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!.. N. W OODS, M. O. Physician and Surgeon. Oaltii*. OreK<)i>. 33. S. J. H0WAIÏ3 Physician and Surgeon DALLAS. O SÉÜON uiRcd iu Uflow building. J K. HlSl.HV, 11 S L B L tC V ■ K *“ *11'- & h 'A K I N , A U o n i e y n - ¡ 1 1 - i . n v v . W. u iv. III. »illy Mit of libMtri' t book, in I' I lUilty Knlublo » ««e t» furninlioa. «n.l .....«y t» ,ao. S * loinml.tti 'il olmr^eiTon loan». Kooin. •id i w.i*oil’» block. Dali** J. L. C O L L IN S , u ia n ie y and C ou nse lo r at Law, Miilellor lu Chaaeerjr. ¡i m u practice of hid profefluion in thi* place j |i|t thirty yearn, and will attend to all bUNness il itjd t. bis ^ are. Oiflce, corner Main and Court x Dallas, Hoik Oo, ür j. n . »i v u r ATTORNEY AT-LAW. Room 1, OMicld building. O HKÜ O X OSCAR HA7TÜA. A .tto r n e v 'a 't'-L jîi w . OIBce iipstnirs in Cmnpbi 11’ in#. D A LL A S - k build ORKGON. X. L,. BUTLER E F C-OAD B U T L E R & (’ O A D Attorneys-at-Law D A LLA S, OREGON. W i l practice in nil over bank. couiìs . Ortie- W .J . S T Ö W , \ peddling a wneelbarroW ami several assistants being employed. Kffbrnaka For Cream. The trend of Nebraska’s dairying is 0 h 5 2 V .1 T > " . emphatically toward cream production, says Professor A. L. llaecker In Creamery Journal. So pronounced has (C r e a j n c r y i j been this development that the state may now be called a cream producing From different directions conxe a state, for very little milk is being de number of Inquiries by young men livered to creameries. At the present hunting to know if calvea can l>e fat- time there are four cream buying In tciuHl for market on artificial foods. stitutions iu Nebraska of considerable As there are in ull Jersey herds a nun size, while there are nine or ten In stitutions that are buying Nebraska b>‘ of bull calves from cow s o f only cream. There are about forty cream o .vrnge capacity that should be ills eries and five cheese factories, while f.*t(*l of as veals this becomes a p r the hand separators must number at fluent question. My reply Is that sc least 8,000. The “centralising” Nan fur as the dairy calf is cone mod from seems to meet the environment o f the ten days after birth skim milk can be country, for everywhere farmers are substituted for whole milk, and, :• c accepting the method and seem to be cording to the strength and capacity <t satisfied with the change. A T im e ly C riticism . the calf, linseed meal, Blnehf orris m al One of the German» agriculturists re and grains can more or leas rapidly be substituted for skim milk, says L S. cently touring in this country criticised the placing of a hand separator in the Hr.rdlu In Jersey Bulletin. middle of the dairy barn, and stated But, so far as fattening calves foi that the German law would forbid the market is concerned, while I have hoard placing of a separator in such a situa of some successes at experiment stations tion. Why? Because of the liability in this line o f endeavor I do not know o f the cream to absorb barn odors, of anj* one succeeding with artificial with consequent lowering of the qual food only. In this case the original f it ity of the butter. They evidently be of the ca lf must not only be retained, lieve in preventing the introduction but continued with rapid growth. I o f off flavors in the milk instead o f re lying on the ability of the butter maker know of no combination o f grains suf to get them out afterward. ficiently palatable to the calf and as C ore o f th e C ow «. similated with sufficient oas • to accom To my mind there is nothing better plish the degired end. The simplest in warm weather than to turn the plan for fattening calVes fur market Is cows into the pasture at night—better to allow them to suck native cows of for the cows and for the pasture, says large milking capacity and allow each C. I). Richardson in American Culti cow to raise three or four calves to a vator. Barns should be well lighted proper age for market. This saves em and ventilated. I would not keep cows ploying milkers and is profitable