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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-08

You, dear readers, may inquire why
is it, that we farmers can't have a
feast once in awhile. Twenty years
ago there was $50 per capita of
money in the hands of the people :;
then your wheat was worth $3.50
per, bushel, your hogs 8 and 10 cents
per ponnd. Every one had plenty.
No tramps, no mortgages on farms.
How is it now? The volume of
money contracted to about Sc per
capita, and it controlled absolutely
by these bankers, as a consequence
of this reduction in the volume of
money, and it's control by these
bankers Newspaper, California,
Mo.
The fearful contraction OF the cur
rency which has been going on for
twenty years is a bonanza for the
monied aristocracy. Ten per cent on
ten dollars then bought bushel of
wheat-it will buy two now! The
money lOaner gets almost twice as
much now at the same rate of in
terest as then. The producer gets
one-half as much. The protected
banker is getting all the profits.
This country must be awful blind
not to see the effects of a contraction
OF the currency. England, France
and Germany don't know what such
a bankers monopoly is!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-08

In one of the grand articles which
we published last week to show the
nature and scope of Supt. Gregg's
Annual, Prof. Robertson gives the
results of a test of the use of salt on
four groups of cows. Two groups
were free to salt, and two groups kept
from it. After the first test the
groups were reversed. In each test
the milk fell off-in one case II per
cent, and in the other IA per cent.
Now while we are not a saltopho-
bist, and in our stock, experience fed
salt as did other people, still there is
serious objection to that test.
Salt has two powerful activities in
the animal system. One is as a
strong digestive stimulant; and of
course every one understands that
stimulant to an animal function is
an injury. Secondly, salt modifies to
a very wonderful extent the endos-and
the exOsmOtic action of membranes,
and thereby affect fhe absorptive
functions, Fastening the removal of
juices from the intestines and project
ing them into the ecirculation. Hence,
the sudden removal of salt from a
fluid secreting animal would of
course lessen those secretions. The
only wonder is: that the aiminution
was not far greater than II or IA per
cent. The only test that could be
given would be one which passes
from an ''unsalted mother" to a
saltless calf-and even then several
generations of salted ancestors
would deprave the physical economy
of the offspring.
This is offered merely as a Just
presentment of the case. The ques-
tiOn is one which has two sides to it.
salt, over and above
the thin sprinkling which nature
gives, is probably not a benefit.
And as to practice it would take
more than one generation to demon
strate the matter. In the discussion
SO far the ''salters" undoubtedly
have the advantage.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-08

Now comes the chiefest danger to
the alliance. 1t is a fact which we
can prove, and we propose to do it:
The State House here in St. Paul is
trying to get into the alliance! This
is no scarecrow-it is a fact, a result
of the waking up OF the alliances.
Has it come to this?
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-08
81 90 YEAR IN ADVANCE.

change our course at once, and thank
God that as whole the Alliance
crowd is composed Of earnest men OF
earnest purpose. Any man who
puts his shoulder to the wheel is at
least leading a correct life in that
respect. Don't let the OppressOr and
the rObber drive your workmen out
of the field
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-08

We have an answer to our conun-
drum about the Browns Valley R.
K. in Inter-Lake Tribune. Thanks.
Bro. Gordon. We will use that an
swer in week or two, in connection
with few gentle remarks on the
Northern Pacific branches! The
demi-gods have a bonanza in those
"poor branch roads" which make
the sun-gilt gold piles OF the Mon
tezumas pale their effectual fires and
cast Cresus onto the dunghill of
humiliation. If we don't make it
interesting then Mark Twain, Bill
NNye, A. Ward, and Shakespeare bet
ter give up the humorous fake!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-08

What do you think Of the Il cents
a bushel for oats-and GLORIOUS
prosperity" 60 cents for No. l hard
wheat and 'glorious prosperity!' y
Single counties robbed OF 100000
year and on the wheat difference
and GLORIOUS prosperity!"-how she
,iO UU1O-
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-08

