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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-17
STRAWBERRY TESTS.
The Varieties Most Suitable for Prof
liable General Cultivation.

The Varieties Most Suitable for Prof
liable General Cultivation.
At the recent meeting of the Ontario
Experimental union, held at the Agri
cultural college, Guelph, Ont. (Canada).
Prof. H. L. HUT, the experimenting
horticulturist of the institution, gave
report on the results of the recent
experiments with strawberries grown
on the college grounds. He has OBJ
served an extra growth of plants as
result of the careful removal of the
blossoms the first season. This only
confirms our old experience, that in or
der to secure the heaviest crop the Sec
ond year (which is the main and usual
~ the only fruiting year. as strawber-
ries are handled by good growers), we
have to adopt the practice of preventing
all fruit setting the same season that
the bed is established. Then in order
to have full crop, we must have full
matted rows. With varieties that are
| good plant-makers, like Wilson, Cres-
cent, Haverland, Bubach, Warfield, etc.,
we have no difficult y in securing the full
stand of plants, in an average fair sea-
son, even if in starting the bed we put
distance which Prof. HUT recommends
for planting such sorts, while IS inches
is as much as poor plant-makers should
be spread apart in the row at the start.
Next. for heavy yield, we want the
heavy yielders. Among them, Warfield
was found to be at the head. Alton is
much like it. Warfeld has good leaf
and very firm berry. Haverland is
one of the best for home cultivation.
Rubach was the 18th, and Crescent the
Goth, in the order of best yielders.
Flaverland was found at the head in
general health and power to resist rust.
Among the perfect Towering sorts
(those named all being pistillates).
Saunders was found first in productive
ness and vigor. Prof. HUT prefers to
grow the imperfect and perfect bloom
ers in alternate rows, in order to insure
full fruit setting and therefore best
yield. The question is what varieties
to plant together. Haverland was the
| first to show bloom. Van Deman, a
perfect-fowering sort, is also an early
bloomer, and might be used to furnish
pollen for the other. Lovett's Early
and Candy bloom soon after these, and,
in a pinch, might be used for the same
purpose. Haverland and Warfield are
among the earliest to give ripe fruit.
Rio stands second in the list, although
it stands Add in the order of yield.
Michers Early stands third for early,
and gives a large yield for an early
| sort, but the fruit is small and soft.
Warfield stands fourth for earliness,
and is the great berry for the west, and
for heavy land and plenty of moisture.
but seems not so good for light, dry
soils. Among the latest varieties, Prof.
HUT mentioned Edgar Queen, Equinox
and Mrs. Cleveland. = L. Greiner, III
American Gardening.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-17
STATE OF ONO, CITY OF TOLEDO, 90

Frank j. Cheney makes oath that he is the
senior partner of the firm of f. j. Cheney
& Co., doing business in the city of Toledo
County and State aforesaid, and that said
firm will pay the sum of One Hundred Dol
lars for each and every case of catarrh that
cannot be cured by the use of Halls Catarrh
Cure. FRANK j. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence, this 9th day of December, A. D.
1856. A. w. GLEASON,
[Seal1 Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally and
acts directly on the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system. Send for testimonials
free. F. j. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0.
Sold by druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-17
AGRICULTURAL HINTS
ROAD CONSTRUCTION.


