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The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-01-16
A Well-Made Mattress

viii last a life time. but q poor
one is dear 10 you and the seller.
because it hurts trade. Il you
have a poorly-made mattress
with the cords broken or the
springs sagging send it TO us
and have it made over. You
won't know il when we get
through with it.
The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-01-16

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The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-01-16
Turkish Divans, Couches

or any other thing else in the
upholstery line can be made by
US at
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-04-18

The quality of a sample of clover
seed depends upon it's cleanness, the
percentage of germinable seed. the
vigor of termination, and the origin
of the seed. The cleanness of a sam
pie depends both upon It's freedom
from broken seeds, dirt, and other in
ert matter and upon the absence of
weed seeds and the seeds Of other Gull
tivated plants. The seeds of timothy.
white, and alsike clover are often
present, and although they must be
considered Impurities, they can not be
called injurious. Timothy may some
times be present in such quantity as
to be Objectionable, not from the ma
ture or the plant. but because the seed
can be purchased at a much less cost
than clover seed, and a farmer does
not want to pay for clover when he
gets timothy. More serious is the
presence of a considerable quantity of
weed seeds, especially if among the lot
are the seeds of some of the more dan
gerous weeds.
In some localities low grades of
clover seed are demanded because the
clover is to be used as green manure.
and it is thought that the weeds will
furnish green material for blowing I'M
der and can thus do no harm. This is
true to a certain extent, but the weeds
fall far short of the clover as green
manure, and the value of the sod will
be reduced in proportion to the abun-
dance of weeds.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-04-18

reel that the paper lays the foundation
for much future work. The principles
Illustrated here are applicable else
where and should be thoroughly I'M
oerstood by every plant ~culturist. We
peheye that a close perusal OF the pa
per viii abundantly repay our readers.
A Wisconsin nurservman in some
duVlce to nurserymen, says: 1T is
impossible to produce all you sell if
you do a big business. There is no
extensive nursery in the United States
that does. We take it for granted that
tnere are just as honest men in the
BUSINESS as we are, and if they prop
agate and cultivate in the same way
ana with as much care as we do, why
hoC use their surplus goods when we
are snort, and they reciprocate?" That
may be all right from the standpoint
vi the nurseryman, but is it honest?
IL a man buys of one nurseryman he
frequently does so because he has con-
ndence that the man of whom he buys
VIII sell him only what he wants and
ne does not want stock that has passed
through a number of hands before it
reaches the man of whom he buys.
inns is doubtless at the bottom of a
good deal of the dissatisfaction that
Is reported due to falsely named trees.
10 Illustrate: We know a man in IL
llnols who ordered several hundred
trees OF certain varieties of an Illinois
nursery. The Illinois nursery being
out or those varieties, or some of them,
sent TO a nursery in Missouri and filled
the order. The trees sent from the
missouri nursery were not the kind the
man had ordered of the home nur-
sefy, but he did not find this out till
years after when his trees came into
bearing. He was, of course, righteous
|! malignant and reported the facts to
the Illinois nursery. At that time he,
LOT the first time, learned that his
gooos had come from another nursery
Inc Illinois nursery offered to supply
MIN with new trees of the varieties he
had at first ordered, but to the mind
Oh the man (and we agree with him)
thls was no recompense, for he had
lost years of time and spent a large
amount of labor on the trees palmed
OF on him. Ii a nurseryman wants to
substitute the goods of another nur-
sery Tor the ones ordered he should
state the whole case to the buyer and
leaVe MIN to accept or decline the Of
Ter. Any other course is tricky.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-04-18
Corn Weakened by Smut.

The smuts of grain are due to a
small plant or parasitic fungus which
gains an entrance to the grain plant
at some period in it's existence after
the termination of the seed and grows
entirely within the body of its host
until it is mature, when it forms it's
spores or reproductive bodies in some
definite portion of the host, such as
the seed, as in the case of wheat smut
Since the parasite lives at the expense
of the plant upon which it grows, the
latter is weakened in proportion to
the amount of smut.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-04-18
Fertilizers for Grain.

