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A planter In Yazoo county, MIsbIs
' sppl. 'reposes faith In the katydid as
.. predictor of frost He says the katy-
;-did began to play his littel fiddle this
year about June 6, and that if the first
' . froft comes in just four months from
. that time, "as it surely will," it will
so reduce the cotton crop that it will
. '-bring a good price and good times in
... -the south will follow.
' Ar Yoa Csrnr AIle-nM Foot-E?
It Is the only cure for Swollen,
-Smarting. Burning. Sweating Feet.
Corns and Bunions. Ask for Aliens
Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken into
the shoes. At all Druggists and Shoe
Stores. 25c. Sample sent FREE. Ad
dress Allen S. Olmsted. LeRoy, N. Y.
Governor Roosevelt, addressing :om
firemen the other day, took occasion to
mention four callings which subject
. those following them to as great dan
gers as those the soldier meets in war,
and which evoke as manly qualities
as -nrc ever required of the soldier.
They are the firemen, the policemen,
the railroad men and the fishermen
on the Newfoundland banks.
YFell Groomed Wonea.
". A pretty sbirt waist, properly laundered
with "Faultier Starch," makes a woman
look sweet and wholesome and adds greatly
toher attractiveness. Try it. AH grocers, 10c
A serious mountain climbing acci
dent has just been reported in Switzer
land. While two Englishmen, Hill
and Jones, were ascending the Dent
Blanche their rope broke and Hill and
three guides wore precipitated down
the mountain. Their bodies have net
been found and it is supposed all four
men perished.
"Brains count," says a college presi
dent. Of course they do, but some
times they get pretty badly mixed up
in their figuring.
Probably nothing combines to dis
courage a man more than a desire to
whip an enemy coupled with the belief
that he can't do iL
An electric lamp for use under water
a consummation that has baffled
Hectricians for years has been pro
duced by a German firm.
A German government mine survey
or has entered the service of the sul
tan in order to conduct coal explora
tions in Asia Minor.
The lecture platform will be utilized
the coming winter by William Dean
Howells. He will make known in the
large cities his ideas and theories
about the novel and discuss other mat
ters germane to his profession.
The annual catch of shad in the Del
aware river from Trenton to the bay
is worth over JCO0.O00 at the nets.
The herring catch in the same water
amounts to $-109,000.
Between 8,000.000 and 10.000.000 peo
ple in the Untod States take a vacation
every summer, according to a fiend
with a fondness for estimating. They
spend more than $400,000,000.
Wickwirc These funny men would
not see so much fun in doctors bills
if they had to pay a few. Dr. Bowlcss
Nor would they if they had to collect
them.
Gavels made from wood from the
Kiljs of the old home of Thomas A.
Hendricks are to be used by the presi
dent of the Ohio democratic state
convention. They are to be presented
by citizens of Znnesville. Hendricks
was a native of Ohio, being born in
a log cal'in in Muskingum county.
Alexander Henderson of Syracuse is
of the opinion that he has acted as
pallbearer at more funerals in the past
half century than any other man in
Onondaga county. He is six feet two
inches and "looks well."
Mrs. Shiver, who lives in southern
Georgia, ought to have a place in the
world's history. She has no fewer
than r.10 descendants, 235 of whom are
still living. This great-grandmother is
90 years of age, but still brisk and
energetic
Booker T. Washington, who made a
careful study of foreign conditions
during his recent trip abroad, says the
negroes of the south are. except so
far as mobs are concerned, in a better
condition than the poor of France.
English naval engineers have light
ened the machinery in their third
chibs cruisers by ir0 tons. Their tor
pedo boat destroyers make 400 revo
lutions per minute.
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CAMPFIEE SKETCHES.
GOOD SHORT STORIES FOR
THE VETERANS.
A GaiateM Aaecalote Corporal Edwarate
Mat m Hare, He 1 OaUy as Ordlaary
Bcgmlar Custer Joke oa Oabarn
CMtrmrr to Refutations. .,.
MMortal Day.
O'er the breadth of a great republic.
From ocean to ocean borne.
Whatever the stars of her banner
Gleam out to the llsht of morn;
From the depth of her grain-sown val
leys. The slopes of her wooded hills.
In the song of her wind-swept pralrle3.
The rhyme of her peaceful rill?.
Comes the noiseless tramp of an army.
Shadow', silent and gray
An army, though vanished its legions.
Yet lives In our hearts to-day.
To the men who from field an3 forum
Uprose at the country's cry.
Their lives. It their need, for the honor.
Their honor. for her to die;
Who. seizing the gun for the plowshare.
And grasping the sword for the pen.
Went forth an army of patriots.
Of noble and free-born men:
'Tis to these a hand of a nation
Its tributes of love will pay.
Wherever the grave of a soldier
Shall hollow Its soil to-day.
Not with branches of yew nor cypress.
But with roses and blossoms sweet;
With amaranth and laurel above them.
And hearfs-ease fair at their feet.
While softer than the winds of the Sum
mer And sweeter than roses' bloom.
Are the memories and love which gather
And brighten each silent tomb;
And though Time In his march triumph
ant Bends all to his final sway.
Tet the touch of the Great Eternal
Is nearer than he to-day.
O'er these graves where all strife Is
ended.
Where the past and Its memories He.
Rise the grateful hearts of the people
In prayer to the Ixrd Most High
For the hope of a prosperous future.
