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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-12-08
Timely Advice.

Hell feel completely FRUSTRATED. =
wish I were dead.
She-WelI, why don't you let me SEND
for q Decentralization Life.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-12-08
What While Wanted,

I. Willie-Mamma, they say that his.
tory repeats itself, don't they2
Mother-Yes, dear. Z
Willie-Wcll, why don't itsrepeat it
self when I'm trying to learn,it7-Roxss
bury Gazette.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-12-08
Rapid Transit.

A can of oil,
A slumbering coal;
Another soul
Has reached the goal.
Cleveland Leader.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-12-08
wrfnp,les.

Her face is like an open book (
OF which on9s fancy dimes. -
Yet find 1t QUITE difficult ~.
To read between the lines. tt'si.l...
-Ijp.to-Data.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-12-08
An Upper Gut,

Whate'er I do, where'er go.
think, my darling one, of thee.
"But that's not much. with such thing
To think with as you've got" said she.
Cleveland LeadAr.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-03-03
New IMMORTAL to Lincoln.

All the founders OF MoClure'S Maya.
zine are recent graduates Of Knox
college, Gal,sburg, Illinois, and the
editor, MIR. Mcclure, isa trustee Of thi.
college. They have undertaken 10
Assibt the college In esiAOlshing "ihe
Abraham Lincoln School of Science
ana Practical htlI," M worthy
memorial 10 Abraham Lincoln. Be
fore Lincoln was even nominated Tor
the rrsidenry, Knox college conferred
on him the degree 0f DIciof o. awe,
and Vt the time I the famous LiuCDiu
and ID uglais debate, held In Gales
burg, October I, 1868, tho students
carried banners inscribed "KuUE for
LinoO H."
The publishers Of McClure's Mage.
zlna have established 100 scholarships
10 this new school. Esch scholarship
entiIlrs the holder 10 sll the privileges
Of Kurx College, and eau be-
eatnsu by securing 900 suUscflbrts 20
McClurt's Magazine. A schoHrsIiu
pays the board, room rent aud tuition Oi
Any Young man or woman or n y ur
The pubnshtTs Of McCluTr'z Mag clue
have also undertaken to raise ~ eu'
duwmeut fund Of "a quarter a ~ milllon
dollars Tor TINS new department ~
KNOX College.
On Otouor 9Th, Of this year the
college VIII celebrate the aulVrtsniy
fhe Lincoln anu 10 glaze debate. NJ
Grafton viii be delivered by tbs Hpu'
Cuauncty NJ Dep ", aui many msn
Of national fame viii he present. EA'
curslors rom all over Illlnoir AMI nt'
joining states viii bring thousands
LincOlu's old friends together |. o.
planned to have muon larger cou'
Q uIsu OF IsoplS than attended the u'-
bate. There viii undoubtedly be
Thousands present wnO we're present al
.he llbAls.
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1895 Wash FABRICS.

Exclusive styles Tor Salt Lake trade,
Ladies who wisely make early choice OF
the elson's dainty Wash Fabi will
find the fines, arrivals Of choicest Cot.
ton Faerics at AUERBACH'S. No
stock to compare with ours, no prices 90
low.
Simpson "a Perca'e Prints in all this
seasons styles at only
eEo
ia Shifting Percales, full yard wide
IN white grounds With hair lines,
Moresque Shifting In Turkey Red
ground, with white polka dot, Indigo
blue PcrcaIes in pretty waist designs,
three good fifteen centeB, all go Tor
lOo I'd
100 pieces OF fine Zephyr Ginghams
inlsIrpes, checks, etc, at only
loo yd
Real Corea Cloth Madras, in all the
latest colonngs aud designs. a ssc
cloth Tor
Ies5old
Grand assortment OF Shrunk Grass
Linen, Linen latistes, llemslitched
Linens, Embroidered Linens, French
Orglndies, Mouselne Organizes, SHRED
Organdlcs, Madras Cloths, Pques.
Spiral Cord Dimiues, Imperial Swiss
Lawns, 4 phyrs, Ginghams. Percales.
Lawns, Dlmlies, Penangs, French
Cambucs, etc,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-03-03
The Musical Department

VIII Doc In charge of PROFESSORS JOHN j. MCCLELLAN
and WILLARD DONE A graded series of musical com.
positions original and seleceiwIll bee published including
solos, duets, guIrces aud chouses chosen special
reference TO Ieir adupublity 10 VI l. a. work Home
composers earnestly invited to send their productions
10 tie editors of the department.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-03-03
Visit 10 the NInnmls.

