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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-12-04
sheep Notes.

Whenever a sheep goes off by itself you
may be reasonably sure that there is
something radically wrong with it.
Get an old Patent Office Report and cut
out two thirds Of the leaves. Cut out
every sensible thing you see in your pa
pers relating to sheep, and paste it on the
remaining leaves. In few years your
scrap-book will be perfect encyclopedia
of sheep lore.
In Ohio and Michigan, sheep have in.
creased in numbers and quality, the NUT
ton breeds having the lead. For three
years past the product of the flocks has
been largely sold for feed or fed by the
farmers. In most Of the old states NUT
ton breeds are now the most popular
The best ''sure cure'' for foot rot is to
place the stock on dry stony land. If
this can not be had it is good plan to
bring the sheep up once month, pare the
hoofs well and then drive them, one at a
time, through long. shallow trough con-
tanning a solution of arsenic or carbolic
acid. This is the approved Australian
remedy.
If sheds are used to feed sheep in, 1t is
always best to construct racks around
next to the walls so that the hay may be
put in from the outside. They are easily
made by driving stakes of scantling twenty
inches from the sill inside and six feet
apart; nail on boards about one foot wide
at the bottom and others, narrower, eight
or ten inches above these. Cleats may be
nailed up and down once in ten inches if
desired, so that each sheep may have o
stall by itself.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-12-04
Home Hints.

A carpet can be greatly improved by
second sweeping with coarse salt or damp
ened corn meal scattered over it. 1t is
quite astonishing how much dirt will be
taken up.
Pure air and sunshine, it is said, are
natures health givers, and care should be
taken to admit them literally into every
room. Give your children plenty of both,
indoors and out
A quart Of milk, a teaspoonful each Of
corn starch and sugar and a beaten egg
stirred in the basin of double boiler
until the boiling point is reached, make an
excellent substitute for cream when cold
Fish that is to be fried should be laid in
cloth to lose some of its moisture, then
rolled in fine crumbs or corn meal Those
kinds that are liable to break must be
dipped in beaten egg, then in crumbs
The fat in which it is fried, whether it be
lard, butter or oil, must be very hot All
fried fish must be garnished with parsley
A bright woman living in one room
with a folding bed makes one set of pill
lows serve on low, manufactured divan,
rug covered, as well as on the bed. She
had them made square and large, and by
day they are encased in slips Of plain
sateen, snugly buttoned, while at night
they are clad in snowy linen. This may
be suggestion to some other woman
similarly situated.
In making layer cake, one sometimes
tires of using jelly or chocolate for filling,
and figs and raisins make an agreeable
change, as well as richer cake. Take
one-half pound of figs and one cup of raj
SINS Cut the figs in halves and steam the
raisins for half an hour, then chop while
warm. Beat the white of an egg to
stiff froth and add to the fruit, together
with thirds Of cupful of granulnted
sugar and one teaspoonful Of vanilla.
This Is now ready to spread between the
layers Of cake.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-12-04
New French Tailor Gowns.

Some very attractive street gowns.
of poll de chameau-very feecy ca
mel's hair--of light beige and ivory
shades are, as they claim to be, strict
ly tailor made. The gored skirt es-
capes the pavement, and all it's seams
are Tapped and double-stitched on the
outside; the wide hem is held by seve-
raj rows of stitching. A single-breast-
ed waistcoat buttoned high with small
satin lasting buttons is fitted by darts,
and has small pockets for watch and
change, much like those ofmen's vests;
the back is OF silk strapped and buckl-
ed to fit. The suit is completed by a.
long coat falling to the knee, warmly
interlined, and finished with silk. 1t
is fitted in the back, and straight and
loose in front, and all it's seems are
Tapped and double-stitched. The
straight of the front meet and turn
back in revers that are faced to the
button-holes with bengaline of the
light shade of the wool. Very large
pearl buttons are set underneath each
revers, SO that the coat may be lap
ped either way. The collar is silk-faced
nearly to the edge. Large coat sleeves
are stitched in many rows to suggest
cuffs
More elaborate cloth gowns madein
Paris have the fullness of the bodice
front from bust to waist taken up in
tiny stitched tucks not wider than
fine cords, crossed by belt-like straps
OF cloth, quite narrow and we'll stitch
ed, fastened by small buckles. The
back in princess breadths has coat
skirts added to give fullness, while the
front OF the skirt lets down from the
top and has strapped buckled sides
showing velvet between. Triple square
revers open at the top on a velvet
plastron in which is V of cloth all
strapped and buckled. The collar and
sleeves have similar buckled straps.
This is handsomely carried out
in tan. colored velvet in narrow
serpentine stripes. Three bands of
this velvet are let in as insertion at
foot of the skirt, the stripes waving
around it, and each band is edged with
bronze beads.-Harper's Bazaar.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-12-04
BENJAMIN Franklin.

