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The Billings gazette., 1899-05-26
HI Robinsopy Thrift,

While we were eating breakfast the
farmer said: "That remark O. yourn
yisteddv about sellin Elmiry the dishes
an havin the coffee fer notliin minds
me O. the way Hi Robinson got some
thin fer nothin out O. the storekeeper
at the village. You member Hi, don't
you? He's kinder slow spoken, n some
folks calls him foolish One day was
settin in the store spell, with lot
more, an in comes Hi He goes up to
Lish, who keeps the store, an takes an
egg out O. his pocket an says, How'll
you swap!' 'Oh. 1 d'n' kno's want to
swap fer one egg, says Lish; what do
you want fer it?' "A darnin needle.
Well I'll swap with you, says Lish
an took the egg an Civ him the darnin
needle. s-.z
'Hi stood round awhile, an then he
says, drawlin'like, Say, amt you goin
to treat?' Treat? On one darnin
needle 2 says Lish. Not much. 'Feller
cross the way will, says Hi. Lish
grinned. All right, says he, jest to
humor him; 'what'll you have?' Cider
n egg, says Hi. That tickled the
rest O. us, but Lish brought the cider
an. broke the egg into it-Hi's own egg
an Hi see it was a'double yelker. Hi
took up the glass an looked at the
egg some time. Then he says, says he,
Say, hadn't you better gimme mother
darnin needle? Forest and Stream
The Billings gazette., 1899-05-26
HE STILL LIVES.
A Case Where Medical Science Made
a Little NIiscalculation.

A Case Where Medical Science Made
Little characterization.
"Medical science occasionally makes
a grand miscalculation, said an old
citizen. 81 never pass certain house
on lower Prospect street without re-
membering that 90 years ago certain
noted doctor Of this town-he died re-
cently-condemned me to death. You
have but week to live, he said
"This was information of somewhat
serious import to me, although, at that
time, I didn't much care whether it
was a week or month. But I went to
another doctor. Are you really fright
ened 2 he asked. NO, I said; I've got
beyond that. Then he remarked, You
can't last a month. Somehow this cor
roborative testimony didn't satisfy me-
Before l got through my search for in
formation I consulted eight doctors
And, by the way, was hunting through
the second week before I made the
rounds. Of course they all agreed pref
ty we'll. The most liberal man of the
lot said I might pull through for year,
but he greatly doubted it. The other
medicos gave me from week to three
months.
"Well sir, I've attended the funerals
of five Of those doctors, and, please
God, I'll see the other three under the
sod before quit.
Understand mel was a pretty
tough object at that time. A bronchial
trouble had worn me to skin and bone.
walked with crutch and cane I
could scarcely talk. All the doctors
agreed that my lungs were past mend
ing. Five of them said I had but one
lung left, and that, they claimed, was
on it's last legs.
"Weli, when I went to the ninth
doctor, I was mad clear through. 1
knew he didn't have blessed idea con-
cerning my case. But he tried hard to
look knowing and went back to his lit
tie drug tank and presently returned
with neat package wrapped in white
paper. handed him the So he demand
ed and walked away. Here, he said
you've forgotten your medicine. I
turned back. No, I haven't, I said
hotly; I left it there purposely Give
it to the next credulous fool whose case
you don't understand. Say, it did me
good to get mad. I went home chucked
every drug into the ash barrel, staid
out in the open air all I could. WASH It
the least bit careful about myself,
worked about the house every day until
exhausted and began to get better. By
George! Inside Of a year was in tiptop
condition. Look at me now! Sound as
dollar Yes, sir, science does occa-
sionally slip up with considerable unan-
unity Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Billings gazette., 1899-05-26
ArtichOkes For Stock.

