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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1900-12-09

The popular idea expressed in the
phrase, "the art of self-defense,' shows
the opinion that the chief enemies a man
has to de-cri himself from are visible
and external But the real danger of
every man is from minute ard often in
visible foes. III the air we breathe and
the water VIZ drink are countless minute
organisms leagued against the healtl, Of
The body.
The one defense against these enemies
IS to keep TIE blood pure. DR.. Pierce's
Golden Me3!c2l Discovery thoroughly
p,,r;Gas the blood removing poisonous
Substances and accretiors. When the
blood IS ru~, there is no har0orage Tot
tle germs q disease which find a 1odg-
.ng only when the blood is impure and
corrupt.
Fl Icoasi3er -.rrsr 'Gc.slea Medical Discovery
cre q IT, F-- medicine o- the face # the
earth" ,..ts~ .IT. Wu. #.2eter. Of "~>5oail,
1I3a.-o'at-. -. Iowa. " While u -he south
>-tst the ago. got rci@5te3 with aoi-
z1a l"v ~. 81 sc-l'-a ia .7v blood and
-lt1 "[- go e-..- t-lai Gi---s-,t
.-... ..... ItEs.. ...I5--eut +-a-t1t-. lat
III -.r-. .,.lr'd 4->e ING vaz 10 make my
t-'-.-f.l.. ..s, I .nr. .eaaf. taking d..
1..--.. t5,.N.a. '.-crr>->. Took four
ErrE Wi. relief r-.- ..H-r- It. / TOOL,
IT. '.erc. s. -la1sant Pellets cue cons
stlY1-loa.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-04-06
PERSONAL NOTES,
Going and Coming of Wheeling
People and Visitors.

Going and Coming of Wheeling
People and Visitors.
W. r, D. Dent, of Grafton, is al the
Mcclure.
]. W. M6Keever, Of HarrisvIlle, is at
the Grand Central.
W. C. McGlumphy, Of Rock Lick was
in the city yesterday
Col. Frank ]. Hearne came down from
Pittsburgh last night
j. 7. Martin was a Sistersville man
at the Nichols yesterday.
Prof. c. E. Citizens, of wellsburg, was
in the city for short while yesterday
J.H. p. Smith. a prominent Parkers
burg business man, Is at the Mcclure.
L. C. shaffer, Nell j. Fortney. g, II,
Deriug and William G. Brown, Of King
wood, are in the city.
C. A. McCarron and wife and ], W,
Morrison and wife. of Sistersville, are
staying at the Windsor.
Henry Leiner, the well known EN-
ploye OF the Centrn! glass house, is Ill
ut his home In the Eighth ward.
August Nay, of Coraopoiis, Pa. is In
Wheeling. after twelve years alb
sence, calling on his old friends among
the giassworkers on the South Side.
Mrs. John C. Hupp. during her at
tendance at the Woman's Foreign Mis-
sionary convention at Washington, Pa,
is the guest OF DR.. and Mrs. Mofrat.
Mrs. G. b. McNeely. Miss Ella Hill.
Mrs. j. S. LAzear, Miss Gail Smith and
Mrs. w. d. Smith were a party Of Man
nington ladies in the city on a shopping
tour yesterday. They registered at the
Stamm.
United States District Attorney Jo-
seph H. Gaines came up from Charles
ton last night to attend the federal
court here. To Wheeling friends he ex-
pressed his confidence or capturing the
Republican nomination for Congress
for the Third district.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-04-06
HuntleH-Jnckson compnny.

There was n splendid audience ut the
opera House last night, but its size APP
parently did not AFFECT the attendance
Mt the Grand. where the Huntley-Jack-
son company gave one OF the hest per-
formances of the week. The Two
Pucks" have become prime favorites,
and now their first appearance IS al
ways signal for applause. This after
noon the company win present the
charming southern comedy drama. My
Maryland" and the bill for tonight
win be IAN Innocent Sinner" n melo-
dramatic production which is to be
given for the first time here al popular
prices.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-04-06
GEr 5ntpIlaenerr
once! 20 ana - Fourteenth street.
New Advertisements.

