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Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1904-01-01


Whipping horse for shying makes
him worse.
The best egg producers are not al
ways the best market fowls.
The man who does the least work in
the field is the man who usually has
The most accurate ear for the dinner
bell.
on too many farms where hogs are
Kept the feeding floor ls conspicuous
tor Its absence. 1t pays to have a feed
ing floor for fattening hogs.
Sweet potatoes come very near being
bread, meat and medicine. This is a
great combination. Sweet potatoes can
oe cooked without pot, stove or oven,
ana can be eaten without plate, knife
ana fork. The sweet potato is an oblig-
ing vegetable.
Where Is the man who has stuck to
raising sorghum? He Is not as much
ID evidence as he once was. 1t GER
@inly is crop that pays.
a large canvas for use during stack
ing Will be found to be good invest
ment. 1t will pay for itself In stacking
ome during one hard rain.
1t Is not the cold weather that hurts
'neep so much as getting wet. Sheep
.li endure severe cold without injury
Kept dry. Wool holds dampness a
"ng time because Of the slow evapora-
0m and chills the animal
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observation-disclosures have all
along contended that appendicitis 10
an Inflammation Of the appendi1-the
result of a digestive disturbance or of
lowerd vitality of the intestinal tract
Careful Investigations covering a per.
iod of many months have led to the
discovery that most of the cases have
resulted from the too free use Of cold
drinks and foods. Hence these arti-
cles are tabooed. Cold liquid, as 1t
runs through the intestinal tract, has
tho effect of sending the blood from
the intestines, the result being that
the vitality of the tract Is greatly low.
cred. II this practice Is continued,
the appendix soon becomes infamed
and case of appendicitis results.
Cure for Headache.-An excellent
and never failing cure for nervous
headache is the simple act Of walking
backward Ten minutes is as long
a. Is usually necessary to promenade.
1t sometimes, however, requires more
than ten minutes to walk at all, II
one is very nervous" But 1t 10 not
understood that it is necessary to
walk chalkline. Any kind of walk.
ing will do, provided 1t Is backward.
It 10 well to get long, narrow room,
where the windows are high, and
walk very slowly, placing first the ball
Of the foot on the floor, and then the
heel. Besides curing the headache,
this exercise promotes 4 graceful car
rage.
The Cause of Appendicitis.-"An in
teresting study of the relative fire.
quency of foreign bodies in the YER
inform appendix is presented by DR..
John F. Mitchell, In the Johns Hop
kins Hospital Bulletin for January,
February and March, 1899. OF 1,4OC
cases of appendicitis collected from
various sources during the last ten
years, he found only per cent OF
true foreign bodies: while in 100 OF
these cases, in which definite state
ment was made as to the nature Of the
foreign body, there were As per cent
of fecal concretions In $50 cases OF
appendicitis in the Johns Hopkins hos
pital, in the past ten years, there was
only one foreign body-a segment OF
tapeworm. Osler, In ten years ex.
perlence in Montreal, found foreign
bodies only twice; in one instance five
apple pips, and In another eight snipe
shot. The most common foreign
bodies have been gallstones, round
worms, spicules Of bone, brlstles and
pins" If plenty Of water is imbibed
daily, and the bowels move regularly
and freely daily, there is not much
danger of appendicitis.-Green's Fruit
Grower.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1904-01-01
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Coed Water Gate.

Coed Water Gate.
During the past season farmers who
have had streams running through
their farms have been kept very busy
keeping up water gates. Having such
a stream through my farm have been
thinking up very good plan for wa
ter gates. l have four or FIVE gates
made according to the plan, sketch Of
which enclose. The plan Of gate, I
think. is about as simple as have
seen. Upon one side Of the stream an
ordinary post is set, on the opposite
side much longer post is set on the
top of which is provided pulley. The
gate can be made to at the gap In the
stream, having in the tops Of the cross
pieces pulleys. A rope or wire extend
ed from the top Of the short post
through the pulleys on the gate, and
then extending through the pulley at
the top of the long post, with weight
attached to the end, completes the de-
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1904-01-01

Ihave been getting out some lumber.
and as there was little snow l have
used the sled shown herewith. 1t is
called snapdragon, and Is such as is
used in the lumber camp. 1t can be
used with or without snow. took two
yellow birch stumps about six inches
through and three feet long for run
nera The two hunks were about the
same size and 2 feet 8 inches long.
The forward bunk is put on with one
bolt In each end, SO 1t can have a good
chance to work.
For the middle bunk put two two
inch holes through each runner, then
took small, round birch Of the size
wanted, heated It hot In fire and bent
It in the shape needed to put over the
middle bunk and the two ends down
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1904-01-01
Why 30 Many Fail.

