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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-04-16
THE OLD ESTATE OF PIKE"
Once Extended to the Pacific Occani-sits
of tho Largest Nursery In tho World.

of tho Largest Nursery In tho World.
From he 81. Louis Republic.
The county OF Pike is older than the State
Of Missouri itself, having been laid out in
1910. The town Of Louisiana was laid out
In the same year, so that Louisiana, Mo-,
and the estate Of Pike" came into history
ut the Same time.
When the Territorial Government estab-
ished Pike County It's southern boundary
was the northern line OF st. Charles Coun-
ty. The western line was along the divide
between the Mississippi and Missouri rivers,
to the extreme northern line Of the Terri
tory Of Upper Louisiana, and. extended
to the Pacific Ocean on the west and TO the
forty-ninth degree Of north latitude :.
One OF the biggest institutions in Louisi-
ana, Mo-, Is the Stark Bros. Nurseries 49,.
Eighty years ago there came from Kentucky
to Pike County the late Judge Stark, then a
young man fresh from Old Hiclsory's New
Orleans campaign. He started the nursery
and planted the first grated orchard in the
State, having brought the sclons on horse
back from Kentucky.
The business has descended from father
to son, and is now conducted by the third
generation, assisted by the fourth. This
6rm has more than 1000 statesmen and wants
rs many more; business men, professional
mon, mechanics, farmers and others, how
ever inexperienced, are taught the business
and work the year round-receiving good
pay weekly. The company employs more
people in its offices than would be necessary
TO run large manufacturing concern. The
extensive packinghouses are connected
with the railroad by special track, whence
hundreds Of car loads of trees are shipped
annually. The nursery grounds embrace a
number Of farms convenient to the city, and
even extend to RoclSport, ILL.,, where there
Is q plant Of several million trees
A popularity Of the concern is the cstab-
lishment Of large orchards. These orchards,
In "a states, aggregate nearly 30, 900 acres,
$500, 900 trees, on the partnership plan. The
firm is also interested in nearly as many
more trees on the cooperative arrange
ment. :. The Nurseries have been bene-
dcial not only to their home, but Missouri
owes no little of her prestige as fruit
growing region to the progress and work Of
development of this firm.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-04-16
Change the system.

The experience of the last two or
three years reveals the fact that the
people of an entire section Of country
can be brought to n state Of want and
suffering by an erroneous system of
farming. 1t lisa difficult matter to get
tillers Of the soil out of the "old ruts."
They are naturally conservative and
are slow to adopt new ideas. The mat
ter Of improvements in methods Is one
Of education, and this is naturally
slow process. There Is no better school,
master than want. II the sufferers
can only be made to see that, 1t will
teach them to adopt better methods.
Our system Of farming is young,
compared to that Of older countries of
the globe. There are about three and
half million square miles In this
country that have been brought un-
der the pillow In n short space of time,
and by the results therefrom demon
strating that our system tends to de-
stroy rather than to build up our lands.
Nature is ever active behind the farm
err with the loblolly pine and other
timber subsoiling and shading the ex-
hausted soil, or we would have bar
rem waste to bequeath to posterity,
The system Of soil depletion and spolia-
tion should be stopped.
The fact Is that If our farms were
managed as they ought to be, making
all the supplies needed at home, the
money would so adjust itself that the
farmer would have less use for it.
He does not handle much Of it any
way under the present system, al
though there Is more demand upon
him for 1t.
Our fathers who opened up the large
plantations Of cotton, sugar cane and
rice, brought the hog and other indus
tries along with them, and were wiser
in this respect than their children.
They were more of success in maxi
ing money. and many of them acquired
fortunes, that their sons have dissi-
pated in experimenting with cotton
and free labor.
Cotton is dear at any price If we have
to buy everything to make 1t with.
Whether the crop is large or small,
the farmer who makes all he needs on
his own farm, will not be in condi-
ton of want and suffering. Milton
Chance, in Dixie Farmer.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-04-16

Mr.. A. /. Root, the veteran bee man
of Ohio, says: 1.-THE age of bees, under
all circumstances, can best be de-
termined by changing the color of the
bees by the introduction of a queen
whose bees differ in color or marking
from those already in the hive. AS
the new bees come on, the old bees
will go right on spending their ener-
gies as before. When an Italian queen
is introduced to blacks, or vice versa,
the old bees, after a heavy honey-fow,
will begin to disappear pretty fast in
six weeks. After the honey-fow, l
have seen black and hybrids in coll
ony for Six months and more"
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-04-16
Egyptian Cotton.

