Plymouth Tribune, Volume 5, Number 52, Plymouth, Marshall County, 4 October 1906 — Page 6

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I BEVERIDG REPLIES TO BRYAN.

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n OLITICAL Land Valoe Hlffh. The Hon. James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture, has recently received 43,000 letters from so many prominent and substantial citizens, giving, at his request, their estimate of the increase of the value of farm lands in their respective neighborhood, since 1900. By this method the Secretary has reached Into practically every community In the United States, and as he asked every correspondent to base his estimate in each instance on medium lands, leaving out the very poor and tlie extremely valuable, the result Is believed to be as accurate as could be achieved. Almost all other estimates on farm lands in the past have been too low, because they have been based upon the tax assess ment valuation, which is notoriously an undervaluation In t:very community, but Secretary Wilson's correspondents were Instructed to fix the value In each case at the price at which the land could be sold If thrown upon the mar ket Thus it is believed that these fig ures are the first ever collected to come cpproximately near the truth, and the result Is decidedly interesting. An average valuation for each State was struck and also one for the country at large, and the gain In each State has been a handsome one. In jlOOO the total value of all the farm panda in the United States, Including Pn 1905 it was $24,410,270,003, figures which are eloquent of the. effect the 'general prosperity of the country has upon the farm. Another significant feature brought out Is that the greatiest increase- proportionately, came to the Central States. The North Central States gained. In round figures, $3,GOO.OOO.COO, while the South Central gained $1,200,000,000. The Atlantic and the far Western States also gained (handsomely, but only by millions and mot by billions. Among the Individual States perhaps the most striking gains in value were made by Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin, Ohio and Nebraska, all of which gained an average of not tless than $10 per acre. Illinois appears to be the banner State of all in this respect, her average gain being $21 per acre. Iowa's gain was $13 per jncre; Ohio, $10; Indiana, $13; Missouri, $10; Nebraska, $11; Wisconsin. $11, vhile such good States as Michigan ?vent ahead only $7 per acre, Minnesota only $7 and Kansas only $8. North Dakota gained $S and South Dakota p. , Among the Southern States the most striking gain was recorded by louislana, the development of the rice Jields helping . that State greatly. Louisiana's gain was an average of $S ir acre. The only other Southern State to approach this 'vas Kentucky, T.ith a gain of $7. Many of the others tan from $3 to $3. This does not apply to the Atlantic coast Southern States, where the gains averaged slightly larger, one State, Florida, showing an average of $9 per acre, which was Ihe biggest gain of any Atlantic coast SJite, North or Sooth. Among the far Western States Washington makes thp best show!!?,, her gain being almost $10 per acre, and her closest competitor is Idaho, with a gln of over $9. At the present time the average price per acre of farm lands in the Middle Western States is as follows: Ohio, $57.43; Indiana, $34.96; Illinois, $73.31; Michigan, $3G3S; Iowa, $64.50; Missouri, $34.70; North Dakota, $18.42; South Dakota, $22.56; Nebraska, $31.73; Kansas, $23.99. A Measure of Bryan. "Bryan lacks aerve, the Democratic party lacks cohesion and organization. For these reasons Bryan, If elected, and backed up by a Democratic House and Senate, will accomplish practically nothing. This is the opinion of ex-Senator Marion Butler of North Carolina, first t Democrat, then a Fopullst, now a Republican. Mr. Butler hzs a poor opinion of William Jennings Bryan as n doer of things, although he admits hi? sincerity and honesty. He pointed oat what he conceives to be the weak spots of Mr. Bryan as follows: "I think that if Bryan had been elected President when Roosevelt was elected, and at the same time had a Democratic Congress" with him, he would have been unable to carry out his promises, although he would have tried to do so He would have failed on account of the want of cohesion and organization, not to say want of sincei -Ity. in the Democratic House and h'e ate. There Is a want of cohesion la the party. When It Is In power each man Is his own leader, they will not pull together as a unit They never ' have, and I do not think they ever will It has been a party of negation; It is magnificent In kicking and opposing. It Is a failure when in power at producing results. "The training of the party and the individual members of it has been that opposition and not of construction. So the fine platitudes have failed to materialize, and always will. This, as I May, is because of the absence of or far.Izatlon, system and unity. The Re publican leaders, on the other hand, no matter how widely divergent their rlews may be, manage to get together ind to do things. Idea Not New. The Idea of government ownership ."s not the private property of Mr. Bryan by right of prior discovery. The State of Inülana lost a million and a h.-i'f dollars in the first half of the Iat century as the result of trying to build a railway from Madison to Indianapolis. Governor Folk says that Missouri lost many millions while engaging In business that properly belongs to private enterprise, and has no hankerings after further experimentation in the same direction. The third party Prohibitionists have: reputedly declared for government owntrship, and the theory has been one of tli cardinal tenets of Populism since tltt movement first originated. Mr. .an. In fact. Is infringing on tin1 r "Iltlcal copyrights of all the third p::rty movements, and rejecting the results which experience has yielded In every case where the scheme has been tried oct Prosperity's Shortage. The Evansvllle Courier, a leading Democratic paper of Indiana, thus describes the existing prosperous conditions of the country; Probably no such widespread shortige was ever known in the United States as may now be found. The agricultural Interests of tin

