Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 22, Number 30, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 3 October 1900 — Page 3

FOR A DOZEN FOWLS. Handy Coop Deilfltl Along Modern Linn and Suitable for All Parta of the Country. When the farm poultry consists of only a hundred or so fowls, it will pay to keep breeding pen of some dozen fowls of the best stock from which to get eggs for hatching. A fine lot of chickens can thus be secured. Where this is done it will be necessary to keep the breeding fowls from the rest of the flock. Our coop is 6x5 feet, 5% feet high in front, and 4 y a behind. In the front side is a door two feet wide, and a window. This window is hinged at the top to provide for ventilation in summer. A screen placed over the window opening on the inside will prevent the fowls from breaking the glass and will keep out night prowlers when the window is raised. There is an opening a foot wide extending across the back of the coop. This opening is closed by a onefoot board hinged at the top. This opening, too, is covered with screen wire. Beneath the window 6r beside the large door we have a small opening large enough to let a fowl pass in and out. This is closed with a slide

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COOP FOR A DOZEN FOWLS. door. This is to be used in winter and stormy weather, as by leaving the door open rain and snow would blow in. A board floor we find most satisfactory as it is easier cleaned and keeps out all animals. We find that a lean-to shed at one end of the door of the coop facing the south will furnish a warm, sunny place for the fowls to scratch and exercise in on the coldest days of winter. In this shed we keep sand, gravel and straw. In this straw we throw grain in order to keep the chickens active. Our scratching shed is made of poles and old straw or hay. In the winter we set posts, and put up a frame to hold straw packing and make a wall of the straw around the two sides and back of the coop. This will make the coop warm. Over the front we tack building paper, as a window protection, instead of putting in straw. —J. L. Irwin, in Ohio Farmer. The Colt’s First Winter. After colts are weaned they should be given very good care through the first winter. If neglected, and their growth allowed to become stunted, it will be very difficult to make up for it afterward, even with the best of care. Colts should always be kept in box stalls, as they will become weak jointed if they have to stand miich tied up in a stall while growing, without getting necessary amount of exercise, Keep stall well lighted in winter. Feed good fresh hay, free from dust. For grain, feed oats three times a day. Oats are the best grain for horses. But let the morning feed consist of equal parts of oats and bran, made into a mash by scalding with hot water and let it stand until cool before feeding. If two pounds of roots can be given daily, sliced very thin to prevent choking, they will aid digestion and prevent constipation by keeping bowels in good order. Carrots and mangels are best. ■—Lewis Olsen, in Farm and Home. , Science In Wlint Counts. “I appreciate the fact,” said an old and experienced ante-bellum farmer to the writer, “tha’, scientific farming would have made me vastly more money than my trude but careful methods have given, after years of persistent toil, and I join in the chorus for scientific agricultural education for the young farmers of our country. We old fellows can do little better than mpke this request of our sons, for most of us are too old to take up the subject and master it in time to see its fruitage.” Another good old son of toil said, jokingly, that if he chould attempt to feed a “balance ration" he feared he would kill every animal that got a portion of it. Notwithstanding his aversion to balance rations he says the coming farmer must feed them.—Farmers’ Voice. Prepare tor Cold Weather. Do not wait till right-down cold weather before grain rations are increased. Begin earlier to get fowls ready for resisting old Boreas. Now is the time to take six inches off the soil where henhouses have earthen bottoms. Beplace with clean, dry sand. A filth}’ floor is hard on fowls when cold weather confines them to their house, and this removal of old top not only cleanses but its stirring up dries out the earth. Get the winter’s supply of dry dust barreled and in a safe place. If you depend on home gravel, get that dug and also barreled. Gold-en-rod seed, gathered by the wayside and sown this fall, is commended for poultry shade where there are treeless yards.—Bural World. Poland-Chinas fatten readily, reach heavy weight* and are quiet dispositioned.

