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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-12-10
Another Practical Resource.

\ practical test was made last
season of the adaptabllity of soil and
climate for cultivation of Sorghum in
Yakima valley. The experimental
crop vas raised by Mr.. Robert Dunn,
who is thoroughly acquainted with
the nature of the plant as we'll as
the details of manufacture of the
juice into syrup and sugar. He re-
ceived the seed from Minnesota early
in the Spring and planted an area of
IS rods. 1t was cultivated similarly
to corn, and when cut in the early
Fall it was six feet high and of ex.
cellcnt quality. All who examined
the cane declared it to be exceeding
ly rich in juice and of extraordinary
sweetness when compared with that
grown in the Mississippi valley.
Mr.. Dunn used in extracting the
juice, the simplest kind of II mill,
the rollers being Of fir timber, which,
when saturated, became too soft for
the purpose, and he estimates that
at least one-half the product WAS
lost from this Inadequate means of
expressing the sap. In fact the rich
est portion of the juice was left in
the cane, while that which he Sc.
cured made ~ gallons of thick syrup.
A portion of this crystalized in ten
days, without chemical treatment,
and that which was submitted to
the usual process, gave clear crystal
lied sugar, but for the want of suit
bic apparatus, had not been separat-
ed from the molasses.
Mr.. Dunn gives it as his opinion,
based upon this trial, that there is
no difficulty in making good syrup
and sugar from cane grown in Eas-
tern Washington, but that the treat
ment of the juice requires some mod
i6cation in consequence of the pres
ence of alkali. An acid will neutral
ize this, and give the best of results,
Mr.. Dunn has saved considerable
seed from his venture and proposes
to make more extended investiga-
ton next season, and to aid others
who feel inclined to develop this i'm
portant branch of industry.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-23
The Guileless Witness

''Do you know the prisoner well?" ask
ed the attorney.
"Ncver knew him SICK" replied the
witness.
mo levity," said the lawyer, sternly.
"Now, sir, did you ever see the prisoner
at the bar9"
"Took many drink with him at the
bar.
"Answer my question, sir" yelled the
lawyer. "How long have you known the
prisoners"
"From two feet up 20 five feet ten in
Chess
evil the Court make the"
81 have, jedge," said the witness, an
t1cipating the lawyer; have answered
the question. I knowed the prisoner when
he was boy two feet long and man five
feet ten"
s'Your Honor"
otis fac jedge; I'm under my OATH, u
persisted the witness.
The lawyer arose, placed both hands
on the table in frcnt OF him, spread his
legs apart, leaned his body over the table
and said:
twill you tell the Court That you
know about this case?"
THAT amt his name,n replied the
witness.
"What amt his name?
Cease
"Who said it was!"
"You did. You wanted to know what
knew about this Case-his name is
Smith,
'Your Honor howleds the attorney,
plucking his beard out by the roots,
'iwill you make this man answerl'
"Witness,n said the Judge, "you must
answer the questions put to you"
LAND O. Goshen, jedge, hain't I bin
I'm ready"
''Then," said the lawyer, "don't beat
about the bush any more. You and this
prisoner have been friends?"
Never" promptly responded the wit
ness.
What? Wasn't you summoned here
as a frlend?"
mo, si1;1 was summoned here as a
Presbyterian. Nary one of US was ever
friends-he's an old-line Baptist, without
drop of Quaker in him."
''Stand down." yelled the lawyer, in
disgust.
"Heyg"
eStand down."
Cant do it. IN sit down or stand
up"
"Sheriff, remove that man from the
box"
Witness retires, muttering, swell. if
he amt the thick headest cuss ever laid
eyes on"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-23
( A Dairy Farm in Holland.

