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ATTORNEYS.
Q. W. DUNHAM. E, B, STILES W. II. NOItHIS.
DUNHAM. NORRIS STILE8.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW AND NOTARIES
Public. Special attention given to Collec
tions. Insurance, Real Estate and Loan A gig.
-Office in City Hall Block, Manchester, la.
0. YORAR. H. P. ABNOIID. M. J. YORAN.
YORAN. ARNOLD YORAN
ATTORNEYS AT LAW, and Real Estate
Agents. Office la City Hall Block, Man
ahester, Iowa.
0. E. BBONSON. ifi. M,
BRONSON & CARR.
A TJJOBNEYS AT LAW. Special attention
..IP*®0 to-collections. Office In Democrat
Building, Franklin Street, Manchester, Iowa.
FRED B. BLAIR.
Block, Manchester, Iowa.
A TTOBNEY AT* LAW. Office In the City HaU
Block.
Manchester. T—-
PHYSICIANS.
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flj^ICIA^antTSui^eon, will attend to calls
promptly at all hoursfof the day or night.
BAmont,Iowa.
H. H. LAWRENCE.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Speolal at
A tentlon given diseases of ohildren. Have
also made a speolal study of Gyneooology,
Obstctrloa, .and Rectal Diseases. All chronic
diseases successfully treated with the aid of
various Thermal ana Massag* treatment. All
ohronios sollolted. Consultation free, Office
over Work's market. All calls promptly at
tended. Residence on Main street, the old Dr.
Kelsey property.
DENTISTS.
O. A. DUNHAM, D. D. 8.
T^ENTISTS, Office over Carhart & Adams'
L' hardware
Iowa.
hardware store, Franklin St. Manchester,
C. W. DOHMAN,
T\ENTIST. Office on J^'ranklln Street, north
As of the Globe Hotel, Manchester, Iowa.
Dental Surgery in all its branohes. Makes
•reanont visits to neighboring towns. Always
atoffioe on Saturdays.
C. LEIGH. D. D. S.
Dentist.
Office over Ander & Plillipp's Drug
Store Corner Main and Franklin streets,
Store Corner Main and Franl
Manchester Iowa. Telephone 189. 17tf
E.
DENTIST.E.storeNEWCOMB.
OfHce over Clark Lawrence |&
Staehle's ou Franklin street. Crown
bridge work a specialty. Will meet patients at
Farley Wednesday of each week. 32tf
VETERINARIAN.
DR. J. W. SCOTT,
"VETERINARY Surgeon, and Dentist. Office
in H. 0. Smith's Drug Store, Main St. At
night can be found at rooms over Ralph Con
ger's Store.
MANUFACTURING.
MANCHESTER MARBLE WORKS
TB prepared to furnish Granite and Marble
A Monuments and Head Stones of various de
signs. Have the county right for Slpo's Pat
ent Grave Cover also dealer in Iron Fences.
Will meet all competition. 9tf 94.
WM.MoINTOSH.
THOMAS GIVEN,
/Contractor and builder. Jobs taken in town
\J or country. Estimates furnished. First
class work guaranteed. Prices reasonable.
Shop on Howard stroet near Franklin, Man
chester, Iowa. SStf
B. Hbrbey, Frederick Hbvsey.
HENSEY & SON,
•MANUFACTURERS of Pork and Flour Bar
i'l rels, White Ash Butter Tubs, Cooperage
generally. Shop on Franklin St., east of the
bridge. 14
W. N.B07NT0N. J. F. McEWBN.
BOYNTON Bt MoBWEN.
WATCHMAKERS,
dealers In Watoheu, Clocks, Silver and
Plated Ware, Fine Jewelry, Speotaoles,Cutlery,
Musical Instruments, eto., Main street.
W, S. JONES.
ALL KINDS OFiFURNITURE constantly in
t\. etook. Undertaking done in all its
oranches. Manchester, Iowa,
M. W.SHKUION. J. P. FOLKV
Undertakers and Embaimers.
Ourable.
stock Is uew and complete, Prices reason
Opposite It. P. llall. 4Ctf
A. D. BROWN.
,ealer in furnlturo etc., and undertaker,
Main Street.
F. WBRKMEISTER,
fiBNERAL DEALER IN FURNITURE,
VT Coffins. Ploture Frames, Etc. A complete
stook of Furnlturo and Upholstery always on
hand, at prices that defy competition. A good
Hearse kept for attendance at funerals. Earl
ville, Iowa.
