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St. Paul daily globe., 1895-10-20
MATE LEROY GIVES AN INTER-
EsTING ACCOUNT OF IT'S
GENESIS.
OLD STYLES OF HEADGEAR
REVIVED AND RENAMED-SONIE
PRETTY FANCIES THAT
ARE NOVELTIES.
ROB ROY COLLAR THE LATEST.
A Draped StOcsk of Clan Plaid
Silk-OvercOat for II Business
Woman.

Special Correspondence to the Globe.
NEW YORK, Oct 17.-From the
crown of a woman's head to the
soles of her feet there must be some
thing new provided four times a
The Columbus journal., 1895-01-09
SMILE STARTERS.

Visitor-IIavc you any new studies
this term? Boy-Yes'm; I'm studyin'
yel!ocut on.
Jones-What's the big policeman
clubbing that little man for. Brown
because he's little.
Stranger-What's the name of this
street? City Boy - Zoobloblezeet.
care you sarc?" ''Oh, yes: I've heard
the conductors call it out. often"
81 wish You would mark down that
lot of ladies Shoes" said the mer-
chant. Yes, sir" replied the ex-
perienccd clerk. ain price or size?''
Patron. angrily-B:'ng me some
lunch, Restaurant Waiter - But
you've already ordered 4 breakfast,
sir. Fatron-Yes, but it was break
fast time then.
Frirnd-I wonder, Ethel. that you
allowed that Frenchman to kiss You
in the conservatory. Ethel couldn't
help it. Friend-Why couldn't you?
Ethcl-Because I can't speak French.
Mother-Johnny. On your way
home from school. stop at the store
and get me a stick of candy and a
bar of soap. Father-What do you
want of stick of candy? Mother
That's so he'll RENE ember the soap.
Ph ysician, with ear to patients
chest-Therc is & curious swelling
over TIL. heart, which must be re-
duced at once. Patient. anXiously-
That swelling is my pocketbooiI, doc.
tor Please don't reluce it too much
The Columbus journal., 1895-01-09
Abandoned Farms.

The members of the Massachusetts,
State Board of Agriculture, who We're
requested by the executive committee
to assist in obtaining further informa-
tion in regard TO the abandoned or
partially-a bandoned farms in Massa-
chusetts," have reported 5i1 farms
which were not included in the last
edition OF their catalogue. while "A
farms were reported from other sour
ces. a total of 565 farms. OF these the
secretary of the board has received des-
criptions of I43. which will be added
to the fifth edition of their catalogue,
which will soon be ready. The num-
Der previously described was 400. OF
which $50 have been sold, 20 Withdraw
from market for various reasons, and
125 wish the description continued IN
the fifth edition. while Al have not
been heard from. The $50 farms sold
contained 15,1l015 acres, and sold for
$40. 125, an average of Sl.521. 80 each,
and the 20 farms withdrawn were
valued at SIPS, 925, an average of ST.
593. 9S each. The expense. previous to
beginning the canvassing for the fifth
edition, was but little more than per
cent of the value of the property known
to have been sold, and the total cN-
pense to date is but s., 3cO. 81.
The Columbus journal., 1895-01-09
The MandOlin'S Popularity.

Perhaps the mandolin is stealing
some of the popularity enjoyed by the
banjo. At any rate, the former instru-
ment is becoming a greater favorite IN
society, and shop windows show them
much more frequently now than here
toforc. Formerly all the mandolins
used in this country were imported
from Germany and Italy: now nearly
all that are used here-and a great
MANY are used-are made in this coun-
try. In the past year and half or
two wears the mandolin has become
very popular here. and its popularity
shows no signs of diminishing The de-
mand for mandOlins comes from all
over the country, and it is so great that
wholesale dealers in musical instru-
ments are not always able to keep up
with it promptly. 1t is said that we
make in this country mandolins better
than the imported, and the same is
said of American guitars. Guitars
made in this country are now used
throughout the land, and they are also
exported to all Spanish-American coun-
tries. s.-Philadephia Bulletin
The Columbus journal., 1895-01-09
A NOBLE FIGHT.
AN EMINENT SOUTHERN LAW
YER'S LONG CONFLICT
WITH DISEASE.
Twenty -five Years Of Prosperity. Adver.
city and Sunering.-The Great Vic
tory Won by Science Over
Stubborn disease.

