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vsmoriai Of Pioneer Days 7 ,.on to Be Removed.
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 of man is about to remove 'asr 'ans,norial of the old days when .'a of Kansas was ground { a'4 .be influence of sails. The an .amill 'a at Lawrence will soon .tis mill was first erected it F, .,at ' the same relation to the % 's;nd as did the deacon's one ..r and that it would for a cen |p''' !, ,ome ever give place to other ' ,, milling was never dreamed of. Y ! .rentv odd years it's huge sails sbout in the wind and gave the .,o grind all the wheat which the farmers brought to it.
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A sEvEN-FooT BEARD.
Lagrande Larow, of Lamar. Mo-, Is
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Lagrande Larow. of Lamar, Mo-. winds himself up in his beard every morning just as regularly as a man winds bis watch at night. He is forced to do this or else be very uneomfort- able, for his beard is seven feet long, with an inch or two over for the sake of full measurement.
 If he should do up" these tremen- dous whiskers as a woman does her luxuriant hair, when nature has so gifted her, he would look like an ex- aggerated woodchuck, with half the
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MAKE YOUR DOG A HOME.
If You Follow These Directions II Ia
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There are undoubtedly any number of boys who have a dog but no kennel to keep him in. Almost any kind of ken nel people think, will do for a dog, so long as it affords him a place to sleep in and protection from rain and cold. If he gets big dry goods box with a hole in one end large enough for him to go through, he is better off than the
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A LAKE OF WINE.
As Greatest Reservoir of the Kind
 Anyone Ever Heard Of.

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 l'Rs red wine, pure as the purest grape 'aat grows in California.
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The Van Buren press., 1898-08-27
HERE AND THERE.

When an animal gets off its fe ed it
is usually because the owner has been
too generous Do not overfeed in your
effort to fatten rapidly.
In England no flavor excels that of
rape-fed mutton. Rape is plant much
resembling the rutabaga, but which
throws all the strength of its juices in
to the leaves rather than into large
root
At the close of harvest there is
much cleaning to be done in the fields;
buy a flock of sheep for the purpose,
and raise a crop of lambs for the spring
market; then fatten and sell the sheep
aud net a good 100 per cent.
1t is a mistaken idea that perching
fowls grasp the boughs or poles they
roost on by muscular exertlon. Nature
has made ample and wise provision for
the birds, so that they do not have to
use up energy in maintaining their
position on the roost.
Ducks are chicken cholera proof,
roup proof, cape proof and hawk proof,
but they die with their favorite dis
eases, spinal meningitis and paralysis.
Nevertheless ducks are dandies to raise,
for home use or for market.
Fine favored butter can not be
made from filthy stables, nor from
milk set in a cook room, nor from cream
which is too sour, when worked over
in buttermilk and salted with lime
salt; and yet more than half our but
ter is made in this way.
The quick growing kinds of turnips,
sown late in the autumn, are very sue
culent, but they do not have the nutri-
tive qualities which belong to the Ruta-
baga family, or even the white turnip,
/ if sown earlier.
An abundance of pure water on
| the farm is essential for both the com
fort and health of the stock, and unless
YOU have it you can not expect much
profit from them. 1t will pay you to
invest your first surplus earnings in
procuring it.
The Van Buren press., 1898-08-27
A Practical Diversifier.

