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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-01-03
HiIlinr sweet Potatoes.

The rotting of sweet potatoes in the
hill during the winter months is q
common cause of complaint, especially
during season OF continued wet.
freezing weather. The trouble is more
often caused by neglect or improper
hilling, than from any other source.
Sweet potatoes properly banked will
never rot under any circumstances,
but will keep sound and in good shape
until the following spring. Potatoes,
in the first place. should never be
gathered until fully ripe, or until
after killing frost has wilted the
vines. They should be harvested on
q dry day, with the sun shining. il
possible. Potatoes put in the bank
should be dry and free from all cuts
and bruises. Bank the seed potatoes
to themselves, using the smallest
tubers for that purpose. In prepar-
ing the bank raise the bed for the
potatoes six or eight inches, put down
thick layer of straw or shucks and
carefully pile on the potatoes in sugar
cane shape, about thirty bushels to
the hill. Next, cover the potatoes
with layer of cornstalks or straw,
and over that place layer of boards,
breaking the joints, leaving an open
ing about six inches round at the top.
Over the boards throw thin layer of
dirt one inch in thickness, and cover
the top with plank to shed the rain.
Trench around the hill at the bottom
to carry of all water. About the first
of December throw on two inches OF
dirt and close the hole at the top.
Potatoes will keep sound banked in
this way. Atlanta Journal.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-01-03

An old Irish laborer walked into the
luxurious studio of famous artist,
and asked for money to obtain meal.
He explained that he had just been
discharged from the county hospital,
and was too weak to work. The ar.
tlst gave him shilling and he de.
parted.
One OF four young ladies', ari
students, who we're present, said:
"NIr. Longhair, can't we hire the
old man and sketch him?"
The artist ran out and caught him,
and said:
''If you can't work and want TO earn
five shillings, come back to my rooms.
The young ladies want to paint you"
The old fellow hesitated, so the ar
tist remarked:
ut won't tax ke long, and it's an easy
way to make five shillings."
''I know that" was the reply, "but
I was a-wunderin' how I'd get the
paint off afterward." - Pearson's
Weekly.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-01-03

A lively experience with a twelve
foot striped shark came to Boatmen
Harry Johnson and Bob Barnard, re-
lates the San Francisco Chronicle.
Tney were fishing between Mission
Rock and Goat Island when they saw
the shark. 1t followed them persist
emily, and once when 1t came boldly
up to the boat the boatmen set upon it
with oars, stretcher and gaff A blow
from the big brute's tail came near
capsizlng the Whitehall. Barnard
barely escaped being drawn into the
sea through sinking the gaff into the
body of the shark. which set Off at a
terrible speed, pulling the boat after
him. 1t was so weak from the blows
and from loss of blood that 1t was
finally conquered. In the fight the
boatmen broke one oar and stretcher.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-01-03
Weeds and Waste Places.

Weeds take possession of waste
places. The best way to fight weeds
is to occupy the waste places before
them, by putting in some crop that
will require all the ground. The
writer has frequently noticed in our
larger villages lawns that have been
prepared for seeding left barren for
the greater part of the season. One
man fixed his lawn in August and
left it unseeded till the following
spring. He said some one had told
him that spring was the time to put in
the seed and he was following that
advice. But in the meantime the
various weeds in his locality had
ripened their seeds aud sown them
broadcast. The next spring, after
the grass seed was sown. a rank vege-
tation appeared on the lawn referred
to, but it proved to be mostly weeds.
The owner then went to work to dig
out the weeds one by one, and ex-
pressed himself astonished that weeds
should so soon take possession of a
new lawn.
When ground is prepared for a
lawn it should be sown at once, or, at
least, the period of barrenness should
not overlap the time when all kinds OF
weeds are shedding their seeds. If
the lawn have good growth of grass
there is little chance for the weed
seeds to get hold, and if they do, they
will generally be stided by the grass
What is true of the lawn is true of
the farm generally. Weeds take pos
session of waste places, and in most
cases make way for the advent of grass
and sod. The thrifty farmer does not
worry much over weeds, fol he knows
that they can be vanquished by well.
cultivated crops or grass. Farm,
Field and Fireside.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-01-03

