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Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-04-22
Training Grape Vines.

IT, G. Lodeman, Department of Agrl-
culture Report; Another system OF
post training differs radically from the
one stated last week. Instead OF being
spurred or branehed near the surface
OF the soil the stem is carried upward
In a spiral to the top of the post. and
the short arms. Of which there are gem
orally two or more. are formed at the
summit. The canes are cut back to
the desired number OF buds. and the
shoots grow freely downward. This
system, which Is followed in some
parts Of western Michigan. really
should be included In the third class
but as II Is commonly known as va
riety OF the post system II Is here con-
sidered with the others
Leaving these simple systems. in
which the method of training presents
no complicated features. a much more
complex group will be considered. The
shoots are still trained upward. but
their position Is. theoretically. deter
mined with almost mathematical pre-
clsion.
The Horizontal Arm Spur. or Fuller,
System-This system presents the
above features in a particularly formal
manner. and when the details OF this
method are carefully mastered the
other methods present no special diff
culties II is not so fully discussed on
account OF its wide use (for. as a mat
ter OF fact. the horizontal arm spur
system Is little in favor among vine
yardists) but rather because Il offers an
opportunity 20 show In an almost ideal
manner most Of the points which arise
In connection with nearly all the other
systems In this as we'll as In the other
two groups. Its principal merit. there
fore. lies in its value for Illustrative
purposes.
When a grapevine is first set in a
vineyard 1t may be one or two years
old. the former being preferable in the
majority OF cases. The cane is cut back
TO two buds. and during the first season
its shoots are allowed TO lie prone
upon the surface of the soil.
Assuming that all the pruning is
done short time before the arrival of
the growing season. at the beginning
of the second year the newly-set vine
will have a wellestablished root system
and two canes of varying length. The
weaker of these canes should now be
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-04-22

removed entirely and the other should
be cut back, SO that it remains about
IS inches in length. If ctH in this man
ner the cane is sufficiently long to
reach to the lowest wire when the trel-
lis Is made. BY some, however, the
cane is cut back again TO Two buds, as
in the previous YER. This causes the
stem to branch near the surface OF
the ground, instead of at the lowest
wire. Either method may be followed
to advantage, although single stems
render cultivation more easy. This
cane, whatever its length, is to form
the stem of the vine, and as there are
to be two arms, only two Of the
strongest shoots need be retained after
the growths are sufficiently advanced
for their comparative yigor to be seen.
II is better that all the other shoots
be then removed, so that the two that
are to remain may become the strong
er. But II the unnecessary growths are
not removed until the following spring
no material injury viii be done to tbs
vine.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-04-22

The government report on the
amount OF live stock in the country
Jan. / makes the hogs $3.50, 900. a de-
crease of $4,000; the milch cows. 49,
$40, 900, a decrease for the year of 1907
SAL: the oxen and other cattle, 2s,2S4,-
900. a decrease OF 1,244.000. and the
sheep, S7,656O0O, an increase of $685.
600
The hog supply is the smallest since
1881, when there were S6,227,60S re-
ported, and 100000 less than the year
ly average for the sixteen years since
then. Not only that, but the number
of hogs reported is 1,715,000 head less
than the average for twenty-three
years previous to this year. The num-
Der Of cattle is 1900, 900 less than six
years ago. The number of cattle. hogs,
and sheep reported by the government
for a number of years past is as fol-
lows:
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-04-22

