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The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-08-01
COMMERCIAL COLUMN.
Weekly Review Of Trade and Latest
Market RenoTts.

r. G. Dun G Co.'s Weekly Review
OF Trade says:
1t is still noteworthy that there
Is practically none of the customary
complaint OF midsummer dullness in
commercial or industrial channels.
On the contrary. reports from many
cities announce. that all the back
wardness OF the early season In light
weight fabrics has been made up. and
the liberal distribution of merchan-
disc is accompanied by steady i'm
provement In mercantile collections.
Preparations for fall and winter pro-
coed with evident confidence. and
lines that usually report frequent
cancellations at this season are hold
ing their business nearly intact. In
the leading industries there Is little
idle machinery, steel and cotton mills
reporting orders further into the flu
ture and other branches, and the only
menace to more new records OF pig
iron production is the interruption
to ore movements by the strike, that
has reduced shipments about 2,000,-
600 tons in three weeks.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-08-01
THIS AND THAT.

The picture postcard craze is
diminishing in England.
The military and naval expenses
Of the Japanese are under $35, 00O,-
900.
In Asia rice constitutes fully one
half the food supply of the popula-
ton.
Last year 81 large steel vessels
we're built for the service on the
Great Lakes.
Sweden and Spain have fewer alien
residents than any other country Of
Europe.
Secretary Cortelyou is at work
preparing an authorized life OF Will
liam Mckinley.
The Desert OF Sahara is within n
few hundred square miles of the size
of the United States.
From Puy de Dome, an extinct
volcano in France, carbolic acid Is
procured for commercial purposes.
The population figures for Switzer-
land on August 8. 1905. were 5.316,-
443. Of whom 354,175 were forei1a-
erg.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-08-01
You Cannot Afford II

No farmer can afford to do without
good garden. 1t is not to be ex-
pected that every one will be a fancy
gardener, but every one should give
sufficient attention to the subject so
as to produce all staple vegetables
earlier than can be produced in the
field. 1t is not only essential to the
health and proper enjoyment of the
family, but it is actually a matter of
profit. Could your whole farm be
made as smooth, dry, rich and as well
cultivated as a good garden, the in
creased product would pay large
per cent. of profit upon the outlay.
In the garden, Or in a separate apart
meRt5inay be cultivated strawberries,
raspberries, blackberries, currants,
grapes and dwarf pears. They can
all be had at a very small cost of
money or labor, and will add i'm
mensely to the enjoyment Of the
household.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-08-01
Live Stock.

Chicago -Cattle-Market steady
but slow. Common 20 prime steers,
$4.75 1876; cows, $9.20@ 5.75;
heifers, $3Q5.75; bulls, $3.15@
5.25; stockers and feeders, $3@5;
calves, $3Q7.S6.
Hogs-Ma<ket steady. Good to
prime heavy, 1920 a $50; medium
to good heavy, $6.05 % els; butcher
weights, $6.15 "a 6.35; good to prime
mixed, $1,000 6.25; light mixed,
1925 q $685. packing. $4,000 6.S5;
selected, $685. a $40: bulk of sales,
$6.10@ $50.
Sheep-Market for sheep steady;
lambs weak and lower; sheep, $3.75
@6; yearlings, $6.50@6.40; lambs,
5@7.30.
Pittsburg, Pa. - Cattle - Supply
light; market steady; choice, $3.50
@6.75; prime, $500 a $40.
Hogs--Receipts fair; market &C
tive; prime heavies, $3.50; mediums,
$6.75; heavy Workers, $6.75 $50;
light Workers and pigs. $690@7:
roughs, IS Q5.25.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-08-01
Do Justice to Poultry.

Poultry should now be filling the
egg basket, and will, if they have
justice done them. 1t is not enough
that they are well fed; other condi-
lions are required. Their houses
should be well cleansed, their nest
boxes thoroughly washed and a little
quicklime sprinkled in them. The
floors of their houses should also be
well sprinkled with quicklime, and
the roosting poles whitewashed. All
these are necessary to purify the at
mosphere and destroy the vermin
that infest these places. The clean
ing process should also be applied to
the horse, COW and sheep stables.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-08-01
Variety and Profit.

