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The Forrest City times., 1904-05-27
SOUTHERN FORAGE PLANTS.
Important Bulletin Issucd Ny the Canebrake Experiment sta
 ton in Alabama.

The Canebrake experiment station, located at Jniontown, Ala, has just issued an important bulletin on forage plants for the south. II would be well for farmers who are interested in ques- tions relating to forage plants. to write to Prof. J. NJ. Richeson, at Uniontown, or 10 Prof. J. r. Duggar, at Auburn, Ala, director of the experiment station, for a copy of this bulletin.
 The experiment station at Uniontown is located on upland prairie soil, known as the Canebake On this land alfalfa sown March 20 gave three cuttings of hay the same season, and would have made fourth cutting had it not been fer an untimely drought in the fall of the year. Both Amber and Orange sorghum made enormous yields of fod- der, and furnished two cuttings each The Orange sorghum grew larger and made more fodder, but the smaller stems of the Amber sorghum made it more desirable than the other for for age. Sorghum led all the forage crops in yield. kaffir corn was not success full as a fodder crop The same is true of Pearl millet and teosinte German millet did well, and is recommended for sowing with late-sown eowpeas. there by making the hay easier to cure
 One very important resuH of these experiments at Unionrown r. the high yield of soy beans as compared with cowpeas. The writer has often sug- gested the advisability of giving the soy bean trial in the southern states, for the reason that when varieties of it are secured that are adapted to To- cal conditions it is very large yield CT, making at the Uniontown station "A bushels of seed per acre. and il stands up so as to be easily harvested The seed can also be saved at much less expense than is the case with cow peas and they are said to make good feed for cattle and hogs, though on account of their richness in nitrogen they should be mixed with such car bonaceous feeds as corn, Kaflir seed etc. Upland rice would also be a good thing to mix with the seed of soy bean.
 The hairy vetch proved valuable plant for winter pasture. The Dwarf Essex rape was another plant which succeeded very we'll and is recon mended for hog pasture-W. J. Spill man, U S Department of Agriculture Agrostologist
The Forrest City times., 1904-05-27
FOOD WARMED WITH LIME
New Invention for Preparing Soldiers Rations with the Applica-
 ton of Water.

The United States governr. while exercising great care in oa,.4S ping her army, has been equally 2, considerate in supplying the most mod ern foodstuffs for its consumn+ioa The serious problem to be contan'3'1i with is the furnishing of mataris,- that have large nutritiye constituo,,.z and al the same time can he cop,.a. iently carried. Commissarv Cenora, weston, according to Washington ra port, few days ago said that one n, the best concentrated rations va. found Is mixture of fresh beef and fresh vegetables; food that is baai.h ful and palatable, and which can ho supplied 10 the troops wherever tEav go. This preparation is put up in her. medically sealed cans, which preserve, it's freshness for an indefinite perio1 Only the best parts of the animal ara used. and the vegetables compounded are onions and potatoes. Experiments are now being made with this new food, and so far 1t has been found very satisfactory.
 The war department has recently been making some experiments with self-heated canned goods which are new invention. They come in doub1a jacket cans, the space between the tUo jackets being occupied by unslacked lime. All that has to be done 10 heat these is to punch hole in the bottom at the proper place and pour in a Iit. tie water. An intense heat is geuer. ated immediately. and within q fev moments the contents are ready to serve. This process is especially adaptable for heating coffee. Candy is another material not supplied as a regular ration but is furnished 10 tba soldiers at cost. Certain things are found not 10 be absolutely requf.jts as necessaries, but nevertheless are deemed essential for the comfort of the men
 Another difficulty encountered hv this department has been the supply. ing of ration satisfactory for emer. gency purposes, for the use of soldiers who have been detached from their commands. Under such circumstances they are obliged to carry with them in their haversacks their supply of food A ration which has been finally decided upon for this purpose has the form of a sort of cartridge packed in boxes and weighing trifle over a pound Each one of these boxes contains enough food for a day which is divided up in oiled paper. These packets contain yellowish meal.ike stuff which can be converted into soup. This preparation is composed of two parts parehed wheat and one third evaporated beef. Eggs concentrated by evaporation are also now being used in enormous quan. titles.
The Forrest City times., 1904-05-27
Chances of Life and Death.

