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Books that Our Girls Read.

''My gorge rises at the books hear
discussed in modern drawing rooms.
am told even school girls read these
stories, written by women with pur.
pose happily sometimes too we'll
veiled to be perceived by their innocent
readers. But who knows, if they are
to explore all veins of thought, what
our girls will not come to knowing or
surm;sing? No, no; the girl of my
Imagination, like that of every honest
and healthy-minded young man, is the
old-fashioned Una sitting upon the
lions back, passing unsmirched through
the world-the girl who loves and
trusts, and accepts with womanly dig
nifty the lot her Creator has set aside
for her. As to some of the advisers OF
young femininity in these days, those
who rant and Shrek, and fermant soci-
ETY. without arriving at any result
may the Lord settle with them accord
ing to their deserts for the mischief
they are doing. Mrs. Burton Harri.
son. in Centary
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HERE AND THERE.

Sow grass and clover as soon as
the conditions of the soil will admit
Better not spread ashes over the
chicken house floor; it may cause the
hens to have sore feet.
Push the feeding of the fattening
stock. The next two months is the
best season for securing the best gains
at the lowest cost.
Look well after the sheep. They
can still be made to pay. Sheep in a
good, thrifty condition late inuthe fall
are half wintered.
Every cold snap interferes with the
egg supply. At such times make the
house little warmer and SUMMER, and
add to the food that which is little
stimulating.
In nearly all cases it is poor econ
omy to attempt to winter more stock
than can be sheltered comfortably, or
than there is sufficient feed to keep in
good condition.
About the only condition that will
admit of purchasing feed on the farm
is when there is plenty of roughness,
and bran middlings and oil meal are
needed to help feed it out.
Every year the people are learn
ing more and more of the value of eggs
as an article of diet, and are healthier
in consequence; but production is not
keeping pace with the consumption in
the egg business.
Suppose you try few acres of
barley for next season. Sow where
the poultry can get the benefit of the
pasturage, for barley is one of the best
green foods that you can grow for
fowls.
DIR. James A. Law, the distln-
guished veterinarian, thinks that no
one suffering with consumption should
be allowed to milk cows or work in a
dairy. In the matter of tuberculosis,
COWS are often more siIned against
than SHINING.
There is not anything muck better
than kerosene oil upon the fowl house
perches. Sprinkle it about freely with
whiskbroom. 1t penetrates everv
crevice, and the fumes will enter the
feathers of the fowls at night and pro-
teet them, to great extent, from in.
sect enemies
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TIE HIGHEST AnYARD.

Royal Baking Powder IN Strength anc
Value 20 Per Cent. Above Its Nearest
Competitor.
The Royal Baking Powder has the en-.
viable record of having received the
highest award for articles Of its class
greatest strength, purest ingredients,
most perfectly combined-wherever ex-
hibited in competition with others. In
the exhibitions of former years, at the
Centennial, at Paris, Vienna and at the
various State and Industrial fairs, where
it has been exhibited, judges have in
variably awarded the Royal Baking
Powder the highest honors.
At the recent Worlds Fair the ex.
aminations for the baking powder
awards were made by the experts OF
the chemical division of the Agricul-
tural Department of Washington. The
official report of the tests of the baking
powders which were made by this de-
partment for the specific purpose of as
certaining which was the best, and
which has been made public, shows the
leavening strength of the Royal to be 160
cubic inches of carbonic gas per ounce
of powder. OF the cream of tartar
baking powders exhibited at the Fair,
the next highest in strength thus tested
contained but 1873 cubic inches of leaven-
ing gas. The other powders gave an
average of Ill. The Royal, therefore,
was found of 20per cent. greater leaven-
ing strength than it's nearest competi-
tor, and A per cent. above the average
of all the other tests. Its superiority
in other respects, however, in the
quality of food it makes as to fneness,
delicacy and wholesomeness, could not
be measured by figures.
1t is these high qualities, known and
appreciated by the women of the coun-
try for so many years, that have caused
the sales of the Royal Baking Powder,
as shown by statistics, to exceed the
sales of all other baking powders com.
bined.
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matured age, judged by chemical
analysis, but in actual practical feed
ing value may possess less worth than
more immature crop, since the young
CT and more tender and less woody
plant is much more digestible and
more palatable. As rule the very
young grass is richer in nitrogen (al
buminoid properties than the fully
matured grass, and hence better feed
for most kinds of stock, notably milch
COWS and young stock of all classes.
But, of course, when grass is moved
early it is not SO heavy and the guam
tlty of forage not so great as in the
other case. But quality is better than
quantity in this case
Rich, fertile pasture lands no doubt
produce grass of higher nutritive quail
ity than poor soils. And yet in the
extreme south it has been almost the
universal practice among stockmen and
farmers to devote the poorest portions
of their farms to pasture and to culti-
vate the richest. While they are of
course fully cognizant of the fact that
rich land will produce a greater yield
of forage, yet they have not, es rule,
been imbueG with the knowledge that
the richer the soil the richer the feed
stuff.
1t is ther not always best to pasture
only poor land and cultivate only the
richest portions. Would it not be bet
ter to devote some of the richer lands
to grass and cultivate some of the
poorer, using green crops to turn un-
der to fertilize the latter in connec-
tion with stable manure and limited
use of commercial fertilizers, thus
bringing up year by year It's produc-
tive capacity? By proper management,
in very few years the poorer portions
of the farm can be made rich enough
to give good and nutritive grass.-Ed-
WIN Montgomery, in Farm and Fire.
side,
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OLD TIME DISHES.
Some Famous Recipes From New England
Kitchens and Their Cooks.


