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First Maker ot Lulclfer.. Sir Isaac Holden, who recently died in England at an advanced age was famous in science and invention. He was tiie son of a collier, but his inven tion and enterprise brought him a splendid fortune. He retired from parliament in 1895. He has the repu tation of having, amoqg other useful in ventions, been the first man to make lucifer matches. Sir Isaac had a method of his own in regard to eating and drinking. For breakfast he par- W took of a baked apple, one orange, a I bunch of grapes and a biscuit made from banana flour. His midday meal consisted of very little beef or mutton, with now and again a small cupful of soup. If he partook of fish, he had so much less of meat. For supper he practically rejieated his breakfast menu. “After tne system lias been built up, and the perils! ot manhood reached, all starch foods should be banished from the human diet.” Such was the creej of this good, quaint old man and gen erous philanthropist. An absolute teetotaler he was not, and Yorkshire will lie as proud of him as it was of Sir Tatton Sykes, who lived on ale and apple pie. Sir Isaac’s son Angus in herits the title. He represents the Buckrose division of Yorkshire in Par liament. MKKE BUNDLES OF FACTS FOR FARMERS. HELPFUL SUGGESTIONS FOR THE AGRICULTURISTS. Description of Two Way* of Tying Corn Fodder Shock»—A Convenient Feed Kock for Cattle—De vice Good Corn Tien. The Rural New Yorker describes a corn tie as shown In tlie center illustra tion. To make it, set a short length of Iron rial alsiut three-fourths of an Inch In diameter into a block of wood, or wherever convenient, so that it will be firmly fixed with. sa.v. three inches pro jecting free. Alongside, with just enough space between to allow a No. Ill steel wire to pass freely, drive in a stout nail all but about half an inch. With this apparatus bend a length of No. 10 steel wire into a succession of circles or loops three Inches apart, and then, with the aid of a cold chisel, cut through the center of each three-inch space and divide It Into as many sec tions as there are circles, each section consisting of a circle with a IMrlncli arm extending from each side in a NERVES. Some peevish, querulous people seem mere bundles of nerves. The least sound agitates their Bcnsoriums and ruffles their tempers. No doubt they are t>orn so. But may not their nervousness be ameliorated, if not entirely re lieved? Unquestionably, and with Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters. By cultivating thei^dlgestion and insuring moreeomplete assimilation of the food with tliis admirable corrective, they will experience a speedy and very perceptible gain in nerve quietude. Dyspepsia, biliousness, constipation and rheumatism yield to the Bitters. At the tyst congress of German Vine yard ists Prof. Wortman reported that he had found living bacteria in wine which had been bottled 25 or 30 years. AN OPEN LETTER TO MOTHERS. We are asserting in the courts our right to the exclusive use ol the word " CASTOK1A,” and “ PlTCHijR’SCASTORIA,” as our Trade Mark. I, Dr. Samuel Pitcher, of Hyannis, Massachusetts, was the originator of “ PITCHER’S CAS 1*0RIA,” the same that has borne and does now bear the facsimile signature of CHAS. H. FLETCHER on every wrapper. This is the original “ PITCHER’S CASTOR IA ” which has been used in the homes of the mothers of America for over thirty years. Look Carefully at the wrapper and see that it is the kind you have always bought, and has the signature of CHAS. H. FLETCHER on the wrapper. No one has authority from me to use my name except The Centaur Company of which Chas. H. Fletcher is President. March 8, 1897. SAMUEL PITCHER, M.D. The Central London Underground railway, which is to be operated by electricity has a large contract for elec trical equipment with a prominent New York firm. There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. For a great many years doctors pro nounced it a local disease, and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure by local treatment’ pronounced it incurable. Science has proven catarrh to be a constitu tional disease, and. therefore requires consti tutional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure, man ufactured by F. J. Cheney A Co., Toledo, 0., is the only constitutional cúre on the market. It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any ease it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. Address, F. .1. CHENEY CO., Toledo, O. Sold by druggists, 75c. Hall’s Family Pills are the best. A postoffice clock in Sydney, N6w South Wales, emits an electric light flash lasting five seconds every hour during the night, thus enabling those living miles away to ascertain the exact time. Pino’s Cure for Consumption is the best of all cough cures. —George W. Lotz, Fubu- cher, La., August 26, 1895. Alexandria, Va., has raised the ban which from the earlier days of the set tlement made it unlawful to bring in oysters between April and September. Between 1878 ami 1881, in a single Roman village district, 797 heads of families in a population of 1,200 fam ilies were dogged for not paying their taxes. An Angora cat, which by accident was locked in a trunk under some cloth ing at Tullahoma, Tenn., remained there for seven days and revived when taken out. 