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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-08
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Several years ago a French horse
won the Derby. Waterloo avenged"
cried a ~Frenchman. rushing down the
course True" called out Il Triton:
IN both cases you ran very well!"
An Irishman. NJ. p. for Cork. was
forced to have his leg a~mputated. \
friend coming to his bedside exclaimed:
We'll. | am very sorry for YOU"
'Why?a" was the answer. Because now
you can't stand for the city" Sure
can't, can't |? All right, though; l can
at least stump the country"
Two rival manufacturers of French
coffee met before n judge. The latter
took up m of the contestants empty
cans. Il do not consider" affirmed the
Judge. that this is an honest label. On
the front you place. in large letters,
Pure French Coffee and on the back,
in small letters. in very small letters.
YOU print: a Compound Of Chicory,'
etc" The person thus addressed unused
for n moment. Then he said. quite
neeklv: "But will your lordship kind
~ explain TO the jury by what means
YOU distinguish between the front and
back OF n round CAM"
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-08

A peculiar feature of the apple.
grown in this section the last season
is that they will not cook properly.
Many a housewife has been surprised
that the best varieties of cooking up
Piles cannot be cooked as usual. They
are tough and stringy and when sliced
for cooking retain their shape. no mat
ter how long they may be kept on the
stove, instead of Cooking to pieces"
as they should. Grocers and apple
men have been flooded with complaints
about the apples they sell. The unusual
condition of the fruit, explained an old
apple grower and handler the other
day, is due to the dry weather that came
just when the fruit was filling and ma
turing.-Kansas City Journal.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-08
GARDEN AND ORCHARD.

Do not use coal tar on wounds caused
by pruning. Use wax or paint.
Never plant too many summer apples.
Winter apples are what you want.
1t is profitable to buy canned fruit if
you have none. 1t is a health promoter.
Keep the squash in a dry Dom whe-e
the temperature never goes below freez-
ing.
Onions rot so easily hat when grown
for the market should be sold as soon as
possible.
Uncultivated orchards suffer more
from drought than do those that are
cultivated.
Cider is quite as dangerous a beverage
as can be given the young. Il is an APP
petite breeder.
Ashes spread broadcast in the or
chard at the rate of half a ton per acre
will be very useful.
Mulching of the strawberry bed,
grape vine, roses, etc. should be done
as soon as the ground freezes.
1t is of no use to expect to make a sue
cess of house plants if the temperature
varies from freezing to 20 degrees.
Blighted leaves or branches on the
fruit trees should be cut off at once
and burned to prevent the disease
spreading.
Every farm should have an acre of
orchard, 40 apple trees, and GO divided
between pears, peaches, plums and
cherries, says a horticulturist.
The apple eater, the man who always
has an apple in his pocket TO offer you,
is usually a good fellow and much safer
than a man who has ten cents to buy a
drink for NORTHWESTERN PIowman.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-08
Records of Famous Cows.

The records of some cows are almost
marvellous. Pauline Paul, a Holstein,
has a record of 81 pounds and 1%
ounces for n day. Paul DeKoe pro-
duced over 1,153 pounds in one year.
Other cows of that breed have also ex-
cellent records, Mechtchilde producing
SO pounds 10 ounces in one week; Ge-
nesta, % pounds S ounces; Jewel I'd,
n pounds 13 ounces, and quite a num-
Der have exceeded 20 pounds in a week.
Of Jerseys Lanseer's Fancy is credited
with 936 pounds and 14A ounces in a
year, with Oxford, Kate, Ida. of st. Lam
bert and others exceeding 20 pounds in
one week,
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-08
woodpeckers Are Helpful.

There is no longer the prejudice
which used to exist against the wood
pecker as the destroyer of valuable
trees, which it used to be believed he
pecked so as to start the sap to flow
ing. The work he does is almost al
ways on dead wood, and he only pecks
holes in that to find the insect that has
deadened the wood and if allowed to
live would ultimately destroy the tree.
There is no more valuable insect de-
stroyer than the w~oodpecker. 1t is
one of the few birds that stay with us
all winter, and its cheerful pecking
can be heard in almost any woodland
at this season. The only complaint we
ever heard against the woodpecker is
that he destroys early cherries. But
he has earned his part of the cherries
by previously destroying the insect en-
emies that would have killed the tree.
American Cultivator.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-08
Hint for Potato Grower..

