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The age-herald., 1899-04-11
SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION.
Two Days Session Held Last Week at
 Alexander City.

Alexander City, April 10.-(Special)-The county Sunday school convention met here Saturday. The convention was in session for two days and formulated plans for better organization and more effective work in the schools throughout Tallapoosa county. Hon. Thomas l.. Bulger, of Dadevile, presided over the deliberations.
 J. J. Bailey, Jr., a promising young at torney of this city died Friday night at the home of his father with consumption A lingering illness for several months had completely wasted his life away. He was a brother-in-law of our state senator r. O. Stevens.
 Alexander City will soon have a complete telephone system. A central office has been established at l.. B. Coley's drug store and citizens can hello with their neigh bors at will Parties here and at Rockford are comforting with a view to building a private line connecting the two places.
 There will either be a reorganization or a disbandmcnt of the Alexander City Rifles within the next few weeks. A part of the old membership champion a reorganization and desire to see old Company H resume its place in the Alabama National guard, while quite a number seem indifferent about its fate
 An iron foundry is one of Alexander City's New enterprises. The Alexander City Machine company is erecting the foundry as an addition to their plant. and has already secured the services of skilled labor for the new branch.
 The newly elected city solons held a meet ing Tuesday evening and elected l. R. Wat kins clerk and S. J. Nolen treasurer The city's financial condition is quite vigorous.
 The better element of the populist party in this county has long since declared their allegiance to demoeracy's standard and will doubtless line up for Gfllam, Garrett and Bulger in the regular election The I4angley-Dennis bubble 0xnown as popu- list primary will be knocked into thin air after next Saturday.
The age-herald., 1899-04-11
Mrs. svinslo,w,s Soothing syrup

[ Has been used for over FIFTY YEARS by MILLIONS of MOTHERS for their CHILL DREN WHILE TEETHING, with PER- FECT SUCCESS. It SOOTHES the CHILD. SOFTENS the GUMS, ALLAYS all PAIN; CURE WIND COLIC, and is the best rem edy for DIARRHOEA. Sold by druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslows Soothing Syrup '' and take no other kind. Twenty-Five cents a bottle.
The age-herald., 1899-04-11
 To Redeem Philippine Bonds

Madrid, April 1O.-The queen regent has signed a decree granting a credit for the payment of the interest and redemption of the Philippine bonds.
The age-herald., 1899-04-11

Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets removes the cause that produces la grippe. The gen. vine has l.. B.. O., on each Tablet 25c.
The age-herald., 1899-04-11

Hoods Sarsaparilla cures catarrh by scl- entifcally attacking the disease through the blood.
The age-herald., 1899-04-11
csnEEn BROS -DRY GOODS

.SepssupsM IIuJ 6tqeqoId :spuIM 6lIs mos ussIJ .kepson.L IsuIBM pup IgeI
The age-herald., 1899-04-11

ings were swarming with white-clad sol ders, the two boats withdrew, receiving volleys from the trenches thrown up on the marshy plain north of the city.
Willmar tribune., 1899-10-04
j: PIGS J! ( ON PASTURE. !
Important init: Extracts from the Annual
Report Of the Ol<lahoma Ex-
pertinent Station.

April ~, 1899, eight pigs were divid-
ed into two lots, one weighing ESQ
pounds, the other 27O pounds. They
were placed in alfalfa plats of about
one-half acre each, one lot receiving no
other food, the other full feed of Kafir
meal or shelled corn.
During five weeks the pigs with no
food but alfalfa made gain of 81 pounds,
or 1925 pounds each. For next three
weeks, to June %, they gained only
seven pounds, less than two pounds
each. While there was a good stand
of alfalfa and the season was favor
able for it's growth, the four pigs, aver
aging about 80 pounds, each kept it
well eaten off.
The four pigs full fed grain with the
alfalfa gained 199 pounds in five weeks,
or practically so pounds each in IS days.
In next three weeks they gained 125
pounds, or nearly one and one-half
pounds per day. .
With this last was a SOW with litter
of pigs. She gained 81 pounds in first
five weeks, when she was removed. her
five pigs gained LAG pounds in first five
weeks and 96 pounds in next three
weeks. A young boar in same lot
gained 46 pounds in 26 days and %
pounds in next three weeks.
There was fed to all the pigs in this
plat 1858 pounds corn and Kafir. They
made total gain in eight weeks of 764
pounds, using only 2.21 pounds grain,
in addition to the alfalfa for each pound
of gain. Counting the small pigs with
the others the grain eaten was less
than three pounds per day each.
Obviously the grain feeding was
profitable. Possible equal or greater
profit might have resulted if only par.
tial feed of grain had been given. The
plat pasturing the pigs with grain feed
carried at least one-half more stock
than the other, but alfalfa remained
green and fresh.
Sixyoung brood sows, with pigs, were
kept during same period on a small
native grass pasture with access to a
very small quantity of the dropping gs
and waste from feeding the work
teams. They gained so pounds in five
weeks and 90 pounds in next three
weeks. The SOW which had been full
fed grain on alfalfa pasture during
May was put in this pasture June 1
and lost II pounds in three weeks. This
trial illustrates the fact that our ma
tive grasses will enable pigs to make
some gain during the early part of the
season. They become less palatable as
the season advances.
Willmar tribune., 1899-10-04
FIFTY CENTS FOR NOTHING.

