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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-12-25
HE KISSED r..
And Having Done That. offered n Misera-
BILE Apology.

And Having Done That, offered n mfsera-
BILE Apology.
Ii was after the ball on Christmas eve.
Echoing fragments OF the waltz still rang
in his ears.
AS the coupe ran sklmmlngly westward
over Jackson boulevard, the Pickering street
lights revealed and concealed her face. The
light and shadows enhanced her beauty,
for he had never seen her so enhancing
before.
Up the brold steps into her home. The
gas burned low. Her slender fingers hung
TO his a moment. She stood directly under
the gas jet. upon which some one, In an
ticipation Of the morrow, had hung a sprig
Of mistletoe.
He could not help it-he kissed her. She
looked so pretty. so innocent, under that
sprig Of mistletoc.
Yes, it was an ungentlemanly and un-
manly thing to DO. Her frightened, startled
look panied him. lie stammered out a
miserable excuse. Her great eyes filled
with tears and she gave a little, choking
sob when he apologized.
Dear little innocent" he thought. 81
would not have hurt her FOR the world"
And she-after he was gone-she dropped
into a great chair and s0bbed Like him?
/ love him. And to think that he should
kiss me at last. and then TO say he didn't
mean anything by It. What does he think
l put the mi5tletoe there for? The idiot"
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-12-25
POCKETBOOK.
IT Is THE GREAT Continuation OF
FEMININE JOY AND GLADNESS.
The Experience OF One ofthe Money-Hold-
ers-It Went Into Divers Places and
It's Present Fate is Unknown.


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era her pocketbooE- IL serves as a source
O. never-tiring satire I'm masculine cir
alas and OF Deyer-faUlpe anxiety in
leHNn'No 0N-9 4-9 "'+'"N M
when It IS not nHed, ana more so when II
IS. II IS her greatest Joy, and her greatest
,-f,t q,bo r..---.rrft- ~ O. cor ,vor,,,
HoI "lMoot A4'o "r4 grave anu IL can also
transport her, mentally. to the very
shores Of heaven. 1t can dry her tears.
md ~, af, o,t.l.r cha, ,,nf.
-,
VIC sP"i"l1 ol I-i eye
nave been looking UP the history
o. JNst one pochetDooN. 1.-THE pocket
uooA-ls ielesatcu TO the past now but
"-Ne 10 was ia known existence II had
o. "'"S @P1'4l".e.
II was q bon5sora r,o,.o.,o.. dor,
vas d N"HNavlHH I4chpocheti udIh
i"-o o'acH SEBASTIAN, win corners
s''-~ aIE1I. mere was no
So. - - ~-' N'i oH'
Va 'lN'. u 'Ie oulalue' ana lne
ga ~ 'i--9 W que CONTINUOUS piece
wiz ""9 very pIou4 OF
Do@u'y' one hau no pockets In her
~lSse9' H1a.'oH Aau not provided Tor
80 $500 sc"IS' "Hd lhlS pochtl-
-. '1' ""SnoW' 10 Hlue
- 90 '-7 O"'I4eu IL III AeF
s.. a. 40 ,'"t4W career
one N''tH4"6 WINE she
,'~. o. ~r ~ 81 o"1' ."c WAS sure she
y.~. - a., " -S" minutes De-
.-4 1920 O"t oL '45"e
- AZ "-''''. OF search could ma IL.
49, ~''1I" @I1' one or the draw
-, e.1aao4 reused 10 smut she
- tooN a. guy tnI'eiy 10 investigate
- 1.- t--le DaCN ia lhe cor
e-t7l,.1,, - .tr- '.NO'Do1N' j. nal
fa-ar 49,, ara tr.- 9' N5' ".I H"I
rl... i. No. tn.
60. a., ~ 30. ga oi0 A'l."u.
49, 'l Ha" INdi4Atu
$50 - - ~G uca'en IL. nc was
c~r,5 en-, "'Iui,I WHetS N
a.. 4+- o' " Deen I"lHA-
-0" N"tN'~.9 4. ""7 l'I heI 10 carry
" ~ AtE AaHH one determined to DO
~''''1nuy IN lne lutnre.
""e htu some pockets IN her coats.
one formed the nab4t or placing % in a
slle POCKET where she could easily feel
D. win her hand' one DAY she was walk
+s aiohs IN ftieet, ana az the corner or
~Io"u,I ~tHotou6Hl"Ie sac was Jos'ieu
d HuHiDsr o1 men, one ieIl ~ln'isha"t
-tl they Anoul want lhe space that she
teAte OF feDuhe az tnem' Dut they seem
p 30 peIIecuy UNCONSCIOUS OF her pIoAl
nifty that she soon forgot the annoyance. |
About two hours afterward she wanted
70 use her pocketboOk. it was gone.
hhe went over the ground she had ira
Fersed since she remcnbr"d using IT, but
u was not 70 be found. II then occurred
TO her that the jostling OF those roush
mec meant that they had taken her
pocketbook. The next day she received
a note asking her TO call at q certain
large business building and ask for the
engineer; that ne had something Of
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-12-25

