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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-01-07

Mr.. Harrison's administration per-
sists in giving the Prohibition party
.jab whenever possible. It's treaty
negotiations with Jamaica means
more rum, and taking the duty off
sugar has made that cheap, so that
we only need plenty Of water to
commit the nation to "hot-toddy"
policy.--Kansas City Times.
When a railroad is wrecked by
bad management, it is placed in the
hands of receiver, and the govern
ment takes charge of the business.
If the government can operate
bankrupt road successfully, can
there be any reason why it cannot
operate the reads which are not
bankrupt Advocate, Topeka.
Have you learned that the Re-
publicans and Democrats fused in
Al counties in Kansas and got lick
ed out in % of them and only got a
part of the political dish in the 9th
srs? The old party papers will
please take notice and make the
rection.--Laborer's Emancipation.
Anything to get.rid of the prohi-
bition question is what the Repub-
lican managers are saying in order
to carry the grand old state of
Iowa in '92.-Home Advocate, Ma
pleton, Iowa.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-01-07

at the expiration OF that time, at
public auction, to the highest bidder,
thus keeping the money in circula-
ton so long as the product is in
store. 1t is hoped that the plan
would prevent contraction of the
volume of currency, and consequent
shrinkage of values, high rates Of
interest, the extra expense of trans
portation, and the cornering OF
products. The leading principle
is tor the government to produce a
flexible currency, or in other words,
to meet crop demands for money,
without either contraction or ex:
pansion. If the amount of money
in circulation is only equal to other
business demands, it certainly fol-
lows that, to carry the addition of
large crop, there must be cor
responding contraction of the circu-
lating medium, and when the crop
is marketed, expansion. Now the
farmer suffers by the contraction,
and the consumer suffers by the
expansion, the price being always
advanced to the consumer over the
price paid by the buyer from the
farmer, and thus the evil extends to
the consumer, without taking into
consideration the monopolies that
are created
All business is perhaps more or
less deranged by a fuctuating mon
ey market, and so much SO that
eminent financiers have given, as a
true theory of finance, the principle
laid down in the sub treasury plan;
that is, the government should meet
the trade with a flexible currency;
or, in other words, the supply of
money should always be equal to
it's need, and no more. If such
were the case, the great mass of
laborers would not be SO nnmerci-.
fully skinned by Shylock, and all
business investments would be safe,
because stability of price could thus
be more fairly secured
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-01-07
Sub-Treosury.

ly misrepresented and misunder-
stood as the sub treasury. A great
many intelligent and fair-minded
people believe, from the little they
know of the sub-treasury plan,
that the farmers are asking the gev-
eminent for help to build up giant
monopoly of certain farm products.
So widespread is this impression
that the plan is derided in all
circles of society. Preachers refer
to it in the pulpit. 1t is the jest of
the partisan teacher, and politicians
generally declaim against it. In
other fields Of labor it is viewed
with apprehension, but the trouble
mainly with the masses is, the sub
treasury is not understood. Now if
it were true that farmers aimed to
simply use the power OF govern
ment to Cypress other classes, in
holding grain and cotton for higher
prices, they would richly deserve
all the abuse and derision that is
now heaped upon them. We aim,
as briefly as possible, to set forth
the sub-treasury plan, and the
evil it is designed to remedy. But
first, we present the disease.
1t is we'll known that the mass
of grain and cotton producers are
poor men, and are, because of debt,
or some other pressing need, oblig-
ed to dump upon the market their
product so soon as it is matured.
The evils which follow this whole
sale marketing are, railroad block
AIDES, stringency in the money
market. and the accumulation OF
the product of the season in the
hands of few men. Results are
we'll known. Railroad companies
are at extra expense to provide
transportation, which causes higher
freight rates. The expansion in
business causes a corresponding
contraction in the volume of cur
rency, higher rates of interest, and
shrinkage in values; and last, but
not least, few men obtain posses
sion of almost the whole crop with
in short period from its maturing.
Now the farmer pays the railroad
company for increased expenses,
the money lender higher rates of
interest in lower prices, and at the
same time must stand the shrinkage
in values caused by contraction OF
the currency. This is the disease
for which the sub-treasury is offered
as remedy, and outlined, consists
in the government building ware
houses fer storage, and advancing
on the product stored, certificates,
designating the amount and quality
of product stored. Upon these
rt;G,otas would ha advanced in
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-03-03
GROWING FINE WOOL.
Only Animals That Have Uniformly Good
Health Produce 1t.

