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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-04-28
In and Out of the Same Hole.

COLUMBUS, Ind, April 2S-John Con-
rad. confined in the Jackson county Jail
at Brownstown, wanted bail, and Sunday
night succeeded in cutting a hole in the
rear upper part of the jail and escaping
by the roof He went on foot to his home.
ten miles away, but on failing to arrange
for bail he returned to the Jail and crawled
back in through the same hole by which
he escaped. The jailer knew nothing of
the escape and the return until informed
bv the prisouer
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-04-28
King Kelly i'm the Police Court.

CINCINNATI, April 2s.-King Kelly and
eight OF his men were in the police court
yesterday to answer a change of playing
base ball on Sunday in violation of the
law. They pleaded guilty and Judge
Gregg assessed a fine of the costs against
each of the accused
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1891-11-28
,puilt the raft. and 10! h. /, hardr,

puilt the raft, and 10 lr. hardr,
Ell when the flood came. Tho man la.
lily and pairs of every beast took passag
and hoated for many months on the sur
face of the deuge. The clouds cleared
away on the second day after embarkation,
and for seventeen successive moons the
man used the sun as guide, continually
steering toward his place of setting. But
the animals, every one of them (who, it
will be remembered had the power of
speech), protested agains. sailing 10 the
west, declaring in one voice that tn y pre-
ferred steering towards the suns rising
place. These murmurs had been going on
for some days when to the infinite Joy of
the man who had been holding the fort
against this horde of creatures who had
the voices of men and the reasons of
beasts, great spots OF dry land began to
appear. Finally this rudely constructed
bark grounded, and the man and his fam
lily and the beasts were again permitted
to press the face of the earth with their
feet. But great and lasting calamity
had overtaken the animals. For their
murmurs against the man while on the
water they were deprived of their power
of speech, and have remained dumb from
that dav
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1891-11-28
FARM NOTES q.

Queen bees can be sent anywhere by
mail.
Train the bull to work the power for
saving wood, cutting hay and grinding.
Keep sharp eye on the corn stover. Its
feeding value, when rightly cured and fed,
is too often under estimated
A few short furrows now will help free
low places from water, that might
destroy many rods of winter grain.
Some bee-keepers substitute rye, cat and
wheat -four, also corn meal, for pollen
when flower are late in blooming in the
Spring.
No matter how good your cows are in
themselves, you must not expect to procure
the best milk and butter product unless
you give then the best of feed and care.
A farmer living near Eugene, Or, has
raised the largest potato on record. 1t is
Burbank Seeding and weighs four ana
ore-half pounds; is IL inches long and IL
inches around.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1891-11-28

more, many get much less. In the east
ern countries, which are mainly agricul-
tural, wages are much lower, though of
late years they have improved. Men who
have special technical knowledge earn and
receive more money, but cloth weaver or
a calico weaver will not, as a rule, make
over 81 in six days work. Many never
get as much. Plasterers, painters and
masons do not receive more than about
from 81 to 90 week ut the most.
In the farming counties, men who work
on land receive about % so to 81 a week,
except in time of harvest, when in Suf-
folk they will often be paid for five weeks
about 80 week. Out of this money they
manage to pay the rent of their cottage,
about S2O year. No class Of men in Eng
land have had harder lot than the agri.
cultural laborers. The last 20 years, has,
however, done for him wonders. and this
is owing more to the efforts of Joseph
Arch, who founded the Laborers' Union,
than to the work of any other man nov
living.
In France wages are not higher than in
England; in some parts OF Switzerland
they are much smaller than in England.
From so to go cents day in the towns is
considered good wages for men, and from
20 to 40 cents for women, although but
few get as much as the latter sum for
ordinary work. Some callings looked up
on as verv good here are badly paid there. v
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1891-11-28
MAX O'RELL'S WIFE.
che IL Even More Clever Than Is Her
witty Husband

