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3 ELL- &c CO.

REAL ESTATE, STOCK AND HOUSE
Auctioneers, 1016 Fourth street. Highest
cash price paid for Household Goods.
BELL &, CO, Auctioneers. CT. II. CLARK,
Prop Office-1016 Fourth street.
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Wire your house. Get prices electric
fixtures. Tom Scott. plumber, 303 ]. .
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d. ]. SIMMONS & CO, Auctioneers.


AUCTION SALE OF ELEGANT FUR
niture and Carpets of a new five-room
cottage, at 241l l. street, TUESDAY, Au-
gust 81, 1897, at 10 a. m. Oak Parlor
Chairs and Rockers upholstered in silk).
Lace Curtains and Portieres, Fine Oak
Sideboard, Extension Table and Chairs,
Oak Bedroom Sets. Elegant Gasoline
Stove (cost 800, Range and Fixtures, Car
pets, Rugs, Crockery, etc. etc. These
office 1904 J street
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Save money by buying your tea and
coffee of ]. McMorry. 531 III.
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ONLY ONE DOLLAR A YEAR-THE
WEEKLY UNION. The best weekly.
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Try McMorry's 35c Tea. o31 N.
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AUCTIONS.
AUCTION SALE

RI AL ES ATE.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1st. ON
the premises house and lot, No. 1908 Sec
ond street; also lot 214X4212 feet adjoining
the above. Sale positive. No limit
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER I'd, on the
premises, the east half lot T. n and O,
Twenty-sixth and TWenty-seventh street.
Both sales positive to the highest bidder.
This lot Will be sold on the installment
plan
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-04-02
To Fight the San jose Scale.

The recently discovered widespread
fruit pest of America, the San Jose
scale, and the imminent danger of
heavy and continuous losses resulting
from the common distribution of that
insect, have stirred all the interests in
volved to unusual activity with view
to escaping if possible from so serious
a misfortune.
The Ohio State Horticultural Society
has lately issued call for a national
conference to be held in Washington
with view to maturing and recon-
mending national and state legislation
for preventing the distribution of in
sects and fungi injurious to fruits. A
preliminary conference of official en-
tomolog,sts and professors of horti-
culture representing eight north-cen-
trail states was held in Chicago jan
uary 20, and an important discussion
was had of measures to be taken by
the separate states for the inspection
of orchards. nursery stock, and the
like, and especially for the detection
and destruction of the San Jose scale
wherever there Is reason to suppose
that it may have been introduced. 1t
was the common judgment of this con-
| ference that both state and national
| legislation looking to these ends has
become imperative. The states repre-
scented, either by their official entomol-
ogists or by their Experiment Station
horticulturists, were Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, Missouri. Iowa, Michigan, Wis
consin and Minnesota. The following
resolutions were adopted at this meet
ing:
Resolved, That we recommend to the
people of our respective states that in
purchasing stock from other than
home nurseries they require certifi-
cate of inspection from such nursery
specifying that such stock has been in
spected by an official inspector, or has
been grown on grounds duly inspected.
and specifying the result OF such in
spection.
Resolved, That we indorse the call
of the Ohio State Horticultural Society
for a National Convention to consider
and recommend the most appropriate
federal and state legislation for pre-
venting the introduction and spread OF
noxious insects and fungi in the
United States.
The situation in Illinois. while less
serious than in many of the states far
Their east, calls nevertheless for imme-
date and energetic action. Seventeen
colonies of the San Jose scale have
thus far been detected in different
parts of the state from Waukegan and
Scales Mound On the north TO Villa
Ridge on the south, and from Paris
and Danville on the east to Moline
Quincy and Alton on the west. One Of
the areas infested. that near Sparta, In
Randolph county, is equal to about
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-04-02
Cultiva ting Lima Beans.

Lima beans are almost without ex-
ception favorite dish. On the tables
of the rich and poor alike they are ac-
ceptable: yet it is generally the rich
alone who have them, from the fact
that they are able TO get their supply
from the market. The poor man either
grows his or goes without. The Limas
require quite a little extra care and
fostering, but this is well expended II
good crop can be secured. May is
near and by the second or third week
We should begin preparations for the
crop. This will seem very late to
many, yet nothing is gained by plant
ing too early. II they are the varieties
that may be poled, we will give each
hill plenty of room; say three and one
half feet between rows and two and
one-half feet apart. Around each pole
a large quantity Of well-rotted manure
should be thoroughly worked into the
soil and then eight or ten beans plant
ed A Lima bean wants to be planted
right side up, too. 1t will pay to give
a little attention to this seemingly un-
important detail. Then be sure to seed
heavily enough. Better too many In
each hill than that only few stray
Cling plants be found. When they be-
gin to creep up the pole, keep the lat
uals that are only a drain upon the
strength and vitality of the vine
pinched back. "They don't mature
and l can't make them" This is the
complaint heard on all sides from
would-be Lima bean growers. Keep
the vines pinched back to mature the
few that do set and this difficulty will
be surmounted.- with the Gar
den
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-04-02

