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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1891-08-27
Cakes Without Eggs.

observing housekeepers quickly learn that Dr. Prices
cream Baking Powder is far superior to other brands in
the tact that they fail make the finest asr and
tney wish to be economical they dispense entirely with
eggs ana can use less quantity butter for shortening
purposes The advantage alone in the SAVING, effected
out IN avoiding the trouble frequently the
OF securing eggs that fresh This is often serons
trouble
CAKES OF various kinds from the inforrn.1 c>ridd1e
lakes TO the stately Bride Cake can be made with Prices
Nea BAKING Powder which insres LIGHT sweet and hand
cakes or when used for Gridd1e Cakes IA ba eaten hot
enables their production in shortest space of
tender and delicious
II rice is the only Baking Powder that contains the
white OF eggs None SO pure! None SO wholesome n
Or. Prices Cream Baking Powder Is =.
ported by all authorities as free from Am,non;a.
Alum or any other adulterant. Ii fact, tie
purity OF this ideal powder has never been ones
toned 100 49, - 49,
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1891-08-27
--Truck Farming
More Room for Vegetables.

A writer in the London Garden
urges the Importance OF giving more
room to some garden vegetables,
among others to garden peas, especial
ly OF the large varieties. In deep
rich soil they will grow strongly and
branch freely, and give a longer sue
cession OF well filled pods than ifgrown
thickly together. Apint ofsound seeds
should be enough to plant a double
drill 80 feet long. The experiment of
trying both ways is easily tried. We
suppose the same difference would re-
suit as with corn, which if sown in
thick drills will give but few small
ears; or with asparagus, the modern
mode OF setting the plants four or FIVE
feet apart growing larger and finer
stalks and more of them by weight,
than in crowded beds with the plants
nine inches asunder, as some writer's
still recommend.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1891-08-27
He Was in the Style.

One day, when Thomas Crafty, the
Chicagolawy was ayoung man, he
received an invitation to swell ball.
In the lower left hand corner of the
invitation were the letters 'R. s. V.
P.," and they were too much for
Crafty. He puzzled over them for q
while and then we mt to a friend.
"What does r.. S. V. p stand
for?" he asked.
"Respondez s'ilvous plait," replied
the friend.
"Responde silver PLATED" exclaimed
Crafty. "What does that mean?
Have | got to send my regrets on a
salver?S
"No; it means Respond if you
please The hostess wants an an
swer."
"All right. I'll send one."
Crafty went out and bought some
cream colored note paper and then
penned his regrets. They read:
''Nlr. Crafty regrets his inability to
accept Mrs. Blanks kind invitation.
''T. H. N. CO
OF course the hostess was puzzled.
She couldn't make head or tail out
OF L. H. N. c., and so submitted the
strange missive to her husband. He
promptly gave it up, but resolved to
secure an explanation. He met
Crafty and asked him about it.
"Oh, like to be in style, 'said Graf
ty. ''Proper thing to put letters
down i'll the corner, you know"
"But don't they mean anything?"
"Of course they do. 7. H. N. c.
Tom Has No Clothes" Chicago
Tribune.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1891-08-27
The Sewing Machine Mans
Saw.

Gentlemen" said the sewing ma
chine man, lone spring father and I
had a sugar camp down in the edge
OF the grove. About half a mile
from us was a corn field owned by
widow, and this widow never picked
her corn clean. On the other side
was a man who owned a blind SOW.
She had one pig, and they used to go
over into that corn field every day
to eat the corn. Right in front Of
our camp was creek. At one place
about 40 rods from our camp there
was a felled tree across the creek.
This WAS the only place that the SOW
and pig could cross. Of course the
SOW could not see to cross on the
log, so the way they used to do was
for the old SOW to take hold of the
pigs tail, and the pig would lead
her across. Well, one day we were
sitting in front of our camp when the
old SOW and pig were crossing that
log. I said to father, Hand me the.
rifle and see me cut that pigs tail
Off l took aim and fired, cult ing
the little pig s tail offsmuck smooth.
The pig ran for the corn field, but
the old SOW didn't know which way
to go. SO father went over and took
hold of the pigs tail and led the old
SOW clear into amp."-Lewiston
journal.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1891-08-27
Depth Of Good Soil.