To prepare Rhode Island baked beans
put one quart of beans to soak in cold
water over night. In the morning
pour off the water and cover with fresh
cold water; put on the fire and let them
come to the boil slowly, then simmer
until quite soft, but not broken. Then
pour off the water and put them into
baking dish with boiling water enough
to moisten. Add pinch of dry mus
tard, some salt and two tablespoons of
molasses. Take about half a pound of
fat salt pork, boiled and scored, and
put in the middle of the dish. Set in
the oven, covered, and let them cook
slowly all day. About two hours be-
fore night uncover and brown.
For sponge cake or diet bread take
twelve eggs and the weight of the
eggs in sugar and half the weight in
flour; one lemon, juice and rind. Beat
the yolks and whites very light; beat
the sugar into the yolks. Next add the
juice and grated peel of lemon. then
the flour; lastly the beaten whites
put in these very lightly. Have tins
with perpendicular sides, lined with
Duttered paper, and steady fire. The
cake should be eaten the day it is
made.
For "brown pudding" use three cups
of flour, one cup of milk, one cup OF
molasses, one cup suet, chopped fine,
two cups of raisins, one teaspoonful of
powdered mace and cinnamon, and two
of powdered cloves and salt, one tea
spoonful of soda dissolved in little OF
the milk. After mixing pour into
tightly covered and well-buttered tin
mold. Tie this in strong towel and
boil hard for three hours and half
Citron and currants may be added A
hot liquid sauce, favored with lemon
or brandy, is nice to eat with this. The
man is yet undiscovered who does not
like this pudding.
For raised biscuit set a sponge to rise
as for bread at 6 o'clock. At half-past
Grub into one quart of flour one table
spoonful of lard, little white sugar
and one teaspoonful of salt. Make hole
in the middle and put in your sponge.
Knead it lightly with enough luke
warm milk and water to make it into
soft dough; let it rise. Early in the
morning knead it down and make into
biscuits and set before the fire to rise
Bake half an hour.-N. Y. Tribune.
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Cheating Cotton Growers.

One of these things in which farmers
show their lack of thought is the man
ner in which they permit themselves
to be swindled by dishonest persons,
who seem to choose them for their
easiest prey. just now the cotton
growers are being cheated with lint
less cotton, as it is called; that is, va
riety that produces seed free from the
fbrous attachments to it of the So
called lint. This new variety, as it is
said, is far more profitable for the
bare seed than other kinds
are for the lint and seed,
too. But a little thought will
teach those concerned that the lint of
the cotton plant and the seed are es-
sential to each other, because the lint
is attached to the seeds by the very
nature of the plant, and that kind of
cotton without lint must be barren of
seed, as we'll as of it's fibrous attach
ment. The cotton grower kills two
birds with one stone, as it were, when
he produces the ordinary cotton, get
ting the seed and the lint both, and, as
two are better than one, the lintless
cotton must be of less value than the
common kind, and even worthless, as
compared with tn Y. Times.
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Common Sense

Is somewhat rare possession. Show that
you have share of it by refraining from
violent purgatives and drastic cathartics
when you are constipated, and by relaxing
your bowels gently, not violently, with Hos
letters Stomach Bitters, a wholesome, thor
ough aperient and tonic. This world famous
medicine conquers dyspepsia, malaria, liver
complaint, kidney and bladder trouble and
nervousness, and is admirably adapted for
the feeble and conyalescent.
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everybody Is Gong south Now-a-Day,.

