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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-02-12
A Useful Coffin,

A writer in Church magazine once
found IN Golfers cottagei in Stafford
shire o coffin used as a bread and
cheese cupboard. Notwithstanding
his wife's remonstrance, he told the
story ofthe coffin as follows:-"Eight-
cen years ago." he said, Il ordered
that coffin. The wife and me used to
have a good many words. One day
she said, '1'll never be content till l
see thee in thy coffin We'll, lass l
said, ii that will content thee, it'll sool
be DONE Next day l gave directions
for to have the thing made. In a few
days it came home: to the wife's hor-
ror. Igor into it, and said, Now,
lass, art thee content?' She began TO
cry, and wanted the 'horrid thing
taken away. But that l wouldn't
allow. In theend she got accust omed
to seem it, and, as we wanted to
turn it to some use. we had some shell
YES put in and made it into a bread
and cheese cupboard. We have niver
Quarrelled since it came"
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-02-12
How to Tie the Cow.

The matter of tying COWS has be-
come question of moro Importance
than the convenience of the COW
owner. The COW has right to her
say, and her comfort is now to be
taken into account. Cows are Kept
for their milk. and any restraint dis
comfort or discipline. acts the same
as limited food in decreasing the milk
flow. The stanchion. borrowed in
principle from the pillory principle
for punishment of criminals was
adapted into a fastening for dairy
cow. Not an argument can be made
for the stanchion from the cows side
of the question. It is all for the mans
hardness and economy of labor and
ends there. The general verdict of
those who have made the matter a
study. is that the fastening should be
so made that the COW can have a GER
tain amount of freedom in her stall.
The halter is above all. the best tie
for COW. and does all right in q
small dairy. The neck chain follows.
and where two cows are fastened to-
gether in half box stall, is excellent
In a large dairy the swinging STAN
chion has much to recommend it. for
it is simply a frame of wood about the
COTS neck, secured at top and bottom
by short chains to the floor below and
manger piece above. 1t is as quickly
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-02-12

Hints About Whole Wheat and How
to Cook It..

The structure of grain OF wheat is
marvellous in symmetry and orderly as
fine piece of architecture. Protect
ed by six coats, so as to keep for
three Thousand years, 1T incloses %
body made up of polished germs and
granules of starch aud gluten inclosed
byconnective fibrous tissue in bundles
or cells built on the principles ofspheri-
cal geometry. Each bundle fits it's fel-
low perfectly. The gluten cells which
form the sixth coat are beautifully
ranged around, and remind one OF
the lovely Norman arches i'll England.
Under polarized light the starch be-
comes a thingof beauty and Joy. When
cooked properly starch does not polar
ize light. Hence a test OF cooking.
When one considers the admir-
able protection coats OF wheat,
it seems strange to remove all these
coats and expose the body, unpro-
tected, SO long before use as is
done. We don't do so with
potatoes, tomatoes, onions, etc.
Hence, the idea that whole wheat clean
ed is a good article OF food. 1t is found
that the flavor is excellent and APP
/. petizing even when eaten raw, as the
old Roman soldier did, and got the
full amount of mineral matter that
our Creator intended should be got,
when wheat was eaten. 1t saves
money and health. Four parts
OF cold water to one part OF whole
wheat Cleaned in a shutting milD
steamed in all all-double boiler for
ten Or more hours gently and continu-
ously; then served with butter, cream
or milk, and seasoned with salt,
makes a dish of vegetable food fit for
kings and queens or the sovereigns in
a republic. In all elecmosynary insti-
buttons, hospitals, asylums, camps,
ships or prisons, it is concentrated
and cheap diet, building up the nerv-
Gus system, teeth and bones. Even
dogs, who are carnivorous, fed on
wheat, thrive, and fed on flour died in
forty days. The objections to the
hull have found to be fallacious, at
ter careful morphological examina-
tions. The process of cooking may
be shortened by cracking the whole
wheat In a coffee-mill beforehand.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-02-12
AN EXPERIENCE AT DWIGHT.
How a Patient Felt While Receiving
the Usual. Treatment,