Only goo persons in every million die from old age.
 Of the 2,50O cases of smallpox re- ported by fl states in 1903, ,642 were fatal
 Europe loses S6 ,592 lives a year by accidents
 Fifty-nine per cent. of the deaths from consumption are between the ages of i5 and Go years, while only l2 per cent. of such deaths are of persons over 60 years of age
 Anti-toxin treatment for diphtheria has reduced the death rate of that dis ease from B to per cent.
 In the United States the annual mor- tality for railroads is one person killed for every 1,052 employees; coal miners, one person in every "A em- ployes; seamen in merchant vessels. one person in every 133.-St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The Forrest City times., 1904-05-27
HERE AND THERE.

The actual cost of feed, added to the service fee, represents the amount which horses and mules. you raise stand you. What they are worth above this is profit
 Don't let dogs eat swine that have died of cholera or other germ diseases Dogs thus fed roam over the neighbor- hood, and by means of their droppings may infect every herd whose grounds they visit.
 Read plenty of good agricultural papers, study the best methods of farm ing, arrange all work systematically before you begin it. profit by your past mistakes, do things right or not at all, save the dimes
 Farming without system. living without an ideal working without a purpose, being careless with little things about the farm, is a sure road to want and poverty.
 Very many important discoveries have been purely accidental. It is said that the origin of the sulphur-lime- and-salt spray is attributed to the throwing upon some scale-infested fruit trees as cure for scab some of the mixture used when dipping sheep
 -Scurvey legs, or scabby legs. will now appear more so than than later in the year, but the difficulty is easily cured and prevented. Fowls with scabbv legs are very unightly and should be treat ed at once. Simply apply mixture of melted lard and sulphur on the legs once 8 week for four or five weeks. and the scab will disappear.
 It is difficult to raise young tnr- keys, but if they are kept dry and warm, and confined for few days after being matched, until they become strong enough to be allowed out of the coop, there will be fewer losses in the brood Dampness is more fatal with them than cold but the greatest draw back 10 the young turkey Is the largo louse on the head and body.
The Forrest City times., 1904-05-27
GARDEN NOTES.
The "An Cotton Craze" should Not Relegate the Farm Garden
 to the Rear.

We are kept so busy now. writing in the soil, that We may soon see our pro- duction. growing. written in living green" We can scarcely stop to use pen and ink A man who makes his living by the sweat of his brow" does not generally become very great ex- pert with the sweat of his pen"
 We hear no talk of anything except cotton, but we are not going to be led astray by the "all cotton craZe:" and are glad to see so much advice of warning given to the farmers in the Cultivator and othern southern pa pers. We have the best prospect for grain We have ever had: and expect to make more vegetables than we have ever grown. Our start Is little later than usual, but so far everything seems promising.
 We have 2000 cabbage plants growing nicely We had them shipped down on the South Carolina coast, and We have yet to find dead one If you can get plants sent you that have the proper age on them. there is little risk in getting them from a distance, and we find 1t cheaper than having glass pits for our early planting.
 We have worked out our onions nice ly. and our strawberries; and planted many thousand seed in the last two weeks. Second crop of English peas and radishes. spinach and beets. few rows of early beans, and our beds for tomato plants and celery
 We find our main comfort in the fact that now we are beginning to reap the reward of former preparation of our garden lands, The removing of stumps and rocks, clearing of Bermuda grass etc. now enables us 10 prepare and plant our truck in less than half the time. and with half the expense of former years.
The Forrest City times., 1904-05-27
IN AN OLD TRUNK.
Baby Finds a Bottle of Carbolic Acid
 and Drinks It.

