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Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-08
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Farmers Muffins-For one dozen
mullins take one cup cold cooked oat-
meal (or other breakfast cereaD
and beat in one-fourth cup milk until
smooth; add saltspoonful of salt
and one cup of flour. Beat two eggs
separately until very light add yolks
to batter. beat well, fold in the stiff
whites and pour into hot. creased
gem irons. Bake in rather hot oven
from 20 to 80 minutes. Serve
promptly.
Carrot Soup-Take half a dozen
small French carrots, wash and
scrape them. put in a saucepan with
boiling water and cook until tender,
remove from the fire. mix with milk
ounces of butter in a saucepan and
rub into it slightly heaping tea
spoonful of flour, add few grains OF
cayenne pepper. and stir in little at
a time the carrot puree until smooth
like cream. add few slices of cooked
celery root (celeriac) and salt to
taste, and pour into the puree. Serve
with fried croutons.
Dressing for Beets-Four table
spoonfuls of butter. one tablespoonful
of flour. one teaspoonful of salt. one
teaspoonful of dry mustard. one cup
of vinegar, one cup of milk, three
eggs and a speck Of cayenne pepper.
Heat the butter. add flour and stir
until smooth. but do not brown; add
the milk. stir and boil I'D once: place
hot water, add beaten eggs, salt and
other ingredients, with the exception
of vinegar; allow to boil up. then add
vinegar; continue stirring until Il
thickens. Allow it to cool before
pouring over the chopped vegetables
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-08
Hay and Fertility.

A good way to run down the fer
tility of a farm is to raise successive
crops of hay on the land without any
special attention to improve methods
of restoring to the soil the elements
which the hay takes from it. In many
parts of the country, where haying
was formerly very profitable, it is
now pretty poor sort of farming,
simply on account of this robbing of
the SOIL The hay was raised contin-
uosly, and money was made thereby;
but gradually the hay crop proved
smaller and less profitable. and in
time the land was good for nothing
else. There are at present many
such rundown farms. anu the owners
will tell you that there is no money
in raising hay, nor in any other kind
Of farming. 1t is not that the price of
hay is not satisfactory, but the land
which formerly yielded such good
crops fails now to respond.
| believe in raising good hay for
market, and do it every year. finding
therein as good profit as in any 9TH
SAAS
conclusion that hay as market crop
would not pay unless it was raised
as a part Of a good system Of crop
rotation. Consequently while other
farms arouni me have in many in
stances shown unmistakable signs Of
degeneration through too heavy hay
cropping, mine is really in better fer
tility than at the beginning. I have
always contrived to get back to the
land as much il not more than I
took from it. The soil must be in the
right condition to yield heavy crop
of timothy, and timothy takes from it
more life and fertility than any other
crop. That is one reason why fancy
timothy hay always brings the high
est price in the market. Yet with
forethought and planning big crop
of fancy timothy can be raised almost
as easily as any other hay grass. 1t
is all in the rotation and the method.
In this rotation clover must al
ways play a conspicuous part. Let
clover follow wheat to adj to the
soil all the rich fertility that this
plant carries with it. The clover
crop must be planted often to make
it possible to secure a good catch
without difficulty The trouble often
is that clover is used only as asst
resort. Other crops are planted and
harvested until the soil is robbed of
nearly all it's fertility: then it is ex-
pected that clover will suddenly re-
store the land to it's normal conli-
ton. This it would do If the clover
could be made to grow luxuriantly,
but the fact is the soil is then SO
poor that the clover fails to make a
good catch, and as result efforts
must be made to induce the clover
to grow This is much like the other
crops. 1t does not pay to let the
soil run down too much. The time
for repairing it is when the degener-
acy first begins. Each year the re.
pairs to the soil should be male
Then we would have no rundown
farms and soils that will not produce
paying crops-C. S. Walters. in
American Cultivator.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-08
Shifts of Arctic Seals.

Lake Baikal is a remarkable body OF
water lying in a longitudinal trough
on the edge of the central Asiatic pla-
teau, whose surface Is 1000 feet above
the sea with which 1t is connected by
the Yenisei river after flowing across
the northern plains of Siberia for a
distance of 1000 miles. A most curl
Gus fact, long known to scientific men,
is that this lake Is occupied by spe-
cies of seal almost identical with those
found in the Arctic ocean. The same
species, with slight variations are also
found in the Caspian sea, but not any
where else along the 5000 or 1000
, miles which separate these bodies Of
water. The most probable explanation
of this fact, and the one usually ac-
cepted by scientific men is that these
species of seal were thus widely dis
tributed during continental subsi-
dence in which the waters of the Arc
tic ocean covered all Of northwestern
Siberia and extended up to the base
of the great Asiatic plateau which we
followed for such long distance on
elevated shore lines of Turkestan, says
McClure's Magazine. When this de-
pressed area emerged from the sea, it
left the seal isolated in the two great
bodies of water which still remain on
its former margin. So lately has this
taken place, that there has not been
time for any great change to be effect
ed in the specific characteristics OF
these animals.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-08
Hints on Cake Baking.

