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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-05-02

Senator Hoar's fad is the cultivation
Of flowers. When not in Washington be
spends several hours a day in his gar
den
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-05-02

Fishers FiavOrinS Extracts endorsed
by pure food laws and the g. S. government for their
PURITY and STRENGTH. A. j. Hilbert Co.. Milw.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-05-02

Gov. Wells of Utah was for five
years a reporter on the staff Of newspa-
pers in New York and San Francisco.
Have YOU tried MIR Flavors? If
not, why? Your grocer sells them.
Col. Kekewich, who won distinction
at Kimberley, is one CT the best marks
men in the British army.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-05-02

Frederick w. Willis of Flushing, y.
Y, O1, has been elected manager of the
Cornell university football team Willis
was assistant manager last year and is
also business manager of the Cornell
Alumni News.
A dual track meet between the teams
of Wisconsin and Minnesota universities
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-03-09
Practical Poultry Points.

The pure bred hen will usually
lay more eggs than any cross of the
same breed, and many more than the
scrub hen with mixture of half q
dozen different breeds in her make
up. If she does not it is the fault of
the one who cares for her. Some
breeders really know more about the
markings OF the feathers and shape
of the comb than they do about feed
ing their poultry, and they care more
about having these points just right
than they do about the number of eggs
they receive, says writer in the Gull
tivator. If they can get eggs in the
spring, when they are wanted for
Matching, they are contented with
that.
In this way some strains of pure
bred fowl may have been SO kept and
managed that they produce a less
number of eggs in year ~ they
would under better conditions, and as
the chickens inherit the propensities
Of the parent and the grand parents
they deteriorate in productiveness, as
much as a herd of dairy cattle would
if kept in such way that they were
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-03-09

cattle's feet or about the feed lot soon
becomes nuisance. Accompanying
this description 1 send the sketch of q
rack that will be easyto fill and which
will retain the stalks, allowing the cat
tie to strip off the leaves, corn and
tender, eatable portions. The uneaten
portion can be cleaned out before fill.
ing anew, and the useless stalks piled
up for hauling away or mixed with the
accommodating manure heap, where the
refuse of barn and stable is piled be.
fore being hauled to the fields.
The rack is to be built against the
fence, so that the filling can be done
from the outside of the manager at ''a"
being only high enough to retain the
fodder. The frame of the rack should
be made of 2x4s. The rack "b"
should be made of four-inch fencing
lumber, the Stats about four inches
apart. The outside rack, &C." should
be set out far enough so the cattle can
easily reach down inside to pick up the
chaff. To guard against any waste
here, it is we'll to have the bottom,
&C." foored, and the floor surrounded
by six-inch board. Therac can be
made any length, according to the
amount of stock to be fed. l.. IT,
win, in American Agriculturist.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-03-09
Planning Farm Work.

The farmer should decide upon the
fields he intends to cultivate next sea.
son long before the time comes fol
putting the seed in the ground, and
should try to decide what crops he
will put upon them. In making his
decision, he should consider not only
the adaptation of the soil to the crop,
but how tho work upon the various
crops can be so planned that he will
not have too many irons in the fire.
We know something about it, for we
have been there and have had to pillow
up fair-looking crop while growing,
because it was so weedy as not to be
worth hoeing, as we had been busy
on another field. But the best plans
may be changed sometimes when one
has to do with anything SO tickle as
the New England weather. Even in
sects may force change, as we were
once forced to change an onion bed
into a squash field, because the onion
maggot had appeared in such num-
bers that We saw the crop would be O
failure. We admire perseverance,
but there is such a thing as being too
obstinate, and striving against the in
evitable. Give up when fairly beaten,
and try to retrieve fortune in some
other way.-American Cultivator.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-03-09
II PurInes
the Blood.
Cures
All Eruptions.

