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The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-11-11
ST. Warren St, New Yorl
AN IMPORTANT DIFFERENCE

To make it apparent to thousands,
who think themselves i'll, that they
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hnt that the system simply needs
cleansing, is to bring comfort home
TO their hearts, as costive condition
is easily cured by using Syrup of
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MIA Fig Syrup Company only, and
sold by all druggists.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-11-11
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Also YOUR TEETH
-. BY Visiting the.
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The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-11-11
WILL ADJOURNAT NOON

Today, Saturday is the
long session, the Merchants
Exchange, but at the quest of
the members, who presented
a numerously signed petition
to the direct it was decided to
adjourn at II noon.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-11-11
SELLING AT COST
Mrs. Geo. Krausse Offers Many Rare
Bargains.

To close out the business, Mrs.
Geo. krausse is selling at cost her
ontire stock of
Silverware
Fine Stationary
Glass and China ware
Fine Baby Carriages
Musical Instruments
Fancy goods,
Toys
Organs and
a Fine Piano.
Call early aud lay in a supply of
Christmas gifts. while such rare
bargains are offered.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-11-11
HON"S THESo

We offer One hundred Dollars
Reward Tor any case of Cat1rrh that
can not be cured by Halls Catarrh
Cure.
FL. CHENEY 4 Co, Props, To-
ledo, o.
We the undersigned, have known
E. j. Cheney for the last 10 years,
and believe him perfectly honorable
in all business transactions aud fin
ancially able to carry out any obli-
cations made by their firm.
WEST " TRUAX, Whosale Druggists,
Toledo, 0.
WALpING, K4NNAN & MARVIN Whole
sale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
Halls Caiarrh Cure is taken inter
nally, acting directly upon the blood
an m ucous surfaces of the system.
Prce Zoe. per bottle. Sold by all
ruiggists. Testimonials free.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-02-21
IIER rIRs ST BICyCLE r7ssnN

A young woman writing in the San
Francisco Argonaut describes her
first bicycle lesson in manner which
will strike responsive chords In many
hearts.
cit came my turn" she says, "and
l tried to look unconcerned. A young
man rolled out a wheel in front OF m e
IN business-like way, turned n screw,
lowered the seat, gave it a final shake
to see that it was all right, and then
motioned TO me to mount.
81 have been in n hurricane when
our steamer was hove TO off the coast
OF New Zealand, and all tho woodwork
was washed overheard; have been in
railway smashup, and was handed
ont OF the car through q hole in the
roof; L have sat by the of window of
n stage coach when a wheel slipped
over the side OF n precipice; 1 have
been IN many strange adventures, but
never had such an acute feeling of
peril rs when sat on the top of that
bicycle, holding on for life to the
steering bar"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-02-21
THE JAPANESE BUGABOO.
Protectionists Trying n New Scare
to Brighten Timid Americans.

NroJcctlOnlStS frying a New Scare
to Brighten Timid Americans.
All other schemes for getting votes
for McKinleyism having failed, the
Republicans are trying to scare the
workingmen with alarming stories os
the dangers of japanese competition.
For several months past the pages OF
the protectionist papers have teemed
with warningi articles on the 'Yellow
Peril, which, in the imagination of
able editors, is threatening the very
existence of American industry. So
much fuss has been kicked ND about
the matter that Senator Stewart, Re.
publican Senator from Nevada, has
brought the question before CONGRESS.
and IN doleful speech predicted all
sorts OF woeful things il some action is
not taken to shut the products of
Japan out of our markets.
1t is doubtful if anybody outside of
the professional politicians and calam-
lty howlers has been scared by the
fact that Japan is beginning to intro.
duce modern industrial methods II
is probably true that the Japanese are
quick wltted, energetic people. who
will be able to manufacture many mr.
ticles on large scale. But that is no
reason why the highly skilled Ameri-
can workers should refuse to trade
with the less efficient foreigner. The
fact that wages are nominally much
lower in Japan than in the United
States does not prove that the factories
OF this country can be underso!d by
those OF Japan. For while wages may
be ten times as high, the product OF
each Americans labor is more than
twenty times greater than that of the
average Japanese. SO that the seem
ing ADVANTAGE of cheap labor is more
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-02-21

