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1881 THE CULTIvArOR 1896
= - AND
GENTLEMAN
THE BEST OF THE
AGRICULTURAL WEEKLIEs.
Farm Crops and Processes,
Horticulture and Fruit.GrOwing,
Livestock and Dairyng

Whileit also includes all minor departments
Of Rural interest, such as the Poultry Yard
Entomology, Bee Keeping, Greenhouse and
Grapery Veterinary Replies, Farm Cues
tons and Answers, Fireside Reading, Do,
nestle Economy, and summary of the
News fihe Week. II Market Reports are
unusually complete, and much attention is
paid to the Prospects Of the Crops, as throw
70 lightupou one Of The most important OF
questions HheH to buy aud Hlten 10 Sell
His Literally Illustrated and contains more
reading matter thsu ever before The sub
sciiption Price is So so per year, bus we Offer
a SPECIAL REDUCTION 10 our
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Paleface-Why don't you get a civ
ilized Name for yourself, now that you
have become a civilized Indianf
Noble Red Man-Ugh What your
name?
Paleface-My name is lglehart
Noble Red Man with crushing sar-
casm)-Ugh Iglehart Heap good In
jun's name Eagle Heart Heap bad -.
Chicago Tribune.
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In the early days Of this century many
efforts were made to fasten hard points
to pens Of softer material. Bits of metal
were often fastened as points to pens Of
glass, tortoise shell or horn.
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During the coming yesr teers will he an
immense number OF maitefs Of the most
vital interest TO farmers dealt with BY Con-
gress and the Execntive Departments at
Washington. L is highly important that
the farmers be kept promptly an4 n in
formed as 10 what IS being planned and done
affecting them at the National C4piia rfev
shoud all therefore, take The American
Farmer. which, being on the ground. has
better facilities than any other paper for get
ting this information, and devotes itself to
this duty They will find il it constantly
great amount Of valuable information that
they can get 10 no other napsr
THE AMERICAN FARMER and the
CHRONICLE for one year for $IIo.
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Tourist Gin Ireland)-I shonld like ?
room with an iron bedstead.
Hotel Proprietor-Sorr, Oh haven't
an iron bedstead IN the place .-they re
all soft wool. But you'll find the mat
tress noice and hard, sorr. Pick Me
On.
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Prayer has a right to the word in
stfable. = It is an hour Of autppurings
which words cannot express--of that In
terror speech which we donot articulate,
even when we employ it.--Mme- Swetch
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white House Of tho Confederaoy.

Within a short time the old home of
Jefferson Davis il Richmond will be
thrown open to the public as a Confed-
crate museum. The "White House Of
the Confederacy, " as it has been called,
has been the property of the city for
many years and has recently been used
as a schoolhouse. A room i'll the house
will be assigned to each of the states
that seeded for a collection Of relics,
and in addition there will be a large
room for a general museum and one for
a library. The first of the state collec-
tions-that of Georgia-has been re-
ceived. 1t was presented to the commit
tee by Mr.. De Reune on the eighty-sixth
birthday Of President Davis, June, 1894.
Among the relics are the cape, gauntlets
and sword Of General Lee; the plumes
from General Stuart's hat; the spy.
glasses used by General Beauregard at
the battle of Manassas, and the collec-
tions from the various soldiers homes
established throughout the south, in
Guiding the Lee Camp Soldiers home
collection, which contains, in addition
to many rare and interesting relics, the
skin Of Stonewall Jackson's charger
There are also a number Of manuscripts
and private papers. New York Trib-
me
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Oldest Agricultural Paper in Am erica
(EsrABLisHED 1879
THE AMERICAN FARMER,
17a9 New Z9rlz Avenue.
WASHINGTON. D. c.

