Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 21, 1887, Page 5

MR. LEESE MEANS BUSINESS. fi'he Attornoy Genoral Has a Day Bet For the Mandamus Case. VOTERS NEED NOT REGISTER. The Law Requiring Them to Do So clared Unconstitutional — Freight Rates to Lincoln Reduced— Brief Capital Items, [#ROM THE PEE'S LINCOLN BUREAU.] Attorney General Leese, who was absent from the city when the star chamber compromise between the board of transportation and the railroads was {nstituted, yesterday appeared in su- preme court and had the mandamus case against the Elkhorn road, that is to test the validity of the law, reset for hearing on Monday, October 81. This action of the attorney general, if carried out and brought to an issue, will meet with universal approval by parties in the state who desire to know the truth of the matter, whether the board hus eny power or whether they are powerless to control railroads and their exorbitant tariffs. The fact that the compromise was to sutrender this vital question over to the ronds does not appear to please Attorney Gen- eral Leese, and the attempt of the ronds to keep the public in the dark and leave the law an unknown quantity ought to be nipped right where it is. 1t s n general opinion in Lincoln, and doubtless an equally general opinion abroad in the state, that after so much discussion and action the people have a right to know whether they are vic- tims of the voads. subject to a raise or reduction in rates at their whim, or whether there is a law to regulate rates on the statute books. The supreme court yesterday an- nounced that their opinion on the ques- tion of the new registration law for met- ropolitan cities and cities of the first class would be that the law was uncon- stitutional. The written opinion will not be handed down until Tuesday next, but the judges thought best to announce what their opinion would be to save further expense and to remove existing doubts. The principal objection to the law found by the court is stated to be that it is a violation of section 22 of the Bill of Rights, which provides that: All elections shall be freepand there shall be no hindrance or impediment to the right of a qualified voter to cxercise the elective franchise. This case was brought through man- damus proceedings instituted against the Fourth ward judges in this city and was argued by attorneys the first of the week. The supposition, when the bill became a law, was that it only applied to Omaha, and when it was discovered that it would apply to Lincoln, the test case was at once instituted. THE COMPROMISE REDUCTION. Unofficial statements floating around the city state that the railroads have agreed to the reduction of rates us fixed by the compromise meetings of the state ‘board of transportation, and the avidity with which the local railroad organ in this city publishes the facts with flam- ing headlines is an evidence that the stutements are genuine. These reduc- sions are said to be a 60 cents a ton re- duction on hard conl, a 8 conts per 100 reduction on lumber and, after the 1st of November, a 3 cent reduction per 100 on grain shipped east. With this also Rocul rates on the different lines in the @tate are oqualized and merchandise rates are lowered 20 per cent. The fig- ures are given on the savings made by the reductions and the statement also made that distributing tariffs are un- changed. In regard to chnnginfi rates from commercial centers nothing fis done and Lincoln and Omaha as cities reap no benefits, The Lincoln delega- tion that has been in Chicago attempt- ing to get a pro rata rate from eastern points has not yet returned home, but he fact is known that they have not succeeded in securing the rates asked. ‘What future action Lincoln as a_ city will take remains to be determined. THE ODD FELLOWS. The Odd Fellows grand lodge occu- pied the morning hours exclusively with business of & private character. At 2 p. m. the grand parade took place and notwishstanding the high wind and consequent unpleasantness the parade was very fine and some five hundred of the fraternity marched in line preceded by the uniformed canton of this ecity. One of the special orders set for the afternoon session was the election of officers for the ensuing year and this election was not finished at the adjourn- ment of the afternoon session. The rand lodge is one of the most indus- ious ever held. IN DISTRICT COURT. Yestorday Judge Field was hearing the testimony in a case wherein Charles J. Hull brings an ejectment against the Omaha & Republican Valley railroad. It appears that when this road located through Lincoln that the lots now used for depot grounds and yards were taken irregularly under some kind of con- demnation proceedings and the original owner now claims that they were taken without right or title and he proposes to recover the possession of his prop- erty. B{s(oro Judge Chapman a case was on trial involving the extra expense made by the con- tractor in erecting the Gernor build- ing. A jury was listening to the evi- dence in the morning hours. There are a number of applicants for admission to gm bar the present term,and Judge hapman yesterday appointed the fol- lowing attorneys as a committee to ex- amine and pass u\x;vn the applicants: Charles E. Magoon, W. H, Snelling, N. &,Snol H. H. Wilson, J. B. Strode, . H. Woodward, W. J. Houston,J. W. Lansing and Frank M. Hall. The grand jury up to noon yostorday had reported no {nd‘iclmenw to the court, although it was reported that they bad several agreed upon. They do not appear to be & very swift moving body. BRIEF ITEMS. The following notaries were commis- sioned vcslerd%: J. J. Wemple, Hast- ings; W. E. gers, Morse, Saunders county; R. E. Herdman, Hendley, Fur- nas county; Elbert P. Brewster, Grand Island; E. E. Post, Waco; D. Evans, Aurora, Hamilton county; J. A. Pollard, Nehawka, Cass county. The republican campaign in