An American lately visited one of the
leading stock and dairy farms in Holland
and gives the following interesting &C
count Of what he saw:
They used the very same stable at the
farm that they did in the fourteenth cen
fury. They had little rings in the cell
ings with cords passing through them,
by which the cows tails were held up to
keep them from getting dirty. The sta
BILE was carpeted and had plants and
flowers in it. The foor'ot the stable was
of small bricks. At the back of the stalls
was trough of masonry about eight inch
es wide and nine inches deep, with a
ditch or reservoir at one end. AS soon
as the trench was dirtied, they turned in
water, and all the manure, ETC., was car
led out to covered vat, whence it could
be removed to the fields, or wherever
they wanted it moved to. The cows are
as clean if not cleaner than your horses.
All the tying they have is little cord
around their necks, and they are so gen.
tie and quiet that they don't require any
hing stronger.
They use brass pals instead of wood or
tin ones. We saw the way they make
the round cheeses that are sent to Am
erica. They have wooden moulds in the
shape OF two hem1spheres or half balls.
These are hollow, and fit together. The
cheese-curd is first roughly pressed into
shape, and then placed in the moulds;
the lower half of the moulds is station
airy, while the upper part is fastened
to a kind OF screw, working in beam
overhead; the upper part is screwed
down tight, and the cheese is left for
q week when 1t is screwed down tighter
and left another week. At the end Of three
weeks it IS exposed to the air, and the
curing begins. 1t takes three months
for cheese to be cured, and year. be-
fore it is fit for the market. Every
thing as sweet and as neat as any parlor
I ever saw; the stables and stalls for the
horses were covered with mating. You
have no idea how clean everything was.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-23
Light in the Home.

The eminent English writer, DR..
Richardson, produces in one Of our con-
temporaries an article called Health at
Home" which is replete with wisdom.
A most important point, and one OIL
which he dwells, is the fact that so many
people are afraid of the light. "In dark
and gloomy house you can never see the
dirt that pollutes it. Dirt accumulates
on dirt, and the mind soon learns to
apologize for this condition because the
gloom conceals it" Accordingly, when
a house is dark and dingy, the air be-
comes impure, not only on account OF
the absence of light, but from the i'm
plIities which are accumulated. Now,
as DR.. Richardson cleverly puts it, we
place flowers in our windows that they
may have the light. IF this be the case,
why should we deprive ourselves OF the
sunshine and expect to gain health and
vigor? Light, and plenty of it, is not
only purifier of things inanimate, but
il absolutely stimulates our brains. 1t
is in regard to sick-rooms that this ex-
cellent authority is particularly i'm
pressive. It used to be the habit of
physicians In old times to sedulously
darken the rooms, and this practice con-
tinues to some extent even to-day. In
GER AIN acuse cases of nervous diseases,
where light. the least ray of it, disturbs
in over exciting the visual organs, this
darkening of the room may be permit
ted, but ordinarily to keep light out of
the room is to deprive the patient OF one
of the vital forces. Children or old
people compelled to live in darkness are
pale and wan, exactly like those plants
which, deprived of light, grow white.
Darkness in the daytime undoubtedly
makes the blood flow less strongly and
strongly and checks the beating of the
heart, and these conditions are precisely
such as bring constitutional suffering
and disease. The suppression of the
light of day actually increases those
contagious maladies which feed on I'M
cleanliness. DR.. Richardson states: 81
once found by experiment that certain
organic poisons, analogous to the poisons
which propagate these diseases, are
rendered innocuous by exposure to the
light"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-23
DEAD-YET SPEAKING.

TThe following beautiful and seasenable
verses, which we copy from the Independent,
were read at the services of commemoratlon
of the Confederate dead at Huntsville, Ala
bama, on the 18th inst, by Miss Lutte Merl-
wether, daughter of the pOetess, Mrs. Lide
Meriwether, who it will be seen has imbued
her lines with patriotic fervor worthy the era
of brotherly love.-1MemphiS appeal.
Where broad Ohio rolls her sands to sunlit
shores away,
Within silent city stands a shaft of granite
gray,
noble boys,
The sunlight of his household band-the
browning of his joys.
One wore the blue, and fought beneath the
spangled banner gay;
The other bore the southern cross-he "dled
aud wore the gray"
Inscribed on one side is the name of him who
wore the blue,
His age-the battle where he fell-bearing his
banner true;
The other bears the honored name ofhim whs
With simple record how he fell-frst in the
bloody fray;
The third side holds no laurel crown, no p%ar
from the fight,
Only these sad and humble words-"But God
knows which was rlgnt.
Few words and simple! at whose sound, a ma
TONS tears shall start!
Born of mothers deathless love, fathers
steadfast heart.
May Time, the great consider, the redresser OF
all wrong,
A nations resurrection see whose voice shall
swell the song
"All honor to the soldier who, VITA purpose
O11ra and BRIGHT
In gray or blue, fell, tried and true, to what he
deemed the right"
The true, the tried, the sacrificed, are with us
now at eve;
They float around us in the shapes these twl
light shadows weave,
Like lulling waters fall their loving voices on
the ear,
Their shadowy forms float upward, through
this glowing atmosphere,
AS day, departing, leaves behind the glory Of
his beams
In purple, on yon mountain side, and gold up
on the streams.
We feel, that though invisible, their true and
steadfast eyes
Are looking down upon us from the quiet Of
the skies.
We hear their voices in each breeze that muir.
murs softly by,
Its music thrills among the trees stirred by the
winds low sigh,
And spirit voices blent in prayer, float up tc
Heaven's.hight!
f'Keep these, our brothers, in Thy care! God
guide them to the right!'
Then scatter laurel DER the brave, and lilies
DER the true;
Enwreathe with bloom each lowly grave-tti;
soldier died for you;
And let no martyr die in vain; but from each
grave ascend,
An Easter flower of newborn love-triumph
ant to the end.
Clothed in the perfect panoply of Charity;
great might
Uphold us with Thy mighty hand! Sod, keep
US in the right!
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-23
The Tragic Beans.

