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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-01-04

The ELK yonng Americans may have
been tramps; they acknowledged they
were seeking work and we're without
money; the recorder put them in the
city prison on the grounds that COM
plants of depredations on the, out.
skirts justified such action.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-01-04

The Mexican and Negro criminals
predominant, showing that our crimi-
nal class is largely recruited from
the other side OF the Rio GraDde. A
city government that will clean out
the Mexican tramps will take long
step towards relieving our criminal
dockets.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-01-04

A glance at the docket of the late
grsndjury, out OF 40 cases hrOus hit to
their attention a very small proper
ton were whites; aud none of them
tramDs
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-01-04

Neither the general nor the state
government can afford 10 permit .
rowing population OF ignorant Indians
to harbor, live, labor and vote on
American soil, and at the same time
remain Mexican subjects, and ready
at all times and upon the least excuse
to organize and take up aims to over.
turn the Mexican government. or fol-
low any bandit leader who holds out
q prospect of plumber and rapine.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-01-04

Should Garza's movement rise to
the dignity of q national revolt. the
imported voters, who made up Judge
Kings majority. will be found on the
other side along with Cara, and In
( r any kind of pillage or robbery.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-11-11
Profits Of Draining Land.

The profits of draining land that
cannot be cultivated in season or is
too wet to produce full crops are
greater than those of fanny other known
business. Thousands OF men are
pleased if they can loan money saved
from their present moderate crops at
z or 8 percent, and run almost
apparent risks in placing their savings
In mortgages on distant farms which
they know nothing of, and might as
we'll put it on a quarter section in the
moon for any real security they may
have more than the bare word
of a person they never saw.
Meanwhile, they have fields of
their own that might be doubled in
value and product by drainage, made
with the same money which would
pay them SO per cent. yearly or
even more. They might otherwise ex-
pend it for pure-bred bull, by which
the value of u dairy herd would be
trebled in four years, and the 1princi-
pal repaid in the same time or in less
time by the hire of it to neighbors,
while the profits would form a new
capital that might be reinvested.
Here is a sum for computation, tho
total OF which would be surprising.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-11-11
on having 80 fortunately thought Of
the expedient which answered ~
admirably Writing for Lilo
GYPSY LIFE AS 1T IS.

The Eastern Article Has Little of Poetry
In It-A Sample Brick.
a. gypsy train wendell its way slow
~ down Market street, Philadelphia
the other day and finally drew up in
front OF q beer saloon. it consisted
OF an old covered wagon drawn by a
pair OF scraggy chestnut horses. man.
who was evidently thief riding on
big. raw boned gray horse using a
rope as q Bride and hitched to the
back OF the wagon was the proverbial
trade horse. The chief dismounted
from his horse and went into the sa-
Don, leaving his wife, who had been
driving the wagon. to hitch the ami
NAL and to water the horses at the
trough by the curb. The Press says
it did not take long for number of
children to gather and look in wonder
at the unaccustomed sight. Super
stition kept them at a distance for
awhile but curiosity conquered fear
and one little boy plucked up cour-
age enough to peep into the back OF
the wagon. He did not see very
much only the woman who had at
tended the horses dark-eyed. black
haired young girl aud two dirty.
olive-hued little boys who were
quarreling over small kitten. Be-
side these there was a roll of dirty
canvas. evidently used as tent few
pots and pans and number OF blank
cts. The boy retired to the pave
ment with a look of intense disgust
on his face These specimens were
not his ideal of gypsies.
Fifteen minutes passed and the
chief had not returned from the sa-
loon where the noises OF laughter and
shouting could be heard at intervals.
The woman in the wagon was becom-
ing impatient and came TO the front
Of the vehicle every few moments
and cast angry glances toward the sa-
loon. Soon the wife's patience be-
came exhausted and she descended
from the wagon and entered the saloon
with a determined step. In two min
utes she reappeared. dragging her
husband along by the collar OF his
coat She dragged him across the
pavement and by an almost super
human effort into the wagon. He
was tumbled over the front seat and
left lying where he fell to recover his
senses. The woman was then master
of affairs. She ordered the young
girl to drive the wagon and she her.
self straddled the gray nag, and the
train moved off down the street fol.
lowed by a crowd of shouting boys.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-11-11
The Queens Workroom,

