| Show EDITORIAL NOTES the united states are actually importing beans from germany cannot this tins greal kreal country with all its 16 agricultural resources find beans enough to supply boston the sowing of forest pine deeds seeds has been begun by the shakers at enfield connecticut and the state authorities author ties are considering plans for encouraging this needed industry anent about the water famine in gotham a cincinnati editor baysek baysa saysa lack bt water for bathing purposes hatnot worried the cit citizens s of new york bubnow but now that zen een toe supply for mixing toddles grows short they them the have become seriously alarmed the london times says bays if e everything ery thing else elso falls jails force will have to be used us ed iu ju ireland great guns as widow bedott would exclaim what does the times cull call the fetn now in use in unhappy erin ii killing deop ej e prodding them with bayonets and locking them up in prison is not force what kind of persuasion dues the times call it the question of danger from elec tri trl light wires is still being discus Inthe jn the east ac according to the N Y tribune abune in case ot of fire if it should a be necesse necessary ry for the firemen to cut the wires from the roof of a burning house they run the risk of losing their lives in the work the wires must be cut with a wooden handled instrument to protect the men but should the wood happen to be wet as it is very apt to be at a fire it would become a conductor and the strong electric current might kill a man just as a flash of lightning would great care has heretofore been exercised but at any alu miu aib ment perlous periods harm may result good Compan company St published at at spring springfield field massachusetts massachusetts be began gan a now volume with the september number A specimen copy of this able monthly can be had by sending twenty five cents to the publishers among the contributors to the ne flew w volume are the following well known writers john burroughs maurice thompson edward bellany bellaray H E scudder geo 11 towle ernest I 1 ingersoll U ger soll T S collier president president D 0 gilman guman octave thanet roue robe rebecca cen cea H davis mrs urs uen gen lew wallace id e mrs mis lizzle lizzie W V champney champneys katharine carrington louise stockton saki bahi Wa kamatz elaine goodale the recent earthquake in theah the ah far exceeded in destructive ness nesa anything that was indicated by the firby nevva the archbishop of chieti chieu says saya that more than one thousand houses are uninhabitable and the remainder rema hider hiden are badly damaged the churches lett iett standing are in a tottering condition and religious services have to be celebrated in the open air ir at another town towns orsogna Orz ogna the ruin is still more complete of 1310 houses were destroyed and 79 others are tottering four fifths of the population are without shelter but fortunately tho the loss of life has been small the army has been forwarded a number 0 of f tents and appeals for aW assistance stance are made with good success in italy two of professor max mullets jai pupils at oxford have recently made a curious eurious discovery ol 01 sanskrit can Ian ean manusar manuscript pt in japan the work is the text of the celebrated diamond knife forming part of the sacred canon or bible of the buddhists but hitherto known only through Thi or mongolian translations it has been believed by professor max that the chinese buddhists brought back sanskrit manuscript on their return from irom pilgrimages to the holy of their worship in india and dr edkins discovery of a manuscript of the ra confirmed this conviction but it was quite exun ex un peati d that such m nu scripts should be found in japan an illinois pape paper reports a strange freak of a meteor while a mr frank prank harbauer sat in his door at th ther near eTcar of his house houie he observed a ball of farel all ali to the earth but a few yards from him and strike in the yard back of mr shepherd furniture shop the che described it a resembling in appearance an electric light but it came with a rushing kind of no noise se something like a sky rocket there was no report when it struck and it left no substance that could it set the dry grass on ali nile file e however 3 and this mr mn harbauer and mr shepherd extin guis lied with water A reporter of tile tiie Re glater the burned spot soon afterward it ia 13 pio probable bable that if mr Harba harbauer tier had bad not noh N it nested the fall of the meteor a conflagration fla fia would have followed as lie lle he tie grass burned up to a wooden 91 sidewalk d evi evs nire fire from this would have with the nence fence and fro from m the fence would have spread ito wooden buildings near it A great teal ilea of fruit is being ship ped bast east from sacramento 1 ahe I he amount is much larger than at this time fast ast year among the shipments has been a carload of assorted fruit put up in the dietz packing a recently patented process the suisun republican says the breser dative agent is carbonized wheat bran and that by it fresh fruit is pre servel bervel 1 from decay so that it can c an ue ve shi shipped ow ped east by slow fright freight a and n d old told t on aa as the demand is made for it without being compelled to sacrifice C for fear of or arloss loss the carload whipped shipped goes to new york it contains grapes plum peaches es apricots etc eta and goes as fast freight though hereafter itis it is the plan to ship by slow freight as it will reduce ithe efi eti charges arges over one halts half or from 1100 to a carload to new borr if the fruit cali can bo be packed in this inexpensive manner manners and pre served indefinitely andell and shipped dipped anywhere the business will develop fresh peaches at christmas and grapes in mid midwinter winters are very a al luring fand d mr bir dietz says that tha t they maybe had bad by simply packing them n wheat bran brall reduced reduce d to charcoal ch arceal grapevines do much better when slanted in tha fall fail they will not thrive on low wet soil but succeed best on high dry ground with enough slope to carry onn off the surplus water the soil should be enriched by wall well rotted manure bone dust pr or some bome fertilizer that is 18 not rank rani and coarse and should be thoroughly and deeply plowed set the vines in aws eight feet apart the strong growing kinds being planted eight feet apart in tile the row and weaker sorts sorter at six feet apart make blake holes about one toot deep and two fee feet across having two or three inches of good rich soil in the bottom of each hole and sp spread readout out the roots carefully in every direction put fine rich soil solf around and in among the roots and fill the hole towi to within thin two inches of the top then place around around each vine a of fine line well rotted manure cut baek back the vine to two buds and at the approach of winter mound up the soil over the vine to a height of eight or ten inches to protect from freez I 1 trig frig and nd thawing in m winter when planting it is better to set a small stake in m th e centre of the hole before ane vine is set than to drive it in the ground afterwards araso 4 elle eile filers ats daylight liver pills act direct directly fk on the liver stomach and bowels thus purifying the blood their action is mild and cleans cleansing but never griping or painful sold by GODBE GODEE PITTS C OFFICE OF UINTAH MINING CO no east temple st salt lake city utah the UINTAH M co offers ahr through ough its ita managing director H H van praag shares of the stock at per bhare share the proceeds to be applied solely in dee developing clop elop its mines min eq ille the property is situated on the g great reat rent ONTARIO belt and in close proximity to the walker webster pinyon rebellion and climax mines in parleys park ws aw Is your harness hard rusty or be gi nning ginning to crack 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