HIDDELL A CO.,
T\RY GOODS, Carpots, Millinery, Hats and
•LS Caps, Boots and Shoes, eto., Main St.,
Manchester, Iowa.
HENRY GOODH1LB.
eneral store. Dry Goods, MUUnery, Cloth
vX lng, Cloaks, Boots and Shoes, Hats and
Caps. Carpets, eto, Manchester, Iowa.
A. THORPE,
"PROPRIETOR OF "KALAMITY'S" PLUN
JT der Store and Dealer in Clothing, Boots,
Shoes, Notions, eto. Masonio Blook, Manches
ter. Iowa
GRASSPIBLD BROS..
(Successors to Seth, Brown.)
"DOOTS AND SHOES of all grades and prices.
Jj Custom Work and Repairing given special
attention. Also agent for the weed Sowing
Maohlne. Store in City Hall Blook.
CARHART & ADAMS.
TLUMBERS, Tinners, and dealers in Shelf
A and Heavy Hardware, Franklin street,
Manchester, Iowa.
J. J. HAWLEY,
TVBAI.BR IN HARDWARE,* StOVeB, Tla
ware, eto., Manchester Iowa,
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ElVTBBBD AT THB POBTOITIOB AT I
XAHCHBSTER, IOWA, AS SICOND-CLASB ICaitir
THING FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE.
Cribs in polished oak and rattan,
rockers, jumps, swings and iion beds.
Call and see our stock.
W. S. JOfJES.
High chairs, fancy little
GEO. 8. LISTER,
TTARDWARE, STOVES, TINWARE, ETC.
Keeps a fim-olaas tinner and does all
kinds of repairing with neatness and dispatch.
Store opposite First National Bank, MainSt.
HOL.LISTER LUMBER CO.
.UMBER and all kinds of building materials,
Posts and Goal. Corner of Delaware and
Madison streets.
MANCHESTER LUMBER CO.
UMBER and Builders Materials. Posts and
Ai coal. West side near depot.
THOS. T. CARKBKKi
A RCHITECT AND BUILDING SUPSRDf
TENDENT, S. E. Oor. 8thand
Dubuque, Iowa
WM, DENNIS.
B. S. COWLES.
Am prepared to do all
Moving household goods
rilTY DRAYMAN.
work In my line.
and pianos a specialty. All work will reeelve
prompt attention. A share of your patronage is
solicited. Charges right. Give your draylng
to a man who has oome to stay.
J.H.ALLEN.
fILOTHING and Gents furnishing goods. Oor
VJ ncr Main and Franklin streets.
L. R. bTOUT.
/CLOTHING and Gents ffirniahipg goods,
Bradley & Sherman building, Franklin
Street.
CLARK, LAWRENCE, STABHLE,
DRY
GOODS, Notiocs. Carpets, Gents fur
nlshing goods, eto. Franklin street.
QUAKER MILL CO.
TT'LOUR and Feed, Manufacturers of the ueie
A brated White Satin and White Pearl Flour.
QR&AA WARD.
Druggists
and dealers la Paints, Oils, Wall
Pnpe
Franklin
per. Stationery & o. Atwater's block,
street.
STORY ABBOTT.
T\RUGS, Wall paper, Stationery, Paints, Oils
etc. City hall block.
PHILIPP A ANDERS.
Dealers
in Drugs, Wall Paper, Stationery,
Paints, Oils, eto. Corner "of Main and
Franklin streets.
PETER BOARDWAY.
Dealer
in Hour, feed, hay. straw, Maquoketa
Ume, stucco and oommon and Atlas
cement.
Telephone us. Lower Franklin Street.
RAOKKT 8TORE.
T\RY GOODS, Clothing, Hats, Caps, Boots,
XJ Shoes, notions, etc. West side Franklin
street north of Main.
NOBLE ARNOLD.
/^.ROOERIES, Provisions, Fruits, eto. First
V-J door north of Delaware County Bank.
T. F. MQONEY.
BLAOKSMITHdone
(Successor to Lee Bowman.)
and Wagonmaker, Dt
Iowa. Work promptly and In a work
manlike manner. Charges reasonable. Your
patronage solicited. I5tf
INSURE
YOUR PROPERTY against cyclones
and tornadoes in the old reliable Phoenix
insurance Co., BRONSON ft OARR, Agents.
