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Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-06-06

Some Special Fruit Crop.--It is not
bad plan for any farmer to have some
speciality aside from his regular crops,
IL he is not too short of help. Among
the things to be suggested, a small area
In some one fruit would be within the
reach of all. This would afford profit
in the majority Of seasons. and every
now and then comes a year when a
fruit crop is worth a very handsome
sum.-Ex.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-06-06

Swiss Eggs-Butter an earthen plate
and break your eggs into it, placing
each one on thin slice of cheese. Sea-
son. sprinkle with bread-crumbs and
grated cheese. and bake until the whites
are set.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-06-06
The Cures

By Hoods Sarsaparilla are wonderful,
but the exclamation is simple. Hoods
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-06-06

''Why was the bee selected as n model of
Industry" asked Tillinghast. '.Because
business with him is always humming,' re-
marked Gildersleeye
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-06-06

The weeping willow should be planted in
fara
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-06-06

the doctor applied weights to the al
fected limb. When she got up she
was unable to walk, had lost all her
strength and day by day she became
thinner. l read OF a cure OF similar
case by Hoods Sarsaparilla, and decided
to give it to Lillian. When she r.
taken one bottle it had effected SO much
good that kept on giving it to her
until she had taken three bottles. Her
appetite was then excellent and she
was well and strong. She has not used
crutches for eight months and walks to
school every day. l cannot say too
much for
Hoods SarsapariIla
It is splendid medicine and would
recommend it to any one." Mrs. G. A.
LARosE, Oroville. California.
Hoods Pills ave ass 'asif 1ii srassi.ss a's ssss e.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-06-06

An Incredible Horse Story.-A mare
once committed suicide. She had a colt
of which she was more than usually
fond. One day the colt fell into an ir-
rigating ditch and broke its leg. The
animal had to be killed, and its mother
was inconsolable. She would whimper
and call for the colt. and when it failed
to come nothing would induce her to
eat. For several days all the efforts to
induce her to partake of food were in
vain, and 1t was feared she would
starve. One morning she was seen
standing by barrel or water from
which she was in the habit of drinking.
Her attitude was singular, and going
to her it was found that she was dead,
with her head stuck into the water as
far as she could reach. There was no
other conclusion possible than that she
had deliberately drowned herself
Field and Farm.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-06-06

Fruit In the Hudson Valley.-Al-
though the season has been backward,
the outlook for large fruit yield in
the Hudson Valley is encouraging,
though May frost will possibly cause
a setback. Along the Ulster county
shore and in the Waikiki valley, the
fruit land has been left in excellent
shape by the winter, the roots protect
ed by heavy SHOWS. and recent heavy
rains have warded off spring drouth.
Strawberries look healthy, with few
dead plants, and the acreage is 25 per
cent more than last year. Grapevines
look well, and the peach crop promises
to be very large.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-06-06
PROSPECTIVE MOTHERS

shortened. It also promotes the secre-
tion of an abundance of nourishment for
the child.
The Globe-republican., 1895-03-29

In one of its latest decisions the Su-
preme Court declares that negligence
rs cause Of action against a rail-
road company must be proven, and
that the finding of the body of a man
on the tracks does not create pre-
sumption that lie came there by reason
of the company's negligence. This
ruling will have a far-reaching effect
upon damage suits brought against
railroad companies for injuries re-
ceiyed on their property. The assump-
ton will be made that the tracks were
amply guarded, and the plaintiff will
be compelled to prove his point and
show by evidence that they were not.
1t is notorious that the law regarding
protection at railroad crossings is con-
stantly and flagrantly violated. When,
however, the victim to this negligence
has been killed it becomes almost i'm
possible to bring witnesses to the fact
of violation at the particular time.
The Globe-republican., 1895-03-29

gress from the Territory Of Michigan
and delegate from Wisconsin from 1886
to 1889, commanded the militia Of Wis
consin for q time, ana for three years
was itschief justice. ToGeorge Wallace
Jones belongs the distinction Of NAM
ing the Territories of Wisconsin AMI
Iowa.
Gen. Jones has known Intimately
most Of the prominent men of the couu-
try. He was a Chesterfield in polite
ness and very popular. He was class
mate at college of Jefferson Davis and
Zachary Taylor; in Congress he was I
friend of John Quincy Adams, Andrew
Jackson, John C. Fremont, Martin Van
Buren, and Franklin Pierce; he was the
partner in business enterprises of Dam
lei Webster; the colleague in the House
of James X. Polk, John Bell, Abraham
Lincoln, and in the Senate Of Thomas
III. Benton, Charles Sumner, Stephen
A. Douglas, William H. Seward and
James Buchanan.
The Globe-republican., 1895-03-29