ly put out all over the country do very
we'll on the road, but they do not fill
the bill on the farm. The wheels are
as rule too high and it takes one side
OF ten-acre field to turn round in,
unless the body is made so narrow
that it won't hold anything. We have
had our farm wagons of late years
made to order in the following man.
ner: The front wheels are forty inches
high, hind wheels fifty inches. We
prefer broad TO narrow tires for farm
use. The front axle is made eight
inches shorter than the hind one.
Hind bolster nine inches wide, front
one ten inches. The break is fastened
to the gear. The standards are made
of iron, projecting above bolster 81
inches, and extending down through
same and taking a nut. The width of
body is tifty-one inches, almost foot
wider than ordinary beds. The front
wheels turn under the wagon bed, and
by this means you can turn round in
very small space, as is often neces.
sary to do on the farm. The double.
tree extends out on either side even
with the front wheel, thus throwing
your horses far apart, aud on the road
they follow the wagon track. Thus
distanced they are not humping each
other or treading on each others feet
in turning round.
In addition to the regular wagon
body we take two scantling sixteen
feet long, two inches thick aud siy
inches wide, and ON this we bolt on
cross-pieces, a, two at each end, one
on top and another on bottom of rail,
and then bolt one piece in middle, b,
on the under side of rail. This makes
good support for the floor, aud thus
we have good rack for hauling all
kinds of grain, grass or straw. Out
side this frame, between the rails and
hind wheels, we nail board, @, about
three feet long aud fifteen inches wide,
to keep the hay or grain off of the
wheel. Or Instead of board, frame
can be made ont of 1x3-inch Stats to
answer the same purpose. This rack
is also very convenient to haul threshed
wheat, potatoes, fertilizer or anything
that is in bags, and being low down is
easily loaded and unloaded. If O
farmer tries this sort OF an outfit onca
he will not have any other. 1t costs
little more to have wagon made in
this style than to buy one as usually
found on the market, but this addi.
tional cost is nothing compared with
the great convenience found in using
such wagon for all purposes on the
farm. American Agriculturist.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-01-03
KANsAs's WORST PRAIRIE FIRE.
rhoughtIessly Set by an Army onicer
who Has Since Become Famous.

The greatest prairie fire known in
Kansas was in the year 1869, and it
was set by an officer of the United
States Government. This officer is
now in Washington, and, during the
Spanish War, his name was more fire.
quently in the papers than any other.
One day in 1869 he and q party OF
officers from Fort Hays were return
ing from n wild turkey hunt in the
cnnons of the Saline. The wind was
blowing a hurricane, and when a stop
was made on the high prairie somo
ten miles north OF Hays this officer
deliberately touched n match to the
dry, crisp grass ia order to make q
spectacle. When the other officers
saw what he was about to do they
made desperate effort to stop him,
but the deed had been done and the
red flames were reeling across the
prairie like frightened antelope.
That fire swept from where it had
been started clear across Kansas into
what is now Oklahoma. The streams
and roads offered no obstacles to it
whatever. While going south it had
also turned to the east, and left trail
OF ruin across Rice, Reno, Kingman,
Harper and other counties. Thou
sands OF settlers were burned out,
losing their houses and their feed,
their horses and cattle.
If the man who set that fire had
been known to the settlers all tho
troops on tho plains would not have
been enough to stay their vengeance.
As it was, he suffered remorse beyond
description. When the officers at
Hays would bring him papers telling
of the damage done he would groan
and curse himself roundly. He left
Hays for some other post in the fol-
lowing year, and, so far as we know,
his name was never connected with
the gigantic prairie fire of 1S69.-Kan
sas City journal.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-01-03
A Good Trick.

A wandering straightforward man
was entertaining some loungers with
an exhibition of his tricks. After
showing u good number of them he
said: .s ....
"But have one good trick that !
call the quarter trick.
OF course they all wanted TO sec
that, So he instructed good number
OF them to give him silver quarter of
d dollar, after having marked it aid
carefully noted the date. About a
dozen of the bystanders did so, and
he took them all, shook them up, aud
then showed each man another
quarter than the one he had marked,
accompanying each quarter with the
questions:
sis that yours?"
Each man, OF course, said "No,"
and he strolled away, saying:
"rhen they must all be mine"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-01-03
The Piano in Atchison.