DRAYINC
Jewelers and Engravers
I am still in the business-and
will give the same prompt at
tention to all orders and care
in handling all goods
as here
toforo. My effort is to please
my patrons.
ICE
IP
I have a large supply of clean,
pure ice, which I will supply
in any quantity desired,
promptly and at a fair price,
YOUR PATRONAGE IS RE
SPECTFULLY SOLICITED.
is®
J. M. PEARSE.
WM. DONNELLY, M. D.
Physician and Surgeon,
Proprietor ot tne
Ryan Drug Store.
Dealer in
Drugs, Stationery, Etc.
60tf/, RYAN, IOWA
PATENTS
'Caveats, and Trademarks obtained and all Pat
ient business conducted for
MODERATE
A
tM
PA
The Washington post Bays "Billy
Mason is now In a position to write an
interesting book on 'Perches from
Which I Have Decended,'"
I Congressman Alien, of Mississippi,
eays that wiiiiin the next two years the
people will quit licking revenue stamps
and begin licking the Republican party,
Fell,
pun Orncc is opposite U.S.PATCNTOrncc
|and we can secure patent in less time than those
remote from Washington.
Send model, drawing or photo., with descrip
tion. We advise, If patentable or not, free of
icharge. Our fee not till patent Is secured.
Pamphlet,."HowaueObtain
to Patents" with
Beached a Queer Verdict.
(St, Louis Hepubllo.)
The gist of the report of Mr, McKin
ley's late war inquiry board was:"There
was very bad management, but the
managers were not to blame.
Another Old Saw Gone.
(From the Philadelphia Times.)
Old sayings are being wrecked daily.
Queen Victoria now linds great diffi
culty in keeping awake notwithstand
ing the statement that uneasy lies the.
head that wears a crown.
Giant Among Pigamies.
(Peoria Herald.)
We have never considered that Judge
Day was a man of commanding ability,
but he was unquestionably the ablest
man that McKinley had in his cabinet.
The proverb says that among the blind,
a one-eyed man is king.
Bockwell will Grow.
(Omaha World-Herald.)
An eastern exchange favorable to im
perialism makes prominent note of the
fact that Bockwell Hoar, son of Senator
Hoar, disagreed with his father on the
question of imperialism. Rockwell is
not the first young man to imagine that
he knows more than his father. There
are others. He will get over it if he
lives to the age of accountability.
Value of Gen. Miles' Fighting Qual
ities.
New York World.
The canned and embalmed beef testi
mony yesterday was powerfully cumu
lative. No wonder the second term
syndicate did all in its power to sup
press this terrible indictment of its con
tractors—and of itself 1 And how for
tunate thbt a man of Gen. Miles' fight
ing and staying quality was in a posi
tion to prevent suppression!
Circumventing the Tax-dodgers.
(St. Louis-Post Dispatch.)
In a decision rendered last Friday the
Indiana supreme court held that "even
After
the final settlement of a man's es
tate, if it is shown that he has fraudu
lently concealed propertyfrom taxation,
the settlement may bn set aside and
the unpaid taxea recovered." This is
sound sense and reason, and it points
.the way to circumvent the tax-dodgers
and compel payment of oWf^tions to
SaUa-
(action guaranteed. Plans and estimates tar
nished. Work taken in town
near the stand towwf oa West Bid* dfj
:r A Woman. Preference.
(From tbe Atctalnson Globe.)
An Atchison girl who has been mar
ried six months said to-day: "I wouldn't
have a husband who didn't 'boss' me.
wouldn't respect a man who came
home with his Balary every Saturday
night and placed it in my lap. Mr
husband wants to know where I go and
what I am doing, and I am glad of it.
When a woman, bosses' her husband he
is a weak man and the neighbors don't
respect him."
A Government for Conblnes.
(Kansas City Times.)
Not a single bill has passed the tlfty
fifth congress that was not drawn in the
interests of the conbines. Hundreds of
millions of dollars have been appropriat
ed to further the interests of syndicates,
High custom duties have been schedul
ed to put extra profits into the pockets
of the combines by obliging the people
to pay more for their commodity sup
plies, and the people's burden of taxes
has been increased over $2 per capita to
make good the revenue deficits. The
common people ate no better situated
than they were when McKinley was
inaugurated, not so well, indeed, but the
combines are very much richer.
