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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-11-17
A Tumor Formed
Finally 1t Broke lnwardiy
and Discharged
Trouble Began With Dyspepsia
and Impure Blood
Thorough Course OF Hood's sarsn-
parllla complotelY curen.

There Is danger la Impure blood.
Disease and suffering are surely com.
ing to those who neglect this threaten
ing symptom. Read thisj
"Glllam, Missouri.
80. l. Hood & Co., Lowell, MAST
fundamentally troubles began with
nervous headaches, which would last
me tor two or three days. Tho doctors
pronounced my trouble dyspepsia, but
thoy could not do anything for me, aud
advised d change Of location. Al the age
Of b5A tumor formed on my spine, which
Was Very Painful
hut aid not riso or discharge. The doctor
thought bost 10 cut Il out, but objected.
Il finally broke and discharged a great
deal. Tho doctors said they could do
nothing for IL. Thon the tumor began 10
rl8o inWaIdly aud discharge. read much
about cures by Hoods sarsaparllla aud
thought would try II. Before / had
finished taking ono bottle / was much
relieved. continued tho use Of Hoods
sarsaparila, aud after taking " bottles
was entirely cured. lam now vel, have
n good appetite aud fool that owe my
life TO Hoods saraplrilla." W. D. FoBE.
Hoods s Ss;iiia
i the best ~ iagt the one True Blood rur.hsr
sod by an asusgIsu, 81, slA iof 81,
Hoods Pills 10 ool sn ss..sYs,. w .l
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-05-26
Seeding Peach Trees.

In every peach orchard free from
the yellows, there will be more or
less Seeding peach trees springing up
every year from pits dropped after the
peach was eaten the previous fall. 1t
requires freezing to open these pits,
and the germ usually comes forth
with the first warm weather Of spring.
These seedlings will usually be of
poor quality, as they are only natural
fruit. But if they are set out in rich
soil as soon as the shoots start, they
will grow rapidly and be plenty large
enough to be budded in July next. 1t
is a comparatively easy thing to learn
to bud. In this way stock of peach
trees can easily be secured if one
plants peach stones from healthy fruit
in the fall, and takes care to use only
buds from healthy stock for budding
PURPOSES
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-05-26
Witch Wreaths.

A remarkable object illustrating a
popular survival of the belief in witch
craft has just been presented to the
museum of the University of Pennsyl-
vania by Professor William Romaine
Newbold. 1t consists of matted ring
of chicken feathers, about three inches
in diameter, described as a ''witch
wreath" 1t was secured by DR..
George 3. Kline, of Pittsburg, who
gave it to DIR. Newbold, who trans
ferred it to the museum.
A resident of Pittsburg who had
been ill for several years, died in July,
1897. During his last illness, extend
ing over several months, he would
frequently throw his pillow away, say
ing: "There is something in that Pill
low that hurts my head" His wife
said that this was impossible, as she
had gathered the feathers and made
the pillow herself few years before.
Some days after her husbands death
the widow claimed that something
seemed to say to her, "Look at the
pillow" Upon opening the pillow she
found this object within it. When
questioned closely she declared that
the sewing was hers, and that it
showed no signs of having been tam
pered with. The peighbors believe in
the woman's truthfulness.
DR.. Kline writes that similar
wreath was found in the pillow of a
six-year-old child who died of the
same disease and about the same time
as the aforementioned patient. This
was burned by the witch doctor with
cut DIR. Kline seeing it, but he is in
formed that it was precisely like this
one. By inquiry DR.. Kline learned
of four or five other families who were
said to have found witch wreaths in
their pillows, and who ascribe to
their presence cases of illness in their
families.
1t appears that belief in the evil
efforts of witch wreaths is extremely
common in parts of Pennsylvania and
New Jersey among the descendants of
German settlers, and it used to be
customary to put Bible under the
pillow to prevent their forming. =
Philadelphia Press.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-05-26
Lettuce Preceding Cucumbers.

