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Can metals feel? Recently at the
Royal Institution, Professor Jagadis
Chunder Bose proved that they can,
in much the same way as animate be
ings. He struck a piece of copper,
pinched a piece of zinc, gave it poison
and administered an antidote, and
threw light upon an artificial retina.
In each case the electrical emotion, as
registered by the galvanometer, was
painful to witness. As the London
Mail suggests in telling the story,
there is an opening for a society-for
tbe prevention of cruelty to metals.
Weala Have Weam Stady Law.
Sir John Cockburn, the celebrated
English advocate and jurist, recently
took the affirmative in a debate at
Gray's inn on the question whether
the time had arrived when women
should be admitted to the legal pro
fession. He said that women possess
ed several qualities which fitted them
for law, not the least of which were
Intuition, persuasion and eloquence.
Bis tees ' Iaseraaee Fresslesae.
It is estimated that the fire insur
ance companies will lose a premium
income of nearly 11.000,000 a year by
the decision of the big steel trust to
carry its own insurance. Most of this
insurance runs out in June and will
not be renewed.
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Jetmore, Kans., July 1st. Mrs. Anna
Jones Freeman, daughter of Mr. O. G.
Jones of Burdett, and one of the most
popular ladies in Hodgeman County
has been a martyr to headache for
years. It has made her life a continual
misery to her. She suffered pains in
the small of the back, and had every
symptom of Kidney and Urinary Trou
ble. Today, she is as well as any lady in
the state.
This remarkable change was due en
tirely to a remedy recently Introduced
here It is called Dodd's Kidney Pills,
and many people claim it to be an in
fallible cure for Kidney Diseases,
Rheumatism and Heart Trouble.
Mrs. Freeman heard of Dodd's Kid
ney Pills, and almost with the first
dose, she grew better. In a week, her
headaches and other pains had gone,
and' she had left behind her all her
illness and days of misery.
A medicine that can do for any one
what Dodd's Kidney Pills have done
for thiB lady, is very sure soon to be
universally used, and already the de
mand for these pills has increased
wonderfully in Pawnee and Hodge
man Counties, where the particulars of
Mrs. Freeman's case and its cure are
known.
Man is the only animal that tries
to fence in the earth and fence out
his neighbors.
It is a wise woman who laughs at
her husband's jokes.
Tbe Rank row Thinner.
The years slip by, the blue ranks thin
ner grow;
With each recurrent May
fllpjag the streets with steps less firm
they go;
And every brow is fray.
But every May "the glory of the fight.
That in their youth they fought.
With fuller radiance and a steadier
light
Illuminates our thought.
They saved our land to Freedom!
What were we
But for their patriot zeal?
Let U6 pay homage to them; let them
see
The depth of debt we feel!
A few more years and all that splendid
host
Of true and earnest men.
Whose deeds and triumphs aye shall
be our boast
Shall pass from mortal ken.
But every May while lives the land
they saved
Men shall their deeds retell,
The pains they bore, the toils and dan
gers braved.
Their faith invincible!
Selected.
Ask your grocer for DEFIANCE
STARCH, the only 1G oz. package for
10 cents. All other 10-cent starcn con
tains only 12 oz. Satisfaction guaran
teed or money refunded.
Most anybody can laugh in the face
of Death, when his call is not personal.
nail's Catarrh Care
Is taken internally. Price, 75c
To work and never win will wear
wrinkles into the face of a god.
Are Ten Vela- Alton's root Ease?
It is the only cure for Swollen,
Smarting, Burning. Sweating Feet,
Corns and Bunions. Ask for Allen's
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.
Woman is most
most womanly.
attractive when
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fluiitr.nlon. allay ipup.cure wind colic 23cabottls
Of plain, sound sense, life's current
coin is made. Young.
Time proves all things. It has seen
Wizard Oil cure -pain for over forty
years. Many people know this.
One kind word spoken is worth two
left unsaid.
No broader distinction can be made
between men than that which divide?
them into two classes. To the first
class belong those who always have a
good excuse why the thing required
cannot be done. The second class is
composed of those who manage to DO.
Foremost in this latter class stands
out the figure of General DeWet. Allen
Sangree. who has just returned from
the Transvaal, draws a vivid picture
of the character of this most remark
able general of modern times for the
May Cosmopolitan, and the article is
illustrated with the most comnloLe
collection of photographs and draw
ings yet published.
