Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 26, Number 20, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 20 July 1904 — Page 7

CAUGHT IN THE CUBBENT. Kaskasia, 111., once the metropolis ot the west, has been almost swallowed up by the river. , The belles of Janesville, Wls., refused to appear In short skirts in the Fourth of July parade, and vaudeville girls from Chicago had to be sent for to take their places. Eight members of the British houS6 of commons so far have signified their Intention to join in the proposed parliamentary visit to the United States in the fall. The examination of the physical condition of the 1,800 street sweepers employed by New York city shows that 283 are affected with tuberculosis, contracted during the course of thfeir work by Inbaling disease-laden dust. A well-known woman of Bennington, Vt., has two dolls, one of which was formerly her great-grandmother’s and in the family for 150 years. The other was formerly her grandmother’s and is 100 years old. Both are dressed in the costume incident to those days, the oldest one having on the same suit in which it was originally attired. The handsomest private cars in the world are owned by Adolphus Busch and Charles M. Schwab. Busch received his as a present from friends. Mr. Schwab’s is new, built at a cost of $50,000, and is one of the most luxurious things on wheels. It is 70 feet long, including an observation compartment of 20 feet. The ceiling is hand painted. The furniture, which, like the general appearance of the car, is in Louis XV. period, is ail hand-made* Each of the brass bedsteads in the two staterooms cost SI,OOO. CONCEBNING CHURCHES.

Methodism has 1,224 deaconesses. The Evangelical church council of Hungary has given taxpaying women the right to vote. In England Lady Lawson has been appointed a church warden of Aspatria church, in Cumberland. Rev. Peter Mac Queen, pastor of the First Parish church, in Charlestown, Mass., predicts the union of all Protestant denominations. Australia has 210 churches to every 100,000 people, a larger number per capita than any other country. England has 144 and Russia only about 55. The last report shows that the Nonconformists have half the churchgoers in England and more than half the Sun-day-school pupils, the last year bringing them an increase of 8,000 communicants and 63,000 scholars. The Anglican church possesses 7,127,934 church sittings, with about 5,000,000 attendants. The free churches have 8,000,000 sittings, with about 5,500,000 attendants. Eugene Smirnoff, chaplain of the Russian embassy in London, says that the Russian church maintains flourishing missions in Japan and China. Her Japan mission began in 1865. The head of it is Bishop Nicholas, and it numbers 25,321 converts and 34 ecclesiastics. All its clergy but one priest and one deacon are Japanese, and the mission is perfectly loyal to the country, and teaches the Japanese that it is their duty to fight for Japan. ELECTRICAL FLASHES. The German government operates 15,200 telephone stations. Niagara is worth $1,000,000,000 as a source of electrical power. Marconi’s 130-foot masts of wireless telegraphy cost £4O apiece. The manufacture of high-power incandescent lights is making progress at Coventry. The electric weld is becoming a more and more important factor in many industries. During recent years the extension of its application ha3 been steady, and each year has witnessed its entrance into new fields. RACE DONE? Not a Bit of It. A man who thought his race was run made a food find that brought him back to perfect health. ‘‘One year ago I was unable to perform any labor, in fact I was told by my physicians that they could do nothing further for me. I was fast sinking away, for an attack of grip had left my stomach so weak it could not digest any food sufficient to keep me alive. “Thtrie I was just wasting away, growing thinner, every day and weaker, really being snuffed out simply because I could not get any nourishment from food. ‘‘Then my sister got after me to try Grape-Nuts food which had done much good for her, and she finally persuaded me, and although no other food had done me the least bit of good, my stomach handled the GrapeNuts from the first, and this food supplied the nourishment I had needed. In three months I was so strong I moved from Albany to San Francisco and now on my three meals of GrapeNuts and cream every day I am strong and vigorous and do fifteen hours’ work. “I believe the sickest person in the world could do as I do, eat three meals of nothing but Grape-Nuts and cream, and soon be on their feet again in the flush of best health like me. "Not only am I in perfect physical health again, but my brain is stronger and clearer than it ever was on the old diet. I hope you will write to the names I send you about Grape-Nuts, for I want to see my friends well and strong. "Just think that a year ago I was dying, but to-day, although I am over 65 years of age, most people take me to be less than 40, and I feel just as young as I look.” Name given by Fostum Cos., Battle Creek, Mich. There’s a reason. Look for the little book, "The Road to Wellvllle,” in each pkg.

