Dakota farmers' leader., December 01, 1905, Image 6

About Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??

Image provided by: Minnesota Historical Society; Saint Paul, MN

                
JP
1®
NS
I'
-**r
%&
vr
'h
3-^
I '®he first gne ta 'honesty." No on#
Is absolutely add perfectly honest. If
you give orders to say yoa are not
at home, when you are In and don't
want to 6e disturbed, that teat qfrlte
honest.'
"Tba aero ad word Is '«*tl*facti»v.'
No ooe is perfectly "satisfied." Saw'*
ln(i yofj had, by a Jong stretch of im
agination. $10,000 a year, you wud
•want twenty.
"'And tbe (bird 1* that beautl
fftr'raonoojrrable 'If." On that 1 sort
not wa»«t«»t.~
M«to Mm.
Fravr. Idaho. Nov. 27.—-(Special.)
-Mr*.' Martha J. Lee ha* eivea tor
intbiiraiHon the foilowinjr atateaaeat
coni-MtfiUR boM'a KM«y nil*:
"I tr.isriewn with Rheumatism three
limes,1" *h« aay*. "awl each time
R«dVKi(iMr Wis helped me. The
last" lime they eared me, and now
am a Me th -aet around and do an my
werk. though I am flfty-ejght. and I
attack to Sunday SWmoI every Sun
day. Be/or* I took IVxW's Kidney Pill*
1 Wfa» bad vwjM use neither Hand
nor Toft I shai? keep Dodd's DIU on
hatfd «n th« time.""
HhMBRatlam 5# Wasfd by Frio AHA
crystsflUiu* la the WUCIM. Healthy
kidwysa re»ore «U rrte AeM from tbe
brood. Kidneys cannot re
move th|« acid. which collects In the
Mffodf and pWae««%Tery vein and ar-
ing-.aqri strengthening them, so that
they- vSu rkltbc blood o/ all impuri
ties'
gplarled M"'» Pamdlie.
i?*' With over ,80,000 men and women
an^#IU Isolation earning a modest
incemein tbe aervice of the govern
ment, j\V»»hiii#toii may fairly be de
scribed
as the. salaried man's paradise,
with ambitious schemers constantly
WffbMWg the^rend of legislation, and
retiretllionalres aggressively seek
inithat social recognition only too fre
quently-denied them at home, it may
not inappropriately be called the Ver
sallJ^s of the twentieth century. In
woydj Washington society is a so
ciety of contrasts, but it is a society,
ila^hMlcb th«i'cohtreats blend bet
ter certainly than they do almost any
where, else.
•"•i.f It Wa» No D»e.
Dick—Come on and go
•treet with me, Jack.
.1
acli^—A.1I, £lghtvj9jld uvmT-walt till
finlslj &Ts fetter to my dad.
F'-i.
IkraM Slake*.
*fttree beautiful wort* ta
fee English lanpuog*," Mid a peracgri-1
gating philosopher as he sipped his
If or as at to a
ed 6ut of the dictionary.
down tho
Dk'b-'—Oli, If you're writing to him,
dot}# tome. I'm briike, too.—Cleveland
Lc®ifer.
•jet't I ,.
EVIDENCE
That Or. Williams' Pink Pllla Will Cure
.Rheumatism.
«wple can core Utem^elves ot A good
tnanpt pommon aillnehta at a very small
cost if they go about it the right way,"
said'llr. Hoart recently. "For instance,
I haVpijost cured myself of A very pain?
ful dlsiijiB. 1 might have began to treat
it «poner, that'j all the mistake I made
in the matter. Bat I foand t^o rpgj of
""flokiki oar fhelHght
aid 6t fc docto^'
I hi my blood. I first
™. left foot and ankle
idefleyrf Jfli^annsry, fallowing
to o4Ht.Traised I had rhen
and^^aiew that really oomea
A blipoL Gold simply develops
it. ,'$%i myiaads and f^at.wew cold
and cfimmjr even in hot weather, aiid
numh igtisl part of the time. I con
cloded th&t sty blood wa» tuiu and poor
and the circulation sluggiah,
"After a time my -reiBt aud ankles
•welled so badly that I could only tie
my shoes half yny up. My legs swelled
•terribly and I could •walk only a short
distance before giving out completely.
When I read of the cures of all kinds
of bltjOd diseases, that had been effected
by Or.Williams' Fink Pills, I was con
Tinood that they were just the remedy
for my.base, and so it proved. could
aee Urn they wore benefiting me before
I halt qpte used np the first bo*. The'
improvement was decidedly marked al-
Miv Wf leRoy Hoar livea at No. 182
street, Bristol. R. I. Any
can .nt ^wriaoihg evidence that
Dr. WiUijfos'^puk Pill# have ^ored
(Miamia, rheumatism, erysipelas and
father pms diseases of the Mood by
Idmply writiog to the Dr. Williams
lbdtoiB*
Factsla the Case.
