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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-07
The RiGby Races.

Portland, Nc, Aug. 6.-Thc I'll trot,
postponed from Friday after three heats
had been trotted. two of which were won
by Tom Boy and one by Alcidalia. was
ended, Saturday. in two heats The fee b.
footed Alcidalia came out as nimblc as
from her field. winning both heats with
ease. The summary:
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-07
Premier Laurier was, Saturday

shown the Washington dispatch in
which Il. w. Fitzpatrick describes his
reception in ottawa to have been
chilly one and gives the substance of
the remarks made by Sir Wifrid when
asked to visit Chicago The premier
said that Mr.. Fitzpatrick's statement
was the sheerest nonsense.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-07
FIRE IN PRINCETON.
lanes FenIas Loses $500 by House and
Three Barns Burning.

Princeton. Me. Aug. 6-The house ana
three barns ana their contents with other
small structures on the farm of James
renIas were burned, this afternoon,
causing a loss of S95O0: no insurance.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-07

owing to the difference in the aver
age death-rate it may be said that
three Englishmen live as Ions as ive
Russians.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-07
2.11 CLASS-TROT-PURSE $500.

Mcidalia, b. m. by Sir Wal
ter. Jr., Dore) ............... , 1
Tom Boy. b. m. by Edge
mark, MARSH ............... . l 1 > 2
Paddy r., b. e. tHoughtonb ) 3 ::
Queen Alfred. b. m, Clark 3 4
Nemoline. blk m, Car
michaeD .................... 5 DIR
Time, 213l2. 2.13i2. 2.13a.. 2.l2a.. PA.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-11-30
The Cat and the Cuckoo.

Do you know of good Christian
home for cuckoo clock? A few days
ago I installed one at my residence.
and Harlem has been to pay there
ever since. Slumber has been sadly in
terrupted, and at the midnight hour
especially the cuckoo gets in one OF
his longest and most effective solos.
Every one in the household but my
self mentally vows to wiring that
birds neck before another snn-up
Even the house cat has Joined the ma
iority in conspiracy to extinguish the
interloper who has disturbed the Sc
renity of this usually quiet home.
When the cat first discovered the
"songster'' he made an unsuccessful
effort to capture what appeared to him
would be choice morsel. And he
hadn't had bird to eat since frosts
came. Patiently he watched for the
bird, who appeared ION time From
the floor music box and then on top
of library lamp was the work of an
instant only and final spring at the
clock brought no results except the
smashing of the globe on the lamp.
The little door on the clock 1'blew
shut just as puss got there and the
bird was saved this time, but am
apprehensiye of the future, hence my
INQUIRY. Correspondent of Hartford
Courant.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-11-30
He Returned tne Purse.

Miss 81. was taking a railway jour
ney. A suave old gentleman sitting
opposite to her presently bent forward
and said, with gentle reproof:
excuse me, but do you think 1t wise,
when there are so many thieves about,
to carry your purse so conspicuously? ?"
AS he spoke, he pointed to her purse,
which was projecting slightly from her
pocket. Miss H., considering the
stranger rather officious, thrust the
portemonnaie down into her pocket
and thanked him with stiff reserve,
perhaps a trife scornfully. At the next
station the old gentleman got out. AS
he did so, he turned to his pretty visa
Wis with polite bow and the mischiev-
GUS indulgence of his years.
ALLOW me to restore your purse. You
see. it was not so hard to lose as you
supposedw
So saying, he held out to her the
purse she had supposed was safely re-
posing in her pocket. Miss III. received
It. coloring with childlike modification,
thanked him profusely, and her OLD
friend took his leave with a friendly
smile. A few minutes later, when the
official came round to collect tickets.
Miss 81. discovered her purse to 20
empty.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-11-30
Great Yield of Wheat.

