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The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-09-20
The Popular Potato.

One of the best known physicians
in Worcester declares the potato fam
inc a blessing in disguise, if people
will replace the potato with substi-
tutes of greater food value. He thinks
as we do, that there is none of the ar
ticles of food in common use that con-
tain so little nutriment as the potato,
and many others furnish more in
smaller amounts at much less relative
cost. He especially names shredded
wheat, rice. raw cabbage, and fruits
as more nourishing than potatoes
and, in fact, all grain foods.
When the potato rot brought fam
inc to Ireland the people of that coun-
try were not prepared to resist it. as
they were probably at the lowest con-
dition, both mentally and physically,
that the people of that country ever
we're and thousands whose subsis-
tence had been for years upon that
root, persisted from famine; then Am
erica sent them shiploads of corn and
other provisions, and those who could
do SO emigrated to this country, where
they found work and food. Now there
are those who are asking Ireland TO
ship us all the potatoes they can spare,
not as a charity. but in return for
such food products as we have in
abundance, or for our good money.
The man who gives a peck of corn for
a bushel of potatoes is making a poor
trade as far as food properties CO.
Boston Budget.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-09-20

Probably the most elaborate meer-
schaum pipe in this country is now in
process of coloring by a New York
merchant, who bought it from a local
manufacturer recently for $1,000. The
pipe is Ihown as a character" pipe
to the trade and is a wonderfully
carved reproduction of the painting
"St. John at His Bath" 1t represents
six maidens grouped around a fountain
and either st. John is concealed be-
hind the fountain or in it; he is not
in sight, at any rate. The figures are
chiseled from a solid piece of meer-
schaum, which was imported from
Turkey. The labor expended upon il
extended over a period of two years,
and the amber mouthpiece alone cost
$500.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-09-20

SPANS little King Alfonso is the
"magnate" who will ride in pair of
palace cars recently shipped abroad
from Wilmington. Del. One of the
kings private cars is a drawing room
coach, similar to a Pullman drawing
room, except that 1t is only thirty feet
long. II is of royal blue color, with
gold trimmings and lettering, with the
royal coat of arms on each side. The
interior is finished in hand-carved ma
hogany. 1t is deliberately furnished.
The other is a dining car of the same
size.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-09-20

a detective of a big department
store said the other day: Winter is
by all means our busiest season. In
summer time the stores are bothered
but little by shoplifters, but as soon
as cool weather sets in their annual
temperance begins. Why? Well,
figure it this way. First, there are
fewer persons in the stores in hot
weather and the nimble-fingered ones
run a greater risk of discovery. Then,
again, winter clothes-long oYercoats
and wraps-are the best possible means
of concealing their booty. That is prob
ably the main reason for the shop
lifter's inactivity during the warm
months"
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-09-20

Books that sell by the hundred thou
sand are not common, yet there are
some instances that are not modern.
1t is now just about two hundred and
forty years since one John Bunyan
was shut up in Bedford JAIL He stayed
there twelve years; but a book OF
his went free, and no man since that
day could have suppressed or impris-
oned it, even had he wished. Millions
Of copies of it have been printed. Prob
ebly more copies are sold in any one
month, now, than could have been dis
posed of in a year during the au-
thor's lifetime, and the book is as
vital part Of this twentieth century
as it was of any preceding time. There
are excellent books among the "popu-
lar novels" but-spite of all the
adulatory comment-it would be hard
TO point out one that seems likely to
weather two centuries and more as
bravely as has Pilgrims Progress.
During a recent French duel one OF
the combatants accidentally touched the
point of his sword to -he ground. The
seconds Immediately stopped the com.
bat until the sword could be sterilized
One cannot help recalling the famous
cartoon in Punch which represented
the two 1rishmen waiting behind a
rock for their landlord, one with q
shotgun, the other with a club. Sure
the master do be very late" says one
anxously. "He is" says the other. ~
hope he have met wild no accident.
After this one cannot regard that car.
toon as merely a humorous fancy.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-09-20

The tendency among the British
middle classes is rather to live above
their incomes than within them. There
is also a passion for luxury in London
and a desire to display, which seems
a peculiarly stupid and useless desire
in huge city, where one seldom
knows ones neighbors. And so, too,
the cordial pot luck" dinners of a
generation ago have given place to
ceremonial champagne functions, in
which a man out of dress clothes is
oft of place
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-09-20
RulI Thistle.