The gracious gift of His hand;
For a great and united nation,
A free and a fruitful land;
For His angel of Peace, whose pInlon3
Stretch over that land to-day;
For the love that claspeth as brothers
The hands of the blue and gray.
Beatrice ITarlowc in the "Women's
Home Companion."
Corporal Edwards Xot a Hero.
The deluded followers of Aguinaldo
are running up against a lot of marks
manship that would be the wonder of
the world were it accomplished by any
except American troops. Generally
speaking, the entire civilized world
knows how well the men who wear
the United States uniform can ehoot.
but In the array of accurate fire there
are exceptions, and an officer just re
turned from Manila tells of one of
these. With American advance is an
individual known as Edwards. He is
a corporal in the Third United States
artillery, now serving as infantry, and
beyond the fact that he gave Kentucky
as his home, nothing is known of him.
Yet the blood of Daniel Boone, Mor
gan, Ballard, Dave Bowie and a host
of others famous on the pages of fron
tier history must flow in his veins, or
else there Is something in the Blue
Grass country that still makes marks
men. Edwards is a regular, not a hero,
hence his little exploit with a covey
of the dusky-skinned natives of Luzon
has not been previously reported. He
was sent on the advance to scout, and
with three companions was carefully
moving through a country all swamps
and bamboo thickets, when he was
fired on by a hidden foe. Divining that
the shots came from a clump of bushes
a hundred yards away. Edwards
charged the clump. He was all alone
In the charge, but he did not mind
that At his first rush four natives
broke cover and made a dash to get
away. They had a full 100 yards' start
and had only 150 yards to go across
open country before reaching a dense
swamp. Right here Edwards showed
how he could shoot. He carried the
regular Krag service piece and had
five shells in the magazine, with one
in the barrel. He opened fire and five
times the Krag spit flame and steel
Jacketed bullets. Then all the natives
were down. An examination of their
bodies showed that the first was hit
In the nape of the neck: his spine was
splintered and he fell dead. The sec
ond was hit full between the shoul
ders, his spine cut in twain, and he was
dead. The third was shot plumb
through the small of the back, the
spine being shattered to flinders. The
fourth man alone escaped instant
death, and at him Edwards fired twice.
The first ball crashed through one of
his hips and crushed the joint, and ere
he could fall another tore through his
jaw about on a line with his wisdom
teeth, if he had any, and from the
two wounds he died in ten minutes.
Edwards still had a shell in his gun.
but there were no more Filipinos in
sight. Philadelphia Press.
A Garfield Anecdote.
"Mr. W. E. Fasig was surrounded by
i knot of horsemen, answering ques
tions as to the record of this horse
and that, until some one twitted on the
excellence of his memory," says the
Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Well," he
said, "my memory is pretty good, but 1 i
can tell you of a man who had a re
markable memory, and that was the
late President James A. Garfleld. !
When I was 16 year3 old I ran away i
from school and enlisted in Garfield's '
regiment, the Forty-second Ohio. Down '
in eastern Kentucky, Garfield, who. al
though only a colonel.was brigade com
mander, organized a raid on Pound
Gap, a strong position, and persDnally
selected a detachment from each com
pany in the regiment to take part in
the attack. I wasn't lucky enough' to
be selected for the work, but I was
crazy to go, and when the cavalry
started out I borrowed a mule from the
quartermaster when he waen't looking,
and went with the mounted trosps.
who hid me. In due season I found my
regiment, tied my mule, and joined the
ranks. Well, we took the place. Then
I went back to my mule and made
tracks for the camp. It was dark, and
I lost my way, and remained missing
for five days. After I returned I was
marched up to Garfield, who examined
me. listened to what I had to say,
and then sent me to my tent under ar
rest, telling me I would be court-martialed.
Five minutes later a boat came
down the river, carrying Garfield's
commission as a brigadier general, and
ordering him to join Thomas with his
command, and in the flurry my case
was forgotten. Years after the war I
attended a reunion of my regiment in
Ashland, and the first thing Garfie'.d
said when he saw me was: 'Look here,
Fasig, yon never had that court-martial
I promised you. "
Caster's Joka oa Osbora.
Chicago Record: The late Charles
Osborn, the New York broker, and
General Custer were intimate friends,
and Osborn annually visited the gen
eral at his camp on the plains. Dur
ing one of the Indian campaigns he in
vited Osborn and a party of friends out
to Kansas, and after giving them a
bmffalo hunt, arranged a novel expe-
rlence in the way of an Indian seare.
As Osborn was lying; in kit tent on
night firing was heard at tke ontnoato
and the rapid riding of pickets. "Boots
and saddles" was the order in the dis
turbed atmosphere of the night, and
Custer appeared to Osborn loaded wita
rifle, two revolvers, a saber and a
scalping knife. "Charley." he said. In
his quick, nervous way, "yon most de
fend yourself. Sitting Bnll and Flea-in-Your-Boots.
with Wiggle-Tail-Jim
and Scalp-Lock Skownegan, are on us
in force. I didn't want to alarm you
before, but the safety of my command
is my first duty. Things look serious.
If we don't meet asaln, God bless you."
The broker fell on his knees. "My
God. Custer," be cried, "only get me
out of this! I'll carry 1,000.000 shares
of Western Union for you into the
firm to get me home. Only save me."
