Plymouth Tribune, Volume 9, Number 11, Plymouth, Marshall County, 16 December 1909 — Page 6

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The Terrible Draft Illot of 1803. It very nearly happened to me that I was opposed to the furious, desperate, drunken mob in the streets of New York in July, 1S63, with a small body of crippled and sick, but very ready veterans from the front. No soldier would court any such situation; any good soldier of that time, I trust, would have done his whole duty had he been put forward in that crisis. I trust that I and my fortyseven soldiers from the Department of the Gulf would not have shamed our comrades, had we been put in to fight against that hell of furious resistance to law, of arson, murder and robbery that raged through the great city for almost a week after July 11, 18C3. That is all I have a right to say. I was taken from a New Orleans hospital with these forty-seven, all sick or wounded from Port Hudson, as the best squad General Emery could get in those perilous days when he had less than two thousand men imder his command to defend the city, and sent up to Fortress Monroe on a steamer in charge of five hundred Confederate prisoners. Having delivered them there, we went on to New York for transportation back, and started on cur return July Sta; I believe that wa? the exact date. The interval of thiee days was spent on Governor's Island. I had two opportunities to go over to the city, and improved them. I k.new that the draft was about to .be enforced, and I took some pains to talk with those I met about j it. I heard very little said on the subject. I saw no indications of armed resistance, or any resistance. I ha,d occasion to go to the headquarters of General Wool, who commanded there, j and to get an order for our transportation back to New Orleans signed by the General personally. But I heard no whisper of fear of any rising of the mob, or resistance to the draft. Nobody seemed to realize that the fires of a lurid volcano were slumbering tcre, ready to burst out in blood and destruction at the signal. Had our departure b?en delayed three days, I know we should have been ordered over to the city, to face that howling, devilish mob" somewhere. There were no troops in the city then; there was only a scant guard In the fo-ts. Everything wa3 called in that ccrld avail In that awful crisis, until a brigade of the Army cf the Potomac could be hurried up to the rescue, and it -.vas then known that New York was safe. During that memorable week there was a carnival of blood in the Empire City, beginning in organized resistance to the draft and destruction of its headquarters, extending to the murder of negroes and the burning of colored orphan asylums, and then, gathering in passion and ungevernable fury and. drunkenness, swelling to the pillage and arson of buildings Indiscriminately, and blind killing for the saka of blood. It wa3 a hideous time! People who then lived in Nerw York and sunireil It. and yet survive It look back at it they would on a nightmare. For days the heroic police performed miracles of valor. They charged the roaring mob everywhere, and without hesitation, never failing to drive It back when they came in direct contact with it, "io matter how great the odds. Marines from the government ships that happened to be in the harbor, and a few regulars from the forts, came over and rendered veteran service. The employes of great establishments, public and private, Including the large newspaper offices and the Sub-Treasury building in Wall street, were armed and held in readiness, day and night, to repel attacks. Many of thesd had boiling water constantly ready, and hose with which to throw it on the mob. It was about the 18th of July that I rejoined my b:igade west of the Mississippi. Accounts of the riot had already reached New Orleans through. Confederate sources, and the New Orleans papers published them in detail. I read them in amazement. It seemed next to impossible that the great metropolis which I had left only ten days before so quiet a.nd peaceful could thus suddenly have burst forth In riot and crime. Men have attempted to write histories of those seven horrible days in New York. The field may be gleaned, some aproximation to the truth may be reached, but the whole truth never can be known. It was a saturnalia of horrors, the reign of the worst elements, in which the crimes an not even be numbered. Many of them were never known. Rev. Morgan Dix, in his memoirs of hi3 father, the distinguished General and Governor, says that the lowest es timates place the number of rioters killed by the police and soldiers at twelve hundred, and the wounded at five times that number. Think of It! A first class battle raging for a week in the streets of New York, with a v perfect holocaust of fire and robbery! No mac. may know the long list of Innocent victims of this mad brutal ity. They number-xl thousands. I nave been told by those who know that hundreds of school children left home for school In those days and never re turned. When the riot was at last stamped out, another reckoning came. Dozens of the ringleaders were arrested, con victed and sentenced to state prison with merciless severity by Recorder (afterwards Governor) John T. Hoff man. And the city, being liable by a state law for the acts of rioter3 affect ing private property, was compelled to pav millions of dollars for that week's work. As a specimen of the treatment that