OMMEAJT 3 VnM&lil i i l 1 1 HD country have been experiencing a great shortage of help, and the total sup ply of farm hands is far below the de mand. Many of the great manufacturing concerns, notably in some of the steel and Iron districts, are handicapped by a shortage of labor. The railroads are embarrassed by a shortage of cars, and the facilities for the prompt moving of the great crops are strikingly inadequate. The money market is suffering from a shortage of funds with which to con duct the tremednous commerce of the country. These various shortages, which are all pronounced and which might be supplemented by others, are born of the abounding prosperity which the United States Is experiencing In this record-breaking year. The volume of agencies and accommodations needed to handle the business which this country Is now transacting from day to day is enormous. The Paramount Issue. In his eloquent speech at the Ohio Republican State convention Senator Foraker said: "We are to have a Congressional election, congressional elections are always important, but they are espe cially and particularly so this year, They are thus unusually Important because this year they involve not only the political complexion of the next House of Representatives, but they Involve also directly and Imme diately the question whether or not tue American people propose in Novem ber next to indorse and approve the administration of Theodore Roosevelt. Each and every man is running In his district, but Theodore Roosevelt Is runnlij in every district That Is true, because he has had more to do than any other President ever before had with the legislation that Congress his been enacting." A. Prosperous People. There are 100,000 stockholders in the United States Steel Corporation, of whom alwut 33,000 are employes. There are 9,000 stockholders in the Swift Reef Company, of whom 4,000 are em ployes. There t'.re 7,000 farmers who own stock in the Illinois Central Railroad. Eighty pr cent of the stock of the great Santa Fe Railroad Is owned by small stockholders. Nearly 0,000 farmers own stock iu the Boston & Maine Railroad system. Forty-eight per cent of the families of this nation own some real estate. Ninety-five per cent of the real estate mortgages : of this nation represent prosperity. That K they represent a family that, starting from nothing, is gradually paying for a home. Kansas City Journal. Farmers Are Satisfied. Fat lambs sold a f?w days ago In Chi cago as nign as $i.w. rretty good price, and the farmer who Is engaged In sheep industry is not grumbling. Yet there are Democratic politicians who are going to vote for a policy that brought disaster to the sheep Industry and to about every Industry the farmer was engaged In a dozen years ago. The fanner will not be very greatly In fluenced by the Democratic vote hunt ers tnis year, rney are pretty well satisfied with present Industrial conditions. Seymour (Ind.) Republican. Value of Utilised Wastes. Thirty years ago for every ton of finished product turned out by our manufacturers then was from one to several hundred pounds of materials which were thrown away as waste. Not only was this so-called "waste material considered valueless, but the disposition of It was often t source of considerable expense and annoyance to the manufacturers. Owing ts the wonderful progress of chemical knowledge during the last quarter of a century, and the constant finding of new revelations and uses for substances of all kinds, a complete revolution has been wrought In nearly every branch of the manufacturing industry. Instead of this t waste material being a source of expense to manufacturers, the experiments of chemists have shown how it can be converted Into products which have a high marketable value, and it U no exaggeration to say that the value of products annually manufactured out of materials which SO years aj-o were thrown away as waste to-day amounts to fully $500,000,000 a sum equal to i nearly seven times the annual produc tion of gold In the United States. Street Attraction. "Labor like the ant," advised the wise mother. The lazy boy sulked. Presently he rushed back In great glee. "Oh, mamma!" he exclaimed, excitedly."Can I labor like the ant right now?" "You certainly can, my son," replied the delighted mother, "but what prompted you so suddenly?" "Why, I Just found an army of ants laboring around your jam Jars." Her Dear Pap. "Say, paw?" queried little Eva Enpeck, "what Is a martyr?" "A martyr, my dear, Is what your maw Is married to," answered Mr. Enpeck sadly. Robespierre, of the French Revolution, the man who was destined to deluge France with blood, was, not long before his frightful career of power began, one of the most strenuous opponents of capital punishment. While he was stilly an -obscure advocate of his native Arras he threw up an appointment because of his opposition to this form of penalty. And he boldly harangued the National Assembly to prove "that the punishment of death is essentially unjust: that it has no tendency to repress crime, and that it multiplies oflViices much more than it diminishes them." The valuation of the Temple Em:! ' is $1.030,01)0, of St. Patrick's ( iliedral $0,000,000, of the B'nal Jcurun Synagogue $300,000, of the Ten. pie Beth-El, at the corner of Fifth avenue and Seventy-sixth street, $1,300,000; of the Broadway Tabernacle, Broadway and Fifty-sixth treet, $700,000, and of the Christian Scientist Church. Central Park West and Sixtyeighth street, $300,000. Avoid over-eating. Of the two evils It is better to eat too little than too much. Hunger changes beans Into almonds. - From the Italian.