The Industrial Record is inclined to
think the advice given by the Chicago
Chronicle to the southern cotton
planters Of the Mississippi and Brazos
river regions, that they plant Egyptian
seed, thereby reducing the redundant
American crop, and getting higher.
priced product in its place, is eminent
ly sound The wonder is that it has
not been attempted in large way be.
fore, for at least 500, 900 bales of Egyp-
tian cotton find market in Liverpool,
England, every year.
If there was the slightest likelihood
that it's quantity, quality or price was
injuring or about to injure our south
ern cotton planter, there cold be no
objection to duty. Indeed, there
would be none, we fancy, from any
large number of northern interests.
Our southern friends have not been,
heretofore, very direct participants in
the benefits Of protection, owing to the
character Of their great staple prod
ucts, and it is with no feeling of Sec
tional discrimination that this question
has been here discussed.
In giving the use to which Egyptian
cotton is devoted in this country, it
would, perhaps, be more correct to say
that its principal consumption had
been found in mixtures with the long
stapled Texas and Mississippi valley
fibres, in the production Of very fine
numbered yarns. Peruvian cotton is
used almost altogether for wool mix
lures. The figures given regarding
the number of bales imported are up
on basis Of 500 pounds to the hale,
the average size of the American pack
age. As matter Of fact, an Egyptian
bale weighs about seven hundred and
twenty-five pounds net.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-04-16

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case of Catarrh that can not be
cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
\. j. CHENEY a. Co., Props, Toledo, O.
We, the undersigned, have known +. J.
Cheney for the last Is years, ard believe
him perfectly honorable In all business
transactions and financially able to carry
out any obligations made by their firm.
WEST g. TRUAx, Wholesale Druggists, To
ledo, o.
WALDINa, KINNAN & MARVIN, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
Halls Catarrh Cure IL taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. Price 75c. per bot
tie. Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials
free.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-04-16

Prepare the beds for sweet potatoes
aud make arrangements for full crop.
There is no better food for hogs, while
all farm animals and fowls are fond OF
them. They require potash and phos-
phoric &C i'd in greater proportion than
nitrogen, and although they will pro-
duce well with stable manure, COM
mercial fertilizers are said to produce
fner-favored and smoother tubers.
The following is good proportion:
Acid phosphate, 39O pounds; cotton
seed meal, $40 pounds; kainit. $40
pounds. Farmer.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-04-16
Spring
ediCine

our blood in Spring is almost certain To
DO full OF impurities-th accumulation
OF the winter months. Bad ventilation
OF sleeping rooms, impure mir in dwell.
ings, factories and shops, over-eating,
heavy, improper foods, failure of the
kidneys and liver properly to do extra
work thus thrust upon them, are the
prime causes Of this condition. 1t is Of
the utmost Importance that you
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-04-16

Zigsby--I have put friend ofmine OH
his feet three times in the past two
years
Pcrksby--rhat's nothing. pu. a
friend Of mine on his feet "A times
last pight<--Rropklyn Eagle
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-04-16

And don't omit when you are packing up
your effects preparatory for the voyage, to
Include among them assupply OF Hostetters
Stomach Bitters, the great remedy for sea
sickness. Travellers for pleasure or bust
ness seeking foreign climes, or who loco
mote by steamboat or train, besides yacht.
men and mariners, testify to the remedial
and preventive eflicacyof the Bitters, which
is incompatible for nausea, headache, dys-
pepsia, biliousness, rheumatism, nervous
and kidney trouble.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-04-16
WHERE DID you GET THIS COFFEEY

Had the Ladies' Aid Society of our
Church out for tea, forty of them, and
all pronounced the German Coifceberry
equal to Rio! Salzer's catalogue tells
you all about it! 35 packages Earliest
vegetable seeds $l.00.
If YOU WILL CUT THIS OUT AND SEND
with 15c. stamps to John A. Salzcr Seed
Co., In Crosse, Wis, you will get free a
package of above great coffee seed and
our 14s page catalogue! Catalogue
alone SC. postage. (K)
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-04-16
Sunday Observance.