HOW a F0Il6nL = cit w ME receiving
the Usual Treatment.
The following is the story told by g.
graduate of the Kelley Institution for
the reformation of drunkards, as his
experience in Dwight, as related by
"Bourbon:"
II went down on the jag train, said
he, land tell you / had a jag on as
big as Kansas wheat rick. You see,
1 was afraid I wouldn't be able to get
any whisky at Dwight, so after filling
myself up to the collar button with
bulge secreted four or five quart
bottles about my personal premises.
had two in my grip and my pockets
fairly bulged with booze. When got
to Dwight l was escorted to a hotel,
where found numerous sympathizing
friends, who, however, refused to join
in my libations, although they did not
attempt to deprive me of my stock.
The next morning Joined the process
sion to the shot-tower, where receiv
ed dose OF "dope" and hypoder-
mic Injection of the gold cure in the
arm. Whisky is given to each patient
who desires it. In fact, no attempt
is made to deprive him of his accus-
toned beverage. kept up my foot
for two days, being gloriously full all
the time, but taking my regular course
of treatment.
"But on the third day came a frost.
q killing frost, and nipped my enthu-
siasm in the bud. The first
effect was suspicion that
somebody had surreptitiously in
serted q dead mouse into my be-
loved whisky bottle. held it up to
the light, but couldn't see anything,
and then concluded that I was simply
not feeling we'll.
''On the fifth day I had a taste in
my mouth like diseased cat stuffed
with Limburger cheese. l was afraid
to go into society with my mouth,
and was afraid it would have to be
amputated. The doctor made mat
ters worse by telling me 1 was all
right
"It's a sign said he, that you are
cured
"'But have I got to carry this
morgue around with me all my llfe?'
"'Oh, that bad taste will pass
away
"Pass away? Why doctor, it has
already passed away. 1t is SO dead
that it is beginning to spoil
"The doctor comforted me and /
went out on the prairie and let the
wild winds blow through the rafters
OF my mouth until supper time, when
[ felt better and ceased to weep over
the remains OF my breath. In ten
days I was all right again, and could
take drink of water without being
ready to swear that it had been
strained through a soured hen S nest"
Mount Carmel Herald.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-02-12

opened or closed as the rigid stancnlon.
and gives the COW about as much free.
dom OF movement as the neck chain.
Cows should be SO tied that they can
stand or lie down with ease and sleep
with their heads on their Sides ma
lures way. While in some respects
the cow is an artificial creation. she
so far as comfort and ease are con-
cerned. is not greatly different from
Adams cow in her wants and demands.
and the wise man looks after the
stable comfort of his COWS. quite as
much as her feed. The cow always
understands the man better than he
understands the COW. Practical
Farmer.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-02-12
Their Serene F7fghnesses.

Dukes Pullman and Alger have
taken hold of the Nicaragua canal.
His Algerian highness after devastat-
ing the piney woods of Michigan, is
after the Central American woods and
those of our Pacific slope. Incident
ally it leaked out that large syndi-
cate with whom the general is asso-
ciated in heavy timber land invest
ments on the Pacific coast is inter-
ested through its individual members
in the Nicarauguan scheme. It is
said with the canal open the great
forests OF the Pacific coast would send
lumber to the Atlantic seaboard cheap
er than it can now be brought from
Michigan Maine or Canada. Chicago
Sentinel.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-02-12
Making Converts.


There is good deal of uneasiness
felt over the growth of anarchism in
Chicago. 1t is high time that active
measures were taken to counteract it.
and the first and most essential step
in that direction would be the dismiss
al and punishment OF the brutal and
law defying policemen. who, under
pretext OF supressing anarchism, broke
a lawful and peaceful gathering and
searched the bedroom of a dying girl
thereby Fastening her death. The
action of such uniformed rufians and
the autocratic spirit in which the po-
lice department of that city is admin
istered make more converts to anarch-
ism in day than dozen agitators
could do in year-K. OF l. Journal
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-02-12
Properly Balanced Rations.

