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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1897-09-17

San Jose Scale.-When q twig Of your
fruit tree appears as. IL covered with
ashes. look sharp for San Jose scale:
also; II when the bark Of infested twigs
is scraped with knife. an oily yellow.
ish liquid appears on the surface. In
pear trees particular attention should
be given to the extremities Of the twigs
especially II the leaves turn brown. In
infested fruit Of the pear an encirclinR
band Of reddish discoloration 10 seen
around each insect. A little lady-bird
beetle about the size Of pins head is
often seen running about on infested
trees, and wherever 1t appears on trunk
or branches careful search should be
made for the scales on which It feeds.
The remedy for this pest is, In mild
cases, Thorough scraping and wash
ing with whale oil soap: II very album
dant cut out every tree so affected and
burn.-The Farm Journal.
Profit in Hogs.-Farmers generally
have settled down to the belief that the
best profit in hog raising ID found In
feeding to only one year Of age, or .
little less, getting weight in that time
Of $50 to $50 pounds. All weight above
that 10 made at constantly Increasing
cost pound. 70 much greater at times
g TO result n actual loss M. #
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ArcHlsoN oLosULEs.
Always copper . tip.

Always copper tip.
No farmer ever raised q full crop.
There Is no perfume in the world
equal to the perfume from q barrel Of
apples.
It is as hard to suit a farmer in the;
matter Of weather as it Is to suit 81
woman with q husband.
II you don't learn to laugh at trou-
BILE, you will not have anything to
laugh at when you are old.
When a man has had an operation
performed. he thinks he Ii authority
on sickness OF every kind. b; Il,
Why don't turnips and beets ever
disagree with people? No one likes
turnips and .beets. anyway. d
An Atchison man is writing . noo,ysi1
In which the villain IL avenged bv his
rival marrying the heroine.
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cows while on pasture. though q vet
but little practieed, is growing In a.
vor. Wheat bran can usually be bought
for SO and ship stun (middlings) at
about $13 q ton. Oil cake (linseed)
meal costs from $40 to 325 ton. The
use Of q. little Of these foods It night
and morning IL found by the dairymen
to help out the pastures, keep up the
milk dow. and maintain the cows in
good condition. With many II takes
about four acres Of land to winter and
summer each COW. Others are feedins
90 that they can make one-half that
area Of land do the work. whileta few
have learned that by means OF the soil
Ing system for summer and the silo
for winter feeding. properly supple
mented with grain, they can make one
acre furnish ~ much COW food as was
formerly done. by four.-Levi Club.
buck. 5f;i. i
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30. shs Ki.adyk. in balloons.

DR.. Rufus @. Wells, whose home Il
at No. 1929 North Sixteenth street. st.
Louis. liz another Of the many victims
Of the Alaska gold fever. He has be-.
gun work on gigantic balloon IN
which he proposes to start for the
Klondyke region next spring. His ball
loon will consist Of q cigar-shaped bag
dlled with gas, sustaining a basket and
propeller: The gas will be sufncient to
sustain the weight Of fifty men and
their necessary baggage. DR.. Wells IL
Offering round trip tickets on his air.
ship for $500.
Or. Wells claims to be the greatest
aeronaut Of the age. He tells marvel
GUS stories Of his exploits how he once
crossed tho Apprentices from Rome In
seven hours, and another time crossed
the Indian Ocean. He says that he can
go around the world in thirty days.
and consequently such little matter
as q trip to Klondyke is hardly worth
talking about.
Dr.. James Charles, of Richmond:
Ind, is another medical man who has
devoted much attention to aerial navi.
cation. As result Of his thinking he
has applied for patent on. an airship
which is designed to fly like bird,
without the use Of gas or other buoy
ant matter. He has constructed tin
model Of machine something like
Langley's flying machine, but fitted
with various propelling wheels which
:an be turned 80 that they
win exert either a lifting or
horizontal power that will
raove the machine forward. DR..
Charles is organizing a stock COM
pany to build his machines and con-
templates trip through the air to
Alaska in the spring.
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supplementlng the Pasture.

