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McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-11-13
Standard Points of Beef Steers.

Prairie Farmer.
In many instances the feeders whole
profit depends upon his judgment in the
selection of steers that have an aptitude
to fatten. There are standard points
which are unerring indications both OF
the quantity and the quality of the
flesh which an animal will lay on, and
should be diligently studied by every
feeder who aims at success in his bust
ness. Different values are attached to
these points, according as the symme-
try or constitution of the animal, or the
prices of the butchers cuts are affected.
We append hereto the main points as
given by The London (Ont) Farmers
Advocate:
Muzzle-Large, wide nostrils required
for easy and vigorous breathing, indi-
eating a strong constitution. Promi-
nent lips indicate good grazing quail
ties.
Eye-Full, bright, placid, indicating
a gentle disposition, and therefore good
fattening qualities. A vicious animal
is seldom a good feeder.
Ear-Medium size, fine, and covered
luSlue Will SUI, Silly udlT.
Horn.-Fine, smooth; oval shape pre-
ferred. Large, course horns usually in
dictate coarse frame and course bones.
Head.-Small or medium. A wide
forehead is indicative of intelligence;
hence, animal easily tanned or taught,
indicating good thriving qualities. The
poll should be prominent and the jaw
wide and smooth.
Neck.-Medium length, gradually
widening towards the shoulders
longer for a grazer than stall feeder;
slightly arched; shoulder vein full.
Chest.-Broad and full, indicating q
good constitution.
Brisket-Well forward and wide. but
not too deep-should be little lower
than the under line of the body. Chest
and brisket should be destitute of loose
flesh (dewlap). From butchers
standpoint this is an important, though
not very valuable part, small, skin
ny brisket having scarcely any value.
Shoulders.-Wide across, without a
depression between. A depression in
dictates looseness of frame, and hence q
lack of strength to carry weight of body.
Should not be set too perpendicularly.
Ribs.-Should be well sprung. form
ing a wide back and capacious barrel.
Should be we'll ribbed home.
Crops.-,Here great fullness and girth
are required, indicating lung-room, and
a good constitution. The flesh here is
also valuable.
Legs.-Short, clean, flat: should
stand well under the animal, and be
graceful in their movement; leg bones
fine and smooth. Hind legs should be
straight as practicable, and not in hook
ed. The elbows should have free play.
Back.-Straight; broad from the
withers to tail attachment.
Loin.-Broad and slightly arched.
Rump.-Full, wide between pin bones,
and tail attachment should be even,
strong, and on level with line of back.
Hips.-Full and deep; flesh on thigh
should extend well down towards hook.
Twist.-Full and deep.
Flank.-Should be let well down on
a level with the lower line of the ami
NAL.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-11-13

81 never can redeem myself!n said
Mortimer huskily. "You had better
have let me shoot myself, Mary"
"Pshawr' said Mrs. Dirk CURLY.
Suicide is the last resort of the cow
ard. Don't you know, Mortimer, that
it is always darkest just before day
lightP" :,
II don't know what you mean," said
he.
.sThen listen to me. The old lawyer
has Just come over from Carragee Farm.
He says that they have struck a rich
vein of iron on the rocky hills there. A
stock company want to buy it OF me for
f5, 900, and I've agreed to sell it. I'm
Gle barrow was as much your grand
uncle as he was mine. Well divide the
money, Mortimer, you and L.
"But I've no right to it, Mary" fall
tered he.
"Not by law, perhaps" said the
widow, ''but you have by equity-at all
events, half of it shall be yours. What
do / want of five thousand pounds?
Half will be great riches for me. The
girls are all doing well, and 1 like to
lead busy life. Nay, Mortimer, you
must take it.
He turned away his face.
MARY" said he, ''you have heaped
Goals of fire upon our heads"
So Mr.. and Mrs. Lonsdale settled on
a pretty farm on Moon Mountain, and
strange to relate, their only son, Geof-
frey, eventually married pretty Essie
Dirk.
$50 that you'll have to adopt one of
Mary Drix's girls. after ALL loosely
said her husband.
'She's a perfect little darliugn' said
Mrs. Lonsdale who had softened strange
of late.
And, in spite of the discouraging
prophecies of the world, the Widow
Dirk and her family had succeeded in
maintaining their independence.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-11-13
Not q Beggar.
Detroit Free Press.