Stories, long and short, will abound
in the July Century, justifying its char
acterization as a summer fiction num
ber. Miss Mary E. Wilkins will tell a
characteristic New England tale, and
Seumas MacManus- a typical Irish one.
The heroine of "A Hope Deferred," bv
Josephine Daskam. is a New England
spinster, and the hero of Miss Sedg
wick's "A Lion Among Ladies" a pop
ular novelist in London. The other
short stories will be by Stewart Ed
ward White and Elliott Flower, cre
ator of Policeman Flynn.
Ask your grocer for DEFIANCE
STARCH, the only 16 oz. package for
10 cents. All other 10-cent starch con
tains only 12 oz. Satisfaction guaran
teed or money refunded.
The greatest of sacrifices is to sac
rifice self-respect
Northern Wisconsin
Railway Farm Lands For Sale.
The Chicago, St Paul, Minneapolis
& Omaha Railway has- choice farm
lands for sale in Northern Wisconsin,
at low prices and easy terms of pay
ment Earl7 buyers will secure the advan
tage of locations on the many beauti
ful streams and lakes, which abound
with fish and furnish a never ending
and most excellent water supply, both
for family use and for stock.
Land is generally well timbered, the
soil fertile and easy of cultivation and
this is rapidly developing into one of
the greatest sheep and cattle raising
regions in tbe northwest
Chicago, Milwaukee, St Paul, Minn
eapolis. Dulnth. Superior, Ashland and
other towns on "The North-western
Line" furnish good markets for stock
and farm produce.
For farther particulars address Geo.
"W. Bell, Land Commissioner. Hudson,
Wis., or G. H. MacRac Asst Gen. Pas.
Agt, St Paul. Mian.
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The Confederate Flag la Samoa.
From the South Pacific from Sa
moacomes a curious, pathetic story of
devotion to the "Lost Cause," and even
the least susceptible reader must won
der who the unknown ex-confederate
was and what was his history. The
Bamoans are experts at rowing and
sailing from which fact Bougainville,
the French discoverer, called their
country the Navigators' Islands and
since the advent or the white man every
Samoan boat must have its flag. Just
what the flag represents is not so im
portant a question. Sitting in the cool
of his porch overlooking the bay one
afternoon during his term as Land
Commissioner, ex-Chief Justice Cham
bers of Samoa, saw a boat approaching
the shore flying a flag the sight of
which struck him at once with pecu
liar interest It was none other than
tbe stars and bars of the Southern
Confederacy. What could it be doing,
wondered he, in the South Pacific
and so long after Appomattox? He
determined to iearn the history of the
flag and get possession of it. But,
meeting the boat as it landed, he found
the owner by no means willing to part
with his flag. The offer of the "Ameri
can chief" to buy it was promptly,
though very politely, declined. Then
the Justice tried a little diplomacy:
he took the boatman into a store and
bought for him a bolt of calico and
then a kit of mackerel which delight
ed the Samoan, to whom they were
luxuries. But the native still insisted
that he could not part with his flag.
"It would not be right for me to give
it to you," said he, in such a manner
as to show that some deep feeling involved.
"But why? Where did you get It?
And why do you value it so highly?"
asked Mr. Chambers.
"Well, I will tell you," answered the
Samoan. "A long time ago a man came
to Samoa from far-off America
where you came from. He was not a
sailor, but told me he had been a sol
dier. He was my friend, and lived at
my house. But after a while he got
sick; and once he said to me:
" 'Tasi. look in my bag there and get
out my flag, and put it up on the wall
where I can see it'
"I did so; and he would lie there and
look at it and look at it. Several days
afterward he grew worse. He called me
to him and said:
" 'Tsai, I am going to die. I am far
away from home and my people. This
flag is all I have in the world; you
have been my friend; I give it to you.
Keep it as long as you live. Don't give
it to anybody and whatever you do,
don't you ever let a Yankee have it
"No, my chief, I cannot part with
this flag not till I die." Saturday
Post
committees, which will arrange for
the comfort and entertainment of the
veterans during their" stay in Cleve
tand next September have been ap
pointed as follows: Athletics and
sports, J. C. Smith, auditing. Capt J.