the fiendish mob had at the hands of the soldiers, where they could reich them. I cite a brief story of a volunteer artillery officer to me in Louisiana the next winter. "I was in New York, recruiting, and took two field pieces and men to work them into one of the lower streets. I loaded up with canister. The raofo came bowling dow.u, thousands streng. 'Men,' I said, 'we must kill those fellows. Depress the pieces a little more fire!' By George, that crowd was lifted into the air! We tore great gaps through it; we strewed the street with their carcasses. They didn't come again." The great riot was one of the worst

phases of the rebellion. W ien it wa? overcome men breathed frer. A dreadful crisis was past. One a "Yank," One a ''Rsb." Standing in the lobuy of a hotel during the visit to Richmond of the Pennsjivanians who attended the unveiling of a monument at Cold Harbor, several days ago, was Capt. E. I). Christian, a well known veteran of the confederate service, of tin 41st Virginia Regiment, who was entertaining a number of the visiting federal veterans with an account of a duel he had in 1SG2 with a Pennsylvanian near what was known a3 the Cowpens," now the Mechanicsville pike, a Richmond (Va.) dispatch to the New York Herald says. "In some way," said Capt. Christian, "we were coming through a field cut apart by a long line of rail fence. As we approached the fence we saw coming toward us a line of blue-coated soldiers. Before I knew it I wa3 face to face with a Yankee who was sending balls at me, but luckily, aiming wrong. I loaded my musket time and again and we had it there face to face. Presently the Yankee mounted the fence to get a better whack at me, for I was as bad a shot as he In the excitement of that duel. Well, gentlemen, down came the rail fence and down came the Yankee, spawling on the ground. He managed to get up as my old musket banged away, but the ball never touched him. "Wait a moment," interrupted one of the visitors, "and I'll tell you th3 rest of the story." All eyes turned

toward the military form of Capt. W. II. Rauch, a Philadelphian, who was the center of the listeners to Capt. Christian's story. "Well," continued Capt. Rauch, "the Yankee just took to hi3 heels at that and you after him. You fired as long a3 he was in sight and he ran as long as his legs would hold him up. The only reason he did not fly was because he was a man and not a bird." "That's about right," said the con federate, and then the two men faced each other with eyes glued on the faces that had 3een the changes of nearly half a century. "II , man," Capt. Rauch cried. finally breaking the Intense stillneSs, "are you the Johnny Reb that had that duel with me and came near making me a prisoner or putting me but for good?" "If you are the man who Jumped on that fence and fell and then got up and ran, while a confederate soldier sent bullets after you to help you move, I guess we have met before." "If any other man had been in my place and had not put up a good run." replied Capt. Rauch, "he would have been a fool. Why, that old thinr you were handling looked as big a3 a cannon and sounded like two or three of them." Following this the veterans shook hands and Capt. Rauch took Capt. Christian in tow to introduce him to his wife. Then Capt. and Mrs. Rauch had to get into Capt. Christian' automobile and the end was that Mrs. Christian got a telephone call to have dinner ready for two extras. The party spent the evening in the handsome home of Capt. Christian, who had to promise a visit to the Rauch home in Philadelphia. Before leaving Richmond Capt. Buch declared 'that he would not Have missed meeting Capt. Christian fcr all hi3 worldly possessions. "I have never forgotten that rebel," said he, 'and I see him now in my mind's eyes with his big old-time musket plugging away at me as though I were of no more good to the world than an ordin ary animal." The Dend at Vlcksbarff. A newpaper correspondent of ths time writes of the dead who had fallen In one of the most desperate of the Union assaults on Vicksburg: "They lay in all positions, some with musket3 grasped as though still contending; others with the cartridge in the fingers just ready to put the deadly charge where it might meet the fco. All ferocity had gone. "A remarkably sweet and youthful face was that of a rebel boy. Scarce 18, and as fair as a maiden, with quite small hands, he had long hair of the pale golden hue that auburn changes to when much in the sun, and curling at the ends. He had on a shirt of coarse white cotton, and brown trousers, well worn; upon his feet were women's sho33 of about the size known aa 'fours.' Too delicate was his frame for war,, perhaps, some mother's idol. His left side was torn by a shell, his left shoulder shattered. "Two men who had caught at a fig tree to assist them up a steep embankment lay dead at its foot; the branch at which they caughtj was still in their grasp. "In one trench lay two grasping the same weapon, friend and foe. On the faces of both was the calm that follows sleep. In some places the dead were piled literally like sacks of grain." All RlKht but the Annie. It is an army tradition that the soldier shall grumble at the commis sariat; but this particular complain ant seems to have had a fair case. "Any complaints, corporal?" said the colonel, making one morning a personal Inspection. "Yes, sir. Taste that, sir," said the corporal, promptly. The colonel put the liquid to his