Senator in Chlenr Speech De nonncen rlrukun'a Doctrine. The Hamilton Club of Chicago formally oieued the congressional campaign with a big meeting in the Auditorium. Senator Beveridge proved a drawing card, and the large hall was packed to the doors. Interest was enhanced by the fact of the Senator's close relations to the administration. Ills utterances were regarded as wholly or at least in great measure reflecting the views of the President. Therefore what Senator Beveridge said concerning government ownership may be regarded as a reply to Bryan's enunciations on that subject. The pith of the argument Is contained In the following paragraphs: Th: people's government should do no business that the people can do better themselves ; th? people's government should own no business that the people can better own themselves. But the people's government should control aud regulate industries owned by some of the people that are so great as to affect the welfare of all of the people. The people, through their government, should not permit some of them to practice busiuess methods that will be unjust to all of thein. But the people's government should not own any industry which private enterprise can efficiently manage and whose abuses government regulation can prevent. Government ownership ot nation-wide business is the European theory of industry. Government regulation of nationwide business is the American theory of

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industry. I am for the American theory and against the Eura.rwan theory. Let Europe copy America not America copy Europe. Government control of railways, but not government ownership of rail ways. The utmost faith Is therein Implied that this country can regulate railways and other corporations and eliminate the abases complained of. When that Is accomplished, or when it Is demonstrated that It can be accomplished, we assume that not even Bryan will hold fast to bis theory of government ownership; until It 'shall In? demonstrated that It cannot be accomplished, the people of this country are not ;;oI.ig to stampede for Bryan and for the new Bryanesque doctrine. They have Seen attracted by the brilliancy of his elec tric oratory before only to discover that be was leading them Into dangerous ..nd uitrod bypaths, far from the high way o" sane and Conservative action. Tin? Senator discussed the develop ment of American industries from the individual to the combination stage, the growing needs of the country making It Imperative that men join capital and brains to meet the Increased demand. But still the control remains with the people. We talk of millionaires and multi-millionaires as being In absolute possession of large corporations, and yet It Is a fact that 75 per cent of the stock and bonds of these mammoth enterprises is held 'by hundreds of thousands of people. I! they will, they can see to It that the. government exercises reasonable supervision over the trustees who are managing their property. For Senator Beveridge says: Government supervision means the in telligence and conscience of the people laying their restraining hands on the wrongs of railway management; government ownership means an American bu reaucracy as mach greater than any other bureaucracy on earth as the American railway system is as much greater than any other railway system on earth. Those who advocate government own ership admit that private management U mor. efficient, admit that American railway service is the best railway service in the world. But they say that the government i R-nership is the only way of keephg t'.e railways out of politics. It is true tb it the railways meddle too much In politic . When they meddle at all they meddle tvo much, aud they meddle a great d;al. But government ownership is not the way to stop fuera. Criminal laws is the way to stop them. Prison bars for corrupting railroad lobbyists: prison bars for railway agents in primaries and conventions ; prison tars for railway representatives wlio try to influence the nomination and election of Senator, Congressman, judge or any other public officer that is the way to stop them. Let the railways attend to their own business just a? every one of you is ex pected to attend to his own business, and no man will speak of government owner ship. And their business is not to nomi nate aud elect any public vlicer; their business is not to purchase, coerce or In fluence his action. Thür business is to haul passengers and fre ght, and nothing else. We are curious to hear Bryan's re ply to that argument. If it Is not truly American In every line of it then we mistake the Senator's meaning. If it doesn't breathe of courage and hopeful ness, then we fall utterly to give It a correst analysis. Toiedo Blade. COSTLY NEW YORK CHURCHES. The Marble Collegiate Church, Fifth avenue and Twenty-ninth street, Is val ued at $1,000,000. Grace Church, at what was once de scribed as the head of Broadway, New York, is valued at $350.000. The West Presbyterian Church, on West Forty-second street, Is valued at $430UO, St. Thomas's at $1,700,000, and the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. 0 and 11 West Fifty-fifth street, at $1,000,000. St. Mark's Church, on Second ave nue, an old landmark In that neighborhood of New York, Is valued at $275,000. The Church of St. Paul the Apostle (the Paulist Church), at Fifty-ninth street and Columbus avenue, Is valued at $700,000. Trinity Church In New York is val ued at $12,500,000. This estimate In cludes the land occupied by the churchyard. It Is In the most valuable part of New York, If not In the most valu able division of property la the world.

OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS

AFRICA FOR THE AFRICANS.

T will not Co to exaggerate the weight and

importance of the so-called Ethiopian movement, the keynote of which Is expressed by the cry of "Africa for the Africans," and yet underlj-ing It is one of the gravest problems awaiting the solution of the civilized world. That problem has to do with the

future relations of the white and black races In Africa. Shall the latter be permanntly relegated to a position of servitude and subjection, as the inevitable fate of an inferior race associated with one more highly developed, or shall the attempt be made to treat both on terms of equality before the law? Shall the majority of the inhabitants of the country, bearing a proportion of not less than twelve to one of the whites in Natal, for instance, be deprived of political rights by the white men who have come Into the land to till Its fields and develop its mineral resources? In a word, shall this great continent, with Its teeming millions of black natives, be turned into a "white man's country," regardless of the Interests and wishes of the blacks? That the question is vastly more than an academic one is shown by the unrest among the Zulu and Kaffir populations of South Africa, and by the repeated uprisings of the Mohammedan negroes of the Niger region. So long as the country Is governed from above, as in Nigeria and in the undeveloped portions of South Africa, the problem has not risen to vex the white rulers ; but where the attempt to Introduce democratic self-government Is made as in the Cape Colonies it is acute. The men uiMn whom rests the real burden of the problem, the colonists, have small use for the humanitarians and the theorists. They frankly declare that the cherished doetrine of equal rights for all men is not for them, and that the occupation of the country was for motives with which ethics have nothlrg to do. Philadelphia Ledger.

A "BLACK LIST" OF FOODS. NE of the mcst Interesting thhgs to the student ot political history and progress is the way in which federal statutes often stimulate State legislation and piimnr.i?n

(g9JUM the enforcement of State yj act for the protection tioual government has

other one thing to secure the passage and enforcement of State game laws; aud already the pure food and the meat inspection acts passed at the recent session of Congress have borne fruit In several States. l: Massachusetts and In New Hampshire particularly the State Boards of Health have made public the results of chemical analysis of many articles of food in daily use. These articles were bought In the open market, of local grocers, just as any householder buys them for bis owu use. When they are found to be adulterated or other than as represented on the labels, the State Boards of Health have published the fact, naming the packer, giving a description of the label, and telling Just what and how much adulteration was found. The State Boards have long been carrying on this work, but what Is new is the fact that the newspapers have taken much more Interest In It, and now print the reports in full. The Boards of Health in many other States