Detroit Free Press.
Gentleman" he began in a smooth,
molasses sort of voice, 81 am dead
broke but no beggar. l want to raise
about three dollars, but [ shall do it in
a legitimate manner. Now, then, let
me ask you to inspect this. ~"
He took from his pocket piece of
iron chain as large as his thumb and
containing six links and passed it
around. After it had carefully been
inspected by each of the party he con-
tinued:
81 want to bet my overcoat, which is
certainly worth $40, against So in cash
that none of you can separate one link
from the Others
The piece of chain was passed around
again to be more closely scrutinized,
and finally one of the party, who was a
machinist, returned it with the remark:
''And / want to put up that sum
against your overcoat that you can't do
it yourself.
s.Done!" said the stranger as he
pulled off his coat.
Coat and cash were put up in the
hands of stakeholder, and the strang-
er asked the group to follow him. He
walked across the street and into a
blacksmith shop, and picking up a
hammer and cold-chisel he deliberately
cut out a link. The crowd stood
around like so many pumpkins at a
county fair, but when the stranger held
up the link and claimed the stakes the
machinist recovered his wits sufficiently
to exclaim:
'Sold by professional deadbeat |!
The money is yours, old fellow, but in
exactly thirty seconds after you receive
it 1 shall begin to kick, and you had
better be twenty rods off -
'.Thanks-glad to have met YOU
good-day ~ replied the stranger, and
he was out of sight in seven seconds.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-11-13
When the Leares Begin to Turn.

When the Le0ces Begin to Tam.
Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,
| Now green in youth, now whitening on the
ground;
Another race the following spring supplies,
| They fall successive, and successive rise,
So generations in their course decay,
| So flourish these when those have passed away.
Homer.
There is curious blending of joy
and sadness in the golden autumn sea-
son; JOY at the balmy days, the most
pleasant of all the year, which come
and 90 with quiet punctuality, amid a
hazy, shimmering atmosphere that
lends visionary enchantment to every
thing and seems to make cur life a
dream. And how sad and yet beauti-
full when we mount some eminence and
look far over the distant hills-over the
gold-tipped tree tops to the blue sky
beyond-a scene which inspires us with
solemn awe and reverence, reminds us
| that even so ought we look from this
world, no matter how pleasant it may
seem Eow-far beyond the lofty tips of
the trees and the fathomless depths of
the skies, to a golden autumn world,
where everything is respondent with
the holy radiance of a divine existence;
place where there is but one season. a
bright and endless autumn, aside from
this terrestrial sphere.
How one can sit and watch the vel
low leaves as they relax their hold on
the parental branch and fall eddying to
the earth, and conjecture thousand
imaginations of worldly nature. The
comparison is good when we bring
them in connection with our existence,
which buds forth on the tree of life for
short period, and sprouts out in all
the glory and vigor of full development;
and then we grow old and withered,
our comliness is gone, and we begin to
totter upon the old branch of
life by a mere stem or thread,
and finally the tree gives a
wavering shake and we drop from the
branch with the thousands of others
that have gone before, and in the course
of the season our places are filled with
another generation that bud, bloom and
die and fall like leaves of the trees.
Some of these leaves occupy promi-
nent and suspicious place, others hang
silently and still on some obscure branch
in unassuming resignation. But the icy
blast of death that sweeps us from its
branches casts us all down in conglom-
Grated mass, unrecognizable as to the
position we once held on the old tree
Even so is the reality of our lives, and,
when we are precipitated into eternity
from the old weather-beaten tree of life,
it is to be hoped that in the full enjoy
ment of real existence in that other
fadeless autumn world, we can look
back to our life spent here on earth and
wonder how we ever could have valued
it as anything more than leaf.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-11-13
Wintering Pigs.
American Agriculturist.

