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The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-01-27
(gEALTH FOR THE FARMERS.
kGrain YielA Of Last Year Valued
q at S1,9OO,OOO,O0o.

IsSsss g2ss gs2Sssssss1yggAsHINGToN, Jan. 15.-The esti-
& mates OF acreage, product and value OF
Sprn, wheat, and oats for each state
M territory have been prepared for
Indication by the statistician of the de
$pRftment of agriculture. The area OF
Corn harvested, excluding abandoned
worthless acreage, is 72,OOo,o0O acres
ssisound numbers; product, 1,456, Co.,
$40 bushels; value, $646, 100000.
The area of wheat. 37,4OO,OOO acres;
Eoduct, 456,O00,O0O bushels; value,
ss59, 100000.
|sss s The area in oats is nearly 100000
S1cres; product, 659,OOO,OOO bushels;
value, $359,oO,OOo.
s The reports of winter wheat do not
sS1how much decrease of farea. In Texas
there is considerable increase, and a
slight increase in some other states.
N2The average decline seems to be be-
stween and per cent. In Kentucky
/ the area is 81 per cent. of an average;
Ohio, SO; Michigan, 90; Indiana, 100;
Illinois, 9S; Missouri, so Kansas, 9S.
The condition is affected somewhat by
the dryness of the seed bed in the dis
trict that suffered from drought, de-
laying seeding, termination, ard
growth. The late rains greatly i'm
proved the situation. The average O.
condition is 95, running in the princi-
pal states from 80 to SO. The condi-
tion of the winter rye comedies very
closely with that of wheat.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-01-27
People of venezuela,s Capital,

Although the Plaza Bolivar is open to
everybody, the lower classes never enter
it during concert hours, but content them
selves with listening to the music outside
the railing. Altogether have rarely met
with more docile, well behaved people
than the lower classes Of Venezuelanos.
They are poor and ignorant, but at the
same time honest and kind hearted Rob
berries are hardly known in Caracas. The
doors ore left open during the day, and
even at night they seem to be closed only
for formality's sake, but not for protec-
ton. In my numerous lonely walks
through the streets at night, not only in
Caracas, but i'll other towns, l never met
a disorderly or drunken person. After II
O'Clock at night everything is quiet. The
few tramways crossing the city stop
shortly after 10 O'Clock, and at midnight
the streets are absolutely deserted, re-
minding me often of similar streets with
houses in city far away, at the foot Of
Mount Vesuvus-Pompeii.- De Hesse
Wartcgg in New York Sun.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-01-27
A colored Clients Confession.

I remember very well the first case 1
ever had to defend in court. My client, q
negro, had ''tuck q hog" My father left
me to make my own beginning and to
wrestle with justice alone. Isaid: "Jim,
when you are called plead not guilty, and
ask for trial by jury
eyes, sah," said Jim.
When Jim was called he stood up, and
the clerk read in his stereotyped way the
Indictment, ending CONTRARY to the form
and statute" etc, aud asked:
whereof are you guilty or not
guilty?'
"sahg" said Jim.
"Read it over," said the Judge; and
over again twas accordingly read, and to
the same concluding interrogation Jim
again responded, "Sahy"
'See here, you," said the judge; che is
asking you if you took that hog or not"
And to my horror Jim scratched his
head and, with a confiding smile, said:
s'Yes, sab, jedge, I tuck de hog;;' and SO
ended my first lesson.-Cor. New Orleans
Picayllnc
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-01-27
Tho Soldiers of Belgium.

During my stay in Antwerp 1 saw q
parade of 10000 Belgian troops. These
are the troops which belong to the forts
extending around this fortified town. The
men are small and very careless in their
dress. They march in a very slouching
way. They do not appear as well as our
country militia. They do not look like
soldiers 1 do not believe that 10000 of
them would stand up against the charge
of one determined German regiment.
The Belgians pride themselves very
much upon the Notifications about Ant
werp The city is entirely inclosed by
these Notifications. They are strong if
defended by the right kind of men; but
with the Belgian soldiers behind them
do not think that it would be difficult for
any modern army Of the great powers to
take Antwerp. But the Importance of
Antwerp as a military outpost to protect
the neutrality of the Belgian country has
been greatly overrated. I have been told
by military men that Antwerp is SO much
out of the way that the Germans could
march around it through Belgium into
France without finding the Notifications
the least degree in their way. The Bel
gian soldiers outside of their Notifications
would be helpless, I am sure.-T. G.
Crawford in New York World.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-01-27
A Source Of 1mnnre MILK.