wb n in stanchions all winter; it is not good the calves hav$ some fat cattle blood in for the general health o f the animal or for the production of a first class them. dairy product. D a i r y i n g In P o r t o R i c o . They should be turned into a shel The American visitor to Porto Rico meets many surprises In the field of tered yard twice a day to drink. We dairying, says It. A. Pearson. Cows cannot afford to keep our cow s other give from u pint to six quarts. They than we do our families—In clean, sweet, comfortable q liar ten. Take care o f your dairy cow us you would your driving horse. D a lla s : ü re tro n A fair ëhare o f patronage solicited «ml all o-ders prom ptly tilled. MOTOR TIME TAtfLE . Leaven Independence for Monmouth and \irlio — . :30 a m 3:30 |< in Leaves Inde|iendiice for Monmoutli and Dallas— 11:10 a in 0 15 p m Lc.iv« s Monmouth for Airiie - .50 a in 3.60 p m Leaves Monmouth tog Dallas— M:20a ill 7:SU pm Leaves Airiie for Monmouth ami In lependence— 1:0» am 6 p m Leaves Dallas for Momnom h an» Imie eut jii :o— 1:00 PH} 7 30 p m. R. C. CRAVEN K. K. WILLIAMS. I'resideut. C'aaliler. W . C. VASSALL, a s s is t a n t C a sttier OF CITY DALLAS, i»AAh THE WHEELBARROW MILK ROUTE. are milked only once a day, and it is supposed necessary to keep the calf to “ start the milk.” A part of the herd Is milked at midnight for an early morning delivery and the remainder is milked at 7 a. ui. for trade later in the day. Cows are kept In open sheds and fed nothing but grass pasturage. The miik is good when properly handled. It is sent to the city ir. large cans with out being cooked. The city retail price Is G cents per pint and a half. The il- lnstrntioii sl.n ., > a »"uamon method of OREGON, Transacts a general banking mini S lliS,F iL L S CITY1KSTEBI jess in all its branches; buys and sells R A I L W A Y «¿change on principal points in the United States; makes collections on all TIME TABLE: ¡Joints in the Pacific Northwest; loans rniT: 0 * n. lv Dalian nr 5:10 r in Ö55 MW money and discounts paper at the best 1 i 2') P m 7:3 (1 a It! lv Tint« 8i«!in.»r 4 >4 1» in !» •!Pinn 1» rates ; allow interest on lime deposits. 1 .9 P ui 7:39 a n iv UillisniH ar 4 31 p ni 9 mil 1*in 7:46 a in lv Bridiiejioit a* 4:44 p in 9 10am • • ’'r>P in 7:f16 » mnr Kal * City Iv 4 33 p in 9.20bin D.1\ exet-pt Sunday, D R . J O R D A N ’S v isit i'r. iiin utofion siirnaD only. LOUIS GERLING R, J R , orcat # MUSEUM OF AN&TGKY* i*iiiiuiTi>T.,nm isci‘.c»,cH f The I-A/ynt Anatomical Museum in the A WofiS. Weakuay-e* *>r any c. mra« te*1 T •haeaee ae»ill»rly rar.d ,y the ol.teu A w^ecUlift on ih« C owl Eat 3 « year*. y On. JORDAN—DISEASES OF MEN • i'r« UXS I Y r n :i.l< thoroughly eradica’ci A > 9 ftoui yyylcfl without the u-e <.l Sertary T r u l Trw.ee fitted hy an F«pert atedl- i M H i eel rer. for Reylerr. A qN.rk and V I 11 If taUicai cure for l*ll.e. Plenum and A I B riateler, »>jr L>t Jor Jan * special pain I • li lets methoda. Cnneullatioa 'ret and atrirtJy private Treatment per A — f nr by letter A fw tivr Cure in every case ▼ ^4 e« Write for B >ek PH I.O*.«»e«»V mt i 1 f i t Ml A SB. mailed FKkl. (A ralueh' book W men ) Call of write 1 OF JORDAN A CO.. 10B1 Mark»! St.. 4. F f SOUTHERN PACIFIC TIM E TABLE CO RVALLIS MAIL— D A ILY *50 i m Lv............ Port I mi I. . . . . . . Ar 5;.’.0 p m 10 46 u m Lv.......... . Derry.............. -.v 1;1S p in ll;46pmAr ..... C >rv»lli* Lv 1:20 pm At Albain »> d Cun all s connect with trains of Oregon Central an«l Ka»ter:i railroad. G tr.em l Manager. - e P p a p V V a $ p - - Van Orsdei, Hayes 8 c Co.,£ REAL, E S T A T E t J E A L E R S FARiViS A N D C IT Y L O T S — ALL KINDS OF— IRON WORK TO ORDER Repairing Promptly Done. RD. BIDDLE. A . .1 . - PR >P. M A R T IN , Ï* A I N T E R , H ouse, sign end orn em en t»), g 'e ii ■ ( , ltelsoming end peper hanging. D eu -a s, - - O rkook N o matter how hard your cough or how long you have had it, Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral is the best thing you can-^ake. It’s too risky to w<dt until you have