Edgefield advertiser. (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, January 23, 1901, Image 4

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Those who ?reWoubl?8: bj weevils In the grain bins or their barns should sot forget that bisulphide of carbon is a sure .preventive of their ravages. About One'ounce of lt is sure death to all that would be in a hundred pounds of grain and other seed, and vials of that size just thrust down into the surface and uncorked will go' to the bottom of the bin, as its '. fumes are heavier tharryhe ~alr. As it is explo sive take care nor. f> carry any light near it It is also sure death to other insects and to squirrels and rats. Do not use more than the above amount, as it may prevent germination of the seed. Fpecl for towt at Ca Tin;. A writer in the Practical Farmer claims cows that are expected to bo fresh should not have any grain for several weeks previous to the event It ls often the case where a farmer has an extra butter cow that he overfeeds her at this critical period, or gives brr such quantities of grain, in the hope of making her do a little better the next time, that she is liable to have milk fever or other disease that may cause death. It ls better to be on the safe side and not feed any grain for at least three days after calving. A cow will, undoubtedly, make as much butter in the long run when this is done, as if she were fed grain right along. Even if this were not the case, I for1 one would prefer to avoid the risk which heavy grain feeding always entails. Don't Confine the Poultry. Tb? poultry keener who is limited to small yards for his fow' seldom suc ceeds v-ell in buying farm-raised chick ens to fill his pens. The unusual con finement seems to be irksome to them. We mean such as are raised where they have free range, which not all have on farms in this section. Each year the number cf farmers who keep their hens in yards is increasing, and when we read, as we, often do in some Western or Southern papers, of the trouble from the hens scratching veg etable and flower gard?ns, picking fruit, soiling the feed in the barn and the tools in the ched, and stealing their nests to bring out late chickens when they do not want to care for them, we wonder that any one will keep them who cannot fence them into a yard where they will do no harm. ? We have known people to let their hogs run about the dooryards and roads, and we would about as soon have them there as the hens.-Ameri can Cultivator. Weedy Mi Ut. There are weedy pastures in the land, and there are pastures free from weeds. It is plain that the more milk from clean pastures and the less from weedy pastures we have in the cream ery the better the chance to get a good flavor. The creamery manager, in or der to manage, must know the farm conditions of each and every patron, and the weedy milk must be separated so as to run as little milk as possible int) the cream. As it ls not practicable to keep all the milk from clean past ures separate from that coming from weedy pastures at the weigh can-at least it may not be practicable-the proper caper is to separato all the cream, thick and rich, running the minimum o. milk into the cream; then take the same cans of milk from pa trons with pastures free from weeds patrons who are neat and tidy, who keep the milk pure and uncontaminat ed-and dump this milk straight into the cream vat in sufficient quantities . to insure the right percentage of fat in the cream and cause it to ripen in time. This is & winning method-a winner because It is founded upon na ture and common sense.-Creamery Journal. Winter Work. # Winter is Upon us, and the farmer should rejoice, not because it will be a season of rest, but because it wnl give him an opportunity to do so many things that ho has neglected In the hurry of planting, cultivating and har vesting. We fear that we should not make a success of farming if we were in a region of perpetual summer. We should hinder our work by trying to ' do too much, and leaving undone the work that should be done. There are many little things for which there seems to be no great haste. They can be done at any time, and that means that they are never done, or done in great haste when they reach the point where they must be done. When we were farming we used the days when it was not suitable weather to work out of doors in putting all tools and ma chinery in good condition, including farm wagons and carts, and they were painted, if they needed it which most of them did even after one year's use. The work might not have been done very artistically, but the paint served to protect the wood from the weather. Then harnesses were cleaned, mended and oiled, and repairs made on gates, fences, etc., while during the pleasant days manure was drawn out, and the summer wood brought ^ome. Ail this so helped when the spring work began that if we desired to go on a farm again we should much prefer to take it in November '.han Maren, observes the American Cultivator, unless we were sure that our predecessor had been one who spent the winter days in getting ready for the coming season. Storing the Sq:t??h Crop. After the crop has been cut and