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Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-11-08

IF you ever drop your watch in the
water" said the jeweler to the dele
gate, "hasten to throw it into cup OF
alcohol or whisky. That will prevent
the works from rusting, John Church
and Mr.. Hill one OF his business asso-
eiates. were down south fishing and by
some mishap their boat was upset and
they were thrown into the water. Both
had fine watches and both were forever
ruined because they did not know what
to do to prevent the movements from
rusting. just bear this in mind. -
Cincinnati Times-Star.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-11-08

All undertakers are not morose and
gloomy, as the Professional cast of
their countenances might indicate.
There are many wages and iokers
among the funeral directors in this
vicinity, and one in particular, who
is the MISUNDERSTANDING of them
all, is one of the most sociable and
jolliest fellows that visit Olnevville.
Rarely does he leave without a prac-
teal joke on some.
His latest is one that started q
rumor of sudden death. He entered
store in the business center, where
he is frequent caller, leaving his
sober-looking business wagon in
front of the place, and hanging q
large loop of Grape deity to the door
knob behind him. He stayed quite
awhile, and, the proprietor being
busy, did not notice that the door
was closed. With the Grape on the
closed door no one tried to enter.
More than half an hour passed with
out sign or trade, and the store
keeper, in his conversation, dwelt on
the dullness of trade. Small bows
began to gather and look in the win
dows, and this attracted tine atten-
ton of a neighbor, who came to in
quire with evident anxiety about the
facts of the death indicated by the
sign of mourning on the door. The
joke got out and cigars and soda are
dispensed free to those who are in the
secret. Providence Journal.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-11-08

THE laws of most of the states now
prohibit persons not accredited by
some Incorporated medical school from
the practice of medicine This is {.
safeguard although not always an eff
fectiye on9-against the injurious work
of quacks and incompetents. There
seems, however, to be no means of pre-
venting the fatal work of the fanatics
or chariatans, who under the name of
one or ah Mother ism, prevent people
from receiving proper medical treat.
ment and permit them to die of pure
neglect
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-11-08

lime WIS in England when there was
a law commanding that the dead should
be buried in wooden shrouds. The
object of this statute was not to pro-
mote the comfort of persons locked in
the cold embrace of death. The object
was to crowd the mourners into the
purchase pf wooden shrouds, to the end
that Albipn's WOODEN industry might
thrive. 10 the same end a good. stiff
tariff tax was laid on imported wool
ems.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-11-08

EMILE DE LAvELEYE says that 100
years hence, setting China aside, there
would be i'm the world two G olossal and
over-shadpwing powers Russia and
the United States. His setting aside
of China is significant in that it indi-
Gates tina t he is one of the many
publicists who believe that the celestial
empire is destined to be an active, ag-
gressive and disturbing element among
the nations of the world.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-11-08

CRAc ksMEN now open safes by apply
ing a powerful machine that pulls out
the knob OF the combination lock.
They DIP this easily and quickly, and
the old battle between safe builders
and tn ewes must now be fought all
over again.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-11-08

IT has always been an axiom in
physics that light travels in straight
line, but Brooklyn nan SAYS he has
invented method of conveying light
through crooked tube. Invention
and scid nee are the miracle workers OF
the nineteenth century.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-11-08

HARlnsoN HOGAN, of Indiana, known
locally as the "ferror of Bull Creek, :"
is about to marry his eighth wife.
And yet there are no end of mild and
timid men who apparently can't get
even ONE wife.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-11-08

SOME linpuist has been follOwinp tho
word love through all its different
moods and finds no less than S27 differ-
ent terms in the English lanpuaoe
which express the state of being in
love. The varieties of love are as
numerous as the persons who love.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-11-08

AsCHpEACoN Farrar's reason for
sending his son to be educated as a
civil engineer in this country was that
our schools are progressive. The arch
deacon says that engineering in Eng
land is twenty-five years behind that of
this country.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-11-08

ONE re ason why France, Germany
and Russia discourage immigration to
the United States is because FOREIGNERS
who CON here soon drop into the
English language and discard their
own, thus making a loss of numbers to
the other language. This feeble check
will not delay the inevitable a month
English as she is spoke will be the
universal language of the world in
time.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-11-08

lP seems that Henry M. Stanley, on
his prese bit trip, is as much IA travelling
agent as IN explorer. The report that
he has secured Emin Pasha us agent
for the British East Africa company to
control traffic between Wadelai and
the coast confirms "a quite general be-
lief that SANKEY'S object in searching
for Emin was in nature commercial as
we'll as phianthropic.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-11-08
MIX for Cheese,