While the mother was unpacking an old trunk a little IS months old baby got hold of a bottle of carbolic acid While playing on the floor and his stom- ach was so badly burned it was feared he would not live for he could not eat orolnary foods. The mother says in telling of the case:
 It was all two doctors could do to save nm as 1t burnt his throat and stomach so bad that for two months alter ne took the poison nothing would lay on his stomach. Finally I took him lAto the country and tried new milk anu that was no better for him His 1fahdma finally suggested Crane Nutc ana am thankful 1 adopted the food TOT ne commenced to get better right away and would not eat anything else. ne commenced to get fieshy and his eheehs like red roses and now he is en. tirely we'll
 took him to Matamoras on A visit ana every place We went to stay to eat ne called for Grape-Nuts and would nave 10 explain how he came to call for IL as 1t was his main food.
 me names of the physicians who at. tended the baby are Dr. Eddy of this town and Dr. Geo. Gale of Newport. O., ana anyone can write to me or to them ana learn what GrapeNuts food will do Tor children and grown-ups too" Name given by Postum Co, Battle Creek, Mich.
 Look in each pkg. for the famous lit- tie book. "The Road to Melville"
The Forrest City times., 1904-05-27
BE WARNED.

Heed natures warnings, Pain
The Forrest City times., 1904-05-27

Frank D. overbaugh, cattle buyer and farmer, CatskiI, \. Y., says; Doctors told me ten years ago that I had Bright's Disease, and said they could do nothing to save me. My back aehed so l could not stand it to even drive bout, and passages of the kidney secrctiono were so frequent as to annoy me greatly. l was growing worse all the time but Doan's Kidney Pills cured me, and l have been we'll ever since
 A FREE TRIAL of this great kidney medicine which cured MT. Overbaugh will be mailed on application to any part of the United States. Address Foster Milburn Co, Butf.lo, N '. For sale by all dealers; price 50 cents per box.
The Forrest City times., 1904-05-27

DEAR MRs. PINKHAM:-Life looks dark indeed when a woman feels that her strength is fading away and she has no hopes of ever being restored. Such was my feeling few months ago when was advised that my poor health was caused by prolapsus or falling of the womb. The words sounded like knell to me, felt that my sun had set; but Lydia F.. Pinkham'S Vege- table Compound came to me as an elixir of life it restored the lost forces and built me up until my good health returned to me. For four months 1 took the medicine daily, and each dose added health and strength. 1 am so thankful for the help obtained through it's use. - MRs. FLORENCE DANFoRTH, 1oO7 Miles Ave, St. Joseph, Mich. - -s50O0 forfeit f original Of aboVe letter provirg
The Forrest City times., 1904-05-27
Breeders and Success,

The requirements of pure-bred poul- try are constantly growing more and more imperative, owing to the demand by the people generally-the farmer as we'll as the fancier The tendency of competition certainly demonstrates this to be an age of necessity. Rewards are not to be accorded to the amount of noise we make. but to the quality of the exhibits; and certainly the more sptritive the competition, the better must be the systems adopted. the ad- ministratiye ability of the fancier being put to the test. Surely everyone will agree that the profits in any business are greater or smaller, according to the management of that business, and we ought therefore to train ourselves tC avoid all the mistakes and calamties that have proved Instantaneous tC success.-Farm and Fireside
The Forrest City times., 1904-05-27
The Value of the Jupunese Yen.

When the public reads that loo 900, GOO yen has provisionally been set apart by Japan for war purposes il may perhaps put an exaggerated estimate on that amount. Although Japan has a gold standard, the yen is Of silver currency, and fuctuates with the price of silver, so that the moment l00o0o, GOO of them means scarcely more than ( h, ,000. 600. But even this IS an inn mense amount in a country in which the wages of skillful artisan are often not more than yen a week. The Japanese currency system is decimal. Thus the ven, or dollar, is divided into loo sen or cents, the sen into 10 rin, the rin into 10 mo, the mo into l0 shu, the shu, finally, into 10 kotsu. Government accounts 60 not take ac- counts Of any value smaller than a rin, but estimates by private tradesmen Clten descend to mo and shu, winch are incredibly minute fractions of a farthing. No coin exists, however 10 represent these hlliputian sums-i4on- don Chronicle
The Forrest City times., 1904-05-27

