Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1901 — Page 3

She Needed No Sympathy. Sympathetic Gentleman—What do yon do for a living, Mrs. Saunders? Mrs. Saunders (laconically)—Boardera. -—Boston Herald, Do you like Mrs. Austin’s new dress? I am sure Piso’s Cure for Consumption saved my life three years ago.—Mrs. Thos. Robbins, Maple street, Norwich, N. Y., Feb. 17, 1900. Do you like Mrs. Austin’s new dress?

Than a Quarter of a Century The reputation of W. L. Douglas $3.00 and S3.SO shoes for style, comfort and wear has excelled all other makes sold at these prices. This excellent reputation has been won by merit alone. W- L. Douglas shoes have to give better satisfaction than other $3.00 and $3.50 shoes because his reputation for the best $3.00 and $3.60 shoes must be maintained. The standard has always been placed so high that the wearer receives more value for his moneyin the W. L. Douglas $3.00 and $3.50 shoes than he can get elsewhere. W. L. Douglas sells more $3.00 ands3.so shoes than any other two manufacturers. IV. L. Douglas $4.00 Gilt Edge Line cannot be equalled at any price. • "w.L.Douglas sa.bo"mnd%sa'.BO shoes are made of the mama Mon grade leather* used In SB and $B shoes and are Juot as good. Sold by the best shoe dealers everywhere. Insist upon having \V. L. Douglas shoes with name and price stamped on bottom. How to Order by Mall.— It W. L. Douglas shoes are not sold In your town, send order direct to factory. Stioes sent anywhere on receipt of price and WQfev: ~ 28 cts. additional for carriage. My s -s'NKt-g- .1 custom department will make you a pair that will equal $5 and ft cusW!r . i-'.vA lorn made shoes, in style, fit and Bis® '-Sax wear. Take measurements of pS£ ; *-.iCL -IjmfK foot as shown on model; stste style desired; siseandwldth usually worn; plain or * ""•'•.iv-JSiils. cap toes heavy, medPast Color Eyelets sued. 'm Ns*.—'’ * w Catalog free. W. 1.. Douglas, Brocktos, Mass, The University Notre Dane. NOTRE DAME, INDIANA. FULL COURSBS in Classics, Letters, Economics and History, Journalism, Art, Scle.ice, Pharmacy, Law, Civil, Mechanical and E metrical Eng.neering, Architecture. Rooms Free to all students who have completed the studies required for admission into the Junior or Senior Year, of any of the Colle. tate Courses. Rooms to Rent; moderate charge to students over seventeen preparing lor Collegiate Course-. A limited number of Candidates for the Ecoi - siastical state will be received at special rates. St. Edward’s Hall, for boys under 13 years, i s unique in the completeness of its equipments. The 58th Year will open September 10th, 1901 Catalogues Free. Address REV. A. MORRISSEY, C. S. C.. President. 20,000 "!«ndI t Required to Harvest the Grain Crop of Western Canada! MThe most abundant yield on the Continent. Reports are that the average yield of No. 1 Hard Wheat In Western Canada will be over thirty bushels to the acre. The prices for farm help will be excellent. There are splendid Ranching Lands adjolng the wheat belt. Excursions will be run from all points in the United States to the Free Grant Lands. Secure a home at once; and, if you wish to purchase at prevailing prices, and secure the advantage of the low rates, apply for literature, rates, etc., etc., to F. Pedlcy, Supi. Immigration, Ottuwu, Canada, or to C. J. lirougliton, 1223 Monadnock lildg., Chicago; N. Hartlmlomew, 306 f>th-st., lies Moines, Iowa; M. V. Mel 11 lies, No. 2 Merrill Blk., Detroit, Mich.; .(.Grieve, Sauk St. Mario, Mich.; T.O. Currie, 1 New Insurance Building, Milwaukee, Wis. ; E. T. Holmes, Indianapolis, Ind„ Agents for the Government of Canada. When visiting Buffalo, do not fsil to see the Canadian Exhibit at the Pan-American. ___ SNG MEN OW THE VALUE OF -^QiWEJty BR# HLED CLOTHING IT WILL [EBP YOU DRY IN THE ATTEST WEATHER 00K TOR ABOVE TRADE tIARR ON SALE EVERYWHERE CATALOGUES FREE ‘GARMENTS AND HATS. i _ M33TON.MA33. „ A Skin of Boauty Is a Joy Forever; rsK T. FELIX eoDRAVD’B ORIENTAL MJ CREAM, OR MAGICAL BEABTIFIER. c _ mUTIS. Removes Tan, Pimples, Freak les js a dPjl l Moth Patches, Hash, and Hklu S K</> I*l on W I A. Sayre* astd to a \ Udjjur thekuHon wK Fancy-Goods PvsUri la ths V. A, Csnsdaa aod Europe. FEED. T. HOPKDIS, Prep’r, 17 Great Jsasa R, X.T.

