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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-05-01
The Correct Thing.

A number of leading farmers of Rice
county have organized the Kansas Al
lance Loan Association for the purpose
of loaning money on first mortgages on
real estate. The secretary is Richard
Coyle, Geneseo, Kansas. The plan
is to raise funds from alliance men by
way of subscription to the capital stock
of the company to redeem the farms
that are about to be foreclosed..
This is a move in the right direction,
and if properly handled will save many
Kansas homes from foreclosure. No
doubt the eastern investor will rejoice
in getting his money instead of Kansas
farms. We have advocated this move
ment all along, but believe this could
be best accomplished by the Kansas
Alliance Exchange Co., or the state
Alliance. There are many thousands
of Kansas farmers who have money in
bank, and we think after next harvest
there will be many more who could
safely take stock in an institution of
this kind, which would prove a relief
to many who have defaulted, and re-
munerative to the stockholders. This
is practical, and we cannot see why the
undertaking has not been made long
ago. Alliance Tribune, Topeka.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-05-01
Fighting Nature.

This sort Of warfare is Cor ought to
beg entirely monopolized by amateurs
and greenhorns. The growth of all
vegetation is governed by laws founded
on scientific principles by the great
author of all science. We may dodge
the question in some cases, but we pro-
duce monster invariably. To grow
a plant in greenhouse, garden or on
the farm in a superior manner, shows
the grower to be a man of sense, a
close observer, an honest observer of
the law and gospel too. Such a man
always succeeds, because the people,
God bless them, encourage all efforts
which are successful. There is no
prouder moment to a good gardener
than when he finds an appreciative
customer who prefers his work to the
thief coiner of Uncle Sans mint.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-05-01
1t is Barter

Gold and silver have come tC de-
nominate the money system Of our
country. merely because commercial
balances in the transactions between
nations are squared by those metals.
Our foreign commerce in it's essence is
merely bartering; we swop our valuable
commodities for those of other coun-
tries, and if the balance of trade is
against us, we pay in solid bullion, be-
cause our coins are not current outside
of the United States. This is a minor
transaction, and should by no means
stand in the way OF the far greater
business dealings of our people, but it
does, and there is no good reason for
it's so doing. and the growing sense
and urgent need of our people is GER
tain to put it away, and that before
many years. Voice.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-05-01
Crevasses of Mount st. Elias.

Crossing the great snow field form.
ing the floor of the amphitheater were
hundreds of yawning chasms, many of
them twenty to forty feet in breath and
half a mile in length. These we had
to cross by narrow snow bridges or
follow for long distances before being
able to pass around their ends. A view
into the blue depths of one of these
great crevasses is sight never to be
forgotten. Their lips are of white
snow, festOoned and overarching in
thousand fantastic forms; below the
color changes by imperceptible grada-
lions to the deepest blue. Their ex-
IRENE depths are as dark in color as
the unfathomable sea. Many times
their bottoms are beyond the reach of
vision; again they are level foored and
form fairy-like valley with walls of
sculptured crystal; in other instances
they are partly filled with water of the
deepest indigo, in which every detail
of the fretted walls above is reflected
Some of the larger crevasses are
crossed by snow arches, thrown direct
ly from bank to bank, and resembling
in their grand proportions the natural
bridge OF Virginia Our way lay for
miles along this beautiful but treacher-.
Gus pavement along the brink of dizzy
precipices, and across narrow bridges
with bottomless CULTS on each hand.
Although we had been living on the
glaciers for weeks and had become IA
miliar with many of their wonders, the
great crevasses in the upper snow re-
gions were SO magnificent in their pro-
portions and so wonderful in color that
they called forth EXPLANATIONS of ad--
miration from every member of our
party. The Century.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-05-01
Feeding Fowls for Eggs.

Injudicious feeding is one of the
most frequent mistakes of beginners in
poultry raising, and one that gives
rise to much i'll success. Hens that are
too much fed take on fat, lay soft eggs
or cease to lay any, get lazy, feverish,
and are ready prey to all sorts Of
chicken diseases. There should be fed
only as much as will be eaten eagerly
and no more. AS soon as the least in
difference to food is manifested the
supply should be cut short; and after
each meal all food left uneaten should
be cleared away. Grown fowls should
be fed only twice day-at morning
and evening. At noon, on our place,
the different strains are turned out
separately into their exercising ground,
where there is a pile of earth thrown
up and sown with grain. They scratch
into this heap for the hidden food, and
strengthen their muscles while doing
it. The food furnished grown birds
should be of q kind to make muscle
without too much fat and. in my case
is particularly designed to produce
eggs. The greater variety of food the
better.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-05-01
HO Isehold Hints.

