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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-12-06
CHRISTIAN CHURCH DEDICATED.

The new Christian church in this
city was filled to overlooking at IL
O'Clock last Sunday by people from
Baxter and surrounding country who
were anxious 20 hear the dedicaiory
sermon by Elder j. N. Smith Of Fort
Scott. The discourse was very able
and interesting one, and the music,
under the leadership Of Mr. Frank
Cook of Fort Scott, was first class.
At the close of the services a sub.
scription paper was started to raise
funds to assist in paying for the prop
rrty and 1925 was secured. The lots
and church building cost about $1,000,
of which amount only about $500 now
remains unprovided for. Considering
the times we think this is an exceed
imgly good report.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-12-06

A party consisting Of Capt. G. s.
Readle, civil engineer, Mr.. j. W.
Brewer of Pittsburg, Kan, Mr.. 0. J.
Nichols of Cherokee and Messrs. L.
NJ. Perkins, Samuel II. Smith Be- s.
Warmer, Ira q. Perkins, Joseph Smith
and Frank Hemstreet of this city
started last Wednesday after dinner to
90 over the proposed route Of the
Pittsburg. Columbus and Fort Smith
railway through the Indian territory
from this city To- Fort Smith. Four OF
the party expect TO go only part OF
the way and return tonight or tomor-
row. The others expect TO go over
the entire line and will be absent
about three weeks. Col. Alexander
Warner, president of the company,
accompanied by his wife and grand
sou, went with the party q short dis
lance in the territory to give them a
proper send off
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-12-06

Having added to my already large stock Of Groceries
and Provisions full line of Dry Goods Notions Boots,
Shoes Etc. you are requested to call and get prices before
buying Wecan: and do sell goods as low as any other
house in Baxter Springs any of the surrounding towns
ResPx u. OSBORN.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-12-06

. Subscribers, remember We need q
little money occasionally. HyOu owe
VS. and have an extra dollar or two
lust come aud leave 1t withpS. We
viii appreciate the favor
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-12-06

joplin Herald: At country school
hSuse near PitIsburg, Kan, fatal ac'
cidemt occurred ON Thanksgiving day.
A game of base ball was IN progress
and the scholars were standing near
the home plate watching the game.
The teacher was At the bat When
he struck ut the ball The bat clipped
from his hand struck one Of his pupils,
a little five year old girl, 10 the head,
crushing her skull and killing her in
stantly..
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-25
Marketing Strawberries.

When we begin picking, writes Presi'
dent Smith, of the Wisconsin Horticult-
ural Society, the boys and girls are en-
gagged ahead. Each picker has two
boxes-one to put perfect berries in, the
other for small ones. Then boy whose
business is to carry boxes takes the
filled boxes and leaves the empty ones.
He puts the filled boxes in crate. and
when this is full, it is carried by an
other boy to the cellar on wheelbarrow
with springs on it. They stay here un-
til thoroughly cooled. We sometimes
use ice to do this. They are handled as
little as possible. We make our own
crates Of lath, nailed on to end boards
of lumber of the right width. We drive
to market on walk. Each crate holds
16 boxes. The fruit is carefully taken
to the depot, but after leaving our hands
it is sometimes abused by express
agents. It takes seven laths to make a
16-qt. crate. A boy will put up one in 10
minutes. A 24-qt. crate can be made at
a cost of not over five cents. We place
three laths on the sides. sometimes
bride the express boys not to steal the
berries by offering them all they can
eat. :
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-25
A CHEAP HAY SHED.


this stack rack preferable to any other
is because it is less labor and does not
waste so much if properly used. In
hauling it to the rack it has to be
pitched on the wagon. requiring one
man to build, and then it has to be
pitched on the rack and tramped in. In
this way, it is fed at the bottom of the
stack, saving much unnecessary hand
ling. With good shelter, plenty of good
hay and 3 or ears of corn per day,
stock cattle will winter in good shape.
The money in hay lies in getting a
large yield from small amount of
land, and in getting good article and
taking care of it. One therefore needs
a shed, as it is much better than a
stack. This need not be an expensive
structure. Five tolerable straight
poles twenty feet long, eight feet apart
on each side with three in the middle.
Roof with boards. This will suffice for
an ordinary eighty-acre farm. There
should be four or five feet of fall in the
root, and the twenty-foot poles should
set three or four feet in the ground.
This, at the most should. not cost over
twenty-five dollars. and if in timber
country whore poles can be had cheaply,
and man does the work himself. there
need not be much expense outside the
eight hundred feet of lumber which the
roof reOuires
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-25
FARM AND GARDEN.
THE HAY CROP.

