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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-29
british OCCUPY Two TovD..

LAGOS, West Coast of Africa, Dec. 2S.-
Ilesha and Berehara, important Bariba
towns, have been occupied by the Lagos
Hausas The inhabitants are enthusiastic
over the presence of the British flag, as
they feared an attack from French native
selves on the Bariba country and are Gcyas-
tating it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-29

have made their location long prior to any
adverse right. The commissioner rejected
grounds. and says that the survey of the
claim was not regularly made. He says
that a new survey is. therefore. necessi-
tated, and that the case will come up on its
merits
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-29
Lnetgert,n sfenogrnphers on Strike.

CHICAGO, Dec. Is. = Stenographers ems
ployed by the defense in the Luetgert case
have struck. They did not appear in court
when the case was called to-day and thd
defense may have to depend on the notes
taken by the states attorneys Stenogra-
pliers If it is found necessary to take the
case to the Supreme Court.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-29
New Indiana Pastmasters.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2S.-Indiana fourth
class postmasters were appointed to-day as
follows Bellevue, Jefferson county, Frank
Jones, vice James c. Storm, resigned; Hills
burg, Clinton county, Charles Sharp, vice
j. S. Mechem, removed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-29
Strengthening Gibraltar.

WASHINGTON. Dec 2S-Reports re-
ceived at the Navy Department indicate
that the British government Is pushing the
work Of undermining the great fortihcatlons
AZ the Rock of Gibraltar with all spead. and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-29
SKIRMISHING BEGUN.
Senator Hanna's Lieutenants at Work
on Ohio Legislators.

COLUMBUS, o., Dec. 2S-Major Charles
Dick arrived from Cleveland tonight to
assume charge of Senator Hannas personal
interests in the senatorial election. Mr..
Hanna is not expected here before Sunday
and in the meantime Major Dick will shape
up affairs to combat as successfully as pos
sible the opposition to his chief. The rooms
at the Neil House occupied by Senator
Sherman as headquarters in his memorable
contest with Senator Foraker six years ago
have been secured by Major Dick for Mr.
Hanna. Major Dick will have a corps of
neutenants to assist him, and the pros
poets are for a very lively skirmish But
few OF the members-eiect of the General
Assembly have arrived and the majority
will probably not come to the capital city
until next Friday, the day previous TO the
caucuses for the organization of the upper
and lower houses The list OF members
claimed by Charles L. Kurtz in opposition
to Senator Hanna, given out tonight,
contains the names of two senator's and six
representatives, but Major Dick does not
concede that any of these members will
vote against Senator Hanna.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-29
North Dakota Republicans.

FARGO, N. D., Dec. 2S.--A most important
meeting of the Republicans of the State
will be held here tomorrow. Probably one
hundred prominent Republicans will be in
attendance. The object is to organize cam
paign club strictly within the Republican
party and somewhat on the lines of the ma
tional platform, but with this distinctive
feature, that the STRAIT enforcement of the
prohibtory law Of the State be made one
of the cardinal features of the club and one
of the principles that every man who asks
the Endorsement of the Republican party at
tho next election will have to advocate. The
organization will be extended to every cOun-
ty in the State. and while the chief object
Wi be to select men who favor enforcement
great attention will be paid TO the selection
OF county attorneys and sheriffs to insure
tho enforcement of the law in every sec
ton of the Commonwealth
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-29
noth HIVE bullets in the Temple.

DETROIT, Mich, Dec 2S-Edmund
Trgver a pressman. and his paramour,
Myrtle Dreamer, were taken to Emergency
Hospital late this afternoon. each with a
bullet ia the temple. Doctors think the
young man Will die. Their stories differ
each accusing the other of doing the shoot
tne after a Quarrel.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-29

If your credit was in danger you would
fly to prevent a protest. If your life is in
danger from a cough that is settling on
your lungs be as prompt in resorting to
Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar. Crit
tenton s. Sixth avenue.
Pixies Toothache Drops cure i'm l minute.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-29
Mrs. winslow,r soothing syrrp

Has been used over ffty years by millions OF
riuthers for their children while teething with
perfect success 1t soothes the child softens the
gums, allays pain, cures wind collie regulates the
Bowels and is the best remedy for diarrhea.
whether arising from tcething or other causes.
For sale by druggists N every part of the world.
Be sure and ask for Mrs. WINSTON Soothing
Svr1in. o cents bottle.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-05-21
Don't Eat Unless You Are Hungry.

