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i- fl&emoctat BK0H80H & CAJIK, Pafcliifaen. MANCHESTER, IOWA. They have now taught a chimpanzee to play golf, and lie seems to like Ml. The missing link. If eggs really will cure consumption It will make a great difference In the consumption of eggs. While spine and neck are connected anybody almost would rather sec rub ber In the neck than in a man back bone. Since the brunette lias been an nounced as the proper caper there Is nothing left fo'r the blonde beauties but to dye. Even if it is a confirmed habit with women to talk over the fence, in a mat ter of this kind it must be remembered much may said on both sides. I'leuty of the nurltic metal is found there, but that's only the more reason why that Alaska boundary line should be drawn with the golden rule. A Kansas man shot a woman be cause she wouldn't go to a dunce with him. Some women seem to take a sort of Sendlsb delight in goading men on. The Germans call their new elec tric cabs "automobiletaxamctcrdroscli ken." By the time they get through calling them the cabs arc generally out of sight A lot of Americans, have bought a Mexican mountain for $500,000. Real estate being high does not interfere with air speculators when they want anything. 'Brunettes are said to be the pre ferred fashion In feminine beauty, but that maid of gold going to Paris from Colorado la a weighty argument in favor of the blonde. There can be no question of the In terest fell In him. In tens of thousands of homes where there are boy babies every day there are Inquiries about an£ calls "for Dewey. A remarkable thing has happened. An Infuriated woman fired a revolver Into a crowd and actually hit two per sons. It Is believed that this record has never been equalled. .This is a great nation for pedigree. While the kissing bug may boast of Its entree to the best homes, the mos quito can say some of the finest blood In the conntqr runs In his veins. •t The "kissing bug," which is so much talked about in the newspapers, Is a bug with four legs. There are other klsstngs bugs besides these. The way to tell the difference Is to count the legs. A physician has found It necessary to announce that tea drinking In modera tion is a good thing, but tea "used ex cessively may £au8^ various diseases." The same may toe said of a score of things now placed under the ban be cause of the abuse of them. The Sultan of Snlu is to-receive a sal ary of $12,000 a year from the United States for Btaylng at home and be having himself. If the United States has any more jobs of the kind to be filled there is not likely to be much difficulty in finding' applicants. According to the Chicago Tribune's figures 141 lives were sacrificed on the altar of exuberant patriotism In the Fourth of July festivities of this year. This is a sort of expansion that, has gone far enough. The fool bfehlnd the firecracker Is getting too numerous for comfort. The fools who scribble their names on-historic walls and the relic hunters that chip off bits of wood and stone from great monuments have brought down on the whole traveling public a punishment. Several of the great show places are to be closed to the public be cause of this extraordinary and vulgar habit. And again the many suffer for the few. The man who boasts that he takes no interest in politics thereby admits that he is not a good citizen. It is the duty of every citizen to take an interest In politics, not as an offlceseeker, but as an Intelligent and conscientious stu dent of the Issues which Involve the policy and welfare of the country. The man who has nothing to do with poli tics has no right to complain If the gov ernment Is not wisely conducted. If there are faults of legislation and ad ministration he Is partly to blame for them. A man in a neighboring city read an advertisement in which the advertiser offered to explain for 20 cents how he had been cured of drinking, smoking, chewing, staying out nights and gam bling. The. man sent his 20 cents and received this answer: "Cured- of the bad habits named by enforced stay of two years in the State prison." It Is evident' that the "gent" didn't forget all his questionable practices while in durance vile. j' The Metlakahtla settlement has re cently attracted a good deal of atten tion because of ItB remarkable growth and the extent of Its Industries In 1877 the people of Metlakahtla In'Brit ish Columbia, under the leadership of William Duncan, migrated for the sake of civil and religious liberty to Annette Island, which Is located about forty miles north of the southern- extremity of southeastern Alaska, and within the very few years those people-have In habited the Uland it has become the center of Christian and business activ ity In all that region. In describing his colony Mr. Duncan says that the peo ple have adopted no denominational name, but coll themselves simply "the Christian church." He has taught the natives that they owe allegiance to no one denomination, but are In union with all evangelical Christians. The people are Industrious and have ample means for church, school and medical purposes, and a church, costing $10,000. The services are In the native tongue, but the singing Is in English. The col ony has Its own government which has never been Interfered with, consisting of a body of twenty elders, who have charge of the spiritual affairs, and twenty others, who attend to the civil affairs of the town, the entire forty be ing. elected annually by a vote of the people. This makes the colony as near ly as possible a pure democracy. The contentment and prosperity of these