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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-14

A New York lady and her daughter
recently opened hotel for cats, and it
seems to have turned out paying con-
cern, for they receive large number of
both winter and summer boarders. The
cats hotel is situated close to the Hud-
son river, and rejoices in the name of
Naurashaun farm. For three dollars a
cat is boarded for one month, and there
are no extras. Each cat has its own
little home, and even its own yard.
which is turfed. Pussy is an exclusive
creature, and often dislikes to be made
Co eat. or, indeed, to mix much with
her fellows. Curiously enough, the only
other boarders taken are parrots and
eanaries.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-14

One of the causes of the deterioration
of focks of poultry is the practice OF
selling off the old hens and using pull
let's. Pullets will probably lay more
eggs than will hens the first year, bu.
chicks Matched from eggs laid by pull
let's are not as strong and vigorous as
those produced from eggs laid by hens
1t is also less expensive to retain til,
hens than to feed the pullets whole
year before they are old enough to lay
Hens are serviceable until five year,
old, and sometimes longer, the stocl
being less liable to disease and loss OF
vigor if cocks 18 months old and hem
over two years old are used for breed
Ing poses Instead of pullets that AZ
mated with cockerels.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-14

During the Tennessee Centennial apd In.
ternational Exposition at Nashville, Tenn.
a low rate special tariff has been established
for the sale of tickets from Cincinnati and
other terminal points on the Queen & Cres-
cent Route.
Tickets are on sale daily until further no
tice to Chattanooga at $6.75 one way or 81 20
round trip from Cincinnati, the round triT.
tickets being good seven days to return,
other tickets, with longer return limit, as
$500 and at 1880 for the round trip.
These rates enable the public to visit
Nashville and other Southern points at rates
never before offered. Vestibuled trains Of
the finest class are at the disposal of the
passenger, affording most pleasant trip,
and enabling one to visit the very inter
esting scenery and important backgrounds,
in and about Chattanooga, Lookout Noun.
tain and ChclSamauga National Military
Park. Tickets to Nashville to visit the
Centennial can be repurchased at Chatta
nooga for $3.40 round trip. Ask your ticket
agent for tickets via Cincinnati and the O.
q G. Route South or write to
w. c. RINEARSON, Gen'l Pass'r Agent,
Cincinnati O. -.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-14
rnnr Tobacco crnns a Year.

A great many here are raising, or
are going 20 raise. tobacco this year
We can raise four crops year. have
just visited beautiful piece where the
owners were cutting. 1t is estimated
to go 1000 pounds to the acre from
the first cutting, and at the next cut
ting nearly as much more. 1t grew in
about 40 days and will require about
six weeks to pole cure it, and then it
will bring in the Tampa market from
so to 60 cents per pound. If it is finished
up ready for the cigar factories it will
bring from 81. 90 to 81. 90 per pound. 1t
is the Cuban variety called the Vuelto
Abajo. l have noticed in your agri-
cultural department that your corre-
spondent wrote in a doubling sort of
way about the statement that Fort
Meade county sold 92 900 pounds of to-
bacco at $L5 per pound. Well, al
though that seems like large story,
it is all true. The gentleman, Mr.. Ny
land, who owns the piece that | have
visited, will have two acres more ready
to cut next week. He is really enthusi-
astic about tobacco and thinks that
this is going to be one of the richest
states-New York Times.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-14
WOMEN AS FARMERS.
Peculiar Scheme to BE Innuguratet
by IA Nebraska Woman.


Mrs. Hattie N Bemis, of Arabia,
Neb., does not see why women should
not be successful as farmers, and an
nounces that she is going to try the
experiment if she can get a dozen
women to assist her. She owns large
tract of land in northwestern Nebraska
which she says she intends to give to
IL deserving widows of northwestern
farmers. In return she will requir'
them to cultivate it without mans as
sistance. She says she will start them
out with all the machinery they need,
sufficient supply of cattle, horses,
swine and poultry to serve as nest
egg, and money to last them until the
first harvest can be disposed of. She
admits that the climate is dry, but pro.
poses to instruct her wards in the op.
Grafton of a system of soil culture by
which method experiments have proved
the rainfall of the section is sufficient
to insure bountiful crops. The near.
est the women will be allowed to come
to dealings with men is to sell the crops
to them. If Mrs. Bemis ever learns
! that a man has been employed about
the premises the farms will revert to
her. Any member of the community
| who marries will also forfeit her title
to share in the property. chicago
| Chronicle.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-14
Need of HnAte.

