5 V"-;
I k4WmgWtetjFfces-t 'CO?
I As if I didn't know the voice
That maddens and bewitches.
If ain't that I must answer for
The sin of money-getting,
And yet it's (oniPthiiig just as bad
O Lord, I'm always fretting!
notice, but climbed on the HttleTafrald of the future. The future seemed
mSaarnees and begged for uennies. dark and terrihle. Within its nwfni
ch he gave them with smiling good grasp there lay the destiny of those
two Jittle ones whom he loved. Con-
E3fnsTve clothes I never yet
Was guilty of possessing
- I always had to do the work,
' While others did the dressing.
Hut common clothes are good enough;
For that I ain t regretting
It'8 only tliis I'm asking for:
Deliver me from fretting.
I do the work that comes to me
They never called me lazy ;
My thoughts concerning right an' wrong
Are far from being hazy;
I try to do my level best
A good example setting
But somehow, Lord, I always fail,
And yield myself to fretting.
Of course that ain't my only fault
I make no vain pretensions,
For all my other failings are
Of none too small dimens'ons.
But that, of all my Worldly sins,
Is much the most besetting, ' 1
And so, O Lord, I humbly pray
That I may keep from fretting.
-Youth's Companion.
Cowards All
-J
The small, weary-looking man with
the pntlent eyes climbed' the stairs of
the tenement as the clock struck 0. Ills
work for the day was ended, but he
nhowcd no sign of pleasure at his home
coming. On the contrary, he seemed a
little terrified.
He knocked tlmldlly at the door. It
was flung open by a very slatternly
woman with small red eyes, and an ag
gressively pointed chin.
"Well, I'm sure," she began angrily,
"so you're late again. Don't know what
you mean by It. I've had the kettle on
the hob since 5. And this Is all the
thanks as I get."
"I'm sorry," said Huxtable slowly,
"but it couldn't be helped, my dear.
The foreman put me on a special Job,
and It meant stoppln' a bit later than
usual or Hpolllii' the whole thing."
"Yes, your work Is all you think
about," said his wife, spitefully, "not
a thought for your home and two chil
dren, not to mention me."
"I don't think that quite true," he
Bald meekly.
It certainly was not. He was good
and devoted, but Mrs. Huxtable would
never admit .anything In his favor. She
was one of those women who seem to
regard their husbands as schoolmasters
of the old regime would regard their
unhappy pupils as something to be
bullied, ma It rented and altogether sub
dued. Huxtable had put up with the
treatment for fifteen years. Sometimes,
when he looked back on the past, he
wondered how he had been able to en
dure tils torments with such patience.
"Where's Jack and Archie?" he
asked, as he went to the sink to wash
his hands.
"Ah, you may well ask. Where, In
deed! Playln' In tho court, I expee'
and gettln' into bud company. Hut that
coniOB because their father don't trouble
lilsself about Vm. They'll go to rack
and ruin, you mark my words, If you
Idon't keep a tight 'and on 'em."
"I should have thought that was your
Job, so to speak," suggested Huxtable.
"No, It's a father's place to look after
his boys. Besides, you know as how
they don't think nolhln of me when
you're about. It's dad this and dad
that, till I'm fairly sick of hearln'
' them say It."
"Yes, I think they're fond of me,"
aald poor Huxtable, with a little break
In his voice.
"Not that they've got much reason to
be," snapped the woman. "Rut, then,
children nllers takes to them as does
the least for Vm. That's what's so
unfair."
She poured out the tea, and gave the
unhappy Huxtable his meal In silence.
IIo looked round the room and sighed
The weeks laundry was susiHnidod
from string overhead, and the room was
filled with a warm dampness. Not a
vestige of comfort was In sight. A
Weak, wretched homo was this he re
flected cursed by an Ill-tempered wife
who had not even the virtues of her
vices. For the average nagging woman
was generally tidy and clean, but Mrs.
Huxtable was neither one nor the oth
er. Equally, tyrannical women fre
quently made good mothers and brought
up their offspring In the way they
should go, but Mrs. Huxtable's complete
equipment for the training of Archie
and Jack consisted of a broken broom
handle. She taught them nothing
which could help them to grow up Into
good and useful men. She had, Indeed,
spoken the truth when she said that
unless the father looked after them
their futures would be In peril.
