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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-09-24
MOUNDS FOR YOUNG TREES.
Their Importance In Strengthening and
Also In Protecting : Young Orchard.

Their Importance In strengthening and
Also In Protecting Young Orchard.
An inquirer asks if 1t is an advisable
practice to place mounds about young
trees for winter; he has heard it strong.
" objected to because when tho wind
whips the trees about, a hole around
the tree Is formed, which becomes filled
with water, AMI is worked into mortar,
to the permanent injury Of the tree.
In answer to this inquiry-it is good
practice to make small mounds, for
three objects, the chief one for the OK.
clusion of mice, which will never as
cend smooth banl. of hard earth un-
der snow. Planters may judge OF the
danger of the incursions Of mice. II
the trees were planted in grass field,
the danger would be great without this
protection; in clean cultivated ground
1t would be very small, except near the
boundaries. which are more or less
grown with weeds and grass. In sue
case the trees near the outside would
be safer with this protection.
The other two objects are, stiffening
the trees against the wind, and protect
ing the roots OF half-tender kinds
against severe freezing in exposed situa-
tons.
The harm spoken of by the above in
quirer would take place with trees care
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-09-24

gard the mounds as built for their own
special protection and benefit, and the
young trees were girdled and the in
tended orchard destroyed. Compact,
smoothly-beaten mounds would have
saved the trees.
The same treatment may be applied
to nursery trees received from dis
lance and heeled-in for spring setting.
AS toe work is often done, the heeling-
in places the trees in great
danger, and we have sometimes
seen them girdled 5y the dozen and
upwards, by not filling in the
earth compactly in all the crevices, and
in not enciroling the place which re-
ceived them with smooth sloping earth,
up which the mice refuse to ascend.
Fig. 2 represents such trees properly
taken care of and free from the danger
of mice; the mound of earth which sur
rounds the trees should be smooth and
compact On all sides.
Young orchards several years old and
firmly rooted and stiffened are some.
times in danger of being girdled by mice
if standing near grass boundaries, or if
grass or weeds have been allowed par
tial possession. A neighbor has set out
thousand pear trees, and they had
already begun vigorous growth. A
three-inch snow in March enabled the
mice to girdle the whole of them, which
he assured us he could have prevented
by earth mounds. He saved them all,
however, by bridging the girdled por-
tons with connecting tWigs.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-09-24
FARM AND GARDEN.
WASTE NOT. WANT NOT.

THIS IL Good Advice for Any Season. Hut
Should he Especially Heeded Now.
The prospective shortage OF feed rem
ders It extremely desirable that no
product of the field he this fall allowed
90 go to waste. In some sections of the
farther West where corn and corn-fod-
der have of late years been so plentiful
as to engender the most extravagant
systems OF management there will
doubtless be required the exercise Of
the highest wisdom and economy to
enable the stock-grower to carry his an
imals properly through the winter
months The advisability of construct
ing silos for the better preservation of
all the nutritive matter OF the drouth-
stricken corn Is being seriously consid-
cred in some sections where an appeal
to such methods has heretofore not been
deemed within the range of possible
necessity; and while there will perhaps
be much difference of opinion as to the
real value Of some OF these more mod
ern innovations in Western farm man
agement, there can be no doubt that the
stern school of adversely through which
many farmers are now passing is bound
to enforce some lessons of economy in
relation to the outstanding Of all food
products which would be brought home
in no other way.
may almost be said of our West
ern forage crops we have each year
either feast or famine. When the
fields yield up their riches with a
prodigality scarcely known to any other
land, and granaries groan beneath their
overlooking loads, there is enough nu-
tritive substance lost through sheer
Indifference to tide US through these
oft-recurring seasons of partial or total
failure. But people are not apt to profit
by such experiences. Now that the
shoe has begun to pinch severely many
bewail the lack OF foresight which led
them to rely too implicitly upon what
Dame Nature might have in store for
$780, but the extremes of climate to
which we are at all times subject
should by this time be we'll enough un-
derstood to induce more conservative
practices. Those who have not studied
how to save when they were blessed
with an embarrassment of grain and
feed are not in very good position to
manage most judiciously in times of
need. It is to be hoped, however. that
heavy rains may yet result in So gen.
erous a growth of autumn vegetation
as to provide in every locality an abun-
dance Of that which for want OF bet.
ter term We call ':roughness." This
secured, the conceded shortage Of corn
and oats will not entail that degree of
suffering and loss which must newt
ably follow, in some localities, if there
is continuance of dry weather.
Breeders Gazette.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-09-24
Total for the diStrict.......;
THE TWIN CITY CENSUS.