The worm has turned. The bitter has
been bitten. Let the unusual fact be
duly recorded. A few days ago Farmer
John Sheffield, of Manchester Cross
Roads, N. Y, received a mysterious cir
cular letter inviting him to go to New
York City and buy ''green goods" He
went. He was taken in tow by 'green
goods" operator as soon as he reached
the town and was steered into den in
an obscure hotel. where he met two
other men who had money to sell at
cut rates. These gentlemen showed
him 81 600 in crisp new bank notes, and
assured him that he could have the
bundle for 5000 spot cash. Whereupon
Farmer Sheffield. while examining the
alleged counterfeits. hastily gathered in
the pile, planked down $500 in pay
ment and pocketed his purchase. The
three swindlers made a united rush
upon him. and in just ten seconds he
had pummeled all of his assailants into
insensibility and sauntered out Of the
long have sought and mOurned because
I found it not" Farmer Sheffield re-
ported the occurrence to the New Yor;:l
police. and is held to await the appear
ance of some one to lodge complaint
against him. Let him go-and give him
medal for being the only man who
ever beat n gang Of New York sharpers
at their own game. The Sheffield cur
rency game is a daisy.
The Globe-republican., 1895-03-29
THE HOOSIER POET.

James Whitcomb Riley Was Once q
Farmer Boy-His Poetic Genius.
The tone of James Whitcomb Riley's
poetry tells for itself that he was once
a farmer boy. His fathers home was
in the old farming town Of Greenfield,
Ind, and there the lad grew up in the
midst Of sweet, healthy country life,
although the poet is apt to confess
with merry twinkle in his eye that he
was of little use in farming, yet, as he
adds. my father used to press us boys
into the service in corn-plantin' time
and we went very Faithfully, at least,
did" He tells frankly, too, that he was
no scholar, for, as he confesses, "At 16
I could not repeat the simplest school
boy speech without breaking down
and rather than undertake it 1 deliber-
ately chose to take whipping"
After leaving school, says Farm and
The Globe-republican., 1895-03-29
Slack in His Geography.

A curious incident regarding a strait
occurred during the Russian war. 1t
would have been ludicrOus. if anything
can be MdicrOus connected with war.
Commodore Elliott was blockading a
Russian squadron in the Gulf Of Sagha-
lin, on the east coast Of Siberia. Think
ing he had the Russians in a cul de sac,
he complacently waited for them to
come out. as the water was too shallow
for him to attack them. AS the enemy
did not come out, he sent in 20 investi-
gate, and found, to his astOnishment,
that Russians and ships had vanished.
While he had been waiting for them in
the south they had quietly slipped cut
by the north. teaching both him and
the British Government a rather Sc
we're lesson in geography, as it had
been thought that Saghalin was an
isthmus; and they were totally una
ware of narrow channel leading from
the gulf to the Sea of Okhotsk.-New
York Advertiser.
The Globe-republican., 1895-03-29

Bravo, Baudelon! So long as there
are ships and machinery, cylinders,
cranks, piston rods, shafts or rudders
will give out at some time; and if this
time happens to coincide with the oc-
currence of hurricane, then are gath
cred together the conditions of great
calamity. Out of the night, the storm,
the awful sea, the crippled ship, have
come all those chronicles of calamity
that freeze the blood in the old ship
wreck stories. In such a case the one
hope is a hero. All depends upon a
man. If the right man is there all will
60 we'll, though the way be through
gloom, danger and doubt. If the right
man is not there, if one Of the feeble
brethren is in his place, that is the end
Of the story of that ship. The man
must be one Of stout heart and cool
head; undismayed by danger and un-
shaken by the sense of his enormous
responsibility; skilled in trouble and in
the ways to meet it. For such a man
great critical occasions are after all
only opportunities. Baudelon was the
man for the occasion in the Gascogne's
great battle, and so We say, Well done,
BaudelOn! Lucky fellow to have such
a chance; lucky company to have such
an officer, and lucky passengers to be
in the hands of a captain who knew
what to do and how to do it.
The Globe-republican., 1895-03-29