Sealed Proposals for Removal of Garb-
age.
For sale-G. o. Smith.
Real Estate Bargains. -ROlf 4 Zane.
Assignee's Sale-Wm. NJ. Kincnid.
Ladies' Shoes Tor Eastef--Nay Brothers-
Eighth Page.
The First New Potatoes-Albert Stoke
& Co.
Sale OF Enamel Steel Kitchen Utensils
Stone g. Thomas--Elghth Page.
i5c Soft Shirts with Collars for 4Sc-
McFaddep's-Second Page
Centre Foundry.
Carpets Cleaned--Pelrl Laundry.
Purify Your Blcod-R. II, List,
''Ainslle's Hair Balsam."
Gas Ranges--GeO W. Johnsun's Sons
Will Your Shirt Look Like This?-White
Swan Lanndr:'.
For Sale-Howard Hazlett & Son.
Columbia Building Association
Going AbrOad?-H. f, Behrens Co.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-04-06

We offer us bargains this week one
KreIl Piano, walnut case. In fine cOnd-
ton, one McEwen Piano, ebonIzed
case, in good condition Call and sec
them and you viii admit that they are
bargains at the price at which we offer
them. +. w. BANNER co,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-04-06
SPRING OPENING.

Suits made to order at popular
prices. Bright. novelties in Foreign
and Domestic Woolens.
c.! HESS & SONS,
Fashionable Tailors and Fine Fur
nishers, ,132l-1323 Market St.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-04-06
pinnn Tuning.

After moving your plano viii no
doubt need overlooking 10 see " II IL
In proper tune. We employ none but
experts In our tuning department
o''F +. w. BANNER co.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-04-06

The peoples Gavoritc Is the FaverIte
Gas Range for economy In the use Of
gas and for quick baking. They lead
all others. For sale by
b. +. CALDWELL & CO.,
1903 Market street.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-04-06

SHADE TREES, extra large. Or
nnmental and bedding plants at low
est prices. Catalogue free. Reid's
Nurseries, Tel. So, Bridgeport, Ohio.
mwf
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-04-06

IF you wish 80 save from So TO IS on
your spring suit, call at WINES
DORFFER'S, 1853 Market street, and
he will show you how TO do 1t.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-04-06

ALL latest novelties In suItngs and
Fancy Vesungs at c. w. SEA
BRIGHTS SON. Merchant Tailor.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-04-06

II YOU intend to move this week and
desire TO have your piano moved by eX-
perlenced men, leave your order with
+. w, BANNER co.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-04-06

IF business men and merchants
consult their best interests they will
advertise in the IntelligeRcer,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-04-06
STONE 8 THOMAS.
SALE OF
Enamel Steel Kitchen Utensils
TO-DAY.
Bought at Auction.
STONE & THOMAS.
Bought at Auction.

They were secured and and are here to be sold at
about 0ne-Third Regular Prices. They're Seconds "
This store does not customariy buy Seconds. but these
were 50 unusually good so near firsts that you'd not
know but what they were if we didn't tell you No more
after this lots sold, so come early There are 65 cases.
but at oethd the regular value, how long do you sup
pose they'll last Here are prices on some of the articles
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-04-06

GOOD Union Workmanship at c, W,
SEABRIGHT'S SON, Twenty-second
and Main Streets,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-04-06

We hive fitted moro thnn twenty
thousand pairs OF Spectacles, giving us
II record and experience unequnllCd by
any other opticiRn in West Virginia.
satisfaction guaranteed.
JACOB w. GRUBB, OpticlRn.
No. 1900 Market street.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-04-06

