AGRICULTURAL NEWS
THINGS PERTAINING TO
FARM AND HOME.
THE
leveral Good Reaaedlea Given to Pre
rent Suit la Wkeat-How to Cob
qaer an Angry Ball Aaamoola Car
for Lamp? Jaw.
To prevent fmnt la Wheat.
The very beet grain that can be had
hould be seeded. It the arm grain la
Dot up to tbe standard, da not use It
Grain grown on strong limestone land
has more vitality and will produce
more to the acre. To prevent smut, the
grain should be pickled before drilling.
The best preventive of smut U sul
pliate of copper or blue vitriol. Take
one pound of the sulphate and dissolve
It In eight gallons of water. After the
vitriol Is dissolved spread the gratu to
be treated upon the barn floor and
sprinkle It well; then turn It with
long-handled shovel so that every grain
Is coated. The grain nay then be dust
ed with dry air-slacked lime, and then
drilled at once. - Weak chamber lye Is
also equally effective; It should be fer
mented first. While It may not be ad
vlsable to take the trouble , to coat
every bushel of grain drilled, yet it will
pay, and pay handsomely. The grain
grown especially for seed should al
ways be-so treated. By so doing a bet
ter quality of grain can be had, and
that will have more vitality. The seed
growers always coat their grain before
drilling. the American.
Curiae UctT Ball.
Frequently a bull, in a fit of temper,
kills or orinoles his keeper. This Is
more particularly true of dairy breeds.
Now, I do not believe the bull is as
much to blame as his owner. He has
been kept in close confinement most of
his life, with very little exercise or sun
light, and uo pleasant company. His
blood is in bad order as a consequence,
and he Is difficult to control. Tbe beef
bull Is more phlegmatic and less liable
to get unruly. I think that If the treaoa
erous bull had been allowed tbe range
of a small paddock and the company
of a couple of sedate old cows, and,
perhaps, made do an hour's work each
day, running a feed chopper or a churn,
so as to wear out muscular tissue and
maintain health and bis procreatlve
power In fall vigor, bis blood would
have been kept pure and his temper
sweet Agriculturist
Care for Lumpy Jaw.
Aatotheammonlacurefor lumpy Ja
we bave only the assurance of a Mr.
Wm. Metcalf, Grey County, Ontario,
Who writes the Farmers' Advocate as
follows: I have used It for years, and
cured every case, no matter how bad.
Just rub a little on lump, or lumps, as
sometimes there are several. They will
disappear gradually in a short time.
Sometimes, If very bad, I foment with
pretty warm water, but not hot enough
to scald. The ammonia has then more
chance to penetrate, but I seldom do
anything but rub a little on with my
fingers out of a ten-cent bottle I keep
In the stable for the purpose.
Waate of tweet Cora Stalke.
Usually on each stalk there are two
or more ears, one fully ready for use as
green corn, tbe other small and Imma
ture. To save this last the stalk Is left
uncut But in most cases the second,
and always the third ear is too small to
be profitably marketed. Whenever
there is only one ear on a stalk it
should at once be cut and fed to the
cow or horse. It is worth more then
than it ever will be again. We are not
sure that this Is not true, even when
there are one or more nubbins left on
the stalk, if fed to milch cows. Ordi
nary fodder corn Is very poor feed. It
needs to be supplemented, as this sweet
corn fodder does, with a greater
amount of nutrition, which Is worth as
much In increased milk yield as it Is In
a few nubbins of corn. Sweet corn fod
der is more wasted than any other. It
Is wasted In trying to save nubbins of
corn worth more for feeding than they
are for anything else. Cultivator.
end of farm work. If a farmer will be
up In fashion and up with the time he
lives In, farming Is as good business
now as It was fifty years ago. A farm
er might as well be out of the world as
to be fifty years behind tha time.
New England Farmer.
Stack Meklna-.