The sitting-room in which the Queen
works during her residence at Bal
moral is very large, and prominent
object on an easel near the writing
table is an admirable portrait OF
Prince Albert. The huge writing table
is usually covered with papers and
letters and kilograms, and there are
several, family photographs on it.
The Queen has q table at her right
hand which bears numerous dispatch
boxes, and on another table is q sill
yer tray, on which her majesty de-
pos is documents which she has dealt
with, and when the tray is full it is
carried off to Sir Henry Ponsonby,
who arranges and packs the contents.
Another table is covered with books,
and close to it is the Queens favorite
asy-chair.-New Orleans Picayune. :
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-11-11
Breeding OF Hogs.

Few branches of the stock business
demand more skill than the raising of
hogs, but to such as can supply these
they are as generally certain to return
profit as any other kind Of stock. It
is fact we'll understood that a pig
makes more meat in proportion to
waste matter, and more also in pro-
portion to food consumed, when prop
erly fed, than any other domestic ami
NAL. They also mature 50 early and
are so prolific that they commend
themselves to farmers who have not
much capital with which to begin the
stock business. The very fact that
start can be made with SO small an
expenditure should be enough to in
duce all who go into the business to
begin with good stock, but some who
are particular about the breeding of
their cattle, and even Of sheep, seem
to think that one hog is as good as
another, but there is as much differ
ence between the growth and profit
from q high grade and scrub pig as
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-11-11
LET HER TELL THE STORY.
Although the prummer's Yarn Is
Very Interesting One.

Although the prummer's Yarn Is a
Very Interesting One.
II caught a very severe cold play.
ing the hero up in northern Illinois,"
said a. commercial traveller in St.
Louis to Globe-Democrat man.
"My best girl lives near Rockford,
and, before opening up my samples,
[ concluded to walk out and call on
her. She is o very precise miss, q
schoolmarm, if you please, and some.
thing of a prude. When about mile
from the house I was attracted by the
most awful din that ever got action
outside OF pandemonium. Coming
down a hill was the object OF my visit,
attired in a dirty wrapper and old
sunbonnet and seated in a hand
cart half filled with hazel nuts. She
had been out nutting with her younger
brothers and sisters and they had
undertaken to draw her down the
hill. The cart proved too heavy.
however. ran over them, and was now
making a break for the bluff, at the
foot of which flowed Rock river.
tried to bead her off, but the momen-
tum of the cart was too much for
me, and over we both went, while
the sky seemed to rain hazel nuts and
that wretched cart bumped me On the
head so hard that did not enjoy the
display of hosiery. The water was
only about four feet deep, but there
was no bottom to the mud, and by
the time we had scrambled up that
bluff and got a. good look at each
other we were ready to return our
presents and break off the engage
ment. 1t is easy enough to take back
the heart that thou "gavest" when
the party you presented it to has
her back hair full of hazel nut hulis
and is coated from head to heel with
the black mud for which the Sucker
state is peculiar"
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-11-11
CLEARING OFF.

Clouds and tho winds a-chiIi,
And the road OF soddeu clay.
And mist on the dripping hill,
And mask ON the day.
And the moon was like the pain
When cheer is cold on the hearth,
And the noises dulled by the rain,
Hung low to the earth
But now, as if one came out,
From tho western seas and waved
Onset with gesture and shout
Till his feet was saved
So came wind from the sun
And broke the hurrying rack,
And the blessed light was won,
And the blue came back.
And the rainless clouds in the West
Lay white like the griefs we love
And soft as sorrow at rest
Was the blue above.
-Lippincott's Magazine.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-11-11
THE PHILADELPHIA 60 q
She Isl Quite Unlike Any 0tlJor IT,
In This Country.