Even during an excessive demand for
wool the finer grades generally in
crease in value more than the COM
moner grades, and in times of depres-
sion the finer grades are always the
most profitable. The commoner grades
can easily be made by many ineXperi-
enced sheep growers, and as the de-
mand for wool increases thousands will
go into the business of supplying the
busy looms with this product, and, in
stead of being pushed out of their bust
ness by the newcomers in it, the old
veterans at wool growing should de-
vote their experience and skill in pro-
ducing the very finest grade OF the raw
product. This is the legitimate gain
and profit which must be due them for
their study and labor.
The finer grades of raw wool should
have fine staple, with fiber that is
fine, but not silky. II this fiber is
evenly developed, so that it can stand
equal tension all over, it can be classed
as finest grade. Very few of our sheep
have such fine wool, not even among
the very best breeds. The secret of it
is in the care of the animals more than
in the blood or breed.
Such wool is only found on animals
that have uniformly good health, and
which are not suffering from any skin
diseases IL the health is poor the
wool will be unevenly developed. A
weakened growth of fleece will follow
where neglect of proper feed is shown;
where lack of water or exposure to in
clement weather is allowed. Animals
that have to use up animal heat to re-
sist the cold which strikes in from wet,
frozen fleece, or very cold weather, can
not give the same amount of growth To
the wool. The wool has to suffer to
keep the internal organs in condition.
Good stock and health count TO begin
with, but these alone cannot be de-
pended upon to produce high grade
wool. Sheep that are not adapted TO
the climate and country may also fail
to produce high-grade wool for this
reason alone, and it is important that
the proper breed should be selected.
1t is well to remember that the wool
depends upon the good health of the
animal for its growth, the same as the
plants depend upon good soil for the
development and maturity .-American
CultiVatOr
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EpItaDhs for the Dead.

Personally, / have no fear that l
shall thus be desecrated by my surviv-
ing friends. have more fear of cpl
taphs. l do not wonder that people
have sometimes dictated the inscrip-
tions on their own tombstones when l
see what inappropriate lines are CHS
eled on many a slab. There needs to
be a reformation in epitaphiology.
People often ask me for appropriate
inscriptions for the graves of their
dead. They tell the virtues of the ia
Their, or wife, or child, and want me to
put into compressed shape all that cat
alogue of excellencies. OF course fail
in the attempt. The story of life
time cannot be chiseled by the stone
cutter on the side of marble slab,
But it is not rare thing to go few
months after by the sa cred spot and
find that the bereft frie nds, unable to
get from others an epitaph sufficiently
eulogistic, have put their own brain
aud heart to work and composed a
rhyme. Now, the most unfit sphere
on earth for an inexperienced mind to
exercise the poetic faculty is in cpl
taphiology. 1t does very well in copy
books, but it is most unfair to blot the
resting place of the dead with I'M
skilled poetic scri bible. 1t seems to me
that the owners of cemeteries and
graveyards should keep in their own
hand the RICH: to refuse appropriate
and lud ferrous epitaphs.-Talmage, in
Ladies' Home Journal
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The March Wide Awake

is timely and attractive issue of the
favorite magazine. Its frontispiece. IL
Illustrating Miss Brastow's characteristic
story of "A March Mood" capitally sug-
gests the lingering snow of the depart
ing winter, and there are March pictures
and poems suitable to the season. Mrs.
Harriet ell-Converse concludes
her entertaining chapters on Iroquois
life with a spirited account of the In
dian children's ''Fire-fy Song" Lieut.
Col. Thorndile contributes to his series
of Zone Mans Adventures" an account
of his startling experience ''As War Cor
respondent The serial stories. Jack
Brereton's Three Months Service" by
Maria Mcintosh Cox, and 1.-The Lance
of Kanana," by the entertaining story
teller who conceals his identity under
the Arabic "Abd ell Ardavan." The
poetry is from such verse-malxers as
Herbert ID. Ward, Elsie Kendall, Clara
Doty Bates and others. The Men and
Things department is full of entertain
ing things worth RENE m bering.
WIDE AWAKE is published at 20 cents
a number, 81. 40 per year. At the news
dealers. or direct of D LoTHRoP Co.,
Publishers, Boston
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FARM AND GARDEN.
ABOUT CORN Cookie.
Damaging Weed Among Wheat and
Rye and How to Destroy 1t.

