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Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1901-10-23
Another Letter from Grove.

Omaha, OCT. 2a..-Pat Grove has writ.
ten another letter 20 Chief Of Police
Donohue. This latest communication
from the alleged kidnaper was mailed
In Omaha and states that the writer IL
secluded within two miles Of this city.
Grove insists that unless he is given a..
surances from the court that his bond
will not excood 600 he will not give
himself up. The Communication Il svi-
IDENTIFY written by Grove.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1901-10-23
Lawton PrIIs Winner Dead.

Lawton, o. T., Oct. 22.-James d.
Wood, who drew the capital prize in
the LAwton district Mt the FL Reno lot
terry last August and settled claim
valued at nearly ESQ, 600. IL dead Of ty.
phoid fever after briof illness Before
his death all the contests against his
quarter section claim adjoining tho town
OF Lawton had been disposed OF by the
interior department and his widow will
come into undisputed possession Of tho
uroDerty
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1901-10-23
For Sale.

2good horses,
fat COW,
new light running delivery
wagon,
Either or all very cheap for few
days. q. Il. Abercrombie,
AT Tucker place, East Bryan, OPP
posite w. X. Sanders. d279
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1901-10-23
Hotel Arrivals.
EXCHANGE.

A p Griswold, Erie; Morriss
LANCE, Cincinnati; NJ l. Block,
Houston; Abe Adel, Cincinnati;
John Watson, Brenham; Chas A
Miller, New York; Geo II Hartwell,
New Orleans; ii ID Post, Chicago /;
Ward Templeman, Navasota; Geo
p Bronse, Athens; c w Carr, Hous-
ton; II l. Hoillngsworth, New Or
leans; W p Herms, Dallas; w c
Crane. Iowa; Chas Little, Houston;
Tom Patterson, Searcy Williams,
Chicago; c q Bruce, New York; o
+ Alvarez, Houston.
CENTRAL.
II Marshall. Taylor; J A Randolph
Navasota: q ) Heating, Mumf0rd;
A X Bruce, Garland.
ss
Rev. and Mrs. L. l.. Shettles left
for Galveston yesterday.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1901-10-23
To Cure Malaria In Four Days,

Take ouInorla. All druggists are au.
thorized TO refund the money in any
case OF chills. fever or malaria II falls
10 cure. Price soc per package. VI
II James. the leading druggist. Bryan,
Texas.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1901-10-23
Scholarship for Sale.

Scholarship for bookkeeping course
In Hills Business College, Waco, for
sale. Includes books Tor the course.
Apply at this office. "a 2
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1901-10-23
Awaiting Termination Of PowsrS Case.

indianapolis. Oct. 2s.-It IL not like.
iy that Governor Durbin will announce
his decision in the matter Of the last
requisition 4 Governor Beckham Of
Kentucky for the extradition Of Taylor
and Finley ntil after the trial Of Caleb
Powers. which IL now In progress at
Georgetown. IL Ia believed the requisi-
dion VIII y. denied.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1901-03-06
Bogus Heads OF Incas.

If any stranger offers to sell you un-
canny-looking objects and tells you
that they are heads of Incas, who were
great warriors long ago, says the New
York Journal, beware of him and hand
not over your good dollars, for the
chances are thousand to one that the
man is an impostor and that the So
called heads are really the product Of
some factory. Genuine mummified
heads of Incas there are, but they are
rare and costly.
The warlike Incas, it appears, were
accustomed to suspend from their sad
dies the heads Of their conquered en-
emies, but before doing so they sub
jecter them to a certain process with
the object of rendering them as light
as possible.
First, the bones of the skull were re-
moved, after which the head was
soaked in a certain hot liquid, the re-
suit being that finally there remained
nothing but very small yet wonder
fully lifelike countenance, of leathern
consistency and of merely nominal
weight. A few such heads may be
found in Ecuador.
How old these heads are no one
knows, but many centuries have GER
tainly passed away since their owners
f1ourished. The price of such Curl
osity varies from $3.50 to $1,000.
The demand. however, has always
been greater than the supply, and this
fact recently emboldened some enter
prising but unscrupulous gentlemen
in Ecuador to open a factory for the
purpose of supplying enthusiastic COL
lectors with all the mummified heads
that they might need.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1901-03-06
4 BIT OF LACE.
Napoleon Slapped Joseph1ne's Face Be-
cause She Cut X.

