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tment ern om . the Dwarf Essex variety. In the ener tts re pera etter eenoterateieinnesl— corn growing, fruit growing or vege- table growing clubs, the kind depend- ; § ing on dominant interests ‘of the community. Let girls organize do- mestic science clubs... Perhaps a union of all into one “Industrial Club” would be better, Each club could them have its departments along lines of best adaptation, the maio object belong to promote in- dustrial education to the end that farm life be fuller of elements both | “GENERAL BILLY” No convention that could possibly involve Walsh’s interest could go on RYDER IS DEAD.| withous Ryder being actively con- cerned in it. When he came here a : sa 5 wes few weeks ago be immediately be- ‘ came a partisan of R. L. Gregory His Lifeless Body on the Floor more because Weleh was for Gregory . than for any other reason that any ofa Rooming House. body kuew. He was always leyal to Kansas City Times March 17. anyone whodid hima favor and “General” William B. Ryder, poll-| long after the other man had forgot- tician, mine promoter and of late/ten it “Billy” Ryder remembered it yeare preacher, famous for halfa/and in his own way tried to return material and social that make it century as a Missouri character,|the favor. The Walsh incident was| Worth whi'e. For ihformation con- was found pead yesterday afternoon | characteristic of the man. cerning this club work, addreds Supt in a rooming house at 617 Walnut} It developed that-the-eorpeeta-the}J. L McBrien, Liacoln, Nebr., or street. north end lodging house, identified |Supt.O J. Kara, Rockford, Ill Decrepit with years, sick and/as Gen. “Billy” Ryder, had been W. T. Carninerton, wasted by dissipation, the old man’s utterly deserted and actually starved | State Superintendent Public Schools Yes. 100,000 times each day. Does it send out good blood or bad blood? You know, for good blood is good health; bad blocd, bad health. And you ‘know precisely what to take for bad blood— Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. Doctors have éndorsed it for 60 years. a horse2? If you want a horse, or a bicycle, a gun, a camera, or anything else you've set your heart on, do what other boys are doing to get these things—sell THE SATURDAY EVENING POST — pry — - owe to death. The worm however ca oT en. As tags in town on Friday afternoons and’ enly. He was found where ad/were givena decent burial. Acting| Bearsthe . aod Maybe you think it'll take evidently fallen several hours before, | Circuit Judge Frank P. Walsh and | Gignstare me Ns et a along while to earn enough Pym for huddled half clothed on the floor of|former Gov. Crittenden bought a] “~ A@#72 Hctcas é rs on CURE, = you want. But that on hie cold and dingy little room. grave for the old “general,” and DR J M NORRIS Specialist Yy S CHERRY PECTORAL. much as $15 a week; others make He had bad a room for ten days] other politicians subscribed enough} ©’ ’ Wo have no seorete! We publish $2, $3, $5 a week. In our handsome booklet, ‘‘ Boys Who Make Money,” some of our boys tell, in their own way, how they got money for things they had long wanted, by selling THE POST. This booklet is free for the asking. We will send along with it, the complete outfit for starting in business, including ten free copies of THE POST. You sell these at sc the copy, and that furnishes all the money you need for buying further supplies. Besides the money you make each week, we give, among other prizes, watches, sweaters, etc. And in addition $250 in Extra Cash Prizes each month to boys who make the biggest increase in their sales. Better send us a letter to-day. THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY, 425 ARCH ST., PHILADELPHIA at this house. He had not given his name.and had no acquaintance in the house. For several days he had been drinking heavily, making each night until Thursday a late and noisy entrance to his room. Thure- day night he did not go out, Yea terday morning Mra. Burlingham, the proprietress, went to his room to collect rent, but received no answer to her knock. She tried the door, butfound some obstruction was against it on the inside and went away. At 4:30 o’clock a board- er in the house was sent to the room and found the body. The eccentricities of ‘General Billy” Rape, A Profitable Pasture. | west land {0 the spring; after the} Ryder had been known to Missourl grain crop is harvested the rape| politicians eince the Civil war. Old (Weekly Agricultural Letter.) furnishes an abundant pasture dur-| timers say he had not missed a ses- There 1s no crop grown on tke! {ng thefall. Itfe also sown in corn] sion of the state legislature since farm that produces such a large at the last cultivation, and some-/1858. He gained fame by his tire- amount of valuable pasture in eo | times produces @ valuable pasture| jess and vitriolic champlonehip of short atime as Rape. This plant | Ven handled in this way. It can be} bills of his own devising. He declar- tomes to us from England where its pastured until the latest freezing | ed he was the original expounder of nse has been recognized tor many frosts without injury tothe animals. | the 8-hour law, first advocating its years. When young and small {t re- __ F.B.Mumrorp, | passage asearly as 1867, and he sembles somewhat the cabbage and University of Missourl. | was justly credited with the law im- turnip. It differs from these in hav- Professor of Animal Husbandry. | posing a state tax on beer, passed the formulas of all our medicines, Burial in Unk tery at 3/ gives s | attention to the trest- " ee er cee gaa ited Catarrh, and ite effects