this county is in full blast, and the cross- roads school houses blare with eloquence nightly. Last night the village of Ray- mond was visited by a number of candi- dates and republican orators,and a very fine meeting was held. A number of Distriot Clerk Sizer’sfriends went along to listen to his masterly oration on the issues of the day. The mother of Isaac Davenport, the brakeman killed in the wreck, was in the city yesterday coming from Keurney and taking the dead body of her boy to that place for burial. There was no in- quest held and the criminal carelessness the company was allowed to pass by without a verdiot. The rapid transit street railway, now in successful operation, is preparing to extend its lines from the main line through the city north and south to a connection with the principal railroad depots. New rolling stock has reconfl{ been added to the line and the addi- tional improvements will be made through the sale of bonds, General J. C. McBride has a force of men at work removing his residence from the corner of P and Twellth streets and preparing the ground for a new three-story brick that he will build on that corner. The foundation will be 1aid the present year, The magnificent Burr block has reached the sixth and lnsuwra; and it is expected in & very few days to have it under roof. That it will be an ornamoent to the city and a pride goes without say- ing. l[f‘he national meeting of the Woman's Foreign Missionary society was in sos- sion at the Methodist church yesterday with a fair attendance. PERSONAL. Mrs. Patrick Eagan sails shortly for Dublin, Ireland, her former home, where she will visit with relatives and friends for several months. Mr. F. L. Vandergrift, of Atchison, Kan., formerly with the Atchison Champion, is in Lincoln for a day re- newing old and gecuring new acquain- tances. F. W. Gray, of Omaha, who furnishes the excellent quality of cedar blocks that go into Lincoln pavements, is in the city on a business trip. Senator W. H. Conger, of Loup City, was among the arrivals at the Capital hotel yesterday on a business visit. Governor and Mrs. Thayer are at Grand Island for the laying of the cor- ner stone at the Soldiers’ home. Mrs. Thayer will visit at Grand Island while the governor visits points in the Re- publican valley. George P. Russell, of Rice's Evange- line company, is in the city arranging for the appearance of his company. J. G. P. Hildebrand, of the Pawnee Press, and D. D. Davis, of Pawnee City, were state capital visitors yestorday. Colonel Roe, of Piqua, O., who has ssed the summer at Lincoln and Kearney, went east yestorday. T. L. Warrington, of Plum Creek, was a western Nebraska man at Lin- coln yesterday. D . L. Dayton started yesterday for Furope, where he will remain the coming six months perfecting himself in his profession. Mrs. John Fitzgerald was a passenger last evening for Chicago, where she visits with relatives ————— The Beau Ideal of a Family Medicine. A remedy which promptly and com- pletely relieves ailments of such com- mon occurrence as indtgestion, consti- pation, billiousness, and disoraers of the malavial type, is assumdly the beau ideal of a family medicine. Such is Hos- tetters Stomach Bitters, which is not only capable of eradicating these com- glumu, but_also counteracting a ten- dency to kidney troubles, rheumatism, and premature decadence of stamina. Taking it “‘all around,” as the phrase is, there is probably not in _existence so useful, effective and agreeable a house- hold panacea as the Bitters. Norisit less highly esteemed by the medical rofession than by the families of Amer- Numberless testimonials from pro- 2l sources of irrefragable authen- y evince its merit. The demand s than in the land of its discove rtainly increasing, time and experience of its beneficent effects confirming the‘high opinion or- iginally formed of it. i . periva e aINTL The Coffee Trade. New York Commercial Bulletin: A fow weeks ago attention was directed to the apparent critical condition of the coffee market, dvents have justified the assumption that holders were then losing the advantage, as business dur- ing the interval, until the commence- ment of the current week, could only be kept moving by a steady pressure of supplies and a consequent pruning down of values. It looks now, however, as though the tide had turned and was setting with fairly strong current in the opposite direciion. ~Within a few days a large increase of business has taken place, Brazil grades not selling on spot to any great extent, because the offerings lacked attractions, but finding pretty free buyers of parcels of new, to arrive on a parity of (@201c for new fair. Mild coffee also received some- what unusual attention, and heavy blocks changed hands at hardening values, with the renewal of interest in this class of coffee a sign t and promising feature as indicating a re- viving interest among actual consumers. Indeed, the healthiest point suggested by the present course of affairsis the apparent legitimate character of the stimulant, direct demand for act cof- fee from regular trade sources acting as the potent fuctor and promising to in- sure stability to gains already made or further increase of them as additional wants of the trade may develope. Large deliveries of late, a decrease 1n the vis- ible_supply and the chance that wonk holders l;mvu about all sold out, with nothing to change former light crop es- timates, seem to have veassured jobbors, and while the speculative element takes advantage of the change in sentiment, there can be no question but that for the time being at least it plays second to actual c.oflee. “Blood Will Tell.," ] Yes, the old e is right, but if the liver is dimrd:‘rlx and ",‘w blood be- comes thereby corrupted, the bad ‘*‘blood will tell” in diseases of the skin and throat, in tumors and ulcers, and in tubercles in the lungs (first stages of consumption) even