Napoleon Slapped Josephlne's Face Be-
cause She Cut II.
For $4,000 has been sold in Paris
piece of lace which was the cause Of a
quarrel between Napoleon and Joseph
inc in which the cheeks of the empress
were slapped. 1t had been the proper
ty of Mile. Perusset, daughter Of fa-
vorite maid of the fighty empress. Ma
poleon had brought the lace from Italy.
He often brought her beautiful things
on his return from a successful cam
paign, and Josephine never asked him
how he had got them, for she thought
that perhaps he would not care to tell.
1t was q large square Of the finest
old point de venisc, and Josephine as
soon as she Lad it in her possession
sent for NJ. Duplan, her man milllner,
and asked him to make with it Ger:
tain fichu and peplum.
Impossible, your majesty" answer
eG Duplan. "The piece is too large,
and we could not arrange it graceful
ly."
"Well, cut it them"
"Cut a treasure such as that! Oh,
madam, I could not do such thing"
"Nonsense." cried Josephine. The
lace was draped on her shoulders. She
knew how she wanted it. So she calm.
ly took pair of scissors and in a sec
ond had it set right, while long, mar
row pieces of the priceless stuff fell
round her.
AT this moment the emperor entered
tbe room. "Cannibal!' he cried. And
he gave her a sounding slap on her
violently rougcd cheeks, which were
soon covered with tears. Duplan dis
creetly withdrew, and the lace was
thrown into a chest Of drawers. Jo-
sephinh could not besr the sight OF 1t
after that and at last gave 1t to Nine.
Perusset, her fayorite maid. The odd
bits of 1t have now been sold for
$1,000 Another bunch fetched 81, 900.
The passion of Josephine for lace
caused frequent scenes between her
and Napoleon. She would have lace,
and she seldom let anything stand in
the way Of acquiring 1t. 1t is even said.
that this frivolous fancy helped to
bring about her downfall, for Napo-
leon. who at first would not hear Of
forsaking her, one day said to the
Prince de Wagram: THE cup is full
now. prince. What do you think Jo-
sephine did lately? 'Nobbled' one OF
my young generals and made him pass
lace for her in his top boots through
nv own frontier! Her soul is made OF
lace, prince, and that is too fragile a
stuff for an empress's soul"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1901-03-06
IllN Balanced Fertilizers.

An iii balanced or incomplete fertili-
ger is one which does not supply all
three elements of plant food-phos-
phoric acid. nitrogen and potash.
Sometimes a material may furnish one
or even two Of the essential ingre-
dients, but if all three are not present
the mixture may be regarded as in
complete, and what the plant fails to
find in the fertilizer 1t must look for
in the soil, with the result that If the
soil does not contain it the crop has
to suffer accordingly. On the other
hand, If the ingredient which is miss
ing in the fertilizer is present in the
soil it will gradually become exhausted
through continued cropping, and the
yield naturally falls off in proportion.
It is an established fact in fertiliz-
ing that one element of plant food can
not replace another. Each has its
special function to perform. To illus
trate: If there is enough phosphoric
acid and nitrogen in the soil to pro-
duce a 20O-bushel crop Of Irish pota-
toes, and only enough potash to make
1OO-bushel crop, the yield would not
go above the latter figure. The ele-
nent present in the smallest proper
ton is ghat regulates the extent of
the yield. In other words, we meet in
feeding plants, the old maxim, "a
chain is not stronger than its weakest
link"
From what has been said it can be
seen that at once that it is both wise
and economical to feed crops like ami
mails. No one would think of giving
a horse or COW one sided food and
expect to get full days work from
it. Every hard working animal must
have proper food and plenty of it,
AS said before, the three ingredients
to make up complete food for plants
are phosphoric acid, nitrogen and pot
ash. Manufacturers embody all three
in their mixtures, and the proportions
vary to suit the crops, some requiring
more of one than another
The principal point to bear in mind
is that one sided fertilization seldom, if
ever, pays in the long run. 1t is much
easier to keep up the fertility Of soils
by using what is needed annually to
meet the demands Of the growing crop
than to build up land which has be-
come run down or eXhausted.-George
X. Wilson, in Fruit Growers Journal.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1901-03-06
Market Value of EnsilaGe.

