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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1898-12-15
Soil for Apple Orchards.

The soil for an apple orchard should
be selected with great deal of care.
It used to be the idea that any soil
was good enough for the apple orchard.
and we find in many cases apple Or
chards set out on soils entirely insult
ed for them. Some people have the
idea that the poorer the soil the better
1t will be for the apple orchard. This
opinion evidently arose from the ex-
perience of people in setting out or
chards on very rich land and finding
them unsuited for them. They quite
naturally inferred that if the rich
land was not good the poor land must
be good. But rich land is not suitable,
for the reason that it occasions a too
great growth Of wood and not enough
of fruit buds. AS we say, cit all grows
to foliage"
Land should be rich enough to in
sure good growth of wood, but not
too rich to permit fruit buds to de-
velop in large numbers. Generally
meadow will be found unsuitable, for
the reason that the saltwater stands
so near the surface that the roots are
soaked during large part of the year.
The water does not have to lie near the
surface to do this, for, as is we'll known,
the roots of apple trees penetrate very
deeply into the ground, sometimes sew
en- or more feet. The hill location is
generally best for the apple orchard, for
the reason that there is no underlying
sheet of water. The drainage is nat
ural and rapid, and the roots are al
ways able to do their work without in
reference. A medium clay soil is gen.
orally good, for the reason that in it
the fertility is held till taken up by the
roots. A sandy soil gets rapidly poor.
and when fertilized teaches so badly
that much of the manure is lost.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1898-12-15
FARM AND GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO
AoRlcULTURlSTs.
Some up-to-Dats Hints About Gull
tivation Of the Soil and Yields
Observation-Disclosures. vitlculturs and
G1ortculturA
4 Novel Method of Planting Straw

A Novel Method of Planting Straw
berries.
From Farmers Review:-The culti-
walton Of spring-set bed of strawber-
rtes is most costly during the first
month and half after setting in the
field. Attention must be given them
at a time when the grower is most
busy with other farm work. The best
way of reducing this work that has
come under the writer's notice and
has been found by him satisfactory is
practiced in some of the fields of West
ern New York. The young plants are
dug in early spring, the roots shorten
ed to about four inches, and the dead
leaves trimmed off. In shortening, the
plant is held in the left hand, the
thumb and forefinger embracing 1t at
the collar. All roots that hang be-
low the little finger are cut off with
pair of shears. The trimmed plants
are then set in rows foot apart. They
are shaded, if they need it, until they
take hold and are mulched with we'll
decayed, short stable manure. During
the month or six weeks that the plants
remain in the bed they are sprayed fire.
quently for diseases and insects end
watered If they become dry. Before
they are removed the ground is thor
oughly drenched, so that they may be
packed close together upon trays and
taken to the field. The splendid root
system they develop in the bed pre-
vents the danger of check when set.
During this. time the field is being
thoroughly prepared. After narrowing
week or ten days, to kill the weeds, ex-
pose grubs to the crows and keep the
surface loose and open. The plants
have thus mellow ped, we'll warmed,
in which to start. They are not check
ed, as is often the case with April-set
plants for which the ground has been
plowed, perhaps necessarily, before 1t
was in fit condition. After the plants
are set the treatment is the same as
for ordinary plantations. Besides the
advantages mentioned this system is
admirable in that the plants may be
sprayed much more thoroughly in
much less time and with much less
fungicide than when set in the open
field. Further, unless the field be dis
ease infected, plants grown and treat
ed in this way will, after being set.
seldom need a spraying during the
first year. The setting of these plants
in the field comes at a time when the
greatest rush of spring work is over
and may be taken more easily. When
plants come from the nursery in poor
condition they can be treated to best
advantage by this method and losses
in the field thus prevented. Lastly.
plants so grown are fully as good as
pot-grown plants, and for this reason
should be valued by persons that never
think of setting out bed until the
fruit begins to appear in the markets
Surely enough to commend the method
to the groWer!-M. G. kainS.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1898-12-15

