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Visit our store when in St. Paul, whether you wish to buy or not. Write ‘for Catalogue or samples of Carpet free. THE AMERICAN HOUSEFURNISHING CQ. 22-24 East 7th St. - St. Paul. We pay freight 100 miles. Wanted to Know. Uucle Haicede—I've lived in this here house over twenty year come next September. Fresh-Air Boy—Chee! How do youse git out 0’ in’ de rent ?—Indianapolis Journal. Are You Using Allen’s Foot-Ease? It is the only cure for Swollen, ting, Burning, Sweating Feet, ind Bunions. Ask For Allen's , a powder to be shaken int» At all Druggists and Shoe Sample sent FREE. <Ad- S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. Not What He Wanted. time for your nourish- Peppery. (convalescent)—Hang What I want is some udy. Mr. Peppe shme’ thing to e: Chie The estern Increase. the Chicago Gre Western F faple Leaf Route,” for the | 1899, show an increase of § Total ine since beginni (uly $ St) to date, Capital and labor would commingle better if there weren’t so many men trying to get capital without labor. Jonah’s experience was an example of prophet and loss. Etie ee An Excellent Com The pleasant method and beneficial effects of the well known remedy, Syrup or Fics, manufactured by the CaiForNIA Fig Syrup Ca., illustrate the value of obtaining the liquid laxa- tive principles of plants known to be medicinally laxative and senting them in the form most refreshing tothe ‘taste and acceptable tothe system. It is the one perfect strengthening laxa- tive, cleansing the system effectually, dispelling colds, headaches and fevers gently yet promptly and enabling one to overcome habitual constipation per- manently. Its perfect freedom from every objectionable quality and sub- stance, and its acting on the kidneys, liver and bowels, without weakenin, or irritating them, make it the ide laxative. In the process of manufacturing fi are use, as they are pleasant te the taste, but the medicinal qualities of the remedy are obtained from senna and other aromatic plants, by a method known to the CALIFoRNIA Fie Syrup Co. only. In order to get its beneficial effects and to avoid imitations, please remember the fuil name of the Company printed on the front of every package. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. ps UISVILLE, KY. NEW YORE, N. ¥. eau by all Druggists.—Price 50c. per bottle, weaticted with! Thompson’s Eye Water. N. W. N. UL —No. 35.— 1899. When Answering Advertisements Hiadly Mention This Paper. FARM AND GARDEN. MATTERS OF INTEREST TO AGRICULTURISTS. Beme Up-to-Date Hints About Cal- tivation of the Soll and Yields Thereof—Horticulture, Viticulture and Floriculture. Cucumber Melon Diseases. The April bulletin of the Ohio Ex- Periment Station thus summarizes the report of experiments in the treatment of cucumbers and melon diseases: The cucumber pickle industry con- tinues to increase in Ohio and the yields of pickles have been more satis- factory for 1898 than for the previous year. The abundant rains, well dis- tributed, and the high mean temper- atures for the growing months have contributed to this end. The downy mildew of cucumbers and allied plants,Plasmopara Cubensis, has been fully as destructive to the plants during the season named as in 1897, but owing to the earlier harvesting of the crop the actual reduction of yields has been only about one-half as great from this cause. Anthracnose of cucurbits, Colleto- trichum Lagenarium, has increased in abundance and destructiveness. A wilt of cucumbers and muskmelons, referred to a species of Fusarium, has also prevailed, besides the usual wilt disease, Phyllosticta Cucurbitacearum and Cercospora Cucurbitae have also been found spotting cucumber leaves es well as Cercospora Citrullina upon watermelon foliage. Co-operative spraying experiments upon a commercial scale have given an increase of seventy-five bushels per acre upon sprayed, compared with un- sprayed cucumber pickle vines, at- tacked by downy mildew. The profits from this treatment were not so large as would have accrued from similar work in 1897, for reasons pertaining to earliness of crop. The practicability of saving the late crop of cucumbers from downy mil- dew, by use of Bordeaux mixture, is fully demonstrated by the experiments made. Spraying for this purpose need not be begun earlier than July 25 to August 1. If a crop of pickles or cu- cumbers' is harvested by August 15, spraying for downy mildew is not re- quired, Pee ity Spraying of anthracnose, downy mil- dew and leaf blight of muskmelons