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

Doolittle says: If you wish large
yield of section honey keep prolific
queens and let the brood combs alone
after they are once filed with brood in
the spring.
If you notice lice on any of your
stock give them a good dressing of
tobacco tea. Give the stable thorough
cleaning and a good coat of hot white
wash to which has been added carbolic
acid.
In the stables of the Adams Express
company at Boston five horsepower
electric motor operates two machines
for grooming horses. With the new
machines two men can groom a horse
in five minutes.
It was stated by a dairyman of lorg
experience at an Auburn (Me.) insti-
tute that in feeding grain to stock it
would be found as rule the highest
profit goes with the heaviest grain
feeding, up to the point of safety.
Every year there are many COM
plants of poor seed corn. The best
plan to avoid loss in this way is to test
the seed in the house few weeks
before planting. It is not likely that
SO much will terminate in open ground
as beside the fire; but the result will
show clearly the proportion of seed
that retains vitality.
Why has dog the privilege of wan
dering at large over "all creation"
while a sheep is to be kept on it's
owners farm? If the owners of dogs
could be obliged to keep their animals
on their own premises and prevent
them from trespassing upon the prop
erty of others, the sheep would have
fair chance.
Lard is no longer the prime factor
in estimating the values of fat hog.
Medium-sized porkers, with plenty of
lean meat are now most in demand.
Hogs, such as used to be fattened until
they were too weak to get up and eat,
cannot make healthful pork, and as
lard no longer brings much better
price than eatable meat there is no
reason for thus fattening them.
Il have never had hog cholera on
my farm" says Theodore Lewis.
whenever I buy hogs I quarantine
them for some time at distance to
prove that there is no disease among
them. l use only mature animals to
breed from, and then keep them as long
as they are profitable the sows till
seven or eight years old. These things
are worth considering by farmers
When the farm fails to produce the
crops that once were easily grown upon
it, the course to pursue is to restrict
the acreage. Cultivate only half the
space, Or even less, and concentrate all
your manure upon it. The crops will
soon be larger than were secured from
the entire farm, less expense will be
incurred, the farm will improve in fer
tility and the portion which is unused
will be benefited by the seasons of rest
given it.
- No seed needs such frequent chang
ing as potato. If planted on the same
farm year after year they soon run out
and will bear only small inferior tubers.
Careful selection of smooth, perfect po-
tatoes every year for seed and changing
every few years will i'm prove both the
quality and quantity. The scarcity of
potatoes and consequent high prices
will tend to make early crops high next
season, and farmers should take heed
and profit thereby.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-05-01
Give Pigs a Chanc. to Root.

Pigs always kept in small pen may
fatten, but cannot be healthy. The
pig needs to reach the earth to be
what pig should. And it should not
be earth that has already been con-
taminated by his own excrement,
though except where piles of manure
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-05-01

have lain the soil quickly purifies IT.
self and converts even this into harm
less humus after few months of con-
tact. In the orchard pigs roofing
keep the codling moth in check by
finding worms that have escaped from
apples into the ground.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-05-01
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
IMPORTANT AND USEFUL TOP
les BRIEFLY DISCUSSED.
Reasons Why Farmers Should Keep Bees
Boys On the Farm and How to
Keep Them-Agricultural
Notes.-The Household.
why Farmers Should Keep Bees.