<AuicTlCdH
Pigs born later than the first of Octo-
Der, will need good care and skillful
management to keep them in a thrifty,
growing condition through the winter.
This is particularly the case if you keep
them in large numbers, and it is good
plan to sell all you can before winter
sets in. People who keep only two or
three pigs to eat up the Stops from the
house can handle their late pigs to bet
ter advantage than the large farmer or
breeder. Such young pigs need milk,
greasy water, or broth and bread, or
cooked potatoes, with corn meal pud-
ding; these are more likely to be libe-
rally furnished from the kitchen when
you have only two pet pigs than when
you have two score or two hundred.
Whatever method of feeding is adopted,
let it be liberal. Let them have all the
good feed they will eat-no more, no
less. Let them have good, dry, COM
Portable quarters to sleep in, and dis
turb them as little as possible. Pigs
are in part alternating animals. The
more they sleep the better for them and
their owner. We simply want to keep
them in healthy, growing condition,
and the fatter they are when winter
sets in the easier it will be to carry
them through the winter. Pigs well
wintered, are in good condition to
thrive well on grass and clover next
summer. We are not advocating hay
ing pigs come in the autumn, but if you
have them and cannot sell them, or do
not wish to, then take the best care of
them, and feed literally. The most
profitable pork we have ever made, was
from young pigs which had been well
cared for through the previous winter,
and the next summer fattened on clover
pasture.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-11-13
OF SHIPS.
/ saw a ship go SAILING down

l saw a ship go sailing down
The harbor yesterday,
And half the little fishing town
Stood on the rocks so bare and brown,
To watch 1t sail away.
While tokens fiuttered on the land,
And 'kerchiefs from the sea
We're waved by many friendly hand
To loving faces on the land,
But none was waved to me.
My ships have sought distant shore
With all their precious freight,
And nevermore, ah, nevermOre,
Will they bring back what hence they bore
To me who stand and wait.
But some time shall set my sail
And pass to that fair cline
Where all my vessels, strong or frail,
Are anchored safe from every gale,
Are anchored for all time.
Yes, some time shall go to them
Who come no more to me,
The raving ocean shall stem
And reach the island like q gem
That rises from the sea.
And then farewell to all the past,
Farewell to all despair,
When shall greet nay ships at last.
That riding safely through the blast
Have reached the land of prayer.
O9what is toll and what is pain,
And what is fierce distress,
When we may hope to meet again
The Iips that on our own have lain,
And hear them praise and bless?
Go forth, go forth, o song of mine,
And speak to hearts that, ache,
And tell them now the sun doth shine,
The violet bloom and columbine,
Somewhere for thy sweet sake.
Yes tell them nothing is so small
That it shall be forgot,
For If a sparrow does not fall
Unnoted by the Lord of all,
His children sure will not.
Then, If we know that something near
To Heavens Respondent gate
Are gathered those we hold most dear
When life and love were centered here,
1t must be sweet to wait.
james Berry Bens.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-11-13
CREEPING UP THE STAIRS.
In the softly falling twilight
nf q Waarv xyaar.v dQV

In the softly falling twilight
OF weary, weary day,
With quiet step entered
Where the children were at play;
was brooding Ger some trouble
Which had met me unawares,
When little voice came ringing,
''He is creepin' up the stairs"
All! 1t touched the tend'rest heart-string!
With a breath and force divine,
And such melodies awakened,
AS no wording can define.
AS l turned to see our darling,
All forgetful of my cares,
When saw the little creature
Slowly creeping up the stairs.
Step by step she bravely clambered
On her little hands and knees,
Keeping up constant chattering,
Like q magpie in the trees;
Till at last she reached the tOpmost,
When DER all her worlds affairs,
She delighted stood victor
After creeping up the stairs.
Painting heart, behold an image
OF mans brief and struggling life,
Whose best prizes must be captured
With a noble, earnest strife;
Onward, upward, reaching over,
Bending to the weight of cares,
Hoping, fearing, still expecting,
We go creeping up the stairs.
On their steps may be no carpet,
By their sides may be no rail;
Hands and knees may often pain US,
And the heart may almost fail,
Still above there is the glory,
Which no sinfulneSs impairs,
With its rest and joy forever,
After creeping up the stairs.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-11-13
ERIN NOTES.

The drought in Australia has killed
off IA, 100000 head of sheep.
1t is said that 10000 bucks will be
imported into Colorado next summer
to increase the sheep herds.
Canada exported 1926 sheep to
Great Britain in 1898, against S9,OS3
sent from the United States.
William Cannon. of Lebanon county,
Tenn, garnered $50 bushels OF wheat
from sixteen acres, an average OF 4o5
bushels per acre.
A correspondent at the Gonzales
cents Retreat. Glen Mills, writes under
date of October % that they have pear
tree in bloom in the open air.
Cotton-seed meal should not be fed
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-09-13
A Race With Il Whale.