That artichokes are valuable is IN
necessary to prove, the experience oil
generations having fully demonstrated
that fact Like all crops, whether OF
not 1t is to be cultivated depends on
the incidental circumstances by which
the farmer is affected. II a man is
deyoting his entire time to bee keeping
or to flower growing of course he will
not find artichokes profitable. But to
the farmer who Is raising hogs the arti-
choke may prove of great value.
Artichokes need only common soil,
and even do we'll on poor soil. They
will stand more neglect than most
crops and yet yield an annual crop.
This makes them particularly valuable
to farmers that have many hogs,
much land and few hired men. In such
cases the harvesting is done by the
hogs themselves, thus saving the ex-
pense of labor. When they are thus
fed, being rooted out by the swine
there will usually be enough tubers left
In the ground to seed the whole area
for the next year.
Although artichokes will grow on
poor land they do best on land that is
rich, light and that has an open ex-
posture. The plant Is very hardy and
will endure the cold of any part OF
the United States. Plow deep and har-
row the ground. Probably 1t Is better
to plant the seed in hills, as the plants
spread rapidly. Prepare the ground as
for potatoes, planting the seed in a
similar manner. the hills being about
three feet apart About three bushels
OF seed will be required to the acre,
and the manner of cutting potatoes for
planting will apply to the artichokes.
Small ones are often planted whole.
A potato planter may be used. They
should be planted as early in the
spring as the land can be worked.
Bossoming usually takes place in
August and from that time on till the
end of the season the tubers are in
creasing In size and hardening. The
stalks will have withered by the time
the frost comes and the tubers are then
ready to be dug. They can be dug the
same as potatoes and stored the same
way, but IL possible. 1t will be found
advantageous to allow the swine to
begin operations as soon as the crop
Is ripe.
As to seed there are many kinds rec
by the seedsmen, among the
most valuable of which are the French
artichokes.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-04-22
DIsCHARGING A TORPEDO.

| (Unlted states torpedo Boat StllettO
Now in Commission.)
centuries passed before 1t was realized
that the effectiveness of the torpedo de-
pended on the submergence of the
charge at the time of explosion.
1t was Captain David Bushnell, an
American engineer in the revolution
airy war, who first experimental on the
principle OF submergence. He also in
vented one of the very first submarine
boats, by which the first attempt at
actual warfare was made. He was the
originator, in fact, of submarine min
ing as it is practiced today. The first
practical trial of the submarine boat
was made in 1776, when Sergeant Ez-
ra Lee directed the craft against the
British frigate Eagle while she lay in
New York harbor The attack was
not successful in destroying the frigate
but the narrow escape from destruc-
ton sent cold chills down the back of
Lord Howe, who used the vessel as his
flag ship. In the year following Cap
tain Bushnell turned his attention to
torpedoes. He filed a number of kegs
with gunpowder and time fuses, and
then set them adrift in New York
harbor with the hope one of them
would lodge against the sides of the
frigate Cerberus,a British warship that
was anchored in the harbor. One of
these kegs fioated alongside a prize
schooner which was tied to the stern
~ n.l, hn lA..s .
and. ignorant of its deadly character,
took It aboard for examination. 1t ex-
ploded. and there was not enough left
OF the schooner to hold up drowning
man.
Twenty years later Robert Fulton,
the noted inventor, revived the ideas
OF Captain Bushnell. He constructed
a submarine boat called the Nautilus.
and tried to sell it to the French navy.
He showed the French the merits of
the boat in August. 1901, by destroying
launch In the harbor of Brest, the
first case on record of a vessel being
blown up by a submerged charge of
gunpowder. For some reason the
French did not care TO buy the Nau-
titus, and Fulton then offered her to
the British government. with the ex-
pectation that he would be allowed to
operate her against the French feet
at Boulogne He gave a successful
demonstration on a brig which he pur-
chased for experimental purposes. but
the British government rejected his
proposals as unsuited to the interests
and dignity of a nation that enjoyed
full sovereignty over the seas. Fulton
returned to the United States and tried
to gain recognition from his own coun-
try. Commodore Rogers of the Am
erican navy made such show of oppo-
sition that he finally abandoned his |
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-04-22
PERFECT OF ITS KIND.