SCIENCE IN FARMING. It Has Helped to Make Vast Traeta of Worthlesa Soil Veritable Garden Spots. Science is the best ally of agriculture, as has been frequently demon* strated. A case in point is an examination into the cause of unproductiveness in some of the so-called “black soils” of Indiana. In central and northern Indiana there are black humus soils known as “bogus.” In a good many cases these were found in places that had formerly been the beds of ponds or else were once marshes nearly always covered with water. 'The water disappeared long ago, leaving the land in a condition that made it possible to work it. It was asserted by the unskilled and popularly believed that these lands contained alkali to a degree that made it impossible to grow upon them any kind of crop. Scientists went to work to ascertain the real facts. A chemical analysis was made and showed that the soil had none of the characteristics of alkali soil. Some of the land was plowed and mixed with kainit and cut straw. This certainly improved the drainage, and crops began to grow. In short, it was found that draintage was the key to the situation. Further investigation and ’experiment demonstrated that if a system of drainage were put in to tap the water-bearing gravel underlying the humus soil and to lower the water level to at least 40 inches the cause of the unproductiveness would be removed and a permanent improvement would result. Thus the real difficulty was found to be the high permanent water level. In some of the soils examined tile had been laid at the usual depth in the humus layer of soil without any improvement resulting, due to the factv that the pores and joints of the tile had been closed by the muck. Underlying the humus layer at a depth of five feet or more was a bed of sand or gravel immediately overlaid by a thin bed of clay mud and carrying a strong flow of water, \yhen holes were dug down to this layer the water usually rose to within at least 30 inches of the surface. It is very easy then to see that if the permanent water level was so high the level during wet periods must be so high as to render the growth of most plants very difficult. When we remember that most plants root deeply we can easily see how important is the question of water level. —Farmers’ Keview. PIGS RELISH ROOTS. They Form Dealrnble Additions to Winter Rations and l’roiuote Health nnd Growth. All farm animals relish succulent foods, and different forms of vegetable roots have 1 long been fed more or less to sheep and cattle as desirable additions to dry winter rations. Pigs, however, in winter have usually had to be content with grain or mill feed and water, or, perhaps, skim milk. Succulent food has not been thought of for them, excepting in a few cases. Some experiments on the suitabliity of silage as pig feed have been conducted, but with most unsatisfactory returns. It was not found to be desirable pig food. Roots, however, offer a more appetizing substance for pigs, and here and there is found a farmer who has fed sugar beets or artichokes to swine with results that have called forth his approval. Mangelwurzels furnish the farmer with a large amount of succulent winter food in the form of roots. Very great yields have been reported by various cultivators, wherein it has been shown that the cost per ton for production is comparatively light. In 1898, at this station, as high as 25% tons of mangels were produced per acre, at a cost of only 85 cents per ton harvested.—C. S. Plumb, Indiana Experiment Station. CHEAP CORN HARVESTER. ■t Is the Sled Pattern and Can Be Made at Home at Merely Nominal Expense. The little illustration shows the very cheapest harvester possible. It is simply a sled with wide platform nnd sharp cut edges at a. The sled is drawn between two rows of corn. The si nlks are cut off by the cutters at a and

SIMPLE CORN HARVESTER, caught by two men who stand or si.l on the sled. When an arinful is gathered the horse is stopped and the corn taken to the shock und placed in position. By plucing w heels nt the rear and front of the sled the draft is greatly reduced. These sleds can be made for almost nothing nnd answer fairly well. There are a number of more expensive ones on the market which in some ways are more satisfactory.—Orange Judd Farmer. PIG-PEN POINTERS. Where whey can be obtained in a sweet state it is valuable as a hog food. Salt is a Very important part of the hogs’ ration, except when mnngelwurzels are fed. Skim milk makes hard bones in hogs, as has been proved at the experiment stations. * Experiments in feeding silage to hog* hove not resulted satisfactorily, the cost of making pork thereby being increased.—-Farmers' Beview.