This thistle is known botanically as
Cardnus lanceolatus. 1t is an intro
duced biennial species. 1t is distrib-
uted exclusively by the seeds, but
these are produced in such great num-
bers that the plant multiplies very
rapidly. 1t often forms patches sew
eral acres in extent on newly cleared
land, but in old fields the plants are
usually more scattered. 1t seldom per-
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-09-20
MOSTLY GIGANTIC SUNS,
Light from Milky Way stars Reaches
Us in 900 Years.

Light from Milky Way Stars Reaches
Us in 1000 Years.
l estimate that the nearer portion
of the general body of the Milky Way
is something over 100000, 900 900 600
miles from us, and it requires the
light about a thousand years to travel
from this part to our eyes. If we can
imagine that this nearest portion is
inhabited and that its people have tel
escapes looking down upon us, they
would view the earth as it appeared
about the time of the death of Alfred
the Great | estimate that the far
thest portions of the Milky Way are
about as ten times as far or more than
so 900, 900 900, 100000 miles from us.
and If there are eyes there capable o!
seeing our world, it appears to them as
1t was 10000 years ago. or before the
beginning of human history. AS the
Milky Way is now known to astrono-
mers it is composed of about 10000, OOO
stars. 1t is an endless band, deep. not
fiat. These 10O,000,000 stars are most
ly gigantic suns. The distance be-
tween them is of the same order OF
magnitude as that which separates US
from the star Alpha Centauri, removed
from us 275,000 times farther than our
sun. They are not all single stars, but
are occasionally composed of two asso-
ciated stars. very close together and
revolving under the law of gravitation.
In other words, they are held to-
gether by mutual attraction.-New
York Sun
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-09-20

At the last meeting of the Southern
Minnesota horticultural Society Clar-
ence Wedge of Albert Lea, dealt with
this most important subject to north
western horticulturists. I'm that por-
ton of our country west of Lake Mich
igan and north of Missouri there is no
menace more constantly hanging over
the fruit interests of the country than
that of root killing" Last winter was
a severe and emphatic lesson in this
line, but on account Of snow protec-
ton when the thermometer was the
lowest we did not fare as badly as our
Wisconsin and South Iowa brethren.
1t seemed 10 matter little last winter
what TIE condition Of the soil happen
ed to be. if the snow were blown of
and the eartA fully exposed. The moist
low places suffered fully as much as
the dry exposed Gills.
The strongest defense we can make
is by the use OF soil covering of some
kind. A very thorough mulch should
be maintained in orchards at all sea-
sons Of the year, and to hold this in
place and also to keep the snow, Mr..
Wedge favors the growing of raspber-
ries along the orchard rows. If Prof.
Hanson's recently recommended trial
Of the little Siberian bush crab as
stock apple proves all that may be
hoped for it. we may not always be at
the mercy of a winter drouth as in our
nurseries we surely are very largely
at the present time.
Root killing among small fruits is
very hard matter to provide against
and is a yerS serious cause of loss to
berry growers. Here a cover crop is
out of the question and a mulch would
be too expensive and frequently of no
avail. A cheap and effective system
OF irrigation is about the only remedy.
In the roots of the wild plum we for
tunately have an iron-clad stock upon
which to graft, and about the only
protection needed is dust blanket in
summer and a well-loosened soil for
winter. If, however, the plum is
grated on the peach or some foreign
stock it will need even mere careful
winter cover than the apple.
Scurf of Sweet Potatoes.-Attacks
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-09-20

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The Photographic art, we are prepared
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what kind of work we turn out; ask
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The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-09-20

The first gold pens made in this
country were all manufactured by
hand. the gold being cut from strips of
the metal by scissors, and every sub
sequent operation being performed by
hand. These handmade gold pens
cost from So to $40. and were far in
ferior to the machine made article Of
the present day.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-09-20

Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson has
had fire-proof vault built in her San
Francisco house, where she keeps the
numerous unfinished or unpublished
manuscripts of her husband.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-09-20

