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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-04
wRAT CROPS ARE WORTH.
Supreme Court Fixes the Valuation
of Farming Lands

Actual losses are fixed as the meas
ure of a farmers land, the same being
estimated by actual experience as a
raiser of crops The decision, the syl-
labus of which only is given, is in
the following case:
John S. Robbins. respondent. VS.. Village Of
Wilmar. appellant
1. A village corporation is guilty of tres
pass If it collects and gathers up surface
water by artificial means and necessarily
casts it upon the premises of an individual
in increased and injurious quantities, and
for such injury the corporation is liable,
and in such a case a witness may give an
estimate or opinion of the damage sus-
tanned.
2. Evidence considered and held suf-
fcient to justify the direction of the court
to the jury, and verdict found Order af-
frmed. Buck ]
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-04
HIS ASSORTMENT OF FRowNs.
County Attorney Anderson Exhibits
Them for MOritz Helms BENEFIT.

Them for Moritz Helms Benefit.
Attorney Moritz Helm dropped into County
Attorney Andersons Office yesterday He
wanted to tell Mr.. Anderson a few things
about taxes and grand juries and those kind
of things
Mr.. Anderson happened to be out when
Good day. Mr. Anderson saluted Mr.
Helm.
few frowns played tag around Mr.. An
derson's forehead but that was all.
Somebody waiting?" continued Mr.. Helm
scowl chased all frowns away.
rs anybody in?" went on MIR. Helm, point
ing to the county attorneys private Office
No, and don't want you in either" came
the reply.
Mr.. Helm smiled and walked out
Il will repeat this every day until the
grand jury meets again. said he, and again
he smiled
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-04
Change of Time to Sioux City, Omaha and
Kansas Citu.

On and after Sunday, Feb. g. train via c.,
S1s ~ n, for above noints instead of s qi d.
m. as now, and connections will be made at
Council Bluffs with Union Pacific Overland
Limited for Utah and California. Less than
Sc hours on the road TO San Francisco. Ticket
Office 395 Robert street.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-04
Suit Against the City.

Rose B1oudel has sued the city to recover
$4,000 damages for personal injuries caused
by falling on an alleged defective wooden
sidewalk on Indiana avenue, in November
last
The complaint alleges that she stepped
upon rotten plank and was thrown to the
ground with such violence as to cause severe
injuries.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-04
WILL IMPROVE THE ROAD.
President Stickney's Suggestions
Approved by Security Holders.

At the recent meeting of the European Sc
curity holders of the Chicago Great Western
in London the recommendations of President
Stickney of last April were approved.
One of these recommendations was to in
crease capital expeditures 81 100000 Of that
sum $30S173 will be used in building bridges,
passenger equipments and $3.50, $50 in length
ening passing tracks and yard Improvements.
The security holders also approved the
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-04
Fastest Time Ever Made to Colorado.

On and after Sunday, Feb. 6, leaving st.
Paul 9:35 a. m. via c., St P, M. & O.. rail-
way, connections will be made at Council
Bluffs with Union Pacific Colorado Limited
and arrive Denver lao next afternoon, only
% hours on the road Ticket Office, 395 Rob-
ert street
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-04
Action on a Promissory Note.

Emma w. Jones has begun an action in
the district court against w. H. Conover and
F. A. Theopold to recover s3,212.32, alleged
to be due on three promissory notes.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-04
Was Here Fifty Years.

Mrs. B. A. Corrigan, mother of Severinus
j. Corrigan, the astronomer, died yesterday
at the family residence, AIS Hopkins street.
Mrs. Corrigan has resided in St. Paul for
nearly half century.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-04

scheme to increase the issue of debenture,
to $50, O00 600 for the purpose of refunding old
debentures and to acquire additions to the
system
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-04
Chippewa Spring Water.

The purest and sostest natural Sprng water
known. Drewry Sons. distributors. Tel. $50.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-04
IN THE SOCIAL WORLD
MRS. HENRY s. BAKER AND MRS,
BARNUM GIVE A RECEPTION.