8upPl0m0nt1nG tho Pasture.
The general practice of dairy farm
ers in both Missouri and Kansas is to
pasture their cows during the summer.
The soiling system Is practiced to q
very limited extent, although there is
q growing tendency in that direction.
At present the practice Is to grow q
field Of fodder corn or sorghum to be
cut green and fed to the cows whom
pastures begin to get short from
drought. The feeding Of grain to the
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small choral draught to steady her
nerves and a handkerchief soaked in
arnica bound round her head. II was
with some surprise, therefore, that the
Admiral received note from her about
ten o'clock, asking him to be good
enough to step in to her. He hurried in,
fearing that she might have taken some
turn for the worse. but he was treasured
to find her sitting up in bed, with Clara
and Ida Walker in attendance upon
her. She had removed the tandker-
chief. and had put on a little cap with
pink ribbons. and maroon dressing
Jacket. daintily fulled at the neck and
sleeves.
my dear friend" said she as he en-.
tered. II wish to make last few re-
marks to you. No. no. she continued,
laughing. as she saw a look Of dismay
Upon his face. II shall not dream Of
fdYing for at least another, thirty years.
A woman should be ashamed to die be-
fore she is seventy. wish. Clara, that
you would ask your father to step up.
And you. Ida.c Just pass me my cigar
cites, and open me a bottle Of stout"
''Now them" she continued. as the
Doctor Joined their party. II don't quite
know what ought to say to you. Adj
miral. You want some very plain
speaking to-
"'Pon my word. ma'am, don't know
what you are talking about" -.
THE idea of you at your age taking.
Of going to sea, and leaving that dear,
patient little wife Of yours at home. who
has seen nothing Of you all her life! It's
all very well for you. You have the life.
and the change, and the excitement,
but you don't think Of her eating her
heart out in dreary London lodging.
You men are all the same"
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Diseases Of Hot House Vegetables.
Bulletin % Of the Ohio Agricultural
Experiment Station is devoted to stud
les OF some Of the more common plant
diseases Of the forcing house and gar
den, especially those encountered In
the culture iof vegetables under glass,
IN Industry which is assuming very
,conside rable Importance in Ohio and
other northern states. The bulletin ID
illustrated with several plates. Com
iiplaints ars frequently received ct the
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be moved before haying and before

be moved before haying and before
the flower is open 30 as to prevent
seeding, and again later to prevent
second seeding. The plants should be
raked up as soon al cut and burned
when dry. The surest way to destroy
the plants 10 to pillow the patches and
cultivate frequently and cleanly dur
ing one or two years. either with or
without q hoed crop. In the case Of
small patches. similar to some Of
those observed in Farmingdale. It
would be sufhcient to dig out the
plants and thus save further trouble.
Whatever is done to destroy the weed
should be done at once.
Chas. D. Woods, Director.
University Of Maine. July 3. 1897.
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Y Iao Ohioa1o " ! f q =! 1lietin -:
" ne lstsgt Informal Hon rom ~ III Auro.
pean countries - SsornsW nat eonnic i.
INF resArdtng the crop sisuation. pus
y y esnsrslly belleved TINT ~ the - =
gregate the yield q whsAt Vii be COM
siderably smaller than reported ~ y
1ss6-in Oh countries probably Ivy.
100000 bushels. The weather has neg
been very favorable. and consioe rapi y
damage has been sustained ~ noavy
rains and foods. IN the United Aanes
DOM the season has been bsckWa.os
with unseasoAable weather. ana Ne
yield will bc slaghtly under that OF lass
year. even With rood weather 70 the
close Of the harvest Thers = Attle
doubt but tho wheat crop OF France
Will be considerably less than = NV
10000. 900 bushels. Seeding
was delayed In the fall ana the sDsines
ana the area was materially re0ecesG.
the condition OF the plant y NOT vefy:
good ana Will require good weetnoF %
approximate an average yield. lie.
- little doubt but France wMl y :
fairly liberal importer Of wheat our
Ing the season OF 1ss7-sS. 10 hassls
the prospects have been favorable s0r
an average yield. but recent dsmsse
reports indicate 2 lighter CROP tasn
IN 1886. winter wheat Will proD.u :.
be somewhat under the average, WINE
spring wheat ID IN fairly gooo cono..
ton and may yield well. hye VIA
probably be fairly good crop. u
Germany the crops generally are ~
good condition, and there 10 little aoaDs
out the yield OF both wheat ana rye
VIII be an average. In Austria ana
Hungary. the prospects are not very
favorable and the wheat and rye crops
Will be smaller than last year. IN
Roumania the outlook has been quite
good. but storms during the latter part
OF June damaged the wheat and rye
crops and reduced tho yield ct least
lao = - ~ N--~ ON
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(To b ce;oxrlSUEDi.,
Women and Cows