A knowledge of chemistry is of
greatest Importance to farmers, as it
often enables them to effect material
savings in the cost of keeping and
fattening farm stock. 1t is due to
chemistry that straw once thought
almost worthless as stock feed, is
utilized by feeding it with oil or cot
ton-seed meal rich in heterogeneous
matter. With this ration the straw
becomes equal to hay, the animal de-
irving material for maintaining
warmth. while growth is made by the
more concentrated food. 1t is true
that many good farmers were led by
repeated experiments to balance their
rations; but little chemical knowl-
edge explains, by the authority of
science the reason for results that
farmers had reached by the slower
process of experiment Corn fodder
is not alone a perfect ration for any
animal. It is good and with corn
added may be a perfect ration. But it
is largely carbonaceous, and is best
balanced by oil meal or wheat bran,
which furnish larger proportions Of
flesh-forming food than can be fed
without mixture with something of
different character. American Guilt.
VatOr
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-02-12
Toiling On.

The masses of humanity to-day are
tolling. and pinching, and saving,
from one years end to the other
and they receive only miserable
pittance upon which to subsist and
nothing is laid aside for rainy day.
We see this in our own immediate
Observation-Disclosures with families to
support who barely earn the food
they eat and are unable to procure
sufficient clothing to keep them COM
Portable. The outlook is dark to
them and that their children must
inherit only hardship and toll growing
more severe with each succeeding
year. Where shall relief be found?
Will the plutocrat release his grip on
the throat of the toiler, Or the bonds
man grow weary of turning into his
Golfers the earnings of his slaves?
Shall we look to the men who have
brought degradation and poverty to
the toilers to remove the burdens they
themselves have imposed upon them9
History lifts its warning voice. crying
from the shores of Ireland an alarm
made more terrible by contrast with
the happy past Pauper labor pre-
walls throughout the old countries
and the tendencies in this country are
in the same direction. Aliens are
constantly securing immense tracts. Of
land in this country. and every effort
is being made to control legislation
in the interest of the plutocrat, and
against the small farmer and the
laborer. Toiling on. day after day.
the laborers have allowed these
wrongs to pass unnoticed. until now
their removal will require hercu-
| lean efforts. The wisest counsels
must prevail and organization must be
perfected. and educated up to the
needs of the hour. There is no call
for anarchy. The American people
have weapons all powerful in the bal
lots they are as yet permitted to cast.
1t is no longer question of whether
this or that party wins, but human
liberty is at stake and a revolution
must take place in order that labor
may receive the hire of which it is
deserving. Laboring men - before
you is a struggle as. sure TO come as
the revolutions OF the earth. Bare We
your arm for the work now; to delay
means the awful arbitrament OF force
Wait not for the resolution born o.
despair. To-day your blows will be
ballots tomorrow you may sow drag
ons' teeth in burrows of a present op
portunity. -Alliance Advocate.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-02-12

The Farmers Advocate: How
much longer will it take for the
people Of this country to realize the
fact that what promotes the prosper
ity of the farmer solves the problem
of national prosperity. Truly. when
the demands of the Alliance are clear
ly and fully understood the present
antagonisn will disappear like morn
ing vapor before the rising sun. If
every one would read as in On earnest
search for truth. they would not be
long in grasping the situation.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-02-12
Roth Suffer.

Productive labor creates the wealth
that is exchanged by the legitimate
business classes. Both labor and bus
mess suffer from the exactions of mo-
nopoly. II they were to form a CO.
partnership on the basis of exchang-
ing service for service, no power of
aggregated capital could compel
either, to pay tribute. These classes
ought to become better acquainted.
The wealth producer ought to know
more of business methods while the
business man should study labor
ethics Topeka Advocate.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-02-12
GET AT THE CAUSE.
Tho Only Way to Help the Poor Of
Our Large Cities.