DEMOCRATIC CLUBS. Rational Convention Is to Be Held !■ Indianapolis on Wednesday and Thursday. Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 1. —Lewis G. Stevenson, western representative of the National Association of Democratic Clubs, and National Secretary llimsen have arrived for the national convention this week. The first session will be held Wednesday morning in Tomlinson hall and three sessions a day will be held, the closing meeting to be held Thursday night. Wednesday night will occur the parade, in which it is estimated 20.000 men will march. Estimates on the crowd are as high as 50,000. The following speakers have notified the committee that they will be here: William J. Bryan. Adlai E. Stevenson; Bourke Cockran, of New York city; Sigmund Zeisler, of Chicago; Dr. Senner. of New York; Patrick O’Fcrrall, of Washington, D. C.; William Sulzer, of New York; James K. Jones, chairman of the democratic national committee, and others of like distinction. Mayor Taggart will welcome the delegates Wednesday morning and President Hears! will respond. Arrangements for entertaining the crowd have been completed and there will be no discomfort. Among the clubs that will be here in a body are the Cook County Marching club of Chicago, the Duckworth club of Cincinnati, the Jackson club of Lafayette, the Louisville Democratic club, the Jackson club of Terre Haute. Ind.; the South Bend Jackson Club, the Columbus (0.) Democratic club. ROBERTS PROMOTED. The Famous Warrior Has Been Appointed Commander In Chief of the British Army. London, Oct. I.—lt is officially announced that Lord Roberts has been appointed commander in chief of the British army. Although the fact that the appointment had been made was already known, the formal announcement is hailed by the unionist party an a weloome pledge that army reorganization will be carried out in the most effective manner. Mr. George Wyndham, parliamentary under secretary of state far war, in his speech at Derby this evening, will outline the government's scheme of army reforms, and the war office Is arranging with Lord Roberts for the return of a large portion of the army in South Africa. The Times, in an editorial reference this morning to the appointment of Lord Roberts as commander in chief, hints that Lord Kitchener will come home to assist him at his new post. London. Oct. I.—An interesting report comes from Komati Poort to the effect that Mr. Kruger, in a letter to his wife announcing that he is going on a six months’ holiday, said, in substance, that after the capture of Mnchadodorp he knew the struggle was hopeless and counseled moderation, but that Mr. Steyn’s “arbitrary behavior" overruled his counsels. IN THE PHILIPPINES. Recent Attacks In Which Alleged Amigos Are Thought to Have Taken Fart. Manila, Oct. 1. —The Filipinos in the vicinity of Manila have been more quiet of late, although last Wednesday night there were brisk attacks at Las Pinas and Paranaque, south of Manila, as well as outpost firing at Imus, Bacoor and Muntin Lupn. The American officers are satisfied that the alleged amigos living in and nround the towns in question participated in these attacks. Official reports have been received of insurgent nctlvity in Zambalos province and in Batangas province. Two skirmishes occurred during the week on the Bicol river, in the province of South Camarines. ItJs estimated that the insurgents lost 90 killed in the various districts. Two civilians, John McMahon nnd Ralph McLord, of San Francisco, who started on a business trip for Vigan and Bangued, in northern Luzon, have not been heard from for three weeks. It is feared that they hnve been killed or captured by the insurgents. Doers Coming to This Country*. St. Paul, Minn., Oct. I.—The Globe says: Hundreds nnd perhaps thousands of Boers will emigrate from South Africa to the United States and settle in the northwesit. Theodore Vongrecht, of Holland, who has of late years made his home in South African republic, is in St, Paul to arrange satisfactory rates over the western lines. Mr. vongrecht will bring a large contingent of Boers to thiscountry in the spring, if conditions are favorable. There are hundreds 1 and thousands of Boers, he says, who are anxiously awaiting opportunity to leave their present environments and embark for another land. Victim* of n Wreck. Creston, la., Oct. 1. —Engineer Peter McAloon, of Ottumwa, and Fireman Lyman Sprowl, of. Creston, and an unknown tramp were killed in a wreck at Afton, on the Chicago, Bur- [ lington & Quincy, at an early hour Sunday morning. Post Office Robbed. Bowling Green. Ky„ Oct. I.—The post office at tlhis place was broken into and j robbed Sunday morning of between ! $4,500 and $5,000 in money and stamps. 1 The robbers are- supposed to be experts who have been operating in this section for some time. Carso llarned. New Orleans, Oct. I.—The cargo of the West Indian line's steamship Americo was destroyed by fire. There were 1,000 bales of cotton and 30,000 bushels of wheat, valued at $25,000. The < Amdrico is the largest stramvhip com* * ing to this port.