The only section Of the country where the
farmers have made any money the past year
is in the South. If you wish to change you
should go down now and see for yourself
The Louisville & Nashville Railroad ard
connections will sell tickets to ell points
South for trains of October 2, November
and Decem Der 4, at one fare round trip.
Ask your ticket agent about it, and if he
cannot sell you excursion tickets write to
G. P. Atmore, General Passenger Agent,
Louisville, KY, or
GEo. B. HoRNER, D. P. A, St Louis, Mo.
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The True Laxative Principle

OF the plants used in manufacturing the
pleasant remedy, Syrup of Figs, hasa per-
manently beneficial effect on the human sys-
TEN, while the cheap vegetable extracts and
mineral solutions, usually sold as medicines.
are permanently injurious. Being well in
formed, you will use the true remedy only
Manufactured by California Fig Syrup Co.
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MIsTREss-"Did you tell the lady that !
vas out?" Ward-'Yes, ma'am.n Mistress
Ibid she seem to have any doubts about
knew you wasn't."-Harlem Life.
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LADY of the house-"Have you eood =,
erences?n 'Riferinces, is it! Oi / bus. rsi.
that, and from hundreds of mistressesa ars ~
ton Transcript. D0s
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A GIRL is perfectly justified in looking
with suspicion on young man who tries to
convince her that diamond rings are no
longer fashionable for engagement purposes.
Traveller
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Van Pelt-What makes you think sof
Wool-For five years he has kept
cat at the office to eat the cup custards
his wife made for his lunch.-Truth.
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II OBJECT" said tho mosquito in a
theatrical hotel, ''to this interference in my
business. The idea of my not being per-
mltted to do my act without a net et!'-Wash-
ington STAR
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FoRTIFY Feeble Lungs Against Win,o.
With Hale's Honey OF Horehound and Tar
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in enc minnta
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FARMER AND PLANTER
SOUTHERN FARM NOTES.
A Chapter on Various Topics of Timely
Interest to Farmers.

AIILEsSs
1t seems strange to me that more at
tention among horticulturists and
farmers in the Gulf states is not given
to apple culture, since they can be
raised so easily and cheaply. Especial
ly do l refer to the late-maturing va
rieties, suitable fo> winter use and
keeping. l am not well up" in varie-
ties and their several individual mer-
it's, but have observed enough to be
convinced that the Ben Davis and the
Shockley are grown satisfactorily IN
the region named, and can be preserved
through the winter. We should, by
all means, encourage the planting of
the best varieties of fall apples through
out the cotton states-such apples
as are most easily preserved through
the winter months, both for home use
and for market. These apples will
not only prove a luxury to the mem
bers of the farmers family, but if any
considerable quantity be grown, a
great deal of money might be made
from their sale.
Not one apple in a thousand eaten
by our gulf states people during the
winter and early spring months is of
home production, but of northern and
western growth. This ought not to be
SO. Can we, as a section, afford to buy
even apples from the north and west,
when we might raise them at home as
cheaply as they are grown elsewhere?
This is a subject well worthy of con-
sideration and discussion among south
ern farmers and fruit growers.
DON'T DRAIN THE BARN-YARD.
Rather, obstruct drainage by using
rails and logs in the yard and throw
ing up embankments. Maks every eff
fort to retain the water where it falls
in the cow-lot or horse-lot. Don't let
the rains wash out and carry away the
valuable substance in the manure.
This is an important matter. 1t is a
good plan to keep the yard well sup
piled, Uttered with absorbents in the
form of leaves, straw and refuse hay and
chips, corn shucks, etc. Save the ma
nure and apply it judiciously to your
lands, and you will find in it satisfac-
tion and profit.
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On Sept. II, Sept. % and Oct o IN. D.
lington Route will sell excursion ticIst. nar.
allpoints in the Northwest, West ana SsSs Sns.so %
west, at one fare for the round trim nl,,s %
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IT is always best for man to keen ri.
temper. No one else wants it. MS
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Halls Catarrh Cure
Constitutional Cure. Price 75c.