After tea Huxtable took out his pipe.
This action was always the signal for
unkind comment on the woman's part.
She did not really dislike the smell of
tobacco, but she disliked the Idea of her
husband euj,vlng himself. So she
miffed, groaned and criticised until at
length he knocked out the ashes and
replmsM the pipe In his pocket.
"I wish you was a bit more even
tempered." he said gently; "It 'ud make
thlrgs pleiiKanter."
When the children came home, Mrs.
Iluvtable delivered a short lecture to
them on the brutality of their father.
Ti- vouiusUTs, however, did not take j
nature. But when the boys had gone
to bed, and he was alone in the little
sitting room, he sat with his head in
his hands, asking himself what it all
meant. '
Why were some men singled out for
such homes, as this, he wondered, whilst
others had love, happiness, and all that
made life worth living? There was Tom
Harris, for example, who worked in his
shop. Harris was anything but a saint,
and drank a large part of his wages,
but he had a wife who worshiped him,
and his Home was always comfortable
and cozy. There was Barclay, that long,
ugly fellow, who frequently blacked his
wife's eyes, but who, nevertheless, led
a pleasant life enough when he was not
under the influence of drink, whilst he,
Huxtable, was bullied and badgered
from morning to night, until his exist
ence was rendered almost unbearable.
As he sat ami pondered things, he re
menibered how another acquaintance of
his own had cut the Gordlan knot
abruptly by clearing out and leaving
his unkind wife to her own resources.
He had gone off suddenly, and no news
had been heard of him afterward. Some
said he had gone to Canada, the place
where a man who knew a decent trade
could always get good work and good
wages.
Of late, Huxtable had thought a
good deal almut.tlils man. Secretly, he
had envied lilm his pluck,, and had
wished that he, too, could do likewise.
0, for a glorious spoil of freedom free
dom from that harsh voice from that
most gloomy face. If only he dared.
An evening newspaper lay on the
table. He took It up, and strangely
enough the first thing which he noticed
was the advertisement of a steamship
company that announced reduced rates
to Canadian ports. Huxtable began to
tremble.
"I've got money enough," he mur
mured, "money to take me over, and
to keep me goin' til I get a Job. And
when once I was settled, and earnln'
science awoke in him, and stirred all
the fear that lingered In his blood.
A man in uniform touched him on the
shoulder. , ... , ' : . .. .
"The booking office is open now,
mate," he said kindly. "The train goes
In fifteen minutes." ,
Huxtable looked up wih a start.
"Thanks, ole man," he said absently,
but he did not go toward the window
where one booked for the north. He
sought the street instead, and climbed
on a 'bus going eastward. It deposited
him at the gates of the factory where
he worked, and he was Just in time to
slip through the door and save himself
lw1n? shut nut till rtlnnpr thnp
In the afternoon he went home with
his wages, and with a boat which he
had bought for the children to sail on
the pond in the park. Mrs. Huxtable
greeted him in her usual acid manner.
"You never came to bed last night,"
she said. "Ton my word, I think you
must be goin' off your head. What was
you doin'?"
"I was Just thlnkin', that's all,." he
replied nervously.
Thlnkin'. Much g'XKl that did you,
I expect. Thlnkin' of how you could
upset me, I dare say."
Huxtable shoolt his head and smiled.
The two boys were standing close by,
eagerly discussing the question of navi
gation as they handled the little boat
"If we was in the boat, and fell out.
dad would- save us, wouldn't you, dad?"
murmured Jackie, aged 6, "for you're
awful brave, I know."
Huxtable laughed gently.
"Your father 'ud be too much of a
coward for that," snarled the mother.
But he only laughed again.
"It's good to be a coward sometimes,"
he said huskily. "It's better for them
as we love. " Manchester
Chronicle. .
MAKING OF FRUIT SUGAR.
BNII'TED, OIIOANED AND CRITICISED.
decent money, I could send Carrie a bit
every month."
With silent feet he went toward the
door and opened It. The chill morning
air seemed to rob him of courage. Seat
ed by the fire in the pleasant warmth,
flight had seemed an easy matter. The
future had appeared equally simple.
Hut the Inliospltnble air of tbe dawn
seemed to bid him go back rather than
forward."
He mastered the Impulse, and went
down the stone stairs that led to the
street. Then he walked rapidly along
Gray's Inn road toward King's Cross,
At a coffee stand he bought some food.