Made hv himself AMI APOSTLE BWgHNN Iuryg. Tines
papers Wi portray boo remarkable manner the c1re uu
power af God which accompanied these Elders The Gu.
toms uf this Indian trib, will also receive attention.
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WHITE GOODS.

One case Of white sheer. striped In.
dia Dimlty, at only
l2Hc yd
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-03-03
rnllcgc Dcpnrtmcnt.

The Latter day Saints College in salt Lake City, will
he represented by department which will be- supplied
with essays and oh Ter articles from students and TEACHERS
These productions viii represent, far possible, the
actual work Of the college, and will pass through the hands
OF the Principal who will that everything used is Of
high ord5r
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-03-03


n. r. Ill., VIII
TIUSp6GlUS tut HUIulll6 AVII,
OF
Mb RHM WEWB
HBkHW MHmHH Eh
UWW MEBU 0kHR
4So--c
W. ,r. ,l,,scI u, or,,,,, ,. f. ,,,... . .sr
Leading features of Volume Seventeen of rnu Counmron
@ 'I' REORGANIZATION TO n'Hg ms mas1ae Occupy the 2nS
Iuh u our nome ug,i'ut anu we Ul lh7 EFFORT VIII ma
cement III 'Ie HO'I'' patronage OF lns p"ohc'
PRESIDENT JOSEPH T. SMITH will instruct and
our '''',.' "'.' some '''''s' "''''' p"'' oil
EarlX DAYS IN the valley
on,imrs tryi9g cypori."ocs ms bow and MN, in t
NJ, Ui,,.t NIis.i,,
My IlrsI MISSION,
FRtNCiS NJ IyN"% irr r NH M iy,, NJ, accom-, of
his interesting exrercn. of travelling "ythout nurse OF
scrip aud many marvellous incidents connected with his
of illustrated Articles the incidents Of
Visit To the NIoquis.
Made by himsoIi AMI APOSTLE pumrw forya. These
papers Nil portray uu remarkable the and
power oi God which accompanied these Elders The
toms oft this Indian tribe will also receive attention.
g., see.
9alem Nl'chcraIt'
sucruc historical account of This remarkable feature
ions OF H.. Th.oman1. oa.rcI b., leading Wl,er. trent.
mont %. the subject nom te standpoint OF 70 Llter.day
STUNT, by XII, b T. NIEGS w , .....,
illustrated and highly interesting papers
NJ. .,.,, -, -. -. ~, ,rt..,,,,,,
Ahc sandwich lSlahuS country anu MiSSIou
These article, viii give brief historical account OF this
Ind drrf"r ,h. rs n6ors Of our m.ssi,narrs aud the
present condition of the a'pr.ily work.
Twelve papers viii be furnished by ELDER JAMES
!" AIMS VI"
Inc ,ohSlSlehclcS Oh MOlIhoil9ii'
These will Joe most ably written ana are designed 10 lur-
nsl arguments 100 t,or oil ihe unth Tor our missionaries
and those who are called To defend our Iells'oh'
~, ScIo,I T,ys ,t Ann Arbnr
wy H'V"i lay ~ N' ~, -, ,,,i am u t,.,,,N
who recently graduated MS civil engineer from this noted
Michigan school with high houoIs. These articles Will p
illustrated
Holm stevens Courtshin r,,. ot m. nu,n.n.o War
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-03-03
The Sandwich Islands Country and Mi,

These article, viii g.,ca brief historical account OF this
group of Islands. review of the customs OF the people
and describe the past nbors of missionaries aud the
present condition of the laittdIy work. -
Twelve plpers viii be furnished by ELDER JAMES
II. WALLIS,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-03-03
john Stcyens' Comrtshlp. r.l. Of .ns q

Ia the title of deeply interesting serial story which will
bee continued trou the whole volume; It's author is
versatile and talented friend SuSA YOUNG GATES
oMpN), whose already published narratives have been
ur sol much interest.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-03-03
My school Days at Ann ArbOr,

VIII receive treatment 10y ELDER RICHARD X LYMAN
who recently graduated MS civil engineer from this noted
Michigan school with high houors. These articles Will b.
illustrated.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-03-03

We pleased TO the following az some of tn
leading features OF Volume Seventeen OF TuE Contributor.
is the determination 10 make this magazine occupy the front
rank home literature and trust this effort will find
encouragement in the liberal patronage of the public.
PRESIDENT JOSEPH r. SMITH will instruct and
interest readers with articles descriptive of
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-03-03
EnrIN DnYs Do I'D NnlIeN.