All old Texans and the student of the
history of Texas are familiar with the i'll
starred Mier expedition, which left
Texas In the fall of 1871 for the purpose
of invading Mexico. The expedition
started out under command of Gen.
Somervill, and on the 10Th of December,
when in the vicinity of the Rio Grande,
was ordered back. After the return of
Gen. Somervin and a portion of the COM
mand some 800 men who were left de-
terminedon hostile demonstrations, and
elected William s. Fisher as commander.
The expedition then advanced on the
town of Mier, in Mexico. "A detachment
arriving there on the 21st and demanding
provisions took the Alcalde of the town
with them as a hostage and returned to
where the main body was camped to wait
the arrival of the articles demanded.
While the Texans remained in camp
Mier was occupied by Gen. Ampudia, of
the Mexican army, with 1000 men. On
the afternoon of the 25th of December
the Texas forces started for the town and
encountered the forces of Ampudia in its
vicinity, and fight ensued, in which the
Mexicans were driven through the town,
but still fighting. After several par
leys, Misrepresentation of the overwhelm-
ing numbers opposed to them, and
promises of generous terms. the Texans
were induced to surrender. The pr1s-
oners were tlen started for the City of
Mexico. a number being killed en- route,
and on arriving at Salado. on the 25th
of March, an order was received from
Santa Anna, directing that every tenth
man be shot. Accordingly, 159
white and seventeen black beans, repre-
senting the number of Texans left, were
placed in box and each man drew, the
ones drawing the black beans being taken
out and shot. In s'Thrall's History of
Texas" occurs the following paragraph:
'sFirst Ampudia and then Santa Anna
took fancy to mere lad-by the name
of Hill, and young Hills father and
brother werereleased, and the young man
sent to the best college in Mexico. He
adopted the profession of mining en-
gineer, and is still citizen OF Mexico.
Mr.. Hill, who has never been to Texas
since the time he started on the expedl-
ton, left Vera Cruz some days since by
the Alexandra line of steamers for New
Orleans, at which place he has already
arrived, and will be in Galveston on the
arrival of the Morgan line steamer this
morning. He is brother-in-law of Gen.
W. G. Webb, of Houston, and will be
welcomed in Galveston by many old
Texans, who remembered his father on
his return from Mexico in 1874, when
the prisoners were released. The changes
wrought in Texas since the departure Of
Mr. Hill, when mere lad, thirty-nine
year ago, have been Of such magnitude
that it would require more space than IS
allotted this paragraph for but the bare
enumeration of them.-GdLvesto1l NeaOs.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-23