Pretty Event at the Home of the
Former in ST. Anthony Park
Mrs. Yale to Give Valentine
Euchre-Mrs. A. j. Stone Gives a
Card Party-Personals.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-04
THIS CLEARS KNUDsoN.

Swift COunty's Treasurer indicated
in the Supreme Court.
Treasurer Thomas Knudson. of Swift
county, won an important case in the
supreme court yesterday. The decision
in the case was as follows:
The Board of County Commissioners of
Swift County, respondent, VS.. Thomas
KIudson, ct al, appellants
The board of county commissioners, of
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-04
Friday Facts for Frugal Families
Hosiery and Underwear.

Friday and Saturday, the last
days of our great offering of
Women's and ChiIdren's IN
40c and Soc Hosiery at, VC
per pair. ~
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-02-07

A peculiar story of cats hunting and
capturing snakes alive comes from
Norfolk. A business man was at house
there recently, when he was surprised
to see sleek cats come mp to the door
step, each having live snake in its
mouth.
The snakes averaged about foot
and half long, the largest one being
in the possession of fine yellow cat
and over two feet i'll length. The cold
weather had taken some of the life
ont of the reptiles, and to make them
less vigorous, the cats seemed to have
filed their skins with number of
small punctures by biting them. The
snakes We're dropped upon the ground
and toyed with by the cats, but not by
throwing them about as they do rats
and mice. Instead they would stand
staring at their prey, while the latter
held up their heads and stuck out
their tongues. Then the cats would
Jump upon their victims and again put
their teeth through their skins.
A fourth cat made its appearance
while the other three were playing
with the snakes, and tried hard to
have some one of them allow him to
take part in the fun, but it was angri-
ly repulsed every time it attempted to
interfere. The four cats belong to
the same woman, and she said that
hardly DAY passes since summer be-
gan that they have not brought snakes
into the yard. The biggest catch
which the foor-footed snake hunters
have taken from the woods and swamps
near the house was one OF about II
month ago, when the big yellow cat
walked into the kitchen with four
foot snake wrapped about its body.
The cats seem capable of rendering
the snakes almost poweriess without
killing them, and, after playing with
them till they are satisfied, kill them.
Hartford Courant.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-02-07

Miss Mary E. Cutler, of Holliston,
Mass, is one of the most successful
agriculturists in that State. 1t is now
almost thirteen years since she under
took to manage Winthrop Gardens, as
her place is called, and, while she still
retains active supervision Of it, her
hardest work has been done.
She had been her fathers right hand
for some years in his struggles against
rocks and weeds, which were the prin-
cipal product of the land when he
bought it, paying $3.50 for the whole
siXty-eight acres. When he died sud
denly she left the little schoolhousc
where she was teaching and assumed
the entire management of the place
Her brothers had left, one to become
II lawyer and the other physician in
distant cities. She bought out their
interest, and, contrary 10 the advice of
her friends and relatives, undertook
10 be practical farmer.
Mss Cutler was rot afraid of fail
ing, but she took no risks. At first
che raised only those things that had
already been grown with success upon
the farm, and she retained as her
superintendent man who had been
employed by her father for number
ofyears. Affairs turned out well. The
woman farmer familiarized herself
with every bit of the land she pos
sessed and studied its possibilities
She practically directed the men and
worked with them when necessary and
she was equally active and alert on the
road and in the markets disposing of
her crops. Chicago Chronicle.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-02-07

cient period were pretty much the
same. The same plants grew contem-
poraneously in Greenland and i'll CAL
ifornia, i'll SpitZbergen and in Virginia
There was uniformity of vegetation
in all parts of the earth. Nobody can
say just why this was, though several
theories have been advanced to ac-
count for it, One theory is that the
atmosphere in those days was heavily
charged with watery vapor, so that
warmth was readily distributed
through it, and the suns rays did not
have chance to strike the earth di-
rectly, making differences in climate
by the degree of their slant. In the
course OF time the atmosphere thinned
gradually, and then came climatic va
riations marking n series of zones
around the earth. Washington Path
finder.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-02-07