One of the favorite uses for the hot
house by market gardeners is in win
ter to grow successive crops of lettuce
planting as many as three successions,
and then following with cucumber
crop, which may continue bearing
until all danger of frost is passed, and
when the hothouse may be kept warm
enough by the suns rays shining in
on the plants during the daytime. In
fact, the sun will heat any hothouse
too warm for any vegetables at this
time of year The windows must be
opened for ventilation all through the
day. Some bees should be kept by
every gardener who grows cucumbers,
as they are necessary to carry pollen
from the male to the female blossoms.
The male blossoms are the first that
appear on the cucumber vine, and
they are much visited by bees. So
soon as the female blossoms appear
the bees also visit them and fertilize
the flowers. When cucumbers are
grown in hothouses a swarm of bees
inside the building devoted to this use
is a necessity.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-05-26
'%kgnn %|kkntN s
S~0

at your command, put on in tho
spring, or at the time of planting. vii.
not produce profitable crop of peas.
Plow about the middle or last OF
March, SOW and harrow in OF drill
200 pounds of South Carolina rock,
200 pounds of fish scrap and, 100
pounds muriate of potash per acre.
With a small plow work out rows two
feet wide and four inches deep. Sow
peas with drill or by hand at the rate
of two bushels per acre. Cover with
plow or corn coverer Before the
peas come through drag or harrow the
patch over we'll SO as to loosen the
top of the soil and kill all young
weeds Az soon as the peas are we'll
through the ground cultivate with a
small tooth harrow once week for
two weeks, then once more with a
large tooth cultivator. By this time
they will have begun to fall over and
are ready to lay by.
If this method is carried out o
drouth or hot spell at time of bloom
ing or maturity will not to any extent
injurs the crop. The vines should be
cut just before the pods begin to turn
light color, or the peas yellow. Peas
are profitable. 1 am sure of getting
$50 worth of peas per acre. The vines
are worth at least $5 for hay. They
are planted in spring and come off in
time to plant the land in corn, potatoes,
cabbage, tomatoes. celery or millet.
They take very little plant food from
tho land. ! sowed five bushels last
year and delivered $143 worth to the
factory. The crop was grown on two
and one half acres of land Part of
this land after pea crop grew thirty
bushels corn per acre. e.-B. F. B. Wood
all of Delaware in New England Home
stead.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-05-26
NJ ANILA
AND THE
PHILIPPINES.
Interesting Information About This Great Archi-
pelago Over Which Our Flag Now Floats.

Under this monarch an ecclesiastical
organization, principally of monastic
orders, was established.
The history of these islands during
the nineteenth century has been one
of oppression, restrictions on COM
merce and ferocious taxation, in which
the ecclesiastics used their influence
for the support of the Spanish SOW
ereignty. The last revolt broke out
in 1896. The conspiracy was discov
cred before the day appointed for the
rising, and the plans of the insurrec-
tionists were disconnected. Yet when
the authorities proceeded to arrest
those known to be involved the rebels
mustered i'll force, amounting to sew
eral thousand, but were dispersed
when they offered battle in the neigh
borhood of Manila. The insurgents
established themselves in the province
of Cavite, on the south shore of Manila
Bay, eight miles southwest of the port
of Manila, and held it until the arri-
val of 25, 900 reinforcements from Spain
and of a considerable naval feet, which
enabled the government to suppress
them. Here was the scene of the bat
tie of the 1st of May, 1898, between
the American Commodore Dewey,
with seven, vessels of war and two
transports, and the Spanish Admiral
Montijo, with ten armored vessels, in
which the latter was disastrously de-
feated.
In the inaccessible mountainous
parts of the islands there are still un-
subdued savages. In the last census
returns the number of natives not sub
jected to the civil government and
paying no tribute is given as 602, 1858,
while the number of natives paying
tribute is returned as 5,501, 1856.
THE latest records of the Philadel-
phia commercial museum furnish
these statistics:
The public revenue of the island is
about SIS, 900, 900, of which the larger
part is raised from direct taxes, poll
taxes, customs, monopolies and lot
teries.
The chief articles of produce are
sugar, hemp, tobacco, coffee and
copra. The foreign trade is confined
to the ports of Manila, Iloilo, Cebu
and Jamboanga
The climate of the Philippines
varies little from that of other noun
famous tropical countries. The range
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-05-26
An inexpensive Hotbed.

