6 A Sag as fa to A A The people of Spain say—Keep Cuba, Porto Rico, fib 2 and the Philippines—but give us 1 '* PLUG i 5* It is impossible to stop the progress of a good X thing men want it people want it nations X m want it I There is no country on the face of the |j| 2 Globe where Battle Ax is not wanted. w Every tobacco chewer in the world will chew # Battle Ax when once he tries it and finds out for W himself how good it is. 2 f Pemember the name | I 6 * when you buy again. J " If at first you don't succeed," try SAPOLIO Harvesting ami Feeding Artichoke*. In September artichokes begin U bloom anil when the blossom Is brown ed, the crop Is made. Gut off the tops and put them away for use 01 turn stock In on them for pas"ure. They may be gatherd the same a* potatoes, put Into pits or cellars and fed when wanted. If Intended ai feed for horses and cattle, they should be dug In a dry time, being careful to have the tops all cut or eaten off ao as to let the ground become well dried by the time digging begins. In this way no dirt will adhere to them. All kinds of stock will eat them In preference to grain and will thrive well all winter. They are not a fat producing food at all, but are very healthful and a good everyday feed for all kinds of stock. A libera' ra tion of these tubers with a few ears of corn and a few pounds of ground grain will make an animal take on growth faster and with less food than any ration I have ever used. If to be fed to swine, they can be left In the field and tile swine turned onto them. As a rule bogs do not •are much for them until after frost, which seems to sweeten them, and make them more palatable. There are two objections to turning hogs In to harvest them. It Is very hard on the land, and will .show on your next crop. You all doubtless know what the result of working ground Is, wnen It Is very wet. It becomes hard and unfrlahle for the following season. This is what is produced by allowing hogs to root in It when the ground Is wet nnd muddy in winter. Then they cannot always be obtaiucd for the hogs when wanted, and when the hogs need them most is Just the time they cannot get • them with any regularity,, because the ground Is fro wn so much of the time. When there to no other green food to be -uu, is Just the time they are especially valu able, and after the most by the hogs.—Agriculturist How to fiMtruvUs Milk Katlly. Milk may be easily pasteurised by using the same apparatus employed In cooling and aerating, except that Instead of running cold water through the machine, use steam. The milk will become hot, The tonvjierature can be controlled by regulating the amount of steam let Into the aerator. The temparature of the milk will be about 150 degrees when It reaches the trough, but liy the time It has fal len Into the can, it Is cooled to 140 degrees. This Is practically the pas teurizing temperature, but If the tubercle bacilli are to be destroyed the •an to receive the milk should be hot and sterilized, and the stream can lie . t.> an inverted funnel, and it may be that a plate of glass should 1H- placed in front of and near the ridges of the cooler. Milk should stand in the can about 20 minutes, when it should be turned back into the aerator, and cooled In the ordinary way. The New Jersey experiment station llmls this method very ef ficacious, and particularly applicable to small dairy farms where a regular pasteurizing apparatus is not at band. Tlifi Piijmliir I)uror-.l(ir,y ling. The exact origin of this breed is not ' definitely known, but probably it is | purely American, being developed from hogs iu New York and New Jersey. ' If the breed did not originate here. It ' was certainly developed In this conn- I try. It. early began to attract atten- ! tion because of its unburn color and ability to lay on flesh rapidly. The hogs had, from the first, spleudld con stitutions, and consequent capacity for assimilating food, a characteristic which they still retain. The sows are lotthtless the most prolific of any breed of swine in existence. Young sows usually furrow from eight to twelve pigs at a litter, and from ten to eigh teen Is not uncommon for old sows. The pigs nro very strong at birth, and the sows and pigs very seldom need any attention at -this time. They al most Invariably Impart to their off spring their wonderfully prolific breed ing qualities, are good, quiet mothers, supplied with a generous flow of milk, raise largo, even litters, and other breeds, when crossed with them,' are greatly Improved in vigor and us breeders and feeders. Binding Corn Foddor. Corn fodder thut is cut and loft standing in the field Is often greatly damaged because of the loose way iu | which the shocks are