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HERE AND THERE.

duck raising is profitable when
properly managed, and ducks will
bear as much neglect as any of the
feathered tribes.
An increase of four bushels of
wheat an acre was secured at the
Tennessee experiment station by the
use of sleeves, so that only the largest,
plumpest grains were used for seed.
Sheep, like fowls, should be mar
keted in uniform lots for thus they
always bring better prices. A flock
all nearly alike will sell for a better
price than a flock really averaging
better quality, but variegated.
There should be no such thing as
"breaking in heifer' when she has
her first calf. She should be so care
fully handled that there will be no
necessity for doing the thing after
that should be done before calving.
If farmers with a lot of scrub
cows would buy fairly good pure
bred bull they would be astonished
at the progressive annual improve
ment the herd would show. The third
generation will be almost equal to
the pure-bred cattle.
A spring brood of pigs, to be
marketed when eight months old in
late fall, can not be raised with much
profit in pens unless there supply
OF milk or kitchen slops. Some pas
turage is required for good profit,
and nothing exceeds red clover.
Goose raising is one of the most
profitable branches of the poultry
business. True, there is very little
demand for goose eggs except for
Matching; but geese do not waste
much of their time laying eggs. The
feathers, however, are valuable.
Not more than thirty years ago
cotton seed was thrown away as be-
ing worthless. The profit that is
now being derived by cotton-growers
from the sale of the seed for the
making of cotton-seed oil, as well as
oil-cake and hulls for feed for stock,
is putting cotton-growing on a per-
manently profitable basis.
1t is true that there are occa-
sional farmers who are in the main
successful and good, honorabl mem
bers of their vocation whose horses
are discredit to their owners and an
eyesore to the public. But it is much
more generally true that a progress
i've and energetic farmer can be
picked out by the prosperous appear
ance of his team.
The farmer who is considerable OF
his teams welfare, either through
motives Of pride, economy or love of
the animals themselves, is very much
more likely to make a good citizen
and parent than the one who strives
mistakenly and unfeelingly to strain
the last fraction of work and power
from his animals at the least expense
Of care and sistenance.
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POULTRY SUGGESTIONS.
Valuable and Pointed Suggestfonx
to Those Who Raise Poultry
for Profit.

The following pointed paragraphs
contain more valuable suggestions
| about poultry than can be found in
several volumes of average poultry
or farm journals:
Exercise is like an ounce of pre-
| ventive. 1t is worth pound of con-
| dition powder.
If you are looking for "soft snap"
stay out of the poultry business.
We never waste the time spent in
thinking. Applied thought is the
great means of success.
Don not forget to always keep on
hand supply of clean water.
Don't dabble in many varieties.
You are too liable to be failure in
all.
If your hen house is near swampv
ground, raise plenty of sunfowers.
Examine often for lice.
1t is easier to hatch chickens in an
incubator than to raise them in a
brooder.
Neither the poor hen nor the over
fat one will lay many eggs
Leaves, chaff, grass and hay make
good hitler for the floor.
Dressed poultry should be packed
carefully. ul-shaped birds do not
sell well.
The beauty of your poultry yard is
the kind of chicken that walks in it.
Set fresh eggs.
The poultry business is not vision
airy, but has come to stay.
Thoroughbred stock is not neces-
sary to profit, but it will pay better
in the long run.
The fact that you have pure-bred
fowls is often an incentive to greater
effort.
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The SunhOwer.

