Pike County Democrat, Volume 30, Number 47, Petersburg, Pike County, 30 March 1900 — Page 7

- "****jr PRUNING FRUIT TREES When Setting; Then* Ont a Generou Use'of the Knife Is Advisable in Most Imtancei. When trees are taken up in the nursery a great many of the roots are broken off. The drying out incident to transportation reduces the vitality of the trees also, and so they must be favored as far as possible by ! a vigorous pruning of all limbs. The cuts show, first an average tree as it comes from the nursery, and, second, the same tree j as it should be pruned when it is set j out-r Most people are too much afraid of cutting a tree back. Sue]} work

9 I ^ BEFORE AND AFTER PRUNING, means, however, a more vigorous tree later on, and the vigorous pruning should be given, no matter how much it hurts to cut the young growth back. There is another important point to be ° remembered in setting out young trees. Probably more of these die annually for- want of sufficient moisture than from any other cause. This is shown by the fact thatvone rarely loses any newly seit t rees if the season happens to be very moist, while in dry seasons the loss is apt to be very great. A heavy mulching about each tree as it is set 1 will greatly assist in keeping the roots ^ moist, as will also a firm packing of the earth about the roots when being covered. If it pays to set out trees at all, it will pay to set them out properly and to care for them when set.—N. Y. Tribune. WHEELMEN TO HELP. Mach Work for Good Hands to Be Done This Year by Leading: Bicycle Organisation.

.Now that the League of American Wheelmen has abolished its racing de- | t partment, every attention will be , given the other branches of the work. The most important of these is the highway improvement department, in which is intrusted the work in behalf of the good roads movetnent. which was started by the L. A. W., and which has been constantly agitated by it for almost 20 years. The league r has made rapid strides in this movement, particularly during the past year, but the racing question has reflected upon this as upon all other deparements, the belief being disseminated that none of the branches of league work could be made effective until the racing question was settled. The most important work accomplished last year was the holding of many good roads convention^ in various states, the; introduction of highway improvement measures in many of the state legislatures and the evolution of the movement to national proportions, as was evidenced by the bill introduced in congress calling for an appropriation of $5,000,000. Constitutional amendments were carried in Michigan and Minnesota, and a large amount of education on the subject was circulated bv the league. All of this work will be continued ^during the present’ year, but upon a pauch larger scale than heretofore. In fact, this will be one of the most important agitations of the year, aside from the presidential elections. The ■delegates of the L. A. W. were never more enthusiastic upon the subject, and they will enter ipto the work with increased vigor. They expect the cooperation of all wheelmen in the great work they are doing. Agriculture In Alaska. Prof. Georgeson is experimenting in the growing of different varieties of cereals, forage plants, flax and .vegetables in gardens placed at his disposal by citizens of Sitka. In spite of late planting, oats, barley,, pota toes, flax and a, number of different kinds of vegetables of good quality were, matured last year. Clover and grasses made an excellent growth. Useful data were also obtained from these experiments regarding the effect of different soil conditions on ' the germination of seeds and the growth of plants. Experiments similar to those being conducted at Sitk« * were made at Skaguay. Feed Good Milk Only. Every man that brings back milk from the creamery to feed to his stock should insist that it be good milk, for only good milk is fit to feed. Rotten milk will injure him at several points Frequently, indeed, the, bad milk"is due to patrons not delivering it in time, but that is no reason why the long-suffering patron that does do right should not bring up the question. Perhaps ft may result in reforming the patrons that are remiss. At any rate, it may secure an improvement*—Farmers’ Voice.