is still recommended, although some fail- ures are recorded. Previous recommendations as to the treatment of late tomato plants with Bordeaux mixture to prevent tomato leaf blight, Septoria Lycopersici, are again repeated. ‘Stock for European Plums. In some notes on plum culture pub- fished in a recent bulletin issued by the Colorado Experiment Station, Pro- fessor Charles S. Crandall says: For the European plums such as Lombard, Green Gage, and Bradshaw probably no stock is better than seedlings of some variety of the species from which these va- rieties came—Prunus domestica. These have been in common use for many years, but in recent years have been in some degree superseded by Myrobalan stocks (seedlings of Prunus cerasifera, a species of Euro- pean orgin). Myrobalan stocks are in common use in European countries and have rapidly grown in favor with our nmurserymen, not because better trees can be grown upon them, but because it is easier to secure good My- robalan than good domestica stocks. Seeds of domestica vari- eties that will produce an even stand of stocks is difficult to obtain, and the Myrobalan, which is easier to grow and less Hable to in- jury from parasitic fungi, offers an ac- ceptable substitute. Some nurserymen import the seeds and grow their own stocks, others find it more profitable to import the seedlings. They are usual- ly received during the winter, planted in nursery rows in spring, and budded in July and August. In the south the stocks in common use are the Mari- anna plum and peach, and very diverse opinions as to their relative merits have been expressed. Probably the dif- | ferences arise from varying local con- ditions, for the testimony at hand in- dicates that on the light and dry soils the peach stock does best, while the Myrobalan is better suited to the heavier and more -noist soils. Even at the north the peach meets with some favor as a stock for plums on light soils, but it is too tender for districts where severe winters are common. For the native varieties, Wolf, Weaver, De Soto and other derivatives of Prunus Americana, the natural inference that Americana stocks would be best seems to be borne out by experience, but the degree of success may depend in a measure upon the seed used. The spe- cies is extremely variable in general habit and rapidity of growth as well as in the fruit produced. Stady the Soil. For the economical application of fertilizers it 1s necessary to make something of a study of the soil. Clay soils as a rule contain sufficient pot- ash but they are likely to need either nitrogen or phosphoric acid and are usually benefited by both. Complete fertilizers should not be applied by the farmer without reservation. They are only complete as they meet the re- quirements of his soil. On elay soils bone meal is usually a very effective fertilizer. It supplies phosphoric acid and potash and also lime, which usual- ' ly exerts a beneficial mechanical effect on clay. Acid phosphates or South Carolina rock acts in the same way except that it- contains no nitrogen. The average sandy soil is always de- { ficient in all of the three principal fer- tilizing constitutents. It is not only necessary to supply the soil therefore with nitrogen, phosphoric acid and PIGMIES OF AFRICA.| potash but organic matter will prove | Facts ABOUT A CURIOUS RACE beneficial as well. lf barnyard ma- nure is not available plowing under green crops will serve the result. By a systematic method of rotation and Pasturage together with the use of commercial fertilizers, sandy soils can be brought to the highest state of pro- ductiveness. In the determination of what kind of a fertilizer and how much shall be applied td a particulalr soil the farmer must be his own guide—he must make his own field experiments and profit by them from year to year. Field experiments conducted in his same locality but on a heavy black soil, whereas his might be a light sandy soil, would be of little or no benefit to him. In a general way sandy soils are leachy and non-endur- ing while clay soils are of an enduring fertility, mainly because they do not Wash excessively nor allow the water to leach from them the plant foods which they contain. New Outlet for the Potato Crop. Miners who have passed the winter in the Klondike refer to a brand of evaporated potatoes sent from Canada which have proved very satisfactory as & substitute for fresh vegetables, says the Rural New Yorker. We learned that the Canadian company has vari- ous factories in this’ country and in Canada. One factory