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Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-01-17

Nothing hurts conceited man like
being ignored.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-01-17

Some men can't even do their duty
without making fuss about 1t.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-01-17
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY

Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tablets Drug
gists refund money IL 1t fails to cure. Il. w
GROVES signature is on each box 25c
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-01-17

Each wrinkle on a woman's brow
represents an experience.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-01-17

"'What doctor did you haveT"
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-01-17

"Cack, intelligent and alert. said
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-02-28
sunflowers and ouinine.

An eminent Spanish professor has
made the discovery that the sun1ower
yields a splendid febrifuge that can
be used as a substitute for quinine.
More than ten years ago Moncorvo
reported to the Therapeutical So
ciety of Paris with reference to the
same subject. Accordingly the sun
flower should not only by its growing
exert great fever-dispelling effect,
but also yield a product which is
used advantageously in all fevers.
The common sunflower is original
ly an American plant. It's original
home is stated by eminent botanists
to be Peru and Mexico.
The Russian peasantry seem to be
convinced that the plant possesses
properties against fever, and fever
patients sleep upon a bed made of
sunfower leaves, and also cover
themselves with them. This use
has recently induced Russian
physician to experiment with a col.
oring matter and with alcoholic ex-
tracts from the flower and leaves.
With 100 children from one month
TO twelve years old he has, in the
majority of cases, effected as speedy
A cure as otherwise with quinine.-
philadelphia Ledger.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-02-28
The Old Conner Kettle.

An English scientist attributes the
wide prevalence of appendicitis to
the use of enameled cooking uten-
sils. He points out that when the
old fashioned cooking utensils were
in vogue appendicitis was practically
unknown. "Tbe present age uses In
creasingly enamel ware, which splin-
ters on the least provocation.
Il find that not only a food such
as porridge will carry the needle
like splinters to the body, but that
a soup, and even tea, may very well
contain sharply splintered particles
OF this most dangerous glass"
Many physicians and surgeons
have advanced the theory known as
the mechanical theory, that the cause
of appendicitis may be introduction
through the food of some sharp irri-
tating substance, causing inflamma.
tion and liberation.
They designate toothbrush bristles.
wheat grit, particles of antimonal
rubber shoppers, as common irritants.
None of these are Of such irritat.
ing quality as spicules OF enamel,
which might be swallowed with the
sauces or vegetables cooked in the
enameled ware vessels.
Accordingly, among medical men
and some housekeepers there is a
crusade having for its object the re-
turn to the old copper or iron ket-
tie.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-02-28
Poultry Versus Beef.

1t Is a noteworthy fact that It re-
quires less financial outlay to raise
a pound of poultry flesh than to pro-
duce the same weight of beef and in
considerably less time. The chicken,
that is the representative poultry
bird, is comparatively easy to raise,
and during its growing period of only
about four months 1t does not require
nearly so much food, in proportion,
as the OK does. The chicken attains
it's maturity in a few months time
and is then ready to market, either
alive or dressed, at prices ranging
from seven to ten cents per pound;
while 1t requires from two to three
years for an OK to reach its best beef
value, and then II sells on the hoof
at only from four to seven cents per
pound; or dressed at an average of
about eight cents. In this must be
counted the cost of the care and feed
up to the time OF marketing. Hence
the chicken is the better business
proposition of the two, for the gen.
eral farmer. OF course, the value
of the OK as a producer of good stable
manure, during this period of growth,
Is to be reckoned in his favor; while
the chicken, considered in this light,
has somewhat less value.-Indiana
Farmer.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-02-28
Stock Taking Cold.