Some Examples of Costly Expansion,
(From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
According to Paul Courier, the
author of the "History of Civilation,"
Algeria has cost France 1,560 times the
net profit of its annual revenues
Madagascar cost France, up to 1896,
985,000,003, with nothing to show In re
turn. Tonquin has been productive of
nothing but disease and slaughter. The
effort to keep San Domingo "cost
France more dearly than all the crimes
of the revolutions." Abysinia has cost
Italy $115,000,000 and thousands of
lives, or more than enough to drain the
Pontine marshes and cover the mother
country,s dry hills with fruit and forest
trees.
That Vindication of Hanna.
(from the Chicago Chronicle.)
It was pure disinterested friendship,
according to the senate committee on
privileges and elections, which impelled
Colonel U. H. lioyce to pay $1,750 to a
member of the Ohio legislature fur vot
ing for Mr. Hs,nna. The latter gentle
man didn't have anything to do with
the transaction. Colonel Boyce went
down into his own pocket and dug up
the money because he loved Mr. Hanna
and because he beleived that that states
man's return to the senate was necess
ary to the salvation of the country. It
was doubtless Colonel Boyce's modesty
which impelled him to get over into
Canada as soon as the transaction came to
light and it is the same
sentiment which
causes him to conceal his whereabouts
even now. At least that is the light in
which the senate election committee
views the matter. Mr. Hanna, it finds
was guiltless of any wrong doing. It
was Boyce-the wicked Boyce-who
bought the members of the legislature
right and left and then retired to the
dominion to gloat over his wotk. A
touchingly trustful and confiding body
is tbe senate committee on privileges
and elections. Some one will be selling
it a gold brick one of these days. It
already has.sqme sugar trust Btock, It
understood.
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cost of saine In the U.S. and foreign countries
sent free. Address,
C.A.SNOW&OO.
TINT Omci, WUMinTM, D. O,
IMMWWIIMMIIMMMMMItMlMM.
Rllcy,« Folks
Sometimes, wlion tilings don't seom to go jes'
a a
When beln' pore soeins Jes' as bad as boln in
disgrace,
Wlton everything goos wrong, you know, as
sometimes they will do,
And the bluo that should be In the sky is all
penned up in you—
In's then llko to Jes*.sit down all by myself
somewheres,
With one o'RUey.s books, to sort o'btlghten up
affairs.
Them people Rlloy writes about has red blood
in their veins,
They're folks that lives and breathes, they're
got their joys and aches and pains
Each ono of 'em has got a heart-you almost
feel it beat
They're not imaginary folks, they're people
that we moot,
And when they stand before me as he paints
'em I'm inclined
To feel a sort of proudness that I one o'
Riley's kind.
mind how kind of choked I was when my boy
went away,
Tears wouldn't come and seemed asifthoload
grew ev'ry day
couldn't bear to hear folks tell how bad they
felt for me.
Until, one day, 1 got a book tlmtRlley'd wrote,
and see
That pome on Little Wesley! Well, the tears
come freely then.
And so I took the burden up and pushed ahead
agen.
Some people want to live in towns and put on
lots o' style.
They'd like to roll In money and do nothln* all
tho while.
But I'm not one o' them, they ain't the sort o*
stuff, you bet,
That made this land the glorlousest the sun
has shown on yet!
want to stay where nature planned It best fer
me to be
To love and live with Riley's folks, that's good
enough fer me.
—S. E. Kiser, in Cleveland Leader.
Milk Condensing Factory Prices.
From the Waverly Independent.
TheWayerly Milk Condensing
factory
on Tuesday paid the farmers for milk
delivered during January. The aver
age test of all the milk taken was a
fraction over four percent, so the price
paid during the month was a fraction
over 91.10. The factory received milk
from ninety-eight farmers during Janu
ary. The number has increased to over
hundred during February. Cal.
Klngsley milked twenty-four cows and
he received the largest check, 9153.
James Miller and Mr. Biram, who
works the farm, milked twenty-six cows
and they received $148. J. Wente's
sixteen cows bronght his check up to
$103. The feeling among the patrons
that they received the top price for
their milk, and that the test gave them
all there waB in it. The factory shipped
another car of condensed milk to Hew
York Tuesday.
