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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1906-09-05

and OIL. The water is admitted by
short hose to the ends Of V shaped
wooden troughs. from which it is adj
mitted to the burrows by means Of
adjustable sliding gates. (See first
cut) The troughs are built OF by ;
and 1 by @ inch boards nailed together
and provided with III inch holes
There are three holes in these trouGhs
for every two burrows. On one New
Jersey farm the ground is irrigated by
sprinkling from several water witches
set ten feet apart on movable length
OF two inch pipe, which is mounted
every twenty feet on two wheeled
carriages. Eleven water witches are
mounted on 100 feet OF pipe supported
by four carriages. rs shown I'm Fig. 2,
and will irrigatc. without moving,
space 40 by 10 feet
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1906-09-05
WHY SUFFERWIrH PILES?

Our patrons know that our guarantee
is good add when we that we guarantee
DR.. Colwells Egyptian Pile Cure to cure
to cure amp case of piles, you may know
that it will do it's If it fails to satisfy
you, will payI you back the purchase
price. CHAs. RHoADEs.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1906-09-05
Ne>Ae 4gsT
sfARN%, CARDEN
~
EASTERN IRRIGATION.
Economical and Successful Method,
In North Atlantic States.

Economical and Successful Methods
In North Atlantic states.
According to the popular conception,
the field for irrigation is the arid or
semiarid region in the west and does
not extend to the humid east, where
the supply of moisture is considered
sufficient for the growth of crops. The
distribution of rainfall, however, is so
uncertain that crops throughout the
east often suffer from droughts. With
out irrigation certain crops, such as
strawberries, celery ard caulifower,
may be entirely lost. Economical and
successful methods Of irrigation adapt
ed to humid conditions are, however,
quite extensively used. August j.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1906-09-05
Harvesting Corn.

For sixty acres it will pay you to
have binder to cut and bind the corn
and husker and shredder to husk the
corn and care for the fodder. Shredded
corn fodder will make excellent food
for horses and mules, says an ex-
change
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1906-09-05

Why take dozen things to cure that
coughl Kennedy's Laxative Honey and
Tar allays the congestion, stops that
tickling, drives the cold out through your
bowels. Sold by Chas. Rhodes.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1906-09-05

Stop! Don't take imitation celery teas
when you ask for Celery King, medi-
cine Of great value. The "teas" are
urged upon you because they are bought
cheap. Never jeopardize your health in
a bad cause. Celery King only costs %
cents and it never disappoints.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1906-09-05
Through Scenic Colorado
The Beautiful Southwest

Double Daily Tourist Sleeping
Car Service from st. Louis.
ersonally conducted Tuesdays
and Thursdays from Chicago via
See mic Route.
Tuesdays and Thursdays from
st. Louis via Iron Mountain Route
and FL Paso.
Special Homeseeker's Excursions
first and third Tuesdays of each
month to Missouri, Arkansas, Texas,
Louisiana and Mexico.
H. d. ARMSTRONG;,
T. p. A., IS Griswold ST., Detroit Mich.
ELLIS FARNSWORTH,
d. P. A., 1856 Clark ST., Chicago, Ill.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1906-09-05
PERCENTAGE MILK.
Every Cow Puts Into Her MILK q
Definite Per Cent of Butter Fat.

Deunue l'er tent Oh buUer rut.
1t might be supposed that the richer
the milk the greater its advantage as a
food for babies and children, especially
as it can be so easily reduced. But
those who understand the chemistry
OF milk know that its degree of digesti-
bility depends upon the size of the fat
corpuscles it contains-the smaller the
size the more digestible. The milk Of
the Guernsey and Jersey breeds of
cows is unsuitable, even when modi-
fed for infant feeding, because it con-
tains fat corpuscles OF large size and
greater indigestibility than that of other
breeds And even of the milk of the
other breeds that which is adapted to
one child may not be TO another, and
in cases of illness the family physician
is called upon to prepare for each of
his infant patients a separate formula
dependent upon the percentage of but
ter fat in the milk TO be used as
basis.
Special Classes of Milk.
These facts, together with the diff
Guilty of obtaining proper milk for
babies, induced the proprietor of a
farm near Boston to undertake to
provide several classes of percent
age milk" special 6 per cent milk
for the use of thin invalids, GONZALES
cents and for the milk cure" 3
per cent milk for general use lin the
family, etc.), Az per cent milk for
children after their second summer, a
4 per cent and also a fat free milk for
babies. 1t is possible to guarantee
positive and practically unvarying per-
centage of fat in each or any Of these
classes by the selection and grouping
of COWS according to the quality of
their milk as ascertained by the Bah
cock test.
This enterprise, according to a writ
er who makes the foregoing state
ments in Farm, Field and Fireside, is
the first and only one known TO the
writer to take advantage of the fact
that every COW puts into her milk a
definite per cent of butter fat, a per
cent peculiar to herself, which varies
but slightly except for a short time at
the beginning and ending of each lac
tation, and that no known methods Of
feeding can more than temporarily In
fluence this fat content.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-12-06
The Arabs Hanheeah.

