Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, November 16, 1901, Page 7

— = CCP 1h ii ite AN OPEN LETTER Address to Women by the Treas- urer of the W. €. T. U. of Kansas City, Jies. E. C. Smith. “My Dean Sisters: —TI belicve in advocating and upholding everything that will lift up and help women, and but little use appears all knowledge and learning if you have not the health to enjoy it. 7 MRS. E. C. SMITH. “Having found by personal experi- ence that Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound is a medi- cine of rare virtue, and having seen dozens of cures where my suffering sisters have been dragged Yack to life and usefulness from an untimely grave simply by the usezof a few bottles of that Compound, I must proclaim its virtues, or I should not be doing m duty to suffering mothers and dveoped: out housekeepers, ‘* Dear Sister, is your health poor, do you feel worn out and used up, especially do you have any of the troubles which beset our sex, take my advice ; let the doctors alone, try Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound; it is better than any and all doctors, for it cures and they do not.”—Mrs. E. C. Sars, 1212 Oak St., Treasurer W. C. T. U., Kansas City, Mo.—gs000 forfeit if above testimontal Is not genuine. Mrs. Pinkham advises sick wo- men free, Address, Lynn, Mass. Dictionary Stalled at “A.” The French government and the French Academy haye been on had terms for a long time, and everyhody knows it; but their last point of con- troversy is calculated to astonish the world. It is all about the dictionary, the famous dictionary, which was be- gun forty years cgo and is still at the letter “ One weald hardly expect the subject to arouse lively passion, but it appears that the government pays a salary to the makers of this dic- tionary. It is not very strange, then, if they begin to think that the time con- sumed is raher excessive. A deputy now has the audacity to propose a withdrawal of the -alary. It is easy to understand how he has brought down all the thunder of ‘the forty “Immor- tals.” It is trl2 the amount each “Immor- tal” receives is not very great; it is calculated that each gets an average of 1,600 francs, which draws from the state some 64,000 francs a year. But if one calculates at the rate, they are going, the long centuries it will take to finish the work, the deputy argues that the people will have paid a little dear for a dictionary.—London Sketch. Great Naval Stronghold. It is not generally known that within eighty miles of Victoria, and forty-six miles inside Puget Sound, there is a ruecleus of a navy yard which is des- tined to be one of the most important— if not the most important—in the Union. Ten years ago a_ wilderness, it now teems with life. Its situation is Ideal. It is absolutely land-locked, its short- est appreach being a narrow, winding channel six miles long, heavily forti- fied and mined. Its longest approach is fourteen miles, with an entrance so narrow an enemy's ship would stand no chance of getting through.—Harp- er’s Weekly. $100 Reward $100, ‘The readers of this will be pleased to Jearn that there is at t one dreaded disease that science has able to cure in all its Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh $ the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. tarrh being a constitu- e, requires @ constitutional treat- 's Catarrh Cure is taken internally pon the blood and mucous sur- ‘stem, thereby destroying the he disease, and giving the patiens strength by building up the constitution an@ assisting nature in doing its work. The pro- prietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for ny case that it fails tocure. Send for list of ‘Testimonials. Address F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toiedo, Sold by druggists 7c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. A Pastor's Many Lectures. “One of the most remarkable men in this ccurtry,” declared a Philadelphia rran, the other day, “is the Rev. Dr. Russell H. Conw-ll, pastor of the Bap- tist Temple, Philadelphia. He told me not long ago that he had either lec- tured or preached every evening, with possibly a dozen exceptions, during all of the st sixteen vears. He has de- livered the lecture he calls ‘Acres of Diamonds,’ more than 2,500 times. In additior to his dutics as pastor of the t church in Philadeiphia t of a college attached to vhich more than a hun- re educated by eans of money raised entirely through Dr. Conwell’s efforts. New York Times. largest B he is p the chu Pat Teacher—Yes, ‘revive means to “ecme to.” Now, make a sentence con- taining that word. Bright Boy—If one apple costs 3 cents what will four apples revive?— Philadelphia Press. People do not, as a rule, appreciate the possibilities of the pork tenderloin. Treat in the same way as a chicken f{ricasee with dumplings and a rich gra- vy. You will not be disappointed in the result—nor your husband, if he is like mine.