ANEPISODE m BOERDOU For Those Kcaisn Who Are Kecf< lag Up with the War Lit* eratare. An Afrikander, trekking from Sehuin’a Hoogte to Palapsie with a lead of biltong halted by a fontein at. the foot of a kloof. A Voortrekker suddenly appeared from be* hind a kopje, waving a vierkleur. “Oorlog!” shouted the Voortrekket. “Dop!’Y replied the Afrikander, who was B man ui rcacu wiit. “Produce it,” said the Voortrekker, “though I am no dopper.” The Afrikander’s vporiooper, who was standing on the dlsselboom munching mealies, jumped off and started on a run toward a kr&ntz. In jumping a sluit his foot slipped on a klip and he fell into a donga. The others, after much dop, got into a heated argument in Taal over the quickest way to the nearest dorp. One said he should take the drift over the spruit, and the other that be should pont over the pan- A zarp oeme along and took them both around the viel and through the poort to the laager, where they should be safe from rooineka.— N. Y. Sun. How Woman Was Made. A small boy in the Mission Sunday school of Bishop Fallows’ church propounded an entirely new theory of creatioii last Sunday* “Who made man?” asked the teacher, beSinning, as in the good old days when orthooxy used catechisms, “God,” was the prompt reply.( “And how did he make him?” “Out of-dust, ma’am; nothing but dust.* “And who made woman ?” “God made her, too, ma’am.” “How?” * The small boy hesitated, and then replied cheerfully: ‘He caused a deep sleep to fall upon man and then took out nis backbone and made the woman.”—-Chicago Inter Ocean. The Prairie Leads of West era Canada Being Filled with ExcelTHE TEEMING WEST. lent Settlers.

The salient fact that presents itsell j in talcing a bird’s-eye view of the I Canadian West, is that of intense activity in every department. Whether the'glance be turned upon the district east of Winnipeg, the Red River Valley south or north, the Dauphin and M. & N. W. district, the Southwestern,. or whether it take in the great central division along the main line of the C. P. R. stretching away out to the Rockies and from there bending north and south to Prince Alberta and Edmonton, Mcleod and Lethbridge—whether the. examination be made in any of these directions the same activity, growth and hopefulness is observable. The Canadian west is not only a good place to locate permanently, but it is also a good place to invite their relatives and friends to come to. This is the spirit that seems to animate the west at the present time and its effects are to be seen on every hand. To enumerate the towns where handsome and substantial blocks and residences have gone up this year would be simply to give a list of the towns and villages along the railway lines. And this movement has not been confined to these centers of population, but in many cases it has been overshadowed by the improvement in farm buildings. So far as one can see, this is no passing phase, no repetition of any temporary boom following a period of good crops and fair prices. It is a movement more spontaneous, morn general, more marked than anything that has gone before, and seems to indicate that the Great West, like Samson, bursting the encompassing bands?- has awakened to a period of activity and development that will surpass anything we have known in the past and which will only be paralleled by the opening out of some of the most fertile of the western states of the union. Look at some of the figures. Over a thousand schools in Manitoba and the number going up by leaps and bounds. Something like five hundred schools in the Territories. Winnipeg as representing the gateway of the west* the third city in the Dominion in regard to bank clearings, postal business and probably in regard to customs: the custom rettirn at Winnipeg running about thirty to forty per cent, greater1 month by month than in the fiscal year of 1897-8, the largest previous year for actual business entries, when over $900,000 was paid through the Winnipeg office for duty. The C. P. R. and Canada Northwest land sales together running over $1,500,000 J6r the year. These, and a thousand more signs show how the west has leaped into new life. This is an inspiring and cheering spectacle, but it brings with it great responsibilities. The business men realize this, the banks realize it, and have spread their agencies through every bustling little town, clear out to the coast, the churches realize it, and one denomination alone has opened an average of about thirty new stations in each of the past two years, and wih increase this in the year now entered upon, the government departments realize it, and there is talk of redistribution and additional members. The educational branches realize it and new schools are springing up everywhere. Over 12,000 settlers came in from the United States alone last year, and these with the people who came in from the east prove the most rigorous Westerners. They, lose no time in developing their farms, in filling their grazing lands with stock and in every district is to be found evidences of thrift and prosperity.

Happy Women j who have boon relieve! of ' painful menstruation by Lydia E. Plnkham's Vegetable Compound, are constantly writing grateful letters to MrsmPbddumm, • ar E. Pfnkhan's Vcgetdbl* Conpuad j our&o mom, n atways relievos painful periods end no woman who suffers should be without this knowledge. Nearly all the Ills of women result from some derangement of the tomato organism, Mrsm Plntham*s great nnwdlolno makes women healthy; of this there Is ovorwhelmmg proof. Don't experimentIf you suffer get this modlrino and got Mrs. Pinkham's free advice. Her address Is Lynn, Mass,