bound. A handy i and enectlve way to draw the shock | together for tying is to take a strap and fasten an Iron ring two or three | Inches In illnmeter to one end. By putting the strap aound the shock near the middle and running the free end through the ring, the shock can be brought to its smallest compass and held there while additional layers are being put on. There Is little difficulty in keeping fodder which is well tied, nnd this method insures tight, com pact shocks that will stand wind and storm. | Cold DMI Not Hurt Bardx, " j Experiments with plant seeds sub jected to extreme cold have shown that the power of germlnat'on is net destroyed but merely suspended ly the cold. By the use of liquid air, I seeds of barley, oats, squash, cucum ber, peas, sunflower and some other plants were recently kept for 110 hours at a cold of from 183 degrees to 102 de grees centigrade. They were then care fully" and slowly thawed for fifty hours They were then planted, and sprouted as well as If they had not been frozen. THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURG. PA. THE FOOTBALL HERO. GETTING INTOFORM FOR THEGREAT COLLEGE GAMES. The Leading Pluvcrn of the Four Moat Important College Klcvoim In the Unit ed Stated anil What They Have to Ac com pi I nil. "In the east football will begin this year with three youngsters ut the head of three of the most Important college elevens In the United Stntes. and a seasoned player as captalu of the fourth team of the big four. Dlbblee of Harvard; Outlaud, of Pennsylvania, and Chamberlln, of Yale, cannot measure their years of experience with those of Kelly, of Prineetou. In spite of Kelly's pres tige. bis knowledge of the game and his great - ability as an aggresslvo plnyer. his task, with that of Dlbblee's. Is the hardest In tne quadrangular group standing for the best of Ameri can football. The reason for this lies In the fact thnt each man finds It neccessnry to build up not only a team that can play, but u team that thinks It can play. The spirit of Harvard and ntIKCTSN IvfcJ ! Princeton was crushed by the unex- ' pected reverses received at Yale's ' hands last year, anil It will take much ! first-class missionary work to put the ! tnen iuto the proper humor for winning I work. | Outland's task Is not entirely an ensy one. as he succeeded a winning captain, and at the outset was some thing of a stranger to the duties that are required of the head of an eleven. One thiag in his favor, however, is the hitherto cordial relations between the ' members of ''Pennsy's" football eleven | and the harmonious support with which they always "back up" tbe i head of the team. They seem to be ' keeping up their record this year. If any one of the four might be said I to have comparatively easy Balling. ; Chamberlln appears to be the man. He Is the lender of an eleven that finished the season of 1597 with an overwhelm ing stock of confidence In Its ability to defeat anything in the football line. Criticised, abused, even sneered at when the season was in Its infancy, Yale made a finish that startled the sporting world and sent the young sters of the eleven home with pride beaming from every lineament of their features—and It was pardonable pride, too. Something about the personal char acteristics of the present captains Is not amiss. j Dlbblee and Kelly belong to the j dashing class of players. The latter, particularly, when the sky seems over fast for Princeton In Important match es, has evoked the wildest enthusiasm from his college partisans by making 'HABVARO _ ftit wjf tn extraordinary run upon the field, which appealed even to the frigid sen sibilities of the cold-blooded critics. Dlbblee Is a good general as well as i good football player. He Is reputed I to possess those most Important quali fications of n lender which combine the knnck of getting the best of every thing out of his fellows, and at the same time making each man on the team believe that but for him the ?ame would linve been lost. Much Is expected of Dlbblee by the college tnen, and If he fails to pull Harvard iut of the ruck something like the gloom of absolute discouragement Is lkely to settle upon the entire institu tion. Of course, he cannot accomplish wonders without the assistance of good players, and W. Cameron Forbes who Is again coaching the Crimson eleven. Is expected to render much as sistance to the new captain. Outland. of Pennsylvania. Is one of the ualversnlly popular men to be found at one time or another at every big educational institute. Whether he Is as great a football player as the man who preceded him ts a question to be solved largely by the results of 1898. His ability as a player Is not confined to one position oh