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Man wants butl ittle here below, but the wants of woman are an un known quantity. The only way to CURE diseases of the skin Is by cleansing the system and puri fying the blood: take Garfield Tea, it is the best blood purifier known. A man should get up before the break of day in order to have the whole day. before him. Tke December Atlantic The December Atlantic contains much notable poetry. It opens with some delightful and hitherto unprint ed verses by James Russell Lowell; .it elsewhere contains "The Bird of Passage," the grand ode read by Owen Wister at the dedication of the Boston Symphony hall (already so much discussed), which appears here for the first time in its entirety, while Stuart Sterne, Hildeg?rde Hawthorne, t and others contribute brilliant shorter 'poems, the whole exhibiting unusual excellence and variety. The number contains Christmas tales and is upon the whole excellent throughout No man knows what it is to be a woman. . 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The object of this, presum ably, la to show neighbors that you have new clothes, bought on such a day and costing so much, at So-and-So's. The same travelers says that the Paris boulevards are literally crowded just now with dog barbers. Street Fetatees Draw the Rata. A veteran provision dealer is au thority for the statement that nothing will draw rats like sweet potatoes. They seem to be able to smell this toothsome vegetable from afar, and will come in droves wherever sweet potatoes are, stored. In proof of his assertion, this dealer said that he nev er kept potatoes in his cellar with other vegetables, but placed them up in a dry loft. Having a large cold storage chest in his cellar, he had previously tried the experiment of placing a basket of sweet potatoes inside, and although the rats could not puncture the walls, they did gnaw the' woodwork of the chest, trying to get at the tubers. Fartlsaa Badge Barred. Political buttons cannot be worn in Canada during the heat of a campaign. This is due to a clause in the dominion franchise act which says that no per son shall exhibit any sign of his po litical faith after the official nomina tions are made. FROM BRYAN'S OWN CITY i Startllas Story An Opem let ter Tfcat Will Caae a Seasatloa. LINCOLN, Neb., Dec. 8. (Special.) At No. 2115 O street, this city, is the B. & M. wallpaper house. "B. & M." are the initial letters of the proprie tors. Mr. A. C. Bonsor and Mr. O. B. Myers. The senior partner, Mr Bon sor, is a well-known and highly re spected citizen, and no one has ever doubted his truthfulness. It is, there fore, the pronounced opinion in Lin coln and the state generally that the significant and very strong statements made in Mr. Bonsor's letter will go unchallenged. After explaining his willingness that the matter be given the fullest possible publicity in the public interest, Mr. Bonsor proceeds: I have suffered untold misery and pain for over ten years. My kidneys were diseased. I tried many so-called remedies, but they did me no good. I saw an advertisement of Dodd's Kid ney Pills, and I bought some, and com menced to use them at once. I had not been taking them three days before I began to improve. For years I had not had one good night's sleep, and before the first box of the Dodd's Kid ney Pills were all used, I could sleep all night without pains. I am now completely cured, and have not a pain or ache left I cannot recommend Dodd's Kidney Pills too highly, for they are unexcelled as a kidney rem edy. Tours truly, A. C. BONSOR, No. 2115 O street, Lincoln, Neb. Dodd's Kidney Pills always cure. 50c a box. All dealers. The W. C. T TJ.'a Latest. A new departure is proposed by the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Indiana. That body has resolved to present a memorial to the national convention, to be held at Washington, D. C, to create a new department to enforce and maintain the purity of liquors, and that congress be peti tioned to pass a law that only pure whiskies be sold at saloons, instead of adulterated liquors. By the enact ment of such a law the W. C. T. U. concludes that the profits would be reduced and the saloons would be forc ed to quit business. Harvard Ken fream Everywhere. Harvard's cosmopolitanism is well il lustrated in the latest catalogue, whlcu shows that her students are drawn from no less than thirty-nine of the forty-five states, as well as from Ari zona, Oklahoma and the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Porto Rico, the Philippines, Cuba, Japan, the Canad ian provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, Kamchatka, Great Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Russia, Bul garia and Norway. from Nothing to SZe.oee.OOO. The late banker Abraham Wolff, of New York, whose estate has just been figured up, left about $20,000,000. And yet he was never reckoned among the heavy millionaires. He began his ca reer as an office boy, without a penny, worked his way up. He never talked about ihs wealth or splurged with it, but when he made his will he didn't forget to remember generously every employe in his banking house, from the highest to the lowest One authority on botany estimates that over 50,000 species of plants are known and classified. Best far the Bowels. No matter what ails you, headache to a cancer, you will never get well until your bowels are put right CASCARETS help nature, cure you without a gripe or pain, produce easy natural movements, cost you just 10 cents to start getting your health back. CASCARETS Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put up in metal boxes, every tablet has C. C. C. stamped oa it Be ware of imitations. 