The sixth contract for American To-
comotives to be delivered in Japan has
just been closed with the American
locomotive company and will be filled
from Schenectady. 1t is for eighteen
engines. An order for thirty locomo-
tives for the government railroads of
New Zealand is being filled at the
Baldwin works in Philadelphia.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-09-20

a commercial weekly, in reviewing
current prices, says that lemons are
stronger" and raspberries "firmer. "
. Unfortunately this does not mean
that dozen lemons will make more
lemonade or that it will be harder TO
convert raspberries into jam.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-09-20

Up to 1S99-19OO. no sweet potatoes
had been shipped to foreign ports, so
far as we are able to gather from the
official statement of expectations.
Sweet potatoes are not produced to
any considerable extent in Europe, and
as a general thing the Europeans have
not developed a taste for the tuber
mentioned. 1t is reported that they
are planted in small way in the south
of Spain. What few are imported are
in the nature of luxuries and have been
brought from the Canary Islands and
Africa. In 1899 some American grow
ers made a few trial shipments to Eng
land, where they began to win their
way. Probably the Americans resident
in foreign countries will be the first
and best customers, and their example
will be followed by others.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-09-20

sists in any great quantity and is read
lily destroyed by cultivation. 1t may
be easily distinguished from Canada
thistle by its greater size and much
larger heads, with spine-pointed scales
and by its leaves, the upper surfaces
of which are always rough, like a cats
tongue
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-09-20

The 81 beet-sugar factories in this
country now yield more than a third
of our domestic sugar product.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-09-20
Horticultural Observations.


The plum orchards Of the past still
exist in the memories of our middle
aged and old people. They are mostly
remembered as hanging full of purple
and white and black fruit, frightened
by the dews of morning Those were
the days of big dreams concerning
plums. The curculio was unknown
and the black-knot had not begun to
be burden. In every part of the east
the orchards were set out and flour
ished. Every home had its group of
trees and the children played under
the branches and culled the pretty
fruit as they did the flowers. People
looked forward to the time when
plums would be in surprising abund-
ance in every locality. But the dream
was not to come true. From Europe
came pest with which Americans
did not know how to grapple. 1t
swept like a destroyer over the coun-
try. Little by little the beautiful
branches of the plum trees became
filed with unsightly black knots and
ceased to bear fruit Tree after tree
was cut down but the pest merely re-
appeared on other trees. No variety
was potent against it and every de-
Tense failed. No man knew the ma
ture Of the enemy. So the plum or
chards disappeared, and men in despair
ceased even to try to srow them. From
that point the scientists took up the
work. Little by little the nature of
black-knot was found out and reme-
dies discovered. Today the fruit
grower knows how to combat the most
destructive of all these diseases and
the plum orchards are reappearing. Let
us hope that the time is not far dis
tant when every home will have its
little grove of plum bearing trees.
Every farmstead will be made more
beautiful and more pleasing to its in
habitants if a plum orchard exists on
it. Today the culture of plums has
been reduced to such a science that the
novice and the amateur can succeed
with them. Within the last ten years
many plums have been brought in
from foreign countries, and more va
rieties have been discovered growing
wild in our own woods. These have
been cultivated and developed till we
have very large list from which to
draw.
weeds his greatest OBSTACLE to success.
The experienced farmer or fruit grow
er seldom mentions them. He knows
that they are easily kept down by the
cultural methods thai the crops should
have whether there be weeds or not.
When fruit culture is carried on on
small scale one of the best means Of
keeping down weeds is the mulch.
This mulch may be of any kind of
verdure-grass or straw or weeds. The
writer has found it very serviceable
thing in the culture of tomatoes.
There is a good deal of grass and
weeds mown that is not suitable for
hay and this is placed between the
rows of tomatoes. 1t ensures three
things: The keeping down of the
weeds, the conservation of moisture
and the protection of the fruit from
dirt. There is a fourth object that is
perhaps attained and that is the in
crease Of nitrogen in the surface soil
due to proper shading and moisture
under the mulch.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-09-20

Scurf of Sweet Potatoes.-Attacks
underground portion only, giving to
them a rough, brownish, and some
times a shriveled appearance. Remedy
Discard all diseased tubers in pro-
ducing sets and rotate crops.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-09-20

Trees should be cut low IL they are
to be used for lumber. A foot in
length saved of the clear timber in the
buts of the tree is worth several feet
in the top of the tree. There is not
only the difference in the increased
scale of the butt, but also the difference
of the two extremes of quality-the
clearest and best timber is in the butt,
and the smallest and most knotty in
the top.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1901-10-18

NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.
Features Of the Days Dealing. in Al the Lea. :
ing Stocks.