"Intoxications from eating q dish OF
liver was once my portion said an.
o~rientalist. TT happened in the Saba
"a. j was spending the winter at El
Kantara. In February I madeza car
wan trip Y the desert along the
great caravan route that runssfrom
-Biskra to Ttmbqkta. The third, day
out we reachedansoaais OF date palms.
We, got coffee 1t the baked mud cafe.
We dined On red fish ana gazette
steak, and for am entree. was served
this infeSnal liver Ekswae liver now
dered with kin Kin is haaheesh. It 40.
made OF hemp and ftamakes You
drunk: The Arabs mix &c with their
tobacco, and they BreHd4Iger with dt
and they dropsit In Coffee Thus thag|
eat, drink and smoke their RG.EFa4ei
their kif and imagined my arm TO be-
a mile long,. thought my foot as big
as a mountains Ny voice when ri
spoke, sounded inSmy ears like the
roar Of a thousand thunders. In aI
weFd,L was lHfndrunkt-andatt was
two days before I was ft to resume
my joaEney~aeFoss the gold celoredI
sands"
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-12-06
Little Economics.

81 once made up my mind" said q
London man, chat I would become
the possessor OF a good gold watch.- r
saved up the money for It In this ways
When I felt like eating a shilling;
luncheon, as + often did, I kept III
down to tenpence. I put the twopenceI
saved toward my watch fund. You
will hardly believe me, but with little
economies like this / had In less than
six months saved enough to buy my
gold watch" 'But," said a listener,
where is your gold watch9 You are
wearing a poor little gun. metal thing.
"Well," was the reply, when 4 found
how easily I could get along without
shilling luncheonsSI concluded Icoaldk
get along with a ten shilling watch I'M
stead of a ten pound one. So that the
watch fund grew until 1t purchased fert
me my own Reconsideration Mail.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-12-06

Travellers In Tibet describe the won
derful storms Of dust rt~hattsoecur In
Kashgaria, near the foot of the Kuen4
Lun mountains. The dust in.the air lsi
sometimes SO dense that complete dark
ness prevails. Occasionally rain falls.
during such a storm, but the raindrops:
eyaporate during their desceat,SHnd the
dust carried with them falls insIumps-i
Entire forests of poplar trees are buried
In s hillocks forty feet high. These.
deposits of dust are afterward movedE
on by the wind, but the trees that have
been buried die, even after their dis
interment.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-12-06
A stone.

The old beheading stone at Stirling,
England, was protected In 1851 by
public subscription. raised atthe In.
stance of the Stirling Natural History
and Observation-Disclosures. 1t was then
lnclosed In an iron cagea There is an
other relic Of public execution In Stir
ling inNthe museum Of the Smith fnsti-
tute in that city. It is the bowl which
the public executioner used whea1he
went around the market taking a meas
ure of meal from. every farmer's.sackss
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-12-06
Impossible D-fasnosfs.

