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SECRETARY .WILSON'S OPTIMISTIC
VIEW OF THEIR PRQSPEOTS.
110 Say* That the Higher Prices For Farto
Troduen May Amount to'mtOO, OOO.OOO,
Will Make a Tour of the Stfuth lu fcho
Sntertgt* off Agriculture.
The Hon i.f*tue9 Wilson, secretary 61
• agriculture,-in an interview published
tl o other clay in The Manufacturers’
referring to the condition of
Anieiican farm interests at present,
says:
‘‘The increase during the past year
in the price of farm products, wheat
and other cereals, vegetables and cattle
for dairy use and slaughter, has amount
ed to hundreds of millions of dollars
and may be as great as §500,000,000, as
has been roughly estimated. The in
'creu.se in the value of the wheat crop
• alone is estimated at from $76,000,000
(to $100,000,000 or more as compared
with last year.
“There has been a general increase
all along the line, and just as the food
live stock has increased in value so
-have beef, cattle, sheep, hogs and other
stock furnishing us our meat.”
Secretary Wilson says that at the ur
gent request of President McKinley he
will make, early in the fall, a trip
through the entire south and give a
• thorough study to the agricultural eou
• ditious of that region with a view to
seeing if he can offer any suggestions as
to improvement in markets or diversifi
cation of crops.
‘ ‘ One general need of the southwest, ’ ’
he says, “is a closer relation and a more
rapid communication with the European
markets, and with this object in view 1
have alrc ady placed myself in corre
spondence with several ocean steamship
companies to induce them to establish
lines direct between the ports of the
gulf of Mexico and those of Europe, the
steamships to be provided with refriger
ators, so that the fruits, vegetables, dai
ry products and other perishable farm
products can bo shipped expeditiously
to all the markets of Europe.”
Mr. Wilson adds, “The farmers of
this country should be just now tho
happiest people in tiie world because
they are the most prosperous.”
Ho believes that the farm interests of
tho south will share to the fullest in
this new era cf prosperity.
Speaking of his southern trip, the
secretary cays:
“I am sent by President McKinley,
and I shall go upon his urgent request.
I am not going as a high commissioner
or special embassador or special envoy
or anything cf that stylo. I shall not go
in a special car, viewing the country
from a tar window while traveling at
the rate cf 40 or 60 miles an hour. I
shall go as a plain American citizen. I
want facts and facts only. I wnut to see
' the farmer in his shirt sleeves, not the
politician, with his high sounding and
plausiule theories. I can get all of these
I want right here in Washington.
“President McKinley was much im
pressed by his brief trip through a por
tion of tho south during his visit to the
Nashville exposition. He has as much
interest, and ho has told me so himself,
in the south as in his own state of Ohio
and is willing to do as mnch for its de
velopment. Before my return I shall
-again visit tho exposition at Nashville.
My other visit was far too brief to per
mit as thorough inspection and investi
gation of the south’s resources as I
should like.”
In speaking of the general condition
of agriculture Mr. W’ilsou says:
“Our statistics show that the wheat
acreage in 1896 was 84,618,646, the
yield 427,684,846 bushels and the value
$310,602,630. Of this crop about 6 per
cent remains. Tho average price was
72.0 cents per bushel, the highest since
1891, when itwas 83.0centsper bushel.
Already spot wheat is selling at an ad
vance, and how much higher it will go
I do not know. The increase in price
and yield should amount to at least
$75,000,000, if not $100,000,000. Of
course I have no figures bearing on the
yield for 1897, and I make no predic
tions as to fiuctuatious in prices.
“Wheat ia ouly one article. Take
corn. Of course the crop has not yet
been harvested. The prospects are, how
ever, for an abundant crop, and as its
price i3 regulated to some extent ty that
■ of wheat good prices should be realized.
There has been a falling off in the acre
age of about 1,000,000 as compared with
1890. The total number of acres stand
ing is 80,095,051. It is impossible, with
no figures at hand, to estimate the corn
product and the prieo. It is equally im
possible, for the same reason, to esti
mate tho average prices and increases in
values, if any, of vegetables, hay, dairy
products, poultry, etc. All we know is
that there bus been a gcnerul increase
in the avsrago all along the line.
“Justus the food of livestock has in
creased in value, so have beef cattle,
sheep, hogs and other stock furnishing
our meat. This does not apply to draft
or driving horses and mules. The de
mand for them has fallen off because of
■overproduction in past years, increase
of steam and electric railways and of
bicycles. ’ ’
Intoxicant* and Sunstroke.
The British Medical Journal reports,
with reference to the Australian colo
nics, that during the month cf January,
when 300 pcrsonß died of sunstroke, a
request was made of the medical board
to issue seme instructions for the avoid
ance of this grave disease. The board is
stated to have declared that of all pre
disposing causes undue indulgence in in
toxicating liquor is the most common
wnd tho most daDgerous; further, that
■during tho attack it is dangerous to em
ploy intoxicants as a remedy. To this
The Journal adds that in many cases
sunstroke has practically been alcohdl
stroke, and iu other cases an injudicious
resort to alcohol therapeutically has en
dangered the sufferer’s life. All usual
precautions being observed, tho 3trictly
abstinent are least liable to heat apo
plexy. —Exchange.