although the subject be decended in a straight line from Richard Ceeur de Lion, or the noblest Roman of them all. For setting the liver in order no other medicine in the world equals Dr. Pierce’s ‘“Golden Med- ical Discovery.” Try it, and your “blood will tell” the story of its wonder- ful efficacy. Burglars' Tools. Troy Telogram: P. J. Jennings, an east side engineer and machinist, tells an interesting story about his dealings with a burglar. He was sitting in his oftice one a few months ago when two men entered with a design the wanted made of steel. He took the jol and turned it out according to order. The men came the next day, and after chatting pleasantly about the boodle aldermen and other matters of popular interest in the city, paid their bills and went away. Several other designs were brought him by the two men and he got to know them quite well. He did not learn their business, however, but it is such & common thing to deal with men whom one knows only b, sight that Mr. Jennings never bothere his head about it. But he found out who the men were after all. One day they called to have him make alf a dozen eight inch steel screws. He promised them for 5 o'clock, but the men did not come. He did not see them on the next day or the next. On the third day one of Pinkerton’s detectives dropped in upon him in the afternoon carrying a hand-satchel. He opened it and threw a lot of curiously shaped pieces of steel on the table. “*Were these made in your shop, Mr. Jennin, " casually remarked the de- **Yes, that's our work.” **Who did you make them for?” “Now you've got me—it's more than Ican tell. Inever had any reason to THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21. 1887, inquire, and tho men didn't bother about telling me.” “But you are sure you made that steel work here?” “Yes, oh yes; I'm sure enough of that.” Two days later Mr. Jennings was sub- penad by the prosecution 08 a witness against two men who had attempted to crack the safe in a bank in Ellenville, Ulster county. He met a Harlem ma- chinist and an ironworker from down- town at the court house in Kingston. Pinkerton's man opened wide their eyes when he took the piecesof steel that each one had shaped, and, putting them togeter, showed what a perfect sectional jimmy they made. et Bhniawtate NEW TWO-CENT STAMPS. ‘What Will Hereafter be on the Envel- ope of Your Letter. “Milori green” is the color of the new stage stamps now begining to make heir appearance. For the benefit of the people who are not up in the techni- cal names of the various ghades of green a8 expressed in printer’s ink and other high art circles, it may be stated that this green is exactly the same shade as that used for three-cent postage stamps which were in use when the letter pos- tage was changed from three cents to two cents. The change in color of the two-cent stamps, which was decided upon by the postofiice department some time ago took place on the 12th of the present month, It will take some time, how- ever, for the new green stamps to get into general use, for the department ro- uired all the postmasters to sell out all their old two cent stamps of the metalic red color before begining the sale of the new ones. There is no change in the design of the two cent stamp, the only change being in color, as the old stamp is still issued in its original color | of milori green, its color will now be changed to vermillion in_order to pre- vent confusion in distinguishing between the two denominations. There will be no change in color of the other postage ntum{)s at present. In the stamped envelop thore will be a change of the color of Ll‘\e 2-cent stamps so that it will correspond with the color of the ordinary 2-cent stamps. The change in the stamp of the envelopes will not be made =0 soon as that of the stamps, as the contractors have a pretty large sup- ply of the old color on hand. This is the fortieth anniversary of the first issue of p(ysuqio stamps in the coun- try. Until 1847 all postage was paid in money at the office of mailing or delivery; the pre{nymcnt was optional and the rvesult was that most of the postage was id at the office of delivery. The first stamps issued were five mli' ten cents in value those being_the then oxisting rates of postage. When postage was reduced to three cents in in 1851, a new set of stamps were issued. Another change was made in the first year of the war of rebellion in order to prevent the use of those in the hands of southern post- masters. The first issue of stamped envelopes was mado in 1853, and of postal cards in 1873. Up to this time the government has never undertaken to print its own stamps or make its own stamped enve- lopes, but it is probable that it will do 80 before many years are over. e ——— Hermann is up to many tricks; but he will never take in as much as Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup in its big raid on coughs or colds. ‘We indorse all the proprietors have said relative to the merits of Salvation Oil. It is nonpareil. ——— Gambling of the Argonauts. Overland Monthly: There was a French woman who played the violin, receiving 8100 & day therefor; and as women were 80 scarce in thoso days, whenever she left the saloon to go out on the street every saloon around the square was emptied to get a look at her. In these saloons there was piles of gold, both in coin and in sacks of gold dust, that would put some of our commercial banks of the present day to the blush, and long tables that had their croupiers ready to rake in or pay out as fast as the cards were turned off. T have often watched some novice who was putting down his first ventures at play. On one occasion I saw at the same table two clergymen shove their coin under another man’s arm on the table. I knew them both, and know of what I speak—we are all mortals after all. Among other noted players was a judge at that time, who made it & point every evening to go around from place to place and make high play. Upon entering with his attendant, who car- rried the sack, he would first sit down at a table and bar off every other playor; then set his time of play at a_limit, say twonty minutes or half an hour, the stake from $10,000 to $20,000, with the bank. Meantime, to keep the crowd that would be in at the time, which would be in at that time, which would number from 300 up to near 1,000 he always asked them all to take a drink, which meant twenty-five cents a head for the bar; and if he won he paid for the drinks; if he lost, the bank had them to pay for. —_— In another column of this issue will be found an entirely new and novel specimen of attractive advertising. It is one of the neatest ever placed in our paper, and we think our readers will be well repaid for examining the supposed display letters in the advertisement of Pricklv Ash Bitters. B The Size of a Krupp Gun, Philadelphia Record: Some idea of the size of Krupp's biggest gun may be gained b?'u description of the means supplied for its transportation. The railway truck, built expressly for this purpose, was seventy-five feet long, with thirty-two wheels and sixteen axles; but its length could form bend- ings, at six points, to pass round curves on the line of rails; this carriage, with- out its load, weighed ninety-six tons. The gun, which weighs 118 tons,is forty- fivo feet long, and its internai calibre is nearly sixteen inches, rifiled with ninety-two s{)lrn\ turns. It throws a steel projectile weighing nearly one ton, with a arge of 600 weight of brown rismatic powder, having an initial ve- ocity of 614 yards in a second, and & range of nearly eight miles; the shot can penetrate a steel armor p{nw thirty- six inches thick immediately at the mouth of the gun, and a plate twenty- nine inches thick,it has been estimated, at the distance of & mile or more. It is believed that no armor-plate ship in the world can endure the fire of such pow- erful guns. Krupp's factory, however, is now engaged in making two of still larger dimensions. —-— Threw Aside Her Stick. 132} CHRISTOPHER AND 497 HUDSON S18., NEW YORK, February 12, 1884.— Allcock’s Porous Plasters have been a great comiort to me this winter. I use them as chest protectors; they break up a cold in a few hours if placed one on the chest and two under the shoulder blades. Last winter I was much troubled with rheumatism in my knee; I had tried different remedies without avail; then Icovered the whole knee-joint with two Allcock’s Porous Plasters and kept them on for four days, when | changed them. I got better all the time, and in two weels 1 was entirely well,and threw aside my stick. RS, 8, FINKE. FACTS FOR THE FARMERS. The Rivalry Among Butter-Produo- ing Cows. VALUE OF ROTATION OF CROPS. Apples for the Cow—Use of Rejected Parts of Cornstalks—Spring Pigs — Farm Notes. Rivalry of Butter-Producing Cows. The question of superiority in the production of butter between the Hol- stein and the Jersey is a disputed one, the Jerseys, however, having become famous through the records of such noted cows as Eurotas, Bomba, Jersey Belle, Princess H, Mary Anne of St. Lamberts, and others, but as each ani- mal of a breed must stand upon its merits there are hundreds of inferior Jerseys, as well as a large number that are first-class. Records show the ten- dency of a breed to excel in the direc- tion intended, and, the little Jerseys are grand butter cows, yet there are other records which point to rivalsthat net only equal them in butter production but exceed them in the yield of milk. The largest record for butter in ninety days (304 pouuds 5% ounces) was made by a Holstein-Frieslau, and a cow only twenty-eights months old, Netherland Princess 4th, made twenty-ono pounds, ten and a half ounces in a week. As a three-year-old Albius 24 produced twenty-four pounds ten and a half ounces in a week,while three cows have in thirty days produced over one hun- dred pounds of butter each, and fifty cows can show a record of over _ twenty pounds per week. A large number of cows from the Holstein breed have been pri- vately tetted that have produced from twelve to twenty-three pounds per week. Twice the Holsteins have beaten the Jerseysin public tests at Chicago for the challenge cup with Mercedes, and at the recent dairy show in New York city. At tho late Ohio fair also, where the breeds competed, the Holsteins won on butter and milk production, and the Jorseys were onco beaten at Minneapolis lr{ the Holsteins, the latter having won all the prizes offered. These records show that while the Holstein yieldss a a Im‘sver quantity of milk than any other breed of liuirv cows it is not a chance butter cow, relying on a few individual animals to bolster the reputation of the whole, and that herds of Holsteins are well known by those interested that con- sist entirely of cows capable of making nt records in a public test. The ests of butter cows in which the lolsteins and Jerseys should meet and compete would be productive of great benefit, as they could not fail to bring both breeds to a higher standard of ox- cellence. They would stimulate the breeders to excel, and the cattle of the whole_ country would thereby be im- proved. No one is disposed to deny that the Jersey is entitled to a high rank as a hutmr-producin% animal, but the Hol- stein breeders will not submit to the Jersey’s claim as the only butter-pro- ducing cow. The Jersey must meet the Holstein in public tests and demostrate the claim by the amount of its product. Rotation of Crops. In the bulletin of Prof. Sanborn it is stated that rotations are valuable be- cause plants vary in the area of the soil in which the roots grow, and from which they derive the sustenance of the plant, thus more completely utilizing the soil within their reach. “There is a remarkable variation in the power of plants to