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MULCH FOE PEACH TREES.

The peach tree needs dry soil, and
so we'll is this known that it is usually
planted on sandy or gravelly land. This
exposes it to one danger not often
thought Of. This is the deep freezing
which often occurs on such soils when
not covered by snow. While the bulk
of the original forests remained, snow
was not drifted By winds, and lay evenly
over the surface. In those times peaches
were grown in many places where they
have long since been abandoned. The
temperature of the air in winters is not
lower now than it used to be, and the
failure of peaches where they formerly
succeeded is probably due to deeper
freezing of the soil, destroying vitality
by depriving the tree of moisture. A
mulch applied late in fall or early in
winter around the trees would remedy
this evil. If put on after the ground is
frozen, it would also prevent too early
expansion of peach buds, and thus save
their destruction by late frosts in spring.
american CuHiuatOr.
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FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

The hen that lays in winter does not
breakfast, dine and sup on cold corn and
ice-water.
It is said that if mice holes are filled
with chloride of lime the rodents will
quit the premises.
Be sure that all animals, especially the
young, have warm quarters and good
bed to lie on nights.
Regularity is prime virtue in feeding
stock, and next in Importance to we'll
balanced full rations.
The feeding standards should be con-
sidered as guides and not as formulas to
be implicitly followed.
To ensure success, put your products
into market in a superior condition, and
have them of little better quality than
others.
Not many are aware of it, but COW
cred barnyard is a paying institution
better than spreading manure on the
snow and ice.
Darkness and low temperature are the
two principal points in keeping potatoes.
The mercury should hover between the
"a and 40 marks.
There is no better foundation for a
feeding ration than corn ensilage and
good clover hay. With this foundation,
but little grain is required.
Charcoal and salt placed where hog:
can get at them freely would often pre-
vent bowel troubles, and have been
known to be effective as cure.
Look out that the cattle do not get
lousy. A little lard and sulphur, thor.
oughly mixed, rubbed along the back
bone from horns to tail once week fol
few weeks, is good.
Heating food, like corn and rye meal,
will produce a cough in horse. Rem.
edy: do not use it. Put raw linseed
meal on the oats, or other food, for a
while, from a gill to two gills.
If the cows milk is very blue in cold
weather, it is because the food that
should form rich milk and cream is used
up in maintaining animal heat, hence,
the policy of sheltering animals as much
as possible in severe weather.
Much feed is wasted each year by
feeding stock that do not make profit
able gain. There IS considerable
amount of difference in the amount OF
gain required by different animals in pro,
portion of the food consumed, and it will
be found wise to Gull out the unprotable
animals and market as soon as possible.
If the straw or fodder that is used fol
bedding is first run through cutting
box the work of handling the manure
will be considerably decreased and les:
material will be required to keep th'
stock clean. Then by grooming careful,
ly every day there ought to be no diff
Guilty in keeping in good condition.
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CURIOUS FACTS.
A sponge eight feet in circumference
9. r4o cfn IN

A sponge eight feet in circumference
is on exhibition at store IN New York.
Paterson, N. J., has club composed
of young men who have an inordinate
fondness for onions.
William Greer, who is engaged in the
cattle business on the Canadian River,
Texas, shot and killed white deer few
weeks ago.
Violets, fifty or so in bunch, have
been selling in New York city for S1.5O,
and florists say there would be buyers if
the price were $40.
DR.. Onofroff, now in London, is a
mind reader of ability superior to any
that has been exhibited before him. He
reads minds without contact with the
person.
Calico over one hundred years old was
recently used by Mrs. Spengler at Cata-
sauqua, Penn, to make bed quilt of.
The material had formerly done duty as
bed curtain.
Boys of Gold Hill, New, enjoy first
class coasting nowadays. They go from
that town to Silver City, three miles, in
five minutes. 1t takes them an hour to
climb back.
Thomas Fitzsimmons, young man OF
Pittston, Penn, has nearly finished a
clock on which he has labored for four
years, and which will prove regular
theological encyclopedia.
A novelty in road fixing can be seen on
the old gravel pike near Byberry, Penn,
where the rutabagas have taken the place
of dirt or stone. Several carloads have
been hauled there to fill up the ruts and
holes.
"Old Towlion," hermit who lives in
Jacks Hollow, Penn, spends his time in
digging around his wretched hut in
search of gold. He has dug ten holes
fifteen feet deep, and his place looks like
ayawning graveyard.
> A middle-aged colored man boarded
horse car in Brooklyn, and, when the eoa-'
ductor came around for his fare didn't
bother about his pockets, but simply put
his hand to one of his capacious ears and
drew forth nickel.
A Berlin professor while dissecting a
shark found in its stomach dolphin
weighing 1913 pounds, forty-three fish, a
decomposed seal, human arm and four
human legs. Notwithstanding this
"feed," the brute was probably after
bait when he was captured.
A farmer living in the southern part of
Douglas County, Kan, has discovered
vein of marble and granite about thirty
feet in thickness and about twenty-five
feet below the surface. Successive strata
developed different colors, beginning
with mottled gray and running through
a blush, pink, blue, red and clear white.
Charley Sprouse, who lives in West
Fort, Penn, caught big pike, which
weighed twenty mine pounds, in q strange
manner. The rise in the Kanawha River
Dverfowed the picket fence around
Sprouse's garden. When the water fell
the pike, which had got in while it was
up, couldn't get out, and was captured.
A young lady in the town of Minsk,
Russia, purchased pair of gloves. I'm
nediately after putting them on her hands
began to itch. The next Gay her arms
we're covered with sores, and week later
she died of blood poisoning. The doc
tors suppose that the skin belonged to an
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Trees Painted Red, White and Blue.