About four years ago q London
blacksmith noticed on a secondhand
bookstall very old book priced at 2
cents. He bought 1t. and after at
tempting to read 1t, threw It aside and
soon forgot It. One Of his dodgers
happening to sec the book recently.
and, noticing that 1t was dated 146o.
asked permission to show 1t to the
British museum authorities. A day or
two later the blacksmith was request
ed to call, and the secretary. to his sur
prise, asked him what he would take
for the book. In some slight confus-
ION the man said. What will you
give" "will $3.50 suit your" was the
answer OF the secretary. The black
smith was 90 dumfounded that the
secretary thought he was ridiculing
his offer, and thereupon Immediately
increased It to $500, which was at once
accepted. Sooner than have lost the
book. however. which was the first
book that Gutenberg ever printed, and,
almost priceless. the mus
cum authorities would have paid al
most any sum that had been asked.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-03-09

Red-haired women are ardent and
vivacious, especially if with it they
have hazel eyes, in which case they
have bright and quick intelligence.
They have great deal of natural felic-
ity for study, and good memories.
Red hair with .blue eyes shows tho
same warmth of character, but not so
much intelligence; bright golden hair,
of rich, deep color and of a crisp
and waving texture. growing thickly
ON the head and somewhat low on the
brow, shows an ardent, poetic and
somewhat artistic temperament. 1t
is the signature OF Apollo, the sun.
People with red-brown hair which is
very thick, and redder over the ears
and at the temples than on the head,
are courageous and energetic. This
sort of hair gives sense of color in
painters, force of language and elo-
quence in poets, power in musical
composition. --Woman's Home Com
papion.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-03-09

There has been a great deal of argu.
ment as to which is the best season
for pruning apple trees. Some as.
sert that the work should be done at
a certain period, while others are
equally emphatic that some other sea-
son is much to be preferred, says
writer in the Mississippi Valley
Democrat. And there are great many,
in all, who think that the man who
advised that the pruning be done
"when the tools are sharp" was
about right. 1t is true that the ex-
perts assure us that pruning should
be commenced when the tree is small,
and be so closely followed, year after
year, that there will be no necessity
for removing branches of much size,
even after the tree has reached its
full growth. Doubtless this is all
right from the experts point of view.
For the man who Is able to give his
whole time and attention to the care
of his orchard there may not be q
better plan. Such a man can watch
his growing trees, and with pruning
knife, or shears, or at most fine.
toothed saw, he can keep the top Of
the tree in good shape and can prevent
the growth of branches which would
prove useless or worse than useless,
if they were allowed to remain upon
the tree, instead of being Destroy ed
when they were buds or only small
shoots. But the man whose principal
business is farming and whose time is
largely occupied with the cultivation
of the soil and the care of live stock,
finds such course is altogether i'm
practical. He wants and ought to
have, something of an orchard, but
he must care for it more in a general
way and at "odd jcbs," rather than
follow the elaborate methods which
the professional fruit grower finds it
desirable, or perhaps, even necessary,
to adopt.
For the reason above noted, the
great majority OF farm orchards need
pruning, and, while it is easy to over.
do the work, great many of them
need good deal Of labor to bring the
trees into the best possible condition
for future usefulness. When this
work shall be done is a question for
each owner to answer for himself,
and the answer, if it be wise and
iudicious one, will depend very large
ly upon his location and circum-
stances. If located in the far north
the farmer will not attempt to dc
much with his apple trees until the
next spring is fairly opened. This,
for the double reason, that during the
winter the cold is much too severe to
work in the tree tops with any degree
of comfort, and because when low
temperatures prevail the removal oil
branches at this season would be al.
most sure to permanently injnre the
! trees.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-03-09
A French Road Engine.

The French, thanks to the preju-
dices and interests which have checked
the development OF automobilism in
this country, have taken the lead in
the manufacture of motor cars and
their applications. The Scotte trac-
ton engine, drawing q train of cars on
the roads, is giving satisfaction in the
French Army. Twenty-Five of these
engines can provide an army of 60, 900
men, sixty miles distant, with car
tridges in eighteen hours. They can
also transport fifty cannon of "a"
weighing twenty-four tons each, a
distance of ten miles in single night.
II the Prussians had had such en-
gines in 1879, they would not have
required to wait three and hall
months before getting their guns into
position for the siege Of Paris. Ac-
cording to Moltke, they had tc bring
$50 wagons and over 1000 horses
from Metz for the purpose. A Scotte
traction engine replaces thirty-two
horses, and 200 or 800 of them would
have enabled the Germans to COM
mence bombarding Paris few days
after the investment began. It is
evident that in future wars traction
engines and motor cars will render
important service. London Globe.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-03-09
not up to their standard in. milk pro-

