Pike County Democrat, Volume 30, Number 1, Petersburg, Pike County, 12 May 1899 — Page 3

■ k - ai Crave Condition of Roads la am OtfccrwUo UlKklr Progressive llliaals Coausattf. One of the most hopeful signs of the times regarding the good roads movement is that newspapers, big and little, in city and village, are discussing the subject in, a forceful, intelligent, fetching way. The somewhat funereal picture shown here is reproduced from a recent copy of the Rushville (111.) Times, which says: “Bad roads and religion do not mis readily. In fact, the first is perhaps productive of more prolanity than anj other one thing farmers have to contend with. Be that as it may, we have the bad roads; have had them since time immemorial, and the question It whether we will continue to have them

II STUCK IN THE MUD. or rather seek some practical solution of the question, which is of mutual importance to the farmer and business maxi. “On March 16 C. H. Hammond, of the firm of Hammond & Stremmel, went to liittleton to attend a funeral. Knowing the condition of the roads, a fourhorse team was attached to the hearse and the front and rear axles were chained together to keep them from pulling apart. *D. A. Cooney drove the teams and managed to keep the vehicle moving all the time until within the corporation limits on the return trip. Here the mud was deeper, blacker and more tenacious^ and hung on the spokes of the wheels until a huge mass had accumulated. The weight of the mud was so great it spread the wheels, and as the horses continued to go forward the strain came on the front axle, which sprung out of shape, allowing the wheels to strike the bed of the hearse, bringing it to a sudden stop. “It was impossible to move the hearse with the axle sprung as it was, so the teams were unhitched and the vehicle left in the road until it could be brought to the city txn sled-runners. While it was stalled in the street Mr. Hammond took a snapshot picture of it, of which the cut shown herewith is a reproduction.” Surely such object lessons as this cannot fail to arouse the good people of any mud-locked commxmity to the evil that besets them. And “they say** the people of Rushville and vicinity are SO"' determined to have better roads. BAD FLAVOR IN MILK. Most Recorded Cases It Was Attributable to a Lack^t Care i] In Handling.

The sources of bad flavor in milk are many, says a contributor to Rural JCew Yorker. One source may bte strong-flavored food like cabbage or turnips, and after the milk is drawn, there is danger of contamination with several sources bringing in bacteria, which causes various kinds of fermentation and flavor. The main factor in preventing contamination of milk is cleanliness, and this cleanliness should I - b begin with the cow and the stable, and continue in all the handling of the milk until it is made into butter, and consumed. Often little things arc overlooked when one thinks he is very particular about being clean, and may -- . „ cause all the trouble. Recently a trouble >Avith ropy cream came to the attention of the Cornell experiment station, and on investigation it was found that the sources of contamination came from a dirty strainer." All other things about the cream were in fairly good condition. In the majority of cases, bad flavors are not traceable f t. to the food of the cow, but to some lack of care in handling the milk. HORTICULTURAL HINTS We do not advise extensive melon culture. The markets in summer are usually glutted with melons. Sweet corn comes up much sooner if It is soaked over night in warm water, and the crop is fit for use just that muoh sooner. 'Potatoes grow better if planted before beginning to sprout. The second sprouts that start are not so strong as the first. It is a good plan to mulch raspberries, as it has been shown that mulched plants will produce much better berries than those left unprotected by drying winds.—Western Plowman. _ Another Financial Lesson. Hempfield township, Westmoreland county, Pa., must pay $310 to a citizen who was crossing a bridge with a threshing machine when the bridge gave way and dumped the outfit into a creek. Poor highways are expensive.