The Only Way to Help the Poor Of
Our Large Cities.
We are glad to note that there is on
foot an effort organized by the minis
try and prominent wealthy citizens OF
New York. to reform the condition of
the poor Of that great city. says the
Ocala Demand. There is undoubtedly
a great necessity for such reforma-
ton. From our own personal obser-
walton of life, as exhibited in the
larger cities of our country, we should
judge it to be time that something was
done to ameliorate the condition OF
the poorer classes where we have
seen from fifteen to thirty people
sleeping in one room; where we have
seen poor women sewing shirts for 80
to SO cents per dozen; whore we have
actually seen men. women and child
rem keeping body and soul together by
raking out scraps" from ash barrels.
slop tubs and other receptacles for
refuse; we should indeed Judge that
there is a necessity for reformation.
Experience teaches that .for every
effect there must be a cause" What
is the cause of such condition of af
fairs? It is this: The overwhelming
greed and avarice of the moneyed
classes that stops at nothing short of
actual murder in their endeavors to
secure the largest amount of money to
the individual, in the shortest possible
space of time.
the moneyed aristocracy is slowly but
surely crushing the life out of the
wage-earner by starvation wages. high
rents and over work. Taking advant-
age of their necessities to grind them
down to condition. indefinitely worse
than that of the negro before the civil
war. While it is fact that per-
centage of the poor are naturally Grim
inal we believe that fully 80 per cent.
of the poor of our large cities would
be happy. contented and prosperous
citizens were they furnished the op-
portunity to procure efficient employ
ment with remuneration for their
services sufficient to furnish them a
good wholesome living and decent
home to live in. We would suggest
to the honorable gentlemen who pro-
pose to reform these evils. that the
poor do not need charity. What they
want is work"
Open evening schools where they
can learn the laws of nature. physi-
ology and hygiene. Cleanliness is
next to goodness.
. A man can not be a good citizen and
a good Christian with an empty stom-
ach and dirty skin. 1t is folly to
present religious tract to the eye OF
a man when his stomach is calling for
loaf of bread.
Open schools where the boys and
girls can learn good trade and re-
ceive an education sufficient to start
them IN life; but, above all, give the
deserving poor "work'' at wages that
will assure them a decent opportunity
to secure livelihood. We know
whereof we speak. We have been
there.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-02-12
stock Notes.

The feeding value of the skim milk must
always be considered in profitable dairy.
ing. .
The making of good butter begins with
the COW, and the feed and care that is
given them.
One of the most important items in the
economical feeding of cattle is in having
good pastures
Board the dry COWS at the season when
board costs the least, and the milk is
worth the least.
Generally the most restless COWS in the
herd are the least profitable. Remember
this in carreling.
While good mixer must be good
feeder is always good mixer.
Do not expect to keep young cattle
growing on what the other stock will not
eat, and then make cattle feeding pay.
In feeding young calves there should be
no guess work about the quantity or
quality of the feed q- its temperature.
In the majority of cases those that ccm-
plain most of cattle not paying, are those
that make the least effort to make them
pay.
To realize the most profit with CATTLE
the greater proportion Of the growth must
be secured with roughness rather than
grain.
With cattle as with horses it costs no
more to keep good grade thrifty, than it
does scrub; but the grade will make the
best growth.
The eastern farmer may find it profita-
BILE to keep cattle for their manure alone.
but the average western farmer has not
as yet reached that stage.
Even when fattening cattle for market
good ration Of clover hay can be fed
daily to good advantage; it will help the
appetite and lessen the cost
When keeping cattle for beef, keep a
beef breed; for dairy milk breed, and
for butter butter breed Do not expect
a combination of ali of them in one breed.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-02-12
Frame for Grin dis tone.

