Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 19, Number 3, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 31 March 1897 — Page 7

FARM AND GARDEN. ROAD CONSTRUCTION. ■cfore wore u Bcgaa tk PNkaM* Coat SkoaM Be Could(t. While good roads are greatly to be desired, voters should carefully conrider the cost before authorizing work. A New Jersey man writing in an eastern exchange says: In this township (here are SO miles of road*; the usual appropriation for opening and repairing roads, shoveling snow, etc., is (1,300, or an average of $26 per mile. Some stretches of road average more than $26 per mile, others leas. With this email outlay the majority of the roads ate in much better condition than they were 25 years ago. 1 Farmers, being the one class of taxpayer who cannot escape paying the tax for building stone roads, figure as follows: One mile of stone road costa about SB,OOO, or a sum equal to the assessors’ list. To build one mile of atone road would doable the tax rate. Or, the interest on the cost of one mile of toad would be, at five per cent., S4OO. Experts estimate the cost of keeping i*tone roads in repair at SIOO per mile. Interest and repairs would thus be SSOO jper year. Such figures are appalling to farmers, and they are also confronted with the fact that the road bonds of much wealthier counties than the one dn questiondonot find ready purchasers. As stone roads are not probable for years to come, improvement by some cheaper method should be considered. This good roads problem must be met, and if it can be done without bank; ruptihg farmers all good citizens should bid godspeed to the work. One of the greatest obstacles to better roads in their present construction is poor drainage. Stone road builders never neglect the drainage, even though they lay stone 12 or 15 inches deep. Many pieces of spongy roadbed may be mode solid by proper drainage. After drainage is attended to by good side ditches, and underdrains where needed, the roadbeds should be rounded, so that water will not stand in puddles. My experience in mending roods is that on a dirt road there should be no mixture of stones with the dirt, as such roads are always rough and holes will be gouged out and there is danger of breaking wagons, besides the discomfort of bouncing as one passes along. It is often the case along streams that grrfVel can be had for the hauling, and a coat of this, or shale, on a properly drained road, will make a solid and smooth road for several years.’ Each township should annually raise a reasonable sum, besides the regular road tax, for permanent improvement. There are low places in nearly every district that cannot be properly drained, and such places should be stoned so as to make a lasting job, and after the stones are well pounded down they should be covered with gravel or shale. By some such means, our roads would gradually become better, without excessive taxation, and the work being carried on simultaneously in all parts of the township, the cry of taxation without representation would not be heard, as in the case of building expensive stone roads; for in the nature of things under that system, many men must pay - the excessive taxes all their days and reap no benefit therefrom. —Journal of Agriculture. ROADSIDE TREES. The Practice of Plant In* Orchards Should Be quite Popular. 4 This iB receiving more attention in some parts of our older states and deserves much more than it gets anywhere. Uur public lands are so near exhausted for homesteads, that the superabundance of land in the United States will not-Allow us to be wasteful in its use. In Germany the planting of forest trees by the roadside is no longer a practice. The highways are a continuous garden. The owner of adjacent land has charge of the roadway fruit; but the roadway officials assume charge of the care and protection of the trees. The railways are now following the growing custom, and planting apples and pears along the side of their tracks. There are a few sections in the United States where apple and cherry have for some years been the common road trees. The fruit, so far as 1 can see, is no more subject to molestation than that which grows inside the lines of strictly private ownership. I found near Ithaca, N. Y., choice cherries by the side of the road; and the trees were loaded with undisturbed fruit; Possibly most of us would consent that even half of such fruit should refresh the wayfarers, if we could utilize the streets, and have half the product as compensation for the planting. In this section of the state apple trees line some of the roadways, but more attention is given to ornamental shrubbery, extending the lawns to the street ditch. —American Agriculturist. Barbed Wire Telephone*. Clarence and John Taylor, living a apart on the Taylor farms in East Dickinson county, Kan., have solved the communication problem. Attaching fine telephone instruments to the barbed-wire fence that connects their places, they have an easy method of communication. During the recent storm, when, weeds and debris were piled on the fence, it made no difference in the transmission of sound and they talked with ease. They will extend the line miles to Pearl Station, on the Rock Island, and receive market report* and news by telephone. The whole neighborhood is fenced with ' barbed wire, and several other instruments will doubtless be put in, making, a large prairie system. J •" - -r- rs ; >' - \ _ Dralaaet Mena* •weeeee. - _ The better the road is drained, the •wrier li is maintained. ■ -■ ' r -v- ABoth Heed Httamlsc. Reform the roads and reform the people. -L. A. W. Bulletin.

