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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-04-10
Hints to HOusekeepers.

To prevent layer cake from sticking,
grease the tins and dust in a little
flour.
Hot milk is a simple means of COM
FORT and is most reviving to one who
is fatigued by over-exertion.
The best thing to clean tinware is
common soda; rub on briskly with a
damp cloth, after which wipe dry.
Disinfectants are useful possessions
in all households. Even the most
sanitary plumbing may need the oc-
casional publication of disinfectants.
A German prescription for prevent
ing cold-sores and boils from coming
to head is to paint them five or ten
times daily with equal parts of boracic
acid and water.
Sponge carpets occasionally with
hot water in which either common salt
or powdered alum has been dissolved.
This not only brightens the carpet but
prevents moths.
To keep glassware bright wipe di-
rectly from the hot suds. Tumblers
used for milk should be thoroughly
rinsed in cold water before being i'm
mersed in hot suds, as hot water seems
to drive the milk into the glass and
give them dingy appearance.
By applying little of the best car
rage oil varpish carefully with cam
els hair brush to the edges of broken
china, the parts being neatly joined
together, the fracture will, when
thoroughly dry, be hardly perceptible,
and the china will stand fire and water.
To preserve the rich fruity flavor, do
not boil the prunes. Allow them to
soak over night in cold water, enough
to cover the prunes. Then take the
prunes out and boil the water in which
they have soaked; add sugar to taste
and boil fifteen minutes. Then add
the prunes and set off on the range and
allow them to simmer thirty minutes,
then set off to cool.
If you feel 6 little debilitated take the
coca tonic; eat plenty of fresh, ripe
fruit and vegetables, especially oranges,
drink Lemonade, and when unusually
fatigued. and just before retiring, drink
a glass OF milk as hot as can be taken
in large sips. Walk reasonably, and
sleep in pure air. If few days OF
this sort of home treatment fail to
bring up the body and mind to their
proper tone, call in your doctor and
follow his advice.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-04-10
LUCK ON A STEAMBOAT.
Queer Experiences of Northerners in
Southern Waters.

Queer Experiences of Northerners in
Southern Waters.
The reporter of the Palatka, Florida,
Herald, was told an ante bellum story
or two of them, twin incidents, that
although true and can be proven. are
well, wonderful. to say tho least. It
was told by the captain of the first
passenger steamer that ever piled the
turbid waters of the Ocklawaha. The
vessel only had one stateroom, the
captains room and the pilot house. On
this trip up was an old Northern gen
tleman and his wife. The husband
was sitting forward reading, using an
elegant pair of gold trimmed genuine
pebble spectacles. ALI at once limb
brushed alongside and the spectacles
disappeared.
He said nothing of his loss until his
return, supposing them gone, and use
less to trouble the captain to stop the
boat. Well, the trip was made the
parties returning and the boat laid up a
week and started out on another trip,
but this time with another couple as
passengers. just before night the lady
and husband were sitting in the same
seat occupied by the gentleman when
he lost his spectacles on the former
trip. Along came a limb and caught a
fine silk net and carried it away. The
lady was bemoaning her loss, when
looking in her lap and'lo! there were
the lost gold-rimmed spectacles. They
had become fastened to the limb, and
the last brush rubbed them off. So
much for the spectacles. They were
sent to the owner, and the captain still
has his letter of thanks, in which was
a SIS bill.
Now comes the other part. The lady
who lost her net a very fine one,
bought a common one as q makeshift
from the country store kept at Silver
Springs, until her return to civiliza-
ton. She came back on the same boat,
the same place was reached with her
in like position, without knowing or
noticing it, however, when her net and
switch were about to become entangled
in the limb again. She frantically
clutched both, and beyond a scratch or
so passed in safety; and 10, again, on
looking in her lap, there lay her fine
silk net, lost coming up. All lost and
finally recovered on the same limb.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-04-10


