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Fillmore County,

PROSPER, MINI, JAM, 10, 1891.
have unbounded confidence IN the
GREAT WEST, and also in I. Donnelly
for,president. wasprejudiced against
the G. w. when l subscribed for it
first, but am convinced that you are
right. THOs. BURsELL.
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$5OOIN GOLD.

In 1889 the American Agrfculturist offered $500
in gold to the farmer raising the greatest number
of bushels from one measured acre. 1t was won
by w. r. Strickland, Albion, N. Y. who purchased
of us 2H bushels Of White bonanza Oats and
sowed same on acre, yielding "a bushels and
2S lbs. Some ten thousand entered the contest
and the WHITE BONANZA sCOOPED
THEM ALL. returning the first and second
heaviest yields. The Editor Of the American
Agricultural, commenting it, says: 1.-The
American Agrfculturist pronounces it the most
prolific of all other varieties.
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Has to Renew.

CRooKsToN, Mimi, Jan. 10, 1891.
EDITOR GREAT WEST
Have held your paper one year.-hke
it well, can't do without it-have to
renew. II. O. BERGLAND.
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More About the Platform
Fraud.
DOVER, JAN 18,

DOVER, JAN. Is, 1891.
EDITOR, GREAT WEST
Tnotice in the Alliance platform
that you published this week, an error
in theseventh article upon money. You
left out part of it. I was one, OF that
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-01-30
Biggest Alliance in the State.

Adrian Alliance, No. 555, the biggest
Alliance in the state, elected the fol-
lowing officers: Pres't, L. c. Long; &c.,,
j. V. Hynes; Vice Pres't Paul Voigt-
laender; Treas, J. T. Mcknight.
l.. c.. LONG.
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WHOLESALE
RICES TO
FARMER ALLIANCES
II you haven't my cataIog send cents for it
and ask for Alliance discounts.
LOOK OUT!

The immense popularity of salzer's White Bonanza
Oats has lead dealers to offer inferior oats
lesser price, Look out for them and get the genu
inc by buying only Of rs. We have NO authorized
agents among seedsmen for these Oats in Nebraska,
Iowa, Chicago, Minneapolis, Milwaukee the East.
A. freights low from La Crosse it will pay you to
buy direct from to get the genuine article. The
genuine White BONANZA Oats very
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-01-30
MY WHITEB BONANZA OATS
YIELDS MY CUSTOMERS HAD.

BIZ. PER ACRE.
T. L. BAILY Falkland Del. 80
VAL RAUSCH, Stella, Neb sOH
CHAS. FRETzLER, Lemont, Observation-Disclosures. 103
CARL NOW. Lee, Ill.,. 100
D. A. SINKEY, Carson City, Mich. liz
CARL STRAF USS, Williamsburg, Kan....... 14
HARRY W. BOTZ Sank Centre, Mimi. 143
AUG GUHL Eitzen Mimi. $50
GRANT X. BAXTER, Homer, Mich. ............ 163
We could continue pages with further testi-
monials, and yet some of the seedsmen will tell
you: 'Oh, we have oat just good as
Salzer's" Don't be fooled. White Bonanza has
stood the test for five years, all over America and
Europe, and everywhere pronounced the peer.
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give no quarter, and victory will be
ours. D. A. THAYER.
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From North Dakota.

DRAYToN, n, D. Jan. 9th, 1891.
EDITOR GREAT WEST
At a meeting held on the 18th day
OF JAN, 1891, by the Nora Farmers
Alliance, No. 6s5, Kittson Co., Mimi,
the following officers were elected:
President-P. NJ. HENRICKs.
Y. Pres t.-JEPPA NELSON.
Sec'y & Treas-R. MoNsoN.
r. MONsON.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-01-30

"HoWl Ye Rich Men,"
SKYBERG, Jan. Is, 1891.
EDITOR GREAT WEST
Last spring Mr.. Comstock, Goodhue
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A Fair Question,

