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Mower County transcript., 1907-03-06
When VISITING the Pope.

People who are received by the pope
must appear IN full evening dress, AZ i
though the hour Is usual 4 & o'clock {
ia the morning The outer ofii'ce
looks like that Of a good New York 'rlIs
lawyer. a pleasant young cretary in IA
secular garb meets the yisit tors a Lis
very simple, not In the least awesinll-s lll;s
sspirins Visitors must kneel and kiss leg
the pope''s hand
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!. Austin steam Laundry. .

Austin steam Laundry. 25.$:;
Patronize homo institutions AND
nave your laundry work done at the
Austin Steam Laundry in the highest
style of the art. No chemicals used.
Laundry delivered free of charge
iiveus trial. .., ....s, I. .o.
T. NJ BuRNHAM. Proprietor.
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Duluth Wheat and Flax.

Duluth, March 4.-Wheat-To arrive
md On track-No. l hard, 79Kc; No.
1. Northern, 7Sll4c; No. 2 Northern.
761hc; May, 7S14c; July, 79hc; Sept
77Ic Flax-To arrive and on track
s1.2OM: May, s1.22; July, s1.22M;
Oct. S1.1S15 .'-
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Ct, Paul Union Stock Yards.

St. Paul, March t.-Cattle-Gcod to
choice steers, S550@6.z5; common to
good, $4.00@5.00; good to choice COWS
and heifcrs, $3.50@4.75; veals. s450@
5!75. Hogs-2G.e Sheep-Wet.l-
ers, st.75@5.25 good to prime lambs,
S65 5NGI7 20
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Eczema. letter, Salt Rheum, Itch,
Ring Wo'm, Herpes, Barbers'
~ .- Itch.

All of these diseases are attended by
intense itching. which is almost in
stantly relieved by applying Chamber
lain's Salve, and by its continued use a
permanent cure may be effected: It
has, in fact, cured many cases that has
resisted other treatment. Price 25c
per box For sale by all druggists.
Mower County transcript., 1907-03-06
Chicago Union Stock Yards.

Chicago, March, Cattle-Beeves,
$4.25@6.90; cows and ,heifers, S1.65M
5.25; stockers and feeders, s2.75@
4 so: Texans, $4.00@4,75; Westerns,
$6.OO@7.25. Hogs--Mixed and butch
ers,. $6:S0@700; good heavy, $4,000
4 100. rough heavy, s6.S0@69O; light,
s6.8O@6.95; pigs, $6.15@6.75. Sheep,
s3.75@5.65;. lambs. ss475@750. Nd. +. +.
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MARKET QUOTATIONS.
MINNEAPOLIS Wheat.

minneapolis, March 4.-Wheat-
May, TIC; July, *7sM @7ss4c: Sept,
765sc.' On tracll-No. ! hard, 7a'E O.
1890. No. l Northern, 7S3s M7SMc;
No. Northern, 7Gk @7SMc; 70. 8
Mort, ,ern, 74@75c. t. -.
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games we're part of the entertainment.
A fine supper was served.

q HHe SuppeT was StTVFu.
& 26 tickets for Albert Lea were sold
here Saturday, most Of them to dele
gates to the county school directors
meeting. go 49,. @ts
Ed Lugg went to St. Paul Tuesday
to take a postal clerk examination.
Mower County transcript., 1907-03-06
Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera ant
Diarrhoea Remedy. 81

This remedy has been in use for over
thirty years and has proved itself to be
the most successful remedy yet disc0v
cred for bowel complaints. 1t never
fails. Sold by all druggists. &.
The Tupelo journal., 1907-06-14
Crab Hay.

