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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1898-04-15
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Peas as Q Farm Crop.


Among other reasons for favorine
peas as farm crop the American Cul-
tivator advances the following:
Instead of being exhaustive the pea
crop actually increases soil fertility and
is next to clover for that purpose. Be-
ing an annual and having q large seed
peas are superior to clover. The pea
plant :grows very rapidly when planted
in almost any kind Of soil, and in few
weeks begins to grow those nodules on
its roots which decompose the air i'm
prisoned in the soil and release its nitro
gen. The fact that the pea has broad
leaf and a weak stem, causing it to shade
the soil. doubtless aids in this decompo-
sition of air under it. Altogether
pea crop does not require longer to grow
than corn or oat crop does. In those
few weeks the peas will add to the nitro
genous fertility of soil more per acre
than could be purchased by several dol
lars worth either of stable manure or
heterogeneous commercial fertilizer. As a
method Of adding to soil fertility as a
preparation for winter grain Q crop of
peas is better than any other failow
crop that can be 80 cheaply and quickly
grown.
Oats and peas are often sown togeth-
er. 1t is good combination, the oat
straw, when sown thinly, being stiff
enough to hold up the pea vines. As the
grain of both ripen together the crop
may be cut and cured at the same time
To SOW oats with peas enables farmer,
if the ground is smooth enough. to cut
both with mower or reaper. Even if
they are cut by hand it is much easier
to NOW down peas and oats that are
standing than to pick up the peas alone,
which will be found lying on the ground
aud fallen in every direction. Where
oats and peas are thus sown together
clover will often make q good catch if
the clover seed is sown just as the peas
are coming up. The clover will not be
smothered out under the peas and oats
if they are sown thinly and will grow
very rapidly after the crop is cut of, as
it will find abundant supplies of nitro
gen in the soil, which the pea roots have
left.
There is another way to SOW peas and
clover, and that is to SOW them very
thickly, at least 81 to A bushels per
acre, to be cut green for foliage. With
this amount of seed the oats and peas
will on rich ground make great amount
of forage, and it will be excellent to
put into the silo as supplementary feed
with fodder corn. This oat and pea
forage can be put up dry, but it loses
more when dried than it does in the silo,
especially if the oats are beginning to
head.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1898-04-15
Notes for Shepherds.
Sheep fertilize the pastures.

Sheep fertilize the pastures.
Sheep are death to wild mustard.
Eastern Australia has 100, 600. 600
sheep
Don't keep a flock in unven.ilated
quarters.
The Merino natures too slowly for a
profitable mutton sheep.
The demand for stock sheep has been
very strong this season
Second growth clover is highly recon
mended for lambs after weaving.
Once in awhile the stables should
have an extra and thorough cleaning.
Dry feed and nothing else will likely
cause sick sheep before spring. Oil
meal is remedy.
The ram is by no means coward aud
we have seen one put up a successful
fight against dog.
10 compel the eve to raise a lamb
and grow a big fleece the same year is
too much work for her.
The breeding of lamb rams is seri-
Gus mistake to both breeder and Gus
toner. says a flockmaste - Western
PtoOmdn.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1898-04-15

To make a new asparagus bed, dig a
trench two feet deep and gil it with rich,
well-rotted manure to the depth of IL
inches. Over the manure scatter bone
meal and sulphate of potash, any guam
tity preferred. Then cover with three
inches of rich dirt, and on the dirt place
the roots, using 2-year old growth, about
two feet apart. as they will thicken in
the bed every year. Cover with rich
dirt and throw the soapsuds over the bed
whenever possible to do so. Once an
asparagus bed is made it should last for
twenty years.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1898-04-15

The farmer should endeavor to in
crease the production of wheat by bet
ter cultivation, rather than by planting
more acres. The latter method is being
adopted in other countries that have the
available area. Our people have an
immense area of wheat culture in for
eign lands to compete with, lands where
labor is cheap. Europe, except per-
haps in Russia and Roumania, and In
dia, have dense populations, and are
less dangerous competitors. European
and Asiatic Russia, Argentina and, per-
haps before many years, large areas Of
Africa, will be in the market against
us. We must diminish cost of produc-
ton by improved methods.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1898-04-15