The Two Essential Points to Be
Aimed at by Builders.
Prof. F. j. II. Merrill, in a paper read
before the Albany institute, says that
the question of good roads in this coun-
try is now at about the same stage at
which it was in England a century ago.
At that time roads were SO bad that a
general investigation was undertaken
resulting in the formulation of certain
rules for road building, whose adoption
led to the construction of the fine high
ways for which Great Britain has so
long been famous. The problem was
then of great commercial Importance,
as England had no railroads.
The experience of over 1000 years has
shown conclusveiy that there are two
essential points to be aimed at in the
construction of a road. First, a hard,
smooth waterproof surfaces, second, a
thoroughly dry foundation. These
principles were known to the Romans
800 years b. C. The surface of good
road may be of sufficient strength to
resist the wear and tear of traffic, and
smooth enough to prevent underwear on
vehicles. In connection with this, the
soil beneath must be made dry, and kept
dry. Therefore, the subject of read drain
age is as important as that of road
metaiing. The best road covering is
composed of angular fragments of some
stone, which will grind on the surface
into dust, which, when wet, will bind
or, in measure, cement the fragments
together, so that water will not pene-
trate. The angular form is essential to
make the fragments interlock. The
sizes should be quite uniform, except
that the surface layer may consist of
smaller fragments than. the bottom
course. The total thickness of this
metaling must be at least six inches
on natural soil foundation. The frag-
ments should not exceed 2H inches in
diameter, and should be rolled in two
separate courses with a heavy steam
roller until the surface is absolutely
firm.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-17
Buy Wide-Tired Wagons.

Good roads facilitate business and
make hauling economical. They are
needed, but they cost money, and the
great difficulty is to get the funds with
out burdening people who already feel
their burdens heavy. One way to i'm
grove roads without much cost is to
Use wide-tired wagons; we do not mean
that everybody should change instant
Nv, but the next time wagon is to be
bought, see that it has wide tires
Farm and Home.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-17
eoe BUS. OATS. 173 BUS. BARLEY.

M. M. Luther, East Troy. Pa. grew
200 bushels Salzer's Silver Mine Oats.
and John BREEDER, Mishicott. Wis. 173
bushels Silver King Barley per acre.
Don't you believe it? Write them!
Fodder plants as rape. teosinte.
vetch. spurry, clovers. grasses, etc.. in
endless varieties. potatoes at $1.50 bar
rel. SalZer's seeds are bred to big
yields. Americas greatest seed cata-
logue and 12 farm seed samples are sent
you by John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse
Wis, upon receipt of 10 cents, and this
notice, worth $40, to get start. Xxi
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-17
A CouNTERFEITER CAUGHT.
The Police of Syracuse Make nm I'm
pOrtant Capture.

me tOllce Oh SyTaCuSS NUKE nm I'M
portant Capture.
On Monday the 18th Harold Marquisee, of
Utica, N. Y, was arrested in Syracuse, N.
Y. on warrant sworn out by the DIR. Viii.
liams' Medicine Co., charging him with forg-
cry. On the 18th of December Marquisee
visited a photo-engraver in Syracuse, say
ing he was the representative of the DR..
Williams Medicine Co., and arranged for the
making of a full set of plates for the direc-
ton sheets, labels, ETC., OF the famous DIR.
Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. News
of this reached the home Office, and no time
was lost in arranging for his arrest when he
should return for the plates, He returned
en- the 18th, and was accordingly arrested
and is now in Jail in syracuse awaiting ex-
animation, which occurs on March I'd.
This arrest proves to be an important
one. In addition to various plumber, such
as medical books, typewrlters, rugs, ETC.,
found in Marouisee's trunk when arrested,
the police also found counterfeit coin both
in the trunk and on his person; and In
search of his apartments In Utica found a
complete outfit for counterfeitlng consist
ing of crucibles, bellows, nickel, lead,
bismuth, antimony, small blacksmith
forge, charcoal furnace. and several plas-
ter. of paris molds The United States mar
shals want him lust as soon as DIR. Williams
Medicine Co. are through with him, and, no
doubt, he will be sentenced for long Pc
Rod.
In selecting DR.. Williams Pink Pills for
his counterfeiting operations, he showed his
knowledge of the proprietary medicine bust
ness; for these pills are in such great demand
that they are easily sold at any drug store in
the United States His scheme was to work
the country druggists and sell his imita-
tions at discount of from 2per cent. to 5 per
cent, explaining the reduced price by the
fact that he had picked them up in small
lots and at discount from dealers who were
overstocked. By working fast and making
long jumps, he would have secured many
hundreds Of dollars in short time. The
proprietors of DR.. Williams Pink Pills are
most fortunate to have caught the rogue, be-
fore he had fairly started, and to have thus
kept these spurious goods out of the market
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-17
On Time,