OF all the plaques sent on the South,
ern States undoubtedly crab grass'
holds the first place. Negro slavery,
the Civil War and yellow fever all put
together does not equal the curse of
Ii. Ii adds two cents per pound to the
cost of the cotton crop and deducts
% per cent fro mthe total yield of cot
ton. 1t robs the land of plant food as
no other crop does. 1t is actual poison
TO some other crops which may con-
tend with it for a living from the land,
such as alfalfa. 1t is ever present,
ever ready, always aggressive, never
yielding without a hard struggle. 1t
is ten times harder to destroy than
Bermuda grass, and does a thousand
Systematically and persistently. The
national government should be in
duced t organize a fight for its exter-
minatiOn.
While fighting this pest we should
use it to our advantage when it is pos
sible to do so. Sometimes, in spite of
efforts to keep it down, it comes ON
and makes a good yield of hay. If cut
in time and properly cured the hay Is
of excellent quality. But if allowed to
stand too long it not only ripens seed
to infest the land again, but the hay
is of little value.
Crab grass should be moved just as
the first blooms appear. IT a lew days
longer is given there will be enough
seed ripen and drop to keep the land
seeded and the quality of the hay will
not be so good. Nearly all crab-grass
hay is made from overripe grass and
is of inferior quality.
Curing crab-grass hay requires close
attention. 1t should be a bright green
color and possess a sweet, aromatic
odor. B~leached, sunburned hay is
worthless. Crab grass needs close at
tention in curing. Sometimes when
the cutting is light and the sun shines
hot the rake should follow immedi-
ately after the mower, and curing
should be done in the windrow. The
windrow will probably need turning a
time or two. The thing to do is to
cure it in the shade, but cure it.
Don't go to the other extreme and put
good enough to eat.-W. l.. w.
The Tupelo journal., 1907-06-14
Memento for President Diaz.

With a simple but impressive cere-
mony President Diaz was presented
with the military painting p%ortraying
the action of his command in the bat
tie of Puebla against the French
forces in the war of the invasion.
The painting, which was the work Of
the artist Francisco de P. Mendoza, a
professor in the national school of fine
arts and of the military college, was
executed at the request of the gov
ernors of II Mexican states, and was
presented as a personal gift to the
chief magistrate. The painting repre-
sents Gen. Diaz in action in the glo-
rious battle which o fame for the
Mexican forces, and at the moment
when the forces under the direct
command of Gen. Diaz saved the day.
Mexican Herald.
The Tupelo journal., 1907-06-14
Corporations Gust Miners.

The Klondike proper-that is, that
portion of the Yukon territory in the
vicinity of Dawson-as far as the in
dividual miner is concerned, Is on a
rapid decline owing to the immense
area of ground being acquired by
dredging companies. One company
alone has purchased nearly all the
placer ground on the three principal
creeks, namely: Bonanza, Eldorado
and Hunker, and has bonded consid-
erably more on Dominion and other
creeks for various reasons. Where
formerly hundreds of miners were
working for wages or working their
own ground, thus creating a demand
for provisions, clothing, machinery,
hardware, ETC., and the transportation
from Dawson to the different mining
operations, now dredges are either OPP
Grating or in course of construction
Consular Reports.
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blame stuff so long that their natures
were completely changed. It's more
than a month ago since | first found 1t
out, but you can't undo in that time
what it takes four months to accom-
plish. I've almost given up hope of
eve getting things back where they
was last fall with old Dobbin and my
wife's chickens.
Yesterday | started in to do some
blowing, but had to quit, because
Dobbin stopped to eat every angle
worm he could scratch out. l guess
I'll have to let Johnnie finish the job
with the hens
We'll there amt any angleworms
in the gravel of the road out there in
front of the store" i~nterjected the pro-
prietor of the place, land as | don't
care to have a well dug you'd better
move on"
AS Dobbin and his master passed
out of sight around a bend in the road
those on the store stoop heard the
horse give another very close imita.
ton of a ROSTERS crow. A neighbor
of Mr.. Brush who came into town in
the evening said it took the old man
four hours to drive the four miles to
his home. Dobbin wanted to join
every flock of chickens he saw on the
road.
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Agricultural Epitomes.