"I sap'pose," said the new parson,
H-m
"Ohf yes." answered the drummer's
wife, "hut hie kiadneas Is too often of.ths
onremittingklnd."
"Excuse me," said the good man, "bat
I'm afraid l'm a trifle dense."
"You see," explained the lady "he
sometimes (ails te remit when away, from
keak*
'A Ha»r C"aM»aU«B.
A hippy combination of Jnat the
tight, proportion of each o{ the roots
•T eeveral indlgenons, or native, me
dicinal plants, or rather or the active
aasdiclpal principles skillfnily extraefr
id therefrom by the uee of chemically
pure glycerine of Just the right
atrength,.cop»tlttrtes Dr.. Pierce'a Fa
t(on foe tW^ci^a,. of
i-doW«r,T overworked
re ago. Dr. Pierce
:ihinr
ioflly pure glycer
fa a fai
far better
the me-
discovered that
ine.ofproper
eelvent and praeervattve
dldnal princlpm found I
digeoom, or nitlf& medicinal planta
than iiTatcoboi. B4lleving^ as he doee,
that the use of alcohol, «ven in small
fwrtloiis. if long continued, works
great harm to the human system," he
determined not to employ this com
monly |keed agent in making his medl
Hm cinee. bnt to had pure, dottble-reflned
I glycerine Instead. Now. glycerine to
Jt not only perfectly harmless, but poa
J* iesaes nilrlnalc medicinal properties,
I ttelttg a moat valuable demulcent, aol
1 jLvist nuUitlXR ifi»d*ntl-ferment. Since
are fDr. ^Pierc^a
Faintly MediciaesbelonK |o a clasa all
1
by them*eive4. They are^nmhw pat
lll-wit nor^-hecretiwitficines. Their lumre
isLd teats *f* «printed, in plain English,
bottle wfappet.
ltfcV Pf. Pierce's medictnfa yon
tve to pin yoor iatth-wftoH^te
Ot. ^ei!ce,a «ti«dlcliw* hat*
I I I I I I I I I
oamu xiv.-«s«iB#t4.i
Then came another awkward paoae,
"Weil. Mr. U+ummT safct Augusta, at
last riaing hrtmqueiy from her chair,
"the document twlenip* to you, and s»
I aappose that yon bad hotter it
Not that I think that It will be of
nach uae to yon. however. a« I SM
that *pnsilvate bad leen allowe-d t* Is
•«s' •whatever that aaay mean, of Mr.
U«MMH'« other will
"I do J»OT know that that wlU roat
W," said Swtt^ "a* I hoard a friend
of «ftM. Mr. Short, who is a barris
ter, talk ahont »»c wtw flw" Khor
day in which protni was revoked on
the prodnctkm of a »uh*e«jnent will."
•"Indeed.'"' anawvre.1 .Vumwta. **X am
•«"eiry irlad to hear tbat. Then. |er
hapa. after all 1 hare leen tattooed to
sow pwrpoae. Well, I suppose you
had tv-tt*T see It." and with a gesture
that waa half ahy and half defiant, ahe
drew the lace shawl from her shoul
ders and turned her U*ok toward hlru.
so that be might see what was In
scribed a annas Its whiteness.
Eustace stared at the broad line of
letters which with the signatures writ
ten beneath might menu a uaatter of
two millions of money to Ulm. and
then he stared at the beautiful shoul
ders on which tbe words were Indel
ibly impressed.
"Thank you," be said at last, and.
taking up the lace shawl, be threw it
over hw again.
"If you will excuse me for a f*w
minutes, Mr. Meeaou,'' interrupted
Lady Holmhurst at tills point "I bav
to go to see about the dinner," and
before Augusta could Interfere she had
left tbe room.
Eustace closed the door behind her
and turned, feeling Instinctively that
a great crisis in his fortunes bad come.
CHAPTER XV.
Augusta was leaning against the
marble mantel-piece. Perhaps she, too.
felt that there was something in the
air at any rate, she turned away her
head and began to play with a bron «e
Japanese lobster which adorned th°
mantej-plece. "Now for it," wild
Eustace to himself, drawing a Ions
breath, to try and steady tbe violent
pulsation of his heart. "I don't know
what to say to you, Miss Smith era,"
ho began.
"Beet eay nothing more about it,"
she put in quickly. "I did it, anil I
am glad that I did it. What do a
few marks matter If a great wrong
is prevented thereby. Besides, Mr.
Meeson, there is another thing: It was
through me that yoo tost your inheri
tance. It is only right that I shoold
try to be the means of bringing it
•back to you."
She dropped her bead again, and
once more began to play with the
bronze lobster, holding her arm in
such a fashion that Eustace could aot
see Jktr face, but she could see his
in the glass, and narrowly observed
Its change, which, oi: the whele,
though natural, was rather mean «f
her.