The American Farmer, which is now en-,
tering upon its 18th year is the pioneer
paper in This country.
Il IS large eight page paper, ard con
taius 50 columns of the choicest agricultural
and literary matter pleutif0ly embelhshed
with fine Illustrations. It's
NATIONAL IN CHARACTER.
and deals with farming and farmers interests
on broad practical lines II
EMPLoYs THE BEST or WRITER'S
in tbs country and everything that spaears
in its columns ia Of the highest character.
Every department Of the farm rs business
is discussed 10 an earnest pfactic-l way
looking to the greatest nr0it md benefit TO
fAe fsfmer and his famv
II appear on THE frs o. sch 10 n aud
is furnished At the low . ice
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est all new Subscribers Ter 1896, PAP
me IN adgaace noe, we will send the paper
WEEKLY from oHr RECEIPT Of NE remit
lance 10 January ISL 1895, WITHOUT
Gil sRGE.
GS-srEcrNEN Copies FaEE Address
LUTHER TUCKER & S IN, Publishers
Albany, n Y.
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The war with France lasted from
July 9, 1898, to Sept. 80, 1900. and the
number Of men engaged, in the naval
force alone, was 1893. The land forces
raised for this campaign cut no figure.
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) The word and occurs IS, 543 times
In the Old Testament and 10, 6S4 times
IN tie New Testament.
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One Of the most amusing Of DR.. Holmes
experiences was a meeting when he was al
ready past his prime with an old Andover
schOolmate.
The doctor had given lecture in Mas
saphusetts city, and the next day his host,
> leading citizen, took him out for a drive
about town. The doctor espied over door
4 name that long ago was familiar to him.
His entertainer made tho introduction,
but the merchant showed more interest in
the citizen than in his undorsized guest.
The doctor inquired if he was not a stu
dent in Phillips, Apdoynr, in 1926, The
merchant replied that 10 was there at that
time
npo you remember boy there named
Holmes-Oliver Wendell Holiness"
After a slight hesitation he answered:
eyes. Little fellow, wasn't hep
The doctor admitted that such was the
fact and added that he was that boy. The
old sohoolmate looked him over without
much appearance of interest.
so you didn't take a college oourso?"
remarked the doctor.
No; I've followed the hardware bust
ness, and I've done very well in it. Where
have you kept yourself?'
1--WE been practioing medicine in Bos-
ton. y
HStrange have never heard Of you.
have been in Boston quite often, and
know good many doctors there.
Well I have also been professor in
Harvard Medical college, and my lectures
there have occupied most Of my time III
.ate years, so thar ! haven't practiced
much.
Dr. Holmes, physician, scientist, litter
ateur, poet and wit, was evidently Of
small account 20 his whilom schoolmate.--
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IT'S FARM FEATURES.

Such as Live Stock. Dairying. Horticulture, P
try, Mar CT Gardening, and other topics, WI.
by ractical and successful Farmers, tu
mrntcd With inastra tlOHs by able artists comb
70 make II inva uahle 10 those ~ no farm il Il
.iY ng
The Latest Markers and Commercial Ayr
tuTe are Leading Features, in which the Ayr
III ist is not eXcelled
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The most powerful sunglass ever con-
structed in France was that made nn-
der the supervision of the savant N.
de Yillette. This glass generated heat
sufficient to melt "a copper coin Of the
size Of our silver 20 cent piece in ~
seconds.
George Parker Of Fleet street, Lon
don, made a glass much more powerful
than that which resulted from the
Frenchman's efforts Parker was three
feet IL diameter and SO powerful that it
was actually used to melt substances
which were too refractory for the fur
naees. The best authorities on heat say
that it had a power Of ie6. 362 degrees
f. This is best understood when it is
known that it only takes temperature
Of 2, 787 degrees to melt cast iron. so that
It viii flow like water. st. Louis Re-
public,
sir John HerscheI proved that an ici-
Gle 40 miles in diameter and 200, 900
miles long would melt in one minute
hould it fall into tina sun.
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Al Ideal Farm and Family Weekly

To cxfe. its usefulness ard make it a pracff-s
nee ssitv e. ever og essise farmer and his
fimilv, the American Asriculturisf is now pub
l 7, I'D Of month monthly, SONY ST. a Year
All the ieading features that hayo made the
monthly - popular are retained and many new
features died such as General ana Local Mar
ket Price,. Crop reports in their Sea 90. @ m
densed Farm News, and Letters Amorg tIh
Formers.
The advocate., 1896-10-28

tactics have done more than anything
else to arouse and maintain that class
feeling and prejudice against which the
millionaires so loudly exClsim. The
election of Mckinley by snarrow margin
will be considered q mere triumph Of
money. The masses will believe that .
poor man, unsided and unpurohased by
plutocracy, cannot be chosen President
OF the United States, and the result will
be the approaching Of the contest Of
1900 in a state Of public feeling utterly
incompatible with the intelligent con-
sideration Of any question whatever. -
1'tOeRtieth Century.
The advocate., 1896-10-28