lips. "Why," he said, "that's the iest soup I ever tasted." "Yes, sir," said the corporal, "but the cook calls it coffee." Choose ever the pleasant road, it always answers best. For the same reason choose ever to do and try what Is the most just and the most direct. This conduct will save a thousand blushes and a thousand struggles, and will deliver you from secret torments which are never failing attendants of dissimulation. Molton. A two-candle power Incandescent lamp burning all night on the front porch and another on the back porch costs but fifty cents a month and is the best burglar preventative In the world. In the five completed months of the year the output of the Scotch shipyards ha3 been 134,000 tons, nearly 25,000 tons more than the corresponding period last year. The smelter production of lead in the United States in 1908 was 408,523 ton of 2,000 pounds, against 442,015 tons In 1S08 and 41S.609 tons in 190G. To build a tunnel under the English channel, according to present project, would entail an expenditure of $70,-000,000.

Self-Krltant Women. Being able to meet an emergency in life, no matter what it may be, is a form of self-reliance that every woman should train and develop herself for. It expresses itself in an ability to make quick decisions, and, having done that. acting without doubt and hesitation. straining at every point to justify the action by bringing It to a successful finish. More than half the women in the world fail, not only in important but trivial things, because they are afraid. Necessity in some form obliges them to make a decision. Of their obligation to do this they have no dor.bt. but as there Is always the possibility of another way being better then that de rided upon, they waver, go ahead halfheartedly, and, in the second, either fail entirely or achieve only partial success, because they lack self-reliance. They are not sure of themselves, either of their ability or wisdom, and neither is strengthened. Doubt, after a positive step in any direction has been taken. Is weakening. Nothing is gained, in fact, either in work or in daily domestic routine, without effort. If a woman tries to make a cake, and, during the mixing, part of her mind is occupied with wondering if it would have been better to have used another recipe, the chances are against her turning out as good a cake as It would have been had all her mind been concentrated upon the work In hand, when materials would have been more accurately measured, and strength of conviction would have lent more power to her arm to beat the mixture well. Health and Beauty Hint. If your heart is weak, do not Indulge in showers, and be careful to temper the water, no matter how strong the heart. Cold water dashed on the face and chest in the morning gives the same tonic effect as a cold plunge in the morning without the shock. A simple remedy for burns is made by adding to a cupful of olive oil a teaspoenful of carbolic acid. Apply bandages soaked in the mixture. Relaxation i3 the secret of taking the mental, moral and physical kinks out of one's system. It will take all the unsightly lines frcm ycur face and prevent new ones Irom forming. Drinking with meals greatly dilutes the saliva, making mastication all the more difficult; besides, in this way the contents are easily softened and washed down before properly chewed. To take disagreeeable medicine eat one or two cloves or hold ice in the mouth until the tongue is chilled and the medicine will be less disagreeable. Medicines that discolor the teeth may be taken through soda straws. Stout people should, limit the amount of potatoes and sugar they eat, as these articles of food favor the deposit of fat underneath the skin. Dry toast, lean meat, stewed fru.t and fish are suitable foods In treating obesity, and rich, fat, sweet and greasy dishes ought to be avoided. Xfn Tallor-Mnde DmIrii. i j-. . V 3 ' Jt'i aT M- A' . y.Tf mm III i : x v : Tailor-made costume of brown cloth. The jacket Is very long, and ends in points at the sides. There are large buttons in front and on the sides. The revers are braided, and the collar is of black velvet. The hat is of felt, and ts raised on one side. Queer Feminine Idea. Many Japanese women gild their teeth. Women of Arabia stain their fingers and toe; red. 'In Greenland women paint their faces blue and yellow. In India the women of high caste paint their teeth black. A Hindoo bride is anointed from head to foot with grease and saffron. Borneo women dye their hair In fantastic colors pir.k, green, blue and scarlet. In New Holland scars, made carefully with shells, form elaborate patterns on the women's faces. In some South American tribes the wemen draw the front teeth, esteeming as an ornament the black gap thus made. IluttonluK Ilnckivnrd. A contemporary starts the question, "Why do women's buttons always fast en backwards?" and considers that there must be some food reason for

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violating "the rule of correct bottoning." It seems that the man's way is really the backward way, dragging the hole from left to right, instead of bringing it over easily in the right hand. There is, perhaps, some reason connected with access to the breast pocket which influence3 the man's method, and it is likely that the difference in size and strength between a man's and a woman's fingers has tended to decide the matter, the method which suits one being inconvenient to the other.

