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Mower County transcript., 1890-07-30
Tobacco Decoctlon,

The use of tobacco smoke in closed
rooms like forcing houses and conserva-
tories is too well-known, says the West
ern Rural, to need remark. That de-
coction is also very valuable is perhaps
not so well-known. For this purpose
even the stems, or refuse powder which
can be got very cheaply in tobacco
factories, will answer we'll. A pound
of the tobacco to two or three gallons Of
water makes very effective decoction.
Turn the boiling water onto the tobacco,
and when cool strain out the tobacco,
and the decoction is ready for use. Last
summer Prot. Cook found this very ef-
fective against the striped flea beetle,
and the cucumber flea beetle, both Of
which insects are often very trouble
some to the gardener. If further use
confirms this property of the tobacco
decoction, we have in it very valuable
insecticide, and may hope by further
experiment to greatly extend its use.
This too, is the best substance to use in
the destruction of lice on cattle, horses,
and for ticks on lambs. True, the ker-
osene emulsion will kill such lice, but
it does not destroy the lice so entirely,
animal looking so we'll. In cold weather
after thoroughly washing the animal to
be treated, it should be warmly blank
eted, and kept in a warm place until
6rv
Mower County transcript., 1890-07-30
Applying Stable Manure.

In the application of stable manure,
says writer in the Rural New Yorker,
I have a practice consider particularly
good. In preparing the ground, l plow
as soon as the previous crop-mostly
oats-is removed. The surface is lev
eled and the manure is put on, and all
after working is done with disk har-
row. The wheat is put in with drill
with teeth we'll staggered to prevent
dragging the manure. In eight trials
of this method the yield of wheat has
fallen below thirty bushels per acre
only once; while once it reached thirty
Sc ven bushels and the grass stand has
always been perfect. A strip through
field tnat got double, but not heavy
coat of manure was a close blue grass
sod the second summer after wheat.
This year field of alsike clover was
admired by all who saw it. A field that
has been moved four seasons has yielded
nearly twice as much hay as an adjoin-
ing one equal in every respect except
in regard to the preparation of the
ground and the position Of the manure.
Mower County transcript., 1890-07-30
THE ODD-FElLOWS.

Great Preparations for Their Comma
TrisnniAl Conciave vt Chicago.
CHICAGO, July 26.-Preparations TO,
the Odd-Fellows' demonstration in Chi
cago from August to 10 have about
been completed. In the lake front
park workmen are building an enor.
nous grand-stand capable of seating
10000 people. 1t will be the length OF
three city blocks, $500 feet long. Ar
rangoments have been made for
numerous displays Of fireworks
that will be set off on the lake
front These will be the finest ever
seen in Chicago. The largest bombs
and shells ever fred in America will be
used on these occasions, and the en- BILE.
matte designs will be unusually mag.
nificent. The city council has made
Thursday, August Z, a half holiday in
honor of the Odd-Fellows, and has re.
quested the citizens to decorate their
houses appropriately.
The Patriarchs Militant will be here
to the number of $4,000 or $1,000, and
m any of them will enter the prize-drill
contests. About fifty cantons or COM
pa MES have already entered as contest
ants, while over 200 cantons have signi-
fed their intentions to be here for the
grand parade on August 2, when be-
tween 10000 and $4,000 Odd-Fellows
will be in column. This will be tho
largest meeting of a secret society ever
held. The railroads leading to Chicago
have made cheaper rates than ever be.
fore offered.
Mower County transcript., 1890-07-30