A COW that gives large mess of
fairly rich milk, as to solids, may be
good cheese cow, but not worth much
for butter; or, she may give milk rich
in butter fat, but in globules so small
that they do not separate freely and
perfectly from the milk, and be "a good
cheese COW, or producer of milk for
market, but be Improbable for butter
making. The market does not demand
very rich cheese, that containing % TO
80 per cent of fat bringing about as
much as that containing 40 per cent,
and hence it is not profitable to make
very rich milk into cheese. But it is
desirable to retain in the cheese all
the fat there is in the milk For this
reason milk for cheese making needs
to be handled very differently from
milk for batter making. For the
latter. you cannot strain the milk too
soon nor too warm from the COW and
set it for creaming. But for cheese
making, you cannot stir and air
milk too much in u clean atmosphere,
nor cool it too soon.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-11-08

liz the American newspapers were "a
serious and as dignihed as Sir Edwin
Arnold would have them they might
break down under the strain of the
enterprise, vivacity, push and dashn
which tile poet says they exhibit. We
try to mi IKE the race of life with light
hearts here in America.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-11-08

An interesting, not to say valuable
discovery has been made by Captain
Weedin, in charge of the animals at
the Cincinnati Zoo. The building is
infested by rats, and how to get rid of
them has long been perplcxing
question. Traps were used, but moth
ing would tempt the rodents to enter.
In store-room drawer was placed a
quantity of sunfower seeds, used as
food for some of the birds. Into this
drawer the rats gnawed their way, u
fact which led the captain to expert
ment with them for bait in the traps.
The result was that the rats can't be
kept out. A trap which appears
crowded with six or eight rats is found
some mornings to hold fifteen.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-11-08

A CHURCH congregation at Red Bank,
N. j., paid big price to get minis
ter who was hustler. He hustled
around the first week and got his facts
and figures, and on Sunday he told
them thai there was more moanness in
the town to the square foot than anv
other place in the world. On Monday
they paid him a bonus to hustle away.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-11-08

The telegraph conduced to the brew
ity of speech and the photograph will
tend tb the correctness of speech.
Under these conditions correspondence
and conversation ought to get rid of
much OF their redundancy.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-11-08

AT evening when go to bed
see the stars shine overhead;
They are the little daisies white
That dot the meadow of the night.
And often while I'm dreaming so,
Across the sky the moon will go;
1t is a lady, sweet and fair
Who comes to gather daisies there
For when at morning / arise
There's not star left in the skies;
She picked them all and dropped them
down,
Into the meadows of the town.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-11-08

ONO has been counting up and finds
that she has thirty-one different laws
made for the benefit of the public which
are practically imperative. 1t is the
same in all other states. and no citv
pretends to enforce one-half its Or
dinances There are five law-hrenk-
ers to cine law-abider, and still the
good work goes on and on.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-11-08
Training Colts.

A weaned colt should be put in
training as soon as it is taken from the
barn, which should be when it is 5 or
& months old, says the Fort Worth
(Tex.) Gazette. If the mare has been
well fed while rearing the colt she will
not suffer in the least from this period
OF milking, but the colt will gain very
much by it. Before weaving the colt
should be used to the halter and tied in
seperate stall when in the stable, to
which it should be brought occasional
~, even while in pasture. Here some
bran and crushed oats should be given,
and when weaned the ration should be
increased from two quarts day to
four quarts (Which will be quite safe
for the growing animal of this food,
but no corn should given until the
winter, when a pint to quart may be
added to the feed. Then the real train
ing should begin. The colt should be
led by the halter first; then after it has
been taught to lead well, bride with
a smooth bit should be used, and after
this has become familiar harness
made Tor the purpose should be put on
it, and the colt taught to draw a light
cart or sled. Gradually it may be used
to saddle and to being ridden by a
small boy of light weight. During all
this time the colt should be tanned and
made docile by constant handling and
feeding from tho hand Il little grain,
salt or sugar, so that it will come when
called and evince no fear of the owner.
A horse thus trained will never be vic
lous nor troublesome unless spoiled
afterward.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-11-08
From Different Points Of View.