New York. oct. 11.-Tuda} : stock mar.
k"t was again quite incOnclusivc as an
muck ~ any consistent speculative gen
timcni. Although prices covered con-
s.dcfabl" range and in sbmc casta AcN -
"rai times. the net changes Of any conAc-
uucncc VIII DO found very rev. TIE sam
brok"rd. acting 10 all appearance Tor ihf
same Interests. were on different sides
OF the market at dintIsH. times Of tn"
day. This was "SJ Jeciaily u 10 ,f tn. OPP
.rat'cns il the Southwestern raitoa |
group, in which heavy selling. secmlnglt :
FOR inside int rt SITS Mas followed by even
heavier buying from the same sources.
The midday weakness ~ tnis proIp inter
ripted harI6 I6aiuc tendency IA the mar
ket az II aid Yesterday. J he fCattrc Ut
the morning dealings was the marking
NJ ni nGmh,r Of high priced invest
m"nt railroad stocks. ;nis Increment
wa prompted ~ tho sales yesterday uf
Lake Shore al 3W, which wds confined 10
two transactions and the alleged rstsin;,
Of the bid frr Chicago, burlington y
Quincy 70 I'll. which p4.trT un inve5tiga-
non - bc wholly iictitious TINS move
mcnt had lost much Of It's force by mid
day. Much more Impressive WAS The sud
don activity ~ Northern Pacific pre-
i'frrd Not OH'N was the demand for
This STOCK quite Strpn; but the supply
was extremely lib, raj Among the prom
lncnt sellers were brokers often employc
by the capitaliHi,. The inruri ufat.nu i'll
Iowa oI Il Chicago. burlington x luincs
Railway CO, stated 10 l." Tor the purpo-,.
~ acquiring tht tHlcdEp. burlington
tluiCN Railroad. coupled with thiS move
mcnt IN Northern Pacific preferred cruS-
"d new attention tu the -, Cutl. prevalent
reports OF prOgt-rs in thc plan Of '.et-
tlcmcut for working out the Northern Pa
rifg tenEle. I,u, the innueuce ~ thi~ dc-
V"lopmrut did not extend beyond 81
PAU. Union Pacific Great Northern pre-
fcfr"d and Southern r. ciiir Amtigarn,ti.
cd copper was iirm - strong ami show,
u.t gain ul It Sugar naA another
prominent icdtIr. ana gained lur tha dat
a III" covering % outstanding shorts
was tu impCrtILt irIiuruc" nu the latter
stock Railroad bonds were quite urm
"n q guui volume rt lu-ircs Total SALES
par NalIc. 81. SO 'tst J'rlrcd Stat. . u std-
Nauo"d p. and The. rogrcu declined q.
lcT cent un go" Last CIi
Daily Kennebec journal., 1901-10-18
Happy Hits.

y woman believes that She is ''iibcral''
IN her religious views n she makes 4
cake Tor social at the other church
IN Atchison woman has such supreme
faith in her husband that when III, gors
hunting she never orders meat for dinner
Men talk of putting on the harness
every day. but as they wear neither corset
nor hustle. they don't know what the
harness is like
ne real great men of this country are
not those whose names are prominent
'i'' real great mon sit around the saloons
ana tell what should be done although
'leE DO not do much themselves
All amateur shows are interesting and
one with tableauX is particularly 50.
nome g1rl IN white gown fixed to repre-
sent a statue, who turns her head to So.
now the red light is coming on and Who
sililies at her friends in the audience is
worth sitting up to see. And when th,v
wear their hair down in group of Faith
Hope. and Charity. it is awfullv swcct
-AtChiSOn C,lot,
Daily Kennebec journal., 1901-10-18