FARMS AND FARMERS

Marketing Garden Products. Many fruit and vegetable growers in the South and North make a mistake In watching the market reports and shipping goods when the quoted prices are high and holding them back when they are low. As a result, when the goods reach the market they find that too many others have done the same thing, and when the goods are received conditions have changed, and the market is again glutted, and prices are down. This system may do well for the gardener who is so near to the market that he can have prices telephoned out to him at night and have his produce on hand before daylight, or get them at the opening of the morning market and deliver his produce at eight o’clock. But the man whose products must be two or three days on the road would often do better to ship his goods when prices' were low with the chance of a rise before his consignments come to hand. One truclt}farmer near Norfolk, Va., who is said to have retired with nearly a million dollars made in the business, used to have one good commission agent in each of the several cities, to whom he shipped goods, notifying them by wire of amount and date of shipments, and they were then prepared to receive orders for them or to sell them for cash on arrival, and if he divided his shipments by any system it was to keep each one well supplied with good produce, and accept the average price. The dealers, knowing they had all of his goods in the city, could obtain the hrghest price of the day for them.—Massachusetts Ploughman.

Soil Renovators. The opinion seems to be general among farmers that the only crops which can be used to improve the soil are the legumes which gather carbonnitrogen from the air and retain it, so that when plowed under the nitrogen is given to the soil. Another use these legumes have is that they supply humus to the soil, which often is much needed. There is another class, of which rape is a member, which when plowed under has the power to absorb the phosphoric acid which lies inert when other plants are grown, and when such crops are plowed under they return this phosphoric acid to the soil for the use of the next plant placed thereon, for once being made active It does not again become inert. Cow-horn turnips are of this class, and recent experiments have proved their wonderful value as soil renovators. The long roots force themselves deep into the subsoil, forcing that soil to give up its plant food. Any crop which will bring into play any of the plant foods that lie inert when other crops are grown will do a vast deal to add to the fertility of the soil. All farms will not grow crimson clover, but with cow peas, velvet bean and Canada field peas at hand one may readily obtain a legume that can be grown and thus get nitrogen cheaply, then if rape and other members of the turnip family will wake up the phosphoric acid in the soil and make it available, the question of soil fertility comes pretty near being solved.

Pasture Lands. When I came out West, more.than a quarter of a century ago, writes a correspondent of the Prairie Farmer, it did not take many years to find out that it was more profitable to pasture the grass around me than to burn it in the fall. This pasturing of the grass was done so successfully that none was left to burn or to pasture. Finally I was compelled to break up the land and farm it. I raised large crops of small grain, but soon saw that it was a money-losing game and tried to seed my land back to grass. I found it very difficult to get tame pastures to stick, and if by accident I got a good stand of timothy or clover the latter would not last last and the former after a good crop or two would get what I called sod bound and would not produce a load of hay to the acre. I know now why the timothy did no good after a year or two. It was because we pastured it to the roots, thinking it economical to let the stock eat the last spear of grass that showed up in the fall. Land having by that time advanced in price, I could not afford to own pastures of that kind, and so I overstocked it to make both ends meet. I made up my mind to own less nnd better stock, and this change in no time made a great improvement in my pastures. I soon saw that a growth of grass covered the pasturnes in dry weather when all the range in short pastures was burned.

General Debility In Chicks. One of the main causes of general debility among young is overcrowding them in the coops by either having the coops too small or giving the old hen more chicks than she can properly cover or by permitting her to take them to a nest of some kind to cover. The coops for chicks should be roomy aud clean, with perhaps some’ Utter ou the boards or ground, but the nest box filled with hay or straw baß no place in the coop. Another cause of debility is permitting the old hen a free range with her chicks when they are very young; there are always a few chicks In a clutch that, while perfectly well, are not very strong rnd are unable to keep up with the pace set by the old hen. For at least two week! the old

hen should be kept confined and not permitted to run with the chicks unless the space given them is very small. If any of the little chicks show decidedly that they are weaklings it will be best to kill them at once.

The Value of Rainfall. j It is Said that the rainfall brings down about four pounds of ammonia, or three and a third pounds of nitrogen per acre, which may be correct as a general statement, or an average amount, but where there are heaps of decomposing vegetable or animal matter from which ammonia is escaping in considerable amount the air contains more ammonia, and the rain or snow will absorb more of it. Unfortunately for careless farmers if does not drop back to the place from which it rises, but may be carried by the wind for miles before returning to earth, and the farmer who makes a compost heap and does not keep it so covered with earth or other absorbent as to prevent the escape of ammonia may be adding to the fertility of the garden of somebody in the next county whom he never saw, instead of putting It upon his own soil, that needs it more. Like old-fashioned stories this has a moral. When caring for manure or composts do not allow nitrogen to escape, and keep your surface soil light and dry, that it may absorb more from the atmosphere, as dry earth is a good absorbent.—Exchange.

