing so much as the feed during the first year of its life, says Rural World. To be useful in any way a horse must have good bones, and, above nil, goBd -Joints. , Bohef aire built, like the rest of the body, frpm the Teed . consumed, by. , ther Ypitna; , Cf imal, an'd .If J. 0Td,tlues not contain the .cjeaienis jessential- to; the. (growth of. th)o. Ipope', -it is evident that there will be a weakness in this part of the organism. The milk from the dam contains a large proportion of the most necessary mineral substances, such as lime, but the colt seems to require much more In a short time, and may be seen trying to supplement this llm: ited supply by taking .occasional moUthfttis bfspll-. .Probably, nb ma terials at the. farmer's 'djsposal contain ihbre mineral or bone-forming mate rial than bran and oa&.and the.'eolt I ahniiU liaira Vtlont.V nV ! iiso. finrl trrtnrl I clover Jhh- from the start It Is quite safe, as a rule, to give as much as two quarts of these concentrates mixed per diem as soon as the colt can be taught to eat them, and this may be grad ually increased. The colt's tempera ment and character should be closely studied, however, and ration gauged accordingly-: these concentrates and ei'oVef hay being rich ih protein or great desld' erally of the right kind of feed, and nature will do the rest so far as bodily development is concerned. bean Caltnrc. The small white varieties of beans are the most easily raised and most prolific, ripening better and harder. They bear distant shipping or long voyages better than the narrow ot roundish sorts, or the leng Or kidney beans, but the latter sell iriuch higher lh market, the navy beans . average twenty bushels per acre; all hlnd Vary ih .production According t6 , the Season'. Tne narrow ar considered by some the 'most uncertain, but In other "respects the most deslr&ble. , . In growing beans; i. is more .on ob ject toblain seed lhap vines; to suc ceed requires judgment as well as, a favorable season. Too rfich land, ih? clines the vines, to run .too much to blossom After the first pods have ripene'd'. drawers have succeeded best upon sod plowed down suallow; the second year yielding the best, with a light cast of manure sowed broadcast They should not be worked while the dew is on, less they become rusty. Th? vines have a longer root than the po tato. Up-to-Date Farming. Water for Calves, To the Farmers' Review; In order to determine how much Water the Herd ot thirteen calves at the Kahsas Agri cultural College would drink, the water given them for a week was weighed, and put ih a barrel with ad attacnmetlt for letting it But as fait as heeded, ih thfe seven ttays the thirteen calves drank &6fc pounds of water, or att av erage of eight pounds a day. The weather during this time was warm for the first three days and cooler the last four days. In addition, the calves got an average of 14 pounds of skim milk besides grain and hay: The calves drank seVeral tiriiei a Hay; hilt much it a tittle but often. I noticed seVehtl times that they took only one or twd swallows. Often times they would take a fe'w swallows of Water. This experiment . shows that calves heed water in addition to their milk ration; it also shows that they like it often and not so much at a time. Always see that it is fresh and clean. J. A. CONOVER. Moles in the Garden. VarioHS meth ods are adopted to destroy Or drive away moles. Some persons appear to be nblfe to use hioie traps to gdod ad vantage, while other are not so Suc cessful with them, prbably because they do not give the needed attentidn. It is said that kerosene oil poured into a mole run, and then covered up, will drive the creatures away. Bisulphide of carbon will kill them if it reaches them; pour into the mole run about a gill of carbon bisulphide and imme diately cover it over; the fumes will penetrate the runs for some distance and will kill the moles if present. Small bits of meat containing a very little strychnine will kill the animals if eaten by them. Grains of corn soaked in