Benjamin Franklin is on record as
having said: Liberty or Freedom
consists in having an actual share in
the appointment of those who frame
the laws and who are to be guardians
over every mans life. property and
peace; for the all of one man, is as
dear TO him as the all of another; and
the poor man has an equal right but
more need to have Representatives in
the legislature than the rich one.
Those who have no voice or vote in
the electing of representatives do not
enjoy liberty, but are absolutely en-
shaved to those who have votes and
to their representatives. for to be
enslaved is to have governors whom
other men have set over us and be
subject to laws made by the represen-
tatives of others, without having had
representatives of our own to give con-
sent in our behalfn
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-12-04
TWAS THE GENERAL.
He Held a War Correspondents Horse
by Request.

by Request.
Major General Hunter who COM
handed in the Shenandoah Valley be-
fore Sheridan entered it, was famous
hOrseman, says the Rider and Driver.
In camp, however, he was fond of
lounging about in private's flannel
blouse, with an old battered briarwood
pipe between his teeth. In that guise
no one would take Hunter for a fed
eral general
A newspaper correspondent, who
had never seen Hunter, rode up one
day to his quarters at Monocacy
Bridge The correspondent was got
ten up in great style and evidently
thought great deal of himself. See
ing man sitting at the foot of a tall
pine tree, comfortably smoking he
asked the man where General Hunter
was.
He's somewhere about here" re-
piled the man.
We'll, just hold my horse" said
the correspondent while I look for
him."
The man obediently got up from his
seat in the dead pine needles and took
the horses bride.
Then the correspondent hunted UP
the chief of staff and inquired for the
general.
General Hunter is out among the
trees. )" said the aide. stepping out of
his tent
why. there he is now, holding that
horse! What the devil does that mean?''
The correspondent retreated rapidly
and in rather bad order, mounting his
saddle without word, and rode away.
He never vectured near General Hun
ter again.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-12-04
Raising fahe Wind

Stranger presume q man who
has followed the sea SO many years
must have been in some wrecks"
Old Sea Captain-Wrecks? Well, a
few. The wust wreck ever had was
on the Jersey coast"
"Long ago?"
"Some'at. You see got becalmed
off the coast of Ireland"
"Becalmed?"
eyes. Well, tried every which
way to start a wind, BUTT was no 90.
Not a breath stirrin'. At last l got
desperate"
II presume So"
eyes, got so desperate I made up
my mind I'd try plan I'd often heard
of, if it took the last dollar / had.
Can't raise the wind without money"
"It's good deal the same way on
shore"
"Jesso. Well then, I took a big
silver dollar, kissed it three times,
swung it nine times around my bead,
and then flung it as far as could in
to the sea, in the direction I wanted
the wind to come, you know"
81 see."
"Well, it came"
cit did,"
"Did it? Well, you just ought to.
seen it. The fust blast took every
stitch O. sail clean off the yards, an
in three minutes more we was scud-
din under bare poles thousand miles
an hour"
"Cracky!"
81 should say so. Well, the next
think knew, bump went 'er bow, an
there we was bein' dashed all to bits.
square up agin Long Branch. Why,
sir, we struck with such force we,
bounded way up the beach an walked
dry-shod right into a hotel"
II never heard of that"
"N-o, the season was over an the
hotels war closed. Well, sir, after that
/ never tried no more silver dollars
when [ wanted wind"
II suppose not"
"No, sir. After that l never flung
anything bigger'n ten-cent piece
New York Weekly.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-12-04
Special Farming.

