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FARMING IX JAPAN. A BuMinesrt in Which 22,000.000 Men and Women are Engaged. From the Chicago Record. There can be do market for Amer ican agricultural implements and machinery in Japan for two very simple reasons. First, the farms are not big enough, and, second, labor is too plenty. If a Japanese farm er should introduce a modern reap er and self-binder upon his farm he would cut down everything in the way of crops while he was turning it around, and there wouldn't be anything left for him and his family to do all the rest of the season. Most of the farming implements are of a primitive character and many are home-made. Just as the New England farmer used to whittle his ax helves before the big log fire in the winter, so the Japanese farm er makes his own flails and rakes of bamboo and the handles for his hoes, spades and sickles in cold stormy weather. The iron portion is fashioned at the nearest black smith shop. These tools last for a lifetime, as they are kept with great care, and are often passed down from generation to generation. Everything is done by hand. You can travel all day in some of the iarming counties witnout seeing a horse or a mule or any other kind of a beast of burden, and goats and sheep, cowb and swine are equally scarce. Japan is one vast garden, and as you look over the fields you can im agine that they are covered with toy farms where children arc plac ing with the laws of nature and rain ing samples of different kinds of vegetables and grain. Everything is on a diminutive Bcale,and the work is as fine and accurate as that applied to a cloisonne vase. What would an Illinois or an Iowa farmer think of planting his corn, wheat, oats and barley in bunches, and then when it is 3 or 4 inches high, transplanting every spear of it in rows about as far apart as you can stretch your fingers. A Japanese farmer weeds his wheat fields just as a Connecti out farmer weeds his onion bed, and cultivates his potatoes and barley with as much care as a Long Island farmer upon his asparagus or his flowers. When grain is ripe it is cut with a sickle clse to the ground. The bot torn ends are carefully tied together with a whisp or a straw; the bunch is then 'divided and hung over bamboo pole or rope, like Monday's washing, to dry; sometimes in the field and sometimes in the back yard and even in the street in front of the house. When it is thorougly cured the heads of grain "are cut off with knife, and the straws are carefully bound up and laid away in bundles The heads are then spread out upon a piece of straw matting and beaten with a flail. Another method o thrashing is to take handfuls o straw and pull them them through a mesh of iron needles. After the thrashing is done the grain is taken up in a sort of scoop basket made of bamboo and shaken by one woman who holds it as high as her head, while another woman stands with a large fan which she waves rapidly through the air and blows the lighter chaff away from the heavier grain as they are falling The richer farmers have separators built upon a primitive plan and turned with a crank. People often winnow grain by pouring it from sooop upon a fan 3 or 4 feet wide, upon wnicn it is tossed gently so ai to leave the chaff in the air when it falls. Another method of thrash ing is to beat the heads of grain up on a row of bamboo poles. Some times you see a whole family at it Jbvery variety oi agriculture is carried on in a manner similar to that I described and the soil is in constant use. A couple of acres are considered a large tract of land for farming purposes. Most of the farms are of smaller area, and the crops are greatly diversified. Upon such a little spot of land will be grown almost everything known to the vegetable kingdom; a few square feet of wheat, barley, corn and mil let, a plat of beans perhaps 10 feet wide by 20 feet long, an equal amount of potatoes and peas, then 8 patch of onions about as big as grave, beets, lettuce, salsify, turnips. sweet potatoes, vegetable oyeters and other varieties of cereals and roots occupy the rest of the area. The farmer looks upon his grow ing crop every morning, just as the engineer will inspect the movements f his machinery, and if anything is wroDg repairs it. If a weed appears in the bean patch he pulls it up; if a ill cf potatoes or anything else ails, it is immediately replanted. And when he cuts down a tree he always plants another to take its place. The artificial forest of Japan cover many hundreds of Bquare miles, and by this accuracy,economy and care the prosperity of the coun try is permanently assured. As one crop is harvested the soil is worked over, fertilized and replanted with something else. The largest area of agricultural ands in Japan is devoted to raising rice, perhaps as much as nine tenths of the whole, and, as that crop re quires a great deal of water,the pad dies are banked up into terraces,one above the other, and