than counter balanced by the much
greater efficiency of the better paid
workers. The inventive genius and
ability TO utilize natural forces OF the
American mechanic or operative far
outweighs the difference between
wages here and in Asia.
A sample of the ruin which the
modern Munchausens have been talk
ing about was q statement that on
agent for japanese firm had landed
in San Francisco and was taking orders
for high grade bicycles at twelve dol
lars apiece. The millions of Ameri-
cans who want to initiate Henry
George, Jere Simpson and Tom Reed,
by riding a wheel, were thrown into
sudden fear lest they should be able
to get hold of good thing which they
could push along. But there was nc
reason for clamor. The twelve dollar
bicycle story was hoax. Colonel
Albert A. Pope. an authority on bicy-
Giles, pointed out that the materials for a
high grade wheel would cost far more
than twelve dollars To effectively
squelch the absurd invention he added
that his company is now selling large
numbers of bicycles in Japan at S125
each. The alleged twelve dollar wheels
only existed in the heads of the pro-
tectionist editors.
If the Japanese do learn to manu-
facture goods which we want we can
hardly expect them to give them to us
for nothing. If they sell them they
must take some of our products in ex-
change. This will give our workmen
wider markets, and instead of injur-
ing American labor, will benefit it.
Trade with any country is always a
good thing. There need be no fear
that we will be injured by an invasion
of cheap Japanese goods.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-02-21
NAMES ron HER GUESTS.

a we'll known Louisville girl whose
brains have won for her the reputa.
ton OF being enc of the most brilliant
women In tho city recently held q
book party OF her house, and the
names she gave some of her acuuaint
ances were so excellent that / feel /.
IS my duty to give the public the ben
eft of them. NV consideration for
the people named will not allow me to
give their right names, but you can
draw your own conclusions, and dare
say that the right people will be
spotted in more than one instance.
Great Expectations" is the pseu.
donym which has been given to \
young lady who believes that she will
eventually win the heart and hand OF
man OF birth and fortune. Unfor
tunately, she has not yet met this
man. 1.-THE Sign of the Tyre" is the
name that has been given to a well
known matroD, for what reason l can
only guess. Several we'll known spin.
sters have been dubbed "Plain Tales
From the Hills" These ladies--ol
girls, as they prefer being called-are
Just chuck full of stories which have
become threadbare from constant tell.
Ing. (Ky.) Post.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-02-21
.srRAw FOR cows

Cows may be fed and kept alive on
straw, 1t the winter is not too severe for
them under such sad circumstances.
and, although given some grain food
with the straw, they cannot be expect
ed to afford much milk, and what they
may give will be very poor. A COW
needs a good digestible rough food as
we'll as grain, If she is expected TO
give milk, and clover hay is the best
coarse fodder. The ordinary method
of feeding cut straw with pulped roots
will do very well for cattle that are
fattening. if sufficient fattenin4 food
is fed with it. This is SO because the
fat only is expected. and no growth of
FISH, for which the same heterogeneous
elements are needed as for milk. If
there is a surplus of straw to be dis
posed OF, it may be sold and clover
hay procured with the money. This
will be better economy than feeding
the straw. New York Times.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-02-21
SIZE MAKES FARMING p,v.

Miss Annie Dennis is u woman who
has discovered the secret of making
agriculture pay. She is q Georgian,
and wha5 she does not make in the
regular discharge OF her occupation
she makes by winning prizes.
She runs dairy OF forty COWS, and
she finds ready sale for all her milk
and butter. She raises celery and
plants from fifteen TO twenty acres in
tomatoes. She has no regular can
merry, but large house with boiler
and evaporation, III which the vegeta-
able and fruit canning is done.
She cans III glass and tin. She ships
fruit in its natural state to Boston.
New York and other places, and when
the shipping season is over the can
ming commences. AS yet she only sup
plies her own State with her canned
goods, such rs corn, tomatoes and
okra, and these three vegetables COM
bincd for soup. She raises sugar cane
and finds ready sale for tho best
Georgia syrup.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-02-21

