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The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-04-28
A BACK WARD SEASON.
Montana Right In Line SO Far as Weather
is Concerned.


WASHINGTON, April 25.-The weather
crop bulletin says: The week ending
April oath has been unusually cold ex.
cept in southern Kansas and in the e
treme southern portions OF Florida and
California. Throughout the central
valleys, including a greater portion of
the cotton region and all Of the winter
and spring wheat regions, the mean daily
temperature has ranged from 6 to II de.
grees below normal for the week. and
more or less damage has been reported
from frosts as far south as Arkansas,
Tennessee and North Carolina. Cold
weather is reported as unfavorable in
the cotton region. In some sections the
replanting OF cotton will be necessary,
and reports indicate a scarcity of seed in
several states. Temperature fell below
freezing in the winter wheat belt on the
23d, anG cold, wet and unfarorable
weather continued ia tho spring wheat
region, causing farm work to be greatly
retarded and rendering it impossible to
secure general seeling Of spring wheat
before the first of May. This is the sec
Ond week Of excessive rains over the
principal wheat states. The rainfall
was largely in excess over the
greater portions Of Missouri, Iowa and
Illinois, and the excess previously
reported in the spring wheat region has
been increased during the past week,
leaving the ground too wet for spring
work.
special graphic Reports.
South Dakota Seeding retarded gen
orally by cold, wet, and stormy weather,
but Is well advanced in southern portion.
Nebraska-Week very ~unfavorable for
growth of crops, and there has been
practically no advancement in their con
dition. Farm work is well advanced,
much blowing having been done for corn
and some planted.
Wisconsln-Ileavy snow and cold on
tirely suspended seeding with about half
done. No injury to winter grains: no
work possible for several days.
Minnesota Floods, snow, and cold
have delayed work; season backwards;
VI tOhO III NV tuWCbtClh Dol ~
and elsewhere but little progress made;
heavy SHOWS have delayed seeding;
ground too wet.
lowa-Abnormally cold and stormy
week except in southwestern counties;
farm work retarded, but no extensive
damage to crops.
North Dakota Continued colo, wet
weather permitted no work in eastern
section and very little in other portions,
Land in the Red River valley generally
covered with water.
Montana-Rains during the week very
beneficial; grass starting.
Wyoming-Some early crops starting:
planting progressing slowly on account
of backward spring.
Idaho Flowing and seeding continue
in the irrigated districts; portions Of the
state covered with snow.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-04-28

The Frussim government has decided
to introduce the use of the centigrade
thermometer instead of that of Reau-
muir, which is still in use in some parts
Of the kingdom.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-04-28
Sstice to Contractors.

Contract to lct-On my ranch on Sun
river, 30 miles from Great Falls, IS yards
Of rock to be removed at head offditch.
Apply to w. X. Flowerree, Sun River,
for specifications.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-04-28

Ferdinand de Lessers is said TO have
lost his whole fortune in the Panama
canal project. Ee has nothing left bat
an income from Suez canal funds.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-04-28

WAsHINGToN, April % Montana -
Generally fair, slightly warmer except
in eastern portion of North DAKOTA; vari-
able winds.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-04-28

OMAHA, April 2i.-The Union Pacific
ironworkers' strike has been declared off.
The men return to work tomorrow morn
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-04-28

Patronize home industry by buying
your harness and saddles OF j. B-Steffen
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-04-28

A good buggy and harness. Inquire
at DO First avenue south.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-04-28

For Refrigerators, big bargains. go to
Albrecht's.
The Van Buren press., 1893-06-17
DAIRY AND BARNARD.