Which viii contain "reminiscences of Dis vl
oi''imcs trying experiences as % boy and ma
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-03-03
The Elsteddfod Prize MAC Quntrette.

For which The CoNrEmrroE gave 5000 cash prize viii
appear in this volume of the magazine.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-12-09
SOmersaults for FatneSs.

Except the common cold, against
which thousands of years of scientific
inquiry have been Ineffective, there is
scarcely disease which has not its
patent cure. Many inventions come
from Sweden, where massage estab.
lishments are more common than pub
tic houses, and where there is hardly
an i'll, from headache to heartburn,
which cannot be cured for you by the
ministrations of ingeniously contrived
punching machines. But the strang-
est of Sweden's inventions for the bet
tering OF the health OF humanity has
only just been brought into publicity.
It is cure for corpulence, and its
main principles are that the sufferers
should turn somersaults. There are
some who might object that any lady
or gentleman capable of turning a
somersault cannot. strictly speaking,
be regarded as corpulent, and most
people, unless very corpuleut indeed,
would certainly prefer their present
state to this eventful and inconvenient
method of changing it. Even the most
particular Of us would surely prefer
that our elderly relations, especially If
feminine, should prefer their present
appearance rather than descend to such
an alarming sacrifice of dignity. -
London Graphic.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-12-09
Grants Headquarters Mess.

In campaigning With Grant" by
General Horace Porter, in the Cen.
tury, occurs the following: A cold
lunch was then eaten off pine table
in the dining room of the deserted
house. Later in the afternoon oul
tents arrived and were pitched near the
house, and a little before dark the
ssmess" sat down to dinner. The table
had been laid under the fly of large
tent of the pattern known as the "hos'
pital tent" Perhaps no headquarters
of general in supreme command OF
great armies ever presented so demo.
cratic an appearance. All the officers
of the staff dined at the table with
their chief, and the style OF converse
tion WAS as familiar as that which oc.
ours in the houshold of any private
family. Nothing could have been
more informal or unconventional than
the manner in which the mess was con-
Quoted. The staff officers came to the
table and left it at such times as their
duties permitted, sometimes lingering
over a meal to indulge in converse
tion, at other times remaining to take
only few mouthfuls in all haste be-
fore starting out upon the lines. The
chief ate less and talked less than any
other member of the staff, andpartook
only of the plainest food.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-12-09
Frugal.

A correspondent of the Nashville
Banner, while wandering through q
rural part of Southern Georgia went
into a family graveyard, which be thus
describes:
There were three graves side by eide.
The middle one was marked by a mar.
BILE slab, which was divided into three
sections, and inscribed as follows:
In the top division there was
chiselled:
JOHN ALLEN: A JUST MAN.
The second division bore o hand
pointing to the grave on the left, and
was inscribed:
FIRST WIFE.
The third division bore o hand
pointing to the right, and was in
scribed:
SECOND WIFE.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-12-09
GIANT NUTS.
a NEW INDUSTRY FOR AIERI-
CAN FARMERS.
Three-Ounce Chestnuts, Immense Pc
cans, and Walnuts Big as Baby's
Fist-Handsome Profits for
the Nut Growers.

TEE long-expected nut bulletin
of the Department of Agri'
culture tells about the giant
G nuts of the future-chestnuts
weighing three ounces apiece. pecans
two and half inches long, and Eng
lish walnuts as big rs a baby's fist,
which will be grown by American
farmers before many years have passed
by. In the markets of the twentieth
century such nuts as these will be
commonly found. Nuts are only just
beginning to be cultivated in earnest.
Hitherto the wild crop has been relied
on wholly for the supply, and that is
the reason why the nuts of to-day are
small and inferior in flavor.
Rxfhtea herewith you will see pic.
lures of two chestnuts. One of them
is an ordinary, everyday nut; the
other is the chestnut as it ought to be
the cultivated and improved chest.
nut. Both are of natural size and
copied from natural specimens. What
q fine fellow the big one would be for
roasting! He holds good big mouth
full of luscious meat. Do not imagine
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-12-09
HOW TO SWEEP A ROOM.