predictions that il would be generally
used as a substitute for cotton may
not have been entirely fulfilled, il is
used to a considerable extent with
goods made of wool and cotton. The
attention called to the new fiber gave
an incentive 10 fax growing. however.
which has resulted in a much larger
aci cage of this crop than ever before.
Many farms that were abandoned in
New England, or In former days raised
flax for spinning, were planted with
this crop, and the general output last
year was enormous. Tue real extent
to which iibrelia is used in the man
ufacture of goods can be gathered
1000, 000 of flax straw were burned
in the fields after the seed had been
gathered, while to-day little, if any,
such straw is thus destroyed.
in the West the flaxseed is sown
broadcast for the fiber at the rate of
two bushels to the acre, and all the
cultivation given TO il is that required
to keep down the weeds until the
leaves shade the ground. The plants
are allowed 20 ripen their seeds, and
then the straw is pulled and put up in
small bundles for drying. The seeds
are. thrashed out good deal as an
ordinary farmer would thrash his cats
or wheat, that Is, with fail or with
Il machine thrasher, the latter being
the more desirable, as it does not in
jure the straw so much. Some still
resort to the "rottine" process, SO
common in early New England days.
The bundles are taken to lac shallow
pond or brook, and stood in it with
the butts downward. After standing
thsre for five or ten days the core will
come out of the fiber when the stalks
are broken. When rotted sufficiently
the bundles are taken out with a
pitchfork and stood up to drain and
dry.
The next process is that called
"grassing." The stalks are spread out
upon the grass aud turned over once
or twice n day for a week. This i'm
proves the color OF the fiber. The
"breaking" process which follows is
done by set of Auted rollers, aud the
"hatchelling" by machine that sepa-
rates the fine and coarse hbers. New
and improved machinery has been in
vented for all OF these processes, and
some factories take the fax direct
from the farmers before the rotting
and bleaching processes have taken
place. A good crop Of flax viii pro-
duce 600 pounds of fiber to the acre
Sold in the open market, this means
about so per acre.
But fax seed is exhausting to the
soil, and, after il has been grown two
or three years on one field, period
of from five TO eight years should
elapse before another crop Is planted.
The soil has TO be heavily MANFRED,
from 100 TO GOO pounds OF mineral
fertilizers being required each year to
the acre, besides barnyarI and other
manures Potash aud phosphoric acid
are the chief ingre dents that the soil
requires to produce good flax.
York Tribune.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-02-21
ASPARAGU 9,

Tho tops OF asparagus should be cut
down before the seeds fall, as the scat
tering of the latter over the bed will
produce plants in all directions. The
cut stalks shoula be cleared away an I
a good dressing of manure be applied.
This should be we'll spaded in and n
mulch be spread over the rows. Ma
nure may be used for both purposes.
The object is to fertilize the beds. as
1T cannot be done in the spring. and
to prevent deep freezing, as the as
paragus is plant that starts growing
very early III the season. Nitrate OF
soda is often used to force the aspara.
gus into quicker growth. sits yely
soluble, 1t should not be mixed with
the manure, but should be applied
early IN the spring. Scatter it along
the rows.
Iherels no reason why every farmer
should not have an asparagus bed
Rich, mellow and deeply broken soil
Is required. After the soil has been
prepared, open burrows three and one.
half feet apart and ten inches deem.
in order to bring the bed speedily
into hearing get year-old roots and
put them IN the burrows about two
feet apart. Then FIJI up the burrows
and top dress with salt Tins wiireiye
n bed that will last for forty or fifty
years with very little care. If the bed
Is old and neglected and is thick with
crowns while the roots are spindlfng,
1t can be restored by cutting oul
spaces right through the bed ana dig,
ging up the roots SO as to leave the
plants in broad rows. The trouble !,
but triiing. and there is no vegetable
that gives better returns in the wav a
health and enjoyment. New York
World.
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bat il is not necessary to say that Her
Majesty never acts in matters OF State,
except on the advice of the Govern.
ment for the time being.
FUR COSTUMES.