Many people never get to the front
in the poultry business because they
struggle and work from year to year
only to be beaten again at the shows
and by practically some beginner, but
finally after losing five or ten years
time they find that their mistake was
in always buying something cheap in
stead of paying a little more and get
ting good foundation stock. The
quicker a man buys good birds to breed
from the sooner he Is started right in
the fancy and the sooner he will get a
share of the business.-T. B. King, in
American Poultry Journal.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1904-01-01

Farmers pay taxes on everything,
for everything they have is in sight.
Every farmer pays taxes. But one per-
son in fifty in New York City pays
taxes. Much Of the city property is
"out Of sight" hence escapes taxation.
The levy has to be increased in order
to raise enough money for carrying on
the State and county government, and
the farmer pays more than his proper
ton. There Is room for improvement
In the methods Of taxation.-Iowa
Homestead.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1904-01-01
CONVENIENT WATER GATE.

vice. The gate can be kept in place
by driving some stakes down in the
soft ground, which will hold the gate
to its place except in high water.
When the water gets up the gate will
noat out and as it floats the weight will
come down and rest on bracket, pro-
vided for that purpose, and will hold
1t there until the water recedes, when
the gate must again be put in place.
T. O. Engle, In Iowa Homestead.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1904-01-01
ODDITIES OF EXPORTING.
What We Send Abroad and Some Of
the Things We Get

We send Dakota seed to Russia
from which she raises wheat to COIN
pete with our own product in the mar
kets of the world. To plant, cultivate
reap and harvest her own crops we
send to Russia nearly one-half our to-
tai exports of agricultural machinery.
In 1903 we shipped some $4,000 tons Of
these implements to the land of the
Car. In former years all this passed
through the ports of New York and
Philadelphia. hut a fractional increase
in freight rates between the lakes and
the East has diverted the trade to
Southern ports, while experiments are
Chicago by way Of the lakes, the st.
Lawrence River and the Atlantic
Ocean.
The cotton plant first came to Amer
lea from Asia; now the greater part of
the Central Asian crop Is grown from
American cottonseed. American cul-
tivators till the soil which is watered
by an American irrigation system.
Yankee gins clean the fiber, American
compounds press the cotton into bales
wrapped with American bands and
finally the cotton finds its way to Mos
cow overa railroad built with American
capital, and is turned into cloth by sec
ond-hand machinery from an American
cotton factory, to compete abroad with
American prints
Another regular article Of export to
Central Asia is the Ohio grapevine cut
ting. The vineyards Of Central Asia
are all offshoots from American vines,
and the fruit Is priced above all others
in Russia proper for its delicacy and
favor. Twenty to thirty tons Of Amer
lean grapes to the acre is a common
yield in Central Asia, and as the Amer
lean vine is free from parasites, 1t Is
being introduced everywhere the world
over, from South Africa to northern
China and Japan. We will export to-
bacco plants to Russian Asia, SO that
the Russian tobacco, grape, cotton and
wheat crops are all American, once re
moved.
No oriental fable Is stranger than the
accomplishments of the up-to-date
Yankee drummer. In Bagdad, the
home of Aladdin, he offers the new
American lamps that burn either Rus
sian or Ohio oil, for the old bronze tai.
low burners of the Bagdad housewife
and as these time-worn oriental lamps
find a ready sale in New York, the en-.
terprising drummer who introduced the
American lamp to Bagdad was well re
paid for his trouble. Now, however
American lamps are becoming drug
in the Bagdad market, and the supply
of old lamps is rapidly giving out al
our lamp trade with Turkey increases
A Connecticut firm manufactures
sacred scarabei for the Egyptian tour
list trade. The little charms are carved
and even Clipped by machinery, color
ed in bulk to stimulate age and shipped
in casks to the Moslem dealers in Cairo
The Arabian guides are the chief buy
ers many Of them being adopts al
Sailing" the sands at the base Of the
pyramids, or about the sacred temples
where they artfully discover these
scarabei before the very eyes Of the
Yankee tourist and sell him for an
American dollar an article manufac.
tured at cost of less than cent per-
haps within stones throw of his own
home. For enterprise 1t beats wooden
nutmegs."-Collier's Weekly.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1904-01-01