The farmers should make stock
raising more Profitable by growing
variety of crops, instead of depend
ing mostly upon grain and hay, for
variety gives the farmer more adj
vantages. If he grows turnips he
secures them late in the season (usu-
ally after liability of dry weather has
passed), and large supply of roots
will enable him to economic with
the grain and hay. He can also grow
late corn fodder, COW peas and rape,
the latter affording excellent pas
turage for sheep and swine when
grass may not be abundant. But it
is not so much the growing of various
crops for use at all seasons that the
farmer should consider so much as
the full bins and stePehouses of sue
culenJ food for winter use. 1t is in
the winter season that the farmer
has the advantage OF using the crops
he has grown, and increasing their
value by adding thereto his labor.
Many farmers object to certain meth
DDS of feeding because they claim
that the thorough preparations of
foods are too labOrious, but If all
farmers will consider that the more
labor they can sell in the form of
some product the greater their in
crease, they will not hesitate to give
more attention to food preparation.
Lost time is really lost labor, and the
farmer who is not employed every
day is losing something. If he can
save food and make larger profits he
will be more than recompensed for
his labor, and the best time when
one can be well paid for the work is
in the winter, as the foods, tho man.
ure heap, the repairs of buildings
and implements and other indoor
work are then the most important
matters.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-08-01


It is only within recent years that
pen have learned how to make
houses and. other structures OF
cement. This art is probably yet in
crude stage, and by mankind may
learn to use the material in vastly
more skillful and efficient ways.
But many Of the. lower animals
have for ages been making their
houses of mud or similar plastic and
hardening substances. The Cliff
swallows skillfully built home is. in
deed, wonderful structure, especial
ly when we take into consideration
the simple way in which the bird
does the work. Imagine a boy or a
girl trying to make such a structure
of mud and handling the material
only by the aid of pointed pliers.
Yet the bird does it. and does it well
with her pointed bill In some
cement structures, especially in rail-
road embankments, you have prob
ably noticed that the workmen first
put in several iron rods to increase
the strength of the wall This lis,
practically, what the phoebe, the
robin and other birds do when they
mix.a liberal supply Of grasses and
other plant fibers, and even strings,
through their concretions of mud
From st. Nicholas.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-08-01
Good Males Demand Good Care.

We should not give a rap" as
the saying is, for a rooster" that is
not gallant enough TO give his mates
first privileges when it comes to eat
ing.
The rooster that is always ready
to lick" another one that harpens
TO cross his path, the rooster that
does not hesitate to show his vocal
capabilities by frequently growing,
and the rooster that is courteous
enough to believe in ladies first"
and stands and calls his mates and
then steps aside while they eat the
dainty morsel he has found-that
rooster is one after our own heart
Show us that kind of a rooster and
we will show you rooster that is
capable of strongly fertilizing eggs
from a maximum number of females.
But-here, dear friend, is often
the 'rub"-a male bird of this kind
must secure in some way just as
much if not little more to eat than
does his less gallant brother and, I'M
less fed separately, he will become
so run down in condition in two or
three weeks of breeding service that
he will begin to be seriously lacking
in sexual strength; therefore, it be-
comes necessary to remove him from
the females every day or two and
give him generous feed of corn and
meat of some kind, that is, green cut
bone or ground beef scraps. That is
the only gallant way for you to treat
q gallant rooster and Won will find
at the same time that it is the only
profitable way.-Poultry Editor, in
Tho Epitomist.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-08-01
Is Pe-ru-na Useful
for catarrh2

Should list of the Ingredients OF Pc
runa be submitted to any medical ex-
pert, of whatever school or nationality,
he would be obliged to admit without
reserve that each one ofthem was ofun-
doubted value in chronic catarrhal dis
eases, and had stood the test of many
years experience In the treatment OF
such diseases. THERE CAN BIZ NO
DISPUTE ABOUT THIS WHAT
EVER. Peruna is composed ofthe most
eflcacious and universally used herbal
remedies for catarrh. Every ingredient
of Peruna has O reputation of its own
in the cure of some phase of catarrh.
Peruna brings to thehome the COM
BINED KNOWLEDGE OF SEVERAL
SCHOOLS OF MEDICINE in the treat
ment of catarrhal diseases; brings to
the home the SCIENTIFICALLY and knowl-
edgeofthe modern pharmacist; and last
but notleast, brings to the home the vast
and varied experience Of Dr.. Hartman,
intheuseo fcatarrh remedies, and in the
treatment of catarrhal diseases.
The fact Is, chronic Catarrh is dis
1ase which Is very prevalent Many
thousand people know they have
chronic catarrh. They heYsa waited
doctors over and over again, and been
told that their case is one of chronic
catarrh. It may be ofthe nose, throat
lungs, stomach or some other internal
organ. There is no doubt as to the ma
ture of the disease. The only trouble
Is the remedy. This doctor has tried to
cure them. That doctor has tried to
prescribe for them.
BUT THEY ALL FAILED TO
BRING ANY RELIEF.
DR.. Hartman's idea is that catarrh
remedy can be madc on a large scale,
as he is making it; that 1t can be made
honestly, of the purest drugs and Of
the strictest uniformity. His idea is
that this remedy can besupplied direct
ly to the people, and nomore be charged
for it than is necessary for the
handling ofit.
No other household remedy so uni
versally advertised carries upon the
label the principal active constituents,
showing that Peruna invites the full
inspection of the critics.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-08-01
Feeding a Horse