SHE WOULD GET THERE. gt Was None of the Ticket Seller’s Business Where She Want* ed to Go. He was long, lean, lank and raw-boned, and he shanfbled up to the ticket window at the Union passenger station much after the fashion of a scared canine when he approaches his master to receive a well-earned thrashing. He got as far aa the outside railing and stood there with a bashful blush gazing at the man behind the brass bars, says the St. Joseph News. “Come in;, come in; make yourself at home,” was the encouraging welcome from within. He accepted the invitation and brought up against the marble ticket counter with more confidence in his face. “Say, thar,” he said, in a half whisper, “is this the place where you git tickets for the kyars?” “Yes; where do you want to go? Hurry up; we’re rushed.” “Well, sir,” he replied, shifting a square inch of plug tobacco from one cheek to the other, “nev you all got enny long-distance tickets inter Kentucky?” His case was equaled by that of the old lady with a eunbonnet, who said: ‘T want a ticket to Platte county.” “What place in Platte county ?’’ inquired the ticket man. “No place in Platte county; I want to go to Platte county, and' it’s none o' your business where I’m going to visit. You sell me the ticket to Platte county, and I’ll git there.” Lane’s Family Medicine. Moves the bowels each day. In order to be healthy this is necessary. Acts gently on the liver and kidneys. Cures sick headache. Price 25 and 50c. Near Enough.—Tommy—“Pa, what does ‘disagree’ mean?” Pa—“ Well, when two people think alike they are said to agree. Now, you can guess what ‘disagree’ means.” Tommy—“Oh, yes! that’s when only one people thinks alike.”—Philadelphia Press. To Care n Cold In One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 25c. A Clever Turn—“ What a pretty fall hat that is of Mrs. Flypp’s.” “Yes. That’s her summer hat turned around with the back to the front.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer. MARKETS. . _ New York, Oct. 2. LIVE STOCK—Steers $4 45 <g> 5 90 Hogs 5 70 ft 5 95 Sheep 2 75 ft 4 10 FLOUR—Winter Straights.. 3 50 (ft 365 Minnesota Patents 4 10 (ft 4 50 WHEAT—No. 2 Red >, 80%ft 81% September 80%®) 80% CORN-No. 2 47%ft 49 September 48%Ca) 49 OATS—No. 2 25%®) 25% BUTTER—Creamery 17 (ft 22 CHEESE 11%®) 11% EGGS 12%®) 20 ' CHICAGO. CATTLE—Prime Beeves $5 75 (ft 6 00 Texas Steers 4 10 #5 10 Stockers 2 20 (ft 3 70 Feeders 3 75 ft 4 65 Bulls 2 60 ft 4 60 HOGS—Light 5 25 (ft 5 50 Rough Packing 4 90 (ft 5 20 SHEEP 3 50 ft 4 25 BUTTER—Creamery 16 (ft 21 Dairies 14 ft 18 EGGS—Fresh 14 ft 16% POTATOES (per bu.) 27 ft 33 PORK—January 11 55 ftll 70 LARD—January 6 77%rft 6 82% RlßS—January 6 20 ft 6 25 GRAlN—Wheat. October.... 75%ft 76% Corn, October 38%ft 39% Oats, October 21%ft 21 Rye, No. 2 51%r: 52 Barley, Feed 39%®) 40 MILWAUKEE. GRAlN—Wheat, No. 1 Nor’n $ 80 (ft 81 Oats, No. 2 White 25%ft 26 Rye, No. 1 55%ft 56 Barley, No. 2 58 ft 59 KANSAS CITY. GRAlN—Wheat, December.. $ 70%ft) 70% Corn, December 32 \(a) 32% Oats, No. 2 White 25 ft' 25% Rye, No. 2 60 (ft 50% ST. LOUIS. CATTLE—Native Steers $4 00 ft 5 70 Texas Steers 3 00 ft 4 60 HOGS—Packers’ 5 25 ft 5 40 Butchers’ 5 30 ft 5 47% SHEEP—Native Muttons.... 350 ft 4 00 OMAHA. CATTLE—Native Steers $4 40 ft 5 65 Cows and Heifers 3 10 ft 4 00 Stockers and Feeders 3 25 ft 4 70 HOGS—Mixed 5 12%ft 5 15 SHEEP—Western Muttons.. 3 50 ft 4 00

