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THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA.
POTENCY OF THE PEANUT.
V One TToaM Think the Humbl. Goober
o Important.
But littls Is known of tho peanut out
ride of localities in which it is frown,
and even where it is most largely grown
its possibilities are for tho most part not
at all realized, and it is not by any
means mnde to yield the highest results
it is capable of. Taking into account
all its sources of value, tho peanut ought
to bo one of tho most prolitable of the
general farm crops in tho !outh. The
following facts alout it are in the main
condensed from a bullet in of the United
States Department of Agriculture pre
pared by H. B. Handy of tho oflice of
experiment stations.
The yearly production of peanuts in
this country is alxmt 4.000.0(H) bushels
of 22 pounds, tho bulk of the crop be
ing produced in Virginia, Georgia. Ten
nessee, and North Carolina. These
4,000,000 bushels, whilo fully supplying
'Aio present demand of the United
States, constitute but a small part of
the peanut crop of the world, as the ex
portation from Africa and India in 1892
amounted to nearly 4,000,000 pounds,
of which 222,000,000 pounds went to
Marseille for conversion into oil.
The largest part of the American
crop is sold by street venders, but
snail amounts are used by confection
ers, chocolate manufacturers, and for
the manufacture of oil. Peauut oil is
used for lubricating and soapmaking,
and is a good substitute for olive oil
for salads and other culinary purposes,
and as a substitute for lard and cotto
lano in butter and cooking. The residue
from oil making, known as "peanut
cake," is a highly valued cattle food in
tho countries of Europe, and is also
ground into fine flour and used as hu
man food. It makes good soup, grid
dle cakes, muffins, etc., and is one of
the most nutritive of foods. The vinos,
when dried, become a very nutritive
hay, readily eaten by stock, though re
quiring c re in the feeding, lest it pro
duce colic.
The present uses of the peanut and
its products are like'y to be greatly ex
tended and new channels of utility be
(bund for it, as has been the case with
cottoTwM. With better motho 's of
tillage and a larger yield per acre, the
cost i production could be greijy less
ened. According to the eleventh census
'Jie avenge yield of peanuts in the
United States in 18S9 was 17.0 bushels
jor acre, the average in Virginia being
about twenty, and in Tennessee thirty
two bushels per acre. This appears to
be a very low avora re, especially as of
ficial and semi-official figures give fifty
or sixty bushels as an average crop, and
ouo hundred bushels is not on uncom
mon yield.
While the peanut has been cultivated
tn the United States to a limited extent
for a number of years, it is only since
I860 that the crop has become of primary
i importance in the eastern section of
this country, which seems peculiarly
adapted to its proluction. Between
L865andlS?0 the rapid spread of the
culture of peanuts was phenomenal.
Each year doubled, and at times in
creased threefold its crop over the pre
ceding year, so that this country, from
being a large importer of West African
ants, was soon able to supply the do
mestic demand with the home-raised
article.
Virginia, North Carolina and Tennes
see produce a large part of the peanut
crop of the United States. Within the
last few years this crop has ceased to be
as profitable as heretofore. The method
of culture the annual planting of nuts
on the same land, the lack of proper ro
tation of crops, the complete removal of
aH vegetation from the land, and the
failure to replenish the soil by means of
fertilizers has been a great factor in
reducing the profits of the crop by re
ducing the ability of the land to pro
' dace such crops as were previously se
cured in that section, so that now, in- I
stead of an average of fifty bushels per j
acre, witn trequent yields of over one
hundred bushels, tae average in the
peanut sections is not over twenty bush
els, while the cost of cultivation has
been but slightly re luced.
As regards food value, peanut ker-
rrof0
protein, 4 per cent, or rat, ana 14 per
cent, or carbohydrates in the dry ma
terial, t.ke a high rr.nk, and should b !
classed with sneh concentrated foods as
soja beans and cottonseeds. The vines
axe shown by experience to be superior
to timothy hay as a feeding stuff, and
bt slightly inferior to clover hay. The ;
food value of the hay is, of course.
higher the greater the percentage of
nuts left on the vines in harvesting.
The halls also appear to possess consid
erable value as a feeding stuff, being
much richer in valuable food constitu- ,
ents (.protein, rat and carbohydrates)
than cotton hulls, which are extensively
used in some localities in the South as a
coarse fodder and about equal to the
poorest gTades of hay. Boston Herald.
Th. New Curate.