The Journal OF Agriculture gives
some figures of the cost of feeding a
horse in the West. How do they
compare with the cost of keeping one
in this State?
What does it cost to feed the work
horse during the year? 1t is claimed
that when timothy is worth SIS per
ton; wheat bran, $3.50; corn, $22;
dried brewers grass, $17, and gluten
meal, 500 per ton, that horse can
be fed during the six months when
the hardest work is done for $31.
During the remaining six months the
cost of feekis put at $24.7O.
1t will be noticed that the cost Of
timothy is figured at about double
The price It sells for on the average
farm. This is because the authorities
who made the estimates I've near the
large centres, WHO'RE prices OF feeds
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-08-01
Wholesale MnrkcfH.

Baltimore. - Wheat--Cargoes on
grade sold at 90c. for special bin
No. 2 red, S91s for stock No. 2 red,
"a for special bin steamer NO. 2
red, S3 for stock steamer No. Q red.
rs for special bin rejected, 20 for
stock rejected and II for rejected
to go through the drier. Small bag
lots sold at 65 to Soc. The market
for Western opened firmer; spot and
July, &c; No. 2 red Western, 90 Y;
August. 90H; September, 90.
Corn-Westerp market opened
firmer; spot and July, SOC; August,
az; September, GO bid. Very lit
tie interest was shown in the mar
ket, and the market ruled dull, but
with firmer Western advices prices
hardened. and Mt the midday call
were Nc. higher. Sales 5000 spot,
SIC.
Oats-White- Q, 52c.: No. 8.
501s @511k; No. 4, ASH 049. Mix
ed-No. 2, 49Ac.; No. 3, 4S15 q 40;
No. 4, AN GAS.
Butter - Receipts OF desirable
creamery not plentiful, and demand
about equal to the offerings. Store
packed, sweet rolls. etc. I'm moder-
ate supply and fairly good demand
prices lax 015c.
Eggs Maryland, Pennsylvania
and nearby frsts 17hc Eastern
Shore, Maryland and Virginia. II y
Western flrsts, IN: West Virginia
II; Southern (North Cardinal
16 "; guinea, 70S.
New York.-Wheat-R 75,-
400 bu.; exports, 1911. Spot firm;
o. % 4
SO II, T. o. b., afioat; No. l Northern
Duluth. 1O9h, +. o. b., afioat; No.
hard winter. 100 3-S, f. o. b.,
afloat.
Corn receipts. 29,O25 bu.; exports,
19S.159. Spot FIRM; No. 2. GIG,
elevator, and 61, T. o. b., afloat; No.
white. 61 y, and No. 2 yellow,
Gil u. Z. o. b., a1oat.
Oats--Receipts. 49,500 bu. Spot
quiet; mixed. 26 to SO lbs. ACC.
natural white, so to 33 lbs. 81 to
81; clipped white. Sc TO 40 lbs,
51@5414.
Butter easy; receipts, 1898 pl1gs.:
Western imitation creamery. firsts,
22c. Cheese easier feel' z; but un-
changed; receipts, 1897 boxes.
Eggs steady and unchanged; receipts.
15 AGO cases.
Philadelphia.-Whe firm and
nc. higher; contract grade, July.
81 @91 &c. Corn dull but steady;
July, 5716 @5Sc. Oats firm and in
fair demand; No. white, natural,
81 a 81 &c.
~ Butter steady AID IN fair demand;
extra Western creamery, official price,
20 &c; street price, 261A; extra
nearby prints, IS.
Eggs firm and in good demand;
Pennsylvania and other nearby firsts,
free cases, 1Sc., at mark; Pennsyl-
vania and other nearby current re-
ceipts, in returnable cases, II, at
mark; Western firsts, free cases, IS,
at mark
Cheese steady and in fair demand;
New York full creams, choice, 13A
q IS nc; do. fair to good, 1924 %
10. Refined sugars steady. Cot
ton unchanged. Tallow quiet but
steady; city prime, in tierces, GO
61sc.; country prime, in barrels,
3 q; do, dark, in barrels, s; cakes.
6 Is.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-08-01
Don't Overcromd the Hons