In Belgium they SOW small piece
of a few square rods with wheat, SOW
ing seed broadcast and rather thickly,
usually in September. They then pre-
pare field by blowing deeply in mar
row burrows, putting on edge several
times, and then narrowing with fine
harrow to kill any weeds that may
come. IT Is, however, left In the rough
furrow after the last blowing, which
gives a chance for the frost to pull
yerize the soil, and kill insect eggs or
pupa. In the spring this field IS heay-
lily MANFRED, plowed, narrowed, and
finally raked with an iron-toothed rake.
marker then marks rows ten inches
apart, and burrows two or three inches
deep are made along the mark. Anoth-
err takes up the plants from the bed
where the wheat was sown in the fall,
separating them to single plants and
rejecting any poor ones. These plants
are put in the burrows about four
inches apart, the roots well covered
with soil. and then patted down solid
with the back of the shovel. At times
the soil is stirred with hoe and all
weeds killed Where four or five work
together. each doing his or her own
mart of the work, for women and chill
;1ren assist at it, the transplanting is
done very rapidly. The plants being
strong stool out to 80 or 40 stems each,
the ground is well covered, and 1t Is
said 100 bushels per acre is common
weld. and from that to $50 bushels. A
three-acre field is large one there, but
IT Yields as much as many 2O-aere
fields in this country. Labor Is more
abundant than land, but little seed
on little land produces large crop
American CultiyatOr.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-11-30

will be hard work. but you'u f,nd "A.
q willing pupil. -
Mary don't know what von maar
Jim (rising and coming closer,-I'u
explain They say, you know. that 4
weii-ordered boy usually falls In love
with his teacher. That's his very first
love. And most well ordered boys get
over It. But this boy is different. He
doesn't get over it. That teacher has
been to him the one ideal of sweet
est womanhood through all his fifteen
years OF hard knocks and growing
success. Do you understand now?
Teacher, guide, friend, will YOU be that
grateful boys wife?
Mary Covering her face with her
hands)-Oh, Jim, Jim, Pm 50 old!
Jim taking her hands, Nonsense
And you are growing younger every
minute. Besides, don't forget for q
moment that I am two years your
senior! Come, Mary; 1 need you.
There is home waiting for you in
the West, and comfort, and love. I
don't ask you to love me-yet. Perhaps
I can teach you that. There, there,
don't cry. Surely there's nothing you
leave behind worth these tears.
Mary (rising)-They are tears of hap
piness, Jim.
Her head drops on his shoulder
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-11-30
Flies end Mosquitoes.

At a meeting Of entomologists at Co
,umbus. Ohio, last summer. paper
was read in which an expert connected
with the Russian Government reported
that the gadflies, sometimes known as
horsefies or deerhies in different Sec
tions. would be destroyed by covering
the surface IF the pools of water from
which they drink with a thin film OF
kerosene oil. Sometimes covering one
such pool will destroy them over a large
section of country. Some time ago
prof. L. O. Howard, of the Agricultural
Department, reported that the use of
small quantity of kerosene in this way
ON ponds and other pools of stagnant
water would destroy the larva of the
MOSQUITOES that bred there, and if it
win also destroy gadflies it would be
wen worth making use of it in sections
where these insects are 2 continual tor
ment to man and beast, and more es-
pecially to the poor beasts that must
stay all day in the pastures near these
ponds and swamps.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-11-30
The Present Day Pig.

The pig OF to-day is infinitely supe-
rior to that which was generally found
in this country, say, quarter OF
century since. OF this there appears
to be little doubt, and, further, the
breeders of pure bred pigs would ap-
pear to be well within their right when
claiming that this marked improve
ment was mainly owing to the pigs
which had been distributed from their
herds, principally for crossing in the
more ordinary farm pigs. But do the
pure bred pigs of to-day possess any
thing approaching as many of those
commercial points as they should pos
sess or are they so much in advance Of
the common country pigs as they were
two or three decades since? We fear
not. And yet the difficulty Of improv-
ing the pig stock Of the country is
now far greater than it was in years
gone by, owing to the difference in
form and quality between the two
classes OF pig having become less pro-
nounced.
Another difficulty presents itself to
the breeders of pure bred pigs Of to-
day-the public taste, or fashion, de-
mands a pig Of the form and substance
which is somewhat contrary to the
form of the original pig, which car
ried the greater part of IT'S weight in
the fore quarters, whereas now the
pig of to-day must furnish the greater
portion Of it's meat from the ribs and
hind quarters. Thus the pig Of to-day
must be manufactured article, since
the wild hog, from which all our do
mesticated pigs are descended, was so
formed for defense and for the search
for roots, bulbs, etc., that the major
portion of it's weight was in the fore
quarters. We not only have to attempt
to produce pigs totally dissimilar in
form and character to the original
foundation stock, but we have to be
most particular in mating animals
from as similar source as possible,
or we inevitably produce a pig with
many Of the undesirable points Of the
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-11-30

