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Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-11-06
Conquest, by Cord-Iand Nation..

The learned editor of The Progreso pre- diets that if the ~Un nited States of South America should ever become a fact the consolidation will be effected by a north ward conquest under the hegemOny of Chili or the Argentine Republic The political history of mankind, says he, is nothing but record of coaquests by cold land nations lnRciOnes terra frial of their warm-land neighb0rs. North of the eQua- tor Norsemen bully the children of the sunny south; south of the equator the bullies of Chili knock down the children of the sunny north. It is a law of nature, just as much as the repression of equa- tOrial by polar air-currents. Rome would have beaten Carthage with or without the Scipios. The Gothic giants would have smashed the civilization of Rome with or without an Alaric. Cyrus, Alexander, King Frederick, Ulysses Grant and the Chilian brigadiers wer0 sut the mediators of inevitable events. From both poles the march of conquest moves toward the eQuator.-Dr. Felix l. Oswald.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-11-06

There were two Jap1ne,. r- pred men in the Late Era- -l--..- Ann ArbOr
Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-11-06

The highest pyramid in existence is 520 feet in height.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-09-09
4 Good Naz TO Rnise cnIres.

Take the calf from the COW when not
over three days old; better yet, before it
ever suckles. Give new milk from its
Gown dam the first few days, gradually
changing il to skim milk. Commence
with light feed and increase the rations
with age up to a generous feed, but care
fully attend to temperature of N ilk when
fed. There must be strict regularity as
to time of feeding and temperature of
milk; two feeds day and 80 degrees for
temperature, and the thermometer
test is the only reliable one while the
calf is young. Eyenness should be at
tended to closely 1t takes but a slight
change in temperature or quantity TO
make young calf sick. Get the calf on
skim milk as soon as possible, but max e
the change gradually. As the calf gets
along to eight or nine weeks, add water
TO its rations, and feed skim milk and
water until six months old
If the calf does well up to three
weeks begin to teach il to eat grain.
The best way and time to feed calf
is to feed it dry and Immediately after
the calf has drunk its rations of milk do
not wait even three minutes. The best
grain feed for young calves is rye and
oats Mixed lbs of oats to l 10 of rye
and ground together. If the calf should
show signs of two much looseness in its
weddings, give at once tablespoonful of
ground cassia, by putting with a spoon
on the roots of the tongue and holding
up its head while il swallows.
This method of feeding and rearing
calves for mixers, / have learned by
long experience and testing OF many
methods. Since the practice has been
adopted some ten years. have not had
the slightest difficulty in raising and grow
ing calves. Always feed and care for
the calf from birth TO maturity; so that
it may not loose a days growth, whether
for mixers or for beef. | never exper-
fenced any difficulty in feeding skim
milk from COWS highly fed with corn and
cottonseed meal.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-09-09
Value of Ashes.
Michig an Horticulturist

We need not give the fertilizing parts
of ashes to show their value upon the gar
den. Suffice it to say they are not looked
upon with sufficient care They have al
ready served an important part in plant
development and why not make the most
of them again. Upon light sandy soils a
GOOD dressing of ashes is the next thing
to a thorough mixing of clay with the
soil. pom their storage and use the New
England Homestead has said
Many farmers have no convenient
places in which to store their ashes. and
consequently they put them in barrels out
of doors. Too often these are left un-
covered. or the covers blown Off, leaving
the ashes exposed to the damaging in
huence of rain and dew. Evidently they
do not realize the great value which ashes
possess as a fertihzing agent. If they
did they would apply them to their crops
If a nan has good place in which to
nut them, one in which they can not be
injured by rain, and in which there is no
danger from fire, it is well enough to let
years stock accumulate and then apply
them in the spring. This, however, in
case part of them are not needed for
crops in the summer. Some of our read
erS WHO nave dShtS WHICH IueY lnluk
they ought to dispose of in order to
prevent loss, may here inquire TO what
special crops they should be applied at
this season of the year, We reply that for
onions, ashes are among the very best of
fertilizers. For this crop, ifapplied now
they should be streHed along the rows
eugthwise, and the cuitiyators should
then be run between them or else they
should be hoed by hand. APP piled to In
dian corn a handful to each hill, mediate
ly before the crop is hoed they give good
returns. They are also very good for
vines in the garden. In moist seasons
the application of ashes to grass land i'm
mediately after the first crop of hay has
been removed, has very fine effect and
insures a good crop ofrowen. There
are ways in which all the ashes that are
made can be protitably used on the farm
and they certainly had ought to be
saved and used to the best possible advan-
tage.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-09-09
gruls.