Filling poultry house with hens,
and crowding them together, will not
conduce to eggs production. 1t is
not the one with the largest fiocks
who derives the best results, but the
one who manages properly. Food
may be given bountifully and liber-
ally, but it will not make the hens
lay If the other conditions are not
observed. 1t requires more capital
to provide plenty of room for a flock.
but the capital will be better invested
than if buildings are used in which
the hens are too numerous and in
which they do not thrive.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-08-01
Dry Foods.

In winter many aniIpals are COM
PEELED to subsist largely on dry ra-
tions, the sameness Of diet being such
as to some times cause loss of APP
petite. In fact, in many cases of live
stock being "off their feed" as it is
termed, the cause is due to lack of
sufficient food. or insufficient variety
from the regular routine. With the
supply of ensilage this difficulty is not
so largely met, but some farmers will
not build silos, preferring to adhere
closely to old methods. A few acres
of beets, carrots or turnips will not
fail to be of valuable assistance, not
because such articles are highly nu-
tritious (Which is not the case, as
they are composed largely of water),
but rather because they contain a
large per cent. of water, are easily
digested, and provide an agreeable
change of diet-from dry food to
some thing more palatable-thereby
increasing the flow of milk because
they stimulate the appetite, promote
digestion and induce the animals to
eat more. Invention has also less
ened the cost of preparing foods, as
cutters and slicers rapidly reduce
carrots and other roots to a condition
in which they can be fed to the ami
mails without danger of choking
them. The corn fodder supply, IL
well cured, and cut down in the field
at the proper time, will also be more
highly relished if cut into shorts
lengths. Farmers depend upon hay,
but they use too much hay. because
they either waste other valuable
foods. or do not prepare such for tho
stock. If bushel Of carrots can be
reduced almost as fast as they can
be fed into the chopper, as may be
done, the labor Of cutting them is
tery Inexpensive, and the benefit OF
feeding variety win be very notice
IDLE.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-08-01
The Increase in SiIns-

According to figures published by
the Department of Agriculture, there
were in 1898 but ninety-one farmers
in the United States so far as known
who were using the silo as an adjunct
to their agricultural operations Now
they number nearly 100000. While
the first silos were only used by men
engaged in the dairy business on a
large scale, they are to-day priced
just as highly by those who are en-
gagged in stock raising of any kind
In fact, wherever corn will grow and
stock of any kind is raised there is a
place for the silo.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-08-01

Count Yanagisawa, OF the Japan
csc House Of Peers, says the gov
eminent will soon be defeated by
the attitude of Premier SoiOnji on
the difficulties with the United States.
A woman called Chicago May"
Churchill and a man named Sm'..&S
were found guilty IA London of an
attempt to murder Eddie" Guerrin.
A German engineer has invented
system of wireless telegraphy for
use on railroad trains.
The town Of New Edinburgh,
suburb of Ottawa, Ont, was swept
by fire. Loss, 100000.
A revolt against John Redmond's
leadership may cause a split in the
Irish Nationalist party.
The father Of Prof Karl Hau suf-
fered a stroke OF paralysis at Karls-
ruhe.
Three hundred Italian marines
have been landed at Messina, Sicily,
TO guard against further disorders
arising from the arrest of Nunzio
Nosi. ex-minister of public instruc-
ton, on a charge of embezzlement
Frequent crimes by Hungarian
gipsies have resulted in movement
to compel the government to solve
the problem of the disposition of
these $4,000 wanderers.
Because every man in the little
village of Kerisova, Hungary, has
emigrated to America, the women
have elected a young woman to the
Office of mayor.
The Grand Duke of Baden, being
opposed to capital punishment, is ex-
pected to commute the death sem
tence of Professor Hau to imprison-
ment for life.
The passing of the Congo Free
State into the possession of Belgium
will end King Leopold's long strug-
gle to stave off the annexation.
The Russian Imperial Geographic
cal Society has decided to send an
expedition to Tibet under the leader
ship of the famous explorer Kosloff.
The Korean court has been thrown
| into CONSERVATION by the Japanese
proposals for the administration of
the government.
| United States Senator Dillingham;
and William r. Wheeler, of the
American immigration commission,
who are studying the emigrant ques-
ton in Russia, were presented to
the Russian Ministry.
| Although the use Of the guillotine
in France for capital punishment
was suppressed two years ago, a jury
in Paris condemned a man to death
for the atrocious murder OF little
girl.
! The strike of the men in the cot
ton mills in Vladimir Province, Rus
STA, has become dangerous. The
agitators have also fomented strikes
in several large mills in Moscow.
In an inspired article in the offic'al
newspaper OF Venezuela the writer
suggests that the Spanish American
republics meet in Congress and pro-
claim the Drago doctrine
Emperor William has INVITED
Rrigadier General Edgeriy, Major
lWnlcox and other United States army
ofichrs to be his personal guests at
1.-The herman maneuyers neIt Sep
~ -
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-08-01
Jury Disagrees.