From the Atlanta, Ca, Constitution
Foremost among the best known LAWYERS
and farmers of North Carolina stands Col!
Isaac A. Sugg OF Greenyille Mr. Sugg has
resided in Greenville twenty-five years.
While nearly every one in Pitt county
knows Mr. s. history, perhaps all do not
know Of his return to business again after
an illness of sixteen years. No man has
gone through more than he and lived 1t
was a case Of the entire breaking down Of
the nervous system, attended by excruciat-
inc. agonizing. uncomfortable pain. Opiates
and stirnulants only quieted temporarily.
and all treatments failed him. Only his love
of family and friends prevented suicide
He told a reporter the following interesting
story:
Il kept at my work as long as / could,
but nature gave way at last and l sue
cumbed to the inevitable. My entire nerv-
Gus system had been shattered by the
stimulantS and opiateS / had taken nv
blood had actually turned to water, NV
weight had dropped from 113 pounds to l23
and il seemed To everybody that the end
was in sight Why, could not bear the gen
tie hand of my wife to battle my limbs with
tepi water. Twas simply living from hour
to hour had made my will, settled nv
business and waited for the last strand Of
life to snap.
1T was at this time that somewhat
similar case as my own was brought to my
notice. This man had suffered very much
as had. his life had been deSpaired of as
mine had, and yet lie had been cured
Think what that little word meant to me-
CURED. The report stated that the work
had been accomplished by a medicine
known as DR.. Williams Pink Pills for Pale
People. | investigated the report thor
ouChly and found that it was true in detail.
Then procured some of DIR. Williams Pink
Pills and began taking them and began to
get better. / began to sleep like health
full child, souId. calm and peaceful My
appetite came back and my nerves were
scothed and restored to their normal cOndi-
tiOn and | felt like new man. But the
gre atest blessing was the mental improve
ment. l began to read and digest. to fOrmu-
late new plans. to take an interest in my
law practice. which began to come back to
me as soon as my clients realized that
was again myself. After lapse of ten
years l ride horseback every day without
fatigue.
That Dr. Williams Pink Pills saved nv
ife is beyond doubt, and l am spreading
tEcir praises far and wide
inquiry about the town of Greenville sub
tantiated the above facts of Col. Suggs
ease. ani that many others are being bene-
;ited by Dr. Williams Pink Pills
DIR. Wil iams' Pink Pills are for sale by
hll druggists, or may he had by mail from
DR. Wi liams' Medicine company. Schenec-
tady. n V. for 80 cents per box, or six
boxes for S2.o,.
The Columbus journal., 1895-01-09
Sunaower Oil,

John Quimble, secretary of the Ma
tional Grange, writes thus of the sun
flower as a producer of oil: The dis
covery of sunf1ower oil as q food was
An accident. It being recommended
to q Russian farmer to prevent sick
ness; he tested its remedial values and
then began to use it as food to his
family and cake to his stock. So pop
ular for oil and food has the sunflower
industry of Russia become, that in
iss1-2 there were s67, ,ss9 acres in cult:
vation; in 1867, 7Oi, ,496 acres. Seed
is of the large and small varities, the
latter used for oil, the former eaten
the same as peanuts. A Russian farmer
gives the yield of seeds at 1 ,45O to 1,6OO
pounds per acre.
An American chemist, living in st.
Petersburg in 1865, made a compound
lard, taking sunflower oil as the base,
which was pronounced superior to
hogs lard in every respect for do
mestic purposes. Some of this COM
pound was sent to food exposition
in Holland, and took the first prize as
pure refined hogs lard. He then pro-
duced, from the same oil, oleomargar-
inc, which also took premium as
creamery butter. From the residuum
of the oil he manufactured fine wash
ing and toilet soaps, which are stan
dard brands in Europe and South
America. Druggists use the refined
oils in preparing liniments, salves and
hair lotions. When properly treated,
it is used on the most delicate machin-
cry as a lubricator.
sUNFLOwER OIL CAKE.
The annual output of all the sun
flower oil mills in value is estimated
ut 81, 700, 900 for the oil only. Oil cake
is put at 100000. The oil cake is
largely consumed in Russia, Germany,
England, Sweden, Denmark and HOl-
land, as feed for cattle. The stock
raisers and farmers of these countries
regard the oil cake as the best food to
be obtained for cattle. They claim for
it superiority over hemp or rape seed
for producing flesh on beef cattle, and
equally as good for increasing the sup
ply of milk in mich cows. A German
farmer reports that he increased the
flesh on an OK three pounds per day by
feeding on sunfiower oil cake. These
people also hold it in high esteem as a
horse feed. They say it produces
flesh and gives the hair lively. slick
appearance. The dried cups are fed
to sheep, and the faulty seeds are used
as feed for barnyard fowls. In many
sections where wood is scarce the
stalks and shells are used as fuel,
which answers as good substitute.
The ash from the sunfOwer contains 4
large per cent of potassium. Expert
ments have proven that 1000 pounds
of dried stalks yield 81 pounds of ash
and from 1000 pounds of ash $50
pounds of the best potassium is OBJ
tained. According to the analysis of
chemists, the ash of the sunfiOwer
contains about 30 per cent of potas-
stun, and it is also claimed by these
scientists that if the soil is very rich,
the plant will take up 50 per cent of
potassium. The ashes are sold to soap
makers. From the fiber of the stalk
is manufactured the finest varieties of
writing paper. which bear close re-
semblance in color and texture to
parchment.
The Columbus journal., 1895-01-09
How the AIinkskin Cost So Much.