A unique utilization of railway car
vibrations is reported from packing.
house centre in Kansas. The roadbed
of the local trolley line is not of the
best, and it occurred to a milkman
who had been pretty well banged
about by the lively oscillation of the
car on which he was riding that there
was enough power going to waste tc
work Il set of capacious churns. He
tried the experiment and found that it
worked to a charm Now the owners
of COWS in the vicinity of packing
houses in the city set their churns on
the front end of car. One round
trip is almost more than enough to dc
the work, and the motorman takes but.
termllk III payment for the mechanical
agitation impaired to the cream. This
is probably the first time that the
motions of railway cars have been
'urned to any useful purpose. Theil
Ill effects are we'll known to physicians.
4 serious case of paralysis of the
lower limbs was recently developed in
brakeman as the result of the con.
slant jolting and the incessant sway.
ing and jarring motion of the cars on
which his duties lay He had to go to
a hospital, where he remained for
some months. Finally his physician
resorted to electricity in sundry forms
from a battery and induction coil
and an electrostatic machine. The
electrical massage toned up the limbs
and proved an actual specific for the
ailmcnt produced by the mechanical
vibrations on the train, and the man
has gone back TO work
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-02-07

Almost all extracted honey will gran.
ulate and become like sugar during
cold weather. Heretofore this has
been considered rather u detriment TO
the sale and use of extracted honey.
But when brought more prominently
before the public, and consumers have
become better acquainted with it, it
may now almost be called the leader.
We have always taken the ground that
honey after granulation is in its most
perfect form i'll which it can be used.
Granulation improves the appearance
of any quality of honey end never fails
to give it q lighter shade II also has
o tendency to drive from it any wild
taste and make it purer sweet. In
this condition it is in the best possible
shape for keeping any length of time.
By being free of wax, aud if taken
from the comb just as the bees placed
it there, without any melting of the
comb or mixing of any kind, by the
latest improved machinery, it is with.
out doubt the purest of all sweets. 1t
is easily returned to its original form
by simply heating ii, and il sealed up
air-tight while hot it will remain in
liquid form fcr long time.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-02-07

We doubt whether it ever pays to
pasture orchards except with hogs,
and then rather to feed them extra and
thus manure the trees than for what
the hogs will get from the grass.
Wherever grass is shaded it is much
less nutritious than what grows in the
sunlight. Hogs do not do we'll on
pasture anyway. But il fed liberally
their droppings will manure the trees,
and give them all the wood growth
that is required. If the hogs are left
without rings in their noses they will
root up the soil and destroy many
kinds Of pests which hibernate in the
soil under trees. 1t is not best to let
old hogs run in orchards unless the
trunks OF apple trees are protected.
There is q sweetish taste to apple tree
bark which both hogs and sheep are
very fond of. An orchard may easily
be ruined if there is any neglect in
feeding. When hogs once get taste
of apple tree bark they will girdle it
as far up as they can reach They are
much more apt to attack young trees
than those that are older, as in the
latter much of the bark on the outside
is tough and dead SO that they are not
likely to attempt to eat it.-American
Cultivator.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-02-07

In our experience caulifower is
very rarely attempted by farmers who
begin market gardening. Yet it is
quite as easily grown as cabbage, pro-
vided it has soil rich enough TO
grow it to perfection. Late cabbage
san be grown ON land that will not
produce caulifower II is probable
that the unsuccessful attempts to
grow cnulihower are responsible for
the fact that it is much less planted
than the homely cabbage, which as a
late crop does not require very rich
land, provided it is we'll cultivated.
Farmers need to diversity their crops
more than they do. It is this that
makes the business of the gordener a
safe one. If one crop fails to make a
profit he has enough others that are
profitable to make his business rs q
whole success. Boston Cultivator.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-02-07
THE MOON TO BLAME.
Theories of Ocean Tides-Sun Less Power
full Than the Enrth's Satellite.