The opinions OF farmers differ,
though not more widely than the
facts on which they are based, as to
the depth that soil may be profit
ably cultivated. In the best soils
plant food is found deeper than the
pillow can ever go. This, however, is
mainly mineral. Vegetable matters
collect near the surface. Ii they are
deep, as they sometimes are, the low
er portions are generally filled with
stagnant water. Some settlers on
black muck soil in the west thought
they had secured land of inexhausti-
BILE fertility, mainly because it was
black to a great depth. They found
after Il while that however deep
their muck beds, only the part that
could be thoroughly dried during
the growing season was OF any use
to them. What such land needs most
is thorough drainage. AS soon as it
gets this, however, the muck bed be-
comes thinner, as it's carbon burns by
exposure to sun and air. Then comes
the severest test. If the original soil
is deficit in mineral plant food the
lacking elements must soon be sup
piled. But whether poor or rich in
mineral plant food, supplies of potash
and phosphate will be needed. How
ever poor the vegetable matter may
be, its decomposition will liberate
ammonia enough togo long way to-
ward supplying grain crops, provided
phosphate is furnished. But where
ever the subsoil is sandy, potash is
also probably needed. Wood ashes
are nearly always beneficial to muck
lands, as the caustic potash they con-
tain hastens decomposition OF vege-
table food, besides making phosphate
also more NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
New York Tribune.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1891-08-27
A Numerous Family,

There are some good sized families
in Maine to-day, but probably none
SO large as one mentioned in the his
tories of old colonial days. 1t is told
on the authority of Cotton Mather
that the first royal governor of Bos-
ton was one OF family of twenty-six
children, was born in the woods
of Maine near the mouth of the Ken.
nebac in 1861. His mother was left
a widow when he was a child, and is
said to have had all she could do to
provide for the wants of her family.
1t is hoped that when the governor
got 100000, a knight-hood and a
goblet valued at $1,000 as a reward
for finding Il Spanish treasure ship
that had gone to the bottom half a
century before, he remembered his
mother and made her last days cas-
Ter than herearliest ones had been.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1891-08-27
ROSe-Leaf Butterflies

ave want to be butterflies, cried
the rose leaves. 1--WE are tired OF
staying on our stems We want to
fly round and see what is going
on"
"My dear Children" said the
mother se-bush, .'if God had wanted
you to be butterflies, ne would not
have made you rose leaves SO be con.
tented"
But they were not contented to be
beautiful pink rose leaves. One day
they begged the wind ITO unIoose
them SO they could fly aw.y. The wind
blew and blew, very soon the rose
leaves unloosed from their mother
bush. They flew down theroad land for
short time really felt as if they were
butterflies. They saw many things
they had never seen before.
Pretty soon some children came
running down the road, their hats in
their hands.
"Oh, see those pink butterHies;they
look like wild rose leaves" cried the
children. Lets catch them"
The rose leyaes did not know enough
to fly away from the children, as real
butterflies would have done, so the
poor things were caught in the straw
sun-hats.
"Oh, we have been fooled! These
are nothing but horrid rose leaves y
r Z p = .
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1891-08-27
The Girls and the Ram.

While searching for four-leaved
clover in a field three Laceyville young
ladies were attacked bya ram. With
rare presence Of mind the girls caught
hold OF the vicious animal and threw
him on his back, then quickly un-
loosing their ribbon garters they
bound his legs and dragging him to
the fence his said legs were placed
between two rails; the girls climbed
over the fence and removing their
carriers from the animate mutton, put
them where they properly belonged
and went leisurely homeward.-From
the Scranton Republican,
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1891-08-27
Dug His Own Grave.

Something unique in morJuary
m alters occurred recently nea
Punxsutawney, Pa, Solomon Hines,
an dip citizen, who spent most of his
time in the woods with dog and gun,
became alarmed about two weeks ago
on account OF the prevalence Of
typhoid fever. One of his old
neighbors succumbed to the deseast~
and old Hines made uphis mind his
trrn would come next. Heaccording
ly took Il mattock and shovel, selected
a spot on his farm which he thought
suitable for his final resting place,
and proceeded to dig his grave After
this he talked in a nonchalant manner
about his obseluies, saying in his
drawing way he really would have
preferred to live a little longer, be-
cause,a he expressed it, "a man has
such a gol DANCED long time to be
dead" AS Hines was an exceedingly
robust man, his nei ghbors laughed
at his eccentricities and whispered
around that SOL Hines was getting
a little out of his head" But in the
course of IL week Hines was down
with typhoid fever, and when the doc
tor came he said: "There amt no use
in running up IL doctor bill when a
man knows he's goin' to de- and
not morsel Of medicine would he
permit to pass his lips. In a few
days more he was dead, and his body
now rests in the grave he prepared.
N. Y. Sun.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1891-08-27
Killing Potatoes,