C. Roland; badges, Webb C. Ball;
Daughters of. Veterans, Miss Julia A.
Croft; equipages, J. B. Perkins;
finance, Lee McBride; free quarters,
CoL James Hayr;" invitations,
Gen. George' A. Garretson; .medical de
partment George C. Ashmun; naval
events, Commodore George W. Gard
ner; parade and review, Capt Russell
E. Burdick; public decorations, Arthur
Bradley; public comfort, John H.
Blood; public entertainments, George
F. McKay; reunions, Colonel C. C.
Dewstoe; transportation, Colonel A. J.
Smith. One of the most frequent ques
tions asked is the" date of the parade.
The parade will takeplace on Sept 11.
This has not been formally promul
gated by the executive committee, but
is, nevertheless, a foregone conclusion.
The day preceding September 10,
which will fall on Tuesday, is Perry's
Victory Day, and the battle of Lake
Erie is to be commemorated in connec
tion with the encampment by making
the exercises naval in character. The
naval parade will take place that day,
and, as well, a sham naval battle on
the same great lake on which Perry
won his fight on September 10, 1813.
The land parade, without question,
will be on the day following, Wednes-
day, September 11. Never has the
Grand Army met in a city better
adapted to the necessities of a large
parade than Cleveland.
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One evening toward ihe close of the
war, while union soldiers lay in camp
on a hillside near the Staunton river,
In Virginia, the cry of "Halt! Who
goes there?" from a sentry started
lounger to his feet, and several of the
more curious ran to tbe guard to find
out what the trouble was. A minute
later all knew that the night visitor
who had been challenged was no en
emy. A little girl about 10 years of
age, holding a white kitten in her
arms, came forward into the light of
the fires, conducted by two soldiers,
who had told the sentry to pass her
in, and looked as proud as if they were
escorting a queen. The whole regiment
gathered including the colonel himself,
to look at the child and hear her tell
her story. A very short story it was
scarcely a paragraph but there was
matter enough for a full chapter. She
lived near by, with her father, who
was sick and poor; and they were
northerners, she said, and "union
folks." Her mother was dead, and her
brother had been killed while fighting
in the federal army. She "wanted to
give something," and, when the union
soldiers came, she thought she would
bring her pet kitten and present it to
the colonel. The colonel took the lit
tle girl in his arms and kissed her,
and said he was not a bit ashamed of
his weakness. He accepted the kitten
with thanks, and its innocent donor
was gallantly escorted to her humble
home, loaded with generous contribu
tions. The white kitten was adopted
by the regiment, but continued to be
the property and special pet of the
colonel, and when the war was over
he took it home with him. Like the
white lamb that stayed aad fed with
the victor after the battle of Antetam.
the little creature, during its short but
stirring army life, was a daily inspira
tion of better feelings and thought in
the presence of all that is worst a liv
ing flag of true gleaming among the
thunder clouds of human passion.
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The people of Cleveland will wel
come the veterans with open arms to
the next national encampment. There
is no municipality in the United States
in which the veterans are held in high
er esteem and reverence. The work of
preparing to receive and entertain the
Thirty-fifth National Encampment of
the Grand Army has reached a magni
tude that impresses itself upon visitors
to the headquarters of the Citizens'
Executive committee.
The first srap taken by Cleveland to
prepare for the encampment was to or
ganize a citizens' committee, which in
turn appointed an executive committee
of fifteen men. This committee select
ed ior director one or i;s own num
ber, Ryerson Ritchie, wLo was at one
time for several years secretary of the
chamber of commerce, and during the
last fiscal year Just closed its president
and chose for secretary, E. W. Doty,
secretary of the Business Men's Con
vention League. These two officers
have surrounded themselves by a cap
able force of employes. The executive
committee engaged quarters in the
chamber of commerce building. The
suite contains twelve rooms, and occu
pies nearly half of the ofiice space of
the fourth floor of the building. It
presents a pleasing scene of daily ac
tivity. The executive committee consists of
General James Barnett president of
the First National bank, chnirmnn-
Herman C. Baehr of the Cleveland
and Sandusky Brewing company;
Webb C. Ball and Captain R. E. Bur
dick, jewelers; Colonel Louis Black,
manager of a large dry goods estab
lishment; John H. Blood, who has
half a dozen or more business irons in
tne nre; Arthur Bradley, special resi
dent agent of the Warren Chemical
company; Colonel C. C. Dewstoe, post
master of Cleveland; Colonel H. C.