A TYRANT IS DEAD. Gen. Trepoff Wmm Ihe Moit Hated Man in Itunala. Escaping time after time the knives and bullets of those who would have assassinated him, the man most hated by the Russian people, recently dlrd a natural death at the palace of the Czir at Peterhof, near St. Petersburg. Vie was Gen. Dimitrl Feodorovleh Trepoff, the most detested and the most cruel tyrant who stood between the people and their hopes for reform. He was one of the most . remarkable men In GEN. DIMITItl Russia. His father was a foundling and never knew who his parents were, but he rose to be a rower in the em pire and the son followed In his foot steps, rising even higher. No man stood so firmly for despotism as did Dlmltri Trepoff, and his life was constantly In danger. He was shot at over and over again. Three attempts to take his life were made in one week. While none of the assassins was ever successful In reaching him, they were really the cause of his death, for the constant worry and terror of his position broke down his health and led to his end. Treiwff was a typical Russian very tall, very strong, with cold blue eyes and a hard expression. lie had no mercy In his soul and thought nothing of ordering the Cossacks to mow dwn the ieople on the slightest provocation. He was vu'gar and ilibred and possessed none of the gentlemanly qualities which attach to the Russian of good breeding. Withal, he was fearless and stood between the Czar and those who would hare reduced the power of the imperial ruler. He was the protector and savior of autocracy. He even prevented the Czar carrying out his reform ideas. He was the one barrier between the tempestuous sea of mobs and popular passions that raged around the throne on one hand and the equally cruel autocracy on the other band. He plotted for M. Wltte's removal and upset every plan for change In the form of government. As commandant of the imperial palace he con-

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iARBY laws. The Lacey of same bv th na. done more than any O other stantly had the ear of the Czar and his influence was boundless. His removal by death Is a great blow to the autocracy and clears from their path the strongest man In the way of the liber als. Hundreds of those whom he had caused to be publicly flogged or sent Into exile will rejoice that the tyrant Is dead. A. Vou nit Financier. A little lady of twelve years,' who is known to a writer in the Washington Post, has iu her the genius of a proTT 1 TREPOFF. moter and organizer. Not long ago she asked permission of her aunt to draw; out all the money she has In the bank and give lt to the club of little girls of which she Is president. The money was to be be devoted to the poor. Her aunt was touched by the child's generosity, and asked: "Do you really want to give all your money to the Por?" "I want to put It all In the treasury," replied the child, "but I'm not going to let them keep It all. I'll leave It there long enough to encourage the other girls to give something, and then I'll take It out." Cnoe for CSratltude. The admirer of Miss Flutterby's mu sieal talent bad listened attentively, learning with delight, while she executed a Chopin polonaise with considerable spirit, but with a decided lack of accurate aim. "There," he said, turning to the young lady's brother for sympathetic enjoyment, when the last echo had died away, "that's what I call a finished performance !" "Yes, Indeed," said the brother, with fervor. Sometimes there are three or four movements to her pieces." If a man ha3 a well, you can pay him no compliment that pleases him more than to praise the quality of the water. J Is said middle-aged women more greedy for pie than. box. are

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make similar examinations and prepare similar reports. Even If the reports may not be printed in the newspapers, they can usually be had on application, and the Department of Agriculture works In the same Celd. The restraining and reformatory effect of these reports will be of great Importance. Even a manufacturer who would like to cheat, If he could do so In safety, will hesitate to deceive when he knows that the reports of the State Board tell the truth about his products, and that the reports are accessible to all. Henceforth the householder can buy in greater confidence than ever before. Youth's Companion.

TO CURE THE HARRY THAWS.

THAWS mother ruined Ler son when

she changed the will of the. boy's father. The latter Mi the spendthrift $2,500 a year. Mrs. Thaw changed It to $80,000 a year. It was a cate of too much mothering. She put a handicap on the son's life, cheated him out of his chance.

Young Thaw never had the satisfaction nor the experience of earning an honest dollar. He never knew the keen joy of work. The exultation of the youth who turns from a wood box filled or a lawn mowed a job well completed never came to him. He was denied the opportunity of labor with his hands or the working out of an Ideal with his head. The curse of Idleness was upon him. For Idleness Is a curse. The dictum that man must earn his bread by the sweat of his brow Is a blessing. Work Is the universal law of nature. It Is the normal, sane business of man. What could be expected of a young man who had more money than he knew how to spend and who made diversion his only purpose? There's a limit to having a good time. Wheu you get so far natural pleasures pall and if the human has no occupation the craving for new emotions begins to pull on the appetite. Self restraint is overborne. Life is warped. Tastes are vitiated. Existence is artificial and false. There Is one cure for a thousand Ills useful labor. No man can live a pane existence without some healthy occupation. We are built that way. St Louis Star-Chronicle.

CHICAGO'S FREIGHT TUNNEL.