not up to their standard in. milk pro-
duction.
But because certain strains under
this management do not produce many
eggs, 1t does not disprove the state
mont with which we began. Place
the pure-bred hens and chickens I'M
der the care Of good feeder, and in
three generations they can be made to
produce more eggs than can DO pros
duced by any cross bred or scrub bred
fowl. By selection Of eggs from the
best layers AMONG them, this can be
brought about, and the poultry keeper
who expects to grow chickens next
spring should begin this winter to
feed his hens for egg production, and
should watch them to see which to
save eggs from for Matching. We
have never attained the twenty dozen
year mark, and never expect to, for
we cannot devote our time to the
poultry yard, but we believe 1t to be
possible and desirable and think it
possible without losing any of the
fancy points called for by the poultry
standard, though it might take long
er time If we tried to combine the
fancy points and the egg production at
the same time than it would be if we
only selected the best layers without
regard to the markings, as it would
limit our number to select from.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-03-09

In the current number of the Geo.
graphical Journal DR.. Moreno gives an
account of Patagonia, which Is por-
ton of that vast area In South Amer
lea still unknown to geography, and
interesting because of the rich prod
ucts, which 1t probably contains, and
its charming landscapes. 1t seems that
Patagonia does not merit the bad repu-
tation as regards scenery which 1t has
had since Darwin and Fitsroy received
a disagreeabls impression from the
portion they explored. Tho platsaus
of Arizona find their analogy In the
table lands of Patagonia, and the pic
turesque fjords and white mountains OF
Alaska seem to be copy OF the f1ords
and mountains OF Patagonia" The
analogy might be pushed even further,
for 1t seems there is strange similar
ity between the ancient customs and
Industries OF the Alaskan and Pata-
CONAN Indians.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-03-09
IcUBA.s BOILED MILK.
rs Not Nice when Mixed with seltzer 10
the New American Learned.

An American who had recently
come to Cuba was having discussion
with companion in cafe concern
inc what was the best temperance
drink. The companion was insisting
that tau1arindo fria--which Is an
Iced concoction from the tamarind
rrnit--wss the best he could do in this
"Ohl no." said the newcomer,
'.milk is milk anywhere. Give me
seltzer and milk. It's the best tee
totaler's drink In the guide. I've
drink Il from Maine to Frisco"
"Well. have you tried 1t on her ef"
inquired the friend.
aNo." said the other fellow. "but l
will lust to show you that know my
business"
Tbereupon he Kissed at a waiter
who responded and was ordered to
bring d .leche con seltz," which in
plain English is a seltzer and milk.
When it arrived the advocate OF its
merits clinked glasses with his friend
who had tackled fra and then he
took a long pull. :.
"Sptr' he went for q convenient
ouspidor.
"why this milk is sour" he ex.
claimed. "It's pretty near 'clabber.'
It'd make d fellow SICK"
"The milk's all right" insisted his
companion. "Drink it if you think
seltzer and milk is the only thing. Go
on and drink it."
The temperance man smelled the
glass in front of him and then slipped
It's contents. Again he insisted that
it was sour milk that had been
brought to him. He called the waiter
and abused him in English until his
wiser comrade came to the walters
rescue and explained what the trouble
was. All milk in Cuba is boiled as
soon as 1t comes from the COW. In
no other way can 1t be kept, even with
the lavish use of ice. The climate
seems similar in effect to the atmos-
pheric conditions obtaining in the
States during thunder storm when
the good country housewives gen.
orally find their milk spelling on their
hands. Boiled milk is kept in cafes
and bars and restaurants here have
just as fresh milk as in the States and
Is used for the same purposes. AT
first it is rather disagreeable to drink,
but after becoming accustomed to 1t
one does not mind. 1t is great
drink late at night before retiring.
The Cubans generally put. into it o
panale, fakey cake of sugar and the
white of an egg, mixed and hardened.
This sweetens the milk, destroying
the boiled taste and is at the same
time strengthening. But they never
put seltzer in the milk, for that COM
bination makes it taste exactly as
though it were raw milk which had
soured. he iaI- af
Another reason for boiling the milk
here is the prevalence of bacteria of
all kinds, milk being such an absor-
bent that it is dangerous to drink it
raw. The fact that tuberculosis ex-
lists among the cattle is also another
reason for taking this precaution. 1t
is both economical and healthful.-
New York Sun.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-03-09
How Fertilizers Affect Potatoes. y

