Condon globe., April 13, 1905, Image 4

. Topics of
the Times
There It no beef trust. " It ay o
Itself.
Men become cranks by confining
themselves to the serious tide of their
Tlewt.
The cxar' boy may have to go out
Kid and look for a Job when he get
old enough to work.
What' the matter with Russia? It
would be much easier to enumerate
what Isn't the matter.
A IiuMlan grand duke'a house wa
rocked bj the mob, while most of the
Russian fleet was being rocked In the
cradle cf the deep.
There is a town In Kentucky that
bears the name of IMjj. As it grows
older and larger the name should be
changed to correspond.
A leading critic says:- "Few of the
poets are now working at their trade."
How does he know, since the real
poets are always dead?
A French physician declares kissing
to be a "natural therapeutic practice."
It seems to be Just as well to take
that Tlew of the matter.
. A Baltimore couple wants a divorce
because they can't agree how the
chicken should be cooked. Many a
couple would like to get Into a stew
over a chicken.
A teacher who claims that two pies
may be digested where formerly a
' mnall piece of one was a sure substi
tute for hari-kari deserves an ovation
front- -the undertakers.
It is suggested that John P. Rocke
feller offer a large cash prize for the
best nethod of scattering oil on the
water. This would be an excellent
stroke from a business standpoint
Little Devereux Blake declares that
Eve ate a quince and not an apple
on a memorable occasion In the Garden
of Eden. But bow could anybody
ever have been tempted to eat a
quince.
"My observation is," observed Sen
ator Depew, retrospectively, the mat
ter of international marriages being
under consideration, "that the title
generally chases the girl, and not the
girl the title."
They keep on discovering valuable
things that were hidden by Mrs. Chad
wick. She must have been busy hid
ing them for several months before
she didn't know there wss anything
wrong about it
Another great thinker has come to
the front with a theory as to the for
bidden fruit eaten by Mother Eve. He
ays' It was a crab apple. This lets
down all the bars. Anybody mfcy en
tar Into the competition now.
Professor Monroe B. Snyder an
nounces that he has discovered the
existence of radium in the sun. Now,
If he will discover some means of
transportation and bring it here the
general public will take far more In
terest in the discovery, if it be a dis
covery. A little boy In Berlin only 13 years
of age has been convicted of the crime
of lese majeste and has been sen
tenced to three months' imprisonment.
In America a youngster of similar age
la not accounted guilty of anything
more serious than lese paterfamilias,
entailing a brief but painful visitation
to the woodshed.
If murderers are hanged for the ef
fect on other criminals, it is certain
ly undesirable that it should be known
that they meet their death with perfect
composure and In the full assurance of
a blissful Immortality. There is no
objection to their making any prepara
tions they may see fit for another
world, but these should be for home
consumption. Executions should all
be made as free from romantic
glamour as possible. Otherwise hang
ing ought to be abolished.
A report made recently by the Brit
ish Board of Trade on the naval ex
penditures of the leading powers for
the latest available year presents In
teresting figures. The report deals
with the year ending March 31, 1903.
From the exhibit it appears that the
United Kingdom spends more on Its
navy than Russia, Germany and
France spend on their combined fleets.
The British naval expenditure is more
than double that of the United State.
Russia's naval expenditure for the
year named was five times as large
as that of Japan. Russia spent less
than 6 per cent of her revenues on her
navy. Japan spent 0 per cent of her
revenues in this way. The country
which now spends most on its navy
next to Great Britain ta the Unltod
States. The British mercantile marine
exceeds In tonnage that of Russia,
Germany, France, Italy, the Unite!
States and Japan put together. The
mercantile marine tonnage of Great
nrltaiu reachea 1WM8,04 Urns.
Santo Domingo la lucky to have au
honest good-natured, powerful friend
ready to do her a service. By the
protocol recently signed the I'nlted
States assumes the burden of helping
the little nation straighten out her
ttnauces, and iu addition guarantee
her territorial Integrity. If the United
States were not at hand to give aid
the future would be black, for Santo
Itomlngo'a European creditors have
reached the limit ot their patience.
The bent treatment the dclluuuent na
tion would receive from the Europeau
powers would le a good deal worse
than the worst treatment she will re
ceive from usN It is true our actlou
Is not entirely disinterested. We take
a small burden upon us now lit order
to avoid the possibility of a great deal
larger burdeu later bit. Nor will we
be disinterested In the action we shall
take when Santo Pomlngo'a finance
are finally put in good order, since we
shall withdraw from the custom
houses and rid ourselves of the nuis
ance of managtng them as awtftly
as possible. If any of the South
American republics are excited or wor
ried when they hear of the new ar
rangement they will assuredly calm
themselves at once when they read In
full the terms of the protocol. That
document shows plainly enough that
we are not seeking to take unjust ad
vantages even over the smallest and
weakest of our neighbors. The perma
nently Important feature of the proto
col is our guarantee of territorial In
tegrity. Santo Domingo is a thousand
times happy to have such protection.