Ellison of the state national bank;
General George A. Garretson of the
Bank of Commerce National Bankine
association; S. F. Haserot. a whole
sale dealer in canned goods and gro
ceries; C. W. McCormlck of the Cleve
land Stone Company; Ryerson Ritchie,
the director of the encampment; Cap
tain J. C. Roland, cashier of the Cleve
land postoffice, and Colonel Alva J.
Smith, general passenger and ticket
aaent of the Lake Shore and Michigan
railroad company.
Chairman of certain of the standing
Military Jokes with Mora!.
"During the civil war," said an ex
army officer, "'the authorities for some
reason were anxious to move troops
up the Tombigbee river. Word was
sent to the engineer in that district
asking what it would cost to run up
the Tombigbee. That official got gay
and reported that Tombigbee ran
down and not up, a joke that promptly
landed his head in the basket, as the
matter was serious. At the bombard
ment of Charleston it was extremely
desirable to bring to bear on the city
an extra heavy gun called by the men
Swamp Angel. The gun took its name
from the swamp in which it stood, and
to move it through that boggy morass
was an engineering feat of extreme dif
ficulty. However, the commanding of
ficers were determined to have the gun
brought within range of Charleston
and issued orders to that effect At the
same time sent word to the engineer
having the matter in charge to req
uisition without regard to trouble or
expense for anything necessary to ac
complish the desired object His first
requisition called for men 26 feet C
inches in height Another officer
promptly took the matter in charge,
from which it can readily be deduced
that it is not a paying Investment to
make jokes in the army at the expense
of your superiors.
Distance of FleaMa
Prof. L. R. Taft says: In .setting
trees the following distances will be
found desirable under ordinary condi
tions. Apples, thirty-five to forty feet;
pears, standard, twenty-five feet;
pears, dwarf, fifteen feet; plums, eight
een to twenty feet; peaches, twenty
feet; cherries, sweet twenty-five feet;
cherries, sour, twenty feet; grapes,
ten by ten to ten by twelve feet for
strong growing sorts and eight by ten
to ten by ten for the weak growing
varieties; blackberries eight by three
feet to eight by five feet for large sorts,
and seven by three feet for the small
torts; raspberries seven by three feet
to eight by four feet for the tall grow
ing varieties, and six by three to seven
by three feet for the smaller sorts;
currants and gooseberries, six by six
feet If in squares, or seven to eight feet
by five feet in the rows, and the En
glish varieties of gooseberries as close
as five by five feet; strawberries, three
and one-half to four, by one and one
half to two feet, for matted row plant
ing, and for hill culture twenty inches
to two feet or two and one-half feet if
arranged in squares, or three to three
and one-half feet between the rows,
with the plant twelve to eighteen
inches apart. While the longer dis
tances may seem a waste of room, the
trees and plants, when full grown, will
occupy the entire space, if given good,
care, on strong soil, and not only will
it greatly assist in cultivating, as it
will make the use of the larger tools
possible, but especially in dry sea
sons, the fruit will be much larger and
better colored.
Where fungous diseases are trouble
some, the planting of tree3 at a good
distance apart will permit the entrance
of the sun's-rays and the circulation of
the air between the trees and lessen
the injury from disease. While it may
be admissible under some conditions
we advise against the planting of fruits
of various kinds upon the same ground.
Some persons seem to think that the
planting of peaches between apples,
and then setting raspberries or black
berries between the peaches, and
strawberries between the rows of rasp
berries will effect a saving of space,
but although it may be followed to
some extent in the fruit garden, the
practice Is not ordinarily advisable in
commercial plantations, as, even while
the trees are small, they do not require
the same care and none of them will
do as well as if planted by themselves.
Within a short time the roots of the
trees will occupy the ground and noth
ing should be allowed to interfere with
their growth. Even though the inter
mediate trees and plants are set with
an idea of removing them before the
trees need the space, it eeldom hap
pens that this is done until after
some Injury has been caused.