Light cakes require rather brisK
oven to raise and set them. cakes
raised with baking powder also need
a quick oven. Much sugar in cake
will cause it to burn quickly. There
fore, the oven must not be so hot for
them. Large, rich cakes require long
and careful baking. Small sugar cakes
need slow oven. Gingerbread, too,
should be gently baked. The oven
door should be kept closed until the
dough sets, and all the time the cake
is baking the door of the oven should
be opened as little as possible and the
door very gently closed, as slamm1ng
the door, even to shut. will make Q
cake heavy.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-08
UnDrofitable Fruit Trees.


In some cases it will be found that
old fruit trees, though profitless at
present, consist of good salable kinds,
and the question is, By what means
can such trees be brought into fruit
full or profitable condition? A fruit
tree Of this kind need not necessarily
be improbable because it is old.
though if it is old and has been neg
lectei it must be. We find that many
of this class of tree are what they
are through neglect. The heads have
for years been allowed to become a
tangled mass of growth. The head
wood has become crowded, so that too
many fruits set, and in the end 10
not come to a salable size, neither do
they color up as they should do. In
such cases the remedy is simple. The
old, dead growth must be cut out
thoroughly. The moss covered boughs
must be cleaned. All branches that
cross and rub against each other
must be regulated by removal, AMI
generally the pruning or thinning out
process must be carried out in such
a way that when finished the heads
of the trees will be open and airy,
which will insure free crop of the
best fruits.
If any one will look into the mat
ters with which we deal they will find
that the majority Of the profitless
fvrit trees we refer to are planted in
grass land. The fact is instructive.
and it justifies in the most emphatic
manner the denunciations that we
launched against the e. stem for
years. 1t is utterly impossible to
grow the best apples and pears in
grass land-theTe can be no doubt
about that If we pay visit in the
fruiting season to the fruit trees set
in grass we shall be struck with the
small size of the fruits the trees
usually bear. There may be plenty OF
apples or pears but there will be few
good sized fruits to be seen among
them. Tillage is of the utmost i'm
portance to fruit trees. but this i'm
portant operation cannot be carried
out when the trees are surrounded
with grass Aeration, so necessary
in the production Of large sized
fruits. becomes impossible, and the
fine surface tilth Tat is so needful
under good culture cannot be pro-
luced unless the land is open and un-
cropped by grass or any crops grow
ing right up to the stems Of the
trees.-London Globe.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-08
Tho Early Use of Conee.

About the year 1900 coffee bekxA 70
be talked of in ChSistendom as a rare
end precious medicine. In 1915 it was
brought to Venice, and in 1921 Burton
spoke of it in his Anatomy of Nolan
choly as a valuble article which he
had heard Of but not seen In 1852
Sir Nicholas Crispe, Levant mer-
chant opened In London the first cof-
fee house known In England, the
beverage being prepared by a Greek
girl brought over for the work. Other
coffee houses in abundance were soon
opened.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-08
No Rule for Feeding.

There is no rule for feeding. as each
individual must be considered sepa-
rately from the others 1t is not an
uncommon error to suppose that the
animals which eat but little are the
most profitable. So long as an animal
is capable of digesting and assimilat-
ing food the greater the amount OF
food it should consume, and the more
profitable the returns, especially with
producers, such as COWS. The proper
tion Of food required to support an
animal and supply waste of tissue is
less when a large amount of food is
eaten than when a smaller quantity
is consumed
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-08
BREACH OF THE CONTRACT.
How Man Got tho hest of subscrip-
tion Book Scheme.

How a Man Got tho Hest of . Subscrip-
tion Book Scheme.
A citizen of Buffalo has just won
his case from a subscription book con-
Germ. He subscribed for a set of Bal
zac's works with the understanding
that the edition was to be limited to
1000 sets. He thought he was to be
just one of a thousand out of seventy
odd millions in the United States to
be envied the possession of the Balzac
sets. He learned afterward that there
were two other limited editions" Of
the same work, that all three editions
were printed from the same plates
on the same quality of pa
per and differed only in the
illustrations and the color OF
the binding. The Buffalo purchaser
contended that the publishers had vio-
lated their contract with him and re-
fused to complete his payments for the
set. Whereupon the publishers brought
suit to recover. The case has just
been tried in the municipal court in
Buffalo and has been won by the de-
fendant the court holding that mere
color of the binding did not constitute
a new edition, and that the defendant
was the victim of a breach of contract.
This was good law and a correct re-
suit. The tricks of the subscription
book publishers and their agents are
many When a man finds he has been
cheated he should resist. The courts
will protect him.-Utica Observer.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-08
To Secure Good Cows.

