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thing I) la, and ls of d, , lnxious, lmgs’ t, lory of Iowa Soldiers Who gs, th , lndlng r e Returned Home from has do . :ure yn ,, h‘Ckamauga Park. 53 '1 BLAME on THE COMMANDEBS. ‘4. lclne. Heads r ‘3 to lie Mantel-ed Out-The venty m “1001: League at Work—600d whens Pro-peer in the state—Home y-fipst, Alaska \vlth Wealth—The re ers t. , r some . cal Survey. 'onkers SDeclal Correspondence] fit: Si" lnes, Ia.,AUg~ 29.-The return zervs L. ldiers oi the Fifty-second regi~ -Wheac‘om Chickamauga to their Seed rr Hampton. 13., and the con- A-SA 5 held with them, bring to __; a “true inwardness," as be- t Sept. f the outrageous state of af- », Cinci t is Sild to have existed for C-Rm : months in that “pest hole." , ‘any a brave Iowa boy received {3 you warrant as truly as though I can’ he gun 0f a Spaniard. It seems i it IS y four miles from where the _ 011d was in camp springs of n, G_ ~l81‘ existed that would supply innati, 16 City of Chicago with drink- ‘1‘81’1‘13 91‘. as one of the boys put it. ___'__ OWners of the springs saw a m, .to make some money, and so uini * a cent a barrel, and here is Illalls 3 nge part of it: Hundreds’ of find horses were in camp (10’ her jou mpg. but the officers in charge and by elther give an order for Uncle buy it or allow the soldiers to themselves. Profes g r "L Surface drainage of the camp )‘ee’spf 40.000 men went into the river urt.—— L l e Pumping works. This into a L t: 38 large as the Iowa at Mar— 'h C :e 75c. le blame on the jug gen; 1d. . ‘1 atthw‘om' i 19!: was n .figmoret‘o them machine; This colors. to {11°59 e at Chickamaugafi L‘ 1L llold a *Man Meeting:- y evenlngyGeorge L more, addressed t ‘ 0’1 What‘h . ‘ ‘ . Chickamauzhnd seen of camp Bing nnda doctor cut to the camp men from Algona k (in, their a’rrival i' members of thex'lccm- ad. remr’md home, and all 3“”) fl” s‘Dmlcermthat nothing “mum be con Inningtho‘ all satisfied with Iguxses here. The sick are or, and the. conditions of ‘th m1 tropmaxe‘now becom~ , agtvit is not necessary for their , Th return to p 1 amino. e two li ht legs will, also mustered outgof ce at once, instructions to. (it having been received some , 0y asp}. Olmstead. The work sp uls, which are bein ML fidby‘the local Red Crocsg pso‘ ’ the Iowa sanitaryriodmmis- Ilily! gompaiétogypnd‘ both me I; are “5' or occu lineal“; men arrive. pancy 7e the hos tsl my “game men sick inpithe 0 this“. h maugfi. will convey F Omes. and they mu not 3gb, t0 the Was at first “My be 1 i"1“‘3Mlcnu Sta‘te camp hereat expected, so there 683 need of hospital than was antici- _‘at n I “‘3 Saloon question. “his. who, in the name 'Saloon league is con- Wlde agitation of the I has been spending ‘ roost an; arshall county. He ion of the-county $63,818 for the firs 1894.95v‘s’lnulct saloon during hibitlon 18 8' While in the ye?” s mot 83-89~00,‘the cost Was ,1 ,th-isv *1 6“ference of $35,217.52 *‘fjfhg‘etagu or $11,739.17 for ‘ “Ill receives from I 0'35 $3300 Gael); year. making ‘39 of 53-439.“ that the More .. Saloons cost the'counly. In . were 398 arresls, while in re 154. Under the new mayors of citie are al- Gt a fee from the coun- ‘3 justices of the peace, 9d that this change is r alble for the increase l“ .‘0? Cropl. hwestern part of ‘0 be in unusual- ’89ntleman who 3 a trip through “moth” wheat. outs. This 5' and clover are “*1”: corn crop t We“ grown in th t be state and :1 “Manage ('3?th yield at The gentleman I observed with err. are devoting Ia artery“: to this n are lively again for ' P3 in the 1355“ file are reporté , condition. ; "3‘ return ed h- Be(“ion say Potatoes, “3‘ fine. l l l. Pllll.l , . Instead, the pri- ' dlers were compelled to use-the at”. and the whole of the sew- ._i§ng . nines meeting new people are coming in searching for farms. Rentals for corn land are $2.50 per acre and for small grain, one- third of the crop. The gentleman say! if he had $100,000 he would be only too glad to invest it in Iowa land at pres- ent prices, which are in theneighbor- hood of $30 per acre. He says he found a. number of men from adjoining states looking around; and he thinks the large fields of northwestern Iowa will soon be split up into smaller ones and that more diversified and intensive farming will be the rule there here— after. The large crops of the present year, he says, are having a material effect upon public sentiment, and land prices bid fair to be higher in the near future. Brings Home a Big Roll. A little interest was awakened in the exploded Klondike boom last week by the return of Hamilton Hulse, an old resident ,of Boone, with a roll of $50,- 000. He left for the gold region in May, 1897, going by way of Behring sea to St. Michaels and up the Yukon river. He is thc brother-in—law Of Thomas Tlppel, one of the bonanza kings of the Klondike. and of course. had advantages that were 110t POS' sessed by those who went there with- out funds. His sister, Mrs. Tippel, was the first. woman who went over the pass to Dawson City.’ Mr. Hulse says that more money is being taken into the gold fields than is being brought out, but that a good claim is occa- sionally struck. Laborers, he says, are paid $1.50 an hour, and beefsteak and salmon sell at the same price a. pound. Some of the nuggets which Mr. Hulse brought home were exhibited in a local jewelry store and attracted present time. and Mr. Hulse’s substan- tial gifts will be of’great assistance to them. Th e Geological Survey. The annual report of the Iowa geo- logical survey has just been issued. It makes a book of 427 pages, copiously illustrated and accompanied by valu- able maps and drawings in explanation of the text. Among the mest interest- ing tables it contains is the one show- , lnetotal value of the mineral pro- duction‘of the state in 1897, which was $1,447,800.42, distributed as follows: Coal .. ......................... . $5,098,103 84 Clay . 1,591,866 00 Stone. ‘ . 587.144 58 Gypsum 195.000 00 ' i 5.616 00 ’ ...... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 25000 The report includes reports of the I different parts of the state, the official ‘ antral officers and papers on L f Dallas, Delaware, and Plymouth . sshown ill; have been remarkably good during the year while the brick trade is pro- nounced in the best condition it has been since 1893. The outlook for the paving brick indusfiry is especially en- couragiug."“‘rh’é‘f'fifles‘3fofn8§jpmoera, 3‘, Cl :1. 5 000 paving brick, a large portion being d, stock and very little manufactur- 3 having been done. In 1897 the some \ Several plants report that they could have sold three times the amount they have ca‘ The demand has ed ,3 ds. Fancy have" bevel ad a large te and f some time Despitetheyfact that the best of goods are ofiered, the long hauls to foreign markets and the abience otlarge local make it impossible at present. evclopistrade sufficient to make the operation of such plants remunera— ve. The report shows 284 plants to be in operation, whose totaljproduct has a value of nearly $1.l50,000. The quar- business, amounting to over $587,000. Extensive chalk and clay beds have been found near Le Mars. A number of other diSCOVerles of lesSer import- ance hhve been made during the year of which detailed reports will be made by the department. later on. Rural Mall Delivery. Mr. Ii. H. Murphey, the representa- tive of the government. who has been establishing the routes for free rural mail delivery in Hamilton county, has completed his work. The'first delivery will be made September 1, An area of 125 square miles will be covered by five carriers, all of whom have furnished ~bonds and been appointed to their routes. These five carriers will serve a population of 1.800._people. There are two points which it is desired to im- press upon those to be benefited by this system. and they are of the great- est importance. The first is that peo- ple living along the routes’shcllput up axes for the reception of mail matter, it being desired that the boxes shall be 24- inch‘es in length by six in ches square, with the end toward the road and Placad high enough to clear the front wheels of a buggy. The second point is that a system of signals will be estab- lished, to be understoodby the car- riers and the people, by means of which it will be possible to communicate whether the carrier deposits mail or whether residents desire to deliver mail to the carrier. The carriers will ‘ be given two (In a to go over their foutes and instr ct those whom they ' will serve and to become acquainted with their work. To Prevent Hog Cholera. Dr. W. B. Niles, of the national bu- reau of animal industry, has located in Marshall county? where he will re- main for some months, making a thorough test of the serum treatment for the prevention and cure of hog cholera. His first work will be to look over the county in order to ascertain where hog cholera may exist, and in this work he will seek the cooperation of all the farmers in the county. He will make his head curlers in Mar shalltown, where b will receive re- ports from anyone knowing of the ex‘ istence of hog