BY upholding the sacredness of the
Sabbath we are advancing the Holy
Fathers work in bringing about Chris
tian unity the world over.-Rev.
Father Malone, Catholic, Brooklyn,
N. Y.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-04-16
/. Purity
Your Blood

DIV, as when warmer weather comes and
the tonic effect of cold bracing air is
gone, your weak, thin, impure blood
win not furnish necessary strength.
That tired feeling, loss of appetite, will
open tho way for serious disease, ruined
health, or breaking out OF humors and
impurities. To make pure, rich, red
blood Hoods Sarsaparilla stands un.
equalled. Thousands testify to its
merits. Millions take it as the!r
Spring Medicine. Get Hoods, because
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-04-16
COwardIce.

The biggest coward is not always the
man who refuses to fight. it takes
more courage sometimes to turn away
from brawl than to plunge into it.
Rev. Washington GLADDEN., Congrega-
tionalist, Columbus, o.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-04-16

WE are commonly taught our duty by
fear or shame, but how can they act upon u
man who hears nothing buthis own praisesl
Johnson
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-04-16
Coma To Texas.

The Lone Star" Is waving-the flag OF the free;
No idlers are wanted, the thrifty and wise,
To wealth and high station can equally rise.
Where corn, oats and cotton; the richest OF
loan,
Which yields to the settlers provisions and
home
Trees OF every description arise on each hand,
From alluvial soil to the rich table land.
Here springs are exhaustlcss and streams
never dry,
In the season from winter to autumns bright
sky,
A wide panorama OF prairie is seen;
or grasses OF all kinds perennially green.
Here millions OF cattle. sheep horses and goats
Grow fat as IL stall-fed or fattcned on oats.
No poverty Is found In the mighty domain,
To the man who exerts either finger or BRAIN
Here are homes for the millions, the rich and
the poor,
While Texas opens wide her hospitable door.
She has thousands OF acres-yes, millions-to
sell,
Yet can point without cost to where pre-
emptors can dwell.
Yer terms will be easy with those whom she
deals,
While security, all. in their title can feel
Buy land while It's cheap, and the finest select,
Twill. young man, prove fortune when least
you expect.
Old man. for your children, buy, file II away;
A Godsend twill prove on some rainy day.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-04-16

BEss-slf were in your shoes" Madge
-''Don't talk Of impossibilities." -Boston
Courier.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-04-16

THE lady who said that tho men who
would not give her seat in the street car
were ''simply brutal" is the same person
who declared that the last terrible murder
was perfectly ridiculous. "-Boston Tran
script.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-04-16

THERE is q gift that is almost blow, and
there Is kind word that is municence; SO
much is there in the way Of doing things
A. Helps.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-04-16

The brakeman's sail aboard !" ere long
viii be of little worth,
When from the air.ship rings the song,
"Come, all get off the earth"
-Truth
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-04-16

BEEcHAMs PILLS for constipation 10c and
&c Get the book (frce at your druggists
and 60 by it. Annual sales 6.000, 900 boxes.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-04-16
pon,t De roo Late for tho Steamer,

WIcKEDNEss may prosper for awhile, but
at the long run lie that sets all knaves az
work will pay them. -LEstrange.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-04-16

For ALIAyING HoARsENEss AND IRRITA-
ZION OF TUE THROAT, use "Brorn'S bronchial
TrocleS.n 25c II box. Avoid limitations.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-04-16

| HAVE found Piso's Cure for Consump-
ton an unfailing medicine. Il. r.. LORI,
1905 Scott st g, Covington, KY, Oct /, 1894
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-04-16

KNOW no such thing as genius; it is
nothing but labor and diligence Hogarth,
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-04-16

TIE doing OF an evil to avoid an evil can
not be good Coleridge,
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-04-16

To DE proud Of learning is the greatest
ignorance. Bishop Taylor.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-04-16

Annals it an interesting storyg" Daisy
--"Extremely interesting! l don't think l
skipped ~ pages -Tit-Bits.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-04-16