Ext eriments made by US, 20 years
ago and more, showed that the COM
mon and almost universal practice of
drawing the earth UP in small hills
around potato plants was attended
with considerable loss. The practice
was founded on the erroneous suppo-
sition that all the roots and tubers
were confined within narrow space
Of comparatively few inches around
each plant, and that a deep bed OF
earth in a marrow hillock was just
what was wanted. On riding through
the country most Of the potato fields
and gardens are seen still to continue
the practice.
The great mistake thus made may
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1891-08-27

be observed by digging down a few
inches in the spaces between rows. 1t
will be found that while the plants are
still young, and before the tubers have
formed or grown to any size, the hori-
zontal roots have met and crossed
each other between and in the three
foot spaces. By killing the plants,
the earth must be scraped or plowed
away from these spaces, and the hori-
zontal roots cut Off or laid bare. This
treatment will necessarily reduce the
growth OF the tubers, which although
near the center OF the hill, are fed by
the roots.
The experiment is well worth trying.
Select three or four more, and let the
soil be we'll cultivated and kept mel
low and flat Count the bushels OF
each when dug, and it will be found
that those from the flat rows have
from ten to twenty per cent more po-
tatOes.
There may sometimes be very pc
euliar conditions OF the soil-shallow
soil or rocky, or otherwise which may
modify the result; but for common
ground, plowed at a good depth and
planted deep enough, there is but one
result. We observe that the Michigan
station has modified this test by
placing manure between the rows,
where the long horizontal roots could
feed from it with better returns than
by manuring in, under or over the
hill.-Albany Cultivator.
Plants That Flavor Butter.
a grass which should be the dairy
mans favorite, owing to the sweet
scented fragrance it communicates to
the milk, is the Vernal grass (anthox-
anthum odoratum). 1t springs up
early in the spring, flowers and scents
the air with its fragrance. AS a grass
for exclusive feeding it will not rank
high, but when mixed properly with
the other more nutritious grasses it
gives a fragrance to the whole mass
which is very delightful.
No grass probably tlavors milk,
cream and butter so directly and
noticeably as this sweet scented Yer
nal grass. and where it is found in
abundance in the fields growing along
with the other varieties, the butter
made from that section has a distin-
gushing and exquisite taste. When
this grass is moved and slowed away
in the silo with other grasses it
gives a splendid milk food lor winter
feeding. On large dairy farms it is
well worth the trouble to scatter some
OF the seeds OF the Nernal grass in the
pastures. The result in the flavor Of
the milk and butter will soon be MOTTO
able. Where fancy butter is made q
speciality this grass is an essential to
the pastures.
The fragrance OF the grass is due to
the presence OF gum benzoln or benzo-
ic acid, which can be dissolved in cold
water. Butter washed in water in
which the grasses have been soaking
will lose its rancidity to q large ex-
tent. Ensilage butter is often desti-
tute OF true flavor, and it can only be
favored by artificial methods or by
adding some such fragrant grass to
the silo which will impart it's sweet
ness to the milk before it leaves the
cows.-E. P. Smith in American Guilt
VatOr.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1891-08-27

cried the children, as they crushed the
beautifulleav their chubby brown
hands.
Then they ran to the bush, and
found few good roses. "Oh, you
beauties!' cried the children. "We'll
carry some of you to our sick mann
ma"
Dear mel" sighed the runaway rose
leaves, as they lay bruised and dying
in the hot road. oh, if we only had
minded mother, and been contented!"
-Harper's Young people.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-11-10
TROUBLEs or BUSINESS MEN.
INSOLVENCY OF A WHOLESALE CLOTHING FIRM
JUDGMENTS ENTERED