THE NEXT FRUIT CROP. | Outlook b Sot Qatte as Dliheartca. tmm u It Would Appear to Moot os Pint Thoasht

The coming season will not he as noted for its abundant crop of fruit as last. The excessively cold winter has killed ho many trees and vines that we can hardly expect to have much more than a half or three-quarters of a crop, anti in some localities even less. Consequently there was never a season when more attention was needed in the orchard, for by giving better culture to the fruit it is possible to make some amends for nature’s shortcomings. There is always one redeeming feature about a small crop. Prices? are apt to be higher, and this sometimes brings them up to a point where profits are more satisfactory. In years of excessii e fruit yields the profits to the growers have more than* once been 60 small that they hardly paid for the time and labor bestowed upon their culture. A smaller crop with better prices ma y not be so good to the consumer, but it is apt to be better for the farmers’ pocket books. Thus the outlook for fruit growing this year may not be quite as bad as would ap-* pear at first thought. But there is need of preparation for it. More than ever is it necessary to give the trees and vines good cultiva- ! tion, and protect them from the rav- | uges of insects and disease. There is | probably no orchard where the culture is so good that it could not be ! improved a little. By studying the trees can; fully, and giving. the best | attention to the fewer number of trees that have withstood the cold, we can surely increase the yield to some extent. The outlook is not a matter for sorrow or regret so much as it is one for renewi d effort to better culture. In the first place it will pay to go through the orchard and cut out all except tho trees that promise a fair crop. This is no time to nurse half dead trees. Either cut them back, or, dig them up and replace them with others, and then give all the attention to the remainder. Sometimes' there is life in a tree, which will spring up and thrive if the tree is cut back enough, but if left just as it is it will j exhaust i’ self trying to distribute itself over a wide area. The pruning knife is sometimes the best friend in a season like this.—C. S. Walters, in Journal of Agriculture.

SIMPLE GREENHOUSE. 4 Structure Which Enable* Garden* era to Get Considerable Space at a Low Coat. Probably the most satisfactory low* enst green louse for forcing vegetables is found in the form of a half-span house, facing the south or southeast, and having a comparatively flat roof composed of movable olr partly movable sash, the front wall of the house also to be partly glass, in order to give

SIMPLE GREENHOUSE. abundant light to the front bed or l>ench. A house of this character, and of moderate size, may be roofed with two rows of sashes seven feet long, the lap or Junction of the two sashes in the center of the roof being supported by a wooden girder formed of a piece of three by four stuff resting on posts, the latter being spaced about eight feet apart. This length of roof would give a house nearly 13 feet in width, with front wall five feet high and back wall 7% feet, and may be divided into three beds or benches of convenient width for working.—Rural New Yorker. GOOD ROADS GOSPEL, A Few Pointed Eplrranu Taken from a Speech Delivered by Ho i. John P. Brown. Hon. Joh:i P. Brown, of Connersville, fnd., was recently invited by Gov. Mount to address the Indiana State Association of Trustees, and from his j brilliant effort the following bright j shafts of good roads advocacy are wor- j thy of consideration: “No influence has been so potent as , the wheel in developing the system of good roads, and all of these thousands i of L. A. W. wheelmen are ready to help the farmer secure good roads. “Civilization and education are the results of perfect highways, not only among nations, but localities as well. “The fut ire prosperity of the state will be det ermined by those who are now in school. Good roads will aid them in a rcomplishing their future work in the advancement of the state. “A good road cannot be built without the expenditure of much money and great labor. “A high land tax now means a low land tax hereafter, while a lowland taa lathe highest and longest continued. “All taxrs should be collected is cash. “All wea lth should aid in that which benefits all, and in nothing is this more true than good roads. “The state should aid in highway conatructic i, on which her future welfare so gre .tly depends.” If the tre is need pruning, it is easiei to prune as soon as the necessity shows Itself than it is after several seasons if neglect.

WITH A NAWAUB. A Se* CaytalB Relates lacldeats •€ t St* Salar Janie’s Visit to Earope. , Very few of the suite had any acquaintance with western customs or the English language. To stuff cabins with Bombay mangoes and plantains j and let them rot, to lie down anywhexo unturbaned and iq the lightest attire, to hare no particular desire for water except for drinking purposes, to cook their food in the bedrooms of foreign | hotels—these and other eccentricities demanded constant disinfectant pow- ; der, and action on my part which was only political in the sense that sanitary maxims cannot be enforced or hotelkeepers appeased without a certain amount of diplomacy. The captain of the ship would say, when I urged upon him the claims of discipline and suggested daily washing of the decks: “My orders are to make things comfortable for his excellency; he has taken the whole ship.** His excellency would biid me give any orders I thought necessary, with an oriental calm and smile that betokened a milder view of the necessity, A hotelkeeper at Naples, pointing to discolored walls and holes burned in bedroom carpets by braziers used for cooking, threw up his hands as he exclaimed: “I shall have to repaper and recarpet these rooms; no one can be put in them for some days.** Another at Turin, who had witnessed an irruption of Mahometan servants into his kitchen and did not grasp their design in wishing to see slaughtered in the manner prescribed by their religion the chickens to be cooked for their masters, bade me farewell in these words: “Delighted to see yon on your next visit, captain, but come aloue, come alone. Never again, never again,** he repeated, as I expressed my regret and tried to explain the object of Indians being educated by travel in Europe, winding up with a warm shake of the hand and my usual formula: “You must put it down on Hhe bilL** He assured me it was not possible to put it down on the bill,— Macmillan’s Magazine.