But Custer was gone, and the camp by
shrewd arrangement burst Into a blaze,
and shots, oaths and war-whoops were
intermixed, until suddenly a painted
object loomed on Osborn's sight, and
something was flung into his face a
human scalp. He dropped to the
ground, said the Lord's prayer, back
ward, forward and sideways, until the
noise died away, and there was ex
posed a lighted supper table, with thll
explanation on a transparency:
"Osborn's treat!"
How a Doll Averted War.
From the Philadelphia Times: A
strange story is told of how a child's
plaything once had a soothing Influence
rlivp Arehe tribe, and was
thp means of avoiding a serious war.
. It happened when Mr. Bourke was 1b
uu oeuerat Croon The gen
eral was trying to put a band of Apach
es back on the reserve, but could not
catch them without killing them, and
that he did not want to do. One day
his men captured a little Indian girl
and took her to the fort She was
quiet all day. saying not a word, but
her black beads of eyes watched every
thing. When night came, however, she
broke down and sobbed just as any
white child would have done. They
tried in vain to comfort her, and then
Mr. Bourke had an idea. From the
adjutant's wife he borrowed a pretty
doll that belonged to her little daugh
ter, and when the young Apache was
made to understand that it was hers to
keep, her sobs ceased and she fell
asleep. When morning came the doll
was still clasped in her arms. She
played with it all day, and apparently
ail thought of ever getting back to her
tribe had left her. Several days passed
and as no overtures about the return of
the papoose had been made by the
tribe, they sent her, with the doll still
in her possession, back to her people.
Mr. Bourke had no idea of the effect
his benevolent act would have upon
the Indians. When the child reached
them, with the pretty doll in its chubby
hands, it made a great sensation among
them, end later on Its mother camt
back to the post with it She was kind
ly received and hospitably treated, and
through her the tribe was soon after
ward persuaded to move back to the
reserve.
American BlarksauuMhia.
It was said during the late war with
Spain that America's success was due
to the fact that her sailors could shoot
straight Skill of that kind is no new
thing for Americans. As far back as
1775 it was found that the marksmen
of this land could stand a test specially
designed to throw out all but the most
expert. Harper's Magazine reminds its
readers of the June of that year, when
congress passed a resolution creating
a corps of sharpshooters. Couriers oh
relays of swift horses carried the news
to the various county committees on
the frontier. In 'less than sixty days
from the date of the resolution, four
teen hundred and thirty, instead of
the eight hundred and ten men re
quired, had been raised, and had joined
the army, marching from four to seven
hundred miles over difficult roads, and
all without costing the continental
treasury a farthing. Volunteers had
poured into the little recruiting sta
tions in such numbers as to embarrass
the officers, who would gladly have
been spared the duty of discriminating.
One of these officers, beset by many
more applicants than his instructions
permitted him to enroll, hit upon a
clever expedient Taking a piece of
chalk, he drew upon a blackened board
the figure of a man's nose, and placing
this at surh a distance that none but
experts cou'.d hit it with a bullet, he
declared that he would enlist oniy
those who shot nearest to the mark.
More than sixty men hit the nose. Bo
much for American mnrkmanshlp in
revolutionary times.
The XstsI Engineer la Hattle.
If you were sealed up in a heated
iron tank floating on the sea and ham
mered at by missiles which now and
then let in daylight and splinters, you
would get a dim idea of the lot of the
engineer's men aboard a battleship In
action. But the engineer's men have
to work in the hurly-burly, and you
would go mad in your tank. The en
eray'6 shot pounds the ship, but the
engineer and his men know not where
the enemy is or where the ship is head
ing. And they can't stop to think
about it Keep that bearing cool,
smother it in oil, drown it in water;
keep it cool, or the game's up. The
men on deck can let the splinters lie,
where they fall, but the men in the
engine room have to keep the splinters
out of the machinery. Steam pipes
are pierced. Mend them. Crawl be
hind the boilers, and stop that steam
leak. Impossible to shut off anything!
Scalded? Never mind. It's all In the
day's work. Don't let the water down.
Pass the coal lively. And, while you're
about it, put out that Are in the bunk
ers. In the lower engine rooms the
thermometers show 136 degrees in
front of the ventilating blowers; In the
upper engine rooms, 190 degrees.
Oaprey Pleaaes to Go.
Osprey plumes as a military decora
tion in the British army are doomed,
in the opinion of the London Leader.
Besides all the hussar regiments, the
Rifle brigade, which also wears osprey
plumes, is affected by the now immi
nent change. The present position of
the question is this: Public protest
against the cruelties involved in the
nee of osprey plumes moved the war
office to decide in principle some time
ago that the plumes should be discon
tinued. Since then efforts have been
made to find a suitable substitute, and
a specimen "plume." recently submit
ted for approval by a leading firm of
London naturalists, has been received
with such satisfaction that its ultimate
adoption is regarded as certain, though
the necessary order has not yet been
issued by the adjutant general The
new plume will, in point of fact, be
composed of very short ostrich feath
ers. It is exactly the same length as
the present plume, and by its graceful
wavy lines and tendency to "curl"
is pronounced to be much prettier.
Never sell to a friend, or buy com of
a rich man.
FABM AND GARDEN.
MATTERS OP INTEREST TO
AGRICULTURISTS.
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Tkeraaf Hartlealtara, TUlealtara aad
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Malcalag- Trees.