How Are Your Bowels?

Now what you want is Cascarets. Go and get them today-Cascarets-in metal box with the long-tailed “C” on the lid-cost 10c. Be sure you get the genuine! Cascarets are never sold in bulk. Take one! Eat it like candy, and it will work gently-while you sleep. It cures, that means it strengthens the muscular walls of the bowels, gives them new life. Then they act regularly and naturally. That’s what you want. It’s guaranteed to

be found in THE IDEAL LAXATIVE Oet the genuine If you want results! Tablet Is marked “CCC.” Casearete Barer sold in bulk, but only and always In the light blue metal box with the long-tailed C. the trade-mark—the C with a tail—onthelid^ t ALL 25c. 50c. ■ m DRUGGISTS 1 \ -VO [P (?|P J2nSini he To *ny ndy moitsl, suffering from bowtl troubles ind too poor to buy CASCARETS, we will send s box fret. Address Sterling Remedy Cos., Chicago or New York, mentioning advertisement end piper. 41s xZZZZ Ir In bulk.

Exhibits at Paris. There is a large exhibit from this country at the Paris exposition which will prove veTy interesting to all who may attend, but no more so than the news that the famous American remedy. Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, will positively cure dyspepsia, indigestion, constipation, biliousness and nervousness. To all sufferers of the above complaints a trial is recommended, with the assurance that when honestly used a cure will be effected. It also tones up the entire system. Hie Speciality. A British officer collecting mounts in Australia recently received the following note from a horse breeder: “I oan supply you with horses for cavalry, artillery and infantry. But I tliinlclny specialty is in the hors du combat, as the French soldiers call him, which means officers’ war horse or charger.”—N. Y. Sun. • EXCURSION TO CALIFORNIA. Comfortable and Inexpensive. Our parties leave every Wednesday from both Chicago and St. Louis, joining at Denver. Then past the grandest scenery in the world, over the RiQ, Grande Railroads. A few hours’ stop to see Salt Lake City, and on via Ogden to the coast. A special agent is in charge of each party, and the tourist sleeping cars are comfortable and exquisitelv clean. Let me give you full particulars. Write and inclose 6 cents in postage for our beautifully illustrated 72-page book on California. F. E. Bell, City Passenger Agent, C., B. & Q. R. R . 211 Clark Street, Chicago. Another De Luxe Edition of “A Message to Giurclu.” Tho Passenger Department of the New York Central seems never to tire of sending out copies of “A Message to Garcia.” The latest issue is the first five thousand of the third half-million edition, and is numbered consecutively from 1.01X1,000 to 1,004,999. It is beautifully printed on heavy plate paper, the illustrations being brought out in a manner equal, if not superior, to the best magazines. The pages have a red Jiue around thorn, and the book is bound in a grey-blue cloth and heavy boards. It is intended for libraries, and was issued at the request of a large number of American libraries who wanted the “Message” in a permanent binding. This edition contains, in addition to Mr. Hubbard’s admirable preachment, a short sketch, with a portrait, of Lieutenant* Golonel Andrew S. Rowan, the man who carried “A Message to Garcia;” a short sketch, with a portrait, of General Caiixto Garcia, the man to whom the “Message” was carried, and a short sketch, with portrait, of Mr. Elbert Hubbard, the man who wrote “A Message to Garcia/’ It also contains eight pages of extracts from the press, and comment* from wellknown educators, clergymen, professional