The Rev. Gideon Gosling My arrival
here seems to have caused some excite
ment. Porter Yes, sir ; but bless yer, noth
ing to the dancing bear that come yes
terday. The Sketch.
Ko Such Word,
An East Jordan girl wrote to her best
fellow:
'Don't phale to be thar."
lie replied at once :
"111 be thar. There's no soch word
as phale." Grand Rapids Democrat.
A Indiana Noes It.
One of onr prominent citissons took 41
drinks of whisky last Buturdny after
noon. 8uch conduct is dnplornblo while
o many of bis poor neighlior lire with
out a single drink. RuHhville Ind.
Graphic.
' Promising.
There's good material for an actor in
Softleigh."
"What loads you to think sot"
"Be shed tears at his mother-in-law's
funeral. " -Gothaniitfc ffacjSjCLtia
A SHOBTOMI "
M HEBKEE
OF GREAT INTEREST TO WOUBJ.
Pale Cheeks and Nerveless Hands are no Longer
Admired. To be Strictly Correct you Must
have Rosy Cheeks and Good Health.
Men Admire Wholesome-looking Women, and now
Seek their Wives from that Class.
A FEW POINTERS FOR THE GIRL OF THE PERIOD.
Ture Mood la th ncrrrt of health snd I
brainy. The features my be regular, the
form perfect, bat no woman cn be beautiful
in the full nse of the word while mflering
from any of the peculiar ailment of her an.
liceaae iltwtrora the completion, is produrtir.
of wrinkle, and prematura old age. Regular
monthly uterine action it neeeMary te ttvrrj
vnmnn i health, and if this function of life u
checkeil, diaeaac, a pale and sallow com
plexion, and a feeling of eihauation, are the
rcanlt. The monthly aecretion muat continue
from puberty to the turn of life without un
nntural obstruction. Any breach of this law
of Nature will result in the distressing syrup
toma which make the Uvea of aeyen-tenttis of
the women of this country miserable, almoat
unbearable. A few of theM symptoms are
ever, headache, loss of appetite, pale and
sallow complexion, palpitation of the heart,
awollen ankle or lega, nervousness, oftenaiv.
breath, etc., etc. Tha sufferer may exhibit
one or mora of theae symptom, or may have
all. They simply indicate the ravage diaease
has made upon the system, end th mor. of
the symptoms tha patient snows the greater
the necessity for prompt and persistent treat
ment, until they have been banished and the
bloom of health is restored. To accomplish
this end Dr. William' Pink Pill are the
only unfailing remedy. They positively cure
all suppressions and irregularities, which if
neglected, inevitably entail sicxnees ana
trouble. By taking thmt pills for a week or
ten day before the expected return of each
period, the prompt appearance of "the
visitor" is insured. For suppressions, the
pills must be taken steadily until tha rt-ap-pearnnee
take place generally in a month'
time, souietimu lea, Follow tha directions
on the pamphlet about each box. Nursing
women will find their milk improved in
quality and quantity by taktng these pills, and
also obtain relief from pain in the back and
general dragged-out feeling. All displace
ments from weakness of the uterine ligament
are speedily relieved and ultimately cured by
the, use of these pill. Leucorrhcra. bearing
down weight in the pel via and all female
weakness, find speedy relief and enre in the
administration of tha Pink Tills for Pale
People.
The most critical period in the life of a
woman is that attending the cessation of men
struation, or, a it 1 most generally termed,
the change or turn of life. Th symptoms
attandjng this period are fainting spell or
tracks or Rtlntness or dizziness, headache, gen
rim ucuiin;, caiihusuvu. icciiMg ui menu'
choir, hysteria, pain in lota or limbs, hypo
chondria, etc. Tha change 1 a gradual on
for better or worse for the former if th
patient i wise enough to fortify the system
against the ravages of the symptoms attending
the change. For this purpose no remedy erer
discovered equal Dr. w llliamV Pink Puis,
They purify the blood by acting directly upon
the sexual system, lessen the severity of this
critical period, ana finally leave the patient
in the enjoyment of robust health. All ladies
approaching this critical period should take
ut. tviuiarur fina fins.
, PALE AND SALLOW GIRLS.
What can be more distressing than to see
a girl drooping and fading in the springtime
of youth? Instead of bright eye, glowing
rosy cheek, and an elastic step there are
dull eyes, pale, sallow, or greenish complex
ion and a languidnes of step that bespeaks
aisease ana an early oeatn it proper treat'
ment is not promptly rt3orted to and per
eisted in until th. impoverished blood is en,
riched, and the functions of lira becomes regu
lar. Upon parent rests a great responsi
bility at tn. time weir aauguters ar but!