The horse is very susceptible to
cold; and the horses that are stabbed
when not being worked or exercised
feel the changes of weather quite as
readily as do those enjoying a more
free life. All stables should be fairly
lofty, because horses need plenty of
fresh afr, and this can only be prop
erly given during intense cold when
ventilation can be given above the
heads of the animals, so far as ele-
vation is concerned. the position of
the ventilators mattering little so
long as they are at a good height
and placed with judgment. The
stable should feel cosey upon going
In, but not stuffy, otherwise the
horses will feel chilly upon coming
out.
When the horses are out at work
they need little care, so long as they
are actually employed, but If being
rested, or doing duty that involves
periods of inaction, 1t then becomes
necessary to see that there is no
chance given for chill to be caught.
III to stand for several minutes. as
when a wagon is being loaded, a
loincloth, or sheet, should be thrown
across the back and removed when
actual work recommences, and the
same plan should be followed until
the cold breaks.
Cows do not feel the cold so much
as do horses, but, for all that, they
do feel it. Perhaps one of the most
noticeable features regards cows dur.
ing cold is the increased amount OF
food that the animals will consume,
Cows should be housed comfortably
during cold, and the cow-house
should be we'll provided with fresh
air, admitted without draught, and
regulated by the quantity required
to keep the interior temperature of
the cow-house warm enough to feel
comfortable to the animals, for IL
too cold the coat will readily show
1t, even should the animals them
selves seem comfortable Give plenty
OF dry litter, abundance of good food
and all the water that the animals
care to drink, first taking the chill
on, During such cold weather the
COWS should never be allowed to stand
about in the open, and the younger
stock should either be housed entirely
or given the run of a sheltered shed.
Family Herald.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-02-28
DO Ostriches Ever Die?

Nothing is positively known as to
how long an ostrich may live Some
writer's claim that it will live 100
years. ostrlches which are known to
have been in captivity for forty years
are still breeding and producing
feathers
1t is the experience of Arizona
farmers that among the birds having
good, nutritious green feed death sell
dom occurs, except as the result of
accident. A dog or other small ami
NAL will sometimes frighten ostri-
ehes and cause them 10 run into the
fence, which may result in a broken
leg. When this happens the bird
may as well be killed, as few ever
recover from such an injury.-Na-
tional Magazine.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-02-28
Fertilizer in Clover Roots.

In growing clover the farmer, as a
rule, wholly overlooks its great value
as soil fertilizer through the great
amount of nitrogen which is gained
by simply growing the clover. The
roots, therefore, may be claimed as a
portion of the crop and the profit,
and should be included in the ac-
counts as such. In one experiment
sixty pounds of roots remained in
the soil, valued at 5000, which rep
resented so much plant food waiting
to be utilized the next season, and
which differed from that usually sup
piled from the fact that it was not
necessary to invest any capital the
next season in heterogeneous fertilizer,
as the nitrogen required was already
in the soil and for use. Any farm
that can be brought to that condition,
so as to enable 1t to produce clover,
ean be gotten into the highest state
Of fertility, as it is only necessary to
supply the cheaper mineral fertiliz-
ers in order to balance the plant food.
The profits do not depend wholly up
on the crops harvested but upon the
price realized compared with the
amount of material removed from
the land, the real wealth and capital
Of the farmer being his soil, and
when he can sell something from the
land in the form of a crop, which
will provide him with more than he
took from it, he is sure to become
prosperous in few years.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-02-28
EPMORTH LEAGUE LESSONS
SUNDAY, MARCH 3.
The Duty Of restlmony.-Acts I. 8.

The Duty Of Testimony.-Acts I. 8.
Passages for reference: Psa. 1O7.
2-S; Matt. 10. 80, 33; Rom. 10. Q.
10; Rev. IL. IL.
In the observation-disclosures
psalm is the oft-repeated exclamation,
"Oh that men would praise the Lord
for his goodness, and for his wond.
erful works to the children of menl"
Between these exclamations are the
rehearsals of Gods doings for his peo'
pie which should call forth such
praise. Gods care under all vicissi.
tudes, his protection in dangers, his
deliverances from the power of the
enemy, and his leadings to victory are
all enough to evoke from the most
stolid nature exclamations of praise.
His activities reveal nature worthy
of praise, and the blessings received
testimony TO him as the giver OF
them
In Matthew we are assured that our
confessing or non-confessing before
men determines whether we shall be
acknowledged by the Master before
the Father in heaven. Such declar-
alton demands our careful considera-
tion.
In Romans Paul lays stress upon
the confession with the mouth: "With
the mouth confession is made unto
salvation" ." Here again is an explicit
statement as to the Importance OF
testimony in our own religious exper.
ience. From the other world there
comes a word through the apostle
John in the revelation on Patmos, that
those in heaven are there having
overcome their accuser "by the blood
of the Lamb, and by the word of their
testimony" The basis for the in.
junction to testify is scriptural, and
therefore ought to be needed.
God makes a claim for the allie
glance of every person and his claim
must be proven. No matter how good
his claim is, It must be established be
fore men will acknowledge it. He
has done all that it is possible for
him to do to show that he Is entitled
TO mans allegiance. But the great
majority of mankind do not know
what he has done, and must be inform
ed. Therefore those who know must
give the testimony. If the good name
Of your friend was on trial and your
word could clear it of any suspicion,
would you hesitate to give your testt
mony? Nay, would it not be a pleas
ure for you to do it? If you knew
that your testimony would decide
man in Gods favor, would you not
give it? Suppose somebody's de-
cision hang on your word!
A witness is one who has personal
knowledge of a thing. One who is to
bear witness for God Is one who has
personal knowledge of God. Hence 1t
was that Jesus told his disciples to
tarry at Jerusalem till the ''promise
OF the Father" came, which was the
Holy Spirit. Then should they be
witnesses. Only by the teaching CT
the Spirit of God can man know
the things of God.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-02-28
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVORN NOTES
MARCH THIRD.
Being Honest, With Yourself and
eod.-Luke 1918; Josh. 24:14.