Sation For Uilk Cow.,
While oats are more a expensive feed
than bran their use to a limited extent
with corn and bran would have the ad
vantage of furnishing variety and a
more acceptable ration to milk cows. I
would suggest a ration consisting of 40
parts of corn or corn and cob meal, 40
parts bran and 20 parts oats. Let-the
roughage be mainly,, com fodder, with
ihange of feed. The ration will be bet
ter still if good clover bay can be used
to supply at least one-half the rough
age. In that case corn might constitute
a little larger proportion of the grain
ration. In some cases it might anyway
if the COWB milk well on it and do not
manifest too great a tendency to fatten.
The requirements of each individual
animal should be carefully studied in a
dairy herd. Some may not be able to
use even as large a proportion of corn
as suggested. Boots or silage will also
improve a ration like the above and pro
mote a larger and more uniform llow of
milk.—Professor C. F. Curtiss.
Let the Blood flow to the Udder.
The udder is composed of cavities, or
milk cisterns, and milk-ducts, surround
ed by muscular connective and fatty tis
sues. At the end of these milk ducts
we find small cells, which have the pro
perty of secreting and transforming nu
trients from the blood into milk.
These cells are most active at the time
of milking, and in fact a large part of
the milk is elaborated at thiB time.
This necessitates a good supply of
blood to the udder during the process of
milking, for it is impossible for these
cellB to manufacture milk without
fresh supplies of nutrients from the
blood. Any excitement that tends to
contract the muscles of the udder or
turn tbe blood to other portions of the
body will cause a decrease in the fiow
of milk. Beating the cow with a milk
stool or Breaking to her in harsh lan
guage may cause the blood to (low, but
not to the udder. Even feeding the
cow while milking her is a bad practice,
as it tends to divert the blood from the
udder to the digestive tract. Every act
of the milker and every surrounding of
the cow should be such that the latter
will give her whole attention to the se
cretion of milk at milking time—in
other words, allow the blood to fiow to
the udder.—Professor D. H. Otis,
Cold Barns and Ice Water for Oows,
The investigation made by the Kan
sas experiment station of the creamery
business of the Merlben creamery re
vealed the fact that there was one man
that sheltered his cows in winter by two
wire fences, another by a wood lot and
still others by wind breaks. Out of 82
patrons there were 18, or 22 percent,
that compelled their cows to drink ice
water from a creek or pond in winter.
When we stop to think that the dairy
cow, unlike the steer, has a thin hide,
with little or no fat beneath the skin
and a poor surface circulation, we can
understand one of the reasons why the
yield of some herds
MANCHESTER, IOWA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8.1889.
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low. The
dairy cow is a very sensitive animal,
and when she is forced to keep up ani
mal heat and stand shivering while tak
ing her fill on ice water she certainly
cannot be expected to makea very good
showing at the milk pail. Few people
realise the loss sustained from cold
barns. In an experiment carried on in
England it was found that with a herd
of thirty cows was C3 or about $15, per
week more when the temperature of the
barn wai kept at 63 degrees than when
at 52 degrees. At this rate it would
not take long for a herd of good dairy
COWB
to pay for a barn. The barn
Bhould be tight enough
BO
that the ani­
mal heat of the cows will always keep
the manure from freezing.—D. H. Otis st.,
ODDITIES IN WILLS.
SOME PECULIAR BEQUESTS AND CURI­
OUS CONDITIONS.
A Patriotic American's Dewlro to Be
Heard After Death —Will. Whtcll
Proved Tliat la the CAAC. at TbCli
Makers Alnrriage Was a Failure.
The admiration of our Amerioan cous
ins for their country is a prominent
characteristic ot their daily life, and
some years ago a Mr. Sanborn desired
that in death as in life his body should
proclaim tho glory of the repnblio. Ho
left £1,000 to the into Profossor Agassiz,
in return for which he was, by an ex
tremely tcientifio process set forth In
the will to tau his (Sanborn's) skin
into leather and from it have a drum
made. Two of tho most suitable bones
of his body wero to be made into drum
sticks, and with these a Mr. Warren
Simpson—to whom Sanborn left the re
mainder of his property—was "on every
17th ot June to repair to the foot of
Bnnker hill and at sunrise beat on the
drum, the parchment of whioh had been
made out of the testator's skin, the
spirit stirring strains of 'Yankee Doo
dle.'"
A somewhat similar bequest was
mado by a German in 1887. He died in
Pittsburg and by his will directed that
his body should be oremated and the
ashes forwarded to the German consul
at New York, who was to deliver them
to the captain of tho steamship Elbe.
