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Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-03
Well Ripened Honey.

1 believe am beginning to enjoy
extracted honey more than l ever did
before. The kind we have now at
our house is white mountain sage. 1t
is very thick to start on; but we pour
it out into pitchers, and let it stand a
month or so in dry room before
using. At the end of that time it be-
comes so thick that it will hardly pour
out; and when the pitcher is inverted,
the honey rolls out in one great
stream, and piles up in dish like a
coil of rope. Then comes the fun of
cutting off the stream. The size of
the rope keeps getting smaller and
smaller, after the pitcher is righted,
until the tilament is less than the size
of common hair. This is cut off
with spoon; but the honey in the
dish is so thick that, when the dish is
inverted, it will take little time for
it to run out. On dipping the spoon
into its beautiful crystalline surface,
it will dent clear down to the bottom
of the dish before the honey will fold
over the spoon. About this time, or
when the spoon is sufficiently we'll
covered, it finds its way to my mouth,
but not till the spoon has been twisted
over and over to break off the fila
ment. The honey is SO waxy that it
requires almost chewing in order to
get it in condition to swallow, remind
ing one very much of maple syrup
boiled down and dropped on to snow.
Well, this is what call we'll ripened
honey; and any one who has eaten it,
when reduced to the consistency [
have described, feels very loath to eat
anything else in the way of extracted
honey that is not as thick.
If you have any one at your house
who does not like honey, set some of
the kind I have been describing before
him.
1 do not claim that mountain sage
is the only honey that will taste good
when so treated. Any honey, if of
good flavor, when allowed to stand in
an open vessel in dry room, will be-
come thick and waxy if given time
enough. .-Gleanings in Bee Culture.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-03
How Army Elephant. Are Fed.

Elephants in the Indian army are
fed twice day. When meal-time ar
rives they are drawn up in line before
a row of piles of food. Each animals
breakfast includes ten pounds of raw
rice, done up in five two-pound pack
ages. The rice is wrapped in leaves,
and then tied with grass. At the COM
mand, Attention. each elephant
raises his trunk, and package is
thrown into its capacious mouth. By
this method of feeding not single
grain of rice is wasted
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-03
A TREE GROWING UPSIDE DOWN.
Old Apple Tree With Limbs in the Ground
and Roots in the Air.


John Meiner's distillery in Milwau-
kee has not been in operation for nine
years. 1t is an old landmark, and is
surrounded with the interest that
every old building in Milwauk ee awak-
ems in the historian. The grounds
about it are covered with grand old
trees and rustic benches, and form a
little by-way nook whose existence
one would not suspect from the road
outside the fence at the south.
But the object of greatest interest in
this unique place is an old apple tree
that was planted % years ago, with
its limbs in the ground and it's roots
in the air, and which still lives to bear
fruit and sprout branches where roots
should be and roots where twigs and
leaves should be, curiosity to be-
holders.
Mr.. Meiners was induced to make
the trial through an old German lie.
gend.
When Mr.. Meiners planted his 25
apple trees they showed no signs of
life for long time. Finally the one
still remaining showed leaf, softened
by summer rains and expanded by the
sun, and with great deal of care it
was nursed to sturdy life. 1t grew
very slowly, and has not grown more
than two feet in height since it was
planted. 1t is now about four feet
high, with trunk Is inches in diam
eter. The roots had tendency to
droop, and it was found necessary to
prop them up with trellis. Instead
of growing vertically, they have ex-
tended horizontally in long, slender
arms. There are about 20 of these,
radiating in all directions. Each year,
as they grew longer, additional props
were put underneath, and they have
extended along the trellis flat, straight
as ceiling, with little slender shoots
running at right angles and intertwin-
ing with one another so closely that
they afford some protection from the
rain to one who may stand under
meath. The top is circular in form, and
about so feet in diameter. The tree
has born fruit for about 20 years. The
fruit is of good quality, but the vari-
ETY. is not known by Mrs. Adolph
Meyer, daughter of Mr.. Meiners, who
now occupies the old homestead with
her hus band and family. Meehan's
| Monthly.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-03
Hoods pills cure sick headache. s5
Two Potential IIavors.