Poor Eustace grew pale and paVsr
yet, till his handsome countenance be
came positively ghastly. It is won
derful how frightened young men are
tfce Srst time that they propose.
"Miss Smithers—Augusta," be gaap
4d, "I want to say something to you,"
and he stopped dead. "I want to tall
and again he hesitated.
What you are going to do about
the will?" suggested Augusta.
"No—no nothing about the wilV—
please don't laugh at me and put me
c£T."
She looked up innocently—as much
as to say that she never dreamed pf
doing either of these things. She had
teri lia& taken two boxes.' Three more ft lovely face, and the glance of the
boxes restored my hands and feet and gray eyes quite broke down the barrier
lege t* natural sixe and feeling and of the fears.
then 1
s(epp*A feting medicin&and have
since b«fen perfectly well."
"Oh, Augusta, Augusta, ', he
"don't you understand? I,love youl I
love youl No woman wai ever loved
before aa I love yon^ I ifell in love
Wltjhvyou the very flrtt time'I saw
you in the office at Meeaou's, when I
had the row with my uncle a boat
you and ever since then I have gMt
deeper and deeper in, iove with yo®.
Wlteci I thought that you were
drowned it nearly broke my heart and
often and often I wiahod tbat I wen
dead, too!"
It was Angnsta'a turn to be dis
turbed now, for, though a lady of com
tnrbid now, for though a lady'e coo*
poaure will stand her in good stead ap
to the very verge of an affair of thig
eort it generally breaka down Anally.
Anyhow, she certainly dropped bar
eyes and colored to her hair, while hi
breast began to heave tumnltoouely.
"Do you know, Mr. Meeeon," aha
aald at last without daring to look
op at his imploring face, "that this to
only the fourth time that we hare seas
each other, including yesterday.'
"Tea, I know," he said, "but don't
refuse me on that account you can
aee me as often aa you like"—this
was generous fit, Master Euetaee-—
"and ready I know yoa better than yon
think. I should think that I have
read your book twenty times."
nils waa a happy stroke, for how
enter free from vablty'a person m^jr
be, it is not in tbe nature of a yotuig
woman to hear that somebody has
read her book twenty times without
feeling pleased.
.,-'.4X am not my book," said Augusta.
"No but your book is part of you,'
he answered, "and I have learned
more .about your real self through it
than I |hoald have done if I bad se^n
y&u hundred ^lyi^lffirtead of four."
& i^ngnsta sloWlyf ionised her gra^
ieyea till jlw^ jnfet j^la own, and looked
at hlm.iia though .she were searching
out hht SOMl, a|id the memory of that
long, aweet look is with him yet.
He said no more, nor bad ahe any
Wonts but somehow nearer and 19car
er they? drew o$e to thfe other, till hia
arris' wwe anmM tfer. and hTi Hps
•were prewed upon her Hps. Happy nan
end. happy girl they will llrt to find
tbat Ufe has no joy so holy and so com
tbat muqt&dUtey .were now ex-..
kiss of troa and
2k&.yjs*
~nrLiil Ti .*•
•"tir ft
•ft*•
I I I I I I I I
honest love.
A little while aft«»nvanl the butler
came in In a horribly suddtn manner,
and found Augusta and Eustace, tlie
one very rotl and the other very pale,
standing »iisplolou*ly close to each
other. Hut he w«» very well-trainel
butler and a man of experience, who
had seen much and guessed more and
he looked as inuocent as a Nihe 1111
l*n*.
Jest then, too, I^idy llolmhurst
cant* in again and lookiil at the pair
of them with sn amusing twinkle In
her eye. I.ady Holmhurst, like her
butler, was also a person of experi
ence.
"Won't you come Into the drawing
rooiuV she said. And they did, look
ing rather sheepish.
And there Eustace made a clemi
breast of it, announcing that they
were engaged to le married. And al
though this was somewhat of an as
sumption. seeing that no actual words
of troth had passed between them.
Augusta stood there, never offering a
word of contradiction.
Well, Mr. Meeson." said I^ady
Holmhurst, "I think that you are the
luckiest mnn of my iicquolntance. for
Augusta Is not only one of the sweet
est and loveliest girls that I have ever
met, she is also the bravest and clev
erest. You will have to look out, Mr.
Meeson, or you will be known ns the
husband of the great Augusta Mee
soiv"
"I will take the risk," he answered
humbly. "I know that Augusta has
more brains In her little finger than I
have in my whole body. I don't know
how she can look at a fellow like me."
"Dear me, how bumble we are!" said
Lady Holmhurst. "Well, that is the
way of men before marriage. And,
now, as Augusta carries both your for
tunes on her back as well as in her
face and brain, I venture to suggest
that you had better go and see a
lawyer about the matter."