In the death Of Isaac Pussy Gray the
State Of Indiana and the field Of Amer
lean politics lose a most familiar and
interesting figure. During lifetime
which was filed with activity and use
full work, he held and discharged ac-
ceptably q number Of posts from which
he often seemed prepared to step into
the coveted Office of the Presidency.
His public career began with the civil
war, when he assumed command of
one of the Indiana regiments. After
the war he became President of the
Indiana Senate, being elected as Re
publican 1t was not until seven years
after quitting the battlefield that he
Joined the Democratic party, in which
he figured SO prominently. During
his terms in the Governorship of Indi-
ana he acquired the prominence which
made him q Presidential possibility"
but for some reason due either to the
man himself or the destiny which or
ders the affairs Of politics his career
never brought him higher than State
position 1t was in recognition of good
and faithful services that President
Cleveland made him Minister to Mex
leo, but 1t would seem that the limita-
lions of the man confined him to ca
reer in which he could do valuable
work a. q State leader, but could not
break OFT into the larger field Of ma
13on0 politics.
The Globe-republican., 1895-03-29

Home, he began to write for local pa
pers and his first appearance in print
was made in the KOkOmO Tribune,
where number of his dialect poems
were published under the name of John
G. Walker. 1t was not until the ap-
pearance of LeOnainie, which he gave
to the world as newly discovered
poem of Edgar Allan Poe's, that Riley's
work began to obtain recognition in
literary circles. Then came a little vol
ume of dialect poems, which We're pro-
fessedly by B. +. Johnson of Boon, and
following it there appeared The Boss
Girl, Afterwhiles, Pipes O. Pan and a
handful Of the sweetest poems under
the taking title Old-fashioned Roses.
Mr.. Riley is hard worker and pre-
fers the unreasonable hours Of night for
his labor. He is 4 hearted.
genial, companionable man and in his
versatility and mastery of the faulty
everyday language of his countrymen,
he never had an equal. His thoughts
are chaste and the human sympathy
and pure purpose that runs through
his song is the true index of the man
and will be his best and most lasting
eulogy.
The Globe-republican., 1895-03-29
A Fakir's Ingenuity.

Enormous business has been done
lately at French fairs by n man who
professed to sell a rat powder that WAS
perfectly harmless and that struck rat
dead on the spot. In order to convince
the skeptical the man, first of all. pow
dered a slice Of bread with the stuff,
and ate piece of it himself. Then he
put the remainder under a glass case,
in which a rat was kept in captivity.
The rat went to eat the bread and in
stantly fell dead. At ) pence box the
powder went off like hot rolls, and the
lucky proprietor of the specific was in
fair way to make fortune. But the
police. who in France are very active in
protecting the people from a fraud,
looked into the matter and found that
the powder was nothing but ordinary
sugar They also discovered that the
case was connected with a powerful
electric battery. and the moment the
rat touched the bread the current was
turned on, and it was thus his death
was brought about. The man was ar
rested at the fair of Abb. and he has
been sentenced to fifteen days impris-
Onment.
The Globe-republican., 1895-03-29

Production and Cost of aluminium.
Concerning the amount produced and
the cost of producing aluminium, the
London Grocers Review says:
1.-The production of aluminium in
creased from 30 tons in 1890 to 1000
tons in 1892, and the price has dimin-
ished in proportion. 1t was Cos per
pound in 1856, COS in 1880. and now it
is about Is I'd. When it is considered
that pound Of aluminium is so much
bigger than pound Of other metals
bulk for bulk, it weighs about one third
Of ordinary metals-this price cannot
be called high. No aluminium is pro-
duced in England now. Two cOmpan-
les were started in 1SS6-S7, but the
chemical process they employed is now
obsolete. All aluminium sold in the
market is now made by the aid of
electricity. The largest factory is at
Neuhausen, in Switzerland. 1t is capa-
BILE of turning out 1000 tons a year.
The second largest is in the south of
France. 1t turns out about GOO tons.
But company has now been formed in
England, and as the soldering difficult
ty seems to be overcome, the metal will
sell"
The Globe-republican., 1895-03-29