American city Is In the happy po

sition of Chicago in having a large system of freight tunnels, by which business houses can load goods from their cellars right into cars. The tunnel company connects its truck tunnels with the larger houses in the downtown district, so that drays, teams and

strikes of draymen are at an end. There are forty-five miles of tunnnel equipped with rails and overhead trolley in the district bounded by Chicago avenue, the lake, Haisted and Sixteenth streets, constructed In the last five years at a cost of $30,000,000. The railroads are to receive freight from the tunnel company at a minimum of expense. The system of underground freight tunnels is not a municipal enterprise, but was begun, it is alleged, by a subterfuge and carried on against the wish of the city fathers. Baltimore American.

RIVER "NUDGED" HIM. What Diver Thoaeht When Tueboai Sank Bealde Htm. Henry Tract, a diver, was at work on the bottom of the Harlem River this morning when a subsurface wave nearly knocked him down. This was a new exrerience for Tract, in spite of the fact that he has been prowling about river and bay lottoms In a diving bell for years. He has met queer fish' and he has unexpectedly come across grewsoine bodies often, but the river never pushed him before, says the New York Post. The cause of this sensation was right at hand and very obvious, even through six feet of murky river water, way down below the level of passing keels. One keel had come down fast and hard below that level and Tract saw through the glass window of his steel mask the hull of a big boat settling In the mud right beside him and not more than his own length away. Tract didn't wait to hall the tug. He wasn't on that uncanny job, and the boat, arriving so suddenly without whistling, made him nervous. Besides, he could see a red flag, not flying, of course, but winding In a moist, ghostly sort of way about the staff as the boat swayed gently when her keel first touched bottom. A red flag always means danger, and Tract didn't Investigate then to Ieam Just what sort of danger a red flag under water Indicates. He Jerked the emergency call on his signal cord and was hoisted to the sur face. There he learned that the boat which had sunk so uncomfortably close to him was the Harlem River. The tug wrs on her way to Flood Rock at Hell Gate for a load of dynamite, to be used In the government dredging operations at Central bridge, near 1.15th street Hence the red flag. The trip to Hell Gate wasn't finished because the boat was rammed and sunk by another towboat, the Margaret D., off Eact 123d street That's where Tract was at work repairing the city's submarine water pipes to Randall's island. Before the boat went down, her cap tain and crew all managed to scramble aloard the Margaret D. After Tract had shaken some of the lead from his feet and had the top of his helmet unscrewed for a spell of natural breathing he remarked that a tugboat under normal conditions may be a very noisy, bustling sort of craft "But," he added, "the stillest thing 1 ever saw under the water or above II was that ghost boat coming down on me without a toot It Just pushed the river and the river nudged me so I looked up and there she was." Looked Like a Turtle's Head. Collin Butler was au old colored ditch-digger on the farm of a wellknown land owner in Virginia. One morning, after having been at work only a few hours, Collin was seen ap proaching the farmhouse with unusual rapidity and with a peculiar limp to his usually dragging gait. His employer met him. and sa!d, "Collin, what is the matter?" With a moan and a sob he exclaimed, "Lor', massa ! I fought I see de biggt-st turkle ha Id I ever did see befo' in my life, wiggling fro' de mud, an I took de spade an whacked at dat bald, an' I done cut off man. big toe." Wine Man. "Why do you refuse to have any business relations with Riggles?" "I always steer clear of a man sharp-. er than myself." "In what way Is he sharper?" "He once had a chance to marry my wife and didn't" Milwaukee Senti nel. The conversation of two persons ast sixty Is devoted chiefly to an at tempt to recall names. It Is wonderful the number of things a woman puts on when she dressy