A Damaging Weed Among Wheat and
Rye and How to Destroy 1t.
Csckle or corn cookie tLychnis githa-
go) is a very troublesome weed when
it becomes mixed with wheat or rye,
as the seed is so near the size of the
wheat and rye grains as to make it very
difficult to screen it out, and il left in
it seriously Injuries the quality of the
flour made from the grain containing
it. Cookie belongs TO the same family
as the pink and sweet William. 1t is
a native of Europe from which it has
been introduced and scattered through
out all wheat and rye-growing sec
tions. The plant is from two to four feet
high. sparingly branched above. The
leaves are three to five inches long,
less than half an inch wide and gradu-
ally taper to point. They are thick,
the edges entire, and the surface, like
that of the rest of the plant, is covered
with fine soft hairs. They grow in single
pairs at the base of each branch and
opposite each other. The branches are
slender, naked and terminated by
flowers of a reddish-purple color from
? to "a inches long when expanded.
The seed-pod is oblong and roundish,
and is filed with numerous dark-pur-
pie seeds. Millers consider cookie
much more damaging than chess. as
the latter is light and can readily be
screened out, while cookie is nearly as
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-03-03
The Game They PIaYed.

saw a funny thing on train out of
New York not long ago." said the
drummer, fixing himself comfortably
for story telling.
What W as it?" asked Cleveland
man.
"A couple of card sharks sat across
the aisle from me and time hung heavi-
ly on their hands, for there wasn't
a man aboard they could work, and
they were disconsolate. After awhile
they began TO play with each other.
but they quit pretty soon and relapsed
into their former condition of discour-
agement They saw that l had been
watching them and after a few min
utes ] called across and asked them
why they didn't keep on with their
game.
- 1T amt no good, said the one next
the aisle, gruffiy.
"'Why notP' / inquired. You're
both good players
" That's IL, pardner,' he explained,
with short laugh; both of us hold the
same hands every deal. a. Detroit
Free Press.
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plTh AND POINT.


~ wish George could be cured Of
his infatuation for Emma" Let him
marry her."-Epoch.
Clothes do not make the man, but
the youth frequently owes o good deal
to his father.-N. Y. News
Streams become full because their
heads get swollen, but man reverses
the order. Augusta Chronicle.
An angel couldn't be as good as a
man in love declares he will be when
he is married.-Atchison Globe.
-Anent Corn.-A cornfield is one of
the things that is often greatly shocked
without the aid of eleetricity.-Dans-
vile Breeze.
For Old Maids.-Just now and then
a girl who decidesnot to marry in haste
has d chance to repent at leisure
Smith, Gray & Co.'S Monthly.
There are two kinds of dogs. the
good kind which belongs to yourself
and the worthless cur that is kept bv
your neighbor. -Boston Transcript.
Many men imagine that the WORLD
couldn't get along without them, but
when they die the town in which they
lived experiences boom.-Texas Sift-
ings.
When you borrow money you Dor
row trouble. but at the same time you
sometimes increase the trouble of the
fellow who lends it to you.-Somer-
vile Journal
Proprietor of Store severely to
employe).-"No drinking. allowed in
this place" Employe. -"Faix, and oim
not afther drinkin' aloud. It's quiet
little drink dim after havin' all by my.
self, sor."
-Seeker-"You have been farming
many years in this section and know
the peculiarities of the soil pretty well
what do you consider the hardest thing
to raise on your farm?" Meeker-'The
money to run it."-Boston Courier.
"A Drain.-Bingo lat the table, =
"Seems to me we have less and less to
eat all the time. What's the matter?"
Mrs. Bingo (sweetly)-"You can't ex.
pect us to have as much as usual. my
dear, when am paving for my sealskin
on the installment plan. Cloak Re-
view.
-"Have you anything on your mind.
Mr. de Jay?" she said. "Ya-as," he
answered, II have. It's verwy good
for you to be so interwested. ''In.
deed" she said, emphatically, II am
interested. I'd like so much to know
how you could keep it from falling
of. "-Washington Star.
Dangerous. Master -"See here,
Nora, if your friend. Sandy Mac.
Donald, comes here again he must leave
his pipe at home" Mistress-"A pipe!
In our housed Think of the curtains!"
Master-''Think of the windows and
ceilings and neighbors. It's bag
pipe. brooklyn Eagle.
"A tramp applied to a lady for work,
and was given some carpets 10 beat.
He did the job so well that sho COM
mended him for il. You must have
beaten carpets frequently TO be such an
expert" she said: "Never beat 3 car.
pet before in my life, lady; I've sllus
teached school," he answered promptly.
Detroit Free Press.
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DOMESTIC CONCERNS