GEN. JONES. It's law nc.
partment. He practiced law in Lon
don, and coming to America located in
Philadelphia, upon the invitation OF
Benjamin Franklin, who was a close
friend. He removed to Louisville. Ky,
thence to VincenneS. where he was thu.
first lawyer to practice.
Here his son, George Wallace, was
born. He entered Pennsylvania Uni
versity, Lexington, Ky, in 1921, anil
while there served as sergeant of Gen.
Jacksnn's body guard on that hero S
march from Tennessee to Washington
in 1923. and did similar service for TIE
Marquis de Lafayette the next year.
He served during the Black Hawk war
as a soldier, was made a general, and,
in 1S4S, elected United States Senator.
When his term expired President Bu-
chanau appointed him Minister to Co
lombia, from which he was recalled
for alleged reasonable cores Ondence
with Jefferson Davis at the outbreak
of the civil war.
Gen. Jones has figured as principal
or second in seven duels, the most ill.,
teresting of which was the affair IF
honor between Jonathan Cilley. Of
Maine, and William ]. Graves, of Ken
lucky. in 1888, which arose from polit-
ical differences. Jones was Cilley's
second. The weapons were rifles, and
each man fired three times. At the
last Cilley fell wounded to death. The
General was the last delegate to Con-
The Globe-republican., 1895-03-29

The Elbe disaster has found its way
into the German reichstag, where the
government representatives in debate
warmly defended the steamship COM
pany while the Socialists bitterly at
tackled it, saying that the discipline on
the ship was bad and the water-tight
compartments anything but water
tight. Most unreasonable fellows, those
Socialists. They don't seem to under
stand that the primary purpose Of a
steamship company is to make money
and they really cling to the idea that
such a corporation owes some duty to
the people who travel in its iron collins.
The Globe-republican., 1895-03-29
KANSAS RAILROADiNC.

Capital: The Santa Fe shops in this
city have just completed two of the
most attractive parlor cars that have
been constructed for western roads in
many years. The cars were made from
dining cars, Of which the Santa Fe has
q greater number than are now in use.
The work on the new cars was done I'M
der the supervision and direction Of
John Player, superintendent Of machin-
cry of the Santa Fe. The general ar
rangement, finish and decoration are
fully equal to anything that has been
turned out by the Pullman company.
The work was all done in Topeka. The
cars are to be used on the Southern
California, which is q branch of the
Santa Fe system.
The Globe-republican., 1895-03-29
STOCK AND FARM,

The herd law has ueen re-estabiished
in Morton count
The Sherman county Farmers insti-
tute has elected the following officers
for the coming year: John Bray, presi-
dent; W. A. Uu.barger, secretary: j. +.
kimmel, treasurer.
Hiawatha Word: A. n. Ruley saws
on account of the open winter, therefore
the wood tender, the fifteen below zero
freeze killed large per cent of the
reach buds, but there are left sufficient
number green to make a fair crop. Cher
ries, apples and berries are not damaged.
Fort Scott Monitor: From the best
information obtained from dealers it
appears that farmers in the vicinity OF
For. Scott have realized $4,000 from
the cane seed raised last year. No
other crop produced in Bourbon county
yielded so large profit from SO small
an investment. This income was brought
to the farmers by the sugar works,
which paid nearly $4,000 for sorghum.
Everybody in the neighborhood is in
terested in this industry. 1t brings
mouev to all.
A Meade county farmer has fattened
his hogs on an exclusive feed OF sugar
beets. He will put in big crop OF
beets this spring.
While returning from trip to one OF
his farms Isaiah Nicholson, OF Lawrence.
met with an accident that caused the
loss of his left hand. He had arrived
homo and was taking shot gun out OF
the buggy, having taken it along be-
cauee Of the game he had seen along
the road. when his horse started and
the gun was discharged. the load going
through Mr.. Nicholson's hand and max
ing amputation necessary.
The Globe-republican., 1895-03-29

While the pungent photographers are
fnveighing against the ten-acre theater
hat, they should aim a few shafts of
sarcasm at the thirsty members of the
male persuasion who slide out between
acts to "see a man." and return with 4
breath that causes those sitting near
them to imagine that the opera house
has suddenly been metamorphosed into
a distillery or gin fizz factory. There
is also the sweet scented masher who
is always nudging any attractive youEg
lady who happens to occupy the next
seat. There are just as disagreeable
things in theaters as the Overgr0wn hat
The Globe-republican., 1895-03-29