Henpeck-I admit It's pretty hard
for me to keep from giving my wife
all the money I get. I did think Of
holding out so cents today, but It was
no go.
Ruff-She picked you up by the
heels, suppose, and shook 1t out of
Press.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1904-01-01

might ask you who owns this au-
tomobile?" said an extremely pompous
citizen to a man who stood leaning
against a big touring car which was
drawn up alongside the pavement.
Certainly, sir"
"Who is 1t, STRIP
"Blest II I know."-Automobile Mag
Axine.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1904-01-01

what" exclaimed the book agent,
you say you have never heard Of this
great book? Did l hear you right?"
NO." snapped the busy merchant.
you didn't hear me write. but you'll
feel me speak If you don't get out of
here" Press.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1904-01-01

Some one has called for a device to
'.ring off" the time killer on a parti-
line rural telephone system. In some
localities this is a growing evil and
will 60 on until science will evolve a
system that will eliminate the caves
dropper. the gossiper and other undesir-
able patrons.
For ringworm on stock use an oint-
ment composed Of equal parts of keTo-
sene oil and pork frylngs, or lard. A
few applications will cure. Good also
for wounds or sores, and will destroy
lice.
A horse driven by too tight rein
will acquire the Juggling habit Don't
let him have all the rein or he may get
gay. Don't tease the colt; this Is the
way vicious horses are made.
Whenever a dozen eggs sell for the
price of pound of butter, the man
with the hens is ahead Of the man
with the cows
Good wholesome feed will fatten a
hog as well as any fancy ration, othet
things being equal, besides being lesa
trouble.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1904-01-01
Keep Ahead.

I'm doing your work." said the In
quisitive Chap, 81 suppose you always
try 10 keep ahead of the show you rep
resentT
Eyes," replied the Advance Man, ali
sent-mindedly. about two weeks sal.
ary ahead."-Cincinnati Tlmes-Star.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1904-01-01

Father-Arabella, do you know our
housekeeper is going to be married?
Daughter-Is that SO? It's time the
old dragon is getting out of the house.
Who is she going to marry?
Father-Me.-Cinci CONNER
cial.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1904-01-01

The Rev. Thompson L. Smith Of
Denver, now so years Of age. is related
ON his mothers side to Washington,
and on his fathers to Chief Justice
Marshall Mr.. Smith was noted chap
lain in the confederate army.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1904-01-01

MANY a man would give a great
deal for your opportunities" said the
earnestly ambitious man.
"Of course" answered Senator Sor-
ghum. 81 had to give a great deal for
EN- myself. "-Washington Star.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1904-01-01

through the runner, then wedged them
solid, but 50 there would be plenty Of
play. The nose Of the runners must
be made 80 they will not catch on ev-
cry rock or stump. This can be done
by putting the forward bunk at the
very end Of the runner. The chain is
put on the log with half hitch and
drawn through hole through both
hunks. Birch is the best wood, as 1t
wears the smoothest on frozen ground.
"A Michigan Farmer, In Farm and
Home.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1904-01-01

For a series of years large seed q
root crops has given better yields at the
Ontario Experiment Station than me-
dunn and small-sized seed. Whole
seed Of mangels and sugar beets pro-
duced a greater yield than similar
quantity of broken seed. An expert
ment conducted this season resulted in
the best yields of sugar beets and car
rots when the seed was planted ~
inches deep. Level culture is reported
as having given better yields of sugar
beets than ridge culture. A mixed fer
tilizer consisting Of 90 10 pounds each
of nitrate of soda and muriate Of pot
ash and 1O8 % pounds Of superphos-
phate increased the yield Of Swedish
turnips about four tons per acre, at a
cost Of about 81 per ton.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1904-01-01


