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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-26

"And so l say to RepubliCans-keep
steadily at work. You have already won
and are winning in greater measure every
day. Your constant and united efforts
will bring this great city, with its tre-
mendous influence upon the affairs of the
country, to the support of the Republican
party and the noble principles for which
it stands. You have nominated the best
ticket that was ever offered to the people
of this community. You bring to them the
services of a man as the first mayor of the
Greater New York, whose character, abll-
ity and experience place him high above
any of those who think themselves his
rivals in this race. You have stood for
your principles, as principles should al
ways be stood for, without compromise
or denial. You are entitled to win. You
deserve to win. Your victory will do more
to secure stability to business and solidity
TO credit and to give impetus and perma-
nence to our new prosperity than can be
accomplished by any public event. II Will
say to the country that this great center
of commerce and capital, from which is
drawn the vitality Of all enterprise, is true
to the sound policies for which it spoke
one year ago. 1t will assure to the peo-
pie of New York a pure, independent and
efficient administration of their local af-
fairs. 1t will start the new city upon its
career with the respect and confidence of
all men. And all you have to do to make
your victory complete is to keep right at
it day by day until the votes are cast and
counted"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-26

"Of course do not forget those Low
lists. They are decidedly the most anus
ing thing in the way Of a political fake
that has been exhibited hereabouts dur
ing my experience. Tney are not worth
a detailed examination. The simple fact
that they place Lows chief strength as
a candidate below Fourteenth street
makes them so obviously absurd that it
would be a waste Of time to discuss them.
In districts where they give him nearly
$4,000 votes he will not have 1900. Nor do
l forget that there are some Tammany
and Wall street gamblers VINO seem to be
trying desperately to give new proof of
the adage that "a fool and his money are
soon parted Campaign betting has al
ways been Tammany Halls chief argu-
ment. 1t is supposed to be very effective
with a class of voters that don't know
how they will vote until they are per-
suaded how others will vote. There may
be such a class in this community, but 1t
is not large. To bet that Lows vote will
exceed Trscy's is just like throwing
money into the fire. To bet that Tracys
will exceed Van Wyck's is like picking ii
up in the streets.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-26

When Boland takes the stump this
week to shake the Doodle scarecrow, he
should be prepared to have the search
light turned on his own political career.
That is one Of the fair hazards of war.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-26

one week from tonight it will be seen
whether Fahey or Schadt is the dub.
We don't think it will be Fahey.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-26

The Cosmopolitan university has Sc
CURED a president in the person of DIR,
i. n. Potter, whose educational eXper-
icnce includes a period of service as
professor of ethics at Lehigh, and an
extended tenure as president first of
Hobart and afterward of Union col
lege. The enrolment of pupils in this
new correspondence institution has al
ready exceeded 10000, representing
every state and territory in the
union and many foreign countries. The
disposition to deride Mr.. Walkers
scheme has not disappeared but we
feel sure that the fair play of the in
telligent public will accord it an honest
test; for even if it shall fail no one
will be the worse for the failure save
the universlty's originator, while if it
shall succeed in carrying only to one
man a message of culture it will de-
serve we'll of the community and put
to shame those who have so wantonly
misrepresented and embarrassed it.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-26

"The Republican vote, on the other
hand, is consolidated upon n single can
didatC. Every district in New York has
been thoroughly CanVasseI by the Repuo-
lican organization, and its leaders know
the situation as accurately as it can be
known by anybody until the votes are
actually cast and counted. They approach
the crisis of the campaign with absolute
confidence. There Is not an assembly dis
trict in the whole city where the loss of
Republican votes to Low Will amount to
10 per cent of the rCrmal Republican
strength. Even this small percentage of
loss can occur in no more than twelve
out of the fifty-nine assembly districts
into which the new municipality is divld-
ed. In all the other assembly districts
the Republican loss to Low viii be utterly
trivial. In other words, Low will receive
"a much larger Democratic than Repub-
lican support, and it is not the least inter-
cstng feature of this extraordinary cam
patgn that the candidacy of Low, in
stead of smashing the Republican party,
as it was intended to do, will really be an
additional and distinct force for Repub-
lcan success. George and Low, having
identified themselves in other respects,
viii, be identified in this-that each will
help TO use up and split up the Demo-
| cratic vote and leave the consolidated Re-
publican vote triumphantly potential.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-26

Whatever their present vote may be, it
is going to be divided between Van Wyck,
George, Low and Gleason. Van Wyck Will
probably get the most of 1t, George will
get huge proportion of it and Low will
get a substantial remainder. Low is the
candidate of four Democratic organiza-
tions, the Ship Democracy, the Goroo De-
mocracy, the Purroy Democracy and the
Steckler Democracy. More and more as
the canvass has proceeded he has become
identified before the pubic with the Dem
ocratic party. He is the embodiment OF
the holier-than-thou idea of the Cleveland
party. He is a. revival of Clevelandism.
He has the support of all that noisy and
insolcnt crowd that grovels at the feet of
Cleveland. He has been brought forward
as the expression of their notions and
their hopes. And that which makes his
| success impossible is the fact now so
clearly presented in the minds of the
community, that through Low this Cleve-
land clique are endeavoring to recover
| their lost prestige for use in 1900.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-03-10
Defective Sight.