/ @ FIFTY CENTS FOR NOTHING. 4
What will the inventive brain Of man
do next? This is q question some one
asks almost daily. There is one, though,
who leads all others, who for quarter
of a century has been making fine laun-
dry starch, and to-day is offering the
public the finest starch ever placed on
the market.
Ask your grocer for coupon book
which will enable you to get the first
two packages of this new starch, "RED
CROSS" (trade mark brandy also two
children's Shakespeare pictures, paint
ed in twelve beautiful colors, natural as
life, or the Twentieth Century Girl CAL
endar, all absolutely free. All grocers
are authorized to give ten large pack
ages of "RED CROSS STARCH with
twenty of the Shakespeare pictures or
ten of the Twentieth Century Girl CAL
endars to the first five purchasers of the
ENDLESS CHAIN STARCH BOOK.
This is one of the greatest offers ever
made to introduce "RED CROSS" laun-
dry starch, J. c. Hubinger's latest in
ventiOn.
Willmar tribune., 1899-10-04
OZARK AGRICULTURE.
HOW Farmers Practice Rotation of
Crops in That Prolific
Region.

Ozark humor appreciates the story that
scientist was quite amazed the other day at
observing farmer, after killing nest of
snakes turned up by the plow, arrange tie
dead snakes in the furrow before be went
back to the plow.
:, "Why did you do that, my good NAM"
the scientist asked.
The. farmer looked curiously ut the
scientist. and, seeing that he was really in
search OF information, replied:
do that SO the plow will cover the
snakes on the next round.'
Seeing that the scientist was still mysti-
heu. the farmer continued
Il cover the snakes so that they will de-
compose: That is what you call it, ISM it =
Aes?" said the scientist, with a rising in.
fiecticn:
'We]l," continued the farmer, "the de.
composition of animal matter furnishes
nourishment for plant life, l believer"
"Yes?" again said the scientist.
Ihcn, snakes will make corn grow, won't
they?> triumphantly asked the farmer.
Ies::' said the scientist.
And more corn will make more whisky
won't it?' said the farmer.
Ies," said the scientist.
And whisky will make more snakes
won't it? Mister, that is what we call rota
ton in the agriculture of this region."-St
Louis GlObe-DemOcrat
Willmar tribune., 1899-10-04
WHERE TO STRIKE THE BLOW.

hEftE AZ SlN1hE I1E BLOW.
side and little in front of it, and aims
his blow at a spot in the middle of a
line drawn across the forehead about
one and one-half inches below the base
of the horns, or, perhaps better, at a
spot where two diagonal lines inter-
sect, drawn from the eyes to the base
of the horns, as illustrated. In most
cases, if the blow is heavy and proper
ly directed, the animal falls instantly;
but it is better even then to repeat the
blow, and to follow it by immediate
bleeding. This is accomplished either
by drawing back the head and cutting
deeply across the neck at the upper
portion of the windpipe, severing all
the blood-vessels, or by plunging long
and sharp-pointed knife into the heart
and large blood-vessels at a point cor
responding to the upper portion of the
brisket, and just above the breast bone.
Failure to fell the animal at the first
blow cannot be attributed to any differ
ence in the anatomical structure of the
part, but rather the fact that the blow
was ill-directed, almost invariably too
low, that it was not sufficiently power
full, or that both of these faults were
combined.-Farm and Home.
Willmar tribune., 1899-10-04
FACTS FOR FARMERS.