And very early too. That's what any one
should be in treating ones self for inaction
of the kidneys and bladder. The diuretic
which experience indicates as supplying the
requisite stimulation to the organs without
exciting them, is Hostettcr's Stomach Bit
tiers. Don't delay; kidney inaction and dis.
eases are not far apart. For fever and ague,
dyspepsia, constipation, rheumatism and
nerve debility, also, use the Bitters.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-17

If you need anything in the line of Hay
Coal, Stock, Grain or Cotton Scales, you
should write to the Weeks Scale Works
Buffalo, N. Y, for catalogue and informa
ton. This is an old reliable firm, and you
can rely upon right prices and right treat
ment.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-17

lower and upper branches, while the
flaring form of the trellis accommo-
dates the spreading top. A dozen of
such trellises, strongly made, will
prove exceedingly satisfactory in the
garden, and will last many years if
carefully used. Do not wait till they
are wanted next summer, but get a
sufficient number of them ready now,
when other work is not pressing, and
store them in barn or under shed.
Orange Judd Farmer.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-17
No-To-Bac for Fifty Cents.

Over 00,000cured. Why not let No To BAG
regulate or remove your desire tor tobacco?
Saves money, makes health and manhood
Cure guaranteed, SOC and 81 90, all druggists.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-17

Fits stopped free and permanently cured.
No fits after first days use of DIR. Kline's
Great Nerve Restorer. Free 81 trial bottle &
treatise. DIR. Kline, 933 Arch ST., Phla., Pa.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-17
FARM TELEPHONE.

Good Results Can BE Obtained Mt an
Expense of Few Cents.
For cheap, short-dislance tele-
rhone, take tin can (oyster or fruit)
end punch a hole in the bottom large
enough for the eye of q metallic button
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-17

A woman's idea of a man good and true
is one who, on Sunday afternoon, reads to
his child the little paper it received at Sun
day school that day.-Atchison Globe.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-17

Some of the best people we know are SO
fat that they will not be able to reach
their arms around harp when they get Up
Yonder.-Atchison Globe.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-17

Slumleigh-"I don't see why you care so
little for me-" Miss Gyer-"Have you ever
taken good look at yourself?"-Town
Topics.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-17

When the Lord hands out a woman her
harp, she will not feel as proud as when the
minister asked for second piece of her pie
at church dinner,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-17

There are almost as many crises in the
average love affairs as there have been in
the rule of the sultan of Turkey.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-17

The man who minds his own business al
ways has something to do.-Ram's Horn.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-17
"Star Tobacco"

AS you chew tobacco for pleasure, use
Star. 1t is not only the best, but the most
lasting, and therefore the cheapest.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-17

just try Zoe box of Cascarets candy ca.
thartic, finest liver and bowel regulator made.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-17

"Glory" is ''grace" perfected-and grace
is ours on earth.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-17

Disappointment are wings that bear the
soul skyward
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-17

Time counts, health gains. A quick, sur
cure-St. Jacobs OIL for sprains.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-17

Let the good book you read have an ap
pendix in your life.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-17

She-"Do you understand those French
jokes?" Helm afraid / do" She
Then wish you'd translate them Pick.
Me Up.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-17

George describes the girl he is engaged
to as perfect vision" eyes. And his sister
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-17

When heating a furnace for your foe, do
not forget that there is some danger of
your being thrown into it.-Ram's Horn.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-17

Blacker the spot. surer the cure. Use st
Jacobs Oil for bruises.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-17

Shelf you were to find that / had lost
all my fortune-every penny of it-would
you hesitate to carry out our engagement
He-"I would hesitate at nothing ."-Indi-
annapolis journal.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-17

Don't snap in two. Timber up. St. ia
cobs Oil will cure lumbago sure
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-17
GOOD TOMATO TRELLiS.