ting temporarily ceased, Marjorie was
40 longer necessary to him; indeed, he
was longing to be free, and wondering
what means he should adopt to obtain
his end.
If Marjorie would only leave him and
seturn to her friend in Scotland the
matter would be simple enough. but
this she did not seem inclined to do.
she thought Of her child; for his sake
sske still chung to the man whom she be-
rlioved TO be her husband.
Thus matters stood for week, when,
rs day, Caussidiere, when within .
~ yards Of his own door, saw q man
merge from It and wsik quickly down
~ stress.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1898-12-15
hear the truth from me. You are =,

hear the truth from mo. You are No
wife Of mine!"
mot your wife!" she cried.
Certainly not. My mistress, II you
please, who has been suffered for q
time to wear my name; that Is all"
She sprang up as If shot through the
heart, and faced him. pale as death.
1--WE are married! We stood togeth.
er before the altar, Leon. I have my
marriage lines"
(Which are 80 much waste paper,
my dear. here in France!"
Sick with horror and fear, she totter-
ed to him and clutched him by the arm.
Leon! once more: what do you
mean?"
my meaning is very simple" he re-
piled: ''the marriage OF an English
woman with French citizen is no
marriage unless the civil ceremony has
also been performed in France. Now,
do you understand"
Il am not your wife! Not your
wife!" cried Marjorie, stupefied.
mot here in France" answered
Caussidiere.
"Then the child-our child?"
Trouble not yourself about him."
was the reply. IF you are reasonable
he can easily be legitimatized accord
ing to our laws; but nothing on earth
can make us two man and wife so long
as remain on French soil.''
He added coldly:
"And l have no intention of again
eXpatriating myself, assure you"
1t was enough. Dazed and mystified
as she was, Marjorie now understood
plainly the utter villainy of the man
with whom she had to deal. She had
neither power nor will for further
words. She gave one long despairing,
Mortified look into the mans face. and
then, drawing the child with her, stag
gered into the inner room and closed
the door behind her.
Caussidiere remained for some time
in his old position, frowning gloomily.
For the moment he almost hated him
self, as even scoundrel can do upon
occasion; but he thought of Seraphine
and recovered his self-possession. He
walked to the door, and listened; all
was still. save low murmuring sound.
as of suppressed sobbing.
He hesitated moment; then, set
ting his lips tight, he lifted his hat
and quietly descended the stairs.
=
When the great clock of our Lady
of Paris chimed forth five, Marjorie
still sat in her room staring vacantly
into the CRATE. The room was bitterly
cold; the light of the candle was grow
ing dim before the more cherries light
of dawn; the last spark of fire had died
away; and the child, wearied with
fatigue and fear, slept soundly in her
arms.
Marjorie, awakening from her trance,
was astonished to see the dawn break
ing, and to hear the Ginning clocks
announce that another day had begun.
She looked for a moment into the
child's face, and as she did so her body
trembled, and her eyes filled with
tears.
"My poor little boy!" she sobbed;
"my poor little Leon!"
She laid him gently on the bed, and
let him sleep on. Then she tried to
collect her thoughts, and to determine
what she must do.
go back to Scotland?" No, she
could not do that. She could not face
her old friends with this shame upon
her, and show them the child who
should never have been born. From
them. What she could not undo she
must conceal.
ITO BE CoNTINUED.)
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1898-12-15
4 Sure Sign.

when a woman" said the cornfed
philosopher, "says that she really be-
lieves she is getting fat, and her hus-.
band retorts that it is because she
eats too much and doesn't do enough
work, it is safe to presume that the
honeymoon has ceased to be."-Sayap.
nah Bulletin.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1898-12-15
By Way Of Advice.

my son." said the Turkey Cock to
the Little Gobbler at his side as tho
Football Player went by, stake that
young man as your model. When he
begins to train, do you the same, and
perhaps by the time Thanksgiving Day
comes you will get your muscles so
hard and our weight so fine that you
will be q winner in the game in which
our family is so often the loser
Harper's Bazaar.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1898-12-15
Where Are the Wild Pigeons.

