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Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-08-01

Belgium legation at Pekiir who "a now
az Shanghai, cables that the allies are
eight miles from Tlen 1Hn and will
reach Pckm within week.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-08-01
Almost Over.

London, August 1.-tspl) The War
Office announces that General Hunter
reports that, LOO more Beers have
surrendered.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-08-01
In a Week.

Brussels. Aug, 1,-(spl)--M. DeCar,
.thler Dc Marchiennc, secretary OF the
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-08-01
DEATHS.

SCHULER-M Mrs. George Schuler,
aged 60 years, died ut the County In
firmary Wednesday. Death was duo
to dropsy. The funeral will beheld ip
Barbcrton.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-08-01
Bond Concert Sunday Afternoon

The favOrite whiskey of famous men
Is RARFER. Because of its smooth,
exquisite flavor; because of it's match.
Less purity; because of its mellow age.
No wonder it's the favoritc. Every
drop sterling, HARPER WHISKEY.
SOLD BY
WM. WASHER
144 South Howard St.,
Akron. o.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-01-04

Where cement floors are to be con-
structed in the barn the work should
be done before cod weather comes
on. The quality of cement to be used
in these floors will be decided largely
by the purpose to which they are to
be put. Ii the floor is of basement
cellar for the storage of roots and
other products, the cheap cement will
do as we'll as the more expensive
kind, but if the floor is to be for the
use of the stock it must be of the best
cement, preferably the Portland ce-
ment. The constant tramplipg of the
stock, especially of sharp shodden
horses, will soon wear away the floor
if it is constructed of inferior material
and the whole floor will prove an ex-
pensive and unsatisfactory affair.
But if the cement be of first quality
and the floor we'll laid, it will give
complete satisfaction and will last for
a generation. If the floor is to he
outside of the barn where it will be
exposed to all kinds OF weather, to
frost and heat, it should be not less
than II to Is inches in thickness, but
IN the barn, where moderate protec-
ton can be had from the heaving of
the ground, seven inches will prove
sufficient. The final coating of ce
ment need be only one inch in thick
ness, except for the horse stable,
where two inches of the final coat will
give better satisfaction.
AS foundation for this, crushed
stone is better than pebbles, espe-
cially if the floor is to be exposed to
hard usage. Cement floors should
not be used by stock till some weeks
after completion. In the horse stable
at least three weeks should elapse, and
then the floor should be at first we'll
covered with bedding. When the
floors are to be used for cattle, sprinkle
sand over the surface efore the ce-
ment has set, to make them rough and
to prevent the cattle slipping on them.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-01-04
For Pet Animals.

Cemeteries for animals have long
been in use in other countries. and
now there is one in our own New
York City. Two hundred acres of
land on the banks OF the Hudson have
recently been purchased and beauti-
fully laid out for the bodies Of pet
animals. The cemetery is in charge
of superintendent. who receives all
consignments sent to him, and
promptly attends to interrlng the
bodies in the lots of the owners. Out
side of the purely sentimental side,
the scheme is in many ways admir-
able. 1t will tend to prevent the
burying of pets in the city yards in
violation of the laws of the health
boards, and it will prevent their lying
in the streets or in garbage recep-
tacles. The Dell Wood National
Cemetery fills another ''long felt
Want"
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-01-04
"Rent-Ramnars, PicnIcs."

The phases OF life in the great city
of London are SO infinitely varied that
very few people indeed, even of those
who have read in the newspapers OF
the iniquities of "key" money and
the like, know that over whole miles
of ground in the East End of London
the landlords of poor dwellings are
expected to give their tenants treat
or picnic annually, just as great coun.
try landlords give yearly dinner.
The custom obtains also in regard to
the whole of Deptford and district,
even where the lowliest dwellings are
concerned, and the landlords take all
men, women and children--on q
Bank Holiday to Greenwich or to
Blackheath, the children being treated
to sweet nuts, whelks, swings and so
on, while their elders enjoy more full
favored delights.
In the Mile End district, the custom
has become so universal that the land.
lords treats are known to all as
"Rent-Rampers' Picnics," and the
dwellings of certain landlords are in
the greater request in that the latter
are reputed to give such downright
"proper treats" There is a perfect
run on one man who gives all his ten
ants, down to the babies, free day
at Southend each year. Bits.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-01-04
Dewey After the Manila Bay Battle.