Get n Good Supply Ready Now for Use
Next Summer.
The sketch shows trellis for toma-
toes that completely fills the bill"
The double side pieces hold up both
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-17

Sudden weather changes bring rheuma
tism. st. Jacobs Oil makes prompt cure
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-17

color face than have had for
kind do hav Ion Ind
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-04-07
Call the Next Case

1t seems that, in the interval of quiet
which his occupation allows, Deputy
Marshal Hannah sometimes practices
law His fellow marshals tell of an
experience of his while defending a
criminal before Welsh County Judge.
Mr.. Hannah had studied the case
carefully aud went, with a cutter
loaded with law books. prepared to
show the court thing or two. The
case had not progressed far when a
legal point came up, and Mr.. Hannah
undertook to read little law to the
court.
"What book is that" inquired His
Honor.
THE code, " replied Mr. Hannah.
What code?"
The code adopted at the session of
1895, your Honor"
Now, look here, young man, " said
The Court, as he opened weather
heaten volume of territorial laws, I've
tried cases by this book for the last
eighteen years, and I'm goin to keep
right on doin' it, and there don't no
new tangled laws go in this court Do
you hear? Sit down. You don t need
to offer no objections, for I'll overruIe
EN-. The prisoner is found guilty, as
charged. Call the next case. Grand
Forks News.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-04-07
"SpOils" and Party Spirit.

In our opinion the spoils system. more
than anything else, was responsible for
those excesses of partisanship. Next
to the spoils system was the survival
of sectional prejudice, and the exls.
tence of various questions and issues
growing out of the civil war. Recent
tendencies are steadily making for the
disappearance of the old sectional line
of cleavage, and partisanship is fast
disappearing from the domain of the
public service. The thing which in
other days made the large postmaster
ships, collectorships, pension agencies
and internal revenue posts so much
scrambled for by politicians, was the
patronage that they carried with them.
For in those halcoyn days of looting
and plunder the postmaster of New
York might turn out not only all the
office force, but also all the letter car.
riers, in order to make room for per
haps two thousand political adheren ts
of his own orr of his faction, while the
collactor of the port had like author.
ity. But those times are gone forever;
and with the disappearance of political
henchmen from the rank and file, there
seems more and more an in incongruity in
having mere patronage disbursing poll
ticians at the top.
II there is anything perfectly clear
at the present time in the United States,
it is the Overwhelming character of that
public opinion which would have Mr..
Mckinley make his appointments on
the ground of conspicuous fitness for
the duties of the places to be filled.
Mere partisanship at the present mo-
ment happens to be at a very low ebb,
while genuine patriotism is strong
and pervasive sentiment.-From "The
Progress of the WoIld," In April Re-
view of Reviews.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-04-07

Brownlow was working for "harmony"
and was unable to hear from Evans, he
went to Mark Hannah and laid the
matter before him. Hannah wanted
harmony in Tennessee, and he in.
structed Chas. j. Allison of Knoxville,
who is cousin of McKinley's to invite
Evans to Knoxville to have confer.
ence with National Committeeman
Brownlow. Mr.. Allison wrote Mr..
Evans, indicating that it would please
the big Chairman of the National
Committee If he would meet Brownlow
and arrange Matters" but the
doughty warrior thought he saw a
large insect under chip, and he didn t
even answer the letter of Mckinley g
cousin Charley. Brownlow went to
knoxville, as directed by Hanna, to
meet Evans, and not finding him, he
had Mr.. Allison wire him that he
lBrownlowl was there and waiting;
but alas. two aliases the hero of the
Turney campaiGn would not even an.
swer the telegram. Mr.. Allison wired
the Western Union office at Chatta-
nooea to know if the message had been
delivered and received reply that it
had. Things have changed since then
Mckinley is President, Hanna is
Sen 'tor from Ohio, Brownlow is Con.
gresham, and Newell Sanders is Presi.
dent Of the Chattanooga Plow and Hoe
Company. feel sure that if Sanders
had time he could arrange it ALL
Jesse Littleton's 3 Washington Letter in
Times.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-04-07
Six Dead Bodies,