Result Of tho Recount In Minneapolis and
st. Paul.
Special Supervisor Wardle, of the
Census Department, has given out the
figures of the recount in St Paul as
lss,s0l. The original census Of ST.
Paul made under the supervision Of
Theopholis F. Smith footed up 142, Sal
names which is just 9,24o greater than
that made by the Government under q
special agent 1t was not charged by the
Census Department or by the citizens Of
St. Paul that Mr.. Smith had any thing
to do with adding names fraudulently.
The census of 1850 gave St Paul Al, 600.
The population of Minneapolis was
given at 1854, 1888, an increase over the
census OF 1880 of ll7,S4l. The returns
before the recount made the population
l91, 500. 1t was estimated that the re-
count resulting from this quarrel be-
tween the twins has cost the Govern
ment nearly $4,000.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-09-24
ENEMIES OF THE POTATO.
They Are Many and One of the Worst Ii
Nan Himself.

They Are Many and One of the Worst La
Man Himself
One could almost say that man is one
OF the worst enemies of the potato. it
we may judge from the manner in which
he sometimes neglects one of his best
of vegetable friends. While it requires
a warm, rich soil. he gives it water
soaked clay bed, aud when the feeble
plants come to the surface no encour-
agement is given them to struggle
against the weeds that threaten to
choke out the last spark of life.
Many insects prey upon the narcotic
heritage of the potato, the most de-
structive of which is the Colorado beetle
But with this we'll under subsection by
. fully understood plan of applying
London purple or Paris green, there re-
mains now only to develop the methods
of overcoming the blights and rots, the
worst of which is the so-called wet rot.
This is due to the growth of a low form
of vegetation closely related to the mil
dew of the grape. 1t first appears on
the leaves as frosty patches, and from
there it grows down the stems, and
finally its slender threads reach the
tubers, causing them to rot
From the fact that the leaves are first
attacked. and the rot works down the
stems to the potatoes. it is evident that
when the leaves ana stems are dying
prematurely the tubers should be dug
at once. Let the potatoes dry thorough
IL in the field after digging, and store
only the sound ones in a dry place with
a good circulation of air. Avoid damp,
poorly ventilated room. The vines and
all decayed tubers left in the field should
be burned
As preventive measures at planting
time it may be suggested that second
crop should not be grown where the pre-
yious crop failed from the rot. The seed
should be free from the trouble. and
therefore only sound potatoes are suita-
BILE for planting. Early varieties,
planted early, are most apt to escape,
for the rot does not get started usually
unit; midsummer. Experience has dem
oustrated that it is best to hill the po-
tatoes somewhat at the last blowing, as
many germs of the disease fall from the
leaves and are washed down to the tu-
bers with the rains--American Agri-
eJ,1turist
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-09-24
THE DEATH PLANT.
It Distills . Deadly Perfume Which
Kills Insects and Small Birds.

