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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-10

Nothing can be truer than
a difference in material
makes a material difference.
Trousers undergoing the
same wear will be far diff
ferent at the end. One pair
will stand the task if of the
right kind of material, keep
shape and color, and look
respectable in the end,
whereas the shoddy kind
will crock, bend in at the
knees and look unsightly
and out of shape long be-
fore they are worn out. 1t
is difficult for you to dis.
tinguish between, and un-
less your judgment is in
falllble, you must see to it
to give your custom to the
reliable home manufacturer.
Jacksonssponge every yard
of cloth before it is made
up. Every pair of Trousers
undergoes a strict critical
examination, and Jacksons
see to it that any article
bought here will keep shape
and color for you until
worn out.
Remember, any repair
needed in one year done
free of charge.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-10
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

Nashville held Sherman memorial services
Sunday.
The school question is regarded as the grea
Catholic issue in America.
Venice will be reproduced in the lake at ths
Worlds Fair-gondolas and all.
The California Legislature will ballot to-
day for a successor to the late Senator Hearst
Severe. storms of snow in the Northwest
and of rain and sleet in the Southwest prevailed
Sunday.
The prohibition of the Koch treatment ir
mission.
The President has refused to pardon Johr
c. Emo. of New York, who was convicted OF
bank wreckIpg.
Announced that Premier Macdonald will
contest every frontier election that went
against the Government.
For an unknown cause Mrs. Sarah Hen
derson, of Darden, Tenn. cut the threats of hel
two sleeping daughters and of herself.
The Wisconsin Legislature is considering 8
proposition to reduce the compensation fol
opening prayers to $40 week. Madison clergy.
men now get SIC prayer.
The wreck on the Atchison road near
Havana, H., resulted in the death of Fireman
Saddler and the injury of nine others. The
car-stove got in its usual work by burning the
wrecked cars
John II. Smyth, ex-United States Minister
to Liberia, has written a letter to President
Harrison urging the appointment of colored
person to represent the negro race at the
Worlds Columbian Exposition.
"A farmer found in his wheat bin last week
the dead body of a man standing head down
ward in the wheat. 1t is supposed the man was
a wheat thief, and losing his balance smoth
cred before he could extricate himself
The Privy Council of Great Britain has
Just decided nice point of Mohammedan doc.
trine in a case appealed to them in favor M
the defendant Mosque worshipers accused
their crier of prayers a hereto because he
cried Amen" SO loud they had to raise theiI
hands to their ears.
AT meeting of the boot and shoe workers
of Boston Sunday evening every delegate pres
ent reported much dissatisfaction In the Boo,
and Shoe Workers International Union be-
cause of the present management and it was
decided to put knight of Labor organizer in
the New England district at once.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-10
BETTER THAN EXPECTED.
TIE BOWMAN WELL AT WEsTvIEW
DOING 25 BARRELS AN HOUR.

1he FOrerunner of Jacks Run Has Re
Iapsed Into Observation-Disclosures Volcanic
Gusher Probably at Southwest Wild
woodruff Little in an Elizabeth Mys-
tery,
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-03-12
THE DAIRY.

The scrub, as whole. Il mighty
poor property. But there are, at tho
same time, excellent scrub cows.
No COW should be fed beyond the
danger point-which the feeder must
determine by the exercise of his judg-
mcnt-but She should be fed hard up to
that point. -Western Rural.
Many feeder of cattle has brought
a mortgage upon his farm because he
kept his animals beyond the point of
profit. There is time when an ami
ma is at its best. Sell il the, at fair
price and there is profit. II. yond that
point the food needed to make pound
of meat is worth more than the meat
Rural New Yorker.
Sailing butter with brine instead Of
dry salt is easier and more effective.
When the butter comes in small grains.
stop the churn and draw off the butter
milk. Pour in cold water and revolve
the churn few times and draw off the
water. Repeat this until the water runs
clear, which will be about the third
time. Make brine enough to cover the
butter by dissolving in cold water all
the salt that the water will take up.
Let the water drain all out of the but
ter. then put in the brine and revolye a
few times. This way of sailing is sim
pie and thorough. for every granule Of
butter is evenly salted and no streaks
will then be found in the butter after it
is worked. \ little salt may be adde, |
to the water in washing the butter to
help wash it clcaner.-Farm and Home.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-03-12