The sheep-killing dog should be
placed on the same footing as one
afflicted with hydrophobia. Nobody
asks any questions regarding what
should be done with a rabid animal,
yet a sheep thief does ten times more
damage than a mad dog.
1t is claimed that great as is our
annual wheat crop, it does not exceed
the production of poultry and eggs.
This is due to the fact that a large
proportion of poultry is kept in the
suburbs of cities, towns and villages.
Grapes are a winter-keeping fruit
and are very valuable for that pur-
pose. What greater luxury or more
wholesome fruit than fresh grapes on
the table all winter and no one so poor
who may not enjoy plenty of his own
growing. The value of grapes for win.
ter use is not fully appreciated.
Corn on the cob and refuse-which
consists almost entirely of grains re-
duced to charcoal-and still retaining
their perfect shape-placed before the
fowls is greedily eaten by them with
a marked improvement in their health,
as shown by the brighter color of
their combs and their ooner produ-
cling a greater average of eggs TO the
flock than before.
As soon as possible in spring all
trees planted within a year should be
Strengthened where loosened by frost.
I~nattention to this point has made all
Of our old orchards lean away from
the prevailing winds. The evil is
worse as the country grows older and
winds have a free sweep.
1t is all right to raise seeds for
home use, but they are seldom as good
as those raised by a reliable seeds
Send for a catalogue, look it
over carefully, make judicious selec-
lions and have the seeds ready when
the planting season comes. Most peo-
pie plant garden seeds too early, the
plants are chilled by the cold of early
spring, turn yellow, are stunted and
wholly GOV from the effects
of the setback. 1t is better to wait
until the ground Is warm and in a
good condition to be worked. Then
the seeds will quickly terminate,
come up and mature far more and bet
ter fruit than those that have been
planted out of season.
The fruit grower who makes apples,
peaches, pears and plums his specially
may also add poultry to his business,
as the birds can occupy the same
ground with the trees. The orchard
provides shade for poultry in summer,
while the fowls gre-.tly assist In the
destruction of many insects that in
fest the orchard.
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POINTS OF A GOOD HORSE.
Some Good Suggestions on Judging
Horseflesh.

Here are some good suggestions
points Of a good reliable horse:
Ii a horse is short ribbed he is light
in his middle and is nearly always a
poor feeder. He has not the stomach
to contain s~ucculent food to serve him
from one meal to another.
A light centered horse seldom
weighs we'll, and weight in a draft
horse, if it ONE from bone, sinew
and muscle, goes q long way to deter.
mine his commercial value.
A stallion whose feet are contract
ed and brittle and whose hooks are
puffy and leshy looking should be
avoided, as such hooks are generally
associated with a ~coarseness through
out his whole conformation and a gen
eral lack of quality.
When a horse is well coupled to-
gether on top and has a short back,
he must have the length below from
the point Of the shoulder to the back
of the thigh. When so built he will
stand the strain of drawing heavy
loads much better than if he has a
long, loose back.
The front feet and hooks are the
parts of either a draft or a driving
horse that come directly in contact
with the hard work. and unless they
are sound and good a horses useful
ness will be very much impaired and
his commercial value much lessened.
Before using a stallion get the
groom to lead him away from you.
Stand square behind him n see that
he picks up his feet and places them
on the ground properly, travelling in
both trot and walk clear and clean,
not striking the ground first with the
toe and then bringing down the heel.
The feet should be large and waxy
in appearance. The sole of the hoof
should be c~oncave, the frog spongy,
plump and elastic, because it acts as
a buffer to take the conclusion from
acting too severely on the foot, pas
tern and fetlock. See that both sire
and dam have sound feet, free from
fairness, brittleness and are net con.
tracted. There should be no gunmi
ness about the hooks of the draft
horse, as it indicates co~arseness. They
should be large, fiat and firm, and
should be wide, especially from d side
view.
The Tupelo journal., 1907-06-14
Cheapens and improves Coal.