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e-K?v Sparing little weeds sometimes spoils a crop. The cheapest and best way to dehorn cattle Is when the calves are small Use caustic potash. Where grapes rot, it U recommended that the soil be not stirred while the seeds are forming. A small plat of ground can be made to do large things, if set In fruit and berries and thoroughlj -worked. Pastured horses, especially If not sound and well, should be sheltered during cold storms of any sort If long protracted. Hens often suffer in midsummer for want of gravel when confined In a yard. Throw in sods, cracked bone, shell or stone, and give water freely. If an orchard Is on a decline. It Is an Indication that the food supply In the soil is being exhausted. Fertilizer should be applied, and thorough cultivation should be given to It Keep the pigs growing. Tumpklns are fine for them In September. Separate, from the others, those you Intend to fatten for early markets. Feed the soft corn to these, with ground rye. When the weather becomes cold, alfalfa is not a sufficient food. It should have some grain fed with It. It makes the pigs grow long and lean, but less corn needs to be fed than when other pasture Is used. Sow four acres of ground in clover or alfalfa. Have the four acres In 'two lots, so that when the hog3 are In one lot the clover can grow up in the other. Then change them alternately from one lot to the other. Judging by the prices good cattle and hogs are bringing at the present time the packing house Investigations are not killing off the business very fast. Just old canners, that's all; and who cares for them anyway? Because of the relish with which hogs eat new corn, and the ease with which it Is hauled and fed, there is danger of overfeeding. The corn, being soft and "Immature, will soon throw them out of condition. The observing city girl was heard to say to her uncle while recently on a visit : "What is the use of all the pure food agitation when the farmers scatter all that manure on the land they are preparing for green corn?" Oh, my, the dirty dirt! Keep clean, fresh water where the chicks can have access to It at all times. Filthy oc Impure water is often the cause of bow4 trouble and other adlments In little chicks, and an ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure." . No decided Improvement has been made in the past twenty years in cooking for harvest hands or threshers. The cookstove is Just as hot now as it was then. The kitchen duties are Just as laborious aud withal the housewife's duties are very much the same. In hauling up hay with a horse, If the horse is turned In a circle all the time, It will untwist or king the hay roie. The driver of the horse should turn gee at one end and haw at the other turn, making a figure eight movement and there will be no kinks put In the rope. An eastern orchardlst reports a very good sale of Ben Davis apples. He has ninety trees that have been set out nine years, and last year he sold from them apples to the anount of $421. (o; his net receipts being $3SS.33. These despised Ben Davis apples sold at from $5 to $3.75 per barrel. Every year farmers lose heavily from late spring planting. Many of these are good farmers, but are unexpectedly de layed with spring work by a combina tion of bad weather, sick horses and a scarcity of help. The matter of readiness Is an Important factor In the business of corn production. Many would-be poultry raisers prob ably do not realize the demand for feathers. The body feathers of chickens and turkeys sell at fron 5 to 40 cents per pound, and duck and geese feathers at from 33 to 50 cents per pound. Wheu thinking of raising poul try do not forget the feathers. The man who puts off making his clover hay until it Is ripe is reaping the harvest of his mistake. He not only has a lot of hay that is lacking In value, but he is taking some of the vitality that should be there for per fecting the coming seed crop. Some farmers make ripe clover bay and then wonder why they can't get a crop of seed. The man who is denying himself the use of a low-wheeled wagon Is shoot ing wide of the mark. He brings upon himself some very heavy lifting that should be avoided. A man ought not to lift anything heavy that he can raise In some other manner. Back oil ap pears to be cheap when a man is tender In years, but when old age comes It may be needed. Every farmer should have a straw berry patch. It will pay, if not In cash, it will be in the enjoyment Anyone can raise strawberries on land sui abie for corn. Fertilize it well, plow deeply and drag thoroughly. You can not get laud lit too good shape. Set plants on a cool, rainy day. Use water and shade your plants. Almost any of the leading kinds sold by nurseries, preferably near your home, are good. ' In behalf of the good housewife we wish to say that if the farm proprietor has all the latest machinery and conveniences for doing the outdoor work he should see that she is provided in as large a measure with labor-saving conveniences In doing the work of the household, a handy supply of dry wood and kindling, ample cupboard room, a first-class cook stove with good draft and other aids that contribute so much hi lightening the burden of household