(Condensed from Farmers Review
Stenographic Report of Northern Illinois
Horticultural Convention.)
Mr. Friend. I don't believe strong
mulching is worth anything unless you
have rain enough to keep it moist be
low. The air can escape through the
mulching and the ground cracks open
and gets just as dry below the mulching
as it could get where there is no mulch
ing. I have a place on my farm that I
call the "bad acre." When a nursery
man sends me a tree that is not true
to name I plant it on that bad acre.
Among others I have a little apple
tree near where I throw the barnyard
manure. This little tree through the
summer had from four to eight inches
of dry manure all around it, close to it
ao it would serve as mulching if mulch
ing was any good. I have dug that
away after the season was over and
found the ground cracked open. Such
a mulch may keep the smaller rains
from going down to the roots and in
that case it doesn't help the tree a bit
I am confirmed in the notion that such
mulching as would be applied by the
farmer, is of little value. I believe that
the only mulch that is worth anything
Is to harrow and dig up the ground.
Mr. Hoxie. Mr. Bailey is credited
with saying. "If you have a watering
pot. throw It away." This gentleman
believes in stirring the soil.
Dr. Humphrey. There Is a differ
ence between mulching all over your
farm and a little local mulch around
trees. Nature makes a mulch in the
forest by the leaves. Nature mulches
your strawberry bed with leaves in the
winter. I mulch my apple trees, but I
Just mulch them with the potato vines
grown in my orchard. I commence
digging the last of June or the first of
July and I invariably put the tops of
my potatoes around the trees. It is a
little local affair and it isn't mulching
the whole ground. I have never found
that it did a particle of harm, but I
believe it has always done good, and
the trees have flourished under a little
mulching of that kind. I am sure it
holds moisture because I have exam
ined many times. A little mulch
around Individual trees of nearly every
sort I believe to be a good thing and
so far as I know makes a thrifty and
long-lived growth. I never had but
one calamity. I undertook to feed the
catalpa as I would feed the cherry and
apple, and the trees nearly died. I
dwarfed them so they never amounted
to anything.
Mr. Morgan. I do not believe In
mulching trees. I do not care to use it
on anything but asparagus beds and
pie plant While on the farm I always
mulched my pie plant heavily with
horse manure.
Q. At what time?
Mr. Morgan. In the fall. I always
did. and I alwas's had the largest, fin
est kind of pie plant and asparagus.
Mr. Clybourn. On my place In
southern Illinois I raise peaches. One
of my neighbors raises the same sort
of peaches that I do, but mine were far
superior to bis this summer, and the
reason was that I had the ground cul
tivated between the trees and the fruit
proved to be larger and far superior.
Mr. Hartwell. I want to endorse
Mr. Morgan. This mulching for sav
ing labor Is a delusion and a snare.
You cannot save labor by mulching.
Your mulching don't bold the moist
ure as the cultivating will.
Seed Corn Selection.
Many farmers owning both bottom
ind upland corn fields make the mis
take of using the same seed on both
kinds of soils. Corn which is adapted
to the soil and moisture conditions of
the valleys will not do so well on the
upland as will some variety that has
by several years of cultivation and se
lection become adapted to the condi
tions there. It is for the same reason
that the large Colorado potatoes that
have been grown for years under irri
gation will do so poorly when used for
seed in Kansas without the accustomed
supply of water. It is generally the
case on the farm that the corn from
all the fields, both upland and bottom,
is cribbed together. When the time for
seed selection comes the largest ears
are picked out irrespective of the kind
of soil that grew them. As the bottom
land produces the larger ears it is
more than likely that the bulk of the
seed will be from the lower and moist
er portions of the farm. This is the
proper seed for the lowland, but it is
not so well adapted to the dryer and
poorer upland as is seed that has been
raised there. It is advisable to select
the seed either before or at husking
time, when not only the quality of the
ground but the character of the in
dividual stalk and ear can be taken In
to consideration. As has been suggest
ed before, a small box attached to the
iides of the wagon-bed into which the
iesirable ears can be thrown is the
most practical device that can be rec-ommer-ted.
By a little judicious se
lection for a series of years, a strain
can be established on the uplapd por
tion of any farm which will be well
adapted to that and other soils similar
to location and composition. An eight
inch ear from the upland will ordinar
ily prove better for planting on the
upland than will a twelve-inch ear
from a draw in the lower portions of
the farm. J. M. Westgate.
Pinching Melon Ytaea.
Judge Miller asks a question in re
gard to pinching melon vines. He says:
"I have questioned different melon
growers on the point Some say pinch
them when the vines have run three
feet; others say don't pinch them at
all." Both parties are wrong, and on
the extreme each way. I will give my
way of doing, says a contributor to
Colman's Rural World. When the
melons have set on the vines, and get
about the size of a goose's egg, pinch
the tops off, and the tops of the side
branches also, and you will have larg
er melons than if not pinched, from the
fact that instead of the vines growing
and spreading, the substance will grow
into the melons. Is that not reason
able? The vines may probably not
have as many melons on, but they will
be a great deal larger. Try a hill or
two and be satisfied. It is somewhat
on the same principle of trimming
fruit that left will be larger than if
all the fruit were left on the tree. I
raised some of the finest pumpkins last
year that I ever raised by pinching
the tops off. I raised them between
the apple tree rows, one way of my
young orchard. I shall do ao again
his year.