~ FITS stopped free by DR.. KlIne's Great
Nerve hestorer. Motifs after first DAYS use
.harvelous cures. Treatise and So trial hot.
'ie Tree. Dr. Kline, 93l Arch St., Phila., Pa.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-04-16

For pamphlet fully describing this wonder.
full country address Castor Meslier, General
Passenger and Ticket Agent Texas and Pacific
Railway, Dallas, Texas.
Low-rate Home Seekers Excursion Tickets
will be sold to oil points In Texas on April 7,
April 81 and May o. Take advantage OF this
great opportunity.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-04-16

GREAT names dcbase instead of raising
thosewho know how to use them.-Rochc,
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-04-16
THE OLD
BLUE-BACK
IcpEI TER

.~ Ak<AA~A>
was erstwhile
|thumhed by how
many who read
these wordsi And
the old familiar
pictured - "a 0 h
heart recalls a
| different scene,
but all remember
we'll how, cribbed
lcabincd and con
nned while sun
shiny altern oons
| dragged their
lslo W ngt b
along, tho feel
ling akin to pity
grew into real ad
miration for the
" young sauce.
lboxn who would
mot como down
hnlt a
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-04-16

You told me you and Harry loved M
nrst sight" YES, but we quarreled on nc.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-04-16

Whether on pleasure bent or business t.p.
on every trip bottle of Syrup of FIGS ss n
ACTS NEST pleasantly and effectuallv on tho
Kidneys, uver aud bowels, preventing fe-
vers, headaches, and other forms Of sic,r.
ness. For sale In so cent and 81 bottles by
M leading druggists Manufactured by the
California Fig Syrup Company only. s
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-04-16

The Grip Of Pneumonia may be warded of
wltn Hnle's Honey OF Horehound and Tar.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-04-16

=, If there is anything ina young man tho
SSoatgen rays should bring 1t out.-Yonkers
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-12-31

An ingenious Frenchman has Sug-
gested a way in which Il rose. or other
flower, could be caused to appear grow
ing and unfolding in the presence Of IA
roomful of spectators. He proposes to
employ the kinematOscOpe, a magic
lantern so arranged as to produce NOV
ing figures on Il screen by means of Il
series of photographs of living objects.
each successive Photograph having
been taken only Il small fraction of n
second later than its immediate prede-
cessor. But for the. proposed new APP
plication of this instrument the photo
graphs need not be made 50 near to-
gether, since they are to represent
changes which require several months
for their development. Beginning
with the first appearance of the bud,
several thousand photographs of a
growing rose are to be taken. Just near
enough together so that the change Of
form in the flower is almost impercepti-
BILE, until it has attained its complete
bloom, and then has faded and fallen
to pieces. These photographs, being
passed as transparencies, in rapid sue
ceSsion, through the kinematoscope,
there would appear upon the screen the
figure OF a rose visibly budding, grow
ing, opening, spreading its petals, and
finally %shriveling and dying. the whole
process occupying but a few minutes.
Many other applications Of this princi-
pie to the representation of growing
objects are suggested.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-12-31
DIG BANKS GO DOWN.
.-oNAL OF ILLINOIS CAUSES
w. OTHERS TO FAIL.
~ scores OHcia1s-Comptroller
the Suspension Is Due to Reck.
Methods - Managers Received
less
unruirC.
three Banks Closed.