Some Seasonable Hints for Cutting, Curing
. and Stacking, Etc.
There are thousands of tons of hay
wasted by careless stacking and inn
proper covering, but tens of thousands
OF tons are wasted and trampled under
feetby careless and improper feeding. A
little over year ago an Iowa farmer sent
to the Orange Judd Farmer q sketch and
description Of rack to feed hay, which
was illustrated in its columns. Essays:
I have used such rack for several
years, and l think it is the very best
have used or seen described, and much
superior to tho one illustrated in this
journal few weeks ago, as know by
actual experience with both. But I
have hit upon what consider better
scheme in feeding hay, and that is .
hay-stack rack illustrated herewith.
Build your rack before you stack your
hay. 1t is best to build it 50 as to make
a fence, where the cattle do not have
access, to answer for one side. Then
build your rack on the other side and
ends, according to the size of stack. I
have seen some with rack all around,
but think that this is more costly and
unnecessary.
Place good heavy posts (a) seven feet
long, two and half fect in the ground
and eight or ten feet apart. Put short
braces on the inside of each post (not
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-25
Starting with Poultry.

The questions, how many fowls to
keep the best variety to begin with,
and how to manage protit&bly, come up
to the farmer with bis first thought
upon the subject o. keeping poultry.
He should not enter + new field Of en-
terprise hastily, anticipating more than
he can make his stock produce for him.
If he has suitable Recommendations one
hundred. or even fifty, blooded fowls
are ample. They can be made to pay q
larger net profit than double the num-
Der OF ordinary dung-hill Stock For
the farm, the Light Brahma, Plymouth
Rock, Wyandotte and White Dorking
are among the best. The white varie-
ties look better about the barn. The
Barred Plymouth Rock, Langshan,
Laced Wyandotte, and Java are also ex-
cellent. A farmer who carefully
studies the best ways Of handling his
poultry is taught by his own obser va
ton and experience how to manage
them profitably.-American Agricult.
urist.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-25
uAY-STACK FEED RACK.


shown in engraving) to prevent the
stock from pushing it in when reaching
for hay. Spike two two-inch planks
(b) one foot wide around the bottom.
Then bolt AKA inch piece (c) or good
heavy pole above the top of planks two,
or two and half feet, according to the
size of the stock, as full-grown cattle
will require larger space than calves
or young stock. This rail is necessary,
as cattle are very liable to ''hox'' one
another into the rack, and falling on
their backs if not found at once will get
killed, as know by actual experience;
even after they were dehorned they
would force weaker animal into the
manager. Let your cattle just eat the
hay from the stack, making them eat it
as near the bottom as possible, and then
throw out the refuse that accumulates
in feeding.
Then throw it down from one end Just
as you would if you were going to haul
it to the rack. exposing no more of the
stack than you can feed in two or three
weeks. Fi1l>the rack around the side
of the stack to the top of the planks,
as the stock are liable to pull the hay
out and trample it under foot if piled
up to the railing. Give them just
enough so they will clean it up we'll,
and before feeding again throw out all
the refuse, just as you do with your
horses managers.
If you have good hay, we'll stacked, it
is pleasure to feed it this way, and an
easy matter, too. The reason I think
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-25
PLANNING a CAMPAIGN.
Emigrants That Will Not Come Among u
to Farm or to Build.