The question Of still fed milk is Of little
moment as compared to milk from so
much greater quantity of other and more
injurious feed, now in general use, and as
compared to the sanitary conditions and
treatment of the COWS, stables and milk,
and the water the COWS consume-one of
the most important elements in dalrying.
There is not one well in hundred that
furnishes pure water.
Brewers and glucose grains are shipped
into the country by the millions of bushels
annually. Brewers grains are good feed
for mileh COWS if fed the day they are
produced Glucose grains, with the sui
phuric acid treatment necessary in the
factory, are injurious to both COW and
milk. These grains are sent into the
country wet and hot, fermenting, sour
ing and spelling as they go. So the farm
ers' cows, with every shipment, have feed
in a state of fermentation, often rotten
and fit only for the dunghill. Dstillers'
slops, as fed, have undergone fcrmcnta-
tion, while the grains are fed While fer
menting-a strong point in favor of slops.
-"B. M. We III Science.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-01-27
Give Them a chance,

That is to say, your lungs. Also all
your breathing machinery. Very won
derful machinery it is. Not only che
larger air passages, but the thousands
of little tubes and cavities leading
from them.
When these are clogged and choked
with matter which ought not to be
there, your lungs can not half do their
work. And what they do. they can
not do well.
[ Call it cold, cough, Group, pneumonia,
catarrh, consumption or any of the
family of throat and nose and head
Sand lung distractions. all are bad. "A II
Il ought to be got rid of. There is just
Zone sure way to get rid of them. That
BIS to take Boschee's German Syrup,
(which any druggist will sell you at rs
@cents bottle. Even if everything else
\ has failed you, you may depend upon
]. this for certain.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-01-27
Men Who Want Work.

I doubt if there is IL successful man in
the city Of New York whose door is not
darkened every day i'll every week by men
whom he cannot afford to turn away; by
men who want work for what that work
will bring them; by men to whose hands
the heavy shovel and the pick are
strangers, and who wouldn't know what to
do with either the one or the other; by
men who have q past, but whose present is
dark, whose future is obscured; by men
to whom the temporary relief Of So or $40
means, oh! so little; by men who are
clothed with the garments of despair, born
of their utter inability to find employment
sufficiently rcmuneratiye to keep roof
over their heads and clothing on their
bodies, well fed.-Joe Howarl's Letter.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-01-27
A Weary surfeit of Household Art.

"Here, come out into our sitting room,
will yonS" said a gentleman the other
night. 81 just want to show you how art
can be prostituted. My wife has gone and
bought a stove and paid $75 for it-$4O
for the heating apparatus and $50 for
tAose nickel gimcracl1s and figures on it
and those tiles jammed into it. l told her
she had no sense Of the fitness Of things.
II we want nickel statuettes and tiles
let's have 'em where they belong and not
on a peslly stove. A stove is made to
give warmth, not to serve as u crockery
cabinet. The next step will be art coal
hods, art dishpans, art potato barrels and
art rat traps. The palmer and less con-
spicuous u stove is the better. A stove
covered with these gewgaws is as out of
place as a coal HEAVIER going to work in q
dlGss suit and patent leather pulnps.'-
Buffalo Courier
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-01-27
Tho Morning Drink

''Thc habit of taking morning drink,
or any other kind of drink for that mat
ter, said IL gentleman last night, sis one
more honored in the breach than the OBJ
servance, but if q man must take it why
can't he do it openly and not sneak around
about it? | saw u man the other morning
do thing that mademe ashamed of him,
although didn't know him. He was q
nice looking person, one who might be
expected to go to such a place as the Con-
tinental for his toddy, but he stopped in
front of a third rate saloon on Sixth
street below Pine, and having looked UP
and down the street to see if anybody was
in sight who knew him he larted in. /
wouldn't trust that fellow. ."-Pbiladel-
phia Times.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-01-27

information given renders their annual
worthy the special attention of every
one interested in having luscious veg
etable or beautiful flowers. d. NJ. Fer
ry Il Co. make the growing and sale of
Onion Seed leading speciality, and
give so much information on onion
culture as to make their Annual of
permanent value to all onion growers
and gardeners. The Annual can be had
for the asking. Address d. M. FERRY
& Co., Detroit, Mich.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-01-27
Source of the Tin sup,lv.