As a rule there are few good stack
makers lu the United States, as the
abundant building muterlal makes It
easy to put up barns capable of holding
all the grain and bay. But wherever
grain growing Increases largely, the
grain In the straw, being only left In
that condition for a few weeks, does
not absolut ely need burn room. A well
built stack answers every purpose, and,
except labor used in making It, costs
nothing. The only necessary rule Is to
always keep the middle of the stack
full and to tramp It down well. If the
sides are not trampled at all it will be
better. The stack will settle with the
grain iu the best possible shape. ;
The Lire Forever Peat,
The following plan has proved effect
ive In getting rid of live forever In at
least one case; Fence off a small por
tion at a time and turn tn hogs, which
are very foud of the weed and will de
vour It greedily, rooting up the ground
to get the little tubers. By permitting
the bogs to till this soil thoroughly
they will eradicate live forever, root
and branch, in a more thorough ami
Inexpensive manner than can be done
In any other way. At least this Is what
a Connecticut farmer writes to the N'ew
England Homestead. Another farmer
wrote as follows: "Turn hogs on the
land In early spring, and they will cleau
np the" , roots completely, or salt If
placed upon each plant will kill."
WEEKLY MARKET LETTER,
Ha Plows Dean.
Mr. Tw M. Brown, who resides In El
bert County, Georgia, on the line of the
Southern Railway, is a successful fann
er. Mr. Brown bought his farm about
five years ago, and he alms to get big
returns by deep plowing and the use of
commercial fertilisers and farm-yard
manure. Beginning on poor and worn
out land four years ago, that scarcely
paid the cost of tillage, he has brought
It np to that high state of fertility that
enabled him to get hist year forty-one
bales of cotton on fifty acres and 5,000
bushels of corn on twenty-five acres,
together with oats, peas and other pro
vision crops In abundance. Southern
States.
Klllina- Weeda with Hatch.
Small patches of Canada thistle anu
quack grass can be often beet destroy
ed by using a mulch of almost any
thing that will be so compact that tbe
new shoots that come to the surface
cannot work their way through it. Care
should be taken to suppress quickly
all shoots of the obnoxious growth that
will appear outside tbe mulched area.
So aooo as the roots find they cannot
grow through they will increase their
growth on every side so as to avoid
tbe mulch. If only a few or barely
one or two spouts reach the surface
they will keep life in tbe underground
roots, and the work must all be don
over again next year.
A Goo-t Stable Floor.
We may not be able to lay a cement
floor, we may not be able to buy lum
ber, but in most cases, we have some
clay on the farm, and. If so, there is
no excuse for not having a very fair
stable floor. Dig out tbe top soil, and
fill In at least six Inches of clay which
has been worked thoroughly with wat
er, and about one-sixth coal ashes, or
fine gnvel, and straw chopped to about
ULit an inch In length, so as to form a
tough, adhesl ve mass. Tbe prell mi nary
mixing can be done witb a boe, but the
working proper should be done by
tramping thoroughly, either by man or
horse. Drive in little pegs to show the
slope desired, and then ram it firmly
with a large wooden rammer. Smooth
It off, using a straight edge from peg to
peg, and allow time to dry properly be
fore using. Such a floor will stand a
good deal of wear, and can be kept rea
sonably clean. Grange Homes.
Famine a Good Buelnea.
Fifty -five years ago I was busily en
gaged on a farm; it seemed to me a
hard life, rnd as soon as I was 21 years
old I Bought an easier one, but I cannot
say that I found It After working at
different kinds of business for fourteen
years (seven and one-half years being
spent in Illinois and Missouri) I came
back to my native place broken In
health and fully persuaded that farm
ing was not tbe hardest business one
could choose. After my second experi
ence of thirty-five years I still have the
same opinion.
Farming as a reliable way of getting
a living has not changed materially in
fifty-five years, but tbe way to run a
farm has changed. Tbe trouble about
farming Is that you cannot Induce the
middle-aged man to make the changes
that tbe times require, and tbe young
man who lives on tht home farm must
and will, do as his father used to do.