THE MARKETS. 9% 5 75 4 25 6 25 5 25 5 35 3 00 3 43 72% 36%f 25% S 50 12 00 13 .JO V 20 «g 7% %'/ 10 4? 12 0» &P C New Yolk, March 20. CATTLE—Native Steers_$ 4 75 | @5 50 COTTON—Middling ...-. jy FLOUR—Winter Wheat.... 2 75 <y 3 90 WHEAT—No. 2 lied. ?5%<U 73% CORN-No. 2. <y 44% OATS—No. 2. ^ 28% PORK—Mess New.. 10 75 Si 12 25 ST. LOUIS. COTTON—Middling . 9%® BEEVES—Steers.. 4 00 <y Cows and Heifers. 2 50 fjf CALVES—(per 100).. 5 00' fe) HOGS—Fair to Choice.....* 4 40 SHEEP—Fair to Choice...t 5 00 <y FLO U R—Patents (new). 3 50 (g; Other Grades_* 2 75 ft. WHEAT—No. 2 Red Winter 71%®) CORN—No. 2.... .... to) OATS-No. 2... RYE-No. 2. <i) TOBACCO—Lugs -....... 3 SO Leaf Burley.... 4 50 HAY—Clear Timothy (new) 10 00 BUTTER—Choice Dairy..... ns BACON-Clear Rib. EGGS—Fresh .„.. PORK-StandardMess(new) 11 50 LARD—Prime Steam..... CHICAGO. CATTLE—Native Steers....'- 4 25 HOG £1—Fair to Choice. 4 85 SHEEP—Fair to Choice.... 4 75 FLOUR—Winter Patents... 3 40 * Spring Patents... 3 10 WHEAT—No. 3 Spring. 7- 62 No. 2 Red.. .... CORN-No. 2.. OATS—No. 2.. 24 PORK—Mess ...1120 KANSAS CITY. CATTLE—Native Steers 3 85 fig HOGS—Fair to Choice...... 4 60 fig WHEAT—No. 2 Red..,....*, .... fig OATS—No. 2 White...,. 26 (jg CORN—No. 2. 34 NEW ORLEANS. FLOUR—High Grade. 3 65 $g CORN—No. 2. <jg OATS—Western . 31 (ig HAY—Choice. 17 50 <jg 18 uO PORK—Standard Mess..... (ji 11 50 BACON—Short Rib Sides. .. 7%(ig COTTON—Middling .. ^ LOUISVILLE. WHEAT—No. 2 Red. 74 <!J CORN-No. 2..A. 36%<f OATS—No. 2 Mixed.... 25V»<;S PORK—New Mess...,.*.11 00 (g u 50 BACON—Short Ribs.. 6%*§ 7 COTTON—Middling . .... <i aw “Did I understand you to say that one of your ancestors fought during the revolution?” “Yes, my great-great-great-grand-father feli at Bunker kopje.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. 5 70 5 25 6 00 3 60 3 4» 64* 68 37% 24% (ig 11 85 5 25 5 0?% 26% 35 4 05 45 31% ‘--8 97a <5% 37% 27 T^he man who turns from evil companions does himself a good turn,—Chicago Daily News.

-T3f MARCH AND APRIL Are the Most Dtaa*ree»Me Month* of the Peer In the North. ][»the South, they are the pleasantest and ®'*t aareeaWe. The trees and shrubs pat forth their bads and flowers; early vegetable* and fruits are reaay for eating, and m fact all nature seems to have awakened from it* winter sleep. The Louisville & NashviHe Railroad Company reaches the Garden Spot* of the Smith, and will on the first and third Tuesdays of March and April sell round-trip tickets to all principal towns in Tennessee, Alabama,Georgia and West Florida at almost half rates. Write for particulars of excursions to P. Sid. Jones, D. P. A.', in charge of Immigration,Birmingham, Ala., or Geo. P. Horner, D. P. A., St. Louis, Mo. The doomed men had a last request te make. “Pray do not tell my parents,” he implored, “that I was hanged!” “What shall we say killed you. then?” we asked, suspecting nothing. "The dropsy!” cried the wretched fellow, with a loud laugh.— Detroit Journal. Give the Children a Uriah called Grain-0. It is a delicious, appetizing, nourishing food drink to take the place of coffee. Sold by all grocers and liked by all who have used it, because when properly ' prepared it tastes like the finest coffee but is free from all its injurious properties. ! Grain-0 aids digestion and strengthens the nerves. It is not a stimulant but a health ; builder, and children, as well as adults, can | drink it with great benefit. Cost! about £ as much as coffee. 15 and 35c. Oat of the Question. Mrs. Flyabout—Oh, dear me! I suppose I must give up something during lent. . Mr. Flyabout—Why not give up talking so much? , 1‘What! And have you get gay and worldly? Well, hardly.”—Judge. Dropsy treated free by Dr. H. H. Green’s Sons, of Atlanta, Ga. The greatest dropsy specialists in the world. Read their advertisement m another column of this paper. The man who cracks his fingers several times while nailing down the carpet knows what it is to take pains with his work.— Philadelphia Record.

