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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-12

DOR SALE-A new house on Case st..near
l. Lafayette and Arkwright street line;
city water and sewer connection; now is the
time to buy good home at low price and
easy terms. Edward Simonton. COG Pioneer
Press Building.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-12

DOR SALE = S2,2O0 - Seven-room house
I and barn, large lot; also young horse.
1886 Chicago av., Minneapolis
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-12

A NY ONE wanting houses, flats, stores,
n offices, see Merrill & Owens, Renting
and Collection Agency. Al East Fourth ST
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-06-26
Rich Women of New York.

In a city like New York, where the
wives of jockeys, bafkeepers and ward
politicians wake up in the night and
find themselves rich, there is great
need for department schools where
they can acquire the art of dressing
milder than a show case, getting in
and out OF carriage without humping
their heads and falling over their own
ankles, wearing gloves and shoes at
least half the size of their palms and
soles, and keeping their diamonds and
satins out Of the saddle and butcher
shop. To watch the antics of these
purse-proud lassies and danes as thew
dash through the park, thumb nail the
shad roe, soft crabs and sweet-bread
of the market, and roll up to the dry
goods shops only to tumble into the
arms OF the expectant groom, bonnet
and temper tossed, is very amusing to
those who cannot ride IN a coach and
wear a silk gown.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-06-26
Farm and Garden.

Linseed oil is said to be a remedy for
black knot on the plum if applied to the
knot upon its first appearance.
Horses affected with the heayes are sell
dom cured, but the difficulty may be les
sened by shaking the hay, cutting it and
moistening it we'll before feeding.
As long as the animal eats all the food
you give it nothing is wasted. Do not
lessen the supply because the quantity re-
quired is less than you wish to give.
Wool must be equally strong the entire
length of the fiber, or necessarily it will be
Of less value to the manufacturer; and
wool Of that kind cannot be grown unless
the sheep is kept in good condition all the
time.
All kinds of food may be relished by
stock, but the food that gives the best re-
suits is that which is most easily digested
and assimilated. The individual charac-
teristics of an animal should be considered
in feeding. Some animals will digest GER
tain foods which would not be beneficial to
their associates.
Good, pure seed costs more than foul
and impure seed, and in the wholesale
trade the distinction is always made The
reliable retail scotsman, however, always
has this poor seed to contend against in
his trade, and always will have as long as
purchasers are more anxious to save a lit
tie in buying than to pay fair price for a
good article.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-06-26
The Cost of Cats.

There is always market for fancy
cats, which come mostly from Ohio,
as do also the exceptional strains of
rabbits, guinea pigs and ferrets. Farm
ers in that state make quite business
of raising such sorts of stock. But
Angora cats come from Maine, where
they are likewise bred on farms and
improved, and SO, too, with the "coon-
cats, Of which we never see any down
in this region. The popular notion is
that 'coon-cats" are a cross between
the ordinary pussy and the raccoon,
but of course that is absurd. because
you might as well talk of crossing the
cat and the dog. l don't know myself
how the coon-cat is produced, but it
has very long hair, a big fluffy tail and
is undoubtedly of Angora parentage
on one side. May be the other side is
tortoise SHE'LL but at all events it is
the most weird specimen of the pussy
tribe that l know of. without excep-
ton. Fine Angora cats sell for $50
apiece; [ have known coon-cats UP
north that weren't for sale for $500.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-06-26
A Word for the Scissors.

Some people, ignorant of what good
editing is, imagine the getting up of
selected matter is the easiest thing in
the world to do, whereas it is the incest
work done on newspaper. If they see
the editor with scissors in his hand
they are sure to say: '.Eh, that's the
way you are getting up original mat
ter eh?" accompanying their new.
witty question with an idiotic wink or
smile. The facts are that the interest.
the variety and usefulness of a paper
depend in no small degree upon the
selected matter, and few men are capa-
bic for the position who would not
themselves be able to write many OF
the articles they select A sensible
editor desires considerable select mat
ter, because he knows that one mind
connot make SO good paper as five
or six
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-06-26
Onions for Lice on Cattle,

"A correspondent of the Country
Gentleman, relates his experience with
lice on stock in recent ISSUE Read
ers who have lousy stock are request
ed to try this and report results. He
says: il used kerosene and lard mixed,
.curried and brushed over them, also
camphor dissolved in alcohol and car
bolic acid in lard; but without satisfac-
ton; and being determined that the
lice should go ] tried onions after
waiting about a week. One particular
animal, a yearGng bull, was very full,
even after being treated with the other
remedies. I took large onion, cut in
two and rubbed him hard all over till
j had used three OR more onions and
my eyes smarted. Then [ gave him
some of the pieces that were left and
a few other small solutions which he
ate with relish as did all the Others
and then / awaited results. The sec
ond day / examined him, and to my
astonishment and joy the hair was full
of carcasses, but not live one could
I find. Since then I have treated all
the stock in the same way. but fed
none to the COWS giving milk for fear
of spelling the butter. I am going to
treat the poultry also by rubbing their
roost we'll. [ should be pleased to
hear the results with others who may
try the remedy. It will save many an
animal an uneasy night
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-06-26
why Not. Indeed.