appropriate the various eler ments of plant growte, due, atleast in part, to the character of the acids so- creted by their roots. Thus one plant, like clover, has a high power of gather- ing nitrogen, and another, like wheat, a véry low power. Plants vary in their weight of roots. As an_ illustration, clover, carrying several times the weight of roots that wheat does, it will be seen thatinasmuch as clover roots are much richer in nitrogen than wheat and carry enough nizrofien to grow a crop of wheat, wheat will most advan- tageously follow clover. Thus, like- wise, other plants follow each other ad- vantageously. Rotation of crops baf- fles, in a large measure, the root enemies, both insect and fungus, that prey upon them. Each plant baving its own peculiar enemies, changing of plants removes them to fields unoccu- pied by such enemies. This is true of the above-ground growth of plants toan imlgommv. degree. lants vary in the amounts of the varying elements of nutrition actually taken up in growth; thus, while wheat takes only one and one-fourth pounds of potash for every pound of phos- phoric acid, potatoes take three and one-fourth pounds of potash for each pound of phosphoric acid. Continuous growth of potatoes would exhaust the I)Otush of the soil or of supplied manure ong before the phosphoric acid would give out. The leaves of plants vary in their power of gaining food and of va- poring water, and are roughly divided into broad and narrow leaved. Leaves vary in their season of actual growth. Those plants maturing in midsummer and early fall generally gathor nitrogen }nurn an turnips are good examples), ollowing in their growth the decom- posing influence of the sun moro easily and fully than other crops do. Rotation conserves soil fertility, and yet ai”s in s0il decomposition by altérnation of grass, or cover crops and hoed crops. Under a continuation of plow and till- age crops, lea ng, volatilization and washing of fertility is rapid and may be or is more than carried away by crops, especially so of nitrogen. tation of crops distributes labor over the year, and therefore economizes labor and gives regular help and aids in the solu- tion of the labor problem of the farm. Apples for Cows. As there is usuallya waste of fallen apples at this season,the American Cul- tivator says that whether apples will in- jure milch cows depends greatly upon ow they are fed, and something, also, on the character of the fruit. A cow usually has no more discretion as to the kind of apples she should eator the amount than a small sehool-boy. When cows break into an ofehard, or a sudden wind storm brings down a great number of upglafi prematurely, so that cows can get them, then serious injury is sure to result. The cow has the cramps as evi- dently as a boy could have them. Often the first sign the owner has in a sudden falling off of the milk yield, and though that may be partially restored, the in- jury to the tone of the stomach fs such that the yield will not again be as great during that season as it was before. The worst effects are from unripe fruit. It takes only afew sour greuu apples to derange the stomach. The bitter juices with which they are filled are more or less poisonous; and even one or two will do more harm than good. When apples are fully ripe a very few daily may be given with advantage to milch cows, though sour apples should be avoided, a8 even in small quantities they are of little value in miik produc- tion. If given at all they should be fed in measured quantities, and on no ac- count should cows be turned in to hel themselves. They will eat a greal many ina short time, and if hurried may choke in trying to eat too rapidly. Rejected Parts of Cornstalks, New England Cultivator: It is inter- esting and instructive to note how a cow eats cornstalks and what part she re- jects as less palatable or nutritious. Of course a ravenously hungry cow will eat anything, but when hunger is somewhat appeased she becomes more dainty, and gfluhll{ shows what sho likes best. ne farmers have an idea that the leaves are the chief portion, and after these the fine stalks grown closely in fodder corn. The cows know better. If unsoiled the cow will take a constalk by the middle; or about where the ear would naturally form, crunch_ it double, and eat towards both top and butt at_the same time, Thisis probably the best and sweetest part of the stalk. The joints near the middle are being filled with rich, sweet juices that a little later would take cob and grain. The top, or tassel end, is either less nutritious, or Hmsibly offensive, because of the fine ust of its pollen.” When the cows be- gin totaste the tassel she bites the whole off short, and, if she has a quan- tity of stalks before her, picks up an- other and repeats the same process as before. The result is that after a cow has eaten half an hour she will have before her a pile of refuse consisting of tassels and butt ends more or less soiled and linble to be refused entirely. To test which of these is best, cut a handful of fresh tassels and the same amount of butts, and offer them separately from both hands at the same time. If the butts are not a pale green from being grown in the shade, she will cat them readily; but by this time, not being very hungry, she will refuse the tassels. There is some difference in cows in this respect. When they become old and their teeth fail, the lower part of the stalk, growing hard and woody very uickly, nearly as soon_as the tasscl ully forms is rejected. Such cattle might reject the butt when younger stock might eat it greedily. But ox- posure to sun-light and air seems to be necessary to make stalks nutritious. Farmers have often noticed in winter that cattle prefer coarso stalks from the field on which corn has grown by ordi- nary cultivation to the fine stalks pro- duced by the common thick seeding of fodder corn. Some of the butt