It revived him, and he felt Inclined to
smile as he pictured his wife's wonder
ment and rago when he failed to come
home.
At Kuston he was told that there
would not be a train for au hour. He
sat dowu In the great iMioklng-hall. How
strange it esenied to be there. At that
nour ne was usually on his way to
work. Already a sense of freedom was
beginning to hold his being. He felt
elated and surprised at the same time.
A bookstall boy entered the booking
hall on his way to the platform. Some
thing in the youngster's face recalled
the face of Archie. A slight paug took
hold of Huxtable's heart, lie wondered
why he had not thought about the chil
dren before. At least he might have
contrived to take a last look at them
previous to his leaving the house. He
felt very annoyed at his neglect.
It would bo hard on them, losing
their father, he reflected, very hard.
Ihelr mother meant little to them, but
for lilm they had always love and ten
derness. He remembered how he had
promised to take both boys to Battersea
park that afternoon, It being the Satur
day half-holiday. And now how now?
Well, he know Just what he was do
ing. Ho was running away from them
and from his responsibilities, like a
thief In the night, fleeing from Justice.
Gradually his memory would slip from
their childish brains. The way would
come when the word father would con
vey nought to them save a shadowy
recol lection.
What would be their future, now that
he was gone? Surely the streets would
claim them, and the foul Influences of
the slum would bear them down into
the depths. Had not his wife said that
he -alone could keep them from "rack
and ruin?"
He rose and paced the gloomy hall, In
a fever of doubt. Already his new free
dom was beginning to seem a thing of
mixed good. It certainly had Its evil
side. His wife could manage well
enough without him, but the children
ah. they were different.
lie was coward now, and he wa
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ertlea of the Product.
Levulose, or fruit sugar, Is little
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ly a dollar a pound. This variety of
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The only process by' which chemical
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ly in large quantities Is based on the
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the tubers of the dahlia. The dahlia is
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toes. They are propagated by division
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The manufacture of pure levulose
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In the first place the Inulln Is extract
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The field of application of levulose is
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be made.
No Place for Itobbers.
A aangerous neigiiborhood your
living In, Colonel," said a newspaper
man to Charles Edwards, of the Demo
cratic Congressional Campaign Com
mittee, a few nights ago, In Washing
ton. "Been four highway robberies
there in the past mouth. Aren't you
afraid that somebody will hold you up
and go through you some night?"
"Should say not," said the big Texan.
"Why, ah've got so few means on my
pusson at the present time that the
robber who goes through me will get
hlsself In debt." Success Magazine.
lloprlcaa Caae.
Dill I lost my silk umbrella yestei
day at the club.
Pickles Too bad ! But you'll get it
back, won't you? Aren't jour initials
on It? . 4
DIU Well, come to think of It, there
are some initials on It, but they aren't
mine. Yale Record
What a splendid thing f would be If
leople who lose their tempers were uu
able to find them again!
One cuff on the wrist is worth a ,
en on the ear
"You know Henry, don't' you?" Said
the groceryman, after the pretty cook
had checked up the groceries with the
bill. -
"I know two or three Henrys," re
plied the pretty cook.
"You're afraid It's some gag, ain't
you?" grinned the groceryman. "You
think I want you to ask what Henry,
an then I'll say suthin' foolish."
"You'd say that anyway," observed
the pretty cook, Indifferently. "That
wouldn't be nothin' new. What about
Henry?" -
"His other name was Clay, an' now
it's mud," replied the groceryman,
chuckling. "Don't get mad, Evelina.
That's right straight goods. You
know Henry 'at clerks In the store.
His name is Henry Clay, honest."
"I thought you said It was mud,"
remarked the pretty cook.-
"That's right, too," said the grocery
man. "He's a-goln' to be married. I
feel sorry for him, pore guy!"
"I feel sorry for the girl," said tbe
cook. "If I had to marry a feller like
him I'd feel sorry for myself. I know
that." '
"Don't you waste no tears o sym
pathy on her," said the groceryman.
"She didn't have to marry him If she
didn't want to."
"I s'pose he don't have to marry her
If he don't want to," said the pretty
cook. "I don't know who she is, and
I don't care, but I bet she didn't give
him chloroform an tie him up an
keep him tied until he promised to
marry her. She prob'ly said she'd mar
ry him to get rid of him."