Out in Nebraska supreme court
university are to be elected, and here
is the only state where Bryan is get
ting the privilege Of talking. The
Democracy of other states is dOdginS
him as though he had the smallpox.
In addition to the various state cleo
House Of Representatives. occasioned
by death. to be filled by special cleo
South Carolina. Texas. New York and
Michigan.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1901-10-18

we near great deal of foolish talk
nowadays about the possible harm
from drinking coffee. and the market
is ful' of unwholesome and cheap sub
Stitutes for coffee. If the coffee Won
"ii'ih o"eSI agree with you. don't
condemn al coffee. Roasted gmin
iiaVoreu with chicory may have pa
tent-medicine virtue. and it can he
mace I" taste like coffee. but it has
nothing OF the flavor nor the whole
some value as morning beverage
which is found in pure coffee. If Van
want t" b" absolutely safe. ask vour
grocer to get You the extra high
grade coffee imported by Chase & san
porn. They are The largest distributors
IF fine "ofr 2Ns in tlr.vnril.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1901-10-18

Still unexplained and always mex
plicable, according to the unanimous
verdict of the distinguished physi-
clans in attendance, is the real cause
OF President Mckinley's death. They
have just agreed in a paper read be-
fore the New York Medical Society,
that they cannot understand or ex-
plain the sudden relapse of that dark
Friday. after the case had progressed
SO favorably for week. His age, his
lack of exercise and his naturally
weak heart are mentioned as con-
tr!butory causes. But they say that
Il" persons We're more surprised at the
fatai end than they. and they insist
mat every bulletin given out was ac-
cordinG to their best belief.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1901-10-18
Reflections OF a Bachelor.

Ihe best thing for love affair gone
wrong is "A calomel ''0
!herc was woman once who never
said: II told you so" once,
Some people hate to be happy 50 mi,cb
that when they laugh they always have
tears in their voice
feople who speculate III Wall Street
uon seem to care rap that they aren t
going TO have red cent next week
The man whose conversation yoII ,,,i,.
T. tit one who saws "Ah. yes and
Il;is "a, right when YOU are doing the
y ne,i Il woman is one hour late keeping
an engagement she takes a good daaI ~
pride in the thought that it wasn't two
New York Press
Daily Kennebec journal., 1901-10-18

The Bar Association Of New York
city. by accepting the unanimous re-
oort Of its committee on iudicia!
nominations. has declared Mayor
Robert 4. Van Wyck to, be con
spicuousiy uniit for judicial office"
This was to have been exnected
Little Van Wyck as he is caued-to
distinguish him from his brother who
IS a man of character and attain
hents-has been on exhibition for
lour years. ana during that time his
brother lawyers have had ample on
inrtunity to form a correct Judgment
OF his mental and moral qualities and
his manners. The cheerful unanim;tv
VITA which they bear testimony 1o
MS conspicuous unfitness for =
JUDICIAL position Indicates the ac-
e"racE with which they have take,
his measure.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1901-10-18

Pat Grove has succeeded in clud-
ing the detectives and the police. but
it has been only by concealment as
irksome as prison life itself. If h
had done any considerable amount of
moving about hc would, doubtless,
have been in custody long before this.
He appears to have been wiser in this
respect than the general run Of Grim
inals whose restlessness is usually
their urdoing.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1901-10-18

An anarchist has been arrested
and imprisoned in France for express
ing satisfaction at the assassination
only by international agreement and
activity that the anarchistic plague is
finally stamped out. 1t can never be
done by the kind of deportation
which simply sends the vcrmin from
one land to another. 1t is pity
some island cannot be set apart for
their exclusive use. where all anar-
chists could be shipped to practice at
their leisure and to their own destruc-
tion the doctrine they preach.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1901-10-18

1t is4said that the editor of the Ealti-
more American never thinks OF retir-
ing for the night without looking un-
der the bed to make sure that none
the naval ring" are lurking there.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1901-10-18
Miss Suse Is 10 Teach.


'ItU3'I-I IT y. 7 y ''NI-I
Tn" brilliant Miss Bertha Sueg the
scholarly daughter of the rupuIar II.
". Sugg ot Green. county. has been
selected TO fiji the place in the graded
school mad" vacant by the resignation
of the surrrbiy cultured Mrs. Minnie
Murray of this place. Miss Sugg Is a
young lady of finest mental endoW-
m"nts and tine most brilliant accom-
pllshm"ntS ana we arc sure size uill
wear with exquisite grace the rob, 50
fclicitnusly worn hy her gifted and
talented aunt