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ture is conducted on t4e MhoIe n
plan. StS5s ~ e:
The particular plough b ;'iti
Africa was designed
Templsr, of the Royal Engineers and.
differs only in triAing details ranf
that with which the American eats|
grower breaks up the surface of the1
fertile prairie. The superiority 81
this means of digging trenches Isl 40,
manifest that one wonders why ;ssSsi
never thought of before. a. three
wheeled Traction engine, ":sach as is;
employed in hauling heavy wagons
from town to town or in operating
itinerant threshing machines, dlaXs
the steam plough of Colonel TempRsE
through the soil. Two of the wheelA
are large and broad, and the thirdsss
out in front, carries only small pafs
of the load, and is used mainly f0S
steering purposes. 80 -
There is nothing especially new in
the resort to telephony. The Amert
can Signal Service has long had ample
equipments OF this kind for field work:
particu' arly in tie dissemination OF
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A Famous Western Capitalist.

Among the progressive element for
which the middle West is famous, Mr..
John G. Hubinger, of Keokuk, Iowa,
is without peer. AS manufacturer,
as an enterprising capitalist and as a
philanthropist his fame has spread
over many States. Although but
forty seven years of age, he can look
back upon scores OF commercial
victories, each one of which has bene-
fited mankind, for his liberslity is as
bountiful as his business sagacity is
marvellous. Mr.. Hubinger wGs born
in New Orleans, La, his parents be-
ing of French and German origin. Al
most before reaching mans estate he
secured patents on u number of valua-
bic mechanical inventions, thereby
laying the foundation of his present
fortune.
His attention was early directed to
the manufacture of starch by improved
processes. aud in the course of time
he became the head of concern hav-
ing an annual business of millions
of dollars.
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Modern Mar Mechanism,
Searchiiahts. Steam P!oughs and
Heliographs in South Africa.


As might be expected, the English
are using in the South African war the
most modern military appliances that
can be had. They are thoroughly up
TO date in the matter Of guns and am
munition, and even the surgeons are
using new means Of developing K
rays. The War Office has negotiated
with Marcori's business representa-
t,yes for wireless telegraphic outfits,
and by this time the apparatus ought
to be in service. Moreover, num-
Der of other appliances that are not
necessarily instruments OF war have
been put to use in the contest with
the Beers.
One of the most striking instances
of this kind is the employmentofsa
steam plough for digging trenches.
The ploughshare and pruning hook
are particularly typical of the arts and
spirit OF peace, but now, for the nrst
time in history, the formeriRpl clement
has become military weapon, The
steam plough is not in itself any;
novelty. It has been used for years
on a large scale in the western parts
of the United States. where the great
wheat and corn crops of thsscountry,
are raised. It is also we'll known inl
other parts of the world where agricufss
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Success with Hogs.

If the farmer enjoys the presence of
swine on the farm and takes pleasure
in seeing them we'll fed he will gen.
orally succeed with them, Then tn
only question he need consider is how
many he can handle and keep them
healthy. No farmer should have so
many hogs that he cannot have new
feeding grounds to put them on if
there is danger from disease, or SO
many chat they cannot be. shifted to
different fields during the year. On
an eighty-six acre farm for nearly ten
years we We're able to send to market
in two lots from seventy to eighty
hogs each year. This was the product
of five sows having two litters each
year. But when we undertook to
double the number OF brood sJws and
nearly double the product of fatted
animals we had trouble. The first
year we put on the market over nine.
ty, with no loss worth considering.
The second year when we wanted
to put off 125 we got all our available
pasture land under the tramp of the
hogs, and when disease came we had
no opportunity to divide them and
put them on new feeding or pasture
land. The consequent results of such
conditions were doubtless greater than
they would have been had we been
able to cut the herd to pieces and put
them on fresh land. We shall imme-
diately go back to about the same
number that we had the greatest sue
cess in handling. Instead of five
sows We will keep six or seven, as we
have better shedding and other ar
rengements than we had when we
kept FIVE. We could doubtless carry
the greater number if we had more
lots and spent more time feeding grain
products, but this would increase the
cost of the pork very much over that
made from clover and grass. We aim
so far as possible to convert these
products into pork, and believe it is
more in the line of natures way and
certainly is conducive to the health of
the swine.-John NJ. Jamison, in
Farmers Advocate.
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Sutro and the Livery Owner.

