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Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-15

THE result of the German elections
shows such an increase of socialist
strength as bodies i'll for the future
peace Of the country and of Europe.
The Government may have power to
pass its bill for an increase Of the
army. II it does SO the Emperor will
very probably precipitate war in Or
der to unite the patriotic instinct Of
the German pee pie in defense Of the
1atherland. That is the game that
oespotic governments have more than
.ence played. In government by the
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-15
more effective than is cut ling them
off with cultiyator or hoe. Exchange.
The Large Horse.

At most agricultural shows it is
the largest horses that attract most
attention from those who pride them
selves on approaching utility rather
than clancy" points. .See how large
he is, and, of course, he must be
strong in proportion to his size"
This does not follow. The coarse
built animal has less compact bone
and less highly developed muscle.
There are places where such over
weighted animals have their value,
but merely to carry their excess Of
fat and weight consumes far too much
OF their strength. Besides, these ex-
ira heavy horses cannot bear service
on hard roads even at slow PAGES. For
all-around work on the farm. includ-
ing cultivating and road work, there
has never been better horse on this
continent than the old Morgan strain.
They are compact and both muscle
and bone are developed, so that their
bulk is only slight indication Of
possible strength. Merely. to make
efficient work horses a strain OF the
best trOtting horse blood is no detri-
ment.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-15

A DRASTIC measure for the regula-
ton and restriction of foreign immi-
grafton is before the Legislature of
New South Wales. 1t regulates the
conditions of residence Of foreigners
already resident In the colony, re-
stricts the immigration OF persons
belonging to colored races, and abso-
lutely excludes all Asiatics, whether
subjects OF the Queen or not"
There Is sentiment In favor of such
measure in the colony, but, as it
would have to receive the consent Of
the crown. 1t Is not likely to become
q law in its present form.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-15

THE price Of coal has taken another
upward jump. The announcement is
not accompanied by any explanation
OF the advance, for explanations
which do not justify sre very unsat-
isfactory to all parties concerned.
The combine charges more for coal
simply because 1t can. 1t reverses
the usual law OF supply and demand.
and when the smallest supply Of coal
is needed seeks some compensation
for reduced sales by charging higher
rate for what is sold.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-15

THE famous Marshal Sake had
more sense OF incongruity than those
who would give him honor. Under
Louis NV. there seemed to be a sort
of fever for taking into the French
Academy men who were illustrious
for things other than literature.
When they would have conferred this
honor upon SAKE, he promptly Je.
fused to accept. In a letter written
little later he says, "They want tG
pute me in the Cadamy. That would
look like a ring on kat"
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-15

SOME curious statistics reach us
from Germany. 1t appears that the
result OF the latest census showed
that there were in that country four.
teen millions Of single women
against fifteen millions of single men;
whereas there were two millions of
widows against only three-Quarters Of
a million OF widowers. From this it
would appear that the German widow
either abstains from second expert
ment in matrimony on the ground Of
the failure Of the first experiment,
or that the German men are preju-
diced against q widow wife.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-15

THE dissertation Of the historic
field OF Gettysburg by the building of
an electric railway is an outrage that
ought to be stopped at once. The
contractors are cutting down trees,
digging through hills, removing
boulders, and generally disflguring
the landscape. The matter has been
brought to the attention of the Sec
rotary OF War, who doubts his au-
thority to interfere, and in the mean
time the vandalism proceeds.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-15
Big Game.