ends will be left uneaten. They were not origin- ally as rich as the middle of the stock, and what nutritive value they had has largcl{ gone to the development of the ear. In winter the polen is off from the tassel, but it has as much sweetness as the center of the stock. Very early in the season or atany time before the corn tassels, its virtue iy muinly down toward tho ground. There is little sweotness in the extrem- ities of the leaves, but considerable where they join to the incipient stalk. It is very wasteful to feed corn at this stage. A few weeks more of hot weather will develop plant food very rapidly. To feed corn fodder then is little moro sensible than for a farmer to go into his fruit garden and fill himself with half- grown green %rums, peaches or sour apples. Up to the time the corn tassels good grass or clover is better for the cow, though its lack of succulence in July will often lead the cows to eat green leaves of corn, pretty much as the small boy will, if he has a chance, fill himself with green fruit. Perhaps there is enough natural depravity in some cows, as with the small boy, to make them think something much more desirable because forbidden. Though breachy cows will break from & poor pasture into a green piece of fod- er corn, yet unless they are very hun- gry they will eat less than would be ex- lmctod. It does not taste so good as it looks, and every farmer knows that a cow will run from one end of such a cornfield to the other. tram; “IIE it down and only taking a mouthful he and there, hoping, perhaps, that each one will taste better than the last. Plans for Early Spring Pigs. National Live Stock Journal. The man who raises spring pigs excluslvcl{ believing in but one cr(:}) a year, shou d plan for about one-third to one-half of them to be farrowed by the 15th of Feb- ruary. A farm house for them is neces- sary for the first three months, and a breeding house wish a stove, and the most dilligent care. After the pigs ar- rive at the age of four weeks they can be fed a little cow’s milk, sweet if possi- ble, and by the time Lheg are six to eight weeks old they can be induced to eat a slop of water, or milk, which is better, and corn meal and bran mixed. At three months of age the meal may be continued or soaked shelled corn sub- stituted. With rye or clover pasture from this time onward, and all the grain or meal they will eat, thero is no difficulty to feed such pigs to a weight of at least 200 pounds by August 15, or at six months. If the sows ard all bred the same week in October, there will be required but about one month's fire in the breeding room at farthest, and the number to be attended to will warrant the extra care. In a prairie country a good sheet iron stove can be had for a trifling expense, and if fuel is valuable, cobs will answer in most cases for fire. In this way a good portion of the pigs,and their moth- ers, too, may be fattened for an August market, besides dividing the labor of special care to the very young pigs into two periods. ‘We Might Learn From Germany. The German government has com- pletely eradicated the Colorado beetle, or potato bug, from the fields of the Kkingdom hf the timely use of poisons, and the tilling of the tracts of land on which the pest had appeared. There is no doubt but what equally energetic measures 1n this country would produce the same result,but the matter has been allowed to lapse along until the beetle has spread throughout the country. The insect was imported into Germany in cargoes of American potatoes. Farm Notes. The latest mode of whitewashing out- buildings is to have the whitewash thin in consistency and force it on the walls with a force pump. All animels should have an allowance of linseed meal at least twice a week, as it will regulate the bowels and prevent *‘hide-bound.” é Rotation in crops is the surest and safest plan in farming, and when one or two {aurs of pasture shall be included in the rotation the benefits will be greater, Although it is supposed that the hog eats anything, yet it rejects many grasses and weeds that are readily eaten Dy sheep and cattle. Sunflower seed is often fed to poultry but if too much is given igwill cause the feathers to fall off, as it promotes early molting. Itis a mistake to suppose that sour, fermented slop for hogs is better than a fresh mixture that is sweet and clean. A few lumps of charcoal with a box of wood ashes placed in the hog-pen will prevent many ills arising from indiges- tion in hogs. The charcoal shoul fresh, Old charcoal may be renewed by bheating it in the stove fora few minutes. No better use can be made of the soap-suds on wash @ays than to first scrub the pigs, if not too many of them, and then pour it along the celery rows. Soap-suds make an excellent fortilizer for both celery and asparagus. If you kept a carcful nccount of the vield of each cow last winter you will now which to disposo of now. Every farmer should keep a strict account of his dairy cows in order to avoid a loss from one while receiving a profit from another. It may be expensive to_employ an_ in- experienced milker. Farming, like other occupations, depends on knowl- edge. So-called cheap labor may be very costly in the end, and more soin the dairy than in any other work on the farm, QGrease of any kind will destroy lice on cattle, but the use of grease toa great extent will injure the cattle. 