II Dlstllls Deadly Perfume Which
s.. Kills Insects and Small Birds.
A magnificent kali mujah, or death
plant Of Java, has been recently received
here by Mrs. Madison Black. The spec
linen, which is the only living one that
has ever been brought to this country,
was sent Mrs Black by her brother,
Jerome Hendricks, who went out as
missionary to the island. The kali
mujah is found only in the volcanic dis
tricts OF Java and Sumatra, and then
but rarely. 1t grows from two to three
and a half feet in height, with long.
slender stems armed with thorns nearly
an inch long, and covered with broad,
satin-smooth leaves Of q heart shape
and OF delicate emerald on one side,
and blood red, streaked with cream. on
the other.
The flowers Of the death plant are
large, milk-white and cup-like. being
about the size and depth of large cof-
fee cup and having the rim guarded by
fine, brier-like thorns. The popularity
of the plant lies in these flowers, which,
beautiful as they are, distill continually
= deadly perfume SO powerful as to over
come, if inhaled any length Of time, a
full-grown man, and killing all forms OF
insect life approaching it. The per-
fume, though more pungent, is as sick
ingly sweet as chloroform, which 1t
greatly resembles in effect. producing
insensibility, but convulsing at the
same time the muscles of the face. e.
pecially those about the mouth and
eyes, drawing the former up into grin.
An inhalation is followed by violent
headache and q ringing in the ears,
which gives way to temporary deaf
ness, often total while it lasts.
Other plants seem to shun the kali
mujah, which might be termed the Ish-
mael of the vegetable kingdom, for it
grows isolated from every other form Of
vegetation, though the soil may be fer
tile. All insects and birds instinctively
seem to avoid all contact with it, but
when accidentally approaching it have
been observed to drop to the earth, even
when as far from it as three feet, and,
unless at once removed soon died, evine-
ing the same symptoms rs when ether
lied.
Mr.. Hendricks, who writes describing
how he secured the specimen sent his
sister, says he discovered it first by see-
ing a bird of paradise he was endeavor-
ing to capture alive fall, stunned by the
deadly ordor OF the kali mujah, and on
examining the plant, though warned by
the natives to let it alone, himself ex-
perienced the headache and commissions
vannah (Ga.) Cor. Philadelphia Times.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-09-24
A Progressive Company.

In addition to the splendid passenger
equipment now furnished by the Chicago 4
Eastern Illinois Railroad, the management
have arranged to run Vestibuled Parlor
Cars on through day trains commencing
September !. These cars are the product
OF the Pullman Company Shops, and are
in elegance and completeness any parlor
cars which have as yet been placed on the
rails.
Before the Winter travel commences, all
passenger trains will be provided with
safety steam-heating apparatus which is
connected. with the engines and receives
ing an even temperature in the car at al
times.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-09-24
STATE OF Ono, CITY OF TOLEDO, =.
TNr-~,~w o.

Frank j. Cheney makes oath that he is the
senior partner Of the firm of F. j. Cheney
T. Co., doing business in the City Of Toledo,
County and State aforesaid, and that said
firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOL
LARS for each and every case Of Catarrh
that can not be cured by the use of Halls
Catarrh Cure FRANK j. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence, this 9Th day of December, AID. 1886.
lsEA] A.W. GLEASON, Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally
and acts directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system Send for testi-
monials, free. F. j. CHENEY T. Co., Toledo, O..
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-09-24
The News Isr,e1iy ChronIclo cd.

The News Isr'e1y ChronIclod.
Rich finds of copper and silver on the
north shore of Lake Superior were re-
ported by prospectors at Grand Marais
recently.
Edward Langevin, who came to st
Paul thirty-eight years ago, is dead.
He was worth $1,000, 600.
Two of the last three men imprisoned
on account of the rebellion of 1885 have
been released from the Stony Mountain
penitentiary.
Anton Nicholson, while crossing the
Great Northern tracks in a buggy at
Crookston the other morning, was struck
by an engine and instantly killed
Mary Rata, aged Z, was killed at St.
Paul the other day by bank of sand
caving over her. Seven children were
buried with her, but were rescued alive.
Miss McErran, of st. Paul, aged 16
years, committed suicide by hanging, at
her uncle's farm near Winnipeg. She
didn't like it because her father mar
ried second time
At the last regular meeting of the
Duluth trades council, representing
over 1000 working-men, it repudiated
the Industrial Age as the official paper
of that body. The Age is the Farmers
Alliance organ in that city. =.
Frank Bohrer, wealthy farmer OF
Washington County, Mimi, was struck
BY an Omaha train ct Saltwater juno
tion recently and sustained serious in
jnries.
"A tornado struck Richland the ether
afternoon. Mr.. Oleson's house was de-
molished; S G. Nolan had twenty stacks
of wheat torn to pieces, and the roof Of
Thomas Ford's house was blown of.
Nobody was hurt SO far as was known.
Trains on the Fargo Southern collided
at Dum0nt the other afternoon, derail-
ing both engines. None were injured.
The accident was caused by the brake
men being unable to hold the train on
sccountof slippery rails
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-09-24
The harm spoken OF by the above IL
quirer would take place with trees carr