Senator ingalls, says: "But for the
union soldiers we should have no
country" There are some persons who
believe that .'but for. the union
soldiers we should have two coun-
tries. FLORIDA Times-Union.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-11-08

THERE is a spot in Siberia about
thirty miles square where the ground
has not thawed out for the last hun
dred yea RS, and where it is frozen to a
depth of sixty feet Seems as if the
Gar must know it, yet If such is the
case why doesn't he sentence Il few
thousand political suspects to reside on
the snntp
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-11-08

LAST year the owner of Georgia
melon patch estimated his loss bv
thieves at 1000 melons. At the be-
ginning of this season he hired a.
young man to dress in white and walk
about the patch for two nights and not
melon was taken. No one is going
to plump up against IL spook to crafty
his DESIRE for melons.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-11-08

No green food is now desirable. All
you are aiming for is to put addi-
tional flesh upon those fowls, and to do
this in the shortest possible time So
long us they cat well they will increase
IN weight. up to "a certain period, treat
ed in this manner, and two or three
weeks will bring them to their best.
Ii they become cloyed, and lose their
appetite at an early date. after thus
being cooped up, kill them off at once.
They have reached the most profitable
day of their existence. and will no
longer improve in the desired direction.
In this simple way we have fattened
many previously well kept fowls in
three weeks time satisfactorily, and
we have known many hundreds thus
fattened that have dressed handsomely
in some days less time; the mode thus
briefly recommended being economical.
as well as expeditions, Clearly, and
very convenient. A greater amount
OF flesh can be produced in proportion
to the grain fed, when confinement is
resorted to, and, If the prisoners are
well attended, and the term of incar-
ceration does not last too long, there is
not much danger of disease.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-11-08

Moulting hens should be given feed
ing OF linseed meal two or three times
u week. II fed exclusively on corn or
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-11-08

rope is not fit to stake q COW with;
it becomes drabbled with dew, stiff and
kinked and soon wears out A trace
chain answers the purpose well and
may be heightened or shortened ac-
cording to the intervals between the
trees. A chain much over 10 or II
feet long is apt to entangle the ami
mails legs and throw it down, causing
injury. The stake-pin should be of
iron, at least II foot long, with very
sharp point, and at the top groove
around it in which works link. This
link is compressed in the middle, the
outer end receiving the chain, the inner
part playing around the pin, SO pre-
venting the chain from becoming wound
up. A stout leather strap around the
horns containing an iron ring into
which the stake chain fastens with a
snap. At night when the COW is led
to her stall this is snapped out and the
stall chain snapped in.-Ohio Farmer.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-11-08
Failure of Ranrhing.

There is, we believe, one reason
that will account for more failures in
ranching and farm operations than
any other unless it be Trying to do
too much with too little capital (and
they are apt to go hand in handy and
that is working at cross purposes.
There is no business in the world that
will stand this kind of manag ement,
and the farm and ranch may be ruined
by 1T almost as soon as any other. For
instance: A man concludes that he
will grade up his stock and accordingly
purchases bulls of certain beef breed.
lie has been to the fairs and noticed
perhaps that Short-horns were the
best looking animals there, but he
does not take into consideration the
care that was required to produce
these results. He buys animals that
have been used to all the care and at
tentlon that it was possible to give
them and throws them into his range
without protection, and perhaps with
out iced summer or winter other than
what they can gather for themselves.
The result is Disappointing; if the
bulls live over the first year thew
probably do not get half IA dozen calves
each, the second season. The prone
ness of man to attribute his misfortune
to anything rather than his own mis-
management leads him to curse the
breed and try another rather than
build shelter and provide feed. He
hears of some one who is having sue
cess with Herefords, Polled Angus,
Devons or some other breed and i'm
mediately selects that with little if
any better results. Texas Stockman.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-11-08
The Draft Horse Interest.

1t is wonderful how America has
advanced in practical apprecia ton of
the draft-horse interest. A few years
ago, says the Western Agriculturist,
many thought the half bloods too large
and heavy to use on the farm; to-day
we see high grades as large as full
bloods on many farms, and they are
now as well appreciated where they
have been tried on American farms as
on the European farms where the full
blood heavy draft horse is the agricul-
tural horse. The grade draft mares
quite generally are kept for the farm
work and for breeding. More useful or
valuable animals can not be found on
any farm than a few hlgh-grade draft
mares. Some are too often tempted
by the big prices to sell their best
mares, but that is like selling the
goose that lays the golden egg.
Rather breed with view to raising
the best draft brood mares, and soon
the increased numbers of colts with
improved size and quality will be
mine Of wealth on the farm
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-11-08

wheat the hens will become debilitated
and droop. A mess of chopped meat
occasionally IS also excellent
A large flock of hens do not thrive AZ
we'll as a smaller flock, owing to crowd
ing and competition. The scraps rom
the table amount to but little when
given to large flocks, but for a few
hens they are of advantage and greatly
reduce the cost.
The seed OF sorghum makes good feed
for chickens in winter. In some places
where it is grown largely it is pre-
ferred for this use to corn. Ripening
the seed sufficiently to save it. rather
increases the product of sweet. thus
making crop of seed and another of
sweetness from the same growth.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-04-04
WHITE BARLETTA ONION.