Three years test at the Virginia ex-
pertinent station seems to warrant the
conclusion that potatoes grown with
out fertilizers contain the greatest
amount of dry matter. The addition
of fertilizer tends to diminish the dry
matter in proportion to the amount
applied. Potatoes grown with sulphate
of potash contain more dry matter than
where muriate was used. The ash did
not appear to be affected to any appre-
cable extent and the same is true OF
starch. Neither the kind nor the
amount OF fertilizer seemed to have
any effect upon the percentage OF nj
trogen, phosphoric acid and potash,
but the percentage of chlorine was
considerably higher when muriate of
potash was used and increased with
the amount applied.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-03-09
* AGRICULTURAL. X
Value of the Separator.


The use of the separator is doing
much toward making winter dairying
profitable, If it is properly managed
all the butter can be taken from the
milk, or so near It as to amount to o
loss of about one pound in thousand.
while the old system of setting the
milk in a room where il might freeze
often caused loss of two or three
pounds in hundred, and sometimes
the butter refused to come at all, or
was worth but little when it did come.
With separator and all the other i'm
proved appliances in the dairy room.
a knowledge of what is good food, and
all the other dairy information which
has been disseminated in the past
twenty years it would seem as if the
dairymen should have an easy and a
profitable business, much better than
we had twenty years ago..
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-03-09
SASH WITH DOUBLE GLASS.

30 that the glass can be set on both
sides of the wooden bars, leaving a
half inch or more of space between.
This gives double window and the
cost is said to be not more than TWEEN
ty-fve cents extra per sash for the
glass and the labor of setting. Those
who are providing windows for new or
remodeled poultry houses will do we'll
to experiment with this plan. The
glazing must be tight and carefully
done to keep out all dirt and dust from
the inner surfaces of the glass. New
England Homestead.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-03-09

In an appendix to Mr.. Chambor1
treatlse on eclipses an account IL
len OF the best means of taking part
o. p tha observation of the eclipse which
will occur on the ssth OF MAY Of mex,
w." This eclipse will be total in ths
y".h.sstern states of North Americs
~ =, southwestern Europe and north
~ Africa. but will be partial in Eng.
,.nd A trip TO Spain or Portugal Is
recommended, and a diagram is given
shaving the stars which are likely to
\. visible in the neighborhood Of tht
.un while It ia covered by the moon.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-03-09

There Is more Catarrh in this section Of the
tountfy than all other diseases put together,
And until the last few years was supposed to be
pronounced it local disease and prescribed
local remedies, and by constantly failing to
cure with local treatment pronounced IL in
con stjtutIonal disease and therefore reouires
constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure,
manufactured by F. J. Cheney G. Co., Toledo,
wartet ' His ta en- int,,rnailv In dosas on from
10 drops to a teaspoonful. II acts directly on
the blood and mucous surfaces of the system.
They offer one hundred dollars for any case
It fails to cure. Send for circulars and testi-
monials. Address FL. CHENEY& Co., Toledo. O.
Sold by Druggists 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-03-09
Single Sashcs Double Glazed.

One of the ways in which poultry
and other stock suffer is from the
rapid radiation of heat from the win
dows at night. Double windows are
sometimes used, but these are expen-
sive, somewhat OF bother to put on
and hard to keep clean.
The cut shows single sash, double
glazed, which a poultryman has re-
Gently described. The sash is made
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-03-09
"Brlck" as a Term of Endearmeut.