Consul General w. r. Holloway, of
Halifax, says that she Canadian COM
mercial agent at Manchester, England,
reports an invention at that place for
depriving soft coal of its most objec-
tionable feature by a~bstracting the
oils said to produce smoke, and call
ing the resulting article "coalite,"
which is something like coke in ap-
p~earance and which can be furnished
at one-third the present cost of coal.
Five acres of land near Manchester
have been purchased, and large works
will be erected for its production
United States Consul Reports.
The Tupelo journal., 1907-06-14
WON FuRLoUeH FOR JEEMs.
Artiess Appeal That Touched the
Heart of jefferson Davis.

Humor lightens everything, even
grim war. Jefferson Davis, with all
the weight of a losing cause on his
shoulders, could yet spare time to APP
p~reciate and respond to an artless APP
peal. The incident Is related by Capt.
Sutherland. Among the numerous pa
pers received by the confederate pres
ident, the following turned up one
day:
Dear Mr.. President want you to
let Jeems c.. of Co. onth, 5th South
Carolina Regiment, come home and
get married. Jeems is willin', but
Jeems Capt'in he amt willin'. Now
when we all are willin' 'cept Jeems
Capt'in, l think you might let up and
let Jeems come. I'll make him go
straight back when he's done got mar
ried and fight hard as ever.
Your affectionate friend" and SO
forth.
Mrs. Davis, telling the story, adds
that Mr.. Davis wrote his directions in
regard to the matter on the back Of
the letter. They were:
Let Jeems go."-Youth's Compan-
ion,
The Tupelo journal., 1907-06-14
FARMING IN
II SOUTH
HAY AS A MONEY CROP.
One to One and a Half Tons Can Be
Raised Per Acre.

| start out by saying I can make
can on cotton; that is, counting ex-
penses.
In the summer of 1905 | turned
eight acres of wheat stubble that only
made twenty-eight bushels of wheat
with two hundred pounds of guano per
acre. Then drilled in one bushel Of
specified peas and one hundred pounds
of guano per acre with a Hoosier grain
drill; then run over the ground with
a drag and made it perfectly smooth,
That year l cut and sold in bulk
S109.S0 worth of hay off of the eight
acres. Then followed it in wheat
again; made ninety bushels; put in
peas as before and made SITS worth
on the same ground.
| am very careful to kill all the
grass and weeds where sowing my
peas, so that the grass and peas will
not come up together and be ready to
cut at the same time.
l let at least three-fourths of the
pods gets ripe before cutting. Do not
cut more at one time than you can
care for. | cut after the dew is off
rake before night; leave in wlndrows
till the next evening; her haul to the
barn or stack. | haul my hay to mar
ket from the field, for which | get $40
per ton.
I would advise our farmers to plant
less corn and cotton, prepare it bet
ter and make more. Sow your thin
land in peas Land hat Will not
make more than five or six hundred
pounds seed cotton with two hundred
pounds of guano per acre will make
from one to one and a half tons of
peavine hay per acre.
One man with a team can turn,
drill, cut and house one acre il two
days with only a boy to help him
load.
| commenced sowing about May 1
and continued until July 10; SOW four
or five acres every time it rains: don't
lose any time out of your crop, and
your hay is not all ready at the same
time. I cut and fill my barn, then sell
the rest. BY doing sc | nave llt STOCK
and a nice bank account before l
commence to sell cotton.
Sow sorghum or German ml!let on
rich or bottom land; peas will grow
too large a stalk; 1t will be too hard
and woody and stock won't eat it.
Peas in the South are as clover and
timothy in the North and West.
So let our farmers be about their
business. Don't sit around the coun-
try stores and white on goods boxes.
When it is too wet to work il your
crop. SOW peas, and the more peas the
better for your land. stock, wife and
children. Don't fail to sow, because
peas are high-when they are high is
the time to have some to sell.-S. F.
Hancock.
The Tupelo journal., 1907-06-14
Our Queer Sense of Humor.

