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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-02-23
SHEEP AND DAIRY,
Business in Vermont as Presented
at a Farmers Institute.

at a Farmers Institute.
The next speaker was Rollin C.
Smith, Pittsburg, VT, member of the
board of agriculture of that state.
Subject: "Care and Breeding of Dairy
stock.'' In New England, he said,
dairying is comparatively a new bust
ness. In Vermont the business was
formerly sheep. which they had got TO
perfection. They had given them just
the form, size and pattern that they
wanted, until the Old World had been
beaten by New England sagacity. He
didn't know as we should be any better
off than when the sheep business was
good. AS wool went down and sheep
went down. it went to the wall, SO Yer
mont farmers had to east about for
something else. 1t was no small job to
change buildings and everything. At
present the average COW is too low in
ter in Vermont. This would not give
Cows should be bred and reared for
better results than this. Care should
be used in getting the foundation of a
herd, as rs per cent of the cows ought
not to have been wintered, and 10 per
cent of the dairymen ought to go out of
the business. He would always breed
from thoroughbreds. In Addison
county Mr.. Douglass made his herd
average 325 pounds last year. When
asked how it was done he Said-by
breeding.
Another Vermont farmer. he said.
was making 29O pounds of butter per
COW. When asked how it was done his
answer was the same-breeding. Which
ever breed you choose make your point
to follow the characteristics of the
breed closely, and select sires from the
best families giving what you want in
long lines. Heifers can be spoiled either
with too much or too little feed. Calves
should be fed lightly for few weeks
and then increase. Their digestives
may be upset by over-feeding
while young. and they never recover
from 1t. Calves can not be fully
developed in the barn: they need eX-
ercise, either in the yard or pasture. In
winter they need sunshine and good
early cut hay. The only objection he
had to winter dairying was he liked
spring calves best to raise. Whenonce
we'll started he would keep them
at their milk for four months. EEe1
after year old they should be tied up
and fed and handled like cows. He
would card them towards spring and
handle their bags and teats so that they
would not be vicious. lie thought Yer
mont and New Hampshire bought too
much grain.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-02-23
EASTERN CAPITAL,
Not an Unmixed Evil if Eastern
Capital Is Denied to Western


Boston dollars are getting alarmed.
and the cause of the alarm is the pro-
posed usury and tax laws that are now
being advocated in some OF our Western
legislatures, says the Western Rural. 1t
is proposed to provide for some degree
of equity in this mOney-lOaning business.
capitalist to shaking quicker than
to propose that hes hall give the other
fellow slight chance to live. The cap
italists Of the New England metropolis
have got together, it is said, and con-
Guided to send no more money out here
to be loaned on farm property, and to
order their Western agents to foreclOse
as rapidly as the mortgages be-
come due. Perhaps hot much real
harm will come to great many
mortgagors if this is done. 1t
will be ushering in the day of doom
only little sooner than it would come
il the borrower were permitted to go
OIL paying interest as long as he had
any life in him. The same end would
come at last under any circumstances.
But whatever of evil may be threatened.
it will be found that laws which
compel these leeches upon our VAST
ern farm industry to respect justice
in some slight degree will ultimately re-
suit in good to our farmers. 1t would
not be safe to attempt to estimate the
money which represents IN Eastern
pockets and banks the sweat and lives
Of Western farmers. An enormous rate
of interest has been charged upon
farm loans. and the lenders have
escaped taxation under the plea
of the extra risk which the shy
locks run in making such loans. The
risk is perfectly safe and they know it.
When you catch an Eastern Shylock
loaning money upon shaky security
you will catch a weasel asleep. The
financial makeup of the "critter''
is not of that kind. He knows
his money is safe, and he knows
he is getting two or tire times
more for it than he can get in the East.
his head is level and his nature grasp
ing whenever he looks westward for in
vestment. He is not half as big fool
as he would have people believe. Let
the legislature sock it hi to mand let
him Squirm.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-02-23