Eustace, after leaving the house,
went toward the Temple. As it hap
pened, In the same lodging house
where he had been living for the last
few months, two brothers of the name
of Short had rooms, and with these
young gentlemen he had become very
friendly. The two Shorts were twins,
and so like one another that it was
more than a month before Eustace
could be sure which of them he was
speaking to. When they were both
at college their father died, leaving his
property equally between them and
as this property on realization was not
found to amount to more than four
hundred a year, the twins very rightly
concluded that they had better do
something to supplement their moder
ate income. Accordingly by a stroke
of genius they determined tbat one
of them should become a solicitor and
tbe other a barrister, and then tossed
up aa to which should take to which
trade. John would give James briefs,
and James' reflected glory would shine
back on John. In short, they were
anxious to establish a legal long firm
of the most approved pattern.
Accordingly they passed their re
spective examinations, and .Tobn took
rooms with another budding solicitor
in the city, while James hired cham
bers in Pump court. But there tbe
matter stopped, for as John did not
get any work, of course he could not
give any to James. And so it came
to pass that for the past three years
neither of the twins had found tbe law
as profitable as they anticipated.
Now, Eustace bad often when in the
Shorts' sitting room in the lodging
house in the Strand heard the barrister
James hold forth learnedly on the mat
ter of wills, and therefore he naturally
enough turned toward him in his re
cent dilemma. Knowing tbe address
of his chambers In Pump court, he
hurried thither.
Mr. James Short was a short, stout
young man, with black eyes, a hooked
nose and a prematurely bald head. In
deed, this baldness of the head was
the only distinguishing mark between
James and John. At tbe moment of
Eustace's entry Mr. Short had been
engaged In studying tbat Intensely
legal print, the Sporting Times, which,
however, from some unexplained bash
fulness, be had hastily thrown under
the table, filling Its space with a law
book snatched at hazard from the
shelf.
'Ah," said Mr. James 8hort, when
he had shaken hands with him, "yoa
see I thought that it might have been
a client—a client is always possible,
however improbable, and one has to be
ready to meet the possibility."
"Quite so, old fellow." said Eustace,
bat do you know, as It happens, I am
a client—and a big one, too It is a
matter of two millions of money—my
ancle's fortune. There was another
will, and I want to take your advice.
Mr. Short fairly bounded out of his
chair in exaltation, and then, struck
by another thought, sunk back into it
again.
"My dear Meeson," he said, "I am
sorry I cannqt hear you."
"Eh!" said. Eustace "what do you
mean?"
"I mean that you are not accom
panied by a solicitor and it is not the
etiquette of "the profession to which I
belong to see a client unaccompanied
iBy a solicitor."
"Oh, hang thtr etiquette o^. the pro
fession!"
"My dear Meeson, if you Came to me
as a friend I should be happy to ^tve
yoa any legal information 1n m^ pOw
er, and I flatter myself, that 1 know
something of matters connected with
probate. But yon yourself have said
that yoa come as a client, nnd. in that
case the personal relationship sink*
into the background and is superseded
by the official relationship. Under these
circumstances it is evident that the
etiquette of the profession intervened,
which overmastering force conipels iHe
ta point oat to imt how improper
ant contrary to prfvWtmt -it wotttd be
for ma to listen to you without
'a3*iRi3Rrj
prenem-OiO! a properly •jitnllfled solici
tor."
"Ob," ciiapol I'usttico. "I bad no
iden that you were so particular I
thought that perhaps you would bo
glad of the job."
"Certainly—certainly! In the present
state of my practice I should be tho
Inst to wish to turn away work. I-et
me suggest that you should go and
consult John. I believe business is
rather slack with hlni Just now, so
I think it probable that you will und
him disengaged. Indeed, I dare soy
that I may go so far ns to make an
appointment for him here—let us say
in an hour's time."
As soon as Eustace left he made his
way to one of those busy courts In the
city where Mr. John Short practiced
as a solicitor.
Mr John Short was within and Eu
stace was ushered Into his presence.
To all appearances lie was consulting
a voluminous mass of correspondence
written on large sheets of brief paper:
but when he looked nt it closely it
seemed to Eustace that the edges vt
the paper was very yellow and that
the ink was much faded. This, how
ever. was not to be wondered at, see
ing that Mr. .lolin Short had taken
them over with the other fixtures «f
the otiice.
(To b» ponrlnned.)
IS THE SUN LOSING POWER?
Spots on Surface of I.nminary Indl
cate Great Present Disturbances.
The recent appearunee of Immense
groups of spots upon the sun, taken
In connection with the vagaries of
the weather during the past winter,
and with the suggestion of Professor
Samuel P. I.angley that the radiation
of the sun has. within the past two
three years, undergone measurable
variations affecilug the general tem
perature of our planet, brings the sul
ject of the cause and nature of sun»
spots, and their possible effect upon
the earth, once more prominently be
fore the public. It Is a question that
concerns all mankind. If the supposed
effect exists, our Interest is not dimin
ished by the fact that it Is a thing
ompletely beyond human control or
Interference. But. being forewarned,
and understanding the nature of the
disturbing forces, we may, conceiva
bly. mitigate the results to ourselves.