Professor Phelps makes quite an
elaborate computation as regards a
fair market value of ensilage, from
which he decides that it is worth
about one-third to one-fourth the price
per ton of a good stock hay free from
clover. He figures it in this way:
There is about 4S0 pounds Of water
free or dry matter in ton of ensilage
and 1740 pounds in ton of hay, but
when the digestibility is calculated,
there is S36 pounds of food elements
digestible in the ton of silage, and
about 1000 pounds in the ton of hay,
being near enough to call it one third
of the food value. But we do not al
ways compute the value to the dairy
man by the nutritive value if the pro-
fessor does. The more succulent and
easily digested silage when given as 4
part of the food ration will produce
more milk man one-third of it's weight
in; hay. That is those who have tried
it say that 80 pounds of ensilage a
day with 10 pounds Of hay will give
better results than 20 pounds of hay.
AS those who have grown it for years
say the cost when in the silo is from
$3.50 per ton with best machinery up
to $3.50 when much hand labor is used,
we think it is profitable for the farmer
to put up his ensilage.-The Cultivator.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1901-03-06
jenny Limo Letters Found.

A large number Of letters from
Jenny Lind have just been discovered
in Rome. written to a lady friend resi-
dent in;Italy, and covering a period Of
thirty years, from 1s45 to 1874. 1t is
said that there are more than hum
dred in all, and are in the most init
mate and unconventional terms, Civ
Ing the. great prima donna's candid
opinion Of much of the music and
many of the musicians Of her time.
The letters have been purchased by
nm italian publisher, who proposes to
issue them to the world very shortly.
1t is hoped, however, that they will
be judiciously edited. 1t will add q
new terror to life if private letters.
never intended for the public, and
probably written with n freedom
adopted only in correspondence with
nm intimate friend. can be printed
without suitable revision. In this
country it is assumed the copyright
would be with the deceased singers
executor, namely, her husband, Mr..
Otto Observation-Disclosures News.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1901-03-06

Protecting Ginseng Seeds and Plants.
/. Having finished setting roots and
planting seed, we procured leaves from
the woods and covered the beds about
two inches deep. Then we inclosed
each plot with a board fence, leaving a
gateway for entrances. The posts were
32x6 inch scantling, set two feet deep
and six and one half feet above ground.
The fence was made tight at the bot
tom to keep out woodchucks and
chickens, using narrow boards above
and leaving plenty Of air spaces for
free circulation of cir, which is essen
dal' for good growth of ginseng.
Posts were also set along the walks
six and one-half feet above ground.
At the top of the posts were nailed 1x4
in boards to support shade. Some
growers use lath nailed together in
square sections, and others lay poles
across from fence to fence and cover
with brush. We use sections six feet
long and three feet wide made Of strips
three inches wide and three eighths
of an inch thick. and placed three
fourths of an inch apart. If for cover
ing young seedlings, better leave only
one-fourth of an inch space between
the slats.-John Fraser, in New Eng
land Homestead.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1901-03-06
An E.ce,len. Hay for Stock.

If you plant stock peas at the last
blowing of corn they will keep weeds
down and hold moisture for the corn.
They will also store nitrogen in the
soil and thus feed the corn. Gather
the corn and turn hogs on the peas.
Hogs will fatten faster on peas than
they will On corn, and you save your
corn to SELL or feed to other STOCK
If the vines are turned under they
make a splendid fertilizer. After wheat
is harvested we stir the ground and
drill in stock peas, which make excel
lent hay for stock. All stock relish it,
and will leave corn to eat it. You can
make your land richer each. year, have
ratter stock and more grain TO sell.
We know this by actual experience,
having tried it for two years.-H. H.
Higgs, in The Epitomist.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1901-03-06
An Enemy of the Squash.

The large squash bug is very de-
structive, and as it lives by sucking
the juices from the plant it cannot be
destroyed by any poisonous applica-
ton. 1t must be circumvented by
some obstructive method. The best
the writer has yet found is the Bor-
deaux mixture spray. 1t adheres to
the stem of the plant so tenaciously
that a single spraying is sufficient
But the fight is still on, even when the
vines have begun to cover the ground
and the fruit has begun to develop.
Not far from August / the squash
borer begins its deadly work. It's
presence is surely detected by the
dropping foliage, and on close inspec-
tion by small hole where it has en-
tered the vine, always near its root
Once within, it bores it's way through
the pith, sometimes for a distance Of
several feet, from its point of entrance.
When matured it is about one inch in
length. 1t is the larva of moth that
deposits it's eggs near the growing
plant At planting time a handful of
ground tobacco stems or one or more
whole stems in each hill will assist in
warding off the moth by its pungent,
offensive odor. 1t Is, too, an excellent
fertilizer.
A still more effective remedy is
found to be bi-sulphide of carbon. A
few drops inserted in the soil of each
hill and near the plants has in many
trials proved sufficient protection.
The process is simple and inexpensive.
Puncture the soil with a small, blunt
dibble to the depth Of one inch. put in
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1901-03-06
rhs Blanket for the Horse.