There was no one who had time or
inclination to help about making a
hotbed out of doors, and it was deemed
absolutely necessary to start few
early plants. Experience has demon
strated that large number of plants
may be grown in very small space,
and a novel idea presented itself
There was in the storeroom wornout,
rusted-out kitchen sink. This was
filled with earth fine and mellow and
carefully sifted to make it as light and
soft as possible. The seeds were
planted, the sink was placed on large
box and inside of the box lighted
lamp was put with the fame just high
enough to prevent smoking. 1t was a
small lamp and consumed but little
oil, but it furnished the bottom heat
that makes plant growing such sue
cess. Almost before one could be
aware the seeds pushed their tiny
leaves up to the light, and the roots
crept down to find the warmth below.
The drainage was excellent and all
conditions seemed favorable. When
the plants were well up and established,
less water was given and stronger.
more stocky plants were never planted
out from an indoors nursery to an
open garden. Large-sized galvanized
pans are not at all expensive and are
very manageable. When first planted
a number of them may be stacked one
above another with cross sticks to
keep them separate. If they are
kept in the dark it will be quite
as we'll, as the roots will grow
faster than the tops and furnish a
Ledger.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-05-26
Locations for Bees.

Many people fail of success with
bees, because they do not place the
hives right. If too shaded the bees
are likely to be attacked by the moth
miller, which breeds those worms that
destroy the honey. 1t is well to have
the bees up early,so the hives should
front to the east, so as to, catch the
first rays of the morning sun. Either
a well-roofed, low building should be
put up as bee stand, or the hives
should be set on bench under tree
all through the summer. In winter it
is not best that bees should see sun
light. If an underground cellar out
of doors can be fitted up where the
temperature may be kept below freez-
ing all the time, it will be much bet
ter than the warmer house cellar.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-05-26

long period only single galleon,
and that under government super
vision, was allowed to proceed yearly
from Manila to Acapulco, the value of
the cargo each way being restricted
within prescribed sum. Direct
trade from Europe via the Cape of
Good Hope commenced in 1854; but,
as if the exclusion from it of all but
Spanish ships was not sufficient, in
17S5 monopoly of this commerce was
bestowed on the Royal Company of
the Philippines. With the close of
the eighteenth century a certain
amount of liberty began to be conced-
ed to foreign vessels. The first Eng
lish commercial house was established
in Manila in 1909, and in 1884 the
monopoly of the Royal Company ex-
pired. Manila remained the only port
for foreign trade till 1912, when Cebu
was also opened. Jamboanga Min
danao), Iloilo (Panay), Sual (Luzon),
Legazpi or Albany Nuzon) and Ia
cloban (Leyte) are now in the same
category, but only Manila. Iloilo and
Cebu have proved of real Importance,
as they are the only ports where for
eign- bound vessels have hitherto load
ed.
The exports from the United States
to the Philippines have always been
very insignificant. although our i'm
ports from the islands have often
reached large proportions. The prin-
cipal articles exported from this coun-
try to the Philippines are -four, petrol
cum, leather goods, iron and steel, etc.
Imports from the Philippines are chiefly
sugar and hemp.
The foreign trade of the Philippines
has always been subject to great fluc-
tuations. The insecurity arising un-
der the Spanish administration, and
the consequent dissatisfaction of the
native population, together with con-
stantly recurring instructions, have
prevented these islands from develop
ing the riches with which nature has
bountifully endowed them. Gold.
sulphur and large deposits of excellent
steaming coal are widely distributed
over the country, and an intelligent
government, coupled with enterprise
in business and humanity of spirit,
could rapidly turn this fertile region
into a source of great wealth for man
kind.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-05-26
Boston Commons Gates.

Massive ornamental iron gates,
which were never closed, and the
posts supporting them and bearing
tall lanterns, all of which have stood
for years at one of the entrances to
Boston Common and now have given
way because of the subway excava-
tions, are tot be re-erected at the en-
trance to the site of the Confederate
military prison at Andersonville, Ga.
When originally placed the gates
were dedicated" by Governor John
a. Andrew. of Massachusetts,.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-05-26
OUR FIRST NAVY.
The brilliant Achievements of Admiral
Ezekiel Hopkins.