than himself Over and over they
rolled together in one confused mass
Of man and bear, Of yells and growls.
The brute was the first to regain his
senses. and with howl he struggled
up and went limping off in the woods
as fast as his four feet could carry
him.
1T took the negro a little longer to
recover. but after awhile, when /
scrambled down from the tree and
helped him up, he was able to accept
the silver dollar I gave him for his
gallantry and to join in the roars Of
laughter that came over me whenever /
thought of the battle fought with
Vinegar Bitters and alcohol - St.
Louis Republican.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-04-10

passage fthis bill. Without further de
liberation or discussion re roll was called
on the passage OF the bill, and it was de-
teated by eight votes.
There was qnite battle over the worlds
fair appropriation bill, made mainly by the
Alliance members of the house. AS this
bill came up for consideration just alter the
Currier bill had been defeated, there was
faint suspicion existing that they were feel
ing sore and perhaps a little revengesui, but
all who spoke disclamed any such feeling.
Nevertheless, they insisted upon the amount
being cut down t1om $75. 600 to $50, COO and
as the author of the bill would not WELD
they de.eated the bill altogether. Seeing
this Mr.. Reeve offered to accept $50, 600, If
the Alliance members agreed to pass the
bill without opposition. which they con-
sented to do and the bill as amended was
passed.
Mr.. Reeve remained obdurate, and the
roll was called on the bill, with the result
ofits being dc. Gated by so negative votes to
Al affirmative,
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-04-10

ce:ttage Of the green tomatoes had
ripened and the tomato leaves had
cured. The cows could not be kept
away from these tomato piles. They
rooted them over with noses and horns
and cleaned up everything but the bare
vines, and at nights as long as the
tomatoes lasted they would come into
the barn painfully full and their udders
distended. I leave it with scientists
to say whether the milk producing
element was in the tomato itself or
whether it supplemented some other
feed to make well balanced milk
ration.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-04-10
Englishmen as Book Buyers.

They say that Gladstone reads every
novel that is produced in Great Brit
ain. He is a rapid reader, but not so
rapid as Oscar Wilde, who makes his
boast that he can read the conventional
three-volume novel in two hours.
These two men read everything they
can get their hands on. On the other
hand, Andrew Lang will not read
book through that does not interest
him at once. frequently the title or
the very appearance of a volume preju-
dices him to the degree that he will
cast the book aside and refuse to take
itup again. Lang is a curious collector.
He loves old books, rare books, and
books beautifully bound, but he is
brutally careless in the treatment of
his books; they stand in double rows
upon his shelves, jammed close togeth-
er, frequently overlapping one another
and upside down. Still Lang Is an i'm
provement upon De Quincy, for the
old opium eater was certainly the We
REST vandal that ever had to do with
books. One of his tricks was to bor-
row a splendid rare old folio, and calm
ly cut out of its sacred pages what
passages soever he might want to util-
ize. He used to cut the leaves of his
books with his fnger-a practice to
which Carlyle was addicted, and zone
that obtains, we are panied to record,
even at this advanced day and in this
sensitive generation. The abundance
of cheap literature seems to have made
people criminally careless in their treat
ment of books.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-04-10
Tomatoes For Stock.

A correspondent of the Rural Can
adam last fall had a thousand bushels
OF tomatoes left after his market. and
tried the experiment of feeding them
to his COWS with such an increased
milk flow that he planted tomatoes for
the purpose of feeding them to the
COWS. He says: After the first frost
last fall we pulled tomato vines and
collected them in piles, with the green
tomatoes adhering, where they re-
manned couple OF weeks before we
could let the COWS into the field. BY
that time We found that . large pex-
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-04-10
Cattle Grown at q Profit.