EXCELLENT TRELLIS. IMags to Be Coaslderod Isalatfsrt for •woet Bess.. Grow them at Their best and provide for both height and strength. Then allow for their loose branching habit, and give them width enough to rmmble. While a six-foot single trellis of pool trywire running between the double rows is passably good, it cramps the vines, and I would prefer to plant the seed lp a triple row. If they grow above

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TRELLIS FOR SWEET PEAK that, a few strands of wire will gif* the top something to cling to. The Illustration shows a trellis of this kind. If you still prefer to use a single support of six-foot poultry wire, frame it up well, and tack on the posts short crosspieces, from the ends of which stretch wires to hold the vines well up to the poultry-wire. In regard tc amount of be sown, an ounce to every ten feet of trellis would be about right. I have an idea that a trellis such as here illustrated eould also be used to Bhow off a row of tomatoes to best advantage.—T. Greiner, in Farm and Fonts ide. * * *> PLANTING SUGAR BEETS. Hints fronk a Circular Issued by a Sugar Factory. Plant a space 66 feet square—one tenth of an acre. Keep all stock off the land after tho rains begin. ,y—'■ • . Plow deep, break up thoroughly, pulverize the soil before planting. Sow when the soil is warm, after the reins, say in April or May. One pound of seed will seed one-tenth of an acre. ” Sow in rows 18 or 21 inches apart. Sow with a drill, forced feed; sow shallow, just deep enough to be covered. Seed should come up in seven to twen-ty-one days. Thin the beets as soon as they develop four leaves. Thin out from six to ten inches, according to richness of soil. Leave only one beet in one place, and that the most vigorous one. Keep weeds out entirely. Do not allow the crust to form on the top of the land after seeding or while beets are growing. Continue to keep the soil lofise by drawing a cultivator between the rows until the tops cover the ground. Beets should ripen in from 120 to 160 days from the time of seeding. When the outer leaves turn yellow and die down, it is an indication that the beets are ripening or ripe. To get a proper sample, dig two or three rows in different parts of the field. Sort them into three sizes—large, medium and small—and take every 20th beet at random from the three piles. Sample should contain 25 to 30 beets. Do not cut'the tops off with a knife, but twist the leaves off. Ship in sacks as soon as possible after figging. Mark each lack plainly with name and address of raiser. Send duplicate shipping receipt and letter containing full particulars, by mail, stating yield in pounds of the tenth acre seeded.

DAIRY SUGGESTIONS*

When the fodder begin* to get low, don’t scrimp the coweTbetter buy some clover hay and some grain. If the udder is inclined to be inflamed, bathe it with hot water, and rub thoroughly dry, reduce the feed and nature will help. The man who cannot be gentle and tender with hi* cow* should hot be a dairyman or stock breeder. He should go into some other busine** Where the most thought and care are bestowed on the cow*, there the cowa give the beat net dividends. It is about bo with ail business. A few days before calving each cow abould be given a moderate doae of epsom salts, moiaases and ginger. After the calf ia dropped she should have soother doae. When a cow will make a pound of butter a day, in her beat condition, for a month at a lime, upon hay or grasa ooly, she will doubtlleaa pay for a groin, ration in addition to it, if properly proportioned and properly fed. The highest product always come from a full supply of material.—Rural World. Batter Fat la Milk. It fa a well established fact that the solids in milk, other then butter feta, are almost stationary, that is, ia 106 pounds of milk it is very rare to find leas than eight pounds or more than ten .poundn of milk sugar, casein and mineral matter/while it ia not uncommon to find a cow giving milk with only 2%. pounds of butter fat and anothet row- giving milk with eight pounds of better fat to the 100 pounds of milk. Such being the case, it is of the utmost importance for the dairyman to know how to produce milk high ip butter fat. —Western Plowxma.