While we do not recommend it a3 a
desirable practice, it will be less ob
jectionable to plant early-bearing and
short-lived varieties of apples between
the rows, or at least in the rows with
the trees, of slow-growing, late-bearing
kinds like Northern Spy. Where
the permanent trees are planted forty
feet apart, it will generally be a dozen
or fifteen years before there would be
any very serious injury, if trees of
Wagener, Jonathan and some of the
other varieties were placed between
them, so as to have the ground occu
pied by trees located twenty feet apart
each way. In doing this, however, the
supplying of the proper amount of
plant food to make up for the in
creased drain upon the ground must
not be negrected, and before the trees
become so large that tbe branches in
terlace, the intermediate trees should
be removed. If this is done, there will
be comparatively little injurious effect
upon the growth of the permanent
trees, and the crops secured from the
"fillers" up to the time of their re
moval should several times repay the
entire cost of the orchard at that time.
be present curing skin trouble which
may be in the incipient stage and in
stimulating a fresh growth of healthy,
long stapled' wool. 'At this time too
all of the young lambs should be
dipped for the reason that the ticks
will have largely migrated to their
tender bodies causing untold misery
and at the same time retarding growth
and health. It has further been found
that where sheep and lambs are prop
erly dipped at the season of the year
indicated that the dip will retain suf
ficient strength for some time to keej)
away both gad flies whose larvae en
ter the nostrils causing the grubs
which later torment the victims and
even lead to fatal results in some in
stances, and the other common fly
which deposits eggs about the anus
or In any sores that may exist upon
the body, later producing a crop of
horrid maggots which prove a source
of suffering and emaciation to the
sheep and disgust to the owner.
Viewed from every standpoint we can
think of the dipping of sheep is sen
sible and hygienic.
SarapliM or Scottish "Bafla."
An "old member of the house" writes
to the London Daily News, saying:
"The amusing instance of confused
metaphor which you quote, and which
speaks of the necessity of training and
backbone and bringing it to the front,
reminds me that the clergyman whom
you cite was not the first to take lib
erties with this portion of the human
frame. A somewhat similar story was
current in the smoking room of the
house of commons fifteen years ago.
A well-known figure in the house was
Sir George Balfour, the Liberal mem
ber for Kincardineshire. In committee
he was an inveterate critic of all In
dian administration. One one occa
sion he was speaking with emphasis of
the wisdom of keeping the Indian army
officered by British and Irish soldiers,
and in the course of his remarks he
assured the house that the white face
of a European in our Indian forces is
the backbone of our army. On another
occasion Sir George was addressing
himself to some Indian financial ques
tion, and was ridiculing what he con
sidered to be the petty nature of the
proposals which were being put for
ward. 'Even if you carried these ped
dling little reforms.' he exclaimed, it
would only be like a flea bite in the
ocean.' "
Harts te Aekaewleaaa FeeMeaeas.
It was a hard march for the feeble
old men of the Grand Army on Decor
ation day. They bore up bravely and
never winced, but more than one drop
ped out quietly. One, with tears in his
eyes left the line at Thirty-seventh
street "I was worth two men in the
Wilderness," he faltered, as I made
room for him in the crowd, " bat we
old fellows are done for, though it
hurts to admit it" New York Letter.
liipplnsr Sheep.
The dipping of sheep 's an annual
duty for every sheep breeder to fol
low or should be so considered. Many
shepherds from laziness or some other
similarly senseless reason or none, neg
lect to dip their sheep with the result
that they lose a good deal of growth
that might otherwise be set down to
profit and also run the risk of getting
skin disease among their sheep which
will be found very hard to eradicate
after it has once become well rooted.