"Sure thing," said the grocerymau,
sarcastically. "That's the way you all
do, don't you? You want us to stop
makln' love to you, ain't that it?"
"You know all about it. Why do
you ask me?" said the cook.
"She looked mighty Innocent," said
the groceryman. "So does the mouse
trap look innocent. It doesn t care
whether there's a mouse anywhere
within a mile. It can get along first-
rate without any mice. Mr. Mouse
comes up an' sniffs, but the trap don't
take no notice. . Then It sorter seems
to him that there's suthin' wrong an'
he scoots off. That's the way Henry
done. He said he didn't want to get
tangled up . with no skirt. He quit
goin' to the door for nigh two weeks.
but that didn't worry the girl. She
didn't come into the store to see what
had come of him any more'n the mouse
trap 'ud try to squeeze into the hole
after the mouse. She Jest waited."
It s one good way to make you
stop," said the cook. "I don't know
which is the worst. Women have hard
luck, anyway. If you'd only let us
alone, though, I guess you wouldn't
have no trouble. We don't do the
chasln'."
"You don't need to," said the gro
ceryman. "You never seen "a trap go
chasln' around after a mouse, did you?
All It does is Jest to set around an'
look Invttln. That's all this girl done
that Henry's goin' to marry."
"l bet she akin t know he was on
earth," said the cook.
"I bet she could have thrown a wad
o' gum over her shoulder an' hit him
in the eye if she wanted to," said the
groceryman. "Anyway, it wasn't long
afore Henry was out again, an after
a while lie got to speakin' to her, an'
the nex' thing you know he was pick
In' out the best candy in the showcase
Jest afore quittln' time, three nights a
week an' Sunday mornln'. No, I don't
s'pose she gave him no encouragement.
If she was out on the steps wearin' her
lace waist, with a carnation in her
hair, an' he was fool enough to come
along and set down by her, she wasn't
o blame, was she?" ,
"I sh'd say not," fcald the cook.
"Sure she wasn't," agreed the gro
ceryman. "But when pore Henry ast
her how about a flat snap ! she had
him right around the neck strangle
holt Henry told me about it, an' hou
est, It makes me nervous every time I
come up these back steps."
"You don't need to be," said the pret
ty cook.
"Then what have you got your hair
done up that swell way for?" asked
the groceryman. Chicago Daily News.
while , on the inside it opened on a
broad fireplace across that end of tte
room. , . . . - . . .;
"The cabin was banked all around
with earth, against which hemlock and
pine boughs were heaped. Sometimes
ranks of cordwood were piled up al
most to the eaves, the better to keep
out the cold, which is always intense
during the winter on these windswept
bills.
"There was rarely a cabin with more
than one room. The walls were dark
and smoky, and from rafter or beam
hung plentifully strips of Jerked venl
son and chunks of smoked bear meat,
along with hams and bacon from tbe
family pigs fattened in the woods and
almost as wild as the bear and the
deer. But the choicest and best beloved
thing of the cabin's larder was the fat
and well frozen wild turkey. .
"While the woodman's cabin was al
ways prepared for a turkey eat, it
never knew when it was coming. A
turkey eat began with the making up
of a patty in a neighboring village or
settlement. Taking along a fiddler,
they would appear at this, that or the
other woodsman's cabin of a winter
evening and the woodsman and his
family did the rest,
instantly the blrchwood pail oi
cider came forth. While the . cabin's
guests drank cider the host prepared
and spitted the turkey over the hickory
coals in the fireplace to roast for the
feast. When it was ready for the table
it was placed before the guests on a
big tin platter. Each one carved for
himself, the plates being squares of
birch bark.
"The turkey eat was not complete,
though, without a liberal supply of
'paan haas' and headcheese, and with
it went the sweetest of rye bread and
butter. Paan haas is a strictly Penn
sylvania Dutch creation..
"It is made from the rich juices left
after boiling the ingredients for head
cheese, these being thickened- to a stiff
paste with buckwheat flour. This paste
is pressed in forms until cold and is
served in slices. It is a dull blue in
color, very rich and very good.
"After the feast the turkey eat was
rounded out by a night of Jollity super
induced by. the fiddle and maintained
by It in Its music for the old-fashioned
cotillon figures and reels, which, were
danced until the gray of morning.