strychnine and water and placed in the runs are also said to bs destructive if eaten. Vick's Magazine. American Wheat In Malta. Some of our consuls are doing energetic work in attempting to extend foreign mar kets for American products. Consul Grout at Malta states: "I realize that Malta is but a speck upon the map 83 compared with other countries, but there Is a market here for our wheat which, if small, will at least prove a factor in the sum total of our trade. Since sending in my first report on the subject I am happy to say that already one cargo of wheat has been landed here direct from New York, another is on the way and a third has been prom ised." Rotation of Crops Illustrated. The value of rotation of crops in prevent ing plant diseases has been strikingly shown in some experiments with egg plants. One plat of ground had been grown with this crop for three suc cessive years, when the crop was com pared with that of another plat on which eggplants had not been pre viously grown. Rot was prevalent on the old patch. There were five times as many sound fruits upon the new as upon the old land. The percentages of decayed fruits were only 16 per cent against 61 per cent. Most of the patients In lunatic asy lums have brown or black eyes. flesh-forming material; sinew and ten- j don, as. well as bone; ahfl such Are the rn&.!h colts. Feed llb- The Vint Nehraaks th Craek Ketsjieat. Nebraska ,owas th erne volunteer rffMWil oi the United States and also boasts of the Biggest Mall Order House west of the Mississippi. Haydtn Bros, are rapidly absorbing the greater portion nl western Bill bruer trade ahd are even eheroachihg on the dis tricts of the eastern nouses: Send postal earns lor free price list! 6n any good yn'n heed td H&ytlen Bros;; The Big Store, Omaha-. keeps thenjroni.staiiiniL. Ti ' Ml 1- . r-.. The BattleBeld Koate. The veterans of '1 and '65 aad their friends who are going to attend the thirty-third O. A. R. annual en campment at Philadelphia In Septem ber could not select a better nor more historic route than the Big Four and Chesapeaka 4 Ohio, with splendid fceryiCe from fehicago; Peoria and St: Louis 6h the Big Four, ali connecting it Indianapolis or . CincinhatL.. and thence, bver th$.picturosqufirChesa eaheri!r..Qhi&i.-along.the ohld river to lUhtington, W. Va.; thence through the foothills of the Alleghanies over the mountains, through the famous springs region of Virginia to Staunton. Va., between which point and Wash ington are many of the most promi nent battlefields Waynetboro, Gor dons vllle, Cedar Mountain, Rappa- pex'. and thenee via the Pennsylvania JJne;, direct 6 to Philadelphia.. There isrill be- thred rates In effect for this business first, continuous passage, with no stop-over privilege; second, going and coming same route, with one stop-over in each direction; third, circuitous route, going one way and back another, with one stop-over In each direction. For full informs Hon a to routes, rates, etc. address J. C-. Tucker. & f: A:: 2S4 feiark' fctffeet: Chicago: , -President McKinley has received, the hC D'. degree. fr.bm.8eveJLcolleges. r ii - ' " .f - - , $- O. Railroad fjaea Crude Oil. "- The- Baltimore and Ohio railroad la now using crude oil on its tracks, though not so extensively aa Hnea which do not use crushed stone for ballast. There are many road cross ings, stations, etc., where dust flies after the passage of fast trains, and these places are being heavily coated with oih Bo far the rfsdlts have beed stratifying. . F&'cts. .must iJe?, fenjirilrie a"t leat they are 'stubbgru.thjnRs;. w, I I , - tl ' r leed the Red Flag of Danger. . , KM pimples. llotcrM, loll, sorrt arc dantfercus tljcnalsof tun lil liver, p Uoned Woixl.1 Caearctt Candy CathartlcwUl save you. DrugKfts, H',U-,vjc tii IS AND THAT. "Found!" cried the explorer, as the North Pole hove in sight; "I must annex this district in the name of my gracious sovereign." "Too late," mur mured a native, laconically; "all this district la under control of the ice truBt-."