piled, not over three deep, ior a couple of days, with the object of having the end of the stem seared by the sun, the sooner the squashes are stored in some southern exposure where they can be readily protected from the frost of night and uncovered to the sun by day, ls a good temporary tubstitute. It is not wise to leave them piled in the field, for exposure to the long, cold rains which are common' late in the fall is apt to injure heir keeping quali ties. I have known a crop of Marrows that had been so exposed to spot all over with rot within a few weeks after they had been housed. Shall we store our squashes in a cellar or in some frost-proof, airy building, such as a squash house, double plastered, with double windows and with a stove for colder weather? I have stored hun dreds of tons both ways and therefore can speak from a large experience. To cellars in general there is this objec tion: They are damp and tend not on ly to rot the squashes, but to keep from ripening those not fully ripe when gathered. The one argument for using them is that the squashes come out of tfctem 'as bright chored as they went in Ind hence are very attractive In appear ance, .but this ls more than offset by the objection that wnon kept late In pellew they are more liable to rot on purchasers' hands than when kept in a ?squash house!' When storing in the squash house if those' not' fnlly ripe lire pTaxsecTin the wannest part of the building on the upper platform, and especially just over where the,stove is located? Uxeof'Will generally ripen up and keep later than th' ^ that are folly1 ripe' when housed.-Jv Jv Hv Gregory, in New England Homestead. Keeping Cp S?ll Fertility. The Scat thing in keeping up fertil ity is the saving and proper applica tion of manure. Thousands of farmers are letting tfeJe manure waste in their barnyard, and are using commercial fertilizers. Fertility can be kept up ia this way, but a lack of hUffl?s will soon follow. Soil d?ficient in humus will dry out in dry weather and a seed ing of clover will be next to impossi ble "Do not flatter yourselves with the idea that you can keep up your fertil ity on commercial manures alone. You must save and ue? all yo?r farm manure. Spread the manure on the* higher portions of the field. Save everything. Do not let a thing go to waste, but put it on the land. ? It makes little diff?rence when you put it on, only see that it goes on. Plow under all the clover you can. Rye will do to plow under very well. Any green crop will answer. Do not let the ground lie bare during fall and winter. Sow your corn stubble to rye. This can be done at the last cultivation, lt will not only eave fertility by the roots taking up fertilU., ?.nd storing it in the plant, so as to be available for the next crop to follow, but it will make excellent pasture ?or your sheep auu nogs during the fall and far into the winter. Do not hesitate to araw the manure as fast as made during the winter, and spread as fast as drawn. If your land is too ?lilly this may not be the best plan provided you have a good way to save the manure at the barn. But as the manure is usually kept around barns, the loss from washing down the hills will be no greater tuan the loss around tho barns. Manure drawn out in winter saves that much from the spring's work. Often in the spring the ground is soft, and I have seen ground injured as much by the tramp ling and cutting up by the wheels as the manure did good. A wise rotation of crops is also necessary in keeping up fertility. No rotation should be longer than four years. Three years will be better. But a four-year rotation will do very well provided clover is given an im portant place.-L Iv Cowdry, in Amer ican Agriculturist The Toy Left on the 3'crm. In many of the homes of prosperous and progressive farmers at this sea son the oldest boy or the precociously bright one is being sent to college. The neighboring ' high school had graduated him with high honors, and now the family name is to be made glorious by the brilliant achievements of this favored son. In the father's plans for the boy are dreams of state and national fame that are not won behind a plow or out in a hayfield, while the mother may fondly hope that the dear boy will be called to the min istry, and in packing the trunk places his Bible in a conspicuous place. All unconsciously these parents are prepar ing a farm boy of stalwart Drawn, clear brain and pure heart to enter the activities of life in some distant city. Every effort bends in this direction, and that, too, many times at the price of much toil and sacrifice. God knows the city has need of such. If it were not for the strong, vigorous, clean young manhood of the rural districts that comes to thc centres of population to vitalize them urban social and busi ness proulems would assume a more enigmatical character than they now do. But what of the boy left on tne farm? Has agriculture no demand to be served? In our conception of farm ing have many of us got far beyond thc Indian, just digging, dropping and covering thc seed and gathering the harvest? Farming is a business to be learned, and needs the trained mind as much as does any profession that places alphabetical endings to the boy's name. If John is sent to college to take a medical course and Tom must farm, then it is only just to Tom that he may be given a course in agri culture. Then the boys will be social equals. It's not mere work that separ ates men socially; it is their mental ity. Cultured minds will demand bet ter environment. Many farmers hav ing good farms well stocked, and even having bank accounts that suggest that the day of absolute need is not at hand, will suffer themselves and their families to go without many convenien cies that would lessen the farm labor. At the agricultural colleges such farm economic problems are given due con sideration, and the bright boy easily adapts them to his own conditions and environment.