To make butter with natural vel.
low color during the winter months 10
almost lost art in this age of fraud
and shams. While farmers and dairy
men denounce oleOmargarine as fraud
and want a law to prevent it from
being colored yellow, they do not sell
their own butter with Its natural color,
but use few drops of butter color to
give 1t an attractive tint. l supply
few private customers with butter, and
while 1 do not claim that my butter Is
as dark yellow in the winter as in
ture, yet 1t always has color enough
to look well without adding artificial
colorlng to the cream. To make yellow
butter in the winter without artificial
aid requires extra care In making the
butter, in feeding the cows and select
ing the cows. Some cows will make
darker tinted butter than others. The
Jersey cows are perhaps the best for
making yellow butter in the winter and
firm butter during the hot summer
months. II butter color was not used
this fact would add to the value Of
Jersey cows.
In feeding to make yellow butter
think there Is nothing better than car
rots. With a good supply of these
roots, together with plenty Of clover
hay and good corn and bran, with the
right care in handling the cream, 1t 10
possible to produce fine butter in cold
weather. I generally have some blue
grass left in the woods pasture in the
fall, and the cattle can get bite when
there Is no snow on the ground in ~
winter.-Jersey Bulletin.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1904-01-01

Hot weather is no more dangerous to
fat people than to lean.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1904-07-09
Fortunes Bottled Beer.


The Fortune Brewing Company has
added to IT. large plant . magnificent
bottling establishment. The new works
adjoin the brewery on Van Buren,
street. west Of Desplaines. and are At.
ted up with the latest and most i'm.
proved machinery. Their capssityis very
great. and the quality OF the goods turn.
ed out Of the :sry best. One Of the
features ee the plant b the arrange.
ment for cooling the beet. Not only
has the latest cooling machinery been
introduced, but TIE building In which
the bottlinS 10 done 10 ad30ined b. an.
other building II which fressins ~
paratus 10 placed. THIS keeps the TEN.
persturs OF the very walls ct Pressing
point ~ the time. The Fortune Brew.
cry pre6uees Q beer which y famous
ths world ever. Now thst ~ bote,inS
wosks ass eenpostsd. - residence
IshSuid - vsthssttt TsasUasas "nso'
M ~"
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1904-07-09
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location q Chicago 0spots end NJ
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Chicago and Eastern ylliselA
Chicago and Grand TsuAk
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Wabash.
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Chicago and, Great WOotosa.
Baltimore end Ohlo.
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Psnnsylvsnis Lines.
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Pan Handle.
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BRUNO r. KINk, prssideas Milwaukee. Wis.
q q AnXBR, Treasurer. KenosAa. Vie.
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Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1904-07-09
cHAlRMGN or COM Mr.

L B. SCHRAM. Brooklyn. Advisory. Committee.
N W. KENDALL. New Haven, Publication Commit
GEO. J. oBERMANN. Baltimore. Committee on Fede
RUDOLPH BRAND. Chicago. visiiance.Committee.
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The Washington times., 1904-05-01

Wayne was one of the leading spirits
OF the American Revolution. He served
throughout the war, most of the time
with the rank of general. What he. was
as a boy Will interest readers. and this
they may learn from his biography.
written by John X. Spear
When he was about fifteen years cid
Wayne was attending a school taught
by his uncle, Gilbert Cor GabrieD
Wayne, and this uncle. exasperated at
the boys conduct. wrote the following
letter to Anthony's father. Isaac
Wayne:
Il really expect that parental affec-
ton blinds you. and that you have mis-
taken your sons, capacity. What he
may be best qualified for / know not.
One thing | am certain of-he will never
inhke a scholar He may, perhaps.
make a soldier He has already dis
tracted the brains Of two-thirds of he
boys under my charge by rehearsais OF
BATTLES, sieges, etc.
They exhibit more the appearance OF
iTdians and hariequins than OF stu
dcnts-this one decorated with cap Cf
T3any colors. other habited in coats az
vaTiegated, like Joseph's Of old; sonle
laid up with broken heads and black
eyes. During noon, in place of the
usual games OF amusement, he has the
boys employed in throwing up redoubts.
skirDishing. etc.
I must be candid with you. brother
Isaac. Unless Anthony pays more at
tention to his books I shall be under
the painful necessity of dismisssng him
from the school
The Washington times., 1904-05-01