ABl The cradle is an out-of-date piece of furniture which should be consigned to the attic. It is not good for a child to be rocked. From the very first a child should be left to go to sleep by itself and not carried in the arras. It becomes accustomed to whatever is done for it, and gees to sleep more easily and quickly if thi3 method is adopted. If it cries it should not be taken up. for it will not be long before it will demand such an attention if it is once begun. If a child cries, one should ascertain if there is a cause. A child does not cry for nothing. A pin may be sticking into it; its clothing may not be right; it may need a drink of water. It should not be forgotten that young babies, notwithstanding their liquid diet, need

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Here are three of the most graceful models of the day. The first one Is a plain turi-an of silk beaver trimmed at the left with two small ostrich feathers and tiny silk cross. The large hat is of black velvet trimmed with colored plumes to match the gown, which is a late French innovation. Medium-sized feather trimmed hats with turned-up brims faced with shirred silk are very popular with young matrons.

to have water as well, but when you hava found that all is right with the child it should then be left to go to sleep, as It will do. A baby should not have soothing syrup3, and, indeed, very little if any medicine. Do not get in the habit of dising the baby. An Infant often cries from hunger or colic. Re sure that the baby's nourishment Is rig.it. Knitted Conta. Among the economical garments for school wear are the popular knitted Norfolk jacket and reefer. They are offered by all tailors, but mothers at a distance who have the time to knit may readily make them at home. Girls of all ages wear such coats in gray, white, scarlet, green or the brown shades. Some are handsomely bound with Llack satin and cfosed with crocheted buttons. The yarns that are necessary for knitting them come in all the standard and fashionable shai:f3. Some, however, are doublebreasted. They all have roomy sleeves and turnover collars, that may, upon occasion, be turned up around the neck. Knitted coats of this are worn ever kilt skirts ' and plain blouse waists. Harper's Bazar. Work fur Women of Lelaare. Miss Jean Hamilton, secretary of the League of Women Workers, an organization representing 11.000 members in Ave states, says tliat the situation of working girls is harder than ever, and that the working girls clubs are simply starving for leaders. In the crowed factory districts of cities the dance hall offers a great attraction to the girl who has worked hard all day in l close room and has no place In which to entertain company at night. The desire for such amusement is perfectly legitimate, and it only remains for those who have the leisure and the money to see that these places are not objectionable or to offer something that Is equivalent. To Wnh Blanket. Put to boil a large boiler of water. into which you have placed a cake of pure soap cut Into small pieces. Pour the water into a tub and let it stand till lukewarm, then add a tablespoonful of ammonia. Put the blankets into the water, ami with a stick turn them over and over. Do not rub them. If very much soiled, use a second tub of water prepared in the same way. Fold smooth by passing through a wringer and put into shape; then 'hang in the sun to dry. Mrs. C. C. Kennedy ha3 been appointed probation officer of the New Orleans Juvenile court. The Wesleyan conference of England recently passed by a large majority a motion to admit women as lay delegates. There are three women among tue nominees for the next Norwegian parliament. One was chosen by the Lib erals and two by the Socialists. Miss Ivy E. Woodward has been admitted to full membership in the

Royal College of Physicians of London. This is the first time that the coveted M. R. C. P. has been conferred upon a woman. Mrs. Howard Van Wyck, after an absence of several years, has returned to Milwaukee as special assistant secretary of the Associated Charities. Miss Alice Fischer traveled all the way from New York to Cheyenne, Wyo., to cast her vote in the recent elections. The trip cost in the neighborhood of $200. Mr3. Martin J. Wessels of Spokane, Wash., is said to be one of the few artists, if not the only one, whose work is devoted exclusively to pictures of grain. Miss Stella Josephine Feiler of Harris county, Texas, lately received a fee said to amount to $150,000 from ten land owners upon whose property she located two productive oil wells. Toiling at the windlass in her brother's clothes Is the experience of Miss Laura White of San Francisco, now a wealthy mine owner in Nevada. She discovered the vein and worked it herself. I.nee on n lint. Lovely pieces cf old lace lend themselves to the adornment of a hat brim turned up abruptly at the left side. The lace is applied to it In the form of a binding set on fiat, and if there' Is a little piece over at the end it can be tucked away, for old and good lace should never be cut.