and scared away million, more or less.
We think his Workmanship was not al
good as that of the Beers. We saw one
Of our neighbors kill thirty-three Of
them at one shot, and it was not large
flock of sparrows either, at least after
the shooting. Feed them oats few
times in some convenient spot and they
will soon gather there, SO that with a
good charge Of fine shot, man ought
easily to kill half the flock every time
he fires Those that are scared away
will live to come another day. After he
has had few such shots each fall, the
sparrows will avoid that place and its
vicinity, and if every one would do so.
we might see and hear some of our ma
tive song birds and insect destroyers
around the buildings again. By the
way, those sparrows make nice little
pot pie, as we know, for we helped eat
those thirty-three but the picking and
dressing them was worth more than the
game.-Exchange.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-11-30
Washing without Rubbing.

There Is no method of washing
which will do away with the necessity
for rubbing, but the amount OF rub
bling may be lessened by various pro
'cesses. Soaking the clothes loosens
the dirt, and using soda OF one Of the
many washing powders reduces the
necessity for rubbing. It is something
of problem which is the most destruc-
tive to the fabric-the hard rubbing.
or the use Of chemicals; although. I'M
less the chemicals are used with judg-
ment, the danger to the fabric is great
er from their use than from rubbing.
Thorough rinsing is quite as essential
to good washing as is the rubbing and
scalding If the soap and dirt are not
removed by plenty of clean water, no
amount of rubbing and boiling Of the
clothes will make them clean.-Ladies'
Home Journal.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-11-30
Everyday Suggestions.


Coffee should be served very hot and
with hot milk.
The glasses should be freshly filed
with clear, cold water.
The plates should be properly heated
and placed before the carver.
A meal should never be announced
until everything is in readiness.
The dining room should be in perfect
order before breakfast is served.
The table should always be kept so
rs to be ready for a guest with but q
moments notice.
The butterashould be kept in the re-
frigerator until the last minute in sum-
mer, but kept where it will be soft
enough to spread easily in winter.
"A sufficient number Of knives, forks
and spoons should be placed on. the
table so that nothing need be called for
after the family is seated.
Al cotton flannel silence cloth" not
only makes the tablecloth look infinitely
handsomer, but preserves the vanished
surface from stains from hot dishes.
A polished table, il used, must be
spotless; it is therefore not desirable
for everyday use, as there is too much
work involved in keeping it in order.
Keep some floral attraction ever ready
Cor the dining table. The usual variety
OF dainty ferns should be alternated
with occasional cut flowers, or = bloom
ing plant from the window. garden.
philadelphia Record.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-11-30

educated in Europe and Is proficient
both as a musician and artist She
says the popular idea Of the Beers in
this country does them injustice. The
burghers are not, as a class, she de-
clares, coarse, uneducated and brutal.
On the farms no more attention is paid
to dress than by the agricultural por-
ton of any community. In the cities
and towns, however, the Boer women
dress as well and as much attention is
paid to the amenities OF life as In other
countries. Miss Kruger expects to re-
turn before long to South Africa and
will spend the remainder Of her life
there.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-11-30
Planning the Meals.