consump tion. If you are coughing today, get a b ottle o f Cherry Pectoral at once. Three sizes: 25c., 59c., SI. All Ironists. Consult your doctor. If he says take it, then do as he says. If he tells you not to take it. then don’t take it. He knows. Leave It with him. We are willing. J. O. AYER CO.. Lowell, Mass. SIMPLE FISHER FOLK THE NEWFOUNDLANDERS ARE EAS ILY IMPOSED UPON. A Pathetic and Truffle Incident That IlluMtriste« the Attitude of the “ Up per” Cl tie « cm —-The Hardy Courage o f the Outportei«. o < f*o ( t n t s ... Enclosed with every bottle is a 10 cent package of Grove's BLACK ROOT OREGON 2 DALLAS f io ...5 0 Purchasing agent for W C. McClure, of Saginaw, Michigan, and other eastern timber dealers. Room 1, upstairs, Wilson building. M LIVER PILLS. R-I-PA-N-S Tabu lea Doctors find A good prescription For mankind. The 5 cen t lo c k a g e i» enough for usii«l W CM ioni. The famil>' b ottle, 60 cen t«, contain* a supply fo r a . 1.1 ni..,.vo Si >i them. Y AMHILL UI VISION: Dallas Foundry! “ My mother was troublea with consumption for many years. At last she was given up to die. Then she tried Ayer’ s Cherry Pectoral, and wss speedily cured.’ ’ D. P. Jolly, Avoce, N. If. ed to a little wnite cottage wnere three children lay sick o f diphtheria. He was the family pliyslcian—that Is to suy, the fisherman paid him so much by the year f^r medical attend ance. But the injection o f antitoxin is u ‘surgical operation’ and therefore not provided for by fhe annual fee. “ Tlity.’ said the doctor, ‘will cost you $2 an injection, John.* “ ‘Oh. iss, zur!’ was the ready reply. ‘I’ll pay you. zur. Go ou, zur.* “ ‘ But you know my rule, John no pay, no work. I can’ t breuk it for you, you know, or I’d have to break it for half the coast.’ “ ‘Oh, aye! ’Tis all right. I wants un cured, i ’ ll pay you w hen 1 sells me fish.’ “ ’ But you know my rule, John -cash down.’ “ The fisherman had but $4, no more. Nor could he obtain any more, though the doctor gave him ample time. I am sure that lie loved his children dearly, but, unfortunately, he had no more than $4. and there was no other doctor for fifty miles up and down the coast. “ ‘ Four dollars,’ suid the doctor, ‘two children. Which ones shall it be, John?’ “ Which ones? Why, of course, after ail, the doctor had himself to make the choice. John couldn’t. So the doctor chose the ‘handiest’ ones. The other one died. “ ‘Well.’ said John, unresontfully, the day after the funeral, ‘ I s’pose a doc tor have a right t’ be paid for what be does. But,’ much puzzled, * ’tis kind o’ queer!’ “ The Newfoundland outporters are hardy, courageous, boldly adventurous simple lived, God fearing, warm heart ed—a physically splendid race of men. Cowards and weaklings have for four hundred 3’ears been the unfit o f the place; they occur, o f course, in the best regulated families, but do not long sm vive, for exposure kills off the weak lings, and in the midst o f many dan gers the cowards lose their lives. Chil dren learn to sail a punt at six or seven years old, and at every age they are en couraged to piny at the highly danger ous game (cnl<4d copying) of prancing about on floating ice. The skill ac quired In leaping from one sinking block to another would make the trumpeted river driver look like a blundering child. As men, they know* their punts as Intimately as a cowboy knows ills horse, and they will say of their boats in a gale, ‘ I thought she’d not live through it t’day,’ with the same uuftmeeru that a cowboy might ■ay of his horse, ‘ lie nearly throwed me that time.’ The race is truly hardy and courageous. It was John Butt, with a broken collar bone nud a split forehead to show for It, who survived two wild, snowy nights and a day on a twenty foot ice pan, over which for 11111113* hours broke great seas, heavy with jagged fragments of Ice. and it was a reck lew Green bay skipper who let the wind blow the masts out o f his schooner rather than reef her. because he had been told that his crew thought him ‘nervous*—a mad sort o f courage, to be sure, but proof positive for ull time that he was no coward.” “ St. John’s, N. F., lives by its fish eries; nothing worth While is produced there, blit, according to the uusophisti- | ited stranger, there is a noisy and vituperative wrangling over the wealth biat comes down from the coasts,” says a write« in the World’s Work. “ There are some few factories, to be sure, but they are too ingeniously managed by half. For instance, a certain brand of tobacco, made at St. John's and ex clusively ccusumed by fishermen, is sold in the French island of St. 1 Her re for half what it costs the Newfound land ‘bay noddle,’ and the manufac I m p r o v e m e n t In N e w Y o r k . turers pay $13,000 yearly to the pro New York dairy and creamery butter prietor of a rival concern to induce should hold a still better position In the him to keep his plant shut down. At market as soon as the work of the four St. John’s, too, is the aristocracy o f the new state dairy instructors begins to colony—merchants, middlemen, law show effect. They will visit tiie sec yers, physicians, officeholders, tricky tions where room and desire for Im tvtod abusive politicians and colonial proveinent are seen and do what they knights (the visitor may observe on a can to point out the trouble. The salary signboard above a little corner store. of $1.-0 0 u year will probably attract ‘Sir. Thomas Morbitrn. Grocer. Cheap many candidates, but the civil service Teas’ ). There is neither sympathy nor examination should weed them out mercy for the fisherman here, though satisfactorily. The state cheese In there is a most enthusiastic reception structors are already doing good work for what he takes from the sea. He Is and competent butter teachers might regarded as legitimate prey, is most prove even more helpful.—Americai marvelously lied to before election and Agriculturist abused, ridiculed and reviled after ward. But through it all he preserves Already There. a humble faith in ‘all those set iu au She—I heard you complimenting her thority over him.* upou her girlish appearance. What did “ A doctor of the outports—the inci she say? dent is related because, though it may He—She said. “ Ah, but I’ m sure I appear an extraordinary case, it yet shall look much older when I’ m. forty.” aptly Indicates what has for years P eculiar Twin«. She—Huh! She means she’ ll look been the attitude o f the ‘upper’ classes A Harlem mother who lias twins and much older when she admits she is toVvurd the fishermen, without whom Is perforce obliged to study the pe forty.—Philadelphia Press. Newfoundland would lie waste and culiarities of the species uttirms that deserted, the shame o f the fair earth— lever has she punished one o f them— HU Title. a. doctor of the outports was once call- licy are both boys for a misdeed hut “ How did he get his title of colonel?” that the other committed the identical »‘ He got It to distinguish him from offense at the very first opportunity. his wife’s first husband, who was a Moreover, if one asks a question, es captain, and his w ife’s second husband. q a o v E ’S pecially in regard to an unusual hap- Who was a major.” —Exchange. pening. in the nboence of the other his brother almost invariably repeats the TASTELESS CHILL K ill) An evil speaker only wants an op query and very frequently In the same portunity to become an evil doer.— Has stood the test of^25 years. An phraseology. Quintilian. Her twins are not had boys, but nual sale over 1,600,000 bottles. the mother says that she is satis Does Ibis record of mer fied of the fact that twins require as it appeal to you? much attention and make us much noise as four ordinary children.—New £ u r e I > o - - - York Times. DALLAS P tSHLNOEK—DAILY, EX SUNDAY 00 p m Lv . . . P ortla n d ... ArlO 20 « m ... P s H m . . :20 p ni Ar .Lv T.-00 Paiw nirer depot f--ot o f Jiffer-wm street AIR .IE F R E IG H T —TKI W EEKLY L «a v e 7 :4 0 * m . . . P ortla n d ......... Arrive 3 :3 2 p m Lp* c 3.50 p m ............D*i'a->........... Arrive 8:20 a m Arrive ft u5 p m .......... Airiie Leave 7 00 a m Mother m m - TRU CK M AN . DALLAS NO. 37. DALLAS OREGON SEPTEMBER JJ. 1903 VOL. X X IX . 