cholera within the coun- ty. The work will beslong much the some lines as were followed in last year‘s experiments in Page county, which the department of agriculture and that of animal industry considered quite successful. F. W. BICKNELL A corncrlb fell in near Winterset, crushing to death William Delano, I farmer. large crowds. Mr. IIulse is of a gener- cus turn of mind and he has arranged for the purchase of three Iowa farms before returning to the gold region next. month. These farms use to be given to friends Who helped him when in need. The friend are said to, be in straightened circumstances at the rbarns unrooi‘ed and buildings over- dei’artmem’s Work 0" investigatl” l“ : the stock ranch of F. w. Knightwhere l or éjxrétnple';_"ln 1896 marketediregocog l » plant turned but andsold 36,300,000 for l ‘ the handsome sumzof $262,984. back have been a drug' on the market. l ries of the state have nlsd‘done a good ‘ IOWA STATE NEWS. A 'l‘errlllc Storm. A terrific rain and hailstorm passed over Boone, doing about $10,000 dam- age to the crops. All corn and wheat in that section is ruined. Charles Bas— sett, living about ten miles northeast of town, was killed by lightning, as was also his team. There was a cloud- burst at Madrid, and Charles Otis and Fred Rogers, who were camping at the Des Moincs river, were injured by the tents falling on them. One curious feature of the storm was the killing of thousands of sparrows. The dam- age northeast of Boone was worse than in the city. Wilson’s dry goods store, the largest in town, was flooded. and goods damaged to the extent of $2,000. Live Stock and Crops Sufl’er. A Windstorm which passed over In- dependence was almost a cyclone in its fury in the northern part of Buch- anan county. Between Fairbauk and Littleton farm buildings were de— stroycd, !wires are down. The house and barn of Horace George and Frank Say were wrecked, while Fred Clow, Frank Say, l barns and outbuildings. The storm came from the northwest and north- east, leveling everything where it cen- tered. A large number of cattle and live stock was killed, but no lives were known to be lost. The damage to crops was large. Killed by n Cyclone.‘ A destructive storm swept through Dickinson county, devastating every- thing in its path. The storm Came from the northwest and did the most damage between Spirit Lake. and Su- perior. The house of Norman Eggle- stein was blown down and he and his wife were killed. Another family liv— ing between Superior and Spirit Lake were reported killed, but it is impossi- ble to get the names. Several churchES were demolished and the house of A. L. Harris, near Superior, wrecked, but. no one was killed or injured. A Merchant‘s Crime. Some time (luring {the night William M. Newcll, a clothing merchant in Rus- sell, killed himself. his wife and a little daughter ten years Old. The deed was committed with a revolver. Another child. a son 20 years old, was away from home attending the Omaha ex- position, Financial troubles were the cause. Damage from a Storm. At Milford nearly all the window glass in town was broken by a tornado, turned. The most damage was done at .but not fatally wounded. l leged at the time that McKissick had while corn lies flat and all3 George Harrison and Jess Agnew lost l MOUNT VERNON HA OLD CASE REVIVED. lhootlng Mystery of "all a. Century Ago In Brought Into Court in Hamburg. An almost tragic sensation of half a century ago has been suddenly re— vived in Hamburg by. the arrival of T. V. Julicn, city attorney of Reno. New, us defendant’s attorney in a case in~ volving $25,000 and the good name of one of the best—known men in Ham. burg. Some 50 years ago Jacob McKissick, afterward builder and owner of McKis- nick’s opera house and other establish- ments at Reno and thereabouts, lived in Hamburg. He became entangled in a quarrel with a man named John Allen, since deceased, who at that time occupied a room with a man named I‘orby. One night while sleeping with Allen Forby was shot and seriously It was al- i done the shooting, and that he had in- tended’the bullet for his enemy. Allen. McKissick was arrested and tried for the crime, but was acquitted. Subsequently McKlsslck went west and eventually located at Reno. Iiis business enterprises proved quite suc- cessful, and now, 86 years of age and quite decrepit, he is the pessessor of 1‘lunds in Longr Valley,buildings in Reno, and property in Hamburg and at other' llowa points, representing in the ag- gregate probably $50,000. About a year ago McKissick made the journey back to