that the cause OF this trouble has
been traced to minute germ
that feeds on the surface of the
potato tuber, and to a less extent on
other fieshy roots and tubers 1t has
also been found that a suitable fungi
eide will kill the germs on the tubers
without injuring the growth of the po-
tatoes. Corrosive sublimate meets
these requirements and has been advo-
Gated by the Purdue experiment sta
ton, where its application originated.
So effective has 1t been found, so cheap
and easy to apply, that many large
growers, who get extra prices for their
crops by having high grade product,
have adopted the treatment as a regu-
lar thing The deadly poisonous ma
ture of corrosive sublimate, however,
has kept it from coming into general
use. 1t is, therefore, considered a mat
ter of considerable moment to be able
to announce the discovery OF a new
fungicide for potato scab, one that is
thoroughly efficient and not poisonous.
The new substance is formalin (some-
times called formaldehyde), watery
solution OF a gas, not very expensive,
and rapidly coming into favor as a
general antiseptic, SO that 1t is likely
to become still cheaper and better
known. 1t is sold by the fluid ounce,
and can be obtained at most drug
stores. The method of using the new
fungicide is very simple. Eight ounces
of the formalin are added to Is gallons
OF water, and in this the seed potatoes
are soaked for two hours. After taken
from the bath they can be cut and plant
ed as usual, either at once or after some
time. Formalin is not corrosive, and
so can be used in any kind of vessel,
and not being poisonous. there are no
particular precautions to be observed.
1t does, however, make the hands
smart, II there are any raw spots, and
the fumes irritate the eyes and throat.
But these are only slight annoyances.
Further information about formalin
and its use as fungicide will be given
in a bulletin to be issued in a short
time. The potato crop OF the state OF
Indiana reaches annually the large fig
ure of over 10000 acres, and nearly g.
100000 bushels, and is sometimes
larger. The treatment of the seed
tubers as here recommended, will ma
terially raise the market value of the
crop. and prove a source of profit of
no mean proportion. Try it.
J. c. Arthur. Botanist.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-04-02
In Favor of the Cow.
3. A. FORBES.
State Entomologist.

A. S. Neff, in an address before a
farmers institute at st. Joseph. Mo-,
said in part:
Where are the contented, well-off
farmers to-day? Are they in Texas
and the sunny South, where cotton is
worth cents pound? Are they on
the corn lands of Kansas and Ne
braska2 Are they In the wheat regions
Of Minnesota and in the Northwest?
No, they are in the famous Elgin dairy
district of Illinois, the thrifty dairy
section of Iowa. the butter farms of
Wisconsin, the western reserve OF
Ohio, always noted for it's cheese and
butter. These are the most famous
regions, but there are many smaller
sections in nearly all the states, where
the one business is that Of producing
butter and cheese, and in all OF them
the prosperous condition prevails be-
cause there is good profit in it. and be-
cause II is cash. The COW is always at
work; while she is roaming over the
pasture, nibbling here and there, she Is
picking up money, and she carries it
elements, asserts them, grinds them,
rectifies them, and brings the valuable
parts to the barn. Perhaps you had
not thought of that as you watched
old Brindle trudge off to the pasture
that she was going to her work, and
that she would work all day for you.
Another strong point in her favor is
that she enriches the soil. You may
devote your farm to cows for one, two
or ten years, and it is more fertile and
richer every year-while IL you raise
grain it is just that much poorer every
year. Now the COW has done her part
will you do yours? Will you set a
few pans of milk and churn the cream
off them into a bit of feeble-looking,
white butter in winter, or a thin,
greasy stuff in summer that you are
ashamed to take to the store?
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-04-02

Every public speaker is liable to say
what Punch calls things one could
wish to have expressed otherwise" Not
long since, at a meeting of ministers,
where a sermon that had caused very
general comment was criticised, q
Brooklyn pastor said several ill-consid-
cred things about the preacher Of the
discourse. The next morning, on see
ing them in the cold type of newspa-
per, they seemed to him rude and Of
fensive. Immediately-being a Chris
tan and a gentleman-he wrote to the
editor a letter for publication in the
next issue of the paper, wherein he
withdrew the offensive words as "un-
warranted and uncalled for" and con-
veying an unfriendly judgment which
the criticised preacher did not deserve.
The apology confessed the wrong and
made amends for the infelicitous
speech. That was not remarkable
Gentlemen do that every day. But
what is remarkable about It is, that II
exhibits one theologian, who, living in
an atmosphere where there is no odium
theologicum theological hatred), can
differ from another theologian without
exhibiting the rancor which cloaks It.
self under the guise of zeal for the
truth.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-04-02
No Two Religions.