upon Work For Hadley. o’clock Sunday afternoon. the ears, throat and lunge Thoee in need of glasses can have| Attorney-General Hadley has been School Notes From the eyes tested free and pro rly Gt-|{n office nearly @ year now, and he ted. Office on the South Side over| shows a disposition to keep busy, State Superintendent. Elmer Dixon's store. Office hours | fre dose vot Sones to big wedietass from 9 a. m. to é p. m. 18-tt The annual examination for teach- ings, yet he is neglecting his duty. ere’ certificates will be held in each It bas been openly charged and “evi- county on Friday and Saturday, Eleven Egge—13 Chickens, dence” furnished that about $11,- March 23 and 24. All who need cer-} Sabetha, Kas., March 12,—Mre, | 900,000 of the people’s money in tificates should take the examina-| Mary Woods, a negro womay living Missouri hae been stolen by theatate tion. If examination {8 not com-|north of Sabetha, recently set cleven officials. This money was raised for pleted at that time, it can befinished jogs under a hen When tha chick. School purposes, but ft ts charged in June or the applicant can com- plete the grades in some state sum- mer echool. to defray the cost of the funeral./On the mo ear, nose and throut, ‘4 ens were hatched there were thirteen, | that it 1s gone. I¢ has been stolen, Two of the eggs had. doubled yolks| according to claims often made. and had hatched “twins.” What is Hadley doing? It is not comeapiahnpaiognettitinasigianete only bis right but his duty to indigt Much space is given in the state A Sclentific Wonder, rag rence Prd pr) a school report to the discussion of in the steal. He has absolutelydone \ teachers’ salary. The greatest echool PR ap mee hiny how am ae nothing so far as the people can problem just now {!s how to ralse|tifie wonder. It cured E. R. Mulford, hear. Is he not afraid that these more school money to spend on| lecturer for the Patrons of Husban- | $11,000,000 thieves will run away? rural echools. It will come, it at all, | dary, Waynesboro, Pa., ofa distress: | Why does he not at leastarrest them through better and larger assess oe a — and put them under bond? There is ments of property. Let patrons dis- , ‘ J ; ‘ | work for Hadley to do but he seems wounds, chilblaine and salt rheum. A cuss this at annual echool meeting. |Only 25¢ at Frank T.Clay’s drug! 60 be hesltating.—Springfield Leader. store. brs Pe RE To Cure a Cold in One Day. Court Review of Fraud Orders.) 7... paxaTivE BROMO QUI Washington, March 12.—A billin-; NINE Tablets. All druggists refund troduced in the House by Representa bd money ff . fails to baie E. W. tive Crompacker, of lodiana, wavld rove’s signatureis oneach box. 25 provide for a court review of fraud orders issued by the Postmaster Hearst end Bryan Break? General. Astrong sentimentinfavor of the passage of such legislation is developing in the House. Two similar bills have been intro- duced in the House and referred to the Judiclary Committee. It is ex- pected that the committee will rec- ommend the passage of one of them. The bill introduced by Mr. Crnm- packer is g direct result of the fraud order fssued against the People’s United States Bank of St. Louis. Is ia understood to have been drawn by A Guaranteed Cure For Piles Judge Shepard Barclay and Repre- | Lighing, blind, bleeding, protruding sentative DeArmond, of Missouri. | pifes. Druggists are authorized to Judge Barclay is atworney ‘for E, G, | Pefunding money if PAZOOIN TMENT Lewis. bs i fails to cure in 6 to14 days. 50c. It is recommended in this last state school report that qualitica- tions of teachers be raised by requir- ing an examination in some indus- trial eubject of every applicant for a certificate, either {n agriculture, manual training or domestic econ- omy. If the policy of renewing first grade certificates an indefinate num- ber of times isto becontinued, a year’s pedagogical training should be required of applicants for that certificate. One thing is certain, more will be demanded of teachers and more will be paid them for this grea ter preparation and service Let allremember the annual school ing a thickened stem and thick euc-| Nine Million Plows at Work. |'2der the title of the Farris bill in culent leaves. ia hasuis 1899 The practical experlments in feed- : # r The age, habitation and means of ing this most valuable forage plant It’s plowing time. Two hundred |}ivelthood of “General Billy” had for in this country indicate that one million wodheg of land will be plowed many years been matters of vague acre of Rape is more valuable for this year e the United. States and conjecture among his friends, He feeding sheep or hogs than one acre | about 9 million plows are on the|/was supposed to have been horn in of clover, blue grass timothy, or any | farms to do the work. The capttal!trelind, and wes about 70 years old other common pasture plant. Some | Vested in plows alone represents) at his death. His fires appearance experiments have even indicated 80 million dollars. Sucha multt-| a the state legislature in Jefferson that rape may rival alfalia itself as tude of types of plows and plowers| city wasas a young gentleman of » pasture tor hogs. can be found on this old conttoent] jajsure. He readily rid himeelt of For feeding wethers and lambe| *#at wecan but name afew. In the! ¢o0,000, an inheritance. The first rape has been used extensively at great Southwest the Mohave with| jy]; championed by him which be- the Ontario Agricultural College, his three or four equawe starts for | came a law wasa measure toabolish Wisconsin, Michigan and Missouri. the planting ground. Each woman] tho Miseourl state lottery, passed