A little milk and meal will keep the
calf growing.
The farmer who gives no quarter to
weeds generally has good crops.
Watch that the Larvae of insects do
not escape you to propagate next sea
son.
A tablespoonful of clear lime water
or a raw egg put into the milk at every
feed will scour i'll calves.
1t costs 80 cents to grow bushel of
sheat in Michigan, % for oats and y for
corn.
Ensilage varies in quality according to
the material of which it is composed and
also in the manner in which it is preserv-
ed.
Soapsuds may be advantageously used
around the pear and peach trees. 1t is
quite and undertaking to carry them to
an orchard, but there are trees and grapes
usually growing near the house and kitch-
en- which will be benefited by the use of
the suds.
The dispos ition of an animal depends
somewhat on the treatment it receives.
Rough usage causes the animals to be-
come irritable and when they are not
vicious they are III state of perpetual
fear, which prevents either i'm
provement of milk butter or meat.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-09-09
WHY are not Educated Women More Healthy

The Association of Collegiate Alumn@
have issued a circular, in which they say
that the physical status of American
women of the educated class is painfully
low. They call the attention of parents,
institutions and students TO certain evils
which help TO make sickly women,
l. Social dissipation and excitement,
which is neither amusement nor recrca-
ton. Girls are TOO often stimulated to
shine socially and intellectually at the
same time. A mother proves her dHugh-
ter's perfect health by saying she has
been able TO go TO parties or entertain
ments four or five evenings III week all
winter, and she stands at the head of her
clasa.'
.. Habitual loss of sufficient and
healthy sleep Ia a New York academy
class Of sixty girls, between the ages Of
twelve and eighteen, CHANGED TO be asked
by recent visitor for the time they re-
tired the night before. The average was
found to be twenty minutes before mid
night; but no surprise was manifested
by the teachers, nor regret by the
scholars.
3. Irregulariiy and haste in taking
food, the use Of confectionery in the
evening, and the commission of breakfast.
The principal of large girls school in
Philadelphia lately said that so many
habitually came 20 school without having
sufficient breakfast, and taking little or
no lunch, that he had been compelled in
order 10 obtain good mental work to have
a warm lunch served and to insist upon
every scholar taking it in the middle Of
the morning.
4, Tight, heavy and insufficient cloth
ing, which frightiully increases the ten
dency 10 consumptiye and spinal diseases
A physician Of wide experience states that
this cause alone has incapacitated more
women than oyer-study and oyer-work of
all kinds
o. The lack OF sufficient out door c1er-
else. When proper amount Of time is
devoted 10 such exercises, no time will be
left for over study.
G. The ambition Of parents and daugh-
tiers TO accomplish much in little time,
which sends students to college either
hurridly md imperfecUy prepared. or
with a thorough preparation gained at
the expense of health
T. The usual pOstponemeut of instruc-
ton in the laws of physiology and by
gione TO q college course. The Associa-
tion recommends the introduction Of
thorough course Of physical training,
with special instructors and lectures on
the sabject.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-09-09