Iowa from Ilene, and while in Hamburg, ltis alleged, ad- mitted that the supposition of half a ; centuryagothat hedecided to kill Allen ,and shot the wrong man was a fact. lMcKissick says he made no such state- ment. Forby heard of the alleged ac- knowledgement and has brought suit ' against McKissick for $25,000 damages land attached property near Hamburg l to cover the amount. l GETS ANOTHER TERM. Superintendent of the School to! tho Den! “enunciated for Another Four Years. Superintendent Henry W. Ilothert,. cf the Iowa school for the deaf, has been notified of his reappointment for a term of four years from the first of next September. The appointment comes with peculiar gratification, as it is a very practical and substantial manner of expressing the feeling of the board of control in regard to the investigation just concluded in Coun- cil Bluffs. It seems that the two mem— bers who conducted the cxaminu— ‘ did not deem it necessaryto transcribe f the testimony as taken by the stcnog- , rapher for submission ti) the third , i the windmill was blown down, buggy !shed wrecked, lnrgc cattle and hay barn unroofed and some stock killed. l .— Made New Records. . .3; Ailgood reduced in Sioux City , t idi‘famotour state bicycle record, paced, to 1:59 145 and established rec- ords of 0:34 3-5 and 1:21-for one—third mile and two—thirds mile heats, paced. He is a 20-year’old rider of only two yearé.’ experience. 1 ,_ ___ r ,,New| ln Brlel. The state convention of the Iowa State Bill Posters’ association will be held in Marshalltown September 7. At the annual meeting in Oskaloosa of the Iowa division of the United Mine Workers of America officers for the ‘ ensuing year were chosen as follows: John F. Ream, Beacon, president; John l P. Reece, IIiteman, vice president; 3 John Brennan. Keb, secretary and treasurer. Dennis Kief, a Wealthy and promi- nent farmer, committed suicide by ( taking strychnine, at his home in Ox- , ford township, near Iowa City. ’ Prof. John Craig, late of Cornell luniversity, Ithaca,‘N. Y., has been elected to the chair of horiticulture and forestry in the agricultural col- lege at Ames to succeed I’rof. Budd, rev l signed. ,. Mrs, Mary A. Creel. one of Keokuk’s 1 old settlers is dead. She was the widow of Robert P. Creel who was at onetime mayor of Keokuk and a member of the 1 Iowa legislature. E A Windstorm, accompanied by heavy ‘raln and hail, did a "list amount of damage in Center Point. Hayes‘ livery l barn. Iloxie’s restaurant, Stewart’s ‘livery barn and a saloon were, burned I at Waterloo. The body of Hugh McGann, aged 20, 1 one of the member-sot company H. ; Fiftyosecond Iowa, who died at Camp l Chickamaugfl. was brought to Mason ‘ City for interment. Robert T. Lincoln is a grandfather, his daughter, Mrs. Jessie Lincoln Rock with, of Mount Pleasant, having given birth to a nine-pound girl baby. The annual meeting 'of the North Tama county old set-tiers was held in the park at Traer. , The internal revenue officer of the Fourth (Burlington) district has taken in $260000 since July I. being within $45,000 of the entire receipts for last year. Over 10,000 people from a radius of ‘ 25 miles gathered at Lynnville to attend! the old settlers' and soldiers‘ reunion. I. C. I\ Master, a merchant of Ute. filed in t e federal court in Sioux City the first bankruptcy petition in the district. His liabilities are about $3 000- Ilenry Coleman. aged 13, a son of William Coleman. Was kicked in the 3 back of the neck by a horse in Allison and instantly killed. Harry Smith, a former Montezuma boy. who enlisted in the regular army from here three years ago. was seri- ously wounded in the siege of El Cnuey, Cuba. Burglar-s broke into the residence of John Smith in Carroll and stole $175. his watch and chain and a revolver. A ,barn belonging to Charles Bur- goon was struck by lightning in Iieln- beck and burned and 17 cows Were killed. Eva Clark, the wife of J. B. Clark, a. bmkemun on the Wabash, died in Des Moines from the Effects of 30 grains of morphine, taken because of alleged desertion. '" Thieves entered the residence of Mr. Hesfltins in Seward, Neb.. during the absence of the family and took $180 from the trunk of Mrs. Rosengram, of Vllliscn, who was visiting: the family. Henry ’Brand’i, a prominent citizen ot‘ Postville, committed suicide by shooting himself. . The post office at Copenhaver, Wood- Lury chunty. has peer: discontinued. Hall will be agent to Luton. l i member, Mr. Cownie, who remained . in Des liloines, but their werbal report , of the affair was sufficient