In another place we suggest that
in the next legislature, in the place of
carousal there should be "grave in
vestigation and stern work" The
" stern work" should begin by kick
ing out fully three-fourths OF the
former gang.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-08

Iowa has sounded tOcsin-and
SO has Ohio. 1t is simply dissatis-
faction with the party in power be-
cause it does not listen to the cry OF
the people.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-08

In our correspondence column see
the letter from Adrian, about the
farmers shipping their own coal!
We hope Mr.. Laisure will tell us
more about their Alliance work.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-08

This paper is non-partisan clear up
the spinal cOrd-that's it's polit-pa-
triOtism!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-08
ALLIANCE MEN.

We wish to call your attention to
some facts which we must all take
notice of-and act upon them. We
must begin to act upon them at once.
If they cause a change in our Opin-
ions let that change date from this
moment.
1-Just as soon as man takes
stand against the emonopOlists IN his pri-
yate character becomes the subject
of the closest scrutiny. Ii it is possi-
BILE to find faults or flaws they are
magnified. In illustration we will
cite an instance which is only one of
a dozen which have since come to
our notice. A man published news
paper in this state, and became
definite alliance organ. Cash to the
amount of $3.50 was raised to start
an opposition-raised at the direct
instigation of the attorneys and
free-pass monopolistic agents. Then
letters and persons were sent abroad
to try and discover in the place OF
former residence if there were not
some old blemish upon the mans
character. AS this utterly failed, the
most outrageous warfare was begun
at home. There is not a village in
Minnesota but has men who are in
"ca-hoots' with the railroad and
elevator ring-NOT ONE!
2-Now every man has faults.
Some have financial troubles. Some
have family troubles. Some have
habits not the best. Some chew gum.
Others are poor. And again, some
are not as calm and meek under the
rod as they ought to be. Some have
an itching for Office. Where is the
man against whom some popularity
cannot be spoken!
3-How about the politicians? Do
they not itch for office? Are they
not often the vile and disreputable? :?
Do they not often solicit the saloon
support, and hang around them :?
Have they not faults?
Why, but last week two United
States Senators were SO drunk they
could not fill an appointment to
speak. Some legislators were so
drunk last winter that they could
hardly attend to business. Another
was a man who never paid his debts
Where under the canopy OF heaven
will you find more disreputable char
acters than come up from the slums
to get toffice-gamblers prize-ighters,
John MOrrissey went to congress,
and Sullivan tries it,, roues, debau-
ches, public defaulters, criminals
You could find some of them in
houses of prostitution last winter.
There has been political dynasty in
Chicago led by Mike Mcdonald, the
King of gamblers. A gambler in St.
Paul has more influence in governing
the city than all the preachers COM
bined!
1--WE have already been informed
Ofcertain alliance laborers because of
this and that personal fault Now
we don't know anything about their
personal habits-and we are not 60
ing out into the field to see if their
third cousin wears q red necktie 1t
is their work, their sympathies,
their humanities, that we want to
know of. We will put them against
a defrauding lot of political bum
mers eight days in the week, and let
the Devil Judge.
5-The only men we have to fear in
this alliance movement are the habi-
tues of the State Houses and the
county rings. Let the big guns in
politics get control of the alliance
and it is ''goner." And that is Just
what they are trying to do. One of
tho biol, III, ,arl;f;o;o,,c :e. L..
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-08

Alliance work is non-partisan-ev-
erlastingly!
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-07-12

Put two or more quarts of water in a
kettle, advises an exchanged and one
large red pepper seed pod, or Two small
Ones. then put the kettle over the fire.
When the water boiis stir in the course
Indian meal uGtil you have thick nush.
Horse radish Is chopped fine and stirred
into the mush as prepared in the above
directions, and for results We are getting
from five to ten eggs per day, whereas
previous to feeding we had not had eggs
for some time. Boiled apple skins sea
soned with red pepper, or boiled potatoes
seasoned with horse radish, are good for
feed, much better than uncocked food.
Corn when fed the hen by itself has a
tendency to fatten rather than produce
the more profitable egglay ing. A spoon
ful of sulphur stirred with their feed oc-
cassionatly will rid them of vermin, and
tone up their systems.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-07-12
Blossoms Latest Invention.

