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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-05-15
The Situation.

To-day the minds of men are per-
picked. The leaders of the common
people have espoused them, and now
the question is, what will they do?
The jostling crowd are on guard in
Masses and will by small majority,
for they are all not posted alike
writes J. B. Gay, of Columbus, Tex,
follow the CLEANS of the greatest
light; the swaying masses will follow
with the makeup of their subsidiary
teachings. In this storm tossed con-
dition of the public mind the national
officers of the Farmers Alliance have
the hardest time to fit themselves, in
public opinion, and why is this? Be-
cause there is no place in thought be-
tween the educated and the unedu-
Gated. The Alliance is in one of its
features simply school in politics;
the people, children without parents,
and the officers are our best teachers.
As soon as man is educated he be-
comes so enraged at his past ignorance,
and feels the necessity of strong
help, that he wants the teacher
to quit school and become one
of his partners in his new line of
thought. If he did this the uneducated
would lose confidence in the teacher,
and the graduate and teacher would
suffer alike for support. The Alliance
school is non-partisan in politics, and
partisan men are only half-educated in
economic government, hence the neces-
sity of keeping the teachers as much as
possible out of party politics. Party
is, and ever will be, the bane in the
education of political economy. If a
principle is in error, it is then partisan,
but when it establishes equal rights
to all and exclusive privileges to none, p"
it cannot in any sense be partisan.
Right disposes of party, and wrong
makes it, and it is to be righted that
to-day the party has to be used in ex-
ecuting the Alliance demands. To be
non-partisan and still believe in prin-
ciple, is sumner to old line poll
ticians; they do not rise above selfish
views, and the idea of a man from the
Alliance non-partisan school taking a
hand in politics makes them want to
call him an Alliance party man. They
can not distinguish between the school
and the education.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-05-15
Self-ldentifylng Offspring.

There is a negro woman living out
in the country near Waynesboro Ga,
who has queer ideas as to the naming
of children. Instead of bestowing up
on them the Biblical names so popu-
lar with the Afro-American citizen,
she has developed nomenclature
from their physical peculiarties. For
instance, one has very thick lips, and
his name is Lips; another has very
big feet, and he is called Foots; an
other is blessed with pair Of bowed
legs, and he is known as Crooks. She
gives as a reason that as there are so
many of them she could not remem-
Der the ordinary names, but as they
are, she has only to look at them and
she knows what to call them. Allan
ia Constitution.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-05-15
Training Horns.

Scraping the horns for the purpose
of forming an incurve, has been prac-
ticed with a greater or less degree of
success. To accomplish the object,
says a correspondent of the Jersey
Bulletine, the scraping should be done
on the inner side, toward which the
turn is desired, and t should be re-
peated, if necessary, as the horn
makes growth. The horns of most
cattle, Jerseys especially, naturally
grow with an inward curve, and this
practice is an aid to nature in refrac-
tory cases. Let the scraping be as
evenly done as possible along the sur
face desired for the curve, SO that all
parts will yield to the pressu.e in the
same proportion. The governing
principle is that the horn thus scraped
on one side, is weakened, and as
growth proceeds, offers lessened resis-
lance to the stronger parts that have
been left undisturbed, and a gradual
giving way of the former is inevitable.
The symmetry of the curve will depend
upon the care and skill with which the
work is done; the process is slow and
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-05-15

National Economist: The papers
are chock full of the discussion of
financial questions. The Economist
receives letters daily asking for in
formation upon the leading questions
under discussion, and it appears that
every meeting room of the order is a
school of economics. An idea of the
range taken may be inferred by exami-
nation of this paper from week to
week. The people are investigating,
and when their verdict is made up it
will be an honest one. No power can
corrupt an intelligent public opinion.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-05-15
Electricity is employed in q Berli

Electricity is employed in Berlin
cafe to boil coffee. A platinum wire
passes in spiral form through several
glass jars, the electrical current quickly
raising the water contained to q boil
ing point, and the coffee is thus pre-
pared in the view Of any one in the
room. A small electric railway con-
veys the coffee to the several tables,
SO that the guests may help them
selves to their liking.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-05-15
Tomatoes For Milk.

