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Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1889-04-25

UNLESS unforeseen obstacles are en-
corlntered within a few months after the
beginning OF the next fiscal year (July
y, contracts will have been let for the
construction Of new war vessels which
Will IN the aggregate increase the ton
mage OF the navy by nearly $1,000 tons.
Although the majority of the new vessels
Will be small craft compared with the
monster ironclads of Europe, they will
embody In their construction the latest
improved ideas, and, with their high
speed and heavy armament, will be yeTv
formidable ships of war.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1889-04-25

hour ne
s.. ns,ss" and s.'a f''' are 's''" i"
bin whiss and silvs'S " " fAvorits COM
The Empress of AusNis is attended by
woman physician.
The State University of Oregon has
loo women students.
Gray and purple are again worn as
half mourning colors.
Rough woolens are the fancy of the
hour with Parisiennes.
Bonnets are now worn by the squaws
of the Cheyenne tribe.
The shortest veil now admissible COM
pletely covers the face.
In Paris Japanese Grape is the favorite
new stub for tea gowns.
Two ladies have been elected bank
directors in Atlanta, Ga.
Ribbon striped nets and gauzes are
again on the dry goods counters.
Solid twilled serges, soft and fine, will
be long favorites for spring gowns.
1t is no uncommon thing to see ladies
smoking in the restaurants of Italy
The Czarina of Russia prefers English
books to those of any other language.
The most ornamental new hat pin is a
moss-ro of enamel in natural colors.
Double breasted vests of MANILA linen
are among the threats of next summer
The second patent issued to woman
was to Mary Brush in 1915 for corset.
The Empress Victoria wife of William
H., ignores the use of powder and make
up.
The handsomest new spring muffiers
are in combinations OF black and steel
gray
Miss Amelia B. Edwards, the author,
has travelled over pretty much all of the
globe.
White astrakhau is the favorite fur
for long dressy evening and carriage
wraps.
Thick repped ribbon is used for the
sashes of black Henrietta accordion
gowns.
Dir. McCosh, of Princeton College,
say . thdt JIG DcsI uONeiS are WrlIleH Dy
women.
For many years only lady teachers
have been employed in the schools in
Macon, "a.
Mrs. James It. Fields, widow of the
well-known Boston publisher is
Spiritualist.
Mrs. Otis N. Downing, of Mattapo.
isett. Mass, asserts that she made ~
pies last year.
4 new feature of dressy short wraps
is the full velvet slee e gathered to
deep fur cuff
AIRS. HAIR ct Beecher Stowe is sa d to
be IN better health now than she has
been Tor years.
nibbon striped wooden dress stuifs for
spring are seen in the sample books Of
leading houses.
A few mulls OF velvet. or dress mate
ria have broad band Of ducks breast
down the middle.
Velvet with bengaline or else brocade
and fur is the favoriie stuff for visiting
toilets this winter.
For an all-around serviceable full
dress gown nothing approaches a good
black real lace one
White violets are the favored flower
just now with ladies who are laying
aside mourning dresses.
A foreign fancy of the minute is to
turn under the hand of the long glove,
leaving the fingers bare.
The sara Crewe frock is as fashion
able for little girls as the little Lord
Fanntleroy suit IS for boys.
There is movement of adhesion
amoag brune'tes to the Mexican gold
combs Just now brought out.
There are about 81 . recently graduated
English ladies who are entitled to write
the letters d. A. after their names.
The Duchess OF Marlborough, it is
said, has developed passion for orchids
even greater than that of her husband
The aspirations OF women for a share
in government have been Uratified Ia
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1889-04-25

To the Edfto Please inform your readers
that have positive remedy for the above
named disease which warrant to cure the
worst cases. So strong is my faith in its viz
tues that / will send fiee sample bottle and
valuable treatise to any sufferer who will give
me his y o. and Express address. Resp'y,
II. G. ROOT. NJ. @ /. ls3 Pearl St.. New York.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1889-04-25