people are among the remarkable' things In Alaska. They have won the' IMpMt of Mttten #t tfef tBttra -wffSS -l -1 I "'1 —m ii I I 1 iirww-^nnjrininii.iIIIikfiiiiLtliuwiJiMMwi coast and exert an Influence that Is fat reaching and salutary. In casting about for a suitable gift by which to acknowledge Miss Helen Gould's kindnesses to the soldiers dur ing the late war, Gen. Joseph Wheeler hit upon a novel plan. He bad pre pared for her a scrap-book containing clippings from all the newspapers and other publications which mentioned her work. These clippings were taste fully arranged and handsomely bound. The volume, now In Miss Gould's hands, shows what the American peo ple think of lier praiseworthy work. For persons In public life, few tiling^ are more interesting, and perhaps gen uinely Instructive, than such a set of clippings. It Is true that, coming as they sometimes do from biased news papers and from publications repre senting the most irreconcilable opin ions, they frequently present the same act In very different lights but taken altogether, they give a person a chance to see himself as others see him. So desirable is this that It has become quite a business to clip from the news papers every reference to certain men, books, ventures and so forth, and to sell these clippings to regular sub scribers. Many Senators and other public men In Washington and else where are subscribers to one of these clippings bureaus, and so keep them selves Informed of everything that is said of them In printer's Ink. Speaker Reed's little office at the hotel in Wash ington where he used to live was dec orated with newspaper cartoons In which the Speaker himself was carica tured. One of President McKlnley's clerks keeps a scrap-book of newspaper references to the administration and Its policies, and this the President fre quently peruses. Referring to the alluring discussion of wearing headgear In church an ed itorial writer says: "This reminds us of the fact that in the Roman Catholic cathedrals of Kurope women may al ways retain their hats, while men can not wear theirs a moment The'theory that compels the latter Is founded on respect for the sacredncss of the place, but why there should be more disre spect In the modest head covering of a man. than In the showy and often conspicuously flaunting head covering of a woman Is not explained." The explanation is really very simple. If a woman were compelled to remove her hat and hold it In her lap, where it would be continually before her eyes, she would so feast on its beauties and charms as to forget entirely her sacred duties and lp lose the benefits of spirit ual communion. But with her own hat removed from her view and other and more beautiful hats constantly pre senting themselves Bhe experiences a lesson In humility, In the vanity of hu man attainment that cannot fail to be most beneficial. She Is driven from this disagreeable and heart-burning spec tacle to the consolations of religion and instinctively her fingers seek her beads and her lips move In the utterance of prayer. We have endeavored to point out that the crusade against woman's headgear in the sacred edifice is absurd and unreasonable, subversive of the true interests of the church and likely to keep the very best people away from the sanctuary. In his first long and able letter to the Corinthians our old friend, Paul, spoke thus significant ly "For every woman that prayetli or prophesleth with her head uncovered dlshonoreth her bead for that is even all one, 8s if she were shaven." Really we do not see how we can go back on Paul without stultifying ourselves. Crusade against lynchings. MIm Lillian Jewett, of Boston* a New Harriet Baccher Stowe. Miss Lillian Clayton Jewett of Bos ton, who has taken up the crusade against the lynching of Southern ne groes and has won the love of the col ored race for her service, is a very good looking woman. She promises to be a very effective one as well. She Is 24 years old, a little taller than the average, and a great deal more pleas ing and impressive as a public speak ed. In her home city she is referred te as a new Harriet Beecher Stowe. When she stood up In the mass meet ing of colored people at St. Paul's Baptist Church and offered to bring from Charleston, S. C., the family of murdered Postmaster Baker she creat- MISS JEWKTT. ed a sentiment which will not soon subside. She believed that the bring ing of _Mrs. Baker and her orphaned children would arouse the North to take such action as will compel a cessa tion of lynchings in the South. It is a part of Miss Jewett's plan to take the widow and orphans with her, to have them in lecture rooms where ad dresses are made In the crusade against Judge Lynch. "When God has some great work to perform," said Rev. Mr. Ferris in Introducing her, "He has always touched the heart of a woman and the work haB been done." And Miss Jewett herself, In her ad dress, declared: "The black man In this country Is free, but he is more destitute than he was thirty years ago. The country freed him, but did nothing else for him." The Queen'* Doable. The Queen's double Is an elderly woman who acts as pew-opener at a church in North London, and so exact Is the resemblance that It makes all new members of the congregation ex claim- Strangely she is the exact age of the Queen, and became a widow In the sane year that tb» Prince Consort died. .1 V-v" J* An Argentine Bhorttaoru. The Shorthorn bull Ras (2355 Argen tine Herd Book) Is a roan, calved Au gust 1804, bred and owned by Mr. Leonard Percy rn, Estancla Don Juan, Qullmes, Buenos Ayres. At the Inter national Show at