A Canadian dairyman experimental
one year with feeding tomatoes to his
COWS and they increased the milk flow
so much that he determined to plant
each year tomatoes in field into
which he could turn the COWS in the
fall and have the satisfaction of know
ing that no tomatoes, green or ripe,
will be lost. After the first frost last
fall he pulled the tomato vines and
collected them in piles, with the green
tomatoes adhsring, where they remain
ed couple of weeks before he could
let the COWS into the field. By that
time he found that large percentage
of the green tomatoes had ripened
and the tomato leaves had cured.
The COWS could not bekept away from
these tomato piles. They rooted
them over. with their noses and horns
and cleaned up everything but the
bare vines, and at night as long as the
tomatoes lasted they would come
into the barn painfully full and their
udders distented. He leaves it with
scientists to say whether the milk-pro-
ducing element was in the tomato
itself or whether it supplemented some
other feed to make well-balanced
ration. OF course it would not pay
to raise tomatoes as feed for COWS,
but market gardeners need not allow
surplus tomatoes to go to waste while
they have COWS to feed.-Western
Rural.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-05-15
Simple Sustenance.

To Cinnamon is attributed the say
ing that all the sustenance the human
system requires is rice, vinegar and
oil.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-05-15
THE FARM AND GARDEN.
VALUABLE INFORMATION FOR
RURAL READERS.
Transplanting Onions--A Verse on
CIover--FruitW Without Seed--
Training Horns--Cream-
cry Butter.
Transplanting Onions.


before they have attained any con-
siderable size, seems to have been
followed to q limited extent from an
early date. Gardeners generally are
aware of the fact that young onions
may be successfully transplanted, but
few, however, know that such treat
ment has any advantage over ordin-
airy methods. w. J. Green, horticul-
turist in the Ohio experiment station,
began in 1888 to compare transplant
ing with the common method of SOW
ing seed in the open ground, and car
ried the practical experiments through
the seasons, of 1889 and 1890. He
surmises the results of his work as
follows: /. Transplanting onions
increased the yield 100 per cent in
some cases, and gave a. decided gain
with all varieties The varieties that
gave the best results were Pompeii
prizetaker and white Victoria; Those
showing the smallest gains were Dan
vers, Wethersfeld and Michigan
2 The transplanted onions were
larger and more uniform in size than
those grown from seed in the ordinary
manner. 8. The transplanted on
ions ripened from three to four
weeks earlier than those grown from
seed sown in the open grounds. 4 The
extra labor involved in transplanting
was offset by the saving OF labor in
wedding. The increase in crop, with
out a corresponding increase in la
Dor, lessened cost of production.
AVerse on CLOVER.
The farmers are accustomed to
speak of clover seed as the cheapest
fertilizer they can use. It is. Care
full experiments have been made, show
ing that an acre of very good clover
sod contains within six inches of the
surface nearly three and one half tons
of clover roots. which would contain
nearly one hundred pounds of nitro
gen, fifty pounds OF potash and more
than twenty-fivepounds ofphosphoric
acid. While not much New England soil
would grow such cloyer, yet the half of
that would be aliberal manuring, and
farmers who will SOW clover with their
spring grain and grass seed, or upon
the grass which was sown last fall,
need have but little fear of their fields
running out, if the clover gets a good
hold. It will also pay to SOW some of
the thin places in the old meadows,
first scratching them with a light
harrow, to allow the seed to reach
the earth.
The present is a good time to do
this, after the snow has gone and the
ground is soft, with the coming out of
the frost. The spring rains will carry
the seed down in the ground and it
will terminate and take root if the
soil is good enough. Thus welcome
addition may be made to this years
hay crop, and at the same time the
soil may be made richer for future
crops.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-05-15