Just now the sun is approaching a
state of maximum disturbance. Some
thing is going 011 In his mighty globe
which produces tremendous upheavals
on his surface, and these are accoin
pan led by the appearance of black
spots, so large as occasionally to be
visible to the naked eye, although we
are
93,000,000
miles away from them,
Jus.t what these spots are we do not
know, but there are excellent reasons
for believing that they show the exist
ence of vast expanses of cooler mate
rial floating in the photosphere of the
sun, somewhat like masses of cooled
siag
012
the surface of liquid iron. I?
they were extensive enough to cover
all, or nearly all, of the solar surface,
the sunlight and the supply of heat
would be practically cut off from tbe
earth, and it would cease to be a habi
table globe.
Some of the distant suns in the heav
ens have apparently reached this
stage, and thus have perished others
are far advanced in the same direc
tion, and many of these exhibit enor
mous variations of light, alternately
flaring up and then dying down like
bonfires. Our sun, however, seems to
be only in the first stage of this great
process of gradual extinction, and tho
variations caused in the amount of his
radiation have not yet become serious
enough to threaten disaster to his at- 1
tendant planets. Still, they are great
enough to attract attention, and their
effects upon the earth may unques
tionably be measured provided we can
discover the precise manner in which
they manifest themselves. That they
are somehow related to magnetic
storms is now fairly well settled, but it
remains to determine their precise re
lationship to the -weather and to the
atmosphere.—Oarrett P. Serviss, In
Success "Magazine.'
A
Prlricess
Author.
Princess Feodora of Schleswig-Hol
steln, the youngest sister of the Ger
man Empress, has done her share to
prove the falsity of the theory that
royal bipod is synonymous with in
tellectual mediocrity, says the Phila
delphia Bulletin. Her book of forest
idyls is published under the pseu
donym of F. Hugin, with the title of
Der Wald" (Tbe Forest).
The seal of approval was placed
upon "Der Wald" by no less august
and severe critic than her own broth
er-ln-law, the German Kaiser.
The Princess Feodora was born la
Primkenau, the ancestral home of tho
Schleswig-Holsteln grand ducal fam
ily, in 1874, and Is the youngest of
foar sisters. Her eldest sister Is tho
Kaiser's wife and another sister Is the
wife of Prince Frederick Leopold of
Prussia, who is now representing Em
peror William with the Russian army
in Manchuria. Princess Feodora, since
childhood, has been of an exception
ally studious and reserved tempera
ment, caring little for the joys of so
ciety and the glittering attractions of
royal courts. She is much in Berlin,
however, and a favorite at the func
tions of the Kaiser, who Is genuinely
proud of her cleverness. Gossip has
lately associated her name with that
of the divorced King Frederick Au
gust of Saxony, and alleges that she
will be the next queen at Dresden
but the Saxon dynasty is unbending
Catholic, while Feodora comes of the
btanchest Lutheran stock in Ger
many, so that a union Is declared to
bv practlacliy impossible.
To Talk About.
Hicks—Your sewing circle had qoita
a long session to-day.
Mrs. Hicks—Yes Mrs. Galley is
such an Interesting person.
Hicks—Why. she wasn't there to
day. She's in New York.
Mrs. Hicks—Exactly. She's mora
Interesting when she's away.—Phil*
dclphia Public Ledger.
Never place your back near a heat
ed oven, nor against a wail, warm
severs
1 attests are p:
giva a ahare of attention to alL
Ventilating? Corn "ock».
Sometimes a streak of foggy
rainy weather will cause the
0
stacks
corn In the field to mould badly, which
may be overcome If a ventilator
used. The ventilator racks are made
of rough lumber or, If one has access
to the woods, poles could be cut which
would answer the purpose quite as
well.
This rack is not of necessity used in
the field, but can be used near the barn
after tbe stacks have boon garnered and
In this way a considerable quantity
can be stored. It consists of four up
right pieces each ten feet long, which
are used as corner posts cross pieces
are fastened on all sides six or eight
inches from the bottom, these pieces
being three feet long: a set of shorter
cross pieces is provided for placing at
about the middle of the rack and an-
CORN SHOCK VENTILATOR.
®ther set near the top, the latter pieces
aach being eighteen Inches long. The
•lustration shows the construction of
this rack clearly.
Value of liood Roads.