Al tie yeay rost,sa, you may
rely upon Dr.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery to purify
the blood and invigorate the
system. It's; not like the
sarsaparillas, that are said to
be good for the blood in
March, April and May. The
Golden Medical Discovery :"
works equally we'll at all
times, and in all cases of
blood taints, or humors, no
matter what their name or
nature.
It's the cheapest blood-puri-
fer, sold through druggists,
because YOU only pay for the
good you get.
Your money is returned if
it doesn't benefit or cure: you.
Can you ask more1
"Golden Medical Discov-
cry" contains no alcohol to
inebriate, and no syrup or
sugar to derange digestion.
It's a concentrated vegeta-
bic extract; put up in large
bottles; pleasant: to the taste,
and equally good for adults OF
children.
The discovery" cures: all
Skin, Scalp and Scrofulous
affections, as Eczema, letter,
Salt-rheum, Fever-sores, White
Swellings, Hip joint disease
and kindred ailments.
Mower County transcript., 1890-07-30
AN HISTORIC MANSION.
Destruction by Fire OF . House Famed Il
Now York HistorY.

Destr"celon by Fire OF House Famed IN
Now York History.
An interesting old mansion was de-
stroyed by fire in this town recently, .
mansion whose history dates back he
yond the revolutionary, wal. To tho
present generation It was known % tho
watson Webb house," from the name
Of its owner In the carly part Of the
present century. Although, the old
mansion was tho scene of many . merry.
making In colonial days, and saw many
q bloody afiray in the revolutionary war,
being on debatable ground when the
British were trying to cut their way
through to New York from Lake Cham
plain and saratoga, and, although Gen.
eral Lafayette was sheltered under its
roof, 1t Is, perhaps, best remembered as
the spot where tho verses were written
beginning:
Twas tho night before Christmas, whom III
through the house
Not . creature was stirring, not oven q
mouse.
It was in 1904 when Kiliaen Hoge-
boom lott Amsterdam to take possession
Of = tract Of land eight miles square,
now including Claverack, three miles
from the Hudson river and to the east Of
tho city OF Hudson. 1t was purchased
from Chancellor Livington. Kiliaen
Hogeboom's son Jacobus began building
the old mansion in 1877. 1t had gener-
Gus halls and big rooms and had 'front.'
age of sixty-three feet, along which ran
capacious porch. Over the porch
clambered an ivy, which, as years rolled
by, struck Its roots deeper and wider in
to the soil, and extended its shade over
portico and mansion. The interior was
finished in the highest style Of Dutch
art. The fireplaces were tiles illustra-
ting scriptural SUBJECTS, and wore brought
from Amsterdam. The mantels were OF
wood and were quantity and curiously
carved, and mural paintings served for
picture gallery. 1t is said that the
furniture and expensive bric-a-brae
brought from the old country made the
mansion one of the most delightful
places to be seen at that time in the
Hudson river valley, and that Dutch
hospitality made the spot famous fol
good living up and down the river.
1t was during the revolutionary wal
that tho house was most famous for its
hospitality. The property had descended
to General Samuel Webb, an officer in the
Continental army. General Webb had
married the granddaughter Of Jacobus
Hogeboom. It was when Lafayette was on
visit to General Webb that Lafayette
etched on a window pane with his dia.
mond ring his name and tho date Of his
visit.
A later generation found the old place
in the possession of Benjamin Moore,
who had married into the Hogeboom
family, and at his death it became the
joint property of his seven daughters
and two sons. and from them it descend
ed to the present owners, Henry James
and the heirs of the late Augustu.
Thinning. Horatio G. Adams also has q
life interest in the property, his wife
being one Of Mr.. Moore's daughters. II
was when Clement Moore, son of Ben
jamin Moore, was a young man that he
wrote ""rwas the night before Christ
mas. ."-Claverack (Cor.) N. Y. Sun.
Mower County transcript., 1890-07-30
SWEET POTATOES.
Whom 10 Dig aud best Method Of Put.
!, ting AwIy for tho Winter.