Palermo, Buenos 4yres, In September last he was placed Second In the class for aged bulls (In which many would have preferred him a first), and be won the 150 gs. chal lenge cup presented by Mr. D. Mac Lennan for the best Shorthorn bull born In the Argentine. Ills sire was Baron Bl-idekirk 3d 60302, bred by M. J. Barnes, and his dam Dahlia 22d, de scended from a strain imported In 1857, and full of choice blood. Mr. MacLen- The best wajp to start In the poultry business on a large scale Is to start with only a few, learn all you can about chickens, and then try to breed all the good birds you can take care of without crowding the first year. If, at the end of the year you are satisfied to go ahead, and have enough money on hand to get everything ready for a larger breeding flock, as well as to car ry you through the year for the neces saries of life, then you might quit your job and start in but remember, that this first year is what counts. You learn whether you have a taste for the business, and get a pretty good Idea of raising poultry. The second year you Should be able to produce a flock large enough to enable you to go Into It more heavily, and with ordinary suc cess you should make a good living off of 500 hens. We would strongly advise you, when starting, to be governed by the follow ing rules: First, start with the best to be bad second, decide what you de sire to breed for—eggs or meat third, get olie variety, and stay with It.' If you breed only one variety you can soon, by advertising a little and ex hibiting your birds, make a reputation on them, and sell a good lot at good prices, while the rest can go to market. Do not start with the Idea that you can sell all you breed at fancy prices, for you will not be able to do so for some time. To earn a reputation for your fowls, you must advertise for at least one year before you can expect much return. The poultryman who succeeds In selling all his fowls at good*prIces Is the man who has spent years In the poultry business and many dollars In advertising.—Pacific Poultryman. rowerfu' Poit Puller. 1 liad a lot of posts to pull out, says a correspondent of the Ohio Farmer, and I Invented the device shown In sketch—a lever, fulcrum and chain made of such material as I could find lying around. With this device my hired hand and I pulled out 52 posts in less than an hour. The lever (B) Is made out of an old sulky plow tongue, about nine feet long. A hook, shown at 2, was bolted on top end of lever, POST PULLER. projecting over the end to catch In links of chain. I used an ordinary log chain with book on end. I pulled up some old barnslied posts with this de vice that I could not move with two horses and chain. Ftackin? Hay. Let me give you a better way of put ting up your bay than those two old plans, which have their faults. Shock ing the hay and bringing It lu with, ropes is too slow, and in bull-raklng it In you arc liable to begin stacking too soon, or your liny is liable to get bleached, besides you can not stack so evenly and well on account of the hay being too loose. Here is my piau: Make two sleds out of poles or scantling, something light, (ict two poles to run under shocks, to lift on sled with have hay shocked. Working force of five men, one man to stack, two men to pitch tile hay, one man to bring hay In from field, one man to stay In field to assist in loading. Itun your small poles under shock, load on sled until full,, drive to stack, hook to other sled for another load. Leave load, first on one side and then on the other. Your stack will then go up evenly, quickly, and be made from well-cured, "bright hay, and will contain more hay on ac count of being well settled.—Practical Farmer. ST* Sacred Names Freely Tried. Two youngsters, respectively 8 and 7, went to Sunday school recently and heard their new teacher relate the flight Into Egypt for the first time. The Btory made a profound Impression on thell Infant minds, and the next day the jalr were "playing" It In the nur sery, with an overturned chair for the ass. "Come along, Mary!" cried the 8-year-old to his small sister. "Hurry up the ass te all ready." "I can't yet Jesus Isn't ready. Tell Joseph to wait till I find Jesus' hat." Then mamma sailed In and suggested the children should amuse themselves by playing something less realistic and more sec ular. 'i lie liver Hull I'uckwheat* Tills variety of buckwheat is compar atively new, but it is growing in popu larity, ns farmers say it is earlier than the variety couimouly grown. It baB the great dlsndvautage, however, of ripening very unevenly, so that it is im possible to leave the later blossoms to perfect their seed without losing some of the earliest by shelling. It has a very thin liul*. and millers report that It will njnn» and bettor flour from & Inisli 'l :hc iiiri-fashtaned buck wheat iikluuj- grown. 1) any oue is -"-5*a" V9t sowing buckwheat late and fears that frost will catch It, we would advise him to sow the silver hull. A half*, bushel of seed per acre Is sufficient, and a good seeding of timothy may be got with buckwheat sown thus thinly. The grain Is oft early, and rather hedps the grass during the heat of summer by shading It from the hot sunshine and winds. Wheat Prices at Chicago. Chsh prices of No. 2 wheat at Chi cago and months of lowest and highest prices, compiled by the Cincinnati Price Current: Y'w. Months of loweat price. February July and Aug. Dewmber.... June and July January August Maroh December.... February August November.... December... April August November.... September.... October February .... July August...v... October January August January December.... Ootober. December.... March...., October August April June February .... July..... October July September.... January June. April Ootober Yr'ly range of prloet. 