Admiral Dewey in conversation
with some friends, told an interesting
chapter in his Manila experiences
after he had destroyed the Spanish
fleet The battle itself he declared,
was nothing, but it was after the bat
tie had been fought and Spain's power
on the sea destroyed, that his troubles
commenced.
'"There were at that time" he said,
''thirteen ships of all nations in the
bay, all of them, with the exception
OF the British, unfriendly, all of them
otficered by experienced men, all of
them watching for the slightest mis-
take that we might make.
1.-The situation was full of complica-
tions. There were any number Of
delicate questions coming up to be
decided, questions which ought to
have been decided by lawyer we'll
versed in international law, and not a
sailor who know only such law as had
been able to pick up, and whose law
Ii rary was extremely limited.
"The situation at one time was such
that it took almost the entire time of
two officers to search the books to see
what we might do and what we were
not allowed to do. Why" said the
admiral, with an expressive gesture,
''a good lawyer at that time, man
familiar with international law, would
have been worth his weight in gold
and diamonds and rubies.'
'And probably, if you had had a
lawyer on your staff" said one of his
audience, "he would have made any
amount of trouble for you and the
government, which you avoided be-
cause you have made common sense
take the place of law. boston Daily
Glole g..
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-01-04
"Stayin' Up Late"

Every one who has ever been )
child will recall that sense of injury
entailed by being sent to bed early
that conviction that you are being de
prived of the most interesting part o!
the whole day. There is really nc
knowing what the elders are up te
when once they get the youngsters
tucked up safe in bed, but it stands
to reason it must be very interesting,
or why would they be in such hurry
to get the youngsters out of the way'
With some children this amounts tc
more than mere feeling. 1t was lit.
tie girl of the latter sort who begged
so hard to sit up just for once that he,
mother one evening, not long ago.
said that she might. How the little
girls eyes danced at the prospect OF
all the wonderful things she would
see for herself upon this, her first oc
casion of "sitting up!" How com
miseratingly she regarded the other
children, who were as usual packed of
to bed at an early hour. She seated
herself in her small chair, and eagerly
awaited developments.
But imagine her surprise when hel
parents, as was their custom, seated
themselves at the library table, and
unsociably, but hygienically, turning
their backs to the light, began to read.
For some time the small girl rocked
away in her small chair in silence.
Then came a sleepy, plaintive voice:
''Is this all you do?"--Cincinnati En-
quirer.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-01-04
MIR. Cham mberlaIn EOrgetA.

An incident which is probably unique
in Mr. Chamberlain Parliamentary
experience occurred yesterday. AT
one stage of the Colonial Secretary's
three hours defence of his policy in
the Transvaal he suddenly lost the
thread of the argument he was pur.
suing, looked up at the ceiling With
curious expression, and then ex.
claimed: "Where was ~" Mr..
Balfour, in an undertone, supplied
the cue, and Mr.. Chamberlain, with o
iaunty ooh. yes" Immediately re,
covered himself and resumed at the
point where he left off. The incident
was SO rapid in its action that it
doubtless escaped general observa.
ton. London Chronicle.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-01-04
FOR FARM AND GARDEN.
Roots Exhaustthe Soil.

All kinds of root crops are ve~y ex.
haustive OF soil fertility They are
all great users of the available nitro
gen that the soil contains, and the
turnips also require mineral fertility
as well. We once grew patch of
turnips in field of corn, where,
owing to the wet soil, the corn was
pulled out by fowls, and it was too
late to replant, it. The turnips were
a good crop, but when we came to
harvesting the oat crop that grew on
the field the next year, there was such
marked inferiority of the crop where
the turnip crop had grown that every
passerby noticed it. What the root
crop appears to take is the available
nitrogen. Wherever it is grown a
clover crop should follow as soon as
possible, to restore the kind of fertil-
ity that the roots have exhausted.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-01-04
Use of Lime.