The Army of T; amps.
The following article appeared in
the Philadelphia Times, and as it
applies equally well to Bbomsburg
we publish it.
The demoralization that leads
healthy and vigorous men to prefer a
. vagabond life in the summer and a
I meal and a soft side of a plank in a
? -inspecting
ous life, is very apparent in this city
at
present. The Almshouse, the
House of Correction and the station
houses are overcrowded with the vag
abonds that cold weather has driven
into the city, and the officials of the
department of charities and correction
' i , ,
, with food and shelter.
The discouraging feature of this
winter irruption of vagabonds is that
it shows that the tramp army is grow-
. ing, and that its new recruits
largely young and able-bodied.
. life-long vagrants who are beg
are
The.
jng
because of some physical defect are
well known, and the new recruits of
this class scarcely more than fill the
vacancies caused Dy cieatn or perma
nent retirement to the almshouse.
The bulk of this increasing army of
the dependent is made up of those
who could belong -to the self-supporting
class if they would, and who would
support themselves if they were com
pelled to choose between work and
starvation.
For the present the vagabonds must
be fed, of course, and the Department
of Charities and Correction must
make what shift it can to provide for
them. Jlut every recurring winter
will witness the rapid growth of this
army unless some well devised legisla
tion shall check it by providing some
method of compulsory work for those
who apply for food and shelter, thus
convincing the vajirants that they can
not escape work if they try, and that
it will be altogether better for them
to follow a calling of their own selec
tion, than to be compelled to work
harder for less compensation by the
ding Into womnnriood. Tf yonr daughter I
pale, complain of weakness, is "tired out"
upon the slightest exertion; if she is trou
bled with headache or backache, pain in the
side ; if her temper is fitful and her appetite
poor, she Is In a condition of extreme peril,
a fit subject for the development or that
moat dreadful of all dlaeasrs -consumption.
If you notice any of these symptoms lose no
time in procuring Dr. Williams' l'ink I'll Is.
They will assist th. patient to develop prop
erly and regularly; they will enrich the
blood and restore health's roses to the
cheeks, bright eye and a lightness of step
will surely follow their use, and all dimger
of consumption and premnture death will nc
averted. Wise and prudent mothers will
insist upon their daughters taking Dr. 'Wil
liams' Pink Pill upon the approach of the
period of puberty, and thus avoid all cliunct
of disease or early decay.
DR.
WILLIAMS' PINK FILLS
FOR
MEN YOCNG AND OLD.
Every man who find his mental fncultiea
dull or failing, or hi physical powers flag
ging, whether from overwork or worry, or
a the result of early indiscretions, or ex
cesses, should promptly take Dr. Williams'
Pink Pills. They will restore hi lost ener
gies, both physical and mental, build up the
blood, restore tha shattered nervous system,
and ward off insanity, th. too frequent out
com of excise, j
-v. i
v V PAUALYRIS
Follow. BlootllMSBrs and Kcrvona Prtssw
tr.tlon.
From th Prut, Afw Tor City.
For more than fifteen years, Mrs. A. Mather,
who live, at No. 43 East One-hundred-and-twelfth
fcUrect, New York, was a suflerar from
ansrmia, which, in spit, of the treatment of
physicians, gradually developed into nervou
prostration until finally marked svmptoms of
paralysis set in. Mrs. Mather gladly gave th.
reporter her experience:
''For many years," Mr. Mather said, 41 1
was a constant sufferer from nervousness. It
was about fifteen year ago that my condition
began to grow worse. Soon I became so af
fected that I was prostrated and, until about
two year ago, was part of th time unable to
leave my bed. My blood became greatly im
poverished and after years of suffering I was
threatened with paralysi.
, " When I walked I could scarcely drag my
feet along and at times my knees would give
away so that I would almost fall down. Feel
ing that doctor could not help me, I had little
hop. of recovery, until one day I read in a
newspaper how a person, afflicted almost tha
same a I was, had been cured by Dr. Wil
liams' Pink Pills for Pale People. I pur
chased a box and began taking the pill. The
effect of this first box pleased me so much
that I bought another. Before I had taken all
th. pills in the first box I began to expe
rience relief and, after th. third box had bee a
used, I had been practically cured. It was
really surprising what a speedy and pro
noenced effect the medicine had upon me.
4' I always keep Dr. Williams' Pink Pills
In the house now, and when I feel any symp
toms of nervousness find that they give m.
certain relief."