If one were to choose at single word
by which to characterize the present
age, that word would almost lnetit
ably be "practical." This Is by no
means the same as saying that the
watchword of the day is materialism.
The really practical is seldom wholly
materia llstlc. It includes much that is
spiritual, sentimental and idealistic.
But "practical" the age certainly U,
and among practical subjects there ar
none more vital than work and wages,
savings, and the security of Income In
eld age. These are essentially ques
tions for young men, for modern meth
ods of Industry and modern tendencies
are making this a young man's aire.
Old men find It more and more ill til
cult to secure or hold profitable posi
tions. Even those who knew that this
Is so were startled when one of the
great steel companies recently estab
lished an age limit of thirty-live years
"a dead-line" It Is aptly called for
the employment of new men. Argu
ment is of little avail In matters of
this sort: protests are of no use. It
is the old men who have to bear the
burden, but young men must meet the
emergency, and inpet It while they are
young by thrift. The probable period
of their working life is shortened;
therefore they must make It yield
greater results, must save more und
luy aside more for old age. It is prolt
able that few young men have con
sidered how much they should save
In order to make the future secure. A
New York insurance actuary has lately
made an interesting study of the mat
ter, and concludes that at least one
sixth of the income should be set aside
for insurance, if a married man with
children is to make the future of him
self and his family secure In any con
tingency. But what is most to be em
phasized Is not nn much the need of
saving a specific amount or of Invest
ing it in a specific way. as the neces
sity of establishing the habit of thrift
in early life. Young men should adopt
as a motto to work while It Is day.
and remember that "the night coraeth
when no man can work."
A Bald-Headed Monarch.
Edward VII. is the first English sov
ereign to figure on the coinage as baW
headed. It Is very possible that sev
eral of his predecessors had less of
nature's crown than his majesty and
that when taken to pieces for the
night they became almost unrecogniza
ble Instead of remaining in the ever-the-same
condition of present-day
kings and emperors. However, their
coinage represents these bygone mon
archs In caps and crowns or volumin
ous wigs and wreaths or skillfully ar
ranged toupees that are very like the
genuine thing.
Natural Gas Plentiful.
Contrary to a growing Impression
that the supply of natural gas is giv
ing out and Is of small importance In
the industrial development of the na
tion, a report of the United States
Geological Survey shows that the vol
ume of natural gas produced in 100.3
was 238,7(50,0(57,000 cubic feet, with a
value of $35,815,3(50. Indiana was the
only gas-producing State in which the
amount of natural gas decreased dur
ing the year.
Particulars Demanded.
Blonde Girl I want some rice; lei
me see, how much do I want?
Green Grocer Wedding or pudding
Yonkers Statesman.
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KaUlnlng Manure Value,
There is probably no better way of
handling mauure made in feeding cat
tle loose in atables than to apply Ut
ter dally to absorb the liquids and
keep the cattle clean and allow the
manure to accumulate under the cat
tle. It was once supposed that if manure
was kept under cover Its fertility
would not be appreciably waated. The
Department of Agriculture finds that
large losses may occur, though not to
such an extent, of course, as from the
opeu yard manure pile.
The best way to keep manure seems
to be to pack It Into a solid mass, aud
exclude the air, lu a somewhat sim
ilar manner to the way silage la put
up. The department notes experiments
where steer manure was kept in deep
stalls under the feet of the animals
for months, aa against the method of
cleaning the stall out dally and stor
lug lu a compact heap under cover,
enough tine cut litter being used each
day to apparently absorb all the liquid
mauure. The deep stall mauure was
trampled to a very dark, compact mass
and there was very little loss of the
valuable fertilizing constituents
nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash.
With the manure kept In heaps one
third of the nitrogen, one-fifth of the
potash and one-seventh of the phos
phoric add was lost, the total money
value of the losses being equivalent
to $-..V) for each steer stabled for six
months.
Manure, It la stated, can be kept
almost perfectly, so far as the fer
tilizer constituents are concerned, by
use of the "deep stall" system. Ex
periments show, however, that nitro
gen Is lost very rapidly by such man
ure, If It be allowed to He after the
removal of the stock, without such
covering as will retain the moisture
and exclude the air.
Tha Modern Farm In Oarmany.