1t is not generally known that the bulk
of the product of the world is from the
straits settlements OH the Malay peninsula
or N1alacca in the southern part of Asia.
The mining there is that of ''blood tin,
not rock, and this means that it is taken
from the lowlands near the mountains,
where it is found i'll seams or pockets, ten
or twenty feet or more below the surface
level, in the shape of or appearing like
coarse black sand, with here and there a
mixture Of tin. The ore is smelted in
slabs of irregular shape ut the mines and
sent to Penang and Singapore to he re-
smelted i'll regular marketable slabs or
then to be shipped. The tin mining,
capital and labor, is practically in the
hands of the Chinese The Age of Steel.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-01-27
Making Valentines in London.

There is one London manufactory ut
which the making of valentines goes on
all the year. tits the headquarters for the
production of those combinations of laced
and silver paper, springs. notices and lit
tie punches Of colored flowers, and much
of the work has to be done by hand The
laced paper, forinstance, is laid face down
ward and filed away by hand, and the
stamped paper is but cheap German i'm
itation. The valentines are put together
by women, the most expert of whom can
make three dozen q day. One curious
thing about their work is that they SUBJ
stitute the third finger of the right hand
for q mucilage brush, which, they say, is
useless to them.-Boston Budget.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-01-27
The Best Method.

The most agreeable as we'll as the
most effective method of dispelling
headaches, colds, and feyers, OF cleans
ing the system, is by taking few doses
of the pleasant California liquid fruit
remedy, Syrup of Figs. 1t acts gently,
yet effectively, Strengthening the or
gans on which it acts, SO that regular
habits may be formed. Manufactured
only by the California Fig Syrup Com
pany, San Francisco, Cal. For sale by
s. II. Scallin. .4
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-01-27
About Cigar Smokers.

Some cigar smokers invariably use q
cigar holder. A big retail cigar dealer
says that smokers who use holders gener-
ally smoke a cheap cigar. There are ex-
ccptions, of course, but the rule holds
good generally, he maintains, even among
men of wealth. Old smokers who stick a
cigar between their teeth ANA like to chew
at it, as IL rule buy brands that cost from
ten cents up to fifty cents apiece.-New
York Sun.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-01-27
The Garden.

the management of vegetable
gardens and practical instructions con-
II Sls'3scseSrning the culture of howers-for
hints and information concerning all
Kinds of seeds, planting and cultivat-
Ing all vegetables and, flowers, d. M.
4 sEsrry4& Co.'S Seed Annual for 1883 will
4 | M 1nnnd as complete as any work of a
q SSiimtlat character ever issued. The
4 3SyayiS and extraordinary range of the
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-01-27
In the Club Library.

First Swell-Who was Chateaubriands
Second Swell-Blessed if 1 know. Oh,
hold on! Wasn't he the fellow who in
vented some kind of a beefsteak?-Town
Topics.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-01-27

A GOOD lcotto for dime museum:
Wonders will never &C ase. Judge.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-01-27
HOW WE MET.

While summer with her slow, reluctant feet
Went by, and lingering, smiled, as lothto part,
What fond decisions warmed one lonesome
heart!
Though lives by fate were severed, thoughts could
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-01-27

But Fate avenges pleasant things begun;
And Retribution spares not any one,
And no gods pity those who steal their treasure
Louise Chandler Moulton in Cosmopolitan.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-01-27

So met we, dear, as bodiless spirits greet;
Met and were blind, foreseeing not the smart
OF hopes that hope not, and Of tears that start
From eyes which look what lips may not repeat.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-01-27

The cattle industry of tho United States
represents S1,200,000,0
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-01-27

Here for day-then gone beyond the sun
Brief is the way, and soon the Journey done
And less or more Of love why should we mes
Sllre2
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1888-03-10
A Little Scare.