INDIANA STATE NEWSL Suit for SIO,OOO damage* was filed In the Wabash circuit court by BL J. Barnett, administrator of the estate of George W. Scott, who was ran down and killed by a freight train on the Wabaah railroad at Bieh Valley. Tbb Marion high school clam this year will include 29 graduates, with the boys outnumbering the girls Lovx Mono ax, for assault with latent to kill Matthew Lyons was seat to prison for two years from Madison. G. W. McCammon, the Farmeraburg absconding agent who skipped out with $3,800 of the Adame Express Ox’s money about one year ago, waa landed in the Sullivan jaiL After giving the awallest social function of Gie season at Evansville, where 809 friends were entertained at a reception, Mrs. Grace Daltoll Read surprised her friends in no small degree by being married at midnight to William J. Jones, a wealthy business man of New Orleans. The bride has long been a society leader in Evansville At CurtisvUle Rolfy Ruse, a young school teacher, shot Gilbert who charged Luse with inaulting his wife Duaixe her huaband’sabaenoe, Flora Moran, of Boston, eloped with a peddler. Statx Statistician Thompson admits that his accounts are mixed, and has offered to resign. Frauds continue to turn up in the affairs of DeKalb county. Several of toe ex-county officers are in the penitentiary, and the arrest of several others will follow. Tax other morning Ben Kovert fell from the P., C, G A St L. railroad bridge, four miles north of Crothersville, and was drowned. He wee In the employ of the railroad company as a section hand. Pktitioxs were presented to the Lake county commissioners by farmers for a gravel road election in Hobart, Ross and Center townships. The cost when completed will be aboufc $75,000 for 37 miles From a 'canvass of Montgomery county the following statistics have, been complied: Population, 28,719; church members, 12,378; nonchurch members, 16,341; attending Sunday-school, 8,492; not attending Sunday-school, 20,297; families without ing this canvass there were 200 persons engaged, 12,000 blanks were used and the expense was SO. During the past 18 months 25 new schools hare been organized. Indiana got fonr post office appointments in the presidential class the other day, namely, John Zimmerman, at Canneltoh; Fred. J. Herman, at Tell City; John F. Lawson, at Spencer; James H. Warnock, at Princeton. Prof. W. E. Hknhy was selected state librarian by the state board of education. At Terre Haute Saloon-keeper Mulvaney, charged with the murder of John Tosser on Cbrlstmae eve, was acquitted. . The Order of Equity, a small order on the model of the defunct Iron Hall, Indianapolis, has assigned, with liabilities of about $75,000 and assets of about $33,000. At New Albany, David Potts and Hugh McCue fought over a woman, and McCue was mortally wqunded. The Elkhart fire department was imposed upon, by a farmer who sold it a pair of man-eating horses and said they were perfectly docile. The horses attempted on several occasions to stamp the life out of the firemen. The Huntington courts decided tb|t the widow has the first right to her husband’s body, regardless of the laws of any church. At Tipton, it is claimed.that ex-Coun-ty Recorder John B. Reeder was SI,OOO short in his accounts when be went out of offiqe. A grip belonging to F. X. Johnson, who was on the Evansville A Terre Haute train wrecked at Hszelton, waa fouud in the drift at Mb Carmel, IIL At Hartford CJitjr a circuit court jury in the case of Joseph Disman, keeper of a road house, gave him two years for shooting Asher Psrrett, a mover, who stopped at his place to warm and refused to patrooize the bar. Deputy Hhrbiff Tom Htahb served grand jury warrants on about twenty cigar dealers, druggists and restaurant keepers, of Muncie, charging them with either selling cigarettes to minors or operating gambling bouses by running slot machines on their premises. Many counterfeit two-dollar hills are being circulated in lgdianspoli*. 7 hey are hard to detect from the genuine. At Wabash Frank J. Rettig was severely injured by the explosion of resin he was using to repair a bicycle tire. The state board of agriculture reports that the prospects for winter wheat are very poor, Mrs. Ellen J. Whitimo, formerly of New Orleans, died in Jeffersonville leaving a large, fortune, and now her heirs are squabbling over the division of the goods and money. The police force stooped n prize fight between Kid Reed sod Charles Parry, at Middletown. Geo Kirciineh, of Valparaiso, lias invented n motor that "runs without steam or electricity. At El wood. Jsmes Faneber attempted to shoot bia wife because she made application for divorce. bTßixxa*along the Chicago A Southeastern rsiirond have decided to pal) oat all switches and refuse to return to work until their anleries ere paid. At Kokomo the family of John Goyer, including nine persons, became ill while at toe breakfast table Three children were lying at the point of death a few days ago. They were poisoned from a brass spoon faka gravy dish. The spoon was one that bed been lent and seen m slated verdigris while lysag oo the groond. ' ' The friends of Congressman Georgs W. Steel ie the Wabash district ara quietly coaching a boom for him ns to# secceccor of Senator David Turpi* In 1999, o> The old notional bridge bultt in IM9 at Richmond, he* been closed to trafik sad will not b* opened