A dairyman says he Invariably cures
caked udder by thoroughly and care
fully rubbing it with mixture COM
posed of two ounces of pulverized iodide
of pOtaSa and two ounces of lard.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-02-23

dollah limmick'll give 1liggan All de
chance ter lose he wants, Tell GEM
ante IN five-dollah limmick's de game |
hopes ter play aftah Gabril tO0ts Gle
hon, III we'll all be Vanderbilks. Wen
Gle limmick IN de ante am fixed, doan'
let no niggah rise her. Wen some
mokes git tree dollahs ter de bad dey
wants ter rise de limmick, IN den hard
feelin's IN bad papah begin ter git in
cirkylashin. OATS all Pse got ter say"
''Befo' dis lectur Closes" observed
Mr.. Williams, rising with hateur and
holding his left hand in such a manner
that his amethyst ring showed to best
advantage, 81 wanter know did de per-.
lesser mean ter spress any doubts OBJ
my hOnah in de remarks bout de trif1ln'
bits o. paper l heZ out. OATS what l
wanter know"
IL didn't say muffin bout yo' honah,
loot" explained the professor, sweetly.
81 said dat had tree hundred N steen
dOllahs wuffer yo' l. o. US, IN Pse,
held IN for fo'teen mumfs, IN yo' seem
wllIn' should hole 'em for fo'teen mo-.
Eff yo' honah's sensitive. loot. I'll sell
de hull lot ter yo' fer tree dollahs."
IL gess-ef yo' means ter doubt my
honall--'' began Mr.. Williams, holly.
IAN dat tree dollahs offer go?"
quered the professor.
II doan' low no coon ter doubt my
honah," said Mr.. Williams. glaring.
upon the assemblage.
"i'll sell them for 81 said the pro-
fessOr.
DE honah oh gentleman"
"Gimmy dollaf, IN de hull batch am
yo'n,2 said the professor.
"fll fight ter de lass gasp fer my
honah," said Mr.. Williams.
"Haff dollah," said the professor,
holding up the notes in question.
EFF yo' didn' mean muffin agin
my honah," said Mr.. Williams, ''yo'
'pollygy am 'cepted."
Here the gavel fell; the chairman an
nounced that the next lecture would be
Elder Jubilee Anderson, on s'Mirrikles
in de Dror." and the club adjourned to
put the professors theory into practice.
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Warren Nav BE Promoted.

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 22.-It was currently
rumored here to-day that G. G. Warren,
general auditor of the Missouri Pacific,
would soon be promoted to the vice
presidency made vacant by the resigna-
ton Of Mr.. Hopkins.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-02-23

New York state had on the first of
January last $40. G53 cows, worth Oh the
average 5000 per head. Iowa. is the
second state as to the number of head,
1,255, 432, valued at 1880 per head.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-02-23

I'm a-goin' to hang myself" said
John in very matter-of-fact way.
''YOu be?'
YES, Marthy Ann"
The old lady sat silent for moment.
"Wa'l. "she said at last, ''if you be,
guess III git up and go out in t'other
rOom."
She went out in the other room and
shut the door. The old man, left to his
reflections, changed his mind and didn't
hang hlmself-that time. But when the
time had worn on bit and 10 softeDing
of his wife's heart had ever come, he
was found one morning dead at the end
OF his rope-not in the house, but out in
the old barn which had been the scene
OF his solitary sorrows for so many
Years.
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An Independent Opar. Singer

That our popular comic opera singers Ere
growing independent lis the seasons roll by
was proved to the writer tho other day. y
friend was calling on one of the best known,
if not tho very best known, performers i'll
New York city, when the card of dramatic
agent was sent up. The opera singer direct
ed the servant to show him into her presence,
and when he arrived he made her a formal
offer to go to Boston to sing two songs ut the
Sunday night concert in Music hall. Be-
sides all expenses she was to receive $3.50
After hearing the offer tho singer said i'll n
very tired voice that she did not care to ac
cept The agent made the figure $500. This
was also refused by the actress, who at last
said it would be quite impossible to accept
tho offer, us she had promised to dine that
Sunday evening with a friend. The agent
withdrew, and the actress went OH talking to
her visitor about herself. Less than ten
years ago this same woman who refused to
sing two songs for $500 was running about
the back room of n shop in calico wrapper,
while her parents toiled like slaves for money
enough to buy her Il decent meal. The daugh-
ter can now sleep all day and rest as many
months in tho year as she choo:es, for she
earns salary of $500 q week for forty weeks
in the year.-Chicago Herald.
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VOL. 21, NO. 21.
DEER LODGE, MONTANA NOVEMBER 49, 1885,