AS the potato is so largely water it
might be supposed that it is not at all
exhaustive. But the potato crop is al
ways sold from the land instead of be-
ing fed on it. The only thing that the
potato takes from the soil is potash,
and this is largely found in its leaves
and stems. The tubers also contain
some potash, and il is this which black
ems the knives and hands of those who
peel and cut potatoes. A large crop
of potatoes, it is estimated, will take
100 pounds of potash an acre from the
soil. The best potato growers practice
a system of rotating grain and pota-
toes, and in this way keep up the fer
tility without much dificulty.-Dakota
Field and Farm.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-08
NOVELTIES FOR THE FARM.

To tighten the tires of wagon wheels
a newly designed felloe has two "
shaped ends lying close together, with
a pair of wedges mounted in the open
ing. to be drawn together by a bolt until
they increase the circumference of the
felloe far enough to grip the tire.
Incrustation of boilers is prevented
BY a new apparatus consisting of mer-
curry. zinc plates and castings of zinc
and mercury set in a water chamber
through which the water must pass be-
fore it reaches the boiler, the impuri-
ties in the water adhering to the plates.
Shrubs and small trees can be pro-
tected in winter by a straw rope. which
is easily made in a newly designed box
of oblong shape. having transverse
notches cut in its sides at short inter
walls. 4 cord is placed in the box with
stort strings attached to it to fit the
notches. 50 they can be drawn together
and tied around the straw which forms
the rope.
To catch queen bees and drones as
they attempt to leave a hive a frame is
placed over the opening. having n de-
pending screen with openings large
enough to permit the passage of the
worker bees. 4 number of open-end
being set on a partition in the CEN
ter of the frame and opening into a re-
movable chamber. The large bees
crawl through the cones into the trap
and can then he taken ont
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-08
SKILL OF DOCTORS TESTED.
Fifteen Years of Suffering.
IL thought | should surely die"

When the stomach begins TO fail in
its duties, other organs speedily become
affected in sympathy, and life is simply a
burden almost unbcarable. Indigestion
and dyspepsia are SO common that only
the sufferer from these diseases knows
the possibilities of misery that inhere in
them. A typical example of the sufferings
of the victim of indigestion is furnished
in the case of John c. Pritchard. He went
on for fifteen years, from bad to worse.
In spite of doctors he grew constantly
weaker, and thought he would die. He
got we'll, however, and thus relates his
experience:
"For fifteen years I was a great sufferer
from indigestion in its worst forms. I
tested the skill of many doctors, but grew
worse and worse, until I became SO weak
could not walk fifty yards without having
to sit down and rest. My stomach, liver.
and heart became affected, and 1 thought 1
would surely die. I tried DR.. ]. c. Ayers
Pills and they helped me right away. 1
continued their use and am now entirely
we'll. / don't know of anything that will
SO quickly relieve and cure the terrible
sufterings of dyspepsia as DR.. Ayers
~Pills."-JoHN c. P~RITcHARD, Brodie, War
rem Co., N. c.
This case is not extraordinary, either in
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-08
Monument to the Potato.

A curious monument has just been
discovered in the dense underground
of the so-called Brandhai, in the Upper
Hartz. 1t is a granite block about seven
feet high, resting OF a stone pedestal,
and on an iron tablet attached to it is
the following inscription: Here, in
the year 1747, the first trials were made
with the cultivation of the potato" The
German peasant at the time did not
take kindly to the potato plant on its
introduction to the country. 1t had,
however, a great friend in the king,
Frederick H., who was convinced of
its value, but who was obliged to use
forcible measures to get the people of
Pomerania and Silesia to plant it. The
action of the Hartzers in voluntarily
adopting the plant was evidently
thought worthy of a memorial, says the
Sunday Companion.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-08
BUTTER.
nest Time to Sell Is as Soon as the
Product Is Ready.