tk( guar in tow Barth. In the Sosth, they ars tbs pksssntsst and moot agreeable. The trees sad shrubs pat forth their buds and flowers; early vegetables and fruits see ready for eating, and in fact ad nature seems to havi awakened from its winter sleep. The Louisville A Nashville Railroad Company reaches the Garden Spots of the South, and will oo the first and third Tuesdays of March sad April sell round-trip tickets to all principslpoint* in Tennessee, Alabama, and West Fiorina, at about halt rates. Write for advertising matter and particulars of excursions to C. ville, Ky or J. K. Rid|dsv N. W. P. A., Chicago, 111. “It’s all over”—the sky.—Goklen Days. I’d rather be most say mss In history's cbm or fame a bright bands Than Atlas, for he always had - world of trouble on his hands. Haw's Thief We offer One Hundred Dollar* Reward for any cam of Catarrh that can not be cured by Hall’s Catarah Cure. . . ■ ■ F. J. Cheney A Cos.. Prope.. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 yean, and believe him perfectly honorable in all buaineee transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. West A Truax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, 0. Welding, Kinnan A Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Hto’sCatarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Price 76c. per bottle. Sold by ell Druggists. Testimonials free. Hall's Family Pills are the beet. Probably the first thing every man resolves when he gets up in the morning is that he will go to bed earlier the next night.—Atchison Globe. The Pope Manufacturing Company, whose advertisement appears in this paper, are makers of the famous “Columbia Bicycles.” They are the pioneers in this business in America, and on'this occasion are offering some wonderful bargains Your friends may not know much, but they know what they would do if they were iu your jrioce.—N. Y. Weekly. I could not get along without Piso’a Cure for Consumption, It always cures.—Mrs. K. C. Moulton. Needham, Mass., Oct. 22?54, If a man could only get aa much for his old family horse a* his wife thinks the animal is Worth!—Atchison Globe. Cases ret* stimulov liver, kidneys and bowels Never sicken, weaken or gripe, 10c. “Tommy, who was Joan af Arc?” asked the teacher. “Nosa’a wife,” aaid Tommy, who is considered great at guessing. . t ■ i—.— Doubled up and bent with pain—Lumbago. Use St, ; Jacobs Oil and straighten up. ■■ '!" "V ' ' "" * “Great Seott, Epb! what’s the number of your boots?” “Two, sab; one fob each foot, sah.” A crutch is used for spraina. Use St, Jacobs Oil instead; it cure*. Genius my be *wift. but perseverance has the surest feet.-N. V. Weekly. Just try a lOe box of Oascaret# candy cathartic,finest liver and bowel regulator ntadeTME MARKETS. New York, March 10. LIVE STOCK—Native Bteers |4 26 6 20 * flogs*.-- 410 ®4 60 FLOUR-Minnesota Patents 4 20 A 4 40 - flB WHEAT-No. 2 Hard........ 7M4 No. 2 Red. May W%9 7I c°un-no. 2 Sr*X &3 OATS- Weaterii!!;.’!.'!! B 8 PORK - Mess 9 1$ •fjl BUTTER - Creamery. . 14 § 20 Kn<uory VM 12 mas io ® 1014 CHICAGO. ... CATTLE - Beeves::. II 70 AIK Stockers and Feeders.... I 26 <$ 4 60 Cows snd Bulls 176 11 410 Texas Steers ... 126 Mi® RUTTER Creamery -j1 EGOS 1 ™ Fresh" ‘l!!\\\ \\ \ ” XW JH POTATOES (per bU,J* # tt PORK—Mess, Cash *4O M LARD - Cash * l*Vi© 4 16 FLOUR - Winter 176 ©4 45 Hiulnx 1 M 4 16 GRAIN—Wheal, March...... 71 h# 72J4 Corn, No. 2 24 & 24J4 Oats, No, 2 17 © 17% Barley,°Oood Vo Choic*: ] 27 *l MILWAt'KKK. QFt A IN—Wheat, No, 2 Spring I 7JUG 7}4 Corn, No. 2 Oats No. 2 White IS'Ag 20 IS SIB DETROIT, _ OKA IN-Wheal, No. 2 H*4. . I Corn,.No. 2 24W© |4* „ Oats, No. 2 Whit* 21® % Rye, No. 2 M 9 *si4 ST. IJJVtH. _ ■■ CATTLE - Natlvs Steers .. #0 •6 Texas .......... ....... { S HOGS © 4 16 SHEEP 2 76 ®4 OMAHA. CATTLE = Steers 12 W) | J W Feeders IB SHEEP 2 10 • 4 8