A MAN on being asked what kind of wine
he preferred said: ''Other peoples. Tit
Bits.
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DON'T DRAIN THE BA
DIVERSIFIED AGRICULTURE.


To rest and strengthen and maintain
healthful condition of the mental
man, the mind needs diversity of
thought and must have it. TO develop
and maintain uniform healthy condi-
ton of the corporeal body, there must
needs be a constant diversity of exer-
else. And to attain any high degree
of prosperity and wealth, as farming
section, we must practice diversified
agriculture. The one-crop system will,
if long pursued, in time bankrupt any
country or any people. In diversifying
our crops we are enabled to practice
intelligent and profitable systems of
rotation of crops. 1t is this intelligent
rotation that will maintain the fertili-
ty and productiveness of our farms
1t is better to trust the market with
several different crops than the one
The one may bringa price not above the
cost of production, while it is not like
ly that this would prove so in the case
of two or more crops in the same sea-
son. If one product is unusually low
in price, another may be higher in the
same ratio, and thus values and profits
may, when all the products are COM
bined, average well for the grower and
seller. Several chances are better than
one chance. 1t is a reckless farmer
who will risk his fortune on one crop
alone. The true plan is to make, as
nearly as possible, all ones supplies on
the farm, and besides, a surplus of
each or many crops to sell for cash.
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Faithiess But Kind.
Wool-Hickg must think a great deal
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SPARE THE BIRDS.

If it were not for the birds, the
worms and bugs would destroy nearly
all our fruits. The birds consume some
fruits, of course, and spoil a good deal
that is not eaten entire, yet they do
not average the great destructiveness
that they usually get credit for. They
have right to certain, share of the
crop by reason 'of compensating serv-
ices, for they save for the owner far
more than he would otherwise get as
his share if it were not for them: in
many instances entire crops would be
destroyed by insects, but for the serv-
ices of the birds.
Spare the birds. Do not kill them
maliciously or wantonly or just for
fun and recreation. They are created
by our Heavenly Father for a
useful purpose and serve a useful
purpose in the economy of nature.
The birds are the farmers friends, and
are human benefactors the world over.
They were created for purpose, and
they perform their natural mission
well and with profit to the agricul-
turist. As the birds areudecreased. in
the same ratio will the destructive
forces of insect life, that depredate up
on vegetation, be increased.
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HAY AND GRASS.

Some time ago the New York expert
mental station published that as a re-
suit of investigation made at that sta
tion, there was 1929 per cent. less di-
gestible albuminoid in hay that was
turned a year or more than in new hay.
The report further stated that bran
and corn lose in digestibility with age.
1t is well enough to make expert
ments along this line But what farm
ers and purchasers of hay will be more
interested in than the above, is the
average nutritive quality of hay and
its digestible quality, regardless OF the
length Of time it has been cut. A plant
may possess more nutritive value at q
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BUYING CORN. "

In the south buying corn by the
farmer to make a crop is becoming to
be almost synonymous with inviting
bankruptcy. Buying corn! Buying
western corn! Buying corn to feed
mules and ''niggers'' to make
six-cent cotton! What commentary
upon southern agriculture! Where
is pride and Judgment, common
sense and experience? The amount of
corn-western corn-sold in the cotton
states annually, and bought by the
farming class, is reflection upon the
intelligence of our people. Wipe out
this stain by raising every grain of
corn used in this fruitful southland.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-06-08

There are IS cities in the world
whose aggregate population equals
that OF England. Ireland, Scotland
and Wales, but there are only two
out of the whole number whose pop
ulation could not be replaced, and in
some instances doubled. tripled, and
even quadrupled, out of the present
policy holders of the Metropolitan
Life Insurance company of New York
over three million.
This enormous clientage is due to
the popularity of the Metropolitan's
plan of Industrial Insurance, some
times called Family Insurance" II
you are interested in knowing more
about it, or if you want
an interesting illustrated paper
free of cost, or if you are seek
ing permanent and paying engage
ment, call on the company's local SUI
perintendent, Mr.. l.. S. Latham,
1922 Fifth avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-06-08