and the find- ' ingin favor ofMl'. Rotherfwas followed by his reappointment by a unanimous vote. l” i Mr. Rothert entered rilon the duties of his present positiorf September 1, , 1887, so that if he servetthc full period Ifor which he is now appointed, he will , l, have been at the head of the institution for 15 years. DRIVEN? wro’lhsam. J. M. Hurt Dies a [loving Maniac Be- cause of the Waywardness of His Daughter. Driven to insanity by the acts of his daughter, J. M. Hurt is dead at his home in Plymouth county. Now the father is dead, and the daughter can- not bc found to notify her and ask her to come home. It is only a short time ago that Louise Hurt.who was working asadolnestiC,“'asarrested and taken to Storm Lake to answer the charge of larceny from a family in which she had been employed. The girl was found guilty and sentenced to serve 15 days in the county jail of linens Vista coun— ty. She was liberated at the end of six days, but left for parts unknown. The news of the daughter’s arrest came to the father. and he took it ter- ribly to heart. Finally his despond- cncy turned to madness, and itrtook five men most of the time to control him. In this Slate he died a raving maniac, and the daughter cannot be found by' the authorities. Hurt was a respectable farmer and Well thought of in the community in which he lived. PAINT MI N ES- ‘Valnable uncover-y Made on a Farm Near Fnlrfiela While Drilllnll' {or a Well. About a year ago 0. W. Whitham and Bennett Brothers were drilling a well on the farm of John Krumboltz, near A. Freshwater's. a few miles West of Fairficld. when they struck a peculiar substance which they have since been led to believe is the celebrated vene- tian red. The substance was found 185 feet. from the wince, and lies in an 18- foot vein. These gentlemen have ex- perimented With the article, and found that it made a good paint, used even without grinding. It is of a very dark red color, and contains an oil, and makes a good paint mixed with water. [The gentlemen have drilled wells for years, but never before found anything resembling this last discovery. , FATAL room rh'ELING. A Proxnlnen! Business Man In Boone Dies from the Work Done by I Dentist. M. Ernstdorf, a prominent business man of Boone. and one of the earliest , Settlers, died from the eifcets of hav- ing his teeth pulled. He was in his usuaihcalthand had 11 teeth extracted by the dentist. Immediately after the operation hemorrhage set in. While every cf- fort was made to stop the flow of blood no relief was obtained and he died be. fore ten o’clock. It has since de- veloped that he was suffering with some disease that made it dangerous for him "to be bled in any manner and had been {advised to be careful. Escaped 'anlnh Bullets. Henry Sharder, of Boone, has re- ceived aletter from his two cousins, at small expense, even though elabm r good highways, all of which may be secured easily and at little outlay, and. which will insure vast improvement in the roads of country districts where the people are uuwilling or feel unable to undertake extensive improvements. drained so that water can stand upon the surface nor soak in under the foundation. WK-EYE. GROWING FINE VEAL. An Indultry \Vhloh Pays Well When— ever the Price of Butter [I Abnormully Low. o A writer in the National Stockmau takes up the subject of veal production and argues that it is more profitable to grow veal during the period of low- priccd butter than to make the milk into butter. We knew of several dairy- men already who follow this practice with success. They buy all the calves that are brought to them by the milk producers of the vicinity and as fast as fattened their places are taken by other calves obtained in the same way. The. writer referred to says: “The trade in fine veal. which is enlarging, could be increased much beyond its present limits by supplying a high grade article for the market. I am not aware that\the distinction is made in American markets regarding the qual- ity of veal which is made in some Em ropcan countries, notably in Hol- land. But no doubt the time will come when this feature of the dairy indus- try will receive the attention from us which is now being given to it else- where. It is considered by experts that those veals arc finest which not only carry a considerable quantity of fat, but which also show no indications of having receiwd any other food than whole milk. The whites of the eyes, the eyelids, and the inside ofthe lips, if the animal has had an exclusive milk diet. should be pure white. Any