The beauties of Madison, the capital OF
the state of Wisconsin, have too often
been the burden of description and song
to need reiteration, but for the benefit OF
those who are meditating first visit TO
this charming city, a few of its salient
attractions may he mentioned.
Foremost is the natural beauty N It's
location, which easily surpasses that of
asy city in the northwest, if not in the
country. The fine promontory rising 70
a commanding height between two of the
most beautiful lakes in the world, offered
an unequalled sight for the tine Capitol
building, lifting its majestic dome high
in the air, and visible for miles the conn
try round Within this elegant structure
are the Legislative Halls. State Offices,
Supreme Court and its Library, also the
Historical Museum and Library, the latter
ranking among the best Libraries OF the
kind in the United States.
Standing on the west steps of the cap
itol the visitor faces the university build
ings, next interest TO any citizen of our
great commonwealth No institution Of
learning in the land can boast of finer
grounds, which arc being rapidly enuanc-
ed by new and elegant buildings devoted
to the study of science and mechanics. A
beautiful drive, now winding throug nat
ural woody wilderness and now along the
very rim of Lake Mendoza leads the
stranger TO the Model Farm belonging
TO the university and under the efficient
management OF Prof. w. a. Henry. Be
tween these two state interest, the CAPT
toll and tho university, one may we'll
spend whole day in pleasure and pro
fit.
Next TO the State buildings and lead
ing them a. yet in point of architectural
beauty, is tbs new and elegant Dane
County Court House, of red pressed
brick and terra Gotta, rising conspicu-
ously from its lofty site.
The city's public buildings, its
churches, school houses, etc. are too nu-
merous TO mention, as many of the
very fine private residences browning
the ridges of either lake and scattered
thickly through the city on every hand.
Taken al in al the city Of Madison is
pride not only to its own citizens but
TO the state at large, and those who
come TO the Interstate Fair and visit
the city for the first time VIII never re-
greet the days spent in its beautifullim-
its
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-09-09
Winter Food for Swine.
Baltimore American.


Now, while we would not be understood
as saying that pumpkins, are more than
maugel wurtzels or any other root crops
are equal to corn as winter food for hogs
yet what we do say is that when fed to
growing hogs, along with corn, either
of such crops Is better than all corn for
the complete Development of the ami
NAL. They are the next best substitute
for grass-the best we can get in the
winter and should be more extensively
raised. Not that when fed alone at any
season of the year they can be made to
take the place of corn. for they contain
too lite of the fat and flesh forming con
-tituents to make a complete ration of
the animal; but as winter food for grow
ing hogs they are grand adiuncts TO grain
feed Of any kind, as well as the most eX-
ceilent corrective of the bowels. The
stomache Of pig six months old has not
the digestive capacity TO assimllate har-
mOnious development of form. As well
might We expect yearling calves wintered
ON straw. 60 develope into proper form.
They may live on it and grow plenty of
pauncb, and that Is all: but there Is not
ur.rimeut enough in such food to keep
% the animal heat, without which there
an be no complete development of form.
Like pigs confined to grass or Vegetable
diet there is bulk enough and to spare in
food, but il is not composed of constitu-
ents as will meet the demands of nature
la the full development of the carcass.
ON the other hand pigs as well as
calves fed on grass alone have their diges-
1--WE organs so disarrauged by the over
production of fat as 10 prevent the full
development of the system. We say such
food is too heating. and so 1t Is when fed
alone: but that is no reason why we
Mould Jump al conclusions and denounce
d while running wild over pumpkins,
mangel -wurtzels or anything else. They
both have their places in judicious feed
ing, and in the winter time when there
IS no grass to be had, stock require along
with their corn food something more sac
nrleut and easy to digest. To illustrate:
q ton Of corn in the car contains but rs
pounds of water and Cos pounds of M
trogenous, albumiuous and fatty matter
while q ton of pumpkins contains as
much ais $50 pounds of the former and
only Is pounds Of the latter. ton Of
oats contains $50 pounds Of water ana
bl0 pounds OF uitrogenous. albumnous'
ana fatty matter, while ton Of wangel
wurtzel contains 1,77o pounds Of the for
mer and only - Of the three latter. II
IS evident then that we can not proft-
ably feed pumpkins or mangel-wurt"ei5
alone. but their chief value l. as a com
element to grain food. In other words
we can not make fat and muscles as
cheaply with pumpkins and mangtels as
with corn and oats But as corn Is toe
heating and constipating a food when
fed by itself, and pumpkins and mangeis
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-09-09
Potato Raising
r X. Sloss0n in Practical Pa