is run at May- ville, Mich. It started last fall with evaporated apples, and then made apple cider and apple jelly. When the apple season was finished, they began evaporating potatoes and kept at it Nearly all winter, through the very coldest weather. The same company, we are told, evaporated peaches in Georgia earlier in the season. One of our friends in Mayville gives us the following information about this busi- ness; “How are potatoes canned?” “They are first washed and then put in a large vat or steamer and steamed just enough to loosen the skins. Then they are taken out and peeled by women and girls. After this they are cooked until thoroughly done, and then run through a machine shaped like a colander. They come through this in long, white strings very much Tesembling long worms or shredded cocoanut. After this they are evapo- rated and put up in tin cans and Sealed air-tight.” “About how many potatoes were canned during the season?” “Last year’s run was about 5,000 bushels.” “Does this make any difference in the potato market for the neighboring farmers?” “Yes, I think it does, although the farmers have no trouble in selling all the potatoes they grow, to the ship- Pers. The canning factory helps to taise the price. Last winter, when the factory first started, the shippers were paying only 20 to 22 cents a bushel for Potatoes. The factory’s first contract was for 3,000 bushels at 25 cents. Of course the canners want the highest quality of potatoes. It is understood here that the factory had a contract with the United States government for all the potatoes that were canned last winter.” American Horses in Cuba. A correspondent of the Chicago Ree. ord writes that journal from Wash- ington: “American horses do not thrive on our new Possessions. It takes them a long time to become acclimat- ed. The heat, the malaria and insect pests are more of a trial to beasts than to men. Texas ponies or bronchos, however, do very well in Cuba and Porto Rico, and 800 have been shipped over to Cuba since the close of the war. Three or four hundred have been shipped to Porto Rico. Any man who will go down into Cuba and raise mules and ponies will make a fortune, be- cause the draft animals ‘have almost been exterminated during the war, and @ great many are needed upon the Plantations as well as by the military forces. The best stock for that climate is the hardy little horse that is found in Texas and New Mexico.” That is a point we called attention to a year ago, when the war broke out. The climate of Texas, and the conditions surround- ing horses in that state, would natur- ally enable them to become more easily acelimated in Cuba and Porto Rico than northern horses. A New Ramie Pians The Agriculture Ledger of Caleutta, India, announces the discovery for the government of a plant described as similar but superior to ramie. Ramie furnishes an extremely fine, strong and valuable fiber, suitable for making fine, high-class textile goods, and the only thing which has operated to pre- vent its culture extensively in this country is the fact that it has to be degummed, which is always a costly process. This new kind of ramie, if it can be so called, is free from gum, and therefore does not, in its produc- tion, present that difficulty. The de- partment of agriculture is investigat- ing the subject, and is arranging to Procure seed for trial and distribution. Mr. Jared G. Smith of the department states that a ramie which does not require degumming would, in all prob- ability, prove a highly valuable acqui- sition, and its introduction might be the means of starting a new line of industry in the United States. Such a plant, he says, might to some extent replace hemp. French Government Stallions.—The French government keeps stallions for the use of the farmers, charging only a nominal fee of $2 or $3 per service, By this method the French are rapidly improving their horses, for these gov- ernment stallions are carefully in- spected before being approved for service-—Mr, Thompson. OF MEN. £ven in the Time of Herodotus They Flourlshed—Stanley Saw Them in the Gloom of a Forest—Their Manners Described. Herodotus records the existence of pigmies in Africa—‘ a nation of little men who wore garments made of palm leaves.” Hundreds of years after the father of history wrote, Stanley saw them in the gloom of a central African forest, and held an interview with one of their princesses. Later, Capt. Bur- Tows, of the Kongo Free State, came across these little freaks more than once, and in his book, “The Land