lessly dug for trans
planting. with the
roots cut short and
the full-sized tops
re m a lining, on
which the wind
would have a strong
pure b a Sc. With
roots carefu lly
lifted, and with suf-
fcient length to
brace the trees firm.
ly. and the tops
properly reduced
by cutting back and
thinning, the wind
could do no harm.
Mounds of earth
might then be placed
h1,% %ho Co. 49,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-09-24
Gross OutrAE0s

Upon the stomach and bowels are perpe-
trated by multitudes Of injudicious people
who, upon experiencing the annoyance OF
constipation in slight degree, inaltrate
their bowels with drenching evacuants,
which enfeeble the intestinal membrane to
q serious extent, sometimes, even, superin-
Stomach bitters is the true succedanenm
for these nostrums, since it is at once in
vigorating, gentle and ehectual. It also
banishes dyspepsia, malarial complaints,
rheumatism and kidney troubles.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-09-24
Nj ado q Third Attempt

Convict Douglass, from Minneapolis,
who has twice escaped from the State
prison, gave the authorities another
anxious" time the other day. Soon
after noon he disappeared, and after
searching some time all the convicts
were locked in their cells and the shops
all shut down so a thorough search
could be made. He was found under
one of the floors, and in place where
it was hardly possible for any man to
be Secreted
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-09-24
Crossed In Love.

D. NJ. Worthington, young man who
had been in the employ of c. Stevens,
of Olmstead County, committed suicide
late the other afternoon by hanging
himself to beam in the barn. He left
a note saying: Tell no one to cry.
go happy and easy. You will find me
on the hay" 1t seems that Worthing.
ton had invited LAZY to accompany
him to the fair, but she did not accept
his invitation, and went out with an.
other gentleman. This was said to
have prompted the suicide.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-09-24

Protecting Small Bridges and Cniverts'
The greatest danger to bridges and
culyerts occurs at food or high water
time, when driftwood ehokes the water
way under the bridge, causing overflow
and often great damage and destruction.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-09-24
High Bid for . Chicago Mans Discover

High Bid for . Chicago Mans Discovery.
James E. York, of Chicago, who has
recently discovered cheap method of
making structural steel, was in Duluth
to make negotiations for using his
process. He was offered bonus OF
SlO0,0 to go in with the Duluth Iron
and Steel Company, which had ju S
completed its plant, but he may go
with the Ironton Steel Company, con-
Germ that will employ 1880 men. He
expected to manufacture the steel for
the frames of McDougall's cigar-shaped
vessels. :.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-09-24
A Fortune Waiting for Him.

Preston X. Potter can secure $40, 900
from the probate court in st. Paul by
putting in his claim by October l.. If
the money is not called for by that date
it will be divided between his mothers
sisters, Mrs. Kelsey, of Dayton, c.; Mrs.
Potter, of Bowling Green, KY, and Mrs.
Brant, of Topeka, Kan.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-09-24

In June one settles down BY the sea and
in September he settles up by the sea-
Washington Star.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-09-24

THE beauty in amateur theatricals lies in
their realism-there is seldom any acting in
them-Elmira Gazette.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-09-24

A SOAP that is soft is full Of .cater, half or
two-thirds its weight probably, thus you
pay seven or eight cents per pound for wa
ter Dobbins' Electric Soap is all soap and
no adulteration, therefore the cheapest and
best Try DObbins'.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-09-24

For Cough or Sore Throat the best medi-
cine is Hale Honey OF aorehound ana Tar.
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-09-24

