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Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-09-24
WHAT CURED HER.

A Young lady friend of ours, rather
daintily brought up, developed bad
case of nervous prostration and in spite
Of the doctors seemed headed for the
cemetery. AS last resort she was sent
out into the country and made to live
out of doors as much as possible. To
the extent Of her strength she was Civ
en- farm work to do, rode a sulky pillow
drove the team while the hay and grain
were being gathered, as she grew stron-
ger was made to ride after the COWS
and to the town on farm errands. Ap-
petite soon returned. and a healthy tan
banished the pallor from her cheeks
She gradually took up harder work and
hoed in the garden, MIXED the COWS
and in the fall went to her city home a
new woman in the best sense of the
term. She will never be the slave of
pink teas tight corsets, social humbug-
gerry, again, for she has found out how
to live.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-09-24
THE HARVEST TYNE.

It is harvest season with us-the lazy,
restful August days which see the
grain in the shock, the cornfeld bulg.
ing with big ears, the apples reddening
as they ripen, the big barn fragrant as
my lady's boudoir with the sweating
June cut hay, spring chickens just
ready for the frying pan, the flower
garden Kaleidoscope Of color and bril-
lance, goldenrod and aster abloom by
the wayside and just faint suggestion
mornings and nights of fall-best days
of the year to 60 a-fshing and have a
lay off. Too much to do? Well, when
you get old and stiff and can't have
any fun, even if you have a big bank
account, you will call yourself an old
fool that you did not have a good time
when you could.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-09-24
UNPRODUCTIVE ACRES.

The unproductive acre on the farm
Is a different proposition from the I'M
productive COW in the dairy. Both are
bad leaks, but with the COW which does
not pay for her board regeneration is
impossible, and she should be sent to
the feed yard, but the unproducttve
acre cannot be thus got rid Of and
becomes problem involving regs1er-
alton. 1t may be a hillside, poor soil,
washing badly, for which one of two
things may be done-it can be got into
grass and kept there, or it may be
planted with fruit or forest trees The
acre may be a strip all round the line
fence grown up to weed and bramble.
This should be reclaimed by breaking
up and seeding down. 1t may be wet
acre in the middle of the field which a
little job of thing will reclaim, or, if
this cannot be done, it would grow a
lot of nice willows. Then it may be an
acre and perhaps more which has been
SO starved and robbed that oats a foot
high or ten bushels of corn is all it will
plOeiuCG, Ill w ll1C1l CASE ScGll uUN ii Will
clover and give it twenty five loads Of
barnyard manure to the acre. There is
still another acre bordering the public
highway which should be so treated
that it will produce a ton OF more Of
good hay each year instead Of a useless
mass Of weeds and rubbish. We would
not be looking for more land until these
unproductive acres We're reclaimed and
utilized if we were in your place. So
far as the old COW is concerned, see
that Chicago gets her and not your
neighbor or the local butcher.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-09-24

Ignorance imported the English spar
row and fastened upon this country for
all time a most unmitigated pest. The
same ignorance imported the German
carp and turned this worthless hog of a
fish loose in our bass pike and trout
streams. The sparrows have driven
our choice song birds away and the
carp has taken possession and driven
the choice food fishes away. With carp
quoted in the markets at cent a
pound and black bass at Is cents it is
easy to realize what has been done as
result Of this laundering ignorance.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-09-24
STICK TO THE HOME CREAMERY.

T.
AS it looks to us those farmers who
withdraw their patronage from their
home creamery and sell their cream to
some big concern a hundred miles away
are making a serious blunder. The
home creamery thus shorn of patron
age will of necessity be compelled to
shut down. When this is done and the
trust creameries control the situation
they will pay the farmer what they
please for his product or give him the
poor alternative Of selling his butter to
the local merchant. The sensible and
businesslike thing to do is to stand
heartily in sympathy with the rome
institution no matter what tempting
offers are made by the foreign con-
Germs. Some can't see it this way now,
but it will all be plain enough to them
by and by.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-09-24
The cattle ranges are being turned
into wheat fields in western Kansas
and Nebraska.