"But most of those old-time woods
men have passed away, and on those
whg are still dwellers In the moun
tains the game laws have forced a sit
uation that leaves them with their an
cient occupation gone and the hunt
being no longer a source of mainten
ance, Its traditions have departed with
it. The newer generation of these peo
ple is of other taste and association, so
while the wild turkey is yet in prox
imity in that Blue mountain region to
supply the material for the festive tur
key eat, the traditions and associations
that made It possible are no more and
it is gone, like the apple cut, the quilt
ing bee, the pig-kllling frolic and oth
ers, of the old-time rural pastimes that
are now but a memory."
THEVEEICIY
ffiSTM
life
An Honest Opinion.
Among the interesting anecdotes il
lustrative of Mr. Cleveland's refusal
to give pledges of any sort is that
which describes an incident of the cam
paign of 1802, and is printed in the
New York Evening Post. A literary
friend of Mr. Cleveland brought to
gether, as if by chance, the Democratic
nominee and a prominent Irish-American
contractor who was supposed to
have much influence with the coveted
Irish vote.
The interview was so managed that
the two men were left alone in the lit
erary man's library for an hour. At
the end of that time they were discov
ered swapping stories with each other
like old friends.
"Well," asked the host of the con
tractor, after Mr. Cleveland had left,
"what do you think of him?"
"Sure," replied the contractor, beam
ing all over, "he's the greatest man I
ever saw. He s a foine man, a grand
man. He wouldn't promise to do wan
thing I asked lilm."
THE OLD-TIME TURKEY EAT.
Gone from the Pranaylvanta Mom
talna Along; with the Woodamen.
u isn t oecause tuere is no more
material in the Blue Mountain region
of Pennsylvania to provide a turkey
eat that we have had the last of those
famous festivities," said 'a former
dweller of the district described to a
writer In the New York Sun, "for there
are still wild turkeys a-plenty. ' ;
"The turkey eat has gone out with
the passing of the people whose homes.
traditions and manner of life made It
possible and with the occupation that
was once theirs.
"In the days when the turkey eat
was the great wluter festivity In the
mountain districts between the Schuyl
kill and the Juniata watersheds the
sparse population was chiefly of rude
and rugged woodmen and their fani-
Saw Him Firat.
About the year 1707 William Penn
became heavily involved in a lawsuit,
and the author of a recent biography,
entitled "Quaker and Courtier," says
that he was greatly In fear under thi
laws of the day of being arrested.
Many noble personages were In the
same plight, but no other, it is believed.
resorted to Penn's expedient In meet
ing the situation.
In the door of his London house he
had a peeplng-hole made, through
which he could see any person who
came to him. A creditor one day sent
in his name, and having been made to
wait more than a reasonable time,
knocked for the servant, and asked
him:
"Will not your master see me?"
"Friend, he has seen thee," replied
the servant, calmly, "and does not like
the. looks, of -thee." -
1492 Columbus, cast anchor in the ia'
Of St. Thomas. s i
1773 Destruction of cargo of taxed tea
in Boston harbor by citizens disguis
ed as Indians, known as the "Boston "
Tea Party." "'' -
1775 British under ''Lord Dunmore de-
reated by the Americans at Norfolk,
Va.
1770 The seat of the United States gov- '
ernment was removed to Baltimore.
1777 North Carolina adopted constitu
tion.
1778 Four hundred persons- perished in
ine Durnmg of a theater in Sara
gossa, Spain. ; --",-
1787 New Jersey ratified . the Federal
constitution. . . ; " - '
1789 The first circulating library wa
established in Salein, Mass,
,1790 The Russians took te fortress Is-
mael from the Turks. .
1792 First provincial Parliament of
lower Canada met at Quebec,
1799 Burial of Gen. Washington.; ,
1804 Thomas Jefferson and George Clin
ton were unanimously chosen Presi
dent and Vice President of tha; Unit
ed States, ' . j-
1807 First Roman Catholic orphan asy-
Jum in America incorporated in Phil
adelphia. ' . ; j
1812 Town of Derbv' Vt.. attacked by I
the British. : . '" '-'' !
3835 Great fire in New York; $20,000,- .
UUO property loss.