The late millionaire, Alfred Sutro.
upon one OCCASION was unable to hlre
q team in q country town because he
"was not a responsible party" How
much do you want for your team
asked Sutro. Five hundred dollars
and will buy. it back at the same
price when you return, vas the re,
ply. The money was paid over, ana
the capitalist drove off. Ina week ne
returned, had the rig Examined, ana
received back his $500. tHold on,
said the proprietor; you oweme you
for the use of tho team" Never pay
for the use of my own tesmp replied
Sutro, as he walked away.-AahsAs
City Independent. %s
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Barren Ample Trees,

There are many apple trees that
bear from one-third to one-half crop
every year, the portions being barren
alternately, so that the tree is. never
entirely barren. This is apt to be
the case where different varieties are
grated on the same tree, and especial
ly if the grating is done in alternate
years. In other cases cold storms or
frost in the early life of the tree de-
stroyed the fruit at blossoming time
on the exposed side Of the tree, and
as in the years that full crop is pro-
duced on the limbs in bearing there is
little 'chance for fruit buds to be
formed on those parts of the tree and
the habit of bearing alternate years
formed by accident becomes fully es-
tablished.
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A Blind Shot.

A well.known divinity professor, 81
grave and learned man had five daugh-
tiers, whom his students irrevently
named Genesis, Exodus" Mum
bers," "Leviticus" and "Deuteron-
omy."
Beginning his lecture one day, the
professor said: Gentlemen, I wish
to speak to you about the age of Gen.
esis."
Roars of laughter came from the
students.
Genesis is not so old as you sup
pose" continued the professor.
More roars- so long continued, in
deed, that the worthy man had time to
think before he made the next remark.
He said timidly-and he managed to
hit the mark this time: .
"I may not be thinking of the same
Genesis as you are"-Collier's Week,
ly ~
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Aep41k Comes South.

Is It viii beq quite surprise to many
who have visited Billings &, ,Freeman's
store in lebanon and seen what they
supposed was an eugle, to.learn on
The authority of the Rev. G. Downs
that il is but little aux, or&foolish
giliemot, bird that is almost a per-
fectstranger so far inland as where it
was captured. Few particulars are
known of this species, which is very
rare, and has its home in Greenland
and as far north as Spitzenberg. In
Greenland it is called the ice bird. Tt
is not by nature crafty bird, and is
sometimes easily captured. 1t is,
when seen, usually on the seacoast,
and has very peculiar habits in feed
ing. Manchester IN. H. Union.
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wEich it has in the navyare Somewhat
different from those thus far found for
itson land, it certainly has its value
81 terra frma. At Kimberley it has
reformed q double office. It has as
sisted in the watch for an enemy, and
4 furnished an excellent means Of
4sfSfaphing. By switching the cur
eaton and off the light can be broken
4fp into dots and dashes, to form tele-
;0raphic letters. The enemy might
See these signals, but as a secret code
could doubtless be employed, the sig
nifcauce of the flashes would not be
understood except by the initiated.
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Plant Growth and Moisture.

Professor Spillman, of the Wash
ington station, writes that through
every growing planta stream of water
is constantly flowing. This stream
begins at the roots and spreads up
" ard to the leaves, being lost by evap-
Grafton from the surface Of the leaves.
The life of the plant depends upon
thie stream. It brings the plant it's
food, and the amodnt of food the
plant can obtain depends, among other
things, upon the amount Of water that
must flow up through plant and out
at it's leaves for each pound of growth
produced in the plant. 1t has. been
found that to produce one ton of dry
matter equivalent to one and one
sixth tons Of ordinary hay) there must
pass up through the plant into the air
223 to 912 tons of water.
The dryer tie atmosphere, the more
wind there is, the higher these fig,
ures, other things being equal. AS
suming, then, that in this country
the amount is 500. which is not far
from correct, this means that to pro-,
duce one ton of nay on one acre rel
quires 430 tons of water, equivalent:
to 8. 8 inches of rainfall, or irrigation
water enough to cover the ground 81
inches deep. And this takes no &C.
count of the water lost by percola-
tion into the soil and by evaporation
from the soil surface.
Professor King, of the Wisconsin,
Station, found that in sixty-four days
well-tilled summer fallow lost by,
evaporation water equivalent to S.24
inches in rainfall, or ct pound Of
water per day from each square foot
of surface. eff we take the average
daily loss from the soil at only .25'
pound per square foot, from May 1st.
to September 1st," says he, "this'
would be equivalent to 5.27 inches of
rain. T am sure it will do no one
harm to know how much water crop,
really needs; this knowledge oug ght'
to be specially valuable to men who
pay for water by the inch"
If wo could entirely prevent evap-,,
oration Of water except from the plant.
itself, We could, on an average, pro-,
duce FIVE tons of hay with nineteen
inches of water-enough to cover the
ground nineteen inches deep. The
amount of water used in irrigated
countries is usually about fifty inches.
We thus see that crops use little more
than one-third of the water applied to
them under irrigation. Where rain
must be depended upon, the proper
tion is much smaller, for rainfall does
not come to order, but much of it
comes at a time when it cannot be
utilized before it has had time to get
away into the soil and air.
Experiments have demonstrated
that crops make the largest growth
when the amount of moisture in the
soil is between forty and sixty per
cent. of the total amount it can hold,
some crops, of course, requiring more
than others. The effort Of the. farmer
should therefore be to maintain this
amount of moisture in the soil.
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A South Sen Islnnd Bride.