Adoph H. Karash e. Co., dealers in secondhand
Clothing al No. $50 Seventb.ave. and new clo'mhg
at Fall River Mass. have Informed their creditors
that they have gone into insolvency at FALL River, on
account OF heavy losses Mr.. Kaias came rom RUSSIA
about ten years ago, and for awhile kept siana near
the Astor House. and has been In the present business
about eight years In october last he had his name
changed from Karashinsky by the Court OF common
Pleas Herman Joseph yesterday entered writ OF
replevln against the firm for 1862 in favor OF H. L.
Berger
Deputy sheriff IIemberger has received Two al
tachments agnnst Adler Mitchell, wholesale and re
tail dealers In clothing al Newark, n. J, one lor
S156 favor OF j. Sawyer, and the other FOR 500 Ia
favor Of II. We'll. A. S. Adler a. Bro. started uie
business in 1885, and were succeeded by the prsen'
firm in February last, claiming capital OF SOL ooo
Isaac r. Mitchell had previously been partner WIN
Mitchell & Peacock, in New-York Adler & Mitchell
were damaged by fire on September 49, the loss being
adjusted, il said, at about S2l,Ooo' Herman
Joseph. who represents John Kafka A. d }. Levy d.
Steiner & son, and other NewIork creditors says ne
is taking proceedings in Newark for the recovery Oh
the amounts due his clients. and that the irih nus
confessed judgments for over s35 oOo
Charles MacEvoy manufacturer OF gnzeu Mu al
No IA Warrrn-st New-YorN, and at Newark, ". J
made an assignment yesterday to Edwin b. rohu
lie was for several years OF the hrm ol "Hi'aH
ButtcrReld & Co.. and succeeded them on july H.
1882. He did business Of about $2oO,ooo year ana
his inventory OF last July showeed liabilities OF s'o
900 and assets $4,000 of which 100000 was ID
machinery S23 900 stock, $4,000 In accounts and
$4,000 in personal property At the store it was sad
yesterday that the assignment was the result OF
pressure OF creditors but that was hoped IL woun 10
only temporary.
An attachment for 80 GAO has been entered against
Martin & Co.. provision merchants OF No. 144 west
ST., who made an assignment on October 20 III favor
OF the Now,Jersey Sheep q Wool Co.
Morris Bomsten, dealer In Indian clubs, dumb
bells copyinc prcsses etc. at No. "A Annst, sold
out yesterday chattcl mortgage Of S46o gwen
to VI. Serris. The business was sttrteh many Years
400 by Mir Bornstens father Morris has carried on
m about eleven years part of the time in the name oil
lis wife. - x.,, l.. o..
The appointment Of Charles II. P1nkham, )r, as
receiver for Louis strauss OF No 40 Jonn.sn, VICE
president OF the Spiral Weld Tube Company, has
been extended as TO include the claims OF Muller
ScIal 4 Co.. for $l0136, and Kessler a Co.. I,2ol
Isaac ~ Falk has been appointed receiver In sup
Elementary proceedings for Peter Busch, formerly OF
FRANKIE a Co.. silk manufacturers Oh the application
OF Xavier, Meyer & Co., Judgment creditors.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-11-10
TIE Trade IL CHICAGO.

Chicago Nov s. (speciaD.-ContTaiy to the general
expectation, whoat to-day opened strong. advanced
over cent. closed with about half OF this retained
The influence Of the general rains OF satir
say and sunday were completely Offset BY tho pre-
dicuon from tue Signal Service Of cole wave, By
higher cables from LN rpVo and by the repor'o OF a
ls &c export business NJ the seaDOad; cember sod
flonI Ia 81 3-iC and closed al 81 1sc NAV from
81 O3 4 III "a ~. ana closed at ~ %. The
shading off Of prices NJ the close was due chcny 10
the increase of lie visible al least million over the
popular prediction. Tie indications that the cold
wave propho,ied from Washington viii not he
nor last long. western receipt still large. The
heaviest to-day ri Minneapolis and Duluth Oh TIC
crUp Minneapolis, Duluth and Chicago got 5000
cars D. wheat. TIL rains. the thing expected u bear
wheat, naturally proved bull Influence in TIE
pit. corn receipts dlsapp ini!lsly small alrsaly
Nil In ali hhclilotd be iufther reduc and the grad
ing further lowered II tbs sent rains cJntnue. Prices
Ner. all tile session, especially trm tor May No
vnbeg sold from 54c 10 J5c, and closed at ID ;i-5c
MAY from a j-oc 10 Al 34c 10 40 l-2c. and closed
at Al l-sa45 lac. Oata vere firm In sympathy with
The other grains, closing at fractional advance
saturday shorts took advantage of tbs large hog
rceips TO good proportion OF their lines. The
result was. although there were 10 600 hogs and
although prices at the yards sc 10 oc lower that
product closed at advance over Satnrday-pork ut
l502Oc advance lard at lie ADVANCE ribs ct &c
navanco.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-11-10
no HELP THE GRANT MONUMENT foND'
u,xnsoNH IrruoGRAPH OF THE STRUCTURE
- ~ ,or :, r,np It's RENEEIT