San Francisco (SpeciaD. - The
jury in the case of Louis Glass, vice
president of the Pacific Telephone
and Telegraph Company. charged
with bribing Supervisor Boxton. was
Rnab3es to-. reach an agreement and
was discharged. The jury stood sew
en- for conyiction and FIVE for. acquit-
tar son the Hfst ballot, and suisse
quent ballots brought no change.
The jury. was out. many hours.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-08-01
Fertile VS.. InfertiIe Eggs.


The Country Gentleman referring
to the statement of q Montreal wom-
an in poultry journal that she has
been able to distinguish between eggs
that will produce males and those
producing females by locating the air
cells, those having the cell directly
across the large and Matching cooke
rels. while those having the cells
slanting slightly contributed pullets,
thinks scientists might we'll devote
some time to experimenting to de-
wise some easy method of distin-
gushing fertile from infertile eggs
before they are placed in the incuba-
tor or placed under the hen-in fact
before they leave the hands of the
seller If they are boughten. This
would save a lot of disappointment.
The common custom is to test eggs
after four or five days, removing
those not showing indications of fer
tility. These are not in the least in
jured by the few days heating. But
this latter business. while it saves a
part of the hatch, does not do away
with the disappointment at paying
we'll for valuable eggs only to have
too large a percentage prove infer
tile. Incidentally it is worth men
ton that even the experimenting
Montreal dame does not explain how
she arrives at the conclusion that the
straight across air cell produces
the cockerel, since the hatch of four
teen simply showed them equally di-
vided in sex as the air cells indicated
they would be.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-08-01
Soil Formation.

All soils are formed from disinte-
grated rocks and organic matter. OF
the latter, soils contain from one to
more than seventy per cent; it is,
however, only in bogs or beds of peat
that the amount last named is ever
present. The best wheat lands con-
tain only from four to six per cent.
OF organic matter; oats and rye will
grow in soils containing only one or
two. The intelligent farmer should
endeavor to ascertain what is want
ing in the soil and supply it, remem-
bering that he can make no possible
mistake with barnyard manure.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-08-01
CHRONOLOGY OF THE TRIAL.

Frank Steunenberg assassinated
on December 80, 1905.
Harry Orchard arrested Janu-
airy 1, 1906.
Meyer, Haywood and PettibOne
arrested February II, 1906.
Trial began May 8, 1907.
Jury completed June 3, 1907.
Number of veniremen summon
ed, 24S.
Number of witnesses for pros
ecution. SO.
Number OF witnesses for de-
Tense. including dispositions. 81.
Verdict Of not guilty returned
July %, 1907.
Cost OF trial to State Of Idaho.
sos, 900.
Cost of trial to Canyon County.
S25, 900.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-08-01
Raisuirsa Fmcc ATTACKED.

TangierS( BY eable) 1.-THE Sheree-
nan troops attacked villages belong
ing to the Kan5ass Tribe, In whose
territory the bandit Raisuli holds
Caid Sir Harry MacLean prisoner.
The troops burned and lotted the
villages, killing many. of the inhabi-
tants and taking large number of
prisoners. The government forces
were completely victorious. bat asthe
battle Was fought within six hours
journey OF where Cakl MacLean is
believed 20 be located his position
IL Regarded as more Dsfcarions than
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Pnper Kettles For Army.

Preparations are being made to
furnish the soldiers of the German
Army with paper kettles. which are
a Japanese invention. Although the
utensils are made of pliable paper.
they hold water readily. BY pour
ing water into them they can be
hung over the fire without burning
for a length of time sufficient to
boil the water. One kettle can be
used about eight times.