L boy has eEtdentE been eating
TOO much between meals said the
doctor.
ENonsense' replied the boys father.
boy can't eat in his Sleep
How do you mean7p
mean that each of his meals be-
gin when he gets up in the naer6ing,
. when he goes 20 5hedsrRhHi
adelphia Ledger.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-12-06

Isl FRIDAY.The Balance of the news. All the news. The
Woman's Kingdom, the Children's page, conducted by genial Aunt
Susie, the best of all the home writers.
Every number of The Tn-Weekly gives the market reports. of the
two days, interval between issues and keeps one posted right up to
the moment our press turns. An nstaIment of the months story
from the great $4,000 set Of serials. half page set Of comics from
some of the greatest hunaorist artists Of the day.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-12-06
Happy Days

However varied the courses of our
IRE, whatsoever the phase OF pleasure!
ambition throughmwhich I4mhagF
swept along, still, when IN memory
we would revive the times that were
comparativelysJhe happiest these
enaes will be found to haYesbeen thef
ca4nnest.-Bulwer Lyttons "a
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-12-06

Giving and ReeelvRmm

Hai Porter Ito person soliciting q IA
.sUl mlnistry)The mlnistar re-
eelyes from 10 O'Clock TO, middAyE
albright" says the other, abnt AFT
wnat hour does he giEegERaris fl
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-12-06

SPAREs MBAAEAlS L MagE1na OF Kqhadoa Tor me AHhfBoB q Dufl Sexes
Spare Moments is the best magazine ever published at
the price In the first year OF its existence 1t jumped to q
seircuiation OF : quarter OF a-milion 9 month. For l9oso7
any magazine. During l9067 Spare Moments VIII print a.
series of articles under the title, THE Last Days of the Con-
federaey.1 These articles viii contain the persena1 reminis
cences Of Mrs. Jefferson Davis.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-12-06
: The New Home Library Wall Ct

Cd The second sheet represents maps IN beautiful
colors OF Alaska, and Of all our Insular and Colonial posses
sionss and q map of the Republic Of Panama, and . splendid
United States map. About the border of this sheet ne give
the Presidents Of the United States.
(39 This sheet gives . complete world map. with the
lands and waters of the globe projected without divisions
into hemispheres. It shows also 9 map Of the United States
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-12-06

ne nat helps the extlAhnrfs the
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-12-06

representing the accessions of territory. It a1se shows por-
traits Of the rulers of the world. + gives also 9 tOpographic
relief map of the Rnsso-Japaness war with the history Of It
from the severance of the diplomatic relations.
The Library Wall Charts are all bound together at the
top with metal strip and hanger, and thus form q splendid
and convenient reference eneyclopedixuf everything pre-
scented.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1906-12-19

office seven hundred and four more
pigs than when they began packing
them.
stop sending pigs. Warehouse
full" came telegram to Flannery.
He stopped long enough to wire back,
Cant stop" and kept on sending
them. On the next train up from
Franklin came one of the company's
inspectors. He had instructions to
stop the stream of guinea pigs at all
hazards. AS his train drew up at
Westcote station he saw the express
wagon backed up to the door. Six
boys were carrying bushel baskets
full of guinea pigs from the office
and dumping them into the wagon.
Inside the room Flannery, with his
coat and vest off, was shoveling the
guinea pigs into bushel baskets with
a coal scoop. He was winding up
the guinea pig episode.
He looked up at the inspector with
a snort of anger.
IVAN wagonload more an I'll be
quit of thin, an niver will We catch
Flannery wild no more foreign pigs
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1906-12-19

on his hands. No sur! They near
was the death o. me. Mkt tonne I'll
know that pigs of whativer national
ity is domestic pets-an' go at the
lowest rate"
He began shoveling again rapidly,
speaking quickly between breaths.
RULES may be rules, but you
cant fool Mike Flannery twice wild
the same thrick-whin ut comes to
live stock. dang the rules! So long
as Flannery runs this expriss office
pigs is pets-an' cows is pets-an'
horses Is pets-an' lions an tigers
and Rocky mountain goats is pets
an the rate on this is twinty-foive
cints.''
He paused long enough to let one
of the boys put an empty basket in
the place of the one he had just
filed. There were only a few
guinea pigs left. AS he noted the
limited number his natural habit of
looking on the bright side returned.
well. anyhow" he said, cheer
fully, otis not so bad as ut might be.
What II thin dago pigs had been ele-
pianist"
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1906-12-19
"Pi9s Is Pigs
By Ellis Parker Butler.