P!PEsToNE, Jan. 22nd, 1891.
EDITOR GREAT WEST
How can we stir up congress SO that
it will throw afew millions to the pow
erty stricken farmers in Dakota and
Nebraska, as was done to Wall street
a little while ago?
r. G.. HEINEMANN.
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We are unquestionably the largest
growers of Wheat, Oats, Barley, Flax,
Buckwheat, Potatoes and Grass Seeds
catalogues with ours, you
ptions, our seed collections and our
t our goods must have special merits
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FARM SEEDS

seed purposes in America II you will compare other s.
will them initiating illustrations descrip
mixtures which is pretty conclusive proof that
In order to have many comparative fmitators
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VEGETABLE SEEDS. =


andOn will bev
ma TnfRl 10 beautiful seeds postpaid so cents
YIN b postpaid 81
MY CATALOGUE sstss moSet o as Of erns
adorn
maa anppa
ands pnekng deccds
JOHN A. SALz En- s s's:
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thunder is Kel?n Deeming himself UNI
equal to the task of coping with such ig-
nOrance, the bud suddenly recovered his
f-poSsession, bowed stiffly, and, with
out deigning TO answer. withdrew.
When Hamilton Fish last came TO Chi
cago another bud from the same paper,
CHANGING to be the only reporter availa-
bic, was sent to tap the distinguished
person. This bud managed to retain to
his self-pOssessiOn, but he was not well
acquainted with his victim, whose active
career antedated his own by nearly a
quarter of a century. Mr. Fish was in a
decidedly uncommunicatiye mood, and
to a dozen queries he returned monosyl-
Liable reple This lded The buds
store of questions, and lie turned to go,
when thought struck him. "Mr. Fish,
he innOcenily inquired, ''were you even
in politics. The question struck Mr.,
Fish with the force of an electric shock,
He sprang to his feet, and, with mingled
wrath and disgust pictured in his face,
cried: "Wha-a-a-t? Was ever in poll.
tics! Why, young man, was once Vice
President of the United Statesm And
like tie guests of Macbeth, the bud stood
not upon the order of going, but van
ished with the echo of the Numbered
words.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-04-23

The Herald C Ne,Cs of West Randolph,
has am obituary of of Mrs. DR.. Wild, from
which we copy: News has just reached
us of the death in the Insane Asylum at
BrattleborO, Mrs. Ruth Wild. widow of
the Rev. DIR. Edward p. Wild, whose re-
cent death was the occasion Cf much sor-
row among many friends. Her death
following so soon upon that of her hus
band, and the distressing circumstances
attendant upon her last days makes the
rounding up Of a life of unusual useful
ness and devotion seem like a dismal
tragedy. Ruth Sibley Nichols was b nm
in Braint ee, VT, Jan. Z, lS4l. She was
the second daughter, and the oldest who
reached years of maturity, of the late
Dea. John S. Nichols, and granddaugh-
ter of Father Nichols whose memory
fingers in all the churches of this region.
She was the last surviving member OF
her fathers family. She received her
education in the common schools,
studied, studied at West Randolph
Academy, and, if we mistake not, at the
old "Orange County Grammar School"
and was, for a time member of the Alb
bot Female Academy, Andover, Mass.
/ She was thorough, conscientious, faith
| full student, and if not as brilliant as
some, she was well prepared, so far as
school training goes, for what was to be
the work of her life. On the I'd of Aug.
! 1865 she was married to Rev. Edward p.
Wild, son of Rev. Mr.. Wild of Brookfield,
who had just finished his studies prepar-
atory to the ministry, at Bangor rheo-
logical Seminary. To interested friends
the marriage seemed a remarkably suita-
bile one. They seemed especially fitted
to work together in their chosen calling,
They were young and hopeful and full
of a devout Christian spirit. They en-
tered upon their work at Craftsbury, Vt,
and when, after few years of service he
sought another pastorate, we wcre told
of one reason for the seeking that we
never heard mentioned by any other pas
tor of any other parish, viz: that the
work of seeking the conversion of souls
within the bounds of his parish had
come to an end, as the community had
become thoroughly Christianized, and he
desired field in which to seek and t.
, save the lost. Mr.. Wild's two long pas
J torates were surprisingly successful, bu
! he entered upon the third with partially
broken health, and the end was not fal
off. Mrs. Wild lived close beside he
) husband in all his public work, carried
e large responsibilities in domestic as wei
as parish affairs. Along with the Joy
l that came to them in the gathering o
! harvesrs from the seeds which their owl
= hands had sown, there were sorrow
) which were felt most keeDly by Mrs
| Wild. Four children came into thei
: home, but two were not, for He VIII
| gave them called them away. Their ali
= sence left shadow that no light cOul
dispel. 1t is in this bitter experience, a
well as in the heavy burden of anxiou
care and many months of her husband
decline and final decease, that we may
doubtless, find some explanation of til
= sad ending of her own life.
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ITALIAN CRITICISM OF DELAY.