Growinsr Field Corn. Many a farmer has been saying that there was no profit in growing corn in New England, when Western corn could be bought at the market price of several years past, but when they find that a dry season in the West has increased the price ten cents a bushel, and may add ten more before the season is over, they rather envy the man who has a field that will fill the old corn crib and give a good stack of corn stover to save the hay next winter. He, at least, can afford to contribute something to the Kansas sufferers who have found the corn crop a failure this year. But we hope the man who has corn to buy will not be too hasty in deciding to use less of it because of the advance in price. If it is a loss to buy corn instead of growing it, it may be a greater loss to reduce the amount fed to fattening stock, milch cows, swine or poultry. If satisfied that it paid to feed it at the old price, keep on as before and hope for a better price for the products.—New England Homestead.

Wide Orchard Rows. There has recently been considerable agitation over the question of whether fruit trees, mainly apples, should be planted in wide or narrow rows. There are many growers who have worked on the wide row plan, that is, the wide row running east and west of the orchard, and found it most desirable. There are several reasons why this method of planting is desirable, but the main one is that planted in this way the trees have more sunlight when they reach large size, and sunlight means an increased crop and a better one. As a rule apple trees are set much farther apart than other fruit trees because of their large size at maturity, yet there is no doubt that the wide-row plan is as desirable with apple as with other trees. On the wide-row plan pear trees, for example, are set sixteen by twentyeight feet, the wide rows running east and west. Welshing Milk. After milking each cow weigh the milk, keep a record of it, and in a month one will be surprised to see how great the difference in the weight of the milk from the several cows. In many cases it will be found that the supposed prize milker of the herd is one of the poorest cows in the lot. This test has proved to more than one dairyman that he had two or three cows out of a dozen that were eating up the profits of the dairy, nnd that if he were rid of these cows his dairy would pay a profit. Spring scales can be bought for about two dollars and will pay for themselves in a month.

Storing hweet Potatoes. Storing sweet potatoes in cottonseed hulls, cotton seed and sand in the usual way has given best results at the South Carolina station. Storing in straw has given the poorest results. It appears that cottonseed hulls are admirably adapted for use in storing sweet potatoes. The same is true for cotton seed, only to a less extent. Farm Note*. Bone is the thing to use on peach trees every time, says one grower. Dig out the peach tree borers and jai the curculio. The cause of foam rising on extracted honey is said to be unripe honey. Sugar beets should not be permitted to dry out after being dug, as there Is always a loss of sugar. Minnesota beekeepers in convention seemed to favor sweet and alsike clovers as good to sow for bee pasture. Where the mower has not worked well in cutting cowpea vines that are on the ground a bean harvester intended for navy beans has been found successful. Kansas wheat growers are to have seed of the hard, red, Russian or Turkey wheat direct from the Crimea. It is Imported through the State Millers' and Grain Dealers' Associations. Hessian fly, the bane of wheat growers in the older states, appears to bs going westward. Secretary Coburn, of Kansas, is credited with the advaice t« burn the wheat stubble as Boon as the wheat la removed from the field.

Figures on Canada’s Trade.

In 1897 English exports to Canada were valued at $30,000,000, says a writer in the World’s Work. In 1900 they were $45,000,000. Canadian exports to England in 1897 were $77,000,000, and in 1900 they were $108,000,000. The preference given to England was coincident at least with an annual gain at thfc end of three years of 50 per cent of English trade In Canada and about 40 per cent of Canadian trade in England. In 1897 the United States without tariff concessions bought from Canada $50,000,000 worth of goods and $69,000,000 worth in 1900—a gain for Canada of 40 per cent, or the same gain as made in her trade with England. In 1897 the United States sold Canada $61,000,000 worth of goods, and sllO,000,000 worth in 1900, or a gain 6f 65 per cent, as against England’s gain of 50 per cent.

Dancing for Health.

Long ago some ingenious arithmetician discovered the exact amount of ground covered by the average dancer in the course of an evening, and the votaries of the dance are now suggesting that dancing should be revived as a hygienic exercise. Nowadays men and girls show great eagerness to take up any pastime or sport which gives them exercise, and, as we all know, dancing has somewhat lost its vogue, which, from a social point of view, is much to be regretted. Let some of the fashionable doctors recommend their dyspeptic, anaemic-patients of both sexes to waltz as much as possible, giving themselves on an average the equivalent in terpsichorean exercises of at least thirty miles’ walk a week, and we shall see a wonderful revival in dancing.—Philadelphia Ledger.