of the Pigmies,” he described their make and manners. The pigmies’ height brings them to the shoulder of a man of average stature, although some of them stand no higher than his chest. There are black pigmies and red pig- mies. The bodies of the red pigmies are not so hairy as those of the ne- 8roes, but the blacks’ bodies are coy- ered with down. Although a_ well proportioned race they are socially in- ferior to other tribes. They are no- mads by nature, and wander from place to place, supporting themselves by hunting. One place seems to be as much a home to them as another, if it is a good hunting ground. Their re- vengeful nature and their hardihood in war cause them to be feared. They will lie and deceive, but they will not steal. The pigmy is an excellent ar- cher. He will shoot three or four ar- rows, one after the other, with such rapidity that the last will have left the bow before the first has reached its goal. When an arrow misses its mark, the pigmy files into a violent passion, breaking his bow and arrows in his rage. When it hits he pats his left arm with his right hand and chuck- les. A certain chief of the Mom- vus was big, and so corpulent that he had to be carried about in a litter borne by four men, On a certain oc- casion he was going with his warriors to fight a neighboring chief, for he al- Ways accompanied a fighting expedi- tion and directed its attacks from his litter. His wife, a massive matron, was in the litter with him, As they passed an invisible pigmy encamp- ment whose inhabitants he had of- fended, a flight of arrows from a con- cealed foe caused the chief and his wife to drop back from their sitting posture and turn over on their faces. A pigmy darted out from behind a tiny bush, shot off two arrows, hit both the chief and his wife, and then, ut- tering a cry of gratification and pat- ting his right arm with his left hand disappeared behind the bush. The pig- mies take up their abode near the vil- lage of a big chief, where banana plan- tations abound, from which they may glean when they please. They have two methods of gleaning. One is as follows: A pigmy will mark out a bunch of bananas in a plantation by shooting an arow into the stalk. The arrow signifies that the pigmy desires that particular bunch when it ig suf- ficiently ripe. The owner of the plan- tation stands in such fear of the pig- tay’s vengeance that he never dreams of removing the fruit or the arrow, but leaves both to be claimed by the awe-inspiring dwarf. By the other method the pigmy buys the bananas, be fixing the price and paying for it in that which his fiat makes currency. On returning home from a day’s hunt- ing with several pieces of meat wrapp- ed in grass and leaves, he goes to a plantation, selects several bunches of bananas, shins up the tree, cuts off the bunches and in payment affixes one of the small packets of meat to the stem by a wooden skewer. He has not sto- len the bananas, he has bought them. His is “the good old rule” on which Rob Roy acted: The simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can. The pigmy’s appetite for bananas is such that he will eat sixty at a meal. Then he will lie and groan throughout the night, but when morning comes he is ready to repeat the meal. “Yes,” said a pigmy to Capt. Burrows, when he expressed surprise at the dwarf’s appetite, “there were a few bananas there on a buneh and I ate them. I suppose that is what they were there for. I should like some more.” The strangers passing through the bush are fair game to the pigmies, who are cunning in the art of compelling a man to make a target of himself. The pigmy fastens a cord to his foot and affixes the other end to the bough of a tree that stretches across the forest path. Concealed a few yards off, the pigmy waits till he hears some one coming; then he gently pulls the string so as to shake the bough. The stranger stops to watch the moving branch, and is shot in the back by the pigmy. “But,” said a pigmy, when re- buked by Capt. Burrows for such treachery, “he was a stranger. He had no business to be there.” It is the old story told in one of Leech’s pictures SAVED HIS LIFE Ey Changing Boarding Place, and & Did His Wife. Philadelphia Inquirer: “Up till now I've always doubted my luck more or less,” remarked a young lawyer whose Office is in one-of the big buildings not far from the city hall, “out hereafter I shan’t complain, no matter what hap- pens.” Gazing reflectively off into space for a minute or two, he contin- ued: “It was this way. My wife and myself had