A very handy frame can be made by
setting two posts firmly into the
ground. and about six inches apart.
Have the posts wide enough on top to
allow the fixtures to be screwed on.
Drive two small braces for each post,
and make a trough as wide as your
posts are apart and nail between them.
so the bottom of the grindstone will
not touch the bottom by J inch. The
water being on the stone all the time
secures fine cutting surface. It will
cut twice as fast as if you pour on the
water at intervals.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-02-12
THE HOLY OF HOLES.
Tho Privileged, Worry Few. and tho Un-
privilege cd, Very Many.

privileged, Very Many.
Does the farmer student of political
economy realize that when he attempts
to lift the bar that closes the door to
the temple of financial truth he seeks
to enter upon sacred ground? asks w.
I. VIM. in the National Economist
In all ages and chimes, among all
countries and people. there exists a
holy OF holes q sanctum sanctorum
which may not be trod by profane
foot Go where you will Cor where
you can) in royal or other circles, and
you soon come to door at which one
must to gain admittance, remove the
shoes and walk barefooted and with
uncovered and reverential head. Even
those acts of debasement are not al
ways sufficient to gain one an entry
unless one be high priest and puri-
fed by long fasting and much wash
Ing. The privileged few. how few
they are! and the unprivileged many
how countless are they! Our country
is said to be the land of the free. How
freeP 10 pay taxes and die? 10
vote as the bosses say votep To think
and act as the political overseers saw
think and act? But hear you say
that you can speak and write as you
please and there is none to modest or
make you afraid. Think so? 10 test
this matter, just write a few lines
upon the financial question advocat-
ing. doctrines contrary to the
opinions of the sub-boss who get
their mental pabulum from the bosses,
and they in turn from the head bosses
whose headquarters are in Wall
street What will be the result?
Why just this: your ideas will be set
down as undemocratic. unrepublican.
and yourself as an anarchist! You
have attempted to enter the sanctum
sanctorum. the holy of holes, where
no dog of an unbeliever can enter and
live! You are bounded politically
bounded socially and bounded in a
business way until you curse the day
you were born. 1t is sacred ground
sacred to the use and occupancy of
the elect, the chosen, the called (self-
called), and it is proclamation,
"OAoS cAeAu ~ OidudUlOL, III Is
sacrilege for you to enter
thereon! Your grandfather fought at
Bunker Hill. What if he did? You
surely do not suppose that the war of
the revolution was fought to give him
and his descendants or anyone else
right of liberty. OF speech or action,
save the select 81, 900 who are the
called and elect according to fore
knowledge of the money powerp No,
my Christian friend, do not let the
idea that you are a free man, find
lodgment longer beneath your hair
You are a serf. slave, a fool an un-
mitigated ass, and can never be al
lowed under any circumstance to en-
ter the financial holy of holes. You'll
make the attempt though all the
furies OF hell array themselves against
you. Fool! Greater than these bar
the way. See you not those cleaning
blades beside the door? Cleveland
holds the one and Blaine supports the
other while within easy call are score
upon score of Pinkerton thugs! Bow
the head and bend the knee!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-02-12
Home Hints.

Take sunbath for rheumatism.
Never set coal oil near butter or lard.
Try wet towel to the back of the neck
when sleepless.
To make cod liver oil palatable take it
in tomato catsup.
1t is best to buy hominy, beans, rice,
etc. in quantities.
If camphor gum is placed with silver it
will prevent the ware from furnishing.
Try hot, dry flannel over the seat of
neuralgia pain and renew it frequently
A hot, strong lemonade, taken at bed
time will break up a cold. -Home Queen.
Half cupful of butter weighs about a
quarter of a pound, two cupfuls pound
Shutting powdered borax up the nos
trils is good for q catarrhal cold in the
head.
TO freshen leather chair seats, rub
them over with the we'll beaten white of
an egg
A pinch Of soda beaten to foam in
either molasses or honey will cut the
phlegm from baby's throat.
Shrunken, half worn bed blankets or
comforts past using on bed, make good
pads to put under stair carpet.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-02-12
How to Do IT.

There is possibly a show of excuse
in other kinds of stock for farmers to
take up with something less than the
best because of its high price. But
the pig is the farm stock that no one
is too poor to own. 1t increases rap
idly and by crossing with thorough
bred boars of any established breed
and selecting the hest for breeders. it
is in the power of any man to get
more out of his feed than he has done.
This is practically the same as selling
their grain at a higher price, thing
that if attempted in any other way
than by feeding it to improved stock
reminds US of the man who tried to
lift himself up by pulling at his boot
strap while he was standing in his
boots. Rural World.