When a man nearly ibrtalcs his < wn
neck getting ont of the way ot a ii jrnt
ring hog, thinking it a locomotive
iieailiighi, it is time for him to sign
the pledge, never to drink more.
Why in the dry, hoi -world -men
drink, is what staggers women;; ’out it
is what the mee drink that weaallj
stagguu both, me® we.d wsnm.
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An o powarisag for tana
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and efjttvially for the 1 oantifol
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ur. Miles' New ..can Cure Victorious.
No other raedlelne< tu show such a record.
Hi’ re is a veritable patriarch, 73 years ot
age, with strong pr.-jua Ice to overcome, who
Unit Heart I'Unease 15 years, he took tho New
Heart Cure and is now sound and well.
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pAMUEti-O. Stone. **
Grass Lake, Mich., Dec. 28, 1894.
I havo been troubled ’vith heart disease 15
years or more. Most of the time I was so
bad it was not safe for me to no out alone,
as dizzy spells would cause falling. I bad
severe palpitation, shortness of breath and
sudden pains that rendered me helpless. All
physicians did for me was to advise keening
quiet. In August last I commenced taking
br. Miles’ New ‘Heart Cure,
and before I’had finished the first bottle I
found the medicine was a God-send. I have
now used four bottles in all and am feeling
entirely we! 1. lam 73 years of age and have
held a grudge against patent medicines all
my life, but I will not allow this to prevent
giving my testimony to tho great cure your
valuable remedy has wrought in me. I do
this to show my appreciation of Dr. Miles'
New Heart Cure. SAMTTEL O. STONE.
Dr. MilesTTeart Cnrdls sold on a positive
guaranteo that the first bottlo will oenefit.
All druggie* s sell it at SI, 6 bottles for $5, or
it will be sent, prepaid, on receipt of price
by the Dr. Miles Medical Cos., Elkhart, Ind.
Dr. Miles’ Heart Cure R '“ H o c r , e uh.
McKinley and the Stars.
It may amuse our readers to learn what
a star student discerns iu the planett
and other celestial orbs for Presided!
McKinley and the American people dur
ing the present administration. It is
not in the middle ages or the dark -ages,
but at the close of the nineteenth con
tury, that this astrologer makes his'pre
dictions. Astrology used to frighten
kings. Now it amuses the curious and
the idle, and it still serves as useful a
purpose as it did then.
The astrologer, Julius Erickson,
makes his prophecies in the magazine
Intelligence. We skip lightly over tho
cusps and trines and houses and de
grees. Likewise we quote without not::
or comment the statement that “the
nniverse is one grand electrified field or
magnet, eternally shedding its potent
influence on all things great or small. ”
At the time McKinley became presi
dent the moon and Vanns “were fortu
nately placed in the house of honor.”
The moon means the people, or ‘‘public
at large. ” That indicates astrologically
that the people will have, .much power
during this administration, and those
who want to oppress or baEtlsdozie them
“may well take warning. ” Then,
again, tho fortunate’positions of the sun,
Venus and Mars denote that we shall
have a ronsingand firm “American pol
icy—nothing halfway iu it ” And here
again those concerned may look out,
particularly Spain, our astrologer inti
mates. Harmony will exist between
president and congress, tho army and
navy will bo increased, and tho general
condition of the people will improve..
Julius says we may confidently loos
forward to prosperous times after tire
spring of 1898, although grave qnes
'tions must be settled this year. Wa
would like to have the prosperity now
if we could get it, at once. The grave
questions we could put off till next
spring. There is to be a large number
of accidents, fires and disasters, and a
national school or academy will collapse
or do something dreadful, and in con
nection with this will be brought ont
gome strange history. There will be hot,
theological and religious disputes. One
conld predict that without being an as
trologer, however.
President McKinley will have plenty
of enemies and opposition, hut he Will
“stand like tho pyramids’ and over
come. This yetn- there will be "serious
riot and disorder against the wealthy,
probably in Illinois.” Why in Illinois?,
Why has the astrologer a spite at lili-,
noisf
This summer some famous Americans
Tvisl die. Here, again, -we may observe
that anybody could have told that with-’
out reading the stars. We have so many'
distinguished Americans that not a
month passes without the death of some
of them. Even after all the offices
abroad have been filled with them there
are enough left to make a uation half
mast its flags every few weeks.
Publicly, the administration of Mc-
Kinley will be a stormy one. We are to
meet with “rebuff or treaohery from
some foreign power’ ’ before-this-yeaT is
over. Stocks atid'honfts and the posses
sions of bloated plutocrats will got tre
mendous shocks up and down during
this administration. There will be war
or danger of war at some time in the
next three years, and more and more of
our greatest men will ‘die,'“scholars,
men of science, divines-aud politicians. ”
Still there is consolation in ithe thought
that however many of these great men
die we shall continue to have enough
left, especially of .the .illustrious poli
ticians.