In response to an inquiry as to the
cause of the disappearance of the once
abundant wild pigeon, the information
is here given that the wholesale butch
cry of these birds resulted in almost
eXterminating the species, says Wiscon-
sin Agriculturalist. The market hun
tiers followed the birds to their nesting
grounds, where countless thousands Of
wild pigeons congregated to breed, and
merciless slaughter was INDUCED in,
year after year, until few of the species
remain. The larger portion Of the pig
cons (old birds and young squads, in
discriminatory were killed on the
roosting grounds, and shipped to the
larger cities. A smaller percentage was
netted or trapped and sent alive in
crates to sportsmen's clubs and asso-
Citations for trap-shooting purposes.
The trap-shooting sportsmen Of Ameri-
ca are therefore accessories" in the
nefarious work Of destroying the wild
pigeons of the country, though the
greed of the market hunter is mainly
responsible for 1.-The deep damnation Of
their taking off,"
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1898-12-15

"You say your wife is much stronger,
quite understand"
Its simple enough. She can be as
sick only as her strength will permit,
and, naturally, the more strength she
has the worse she can feel."-Judge.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1898-12-15
The Joke on Boggs.

"Old Beeton has a mighty good joke
on Boggs. Beeton bet Boggs hat on
election. See?"
EYES,"
"Well, Beeton lost, and Boggs went
down to the halter to get hat and
have it charged to Beeton. Catch onY'
eyes,
"Well, the halter wouldn't charge It,
la, ha, ha!-Cleveland Plain DealeI
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1898-12-15
Crowded..

If people use all the new-fangled
bread and butter plates, knives, rests,
ETC., which are the craze now, there
will not be room ON the table Cor a
man to put his elbows.-AtchisoD
Globe.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1898-12-15
So Sudden.

"Mr. Tillinghast left me $50,000," re-
marked the interesting widow to young
Hilow. my dear Mrs. Tillinghast."
replied Hilow, you should husband
your resources" "Oh, Frank. dear, this
is too sudden. But are you really sure
you love me?"-Odds and Ends.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1898-12-15
Plain Enough.

mamma wants half dozen 'em-
ons,' said Nellie, the other day, to the
groceryman.
"What is it you want?'' he inquired,
somewhat puzzled.
81 want a half-dozen 'emons," re-
piled the little one, wrathfully; 'don'r
you know what a half-dozen is?-it's
six."-Truth.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1898-12-15

The talent of success is nothing
more than doing what you can do we'll,
and doing well whatever you do with
out a thought Of fame.-Lonsfellow.
A bad epigram. like . WORKOUT PEN
ell. has no point to It.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1898-12-15
CHAPTER Xxx.

HE mask of kind
ness having once
f a lien, Caussidiere
did not think it
,Vorth while to re-
sumo It; and from
that day forth he
completely neglect
ed both Marjorie
and her child. The
supplies from Miss
II e therin gton hav-
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1898-12-15

Conflict OF Evfdencc.
The Judge-But the plaintiff identi-
fed you as the man who stole the
chickens.
The Prisoner (earnestly.)-Fo' de
Lawd, Jedge, NAH wifell identify me
as a man what hasn't been near h.
chicken coop in six anont's.-Truth.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1898-12-15

first days use of DIR. Klines Great Nerve Restorer
Send for REE $500 trial bottle and treatise
OR n ID. KLINE. Ltd. 93l Arch St.. Philadelphia Pa
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1898-12-15
How He Made 1t.

The Jay-And did our congressman
have stage fright when he made his
first speech?
The Josh-Oh, no. He handed it to
the printer, as nonchalantly as you
please.-Puck.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1898-12-15

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
Take Laxative Bromo Quinire Tablets. All
druggists refund the money 1t it fails to cure
25c. The genuine has J.. b @. on each tablet
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1898-12-15
Interflat Commitments.

The Tenor-That COMPOUNDED dog Of
yours, madam, bowls every time
sing.
The Typewriter-So he does, poor, lit
tie fellow His nerves are gradually
being ruined.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1898-12-15

Piso's Cure for Consumption has been
n God-send to me.-Wm. B. Mcclellan,
Chester, Florida, Sept. II, 1895.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1898-12-15
A Fair Question.