--Phi!adelphia Nbrth American. . Bishop Joseph. C Harfzeii; 'of the Amerjca'd Methodist churen, in Africa, has the. largest dloceVA M Sarin, tlie sahae being, the SriUre continent "ol Af rica.. The .bishop is $ vigorous; .heal thy looking man and laughingly de clares iiSj, in1tentJonttp,thlake .th p quahance of hjS entire bishopric as soou as possible'. The 4eah in; Paris of Mrs. IjJleanor Jeffreys, pf Raleigh, .E3sexj Eng, at the age of, '9& jrejuoves tlie last living mfnMF'b?-the Society of the Kiss Royal, which was composed of 45 wo men who, when they were school chil dren, met the infant Victoria in Rich mond Park, and by paying the nurse a shilling a piece were permitted to kiss the present queen of England. Nearly eighty year ago an art of parliament was passed tor tile pre vention bt BUflday desecration by London bakers, who Were forbidden under a penalty to bake or sell an the Lord's dai-. TttiS IftW lias BeVe'r been regaled, h'ut it has But beefi invoked tor Several yearS: The Operative Bakers are how taking steps to have the bid atl of George IV: e'hfdrced: F?v8 faehi'Ber! 8f ,. the Fifty-sixth congress aVe.,alM. siqce0they were chosefl; ersohHirigleys pf the. Sec ond. Maine district; died January 13, i89$i JYilHam,;E. (Jreene, of the Sixth Nebraska, died -March u, 1899; Sam Jiel.Ei Bair,d; pi. the Fifth Louisiana, died April 23, 1899; Richard P. Bland, of the Eighth Missouri, died June 15. and Lorenzo Danford, of the Sixteenth Ohio, died June 19. 1899. Somenuntry.oardihg .nouses in the East ..now,- include,, among their regular .attractions the, absence of electric. .lights jkhl ..electric cars. It seeUs this seaspq applications,. have been ..made . by many citv business , men .for such primitive accomodations and the desire to be free from what Is absolutely necessary in town life is apparently growing rather than dy ing out Whenever the Stonewall Jackson camp of Confederate Veterans, at Staunton, Va., turns out to bury a comrade., as it did rfecehtly, a veteran of th felvH wjTr who. fought on the Uhl3h Bide falls l with. the prpces siori and participates in the ceremon ies. The Grind Army, man oh such occasions, wears pis uniform and. badg es, and he is always treated by the Confederates as a brother. General Benjamin F. Tracy has a wonderful memory which will prob ably come into play in the Venezuelan dispute in Paris. In a trial in 1874 he made an address to the jury covering forty hours, delivering over 200,000 words, a feat unparalleled in the New York bar. In preparing the present case he hag consulted 12.000 books, maps, papers and pamphlets, and it baa taken his undivided time for hear ty a year. A monument recently erected in a cemetery in Louisville, Ky., bears in scription to the memory of John Aus tin, a Soldier of the Revolution; James Allen Austin, his son, a soldier of the War of 1812; James Grigsby Austin. his grandson, a soldier of the war with Mexico, and James Richard Gathright. his great-grandsoh, a Con federate soldier, Who was killed at Murfreesborough, Tenn., January l, 1863. All were privates. The attempts of ex-Governor Charles Warren Lippitt. of Rhode Island, to suppress the playing of street pianos near his residence has proved unsuc cessful and have developed the fact that such music, or such noise, is not nearly as unpopular aa the paragraph ers would have us believe. The Prov idence police have been uniformly in different to the ex-governor's anneals. and now some of his neighbors, to show their lack of sympathy, are hav ing the pianos wheeled into their front yards and played there. Dr. Martin Luther Brooks, who died in Cleveland, O., the other day at the age of 87, made the first speech In fa vor of abolition ever made in Ohio. This was at Oberlin, which, through his efforts, was made the headquarters of the underground railway. Dr. Brooks later taught the first colored school in the west. He was an inti mate friend of Lincoln. Taking the government crop report as a basis for computation, the statis tician of the New York Produce Ex change figures that at present prices ! the harvests of this country, already j fc6t btmen JieVer, su&eed in-getting there 'slmpry .because jl 'dread of failure . bannock; $ettl Run; Mating AS.. Bui! JRun; r Flrfx., an'd la sdre..Hl . 