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The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1899-02-26
FOR SALE-HOUSES.

FOR SALE BargainsIIalf square from st.
s1.s75, '''' '''' ~' '1''''F''
St. near sth st. Sc, c rooms. bath, latrobes,
a. m. l.. rented at si8.JJ. $500.
nth st. near b st. Sc, bricks, rooms each,
renting at 81, 81, $50.
Va. ave: sw.. e,room brick, water and sewer.
9Th st. near st. NV, Groom frame, rent
SIS, 50, 400.
Del ave, near st. SIX. Groom bricx, $500.
Store and dwelling; frame; corner northeast:
n st. near lst ST. Sc. 2 Groom bricks; water
and sewer; cost owner s., 100; will sell at 81 $50
5th st. near St nc. 2Oxio5 feet; frame store
and dwelling; rented at $40. 5000.
St, near 30 St ne. brick. l%.6HoO. $3.50.
eth St, l. ST. ne: 3-story brick, q roorns
i. IN. l.. rent. $3.50, 81 $50
23d St, near 6 ST. NV; rooms a. m. l.
cost owner $500; will sell at 5000.
9th St. near f st. ne, Groom bricks, renting
at So per month; 10 per cent investment, 81 800.
New Groom and cellar, a. IN. l., ] square from
st; Dominic's Church; best-built house in that
section. 50. 500.
Store and rooms bath, eth St, near st.
sw., always rented at $50 per month: on easy
terms, -. 500.
1t ABRAHAM FISHER. 5ls st NV.
FOR sALE-colored l.orneseekers:
c ST.. near I'd ST.. sw., 4'room frame. sewer
and water 25xG0, $50.
B St, near lst st. sw.. Groom Frame 81 500
St. 9TH st. NV, 5-room brick, rented
$40, z,2Do.
1t ABRAHAM FISHER, 5l2 St NV
FOR sALE-Snap, 500 cash and balance s25
monthly; will buy l0-room and bath house
near 18th and q sts JOHN +. PARET. Iili G St
IT
FOR sALE--NeAf National Library, beautiful G.
room, hath and cellar brick; charming little
home; reduced 10 s., 200 10 quick buyer; easy
terms, WM. A. YESTERDAY, us l;th 81.
ie253tem
FOR SALE-Real Estate-Invesment prices
No. 1910 + 81. Sc, Groom frame, lot 81 by
CO IT, nice house, $3.50; three frames in court
rear Of 10 l4th ST. Sc, always rented for Sl2
per month; $500: i've brick houses, 1914 TO l2l2
I'd St Sc, rent for s32 80 per month. s. 800; Ga3
ST. Sc, nice property, frame. 81, 500; % d st.
Sc. Groom brick, all modern improvements
$500; 313 r st. ne, hice s-room brick, 81 800;
also over 100 houses from $1,000 to 81 900; first
class location and cheap; money to loan on real
estate; any amount. Apply to JOHN II. o'DON-
NELL, o02 Pa. ave-, Capitol Hill. fe2t5t
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FOR REET-Cheap, stores. fully eouipped for
groceries, meats. provisions or other bust
ness; also two flats; modern. and 5th SITS
sc. faa53t
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MUNDAY-Au white; boy for Office, cook, house
worker, waitress; some salary so monthly.
10 18Th 81 NV. It
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The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-12-23
Pinchinc Melon Vines.

1 Judge Miller asks question in re
gard to pinching melon vines He says:
II have questioned different melon
growers on the point. Some say pinch
them when the vines have run three
feet; others say don't pinch them at
all" Both parties are wrong, and on
the extreme each way. I will give my
way of doing, says a contributor to
Colman's Rural World. When the
melons have set on the vines, and get
about the size Of goose's egg, pinch
the tops off, and the tops of the side
branches also, and you will have larg-
er melons than If not pinched, from the
fact that instead of the vines growing
and spreading, the substance will grow
into the melons. Is that not reason
able? The vines may probably not
have as many melons on, but they will
be great deal larger. Try a hill or
two and be satisfied. It is somewhat
on the same principle of trimming
fruit, that left will be larger than if
all the fruit were left on the tree. I
raised some of the finest pumpkins last
year that I ever raised by pinchipg
the tops off. I raised them between
the apple tree rows, one way of my
young orchard I shall do so again
this year.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-12-23
The Great Salt Lake.