Some one says that burdocks can be.
killed out by putting pinch of salt on
the crown of the plant after cutting
the top off. Our burdocks thrive, on
this treatment.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-09-24

The largest orchard in the state Of
Virginia contains 10000 apple trees,
largely the famous NeWtown Pippin;
10000 peach trees and 5000 pear trees.
It is located upon the top of the Blue
Ridge mountains.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-09-24

America takes one-half Of all the dia-
mOndS produced each year. 1t is no I'M
common thing to soc men here not
worth $1,000 wearing a $3.50 gem. fell
lows who are bound to cut a splurge
even if they never save cent
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-09-24

It is said that the wheat cut in the
state of Washington is SO dry when it
is shipped from that state that on all
ocean voyage to England it will alb
sorb enough moisture to more than pay
the freight charges.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-09-24

An income of 5000 a year on a small
farm will enable family to live bet
ter than could be done in a city on
$1,000.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-09-24

A bad egg is really the worst product
of any farm, whether it is a hens egg
or just a boy
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-09-24

The fall garden comes in very handy
late planted sweet corn, string beans,
radishes, lettuce, green peas. Lots of
nice things are to be had if one only
knows how to get them.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-09-24

An acre Of Strawberries we'll cared
for will ordinarily give about '$1c5 net
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-09-24

profit. The strawberry IS one Of the
safest berry crops to raise, for one is
almost sure of crop, and they are al
ways in good demand. o.. "
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-09-24

W. have a friend who has let the
blackberry bushes take possession Of
his orchard 1t is the old story. While
he got some blaciberries This year, he
got nary an apple. 1t is pretty hard to
grow two crops on the land at the
same time
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-09-24

Even if the city ordinances do not
prohibit it, no man who has any re-
gard for the proprieties and his neigh
bors will attempt to raise hogs on his
town residence lot. Hogs want room
and lots of it. -.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-09-24
TRY THIS.

When thrashing the grain, if it is de-
sired to save the straw in good shape
where the swinging stacker is used, it
will be found fine thing to put a
small boy on a small horse and let him
ride back and forth in the center of the
stack. This will insure solidly pack
ed center for the stack, and when it
settles it will be practically rain proof
Aside from this, much larger bulk Of
straw can be put into a stack. How is
the horse to be got off the stack
when it is twenty feet high? Just
slide him Off one end. @
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-09-24

We noticedfhe mistake made in the
management and care of two public
western cities of 5000 population. In
one the trees, which were mostly large
elms, had been trimmed up to point
where the natural beauty of the trees
was destroyed. In the other the trees
had been set in straight rows like cab
bages or corn and were so thickly
planted that grass would not grow IN
der them. The more public park can
be made like piece Of natural forest
the more attractive will it be. &
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-09-24

The 1908 crop of winter wheat il
Edwards county, Kan, is worth, at 81
cents per bushel, $190 for each in
habitant of that county. Graphophones
rubber tired buggies and pianos sci
we'll in that county.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-09-24

ISs>ASoSt OCAAJ CiOpS 10 raise, Tor one Is
almost sure Of crop, and they are al
ways in good demand. :.>@
while man may SOW and Providence
SEND the increase 1t is we'll to remem-
Der that Providence works with a good
deal Of equity and the lazy and shift
less man usually gets what he is en-
titled to and no more.
Inc types made US say in late is
sue Of these notes that $50 was enough
to pay for sire to head a good herd Of
cattle. It should have read $780, The
trouble is we have now altogether too
many of the fifty dollar sort.
About SO many children die every
year as a result of leaving carbolic
acld and other poisons around where
the little toddlers can get hold of it.
The careful housekeeper and mother
will have some place to keep such
things where they can never be got
hold Of by mistake.
" Here and there all over the wheat
producing sections are men who will
never sell a bushel of wheat for less
than 81. One such whom we know
lately marketed the accumulated crops
OF the past thirteen years. 1t being
doubtful if he could do it himself, he
should set one of his boys or girls to
work to figure out how much he made
or lost by this deal.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-09-24

In the Wisconsin experimental Or
chard the three most promising apples
are Northwestern Greetings, Patterns
Greetings and Okabena. This orchard
is we'll north and results obtained
there will be worth much to very
large section Of the country.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-09-24

If your soil is suffering from an ex-
cess Of humus, evidenced by too rank
growth Of stalk and straw and impcr-
feet filling Of grain, nothing will regu-
late it better than a crop of flax. Not
many men are troubled with this ex-
cess Of a good thing, but where it exists
flax will put the soil in normal and
productive condition.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-09-24

The possibilities of Argentina as
meat producer are practically unlim-
tied. This country proves to be the
natural home Of alfalfa. One Of the
British consuls located there says that
able to furnish the English market
with 100000 hundredweight of beef
and 100000 hundredweight of NUT
ton, or twice the amount needed to
supply that country.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-09-24

Some idea can be formed of how
much America does to clothe and feed
the world by noting the exports of cot
ton the past year,. 100000 bales of
500 pounds each, 2O0,000OO0 bushels of
wheat. 100000 bushels of corn and
no end of meats. dairy products and
fruits. The world would set but
slim table were it not for the surplus
of good things obtained from this
country.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-09-24