The Lord Mayor of London
sides over only a small section
about the centre of London, en-
ing principally the financial part
only 238, 900 inhabitants, yet he is
rounded by pomp and state, e
to the potentates of some couni
Mayor Van Wyck, although he
sides over 3,737,T9 subjects, s:
his plain roll-top desk, with no u
formed attendant save a policema
There are virtually $4,000 employ'
under him and he controls a salal
patronage of nearly $75, 200, 900 an
nearly $50, 0OO,O will be expende
under him during his four years
office. Success.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-03
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succumb to the artificial conditions Of
forcing house life. The problem he
must solve is to check growth suffi-
ciently to cause early setting and rip
ening of fruit without lessening the
vigor necessary for full crop.
Different methods of training and
benching used to accomplish this pur-
pose have been tested at the New
York agricultural experiment station
and the results are announced in
Bulletin No. 125. During two win
ters plants were grown upon the
benches OF were checked in growth by
leaving them in the transplanting pots
which were plunged in the earth of
the benches; and plants under each
method of benching were trained upon
the single-stem system and upon the
three-stem system. A good degree
of success attended all the experiments
and the bulletin gives the detailed
account of the ingredients and
methods used in preparing the soil,
fertilizers applied, planting and trans
planting, pollination of the flowers
and general management of the house
by which the satisfactory growth was
obtained.
The variety Lorillard was used and
the results prove that, for this lati'
tude and this variety at least, the sim
gle-stem system is the best. The
fruits on the single-stem plants are
heavier and greater in number for
equal areas so that the total yield per
square feet of bench surface is decid-
edly larger. 1t was found also that
the amount of fruit ripened during
the first six weeks of fruiting is much
greater for the single-stem plants:
although in many instances the first
fruits ripened were upon the three
stem plants. York Tribune.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-03
Knocked Ont.

IL tkEocks out all calculations of attend
Ing to business in the right way for a day
when we wake up in the morning sore and
still. The disappointment lies in going to
bed al! right and waking up all wrong.
to bed after good rub with st. Jacobs Oil
and you wake up all right; soreness and
stiffness all gone. So sure is this that men
much exposed in changeful weather keep a
bottle Of 1t on the mantel for use at night
to make sure of going to work in good fix
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-03
shrunken wheat for Poultry.

There is probably no better nor
cheaper food for fowls than shrunken
wheat. It is better for them than the
plump grain, as it contains all the
gluten and mineral nutriment that the
plump grain does, the difference be-
ing that the latter has more starch
which poultry has no use for except
to make fat. Shrunken wheat free
from weed seeds ought to be the main
feed for laying hens. It makes con-
densed nutriment almost equal to the
fresh bone which should be used as
it's supplement, and which serve not
only as food, but to help digest what
ever else besides itself is in the fowls
gizzard.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-03
Tomatoes in Winter.

The winter grower oftomatoes finds
it difficult to ripen the beautiful fruit
of this warmth-loving plant during the
cold, dark days of midwinter. If he
overfeeds his charges they reward
him by a luxurious growth of leaves,
but set few fruits, while unless he
keeps them vigorous and healthy they
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-03
Beware of Ointments for catarrI That
Contain Mercury,

as mercury will surely destroy the sense of
smell and completely derange thewhole system
when entering it tn rough the mucous surfaces
Such articles should never be used except on
prescriptions from reputable physicians as the
damage they will do is ten fold to Che good you
can possibly derive from them. Halls Catarrh
Cure manufactured by f. J. Cheney & Co.,
Toledo. o., contains no mercury. and is taken
informally, acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system. In buying
Halls Natarrh Cure be sure to get the genuine
II is taken internally. and is made in Toledo
Ohio. by F. J. Cheney d Co Testimonials free
HalTs Family Pills are the best.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-03
saIzer's Grasses and CIovers