Appropos of the bitter comments of
the Italian press on what they are
pleased to term Mr.. Blaine's "Leisurely
manner" dispatch from Rome says:
''They seem to forget in Italy that
with the usual means of communica-
ton of governments, it takes three
weeks for Italy and the United States to
exchange communications. They also
seem to forget that the United States has
Just as good grounds for complaint
against the Italian government as the pa
pers claim the latter has against the
American Secretary of State.
Take. for instance, the case of the
Italian Salvador Palidina. The Ameri-
can government demanded that this of
fender against the laws of the United
States, who had fled to Italy, be extra
dited to stand trial upon the charge of
counterfeiting. The Italian government
two weeks after the receipt of the de-
mand, asked the American legation here
what citizenship Paladina claimed,
whether American or Italian. In re-
Spouse to this question, the American le-
cation stated on the same day that the
request for Information was received,
that Palidina claimed to be an Italian
subject. This was the last heard of the
matter for two months, when, in an.
swer to the United States governme is
request for the eXtraditiOn of Paladina,
the Italian government stated that the
constitution of the laws of Italy did not
allow of the carrying out of the treaty
existing between Italy and the United
States so far as the eXtradition of Ital.
ians was concerned.
Italy again took this position rela'
tive to the Italian constitution and laws
when the United States subsequently de.
manded the extradition of the two Ital.
JAMS whe were implicated in the murder
of Paymaster Mcclure, an employe of q
contractor who was engaged in con
structing a railroad near Wilkesbarre
Pa, and Hugh Flanagan, another EN-
plOye of a contractor, who was killed
and robbed of a sum of money which the
paymaster had to pay laborers, and fol
which crime a third Italian was con
victed and executed by the Pennsylvania
authorities. His two accOmplices made
their escape from the United States anG
returned to Italy, but the italian gov
eminent refused to surrender them fol
trial, basing its refusal to surrender on the
ground that it would be extra-constitu
tional to surrender Italian subjects fol-
trial in a foreign country"
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-04-23
vERMONT's MAPLE SUGAR CROP FOR
1871