1868. IBM). I860. 1801 1802. 1868. 1864. 1865. 1866. 1867. nan sold to Mr. Pereyra the sire and the grandslre of thlB bull, and those who have seen him say he would hold his own In any English showyard. Why They Fail. A lot of people rush into the poultry business without any capital or expert ence, and the consequence is—failure. They read of the success of others, and Imagine they can do as well, without considering for one moment that, they are not equipped for the venture. So many people start out on a scale that Is nothing short of ridiculous. To the amateur poultryman we have this to say: Do not quit your job and expect to make a living with poultry the first year. Months of highest prloe. August Hay April May August Deoember June January November May July Angost July [Sept Feb.,April and August July April August December May April December January Ootober April and May June February April Junusiy June September February August April February April April May November Deoember May 77 1 66 o#m 76* 78*( 08K( 1 01 1870. 1871. 1872. 1873. 1874. !§& I so :!I 1879. 1880. 1881. IS! 1800. 1801. 1898. ABOBNTIXE SHORTHORN. «H 50 6 @1 Salt Killa Canada Thistle*. Two years ago I had a patch of Can ada thistles about 100 feet long and half that wide, says a correspondent From the time they made their appearance in May until none would come forth, a period of about seven weeks, I applied salt once a week to each and every sprout that made Its appearance. I scooped up the plant and about, two Inches of ground with a shovel. I placed a handful of salt in the hollow and then put the ground .back, after grasping the thistle at Its top, pulling It out of the ground on the shovel and putting it into a basket As many aa 175 thistles were thus treated in one week, while the season was at its height During the decline less than 100 a week came forth. Last year they were attended to In like manner.. The highest number I got in one week was about twelve. This year I searched carefully and I failed to find one. The tops we gathered were destroyed.— Orange Judd Former. Out-of-Doora Feed Trough, Where several hogs are quartered In an orchard or other pasture they miut be fed out-of-doors. To keep each FXKD THOUGH. one from crowding and fighting his neighbor when eating, make such a trough as Is shown in the Illustration. The bottom part of a barrel is sawed off and two narrow strips of board are fitted together and nailed firmly Into the trough, as in the drawing. A flour barrel can be made to answer-this tem porary purpose, but a trough from a stouter barrel will prove more lasting. —American Agriculturist A I.itlle Bee Kxperience. The writer has bad several colonies of bees to look after this summer, while not pretending to any consider able knowledge of these busy little in sects. The hives sit near a little grove of low trees, and swarms that come out Invariably settle on the branches of one of the1 trees and are easy to get at. When a swarm comes out we simply set a ladder in a convenient position, and, climbing up, saw off the branch on which they are clustered and lay It with Its load of bees before the hive prepared for them. This hive Is always net on a box so as to be two feet from the ground, and under It is laid an old white tablecloth. We are careful while working about the bees to work slowly, and If two or three bees begin buzzing about our ears we let them sing away until they get tired and go back to their mates. So far we have not been stung a single tl»e while hiving bees, although the L'Cincli holding one swarm slipped out of our grasp nnd fell to the ground. The bees at once tlew back to the hive they came from, and since that time have refused to settle down In a new house, but remain at home and loaf by banging outside the hive by the day. In taking oft honey the smoker Is a great help. A few puffs of smoke from rotten wood sets them to gorging them selves with honey, and In a short time they are so quiet that the cap may be taken off without danger.—Farmers' Voice. Killing Late Weed.. I have-for some years made a prac tice of going through my" corn with the hoe, after the corn has been laid by, and cutting all big weeds and cock elburs, and the result is that weed seed Is scarce, says a writer lu the Farm ers' Advocate. Crops arc much easier to tend the following year, also the corn Is much easier cut up or gathered. And in the spring when you want to put oats In the field where your corn was it does not mnke your arms near bo tired. The ground dries four or five days sooner, and so it Is better all around than If you let all the weeds go to seed, and It looks so much better. Another good thing to do Is to mow all fence corners and waste places, and try to get them seeded down to grass. In good company you need not ask who Is the master of the feast The man who sits in the lowest place, and who Is always industrious In helping everyone, is certainly the man.