The sunfower has not been gener-
ally regarded with high favor by
many people, although its claims as
a producer of an excellent and cheap
form of chicken feed, have received
some attention from poultry jour-
mails.
1t is, to be sure,a somewhat coarse,
tall-growing and hardy annual, Snowy,
and in suitable place by no means
unattractive. 1t was introduced from
South America as early as 1896, and
has at times been put to a great
variety of uses.
1t was found by experiment that a
bushel of sunflower seed will Weld
gallon of oil, and that an acre Of
ground planted three feet apart in
rows, will yield forty to fifty bushels
of seed. The oil. is as mild as sweet
oil, and equally as agreeable on SAL
ads and as a medicine. The seed is
raised with very little trouble, and
makes excellent chicken feed. The
sprouts are eaten with oil and salt,
and bread is also made from the seed
and Cruel for children.
1t fattens fowls, and it's leaves are
excellent food for cattle in summer
and increases the quantity of milk
in cows. 1t is also good for sheep,
and the stems are useful to support
climbing plants and serve for fuel.
The seeds, when roasted, have the
flavor of coffee, and the infusion Of
them like tea makes pleasant bever-
age. These important uses ought to
set the people to thinking-Pacifc
Tree and Vine.
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We would caution all people against
accepting substitutes for Peruna. In
sist upon having Peruna. There is no
other internal remedy for catarrh that
will take the place of Peruna. Allow
no one to persuade you to the contrary.
If you do not derive prompt and sat-
isfactory results from the use of Pc
runa, write at once to DR.. Hartman,
giving full statement of your case,
and he will be pleased to give you his
valuable advice gratis.
Address DR.. Hartman, President of
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus,
Ohio
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Well Provided.

"The pleasing thing about your husband"
they said to the wife of the man who had
just been elected to Office, 'is that he has
welldeined policy"
1.-TWO of EN-" answered the wife, proud
ly; zone for 5000 and one for l0,O00 not
to mention the accident policy Chicago
Post,
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That Wouldn't Explain 1t.

How many Spanish people and people Of
Spanish connections there are who have
the name of Lopez. Nearly every other
Filipino seems to be a Lopez; when you
meet Cuban or a Mexican, you can near
and the n.I Wsv 0 With tS.
themselves and people from South America.
Quite remarkable, isn't it,"
eyes, l guess Lopez must be Spanish for
Smith. Chicago Record Herald.
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Wrong QiaRnasfa.

"You are evidently worried over business
matters" said the physician. "What you
require is peace of mind"
!. You're away off there, DOCTOR" replied
the patient. GIVE got it to swamp an air
ship"
How is that?" asked the puzzled NJ. D.
MY wife gives me quite large piece Of
her mind daily, replied the other, sadly
Chicago Daily News.
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What They Suggested.

He-You've seen the pictures of those
great dining halls they had in olden times,
She-Oh, yes; they'd been great for ping.
pong, wouldn't they?--Yonkers Statesman.
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Digging for It.-"When man is working
hard, why do they say he is digging away!S
Because, my boy, he is after the root of
all evil, and how else can he reach it?"-
Chicago Post. --
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Ladie. Can wear shoe.

One size smaller after using Aliens Foot
Ease. A certain cure for swollen, sweating,
hot, aching feet. At all Druggists, 25c Ac.
Address A. s. Olmsted, lie Roy, N. Y.
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And It's IncurabIe.

Judge-What is your profession?
Wltness-Im poet, your honor.
. duh! That's not profession; It's .
dsease. Chicago Daily News.
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There are soft moments, even to desper.
ADDE'S. God does not, all at once, abandon
even them.-Cecil.
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Piso's Cure is the best medicine we ever
used for all affections of the throat and
,u1gsnWm; O. Endsley, Vanburen, Ind. :,
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Stops the Con,

St0ps the Cough
and works off the cold. Laxative Bromo
Qulnine Tablets. Price IS cents. ~
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Time is the capital of the intellectual
man.-Chicago Daily News.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-26
INTERESTING COMPETITION
THE CHICAGO & EASTERN ILLINOIS
AN IMPORTANT FACTOR.
Overlooking Locomotives Injuring
Motive Power-Change in Use of
PennsyJvania's Four Tracks.

The merging of the Chicago & Eastern
Illinois Railroad with the St. Louis & San
Francisco will be far reaching in its re-
suits and will lead TO competition with the
Illinois Central which will be outstretched
with much interest, both as to passenger
and freight traffic between Memphis and
Chicago and between Chicago and the
gulf. Both are in fine condition as to
readiness and equipment. 1t is stated that
the St. Louis &. San Francisco will have
it's fast trains ready for operation direct
between Chicago and Memphis by Jan. 1.if
not earlier, competing with the flyers on
the Illinois Central. The two systems. so
far as mileage is concerned, are about
equal, the advantage being slightly With
the Illinois Central. over whose lines the
distance Of 527 miles, as compared with
$50 miles over the st. L. & S. F. The
twelve-mile line. known as the Memphis
& Chicago, will give the st. l.. a. S. F..
system physical connection between the
Chicago & Eastern Illinois at Thebes, on
the one hand and with the Memphis ST.
Louis & Southeastern at Cape Girardeau
on the other. The st. L. & S. F., in connec-
ton with this road, now has a through
service out of Memphis to Cape Girardeau,
while the Chicago & Eastern Illinois has a
direct line out of Chicago to Thebes. The
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-26