divided into ittle plats 25 or 30 feet square, with ridges of earth between them to keep the water from flowing away when they are flooded. All farming and is irrigated by a system that is a thousand years old, and some of the ditches are walled up with bam boo wicker work. The farmers live in villages and their farms are detached, sometimes a mile or two and three miles away rom tneir Homes, inere are no ences or other visible signs of divi siov, but every man knows his own and, for it has been in his family or generations. Irrigating ditches and littlp paths are usually the boundary lines. Theoretically all the land belongs to the Emperor, but the greater part of that under cultivation has been held by the same families for gener ations, and has always descended from the father to the oldest son The official statistics of Japan show that there 11,400,008 men and 10,918,053 women engaged in agri culture, which is more than half the total population. A book on kidney trouble and its treatment will be mailed free to anyone who will write for it, addressing the BukerPillCo., Bangor Blaine; or the patient may enclose .Vi cents in Postal Note, or cash In a registered letter; and one box or miner's mis win De mane togetn er with the book, post paid to the same art dress. linker's Kidney Pills is a new and m&rvell- ons remedy assisting natnre to relieve clogged and diseased kidneys; will also relieve bladder diseases, urinary troubles, backache andUttle aches and pains throughout the bouv. Hack- ache and kidney-ache are very often the Banie and these pills will remove the kidney trouble cure the aching back, and parity the blood. Being a new discovery. Baker's Kidney pills are not yet on sale at an arug stores, in en quiring, be tore yon get BnkeT'e, (price AOcts) or address linker rill as above, and men tiontnts paper. Southwestern trade supplied by Meyer Bros nruguo., at. ixuis mo. n-rim Convention in the Woods. Creston, la., Aug. 31. The Re publican Senatorial Convention of Adair and Madison Counties has de veloped remarkable and peculiar aspects. When the time came for selecting the place for holding the convention both counties wanted it. As neither would waive its claim, compromise was effected, and the convention is being held in a dense forest between the two counties The Chairman sits on the dividing line with one foot in Adair and one foot in Madison. Each county is entitled to twelye delegates, and they sit in their respective counties on either side of the dividing line and in this position the convention has been deliberating for five days Each county has a candidate Adair delegates cast their twelve votes for Senator Kilburn, of Fon tanelle, who is seeking renomination and the Madison delegates suppor Richard Price, of Winterset The delegates were chosen on account o their staying qualities, and they are proving their reputation as such,for up to this morning 3,010 ballots had been taken without a choice, and is impossible to determine when the deadlock will end. The convention temporarily ad journed to-day to meet Sept. 21 when the struggle will be renewed Thousands of people have visited the Senatorial camp, and a daily pa per has been printed on the ground All Free. 1 Those who have used Dr. King's New Discovery tot Consumption know its value, and those who have not, have now the opportunity to try it tree. Call on the advertised druggist and get a trial bottle tree. Send your name and ad dress to H E Bucklen & Co., Chicago, and get a sample box of New Lite Pills free, as well as a copy oi Guide to Health and Household Instructor tree. All ot which is guaranteed to do you rood and cost you nothing. H L Tuck er's drugstore. Deacon Bros. & Co, Heavy and Shelf Hardware. C r.l r" an i O ,r; Tinware and Stove, tieid in I Itrtu .i Seed, Bangle. Wnsrons. gcd Farm Machinerv, wagon, wood -work, Ir-.n, Steel, Nails, Sidt. Barb Wirt-, Buggy Paiiut, Machi: e Oil. Groceries and Farm Produce ON THE PLAINS. Or any place else hardware Bach as we eel! is not ao easy to nnd, therefore keep tble store in mind. Kemember that tools of all kinds are what make civilization what it Is . No matter what your trade or occupation, we have some thing yon can nse, something that you need, but we make It easy for yon. Exclusively to tu Over Twenty-One Million PcopTo it xftnirmvxvworifl s r-air u rounds Universally accepted the Leading Fine CofTic of the. World Bay H where you can get tstral(tht brands. Chase Sanborr.'s coffees are always pure. It matters not whether von pay ns :!5c, :;oe US l-ftc, ".rc or 4oc per pound for Chase and Sanborn's coffees you tret your moneys worth. Coffee sold by other firms is mixed up by job bing houses to suit a certain price, tuns when yon buy of us you get all the advantages of dealing with the producer, as Chase A San born do not sell to the jobbing trade, but to dealers direct. We will have in this weak a f X 1 OF T1IK FAMOUS (Jar J 'Oad kound ak nr. a i crt-i The best