To my brother farmers | have come
again to tell you little more about
how l get along without raising
cotton. have sold since January l,
1898, up to the present time 900 pounds
bacon at eight cents per pound, $50
gallons syrup at 40 cents gallon, 40
barrels sweet potatoes at 81 per barrel,
400 bushels of Irish potatoes at go cents
a bushel, 10 bushels of onions at four
head and 100 pounds of sausage at 921a
cents a pound, besides chickens and
eggs and other small items too numer-
Gus to mention.
| have learned to keep over Irish po-
tatoes when prices do not suit me at
digging time l have lost 300 or 400
bushels in experimenting, and | have
found that it often pays to keep them
until the market opens, which comes
on about the 1st of August, when we
begin to get our potatoes from Califor-
MIA or Colorado. Texas ought to raise
her own potatoes, which is easily done
when we go at it right. We could keep
lnphsdud5 VI uOlldlo az uolhC WIN Juoo
a little effort At a low estimate
can make 100 bushels of Irish potatoes
per acre and $50 bushels of sweet pota-
toes on the same acre, which will
bring $3.50 if managed rightly. There
is room for hundreds, yes, thousands
of us to get there outside of cotton. |
expect to attend the farmers con-
gress at College Station July l3, IA and
Is, and would be glad to meet a thou
sand farmers there seeking knowledge
on farming. What one doesn't know,
the other fellow does, and there and
then will be the time to get together to
tell our little tale. We get from sta
tistics figures showing that Wisconsin,
with half the population of Texas, ap-
proprates nine times as much as Tex
as in the way of government aid to
| farming, and now as farming is the
back bone of commerce, on which the
prosperity of all things depends, would
ask you, brother farmers, where is
your democracy-the greatest good to
/ the greatest number? Texas, you
know, has enjoyed the blessings OF
| democratic rule for a third of CEN
tury, and in the name of God and JUS
tice, let us have democratic principles
practiced vile 1t is being preached
! Texas Farm and Ranch.
The Van Buren press., 1898-08-27
Why You should Keep Hens.

|. Because you ought by their means
to convert great deal of the waste on
the farm into money, in the shape OF
chickens and eggs for the market.
Q. Because with intelligent manage
ment they ought to be all year revenue
producers, excepting, perhaps, about
two months during moulting season.
3. Because the manure from the poul'
try house will make valuable compost
for use in either vegetable garden or
orchard. The birds the mselves, # al
lowed to run in the orchard, will de-
stroy many injurious insects.
4. Because while cereals and fruits
can only be successfully grown in GER
tain sections, poultry can be raised for
table use or to lay eggs, in all parts OF
the country.
s. Because poultry raising is an en-
ployment in which the farmers wife
and daughter can engage and leave
him free to attend to other depart
ments.
g. Because it will bring the best re-
turns, in the shape of new-laid eggs
during the winter season-when the
farmer has most time on his hands.
7. Because to start poultry-r raising
on the farm requires little or no man
agement, poultry can be made, with
little cost, valuable adjunct to the
farm.
8. Heat is a companion of nature fa-
vorable to the production of eggs and
meat, and to neglect providing com
Portable quarters is to invite defeat
8. When keeping fowls in yards
there is nothing more essential to learn
than when not to feed. To have cour-
age to withhold feed is an important
requisite in management. Fed too Of
ten they become idle and proftless.
10. Poultry in yards would give bet
ter returns than if on range if prop
erlv managed, but to give a small flock
the proper attention would cost much
labor This is not counted when the
flock is kept for pleasure, but on the
farm the case is different.
II. 1t is found that when charcoal
is added to the food of fattening tur.
keys they gain more rapidly, When
crowded portion of the food is liable
to ferment in the crop before it passes
into the gizzard. Charcoal absorbs
gases and relieves the acidity, aud to
this property of the charcoal the hene
fits are due.-Suecess With the Garden.
The Van Buren press., 1898-08-27
THE VICTIM OF cAREFuLNEss.

The time when 9 man feels an impulse TO
seold
And almost an impulse to swear,
Is when ne inquiries for thing and is told:
Il put it away somewhere"
Somewheret
Somewhereli
The thing that he's yearning for more than
Is safe and secure-somewhere!
1t may he his pen or his pipe or his book;
Il saw It but yesterday
Says the wife of his soul, with the kindliest
look,
"And-some where-I put It away,
Secure.
I'm sure
You'll find it somewhere hereabonts, for
took
Such trouble to put it away"
So the man sets about in a maddening
search,
Now hopeful. now filled with despair.
And he ransaeks each Granny and drawer
and perch
In quest OF that hazy somewhere"
Somewhere!
Somewhere.i
And he thinks in way that's tabooed by
the church,
AS he gropes for that hidden some
where"
o women who love us. we beg and beseech
You check that devotion and care
Which place all our ehattels so far out Of
reach
In a safe but forgotten somewhere"
We tear
Our hair,
And glowing and eloquent figures Of speech
Are born of that hunt for somewhere"
We know you desire to promote, not 10
mar,
The Joys of our brief earthly stay.
But please leave our pouches and pipes
where they are,
And don't-oh. don't-put them away.
Away
To stay
In a nook that's so near, yet so baffiingly
far.
That the search makes us wrinkled and
gray.
Chicago Record.
The Van Buren press., 1898-08-27
FARMER AND PLANTER.
SOUTHERN COTTON PLANTER.
There's No Necessity for Grief over the
Condition of the Cotton Planter
of the South.