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Al " reiuna tne aoney if it fails to t W.GroTessigBatarelsoBtheDox. ZSe. It is easier to find fault taaa to lose it again. it is All goods are- alike to PUTNAM FADELESS DYES, as they color all fibers at one boiling. More failures are due to lac of will than to lack of strength. MIIIbbbbbbbbbPWPbbbbv'bbbbbV SsaS aBaWBBBaBBarwWor'' a HHbbbkwWCh' I IHlaBBBBBBBBBBB&mBHABBBT BT BfaBSBB- -aBaBsJBBHaVr YvKaBaBsSftsBr L3m3BrAmm Seat ef the TransTaatora. Know ye the children of the veldt. Tried, true, and heroes all? Full .grand they smite for God and right. For Freedom stand or fall! Rise, burghers, wave our dear flag o'er us. Triumphant shall we be! Glad hills shall echo to our chorus: Our people shall be free! Our people free For aye shall be! Our people shall be, shall be free! Know ye the refuge of our sires. That rugged land sublime. Where Nature sowed her jeweled fires. Like stars, at dawn of Time? Then, burghers, join our chorus swell ing. Exultant where we stand; While joyous guns the skies are tell ing: , 'Tis here, our Fatherland! Our glorious land, Beloved land. TIs here, 'tis here, our Fatherland! Know ye the new-born Afric State, Babe-nation of the world. This very hour, 'gainst tyrant pow'r Hath bold defiance hurled? Then, burghers, strike! In God whose glory We sing, our hope doth dwell! Our rifles' ring in battle glory The spoiler's doom shall knell! On war's red field, With God our shield. Triumphant all our praise shall swell! Charles D. South. Soldiers' Hard lot la China. The lot of the American troops in China has been far from happy, ac cording to the Tientsin correspondent of the London Daily Mail. He says: "There is a constant friction be tween the troops of the allies, and al ready there is a covert taking of sides and getting Into line for the severance which officers and men alike feel is practically certain to come. The Frenchmen, Germans, Russians, Aus trians and Italians are gravitating to gether, not so much because their in terests are identical, but because of their common jealousy and dislike of England and the United States. Mean while Japan sits on the fence. Fre quent misunderstandings are resulting. The soldiers of one nationality are be ing killed or wounded by men of oth ers. Numerous British, Americans, and Sikhs are the principal sufferers, chiefly at the hands of the French sentries, who shoot on short notice. These mishaps have resulted in grudges and bitterness. One sore point with the Americans was the shelling of their men at long range by the French troops in Pekin. No harm wa3 done, fortunately, but this does not prevent the Americans from cursing the French for a lot of stupid blun derers. The Russians are also exe crated for killing one American sol dier and wounding another at Tang Tsun by a shell which really seems to have been fired by a British gun, but John Bull is given the benefit of the doubt Probably all this petty fric tion, though irritating, may lead to nothing more serious than cold looks exchanged between officers of different nationalities and between soldiers in the crowded streets of Pekin and Tien tsin. But some such trifle may pro voke a spark and start an Internation al conflagration of which no man can foresee the quenching." Attacks Army Trial System. Frank P. Blair, the attorney em ployed by O. M. Carter, the former en gineer officer of the army who is im prisoned at the Leavenworth peniten tiary for misuse of public funds, has made a spirited attack on the system of military justice. In a brief, which he has filed in connection with the at tempt to secure Carter's release, he says: "Less than three years ago there were subject to trial by court martial only 25,000 soldiers, all serving within the borders of our forty-five states and four territories. Now the summary jurisdiction of these tribu nals embraces some 10,000,000 people, for the most part civilians of an alien and partly subjected race. If we are to believe the official reports of the com manders in the Philippine islands as published in the newspapers, men are being executed for offenses scarcely or not at all known to the civil law, with out trial by jury, on the verdict of from