There is good old maxim whic-
runs as follows: an time Of peace pre-
pare for war;" and this is as true in
connection with the question of diet in
health as in other things. Too many
people assume that because they enjoy
fairly good health, no improvement
need be effected in their diet, but that
this position is .eminently untenabe
none who carefully consider the sub
ject will deny. Those whose practice
brings them into contact with the
weather. classes have frequently an
opportunity of estimating the bad eff
fects of improper diet. AS regards the
poor, they are unable to procure meat
on account of their poverty and, as a
result, their diet is composed largely Of
carbohydrates. In the case of general
sickness, or even without unfavorable
climatic conditions, both classes seem
to be unable to resist attacks of dis
ease. 1t is for the most part the ap-
parently healthy people who are so
quickly stricken down by disease, while
the chronic Invalid may pass through
unscathed, and yet no one seem to I'M
derstand that conditions were present
which predisposed the healthy man or
woman to disease, and that these pre-
existing conditions were largely due
to want of attention to diet. 1t would
be well for those who feel so sure that
they are in perfect health to consult a
doctor for instructions how to avoid
disease. One very common mistake is
to eat when not hungry, simply be-
cause it is meal time" and act not
one whit less stupid than that of re-
plenishing ones fire because one hears
ones neigh5ors coal-scuttle rafting,
regardless of the fact that there is
plenty of coal already on, and that any
addition thereto would be mischievous
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-05-21
Japanese Millet.

The Massachusetts, Agricultural Ex-
pertinent Station has recently intro
duced three new varieties of millets
from Japan. Among them is a variety
of barn-yard grass, Panicum Crus Gal
Ii, which, while it differs in its habits
of growth, is botanically Identical
with the common barn-yard grass.
The variety from Japan has been
grown for few years at the Massa-
chusetts Station. Professor Brooks OF
that Station is very enthusiastic about
it and recommends it as fodder crop
either for feeding green or Tor the sllo'
As a forage plant it may yield ten or
twelve tons of fodder per acre, and
when thinly sown in rows about loot
apart yield of fifty to. ninety bushels
of seed may be obtained. Ordinary
barnyard grass is a coarse annual,
with stems two to four feet in length,
appearing in midsummer, in low,
somewhat damp places or on cultlvat-
ed grounds. The ordinary variety is
a very troublesome weed. Professor
Brooks says: This Japanese variety
of the species has not become weed
here however, although the seed does
not lose all vitality during the win
ter. Although it is possible that 1t
might under some circumstances be-
come troublesome, it is hardly liable to
prove more so than clover or winter
wheat for instance" This plant is be-
ing quite extensively advertised by
seedsmen under the name OF japanese
Mlllet, or it's scientific name, Panicum
Crus CALI While this may prove to
he a valuable acquisition to our fod-
der plants and not become means
of spreading a bad weed, the Expert
ment Station would recommend the
farmers of Maine to be cautious about
purchasing seed Of this new plant. Ger
tainly the seed of Pan'cum Crus CALI
should be bought only of reliable deal
ers, who will be sure to furnish the
seed of the Japanese variety. The mis-
chief that would be wrought by sowing
seed of ordinary barnyard grass Is
self-evident. Chas. ID. Wooos'
Director Maine Experiment Station
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-05-21

ties or sixties or seventies wanting to
be useful, but they so served the world
and Satan in the earlier part OF their
life that they have no physical energy
left for the service of God. They sac
rifced nerves, muscles, lungs, heart
and liver on the wrong altar. They
fought on the wrong side, and now
when their sword is all hacked up ana
their ammunition all gone, they enlist
for Emmanuel. When the hign-meI-
tied cavalry horse, which that man
spurred into many a cavalry charge
with champing bit and flaming eye ana
neck clothed with thunder, Is worn
out and spawned and ring-boned anu
spring-halt, he rides up to the great
Captain of our Salvation on the WHITE
horse and offers his services. win
such persons might have BEEN through
the good habits of lifetime, crash
ing their battle-aX through the helmet
ed iniquities, they are spending their
days and nights in discussing the best
way Of curing their indigestion, ana
quieting their tangled nerves, ana
rousing their laggard appetite, and try
ing to extract the dart from their OUT
ragged liver. Better converted late than
never! Oh, yes; for they will get to
heaven. But they will go afoot when
they might have wheeled up the steed
hills of the sky in Elijah's chariot.
There is an old hymn that we used to
sing in the country meeting house
when l was boy, and l remember
how the old folks voices trembled
with emotion while they sang it. l
have forgotten all but two lines, out
those lines are the peroration OF my
sermon
Twill save us from thousand snares
To mind religion young
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-05-21
Oiling the Harm ess.