The daily catering and monotonous
marketing does not seem to become
much easier with experience unless spe-
ciat care is taken to plan the orders IN
telligently. The average housewife is
said to find her memory shortest when
it comes to the daily planning Of meals
Her frequent cry that she cannot think
of anything to order never seems to be-
suggestive to her of it's own remedy.
She has ordered and does order every
day the round Of family living, and IL
when the process is over she would ar
range in little book kept for the pur-
pose the chief dishes that have APP
peared on the table during the twenty
four hours she will find that she quickly
accommodates valuable memorabilia.
Instead of cataloguing these dishes
under Sunday, Monday and Tuesday it.
is simpler to classify them breakfast,
luncheon, dinner; substantials and des-
serts. A housekeeper who has prac
ticed this plan since the beginning Of
the year has over and over again been
amazed to discover how the useful sim
pie dishes escape her memory with
cut it.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-11-30
A NIECE OF KRUGER.

She Is Now in This Country and Is a Re-
markab1y We11-Bred Girl.
Miss Sannie Kruger, grandniece of
President Paul Kruger and Of his wife
as well, Is now resident Of Philadel-
phia. She came from South Africa
several years ago in company with her
brother, who is interested In mines In
Arizona. Miss Kruger's sympathies
are strongly with the brave men who
are defending her native land, but she
can see that they have no chance for
ultimate success. Miss Kruger was
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-11-30
Raked cheese Ornelets.

Beat six eggs light, the whites and
the yolks together. Stir into them a
half cupful of milk, two tablespoonfuls
of grated cheese, half teasp0Onful OF
salt and pinch Of pepper. Grease
well patty pans or custard cups. half
fill them with the mixture, set in pan
Of hot water and bake covered until
firm. Turn them out on hot platter.
They are very good with white sauce
or a good gravy poured over them, but
they NAV be eaten without this.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-11-30
mARGeRY.
= .honoad RI view

r,srv I CHANGED to view
MAJ sor gardens gay-decked space
I'm . oown Of purple hue,
III ! : with all a flowers grace.
'oet NOON my heart SO true
in IMAGE time can ne'er erase
Maid in violet!
Eobt in her eyes, whose blue
heavens azure seemed a trace;
wonder I began to WOO!
obstacle they needs must face;
Itbor lovers who would sue
prnmise without days of grace,
Made inviolate.
mans Home Companion.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-11-30

NEW SHADE. AISV t1tC eAU' eA1A ssAe0
that it is interchangeable and one OF
these supporters made for window
Of standard size can be placed in any
window of the same dimensions. The,
frame is made Of wire, if desired, al
though heavier metal is preferable,
and the brackets for holding the shade
are soldered to it. The frame rests at
desired points on outwardly projecting
arms, which engage with pins or
grooves extending across the grooves in
which the frame is held. The operation
of this device is clearly shown by the
cut. The invention is.
that Of William G. Templeton, of Col
OradO Springs.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-11-30

" down upon the lead as shown. I'm
der this is made a box and in 1t is
placed small oil stove. Have two
small holes in the door and in the rear
wall of the box near the top. With
the cover down, a whole troughful of
icy-cold water can soon be brought to
temperature where it will be safe
for stock to drink 1t, and that, too, at
almost no trouble at all, and at -hardly
more than cents expense.-Afnerican
Agriculturfst.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-11-30
Here's a Water Heater.

There Is no question about the advis-
ability of taking the chill off the water
that is given to cattle in the winter.
The problem is to secure a practical,
cheap way Of warming the water. The
illustration shows how this may be
done. The trough is raised as shown.
and circular opening cut in the bot
tom. A thick body of white lead is
spread about this opening and a sheet
Of galvanized iron is then tackled firm
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-11-30

the window ana.
yet to allow the en-
trance of the light
from the upper
part. In order to
&C c o m plish this
there has been re-
Gently patented an
adjustable frame
to hold the shade,
which permits OF
t h e S h a d e being
placed at any de-
sired point. This
arrangement b a 8
- L. =. :.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-11-30
Considered ! Business Partnership,

In Maoriland and Burmah there is
no ceremony, marriage being regarded
as d business partnership. It is said
by one who has lived there that all the
gods and goddesses Of Maoriland help
the Maori whose wife betrays or dis
honors her husband. But she may
trade or exchange him to suit her own
sweet will.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-11-30
si1age for Fattening Cattle.