Farm Notes.
One-half of the failures to secure
eggs from hens is due to their being
overfed and in too fat condition.
When buying pigs or poultry always
quarantine themfor few days before
permitting them to be with those on
the farm.
A green crop of weeds makes ma
nure in the soil. Plow them under,
and thus make them perform service
instead of being injurious.
It is very important to make diff
ference in feeding during the summer
from that of win ter. An animal may
be rendered useless from overlooking.
A poultry-yard should always have
few trees for shade and for fruit. It
is just as important to make the
yards contain fruit trees as to produce
poultry and eggs.
Get your young strawberry plants
out now, and just as soon as you can
do so, in order to avoid having them
overtaken by dry weather before they
are we'll started.
The famous white sage and alfalfa,
undoubtedly stand at the head OF all
honey producing plants in the west,
both yielding large quantities of clear,
pale honey, which is greatly priced in
all markets it has ever yet reached.
It is OF no advantage to have young
trees bear too soon. The amount of
fruit secured will not compensate for
the injury done the trees. If a young
tree is permitted to bear it should
only be done by thinning out the
fruit so as to lessen the work of the
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-05-15

AlllduCo. LII Is indispensable 10 Inc
success of all its undertakings. It is
the greatest power of which the order
is possessed, and without which every
thing about it counts for naught. Every
primary should look well to its preser-
walton. Every member should care
fully guard its influence upon the order
and never fail to show its great.impor-
lance as factor of power and fulcrum
as a means to attain our ends. The
member too stubborn to unity, or too
conceited to yield his opinion for the
good of the order is unfit for member
ship. Men yield to party demands
with alacrity and they can as easily
and readily yield to the order.
The Oxford, Ala, Voice: Who is it
that complains? Not the vicious
classes of the cities who live in the
slums of desolation. But it comes up
from the decency, the virtue and the
intelligence of this country, from the
farmers and the hard-handed industrial
classes. And not without cause. They
are dissatisfied and reckless on account
OF the low compensation which they
realize from their farms and the limit
ed circulation of money which occurs
because the amount of money in the
country is too small for the business
transactions that cover our trade and
commerce.
This is the trouble. and it is one
that must be remedied. The farmers are
in for it; and our legislators must
come to time and SO legislate as to
bring relief. Anything short of it will
not do. Be assured the agitation will
so on until relief comes.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-05-24
CHURCH TROUBLES.

An era Of doubt, revision OF creeuS'
heresy, and what not seems to have set
in in church circles all over the land
An incipient rebellion against orthodoxy
seems to be on the taps, and who can
tell where, or in what, il will end?
Several ministers Of the gospel are now
on trial for expressing views that do not
harmonic with the established doc
trinal teachings Of their various sectS.
Rev. MCQUEARY's case of recent date
seems to have given an impetus to the
ball and set il rolling with increased
speed. Rev. HEBER NEWTON gave IL
another shove, and now DIR. BRIGGS IS
keeping it going.
The Presbyterian General Assembly
in Detroit, which has been considering
the BmGG's case, disappointed those
who expected TO see row over the
creed mission question. The question
is not settled but has been referred to a
committee, which is to report to the
next general assembly. Conservatism
ruled almost absolutely. A good deal Of
the snap has been taken out of the case
by the Union Seminary which addressed
few cold questions to DR.. BRIGGS,
covering all the points in the case. His
answers must must be direct and will
be considered his definition of his or
thodoxy. There is a manifest desire to
deal with the matter cautiously and
conseryatiyely, and in all probability
there will be no debate on the question
and nothing more than vote on the
committees report.
This is the sensible and dignited
course to pursue, and demonstrates the
entire competency of the Presbyterian
Assembly to handle such questions
without burning it's fingers.
Meanwhile the EpiscOpalian Church
is wrestling with similar cases. The
MacQueary episode was more SenSa-
tional than important, but it is not so
with the case of Rev. HEBEI NEWTON.
This eminent divine has raised serious
Issue. Friction heretofore in the
Episcopalean church has existed gen
orally over the claims of the High
Church party, but now the Broad Church
has exhibited tendencies toward ration
alism that are occasioning uneasinesS,
and at the head of this new school is the
powerful and influential HEBER NEW
TON, who does not retreat an inch, but
meets the issue face TO face as frankly
as DIR. BRIGGS has met that raised
in his church against him.
The outcome will be interesting and
important.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-05-24
Professor Welsh, which occurred tw