THAT is very fine minkskin you
you have" said n citizen to MIR. Frank
Botefuhr. cit ought to be a good one, >
was the reply: lit cost me enough. y
Further inquiry ELECTED the informa-
ton that the mink had been killed on
Mr.. Botefuhr's place. up on Cornell
mountain. 1t had made way with four
teen of his prize chickens. valued at
Sl4. and was then caught in trap set
by man in charge. When it was
found that the animal was trapped. the
man took out a fine shotgun to kill it,
but, concluded it was not worth while
to waste the powder and shot on so
small varmint, struck at it with the
butt of the gun. The mink lodged the
blow, and the man. becoming excited.
whaled away at it again and smashed
the stock of the gun. The making good
of this damage cost Sla more, so the
minkskin cost SO net Mr.. Botefuhr
is not anxious to get enough skins at
the same price to line an overcoat.-
Portland Gregonian.
The Columbus journal., 1895-01-09
IN FOLLY'S WAKE.

He, softlv-Is your pa in? She,
warninely-Yes. but he seems to be
terribly out to night.
Mother-The doctor SAYS you must
eat meat and fruit. Sick Boy-Well,
give me some mince pie.
"Was that friend you bowed to
just now?" Yes, one that l highly
value" "Any special reason?
"Well. yes: he owes me $500"
First Lady. threateningly-Did you
call me a two-faced thing, did you?
Second Lady, unabashed.-Yes. did;
and wot's more 1 don't know which
on ems the ugliest
Did YOU hear that Spiffins had lost
his money in a submarine invest
ment?" said Van Braam to Shingiss.
What kind of an investment is that?'
asked Shingiss HE sunk it in q
pool
Jagwell-What makes that hen in
your back yard caclSle so loud?
Wiggins-Oh, they've just laid a cor
ner-stone across the street. and she's
trying to max, the neighbors think
she did il.
Happiness consists in virtuous and
honest LIE, in being content with a
competency of outward things, and in
using them temperateiy.
If conversation be an art like
painting, sculpture and literature. it
owes it's most powerful charm to na-
ture; and the least shade of formaiity
or artifice destroys the effect of the
best collection of words
The Columbus journal., 1895-01-09
Flax CElIure in EurOpe.

Our principal supply of the raw ma
terial, says Chambers Journal, Is inn
ported from Russia. where the plant
has long been, and still is cultivated
more extensively than in any other
country in the world; but there the
culture of the crop and preparation of
the fiber receive less care and atten-
ton than in any other fiax-producing
country. This neglect may be ac-
counted for by the immense tracts
under crop and also by much thinner
sowing than is practiced in other coun-
tries in order to give the plant greater
strength and more numerous branches,
to prevent it being laid during the vio-
lent thunder storms that prevail about
the time it is in flower. The result OF
this treatment, however, is coarse
fiber and also very much inferior
yield to that grown thicker and under
more favorable circumstances of soil
and attention in it's early stages. Ger
MANY, Austria and France will follow
Russia as flax producing countries. and
in each of these an average area of
over two hundred thousand acres Is
kept under this crop. In Holland flax
is grown principally for the seed, and
the planting and growth of the crop,
as well as the time for pulling, is regu-
lated for this purpose. BY properly
maturing the seed the quality of the
fiber is injured and renders the subse-
quent process more difficult; but the
Dutch farmers are amply remunerated
by the high price obtained for the
seed, which has for agricultural pur-
poses world wide fame, and is chiefly
sown in Britain, although Riga seed Is
also used and preferred by some grow
ers as being more hardy. 1t is Bel
gium, however, to which we must turn
to see flax in the highest state of culti-
vation, where nothing is neglected
that can in any measure improve the
quantity. and more especially OF the
quality of the crop. Here proper ro-
tatiOn of the crops, superior tiiiage
and liberal manuring of the land are
attended to in a manner not seen else
where, and to this the careful, plOd-
ding Belgian farmers owe their sue
cess in raising other crops as well as
flax, and which has earned for them
the reputation they enjoy of being
the most successful agriculturists in
the world.
The Columbus journal., 1895-01-09
IN SMALL PARCELS.