The outbreak of the Revolutionary
Congress had to create one. -Four
merchantmen were first purchased,
hastily equipped with guns and sent
to sea as cruisers: but their defects as
war vessels soon became so apparent
that Congress determined at once tc
set about the building of navy. On
October 3, ITS, Congress ordered
two cruisers built; and on December
ID the order was increased to five 80
gun ships, five 28-gun ships and three
24-gun ships. They were to be ready
for the sea by the following April
The names given to the thirteen yes.
sells were Boston, Congress, Effing
ham, Delaware, Hancock, Montgom
cry, Raleigh, Trumbull, Virginia.
Warren, Washington and Randolph.
These were the first war vessels con
structed in the United States.
The first Commander-in-C was
Ezekiel Hopkins, of Rhode Island,
younger brother of Congressman
Stephens Hopkins He was appointed
to this high Office on December %,
1775.
In short time feet of four ships
and three sloops was ready, and with
these Admiral Hopkins set out to win
glory for himself and country. Among
his lieutenants was the famous John
Paul Jones, who was, probably, the
most brilliant and daring naval officer
of the wars with England.
The Bahama Islands in the West
Indies were then an English colony,
with New Providence as their princi
pal seaport and seat of government;
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-05-26

and hither the new Admiral sailed the
new navy. He attacked the city, cap
tured the harbor fort and town, and
brought back with him to America the
English Governor as prisoner, eighty
cannons and very large quantity of
ammunition and military stores. This
brilliant achievement was a godsend
to the disheartened and impoverished
patriots.
Soon after his return from the BAHIA
mas he met two English ships off
Block Island, and captured both of
them. Two days later he had an en-
gagement with the English twenty
nine-gun ship Glasgow, but did not
succeed in capturing it,
Ezekiel Hopkins in 1777 equipped a
fast and powerful privateer and again
went to sea. He sailed to the East
Indies, where his daring and skill
found rich rewards. During one cruise
be captured sufficient number OF
rich English merchantmen to cause
his profits to foot up over $1,000, 200.
At another time he fell in with large
fleet of English merchantmen pro-
tected by man-of-war. He boldly
joined the fleet, and every night cut
out and captured vessel, until he
had sent ten home and could spare no
more men from his crew. He became
the most successful and daring of all
the American privateersmen.
When the war ended he returned to
Rhode Island, and became one of her
most prominent and busy citizens.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-05-26

square miles area, and Mindanao, on
the southeast, having an area of 81, 456
square miles. The total area is COM
puted at IA, 900 square miles.
The chief seaport of the group is
Manila, overlooking capacious bay
on the southwest shore of Luzon.
The other chief ports are Iloilo and
Cebu, on the islands of the same
name, inthe central part of the archi-
pelago.
There are half dozen other islands
in the central and western part of the
group. the areas of which range from
that of Rhode Island to that of Con-
necticut. They are inhabited, in
round numbers, by about 5000, 900
people, of whom a dwarfed race of
Negritos, now driven into the noun
tains and interior lands, seem to be the
descendants of the aborigines. The
bulk of the population is Malayan, of
whom there are numerous tribes; the
dirtiest and most pagan is known as
the Igorrotes, and yet they display
exemplary qualities. They are one of
the most important mountain tribes of
Luzon and are among the population
who virtually escape omnivorous
Spanish taxation. They are good
farmers, laying out terraced fields on
the mountains, constructing irrigation
canals and having considerable rep
utation as metallurgists. Their do
mestic morality is favorably in contrast
with that of their neighbors.
Another element of the population
are the Chinese and their Mestizos. or
descendants of mixed Sinitic and native
blood. There is scarcely a community
on these islands where the Chinese are
not found. Petty trade and banking
are almost entirely in their hands.
Europeans and their descendants are
not numerous here, although there is
a considerable breed of half-castes,
derived from European fathers.
It was not until the close of the six.
teenth century that the archipelago
passed under Spanish domination. dur
ing the reign of Philip III. About the
middle of the century an expedition
sailed from Mexico in five ships. but
: accomplished little. In 1866 Don
Miguel Lopez de Legazpi reached the
islands and founded Spanish settle
ment at the town of Cebu, and it is in
his correspondence that the name of
Philippine Islands is first recorded.
1t was given in honor of his sovereign.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-05-26