-Hominy Mullins: Take two cups of
very fine cold hominy. beat it smooth.
and stir in three cups of sour milk, half
a cup of melted butter. two tablespoon
fuls of salt and the same of white SUI
gar; then add three eggs. well beaten,
one tablespoonful of soda dissolved in
hot water. and one large cup of flour;
bake quickly. Detroit Free Press.
To Preserve Cut Flowers: A bon-
quet of freshly-cut flowers may be pre-
served alive for long time by placing
them in glass or vase of fresh water
in which little charcoal has been
STEPPED or small piece of camphor
dissolved. The vase should be placed
under a plate or dish and covered with
a bell glass, around which, where il
comes in contact with the plate. lit
tie water should be poured to exclude
the air.-Dramatic News
Hop Yeast: One-half cup loose
hops, one quart boiling water, one cup
flour, one-quarter cup sugar, one table
spoon salt, one cup yeast. Steep the
hops in the boiling water. in granite
kettle, five minutes. Mix the -four.
sugar and salt. Strain the hop liquor
and pour it boiling into the flour mix.
ture. Boil one minute, or till thick
When cooled add the yeast. Cover
slightly, let it rise in a warm place, and
when light and foamy put it in the jars.
Chicago Herald.
Potato Chowder: Cut up into fine
pieces half pound of salt pork, put il
into soup-kettle and fry to a light
brown, then add four good-sized onions
that have been chopped fine. and cook
until soft; then add to them two quarts
of boiling water aud twelve medium
sized potatoes pared and sliced thin.
When the potatoes are cooked add a
mixture of flour and water, a table
spoonful of -four blended, little pep
per and half a teaspoonful of salt; let
it come to boil and then pour into il
until it is thick as ordinary soup.-Prai-
RE Farmer.
-Stewed Celery: The part of a bunch
of celery that is rejected for eating un.
cooked does nicely for stewing. Wash
thoroughly, cut in bits about an inch
long and soak in very cold water for
twenty minutes, drain and boil until
tender in plenty of sailed, boiling wa
ter, drain again, and, in order to make
it firm, throw into cold water for five or
ten minutes. Have ready sauce made
by stirring tablespoonful of flour into
tablespoonful of butter, melted in a
small saucepan, to which add half a
pint of hot milk and quarter of CUP
of the water in which the celery was
boiled, let all come to boil, stirring all
the time, add the celery and salt an6
white pepper to taste, bring just to boil
ing point and serve.-N. Y. World.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-03-03
ScbooI Girls AMI stair Climbing.

Walking up stairs, with spine erect
and shoulders well back, is most excel
lent and healthful exercise. Yet we
hear of many school girls who have
their back broken" by stair-clim bling,
although nobody says that it hurts
boys. 1t should be no worse for girls
than for boys II it were injurious TO
climb stairs then why are not the Swiss
peasant girls and women ruined in
health by their mountain climbing?
The little village of Albino in Switzer-
land is located near the top of cliff,
and the only direct road to and from
the village is by means of ladders
placed against the face of this per-
pendicular cliff. During the most of
the entire year, the inhabitants, young
and old, male and female, com
municate with the rest of the world by
going up and down this ladder road.
They are often laden with great bur-
dens of produce or supplies, and yet
nobody is injured by the exercise, and
nobody complains of the backache. IL
cur young men and women were made
TO climb thousand steps every day of
their lives until they were thirty or
forty years old, they would not have
weak backs 1t Is the want of exercise
and physical culture in general, coupled
with unhealthful modes of dress,
which produce the ills generally at
tributed to stair-elimbing alone
From Lecture by DR. J. II. Kellogg, of
the Battle Creek Sanitarium.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-03-03
HE SICK ROOM.
Some Suggestions Concer ming Its Tempera.
fure and Vanilla ffao