The editor of the st. Louis Manufac-
turer calls our attention to an article
in its issue OF June 10, entitled: THE
Cotton Growers Condition." stating.
| 1.-THE writer is southern man. and
ought to know whereof he speaks,
and asks our cooperation in placing
the subject truthfully before the pub
lie. The editor himself. with credul-
ity not according to knowledge, IN
dorses the article in question, and
says:
The picture drawn by the writer OF
the article is one familiar to every
sodtherner. at is not an overwrought
picture. 1t not a fantastic painting.
1t is not fairy sketch. 1t is too true
to be ignored. 1t is too serious to be
sighted.
The entire article of this southern
man who ought to know whereof be
writes, is but the exaggerated vapor-
ings of a pea-green pessimist, VINO
seems to have a bad case of jaundlce.
Hear him:
"A brave, noble and industrious peo-
pie. persistently producing one of the
chief articles of the worlds need, are
standing at the door of starvatlon--ao-
solute starvation
Now we will venture the assertion
that there are more people at the
door of starvation in the city of st.
Louis with 459, 900 people than among
the total white population OF the nine
,,,tciHa of the cities
Among white farmers not one IN
thousand can see starvation with Az
foot telescope, and even among the
improvident negroes none are IN any
danger of starving. The oyer-produc-
ton and low price of cotton have cut
a large slice off the farmers profits
lust as the low price of wheat affected
the western farmers recently Some of
our cotton farmers are in debt and oc-
casionally are hopelessly SO; but this
is the case everywhere, and is not
condition peculiar 10 the south or to
cotton growers. The remedy suggest
ed by the southern man" is good
enough as far as it goes, but cure
that will affect but one-tenth of one
per cent. of the evils that exist, should
cause no loss of sleep to obtain. Cot
ton factories, he tells US, would save to
the farmer the freight charges on his
cotton, which would be about the
price of four square meals for each bale
consumed at home. And the armies
of hands" to consume the products of
the fields sounds all right, but half
million factory hands would increase
the population less than one-fourth of
one per cent, and would not be observ-
able except in the immediate vicinity
of such factories. The fact is the
farmers of the south are as prosperous
as those of any other section of the
country of equal extent, and they are
in no danger of starvation. The ed
itor of the Manufacturer gives some
timely suggestions, which are more to
the point. Southern farmers should
avoid debt and consequent interest
and exorbitant prices for what they
buy, raise everything possible for home
use, and cotton as surplus crop. Many
are doing this, and others will fall into
line soon. In the meantime our farm
ers, and everybody else, will have
plenty to eat and to wear. Texas Farm
and Ranch.
The Van Buren press., 1898-08-27
WIT AND WISDOM.

ais he a self-made man?. .,
father-in-law made."-Puck. w
Every pair that marries is reall,
other match trust.-L. A. w. Buli.s e@
Some people eat green apples
then sigh about their crosses,-pasaa a4a
Horn.
"In mid ocean we met magniao.-
private yacht flying signals Of ~ y
tress." ''Leaking?" 20, no, their oos uis
wanted to quit."-Detroit journal w
Everyone must do just so mn,
weeping; those who are spanked off,
est when young, have least cause s.
crying when grown up-Atebis'
Globe.
A philosopher says that one has ,o..
in business with man or in love ,,n
a woman in order to know tha, ! y
doesn't know tbem.-Chicago b.a
News.
Languid Lawrenee-"Dis paper say,
somethn' about de soldiers n.y.
bathed in blood" Toyle Knott-eVsn
blood amt water, tank heavenq
Town Topics.
Editor-"Why don't you send q,
carrier pigeon with the news ~
agreed ?" Reporter-"Couldn't. O.,
hungry and ate the bird. ."-Baltino,,
Jewish Comment.
"Well, | see Corbett and McCov b,,.
signed articles" "Corbett and Aiceov,
1t seems to me I've heard those nam.,
before, but | can't place the gents hc
ow."-Cleveland Leader.
1t is recorded of a young fop WI,
visited one of the Rothschilds that /.
was so proud of his malachite slee,.
buttons, that he insisted upon exbih,
ing them to his host. The latter looked
at them and said: "Yes-it is pret,
stone. l have a mantelpiece made n
it in the next room."-Cincinnati m.
Quirer.
The Van Buren press., 1898-08-27
STOP THE FAkM LEAKS.
There are Many Avenues Through Which
the Profits of the Farmer
Go to Waste.