A r1ASpsoM1 IIrHoGRAPH OF THE STRUCTURE
TO BE SOLD FOR ITS BENEFIT.
The regular monthly meeting OF the Executive OOn',
,cittee of the Grant Monument Association was
ho,d at No. 1A6 broadway yesterday afternoon III
fhe absence of W. X. GIace, the piesdell' "eNei-
r n r. Coils pres ded. General Horace for'er anu
lanes G. Reed were elected trustees The committee
.hsn insnsctod handsome photographic reproducuon OF
tho original water-c or design OF the 6iah' do"o'
nv John H. Duncan. the architect winch was plrSe"'e.
IN the committee by the publisher, v Haue- h,c,' .,
No 90 West Fourtecnthst., who has been an'horlzcu
~ +be committee 10 sell te pictnIe for the beheh' Vi
the building fund of the association Inc picture c'
With unqualified approval. and was accepted by
,narinoons vote of tle committee IL wao anno"hceu
that the picture would be on sale about November 10.
A reporter called al the studio OF v il@uhe7 H'"e'
late Yesterday afternoon and informed him OF TIE le'u'
~ the meeting Mr.. Ilaurie Emes was mhch piedSeu
N learn that his picture had been 50 well received ana
said: al have already received NUMBER III osNes
Gov the lithoCraph think that the sac VIII he iarse
and that the building fund VII be inns frfatis az
THE picture will Ge ~ by IS inches IN size ana VIII DO
IN attract We ornament 10 any mans pt''O''
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-11-10
THE STATE or TRADE.

Baltimore, Nov. 3.-flour steady westsr,
81 5Oa 30 rs; 90 extra - yog ~ 80; DO fsmlIs va
IS 56a IS 10, do straight, $5a - 20; eeeipS Il a.
bush; shipments, 5.o.3 BUSH saies, Igeo -ssa
Noysmbcr. 81 o. i2s ii o. IS Dsce%b ssg 81 -
81 o. Januasy, 81 Oh l-2@ 81 90 a. Ma 80
81 "a "a steamer no, 90 red ~ or receipts. az.
SAFES 800 0C0 bush. ouibern what st.-,iv. svs.,
81 O2aS1 o.; Iongbery, 81 O3e 81 O39si Os tdssse
inanery S and fe5 5P2 IS 5aSec Ss
(eoeipts, 9,3gG bush shipments, 20 bush -
81. $50 bussf-sae- $4,000 bush Southern 20 .,tt
No . white Western, 81 -2& zoe: 30 . nir n.ar
81 LEA 3ec receipt, 5000 bush stock, l24 ssi "a
I54.676. Hay firm goo1 to choice timothy, sIss;,,
Grain frelgbts active and firm steam 20 LlversnAs
lid Cork for orders Is cotton, tarthhg: e.
fair, urchangad. Butter firm, unchanged. Rags as
&c. C1ifee irn Rio cargoes, fair, 17c Nc T. isiS
fined II lac. Whisky firm, unchanged. ''N
Buffalo, n. Y, Nov. 0.-spIfng wheat opened a..
but closed 1lm with good inquiry; sales Of afg
bush No. hard spot, sold az ~ o. ) :. closlssws
~ o. 10000 bush do. c. T.. sold AT 81 OF, CO.,.
at 81 OF -; No. Northern, spot closed al 81 Osit
2o,ooo bush do, c. I, T., sold a. q o. 10000 basi
sold at 81 05 - closing at 81 % IA No. N0rSss
spot, 81 OF: 10000 bush c. t. T.. +Od at 81 % ~.
81 90 SO; winter wheat dun car No. . I'd SSss
81 Oh. on track; car No white sold at q on .
eeiots laht 3 ears No. yellow sold = So ss ~
cars No. do sold at 81 l-2062c = cars No a.
sold at soc; cars No sold nj 05a65 DC; "a
No 3 sold at soc, on track: no grade. j733se 49,
BARLEY dull fancy Western. 69d zoe: no . -
STATE fair TO choice. $50 roc Michigan do, eSss.,
Canada, Goa s5c. Rye nominal Flour Gutt =,
firm best spring, So 3OdS5 20; do winter S5as5 nd
rye nonr IS 2Od IS %. Mfeed strong coans N.
ter, SIG so: spring, S15 IS. Canal frelehts v,.s.
wheat 4 &c: corn, 3-4c oats. &C. barley, ls,'
rye &c: faxseed. 1-6c, 10 New Y0r7. Recsip,.
Flour 1866 900 bbls wheat, $4,000 bush; corn ia.
600 bush; rye. $4,000 bush. shipments by csal-
Wheat 1875 900 bush barley. 10 900 bush faT,,s
re- 800 bush by rail-fonr 1000 bbI wheat ~
600 bush corn, 100. 900 bush: oats. o. 900 brsh
Chicago, Nov 9-The leading futures ranged ,ousv,,