Professor Welsh. which occurred two
years ago.
Rev Campbell will preach to the G. A.
r. this morning at the Presbyterian
Church. Thoburn Post No. - will attend
in body.
Lem Rodehaver had a very narrow es-
cape yesterday afternoon while attempting
TO lump passing train at Aetnaville and
it was by the merest chance that he did not
lose both his legs.
The Cinder Snapper's Union at their
regular meeting last week elected the fol-
lowing officers: President, VIM. Coats
secretary, David Vernum; treasurer, Geo.
Bottles; inside guard, Pat Reddy: outside
guard, Tom Peppers: delegate 20 the Chic
ago Convention, Pat Reddy.
Mr. Ed. Virtue is no better.
Gels & Gehringer, the Marble and Gran.
lite dealers and workers, have only been in
BUSINESS one year, yet during that time
have turned out some as fine work, if not
the finest ever seen here, and have given
entire satisfaction in every instance. Call
in and see them when wanting anything in
this line.
Quite a pleasant surprise party was
given at the residence of j. w. Lane, on
First street, Friday evening. Dancing and
games were INDUCED in until after ~,
when everybody retired to their homes, all
expressing themselves as having had a
good time.
The funeral of Adam Stoddard took
place from st. Mary's Church yesterday
morning. The services were conducted by
the Rev. Father Mattingler Interment at
Mt Calvary
There is rumor TO the effect that we are
10 have another bank, with capital OF
J 100000
Mrs. Sarah Ong has returned to her
home in Smithfeld.
There will be adance at Helling's Grove
Monday evening, Msy 25tb.
Quite a neat little surprise party was
rendered Mr. William Coates and his
daughter Carrie on last Thursday evening
at their home in Paul's Addition, 1t being
the occasion Of their birthdays the father 5
and daughters both occurring on the same
dav, he being "A and the daughter l6
John alias Shorty" Andrews, who shot
| Richard Deegans. at Etnaville, some time
ago, was brought back from New Albany,
| Ind. yesterday.
Miss Sallie Miller is in GAINESVILLE visit
/ ing friends.
/ There will be services ut all the churches
this morning except the Baptist and a. NJ
1 E. Church. At ST. Mary's Church, TWEEN
| ty-one children will make their Holy Com
munion at O'Clock mass.
The baccalaurate sermon 10 the gradu-
ating class OF the high school will be
preached at the U. u. Church this morning
at 10 o'clock instead Of the Opera House
as announced heretofore
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-05-24
rnAr YouNa MAN as DO.