Another Fallney. The generally accepted belief that a person is useful in proportion as he is busy is controverted by a writer who says: "I have a dog that loaded up with fleas. In the summer time, when the fleas are plenty, that is the busiest dog I ever saw; when he Isn't biting at the fleas "he's snapping at the flies. Ke never has a minute to spare, but when he is the busiest he is the least account for practical purposes. And there Is a yotmg fellow in my neighborhood who has a cheap watch and he sruokes cigarettes. When he Isn't winding his watch he is lighting a cigarette. He is a mighty busy young man, but he Isn't worth two hoops in a water barrel." Rule (Tex.) Review. J&untlneaa In Millinery. The meek mushroom has been entirely superseded by turned up shapes, but these new hats come so far down over the head all around before the upward trend of the brim begins that they are usually very becoming. This Henry IV hat i3 of silk, faced with vflvet and banded with dark fur edged by a quilling of the silk. The side trimming consists of aigrettes and a pair of new mercury wings. Silk, velvet and fur are in brown tones, the wing3 are coral colored and the aigrettes black. The Doctor'! Order. A lady, whose husband seemed to 1)3 doing little but lie in the hammock and eat apples, was asked by a sympathetic neighbor what the trouble with him was. "Doctors," she. replied, sadly. 'No, he hasn't come into a fortune." A writer in To-Day's Magazin ; tells the story. "You see," explained the wife?, "he's been having some sort of matter with his stomach and he consulted two diffprent doctors about it. One tßlil him to eat a ripe apple every hour, an. I h other mi.i to rest an hour nfrr eating. So he's trying to do Loth." To 3 itch. Continuing to rummage, the Lurglai discovered the following bills: Crc ceries, 588; life insurance, $102.15; dr; t-oods, $44.S5; coal, ?J2; milk, Si2.:;'J; ilressmaker, $7S; tailor, $53; ' .;a?. $7.20; milliner, 525; miscellaneous $72.60. Sighing heavily, he disgorged .he silver and jewelry. "This house has trouble enough," he said, tfp-toeing out. Ft. Loui3 Postpispatch. The Small Souleil Person. You can always take a person's measure by the way in which little annoyances and petty vexations affect them. If they exaggerate them, talk a great deal about them, spend valuable time fussing over them, you know they are not big-souled people.