che Is Even More Clever Than Is Her
witty Husband
N dam Blouet, who is now in America
with her famous husband. MAX O'Rell,"
on his lecturing tour, has had a large
share in his literary successes, writes
Frederick Dolman in the November
Ladies' Home Journal. In all lis work
she feels as keen an interest as does he,
and the first press notices of book are rs
eagerly looked forward to by her as by the
author himself. Madame Blouet is in
every respect the wife of literary man,
interested in his success and eager that he
should show himself before the world at
his best She wields a clever pen herself
as the story of an incident in the life of her
husband-in 1.-The Strand Magazine, of
last July evidences.
And yet, despite her keen interest in
her husbands work, Madam Blouet's
principal thoughts are in her home, and
for its best interest. She is, in every re-
spect, domestic. The Regent Park home
of the Blouets is of her making, and in it
she shines as wife, mother and hostess.
For her husband she makes her home so
bright that he is never absent from it but
he is anxious to return to it. She is an ex-
cellent cook herself, and at times when
servants have been rebellious she has for
days at time prepared her own dinners,
much to the qualification of her husband,
who rather regretted the advent of new
cook. As a mother, she is the constant
companion of her only child, daughter
of sixteen. Leonie Marie is the counter
part of her mother in many things, and
seen together they are more like sisters
than mother and daughter. Miss Blouet
accompanies her father and mother in
America upon their present visit
In appearance, Madam Blouet has all
the charms of true woman which bind
friends to her with clasps OF steel She is
a brunette, with dark-brown eyes which
speak almost as inteIigently as her
tongue. There is about her combination
of vivacity and quiet retirement seldom
found, and the one quality vies with the
other in conquests. In matters of dress
she is thorough believer in the simple
She prefers black. although the dark
shades of red and yellow become her ex-
tremely vel! in evening dress She is ex-
tremey fond of needework, and often
finds recreation in drawing, although her
artistic efforts are seen only by her hus-
band and daughter. Madam Blouet is, in
short, eminently fitted to be the wife of
gifted man. She can receive and enter
tain his friends; she is well read both in
French and English literature; she pos
sesses all the instincts of motherhood, and,
best of all. provides for her famous hus-
| band such home as he likes best.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1891-11-28
A WEE SUNBEAM.


A little incident happened down on the
mole the other evening after the arrival
OF the overland train, says the Oakland
Enquirer, which, though of simple ma
ture, will long be remembered by a GER
tain G. p. engineer. The great iro
monster attached TO the train was throb-
hing and putting after the long and sinu-
Gus trip over the mountain sides and rocky
de6ies, trembling trestles and marshy
stretches.
The din In the depot was deafening,
but out of the chaos of sounds sweet,
girlish voice was heard welcoming home
her parents, who had arrived on the
train. She was little golden haired
beauty, scarcely 6 years of age, with a
quick, intelligent eye and a LOVING nature.
to which she gave full vent in the radiant
and impulsive way she welc )med her fond
parents back.
At last they took her by the hand and
proceeded to the ferryboat. A. they
passed by the engine belonging to the
train the little one broke away, ran up to
the big. black machine and patted tine
driving wheels affectiona,eiy with her
little white hands. Looking up 1t the
suokestack, size said
You good, big old iron horse, you
have brought back my papa and mamma
safe over the fearful mountains to their
nt,le girl. and | want to thank you, even
il YOU don t care for me because | am SO
little; and you, sir. she continued, turn
ing her face wistfally toward the grimy
engineer. who WAS leaning out of the cab
| window; Il love you both" Then she
kissed her hand to him and was gone slike
ray of sunshine.
Just then tleeting sunbeam from the
great orb sinking down into the Golden
Gate came stealing through a chink in
the depot and stole by the engineer into
his cab. There was Il strange look on his
iace for an instant, and all at once the
depot was dark and lonesome. When be
turned his head into the cab there were
two light spots on the cheeks of his dust
beprimed face.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1891-11-28
Sh heiter for Sheep.