The school children OF Baltimore
have been undergoing examination to
test the condition of their eyesight,
with sore interesting results. Ont OF
tifty-three thousand pupils over nine
thousand were found with such defec.
tive eyesight as to make it unsafe for
them to continue their studies. The
report was that tho percentage Of nor
NAL vision was found to be, first grade,
So; second, Al third, AT; fourth, 49;
fifth, As; sixth, 4S; seventh, 54; and
eighth, Sc per cent. A curious result
of the examination is that there is a
steady decrease in defective eyesight
from the second to the eighth grade;
and another important item is that
number of children who were pro-
nounced almost hopelessly stupid by
their teachers have been amazingly i'm
proved and are making fair progress
in their studies since they have
adopted their glasses. This expert
ment has awakened general interest
among teachers, who are wondering If
much of the stupidity noticeable lin
many backward pupils may not be at
tributable to the difficulty they find
in distinguishing objects, and whether
they may not be benefited by the use
Of glasses
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-03-10
SMALL FARMS BEST.

At farmers institute lately, says
the San Francisco Chronicle, quiet
man remarked to the writer that the
trouble with our farmers was they
tried to farm too much land. He said
his own farm consisted OF one-third Of
an acre, from which he got rather
more than living and had leisure to
read and study. When asked how he
did it, he said he kept about seventy
five fowls and grew vegetables, which
he sold III his local market. He added
that there WAS room for more like him
in the place, as a great part OF the
vegetables used in the vicinity we're
brought from San Francisco. Upon
inquiry, it was found that this man
was unmarried, and did his own cook
ing. When asked what he would do if
he had wife and ten children to sup
port, he said he should probably need
FIVE acres. He thought it more profit
able to put labor and fertilizers on a
small patch of laud than to buy or
run in debt for large acreage. The
only farmers he knew of in his vicinity
who were making any money, or even
making ends meet, were those who
were cultivating small farms, on which
they could do all the work without
hiring.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-03-10
CORN FERTILIZATION.

A study in corn fertilization has
been conducted by the Connecticut
Experiment Station for nearly ten
years. For six successive years the
average yield per acre was seventy
three bushels on land dressed with
COW manure, on hog manure seventy
four bushels, on chemicals sixty.three
bushels, and without any manure
thirty-seven bushels. The sixth crop
was largest on the hog manure plot,
but the average yield per acre for SIX
crops showed no great difference be-
tween the three lots that were liber-
ally fed. And these yielded fifty per
cent. more than where no manure was
used. The amount of dry matter up
on which the feeding value of the diff!
ferent crops depends did not vary
much, indicating that the feeding
value or competition of corn fodder
was not greatly Influenced by the
manure, but depends more upon the
care taken in harvesting and curing.
The corn grown on hcg manure got
twenty-five per cent. more nitrogen
and four times as much phosphoric
acid, but less than half as much potash
as the plot dressed with COW manure,
but only yielded two per cent. more
dry matter. And the land fertilized
with chemicals yielded within fifteen
per cent. as much as upon manure, al
though it received on half as much
nitrogen, one-third as much potash
and about the same quantity of phos-
phoric acid.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-03-10

In their annual report the commits
sioners of fisheries and game of Massa.
chusetts state that the propagation
and distribution of Mongolian pheas-
ants has been successfully carried on
during the past season at the State
aviar1es. Something over two hun
dred chicks, which had been allowed
their freedom in the large inclosure,
were trapped in October and put in
covered corral twenty. eight by sixty
feet in area. This proved too small for
so many birds, and there was small
loss, the stronger birds maltreating
the weaker ones, This will be obvl-
ated next year by sending the birds
out as soon as they are trapped.
A few birds were distributed last
year to responsible persons with the
understanding that they were to
breed and turn them out in their re-
spective localities. Only three were
successful in raising birds, but they
are confident that past experience will
lead to success in the future, and that
thus the ruffed grouse, which are rap
idly nearing determination, will be re-
placed.-Norwich Conn., Bulletin.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-03-10
HRosAMoND ASH,
A "Feather Farm" Idea.