-Rural World. Memory and Tact Failed. There i3 a well-known Detroit wom an whose friends and family say is short on memory but long on tact. This is her latest experience as told by herself: . "One afternoon recently I was sit ting on the veranda when a man, car rying a small satchel, came up the walk. He bowed pleasantly and I re turned his greeting as cordially as I could while racking my brain for his name. It was gone forever. Here was an old friend from out of town, prob ably, perhaps a relative of my hus band, and I could* not recall his name. It was agonizing. However, he must not feel a lack of welcome, so I greeted him warmly, shook hands and invited him to be seated. I said I was de lighted to see him and knew my family would be equally glad. I regretted that so long a time had elapsed since we had last met I hoped he and his fam ily were quite well. Of course he had come to dirmer. . "Thus I rattled on, fearing to let him speak lest he discover what a hyp ocrite 1 was. "Finally he managed to say: " 'I am afraid you don't know who I am.' " 'Oh, yes, I do,' I responded. 'Of course I know perfectly.' " 'No, I am sure you don't even know my name.' "-'Well.' I admitted reluctantly. 'Your name has escaped me for the mo ment But don't tell me. It will come back, I am so wretched on names. No, you must not tell me. I want to think of it myself.' " 'Do not try. I am only the sewing machine fiend. I came to do some re pair work.' "-Detroit Free Press. ID a Frlinal Bole. The.Russians have a veteran actress of whom they are very proud. Madame Orlay, in spite ot being P5 years of age, recently appeared on the stage in a performance specially given in aid of a charitable insltuiion. Madame Oriay has the distinction of having been the firet actresa to play Lady Macbeth anti Ophelia In the Ruseian tongue, PEANUTS AND GOOBERS. KOW CROPS ARE RAISED, CATHERED AND PREPARED FOR MARKET. The Goober la to the A Cuni I>annt What the Qnahituc it to thu Genuine Chan - Vint* Are Fl rut-CI uss Fodder for JU Met -5,000,000 Bnthelt tl l'a lr Veai '3 Cf Op. Tats is pe&hut time in the South. Gibing through eastern Virginia and North Carolina the traveler can see through the car window row arter row of what appear to be round bushes. They are the stacks or shocks bf peahut vines hung around sticks waiting to be placed upon wagons and carried away for strip ping. Some of the larger fields Will contain 1000 of these stacks, yield ing from 60 tb ?S bushels bf nuts to the acre* Most of the il?ts grown in, Virginia and_ North Caro lina are the goobers-. The goober Is to the actual peanut what the qua haug is tb the genuine clam. The shell usually contains but two ker nels. This is thc nut with which the Italians load their wagons and sell In paper bags on the street corners. The real peanut which answers to the Rhode Island clam is smaller than the goober. The kernel is about the size of a large pea and its flavor is sweeter than the other Variety; lt is grown principally i? North C?roil?? and Tennessee. Occasionally a few get Into ? bog of goobers, but very seldom, as they are shelled and sold for from 10 to 15 cents a peck more than the others. They go into candy paste and to the oil fac tories of Europe. The peanut farmer begins planting as soon as the frost is out of the ground in the spring. The shelled nuts form the see- and about two bushels are required for an acre, tn a few weeks the plant gets above the earth and begins to leaf out. A field of peanuts looks much like a field of clover, and during the war many of the Northern soldiers mistook clover fields for peanut patches, while hunt ing for something to vary their ra tions. The plants grow in rows, very much like potato vines, and are cul tivated in the same way. Weeds will soon choke their growth, and the pickaninnies on the farm are kept busy during the summer in weeding out the patches with their fingers. Nowadays the harvesting is done by what is called a plow, made espe cially for the purpose. It is drawn by one mule and cuts the plants off close to the roots. As soon as enough has accumulated on the plow to form a stack it is thrown off and massed around a short pole stud: in the ground. The stack is formed with the leaves outside, and the vines are wound around it as tightly as possible to protect the nuts from the weather. The plan is some what similar to that of binding wheat. About three weeks' exposure "seasons" the nuts and dries the vine, so that the pods are ready to be picked. The picking is the, most expensive operation of all and takes the most time. Whether in the barn or on the field, all thc work has to be done by hand. The nuts are thrown into large baskets and the vines made in to large stacks or stored away in the loft, for they make a hay which is really more nourishing for the aver age mule than timothy. The vine is a little too rough for a horse's throat, but it is a luxury to the average southern mule, who will grow fat on peanut hay, and nothing else. In all fields some of the vines will be black ened and the nuts of poor quality. These are left on the ground and la ter the pigs are turned into the field. They eat everything that is left ex cept the roots. The nuts are not very fattening, but they give the porker a very sweet flavor. The famous hams cured in some parts of Virginia owe most of their quality to the fact that the pigs have lived partly upon nuts before being fed the sour milk and garbage from the farmer's kitch en. In half a dozen towns most of the peanut "factories" are located. The factory is merely a place where the nut is shelled or the shell polished for the market. It is a curious fact that peanuts with clean, glistening pods will sell for 15 to 20 per cent, more at retail than, those with large, dirty-looking pods, althought the ker nels may be just as good, so the nuts intended for the bag trade at the cir cus and on street corners are scoured in large iron cylinders. Then they are carried to fans, which blow the heavier nuts into one part of the factory and the little ones into an other part and at the same time re move the dirt which was not taken off the shells in thc cylinders. The dark, partly filled nuts are shelled by machinery and sold to confectioners, while the other ones are carried by a sort of endless chain apparatus into bags, each of which will hold about 100 pounds. As fast as a bag is Ailed it is sewed with English twine, marked with the weight and proper address and sent to the wholesale peanut dealer, who makes anywhere from 25 to 50 per cent, profit in deal ing with, the Italians, wha are his principal customers. Of late years a quantity of the bag peanuts has gone to manufacturers of cheap coffee, to bc roasted and mixed in with the coffee berry and then ground, to be sold in packages as choice Mocha and Maracaibo. While most of the American nuts are grown in eastern Virginia and North C-.olina and Tennessee, the peanut fields are beginning to be cul tivated in parts of Louisiana and Ne braska. Many of the fields in North Carolina contain apparently nothing but wet sand, and the dark green of the leaves in contrast to the white ness of the sand on a sunny day is very striking. Digging down six or eight feet, however, the farmer gen erally comes to a loam which retains the rain and other surface water. This nourishes the plant, which re quires a very light and porous soil. It also needs as hot weather as corn to properly mature. After raising sev eral crops the average peanut field needs to be heavily fertilized with lime or marl, as the plant exhausts the soil. During a fair year the American peanut crop will average nearly 5,000,000 bushels, estimating 22 pounds to the bushel. This is but a small proportion of the world's crop, however, which aggregates fully 550,000,000 pounds, lt is calcu lated that we cat about $10,000.000 worth of peanuts yearly, or 4,000, 000 bushels of tho nuts, either in candy or the original kernels. Thc shucks or Ehells form also good food for pigs, while, as already stated, peanut vines are a first-class fodder for mules. Very few peanuts are eaten out of the pod in Europe, although fully 400,000,000 pounds arc sent to Great Britain and the Continent every year from Africa and Asia. They aro con verted Into oil (ind ft Hort ot flour, at ' factories at Marseilles and severe! English cities. X bushel of tho genu ine peanuts shelled can be pressed into about a gallon of oil. which is substituted for olive and other table oils very frequently. It sells at from 60 cents to $1 a gallon, and the meal or flour left after pressure is used for feeding horses and baked into a kind of bread which has a large sale in Germany and France. - St. Louis Globe-Democrat. A COLD-SEEKER'S ROMANCE. Lire Story or Ono Who Wm Hnrrlaon'? Rival in Love. Old Ben Jenkins is dead, says a Red ding (Cal.) special in the St. Louis Re public. The rollicking little old man, 72 years of age, who spent nearly half a Century hunting for Shasta county gold, and cared nothing for it when he found it. Was found a corpse in his lonely wayside home on Reid's toll road, 25 miles from Redding, one morning last week. He was sick sev eral days, and a passerby wanted to summon a physician, but Jenkins shook his head. Many people knew old Ben Jenkins tts ? gerterous-hearied miner, reckon? ihg little of consequences, and usual ly in his cups. What they did not know, what only a very few knew, was that the abandon of Ben Jenkins' nature came almost solely from a ro mantic disappointment of his early young manhood. The woman he loved and who loved another became the