Iowa sheep breeders differ in opinion as
to the utility or uselessness of shelter for
sheep. As a shepherd when young man,
this question of profit or loss was decided
by the condition of the sheep in their
capability to weather the winter storms.
If in health sound in muscular and fieshy
development, round and plump and fairly
developed in fleece, t ay could withstand
the winter weather we'll In addition to
these things their spinal column should be
covered with spine fat. They be half
fat, and sure to do we'll anywhere with
plenty to eat" In beef cattle for feeders,
outdoor thin steers, thar have been stunt.
ed as calves, prodded by the black fly pest
and half of their blood sucked through
their skin by these tormenters, having lit
tie flesh and no fat in the fall, no matter
how good the shelter and feed may be, it
takes full year to recover their health, so
as to make reasonable progress, in the
possession OF the feeder who fits them for
market, and when sold they always maI
the price of the we'll bred and well fed
oeasts which they are among. In the
stock yards the buyer will pass every prime
steer at a glance and point out ever ill-de
veloped beast, on purpose to break the
price asked for the best beeves, that are
we'll worth the money. In horses raised
for the city demand for heavy freight
ing or general purpose horse, those bred,
reared and fully developed outdoors with
plenty to eat all tine year round sell and
wear the best. Those that are seldom fec
but have plenty to feed on all the time are
the best every way Feed enough for
two horses and only one ON it, is con-
di.ion of things that is the wisest econ
omy. "'ris true, It's pity" but fat ami
mails can and do take good care of them
selves outdoors, while lean heshed, ill-favor-
ed animals shiver in the stables, because
of scrub farmers
RICHARD BAKER, JR
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1891-11-28

An ordinary flock of fowls may be easily
and rapidly graded up to high standard
by introducing well-bred mate each
spring. Then selling of all except the
pullets SC produced, and mate them the
next year with new mate of such breed
us you may desire. In this manner I'M
provement may be made, and the expense
will be but trifing. 1t will not cost any
more for food, nor require any more elab-
crate or expensive houses than for common
fowls, while the changing of males will
add vigor and hardness, and the profits
will be largely increased by the better
prices than can always be obtained for
better stock.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1891-11-28
Going into Winter Onarters.

1t will soon be time to stable the cows
and put them on their winter ration A
little care should be used not to make the
change from grass to hay too abrupt; be-
fore the grass is frozen the cows should be
fed some hay and meal, and if part of
the meal should be linseei meal it will be
all the better for the health of the cows Ii
the cows are changed gradually from green
TO dry feed there will be little or no fall
ing off in their yield. They can be allow
to 20 into the pasture so long as tney
seen to enjoy themselves there, care being
taken not to let them out of the yard until
the frost has elted off the grass. While
what they get is not valuable as feed yet
the accustomed exercise and the freedom
from the restraint of the barn yard is good
for them, and until they loose all desire to
wander over the fields we prefer to le.
them have the lun of the pasture during
the warm part of the day. When the
ground freezes up they will be contented to
stay in the barnyard, and bv that time they
will be on full winter feed and accustomed
10 their regular winter feed.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1891-11-28
Hints for the Garden.

Do you want a good early garden next
year? If so. now is the time to make
preparation On majority of farms the
first thing needed is TO get rid Of the weed
seed, for the garden will be found overrun
with weeds that have matured seed. pass
gardens daily where there is enough weed
seed matured on each square rod to thor
oughly seed an acre. If, as | suspect,
your garden is in this condition, get load
of straw and spread carefully over it so as
Lot to shatter the seed of any more than is
necessary, and in the middle of the day.
when there is good breeze, set fire to it,
and you can destroy most of the seed, and
do it much easier than you can kill them
with the hoe after they come up. When
you have burned them, write a pledge
agreeing to forfeit $50, to be paid to your
wife. if you ever allow crop Of weeds to go
to seed on your garden again. | would not
quarter-acre garden for s25, for well re-
first five years after | made garden of it,
and now, for more than 20 years there has
not weed been allowed to go to seed on
it, and the labor OF cnltivating it is less
than half what it was. For more than
20 years past | have plowed my garden in
the fall, and | not only can plant it a
week or two earlier, but | also have a
much better seed bed, and that with very
little labor would not get this result if
had plowed the garden in one land and
left it fat and, indeed, managed in this
way it might be in worse condition than If
had not plowed it at all. plow in lands
about l6 feet wide, back-furrowing so as
to get the middle high, and then with a
round. pointed shovel clean all the loose
earth out of the dead burrows, and open
the lowest end so that the water will not
stand in the burrows, but at once run off.
When spring opens these lands dry off
early, and all that is necessary to make a
perfect seed. bed is to harrow it and run
over it with light plank drag.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1891-11-28
THE sOUTH's FUTURE.
1t Has Been Assured by the Republican
Tariff Policy.

