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The Progress., 1894-09-29

WAsn1NGToN, Sept. 25.-Three bul-
letius have been issued from the cen
sus office showing the land ownership
and debt in the states Of Kansas, Ar
kansas and Alabama. The figures
for Kansas are more interesting than
many other states. because it has
been p0inted Out as the state where
the debts and mortgages are more
burdensome than all others. The
bulletins show that of the farms in
Kansas 3l.03 per cent are hired and
6S.97 per cent Owned by the persons
cultiyating them. OF the farms
300 per cent are incumbered
BY mortgages. The mortgages on
farms amount to SIS, 759, 2S3, which
is 33.99 per cent of their value. This
debt bears an average rate of interest
of s Is per cent. the average annual
interest charged to each family
owing on encumberd farm being S92.
Each encum bered farm is worth on
the average 1919 and subject to
q debt of sl126. OF the houses 1875
per cent are hired. OF the number
of owned houses 6O.S+ per cent arc
held for circumference. Real estate
purchasers improyementea.sedi 81. 81 81 81
per cent OF the farm owners to incur
% PEI. cent upon them. In Arkansas
53.yl Dcr cent of the farms are Owned
and 9O.S2 per cent owned free of en-
rnmberance. On loaned farms there are
encumbrances amounting to -. 032,-
345, which is 44.5S per cent of their
value. The average interest charge
is 9.35 per cent. OF the homes 32.S
per cent are owned and of them 81. Is
per cent are free of encumbrance. In
Alabama 43. - per cent OF the farms
are owned and 50. per cent of the
farms owned are free of encumbrance.
The debt on owned farms amounts to
$1.907, 1919, and is 33.47 per cent OF
their value. The average interest is
S.91 per cent. OF the homes 22.SS
per cent are owned and y7.O1 of these
are free of encumbrance.
The Progress., 1894-09-29
THE HIGHEST AWARD.
Roval Baking Powder in Strength and
Value 20 Per Cent. Above it's
Nearest Competitor.

Value 20 FER Cent. ABOVE itS
Nearest Competitor.
! The Royal Baking Powder has the
enviable record Of having received
the highest award for articles OF lis
class-greatcst strength, purest IN
gradients, most perfectly combined
wherever exhibited in competition
I with Others. In the exhibitions Of
former years, at the Centennial, AZ
! Paris. Vienna and at the various state
and Industrial fairs, where 1t has
been exhibited, judges have inHarlA-
bIv awarded the Royal Baking Pow
; der the highest hOnors.
At the recent Worlds Fair tie c<-
aminations for the baking powder
awards were made by the experts OF
the chemical division Of the AgricuIt-
ural Department Of Washington.
! The official rcnort Of the tests ct the
baking powders which We're mace 10y
This department for the specific pur-
pose Of asccrtaining which was the
best, ana WDlIn mas pCCN llduc pun
lie, shows the lcavcning strength OF
the Royal to be 100 cubic inches OF
carbOnic gas per ounce OF power, tt
the cream of tartar baking powders
exhibited at the Fair. the next hiyh-
est in strength thus tested contained
but 1873 cubic inches Of !c;Ncnlng gao,
The other powders gave an average
Of Ill. The Royal therefore Wa'
found of 20 per cent. greater Icavcn-
ing strength than its nearest compel
itOr, and II per cent. above the aver
age of all the other tests. Its supc-
riority in other respects. however, IN
the quality OF the food it makes as TO
fncness, dclicacy and WhoIcsomcness,
could not be measured by hglrcs,
1t is these high qualities, known
and appreciated by the women of the
country for so many years, that have
rauscd the sales Of the loyal Baking
Powder, as shown by statistics, to CIV
ceed the sales of all other baking po"
ders combined.
The Progress., 1894-09-29

The proposed change in the fash
ion of passenger cars, substituting
depot platforms for car platforms,
may be realized in the next few
years. Already the Illinois Cen
trail has adopted such platforms for its
suburban service. To step from the
depot platform to the car as one passes
from one room to another without even
q threshold to disturb the dignity of
the walk seems among the comforts of
the near future. The expense of de-
pot platforms would be apt to fall con-
siderably short of that Of car platforms.
The element of economy will be apt to
make the change inviting to railroad
managers.
The Progress., 1894-09-29
MUSHROOMS s.
Edible Varieties That Are Found In tho
Fields and woods.