five to thirteen men, untrained in the law, unskilled in weighing evi dence, and on the mere approval of a soldier in command of a military dis trict It is precisely the same system unimproved in a century and a half in this country, long since abandoned in the place of its birth, under which Admiral Byng was shot to death, as Voltaire said, 'to encourage the oth ers.' The same system under which Fitz John Porter was unjustly con demned, a woman was hanged and Mil ligan escaped only because our federal Supreme Court staid the illegal sen tence." General Otis, The return to the United States of Major General Otis, at his own re quest, after more than two years of arduous and most exacting service,car ries with it a lesson, an admonition, which it would be well for Americans to need. General utis comes back a successful man, with the peculiar credit of having discharged with excellent results duties without precedent in the American military service, combining a great amount of civil administration with the actual conduct of a difficult war and the solving of hard business problems of transportation and sub sistence. He has had to settle all sorts of questions even religious ones. He has met the test as all the world now admits, with success, and on Ills re turn will receive a loyal and patriotic welcome from the whole people. Yet throughout the gravest andmost try Ins; part of his service, General Otis was far from being held In general ap probation. He was sharply criticised in the press, blamed for the censorship which he did not Institute, and charged with Incompetence on account of the very minuteness and industry with which he discharged the almost end less datles'of his office. The change of sentiment with regard to General I Otis, and the honor la which he is now held, are certain proof of the unwls- dom and injustice of condemning a public servant when he Is attacked by the press) before he has had a ehaace to show whether or not he can do his duty. For the 0. A? E. Steal David E. Beem. .commander of the Department of Indiana, G. A. R, re cently made public this list of recom mendations of veterans from the In diana department for appointment as aides-de-camp on the staff of the commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic: Daniel W. Wheeler. Terre Haute, regular army officer stationed at St Louis; William D. McCullough, Bra zil; A. S. McCormick, Lafayette; Will J. Crisler, Greensburg; Michael Ho- gan, Wabash; Tarvin C. Grooms, Greencastle; John B. Winter, Logans port; A. S. Reel, Vincennes; Garrett H. Shover, Indianapolis; John C. Ed wards, Shelbyville; John L. Kessler. Seymour; John F. Hammel, Madison; Robert W. Harrison, Lebanon; Gran ville B. Ward, Monticello; William H. Johnston, Indianapolis; E. M. Woody, Martinsville; John Marsh Stevens, Rushville; T. H. Sudburg, Blooming ton; William H. Ward, Salem; B, N. Mull, Worthington; Frederick L. Thle baud, Vevay; John H. Wille, Indian apolis; Fremont E. Sunft,Indianapolis; Ezra M. Stahl, Hartford City; Simeon A. Snyder, Bedford; Lewis M. Spotts. Rann; David H. Olive. Indianapolis; Uriah Coulson, Sullivan; Hiram Mur phy, Gosport; George L. Gegner,Ridgs ville; Henry M. Bronson, Indianapolis; John L. Colby, Flat Rock; John W. Woods, Indianapolis; John A. Abbott, West Indianaplis; Wilbur E. Gorsuch, South Bend; I. N. Medsker, Ft Wayne and Adam H. Kline, Jamesboru. Shields for Bapid-Flre Goas The board of ordnance and fortifica tions held an important meeting in Washington recently and decided that the rapid fire guns of the seacoast de fenses should be supplied with shields. This action must be approved by the secretary of war before it becomes operative. The ordnance officers, the engineers and some artillery officers do not approve of shields. This is a continuation of the contest between the ordnance officers and engineers on the one hand and the majority of the members of the board of ordnance and fortifications on the other relative to disappearing gun carriages. In con nection with the action at the meeting there developed an interesting feature of the proceedings of the board rela tive to field artillery. It appears that an agent of the department has come into possession of what he asserts are accurate plans for the new Frencn field gun and these he offers to place at the disposition of the board if he Is permitted to undertake the construc tion of a sample gun from the plans at the cost of the government The board decided to avail itself of the op portunity to build the test gun and made a recommendation to that effect to the secretary of war. Robber Heels for Soldiers. Everyone knows that when soldiers cross a bridge they are ordered to break step, so that the regular vibra tion of so many feet shall not endan ger the safety of the structure. Now an army surgeon of France has dis covered that the brain jar due to long marches, in regular step is trying on the human frame as such marching is on the structure of a