at Iitusvile. Pa. on Aug. p, l,&:.,. ;ui;l tile
man who did the work, who nlaugnr:tte ell this
great industry, was all unsunS kero. Col. Il.
l., DrnI:e. He read of the ancient methods
of collecting rock oil in Persia and other
lands of the orient, saw the American meth
cd of digging pits for it to seep into, and af-
ter long study Of the subject concluded that
its storage place was in the rocks and that it
must be bored or dug for. He did it, made u
success and established new and peculiarly
American intlustry-for this he deserves, and
oil men say shall have, a monument.
Edwin L. Drake was born March %, 1919,
i'll Greenvlle, Green county, n. j. In early
manhood lie located near Ann Arbor, Mich,
OH Il farm, but later became a dry goods
clerk i'll New York city. The ill health Of
his wife drove him to change his residence,
and he followed various pursuits, till in 1856
he became manager for little oil company.
He found the people using the "Seneca oil"
as they called it, for medicine, and after
many discouragements he succeeded, the
23d day Of March, 1858, in organizing what
was called the ''Senecn Oil company He
wos their local agent with salary of $1,000
year and commenced drilling The pain
full details of his discourage,nents need not be
set forth. t,Saiu and again the company de-
clared they would do no more: but again
he persuaded them to resume.
On the 25th Of August, 1859, they "struc1
oil; on the 2Sth they withdrew the drills and
the next day they drew up q tin pipe section
full of oil, There was an 'seXcitementn u On
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THE BIG RAILROAD COMBINE.
Map Showing the Extent of the Wander
hllt-Inion pacifc Chain.