first lady of the land, and the suc cessful rival of Ben Jenkins was Ben jamin Harrison, afterward president of the United States. Broken-hearted, but resolved to bear it manfully, Ben Jenkins crossed the plains to California, and lost himself in the mines. Educated beyond most men, brilliant, energetic, capable of great things, Ben Jenkins had loved and lost, and with the flaring out of the hope of his heart ambition, too, had died. Benjamin Anzie Babbit Jenkins was born in Pennsylvania of good family and happily circumstanced. He grew to young manhood, and was sent to Princeton university to complete his education. He made his mark at col lege. As a scholar he headed his class es, and as an independent young Am erican who chafed at restraints his name was often heard at meetings of the faculty. More than anything else, Ben Jen kins was a Democrat, and opposed to abolitionistic sentiment. Strangely en ough, his strong political ideas led him unwillingy into the romance which changed the tenor of his whole life. At Princeton was a beautiful girl, whose brilliancy commanded the admira tion of the young men of the univer sity. Her father was an abolitionist, celebrated in his district. The daugh ter was like the father. At a stu dent gathering Ben Jenkins, leader of the young Democrats, was challenged. He did not dare pay his courtly re spects, they said, to beautiful Anna Scott. Jenkins accepted the challenge. He did pay his respects lo Miss Scott. He won her respect, though she hated Democrats. Then he lost his heart to the girl and thc gallant dare was for gotten in the earnestness with which he pressed his suit. But Anna Scott was coy through the months she re sisted him, and then Benjamin Harri son, grandson of a president of the United States, came to the college. He saw Anna Scott, he loved her, and he won her love. She promised to be his wife. Ben Jenkins graduated from Prince ton early in the fifties a disappointed man. The gold fields of the west of fered an asylum. He forgot his degree and the opportunities of the law, and joined the westbound fortune hunters. He began to mine on Trinity river. Fate tried to recompense him with fortune, and in a few months he had j $20,000. Then he moved to new scenes. Fortune followed, but he cared little for money. It was diversion he wanted. Some years ago he established a way side inn on a, lonely road. He was host and cook. Last week he came to Red ding to thc fair. Then he went home to his death. L! vi ncr IR Cheaper Now. Cost of living is less in the United States today than it was in 1860. Carefully compiled statistics show that articles costing $100 then cost only $75 now. It is true that a few things are more expensive, but commodities con sumed generally by families, such as breadstuffs, sugar, rice, salt, woolen and cotton goods, boots and shoes and silk and rubber goods are considerably cheaper now than they were 30 years ago. All manufactured goods, with hardly an exception, are cheaper, mainly be cause of improved processes of manu facture, which enable thc maker to re duce the cost to the lowest point. The development of our vast arable terri tory in the West. Northwest and Southwest, and the striking results of irrigation, when applied to what were formerly considered desert lands, have increased our crop supplies more rap idly than the increase of population. Despite the dire predictions that prices of wheat, corn and chiton must inevitably advance because little land remained to bc cultivated in the West and South, the fact is that millions of acres are still awaiting tillage. In Texas alone an area almost as exten sive as that of the original 13 states is virgin soil. The emigrant may have to go farther and work hard er to esatablish a homestead in the United States, but Uncle Sara is still rich enough to give every able-bodied industrious newcomer a chance to own a. farm.-Leslie's Weekly. IrriR-iitlnK tho Holy Land.' The Turkish government is now ser iously considering the question as to establishing irrigation works on a large scale in the vast plain situated along the shore of the Jord?n river and extending from Lake Tiberias to the Dead sea. lt is intended to con struct a large number of canals, start ing from the Jordan and leading to the neighboring plains, which are said to be very fertile, but which arc not tilled on account of lack of water. The ex penditure involved in the construction of these irrigations are reported to amount to about $COO,000. At the same time it is said that this amount could easily bc regained in two or three years by proper agriculture. Not Afrnitl. "She talked to him just to let him know she wasn't afraid of old bachel " ors. "Ves?" "And he talked to her just to let her know that he wasn't afraid of widows." "Well?" "Oh, they're married now."