of the thermometer during the year is
from little over sixty degrees to
about ninety. The year may be di-
vided into three seasons; the first,
cold and dry, commences in Novem.
Der; the second. warm but still dry,
commences in March, the greatest
heat being experienced from April to
the end of May, and the third, which
is excessively wet. continues from
June to the middle of November.
Generally speaking, the natives are
mild and amiable, predisposed to re-
ligious observances, extremity super
stitious and very hospitable. Those OF
Batangas, Cagayan and Southern Ilocos
are better and more industrious la
borers than those of the other prov
inces. During their youth they work
with energy and certain mental
vigor, but on reaching more advanced
age lapse into Incidence, which is one
OF their greatest defects.
The women are averse to idleness,
have spirit of enterprise and often
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-05-26

The frs. run" on banking insti
tutions in London was in 1867. Many
Lombard street goldsmiths and bank
ers had lent out the money intrusted
to them, and being called upon for
payment, were unable to meet the de-
mand. A crowd of creditors and
others assembled and a riot followed,
in which four bankers were hanged at
heir own doors before order could be
-estored and the angry creditors per-
suaded that they We're not being swim
lied.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-05-26
Keeping Apples in Pits.

A uniform temperature and one but
little above freezing is more easily
maintained in an out-ofdoor pit COW
cred with soil than in the house cellar
which is always kept too warm for the
best keeping of fruit or vegetables.
But in keeping apples in pits, care
should be taken not to leNve the fruit
in contact with earth or where soil
filtered water can get to it. This will
give apples an earthly and disagreeable
taste, which makes them unfit to eat
raw and is not wholly removed by
cooking.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-05-26

engage in various trades with sue
cess. They are economical and sac
rlhce themselves cheerfully for those
to whom they are attached.
Before the days of Spanish rule
there was considerable commercial in
tercourse between the Philippines and
China and Japan, but this, which
would naturally have developed enor-
mously if the Spanish trade between
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-05-26
Pienlant in the Garden.

No vegetable responds more readily
to minimum amount of cultivation
than rhubarb, and it makes first
class substitute for fruit. Two meth
ods of starting a bed of rhubarb may
be adopted, either by growing the
seed or planting roots; but the latter
is much preferable. If few old
roots can be obtained, they may be di-
vided with sharp spade into as many
pieces as there are eyes.
Care must be taken to insure of
there being an eve or bud to each
piece, as they will not grow if this is
missing. Rhubarb is a very heavy
feeder of soda, one of the alkalies con-
tanned in the ashes of plants, much the
same rs potash in it's agricultural char.
acter and uses. and this fact must be
taken into consideration when prepar-
ing the land for planting. The plants
should be set out in rows five feet
apart each way, care being taken not
to bury the crown, which should be
about level with the surface. Fall
planting gives the most satisfactory
results, and coating of well-rotted
manure spread on the bed to the depth
of six inches every fall and plowed
in will materially assist development.
Never allow the plant to run to seed,
but on the first appearance of flower
spikes remove them, as they greatly
tend to lessen the vigor, besides caus-
ing the whole plant to become tough
and insipid.
The composition of the ash of the
rhubarb stalk as given by Salisbury
is: Carbonic acid, 40; silicic acid,
0. 0.45; sulphuric acid, 10. 70 phosphoric
acid and peroxide of iron, 1920; lime,
3.57; magnesia, 0.2O; potash, 500;
soda, 1926; sodium, 097; chlorine,
Las; organic matter, II. 2.15.-Andrew
H. Ward in New York Tribune.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-05-26
diamond Combustion.

No one can tell where the diamond
goes to in combustion. Burn it, anG
It leaves no ash; the flame is exterior
like that of cork, and when it ha,
blazed itself out there remains no
even no much as would dust the an
tenn@ of butterfly.