A superior washing fluid is made of
equal parts of spirits of turpentine and
ammonia. Add two spoonfuls to the
water in which in which the clothes
are boiled.
To procure onion juice, which is
called for in many recipes, CRATE a
peeled onion, holding it under partly
raised window where the air is blow
ing TO save the eyes during the process.
Icing for cake may be prevented
from cracking when cut by adding one
tablespoonful of sweet cream to each
unbeaten egg. Stir all up together,
then add sugar until as stiff as can be
stirred.
1t is a very common mistake to
mend gloves with sewing silk. Thread
of different shades made for the pur-
pose, and glove needles may be bought
at small cost. Manufacturers never
use silk.
It is stated that glycerine washed
into flannel after it is wrung from the
warm rinsing water will render it most
agreeably soft. Half spoonful of
glycerine to a pound of dry flannel is
the usual allowance.
We read that freckles may be OBJ
liberated by carefully touching pure
carbolic acid to the spots. This eau
terization or burning produces scale
which falls off in about ten days. Any
one wanting to make the experiment
had better try one at a time.
Tin cans may be opened easily by
putting a live coal on the top round
lid in the center of one end of the can
and blowing it for a minute, when the
piece of tin can be readily removed.
The same can may be used again by
sealing with putty after the lid is put
on.
1t is an undeniable fact that soothing
syrups have killed thousands of chill
dren and ruined the constitutions of
thousands more. The latter, instead
of growing up healthy men and women,
are i'll and delicate; and, of the two,
those who are killed are really the
more fortunate.
Common dry salt is said to be one of
the best agents for cleaning marble,
such as wash basins, sink fixtures and
the like. 1t requires no preparation,
and may be rubbed directly upon the
furnished surface, removing any in
crustations or deposits at once, leaving
the marble shining and clean. This is
well worthy of remembrance, as it is
often found to be provokingly hard to
clean the marble thoroughly without
injuring the surface.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-05-01
Necessity May Do 1t.

The Alliance has not sought the
ballot boxes because it desired to build
up political party. In the strictest
sense OF the word it is not a party; it
is not emulous to create politicians
with all their poisonous tricks. It
found certain evils that could only be
overcome by the right of suffrage and
when it marched it's forces in platoons
to the ballot box men cried out ''Lo!
it is Party" Necessity may drive it
still farther. The companies may
grow into regiments; the regiments
into brigades; the brigades into divis-
ions; the divisions into Grand Army
of Liberation, whose activities not even
a continent may limit. The notices
blazened on its banners may expand
from local issues to worldwide princi-
pies. 1t may establish the great lib
eral party of the new world. The
scope of its love may embrace the
starving pioneers of the Dakotas and
the starving peasants of Europe Its
vital principals may be the overthrow
of injustice and suppression of the
giant forms of human selfishness. At
these all its bayonets shall be leveled;
against these all it's cannon shall thun-
der. Gods people must possess Gods
world and enjoy it.-Ignatius Don
nol1V
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-05-01
Wall Streets PurnOsa.

No argument has been presented,
and no one has yet been able to show
why Wall street should be so bitterly
opposed to the passage of the free sill
yer idea. The facts are, the real facts,
the reason for the opposition, undoubt-
edly is that Wall street wants to keep
free silver before the people as an
issue in the next election. 1t is a
harmless issue that does not hurt Wall
street, no matter which way it goes,
and it keeps the attention of the peo-
pie away from something that might
hurt Wall street. That is to say, that
Wall street can get a nominee of one
party who is in favor of free silver and
still in favor of Wall street policy OF
conducting the finances of the govern.
ment. National Economist,
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-05-01
Credit and PanfcS.

Credit is the explosive element in
trade. Exchanges, as demonstrated
anew by the recent Investigations of
the comptroller Of the currency, are
made by the use of seve2 and one-half
per cent of money and ninety-two and
one-half per cent of credit tokens
bank checks drafts, etc. When doubt
comes these tokens are no longer avail
able, they will not pay debts. The
banks owe their depositors eight times
as much as all the cash they have in
their vaults. Borrowers owe the banks
twice as much as all the money in
the country could pay. When panic
comes the borrowers are unable to
pay, the banks can not pay their de-
positors, so they shut the doors. Other
debtors are unable to meet their
obligations, the wheels of trade are
stopped; and the debtors go into bank
ruptcy and liquidation, the creditors
taking their assets at one-half or one
fourth their value. So long as business
is transacted on credit and usury, SO
long will we have periodical panics
and commercial explosions. and
Hammer
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-05-01

