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The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1899-12-08

he raised enough money to reach Ne"
York from Glasgow, travelling In the
steerage. In the metropolis he first
found enough to keep him alive as a
chore boy In a store on Broadway
where he remained about three years
At the end of this time he was about as
well off as when he landed-possibly
dollar or so better. One day he saw
vessel loaded with cotton in the North
River, and managed to work his pass
age back on her to Charleston, where he
saw the cotton In the fields, but those
were the days just-after the war, when
you couldn't find enough money IN
Carolina, except Confederate money, to
average 81 TO the square mile, and after
couple Of years of It he returned to
New York. This time he had work
enough to get together about 5000 and
decided to go back home. There he
started In business selling trinkets,
candles, toys for children. and showed
his ability as a tradesman, for this Is
Lipton's forte. Gradually he worked
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1899-12-08

There is not so much rust in grail
prevalent of late years as used to he
the fact' and the proportion grows less
as the country grows oder and the
amount of vegetable matter in the soil
decreases. Rust in small grain is due
10 fungus growth which is most prev-
alent in hot damp weather. The air
Is always filed with bacteria. and
When these are brought into contact
with the grain by rains, the leaves ah-
sorp them with the moisture and nro-
uuce sappy condition that can not re-
sist disease. This is especially liable
10 De the case with grain that has had
an excess of heterogeneous fertilizer and
100 little Of the mineral plant food that
gives hrmness to the stalks. One Of
'ne advantages of using potash and
phosphate ON grain crops is that these
minerals insure clean, bright straw and
"eil-hlled heads of grain.
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Feeding Anp,es to Cows.

We do not wonder that there Is so
strong prejudice against allowing cows,
and especially milk COWS, to eat apples.
For the most part it is we'll grounded,
says the Boston Cultivator. While 1t Is
possible to give milking COW a few
ripe apples without drying up her milk
perceptibly, that is not the kind Of
apples she usually gets. If the COW IS
in an orchard where apples are falling,
she runs every time she hears one drop
and eats 1t greedily, however wormy,
sour green and bitter 1t may be. All
apples have some malic acid in them
even including those that we call
sweet" This malic acid, together with
the tannin that is found in the apple
peel and especially in green. small ap-
pies contracts the cows stomach. If
she eats much of such fruit it gives her
the collie. The cows stomach wasn't
made to digest such stuff, and so sure
as 1t Is put into her stomach there are
riot and rebellion. Every one knows
mat giving vinegar to cows and rub
ping her uder with vinegar will drv
her on. We believe that al owing cows
TO eat apples even If they are ripe. has
Oau erect on their milk production.
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1t will pay to grow COW peas, pick the
pods and use the vines. About twenty
five bushels per acre can be secured on
good land. Being very heterogeneous
they make an excellent addition to the
food of all kinds of stock if ground
with. corn.
Blight is deprlving the market OF 'ne
best varieties of pears. The Bartlett ~
giving place to the Keifer, the later
being less liable to blight but its run
does not equal the Bartlett. Until soiue
sure remedy is discovered for pear
blight the Bartletts will become scare
er every year.
If there is a poor place on the tarln
do not neglect it as worthless out en-
deayor to Improve it. 1t IS poss'ple
that such a piece OF land may require
drainage or should be lined ana soLne-
times a green crop plowed under may
make an Improvement. The poores'
of soils can be improved. -.
Tomatoes will not be so easily anecl-
ed with rot if the vines are rasteneu ~
uprights or stakes. An eAOes1fN 80
is to utilize one hoop to -Four Save 3-
Sharpen the slaves at the lower e nus
and drive them into the ground Iue
hoops should be fastened to the s,a ,4
with nails, and they will be found De'
ter than wire. ,,,is
The land that produced potatoes ln ms
wear may be infected with disease an ~,
it will be proper to plant potatoes I'm IN
some other location next year II @,o
be in order this fall to lime the polat 1
plot, which viii greatly aid in desn ''st
ing the spores of fungi and thus asSi ~
in lessening the liability Of seaO -, NJ
some other disease in the future 1 no
potatoes taken from the land shou ~, ~
carefully examined before storing mn" IN
for the winter, as any that are ~
sound will affect the whole.
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1t has been the boast OF the Englsl
people that the morning drumbeat Of
their army Keeping company with tn,
hours, circles the earth with one contln
uOus strain OF martial airs" While
there Is a good deal Of fancy about this
claim, II Is not wholly devoid of truth
and since our war with Spain the eff
salutes fired at American garrisons
upon the rising and setting of the sun
come very near fulfilling for this coun.
try what II Is said the British drum
does for England. A Washington news
paper has undertaken to arrange the
order in which the morning salutes are
given, which viii show how widely our
garrisons have been spread out since
April, 1898. The first sunrise salute
fired at an American post is heard ON
the island OF Vleques. which lies to the
east of Porto Rico. In about seventeen
minutes thereafter the cannon sounds
at Fort Preble, at Portland harbor on
the coast Of Maine. Statutes follow
each other across the country until
Fort Meyer, on the Potomac. is reach
ed, and no sooner Is the gun heard
there than that at Santiago is fired,
Porto Ric0's garrison having in the
meantime saluted the sun. Other posts
In Cuba west of Santiago take up the
refrain, and after Pinar del Rio has
made itself heard the line of firing is
transferred to the mainland OF the Uni
ted States and moves across the CONT
nent, westwardly, through the various
military posts to the Preside at San
Francisco. About forty minutes later
the gun at Fort Wrangel Is heard. and
In an additional twenty minutes Fort
Dyea, In far Alaska. salutes the sun.
1t is an hour later when the Honolulu
troops pay homage to the new day.
Something Hike five hours later the lit
tie fort at Guam speaks, and IN two
hours more, or seven hours and quar-
ter after the morning shot has been
fired at San Francisco, the Manila gar
risons hail the rising sun. Between
the Philippines and Vleques, taking n
westward course, the distance Is nearly
$50 degrees. so that II the sunset gun
at Manila could be heard at Vieques It
would awaken the sleeper at the latter
place a few minutes before Its own
garrison saluted the morning sun.
While the colors Of the United States
are not flung to every breeze that
blows" the boom OF our morning and
evening guns can now be heard In near.
ly every degree Of longitude In one-half
the circumference OF the globe.
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HAVE HOT BATHS FOR HORSES.
South Dakota Trainer Perfects an
Enmlne RntLIru. pln.