Let the ground dry before digging po-
tatoes.
Just as we'll not to let the frost get on
the pumpkin.
The deacon that speculates in stocks
is not agood deacon.
Hasn't that wife of yours gone away
for little vacation yet? Now take her
and make her happy
Hardly worth while to sow clover seed
with the wheat in the fall. The young
clover plantis too tender to winter over.
This is the time toplant Dutch bulbs
in the flower border, such as hya-
lcinths, tulips, crocuses, narcissus, etc.
They will bloom early next spring. Z.
The way to get credit is to be pune
tual in paying ones bills. The way
to preserve it is not to use it too much.
Settle often; have short accounts
Farm journal. 5.Z } .$$ Is d l4.sS,sss5 sss
Willmar tribune., 1899-10-04
ALMONDS AND COCOANUTS.
CnlifOrain's Large Production of the
Former and FlOrida's of
the Latter.

There are, roughly speaking, 21,000,-
600 pounds of almonds consumed in the
United States each year, some eaten
with raisins, some used in the manu-
facture of candy, some ground for
cream and f1avoring extracts, and some,
of an inferior quality, used for per-
fumery and soap. The state of Califor-
mia produces about 14,o00,o0O pounds of
almonds in year, or two-thirds of the
amount required for domestic con-
sumption, and the other almonds are
imported from European countries,
from which, until a few years ago, all
the almonds we're sent. The figures of
almond importations for the fiscal
year 1898 show importations of about
100000 pounds. Of this amount 4, $780,
900 came from Spain, 100000 from
Italy, chiefly Sicily, and the balance
from Greece and Portugal.
Cocoanuts to the value of about $780,
900 year are imported into the United
States from foreign countries or from
countries which were under foreign
jurisdiction at the time of the last an
nual treasury report. Before the begin
ming of the Cuban war for indepen-
dence the importation of cocoanuts
from Cuba into the United States was
to the value of about 100000 year.
With the beginning of the war it de-
clined, and under the present tariff the
duty on cocoanuts further reduced the
importation from Cuba, though large
increase in the shipments of cocoanuts
is expected this year under American
jurisdiction in Cuba and Porto Rico,
The competition of American with for
eign cocoanuts, the latter from the
West Indies and South American
states, has been more active in the
case of almonds for the reason that the
chief source of supply of American
cocoanuts is Florida, which is in closer
proximity to the New York market.
The annual product of Florida cocoa
nuts amounts to about 100000 pounds,
of the value of about 5000 1000 year, and
the conditions as to almonds and cocoa
nuts are in this particular reversed.
California produces just twice as many
almonds as are imported into the
United States, whereas Florida produces
just one-half as many cocoanuts as are
imported:-Boston Transcript.
Willmar tribune., 1899-10-04
"A BARN OF DRIFTWOOD.

Great South bay, and his occupation
frequently takes him along the shores.
Last winter, while making these trips.
he began collection of barrels and
other timber which had foated to the
shore as driftwood. AS this timber
gathered, the idea of building barn
occurred to him, and the result is
shown in the picture. A barn of this
size, 20 by IL feet, would have cost, at
the regular price for new material,
about $175; but Mr.. Austin gives the
actual cost in cash as follows:
Paint ........... ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 81 90
shingle iath: ....:.::::.:...:.::.. ~ ~
Floor and doors. s..............,, co
Total cash cost. t....................s12 .s12 90
The barn is built entirely of drift
wood. The barrel slaves were cut in
two and nailed on just as shingles are
used. In all, Mr.. Austin used 72O bar
rels in covering the barn. It serves his
purpose for stabling a horse and his
fodder, implements, etc., as well as
more expensive barn. Many of our
western readers, who never saw the
ocean or listened to the roar of it's
breakers, will be interested to know
how this driftwood has been utilized
for building purposes. The waves
throw ashore each year vast quantities
of wood, sometimes taken from the
wrecks of vessels, and sometimes
washed or thrown overheard from pass
ing ships. If anyone can tell of a cheap
er barn than this, with the timber or
other material thrown up into ones
dooryard, we shall be pleased to report
it.-Rural New Yorker.
Willmar tribune., 1899-10-04
HOW TO KILL CATTLE,
Failure to Fell the Animal Mt the
First Blow with the Ak Means
Terrible Torture,

Cattle are most readily and conven-
iently destroyed by blows on the head
with a heavy AK or hammer, followed
by immediate blood-letting. The ami
NAL which is to be killed should be Sc
cured by means of rope passed round
the horns and fastened to a post, or,
if practicable, carried through a ring
in the floor, and held or made fast by
an assistant. The animal being blind
folded, the operator, armed with a
heavy ak or hammer, stands at the
Willmar tribune., 1899-10-04
In the above the term "hOrses" is in