The one easy thing to- learn now Is the
eight or ten-hour system for a day. The
science of farming baa changed as
much as that of manufacturing. The
band spinning wheel has been set
aside, and so, to a large extent must
tbe band boe and the l and sVytbe, the
hand rake and the one-horse plow. The
old four-pound lump of butter must be
well made Into eight half-pound prints;
milk must be put Into glass cans; all
kinds of fruit must look just so and the
cows must be groomed to look as tidy
M gentleman' horse, and so on to the
Farm Note.
While at pasture the young sheet
should bave access to salt. A flock will
visit the snltlng place twice a day reg
ularly. Salt Is a good tonic and pre
vents indigestion, which produces de
structive diarrhoea, all the worse when
the weather Is warm.
Prof. H. E. Van Deman says that a
crop of clover or cow peas plowed un
der every two or three years In the
orchard will stimulate growth suffi
ciently, and as It would take twenty
loads of stable manure per acre to do
the same, the former is the cheaper.
Smut does not pass from stalk to
stalk In the cornfield, and tbere is no
danger of contamination in this way,
The Infection takes - place when the
corn Is young, the germinating spores
entering the tenderes part the root
node and lowest Joint and after the
disease Is once In tbe plant no applies
tlon will do tbe least good.
In regard to detasseling corn that is,
to break down the tassels or remove
them, a practice which has been advo
cated as enabling tbe farmer to secure
larger yields experiments show that
there is nothing gained by so doing,
while tbe labor required is an item of
expense that is bestowed when tbe
farmer can be growing green fodder or
some other crop for cattle food.
Tbe tnacgots which annoy sheep so
severely are batched from eggs depos
ited in the nostrils by a fly, and the
sheep use every effort possible to pre
vent tbe fly from so doing. One remedy
is to put tar on tbe nostrils. This may
be done by placing wood tar where the
sheep can get at It and throwing a
handful of salt on the tar, tbe sheep
getting the tar on tbe nostrils while
eating the rait
Salt is an important aid to digestion,
and especially so to all ruminant ani
mate. If cows are not salted frequently
they will eat more than is good for
them when they do get access to salt.
In large quantities salt Is laxative. It
being an irritant to the bowels, which
are therefore purged to get rid of It
Failure to alt regularly will make the
cream more difficult to turn Into butter,
thus repaying tbe farmer for his care
lessness by giving him a longer and
harder Job at churning.
It bas frequently been asserted that
the brilliant colors of many flowers
serve to attract bees and butterflies to
them. Experiments recently reported
to tbe Belgian Academy of Science
seem to show that the perfume rather
than the color of the flower Is the real
attraction. Bright-colored blossoms
were covered wltb leaves and papers
pinned closely over them, yet the In
sects not only visited the hidden flow
ers, but endeavored to force their way
under tbe paper in order to reach the
blossoms, wblcb they could not see.
Unproductive land Is a tax on th
farmer and reduces the receipts de
rived from the whole farm because la
bor must be bestowed upon It at tbe
expense of some other portion. Every
piece of land should be made to pro
duce something, not by taking of).' t
prop without adding an equivalent
therefor to the bind, but by first bring
ing tbe land up with manure or fertil
izers and then making It pay for that
wbicb was expended upon It The farm
should not have a fertile field surround
ed by poor bind, but the whole should
be made to produce to tbe highest cap
city. ,
Oawala, Hopkins A Coatpaay Reelew
af Trad.
An inquiry into European orop con
ditions conducted by the Orange-Judd
syndicate of agricultural papers, includ
ing the Amerioan Agriculturist, of New
lork, the Orange-Judd Farmer, of Chi
CHgo, and Uie New England Homestead,
of Springfield, Mass., indicates that the
food crop situation abroad is very grave.