The correspondent of the Boston Jour.
nal, Col. Forbes, also a deputy collector
for the Vermont District, saws. under
date of the 18th: The maple sugar sea-
son of 1901 has practically closed. 1t be-
gan the second week in March, the first
good run of the sap occurring on the 10th
of that month. The season has been
favorable for large crop of sugar, and
the yield of many maple orchards has
been considerable above the average of
the past few years. In some sections of
the State the farmers report that they
have made four pounds, and in some in
stances five pounds to tree. The man
nfacture of sugar this year has been
somewhat stimulated by the prospective
payment in 1892, and for fourteen years
thereafter, of bounty by the Govern
ment to the producers.
There has been an appreciable increase
this year and the number of trees tapped
this season is much larger than in any
previous year. From a careful estimate
made by the Journal correspondent it
appears that fully $500 sugar places have
been carried on this season. The farm
eTs made more strip this year than ever
before, there being a constantly growing
demand for strip in the American
market. 1t is estimated that fully H.
100000 pounds of sugar and strip has
been made, of which it is probable fully
40 per cent. was strip. The amount of
cake and tub sugar produced is placed
ut 100000 pounds. The quality of
both the strip and sugar made is better
than in any former season, which result
is largely due TO the use of new and i'm
proved utensils and apparatus. The
market value of the crop of 1891 will
doubtless exceed S1,2OO,0O0. In the
early part of the season good cake sugar
brought the producers from 10 to II
cents per pound, and strip sold for 81
per gallon. Farmers now realize from
six to eight cents per pound for sugar
and from sixty to seventy-fve cents per
gallon for strip. Several hundred thou.
sand gallons of strip have been delivered
under contracts made last winter by
agents of city houses at from 80 TO &C
cents per gallon. But these are excep.
tionally low figures.
His remarks concerning bounty will be
read with interest as follows: Of the
100000 pounds of sugar which it was
estimated was produced this season, il
is estimated that fully three-quarters, OF
1900 900 pounds, was OF a quality Ia
have tested above S00 by the polariscope,
and thus to have entitled the producers
to receive the Government bounty. The
total amount of bounties on the above
basis would approximate S15O,OOO The
regulations and forms prepared by the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue rela-
tive to the bounty on sugar have Just
been issued. The regulations provide
that all producers of sugar who intend
TO apply for the bounty on sugar pro.
duced between July /, 1891, and July +,
1892, in car 10 entitled themselves
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The Rutland Herdld of Monday, says
At a meeting of a local committee OF
arrangements to select subcommittee
and perfect details for tine coming State
iremens convention and tournament,
held at the Champion hose rooms ycster-
day afternoon. these members were pres
ent: Chief X, X. Hannum, A, Austin,
+. l.. Reynolds, C. +. BiXby, G. W. Dun
ton, P. A. Caten. S. J. Lalor, j, Crowley
and w. J. Carrigan.
The meeting was called to order at
30 o'clock with Chief Hannum in the
chair and C. f. Bixby clerk. These com
mittees were appointed:
Hand engine Contcst-A. Austin, E. l..
Reynolds and C. f. Bixby.
Hose race cOntest-G. W. DuntOn,
W, B, Young, J. A. Caten and 5. D..
LalOr.
Hook and Ladder contest-J. Crowley,
j. j. Caten and W. j. Carrigan.
Finance-K. X. Ilannum, G. w. Dun
ton and c, +. Bixby.
The report goes on to quote the rules
and regulations of the State Association,
which, by the way, may be said to be a
Bennington institution the inception
and organization having been carried
through largely by our local liremen.
The Herald goes on to remark; The
convention will open at the town hall
July Sd, and the tournament comes off
July 4th at the fair grounds and on
Merchants Row. The entries for the
races will close July LIST at ~ o'clock,
noon. The drawing for positions in the
several contests will take place at the
headquarters of the executive committee,
which will probably he the j. w. Cramp-
ton hose rooms on Washington street
The Judges decisions will be final in all
instances, and the prizes will be
awarded after the contests at the execu-
tive committees headquarters. These
companies are expected to take part in
the tournament: Glens Falls. n. Y,
two companies and st. Mary's Band
Bennington, three companies; Burling-
ton. six companies with the Sherman
band; Plattsburgh, n. Y, two com
panies with band; st. Adams, with
Brigade band, BrattleborO, with Lett
singers band: Vergemes, two com
panies with band; Fair Haven, with
band and drum corps; Salem, n, Y,
with band; Montpelier, with Montpelier
military band Keene, n. H., with band,
and one company each from Manchester
Bellows Falls, Barre, Waterbury, ST.
JOhnsbury, South Royalton, Whitehall
n. Y, Sandy Hill, n. Y, Fort Edward
N. Y, Port Henry, n. Y, Mineville
n. Y, TiconderOga, n. Y, Cambridge
n. Y, Greenwich, n. ". and Adams
Nars~
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CORRESPONDENCE.
Senatorial QnaIInraIionn.

~ ~ 1-y,, -, D MI,
=. 10 @e Ed,tor Q, ne banner me can,
dictate ior united States senator o pro
forward oy the BANNER last week, mas mas
surely one OF the CHARACTERISTICS OF tne
aisuhgulshed senator VINO mas lusI re-
slgheui anu that' 700, IN = nlaIhcu Ie.
gree zen. McOuliouShs slgh-iiail', ~. %
even 5ioIe pIoho1Iced tlial tu,lt Ui oe ~
ator Eun9lius' inns lilst' SO Iainill'I ~, W
Tue ,he e9iI2 2i IriI rnlty Oh the oT'eo' tne
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The Rlshnp's Joke.