Why not have poultry farms for
feathers, as they do ostrich farms,
peacock farms, parequet farms, even
birds of paradise farms? These latter
are sometimes so buried in their beau.
tiful plumage that they look as if they
would like to part with some Of it,
even to adorn a hat.
This would, in great measure, stop
this wholesale wicked killing of our
beautiful song birds and insect.killing
birds. Robins, thrushes, wrens and
many others are not pretty on q hat.
The English sparrow can furnish all
the small feathers needed, and q pig
con farm the next size. Then poultry
feathers we could have from the ducks
and chickens and turkeys that we
have eaten. New York Tribune.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-03-10
Hoods Pills pEa ps snd aid raj dgeston estsaanas ssc
A Remarkable Friendship.

One of the severest tests of friend
ship recorded in the annals of history
has Just come to light in Pasadena in
the course of the trial of Mexican
who stuck his knife twice into the
abdomen OF a loving chum. The in
jured man has arisen from his bed to
explain to the Court that the attempt
Of his friend to engage in little
sportive vivisection has not altered
the sentiment OF afectionate regard
existing between them. The spirit of
the carver was said to be altogether
amicable, and the mutual attachment
of former days has not been impaired.
After all, the Shakespearean critics
may have been guilty of malicious
hoax in leading an unsuspecting pub
lie to believe that Shylock entertained
in his heart anything but an undying
affection for the Merchant of Venice
when he demanded his pound of flesh.
+Los Angeles (Cal.) Times.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-03-10
Swln;sh,

A hog is the only animal that is not afraid
of snake bite. The fat of the hog will
capsule" the poison and prevent its getting
: Into the veins, and thenth hog turns around
and kills the snake and eats him up after
wards. but frost-bite even hogs will respect,
and il is different kind Of bite altogether.
1t infiames like burn cripples the feet with
tenderness, causes fever and burning, and
sets one nearly crazy with itching. The
true treatment OF frost-bite Is TO treat it
somewhat in the way we treat burn. The
cold that creates all this fever and heat in
the part affected should be drawn out. ST.
Jacobs Oil applied to the swollen parts will
draw out the cold, allay the fever, stop the
itching and tenderness and cures the frost
bite almost magically. In very cold, windy
weather, the bite Of the frost may be sudden
and very unexpected. especially to the ears,
feet and hands. A vigorous rubbing with
st. Jacobs Oil will overcome the cold
quickly, and the cure is complete, leaving no
after soreness.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-03-10
WHEN TO OPEN THE SILo.

A year ago began to feed ensilage
November so, and the year previous
nearly three weeks earlier. Some OF
my neighbors begin feeding the very
day that they finish filling the pit, and
I cannot see but they have as fine en-
silage as those who cover the ensilage
and let it sweat from three to six
weeks. Some ensilage will remain hot
oil winter, and some will Take on hard
ly heat enough to make the mass! set.
tie as solidly us it should. The truth
is, l have never seen cnsilnge so
"young" or SO sold" but it could be
fed with perfect safety and satlsfac-
ton.
The most perfect cover-2ext to
none n. ALT have ever had Oh my
slIos is this year. After the corn was
all in the pits, the little about the ma
chine was run up the surface and scat
tered evenly over the surface, we'll
trodden down. all, this repeated for
three or four days, or until it had be-
come quito moldy. Then we loo ,encd
IL up, tIeau IL GOWN, WoihluS III " Hfti
bushel of oat screenings, distributed a
barrel Of water evenly over the ensll-
age and gave it one more treadinC.
The result is that the surface il cor-
cred with this dccaycd cnsilugc, and
over it is fine growth Of onts, the
roots OF which hnvu bound the cover
into regular fibre blanket. If covers
are needed which I still doubt this
one is far in tho lead of any have
ever Lad in my ten years OF silo cx-
pericncc. Gould, in Rural New
Yorker.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-03-10
Spring and Summer Dress Gocds.

Our lady readers will be delighted to know
that the Gilbert Manufacturing Co., OF New
York, who have gained such envlabIe repu-
tation throughout the country on their Gill
bert Innings. have now turned their atten-
tion to the manufacture Of Dress Goods,
which they produce under he title of Ameri-
can Queen Fabrics. comprising Organdies,
Dimities and Grenadines IN a beautiful line
of patterns and colors as sheer and dlinty as
gossamers These goods. like their Innings,
are all made from combed yarns and long
fiber cotton, which gives them great strength
and retains their shape much better than
other makes, while the prices are only about
one-half those of the imported. They are,
no doubt, the most beautiful fabrics made
from cotton. The line also includes Fast
Black Henrietta, which will neither crock
nor fade, and is not affected by air, sun or
rain; very desirable for warm weather
black dress. To be fashionably dressed this
summer means an American Queen Organdie
or Grepadine. Dimity or Henrietta For the
protection of the consumer these goods are
done up in silk papers like silks bearing the
American Queen labels.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-03-10
TEN MINUTES FOR EAcH POUND.