Americans have a strange sense OF
humor, don't you know" began the
E~nglishman. The othan day, for ex
ample, | went into a restaurant with
a friend and he awsked for sinkahs. ]
was surprised to e them bring him
three biscuit of some sort or othah,
Again at anothah time l dined with
him at a table d'hote cafe. He said
to the waiter, Bring us a couple OF
bottles of pink ink What the waiter
brought him, don't you know, was two
bottles of red wine.
Really, it is very strange, the
American sense of humor. You catch
onto my meaning?"-N. Y. Press.
The Tupelo journal., 1907-06-14
MASKED MAN PARADES
FAMILY IN NIGHTIES
BURGLAR COMPELS FATHER TO
OPEN SAFE WHILE WIFE AND
DAUGHTER LOOK ON.

Ciearfield, Pa.-Samuel Wallwort,
& mine superintendent at Eriton, was
compelled to get out of bed at 8
O'Clock in the morning and accompany
a burglar to the library where the fam
lily was lined up to watch him open
the safe for the purpose of handing it's
eontents i've to the robber.
The burglar, VINO was a negro with
his face covered with a mask, played
a lone hand, but pretended all the
time he had a number of accomplices
Gu the outside. He first ransacked the
entire first floor. Not finding any
money he proceeded TO Mr.. Wallwort's
sleeping apartment and, shaking him
roughly, ordered him to get up in a
hurry and go downstairs and open the
safe.
With an ugly hooking revolver cover
ing him, the superintendent immedi-
ztely obeyed.
The family of six was then paradcd
BHt in their night gowns and the pro-
9ession silently moved downstairs to-
the library, where, with the family AZ
spectators and the armed burglar as
master of the situation Mr.. Wallwort
proceeded to work the combination
and open the safe.
The Tupelo journal., 1907-06-14
HIRED MAN FED OLD DOBBIN
CHICKEN FOOD, CHANGING
ANIMALS HABITS.
GAVE POULTRY WRONG STUFF
Equine Tries to Go to Roost, While
Egg Layers Become Accustomed
to Being Harnessed and
May Do Flowing.

Caldwell, N. J.-Pinoak Bush, a
truck farmer living near this village,
drove into town the other day and to
a group of men gathered in the local
hardware store told a story of a mix
IT'D gu his farm which if true is rather
unusual. The tale was ELECTED by the
ACTIONS of a sorrel horse that, attached
to a light farm wagon, stood hitched
"A front of the place of business.
The animal was paving up tie
ground, not with bold swinging strokes
of the front hoofs, as horses usually
DO. but with a peculiar scratching mo-
tEon of all four feet that resembled the
Efforts of a Shanghai rooster trying to
secure the early worm. Every few
minutes he would give vent to a pc
~ugiar kind of Whitney, which, if not
an exact imitation of a ROSTERS crow,
was about the nearest thing to it that
ever a horse uttered.
THAT darn fool of a horse has an
idea he's a rooster, and it's all because
1 trusted a green Swede to take care
af my stock last winter was Mr..
BuSh'S comment on the actions of he
Eusdruped.
Last fall my wife heard of some
new tangled chicken food, guaranteed
tn make hens lay in the coolest
weather. Nothing else would do but
J had to get her some. Old Dobbin
WAS kind of run down. I'd worked
aim nearly 20 years, and so | got him
some condition powders at the same
time that l got the patent chicken
food for my wife.
I've got a green Swede working for
Rue and | told him to mix a little of
the chicken food with the hens food
and to throw a handful of the condi-
4ion powders into Dobbin's Manager,
along with his oats, every time he fed
Airu. I thought nothing more about
she matter for more than a month and
Sban OTe-that's the Swede's name
said that he was all out of both the
fOod and powder.
"My wife, too, was complaining. She
kaid there was something strange up,
for she hadn't got an egg since | first
oa"N5hh IN NV" piOduNSl VI 10 IL III
home. | noticed that Dobbin's appear
ance hadn't improved either; if any
thing. he looked worse than ever, his
hair stood out on his back like so many
feathers.
81 asked Ole if he had done as | told
him. he assured me he had. so l de-
dermined to make another trial. Next
time | got twice as much chicken
food n condition powders as l had
at first, and told Ole to double the
dose. If there was any virtue in the
stGn was going to find it out.
AT Easter we had to buy eggs in
stead of selling them, and my wife
was madden than any settin' hen you
ever saw. I'd been havin' such a
good time all winter loafin' around and
lestin' the Swede work that hadn't
Roticed things much, but havin' to buy
Egg with a hundred hens on the
place set me to thinking.
Il didn't say anything, but began to
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a Place for Business