A capital story is told of leading
bishop well known for his good sense
and rare wit, says the London Spectator
He was staying at the house of country
gentleman who posed as an ardent total
abstainer. During dinner on the first
day of the bishops visit, there being
nothing to drink on the table besides
syrups and mineral waters, the host,
turning toward his reverend guest, said
in an undertOne: "My lord, you will
find some wine in your bedroom" The
bishop, with characteristic taste, briefly
acknowledged this curious concession
and partook of the refreshment placed
before him. Some time after this the
bishop received his teetotalcr friend with
becoming hospitality at the palace on {
return visit. During dinner his lordshiI
quietly remarked to his guest "Mr
So-and-So, you will find some water il
your bedroom"
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AMATEUR INTERVENING,

The tests to which reporters stamina
is at times put are often severe and
fraught not always with success, says a
Chicago paper. Among them one which
fairly tries the soul of the young one is a
first assignment to interview some prom
inent parsonage who has just arrived.
II is seldom that any other instructions
are given to HIM. 'SO-and-SO's at the
- hotel. Interview him for a col
umn," says the city editor. And the
young man, who has heard of the re-
nOwned visitor times without number,
will without doubt Immediately forget
all he ever knew concerning the gentle
man in question. He will perhaps begin
to feel that his youthful ideas of jour
nalism were the outgTowth not of sound
Judgment, but of dreams superinduced
by an overloaded omach. Pride, how
ever, prevents his rcsigning; and into
the presence of the great man he goes,
his mind is blank, and with that empty
feeling which comes to one unaccustOm-
ed to associate with celebrities. During
the recent visit of ex-United States SEN
ator Warner Miller to Chicago, one of
these journalistic buds called on him at
the Auditorium. The New Yorker re-
ceiyed him graciously and offered him
seat. The bud took it, His mind was
still blank and pinch did not start an
idea. The silence was becoming a tor
ture, when thu ough the open window
came the voice of a ncwsboy far below:
''All about General Sherman dying"
1t was an inspiration. The bud was not
up on politics. But he thought he was,
and with smile of confidence he said:
Senator, do you think that the death of
Gen. Sherman will materially change the
complexion of Ohio politics?' The as
constituent that came into the senator's
face at the question was Immediately
chased away by smile as he replied that
he hardly thought it would. The bud
thanked HIM and withdrew. Several
years ago when Ben Butler arrived in the
city another bud was dispatched to see
him. lie found the General smoking in
the centre of his room at the Grand Pa
ciiic hotel, gazing with one eye through
the jackson street window and with the
other through the window that faced
Clark street The young bud was at
! tackled with stage fright, but after bit
he collected himself enough TO ask the
General the popular question of the day ::
What, General, do you think of Kel's
purchase by the BOstonS?" The General
surveyed the bud with his left eye, and
in severe tone inquired: "Who in
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The Banner.
BENNINGTON. VERMONT
Thursday Afternoon, April %, 1891

Nearly all the Swedes composing the
colony at Norton Mills, which Commits
sioner Valentine established, have be
como dissatisfied and moved away. A
more i'll. devised scheme, considering its
cost to the State, was never brought out
than this Swede hobby of Major Valen-
tine's.-Clipper. This is a fair specimen
of the adverse criticism of the Agricul-
tural Bureau of the years 1SS9-90. As a
matter of fact, the Commission did moi
establish the colony at Morton Mills, had
nothing whatever to do with the settle,
ment there. Furthermore, the proposed
colony at Vershire was stopped because
the Swedes themselves moved to Nor
ton Mills, thinking it a better place
The Clipper might at least be truthful in
its chronic censure, having been opposed
from the start to the Agricultural Com
mission, possibly because the Ere ePreS
favored it. We do not understand, more
over, that the Norton Mills colony is
failure
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-04-23

The route nf one long-distance tele-
phone line viii follow the highway from
Greenfield north 70 Bellows Falls, thence
through Springfield to Windsor and
across to Claremont, Newport and Con-
cord.
ASeveral business men at Montpelier
have recently received confidential letters
from rang cf dealers in counterfeit
money in New York. The letters offer
$1,000 Of nuecr for $500, but insist on a
personal interview.
G.. Eugene, only son of Stnrrs T. Nov S
of Montnelier.a locomotive engineer who
began his cHrcor nj the opening Of t. G
Montne'ior E Wells Rivor Railroad. was
killed in = r'ilr''ad accident ut Hnlyoke,
Mass, last week.
The town authorities Of MontnelieI
have issued n notice of $50 reward fol-
the recovery of the body of Charles X,
Galaise, supposed to have been drowned
there last Monday night. The work OF
dragging the river is being pushed with
vigor.
William Warner, well known anC
highly respected young man of Wells
was killed Friday night by taking a tea
spoonful of aconite in mistake for medi
cine. Anhdotes were promptly gi zen
hut he died in an hour. The bottles vert
promptly labeled.