spoke of removing his works 10 a more
favored locality.
One day the mill burned down. Lee
was rich and was getting on in years,
and modern methods had left him lit
tie behind the procession. So he never
reopened anywhere. That ended the VII
lag of Pawmuc There was nothing to
Keep everyone there. But William con-
tinued. and still continues. to preach ia
the little white church to such of The
farmers round who wish to go to hear
him.
William Lee is not rich. He lives
in a small cottage on piece of ground
Jonn gave him. He has a son. James.
rather a shiftless individual. ! judge.
but now we get on a little further
The Lees had a sister, Mary, younger
thar. themselves. Mary Lee lived with
John. and was. so far as l can learn, a
handsome woman of considerable talent
and education. She married a man
named Robert Forrest, who was fore
man in Jake Brands wooden mill at
Saugucket. in the Sauquoit Valley.
This Brand was a shrewd. hard-hcad-
eG man, capable in business, and close
as a miser. He never employed cash
Ter but handled all his money himself,
paying off the hands. and all that.
About five years ago. as you can see
by that stone in the churchyard. Mary
Forrest died. Your suspicion of a
tragedy there was all wrong. She died
of natural causes. attended, so 1 under
stand. by her brothers and her hus-
band, who had always been loving and
kind family man. Mary left daughter
twelve years of age, a bright, pretty
child-now. I believe. according to your
story, your wife.
Forrest. SO the tale runs, grew mel
ancholy after his wife's death. He did
not marry again. His little girl. Beat
rice, was living with her uncle. John
Lee at Shadelands. Forrest grew more
and more restless. until at last. about
four years ago, one year after his wife S
death. he babe his little girl and his
brother-in-law goOd-by, packed his grip
and went off to seek his fortune
Things went along all right, and the
little girl was educated by her uncle,
The Washington times., 1904-05-01
y AT THE PISTOL S POINT = B. SEWARD " HOPKINS

hour. 1t was growing late. but neither
of us thought of that.
My dear cousin he began, calming
himself and now speaking in his usual
well modulated voice. II have been
grossly neglectful of you. ! should have
paid more attention TO the demands Of
hospitality I feel that l am, i'll some
degree, responsible for this horrible
thing that has come upon you"
"Oh. relieve your mind" ! said, some
What shortly. Il am. as n rule, per
fectly able to take care OF myself. Had
you trotted around with me twenty
hours of the twenty-four, l don't see
that il would alter things. / might have
happened TO be there just the same. II
even might have happened to you. And
think how much better it is as it is. 1
ain not married-you with Il wife and
family. why, even at the point Of a
pistol it might be unpleasant.
Yes, rather. assented my cousin
But don't interrupt Let me recall This
whole story. and l will acquaint you
with the history of the-the-your wife. =
A case Of cigars lay on the table and
took one l settled myself in an easy
chair. for l knew 1 was going to hear
something interesting.
Go ahead" 1 told him.
Il never knew very much about the
Lees" said James, except that they
were we'll TO do country people. learned
when the trial took place that John Lee
had once been the proprietor of Paw
niue Mills 1t was merely a small mill,
but any mill around here is called mills.
II was sort OF knitting factory. 1 be-
lieve, and gave employment to about 200
hands The mill and the houses that
sheltered those employees who did not
live on farms or in nearby villages were
all there was 10 the village of Pawmuc-
"John Lee lived IN a fine house-in
fact. he lives there yet-on a place called
Shadelands. His brother, William Lee.
is a clergyman. John Lee built the lit
tie white church, and there his brother
William. who had really retired from
active work some time before. preached
every Sunday TO the employees. Paw
niue Mills received its power from the
little stream of which you saw the re-
mains. When tina. stream dried UP Lee