Mr.. Edison must be careful not to in
vent something which shall cause even
enlightened modern society to rise upon
him and threaten him with the stake
which was the portion of 30 many distin
guished innoVators in darker days than
our own. There are already conserva-
tives in Europe who illuminate against
the photograph as "irreverent" because
of its daring function of preserving and
perpetuating the voices of the loved and
lost. The wizard of Llewellyn Park, in
conversation with a reporter who solicit
ed his ideas on the subject of the pro
iected worlds fair in New York city, said
he would take an acre OF space il such q
fair and completely cover it with his in
ventions, of which he has no less than
seventy now under way.
zone of the most peculiar and now
promising good results" said Mr.. Edison,
sis what | may call fer-sight machine"
By means of this extraordinary invention
he hopes to increase the range of vision
by hundreds of miles, SO that, for in
stance, "a man in New York could see the
features of his friend in Boston with as
much ease as he crruId see perfOrmar &c
on the stage" That" he added, "wOUld
be An invention worthy a prominent place
in the Worlds Fair, and | hope to have it
perfected long before 1892"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-07-12
SEEDS AND TREES.
How They Preserve Their Vitality for an I'm
usually Long Period.

1t would be rash to affirm, remarks
writer in the London Evening Standard,
that under exceptional clrcums tanoes, es-
pecially when seeds have been kept from
contact with the air and in dry stmos-
phere, some oS them may not preserve
their vitality for an unusually long period.
Beans have been sprouted sixty days after
they were gathered and seeds of plants
oelougirg to the same leguminous tribe
taken FROM the herbarium of the Tourne
fort, who fiourished in 1894, grew into
fruiting plants in the Jardin des Plantes
in the year 1910. The seeds of the same
sensitive plant are known to have been
vita. after having been kept for fifty
years; haricots have terminated after
100 years, and there is an undispated in
stance of grain of rye sproutisg when
1+0 years old.
Still more to the point. maize taken
from an apparently uudisturbed Inca
tomb in Fern, which could not ,have been
closed less than three centuries ago,
showed feeble vitality; and fact of a
very remarkable character, which renders
dog matism unsafe, was recorded from
near Shrewsbury about the year 1871. In
cutting down a large elm tree quantity
of scorns was found in a cavity of the
trunk, though so completely inclosed by
the growth of the tree since the squirrel
or other snImsl had placed them there
that two feet of wood, showing twenty
annual ring, INTERVIEWED between the
scorns and the open air. Yet several OF
them terminated. In these cases the seeds
were kept in 8 perfectly alright space,
and entirely excluded from any agents
likely TO stimulate germinaeion or cue
the decay of the young plant. We also
know as . familiar fact that when forests
are swept by fires the growth which
spring up in the burnt tracks is nos the
same as that which disappeared. Ia North
America pine and spruce are succeeded
fret by a growth of brambles, which in
and bird cherry. Then scrub oaks and
various hardwoods follow these, and pine
rarely resppears except upon land long
mellowed by agriculture, thong the sue
cession of trees varies mucn in different
parts of the continent.
In Casar's dsy the Hercynian forest
modern zsald-consisted chiefly Of
broad -leaved trees. But the frs aud
pines now dominate. In Syria, when Ger
tain sections of pine forests are cut down,
young oaks take their places; and in
France, after the telling of the timber in
forests of q particular district of that
country, brooms, fox groves, health,
birches, and aspen spring in place of the
oaks, beeches, ard ashes hern down by
the woodmen. Then, after an interval of
ninety years, or thereabouts-sfter the
coppicing-oaks and beeches reconquer
their original position.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-07-12
Our Timber supply.