Do not allow fertilizers to come in
direct contact with the seed of any crop
This caution is constantly urged in fer
tilizing pamphlets and otherwise, but
most of us fail to properly heed it
Careful and scientific tests have shown
that ammonia. nitrate of soda, chlorate
and sulphate of potash aud am oniated
superphosphates exert an injurious effect
upon the termination of seed in gen.
eral." But this can be wholly avoided
by mixing the fertilizer with the soil -
NeW England Homestead.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1898-04-15

Secretary Wilson, Of the agricultural
department, has been trying to learn
why most Of our American bacon can
not be sold in the English market. Dem
mark and Canada send large quantities
of bacon to England, which brings from
ii to IA cents per pound, while Amer
lean bacon is rate from 81 to 8 cents.
The trouble is that srican bacon is
too fat. The English 4 more lean
me at, and the Danes and Canadians have
learned this fact. 10 order TO get more
money from the foreign bacon trade,
the American farmer must feed aud
breed for lean meat.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1898-04-15
MATTINGS TAKE a DROP.
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patterns and fine Japanese nad matng attractive
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90 terms Cannot be duplicated under $40 per IS OC
% pieces of choice Japanese Toxic nad warped mating
superb closely quality very patterns Fully
worth roll rolls
No such mating opportunity the people Of Mont
gomery county No this price when sold.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1898-04-15

Coal ashes. we would say to an in
quirer, often do soil good, not as much
from their fertilizine as from their me-
chanical effects Soils sometimes become
disorganized and need mechanical recon
struction, which coal ashes sometimes
can do.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-01-25

ABILENE-The Herington Times has
been digging up some ancient history
and reciteS that it is a matter of fact
as well as a matter of record that the
main court house building in this city
never cost the county a cent, but was
put up and paid for by Abilene folks
rather than run the chances of having
the county seat moved to Enterprise
or some other place.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-01-25
a 0LoUD IN THE SKY.

In reviewing the business situation of
the country last week r. G. Dun & Co
was able to discover but one small
cloud on the otherwise clear sky of
prosperity. That cloud was in the
northeastern horizon where the wheels
of the New England cotton mills have
come to sudden standstill, owing to
an attempt Of the mill owners to force
the operators into the acceptance Of a
ten per cent reduction of wages.
The operators have struck. The strike
has developed the fact that the aver
age wage paid before the reduction was
Sc a week for a grown man. Under such
circumstances it is not remarkable that
strike should follow an attempt to
lower the pay.
This low wage scale also accounts in
a large measure for the fact that the
stories of want and suffering, always
counted with labor disturbances of this
character have appeared earlier than
usual in the present instance.
Various explanations of the causes
leading to the New England situation
are being offered. The manufacturers
declare that they cannot continue to
pay the established wage scale and
compete with the southern mills. How
they reconcile this statement with the
dividend of 10 per cent does not appear
Mr.. Nelson Dingley, author of the tar
iff bill bearing his name, which was to
start the wheels to turning-Mr. Ding
ley whose home is in the storm center
of the strike, attempted an explanation
on the floor of the house last week in
connection with the defense of his bill
and the administration. He put for
ward the old story of overproduction,
which has done duty many times before
On explanation of similar situations. He
told his fellow congressman that the
south has raised too much cotton,
thereby bearing the price and catching
the New England manufacturers with
a large lot of high priced cotton made
up, on their hands.
Dun & Co. barely hints at a solution
differing from both these when suggest
fng that the strike has occurred as op-
pOrtunely as if made to order, for the
manufacturers who are loaded up with
goods largely in excess Of Immediately
prospective demands.
1t is no new thing for the employers
to purposely bring about a strike of
their employees for the purpose of cur
failing production and why should not
the shrewd New Englander be alive
to the advantages of such a method as
we'll as the Pennsylvania coal baron or
anybody else?
The Topeka state journal., 1898-01-25
DIVORCED FROM A BLACK WIFE
Soldiers Home Veteran Grows Tired
of His Dusky Wife.