The best beef has usually sold at a
profit through all the seasons of de-
preston. The exception may be &C
counted for in the improper methods
of feeding, and neglect to improve the
best time for marketing. Every gen.
eral farmer should grow good grade
cattle-every animal the progeny of a
good pure-bred sire of any recognized
beef breed, and the dam should be of
the best type of cows, herself the get
of choice sire with as much good
blood back of him as is obtainable.
The COWS should be trained to milk
well; and if their capacity after full
test, when three years old, does not
reach an average of four gallons per
day during at least 250 days in the
year, greater effort should be made to
breed them so that their progeny will
be more surely in the milking strains.
Half of such cows milk should go to
the calf until six months old, the bal
ance to good use for butter or cheese
and the dross to the pigs. A three
year-old COW whose average milk pro-
duction is less than three gallons daily
for two-thirds of year has no profita-
BILE place on the average farm.
There is a right principle to follow
in the successful production of beef and
butter. The above outline applies to
the general farmer who lives FIVE miles
or more from village of 1000 or
more population or a railway station
his farm land being worth $50 to 500
per acre. The special dairyman who
sells milk in town by retail, Or ships to
the city wholesale trade may (D
ignore the calf and beef question. The
large farms where help is scarce and
high-priced and the land worth less
than $50 per acre, may dispense with
great mixers by careful management,
grazing the COWS principally, and the
steers after twelve months old, putting
the latter on the markets at thirty
months of age instead of twenty
months. But the prosperous cattle
man must be business man-one of
natural ability; and the more he knows
Of the world of business the better
chance for profit from his calling
Orange Judd Farmer.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-04-10
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
HINTS ABOUT KAFFIR CORN
CULTURE.
4 Kansan Who Has Had Success With It
Cattle for Profit-Tomatoes for
Teed-Ensilage Talk Over
done-Farm Notes.
Kanir Corn Culture.

D. P. Norton in the Council Grove,
Kansas, Republican: ! have received
SO many inquiries about Kaffir corn,
it's growth. method of planting, cul-
tivation, HARVESTING, ETC., that would
like space to answer all at once through
your columns and save time.
When planted for grain, we use the
lister, and make rows about three feet
wide. Tho plates for planting corn
will not do. Get blank plate and
have small holes drilled in it. same as
for sorghum, as tho seed is about the
same size. One bushel will seed
twenty acres. It grows much like
sorghum ana needs the same cultiva-
walton as it and corn. The seed should
be covered two or three inches deep.
The foliage is simply immense, three
times as much as sorghum or corn. It
heads out like sorghum, but the heads
are much more compact and the crop
Of seed very much greater, It should
be planted as early as corn and not
later than May 1. There are two
methods of harvesting; first, cut up
when seed IS ripe, with sled, and shock
same as corn. It has to be cut very
low to get all the fodder. Then we
throw down the shocks and even up the
heads in armfuls, hold them on a block
and chop the heads off with an axe and
re-shock the fodder. The seed is
threshed like any other grain. Some
cut the heads off with knife before cut
ting up, and then cut and shock after
wards, or turn in the cattle, same as
corn fodder.
I may say that harvesting Kaffir
corn is very slow and tedious process
but the crop-a good one, toO-is GER
tain to be there. wet or dry, and if the
harvesting is tedious, the crop will be
bonanza, if your corn is a failure; and
it beats paying so cents a bushel for
corn, or going without feed, if you
have no money to buy. am confident
the harvesting may be done with a
header, same as wheat, by charging
the wheels of the header so as to get
the sickle high enough. When this is
done there will be more Kaffir corn
than oats raised in Kansas. But if a
crop OF Kaffir seed is a good thing to
have at the end of a drouth, when
your corn is a failure, a crop of Kaffir
corn is no less bonanza when millet
Is killed by drouth, and prairie grass
not high enough to cut. Sow a bushel
to the acre. broadcast, or drill it in
with a wheat drill, get it we'll covered
so as to insure a good stand, and you
are as certain to have good crop of
the best feed that grows as that your
taxes or mortgages will some time be
due. The writer thereof has made
arrangements to put in 100 acres of
Kafir for hay and grain the coming
season, and he does not expect to buy
any feed of any kind to winter thirty
head of horses and colts and seventy
five head of Shorthorn cattle. Sow
Kaflr corn on the highest, driest,
thinnest soil you have; the crop will be
hero all the same.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-04-10
Wholesale Punishment.