In the world. Also a car load of the justly celebrated li A. I IV WAGONH, Top Ruftgies, Eoad Wagons, Spring Wagons, ana surrles are still going lively at our store because we give you the best goods for the money, We also report a lively movement in Nails Barb Wire and Building "Hardware- if von buy a GOOD ENOUGH OH FLYING DUTCHMAN sulky plow yon get the best made and at the lowest price. He sure you see the Indiana Grain Drill before vou bny. See us when you want a Steel Kange or a cast cook stova and get our prices, DEACON BROS. & IM. Low Price Hardware and LG ocery House. APPEALED TO M'KINLEY. Missouri Farmers Ask How They Are Protected by Protection. Maryville, Mo., Sept. 4. The In ter State Harvest Home association met here to day, fully 500 strong in delegates and visitors. Amonsr the matters entertained were the follow ing preambles and resolutions: Whereas, On Tuesday, September 3, 1895, Mr. David Lnbin of Sacre mento. Cal, in an address to the farmers of Missouri, at the Inter State Harvest Home meeting at Maryville, this State, stated "That the staples of agriculture bein largely exports, could be protected by a bounty on their exports, but tnat a tariu on imports cannot pro tect these staples sold in the open markets of the world, a portion of which is an export." He further made the assertion that because this is bo, the staples of agriculture were not protected, but were sold at home and abroad at the world's free trade prices. If this ia true, it must neces sarily follow that the producers of agricultural etaptes must pay for the entire cost of the protective sys tem to manufacturers and receive no direct, or indirect benefit therefrom: Whereas, This, if true, would be injustice to the producers of agri cultural staples and Whereas. We the farmers of Mis souri, in mass meeting assembled, desire to be informed as to the truth of the statements made by Mr. Lubin and, believing, that Hon. William Mcivinley, Governor of Ohio, is fully informed a9 to the operation of protection by tariff on imports, Resolved, That we respectfully and earnestly request the Hon. Wil liam McKtnley to criticise and fully explain said statements of Mr. Lubin, to the end that we may be properly informed on thi9 important subject and that he do this in the leading newspapers of Missouri. Speer's Old Port Wine from his Oporto Grape vineyards at Passaic, N. J. his Socialite Claret, vin. 1S81, and his luscious Burgundy stand unrivalled by any wines in the world especially for Invalids. l The Campaign in Ohio. New YorK World . Es Gov. Campbell, who reluctant ly u.'C'-i ted ilii' i: rated call of his party in OLio, modestly says: "I vill try to win. Bat the question of winning is another matter. OLio is naturally a Republican State. The Poraocrats have t arried it but four times in eighteen years. TLey won in 1S77 by 22.000, ia 18S2 by 19,000, in 1SS3 by 12,500, and in 18S9, when Governor Campbell was elected nfter a gallant fight, by 10, 872. The average Republican plu rality in their eleven victories be tween 1879 ami 1S93, was about 20,000. In 1S93, the tidal-wave year, Goy. MeKicley had 80.000 plurality, and last year the Republican candi date for Secretary of State had the quite unprecedented plurality of 137,000. But Gen. Harrison barely saved the State by a plurality of 1,072 in 1892, and 12S,000 Demo crats did cot vote last year who voted for Cleveland in 1S92. Though naturally Republican, therefore, Ohio is under normal con ditions a contestable State. Gov. Campbell is very popular. Mr. Bushuell, the Republican candidate, is very rich. Personally it is a man against a barrel. The contest is sure to be an animated one, with a Sena- orship and perhaps a Presidential nomination at stake. If the Demo crats are really united on the ticket and will work for it there is possibly a lighting chance to win. The President's Greetings. San Francisco Poet. "A short time ago," said Deputy United States Marshall Harris, "an old rancher up in the mountains of Lake County grew tired of walkin five miles over the hills to get the country paper from his mail box, so he felled a big tree across the road so that the stage would be compell ed to travel a longer route that led past ms nouse. A warrant was is sued for his arrest for obstructing the United States mails, and I went up to serve it. "I found the eld man sitting on his back porch smoking his corncob pipe, and commenced reading the warrant: 'The President of the United States sends greetings.' Just then the long barrel of a muzzle loading rifle was shoved out of the kitchen door and aimed at my head I saw a nervous little erav-headed woman at the other end of the gun with her finger on the trigger. could see a bright gray eye twink ling through the buckhorn Bight as she remarked: - -iou git, an aon t you come snoopin' roun' hyur agin. The President sent his greeiin's onst be fore, when the old man cut some timber on Gov'ment land, an' it cost him bout 100 an inightv