Leavenworth, Jan. 25.-In the district
court here divorce has been granted
Robert Bradley from Mollie Bradley on
the ground of gross neglect of duty
The suit was filed one day before. Not
much of special interest appeared on
the surface, but beneath there was an
odor that ascended to the clouds.
Bradley is a soldiers home veteran,
and an OctOgenarian, and the woman
from whom he was yesterday divorced
is negress. They were legally married
a year or two ago. 1t was brought out
in evidence at the trial that the veteran
built a house on Reese street in this
city at a, cost of about 81, 100 in order
that his dusky bride might have COM
Portable home. He treated her well, it
seems, but she was wild and soon grew
tired of the ancient lover. In other
words, she neglected him and he finally
became convinced that it was his duty
to sue for divorce.
It was stated this morning that in
order to secure the decree without Sc
riOus interruption Bradley was per
suaded that it would be best to deed the
house and lot on Reese street to the de-
fendant; and he did it.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-01-25
Plans Drawn For a MetrOpOli-
tan Park
To Be the Finest One in the
State.
EXAMPLE FOR TOPEKA
Which Should Find Imitation
Here at an Early Date.
Other Kansas News of General
Interest.
EXAMPLE FOR TOPEKA

Wichita, Jan 25.-Wichita is to have
magnificent park worthy of the me-
tropolis of southern Kansas.
Plans for the new park have been
made and nothing now remains to be
done but to do the work which is to be
inaugurated this week. Any citizen
of Wichita can get work if he has a
family dependent upon him. 1t is ex-
pected, however, that all who work
there will donate one days work burn
ing brush or doing some other light
work before their pay begins.
The park will be patterned after Su-
tro's garden and the Golden Gate park
in San Francisco. H. H. Hendershot
drew the plans according to the ideas of
Mayor Ross and City Engineer Jackson.
When completed the park will contain
a maze" a floral sun dial a conch-
SNAPPED band stand and other fancy de-
signs.
The old track will be made into a
drive and most of the attractions will
be inside of it. Straight paths lined
with trees on both sides and with flower
beds in the center will be run through
from north to south and from the Oak
street entrance across to where an art
building will be located. Winding
paths will be run through the shade
trees in different directions.
Evergreens and shade trees will line
pected that these will be planted on
some day, probably ArbOr Day, by the
school children, city officials and others,
with appropriate exercises and cere-
made a holiday to allow all to attend.
According to the plans as made
Mayor Ross will plant six trees, the
city council, 12; board of education u:
fire department, 19; police department.
"A; teachers of grade schools SO.
In addition to the above there will be
a winding. boulevard along the banks
the park.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-01-25

INDEPENDENCE Albin has beer
brought up from Coffeyville and lodge,
in jail to serve q sentence of thirt.
days. He was also sentenced to pay
fine of $100 and the costs of prosecution
This sentence was imposed by Judg
Matthews because Albin acknowledge
that he had been violating the prohibi
tory law. 1t has been some time sine
any notice was taken of such littl
matters at COffeyville.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-01-25
LIQUOR CRUSADE AT <. q.
The Ban Placed on Bibulous Students
by Girls Continues.

Lawrence, Jan. 25.-The Kansas uni
versity is in a state of eruption over
the bibulous habits OF some of the male
students.
Recently three of the women students
of the institution raised an embargo
against any young man whose breath
was tainted with liquor. This an
nouncement soon spread among the
students, and many of the young wo-
men attending the school have Joined in
the crusade, declaring it the duty of all
the girls attending the institution to
leave the university in a body if the
young men persist in the use of liquor
at the entertainments. This resolution
is indorsed by the best people of Law
renee.
J. d. Bowersock, a wealthy miller, is
out with a published statement Sc
verely criticising students who use Hq
uor and indorsing the plan of the
young ladies to leave the hall in body
The Topeka state journal., 1898-01-25
COMMON SENSE CURE.
PYRAMID PILE CURE CURES
PILES PERMANENTLY BY
CURING THE CAUSE.
Remarkable Remedy Which is Bring
ing Comfort to Thousands of
Sufferers.

Probably half the people who see this
article suffer from piles. It is one of
the commonest diseases and one of the
most obstinate. People have it for
years and just because it is not imme-
diateIy fatal they neglect it. Careless
ness causes no end of suffering. Care
lessness about so simple a thing as
piles has often caused death. Hemor-
rhages occurs during surgical treat
ment, often causing death.
Piles are simple in the beginning and
easily cured. They can be cured even
in the worst stages, without pain or
loss of blood, quickly, surely and COM
pletely. There is only one remedy that
will do it-Pyramid Pile Cure.
1t tallays the Inflammation Immediately
heals the irritated surface and with
continued treatment reduces the swell
ling and puts the membranes into good,
sound healthy condition. The cure is
thorough and permanent.
Here is q voluntary and unsolicited
testimonial we have lately received:
Mrs. NJ. G. Hinkly, COL Mississippi
St, Indianapolis, Ind, says: Have been
a sufferer from the pain and annoy
ance of Piles for fifteen years the Pyr-
amid Pile Cure and Pyramid Pills
gave me immediate relief and in a short
time a complete cure.
Druggists sell Pyramid Pile Cure or
will get it for you if you ask them to
1t is but so cents per package and is
put up only by the Pyramid Co. Mar
SHALL Mich.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-01-25
GLOBE SIGHTS.