In the above the term "horses' is in
tended to include ponies.
The count will be made of June /.
1900, in order to permit harmonious
comparisons with the count of live
stock in 1890, which is recorded as of
June /.
All that is indicated in the above table
and all that the law requires may be Sc
cured if every related interest, begin
ming now, will work to that end. Di-
rector Merriam has suggested that the
best way to do this is for all concerned
to open and keep such books or &C.
counts as will enable them, on the ar
rival of the census enumerator, to an
swer his questions practically as above
indicateD promptly, fully and accur-
ately.
Willmar tribune., 1899-10-04
The Diafinctinm

II noticed" remarked friend of the
orator, that in your speech on corrup-
ton in politics you used the phrase
pulling and hauling several times.
Isn't that a repetition? Don't the two
words mean the same thing?"
Not necessarily" replied the orator.
"They have similar meanings, but thew
are not synonymous. Generally speak
'ng' the stronger your pull the bigger
your haul. Get the idea ?''-Chicaeo
Tribune,
Willmar tribune., 1899-10-04
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BARN OF DRIFTWOOD.
Built by Long Island Farmer Mt q
Total Cash Expense Of Just
Twelve Dollars.

Some of our western friends, who To-
Gated on the treeless prairies and built
a house and barn of sods, are sometimes
fond of telling their descendants of the
low cost of their first dwelling. It is
true that sod makes a cheap building
material, and, in many cases, gives a
comfortable house. But at the other
end of the country there are even
cheaper building materials than sods.
The little barn shown in the cut is
found in Suffolk county, L. I. Mr..
Stephen Austin, the owner, lives on the
Willmar tribune., 1899-10-04
Miss Proctor's Youthful Critics.

Miss Mary Proctor, the astronomer and
lecturer, takes deep interest in social set
tlement work in the big cities, and frequent
ly gives her personal services toward enter
tanning poor children and adults. Generally
her, lectures are very we'll received. MANY
OF her audiences often manifest better at
cles. Now and then there are exceptions.
On. one occasion a bright-eyed little boy who
sat in the front row with his eyes fixed upon
the speaker was asked how he liked it. II
guess he said, lit was pretty good, but she
ought to talk about lions and tigers. That :
better for everybody" At another lecture
,youngster. criticised her as follows: 'It's
all very we'll to talk of weighing and meas
urlng stars. There are some people, of
course, who believe that sort of thing, but #
she thinks she can fool US boys with such
fairy tales. she's very much Mistaken
Philadelphia Post.
Willmar tribune., 1899-10-04
Protect the Colts from Files.

In the increase Of finsect pests the pas
turing Of horses and colts becomes a
serious problem. It surely will not pay
to allow them to be raced to death BY
flies, for It is as true il the pasture as
barn that if the colt is not gaining it
is losing and the loss can never be re-
gained. For this reason, if the flies give
trouble, keep the colts ii the barn dur
ing the day and turn them out atnight.
It will well pay for the extra trouble.
5Colman's Rural World. sssss.
Willmar tribune., 1899-10-04
DISEASES OF CORN.
They Are Not Only More Numerous
But Also More Destructive Than
Is Generally Supposed.

The corn plant is subject to rust that
is similar to the red rust that affects
wheat and oats. Usually it's presence
may be noted about the middle of sum-
mer, by the appearance of blotches on
the leaf of the plant. These blotches
are dust-like, and contain the spores of
the disease. Near the end of the sum-
mer the blotches become blackish. For
tunate]y the disease does not attack
corn until the plant has arrived at
stage of growth when it will not suffer
as much injury as it would if it were at
tackled in the earlier stages. 1t has
never been regarded as economically i'm
portant, yet healthy plant is always
better than diseased one.
Prof. Burrell's bacterial disease of
corn is more serious matter. It causes
a dwarfed condition of young plants oh
areas of few yards to an acre or more,
and more usually than otherwise upon
the richest soil of the field. The plants
that are attacked are sickly in appear
ance, being more yellow than a healthy
plant. Especially is this the appearance
of the lower leaves. The lower and old
er roots are badly affected as is also the
lowest portion of the stalk which often
dies. On the surface of these diseased
stalks may be found spots that are of a
brownish color and are corroded. After
the middle of the summer the sheath
leaves of the stalk will be found to he
spotted on the outside. But on the in
side they are much more affected.
Sometimes the ears become diseased.
In bad cases everything connected with
the ear, husks, cob, kernel and silk are
reduced to condition that may be
called nothingness, and such ears often
become moldy through and through,
the fungus being very white. The juices
the ear, husks, cob, kernel and silk, are
shown by the microscope to be alive
with bacteria. It was at one time
thought that cattle feeding upon such
diseased corn would be poisoned, but,
like smut, it has more recently been
shown to be harmless.
Like smut in wheat the remedy for
the disease is probably rotation, though
We are not prepared to say just what
the rotation should be. However, if the
disease is bad on any part of the farm,
it would prove profitable to experiment
as to the proper rotation tits not often
that diseases Of this character will. at
tack crops that are dissimilar in charac-
ter.-Agricultural Epitomist. +
Willmar tribune., 1899-10-04
Fertility from RoaL.idcs.