The Beat Prescription for Chills and Fever is a bottle of Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic. It is simply iron and quinine in a tasteless form. No cure—no pay. Price^Oc. treat Social Forces. e it will be found that, next to electricity, flattery is the greatest force in the world.—Atchison Globe. To Care a Cold in One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. AH druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 25c. After a man does a clever thing, he usually talks about it too mpch.—Atchison Globe. _ __* Farm*"r», Double Your Yield by planting my Early Dent Corn. Particulars free. H. C. Beebe, Banner, XlL Fortune favors those who work as if they expected to succeed without it.—Chicago Daily News. I have used Piso’s Pure for Consumption both in my family and practice.—Dr. G. W. Patterson, Inkster, Mich., Nov. 5, 1894. If a man has a good memory he is able to forget judiciously.—Chicago Daily News. POMMEL ■sucker Keeps both rider and saddle perfectly dry in the hardest storms. Substitutes will disappoint Ask for xSo7 Fish Brand Pommel Slicker— it Is entirely new. If not for sale in town, write for catalogue to f. TOWER. “ Dr.Bull’s in'the ch«* °r i Positively cures coughs. ~ — - lungs ana incipient Cough Syrupss^^SS for children. Tastes good. Doses are small. 35c. Sweating Feet Cured. AURORA REMEDY CO., Box 385, Aurora, 11L

Tm Cu Set AUm’1 FMt-EaM 1TBJ B*. .Write to-day Ui'Allen 8. Ohnsteci eroy, H. \for a FREE sample »t Allen’s FootEase, apowder to shake into vour shoos. It cows chilblains, swearing, damp, swollen, aching feet. It makes Mew or right thoes easy. A certain cure for Corns and Bunions. All druggists and shoe stores sell i i. 26c. ‘Trigby, does your dub play wh at regally ? No; the women talk regularl; , and we men play whistwheo conversation. I aga. —Indianapolis Journal. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES stain the bands or spot the kettle, all druggists. “When is a pun not a pun?” ‘Tstt illy.” —Harvard Lampoon. d< not i i: Id by Old as the Bills are the pains and aches oi RHEUMATISM NEURALGIA SCIATICA •ore as ta^es is the cure of them by St Jacobs Qi

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Ww'Vtsh rate this >W WkMt rael&«M»o£«!r hSP& i Worth lUMkHlanik fEtw ▲bo«* JO Pk«»- worth wo will arii soo free, together with our great CeUio*, teiau* »U abort IAIICT $ ^CwililuiB NTAT9 wpon receipt ®i ihta wwilew £ I4e. •trope- Wm iaruryoartradr, rad jkaow when yoa oec* try S*8*er*» k?ed* jroit will nr**r do without.

Eb ea<5 partieelan as tc bo* to secure 5«« acres of the i>«st Wheat crowing laud ok the continent, can ba secure on application to the Superintendent of Immiifraiion, Ottawa. Canada, or the under* signed. Specially oonducted excursions will leave Bt. Paul. Minn., oa tbs first and third Tuesday in each month, and specmliy low rates on ail lines of railway are he Tan St ated for excursions leaving St. Paul on March it.h, and April 4th. for Manitoba. Asslnibola. Saskatchewan and Alberta. f\ PlfiDLBY. 8npt. of Immigration. Ottawa. Canada, or to C. J. BROUGHTON. CCS Monadnock Bik.. Chicago, and J. 8. CRAW|*»K1>. 214 West Vth Street;. Kansas City, Mo.; K. T. Holmbs. The Bates. indUnavoUn. lad. I1DADCV »KW MSCOYERY; give* MI>VrO 1 quick relief and cures worst cases. Book of testimonial a and 1» ilitie' treatment f ree Dr. H. R. UREF.X S SONS, Box 1). Atlanta. Ga.