After careful inquiry it lias been
found that the average haul of the
American farmer in getting his prod
uct to market or to tlie nearest ship
ping station is twelve miles, and the
average cost of hauling over the com
mon country roads is cents a ton
per mile, or $3 a ton for a twelve-mile
haul, says Portland Oregonian. An
estimate places tho total tons hauled
at 300,000,000 a year. On the estimate
of $3 a ton for twelve miles this would
make the total cost of getting the sur
plus products of the farm to the local
market or to the railroad no less than
$900,000—a figure greater than the
operating expenses of all the railroads
of the United States. If anything could
make an argument for good wagon
roads this statement surely may.
Feedlnff Floor for Haga.
When one has a number of hogs to
feed the trough is not always the best
thing to use for the purpose, for the
swine are apt to break it down or else
are unable to get the food fast enough
to suit them, and so get to quarreling.
One of the best methods of feeding is
a large pan or floor made of cement
and rough logs this may be of any
dimensions desired, although it is best
made just wide enough so that the ani
mals can feed from both sides, which
will accomplish much in the way of
keeping them out of it with their feet.
Make the frame of rough lumber or of
logs cut in half aud some six or eight
inches high.
Fasten this frame securely at the
corners and also fasten securely to the
floor so that the swine will not root it
up. Then make a floor inside of ce
ment, not making it very thick, but of
about the same grain as would be
used for a stable floor. If desired the
frame may include a board floor over
which the cement floor is laid. The
edge will prevent the corn from being
pushed aside and trampled upon. It is
not intended to use this feeding floor
for slop or for soft food of any kind,
but only for grain, roots and roughage.
The illustration shows the plan clearly
and any one can easily build such a
FEEDING FLOOR.
floor, which, if carefully made, will
last for years.
Loaaea by Inaecta.
Dr. L. O. Howard, entomologist of
the Department of Agriculture, "has
just made public some startling state
ments of the property losses caused by
insects. He believes they aggregate
over $300,000,000 a year. The Bocky
Mountain locust, or Western grasshop
per, in 1874 ate up $100,000,000 worth
of growing crops. The chinchbug alone
has eaten $330,000,000 worth of corn
and wheat in the Western States since
1850. As for the mosquito, apart from
the losses believed to be due to Its per
nicious activity in the spread of yellow
fever and malaria, it is an Immense
depreciator of real estate values. A
New Jersey newspaper recently esti
mating that its extermination in that
one State alone would add to its real
estate valuation not less than $100,000.
It certainly would pay to wage a con
tinuous war of extermination against
all these Insects."
Poaltrr, Track, Fralt Farmtn*.
Likely there is not another combina
tion which may be taken up by the
farmer, which promises better returns
on the amount of capital invested, for
those who are situated right for it,
than poultry raising, gardening and
fruit culture. In order that the very
best prices may be realized for tho
product of such a farm, and therefore
the greatest possible profit, it (a necos^
'fcat' this bi' .or 'aaasa
thriving city of perhaps not less than
14A0O or »W),p?p9latto^To ba
a profitable business of this kind can
be conducted near much smaller city
than this if there nre not too many
there that arc also engaged I11 the same
business.
Poultry is one of the best paying
branches on the farm and is kept fully
In keeping with Its Importance by dele
gating tho work nttncliod thereto !o
competent help and plenty of it. The
same can be snkl In
reference
Comfort
to the
fruit and truck business. A poultry,
truck and fruit farm may comprise as
much as 1U."" acres with good drainage.
In
the lloir Hoii«e.
Ia repairing our hog houses we
found that a roll of building paper and
one of tarred paper weru the best in
vestments we had made in some time
the one was used on the walls and the
other on the roof so that much more
expensive repairs were saved. Then
we found it was policy to arrange the
sleeping corner in such a way that it
was Impossible for It to get any of the
filth or the wet which the swine fath
ered during the day. It was placed SQ
that none of the slop got into it and
about the only way it got soiled was
when the swine trampled through it
with their mtuldy feet. Even then by
taking it out Into the sun each day it
made a good bed for a number of
nights. A hog is a strange animal,
stubborn, of course, but it will not long
muss its bed if the latter is clean nnd
comfortable. Much of the nastlness of
bogs is due to tho neglect of their
owiwrs. We also arrange the sleeping
corner so that It is out of the draft,
although the house is properly venti
lated as a result there are few If any
cases of chills and colds among our
swine. All this extra good care means
healthy swine. It is not well to work
on the plan that If the hogs escape
cholera they are doing well. —Ex
change.
Proper Storage of Apples
To decide properly to which kind of
storage the grower or buyer shall send
his fruit requires the best of judgment,
for many factors must be considered in
making the choice and upon their Just
balancing will depend, to quite an ex
tent, the profit or loss In handling tho
crop. Growers, generally, are more In
terested in storage this year, probably
than usual. To all growers, to those
who usually hold more or less of their
fruit for winter sale or home use, and
to the buyers who must plan for the
best keeping of the purchased fruit,
the bulletins of the agricultural experi
ment stations will be of interest and
value. One of these discusses critically
the factors which influence the keep
ing quality of apples, as ascertained
through many years' experience at the
station or by correspondence and in
terviews with the leading apple hand
lers of the country. It also gives de
tailed results of the storage of 105 va
rieties of apples. In the ordinary tem
perature room of the station fruit stor
age house, or in a cold storage build
ing, with notes upon most of the varie
ties as handle! by practical storage
men.