oi Iut hlilS uINtd>t. Backache is kidney pain-a warning of kidney ills. rinary troubles. too, come to tell you the kid neys are sick. Con- st a mt weariness, headac hes, dizzy spells. days of pain. nights of unrest are d q n z CT sig aaIs warning you 10 cure the kidneys. Use Doan's Kidney Pills, which haze made thousands of perma- nent cures.
The Forrest City times., 1904-05-27
"FREE MEDICAL ADVICE
 Tn W0MENO

Women would save time and much sickness if they would write to Mrs. Pinkham for advice as soon as any distressing symp- toms appear. It is free, and has put thousands of women on the right road to recovery.
The Forrest City times., 1904-05-27

'lf in need of work. don't come to the Worlds fair looking for it." s1v the fair officials Every berth is taken.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-05-14

The fight between the Western Union
Telegraph Company and the police and law
officers of New York over the pool room
question grows hotter each day. Yesterday
the executive committee of the corporation
met ami adopted The following resolutions:
'First-That ,he executive committee an
proves and confirms the statement of the
president, renews the offer made therein to
the commissioner of police to cease the
places that he will specify as unlawful pool
rooms. requesting this company to withdraw
its service thereerom.
"Secondly-The renewal of this offer is
made otter most careful consideration of
the subject. and in view of the obligations
o. the Iolice department to determine the
lawful or unlawful character of any resort
or pursuit under its Jurisdiction, a function
that would necessarily be subject to abuse
and injury IL left to any individual or cor
poration to exercise.
'Third-The executive committee hereby
nstructs the officers and employees of the
company TO withdraw Immediately the SER
vice of racing news from any place or places
that shall be designated as unlawful pool
rooms by the commissioner of police of New
FORK city. or the district attorney of New
York county, accompanied by request to
make such withdrawal, and to furnish here
after such racing. news only to such appii-
cents IS shall give assurance that 1t is not
to be used for pool room purposes"
District Attorney Jerome, upon being In
formed of this action. forthwith announced
that ne would not recommend the accept
ance of the company's offer. because until
the company acts in good faith on certain
informa ton which has been made public he
will not believe the company wishes to put
stop to its pool room business. This in
formation directly connects two employees of
the telegraph company with the pool room
business so closely that 1t leaves no shadow
of doubt that the corporation is constant
~ seeking connections with establishments
which are well known by 1t to be Illegal.
Thus. Mr.. jerome declares. 1t is absurd for
the corporation to continue to pirate about
waiting to be informed of the Illegal charac-
ter of the uses to which it's news Is put be-
fore di9continuing the service.
1t is Lot TO be Questioned that the direct
ors OF the Western Uaion Company are in
very deep hole in this matter. No one for
a moment believes that the company Ia not
fully informed of the character Of the places
To which IL runs wires. It's operators sit
there and take the messages 1t sends itself
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-05-14
Gambling in New York.

District Attorney Jerome is proceeding
with lr0mptness to use the law recently
enacted by the New York legislature re-
speeding the calling of witnesses in the
prosecution of gamblers. His object is to
put the big as well as the little sports out of
business. The big sports have heretofore
enjoyed certain immunity by reason of the
difficulty in getting their patrons and vic
Tins into the witness box. That has now
been :emedied-or at any rate such is the
object OF the new lap-and Mr.. Jerome is
on the eve of giving the statute trial If
the law holds water" it can be made in
the hands of n fearless official like Mr.,
Jerome to serve a valuable purpose in the
movement for improved conditions in the
metropolis. Garfield and the crap shooter
should. IL possible, be put on a level In the
courts
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-05-14