-Chica go Record. A new leland has been formed out at sea, about ten milos from tho mouth of the Rhone. I Makes Hair Grow Perhaps your mother had thin hair, but that is no reason why you must go through life with half-starved hair. If you want long, thick hair, feed it. Feed it with Ayers Hair Vigor, the only genuine hair food you can buy. Your hair will grow thick and long, and will be soft and glossy. Ay er's Hair Vigor always restores color to gray hair; it keeps the scalp clean and healthy, and stops falling of the hair. One dollar a bottle. If your druggist cannot supply you, send us j: ~? and wc will express a bottle to you, all charges prepaid. Be sure and give us your nearest express office. J. C. AYER Co., Lowell, Mass. Send for our beautiful illustrated book on The Hair. Free. A FREAK OF NATURE. A Dam in the West Which is Made of i Soda. Probably few people ever heard of a soda dam, but such a freak of na ture really exists in an unfrequented part of the great west. A. O. Wright, of the Indian service, who travels ex tensively through that section of the country west of the Missouri River, In speaking of strange things he ha9 encountered in his tours alluded to the soda dam. Asked what he meant by a soda dam. he said: "In Box Canyon, Just above the hot 'springs of the Jeraoz River, Arizona, Is a dam extending from one wall of the gorge to the other. This dam is ? nothing more nor less than a "massive wall of pure soda, rising to a height of 100 feet, and probably GOO feet from end to end. Nature's forces, of course, started their work of construction away back in the dim and distant past, when deposits of soda contained in the water thrown off by the springs were made at the base of what has since de veloped Into one of the natural won ders of the west. Those deposits must have been made with remarkable rapidity. "Just ten years ago the Jemez River rose to an unprecedented height, and under the abnormal pressure of the torrent a lower section of the dam gave way, learing a breach in the wall of soda about twenty feet high. When the water subsided the lake formed by the dam was, of course, destroyed, leaving the upper eighty feet of the dam high and dry. "I passed through that section of Arizona this last summer, and pur posely visited the soda dam. I was most astonished to see that the twenty-foot breach had been nearly filled in. The soda from the springs had made fresh deposits, and grad ually patched up the hole made In 1S90. At the present rate the breach will be entirely closed in another year and the lake will assume ifs former proportions. "Previous to the break in the dam, the lake above was fully GOO feet wide, and' extended up the canyon for at least three-quarters of a mlle. Scien tists who have examined tho dam are of the opinion that lt will never attain a height much above 100 feet, for the deposits lu tho water seem to sink in that great depth before the brink is reached. As they fall, however, they will tend to strengthen the base of the dam. and will gradually decrease the depth of the lake at Its lower end." Washington Star. SLOT MACHINES FOR MARBLES. Ingenious Yankee Boys Who Are Doinja Cood Trade. Even the schoolroom has been In vaded by the slot machine. An in genious contrivance arranged on the principle of a slot machine has been the means within the last two weeks of creating a corner on marbles in cer tain St. Joseph schools. The heavy holders of that "commodity" are the owners of the marble slot machines. This device Is one that any boy with the aid of a few tools can construct. One manner of construction is this: A cigar box, from which the lid has been removed, ls nailed to an Inch board cut to the size of the box. The box Is then divided into two compartments by a thin partition made of the lld, through which the slot machine maker has bored three holes large enough to admit a marble of ordinary size. lu one of these compartments Is arrauged a triangle of shingle nails, driven at even distances from each other, and so placed 1 that a marble will roll through between them. Another open ing ls made in the top of the cigar box, through which the marble is dropped. The nails are so arranged that the marble strikes one when it ls dropped into the upper slot. The force of con tact throws it up against the next nail, and thus it travels through the triangle of nails in a sinuous course toward the partition containing the three holes. If it drops through the centre hole the boy who ls playing the ma chine wins. His own marble is re turned to him and he receives another In addition. If it drops through either of the other holes he loses, and the slot machine keeps the marble. As the whole contrivance is in plain sight of the boy who plays the machine, there is no opportunity for juggling the mar bles in their course. The chances to win or lose are, apparently, about even. The slot machine has proven immensely popular at many of the schools, and some of the teachers have forbidden its use on the ground that it teaches boys gambling.-St Joseph (Mo.) News. To Curr ii Cnjil in Ono Tiny. Take I-AXATIVK DROJJO QCININB Tl BUTS. All tlriicglsts refund tb? inonoy If lt falls to cure. K. \V. UiiDVK'S aiguaturo ?? ou uauu box Plffnslon of Cultnrr. "The Boston ?lrl I was ongagod to picked rae up ou cramraar boforo a weo? passed ove; uar H/lllS." "Yul got off easy. Tin ono I know correctod my English whllo 1 was proposing to hor." ?if?