How to sweep room and not throw
dust in the air is one of the things that
always puzzle the best of housekeep-
ers. When expedient it is always best
to set movable things outside Of the
room, throw open all the doors and
windows and "sweep for dear life, "
trusting to the draught to take the
dust out, but one can't always do that.
Wetting the broom, even though most
of the water Is shaken out, is cure to
leave spots on the carpet, and salt is pos.
itively injurious to carpet and health.
It makes carpet sticky, and attracts
moisture. Squeezed tea leaves scat.
tered over the carpet clean it nicely,
but not drop of tea must be left in.
Damp sawdust is excellent, but not
always available. Bits of paper
squeezed out of water and scattered
well do effective work. One nice old
lady cuts up bits OF white cotton-she
has about peck Of it-and after dip.
ping it in water, squeezes it dry and
sprinkles over her carpet. After
sweeping she throws the refuse into 6
big tub and with the broom airts the
cloth scraps around till they are clean,
then throws them on q wire screen
with the broom to dry for tho next
sweeping. =
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-12-09
CULTIVATED HICKORY NUT.

for fifty cents a pound, and are used
extensively by confectioners. Pecan
oil is excellent for table use. Clock.
makers and gunsmiths use it also. It
is fine illuminant; kernel when
lighted will burn for a time bril-
liantly.
The raising of English walnuts has
become an important industry in
Southern California during the last
few years. That State is producing
1000. 900 pounds of them for market
annually. They fetch higher price
than those imported from Madeira
and from Spain and Portugal, being
of finer quality. They ought to be
called Persian walnuts, because they
came originally from that country.
Once in bearing a walnut plantation
isone of the best paying pieces of prop.
ertY under the sun. The nuts are
gathered by iarring the trees to shake
down the ripe ones. They are dried
in the sun or by artificial heat with
great care, SO that they may keep well
and not turn rancid.
Much is being done at present in
the cultivation of hickory nuts. Nur-
serymen are planting and grating
the young trees, which they sell to
growers. No orchards are as yet in
bearing, but there are wild groves Of
fine varieties in Ohio, which are regu
larly harvested. The most desirable
stock for planting is obtained from
the Wabash Valley, IN Indiana, where
wild "shagbarks" grow remarkably
big and fine, attaining diameter Of
two inches or more. There are shsg.
barks in Iowa also of large size and
with such thin shells that tksY can be
cracked easily by grasping two togeth.
er in the hand.
In Ohio has been discovered a new
kind of black walnut which probably
is destined to be highly priced in the
future. By freak of nature one-half
of its shell is not developed, nor the
kernel on that side, the result being a
pear.shaped nut filed with single
meat somewhat the shape of q peanut,
though bigger.
The important objection to ordinary
black walnuts IS that they are divided
in the middle by wall of shell so
constructed thatit isalmost impossible
to get the kernel out whole. This new
variety has only to be cracked in order
to yield the meat entire. The black
walnut has been said to be among the
nuts what bacon is among meats
strong and greasy. However, some
choice Wild varieties have been found
with white kernels of delicate flavor,
and much may be accomplished by
cultivating them.
The hazel nut will be introduced
largely before long as a commercial
product. There are now millions oi
acres in this country Of wild hazel
brush, which is shrub about as high
as a mans head. Recently a new spe'
cies of hazel nut has been discovered
in the State of Washington. Itgrowf
on tree sixty feet long, which, be
cause the stem is too slender to hold
itself upright, runs along the ground
like vine. In every pod it bears
two nuts in place of the usual one
Crafts have been taken from it fol
planting.
In England hazel nuts are largely
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-12-09
An Electric Bottle Filler.