These Pills are manufactured by the Dr.
Williams' Medicine Company, Schenectady,
N. Y., and are sold only in boxes bearing
th. firm's traHe mark and wrnpper, at 60
cent a box or six boxes for $2.50, and ars
never sold in bulk. They may be had of
all druggists or direct by mail from Dr.
Williams' Medicir. Company.
legally constituted authorities.
The source of the tramp evil is the
readiness with which the self-supporting
portion of the community respond
to appeals for charity. On this point
there must be a revolution, and the
best way to inaugurate it is for the
law to control the whole matter. If
beggars are taken into custody and
those who are able to work compelled
to work, the tramp army would soon
be decimated by desertion. Until
this is done it will continue to increase
in numbers. The Philadelphia De
partment of Charities and Correction
should make the present irruption of
lazy vagrants the occasion for the
preparation and presentation of a
carefully drawn bill to the Legislature,
designed to enforce the scriptural in
junction that if a man will not work
neither shall he eat.
The question of perpetual motion
i has been solved by a populist genius,
tnusiy : Kags make paper, paper
makes
money makes banks,
Danlts malte Ioans- loans make
make
j-P0"1. poverty manes rags, rags
well
iuu aiuu iium acre sou com-
mence over again and keep on going
until the cows come home.
A Book
for Young Men.
An im mensural ile amount of suffering and
injury to the human race, is due to the
ignorant violation of physiological laws by
the youth of our land. Ruinous practices
nre indulged in, through ignorance of the
inevitable injury to constitution and health
winch surely follows.
Bv cverv vount man.
j the divine injunction, "Know Thyself,"
should be well heeded. To assist such in
1 acquiring a knowledge of themselves and of
how to preserve health, and to shun those
pernicious and most destructive praclices, to
wmcn so ninny lull victims, as well as to
reclaim nnd point out the means of relief
and cure to any who may unwittingly have
violated Nature' laws, nnd are already
suncrinj; ine cure consequences, au associa
lion of medical gentlemen have carefully
prepared a little book which is replete with
useful information to every young man. It
will be sent to any address, securely sealed
mm ouservation in a plain envelope, by the
oiId s Dispensary Medical Association of
o(3 Mam htreet, Hufr.ilo, N. V., on receipt
often cent in stamps (for postage) if en
closes wiin inn notice.
Tacts for the Calamity Bowler.
The sale of thirty thousand pounds
of Washington county wool at Clays
ville to a Wheeling house on Eastern
account for twenty cents a pound, is a
noteable event in the wool market the
past week. Independent of the fact
that it is a direct advance of seven
cents a pound over the rates that pre
vailed in the last year of the McKin
ley law, the figures show the progress
and activity in wool manufacturing
and the benefits accruing to the flock
master under the Wilson tariff sched
ule. It is noted that almost directly
following the passage of the new tariff
act the price of domestic wool advan
ced from eleven to fifteen cents, and
later to eighteen cents, and this in a
section where the most violent opposi
tion obtained toward any change in
the wool schedules.
Indigestion is often taken for con
sumption. The word consumption
means wasting away, and dyspeptics
often waste away as badly as con
sumptives. The reason people waste away is
because eithtr they don't get enough
to eat, or they don't digest what they
do eat.
If the latter is your trouble, take
Shaker Digestive Cordial. This will
help you to digest your food and stop
your loss of flesh.
Shaker Digestive Cordial is made
from herbs, barks and the juices of
fruit, by the well known Shakers at
Mount Lebanon. It possesses great
tonic and digestive powers
Shaker Digestive Cordial has cured
many supposed consumptives (who
were really fjyspeptics) by simply
helping their stomachs to digest their
food, thus giving them nourishment
and new strength.
Sold by druggists. Trial bottles io
cents.
Here is what seme one who knows
says about a cigarette, facts which
any amount of young men and boys
about this town can reflect over, with
advantage to themselves : It is a
little roll of paper, tobacco and drugs
with a small fire at one end and a
large fool at the other end. Some of
its chief employments are condensed
nightmare, cancer of the lips and
stomach, spinal meningitis, softening
of the brain, funeral processions and
families shrouded in gloom. There
are plenty of subjects left however,
who are perfectly willing to undergo
the trials of such a nature for the sake
of putting on a certain amount of
style.
GRAVEL CURED.