South Dakota Trainer Perfects an
Equine Bathing Place.
James I. Welo OF Yankton, S. D.. has
Turkish bath for his horses. What is
good for man must be good for the
horse, was the argument uppermost in
Mr. Welo's mind when he began to
work out his idea for the treatment of
tired race horses by the Turkish bath
method. II wearied business man
can get freshened up, revivifed and re-
stored to his former buoyancy by be-
ing parboiled, rubbed, scrubbed and
kneaded and then vigorously toweled
and put TO rest on a slab. why should
not the condition Of thoroughbred be
improved by the same process? The
argument appealed to local racing men
as sound and logical, and Welo was
encouraged 10 concentrate his mechan-
ical powers on an apparatus that would
be suitable to perform the Turkish
process Of stimulation Of Sred muscles
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1899-12-08

As the snow gathers together, so our
habits are formed. No single flake
that is added to the pile produces a
sensible change; no single action ere.
ates, however It may exhibit, a mans
character; but as the tempest hurls the
avalanche down the mountain, and
overwhelms the inhabitant and his
habitation, SO passion, acting upon the
elements Of mischief which pernicious
habits have brought together by i'm
perceptibie accumulation, may over
throw the edince Of truth and virtue
Bentham.
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seemed to know why. but when wheat
failed they began to depend more upon
live stock. AS the live stock increased
the land brought better crops. and it
gradually dawned upon them that the
failure Of crops was due to lack Of fer
tility and that by diversified farming
they could restore It and secure as
good, If not better. returns than they
received from the virgin soil. In the
same way the soil Of the cotton belt
has been impoverished by constant
cropping and inadequate fertllizing. 1t
is not In the cotton nor In the oil ex-
tracted from the seeds that the fertility
Is lost, but II is in the parting with the
cotton seed cake or meal To Europe that
the loss occurs. If the cake and meal
be fed TO dairy cows all the fertility
win remain on the plantation. The
professors advice to cotton-growers is,
therefore: go into dairying with the
dairy cow"
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1899-12-08