Cattla for Caaa.
The report that there has been fric
tion between the officials of th ..
department and the department of ag- j
rlculture over the matter of admission
of cattle to Cuba Is unfounded. The
action of the president provided for
the admission to Cuba, duty free, of
cattle with which to improve Cuban
stock. These cattle must be half-blood
or better. Under a circular Issued by
the department of agriculture provi
sion was made for the shipment Of
such graded cows and bulls from Sa
vannah, Mobile, New Orleans and Gal
veston, where these animals were to be
inspected by an inspector of the agri
cultural department and if found suit
able for breeding purposes, free from
disease and immune from the fever
tick, they were to be passed with a
certificate to be presented to the cus
tom officer at' the port of landing.
Immunity from Texas fever required
that they should be shipped from
points below the quarantine line. Thus
far the two departments were working
In co-operation. Now, however, it has
been decided to do away with the in
spection in the United States by the
department of agriculture and to re
quire such inspection at the ports of
entry In Cuba, which will come under
the operations of the war department
There is, however, no conflict between
the two branches of the government,
as has been stated. The department
of agriculture has been unable to pro
vide inspectors for all of the 101 small
er porta of clearance in the United
States, and thus exporters at the
smaller ports have declared that thejr
were being discriminated against, in
that cattle should be shipped only
from Savannah, Mobile, New Orleans
and Galveston. As it is now, they can
be shipped from any port without in
spection, but subject to inspection
when they reach Cuba. It is stated at
the department of agriculture that 11
cattle reaching Cuba for entry undex
this duty free clause fail to pass in
spection, it will not be necessary to re
turn them to the United States, as the;
can still enter by paying the regular
duty. The department of agriculture
having no authority or funds for in
spection of cattle in Cuba, this dutj
naturally falls upon the war depart
ment
The Lodging of Grain.
From Farmers' Review: The lodg
ing of grain is a source of considerable
loss, not only in the failure of reaping
machines to make a clean harvest, but
because lodged grain is not fully ma
tured and forms on hardening a wrin
kled and underweight grain. Lodg
ing, however, implies a greater loss
than the mere loss in harvesting or In
underweight grain; it shows unmis
takably that the crop has not been
properly bandied, that the soil is not
favorable to grain. The falling off in
yield began long before the straw
became so weak that it could not sup
port the grain heads. The popular
idea is that silica has much to do with
the stiffness of straw. This has been
shown to be a mistake by the famous
experiments at Rothemsted, England.
Straw badly lodged was found to con
tain more silica than a sturdy, Btockj
straw which held its seed-head erect
under severe tests. It was found bj
experiments that potash gave strength
to stalk and straw, and soils low in
available potash invariably suffered
from lodging. The cure or rather the
preventive measure is very simple, foi
there is no cure. The point is that the
manure or fertilizer applied should be
well balanced. The chemical analysis
shows that a full grain crop contains
about the same amount of phosphoric
acid and potash, hence the percentage
of these two ingredients in the fertil
izer should be about the same. A fair
average fertilizer for grain would then
be 6 to 8 per cent phosphoric acid and
the same amount of potash together
with about 2 to 3 per cent nitrogen.
If any one ingredient is deficient the
excess of the other two will not make
up for it AH three ingredients of
plant food must be present, and, as we
said before, in proper proportions.
This lodging of grain is quite an Im
portant matter to wheat growers, but
with a little care and study it can be
prevented. Rational manuring wilj
solve the problem.
L. J. FARMER.
Cropping with Ltfamei.
The effect of continual cropping In
the exhaustion of soil nitrogen has
been made the subject of study in
planting peas, buckwheat, oats, etc.
The results of the experiments show
that only the leguminous plants were
able to utilize the nitrogen of the air.
An Increase was noticeable in the yield
of each succeeding crop of peas, while
with the non-leguminous crops, each
succeeding yield was poorer than the
preceding one. The experiments simply
show, what every farmer knows or
ought to know, that planting clovers,
cow-peas, vetches, or any legumes
tends to constantly improve the soil,
while cropping with non-leguminous
plants, such as corn and wheat, unless
fertilizer of some kind is used, con
stantly depletes the soil. Vast amounts
of fertility can be saved to the soil by
the liberal planting of leguminous
crops.
Mechanical Condition of the Soil.
Reports of some careful experiments
concerning the mechanical conditions
of soils and the effect of cultivation
show the result of frequent stirring of
the surface soil, rolling, bed, and level
culture. It was found that crops give
better returns on soils kept in a
crumbly condition than on those re
duced to a powder-like fineness. It
was found that stirring or hoeing the
surface is beneficial when the soil has
been packed by rains, but that the
practice is detrimental during drought
when the soil is already in a good
mechanical condition. Rolling the land
favored a uniform sprouting of seed,
but in general the yield of the rolled
ground was smaller than the unrolled.
Packing the surface soil by means of
rolling was detrimental to plant
growth when the soil was not subse
quently stirred. Results were gener
ally in favor of level cultivation as
against bedding.
Crating Butter. In some of the
Eastern cities, notably in Boston, a
considerable amount of the butter en
tering into the trade is packed in five
pound boxes, and these, in turn, crated
by dozens, so that each crate contains
sixty pounds. They go to retailers who
have a family trade where the cus
tomer buys a box at a time. Up to a
certain point it is desirable to put up
butter in this way, says Homestead.