Many of the farmers in IIoarn, North
Holland, arc wealthy in their way, but
they seem quite content with the tradi-
tional discomforts of the old farmhouse.
Here, if anywhere, the mania for color
runs riot; the trunks of the trees are
painted red, blue, green, yellow and mud
color, and the clinkers of the paths are
usually covered brilliant blue. If one
asks Dutchman the reason for painting
the trees, with some sort of vague idea
thatit is to keep the snails down, he will
shrug his shoulders and say: '1t is the
custom of the country" >...- e..
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Whether on pleasure bento7 business, should
take on every trip bottle Of Syrup Of Figs. as
1t acts most pleasantly and efectually on the
kidneys, liver and bowels, preventing fevers.
headaches and other forms of sickness. For
sale in SOC. and 81 bottles by all leading drug
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THE HEAVY END OF A MATCH.

asked
cup of coffee made discovery"
aWei Cyrus thing;
it?"
match s its light end" responded
Cyrus with grin that would have adorned skull
discovery Cyrus was made BY Dr. Pierce and called
blotches pufes
blood the SYSTEM and makes feel Why cured
reduced skeleton.
Before his wife she pale thing but look her, shes
a discovery that's worth mentonng"
the "Goden Medical fact
only purifying blood all pip
blotce ep and other Skin and Scalp Scrofulous Sores and
possessed of positive curative
selling they doing through drug
a benefit
money will be refunded also Bronchial Throat
(Which is yields
its marvellous properties time and given fair trial
BronchihA
Asthma affections efficient
There's nothing at all like the "Dscov-
alcohol to inebra derange dg
ton peculiar in curative effects in It's
small and pleasant the Equally good for
WORLDS DsPENsARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION No ees
Buffalo, N. Y.
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La Grinne.

At present epidemic on this continent, as
well as on the continent Of Europe, the pre-
cursor of Pneumonia and other fatal diseases,
is principally a Catarrhal Inflammation OF the
Mucous Membrane Of the upper air passages.
1t commences suddenly, and Is generally at
tended with an extreme degree Of debility,
with high fever from the commencement;
marked pain In the head, shoulder and limbs,
and oppression of the chest, severe cough and
little expec .oration, with q loss OF appetite
and sometimes diarrhea; In the course of few
days, follow at times free eSpectorations and
copious perspirations. .,.-
The disease must be driven out OF the system
in the first stages and not allowed 10 develop IN
to others of a more serious nature, which may
become fatal. TO do this the most simple agent
may be found in Railways Ready Relief Gand
where there is not diarrhea), Radway's Pills.
Take two to four of Railways Pills before
retiring at night swallow thirty to sixty drops
of Ready Relief in half tumbler OF water;
rub we'll applied by the hand, RadWay,,s
Ready Relief to the head, throat, chest, sh0il-
ders, back or limbs, wherever the pain Is felt;
get into good sweat, cover up we'll, and avoid
catching fresh cold. IL not entirely cured, re-
peat the following night.
, This treatment used before In similar cpl
denies, has cured thousands, warded OH pneu-
monia and other fatal diseases.
There Is no better treatment than TINS tor
driving out cold. Physicians are not always
within call. ltis jeopardiztng human life to be
without such potent remedies as Railways.
II II lnd n
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"You scoundrel," yelled young Jacob Green,
At his good neighbor, Brown
You kissed my wife upon the street.
ought to knock you down."
HThat's where you're wrong" good Brown re-
piled,
In accents mild and meek;
II kissed her, that I've not denied,
But kissed her on the check
and did It because she looked 80 handsome
the very picture Of beauty and health. What
is the secret Of it?' Well" replied Green,
.since you ask 1t, will tell you; she uses DR..
apology. Good night" "Favorite Prescrip-
ton" Is the only remedy for the delicate de-
rangements and weaknesses Of females. sold
by druggists, under q positive guarantee Of civ.
ing satisfaction in every case, or money paid
for II returned.
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fCS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
FORCING RHUBARB.