At o'clock the other night a citizen
drove up in front of hotel on Michi-
gan Avenue and went in to look for II
man. A minute later al individual
came out of tObacconist's near by,
espied the horse and cutter and broad
grin lighted up his face as he chuclled:
"Egad! but this is Jim's rig! I'll
give him little scare"
He unhitchel the horse, climbed in
and drove softly away, and was well out
of sight when the owner came out.
GIVE been expecting it," he grOwled
as he found the rig gone, " but I'll
make it hot for the thief
He ran this way and that, notifying
three or four policemen and score of
citizens, and twenty minutes later some
thing happened. A man with grin on
his face might have been seen driving
on Woodward Avenue. A policeman
might have been seen climbing into the
cutter with him. The grin might have
been seen fading as the pair entered po-
lice headquarters. The officer came
out in few minutes, but the citizen
didn't. He staid there all night. In
the morning he was able to convince
everybody that it was only joke, and
was allowed to go, but he went off like
q man who was mad about something.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1888-03-10
After the Bears.

4 man in Silver Ridge Plantation
started III company with another few
days since to look for their COWS and
oxen and a lot of young cattle which
were out in the woods. They found
their stock and started for home with
them, and on their way they saw three
bears sitting on their launches ahead of
them, directly in their path. The oxen
ran ahead of the COWS and then turned
around shaking their heads as much as
to say, Keep back, keep back! We
will attend to those black fellows" Then
away they ran for the enemy. One of
bears ran away, while the other two
stood their grohnd and the oxen charged
on them. Upon this the bears fled, and
one of the oxen chased one of the bears
a mile through the woods, tossing him
over his head in fearful manner. The
bear was tossed up at least twenty times
and evidently had rather lively time of
it. Finally the OK returned. He had
had fierce struggle and had won the
battle. The men say they have seen the
bears since, but that they were afraid
and would run away every time.-Ban-
gOr Commercial.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1888-03-10
Deer Range Of the Northwest.

The great deer range is i'll Northwest
ern Wisconsin, across Minnesota to Da-
kota, and covers the country adjacent to
Brush City and Princeton and to the
north of Brainerd. There are very few
deer on the Red Lake Reservation, and
very few about Duluth, because the
wolves are SO numerous i'll the counties
adjacent. The wolves drive the deer
out. At the extreme frontier the deer
are found in good condition. They
breed in the timber, aud remain there
during the summer, and are driven out
by the wolves in the fall. Between the
Indians and the wolves many deer are
wastefully destroyed. 1t is necessary
to kill the wolves to keep the deer crop,
and the bounty is doing some good. But
the deer is not getting cxterminated.
You might rs well talk about extermin-
ating the ducks, cranes, gulls. pelicans,
and all kinds of water fowl which breed
up in the Peace River County, 1,5OO
miles northwest of Winnipeg There are
about 20, 600 saddles of venison handled
here year. Sometimes this amount is
exceeded, as in 1878, when the prairie
fires got into the timber, and drove the
deer into the settlements. The deer fur
is of no commercial value, but the skin
is made into moccasins and into the
buckskin of the stores.-PdW Pioneer.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1888-03-10
Repeating Her Marriage.

The Missouri R@pnj}icaR says: Flora
Bella Beehe, Il young woman, who about
fourteen weeks ago created n sensation
and brief notcriety by marrying Frank
Fleming. a young man who was then
and is still! engaged in working out n
So, 900 fine for violating the prohibitory
law in Topeka, Kan, has already grown
tired of her peculiar marriage relation
and to day began az action for divorce.
The young lady is quite prominent in
Topeka social circles, and her marriage
to Fleming was vigorously opposed by
her parents mt the time. The wedding
took place at the county Jail. 1t was
thought at the time that Jennings
friends would secure his release, but he
is still in the prison, with very little
hope of regaining his lib rty. The
girl. who is II years old, alleges in her
petition that Fleming told her he was
able to support her, and that he was
leadinga pure life, but she has sine ,
found that these representations were
not true, Fleming being wholly inca
pable of supporting her.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1888-03-10
A Likely Story Of a Bustle.