'NERVOUS PROSTRATION. “ Will you kindly allow me,” writes M iss M ary E. SAiDT.of JobMuwn, N. J., to Mrs. Piukham, •• the pleasure of ex pressing my gratitude for the wonder ful relief I have experienced by taking your Compound? I suffered for along time with nervous prostration and gen- eral debility, caused by falling of the womb. It seemed as though my back would never stop ach ing. I could not sleep. I had dull headaches. I was weary all the time, and life was a burden to me. I sought the seashore for relief, but all in vain. On my return I resolved to give your medicine a trial. I took two bottles and was cured. I can cheerfully state, if more Indies would only give your medicine a fair trial they would bless the day they saw the advertisement, and there would be happier homes I mean to do xll I can for you in the future. I have you alone to thank for my recov ery. for which I am very grateful.” for Ditching In Insecure Soil. tie regarded, nr where there Is good market for both filler and seed. It Is a good sign for Western farmers that flax-growing as it was practiced a few years ago is going out of tlieir farm rotation. Tiie stalk anil fiber was al ways thrown away. Only the seed was marketed, and this sold so low that the raw seed, or. better still, flaxseed meal, was one of the cheapest fertlllxers that can I>e used. Not until we have mills for making linen cloth and convenl- em-es for separating the Alter from the stalk will flax-growing tie profitable in this country. When Isith seed and Alter can Ite sold, the crop will pay for the heavy manuring it requires to keep the laud fertile.—Exchange. Live - lock Notes. Vaseline Is a fine remedy for sores on the horse. The swill barrel on wheels is a great convenience. Harness that is crusted with sweat and dirt should I m * cleaned. Soaked corn. Instead of meal, may be fed to the pigs during summer. Feed the pigs when weaned one- third corn meal and two-thirds shorts. The horse that works six days in the week earns a rest on the seventh. Ill-fitting harness Is to the horse like an ill-fitting, pinching garment to a man. It is claimed tliat hogs will eat soja bean hay as eagerly as a cow will eat clover hay. Pigs tliat do not have enough good milk will be stunted, Feed the sow bountifully. Keeping a horse on corn alone In summer is like building a tire in the parlor stove in August. Cow peas, unless wanted for pasture alone, should not lie planted on rich or naturally moist ground. Ground wheat, mixed with milk, pretty thick, or as thick as will pour, makes excellent feed for the pigs. The bicycle has undoubtedly injured the livery business and consequently been an injury to scrub horse breeding. A GIANT PUMPING PLANT Packer’s Great Irrigation En terprise a Saccess. Hundred* of Acree of Wheat Land Along the Sacramento ltiver Sup plied With Water. Pumping plants have been so im proved in the last few years as to lead one to hope that in that direction lies the solution of the irrigation question. George F. Packer, although considered one of the most conservative men in the county, has led off in a number of things. Some years ago he checked off some land and put in a flume for win ter irrigation and planted alfalfa. He made a survey himself to determine the practicability of taking the water out of the river below Stony creek to water the river lands, and wanted the co-oper ation of some of the farmers to build the canal. He op)s sed both the Colusa and the Central districts because he did not believe in that plan—and time has shown that he was wiser in that than many of us. He wanted to know wag to manage. Again he comes to the front. Hercules Gas Engine Works of Francisco lias just completed, on the price of the fuel is less than 10 cents a gallon. If the whole force should be used, there would be only eight gallons an hour, or less than 200 gallons a day of 24 hours. The fuel l item then is less than $20 for covering 38 acres 10 inches deep with water—or less than 60 cents an acre. If used for j wheat, one sack to the acre w ill pay all the expenses of putting 10 inches of , water on it just as it is wanted most. This