ALI. late novelties in spring sultlugs
and pantaloons at lowest prices.
j. WlNESDORFFER,
1858 Market Street.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-04-06
THE HUB cLoTH1ERs,
lie WHO Wants
The Really Good

Has no other choice don't make IT 50, but other p,
force it upon Not a hundred years. Afy nor ten M
even one elapsed the clothes show were made ~
now yeal-in this years sylestor u. "a
only u.s. We don't deal in last years. goods at any price [
less goods that were style gTandmothers time This M
only applies Mems Department but to Boys ana
Childrens we for while have Boys Suits low as 81
and Mems $780, still there's style about them that ~
don't Aad in any Others the price Isn't worth soma
thing that you're in STYLE especially cost, ma
Don't deuded by the patterns Patterns are made
Cloth we put into clothes wa agree they all alike od,
but to-morrow-you'd better talk to us.
We have opened up during the last week of new
chldrens Vesee Blouse DoubleBreasted Spring Suits
eastern novelties of evcry description See windows ma
show cases both on streets They'll v
you nm idea Of what's this spring post you as
prices just right If you don't think We S.
fully buy it back from you at the price you paid
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-04-06

FURNITURE AT AUCTION to-day
at Frew's, 1908 Main street, 10 a. m.
and 2 p. IN.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-04-06

ATTEND Auction Sale, Frew's Fur
niture Store, to-day, 10 a. m. and 2
p. m.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-04-06

Strictly One Price. All Goods
Marked in Plain Figures.......
Money Back For the Asking.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-04-06

THEY'LL NOT BE HERE ON SATURDAY.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-04-26
EDWARD LONGMIRE.
KIM KannCk (NO, SGD

Will make the season of 1900 at my
stable two and one.half miles north OF
Ely and four miles southwest of
Woodland.
KING is a dark bay, I64 hands
high, with dark points, fine style and
action, very large fiat bone and short
back; in other words, tirst-class
Clydesdale stallion.
KING KANUCK mo. 561 was bred
by Mr.. John Roberts, of Terra, On
tario; sire, Hamlin Q18) by Black
Spot (5S53); first dam, Fan (132) by
Young George. second'dam by Young
England.
This fine draft horse will serve
mares at Sc, 90 to insure in foal.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-04-26
City Directory
CITY OFFICIALS.

Mayor. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Samuel North
Police udge................ w. b. stevens.
Marshal. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS wv. Stephens
City Attorney .............. r.. L. " oodson.
City Clerk. Geo. W. TOmpkins.
City treasurer. 90. III. r.. Linn.
COLLECTOR ..'.'.....,.. ..............J. E. Fish.
Assessor ..............A X Rutledge.
street Commissioner.. 8. Jarman,
ALDERMEN; First ward-J. S. Scott J II.
Grady:
Second wurd-D. A.Ely. J. W. Rel.
Third Ward-A. Boulware. D. d. Nelson
Secret Societies.
MAsoNIC-MonroeLodge No. 81, A. F..
d A. NJ. meets first and third Satur-
day nights of each month.
Monroe City r. A. Chapter, No. 1O4
meets fourth Monday nights in each
month.
ODD FELLowS-Monroe City Lodge,
No. 26S, meets every Thursday night.
SUPREME COURT OF HoNoR.-Mon-
roe District Court No. 467 meets
every Monday night.
A. o. U. w. Monroe City Lodge, No
168, III is first and third Friday
nights of each month.
MODERN WooDMEN-Monro City
Camp, No. 2236 meets every Friday
night.
The r. N. of AS meet 1st. and 3rd-
Tuesday evening in the NJ. w.
A. hall.
2. E. o. Sisterhood, Monroe City
Chapter Fl. meets the second and
fourth Saturdays in each month.
MASONIC, Colored.-Advance Lodge
No. 3, meets first and third Tuesday
nights in each month.
BETHLEHEM CHAPTER No. Al meets
list Thursday in each month.
| VIRGINIA COURT meets 1st Thursday
in each month
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-04-26