1845 Sir Hugh'1 Gough defeated the
Sikhs in .battle of MoodliM. '. v;,;, ;
1846 The first regiment to fight against
Mexico was organized in Pittsburg.
1852 'Sacramento, Cal.,. was flooded by
the breaking of a levee. . .
1855 Joel Abbott, commanding '. the
Auicinau nquaurua iu lue Ejaal in-
s
die's, died at Hongkong. .
1800 South Carolina seceded from the
Union..,. Gov. Hicks of Maryland
refused to receive the Mississippi
. .' commissioners, -:, ;
1862 The Confederates recaptured Holly
Springs, Miss. - ' "
1864 President Lincoln called for 800,
000 volunteers. . . .Gen, Dix Issued an
order for reprisals on Canadians be
cause of the St. Albans raid ; order
annulled later by President Lincoln.
1870 Destructive fire 'at Little Rock,
, Ark. -. -: '; - i .....
1880 Paul Kruger elected president of
the South African republic. '
1891 Drexel. Institute of Art, Science
and Industry dedicated in Philadel
phia .... Sir Oliver Mowat, ' Liberal
prime minister of Ontario, Issued aa t
, address declaring vigorously against jf
'American assimilation. ' '
1893 A provincial plebiscite in Prince- ,
Edward Island supported prohibition
of the liquor traffic by an overwhelm
ing majority. '
1894 E. V. Debsjientcnced to six:''
months' imprisonmenT for contempt ;
of court during the great .railroad
strike in Chicago. 1. . ;
1899 The Broadway' National Bank of
Boston closed its doors. . . .Lord Rob-;
erts appointed commander-in-chief of
the British forces in South Africa. 1
1902 George Moorman, adjutant general
of the United Confederate Veterans,
died at New Orleans, ; .
1905 Gov. La Follette of Wisconsin re
signed and wajuwcceeded by Lieut
Gov. D87;7S. ; . .Abraham H. Hum
mel, New York lawyer, was convicted '
of ojnspiracy and sentenced to Imi ;
prison ment for one year.. . ,
1907 The American battleshin fleet de-
parted from Hampton Roads for the
Pacific coast. ;. i
Too Much for Him.
"How true that old saying Is about
a child asking questions that a man
cannot answer," remarked Toplelgh.
"What s the trouble now?" queried
his friend Singleton.
"This morning," replied Popleigh.
"my little boy asked me whv men
mes, many oi mem ueseenoants or pure gent to Congress, and 1 couldn't teU
t eunsyivania uuten biock, scores of I him." Chicago News.
them tlepeiKtwi almost entirely on their
skill with gun and trap for. their food j
srpply.
"I he cabins of these mountaineers
were built of logs, the chinks between
which were filled in with clay. A huge
stone chimney rose at oue end of the
cabin ontsiuA' cowing tbat entire cad. I on 'fir ' . : - . I
When a bad man dies, his neighbors
say : " ell, at the funeral the minis
ter will have to talk about the living."
When a man's, house hurts down,
seven men out of ten believe he act it
FACTS FOR FARMERS, ;
A rabbit hunt, in which twenty met
and boys participated, and which resulted f
in the slaughter of 278 rabbits, ushered
In the first heavy fall of snow in the vi
cinity of Albion, Iowa. Metcalf - and
Fraley, two members of one team, killed ;
eighty-eight cotton tails In one slough.
- Paper is to be manufactured from eoV
ton stalks, according to a report of the,
bureau of manufactures. A company
capitalized at $500,000 has been organized
at Atlanta, Ga., for the purpose. It la
claimed that paper can be : made from
cotton stalks at a cost of about $15 a
ton. , . . ; . ,
The Minnesota Co-operative Dairies'
Association, which began in May to bold
Minnesota dajrjmiJ4csJndependently
of eastern commission houses, "has handled
2,000,000 pounds of butter since that:
time. The creameries are satisfied withi
the results, and the business of the con
cern is growing, 'he business this, moatl
is considerably larger than it waa last
month. ,
North Dakotans hav been holding a
rood roads conference at Grand Forks,
and a number of changes in the present
road system will be recommended.
Special orders have been issued by the
British board of agriculture; giving the
proper official full power to deal with the
cargoes of three steamers that left New
York, and four others that cleared from
Philadelphia after the board issued Ita
order -ja"',"" In Great
Britain r from the
States o v York and
New J? outbreak ox
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