Almost every man is a bit cranky on
something's and we are cranky on the
matter ofsSha,ving sharp tools to work
with Work at best is bard enough
without having ito do it with dull Or
unpolished Tools. With tools kept in
the shape they Should be, much work
that is now rated as. a'burdepzmay be
transformed into a pleasure.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-09-24

An objection to trailing vines around
the house is the pesky English sparrow,
which Is,&bound to use the vines as a
nestingebllace.> We noted large church
in the Tity Of Washington not long
since aggely covered with English ivy
which harl been so appropriated by the
sparrows with their nests that the side
Of the church looked almost like hay
stack.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-09-24

If one wishes to raise roots for the
winter food Of the dairy COW nothing
will be better than mangel wurzels,
the yicld<of which on good land may
easily be as much as thirty tons per
acre. While sugar beets and carrots
are more nutritious ration, the man
gel can be more easily grown and will
produce much more to the acre
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-05-09
SULTAN AT FOURTEEN.
Probable Fruits of the ENorts of the RuIer of Morocco to Walk
 Alone.

The sultan has mingled blood. His great-grandmotherw was an Irish wom- an, wife of a Gibraltar corporal, who went from barracks to harem, writes Talcott Williams. in Century. There are so many negro women in the suc- cession that his father. Mulai-el- Hasan. had pronounced negroid fea- lures. The original stem is Arab, di- rect in the male line from Fatima, daughter of the prophet, through a chain of 36 lineal descendants, and on this has been grafted long line of Berber marriages.
 Mulai Abd-ul-Aziz's mother was 8 Circassion of Turkish residence and origin. With this line, he became sul- tan at IA, and when his mother and the vizir who made him sultan died, he began to walk alone. that vanished thing an oriental absolute prince playing an old part that will end, with him. Before he is through with the pretty game of learning 10 rule by ruling to learn. Morocco will havegone the way of all other Moslem realms, absorbed. controlled or protected by some European power. Either France will include it, or Europe agree, on a division. or the empire be put into commission.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-05-09
POWERS OF THE PRESIDENT
Are Not as Extensive a" IA Generally Supposed at Home ana
 in Europe.

The popular impression, here and in Europe. is that the president is very powerful, writes Henry Loomis Nelson, in "The Hampered Execu- tive" in Century. This conception Is largely due to the fact that the ex- tent of his power is commonly meas ured by what few of our presidents have been able to accomplish at ex- ceptional times, especially when the nation has been at war, and when the system of checks and balances has absolutely broken down, all re- straints upon the president being re- moved, and when congress has aban- doned it's powers and duties. At such times as these the very exercise of ultra-constitutional and illegal pow CTS by the president has but illus trated his powerlessness under the provisions of the law establishing his office, defining it's functions and limit ing his jurisdiction. The truth is that the framerS of the constitution intended that the presidents power should not be great, that congress should be the superior power; and the constitution is framed in accord ance with this theory.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-05-09
 INTELLIGENCE OF FISHES.
Fisherman Sees Evidences of It In an Acre-WIde School of
 MeMhaden.

"You will see birds flying in great focks and never touching wings" said an old fisherman, according to the New York Sun, ''and it is just the same way with fishes about their fins.
 '"There might be million menhaden moving along in one school, but they keep their distance so perfectly that they never touch fins. Let blueflsh get after the menhaden, or anything happen to frightsn them, and then they will mass up together in their efforts to escape, and bruise and jam and hurt one another, just as, coming back to land again, frightened cattle will mix up and get thrown down and get their legs broken and get trampled on when they are scared.
 "But with things going smoothly around them the million menhaden will swim along close enough together to seem to the eye like one great solid blanket of fish, but really far enough apart so that every one of them has room to work it's fins in. The fishes are just as Intelligent about that in the water as the birds are in the air."
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-05-09
EFFORTS OF DULL CHILDREN.
Illustrative Example of the Amusing Results of Attempts at Mental
 Exercise.

Sometimes the statements made by dull children are amusing. A friend of mine had in her physiology class boy who had fondness for long words, but very little understanding of the subject he was studying, says writer in School and Home Education. In m examination he had been asked the question:: What are some of the re- suits of breathing impure air F"
 Joe wrote: 'In responze to question number one would say I never breeth impure air and don't remember the anser. Insted I will tell mans great powers of persition and illustrate my statemunts by diergrums. When man stands he should take the puppen- diclar persition T. When he leans he should take the slantendiclar persi- tion/. When he lays down he should take the horryzondiclar persition n. When he sets down the most helthiest persition is mixed slantendiclar, hor- ryzondiclar and puppendiclar. If We take these persitions we can generally breeth pure air pervided there is any on the hemmyspeer around us."
 The conclusions drawn by dull chil- dren are often ridiculous. Probably we have all heard the story of the lit- tie boy whose mother wanted him to go to the store to get pound of sugar. Glancing at the clock, he replied: "0h, I can't go, I'll be late at school" Then, seeing the disappointment on her face, he added: "Well, never mind, III run down and get a half pound.p
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-05-09
ro setfIe Omaha Strike.