The latest novelty in electrical mn.
chimes is bottle filler. The operator
places range of bottles communicate
ing by pipes with the liquids TO be
bottled, and provided a:ith electrically
controlled valves. Tho flow Of ths
liquid ia established and shut OF auto.
unticslly, the machine being Get iu
sction by the pressure OF e button.
The operations OF opening aud closing
the valves arc accomplished By two
sets of electromagnetic, the two cir
cults of which arc eesily under tie
control of the OPERATOR. Wien the
bottles arc filed the lcT is instantly
cut of, and they ero replssed by
empty bottles" and corked by en- at
tendant. The machine is in incseas.
ing use by ink and medicine msausac.
turers. II is claimed 10 ne more rspid
than tho old siphon fiusf; II cArses
no waste, and it fills every bottlo to
exactly the samo height, without any
attention from the operator. st.
Louis Giobe-DeDocrat-
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nuts, and they are going into the bust
ness on considerable ecale.

nuts, and they are going into the busi-
ness on considerable ecale.
Abroad chestnuts are an important
item OF food supply. They are utilized
in great variety of ways, being made
into soup, employed as stufing for
birds, boiled and dipped in syrup for
a conserve, etc. Now and then a chest
nut twig is found which has series of
burrs all along it, instead of the usual
two or three that dsngle together.
The Department of Agriculture would
be very much obliged to anyone who
will send to it freak of this kind. 1t
means simply that all of the female
blossoms along the 'spike" that bears
the burrs have been fertilized by the
pollen. Ordinarily only two or three
of them are fertilized. If some gratis
of the unusual growth described can
be secured, possibly the producing
power of such trees may be multiplied.
= Wonderful things are already being
accomplished in the cultivation of
pecan nuts. It is predicted tfat the
profits Of plantations of pecsns in this
country will soon rival those Of the
orange groves of Florida and Califor.
mia. Pecans will yield from $500 to
$1,000 per acre of profit annually. An
orchard of the trees will yield a for.
tune and a big income for anybody
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-12-09
AS 10 Bullets.

A Bridgeport Comm inventor has
patented q "mushrooming bullet"
This is designed TO fill o very impor-
tsnt want in n odern warfare, the new
styled rife proiectile having proved
too humane. The trouble with the
latter is that, having only the dame
ter of lead.pencil, and travelling with
a velocity of half q mile asecond, it is
apt to pass clean through man with
out disabling him. It lacks what is
technically called ''stopping power.
The bullet devised by the Bridgeport
man has cavity near the point, which
causes it to "mushroom"-i. c., sprea.i
ON striking, so as "to produce q
large and lacerated wound, accom-
panied by great shock" In time OF
peace it may be employed for killing
lions, tigers and elephants.
The very newest thing in this line,
however, is the aluminium bullet. OF
course, it is very light. aluminum
being only about as heavy NJ chalk.
It is NOT intended for use in war, but
for hunting and shooting ct targets.
ordinary bullets have an excess OF
force for such purposes, travelling un-
necessarily far. Those of aluminium,
on the other hand, have about tho
same force for short distances, but
their velocity diminishes rapidly be-
yond 800 yards. For small game
person fond of shooting may avail him
self of the novel idea OF another iu-
ventor, who suggests that tiu.plate
shot would be preferable to the kind
now in use. These latter are coated
with graphite, to blacken and polish
them. and this is alleged to be objcc-
tionable because the graphite fouls
the guns. Furthermore. tho lead is
acted upon chemically By tho ari-
NAL juices, 80 as to ba injurious to
the cater Of the flesh. This is obviGt-
ed by the coating Of sin.-BoStoD
Transcripts. - -
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-12-09

for q moment that this is French
''marron" or q Japanese chestnut; it
is of pure American stock. There are
no chestnuts like Yankee chestnuts.
The marron is poor and coarse com.
paratively, and the huge chestnut OF
Japan is no better.
The European, Japanese and Ameri-
can chestnuts are of three different
species. Both of the two former are
cultivated in this country-the mar
ron quite largely. But the orchards
of fine chestnuts now being set out in
New York State, Pennsylvania and
elsewhere are from native North Caro-
lima and Georgia stock. In these
Southern States are found wild trees
that bear chesiDuts an inch and half
in diameter, averaging quite as big as
the imported marrons. They are OF de-
licious flavor, and are furnishing seed
for new plantations in many parts OF
the country. Farmers are lesrnirg
that there is big money in growing