(Philadelphia, Penn., Item )
A healthier, heartier, happier man than
lohn J. Netll, of 2437 North Eighth street,
Philadelphia, could not be found in a day's
search. The fact that he is still alive is a
constant wonder la hi friends.
In the fall of lSSa he becan to suffer
indescribable miseries from atone in the
bladder. Consulting nn eminent physician
in Philadelphia, he was told that a surgical
operation was necessary. So much did he
dread the result, for if unsuccessful it meant
death, that he put off the evil day as lon
a possible While- in this frame of mind,
he heard of
DR. DAVID KENNEDY'S
FAVORITE REMEDY
Although disheartened, on July 1, 1893, he
bought a bottle of it, and within a month
had experienced beneficial results, and be
fore he had finished the third bottle, the
gravel was completely dissolved nnd his
sufferings at an end.
Mr. Neill feels that he owes a lasting debt
of gratitude to Dr. Kennedy's Favorite
Kemedy and for disorders of the bladder
and urinary organs, says "it will effect a
cure if one be possible."
ravonte Kemedy is prescribed with un
failing success for rheumatism, dyspepsia
and nerve troubles in which it has cured
many that were considered beyond the aid
of medicine. All druccistr, $1.
The city conditions of trade during past three months
hindered greatly the larger sales for which we made ready.
We manufactured thousands too many both Suits and
Overcoats. While disappointed we're determined to sell. All
prices lower now.
A Saving of 40
A Saving of 40
As Great Reductions on $20 and $16 ones.
Guaranteed AU Wool Suits and Overcoats, $5.
Most of these prices are lower than during last years
sale in settling a partner's interest.
WANAIMKER & BROWN
Notwithstanding the very
low prices tho rule is still
in force to pay Railroad
fare on very moderate
purchases.
EVERYBODY
THE
largest piece of
good tobacco
Ever sold for the money
A Qaeer PoBt Office-
For Twenty Years Letters Camo, but Never
Reached Their Destination.
Georgetown, Indiana, with its 600
inhabitants has had a postal sen' ice
that is without a parallel. For years
the postmaster was a Mr. Motweller,
but he died fifteen years ago and his
daughter, Miss Louisa Motweller, now
60 years old, has been postmistress
ever since. A complaint was made
and an inspector went down from
Cincinnati, expecting to straighten
things out.
He found the post-oflce in a cot
tage of two rooms, the front one be
ing the office and the bick room be
ing the living room ior the old lady
and her ten cats. The room was
large and the floor was covered with
newfpaper mail 6ve feet deep. This
vast accumulation of mail was hauled
to the commons and dumped in a pile,
where the villagers were allowed to
sort out what belonged to them. One
man found 147 newspapers addressed
to him, some having been there twenty
years.
The inspector lound 4,000 letters
carefully stowed away in old dress
skirts, made into bags by tying the
ends, and stacked in the corners of
the room. None of the letters had
been opened. The collection of let
ters had evidently been begun by her
father, for some bore the postmark of
August, 1876. Many of the persons
to whom they were addressed now
slesp in the village graveyard.
The letters were sorted out alpha
betically and the entire population
per cent. $25 Overcoats for $15.
per cent. $25 Suits for $15.
Sixth and Market Ninth and Chestnut
WIUl. H. WANAMAKER
Twelfth and Market Streets
IS ON TO IT
A.
lined up and tiled through the office.
The old woman was terribly excited
at the clearing up wrought by the
inspector and several times during the
proceedings she fell on her knees be
fore him and begged him not to
destroy her office.
There were some queer develop
ments when the letters were opened.
Thus a letter dated August 9, 1876,
was from Superintendent French, of
the railway post office, ordering cer
tain letters forwarded. One man got
an insurance policy he paid for in
1892, and another got a check for
some strawberries he had sold in
Chicago in 1890.
Married women who have been
wives for many years received ardent
letters from youthful lovers letters
they should have received before they
were wed. Invitations to parties,
letters of sympathy for long forgotten
reverses or congratulations on dimly
remembered trifles, greeted the eyes
of old men and women.
A new pos'master has been chosen
and mail will hereafter be delivered
promptly. The villagers say they did
not complain, as they knew the old
woman would have to go to the poor
house if put out of the office.
A new line of samples of illuminat
ed cards, programs, folders, dance
programs, opening announcement
cards, ball tickets, calendars, menu
cards, wedding invitations, gilt and
bevel edged cards, just received at
this office. Tersons desiring anything
in this line are invited to call and
inspect them, and get prices. No
trouble to show goods, even if you do
not buy. tf.