Select two ribs of beef and prepare.
Wine the meat with a towel, season
with one tablespoonful of salt and one
teaspoonful pepper, rubbing the sea.
soning we'll into the meat.
Lay four ounces 6necut suet in q
roasting pan, place over it the meat
and lay six ounces of suet on top; set
the pan in q hot oven, roast thirty
minutes, then turn the meat over, re.
placing the suet on top, AMI roast
forty minutes longer. A piece weigh.
irg seven pounds will be cooked in
that time. A good plan is to allow ten
minutes for each pound.
When done, lay the meat on warm
dish, remove nearly all the fat from
the gravy, mix one-half tablespoonful
corn starch with one.quarter. cupful
cold water, add It to the gravy, also
sufficient boiling water to make one
half pint of sauce; boil and stir five
minutes, then strain; add one-hal1
teaspoonful beef extract and small
piece of butter; serve with the meat.
New York Press.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-03-10
SMALLER FARMS.

"It's an i'll wind that blows nobody
any good,' is an old saying that Will
apply to the period of depression we
are just passing. 7 have long con-
tended, and still believe, that seven
out of every ten farmers are farming
or l should say trying to farm-too
much land. The average yield of an
acre of our leading cereals is ridicu-
lousy small, considering the fertility
of our soil and the ease with which 1t
can be titled. 1t is very evident that
there is something wrong when one
man obtains yield of thirty five
bushels Of wheat to the acre while his
neighbor, just over the fence. gets
only twelve. Why should one man
get eighty bushels of No. l corn an
acre while his nearest neighbor gets
only twenty-five bushels of No. 8 corn
an acre? Evidently one knows how
to cultivate his land 80 as to make it
yield a full crop, and the other
doesn't.-Farm, Field and Fireside.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-03-10

contemplate, but there is q great deal
of horse manure eaten by COWS. The
best way after regulating tine ration is
to fence off part of the yard and put
the horse manure in it, or else fence
off the cows. I have heard that rag.
weed will cause bitter milk, but as my
COWS would never eat it I cannot say
anything from my own experience op
that score.
For the second cause there is no
cure that I am aware of, and the third
is almost as hard to prevent. Briefly
stated, in it's natural state milk after
o certain time gets sour because of the
action of a certain kind of bacteria
whose business it is to make milk sour.
But if these same bacteria are pre-.
vented from getting in their work
owing to cold weather (they work only
in warm weather or in warm temper
ature), then nature, which abhors
even a vacuum of bacteria, immedi-
ately sets another gang of bacteria to
work, whose job is to make milk
bitter. And if politicians attended to
their jobs as we'll as bitter bacteria do
to theirs we would be much better off,
for 1T takes much effort to persuade
them to quit work. The remedy is
first to wash with boiling water every
vessel with which the milk or cream
comes in contact, or, better still, put
the vessels in boiling water on the
stove for ten or fifteen minutes. This
kills off all the bitter bacteria. Then,
to get the sour bacteria to work for
few days, keep all the milk at tenn.
perature of seventy degrees, aad put
little sour buttermilk in the cream.
This will give the sour bacteria a
chance to get firmly established. Then
do not let the milk get too cold or it
all will have to be done over again. As
two sets of bacteria cannot get along
at the same time, the bitter bacteria
give up the iob.-P. B. C., in National
Stockman.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-03-10
WHAT TO DO WITH A TOUGH HEN.

Sometimes "green" housekeeper
buys tough hen unawares, and then
she tears her hair because it is not fit
to eat when baked. Dress fowl and
hang it up over night to freeze. Put
to boil in hot water as soon as the fire
is made, and keep it boiling for three
hours. If in hard water put pinch
of soda as large as butter bean in the
water. Do lot salt. Two hours be-
fore dinner lift from the water; dress
and stuff as though it had not been
cooked at all lard it with nice sweet
bacon or fat pork and bake in medi.
um oven, basting often. The hen will
be tender as spring chicken. The
water in which it was boiled will make
delicious soup, with bits of chicken
shredded in it. for the second day,
and makes delicious stock for hashed
chicken on toast.