There is to be seen in MARSHA. Sicily,
the recently excavated Marsha vase
one of the most exquisite which has
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-04-22

The first two or three times the
plats were cultivated with the weeder
and subsequently with a horse har-
row. The weeder does excel
lent work II used after every rain on
land that is not too firm compost
1lon
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-04-22

as 1855, when an Italian engineer nam
ed Zambelli destroyed a bridge during
the siege of Antwerp by exploding
scow load of gunpowder against the
pier, it was not until the days OF the
revolutionary war that an actual de-
monstration was made of the efficacy
Of the torpedo Since that time the pro-
cess OF evolution has gone forward
rapidly, and from a crude contriyance
consisting of nothing more than bar
rel, few pounds of gunpowder and
time fuse, the torpedo has reached
a stage which represents the perfec-
ton OF human skill and the expendi-
ture OF vast sums. Once an insight
cant invention, drifting at the mercy
OF contrary currents, it is now thing
OF life itself. capable OF attacking a
vessel with almost as much precision
as though animated by human intelli-
gence.
The origin of the torpedo may be
traced back to the days when the an
clients employed Greek fire to destroy
the shipping of their enemies 1t was
the discovery of gunpowder that open
ed the way for natural development
of the idea, and quickened the inven-
tive brain to the possibilities of the
torpedo in time of war. After Fam
belli had achieved renown by blowing
up the bridge at Antwerp, nearly two
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-04-22
THE TORPEDO IN WAR.
GREATEST AGENT OF DES-
TRUCTION NOW USED.
History of It's Evolution from the Year
1888 Up to the Event in Havana
Harbor Feb. 10 distributing the
Civil War.

MEXICAN genius
has done more to
develop the torpe-
do as an instru-
ment of marine
warfare than the
inventive skill of
any other nation
atty. While the
history of this ter
rible death engine
dates as far back
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-04-22

Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys-
tenn effectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro-
duced, pleasing to the taste and &C.
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in so
cent bottles by all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist 1xho
may not have it on hand will pro-
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. Do not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA FYG SKRUP co.
SAN F8AEciSoo. CAL.
LOUISVILLE. Ky. NEW YORK, M
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-04-22
FARM AND GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO
AGRICULTURISTS
Some Up-to-Date Hints About Gull
tivation OF the Soil and Yields
Observation-Disclosures yiticulture and
Horticulture.
More About weeders.

w. Z. Batta, Agriculturist, Purdue
University, Indiana:--W have used a
weeder four years In corn culture. our
plan has been TO use the weeder the
first and second civilizations and follow
with the ordinary one-horse harrow
after that IL has been used for other
purposes, l believe. at this station, but
this Is the extent of its use In this
department. / will give below the re-
suits OF corn produced with different
culture implements, including the
weeder and harrow. that you may judge
OF the relative merits OF the work OF
The weeder. The average for the past
four years Is as follows:
CultlYator ...... ........4 5.So
Corn pillow ...............0O .oo
Weeder and harrow. .5l.l2
The first two or three times the
plats were cultivated with the weeder
and subsequently with a one-horse har-
row. The weeder does excel
lent work II used after every rain on
land that is not too firm a compost
ton.
The following discussion took place
at an Illinois institute:
(Which is the most effective. the
one-horse weeder or the two-h0rse?
A.-The horse, where you have
a good deal OF land. The one-horse ma
chine covers eight feet. the two-horse
fourteen feet. For an orchard about
eight feet is big enough. but II you
are going to use 1t In corn and want to
cultivate forty acres you had better
have two horses.
Q-Is It practicable to put It into
corn?
A.--Yes, that is what It was made
for originally, corn and potatoes. | cul-
tivate my strawberries with IT,
Q.-It will dig them right out won't
A.?
A.-No 1t is too light a machine for
that.
o.-what viii It do If the ground is
baked?
A.--You cant use II at all then. II
is like any other machine. It has It's
place. You cannot get a cultiyator that
will answer every purpose.
OIL would like TO know how that
can 20 by the side Of corn stalk and
take the weeds and leave the corn?
Ali YOU do II just right you can
take even a garden rake and scratch
right into your corn. The weeder teeth
turn back. they do not slide in ahead
like shoyes but turn back have used
a. three years. II you have pigeon
grass that is well rooted you cannot |
take 1t out In order TO get the benefit |
OF that machine you have got to use
Il before the weeds get much of
start
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-04-22

come down to us from antiquity. Con-
noisseurs pronounce it a gem. Marsha
is an interesting town as well as a
health resort. II still retains parts of
its Notifications, mighty bastions, some
of them fabulOusly old, and there is a
subterranean city as extensive as the
one above ground. The catacombs of
Marsha differ from other catacombs
because the idea of dwellings for the
living as well as the dead are consid-
cred. These catacombs doubtless orig
mated in quarries.
Smyrna times., 1898-11-30
One Way of Settling 1t.