why Farmers Should Keep Bees.
The fact that bees are pollen distrib-
utors is sufficient reason why place
should be made for them on every
farm. If kept for no other purpose
than the benefit they do to growing
crops and fruit bearing trees and plants
by spreading the pollen among the
blooms, these Industrious workers
would be valuable adjunct. Testi-
mony is abundant and conclusive as to
the desirable effects of bees upon grape
vines, fruit trees and fruit bearing
plants generally. Indeed, one prom
inent apiarist goes so far as to insist
that a few hives of bees judiciously
placed will revive fruit farm from a
non-paying to a profitable investment
Field crops, scientists tell us and
wide-awake farmers know from their
own observation, are greatly assisted
by the honey bees manipulations. In
deed, their influence is required for the
perfect floral fertilization of some of the
cereal crops and the meadow grasses
Where the farmer is too busy to give
his personal attention to the honey,
it was suggested that he purchase a
few hives and turn them over to his
wife and daughters. They will find
the pin money accruing from the sale
of the honey a convenient and pleasant
return for the labor and time spent
among the bees. The outdoor occupa-
ton, too, will prove a welcome and
healthful change from indoor drudgery,
which they can afford to hire done.
Boys on the Farm.
The decadence of farming of late
years is largely due to the undeniable
fact that city life has offered greater
attractions as well as greater profits to
the young. While it is true that farm
ing does not now require so severe and
unremitting toll as formerly, can it be
said that young people on the farm
have been encouraged to find their
pleasures and relaxation at home?
This is the only way to make farm life
attractive to the average young man.
If on each holiday he goes to the city,
it will naturally soon seem to him that
city life is all holiday, while life on
the farm is one of unceasing drudgery.
It often happens that city boys kept at
work in stores, and only allowed to go
into the country for vacation, see only
the holiday side of farm life, and
acquire love for it that those brought
up on the farm too often do not share
Why do not farmers take a hint from
these facts, and make as much holiday
as possible for their sons at home? It
is time that the old rule, which made
the boy hoe his row and run for water,
while the men rested, was superseded
by practice which would give boys
the easiest tasks and the little invest
ments that give largest profits, as the
best means to interest them in farming
and make this the occupation of their
livoc
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-05-01

Ohio Peoples Press: 1t is a noto-
rious fact that the discovery and col
losal output of gold in California and
Australia, cheapened that metal in the
marts of the world and deprecated the
purchasing power of all paper money
based upon it, and thus did untold
good to humanity And to-day it is
equally true that the vast consumption
of gold in jewelry, plating, gliding and
the tons weight of that metal which is
annually plugged into teeth, is raising
gold in value, and consequently en-
HANGING the purchasing power of the
dollars based on it, and thereby grind
ing down the wealth creators for the
benefit of the wealth absorbers
Illinois Ruralist: If sectionalism is
to be buried, and the politics of the
future to be based upon the principles
and reforms demanded by the indus
trial organizations of this country, the
sacrifices must not all be expected
from those of Republican antecedents.
We speak plainly upon this subject.
because we believe little plain talk
of this kind to be both necessary and
proper. The time is approaching that
will test the loyalty of the people of
all sections to Alliance principles. If
these principles shall take precedence
over party preiudices, victory is GER
tain. 1t the opposite, then sectional
lines must continue to divide us.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-05
CLOTHING FROM WOOD.

One of the feats the rustlers in North
Dakota sometimes perform for distin-
guished visitors in harvest time is to show
the parties the golden grain in the field,
then cut it, convert it into -four, and in
brief further space invite them to par
take of the warm biscuit made from the
grain seen waving in the harvest. 1t is
not remembered precisely how many
minutes the shortest record has been for
the transformation, but they are not
enough to weary the appetite. The
Philadelphia Record relates that a pro-
cess has been devised called the BIZ
sulphite, by which certain kinds of wood
can be converted into cloth. The paper
used by that sheet is made from wood,
and it recently gave an exhibition on the
Dakota line by transforming the stand
ing trees in the forests into printed
sheets in twenty-five hours. But this
man who did the clothing act, not
being newspaper man, did not
have working days of twenty
two hours. His feat was performed in
eleven hours. In that time he was in
cased in the handsome pants made of
the wood. A mode of domestic cruelty
prompted the expedition, but it was an
achievement to be marveled at. Its YER
ity is established by Photographic pic
lures. On the first the man is seen in
the forest welding the axe ferociously
near the base of the tree. In the final
scene he is visible by the stump, work
ing his lower limbs INTO the taiIor-built
trowsers made from the tree. Wood is
used in making paper, and paper is con-
verified into car wheels and timber for
building Its use in clothing is not so
familiar, but its possibility may be cas-
lily conceded. Still, there need be little
apprehension that wool and cotton will
be displaced by the cheaper article.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-05
THE THIRST FOR STIMULANTS.