The bridal procession was ap.
preaching. In front, walking abreast,
came the welded pair-tall, hand
some, and of an excellent tawny hue.
The bride, beautiful young girl, ex-
hibited ludicrously absurd appear
ance. Her shapely legs and feet were
naked. She wore low bodice of
scarlet satin, bedecked with shoulder
knots of brilliant blue. Round her
body so many robes, some of the
paper-like barkcloth, others woven of
the native grass, were enwrapped,
that her aspect, instead Of impressing
US, as it doubtless did the natives,
with respect for her wealth, merely
made comic suggestion that the poor
child was paradiug inside q barrel!
Her pretty head, running over with
elose rings of tanstipped hair, was
und0Heged; and her neck and limbs
glis had with oIl. -Blackwood..
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Feeding Rotten Potatoes.

, AS m experiment two lots of fowls
were fed on sound and unsound pota-
toes, the result being that the hens
that were fed on rotted potatoes that
had sprouted became sick, some
dying. This is due to IN active and
poisonous substance existing in such
potatoes, known as ''solanum," the
symptoms being that the poisoned
bird sits on the ground, with its head
down, and so remains until it dies.
Do not feed rotten potatoes to fowls,
therefore, or even sound ones that
are sprouted, and, in fact, do not use
such potatoes yourself.
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lgtspk line passes in the vicinity of
Hand dslaagte. General French's men
tapped one of the wires of this line.
s!h4 rst step was to establish an elec-
z Ss1Qnnaction with the overhead
~ shis was done by suspending
Il 68 metallic hook or clip at
4 4 90 5snn tIie lower end of the hang
= 8 4 & 81 g ,tths ground, Thus a
Ene could be used, according to
3Hvenience of the operator.
congenient substitute for Mar
n apparatus has been found at
KIM tley in the powerful electric
5Sfcslight there. It is a mistake to
pposeS8hat such device is service
slSIe only at sea. Although the uses
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Odd Companions.

A Maine man has a fox and hound
that are boon companions. When
both animals were in the pup stage
they were placed together and have
now enjoyed year of each others
society in peace and harmony. They
sleep together and play with each
other much after the manner Of two
frolicsome pups. The fox has perfect
freedom of action, coming and going
at will, but he always returns at night
to share the dogs bed. d.-Kennebec
(Me.) Journal. y
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Ii Uncle collect specimens species beasts
nhab his newly acquired
ba would biggest show earth the
makabe the The the
grotesqu Oriental animals Its like of pecac
uncovered formations The
avnr fo, is bat The mongoo pest which
should beware importing The beh variety The
hollow
wall over that cannot leave the during the
ne;nc season. Philippine his
wife through small hole M the while When the hatched he
paradise
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I,s;,,1n ,anflant yiljoeiion His Captors.

4 Observation-Disclosures his Cap'ors'
{ { Ben ilioens who was. captured at
Elan dslaagts event about the streets
81 Johannesburg previous to the wal
saying that the, Britiah troops were
only the sweepings Of Che slums, TOR
he had it on good authority put his
opinions underwent sudden cnanee
when he found himself and MS men
surrounded, and the centre OF the Hus-
sar charge. 81 wish the man sao VINO
told me tile British couldn't nght
wero here now" was the Comman-
daut's comment. - Westminster VA
zette.
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at any cost. Often they are allowed
to make and occuny nests in the
vicinity of the barn or house, and re-
main undisturbed on account of the
disagreeable consequences an inter-
ference would bring about. The av-
erage man would rather beard the lion
in his den than risk sn encounter with
a skunk. A pair of these animals
made their abode beneath the floor of
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Of telephony in South Africa just de-
scribed in the dispatches.
After arriving on the field Of battle
at Elandslaagte, General French saw
the necessity of prompt reinforce
ments. In his army were several
telegraphers, who were provided with
portable telephones, batteries and in
cidental apparatus. A regular tele-
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The Chrykanthenum.

The National Chryssnthemum So.
cisty was instituted just fifty three,
years since, in 1916. The flower
which il has taken under its patron
age, upon whose aggrapdizemert it
has bestowed so successfully such
patient and ingenious care, has been
established among us only little
over q century. The first time it was
thought worthy of:a "show' all to it.
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Mornons' Curious Alphabet.

An alphabet intended for exclusive
use in Mormon literature was de-.
signed by Orson Pratt and W. Phelps,
both contemporaries of the great
apostle of the Latter Day Saints,
Brigham Young. The Mormon abece.
Diary consists of forty letters based on
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The Makeup of a Boer.