Why learn to play the piano? Miss
Ida Simmons, wonderfully clever
performer, came to Atchison u short
time ago, and only dozen people
turned out to hear her. She has
spent fifteen or twenty years in the
hardest sort of practice, and is really
q wonderful performer; she can do
wonderful things with her fingers,
but what of it? People don't care il
she can. Anyway. they will not 30 to
hear her play. Why should mothers
compel their daughters to practice
four or five hours . day, and annoy the
nsiRhbors?- s?-Atchison lKan.l Gloha>
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-01-03

Two thousand persons are employed
in the Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing at Washington. Four bills are
printed at one time in this depart.
ment, or 275, 900 sheets of bills, bonds
and postage stamps daily. The only
new bills issued by the Mckinley Adj
ministration are the ones and twos,
silver certificates. The designs of all
bills are submitted to the Secretary of
the Treasury.
When the plates for bills and bonds
become useless they are boxed, and
once year Congressional Commit
tee, appointed by the Secretary of the
Treasury, goes to the bureau and ex-
amines them. They are then again
boxed and sent to the Navy Yard,
where they are melted and made into
paper weights or trinkets and sold to
dealers of curios. The paper-weight
known as the head of President Nc.
Kinley was made from plates from
which ten n-thousand-dollar bills were
printed two years ago.
The paper en- which all money and
bonds are printed is made by firm
in Massachusetts,, which has had the
contract for making such paper since
the first greenbacks were made. An
employe of the Government is at the
factory, who watches the manufacture
OF every sheet. The paper on which
postage stamps are printed is made by
n Pennsylvania concern.
The biggest denomination of bill is
$4,000. The biggest bond is $50.
900; the smallest bond Sj0.-New
York World.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-01-03

by local appl lea tions,as they cannot reach the
diseased portion OF the ear. There Is only one
tional remedies. Deafness Is caused by an in
famed condition OF the mucous lining of the
Eustachian Tube When this tube gets in
feet hearing. and when II Is entirely closed
Deafness is the result, and unless the inf1am-
nation can be taken out and this tube re-
etored toit normal condition, hearing viii be
destroyed forever. Nine cases out Of ten aro
caused by catarrh, which Ia nothing but an
infamed condition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case of Deafness (caused bv catarrh) that
cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure. Send
for circulars, free.
+. j. CHENEY & Co, Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists 75c.
Halls Family Pills are tho best
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-01-03

A new variety of the everyday phi
losopher" is pictured by the Chicago
News in the person of man who, 1t
says, came racing down the iron steps
which led TO the train-shed at the
Northwestern depot. just as n train
was pulling out. He was stout and per-
spring. and his arms were filed with
bundles. Everybody got out of his
way as he chased the rear car down
the long platform, some shouting ad-
vice and pleasant comment after him.
Some sportively inclined people offered
of catching the train, and others
laughed at his grim determination. But
he caught 1t and was hoisted up on the
platform by trainman without the
loss Of bundle. He shook his fist at
the cheering crowd behind him, and
went inside the car with the blessed
sense of having won. 1t was only
when the conductor came around for
his ticket that he learned that he was
on the Milwaukee division train
when he should have been moving to-
ward Park Ridge. which lies in diff
ferent direction. Most men would have
said something ugly. This man only
smiled. There's one comfort about
g." said he. "Those idiots in the depot
will never know how | fooled them.
TSev think | caught the right train"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-01-03
Try Grain-O, Try Grn;n-or

Ask your grocer to-day to show you n
package OF GRAIS-O, the new food drink
that takes the place OF coffee. Children
may drink 1t without injury as well ms tho
adult. All who try It like IL. GRAtS.O
has that rich seal brown OF Mocha or
Java, but is made from pure grains; the
most delicate stomach receives 1t without
distress. Il tho price OF coffee. 15c. and
25c. per package. Sold by all grocers.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-01-03
Beauty IL Blood Deep.