Good COWS can only be secured by
keeping the good calves that are
from animals which are known to be
meritorious, but the farmers who buy
their fresh COWS and sell their calves
when they are but a few days old
destroy all opportunities for selection.
A good calf, however, is one that is
bred for a special purpose, and the
farmer, therefore. knows in advance
what it should be when matured. and
the calf will, if it is from good stock,
probably not disappoint him.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-08
Stains on Furniture.

The white stains on polished furni'
ture caused from the spilling Of spirits
or too hot plates can be removed by
pouring in them few drops of spirits
of camphor, wiped off quickly with
flannel cloth. Follow this treatment
Immediately by a vigorous rubbing
with good furniture polish.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-08
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Renewing the Lawn.

If you wish to renew the lawn this
fall use Kentucky blue grass ana
white clover, as they seem to stand
the dry seasons better than some
kinds. If sown in the fall the grass
will get a good start and be ready to
grow rapidly in spring. Sow in Aug
ust and September.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-08

No matter what ails You, headache to a
cancer, you will never get well until your
bowels are put right. CAsoARETs help nature,
cure you without a grippe or pain, produce
easy natural movements, cost you just 10
cents to start getting your health back. CAS-
CARETs Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put up
in metal boxes. every tablet has G. c. G.
stamped on it. Beware OF limitations.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-08

about June 1, then narrowed smooth
ly, and left until about time to Sc:
the plants. Then l should cultivate
as finely as possible. without dis
turbing the sod, and at the same time
work in 800 pounds common salt to
the acre, and look with confidence for
satisfactory crop.-C. l.. Allen, in
New England Homestead.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-08
Ladies can Wear Shoes

One size smaller after using Aliens Foot
Ease, powder for the feet. 1t makes tight
or new shoes easy. Cures swollen, hot, sweat.
ing, aching feet, ingrowing nails, corns an6
bunions. At all druggists and shoe stores
25c. Trial package FREE by mail. Addres:
Allen 8. Olmsted, LIE Roy, N. Y.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-08

Great Britain and Ireland, according to
the completed census returns, have a pop
ulation of about 100000.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-08

Ocean steamers can ascend the st. Law
renee River $50 miles.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-08

FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervous
ness after first days use of DR.. Kline's Great
Nerve Restorer. 50 trial bottle and treatise free
DR.. r. II. KLINE, Ltd. S31 Arch St.. Phila. p;
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-08

PUTNAM FADELEss DYES are fast to sun
light, washing and rubbing Sold by all drug
gists
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-08

Pisos Cure for Consumption is an infallible
medicine for coughs and colds. INV. SAMUEL
Ocean Grove, N. j.. Feb. II, 1900.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-08
1niteracy Cau.e. odd Statement.

A Topeka medicine company has put
out lot of testimonials. The first is
from a woman, who says: Having
suffered fifteen years from fatal dis
ease, l am happy to say that l am
now entirely cured"
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-08

One way Of giving the professional beg.
gar chance to rise in the world is to give
him a good blowing up.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-08

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teethinS, soften the gums, reduces intlamma-
tion allays pain. cures wind collie. 25c bottle
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-08

Projects often succeed, not on their
real merits but because of mans fidelity
to his ideals.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-08
Frcy,s vermifuge Cures.

Does laughing cause dimples, or dc
dimples cause laughing?
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-08

The golf player doesn't always know
what he is driving at
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-08

Seventythree per cent. of ships enter
ing British ports fly the national flag.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-08

A vessel going from Montreal to Port
Arthur has to ascend 900 feet.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-08
Best For the Bowels,

The beggar doesn't have to be weighed
in the balance to be found wanting
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-08

Money lakes the man, but man has
to make the money first.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-08

Marrying a blockhead doesn't make a
wooden wedding.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-08

Children relieved and absolutely cured
Reputation of 60 yrs. 25c. At Druggists
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-08-08

W. H. Griffin. Jackson, Michigan. writes
Suffered with Catarrh for fifteen years
Halls Catarrh Cure cured me-" Sold by
Druggists, 75c.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-08-21