—Good Housekeeping for Novem- FARM AND GARDEN. MATTERS OF INTEREST TO AGRI- CULTURISTS. Some Up-to-Date Hints About Culti- vation of the Soil Yielas Thereof—Horticulture, Viticulture and Floriculture. and The Lentil. The plant herewith illustrated is the Lentil, known scientifically as lens esculenta, It is a small branching plant with delicate pea-like leaves. The small white flowers growing in pairs are followed by fiat pods, each con- taining two very flat round seeds, con: vex on, both sides. Unlike the pea and bean, the lentil is eaten only when fully ripe. The brown or reddish lenti! is smaller than the yellow, but of more delicate flavor. The lentil is one of the most ancient of food plants, prob- ably one of the first to be brought un- der cultivation by man. It has been grown from early times in Asia and in the Mediterranean countries. The reddish Egyptian lentil probably fur- nished the “red pottage” of Esau. In Europe this legume is far less grown than the pea and bean, partly because its yield of seed and straw is less; therefore the market is partially sup- plied from Egypt. ing to analysis, is one of the The lentil, accord- most nutritious of all the legumes, but its flavor is pronounced and to some per- sons not as agreeable as that of the pea and bean. It has sometimes been claimed that indigestion and other bad effects followed the eating of lentils, but this impression is known In some cases to be traceable to the use of cer- tain poisonous vetches, whose seed much resembles the lentil. There is every reason to consider the lentil a wholesome food. Until recent years the lentil was little known in the Unit- ed States, but with the growth of the foreign population its use has steadily increased. The lentils found in our markets are all imported, but the cul- ture of this legume with European seeds is being tried in our southwest- ern territories and elsewhere. There is already grown in New Mexico and Arizona, as well as in Mexico, a small variety of lentil, the seed of which was doubtless brought from Spain cen- turies ago by the ancestors of the present mixed race living there. The sandy soil of moderate fertility seems adapted to it; it has. become accli- mated, is hardy and prolific. Nets on Apple Trees. At a recent convention reported by the Farmers’ Review, Prof. Webster of the Ohio Experiment Station reported the results of some experiments car- ried out by him in netting apple trees to keep off the coddling moths. A number of trees were covered with nets to keep out the moths, and be- side them were a number of check trees left uncovered. When the apples were harvested it was found. that 19 per cent were wormy on the covered trees and over 70 per cent wormy on the uncovered trees. It will be no ticed that even the apples on the cov- ered trees were affected to almost one- fifth of all. Just how valuable the ex- periment is we cannot say, especially as we do not know how near the cov- ered trees were to the uncovered. It seems to the writer that one very im- portant part has not been reported. We wish to ask: Did not the moths that tried to get onto a covered tree turn away from that and go onto an uncovered tree, thus making the num- ber of wormy apples there very much larger than it would have been under ordinary circumstances? If such were the case the relative value of the cov- ering would be lessened for actual use Also, did the covered tree bear as much fruit as the uncovered one? We ask this, as the netting that kept out the moths might also keep out the in- sects that assist the cross-fertilization of the blossoms, it having been quite fairly demonstrated that even our ap- ple trees benefit by this cross-fertiliza- tion, It may yet pay well to protect some of our fruit trees with nets, Good and Bad Work of Bees. Protesson Waite of the Department of Agriculture has been investigating the work of the bee relative to its car- ryilg of disease germs from flower to flower, and expresses the opinion that the bee is largely responsible for the distribution of the peach rot fungus. The bee himself does not puncture the peach, but gets to work on the peach after the wasp and the soldier bug have punctured it. Bees also carry pear blight. Pear trees do not usually show much blight ttil they bloom and begin to bear fruit. The pear blight virus is gummy and can’t be blown by the wind; it must be carried “by in- sects, If the virus dries it dies in a]! few days. A twig that has died of blight is no longer a menace, because |* the virus that killed the twig is dead}: uso. It is therefore evident that the serms are spread by insects, especially bees, On the other hand the bee fs a great increaser of our crops through his work of cross-pollenization. Many of our plums and apples are sterile tc their own pollen, but such is not true of the peach and quince. The pear is uot of the type that produces pollen that is borne by the wind. From the riological standpoint the bees are do- |, ng their. natural work in visiting olossoms, and in spite of what harm they do they are necessary to the best results in our orchards. Campbell Method of Soil Culture. Some years ago the Campbell method of soil culture made a considerable stir in agricultural circles. Recently little | has been heard of it. The only refer- ence made to it this year is in an ex- periment station®bulletin, which says: “The Campbell method has _ yielded