A nervous young lady called a physi-
clan for a slight ailment, but one
which she magnified, in her own esti-
nation, into serious one. Run,
said the doctor to a servant, giving him
a prescription, ito the nearest drug
store and bring back the medicine as
quickly as you can" ''Is there much
danger?' inquired the young lady in
alarm. Yes" said the doctor, "if
your servant is not quick it will be
useless. "Oh, doctor, shall l die?"
gasped the patient. There is no
danger of that" said the doctor, but
you may get well before John re-
turns
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-14
AGRICULTURAL HINTS
The CORN HARVEST.
Lnbor-sRvIng Devices Have Made Its
Gathering Easy.

Lnbor-SRving Devices Have Made Its
Gathering Easy.
Harvesting the corn crop is being
made easier every year by improve
ments in labor-saving machinery and
devices. Large commercial crops are
cut, tied and left in straight rows by
the improved corn harvester, while the
bundles placed in shocks or stocks of
12 to 20 bundles to cure are then drawn
to the barn and run through the shred
der. Farmers who cannot afford the
latest and improved machinery, or who
have small areas of corn, cut by sled
as illustrated below, or by hand cutter.
The armfuls thus cut have to be tied
In bundles, various materials being
used for this purpose, some using two
or three cornstalks, others a small
handful of long, strong straw, swamp
grass or willows. But whether cut by
improved machinery or by hand cut
ter, the large bundles, shocks or stocks
have to be securely fastened to with
stand the fall wind and storms.
To make a corn cutter, as portrayed
herewith, make platform with run
ners six feet long and two inches thick;
the higher the runners the higher it
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-14
She Didn't Think So.

Nora was in her night dress Mrs.
Strong, having given her good night
kiss, reminded her gently, as usual, not
to forget her prayer to God that she be
made a good little girl.
"Must ask Him that every night.
mammal" Nora asked, gravely
"Yes, little one" her mother replied.
Nora was thoughtful for "A moment.
Mamma" she said, in an injured tone,
sis such dreffully bad little girl as all
thGt?"-Demorest's Magazine
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-14
MisIed by the Papers.

r., Now, Henry, said the dear old lady,
81 do hope you will never play baseball"
why not, grandma? p asked Henry, with
natural surprise.
Because it is so very dangerous"
"Dangerousl Why, grandma, it isn't any
more dangerous than any other game"
1T is exceedingly dangerous, said the old
lady, in tone of deep conviction.
But, grandma, you never saw game
and don't know anything about it."
Perhaps | don't, but / know it is highly
dangerous. Almost every day the papers
tell about men who have died on the bases 4"
Baltimore American.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-14
PRINCE WITH A LONG HEAD.

promptly refused. He thereupon wrote
the queen, telling her of his grievance,
but her majesty only reiterated the good
advice of her daughter.
The prince, of an age when money
talks and good advice" is lost, prompt
ly >sold his grandmother's letter for
four pounds and ten shillings, and APP
prised her of the fact 1t is reported
that her majesty was somewhat upset.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-14
LONG-HEADEO PRINCE.
One of Victorin's Grnndsons Displays
Rare Financial Genius.

At the age of 1914 years Prince Alex
ander of Battenberg, son of the late
Prince Henry of Battenberg, Queen VIC
toria's son-in-law, has proved himself
such a genius for tinanciering that it is
unlikely he will ever find himself in the
"hard-up" condition of his father, who,
until his marriage to Princess Beatrice,
the queens daughter, had a difficult
task to make both ends meet.
Little Prince Alexander recently ap-
piled to his mother for an extra allow
ance of pocket money, which was
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-14
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
SUMMER.

''Tn the dusty weather
M.dges fly about,
"A Katydids and crlckets
Keep up quite a shout;
And the great grasshopper
Climbs up in your frock;
And the silly lassie
Blows the four-o'clock.
Oh, the heart is weary
Through the lengthy days,
All the earth is painting
In the suns warm rays.
Sitting on the doorstep,
Knitting grandma lace
Oh, / hate the summer!"
.lried little Sour-F Face.
plush and bloom of roses
Cherries hanging high,
Daisies in the meadow,
Blackbirds in the skyl
Beautiful deep shadows
G Up the grassy lanes!
Bushes red with berriesI
Soft, delicious rains!
Flying down the strawstack,
Hiding in the hay
Fun and light and laughter
All the livelong day!
Helping with the baby
AS the hours fly!
Oh. I love the summerv
Cried little Smiling-Eyes.
Louise R. Baker. in Youths Companion
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-14
An AbominnbIe Legacy.