10 him for information. but knowing
his attitude. and that OF the Admins
uation. Of which he is Il part their
letter 10 him was not discreet In its
tone. Nor was il either wise or Cour-
teous for them to make the letter an
open one. II looked as If the thing
were being done for effect. II would
have been soon enough 20 make the
correspondence public after the law
officer e the Government had declined
TO render any assistanCc-which he
was morally certain To do.
But after all. the Attorney Generals
letter viii hardly be satisfactory TO
those Of the people at large who really
believe that the trust evil should he
made the subject Of governmental ac-
ti,n. II rather assumes that the trust
question is not one in which the Gov
eminent is in any way ConceTned-that
IL IS purely matter for private litiga-
ton. and there is not Il line ur a word
to suggest that the writer ever intends
60 do anything whatever in the prem
ises. The Attorney General contents
himself with replying literally 10 the
specific requests. denying all personal
knowledge Of the affairs of the trusts
sharply rebukiug the Antitrust
League officers for the tom Of their
letter. and intimating rather broadly
that interference with the trusts IS out
Of the line Of his official duties He
ought 10 have taken higher ground but
he did not.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-08-21
The Loop at Santiago.

The man at the wheel Of the Brook
lyn. when the famous loop was made
during the sea battle of Santiago. is
becoming a dark mystery. 4 sailor
named Adams has published a state
ment in which he declares that he was
handling the spokes at the time. and
in his nervousness turned the ship con-
trariWise to the order given him by the
navigating officer Were his story true.
he would remind us Of one Of the mill
tary heroes Of the civil war whose soul
was fun Of fight and still is; but, when
the bullets began to fly, his legs inva-
riably refrigerated and refused TO hold
up until they had landed him at Bar
NUNS Hotel in Baltimore.
We fear that the Adams narrative
viii not be incorporated in our naval
history, except possibly by Dock La
borer Maclay- According to the report
Of Captain Cook, commanding the
Brooklyn, the man at the wheel was
N Anderson, quartermaster, first
class" and "a particularly bright sea
man" There is stin another claimant
for the honor in the person Of one Den
mis- J. O'Connell who. according 10 one
of his shipmates, was the undoubted
and only genuine Hooper
Where there is so much confusion,
how shall we arrive at the rock-bottom
truth? We suggest that the whole mat
ter be left to Sampson 20 decide He
was twelve or more miles away be
hind the horizon" at the tire and.
therefore. ought To know
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-08-21
ENGRAVING TO MARYLAND.
Farmers From Illinois BuyinE Large
Tracts of Land.

UPPER MARLBORO, Nd, Aug II
Farmers Of Whiteside county, III, seem
70 be DESTROYS Of making purchases in
Prince George county. Within the last
year more than !. 600 acres Of land in the
locality known as the Forest have passed
into the hands Of Western men at re
munerative prices TO the landowners II
southern Maryland Late in 1900 E r
Gibbs. Of Morrison. III. bought the DIT.
George farm OF SO acres. on the line Of
the POpe's Creek Railroad. and at once
began correspondence with his friends
in the West
A few months passed and ". D. Health.
Of the same county, purchased a track
Of So acres from the Franklin Davis Nur-
sery Company. Yesterday in Marlboro
Eli Harrison and c. Boice. OF Whiteside
county, bought coo acres from Richard 5
Hill and his brother. Francis W Hin. for
SIS, coo. These Western men will come
10 Prince George IN January next. and
VIII stock their farms for the raising Of
early lambs. beef cattle. and hogs
On some Of the adjacent farms the
grass fields are considered 20 bring IN
better results IN feeding cattle than in
the crops OF tobacco and whe a. Last
week herd Of hfty-twO tWO-year-OId
cattle from Chicago was purchased by
the Greenwood Stock Farm W HOl-
ice Bowie also made large purchases, and
yesterday an order was sent TO the com
mission men OF Washington for a herd OF
200. TO be winteTed in adjoining sections
The late Gov. Oden Bowie gave great
attention 70 raising horses and cattle and
was very successful He was always rep
resented on the turf by welI-bred Mary
land horses Other planters OF Prince
George were noted for the tine horses
which southern Maryland &C I'D produce.
One great aid 70 enterprise in the farm
ing community OF this part Of Maryland IS
the Agricultural College. situated IN
West viii find great help from the fac
ulty OF this institution and the experiment
station, as well as from the large body OF
Intelligent agrlculturistS who are organ
lied into farmers clubs These collect
lively college and clubs, make an iufiueE-
tlal and philosophical body or men. who
are doing all in their power 10 make desi-
rable white settlers from other parts Of
the Union feel at home here They have
moved earnestly and determinadIy 10 take
the control OF the public roads out OF the
hands Of the politicians They have some
Of the best land TO be- found anywhere
1 and they are Judiciously putting II on the
market
BY combined effort for a common pur-
pose they viii do what the Immigration
Bureau was expected 70 do. Land is
cheap in Prince George. Charles. Calvert
and St MaryS The climate IS delightful
and markets are easily accessible.