Roman ladies had safety pins close
ty resembling the modern article.
More than four iifths of last years
murderers were men Of no occupation.
AS late as 1861 the French had no
scenery, and the performers never
left the stage.
Frozen turtle from the South seas
row on its way from Queensland to
London as an experiment.
The most wonderful vegetable in
the world is the trufile: it has neither
roots. stem, leaves. flowers nor seeds.
An Oregon genius has succeeded in
grating chestnuts on grub oak and
proposes TO fatten hogs on the nuts.
Brooklyn clothing cutters say rs
much clothing was male in Sing Sing
prison last year Us in all New York
city.
The protection of the deer in Ver-
mont will extend until 1900, but the
farmers say that if there were not a
little hunting the animals would SO
increase as to BE- a nuisance be fore
then.
1t is proposed to make the port of
Bristol, Englanl, accessible to trans
Atlantic vessels at all times by dam
ming the river Avon at its mouth and
using locks. According to the plans
of the engineers constant depth of
thirty two feet can be obtained and
the necessary docks and breakwaters
constructed for Sil, 600, 900
a towering ghost was laid in Ben
ton, Pa. 1t was tcn-foot stroller in
back which co.ored girl on
her way to store knocked
in half by hitting the under
lad in the forehead with n stone mug
she threw at the apparition. The la
that stood on lis shoulders got away
unhurt, but neither of them will play
ghost again.
Mr. ". H. Dallas reports that the
observations of twenty-five years,
made liz the bay of Bengal by the In
dian government metcoroiogists. have
shown that the average temperature
rises during years that sun spots are
numerous, and sink when they are
few When the number of sun spots
exceeded the average, the baromc tric
pressure was less than its average.
The Columbus journal., 1895-01-09
The Unexpected Discharge of Cannon

Close by would no. have q more disturbing ef
feet upon nerves which are vigorous than M
ordinary noise upon those that are weak and
unstrun2. As Il nervine, HostetterS Stomacf
Bitters is rnrivallcd. BY promoting digestion
and assimilation they overcome that gastric
disorder. which is the most prolific cause Of
nervous debility. and which. so long as iteXlsls
defeats in large measure the action of sedatlves
and opiates. Such remedies. moreover. neces
state the use of increasing doses, and finally
cease to act altogether, except in dangerous
quantities. They never reach the fountain
head of the trouble. and quiet the nerves only
by semi -paralyZing them Equally objection
able are fiery unmedicated alcoholic StimuantS
Kidney. bladder and liver trouble. malaria, con
stipatiOn and rheumatism are relieved by tht
Bittcrs, which also promotes appetite ano
nightly rcpOSe.
The Columbus journal., 1895-01-09
Pats Faith in the Doctor.

lone of the most remarka BILE cases of
faith l have ever seen," said we'll
known physician, occurred when
was a student in Philadelphia l had
4 patient, an Irishman, who had a
broken leg. When the plaster ban
dage was removed and lighter one
put in its place, | noticed that one of
the pins went in with great difficulty,
and could not understand it, n week
afterward, in removing this pin, |
found it stuck hard and fast, and was
forced to remove it with forceps. What
was my astonishment on making an
examination to find that the pin had
been run through the skin twice in
stead of through the cloth. Why
Pat said /, didn't You know that pin
was sticking in you" To be sure.
did, replied Pat. but thought you
knowed your business, and so hilt me
fOppre ~
The Columbus journal., 1895-01-09
Emerson's Method of Writing.