Are warranted. They produced We are the
largest growers in America. Lowest prices.
Seed Potatoes only S1.5O per barrel. BIG
farm seed catalogue with clover and grain
samples (worth $1,000 to get start) sent
you by the John A. Salzer Seed Co., La
Crosse, Wis, upon receipt of 10c postage.
A n
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-03

The Chinese dress in white at fl
nerals and in black at weddings, an
old women always serve as brides
maids.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-03
Conservative Investors

Can largely increase their income by placing
their accounts in my hands. Twenty years Of
Wall Street experience, in addition TO reliable
INSIDE INFORMATION, enables me to advise
you most successfully. Write for particulars,
to invest. CHARLES HUGHES, Invest
ment Broker, 63 Wall Street, New York
CITY.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-03

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for chil,
tion, allays pain, cures wind collie 25c d bottlt
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-03

The money invested in British home
600 900.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-03

Sixty languages are spoken in the EN-
pire governed by the Gear of Russia.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-03

horse will live twenty-five days will
out food, merely drinking water.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-03

| cannot speak too highly of Piso's Cure fo
Consumption.-M FRANK MoBBs, 2l5 w. :S22t
St., New York. Oct. 20. 1894.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-03

For over 300 years Nuremberg, Bavaria,
has made most Of the toys used throughout
the world.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-03

Last year the figure of Germany's mer-
chant marine tonnage exceeded a million
hv "A fl00
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-03

Boston's Merchants Association dem ands
that fire insurance rates be reduced.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-03

Chew Star Tobacco-The Best.
Smoke Sledge Cigarettes. 4
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-03

The German custom Of having Christmas
trees was not introduced in Vienna till
1917
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-03

To Cure A Geld in One Day.
Take1Iaxativs Bromo Quinins Tablets. Al
Druggists refund money il it fails to cure. 25c
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-03

IT is said that diet of garlic is a won
derful aid to the complexion.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-03
Florida.

Florida literature secured free upon appli-
cation to J. ]. Farnsworth, East'n Pass. Ag't.
Plant System 26l Broadway, n. Y.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-03

Detroit Single Club has compiled d Ii
Of 10, 900 vacant lost.
Hutchinson gazette., 1898-04-21
schemes Of the Enemy.

The Democrats will be warned
against becoming tainted with Popu-
lism, and yet Jefferson denounced
banks of issue, and jackson entered in
to contest with the money power be-
fore there was Populist party, while
the bimetallie system was established
in the United States before any politi-
cal party was organized. Our enemies
will warn the Populists against associ-
alton with the Democrats, and with
unstinted praise commend those who
are credited with putting principle
above office" The Republican party
will gladly leave the Populist in pos
session of all the principles, so long as
the Republicans are permitted to hold
all the offices, because political princi-
plies are of no service to the public nm
til they are enforced; through the leg
islatiye, executive and judicial depart
meuts of the government. The silver
Republicans will be asked to listen to
the stern song of international bimet-
allists, and warned against the contain
mating influence of both Democrats
and Populists. AS an ounce of preven-
tion is said to te worth a pound of
cure, so dollar spent IN separating
the reform force will be more useful
than sixteen dollars spent in an at
tempt to overcome their united
strength.
In great crises the patriotism of the
American people always rises sufficient
for any emergency. An emergency Is
now upon us: it will require all the in
telligenee and patriotism of the people
to rescue the government from the
hands of party which has 6eceme the
defender and abetter of every form of
political vice. In such a crisis there
is no time to discuss the ultimate ef-
feet of CO. ;peration upon any particu-
lar party. We may rest assured that
the people will bestow honor where
honor is due, and that that party
which shows the greatest devotion TO
the welfare of the people will, in the
end receive drs credit for every laud-
able endeavor.-W ]. BRYAN.
Hutchinson gazette., 1898-04-21

which the people are paying much
more than their cost, travel by rail
should be the safest made OF travel on
earth. And it is both slsurd and un-
just for the president OF the Santa Fe
to compare it with other modes OF
travel where such precautions are ut
terly impossible.
The true way to test the carnage of
the American railroad management is
t. compare it with the managements
Of other countries. The following fg-
ures, copies from the Seventh Annual
Report of the Inter State Commerce
Railway Statistics, page rs, show the
annual carnage of the railway man.
agement in this country for the years
mentioned.
Hutchinson gazette., 1898-04-21
Some Taxpayers.