This point will be highly appreciated by
market gardeners and others who grow
potatoes for early market, and also by
those who have their own little garden
patch for early use. The tubers are
medium to large, light pink or flesh color,
with the specks peculiar to the "Ohio''
class, oval oblong, very uniform in size,
eyes flush with the surface; both stem
and seed ends are round and full. 1t is
good keeper, retaining its excellent
quality from the time of harvesting until
the next planting season.
Catalogued for the first time by James
H. Gregory, Marblehead, Mass, is the
White Barletta onion, which Mr.. Greg
DRY says is the earliest of all varieties of
the onion family. 1t is of a fine white
color, and bulbs raised from the seed
sown will mature about as early as those
raised from sets. >,
The leading seedsmen appear to be
unanimous concerning the merits of
aenderson's new bush lima bean, which
natures two weeks in advance of the
common lima bean, and may be grown
without poles. Most seedsmen send cata.
logues free of cost to any address on
written application. AS many of these
catalogues are valuable guides, not only
in the selection of varieties, but in di-
rections given for cultivating the various
crops, readers are advised to give such
as are suited to their locality some at
tention,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-04-04
Back from the North.

Mr.. Phi. Gerhard, who has been absent
from the city about four weeks, returned
yesterday morning. During his absence
he visited st. Louis, Chicago, Milwaukee,
Indianapolis and other places in the north.
Mr.. Gerhard's trip was principally for the
purpose of securing the agency for the
southern states for the great wood pre-
server "Oarbolineum Avenarius." In this
he was most successful, and now has the
agency fFr all of the southern states for
the sale of that valuable compound.
During his trip Mr.. Gerhard visited the
natural gas wells districts of Indiana, and
his description of the country in which it
is so extensively utilized is as interesting
as novel. In some places the citizens
use it for heating, cooking and lighting
at an aggregate cost of not over So per
annum. What pity it is that ell the
natural gas wasted hereabouts in talking
about doing things that are never done
could not be used to equal advantage. 1t
is 80 cheap.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-04-04
Agricultural Notes.

Vegetable seeds of most kinds are still
good at the end of the second year.
Seed and plant catalogues are sugges.
tive reading at this season.
A wrench and one or two tools for
making repairs are easily carried in the
farm wagon and come very handy at
times.
Small potatoes boiled and mixed into
the warm mash given in morning will
help poultry along through the next two
months.
A little charcoal occasionally is con-
sidered good for both swine and poultry.
After washing a horses feet and legs
they should be thoroughly dried, other
wise cracked heels, ETC., are invited.
Ventilation should exist in well regu-
lated stables, but draughts should be I'M
known.
The period of cheapest growth in al
animal is before the animal natures.
An ingenious farmer and his boys can
put together a variety Of simple tools
and conveniences for farm use in these
comparatively leisure days.
Tincture of asafetida is said to keep
rabbits from attacking trees. 1t may be
mixed up with clay and water and APP
piled with brush.
When laying pullets are purchased
they frequently cease to lay onk account
of the change Of house, ranand Surround
ings.
With care ducks will often lay well
through the winter; give them hot food
as far as possible, also boiled corn the
last thing at night, when it is cold
weather. Do not forget the grit; they
require it as much as fowls, but it should
not be SO large as that given to fowls.
Southern Cultivator thinks it advisable
to avoid the mixing of lime Tor ashes
with stable manure unless there be used
also large proportion of acid phos-
plate, the gypsum of which will fix the
ammonia. This is all the more impor-
tant where the stable manure is decom-
posed.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-04-04

farmer to plant, for his leading crops,
such varieties as have been well tried
and have furthermore succeeded in his
own special locality, any enterprising
man is willing to test each season, in a
small way, one or more of the most
promising new things offered. In the
accompanying cut is illustrated a nov
city in the way of potatoes for early mar
ket, which as trustworthy authority as
Wick, of Rochester, N. Y, indorses.
He claims that in the early Market"
has been gained a valuable addition to
the "Ohio" class of potatoes, Early
Market, while having the peculiar mark
ings of the early Ohio" is quite distinct
from that variety, the tubers being more
elongated. AS the name implies, this
variety is especially recommended to
grow for early marketing, as, according
to the authority quoted, it is unsurpassed
in quality by any potato in the early
stages of growth or unripe condition,
cooking dry and mealy as soon as the
tubers have attained a marketable size.