best Time to Sell Is as Soon az the
Is Ready.
The question often arises with dairy
farmers who make and market their
butter, shall l sell or hold for high
er prices? Butter depreciates from the
moment it is made til it is consumed,
under ordinary farm conditions; and is
always liable to fluctuations in price,
which are as often against the holder
as in his favor, and he is always losing
the interest on its value as long as he
holds it. Holding for a higher price
is one form of speculation business
farmers have no occasion to indulge in.
1t is true a rise in property may some.
times be foreseen, making it pretty safe
to hold for a time, but when a dairyman
would not think it wise or safe to buy
butter or cheese TO hold for a better
price, he had better not hold his own.
The fact that it turns out that he might
have done better by holding than by
selling, when his goods are first ready
for market, is not a sufficient reason
for his holding at another time, for the
chances will as often be against him,
and whichever way it is, he must al
ways endure the losses from injury,
s~hrinkage, depreciation, waste and use
OF capital. Therefore, as a rule, we say
if is most prudent TO sell always when
products are ready for market, and most
especially so with butter, which is al
ways suffering from depreciation il
Quality.-Rural World.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-08

Mr.. T. G. Pearse. of Agricola, Alberta,
Canada, passed through Chicago recently Ell
route to England. He paints in glowing
colors the advantages of Western Canada,
and says that a large number of tenant farm
ers from the old country are making their
homes there, and those who, during the
past few years, have gone to that district
from the United States are doing remark
ably well. They find the climate delightful,
and. although in very poor circumstances
when they arrived, they are mostly doing
well and nave excellent farms, some of them
being able to loan money to the new set
tiers.
As an example of what has been done by
colonists this year, he says Hugh Irvine,
who has been in the country five years,
threshed 5000 bushels of wheat and received
70 cents per bushel for it. James Fitzgerald
raised 5000 bushels in the fourth year of his
settlement, while James Atkinson had a
crop of $500 bushels. These men started
without any capital, and were induced to go
through the representations of the Canadi-
an Government Agents. The development
of the Edmonton klondike route has Gre
ated a home cash market. Hundreds of
square miles of magnificent farming country
yet remain for cultivation in the Saskatche-
wan Valley and is sold at low prices.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-08
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O PLAN OF SHED.

half a gallon of boiled linseed oil and
apply to woodwork. especially where
the paint has worn off. Repeat this OPP
Grafton oTce in five years. Use good
machine oil on ali bearings.
Run the binder and other harvesting
machines into the shed every day as
soon as the days work is over. Allow
no implement to remain in the fields
for any lengthy period. 1t is thus
ready to be taken out on the shortest
notice and in good working order Be-
fore using an implement tighten all
loose bolts. Keep all knives, c~olterst
skimmers, etc, sharp and in good re-
pair. The work will he more Satisfac-
tory and the draft lighter y work
bench. with a wise and Il few tools for
repairing. would he a good Investment.
Orange Judd Farmer.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-08

The Chicago Medical Missionary Training
School, 1896 Wabash avenue, has been es.
tablished for the purpose of preparing
Christian young men and women to labor
in city missionary and rescue work. Conse,
Grated young people OF both sexes are re.
ceived as students without regard to creed,
provided they are prepared to devote their
lives to Gospel philanthropic work. The
instructors are physicians, trained medical
nurses and philanthropic workers who give
their services free; and students are fur
rished with room and tuition free of charge
and boarded on the European plan at a cost
of from 81 to Sl.25 per week for meals. The
superintendent of the school, who may be
addressed at 1926 Wabash ave-, Chicago, will
give all the information needed regarding
this purely non-sectarian, benevolent es-
tablishment. its aims and work.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-08
THE FARMING WORLD.
TREATMENT OF COWS
dow to Secure Satisfactory ResuIts
in Farm DairyinS.