1t is not generally known that Hen
ry VIII. hanged no fewer than u, 600
robbers, thieves and vagabonds, and
that Good Queen Bess," Doubt esq
affected by her royal fathers ferocious
example, was in the latter part of her
reign responsible for the slaughter of
800 or 400 criminals yearly. Turning
to the year 1896, for example, we find
that in the county of Somerset alone 40
persons were executed, 35 burned n
the hand and 81 severely whipped.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-04-10
Livestock and Farm Notes.


Dry ground and dry weather suit
sheep best.
An excessively fat animal often
proves barren.
The more an animal is exposed the
less it will produce.
On a majority of western farms
clover should be grown more than it is.
Hogs will pull farmer out of a
financial hole quicker than any other
stock.
Meat, meal and milk make a sub
stantial hen ration, while green vegeta-
bles furnish the appetizers.
Poor feed makes poor dams, poor
dams, poor lambs, poor lambs make
but little meat and poor wool.
One of the principal items in plow-
ing is to produce loose earth. in which
seed may be conveniently planted.
A pig narrowed in April has nine
months to grow, and should, if we'll
fed, be fully ready for market by that
time.
In feeding grain of any kind to hogs,
care should be taken to have the feed
ing place clean, Or they will eat too
rauch dirt.
In feeding for meat a good strong
growth from birth to maturity is the
most profitable, whether the animals
are cattle, sheep or hogs.
Don't let the goodness" of the
manure be washed into runs or bitches
where it will be OF no value to anybody.
If the manure pile must be exposed let
fertilizer juice go where it will do
some good.
A hog or any other animal can be
hurt by overlooking. Even when fat
tening only what will be eaten up
clean should be given; more than this
is waste of material without an
adequate return.
When by careful test COW can1ot
be made to give profitable flow of
milk, the sooner she is fattened for
market the better. There is no ad-
vantage in keeping a cow that does
not pay a fair profit.
Well cared for scrubs can be made
to pay a more profitable return than
the best thoroughbreds if they are
neglected. With all classes of stock
the most profitable results are only
secured by good treatment.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-04-10
Tuesday April. 7,
SEN ATE.

Senator John Day Smiths bill providing
for the method Of filling vacancies IN boards
OF county commissioners was lost appar-
emily through misunderstanding of its
effect and Mr.. Smith soon after secured its
reconsideration.
moneys paid at tax sales on state and school
lands was passed by vote of 30 to IA, alter
debate On technicallties, in which Senator
Donnelly led the opposition.
The Currier bill from the house providing
for the assessment and taxation of telegraph
and telephone lines was passed without any
objection.
AT the close of the calendar Senator San
born, for the state prison investigation, pre-
sented supplementary report on the SUBJ
ject of the discount on the twine- binding
machinery. Criticism had been made on
this point in the morning discussion and it
was one of the points which Donnellv in
cluded in his term ''whitewash." Senator
Sanborn said there was no desire to cover
up anything.
When general orders were taken up and
Senator McHale's anti-tights bill was
reached its author. to the surprise of the
senate, moved its recommendation and
took the floor in its support.
Senator Lienau put in an amendment
providing that all statues should wear pet
ticoats but he was promptly squelched.
Senator Keller thought the bill was about
the only remaining thing that the senators
should Kill before packing up their waste
baskets and going home.
Only one voice said mo- when the bill
was recommended for passage.
HOUSE.
The house was engaged almost exclusive
ly to-day in passing bills on the calen-
dar. and thirty-one bills were sent on their
way rejoicing. After the routine proceed
ing attendant upon the commencement OF
the days session had been disposed of, pc
titions and reports of committees read, the
task of disposing of the calendar COM
menced and continued without intermis-
sion until noon, and was resumed after din
ner and occupied the afternoon until 4:3O.
The list of bills passed is as follows
Mr.. Ringwald's bill relating to the sala-
ries and terms Office OF town clerks OF RAM
sey county was lost owing to there being
but scanty house, So votes were cast, sc
in the affirmative and 2 in the negative,
the negative voters being Messrs. Bell and
Searle Senator Aliens bill, s. F. No 3l5,
was ordered to be placed in general orders
The house then went into committee OF
the whole on general orders, with Mr. NJ.
Wal III OF Hennepin in the chair.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-04-10
Corn Smut.