1t Has Been Assured by the Republican
Tariff Policy.
Patrick Walsh, a conspicuous citizen OF
Georgia, is president of the Augusta expo
sition, now in progress. He received re-
Gently letter from President Harrison,
asking as regards the industrial and com
mercial progress of the south. 1t
is presumed that the president made this
inquiry for the purpose of procuring in
formation to be embodied in his
forthcoming message to congress. He
evidenly applied to the right person for the
facts.
In reply to the president, Mr.. Walsh
wrote freely, as follows: tile south is
developing rapidly, and her manufactur
ing possibilities can not be exaggerated.
The south's cotton mills used last year
over 100000 bales of the 100000 con
sumed by the United States. In 1890 the
south took only 1000 bales. OF the g.,
900, 900 tons of iron produced last year,
the south contributed 100000 tons, or
more than the entire product of the Union
in 1860. England fell behind our country
last year 100000 tons. 1t is one of the
most encouraging evidences of the
south's industrial progress that she pro-
duced last year nearly one-fourth the
amount of iron produced in Great Britain
The figures given are approximately cor
rect The south's future for the manu-
facture of cotton is assured. Her pro-
duction of iron and the manufacture
thereof affords profitable fields for invest
ment.
1t is to be presumed that Mr.. Walsh is
democrat of the tariff reform" variety
in favor of revenue tariff tending to-
free trade-sueh free-trader as Mills and
the other modern democratic school of the
south If the policy of his party had IRE
vailed in tariff legislation, not one line OF
this pleasing picture could have been
truthfulIy drawn.
The democratic policy was for shipping
the raw cotton of the south to England to
be manufactured there into cloth, which
the south was to buy ready made. That
policy was to leave the iron ore of the
south in the earth and buy all the iron and
steel and everything made of iron and
steel in England, or Scotland or Belgium
Not one of these cotton mills, not one OF
the iron foundries would have been estab-
lisked at the south except for the republi-
can tariff policy enacted by successive
republican congresses into the form of
law
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1891-11-28
FARM AND HOME.
TELEGRAPHING MAMMA.
GOOD HOUSEKEEPING .

"Is this the telegraph Officer
Asked a childish voice one day,
As noted the click of my instrum ent
With its message from far away,
As / ceased, turned; at my elbow
Stood the merest scrip OF boy,
Whose childish face was all aglow
With the light of a sudden Joy.
The golden curls on his forehead.
Shaded eyes of the deepest blue,
As If bit of the summer sky
Had left In them its hue.
They scanned my Office rapidly,
From ceiling down TO floor,
Then turned on mine their eager gaze,
AS he asked the question Ger.
"Is this the el'graph Officer"
at IL, my little man.
l said, .'pray tell me what you want,
and III help you all | can"
pen hnd 'ae the breath he came thick and fast;
And saw within the chubby hands,
A folded paper grasped.
"Nurse told me-" he said, that the lightning.
Come down on the wires some day
And my mamma has gone to heaven,
And I'm lonely since she's away,
For my papa Is very busy,
And hasn't much time for me,
SO thought I'd write her letter,
And I've brought IL for you to see.
"l've printed II big 20 the angels
Could read out quick, the name,
And carry IL straight To my mamma,
And tell her how IL came.
And now, won't you please to take II,
And throw IL up good and strong,
Against the wires In a funder shower,
And the lightning will take II along"
All. what could tell the darlingr
For my eyes were filling fast,
| turned away to hide the tears,
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1891-11-28
To BE Kind Ii hinyly.

II We were only little more tender ont
with the other, how much sweeter, brighter
the world would seem! and sweeter and
brighter TO both ourselves and those who
engage our kindness anu long suffering
How much misery grows out of needless
misunderstandings and needless criticisms
1t l. not that the hawthorn is more fra
grant to-day than yesterday, but that to.
day we have soul to drink it's breath II
Is not that men are more full Of fault than
good, but that we have not eyes to see nor
hearts to echo the good in them. Be
kind. 1t is kingly, and, more than all, it
Is Christ like.-Pacifc Methodist Advo.
ite
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1891-11-28
THE HOUSEHOLD.
Natures Te Deum.
RICHARD BAKER, JR.