RUSSIAN statesmen, from Count Tolstoi
down, are aiding in the Organization Of
socleties ior the prevention and suppress
sion OF lnebrlety. Total abstinence, ex-
eept from light cider and kvass, an acid
arink with little alcohol, is the rule thew
seek to establish for hard drinkers.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1889-04-25

o.e lhE Grand Army of Labor is new
u ms"ni y recently started in Califor-
hia. LIS objects are declared to be "to
s stru assistance to any country that is
;9uuggllng for freedom from monarch
ical form of government.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1889-04-25

IHE average age of President Harri-
son Cabinet is 81 years, while that of
washington was 80 years-the youngest
Oh any OF the Cabinets, Lincolns, was
%. Alexander Hamilton, Washington
secretary OF the Treasury, who was an
pointed at 30, was the Youngest member
OF any OF the Cabinets, and Lewis Cass.
Buchanan's Secretary of State at 76.
the Oldest. ~
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1889-04-25
Spring Sickness

Hoods Sarsaparilla is prepared from Sarsaparila
Dandelion. Mandrake. Dock, Juniper Berries. and
other well known ve2e able remedies, in such .
peculiar manner to derive the full m ,dicipai
value Of each. 1t will cure. when in the power OF
medicine. scrofula salt rheum, sores, boil- PIN
pies. all humors. dyspepsia, biiiousness. sick AZ
ache, indigestion. general debility. catarrh rheums-
tism. kidney and liver complaints. 1t overcomes
that extreme tired feeling caused by change OF eli
mate season. life. and imparts life and strength
to the whole system.
For five years was sick every spring. but las.
year began in February to faks Hoods Sarsaparils
l used five bottles and have not seen a sick day
since"-G. W. SLOAN. Milton, Mas.
Hoods SaYSa DariIIa
Sold by all druggists 81 six for Is. Prepared only
by G. HOOD Il CO., Apothecaries, Lowell. Mass
100 Doses One Dollar
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1889-04-25
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

mo nnohhrARY of War Proctor, is Yer
Colla second Cabinet officer. Jacob
- Na1i i,v, who was Postmaster General
f;rst niiiard Fillmore's Cabinet, was the
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1889-04-25

lest ~ powerful ships carrying the heav-
a.. guns Italy has some of the finest
she shat ~. IN effective fighting strength
J Froa PROBABLY ranks third, England and
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1889-04-25
Hamburg Figs for the Liver.

Habitual constipation and torpidity OF the
liver are functional arrangements which
should not be so long neglected as TO generate
actual disease Hamburg Figs should be taken,
cents. Dose one Fig. Mack Drug Co., n. Y.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1889-04-25

May be avoided by taking the popular spring med
cine Hoods Sarsaparils. in II you have
not felt well during the winter, if you have been
overworked. osely confined in badly ventilated
rooms or shops, you need gooi tonic and blood
purifier like Hoods Ssrsaparilla Take it early and
You will ward OF attacks Of disease escape the
effects Of impure blood and that tired feeling
common in the spring. Do not delay Take Hoods
Sarsaparilla now.
a. wish to state the benefit derived from Hoods
Sar aparils. have used it in The spring for three
years for debii and say that l gained in flesh
and streng 9Th after using one bottle 1t also cured
of sick headache. Mrs F. II. ANDREWS, South
Woodstock Conn.
Hoods SarsapariIIa
Sold by all druggists ST. six for $5. Prepared only
By C.L HOOD CO., Apothecari-s. Lowell. Mass.
100 Doses One Dollar
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1889-04-25

The people of Holland are just awak-
ening to the fact that that country is
without any adequate military defense
against invasion by q hostile power. II
seems that in 1876 there was a period OF
alarm on this account and the Govern
ment tore down most of the fortifi ca
lions then in existence, with the view OF
replacing them with others better fitted
to withstand the improved appliances OF
. modern warfare. But there the work
stopped, and now the country Is p CD
caliv without defense save by opt ing
the bikes and flooding a vast terrific "
4 means fully as disastrous to the co.
Die as to any possible invading fc GO.
IL is thought chat Germany may lave
designs On the coast of Holland, which
could enable the former country to
carry out her several projects with great
er ease.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1889-04-25