Being Honest, With Yourself and
God.-Luke 1918; Josh. 24:14.
Honest with our Judge.-Ps. 1883.
Square dealing rewarded.-Is 3S:
1918.
Live and let live. ."-Ezek. 1859.
Honest with our conscience.-Rom.
14:5-23.
Honest as employees.--Col 3:22-25.
Honest in conduct Pet. 2:11-16.
Hypocrisy is like leaven; from
small beginning it permeates the life
Uuke 12:D.
No man is safe until he would be
safe and unashamed If his life were
turned wrong side out (Luke 1920.
There is coming time OF perfect
transparency, and the only way to
prepare for 1t is to live transparent
lives now Nuke 12:3).
The fear OF the Lord is the begin
ming of honesty; the love Of the Lord
is its completion Josh. PAID.
Suggestions.
Honesty is never the best policy
when 1t Is polite, but only when it
is the inevitable outgrowth OF the
aart.
Being honest with yourself Is the
anne as being honest with God; and
no easier.
No man is honest who is trying to
So how near dishonesty he can 60
II you do not love honesty, but mere.
ly fear. the results of dishonesty, you
are not honest, but only prudent
illustrations.
If we had mirrors which would show
us not our faces but our characters,
would the vainest of us care to look
in them often?
Ancient actors wore masks, and the
ugliest of all might wear the most
beautiful mask.
Compulsory honesty is like cleanli.
ress enforced by the health officer,
sure to relapse into filth when the
officer ceases his visits.
As it is impossible for him to be too
honest in his soul.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-02-28
Fruit Trees FROM Cuttlnps.

All attempts to grow apple trees
from cuttings will lead to disappoint-
ment. Only a very small per cent.
will live and they will prove worth
less Peaches will not grow at all
from cuttings. OF pears, lie Conte,
II properly handled, will grow from
cuttings as well as willow. The
Mariana plum is also very easy to
grow the same way; so also are many
kinds of ounces.
To prepare cuttings for planting
select nice, straight shoots of the
current years growth. AS soon as
the leaves fall cut them eight to ten
Inches long and pack them In q box
of damp sand or well-rotted sawdust.
Put the box in some place secure
from frost until spring and see that
the contents are kept at all times
damp, but not soaked. In spring you
will find the cuttings nicely calloused.
Be careful not to expose them to the
air more than necessary when setting
out in the nursery and II possible
select a mild, still day for the pur-
pose.
To grow Kiefer pears from cut
tings make an assisted cutting by
grating short piece OF ounce root
one inch or an inch and a half ON the
bottom of an elght-inch scion. Do
this in February and treat as recon-
mended above.
The best plan for growing Japan
plums is to graft long scion on a
small peach Seeding in February,
planting deeply in spring and plant
ing still deeper when set in orchard.
BY following this plan you will have
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-02-28
Breeders Notes.