When 10 Dig aud hest Method Of Put.
ting Away for the Winter.
Never wait to dig until frost has Bit
ten the vines. A potato that is we'll
matured and dug before frost will, If
given ordinary care, keep equal to corn.
1 have often sold old potatoes in July,
and frequently throw away in October
(when cleaning out the CELLAR potatoes
as sound as are tho new ones I am
about to put up know that many
farming friends will say-at least they
do In this section-that ''they are SO
pushed with gathering cotton they
have no time to dig before frost;" but
l lind 1t takes me no longer to dig
potatoes before frost and save them,
than 1T does to dig them after and risk
losing them. Save what you make. II
possible, dig in dry time, sort out
carefully all bruised or cut ones for i'm
mediate use, or for the hogs and COWS,
putting the sound ones in good-sized
heaps In the patch where they were
grown, letting air and sunshine to them
freely for several days before banking
them for the winter; covering them
"AVAA WAC 'AAoo - AA6A " A0op Ou VAO
dew or light frosts.
Do not let them take . rain. They
should be banked before heavy frosts
come. In handling them use boxes,
never baskets, which peel them up bad.
ly. In banking well-matured potato,
all that is necessary to preserve them
till potatoes come in again, is to keep
them clear Of frost, rain, rogues and
moisture rising FROM below: to cover
them very lightly until they have gone
through their sweat, putting on more
cover as the weather grows colder. As
litter to put next to them, I use what
ever comes haudiest-hay, straw, fodder,
cornstalks or potato vines about six
inches deep all over them. On top of
this, by the time severe cold weather
sets in, put sufficient amount of dry
earth effectually to exclude all frost. A
bundle of fodder on end and on top of
the heap, butt end down, extending
from the potatoes to the external air, is
asutficient ventilator.-G. H. Turner, in
Country Gentleman.
Mower County transcript., 1890-07-30
HOW THE MONEY WAS SPENT.
Figures Concerning the Disposition of tho
JohnxtoWn Flood Fund.

Figures Concerning the Disposition of tho
Johnstown Flood Fund.
JouNsrowN, Pa, July oe.-The books
and accounts Of the Johnstown flood
finance committee were examined Fri
day, and the figures here represented
are the first that have ever been printed
of the receipts and expenditures of this
committee.
All told this committee has received
1856, s21.27. Of this $15s. $50 was paid
outin the $50 head distribute and
applied directly to the relief OF the peo-
pie. OF the remainder. about 500, 00o
was expended by the various COM
mittees, clerk hire and incidental
expenses; including $40, ,sG3 O5 paid
to the fire department and S2S,.
59S11 paid in the first few days
for removing the debris and dead bodies,
and what was afterward charged to the
State; but no settlement of this account
by the State has been made. and the
prospects are not good that it will ever
be. There is yet in the hands Of the
committee about 500, 600, most of which
the committee intends to apply to build.
ing bridges.
As to the receipts, money has been
received from every State in the Union
and from nearly every country in the
world. Pennsylvania leads with $751;.
502. 80; Ohio sent $50, ,9OS. Is; New York
follows with s52, 425. 09. and New Jersey
with 81, 46S.5S. OF New York's share,
however, $41, % is credited to the
cftv
Mower County transcript., 1890-07-30
IN THE FlELD 8.