be beautifully Illustrated. The history is
to be issued in advance of the national T.
Z. A. convention, which will be held in In
dianapolis next June. T. z. Harvey, a
member Of the association, will have charge
of the publication. The object of the book
is to raise funds to defray the expenses Of
the big national convention. Every dele
gate to the convention, posts of the T. p.
A, commercial clubs and leading hotels of
the country will be presented with free
copies of the book. Mr.. Harvey thinks the
edition Of the book will reach 10000 copies.
There Will be illustrated stories of every
city and village in the State.
The executive committee is composed of
j. b. Meek, president; p. ]. OMeara, vice
president; II. S. Hunter, secretary; NJ. P.
Lynch, treasurer, and Riley Hunt. The
committee will ask the support of all mer-
chants and manufacturers of the State TO
make the convention a big success. The
convention will open June 3, 1903, and will
last from six TO ten days The 1901 conven-
ton was held at Old Point Comfort and
the meeting last year was at Portland,
Ore. The geographical location of Indian
apolis insures the biggest convention in the
history of the order and least 5000 dele
gates and visitors will proabbly be here.
The order has a membership of 1000 and
is strongest in Indiana, Illinois, Missouri,
Texas, Tennessee, Georgia, Pennsylvania
and Iowa. Indiana will get the next ma
tonal president, who will likely be Horace
{. starr, OF Richmond.
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ceivcd about two months ago. The con-
tract was for sixteen locomotives, all OF
which, except three moguls. have been de-
livered Another contract is for four mo-
guls and four shifting engines to be de-
livered towards the close of the present
year.
The Santa Fe is handling a remarkably
large cattle business. more than at any
former period, and its new large freight
engines are hauling fifty carloads OF stock
readily over any part Of the road One
night last week the Santa Fe brought into
Kansas City 40 carloads of live stock.
The company is experiencing trouble with
these long trains. many of the side tracks
not being long enough to hold them. and in
such cases passenger trains must take the
siding. which is much against the rules OF
the company.
The American Express Company will not
leave Richmond. Notwithstanding it has
been ordered off the Cincinnati. Richmond
& Muncie line. The company has arranged
with the Adams people by which the Adams
will carry American business into Dayton.
o., and Indianapolis. where the American
has outlets. The c., r. x NJ. is accepting
express matter as freight and forwarding IL
on passenger trains until a better arrange
ment is made. II would be no surprise at
Richmond If the c., r. & NJ. should secure
the United States company TO operate over
its lines.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-26
LOCAL WHOLESALE TRADE
QUIET CONDITIONS STILL PREVAIL
ING IN MOST LINES.
Seed Market shows Little More
Activity-Butter Is Easier and
Fruits and Vegetables Weak.

The week opens with trade rather quiet.
and dull time is looked for in most lines
during the present week. Next week, how
ever. a decided Improvement is expected
There were no important price changes yes
terday. There was an easier tone in but
ter. with large accommodations reported,
which must be disposed Of before the mar
ket will improve. Eggs and poultry seem as
scarce as ever; at least there is no indica-
ton of lower prices. On Commission row
it a quiet day, which is not unusual
for Monday. Prices in nearly all lines carry
an easy tone, and lower quotations will be
noticed in some lines. The supply of mel
ons keeps up, and they are selling very
low, size and quality considered. Flour is
in firmer tone on the better grades. Cerea-
line products are steady, and present indi-
cations are that they will go no lower for
some time at least probably not until the
wheat, oats and corn markets become more
settled. The seed market shows more &C
tivity, and prices rule steady at the recent
revision. From now on this market will
improve Druggists are having good
trade. Paints and oils are still in good re-
quest and prices are firm. In drugs steady
prices is the feature.
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AS result of the unprecedented traffic
the leading roads are handling, engines are
being loaded too heavily. and they wear out
rapidly. 1t is with the engines which haul
the heavier trains that the most trouble is
experienced. One of the troubles, said a
superintendent Of motive power, is that
traffic is so heavy that sufficient time is
not given to make ordinary repairs, and
this overworking of engines is the ex-
perience of most every road in the country
which accounts for the large number of
engines the roads contracting for
the superintendent seeing ahead of them
the time when new engines will be re-
quired to take the places of the older ones.
Engines of ten years ago are of but little
value in moving trains on such roads as
the Big Four ard Panhandle, passenger
and freight trains having been so increased
in size and weight. The increase in weight
of trains the last two years, with the in
PRODUCTION OF the larger locomotive, has
been remarkable. On the Chicago 4 East
ern Illinois, for example, only eighteen
thirty-hve cars and now daily trains of
seventy-hve cars are hauled over some
divisions of the system, and even these
increases in size of trains not satisfac-
tory to some of the managers. I'VE are
now entering said a superintendent os
motive power, upon an era of larger en-
gines. straighter tracks lighter grades
strengthening of bri iges and faster time
for freight well for passenger trains-
time with each year becoming a more i'm
portant feature in transportation
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To Restore Grain Rates.