According to the latest survey, the
Great Salt Lake is about 100 miles long,
with an average width of from twenty
five to thirty miles, though in some
places it's width is from fifty to sixty
miles, and the greatest depth is found
to be some sixty feet. It's waters con-
tain nearly 1S per cent solid matter,
mostly salt and soda, with small pro-
portions of sulphur, ithia, and boracic
acid. 1t is a well-known fact that the
Atlantic ocean water holds but 3.5 per
cent of solid material, of which salt
contains 26 per cent. In the Asiatic
Dead Sea, the water contains 2.3 per
cent Of solids, including less salt and
soda and much more magnesia, cal
cium and potassium than Salt Lake.
Another statement in this connection
is of interest, though not new, viz, that.
hundreds of thousands Of tons of salt
are made by natural evaporation along
the shores of this lake. * ~
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-12-23
The Lodging of Grain.

From Farmers Review The lodg.
Ing Of grain is a source of considerable
loss, not only in the failure of reaping
machines to make a clean harvest, but
because lodged grain is not fully ma
tured and forms on hardening Wr1n-
kled and underweight grain. Lodg-
Ing, however, implies greater loss
tban the mere loss in harvesting or IN
underweight grain; it shows lnmis-
takably that the crop has not been
properly handled, that the soil is not
favorable to grain. The falling off in
yield began long before the straw
became so weak that it could not sup
port the grain heads. The popular
Idea is that silica has much to do with
the stiffness of straw. This has been
SHOWN to be- a~mistake by the famous
experiments at Rothemsted, England.
Straw badly lodged was found to con-
tain more silica than a sturdy, stocky
straw which held it's seed-head erect
unoer severe tests. 1t was found by
experiments that potash gave strength
10 stalk and straw, and soils low in
available potash invariably suffered
from lodging. The cure or rather the
preventive measure is very simple, for
tnere is no cure. The point is that the
manure or fertilizer applied should be
well balanced. The chemical analysis
SHOWS that full grain crop contains
ABOUT the same amount of phosphoric
acid and potash, hence the percentage
OF these two ingredients In the fertil-
lzer should be about the same. A fair
average fertilizer for grain would then
oe = to per cent phosphoric acid and
the same amount of potash together
Win about to per cent nitrogen.
III any one Ingredient is deficient the
excess OF the other two will not make
up for it. All three ingredients of
plant food must be present, and, as we
SAID before, in proper proportions
Thls lodging of grain is quite an i'm
portant matter to wheat growers, but
with a little care and study it can be
prevented. Rational manuring will
solve the problem.
T. r FAPATER
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-12-23
CountGY Boys Go to q City Fire.

From the Detroit Free Press: One
of the policemen and one of the street
car conductors on duty Christian En-
deavor week were exchanging expe-
riences- "The toughest job I had was
rounding up a lot of youngsters from
the country" said the guardian of the
peace. "They ranged from 4 to 13 in
age, and every one OF them could run
like a deer The fire engines came
changing down the street, the horses
making very fast time over the asphalt.
Fire! yelled one of the kids with a
freckled face and a bobtail coat.
'Fire!' whooped the whole outfit, and
away they went after the engines, each
one making the best time in him.
They were all turning out just as they
do in little town, and yelled. 'Fire!'
all the louder when they met people
going the other way. Of coarse they
scattered, of course two-thirds of them
were lost, and, of course, their mothers
were frantic. It took me two hours to
recapture them all, and the last one
gathered in was that little freckled-
faced chap. He was seated very near
the top Of a maple tree watching the
place where the fire had been.'
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-12-23
A RUSSIAN PRISON.
In the Slav Basttle Were Crimes Rival