AFIlCnOAeS rOF STOCK.
Whatever objections may be urged
against artichokes, it is evident that
many farmers thoroughly believe in
them for stock. An Illinois correspond
ent of The Farm, Field and Fireside
says: In climates where stock is usually
maintained six months or more each
year on dry food it is apparent that
succulent food should be literally fed,
as improperly fed stock pays only a per
cent of what the food would have sold
for.
In England stock can eat grass for a
much longer period than in this coun-
try, and during the short winter it
is supplied with roots. This is the
secret of superiority of stock in Great
Britain. This stock, when imported.
takes the premiums at our fairs.
Artichokes, the very best roots one
can raise in this country, produce from
Is to 25 tons per acre. The cost of rails
ing them and storing does not exceed
81. so per ton. How could person fail
to make profit on feeding 90 pounds
to cow or four pounds to hog or
sheep, since the latter could eat but a
cents worth week. In this way, with
cheap corn. the feeder is enabled to
make a handsome profit on all good.
growing. beef cattle. on his dairy COW.
on sheep or on hogs.
The Billings gazette., 1899-05-26
Then the Girls Gfrgled.

It occurred at wedding in Kansas
City church. The minister was young
and nervous and instead of saying.
"Who gives this woman?' etc., he
asked gravely, 'Who gives this man to
this woman?'
II the bride had not been four inches
taller and many pounds heavier than
the groom, the slip would have attract
ed less attention. AS it was, the other
girls in the church were not to be
blamed for tittering
The Billings gazette., 1899-05-26
THE MUSES..
OF old the muses. sat on high
And heard and Judged the songs Of men,

OF old the muses. sat on high
And heard and judged the songs Of men.
On one they smiled who loitered by;
OF toiling ten they sighted ten.
"Taey lightly serve who serve us best,
Nor know they how the task was done.
We muses. love soul at rest
But violence and toll we shun."
If men say true, the muses. now
Have changed their ancient habitude
And would be served with knitted brow
And stress and toll each day renewed.
So each one with the other vies
Or those who weave romance or song,
Con us, 0 muse, bestow thy prize,
For we have striven well and longi"
And yet methinks l hear the hest
Come murmuring down from Helicon,
"They lightly serve who serve us best,
Nor know they how the task was done!''
Edith NJ. Thomas in Dial.
The Billings gazette., 1899-05-26

be convenient for both sheep and lambs
No sheep will jump into the trough,
and lambs will not lie in it as they will
in larger ones. First take one six inch
board the desired length and bevel it's
edges little for the bottom. Nail to
this two more six inch boards for the
sides, so the tops will flare a little. Use
four inch board for a guard rail with
supports at each end at the middle of u
long trough. The figure shows a view
of the end Of the trough in perspec-
tive. The legs are made of 2 by 4 stuff
The Billings gazette., 1899-05-26
The Brother Qualified 1t.

At Georgia camp meeting a good
brother continually repeated in the
course of long prayer:
''Lord. send the mourners up higherl
Send 'em up higher right awayl'
A storm was brewing outside, and as
the hurricane swept down on them the
brother qualified his closing petition
with:
"But not through the roof, Lord! 3!
Don't send 'em through the roof! That
would be too highl'-Atlanta Consti-
tuition. ---
The Billings gazette., 1899-05-26

GROWN OF BEET WITH LEAF SPOT
blackening Of the bases of the leaves,
and the disease soon works into the
crown and root proper, causing the in
tested parts to turn brown. This beet
root rot is found to be caused by the
same fungus which causes stem rot of
carnations and probably produces some
of the ''damping off diseases. Sixty
to 20 bushels of air slaked lime per acre
is suggested as means of securing a
preventive alkalinity of soil
Professor Duggars s observations indi-
cate that "leaf spot is disease which
needs to be specially brought to the at
tention Of sugar beet growers. It begins
as small brown spots, with reddish pur-
pie margin, scattered irregularly over
the leaf. In time the whole leaf is black
and crisp. AS the leaves begin to parch
and dry they stand more nearly up
right, SO that whole field badly affect
ed with the disease shows very char
acteristic appearance The outer or
older leaves are of course first affected
and after the leaf stalks wilt these
leaves are shed. In the meantime the
plant is endeavoring to supply this def
cheney of leaves by continuing 10 de-
velop new ones from the center or from
the bud. In consequence of this the
crown becomes considerably elongated,
as in the first figure
As to remedies the author says: For
several years experiments have been
conducted by Professor Halsted, at the
New Jersey experiment station, in the
treatment of this disease, and sue
cessful remedy seems to be at hand in
the well known bordeaux mixture Nu-
merous fungicides were experimental
upon, but the bordea1x mixture has
proved most efficient. There is every
reason to believe that by beginning the
sprayings early the leaf spot may be al
most entirely prevented by the use of
this fungicide. If the disease continues
so disastrous as it was in certain Sec
tions during the past season, for sue
cess growers must expect to spray their
beets with the same regularity as has
been found necessary in growing pota-
toes
As to beet scab the following are
presented among other points in the
bulletin: The smooth surface of the beet
root may often be disfgured by warty
or scabby excrescences. The texture of
these injuries is somewhat corky or
spongy, and the larger diseased areas
will show that the injury is not entirely
superficial, but to some extent alters the
tissues Immediately underlying such
The Billings gazette., 1899-05-26