This is Max O'Rell's recipe for
making a Boer "Take all that is
dirtiest, bravest, most old-fashioned
and most obstinate in Breton; all
that is most suspicious, sly and mean
in a Norman; all that IL shrewdest,
most hospitable, most Puritan and
most bigoted in a Scot-mix we'll, stir
and serve, and you have Boer, or, If
you will, boor. New Io Tri-
bune.
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searchlights have been made whose
rays could be discerned at distance
of fifty or seventy-fve miles. Al
Kimberley it was known that Lord
Methuen's army had come within
twenty or thirty miles nearly fort
night ago. No difficulty should have
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Health the Mainspring Of Success.

The chief essential OF success Tor o.
young man is what the vast majority
of young men think about the least
that is, good health and sound con-,
,stitution. That is the first thing;
nothing precedes it. In thebattle for
success, that should be a young naslt'g.
first thought; not his abilities, nor,
his work, but his health. That is the
basis; the cornerstone of all. Abilities
cannot bring health, but health may.
and generally does, develop ability.
Ladies' Home Journal. -
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through which is thrust the antler Of
what must have been large deer. a,
part of the skull remains attacheds.;
still bearing the other antler, plainly
showing that the deer must have died
upon the spot, being unable to pull
away from the tree after once becom-.
ing fast. Of course the presumption
is that the antler was not imbedded
in the oak when it was full growns
evidently the deer while rubbing his
horns on young sapling, or butting
against it, in some way got fast, and
the tree as. it grew gradually grew
more and more round the imprisoned
prongs. The specimen was found in
the Michigan woods.
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orders from headquarters and the re-
ceipt of reports from subordinates
during all action. 1t is not at oil
likely that the English are ahead OF
the United States in this respect.
However, some interesting features
are presented by one OF the instances
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e While Mr.. Hubinger is devoting his
best energies to the manufacture OF
his new and wonderful product, this
will not interfere with the exercise OF
the splendid hospitality which he, his
wife and his four children dispense at
their palatial Keokuk home.
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the top is covered with straw or corn
stalks. Make the top strong enough
to hold the weight Of the snow that
may fall upon it. If there is no tight
board fence at hand, the back can be
boarded roughly and then banked
right up to and over the top with straw
or other material.-New England
Homestead.
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Cheau Winter Rum.

The accom- mpanying cut shows an
easy way to make sunny winter run
for poultry at little expense, either of
money, time or labor. Some old win
dow sash is set up for the front, and
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An ERectfve Skunk TraD.

Skunks are q nuisance about a
farmhouse or barnyard, and where
the Get into the habit OF raiding the
chicken yards, must be gotten rid Of
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.rhE s Ell zaz \ [ n N Nc

a sort of phonetic system. It has
never cone into very general use, but
is employed when secret Intelligence
is transmitted from one head of the
church to distant apostle.
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* AGRICULTURAL. *
The Private Market Best

As long as a man grows produce for
the public market he must accept
what the public is willing to give; +;
but when he grows for the private
market the public generally gives
what the farmer demands OF them.
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An apparatus has been devised for
automatically photographing people
as they enter shops aud other places
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NIunchausen Corroborated, !,

Munchausen Corroborated.
A very singular geological curiosity
is now on exhibition at.the New York
State Museum of Natural, History, at
Albany. It consists OF section Of
the trunk of large oak tree directly
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KIMBERLEY sEARcHLtGHT
Ga powerful electric light ;is f1sta
the shaft head at the D Beers M
this light signals were erclan
tween Kimberley and the force
Lord Methuen. sssss .f sdis q +
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1900-10-26
Died

In this city, October %, 1900, James S.
Savage, native of County Kerry, Ire
land, aged sixty-four years.
Mr.. Savage was one Of the pioneer res
idents of Western Nevada. He located
on the home ranch in the early sixties.
At different times he was interested in
the wood business and made and lost a
fortune during the pallny days. Fer the
past few years he has been an invalid,
having suffered a stroke of paralysis.
His death was pot unexpected as he has
been ailing for some weeks past. He
leaves a wife and seven children all
grown to womanhood and manhood to
mourn for him. The funeral arrange
ments will be published later,
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1900-10-26
Were They n: Bank Robbers

Will Martin relates an incidcn. that 90"
CURED at Three Rivers, Idaho, jus: prior
to the Winnemucca bank robbery. Three
men rode up to store and held up the
storekecper, securing but $40. They help
ed themselves to clothing. AS they were
leaving the storekeeper asked them to
have cigar and then a drink, and finally
to have bottle. They laughed, but re-
fused. The storekeeper said: "Who will
charge these goods tor One Of the men
replied, ITO yourself" addingin jocu-
lar manner: You are a damned good
fellow, and if we accomplish deal we
are on we will send you 500 in gold" II
they were the bank robbers the promise
was evidently forgotten, as the store
keeper has net yet receivedtthe money
Silver State.