Harness will last much longer and
look much better if kept we'll oiled, and
will not get so stiff after being exposed
to a days rain, says Journal of Agri-
culture. During the spring it is diff
ficult to keep harness from getting wet,
and it will pay we'll before the seasons
work begins to see that it is thoroughly
oiled. In doing the work, the harness
should be taken apart, washed clean,
using warm water and CASTLE soap, and
then wiped dry, when the oil should be
applied. If so clean that washing is not
needed, it will be better to wipe off with
a wet rag as the oiling can be done bet
ter. 1t is best to take harness all
apart, in order to get at all of the parts
and oil thoroughly. Good harness Oil
can be purchased all ready for use, or
neatsfoot OIL with little lamp black,
will be found good. If the harness has
not been oiled for some time and is
hard and dry, it will be best to go over
them twice, finishing all up, and then
commencing with the first piece and
going over again. After every part has
been thoroughly oiled, it should all be
hung up over frame of some kind
and allowed to dry. 1t should not be
hung in the sun or where the wind
strikes, as it will dry too rapidly. The
oil should have plenty of time to soak
in. Like most other work on the farm,
if undertaken it will pay to do well.
Native Shrubs.-I would like to say
a good word for some native shrubs.
The black alder belonging to the holly
family is hardy shrub and a beauti-
full plant, especially when the fruit is
ripe. Then there is the Nine-Bark
(Spiraea prunifolia), beautiful in it's
bloom and beautiful in its seed. Both
Of these shrubs are hardy native shrubs,
with their fruit turning a beautiful
crimson in the fall. Among other
things, not perhaps in the line Of
shrubs, are the climbing vines or
plants, such as the Boston Ivy. 1t
gives character to the buildings in the
eastern states and adds beauty and
charms to the common brick walls. If
we can make it do half as we'll as they
grow it there, it would change the
looks of a village like Sparta more
than any other thing that could be
planted. The Five-leaved Ivy (Ampe-
lcpsis yuinyuefolia), commonly called
Virginia Creeper, is another native vine
and will grow we'll almost anywhere
A. l.. Hatch.
WEAVING Time-When the weaving
time comes for the eve flock they
should be watched closely in meadow
or pasture, and if they cannot have this
care they should be kept in lot where
they can have access to a warm barn.
AS fast as they wean they should lie
put into what might be called the nur-
sery flock and fed for all that the milk
and lambs are worth. Feed for milk
This will make another flock with lit
tie different feeding.-Ex.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-05-21

On apparently deliberate reduction In
the quality of ashes. During the year
preceding the receipt of the five sam
pies above described, the Canada ashes
sent to the station for analysis were OF
good quality. One sample Is OF inter-
est because, though very moist, 1t yet
contains a high percentage OF potash
The ashes had most probably been ex-
posed to rain, instead of having been
leached and afterward partially dried
Three samples of domestic ashes are
characterized by being very dry, ana
one was probably taken soon after the
ashes were removed from the stove.
Average Canada ashes contain about II
per cent of moisture. which renders
them as damp as the average chemical
fertilizer. Buyers of ashes should
therefore look with suspicion on lots
that appear excessively moist, because
in such cases the potash Is seldom
equal to the proportion in average
ashes. The refuse ashes were samples
from burned rubbish, principally waste
paper and refuse lumber. The analyti-
cal results speak for themselves. Ashes
from paper are as valueless as those
from coal because the soluble mineral
matter has been leached out OF the pa
per stock during the process OF paper
making,
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-05-21
Origin of the Word Tariff.