In the experiments of the Central
Station at Wooster, Ohio, where wheat
has been grown in rotation with corn,
oats, clover and timothy, the average
increase per acre from plain acid phos-
phate, applied at the rate of 100 pounds
per acre to wheat and so pounds per
acre to corn and oats, or a total of 800
pounds during the five years of a ro-
tation, has been 4.6 bushels of wheat.
3.6 bushels of corn, To bushels Of oats
and 500 pounds Of hay, while from the
same quantity of acid phosphate, car
ried partly in acid phosphate and
partly in tankage, but REINFORCED by
the nitrogen carried in the tankage
and by a small addition of muriate of
potash, the average increase has been
IL bushels of wheat, 8 bushels oil corn.
8 bushels of oats and 1900 pounds of
hay.
The cost of the acid phosphate used
on an acre in five years has been about
$2.40, while that of the mixture of acid
phosphate, tankage and muriate of
potash, has been about 1915; but the
average increase from this mixture has
been so much greater than that from
acid phosphate alone as to give a to-
tai net profit, owe the cost of the fer
%tilizer, of about $12 per acre in five
years for the mixed fertilizer against
about Sc for the acid phosphate used
alone.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-04-18
waluuts from Sewer Farm.

superintendent Reynolds of the city
sewer farm says that the crop of wal
nuts on the city property will amount
to about three carloads, and that there
will be not more than seven or eight
sacks of seconds" in all three. This
is by far the largest crop the farm has
ever produced and it also leads for
quality. MI. Reynolds sorted over lis
trays Of the nuts and only found a trav
and a half Of second quality in the
whole lot. The nuts have been sold tn
the Ontario Packing Company for sA.
cents a pound for firsts, 6A cents for
seconds.-Pasadena Star.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-04-18
THE NEWEST WOMAN.
The Blacksmith Girl of Kansas Is the
Latest Specimen.

Latest Specimen.
Esther Searle of Cawker City, Kas.,
is the latest specimen of the new
woman. During the two months that
ner brother was absent Miss Searle,
took his place in the blacksmith shop
with her father. Esther was deter
mined that her father should suffer no
inconvenience from the absence of her
brother. In consequence she took hold
of whatever there was to do with a.
heartiness and vim which astonishedl
everyone. Her prowess at the anvil
became the common theme of n
satlon in the vicinity. The Searle
smithy became the rendezvous for
those who had heard of the girl black
smiths fame, and curious people from
Tar and wide drifted into the lifts
city to see the prodigy for themselves.
MISS Searle seemed to be unconscious
that she was he object of so much at
tentlon and continued her duties at
anvil or bellows just as if she were
doing nothing extraordinary. Various
Women's clubs in Kansas and other
states have taken UP the subject, and
a very interesting paper was read at
n of them by an advanced wc,roar
sutfragist recently. In t,.,e course Of her.
remarks this woman said: '"rhe lesson
which Miss Searle has taught us
should mean the regeneration of wom-
anhood We shall never escape from
the thraldom which binds us like
slaves to the mop, the scrub brush and
the dish rag until we put ourselves ex-
actly on the same level as the male.
We must take u place at the forge,
and the carpenters bench, as we have
done at the loom and at the counter.
We must sail ships and mount guns.
blast rocks and mine metals. The
woman of the twentieth century will
be a revelation. She will no longer
be the timid. shrinking shadow of
lordly and domineering man. She will
ask no quarter in fighting the worlds
battle. She will take only when she
can give. She will till the soil and
mine the mountains. She will~run To-
comotives and drive electric motors
play football and baseball and do any,
thing and everything to develop that
side OF her nature which has lain dor
mant for centuries, thereby compelling
her to be the weaker vessel"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-04-18
GIFTS.
How Barhelor Relative Paid a smar
Young Father Back. u