WHEN the potato rot of 1916 threat
ened the determination of the potato, q
general search was made for some edible
tuber or root that would serve as a sub
stitute, and among those proposed was
the Chinese yam, which had long been
cultivated In China and Japan. 1t FERNS
a long, club-shaped root, two feet or
more long, and largest at the lower end.
The vines run from ten to twenty feet In
length, and have rich, dark-green, heart
shaped leaves, In the axis of which are
produced bullets smaller than an ordi-
nary pea, from which, or from cuttings
of the upper portion of the root, the
plant is propagated. The root is remark
ably white within, rather mucilaginous,
and when cooked is much esteemed by
many, but, lacking the dry, starchy char
acter of the potato, not likely to be gen.
orally popular. 1t is boiled, roasted, or
fried. The great obstacle to its general
cultivation is the difficulty OF taking the
crop, the depths to which the roots go
perpendicularly downward making the
digging of them very expensive. Their
shape, being largest below, renders it
impossible to pull them, and their ex-
IRENE brittleness makes 1t exceedingly
difficult to extract them without break
ing. The plant is perfectly hardy, and
the roots remain In the ground during
the severest winters without injury. Its
cultivation is now confined to amateurs
who are willing to be at the trouble of
digging the roots, and it is sometimes
grown as an ornamental vine.
In 1900 Louisiana was retroceded to
France, which, in 1903, sold it to the
United States for $15, 100000. The re-
gion comprehended in this purchase In
Guided all the country west of the Miss
issippi river not occupied by Spain, as
far north as British territory, and COM
prises the whole or part of the present
States of Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Lou
isiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska,
Oregon, the Indian Territory, and the
Territories of Colorado, Dakota, Idaho,
Montana, Washington, and Wyoming.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-23
Our Girls.

A London lady, in answering rather
severe article upon girls of the present
day, writes I beg to enter a protest on be-
half of the girls of the present day. That
a knowledge of cookery is essential, to
every housekeeper, I freely admit. Bad
cooking means bad digestion, bad health.
indeed, half the evils that flesh is heir to;
but, IN these days of cookery instruction,
surely it is the fashion to know how to
cook Again, no one admits more readily
than that economy, or rather thrift, like
every thing else, must go with the times.
Dressmaking and millinery again. 1t
may be virue to go about in obviously
homemade clothes, which wear out all
the sooner, but fail to see it. Better
half the number made by experienced
hands, which look we'll to the last. And
last, but not least, the education of the
present day, more than any other, fits
Girls to become, what God intended them
to be, real helpmates. Not that I con-
slider husband the one end and aim of
girls existence; but as most girls mar
ry,-and in spite of the cyniclsm of the
age, the larger number who marry wish
to be good wives-it is as we'll to fit them
for;their position in life; and this is better
done by drawing out their intelligence
which makes smooth and easy the home
" duties OF housekeeper and mother,
than by making them mere mechanical
drudges of saucepan and needle.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-23
Skins. Money.

How were the men to be brought to.
gether who wanted each others arti-
cles? How was the farmer to find q
tailor who would give him a coat 10 ex-
change for sheep or sack of corn
How was he to get furniture from an
upholsterer with a calf or a load of hay
The progress of human life would have
been brought to deadlock. Village
life on a petty scale, upon the system
of things made to order, would have
been the inevitable fate of human beings.
Some continuance was imperiously called
for to clear away the difficulty, and thus
it happened that money was invented.
1t made its appearance at the very origin
of the human race; savages bethought
themselves of furs or skins to make trade,
the exchange of goods, possible. Their
instinct revealed to them the principle
of money, the principle of all instru-
ments of exchange. They saw that the
only way to get over the perplexity was
to select some article which every one
should be willing to take In exchange for
the goods which he had to sell, and then
with it to buy those particular things
which he required for the supply of his
wants. The path for trade was instantly
cleared for the whole human race.
Money was found forever in the form Of
that primitive period-skins. Its essence
and action were discovered for all time.
Furs acted as an interposed commodity,
as a go-between, between what seller
parted with and wha he obtained in re-
turn, and this has been the nature of all
money down to this very hour. The skins
so employed were instruments for ex-
changing goods, and nothing else; and
so are sovereigns and dollars and every
form of money. The mighty machinery
of division of employments was at once
brought within the reach of the human
race. Progress in civilization was made
possible. The halter and the shoemaker
could make hats and shoes for the whole
town. The grocer could pile up stores
in his shop for all. The manufacturer
could weave cloth for the whole commu-
nifty. They all relied, and their conf
dence was not deceived, on their goods
being bought with money, whatever that
money happened to be, and on their be-
ing able in return to procure with it
whatever they required. And here it
was that consent came In for money, and
still continues to come in. All the hunt
ers took skins for their money by agree
ment; no law or force compelled them.
The skins came naturally into use as con-
venient for all. And SO it is now. No
law forces any shopkeeper to sell his
goods for coin. He may prefer barter.
He may afix leg of mutton as the price
of one article, pair of boots as that of
another. But he consents to take SOW
ereigns and shillings, and what he does
every one else does, too. So, also, does
the Government of the nation. It Sc
lects its form of money at its own pleas
ure, and every laborer and merchant
adopts it.-Bonaaay Price, IN Fraser's
Magazine.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-23
Not Colonel, but Judge.