Mr.. Grumps--Why in creation dol
women ALWAYS call cow "he"? Mrs,
Grumps-I presume it's because cows
always get so cross and ugly with
women. b
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CHAPTER XVII.
IN PORT A. LAST.

Az had broken b.
fore the several dem
izens Of the Wilder
ness had all re-.
to their
homes, the police
finished their i'm
quiries. and all
come back to its
normal quiet. Mrs.
Westmacott h a d
been left sleeping
peacefully. with a
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ing good deal Of
trouble. In 1895 . few plants were found
IN West Gardiner and reported to
the Josselyn Botanical Society. Since
that time it has spread rapidly and
is found in many fields In Farming
dale. Gardiner and West Gardiner.
Mr.. H. x. Morrell has called atten-
ton to this weed through the local
press. but as the weed is spreading
rapidly and is equally as bad as It's
near relative, the Orange Hawkseed,
all the farmers of the state should be
on guard against it. Prof. Harvey,
the station botanist, visited Gardiner
and vicinity June 20 and 80 and found
the plant thoroughly established in
many moving fields. The plant was
probably introduced with grass seed
from New York. During the last year
1t has found its way, into fields that
have not been plowed for ten years.
The plant grows in patches. mating
the ground and killing all other vege-
tation. Its rank growth and rapid
spreading show that 1t hourishes in
Maine climate and soil. The Orange
Hawkweed has been in the vicinity Of
Gardiner for twenty years. but during
that time has not spread as much as
the King-Devil Weed has in two years.
1t is very much like the Orange
Hawkweed in general appearance and
from the description and figure in the
station report for 1892, or bulletin 80,
there will be little trouble in recog-
nizing this weed. The Kins-Dev
Weed is from eighteen inches to three
feet high. The hairy leaves are most
ly clustered at the root, although few
leaves are borne ON the lower part Of
the stalk. The summit Of the stalk
bears cluster Of yellow flowers. with
occasionally a second cluster lower
down on the stem. The yellow Is that
of buttercups, making it hard to de-
tect in field where buttercups are
numerous and in bloom. Its yellow
flowers and larger size readily enable
one to distinguish It from the Orange
Hawkweed which it otherwise resem-
bles. Like the Orange Hawkweed., its
roots live from year to year. It
spreads by runners both above and
under the ground, thus extending the
patches. It flowers early and abund-
antly. The seeds are provided with
hair-like appendages by which the
wind scatters them. II cut when In
bloom or before. the plant sends up
secondary flower shoots that mature
before fall. It is very dinicult weed
to control and should not be allowed
to see1 or spread. The patches should
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A MIDNIGHT VISITOR.

Ow all this time,
while the tragi-com-
edy W q 3 b e in 8
played in tn e 8 g
three suburban VIII
las, while on q COM
monplace stage love
and humor a n d
lights and shadows
were 80 swiftly sue
ceeding each. other,
and while tn e 8 e
three ia milies 8.
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MAKE A PARADISE,