When iu inidocean, the captain was to
requests passenger to dress himself In
nautical costume, and, ascending with
the funeral nrn to the topmast, to scat
ter the ashes to tho fonr winds of heav
en. These strange directions were faith
fully carried out.
Quite as peculiar wore the directions
for the funeral of a Mr. John Under
wood. Ho willed that he was to be
buried ip green coffin with a oopy of
Horace nnder his head and of Milton
under his feet, a Greek testament in
his tight hnud and a small Horaoe in
his left, Six friends, who were not to
woar mourning, were to follow him to
the gi avo and there to sing averse of
the twentieth ode of tbe second book of
Horace. After this they were to "take
a cheerful glass and think no more of
John Qndorwooa."
Wills may also be admitted as evi
dence of the mixed blessings of the
matrimonial state. A nobleman wrote,
"I give nnd beqneath to tho worst of
women, whom I unfortunately married,
4o brass halfpence, which will buy her
a pullet for supper."
A Glasgow dootor, dying some ten
years ago, left the wholo of his estate to
his two Bisters, and then came this ex
traordinary clause: "To my wife, as a
recompense for deserting me and leav
ing mo in»peace, I expeot the said sister
Elizabetroq make her a gift of 10 shil
ilfewf
'IB-^ after mjrfc&ffle:"-
A Mr. Sydney Dickenson bequeathed
to his wife the snm of £60,000, "on
oendition that she undertakes to pass
two hours a day at my graveside, for
the ten years following my decease, in
company with her sister, whom I have
reason to know she loathes worse than
she does mo."
Anothor husband stated that he would
have left his widow £10,000 if she had
allowed him to read his newspaper in
peace, but as
Eho
always commenced
playing and singing when ho started to
lead he left her only £1,000. Such in
stances could be mutiplied indefinitely,
but ono other is worthy of note.
A husband left his wife £12,000, to be
increased to £24,000 provided that she
wore a widow's cap alter his death. She
accepted tho larger amount, wore tho
cap for six months, and then put it off.
A lawsuit followed, but the. judge held
that tho testator should have inserted
tho word "always" and gave judgment
in favor of the widow, who the day aft
er re-entered the state of matrimony.
Thus the husband's little plan for pre
venting his widow marrying again fail
ed.
FARMERS,
NEW YORK WORLD,
THRICE-A-WEEK EDITION.
The Beat Paper at the Loweat Price.
156 Papers
AYEARFORONE DOLLAR.
Aa good aa a daily at the price of a
weekly.
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But the most curious will whioh the
writer has ever come aoross is that of
M. Zalesky, a Polish landlord, who died
in 1889, leaving property valued at
100,000 rubles. His will was inolosed in
an envelopo bearing tho words, "To Be
Opeuod After My Death." Inside this
was anothor envelope, "To Bo Opened
Six Weeks After My Death." When this
time had passed, the second onvelope
was opened and a third uncovered, "To
Be Opened Ono Year After My Death."
At tbo end of tho year a fourth en
velope was discovered, to bo opened two
years after tho testator's death, and so
tho game went on until 1894, when the
actual will was discovered and read.
It wus quite as eccentric in its disposi
tions as tho directions attached to its
opening. The testator bequeathed half
his fortune to such of his heirs as had
tbo largest number of children. The
rest of tho property was to be placed ill
a bank and hundred years after his
death to be divided, with tbo accumu
lated interest, among tho will maker's
descendants. Thus by 1989, at 5 per
cent compound interest, tho 00,000 ru
bies will have swelled into 6,000,000
rubles. But wbnt will this be among bo
many descendants?—Household Words.
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VOL. XXY--NO. 10.
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Why Not Sow Wneat This Spring?
Thi time is near at hand when
you should begin seeding. The
wheat question has not received
the attention the past few years
that it should. There is a large
demand for good wheat the year
round, and a number of farmers
were fortunate in sowing a few
acres of wheat last season, with a
good yield, which brought them a
snug sum of money.
It pays to sow wheat aad there
is no reason why you cannot sow
a few bushels and be well paid for
it. We are quite anxious to have
lots of wheat sown this year, and
have therefore made arrange
ments for a car of choice spring
seed wheat, which we will let go
at cost in order to further the in
terest in the matter. Think this
over and, if possible, put a few
acres into wheat.
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