The Colorado workingman very
sensibly says: The Western Union
Telegraph Co. has cleared 800, 900, =
600 in the past Is years, and the COM
mon people paid it. Why can not the
government do this work and leave
this $500, 100000 in the peoples pock-
ets?" And yet there are newspapers
who try to make their readers believe
that cheap telegraph rates are an ad-
vantage only to business men and
wealthy people. Suppose that sum had
remained in the possession of the
people instead of being concentrated
under the control of Jay Gould, what
a benefit it would nave been to the
business, industrial and agricultural
interests? -Jeffersonian.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-06-26
POPULATION OF VERMONT,
Its Representation Presents Inconsist-
enc'eS.

lCS representation freSeSCS INCODSlSt-
enc.es.
The total population of the state as
returned in 1890 is 1872, 422, while the
population 1880 was 1872 2S6, or an in
crease during the decade of only 1856
or less than one-half of l per cent. Six
counties, namely, Chittenden. Essex,
Lamoille Orleans. Rutland and Wash
ington, show an increase of 12.112
while the population OF the remaining
counties has decreased 1876. The
SIX counties showing an increase rep
resent a population of 154, $50, or 49,
81 per cent OF the total population. OF
these counties the largest percentages
of increase are 1892 for Essex and
1854 fer Washington. The largest
decrease is in Orange county, which
shows decrease in number during the
decade of $3.50, or 1879 per cent.
According to the census, here is a
state that has increased in population
only 1876 in ten years, and yet in the
face OF this retrograde movement, as
sumes to dictate a line of policy for
other and more progressive sections.
Senatorial courtesy has accorded to
this state greater share in the legis-
lation Of the country than almost any
other. One of its senators stands at
the head of the finance committee.
and the other, that of the judiciary,
two OF the most important committees
IN congress. No wonder these two old
fossils stand in the way of all progress
and reform, or that one of them re-
signed when the senate became threat
ened with little life and vigor To
represent such a state units men to
Judge of the push and energy display
ed in other localities.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-06-26
WHEELING THE FARMERS.
Rich and Aristocratic Agricultural Pa.
DerS Do IT.

Rich and Aristocratic Agricultural Pa
pers Do 1t.
There is an old and rich and aristo-
cratic class of agricultural papers in
the East that have fallen in with the
plutocracy, and when not directly op-
posing the farmers movement for re-
forming old abuses they resort to
wheedllng and tell him how bright
prospects are growing and promising
for the future. The American Agri-
culturist is conspicuous as one of this
class, and the following is specimen
brick from its Pile: The new wheat
is looking promising, and it looks as
though we should be able to put our
own price upon the CROP" says the
editor. This means higher prices
for everything the farmer produces
When the farmers and railroads are
both happy at receiving good prices,
prosperity is insured for every indus
try" Farmers and railroads is
good! This is a fair specimen of
the taffy this class of agricultural
papers are dishing out to the farm
ers. The farmers should mark
these wolves in sleeps clothing and
send out protests from every associa-
ton against their double dealing.
They should be driven to openly es-
pouse one side Or the other. @Prices
are jumping up daily, but dealers and
spectators both home and abroad are
buying freely at the advance" con-
tinues this cheerful agricultural paper.
Not word is said about the process
these spectators employed to bear
down the price till all the crop was
out of the hands of the farmer, and
DOW he will be compelled to pay
double the price he got for his wheat
for the -four he must buy And the
big crop in prospect which ought to
rejoice the farmers to see it grow,
when it begins to turn yellow for the
harvest will be cited as an evidence
of '"overproduction'' and low prices
in the fall. Money scarce farmers
must sell, prices low, spectators will
buy up the CROP and railroad anu
spectators, not farmers, will be
happy, while this class of agricultural
papers sit like dumb dogs on the walls
of Zion, and never raise voice or pen
against the outrage that is yearly
practiced on the farmers by railroads,
spectators and the government
Midland Journal.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-06-26
WIDOW s7RANoLrNo IN FIJI,
A Horrible Rite that Was Carried Out
with Much Ceremony.