LEAVINGS m PALACES. Ltrge Sami of Money Are Made from the Sale of I'anied Food of Royalty. Here are some interesting statistics in .regard to the food which is served in royal palaces, but which is not used by the host or guests. The chief <cook of Emperor Francis Joseph- of Austria estimates that of the 1,250,000 francs which are spent each year on. the imperial table more than half a million francs are spent on unused food, or “leavings." The perquisites from a single banquet which was given on the occasion of the jubilee amounted to more than 20,000 francs. The unused food, and especially the wines, are sold after each meal to the principal restaurants of Vienna, and in this way the cooks and their assistants contrive to obtain twice and often even three times as much as is paid to them each month by the emperor’s steward. In Italy and in Spain this leakage (no other word seems appropriate) has within the last few years been reduced to a minimum. The emperor -of Germany has also set his face against this extravagance. It is said that he makes a contract with the proprietor of one of the first hotels in Berlin, who guarantees to furnish meals to him and to all the members of his court for the fixed sum of 20 marks a head. Queen Vienna examines carefully into her ho^phold expenses and is especially careful that no money shall be wasted in the royal kitchen. In the imperial palaces of Russia the “leavings” must be considerable. Every day between 500 and 600 francs’ worth of wines and cigars are furnished for the imperial banquet, and there is a strict rule that no bottle, whether opened or not, shall be presented twice at the czar’s table. It is said that this rule is rigidly enforced, and, if sohtcan readily be seen that the lot of a chef in a Russian royal palace is by no means unhappy.—N. Y. Ilerald. The Stomach as a Dream Orlstfnatoiv There is certainly no profounder emotional excitement during sleep than that which arises from a disturbed or distended stomach, and is refleeted by the pneumogastric to the accelerated heart and the impeded respiration. We are thereby thrown into a state of uninhibited emotional agitation, a state of agony and terror such as we randy or never attain during waking life, Sleeping consciousness, blindfolded and blundering, a prey to these massive waves from below, and fumbling about desperately for some explanation, jumps at the idea that only the attempts to escape some terrible danger or the guilty consciousness of some awful crime can account for this immense emotional uproar. Thus the dream is suffused by a conviction which the continued emotion serves to support. We do not-t-it seems most simple and reasonable to conclude—experience terror because we think we have committed a crime, but we think we have committed a crime because we experience terror. And the fact that in such dreams we tire far more concerned with escape from the results of crime than with any agony of remorse is not, as some have thought, due to our innate indifference to crime, but simply to the fact that our emotional state suggests to us active escape from danger rather than the more passive grief of remorse.—Havelock Ellis, in Appleton’s Popular Science Monthly.

Mm»r People Camel Drlak coffee at night. It spoils their sleep. Tent can drink Urain-O when you please and sleep like a top. For GramO does not stimulate; It nowrisbec. cheers and feeds. Yet it looks and tastes like the best coffee. For nervous persons, youne people and children Grain-O w the perfect dnnk. Made from pore grains. Get a package from your grocer to-day. Try «t in place of coffee? 15 and 25e. Llghtalac aai Women. Lightning never strikes twice in the same place. The analogy between lightning and a woman driving a nail, while striking, is doubtless quite accidental.—Detroit Journal CoactlBg Leals «o CearawHoa. Kemp’s Balsam will stop the Cough at once. Go to your druggist to-day and get a sample bottle free. Large bottles 25 and SO cents. Go at once; delays are dangerous. A Kansas medical student recently shot a patient. The mere fact that he resorted to firearms proves conclusively that he wasn’t a full-fledged doctor.—Chicago Daily News. The Beet Pmeripttoa for Chill*, and Fever Isa bottle of Gnovx's Tastsuh Chox Toxic. It is simply iron and quinine in h tasteless form. No cure—no pay. Price,50a The man who tells yon s secret, and asks you not to tellj doesnt treat you right; he enjoys telling it, and forbids you having a good time.—Atchison Globe.