an eruption from deeper trouble. The
whining over 5O,Oent dollars, and light
dinner-pails, and savings bank depOaits,
is only the usual effort 10 deceive the
enemy" and hide the real question at
issue, which ls, Will plutOCracy tightt n
it's grip, or shall the republic be restored?
Every vote cast in this contest will be OF
one side or the other OF this question, as
four years more Of present conditions
will enable the Oligarchy TO own enough
voters and so tighten it's clutch that a
free election will be impossible.
II this vassal OF the trusts can be de-
teated at this election, the grip Of pluto
cracy will be looaened, its cohorts will be
disarmed and it's minions scattered.
Then the wrongs which we've been screening,
Making labor live by cleaning,
VIII work out different meaning
In an early bye.and.bye.
Justice ON the "bridge" is standing,
And her voice In tones commanding
win prevent the right from stranding,
Though the breakers may seem nigh.
Hear ye mot her voice In pleAdingS
Hark ye TO her words Of warning
Then the lea shore soon recedlng,
AS che streaks OF early dawning
Broaden to the light Of morning,
And we pass the breakers by.
PERCY DANIELS
GiTard, KRs
The advocate., 1896-10-28

Easy to take--Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pei
let's. Smallest, easiest, cheapest, best.
They're tiny, sugar-coated, snti-blliOus
granules, q compound Of refined and con-
centrated vegetable extracts. Without
disturbance or trouble, constipation, indi.
gestion, bilious attacks, sick and bilious
headaches and all arrangements Of the
liver, stomach and bowels are prevented,
relieved and cured. PERMANENTLY cured,
too. BY their mild and natural action,
these little Pellets lead the system into
natural ways again. Their influence lasts,
The advocate., 1896-10-28

From head to foot you feel the good that's
done by DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
CoVery. It puriHes the blood; and through
the blood it cleanses, repairs and inVigor-
ates the whole system. In recovering from
"grip," or In cOnvalescence from pneu.
monia, fevers, or other wasting diseases,
nothing can equal 1t as an appetizIng, re-
storstive tonic to build up needed flesh and
strength. It rouses every organ into nat
ural action, promotes all the bodily func-
tions, and restores health and vlgor. For
every disease that comes from torpid
liver or impure blood, dyspepsia, indlges-
tiOn, biliousness, and the most stubborn
skin, scalp, or scrofulOus affections, the
discovery" is the the only remedy so GER
tain that it could be, and was for years,
sold under positive guarantee Of giving
satisfaction in every case or money would
be refunded.
The advocate., 1896-10-28

cars and dining cars-"pay for Whist you
order"-to Chicago. Take the "Vestlbuled
Eli'' to Chicago, and the ''VeStibuled LAM
tied" to st. Louis.
AJAX Agent for tickets via che Burlington
Route.
L. w. WAKEIEY, Gen. Pass Agt.,
st. Louis, Mo.
The advocate., 1896-10-28

AIN one Of the Armour shops at the
stock yards an Australian ballot stood
675 for Bryan and lbs for Mckinley.
In another the vote was: Bryan, 2S7;
Mckinley, II.
"a recent poll Of Illinois made by the
Tribune, through it's correspondents,
showed that Bryan would carry the
State by $4,000. This report was sup
pressed by the Tribune after it had
been made at great expense"
The advocate., 1896-10-28
Can Poor Nan BecOme Pregldent !

There is the grand anxiety. Can the
syndicate triumph by foul meansH It
will resort to them. The labor vote
is systematically spied upon. The bread
of babes is gripped by corporations, and
the homes Of the hungry are invaded.
"Vote for Mckinley, or lose your jobE'
Such is the watchword. And as all this
is observed and pOndered, the class
hatred with which the land is sesthing
grows more furious and thesmug JUNCTION
Of pulpits more mocking, and the sleek
sOOrn Of capital more assertive. The
triumph Of Mckinley can never be as
dangerous in itself a. are the tagtIcs OF
PluteOraeY In Shis campaign, Those
The advocate., 1896-10-28
Printers For Bryan.
Girard, Kas.