BY Beautifyfng Your Home and Its Life.
First Of all. secure Margaret Z. Sangster's
magnificent book, "Home.Life Made Beauti-
full" Next read it carefnlly-you will find it
a treasure-and finally follow the simple sug.
gestions it contains, all plainly stated and
easily carried out and the transformation that
will take place in your homo will bo source
Of constant surprise and never-iailing joy.
Mrs San gster writes so sweetly. so lovingly, and
SO tenderly, yet, withal, so wisely and 80 well,
that no one who reads this charming book can
help deriving immediate and lasting advantage.
There is no authoress in the country more
popular, more beloved. and more respected
than is Mrs. Sangster. the Editor of Harper's
Basar. In this magnificent Volume, she dis
courses on topics of the utmost Importance to
every wife and mother, and wise are they who
secure this prize.
Much of the bright sunshine and joy Of life
are missed by those who do not know where to
look for them. They look everywhere except
in the right direction and consequently miss
them, whereas if they only knew the secret of
directing their gaze in the proper quarter they
would have NO trouble in finding what they so
much wish. Like the youth in the fable, who
sought every where abroad for Happiness, and.
after vain search, on returning to his own
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ITO be continued
A Drafted Man Speaks.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: / see that
some of the comrades are opposed to the
men who went In the second and third years
of the rebellion having pension.
Now, was rejected in Cos. and A, I'd
Mimi, when forming. They would not
have me- and / know of several more; but
in May, 1864, was drafted and sent to Co.
ID, 4th Mimi, where l served 149 months
marched 5000 miles, fought in seven bat
ties and 81 skirmishes Others did the
same thing. They would not have us in
the first year-no, not in the second year,
but in the beginning of the third year were
anxious to get us.
Now, many of these men did as much to-
ward crushing the rebellion, and some Of us
more, than the first-year men, as one man in
my own company served three years and one
month, yet never saw his regiment; in fact
never SAW his Captain or company until the
day he got his discharge. He shirked his
whole time; yet he got an honorable dis
charge.
Now, the Government could mot use US all
the first year nor the second; in fact, moi
the third year. Yet. we were part of the
grand whole. Now, a great part Of the meL
who were in a short time and got big bounty
have applied years ago and by such evidenc'
as furnished have been drawing pension
for years.-JAs. H. THOMAS, Orange Grove
| Miss.
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The Civil Service Fraud.

At regular meeting of George w. Lennard
Post, 14S, held Feb. 6. in New Castle, Ind, the
following resolutions were unanimously adopt
ed:
Whereas Grover Cleveland. President of the
United States, while nearing the close OF his Ad-
minis,ration, and to extenuate the Hoke Smith re-
gard for pensioners has placed all Boards of Medi-
cal Examiners under the rule OF the Civil Service,
thereby deprivng the pensioner the right Of ex-
ami nation by those who shared the dangers OF the
battlefield, the hardshps OF the march with them,
aud who are qualified by education aud experience
to conduct examinationswith justice 10 the PEN
sioner: Therefore, he IL
Resolred That we protest against the sweeping
political ruling and the perversion of the intent
and spirit Of the Civil Service law And, further,
that by said ruling a this time is clearly demon-
straied that as President of the United States Gro
yer Cleveland cannot raise himself above the dig
nifty of n ward worker in politics.
Resolred That we appeal to the Mckinley Ad-
minstra,ion TO so modify the ruling as to permit
the Medical Examining Boards for Pensions to be
created as they were intended to be when they
were first constituted.
Resoipcd, That copy Of these resolutions be fur
nshed he Indianapolis journal and The NATION
Al TRIBUNE for publication.
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PENSIONS
LIKE TO LIKE.
The Management of Homes for Soldiers and
Sailors.