Tho National Bank of Illinois at Chi
80 failed to open its doors to the pub
~, Monday morning. This action was the
~",,al. 70 the step taken by the committee
!. Tho clearinghouse Association, which
Satnrdav evening decided to suspend the
t"nk from clearinghouse privileges. And
a result of this suspension E. S.
n-ovor < Go. and Wasmansdorf, Heine-
mann & Co.. two private banks clearing
+brouyh he Illinois National, were forced
;, make application in court for a re-
oo;rsr. So far as can be ascertained by
Chicago adrices, the trouble is not likely
~ roach beyond these three banks, and ic
avery case it is stated that ~depositors
will be paid in full or nearly SC.
Not since 10 has Chicago banking cir
clos been shaken up as they were when
+ha news of the closure of the National
Rank 81 Illinois was made known. 1t
has always been considered the second
strongest national bank in the city. It
was organized in July, 1871, passed cafe
Is through the Chicago fire, the panic of
-. the troubles of -, and the troublOus
zines Of 80 with a clear record. .Accoru-
N. to Comptroller Eckels, "the failure
!. lue to injurious, reckless and inrTu-
dent methods followed by the officers and
.or checked by the directors, though their
attention had been individually called to
,he same and over their individual sig
natures they had promised to remedy the
weak points in the banks condition"
The essence of the trouble with the
National Bank of Illinois was that the
entire capital, S2,O0O,O 900, and surplus,
$4,000. was practically loaned in one or
Two hands. The bank had advanced
some Sl.3O0.OO0 on Calumet Electric
Railroad stock, a property of momentari-
y, at least, doubtful security, while near
ly 100000 was loaned to E. s. Dreyer
& Co., who in turn had spread their
capital over an eXpanse completely out of
their power 20 handle. Other large loans
to individuals more than completed the
sur of the banks capital and surplus.
When these facts were brought to the at
tcntion of the clearinghouse, a week or
50 ago. a committee was appointed to in
yes;igNte, in order if possible to discover
some means of averting the failure. The
result of the committees investigation
was to demonstrate that the management
II the bank had beer drifting into meth
eds which no mount of bolstering up
could offset, and that however willing tho
Chicago clearinghouse might be to so
to the assistance of the Illinois National,
The most honest. safest and best policy
would be to make n clean breast of the
whole business and for the credit of the
clearinghouse itself, to suspend the bank
fr'A membership pending a report by the
government bank examiner.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-12-31
Reflections of a Bachelor.

Lots OF men think they ought to get
their wives affection on credit.
Men who are at heart most romantic
always pretend to the last not to be.
Pretty teeth are very often at ths
foundation of 4 girls reputation FOR
jollity.
There's such Il thing as having too
much regard for the feelings Of the
neighbors.
The velvet on the peach may be pref
ty to look at, but it sets your teeth on
edge to touch it.
There are Some women who never
find occasion to bewail the passing OF
the days of chivalry.
When a man says thai nobody cares
whether he lives or dies. he isn't adver-
Using himself very well.
When a woman tells you some gossip
about another woman, she always be
gins by saying: Isn't it awful how she
has got herself talked about!
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-12-31

The National Wool Growers Associa.
tlon unanimously adopted a resolution
Lavorlng an extra session of Congress.
y bill was introduced by Representa-
eve Bull of Rhode Island, appropriating
SoO,OoD for the erection in Washington
ot a monument to James G.. Blaine.
Gen j. $. CoXey. Of C~ommonweal
army fame, is in Washington to resume
ais effort to secure Congressional action
On his schemes for good roads and non-
interest bearing bonds.
Members of the House Ways and
Means Committee say that the reports
rom Washington outlining an elaborate
scheme for a duty on silver in the new
'aritf bill is merely a fiction.
The agricultural bill follows very close
y the lines OF the one drawn last year
and the amount to be appropriated will
De about the same, which was, including
me weather bureau. $2.29S. 132.
The Inauguration Committee has re-
ceived applications from the Fourteenth
Regiment, Ohio National Guard; the
pennsylvania State Fencibles Battalion;
The York, Pa, Rifle Association of Veter-
ans, and others for places in the parade
March 4.
The bill for the legislative, executive
ana judicial expenses of the government
Tor the fiscal year ending June 80, 1898,
carried a total of S2l. 6G7. 500, which is
si.o99,S2l less thar the estimates, and
eo''e99 less than the appropriations for
the current year.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-12-31
Measuring Its Own Velocity.

BY means of an electrical device ex-
perimenters, acting for the United
States Board of Ordnance, have recent
ly succeeded In obtaining Photographic
records of the motion of Il p~rojectile
while yet inside the bore of a cannon.
The projectile carries a rod of wood
attached to it's front end. and copper
rings. encircling this rod at fixed in
tervals, successfully form electric con-
facts as the rod is driven from the gun.
Each of these contacts produces an
automatic record on Il Photographic
plate. The Scientific American, in de-
scribing the apparatus and expert
ments, says that the shortest distance
travelled by the prOjectile between two
successive records was 81 centimoters.
which is Il little less than an inch and
q half, and that some of the time inter-
walls between the records were only ono
two-thOusandth Of Il second.