Mr.. Saphead-What are you going to
man?
Willie-I don't know. What are you
going to be?-Truth.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1898-12-15

I'm delighted with DR. SETH ARNOLD's COUGH
KILLER; it cures every time. Rev. j. S. Cornish.
Waynesville, Ill. CSC. bottle.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1898-12-15

Grape Growing on Little Land.-It
is surprising how little extent Of earth's
surface is needed to root a grape vine.
If it can grow upward and have open
space enough on one or two sides to
get plenty of sunshine. the area in
which it's roots can run is matter of
comparatively little Importance. We
have seen thrifty and productive grape
vines where there was only three feet
space between a house with it's cellar
wall on one side and the street side
walk on the other. AS the sidewalk
was made of plank, the grape roots
undoubtedly extended under it. But
even with this there was scarcely a
space seven by rs feet on the earth's
surface, and this supported for years
two grape vines. each of which ran up
trellis as high as the house, and bore
every year fine clusters OF luscious fruit
at the top.-Ex.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1898-12-15

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup.
For children teething softens the gums, reduces In
lalnmation alays pain wind collie. Csc abottle
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1898-12-15
The Nervous Invalid.

lI1oss rsrmsror sale. Sc per acre eash. bsI] J.
q erop6util psid. .J.Muihsli. SIOUX itx,
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1898-12-15

Sell the Harness. Too.-Whenever
horse is sold, the harness in which it
has been used to working ought always
to go with the bargain. No two har-
nesses were ever made to fit alike and
especially where the pressure comes on
the shoulder or neck in drawing. The
skin under the old harness has been
gradually toughened by pressure on
one spot, but with the new harness the
pressure is shifted, it may be only an
inch or two, but it comes where the
skin is tender and will quickly break
when exposed to the collar. If the
whole harness cannot go, be at least
sure to secure the collar with any new
horse purchased, so that the animal can
work without being tortured The col
lar once used for one horse ought new
er be used for another.-Ex.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1898-12-15

Hogs Fed on Horses.-A foreigner
farming near Delphi, Ind, veritable
ghoul, has been indicted by the state
board of health for feeding hogs on
dead horses. He found the hogs would
fatten for time on the offal and dead
horses. so he bought up all the old
cheap horses he could find to feed TO
his hogs and managed to sell them off
before they died of hog cholera or dis
ease. The state board of health saw
the hogs SO fattened are dangerous to
use as food. Any farmer should be in
dicted who will feed dead animals to
his hogs. and it is sure to devotion hog
cuolera.-Ex.
Yarded Fowls.-A speaker at a New
York farmers institute said: Yarded
fowls are the modern improved egg
machines. Fowls let run and given
free range cannot produce as great a
number Of eggs. for the reason that
they convert part Of their food into
muscle and thus reduce their capacity
for forming the eggs. In my own ~
increased my egg yield 1920 e1ss
last year BY yaTding my fowls,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-04-07
AMERICAN MECHANIC NOTES.

This afternoon the Executive Board of
the State Council of Maine, o. U. A.
NJ. will hold its last quarterly session in
the rooms of George Washington Council
No. 3, at IS Congress street. The FL
nance Committee and the Committee on
Laws and Appeals will also meet with
The Board to arrange few matters, pre-
paratory to the State meeting, which
takes place on the 9th inst.
Several of the State Council officers aud
committee, and probably few visiting
mem bers. will be present at George
Washington Council this evening, and a
large attendance is requested. The sec
ond and third degrees will be conferred.
Commodore Preble Council No. 81 Of
South Portland held their first nesting
last evening, and quite large attend
ance was out, and several new mem bers
were received into the Order. Deputy
State Councillor Alfred Scuthworth of
this city was present, and installed
the officers and instructed them in the
work. He was assisted by several mem
bers from George Washington Council.
This Council bids fair to become strong
and lively body, ard an honor to the town
and to the name of the famous commO-
dore.
Some of the State Council officers, ac-
companied by District Deputy Alfred
Southworth. of this city, will visit Gill
man Council No. Is, at Yarmouth tomoT-
row evening.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-04-07
GREAT HORSES SOLD CHEAP.

Philadelphia, April 6.-The great stall
lions Director and Red Wilkes, We're gold
at auction today on the Cloverdale stock
farm of the late Andrew NJ. Moore at
Colmar, Pa, near this city. Director,
for whom Mr. Moore is said to have paid
S75 5000. brought only 1910, and was pur-
presenting the Locust Grove stock farm
of Newcastle! Pa. Red Wilkes was
bought by William B. HendricksoD, pro
prietor of the Belle Mead stock farm OF
Bellemead N. j., for only 5000. Direo-
tor Moore. four years old, half brother Of
Nancy Hanks, was sold for 81, 2o5 to L.
E. Wilson of Reading, Pa.
Director is one of the finest bred trot-
tiers in the world, hut he is q years old
and his future usefulness in the stud is
problematical.
Red Wilkes is "a years old, and is the
sire of 1879 horses in the trotting list In
cluhing IA that have trotted a mile under
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-04-07
SHEPLEY CAMP.