The st. Louis POst-Disp0tch, under
the date of October s, publishes the
following special from Chicago:
"The big daily papers here are all gold
standard organs and are making claims
that labor is opposed to Bryan and free
silver. A poll Of their printers and
pressmen show the following result:
The advocate., 1896-10-28

No matter how tho election goes, the
ADVOCATE will still be on earth. You
can have II until January /, 1897, for
10 cents.
The advocate., 1896-10-28
TO Colorado, Montana, Hot BpFlngss Puget
Sound and Pacific Coast vie Bur.
IlnRtOn ROnte.

lnStOm ROuGes
Take the shortest and most desirable
line to the far west; complete trains from
the Missouri river. Daily train leaves
Kansas City at 1O:4O o. m arrives Billings,
Mont, 1850 miles distant, 6:45 next even
ing; eechalr cars Kansas City 10 Billings;
sleepers Kansas City to Lincoln; through
Sleepers TO Lincoln TO Billings. Connects
with fast train beyond to Montana and
Puget Sound Ten to twenty-five hours
shorter than other lines from Kansas City.
Through sleepers and chair cars Mis-
souri, river TO Denver; Rio Grande scenic
line beyond for Colorado, Utah and Cali
fOrnis.
Ask agent for tickets over the eStab.
lished through lines Of the Burlington
Route.
L. w. WAKELEY, Gen. Pass. Agt.,
St. Louis, Mo.
The advocate., 1896-10-28

Fits stopped Free and Permanently Cured.
No ats after hFss days use OF Dr. Kilne's
Great Nerve Restorer. Free 50 trial bottle and
treatise sent by Dr.. Kline, PSl Arch 80 Phila-
d0lphla, Pa
The advocate., 1896-10-28

61&So m63SuEeS HuU tuoI NOaAAH0CAt t~S
authors "a trusted leader with the
mssses-a tribune OF the people.
Shall We retain q system that is en-
shaving the masses? Or shall we wipe it
out? What say you, Mr.. Mckinley? Its
leaders have paid his debts and he owes
them his service.
What say you, Mr.. BryanG "Down
with trusts! Down with monopolies!
Down with secret bond syndicstes!
Down with plutocrscy in politics and in
government
There are the two men. One mort
gagged to monopoly; the other detying its
power and denying it's worth. McKin-
ley's election will permanently fasten the
theories he represents on the country,
and before the time for the second cleo
tion from this arrives, the plundering
systems he defends will rob the masses
Of the little they have left il they con-
tinue to sleep. Bryan's election means
an effort to destroy them. That was the
motive and is the real purpose OF the
Peoples party. That is to be it's life
work. It is it's destiny, though leaders
may have failed to recognize it or con-
ventions to fully record it. The same
combination Of forces that we call "des-
tiny" made the destruction OF Rlavery the
lite-work OF the Republican party. Their
early conventions only proposed to stop
it's extension, but new forces drove them
along, step by step, until that work was
completed.
The same unrelenting hand Of destiny
is gradually outlining and unfolding the
new party's llfe-work on our trestle-
board, but only as we find ourselves able,
by changing conditions and increasing
forces, to carry it's burden. A purified
and reiuvenated DemOcracy-its treach-
erous leaders deposed and fleeing to the
enemy's Csmp-has caught the inspira-
tion Of our purpose, and asks to plant
their banners by ours and together face
the onslaught Of a common foe. They
come to our aid under a leader with the
zeal, the energy and the noble purpose
Of Lafayette. Without their aid our
cause was as hopeless as theirs would
have been without our help. Whether
some Of them are more interested in di-
viding the spOlls than sharing the glory
Of victory, is not the question OF the
hour. It 10 too late to talk Of other op-
portunities or better positions. Antietam
would never have been fought il subor-
dinste commanders had done their duty
at the second Bull Run. Political mar
tinets and sulking Fitz John POrters can
burnish their tarnished escutcheons by
joining the moving battRlions. The bat
tie will be fought on the lines now
marked out. There is no neutral ground
on this field. Those who don't support
Cromwell will assist Charles. Every
vote that reduces Bryan's chances is q
blow at the interest Of the common peo-
pie. 1t is no time now to fsunt personal
grievances or individual dissppoint-
msnts. We all may have them, but they
should be smothered in the rising tide Of
patriotism. If our agents, as party man.
ayers or delegate conventions, have made
mistakes, let us not trampls on the in
tereat OF q thousand innocent to show
how much we condemn the acts Of one
sinner.
The advocate., 1896-10-28
To Chicago, St. Louis and tho East via Burllng

10 Chicago, SC. Louis and tho East via BuFIlng
tom Route.
The travelling public is sure to find the
best fast vestibuled trains to the East via
the Burlington Route.
Handsome new compartment SleeperS
(same rate as standard sleepers) chair
cars (seats free), Kansas City and st. Jo
seph to St. Louis; standard sleepers, chair
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-09-11
A Philosopher.