After all. the question of special
farming resolved itself into this: No
soil can stand continuous cultivation
of any particular crop, for rotation
of crops is just as essential to the soil
as fertilizers. Special farming may
do for short time. a few years at the
utmost but beyond that it cannot be
made to pay. Many of those who adj
vocate special farming from expert
ence do SO after few years trial of
some particular crop. but it takes q
long time to test the question thor
oughly.
One farmer may conclude that rails
ing potatoes for the market is the
speciality which will pay him the most,
and from one or two good seasons
crops he draws his conclusions. But
what of the special crop of potatoes
few years later when the soil begins
to deteriorate? Some other crop will
then have to be grown to restore the
lost fertility. Corn, wheat or potatoes
may be grown to certain extent as
speciality. but not exclusively.
Other crops must come in for a ro-
tation, or the soil will become worth
less. The whole subject of speciality
in farming must be considered in the
light of what such cultivation of the
soil is going to have on the future fer
tility of the farm. Potatoes may be
grown as a speciality for many years,
and commercial fertilizers used to
keep the soil up to such standard
that good crops can be produced.
But there will be a gradual deteriora-
ton in the soil. and it would be found
cheaper and safer in the end to rotate
with clover and grain, to give to the
soil constituents that commercial fer
tilizers never can.
The only true way for specially in
farming is to find out what the soil
and locality of the farms is best fitted
to produce. This can be done only
by testing it. Then make this crop
the special one, but sec to it that
other crops are brought in to keep the
soil from losing its strength. All that
need be grown are such crops neces-
sary for wise rotation and then the
ideal farm is reached. In this sense
specially in farming has an intelligent
meaning; but in any other sense it is
worse than meaningless. It is mis-
leading.-A. B. Barrett in the Ameri-
can Cultivator.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-12-04


late cut hay, the frozen vegetables or
fruit and other damaged products will
testify.
The keeping Of land which does not
either as pasture. moving land or
woodland. or in hOed crops, pay fair
profit over the cost of manure. labor
and seed, with fair wages to the farm
or. is another bad leak Of common oc-
currence Again. COWS that do not
pay their keeping for more than nine
months in the year, and horses whose
days work during the year does not
amount to as much as their feed costs,
are leaks that let the profits run away
very rapidly. When these are all
stopped others can be easily named,
but these are enough for once. Amer
lean Cultivator.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-12-04
Lower Wages in America.

Politicians work many schemes In
this country it is claimed that the
tariff keeps wages higher in America.
1t may keep up the wages of politi-
clans, but the following figures will
show that children and adults in free
trade England are paid better than
they are here and will also show that
we can afford to reduce the tariff far
below the present figures:
Children in England are paid in the
mines 50 cents per day of 8! hours
while in West Virginia they only get
SO cents for a 10-hours day.
In the cotton goods industries chill
dren in England get 40 cents for TO-
hours day, while in New York they
get but Al cents for an 11-hours day.
In the following states they also get
less than the English rate. besides
working one hour longer: Connecticut,
North Carolina and Georgia.
The rate paid to adult male hands in
the cotton goods industries in England
averages silly per day of 10 hours
each. while in Vermont the rate is
PL. ~, III NOIUu CdtO1lIltt 30 CCuUS, anu
in Georgia $1.02. The rate in Della
ware is ST.. 10, jusS two cents over the
English rate. and in New York it is
$1.23, but all the American rates are
for an IL hours day. If the New York
operative worked 10 hours. or one
eleventh less than he does, and if he
was paid that much less, he would get
but 81. II per day.
In other words while the English
operatives average 81. II per day, the
New York operative averages only
81. IL per day. which shows that the
Englishman actually gets over half a
cent per hour more than the New
Yorker.
The English rate of wages in metals
and metallic goods is $1.34 Tor an II
hours day, while for a IL hours day
the rate in Maryland is 1924 and in
Alabama 81. 20.
These facts are from the report OF
the United States commissioner of la
bor Progressive Farmer.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-12-04
Leaks on the Farm.