HOW TO CONQUER MUSTARD Western Farmer Cleared His Field of the Noxious Growth by Systematic Spraying. My farm was covered with a plague of mustard, which in some respects was even worse than a western mortgage. It amounted to a practical abandonment of the infested fields until I applied the spraying treatment. Preparatory to this I seeded the land to clover, allowing it one year’s growth. I plowed this in the spring. Almost immediately afterward every mustard seed within germinating distance of the surface sprouted and produced a vigorous young plant. When

EFFECTIVE FIELD SPRAYER. in the second leaf and while the fields were covered with a solid green mat of plants, I went over them with my sprinkling tank, spraying them with the following solution: Eighty gallons of water p a in a 2% per cent, solution of bluestone or sulphate of copper. This solution must be strained before placing in the tank to prevent clogging of the sprayer. The result of this spraying was the practical eradication of all the mustard plants, but few remaining in a growing condition. The cut shows the arrangement I used for spraying the field A wagon water tank may do used instead of a barrel, as shown, in which to place a strong force pump A pipe is attached horizontally at about the height of axle to rear of bed, being connected with barrel or tank by a suitable hose. At proper intervals spray nozzles, such as are used for spraying fruit trees, are attached to pipe pointing directly downward as shown at a. A second spraying will seldom be found necessary.—Rud McWaters, in Farm and Home. DRAINAGE OF A WET FIELD. The Work Was Not Half So Hard as It Seemed in Advance and the Benefits Great. A little experience is worth more than a whole lot of theory. The theory of draining land is generally all right, but it does not get hold of one’s thought and purpose as a very little experience does. For Instance, I had a piece of land that was so wet and soggy I could do nothing with it after it was plowed. The weeds grew on it like bushes, the corn like blades of grass. Last fall and early this spring I dug some ditches in the lowest places, and laid two-inch tile in them. I dug a deep ditch at the head of the wet piece, just under the hill, picked the stone from the piece of land and filled this head ditch with them. This cut off the water from the hillside. The main ditch led from this head ditch straight down through the field. The effect Is marvelous. The land broke up well In plowing and harrowed down smooth. The corn is growing on it as well as elsewhere, in spite of the cold season. The main point in this item is this: The amount of work involved appeared mountainous at first, and deferred me from undertaking it. But the actual work of digging the ditches, laying tile, picking Etone and filling in the head ditch was surprisingly small, and easy in comparison with the apprehension of what it would be. A few days of continuous work transformed that boggy piece of land Into one of easy tilth. One thing ipore in this connection: The road to the lower fields lay across the former wet piece of land. I cut two ditches across the road, at the head of two cross drains, and filled them with stone, and now, instead of having a heavy, wet piece of road to haul manure, hay, etc., over, I have a dry, hard road. Altogether, the work has been small, the expense light and the satisfaction great. And—this is another point—the experience is so encouraging that another field which presents like difficulties of culture is no longer disheartening, but, on the contrary, inviting, knowing, as one may, by a trifle of such experience that it will easily yield to the same method of treatment and become fertile Instead of waste, as at present.— W. R. Cary, in N. Y. Tribune Farmer. How to Hang Grindstones. It requires a pretty fair mechanic to hang a grindstone to run true and stay true. It is supposed that there are no flanges upon the axle. The bole should be at least one-eighth or one-half inch larger than the axle, and both axle and hole square. Then double wedges for each of the four sides of the square, all alike and thin enough, so that one wedge from each side will reach clear through the hole. Drive the wedges from each side. If the hole through the stone is true, the wedges will tighten the wedge true, if the hole is not at right angles to the plane of the stone, it must be made so, or the wedges corresponding must be altered In the taper to meet the Irregularity la the hole.— Prairie Farmer. v

WHEN POULTRY IS AILING. A Short Description of the Symptom* of the Many Diseases of Hens and Chicks. When the excrement secreted by the kidneys, which is normally pure white, appears yellow, though the droppings are solid and the bird appears perfectly healthy, look out for bowel trouble. . When the crop is hard and unyielding there is danger of the bird becoming crop-bound. When the discharges are streaked with blood, it is time to give preventives for diarrhoea. When the joints are hot and swollen, and the fowl is disinclined to stand, rheumatism has taken hold. When the nostrils are clogged with dirt, and the eyes water, ward off a possible case of roup by timely treatment. If the case is bad, apply the hatchet and bury the carcass. When the bird seems lame, and has a small swelling on its foot, remove to a house with no'perches, and oblige it to roost on a bed of straw. Bumble-foot is easily cured in the early stages if the cause is at once’removed. When a hen seems to drop down behind, and goes repeatedly to the nest without she is usually suffering from a disorder of the oviduct, and might as well be killed and eaten. When a bird is “going light,” has good appetite, but passes food from the bowels undigested, it is the early stage of consumption, and treatment is useless. When the hen seems giddy, and turns round and round, she is probably suffering from apoplexy. When the bird has leg weakness, with no disorder of the liver, feed lighter, and give plenty of bone-feeding material. When new fowls are bought, quarantine them until sure they have no disease. When a fowl has difficulty in breathing, look out for pneumonia.''' When a fowl is dangerously sick with an organic disease, it is worse than useless as a breeder. It is usually safer to kill a bad case of illness than to try to cure it. —Farmers’ Gazette, Canada. BOXES FOR CHICKEN COOPS This Idea Is Furnished by a Kansas Lady Who Knows What She Is Talking About. There was a time when I thought the A coop the only one in the world. That was before I gave the dry goods box a fair test. Last March two hens hatched ten chicks each, and I gave them all to one hen in a bottomless A coop. It rained a week, and such atime as I had saving those chicks. One morning the water had raised under the coop and half the chicks were dead. I threw the old A coop away and this