In Norway the question OF coNtume
is more one Of comfort and of pieser-
walton from the intense cold than a
feeling of National pride. Experience
has taught the people of the North
that il is extremely important for
their welfare that nothing they wear
should impede the free circulation Of
the blood, which maintains the animal
heat of tho body, and this accounts for
the very uDshapely construction Of the
National "kapia" or pelisse. It is
made of reindeer skin, with the hair
attached, very loose aed comfortable /;
1t reaches far below the knee and is
provided with an aperture for the
head to pass through, fitting, in fact,
so closely around tho neck that the
cold AIR and snow cannot penetrate it.
The shoes are also OF reindeer skin,
sharp-pointed and extremely graceful
of form, and are lined with lambswool
or velvet. The cap is, perhaps, tho
most picturesque part OF the entire
garb, for, square at the top, it is either
brilliant blue or vivid red, lined with
eideriown and edged with broad
band OF otter fur. In Lapland and
Finland a mask OF fur is attached
thereto and is drawn down over the
face in very windy weather. thus trans
forming the handsomest man or pref
tiest woman into the semblance OF a
queer and legendary looking hairy
Guimal. New York Commercial Adj
vertlser.
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LIaHr rou HENGousEs-

great deal is said about the neces.
sity, of warmth for fowls in winter.
Quite as much, however, depends on
light. In the short days OF winter
fowls are apt to get too little exercise.
They are sure to do SO If kept in close.
dark henhouses, where the light does
not penetrate until very late in the
snort winter mornings. The hen
house may be made light as we'll rs
warm by providing double windows,
with close blinds TO be tightly closed
!. at night. One of these double win
dows should be on the east side of the
house, and its shutters should be
opened as soon as the sun rises. The
colder the weather the greater the no.
cessity of feeding early aud getting
the fowls to exercise. If the henhouse
is thoroughly lighted it will be easy
to get the fowls down from Their
roosts. In dark henhouse we have
seen fowls remain on their perch for
an entire day. OF course such fowls
grow poor and will not lay until very
late in spring. Too dark henhouses
are the cause of more failures in poul-
try keeping than any other. In these
days, when window glass is very cheap.
IT is an evil easily remedied. Boston
CultiVator,
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-02-21
WHAT VICTORIA COULD DO.

As matter OF fact, says London
Nt-Blts, our sovereigns have rarely
taken any active part in politics since
George His time, but they could
still do some very astonishing things
if they choose. The Queen could dis
miss every Tommy Atkins in our
army, rom the Commanders Chief
to the youngest drummer boy. She
could disband the navy in the same
way, and sell all our ships, stores and
arsenals to the first customer that came
along. Acting entirely on her own
responsibility, she could declare war
against any foreign country, or make
present to any foreign Power of any
part OF the empire. She could make
every man, woman and child in the
country peer of the realm, with the
right, In the case of males who are of
age, to a seat in the House of Lords
With single word she could dismiss
any Government that happened to he
IN power, and could, it is believed
pardon and liberate ell the criminals
our Iails. These are a few of tLe
things the Queen could do if she liked
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-02-21
rAnM AID aAnpnN NOTES.