There are many leaks upon some
farms, and some upon nearly every
farm. A few of them are. lack of
knowledge of the principles of feeding,
so that the foods are not rightly pro-
portioned for the results desired, An
attempt to do more than can be prop
erly done, and consequent neglect to
do work in the proper season. This
leads to extra cost for labor to destroy
large weeds which could have been
easily killed while small. and in future
seasons to killing those that spring up
from their seeds. It also results in
crops not harvested when they are at
their most favorable conditions, as the
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-12-04
To Get Even With the Company.

II have remembered what you told
me about the company you work
for. George" she said to the young
telegraph operator who was calling
on her. II believe you said it was
gras ping monopoly"
"Grasping monopoly is no name for
it, Mamie" he exclaimed. "Why, the
company is SO stingy that it breaks
pennies in two so as to make exact
change for overtime work"
That's what you said before,
George" she said, $50 just make it
all the trouble possibly can. won't
let it make a cent out of me that
can help. I've told lot of the other
girls, too, and when we send any teIe-
grams we're just as mean as we can
be-"
"How, Mamie?" he asked looking a
little troubled.
"Why: we always write the full ten
words, and use the very biggest words
we can think Of"
He got up and started for his hat
and overcoat.
"Why, George!" she cried it's all for
your
"For mep he exclaimed.
"Indeed, yes. We're trying to make
the mean, stingy old company all the
trouble possible"
1.-THE company" He almost tore a
sleeve out Of his coat as he yanked it
on. Make trouble for the companvl
Who do you suppose has to struggle
with those long-word ten-word
messages company or the opera
tor? Mamie, l leave you for
ever"
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-12-04

the Alliance Advocate: When
America is made the dumping ground
for the worlds supply of silver, the
world at large will take an even ex-
change therefor in American products
at our price. BY all means let the
silver come, and let it be coined into
honest dollars and the farmers will
use them in paying off their mort
cages and restoring their heritage to
its former eminence in American af-
fairs.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-12-04

The Alliance Herald: The Alliance
is composed of machine Democrats,
Republicans Independents and Third
Party men. AS an organization it is
not in partisan politics, that is to say,
it does not espouse any party. 1t es-
pOuses measures and advocates pur-
poses. 1t has aims and seeks to &C.
complish them. 1t has mission, and
expects to fulfill it. 1t came into ex-
istence at the demand of memorable
necessity. It continues in existence
and will ever continue to live because
the urgency of the necessity is so great
and exacting that the members who
compose it are bound by the ties of in
terest they are fastened to it by con.
dition that compels them to stick, to
persevere and to make any sacrifice
for its success. This condition has
jeopardized their homes, has imperiled
the liberty Of their children and has
rendered it impossible for them to at
tain prosperity. The census report on
the mortgage Indebtedness of the coun-
try shows the condition that has ieop-
ardized their homes. The fact that
they are compelled to sell products at
cost of production shows the impossi-
bility OF extricating themselves from
this condition, without change of
systems The change of systems is
the purpose. The change of condition
Is it's mission.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-09-13
Telling Tim. ~ .. He,rloe..
Frmm N. chieuoo Daily Tribune