bridge. To the regular repetition of a shock to bones and brain caused by this uniform and long-continued marching are due the peculiar aches, pains and illness of the troops. On a one-day march, he says, this shock is repeated 40,000 times, and often the strongest men who can walk the same distance without trouble when not in line succumb to the strain in two or three days. Therefore this surgeon proposes as a remedy the use of rubber heels. This device has been tried in the French infantry with great success. Generals la the British Arssr. The apparent anomaly of a major general in the British army ranking lower than a lieutenant-general Is eas ily explained. In the olden days the highest rank of general in the British army was captain-general, next came lieutenant-general and then sergeant-major-general. When subsequently certain changes were made in the des ignation of ranks, the title captain was dropped and the captain-general was made a full general. The rank of lieutenant-general was retained and the title sergeant was dropped from the third rank, it then becoming major general. The relative rank of the three grades of generals remained as before, the lieutenant-general thus being su perior to the major-general. In the field a general would usually command an army corps, a lieutenant-general one division, and a major-general one brigade. Aneleat "Smooth-Bores. Two of the old cannon which the English took from the French in 1745 and threw into the harbor of Louis bourg have now been brought to To ronto. They are among a -number re cently fished out of Louisbourg har bor and have been purchased by the government. The cannon have been lying at the bottom of the sea for 150 years. Each cannon is about nine feet long and weighs over 3.000 pounds. Shell That Killed Ylllebols. The shell that killed General Ville bois de Mareuil near Boshof has been mounted as a trophy on an ebony case and is to be presented to Lord Galway and the ofitcers of the Sherwood Rang ers, Imperial Yeomanry, to commem orate their first engagement. 4rraagiag for a Large Arasy. Army estimates for the coming year are on the basis of a force of 100,000 men, and include appropriations for bringing home the volunteers in the Philippines. The navy department ialso estimates for an increased force of enlisted men. Coasasaads Bew Battleship. Vice Admiral Sir Harry Rawson, the new British naval commander on the China sea, has proceeded to his com mand on the new battleship Glory, the latest addition to the British fleet! The head truly enlightened win presently have a wonderful influence In purifying the heart; and the heart really affected with goodness" wiH much conduce to the directing of the head. Sprat DIBIT AND IPOULTEY. INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. w Swm irel ranter Operate That Pepartaaeas ef tke Fans A Few aata aa Ike Care ef live Steak Fealtiy. tedmetsT f Prof. H. H. Dean of Guelph. Can.. In aa address before the Vermont Oairymen'a Association, said: The cheese industry of Canada is a result of the favorable natural condi tions, and a reflection of the genius and tastes of Canadian people. The great lakes and inland rivers and streams, together with a fertile soil La most parts, making almost Ideal conditions for manufacturing Ched dar cheese. The descendants of Scotch, English,. German, Dutch and French settlers, together with a good sprinkling of New Englaaders, have Inherited the tastes and aptitudes of their forefathers for making fine cheese. The countries from which t Canadians have sprung are among the most noted cheesemakers in the world, and their sons would be casting dis credit upon their ancestry did they, not make good the traditions of their fathers. In 1864 the system of co-operative cheesemaking was Introduced to Can ada from the state of New York. At that time we were Importing cheese for home consumption. At present we export from $17,000,000 to $18,000,000 worth of cheese annually, or $3 worth for every inhabitant of the country. At this stage it may not be out of place to compare the relative exports of cheese from Canada' and the United States. In 1864 Canada exported none; In 1870 Canadian exports of cheese were nearly 6,000,000 pounds. The United States exports in 1870 were nearly 60,000,000 pounds. In 1880 Canada had Increased her exports to about 40,000.000 pounds, but the Unit ed States had Increased theirs to 127, 500,000 pounds. From this time on Canadian cheese exports have in creased, while those from the United States here steadily decreased. In 1890 American exports had dropped to 95,000,000 pounds; In 1895 to 60, 000,000 and in 1898 to 46,000.000 pounds. Canada in 1898 exported 150, 000,000 pounds. There are doubtless two main causes of this decrease in exports of United States cheese, viz: A rapidly increasing home population which consumed large quantities of cheese, and laxity of laws relating to the manufacture and sale of "skim" and "filled" cheese. These two classes of cheese have prejudiced the British consumer against American goods and has been favorable for the introduc tion of "full cream" cheese from Can ada. In Canada no "skim" or "flhed" cheese is allowed to be made or sold. The number of factories has in creased from none in 1864 to about j.000 in 1900. This rapid growth is due, in addi tion to causes mentioned, to: L The fostering care of provincial and Dominion governments. 