pumping plant, destined to revolutionize agriculture in the Sacra mento valley, was put in operation Fri day, August 6. Early in the morning a party of Cc- lusans drove to the ranch of Mr. Pack er, which is on the river below Prince ton, to see the great pump make a trial of its strength. The air was cool and the drive most pleasant, though dusty. Arriving, they fount) the engine placed in a concrete oblong, square basin, sloping towards the cut in the levee that leads to the river and the great 28-inch iron pipe extending from a 22x22 foot reservoir down the concrete basin, on through the cut in the levee and river liank into the water. The machinery was all clean and bright and G. W. Tibbetts and Arthur Pope were on hand to put it in motion. John E. Doak of Sau Francisco, having the work in charge, was there, and as the engine started, the great belts moving One advertisement ought to make you say to your grocer: " Give me a package ol Schilling s Best tea, if you can really afford to return my money when I don’t like it.’’ A Schilling A Company San Franc»-» n M0 After forty years of hard, dangerous •nd expensive missionary work there are in Japan today aiwiut 119,000 na tive Christians, in a population of 42,- 000.000. FRUIT L amberson s S eed S tore Portland, Orc. FREE from PESTS Large Assortment. LOW PRICES. 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Government but firm. n for year from $100 to School i>n»”.i- September 21. IN?. <’ata- <• sent free. Add res*. T hos . V an S coy , 1>. II. University Park, Or. It is occasionally necessary to cut a straight line. The cord is to lie knot trench through soil tiiat will not “stand Sandy ted around the circumference of the up” in the wall of the ditch. circle, where the wire intersects. In soil is of this nature. To keep the ditch applying it around a shock of corn it open until a pipe can lie laid, the plan, is drawn tightly and the loose end of shown In tiie accompanying ding tiie cord is then passed around the can be used to advantage. A stal arms in a figure 8 and tucked under driven at one side of the propo trench and is anchored from its U] the band. Another plan is given by a farmer, end as shown in tiie sketch. As wlio writes: Into a large block of hard trench is deepened, a board is slip wood I drive three 20-penriV wire nails down behind the stake, another st after removing tiie heads, as shown at secured In tile same way. holding Fig. 2. Then Insert out1 end of a piece of wire between tiie two spikes at A, which should be just far enough apart Io admit the wire. Bend tile wire around the outside one at A. and then continue through between tiie center spike and B. then around B and to ward tiie center spike again. Then cut ft off nt that point, and we have a hook like the one shown at Fig. 3. TWO COHN TIPS. . • • Portland, Oregon . . . M. r. A rmstrong , ll . b ., rrin. J. A. W esco , Src'y THE BUSY WORLD OF BUSINESS gives profltable employment to hundreds of oar graduates, an4 will to thousand« more. Send for our catalogue. l.earu what anil bow we teach. Verily, A BUSINESS EDUCATION PAYS Feed Racks. In the southern belt of this country LAX FOR DITCHING. rattle need little shelter In winter. In the middle belt they need a stable for other end of the board. As the severe weather, but for their own Is deepened, the board Is pressed dd health should be allowed outdoors and another added above it. the st«i when the temperature is moderate. also being driven down and so on till That Is the leading Idea of tiie Kansas the required depth is reached. The stockman who devised the feed rack same plan will probably have to be shown in tiie Illustration. In addition used on both sides. to corn the Kansas stockman feeds Ills Clover. cattle hay. roots, sorghum and alfalfa, It Is often a saying among farmer» thus giving the variety so necessary to man or beast that clover rarely succeeds when sown In the Breeder’s Guxette the manager on a newly turned clover sod. The say of the Kansas stock farm describes ing had its origin In the days when the rack as follows: We named it an plowing under clover was the usual irk because it looked a little like a boat preparation for wheat sowing, If the ind can be moved from one place to plowing was early enough for the clo ver to be entirely rotted, the clover seed grew readily enough, But if the first crop of clover was cut off and tiie sod was plowed late, so ns to let the second growth attain good size, there Would invariably be failure of the clo ver catch next season, (.'lover does not do well If sown on any kind of a sod. The reason is that newly turned soil holds the furrow up. and as it rots down the soil above naturally falls, leaving the clover above it to perish, The young clover plant has at first a very slender hold on the soil, Any RACK FULL OF FODDER. falling down of tiie soil leaves it high another. By hitching a team of horses nnd dry In the air, and, of course, is on one end it can be moved very easily. fatal to it.