A four months tour from England to
India can be made. including all cost
with economy, or $1,000 and luxuri-
ously for 81. 500.
The Billings gazette., 1899-05-26
Her AristOcracy.

every woman is an aristocrat at
heart, said the youngest boarder.
"Yes," said the cheerful idiot; ''she
hates to think Of herself as classed
with the plain people. indianapolis
journal.
The Billings gazette., 1899-05-26
A Dilemma.

Hungry Higgins-Here is an ad in
the paper that says "save your old
Ngs."
Weary Watkins sounds all
right, but bet the feller that give that
advice had no barb wire fence in front
of him and big dog behind him.
dianapolis Journal
The Billings gazette., 1899-05-26
BEETs AFFECTED WITH sCAB.

areas. The second figure shows two
beets affected in a characteristic man
ner. In 1890 Professor Thaxter discov-
cred that potato scab is caused by the
growth on the surface of the tuber of a
fungus which he named Oospora scabies.
The remedy cannot consist in this in
stance in the treatment of the seed,
since the seed do not disseminate the
disease. nor can it consist in the treat.
ment of the land. since the experiments
with lining, sulphuring, ETC., have not
given satisfactory results. The only
course open, then, is the one of avoiding
for the growth of beets any soil which
during several years previous has pro-
duced scabby beets.
The Billings gazette., 1899-05-26
1t Waa Tanfamaunt.

HAS she told you that she loved
your"
''Not in SO many words. She merely
asked me what life insurance I car
ried. cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Billings gazette., 1899-05-26

The population of England at the
time of the Conqueror did not exceed
1900, 900 all told.
The Billings gazette., 1899-05-26

Among the Phenicians, in ancient
days, the wearing of earrings was a
badge of servitude.
The Billings gazette., 1899-05-26

In bushel Of wheat there are $50,
300 seeds; rye, se8. 400; clover, 49,
400. 900: timothy, 41,823, 400.
The Billings gazette., 1899-05-26

Some Of the experiment stations
have tested the relative advantages of
deep and shallow cultivation for corn.
and. out of 116 cases recorded, in only
five instances did the deep culture give
the better results
The Billings gazette., 1899-05-26
After the Call,

''Did she make you feel at homer
''No, but she made me wish I was
.BroOklyn Life,
The Billings gazette., 1899-05-26
Self Knowledge.

1t is difficult for man to know him
SELF If he thinks he's not fool, he's
certainly mistaken, and if he thinks
he's fool he's no fool.-Detroit Jour
nal
The Billings gazette., 1899-05-26

What a Sheep Trough Ought to BE.
An Iowa Homestead writer has a
trough which he considers peculiar to
his own view Of what sheep trough
ought to be. It is SO constructed as to
The Billings gazette., 1899-05-26
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KNOW
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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-01-03
The Business Outlook.