Every day when we open the news
papers and read the political discus
sions in its columns, we are sure to
come across something about the tariff.
says "Harpers Round Table" Every
one knows the meaning of the word
tariff; but it is not generally known
where it originated. 1t is of Moorish
origin. and descended to us from the
time when the Moors occupied goodly
part of Spain. In those days they built
a fort to guard the strait of Gibraltar,
and they called it Tarifa. 1t was the
custom of these people to levy duties
according to fixed scale, which they
adopted and changed from time to time.
even as much as we do our own tariff
laws, on the merchandise of all ves-
sells passing in and out of the Mediter-
ranean. They claimed the right by vir-
tue of strength, and for years netted Q
rich income.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-05-21
A yeteran shoer.n Advice.

I have shed horses for forty years,
and will give my experience concern
ing the shoeing and the care of the
feet writes William Guinter, ST., In
Farm Journal. l would first say 1t Is
not the best blacksmith that makes the
shoe stick the longest on the horse.
That depends on the quality OF the
nails and the good of the feet. am
not anyways backward in stating That
there are more horses feet injured In
shceing than any person would thlnK
there were. When the smith goes TO
shoe a horse he should take a .good
look at the foot and see whether the
foot is straight or not, and then dress
and set the shoe so as the foot becomes
straight First, don't lower the heel too
much; don't cut the frog, only the
loose fragments. Pare the foot hollo"
so as the shoe rests on the horn OF the
foot Cut some of the toe Of the foot
off as 1t grows long. Keep the 1901 as
round as possible. Don't mt the loot
to the shoe, but fit the shoe to the fooe'
Here is where the trouble is with nine
out of ten smiths-they don't shape the
shoe right You take a colt when ne
is first shod and his foot is round, ana
so it ought to be kept, and then there
would be fewer narrow, contracleu
horses feet than there are. rake
good look at the most of horses feet,
and just see how narrow and pointed
and long they are. Not rounu anu
broad as nature would have them, just
because the smith shapes the shoe mar
row, and puts it on the foot and cuts
off the sides of the foot, and in a snort
time you will have a narrow, con-
tracted foot, and every time the horse
Is shod it becomes more so. 1 nave
many time, or always do, alter the
shape of a shoe by rounding 1t on the
toe. If you have narrow foot that
has been spoiled in thus shoelng, you
can in a short time have it wide ana
broad by making the shoe rounder on
the toe, and in several shoeings as the
foot grows it will become wide. An
other point, set the shoe straight on the
foot, range it in line with the frog ana
the toe CT the shoe. Look at the foot
and see whether one side has grown
out more than the other side and set
the shoe over so as the foot becomes
straight. l will also give you my way
of shoeing a horse that interferes or
cuts his ankles in travelling. In dress
ing the foot cut down the outside OF the
foot as low as possible; leave the In
side high. In fitting the shoe for sum-
mer have a spring heel shoe; have the
inside of the shoe the highest and IN
setting the shoe set 1t in little OF the
foot. A horse never strikes or cuts
himself with the heel of the shoe. 1t IS
always with the side of the foot or the
side of the shoe or the clinches OF the
rails. For winter shoeing raise the in
side calk the highest. A horse will cut
or interfere most when the roads are
rough or uneven. In thus shoeing you
will observe that when the horse sets
his foot down OIL level ground the ankle
will incline out, and as the other foot
passes by it will not strike. On rough
and uneven roads he sometimes sets his
foot down the lowest on the inside, and
thus will strike or cut the ankle.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-05-21
One Camse of ErpnIS RiIIa

Senator Forney, Of the Kansas state
senate, has a young daughter who tells
why her father introduced so many
freak bills in the senate. Whenever
he ran up against anything he didn't
like" she says, "he would come home
and write bill again it. There is one
of his railroad bills for instance. We
drove to town to church one night, and
there was freight train on the cross
ing, and it kept us there for twenty
minutes. 1t annoyed pa dreadfully, and
he went home and wrote that bill to
prohibit trains from obstructing cross
ings more than five minutes. Then one
night somebody stole all our chickens.
The next day pa wrote his chicken bill.
But you will notice that the bill doesn't
protect ducks. Pa don't like ducks.
And he said if anybody wanted to steal
them it was all right-the ducks was
punishment enough. Whenever pa sat
down to write a bill we always knew
that something had happened to him."
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-05-21
Inferior Wood Ashes.