It costs, however, about 65 cents a
hundred more to pack it; consequently
when the small-package trade is
glutted and it has to sell on the basis
of tub-butter prices, there is a loss in
packing this way. This glut occurs oc
casionally because the trade to which
it goes, although a very good class of
trade, is limited.
The Bite cf Pigs. It is a rathe
remarkable fact that the bite of the
pig is more dangerous than that of any
of our farm animals. Why this is so
is not easily accounted for; but the
fact remains that injuries inflicted by
pigs usually take a much longer time
to heal than those inflicted by, say,
horses or dogs. However, wounds in
flicted by swine are of rather rare oc
currence. Ex.
Orlgte mt taa Mertaaa,
Taa real origin of the Spanish Meri
aoa la lost in the dim past For mora
than 2.000 years the Spanish shepherds
have been raising this kind of sheep.
and without doabt have, in the lapse
of centuries, greatly modified them, aa
the imaginary standard of each cen
tury might seem to demand. Certain
It is that the Spanish succeeded in pro
duclng a fine type of wool-producing
sheep. So much was this the case that
the fame of these sheep spread all over
the world and led other nations to
desire to introduce them into their own
pastures. About 1765 about 300 of
these sheep were introduced into Sax
ony. There, under royal protection,
they were cared for and developed
along the lines of fine-wooled sheep.
Since that time these Saxon Merinos
have undergone considerable change,
so much so that now they produce a
fleece finer than did the original im
portations, and the sheep themselves
have been rendered too tender to do
well in the colder portions of the
United States. In 1786 about 300 Meri
nos were imported into France from
Spain. There, too, they received royal
protection and good care, and their
original characteristics were soon
changed. They are the originals of
what are now called the French Meri
nos. The Importation of Spanish Merinos
into the United States began in the
early part of the present century.
During the first twelve years more
than 20,000 of them were brought into
this country and distributed mostly
throughout the New England states,
but also to some extent among the
more southerly seaboard states. Con
cerning them F. D. Coburn says:
"A large proportion of the Merino
flocks of the United States, descend
ants from the importations from
Spain, were subsequently inbred with
the 8axon and French varieties, until
many of the characteristics of these
were engrafted upon the American
flocks. Through the exceptions to this
rule, however, a sufficient number of
flocks have been found tracing with
reasonable proof of purity direct to
their Spanish ancestry to warrant the
claim that the present highest type of
American Merino is the direct de
scendant, without admixture of other
blood, of animals included in some of
the several Importations from Spain
before the year 1812. The French
Merinos have perhaps a larger carcass
than the average American, and the
French breeders were the first to pro
duce a Merino combing wool. The.
Saxon Merinos have been but sparingly
introduced into this country, the
course of breeding in Saxony (fine
ness of fleece being the one object
sought) having rendered them too ten
der for our methods of sheep husbandry."
Preserving Eggs.
Prof. Ladd, of North Dakota College
of Agriculture, In bulletin No. 35, gives
the following directions for the use of
water glass in keeping eggs. Water
glass is silicate of soda or silicate of
potash, the former being cheaper. It
is not expensive.
If wooden kegs or barrels are to be
used in which to pack the eggs, they
should first be thoroughly scalded with
boiling water to sweeten and purify
them.
To each ten quarts of water, which
should first be boiled and then cooled,
add one quart of water glass. Pack
the eggs in the vessel and pour solu
tion over them, covering well.
Keep the eggs in a cool, dark place.
A dry, cool cellar is a good place.
If the eggs are kept in too warm a
place the silicate is deposited and the
eggs are not properly protected. Do
not wash the eggs before packing, for
by so doing you injure their keeping
quality.
For packing use only perfectly fresh
eggs, for stale eggs will not be saved
and may prove harmful to others.
All packed eggs contain a little gas.
and in boiling such eggs they will
crack. This may be prevented by
making a pin hole In the blunt end of
the egg. To do this hold the egg in
the hand, place the point of a pin
against the shell of the egg at the blunt
end, and give the pin a quick, sharp
blow, just enough to drive the pin
through the shell without further in
iury to the egg.
The Old Sitter. In the meantime
the good wife had procured a few
eld biddies from a neighbor and set
them in old barrels. We passed by
them several times each day for all
the long twenty-one days. We never
looked about the temperature, the
moisture or the ventilation. The o'.d
biddies didn't, either. They just set
there and slept. The stupid things.
How do they know what the tempera
ture is? One of them is blind in one
eye and has her tail feather pulled
out. Four of them had sixty eggs.
When they began to "pip" the o.'u .u
dies woke up and said, "Chirr, chirr,"
with an occasional cluck. Fifty-seven
chicks crawled out cf those sixty eggs.
The old blind hen batched every egf
and has not "crowed" about it, either.
She did it with her little "hatcmu"
Cows' Condition. As we have be
fore averred, the weakest spot in our
dairy practice is the wintering of the
milkers, the condition of poverty they
are allowed to run down to when dry.
A milking cow should be poor once a
year, not poverty stricken, but robust
without flesh, and that period should
be at the drying-off point As soon
as a cow it put dry she should again
begin to Improve her condition and
continue it surely to calving, other
wise she can never do her best A
proper cow will always run herself
Jown the first three cr four months of
aer milking season, and this is a very
good index to a cow's merit Agri
cultural Gazette (Tasmania).
