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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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1870.
1871.
1872.
1873.
1874.
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1879.
1880.
1881.
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1800.
1801.
1898.
ABOBNTIXE SHORTHORN.
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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.
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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-
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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
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