She Is Quite Unlike Any 0te7or
In This Country.
Philadelphia may be term1d 6l0
by those unwilling to see Any goed
any city but their own, yet even -
most prejudiced Gothamito 81 pFo
Chicagoan must admit that the -
Of Philadelphia are as dainty -
sweet as any to be found "a the world
over. They possess an air 81 individ
uality that makes them altogstbe1
winning and lovable. M
To begin with they are SO essential
" womanly-ft inhabitants OF city
of homes. They are fresh and bloom.
ing, yet withal so modest and unasz
Stunning that, though robed in Paris
gowns, for our girls are stylish to the
finger tips, one can almost see in
gauzy outline how becoming the clos.
ing gray garments of their Quaker an
cestors would be.
Now this is saying great deal for
their beauty, for the severely simple
garb that goes with the plain Language
AASSA0 AdeOCOAO . . JAAOSU
to make it becoming. Therefore
therein lies great compliment
Philadelphia girls know how to dress
well, outre effects are not visible on
our thoroughfares or in places OF
amusement, likewise they know how
to behave well, their manners speak
ing much for the home training of just
such another sweet-faced woman
whom they call mother
Low-voiced, earnest, happy girls
just the sort men could feel content
to make partners for life, and per-
haps in this connection the reminis-
cence OF many wealthy and influential
men of other cities having carried
away brides from our own little vii
lage may prove that it is not case of
thinking what is our own is the best,
but an opinion fully Endorsed by those
most capable ofjudging.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-11-11
HE LAUGHED.
But It Came Very Near Breaking up q
Fond Enlargement.

But It Came Very Near Breaking up a
Fond Engagement.
He was one of Chicagos young
real estate mon. She was we'll known
in the North Side society's circles
They became acquainted at ball
during the last winter season and
passed through the usual stages of
acquaintance friendship and the rest
of it The first two stages wefespass-
ed in quick time, but the third promis-
ed to be lingering. and, perhaps last
ing
At the beginning of the summer he
purchased a safety bicycle, and when
he had mastered it to degree joined
a wheeling club This move was not
viewed by her with favor. inasmuch as
it kept him from her side quite often
during the evenings. She could not
ask him to give up riding. so she de-
termiued to get a wheel and thus be
able to accompany him. AS she is
well fixed'' she soon had her wheel
The young man undertook to initiate
her into the mysteries Of its manage
ment
Several evenings were spent in the
lessons and she progressed splendidly.
One evening she insisted that she
could ride without assistance. He
had some doubts as to the question.
but she was determined. and, of
course. had her way. He helped her
to mount and gave the wheel gentle
push as a starter" Then he await
ed developments. They came with
startling suddenness For few yards
all was plain sailing. Then the front
wheel began to .wabble" ominously.
He ran after her. but before he could
reach her the machine had .'bucked ;"
There was a startled scream. flash
of white and black and the young
lady had alighted. Not in the APP
proved manner but she was off the
wheel
Then he laughed. He couldn't
help it perhaps, but he made a great
mistake. He discovered it when he
offered to help her arise. sScorning
his outstretched hand she scrambled
to her feet picked up her fallen
steed and trundled it away. He fol-
lowed with explanations and apollo
gies but they were received in con-
temptuous silence. That was some
time ago. For several weeks they
met as strangers.
They were seen riding down La
Sale avenue together the last few
evenings however SO peace must
have been declared.
She rides fairly well now. but should
she take a tumble he wouldn't laugh.
That last laugh cost him too many
days Of anxiety.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-11-11
Not Friday. But Monday.

A statistician of the German gov
eminent has come to the rescue of
those persons who do not share the
widespread superstition that Friday
is the most unlucky day of the week.
Atshort time ago he determined to
make scientific investigation Of this
question. The most fatal or unfortun.
ate week day. according to the in
vestigator, is not Friday. but Monday.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-11-11

between good and bad steer. One
great drawback to profitable hog rails
ing has bee14 to great dependence upon
corn for feeding. Provide a good clio.
yer pasture in summer and supple
ment this in the early fall with ground
oats and middlings, with'corn only to
finish of, and a good pork can be pro-
duced at q good proft.-Colman's
Rural World.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-11-11
A Few Pointers;