Map Showing the Extent of the Wander
bilt-Union Pacific Chain.
consolidation" is the order of the day.
Each succeeding combination of capital
strikes the public with astonishment as ex-
ceeding ull that have gone before it, and now
there is q combination Of combinations in
railroad management which utterly d,varfs
everything ever known in corporate power
and makes such affairs ms tho British East
India company, the Oriental and the great
est French enterprises seem mere "bucket
shop business i'll comparison.
This new aggregation has been named ''the
Pacific Vanderbilt Chain" Of the first de-
tails given out some points have since been
denied, but as the final consunlmntion is GER
tain the public may soon contemplate cor
porate entity, q national company, or II CO.
lossal "trust"-eall it what you nll--which
owns and controls %, ,oO1 miles OF railroad
and $l,1S6, GA, 900 i'll debts and capital!
Nearly twelve hundred million dollars! The
mere words and figures dazzle the eve of II
common capitalist The germ of this con
solidaton, so to speak, was III the New York
Central, but while it was adding line after.
liie To its western connections, two other
combinations were forming i'll the west--now
oil are consolidated and the figures stand as
follows In the columns giving the bonded
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always knew without waiting for the returns
Just how the township had gone, for it con
tanned but fourteen voters. -Four men early
in 1852 set up u derrick in that wilderness
and began to bore, and soon alarming reports
reached those who were long of oil stocks"
that is, those who held much oil and there
fore wanted the price to go up. So the woods
were soon full Of scouts"
The owners surrounded the derrick with a
high board fence, and had several guards,
who at night kept up n random firing into
the woods to scare away the scouts" Never
thelcss, one daring young man crept past the
guards aud lay hidden for seventeen hours in
side the derrick, gaining the all important
knowledge that Number GlG'' was a flowing
well His fortune was made, and so WIS that
of his employers for they 'soll shor;,n and
in few days prices fell so greatly as to in
volve a total loss OF s30,EG000O to the hold
ers 1t was ''Black Friday" to the 'sbrlls, u
and no wonder, for Number G3Gn yielded
1000 barrels day from the start, and what
was more, it proved that new field was to
be opened, and that hundreds of new wells
would soon be flowing. Crude petroleum,
which had been selling at eighty-five cents n
barrel, declined rapidly to forty-nine cents
figure which, for a time, stopped produc-
ton on all but the big flowing wells
Shooting a WE'LL" or "torpedoins" is a
ticklish business The enitro-glycerine-e enough
of it to blow up a regiment-must be poured
into u canister which looks like section of q
water spout and the same lowered very gent
ly to the bottom of the well, SO fixed with a
trigger attachment that it will in due time
explode This blows out the loose sand and
loosens the sand rock in which is the petro-
leum, and go the oil flows again. But if any
thing sets Off the nitroglycerine prematurely,
either in the hands Of the shooter" or be-
fore he can get away from the mouth of the
well, then "Good-by, John!" Cases have oc-
CURED in which single finger was the only
remnant ever found. And at least one case
in which u teamster, wagon and two mules,
transporting the pesky stuff, were suddenly
bliterated-utomized, SO to speak, for not a
trace of either was ever found, not even a
splinter of the wagon. 1t wns supposed that
the man drove too hard against big stone
there was terrific explosion, cloud of dust,
hole in the ground and nothing more.
A blazing well is sublime, an awful sight.
OF course there are many ways in which SO
inhanmable a substance may take fire. and
formerly such calamity was irremediable;
but Yankee ingenuity has found remedies.
Quite recently some brilliant triumphs over
the fire are reported the operators having
rugged immense derricks and swung mann
moth stcap" over the mouth Of the well, then
lowered it and smothered out tho fire.
Thirty years Of practical work and daily
experience with the fluid have not destroyed,
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Ilth SptAi LIE AAhoh-
1t is amazing how common is the belief in
that greatest Of impostures fortune telling
Even people who really 10 know that no ono
cnn possibly forcsee what is to happen have u
lingering confidence cluirvnyancc and such
hunbugs, Of which they find it iallto divcst
themselves, It is strange, too. that the fort
me teller finds his most profitable patrons in
large cities, where one has every opportunity
OF knowing that Such persons arc always inl-
posters Of th. worst class.
The passengers on Il Boston horse ear were
amused one day by the conversation Of two
women, oile of whom ilcd recently been 10 see
a 50 called fortune teller.
Its perfectly wonderful the things he told
met she said. HE told me, without my say
ing word that was either married Or that
would be married within year Now, how
could he tell that was really lnurricd!'
ut was strange replied tile other woman,
evidently crctiulous her companion.
"What else did he tell yousn
"Well, he said that there WIS dark cloud
hanging over ne now, but for me not to get
discouraged, for it would soon pass away,
and everything would como out nll right
"Well, leclarc!n
''Then he said that ono of my friends
would be very sick soon, and that lie would
die before the year was out and leave me a
great deal of money, aud I've un i,leA | know
just who that is.
'Do you? Who is it!"
"Oh, ought not to tell you. My husband
says these fortune telleis tell that to every
body, but | don't SEQ why it shouldn't he true
in my cnse. Strangay things than that have
happened
THAT'S truen
I'm sure he told me great many things