DrauShts in tho poultry house arc
an invitation 20 roup 10 enter and
rlvase your flock
For successful celery culture there
must be plenty OF water, either natur-
ally or nrtifcially applied.
a good mixer must he n good feed
or, hut it by no means follows that
good feeder is n good mixer.
The unsightly webs Of the tent
caterpillar that appear in the orchard
should be cut of and burned.
The best ground fora peach orchard
is "A sandy soil that has been planted
for several years with general crops.
The objection TO late growth on
trees is that 1t produces tender wood
that is liable to be Injured by freez.
ing.
Cut out and burn oil plants OF rasp-
berries and blackberries affected with
orange rust. 1t is the only safe rem
edy.
Spraying with london purple, one
ounce TO ten gallons of water, is given
as n sure remedy for the tent cater
pillar.
In some sections peppermint plants
are being substituted for hay as a
stock feed. They are said to give ex-
cellent results.
Experiments show that while the
percentage OF total solids of the milk
may be somewhat changed by varying
the food, yet the proportion of solids
to one another is independent OF the
food and Is determined by the COW.
Bowel diseases are often caused bv
overlooking, a1d Il lack Of salt will
also affect the stock. At this season,
when the horses are idle at times,
they should be fed in n manner only
to keep them in fair condition. 1t IS
of no advantage to them to make them
oYer.at.
When corn fodder is given to tho
cows and sheep to pick over 10 not
throw the refuse stalks in the barn
yard to be trampled, but cut them no.
or shred them, 50 as to convert them
into absorbent material in the stalls
or barnyari. They can then also DO
more readily handled for use when
spreading manure.
Exhaustive experiments are re-
ported by the French Socie ty of Agri-
culture, In which a ration composed
chiefly OF potatoes afforded rapid gains
in live weights of both sheep aud cat.
tie, a large percentage in dressed
weight OF the slaughtered animals, and
flesh OF excellent quality. Cooked DO .
tatoes proved more effective and profit
able than uncooked.
The blowing of land upon which
fall weeds are still standing is often
done IN a slovenly manner, the Stub
bic not being completely covered,
every furrow showing the ends of the
plants, the roots only being buried.
1t would be better to cut down
such material, let it dry, rake into
piles and burn, or, what is better.
burn the field over if it can be accom-
plished. Flowing can then be done
more satisfactorily and more weeds
will be destroyed.
There is more digestible matter in
the corn plant than 10 the grain, and
this fact is one which has been salts.
factorlly demonstrated. One acre of
fodder gives more actual nutrition
than do two tons of timothy hay, and
the butts and coarser portions, which
are usually considered of but little
value, contain more nutrition than the
tops and blades. 1t may be added
that much depends on the stage at
which the fodder was cut, how stored.
and how prepared before feeding it to
/ the stock.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-02-21
A Lanse Into Honesty.

Nearly all discussions Of the tariff
question have conferred on the effect of
customs duties on prices. 1t has been
seriously maintained by protectionists
that high tariffs do not increase tho
cost of goods on which they are levied,
but in reality enable them TO be sold
cheaper than under free trade. The
Democrats have pointed TO the bust
ness fact that the importer adds tho
duty to the price at which he sells 49,. L.
eign goods, as an illustration of the
manner in which tariff taxes are paid
by tho consumer. Aud they have
shown by comparison between the
market prices Of the same kind of
goods, at the same time, in protection
and free trade countries, that as on in
variable rule higher tariffs make dearer
goods.
BY one of the occasional Iapses into
honesty and intelligence which befalI
even the best regulated protectionist
organs, the New York Tribune comes
over to the low-tariff side and ADDS it's
testimony to the many facts previously
given by the Democratic press. In it's
issue of December 16, the Tribune
editorially says: "Woolen goods are
about twenty per cent. lower than in
1892" And this is ascribed to the re-
duced duties levied by the Wilson
tariff.
That leading Republican paper
should give away SO clearly its party's
case is surprising In view of the eyents
OF the past year. Ever since the pres.
ent duties on wooden goods took
effect the high-tariff organs, great and
small, have united in asserting that
the people are not getting their cloth
ing, blankets and carpets any cheaper
than when the good and great Nc.
Alnley's law was in force. Only q few
months ago the Tribune itself SAID
that the consumers of woolens had not
been benefited by the new tariff. Aud
now, In trying to show that tariff re.
form has injured domestic industry.
1T tells the people that they are get.
ting their woolens twenty per cent.
cheaper than IL the brave Mckinley
days.
This is all that the Democrats want
to know, and it should be enough to
make tar1n reformer out OF every
man who wears clothes or sleeps under
blankets. When a partisan protec.
ZIONIST paper admits that the prices
OF goods, of which at least seven hmm.
dred million dollars worth are used
every year. are twenty per cent. less
than under high tariff there can be
no excuse for the purchasers of goods
voting for return to higher taxes.
Twenty per cent. on 800, 900, OO0
amounts to $40, 900, 900, and this
great sum has therefore been saved to
the people In one year on WOODEN
goods alone by the Wilson tariff. By
pasting these figures alongside OF
their clothing bills in 1890. when the
higher taxes of the Mckinley law
forced prices up, the American people
will have a handy reminder as to fine
best way to vote in 1896.