The baby buggies belonging
to the colored matrons of this
city are always loaded and of.
ten queer looking tricks. Most
of them have fancy bodies,
fancy brake and rubber tires.
When they are loaded with
mites that descended from AT
rica's sunny cline the are "OK"
but when not in that service
they are loaded with washee
W ashee and then they are a
81 ght to behold.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-04-26
Churches

GRACE BAPTIST-At l. o. o. F.
hall. Preaching every Sunday HOO
a. m. and 7:30 p. IN. Sunday school
9:45 a. IN. B y. 2. U. 300. Prayer
meeting Wednesday.
BAPTIST-Preaching every Sunday
morning and evening Sunday
school at 9:45. B. Y. p. u D.
IN. Sunday. Prayer meeting Wed
nesday evening Deacons meeting at
2 p. m. the last Sunday in each
month. Dean ]. r. Pentuff, Supply.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ever Sunday
at IL a. m. and 8 p. m. Prayer
meeting Wednesday evening. Sum
day school at I. Y. P. S. C. E.
meeting at 2 p. m. Sunday. NJ. j.
NicOson, pastor.
NJ. E. CHURCH, SOUTH-Services
every Sunday morning and evening.
Sunday school at $3.50. Epworth
League at $3.50 Jr. Epworth League
at 230 p. m.Mid-week prayer meeting
Wednesday evening. WomanS
Home Mission Society," Thursday
in each month. Womans Foreign
Mission Society Thursday in each
month 2:3o Rev. J. A. WALES,
pastor.
ST. JUDE'S EPISCOPAL-Sunday
school at 9:45 a. m. Preaching at
HOO a. IN. and 200 p. m. Sunday.
Evening prayer meeting 500 p. IN!
Friday. Rev. w. a. Hatch, Rector.
PRESBYTERIAN - Services second
and fourth Sundays morning and
evening. Sunday school 9:45 a. m.
Y. p S. c. f. meeting 700 p. IN.
Sunday. Mid-week prayer meeting
at 500 Wednesday evening. j. E.
Travis pastor.
CATHOLIC-Servlces at 500 and 1000
a. m. second and fourth Sundays in
each month. Father d. f. Sullivan.
pastor.
BAPTIST, COlored. Services the first
Sunday in each month. j. Is. Haw-
kins, pastor
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-04-26
DAN PEDRO.

This Jack is too we'll known for any
comment. He was shown at Palmyra
Fair in 1898 and took first premium
over four other Jacks, some of whom
have been taking first at this fair for
years. This was the first time he was
ever shown. He is Kentucky stock on
both sides. For pedigree call at
stable. hold colts from my stock
good for season. If mare should be
disposed of without my consent,
season becomes due and must be paid.
This fine Jack is very black, with
mealy nose 154 hands high, fine head
and ear, very heavy body and bone.
has proven a sure foal-getter. He
will serve m ares at $500 to insure in
foal. Will serve jennets at $40 for
jennet foal and SIS for jack colt.
IF. MOSS. Ely, Mo.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-04-26

Appraiser Workman of New
York has concluded that the
Paris exhibition will cause the
Republica party to loose the
presidency this fall, He says
that from $4,000 to 10000 men
will go from New York to Paris
and that three-forths of them
will be republicans and that it
will hold good over the country,
of course it will hold good
over the country for they are
the people who have money
made out of the people there
fore have it to spend.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-04-26
HAD EARNED THE RIGHT.

The late Richard w. Thomp-
son, ex-Secretary of the Navy,
in posthumous reminiscent
a rticle in the Self Culture Mag
azine, tells this story:
after Jackson's election he
was called on to remove the
holder of an important Office,
and he promised to give the
matter due consideration. When
a Democratic member of Con-
gress afterward called upon him
to learn his decision, he said:
i cannot remove this officer.
The Congressman, confused by
this answer, said, why, Mr..
President, he has abused you
most violently. To this jack
son responded: Il have learned
this and believe it, but I have
inquired into his history and
understand he was a gallant
officer of the revolution-that
he fought bravely in frequent
battles under Washington and
was especially distinguished in
the battle of Brandywine. Such
a man has the right to abuse
anybody he pleases. 7 will not
remove him."
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-04-26
PETTICOATS.