The Ohio experiment station has
been examining subject of great in
terest to the farmers of this locality,
viz. smut in Indian corn. The ex-
perimenters have found that no appli-
cations Of liquors or powders will do
the least good after the fungus is once
in this plant. It says unprincipled
makers of nostrums advertise prepara-
tions warranted to prevent or cure all
manner of insect or fungus injuries.
The station men are of the opinion
that the claim is false. There is no
chance save in prevention. Smut may
be distributed by domestic animals, by
yard manure, etc. Infested stalks
should be cut out. gathered and care
fully destroyed. In no other way can the
ground be kept free from the smut and
in no other way can smut be prevented
than by keeping the ground clear. Seed
corn that is absolutely clean is another
necessity for smutless crop.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-04-10
1t Does Not Mote.

It is now twenty long years since
Kelly first announced his motor and
predicted such great things for it.
over 5000. 900 of cold cash have been
swallowed up in experiments, and vet
the motor does not mote any more than
it did the first day. The theory may
be good, but the practical part can't be
harnessed.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-04-10
The WAY of the World.

Indianapolis Journal: my deal" said young
Mrs. Fits at the play. ait is a humiliating con-
fessicn for me to make, but am positively
nervous for want Of piece OF gum"
"1'll 60 get you some as soon AZ the curtain
falls" said Mr.. Fits.
And various OF their acquaintance IA they
saw him disappear. said what pity it vas that
SO sweet q young woman should be bound for
life 70 such q slave Of the Demon Drink that he
could not even wait until the play was over to
satisfy his depraved appetite.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-04-10
1t Would He PerilouS.

The Russian government discourages
the importation of machinery, tools,
books, pictures and even of fine goods.
declaring that if the common people
begin to get new thoughts they will be
sure to plot against the car.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-04-10
Monday, April q.
SENATE.

Two solid hours of the morning session
were spent in the consideration of general
orders. with Senator J. w. Peterson OF
Goodhue in the chair.
The report of the special senate commit
tee on states prison investigation was
handed in at the opening of the afternoon
session by Senator Sanbo1n, chairman of
the committee. 1t was ordered printed
without reading.
The remainder of the afternoon was
spent on general orders. There was dis
cussion on Maj. Reeves housebill providing
fol- armories for the national guard. The
jointly in the hands OF the officers of the
CITY or town where the company is located
and the officers OF the national guard, but
the expense Of course is to fall upon the
public. The militiamen in the senate
fought for the bill strenuously. Senators
Tawney and Davis, as old officers and
friends of the national gvard, elaborated
upon the usefulness of the militia and the
value of the soldier boys in case Of war or
not. Messrs. Crandall and Keller were in
clined to make sport OF the bill and the mi
litia companies, and the opposition devel-
oped so strongly that the friends of the bill
were willing to draw off and report prog
ress."
Inc mouse met at O'CLOCK To-Day
afternoon after its Sunday rest. and by way
of making up lost time and striking a bal
ance with its conscience adopted resolu-
ton offered by Mr.. Cross, which provides
that commencing to-day and until the end
of the session the house shall meet every
morning at o'clock and sit until 1890,
meet again at and sit till p. M. and
meet again at 1880 and sit until the house
in its wisdom sees fit to adjourn. The
resolution was carried by vote of 81
to II.
The house relocated the senate baking
powder bill to the realms of tuturity. It
was introduced into the house. and Mr..
Penney moved to have 1t sent to the judici-
airy committee. Mr.. Capser thought the
temperance committee could handle the
bill in better style. On the motion of MIR.
Cross the house sent the bill to the commit
tee on game and game laws.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-04-10
Iceland,s Geysers.

The geysers OF Iceland which have
been among the greatest attractions of
the island, are gradw :ly losing their
forcoL