—American Cultivator. Tiie 18-foot ark holds l.tMMi pounds of hay or one ton of sorghum. We make Fait the Beat Time for Tree I>1nntintr. •’Early fall is an excellent time for them 1<> and 18 feet, but prefer the 18-foot. as it can be made cheaper. The planting trees,” writes Thomas Mee framework Is made mostly out of 2x4 han in the Ladies' Home Journal. “By plank, except the runners, which are early Is meant as soon as the wood is 2x6. These racks have lieen used at ripe and tiie winter buds fully formed. Sunny Slope for four years, and have This Is usually a mouth before the reg been the most satisfactory of any we ular fall of the leaf. The leaves are stripped by hand. After the wood is have seen. ripe It makes no difference whether Th - S-crct of tVes'th. the leaves are taken off by Jack Frost, Here Is a German legend of an old the wind or the human hand. Iu the farmer calling his three Idle sons eastern part of Pennsylvania tills around him when on his deathbed, to would be usually about the first of Impart to them nil important secret. September, and tiie work of planting "My sons.” said he. "a great treasure can be kept up during October, nnd lies hid in tiie estate which I am about often to November or December. But to leave yon." Tiie old man gasped. late fall planting in cold climates is as “Where Is It hid?” exclaimed the sons risky as late spring planting. The lu a breath. "I am about to tell you,” moisture is dried out liy cold winds or said the old man; "you will have to hot suns before the new fibers are dig for it----- " But his breath failed him formed to replenish the gnat evajwira- before he could impart the weighty se tlon. Di milder climates planting may cret. and lie died. Forthwith the sons lie a success all winter.” set to work witli spade and mattock upon the long-neglected fields, and they Plrnty of Ftrines. turned up every sod and clod upon the The farmer who produces oats, estate. They discovered no treasure, wheat, barley, corn, buckwheat, hay. but they learned to work; and when clover seed, potatoes, apples, honey, the fields were sown anil the harvest butter, eggs, poultry, wool, mutton, came. Io! the yield was prodigious, in beef, pork, beans anil sorghum has a consequence of the thorough tillage good many strings to bls bow. and it which they had undergone. Then It would be an extreme condition of was that they discovered the treasure things that would make him hard up. concealed in the estate, of which their wise old father had advised them.— Tires And Ronds. David Summers. Broad tires and good roads fitly be long together. Narrow tires, heavy Flax an Kxlianetive Crop. loads and wet weather will ruin the Some Western farm journals are liest dirt roads that may be construct wondering why flax Is not more grown ed. On the farm broad tires should lie than it is. The reason is that it is a used on wagons that bear heavy bur very exhaustive crop, and can only be dens. Roads and fields have been bad grown profitably where fertility la llt- ly cut up by narrow tires. Albany College, Albany, Or. DXsVWtr a large foot valve weighing 1,290 eucc.ee sea. i Tiie success of Mr. Packer's enter- pounds. A 20-inch discharge pipe carries the i prise will show conclusively that it water from the pump to a head box 22 will be immensely profitable to irrigate feet square anil 6 feet high. For the even wheat lands tliat are at all favor foundation of the machinery an excava ably situated. Who would not give a tion was made and filled with concrete. sack of wheat an acre for the privilege The first test made showed a much of 10 inches of water at will? It would larger pumping capacity than the con make a difference, one year with an tract called for, the flow of water ex other, of five to ten sacks; there need ceeding 7,200 gallons a minute or 482,- ! lie no surnmer-fallawing. A certain 000 gallons an hour, or 10.868,000 gal crop every year. But then there comes lons per day of 24 hours—enough water in e more profitable crop—alfalfa and to cover 384 acres an inch deep, or 38 sugar beets. acres 10 inches deep every day of 24 This plant was put in for Mr. Packer hours. for $3,500, but the head of the com A very important part is the exceed pany informs us that this was an in- ingly small cost of the fuel, it being iluceinent and that another would come only one-eighth gallon per hour for higher. each horse power actually used, and —Colusa Sun, August 6, 1897. 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