At the meeting of the Shepley Camp, S.
of ", this committee was elected to
make arrangements for the campfire to
be held April 10Th; W L. Gribben, Hen
nv Towle, N. Nj. Scott, G. S. Berry and
M. L. Stickney. Invitations were ex-
tended to the members of the camps of
Westbrook, Biddeford, South Standish
and Yarmouth. During the meeting the
degrees will be exemplified by the degree
team of the camp.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-04-07
MAINE AND THE WAR.
New sweden's Gift to the Cubans-Swedef
Ready to Fight.

A correspondent writes from New Swed.
en-:
The relief materials gathered around
here for the starving Cubans amount to
3,637 pounds wheat flour, 517 pounds peas,
j, 545 pounds rye -four, $40 pounds beans;
pork valued at $15; clothes valued at $40
and over SIS in cash. Several have hand
ed in small sums since the above was
figured I'D. These donations came out
of less than 800 homes, where in no case
plenty can be said to exist. 1t is mostly
the widows mite, as one puts it. But 1T
shows in no uncertain lines the sentiment
of the Swedish people in northern Maine
We are just as ready to fight for Cuban
liberty too, if it ever should become neces-
sary.
Nj ajor Hoxie of the engineer corps sug-
gests five 15-inch guns in the fort at Bath
and temporary breastworks of earth and
stone on the beach near the skating rink.
Work on the Qualifications will begin this
week and the guns will probably be
manned by volunteers from the State
militia under direction of an army officer.
At the meeting of the city council at
Rockland, Monday, evening resolution
was passed authorizing Mayor Butler to
communicate with the state and federal
authorities to ask for defense for Rock
land harbor.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-04-07
Remarkable Rescue.

Mrs. Michael Curtain. Plainfield, ILL.,,
makes the statement that she caught cold,
which settled on her lungs; she was
treated for month by her family physi-
clan, but grew worse. He told her she
was hopeless victim of consumption and
that no medicine could cure her. Her
druggist suggested DR.. Kings New Dis
covery for Consumption; she bought a
bottle and to her delight found herself
benefited from first dose. She continued
its use, and after taking six bottles,
found hcrssif sound and well. now does
her own housework and is as well as she
ever was. Free trial bottles of this Great
Discovery at II. p. S. Goods Drug Store,
large bolules 90 cents and 81. 60.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-04-07
MACHIAS lHoMEWARD
COLORS.
BOUND

Machias, April 6.-Hon. John Z.
Anes, collector of customs for the port of
Machias, has just received neat canvass
package, by the American Express, which
proved on opening to be the honeward
bound colors of the gun boat Machias.
1t was arranged for detail of officers
and crew, to accompany the flags. for
NAL presentation was arranged, and a
reception planned, but the war scare pre-
vented the officers from being released
and thus the programme could not be
carried out.
The flags are of native silk made in
China, and are packed in a neat oak
case, (made by ship carpenter.) On a
oliver plate on the cover, the following is
engraved: 'tHomeward Bound Colors
of the U. S. S. Machias, presented to the
town of Machiaf, Me-, by the officers and
crew."
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-04-07
MATINEE LECTURE ON FOOD.

Let no housekeeper overlook Mr.. Wor-
rell's lecture in Kotzsch1nar hall this af-
ternoon The entire range Of food will
be discussed. The lecture will he valua-
bic. not only for the knowledge ii will
smpart in dietetics, but for its many prac-
teal points, which in no other way could
be so concretely presented. There will
be a fine platform exhibit of food plants
and food products, many of them OBJ.
tanned, through courtesy, from the Agas-
sig Museum, Camb bridge, ard the Com
,nercial Museum, Philadelphia. Mr.. Wor-
rail's book is FREQ to lecture patrons only,
otherwise sells for fifty cents. Every seat
reserved for housekeepers. Admission by
ticket, only. None but housekeepers can
secure them at Cressey, Jones & Aliens.