3 ALEÊVT 3 BEST O ld //nni; coit^ea S T O R E * * CURES A COLD IN CNE DAY CURES GRIP IN TWO DAYS f & Is known n« ilio pi »re where the V * I M ififftd for five yrr.rs w ith in fla m m a tio n w h ich cnu-s.fi v iolen t g ain « n d o fte n tortu re « o bo<l at tim e » tli a I cotiM n ot b r » b o u t t o a tten d to m y d a ily d u d e * ,’' w rite « “Mr*. Inliiia C. Bell, o f Bathspad. K in g s’ on , »»nt. " L i t e was sim p ly m i i r r v t o m e a m i I did »»'A k n o w w h ich w a y to turn fo r relief H ad trie d d octor* but fou n d t h e y did not h e lp m e M y drnirgist a d v ised m e to try D r P ie r ce '« F avori’t « P rev rqM ion- etilo- ¡fi. i.iK it in f?l< w in g term *. I d e c id e d t o a i v e it a trial a n d b r m r'it a b o ttle h o m e I am n a pp v to n n v that n ter th e u«e o f th e fir»t b ottle I felt • o m ilch in ip r o /e d I d e c id e d to ta k e a n o th e r and a fte r tlm t a th ir d bottle I have g o o d rea son * to b e p lea sed , f * I *<n t »-day a v.-clT w o m a n , w ork i* e s* v a n d tl>e w o r ld lo o k * brig h t. 1 h a v e p e r fect hea lth , th a n k * to y o u r m edR -m e." * !-* are s d'l for the iii o n c y U p to d « t e s h o p V ' t p i u i * o u r ¡titti. S l a p d a « h , lia n in g o lu c k y , w in o r b -»• ni t l i 't U «io n u t g o lu re. T u c r e is t o o t m ir h at s la k e . W e a r e b u i l d i n g b is im s-« u u t o f in a le x ia l tlm t w id la * H O N EST GOODS H O N E S T P R IC E S H O N E S T S E R V IC E * i S a t i s f a c t i o n in every in-»¡t»»ce • r m o r e f u n d e d . S*ti‘ fs«»ion * is citing hut yo*» Wrttif. We ttdl the troth n I.« hi out g mm !* or » |l) r< fond y ur niinn v. If your | nr Ini f . 1 Hali-n, » !» »1 .tore do,-» not piove ei tin ly ««ii-f»<-t'>ry , a i-hancn to ni->k* il ri lit i- -, (■•ni—tlv nc|!ie«'«l No'In .a i. any botln r 10 11 « if it result» ¡ » ( ^ SA HHKAC HON Mail O rd srs W ill R eceive Prom pt A tte n tio on n J A worn out, who never has ta lift a hand for herself, who does not know the meaning of the word " worry” ! How < « . it be possible? That it is possi ble is . ned by the exj>ericnee of many a woman who, because of sleeplessness, nervOia 'ieM, backache and other wom- anly ills, becomes an utter physical wreck. Dr. Pierce’■ Favorite Prescription gives new life ami new strength to weak, w rn- out, run-down women. It establishes rc'T'ibirity, dries unhealthy drains, heals infianitnation and ulceration, and cures female weakness. It makes weak women strong and sick women well. THIS BIONATUU 6WA V IS T APPEAR ON EVERY BOX OF THE GENUINE. Sick women are invited to consult Dr. Pierce l*y letter, free. Address Dr. R. V. Pierre, Buffalo, N Y. * Favorite Presc ription ” makes weak women strong, »ick women well. Ac cept no sub*t itute for the medicine which works wonders for weak women. Dr. Pierre's Pleasant Pellets should bt used with ** Favorite Prescription ” when ever a laxative is required. O VER ly dcniuiistriitp* the raci that nirnita can bo «Kveaafully «rown Ly Inoculat ing tbo flnlds that do not contain bac teria with u nmn! uantlty of soil from a Hold known nave them.—Kansna Fa ru.LT. TR O U B LE S f “I And Th« dford’« Black-Draught ■ good medicine for li er d seas«. It C" rod my on after he had ap nt $103 with dootora. It is all tFe med icine I take."—MRS. CA OLINE MARTIN, Parkers kurg, W. Va. If your liver does not act reg ularly go to your iruggiat ami secure a package of Thedford’s Black-Draught and take a dose tonight. This great family medicine frees the constipated bowels, stirs up the torpid liver ami cause« a healthy secretion of bile. Thedford’s Black - Draught will ch ante the bowels of im purities and strengthen the kid neys. A torpid liver invites colds, biliousness, chills and fever and all manner of sick ness and contagion. Weak kid neys result in Bright's disease which claims as many victims as consumption. A 23-cent package of Thedford’s Black- Draught should always be kept