There was a time when the dipping
of sheep was rather a formidable un
dertaking for the reason that people
did not have the proper appliances and
at the same time had to concoct won
derful brews of dope in which to im
merse the unfortunate . animals. At
that time the dipping tank with its
runways and dripping platforms was
unknown and dips used were largely
home productions of a highly poison
ous character. Numbers of sheep were
poisoned annually, some from absorp
tion of arsenic or corrosive sublimate,
others from taking the arsenic into
their stomachs while grazing pastures
where sheep had been turned out after
dipping in arsenical dips. Nowadays
the construction of proper dipping
tanks is well understood and there are
numbers of effective dips upon the
market which merely require the ad
dition of water to make them ready
for effective work either for the de
struction of ticks or for the cure of
scab. Of the dips referred to the most
easily prepared for use are those made
from tar and of these may be cited the
popular, economical and effective ones
advertised in our columns. There has
been a vast deal of discussion pro
and con as to the merits and demerits
of sulphur and lime concoctions, but
the weight of testimony has in our
opinion been clearly against the use
of this combination which while fair
ly effective has the draw back of being
highly detrimental to the wool. On the
other hand there are many who claim
with good reason that dips of the tar
product variety are a positive advan
tage to the wool in that they keep it
soft and full of vigor and when used
after shearing stimulate a rapid and
healthy growth. That-noted authonty
upon sheep Richard Gibson of Can
ada advises that sheep should be
dipped three time3 a year not because
there will be three crops of ticks, but
because increase of both wool and
mutton will result He adds: "A rich
man may discard the use of dip; a
poor man cannot afford to do so."
This is a fair view of the matter and
we are strongly of the opinion that
any reader of this paper who has .not
made it a practice to dip his sheep at
least once a year will find it a very
profitable practice to follow in the
future. The best time to dip sheep is
just after shearing in that the dip then
gets into, closer contact with the skin
and will therefore prove most effective
fcotb in destroying any ticks that may
iHppInr. Sheep f ev Bratfc
A bulletin sent out by the Missouri
State Board of Agriculture says;
By far the most rational and satis
factory, and the cheapest method Of
curing scab is by dipping the sheep In
some liquid which will kill the para
sites. The dipping proces is as fol
lows: (1) Select a dip containing sulphur.
If a prepared dtp Is used which does
not contain sulphur, it is always safer
to add about 16 pounds of sifted
flowers of sulphur to every 100 gallons
of water, especially if, after dipping,
the sheep have to be returned to the
old pastures.
(2) Shear all the sheep at the one
time, and immediately after shearing
confine them to one-half the farm for
two to four weeks. Many persons pre
fer to dip immediately after shearing.
(3) At the end of this time dip ev
ery sheep (and every goat also. If there
are any on the farm).
(4) Ten days later dip the entire
flock a second time.
(5) After the second dipping, place
the flock on the portion of the farm
from which they have been excluded
during the previous four or five weeks.
(6) Use the dip at a temperature of
100 degrees to 110 degrees F.
(7) Keep each sheep in the dip for
two minutes by the watch do not
guess at the time and duck its head
at least once.
(8) Be careful in dipping rams, as
they are more likely to be overcome in
the dip than are the ewes.
(9) Injury may, however, result to
pregnant ewes, which must, on this ac
count, be carefully handled. Some
farmers arrange a stage with sides, to
hold the pregnant ewes, which is low
ered carefully Into the vat, and raised
after the proper time.
(10) In case a patent, or proprietary,
dip, especially an arsenical dip, is
used, tbe directions given on the pack
age should be carried out to the let
ter. Whatever dip is selected, the farmer
should not forget that there are two
ways to use that dip. One way is to
prepare and use it in accordance with
the directions given; the other way is
to attempt to economize time, labor, or
money by using the dip in weaker pro
portion than advised, by hurrying the
sheep through the swim, or by later
placing the dipped sheep under unfav
orable conditions. If the former meth
od is adopted with any of the estab
lished dips, the treatment ought to be
followed with favorable results: if the
latter method Is adopted, the farmer
himself must assume the responsibility
of failure, no matter which dip he de
cides to use. Every farmer should,
therefore, remember that when he has
decided upon the dip he is to use, his
work has only begun; to use the dip
properly is fully as important as to
use a dip at all.
Sulphur is one of the oldest known
remedies for scab, its use dating back
to Columella in the early part of the
Christian era. As a scab eradicator,
it must be placed among the best sub
stances at our disposal. It is one of
the constituents of certain proprietary
dips, but its use to tae farmer is best
known in the tobacco-and-sulphur dip
and in the lime-and-sulphur dip. These
home-made mixtures are the two dips
which have played the most Important
roles in the eradication of scab from
certain English colonies, and their
use, especially the use as well as the
abuse of lime and sulphur, Is quite ex
tensive in this country.
Decreaslas; ProllBcacy.