All the new petticoats are
fitted to the form with special
care. A number of French mod
els are shaped to the figure over
the hips by having the material
tinely plated. The faring
Aounce which starts at the
knees is invariably trimmed
with lace frills and insertions.
Sometimes it is cut circular nd
then is straight and gathered.
These skirts are made with
two founces, and the under
honnce is generally trimmed
with a plated or gathered lace.
edged frill. Much lace inser.
tion is used as a trimming and
the clever joining of laces is a
feature of this seasons skirts.
In heading the tlounce which
forms the lower part OF the
latest petticoats many novel
ties are introduced. Some show
the flounce headed with merely
a fine line of fancy silk hem
stitching.
Others are decorated with ex-
quisite hand embroidery, and
then again the heading of the
flounce is defined by a dainty
lattice work design of wash
ribbon, baby width, run through
lace beading. The majority of
the elaborate petticoats this
spring are all made with short
trains.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-04-26
Court Directory.
MONROE COUNTY

MONROE COUNTY.
Circuit Court-Meets at Paris third Monday
in April and fourth Monday in October.
Probate Court-Reguiart terms at Paris, second
Mondays in February, May, August and
November.
MARION COUNTY.
Circuit Court-Meets at Palmyra, second
Monday in February and first Monday in
September.
Hanni sal Court Of Rommon Pleas
seccud Monday in January. first Monday in
May aud third Monday in September.
RAILS COUNTY,
Circuit Court-MeetS at New London, third
Mondays in March and August.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-04-26
Starlight and Peacock.

These two black jacks, with white
points, are 15t hands high. will make
he season of 1900 at my mule barn AZ
miles N w of Monroe, miles N E
of Hunnewell.
Starlight is the Outright jack that
made the season of 1898 at Sam Sparks
barn. have mules of his get on the
farm to show his breeding qualities.
Peacock is known as the Hank Ely
jack. Any one wishing to know hi
breeding qualities, enquire of H. w.
Ely. or r. X. Megown. These are both
fine jennet jacks Come and see them be-
fore breeding.
Harry A, MeClinti
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-04-26

JERRY SIMPSONS CATECHISM.
Who was the author of the
Declaration of independence?
Answer-Thomas Jefferson.
Who destroyed that declara-
ton?
William Mckinley.
Who overcame the money
power and destroyed the United
States bank?
Andrew Jackson.
Who turned the United States
treasury over to the national
banks and gave one of them the
use of $40, 100000 without inter
est?
William Mckinley.
Who destroyed slavery in the
United States?
Abraham Lincoln.
Who re-established it by pro-
tecting it in our island domain?
William Mckinley.
Who promulgated the Monroe
doctrine?
James Monroe.
Who destroyed the Monroe
doctrine?
William Mckinley
Who declred that the United
States should have no entang-
glin foreign alliances?
George Washington.
Who is trying to mix up the
politics of the old world by a
war for greed, gold and gloryH
William Mckinley.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-04-26
THE RAILROAD IN EDUCA.
TON"

An interesting, instructive
booklet by Prof. Alex. Hogg-
special Enthusiastically
bound in cloth-title in gilt let
ters-contaius illustrated chap.
ter on the magnificent st. Louis
Union Statiou-sent free upon
application, accompanied by &.
cents postage.
@. S. CRANE,
G. p. and T. A, Wabash r E,
st. Louis.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-04-26