There never were TWO true religions.
Every true Jew Is at heart a Christian.
The word Christ is only another form
of the Hebrew word Messiah. Both
mean the anointed. All Hebrews who
believe in the Messiah may be called
If / may make a word-Messiahan
which is just another word for Chris
tians. Judaism is the gray dawn OF
the morning; Christianity. properly
understood. is the sun at MONDAY
Rev. II. S. Macarthur.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-04-02

The comparative statement of the
receipts and expenditures of the Unit
ed States shows the total receipts dur
ing February to have been $24 400, 1897,
and the disbursements $2S.796.056,
which leaves a deficit for the month Of
S4,395,059, as compared with deficit
of about 100000 for February, 1896.
Since July /, 1896, the aggregate deficit
is $4S. 135,441. The receipts from GUS
toms last month amounted to 81 ,537, :
260; from internal revenue, 1883, 421;
from miscellaneous sources, $1,925, 315.
AS compared with February, 1896
there is shown loss from customs o,
about 1920, 900, gain of about $4,000
from internal revenue and gain OF
about $550,000 from miscellaneous
sources.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-04-02

half mile square and includes several
orchards.
The State Experiment Station has
now ready for the press a bulletin
on the San Jose scale in Illinois. of
which seventeen thousand copies will
presently be issued. In the meantime,
those especially concerned should
write to the u. S. Department of Agri-
culture, at Washington. ID. c., for the
bulletin OF that department on the San
Jose scale.
s. A. Forbes.
Ctafa EntomoIOQfat
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-04-02

A Presbyterian congregation at
Steamboat Rock, Ia, disliked their pas
tor. Rev. H. B. Fonkin, and while he
was away they sent for congregation
al minister at Cedar Rapids to come
down and preach to them last Sunday
evening. After the service one of the
deacons arose and made a motion that
every member join the Congregational
church. And it was carried unani-
mously. Rev. Mr. Fonkin is recovering
very slowly from the shock.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-04-02

In the United States senate a bill has
lately been introduced to establish a
national department Of public health.
The bin is the result of efforts by the
Pan-American Medical Congress, a
gathering of physicians from the coun-
tries of North, South and Central
America. Such a department, if es-
tablished. would study in systematic
and scientific way, not only diseases
and their prevention or cure, but many
kindred matters which have quite sas
important bearing upon the welfare
of the people-matters such as the con-
dition of the laboring classes, their
workshops and dwellings, the cost and
nutritive value of various kinds Of food,
the purity of water supplies, etc.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-04-02

Now and then we hear of girl type
writer's capturing the hearts and bank
accounts of their employers, or their
employers sons. In the day of wom-
ans supremacy the conditions will be
reversed. Already the first case has
been reported in the male typewriter
of st. Paul who eloped with and mar
ried the daughter of his millionaire en-
ployer. Why not give the boys an
equal show with the girls?
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-04-02

A st. Louis alchemist, Edwin G. Brice
by name, announces to the world that
he has discovered a formula by which
he can obtain gold and silver from
crude raw material and the baser
metals. The feat was performed the
other day in the presence of several
spectators whose probity cannot BIO
questioned. Mr.. Brice is a cousin Of
Senator Calvin II. Brice.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-04-02
The Labor Problem.

There will be no relief from growing
poverty and distress until millions now
shut away get back to the soil and be-
come producers. rhe solution OF the
labor problem lies at the end of this
Rood. Rev. a. J. Wells.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-04-02

The brain Manufacturing Com
pany" Is doing business in jefferson
City, Mo. We've been wondering where
all those remarkable bills now before
the legislature came from. The ma
chinery must have got out OF order or
become little cracked.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-04-02

The Chicago Evening Post calls Nc
Kinley the twenty-fourth president.
We hope this great question of counting
the presidents will some day be set
tied before all the brain tissue of the
country is worn threadbare.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-04-02
Hazing at Illinois UnIyersetY.