could, but il was of no use. The noise
made by the falling water. the rcvolv-
ing wheel and the grinding mill
drowned my voice. We couldn't get
out. The plank from the mill had
fallen in the water when the wheel
started, and gone floating down the
stream. The water poured through
the cracks in the old wheel all over us.
The deep hole was full now. There
was two feet of water in the bottom Of
the wheel. Tramp. tramp. tramp
through two, now three feet Of water.
l held Kitty by the hand,
and we kept on our tramp. l
was praying it might be small
grist. Neighbors often brought a
two bushel bag of corn to be ground
in hurry. thought il that was the
extent of the grist we might stand it.
We kept up our march till Kitty gave
out. The water and the tramp, tramp,
had numbed her limbs. Her lips
moved. but l could hear nothing she
said | only knew that she was sink
ing down in the water. ! picked her
up in my arms. with one hand put her
arms around my neck and resumed
my tramp in the middle of the wheel.
believe felt happier than had ever
felt in my life. ! held Kitty in my
arms. Her arms were around my
neck, though | did put them there. l
could feel her breath on my check.
| could walk now easier than before. but
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-03-12

the former because they render the
walks unsightly and cause them little
extra work. and the latter because, as
they think, the worms eat their sprout-
ing grain. These people would soon
find. however, that the earth without
worms would soon become cold. hard
bound. and void of all decomposition or
fermentation. and consequently sterile:
and besides, in favor of worms, it should
be known that green corn, plants and
flowers are not SO much injured by
them as by many species Of bugs in
their Larvae or grub state, and by count
less myriads of shelless snails, which
silently and imperceptibly make amaz-
ing havoc in the field and garden.
Worms work most in the spring and are
out every mild night in the winter, and
are very prolific.
An argument is often used that
worms are injurious to soil from the
simple fact that they are usually found
in the richer portions Of the field. This
argument is about equal to that
of some who state that when
the mercury contracts, goes down
the weather gets colder: whereas
the cold causes the contraction,
instead Of the contraction causing cold.
The same is true regarding worms in
rich soil: instead of worms being in
rich soil. rich soil is usually found where
the worms are; the latter causes the
former. and not rire 1erxd.
Worms are readily destroyed by the
application of common salt, sown
broadcast at the rate of five or six
bushels per acre: or on grass plats. by
the application of lime water, or rather
milk of lime, which is readily made by
stirring for ten minutes pound of hot
lime in four pailfuls Of water. But. for
a great many reasons, few of which
are suggested in the foregoing, care
should be taken to encourage worms,
not to destroy them. They are among
the best aids in bringing back the LOST
vitality of the soil.-Prof. J. +. Elsom
in Prairie Farmer.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-03-12
HUNTING FOR RABY.
What became Of the Pet Of the House
hold and the Dried Beef.

what became Of the Pet Of the House.
hold and the Dried Beef.
Two things were suddenly missing
one day.
One of them was the baby.
lie could not have gone far, for he
wasn't year and half old.
Grandma thought he was upstair'
with mamma.
Mamma thought he was in the kitchen
with Hannah.
Hanna thought grandma was getting
him to sleep in his crib.
Grandpa came in just as they missed
the baby, and without q word to scare
any of them, took his cane and hurrieC
down through the garden as fast as h,
could, for the river ran just below. tt
be sure. baby had never walked a quar-
ter part as far.
Mamma went out to explore the barn
Hannah hunted through the lower par
of the house, while grandma toiled VI
into the chamber and the attic. all call
ing Baby! Baby"
; The other missing thing was tine piece
! of dried beef, all there was in TIL
house.
/ Hannah was sure that she laid it Oh
the kitchen table. Passing through
grandma's bedroom. Hannah heard
little noise like mouse gnawing, nib
BILE. nibble. nibole.
i Lifting the spread, there sat baby oil
the floor under the bed, gnawing tn
dried beef !'-Youth's Companion.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-03-12
uNPROFlTABlE CALVES,
The Kind Of Cows from Which 1t IL No
WasSa tn Rrepd.