Estimates of Europe's (including
England) need of wheat Imports range
all the way from 300,000,000 to 400,
000,000 bushels, Europe's wheat crop
for 1805, 1894 and 1893 averaged 1,
600,000,000 bushels. In 1891 the fam
ine year, it was only 1,200,000. The
impression is gaining ground that Eu
rope's wheat this year is even lose than
in 1891. But this is not the worst of
it Europe usually produoea a much
rye as she does wheat It is the bread
grain of the maRses. The rye crop of
tbe principal European countries baa
averaged above 1,300,000,000 annually
for 1896, 1896, 1894 and 1893. This
season the rye orop of these countries
cannot much exceed 875,000,000 bush
els.. Quite as bad is the potato pros
peut Only about 1,850,000,000 bush
els of potatoes will be harvested in
those countries this year. ' Without re
gard to the United Kingdom or other
Europeau countries, there is a shortage
ofsoni million bushels of potatoes.
The European shortage, compared with
the average, follows;
Wheat, bosheU............... Sm.mO.IM)
Rve. bualtrl Ktt,0u0,tWu
Potatoea, buabels. .. I ,xiu,oij,iiu
Tola!. . ..... ......1,W&,iWO,Uu0
The Hungarian department of agri
culture says: "The favored countries
are the United States and Canada.
The latter will soon be one of tbe most
important of the exporting countries, Its
excess over last year's production being
70,000,000 bushels of wheat, and 20,
000,000 of corn. Its output of all sort
of grain was 870,000,000 bushels. The
yield of wheat in Great Britain this
season is 50,000,000 bushels against
63,000,000 last year. The wheat area
of British India is reduced from 23,
000,000 acres to 18,000,000, and the
wheat yield from 834,000,000 bushels
to 803,000,000 bushels.
The United States, which has re
duced its area sown in oats by 2,000,
000 acres, that for corn by 1,000,000
acres, while that in other grain re
mains unchanged, will nevertheless dis
pose of 534,000,000 bushels of wheat,
against 434,000,000 bushels last year.
Portland Market.
Wheat Ws 11a Walla, 80 83c; Val
ley and Bloestem, 84 85c per bushel.
Flour Best grades, $4.60; graham,
3.85; superfine, 13.50 per barrel,
Oats Choice white, 83 (g 36c; choice
gray, 34c per bushel.
Barley Feed barley, ; 18; brew
ing, 1819 per ton.
Milistuffs Bran, 14 per ton;
middlings, 931; shorts, $16.50.
Hay Timothy, $13 13.60; clover,
10ll; California wheat 9!0
11; do oat, til; Oregon wild hay, 9(
10 per ton.
Eggs 13e per dozen.
Butter Fancy creamery, 4550o;
fair to good, 35 40c; dairy, 26 30c per
roll.
Cheese Oregon, HJa'o; Young
America, 13c; California, 9(3 10c per
pound.
Poultry Chickens, mixed, $3,600
3.76 per dozen; broilers, $1.60(33.50;
geese, $34; ducks, $3(33.60 per dozen;
turkeys, live, 10 (silo per pound.
Potatoes. O.egou Burbsnks, 850
40c per sack; new potatoes, , 50o per
sock; sweets, $1.75 per cental.
Onions California, new, red. $1.35;
yellow, $1.50 per cental.
Hops 10O Ho per pound for new
crop; 1896 crop, 46c
Wool Valley, 14016c per pound;
Eastern Oregon, 10 13c; mohair, 30c
per pound.
Mutton Gross, best sheep, wethers
and ewes, 33c; dressed mutton,
4i'e; spring lambs, b per pound.
Hogs Gross, choice beavy, $4.60;
light and feeders, $304; dressed, $30
4.25 per 100 pounds.
Beef Gross, top steers, $3.7503;
cows $2.25; dressed beef, 405Uc per
pound.
Veal Large, 83o; small. 4lf
per pound.
Seattle Market.
Butter Fancy native
brick, 20c; ranch, 10 012c.
Cheese Native Washington.
11c; California, 9o
Eggs Fresh ranch, 19 20o.