ing Those of Rome 49, ~,
This was, then, the terrible fort
ress where so much of the true
strength OF Russia had perished during
the last two centuries, and the very
name of which is spoken in ST. Peters,
burg in a hushed voice, says Prince
Kropotkin in the Atlantic. Here Peter
I. tortured his own son Alexis, and
killed him with his own hand; here the
Princess Tarakanova was kept in a
cell filled with water during an inun-
dation-the rats climbing upon her to
save themselves from drowning; here
the terrible Minich tortured his enc;
mics, and Catherine IT, buried alive
those who objected to her having muir
dered her husband. And from the
times of Peter l., for hundred and
seventy years in succession, the annals
of this stone mass which rises from
the Neva in front Of the Winter
Palace were annals of murder and tor.
ture, of men buried alive, condemned
to a slow death, or brought to insanity
in the loneliness of the dark and damp
dungeons. Here the Decembrists, who
were the first to unfurl in Russia the
banner of republican rule and the abo-
lition of serfdom, underwent their first
experiences of martyrdom, and traces
of them may still be found in the Rus
sian Bastile. Here were imprisoned
the poets Ryleef and Ehevchenko, Dos
toevsky, Bakunin, Chernyshevsky, Pts
areff and so many others of our best
writer's. Here Karakazoff was tor
tured and hanged. Here, somewhere
in the Alexis ravelin, is still kept
Nechayeff, who was given up to Rus
sia by Switzerland as a common law
criminal, but is treated as dangerous
political prisoner, and will never again
see the light. In the same ravelin are
also two or three men whom rumor
says Alexander H., because of what
they know about some palace mystery
| ordered imprisoned for life. One of
them, adorned with a long, gray beard,
was lately seen by an acquaintance of
mine in the mysterious fortress. All
these shadows rose before my ina gina
tion. But my thoughts fixed especially
on Bakunin, who, though he had been
kept in an Austrian fortress for two
years, chained to the wall, after 1848,
and then handed over to Nicholas L.,
who kept him here, yet came out, when
| the Iron Cars death released him
after an eight years detention, fresher
and fuller of vigor than his comrades
who had remained at liberty. "He has
lived it through 1 said to myself,
"and I must, too; I will not succun1b
here!"
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-12-23
JEFFERSON DAVIS HOME.
The House Which He Built and Lived
in When an Officer. g -

The House Which He Built and Lived
in When an Officer. =
! At Fort Gibson, Indian Territory, ,one
Of Uncle Sans deserted army posts,
stands a two-story house, part frame
and part log, that was for time the
most pretentious residence in the ra-
dius of 500 miles, but now stands de-
serted by all save bats and owls and
now and then a stray hoot owl, whose,
dismal and lonesome cry only brings;
back long forgotten memories of what
this house has been. The house, was
built in 1848 by Jefferson Davis, ex-
president of the Southern Confederacy,
who at that time was an officer in the
United States army. 1t was here that
Davis was in the zenith of his glory
as defender of the United States flag
It was here that Davis, then lieuten-
ant, fell in love with, wooed aid Won
his wife, the daughter of Gen. Taylor
The post was a wild and woolly spot
in those days. It was the only trading,
point for miles around and was infest-
ed with gamblers, desperadoes, Indian
traders, fugitives from justice in the
States, with now and then a gang of
cowboys, who would come in to the
post to get "red eye" and incidentally
shoot up the town and anybody who
objected to them shooting up the town.
Here in the shadow almost of the post
have arisen and thrived such desper-
ADDE'S as the James gang, the Daltons,
the STAIRS, Cherokee Bill, etc., who ter
rorized the country for so long until
civilization and the farmers cleaned
them out. This old house has seen
many stirring times; it has sheltered
many fair women and brave men, and
if it had tongue it could doubtless.
tell many state secrets as we'll as many
interesting stories of the early days in
the Indian Territory. The post was
deserted in 1892 and now only a few
buildings stand where there was once
a thriving post of several thousand
souls, and where the deer and turkey
used to roam in the broad prairie, az
most in pistol shot of this house, are
neat and cosy farm houses, surround
ed with peace and plenty. Such is
the passing of the wild and woolly'A
day in the Indian Territory.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-12-23
Seed Corn Selection.