Clean blood means n clean skin. No
beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar.
tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by
stirring up the lazy liver and driving all i'm.
purities from the body. Begin to-day to
Danish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads.
and that sickly bilious complexion by taking
Cascarets, ts,--beauty for ten cents All drug.
gists, satisfaction guaranteed, l0c, 25c, SOC.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-01-03
A Darrell RoosT.

cut shows a simple way to make such
a warm roosting place. The barrels
ehut up close together in use, and the
fowls enter and leave by the opening
that is shown. The barrels can be
removed rs warm weather approaches,
and the usual roosts substituted.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-01-03

In a book entitled Roma Finis
Saeculi," dedicated to Mark Twain,
but extremely serious. a Milan profess
sor. under the pseudonym of Polifilo.
has made a violent attack on modern
archeologists, whom he accuses Of gem
eral ignorance and inconvenience.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-01-03
The Best Farm Wagon.
IAN INDIANA ExpERIENcE.)

IAN INDIANA EXPERIENCE.)
I have often wondered why it was
that manufacturers did not make farm
wagons more especially and partic-
ularly adapted for use on the farm
than they do. The kind that are usual.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-01-03

rise and escape through the ventilator,
but il does not take the carbonic acid
gas with it. That is heavy and IL IL Ia
taken out at all has to be sucked out
by ventilator running down close to
the floor. The warm air that rises has
been heated by the bodies of the ami
mails and not by their breath, and that
is the air that we do not want to es.
cnnn.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-01-03
Electric Burglar Detectors.

Electric mats are In use to detect
burglars. They are SO thin as to be
impsrceptible when placed under Q
carpet. and when stepped upon they
set alarm bells ringing in various
parts Of the house.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-01-03

The fecundity of microbes is prodi-
gious, go much so that IL 10 drps {
water polluted with bacteria are al
lowed to fall into a cup Of broth the
germ population would have increased
in "a hours to 80 900, 900
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-01-03

A little more than 30 years ago n few
workmen of Rochdale. Eng and, Joined
together to purchase a sack of flour
and a chest of tea. That was the be-
ginning of a cooperative movement
which now includes 1000 societies, with
a total membership of 100000
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-01-03

The little town of Turner, Kan,
with its 400 inhabitants, supplied three
soldiers when the call for volunteers was
issued and all OF them died of disease.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-01-03

AT Bellville, Kan, a circus changed
its line OF parade in order that two
sick boys might look out OF the window
and see the procession go by.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-01-03

The number of failures from all
causes In automatic block signals as
with the total number of
of each signal does not cX-
ceed moro than one In 10000
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-01-03
Don't Tobacco sri, aud Smoke Your Life Away.

To quit tobacco easily and forever. be mag
netic. full OF life, nerve and vigor, take No-To'
Bac, the wonder.worser, that mikes weak men
strong. All druggists, Joc or si. Cure guaran'
tecd Booklet and sample free. Address
Sterling Remedy Co, Chicago or New YORK
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-01-03

The largest library of small books
in the world belongs to a Frenchman,
who boasts that he can pack 700 of his
pocket editions i'll a single portmanteau.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-01-03

Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup forchildrcn
teething. soitens the gums, reduces iniinmma-
ton. allays pain, cures wind collie. &c bottle.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-01-03
" AGRICULTURAL. /"
Excellent Roosting Arrangement.

Where small flock of Leghorn is
kept, il is important to provide very
warm reosting place for them if win
ter eggs are to be looked for. The
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-01-03

Educate Your Bowels with Cascnrets.
Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever.
iOc, 25c. II G. @. O. fail, druggists refund money.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-01-03

Big crabs are found in India. Some
OF them measure two feet in length.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-01-03

The Congo region exports about
5000, 900 walking stocks year.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-01-03

Piso's Cure IL the medicine to break up
BLUNT, Sprague, Wash, March 8, 1894.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-01-03
Wow Are Your kidney. .

DR. Hobbs sparagus Pills cure all kidney Ills Sam.
pe free. Add. Sterling Remedy Co.. Chicago or N. Y
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-01-03
To Cure Constipation Forever.
Fighting n Shark.

Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic 10c or 25o
II c. c. Z. fail to cure, druggists refund money.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-01-03

Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are tho best.
The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1900-09-28
NORTH DAKOTA w. G. II. U.
Officers Elected for the Ensuing
Year-RepOrts Submitted.