in At theee stations rape pasture pro- carries her digging stick, the most!1873. After the bill became a law, duced from 300 to 500 pounds of Primitive of all plows, and the man|the gamblers carried the fight into meeting April3. It is hoped that mutton per acre. At 5 cents a pound stands guard oll day while the) the courts, snd it was during this every patron of the school in rural for mutton this would give rape pas-| -OT!B!nal farmers” of this country |iitigation that Ryder fought with| districts will give the entire after- ture a value of $15.00 to $25.00 per dig the land and plant their gourd and stabbed a gambler. For this he] noon to this meoting. Do not got acre The results from grazing hogs seeds. In Canada but for the inter-) was sent to the penitentiary, but] in 8 great hurry to get through with on rape are even, more favorable) {n | ference of the government we might] wis pardoned by Governor Phelps,| the business, ‘Talk it all over before some respects to this plant than the | 8°¢ the Doukhobor women drawing} who became convinced that Ryder’s | ta king a vote. Increase the tax levy above. the plow in exactly the same way limpriscnment was the result of alit it is necessary toenable the dis ‘At the Alabama Station one acre|*hat they have done for centurles. | q, liberate plot to get him out of the| trict to pay good salary and to M rape produced 512 pounds of | 10 New England the oxen are being | way. have a long term of school. Unless pork, which at 5 cents a pound, yoked, and in the Middle West the) Qnce when “Billy” Ryder was with-|¢he school house is in good re- would be worth $25.60. At the Wie |4 horse teams are ready. In the/out money and his clothes were pair, make an appropriation for sonein Station rape compared with South the negro sits on his plow} threedbare Frank P Waleh bought | that purpose. Remember the i clover pasture showed 7 per cent ad. stilt to watch the train go by. him a new enit of clothes. He wore|brary. Every phase of the public saatage for rape inthe amount of In other parts of the country|shem two or three years and from| g¢ hool work iediscuesed in therecent grain per 100 pounds of gain. we find traction engines at work, | that time to the day of his death he| st ate schoolreport. Ifyou are deeply {n every experiment grain has | Plowing forty or more acres @ day|was for what ever pleased Walsh. | interested in educational work, ask Seen fed with the pasture. Rape is and requiring but two or three men — tor a copy. Address a card to W. T. 30s a successful pasture for hogs | *° ig Lengthening Human Life, | Carrington, Jefferson City, Mo. when grazed alone, without grain. Georgia-Grown Grapevine. Pe Van Winkle was supposed to have Chicago, March 12 —A break with a surprising sequence, it wes learned | today, has occurred in the former close friendship between William J. Bryan, twice Democratic nominee for President, and William R. Hearst energetic seeker of the nomination. As aresult the name of Mr. Bryan, } it is asserted, has been barred by Mr. Hearst from appearing in any of the Hearst newspapers. : \ == THE MARK AND THE MOTTO “The Recollection of Quality lo than his allotted "three Rape has two peti «Shon From the Atlanta Constitution, and te end ny oes me are rere fo _ Day ‘i ypyeod es ‘olk has may, OF May NO’ prO Interest in a moat remarkable| ple, yet we bear of tore people in this {2/00 attention to arbor day and sording to the methods of handling. \% sometimes causes bloat in sheep and cattle but ie no more dangerous im this respect than a rank growth of green clover. Another objection to pasturing hogs on rape is that the hogs, particularly white hogs, blister badly in the summer in the hot sun. -Thelatter-difficulty has only been reported in a very few eases and can probably be easily prevented by turning hoge on rape only after the dew has dried off of ‘he plants, Rape is planted elther in rows or mwa broadcast; the latter methods i most common. It is importent ttiat zape be sown in Missouri at the earliest date at which the ground ean be prepared,’ It sown broadcast D the land tho aw for ro and harrow in pone ted of seed per acre. Ifsown in rows use three pounds per acre, in rows three feet apart. This should be iva- ted two or three times. Always sow ma de excellent suggestions. [¢ will do little good to plant trees in April ever |and leave them to care for them- 5 |selv es. If good is to result from such obse rvance, let there be permanent orga nization of the children for that purpose. If arborday is made the an nual celebration of boys and girls who sre members of “Industrial Clubs,” is will mean something. The 8 tate Superintendent will assist any co unty orlocal organizationand the Missouri School Journal will be the grapevine, growing near the line be- tween ‘Henry and Rockdale counties, has been aroused by the recent put- lication in the Constitution of an|| item concerning a monster grave- vine in the vineyards of Hampton palace in England. The main trunk of the Georgia vine is much larger than the English vine, and the area covered by the} branches {s over twice as large. It is co neldered very probable that the Geor gia vine is the largest under cul- tiva tion in the world. It was planted in December, 1878, by J. F. Willingham, who fe still living atthe age of 50 years, The vine is‘now five feet thick at the base and covers a territory of about five thousand square feet. The big En glish vine is only three feet at the base andcovers but 2,800 equare feet. It is 135 yeare old, or about as old as the monster writer’s experience when éown broad- sast the yield is consi increas- ae Of cate per 4