Deep In the woods l hear the anthem ringing,
Along the mossy aisles where shadows lie:
II is the matin hour, the choir Ia sin ing
Its sweet TIE Deum 10 the King on high.
The stately trees seem quivering with emotion,
And tremble In an ecstacy OF music rare,
As IL they feel the stirrings of devotion,
Touched by the dainty fingers of the air.
The grasses grow enraptured as they listen,
And join their verdant voices with the choir
And UP their tiny blades that geam and glisten
As thrilled with fragrant fances of desire.
The brooket answers TO the calling river,
Aud singing slips away through arches dim,
Its heart runs over, and ii must deliver
Unto the King Of kings it's liquid hymn.
4 shower of melody and then hutter
OF many wings, the birds are praising too,
Aud in harmony of song they utter
Their thankfulHess to Him, their Master true
In tearfulness listen and admire
The great TIE Deum nature kneeling sings
All, sweet indeed Is Gods majestic choir,
When all the world In one pure anthem rings.
Then peaed the bells, more loud aud deep,
God Ii not dead, nor doth He sleepl
The wrong shall fail, the right prevail,
With peace on earth, good win TO men
-Longfellow.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1891-11-28

As rule, orchards should not be plowed
in the fall, and especially if they are in
grass. The injury to roots at this time
would be repaired by the tree if it were not
for freezing of the soil often below where
the root was shortened In such cases
roots freeze injuriously, when they would
not be har ned if they had not been prun,
ed. II is, perhaps, in minor degree, like
the greater coldness to cut 6nger from
cold weather as compared with one that
has not been injured.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1891-11-28
He who forgiveth much loveth much.

He who forgiveth much loveth much
w hen a man has lost his opportunity
ne doesn't know where to look for il
gain.
The man who is such slave to habit
that he has to stand on the platform oi
street car and blow smoke Into the faces
OF the passengers in full brother to the
man who hired out to feed swine
Let every man be occupied. and occupied
in the highest employment of which his
nature is capable, and die with the con.
sciousness that he has done his best Sid.
ney Smith.
Influence is to an Individual what flavor
is to fruit, or fragrance to the flower: and
no one can define the limit of that iniiu.
ence which constantly and imperceptibly
escapes from our daily lives
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1891-11-28
SAC Elk klsAUT.
Recommended by IA German as a Remedy
for Neryous DNspepsin

Tor nervous Dyspepsia
German physician, who has been ex.
perimenting upon himself, recommends
sauer-kraut as the best remedy for nervous
dyspepsia. One can hardly imagine how
so nauseous and indigestible an article
could be beneficial to disordered stomach
under any circumstances, unless it te uyon
the principle which one bacterio!ogst has
suggested lis being available as method
of combating disease; namely. that one
set, or class of germs may be destroyed or
driven away by another set. The symp-
toms of nervous dyspepsia are well known
to be due to the development of microbes
in the stomach, and to the poisons formed
thereby. Ii is quite possible that the
germs of sauer- kraut are so much more
vnulent, or active, in character, that they
are able to subdue and oust from their
pre-empted territory the mischief making
germs which are present in this form Of
stomach disease. Health.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1891-11-28
Curing Pork.

The following plan for curing pork has
the experience of years to back It's excel
lence: The barrel in which the pork is to
be picked must be perfectly clean. If u
barrel is used for this second time il
must be cleansed perfectly, for if a suspic'
ION of taint remains the meat will spoil
A barrel which has held any kind of
liquor will not keep pork, but a molasses
barrel with salt.
Cover the bottom of the barrel with
salt. Put in layer of pork, turning the
rinds toward the side of the barrel, and
packing the pieces as closely as possible.
Fill all space and cover the meat with
salt Continue to pack in this way until
the cask is nearly full, using an
extra allowance of salt for the top. Fit a
board to the top of the neat, and keep in
place with two or three clean stones. Now