ENE iJT stole/ my III mhu hapIflto Wpsne4f, houk day hurt WlhUt the cold and #u* wttUd to you MX™' only a vagrant twllthe body they are UMt oi few ye*, every ffe beat adds to intruder dfe. Pflbooia you* your bock Uftiff indßß rTSTTZ p.w4 Youe kriHUi Mrtftlia you leci out y. will.

Women, |Hf mML And Consider the Alt-Important Pact, That in addressing Mrs. Pinkham you are ocm--fK f fldlng your private ilia to * woman—a woman * A whose experience in treating woman’s J diaeaoea is greater than that of any liw- / ln k physician—mole or female. U jV Hr 3d WN You can talk freely to a womaxr lmLf * yjf[ SK" y/S. when la revolting to relate your \ I \ private trouble* to a man—betoba, ) a man does not understand—simply jjr because he is a man. Many women suffer in silence and* drift along from bad to worse, knowing fell well that they ought to haver Immediate aaaiaUnce, but a natural 'jSK modeaty impels them to shrink from exposing themaelvca to the question* / / and probably examinations of even. / J fflß their family physician, ltlsunneoeaM m (■ eary. Without money or price yot. g fU can consult s woman, whose v m m _ 1 "" knowledge from actual expert- ’ It • oo# K r ®* ter *bn any local ' #• | Sjg physician in the world. Thefolv - 1 lowing invitation ia freely offeredt ilia pinkham’s standino invitation. Women suffering from any fora of female weakness are invited to prompt)* eommunicate with Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn, Mam. All letter* are received, opened, read and answered by women only. A woman eon freely talk of her private illness to o woman; thus ha* been established toe eternal confidence bo* tween Mrs. Pinkham and the women of America which ha* never been broken. Out of the vast volume of experience which toe has to draw from, it ia more than possible that toe ha* gained the very knowledge that will help yoar ease. She oak* nothing In return except your good-will, and her advice hoe relieved thousands. Surely aqy woman, rich or poor, 1* very foolish if she doe* not take advantage of this generous offer of a**l*tanoe.T-Lydia B. Pinkham Medicine Go., Lynn. Mam __ candle the oil tamp gaa — %> lution al Illumination, which sliwH niff 1— WlHi| Im li—> tin tunlielwld |M *M J gran cutting machinery, fa 1831 tha tcyth* and the crodk wte wipwiedid by J OT me ivicveOfniiCm ixispcft inc uiHwcnmi ycuv navi mpto smny nnpvijTvviiciii% ujj until now we have (hat model Hamster sad Binder, the McCoraick Right tr lo Hind Open Ekvitor, iodtli4t vulUbli tUctflcUftil o( mow<fdoms dio le f New 4 Die not only the handeomeet mower ever buUt, but Rk, kt every k V lww gs the weed# the beet —end if your experience hi* taught you eoythfng, (a it U that tbtn’M nothing cbutptr than th* btaL J A McCormick Harvctibig Machine C&jpßij CMff ■ S Jt .The Uehi-Httnatag McCormick Ouon Xtvvetor tlarvreter, *m in t he Ltf hl-kuniiig McCormick Mw 4 StMl Mower, M Mb Th Light-kuuMiNg McCiwmM-h Vrrliral Cora Xtarirv is* Off B Th* Lleht-kasawg McCormick l>iy Xrapef fee aelr evetywkift. BZ To Pearline Users Only. f A #1 must have, or you wouldn’t be using it v%T' ut w * ut do you do with it. betides the /0 ordinary washing and cleaning? There’* yjbai—* a long li|L.of things in wnicli Pearline $ ought trube helping you. Why isn't it /Imp' t drnjag *0? For every purpose for which - j, / Is you would use soap and water, Pearline qHpf jnr better. You ought to be ready enough j) to lielicve that, with what you mutt / know of Pearline. m /SVNDY CAJHARTIC CUBt COBSTIPATIOI^^ n'P* inwMUTj ABSOLUTE!,! GUIBMTEED '££

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