Still another ''habit" appears to have
come to the front, enslaving thousands
of votaries and consigning them to early
ruin, physical, intellectual and moral.
This time it is located where, least of all,
such an indulgence would naturally be
looked form the great metropolis of
Pennsylvania on whose morale the quiet
and steady habits of its early Quaker
settlers have stamped an ineffaceable i'm
print of sedateness and self-control.
A dispatch from that city which APP
peared in the Globe-Democrat of Tuesday
tells how the ginger habit has dis
placed aud supplemented the "liquor
! habit in an extensive section of Phila-
delphia society. The druggists in some
! sections of that city have been struck of
late by the unusually large demand for
! ''tincture of ginger" or 'Jam3cai ginger, p"
| as it is more commonly called which has
| existed among their customers; and so
| frequent have been their orders for small
| quantities of the drug from certain fam
lilies, that in detriment to their own
reluctantly compelled to decline filling
them.
The extensive and growing prevalence
of the habit, which has for years been
observed with silent dismay by the ply
slcians of the city, also, has at last forced
itself with SO much unpleasant emphasis
upon their attention, that they are now
agitating with a view of having the sale
of the drug forbidden, or at least rigidlv
regulated by law. For they are driven
to the recognition that 1.-The innocent
looking dose has recently become an
agent of debauchery in thousands of
families of unque5tionable respectable
ity,"
The tincture is pronounced 10 be the
strongest and most irritating alcoholic
solution known, ranking next to abso-
lutte alcohol, which IS undrinkable. It is
sold for five cents an ounce, and it CON
tains IS per cent of alcohol, so that in an
ounce of ginger there is over two ounces
of ordinary whisky.
Discussing further upon this subject
the New Orleans Times Democrat takes
more optimistic view OF il and observes
that with it all, there Is perhaps very
little ground for going into Mysteries re-
speeding the degeneracy of human ma
ture in these later days as evidenced bv
the extensive indulgence. here. there
and everywhere, in such deleterious
habits or excuses. There is a greater
or smaller fraction of every community
which is possessed by an irresistible ten
dency TO use stlmulants or narcotics: and
although the kind of narcotic changes
from age TO ago in different localities, it
Is very questionable whether. allowance
being made for growth of population.
the area of narcotic usage would show
much of an increase in any country at
any given dates. The cocoaine habit
may, within known period, have cast
Its baneful fetterS on ten millions of peo-
pie IN Asia. but on inquiry it is found
that so many opium eaters have merely
transferred their affections, and that
where formerly their weakness was
opium it has now become cocoaine. 4
hundred thousand people in England
may now be slaves of the morphine hab-
1t, where century ago such indulgence
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-05
PARNEIdl,S ENEMIES

Much rs Parnells social eQuivocations
may lay him open 10 criticism and con
demnaton from the standpoint of good
morals, the circumstance that the priest
craft Of the Catholic church has assumed
the lead in Irish politics to the extent OF
debating his overthrow, will have the
effect 10 create a strong feeling of SYM
pathy for him. There Is an mate
aversion extant to the intermedling in
politics by the ministry of the church.
and wherever and whenever it is done j;
brings reproach upon the church and
tends to defeat the alleged object for
which the interference is designed. The
intermedling Of the church in the
political and governmental affairs of
Ireland has been the bane of that uu-
happy people and their troubles will not
cease until the church quits trying 10
control the state. Thousands of other
wise disinterested people will wish for
the great Irish leader. Charles Stewart
Parneil, success in the pending contest
with the clerical party for the mastery.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-05
FOOTLIeHT FLASHES.