1t was Emerson's practice to set
down in his journal his detached
thoughts as soon as they had taken
shape Whenever he had a lecture to
prepare. he selected from his journal
those sentences which seemed to bear
on the subject of his discourse. adding
whatever other illustrations or anec-
dotes suggested themselves TO him at
the moment In writing my
Thoughts, ne declared, Il seek no order
or harmony, or results. am not care
full to see how they cOmport with other
thoughts ana other words: | trust them
for that Any more than how any one
minute of the year is related to- any
other remote minute which yet know
is so related The thoughts and the
minutes obey their own magnetism.
and will certainly reveal themselves in
time"
The Columbus journal., 1895-01-09
FOR AND ABOUT THE LADIES.
Dresses are sold by weight in Japan.
Japanese women are almost wholly

Dresses are sold by weight in Japan
Japanese women are almost wholly
vegetarians.
The girls of Gillian county. Ore.
make considerable pin money BY
poisoning coyotes and collecting the
bounty on the scalps.
Miss Gould of London Is Eng.and's 8
only female recruiting sergeant. She
works among Young thieves ana the
very poor, and has done much good.
Mime. Reiane. the French actress, is
now recognized as the setter Of the
fashions for Paris, it is said. Her
hair is slightly redder than ma
hogany, and red hair is all the rage at
the French capital
Mrs. Nurich-How Is my daughter
making out in her art studies? Artist
Very we'll; only she lays the colors
on too thick. Mrs. Nurich-That's
all right; her father can afford to let
her have all the paints she wants.
A lady in South kensington, n. Y,
has fOunda new us, for dogs. One
muddy day lately she was seen in the
street with 4 parcel in one hand. an
umbrella in the other and an Irish
terrier holding the trail OF her dress
in his teeth. lie never let the dress
touch the ground
Young ladies now are making 4 ia l
of labelling their letters like business
men and keeping them In indie I'd
boxes. Letters to friends in Europe.
cpistlcs to relatives, the gushing let
ters of school origin and the notes
from gentlemen ,comc under separat ,
headings and are placed in different
boxes.
A story is told Of a wealthy bu'
pars:monious woman who was no!
easily affected by the appearance OF
misery. Being informed that hun.
CRY beggAr was eating grass in the
front Of the house. she excl aime /:
"Poor man; take him - the back
ward and let him eat the grass there.
1t grows higher"
The boari OF education of Passaic,
II. j., rec .ntly made the teaching OF
cooking regular part of the curri.
clGlum for the upper grades in the
female schools. Last week twenty
or thirty girls in one of the schools
made d salad. Then they inadvertently
ate it and every blessed one of them
was promptly taken sick.
The Columbus journal., 1895-01-09
Irrigation I'm Utah.

The success of the work of reclaim
ing arid lands in Utah by extensive
irrigation systems is attracting to that
territory many of the immigrants from
central and western Kansas, who have
been forced to look elsewhere for homes
because of the failure of their crops,
SAYS the New York Evening Post. a
colony of more than hundred Kansas
and Nebraska farmers have within Il
a few days settled in Millard county.
in the western part of the territory,
where they have purchased for cor
poration 10000 acres that are under
irrigation. The remainder of the
land in that locality that is under the
water system is yet in possession OF
the government, and is open to entry,
perpetual water rights being fur
nished at $40 per acre. The
reclamation of this land was begun
in 1891, S25O,OOO being expended
in the construction of an irrigation sys-
TEN. The reservoir covers an area OF
1872 Is acres. The waters from this
lake are distributed through two large
canals, s,thirty-eight feet in width, and
carrying five and one-half feet of water.
with over fifty miles of branch canals
and laterals. In the center of the
county a company is constructing a
canal system that will reclaim 5000
acres. In the southwest part another
company is preparing to furnish water
for 100000 acres. When the present
projects for supplying water are COM
pleted Millard county Will have re-
claimed 100000 acres that have hither-
to been considered worthless save for
grazing purposes. The same thing is
being accomplished in other counties OF
the territory. In Westwater valley
10000 acres of fine fruit lands are to be
reclaimed, and IN the Bear River val
ley thousands of acres are being con-
verted into prosperous homes
The Columbus journal., 1895-01-09
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, WHO live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products TO
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup Of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of a perfect lax
ative: ettectually cleansing the system,
diSpelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation;
Il has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the hid
news, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drr ;
gists in soc and 81 bottles, but it is man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being we'll informed, you will not
accept any substitute if offered.