The meeting of National and State
Railroad Commissioners at Washington,
in urging action toward doing away with
the link aud pin coupler on freight cars,
brought out some astonishing statistics
showing the danger of the continuance.
In Iowa where the law compells the re-
porting of accidents, 2,424 men have
been killed or MANNED by accidents in
the use Of the pin coupler and hand
brake in ten years, and this on from
5000 to 5000 miles of road, while such
casualties on the 100000 miles of road
in the whole country are reckoned at
5000 year. Most OF the accidents are
due to the coupler, and indeed it is ne
cessary to see coupling done with it
bnt once to realize the very hazardous
nature of the operation.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1889-04-25

IHE A'my and Macy Journal prints
letter from a naval officer, who suggests
that the ancients, who knew the value
OF oiling troubled waters, learned this
method from observing the sea birds.
All fish eating birds, cape pigeons, pet
rels, and the like, eject oil from the
mouth when captured. In the South
Atlantic and South Pacific the writer
had witnessed sea birds floating in
spaces OF comparatively quiet water
when the sea around was rough The
unusual smoothness of the water was ev-
identity due to considerable quantities
OF oil deposited by the birds.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1889-04-25

WHAr is known among railroad men
Is the sshoodooed" locomotive, No. l53, a
switch engine Of the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas Road. killed its sixth man in two
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1889-04-25
The Best
Spring Medicine.

"In the spring of 1887 was all run down.
would get up in the morning with so tired a
feeling, and was so weak that could hardly get
around. thoughts bottle OF Paines Celery CON-
pound, and before had taken 1t a week l felt
very much better. l can cheefully recommend
1t to all who need building and strengthen
ing medicine Mrs. s. A. DOW, Burlington. vt.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1889-04-25

All disorders pecu liar to women are correc
ed and much suffer ing avoided by use of
Bradfield's Female Regulator. oldby drug
gists
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1889-04-25

"Some people have queer ideas about
ice, says an official of an ice company
in the Kingston On " Freeman. ",rhey
imagine cake of ice that will weigh 300
pounds when it is housed will weigh as
much when it is taken out several
months after. They don't seem to real
lie that there is a waste of 30 to 60 per
cent. in ice i'll houses during a season.
Then there are people who will not have
pure ice taken from ponds, because it
bleaches and looks like snow ice. They
prefer river ice, which is not so pure and
clean. OF course this makes it better
for the ice companies, for crop can be
harvested from the Hudson River much
cheaper than it can from ponds which
are located long distances from the
houses"
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1889-04-25

Spring medicine means more now "a days than it
did ten years ago. The winterof 1Sss-s9 hasleft
the nerves all tagged ont. The nerves must be
strengthened, the blood purified, liver and
bowels regulated. Paine's Celery Compound
the Spring medicine oftO-day-does all this,
as nothing else can. Prescribed by Physicians,
Recommended By Druggists, Endorsed By Ministers,
Guaranteed By the MANUFACTURERS TO be
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1889-04-25
Paine's
Celery Compound

is a unique tonic and appetizer. Pleasant to
the taste, quick IN its action, and without any
injurious effect 1t gives that rugged health
which makes everything taste good 1t cures
dyspepsia and kindred disorders. Physicians
prescribe il. sl.00 Six for $500. Druggists.
WELLS, RICHARDSON & Co., Burlington, vt.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1889-04-25
The famous Barker will case has been

The famous Barker will case has been
settled at Dover, N. II. Mr. Barker,
who was worth over $1,OOO,00O, stipu-
lated in his will that his son Hiram
should receive $4,000 year for life, pro-
vided that he did not become intoxi-
Gated; that in ten years he might draw
$3.50, 900, and the same amount every
succeeding ten years; but that in case
any time he became intoxicated he
should lose all. The son contested the
will On the ground that his father was
unduly prejudiced against him on the
question of drinking, and that he was
not of sound mind. The jury returned
verdict sustaining the will.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1889-04-25