Walking in the woods, recently
with country friend, we were dis
cussing this ''toadstool'' topic, wheI
we came upon cluster of fungi a
the base of tree trunk, their broat
expanded tops apparently uphol
stored in fawn-colored, undresseC
kid, their under surfaces being STUFF
fed and tufted in pale grcenish hue
What would you cali these"
inquired.
"Those are toadstools, unmlstaka
bly," was his reply.
well, toadstools or not. you see
there about five pounds OF dell
cious vegetable meat, for it is tbs
common species Of edible Bolteus-
BOlteus edulis.
A few moments later we pauseG
before a beautiful specimen, lifting
it's parasol of pure white above the
black leaf mould.
And what is this?:' | inquired.
81 would certainly call that a
mushroom" was his instant reply
This mushroom proved to be fine.
tempting specimen Of the Agarlcus
Amanita bulbosa the deadliest OF all
the mushrooms, and one of the most
violent and fatal of all known vege
table poisons, whose attractive
graces and insidlous wiles are doubt
less continually responsible for
those numerous fatalities usually
dismissed with the epitaph, "Died
from eating toadstools in mistake for
mushrooms.
Nor are the other popular tradi-
tions and tests by which the pri-
mary selection of the mushroom
is "proved" for safety worthy OF
any moro consideration, writes
William Hamilton Gibson in Har-
per's Magazine tests, for instance,
such as the following: pheasant
taste and odor; boiling with silver
spoon. the staining Of the silver in
dicating danger; peeling OF the cap:
change Of colo" in fracture" etc.
once knew an aged dame who was
village oracle on this as we'll
as other topics, and who ate and
dispensed toadstools on the above
rules. Strange to say, she lived to
good old age, and no increased
mortality chanced as a result OF her
generosity.
How are these popular notions
sustained by the facts?
Many, indeed a majority, of the
most delicious species will not
peel" at all; others change color,
turning blue or green Or tawny
almost instantly or being broken,
while the most deadly Amanita peels
with certain degree OF acommo'
dation which would at once seem to
settle its claim as q .'mushroom," has,
moreover, to many, an inviting odor
and pleasant taste when raw, and
when cooked giving no token of its
fatal resources until from six to eight
hours after being eaten, when its
unfortunate victim is usually past
hope-absolutely so, in the absence
of the proper medical treatment IN
the administration OF atropine in
hypodermic injection in 1-60 grain
doses, this deadly drug having only
been recently discovered to be an
effective antedote to the amanitinc,
the poisonous principle of the Am
anita fungus.
The Progress., 1894-09-29

No GOLD mine ever discovered on
the continent possessed tithe of the
value discovered in the hitherto unre-
garded cottonwood; and if well man
aged and husbanded the placers will
not give out as those of the gold mines
do. 1t is pointed out. however, that
the woodpulp man has begun his raw
age in these riparian groves, and that
if he is let alone he will destroy them
as he does every forest on which he
alights.
The Progress., 1894-09-29
Arr entine Wool,

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2e. Minister
Zeballas of the Argentiae republic
says remarkable stimulation in the
wool industry OF his country has re-
suited from the enactment of the tariff
law in this country. Raw wool has
made heavy advances in the Argen-
tine, similar to the rise in London and
Paris, and active preparations are be-
ing MADE for wool exports to this
country.
The Progress., 1894-09-29
An Experiment.