Copyright by Colver Publishing Coz
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-11-08

world. 1t is the mother of three man.
~ boys. She is older sadder, and
wiser-as well as poorer.
story Is Tragic,
Inc story best can be told by years;
the story of the little girl oyerbur.
dened with the wealth that Jay Gould
had won by fair and foul means In
the railroad world and the stock lob.
Ding market, who married French
near-nobleman, noble in name and liz.
noble in almost everything else ex.
cept his ability to fight with others
of his type.
On March q, 1895, Buni de Castel.
lane, alleged nobeman OF France. mar.
ried Anna Gould She had met the
pink and white, dapper Frenchman by
special arrangement OF his own-of
which she knew nothing-tapd perhaps
she had loved him, in way. Perhaps
she dreamed he was her Prince
Charming The Frenchman came to
America. He lived in back room
over q dressmaker's establishment
He had come to America to marry
money. He said it himself. And be-
fore he married he asked for a mar
riage portion of 100000 and got 49,
100000. He hadn't even met Miss
Gould when he privately announced
that he would marry her. He had lit
tie money, but he was determined to
wed. He went to hotelkeeper and
explained. Then he moved to one of
the greatest hotels in the world and
gave a little dinner, and friend
asked Miss Gould to attend. Within
month the wedding was arranged. A
month later the engagement was an
nounced. The day of the announce
ment Castellane moved to the Wal
dorf-Astoria and began buying on
credit.
The day after the owedding the bills
began to pour in.
They went to Paris and Boni de
Castellane began spending Jay Gould S
millions. His first great exploit was
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-11-08
THRIFTY MICHIGAN MINERS ARE
THEIR OWN EMPLOYERS.
After More Than One Years Trial Co.
operative Mining Industry Has
Been Declared a Success
Owned by Workmen.

Saginaw, Mich.-After a years trial
a cooperative coal mining industry at
this place has been declared a success.
This mine is owned by the workmen
who operate 1t. They establish prices,
make contracts and go down under
ground to dig out the product.
There are ne labor troubles or
strikes, for every man is personally in
terested In the welfare of the com
pany.
It was ON September /, 1906, that
coal was first sold from the new mine
of the Caledonia company. There has
been no idleness since, and the work
men-owners are preparing to put on
double shifts to keep pace with their
orders.
When it was organized the plan was
to have the company consist of 100
men, and the capital stock was placed
at $4,000 After year of success
1t has been decided to increase the
capital to $250,000 and the company
to 500 men.
So well, in fact, has this purely CO.
operative mine done that two other
organizations have been formed in
Michigan along similar lines. One of
these new companies, like the Gale
donia. is formed entirely of practical
handlers of the pick and shovel.
The men forming the Caledonia Sc
lected their executive officers from
among themselves Business Of the
company is looked after by a general
superintendent, who is responsible to
board of managers.
AT all times the acts of the board
are subject to review by general as
sembly of the miners, who keep In
touch with the affairs of the concern
as they do with the vein OF coal from
which they make their living.
When It came to an allotment oil
the stock few of the men were able to
take more than small holding. They
were not capitalists
Some, In fact, had little or no money
and arranged to pay their part in la
Dor
Last spring the Caledonia workers
fixed upon the 1903 scale of wages as
that to be paid in their mine. This is
5.55 per cent. higher than the scale
of the succeeding season-1904-5. The
average pay of the Caledonia miner Is
now $2.75 a day.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-11-08

Kan, constructed an instrument which
he used to saw through the top and
bottom of a three-inch steel bar.
That a common piece of yarn could
be made to cut the strongest steel
bars, tested with acids and resisting
steel saws. is a discovery that not
only surprises police and keepers of
jails and penitentiaries, but scientists
as well. 1t is the first case of the
kind on record, as far as can be
learned, and the prisoner who used 1t
in the Leavenworth penitentiary is
the originator.
The prisoner was confined in one OF
the isolation cells. 4 guard stand
ing on tier above noticed him work
ing his hands back and forth around
the bars and notified the guards on
the lower floor They investigated
and found that the top had been
sawed through. The bottom was
about half through. The prisoner
readily confessed and showed the
warden how he had accomplished the
feat
The rawlings of his woollen sock
he had twisted together as tailor
would pieces of thread. He had made
them compact by frequent wettlngs.
Dust and sand picked up in the quarry
were kneaded into the string. When
finished it was almost as hard as a
piece of emery stone. 1t required two
days, he said, to saw through the bar
with the string. several new strings
having to be made. as they wore out
quickly.
The warden doubted the statement
at first. The prisoner offered to show
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-11-08
Finds Comfort In Baby.