San salvadorans VIA Another Hattie
After Being Rsputsed by tho GuAte-
malans-Our Government Ofioially Nos
tilted of tho Declaration Of War.
CRY OF MExIco, July 28.-War
against Salvador has been declared by
Guatemala, and the Minister Of the lat
ter country here has been advised
by his Government Of that fact.
The United States Minister here
also received official notice Of the
declaration of war, and has transmitted
the following dispatch, received from
General Miner, the United States Min
lister to Guatem emala, to the Department
Of State at Washington:
Both countries are now under military con.
troll, and ell dispatches are subjected to censor.
ship. have already demanded Of this Gov
ornmsnt that the rights and property Of Amer.
loan citizens be respected and have had every
assurance that Americans will be treated with
every consideration"
GUATEMALA CITY, via Mexico, July
2e.--The Guatemalan artillery, under
General Cayetano Sanches, with 800
men, and the. infantry under General
Manuel Aguilar to the number OF 1900
men, made an attack on the forces
Of Salvador about thirty miles
from the boundary ON the morning Of
July %, and drove them back into
their own territory with loss on both
sides Of about 400 men. Salvador lost
one Gatling gun and one field piece of
artillery. Two OF Guatemala's stand.
ards were triumphantly borne off by
the Salvador troops. Guatemala's loss
was by far the most severe, less than $50
men being killed on the side of Saliva
dor. The fight took place on the morn
ing after parley under the flag Of
truce on the boundary, the two contend
ing parties having been unable to come
to any amicable understanding.
The defeat of the Salvadoreans was ap.
parently ruse on their part, for two
hours afterward, reinforced with troops
under General Hernandez, nicknamed
Ell Cato (the cat), they returned and
hercely attacked the Guatemalan troops,
surprising and forcing them to beat a
hasty retreat, with severe loss OF
men, arms and ammunition. The re.
treat was kept up for over twelve miles
before halt was called, and now the
Salvador troops are encamped on Guate.
malan soil within half mile from the
high road leading to Guatemala's cap
ital.
Nicaragua has just sent offers of as
slstance to Salvador of both money and
troops. The latter offer has been &C.
cepted, and combined effort on the
part of these two countries against
Guatemala to stifle her pretensions may
lead to long and bloody war in Central
America,
Mower County transcript., 1890-07-30
Laying Out Roads.

Did it ever occur to the reader that .
good deal of time is wasted and con-
siderable horse strength expended in
travelling crooked roads that might just
las we'll be made straight? Taking the
laying out of our roads and their man
agement after they are laid out, and it
would be difficult to find greater
monument to stupidity. Here is road
that goes winding all over creation
simply because away back in early days
it seemed to furnish the easiest way of
travel; and people have made no at
tempt whatever to straighten it, though
perhaps it could be done at very little
cost. II we would enter upon heroic
work of reform of our road system we
should not only consult our own in
terests but would be doing an excellent
thing for ity.-Western Rural
Mower County transcript., 1890-07-30
ROADHOUSE ARRAlGNED.

He Enters Plea Of Not Guilty to tho
Charge of Numbering Engineer Van
devender and Is Held for Trial.
VAN VERT, o., July 26.-The prelim.
mary hearing OF Fireman Roadhouse
was held here Friday afternoon. The
courtroom was crowded. Roadhouse
plead not guilty to murder, after which
his counsel stated that they waived an
examination. Roadhouse was then
bound over to the grand jury, which
meets in October. Roadhouse will be
taken either to Lima. Or Celina jail,
owing to the poorly-constructed jail
here. .... >.;#E , 4 H.
Mower County transcript., 1890-07-30
CHICKEN COOP.

in the illustration, by cutting a board
about twenty inches long for the back
Of the coop and two small pieces to tack
laths on 70 the front part. Have the
upper section of the back of the coop
fastened with leather hinges, SO that it
may be opened at pleasure. Every one
has old barrels which are almost value
less, and the trouble and expense of
making a coop of this description is so
small, that it is not worth mentioning,
while to buy the material and make a
coop of the same size would cost about
one dollar.-Home and Farm.
Mower County transcript., 1890-07-30
FARM AND GARDEN.
INSECTICIDES.