A correspondent talks to us seri-
ously Of our chronological error in de-
irving the term of endearment "brick"
from the "well red" undergraduate.
The real origin of the word, it seems,
is the proud reply of king to an in.
vading enemy who Knocked at his un
vailed towns. my troops are my
walls" he answered, ''and every SOL
der is brick. London Globe.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-03-09

Dashaway-Now. II order any
clothes from you, want to be sure
beforehand that you won't dun me. /
want It understood. Can you suggest
any way to avoid thisf" Tailor-Well,
YOU might pay me deposit now, and
tho rest when the clothes are deliver
sd-Detroit Free Press
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-03-09
Q. 8. 3. FOR BAD BLOOD.


II you have old pimples, distressing erup'
lions painful sores on hands, arms or legs
itching sensation, Irritating skin troubles,
eczema, scrofula, ulcers, Blood Poison, fever
sores, rheumatism, cancer or any blood
taint-then give B. B. D. q trial, because
B. B. 3. Botanic. Blood Balm-is made for
just such cases, and 1t cures, to stay CURED,
all stubborn blood diseases that other RENE
dies fail to benefit 81 per large bottles at
drug stores Trial bottle. FREQ to sufferers.
Medical advicelfree. Write today, Blood
Balm Co., 4 Mitchell st., Atlanta, Ga.
Rut few men are proof against the fiattery
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-03-09
A Wonderful 6erm.Killer.

Skin diseases, such ~ tettsr, eczema,
ringworm, salt-rheum, or anything OF
the kind, are cured by Tettsrins. II
kills the germs, and tho skin becomes
healthy. It's efficacy 10 we'll estab.
lished. Hundreds Of testimonials can
be shown by J. 7. Shupsrine, Ssvan-
nah, Ga. Send Doc. for box post
paid il your druggist doesn't keep II.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-03-09
Blood HumOrS
Are Cured by
Hoods
Sarsaparilla

VI was troubled with
blotches on my face,
md began taking
Hoods Sarsaparilla.
Aftct taking one bottle
Y was entirely cured"
Miss ETHEL MIXER,
Clarksburg, Mass.
my brother had a
humor In his blood
which broke out In
friRhtful sores. He
began taking Hoods
ssrsnparilla and It per-
manently cured him. I"
h. L. ELLIS, Mount
Laurel, N. J.
my little boy had q
large scrofula sore on
his neck. I purchased
a bottle OF Hoods Sar-
saparilla and It cured.
I take Hoods as my
spring tonic" Mns.
MINNIE Spear, Parish
r-tiIa NJ "
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-03-09
A Rack For Feeding Corn Fodder.

Fe eding unshredded corn fodder is
hard work, ON account of the difficulty
of handling. There is also greater
part of the stalks that the cattle will
not eat. This accommodating under the
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-03-09

When dog barks at night in Japan
the owner is arrested and sentenced
to work for year for the neighbors
whose slumbers may have been dis
turbed.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-03-09
Is Yours
Snou-Ohite?

There is no getting afound
such q testimonial as this. You
can't read it over without being
convinced. These persons do
not misrepresent. for their testi-
moni.ls are al unsolicited.
Ayers Hair vigor restores
color to gray hair every time.
And it is a wonderful food to
the hair. making it grow rich
and heavy. and keeping it soft
and glossy al the time. 1t is
also an elegant dressing.
slice bsttIs. All druggists.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-03-09

Mrs.winslow's Soothing Syrup for childrsa
teethinf softens the gums rsduc Ing tnflammn
ton, allays pain, cures wind colo. Zoo 8 botd
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-03-09

IcouId not get along without PIso's Oure
for Consumption. 1t always cures.-Mrs. i. O.
MouLroN. Eoedham. Mass. Oct. "a 1894.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-03-09

As an omen of success industry Is better
than a four-leafed clover.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-03-09

VITALITY low, debilitated or exhausted cured
b. Kline's Invigoratiny Tonic FEEx o. trial
bot 10 for weeks treatment. DR.. Kline Ltd.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-03-09

PUTNAM FApELEss DYES arc fast Il
sunlight, washing and rubbing. Sold b.
oil druggists.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-03-09

Love laughs at locksmIths' but never re
refuses key to womans heart.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-03-09
To Cure a Cold In Ono Day.

The average girl can fall in love lot quick
or than she can do up her back hair.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-03-09

In the meantime Alabama pulled on
measly little two-man ftud.