According to the Timberman there is
no occasion for alarm at the prospect of
an early destruction of our timber sup
ply. Pudget Sound has shore line of
1900 miles, and all along this line, mary
miles farther than the eye can reaon, is
one vast and almost upbroken foress of
eUormous trees. The sawmllls have been
ripping 5OO,OOO,OOO feet of Lumber out of
them yearly for more than ten years, and
the spaces cleared are mere green patches.
Official estimates places the amount of
timber standing in that area at 100000,
000,0 feet-a thousand years supply
even at the present rate of production,
the timber bait of Washington Territory
covers an area equal to that of the States
of Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut
and New hampshire.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-07-12
THE ENGLISH GIRL,
A Couple of Advantages She Poss
the American Girl.


Two points of advantages the English
girl possesses over the American girl
observes traveller in the Boston Hearld
and these are precisely the qualities that
particularly appear to men; she is more
romantic and more submissive. While
as full of sentiment as the ideal love let
ter tied with blue ribbon, still she re-
CARDS man rs her lord and master. She
rarely dreams of disputing the supreme
cy of husband, father, or even bro her
and her privilege and pleasure is to min
lister unto them. She Is SO affectionatt
in her home circle that the average mar
has only to be admitted there to straigh
way fall head over heels in love with &
girl who worships her brother, is forever
kissing her fond father, aud disputes
with her sister the honor and the delight
of warming the paternaI slippers. Ever
when of "high station" she takes hel
turn in making the tea end preparing thu
toast and experimenting the break
fast generally-a task which mamms
regulates to her daughters. The English
girl breathes this engaging air of domes
tioity. Man doesn't say, "How she can
waltz; how well she looks at the opera
how she SURPRISES all of the other girls
in the cotilion!" No matter to what ad
vantage she may appear in evening dress
under the soft radiance of the wax can
dies, what the most inveterate bachelor
whis pers to himself is this: "By George
what wife che would make! And wha
a homer
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-07-12
Paint fol Tin Roofs.

A large firm of dealers in tin recon-
N end the following as an tx't lent paint
Ior the purpose OF painting tin roofs: 10
b Vene ian red, ID red lead, one gallon
pure linseed oil. fhe substitution of
benzine, or fish oil for the pnre Iinseed
oil should not be allowed. The roof wilt
last longer aud be less liable to rust if
painted on the under surface before lay
ing. 1t Is good plan TO pu. one or two
layers Of felt paper under the tin to serve
the Loise made by rain falling on the tin.
year after the first coating, the roof
should be painted again, and then good
roof will only require painting once IN
four years. toof of first-claes material
well sodered and properly laid should
last at low estimate at least forty years.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-07-12
Ingram Garnet Rugs.

soft, thick and handsome rug can be
made as follows; Any half worn bits lef5
from making over an ingram carpet will
answer very well, but the better and
brighter the carpet is, the prettier aud
more durable the rug will be. Get all
the material together, free from dust by
beating or washing, and cut it into strips
inches wide, taking care to always cut
iengthwise of the goods. Ravel both
edges of THESE strips, leaving hut four
threads in the center of each. When all
the strips have been fringed in this way,
take piece.of st ipzd he'd tcking he
size the rug is to b, place the unraVeled
pur5ion of a strip of pet exactly Over
a white stripe of the ticking, slip il under
the foot of sewing machine, am stitch
down the whole length of the ticking.
Turn back the edge of the strip already
sewed on, place another strip on the mex
white stripe in the the ticking, and stitch
down as before. Proceed in this way I'M
til all the white stripes are covered, and
the rug is of the desired size. Trim off
all lorg ends; line With burlaps or old
carpet, and bind all around. For a fringe
take some of the rawlings of the strips,
cut into lengths 10 or u inches, and with
a large crochet needle draw little punches
of five or six threads through the binding
at each end of the rug; knot, aud trim the
ends of the fringe evenly, aud the rug Is
done.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-07-12
The Resi- hid to OratorY.