According to recent pamphlet by
an Italian doctor sure way Of re-
storing life in cases of syncope is to
hold the patients tongue firmly.
After two other doctors had worked
for an hour without result over a
young man who was apparently
drowned, he thrust spoon into the
patients mouth, seized the tongue,
and rked it violently. until the pa.
tient gave signs of life.
The Progress., 1894-09-29

DR.. CYRUS EDsoN of New York an
nounces a discovery by DR.. Koch Of
Berlin of a cure for diphtheria which
never fails when applied within thirty
six hours. The announcement is
made on authority of DR., Briggs, the
bacteriologist of the New York board
OF health, who was sent to Berlin to
Investigate this subject. He found
between 8. 900 and 1000 well-attested
cases that had been cured by this anti
toxine. The New York board of health
asks an appropriation for the purpose
of bringing this remedy into general
use in this country. 1t is probable
that the health officers of all our cities
will try to secure the new remedy and
that it viii soon be within reach of all.
The Progress., 1894-09-29

One of the things which it seems dif-
G ilcult + for the public mind le te grasp is
e.1as tllere is II decided difference be-
tween the knot and the mile tits cer-
tainly about time to have it thoroughly
understood that the two are not the
same thing. 1t seems easy enough to
remember that mile is only about
eighty-seven per cent of knot, the
latter being approximately 6,0S2 feet
in length, while the statute mile meas
ures $3.50 feet.
The Progress., 1894-09-29
Blga Free.

WASHINGTON, Sep. 24.--The secre-
tary of the treasury. in letter ad-
dressed t., the collector OF customs at
New York. informs him that under
section 424a, tariff act bags for
grain made OF bnrlaps are exempt
from duty on importation Of rcimpor-
tation.
The Progress., 1894-09-29

The emperor of China has issued q
long proclamation declaring his rights
as suzerain over Corea and ordering
all his maritime provincial governors
to "make every effort to fire at the
Wojen ships if they come into the har-
bors and to utterly destroy them" "
This means war with vengeance,
and in view of their early warning the
Wojen or japanese will probably keep
their ships out of Chinese harbors and
thus save the worshipful governors
the exertion Of "rnaking every effort
to fire" at them.
The Progress., 1894-09-29
The Vernon Bank,

WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.-Comptro,-
ler Eckels returned Friday and states
that he has not determined when he
will appoint receiver of the National
bank at Vernon, which recently failed.
The chances are, however. that he
will appoint Receiver Robinson, who
is in charge OF another defunct bank
there, as receiver of this latter failed
institution.
The Progress., 1894-09-29
Her Terrible Dilemma.

First Pretty Dear-What is the
matter, dear? You look quite upset,
Second Pretty Dear-Enouph to
make me. | n YER knew anything
SO provoking in all my life. / could
stamp, ! could! Here's a note
signed Charlie asking me ii | Will
go Tor drive ON his coach this
afternoon, and don't know which
Charlie it IL S''
The Progress., 1894-09-29

A YOUNG woman ranking third in
a class of sixty-one members in Scot
tish university, who stood first in her
class in zoology, practical chemistry,
anatomy, history, physiology, surgery,
medicine, pathology and midwifery,
has just had the honor of bachelor of
medicine and master of surgery con-
ferred upon her. She is one of only
three women who have had this honor
in Scotland.
The Progress., 1894-09-29

IT has been proposed that stations
be erected in convenient localities in
cities and large towns where physi-
clans may go to be thoroughly disin-
fected Immediately after they have
visited a case of infections disease, and
before paying any further visits.
The Progress., 1894-09-29
Postal Changes.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.-The follow
ing pOstoffice has been established: !:
Texas-Saron, Trinity county, Charles
H. Pillney, postmaster. The following
postoffice had its site changed: Okla
homa- Sacred Heart. Pottawatomie
county.
The Progress., 1894-09-29
some ARMY Changes.

WASHINGTON, Sept. "a. --Undsr The
order recently issued from the war
department assigning statisls to the
troops, the designation Of the posts
to which certain commands were to
The Progress., 1894-09-29

As SHOWING how competition is af-
fecting the business of the electric
companies, it is noted that a complete
trolley car, including two motors, six
years ago cost 81 500; four and half
years ago it cost $500; two years
ago, $3.50; a year ago, $4,000, and
now it can be bought for 81, 900 to
S1 9OO
The Progress., 1894-09-29

The New York police captains were
not as gilt-edged in their briberies as
the officials of Ward McAllister's town
might be expected to be. Captain Ste
phensOn. for instance, was bribed with
huckleberries.
The Progress., 1894-09-29