The Rhode Island experiment sta
ton, in reporting the results on ton
of lime per acre applied to their land
in 1894, say that the average of the
crops for four years since that time,
upon ten different plots, show that
alter paying for the time, $3.50 per
ton. there was profit of $45. 10 per
acre in the five years, due to the lime,
as by comparison with unlimed Plots.
The ten plots were all treated with
phosphoric acid in different forms,
but supposed to be of equal value.
The best result was where an alumina
phi sphate, ignited, was used, S62. 35
per acre. and the least, $27. 09, was on
basic Stag. The first year on corn
the stover was increased in every case
and the grain in all but two cases.
In 1895 the corn was followed by oats
md on lined soil the straw increased
in eight cases out of ten and the grain
in six cases, and in those cases the
oats lodged badly. In the next three
years all were in grass, and the lined
plots showed best results in every
case, being more than double in seven
of the plots. With such testimony as
this we shall expect to see return to
the old custom of lining land, espe
cially for grass.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-01-04
Potash for Glover.

A crop of clover requires great
deal of potash, we think in round
numbers about 45 pounds to the ton
of hay, not counting that taken by
the roots which is returned to the soil
as they decay. Naturally potash
would be one of the best fertilizers to
buy to grow clover, if there were no
potash in the SOIL But is hard to
find any soil in the eastern states
which has not good supply of potash.
The trouble is that it is not in form
that can be dissolved and taken up by
the plant, or at least dissolves but
slowly as the sand disintegrates. To
assist in this work, of which nature
does a little each year by decaying
vegetable matter, the farmer needs to
plow in more vegetable matter, green
crops of almost any kind, heavy sods,
clover being the best, and sta ole man
ure. 1t has been estimated that load
of stable manure literates more pot
ash from the soil than it furnishes.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-01-04

crop. If he is foolish enough to dc
80, he will be disappointed. If the
stock-raiser turns his herd or 70 k
into the fields and compels it to shit
for itself for months and years, he will
realize nothing from it. These are
recognized facts. But an orchard
that has never been cultivated and
fruit tree that is never fed are upon
the plane of the uncultivated corntield
and neglected herd'or flock.
The farmer who will carefully cul
tivate his orchard. at least during the
first few years of its life, who will
keep the ground supplied with humus.
who will annually prune under an in
telligent system, and who will spray
every season, will have live orchard.
unless he has planted it on an unfav.
orable site, made bad selection OF
varieties, or has been unfortunate
enough to get trees that were propa.
ga ed from stock that was unfruitful.
There is, however, another cause Of
barrenness which in time will work
out the result, and that is overbear.
ing. If we permit our orchards to en-.
Joy off-year vacations, the time will
come when the trees will be unpro.
ductive. Why? Because in the bear.
ing year they overbear, and their vi.
tality is being sapped. If the fruit
were tninned in these bearing years,
we should get as much fruit and bet,
ter fruit and save the life of the trees.
Agricultural Epitomist.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-01-04
Barren Orchards.

The barren orchard is distressing
sight, and is, of course, profitless ;and
barren orchards are increasing Ger
tainly no sane man wishes to waste
land in growing trees that bring him
no return. If that is true, the barren
orchard must usually be the result of
not knowing how to prevent the bar
renness, and it is. Orchards ly the
thousands are neglected, and their
owners are utterly ignorant of the GER
tain consequences of such neglect.
Out of 100 barren orchards taken just
as they come, in any part of the coun-
try, per cent. of them will be found
never to have had good tillage or a1e-
quate care in any respect If farm
er plants corn and leaves it without
cultivation, he will hardl- expect a
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-01-04
Electric TraInways.

Holland is a country of short dis
tances, and it ought to be an ideal
location for tramways. There are two
electric tramways in operation. One
is from Walls on The German frontier
which is only half mile in length,
and the line from The Hague to Schev-
eningen is somewhat over six miles.
The cars are actuated by accumula-
tors, as the trolley system is forbid .
den.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-01-04
Like Finding Money.