Pat, a miner, after struggling for
years in a far off western mining dis.
trict, finally giving up in despair, was
about to turn his face eastward, when
suddenly he struck it rich. Soon after.
ward he was seen strutting along.
dressed in fine clothes.
One day an old friend stopped him,
saying, and how are you, Pat? I'd
like to talk to you"
Pat stretched himself proudly. IF
you want to talk to me I'll see you at
me Office. l hev an Office now, and me
hours is from a. m. in the mornin' to
p. m. in the afternoon"
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HORSE SCRATCHES
r. LIKE HEN.

take observations in a quiet sort Of
way. When | went out in the yard
Johnnie-that's my boy-had two hens
hitched to a little cart and was drivin'
'em around just as if they were used
to it all their lives. Johnnie said he
could drive any of the hens the same
way.
Whats more, pa he says the
chickens don't roost on their perches
any more. When night comes they
just lay down in the straw in any old
place
Sure enough, l found what Johnnie
told me was true, and when I went
into the stable | saw Dobbin had
broken the manger down trying to
roost on the rail.
We'll, | asked Ole to show me what
he had been feedin' them critters all
winter; it was exactly as l had begun
to suspicion. The darn Swede couldn't
read English and he'd been giving the
hens condition powders and Dobbin
patent chicken food.
The result was what anyone might
expect-they'd been feedin' on the
The Tupelo journal., 1907-06-14
MOUSE CAUSES BIG SCARE.
Rodent in Woman's Hat Starts Excit
ing Hunt in Central Park.

New Y~ork.-There was a wild ami
mai hunt in Central Park the other
day. during which the fugitive baffled
the efforts of a menagerie-keeper, a
policeman and a park laborer to cap
lure him and caused a panic among
women visitors.
Joseph Cunningham, a duckkeeper,
saw Policeman McKue running after
3 woman on the walk bordering the
lake.
When ~overtaken, sobbing and hys-
ierical, the woman explained that she
felt an animal crawling about inside
her hat. The headgear was SO tightly
SAmmed on her head that the men had
difficulty in removing it. When they
did so a mouse jumped from under
meath the lining almost into their
faces.
Cunningham started after the
mouse, which darted among the park
visitors. Women scattered and leap
I'd on benches.
Paddy" Marian, formerly keeper
The Tupelo journal., 1907-06-14
ColIie's Trick Saves Family.

Oxford, PA trick taught a pet
collie by the children saved the fami.
ly of William Beattie, a prosperous
farmer of this section, from death by
fire. The dog found the house in
flames at midnight and not being able
to awaken the household by barking
grasped the rope to the dinner bell, as
he had been taught to do when sum
moning the hands from the fields, and
in an instant aroused the entire neigh.
borhood. The members of the family
barely escaped with their lives.
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There was only $3.50 in the cash
box, which amount was spurned by
the robber. After a thorough search
of the house had been made for money
the accommodating robber explained
that he was not a jewelry thief and
that he would o modest any of the
valuables of the house.
Finding no money he compelled the
family to retire to the upper floor and
Mr.. Wallworth to accompany him out
into the yard. Here he told the super
.intendent to go backward into the
house without raising any alarm, say
ing that disobedience would result in
instant death. The burglar then made
his a