2. The good work done by the vari ous dairy associations in appointing Inspectors and instructors, and in spreading dairy knowledge among the people. 3. The work of the dairy schools In training cheesemakers to take charge of the factories. 4. An improvement in buildings and equipment though there Is still room for improvement in this direc tion. 5. The growth Is due to the fact that the cheese Industry has paid. Like Americans, Canadians are not fond of a calling which does not pay them. While there have been years In which the business was not profit able, yet, on the whole cheese has paid as well as any branch of agricul ture during the past thirty-five years. There Is still room for improvement in the class of cows kept on Canadian farms, in the care of the milk, in the methods of making and curing the cheese; also in marketing the cheese and dividing the profits among all classes concerned. At present there Is not true co-operation, but each class endeavors to get all out of the busi ness which Is possible for them, re gardless of consequences to the others. A more hearty co-operation, together with less selfishness, would promote the growth of the cheese Industry in Canada. Dairy Botes. A dairyman says that milk should never be taken to the factory or creamery in a springless wagon, as the result will be the churning of the milk and cream, which then becomes less available for the making of first class butter by the creamery butter maker. e e The aeration of milk is coming to be one of the essentials of good dairy ing. In many parts of the world it seems to have been demonstrated that milk properly aerated will give a better-flavored butter product than will milk not so aerated. In Europe and in the most progressive dairy sections of this country the practice has be come popular. Recently a creamery board of trade passed a resolution to the effect that their creameries should in the future pay 5 cents per hundred pounds more for milk aerated than un- aerated. But while aeration is 'advis able, it must be done in the proper place and under proper conditions. The place for aeration Is not in the barn or in the barnyard or in the cel lar. It must be In the pure air and where there are no odors that will get into and injure the milk. Feedtac la Nebraska, In a recent experiment, eight lots of lambs were fed. Alfalfa and prairie hay were used as roughness, four lots being fed .on each. Seven lots had a protected yard and a shed for shelter. Lot 8 had only an open yard with no shed for shelter. The lambs weighed an average of SO pounds when the ex periment commenced on November 26. 1899, and sold in Omaha 100 days later! weigmng an average of 78 pounds. Four different grain rations were fed to the four lots on prairie hay and three grain rations to the four lots on alfalfa hay. Lot 1, on alfalfa hty and corn, gain ed 33 pounds in 100 days and paid a profit of $2.05 per lamb. Lot 2, on alfalfa hay and a arain ration of. three-fourths corn and one fourth oats, gained 32 pounds In 100 days, and gave a profit of 1L98 per lamb. Lot S, on alfalfa hay and a grain retion of three-fourths corn and one fourth bran,- made a gain of SO pounds each, aad gave a profit of 11.90 ner Iamb. Lot S was fed in an open yard with ao shelter. It received alfalfa hay aad a grain ration of three-fourths. cora aad oae-f ourth braa, making a I gala of M ismaat head la 100 days aad gave a Ret of $1.94 per lamb. Lot 4 was fed oa prairie hay as4 com, auddas; a gain of 19 aoaads ir head la lit days aad gave a profit of $1.43 p-lamb. . Lot 5 was fed oa prairie hay aad a grain ration of cora with IS per csLt linseed meal, staking a gala of 24 pounds per head la 100 days and gave a profit of SLM per lamb. Lot $ was fed prairie hay aad a grata ration of three-foartas cora aad one-fourth oats, staking a gala of 19 pounds per head 'la 109 days and gave a profit of SL32 per head. .Lot 7 -was fed prairie hay andagrala ration of three-fourths cora aad one fourth oats, staking a gala of 19 pounds la 100 days and gave a profit of $L80 per lamb. Counting all losses aad all expenses against the sheep fed. they made an average profit of $1.60 per lamb. The alfalfa hay fed lambs consumed 1.34 pounds of hay and 1 pound of grain each per day, against .88 pounds of hay and .89 pounds of grain consumed by the prairie hay fed lambs. The al falfa hay fed lambs on different grain rations made 52 per cent greater gains than the lambs fed prairie hay aad the same grain ration. The lambs fed prairie hay and corn with 