" DAGuoApE 6SAAbLVSN Ialu n Sm1rN
Young Father Back. vi
The conventional piece of plate wit
which the baby at it's baptism is usual
~ lowered was a few months back bel
slowed upon the infant son of a Liveri
poolian in the shape of a quart tank
ard embellished with an inscription I'd
the effect that, as doubtless the rel
clp1ent would in due course inherit thl
bibulous propensity of his sire, the acl
companying gift would undoubtedly
unlike most christening presentsl
prove useful. The aforesaid sire, howl
ever, took the matter in i'll part and
there is 10 a GOODNESS between thel
parties. 1t was geniality that prompt
ed the action of a certain gourmet Who'll
on the occasion of his godchild's bap7
tlsm, presented him with a thin vol1I
ume, elegantly bound in morocco, conf
tanning a number of his favor1te rel
clpes, which he had caused to be print-I
ed for this special purpose with the|
remark that one could not begin tool
young to study and practice the nice
ties of the culinary art, says Tit-Bits.l
las, however, this strange gift was ac-|
companied by a very handsome check,
the parents smiled gracious approval
upon the eccentric bon vivant. When
you are seeking a sponsor for your
child don't select one with, a hobby.
Such Is the opinion, formed from sad
experience, of a Devonshire father.
who a few years back rashly asked his
cousin, an enthusiastic naturalist, Just
returned from the east, to act in that
capacity. In due course his relative
arrived, and with him, as a gift for
his godchild, a large box containing a..
carefully selected sample-of veno-
nous reptiles! At once a general
stampede took place, the father alone
screWing up sufficient courage to rel
main and reproach his cousin, who,
after a somewhat stormy scene, left the
nous with his present. At a conjur-
ing entertainment given for the bene-
MT of his family and friends a Mr.. Z
was immensely ~jocular and witty at
the expense of an elderly bachelor re-
%lation, from whose hat he produced a
heterogeneous assortment of articles.
Two years later Mr.. z asked the
same relation to stand godfather to his
infant daughter. The relation consent
ed, but what was the fond faith RS
chagrin when he produced, net only
the costly gift that was expected of
him, but the very hat which two win
tiers back had been, in the hands of
the amateur c%onjurer, a veritable cor
nucopia, remarking at the same time
that, as he really did not know what to.
give. he thought he had better hand
over the woodworking hat to the
father, and let him make his own sell
ection therefrom. And with a chuckle
he left the house.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-04-18
Arsenic In Artificial

We republish from Lancet" of Eng
land, he following interesting bit of
information:
During b past week our Laboratory
Commissioners have undertaken the
examination of a number of sub
stances, including certain foods and
drugs IN common daily use, in the
preparation of which sulphuric acid is
used 1t will be found, after a few
moments consideration, that a fairly
lengthy list of articles of everyday
use may thus be drawn upon. The re-
suits are not yet ripe for publication,
but we feel bound to diyulge one i'm
portant result since the disturbing an
nouncement has this week been made
by the analyst of Manchester that ar
senlc has been found in malt in a
quantity equal to that found in glu-
cose or malt substitutes. Moreover.
arsenic was found in beers which were
known to be brewed from malt and
hops only. Now that this remarkable
statement has been made, We NAV say
that we have found, in the course of
the inquiry alluded to, artificial ma
ntses e re rIc1s III arsen.c easily SCI
uble In water. This is hardly surpris-
ing, since the basis of artificial ma
nures-namely, superphosphate of
(ime-is made by acting on ordinary
bone ash with common oil of vitriol,
The important point is that it has
been established that plants to which
arsenical manur is applied take I'D
arsenic in their tissues. Cabbages and
turnlps gathered from fields MANFRED
wilfAsuperphosphate have given I'M
mistakable evidence of the presence of
arsenic. 1t is probable that arsenic
accumulates in the soil which is con-
stantly being dressed with superphos-
plate, so that plants raised on such
soil would absorb arsenic, and exer-
else an injurious effect on the health
OF man and animals. TIE question
arises, therefore, may not the arsenic
IN mali be traceable to the somewhat
large amount of arsenic inevitably
present in artificial anure This
aspect of the subject is very serious
n needs further inquiry. We shall
return to 1t in a future issue. when
we hope also to be able to record the
results obtained in an examination of
other more or less familiar articles in
which arsenic may possibly be intro
duced through the employment of i'm
pure .sulphuric acid in the course of
manufacture.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-04-18
FARM AND GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO
AGRlCULTURISTS.
Some Fp-to-Date Hints About Cultiva-
ton of the Soil and Yields Thereof
Horticulture, Niticulture aud Floricul-
ture.
AIrAlfn and Clorer.