The use Of the Endless Chain Starct
Book in the purchase Of "Red Cross" and
'Hubinger's Best" starch, makes 1t JUS
like finding money. Why, for only Sc yor
are enabled to get one large 10c package
OF "Red Gross" starch, one large 10c pack
age of "Hubinger's Best" starch, with th'
premiums, two Shakespeare panels, print
ed in twelve beautiful colors, or one Twen
tieth Century Girl Calendar, embossed IL
gold. Ask your grocer for this starch and
obtain tho beautiful Christmas presents fret
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-01-04

We offer One Hundred Dollar, Reward for
any ca, e of Catarrh that cannot be cured by
Halls Catarrh Cure.
FJ. CHENEY & Co., Props, Toledo, o.
We the undersigned, have known f. j. Che
uey Tor the last 10 years, and believe him per-
fectly honora BILE in all business transactions
and financially able to carry out any obliga-
ton made by their firm.
WEST g. TRUAx, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo.
Oh o.
WALDINo, KINNAN G. MARVIN. Wholesale
Druggists Toledo, Ohio.
Halls Catarrh Cure is aiken internally, act
ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur
iaces of the system. Price, 75c. per bottle. Sold
by all Druggists. Testimonials free.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-01-04
}S31 PR
GIVEN E,Iz:{


Twentieth Girl Calendar
goods
without doubt the
and all Others
United has superseded every
made
chemically scientific principles by c.
had
successful and sna
Etarcha I'M tua
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-01-04
Florida, Cuba, California and the
SOUTH

The Southern Railway announces for the
winter season the most perfect service ever
offered to the winter resorts of Georgia, Flor.
ida, tuba and California. Operating from
New York the most elegant vestibuled trair
every day in the year. with dining, library
observation and drawing-room sleeping cars
to the principal winter resorts of the country
Excursion tickets are now on sale good tc
return until May 3lst 1890. If you are think.
ing of taking trip, write to Alex :. Thweatt
Eastern Passenger Agent Southern Railway,
211 Broadway, New York, tor full particulars
In addition to the perfect through car ser
vice to Florida now in effect, the New York
and Florida Limited, between New York and
st. Augustine. the most elegantly appointed
COMPANY. viii resume service January 18th
1850, composed exclusively OF dining. library
compartment, observation and drawing-room
sleeping cars New York to st. Augustine.
Also attached to the train is Pullman draw.
ing room sleeping car New York to Tampa
via sanford and Winter Park, and to Aiken
and Augusta.
Wooden legs are used by over 1,C00, 900
EnOliah- a Deakinp men
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-01-04
Poultry Notes.

A quart of feed for dozen hens is
plenty.
1t pays to raise broilers the year
round.
Zone meal is excellent for making
feathers.
Don't feed heavily today and starve
your fowls tomorrow.
Keep fat hens on ground oats and
avoid corn and wheat.
Care and feed affect results more
than the breed you keep.
When shedding their feathers fowls
need rich feed in nitrogen.
Vary the food sufficiently to keep,
the fowls in good appetite.
1t is not difficult to feed q complete
rat on. The addition OF 4 simple al.
ticle to hens ration may make an ex-
cellent layer OF he:.
Roosts should be kerosened every
week to kill lice. The platforms
should oe cleaned daily and covered
with dry earth or plaster.
Moulting hens intended for the
show must be we'll kept in order that
they get their feathers early and in
consequence be ready for early winter
laying.
It is said that the United Stat n
uses more eggs than any other coun.
try in the world, IL, 600, 900, 600 being
required during the year, or 1873 to
each inhabitant.
There is quite difference between
the green, fresh bone, rich in its juices
as it comes from the butcher, and
the hard dry bone which has lain out
in the weather for weeks and months
until it has lost all its succulence.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-01-04

bring the skipper ON deck, the gal
would dive after me, and we'd go
through sorter life-saving perfor.
nance; aud if that didn't make the
old man fall on 'er neck and ask to be
forgiven well, then we'd ave to throw
i'm in next, and let 'er ave try at
saving 'im."
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-01-04