The further man goes West in the
United States and gets acquainted, the
less use he finds for his "Mr." Raw
civilization in the newer settlements
demands more pronounced handle for
his name, and very likely the handle
will take the place of the name. An
exchange illustrates the caprice of these
Western titles, and tells characteristic
anecdote.
The traveller who journeys westward
in our favored land should make up his
mind to accept, without demur, such
military or judicial rank and title as
may be conferred upon him. He may
be quite sure, too, that when his brevet
has once been settled west of the Mis-
souri, by proper authority, it will cling
to him as long as he remains in that re-
gion.
ct don't half like" once remarked q
Scotch fellow-traveler of the writer to a
friendly group at Denver, the promo
ton Backward which I receive. East
CT Chicago was Colonel; at Chicago /
was Major; at Omaha man called me
Captain, and offered me dinner for 35
centsl"
One of the group, after a careful sur
vey of the face and figure before him,
the kindly yet keen expression, and the
iron-gray whiskers, replied: "You amt
Colonel with a cent. I allow that
you're Jedgel"
And "Jedge" he was from that time
forth. Nobody called him anything
else. Newly-made acquaintance, land
lords, stage drivers, conductors, all used
this title, until his companions began
to feel as If they had known him all his
life in that capacity.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-23

"WHo laughs first" is childish but
most laughable game, and is thus played:
The players, on whom absolute silence
and gravity is strictly enjoined, range
themselves In close circle. The leader
gives her right-hand neighbor a little
tap on the knee; she does the same to
the person seated beside her, who fol-
lows her example, and it thus makes
the round of the circle. The leader
then taps her neighbor on both knees,
the other players doing the same. The
third round adds to this tap on one
cheek; the fourth on both; at the fifth,
the leader, after giving her neighbor
taps on both knees and both cheeks,
seizes her gently by the ear, which she
continues to hold while the other play
ers go through the same evolutions,
which end by producing SO odd-looking
human chain that it becomes almost
impossible to refrain from breaking the
imposed silence, either by laughing Oh
exclamation, which, of course, incurs
forfeit. The leader is allowed to pro-
long the game by adding to it any gest-
ures she pleases.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-23
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taph see large stone
Cerebral Diseases.

DIR. Hammond delivered, In New York,
not long ago, very interesting lecture
before the Medico-Legal Society on par
alytic insanity. This disease, he said,
is becoming more frequent every day
and as his audience in a great measure
was composed of gentlemen Of the legal
profession, his principal effort was to i'm
press them with the fact that the ''insan-
ity dodge" instead of being 'played-
out" as it has been said, is, on the con-
trary, more likely to be used In the future
than ever before. What we call our
civilization is proving very exhaustive to-
our vital forces. Some one has recently
said that the then dyspeptic American OF
forty years ago has passed away, and In
his place is a well-fed, portly gentleman,
ruddy with health and strength, and ac-
companied with a matron whose fair
proportions have completely hidden the
angular female who walked beside the
pie-eating citizen of forty years ago.
This may be so, but in the meantime IN
sane asylums are becoming so crowded
that new ones are constantly going up.
A physician has recently publlsheda work
in which he SAYS that In the best OF us
the dividing line between the sanity and
the insanity is very narrow, and we are
all liable to flop over on the slightest
provocation. DR.. Hammond does not go
to this extreme, but he does say that
cerebral diseases are becoming alarming
ly frequent. How to check this Is a
great problem, and yet the way is easy
enough if our people would but take it.
IF they would but ''pull up" in their mad
rush of life; take more recreation, think
of something beside their business and
how to get rich fast, we should have
less need for large insane asylums.