F. M. McNeal: Judicious selection is
perhaps more potent than any otner
factor in modifying and improving the
type of our domestic animals. By its
proper exercise men have been enabled
to change almost any type of animal
they pleased, even to the mutilation of
the animal itself. The great deficiency
in our ancestral hog was his inability
to develop fine form and great size at
an early age. In the hustle and bustle
of modern life, men could not afford
to wait two or two and a half years for
the maturity of his hog, and nine to
fifteen months became the limit in our
pure breeds. Each with a fixed type
in his mind, began to select until the
shape of the ham, the curve of the
back, the cut of the jowl, the size and
setting of the ear, the color of the hair,
the number and position of the spots,
all becoming fixed through judicious
selection; but while all this was going
on, how little attention was paid to the
number of pigs in the Utter even far
ther than this, how often has the great
number of the litter been an objection
to the breeder. How many breeders
will remember the time when they
were looking to showing the six
months' pig at the fair, they have se
lected their very best mothers, bred
them and then hoped that they might
produce but four or five pigs, in order
that the whole powers of maternity
might be concentrated on a few speci
mens of the highest type. Thus by
continuously ignoring or absolutely
discarding the prolific faculty, you
have allowed to slip away or driven off
the propensity which' you now wish
to reclaim.
It is not acoMftoa when young
lambs or other young animals die and
art opened to g4 abscesses in the liv
er and these may be associated with
similar abscesses in the joints or else
where. The earliest experience of the
writer with seek abscesses was in the
lambs of a flock of Ih-and-lnbred Bor
der Leicester ewes, raised upon the
low lying, rich, alluvial soil in the
Till valley of Northumberland. Eng
land. The lambs referred to probably
showed all the Ills that such weaken
ed animals are heir to, and many were
the discussions as to the nature and
cause of the various lesions discovered
upon post mortem examination. The
white-nosed lambs were invariably the
seat of all manner of unsoundness,
and on general principles we were
strongly tempted to knock them on the
head at birth, so seldom did they sur
vive mbre than a few days. In most
of these and in some of the remaining
lambs, that were apparently healthy
for a day or two we found, on opening
them after death, that the liver was
a mass of pus, which in some had
burst, and in others remained enclosed
in a cyst In the liver of one lamb
there Was a large abscess, and some
smaller Ones. The large one was ad
herent tb the diaphragm and had an
opening into the right side of the chest
where extensive, inflammation and ad
hesion of the pleura had taken place
caused by the fluid portion of the ab
scess being discharged Into the pleural
cavity. In others the entire liver was
disorgahiezd and the parts presented
the appearance of a mass of corrup
tion. For a long time we were at a
loss to explain these abscesses, and
shepherds consulted attributed them to
tuberculosis and thought that they
were Inherited from the ewes and ex
isted at time of birth. Later on how
ever, we came to the conclusion, and
have no reason to think otherwise
since, that. the abscesses are due to
suppurative mlcrobes-stryptococci
which gained access to the
system at the raw navel cord.
The open umbilical vein pre
sents a highway, so to speak, for
the carrying of germs to the liver and
in all the cases thoroughly examined,
the navel cord was found to be inflam
ed and discharging a thin pus. In some
instances the navel cord had shriveled
up and fallen off, but an angry spot
remained and this offered a suitable
place for the lodgment and propaga
tion of the noxious germs. When the
germ gains entrance an abscess usu
ally forms around the navel; pus is
generated and Is carried into the cir
culation In due course of time to form
fresh colonies in the liver or in the
joints and we then have a typical
case of "joint III" which is not gener
ally recognized as such, but is apt to
be considered rheumatism or tuber
cular swelling. The raw navel of ev
ery young animal Including the hu
man infant should be most carefully
attended to. It is not merely neces
sary to cut and tie it to stop profuse
bleeding.
It should be remembered that the
system is wide open at this point, and
futher that the cord itself is bound to
decompose and the products of de
composition absorbed into the system
are liable to produce blood poisoning
or pus infection. Thousands of young
animals yes infants too succumb
annually to such poisoning, due en
tirely to ignorance of the subject,
hence we would most strongly advo
cate the Invariable application of
strong antiseptic solutions to the na
vel cord at time of birth and until it
is entirely healed up. Any good disin
fectant will do the work necessary.
For infants and lambs nothing is bet
ter than a mixture of one part of iodo
form with six parts of boracic acid to
be applied to the navel upon antiseptic
cotton retained in place by means of a
bandage and to be renewed once daily.