Electricity for farming purposes has
probably been developed more In Ger
many than in any other country. A
large number of German estates are
now run almost entirely by it the
smaller ones being equipped usually
In groups from a single power plant,
as at Chottorf, while many of the
large estates have their own private
plants. A striking example of this
latter class Is the farm of Prof. Back
haus, at Quednau, m the eastern part
of Russia, which covers an area of 4.V)
acres and has a dairy producing about
1,000 gallons of milk per day. The
buildings are all lighted by Incandes
cent lamps and the grounds. In places,
by arc lights. The current Is supplied
from a' small central station contain
ing a C0-horse power engine direct
coupled to two generators, and a
switchboard for the control of the
various circuits, all parts of which
are so simple and plainly marked that
any farm hand can understand and
operate It In addition to the lighting,
power Is supplied for the pumping of
water and the driving of saws, feed
cutting machine, a threshing and a
grist mill, and an electric churn in the
dairy. Besides these stationary power
appliances there are a number of electrically-driven
agricultural machines
for use in the fields, Including an auto
mobile plow, all of which are run by
storage batteries and may be charged
it conveniently sub-stations. To round
out the completeness of the equipment
the barns are heated by electricity
and ventilated by motor-driven fans
and all parts of the farm have tele
phonic intercommunication. Engineer
ing Record.
Hog Notes.
Milk and bran make an excellent
slop.
A strong maternal appearance
should be the first consideration in a
brood sow.
No sow carrying her young should
be allowed to become constipated.
The brood sow and the growing
pig should not be fed as the fatten
ing animal.
A sow may often be kept as a profit
able breeder until she is seven years
old.
It Is an exceptional case where hogs
can be wintered profitably in a dry
lot on corn alone.
To obtain the best results a sow
should be in good flesh and gaining,
not overfed when bred.
C &&JLi MV .i 'llvf ill
Too early breedlug weaken the ma
tertal force of tha sow, causing small
and weak litters.
Hearts In lloraaa.
In mild aud recent cases the heaves
may often be cured entirely by turning
the horse out to pasture for two or
three mouths, if it la uecessary, how
ever, to work a horse affected with
this trouble, he can be relieved greatly
by feeding no hay except at night and
then only a small amount of clean aud
bright hay, entirely free from dust
If there Is any danger of dust It la
well to dampen It but only bright
hay should be given. Roots will be
found helpful; beets, turnips, potatoes
or anything of that sort that the horse
will eat Tha amount of water should
be limited aa much aa possible, and no
horse with heave should be given
water for one or two hours previous
to going to work. lr. Iw recom
mend arsenic In five grain dose dally,
aud continued from a month to two
months, a especially valuable, aud
say that the bowels must be kept
easy, by laxatlvea If necessary. By
treatment of this sort a heavey horse
can bo greatly relieved. When the
disease Art come on It will pay to
Pant the horse to grass, with the hope
of effecting a cure at one aud before
the disease progresses to the extent
where it become lucurable. Wal
lace's Farmer.
How to Winter Dacha,
Many who can raise ducks success
fully have difficulty In wintering them,
due, in fue opinion of the writer, al
most entirely to lack of ventllatlou
aud permitting tho house to become
damp. The duck can stand more cold
than chickens, provided tho cold Is of
the dry kind; dampness makes trouble
for them every time. In wintering
ducks always provide a board floor,
or, If the floor must tie of earth, cover
It to the depth of several Inches with
chaff and arrange the drinking foun
tains In a part of the house so that
it will be practically Impossible for
the duck to soil the chaff and wet It
with water from the troughs. An
excellent plan of ventilation la to
divide the quarters Into two rooms,
each room having two opposite win
dows; then, each day drlve-tlit ducks
into one room, closing the door be
tween and thoroughly air the room
they left, allowing the wind to blow
through It for an hour or more; venti
late the other room on the same plan.
Duck treated in this manner as to
their quarters will go through the win
ter in good shape and be strong,
healthy breeder at tha proper season.
Exchange.
KsercUe tha Bullion.
Stallions should be put to work and
kept at work whenever not In active
stud service aud then they will be
surer and have 'fewer returned mares
to look after and can do a bigger busi
ness, say a correspondent of National
Stockman. No stallion is too good to
earn his oats behind a collar, and usu
ally the more he earns there the more
he Is able to earn In -e stud. One
reason for the vitality and endurance
of our trotting horses is that tho sires
were either raced or trained or driven
a good deal of the time. The same is
true of some imported draft horses,
the French horses especially , which
are worked at a year and half or two
years old and as long as the farmer
has them. The race of horses that Is
not worked may possess size and
weight but it will not have the power,
the nerve and the get there and stay
at it ability that it needs to perform
hard work.