som@thinK About Their Value aud the
Best Means Of Applying.
The Western Rural gives the various
insecticides in use and recommended
more or less earnestly. The Michigan
experiment. station is responsible for
the estimates of value that are given to
the insecticides named. It has issued q
bulletin in which it gives its estimate
OF the arsenites, carbolized plaster, kerr
osene emulsion, buhach or pyrethrum,
Kerosene ointment and carbolic acid
emulsion. Prot. Cook says that as
London purple is much cheaper than
Paris green, costing only fifteen cents
per pound, and is just as effective in
practical use, it should always be used
when it can be had, unless on very ton
der foliage, like that Of the peach, when
only Paris green should be made use Of
1t is still question II the arsenites
should be used on the peach. London
purple may be used either dry, mixed
with land plaster-one pound of the
poison to eighty or one hundred of the
plaster-or mixed with, water-one
pound to two hundred gallons of water.
1t is not the strength of mixture, but
the force and thoroughness with which
1t is applied that secures success. The
water mixture, which will usually be
most satisfactory, should be kept we'll
stirred, that the heavy mineral poison
ma not settle; should never be applied
to fruit trees till the blossoms fall from
the trees.
1t should be applied to the apple trees
but once, except in ca SO of very heavy
rains, when it should be repeated two
or three weeks after the first applica.
ton; should be used two or three times
at intervals of ten days or two weeks
on the plums, and after every heavy
rain; may be used to defend against the
potato beetle, and all leaf or bud eating
insects that defoliate our fruit trees
early in the season, and on our shade
trees for such insects at any time.
Force pumps are excellent to apply the
water mixture to potato vines and to
fruit and shade trees. BY use of bar
rel or tank mounted high on wagon,
we can treat potato vines and low
shrubs, ETC.. by aid of gravity very easi-
ly and cheaply. 1t is too bad that our
fruit trees are so high that we can not
treat them in the same way. In the
apple orchard the use of London pur-
pie is so valuable that no one can afford
to neglect its practice. Used just after
the blossoms of the latest blooming
varieties, like the Northern Spy, have
fallen, this substance destroys the cod
ling moth, tent caterpillar, canker worm
and several minute leaf rollers; all OF
which are serious pests, and often do
great damage. Here, then, is a case
where the orchardists can kill several
birds with single stone.
Mower County transcript., 1890-07-30
VINE OR BUSH SUPPORT.

sort the vines or bushes are kept up off of
the ground so that light and air can
freely circulate through and about the
base of plants, causing greater product
iveness, better quality of fruit, and
doing away with much loss, decay, and
Inconvenience in gathering fruit. With
care score or two of frames will last
fer years, providing they are removed
at the close of the season and put away
under shelter.-Orange Judd Farmer.
Mower County transcript., 1890-07-30
Nothing Without Its Sting.

And that, too, in the shape Of the heartburn
(most abominablo Of aciditiesl !, after eat
ing, if indigestion, in its chronic form, has
you in its clutches. Neither, if it has, can
you long expect immunity from biliousness
the hideous trio vieing each with each to
render your life more miserable. Get Hos
tetter's Stomach Bitters at once-insist
upon the genuine in glass-and use it with
rational persistence.
Mower County transcript., 1890-07-30

PROF. ScR1BNER recommends thret
ounces Of carbonate Of copper dissolved
in one quart OF water, then stirred into
twenty gallons and used as a spray TO,
strawberry leaf blight.
Mower County transcript., 1890-07-30
Vine or Bush Support,

The illustration herewith shows the
construction of a support for raspberry
bushes, tomato vines, etc. The corner
posts are ~ to 9 inches square and
about 2 feet or more long, as desired,
and sharpened so as to be easily pushed
by hand into the ground. Stats or
cross pieces are of lath and two or more
feet long to- suit whatever is to be
trellised. BY use of netting of this
Mower County transcript., 1890-07-30
Worth Hundreds OF Dollsrs.

Ny wife used only two bottles Of
"Mother's Friend" before her third confine-
ment Says she would not be without it for
hundreds of dollars. Had not half as much
trouble as before. DOCK MILES, Lincoln
Parish, La. Write The Bradfield Regulator
Co., Atlanta, Ca, for further particulars.
SOLD by all druggists.
Mower County transcript., 1890-07-30
A Chem Chicken COon.