Only few plants of rhubarb are re-
POURED to furnish enough for family.
It's early growth may be forced in a
greenhouse, hothouse or cellar. Sur
rounding and coverft.;. few roots out OF
doors with fermenting stable manure will
give it an early start, when most Of the
- covering may be raked off and the plants
be further protected from cold by cover
ing of rough litter or evergreen branches,
or by boxes or barrels inverted over them.
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Is in store for all who use Kemp's Balsam for
the Throat and Lungs, the great guaranteed
remedy. Would you believe that 1t is sold on
its merits and that any druggist Is authorized
by the proprietor of this wonderful remedy to
give you sample bottle free2 1t never fails
to cure acute or chronic coughs. All druggists
sell Kemp's Balsan. Large bottles Soc. and
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The.value of the horses exported from
the Dominion of Canada in 1889 was So, I.
226, 1872, including $2,169,7s2 worth
shipped to the United States.
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If you wish to do the easiest and quickest
weeks ashing you eper did, try Do6blns,s
Electric Soap next wash-day. Follow the d.
rections. Ask your grocer for it Been on the
market "a years. Take no other.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-02-12

THERE are fifty manufactures Of imitation
butter in Germany. One factory produces
daily COCO pounds from cocoanuts.
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Kissed Another Mans Wife.

JUDGE GRESHAM says that the standard Of
excellence in the legal profession Is not as
high as it was twenty-five years ago.
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TOLEDO, o., Jan. III, 1857.
Messrs. F. J. Cheney f. Co.-GeItiemen:-I
have been in the general practice of medicine
for most 40 years, and would say that in all
my practice and experience. have never seen
preparation that / could prescribe with as
much confidence Of success as can Halls Ca
tarrh Cure, manufactured by you. Have pre-
wonderful, and would say in conclusion that
have yet to find q case OF Catarrh that It
would not cure, If they would take it accord
ing to directions.
Yours Truly,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-02-12

NEITHER the Pope nor the dignitaries who
are nearest to him In the Vatican. can speak
or read English.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-02-12

CHINATOWN. New York city. Is rejoicing In
the election Of new Mayor and the arrival
of new doctor.
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Office, A5 Summit st.
We will give 500 for any case Of Catarrh
that cannot be cured with Halls Catarrh
Cure. Taken internally.
F. J. CHENEY & Co., Props, Toledo, O.
T Sold by Druggists. 75c.
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A Great Surprise

A NEW railway in Wisconsin is called the
"Waukesha, Pewaukee, Oconomowoc & East
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Oregon, the Paradise of Farmers.
Mild, eauable climate, certain and abundaus
crops. Hest fruit, grain, grass and stock cou1-
try in the world. Full information free, Ad'
dress Oregon Im'igrat'n Board, Portland, ore'
Beware of imitations-"Tansill's Punch"
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For biliousness, sick headache, indigestion
and consultation. take DIR. Pierce'S Pellets.
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The STANDARD

az regard Hoods sarsapariia as having
nassed above the grade Of what commonly
called patent or proprietary meliclncs," said
welinown physician recently. "1tIs fully entitled
10 he considered standard medicine, and hos won
this position by It's undoubted merit and by the
many remarkable cures 1t has effected. For an
Alternative and tonic it has been eQuaed, and
physicians are glad to have their patients take so
reliable and trustworthy medicine"
N.D.-If you decide to take Hool's Sarsapartlla
do not be induced to buy any other.
Hoods SarsapariIla
Sold by oil druggists. sl six for s.. Prepared only
by j. HOOD CO.. Apothecaries Lowell MasA
100 Doses One Dollar
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Tourists,

A scAyENGER of Los Angeles picked up q
found sis in the pockets and a silver watch.
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A man who has practiced medicine for 40
-yeaFS- ought. to know salt from sugar; read
what he
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-04-17
Look Out.