CFrom the Atchison Globe)
A shiftless man is never too shiftless to
invent excuses.
If you can avoid being silly you'd bet
ter do it; sharp critics are listening and
watching.
The women always regard a man with
suspicion after a stray baby has been
left at his door.
A fat man doesn't care to be told that
he is smart or good looking; he wants to
be told that he is growing thinner.
It is always safe to distrust the man
who goes into a business enterprise more
to please his wife than for anything
else"
A man isn't a thorough-going business
man unless he can take a train without
first kissing all his women folks good
bye.
When a women first finds that her
friends know that she has holes in her
stockings she explains them by saying
that "darns'' hurt her feet.
When young man falls in love he
isn't worth anything until he is married,
and the sooner his friends marry him OF,
the better it will be for him.
Cut glass culture will do for the women
but the majority of men have to go to
their graves without acquiring it. The
average man has to work so hard to
earn money for his wife to buy them, that
he never has time to learn the use of the
third fork and fifth spoon at his plate
This knowledge, which the women admire
so much, is acquired more readily by the
society fellow who owns nothing in the
world but a dress suit The women are
very unfair with the class of men who
work hard for a living
The Topeka state journal., 1898-01-25
A SUGGESTION.

To the Editor of the State Journal:
If the Republicans of the Fourth dis
trict want to run Charlie Curtis for
congress, why do they not wait until
after the convention in the First dis
trict. Then, if he is not nominated,
they can nominate him for the Fourth
district 1t will not be necessary for
him to change his residence A repre-
sentative in congress is only required
to be a resident of the state from which
be is elected. In this way Ben Butler
was once elected to congress to repre-
sent a district in which he did not re-
side, and so was one of the Wash
burnes.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-01-25
WEIR CITY PRIZE FIGHT.
Montgomery Knocks Out Darby in
Two Rounds.

Weir City,Jan. 25.-At the opera house
last night a crowd saw the Is round con-
test between James Darby of this city,
and Walter Montgomery of Pittsburg.
The contest was short but very excit-
ing. Montgomery was fully 25 pounds
heavier than Darby. In the first round
it was right and left hand landing by
each, but Darby seemingly had the
best Of it. Montgomery fought very
foul, hanging on and hugging his an
tagOnist and the referee seemed unable
to control. In the second they fought
and clinched alternately and in the last
minute Montgomery landed a stiff left
on the jaw bringing his man down. He
Immediately arose but was unable to
defend himself. With three or four
swings Montgomery drove the smaller
man through the ropes and the referee
counted him out.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-01-25

A woman's wit reminds you of country
store crackers; it is pretty likely to taste
Of the barrel.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-01-25
KANSAS PROSPERITY.
Real Estate Association Shows East
ern Capital is Investing.

Leavenworth, Jan. 25.-The following
letter appears in a, local paper from E.
Jameson:
Among the reports that I have re-
ceived from the members of the Kansas
Real Estate association, two of them
in particular give some idea of what is
being done in Kansas at the present
time S. H. Hogueland of Yates Center
reports that 212 eastern people bought
tickets from the railroad companies
and visited Kansas last year. Out of
this number several of them purchased
land to the extent of $3.50 acres, and
paid for the same $126, 800. Those who
bought farms shipped into Kansas last
year 10 car loads of freight and over Is
car loads will land in Kansas before the
1st day of March of this year.
Mr.. Wright, our representative at
Mcpherson, reports that in the last
six months he has sold $4,000 worth of
farm land, more than ever was sold
before in that county in that length of
time,
The Topeka state journal., 1898-01-25
Somethine to Know.