THE best way to feed the whey that
comes from the creameries is to use it
for moistening ground grain. If the
pigs are fed with whey and grain once
or twice day, and also permitted to
have plenty Of green clover, they will
grow rapidly, and produce pork at as
little cost as by any other method of
feeding.
THE wild onion will be a source of
difficulty to dairymen where the pas
lures have received but little care. The
only way to get rid of the pest is to cul-
tiyate the field in a hoe crop for two
seasons, and keep down all grass and
weeds, when pasture grass may be
seeded. Cows eat the wild onions (also
known as white garlic) while they are
on the pasture, and the milk will be
given the characteristic onion odor.
THE dairymen should have good
well. A good well is one in which the
water comes at a depth Of forty feet or
more, says an exchange. If beneath
the bed rock, at whatever depth. so
much the better--the water is sure to
be pure-and in dairying,as in drink
ing water for family, purity is the es-
sence of goodness. Hence, do not neg
lect to have deep, pure water. It will
pay not only for your family and milk
ing cows, but for the stock generally.
The Van Buren press., 1893-06-17
A WOMAN'S REASON.
She Was Afraid of What People Would
Say,

A man and girl were sitting to-
gether in the soft dusk of gentle
summer evening. She was trifling with
bit of embroidery, now gently chatting
him, now humming a bar of song;
while he sat silently watching her and
smoking his pipe.
They were very old friends, for the
man had watched the girl grow from
childhood into womanhood. He was
but five years her senior, yet she
seemed more than five years younger
to him.
His first feelings toward her had
slowly changed with her increasing
years to one of extreme fondness, and
then another change had come, but he
had not told her of his love.
As he watched the delicate outline
of her face, softened into even unusual
sweetness by the waning twilight, he
felt happy beyond expression. He ca
ressed his pipe as his thoughts went
back over the long span Of their friend
ship. He remembered noting every
action of hers that had bespoken a
budding love for him. Her sisterly re-
proofs-well Ne knew how sisterly they
were-her anxiety about his inveterate
smoking, her little jealousies; all her
expressions of fondness for him came
before his mind.
Yet sometimes she seemed to relish
the cub admiration that her youthful
neighbors bestowed upon her. But
then probably she had not guessed of
his love, and perhaps a word was
needed to light hers.
But that evening she would learn all.
Perhaps it was too soon, but-well, he
loved her. For moment fieeting dread
unnerved him;-but no, surely no one
sweetheart.
He covered her little soft warm hand
with both of his and he looked deep
down into her gentle eyes.
"Dear. we have been friends so long
that it seemed as though no change
could ever come. But a change has
come. You have always had my friend
ship, darling, but now you have taken
my heart. Can you give me yours?"
She turned her head away. But
you must take it back, please l can
not give mine for it,
Then came few moments of silence
and his face aged as he stared out into
the lonely darkness.
He heard her voice again, "Just
think what people would say''-his
face darkened and his brow lowered
with a proud frown as he turned his
face toward her-''if it was generally
known that had a tobacco heart
Brooklyn Life.
The Van Buren press., 1893-06-17
TIE STUDY or woRDs.
| How to Acquire and Retain Good Vccen-
| ulary.

How to Acquire and Retain GOO0 VOCAL
4 ulary.
Nothing is more fascinating than the
study of words; nothing more clearly
indicates the scholar as opposed to the
mere tyro than the nice and fastidious
use of these. In words we clothe our
thoughts. Eloquent, subtle, poetical,
or thrilling as these may be, they are
intangible and invisible until arrayed
in language. Unspoken thoughts are
like unborn children. They cannot
come into the world or on the scene OF
human action till they are born OF the
spoken or the written word.
One way of acquiring a good vocabu-
larry is, Of course, by habitualiy asso-
ciating with people who speak cor
rectly, and whose choice of words is
careful and elegant. To live with highly
educated and congenial people is in
itself liberal education in this regard.
One sometimes wonders at the singu-
lar lapses into slovenly and illiterate
blunders conspicuous in men and wo-
men who "should know better" True,
they should, and probably do know
better, but in daily practice few people
rise very much above the ordinary level
of those with whom they always con-
verse. A city-bred girl went to live in
part of the country where provincial
isms are the current coin of daily talk.
Returning few years later to her
home, no one would have supposed her
to be the same person, so many queer
little phrases and downright forms OF
speech, inelegant and lacking in good
form, had she, very susceptible person,
picked up and adopted.
If we wish our daughter to be pro-
ficient in music we take her to hear the
most renowned artists. Technique
may be acquired by constant practice
under the best instructors, but she can
gain feeling, appreciation of color and
phrasing, sincere and genuine culture
in music only by hearing it rendered
we'll; and this is true of both vocal and
instrumental performance. So it is
true that a good vocabulary is greatly
augmented by habitually listening to
eloquent and beautiful speech, to the
polished diction of the pulpit, to the
rounded and rhythmic sentences of
prayer and praise. The young person
who always goes to church will gain
something not included in our usual
thought of church-going-a larger and
more facile vocabulary.
''For two years. said student OF
French, 81 heard no English that !
could help. l attended French
church; I went wherever French was
spoken, in public and in private; lived
in French atmosphere.
This is equally true of English. A
week. It is the slow accretion ol
many days, the development of many
weelxs.-Harper's Bazaar.
The Van Buren press., 1893-06-17
IMPROVEMENT IN COWS.
Their Present Condition Greatly ExcclA
Their Original state.