Many farmers owning both bottom
and upland corn fields make the mis-
take of using the same seed on both
kinds of soils Corn which is adapted
to the soil and moisture conditions of
the valleys Will not do so we'll on the
upland as will some variety that has
by several years of cultivation and Sc
lection become adapted to the condi-
tions there. It is for the same reason
that the large Colorado potatoes that
have been grown for years under irri-
cation will do SO poorly when used for
seed in Kansas without the accustomed
supply Of water. :. 1t is generally the
case on the farm that the corn from
all the fields, both upland and bottom,
is cribbed together. When the time for
seed selection comes the largest ears
are picked out irrespective of the kind
of soil that grew them. AS the bottom
land produces the larger ears it is
more than likely that the bulk Of the
seed will be from the lower and moist
er portions Of the farm. This is the
proper seed for the lowland, but it is
not SO we'll adapted to the dryer and
poorer upland as is seed that has been
raised there. It is advisable to select
the seed either before or at husking
time, when not only the quality of the
ground but the character of the in.
dividual stalk and ear can be taken In
to consideration. As has been suggest
ed before, small box attached to the
sides Of the wagon-bed into which the
desirable ears can be thrown is the
most practical device that can be rec
commended. By a little judicious se-
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-12-23
WAS THE REPORTERS FRGEND-
spaculated for Newspaper Men on Sure
Things.

speculated for Newspaper Men on Sure
York. Press: The newspaper
men of the street have lost a warm
friend in Flower. In the last year and
half he made a dozen or more richer
than they had ever dreamed of being.
He never misled. In his Office, in the
they were wont to congregate to learn
the financial news of the day, the trend
of the market. He or some other mem
Der of the firm would walk around the
room, saying: "Well, boys, we are 60
ing to put Federal Steel up about six.
points today" Then, after a few min
utes of general chat, he would continue:
"Joe, how much do you want? Can
you stand 100 shares?" Joe says he
can and the order is booked. "Charlie,
want a hundred? More if you like it.
Charlie takes 200 He asks each in
turn, some taking as much as 500
shares of the certainly-a Flower
stock-anything with Flowers name
to it meant a lead pipe cinch. No boy
with from 100 to 1000 shares of stock
in Federal Steel, or anything else ac-::
quired under similar circumstances
ever walked the floor at night, or lost
one wink of sleep. If the stock went
up as intimated he would walk into the
office next morning and get a check.
II it happened by any misfortune to go
down he never heard of it, The firm
of Flower & Co., Roswell P. special,
did not do business that way. The
boys had to make. . It was with them
all case of ''heads I win, tails you
never failed to give Mr. Flower a full
equivalent. Yes, and more. They ad-
vertised him.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-12-23
SISTER MORA.

The Frolic was a cargo boat, but She
carried passengers when she couldfget
them. It was suggested that she had
been christened the F'rolic in bitter
irony; she certainly never justified the
name, not even when she rolled her
very best; 1t was(a portentous, pound
ing roll that put deck cargo in deadly
peril
When the Fredic dropped down the
Mersey one late spring afternoon she
had three passeng gers on board, all
men. Each had probably chosen to sail
in the Trolic because the fares were
low-1that, at amy rate, was John Gre
gains reason, which he made no .scruple
to disclose. ''tI'm not rich," he said,
'*and chats q fact. I've Little money,
but Jul maybe want that at the other
side::" He was an inexperienced trav
eler, but had the Irishman's faculty for
making the best of strange surround
1ngs. In two days he was perfectly at
home.
They were three days tout when, a
fourth passenger Unexpectedly ap-
.peared :on deck. He WAS a black re-,
'triever ddog,, glossy coated, well-fed,
perfectly at his ease, and inclined to
'be polite to every one ON board. He
wentuonto the bridge to see Capt. Ham
:mond, Ewho swore more than the oc-
fcasion demanded. He called the crew
art and asked them who brought the
dog aboard.
.Aechorus OF IT didn't, SIR" swept the
,deck,
Capt. Hammond walked up to the
three passengers, who were playing a
zgamecof poker on deck.
Hentlemen," he said, there's a
dog Saboard this ship. I reckon he's
gotta master. Does he belong to any
>of;you?"
HE looks like dog of mine," said
Cregan.
Did you bring him on board, siry,'
He came with me-
You should have bet me know, Mr.
tCregan."
t"'sorry, captain. didn't know you
liked dogs"
II don't like 'em on my ship. Some
= :people'd throw him overheard, Mr.. Gre
gan
"Ah, would they? 1There'd be the
devil and all to pay If they did. A lot
depends on that dog, Capt. Hammond.
iii stand for his keep and lodging;
that's fair. Punch, shake hands with
tine captain" Punch shook hands all
v around and Capt. Hammond was ap-
.peased.
The dog naturally hecame the rar,st
popular parsonage on the ship. Most
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-12-23
NEW TURTLE MAKES HIS DEBUT
johns Hopkins University's Present from
officers OF the Wilmineton