To make an inexpensive chicken coop
nail the hoops firmly to every stave of
an old barrel, and after clinching the
nails saw the hoops off on the seam.
Then spread the barrel open as shown
Mower County transcript., 1890-07-30

WHY don't you try Carter's Little Liver
Pills2 They are positive cure for sick
headache, and all the ills produced by dis
ordered liver. Only one pill DOSE
Mower County transcript., 1890-07-30

HAVE you read the advertisements of
Maher & Grosh, Toledo, Ohio, in this paper
and previous issues? II not, better do 80.
They sell good goods awfully cheap, are
perfectly responsible, and win do just as
they promise every time
Mower County transcript., 1890-07-30

ANY one can take Carter's Little Liver
Pills, they are 50 very small. No troabie to
swallow. No pain or gripping after taking.
Mower County transcript., 1890-07-30

IT is the man who Is too full for uttcranco
who never knows when he is loaded.-Bos-
ton Post
Mower County transcript., 1890-07-30

Any man that puts an article in reach Of
oucr.Uorked ,uome. to tighten her labor is Ger
tainly q 6c"etnctor. Cragin T. Co. surely
come under this head in making Dobbins'
Electric Soap 80 cheap that all can use it.
You give it trial
Mower County transcript., 1890-07-30

"HERs Co." said little boy who. in .
rough sea, was thrown from his berth and
hurled againsta door, "from pillar to postl''
Youths Communion
Mower County transcript., 1890-07-30

II the boys do not kiss the misses, then
the girls will miss the kisses.-Binghamto
leader
Mower County transcript., 1890-07-30

II ACKNOWLEDGE the corn,'' said the hen,
"but it sticks in my crop."-Binghamton
Leader
Mower County transcript., 1890-07-30

IT is positively hurtful to use ointment for
skin diseases Use Glenn's Sulphur Soap.
HILLS Hair and Whisker Dye, 50 cents.
Mower County transcript., 1890-07-30

j. A. JOHNSON, Medina, N. Y. says: "Hal's
Catarrh Cure cured me-" Sold by Drug
Mower County transcript., 1890-07-30

PoLITENEss Is characteristic Of lawyers.
One Of their chief delights Is to say pleas
Binghamton Republican.
Mower County transcript., 1890-07-30

MANY man who never speculates in
leather frequently takes flyer in harness
on the road
Mower County transcript., 1890-07-30

AN umbrella is q remarkable paradox
frSm the fact that it is at its best when
used up.-Philadelphia Press.
Mower County transcript., 1890-07-30

F1E youth who wakes up fresh as daisy
is likely to 60 to bed tired 1t he keeps up his
freshness all day,-Puck
Mower County transcript., 1890-07-30

"I'M not in it," was the proud remark OF
the Lemon, with scornful glance at the
circus lemonade Lowell CitiZen.
Mower County transcript., 1890-07-30

No o 'iusn in Piso's Cure for Consumption
Cures where other remedies fail 25c.
Mower County transcript., 1890-07-30
FOR DYSENTERY.
BILE BEANS.

Try BILE BEANS SMALL" 40 little
beans in each bottle). Very SMALL
easy to take. Price Of either size, 26o.
~ BUY OF YoUR DRUGGIST.
Mower County transcript., 1890-07-30

CARTER, Tex, Jan 19.
We have used Bic Beans for q long time
and they have given perfect satisfaction In
each case. j. C. MCDANIEL.
Mower County transcript., 1890-07-30
PENSION BILL

has become alaw. ol2 Per N0NTH to all honofaby
discharged Soldiers and Sailors of the late who
are tncapacitated from earning q support. Widows
the same. without regard TO caAse OF death Depend
ent Parents and Minor also Interested Over
- years experience. References in all parts Of the
country No charge unsuccessful. Write for
Copy Of Law" blanks and full instructions yREH
TO- q. AeALLIeTER Il on. Successors to william
C0nsrd Coz, y. a. Dsx 7lx, Washlnetss, ID. q.
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