The grain committee of the Trunk lines
has agreed to restore rates Sept l on
ex-lake grain to the figure in effect until
the recent rupture with the Baltimore and
Philadelphia lines, competing lines having
abandoned the idea of retaliating because
of the action of the Pennsylvania and the
Baltimore & Ohio, there being too much
business in sight TO lose the profits on
moving il. The Journal of Commerce saws:
Now that the Pennsylvania Railroad has
decided to advance ex-lake rates on grain
for export from Erie. Pa, TO Baltimore
the new rates will be in effect from Sept I
to Oct. 15 and are as follows: On whea I
and faxseed, 41-10c a bushel; corn and
rye, 3.S5c a bushel The old rate. which
has been in effect for few months. was
on wheat 5-lOc bushel; corn. rye and
barley, sac a bushel Ii is believed that
the Pennsylvania was Influenced more or
less by the action taken, a day or so ago
by the Buffalo grain committee of the
Trunk Line Association"
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Personal. Local and General Notes.

c. r. Cost. who represents the Big Four
as travelling freight agent at st. Louis, is
in the city.
William Garstang. superintendent of mo-
tive power Of the Big Four. is spending two
weeks at Georgian bay.
A f. Robbins, superintendent of the Buff
falo division of the Wabash. who spent Sun
day with friends in this city. has returned
to Buffalo.
Thomas Stokes, formerly a train dis
patcher on the Big Four, recently retired,
has arranged TO take service with a Mex
lean road.
d. q. Edwards, passenger traffic manager
of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, re-
turned yesterday from his vacation, spent
in Michigan.
William II. Ely. formerly treasurer of the
Lehigh Valley Railway Company died at
Beverly. n. j., on Saturday. He was sixty
eight years old-
B. D. Lockwood. chief draughtsman in
William Garstang's office. has been APP
consin Central
On Sept l H. j. Sagru. district passenger
agent Of the Cincinnati, Hamilton * Day
ton. at Findlay, will transfer his head
quarters to Detroit
George Gould. president of the Missouri
Pacific and Iron Mountain roads, will this
week leave New York on a tour of in
spection of his Southwestern roads.
Vacations of fremen on the anthracite
roads have been withdrawn, and firem, n
now idle have been notified to report for
work Sept. 1. Cars are being shipped to
sidings near the coal breakers.
The 120 machinists discharged on the
Santa Fe a few days ago are finding work
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officials of the roads have already figuring
that the trip from Memphis 10 Chicago
can be made within less than twelve hours,
as against the twelve hours and thirty
minutes now required by the fast trains
of the Illinois Central, an average Of forty
miles an hour. But with the completion
of the double tracking of the Illinois Cen
trai, which is now well under way over
the greater portion of the distance, the
Illinois Central fast trains can make fifty
miles hour. However, the s.. J.. IL
5. +. will offer speed marvels Of It's own.
The Chicago s, Eastern Illinois is old
roadbed. suitable for making fast time,
and the same statement is applicable TO
the st. l. & S. T. from Memphis TO Luxora,
where connection is made with the Mem
phis, st. Louis & Southeastern. The South
eastern is being built with a view to max
ing a fast line between Memphis and st.
Louis. Its grade is, therefore, better than
that of the Illinois Central, being a water
grade, just ten feet to the mile. This will
prove an immense advantage and will place
the st. l.. & S. f. system on an equality
with its competitor. this better grade
Will offset the increased distance the St.
l.. & S. F. trains will have to ,ravel.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-26
indianapolis Grain Market.