COOP MADE OF LARGE BOX. year use only dry goods boxes, three and four feet square, of one-inch lumber. The boards are taken from one side and cleats nailed across them to make a door. The bottom board is left nailed on to keep the chicks in the coop till they are five or six days old. Hang door at top, with leather hinges, as shown in the cut. Warm, sunny days throw the door back on top of box; at night close up tightly to exclude, cold, rats, etc., and on mild rainy days prop&ie door out for shelter: Lath is nailed across the front to keep the hen in. With these coops one can give 25 to 30 chicks to one hen. When chicks are weaned and the cockerels sold, the coops are nice for the pullets to roost In till frost, when they are put In the house with laying hens.—Farm and Home. A FEW POULTRY JOTTINGS. Don’t pick the geese and ducks while laying. It will be time enough afterward. Not many know that the sort of food you feed poultry determines the flavor of the meat. Feed the fowls skim milk. It serves them in place of meat. For an occasional meal mix it with bran. Dry sawdust makes a good bottom for the coops. Clean it out and put in fresh sawdust each week. Don’t force the chicks on the roost too soon. This causes the crooked breast we so often find in chickens. The oftener you feed the chickens the faster they grow. You can scarcely hurt a growing chick with dry feed. Don’t place the eggs of the Asiatic and Mediterranean fowls In the incubator to hatch at the same time. The Asiatics have a thick shell and require more moisture to soften the shell. The same amount of moisture would prevent the thinner shelled eggs from hatching.—Twentieth Ci.ntury Farmer. Value of Mammoth Clover. Men of experience say that mammoth clover will produce twice as much pasturage for stock as the medium red, if it is kept well grazed. When heavily stocked, the amount of feed produced by an acre of land is enormous. If the clover is not kept short, the growth is too coarse and is not relished as well as the medium red. It is the common experience of stockmen that the bloating of cattle on clover may be prevented by having some timothy mixed with the clover. There may be exceptions to this rule,, but I have heard many cattlemen say they have never Jir.cwn of any.—St. Louis Republic.

AMBERGRIS’ STRONG ODOR Druggist of Seattle, Wash., Expounds Information with Regard to the Substance. The druggist held in his hand a lump of gray substance like putty. It was smaller than a baseball and as light as cork. Through it, here and there, ran. streaks of yellow and black. “This is a lump of ambergris,” the druggist said, according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. "It is worth about SSOO, I judge. Smell it.” The patron put his nose to the ambergris. Then he said, surprised: “Why, it has no smell.” The druggist, smiling, rubbed it with his sleeve, and immediately a powerful, musk-like odor filled the air. “Crude ambergris,” he said, "never smells until you warm it or rub it. “This chunk of ambergris here smells like musk. That is because it is crude. The odor of prepared ambergris has not the least resemblance to musk.” ge rubbed his hand over his sleeve. “From handling this,” he said, "my coat will smell till the autumn. My hands, no matter how I wash them, will smell for several days.” FEW PANAMAS THIS YEAR. Representative of House Dealing in Headgear Says Craze Reached Climax in 1902. “There will be no Panama hats worth mentioning worn this season,” said M. B. Cross, representative of a house dealing in headgear, to a Washington Post reporter. "The summer of 1902 marked the climax of what might be called the Panama craze. Last season there was an immense slump in this style of hat, and this year hardly a store in the country will have them in stock. The cause of their decline in public favor is easy to understand. As long as the real and costly article was only in evidence, the demand was keen, and the higher the price the bigger the -demand. This led to the importation of cheap counterfeits, which so flooded the market that the Panama became common, or rather its imitation. Anyway, as soon as this occurred, men of style and fashion discarded the once-prized ornament of dress and reverted to the s'impler and always better looking sort of straws. In another decade the Panama may once more become the rage.”

ENGINES TESTED IN SHOP. Ingenious Arrangement for Giving Locomotive Trial Trip Is to Be Found at Swindon, Eng. One of the greatest triumphs of engineering skill is to be found at the Great Western railway works at Swindon, England, where an ingenious contrivance for giving a locomotive its trial trip without leaving the scene of its construction is in operation. The feature of the testing plant is that the engine, after being placed on the machine, runs on wheels fitted with tires which correspond to the trend and section of the permanent way. A clever braking arrangement secures a representation of the difficulties encountered In running on the metals and all the tests usually made on a trial trip can be conducted inside the works with all the appliances at hand. The dangers of a break-down and subsequent blocking of the main line are thus obviated and the work of experimenting is simplified. This machine is the invention of the locomotive superintendent, J. G. Churchward, and is said to be the only one in Europe. A True Matchmaker. Joaquin Miller, the poet, has a collection of original documents that shed light on many odd phases of early westrn life. Among these documents is a letter that a New England youth wrote in 1860 from Oregon to his father. The letter treats at great length on the scarcity of women in the west and the general desire to marry that prevailed among the westerners of that day. It has for postscript: “Say, pap, it might be a good idea to get the girls some new teeth and send them out here.”

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