More than fifty years ago, in Cayuga
County, N. Y, it was rot at all un ,om-
mon to raise 500 bushels to the &C re Of
English whites and copperheads. Now
over 300 bushels is an exception to gen
eral rule, and these exceptions are usual
ly on virgin soil or very highly manfred
ground. One reason for this seems TO
be that new varieties deteriorate with
age-their original vitality decreases I'M
Ill they are no longer valuable, and this
accounts for the profitable business of
originating new varieties that are an
nuaIly thrown upon the public to enjoy
brief notcriety and disappear. The
neshanock and long pinceye we're the
very best potatoes ever raised, but they
became exceptionally subject to the rot,
and had TO be abandoned. The round
pinckeye was a fairly good potato and
stood the racket for number of years,
but now scarcely pays to raise except in
few localities. Many new varieties are
in the field, but like those gone before
are probably doomed to a degeneration
incompatible with profitable culture.
Has anybody's philosophy solved why it
is that potatoes in general are not nearly
as palatable as they we're fifty years ago?
is it not a law of nature that improved
fruits, animals and seeds that are work
of man are naturally inclined to back
to original form, or become extinct
from causes not und n the control of
man: Admitting this, the necessity of
originating new varieties is apparent,
but is it beyond the power Of man to in
sure @ vitality in new varieties nearly
equal to the primitive type. We're we
competent to guide the forces in the
right channels we might indeed prove
successful, but canwe!
Again our soils with constant use and
an imperfect knowledge of the means of
keeping them with their due proportions
of chemical elomeats, are rot in cOndi-
ton 20 raise maximum crops of great eX-
cellence. Some elements are partially
exhausted, while others are in excess of
what is required. We look to the care
fully conducted experiments of our agri-
cultural schools for solution and RENE
dies 1t seems as though with continued
usage the soil becomes filed with insect
depredators, which are not troublesome
in virgin soil. We think this condition
is mostly owing TO our ignorance of the
treatment of the soil For instance,
there has been much complaint of late
years about the scabby potatoes. Now
we can guarantee you any amount Of
scabby potatoes If you will haul on your
ground q lot Of cob manure. This will
insure hot Of those little worms that
produce the scah and spoil the tubers.
Again, a brother farmer tells us that he
planted two acres on shares, and covered
,I.attt baff ne tha fiDpp vri III chin manure.
the result was that the MANFRED acre
grew large potatoes but were nearly con
sumed by the big white grub while the
acre alongside raised sound tubers.
Planting the same ground year after
year is poor policy, for what few worms
and grubs there are at first will rapidly
multiply and endaDger the crop. II is
not always safe to haul barnyard manure
Oh to potato ground. for not unfrequent-
~ II is the home Of the white grub, and
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-09-09

you cut your own throat in the honest en-
deavor to raise big crop. Generally
the surest evasion OF insect troubles is to
turn over the sod and drop the potatoes
close TO the turned furrow.
To prevent too rapid evaporation cover
the patch with thin layer OF straw, and
if the season is not excessively dry you
will have a good crop of clean potatoes,
provided the long bugs or the Colorado
bugs do not get the start of you, or you
may drop on the sod without pillow and
cover with six or eight inches of straw.
The old style of killing potatoes on old
ground scarcely pays for the labor Us
ing the cultiyator and scraper close to
the surface is better and cheaper way.
After, if necessary, they can be gone
through with the hoe. All the talk about
cutting potatoes into mincemeat for seed,
whether big or little potatoes are best,
does net tell the story; it is in the condi-
ton of the soil and its treatment mostly.
We should naturally conclude that fair
sized potato cut in two pieces lengthwise
would be preferable for the reason that
the early roofing and first leaves are de-
pendendent on the nourishment of the
planted potato, and since such will be apt
to get an earlier and stronger start than
those from q mere scab with an eve in il.
But potatoes will grow from single eyes,
half potatoed or large ones, and exper-
fence shows that there is not always as
much difference in the outcome as we
should expect. The great secret of rails
ing tGir crops of sound potatoes is in us
ing ground not compact by continuous
blowing and not filed with insects de-
structive to the tubers, or MANFRED with
matters foul with wire worms and with
gruhs.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-09-09
Fuel of the Future.
Boston Journal of Commerce