There are mean men and there are
mean nations. General Harrison made
good speech on Washington's birth
day; He said in effect the middle class
and the poor paid the taxes and that
the rich shirlked. They avoid, dodge,
hide. do not think that Jesus Christ
would approve the conduct of most of
our rich men. You were a gun
holder during the war and were paid
money worth anywhere from 35 cents
to 60 cents on the dollar and you own
a four room house in Denver on the
Platte; you will pay your taxes. You
were bondholder during the war you
will pay nothing.
1t is amazing to me how artless l
have been in my life. The first time
an assessor of taxes came around to
me had watch which cost S1OO.
put down S1OO. 1 had $500 horse and
so on, sewing machine, etc. 1 was
later on surprised to find that was
paying more taxes than anybody on
the street, and l had for neighbors
such men as ex-Attorney General Mil.
Ter and Benjamin Harrison.-Myron
Reeds Sermon.
Hutchinson gazette., 1898-04-21
TIME EvENs THINGS.
Northern and Southern Cotton Alrls
History WIN BE the Same.

Northern and Southern Cotton MlIlS
History WIN BE the Same.
From the Boston Transcript: The
arugment Of the southern papers that
their section Is bound to monopolizO
the cotton spinning industry Of the
United States Is based on the assump-
tion that the present labor and social
conditions Of the south are bound to
be perpetual. Thus We And the
Charleston News and Courier arguing
that the urban surroundings Of the
New England mills by increasing the
cost Of living to their operatives, COM
pei the adoption of wage schedule
that handieaps them in competition
with the south. While pointing out
that Lowell and Fall River have grown
from small mill towns to large cities
1t says in effect that in the south the
cotton factories are surrounded by the
old style Of mill villages, where the
people live cheaply and simply and arc
content with lower wages than are
paid in the north, for the reason that
they can make money 90 farther.
Granting that the News and Courier
presents true picture Of the situa-
tion as 1t is at present, the recon-
mendation It makes for the south to
continue to build more and more cot
ton mills will, II carried into effect.
change all that. The mill village will
develop into the mill town, which. II
It prOspers. will become city. II is
human nature for people to use their
earnings to better their condition and
surroundings. The cotton mill opera
tlves Of the southern mill villages are
people Of simple tastes, to whom hard
cash was little known before the fac
tory came. How long will It be before
these people become dlscontented with
the hut and from their savings be-
come cottage owners? They will want
better furniture and clothes. Their
aspirations win force higher cost Of
living, and then we may see the south
ern mills either meeting an organized
demand for better pay by concessions
or reaching out into newer fields for
cheaper help. Such has been the his
tory and experience Of the New Eng
land mills. People Of the callber OF
the help employed In the Lowell mills
when that city was a growing town ara
too valuable to be employed in Low
ellis factories today. They know their
earning capacity and they hnd 1t gratl-
fed In other fields OF employment than
In the mills. Time at last makes all
things even, and as the south prospers
wages In the mills are bound to reach
a level with those OF New England. So
cial changes must have Industrial ei-
fects or the history Of the world goes
for nothing. The process of the ele-
walton Of labor by rising aspirations
for better things than It has known
heretofore may 90 on, probably will
go on slowly in the south. but 1t Is
bound to come II that section devel-
ops as a great industrial country.
Here at the north there may be a re-
duction Of cotton mill dividends as a
result Of that process of adjustment.
the same as Is seen in other forms Of
Investment
Hutchinson gazette., 1898-04-21