in the house. “ I used Thedford’s Black Draught for liver and k dney com- and found nothin« to exoel f ilaint t V ILL I AM COFFMAN, Mar blehead, 111. TOMATO TROUBLES Cnt o f D«for 1)I si > mnm —tn th racn o« Ei ght h i m ! Leaf Spot. Anti.rnen^seoccasionally causes small depressed snots In tomatoes. It may be checked by the use o f bordeaux mix ture« Bacterial blight of the tomato, c ■*% plant and potato causes sudden blfi ht- ing and decay of the stems and bram h- T H Z D F O R D ’3 LBAF S P O T DLACIt- DMUGHT es attacked. Preventive measures rec ommended include fighting the Insects, early removal of diseased vines, choice of fresh land not previously in potatoes or egg plant and tomato seed from healthy sources. Tomato leaf spot or leaf blight is an outdoor trouble, ns are the two already mentioned. The leaf spot fungus ap pears to be gradually traveling west ward from the Atlantic const. It may he successfully prevented by about three thorough sprayings with bor deaux mixture, though some difficulty attaches to the treatment o f unstaked plants in the field.—A. D. Selby, Ohio tonggi!j»<nt station. A L F A L F A B A C T E R IA . A Laok o f Them the Canae of Diffi culty In ü r o n liif Alfalfa. In some parts of the country alfalfa without an3f apparent reason fails to make a proper growth or a permanent stand. The Kansas Farmer has sug gested that lack o f the peculiar bacte ria to produce the root tubercles which appropriate atmospheric nitrogen to the use o f the plant may in some eftses St least account for the failure. Recent experiments conducted by R. W. Clo thier, professor o f agriculture and chem istry, Southeast Missouri State Normal, tend to confirm* this view. Speaking of these experiments, Professor Clothier, w ho is a “ formerly o f Kansas” man, says : I have long believed that the chief reason why the farmers o f the Missis sippi valley have had difficulty in grow ing alfalfa is lack of bacteria in their soil. I have been experimenting some what along this line here on the Nor mal grounds, and, while my work Is not yet completed, it might bt* well for me to present to you now for publication the results already obtained. The soil upon which I am working is a loess clay on top of one o f the Mis sissippi river bluffs. A few years ago the top o f this hill was all scraped off, the dirt being used to make terraces in other parts o f the campus. If I can succeed in growing alfalfa upon such a soil I am confident that It can be grown upon any other farm In southeast Mis souri. In October, 1001. I placed thirteen ioads o f manure upop a part o f this bill, the plat measuring 90 by 135 feet. The manure was plowed under and the ground left Idle till May 1, 1002. I then laid off four small plats ten feet square adjoining each other. All o f them were sown to alfalfa. The two farther south were untreated. One of those on the north side was treated with fifteen pounds o f unslaeked lime, anil the other was untreated, with the exception that two pounds o f dirt from an old alfalfa field containing tubercle* was spread upon a Mt rip two feet wide oil the west side. ReMt.lt« o f Kspérim ent«. The alfalfa mine up nicely upon all the plats. In about six weeks the alfal fa on the untreated soil began to turn yellow and practically quit growing. On the limed plat It continued to grow, but dlil not have a bright green color. On the Inoculated strip o f soil the alfal fa had n rich, dark green color, grew nicely, and about the middle o f the summer the green strip began to grow wider. Examination o f the r»>ots showed then) to Is» bountifully supplied with nodules. At the end of the growing *<•«- son last year the green strip had grown to I k * five or six feet wide. The alfalfa on the limed pari was still a good stand, though having a pale green color, while the alfalfa on the two plats untreated had gradually died out till there was practically none lef^ ami what little could be seen was entirely killed by th° winter. Last spring the alfalfa on the In jcu lat» m ! plat staited out with a dark green