Keep a good rasp handy and use II
Judiclously in keeping the feet of the
colts level and of proper shape. Don't
let the toes become too long.
Eternal vigilance is the price OF
liberty. 1t is also indispensable in
order to keep the colts free from
worms and lice and their feet free
from thrush.
Don't neglect to cover the icy spots
In the yard or paddock with gravel.
loan or ashes. Slipping on such
spots may cause the ruin of a yalu-
able colt or brood mare.
Don't keep the weanling shut up
In stalls and standing on hard floors
all the time. They need exercise in
the open air and on the earth every
day to keep their limbs strong and
their feet healthy.
A few dollars spent on each horse
consigned to the sales ring in putting
him In condition to show to the best
advantage Will prove a profitable in
vestment. Have the animals we'll
hammered, fat, sleek and well
groomed.
"A foot pick is a much more impor-
tant implement in the colt stable than
the currycomb or brush. When the
soies OF the feet are picked clean and
washed every day there is little dan
ger that they will become affected
with thrush.
II Is more conducive to the health
and hardness of horse stock to be
kept In barns that are well yentil-
ated and not warmed by artificial heat
than In close and steam heated sta
bles. Pure air is as essential to pure
blood and good health as is pure food.
A tablespoonful OF fiaxseed meal
added to the grain ration OF each
veanling colt every night will have
q beneficial effect upon the bowels
and give a gloss to the coat. Money
spent for fiaxseed meal to feed to the
youngsters II an Investment that will
pay a fifty per cent. profit at least
Horse Breeder.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-02-28
The Threshold.
BY IVAN TURGENEv.

fThis poem in prose, written some
thirty ys<rs ago by the famous Rus
sian novelist, sums Ip the type of the
Russian girl who is ready TO sacrifice
everything for light and freedom and
revolution. The translation is from
the independently.
see a great structure. The mar
row door in the front wall is wide
open. Stern gloom is beyond the
door. Before the high threshold
stands a girl, Russian girl A
breath of frost is waited from the
impenatrable gloom, and together
with the freezing wave a slow voice
is coming from the depth of the build
ing.
ITO you who desire to cross this
threshold, do you know what awaits
you here?"
Fl know" replied the girl.
"Cold, hunger, adherence, deri-
sion, contempt, abuse, prison, dis.
ease and DEATH"
"I know. l am ready. shall en-
dure all sufferings, all blows"
W. AlOih chehlicS diOhe, DuL dlSO
from relatives, from friends"
eyes, even from them"
"very we'll. You are ready for the
sacrifice. You shall perish, and no
body, nobody will ever know whose
memory to honor"
'T need neither gratitude nor com.
passion. need no home"
"Are you ready even to commit a
crime?"
The girl lowered her head.
II am ready for crime, too"
The voice fingered for some time
before resuming its questions.
do you know" it said at length,
that you may be disillusioned in that
which you believe at present, that
you may discover that YOU were mis-
taken, and that you ruined your
young life in vain?"
81 know this, too"
"Enter!"
The girl crossed the threshold, and
the heavy curtain fell behind her.
Fool" said some one, gnashing
his teeth.
Saint" some one uttered in re.
NV
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-02-28
Racial Elements in Wisconsin,

am speaking of Wisconsin, be-
cause it happens to be the State
where l have pursued my ethnologi-
cal studies, and because it epitomizes
the central West No other Western
State has such a diversity of racial
elements, Illinois alone, with its
queer colony of Portuguese Protest
ants at Jacksonville, has an element
which Wisconsin has not None but
Wisconsin has Bulgarians and Flem-
ings, 1t has an Indian population of
over 5000, 1t is the greatest Welsh,
Cornish, Norwegian and German
State. 1t has Icelanders with Mime
sofa, Bohemians with Iowa, and
French, Fins and Hollanders with
Michigan. The Oldest and only pure
ly Hungarian colony in America is on
its soil, and the largest colony of
Swiss. II has a native white element
as old as the KnicH srbockers, and
even French-descendc families who
so back 100 years on Wisconsin soil.
From Wardon Allan Curtis The
Light Fantastic in the Central
West" In the Ceytury.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-02-28
Wheat Bran.