16 per cent oil meal made 26 per cent greater gains than lambs fed prairie hay and cora or prairie hay and corn with one fourth oats or bran. E. A. Burnett, Nebraska Experiment Station. Boaltry Botes. A bird that has been sick is not fit to be a breeder, for it is a waste of time to build on weak constitutions. In buying birds look after the same point, and be sure that the man from whom you buy has good healthy stock. e e e A fowl that has been sick should never be used as a breeder. For this reason fowls that get over any trou ble should never again be put back with the flock if the eggs from the flock are to be used for hatching pur poses. This shows the necessity for a breeding pen, which should always be selected from fowls that are per fectly healthy. see It Is said that as poultry raisers women often succeed where men fail, especially if the work is to be carried on on a small scale. This is account ed for by the fact that women are ac customed to fight dirt, and dirt is one of the things that makes poultry keep ing a doubtful venture. Then, too, women can more easily adapt them selves to the task . of looking after small details than can men. see Which breed is the best? Is a ques tion that cannot be answered oft-hand. The public may esteem one breed of fowls more than another, but that is no proof that the breed so esteemed is the best or is at all superior to some breeds that are not popular. The fact is that advertising a breed both in the newspapers and m the show rooms tends to keep it in the public eye and to convince the casual observer that it has about it something that other breeds do not The wise buyer will pay no attention to fame that has been obtained by advertising only, but will pick out his breed according to what it can actually do. e According to one writer on poultry, pulverized charcoal is a fine thing for turkeys. He tells about two pens of turkeys of four birds each. One pen was fed on meal, boiled potatoes and oats. The other pen was fed the same way with the addition that they had a pint of finely pulverized charcoal mixed with their feed. They had also a plentiful supply of broken charcoal in their pen. The eight were killed on the same day, and the ones that had the charcoal weighed one and a half pounds more each than the ones that bad no charcoal. This is im portant if the birds were of equal weight when they were put into the pens or if the differences of weight were taken into consideration at the time they were killed. Sheep Itei Wyoming flock masters have decided to feed corn in small quantities on the range in bad weather, considering it a cheap insurance against loss for want of food. In South America the breeding of mutton sheep has increased until now about 70 per cent of the clip that form erly was all Merino is all English or cross-bred wool. see Sheep breeders who migrate from Wisconsin with their flocks to South Dakota, state that sheep do astonish ingly well there, and that the number and size of flocks is increasing. e e It is said that buying sheep by weight is becoming popular with Western stockmen. That is the way they are sold, and when purchased on that basis the feeder knows Just what he is get ting. see J. C. Mills, the live-stock agent of the Oregon Railway and Navigation company, says that Oregon has this year the largest crop of, lambs and of the best -quality in the history of the state. There are probably 100,000 lambs that are for sale, though feed is abundant and growers can afford to keep them if buyers stay away. see Western exchanges say that Utah will send large consignments of sheep to market this fall. The lambing sea son in that state is said to have been very profitable, the percentage run ning up to 90 in Utah county. Sheep men have been allowed to use the Uintah reservation grazing lands this year for the first time. e Tim Kinney, recognized as he sheep king of Wyoming, recently sold 90, 000 head of sheep and 36,000 head of Iambs. Mr. Kinney is the largest indi vidual holder of sheep in the country, and he increases his herds year to year. The recent large sales are said to have been the result of shortage of feed on the range in this section. see The American Wool Company of Boston, Mass., familiarly known as the Wool Trust, has sent out a notice to all of its buying agents to look out for fleeces, that have belonged to sheep dipped In preparations containing sul phur and lime. Fleeces dipped in such dips are barred for the reason that the wool In them when scoured will not dp for any of the finer fabrics. ' e e Many of the Idaho sheepmen and companies are taking time by the fore lock aad are securing all the land pos sible by purchase cr lease, realising that the days of sheep ranging Is costing to an ead soon in that country. The Blackfoot Stock Company has al ready aoaght'15.000 acres and hi reach ing oat far more, the entire space to be devoted to raising sheep. 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