In his book on Abyssinia Sir San,
uel Baker gives the following acconntl
OF the capture Of a hippopotamus1
AIter long chase the animal had
left the river, and much to the dis.
appointment of his pursurers had ,l,s.
appeared. But one of the known,
attendants expressed his firm con'
viction that the 'hippo' would soon
be seen again. This prediction waa
fulfilled much sooner than the most
sanguine had expected. At die
lance OF nearly half a mile, saws the
writer, we saw the animal emerpe
from the jungle, and descend at fnIl
trot to the bed OF the river, MAKING
directly for the first rocky pool in
which We had previously seen herd
Of hippopotami.
Accompanied by the old howarti
(hippo-hunter) we walked quickly to.
ward the spot; he explained to me
that l must shoot the harpooned
hippo, as We should not be able tn
secure him in the usual method nv
rOpes-nearly all our men being
absent from camp upon other duties
Upon reaching a certain pool, which
was about hundred and thirty yards
in diameter, we were Immediately
greeted by the hippo, who snorted
and roared as we approached, then he
dlved, and the buUyant float upon
which the man with the harpoon was
stationed, ran along the surface,
marking his course, in the same man.
ner as the cork OF trimmer with a
pike upon the hook.
Several times he appeared. but az
he invariably faced US, l could not
obtain favorable shot. l therefore
sent the old hunter round the Looi
and he, swimming the river. advanced
to the opposite side, and attl ..cted the
attention Of the hippo, who immedi.
ately turned toward him.
This afforded me a good chance.
and fired steady shot behind the
ear, about seventy yards. with
single barrelled rifle.
AS usual with hippopotami
whether dead or alive, he disappeared
beneath the water at the shot. The
crack OF the ball and the absence Of
any splash from the bullet told mel
that he was hit; the float remained |
perfectly stationary upon the surface
l watched it for some minutes-itI
never moved; several heads of hip. |
popotami appeared and vanished in |
different directions, but the float was
still; 1t marked the spot where the f
grand old bull lay dead beneath.
When the men reappeared they
swan out, regardless of crcodiles to
the spot where the animal had gone
down. and securing the rope ATTACHED
to the harpoon, dragged the body Of
the hippo to the shore.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-15

ABOUT 10000 couples have been di.
vorced in France during the last five
years. and now law has just been
read in the Chamber Of Deputies for
the first time designed to make a
severance Of the matrimonial bonds
much easier still. 1t provides that a
mere judicial separation can be
changed to definite divorce after
the lapse Of three years on the de-
mand Of either party, plaintiff or
respondent.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-15

CANADA would like to sell her
Thousand islands," but as she pro-
tects her game fish by law far better
than Uncle Sam does, sportsmen will
object. Your uncle stocks rivers and
lakes with fine varieties of fish, and
then licenses "the pound" 1.-The gill
net, and any other device that is de-
populating Lake Erie (the finest fish,
ing lake in the word) OF its game
fish
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-15

A MISSOURI man is doing a good
deal OF blowing about twin mules
which he claims to have. Natural.
lists are authority for the statement
that twin mules are almost as much
of rarity as hens teeth. The COM
mon sense solution is that they are
too contrary to travel in pairs.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-15

SOME idea of the immensely of one
OF the industries in the State OF
Maine may be obtained from the fact
that during the season just closed
over $4,000 600 was paid out for pota-
toes at Caribou Station alone, exclu-
sive of what was paid for starch po-
tatoes and what was received by
farmers who did their own shipping.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-15

If anyone fires the postage stamp
conundrum at you, reply "five threes.
thirty-four twos and seventeen ones. "
The conundrum Is to ask for dol
lars worth Of stamps, twice as many
twos as ones, and the remainder in
fhrQpa
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-15

THERE is great difficulty in view
ing with respectful pity the man who
tries to blow brains out of himself
and fails to find any.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-15

CHICAGO MAIL: From appearances
1t appears that 1t would have cost
the Humane Society less il it had
bought the cowboys bronchos out
right.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-15

THE sun spots are on hand and the
astronomers once more have some
thing with which to entertain them
selves and the public.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-15
Worked Too Much

Dairy housewives tell a great deal
about working butter, laying stress
on what they consider an important
part of the program. The fact is one
weak point Of dairy butter is that it
is worked too much, says the National
Stockman. AS the buttermilk has
not been washed out while the butter
was in a granular state, it must be
labOriously crushed out with ladle.
After this. comes the sailing with &C
companying working, and by many
housewives the latter is again re-
worked after few hours rest or
course this continued harsh treat
ment cannot help but make the pro-
duct salvy, a most undesirable
quality.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-15

THE morp' OF the German elections
Is that this young Kaiser finds the
policy Of getting along without Bis
marck very difficult and hazardous
Onn
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-15

THE moral Of those great, lumber
ing and top-heavy warships is: Don't
build them.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-15

IT'S hard to please some folks. An
editor who is coroner in dead town
declares that he is not happy.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-15
Destroying Canada ThistIes.