8thei$ nearly.. hs .bcdthlheut. i, Yashin tton u In Williamport, Pa., there is a house, valued at 13,000, without an apparent owner. The property once belonged to Andrew McCabe. who bequeathed his housekeeper a life lntret In U. fthe . betftMf WSami&ded ahl Went td a homa in NeW York state; Efforts, id find .her have since bced .unavailing; and the .tax collector asks to bc.exon erated tor assessments against the propert?: GdvejrnBr Joseph b: Say.ers; of Texas, BVfnithe first Federal, flag captured by the Confederates inthe war of .the; rebellion ;He intejd;; presenting it to the Stale .Historical -Sa'cieTv. Lad lea Can Wear Shoes One size smaller after using Allen's Foot Ease, a powder for the feet. It makes tight or new shoes easy. Cures swol len, hot. sweating, aching feet, ingrow ing nails, corns and bunions. At all druggists and shoe stores, 25 cts. Trial release VREE.bv maU. .Addrtss Ailed OimstM Jje.Royj N. . X jjnan'S hwit.goou1 breeding, is the best, security against the ill manners ot other pcoplel . . i. 1 : - T. Aacleaa- American Sleepluf tatf.i "-- L. Xavire Eyma. a Frenchman, who came to this country in 1847. wrote an article in L'lllustration of Paris, pub lished July 22.1848. giving his experi ences on the railroads of the United States. He says that at that time the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad had a leugth of seventy leagues and that he c.b3tgtthel.rQ.".d' tfcaS.r4.UV4 francs', th?i recelM 3.9S8.455 franca .ni, expenses i. 1,964,741 francs. He also gives considerable space to the in; terior arrangements of the sleeping cars used at that time and says that, "they are actually houses where noth ing Is lacking for the necessity of life and are divided into compartments and sleeping rooms, some for men and some for women." Each room held six beds or rather little couches in three tiers along the sides. He winds up his 83 sneak thieves.". Th& vtUbrhobilr Is evidently r a haughty? carriage judging from the price thereof. New I atrtitH. During the past week 517 United States inventors received patents, and of this number 169 sold either the entire or a part of their In VentioH before the patefit had ls bed. iVnoijesf the concerns who pought patents were the follow ing: . ij ,i:i! Columbia.' and Electrical Vehicle Co.. Jersey City, N. J.; Victor Safe and Lock Co., Cincinnati. Ohio; Union Switch and Signal Co., Swissville. Pa.; Ansonia Brass & Copper Co., Ansonia. Conn.; Western fcloftriertl Co,. Chicago. Ill-; . 8ingeP MaHufacluriiiS CO.. of Ni-w .Jersey; E. P: Allis Co:; ,jHIw3ul-eK Wis;; , Carter'- Ink Co:, "os'toHs MasSi; Whitehead Coag Co., q! New. Jersey; American Wal tham 7atch Co.. Wnitham. Mas. Inventors,ileslring ihfol-niatiqh as to the l"twt.aHl prsictief or i.ateHM, niay outa!:. .ih.tr same, by atldiessmg Sues & Co.. Bee Building. Omaha. Nyeb Wheii.some people attempt to uut uu airs they pil cvclon,s Ha toj of hur ricanes. Hint to Housekeeper. Skirts and dresses should nhvnys he starched in hot starch. " Faultier Starch" gives the lest results as it doe- not injure the fabrics. AH grocers soil it. Wen pnefcage. There Is nothing that affords pciplr more pleasure for Ipsr money than sdlf""teehl- Cttt liate ori A II It til, l'. ii: i'hiiUitt Ticket B"roker. i503 Farnam. Omaha. it iakei a strike' t make laboring men stand hrouh'i: I believe PKo's Curo istlmo'nlT Medicine that will .euro ,conMirjjtion. Aun M. Ross, Wllllanispnrt Pa., Nor. IJ, '.. T"JJ rjT'"' f'f ' " ' "" Paris has nineteen theaters and four circus buildings! 11S buys new uptight piano. Sclimol, r & Mueller,' ISIS Farnam St.. Cfmatia. ler Of the. two, a big heart brings more joy than a large bank account. Coe'atTonsIt t'.itoam tn !!. n 1 Mil's -.lJ If mU n; afWatijebrr :lrni.1njth!usel:. 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