nigh a month in jail. Then he found out that the President didn't know nuthin' absut it. If the President wants to be friendly with the ol man, he 11 have to come right hyur without sendin' no greetin'e. Git!' Tnrkev is Threatened. Constantinople, Sept. 4. It is officially announced here that Rus tern Pasha, Turkish Ambassador to England, has telegraphed to the Foreign Minister that he had an interview relative to the Armenian question with Lord Salisbury, whom he bad assured that the Sublime Porte is not opposed to the reforms proposed by the powers signatory to the treaty of Berlin, but that Turkey could not permit control of Armenia by an international com mission. Lord Salisbury replied that under the circumstances it would be use less to continue the interview. If, he said, the Porte persists in its re fusal, the powers will undertake the suggested reforms and rest satisfied. If, however, the Porte continues to resist, Lord Salisbury added, it would be a signal for the dismem berment of Turkey. The dispatch has caused the greatest uneasiness here. "Trust Those who Have Tried." 4 Catarrh caused hoarriEss and difficu'tv in speaking. I also to a gRcat extent Lost hearing. Bj the use ot E!v Cream Balm dropping of mucus has ceased voice and hearing have greatly improved J. V. Davidson, Att' at Law-, Mon mouth, III. I used Elv's Cream BaLm, for catarrh and have received great benefit. I be Here it to be a safe and certain cure. Verv pieasant to take. Wm. Frazer, Rochester, X. Y. Price ot Cream Btlm is fifty cents. Half Million. Boston, Mass., Sept., 1. Fire de stroyed the extensive freight sheds of the Boston and Albany Railroad. The British bark Barbadian, lying at the Boston and Albany wharf, was pulled out by tugs after one of her yards had taken fire. The steamer Burton, from Progreso, had just uiscnargea o,u- oaies oi nemp at the Albanv wharf, and the cargo was burned, with the other goods in the freight shed, which also included a large quantity of flower for export. The Cunard steamer Cephalonia was not damaged, beyond the blis tering of the paint and scorching of the rail on her starboard side. The loss is estimated at $500,000, of which 200,000 falls on the Bos ton and Albany Railroad Company Tnousands oi Women; SUFFER UNTOLD MISERIES. BRADFIELD'S REGULATOR, ACTS AS A SPECIFIC Bj Arousing to Healthy Action all her Organs.) It causes health to bloom, and! joy to reign throughout the frame. I... It Never Fails to Regulate ... " Mr wife has been under treatment of lead- - c lnK jihysiclons tnree years, without benefit. . After using tiir pomes or hhaiikmi b ' KKMA1.K KKiiLLATOK she can do her own : ' cooiIdk. mliktni? ana wnphlmr. BIMDFIELD UMilLATOU CO., Atlanta, Ca. Sold by druggists at $1.00 per botUs. THIRD AXD LAST MONTH Of the $50,000 (Jift Distribution to Sobscribers of the Twioe-a-Week Republic. The extraordinary distribution of $50,000 in gifts to subscribers of the "Twice a-week" Kepublic of St. Louis, which was begun by that paper last July, will end on Septem ber 30. The "Twice a-week" Re public has the largest circulation of any newspaper or periodical in the Western United States, because of its general excellence and it intends to increase the number of its readers I by means of this unparalleled offer. It gave away nearly 10,000 in pres ents during July to subscribers who answered correctlv the question: 'Where does the word 'silver' first occur in the Bible?" and during Au gust it gave away nearly 7,000 in gifts to those who were the first to tell: "where the word 'gift' first oc curred in the Bible." The remainder of the 50,009 in gifts will be distributed during Sep tember to subscribers who will tell where the word "paper" first occurs in the Bible. One thousand extra prises of special value are to be awarded to the first 700 and last 300 persons who send ti correct answer to this question and enclose $1 to pay for a yearly subscription. Every subscriber who"sends a subscription to the "Twice a Week" Republic during September and does not se cure one of the 1,000 special gifts, will receive a present valued at 81. 42 4t. Is reorganized and will open lor; he pres ml year. MONDAY SEPT. 9, 1895. DEJMBTMENT8. Classic, Scientific, Normal, Commer cial and Music A thorough coarse In etaa departmeat be given. TUITION REASONABLE, Poplis will also be rrceired for Grammer and Primary Grades. For further information, call onor address J00. W. RICHARDSO.V, A. 11. Principal. TLB ACADEMY K. C. Pittsburg & Gulf Time Taole. Arrival and departure of trains at WorUna. 12:10 p m i:v p m U 27 p m No. T, Freight Ja'.ly exwiit Sunday NORTH MOl'ND. o. bat. No. 1 Express dailv - No. 2, Express tiailv ... SOCTU KOl'XD. 5 :i V m 1 id a m No. Friesht daily except Sunday No. S, ' ' s s : p ru Remember this U the popular short line be tween Km saa t'.ty. M.. and ritislmrv. Kan., Joplin, mo. Neosho, xio.. Snlnher firings. Ark.. Siloam Serines. 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