—Hume. A straight Hue is the shortest In morals us HI |iiat hematics,—Maria Edpewortb. -a PESTS AGAIN APPEAR. GRASSHOPPERS REPORTED IN PARTS OF THE WEST. EntomologUt Bruner, of the United Btatee Experiment Station In Ne braska, Write* Upon the Variety and Habits o4 the Pestiferous Insect KOOKT MOUNTAIN I.OCUST—DIFFERENT STASIS OF OliOWTH OF YOUNO. Mountain or migratory locust (M. spretus). "The presence In uncommonly large numbers of the last named Insect at several points seem to warrant us in urging the proper authorities in infest ed districts to action with a view to the destruction of the pest wherever found. "While this particular species-is in reality no more destructive to crops than would be an equal number of in dividuals of any of the. others named above, its habit of getting up into the air and migrating In a body to some IHWJi •acta are attacked by of do Entomologist Lawrence Bruner of the United States agricultural experi ment station at the University of Ne braska has sent out the following cir cular on grasshoppers: "During the past few years more or lesa Injury by locusts, or grasshoppers, as they are usually called in this coun try, has been reported from various lo calities in the interior of North Amer ica. By means of specimens obtained and examined at the State University it has been learned that at least four or five distinct kinds of insects are suffi ciently numerous In se.veral localities to cause alarm. They are the follow ing: "The two-lined locust (malanoplus bivlttatus). the differential locust (M. differential!**), the red-legged locust (M. femur-rubrum), the lesBer migra-. tory locust (M. ntianls) nnd the Bocky "HOPPER DOZBB" FOB CAPTURING GRASSHOPPERS. new locality renders It capable of greater Injury. It Is by this means that the Insect escapes from various ene mies and unfavorable climatic condi tions. "The various species that are figured herewith will readily be recognized by the readers of this short sketch. While it Is Impossible to enter into any ex- BOCKY MOUNTAIN LOCUST—HALE. tended discussion of locust increase and the consequent injuries arising from such multiplication of- the In sects, a brief statement may not be amiss. During normal conditions of weather, etc., the Insects of any region are kept within bounds by means of their natural enemies and no dire re sults follow. When thete conditions are disturbed In any way and restraining Influences are withdrawn the more hardy species Increase very rapidly. Such Increase In numbers of course means the requirement of an Increased amount of food, and we see the result more plainly. Some kinds of locusts prefer different haunts and food plants from what others do, and liencc the seeming difference In the amount of harm done by each. "When the natural checks upon lo cust increase fall qnd these insects mul- l.OCUST KII KB BY FUNGUS DISEASE tipiy abnormally it Is necessary to use artificial .means for reducing their numbers, it Is chiefly to suggest what can be done In this direction that the present circulur has been prepared. "First of all, I wish to suggest that our native birds be protected, since nearly all of them are especially fond of locuBts as a diet during the Bummer months. When our 'prairie chickens and other grouse were still numerous no harm whatever was reported as coming from 'native grasshoppers.' Quail, plovers, blackbirds, sparrows, hawks and even ducks are known to feed largely upon tliese Insects. A sin gle bird of any of these species will destroy thousands of them. Where the birds are destroyed the extra thou sands of locusts soon Increase beyond the normal nnd injury results. Year THE TWO-LINKD LOCUST—FEMALE. after year the gap Is made wider nnd the possibility for harm Increases. Even frogs, lizards, snakes and other animals that come under our ban de stroy many of these destructive locusts and every time we thoughtlessly kill one of them we make it possible for their natural food to do us harm. "Only a few weeks ago the writer saw dozens of birds engaged in feeding upon tho young of the migrating locust, In Sioux County, where the Insects had hatched lu one of the valleys by mill ions. "Aside from the birds, reptiles and some of tiie smaller ninimimls that habitually feed upon locust^ these In- I i\W /-*V. 4 numerons ktati other insects. -These latter of course Increase and decrease according not seem to appreciably affect the hoppers, hence the frequency THE DIFFERENTIAL LOCUST—HAI.E AJID FEMALE. by parlsltic and predaceous Insects. When we have removed about the only check to the Increase in destruc tive numbers of the locusts we most naturally seek such relief artificially. "Thus far we have been only par tially successful in our attempts at de stroying grasshoppers by the use of fungus diseases. Unlike the chinch bug fungus the one that attacks locusts in North America is comparatively slow in its action and only appears true we must look elsewhere for a means stovepipe iron by turning up the sides and ends so as to make a long flat pan about four inches in depth. This is then mounted An runners varying in height according to. the requirements. On the frame back of the machine is stretched a piece of cloth to prevent the Insects from jumping over the pan. When ready to begin work this pan Is partially filled with-water and then some coalOll is added. ,If the ground Is level no -cross pieces are necessary, but if the machine is to be used- on sloping ground It should be made as Indicated in the Illustration to prevent the oil and water from running to the end. The height of the runners will necessarily vary from two to eight or ten Inches, according to the crop to be protected aqd the age of the Insects to be captured. The 'dozer* may be of any length desired up to sixteen or eighteen feet If small it can be drawn by band, but when larger a horse or two Is preferable. When: full the In sects can be removed, a little more oil added and the machine again started. In tills way a number of bushels of hoppers may be destroyed during a sin gle day. The coBt Is trifling and the remedy very effectual. In a garden an old hen with chicks will prove quite valuable, while a flock of turkeys will do much good In ridding the premises of the pest."