The Kind OF Cows from Which 1t IL Not
Wise to Breed.
No calf ought to be reared from a cow
of weak constitution or from one sus-
pected of organic disease. We are as
Stunning that no 'ne need he told that
the same rule applies to the bull. 1t
seems, however, necessary to insist
more on the cow. because it frequently
happens that milking powers of high
order exist in animals from which it is
not wise to breed. Any COW liable to
gdrget, swelling in the throat. or other
tuberculous symptom is unfit to pro-
create her species. Scientists are not
agreed whether or not the bacillus of
tuberculosis can actually be handed
down from parent to child by the pro-
cess of heredity. But it is ut least a
matter of common agreement that a
sound body does not SO easily receive
as its guest any floating germ as does
an unsound body. No hospital for con-
sumptive patients among our domestic
animals should ever he established.
Whether tuberculosis be hereditary or
not, an animal which is subject to il
should never be allowed To furnish in
the bodies Of its offspring willing hosts
ready to receive and foster it.-Rural
World.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-03-12
AN APPLE THIEF.
The True story Of = Very Bright and
Cunning Colt.

The True story Of Very Bright and
Cunning Colt.
Marks father has six colts.
Last summer he pastured them on
turnout farm that has large orchard
of grated fruit.
The fences are down, but the apple
trees are large and tall. and Mark s IA
Their thought If he gathered his apples
early the colts could only get the wind
falls and the few they could reach from
the lower branches.
But the big red Baldwins and the
russets kept growing less and less on
the trees. On many of the lower limbs
all the apples were gone. even those
that were out of reach of the colts
Thieves are at work in that or
chard." Mark heard his father say one
day. but they do not come in the
night. else there would be tracks in the
dew: still, every day, there are bushels
of apples taken"
Il will watch and have those thieves
put in JAIL Mark said. Il am going
up there to fly my kite and l will take
the dinner trumpet and hide in the Big
fir by the spring, and when You hear he
trumpet blow, you rum, father, and help
me catch the thieves
Mark took his kite and the trumpet
and his dinner and supper in big lunch
basket. and he marched off across the
hills to the colts pasture.
lie had not been gone an hour when
they heard his trumpet blow! blow!
blow. and Marks father. and Uncle
Jacob and the hired man. all ran for the
orchard. but when there. all they could
see was Mark swinging his cap from the
fir tree. and six colts standing by the
fence looking at Marks kite as if they
were trying to decide what it was.
I've found the thief, I've found the
thief" Mark shouted. ats that colt,
Black Dan. lie came up to tree and
reached up his long neck and grabbed
a limb between his teeth. and shook it,
and shook it, till the apples ratified down
thick and fast. and then he and the
other colts had a jolly time eating
them"
LET us watch the sly thief" Uncle
Jacob said.
Mark and the men hid in the frs and
| waited.
BY and by the colts came trottine
back to the orchard.
| Black Dan shifted the air and looked
sharply about. He could see no one.
Then he trottcd along under the trees
till he came to one which was loaded
with great red nod-hcads.
/ The other colts followed close at his
heels. They watched every move OF
Dams cunning black head.
He stretched up his long neck anc
seized branch in his teeth and shooh
it SO strongly that every apple tumblec
off
The waiting colts bounced upon them
But that was the last luncheon of nice
grated apples they had, for Marks
father sprang out from the frs ant
drove the colts from the orchard. The
rest of the season he pastured them ir
another field where Black Dan could MOI
NEEDLE with the apple trees.-clarisss
Potter. in Our Little Men and Women
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even with Kitty in my arms l began to
tire. My footsteps were more uncer-
tain. My limbs began to feel numb.
looked at her face. Her eyes were
closed. Had she tainted? l put my
lips close to her ear They touched her
face. Kitty! Kitty Her eyes opened.
Our lips met. Her arms drew tighter
around my neck. My brain whirled.
Was becoming unconscious? l could
feel that was reeling as walked. The
water from above ceased to fall. The
wheel stopped. Some one leaped in. ]
knew no more.
''Whcn l came to was lying in bed.
Kitty was sitting by my side, my hand
in hers. l had been delirious for
week. As my eyes met hers she said:
Alex, dear Alex and she stopped and
kissed me. That kiss brought back to
my bewildcred brain the events that
led to it. did not regret them.
~'Uncle Ben had come down to the
mill. and not seeing the boat thought,
of course. we had gone up the pond.
lie lifted the floo,l-gate. and started the
mill to grind small grist. Finally he
CHANGED to see the boat with the neigh
Dor in it ont in the pond. He knew
that we sometimes tished from the
wheel. and with trembling hands closed
the gate. rushed down and into the
wheel, to find me reeling and stagger.
ing like a drunken man In the water
with Kitty in my arms. He got us out,
but fell unconscious.
1.-The next spring freshet carried
the old dam away, and new mills hav.
ing been built in Jonesboro we re.
claimed the land where the pond had
been, and the old mill has gone to
decay. Kitty and were married that
fall. Father and mother lived to see
our children playing round the ruins OF
the old mill, and died within month Of
| each other.
Now, I've told you the story of the
old mill, and if you'll come up to the
house and have a cup of coffee before
you go back to town I'll show you the
wife / won in the old mill wheel: and
when You take a look at my daughter
Kitty you'll see my wife as she was
when we entered it that day. Two
years after we were married an uncle
Knox County, where we spend part OF
our time; but there's no place SO dear
TO Kitty and me as the farm on Cedar
creek, for its soil covers the remains OF
dear old Ben and Martha, and here, be-
sides, are the ruins of the old mill.
| II. Z. Scott. in Chicago News.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-03-12
HOME FROM SCHOOL.