Since writing my article-'A Stitch
IN Time have passed through a
representative part of the great wheat
belt of Texas, and am sorry to find
my fears, consequent on the showery
season, will be realized, and possibly
more than l had thought l saw in
very many fields the straw of the
shocks badly weathered, injuring its
feeding properties, and while many a
Texas farmer may regard this as very
trihing, must remind him that the
feeding properly of his straw is one of
the factors of profits on his farm. Has
he that to learn yet? | am afraid he
has. Then | saw, too frequently, the
green growth on the shocks, chiefly at
the bands on the north sides of the
shocks, occasioned largely by the sun
not being able to get on the north side,
and the wet being retained, the
warmth induced growth; in this re-
spect we always set our shocks with
the ends north and south, so that the
sun would dry both sides. The cap
sheaves, designed to be a roof, were
carelessly laid too fiat, and therefore
caught and held the wet they were de-
signed to shed, and of necessity were
grown. ! do not feel it any pleasure
to draw attention to the loss occa-
stoned by this, but Texas farmer
should look to it and as far as possible
stop these ruinous leaks. The reports
| give some 6,OOO,O0O bushels as this
years crop for the state, and one writer
| saws that out of this will be loss of
| 1000, 600 bushels by rain. Let us say
| of this. is it not a fearful loss to be met
| by the farmer and the country? and
| | do not doubt it. The green-grown
grain will have used up it's pabulum
| and will be shrivelled and will blow
| out of the thresher and be lost entire
| ly, or at best will be saved as very poor
| hog feed, if saved at all; the grains
| starting to grow will have changed so
as to iniure the quality of the sample
| of the whole crop, and so reduce the
price per bushel. viii the Texas farm
| er kindly tell me how he can stand the
loss of one-sixth of his crop, and the re-
duction in price of the whole of what
he has remaining? Say in a thousand
| bushels he loses 1908 DuSuelss NHiCh
at rs cents, the present price, is SIPS
add to that the loss of five cents per
bushel for depreciation of sample on
balance of crop. How much of this
could have been saved with proper
thought and a little care? another
lesson that the Texas farmer must
get out of the old rut of ship
shod work or he will eventually
stick fast in the mud. Nor does
this take into consideration the fear
full waste of the present method OF
threshing. l was at a threshing the
other day, and while no doubt the
farmer was as careful as most Texas
farmers, and much more so than many,
to me it was waste, waste, everywhere
and no one seemed to see it, or proviue
against it, Am l mere grumbling
old simpleton2 A mere paper farmers
Well, l have tramped round and BULL
many a straw stack. have stood be
fore the machine in the dirtiest anc
most binding chaff and dust. l have
had to manage the whole OUTFIT ane
stop earelessness and provide for and
The Van Buren press., 1898-08-27
pERs RsONAL AND LITERARY.