1f a single animal be infected with lico all the others will soon be in the samo condi= tion. A pound of carbolate of lime mixed with a bushel of fine, dry dirt freely scattered on the backs of the ani- mals is & harmless remedy, and will prove successful if used daily. The famous cow Elocta, for which her owner, A. J. Cowan, of Venango county, Pa., once refused $10,000, was sold by him to an Oil Cil?' butcher the other day for 850, she having been ruined by n\'vrluodiuf. Although this cow stood at tho head of all milk producers in this country a few years ago, her pedigree was nover known. She came to Cowan's family as an estray. She was a fumous prize winner. Cream is more valuable than butter, since it is equal to both butter and but- termilk, although the impression seoms to prevail with most milk producers that the one great and unl{ legitimato end of milk and its cream is to make butter, and a sense of waste and a misuse invol- untarily ariso whenever either is used for any other purpose; while, in fact. buttermaking is the least useful purpose for which milk in employed. Though the Jerseys begin to breed when quite young, there are other breeds that sometimes have exceptions. A western farmer has a galloway heifer which, only thirteen months old, has given birth to a calf. The turkeysshould be given full range now, as_there are no crops they can harm. They will find a large portion of their food, and a large flock can bo raised at a very small cost if given plenty of room. To show what may be obtained by good breeding, it has been stated that in England 1,200 sheep recently brought $1,500, which is over 812 each, and a very large sum for so many at one sale. The practice of mixing the morning’s and night’s milk is detrimontal, as it often causes rapid change. It would ho better, if not too impracticable, to keep each cow’s milk separate, but as this is Iaborious, tho milk of one milking should at least be kept from that of an- other. The farmer cannot well get along without having at least a few cows. Ho is therefore interested be it ever so lit- tle, in making them pay, and cannot af- ford to shut his eyes to an opportunity of acquiring points on profitable dairy management. One of the greatest drawbacks to be- ginners in poultry raising is to attempt to keep fifty fowls in a house or lot none too largo for twenty-fi Ringing Noises. In tho ears, sometimes & roaring. buz- zing sound, are caused by catarrh, that exceedingly disagreeable and very com- mon disaese. Loss of smell or hearing also result from catarrh. Hood’s Sar- saparilla, the great blood purifler, is a gncu]iurly successful remedy for this isonse, which it cures by purifying the blood. If you suffer from catarrh, try Hood’s Sarsaparilla, the peculiar medi- cine. Railway Growth. New York Letter: The first railway built in this city began running in 1832, and extended only from the vicinity of the city hall to Harlem. The Ilatter was then a quiet old Dutch hamlet of a few score houses, and, with the excep- tion of a rustic village at Yorkville, the whole intervening space down to the noighborhood of Cooper Union—the cen= ter of old Peter Stuyvesant’s ‘‘Bowerie” —was farin lands of a wilderness of weeds and rocks. At that time, fifty- five years ago,the entire railway system of the United States consisted of 250 miles of road and about 1,000 employes, all told, where now we have: 130,000 miles of road and 700,000 employes. The Hudson River railroad on the West Side came into oxistence twenty years Iater, and its lower depot was at the corner of West Broadway and Chambers street. It is butafew years compara- tively since the Grand Central depot was completed, and now a built up city extends all along fts line to the Harlem river, and people are growling and de- manding that locomotives be not allowed to cross the river, But the railroad g:op]u own the right of way, and will very slow to yield it. Its superior excellence proven in millio homes for more than a quarter of a century, is used by the United Btates Government. dorsed by the heads of the as the Strongest, Purest and t En: “Moat Honthtol cathful, Dr. Price’s the orly Baking Powder that does not contain Ammonia, Lime or Alum. Bold only in cans, PRICE BAKING POWDER CO., New York. Chicago. Bt. Louts, NATURE'S REMEDY YOR Disordered Stomach, Impaired Indigestion, Constipated Habit. A Kemedy which quickly charms e Infant in the mothers aros. 0 0 gob| ESCING contai is 1LV s BELTZER fine A blessing Proves to me and i EYEIVES O ateed rase. onl; in id eon 'i'.‘-.."'n;h & fi:fl"" eurrent: werfut, Duebie ‘Comforixsie vor "Avold fravas, e Overd, R| ] lunausss. NIPPED IN THE: BUD. A Strike On the Groen Line of Street Cars Seftled with Yery Little Difficalty, An Interview with the Driver of Car No. 18-The Whole Thing Given Away-He Was Not Held Up, but Held Down--The Story In Detall. The United States is the country of strikes. Week after week the newspapers chronicle a new strike here or there. Btroet car drivers are, a8 n goneral rule, overworked and underpaid, and a strike among s almost & common ocrur- rence. Rumors of @ strike among the strect gar drivérs {n Omalia have been fiying thick and fast for & week past, & reporter ing 10 as- certain to what extent the strike had progrossed, hatled car No. 18 on the green line several day. 8o, and, making his way through the crowded car'to thie front platform, ingratiated himselt into the good graces of the gonial driver, and lonrtied trom that gentlemin the following par: ticulars of the strike in question: ‘“Btrike, did Well, 1 do not know, there may be Koma f @ strike, but if thero is T know nothing about it. I think the drivers hero in Omaha are paid about as well as the drivers anywhere elso and have ahout, the same houra; but if you want to know something of » strike, 1 can toll you of a strike 1 came noar going on about & month ago. You see,” continued the owing confidential, “for the last three ave beon & sufforer from that lothsome catarrh, brought on by careloss expos: ure, and had it 8o bad that 1 got tired of mysel! sud overything. At night time while tn bed would have s dfopping fn the buck of my throa which would almost strangle me, it would kee me awnke the best part of the night, my breat! was oxtremely offensive; why 1 was ashamed to o newr uny person, o Account of i T could not retald what littlo food 1 managed to eat, and would Lialk and spit all day, 1 had & buzzing and roaring in my ears, 1 tried patent medicines t no end without rellef, and tried several local doctors with the same result, and had about made up my mind to go on' a strike to some other climata for my healih wh rend an ad- vertisement of Drs. McCoy & Henry, and passing their oftice every day and seeing so many people calling there 1 coneluded there must be some- thing In it, T called o treatment at once.” ueried the scribe. their treatment for one han [ have for two years; I have no more bad breath, no MoTe nofses i’ my ears, can noar ag wellas ever, can eat throe quare menls and Keep them down, too, and in fact feel like o new man entirely. ‘want to say all T can for the doctors for they have worked wonders for me. Not off, are you, well, good bye,” und the scribe, ploddinig on hls wéary way, thonght surely Truth is stranger than fiction. 