- Thought Hera Vision. In "Life and Letters of Harriet Beecher Stowe" Mrs. Fields relates an anecdote Illustrative of the peculiar faculty of Professor Stowe of seeing visions. From early youth he had pos sessed the singular power of seeing moving about him persons who could not. be perceived by others. Mrs. Stowe, during her residence at Andover, planned to go to Boston one day on business. Making her prepara tions hurriedly, she bade the household farewell, and rushed to the station, only to see the train go out as she ar rived. There was nothing to do but return home nnd wait patiently for the next train but wlBhlng not to be dis turbed, she quietly opened a side door, crept noiselessly up the staircase lead ing to her own room, nnd sat down by her writing-table in the window. She had been' there about half an hour when Professor Stowe came in, looked about him with a preoccupied air, but did not speak to her. She thought his lieliavlor strauge, and amused herself by watching him at last the situation became so extraor dinary that she began to laugh. "Why!" he exclaimed, with a most astonished air "Is that you?' I thought It was one of my visions!" Too Much Culture. "Aunt Penelope Wiggins," as every body called her, was visited one sum mer by a uleee from the East, a Vas sar College graduate. "Aunt Pene lope" was oue of the most hospitable souls alive, but she was not greatly Im pressed by the superior learning of her young relative, and oue day she freed her mind about her thus: Talk to me about what a college edu cation does for a girl! What do you suppose Matilda said to me the first day she came? She-said "I'm so glad to meet you, aunty! You accent your name on the Aunty Penultimate, don't you?" Did you ever henr such nonsense? I had to tell her my name wasn't Aunty Penultimate, but Aunty Penelope, and I thought she would die a-laughfqg!— Youth's Companion. Where the Wine Coines In. "It seems a trifle strange," remarked the funny man, "that you preachers, who always object to Sunday labor, are obliged to do your hardest work on Sunday "You are mistaken," replied the preacher. "We always collect our sal aries on week days."—New York Jour nal. If you live a natural, common sense life, you will be abused, but you will be happier, and live longer. The silent watches of the night hang Id ft'QDt of jewelry stpres. THE HAWKEYE STATE aa their food Increases or decrease*, bn]j they also are affected by climatic con ditions. Conditions that are unfavor able to the Increase of these en.mlef NEWS OF THE WEEK CONCISELY CONDENSED. with which the latter become destructive does not seem to be materially affected Brewers Win an Important Victory— Cenatw Supervisors for the 8tate Are Named—An Unknown Hunting Party Ran Down by Train-Fire at Swan. In the case of the Leisy Brewing Com pany of Peoria against the treasurer of Lee County, Judge Bank of the District Court at Keokuk rendered the first de cision in the State in which the consti tutionality of parts of the mulct law is Involved. The brewers brought suit to restrain the collection of a tax levied against their warehouse in Keokuk, where liquors imported from Illinois are sold. The county claimed authority to levy the tax under section 2468 of the code, providing that manufacturers of malt Uquors in cities of 5,000 inhabitants In the State shall be exempt from pay ment of the mulct tax. Although both plaintiff and defendant were practically agreed that the section should be con strued to exempt home manufacturers and subject foreign manufacturers, the court held that the law did not require that liquor sold in original packages must be manufactured within the State. He held there there was no discrimination, and that the tax in this case could not be collected, but if the statute or any part of It must be construed to discriminate then to that extent it was void. Jowa Supervisors Are Named. Iowa supervisors of census have been named by Director Merriam, and ap proved by the President. They will be given recess appointments in order that the enumerators may be appointed at once and coached in their duties. It is understood that Amos Brandt, who Is on the list from the Seventh district, has de clined the appointment because he has received a commission as teaptain iu the volunteer army. The supervisors by dis tricts are as follows: First district, John W. Rowley, Keosauqua second district, Clinton D. Baton, Wilton Junction third district, John W. JCrapfcl, Waterloo fourth district, George H. Markley, Lan sing fifth district, Jacob W. Doxsee, Montieello sixth district, Albert H. For tune, Bloom field seventh district, Amos W. Brandt, Des Moines eighth district, Frank Kyte, Osceola ninth district, Frank F. Everest, Council Bluffs tenth district, John T. Drug, Stratford elev enth district, William B. Hamilton, Ode bolt. to take hold of the Insects after they are about half grown. This being of warfare. "If we carefully watch Khere eggs are deposited in rather large numbers we can destroy these by harrowing or disking the ground and exposing them to the drying influence of the sun or to the keen eye of birds. Deep plowing during fall and early spring will bury locust eggs so deeply that the young 'hoppers when they hatch .are unable to reach the surface. "By all odds the best method of de stroying these insects is the use of the 'hopper dozer,' or kerosene pan, which is shown herewith. This is made ot Three Mei^Ktllttd by a Train., A Northwestern