The Management of Homes for Soldiers and
Sailors.
II fair criticism may be made of the man.
agement of the several Homes for soldiers
and sailors, it will not involve discussion
concerning provision for material comforts,
but rather the tendency to overlook the
truth that comfort in environment depends
upon congenial surroundings. A man of
education, culture, and refinement may not
be reasonably contented in any enforced as
sociatiOn with a man possessed of the re-
verse of these qualities. and the law of VOL
untary association as exempliiied In the
mess groups Of the company organizations
of our volunteer service give forcible Illus
tration of a vital need in the quartering of
men in their last bivouac
Men of companionable habits and tastes
grouped themselves together by undis-
turbed choice, and thus secured to degree
the social comforts common to civil life.
Any violation of this law of personal choice
in associated companionship is violation
Of fundamental requirement in mans
nature, and while perhaps necessary on
shipboard, or under the stress OF certain con-
ditions in active military service, it can
have no possible justification in the arrange
| ment of buildings for the final shelter OF
failing veterans, or in the convenient but
arbitrary assignment of men to quarters
without regard to the choice of those thus
associated in unnatural companionshlp.
Smaller dormitories, in which men may
choose their messmates, and arrange by mu-
tual agreement such permanent methods 10
insure an agreeable association as are lndI-
Gated by experience in the life of every SOL
der are necessary to comfort and happiness,
and are not impracticable. A man favored
with strength, and charged with an excess of
garrulity, may not solaee the hours OF a man
whose nerves tngle with the depression OF
exhaustion, and whose soul longs for quiet.
A man whose thoughts are pure, and
whose meditations are profitable, may not
enjoy the diversion of profane or obscene
speech, or come to accept the presence OF q
man filthy in habit as necessary infiiction
in system which processes to study his
comfort.
The canker which gnaws at the heart of
the failing soldier is melancholy. He broods
over the past with its tragic and pathetic his
tory. He mourns over lost opportunities,
and treasures in the pictures of memory the
faces of dear ones whose loving companion
ship at home and freside are but tOrturlng
dreams in the days of his old age.
A soul may not eat or drink, and yet
it must live. To improve the quality OF Its
comfort by wholesome diversion and lifting
contact may challenge the thoughtful effort
of all who sit in Judgment on the methods
for providing shelter, food, and clothing for
the natural man, and call to better plans fol
the comfort Of the real man who strives to
preserve the image of his Creator.-C. T..
FAULKNER, Atchison, Kan.
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MODERN GREECE.
Map of the Eastern Mediterranean and
Surroundings

Map of the Eastern Mediterranean and
Surroundings
We present map of Greece and the sur
rounding regions of the Levant because tho eyes
of the civilized world are again directed at the
everlasting scene of the Eastern question. Not
only Greece is shown, but the entire eastern aud
northeastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea,
the Helespont, Constantinople. and consid-
erabIe portion of Turkey and Europe. study
of this map will be found Indispensable to an
understanding of the dispatches now printed
in every paper about the situation in Greece
and Crete aud Turkey. The frontier ana the
relative geographical bearing of the various
places named i'm discussing the course OF events
are manifest at glance. Information is thus
conveyed that would otherwise require col
umus of explanation. Modern Greece includes
but small part Of what was embraced in the
ancient Empire, and takes in only the southern
part os the irregular peninsula in southeastern
| Europe, which by the Greeks themselves was
always and is to-day called Helles, and its
| people Hellenes. The Romans named it GrGcia,
| or Greece from one Of the Northern tribes
with which they first came in contact, and who
| called themselves Graiko. Its ancient limits
varied greatly at different periods. and extended
| indefinitely to the north. aud in the time of
Alexander included Asia Minor.
The Kingdom now includes part of Thessaly,
Central Greece, and the Peloponesus OF southern
portion of the peninsula south of the Gulf OF
Corinth.
Athens is the Capital as of old. It is situated
on the coast of the Saronic Gulf, about four
miles away from its port town. PirRus. 1t was
built around a hii, rising about 800 feet above
the city, called the Acropoiis. upon which stood
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Lost Papers.

Lost Papers.
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: Will you
please call the attention of the interested
parties to the fact that have in my posses
sion the certificates of service of George
Dougherty, Stephen Acton, Lewis Stubble,
of Co. A, 134th Ohio, and George w. Mason,
Co. B, 134th Ohio, and parties can have them
by calling on me at my office, over the Ger
maa-Americsn Bank, Sidney, O.-W. A.
SKILLEN.
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to get more money than formerly. have better
meetings. more influence, and moro harmony.
/ believe that the time has come when we
need to remove every obstacle which in any
way keeps eligible comrades out Of the Order.
It should be the ambition Of Department. otfi-
GERS to so manage the finances of the Depart
mcnt that no Post will feel the per-capita tax
q burden.
II has always been a wonder to me how the
Department of New York can run its affairs on
the very small tax that is asked OF u.s. and the
above has no application TO officers of that De-
partmeut, aud would not have been written il
we had not just been looking over the list OF
suspended comrades in other Posts "Once a
comrade. always a comrads" is our MOTTO
COMMANDER, Seward Post, 81, Department OF
New York, Auburn, ". Y.