Dakota Chickens. More chickens
lhan usual have been hatched out the
present spring, and we are glad to note
the fact. It means lots of tender
roosters on the table this fall cheap,
healthy :aeat and if properly cared
for, lots of fresh eggs there, too, and
many more on the counter in the store.
How it does save the pocket book to
cake in a good crate of eggs every tian
ane runs iu after groceries! If you
never tried it, fix things so you can
take one along and see. Dakota
farmer.
Plowing Under Legumes. It is un
ioubtedly a fact that more manurial
oenefit is obtained on the farm in feed
ing leguminous crops, such as clover
md cow-pcas, rather than plowing
them under, but the cost of hauling
:hem both ways, to and from the barn,
must be considered. When plowed
ander green -they are already evenly
'spread" oyer the land. This does not
ake into consideration the dairy ques
tion or stock feeding. That is another
tory.
Money makes the man only when
he man himself makes the money.
He who would live long must grow
ild easy.
Fraa Cletalag Catalogae.
Ready now. Hayden Bros.' clothing
catalogue showing samples and latest
styles and lowest prices. Mailed free
on request Send postal to Hayden
Bros., Omaha, for prices on any goods
you need. Make yourself at home in
the' Big Store when In Omaha.
Taa Seataatbar Atlaatle.
President Charles Kendall Adams
opens the September Atlantic with a
review of The Irresistible Tendencies,"
the spirit of the ages, the great move
ments of centuries or generations,
which change the face of the world;
instancing chiefly the spirit of individ
ualism, to which he attributes the won
derful advances in liberty and progress
of the last four hundred years. He
claims that the fundamental fact is
that the whole of this vast movement
Is the advance of civilization upon bar-
harism. He maintains that it is the
ever irresistible encroachment of the
modern spirit upon the spirit of an
tiquity; electricity driving out the rush
light; the white man ever civilizing
the red man or pushing him out of
the way. And this great movement
is in the interests of a larger and a
richer and a higher humanity.
General Manager Underwood of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad, has a plan
to unify and simplify the tit s of of
ficials. Several of the officers have
duties to perform which arc not shown
by their official designation, and on
July 1st the following changes will ba
made: Harvey Middleton. now gen
eral superintendent of motive power,
will be mechanical superintendent in
charge of all shops, and the construc
tion of and repairs to locomotives and
cars. David Lee, engineer mainte
nance of way, lines west of Ohio river,
will be superintendent maintenance of
way, trans-Ohio division, and D. A.
Williams will be superintendent of
stores.
Selling Patents.
Amongst the large
concerns who pur
chased patents the
past week were the
following:
David Bradley Mfg. '
Co.. Chicago. 111.
Vaughn Machine
Co., Portland. Me.
International Facsirailegraph Co.,
Cleveland, O.
Whitman & Barnes Mfg. Co., Akron.
Ohio.
General Electric Company of New
York.
Crosby Steam Gage and Valve Co.,
Boston, Mass.
Berlin Machine Co.. Beloit, Wis.
Keyes-Baker Cigar Rolling Machine
Co., Binghamton. N. Y.
American Locomotive Appliance Co.,
of Virginia.
Ball and Socket Fastener Co., Bos
ton, Mass.
Out of the 450 United States invent
ors who obtained patents the past week
145 had sold either a part cr their
entire interest in their inventions be
fore they were issued.
For free information concerning the
law and practice of patents, address
Sues & Co., Registered Patent Attor
neys and Solicitors. Bee Building.
Omaha. Neb. )
The man who marries a telephone
girl soon becomes familiar with the
central form of government.
Weatcrn Intellectual Product.
"The Farmer's Cheerful Helper" is
the title of a book for which a copy
right has been granted to the author,
G. W. Hamilton of Des Moines.
Patents have been allowed but not
yet issued as follows: To W. II. Lyon
and J. C. Wallich, of Creston. la., for
a mail pouch that is adapted to be
opened and closed quicker than the old
style and when closed and locked ac
cess to the contents without a key is
impossible except by cutting a flex
ible part thereof. To W.D. Weir of Gil
more City, la., for a portable and trans
formable hoisting machine. A mast
is mounted on r track, a boom swiv
eled to the mast and means for oper
ating it, a crane mounted on the truck
and means for swinging it horizontally
and vertically and a fork adapted for
lifting corn shocks detachably con
nected therewith and all the parts so
arranged and combined that they can
be readily adjusted to transform the
machine to adapt it to be used advan
tageously In doing various kinds of
hard work on a iarm.
Authors and inventors entitled to
protection for their intellectual pro
ducts pursuant to our copyright and
Patent laws can consult us in person
or by letter without charge.
THOMAS G. ORWIG,
J. RALPH ORWIG.
REUBEN G. ORWIG.
Registered Attorneys.
Des Moines, la.. Au?. 19. '99.
The American Monthly Review of
Reviews for September contains a re
markably attractive group of contrib
uted articles. The timeliness of the
subjects treated is seen by a glance
at the table of contents. The war in
the Philippines is summed up by John
Barrett; the outcome of The Hague
rnnference is set forth by W. T. Stead:
the subject of trusts is discussed by
Georgc E. Roberts and by Henry Mac
farland; Hezckiah Butterworth writes
of "The Future Value of the New
England Farm," while Prof. L. H.