The ho-t nf ar was OH his locks
THAT rlsa!cd once the ravens wing,
TIE voice, in youth 80 clear and strong.
Through age and pain had lost lis ring;
The hti!Iianee os his LIES long day
Was fading fast 10 twilight gray.
Beside his couch In patience sat
His bride Of many summers past.
And down her uloomies-. withered cheeks
The silent tears were falling fast,
When turning meekly on his bed.
He grasped her hand and feebly saidi
Are the boys home from SCHOOL,
She gently pressed the withered hand
That through the years had been her guide
AS af his words she saw again
Her children gathered at her side:
She saw each childish happy face:
Once more she felt their warm embrace
She saw the havoc OF the years
Each one had left a vacant chair
And then again the falling tears
Believed the old mans silvery hair.
AS bending Ger him with sigh
In tender voice she made reply:
The boys are home from school
Edwin Ralph Collins, In Texas Siftiags.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-03-12
THE POSTMAN'S SURPRISE.
How Luis Tried to Send some Kittens
Little Cousin Amy.

How Luls Tried to Send some Kittens Il
Little Cousin Amy.
In warm bed in an old soap-box il
the cellar old Tabby kept her three lit
tie black kittens. But sometimes wher
she sprang into the cellar window ane
went to the box. she found it empty
Then she always went upstairs to the
sitting-room to look for her kittens. anc
she was sure to find Lulu playing with
them.
Lulu was only four years old, and she
liked to play with the kittens better
than with her dolls. She would dress
them up in the dolls clothes, and take
them TO ride up and down the room il
her little carriage. and put them in the
dolls bed and try to sing them to sleep
Lulu was very fond of her little cousin
Amy. who lived in another part of the
city. and came to see her sometimes, anC
she thought she would like to give Amy
her kittens.
So one day she put the three kittens
in her apron very carefully and carriec
them to the street corner. on which
stood big mail-box. painted red.
1t was for packages and newspapers
that could not be put in the little box.
Lulu had very often seen her mamma
put packages in there to send away.
and she thought that in order to seno
the kittens to Amy She had only to put
them in the box.
So she lifted the lid and dropped the
kittens in one by one. Then she ran
home. very happy over what she had
done.
When she had played with her dolls
little while she went upstairs to hel
mother. and asked if five o'clock hae
come yet.
ut is almost five" said her mother.
..Then Amy will almost get my kit.
tens" said Lulu, for she had heard thai
the carrier came every day at five O'Clock
to take up the mail.
Her mother asked her what she
meant, and when she heard that the
kittens had been put in the mail-box she
laughed great deal.
Il think we had better go out and SCI
if they are still there" she said to Lulu
They reached the mail-box just II
time, for the carrier had opened it ant
taken the kittens out, and very muci
| surprised he looked. lie vas very glat
to put the three mewing little creature.
into Lulu's apron, and she carried then
home again. where Tabby was looking
for them and growing very uneasy.
Amy was given one of the kittens tn,
next time she came to see Lulu, but sh'
carried it home in her arms, and did no
try sending it by mail.-Florence Il
| Hallowell, in Youths Companion.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-03-12
DISEASED MILK.