at the race track or In connection with
the travelling stable.
The finished work Is a complete va
por bath that Is portable and will per-
mit of trainer or attendant giving his
lorse Turkish bath Immediately be-
fore a race Is run and send him to the
starting post keyed up to the very
pitch of perfection, or as he comes off
the track In a steaming sweat. he can
be led Off to the bath, boxed up, par
tally boiled and taken out to the COM
partment where the rubbing down pro
eess Is to be carried on.
The accompanying Illustration shows
the exterior and interior of what may
be called the "hot room" Of Mr.. Welo's
Turkish bath for horses. The animal
led to the double doors that afford
entrance to the apartment. He is al
Owed to put his head and neck
through an aperture In the front of the
bath, so that the hot air shall in no
way be dangerous to his lungs; the
doors are then closed on his tanks. and
he stands enveloped in vapor that curls
around his glossy skin and opens up n
hot and wholesome pathway to horsy
health.
The possibility of improving the con-
ditlon Of a racer by giving him hot
air bath may have occurred to the own.
Frs Of thoroughbreds before, but it is
so difficult of accomplishment that II
has never been carried out. A horse
cannot be led into hot room and
made to keep still during the sweating
process. 1t is none too easy to get n
human being. to whom the luxury of
4 Turkish bath is a novelty, to STAY the
requisite length of time in the hot
room. To expect a highly strung FLYER
Of the race track to stand still while
being half boiled alive was out of the
question.
The device designed by Mr.. Welo for
giving his horses a Turkish bath pro-
vides for all this. With the eouine's
head in the open air the horse is pre-
pared to submit with a good grace to
at his TANKS. In case of The
animal, however exhibiting wildness.
rope can be attached to rings fitted
70 the hot room, which will prevent
he animal from trying to bolt through
he aperture intended only for the
head.
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Improve Your Cattle.

1t Is probable that prices of beef will
be higher during the winter. and If 50
there should be a profit in cattle. 1t
may be that refrigerator beef will be
an obstacle In the way. but the usurpa-
ton OF the market by such beef has
been due to the inferior cattle and the
difficulty of getting a constant supply
OF choice beef in the East compared
with that sent ready dressed from the
West. When Eastern farmers become
prepared to supply cattle Of the best
quality they will posses local advan-
tages that viii give them control of the
home markets, but they must first i'm
prove their breeds.-Philadelhi Rec
ord.
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One OF the pet ideas Of Queen Vic
toria is that she Is descended. through
Zedekiah's eldest daughter, from Da-
vid, King Of Israel, and II Is reported
that she has sent to her grandson. the
Kaiser, a copy Of her much-prIzed fam
lily tree with the great Psalmist at the
top. II is not unlikely that the re-
sourceful chronicler who manufactur-
ed the pedigree intended to place Adam
In the position OF progenitor-in chief,
and that her Majesty very promptly
and very properly objected to this, sac
riiicing antiquity to respectabillty.
Adam, as everybody knows, had no an
cestors. lie could never boast Of his
grandfather, as the Kaiser boasts OF
his, and whatever Ewes marital cares
and vexat!cns were she never had
thrown in her face the reflection that
her mother-ln-law could have made
better apple dumplngs than she. Be
sides, Adam was only "A gardener,
while David was a king. The former
roved about Eden without a second
suit OF clothes--the less said about his
first suit the better-while the latter
had purple and fine linen by the bar
rel. When. therefore, 1t came to the
matter Of choosing an ancestor as be-
tween n gardener and a king, Victoria
properly selected the king. Any Amer
lean multl-mllllonalre - indeed, we
might even go the length Of saying any
Colonial Dame-would have done the
same and more-would have planted
the tree thus obtained in the back yard
to stand a perpetual source Of envy to
their nelghbors.
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How He Crossed tn, Rr,o.,

The unaffected modesty which marks
the best type Of courage is one of the
most winning traits man can have
he he soldier or civilian. During re-
cent battle in the Philippines, a Kansas
regiment was brought to a halt at n
wrecked bridge. The trying situation
is thus described by hero of the war
Lieut.. Col. Little:
AS the colonel was across and nv
battalion at the head of the column
my bugler, Berry of Company r and
We're the first to reach the bridge
and, of course, the first to cross
I've read Of men crossing bridges
under fire at the head Of columns and
supposed the sensation was peculiar
1t was not. A man simply tries to mad
die along as fast as he can. and 90,
across. l beat Berry over. bnt Nc
haven't decided yet whether was tbo
Drawer or the worse scared"
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OWNER OF THE SHAMROCK.