Recently the schooner Hattie Re-
bccca, Captain Edwin A. Dodge, sailed
from Block Island with swordiishing
party. About $50 o'clock n. m, when
some two miles off Southeast Point,
Capt. Dodge called out, There she
blows" and pointed to whale sport
inc mile or so to seward lie soon
disappeared, however, and while all
were scanning the wave in the distance
white cloud of spray was blown up
ward from the surface of the ocean
not more than 500 yards away, off the
starboard quarter. His huge black
bulk could be plainly seen for about a
minute, and then, diving, he reap
peared just in front of the bowsprit,
with his head toward the vessel. A
column of water shot up. as from the
explosion of small torpedo, but only
for an instant, for as soon rs he re-
allied his close proximity he plunged
directly under the schooner the water
closing above him in swift moving
eddics of foam. While under the wa
ter this time he turned completely
around and soon came up, putting and
blowing, not less than fifty feet to the
larboard. He was headed in the same
direction as the schooner, and moved
leisurely along for more than minute,
apparently intending to give those on
board full opportunity to inspect him
closely. He extended n good distance
beyond the vessel in both directions,
some of the party thinking that he was
fully twice as long. The longth of the
Hattie Rebecca is forty-s X feet. All
agreed that his total length was not
less than seventy feet, and in view of
the splendid opportunity afforded for
making fair estimate, and the char
acter OF the spectators, it is safe to ac-
cept this report as correct. Captain
Dodge puts the length at from seventy
to seventy-iive feet.
AS the schooner, sailing under an
eight-knot breeze, kept even pace for
nearly half minute with her living
competitor, the party began to specu-
late as to which would beat in the
race. But the whale had been swim
ming lazily, but as soon as his flakes
began to quicken their motion it be-
. CullC tNluClb lllal IL WOuIi NV no Siip
to bet on the schooner. In about two
minutes the water closed once moro
above the black moving mass, and
when next he showed himself ii was ut
the distance of more than mile. He
disappeared in the direction whence he
came. One can not help wondering ii
he saw the schooner, and made this
trip solely for the purpose of examin-
ing a thing that had excited his curl
osity.
The party was still further favored
beyond what is usually the privilege OF
amateur fishermen, for they saw q
shoal OF porpoiscs, two shovel-nose
sharks, two very large sun-iishes, and
captured swordiish which weighed,
when dressed, 225 pounds.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-09-13
The Torrid Wave.

NEW YORK, Sept yesterday was
the eighth day of the heated term and with
it came intense suffering among all classes
of people and all kinds of animals. AT
$3.50 o'clock the standard thermometer of
the signal service registered %, while in
many localities the record was g. 9S and
100,
The Third avenue car line lost 45 horses
and 225 were Frustrated. Other lines suf-
fered in proportion, the total loss reaching
400, with 1000 prostrations. At midnight
the police reports show thirteen instant
deaths from Sunstroke in this city to-day,
and twenty-siX prosrations, most of them
fatal. OF the dead nine are men, three
women, and one child. Special arrange
ments are being made in all the public hos
pitfalls for large numbers of sunstrOke pa
tents tomorrow. The majority of the
dead are car-drivers and outdoor laborers.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-09-13
A Use for Sawdust.

1t is generally easier for mill-owner
to dump his sawdust in the stream for
the water to wash away than ii is for
him to burn it or cart it off. The saw
dust kills the fish in the stream, but he
would be an idiotic mill-owner who
would allow such public loss ointer-
fere with his private gain; and SO he
dumps the sawdust, kills the fish, puts
his hands in his pockets, and asks the
public: What are you going to do
about itP' The states have enacted
laws forbidding this disposition of saw
dust, and prescribing penalties for tho
otfense, and the offenders either man
age to evade the law or ignore il en-
tirely. Thousands and thousands Of
streams which once harbored excellent
food fish have been ruined by the saw
dust. In the last report of the New
York Commissioner OF Fisheries, il is
stated that ''of all the causes there is
probably none that has exerted such
an influence in expelling both salmon
and trout from our spring streams as
the presence of sawdust.' Aud the
commissioners 20 on to state that
though there is statute governing
this, it is practically useless because
carelessly worded.
The destruction of fish is not all that
the sawdust must answer for. 1t kills
human beings. Waters polluted by
sawdust spread malaria, and make mis-
cradle the lives of those who dwell up
on the banks of the plague
stream. This is notably the case with
the Raquette River, whose whole
lower course is cursed with chills and
fever; and Potsdam, where one Of the
State Normal Schools is located. has
become a very undesirable place of
residence from this cause.
When urged to burn, or in some 9th
er way dispose Of their sawdust, lumber
men have objected that they could not
afford the cost There Is hope that the
question Of dealing with this nui-
sance may now be solved, for a process
has been discovered by which the re-
fuse sawduSt may be made to Weld
handsome profit. When dry it is car
BOMBED in iron retortS, and in the sru-
cess is given of so per cent. of volatile
products, the remaining 20 per cent
being graduated charcoal, which can
be used in making gunpOwder. filters,
lining refrigerators, and as disinfect.
ant, and with very little tar il could
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-09-13