IT is difficult to understand the OBJ
ject to which the king of Abyssinia in
tends to devote the elaborate postage
stamps which he is now having en-
graved and printed in Paris. There is
no postoffice and no postal service in
Abyssinia, and the Ethiopians have
not yet developed the civilized mania
for stamp collecting.
The Progress., 1894-09-29

A MASSACHUSETTS woman has in
vented an envelope which it is impos-
sible to open and reseal without de-
lection. That woman's ingenuity
will bring down upon her devoted
head the maledictions of all members
of her own sex who are married and
most OF those who hope to be.
The Progress., 1894-09-29

Mr.. WILLIAM K. VANDERBILT, being
the son of his father. no doubt resents
the idea that the public should be
made acquainted with his family af-
fairs and outside matter incidental
thereto. The public be -.
The Progress., 1894-09-29

The Canadian Pacific railroad re-
ports q falling-offin receipts in the
last six months of about $1,000, 600,
showing that the railroads of the
states are not alone i'll feeling the
!strese OF the hard times
The Progress., 1894-09-29

THE poor king of Siam doesn't seem
TO kow whether he is dead or alive.
He and the king of Corea are not having
lust the pleasantest time in the world.
The Progress., 1894-09-29

Jnaction sometimes amounts to cowardly
action.
The Progress., 1894-09-29

An empty pocket is not always good
excuse
The Progress., 1894-09-29

The best record is one that has never
been broken
The Progress., 1894-09-29

There are people who say they would likt
to do good who don't smile once a week.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-06-05

The Review of Reviews for June shows
the usual f~lexibility of that keenly edited
periodical in adopting itselfto the topics
of the month. In its department OF
Leading Articles it groups together a
very remarkable series of digests of i'm
portant recent essays on various topics
pertaining to the political and social
status of woman. Moreover, it's always
varied and curious collection of carica-
lures illustrating the history OF the
month is enlivened by a number of car
toons from New Zealand and Australia,
some intended TO eulogize and others to
satirize the enfranchisement of women
in the New Zealand colony and the unl
successful woman suffrage campaign in
New South Wales. These articles and
caricatures are submitted by the Review
of Reviews apropos OF the great pending
discussion in the state OF New York.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-06-05


Dakota Farmer: The binding Irvine
mandatory at the Minnesota state pen
itentiary is furnishing Irvine to the
farmers of hat state this season at a
price not to exceed Z cents q pound, and
in case OF necessity the price may be even
less IN order to meet competition OF any
Irvine OF equal length and quality that
may be placed upon the market, such
price to be finally determined by the
board OF managers ON the LIST OF June
next. This is a big reduction from old
time prices, yet it is not understood that
the state Of Minnesota furnishes this
Irvine at less than cost. The Legislature
OF South Dakota at It's last session made
an ap r~opriation for the purpose OF start
ing a similar industry at the state peni-
tertiary at Sioux Fails. No action has
been taken, however, toward making
use of this appropriation.
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rods as much for projection from the inn
portunities of the peddlers rs for any
additional security they might give 70
the buildings.
SO far as my own observation goes,
the lightning rod agent does not make
himself nearly so numerous as he
once did. Certainly the percentage Of
buildings without the surmounting
points is much larger than formerly.
Dread of thunderstorms is 10 many
persons q most horrible thing. / know
q man of the coolest temperament, q
ma who has exhibited genuine courage
ON more than u occasion of real peril,
who will leave his desk when q thunder
storm comes up and walk up and down
his Office, wringing his hands and maxi
ing q nuisance of himself generally. He
says he cannot control his fears, and
that IL doubtless true, for he is keenly
sensible to the righteousness of the fig
ure he cuts. His doctor d that the
mans physical system is probably affect
cd deleteriously by the electrical condi-
tions Of the atmosphere during a thun.
derstorm, and that he Is quite incapable
of remaining quiet during its continu-
ance
There is one class of men and women
who have q dislike for thunderstorms
that Is based upon experiences that ar,
50 definite and 80 d~isagreeable that lie il
moi surprising that they have produced
this result. They are the telephone and
telegraph operators, and the stories they
sometimes tell each other Of streaks and
globes Of blue and green and red fire
running along and skipping off the wires
are such as to sometimes arouse scott
ings ON the part of the incredulous.
Those who know the most about light
uing harnessed by means Of wires and
embarrassed and pursuing its free course
In the sky and among the the clouds,
It is worthy Of note, are not likely to
scof at any story hat il told of the
lightning. Tt is a curious thing, though,
that, although there is no doubt of the
existence of what appear to the observer
to be balls of fire attendant upon thun.
derstorms, no one has ever succeeded
in getting o photograph of such a dis
play, while many plates showing forms
Of electrical phenomena not visible to
the eye because of the rapidity with
which the electric fluid takes its course
have been developed.
Here are a few of the may curious
results of lightning strokes that have
been recorded within the past few years:
In 1898 Martin Campbell Of Brook
lyn was killed by a fash, and his body
was found to be marked with o ring
about the neck. as If he had been stran-
gled by o hangman's moose, while Gu
riously branching lines resembling the
growth of a plant al along his chest.
These peculiar markings have been not
ed in more than one instance, and some
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-06-05