It may be worth something to know
that the very best medicine for restor-
ing the tired out nervous system to a
healthy VigOr is Electric Bitters. This
medicine is purely vegetable, acts by
giving tone to the nerve centres in the
stomach, gently stimulates the Liver
and Kidneys, and aids these organs in
throwing off impurities in the blood.
Electric Bitters improves the appetite.
aids digestion, and is pronounced by
those who have tried it as the very
best blood purifier and nerve tonic
Try it. Sold for soc or S1.OO per bottle
at Swift & Holiday drug store.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-01-25
KLoNDIKE TRANSPORTATION.
Sedgwick County Farmers Form
Northwest Colony With a
P11rnOso

Wichita, Jan. 25.-A club of $50 farm
ers organized here last evening to set
tie in the Canadian Northwest terri
tory. Agents of the Dominion govern
ment were present and offered free
transportation from the Canadian line
to any part of the territory and a free
homestead. 1t all went smoothly until
the agents informed them that before a
patent could issue for their land they
would have to become naturalized citi-
zens of Canada
This caused a disruption and the col
Ony from Sedgwick county will be very
small. The president of the club said
he did not want to leave Kansas for
good, but only Joined because he want
ed some free transportation toward the
KIOndike
The Topeka state journal., 1898-01-25
WANT KANSAS FOWLS.
Mexican Dealers Desire Best Grade of
Game Chickens.

Mexican Dealers Desire Best Grade of
Game Chickens.
Ottawa, Jan. 25.-The following in
qulry written on a postal card dated
January 10, 1898, has been received by
Spicer Bros, of Geneva, who had a
display of poultry at the exhibit here:
Zacatecas (N4exico) Zero 10 1898.
Gale de Quebradilla no. /
DeseO criar polIOs Y gaIlos de rina
rajos de pecho negro. Mandeme precio
de huevOs para incubar- y precio de un
gallo tres gallinas.
JOSE A. Y BONILLA & co.
Translated the order reads:
Zacatecas, Mexico, Jan. 10, 1898.
Little Broken Street
l desire to raise chickens and roosters
of quarrels red (game chickens), of
black breast
Send me price of eggs for incubation
and price of rooster and three hens.
JOSE A. BONILLA & co.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-01-25

(From the Atchison GIobe.)
A shiftless man is never too shiftless to
invent excuses.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-01-25
eeCASEY,, Is NO MORE.
De Wolf Hopper Refuses in Chicago,
& as in Topeka, to Recite 1t.

SS IL AOPO1AS-5 " A-SC~ASS 49,
Chicago, Jan.25-Mr. DeWof Hopper
awakened a gallery demonstration that
threatened at one time almost to as
sumo the form of a riot at the Column
bia last night. He refused to reclte
Casey at the Bat.
After the first act there were the US
uaI recalls and the usual demands for
speech, and for the epic so intimately
connected with Mr.. Hopper's artistic
career. The speech was granted, but
Casey was not. The comedian prom
ised some gems of thought after the
next act, and his more ardent admirers
grew silent at the prospect. When the
second act closed. with waving of flags,
a brass band, and other politico-milita-
ry accessories, the curtain was rung up
and Sousa's STARS and Stripes For
ever was given as an encore. UnsaI-
isfied with a second speech, failing to
end with Casey" the feelings of the
gallery, preyed upon by mingled emo
tions, required a bit of police interfer-
ence to calm them.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-01-25
BROWN Ar INDEPENDENCE
Kansas City Cake Walker Will Appear
as an Attraction.

independence, Jan. 25.-The several
rehearsals that have been held indicate
that the cake walk will be a grand sue
cess. The date set is February 4.
Great interest has been added to the
event by the fact that some young men
of COffeyville have engaged the cele-
the champion of Missouri, to appear
here as Coffeyville's representative in
the contest. Seven couples of Coffey-
vile cOlOred young people have SO far
been secured. The independence favor
ite will be strongly backed, against Doc
Brown or any other celebrity.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-01-25

Washington, Jan. Expansions have
been granted as follows:
Original-Jacob S. Stillwell, Ieaven-
worth $12; Edward D. Randall, Concor-
dia, $8; Henry A Kave, Abilene, IS;
Thos W. Wright, Arkansas City, IS;
William Swisher, Menager, IS.
Additional-Luther Kincaid, Leaven-
worth, Sc to S12.
to $40; William Mealy, Summerfeld, IS
to $12.
Original Widows, Etc.-Emma c. Jar
Wis, Sylvia, IS; Nancy A. Gossard, Ell
Dorado, IS.
Restoration-Hulda NJ. Wells. beau
mont, $8.