Poultry Chickens, live, per pound.
bens, 10llc; spring chickens, $2
8.60; ducks, $3.50 0 3.76.
Wheat Feed wheat, $30 per ton.
Oats Choice, per ton, $23.
Corn Whole, $23; cracked, per ton,
$23; feed meal, $22 per ton. - -. .
Barley Rolled or ground, per ton,
$33; whole, $33.
Fresh Meats Choice dressed beet,
steers, 6c; cows, 6c; mutton sheep,
6c; pork, 7c; veal, small, 6.
Fresh Fish Halibut, 4 Wc; salmon,
45o; salmon trout, 7 10c; flounders
and sole, 804; ling cod, 45; rock
cod, 6o; smelt, 2 04c.
Blgget Ona Paatlna.
' A 18-inoh gnn casting was made at
the Bethlehem Iron Works on August
13, It is intended for the tube of a It)
inch gun now being built for the gov
ernment, and is 19 feet A inches king,
fctaonnl in shape and 74 inches in
diameter. More thnn 100 tons of metal
were used in the canting, the first and
the largest of its kind ever made in this
country, . . ' ; '" '
DO UK NKKU Ht MUHCl.ESt
By no mean.
Pa raoria ot hcirotilean hnlld fre.
minimum nt gvmiltia vtmir,
otteMly ixbw
(txhltiit hm.4 ttn.lurittintt tlittii vnrv Kiitall iwmtla.
KphI vliror rm-aimtlia ability tn dttreat ami aUieu
wen, aim to ttriorin a rt-HNotm(iiu amount, oi
dully pliylol and menial labor without un
natural itulicue. It ia heraum a couriw of Ho
li'ltor'a HtolnftL-h liitlora etiatilea tht etitmhW4t
dyatientlo to roaume the alloteil netlvltv of
every day lit'e. a wet) a to arl elpato without
ttlM-oinfort In ha aojoymenu, thai It la aueh a
pre-eminently uaeful im-dii'liie.
Vaccination hits just been introduced
into Afghanistan by the advice of Mies
Hamilton an English physician, who is
in attendance upon tho Ameer,
There In more tatarrh In thin nmtlcm of Ilia
country than all other ilMeaDe it tovetlier,
mil mull th lHt lew vttur vu mioixMril to bo
liieiimbte. For a great many yeitrNito 'torn pro
nounced it a loeal iIIm-hih, anil ereiteritwtt local
rcituHliea. and tty coiiBtantlv faulti to eurc by
local treatment, pronounced It Incurable.
So ence ha broveu catarrh to lie a conntltu
ummi mec, ami tnereiore rcyutre eontti
lutloual treatment. Hair Crttarrh fore, man.
Nfauttiretl by r. J. I'honey & t'o.. lolwlo, O.,
the only constitutional cure on the market.
Ih taken Internally In dotes from 10 lroi to
tcahiotiiul. It acta (llrceily ou the btittnt and
inncou Kurtacca of the avatem. Thev offer on
nuielred dollar for any cnae It fiiili to uure.
J.'iul lor eireubira ami testimonial. Adilr-ita.
K. 1. fllKSKV A CO., Toledo, O,
Solit l rirmrirlsts, 7 .
llall'a Family Pills ara lh tet.
A COST OPPORTUNITY,
The ancients knew how to cheat.
Loaded dice have been . found in the
ruins of Herculaneum.
I believe mv prompt use of Plan's Cure
... i !..f- : ,
nrwvrmru iuiva iTtfimiiiii jnon.--m np. t.ucy
Wallace, atarqtietta, a.u., iw. tj, -vo,
Lincoln county, Kentucky, has
new-found cave rivaling Mammoth cave
in sise and novelty.
YOUNG GIRLS.
their Conduct and Baalth Often Myatlflea
Thalr Mather.
Young girls often feel, and conse
quently act, very strangely.
They shed tear without apparent
cause, are restleas, nervous, and at
times almost
i . i
creamery,
10O
Baa Franclaco Market.