The first reports of the sophomore
assault upon the freshman supper over
did the matter a little. The young
lady whose eyes were injured has fully
recovered. Yet the affair was dis
graceful enough. The council of adj
ministration of the faculty has investi-
gated the affair very deliberately and
carefully and as result nine students
have been expelled. Nearly all of the
sophomores and freshmen have given
their pledge to the university that they
will not again engage in an assault
upol other students or do any other
thing which will subvert the good or
der of the institution. President Drap-
er sympathizes with all manner OF
legitimate sport but 1t is for the expul-
sion of any student who Injuries an
other, destroys property or interferes
with the orderly progress of UNIVERSE
ty affairs. He thinks students who
violate the laws should be treated just
as other persons who do so. The de-
cided stand taken by the faculty has
lifted the sentiment OF the university
to a higher plane and the outcome has
given new confidence to all friends of
the institution. Indeed, the university
has had many compliments for its Wig
orous action.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-04-02

w. A. Johnson, who is now associate
justice of the Kansas supreme court,
serving his third term, once was base
ball pitcher. He seems to be in the
game still. He's on the bench.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-04-02
FARM 4 AND GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO
ACRICULTURIST
Some Up-to-dats Hints About Cultiva-
tion of the Soil and Yields Thereof
--Horticulture, viticulture and Flori-
culture.
Ir=y.-yl HE In

HE Indiana expert
ment station bull
letin 43 says:
Potato scab is a
source of material
loss to those who
grow potatoes for
the market, and a
great blemish in all
cases. 1t is one OF
the triumphs of
practical botany
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-04-02

Russell Sage holds $50 mortgage
on his grand-nephew's little home.
That mortgage ought to be lifted as
soon as possible.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-04-02

President Mckinley energies from
the white house every evening for a
walk. and the Washington people say
they like it and that no other presi-
dent has done 1t since Grants time
Mckinley knows that no one will find
health riding.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-04-02
TAIN AGES SERMON.
SYMPATHY FOR THE GREEKS,
SUNDAYS SUBJECT.
From the Text; II Am Debtor Both to
the Greeks and to the Barbarians"-
Romans I;I4-Tbermopyiae and Bunk
err Hill.
~ T this. time, wher

T this time, when
that behemoth OF
denominations. M o.
hammedanism, a f.
ter having gorged
itself on the car
casses OF a hundred
thousand Armen-
ians, is trying TO
put its paws upon
one of the fairest
of all nations, that
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-04-02

Russia does not really want to strike
Greece. 1t is afraid the little nation
might be hurt.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-04-02

1t takes two to make bargain, but
only one gets it.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-04-02

Our Cattle in Mexico.-Mexico is
again buying hogs and also cattle of
the United States. having reduced her
tariff. Kansas City sold Mexico in the
wear 1896, 1894 heavyweight hogs at
q valuation of over 100000. If cared
for and not deliberately thrown away,
the trade in live stock, including hogs.
will shortly show balance In favor OF
the United States. When corn is worth
2 coats pound, as in Mexico, the hog
cannot be fattened to advantage.-Ex
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-04-02

The mild winters have encouraged
the development Of seedlings, but we
will ultimately get a winter that Will
sweep away most OF the new fads.
Give the children a strawberry be(
to look after.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-04-01
Word. Twenty Feet Long.

An Instrument was recently exhibited
at the Royal society of Edinburgh by
which the minute marks on monograph
cylinder produced by music or speech were
multiplied about 900 times so that the
form of each vibration and the number of
vibrations for any given sound could DO
seen.
Little waves, each wave being vibra-
ton, were recorded on long ribbon Of pa
per. The inventor accomplished this by
taking advantage Of the principle of Lord
Kelyin's siphon recorder. In making an
observation the phonograph cylinder was
moved about I 900 times slower than when
IL gave out che sound, and the vibrations
occurring In half second of time were
spread along ribbon of paper 90 feet in
length. Thus each vibration could be seen.
With regard TO human speech, an inspec-
ton Of one Of these curves proves that
word such as "Constantinople, ~ or indeed
any other word. was simply collection
Of musical or other sounds running rapid
ly into each other.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-04-01
OLIVER OPTICS SUCCESS.
His Books For Boys Were Great Sellers
From the Very First.

Thousands Of grown men knew and
loved the late Oliver Optic through his
books, for Mr.. Adams had been writing
stories for boys for more than generation.
His success at that style of literature had
been simply marvellous. He sold more
than 900 900 copies of his books, and the
sale for these stories is in nowisc abating
He and Captain Mayno Reid divide the
loves Of small boys who have not yet out
grown their desires for caves, outdoor life,
rafting on rivers, fishing and hunting.
But to give the author of the boating
series credit he never portrayed pirate rs
the prince of noble fellows. Indeed it is
doubtful il he ever wrote at oil about pi-
rates, as he might have written, for he
Wac familiar with the sea and ships and
sailing.
Mr.. Adams ever paid attention TO moral
matters, and the marvel of it is that his
works have captured the fancy of boys. His
heroes are always good, never tell lies, go
to Sunday school whenever they can and
never take advantage Of other boys not as
strong ms they. Perhaps it was the abso-
lutte novelty Of n good boy in boys story
that won success for the author of Down
the River