From me Chfcnoo Ddfy Tribune
ITS an heirloom" he snid. as he took ont
OF his pocket n watch ms big as an ordinary 81
alarm clock and shook it to hear tho work 8
rattle. My great grandfather carried it,"
What with-n truck ~ asked his friend.
1h h. that's all rIght responded the man
b!tyou couldn't duplicate 1t ia, day for 500"
tho tn freight A.. charges on it would DO from here
81 know it's big. but !! tell you it's priceless.
Its old-fashioped. but it's all there"
Yes, with some additions and bay windows.
But, rally IL 1t reliable"
and A. swear q, to Il IN BET css come closer to
I'll 20 you." He pulled out handsome
l!tt,s stem wlrdsr. glanced at It. and said;
old safety deposit vault aud see what dine you
Tho other prisd the old wsteh open with the
=" I4et me soc This is Saturday. and I sst 1t
last Thursday evening at o o'clock. That Ia
tribe over forty-two and one-hslf hours ago
At half minute an hour the total loss would
be twenty one and one Jour h minutes. now
make It l2;l4i,. Adding twenty one and one
fourth To that would make tho corrected time
Il IMn and I'm wiling 70 lssv: Il 10 any
able watchosl Why. you can bet on this old
heirloom and win every. time; It's lost half .
minute An hour for sixty.thres years. All
you've got to do ID to remember when you SGT
quarter secopds."
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-09-13
THE CHRIS sHO7-rROOF CAR.
How the Emperor OF Russia Ira veIs m o. q.
His Loving subjects.

From the Phit1d''pht1 Daily Evening Tr'eordpb.
!, When the Car travels in Russia the precar.
were no III the enrny's country. A battalion
81 ,ntantryis detailed for every two miles ii
Of each battalion. every spOt OF ground on l,nth
sides Of the track Is co, cred by sch ines Win
suddenly viii led Off TO tho Station nc cor Is
nanieu by the chosen twelve Of hls body guard,
without GnH t or cir, nms,am.e. swiftly mni
OF ilys carriages hi, carriage is built in u
Tie windows, while ample for light, A..
bic from the outside. and the sides Of the "nr
ornam.na bus ampy s.rona ne T.
resist bullet. There are Two seniry boNss In
ns s n Snf s sHSs aid each
guard-men on duty In these apartments mr..
shut In from any observation OF me Interior OF
iret lie woo length Of the saloon are "."s w W"
buttons commnnicating with The guar cham.
containing the cutie and the o her. in he rem
f EeSI as ~ oy tas TnsFsnen MOI on d
could be no more secure in st. Peters, une Gar
Sns bait T., exesr! on account o. accident Ata
q o. ltailT s,., and tho chief eng neor OF
aHay rds on "I ,ss hi po Car s
III sss s1s: g. h Il: rsss WAIT
q soldisry for hundreds Of miles. Arrived n a.
tbs artsrs Intended Tor the I'm perisl ismiliTo
has hS q s re , are guarded BY special co1sta
o oes IN bs ns s.rS 81 citizens Every propsy
more 81 these men al. his own cxprnse 10 do
duty when the sovereign makes public nm.
psarance The coEstahles average one in Ian
Sf the crowd that thronR. the streets md be-.
ing In Ordinary dress, they can minco with
somelhing that " II oatsin Them regular ei m"
plnym ,h among The secret police, With one.
tsa Inc p9pulallo n engaged az spies upon
tSrntsd to stand formidable Siege. and his
tuSNnrni RuatdsmSh doRging every siep. The
snS . capital OF Russia, or whstever city he
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-09-13
THE NEW FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH.

infant class room. 20 by Is feet. and two
each. opening from the ems: side OF the
sunday school room. To the loft OF
the chancel Is the pastors study. On tho
ing room 81 Ivy 80 feet On the Seventy ninth
street sde OH the second floor The Sunday
school lihrary. will be located In a room - ~
1: feet, and adJoin ne the lib, sry Will 70 three
GLASS rooms " by IS ieet each. behind the or
The church VIM DO OF stone. The interior
decorations will tie white. The work will be
completed IN October. 1892. The total cost
The Rev. I. NJ. 'Ha'deman OF 2s9 West End
s avenue has occupied The nuinit for the last
kaw. Jared G. Baldwin. NJ b.. William II.
Burger Of BROOKLYN. MANUEL r. Hiliman OF
Brooklyn George w. Hiilman. Albert +. Day.
and Theodore W. Todd