Wool Choice foothill, 9013c; Ban
Joaquin, 6 months' 8010c; do year's
staple, 709c; mountain, 11018c; Ore
gon, 10OI3c per pound.
Hops 6O10o per pound.
Miilstuffs Middlings, $19023;
California bran, $14014.60 per ton.
Onions New red, 70 80c; do new
silverBkin, $101.10 per cental.
Potatoes New, in boxes, 40 60c.
Fresh fruit Apples, 400 66c per
large box; apricots, 20 40c; Fontain
bleaa grapes, SOOSSo; muscats, 40 O
60c; black, 80050c; tokay, 40 60c;
peac-Jies, 36 0 60c; pears, 40 (850 per
box; plums, 20(g40o; crab apples, 160
85c.
Hay Wheat, $120 16; wheat and oat,
$11014; oat, $10013; river barley,
$708; best barley, $913; alfalfa,
$8.60010 clover, $7.609.50.
Cheese Fancy mild, new, 8c; fair
to good, 1a per pound.
Butter Fancy creamery, 22c; do
seconds, 21032c; fancy dsiry, 20c;
ooA to choice, 1820c per pound.
Eggs Store, 16018c; ranch, 20 O
34o; Eastern, 14017; duok, 16o per
dozen.
Citrus fruit Oranges, Valenciaa,
$8 08.00; Mexican limes, $506; Cali
fornia lemons, fancy, $8; do common,
$108 per box. :
A merchant in Copenhagen was fined
10 crowns for having used the Ameri
can flag as an advertising medium.
seem eelf-absorbed, and heedlcsa of
tilings going on around them. Some
times they complain of pain in lower
parts of body, flushes of heat in bead,
cold feet, etc. -
Young girls are not free from incipi
ent womb troubles.
Mothers should see to it that Lydia
E. Pinkhara'e Vegetable Compound is
promptly taken; all druggists have it.
The girl will speedily be "herself
again," and a probable danger be
averted. Any Information on this sub
ject, or regarding all female ailments,
will be cheerfully given free by Mrs,
Pinkham, Lynn, Mass. Write bur.
Albany College, Albany, Or.
Gives the mot ayateniatle and complete cnnre
in niuicui auy muaie acnooi on the ramie
coanl. Plniio, limine la the Italian method,
harmony, counterpoint, and all other Intnort-
ant brancbeaof muic taught. iMoloinaa Kivr n
on completion of eource. Tuition la low for the
hifch grails ot work. Mend lor cireulara. and
W.Al.l.Arg II. I.EK. A. M.. frealdent.
Z1MKI M. PAKVIN, Musical Director,
Portland. Oregon
A. P. Amthowg, ix.lk, Pr.ii. J. A. Wbaco, Sec'y
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Free trout uluuna and Immoral pi Hoard
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The coinliifcyear will record Nome new feature;
1 A regular btixIneM college under the leader
ship of a regular l-u-tlni-wieolk-Ke man. 'it le
nt trntarjr and advaneed (iermaa taught bran
American-born and American -educated Ger
man, ft Military taetlett, Involving the regu
lations of a Arm-clan military achool in drew.
no arm. uvenn tmui. 10. wnn ior eat
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the Story of Row a Fortnoe (to Away
from a nam
A little group of men were talking-
(lie other evening lu the Rtimiuing
lime, when poodle seem to think uioio
KtMiut wiint they lulitlit nave uoou man
tuty tlo at any othor hour of the day,
una the subject was lost onportnul
ties.