ture and Ventilation.
Physicians tell us the proper temper
ature of sick room should be from
sixty-fve to seventy degrees Fahren-
heit, and the heat should not GO below
or much above these points Abund-
ance of fresh air and sunshine is the
rule in all cases. except where the or
der OF the physician prohibits the light
There is far more danger of the patient
becoming enervated by close, foul air
than there is from ventilation Eng.
lish physicians insist that an
open fire is necessity to the
proper ventilation of sick
room, and an eminent authority on this
subject says: II do not consider any
room suitable for a patient to occupy
during prolonged illness where there
is not an open fire burning on the
hearth, in order to secure proper ventil'
alton"
A tight stove or furnace register will
not serve any such purpose. On the
contrary. the stove throws out a dry
heat which can only be partly counter
acted by keeping boiling water on the
stove. 1t does not solve in any way
the problem of ventilation. The fur
mace register too often brings up q
current of foul air from the cellar or
the kitchen, into which the cold air box
opens Unfortunately it is quite the
exception TO have the cold air box open
outdoors, as it should. Even when il
SO opens. the furnace register does not
assist materially in ventilating the
room. One of the best methods of re-
moving odors is to take a shovel OF
burning Goals. sprinkle it with coffee
and pass it around the room. Where
there is infectious disease deodorizing
solution should be obtained from the
physician and used in the water in
which the utensils of the room, the
bedding and clothing of the patient are
washed Scientific American.
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"TARRED AND FEATHERED."
A Punishment That Is Painful ss Well as
Illuminating.

People who read of tarriug and
feathering by white caps and others
know that the punishment is a very
unpleasant one, but few imagine how
terribly painful and dangerous it is.
In Wyoming once saw a man who
had been tarred and feathered. and, al
though he fully deserved the discipline,
l could not help plying him. Hardened
tar is very hard to remove from the
skin, and when feathers are added il
forms a kind of cement that sticks
closer than a brother. AS soon as the
tar sets the victims suffering begins.
IL contracts as il cools, and every one
of the little veins on the body are
pulled, causing the most exquisite
agony. The perspiratlon is entirely
stopped, and unless the tar is removed
death is certain to ensue. But the re-
moval is no easy task, and requires
several days. The tar cannot be soft
ened by the application of heat, and
must be peeled off bit by bit, sweet oil
being used to make the process less
painful The irritation to the skin is
very great, as the hairs cannot be olsen
gagged, but must be pulled out or cut off.
No man can be cleaned of tar in sim
gle day. as the pain of the operation
would be too excruciating for endur-
ance, and until this is done he has to
suffer from a pain like that of ten
thousand pin pricks. Numbers of men
have died under the torture, and none
who have gone through it regarded
tarring and feathering as anything but
most fearful infiiction.-Globe-D Dem
Ocrat
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TOLD IN THE POST OFFICE.
The Old Man Was Looking for His Daugh
ter, But Was sad.

The Old Man Was Looking for His Daugh-
ter, But Was sad.
lie was an old-fashioned man. Not
alone were his clothes behind the age,
but his face and its expression were
old fashioned. II turned out that his
ideas and language were also old
fashioned, for when he asked young
man whom he met in the post Office
where he could get letter sent to him
from his good wife up in the northern
part of the state, he explained:
"Ye see, l am stranger here. and
while your neighbors are all near by
We don't know none of 'em. My wife
promised to write to me about the
farm, an s'pose a letter is already
come. The city mixes me upso. though,
that ] seem like I'm somebody else.
''Ye see. I'm down here loobin' for
my daughter. She waited on people at
hotel near our place, and there she
met some city lady and went to New
York with her without lettin' us know.
Mebbe it's all right and she'll come
back, but-but"-and the old-fashioned
man shed tears in the old, old fashion
and whispered hoarsely, I'm afeerd
not. IN. Y. Commercial Advertiser.