been boarding for some time at a house up on North Eleventh street. The landlady, for some reason or other, decided to retire from busi- ness, and consequently we were re- quested to give up our rooms. ‘The re- moval was to begin today, but yester- day the landlady intimated that if we could arrange to go then she would ap- preciate the favor, as the additional day's time would enable her to get moved before Sunday. To make a long story short, my wife hurriedly packed our trunks and we got out that after- noon about 5 o'clock. You remember the big electrical storm of Thursday night, don’t you? Well, one of the storm’s many streaks of lightning struck the boarding house and dam- aged it to the extent of several hun- dred dollars, The room where the most damage was done, too, was the room my wife and myself had just moved out of. As the hour was about that when, after having eaten dinner, we were accustomed to be sitting in the room, the chances are that one, if not both, of us would have been hurt. My wife is as pleased over our escape as if she had been presented with a pair of diamond earrings, and I’m just a little bit inclined to shake hands witb myself also.” LEFT A WILL In Which She Disinherited Her Hus- band if He Married Again, New York World: A curious will has been offered for probate in the Queens county Surrogate’s office. It was made by Margaret Peterson of Woodside, and is contested by her sur- viving husband, Charles H. Peterson, on the ground that it is “vague, uncer- } tain and unintelligible.” The testator says: “I leave to my two children, Charles and Joseph J. Peterson, every- thing I possess, and to my husband, Charles H. Peterson, equally as long as he remains singie. Should he take another wife he must go out and have nothing more to do with anything that belongs to the children in houses or anything else I possess, Five thousand dollars insurance on my _husband’s death to be equally divided between Charles and Joseph J. Peterson. The house to remain as it is now and not to be torn down.” After several be- quests of clothing, bedding and watch- es, the testater says: “Insurance on my life to bury me; the remainder to be given to Andrew Hendricksen. The woman known as Parpen never to be allowed to put foot inside any place that ever belonged to me.” Savage Lands Covered by Wires. As in the march of the Anglo-Saxons the Bible follows the bullet, and with the Bible goes the school book, so the telegraph follows the conquering ar- mies of the race that reaches from pole to pole, and girdles the earth. England has gone a good ways in the regenera- tion of the Soudan, and, as has been the case with us in Cuba, the college has followed the army. In another di- rection we are doing the same in the Philippines that has been done in the Soudan by the English. There they have covered the region with tele- graph wires. By the end of this year it is expected that the end ef the line will reach 1,000 miles south of Khar- tum. In the Philippines we are mak- ing the same progress. The telegraph of course is in a sense a military measure, but the permanent lines will abide, and after this, when the rest of the “white man’s burdens” have been Placed securely on the “white man’s” shoulders, the dark skinned races wil} be glad that it is so. New Zealand's Old-Age Pensions. The New Zealanders at 65 years of age are entitled to a state pension of $90 a year. The most interesting part of the law which provides for this pen- sion is the preamble which reads: “Whereas, it is equitable that deserv- ing persons, who, during the prime of life, have helped to bear the public burdens of the colony in the payment of taxes, and to open up its resources by their skill and labor, should re- ceive from the colony a pension in their old age, be it therefore enacted, ete.” Under such a law the New Zea- land pensioner will not fee) that he is an object of charity. Knew the Sort. Eleanor’s Mother—You do Eleanor a great injustice, my dear. She is not idle, only delicate. She has no power of endurance. Eleanor’s Father—Humph! I know all about her power of endur- ance, It’s the kind that’ll let her dance all night in shoes two sizes too small for her, and make her too tired next day to dust the parlor. Fewer National Banks. in Punch: “A stranger! ‘Have ‘arf a brick at ’im!” Bismarek’s Draughtboard. The late Prince Bismarck was an ardent lover of a game of draughts, and is said to have possessed the most valuable draught-board in existence, the squares of which were made of geld and silver, to represent the dark and light squares respectively. The men were made of the same metals, the silver men having the addition of a fiamond in the center, the gold draughtsmen having a ruby inlaid in | The latest returns of the national banks show that there are 202 fewer of such institutions than there were at the opening of 1894. Household Notes. William—I understand you moved your family last week. Jackson—Yes, our servant girl didn’t like the loca- tion we were in.