^?S?iThompsoB's Eye Water ? DEVELOPING THE DAIRY CALF. The calf destined for the dalr should never be fed a ration which will make it put on fat. If tha desh-grow lng habit is acquired by the young growing jinlmal, lt is retained after ward and the animal ls injured for dalry purposes. F. W. Hodson, former superintendent of the Ontario Farmers' Institutes, recommends to remove the calf from its dam as soon as dropped and to put in a separate pen, where it must be thoroughly rubbed dry with a cloth. Some prefer to let the cow clean the calf, but he cons'.TIers it doubtful if any good is served there by, and In the case of a heifer with her first calf, the longer the calf ls left with her the more troublesome she is likely to be, especially as regai'ds hold ing up her milk. Teaching the ca'f to drink is not a troublesome process when it is remov ed early from the dam. Always give the calf the colostrum, or first mill?) an'd let 1t have the dam's milk for a week. Feed frequently and in small quanti ties, never more than two quarts per feed. Feed the milk at r, temperature of from 90 to OS degrees. At the end of the we?;ii, begin to substituto sklni-milk. There is no better substi tute for the butter fat removed in skimming the milk than flaxseed or linseed meal. Take a quart of flax seed, soak for five or six hours In six or eight quarts o? water and boil for an hour. Give half :i teacupful oT this jelly at each feed aud increase as the calf grows. An English dairy farmer gives tho following as his method of feeding calves: He raakps a. porridge of four quarts of corn in^al, two quarts of ground buckwheat, four quarts of wheat bran and two handfuls of lin seed meal. Each coif receives a heap ing tablespoonful Cot nacl) meal, which ls made into a porridge with water and added to one quart of sweet milk, in which a pinch of salt l3 put. The grain ls gradually Increased each week. As regards this ration, it may bo said that skim-milk could well be substituted as more economical than new milk, and also that the feeding of corn meal and ground buckwheat would have a ten dency to Induce flesb-ronning habits in the animal.-American Agriculturist London's Disorderly Element. The Louden policeman sometimes belongs to the army reserve, and a large number have been withdrawn for service in South Africa, promoting, It is thought. In some degree the curious and malignant outbreak of ruffianism expressing itself in murder, robbery and various forms of outrage from which London Is now suffering. A number of unusual remedies are pro posed, one being that all homicides shall be hanged, no matter how young they may be, and another that flogging shall be Introduced on a sliding scale, graduated to fit the crime and applied while the latter is fresh in the culprit's memory. ' Such an expedient promptly arrested an epidemic of garroting which broke out tliere a generation and more ago. and as an emergency measure probably retains Its old effi ciency. London's disorderly elements are always abundant, though in gen eral a few whacks on the head from the local "copper" are sufficient to keep them from pernicious activity. But lt Is evident that the ranks of the latter ought not to be reduced on any urgency of foreign or other service. Brevity. ' "Why Is brevity considered the soul of wit?" asked the man who asks foolish questions. "Because," answered the man who makes foolish answers, "when a man is short he is much more likely to be acute.* Nothing stimulates mental ac I tivity like needing the money." The Twentieth Century. Wc now stand at th" threshold of tho twentieth century, nnd tho niue'.eenth is a thing of the pa<r. lt will, however, be known aa tho century of invention and dis covery, and arnon?: some of the greatest of thesi, we cnn truthfully mention Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, tho celebrated remedy for all ailments arning from a weak or dis ordered stomach, such as dy-pepsin, indi-j gestion, liatulency, constipation and bil iousness. Great. Invention. "Tho Tammauy machine ls a groat labor saving invention." "Yes. Indeed ! It savos many a hoolor from having to go to work."-Fuck. Th* lieut Prescription for Chill? mid Fever ls a tiottle of fi HOVE'S TASTKI.KS? l un I.TONIC, lt ls simply iron and quinine In II iiitneleu lorin. No euro-no par. l'rleoj.?*;. Utilization of th? Sensational. "Arabella ls dreadfully lazy.'' "How do you know?" "Shu reads only novels that will make nor hair curl." PUTNAM FADELESS DYE produces the fnstest and brightest colors of any known dye stuff. Sold by all druggists. His Annual Keocuo. I "My wife nssom that stio Bares my life at . least onco every rear." "How's that?" "Sho won't let mo go hunting." Best For the Dowels. No matter what alls you, boadaohe to a cancer, you trill Direr ce: well until your bowels aro put right. CASCAKETI help nature, cure you without a gripe or pain, produce easy natural movements, cost you just 10 ceDts to start getting your health baok. CARCAnzTB Candy Cntunrtlo, the genuine, put up lu metal boxes, every tab let has C.C.C. Btamped on it. Beware of Imitations. The Treasure. Kati-Dell Daniels must bo hard pressed for a beau to take np with charlie Crowders. Mate-Rather she is hard pressed by a beau in inking ti]) with Ulm. Indigestion is n bad companion. Get