to Farm or to Build.
Aforeigner who proposes, II possible
to emigrate to this country is said to have
held conference recently with one Of
bis race who had already been here. II
this statement is true, the people of the
United States have reason to be deeply
concerned, for these emigrants do not
come among US to farm, or to build or to
vote.
Their business is to kill, and they dc
their work we'll. Their power, silent
and sure, is more deadly than that OF
cannon or dynamite; they spare neither
the young nor the old; their track across
the continent is marked by black lines
OF graves.
One Of the parties to this reported
conference was the vigorous young com
ma bacillus or cholera microbe. Prob
ably none Of our readers have ever seer
this creature, or even its picture, but ii
lives and moves to do deadlier work
than the fabled dragons of old times.
my ancestors" 1t is reported to have
said, CROSSED the sea to the New World
again and again, and counted their vic
Tins by thousands and tens of thousands
What chance is there for mo now? NY
race has the power to reproduce itself te
an illimitable extent. II / can make
my way from Persia across Europe and
the Atlantic, can increase by the mil.
lions should tho conditions prove favor
able. can double the death rate in 8
summer"
His companion was the 41icrobe Of the
influenza. Its picture has not been
drawn by scientific men. 1t has just fin
ished triumphant march over Europe
and this continent, leaving disease and
wasted vitality and death behind it..
Soldiers and infants, expresses and pau.
pers, as we all know, were among its
victims.
''The field is ready for you in Ameri.
ca" 1t said. Young and old there OK.
haust their vital forces by excessive
work or excessive play, by incessant
struggles to be rich, or by drink. On
the farms and in country villages little
attention is paid to drainage; garbage,
manure heaps and other denominations
are left to tester under the hot sun. In
some of the great cities sewer gas pol.
lutes the air; in Others the drinking
water is foul with corruption; in all OF
them the people listen with good-hu.
mored Indifference to the warnings OF
scientific men,"
ut is pure air, cleanliness and tenn.
perate living that kill me-" said the
deadly microbe; ''but foresee great tri.
umphs yonder. shall have thousands
of victims!" and he prepared for his de.
parture.
"A fable!' says the reader. mo sucl.
conference was ever held" 1t may be
So but fable is story that has NOR.
al.-Youth's Companion.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-25

A noMBsnELL has just been thrown into
the camp of the Irvine Trust by the we'll
known house of Montgomery Ward & Co.,
Of Chicago, in the way of a startling offer to
sell half MANILA and half sisal binder Irvine
at 10 cents per h., nearly five cents less
gomery Ward Il Co. will lose fortune by
this move, but they say that they have re-
solved to break the Irvine trust price if such
a thing is possible. The fact that they deal
directly with the farmers, and that they
number their customers by the million,
they should succeed in breaking the market,
the saving to the American farmers will
amount to almost s, OOO, 600, proving con-
clnsively that the farmers have no better
friends than the house Of Montgomery
Ward a. Co.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-25
NOT WHAT SHE WANTED.

A Woman In Search of a Clothes-Hors
Encounters Stove.
A woman stopped in front of hard.
ware store on Michigan avenue the 9th.
er day and began to examine gasoline
stove. A clerk speedily appeared and
4ueried:
"Were you thinking of buying a
gasoline stove, ma'am?"
swell, didn't know. Which does it
burn, wood or coal?'
Neither, nam; it burns gasoline?"
"Oh, / see."
lone of the handiest, incest stoves in
the world, ma'am. Can be placed in
any room, and is warranted not to smoke
nor smell. Cooks just as we'll as a reg
ular stove, and it costs you only five
cents day to run it."
Don't it run by natural gas?"
''Oh, no, ma'am. 1t burns gasoline
Z fluid. Here is the tank"
HAS it refrigerator attached?"
"Why, of course not. Who ever heard
of a refrigerator being attached to a
stove?"
''Isn't there no electricity about it?"
mo, ma'am."
doesn't it save gas bills?"
Hardly"
':Just simply stove to cook by?"
''That's ALL"
swell, don't want one. Can't amount
to very much, I guess. I'm looking
along here for a secondhand clothes.
horse. Good morning."-D etroit Free
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-25
WATER TANK FOR FOWLS,

ing tins should be double to gain
strength. Let the pan be an inch and
half deep, and at least an inch larger
in front. 1t may fit comfortably at the
sides and back to slide easily. Let the
can be turned bottom side up, filled and
inverted. It may then be hung up to
suit the fowls, the ear soldered on at the
top of the back slipping over the hook
In the wall. Such tank is best made
Of galvanized iron.-Farm and Home.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-25
COLD WATER,
! Convenient Tank for tho Poult