OMAHA, Neb., May 9.-A plan for the settlement of the strike, which now involves more than 5000 teamsters, restaurant workers, freight package handlers and members of the building trades, was reached late yesterday aft ernoon, in which Governor Mickey will be 8 prominent figure. The plan for the proposed settlement was reached after the governor had held extended conferences with leaders representing both sides of the controversy. It pro- vides for the appointment of commit tee of seven men from each side to rep resent the Business Mems association and the labor unions, who will sit with Governor Mickey as chairman. The committee will meet in Omaha next Monday evening to try to reach ba- sis of settlement. Meantime the labor leaders have given their pledge to do everything in their power to preserve peace and prevent violence.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-05-09
MANNHEIM BUTCHER SHOPS.
Some dn the German City Are Maae Attractive by tale Use sS or-
 namentaI Tiles.

According to United States Consul Harris at Mannheim, the meat shops in that German, city are most attractive places. This attractiveness is secured largely by the use of ornamental tiles for floors, walls and even ceilings and counters. says the Washington Star The tiles on the walls are similar to those used in bathrooms in the United States. They are generally of light shades. arranged in patterns of artis- tic design. The floors are also laid with tiles of different colors. Thesa tiles, however, are unglazed and arc heavier and of cheaper quality than those on the walls.
 In one of the most attractive of these stores, says the consul, the walls are Of ivory-colored tiles, with panels of flowers and other designs. The counter, which runs along two sides of the room. is of the same ivory-colored material, ornamented in gold. It pre- sents rich, handsome appearances. Even the bookholders, scales and gas fixtures are tiled. The general effect of the room is suggestive. above all. G3 clsaulinessA
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-05-09
SENATOR SCOTT IN PARIS.
American WOrlxingmem and Soldier
 Are Best, He Says.

A
 PARIS, May 9.-Senator Scott of West Virginia is here, after visiting Egypt, Turkey, Italy and Germany. making a study of the conditions of the European working classes as com pared with American working people and also making an investigation of the equipment and condition of Euro pean soldiers as compared with Amer ican in connection with the senate mill itary and other committees. He said
 1T have visited the homes of working people in a number of European cities, examining how they are housed, cloth ed and fed, and I am convinced that four-fifths of the American workers have higher wages and better homes, food and clothing and more of all ma terial comforts than the average mid de classes in Europe and are immeas- urably better off than the working classes of Europe. I particularly ob- served the widespread use of hand la bor, which is the only means remain ing to keep the European masses en- ployed, with the result that it places European hand labor far behind the American machine labor and letters the industrial progress of Europe.
 'T saw the British soldiers in Egypt and also those of most of the other leading armies of Europe in camp and garrison, and consider our troops bet ter from every view point, particularly education and general intelligence. The European soldier impresses the American as being a mere machine, moving automatically, incapable of in- telligent, initiative action"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-05-09
Collector Crum,s Report.

WASHINGTON, May 0.-An account of Dr. W. Fl. Crum's fees and expenses for the month of April as collector of the port of Charleston, s. O., has been received at the treasury department. It aggregated only $56.S9 and was includ- ed in the regular account of the Charleston office. Collector Crum has been informed by the department thai his personal fees and expenses cannot be paid at this time, the law saying. 'sRo money shnll be paid from the treasury as salary to any persoa ap- pointed during the recess of the senate to fill 6 vacancy in any existing office if the vacancy existed while the senate was in session and was by law required to be filled by and with the advice and consent of the senate until such ap- pointment has been confirmed by the senate"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-05-09
gturtevant Murderer,s rracks.

BOSTON, May 9.-Trace has been found of the mysterious bicyclist who killed Miss Nellie Stur*e-ss:t st Me11- ford. Miss Mary Doherty, who lives in College Hill and was returning home with a medical student of Tufts col lege, has stated as follows: We had just got off a car and were about to turn into College avenue when we saw bicycle coming. We noticed the large bag hanging on the handle bars and at hrst thought 1t was woman, but later got good look at the rider. He looked like an Italian" Reporters who rode over the ground from the Sturtevant house to Boston on bicycles covered the, distance in thirty-five minutes, so that it is now assumed the murderer could have reached Boston soon after midnight or long before the police were notified. Mayor Baxter's offer of $500 reward for the apprehension of the murderer is likely to be substan. tially increased.