Harvesting the Her:i Crop.
Formerly beaus were pulled by
hand, but now the work is done almost
BEAN HARVESTER.
exclusively by machinery in the
districts. The bean harvester or crt»
ter, shown here, is a two--wheeled mi»
chine, having two long steel blades,
adjusted that as the machine passer
over the ground they sweep along just
at or below the surface and cut the
bean stalks or pull them up." The
blades are set obliquely, sloping back
ward toward one another.
Wlnterlnff Fall Calrea.
If the calf Is worth carrying through
the winter it is certainly worth caring
for properly and by properly is meant
good food and water and proper care.
If the calf Is strong and healthy it
ought to pay well for the best atten
tion tbat can be given it first of all it
needs a dry, clean place, not warmed
by artificial heat, but as warm as lack
of draughts in a comfortabde stable
will make It. The early days of the
calf, Just after weaning, are of great
Importance to It and too much care
cannot be taken to see that the milk
given it is absolutely fresh and pure
and fed in proper quantities.
As a rule, the calf will properly take
care of eight pounds of milk per day,
which amount can be gradually In
creased until at a month old It is con
suming twelve pounds daily. About
this tipie it ought also to become in
terested In hay and after a while will
begin chewing its cud. A calf built up
In this manner during the winter will
be in excellent shape to turn out to
pasture In the spring and get most of
its living until fall, when you will have
a splendid animal, one you will be
proud to add to your herd.
Quick' Chnrnlnff.
A novelty at the large agricultural
show in London iu a churu which is
reported to make butter in sixty sec
onds. The cream is placed in the ves
sel so that the "dasher" is iu the cen
ter, and about 1% inches below the
surface. The handle is then turned
slowly for a few seconds, and then at
a good speed, and within one minute
butter is formed. If some fresh cold
water be poured in and the handle
turned slowly two or three times, the
batter Is ready for washing and mak
ing up.
A good, vigorous colony produces an
average of 100 pounds of honey each
year, besides storing up enough to
keep themselves during the winter.
akn -Oregon bee keeper has -nlauted
many acras ot alfalfa for his bees and
his 550 colonies last year produced
nearly 40.000 pounds of honey.
Enlmat Dsetors foist its iDgnrniti
We refer to that boon to weak nir..
miflerlng women known as Dr pW
Favorite Prescription.
If more or loss of the above symptom*
are present, no invalid woman can do
hotter than'take Dr.'"Pierce's Favorita
Proscription, one of th# leading ineredi.
ents of which Is Uiilconi'hkt, or Holonias"
and tho medical, properties, of which it
most faithfully rdjjres^ts.
Of (loldettiScal rdoti ailQther prominent
Ingredient TBI ^Favorite Prescription
Prof. Finle^ Ellingwood. M. D., of Ben
nett Medical.Gollesce. Chicago, says:
"It is an Important remedy in dlsordersof
tho womb. In at! catarrhal conditions
and general enfttieblcnient. it Is useful."
Prof. John M. .Scudder, M. D., late of
Cincinnati, says of Golden Seal root:
"In relation to its tfeneral effects on th«
pyslctn. there It no medicine in iwie about uhith
there in itueh general unanimity of opinion It
is universally regarded as the tonic useful in
all debilitated states."
Prof. Bartholow, M. D.. of Jefferson
Medical College, says of Golden Seal:
"Valuable In uterine hemorrhage, menor
rhagta (flooding) and congestive dysmenor
rhcea(painful menstruation).''
Dr. Picrco's Favorite Prescription faith
fully represents all the above named la
gredients and cures tho diseases for wliici
they are recommended.
A Natural Remedy.
That the remedy is sometimes worse
than the disease is again shown by an
incident chronicled in the New York
Times. A prominent politician has a
wife who Is a model of domestic care
fulness. She has a talent for making
bread, and takes great pride in having
lier loaves turn out well.
One evening she had set the batch o(
dough to rise in the kitchen and was
reading in the parlor, when her 0-year
old boy came running to her, crying,
"Mamma, mamma, there's a mouse
jumped into your bread-pan!"
The sood woman sprang from her
seat.
"Did you take him out?" she asked,
frantically.
"No'm, but I done just ns good. I
threw the cat in, nnd she's digging
after him to beat the band'."
CUTICURA, THE SET, $1.00.
Complete Treatment fop Every Hi
ni
or, from Plmplea to Scrofula,
from Infancy to Age—A Set Often
Care*.