vance fur. to be consistent without adj
vancing too FAR. ! don't think it does that
as IL Is generally carried on between two
young people whose self-respect IL at least
equal to their conceit which is saying a
good deal I suspect that they separate
and each marries some one with ordinary
''unadvanced" views. and either gives up
the Byron-Tolstoi-Besant idea or is contens
with n theoretically.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-12-25

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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-12-25
Refnrminr a Parrof.

A Pittsburger who spent a part of last
summer in England tells an incident which
sadly disturbed the religious peace OF u
parish in Penzance.
A maiden lady OF that town owned a
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-12-25
Such STUFF as Dreams are Made OF.

What are dreams made off, he asked
with n smile;
And he tried very hard TO look wise.
Al this time Of year." she answere at
Cnce.
81 suppose they are made OF mince PIES
Chicago IDter-Ocean.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-12-25

s~windlers and rascals every race,
All cllmes and countries nturish;
But swarming Afffca's the place
Where b~lackiegs really flourish.
Truth.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-03-25
Dissipation of the Mind.

Il know literary man. saws a
philosophic friend. who works from
twelve to eighteen hours q day. He
complains, when he has time, that he
hasn't half time enough to do what he
would like to do. That man is a study.
He is the best read man l KNOWS a
living encyclopedia Of knowledge.
But he doesn't know enough to come
TO dinner | presume such men are
necessary to the world. 1t is a curious
thing that the man who works hard
with his brains conceives more work
and is inspired by the ambition to ac-
complish it; whereas the man who
hasn't anything particular to do never
originates anything and finds it task
to do anything. These qualities often
exist in the same man Now, In nv
own case. when am much driven. I
think OF lots Of things I'd like to do If
! had time. l make memorandum
OF them and put them aside, WORKING
a little on this or that between times,
just as soon as am relieved from
mental pressure my thought capacity
industry and ambition collapse to-
gether. | think work. conpenial
mental labor. is sort of dissipation
The more you have of it the more Won
want and the more you can do-unt;l
something snaps. New York Herald.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-03-25
Far ming Without Pics

A somewhat eccentric farmer whom
we once knew took the thoroughly
Jewish view of the hog as an unclean
ANIMAL and would neither eat its
flesh nor have one about his place.
MOST OF what usually went to the pig
pen was given to poultry. He claimed
that his hens laid more eggs than
they would if obliged to travel and
iced over land contaminated by the
hog. Our experience has always been
mat lew pigs, at least enough to ca,
the skim milk from the dairy and he
1attened mainly on small apples and
potatoes. could be kept with scarcely
any cost Such pork is sweet and not
It is the keeping OF
large droves of hogs together, feeding
them on ground that has been poisoned
oy their excrement that gives rise to
diseased pork and creates the dislike
against pork as a food. No other
animal furnishes so much or so good
meat for the food it eats as a pip. -
American Cultivator.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-03-25
Banks and bonds,