Woman in Fiji theoretically occu-
pied high position, being regarded
as an essential and integral part of her
husband. A man was not considered
complete in this world without his
wife, nor could he pass into the next
unless she accompanied him. Theirs
fore, the death of man was always
closely followed by that OF his wife.
and in the case of a chief by that of all
his harem. If a married woman died,
passport to the shades was furnished
her in the shape of her husbands
beard, which was cut off and placed
under her Left armpit.
In case of the death of an unmarried
youth of either sex the person was
doomed to wander about in an inter-
mediate region between heaven and
earth until one of the opposite gender
came along to complete the couple.
When any one died a whales tooth
was placed in his or her hand, to be
thrown at the tree which stands as
guide post on the road to the other
world. If the ghost of the deceased
hit this tree with his or her missile
acceptance with the deities of the I'M
seen was indicated. Beyond this tree
sat 'Nangga-Nangga," guardian of
the path, who permitted no man to
pass unless he had his wife with him.
This spirit was, however, credulous
and easily deceived, and often had
grandmothers and maiden aunts palm
ed off on him as the wives of chiefs
who essayed to pass him.
The Fijians were always practical
and far-seeing people, and where a
man left behind him stout and buxom
widow his kinsfolk often voted it fool
ishness to fool her away on a ghost.
Accordingly, she was appropriated by
some man who was strong enough to
drag her away and maintain his claim
to her with the club, and some tough
and ancient female relative suffered
the cord in her place. This was not
accomplished without terrible row;
the widow, as we'll as all her connec-
tions, resisting him tooth and nail, for
it was considered etiquette for the
relatives of the deceased to resent as
an insult proposal to marry the
widow.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-06-26
RObbing,

If the beekeeper minds his business
as he should, there is little danger of
robbers. The plan of changing places
with the hives will work, by giving the
robbers good smoking when you
change them back. For the last two
years have had trouble with the bees
robbing the queen nuclei If hive
loses queen care must be taken, as
the bees will defend their hive as
vigorously as when queen is present
but as the secret of success is in look
ing after your queens, a good beekeep-
er will not be caught in that respect. l
wintered 48 colonies in chaff-packed
hives on summer stands, and they did
finely.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-06-26
THE FARM AND HOME.
THE GREAT VALUE OF A GOOD
APPLE ORCHARD.
It Can Scarcely Be Over-Estfmated-
Apple Trees Need Care-Hedses
as Fences-HousehOld
Hints and Notes.
Value of an Apple Orchard.

It is possible that the worth of an
apple orchard may be over-estimated,
but if of good varieties, old enough to
bear and convenient for marketing, it
will pay for an immense amount of
thought and labor, and give good
profit besides. Without these it will
probably pay nothing, as thousands OF
orchards have not these past few years.
Can any condition more hopeful be de-
sired than this? We think mot. Moth
ing is produced except by combining
labor, skill and thought. If there
could be, an economical chaos would
result The value OF the apple orchard
consists ia the amount it can be made
to pay interest upon with certainty,
after paying for the necessary labor to
grow and harvest the crop. Whatever
the mass of apple growers may think,
this Is vastly better for them than con-
tinuing in the old notion that apples
will grow, if at all, of themselves, and
that all the expense of the crop is in
harvesting it.
Allowing forty trees per acre the
bearing of a barrel of fruit to each
tree will give even in years of low
prices more money than can be got
from most grain crops. But with
modern facilities for spraying to de-
:stroy insect enemies and fungus
growth, apples trees fully grown ought
to bear five barrels per tree. We
have known individual trees in good
years to much exceed this amount.
Thirty-one years ago last fall we
picked from large Greening tree
fourteen barrels of salable fruit, be-
sides the windfalls and those other
wise imperfect. It stood on rich
ground, but not richer than any farmer
could well afford to give to all the
trees in his orchard for such a yield
as this. The old tree is long since cut
down. but it paid for all the land its
roots occupied many times over. If
apple growing can be or has already
been reduced to science such yields
as this ought not to be uncommon.
How much per acre is wellbearing
orchard OF these trees worth? If Civ
en- the attention they should have they
will not only pay for that, but also the
interest on a larger amount than posi-
bly, the entire farm has given under
slipshod methods of managing it.
What farmers most need is greater
faith in their own business belief
that thought, skill and money invested
in developing the capacity of it's diff
ferent departments will pay as surely
and even more surely than do such
qualities engaged in railroads, in COM
merce and manufactures. When farm
ers have this faith, they will soon learn
to make their business pay. So long
as they do not have it much of the
best blood and brain belonging to the
farm will be attracted elsewhere.
While there are reasons explaining
failure of apple crops the last few
wears, it must not be forgotten that
one reason for such failure has been
that men who might have found the
means to prevent it have so largely
been engaged in other business
practicle Farmer
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-06-26
WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH.
A Corporation Which Holds Control OF
Our Reading.