tinge of coloring in these parts indicates the effect of solid foods. Whether it. will pay to convert milk into cheap butter instead LI putting it. intoprimc veal will depend entirely. of course, upon the priceof the two products and the relation one bears to the other. It is stated by authorities that eight pounds of milk will produce one pound of gain in a calf. This means that at present. prices 534 cents for real a hundred pounds of milk would bring 72 cents it put into veal. L With. butter at 17%, cents, netting the pro; ducer about 141/2 cents, a hundred pounds of milk made into butter would be worth about 65 cunts. This difierence in profits points strongly in favor of veal, especiallyas the price of butter will, in all probability, de— ROAD IMPROVEMENT. t In Possible Even Where Elaborate Operations Are Entirely Out of the Question. Road improvement is alwaysposmble ate road building is out of the ques- iou. There are three essentials of First, the road must be graded and neither Water is ruin- I‘lOAD NEAR ELMIRA. N. Y. ous to a road in either of these loca- tions, and if allowed to remain in them. will speedily work complete de- struction. An expensive stone road that is inadequately drained will suffer just as surely and fatally from water on or in it as the most ordinary coun- try road. DisintegratiOn and com- plete breaking up are only a matter of 'Mmm luva Blaclulllill. “Wilt. llydan Shop: on Washington SIM ll- lou mud n Ml m uranium l HORSE mom G, [axon and Carriage lining and napalm umrmc, Em. A chm of the public pan-anon conch“. , AI nth untreated. Price. res-cubic. w. a. sinner. E. F. WENGER, NOTARY PUBLIC, ,, REAL" ESTATE Issuance AGENT. nix, mum in nu mum mmumm lmnaunn or an mm manor. IOWA. v Basoutnv [Ass-Imus or mu. 5 ms t. the most campus. at a Abstracts in Dina Country L It v establishment of a workable, method- : ical system of care and repair, by dis— and facilities. 'employmc—nt of a competent, intelli- gent corps of workers. Finally, the roads can be compacted. , by these means have proved it to be t where they have been tried have given time, and a short time at that. The second essential is found in the triots, whose responsible heads will utilize time and labor to advantage and get the best possible results that can be obtained from the local conditions This, of. course, means the abolishmcnt of working taxes, the substitution of money taxes, and the smoothed and hardened by the use on vehicles of wide tires and axles of on- equal length. Repeated experiments and tests of the actual savingin power very great; experience in localities most satisfactory results, and many foreign countries enforce their use. It is in effect the use of a constant stream of steam rollers passing along~thc highway, instead of a series of weights being rollcd along on knife~like edges which cut apart and tear up as they go. These changes and improvements can be made at small cast to any com-L the value of good roads—L. A. W. Bul- letiu. Q WHERE ROAD TAXES GO.' Condltlun of Aflulru \Vhlch Exist! in Other states as Well as in. -Old Kentucky. “It is a disgrace to the principle of self-government," says the Louisville; (.‘ouricrnlournal, “that the law-abiding. people of Kentucky do not rise in their majesty and might and put an end to the present system of licensed robbery. What is really wanted is not toll-gate raids, but the hanging of a 'few over— sccrs and contractors. and the impeach- ment of: a few county judges and local magistrates. “The farmers complain of hard times and high taxes. Yet they stand like logs of wood and see themselves pil- laged right out of hand, saying neve‘r a word. In Jefferson county alone $30,- 000 annually are wrung fro the peo~ pie upon the pretext of road making. it is safe to say that not one-third of this vast sum is ever devoted to the purpose intended, whilst two-thirds of it goes into the pockets‘of the. heart- less bloodsuckers masquerading as road Overseers, and rascally contrac~ tors, with whom these are in partner- ship. “As a rule the county‘judges either know nothing about it, or care nothing about it. Meanwhile, the poor farmer stands off with his fingers in his mouth, as dumb as a post amiss helpless via a Calf. Year after year this robbery goes on. What we need at Frankfort is 'a good roads commission invested with ample power to investigate these frightful corruptions and to punish thOSc chargeable either With collmslon to loot the taxpayersuor with guilty neglect in the duty of protecting the public money." L Give the Cal! Inn-mah- , , I