We have always had best success in
killing the Canada thistles by wait
ing until the plant had got into bios
som, and then when the top is full of
sap blowing deeply, so as to get under
all the roots possible. The green
tops will decompose rapidly Mt this
time, for it is during the hottest
weather of the year. But it is too
late for any crop excepting buck
wheat or white tcrnips, and, in fact,
this way OF destroying thisties was
usually made the occasion for a thor
Ough summer fallow in preparation
for winter wheat. By working after
the nrst blowing wholly on the sur
face, and frequent use OF the roller,
a reasonably compact seed bed might
be had. But to destroy thistles thus
reIuires thorough cultivation of the
surface at least twice week, the OBJ
Ject being to prevent a single green
shoot Of green thistles to appear.
The part Of the root attached to the
top will usually rot with it, but how
ever deep the blowing, more or less OF
the horizontal roots will lie beneath
the plow point, and these will con-
tinue to send up shoots until nearly
September. 1t is impossible to kill
thistles by blowing on stumpy or stony
ground, as in such places the pillow
will be thrown out, and the thistle
roots cannot be turned up In such
case covering the tops with earth as
fast as they appear, bruisfng the tops
at the same time to prevent growth
Through the soil, will do the wori.
Where hoea crops are grown tt is
covering o; thistle tops with earth is
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-15
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
4 DEPARTMENT FOR OUR LOCAL
AGRICULTURlSTS

Farmers Should Keep Accounts-How to
Destroy Canada Thistles-Extra Large
Horses Undesirable-Cure for Cut-WOrms
Hints for the Cook.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-15
Farm Accounts.

Farmers, as well as business men,
should keep books to show them how
they stand, saws correspondent of
the Germantown Telegraph. May lst
is good time to commence. At this
time all the crops of the year are
usually disposed Of and there is no
guess work about it. First make an
inventory OF your horses, cows, sheep,
and other live stock; do this honestly,
otherwise your books will be of no
use. Then when you sell any stock
Of any kind for money place it in your
total cash sales and also to the credit
Of each of the different kinds OF stock;
at the end OF the year IL your stock
inventory agrees separately and to-
gether, as it did the year previous,
you have made just what you received
in money. II your stock is worth
more place in total cash sale, if less
deduct the amount from your total
and you have what you really have
made on all stock during the year.
Do this with every crop. wheat, corn,
oats. hay, etc. l usually set down the
date sOwn or planted and when har-
vested, and everything connected with
crops. Also have page headed
Total Accounts. and here write all
the little accounts that you owe. If
you have any debts due you place them
in your account book. Make COM
plete list of all notes given when due,
rate Of interest etc. In short know.
what the farm is doing by you. and
what you are doing by the farm. A
common blank book, obtained at
book stores at cost OF from Is to 25
cents, is large enough for everything
told here. When your year is up lay
your book aside and get another one.
One can get so accustomed to this
that they can keep these books with
out any trouble whatever. 1t en-
ables them to see whether they are
gaining or losing money on any crop
or stock, and what the net results of
each year has been. In short, farm
ing becomes more of business, and
less OF guess work, than formerly was
done. In conclusion will say that
the aggregate net sales will be more
than most farmers suppose and their
expenses greater.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-15
Poisonous Cheese.

An exchange says that blue litmus
paper enables one to determine
whether cheese is poisonous or not
1t Is applied to the freshly cut sur
face of cheese, and il poisonous
there is a change in the color OF the
paper to an intensely red appearance.
IT the cheese is dry, part may be
moistened with water, and the pa fer
then applied. 1t may be stated. how
ever, that this method Is not an in
fallible one. One authority we have
noticed states that there is only one
sure test, and that is in eating the
cheese. The one great drawback to
this method is that the party may
not live to ever make second test.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-15

people nothing is gained by war, and
therefore ware Will be avoided wher-
aver possible.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-15
Fodder Corn.