men, and many employers of men. on the “Message” itself; a sketch of the Cuban Educational Association, and a sketch on Harvard-Americanism and the Cuban teachers. A limited number of copies of “A Message to Garcia” bound in clotn and boards may be obtained at 50 cents each. A copy of the edition with illuminated paper cover, fully illustrated, will be sent free, post paid, to any address in the world, on receipt of & postage stamp issued by any country on the globe, or it will be sent in packages of 100 each, on receipt of 50 cents for each 100 by George H. Daniels, General Passenger Agent, New York Central & Hudson River Railroad, Grand Central Station, New York. Pleasantly Locating: the Distress. “Did you have any trouble with your French in Paris, Mrs. Riffraff?” “No; we didn’t have any trouble at all; but the people who tried to talk with us seemed to have an awful time.”—lndianapolis Journal. Try Grnln-O! Try Graln-OI Ask your Grocer to-day to show you a package of GRAIN-O, the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. Children may drink it without injury, as well as adults. Allwbotryit like it. GRAIN-0 has that rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, but is made from puregrains, and the most delicate stomach receivesit without distress. £ the price of coffee. 15c. and 25c. per package. All grocers. It very often happens that a man’s commanding presence gets him no greater honors through life than to be marshal of the day at a county fair.—Atchison Globe. , - • Carter’s Ink Is the best ink that can be made. It costs you no more than poor stuff not fit to write with.

About the first thing the doctor says~ Then, “Let’s see your tongue.” Because bad tongue and bad bowels go together. Regulate the bowels, clean up the tongue. We all know that this is the way to keep and look well. You can’t keep the bowels healthy and regular with purges or bird-shot pills. They move you with awful gripes, then you’re worse than ever.

Hall’s Catarrh Cara Is a Constitutional Cure. Price, 75a. Few delights can equal, the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly.—George Macdonald. I do not believe Piso’s Cure for Consumption has an equal for coughs and colds.— John F. Boyer, Trinity Springs, iDd., Feb# 15, 1900. A great, big, overgrown book agent always looks as if he ought to be at something else.—Washington Democrat. Don’t Neglect a Cough. Take Some Hale’i Honey of llorehound and Tar instanter. Pike’s Toothache Drops Cure in one minuto If you want to keep your teeth clean, bright and sound, you will chew White's “Yucatan” Gum. Every confectioner sells it. One of the fine arts is to say an unwelcome thing acceptably.—Boston Watchman. - _• Potxak Fadeless Dtes do not stain tha hands or spot the kettle. Sold by all druggists.

A Very Bad Combine is that of A Very Bad Sprain and A Very Black Bruise It often happens, but just as often St Jacobs Oil makes a clean, sure, promp cure of both.

What Shall We Have for Dessert? This question arises in the family every day. Let us answer it to-day. Try Jell-0 , a delicious and healthful dessert. Prepared in two minutes. No boiling! no baking! add boiling water and set to cool. Flavors:—Lemon, Orange, Raspberry and Strawberry. Get a package at your grocers to-day. io cts.

READERS OF THIS PAPER DESIRING TO BUY ANYTHING ADVERTISED IN ITS COLUMNS SHOULD INSIST UPON HAVING WHAT THEY ASK FOR, REFUSING ALL SUBSTITUTES OR IMITATIONS.

H Bert Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use R in time. Sold by druggists.

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