When bustles first came into fashion,
q certain society lady in Minneapolis,
who is apt to carry things little towards
extremes in matters of dress, had one
made to order. She insisted that it
should be large one, and it was. 1t
was so gigantic, i'll fact, that it was relc-
gated to the attic. But in the course OF
time it came to pass that bustles were
worn larger, and having need of q new
one, the lady bethought herself of tho
airy network thay she had once discard
ed. Down it came from the attic and ii
proved "just her size But the bus
tic was inhabited. 4 cunningly con-
structed nest reposed inside, and fast
growing and induisitive family of mice
poked out their pink noses to resent tho
rude disturbance. The lady, remarkable
to relate, had not the traditional femi-
nine fear of mice. She bravely wore the
hustle, mice and all. As the days pass
ed on her strange pets became very
tame. She had small aperture made
in her dress over the top of her hustle,
covered with convenient p,ait, and i
is her chief delight to tcrrorize her
friends by calling forth the mice from
their retreat, as she sits entertaining
her visitors. One poor dude is alleged
to have tainted away at the sight of the
"horwid creatures. Indianapolis JOur-
111l
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1888-03-10
The Mule In the War.

The Ninth Illinois Infantry was
mounted principally on mules on the
the Atlanta campaign, and somewhere
near there the regiment while Ill advance
had hard fight with large force OF the
enemy, and were at last required to fall
back, DIR. Grelick, the surgeon Of the
regiment, and who is yet living ut Alton,
in this state, found his mule wouldn't
run. but cOntented itself with kicking
and "bucking" as the surgeon appiled
the spurs. He coaxed, demonstrated,
and spurred all in vain, and all the
time the the rebel skirmish line had
kept coming closer, until at last one OF
the enemy rode up in the rear OF the
doctor and demanded his surrender.
The doctor had all he could do to keep
in the saddle, and when the demand was
again made he petulantiy replied:
"Well, blank it, / am willing, but you
can see for yourself that the blank mule
amt" This didn't satisfy the rebel,
and as the doctor. was bounding up and
down on tho mules back the skirmisher
opened fire on the doctor at close range
from revolver. This made the latter
indignant, and whipping out his own
pistol he began firing over his shoulder
at the rebel, who, he knew, was some
where in the rear, but whom he could
not see or pay any attention to because
of the imperious demands made upon
him by the mule. The danger from
death seemed equally great from beneath
rs from the rear. Fortunately one OF
the doctors random shots struck the
rebels horse, which caused it to break
beyond the control of its rider, and car
ried him rapidly past the doctor to our
side, and as he went flying past the
mule saw him and instantly gave chase,
bringing the doctor soon up in the rear
of the rebel, whom he covered with his
pistol, and actually brought him pris-
oner into our lines! OF course, the
doctor was glad enough to commend the
mules superior strategy, and not con-
denim it for its characteristics OBJ
stinacv, as he was at first disposed to
! do.-LHicI10 JOurnal.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1888-03-10
The Ice Harvest.

As soon as the ice is thick enough to
cut, all hands should Join in the harvest.
1t may be well for several neighbors to
join in buying a set of ice tools, and also
to join in the use of them. This will
make the ice harvest a light job. 1t is
not safe to delay filling the houses after
the first ice, especially in Southern To-
calities. If fine, thick ice forms late in
the season, and after the houses are full,
it is well to gather and stack it up in a
large pile. Lay down flooring of rails,
and on that place a covering of straw.
Stack the blocks of ice on this, as COM
pactly as possible, and if the weather is
cold enough, throw on water to freeze
them together solid. 1t is well to make
the stack in a shady place, if possible;
cover the ice well with straw. and then
with an abundance of cornstalks, which
should DO held against the stack by
driving down stakes, and by binding
-straw ropes. Such stack, if used
~ AZ the houses are opened, will
u ip the supply. Open at the
60 DIV side, and cover care
ming. -Ansrieaa Ag-
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1888-03-10

Four years ago Addison Clifford, of
North Rochester, Mass, went shooting
His dog started fox, followed it, and
never returned. A few days ago Mr..
Clifford was out again with another dog
which started fox and chased it to its
hole. Mr.. Clifford began to dig the fox
ont, and while at work unearthed the
skeleton of n dog, the collar on the neck
Of which showed that it was his own lost
dog. 1t had evidently tried to dig the
fox out and got fast in the hole.