Cuticura Treatment is local and con
stitutional—complete und perfect, pure,
sweet and wholesome. Bathe the af
fected surfaces with Cuticura Soap
and hot water to cleanse the skin o£
crusts and scales and soften the thick
ened cuticle, dry without hard rubbing,
and apply Cuticura Ointment freely to
allay itching, irritation and inSamma
tlon, and soothe and heal, and lastly
take Cuticura Resolvent Pills to cool
and cleanse the blood, and put every
function in a state of healthy activity.
More great cures of simple, scrofulous
and hereditary humors are dally made
by Cuticura remedies than by ail other
blood and skin remedies.
Lucky chott,
And it came to pass that the Ham
let troupe was stranded at a water
tank twenty miles from the nearest
farm house. A roving tramp crcpt out
of the shadows and, approaching the
leading man, said in awe:
"Mister, are you really Hamlet?"
"Yes," replied the barnstormer, "but
I wish I was the ghost."
"Why so?"
"Ghosts don't get hungry."—Colum
bus Dispatch.
Lincoln's Hay Crop.
The stories that Kansas newspapers
arc now printing of the Mgeorn crop
recalls Lincoln's story of the big hay
crop in southern Illinois. "What, in
quired. a visitor, "do you do with such
a big crop of hay?" "We stack all wo
can on the ground," replied the vet
eran story teller, "and the rest tie put
in the barn."—Detroit News.
The
Suburbanite.
"And when you look back," said
Blankly's serious uncle, "aren't there,
times when you feel as if yoa had missed
something in life?"
Blankley smiled.
"Of course you mean that confounded'
7:28 morning train," he said.—Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
ATTRACTIVE YOUNG LADT
AGENTS wanted in every Town and
City.—Complete outfit furnished free.
We guarantee that you can make from
91.00 to $4.00 per day. Address P.
O. Drawer No. 860, Buffalo. N. Y.
What Willie Said.
"I've got a kid at home who is
tvonder," said the proud father to his
bachelor friend. The bachelor turned
In disgust and was walking away when
the proud father overtook him.
"I was reading to my wife about
Witzhoff when the kid spoke up. 'Say.
pa,' he said, 'when a man has two
wives, is it a case of bigamy?'
'Yes,' I told him.
'Weil, say, pa, when a man has one
Wife, is it a caje of monotony
Piso's Cure for Consumption
gives immediate relief in all throat tro
»les—F. B. Biermaa, Leipsic. Ohio, Aug.
B1.1801.
in London.
It is calculated- that *"4.000 persons
tnake^% living,in London by beggins
and frai |helr average income amounts
to over, $1,500,000 a year. Last year
1,925 persons wecei arrested for beg
ging in the streets, of whom more than
1,500 were sentenced to terms of im
prisonment varying from one week to
three months. Many of these objects
Of charity were found in possession of
rams of money and. even bank books
showing very handsome deposits.
"IIalMaantorrRfceaanttoa^
now, tbsain
to Dr. Dntl Kannadr*! Farorit® Kemaoj'
Xt'imr ban tiiMd." Qmrratt Laarint. Tro/.
Jlr*. Sj
jjgn i" i*
tiat rem I
rc®
Dr. John Fyfeone of the Editorial a.
of THE ECLECTIC MEDICAL REVVKTO
of Unicorn root (Helrmla.i IHuirun u,^,'
is one of tho chief ingredients of thfiM?1
vorito Prescription
A remedy which Invariably arts «,
ine Inrtgorator makes fur normal
tivlty of tho entire wproductlre aviiii0:
He continues "In Helonlaswe have a mJJi
ment which more fully answers th« Sf*'
purpose* than any other drug with which
acquainted. In the treatment of di.e-.,'*
culiar to women It Is seldom that arS.
seen which does not present some IndwJ"
for this remedial agent." Dr. Fyf0 fuJ.fi!
Bays: "Tho following are among theItSS?
Indications for Helontas (Unicorn root) PS1
or aching in the back, with leucorrh™
atonic (weak) conditions of tho renrodupfu1
organs of women, mental depression »*H
Tttabllity. associated with chronic dlseai..
the reproductive organs of women, con«,J
sensation of heat In tho ro«lon of the iiiS
neys menorrhagia (flooding), due to awAS*
ened condition of the reproductive sraw"
amenorrhea (suppremsed or absent month?'
periods). arising from or accompanying ,*
abnormal condition of the digestive o£,«
and anaBmlc (thin blood) habit drolwh?!
sensations in the extreme lower part of tK
abdomen."
^Mr. ?i
_1, too,
tbat roml
tenl:
I'1
delP1'1"
JOYS
WOIM
lira. Pot
Y-
At an auction in Wiesbaden quarter
cask, of, Brpachta. :. JUarcobrunner wins
was knocked down for $8,000, or a beat
9&7> a piau