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Steam Mows in ICeypt. Eteam plows are becoming more popular In Egypt each year. In the last six years over 150 sets of a patent steam plow of British make have been sent to Egypt- Eact sot consistc of two engines and one cultivator and can plow twenty feddans (twenty-one acres) per day. Hos In tbe Dnirr. A Maine dairyman has found the keeping cf hogs and converting them into sausage a profitable side line. He has erected u sanitary slaughter house, with all the up-to-date conveniences, and with an ample supply of both hot and cold water. The piggery is also constructed on plans which insure the highest degree of sanitation, and the pigr are kept clean and healthy. The sausages are packed in oiled paper In 1-pound boxes and in bags and find a ready sale to city consumers at very attractive prices. Trnnnformed ly Forest. A most striking example of the transforming effect of forests, not only on the appearance, but on the productivity of a rountry, i3 afforded by the Department of the Landes, in France. At the close of the eighteenth century about 2,500,000 acres of that region were "'little more than shifting sand dunes and disease-breeding marshes." At present the same lands are among the richest, most productive and healthful in France, and the change has been brought about by intelligent cultivation of pine forests. Even the character of the climate of the region has been ameliorated, and it has become mild and balmy. A thin layer of clay beneath the sandy upper surface boil, formerly impervious to water, has been pierced by the pine roots until a thorough drainage is established to the spongy earth which lies below. nopy Milk. Ropy milk Is caused by the ropy milk bacteria which has got cnto the milk ducts of the teats. This is net a serious proposition, and can be easily remedied by washing the udders of the cows and "all dairy utensils thoroughly with a 5 per cent solution cf carbolic acid. This will destroy the bacteria. -Cows that have access to marshy pasture, or cows that run in wet pastures, especially in the spring of the year when they are Inclined to be muddy, and in muddy lane3 cr barn yards, are apt to get this ropy milk bacteria. Wash the dirt from the udder of the cow and also rinse the dairy utensils, pails, strainers and cans and everything that the milk touches, with a 3 per cent solution of carbolic acid. If this Is done at once I think there will be no further trouble. The cows' udders and teats should be washed with thi3 solution two or three das In succession. Michigan Farmer. Government Whitewash. Whitewash, as used by the government, 13 prepared as follows: Take one-half bushel unslaked lime, slake It with boiling water, cover during the process to keep in steam; strain the liquid through a fine sieve or strainer, and add to it a peck of salt pro viously dissolved by soaking in warm water, three pounds ground rice boiled to a thin paste and stirred in while hot, one-half bushel Spanish whiting and one pound clean glue, previously dissolved by soaking in cold water and then hanging over a slow fire In a small pot hung in a larger one filled with w.ter. Add five gallons hot witer to the mixture; stir well and let it stand for a few days, covered from dirt. St should he applied hoi, for which purpose it can be kept in a kettle or portable furnace. The east end of the White House at Washington i3 embellished by thia brillant whitewash: It is used by the government to whitewash lighthouses. A pint of this mixture, properly applied, will cover one square yard and will he almost as serviceable as paint for uood, brick or stone, and Is much cheaper than the cheapest paint. Protecting Your Frnlt Trees. There are many home-made remedies that are effectunJ. The mounding of earth about the base of the trunks is all that many of the most advanced growers provide. Others feel that the little extra cost of protectors and the short time required to put them on Is not to be compared with the insurance that their trees get thereby. This, of course, may be influenced by the number of the pests In the different localities, as in some places the danger is not large and the mounding would be all that could be asked, while in other localities where the animals are plentiful, or the sources of food for them is small, the danger is multiplied and the extra precautions are required. Usually where the protectors are used mounds are also provided as the shedding of the water away from the crown of the tree Is advantageous. The temptation to use tars, and oils on the bodies of the trees should be discouraged unless the material has been tried out and the person Is aware of what he is doing, for oils and tars are often more detrimental to the trees than the rabbits and mice, the substance penetrating to the growing parts, killing the tissue and destroying the trees. The writer j has ßeen a young orchard ,n wh,ch a ' lare number cf the trees had been killed by the application of a coal tar to the trunks of the trees. There was no trouble from rabbits or mice, to be sure, but the remedy did many times j the damage the animals could have done. Exchange. I.oeo Iolonliiff. The ravages of the loco weed concern every person in the United States, for the reason that the food supply has been seriously affected by the prevalence of locoed stock on western ranges. The loco weed flourishes throughout the western range country. The government experimenters, during their threi years of investigation, found that horses, cattlu and sheep are differently affected. Horses are. most susceptible to the poison, though cattle succumb nearly as quickly. Sheep will eat both species of the loco, but for some reason only one kind of the plant is particularly deadly in their