300 or 500 feet back Of the house. The
Building had not been fired, but il was
pretty effectually shattered. Splinters
Of pine were torn from the weather
boarding Of all lengths, from 3 or 8
inches to s or Q feet, and Of all Sizes,
from that Of wrapping yarn to that of d
thick lead pencil. Onesof the largest
~splinsers had been thrown from the barn
clear across the yard into the highway.
The glasa In the barn windows had been
splintered into long. threadlike spines,
and the whole structure was 30 much
OF o wreck that 1t cost o pretty penny Ia
put Ii in repair. Ii was fortunate that
there was no live stock in the barn. III
there had been. 1t must have beer killed
By the stroke. No said my friend In
conclusion, there was no lightning rod
~ the barn, and the storm was followed
By o perfect hoard Of agents. who talked
their wares to my father till he was
! nearly sick and finally bought d set of
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-06-05

Sioux City Journal, 4: The Russian
colonists who are finding homes in South
Dakota are not likely TO breed anarch-
lists. A colony OF about twenty families
is On the way to Potter county, near
Gettysburg, direct from Odessa, and
each family brings from $1,000 to 5000
in cash to start with. They will go on
the land and cultivate it with their W
hands This is the kind Of immigration
that j. sought for everywhere.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-06-05

We are p eased to be able to announce
that the publisher OF the Inter Ocean
has made a special offer on the weekly
edition OF that paper during the present
political campaign. He will send the
weekly Inter Ocean for six months to
any subscriber on receipt of thirty cents
This is a very low price for one of the
best and ablest republican newspapers in
the country. Good republicans should
try to increase it's circulation. Subscrip-
tions will be reserved at this price from
June lst to August LIST. After that the
regular prices will be restored.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-06-05

her father and mother. Mr.. and Mrs,
John Stevenson and John Sebrose. Mrs.
Shepard had left him to live with her
parents. Last night Sheppard appeared,
and fred at Sebrose who ran for help.
Then turning on the S~tevensons he shot
Mr.. Stevenson twice through the
shoulder and Mrs. Stevenson through
the arm. He stopped to reload, tut his
wife snatched the revolver. He picked
up a stone and beat her apparently to
death. Turning to Mrs. Stevenson, he
said: Mary is dead; / win leave You
alive to take care of the children" This
morning he was found dead a mile from
his house, having takeL. poison. His
victims are alive but his wlte's condition
8 critical. r.
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peppermint. Growing = ! business.

In ST. Joseph county, Mich, a farm
Of about 400 acres ID planted with pep
permint each year and alternated with
clover to keep up the strength Of the
soil. The cultivation of the crop re-
qnires more than ordinary care. From
tho time the mint appears above the
ground it is constantly cultivated and
hood to keep ii free from weeds, which
are the baneo Of tho peppermint growers
existence. Two q three crops are gath
cred from each planting. The first and
second crops are the best, and 90 pounds
Of oil to the acre Is considered d good
yield The third crop IL very apt to be
weedy, and the yield only about 10
pounds 10 the acre.