Needless Alarm Caused by Writers Who
Are Over Cautious.
One of our esteemed contemporaries
calls a halt in the continual representa-
ton by some writers that the milk de-
livercd in cities is to large extent I'M
wholesome. because it comes from dis
eased cows. TIL. subject is an import
ant one. 1t is perfectly right. however.
to recognize the fact that milk j, so SEN
sitive and absorbtive that it really alb
serbs any thing like disease or odors.
and that it will carry disease II is per-
fectly right that we should endeavor to
have our food products as pure and
healthful as proper. But there are
business Of constantly warming people
against the impurity of what they eat
and drink. If we were to follow all the
directions given by these people we
would not be able to eat Or drink any.
thing. About all the water that any
body ordinarily gets hold of to drink is
pronounced by somebody to be poison
Gus: all the meats and milk that come
to our table are diseas d more or less.
uiu ~ NHCN ~ ot paEs uhSs
worms and wigglers in all the food we
find.
There is great deal of milk that is
unfit for consumption. 1t is not well
taken care of after ii is drawn from the
ndder. The cows are MIXED in badly
smelling stables and the milk is stored
amidst uncleanly surroundings. Some
times it absorbs the germs Of disease.
like the germs of scarlet fever, and
But milk from diseased cows is an cx-
ception, marked exception to the rule.
1t seems to be favorite pastime of
some writers to pcate about diseases
among our domestic animals. The
swine interests of the country have
been vastly injured by picturing dis
eases among American swine that are
pretty nearly as scarce as hens teeth:
and now and then man grabs his pen
and starts out to sound Il warning
against milk from tuberculous cows.
The fact is. that with the exception of
children. few people in our cities are
ever injured by milk. The infant is
often injured because the milk of the
cow is not the best food for it. 1t should
have some weight il settling the ques-
ton of the purity of the milk supply to
know-and it is such palpable fact
that we must all know it--that while
everybody among the hundreds and
thousands in our cities are using milk.
almost no disease or death is or can be
traced to this cause. outside of infants,
Western Rural.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-03-12

WE ID GET IN THE BIG WHEEL AND FISH.
forget the evenings spent in the big
front room before the open fire place
when | was Ben Whites hired man
Ben and Martha. and Kitty and |. l
used to crack hickory nuts and butter
nuts on an old fiat iron, and Kitty
popped corn. while the winter wind
was whistling outside.
In summer Kitty and | used to go
fishing. Sometime. we would go up
the pond in the boat. and sometimes
when the mill was not running we'd go
down there and get inside the big
wheel and fish in the deep hole.
There's where we generally got the
finest fish. One day we had just got
our fishing tackle out of the mill. and
was hesitating whether to go up the
pond or down in the wheel, when a
neighbor came over and asked us to
lend him the boat. lie took it, and we
went down in the wheel. We'd been
fishing probably an hour, and caught
some fine ones, when, all of IA sudden,
DOWN poured Tin. water from the food
gate above, and the wheel commenced
turning. The sudden start threw us
both down. got on my feet in an in
slant and helped Kitty up. and we
to tramp in the direction
opposite to the way the wheel was
moving. We had to in order to keep
our feet Twas calling ~ loud - ]
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-03-12
Winter Butter Making.

Taking nature for guide and follow
ing her bent relating to the dairy voca-
ton as closely as circumstances will
permit. we will be found to be pursuing
the most judicious course in regard to
winter butter-making. With shallow
setting of milk in pans or crooks tenn
perature Of at least fifty degrees should
be maintained in the room. DO not al
low the milk to stand over twenty four
hours before skimming, and churn at
least twice week. DO not let the milk
and cream get bitter by long standing.
and do not let the latter get very sour
before churning. A moderate develop
ment Of acid is what you want before
the cream goes into the churn. would
not give much for cream taken from
loppered milk, although many house
wives never have anything else. winter
or summer. Such cream is not a fore
runner of fine butter. or butter free
from white specks. Those who make
butter on the farm from IL few cows
and are having poor success. must first
Of all disbul den the minds of antedilu-
Wan ideas THAT is if they cherish any,
and then they are in position to alb
sorb modern ideas as practiced by sue
cessful makers all over the and.-Ohio
Farmer.