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s of cattle vary Generally tha Inciter bred mimal3 are more suceptibie to the poison than those which have teen ac.'ustomed to range. Among the sheep, the black-face type yield much moro quickly than the hardy; merinos. Among cattle, Durhams and Aberdeen-Angus are more susceptible, than the Iterefords. Even pig3 hare been "locoed," after being fed loco weed in large quantities, and one Colo rado ranch even reports a lot of "loco?d" hens that had eaten the deadly poison of the range. There are traditions in the west of human beings contracting the loco hab't. Stories are told in the shep camps and cow camps of men who have eaten the weed and have found it pleasant as opium, and who have died raving fronj the effects of their debauch. There are no authenticated instances of human beings being "locoed," however. Vnlne of Manure. The plant food in a ton of manure varies somewhat with the kind of live stock. Thus young, growing animals and animals giving milk will retain a larger proportion of the nitrogen and phosphorus than fattening stock, work horses or other mature anlmal3. On the other hand. It is well to understand that the difference in value frequently considered, as, for example, between sheep manure and cattle manure, is due alnost entirely to differences In water content. As a matter of fact, manure from work horses or from fattening steers fed on clover hay and heavy grain rations is fully as rich and valuable a3 sheep manure if both are reduced to the same percentage of dry matter. Of coursi, sheep manure containing only 60 per cent of water Is twice as rich as cattle manure containing SO per cent of water. Average moderately fresh cattle or horse manure, made from clover and timothy hay and some grain, with sufficient straw bedding to absorb and retain the liquid manure, will contain per ten of manure about 10 pounds of nitrogen, 2 pounds of phosphorus and 10 pounds of potassium, on the basis of 25 per cent of dry matter. Computed at the present market values for these elements 15 cents a pound for nitrogen, 12 cents for phosphorus and 6 cents for potassium such manure Is worth $2.34. Illinois Experiment Station. Canada Thlntle. The Canada thistle is a biennial plant; that is, two years are required for Its round cf lire. The first season it corrjes up from seed and grows as a low plant with a circle of leaves in c rosetto, from "near the ground. Tn hi3 state it remains alcne over wirier and the following spring begins vigorous growth and sends up a strong cemral stalk, at the top of which blossen and seeds are born. At the maturity of the iseed3 the plant permaner.tly dies, but the seeds it produces ar scattered to the four quarters of thf earth for the beginning of more thUIcs. Vhe only effective way of eradicating the Canada thistle 13 to keep it cui down to the ground during the soficnd year's growth, so that it can not send up a flower stalk to produce bl-ttsoms and seed. Where there are os.ly few on the farm this can be d(-ne x?ith little effort, but where they are very numerous in a field It should hi planted to a cultivated crop and given the most thoVough cultivation with the hoe extra If necessary, so that n."kt a single plant remains at the ed C2 the growing season, for one plant will seed a whole farm. It must be remembered, however, Cat when you have killed every plant tn your farm you may find a thou&nnd growing in fields the following years. If your neighbor allows any to go io seed the seed will be scattered far and wide by the wind. All helghbors should combine In fighting Uiem. The Canada thistle Is a greater pest fa some sections than in others, for the reasc-n that it is better adapted ?o some foils and climates than to oth&rs. In the latitude of Illinois It is reasonably easy to control and is never & serious pest. Hives Outdor In Winter. In packing hives for outdoor winterlag, any good dry, loose material maj be used, such as wheat chaff, forest leaves, planer shavings or excelsior. Tho bost packing material is that which is loose enough to allow air to penetrate it and carry cf the cnoisture of tho bees. Put over this' a good tight cover to keep the hives perfectly dry With single-walled hives the moisture must be carried off by a slow upward curent of air, otherwise the sides and bottom board will become saturated compelling the colony to endure a con dition which is disastrous to its vital ity. Bce3 will stand a great degree ol cold, day or night, if they can have spalls of warming up. It is not bg much the severity of the cold as its long continuance that kills the bees I prefer outdoor wintering In chaffpacked hives, as outdoor bees are better able to stand the spring weather and to have an abundance of young bees by the first spring bloom. Modern hives with good brood chambers equal to the laying capacity of the queen, are considered best for obtaining surplus honey. Such, however, are not the best for wintering, as the stores are usually insufficient. When all breeding is over for the season, the central combs are often deficient in stores. Here a good, practical feeder comes into requisition, one that can be used during the cold nights of October, and that will work successfully with thick sirup. Nothing Is gained by compelling the bees to evaporate a large amount of water so late in the season. For late feedln; I use about one quart of water to every fourteen pounds of the best granulated sugar. When early feeding 13 practiced, thin sirup may be used, but for late feeding we need the sirup very thick just thin enough so the bees can work it nicely. F. G. Herman, in Michigan Farmer. Tbe Idlota. "Just think of it a full table d'hote dinner for 30 cents: oysters, soup, fish, roast duck, salad, Ice cream, fruit, demitasse!" -Where? ! ! !" "I don't know but just think of it!' Harper's Weekly.