A Convenient Tank for tho Poultry
Yards.
It is important to give fowls fresh,
clean drink. A tank which l have in
vented is we'll worth copying. The up
per part may be sirup can with the
bottom cut off. In front at the lower
edge Vshaped notch may be cut,
three-quarters of an inch deep. On the
opposite side at the top bucket ear
may be soldered. At the sides of the
bottom and near the corners marrow
strips projecting outward should be
soldered to slide under corresponding
strips on the bottom pan. The project
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-25
The Demon of the Marsh.

The evil spirit that hoyers about stag
nant pools and inundated lowlands, is no
materialized DOGGY, no phantasm of dis
ordered imagination, but power of evil
far more malignant than any familiar ana
thematized by Cotton Mather. 1t is Malaria,
which has for it's destructive progeny fever
and ague, bilious remittent and dumb ague,
copQuerable with Hostetters Stomach Bit
ters, as are dyspepsia, constipation, liver
complaint, etc.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-25

COOP grades Of stock are always in
demand in the markets. When prices
are down the farmer should endeavor to
gain something by increasing the
weight and quality. ",
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-25
Syrup Of Figs,

Produced from the laxative and nutritious
juice of California figs, combined with the
medicinal virtues of plants known to be most
beneficial to the human system, acts gen.
tly on the kidneys, liver and bowels, effect
ually cleansing the system, dispelling colds
and headaches, and curing habitual cons
tiDatiOn
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-25

The diplomatic barber acts part when
he goes over the head Of a bald headed Gus
toner. Washington Post.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-25

We will give 500 reward for any case OF
catarrh that can not be cured with Hall g
Catarrh Cure Taken Internally
FL. CHENEY Il Co. Props, Toledo, O.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-25

RHEUMATIC Pains are greatly relieved by
Glenn's Sulphur Soap.
Hills Hair and Whisker Dye, so cents.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-25

SOME lawyers are always poor, while
others in the profession meet with fee-nom-
inal SUCCESS
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-25

ALL disorders caused by bilious state Of
the system can be cured by using Carter's
Little Liver Pills. Nopain, gripping or dis
comfort attending their USE Try them.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-25

No LANGUAGE can express the feelings Of
deaf mute who steps on tack in dark
room -Elmira Gazette.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-25

WATER is good in case Of fever, but wa
tered stock makes the market feverish.-
Texas Siftings.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-25

THOSE who wish to practice economy
Forty pills in vial; only one pill dose.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-25

''TnE early bird catches the worm," but
it is the late ''lark' that brings on the
''snakes. ''-Yonkers Statesman.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-25
Accounted for It.

Ripley-How Shorts laughed at Fogg's
story awhile ago. I didn't think it very
funny. .:ssz.... -.
Wilks-I didn't; but Shorts had just
before borrowed five dollars from Fogg.
The Jury. "..-
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-25

IHr dude has his greatest swing in So
ciety when the hammock season arrives
N. .. Picayune
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-25

THE best illus tration of mingled hope and
fear Is lazy man looking for work.-Ash-
land Press
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-25

Si1 Novels Free, will be sent by Cragln &
Co., Philada., Pa, to any one in the U. s: or
Canada, postage paid, upon receipt OF rs
Dobbins' Electric Soap wrappers Sec list
OF novels on circulars around each bar.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-25

THE expenses of an electric company
may be summed up as current expenses
Lawrence American.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-25

BRONCHITIS is cured by frequent small
doses of Pisos Cure for Consumption.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-25

You can easily fill the public eye II you
only have the dust-Terre Haute Express.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-10-09
A Lesson in POliteness,