The blanket should be used when
ever it is needed, for it is comfortable
to the horse, saves feed, and If rightly
used, is conducive to health. But it
can be made the means of doing quite
as much injury as it's absence can pos
sibly do under any circumstances. The
horse can stand a pretty low tempera-
ture without suffering inconvenience.
1t is a mistake, therefore, to begin the
use of the blanket too early or when
the weather is warm. The tempera-
ture may seem uncomfortably low to
us, but may not be low enough to war
rant the blanketing Of the horse that
is standing in the street. The result
of applying the blanket, when the
weather isssociy moderately cold, is
prettvapt to be more or less perspira-
tion, and when the blanket is removed,
in such case, the horse is very liable
to contract catarrh and possibly infla-
nation Of the lungs.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1901-03-06
cagAr STRENGTH, ,.oE Fish.
Their Remarkable Agility Remains the
Despair Of All Scientists.

1"The flight of birds has been studied
from time out of mind without yield
ling the first syllable Of its secret" said
an enthusiastic amateur. naturalist OF
this city, ''but it is not q whit more
mysterious than the movement OF fish
in water. Their speed, their sudden
leaps from fixed positions, their abrupt
turns in less than their own length,
the extraordinary inertia that enables
thcm to swim agn'nst tremendous
currents-these and hundred and one
orner rnings have been the despair OF
every investigator. We know that
such miracles are performed in some
manner by movements of the fms and
tail, but in ninety-nine cases out OF
hundred those organs are altogether
too small to account for the apparent
power they develop. In less time than
1t takes nae to tell it three inch gold
fish in a.!glass globe will upset every
law of dynamics in the text book. 1t
does things that are thoroughly I'M
possible. While was in Washington
on my vacation last summer" contin-
ued the speaker, "a relative of mine
who is q designer in the Bureau of
Naval Construction told me that the
department experts had made cxten-
sive studies Of the movements of DIFF
ferent fish, with view to improving
the hull lines Of torpedo boats. What
little data they had secured proved
useless when applied to working mod
els; showing conclusively that the real
secret had eluded the observers. i
have good sized tank at home. in
which I keep number Of small fish.
and at different times have made
some curious observations. especially
rs regards their speed. One of the fish
is 4 young fresh water trout, about
five inches long. On several occasions
have watched it with timing in
strument while it was making plunges
for flies on the surface of the water.
1t would approach leisurely at not over
six inches to thessecond, until about
half 4 yard from its prey, and then
leap straight for the mark like an ar
row from bow. The intervening dis
tance would be covered in approx
mately one-tenth Of second. That
doesn't sound very remarkable in cold
figures. but imagine steamship jog
ging along at about five knots IAN
tGc"" and then, in the twinkling of an
eye, increasing its speed to a mile
minute. The feat would be no more
astonishing than that performed by
my little trout, and what makes the
mystery all the greater is the extreme
ly delicate and flexible character of
its tail and fins. They seem to offer
no purchase worth mentioning against
the water; it is as if an ocean liner
had n propeller made Of gauze; yet,
comparatively speaking, they accom-
plish more than the most powerful ma
chinery ever built by man. When Ma
ture gives up the secret, If she ever
does, we are apt to see the true sub
marine boat."--New Orleans Times
sDemocrot -.--t.--'.' ..zasss,sss~
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1901-03-06
,Fat,cninc Food for Sheep.