Speaking of the aids to oratory, Sir
MorelI Mackenzie has fling alike at Mr.
Gadstone's egg and sherry and the Iron
Chancellor's brady and settler. The
supposed miraculous virtues of the mys-
terious possets and draughts on which
some orators pin their faith exist" he
says, "mainly in the imagination OF
those who use them; at best they do moth
ing more than lubricate the joints of the
vocal machine SO as to make it work
more smoothly. This is just 81 well done
by means of glass of plain water. In
France water sweetened With sugar is the
grand vocal elixir of political orators. As
Nine. de Girardin said, somewhat unkind-
ly: MANY things can be dispensed VII h
in the tribune. Talent, wit, conviction,
ideas, even memory can be dispensed with,
but not eau sucre.' Stimulan's may give
a sort of Dutch Courage to the orator,
and may carry him successfully thrOug b
vocal effort in which indisposition or
nervousness might otherwise have caused
him to fail, but the i'm mediate good which
they do is dearly purchased By the thick
ening and roughepiDg of the mucus sur
face of the throat 70 which they ultimate
Iy give riser
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-07-12
The Effect of Artillery Ere.

Taeiies prevailing before the Franco
Prussian war was that the effect of srtiil-
cry Gre in the ranks of the enemy was
moral rather than actual in conclusive
wiped out by the account of two actions
found in the recent work by the great
authority on this ann, Prussia k-sft Ho-
henlohe. Although Prussia gave the
Austrisns tremendous licking in 1866,
she recognized the fact that the Aussrisn
batteries were far superior TO hers aud
Immediately Sc TO work to i'm prove them,
with the follosing result III 1870, as des-
cribed by Prince Kraft: II could never
have believed that the instruction given
in time 70 peace could have borne such
excellent fruit in spite of the excitement
of action. Standing behind the Captain
of battery, heard him quietly give the
order: Against infantry III front, 1900
PAGES from the right flank, ready! Fire
one gun" Then he waited, holding his
field glass TO his eye, until the enemy ap-
preached the point on which the guns
we're laid, aud gave the order, Rapid
firiLg from the right hankr II EN- there
was Il helhsh sight, for the sdvancirg
enemy disappeared from view in the
clouds of smoke which torA their shells
threw up as they burst au3 tore their way
through the ranks. After one or two
minutes the attacking enemy came out
on one side of the smoke. 1t had passed
the point on which the guns were laid,
and in spite of terrible loss, sppro ache d
with undeuisble bravery. Then the
Captain gave the command: Cease FIR
ing! l,6O0 paces-one gun-ceEse 6ring!'
Aud when the guns were now laI6, he
cried: AT 1000 PAGES, from the right
flank, rapid firing! The effect was bril-
ham, horrible, overwh Ginning. No attack
could have resist. d IT," A : ain, we have the
effect of the German guns at St. Privst:
when the heao 81 the French column
became vjssable over the hill car trial
shots reached it at a range of 900 PAGES,
aud my thirty guns opened rapid fire,
The enemy's infantry was developed in
the thick smoke which the shells made
as they burst. But after q very short
time we saw the red-trousers of the mass.
es which were approaching through the
cloud. l stopped the fire. A trial shot
was fired at l, 700 spaces range; this was
to show Us the point up to which we
should let them advance before reopen
ing the rapid fire. We did the same fol
the ranges of 1900, 1900, LOO and SOC
PAGES. In spite of the horrible deyRsta
ton which the shell caused in their ranks
these brave troops continued to advance
but at 900 PAGES the effect of our fire wa;
too deadly for them; they turned round
and fed I'VE hurled shells after them a,
long as We could see them. Here WAS al
infantry attack which was repulsed pure
| ly and simply by the FIRE of artillery
| The proposition is also laid down that
line of artillery can not be broken by {
frontal attack by infantry. The effect o.
| sharppell reaches out to 500 wards. anC
from 1000 to 1000 yards the effect Of
artillery is absolutely annihialtiny.