"l lmto to refer to the matter nt all,'
remarked the colonel, who fougl
throiiKh the late war at the bend of
Michigan regiment, "Iweaiwe It only
makes mo renew my coiitenijit for my
self, but I've hntl rhanees In tho North-
weot to put myself In the millionaire
list that nobody but a ctmtirmed yap
would think of lien-looting. Afler the
war I was a 'laud-looker,' ns they are
called, and I knew the whole country
from Detroit clean through to tho far
corner of Minnesota, and jMKht where
there are big buildings and beautiful
city squares to-day 1 could have bought
laud at any price I might inline. One
man wanted me to buy, In Dulutli,
few lots at $30 apiece, aud I laughed
at him. They are worth a a square
foot to-day and upwards. I picked up
one piece of land at Agate llarlair for
a hundred dollars and sold It for
thousand; that Is worth 130,000 now
and I wouldn't give a man l-oO for
tract that Is worth as many thoumiml
this very inluute.
"Kut those are small potatoes ni'il
few lu a hill to the Vlggest piece of loat
oiiortunltyln I was ever guilty of,"
and the colonel sighed profoundly.
"You know that famous Mohnoii Iron
mine country, up there, ou I-mWu Su
pcrlor, where they are taking out thou
sauda of tons every year of the richest
ore on enrth, and any quantity of men
are enjoying princely Incoini-a from
their royaltiesT Well, before auy body
ever heard of the Mesulm Iron ore I
was up there running a Hue north ftoiu
the Cloquet river, and one day I btgiut
to have all sorts of Uwuble with my
compass,
"Ordluurlly It was a very tradable
and reliable Instrument, but here for
some reason It acted strangely, or rath'
er refused to act at all, ami I could
hardly get any sense out of it. 1 kept
going ahead, bowever, an-1 for ; ten
miles my trouble continued. Tlicu it
was over, and I never was tulte an
glad or anything as when thru nun
pass begun to work agnin. ami I did
not have to loy my course by sun.
I kuew la-fore I finished what Ihe
matter was, but what did that Iron
'ludiT the ground that swerved mv
needle out of Its course menu to ii-e
Nothing. That's all. I wan a t.lulu.
every day chump. What I was alter
was timber, and the timber all nlim;
there was uot of sutlicleut ointtlty to
Justify my giving tho land a ms.itul
thought, and I dldu't. Tululi of it,
men and brethren," sighed the colonel
again, "there I was wulkiug over and
standing on millions and million of
dollars, and I could have had all of It
wanted for the mere having sense
enough to take It up, and I didn't bura
the seuse.' Washington Stor. .
Evolution of the Color Mcnse.
It has often been said that nations
are developed like Individuals, iMtaslng
through the same successive stuges ot
Infancy, youth, maturity and old age.
This theory receives support from
what Is historically known respecting
the evolution of the color scnae in the
Infant. According to recent olmurvn
tloim, the process Is ns follows: At
lintt it has only the perception of light,
but soon learns the difference between
black and white, then begins to notice
objects and npprehvud their move
ments. At alMtut six months the scuaa
tlousof red and green take thlr rise in
the central iMirtlons of tbe retina, and
are perfected at the end of the second
year. During the third year tho child
liecomes acquainted with yellow; dur
ing the fourth, with orange, blue, and
dually with violet; the chromatic sense
Is thus fully unfolded nt the age of live
or six. Within another year he forms
the habit of distinguishing the above
named colors in his talk.
The Aiiimmlte, we are told, are able
to discern (aMde from Mack and white)
only red, green and yellow; hence the
Intellectual growth of this people, so
far as vision Is concerned, may be coin-
pured to that of a 2-year-old child.
Mr, Grocer: there are
thousands of people who
want good tea (many don't
drink tea now, because it has
been either costly or bad)
and here is Schilling's Besi
good tea at a fair price.
. Don't you want to sell
lots of such tea, and money
back it if your customers
don't like it?
A Hclilllini Cnmpaay
Saa rrant'tei-e
Gave Bis rathar tha rramatinn "
A cast Of a wn'i thoughtful:
affection for a fattier has ooms to lUi.I
In ths navy depnrtrnsnt, t Washl,.
ton. John Ossson and tits son, Bci.