This term fattening should be
dropped. We don't fatten now, we
feed the sheep for market. And in good
feeding the sheep will take on as much
at as may be needed to make the flesh
succulent. Even now mutton eaters
complain of the excess of fat, which 8
a waste of good food, and no enc
wants it. Feeding on the ordinary ra-
tioSs of alfalfa or clover hay, with a
pint of corn day, is sufficient for
lamb; for two year-old or older
sheep this ration may be increased to
twice the allowance of corn. with as
much alfalfa or clover hay as Will
be cate without waste.
Over feeding to fatten an animal will
put the fat on the intestines or about
the kidneys, where it is waste. The
fat should be intimately mixed with
the lean meat, and to do this fattening
must be part of the growth. This,
necessarily, cannot be made in few
days, and thus the practice Of feeding
lambs all through the winter, slowly
gaining good flesh. will be more judi
cious and effective than to feed highly
for a few days or weeks with grain
food. All the successful experimental
feeding tests have been made during
some months, nine or twelve in the
most successful and standard trials,
and we cannot expect to gain similar
proportionate results with few weeks
excessive feeding, the results Of which
may be to make fat where it is not
wanted, and so throw away the money
spent.
The practice is coming into general
use now for the shepherd to feed his
own lambs, and the intermediate feed
er for market is not being so much en-
couraged as he was when the owner OF
the sheep had not an easy opportunity
to do the feeding for himself. But
every sheep man should know how to
feed for himself, and now that rape
and alfalfa are coming into general
use, it is very easy matter to bring
the lambs up to the condition when
the finishing may be done with cheap
grain screenings and some corn
American Sheep Breeder.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1901-03-06
. Shell Button and Spoons.

o.
The acquisition of the Philippines
has begun to famillarize the American
public with many of the odd wares and
merchandise which are found in that
archipelago. No part Of the world
is richer in shells, especially Of the
pearl and. mother-of-pear variety.
For centuries there has been a steady
dow Of the latter to China, where they
are used in enormous quantities for
household decorations. Outside Of
tLese shells are others almost
as useful. One variety, q
conch, is cut through oblique-
", and according to the angle
OF the saw the resulting segment is q
spoon, a ladle, saucer, plate, cup, or
bowl. After cutting they are clean
ed and polished, making a handsome
object. 1t looks like colored porce-
lain. but is far tougher and stronger.
A shell spoon or bowl can be dropped
without danger of breaking and will
withstand hot water and cold as well
as wood.
Another variety Of she'll is employed
for buttons. The turbirates are the
fayorites. They range through hun
dred colors and patterns, and take a
very high gloss. When cut by the ma
tives, beauty of surface rather than Of
outline appears to be the main object
The most popular shape is oblong.
Next to this is an oval, and then follow
such figures as the rounded triangle,
heart, lozenge, star. 'dumbbcll, and ire
foil. These buttons are a miracle of
cheapness. Six Of them we'll mount
ed and supplied with eyelets are retail
ed in Manila for five cents ~
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1901-03-06
Beware OF Ointments for Catarrh fhat
roptoin Mercury..

as mercury will surely destroy the sense OF
smell md completely dernnge the whole system
when entering 1t through the mucous surfaces.
Snch articles should never DO used except on
prescrI ptions from reputable physicians ms the
damage they will do is ter fold to the good you
90 n nossbly derive from them. Halls Catarrh
Cnre. mani,fnctured by +. j. Cheney & Co.,
Toledo. o.. contains no mercury. and Is taken
internally acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces Of the system In buying
Halls Catarrh Cure be sure TO get the genuine.
II 20 taken internally and is made In Toledo,
Ohio by F. j. Cheney y Co. Testimonials free.
sSSoid by Druggists: price. T5c. per bottle.
Uall's Family Pills are the best
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1901-03-06
Farmers Should Keep Accounts.

If every farmer would keep accounts
with his live stock and credit each AMI
NAL with what it produces, charging
against it all that it receives, there
would be no difficulty in knowing
which animals give a profit. The ami
mails are, to. a certain extent the Gus
toners of their owner, providing him
market on the farm for large share
of the grain, hay, straw, etc. 1t may
take up more time to weigh foods and
keep books on the farm. but when
the farmer can compare the profits
from each animal, and at all seasons
of the year, he will be able to Gull out
the Improbable stock, as well as bet
ter understand how to select for the
best.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1901-03-06
Meye Mutterings.

Character is sometimes lost before
O reputation Is attained.
knowledge is what we learn. Wis
dom is what we remember.
Poems and babies are alike. Their
parents always think they are clever
Children and fools speak the
truth" Is not this an attempt to put
an age limit on lying?
We always look so pleasant when
being photographed that it seems
shame to get the bill for the pictures
The tender-hearted coal dealer
weeps at the high price of coal. He
grieves that it was so cheap last sum-
mer.