The speech of Prosecuting Attorney
IogY A. Howard, in summing up the
evidence and presenting the argument
for the state in the Garrison trial, was
remarkable for its clearneSS and force.
In IT'S delivery Mr.. Howard exhibited
An ability and a latent force that sur
prised even his closest friends. 1t is
doubtful If ever better, clearer or
more effective argument was ever made
in this Court.
IL must be borne in mind that Mr..
Howard is a very young man, as law
vers go, aud that those opposed to
and associated with him in the case
may be called veterans, and are among
the ablest lawyers in the state, if not in
the country.
His speech showed keen knowledge Of
human nature. to begin with, thorough
acquaintance with the evidence and the
law i'm the case, and an oratorical abili-
ity that would do credit TO an attorney
with thrice the experience.
1t must be remembered that it was
practically Mr. HowARD'S maiden
speech. this being the first case Of
special note he has prosecuted since he
assumed the office Of Prosecuting Attor-
ney.
Something like seven years ago Mr..
HOWARD was lin the rankS'-he was a
elassworker. and a good enc. He was
energetic. temperate in his habits. and
he was popular, as young men OF that
build usually are. He had an ambition,
and rapidly rose from the ranks He
earned money enough to educate him
self for the law. He studied hard and
was successful, as is every young man
who has a sincere desire 20 succeed in
the right way. His election as Prose-
cuting Attorney OF Ohio county rapidly
followed. and his conduct of this trial
has proven that the people made no
mistake in selecting 50 young man for
so important an office.
Though barely begun, Mr.. HowARD'S
career has in il a lesson which young
men. no matter what their station in
life may be, will do well to study The
Young maa who is made of the true stuff
and has grit and energy, no matter
what the odds against him may be, need
never despair Of success in this country
II he directs his energies IN the proper
channel.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-05-24
The Barber Discourses.

DetFOU fYte (IthS.
He had spread on the lather and was
strappng the razor.
'Some folks say BARRIERS talk too
much" said he, "but have beer in
the business these twenty years and |
never noticed it,"
A gentleman rode by in his carriage.
"There goes old Biggins," said the
barber. "He shaveS himself There is
one thing | never could understand
about rich men, Why is it that as soon
as a man gets lot of money his opinion
at once becomes valuable? Why is it
that when man has invented a potato
peeler on an idea whch his wife gave
him and has made fortune out OF it,
he at once becomes an oracle and can
answer knotty questions in ethics or
metaphysics or political economy to
everybody's satisfaction? | can't seem
to reason it out why man who has run
milk route for thirty-seven years and
hidden the proceeds Of it under the
corner Of the carpet until he becomes
rich enough to retire should know mora
about therapeutics than whole con-
yention of doctors and revised edition
of nlatorla medicd, but the world takes
his diagnosis Of every disease, physical,
mental or moral, political or eccleSias-
tical | knew man once who
went west because he couldn't
make living at anything at
home. Going over mountain one
day he stubbed his toe on nugget 81
gold and shoveled up enough to make
him rich. Whrn he came back home
the people thought they had all been
mistaken when they judgeu him to be
fool. He had money, you see, and That
made him wise. There was anoter man
in our town who lent his brother some
money, and when the time came to pay
il, the brother had nothing but some
land in Chicago-bog land at that. The
man didn't want TO tSke it-Sald II
wasn't worth daying taxes on. His
brother taid ii would make him rich some
time: taat the city would grow up TO It,.
The man called him fool, but he took the
land because it was all his brother had.
The brother is still poor and his opin-
ion isn't worth the wind il takes TO eX-
press it, but the man sat still, and that
land made him rich and an oracle.
ItODlc pOluI W hin d. q : itoS nhNANiNi'
and seek his advice in the matter Of get
ting rich, or getting religion or any
thing else. Maybe you remember
when Rufus Hatch was rich, how peo-
pie clamored for his opinions; how they
would travel half way across the Con-
tinent to get him 20 give them ten
minutes of advice. Don't you know how
the papers used to be full of his wise say
S-phiosophical things about the best
way to cook a shad or to buy horse, or
ID hold your cue at billiards? Why,
any editor in New York would have
given Rufus Hatch dollar minute to
talk for publication on any subject I'M
der the sun, or above it. Rufus Hatch
is poor now. He was sued for few
dollars little while ago and couldn't
satisfy the judgment. You never hear
of anybody wanting his opinion these
days, though he probably knows a heap
more than he did when he was rich. |
tell you, sir, money mikes the mare go,
and the opinion, too. A poor man must
keep his mouth shut in this world.
Nobody wants to hear wha. he has TO
say.
Powder, sir?, Thank you, sir. Come
again.
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