OF ocean llues-Sun Less ROVER
full Than the Enrth's satellite.
Professor G. II. Darwin, in his lee
ture i'll the Lowell Institute course,
explained the causes of daily high and
low tides. when the moon is over
any spot on the earth the water is
drawn up toward it by the force it ex-
erts, and at the point directly oppo-
site, on the other side of the earth, the
water is also raised in the form of a
big wave" said Professor Darwin.
Between these points, on either side
of the earths circumference, the ocean
is depressed the moon thus tending
to form spheroid of the waters, and
giving rise to two high and two low
tides in the course of one revolution
of the earth.
''To understand the bi-monthly
spring and neap tides we must take
into account also the effect of the sun
on the oceans. The force exerted by
the sun is 26-59ths as powerful as that
of the moon, and when there is a full
moon or new moon the force of both
bodies is acting together, and gives
IlSt W VIC hHON IL as
tides. But when the moon is half
way between new and full, waxing or
waning, the force Of the sun is acting
at right angles to that of the moon.
AS the sun exerts about half the power
OF the moon over the tides, the differ
ence between the effect of the two act
ing together and in opposition is about
rs three to one, so that the tides aris-
ing from the conflict of the force of
sun and moon are only one-third as
great as the spring tides. These
minor tides are called neap tiles.
"The observed fact that high tides
do not occur when the moon is over
head, but several hours later, was ex-
planned as due mainly to the compare
tive shallowness of the oceans and to
the different velocities of all points on
the earth's surface between the maxi
mum of %, 900 miles day at the
equator and zero at the poles. "--Bos-
ton Transcript.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-02-07
Fox Terrier with a Glass Eye.

Mr.. Henry Smith, well-known
veterinary surgeon practicing at
Worthing, has just performed a pro.
fessional operation which is believedto
be unique. A fox terrier belonging to
Mr.. Wells, of Warwick road, Worth
ing, had the misfortune to have one of
its eyes so shockingly injured that the
removal of the organ was the only al.
tentative to the destruction of the ter
rier. Mr.. Smith was consulted and
the dog left under his charge. Chloro-
form was administered and Mr.. Smith
successfully removed the injured eye
ball, replacing it WITH glass eye.
The terrier is now running about az
usual london Telegraph.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-02-07

1t was vexed question in 1890
whether the Pilcomayo river, which
flows for hundreds of miles from the
Bolivian Andes to the Paraguay, might
be used as Il commercial highway from
Bolivia to the ocean. Our country
mas, Captain Page, settled this ques-
ton so conclusively that no further
effort to utilize the Pilcomayo is likely
to be made and in this work, that
cost him his life, for he died of his
priyations after being hemmed in for
months by hostile Indians. he devised
plan for steaming up river when the
water WAS SO low that his vessel was
stuck in the mud He was determined
to go still further, though his little
steamer, which drew only eighteen
inches, rested on the river bottom,
so behind the boat he threw up an
embankment of earth clear across the
channel, backed it with palm trunks
and brushwood, and before long the
water had risen couple of feet, and
the little Bolivia was able to go on her
way four miles before she stuck again.
Then another dam was built, and this
process was repeated seven times, and
with the aid of the cams the vessel
advanced about thirty-five miles above
the highest point she could reach at
the natural low water stage - Harper's s
Round Table.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-02-07

American machines of many kinds
nre making their appearance in Eng.
land. A London trade journal says
they are found in the English factories
devoted to boots and shoes, soap, rub,
ber, bicycles and paper boxes. Ameri,
can printing presses, typesetters and
typewriters are common in England,
and steel rails are going forward by
ship loads. Our agricultural ma.
chinery also is admitted to be superior
70 any other, though the decline OF
agriculture in Great Britain limits its
application in that quarter.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-02-07
Pure Water For Milch Cows.1