A Corporation Which Holds Control OF
Our Reading.
How little do our people know about
their relation to the Western Union
telegraph company. We absolutely
read at our breakfast tables in the
daily press just about what that COM
pany chooses to have us know. 1t is
republican, capitalistic, monopolistic.
Labor reform, temperance reform, the
woman movement can by NO means
get hearing along its wires. It is
loath to send out the date and place of
meeting OF national association OF
any one of these workers. I am told
that Alonzo B. Cornell republican ex-
governor and politician of New York
state, is the business manager. There
can be no question but the Western
Union has its blacklist of persons and
societies. 1t will On no account re-
port the vote of the prohibition party.
1t likewise withhelds the news OF the
Knights of Labor and other industrial
organizations. There is something be-
wildering about this domination of a
monopoly over the very sources of in
formation of a great people, but
it is, perhaps, most of all astounding
that the people will put up
with 1T from year to year. In Ger
many the telegraphs and telephones
belong to the government. There
would be:a civil war if the attempt
were made to put them into the hands
of private individuals. The plan
works admirably, and would IN any
and every country. Happily. nearly
all the later political movements place
planks in their platforms to the effect
that all means of general public loco
motion and communication shall be
operated by the government. Let the
prohibition party give no uncertain
sound on this great reform. Free
speech is impossible in country
where Jay Gould and his minions de-
eide what shall 60 to the press and
what shall not. Even the news they
do send they can water as they do
their stock. But every evil TENDS to
its own cure. The fact that Jay
Gould controls all the transcontinental
railroads is the most hopeful fact in
connection with the ownership of these
roads by the government, and the
more he suppresses the news along
the telegraph wires of the Western
Union, the more he is preparing to
have those wires turned into thunder
bolts of modern Jove, whose name is
public opinion. May they soon, met
aphorically speaking, concentrate in
his own breast.-Frances E. Willard.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-06-26
Atkinson Champion:

Atkinson Champion: Plutocracy
is not only possible, but great, glar-
ing calcium light fact in this govern
ment. and 1t operates to pervert and
prostitute the original design of the
government by taking away by
methods that are peculiar and ways
that are dark the power the constitu-
ton confers upon the people-the
masses OF voters, and centralizes it in
the hands of the rich and their allies
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-06-26
Cooking Of The Goose.

Franklin is credited with the sto+a-
ment that the flesh of a goose killed bv
an electric current is particularly fine
eating: This brings up interesting
possibilities in the culinary art and
shows the far-reaching nature of the
electricians science. An electric cur
rent will replace the clearinghouse
axe and tough steaks will become =
thing OF the past.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-06-26

with individual merit. A grade Merino
makes profitable sheep, shearing
more wool and being harder and
longer lived than the more open-wooled
breeds. If lambs are to be marketed
when three or four months old my
preference would be for the Southdown.
I would emphasize the Importance, the
necessity, of keeping the best eve
lambs"
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-06-26
Keeping Milk Sweet,

One of the first things to do after
milk is drawn and strained is to get it
cooled to the temperature of the sur
rounding air as quick as possible
There are germs of fermentation even
in the purest milk that need only a
brief time of new milk temperature to
develop so far that entire putrefaction
cannot be prevented. After cooling
quickly by surrounding the can con-
tanning the milk with ice, put the milk
into glass jars, and filling full, seal, to
prevent contact with the air. Milk
thoroughly cooled can be thus kept
twenty-four and even thirty-six hours
in good condition for use. Some cream
will rise during this cooling process,
and this should be removed. Milk
should never be placed in closed YES
sells until what is called its animal heat
has been taken from it. Put in cans
perfectly sweet but warm. and it soon
becomes extremely offensive.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-06-26
A Necessity.

He-How carelessly happy Miss
Pumpkins looks.
ohe-1es When any one is 80 and
has never been engaged one has to Look
carelessly happy.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-06-26

Leavenworth Times: I'VE have
never seen a word in any Alliance
platform favoring free trade and we
don't believe there is an intelligent
man outside the insane asylum in
Kansas who is for absolute free trade -
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-06-26

The Sentinel: Every man is a
slave who bears the burden of debt, %
says an exchange. Then the great
majority OF the people in this country
are slaves-for the country is literally
covered with debt.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-06-26
he Cautions.

When you take awoman at her word
you take something else at the SANE
.lme-s1rong chances of disappointing