Bailey answers affirmatively the ques
tion. "Does Farming Pay?" Sylvester
Baxter tells of the progress made by
the state of Massachusetts in her pub
lic library system, and Gilbert K. Har
roun describes the work of the Cuban
Educational association of the United
States.
rimaitnt, I'alataMr. ntertt.
Ear to Hut. cim in tat"-. r In a i'cn. 'r 'n
rrmlt" "ararr: Can lyr.vhartl-.M-:t Ilv rr-cu-l.itoraadlnimina't.m'r.
AlIlru;?--lftn.lOSSc.,wc.
The quality of timeliness, the su
preme virtue of today, is strikingly
evident in Ainslee's Magazine for Sep
tember. From the very first article.
"The International Congress of Wo
men." by Charlotte Perkins Stetson,
to the very last, "The Industrial War."
by an anonymous contributor, Ains
lee's has a g-ip on the pulse of the
world. Mrs. Stetson's article is keen,
clear and streaked with a grain of
delightful humor. 'The Alaskan Boun
dary Dispute." by Arthur I. Street,
contains the whole story of the trouble
from the date of the earliest dissension
to the moment when the boundary
commission adjourned so unsatisfied
and so unsatisfying.
The town of Hartford, in Oxford
countv. Me., has a Custard Pie associa
tion, "which meet? annually in a hem
lock grove on the margin of Swan
pond and gorpes itself with custard
pie. It grew out of a custard pie eating
contest between two residents of the
town on the annual fnt day. thirty
nine vears age The match was ad
judged to be a tie. the association was
formed, and everybody in it now
strives to beat everybody else eating
custard pie.
Sailors are noted for their strange
pets gathered in all corners cf the
world, but of all animals they love,
the cat holds the foremost place in
Jack's affections.
GET shot
Jtf
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to any one retornins
T. M. ROBERTS' SUPPLY HOUSE, minncjpoijs. minn.
iSS
PiTIS
Sick headache. Food doesn't di
gest well, appetite poor, bovels con
stipated, tongue coated. It your
liver i Aycr mis ere liver pills,
easy and safe. They cure dyspep
sia, biliousness. 25c. All Druggists.
Want your moutucne or beard a beautiful
brown or rich hl.-.ck ? Then o
Di?fiiunif Aa?-o nur for th
DUUIainunHm O UIC Whiakars
The most costly parliament in
Europe is that of France. It cost- $1.
500,000 a year.
Do Tonr Feet Ache and Ham?
Shake into your shoes Allen's Foot'
Ease, a powder for the feet It makes)
tight or New Shoes feel Easy. Curea.
Corns. Bunions, Swollen. Hot and
Sweating Feet. At all Druggists and
Shoe Stores. 23c. Sample sent FREE!.
Address Allen S. Olmsted. LeRoy. N. Y.
A kind heart is a fountain of glad
ness, making "everything in its vicinity
to freshen into smiles. Washington
Read, Langh aail Learn.
TThcn buying n uicl:ne of "Faultiest
Starch" ask your grocer for the book tlmt
goes with it free. It will atlonl you lots
of amusement and odd to your stork ot
knowledge. All grocers cell it, 10c.
Any feeling that .takes a man away
from his homo is a traitor to the
household. H. W. Beechcr.
FITS TVrmancntly Curl. 5o fit or rprronaneaa ftT
l-it dnjr'n - rt lr. Klinr'n tiirat Ntt Krito-?r.
S.ii.1 for FREE SS.OO liial ttei- and trratti.
Da. C U. Kline. U.1..KU arcbSt., Ihi:dflpala.Pa
If there is any pctflon whom yoir
dislike, th;t is the one of whom you
should never speak. Cecil.
Mr. T!imInw Soothing Syrap.
ForchJMrea teething, sotlon theciirs, reduces ta
ur.matluu.allajitpj'a.curcjwiuJcultc. iJcabot:l
I hardly know so true a mark of of a
little mind, as the servile imitation of
others. Greville.
Haifa Catarrh Cure
Is a constitutional cure. Price. Tec.
To what deep gulfs a single devia
tion from the track of human duties
leads. Byron.
My do-.-tor snid I woui 1 iio, but Pino'"
Cure for C'on.sumjt:oa cured mo. Amoa
Kolner, Cherry Valley, III., Nov. St. 'U5.
Adversity borrows its sharpest sting;
from our impatience. Bishop florae.
S11S buys new upright piano. Schmol
ler & Mueller. 113 Farnam St.. Omaha.
Of 12! law students admitted to the
bar in London nineteen huve Orientil
names.
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The debilitating drains and
discharges which weaken so
many women are caused by Ca
tarrh of the distinctly feminine
organs. The sutlerer may call
her trouble Leuchorrhoca. or
Weakness. or Female Disease or
sonic other name, but the real
trouble is catarrh of the female
organs and nothing else.
Pe-nx-na radical!.- and perma
nently cures this and all o:het
terms of Catarrh. It is a positive
specific for female troubles
caused by catarrh of the delicate
lining of the organs ect:liar to
women. It always cures if used
persistently. It is prompt tad
certain.
The mic.obfs that caiie chills and
fever and malaria ent-r the system
through mucous membranes made
porous by catarrh. Pe-ru-na heals
the mucous membranes and pre
vents tap entrance of malarial
grrms. thus preventing and curing
these affections.
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