At the Ontario Agricultural College
they fed three lots of two steers each as
follows: Lot / had 81 pounds Of en-
silage each, lot 2, 81 pounds Of siiage
and 8 pounds OF hay, lot 8, 43 pounds of
roots and II pounds Of hay. Each had
about II pounds day Of grain, consist
ing of ground peas, barley and oats.
Lot / weighed 2,7S9 pounds at the begin
ming, and in 146 days gained 555 pounds
or 10 pounds each per day. Lot 2
weighed 2,735 pounds at first and
gained in same time AS pounds, or 1.53
pounds each per day. Lot 3 weighed
.2.672 pounds, and in the time gained 537
pounds, or ]. "a pounds day. The gain
BY feeding only ensilage and grain was
not much larger than that on roots and
hay with grain, but all estimates indi-
cate that the silage Is much more easily
and cheaply produced, the 81 pounds
requiring less land and less labor than
the 43 pounds Of roots, to say nothing
OF cost Of the hay.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-11-30
To Renovate Black Satin.

Sponge the material on the right side
with equal quantities Of spirits Of wine
and water. Rub down the satin and
not across, and while it Is still damp
iron it on the wrong side.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-11-30
K;1t;uy Spa,rrows.

4 writer tells of the nuisance English
snarrows were about his house and
barn. until he got gun. and IN about
ON shots he killed twenty-five Of them.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-11-30

Improved Window Shade.
The present type of window shade 10
defective in the respect that it is often
desirable to block off the lower part OF
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-11-30
siamese Snperstition.

The Siamese have so strong super
stition against even numbers that tney
win have none OF them. The NUMBER
Of rooms in house, Of windows OF
doora In q room, even Of rungs on
ladder. must always be odd.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-11-30

The United States steamer Michigan
is said to be the oldest iron steamboat
afioat.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-11-30

parents, and with few of those quail
ties which we are anxious to see ex-
emplified in the pig Of to-day.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-11-30
A Great Potato Crop.


The average yield Of potatoes in the
United States is said to be IS bushels
per acre. The Canada yield is report
ed as averaging 20 to % bushels high
er than that, while in England good
crop may be 240 bushels, which is no
more than some farmers here obtain
who manure literally and try to grow
good crops. But on the estate Of Lord
Rosebery at Dalmeny, Scotland, they
are reported to obtain an average of
100 bushels to the acre. How does he
do it? He puts 80 gross tons, 2,240
pounds to the ton, to the acre, of ma
nure, mostly from the city of Edin-
burgh, ploved in upon a clean stubble
in the fall; then in the spring he grubs
in 44S pounds Of ground lime, and
at planting time he puts in the drill
per acre 44S pounds Of superphosphate,
and 112 pounds each Of muriate OF
potash, sulphate Of potash, fermented
bone meal and sulphate Of ammonia.
Here, then, is 1896 pounds Of good fer
tilizer material in the drill, beside the
lime, and the 80 tons, which we should
call here 33 tons, 1000 pounds of ma
nure.
Profit in Squads.
Make each pair of birds take GER
tain box. For instance, If the birds
seem to prefer high box, give it to
them; If low one, choose one nearer
the floor. One can always judge by
their actions. All the empty boxes
must be kept closed. 1t is surprising
how quickly they will learn their own
boxes, and once settled the male bird
defies all intrusion. By so doing you
learn all your birds by sight, and if
there are odd or strayed ones in the
flock they may be removed. At night
is the best time to look them over.
Feed little besides corn and wheat,
with box of oyster shells and grit.
To avoid disease clean the boxes, IRON
which the squads have been taken to
kill and scrape the floor once a week
or every two weeks. Keep air-slacked
lime and carbolic acid scattered about
profusely and the disease will soon de-
part. This must be done frequently
the year round, as perseverance and
constant attention are the only way
to success.-Farmers' Voice.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-11-30

The people are more easily fooled e.
cry year than the year before.