Lane's Family Meitclat. Mores the bowels each day. In order to be healthy this is necessary. Acts gently on the liver and kidneys. Cues sick headache. Price 25 and 30c. have here, he began, "a little poem. the child oI- “I’m sorry,** interrupted the editor, “bat couldn't think of taking a child away from its parents.”—Answers. To Can a COM la Om Bay Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund money if it fails to curs. 23c. Adam was not born. Probably that’s why he^never wrote poetry.—Chicago Doily Piso’s Cure for Consumption is an A No. I Asthma medicine—W. K. Willia ms, Antioch, 111., April 11,1891. People would undoubtedly be m re law1ms if there were less law.—Chieai > Daily .—

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o ALESWOMEN understand what torture fa. Constantly on their feet whether well or ill. to smile and be agreeable to customers wbaSTdragged down with some feminine weakness. Backaches and headaches count for little. They most „ :rWv'>.

keep going or lose their piece. To these Mrs. Pinkham’s help is offered. A letter to her at Lynn. Mass., will bring her advice free of ell charge. Miss Nancde Shobe, Florence. Col. writes a letter to Mrs. Pinkham from which we quote:

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* naa been m poor health for some time, my trembles hairing been brought on by standing, so ray physician said, cansing serious womb trouble. 1 had to give up my work, i was just a bundle of nerves and would have fainting spells at monthly periods. I doctored and took various medicines, but

got no relief, and when I wrote to yo* I could not walk more than four blocks at a time. I followed your advice, taking LydiaE. Pinkhams Blood Purifier in connection with the Vegetable Compound and began to gain in strength from the first I am getting to be a - stranger to pain and I owe it allioyou? medicine. There i3 none equal to it.

for I have tried many others before using yours. Words cannot be said too strong in praise of it.1* Miss Polly Frame, Meade. |Kan., writes: ••Dear Mrs. Pinkham—If eel it my duty to write you in regard to wfiat your medicine has done for

me. I cannot praise it enough. Since my girlhood I had been troubled with irregular and Ijpaiaful periods and for nearly five years had suffered ‘with falling of the womb, and whites. Also had ovarian trouble, the

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Nervous People Nervous' people not only suffer themselves but cause mor or less misery to everyone aro them. They are fretful, easily worried and therefore a worry to others. * When everything annoys you; when your pulse beats ex* cessively; when you are startled at the least unexpected sound, your nerves are in a bad state and should be promptly atteiv did to.-I Nervousness is a question of nutrition. Food for the nerves ii what you \ need to put you right,and the best nerve food in the world is Dr. Williams* Pink Pills for Pale People. K ^ ihey give strength and tone to every nerve «n the body, and make despondent, easily irritated people feel that life has renewed its charms. Mere is proof :

' Miss Cora Watxotts, the sixteen-year old daughter of Mr. L C. vratrous, of 61 Clarion St, Bradford^ Pa., was seised with a nervous disorder which threatened to end her life. Eminent physicians agreed the trouble was from impoverished blood, but failed to give relief. Mr. Watrous heard Dr. Williams* Pink Pills for Pale People were highly recommended for net* vous disorders, sndgave them a trial. Before the first box had been taken the girl’s condition improved. After using sis boxes her appetite returned, the pain in her head ceased, and she was stronger than ever before. “My daughter's life was saved by Dr . Williams* Pink Pills for Pale People,” said *— '“-itrous. “Her condition was almost hopeless when She commenced *"— *-* now she is strong and haitthy. I cannot recommend An Is. on o&th p&Lk&rfe. Sold by oH oent, imtp&id. by the Dr. Williams _ Othtntttody. N.X. Frit* 5o*ptrJooic,6boMS i

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