The local grain market was in stronger
tone yesterday than on Saturday. Wheat
was a cent higher. and strong at that fig
ure. Corn carries steady tone, while oats
were a shade higher. Hay ruled steady at
Saturdays quotations.
Inspections-Wheat: No. red cars; re-
jected, 6; understandable. 3; total, II cars.
Corn: No. white. II cars; No. white. B.;
No. white mixed. 2; No. mixed, z; NO.
mixed, l; no established grade, l; ear, 3;
total q cars. Oats: No. 3 mixed. car:
rejected, 4; no established grade, /; total, 8
cars. Hay: No. timothy, l car. Total in
spections, IL cars.
of the Board of Trade were as follows:
Wheat stronger: No red. 6Siac track;
No. 2 red, 6s16c on milling freight; No.
red, 641aG6611c track; wagon. CSC.
Corn firm; No l white, &c: No. white,
&c; No. white. &c; No. white. 5Sq6Oc;
No. white mixed, Coo; No. white mixed,
coo; No. white mixed. 56d5Sc; No yellow.
60Lc; No. mixed. Coo; No. mixed, Coo;
No. mixed 56Q5Sc; ear, &c.
Oats stronger; No. white, 3012dSlc; No.
3 white. 30d3019c; No. mixed, 2112q2Sc; No.
3 mixed, 27Q2712c.
Hay steady; No. timothy, Sl125Q1L5O;
No. timothy, s9.75d10.25.
WAGON MARKET.
Offerings on the wagon market yesterday
were 123 loads and Of this So were new hay.
With the large offerings prices were weaker
than on Saturday. Most of the corn sold
at 5Sc bushel and none over Coo; oats al
&c to 30c, averaging about 2Sc a bushel
Hay was weak at prices quoted. and must
be superior article to bring the best quo
tations Prices, as reported by the Wagon
weighmaster, were as follows:
Corn-5sG60c per bu.
Oats-New, 2SQS0c per blu.
Hay-Timothy choice, $11f12; new. 500
II; mixed, SS69; clover, sSQ9. according tC
quality.
Sheaf Oats-New sed7 per ton.
Straw-S465. according to quality.
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Changes on the Big Four.

While it has not been officially announced
1t is understood that on Sept. l a new posi-
ton will be created on the Big Four-that
OF assistant general superintendent, and
that III. F. Houghton. superintendent of the
Chicago division, will be appointed to fill
II. The work has been too heavy for Cen
eral Superintendent Van Wrinkle, and his
health is breaking under il. The apoint-
ment of an assistant general superintend-
ent will in some measure relieve him Who
will succeed Mr. HOughton superintend-
ent of the Chicago division has not been
determined. but it Will be filled by promo
ton, probably, of a Big Four man.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-26
building Permits.

w. r. Davis. double one-story frame building
Upton street. between Twentieth and Twenty
first streets. 1915.
Frank NJ Page frame cottage. Steele street
Rockville street $3.50
Harry Perry, frame cottage. p Brighton
street. SOFA.
Jane Mock. addition. SOS Hosbrook street s11O
r A. Kessle. addition. 3215 North Senate ave
nue $l57.
Marion County Construction Company Fulton
and North streets. $3.50.
Lydia r. Blach. twO-story frame dwelling 500
and S2i Keystone avenue. Sl.300
Susan r HerOd. two-story brick veneer build
ing. Alabama and Ninth streets. $4,000
J. G Willis frame dwelling, 5j22 North I'LL
aois street. 81. 500
r. A. Morris. addition TO frame dwelling.
Nineteenth and Sheldon streets. $3.50
NJ. J. Hammond two-story frame dwelling
Eleventh street between Belefontaine street and
Cornell avenue. 81 500
r G. Hedden. two-story frame dwelling 179e
Talbot avenue. 8.f7g.
Lorenz schmidt frame cottage, Cincinnati
street. near Walnut street. $500.