A tendency to rheumatism is undoubted-
ly inherited. Unlike many other legacies it
remains in the family. The most effectual
means of checking this tendency, or of re-
moving incipient rheumatism, whether pre-
existent in the blood or not, is to resort to
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as soon as the
premonitory twinges are felt. Nullifving
the influences of cold, exposure and fatigue,
the Bitters not only fortifes the system
against their hurtful consequences, but sub.
jugates malaria liver and kidney complaint,
dyspepsia and nerve disquietude.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-14
7where Experience Fails.

John Doe-Exp xperience is the only
thing that will teach some men.
Richard Roe-And even that occa.
sionally fails. see that man in New
Jersey recently married his divorced
wife.-N. Y. World.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-14

A powder to be shaken into the shoes At
this season your feet feel swollen and hot,
and get tired easily. If you have smarting
feet or tight shoes, try Aliens Foot-Ease
1t cools the feet and makes walking easy
Cures and prevents swollen and sweating
feet, blisters and callous spots Relieves
corns and bunions of all pain and gives rest
and comfort, Try it to-day Sold by all
druggists and shoe stores for 25c. Trial
lie Roy, n. Y.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-14

All you guess about difficulty in selling
Stark Trees may be wrong If you wish to
know the truth, drop postal to Stark Nurs.
cry Louisiana, Mo-, or Rockport. H. Name
references. Cash pay to statesmen each
WEEK the year round. Outfit free-takes
no money to TRY the work. Also want
CLUB MAkERS-get their trees free.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-14

Haskins-I didn't like the meals we got
at the mountain house. There was not
enough warm food Everything that was
served was cold
Perkns-Yes, everything but the ice wa
ter.-Up-to-Date
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-14
The bicycle Girl.

"I'm sure I'll never be able to walk W
the aisle with papa"
why not, my child"
Papa is so ridiculously low-geared."-
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-14
A WidoNY,a Wny.

He-They say that wedding rings are god
ing out of fashion. u
She-Oh, | don't care. If you wish to dis
pense with the ring, dear, it will make no dif
ference to me. But why didn't you give me
some warning of what you were about IT.
say? This is so sudden"
Then he thought of home and mother,
but it was too late.-Cleveland Leader.
Visitors to Lincoln Park in Chicago
will be delighted with the souvenir book OF
this beautiful spot now being distributed by
the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railwa!
Company. 1t is magnificent publication OF
96 pages full to overtlowing with delicious
half tone pictures of one of Creations most
charming places of resort for citizens of the
Great Republic.
No stranger visiting Chicago should be
without copy of the Souvenir of Lincoln
Park" 1t can only be procured by enclos-
ing twenty-five (25) cents, in coin or postage
stamps, to Geo. H. Heafford, general passen-
ger agent, 40 Old Colony Building, Chicago.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-14

There is probably something in love in
winter, when people can keep warm by sit
ting close together, but there is absolutely
nothing in it in summer.-Atchison Globe.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-14

He who scorns to make little things mat
ters of conscience will soon be constituencies
in regard to greater things.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-14

If there is anyone to be sincerely pitied,
it is the man of family who wants work
and can't get it. This loving girl, and talk
ing the support of family on ones shoul.
ders. is no joie.-Atchison Globe.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-14

The old maids soliloquy: "At II years
of age inquired which is he? AT 20, who is
he? At %, what has he? And now, where
is he?-Fliegende Blaetter.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-14

Fits stopped free and permanently cured
No fits after first days use of DR.. Kline's
Great Nerve Restorer Free 81 trial bottle &
treatise. DR.. Kline, 933 Arch St, Phila., Pa
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-14

He-"Woud you scream if | should kiss
you? She-"And if were to allow you to.
would you squeal? ?"-Indianap Journal
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-14
Halls Catarrh Cure
Is q Constitutional Cure. Price 75c.

Claude-"Do you think your father would
offer me personal violence if / were to ask
him for you?" Mabel-"No;. but think he
will if you don't pretty soon" ."-Tit-Bits.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-14
Visitors 90 LINCOLN Pnrk in Q


Visitor-T hear there is sickness next
door. Is it contagious?
Phillips-Oh, not at all, madam; merely
contguous.-N. Y. Truth
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-14

/ could not get along without Piso's Cure
for Consumption. 1t always cures.-Mrs.
y. G. Moulton. Meedham. Mass. Oct. y, ,94
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-14

There are people who think that if girl
has studied in Europe she can sing.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-14

The only worthy end of all learning, of
all science, of all life in fact is that human
beings should love one another better
George Eliot.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-14

The worst trouble with loafer seems to
be that he doesn't know what a bore he is
Washington Democrat.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-14
Try Grnin-ol TrY Grnin-O!