small crops of wheat, and has given no appreciable saving of soil moisture.” As some of our readers will remember Mr. Campbell, the inyentor of the tools used in this process, claimed that the stirring up of the ground was not an advantage to crops, and that where the soil was plowed it should be again compacted as firmly as it had been at first, if that -vere possible. He said that the ordinary roller only com- pacted the first two inches of earth, but that below that crust the soil was light and loose. The roller he invented was arranged to penetrate the soil and compact the earth down to the depth of the plowing, while at the same time a dust mulch was left on the surface. At one time some of the experiment station men looked quite favorably on the scheme. Results, however, have shown it of no value. Spraying Fruit Trees in Bloom. There is at present much contro- |! versy whether or not fruit trees should be sprayed when in bloom. In the state of New York a law has been passed making it a misdemeanor to spray fruit trees when in bloom, on account of the danger to bees. It is without doubt true that some bees are killed by the poison in the spray. In one case re- ported a whole hive of bees were killed, and an examination showed ar- senic in the digestive apparatus of the bees, It has also been discovered that the poison is equally destructive to the life of the pollen, even when the amount of poison is only 9 to 100 parts in 10,- 000. Even two parts in 10,000 has been frequently found fatal to the pollen. The danger to the pollen is, however greatly lessened by the fact that the blossoms do not all open at once, but the process extends over several days In a clump of five apple blossoms the central one opens first, and spraying at that time kills the pollen in only those open blossoms. Fertilization of Flowers. Insects are necessary to the fertili- zation of most flowers; and were it not for insects, especially honey bees many of the crops we now have would be wanting. There are a good many flowers that produce pollen that has no means of getting from flower to flower except by the medium of in- sects. On the other hand some plants throw off great quantities of pollen without the help of the insects. Prof. James Fletcher relates that when in British Columbia some people came tc him and asked‘him to explain a show- er of sulphur that had apparently fal- len during the preceding night. He assured them that there had been no shower of sulphur, but that what looked like sulphur was in reality the pollen of pine.trees. Manures and Potato Seab, It is the common experience that (lime and ashes are apt to favor the po- tato scab. The Rhode Island experi- ments showed that this is attributable to their content of carbonate of lime which renders the soil favorably al- kaline. Similar increase of scab fol- lowed the use of soda ash (carbonate of soda), potash (carbonate of potas- sium) and magnesia. Stable manure ot all kinds favors the scab development, probably for similar reason. Fertiliz- ing materials which do not tend to in- crease the scab and which may even check it are enumerated as follows: Common salt, land plaster, most com- mercial fertilizers (including super- Ore 3% To get its Louisville, Ky. 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But | when the air is in motion one-half of the tree will have to be left till the wind changes. 7a See Sweden has 2,303 miles of govern- ment, and 4,387 miles of private rail- roads. The government has not yet sueneeded in acquiring the latter, al- theugh efforts have been made to St. Jacobs Oil never fails, It Conquers Pain Price, 25c and soc. SOLD BY ALL DEALERS IN MEDICINE Benne nnn ne The double or tfiple skirt looks de- cidedly smart on slight figures \ hibited some interesting reproductions — nag of drawings and paintings, discovered . on’ the walls of the Grotto of La $8.00 one of the Mouthe, in the Perigord district. -2UYS_best made The designs are the first found in 800_Lb. Platform Scales France which are ;reved beyond doubt ever Sold. Wi to belong to the prehistoric epoch | y.7 ikaed . Well made. known as the Reindeer age. ‘Size Set TIME. Shy One hundred and thirty yards of the JONES (HE PAYS THE PREG, total length of 200 yards have now been BINGHAMTON, N.Y, explored, and M. Riviere’s investiga- RAE 3 tions have been rewarded by the dis- | Nat 's Priceless Remedy Rheumatism, covery, on the hearthstones of the | OR. 0. PHELPS BROWN’S | gia, Weak Back, ie primitive inhabitants, of the remains of fauna, represented by thousands of rudely-skaped silica and bone imple- ments. The most interesting find, however, is a series of designs representing ani- mals of the period. The drawings in- clude the wild ass, bison, reindeer, wild goat, antelope, mammoth and a species of bear.—London Daily Mail. A man who married a widow says he has reasons for believing the best man that ever lived was his wife's first hus- band. ESTABLISHED 1879. PREGIOUS | oor owciver It Cures Through the Pores | Sond Stow’ Fray adaress Dr. 0. P. Brown, 98 B’way, Ni DROPSY:™ DISCOVERY: etven quick relief and cures wort® case. 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