Changing a Vegetable's Nature,
A rather surprising experiment Is re
ported a made at the Paris Academy
of Sciences. Young radishes were cul
tivated In a glass retort after a pecu
liar process, using a concentrated solu
tion of glucose. Under this treatment
the vegetable took up starch abund
antly and Increased greatly in size and
lost its peppery qualities, resembling
closely In every way an ordinary pota
to. The Imaginative Frenchman who
relates the experiment suggests the
possibility of producing vurlous vege
tables one from the other, or of secur
ing artificial vegetable growth by
chemical means.
Fence Ball Philosophy,
Knowledge Is valueless If Ignored.
The man that saves his time saves
his money.
A Job that' worth doln' 1 always
worth doln' about right.
Vim and vigor are the vital forces In
achieving success.
The smallest event often becomes
the greatest achievement
- To have a show in these day a man
must be an accumulator.
It's no use denying when you've
been outdone better acknowledge the
corn.
Ayers
Give nature three helps, tnd
nearly every cise of con
sumption will recover. Fresh
sir, most Important of ail.
Cherry
Pectoral
Nourishing food comes next.
Then, a medicine to control
the cough and heal the lungs.
Ask any good doctor,
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Health demand dally action of th
toowei. Aid nature with Ayor'a PHI.
An loatnnatlon.
I'lggs I bear you hav sold your
reitauraut Wasn't It a moneymaksrT
Biggs Yes; 1 wss making f.0 dally.
tlgg Then what wa your rssso
for disposing of It?
Biggs Oh, 1 wa compelled to sell
It ou account of poor health.
Dlggs Huh! Why dldu't you tak
your meals somewhere else?
Pe-ru-na Cur and Prsvsnti Catarrh
Anyone who w lithe perfect health
must be entirely free from catarrh.
Catarrh is well nigh universal ; almost
omnipresent. I'eruna i the only ab
solute safeguard kuon. A cold la the
beginning of catarrh. To prevent
colds, to cure colds, is to cheat catarrh
out of its victims. I'eruna not only
cure catarrh, but prevents it. Every
household should l? "njilicd with till
great remedy tor coughs, colds, and so
forth.
If yon do not derive prompt and sat
isfactory results from the use ot reru
ns, write at once to l'r. Hartman, giv
ing a full statement of your case and h
will le pleased to give you bis valu
able advice gratis.
Address lr. Hartman, President o(
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus,
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For 10O5.
Father Time wa observed getting
hi hnlr clipped.
"What la that forr' asked th
friend.
"Why, people are going too rapidly
these days," explained Father lime,
"und I want to fix It so they can't
take me by the forelock."
TO CURB A COLD IN ON 13 DAY
Tlt liiutva Drama Uulnln Tibl.u. AUdrur
fl.la rvniitd th moner If It tall to rura, X W
Oroya's tlfnaiura la on aacb box. Ma
Keren plum puddings hung In kltch-
n t Etalham, Eugland, rscsntly, whea
a duukey walked In and ats five of them,
cloths sud all.
King Edward has given to th monks
of th (Iri'St St Bernard monastery a
pinno to replacs tha one givan by hi
mother balf a century ago.
When a child I had a very severe ab
tack of Diphtheria, which came nearprov
ing fatal. Upon recovery the glands of tho
neck were very much enlarged, and after
the free use of iodine, the right one was
reduced to ita normal she, but the left
one continued to grow very slowly at
first, until it was about the aizeof a goose
egg, which began to press oa the wind
pipe, causing difficult breathing, and be
came very painful. An incision was mad
and a large quantity of pus discharged.
The gland was removed, or as much a
could with safety be taken out. For ten
ears I wore a 1 ittle piece of cloth about an
inch long in my neck to keep the place
open. During this time I had to have it.
cut open by the doctor every time I took
cold or the opening clogged. In the Spring
or early Summer of 1884 I was persuaded
by my wife to ue S. S. S., which I did,
strictly in accordance with directions. I
took twenty-six large bottles, and was en
tirely cured, for I have not suffered sinco
that time. B. S. Raoland.
Royal Bag Mfg. Co., Charleston, 8. C
Only a constitutional remedy can reaok
an hereditary disease like Scrofula. When
the blood is restored to a normal condition
and the scrofulous deposits are carried off
there is a gradual return to health. S.S.S.
is well known a a
blood purifier and
tonic. It is tha
only guaranteed,
strictly vegetable
remedysold. If yon
have any alga of
Scrofula, write ua
and our physician
will advise you freo
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