Many reasons combine to indicate
that the year upon which we have Just
entered will he one OF unusual business
prosperity. Everybody knows how our
exports are growing and how our i'm
ports are declining before the asserted
ability of our people to supply their
own wants. But without going into
dry figures it may be noted as supple
mentary reasons that 1899 will be a
year without important political cleo
tions, thus giving the people chance
to turn their minds to business prob
lens; that most Of the debts contracted
by laboring people for necessaries Of
life during the stagnant years of 1894
and 1895, when many of them did not
earn enough money to meet current ex-
penses, have since been Cancelled. thus
freeing these persons for large future
expenditure on articles OF necessity and
also Of luxury; and that the low con-
dition of stocks in the wholesale and
retail stores and in the factory ware
houses throughout the country presages
more general and active employment
of labor and, in turn, a more even and
a larger diffusion of wages than has
been the fact since 1892
These are solid reasons why business
should prosper. They cannot be gain
said. But there are also certain tradit-
ions which point to the same result.
The Biblical story Of the fat and the
lean years was a recognition of his
toric truth. We have been through the
lean years, and very lean some of them
were, too. We are now entitled To en-
counter period of fat ones. The pen
dulum has begun its return trip and
the reverse swing may not unnaturallv
oe expected to go as far in the direction
OF prosperity as the forward swing
went in the direction Of Industrial and
commercial stringency and panic
Again, it is historical truth that VIC
tory in war, when ACCOMPLISHED With
out serious internal loss means to the
victorious people a son OF good
times The American people have been
extraordinarily victorious at a cost
which they scarcely feel. Their spirit
Of dare and adventure, reused by mill
tant fervor will find vent in business
enterprises and speculation, and the
consequence will reflect itself in the
quickened activities of trade.
Best Of all, for the first time within
the memory Of the present generation
the people OF this country have full
confidence in each other. Sectionalism
is dead. Confederate and Unionist
have buried the past in mutual hope
for the future. Populism is expiring.
The West no longer considers the East
its enemy. The comraderie OF war.
which brought cowboy and millionaire
together on one footing, has expunged
for years to come the possibility. of a
BiccAssFui apnAaI ~ class jealousy and
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-01-03
THE CHANCES ARE.

From the Altoona Tribune.
The chances are that Governor-elect
Stone will exercise his own undoubted
right of choice in the selection OF the
members of his official family as we'll as
in his other appointments. He is a gen.
teman in every respect exceedingly
courteous to every one with whom he
comes In contact, even to his political en-
emies, and it is reasonable to suppose
that he will willingly receive suggestions
from all quarters. But it Is no less rea-
sonable to suppose that the recommended
ttons of his friends will be given most
weight The Tribune has no intention of
thrusting its advice upon the governor
elect; 1t believes him quite competent to
successfully solve all the problems that
will confront him. Yet it cannot refrain
from the remark that those newspapers
which abused Colonel Stone as candi-
date and sought to accomplish his defeat
Vociferating that his election would GER
talnly mean the appointment of Chairman
John T. Elkin as attorney general, cer-
tainly exhibit n great deal of gall when
they advise the governor not to appoint
Mr. Elkin. The Tribune does not know
what is in the mind Of the governor-elect.
out 1t is sure that Mr.. Elkin is an able
man, was most important factor in the
late campaign and would make an admir-
able attorney general.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-01-03
TEN PAGES.

The saddest bit Of literature that
Hon. John Wanamaker win have seen
IN many day is embodied in this ex-
ccrpt from an Associated Press dis
patch yesterday sent cut from Harris
burg: - conference Of the Democratic
mcmhers was held this afternoon at
which committee was appointed TO
wait on the leaders of the independent
Republicans and notify them that the
"a Democratic members were ready TO
unite with them on the fusion move
ment. The Independents said they could
not at this late day muster enough
votes to make fusion a success"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-01-03
Mr.. Farr to Be Speaker.