Gen Davis will spend $4,000
900 on good roads in Porto Rico.
If Uncle Sam has any money to
spend on good roads it would
be a pious idea for him to begin
at home and not build them for
the people whom the admins
tration refuses to recognize as
Americans.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-04-26

Who discovered the Philip
pin islands?
A. Jeremiah Beverage.
Who discovered Aguinaldo?
Admiral Dewey.
Who discovered the sultan Of
Sulu;
William Mckinley.
Who discovered Mckinley?
Mark Hanna.
Who discovered Mark Hanna?
The devil.
What is the difference between
King Georges war against the
American colonies the Queen
Victoria's war against Dutch in
South Africa?
There isn't any.
What is the difference between
Queen Victoria's war in South
A frica and McKinley's war in
the PHILIPPINES?
No difference.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-04-26

Gen Joe Wheeler has learned
late IN lite that he could not
eat his cake and keep it to, He
has requested Gov. Johnson, of
A labama, to call a special cleo
ton.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-04-26
Young Edwin,

The, Black Saddle Stallion owned
by j. A. BiXler, will make the present
season at the Wadsworth stable at
the west end of Summer st.
TERMS: SO to insure living colt.
PEDIGREE: Sire Gloster l45 by
Blue Jeans 3. Dam. Nettie Rose by
Montrose log, End, dam Bird 53S by
Randolph Jr. Bird. dam by Robinson's
Denmark, 4th. dam by Brutus.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-04-26
GOV. STEPHENS ON WINE.
ROOMS.

every well-posted man in
the state knows that / am an
xious to have the winerooms in
st. Louis closed. 1 have been
in correspondence with the po-
lice commissioners and with the
excise commissioners for a year
on this subject, They have
made me believe they have done
and are doing their duty. 1
have confidence in my appoint
ees in st. Louis, and, while l
am growing more or less impa-
tient at the poor progress they
are apparently making, l am
not disposed to find fault. If
there is wineroom left in st.
Louis on Jan. 4, 1901, I will be
disappointed and will feel that
l have been imposed upon"
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-03-29


There are few things that are often
more poorly managed than the straw
berry bed. Again and again has the
writer seen beds that had been started
out we'll, but that had become entire
failures through mismanagement. Of
ten it is due to the ground being in o
condition that makes success impos
sible, and at other times it has been
on account of an sily-explained de.
sire to have the plants make great
growth of foliage. This growth OF
foliage is all right on individual plants
provided the plants are each given
sufficient room to develop, but when
the growth is on a multitude of plants,
as it is often, and these plants are
crowding one against another, the
blossoms are few and the ripe berries
are fewer and smaller.
The unprepared ground is no place
for a strawberry bed, but the tempta-
tion to use such ground for straw
berries is often very great. A case OF
this kind came to the atteu ton OF the
writer about two years ago. Quite
late in the spring neighbor decided
that he would have a first class straw
berry bed So he ordered some hun
dreds of plants. But having all of
his prepared ground taken up with
other things he merely turned over
some sod and set the plants in the
newly turned sod. He hoped that by
the following year the plants would
have secured good growth and would
have SO permeated the sod and under
soil with their roots that the ground
would be loose. He recognized the
fact that the ground was utterly de-
void of manure, save what had come
in a natural way through the decay
ing grass roots. In the fall after set
ting he tried TO work between the
rows and to fork in little manure.
But the ground was very hard and un-
responsive, and, though he had four
OF the best varieties of strawberries,
he did not get pint of berries from
them all the second year. This failure
was due entirely to poorly epared
soil, and without doubt this is the
case with majority of the failures.
The Wilson is hard berry to grow,
but the writer remembers one bed of
Wilson's that proved great success.
1t was made on well-worked garden
soil, and was enriched with heavy
dressing of hog manure. This was
thoroughly incorporated with the soil
before the plants were put on, and the
weeds We're kept down. The second
year the crop of great red, glossy ber-
ries was enormous. It was an Illus
tration of what a properly prepared
soil will do.