The house of the near future, will have
no fireplace, steam pipes, chimneys, or
fues. Wood, coal oil, and other forms of
fuel are about to disappear altogether in
places having factories. Gas has become
so cheap that already it is supplanting
fuels. A single jet fairly heats small
room in cold weather. New York artist
has produced simple design for heating
entirely by gas at mere nominal ex-
pense. IL is a well-known fact that gas
throws off no smoke SCOT, or dirt. The
artist filled a brazier with chunks of col
ored glass, and placed several jets be
meath. The glass soon became heated
sufficiently to thoroughly walm room
10130 feet in size. This design does
away with the necessity for chimneys,
since there is no smoke; the ventilation
may be had at the window. The heat
may be raised or lowered by simyly regu-
ating the flow of gas. The eolored glass
gives all the appearance OF FIRE; there are
black pieces TO represent coal, red chunks
for flames, yellowish white glass for white
heat, blue glass for blue flames, and IS
for all remaining colors of spectrum. n
vention already is displacing the present
fuels for furnaces and cooking ranges,
and glass doing away with delay and
such disagreeable objects as ashes kind
wood, etc.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-09-09
Cause of Badly Favored Butter.
Prairie Farmer

A prominent dairyman claims, in re-
ceut number of the Guernsey Breeder,
that milk taken from COWS well along with
calf will often cause faint and early
putrifaction of bntter and cheese man
ufactured from which it is part The
same fact appears to have been noted by
a number of dairymen in the West and
may be accepted as a fact. We have of
ten heard buttermakers complain of an
unaccountable bad flavor in their product
during the winter months, when their fla
cilities for keeping milk at certain TEN
perature were good. 1t was doubtless
largely due to the fact that the majority
of the cows were large 'striPpers." In
one case recently reported the butter
from dairy became rancid few days
after making. An investigation develop
ed the fact that there were two COWS in
this dairy that were seven months with
calf. On leaving their milk out, the pro-
duct was all RICH.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-09-09
4 SlCkENlNG CALAMITY,
Seven Hungarian Workiugmen Roast
ed Alive in Il Burning Shanty.
Two Negroes Are Hanged at Marion.
Arkansas for Committing Murder.
MEN BURNED TO DEATH.
The Disaster Caused by the 0yerturnmg OF ii
stove

The Disaster Caused by the Oyertuniug of
stove.
WILLIAMSBURG, Pa, Sept. 6 Word has
been received here of sickening calam-
ity which occurred about midnight last
night, five and half miles above Sonoes-
town, on the line of the Williamsport q
NOrth Branch railroad, where large
number of Hungarian laborers are EN-
ployed on an extension of the road The
shanty IN which over twenty of
these men lodged caught fire last
night from the OYerturning of stove
while the men were asleep. Sixteen men
slept on the second floor. Those on the
first floor ana all on the second floor but
seven, succeeded in getting out the Others
were left to their fate and were ronsted
alive in the burning shanty. Their charred
remains were atterward found in the
ruins The men who escaped were SO
panic stricken that they made no efforts
TO save their COMPANIONS. The remains
of seven dead men were removed TO
SonoestOwu 10 await the arrival OF the
coroner from La Porte. The names of
the victims have not yet been received.
A hungarian named Jehinsk was
murdered and his body hidden under
shanty ON the same railroad at Elk Lick.
A short time since when the shauty was
torn down portions of human remains
were found, and Il quantity of bloody
straw The men who occupied the shanty
have disappeared,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-09-09
TIE REWARD OF EVIL DOING.
Two Arkansas Negroes Hung.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Sept. 3, James Sinp-
son and Patterson Bell, two neg roes,
were hanged to-day at Marion, Critten-
den county, Ark, twelve miles northwest
of Memphis. About 1000 people mostly
colored, witnessed the execution. There
were the usual exercises which consisted
of reading a chapter from the bible, sing
ing hymns aud prayers 10y two colored
minister They both declared their in
nocence although they had previously
confessed.
The drop was sprung at l;2O p, m.' and
in II minutes both were pronounced dead,
their necks having been broken. They
we're executed for the murdergol Lee
Goldsmith at ST. Thomas landing, %
miles north of here, on January ?,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-09-09
An Explanation.
Estelline Bell

"What was that great racket heard in
your wood-shed after you got home from
fishing last night" asked one Estelline
hoy Of another.
at was me swingin' the buggy whip for
fun" the other replied.
But ] heard somebody jumpin around
too"
ooh, that was pa seem if he could jump
over the wash boiler and Two tubs
"But who was il yelled SO like thun-
derYi
"Why every time that he made an ex-
ira high jump he would boiler kinder III
fun, you know"