Notes are given in the report OF the
Massachusetts, Experiment Station on
the composition, digestibility and fer
tilizing ingredients of wheat bran as
compared with other concentrated
feeding stuffs, and two feeding ex-
periments with cows are reported.
The roughage In the two rations COM
pared consisted of hay and silage and
the grain feed of cottonseed meal and
-four middlings. To this was added
either bran or silage with corn meal
or corn and cob meal. In one of the
experiments the results were slightly
In favor of the bran ration, while In
the other the so-called silage ration
gave the best results. The, author,
Prof. j. B. Lindsay, concludes that
for small herds the quantity OF pur-
chased grain may be reduced to three
to four pounds daily by substituting
homegrown corn in place of wheat
bran. 1t is suggested that the grain
mixture may consist of one and a
half pounds -cottonseed meal, two
pounds flour middlings, and two and
a half to three pounds corn meal or
corn and cob meal. Malt sprouts
may be substituted for the wheat,
oats OF rye middlings. Where the
feeding cannot be closely supervised
and where 1t is desired to feed more
than five to seven pounds of grain
daily, it is considered advisable that
the grain mixtures should consist OF
one-third to one-hah of wheat bran.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-02-28
Moving Hens,

Fowls are very fond of their home
and they very much dislike to be
moved. II is not a profitable busi-
ness to move them unless 1t is abso-
lutely necessary. II eggs are the
object sought 1t is very important
that laying hens should not be moved
from one location to another while
laying, as it will diminish the sup
ply of eggs. Where 1t is possible
to do so pullets that are intended as
layers should be brought up within
sight of the location they are to
occupy when they begin laying. On
the contrary, IL 1t is desirable to de-
lay the laying of a hen or a pullet
for any reason all that is necessary
is to move them from one locality to
another and the business is done.
This is sometimes done among fanc-
iers when it is desired that they put
their energies into growth instead
of eggs. Sometimes a broody hen
may be broken up by removing her
nest from one locality to another.
And especially is this true where new
companions are given her.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-02-28
The Progress of the Church.

The progress of the Church of
Jesus Christ is strikingly depicted by
the pen of John, the disciple of love.
/ call you to follow the progress of
the growth of the Christian Church
in Johns writings First there was
only one man who believed in Jesus
John the Baptist. Then we read
OF two, then of three, then Of Ave.
then OF twelve, then Of seventy, then
of 100, then of a grea: multitude
which no man can number, all sing
ing, Worthy is the Lamb that was
slain to receive power and riches, and
strength and honor, and glory and
blessing"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-02-28
Value of Wired Glass.

Glass reinforced with wire has been
shown by the tests of the British
Fire Prevention Committee to be
really OF great advantage in resisting
hre. Three openings were closed
with wired glass and fire was applied
Tor forty-hve minutes, the tempera-
ture reaching 1900 degrees Fahren-
heit, but not exceeding 1850 degrees.
The new material is valuable not only
for the obstruction 1t offers to fire,
but for It's reduced ability to do dam
age by breaking and falling when
used in such places as the glass roofs
OF railway stations.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-02-28
sFDE ct 1Tzf1Is :

fine trees Of abundant growth on
their own roots, even though the
land is too wet for peach trees to live
In at all.
To grow peach seedlings, throw up
bed by cutting trench around 1t.
Plant the seed on top the bed, cover
ing them two inches deep. This
should be done late in the fall and in
spring when the seedlings are three
or four inches high, transplant to
nursery row. A transplanted peach
Seeding makes better root system
than one not SO treated.--The Epito-
mist.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-02-28
Steam, Dry and Cover MIX Bottles.


Bottles handled in an ordinary
commercial way at the Wisconsin Ex-
pertinent Station and exposed to
steam for ten minutes we're found
to contain a much smaller number of
bacteria. In the condensation water
in bottles which had been steamed
and allowed to stand at room tenn
perature for twenty-four hours the
number of bacteria varied from
1,7S6,SO0 to 3,9S1,00O. In two cor
responding series of bottles contain
ing no condensation water the num-
bers of bacteria were 60,710 and
330,100. In series of steamed
bottles exposed to the air for twenty
four hours the number of bacteria
averaged 292,450 per bottle. while
in a similar series which had been
covered with linen cloth the num-
ber OF bacteria averaged 11,615,
showing the Importance of keeping
bottles covered.