Ask your grocer to-day to show you
package of GRAIN-O, the new food drink
that takes the place of coffee, The children
may drink it without injury as well as thc
adult. All who try it like it. GRAlN-0
has that rich seal brown of Mocha or java
but it is made from pure grains, and the
most delicate stomachs receive it without
distress. Ia the price of coffee. l5c and
25 cts per package. Sold by all grocers.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-14

Most men have something the matter with
them from some accident that occurred years
go.-Washington Democrat.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-12
TELEPHONES FOR FARMERS.
They Help TO Remove the Isolation
of Farm Life.

Kansas Correspondence New York indie
pendent.
Among the greatest evils and burdens of
farm life have never been reckoned the SOL
itude which it entails on the women of the
household Many a wife has faded away
because of the lonesomeness of her toll far
from the associations of those in whom she
has an interest. new Western expert
ment has opened a way to avoid this and
substitute for the isolation of the farm a
close connection with neighbors that means
better enjoyment for all.
Situated in central Kansas are a number
of farms and ranches owned by relatives
and close friends. Growing weary of the
long drives between residenceS-for the dis
tanceS on the prairies are magnifcent-the
farmers began experimenting with tee-
phones and nave this spring put in workin g
order a neighborhood system that is at
tracing wide attention. 1t starts from a
little railroad station and the w res are
attached to the barbed wire of the ranch
fences, no insulating process being used, it
only being carefully arranged so that there
crosses the road it is lifted on high poles
until it will clear even the big loads of
prairie hay, then comes down and is sta
pied to a fence post and connected with the
barbed wire again The residences along
the route have plain six-dollar Instruments
which are the principal portion of the ex-
pense. The line is about six miles long and
connects half dozen homes The woman
can talk with one another as well as if
they were in the same room, and on
instruments are in use it is quite a social
affair The men who have large stock in
terests receive semi-daily market quota
tons from the depot dictate their orders
for buying and selling, and one of them
manages, largely by wire, a cheese factory
in neighboring town Contrary to all ex-
pectations there Is no leakage in the posts
and the conVersatio betw cen the most
widely separated points is carried on easily
The success of the line has encouraged the
building of Others and it is probable that
the barbed wire fences of the plains will
soon be generally employed for telephone
lines.
The recent experiments with rural deliv-
cry of mail in prairie communities have
been very successful, and although there
are such widely separated homes as are
not known in the East the carriers found it
much appreciated and were able to serve
whole neighborhoods by a single visit. The
families of the farmers were greatly de-
lighted by the innovation.
The farmer has been the recipient of
many labor-saving devices, but his family
has had far less benefit from the advance
ment OF the times. The coming of these
new achievements promise to make more
happiness in the farmers home and to re-
move the feeling of isolation which has
been so great a barrier to the bringing up
of family far from the centers of popula-
ton and business. With the telephone at
hand buggy in the barn, mail delivered
at the door, and a bicycle perhaps, for an
occasional spin, there ought to be a way
to solve the eVer-present problem of how
to keen the bows and girls on the farm
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-12
The Plague in India.
Leslie's Weekly

1t was natural that the English papers
should not want to cast a shadow over the
jubilee ceremonies by printing the details
of the plague in India. 1t has, in fact been
very hard to get al the truth. for the Eng
lish papers are VIGOROUSLY loyal to Eng
lands colonial policy, and they have not
told all they know. AS our news has come
most as much reason to question it as we
have the reports OF Spanish victories in
Cuba by way of Madrid. For these reasons
the reports OF Julian Hawthorne the first
American TO make an investigation by a
visit to tho scenes of the plague are of
worldwide Importance and the story he
tells surpasses ali the horrible fears of the
reading public.
We have heard only inklings of the real
facts. The deaths have been not by thou
sands, bat by millions. In one district eight
millions of people have already died of star
walton. How far the total will 60. no
human mind can speculate. When Great
Britain got control of India the population
was one hundred and fifty millions; il is
now three hundred millions. and the Eng
ish officers told Mr.. Hawthorne that The
country could not support them. The pic
lures, from photographs, printed in Leslie $
Weekly, showing the natives starved to
skeletons. are more than matched by the
awful Illustrations that accompany MIR
They seem impossible in this age of prog
ross and plenty, and the editor of the mag
azine asks why England should spend
Geo on holiday and leave these peo-
pie 10 starve. But Mr. Hawthorne gives
fun credit 10 the English authorities. and
resources at hand although the resources
are deplorably Inadequate When the world
knows more about this horror surely more
Will be done to alleviate il.