OF all tie old school tregediars, Thomas
W. Keene will be the only one on the road
next season
A company which viii sing opera in He
brew viii occupy Niblo's Garden, in New
York, next season.
Pauline Hall, famous as an opera singer,
began life as a chorus girl in Cincinnati.
her home. She was almost Immediately
successful
Henry Irving's son Henry will make his
formal debut as an actor at Garrick's the
alter, London, next season as Lord Beau
foy, in School"
The biggest ''stand" of circus bills ever
erected was put up not long ago in Chi
cago 1t was 10 feet, high and contained
1900 sheets of paper.
Nearly 5000 has been subscribed for the
proposed home for actors orphans. \. Vi.
Palmer and Louis Ald-fch have the work
of tils establishment in hand.
1t is said that Marie Prescott, who re-
Gently obtained divorce from William
Perzels will soon marry r. d. MacLean,
her manager and leading man.
Carmen Sylvia, queen of Roumania, is
the author Of drama called Master
Manoly." which was recently Kissed or the
stage at the Bury theater in Vienna
The inclined floor of Nine PATHS pri-
vate theater at Craig-y-Nos, Wales, can be
raised by mechanical device until it Is
level, thus being available for dancing.
Spanish musical circles have waNed en-
thusiastic over the singing of a ten-year-
old girl named Milagro Gorje. Her voice
is said to possess really wonderful strength
and sweetness.
Madrid showed its appreciation of Mrs.
Bertha Mark and Sarsate, the famous vio-
linist, by giving tie former crown of
flowers and many Jewels and the latter q
crown of silver a2d gold bow.
In the fall Nine. Rhea will return to
America and appear in Judith" new
drama, giving the life story of modern
Jewess, and ''The Czarina." She is now
at her summer home near Paris.
Theodore Moss, who owns two of the
biggest theaters in New York-the Star
and Palmer's (once Wallack's)-is seventy
years old. He began life as a theatrical
treasurer at eight dollars a week.
Neil Burgess real name is Till. During
the summer season he wears "a mustAche,
and it is hard to imagine that he is the
same man who has appeared in the skirts
and bonnet of Aunt Abigail so many times
in 1.-THE County Fair" He has made a
big fortune out of his drama ana its horse
race scene.
Mr.. Willard, the English actor, takes a
very strong position in regard to Sunday
theaters. In reply TO an application to APP
pear for some ones benefit in Boston Sun
day evening recently he sent the following
brief but emphatic message: Il would do
great deal for the friend you name, but
would not act for him or anybody else in
the world on a Sunday, unless it was my
only means of warding off starvation"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-05

| 81, Oklahoma City, Aug 1, Ell Reno. Aug
3. DR.. Overstreet will issue certificates
to ali physicians holding diplomas from
medical college.
The fiscal year ended June 30, and Mar
shall GrImse had only deficiency OF So.OVo
| to report. The marshal has paid out 3d.
600 the last quarter. About QUO arrests
| have been made and sentence passed on
about 800, twenty-five of whom were sent
| to the penitentiary in Ohio. Eleven were
sent to Leavenworth, and the balance were
sent to the Wichita jail There are nifty
| three deputy United States marsnals IN
this department. and three clerks IN the
| office.-Oklahoma Journal.
1t is stated that in several instances in
| the Sac and Fox country allotment, the
| Indians have abandoned their Improve
| ments to take allotments elsewhere in the
reservation. The allotments are now
practically made and there remains several
OF these improvements unclaimed by any
one. They generally have few acres
broken, a hut or rude log house and on
some places there are bearing orchards.
The claims including the improvements
are good, and the only reason the places
clan to which the owners belonged de-
cided to take land in some other portion
Of the reserve, and family ties are too
| strong among them to remain behind.
The white people will soon pick up these
| abandoned places, and probably will re-
| joice if they have escaped their relations.
That's the difference between Indians and
whites.
Oklahoma City Journal: The Bermuda
grass planted along the canal banks about
two months ago is making a splendid
growth. and shows already that it is just
what we want in every part OF the city.
That which is growing SO nicely along
the canal banks was propagated from cut
tings of the vining stems of the grass,
each joint of the grass was made into a
cutting, making each piece from one to
two inches in length These were stuck
six inches apart in a single line along the
canal bank, up about the water line when
the canal is filled with water. 1t has
spread out so that now the grass Llat Is
six or seven feet wide and for couple OF
feet in width the grass has formed heavy
sod. 1t takes everything before 1t, and
where the Bermuda once gets started no
weeds can live. In the south it has Ill
many places become great nuisance, be-
ing very difficult to kill out. 1t does not,
however, injure trees which have grown
large enough to shade the ground, and If
the farmer works his place properly 1t is
said that Bermuda is not such nuisance
as it used TO be considered. 1t is as good
for pasture as blue grass and is much
easier grown. 1t makes a finer lawn than
the blue grass, the turf being tlrmer and
the grass knitting together more closely.
IL is said 10 he as good as red clover to
enrich impoverished land, and it thrlves
on ground that is too sandy to produce
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-05
WORLDS FAIR NOTES.