A publication now lying before us
says the bonds held by the United
States as security for the circulation
OF national banks amount to 1920.
600. 600. Average these bonds at 4
per cent interest the people pay on
them annually So 800, OOO The banks
that own these bonds are entitled to-
and we suppose have, from the gov
eminent $198. 900, 900 of black backs,
or national bank notes. This money
can only be got into circulation by
borrowing it from the banks. and it is
safe to say that not a dollar of it is in
circulation upon which somebody is
not paying as much as per cent in
terest. 10 get the whole amount in
circulation. then. the people must paw
an additional $12, 800, OO0 Here is
the best banking system the world
ever saw!' How do you like it? You
pay the government and the govern
ment pays to the bankers nearly nine
million dollars. and you pay to the
bankers direct nearly fourteen mil
lions. and all this to get into a very
precarlouS circulation less than two
hundred millions. We call upon adj
vocates of the national banking sys-
tenn to either deny this and establish
their denial, or else defend it.
What would we have instead of ito
We would have the government issue
this circulation direct This would
save the interest on the bonds. We
would have it put in circulation by
payment of nation..l expenses to the
extent of large portion of the ma
tlonal revenues This would leave the
money in the hands of the people and
save the fourteen millions paid in the
interest to the bankers 1t would in
crease the circulation-a circulation
that the money power could neither
manipulate nor control. This would
increase prices. An increase of prices
would stimulate industry. set the peo
pie 10 work. and bring about the, pros ;
oerity we once had. but under the
gold standard national bank system.
Under that we never did. never will
md never can, have industrial pros
'erity. Sixty-three millions of people,
which system do you want?-Ex.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-03-25
Homo H,n,s.

FOR IVY poison apply sweet oil.
kerosene oil will remove rust in iron.
vi door iatches and locks occasionally
vi paint lasts longer when put on il
autumn.
Use whiting moist ened with kerosene r.
scour tin. ~
II boots squeak drive peg in the center
Of the sole.
melted snow produces ne-eighth of ITS
bulk in water.
Nails dipped into soap will drive easily
into hard wood
To remove a tight finger ring, hold the
hand in very cold water.
To keep of flies paint walls or rub over
picture frames with laurel oil.
Morocco leather may be restored with
the varnlsh of white of an egg.
cement made of sand and white lead
paint will stop leaks in the roof.
Sealing wax is made of two parts OF
beeswax and one of resin melted together
To clean ermine and all white fur rph
with corn meal, renewing the meal as If
becomes soiled
10 remove iron rust wet the goods in
clear water and rub with ripe tomatoes
Place in the sun; when almost div, if the
rust IS not removed repeat the process.
When chimney catches fire throw salt
upon the fire below, shut off all the drafts
possible Ia piece of old wet carpet held
before the crate is an excellent thing to
use IN shutting off the draught), and the
ire will slowly go out of itself.
Stockings should never be left to soak.
but washed Immediately in clean water,
and not in the boiling suds that is left
from the other clothes, and which always
mas plenty of lint in it. They should be
pinned in pairs and hung up by the toes,
oolen hose should not be ironed, but
Tried nicely and pulled into shape.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-03-25
Wrong IL Not Provtden,,.,.

No wrong is providential. ANY
good that may come out of evil, claims
our reverential thanks; but not the
evil Slavery was not providential,
though the good that arises in honor.
from that SO vile a body buried in dis.
honor may be. We do not impugn a
wisdom higher than ours in our outcry
against such wrongs. Let us forget
this idea born of slavish superstition
The aid. which shall stand at our rioht
hand In the endeavor to right our
selves, will be divine; but these con-
dltions are not providential. Topeka
Advocate.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-03-25

the stable as in the fields and he he,
lieved the light and conseouent hen,
decreased the consumption Of food.
The latter part of this assumption
| IS true beyond doubt; less food is
required to support the animal system
IN comfortable. we'll lighted stables.
with good ventilation. than in exposed
quarters, and more of the food con-
sumed is devoted to the milk WELD.
but it is the nature of what the cow
eats that influences the color of her
milk and butter and nothing contri-
outes TO the golden yellow color-not
only OF her product but of her skin
as the natural grasses OF the summer
months Ensilage comes next and
approaches nearest in its effects to
grass. and the milk and cream will
continue yellow longer through it's use
.nan with any other winter feed. Vel
low corn meal and oil meal will help.
out the milk of COWS making butter
IN the summer of the deepest yellow
color will in winter-when fed anon
dry food- fade out to white as win
the skins OF the udders, and inside
the ears: feature so handsome and
attractive in some herds during hot
weatner on green food. is entirely
absent in winter.
Ihe color of milk by no means in
dexes its quality. white milk being
often more heavily laden. with oil and
lat than yellow, and producing more !
cream. but in commercial value and
deslrability the color of the butter |
certainly sustains most important |
part else the use of artificial colorino |
would be abandoned. In
diana Farmer.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-03-25
The Coming Storm.