color, and this color showed a decided tendency to spread rapidly, soon covering the remainder of the plut and beginning to encroach upon the limed plat. The alfalfa on the limed plat still retalncMl Its pule green color, grew slowly and showed a tend ency to die out. On May 25 the alfal fa on tlie inoculated soil was eighteen Inches high, while that on the limed plat, not yet ranched by the bn«*teria, was not over eight Inches high. In a very short time the bacteria F il spread fn.n: a strip two feet wide over a distance o f twenty fe~t and had covered nil the limed plat except about tb ^ s Jeet on one corner* T b k eertain- L I F E IN ON T O M A T O LKAFLET AND S T E M . E N G L IS H V ILLA G ES. It l a N o t t h e I d y l l i c F o r m T h a t P o e t * Min« A b o u t . “ I know a village where there are no fewer than thirty cottages with but one bedroom apiece, and in each of these single bedrooms six, seven and more people are sleeping,” says A. Montefloro-Bruce, writing in the Lon don Mail about life iu the average Eng lish village. “ In one o f them, father, mother and eight children huddled to gether. In another, father, mother and six children—three o f whom are grown up—are sleeping. In these cottages there Is one living room downstairs and no sanitary arrangement of any kind. At the back o f the cottages runs an open ditch. It is also un open sewer. “ Here, in the very heart of the coun try, I expect to find abundance of pure water, abundance o f sweet air. Too often 1 find neither about the cottugus. Hundreds o f villages have no water supply, though a comparatively small expenditure could provide it. I know a village—it Is typical of hundreds— where the cottagers have to go half a mile to get water. A foul ditch fur nishes another village with the whole o f Its water supply. Offensive refuse heaps lie piled round the crumbling walls of the cottages. The wooden floors within are rotten with sewage. “ Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex contain many such villages, and other couutles —such as Bedford, Cambridgeshire, Wiltshire, Dorset, Somerset—easily vlo with them. I could write o f lonely cottages far across the fields, with no water within a mile, whence the chil dren morning after morning walk two miles to school, and drag their tired limbs that distance back again nt night —and tills whatever the weather; where the postal service comes but once a week; where the men and boys walk dally five or six miles to and from work; where o f drainage there Is none; where of the simplest sanitation there Is none; where the medical officer of health conics not, and where the In spector of uulsances Is unknown.” The C oun try Town. It's unAnon to sneer at the country town. With Its quiet streets and Its peuceful air, Where the little river meanders down To be lost in the broad, blue aea some where As we «.ho think we are wise are lost In the roaring city that, like the sea, Hus its ebb and flow, with ita rr»..lions tossed Aajnib./«*-* robbed of identity. There's fellowship in the country town, W’tth Its empty streets and its spreading trees. Where the country song birds xarbie down At maids ¿4 fair as man ever set«. Where »he wind blows aweet from the Acids near by, Whr*re men know the names which their neigh bors bear. Where a man Is missed when he*« gone to I I h \V».rt the peaceful ones wh'» havs ceased to car»». There are Joys out there In ths country town That we of the city may neveT learn In the rush for money and for renown. ^«alrontlnff*stran -s where’er we turn! Oh, wasn’t (Jod i v id serene and fulr In the country town ere rfe came uwayT And won't it be sw>*« t to sleep out there. Far from the city’s roar, some day? —Chicago Record-Herald. I Seventeenth O n 's r y Song. New Year*« Wassail, wassail, to our town! The cup is whits and the a.e Is brown; 7^*e cup Is made of the ash*-, n tree. And so Is the ale of the goo*' barley. Idttle maid little maid, turn the pin; Open the door and 1st me corns in. 0od be here and God be there! I his h fun all a» happy n*w ySarl