Wabasha Hears Good News.

Wabasha, Minn., Aug. 19.—George Huber of this town suffered from Kidney Trouble and Backache. He was very bad. Dodd’s Kidney l’llls, a new remedy, has cured him completely. He is now quite well and able to work. He says Dodd’s Kidney Pills are worth their weight in gold. News comes to hand almost every day of wonderful cures by Dodd's Kidney Pills, which, although, but recently introduced in this country, has already made many warm friends by its splendid results in the most serious cases of Bright’s Disease, Diabetes, Dropsy, Rheumatism and Backache.

All She Took.

Gowanus—l had $2 in my pocket last night, but this morning there is only a penny or two. Did you need some money for a spring shirt waist and take it, Arabella? Mrs. Gowanus (astonished)—Yes, but I only took $1.98!

Pain's Fireworks at the Exposition.

The Pan-American managers have arranged with Mr. Pain to produce an elaborate carnival on the lake in the Exposition Grounds every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday evening during August and probably September as well. The carnival will consist of a brilliant fireworks exhibition concludIqg with a bombardment of the forts at Taku and will Include a ballet and water pantonpime and mid-air acrobatic performances, all brilliantly illuminated. This will add another interesting and attractive feature to the great PanAmerican Exposition. For reduced rates and accommodations, inquire of any New York Central or West Shore ticket agent. FIREWORKS AT THE PAN.

Physically Fitted.

B'Jones—The fat lady evidently prefers the living skeleton to any other man. B’Jinks—Why? B'Jones —She says he’ll make a rattling husband. —Smart Set.

Low Rates to Marquette.

Marquette, Mich., that delightful allaround health resort and the genuine paradise for hay fever sufferers, is now brought within easy reach of the thousands in and about Chicago who are thus afflicted. A rate of $7 from Chicago to Marquette and return is announced by the Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Road, via the C. & N W. and the C., M. & St. P. The sale of tickets at this remarkably low rate is confined to the dates of August 23 and August 30. Tickets sold on August 23 are good for return until September 3, and those sold on the 30th are valid until September 9.

From Bad to Worse.

Brown —Do those dogs up your way sjill continue to howl all night? Jonese —No; the dogs have given up in disgust since our twins arrived on the scene.

Do Your Feet Ache and Burn?

Shake into your shoes, Allen’s FootEase, a powder for the feet. It makes •tight or New Shoes feel Easy. Cures Corns, Bunions, Swollen, Hot and Sweating Feet. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25e. Sample sent FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Leßoy, N. Y.

Tight Across the Chest.

“See here! You are always laughing at my expense.” “Well, that’s all I can do at your expense.”

Do you like Mrs. Austin's new dress?

The question of still further reducing the time of the journey between London and Paris is occupying much attention on both sides of the channel. MTS Permanently Cw*4. NonaornereoaaaamafMe ills flirt day’s use of Dr. Kline’s Great Nerve R» Borer. Bend for FKKKS* 09 trial bottle end trr-atiee. Lit. R. H. KUNB. Ltd.. Ml area St.. Philadelphia. Pa. A party of Suffolk, England, farmers have gone to Denmark to secure hints on dairy farming. Db you like Mrs. Austin’* new dress? Do right in such a way people won’t think it unusual. Mrs. Winslow's Sooth iso Hr*or for Chlldrsa iMttMg: softens ths sums, reduces Inflammation, tiiays Haiti cures wind coho. Scents s bottle. Do yon like Mrs. Austin’s new dress? The average pay of a farm laborer In Bavaria is 48c a day. Do yon like Mrs Austin s now dress?

MADE STRONG and WELL

A Prominent Lady Raised from a Sick Bed by ' Pe-ru-na--Entirely Cured in Two Weeks.

/JBsSaf 1 1 -* j|Bn MRS. E. A. CROZIER.

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FOR WOMEN ONLY.

Free Treatment During Hot Weather by Dr. Hartman.

By the assistance of an experienced staff at physicians. Dr. Hartman propoeea to direct the treatment Of several thousand women, ■ who for one reason or*a notber areailing. Each patient sends name, symptoms ant* a short description of previous treatment, and are entered In the doctors books a* regular patients. The treatment is directed from time to time as may be found necessary by the doetor, without charge. Every letter and namela held strictly confidential, and In no caa* will any one be published except by the express wish of the patient herself. These eases are treated with the same apo and fidelity as the private patients of a regular family physician. During the past year a large number of,cases have been cured.” Every Item of the treatment is directed, for which no charge whatever la made. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio, ton free treatment.

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