I'm Farm Dairying.
From an article written by George
Sampson, of the Sharon (Wis.) Report
er, we take the following:
THE functions of the COW are to take
your coarse fodder and grain and man
ufacture them into milk. Providing
she is so fed that she can sustain her
body and in addition produce milk at a
profit, she is a good cow. You know
there are any number of cows that do
not pay for their keeping, but in this
age of progress we can ascertain be-
yond a shadow of doubt whether or not
e COW is profitable dairy cow.
There are three things you must con-
slider: 1, the quantity of milk given; 2,
the quality-by the Babcock test; 3, the
length of the period of lactation.
After having succeeded in establish
ing a herd of good dairy cows comes
she important part of taking proper
care of them. Mich cow must have a
variety of feed, as no one kind of feed
contains all the different elements
which both sustain the body and pro-
luce the milk. We will see later what
milk is composed of, and you will I'M
derstand why she must have a variety
of feed.
do not feed your COWS before milk
ing. So many do this in order that the
COW shall stand better during the proc
ess of milking. You will ask why?
Most of the milk is secreted during the
process of milking and the COW must
use her blood in the udder. If she is
eating, this blood rushes to her stomach
IN order to carry the nutriment to the
different parts of the body, and the con-
sequence is that there is a lack of blood
in the udder to produce the best results.
Extreme care must be taken not to feed
anything that will flavor milk Just be-
fore milking, as it will then pass into
the milk. but feed directly after milk
ing"
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-08

the severity of the disease or the prompt
and perfect cure performed by DR.. Ayers
Pills- Similar results occur in every case
where DR.. Ayers Pills are used. "They
helped me right away" is the common
expression of those who lave used them
Here is another testimony to the truth OF
this statement:
~ formerly suffered from Indigestion
and weakness of the stomach, but since /
began the use of DR.. ]. c. Ayers Pills,
i have the appetite of the farmers boy. I
am 46 years of age, and recommend all
who wish to be free from dyspepsia to
take one of DR.. Ayers Pills after dinner,
till their digestive organs are in good
order."-WM. STEINKE, Grant, Neb.
DR.. Ayers Pills offer the surest and
swiftest relief from constipation and all
its attendant ills. They cure dizziness,
nausea, heartburn, palpitatio1, bad breath,
coated tongue. nervousness, sleeplessnesS,
biliousness, and a score of other affections
that are, after ali, only the signs of a more
deep rooted disease. You can find more
Information about DR.. Ayers Pnis, and the
diseases they have cured, in Ayers Cure
book, a story of cures told by the cured.
This book of 100 pages is sent free, on.
request by the &c Aver Co., Lowell, Mass
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-08

ELEVATION OF MACHINERY SHED.
lumber for doors. Make good joints
to prevent the entrance of fowls and
sparrows, which are extremely fond
of roosting on the implements. The
floor should be 10 inches above the sur
face of the ground. The approaches
to the doors can be made of earth or
gravel.
Put the binder in the 14-foot space,
and with it the remainder of the har-
vesting implements. In the next space
put the tillage implements, and in the
last the vehicles.
1t is very important to have a place
for every article and keep every article
in its place. When the implements are
placed in the shed apply a coating Of
kerosene oil to the bright parts of cast
ings and where liable to be injured by
rust. Do this twice a year. Also get
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-08
Bewnr of OintnGcnts for Cntnrrh
That Contain Mercury,

as mercury will surely destroy the sense OF
smell and completely derangc the whole sys
tenn when entering it through the mucous
surfaces. Such articles should never he
used except on prescriptions from reputable
physicians. as the damage they will DO l.
often ten foid to the good you can possibly
derive from them. Halls Catarrh Cure,
manufactured by FL Cheney 4 Co, Toledo,
o.. contains no mercury. and is taken inter.
mally, acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system. In buying
Halls Catarrh Cure he SURE you get the gen
uinc. 1t is taken internally, and made in
Toledo, Ohio. by F.. J. Cheney & Co. Testi-
uOnialS free.
Sold by Druggists, price 75c per bottle.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-08

By feeding poultry and stock with cooked
food during the winter months, at least one
third of the food is saved; also having stock
in a healthy condition, preventing hog
cholera among your hogs, and i~nsuring the
hens laying freely during the winter
months when eggs are always wanted at
high prices. This Cooker will pay for itself
in one weeks time and is without doubt the
best and cheapest on the market-just what
its name implies, a Farmers Handy Feed
Cooker. Upon application to the Empire
Manufacturing Co, 6l3 II St, Quincy, ILL.,, a
catalogue, giving a full description, may be
obtained. They are made in all sizes.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-08
SHED FOR hAChiisLnI.
an Investment Which Pays More
Than Ordinary Interest.