deserts he got very small share of the
White House favors. The Senate being re-
publican, patronage was all that the demo-
Gratis could expect from their triumph, but
that was not distributed by the men who
had managed Mr.. Cleveland's campaign.
Not only Mr.. German, but Mr.. Manning
had good cause of complaint on that score,
and in 1888 Mr.. Brice succeeded Mr.. Cor
man as the chairman of the national COM
mittee.
Mr. Hanna, on the other hand, did exert
considerable influence on the Mckinley adj
ministration. He lad piloted Mr.. Mckinley
to victory. and was his most intimate per-
sc raj friend. His campaign promises, 1t
was understood, were all redeemed. In the
south there were number of appoint
mtnts made at his instance which were
not creditabie to his Judgment. To the ex-
tent that he participated in fashioning the
Dingley tariff bill he performed a valuable
public service, for that has proved the most
successful measure of the kind ever enact
ed into law. And in 1900 Mr.. Hanna was
glad to manage his friends second cam
pa,gn.
There is, as the Evening Post asserts, too
mich money raised and spent in our cam
pa gins. but the men selected to run them
virtually have their orders to spare no ex-
pense in contesting for the prize.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-05-14
Toilet Hints for
| Commandments
and CALCULATIONS.

Sn LMOST as much interest as
lHt that aroused by the plan
9(S ming of the wedding gown
is attached to the selection
OF the graduating and commence
ment dresses and their important de-
tails, which must accord with and
enhance the girlish beauty and
dainty charm of the fair graduate.
While simplicity characterizes the
newest COWS, it is in the lines of
the modes after all, as laces, ribbons,
founces and fluffy frills, and any
amount of hand-work, are lavished
upon the materials, of which there
are an unprecedented variety from
which to choose. Mulls, dotted
swiss, organdies in bewildering
weaves and tints, point d'esprit and
bobbinettes in such delicate designs
and faint suggestions of color as to
admit them among appropriate fab
RIGS. Sheer lawns and India linon,
liberty silk and satin, crepe de Paris
and crepe de chine, mousseline and
lierre laces are perhaps the more ex-
pensiye materials.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-05-14

from the tracks They know perfectly that
bets are laid In fragrant violation OF the
law. These men could not honestly go into
court and swear that they were engaged In
a legitimate mission. They would be laugh
ed to scorn If they asserted ignorance of the
character Of the game being played on the
basis OF the news they take from the wires.
Proceedings against the corporation are
promised, involving criminal charges
against certain employees and perhaps
against the directors of the company. The
trial Of such charges should clear the air
and lay the foundations for wholesale pro-
ceedings IL the courts declare that the teie-
graph company is required to use its COM
mon sense to discriminate between law
full and an unlawful use of It's system. If
the laws as they stand are not sufficient to
put a stop to tbs connection, which prac-
tically alone keeps the race-gambling In
dustry alive. new laws will be demanded
by the PEOPLE whose interests are menaced
by this great evil
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-05-14
Dirt, Disease and Death.
From The Philadelphla Inquirer.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
The average person as rule is careless
regarding precautions to insure health. He
has heard SO much about germs and queer
things that get into his food and drink that
he is rather inclined to argue that as the
world has gone along it's way for great
many centuries without special knowledge
OF such matters there is no particular rea-
son why he should bother himself at this
late day. There may be typhoid in his
drinking water and his milk and death
germs may be all around him. but he has
never had typhoid himself and has been
proof against tuberculosis, therefore why
get excited? Maybe it is all false alarm,
anyway.
But it is not. Modern science is revealing
a great many c1etS, and when men and
women learn how to abide by them most of
the ills to which flesh is now heir will be
avoided. After all, the best precaution
against disease is a vigorous body built up
or fresh air Give the body plenty of ex-
ercise in pure air, and there Is foundation
which rnucn more capable of repelling
disease than when the system is weak.
But the air must be pure-not laden with
dirt and dust, carrying disease germs, that
are sure to find lo1gment somewhere, and
the crusade which the Society for the Pre-
vention of tuberculosis is engaged in, that
of impressing upon the people and the civic
authorities the necessity for clean streets
and clean street cars, cannot be commended
too highly