Peru's anthropoiogy has been the
theme of 5000 books.
Baron Henri de Rothschild, cadet
of the Paris branch of the famous
financial family, has passed his final
examination as doctor.
Morgan Robertson, the young Amer
ican who is winning praise as writer
of sea stories, is son of "a skipper OIL
the great lakes and went to sea at the
age of 16.
Saur, the famous pianist of Dresden,
has been attracted by the successes
won by foreigners in America, and he
is making plans to visit this country
in the near future.
Guy de Maupassant's yacht Bel Ami,
on which the novelist wrote many of
his stories, after being kept for some
years by friends of his, has been sold
to Cannes fishermen for $240.
Victor Duruy's General History of
the World" in translation, has been
revised and carried down to the pres
ent time by Prof. Edwin Grosyenor,
author of "Constantinople," and trans
lator of "Andronike."
An Iowa drummer. who claims to
have seen him. describes the Philippine
insurgent chief Aguinaldo as bit
of a chap, half caste, part Spanish and
part Malaysian, the worst combination
that could be produced or imagined :
Rudyard Kipling's Captain Coura-
geous," after being on the market only
five months, has reached its thirtieth
thousand, and it is thought that its
sale will rival that of the Jungle
Books" which had such an extensive
popularity among American readers.
England has paid $450,000 in pen
sions to II past members of the cabinet
during the last 80 years, some of
whom held office for short time only.
The late Mr.. c. ?. Nilliers, long the
father of the house of commons, took
the lions share, over S150,000.
Thomas Escotte, a well-known man
of letters in England, declares that
Henry Labouchere was the original of
Grandcourt in George Eliot's Daniel
Deronda." He also says that the pres
ent duke of Devonshire was the orig
inal of Lord st. Aldegonde in Disraeli's
"Lothair."
"Chang, the Chinese Giant" who
Travelled with Barnum for years, and
who was phenomenally tall Yankee,
has been granted divorce by Judge
Rogers, of Providence, II. l. Chang, to
his fellow townsmen, is Frederick A.
Bailey, and when clean shaven he has
a physiognomy that might be easily
fixed up to typify genuine Mongolian.
The Van Buren press., 1898-08-27
All Must PAY UOard

When members of the queens family
or any wandering erman relatives of
high degree visit London and occupy
apartments in Buckingham palace "by
invitation" they pay their board lust
like common folks in first-class no.
tel. This prevents the sovereign lady
from having too much company. and
makes things very pleasant for the
palace servants. The independence il
gives some of the royal guests is nvt
wholly appreciated by them, but as
'he queen early in her reign deter
mined on this economical course. her
subjects cannot justly complain other
extravaganza. 1t is a very expensive
piece of pleasure being a guest of row.
atty, and even the queens own emil
dren must pay their way out of their
allowances, when not directly under
mummer's roof.-Bostou Herald.
The Van Buren press., 1898-08-27
BY RAIL IN PERU.
The Train Crew Is Never In Hurry
and Time Cuts No Figure
with Them.

The railroads in Peru are unlike any
thing of the kind elsewhere in the
world. We Americans, especially
we Californians, hear a good deal
about Henry Meiggs' wonderful rail
road up the Andes. No doubt it is
great piece of engineering, butitseems
to me that the most wonderful part of
the railroad is the fact that the Peru
vians ever let anyone outside of their
country make a fortune or achieve
any result in Peru. The management
of the Andean railroad is unique.
There are no time cards that we could
ever discover. We were simply told that
the train would go north or south in
the morning or afternoon of a certain
day, and we had to wait for it. The
natives stretched themselves out on
the railroad station platform and slept
until the little train came in, with
locomotive 20 years behind the times,
and cars that we used to see in the
United States along in war times.
There is always all the deliberation in
the world about starting the train from
the station. No one cares for time
among Peruvian railroad men. The
engineer jokes with the loafers
about the station and deliberately
oils and looks over the locomotive.
Stops of 20 minutes at ordinary sta
tions are common. Nearly all So
called accommodation trains are run
three times week. The trains rattle
along at l2 miles an hour, and will stop
for the night at a station. Then the
next morning the engineer will stoke
up his locomotive and the train will
joggle along again, stopping for rest
when night comes on. don't believe
there is a train run in the night on
Henry Meiggs' railroad in Peru.
a man at Lima told me that a few
weeks ago a locomotive ran off the
track and rolled down a 30-foot en-
bankment, and that it was ten days be-
fore the locomotive was put on the
track. The worlimen worked leisurely
in the daytime and quit at each night
fall. Meantime traffic nthat branch
of the road was suspended.-N. Y. Sun.