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"You said $3 the first time," retorted the general with asperity. Another story is less familiar. The general was at a dinner one evening. A young woman who sat beside him endeavored to be entertaining, but gave it tip and devoted herself to a young man next to her. Soon some fruit was passed and the young woman beamed on tho general, with the inquiry: "Do you lik bananas, gereral? "Hey?" said tb statesman-liero, leaning toward her. The question was repeated right Into his ear. "Oh," said the general, apparently comprehending. "No, I don't. I still stick to the old-fashioned night-shirt." STEADILY GREW WOUSE. A Typical Tale of Safferlnara from Sick KidneyMrs. L. C. Frldley. 1024 N. Mala St, Delphos, Ohio, says: "Five or ix years ago I began to suffer with ' kidney trouble and grew steadily worse until my health was all broken down. For T and couId not tura over without being helped. My back was stiff and painful, I was tire a ana languid,' and when I was able to get around I could not do my work. The first box of Dean's Kidney Tills helped me so much that 1 kept on using them until rid of every sj-mptcm of kidney trouble. During the past three years I have enjoyed excellent health." Remember the name Doan's. Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. FosterMilburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. I Consular Taxi.. The American consul is a very popular and useful person, especially if there happens to be a celebration cf any sort in his city. Mrs. Maui Howe EU;ott, in her pleasant took, Sun and Shadow in Spain," tells of the representative of the United States at Madrid during the strenuous days that preceeded the wedding of the king of Spain. A friend dropped into his tfflce to see him one. day. "Listen to this letter," said the consul. "Dear Sir. My daughter and I arrive In Madrid on Saturday morning. As I hear the city is full on account of the wedding fetes, I must trouble you to engage rooms for us. They must be in a stylish but not too expensive house. We wish to go to the wedding, the ball at the palace aud all the other entertainments. If you should . x unable to secure us Invitations, kindly ask the ambassador to attend to the matter. Yours truly, Mrs. Emerald Green." Just as he stopped reading, a telegram was brought in by Pepe, the cherubic office boy. The consul signed again as he read it out "loud: "Please wire answer to my letter immediately, stating address of rooms. Am sending large trunk to your care, "E. G." Friends of yours?" asked th3 visitor. "Never heard of them," said the good-natured consul. "Anyway, It's all in the dav's work." Reaearcbea aa to Cancer. A big British doctor finds that the parts of the body in which cancer starts, such as the lower lip, liver, etc, are highly electric and radioactive. A piece of the lower lip, if laid on a photo film, darkens it tho same as dcc3 radium, but If a pirce of the lung cancer seldom cornea la the lung la put on the photo film nothing happens. So the doctor argues that highly electric flesh Is the main secret of cancer. Woman's flesh Is more electric than man's; cancer is commoner in women. New York Press. HABIT'S CHAHT. Certala Habits t'acoaacloaaly Formed and Hard to Break An Ingenious philosopher estimates that the amount of will power necessary to break a life-long habit would, if It could be transformed, lift a weight of many tons. It sometimes requires a higher degree of heroism to break the chains of a pernicious habit than to lead a forlorn hope in a bloody battle. A lady writes from an Indiana town: "From my earliest childhood I was a lover of coffee. Before 1 was out of my teens I was a miserable dyspeptic, suffering terribly at times with my stomach. "I was convinced that it was coffee that was causing the trouble and yet I could not deny myself a cup for breakfast At the age of S6 I was In very poor health. Indeed. My- sister told me I was in danger of becoming a coffee drunkard. t "But I never could give up drinking coffee for breakfast, although it kept me constantly ill, until I tried Postum. I learned to make it properly according to directions, and now we can hardly do without Postum for breakfast, and care nothing at all for coffee. "I am no longer troubled with dyipepsia, do not have Epells of suffering with my stomach that used to trouble me so when I drank coffee." Look In pkgs. for the little book. "The Road to Wellvllle." "There's & Reason." Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true and full of humun interest.