The people, wjvoTflhdlcjs, will prosper
through it all, and>evente .between now
am! 1001 will tend ito “-benefit them
effectively and permenently. ” No onu
cares so muoh about tbs rest, if this
patt of the prcdidticu'ecmes troe.
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Au ingenious Experiment.
Mr. Clarence Alva of Si.*Louis ha*
'thought of a little-scheme which give*
’u very good idea Of the manner to
whioh-thc eurth is kept in -space. Mr.
•Aim says hi person nrayget the right
’idea- if ho secures a couple of ■ magnets
“ami places them dirictiy opfosito each
other so that the currents shall flow to
opposite elirectious. They should be kr
inch or so fsoni each bother. The mag
nets should be and should
be of thersame'size and strength. The*
the experimenter ’ should make :w.litUe
"sphere of pnptr or Sbuie light aitoetanee
•and fasten two pieces of steel or similar
metal to tho bail, the metals being al
most exactly opposite. Then-comes the
work of placing the sphere iu the ex
act center of the spneo between the two
magnets. If the experimenter can do
-this, he will have the sphere remaining
iu the uir without any visible means of
support. It Is quite a trick to get the
thing iu correct operation, but Mr. Alva
-says'it can be done.
"The Yellow Fever Microbe.
Dr. Sanarelli, discoverer of the bacil
lus of yellow fever, in the course of a
lecture recently delivered in Monte
video, declared the dread disease to
be due to a microbe, which had been
named by him icteroid, and that it
wus rarely found either iu the blood
ndf yellow fever patients or in their
'■bodies after death, as it easily disap
peared. Furthermore, the isolation of
the microbe was difficult, but bacterio
logical diagnosis was possible. Twenty-
Hour ‘ hourts’ oultatres to. gelatin were
Incognizable without microscope. Tfce
microbe was very deadly -for animal*,
producing, when experiments were
made, a cyclic malady, with symptoms
and lesions identical with those pro
duced iu men—-namely, gastroenteritis,
hemorrhage, nephritis, uraemia and
'fatty degeneration Cf the liver, destroy
ing the hepatic cell-like phosphorus and
thus suppressing.the natural defense of
the organism.
It has now (been demonstrated 1
that nine.cases out, of ton of women's
disorders, painful and troublesome as
they are, do t otirequiTetth-e attention
of a physician at ail. ‘(Local taeat
ment” or “pvt vale examinotions”
have been shown to be entirely r.n
nec'-ssary. The simple, pure wine or
Cardui, taken in ‘the privacy of the
bome'insures quick -relief. r
It is entirely -unnecessary ‘for any
woman to suffer from ‘t-bese almost
universal complaints. Site can got
a bottle of McElree’s Wine of Cardui
at the nearest drug store for #I,OO
and quickly put an end to the un
pleasant pains and derangements.
Thousands of women are well to-day
because they did that.
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S F-E -OU AI, NOTICE.
The Weekly Constitution, published,
at Atlanta, Ga., has announced Us 4t!
missing word contest. This is a -mid
summer scheeme and something to in
terest you during the hot season.
September, covering a period of ninety
days. It publishes the full particulars
of the sealing ofUhe book-(the sentene*
beipg taken from the works of a stan
dard author) and placing the book with
Col W. A. Hemphill,the Business Man
aftgVT of the Constitution Publishing
Company,-vH-io keeps it in .his-.safety
vault and’-wlll deliver’tt sealed, to the
.committee deciding the .contents on*
Beptembes Ist. ,
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from subscribers who enter the missing
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June, Jnly and August will be paid to
the person or persons, nanitag-correctly
the mussing word in the followine sen
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realizes the very awkward shifts he is
put to foi-want of same, but the point
is to-find the very word the author of
the sentenc nsed in .writing it.
By special arrangements of.the-Weekly
ConS( itUtion‘-lhtft-gTefft paper and ours
(The BANKS COUNTY ‘JOURNAL)
can be obtained for one year at a most
(the;prioe of one paper. Not only that:
tout under our arrangement with Thei
Weekly Constitution every .person who
takes advantage dTtHis clubbing propo
osition, subscribing for both
The Weekly Constitution, and,
■The.'BankaCounty Journal 1,28 will
be entitled to a gueßS at the missing
word. All clubbing subsscriptions
should be sent to this paper with each
-subscriber’s guess at the mtaain g-ar.d.
plainly written. The guess, *
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The Constttution’s first “'missing word!
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and but one.person Mr. M. L.lßriltain;
a hard-working school teacner, guessed
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IWarch. its third contest (dosed on Mayi
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Monday, Septeniber'Oth'will contain the,
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eastern'to be distributed among the snol
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The readers of our paper-who vtibscribe.
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tion have free aoeees into .the fourth,
contest just opened', and it may be thre
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and taking advantage rSt The 'Constitu
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-papers. fEvery person should
have bis county-paper and onegenera
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