Fodder corn, sown in drills three
feet apart, or planted in hills, three
feet apart one way and two feet the
Other way. should be regular crop
with every dairyman. II dry
season Gomez. when the pastures do
not furnish feed enough, it can be cut
and fed green, though right here we
will say that it Is much better to al
low a day or a day and night OF wilt
ing before it is given to the cows.
particularly if not quite grown when
fed out. In cloudy or rainy weather
1t Is better even when cut longer than
that. The whiting not only takes out
some of the water and renders it less
liable to cause indigestion, but it
brings about a chemical change in it
that makes 1t more valuable for milk
production. Probably the same in
crease in the solid matter of the milk
would make it worth more for cheese
making. ANY that is not used green
can be saved tor the silo or cured by
drying for the winter feeding, and it
is good either way, and good for mich
cows, working oxen or growing young
stock. 1t may be that some Of the
lately introduced foreign crops are
better than our corn fodder, but we
shall continue to be very skeptical
about them until experience has
shown their results We know that
We can grow more fodder to the acre
from corn than from any crop we
have tried, and it will induce larger
flow of milk, and of milk that will
be richer to eat and will make more
butter than we ever could get from
any other fodder although good
clover comes very near to it il cut
just at the right time; but cut too
early or too late the clover is not very
good, while the corn fodder, whether
sown expressly for that purpose, or
stover from field corn Or from the
garsen sweet corn, is good from the
time it tassels out until the ears are
formed and the kernel glazed.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-15

crust; cover with deep pie plate
Place on the back OF the range, and
bake for about an hour. Serve with
sweet sauce.
OUNCE DUMPLINGs. - Pare and
core your ounces, put them in sauce
pan with very little water, and as
soon as they begin to get tender take
them out. Make a paste of SIX ounces
OF butter to pound of flour cover
the fruit, tie them in dumping
cloths and boil them.
RAISED GRAHAM BISCUITS. - One
pint CT graham flour: one pint of
wheat flour; teaspoonful of salt: tea
spoonful OF sugar: pint of warrs milk:
quarter of a veast.cake. Raise over
night In the morning, drop into
gem pans and raise the same as bis
cults before putting into the oven.
Bake in hot oven. .
BLACKBERRY PUDDING. Make a
crust by wetting two cups of wheat-s
meal and one cup of fine corn meal,
with boiled rice enough to make a
paste that can be rolled out one third
of an inch thick. Mix about one
quart Of blackberries with half cup
of wheat meal and pour them
into the rolled out crust, draw the
latter over them and pinch together;
then sew the whole in a cloth and
steam for one hour and half. Let
1t cool for few minutes, then dish
with spoon, trim with sugar and
serve warm.
SCRAMBLED OMELET. make
scrambled omelet tablespoonful OF
milk is put into saucepan, adding a
quarter OF teaspoon of butter and
tiny pinch of salt. Beat one egg lust
enough to break the yolk. pour it into
the hot milk and stir until it begins
to stiffen, scraping it from the bot
tom. Il should be taken from the
fire in a liquid state and poured over
square OF hot toast Jellies, pre-.
serves o: fresh fruits, may be spread
on plain omelets before folding, and
then Carnished with the whole fruit.
The preserves may be put up un.
sweetaned
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1893-05-06

THERE is said TO be very much of
novelty in the way the stage or
scenic portion of "The Chicago
Spectacular" will be lighted. as
none of the ordinary methods will be
used. Instead of light being thrown
from the front on the scenes, as is
ordinary, it will be thrown from
above the same as in Nature. There
will be in 1.-The Chicago Spectator
ium" two great lights, one of these
represents the sun which has an
Illuminating force equal to 100000
candle power, las much as fifty CON-
mon arc lamps), and the other, the
moon which will disperse about one
fifth as much light. BY the newly
patented devices in this building it
is possibly to move these lights to
any position required. This is done
by means of hugh arc or a circle
which has a radius of 220 feet and
which reaches from the rear wall of
the stage around to point directly
over the center of the stage in front
and then extends back to the wall
again. Below either end of this are
is an immense cylinder into which
the sun-can be lowered or raised at
the will of the engineer. These
cylinders are translucent and by a
peculiar arrangement of colors give
by the mere passage of this illuminate
ing body, all the tints either of sum
rise or sunset. The other illumin-
ating body, called the moon, will
dispense 10000 candle power of light
and will be controlled in much the
same manner as the sun. In additin
70 these two great lights there are
numerous smaller lights to aid in
giving the amount of diffused light
necessary to the perfection to realism.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1893-05-06
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than Others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products to
the needs Of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup of Figs.
It's excellence is due tosits presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of a perfect lax
alive; efTectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation.
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because il acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup Of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists i'm SOC and 81 bottles, but it is man.
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
20. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, you will not
accept any substitute if offered.