MANY thieves ply their business almost
exclusively at funerals. They come in
at the front door, explains New York
detective, with the clergy, the bearers,
OF any respectable people with whom
they may fall in. ''Once inside the
door, the whole house and everybody in
it are at the mercy of their clever and
industrious fingers. 1t is an easy mat
ter for one of them to slip upstairs and
rifle the chambers while the solemn
services are in progress. Servants are
easily persuaded that he is only the I'M
dertaker's man, and nobody else would
have sufficient assurance OF cause of
suspicion to intercept him. Then the
crowded drawing room OF hall offers the
adept pick-pocket a tempting harvest"
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1889-04-25
1t Makes
You Hungry
al have used Paine's celery COMPOUND a


has had a salutary
effect. Itinvigorat-
ed the system andI
ieel like q new
man. 1t improves
the appetite and
facilitates diges-
\tion." j. T. COPE
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-08-21

five inches high, when | go over it with
hoes, just scraping the land and killing
what weeds there are. When it is about a
foot high | go through the centre OF the
ridges with bull-tongue plow, once in
each month When the rice begins to
shoot | go in the same furrow with a
shovel wide enough to throw soil to both
sides of the rows at once. That is all the
cultivation give.
When the rice is ripe | cut it with a
sickle and let it lay in the field for two or
three days; then tie in bundles of
convenient size and put under shelter.
Anytime thereafter when want to use
the seed or straw | thrash theseed out by
beating the bundle over barrel or trestle
in close room.
For home use the children pound the
rice in morter with pestle. | use it for
the table, and as food for chickens (and
they shell out the eggs) the straw in win
ter for the cows, cut up fine, mixed with
bran moistened slightly and seasoned
with cotton seed meal and salt, it is
greatly relished,
generally make three barrels of rough
rice per half acre q only plant that much
for home use) and use the stubble after
cutting for calf pasture.
Rice can be planted until June 10th, as
planted at that time. 1t ripens by No
vember 1st.
plant a kind said to be the Bermuda
rather dark in grain, with heads like rye,
not very sweet in flavor but vigorous in
growth and very prolific.
| plant the same land in rice for three
years, when the crab grass gets too bad,
so break up another piece ofland, either
new land or that which has been laying
out in pasture for a few years.
FGULF COAST"
Pass Christian, Miss.
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-08-21

twenty-five dollars has been made to the
acre on beans, and $3.50 to the acre on
tomatoes the past season.
Nearly every person that has piece of
land are now planting or preparing to
plant tomatoes, beans, cucumbers and
egg plants for the Northern market.
There will be hundred crates shipped
next season to one crate lastseason. The
old style of planting corn and COW peas is
giving way to vegetables. Could we get
quick transit aud living rates on the rail
roads there would be money in raising
vegetables. The people have but recent
ly found out what Florida sand is good
for and intend profting by it,
F. G.. NJ BOGGEss
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-08-21
For The FLORIDA AGRICULTURIsT.
Dry Land Rice Culture.

have been raising rice on gray clay
fiat woods (called bysome crawfish land)
for several years. l grub out the
galIberry bushes at the end of
August or the beginning Of September,
which effectually kills them. Then any
time after Christmas | break up the land
quite shallow, not more than two inches
deep, using an Avery pony plow and turn
ing the furrow fiat over Then soon after
| run over the land, the way the burrows
run, with twO-horse Acme harrow,
smoothing it and making it fine. then
run cross ways with the same. Weeds not
being troublesome in the new land, wait
until the frost is over, when lay off rows
with a small bull-tongue plow two feet
apart and very shallow. Sow the seed
at the rate of one-half bushel to the acre.
Then SOW cotton seed meal broadcast Oh
top of the drills at the rate Of 400 pounds
to the acre, and cover with Acme harrow,
running very shallow
leave it alone until it is some four or
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-08-21
Buckwheat.

Florida farmers have just discovered
that buckwheat will succeed there, and
Professor Stubbs, of the Louisiana Expe-
rimental Station, upon a fair trial, rec
commended it for Louisiana. The Japan
variety is considered the best. Buckwheat
is agood crop pforfertilizing the esOil, makes
a fine bee pasture, and fair quality of
hay when cut at proper stage OF it's
growth. The grain is good for stock and
poultry, and we need not say that it
makes excellent -four for buckwheat
cakes. Another leak stopped Times
Democrat.
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-08-21
For THE FLORIDA AGRICULTURIsT.
Clipping the Wings of the Queen.