Eternal justice has drawn her sword
ovef the nation, and the man is a fool
who cannot see (if he will investi gate,
the gathering storm that is soon to
burst upon this nation like mighty
cyclone if its financial system is not
changed. The groans of suffering
humanity as it bows under the burden
OF debt and the cries of homeless
women and children for food and raj
ment will not always go unheeded.
The day of retribution will come
when justice will be melted to all men
whom we have placed in positions as
lawmakers, who have betrayed the
trust. confined to them. They have
bartered away the rights of the PEG.
pie, squandered the public domain and
frittered away the fruits of honest toll
with perfect Indifference; and when
any one dares to open his mouth and
asks, why he is called a calamity
bowler Justice, before visiting her
judgments on nation has always
sent forward her calamity howlers in
every age Of the world, and everv
warning against evil from the begin
ming of the world till the present has
been calamity bowler, but in every
instance where their bowling went
unheeded. the calamity has come all
the same
When the leaders of the abolition
party were being mobbed and were
so unpopular that their papers were
not allowed to be sent through the |
mails they were called calamity
howlers | wonder if anybody re-
members whether the calamity came I
or not. Though a quarter of a cen
tury has passed yet this generation
nor the next will get over it. Will |
this nation go on adding sin to sin
till it comes down with crash and
sinks in oblivion to rise no more?
Or will we rise and go to the polls
like men and rid this country of the
thieves and vampires that are suck
ling the very life blood of the ma
lion?
The hard times the insulting stiQ-
mas nor Finley rulings, that are being
lsed to defeat the will of the people. will
10 more stop this reform movement
han it will stop the swelling food OF
he Mississippi, or the surging waves
# the ocean. The great underlying
principles OF eternal justice are be-.
lind it. The two old parties that
ave been quarreling and shaking
he bloody shirt for 90 years, have
'roven that they are equally guilty
n. that there is no vital issue be.
ween them. Alliance Tribune.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-03-25
Sheep Notes,

Sheep do not like close. confinement.
Ewes about to lamb must have comfort.
able quarters
few places where eve can be put by
herself IS always convenient
Keep the hogs away from the sheen.
especially when the ewes are Landing
One of the points in a good shepherd is
to know well how to care for the lambs.
The best plan of forcing the growth of
the lambs, is by feeding the ewes liber
ally.
so long as mutton and wool ara i'm.
ported every year, there is certainly no
good reason for thinking that sheep rails
ing is over done.
Lambs intended for early market do
not need to be either locked or castrated
but those to be kept should be operated on
when week old.
Unless with old ewes, it is usually not
necessary to supply sheep with ground
grain. Shelled corn, whole wheat, bran
or mlddlings, make good feeds
Lambs, wool, mutton and manure ara
the four cardinal points in sheep raising
and with good management any one can
be made to pay the cost of keeping
Sheep, like other. stock, like variety.
and will thrive much better if this can be
supplied to them. This is an item when
they must depend upon dry feed alone.
Straw makes the best material for had.
ding for sheep, and when possible, sui.
ficient quantity should be supplied to keen
them dry and clean. In no way can th.
wheat straw be used to better adyan.
tage
10 make the most out of sheep they
must be kept for series Of years. Some
years they will return a much better
prof. than in Others but it is hard to sell
out and buy in always at just the right
time.
While sheep may be regarded as
'cavengers OF the field, too much depend
'nce should not be placed upon them to
1eep down weeds and sprouts. as it can
hardly be considered good economy to
orce them to feed or these aloro.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-03-25
Color OF Milk and Buttar.