Officers Elected for the Ensuing
Year-RepOrts Submitted.
Devils. Lake, N. D., Sept. 26. - The
state convention of the w. c. T. U. at
its morning session listened to the re-
ports of Mrs. Dora Stanton, Grand
Forks, on evangelical work; Mrs. K.
v. King, Larinore, on reformation
work; Mrs. U. B. Calderwood, Carey
on procuring homes for homeless chill
dren. The report of the enforcement
league showed that evidence in nearly
200 cases was presented by the league
during the past year. Officers were
elected for the ensuing year as follows:
President, Miss Elizabeth Preston; vice
president, DIR. J. H. Knox, Wahpeton;
corresponding secretary, Mrs. U. Van
debogard; recording secretary. Mrs.
Carrie Allen, Grand Forks; treasurer,
Mrs. Addie Carr, Northwood.
The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1900-09-28
SEVERAL LIVES LOST.

Cloudburst Causes Great Damage
and Results In Loss Of Life &
San Antonio, Tex, Sept. Pa cloud
burst in the valley of the Neuces river
Saturday night did much damage to
property aud also, according to reports
heceived here, resulted in loss of life
on the ranches in that vicinity The
Neuces at Uvalde rose twenty-five feet
in two hours time and broke telegraph
communication. A number of ranches
were inundated and one English sheep
man, Ethelbert Mcdonald, together
with some Mexican sheep herders. are
said to have lost their lives on ranch
in the mountains near Bracket. From
reports Of a colony of nomadic Italians
It is thought that two lost their lives In
the food that went down the Neuces
The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1900-09-28
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Overflow From the Wires In q Con-
depsed Form.

Overflow From the Wires In q Con-
depsed Form.
A rumored engagement which has
greatly interested London society 10
that of Winston Churchill and Muriel
Wilson.
Judge Allen Endicott of Mary's Land
ing, N. J., has ruled that the talk of
q sleeping person may be admitted an
evidence.
The International convention of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
adjourned to meet in 1902 at Chatta-
nooga, Tenn.
The California Cured Fruit associa-
ton of San Jose is highly satisfied
with the situation as it stands to-day.
Prunes are coming into the warehouses
at the rate of about 100000 pounds
day.
made to induce congress at it's next
the navy to contract for at least
twelve small gunboats for service in
the Philippines.
Vitnna papers announce a very in
teresting engagement that of young
Countess Louise Taaffe to DR.. Jacob
F'eldmann. This win create great
sensation in Vienna society," and will
be called mesalliance.
Brig. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee is uneasy
about the future of Cuba. In an inter-
view he clearly indicates that he fears
grave disorders if an absolutely inde-
pendent government is established and
all American trOODS are withdra aWn
Secretary Long has decided that the
wreck of the Maine is of no value to
the navy, and Gen. Wood, governor
general of Cuba, will have it removed.
Gen. Wood says it occupies central
position in the harbor and is danger
GUS to navigation.
The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1900-09-28
c.onntx seat Remosal.

: olivia. Mimi, Sept. 26.-The county
commissioners of HRenville county met
Yesterday to consider the petition for
removal of the county seat from Bea-
yer Falls to olivia. This petition was
filed Sept. 8, and is the largest ever Sc
cured, containing 1856 names. or over
90 per cent of the voters of Renville
county. There have been six or seven
contests for removal prior to this one.
but though the great majority of the
people have desired the removal, some
technical error has prevented 1t IN
each. case. Beaver Falls was made the
county seat about thirty years ago.
Little improvement has been made
since that time, as there is no railroad
and no hotel accommodations.
The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1900-09-28
Acouitted If Murder.

Philadelphia, Sept. 26. = 'Pinney"
Pierce, who was charged with the inur-t
der Of George p. Eyre, was acquitted
yesterday in the Delaware county
court at Media, Pa. After the jury
had been drawn District Attorney
Smith said he had not found sufficient
evidence to warrant conviction, and,
recommended verdict Of not guilty.
Eyre disappeared from his home In
Chester, Dec. 9 last, and his body was
found a month later at the mouth Of
Raccoon creek, N. ]. James Pierce. 9.
brother Of ''Pinney," who was arrested
charged with completely in the murder,
committed suicide in his cell a few
months ago.