PREEMPTION, June 6.-The annual
sale of thoroughbred shorthorn cat
tie belonging to Benjamin Whitsitt.
occurred today. The sale was con-
Quoted by the well known western
auctioneer. F. NJ. Woods. of Lincoln.
Neb. About two hundred people
were present. including prominent
fancy livestock breeders from Iowa,
Dakota. Minnesota, Nebraska, Kan
sas, Missouri and Illinois. Some of
the cattle were bid in by outside par
ties. but for the most part, the fortu-
nate buyers were residents of sur
rounding counties. This bunch of
blooded cattle, 33 in number. went
at what can be considered low prices,
the entire lot bringing only $1,000.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-06-08
lard; absent but one day, Blanch
MAsauAolI.- 49,

lard; absent but one day, Blanch
Mosenfelder, Oscar Lift.
Grade Miss l.. A. Taylor, teach
er. Neither absent nor tardy, Emil
Hansen, Sophie Trefz, Clara Schind-
ler-she has been absent only one.
half day in the five years she has
been attending school; absent one
day, John Conwell.
rhirty-eiGhth Street school.
Grade Miss Bride M. Egan,
teacher. Neither absent nor tardy,
Mary Restow.
Grade s and Miss Clara Levey,
teacher. Neither absent nor tardy,
Carl Russ, three years; Frank Am
norman; absent two half days. Her.
man Lind.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-06-08
LEGAL



Seaied proposals will be received at the rity
clerk office. Rock Island. ILL.,, until Monday
June Is, 1894 at O'Clock m. for cons,ruc ing
the improvements ordered by an ordinance of
said city. en- titled IAN ordnance for the i'm
provement OF Nineteenth street from the sonth
line OF Fourt avenue 10 the north line of ,ixth
avenue rum ne east. and Sixth avenue from he
west line OF Twentieth street to the west line of
Nineteenth street running south, and nipe,eenth
street from The south line of sixth avenue to the
north curb line of seventh avenue, all in
the city of Rock Island, H. passed
April IT, 1891, and for furnishing all the Materials
and doing the work according TO the plans and
specifications on file At the city clerks Office
All bids musI be ACCOMPANIED with \ certified
check in the sum OF S500. 90 payable TO the or
der OF the mayor 81 said city, which shall be-
cone forfeited 10 said city in case the bidder shsl
fail to enter into contract with approved
suretics 20 execute the work for the price
mentioned in his bid and according TO the plaps
and specifications in the event that the contract
eha'l be Aw arded to him.
Contractors are required TO furnish samples
OF brick with which work IL TO he done Brick
used in the work must correspond with the GAM
riee In quality and sIyle.
Rock Island, H., May 20. 1894
A. ID. HURSING. City Clerk.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-06-08

Low Rates to Denver via the h., c. r. & n.
Railway.
The Burlington, Cedar Rapids &
Northern railway will sell excursion
tickets to Denver and return at less
than one fare for the round trip for
the following meetings:
American Institute Of Homeopathy
at Denver, June IA to %. Tickets on
sale June IL and II, good to leave
Colorado not later than July 10.
Annual convention, National Re-
publican league, at Denver, June &c
to rs. Tickets on sale June % and
81, good to leave Colorado not later
than July %.
Please call on ticket agents for
time of trains and further informa-
ton. j. MORTON,
Gen1 Tiki & Pass. Agt.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-06-08
Little. But oh, NV"

thus ran the refrain to tho old song. and the
same NAV be raid Of DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pei
isfe They are little, but oh. my: Don't they
drive away the bluce, e1pel maisrial poison end
oil'ousuess from the system. cure constipation.
s.ck headache, cleaf the clog ed brain and cause
the oe1ecled oerer to brace up and realize that
life IL worth living after all!
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-06-08
Sustain
Home Industry
On Tap everywhere.
Only Union labor employed.

The Rock Island Brewing Company, success
ors to George Wagner's Atlantic Brewery, |.
Huber's City Brewery and Rable & Stengels
Rock Island Brewery. as well as Julius Junge's
Bottling Works, has one of the most complete
Brewing establishments including Bottling de-
partment in the country. The product is the
very best. Beer is bottled at the brewery and
delivered to any part Of the tri-cities. and may
be ordered direct from the head offices on Mo-
line avenue by Telephone.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-06-08
Don't Delav.

1t is your duty to yourself to get
rid of the foul accumulation in your
blood this spring. Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla is just the medicine you need to
purify, vitalize and enrich your
blood. That tired feeling which al
fects nearly every one in the spring,
is driven out by Hoods Sarsaparilla,
the great spring medicine and blood
purifier.