An exchange publishes the testi-
mony OF an intelligent New York
dairvmen to the effect that the butter
made from his cows was of a height
ened yellow tint in winter. approach
ing that made in summer from the
pastures and attributes the cause to
an abundance of sunlight admitted 10
his stables through glass windows
with which they were generously sup
piled, and continued by saying that
one reason why winter butter Is
whittier than summer butter is that
COWS do not receive as much light in
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-03-25

The Waycross Herald: The great
producing classes are struoplino
against their fate. A fate worse than
death. if the present system of monop-
ollstlc greed is not supplanted by one
In which the rights of the people will
take precedence of greed for gain. II
Is a well known fact that 3 100 mil.
ilonalres have so monopolized the
money OF the country that at will thew
can crush the life out of all our in
dustries; they can at their own sweet
will close up ninety nine business
houses out of every hundred in the
whole country. They can keep the
medium of exchange so closely locked
up that scarcely dollar could be had
with which to move our crops. No
one doubts these facts. and the onlv
reason why they do not bankrupt ali |
farmers and merchants at once, with |
out the least conjunction of con-
science is because it is not pood |
policy, but by degrees they are tight
ening their grip. Already they have !
a mortgage of nearly four billion dol
lars on our farms. Already they are
closing out our merchants at the rate
Of nearly four hundred a week. Do /
you deny these facts? If you do YOU
only make a display of gross and will
full ignorance. for whoever will take
pains to read the papers cannot long
be blind to these things
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-03-25
CAUSE or HARD TIMES.
The Conditions That Have Evolved tho
Snbtreasury Plan.

The Conditions That Have Evolved the
Snbtreasury Plan.
A great many good people can't un-
derstand why times grow harder each
year Notwithstanding productions con-
tlnually increase and strictest econo-
my is practiced. says the Southern
Alliance Farmer. If they carefully
examine the following statement they
will easily see the cause. From the
most authentic sources we find that
the four leading crops of 1891 were
as follows:
Value
Wheat, Gil. $50, 600 bu. ..$ 5l3,47s.714
cotton, 10y ,0Oo lbs...... $4,000 .OO)
Oats, 736, 1884, 90 bu. 232, 312 267
Iotal. ...............$ 81, S32, 224, 2O9
1t must be remembered that these
prices are for products delivered to
New York or New England manufac-
turers 1t is safe to say that it costs
producers Is per cent of the value. or
$274, 1888, 531 to sack or bale, pay the
freight storage and insurance on these
products from points of production to
place OF manufacture or new York. It
is customary to deduct six months in
terest on the money invested, from
the price of product at the time of
purchase. which in this case amounts
to $64, 127. 848. These items de-
Quoted from the gross amount leaves
81; 4O3. 262, $50 as the amount realized
by the producer for the four leading
staple crops of this country. It must
be remembered that at least one-half
OF the wheat corn and oats is con-
sumed at home consequently only
81. 1876. 104 including cotton is
marketed. These items deducted from
the gross amount leave 1912 15O 8O4
cash actually paid to the producer It
is estimated that there are 10 600, 900 |
people engaged in producing these
crops consequently they receive $91 |
per capita for an entire years labor.
out OF which they must support them
selves, pay the interest on what thew
owe, and the various taxes imposed.
The estimated Indebtedness of the peo-
pie of the United States is placed at
~. 600, 0OO 600, and the average in
terest at s! per cent. We find the
people pay or attempt to pay 81, 3OO-
)Oo. 900 interest annually gross, or
b173 887, 896 more than they realized
rom their four leading crops. In
view of such facts. the reason for
these hard times is easily perceived"
These conditions have evolved the
Alliance sub-treasury plan, and the
prices of raw products are driving
Millions to its support, because they
NOW that it will reduce interest to 2
Ter cent per annum. This one feature
II the sub-treasury plan will cause an
annual saving of $500 900. 900 to the
PRODUCER and quadruple our volume
# money. With the increase of the
REGULATING medium will come the in t
rease OF the wages of our laborer on !
he farm. in the shop mine and fac {
Dry. This is a very important mat |
Or. since nineteen-twentieths OF our |
eople have nothing to sell but their I
ages. f
More money. less interest and less Z
axes is the battle cry OF organized i
tbor. and it is noticeable that no one 4
pposes these demands except Shylock n
their tools. Reader. watch and v
'e if our diagnosis OF the case is not f
)rrect. n