New YORK, March 22.-The Crom-
we'll line steamer Creole, Capt. eager,
from New Orleas, which arrived TODAY,
reports that on the passage boat be
longing to the i'll fated French steamer
Vile de st. Nazaire, which foundered
in storm off Hataras on Monday,
March 8, was picked up with six dead
bodies in it, Captain eager said that
yesterday boat was passed filled with
water. After going a short distance
he recalled the loss st. Nazaire and
thinking it might belong to her turned
the steamer and put back. When the
steamer got alongside of the boat it
was seen that she contained six dead
bodies lying in heap under the seats,
and the water in her was up to the
gunwale. The bodies fell out of the
boat as 1t was being hoisted, and i'm
mediately sank. The boat was taken
on board the Creole and brought to
port and now lies on the steamers
deck awaiting the orders of the French
Steamship Company.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-04-07
Road Making by COnyicts.

Our esteemed contemporary, the New
York Tribune, thus moralizes upon one
Of the most important questions of the
day:
bad roads, as.we have said, are an
evil of all the year round. The remedy
for them must be applied, in greater or
less degree, all the year round. Good
roads, that is to say, need constant at.
tention to keep them good. But the
making them good is a task that can
best be performed at certain fixed sea-
sons, and those are exactly the seasons
at which the average farmer can least
well arrange to do the work. They are
the seasons When he is busiest on his
farm, and when for him even to 90 out
with plow and scraper and work out
his road tax means to neglect his crops.
But all the plowing and scraping in the
world can not make a good road, and
to ask the farmer to do more, to enter
upon the work of grading and draining
and macadamizing, is to ask a practi.
cal impossiblity.
Just here, however, is where one
great advantage of convict labor on
the roads becomes evident. The in
mates of the State prison have no other
duties to perform than those they may
be set at. They can be put at work
upon the roads at just the best possible
time for road building, and so can do
the work to the best possible advan
tage. They can also be set at work on
them at any time, to repair them, and
be kept at it as long as may be neces
sary without the slightest degree inter
fering with ordinary agricultural or
other industry. When to this it is added
that road making is work which all
able bodied men can do, whether skill.
ed or unskilled, and that it is just such
wholesome, yariegated, out of doors
work as prisoners most need for mental
and physical health, the argumentf for
thus employing convicts seems well
nigh unanswerable.
For years past we have been industri. |
ously advocating this idea 1t has al.
ways seemed to us that State convicts
could in no other way be so usefully
employed as in road making, We have
not thought it quite air to honest la.
boring men to subject them to the com.
petition of convicts, neither has it
seemed merciful to the convicts them
selves to refuse to them the opportu
nifty of wholesome exercise and occu.
patton. Road building, therefore, has
suggested itself to US as being in every
way the best solution of the difficulty.
In this way convicts can be made to
render the most valuable possible ser.
vice to the State; in this way their
welfare. physical aud moral, will be
most effectually promoted; in this way
honest labor will be protected against
an injurious and unfair competition
Post.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-04-07

If you have decided in the affirma.
tive and wish to gather comprehen.
sive idea of the vast summer resorts in
the northern United States, the Great
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tain satisfactory information by send.
ing four cents in postage stamps to D.
G. Edwards, Passenger Traffic Man
ager, G. II. & D. Ry., Cincinnati, Ohio,
who will in return send you a copy of
IA Michigan Romance, IAN attractive
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also full information about the summer
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The c. II. & D. Ry., have also under
preparation another series of books, for
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