passenger train ran into a wagon and team east of Hum boldt, instantly killing two men who were in the wagon and injuring the third one so he died in a short time. There was nothing on their persons or in the wagon to indicate who the men were or where they came from. From the outfit In the wagon it is inferred they were on a hunting trip. They were all young men, none of them appearing to be over 25 years of age, and the youngest about Bad Fire aft Swan. Swan citizens were aroused the other morning by a fire being discovered in the drug store of Hollenwell. How it start ed no one kuows. Nothing could be done to stop the binge after it stnrted, and with a strong wiud blowing the fire rushed down the street. Building after building was consumed, until seven were destroyed. A grocery store, furniture shop, meat shop, shoe shop nnd three other places were soon in ashes. The loss IB estimated anywhere from $10,000 to $15,000, with little insurance. Brief State Happenings^ The Moville bonk has increased its capital to $100,000. There were seventy-seven arrests in Dubuque during July. An effort is being made at Clariop to organise a Y. M. C. A. A seventy-seven acre farm north of Al ton sold for $05 per acre. More than fifty self-binders have been sold at George this season. Mr. Adler of Elberon sustained two broken ribs in a runaway. H. A. Seainuns of Sigourney was se verely injured in a runaway. The contract has been let for a fine new opera bouse at Grinnell. Albert L. Moreland has been reinstat ed as letter carrier at Atlantic. The Christian Church at Davenport celebrated its sixtieth anniversary.- During the mouth of July the police of Burlington made 207 arrests. A large elevator plant is to be erectcd ut Valley Junction in the near future. Th& postofflce at Armour has been moved one-half mile east of its late site. There were 310 papers tiled with the recorder of Blackhawk County during July. Two eighty-acre tracts in the vicinity of Algona sold recently for $47.50 per acre. There is talk at Keokuk of an electric trolley line between that city and Peoria, Illinois. G. L. Hlldeb'rand has been appointed postmaster at Stillwell, vice D. Adams, resigned. The Des Moines postofflce receipts show'a good increase in July over the same period last year.. B. Sybrandi, a farmer living uear Sioux Center, committed suicide by hang ing. He leaves a wife and family. The body of K. B. Leu, who was drowned .while swimming nt Davenport, was taken from the river near Andalu sia, on the Illinois shore. Clark Smith, a defendaut lu a civil suit at Centerville, and C. F. Howell, the attorney for the plaintiff, came to blows in the court room there, but beyond a brulse-or two little damage was done. Miss Anua Harter of Albia was kick ed iu the face by a horse and afterwards thrown out of a buggy in a runaway. While a number of tramps were earous lug in the vicinity of the railroad tracks In Wheatland oue of them shot another three times, twice iu the breast and once in the abdomen. So near did the assassin stand to his victim that the clothes of the latter were burned at each shot. Af ter the shooting the murderer left town, taking to the woods. He was followed about a mile nnd a half, but eluded his pursuers by swimming the Wapsipinicon river. Polk County has paid $00 this year in buryiug suicides and persons killed by accidents, whose relatives failed to cover the expenses. While a boy named Fred Koepping was atempting to board a train nt Mus catine his left .foot caught in a frog and a wheel mnsbed it so the toes had to be amputated. John Kruse, living about ten miles northwest of Sumner, committed suicide by shooting the top.of his head entirely off with a shotgun. He owned twenty five acres of laud, hud just erected a small barn snd was in debt about $600 nnd it is thought he was despondent ovpp his debts. It is reported in Jeffersou that the Milwaukee will erect a uew depot therm, nnd will use the present one for freight! A scheme is on foot to organize a base ball league composed of the towns of Ottumwa, Eldon, Fairfield and Washing ton. Miss Jennie Jenkins of Burlington is distinguished among her sex. She found a real live man under her bed. Although every woman in the locality has long beeu searching for this mau under the bed, Jennie is the first to find one. She ran from the room nnd aroused the neigh- A telephone system Is contemplated at Sanborn. There Is talk of building a sewerage system at Decorah. The German Methodists will erect a church at Denison. The Presbyterians at Carthage will erect a $10,000 ehurch. Work has been commenced on the new C. & N. W. depot at Dunlap. Creston is complaining of live stock runniug at large in the city. A lodge of the United Sons of America hns been instituted at Bancroft. An Odd Fellows' building and opera house is being erected, at Walnut. Electric light plants are being erected in South Des Moines and Sevastopol. The towns of Eldon, Fairfield, Wash ington and Brighton have formed a base-^v ball league. ""1 The new town on the C.f M. & St P. south of Marathon has been named Manthrop. Six additional letter carriers have be»et urn appointed for Des Moines and one Davenport. Peter Untiedt, an old citizen of Oneida, fell down his cellar recently and broke a collar bone. Mrs. Frank Hackett of Des Moin was run into by a horse driven by two Indies and severely injured. A large barn awued by the J. O. Ev ans estate at Waterloo was completely wrecked during a wind storm. Pearl button makers at Muscatine went out on a strike owing to dissatis faction over a new scale of wages. Mrs. S. D. Haun, who was so