he couldn't have known beforehand. Without
asking me hardly any questions, lie told me
all about my husband, just how he looked,
and how many children | had, and how old
l was and all that -- ---.-
y professional fortune teller Gun usually
find out all he wants to know hy asking "a
few questions il. such an ntlroit way that
his victims never know they are giving him
the information lie. in turn, gives them, to
their great surprise aud nystiiication.-
Youths Companion.
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In only one early medieval record is there
any mention of the use of n fork after the
fashion Of modern times The heroine of
this record is a Byzantine woman, who mar
rcd Dogo of Venice many centuries ago
In Venice this Byzantine young woman con-
tlnucd to cat MS she ate ut home. She cut her
meat i'll very small bits on her plate and car
ried each bit to her mouth with two tined
fork. The people of Venice regarded this
unusual manner of eating rs symptom OF
morbid luxury.
In all probability, us this incident indi-
Gates the modern use of the fork originated
ut the cultivated byzantine coEr, and spread
gradually to the wfst. The western peoplu
did not take kindly, however, to this instru
ment OF new tangled eastern table manners
Many centuries We're required for its general
introduction AMI adoption. The famous By
%lntine who ate with her fork i'll Venice
live! i'll the Eleventh century Not till tho
Seventeenth century did tho great folk Of
Eurula. beg i'll to follow her example
In lG1s the USE Of forks, nccor,lin. To
modern nlens, WAS generally known, but
not generally adopted Heylin un English
writer, mentioned it then as the custom
among tl;indies. Jewellers Weekly
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Rev. W. Ii. Milburn. known throughout
the civilized world MS "tllo blind preacher" !"
and who is actively in the field at tho present
timc is one Of the most remarkable men of
the age. He was born in Philadelphia in
ls2i lie totally lost tho sight of ono eye
when quite young, the other becoming badly
impaired from sympathy, SO much SO that it
soon darkcnctl forever.
With spirit undaunted he studied and was
ordained us Il minister at the age of 20, and, it
is claimed Travelled over 2oo GOO miles filling
appointments in the southern states Within
the last thirty years he has preached in near.
ly every state in the Union and some Euro
penn countries He las been chaplain in the
house of representatives ut Washington, be-
sides filling many other important positions
AS a writer he is known as tho author of
"Ten Years of frencher's Life,"" "Rille, AN
and Sadd!ebags" and Pioneer, Preachers
and People of the Mississippi Valley.n-Jolm
w. Wright III st. Louis Republic.
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trade III 1870 he went 10 San Francisco.
representing his brother G. K Garrison aud
took charge Of the Pacific Mail Steamship
company's affairs. He also engaged in rail
road!hGt becoming receiver of the Missouri
Pacific and afterwards vice president OF tho
company upon its reorganization, Il position
he held when Jay Gould took the road.
Dir. Harrison was a brother Of the late
Commodore Garrison, and when the commo-
dorc some years ago became involved finan.
cially Oliver went to him and strnightened
out his affairs. When the commodore died
he left Oliver $4,000, This. with other
property he possessed, made him very COM
fO,tafll
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a begggur was sitting in New York street
holding out u baltered hat. The following,
placara was hung about his neck: "P!euse,
good people, help poor blind man who was
once rich, hut WHO has been reduced from uf-
fuence to poverty. You will never regret
it" Presently along came pleasant faced
man with sharp, shrewd eye. He looked
at the poor old Lesgar curiously for mo-
ment, and then suddenly drew back his arm
as though to strike him q blow in the face.
The movement was only u feint, but it served
the purpose. The beggar Jumped back about
yard and started on a run up the avenue,
winding his way i'll and out among the pass
ing vehicles with wonderful skill for IL blind
Man. Now York Etar
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d
TIE LATEST WELL. COL DRAKE.
Of the court house. Only thirty years ago
was the first oil well in America or the world
opened, and twice already has the business
declined till men said it was at an end and
revived again only 70 be greater thnn ever.
II these thirty years at least $3.50 100000
havs been invested in it, at least 10000 wells
have leen bored at d cost Of $4,000 900, and
the cash receipts for the products have slight
y exceeded :500QOO0oO. Verify a great
American industry.
But it is far from being exclusively Amer
lean. Indeed, the idea of using the oil Of the
rocks first came from Asia, and the greatest
oil basin in the worl is thought to be in one
Of Itnssia's latn acquisitions And the great
est strike in oil annals was by Russian com
pany ut B1ku, where a well was opened last
year which spont"l column 225 feet nigh
aud yielded ll0Q0 tons per day for some
time. In America, even at the lowest prices
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the last day Of Anrust NJ Drsl. ~ rpc,,t,.
nized in Titusyille rs I, success for 4 III
known that early that the Ven wnuI,j yiala
Mt ,east tynn1y l,or,.ei. !, ~. +, .ln,i ~,
ia entvfva the,, tyro,,I,ll>. a,.1i,n,. ~,
tha ,,ro,ia,, ,,os sl1xa, .s,}or;,,, a.. a ID as
soon "a ~ , repe Mia 1nost e,a,+ d;scrv-#
erers. Mr. Draks pt,t no benndt from Il IL
1860 bo wns "a moor tbat +hn III or.,a.rira
mafa III, fo,. MIN n nursa If 81 ono 1;;.a"
Ia,nns N.rsh,I1 WIN ,,isca,.er,, r,,l1 \,
(,o,,t es,,t+a,.,c ,,,i,i roc, l.; r.l;+,,,yf, IL
lont- fnrrs+ten In 1s13 +h. ]aerjsi4trro al
Penns,lynnja rrant.4l a r,ans;fn af s1.5nl \
VA NJ. nrnl;. mi ,.Zf, ,,rr;,,, tba III,