The countess was not happy-but
then Boni was born and came to COM
fort her. Her husband continued his
wild extravagances until even Paris
marveled. Millions seemed to have
turned his head. The nursery for his
heir in Petit Trianon was furnished
at the expense of more than the ordi'
nary man makes in a lifetime.
In June of 1897 the income for the
year was spent. Boni still was buy
ing. He bought from Asher Wertheim,
of London, curios for which he could
not pay. This bill later proved one OF
the direct means of his downfall,
Among other things that he wanted
was an Italian palace. He bought one
at Verona at stupendous price. In
it were II ceilings by Tiepolo, and
the count wanted them transferred to
Paris 1t was done and then-they
we're sold at enormous loss.
The year 1898 was marked by Cas-
tellanes duel with Henri Turot and
his blaekballing in the Jockey club,
But still, with her two sons, the lit
tie countess was busy and found
solace in them, even when the eX-
travagances of her husband and his
wild actions caused doubt as to his
sanity. His eccentricities and his half
insane desire for notoriety amazed
even Paris. He planned a riot direct
ed against the president of France at
the races at Auteuil, and he and his
wife were among the chief actors in
the comedy-drama which cost them a
fortune.
Boni was becoming ridiculous. He
proved himself skillful al fencing
wounding one adversary. Even his
title was attacked; he was ridicplsd
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-11-08

the purchase ,of "a site in the famous
Avenue Malakoff and to order work
men to reproduce lie Petite Trainon,
the retreat OF Louis XIV, home of
the famous Nine. de Maintenon, to
copy the most infamous, hcentious
court of history. Millions poured into
the building. One bed alone cost al
most a million dollars. Art treasures
were purchased
One fete given by Boni de Castel-
lane swept away ninth of the yearly
income of his wife, which was 100000.
Millions were spent before they
were earned. The girl with an income
of nearly million dollars a year was
in debt
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-11-08


Still the money went furiously. The
king of Portugal was their guest and
nearly quarter of a million dollars
was spent on him during his visit
The countess had stood much. But
finally, in 1905, the break came. Gees
danes" were one thing-but a woman
of her own class was another. The
name of the Duchess Dues was cou.
pied with that of Castellane. The
duchess, in her way, is as eccentric
as Castellane. The countess suffered
in silence no longer She separated
from her husband and then brought
suit for divorce
The suit was the signal for the cred
itors to pounce down upon Boni. In
France the wife is responsible for
certain debts Jointly with her husband
and the creditors feared the Gould
millions would escape The Goulds
having lavished nearly S10,000,000 on
the count, refused to pay more. Boni,
the man who had refused 10 pay debts
of honor, calmly offered to make
terms
And now--unless the creditors are
satisfied, he will use the children as
his last weapon and force . Aettle'
ment,
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-11-08

him and made one of the instruments
out of common Irvine. Small pieces
of broomstick we're used as handles.
With this the warden had the prisoner
finish saving through the bottom Of
the bar.
When plans for the new peniteD-.
tiary were made It was decided to use
Bessemer steel for the window graf
,ngs, it being deemed harder and
nearer saw-proof than the iron which
had been used. The bars at his win
dow were the ones sawed. The open
ing made was large enough for man.
to have crawled through.
"The fact that Bessemer steel bars,
have been successfully sawed without
using steel makes 1t more and moro
necessary that guards be constantly
on the watchout,' said Mr.. Shipley.
Prisoners have made saws of tin
cans and the like, but never before OF
common yarn"
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-11-08

her American debut as a concert
singer in this city.
Miss Clemens first appeared in a
professional way at Florence, Italy.
under favorable auspices. She has a
rich contralto voice of unusual clarity
and beauty, and for years has been de
voting herself TO its cultivation under
the best masters in Europe.
Miss Clemens was assisted in ner
Norwalk recital by Miss Marie Nicl-
oils, a young Boston Violinist