Two or three miles west of Hiwassee,
Ga, a capitalist is mining for corun-
dunn. The other day he found that his
supply of water had ceased to flow.
One of his workmen was dispatched to
find out the cause. He quickly re-
turned and said that the mountain was
sinking. Soon the alarm spread, and
parties started out to solve the mystery.
They found that very large assure
was opening in the earth in the shape
of semi-circle and large trees were
falling in every direction. The amount
of land encompassed was about forty
acres. This looked as if it might be a
slide. but by examining it closely they
found that other assures were opening
on the southwest and northeast, cross
ing the mountain. The opening in
some places was six feet wide. The
depth was not discovered.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-05-01

The web of the house spider differs
from that of the garden variety in two,
points-its mesh is much finer, and if
is composed of one kind of silk only.
says the Cornhill Magazine. The flies.
which find their way into it are de-
tanned by the ENHANCEMENT of their
claws in the fine meshes.
The house spider as rule, makes
its snare in the corner of the room.
Its first operation is to press its spin
ners against the wall, thus securing
threads in a particular spot; then it
goes to the opposite side and fastens
the other end of the thread. This
primary line is strengthened by two or
three others being run along beside it,
threads are drawn from it in various
directions, and the interstices are filled
by the spiders running backward and
forward. always leaving a line behind
it
In one corner of the completed web
a tube is made, in which the spider
conceals itself and waits for the ap-
peorance OF unwary flies.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-05-01
All the More Reason.

Distribute the wealth equally among
the people and in short time some
would have more than their share and
others would have none we are told.
Indeed, that is true, under the present
unequal conditions. and the poor fell
low who starts out with nothing instead
of that equal share has a mighty
hard struggle with those who are COB
bling more than their share" In
stead of being an argument against
a change in present conditions, as it is
intended, it is the strongest kind of a
plea for an equitable system. West
Michigan Patron.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-05-01
NO HALT.
The Battle for the Rights of the Farmer
Must Go On.

The Battle for the Rights Of the Farmer
Must Go On.
The battle must go on. Edmund
Burke says: Wars between men may
cease but wars between the principles
will never cease" No, because God
is at the end of one principle and the
devil at the end of the other. The one
represents right, the other wrong; the
one love and the other greed: the one
universal happiness and the other al
most universal misery. There was
time when the traveller walked knee
deep in the mud. Now he can ride in
palace car. That represents the adj
vance of humanity. But even yet a
few only ride and many must walk.
The movement must go on-(God has
his shoulder behind it) until every one
can ride-until the cars will be big
enough for all-well lighted, we'll ven
tilated, well warmed, well stocked with
food for all; and there will be COM
Portable seat for every man, and no
man shall stand while another occupies
two seats. Progress does not consist
in throwing part of the passengers out
of the window, but in charging the
cars until there is room for all. The
welfare of the many does not require
the destruction of the few.
And there cannot be any halt in this
battle. 1t must go on until every
wrong is righted. Everything that is
beautiful, peaceful, loving, admirable
in the world is the result of part or
section of this never-ending contest.
Out of arrested selfshness comes hap
piness. Think how many charming,
happy homes there are in this Amer
lea, because our forefathers cast down
the Dagon of English oppression, and
wiped out throne and nobility and
church-craft. Think how many
wretched homes there are in this
America because new set of demons
have risen up to Dagon's seat, and
have flung over the people vast net
of taxation, to support false capital
and build up an aristocracy baser
meaner and more heartless than that
which we overturned in 1776.
Poverty is simply a testimony to the
imperfection of our social condition;
vice is simply the bloody sweat of pow
erty. Religion must begin by improv-
ing the condition of mankind. The
establishment of universal prosperity
is of more Importance than the preser-
walton of individual virtue. God never
set the abundant table of this world
with intent that the gluttons should
gorge to sickness, while thousands
starved in the anterooms. There are
seats for all and food for all, but He
left the distribution of it to that sub
deity and under-creator the intelli-
gence of man. This it is that out of
the thistles and the stones is to re-create
paradise and plant anew the trees of
life and neutrality-suspicious. Don
nelly.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-05-01
IS CAPITAL TIMID7
Arguments that ssFatigue' at Least On
Republican Editor.