'Tho Ariver nbowe mentioned is them and commenced And with what result?* . ROSS, Line, w Twenty-sixth streo the above to unyo um, ax driver of car No. 18, the corner of Kirh whare hia will corroborato doubting it. CATARRH DESCRIBED. The Symptoms Attending That Disease Which Leads te Consumption. When catarrh hasxisted in the head and the upper part of the throat for aiy length of U —tho patient living 1n o district Whero people are subject to_catarrhal affection o dis- cnse has beon left unoured, tho catarrh invard. ably, sometimes slowly, extends down the wind- pipe'and into the bronchial tubes, which tubes convey the air into the different parts of the Tunge Tho tubes bocome affected from the swelling and the mucous arising from catarrh, and, in_some instances, become plugged up, 56 that the air cannot get in ws freely as it should, Shortness of breath follows, uud the pationt Dreathes with labor and difficulty. Tn efther case there is a sotind of craoklin and wheezing inside tho chost. At this stage o the diseaso tho breathing is usually more rapid than when in health. The patient has aiso hob dashes over hix body. . "Ihe pain which accompanies this condition {s of a dull character, folt {n the chest, behind the Dreast bone, or under the shoulder blado. Th puin may como and go—lust v o, duys hen be ibsent for severnl others. The cough that oceurs in the first stages of bronchial ca- tarrh 18 dry, comes on At intervals, hacking in character and i usually most troublesome in the morning on rising, or going to bed at night, and it may bo in the first evidence of the dis extending into the lungs, Bometimos thoro aro fits of coughing induced Dy the tough mucus so violent a8 to cause vom- iting. Later on the mucus thatia raised is found to contiin small particles of yellow mat- ter, which indicates that tho small fubes in the lungs are now affected. With this there are often streaks of blood mixed with the muous, Insome cases tho patient becomes very pale, has fever, and expectorates before any cough appears. ' some cases small masses of cheesy sub- stance are spit up, which, when pressod be- tween the fingers, ‘emit » bad odor. In other cusos, particlos of i hurd, chialky natuxe aro ¥plt up. The raising of cheesy or chalky Tumps ine alcate serious mischiet at work in the lungs. In some cases catarrh will extend into the lungs in & fow Weeks; in othor cases it may bo months, and even years, before the disease at- tacks the lungs sufliciently to causo serious in- terference with the general health, When the disease has developed to such a point the pa- Hent 18 sald to have catarrhal consumption, With bronchial catarrh there s more or le fever which differs with the different parts o the day—slight in the morning, higher in the afternoon and evening. SNEEZING CATARRH. What It Means, fiiu Acts, and What You sneeze when you get up in the morning, you try to sneeze your nose oft every time you are ex; 10 the east draft of air.” You have a fullness over the fr orehoad, the nose foels as if there was & plug in'each nostril which you cannot dislodge. your noso until your ears crack, but 1t don't do ny kood, and tho only roxult 18 that you succeed n getting up a ve nose, and you #o irrl- thts' the ‘uning merbrane of tha organ Ut ou are unable to breathe through it at all, his 18 & correct and not overdrawn picture of an_acute attack of catarrh, or “Sneezing Ca- tarrh” as it is called. Now, what does this condition indicate? First, a cold that causes mucus to be ured out b the glands in the nose; then those diseas clands are attacked by swarms of little germs— ho catarrh germ—that Hoat in the air in alo- catity whero tho disease i prevalent. Theso anininlonlne. n their offorts to find a_lodgment, irritate the sensitive membrane lining of the nose and nature undertakes to rid herself of them by producing @ fit of snoezing. When the nose becomos filled with thickened iseused mucus the natural channels for the in- troduction of air into the lungs 13 interfered with, and the person 80 effected must breathe throtigh the mouth, and by such means the throat becomes parched and dry, snoring 13 pro- duced, and_then the catarrhal disease gains Teady access to the throat aud lungs. DOCTOR ). CRESAP M'COY, Late of Bellevae Hospital, N, Y. AND DOCTOR COLUMBUS HENRY Have Offices 310-311 RAMGE BUILDING, CORNER 15TH AND HARNEY STREETS, OMAHA, NEB. Where all curable cases are treated with suc- coss. Modical diseases treated ski sumption, Bright's Disease, Dysp matiem, ‘and ull NERVOUS DISE: diseases pecullar to the sexe: clalty, TARKIH CURKD. s CONSULTATION at office or by mail 1. Office Hours 9 to 11, m.; # 10 4 p.m.;7t09 p.m. Sundays included. Correspondence receives prompt attention, Many diseases are trented nu cessfully by Dr, McCoy through the mails, and it 1s thus possible for those unable to make & journey to obtain successful hospital treatment at their homes. Jlolettory auswered unless wocompanied by 40 n stamps. Address all letters to Drs. McCoy & Henry, mmdduwnflml)mmll‘