The expected happened at Harris
burg last night when Representative
John Y. Farr was overwhelmingly
nominated for speaker in caucus at
tended by 124 Republican members
elect Of the next state house of repre-
sentatives In a personal and local
sense the honor is highly significant.
1t is the first time that a representa-
tive from LaCkawanna county has
been honored in this manner and the
fact that the distinction has been cap
tured by Mr. Farr i'm the face of a
complicated political situation and
against strenuous factional opposition
testifles eloquently 10 his personal
popularity, his diplomacy and the
marked confidence placed in him by
the leaders Of the party
The alternative to this selection, fu-
sion of the Democratic members with
anxious to encompass the defeat Of
Senator Quay was intoierably repug-
nant. The Republicans are largely in a
majority in the legislature. Theirs is
the responsibility. Theirs should be
the power. The candidacy OF Mr.. Farr,
by enlisting in its support the loyal
Republican membership, and by prom
ising in the administration of the
speakership a broad and liberal recog-
milton of all elements on a basis of
party harmony and expedition and
economy in the transaction of the peo-
pla's business. was, in the face of this
menaced deal with the Democracy, an
assured success from the start.
The result confcrs upon the enter
prisng member from the First Lacka-
wanna district a degree of influence
upon the shaping of party policy and
legislation which calls for his utmost
prudence and dcliberaton. The party
at large, wearied Of interminable fac
tional squabbling and personal bicker-
ings, will look to him for complete
fulfilment of every promise The op-
portunity is his to make name which
will be held high in the respect Of the
people Of this broad commonwealth.
He will assume the speakership free
from embarrassing obligation or secret
promise, and his friends at home feel
confident that he will justify their am
plcst expectations.
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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-01-03

prejudice, and has postponed indeh-
nitely the sroliation programme of
Debs, AltEeld and Bryan. il is going
to De possible again for Americans to
do business with Americans wherever
American jurisdiction reaches, not TO
speak OF their doing business with for
eigners wherever the foreigners have
sense enough to appreciate good things.
Democracy in short, the American
Democracy" 90 use Mr.. Carnegie's
term, is awake AT last to its own won
derful poten. md is going TO hump
itself and inu hings hum.
With New JI's weather 2 degrees
below zero at scranton and 100 above
at Havana it is evident that expansion
has already been accepted as q ncces-
sity by the American thermometer.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-01-03
THE NEW AMERICA.

Her eyes are full OF noble hope.
A quiet strength is in ber hands,
She sees the years of splendid scope
That brightens in the morning lands;
The seas are shadoWed with her sails,
Through wider fields her plough is sped
Her cup of plenty never fails
She feeds the nations with her bread.
She throws DER many an alien race
The shield of equal-poising law,
The weak are sheltered in her grace,
She keeps the violent in awe.
Around the world her eagle flies,
The peoples gather at her knees,
Her peaceful empire arches rise
Above strange lands in far-off seas.
New York Sun
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-01-03
irs, declines the invitation of the com

fairs, declines the invitation Of the COM
mission.
%
Auditor General McCauley has served
notice on the state mine inspectors that
he will not approve their expense bills
untn after they have been endorsed by
Robert Brownlcc, chief of the bureau Of
mines. Prior to the passage of the act
passed by the last legislature creating the
bureau OF mines the inspectors were IA
law unto themselves. They came and
went at will and were not subjected 90
supervision, although they were re-
quired to make an annual report TO tho
Internal affairs department. When MIR.
Brownlee took hold of the bureau last
spring he adopted regulations requiring
them TO keep daily report of their move
ments and now Major McCauley notifies
them that their bills will not be paid
without Brownlee's endorsement. The in
spcctors are paid a salary of $1,000 a year
ana are given an allowance for expenses
and office rent. In many cases the in
spectors have their offices In their private
residences and charge for rent. fuel. light
ana janitor services. Some of the charges
are looked on with suspicion and hereaf-
ter they will be carefully scrutinized be-
fore they are paid one inspector had
his office in a small hallway on the sec
ond floor of his residence and monthly put
IN large bill for office rent. The inspcc-
tors are chafng under the restrictions
which have been placed upon them by
Mr.. Brownee and will endeavor to have
the next legislature modify the law to
curtail his authority.
o.
Ex-State Treasurer Haywood is stll
confined to his apartments by Illness and
1t VIII be some time before he is able to
resume his duties as cashier of the state
treasury. lie is suffering from a serious
affection Of the heart and lungs and his
physicians say he will have to remain
perfectly quiet for at least a month If he
can expect to recover. Mr.. Haywood is
loyal friend of Senator Quay and Is anx-
iOus to take a hand i'm the senatorial con-
test. As soon as he Is able to travel he
will take southern trip in company with
Ave Ipy