WILL be found an excellent remedy for
sick headache Carter's Little Liver Pills.
Thousands of letters from people who have
used them prove this fact Try them.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-09-24

HE-"You never call me Birdie any
more" She-"Stiu think you are just
as much Of q jay as ever."-Terre Haute
Express
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-09-24

NEVER fail to cure sick headache, often
ali who trv Carter's Little Liver Pills.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-09-24

DAMAGE hat is the age Of your boyl'
'Breakage. IN. Y. World
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-09-24

THERE is bond of union between the
proof-reader and the pe.righter.
Siftings
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-09-24

OTHER game is losing ground, but the deer
always keeps up his lick 81 ....-. 49,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-09-24

PATIENT waiters-the undertakeTs.-
brakes Magazine. 81
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-09-24

WE suppose a nose may be said to be
broke when it hasn't got q scent-Bingham-
ton Leader
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-09-24

No Opt,ssp in Piso's Cure for Consumption.
Cures where other remedies fail 26c-
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-09-24

IT is Q long lane that has no bulldog. Van
Dorn,s Magazine. 51 zf5"sEsz.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-09-16

NTANTED-Everyone having a house
 w for rent, anything to sell or in want of anything to know that they can adver' ise it in this column at one cent word.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-09-16

Holmes, chuckling. You are pretty pair to go on such fools errand."
 When they returned, Adam called as soon as he saw them at the edge of the camp
 "You better limp back here fast, you folks, what's left of you. Camps breakin' up and the horspittlo ambulance is a-start- imp
 "You didn't stay long" remarked Holmes, standing by his democrat wagon, which had Just arrived to take his party homo.
 Nose stared at the adventurers, sus- pending his business of washing out the kettles.
 "What did Painter dol"
 He took the sugar from Miss White and put some of it in his mouth," replied Gurley.
 And then he threw the rest of it at your head" said Holmes.
 But what's he got in his houser' in- quirsd Randy.
 Bottled snakes" said Gurley; "Chemical ratorts and n furnace. I had the merest glimpse before he shut the door on us. But We have man of science over the Black Hollow; perhaps an inventor: one who has at any rate fooled everybody as to his character and pursuits"
 He ain't fooled nobody in his looks" as- serted Nose.
 Phoebe White was shivering close by the fire She had not spoken a word since re- turning. McArdle approached and talked to her, and she turned her face toward him to listen with apparent effort.
 Gurley was waiting to hand her into the democrat wagon where Randy Thompson already sat wrapped up like a sausage. After Phoebe had drawn up her scarlet wrap and fastened it more snugly around her for the ride, Gurley saw her take u shabby portemonnaie from her pocket and pass Q crisp green note swiftly to Me- Ardle's waiting hand
 ''So McArdle borrows money of her." the young man thought, with scorn, as he can tered home after they had separated. ''Makes e sort of tributary chapel of her little school-house, to swell the church's do- nations. suppose he intends to marry her
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-09-16

EOR SALE-Placards of "To Rent" I Furnished Room To Rent," ''For Sale," and many other designs, 10c each. At the DEMOCRAT office.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-09-16

MERIDRN. wATERBURY-& CONNECTICUT MI RIVER RAILROAD.
 IN EFFECT AUG. II. 1890. FROM WATERBURY TO CROMWELL. Leave Waterbury, Dublin street. $500 and o10 a.m.; 130, 447, sT:07 D. m. Leave Meriden, $50 a. m,, 2:17, 5:45 p. m, FROM CROMWELL TO WATERBURY. Leave Cromwell, 6:30 a. m., 1918, 5;O0pm. Leave Meriden, West Main street, 7:02, 920 a, m 1851, $40, 6:35 D. m. Arrive at Dublin street, 7:4O 10 Il a, m 1885, Gso 135 p. m.
 *Daily, except Monday. sFor Meriden and way stations only. Arriv- ing at 600 a. m. and 752 D. m,
 CHAS. N. CRAWFORD, Supt.
 Meriden, Conn.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-09-16
MRS. A. w. BISHOP

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