The late Professor Morren related
ono ia IL hearing a rebuke which he
gave TO a high strung Beacon Hill
damsel. which is worth repeating for
the moral il carries. The young lady
was one of his pupils and made herself
particularly obnoxious by her naughty
and even insolent bearing, displaying
her contempt for all about her so mark
eddy that il became at last unbearable.
Il knew her mother in France" said
the professor, whose broken English
there is no need of producing here,
land she was a most exquisitely modest
and unassuming IN But the
daughter was SO insolent that she had
70 have a lesson. so | said to her:
xviii you be so good as to remain
after the lessonl have something to
tsll you
''She stayed, and in her haughtiest
manner she said: You wish to speak
10 meT
"'Yes. You are Miss So-and-Sor
"'Yes.'
".And you live at No.-Beacon
stxeetf
"'Yes.'
".And your father is Mr.. So-and-Sor
"'Yes.'
"'And your mother is the lovely and
sweet Mrs. So-and-So l have met in
Ffancef
".Wellr
"'Oh,' | said, you are sure there is
no mistaken
"'No mistake! What do you meant
~ am exceedingly surprised that
you come of such a family and so well
born
",Sirr
81 am much surprised. have been
sure you came of a new rich family
some parvenue'-
'Sir,'
"'You think, mademoiselle.' said.
~softening my manner, that haughti-
ness is aristocratic. Now. you will par
don an old man If | remind you that
the contrary is true. | have known
your mother 50 long that | dao to he
frank with you. You have been very
~insolent in the class
'lnsolent, monsieur
"'Yes, madeinoiselle. You have mis-
taken this for a mark Of aristocracy.
You would much better copy your
mother-your gentle, lady mother
"And | made her my best bow and
left her TO think about it. And she
wa a good girl afterward-a very good
girl."-Boston Courier.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-10-09

PATRICK ROLAND, the 'epublican
candidate Tor state senator from Silver
Bow county, was elected president ci
the Butte Workingmer's Union on
Saturday last by a vo e Of l25 to %
On sceount Of Mr.. Bo!ar d's candidacy
Tor state senator, a very determined
effort was made to defeat him in the
minor election in the ~enreavor "a
show that he WAS not popular with
The workipgmen. A. the vote shows
however, the etf ort was not u success,
Mr.. Bolard is also president Of TIE
Butte Mtners' Union, mn Ds" ciatipn
numbering =. v.rsi Thousand IN, mb.rs
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-10-09
A Journalistic Chinaman.

That very shrewd A~mericanized
Chinaman. Mr.. Wong Chin Foo, is a
smooth specimen of the Monaghan
race. He is a rapid young man, ''allee
samee Mclean man." but will only
meekly admit that he manages to buy
enough rice to keep him alive. His &C.
casional dips into journalism only pro-
duce IA meager income, and he accounts
for his ~undeniably prosperous appear
ance by mysterious illusions to some
governmental service he performs. He
encourages outside barbarians to be-
lieve that his own race in this city are
frightfully incensed against him, bur
there is a well founded impression tina,
Mr.. Wong's real a~vocation is to keep
his countrymen well posted as to the
doings of those who might interfere
with the peculiar amusements and Gus.
toms which they have brought from
the efIete east. New York Telegram.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-10-09

In view of the fact that Mr.. Carter
cannot enter the campaign until the
18th inst, giving him barely two
weeks in he -tate, he has authorize d
The chairman Of the republican state
central committee to arrange if posi-
BILE, q series Of joint discussions he
tween himself ana Mr.. Dixon ut the
principal railroad poin's In the state.
The prorosition Las been made to
Marcus DAILY, chairman of the demv
cratic committee, and is still in alb Y.
anoe. If agreed upon Miles City will
probably be favored with one of III.
meetings,
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-10-09

umbrella. The proprietor was dazed.
Then he began to "
How much do you think it costs2'
he inquired.
"Seventy-five cents"
"And have you been debating all
this time whether you would give that
amount for a silk umbrellar
The stranger said he had.
The proprietor led him gently but
firmly to the door. my friend" he
said tenderly, You are too far from
home, and you'd better scoot before
some hungry car horse gets a chance
to nibble at you and makes a funeral
of you before the mistake is discov,
cred. st. Paul Pioneer-P Press.