North Topeka item: T. NJ. Jamee 10
adding 60 acres to his apple orchard on
Indian creek, and five acres to an exper-
mental orchard near town, on the ex-
tension Of Kansas avenue.
The failure of crops last year has had
disastrous effect upon the local freight
business in Kansas, and stations which
have sent away car loads of freight dali
IL, now send none at all. That is why
several stations have recently been
abandoned on the Englewood line of
the Santa Fe and other feeders of the
Santa Fe. The officers of the road say
that there is not enough business at
the stations to justify the expense Of
agents. and so they were withdrawn and
the station houses are closed. 1t is said
that the stations abandoned will not be
permanently kept off the time card. but
II the western part of the state succeeds
in producing crop this season, they
will again be open for business.
A remarkable religious revival closed
in Lawrence after continuous meetings
for several weeks. 1t was conducted bv
State Evangelist Beasley, Of Topeka
The meetings have been going en- night
and day, and SO large have been the
crowds that not nearly all could get in
side the building. The number of con-
versions has been over 200. A great
MANY Of the FOUNDERS" and worthless
characters have been affected. and have
for the time, at least. mended their
waye. so that there is not the amount
OF petty crime as in past winters.
Spurred BY the example at the one
church. every other colored church in
the city has been holding protracted
meetings and securing converts. The
baptism Of the new converts will take
place in the Kaw river in April or early
in May.
The Globe-republican., 1895-03-29
CHAIN CENT.

the mint. The building stands at No.
% North 7th street, between Market
and Arch streets, Philadelphia, and
was completed on Friday, Sept. Z, 1892.
On the following Tuesday, Sept. II,
the first purchase of metal was made,
consisting of six pounds Of old copper al
is Sd per pound.
In October, 1892, three presses were
put in and President Washington. in
his annual message to Congress of Nov.
8, 1892, says: "There has also been a
small beginning in the coinage of half
dimes; the want of small coins in ciT-
culation calling the first attention to
them" This piece has on the diverse
a female bust, emblematic of liberty,
and it is stated that Martha Washing
ton sat to the artist while he was de-
signing it The silver from which it
was struck was furnished by Washing
ton from his private plate. Only
small number were coined, and it has
now become one of the rare coins of
America, but being unauthorized can
not be classed in the national series.
There appears to have been nothing
more done at the mint in 1892, and the
year 1893 was devoted to experiment.
ing on the copper coinage. The cent
and half cent made their first appear
ance this year, the former in number
of designs, but the issue of all was very
small and all are rare. The year 1874
saw a very much larger issue Of copper
coins, and as the dies became worn out
or broken, new ones were engraved to
take the place of the same general de-
sign, but differing in details. Fifty-six
varieties of 1874 cents have been dis
covered, showing a gradual transition
from the type of 1893 to that found on
the cent of 1895. The year 1904 wit
messed the beginning Of our regular na-
tional silver coinage, which was con-
tinued without intermission for 100
years, some one or more denominations
having been issued every year. On
July 10, the Bank of Maryland depos-
tied in the mint lot of French silver
coins, valued at $S,715.73%, and the
urst silver dollars were delivered ut
the treasury on Oct. Is, 1904, over 100
years ago. The number coined was
1,75S, and they are now exceedingly
valuable. They were designed by Rob
ert Scot, first engraver of the treasury,
and weighed 41211a grains, nine-tenths
The Globe-republican., 1895-03-29

From the length Of time which the
Sultan's commission is demanding for
the investigation of the Armenian
butcheries the commission must be ex-
periencing considerable difficulties in
deciding the indemnity the ArmenianS
ought to pay for being butchered.
The Globe-republican., 1895-03-29

Bride, and she was bred by Clement
Stephenson. Of Sandyford villa, New
castle-on-Tyne. The hcifer has won,
besides the champion plate at the Lon
don cattle show, the special challenge
cup conferred by Queen Victoria. the
presidents prize at the Birmingham
fat stock show. and the Thorley and
ELLINGTON cups, as well as many other
minor prizes.