Gambling will not be permitted on the
exposition grounds in any form.
The American Indians want TO be repre-
scented by an exhibit at the Worlds fair,
and at the agencies in the west they ara
signing petitions 10 be granted the privi-
lege.
The Woman's Memorial Fund associa-
ton, organized by the Ladies' Art asscia-
ton of New York, Will exhibit at the
Worlds fair busts of Queen Isabella, Mrs.
Mary Hamilton Schuyler and Miss Susan
y. Anthony.
The sum of $4,000 has been nppropri-
ated By the exposition directory for the
construction Of pier extending 1900 feet
or moro into Lake Michigan at Jackson
park, and for an ornamental casino at its
extremity.
The statement is officially made that the
old sleeping car Pioneer will be placed on
exhibition at the Worlds fair. This is the
first sleeping car ever constructed by the
Pullman company, and is hardly thirty
years old. 1t is now in the shops at Pull
man
Welshmen want during one week Of the
exposition a series Of national Welsh
games, music by Welsh bands and com
petition for 10000 in prizes which they
promise. A delegation has asked Director
General Davis TO designate week for that
purpose
Guatemala will send rs national band TO
the exposition. This band is the third
largest in the world, that Of Austria being
first and the Mexican national band SEC
ond. II Is noted for its fine music. and will
take to Chicago its full complement Of
200 instruments.
Senator DeI1amsr, Of idaho. wants bis
state 70 be spIendidly represented at the
fair, and says that IL shall Re, even X lie
has 20 spend 800, 90 out Of MS own pocket.
Idaho has appropriated 5000. and Seua-
tor DeLamar has offered 70 duplicate any
additional sun wh.ca the psopls vii coz
tribute.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-05
SAM WOOD A sPIRITUALIST.

A letter written by Colonel Wood to
to his family, about five years ago, when
he supposed he was on his deathbed, ex-
plains why no religious ceremonies were
held at his funeral. 1t is addressed to
his family and reads:
'Let my funeral be as quiet as posi-
BILE. do not want any show or parade.
Would prefer it no show were made of
my body. Don't wear any mourning. L
am not dead. What you see of me is
only my body, for which no longer
have any use, and | cast it off as | would
suit of old clothes. wished there was
furnace where it could be reduced to
ashes. and thus dissolve itself into its
original elements, and not have to be
buried filling the air with noxious gases,
endangering the lives of the living.
You can bury only my body. have de-
parted from it, as life always departs
from death. am with you, | witness
only transition Man, though appear
scious, distinct entity. l feel as write
this, no concern for the future.
l am persuaded by study and
research that life in the spiritual
world commences where it ends here,
hence the advantage of well-spent lives
full Of good works | believe in no death
bed repentance; as | said, we must COM
mence there where we quit here. | have
tried to believe the dogmas of the
churches, but, the more have tried and
the harder | have investigated, the
stronger | am convinced they are not
true, but rather a cunningly-devised
scheme of the priesthood to live upon
the people. Since God sentenced man
kind to 'eat bread in the sweat of their
own brows,' it has been a struggle to
make somebody else do the sweating.
Heaven and hell are conditions, not
places. God should be spelled with two
o's (Good.) devil without a (eviD. In
fact, / reject all the dogmas of the
church. My religion is sincere desire
to do right-to do the most possible good
in this world. | believe sincerely in the
'Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood
of man AS have lived so am willing
to die.
"F'or these reasons [ want no religious
ceremonies over my body-no priest, no
pastor, or minister to officiate. Let the
dead, as it were, bury the dead and look
after the living. Let ministers and
churches quit worrying themselves about
the after life and go to work and solve
the problems of this life. If possible,
prepare the people to live here, teach Us
our duty to each other and to mankind.
can not conceive any commencement
of this world; can not conceive its end.
Generations may come and go, but the
earth may continue forever. Matter
and spirit may change their form, but
there is no such thing as annihilation. |
believe firmly in future life. or, rather,
| know there is future life; but | must
quit. l hail the separation from the
body called death as a joyful change.
Read this, if you will, as the reason for
rejecting all ceremonies at my funeral.
realize the hardship in parting with
friends here, but have hosts on the
other side awaiting for me. l am, be-
loved, yours, IS. \. WOOD"