On a very much Travelled road there
Is a great deal of excrement dropped
from the horses used in drawing vehi-
cles and from other animals driven
thereon. Most Of the soluble parts Of
this excrement are washed into the
bitches on either side Of the roadway.
They accumulate in all the depressions
and make q strata Of rich soil, which is
well worth the labor Of drawing into
adj joining fields as q fertilizer It is;
best to do this while the field is. .plowed,
and the roadside should also be plowed
and cultivated, SO that the rich soil can.
be evenly distribut ed over the surface.
Z Gent tleness does more than violence;
the gentle calf suck all the cows.
Willmar tribune., 1899-10-04
They Were UD-tO-Date.

Totsie McFadden-Ssy, we is disappoint-
ed. De las chapter of dis book says dat de
beautiful heroeen liyed to be an old woman
and was highly respected. We don't want
nothink about no old woman. Wat we
give us somethink about de new woman, give
Us our nickel back and we'll buy chestnuts.
See?-Washington Post.
Willmar tribune., 1899-10-04

in her counsel practical assistance.
Mrs. Pinkharns address is Lynn.
Mass.
MRS. MABEL GOOD, Correctionvi1le,
Ia., tells how Mrs. Pinkham saved
her life. She says:
I" / cannot thank you enough for
what your medicine has done for me.
can recommend it as one of the best
medicines on earth for all women's
ills. suffered for two years with
last became bedfast. Three of our
good so concluded to try Lydia
Willmar tribune., 1899-10-04
wanted His Record corrected.

!, You are charged with scorching, . said
the magistrate in stern voice. "The DO
licen1an who overhauled you saws Won were
going at least Is miles an hour"
There must be some mistake about this,
o,.;.I %oh, .y YES; of course, of course; they all
&c, But, your honor" continued the bicyclist,
oa an an positive that I was going at least
Willmar tribune., 1899-10-04
MINNESOTA NEWS.
Testing the Anti-Trust Law.

Testing the Antitrust Law.
# The first case to go to the supreme
court under the new Minnesota anti
trust law was perfected before Judge
simpson of Minneapolis, and the rul-
ing will be looked for IN the October
term of the supreme court.
The case in question is that of Con-
rad j. Ertz, who, brings suit against
the Minneapolis Produce exchange,
asking for damages because the ex-
change, as he claims, has conspired to
1njure his business by refusing to sell
him goods or purchase from him.
The defendants urged that the ex-
change was lawful organization, for
lawful purpose, and that member
OF that exchange could not bring an
action for its actions, and moved a dis
charge of action. -
When this proposition was first
made" said the court, Il was not so
certain as to the claim, but after look
ing the matter up very thoroughly l
am OF the opinion that the new law is
very broad in it's terms. cannot see
that there is anywhere to draw the
line. If it is unlawful to restrain trade
10 great extent, it is just as unlawful
TO restrain it in lesser degree. If a
corporation or ASSOCIATION were allowed
to restrain trade in the case of one
party, they might in the case of two,
and SO on to the end, and there would
be nowhere to draw the line. The mo-
tiOn will be denied"
Judge Simpsons decision stamps the
Minneapolis Produce exchange as a
trust, on the showing before him, or
until there is evidence in trial chang
ing the showing.
Willmar tribune., 1899-10-04
THE COMM G CENSUS.
General Schedule to BE Issued ~
Census ONCE for Enumera-
tiOn OF Live Stock.

Washington, Sept. 2e.-Very soon a
general schedule for the enumeration Of
live stock will be put forth, in tenta-
tive form, by Statistician Powers, of the
census Office, for discussion and, if
necessary, correction. 1t will be some
thing like the following:
Willmar tribune., 1899-10-04
Crowded Out.

Crowded out to make room for more in.
teresting NATTER" remarked the editor. as
he showed aside plate of beans and tackled
pie.-Ohio State journal.
Willmar tribune., 1899-10-04

- ME ills of women overshadow their whole lives.
Some women are constantly getting medical treat
ment and well. "A woman best understands
womens Ills and the who consult Mrs. Pnkham find