the LABOR Of an equal number Of able.
bodied, intelligent and capable Eng.
lishmenl 1t is, In effect, cold blooded
murder, AZ If Through mslace afora
thought" Nor can these crimes be
compensated by all the "taffy" admin.
istered by theirtask masters. 1t may
seem kind to pat man on the back
aud say, 'brave, Sam, am proud Of
you" But with sensible men who ara
compelled to "go on strike in order to
maintain wages above the starvation
point, it is not permanently satisfying.
Taffy aud fattery ''for public effect"
cannot take the place Of just treat.
ment, better wages and shorter hours.
These, our faithful and capable rail-
way employees should and must have,
though it may be necessary to scala
down official salaries somewhat, and,
to tap and drain off that great ocean
of railway water, on which is unjustly
collected several hundred million dol.
lars per annum. Should this just pol.
icy be earnest adopted and enforced, it
would give us lower rates of travel and
traffic, better wages for the men.
greater freedom from accidents for all
concerned, and far greater satisfaction
to the general public.
Very Respectfully,
JOHN DAVIS.
Hutchinson gazette., 1898-04-21
Alliance with England.

We don't believe Americans, as
general thing, care to form alliances
with England, certainly not while
Rothchild's usury mill controls that
country. We would like to see English
men and Americans get together and
get rid Of the Rothchilds, J. Pierpont
Morgans, Mark Hannas and that class
of people. We are mot ready for alli-
anee until something Of this sort is
done. Denver Road.
Hutchinson gazette., 1898-04-21

That Mr.. Dlngiey has been compell-
ed to admit the failure of his tariff
measure to produce revenue is indicat-
ed by = dispatch from Washington
which says that the president and Mr..
Dingley have had a conference upon
the necessity of increasing the revenu-
es, and continues; ave are now spend.
ing money at the rate of s., COO, 900 per
day, and the receipts average only
about 81 900, 900 per day. If this pace
is kept up for three months longer
there will not be much more than
S1OO, 900, 600, including the gold reserve
in the treasury July 1. The president
went over the figures with Dingley and
advised an increase of taxation. He
suggested an additional tax of 81 per
barrel on beer and small tax on tea
and coffee. The president said these
would not burden the people, but
would greatly improve the situation in
the treasury"
Hutchinson gazette., 1898-04-21

would disfranchise the people? To a
man they are pleading for Spain. To
man they are urging President Nc
Kinley to accept disgraceful compro-
mise. 10 man they sneer at the gem
uine patriotism of the people
The New Time is an American mag
azine. It has faith in the American
people. 1t believes in majority rule.
1t believes that If the people had a
chance they would do two things-free
Cuba and retire William Mckinley.
And the people would be right.-New
Time.
Hutchinson gazette., 1898-04-21
E1tortIon of Railways.

The British postofice department is
experiencing difficulty similar to that
OF the American department over the
transportation Of mails. The rates
charged by the railways are excessive.
and there is apparently a dlscrimina-
ton in favor Of the express service.
The duke Of Norfolk has been forced,
to inaugurate system OF transporta-
tlon Of parcels By stage coach. Tht
most notable case Is that for tbi
the transportation Of parcels betweC[
Liverpool and Manchester.
Hutchinson gazette., 1898-04-21
The Income Tax Again.

The reference made by Mr., Bryan to
the income tax in his Athens speech is
one to which the time gives peculiar
emphasis.
This tax was imposed for the pur-
pose of compelling wealth to bear its
just share of government burden. Yet
when the constitutionality of this tax
is brought before the United States
supreme court that body, after first
deciding in its favor, through some
hocus pocus changed its opinion, and
rendered an adverse decision.
1t was timely hit, therefore, that
Mr.. Bryan made in his Athens speech,
when he called attention to the fact
that now, standing under the immi-
nence OF foreign war, the government
had the right to draft the entire man
hood of the nation into the struggle
for its life, while this boarded wealth,
which the income tax intended to
reach, would not contribute single
iota to the defense of the country, but
would, on the other hand, increase its
leeching power and reach out for more
bonds and higher interest.
This argument, which had been
made before, presents its full force in
the presence of danger, and will be ap-
preciated right now much more than it
could be in time of profound peace
when the skies were clear. 1t is no
wonder then, that Mr. Bryan declared
his hope that the time would come
when the right to impose an income
tax would be found directly named in
the constitution inseli-Atlanta Con-
stitution.