be pressed into bricks and used for
fuel; 20 of the 80 per cent. Of the vola-
tile product is in the shape OF fixed
gases, which can be usod for lighting,
heating, etc.. AZ per cent. is pyrolige-
enous acid, which is crude acetic acid,
and after being purified and concen-
trated is used in white lead. color,
print and vinegar manufactures.
There remains 10 per cent. of tar and
/ of wood alcohol. The tar has the
same properties as coal tar, the almost
endless uses of which, such as pitching
roofs, lining water tanks, covering the
bottoms OF vessels, protecting iron from
rusting, covering the wounds made in
pruning trees, and in the form of ben
zole, naptha, carbolic and sulphuric
acids, and the whole splendid series of
analine dies, constitute one OF the chief
glories of modern chemistry. The
wood or methylic alcohol is used as q
solvent for gums, in varnish making, in
the manufacture of analine colors.
The sawdust from yellow pine and
other woods rich in resin yields also Il
considerable amount of turpentine, in
the gathering OF which so many trees
are each year sacrificed,
1t is estimated that in saving inch
boards of pine, hemlock, etc, the one
fourth inch sawkcrf uses up one-fifth of
the log. When lumber is sawed by the
billion feet. one can easily see that the
question of using the sawdust in way
to yield profit, instead of Il first class
nuisance, is very important one
Forest and Stream.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-09-13
The Wages OF Sin.

New BRUNSWICK, n. j., SSpt. 9.-Mahlon
fearing arrest for completely in the theits OF
the late Cashier Hill, killed himself in the
bank office with a razor. Examiner Shelly
is said to have discovered deficit of 81, 900, o
600 in the surplus cash and securities.
Walter Carroll, deposition, committed
suicide on account Of his losses. The crowds
in the streets were only prevented By the
police from raiding the bank. Ruuyon is
said to have Oyerdrawn his account $50, 900,
and TO have been the tool OF his "a snlnr.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-09-13
Getting Particular About il.

1t used to be an easy matter to
satisfy European holders of American
railroad shares when dividend was
passed. 1t could be laid to droughts,
freshct. snow slides, grasshoppers,
yellow fever, heat or cold, or need of
rolling stock. Those people are getting
more particular within the last year or
two, and really expect shares to bring
'em in some sort of income. An Ameri-
can now travelling in Germany writes
home that some of our non-payng
dividend railroads will have to employ
frst-class liar to invent new and
satisfactory excuses, or the shares will
come back. As one German holder
remarked to him:
"My frend | wait now about five
years for some ditidends on my stock,
but | doan' shmell cent. Eafery
time ii yhas cyclones, grasshoppers,
poor crops or repairs. und dot ditidond
goes py. If you doan' haf some pees-
ness for your railroads, Why doan' you
90 on foot NIT ox-teams? p val Street
Nous.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-09-13
A Renarkahle Escape.

Mrs. Mary A. DAILY, Of Tunkhannock. Pa,
was afflicted for six years with Asthma aud
Bronchitis, during which time the best physl.
clans could give no relief. Her life was
despaircd Of, until in last October she pro.
cured bottle Of DR.. Kings New Discovery,
when immediate relief was felt, and by con.
tinuing III use for short time she was CON-
plctely cured, gaining in flesh 80 MS. In tew
month.
Free trial bottles of this certain cure of all
throat and lung diseases at LutZ * Briggs
drug store. Large bottles 81 90
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-09-13
Failure Of The Rounds Type Founding Com
pany.

CHICAGO, Sept. 9.-The Rounds Type
and Press Company, Of this city, failed
some days ago, but the fact was not public
ly known until yesterday, when nearly AL
the creditors met and resolved to continue
the business under trustees. The estab-
lishment owes about $50, 700, and has q
very valuable plant