There has been so much said and
written about alfalfa that it has be-
come. popular outside of the regions in
which conditions are suitable for it's
growth. This has led to a good many
farmers experimenting with it in
states where red clover grows abund-
antly and where there is no pressing
need for the growing Of alfalfa. When
ever asked about the matter the adj
vice of the Farmers Review has been
for the farmers to be satisfied with
red clover in the states in which it
can be grown successfully.
For Illinois. Wisconsin, Indiana,
Michigan and the n%eighboring states
there is no necessity for the growing
OF alfalfa and in most parts of them
the plant would most likely prove a
failure if tried. There are a good
many reasons why we should stick to
red clover. The first reason is that it
can enter into the rotation with the
other crops. Its roofing is not so deep
that it cannot be disturbed, and it does
not take years to get it we'll rooted.
with alfalfa the case is different. 1t
Is regarded as a permanent crop and
grows better after having been per-
mltted to take a few years in estab-
fishing its root system. The great
dlf1lcuIty in getting a catch of alfalfa
is during the years when its roots are
small and its growth comparatively
feeble But after it has reached down
into the regions of eternal moisture,
10, 10 or 20 feet below the surface. it
VIII grow on forever. 1t is said that
IN Chile there are fields of alfalfa
tnat have not been disturbed for 200
years and yet annually yield good
crops. This will readily show how
little it is fitted for the rotation.
Without the abundant sunshine to
winch 1t is accustomed it is difficult to
cure alfalfa, and this is a very serious
matter in a country of clouds and fire.
quent rains. We note another thing in
regard to alfalfa grown out of it's nat
ural habitat. 1t is smaller and does
not yield the heavy crop that is cred
lted to it. The writer has in mind
IN particular a crop that was grown
a few years ago at the Michigan Ex-
pertinent station. We doubt if in that
case, under the best of conditions, the
crop was as large as would have been
realized from red clover.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-04-18

The Princess of the Asturias. eldest
sister of King Alfonso, and whose i'm
pending marriage is giving rise to so
much political disturbance in Spain. is
very small and dark, and takes far
after her father than her mother.
alike in appearance and tastes. Con
trary to what has been published, she
shares none of the queen regents like
ness for outdoor exercise and open-air
pastimes, but, like a true Spanish WON
an, prefers an indoor life, and is prone
TO Incidence rather than to activity.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-04-18

The excavating for the drainage sys-
tenn which is being installed in the
City OF Mexico, a number of articles
were found which belonged to a period
previous to the invasion of Cortez.
some OF the articles found were golden
ornaments with which the Aztec gods
were decorated. On the extension of
the Mexican Central railway workmen
dug out $4,000 in gold and silver
CONS, the government and the work
men sharing equally under the old law
of treasure trove.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-04-18

The tallest living man is said to be
Lewis Wilkins, who is now arousins
great interest in the scientific circles
OF Europe. Wilkins was born on a
farm near st. Paul, Mimi, in 1874.
When he was but 10 years old he meas
ured six feet in height and now has
grown to the tremendous height of
i07A 1Eches-just three-quarters of an
inch less than nine feet-and weighs
364 pounds.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-04-18

According to a report from Athens,
the new Cretan coins will soon be put
into circulation They bear the head OF
Prince George and include gold pieces
OF 20 and 10 francs, silver pieces of 5,
2, l and half francs, small change in
nickel of 20, 10 and 5 confines. Hith-
erto on the island Greek, Italian and
french silver money has chiefly been
IN circulation, Turkish money having
disappeared.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-04-18

, The Wichita (Kan.) Eagle says OF
Mrs. Nation, the saloon-wrecker. that
In the SOS Mrs. Nations husband was
running an anti-slavery paper in St
Joseph, Mo. One day a lot Ct pro-
slavery men kidnapped him and burned
the office for the purpose of puttine
a stop to the paper. Mrs. Nation man
aged to get a few cases of type out
or the building and succeeded in get.
ting out the next edition of the pa
per herself"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-04-18