Select a site convenient to the lanes
leading to the various fields and t a
ings, to insure safety in cast of fire.
l find 20x4O feet q convenient size on an
average farm. Divide into three spaces,
two of 10 fee each and one of "A feet.
lnclose these spaces on three sides and
on the fourth fit double doors. VIM
dows can be placed where desired.
Common lumber will answer, using
good shingles for roofing and pine
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-08
In Olden Times

People overlooked the importance of per
manently beneficial effects and were salts,
fled with transient action; but now hat it
is generally known that Syrup of Figs will
permanently overcome habitual constipa-
ton, well-informed people will not buy
other laxatives, which act for a time, but
finally injure the system. Buy the genuine,
made by the California Fig Syrup Co.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-08
Destructive Storms Along the Coast.

Reports of maritime disasters along the
coast come in thick and fast. People who
go down to the sea in ships" should bear
in mind one thing in particular, namely,
that it is highly desirable to take along a
supply of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as d
remedy for sea sickness. Nausea, dyspepsia,
biliousness, constipation, malaria, nervous
ness and kidney trouble, all succumb to its
beneficent and speedy action.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-08

Gently there has been placed in all the
grocery stores a new preparation called
GRAIN-O. made of pure grains, that takes
the place of coffee. The most delicate stonl-
ach receives it without distress, and but
few can tell it from coffee. 1t does not cost
over as much. Children may drink it with
great benefit. Is cts. and p cts. per pack
age. Try it. Ask for GRAIN-O.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-08

Van Noodle-"D'yer know, Miss Tungbit.
that old duffer, Chapwith, called me a muff
the other night" Miss Tungbit-'Indeed!
Why, | think you more closely resemble q
boa"-HarIem Life.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-08
Lanes Family Medicine.

Moves the bowels each day. In order t
be healthy this is necessary. Acts gently o
the liver and kidneys. Cures sick headache
Price 25 and Soc.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-08

Accounted For.-"What's all this Austri
an trouble about, anyway" Its all over
a question of national language" 'Oh, !
see, that accounts for the war of words."-
Philadelphia North American.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-08
How to Work 1t.

Cholly-What do you do when your
father won't let you have any more new
clothes?
Chappie- get a new tailor.-N. Y.
World.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-08

Not Necessarily. - Waller-"So Bilker
rents that orty-dollars-a-month house of
yours, does he? He pays too much rent"
Landlord (sighing)-'You don't know him."
-PucE
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-08

Oak trees do not make a desirable
shade tree. 1t is difficult to transplant
an oak tree, we would say to an in
quireE.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-08
Sufficiently Stuffed AIready.

Ibid you say" inquired the cannibal
chieftain, that the captive had Just been
graduated from college,"
He so stated, | believe" replied the head
chef, ~deferentially.
IF that is the case" continued the dusky
potentate, Il think you may dispense with
the stuffing."-N. Y. Press.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-08

Intuition-What some people claim to
have when they succeed in making a good
g~uess.-Chicago News.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-08
Had Looked Them Over.

Mistress-Bridget, are there any letters
for me this morning?
Bridget-Only two postal cards, but
there's nothing of Importance in them
Fliegende Blaetter.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-08

While asleep, cured soreness, stiffness
All right, st. Jacobs Oil did it.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-08

I cannot speak too highly of Piso's Cure
for Consumption.-Mrs. Frank Mobbs, 2l5
w. 22d St, New York, Oct. %, 1894.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-08

Blacker the spot, surer the cure. Use st
Jacobs Oil for bruises.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-08

If you must tell your troubles, tell them
to a reporter.-Atchison Globe.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-08

E%veryone's ~favorite adjective, which he
secretly enjoys when applied to himself, is
"prominen ."-Atchison Globe.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-08

OF course the cold cash we hear so much
about comes from the Neutrality-suspicious.
Globe.