Johns Hopkins University's Present from
Oficcrs OF the Wilmington.
Stewards 'barkentine Priscilla, Capt.
Springsteen, from Rio Janeiro, arrived
the other day with 10000 bags of cof-
fee and an embryo menagerie on board,
says the Baltimore Sun. Every sailor
had parrot and one had a monkey,
which he cherished with almost pa
rental affection. Alongside these pets
Of the crew Capt. Sprin ngsteen had an
improvised aquarium-three specimens
OF small turtles, which had been placed
in his care by officers of the United
States gunboat Wilmington. The tur-
ties were "babies" of that family, gath
cred in the highest waters of the Am
azon, up which the Wilmington navi-
gated as far as she could find water to
float her. They were placed on board
the Priscilla in Rio Janeiro to be de-
livered to the Johns Hopkins univer-
sity in this city. One has "a peculiar
head, upon which are ears a donkey
would be proud of, and mouth that
opens wider than a negro minstrel's.
The head does not seek cover under the
shell, like other turtles, but closes up
like an accordion. These queer little
specimens have had the tender solic-
ftude of Capt. Springsteen on the voy-
age. One became SO tame as to eat out
of the captains hand The donkey
cared, telescope-headed fellow, no
doubt, proud of characteristics not nat
ural ito his fellow turtles, refused to re-
ceiVe his rations until dropped into the
aquarium.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-12-23
Egg from a Great AUX Sold for S15pO

Egg from a Great AUX Sold for $1,000
An egg of the great aux was sold at
auction for 300 guineas, says the Lun-
don Standard. j. G. Stevens, the auc-
tioner, said that in 1884 the Conate
de Raoul de Berace bought the egg
from the owner of a st. Malo fishing
smack. The counts collection was
purchased by Baron d'Hammonville.
The egg to be sold was one of four
great aux eggs belonging to the baron.
There were seventy-one recorded eggs
of the great aux, twenty-four Of them
being in museums and forty-two in pri-
vate hands; fifty-two were in British
collections. The first egg which the
baron sent over fetched a record price,
at the time, Of 300 guineas. The egg
noe submitted, although not having
the finest marks, was, perhaps, the
largest ever offered for sale being
three and three-quarters inches il.
length. =, -: !.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-12-23

lection for a series of years, strain
can be established on the upland por
tion of any farm which will be we'll
adapted to that and other soils similar
to location and composition. An eight,
inch ear from the upland will ordinar-
lily prove better for planting on the
upland than will a twelve-inch ear
from draw in the lower portions Of
the FARM. M. Westgate.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-12-23
Cropping with Legumes,

The effect of continual cropping in
the exhaustion of soil nitrogen has
been made the subject of study in
planting peas, buckwheat, oats, etc.
The results of the experiments show
that only the leguminous plants we're
able to utilize the nitrogen of the air.
An increase was noticeable in the yield
OF each succeeding crop Of peas, while
with the non-leguminous crops, each
succeeding yield was poorer than the
preceding one. The experiments simply
show, what every farmer knows or
ought to know, that planting clovers,
cow-peas,, vetches, or any legumes
tends to constantly improve the soil,
while cropping with non-leguminous
plants, such as corn and wheat, unless
fertilizer of some kind is used, con-
stantly depletes the SOIL. Vast amounts
Of fertility can be saved to the soil by
the liberal planting of leguninous
crops. "