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woman of the house provided in.iese respects? There Is no equity In compelling the wife to go seven or eight rods for cobs, coal and water, when you ride the gang plow or oierate the lever on an up-to-date manure spreader. Exchange. Alfalfa In the Eaat. A rejwrt from the Vermont agricultural experiment stations shows that of a series of attempts to raise this important crop In that State, GO per cent were successful, and that OS per cent of these were In the Champlaln valley. The conclusion reached Is that th?re Is reason' for the hope that alfalfi may become acclimated to tb Eastern States and raised 'successfully there, provided rroper conditions as to soil and cultivation are supplied. Rotten Potatoe. t The infection df the potatoes with the fungus which produces rot occurs chiefly, if not entirely, iu the field before digging; the Infection is usually the result of diseased Tines and In most cases the disease Is not transmitted directly from the vine, but Indirectly through the soli; also, potatoes may be Infected directly In the field from spores Introduced Into the soli the preceding year. Experiments with dry Bordeaux mixture and soluble Bor-1 deaux mixture show that both these are, less effective as preventives of blight and subsequent rot than the regular Bordeaux mixture. Corn Steal Pork Not Cheap. At one time It was customary to measure the cost of pork by the price of corn, and the usual estimate was ten pounds of pork for a bushel of corn, but In recent years it has been discovered that other feeds can be used to advantage, and pork madp more cheaply with a variety than with corn alone. Experlence has sbrwn that the hog relishes the great variety of feeds usually produced on the farm, sucn as grass, rape, all kinds of clovers, defective and Immature fruits, house slops, skim milk, buttermilk, whey from cheese factory which, when fed In conjunction with the grain ration, make pigs grow faster and make weights at less cost than when compelled to subsist entirely on corn. Amertean Dairy Prodvrt' Velar. There were 12,147,304,550 pounds of milk and 5SS,lSd,471 iounds of cream used in 1904 In th manufacture of 551,278.141 pounds of butter, 313,005.21)0 pounds of cheese, and 30S,4S5,1S2 pounds of i"ondensed milk. These figures are pa,t of the census of manufactures for 1905. Tie total cost of materials used In the industry was $142,020.277, while the value of the products was $1G8,1S2,7SÖ, an Increase of the former of 31.3 per cent and of the latter of 2S.0 pet- cent. The number of establishments dropped from 94242 to 8.D2G, while the capital Increased 30 per cent, to $47,255,550. There were 3,507 salaried ofllcials and clerk and 13.557 engaged In the manufacture of these articles. These received salaries nd waes amounting to $9,7S9,030. Darning- Oat Stomp. The following method of disposing of large stumps Is very efficacious and labor saving. Whether It would be applicable to small hardwood stumps I do not know, but It Is worth a trJaL TliA rHnMn!n la tha mu na In hmrn. ! Ing charcoal, and I presume would ap ply to any wood that would make charcoal. To clear land of large stumps, dig a fair-sized hole down by the side of stump and build a fire of pieces of good firewood, laid snugly tgainst the stump. Gradually cover th? fire with soil, and keep covered; If well started and kept covered by occasionally throwing more soil on where It Is likely to break out the fire will continue bunting until the whole of the stump Is burned Into charcoal. On some of our large fir stumps, 10 or12 feet across, the fire will burn two months or more, and follow roots down 10 or 15 feet underground. F. A. HAYES. Sweet Corn for Hogr. Here Is a suggestion that wilj be ot much practical value at some time to every raiser of hogs: Not Infrequently it happens that early In the fall, when green paturage Is scarce, there seems to be nothing al hand .to make a suitable ration for the hcg. And It Is the demands of this period that sweet com is admirably alapted to fill. It matures much ear lier than field corn; and long after 11 has passed the table stage it affords 8 toothsome dainty for hogs. There It nothing like It to keep them !n a thrifty, growing condition. Another point in its favor U that It makes a splendid food during the transition f.om succulent pasturage to mature field corn later on. Sweet corn need not be fed In large' quantities; four or six ears with stalks to the average 100-pound pig Is sufficient, with the slop and other things usually fed. If the sweet corn patch Is inclosed, the pigs may safely be turned In It; otherwise It should be cut and fed in the pasture. Managing- the SvrlXl Darrel. To many persons mention of the word swill barrel present a picture of an old, unsightly barrel, grvase and dirt all over the outside, sediment in the bottom two or three inches deep, and filth and nastlness all over the Inside. An unendurable stench such as to make approach to the larrel wellnight impossible also associates Itself with the picture. Such unpleasant, disgusting associations need not cling around the swill barrel. It is. not necessary that ail sorts of nasty material be placed In the barrel In the first place, nor Is it necessary ttiat it be allowed to stand there a wieek at a time. It is not alone unnecessary that this condition prevail but It is absolutely menacing to th health of the animals expected to consume such miscalled food. Such filthiness breeds disease, and not Infrequently loss of pigs la the result of feeding this kind of food. Case have been brought to the attention of the writer this spring where animals have contracted troublesome infectious diseases, such as Indigestion, scouring and the swelling of Joints, for no ether reason than that they had been fed ca