In Bulletin 43 of the New Hampshire
College Agricultural Experiment Sta
ton Prof. Fred w. Morse writes: The
time for purchasing fertilizers having
come, the station wishes to call the at
tention of farmers to the veritable COM
position of wood ashes and particular
ly to some evidently fraudulent lots OF
Canada ashes. samples of which were
received at the laboratory last fall.
Five samples, representing three dill
ferent lots, were received during Octo-
Der, 1896, from widely different sec
tions of the state, namely Plymouth,
Stratham and Walpole. The ashes
were all bought of the same wholesale
dealer. and analysis showed them to
be quite uniform in quality, but no.
ticeably inferior. The proportion OF
potash is low, especially If the soluble
form is alone considered which fact
taken with the quantity of water, leads
one to suspect that these ashes had
been either leached partially or pre-
pared By mixing leached and dry ashes
together. The proportion of lime found
In the most inferior sample disposes
of any suspicion of aGulteration with
lime as the PERCENTAGE is not high. The
price of these ashes was $40 per ton
delivered in carload lots at the respec-
tive railroad stations. This price is
lower than any quotations previously
known to the station. The important
point for the purchaser, however, is
that the low price was accompanied by
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-05-21
Sugar Beet Bulletins.

The Arizona experiment station has
Just issued timely bulletin upon the
sugar beet. Never before in the United
States has there been manifested such
deep interest in the sugar beet and
sugar beet culture as at present The ag-
ricultural press from the British posses
sions to the gulf and from the Atlantic
to the Pacific bear evidence Of the fact
that the people throughout the United
States are aroused in this matter and
propose finding out whether 1t is pos
sible for the United States to grow its
own sugar, instead of sending abroad
each year the enormous sum of $780,
900 900 for this commodity. The re-
markable success attained at nearly, IL
not quite all, the factories in operation
during the past year has stimulated
this interest and now there is scarcely
a locality in the United States which
does not desire sugar beet factory
and is not taking steps to ascertain
whether beets cannot be grown of suff1-
cient richness of sugar to warrant the
establishing of factory in that place.
In view of these facts this bulletin will
undoubtedly he welcomed by large
part of the farming community In
many portions of the union. The bull
letin is an exhaustive one, going to
some length into the history of the
sugar beet industry and giving numer-
Gus statistics setting forth the advan-
tages to a community of a sugar beet
factory. While destined primarily for
regions in which the beet must be
grown by means of irrigation, it is not
without interest to all localities. 1t
will be sent gratis to all interested
who will apply to William Stowe De-
vol, Director experiment station, Tue
son, Ariz.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-05-21
Juvenile Horsethleves Married.

Erwin Shaw and Gertie Fisher. each
sentenced to one year in the peniten-
tiary for joint horse theft, were welded
in the Jail parlors at Wilmington. Ohio.
Gertie's mother, of Dayton, gave her
consent. Gertie is a beautiful little girl
and her husband handsome beardIess
h.Nu
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-05-21
Very Strange.

Mrs. Gray-Isn't it lovely! How
much did you pay for it? Mrs. Green
Two and a half yard. Mrs. Gray
What an odd price! You are sure it
wasn't $2.4S or S2.51?-Boston Tran
script.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-05-21
FARM3 AND GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO
ACRICULTURISTS.
Some Up-to-date Hints About Cultiva-
ton Of the Soil and Yields Thereof
horticulture, viticulturo and Flori-
culture.

T is hard to predict
how a species will
act. The behavior
of a species in a
new country is fire.
gu e n t y different
from that in its ma
tive locality. Being
without it's natural
checklist will some
times increase inor-
dinately as did the
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-05-21
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
HEALTH OF TIE BODY" LAST
SUNDAYS SUBJECT.
From tho Text; It'll Dart Strike
Through His Llver"-Proverbs VlI-@3
The Gospel of Parity In Body and
In Soul.

anato-
mical and physio-
logical discoveries
were so very great
that he was nearly
t hire e thousand
years ahead of the
scientists of his
day. He, more
than one thousand
years before Christ,
caan1ed TO know