=
Give the hens chopped onions occa.
sionally.
Do not try to winter more hens than
you can care for well.
Clean up, whitewash and get the hen
house ready for winter.
Have you not noticed that fast
horses are apt to develop fast" men?
Stick to the breed that you have
done we'll with. Improve and build it
up rather than let it fall back.
Clean up the coops and give dose
Of coal oil before putting away for the
season.
See that there are no cracks in the
hen-house through which draughts can
strike the fowls.
In the Chicago market, small hen
turkeys sell better than others after
New Years. But have them fat.
There is no meat that varies more
in price than poultry, between choice
fat birds and "scallawag" stock.
Do you think it pays to husk corn,
throw it on the ground and handle
again before it is in the wagon?
If you have no extra feed do not
buy lot Of stock this fall because
it is cheap. It will be dear Ito you'll
before spring.
Fattening fowls, young pullets and
old hens kept for laying eggs do nosre-
quire the same either in quality
or kind.
Crowd the corn husking if in shocks.
Bind the. fodder as husked out, and
draw to feeding yard or barn when
few acres are ready. This will give
some in if bad weather comes before
all is husked. Keep the fodder haul
ed in close up to the huskers.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-11-11
THE AGRICULTURAL WORLD
VARIOUS FARMING TOPICS
TOUCHED UPON,
The Cost Of Good Roads--Fall Work
IN the Garden--Feeding Small
I. Potatoes--The Value Of Tar
Breeding Of Hogs--A Few
Pointers.
The Cost Of Good Roads.

Inc Cost OF GOOo ROADS.
Let me give few figures as to the
cost of good roads. will take, for
the sake of convenience, q county
which represents q fair average of all
the counties OF the State as respects
it's mileage Of important roads. The
county to which have reference has
about $50 miles of such highways,
which, if properly built ofstone, would
make it's country districts veritable
paradise.
Considering that an excellent road
can be built for $4,000 a mile, the
aggregate cost for the entire 23O miles
would be $1,15O,O 900. The average
amount OF property for each county,
as shown by the tax duplicate for
1891, was SIG, 934,o6O. Were this
tax Of 81, 100000 to be paid at
once it would necessitate an assess
ment Of 6 7-1O per cent or $68 on
every ST, 900 worth of property as
returned for taxation. Now, divid-
ing this into ten equal payments, the
annual tax which the property
owner would have to pay on every
$1,000 of assessed valuation would
be $6.7O. But it is to be noted that
this does not represent just SO much
extra tax.
In 1891 the taxes levied in Ohio for
road and bridge purposes were within
a few thousand of So, 100000, and
the poll tax Of the State amounted to
in the neighborhood of $1,OOO,OOO,
making the total tax of the State for
road ''patch work" for one year,
about 100000, or $3.50 for
every $1,000 iof assessed valua-
ton. Thus the cost for transporta.
ton from temporary working to the
permanent building of roads would be
the payment, for q period of ten
years, of $500 where $1.OO is now
paid.
And what would this mean? It
would be difficult to enumerate all
the good points which suggest them
selves. It would mean, instead of ex-
pending vast sums of money for a.
period of ten years, and at the expira-
ton OF that time not many having
any better roads than now, that by
reasonable extra expense for only
few years we would be able to build
magnificent system of pike roads,.
Nj. II. Frederick, in Good Roads.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-11-11
A Professional Prophet.

There Is q man in Java who ma kes
a good living as a prophet He has
been paid $500 a year for the last
fifteen years for not predicting a It'd
al wave which will sweep clear over
the island. The crednlous natives
believe that he has the power to ut
tract wave that will overwheln the
country.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-11-11
Condensing Milk.

The condensing of milk is an Ameri-
can invention, and the method in
foreign countries, as France and
Switzerland, as we'll as in England,
where the business is now carried on,
is precisely the same as the American
way. This is to evaporate the water
from the milk by steam heat in
vacuum pans, at such a low temper
allure as will entirely avoid danger of
burning it. So that not only is steam
needed to keep up the vacuum by air
pumps and remove the vapor from
the pans, but to furnish the heat. A
ten-horse power boiler, or one to
furnish steam for ten-horse power
engine, would do all the work for
small factory using 1,OOOlbs. of milk
daily. A two horsepower engine
would do the pumping required to keep
the vacuum perfect. This quantity
OF milk will furnish one fourth as much
condensed.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-11-11
Fall Work in the Garden.