Formerly the dairyman planted the
smallest amount of corn possible for
food for his cows, and depended on
grass and hay whenever possible.
Today we are going gradually more to
corn and less to hay. The reason is
that we can get more from an acre of
corn than we can from hay, both in
quantity and quality. Corn far out.
ranks hay for the dairyman's neel if
it is properly fed. Whether we cut
the crop for the silo before the grain
is ready for harvesting, or simply
raise it for the grain and feed the
stalks to the stock, we get more fo1
our labor per acre than if the land
were used for raising hay.
Corn is wonderful food plant, and
is undoubtedly the finest in the world
The ignorance of feeding the grain too
freely to animals as an exclusive diet,
and causing sickness thereby, does
not in the least injure the real value
of corn as food. 1t merely shows
that the true way to use the crop for
food was not understood. Wherever
corn does it's best, oats and peas thrive
also, and these crops are intended by
nature to supplement that of corn.
They should be raised in limited
way with corn, and fed in conjunction
with it. Then the dangers to cattle
so often threatened by injudicious
feeding of corn will be averted.
With an ample supply of corn and
some oats and peas we have stan
dard of ration that cannot we'll be ex-
celled. These crops should be raised
so that the dairyman need buy as lit
tie by-products as pora:l..c. The
fashion has become in recent years to
recommend the feeding of products
of factories, such as linseed and cot
tonseed meal, and to ignore the by
products of the farm. Undoubtedly
this fashion has helped the large con-
Germs operating in these by-products,
and the prices for them have steadily
advanced under the demand, so that
today when farmer pays n good
round price for a ton of any of these
by-products it is question whether
it would not pay him better to buy a
ton of oats or corn from neighboring
farmer at the market price.
We should learn to depend upon our
farm crops for feeding, so far as pos
sible, and with little skill in man
agement, it is all easy matter not to
be forced to buy any food for the
stock. In this age of science and in
te ligent farming, every dairyman
should know something of the rela-
tive value of foods, and of the relative
cost OF raising them in different sec
tions of the country, but by the way.
that some neglect their opportunities
and drift with the tide, it would seem
as if the business of dairying was
crowded with many left overs from
other professions, and took to this
business as a last resort. Sooner or
later such people will learn that it
takes skill, industry and intelligence
to be successful farmer or dairyman.
f. P. Smith in American Cultivator.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-01-04
A FABLE.
From the French.

plowshare that long had idle lain,
Tarnished with rust's corroding stain,
Seeing his brother pass that way,
All radiant from work at close OF day,
Addressed him thus: "My brother, why
More brilliant and polished art thou than
l?
Dur substance, is 1t not one in name?
We're we not forged by hands the same?"
HIS brother replied in proudest tone:
i am what am through work alone!'
William West
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-01-04
Sick Women Advised to Seek
Advice Of Mrs. Pinkham.
(LErTHR TO MRS PINKHAM NO. s4,s6,l

(LETrHR TO MRS. PINKHAM NO. s4,s6,l
al had Inflammation and falling
of the womb, and Inflammation of
ovaries, and was in great pain. took
medicine prescribed by a physician,
but it did me no good. At last heard
of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, and after using it faithfully I
am thankful to say l lam we'll women.
/ would advise all suffering women to
seek advice of Mrs. Pinkham."-MRs.
G. II. CuAPPELL, GRANT PARK, ILL.
-'For several years my health was
miserable. I suffered the most dread
full pains, and was almost ON the verge
of insanity. I consulted one Of the
best physicians in New York, and he
pronounced my disease fibroid tumor,
advising an operation without delay,
saying that it was my only chance for
life. Other doctors prescribed strong
and violent medicine, and one said I
was incurable, another told me my
only salvation was galvanic batteries,
which tried, but nothing relieved me.
One day friend called and begged me
to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound. began its use and took
several bottles. From the very first
bottle there was q wonderful change
for the better. The tumor has disap-
peared entirely and my old spirits have
returned. I heartily recommend your
medicine to all suffering women. =
Mrs. VAN CLEFT, 416 SAUNDERS AVE,
Jupcrv Cvrv Huyoura N T
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-01-04
what Do the Children Drink, ,

Don't give them ten or coffee. Have
you tried the new food drink called
GRA1N.O? 1t is delicious and nourishing,
and takes the place OF coffee. The more
GRAIN-O you give the children the more
health you distribute through their sys-
tens. GRA1N-O Is made OF pure grains,
and when properly prepared tastes like
the choice grades Of coffee, but costs about
Il as much. All grocers sell it. 15c. and 25c.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-01-04

Russia's Asiatic possessions are
three times the size of Great Britain's,
but hold only 100000 Inhabitants,
as compared with England's 297, ,000,.
900 subjects.