An amusing comedy in real life is
reported from Paris. A married man
was in a cafe near the Opera with his
better half one evening and left her for
a few moments. While he was absent
his wife was insulted. The lady rose
from her seat and went to meet her hus-
band. The latter re-entered the cafe in
order to chastise the offender. The lat
ter, however, had gone, but the hus-
band found his name and address.
The man was a card printer. The
irate husband went to this persons
place, but he did not find him at home,
so he left his card with the chief shop
man, saying. "Your employer will
know what that means. "
"All right, rejoined the person ad-
dressed, 1--WE shall send up to you to-
morrow.
On the following day the indignant
husband was amazed to receive a COL
lection of 100 visiting cards in his own
name, all beautifully printed, accom-
panyiDg them being the inevitable bill.
This helped to close the matter, and it
is recorded that after brief explanations
on both sides the husband paid the bill,
and the master printer apologized to
the lady.-Pearson' Weekly.
Smyrna times., 1898-11-30
500 Reward 500

The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all its stages, and
that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure
is the only positive cure known to the
medical fraternity. Catarrh being a
constitutional disease, requires consti-
tutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces of
the system, thereby destroying the
foundation of the disease, and giving
the patient strength by building up the
constitution and assisting nature in
doing its work. The proprietors have
so much faith in its curative powers,
that they offer One Hundred Dollars
for any case that it fails to cure, Send
for list of testimonials.
Address. F. j, CHENEY & CO.,
Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Smyrna times., 1898-11-30
The Iceland Geysers.

All the warm tints, from cream to
russet, are found in the mineral deposit
around the basin of the Great Geyser,
Little Geyser, Strokkr (the Churn), and
the Little Strokkr, while Blesi (the
Blue One) is lined with exquisite white,
like porcelain, making it fitting ves-
sci for the cooking Of food and for fur
nishing boiling water for our tea and
coffee. 1t was so smooth and beautiful
that l seemed to be mutilating some
thing rare when chopped off pieces of
its lining, but knew they would be
valuable souvenirs, and the uneasy,
bubbling water would soon amend the
deficiency.
The mud pools on this plain are the
most dangerous, for they spout hot mud
diagonally out of the earth. Coming
upon them in one direction they are not
seen, and many visitor has gone home
with a scalded foot. The hydraulic dis
play is now very ftful, as inconsiderate
tourists have injured the spouting foun-
tains by loading stones into them to see
them cast out, so you must take your
tent with you and encamp on the plain
to await the pleasure of their majesties.
Blesi will serve you well while wait
ing. The Great Geyser had not spouted
for week when we were there, and
such surliness indicated a near activity.
The water spouted unusually high when
it finally appeared, 100 feet, and showed
all the tints of the rainbow, majestic
at the same time and mysterious. 1t
played for 10 minutes, and then its
beautiful cascades subsidized in fea thery
mist, refined and graceful withdrawal.
| International.
Smyrna times., 1898-11-30
Microbes In Milk.

1t will be readily granted that the
inspection of milk and its sources Of
supply is of even more importance from
public health point of view than the
inspection of meat, since milk is SO
largely used as the food of infants.
Milk Immediately it is taken from
the healthy COW contains no microbes.
Hardly has the milk settled in the pail
than they abound, SO many as 10, 900
in One-quarter cubic inch having been
detected. The question which naturally
presents itself is, "Where do they come
from:" From the soiled teats, from the
sOiled hands of the workers, from the
atmosphere of the milking shed and
from the pals themselves. They pos
sess the property of propagating very
rapidly.
NJ. de Freudeurich of the Berne la
Doratory asserts that milk just drawn
containing in One-quarter cubic inch
5000 microbes seven hours later was
found to contain 60, 600. After period
of % hours had elapsed 5.COO,OO mi
crobes were present in the same quan-
tity of milk. and if the temperature be
raised to 90 degrees F. the microbiC
population of the same milk during the
same time would reach the enormou!
total of 812, 100000
Children appear particularly prone
to contract consumption through thC
agency of milk containing tuberclt
bacilli.-Chambers Journal.
Smyrna times., 1898-11-30
Those Black Eyes,