For early vegetables next spring,
like bunch onions, lettuce, spinach
and radishes the ground is always fit-
ted in the fall, and we'll enriched and
pulverized says a writer in the Ohio
Practical Farmer. The onions should
be set not later than October, so
they will get a good root hold before
freezing weather sets in, and they will
be among the first green vegetables for
tho gardener to market in the spring.
Onions for this purpose must be in
large sets. Or better still, those that
bore seed this year and threw up from
three to five seed stalks and will be
useless for seed next year; these, set
deep in the fall, in good rich soil, will
be the best for early bunch onions in
spring, as they have matured early
and begin to take root earlier than
the field onion raised from the bed.
The outdoor lettuce bed must be
sown later, well pulverized and rolled,
the seed sown with q hand drill and
late enough SO that it does not all
come up until spring it will be all right;
for lettuce will make stand and grow
in the spring long before you can get on
to your ground to prepare it on &C
count of the wet condition Of the soil;
therefore, If you want to catch those
high prices that always prevail for
early outdoor lettuce you must SOW it
in the fall and cover it with fine litter
in the spring when it begins to freeze
and thaw; the tennis ball makes a
good variety for this purpose.
Radishes need the same treatment,
but will need no covering of any kind,
as they are perfectly hardy. find
two varieties sufficient for fall sowing
the scarlet turnip and the long red,
for succession.
Spinach can be sown the latter part
Of October or first Of November and
covered in the fall, in this latitude,
with coarse manure free from corn
stalks, and raked of in the spring aft
er it is done freezing. In sowing spin
sch an amateur should consult the
catalogs as to variety, as there are
two kinds, one to be sown in the fall
and the other in the spring. There is
profit in these three vegetables when
sown In the fall and we'll cared for,
and they come on the market early
and at the same time.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-11-11
Feeding Small Potatoes.

Some fifty years agoit was my duty
to boil the small potatoes in a big
copper boiler (buiit in brick, with an
oven firedraft underneath), and then
to mix them with barley meal and
feed them to the hogs. The method
used was to sprinkle the dry meal
over the hot potatoes and then
squeeze the latter with the hand and
thus thoroughly incorporate the
meal with them and make a semi
wash or slop, by adding the water in
which they were boiled.
This practice Ihave followed in feed
ing in the West, using corn meal in
stead OF barley meal, as being the
cheapest and the best for fattening.
Potatoes, as food, are little better,
if any, than green clover. Both serve
as a slop food, or green food, as you
will; but both build the frame, and
then when the corn meal is added put
on fat enough to finish them for mark
ct. This, at least, has been my ex-
perience and is my practice. My own
impression is that enough value has
not been set on potatoes as q food
for hogs.-Breeder.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-11-11
What Sort OF Ram?

The time is at hand when the great
majority Of sheepbreeders are accus-
toned to mate their focks, and it is
worth their while to consider what
sort OF rams they are going to use. A
great many have been saying-or act
ing as if they said-that they could
not afford to buy pure bred ram,
and so must content themselves with
the best common animal they could
get hold of. Farmers who would not
touch scrub bull for breeding pur-
poses with a 10 foot pole will accept
for their ewes the service Of acommon
ram, OF whose antecedents they know
nothing.
There has been some excuse for this
in times past, when pure blooded
ram OF any of the fine breeds was
worth small fortune, but the excuse
is no longer valid, as such rams are
not SO high priced as formerly. A
breeder who uses a common ram is
never sure OF the kind of lambs he is
going to have. By sheer good luck
they may run fairly we'll; but the prob
abilities are that they will be very un-
even, and that what is made on the
best of the lot will be lost on the re-
mainder, or that at any rate the
profits on the whole will be consider
ably less than they would have been
had a pure blooded sire been used.
A good ram soon pays for himself.
1t is moro than doubtful if q poor one
ever does
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-08-28

geography. Servian language, literary and
mMitary science. and no - SAID by his IN
struotors 30 be an apt puDil. A morning
horseback ride and an occasional game OF
of lawn tennis arc his only diversions;
King Alexander is now well-erown lad OF
fifteen. His face shows intelligence. but
his forshsad IL low and his mouth and nose
arc weak. What Eln1 OF man tho