Upton Laid the Foundation for Hi.
Millions In This Country.
One Of the first things that strike the
American traveller In England is the
sign, Upton, Ltd.," stuck up over per-
haps a hundred places in London. and
possibly 500 outside of 1t. In fact, about
every other butcher shop In the king
dom seems to be the property Of "I,ip-
ton, Ltd" OF course, every one knows
who Upton is. but It is not generally
known that the Shamrock's owner is
only a stakeholder In a company which
bears this title. Another feature about
these places is the air Of decidedly
American enterprise about them. There
are Lipton's teams; also. Llpton's cakes
and Lipton's bread. to say nothing of a
hundred other things that are Lipton's,
also.
English society doesn't speak well of
Upton. Mention him to one of the arts.
tocracy and his response is: He's n
good fellow, but not one Of US. Won
know. He's like one Of you American
chaps" These are some Of the express
slons, but the common people are with
him, for Upton, Ltd, has cut prices so
that many a workmans family now
has a Sunday dinner such as they never
enjoyed before the Anglo-American mo-
bleman began business.
Sir Thomas Is type Of the real An
glo-American. Though Of Irish parent
age he grew up in Scotland, gained his
business experience in America and
Tade his money in England. As a boy
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IL Is mistake to let weeds 90 to seed
IN the garden or around the farm nm
der the Impression that they can ba
DESTROYED If gathered in the fall and
burned. In the first place, the lob is
apt TO be forgotten until most of the
weed seeds have been scattered Even
II weed is burned, its seeds may not
be destroyed unless a hot fire of brush
Is first made and the weed seeds are
thrown on a mass Of burning Goals. II
weeds are piled in heaps they burn
slowly. and as the seed falls 70 tha
ground 1t is protected from burning bv
the strata of carbonic-acid gas that ia
found at the bottom of all slow-burning
fires.
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POUND SECTION.

POUND SECTION. with A-lnch cIgaT
box nails. The eighth-inch space on
eacb side of the frame is to receive
sheet of glass of which the sides are
made when the sections are filled by
the bees. A small piece Of comb
glued to the top of the frame, to induce
the bees to begin work, as well as to
secure straight combs. White glue Is
used for Ibis. These section boxes are
fitted in frames, three in each, so as to
ft in the cover Of the hive. Thin boards
to separate the combs and keep them in
the sections, are placed between the
frames Of sections. 1t is not necessary
to keep these sections on the hive after
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1899-12-08
Cheap Way to Fatteu Anin,,,.


Buy a piece of mountain land as for
tlie as possible; fence It I'M and clear
out the underground and sow in dlfror.
r raS anus OF grasses; also, clovers, both
az aro,, anu white; also, plant plum trees
Uoou,lI IN part of 1t very thickly; II
possible nave a clear, ever-running
o orIOS IN the lot, and let the cattle
S Snu nogs run on all this patch. Then
r ra,e a patch of corn and peas. Pull
S your. FODDER al-o corn, when ripe. Picl,
VIVA, muat peas you need for seed and tnrn
S '.uo peer cattle and hogs on this After
eaa1ins on the pasture till fall let thor,
tSs tue peas and vines, and then tal,a
mem out and stallfeed them on az
corn TO harden the meat Won , vTs
mus have corn, beef and fine nj UJ VIII WI
lard.-H. A. Cooley. 1ue PORK and
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1899-12-08