1.-The small son of the people," says
the Philadelphia Record, land his lit
tie sister were inside the great West
Philadelphia church for the first time.
'Um-m-my! but it's beaut place, ,
he whispered. Il bet people wot belong
here comes every time dey can. Her
breath came to her in little gasps. Her
soiled little finger pressed on his with
thrilled intensity. Her eyes feasted on
the splendid chancel. Heaven mus be
mex door, she said. They hardly moved
throughout the service, and never once
let go each others hands, for it was as
a strange land. At last the sweet voiced
procession of choir boys came down the
aisle. At its head was a slim young
seraph, with face as fair and pure as
the linen he wore. Faint dark circles
beneath his eyes completed the ethereal
effect.
60 is dem angels?' the little girl be-
gan, but stopped short, surprised at the
look on her brothers face.
Dat kid in fronts Bill Griggs
wot licked last week fer swipin' ting.
from ole Mrs. Maguire's apple stand
He amt got over dem black eyes l geN
i'm yet. Come on, let's git out Hi
face was stern and set as they went
She furtively wiped tear"
Smyrna times., 1898-11-30
UnfOrtunate Mary WOIIstonecraft.


Conspicuous among the brilliant and
beautiful women of her time was the
lovely and every way unfortunate Mary
Wollstonecraft Goodwin, the first agita-
tor of the question of woman s rights. P"
No woman, with the exception of Nine.
de Stael, made so great an impression
on the public mind. Her new and
startling doctrines were seized with an
avidity scarcely credible at this day,
and her famous book, 1.-THE Vindication
of the Rights of Women" was the
theme of the most universal praise and
abuse.
Thomas Paine, the author of ''The
Rights of Man," was one of her IA
miliar acquaintance, but their inter-
course was an argument, their views
neither on this subject nor any other
coinciding. In these arguments Paine
either lost his temper or became sulky,
and the woman champion won an easy
victory.
Until her marriage with Mr.. Goodwin
she was the friend of Mrs Siddons, but
she, with the majority of her admirers,
declined to sanction this union, for she
had married some years before an
American called Inlay, to whom she
had been a most devoted wife. The
man, however, took advantage of the
fact that the marriage was only civil
one, performed in Paris, and deserted
her. She then married Mr.. Goodwin,
but this act placed her in position nc
charity could explain away. Death,
however, soon covered her faults with
a pitiful Oblivion. She left an infant
daughter few hours old. who after
ward became the wife of Percy Byssht
Shelley. .-Exchange.
Smyrna times., 1898-11-30
ParSnip Complexion

It does not require an expert to de-
tect the sufferer from kidney trouble.
The hollow cheeks, the sunken eyes,
the sallow parsnip-cOlOred complexion
indicates it.
A physician would ask if you had
rheumatism, dull pain or ache in the
back or over the hips, stomach trouble,
desire to urinate often, or burning
or scalding in passing it, if after pass
ing there is an unsatisfed feeling as if
it must be at once repeated, or if the
urine has a brick dust deposite or
strong Odor.
When these symptoms are present, no
time should be lost in removing the
cause.
Delay may be led to gravel, catarrh
of the bladder, inflammation, causing
stoppage, and sometimes requiring the
drawing of the urine with instruments,
or may run into Bright's Disease, the
most dangerous stage of kidney
trouble
DR.. Kilmer's Swamp Root, the
great discovery of the eminent kidney
and bladder specialist, is a positive
remedy for such diseases. It's reputa-
tion is worldwide and it is easy to get
at any drug store that no one need
suffer any length of time for want OF
it.
However. if you prefer to first test
its wonderful merits, mention (InSert
| the fill name OfyOur paper and write
to DIR. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N.
Y, for a sample bottle and book tell
ing all about it, both sent absolutely
free by mail.