rid of it by chewing a bnr of Adams' Pep sin Tutti Fruit i after each meal. Getting Even. "Mt?3 Bunk avenged herself on mo for neg lecting hur invitation." -How?'' "She told evorybody that I was o!d enough to bo a triad forgetful." riso's Curo i.? the best medicine wo ever used f.? all aff-ettous of threat and limps -Wa 0. BXOSLIYi Vanburen, Ind.. Feb. 10, 1CH.0. Deafness Cannot Ko Cured br locnl applications, as they cannot roach the diseased portion of tho ear. There ls only ono way to euro deafness, and that ls by constitu tional remedies. Deafness la cawed by an In* tlnmed condition of the mucous lining nf tho Eustachian Tube. When this tube ls in flamed you have a rambling sound or Imper* lect hearing, and when lt is entirely closed Deafness ls tho result, and unless tho Inflam mation can bo taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be de stroyed lorever. Niuo cases out of ton aro caused by catarrh, which ls nothing but an in flamed condition of the mucous surfaces. Wcwlll give Ono Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that can not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Scud for circulars, hoc. P. J. CHENEV & CO., Tolodo, 0. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family rills aro tho best. Business Grasp. 'What ! Fifty cents for putting in this load of coal? You Charsed only 25 cents tho last time." ..Yes'm, but coal has rlz." THE DISCOVERER OF Lydia E. Mham's Vegetable Compound The Great Woman's Remedy for Woman's Ills. ^^^m^,?^y^^^^ No other medicine in the world has received such widespread and unqualified endorsement. No other medicine has such a record of cures of female troubles or such hosts of grateful friends. Do not be persuaded that any other medicine is just as good. Any dealer who asks you to buy something else when ^ou go into his store purposely to buy Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, has no interest in your case. He is merely trying to sell you some thing on which he can make a larger profit. Pie does not care whether you get well or not, so long as he can make a little more money out of your sickness. If he wished you well he would without hesitation hand you the medicine you ask for, and which he knows is the best woman's medicine in the world Follow the record of this medicine, and remember that these thousands of cures of women whose letters are constantly printed in this paper were not brought about by "something else," but by Lyt?sa E* Pinkham's VggefaMe ?@fflg3?sg$2d!9 Tho Groat Woman's Remedy fop Woman's ?liso Those women who refuse to accept anything else are rewarded a hundred thousand times, for they get what they want-a cure. Moral - Stick to the medicine that you keiQW is Best. When a medicine has been successful in festering to health more than a million women, you cannot well say without trying it, " ? do not believe it will help me." If you are ill, do not hesitate to get a bot tle of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound at once, and write Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass,, ior special advice, it is free and helpful. Hijrh School Education. Secretary Hill, of the Massachusetts Board of Education, ls much pleased over the justification of a step taken by him five years ago, wild he placed the normal schools a distinct grade above the high schools, his purpose be ing to improve the quality of the teaching force in the public schools. Before that time it had been permit ted to graduates of grammar schools to enter the normal schools, but the new requirements obliged applicants for admission to the normal schools to have hud the equivalent of a high school education. No other State in the Union had such a system at that time, it is said, and it was feared by some that applications for admis sion would fall off and the supply of teachers would decline. Just the reverse has happened. Under the new policy the number of admissions is sixty per cent, greater than under the former policy, showing that the men and women who have to teach for a profession appreciate the higher professional training which the State schools afford. The Official Vote. AU the states having completed and declared tho official count of the vote for president, the exact result can now be stated: McKinley, Republican. 7,217,677 Bryan, Democrat,. 6,357,S53 Wooley, Prohibitionist.... 207,368 Debs, Social Democrat_ 94,552 Barker, People's. 50.18S Malloney, Socialist Labor.. 33,450 Scattering. 6,211 Total.13,967,299 McKinley's plurality. 859,824 McKinley's majority. 468,055 Tho total vote is thus shown to be only 43,921 greater than in 1896. Mr. McKinley's vote is 112,S98 more than it was four years ago, aud Mr. Bryau's vote is 145,072 less. Mr. McKinley's plurality is 256,310 greater tbau in 1806, aud his mojority over all is 181,327 greater. The largest plurality ever given to and presiden tial candidate before was 762,991 to Grant in 1892.-New York World. A manufacturer of artificial limbs in London estimates that 300,000 Eng lishmen have lost one or both legs. B? _B'9 A Safest, surest cure for liflS S0,1 throat "od lung M v troubles. 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