Ola farmers can rememho- -, >.
of corn two ,,-CI ~ practice . to cutoff the tops
vestlng 1t to let the sun in So as 10 , nar-
tne ears better. 1t was then go ~ r.p :,
Thought that the sun SHINING , ~ az -, y
:, S'1 y, was great help to ripeninS - Me ene
the la nTo"1 .,, rnat it is the sunshine on
c car -eat t. tnat enables them to dra w
n ra.oOn from the air to furnish sy Wv
n llss to the stalk and starch t ~ ts-
n nsel"' 60 Inc stalk next the ear, which
t Sseu 70 be left uncut until killsd "' -.
a IRE , is now known to he tbo 10 Sy
- nutrition next to that is the stsil,
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Flowers know the difrereneno
rainstorm and a drencbino s Tween &c.
garden hose. You NAV deIr ron the
with barrels from the hvdran. mem
they will at best simply hold tbsir o ana
Generally they witiler in the lon own '
seasons, and that without regard a. !, V a,
artificial wetting they NAV re es.T % , the
the gardeners. But let Iittlo ssa ION
however brief, fall upon them o TrV .'I
brighten visibly. The difference CT T. . ne.
tne rain brings down with II tbror. ~
the air or collects in the air n c tn.Oasn
quality that the vegetation needs TN ma
rainwater may be as Ike that /, tse
lake as two volumes Of water ON ~, ny
but when 1t has ridden the unnar lavo,s
OF the atmosphere, when It has fra vo, s.S
through the various stages Of vanor
and liquid. and has tumbled 1 ~.
through that retort of the air II h..
ecame charged with elements tbat -
IN can give 1t, and the flower lnor rs
ana recognizes 1t, as the first field Cow
ers recognize it in the beginning
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A new and verdant postmaster in -
small rural town had received lnstrnc.
tlons to advertise all letters uncalled
Tor at the end Of a certain length ~
time. He obeyed orders by INSERTING
the following advertisement in the vi
l a weekly paper at the end of the
nrst week Of his term of office:
There are ten letters In the postoHoo
tnat nobody has called for. If them
they belong to don't take notice ana
call by the end of the month tbs ,at '
ters VIII be sent to the dead letter of
nee. Anybody expecting letters thew
amt got can come and see If anv %
these letters belong to them. All to,9a
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The refusal Of some ultra-fashlonable
London hotels to receive at dinner
Guests not arrayed in what is conven.
ti0nally known as evening dress''
raises some interesting questions. The
legal Issues involved will presently BIO
determined In court OF Justice. some
of the excluded persons having begun
suits ON the ground that licensed nuh-
lie house Is under obligations TO enter.
tain any guests who are OF decent
dress and demeanor. There certainly
SENS to be a moral obligation to the
same effect. II is true that the courts
and general opinion sustained hotel
recently In rejecting guests clad IN an
outiandish and offensive manner. Rut
90 object to those who are merely wear.
ing after six o'clock the same clothes
decent and even fashlonable-whicb
they wore before that hour. and who
thus do not conform 10 an arbitrary
and temporary detail OF fashion. Is N
establish a new philosophy Of clothesp
which only the author OF "sartor
Resartus" could characterize as II de.
serves.
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Taking France as whole, the condi-
tion which excltes apprehension and
the fear that Us days as a leading pow
er are numbered may be serious blow
20 native pride and vanity, but is not
lintrlnslcally surprising. A country
which Is capable Of such hldeous mani
lfestations Of mental and moral degen-
eracy as the world has contemplated
with amazement Of late must have
something rotten at the foundation OF
ITS social structure.
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into the grocery and provision business
charging as he succeeded. For the first
ten years he confined his operations to
Glasgow, then he branched in Belfast,
and finally worked up a trade, especial
L. in Irish bacon and eggs, sending
them to England in quantities. He
made contracts with farmers in various
parts Of the kingdom to supply him
with certain grades of hams and other
specialties. for which he was noted.
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IL am proud" says member OF Con
gress who Is OF German BIRTH ITO be
called an Anglo Saxon. or to be classed
with Anglo-Saxons." His feeling. rs
explained by himself. Is most commend
able. "Ang.o-Saxon" does not, in its
applied and commonly accepted sense.
refer to birth or blood or race. but to
she language which we use and the
civilization which we enjoy.
For Saxon, or Dane, or Norman We
Teuton, or Celt. or whatever we be.
ff we have entered into the inheritance
OF English speech and are lmhued with
the genius Of the civilization and the
institutions which find In It their ex-
preston, are all Anglo Saxons.
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they are filed; 1t is customary to take
them out and put them in boxes ready
for shipment, when the best time comes
for selling the honey. Fig. shows a
box filed with sections of which there
are two rows of seven each in the box.
The boxes are closed by a lid fit in, In
one end, and fastened by hooks as
ebor-,
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Acc Limit of RIackberrles.

Blackberry stems or canes will last
about three years, but the roots, If Wei
cultivated, will live and produce new
canes and fruit for many years. A re-
cent bulletin from the United States
Agricultural Department, at Washing
ton, tells of blackberry patch In Mich
igan that was planted In 1856 and IS
still in vigorous growth and bearing.