O, How Happy I asi to BE FREE jom NEURALGIA ^ Mre. Archie Yonng of 1817 Oaks Ave.. West Superior, W&, writes us on Jan. 25th, 1W. I am so thankful to be abl e to say th t y our S W ANSON’S ‘ 5 DROPS * is the best medicine I ever used in my life. 1 sent for f on e last November and commenced using it right away and it helped me from the first dose. Oh : cs nnot explain to you how I was sufferiug from neuralgia? It seemed that death was near at hand. 1 j thought no one could be worse. I was so very weak tnat I hardly expeetad to live to see my huf.ba id come back from his daitv labor. But now I am free from nain. iuv cheeks are red. «nd T«w.™.oii _ X J• r , - , v t*uptr« iu vumc s*vut uw uaitj tauvi . out uunr a *££U nice from pain,iuy cheeks are ted, and I sleep well the whole oight through. Many of j»y friends are so surprised to see m^looking so well’ tin f they will r-"A ---- *- »■ - .. ’ v divwgh. imy menu . ~---send for some of your *5 DROlPS.*” PUCglMlTBOifi ‘'I hat-e teen afflicted with rheumatism for 2 years, I was In bed nncuHiRi loin

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. _ , —I — — ” * V‘J ‘“ft . * *.uvmk:u a «v v-uiu I try it. It ha|s oo npleteljr cured me, but I like it so well that I want two more bottleslifor fear I will get into the same fix I was before I sent for >o DROPSY’ writes Mr. Alexander Futrell of Vanndale, Ark., Feb. feth, 1900. 5 Is the most pos en al specific known. Free from opiates and perfectly harmless. It giTes almost! nssa itaneous relief, and is a positive cure for KhcBnalitin, Ht*I« atica- Nenrili la. Dyspepsia. Backacke, Aithiaa. Haj’ Fetcr, <•«» - — . _ _ lie ti _ _ _m B Dropsy, M«U.i la, Creeping Aiumbneaa, etc., etc. torrh. La <3rij pc, Oro'iiih Sleejtlessness/lKereatisneM^&erTcvHs and Kearnlglc iduchea. Toothache. Heart Weuteness, Oft ft A| V & *° enable sufferers to grire “5 DROPS” at least a trial, we OW UM S lO win send a tec sum pie bottle, prepaid by mail for t©c. A ww mm »s M f ^ win send a ag*»c sample bottle; prepaid bv mail for 10c. A sample bottle V Ul . onTinee Ton. Also, large bottles (300 dogeo) fc.dt, 6-bottles for tt.

BWAJfSOS RHEUMATIC ClTHfi CO., 1M to 104 Lake St., CHICAGO, ILL,

DEFORMITIES CUItED. remember that examination and con- “filT I DIE I VCDCC £tEffcUAEI sulfation by mail or in person is jSIH t*»l 1 11 Hi CL V rllCC IIP tlfflJlIf

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CROQKEDorCLUBBED j CCCT efany variety,andat I f LLI anT reasonable age, 'can .be made straight, nat- ; ural and useful.

POTTS’ DISEASE when treated hr ns in time, will esnlt in no Deformity, paralysis or iU b alth. UIP MCCA^£ canbechred trlttput anrmr UlOuHOI- gical operations c:r eonflnintr the patient to bed. Abacasshorten

tag, deformity, lessor motion 8.iv ays prevented, ftnd if already present caa be cured. |

rAMrnLE i a SEN 1 UW KEQUE5T. S«**t CURVATURE, Iflr PftRMITIP'v erthe ItmtM, joiRWorfeehre-ultin* iDLiUnni I ICO {rom Paralysis or Rheumatism, taa be corrected WITHOI T FAI V. _

9 The methode of this Institute are radically different and more suoceeeful than those generally employed,they b ingiaitd and painless, no cutting or plaster parts treatment being resorted to.

mis is me omy inorousfuij eqaippoa i it uiuiion aeToiea to me cere &»a correcting ordeItirns;::es. TheLC McLAlN MEDICAL aikilJRGICM. INSTITUTE No, 3100 Pine St, St Louis,

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WC.. A STATE STREET SCENE 8N A STORMY DAY, —Laxative Bromo-Quinine which is advertised or the large banner over State Street, Chicago, as represented above, is the only exclusive cold prescription ‘WWC*frr*K^ m Jiiigland. This is the sigsold by every druggist in the United States, Canada and in nature (p t^ie *nventor and plainly appears or every box of the genuine article. It is sold for 25c a bo*, and all druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. #

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