Arguments that ssFatfgue" at Least One
Republican Editor.
The Alliance people are not the only
ones that cause a feeling of WEAKNESS.
The other extreme is holding them
level. This eternal can't about capital
being timid," and about ssdrivinp
capital from the state" almost forces
one to the feeling that the Alliance
men and the men called anarchists
have some Justice on their side. Must
everybody be regulated by law, but
the capitalist be allowed to go free,
and do as he pleases? We hear an al
most incessant squall about driving
capital out of the state, but not word
of driving out the bone and sinew. If
a law is proposed regulating interest
on money, and preventing robbery in
the shape of usury, the cry goes up
that it will drive capital out of the
state. If a measure is suggested Civ
ing an unfortunate man little time in
which to save his property after the
mortgage is foreclosed, we hear the
same tune about driving out capital.
If law is recommended taxing mort
cages, shrek goes up that splits the
welkin wide open, about driving CAPT.
tai out of the state. The farmers land,
the merchants house and lot the
merchants goods may be taxed all
they will bear, and we hear nothing
about driving them out; but propose
to compel the hog with money to bear
his share of the public burdens and it
will drive out capital.
A farmers land is taxed the same
whether it is mortgaged or clear of in
cumbrance. The law requires that
money shall be taxed, but money can
be hidden and land cannot. But let
that capitalist loan that farmer 81, 900
at or IL per cent interest his money
is in shape where it is in sight. The
land is still there and is taxed; but
when it is proposed to tax the $4,000
then the howl comes that it will drive
capital out of the state; it will compel
the borrower to pay higher interest; it
is taxing the same amount double
How is it? The land is still taxed, the
same as it was before, and the farmer
has to pay it. What becomes of the
money? 1t is invested in mortgage
on the land, and the farmer, besides
his taxes, is paying 10 per cent inter-
est on the money. If the money is in
the land, then the farmer is paying
more than double tax upon 1.-THE is
paying taxes on the land and three
times as much more on the money, in
the way Of interest. No fear of run
ming him out but you will run capital
out of the state by taxing it.-Troy,
Kas., Chief.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-05-01
Increasing Richness of Milk.

Dear corn is usually followed in this
country by dear butter. Hence it gen.
orally pays to feed cows giving milk
is literally of grain as they will bear,
thus increasing not only it's amount but
richness. If the COW is bearing calf
while thus fed this will transmit the
milk and butter tendency to the young.
1t is in this way, doubtless, that the
foundations of the best dairy herds
were originally established. The re-
verse OF the good feeding will quickly
produce race of scrubs out of the
best stock that can be produced.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-05-01
THEY TRIED n.
An Attempted Reform in Social Lying
Customs.

Customs.
A great many persons sadly deplore
the fact that society is ever telling a
great many little white lies. Frank
ness is strongly recommended and peo-
pie are praised for saying just what
they think. Frankness appears very
admirable in theory, but it is some
times quite another thing in practice.
A certain amount of deception is by
some held to be really necessary for
the welfare of society, and the man or
woman who tries to get on wholly
without it is likely to have many
enemies. It is said that the minister
of certain Chicago church became
disguised with the untruthfulness OF
mankind and preached vigorous SER
mon in denunciation of society false
hoods. He declared that lies told out
of politeness were just as wicked as
those told with the deliberate intention
of deceiving. In fact these society
lies got people into the habit of lying
and they readily pick up the other kind.
The sermon made a great impression
upon the hearers. Many of the con-
gregation resolved to reform then and
there Coming out of church Deacon
Jones said to Judge Badger, who sat
in front of him: Judge, hope you
didn't mind my putting my feet under
your pew" The judge was about
to reply, ''Oh, certainly not" but he
thought of the sermon and answered:
Il did, though; your old hoofs took
81 <ho foo r,f,,1
nuisance" WELL" said the deacon,
1.-The hair oil you use smells so it nearly
forced us to leave the pew" They
glared at each other, and just then
Mrs. Badger and Miss Jinkins came
along. Miss Jinkins had asked: "How
do you like my new bonnet?" "Oh,
thought it just love" began Mrs. B.,
and then she thought of the sermon,
and continued: '.No, didn't either. 1t
is horrid thing, and I wouldn't be
seen with it ON And Miss Jinkins
got mad and replied: "Well, if we're
you wouldn't wear dirty stockins to
church, and if 1 did I'd keep 'em out
of sight" While these honest CONVEX
Stations were going on Mrs. Smith had
said to her next door neighbor, Mr..
Murray: II hope the crying of our
baby last night didn't disturb you?"
And Mr.. Murray replied: "No-that is.
yes, I wanted to brain the brat
And then Mrs. Smith called him
wretch and wept. Then the minis
ter came out and asked young Sy-
mOnds how he liked the sermon. Sy-
monds said: at was grand ef-er-.
No. parson, it was blamed nonsense"
Strip said the parson, and he drew
himself up very Indignantly. just
then Smith and Murray, after being
real frank with each other and telling
a few plain truths, clinched, and Dea-
con Jones was trying to hold Miss jim
kins from scratching Mrs. Badger. 1t
took tremendous efforts to stop the
rows and prevent a scandal, and, as it
was, everybody went away mad at ev-
erybody else. The minister went home
and meditated in gloomy frame of
mind for three hours and finally con-
cluded that society lying was wicked,
but he would not preach against it
again. 1t is altogether too handy and
necessary sin to be given up.