] warn allpersons not to trade
for, or buy a certain note executed
by me for $50 about March 8, 1890,
due seyen months after date, and
payable to some one connected
with what is said to be the Kansas
CITY Medical and Surgical SAM
tarium. One Prof. Jno. L. Foster
secured said note through mis-
representation and I will not pay
ocratic week as Iuii On '-ee., -
what news as a voluptuous mai
4ro.au sweet sixteen. The LEDGE
James Brown, four mrrcsscurn .,
Martlnsburg, Audrain county, Mo.
MFR. James E. Wright to Miss
Lulu @. Brown, DR.. d. j. Mayes,
of Central1a, officiating. After par
taking of q sumptuous dinner the
wedding party took carriages foi
Benton City where the happy
couple took the train and will
spend some days visiting friends
and relatives in Boone county,
They will then locate on MI.
Wright's farm, seven miles north
Centralia.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-04-17

Correspondence of the Ledger.
LADDoNIA, NO., April 15.-'Tis
rumored that the wedding put off,
on account of groom not coming on
day appointed, will yet be con-
sumnated. "All is we'll that ends
WE'LL"
bud Akeridge made a flying
trip to Colorado and back.
Frank Sullivan, who had lived
here for about a year, aud came
from Illinois, left last week sud.
denly and mysteriously. He had
rented a farm, and the first thing
he did, after repairing the farm
some, was TO leave his horses,
wagon. oats. bay. etc with q mar
named Cox. WHO claims that Id
baugnt ;hru. as.i Xxi pad cut. Eo'
telling s.a- Cox l. ts.i :,a.+ t.
pay for an hing Sn!l.vnass Is b
| er enm- 1t ;-a asy> After aatt td>t
4, horses. ~agafa. etc.. ani eia;a.~t
be didn't know where his son was
ANNIE LAURIE.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-04-17
MAPLE VEI

rasy-. ~,.,iFare g sast~tser.
MApLk Gaavg, April 16.-Alf,ed
Fox did not purchase near Van
daiia, but bought a house in north
Mexico and moved Monday.
Mrs. n. r. Kilgore, Mrs. Geo.
Whaley and Mrs. w. IL. Turner,
of Mexico, visited C. T. Blacks
family Tuesday.
VIM. Kombrink is building fine
barn, 34x4o.
VIM. Komhrink took some fat
hogs TO town Monday and sold 81
$3.50 per hundred.
Several parties from this vicin-
ity attended the marriage of Miss
Ellen Brown and Mr.. VIM. Fuqua,
which took place last Thursday a
tho residence of Thos. Scott, neal
Thompson.
IT, 8. Hopkins returned Monday
from the G.. A. Z. stste sncamp
ment 1t Jefferson City. He -
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-04-17
MATTERS.
correspondence Of the Ledger.

Correspondence OF the Ledger.
MARTINsBURa, No., April 49,
Hon. Champ Clark addressed the
ladies and gentlemen of this place
Saturday nightin memory and cele-
bration OF Thomas Jefferson, the
father of the Democratic party. 1t
was a grand subject, handled by an
able man and handled effectively
too. Pike county should be proud
of such men as Mr.. Clark.
The Martinsburg creamery is
complete and ready for business.
Let every farmer hearken there.
unto.
MI. Tom johnson, one of oul
new enterprising merchants, will
move his family from Montgomery
City here this week.
MI. Chris Nohrenberg has beer
quite sick for two weeks with pneu'
monia.
Billie Peery is feeding 81 head
of cattle on DR.. Taylor's pasture
Woodson Bros. are feeding ovel
100 head of cattle on J. w. Crigler'i
pasture
Mrs. T. B. Duncan and littl,
daughter are spending a few day,
with her parents
Deacon Martin will move int
his brick residence on Walnu
street this week.
Excitement waxesh high owe
the Building Il Loan Association
and a great many of our promineu
citizens have taken part, expectlnI
to build right away
True & Polar! bought lots z.
and 8. block /, Csigler's addition
s. V. 0verbagh bought lot ]
block S, Crigler's addition.
Miss minnie Jones is visiting !
Mexico this week.
Everybody is trimming tresl
laying sidewalks, selling harness
making gardens and tendin
chickens.
John Gay and wife, of Bento
City visited in the Burg Sunda
and Monday.
Rev. Father Haar and Dir. Stes
Bert,ls attended the 6. 4. r. Fl
. e%ani?snen, a, Jefferson City la
49,,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-04-17