A colored colony enterprise is re-
ported from Cape May. N. J. An OPP
to- has been secured on 1900 acres
of land near that place, where it is
proposed to erect a sawmill and work
up what timber there is on the land
INTO houses and factory buildings. A
shoe factory and other industries are
projected, together with farming.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-04-18

There are few people who have not
been occasionally puzzled to write eel"
or lie" in the words that SO represent
the sound of the long e. A very sim
pie rule, however, removes all diff
Guilty. If the diphthong Immediately
follows the letter C it is always Ell
as in ceiling, conceive, ETC.; but when
1T follows any other letter it is always
lie" as in grief, niece, friend, etc.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-04-18

The famous expert, Teyssonicres, who
examined in 1894 the bordereau at
tributed to Dreyfus, has been con-
demned to pay 800 francs damages for
attributing the authorship of an in
sufting song to a lady who did not
write it.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-04-18

A Chinese banknote. issued during
the Ming dynasty, about A. D. 1890. has
been placed in the British Museum
among the specimens of early print
ing from China. The surface of the
note is black with age, though the
characters upon the face of it are
quite discernible. This is supposed 10
De the earliest specimen extant of a
banknote issued from any country.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-04-18

attempts will soon be made by Cali
tornia vegetable growers to put fresh
asparagus on the market in London
and in other places in Great Britain.
1t rs expected that the California pro-
duct will compete with French a
gus, which lis sent to England in large
quantities.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-04-18

Frederic Degeton, the newly elected
delegate from Porto Rico, speaks Eng
llsh huently and has won fame as an
author and lawyer. He is a graduate
from the University of Madrid and
holds degrees from the colleges Sala-
and Granada.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-04-18
Horticultural obserrattons

We begin this week the publi-
cation of Prof. COTS paper on
the apple blossom. We do not
usually devote so much space to
a topic of this kind. but in this case
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-04-18

The king of Greece, who has just
completed his 55th year, is unique
among the ~sovereigns of Europe, for
ne has actually reigned longer than his
tather, the aged king of Denmark.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-04-18

1t Is said that the Krupps are nego-
dating with Spanish capitalists for the
organization of a company in Spain to
build ironclads and manufacture ord
lance
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-04-18

In twenty years the consumption of
beer in Germany has doubled. 1t is
low 125 litres a year per head OF the
whole population.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-04-18

OF the 10, 900, 900 tons of caal France
s obliged to import annually, 1000, 900
ONES from England.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-04-18

Famines have occurred in the cen
fury in Ireland in 1916, in Russia in
1891 and in India in 1897, 1860, 1866.
1868, 1876. 1897 and 1899.
The San Francisco call., 1901-12-07
WOMAN HEARS
DREAD CHARGES
Jane Toppan Listens to
Indictments of Grand
Jury.
Former Nurse Accused of
Having Poisoned Three
Persons.

BARNSTABLE. Mass. Dec. 6.-Miss
Jane Toppan of Lowell stood up in the
Superior Court room late this afternoon
and heard the Grand Jury's indictment
charging her with the murder of three
persons whom she had been engaged to
nurse back to health, but who had died
under her charge, and, according to the
indictment. by her hand.
The indictments, and there are. three
one charging her with the death of Mrs.
Mary D. Gibbs. a second with the death
of A. p. Davis, both of Cataumet, and
the third with that of Mrs. Genevieve
Gordon of Chica go-alleged that the cause
was the administration of poisonous
drugs.
For ten minutes the woman stood tight
ly clutching the rail while the clerk read
the indictment charging her with the
murder of Mrs Gibbs. At length Miss
Toppan''s counsel spared her further
agony by waiving the reading, and all
that remained was for her to plead.
Three times she was asked if she was
guilty of the murder and three times she
replied, Not guilty.
After the woman had entered her plea
her counsel asked that the State appoint
counsel for her, and Chief Justice Mason,
who presided, took the matter under ad-
ViSement.
Miss Toppan was then led away to her
cell, where she will remain until some
time early next spring, wnen she will be
given a trial by jury.