—Ohio State Journal, Odd Point of Professional Etiquette. Professional etiquette prevents the French judges and judicial officials the center of each. i froza riding in omnibuses. EMPLOYMENT FOR DOCTORS. ‘ They Are Anxious to Work for the Keeley Institutes. Some of the best physicians in the United States are in the service of the, Keeley Institutes throughout the. world, and they are well satisfied to be: im such a well paying service. Only: doctors who have passed through the: cure themselves, that is, who have} been patients in a Keeley Institute, are,” allowed to work for the Keeley Com-; pany. It is the best doctors who have been addicted to the use of liquors and’ drugs, and therefore led to go to a Keeley Institute to get cured. f ‘Their excessive duties and hard work led them to drink to excess or to use, drugs. After being cured they were so enthusiastic as to desire to enter the work. Not one doctor in one thousand,! who has been cured in a Keeley Insti- tute can find employment with the Keeley Company, however, beeause there are only about fifty institutes in the various states. But almost all de- sire to work for the Keeley Company. The salaries are liberal and the work is agreeable. Doctors find so much sat- isfaction in doing this kind of work, where they see so many thousands of cures effected; no failures at all. Of course, some men, who possess few) brains, go back to drinking after bein; cured; but such men make failures everything. They are not to be cot ed. Over 90 per cent of the Keele, Graduates keep their cures. The ot! er few prefer the other kind of a lif The Keeley Cure does not give a mai brains. A few years ago doctors laughed at the Keeley Cure. Nowadays, Minneso- ta doctors not only send their patients in the Minneapolis Keeley Institute, but large numbers of them have taken the cure which they prescribe for oth- ers. Imitators have ruined many homes, and those interested should beware of them. Explanatory literature will be sent any who will write to the Keeley Institute, Tenth street south and Park avenue, Minneapolis, Minn. A Sample Hand. It was at an open-air meeting in a village near Exeter that a well known speaker was holding forth. “Men!” he shouted, “what we want, and what we are going to have, is free land. We want the land for the peo- ple. Free land, men, we want, and we are going to have free land!” Just then a large piece of earth land- ed on the speaker’s eye, and while he was removing the clod a voice yelled out: “There’s a bit of Devonshire to be- gin with!”—Tit-Bits. —_——— Founded 1855. STATE FAIR VISITORS Are Cordially Invited to Inspect the Albrecht Fur Stock. Send for our Complete Catalogue. Without {t you cannot review all the existing and cor- rect styles. It contains 50 pages and over 100 illustrations. and is the only complete Fur authority issued in America. Readers may secure a copy of this valuable work by sends ing 2c in stamps to E. ALBRECHT & SON, 20 oer Seventh Street, St. Paul, Minn ‘e have no Brauch Houses. STOCK RAISERS ‘Will find it greatly to their advantage, {f before purchasing a farm, they will Jeok at the country along the line of the Saint Paul & Duluth Railroad. DAIRY FARMERS Who desire the best Clover and Timothy land, in a district which can boast of a fine climate, good pure water, rich soil, fine meadows, and near to the marketa of St. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth and Superior should apply immediately by leter or in person to AVM. P. TROWBRIDGE, Asst. Land Commissioner, St. Paul & Duluth R. R. Box U—903 Globe Bldg., St. Paul, Minn 4 The Best Saddle Coat. ) if Keeps both rider and saddle per- [eR Yl fectly dry in the hardest storms. 9 Ay Substitutes will disappoint. Ask for 807 Fish Brand Pommel Slicker— 4) _Hf it is entirely new. If not for sale in B79 your town, write for catalogue to #/S RA A. J. TOWER, Boston, Ma:s. ‘A W. L. DOUCLAS $3 & $3.50 SHOES pion Worth $4 to i “ ee ese lg with Indorsed by over 1,000,000 wearers. ALL LEATHERS. ALL STYLES THE GENUINE have W. L. 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