poison ont Of me, and I was in the
hospital four weeks. Then I went
from Chicago to Monroe City,about
fifteen miles from where I lived,
and last Saturday early in the
mo: ming l started to come to 81.
Louis. / stopped and stole the
horse on the way here and then
rode into town on q wagon with
another man. | had a good mind
To rob HIM, but he didn't have
anything about his clothes worth
taking, so | let him alone.
my lawyer wanted me to stand
trial, but you bet / am going to
plead guilty to everything they
bring up against me. / wan. them
to do something to me, go that
will be punished for what I have
done. Ican't stand this any longer
and | sha'n't try to-. I hope they
will send me to Jail and then per
haps they will keep that white face
and those startling eyes out of my
sight"
The officers from sappingtor
county took the prisoner away from
the Four Courts in st. Louis yester
1ou
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-04-17

1t has just leaked out that Wood
Matthews and his brother, Pete,
had a desperate encounter last
Friday night at their home a few
miles west of town. 1t seems that
Wood, the larger ofthe two, wanted
possession of a certain horse and
was leading it away. There were
hot words over it and in the fight
which followed Wood was struck
in the breast with a p1tchfork,
while Pete had one eyelid entirely
split lntwo and the cheek fearfully
lacerated, probably with a stone
Neither was dangerously hurt. Nc
arrests were made.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-04-17
C. F. CLARK, Mexico, Mo.
or Information, apply +

ports a grand meeting and compli-
ments Gov. Francis very highly
for his efforts in helping to make
the meeting success. On his way
home, Mr.. Hopkins spent two
nights at Fulton with his friends,
w. G. Barnes and j. P. Gass.
Prof. Glass; many friends in this
county will be glad to hear that he
was unanimously endorsed by the
School Board Saturday night for
another term as president Of the
Fulton schools.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-04-17
MOSS ROSE.
Fair Grounds at Mexico, Missouri,

UPON te tOHoWIng teEns:
~. Robs Ell Ry ysak at SO the season. payable July lst or win take . good
Clipper at SIS the season, payable July LIST, or I will take q good note for
$50, payable when he makes q record of 230 or better.
Wilson at $40 the season, payable July 1st or SIS TO nsure in fol, or win
take a good note for SIS, payable when he can tot in 235 or better.
Warfelow at SIS the season or SIS to insure In foal.
Management the same a Warfelow, but book now full.
Duke Of Hayton at go the season, payable July LIST.
When mares are bred by season and do not prove to be In foa1 they q be
returned returned next season free. If the horse is alive and in my O possesdon. n
moved from neighborhood o parted with. I will use care to prevent accident,
but Will not be responsible should any occur. I am situated to grain or can
furnish good pasture for maresff from q distance at hMy cents per week on grass
1 have been several years collecting this stock, keeping constantly before my
past patronage, I will say that the gates are always open and we win take
pleasure in exhibiting this stock to any one who has interest enough to come
and look, excepting Sundays. ALI mares from a distance sent to Moss Rose
free of charge.
For extended pedigree Of stock or other information. appiy to
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-04-17

Fruit and ornamental trees.
shrubs, e~vergreens, etc., best vari-
etIes and strictly FIRST class, deliv-
cred in Mexico cheaper than ever.
Members of Alliance, Wheel and
F. & l.. unions, plub your orders
and buy at wholesale. Send for
price list TO B. F. Wylde "a w.
1881 Prairie Home Nursery, Ben
ton City, Audrain county, Mo.
Sg.dt
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-04-17

kle. Bradley has Just closed a
.aat successful meeting at the
aeAroe Street Baptist Church, and
day baptized three young peo-
70 Salt River, just east of Mex
The ceremony was most i'm
P.sslise thlbughout, and was wit
I'D BY hundreds of people.
100 immersed were Richard
.ieys Mss Zet.is- Bradley and
- Gsorsas Turner.