Under the head of Queries and Re
plies in the American Bee Journal, the
subject of the advisabiity of clipping the
queens wing is discussed, pro and con, by
many of our well known apiarists; by
twenty-five replies, the majority were in
favor of clipping the wings, and gave
good reasons for the practice. AS the
custom is more or less followed by those
who keep bees, the subject is one of in
terest to those who are newly started out
in the vocation, whether it be for thepur-
pose of securing honey forhome use orfOr
sale. To those engaging in a new pursuit
it is much more gratifying to both them
selves and friends to be able to report
having made a success OF an undertak
ing, instead of a failure; and especially in
bee culture is this fact. When but one or
two hives of bees are kept the posSessor
is apt to neglect his duties; the bees
swarm, and the old queen departs, fol
lowed by the majority of the bees, there
by reducing the working force at the
time the colony can least afford it. In it's
weak condition it is subject to moth and
ants, and the result is failure. Herein is
the object of clipping the wings of the
queen. The old queen invariably leads
the first swarm, and if the clustered bees
are not hived in proper time are liable to
depart for other quarters, leaving queen
cells and young Matching bees to repop-
ulate the colony.
In due time the young queen or queens
hatch out. A second swarm issues; the
colony is again reduced by the departure
of a majority OF its workings, and the re-
suit is disaster to the fond hopes and Wis
ions of surplus honey of the bee-keeper.
Bees are governed by a law, orinstinct
that has not changed since the time
Sampson discovered the honey in thecar-
cass of the lion, and to this instinct alone
is due the continuance of the race. In or
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-08-21
A Valuable Pamphlet.

We have several hundred copies OF a
pamphlet containing the proceedings of
the Florida Fruit Growers Association,
held at Jacksonville January 20, 1875.
This is valuable pamphlet to fruit
growers, as itcont aims many valuable pa
pers read by the members of the society
and also discussions on subjects of gen
eral interest to the people,
We will mail a copy to anyone desiring
it for 10 cents.
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-08-21

der to compel the bees to work according
to his method, man takes advantage OF
their instinct and in proportion TO the
manner in which the hives are made ana
the colonies managed SO is the result oO-
tanned, and the existence OF the colonies
continued Therefore removing one OF
the wings of the queen will prevent nucn
of the disappointment that usually aC-
tends neglect, or not being present. Wlleh
hive casts a swarm. In hercllpped con-
dition she is unable to accompany the
swarm and after clustering and noting
her absence among them, they return to
the hive where the queen is usually fOund
at or near the entrance. These efforts on
the part of the bees may be repeated the
following day or later, the final result
being that the cells are destroyed and
the swarming impulse at the time broken
up. Should the queen be lost or de-
stroyed, by any means, by not being able
to return to the hive, 'tis only the queen;
the great mass of workers are still pres
ent to secure a surplus where if the queen
was left the use of her wings the entire
swarm would have beer a loss. 1T is best
to lose the queen rather than the bees, as
the cells contained in the hive that cast
the swarm will hatch and supply ayoung
queen which, after becoming fertilized, is
prepared to assume the maternal reSpOn-
sibilities of her predecessor. The only loss
to the colony is that of time and young
bees which should have added to the
strength of the colony between the time
of emerging from the cell to the period OF
laying. When lofty trees are adjacent to
the apiary, clipping the wings of the queen
should be practiced. Toremove the wings,
pick the queen off the frame by the head
and shoulder and with a small pointed
scissor and steady hand cut the wing
diagonally, sparing the heavy rib as much
as possible. A queen properly trimmed will
be unable to rise but few inches from
the hive entrance, which should be close
to the ground, so as to enable the queen
IL.
rants it, it would be well to allow the
colony to rear a new queen, either by di
vision or returning the swarm into a
new hive on the old stand-either of
which can be done with satisfaction. In
the latter case empty frames in the broad
chamber, with sections, above will secure
good results.
When the clipping of the queen is prac-
ticed, the third year she should be super
ceded, though many of our best apiarists
requiem each year, as a young queen of
the present season seldom swarms, and,
as a rule, the more swarms, unless Judi
ciously managed, the less honey.
J. Y DETWILER.