severe ly burned by a gasoline explosion In Clinton, has succumbed to her Injuries. Mrs. Fred Gregg, wife of Druggist Gregg of Sprlngville, who was severely burned, died from the effects ot her burns. Allen Pease, ,a 13-year-old boy, left his home in Des Moines some time ago and his father'fears something has happened to him. Railroad building throughout the SSate has been cqpsiderably delayed through wet weather and inability to secure la borers. Four steel cells have been erected at the rear of the fire department building in Fort Dodge for the convenience of drunks. The residence of Thomas Seller in Des Moines was destroyed by fire, caused by a defective flue. Loss $3,500, insurance $1,500. The barbers of Sloan will hereafter close their places of business on Sunday, -J the result of a petition by representative citizens. Nellie Mercurio, a little Italian girl of Waterloo, fell through a glass skylight on which she was sliding and was severe ly iujured. Hev. W. S. Sheperd of the Baptist Church of Fairfield has tendered his res ignation, as he wishes to enter the evan gelist field. The $10,000 bonded debt of Calhoun County, bearing 5 per cent, has been refunded and new bonds issued bearing 4 per cent The Postmaster General has accepted the proposition to lease premises for the postofflce at Red Oak at $785 per an num for a term of ten years. Mason City contemplates a street fair .: this fall aud they are choosing a queen from the popular youug ladies by votes. The votes are sold at .five cents each. A woman named Corbett in Dubuque has brought suit against th^city for $00 for damage which she allege* the firemen did during afire in a neighbor's bouse. The State University authorities have made appropriation for the purchase of German books equivalent in value to those In that language destroyed by fire. Frank Skinner, a bootblack of Water loo, came near being seriously injured by an*air gun in the hands of another boy. As it was the shot took effect In hts cheek. On account of the recent tuberculin tests at Fort Dodge the Council has taken steps to protect the citicens from danger of contracting the disease from tubercular cattle. The Iowa City Republican says it Is possible the new president of the- Iowa State University will introduce the old English custom of sahiting the birch af ter chapel exercises. Marshalltown is to have a trophy of last year's war in the shape of a Spanish mine, taken up in the harbor of Santiago. It is the gift of Lieut. Com. Frank Fletcher, U. S. N. While excavating for'a cellar a Mis souri Valley man unearthed nearly 100 pounds of lead that had melted and rnn into the ground when a hardware stora burned on the site in 1874. A woman named Mrs. Davis and five children were found in a starving condi tiou In Des Moines. Sometime ag« her husband left her and the woman was too proud to ask for help. Mrs. James Wood of Clinton has re ceived word of the death of her husband, drowned while rowing in the Red Wiug river. Minn. Mr. Wood was well-to-do and a highly respected citizen. A. P. Cottrell, administrator, has brought suit in Des Moines against the C. G. W. road for $1,009.00 for the death of Mrs. Sarah Morse, caused by negli gence of employes of the compauy. "There is going to be a whopping big crop of nuts this yt?ar," says the Burling ton Hawkeye. "Hickory and wuluut trees are hanging low with their burdens nnd the hazel bushes show myriad, clus ters of well-developed burrs." ... At Des Moines, Charles Weaver, yenrs old, married and father of six chil dren, blew his brains out because he could not overcome his appetite for liq uor. He went to a liquor cure Institu tion and asked for free treatment. It was refused and he announced he would kill himself. He was once prosperous, but had dissipated his fortune. The agricultural college at Ames has opened with the largest attendance in the history of the institution. The Christian Association of the State University is making preparations for the reception of the large number of new students expected nt the opening of tha uew school year. A Des Moines man has been prospect* ing for copper on a farm north of Ames, and the Times states that he has brought lu some fine specimeus. The ore was -discovered some twenty years ago, but owing to want of capital the vein has never been developed. The 10-year-old sou of Thomas Dixon, living near Belle Plaine, was kicked in the face by a young colt, and narrowly escaped being killed. The citizens of Creston will bold a special election on the question of ex tending the city limits. The proposed ad dition will bring in the water works prop erty, which has heretofore escaped tax* ation. A .strange spectacle was observed In Blencoc the other day, that of thousands of sma)l toads traveling up the railway track, all going north. No one was able to explain the cause of the hegira, but It was suggested that the toads were going north to the harvest fields. The postal. authorities are loud In praise of Mail Clerk Lindell, who wis in the wreck at Moingona. In his bruis ed and nervous condition he at once com menced the collection of tiie scattered mail and sorted the same, so that It was sent on with but the delay of a few hours. A big crowd assembled at the Iowa iron works way at Dubuque to witnesr the launching of the last of the steel-hulled boats being built for the Government. The works have turned out over fifty boats and these five ate of the best. Tbey are about the size and have the appear ance of ordinary rufters, but are mmih ptyoager w«jr. 1 borhood. The man was-arrested and proved to be bqily negro named Wil fctam jl