A strong solution of carbolic acid or
similar disinfectant, one drachm in
eight ounces of water, applied two or
three times daily will also prove ef
fective as a preventive, but the most
effective of ail Is a strong solution of
corrosive sublimate in water. In addi
tion to the application of medicine the
lambing pen. and similar places for
other animals should be kept scrupu
lously clean.
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Piso's Care cannot be too highly spoken of as
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N., Minneapolis. Ulan., Jan. ft, 1M0L
Bone Drlatr, Others Do Not.
Fourteen prelates of the Church of
England are total abstainers. The
archbishop of Canterbury is one of
them, the new bishop of London is.
another. A majority of the bishop3
still take their wine temperately, of
course.
The Russian government is giving
its aid to develop the dairy Industry.
Most of what is known as the "dairy
belt" extends along the line of the Si
berian railroad, and to facilitate the
proper handling of these goods butter
trains, equipped with refrigerating ap
paratus, have been used to transport
the goods to the seaports for ship
ment. During the season of 1900 two
special trains or twenty-five cars each
were despatched weekly. loaded with
butter for the Baltic ports. United
States Consul Mahin says that the but
ter is fine in quality, possesses rare
keeping properties and that it can be
produced at low cost
Obterratleas oa Seatbera Horllcaltare.
The question of transportation of
fruit is the great one at present In
northern Alabama and In some parts
of southern Tennessee the strawberries
were rotting on the vines this spring
at a time when they were selling for
15 cents per box in Chicago. They
had been picked to supply the local
demand till the prices fell to a point
where picking was no longer profit
able. The price was low because the
growers were virtually cut off from a
market Within a few hours from that
time, the writer was In Atlanta, where
berries were selling from wagons at
from 7 to 12 cents per box. The
growers around Atlanta simply had
access to a good market
e e e
There are certain fruits better suit
ed to the sandy lands than others and
these only should be grown. We men
tion the peach and plum, the cherry
and the grape, and the Kieffer pear.
At Southern Pines only two varieties
of grapes are being grown the Del
aware and the Niagara. These two
varieties are best suited to the soil
and conditions mentioned. Of the two,
the Delaware probably stands at the
head. This Is due to the fact that it is
less affected by grape diseases than
the other, and also to the fact that it
sells at a higher price in the market.
The Delaware should be extensively
grown In the South, for It Is hard to
overstock tbe markets with this vari
ety. The Niagara is profitable where
the marketing conditions are favor
able. Many of the other varieties of
grapes require a stronger soil than
the varieties we have mentioned.
The approximate value of the com
mercial fisheries of the United States
in 1899 was $40,000,000, to which the
oyster industry contributed about f 40,-
Live Stack News.
It is said that lambing in southern
Arizona will average 100 per cent this
year as against sixty-five per cent last
season, and this is the best percentage
in two years. The winter was extra
mild and sheep came out in fine condi
tion. The ranges were never in better
condition, and the grass is of excellent
growth thus far this season.
Sheep-killing dogs are so numerous
in many sections of the south as to
discourage farmers "from attempting to
keep flocks, for which they have am
ple range. A bulletin by the govern
ment recently published emphasizes
the value of Angora goats as a protec
tion for flocks of sheep from the rav
ages of dogs.
An outbreak of cattle poisoning
which occurred in the Gallatin Basin,
Montana, and which resulted in the
death of forty cattle, was investigated.
It was found that the poisoning was
due to the species of larkspur known as
LDelphinium glaucum. and that this
plant had been apparently eaten in un
usual quantities, on account of the fact
that other green forage was covered
by a recent fall of snow.
Her Decennial Jug;.
A London woman, arraigned in court
for being drunk, pleaded that she was
entitled to her spree, as it was pre
cisely ten years since she had com
mitted a like offense. The magistrate
coincided with her view and discharg
ed her.
The sensitive man is doomed to suf
fer a whole lot of pain that is not his
own.
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Pullman sleeping and dining cars.
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A monument is to be placed la St
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ory of the late Sir Arthur Sullivan:
It is also proposed to endow a scholar
ship at the Royal Academy of musie
and to erect a statue to the com
poser on the Thames embankment
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sales for the year just closed as being
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THE SET
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allay itching, irritation, and inflammation, and
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