Experience has shown that water
which looks pure and clear may have
IN it the germs of the worst diseases,
md if so, there is possibility that these
may go into the milk. On the other
hand, water that looks muddy from
.ontact with soil, may be entirely free
from any germs that are injurious.
The danger from germs in milk, we
believe, has been much exaggerated.
The safe way is to keep cows from
drinking any water where there is a
possibility that it has been infected
with germs of typhoid fever or diph.
iberia. 1t is the milk producers in
;erest to strictly guard against any
chance of infection, as wherever such
case occurs, it is sure to spread un-
reasonable fears and injure his bust
ness.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-02-07
A GREEN GREENLAND,


striking Evidences of "a Former Luxuri-
ant Tropical Growth.
Two eminent scientists connected
with the Smithsonian institution here
at Washington, who accompanied the
Peary expedition to the Polar regions,
but who were bent on business of their
own, have Just returned from the
wilds of West Greenland, bringing
with them very valuable specimens for
the National Museum. In region OF
everlasting ice and snow Professor
David White and Professor Schuchert
have been exploring luXuriaut tropical
forests, beautiful specimens of which
make up the chief part OF their colec-
ton. FOSSILS OF the tulip tree, the
poplar, the magnolia, the willow, the
eucalyptus, the palm, and the curious
tropical dwarf called ''cycad' all
these and many more are among the
remains OF an ancient age--when
Greenland was i'll truth IA green
land, " that have now been discovered
by these scientists and their party.
Greenland was once upon time a.
tropical country, That is proved alb
solutely by the remains of an extern
siye tropical fora. Where now a
sheet of solid ice oyera mile thick coy
ers mountain and valley, and mighty
frozen rivers called glaciers make heir
way to the sea, and hatch icebergs,
there was in earlier days, IL verdure-
clad wilderness of luXuriant vegeta-
ton. But all this disappeared from
the face of the earth several millions
of years ago, and only their fossil re-
mains are found buried in the strata
of the rocks.
The finding of the oldes! hardwood
plant in the world was perhaps the
most interesting discovery of the ex-
pedition. 1t was a species of poplar, and
the tree grew during the epoch already
described that is to say, in all probabil-
ity, not less than 1000, 900 years ago.
Apparently at that time the climate of
Greenland was much like that of our
Gulf states today. All the evidences
seem to point to the conclusion that
climates all over the world in that an
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-02-07

The Chicago Tribune calls attention
TO the fact that zone of the noteworthy
conditions affecting industrial enter
prises in the States OF Pennsylvania.
Indiana and Ohio is the alarming de.
crease in the supply of natural gas in
those States. For several years past
the greater part OF the natural gas used
in this country has come from the
States above named, and ut one time
the supply was thought 70 be mex.
haustible. The error Of this sun posi-.
ton, however, may be clearly shown
by comparing the total output of natural
gas to these States for the past year
with the total output for preceding
years. In 1896 the value of fll the
natural gas produced i'll Pennsylvania
aggregated only So, 52S, Gl0 against the
enormous valuation of $40, 37j put
upon the product of 1888 Ohio has
never been such 4 prolific generator
of natural gas as Pennsylvania, but
the figures for The Buckeye State show
corresponding diminution. In 1889
Ohio produced $5,2I5, ,GG9 worth of
natural gas, whereas a. the present
time her total output is valued at only
SLIP, 400. OF the Stotes producing
catural gas Indiana is the youngest.
Only few years have elapsed since
the resources Of the State in this direc-
ton were first discovered. but the total
valuation of Indiana's yearly supply
of natural gas has gradually dimin-
ished from So, us, 600 in 1893 to only
So, 043, ,635 in 1896. As the Indiana
gas fields are much younger than those
of Pennsylvania and Ohio, it is likely
that they will continue to yield lib
eral supply Of gas for some time to
come. OF course it is difficult TO Judge
of what sunderneath the earth s crust,
but, from superficial indications, the
natural gas Industry IN the United
States is doomed to ultimate extinc-
ton. This is furthermore shown by
the figures for the entire country. In
1883 the value of all the natural gas in
the United States aggregated $22. .620,.
875, whereas in 1896 it aggregated
only $4,000, ,5l2. Evidently, from
these figures. the natural gas industry
in the United States will soon be rele-
gated to the past, unless other sources
of supply are discovered.