Miss Clara Howard is working her
way through the University of Califor-
MIA by selling newspapers. II believe
in work." she says, Il think that any
woman does not need to allow any pc
cuniary obstacles to interfere with it.
She can always reach an intellectual
object through manual labor. 1t is a
means to an end, and besides, it is
coducive to clearness of thought. l be-
lieve, also, in simplifying physical
wants for the sake of intellectual graf
ification and the demands of the un-
derstanding constitute the highest i'm
perative." She says that she intends
to become a philosopher, but she would
appear to be pretty good one already.
New York Tribune.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-09-11
Would HuRriNsrEAD OF HELP
f1low'gFreo Coinage Would Iniure the
ttt v Farmers.

The chief strength OF the 16 to / agi-
tation lies in the belief that 1t would
benefit the agricultural classes. This
I is serious error. The facts OF all
| human experience show conclusively
that free silver would cause widespread
and prolonged injury to the farmers OF
! this country
The mere threat of free coinage would
greatly injure the farmers by causing
an immediate calling in of all loans
through the natural desire of lenders TO
| get back money worth as much as they
lent. Hundreds of thousands OF farmers
would be unable to pay their mort
cages, and their farms would be sold at
sacrifice. No new loans would be
forthcoming, as the owners of capital
would not invest so long as there was
any danger that by a change in the
money standard the value of loans
would be cut in two. AS the chief COM
plant of the farmers now is that inter-
est is too high and capital is too scarce,
the effect of policy which would make
capital scarcer and dearer can be fig
ured out by each farmer for himself.
A second way in which free coinage
would hurt agriculture would be by the
financial panic which would inevitably
follow the overthrow of our present
sound financial system and the ad)p-
ton of the unstable cheap silver stand
ard. With the millions of bank de-
positors demanding their savings the
machinery of credits, by which so large
a part of the country's business is done,
would be suddenly stopped. Merchants
would be unable to buy goods for lack
of credit; manufacturing industries
would be closed down, as in 1893, and
millions of workers would be idle.
Men out of employment do not buy as
much farm products as when they are
at work, and the farmers who now
complain of the lack of markets for
their produce would find themselves
with a large part Of their crops UNI
sold. Would not this be a serious in
jury to agriculture?
Another evil which free coinage
would bring to American farmers
"Ouiu NC the uHStllleutHI VI lHGlI
trade relation with the great gold
standard commercial nations which
purchase each year 100000, 900 worth
of our surplus farm products. The
adoption of the silver standard, with
its constantly fiuctuating scale of
prices, would prove the same barrier
to commerce between this and other
countries that it has to trade between
gold standard Europe and India, China,
and Japan. Do the farmers want to
curtail and unsettle our foreign trade?
These are some of the ways in which
free coinage at 16 to l would hurt the
farmers. No advocate Of 5S-cent dol
lars has ever been able to show a single
way ir which it would help them.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-09-11
Double standard Maple Sugar

The Mohawk valley was settled by
the Dutch as your readers know. When
the country was new Yankee peddlers
came through the settlements and par-
chased the crop of maple sugar. On
one occasion green Dutchman sold a
Yankee his maple sugar far below the
market price and his neighbor teased
him for being deceived. lie said in re-
ply; you wait and l will vix him
next year" The next spring he sold
his crop of sugar to the same Yankee
at the same price. When his neigh
bors rallied him he said: 81 am no fool.
l made the sap that sugar was made
from of half spring water" The green
Dutch farmer had just as much COM
mon sense as those cranks who assert
that 50 cents worth of silver and an
equal amount of water will make a dol
lar worth 100 cents in gold at the pres
ent standard.-F G. in New York Sun.