know by actual experience, says a writer in Honrd's Dairyman. that a call can be raised on skimmilk, if he has enough. We have one now. on this place, that, at four weeks, gets pounds of skimmilk a day, and, be- sides, all the bright hayitwauls, which is a good deal. And with this liberal Ceeding‘ it is a» beauty, and as for growth, as the hired mnn exprchesit, “beats arichalf I ever did see.” The trouble with not only calves, but most young stock is that they do not get enough. A growing boy will cut more than a grown man, and the. growing calf wants enough, or it Will not be a growing calf. Hints Allontrnuek Raining. . Duck raising will pay well for. the right person. But it will not pay con— ducted on the careless plan by Which hens are managed on Mie- average farm. Hens will lay some eggs if left August and Henry Hagen, who were in the charge up the bluffs at Santiago. Both are young men, “and they write that while men were falling all around thchLnelther of them was struck in any way by the Spanish bullets. They are Well known in Boone, and their many friends will be pleased to know that they escaped. to shift for themselves, but ducks will not pay a cent unless the grower un- derstands his business and attends to it. They are enormous enters and quickly consume all the profits, be- sides being a good deal of a nuisance unless managed and sold jupt right. Crooked trees why he helped by stak- lug. cllne markedly weeks, while the pricedD veal will probably not go lower. Hence it up pears that large quantities of milk which will be made into poor, cheat , butter this summer, might much bet ter be turned into veal. Not only would“ the raising of prime veal benefit the producer in the wayweghave shown but it would also relieve the butt market of just so much butter, w its tendency ,to‘depress an a overcrowded market." Stone LL Bone for munity, and will speedin demonstrate, x tionfree from weeds, and a new plane in the next six or gig”, . Linn Township: to call Lind L lready COVERING son A LLLL. *wni‘sn Great. The accompanying illustration rep— \ resents an easilycoiistruct dplctfo‘ m“ '4 for base .cf windm' l tow It square platform L mortar, about .181; £th STONE man non wnvn in. row a.“ the tower posts. The Wooden pump platform can, at any time. be removed? ; if necessary‘for repairs. This solid platform of masonry is , , csily built from storms so often found; on prairie farms. It improves the ap- pearance of the premises and» adds to the strength of the tower; It also keeps all vermin, as toads, mice, etca out of the \vell.«~0range Judd Farmer." r DAIRY SUGGESTIONS. In the winter keep the cow warm and dry. Never use rusty cans under sideration. ~ Always milk as quickly as possible. and do it with clean, dry hands. ,, cred in thia'part’oi‘tho mu, LIME, PLASTEKKHRQ Cfiifim ‘ in move kept constantly on haul. any cou- Cream should be taken off the milk ~ m :1 while it is still sweet, if possible. a An (“dier 'L 1“ ._ Gleambrlght fooddnsuificient vari'e-L are“ L L V L 'ty, is what is needed in the dairy. 4L Two or three degrees of temperature will make a great difference in churns mg. I Be on friendly terms with the calves from the very first. Talk to them and pet them. ‘ ‘ Never disturb ,milk when cream is I. , rising or the butter globules will sink never to rise again. The good—looking, round~bodied cow is never a good one. The best dairy cow is hardly pretty. Whenever a cow drinks water that you would not drink yourself she is robbing you of profits. The cow can have no better food“ than shredded corn; fodder, if it is good fodder, or ensllage. x First rinse cans in cold water! then wash them in warm water, then scald with boiling water and dry. '« ‘ A cow is both a machine-Lands. very delicate, sensitive organism; ’Do not make the mistake of supposing that she is simply an inanimate machine. -—\Vestern Plowman. ‘ £0.30; llllWKEYE Sham l’rlntlflu House for an. Knot or Commercial Work . .m‘ Renewing; Raspberry Patehel. .A raspberry patch, of the black-cap varieties, needs to be renewed ever;- tour or five years, as the red rust comes in and will injure so many of the plants that the plantation will cease to pay. The black-cap raspberry will not last so long as this if it has been. grown from suckers. Those grown from the tip ends of this year's shoots will keep tree from disease longest. But after foul‘or five years it is too much labor to keep the planta- tatiou.‘ after the first. year, will givfi more fruit, with less cost oflabcr in . caring for it. Le. a. mum; a son.