Casson, ara clerks In the offliieol kmu
tnry Long at salaries until reoenily st
f 1,1)00 each. The work of tliey,,
man attracted attention, and li w ,
notlllud of a promotion, with fl
salary. Young Casson refussd to Ac
cept, snylng that his father bad been
longer In the sorvioe and was mors ri.
serving. At the young man's ream
the promotion was transferred to Hit
lather. , - - ' .
A Georgia Jury brought In this vera
diet the other dnyi "We find ths j0.
londiiut aliiioct guilty."
AN OPEN LETTER
To MOTHERS.
WK ARR ASSF.RTINO IN Til IS COURTS OUR RIOHT TO TfIC
. KXCMSIV WtS OP THE WORD " CA8TORIA." Am
PITCHER'S 0A8T0RIA,H AS OUR 'i KAUb MARK,
I, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, of llynnnla, Jlfaaiaehmefi,
wa$ the originator of " PITCHER'S CAST0RIA," the ,amt
that has borne and doei now snj? on wrV
bar the fae-simtle signature of (a&ffitUc&U wrapper
ThitU the original' PITCHER'S CASTORIA," which hat bem
used in, the twmet of the mothert of America for over thirty
leart, LOOK CAREFULLY at tte wrapper and tee that it i,
the kind yon have alwnyt bought ti . " on tht
and
per.
The
has the
ature o f 4S&Z7-eUctt
m J J
Fuiare ot 'm-hk inmn.
Ao one hat authority front me to use my name except
Centaur Comvanu of which Chat n n-it. t.
. - . - --.ww e
resiuene.
p.
March S, 1897.
Do Not Bfi DnrAlH
Do not emlanger the life of your child by accepting a cheap gubstliuts
which i iom druggist may offer you (because be make, a few more pcnZ
on it), tlie ingredienu of which eveit he docs not know.
"Tho Kind You Have Always Bought w
BEARS THE FACSIMILE SIGNATURE OP
Insist on Having
Tho Kind That Never Failed You.
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The lllver Thames.
If tbe plans now under way are fer
ried out as anticipated, the great work
of widening and deepening the Itlver
Thames will before long be an aet-oiu-pllahed
fact, and the couiniert-iiil Im
portance of that river thereby greatly
Increased, It being elenr to the au
thorities, on extended examination and
consultation with engineering exMTts,
that a twenty-six foot channel was re
quired for at least nine-tenth of the
shipping. It was decided that the work
should be prosecuted, to be done solely
by dredging. According to this plan,
there will be from Gravesend up the
river as far as Grayford Ness, oppo
site llartlect, a channel width of 1,000
feet and a minimum depth of twenty-
four reet at low water, spring tide,
while from Grayford Ness to the Al
bert docks, the width Is to lie 000 feet
nd the depth twenty-two, and from
the latter to the Cornwall docks there
-will be a channel at least 300 feet wide
and eighteen feet deep.
TEETHING.1 3
Waa. RrfHi-wa K'xrirjva wrmvr .iioulii alwnyabe
CHII,Dft(N
for children UMtbtnir. it noothta tlia etilid, aoft- S
-Would Make Good Senators.
"Washington correspondents are as
rule men of fine education and train
ing for their work," suys Henry Wat
terson. "The Senate and the news
paper corps numlier alKiut the same in
niemlH'i-shlp. I'll wager that take them
man for man the newspaper men would
show, If necessary, that they are better
Informed, nir.re active, more skillful,
more competent In every way to deal
1th affairs of state than are tho Sen
ators. I think that if the Menu tors and
the corresHindeuts could chaug places
the work of the Bennte would be much
better performed, fewer mistakes
would be made and wiser legislation
prevail and the country lie better off.
On tbo other hand, the Senators would
make a poor list of H If directed to
write dully to the borne papers the
news of the day In the capital."
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"Charley," said young Mrs. Torkuis,
"when a man Is elected to ol does he
j become a servant of tbo people?"
"Yes. Ia a sense."
"Well, tliat explain something that
I have always wondered about. I see
now why be is so often oallod a polit
ical boss." Washington Star.
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