Their Present Condition Greatly ExcelA
Their Original State.
The improvement in the cows of the
various dairy breeds during the past
thirty years has been marked. Their
present condition greatly excels their
original one in the countries of their
origin. Their yields exceed by fifty
per cent. what it was when they first
came among us. This has been accom-
plished by better feed than they re-
ceived in their former homes. The in
ference of our thought is the relation
and correlation of food to product. OF
course it is an established belief based
on the experiments of the stations that
butter cannot be fed into the milk.
This is true of the herds that are main
tanned by them, because they are fed
to the limit of their capacity to turn
food into product, and hence no in
crease can occur. But the average
dairy COW is not SO fortunately envi-
roned as the station one. Her ration is
not SO generous a one, nor Is it fur
nished her with the same clockwork
regularity. With the sparsely-fed COW
whose food is inferior great enrich
ment Of product is possible, when
richer rations are substituted. Under
such treatment the milk will be richer,
and its butter product greater without
a corresponding increase of its volume.
The more inferior the food the COW has
been accustomed to previously the more
marked will be the enrichment of her
product. The conditions of her exist
ence have changed, and the response is
in obedience to her more favorable en-
vironment This seemingly disproves
the experiments o: the stations, but it
should be borne in nGnd that the con-
ditions that permit it are unknown at
them. 1t is for that reason that we
are constantly urging on dairymen the
Importance of feeding liberally to the
limit of each individual cows capacity,
that her product may be enriched for
the benefit of the man that boards her
Dairyman.
The Van Buren press., 1893-06-17

without asking information as to the
state Of my purse or. my stomach, they
sent me away, on assuring me that
could enter upon my duties at six
o'clock on the following morning.
1t was summer. and wandered about
all night in this unknown town. where
had neither relative nor friend. In the
morning swallowed a few little glass
es OF rum in an obscure eoffes~hcuscs
and then came here.
Outside the music continues Al,
that is famous solo on the earnes>s-
piston: sol. do. 81. do NJ na Bravo
bravo. How they applaea-heu sAsy
stamp their feet. And no eae gives .
thought to the poor little usher ergo
site them. whose face is pressed sgeirss
the panes Of glass, and whess ress evea
Is shiverins. Among my rsrs reraerss
Of leisure. when I have seee eas into
the street. il has heea WITH al the svls>
wardness of enc who IS safse eas ef bis
element. Or Of eegvar whe makes his
first appearance. walk upon sAe
points Of nv feet. rs IL afraid Of soll-
ing the paving ssersss | press my
arms to my side. - make myself
IS small IS ressiele-it always seems
to@ne in fact as IL were driving forty
students before E.e. and willingly I
could err TO the persons who are pass
ing to hurry up and to Join the ranks
As for the days of taking walks, they
arc for me like days of penitence and
pillory. How I tremble and how /
perspirc from agony when we cross the
Esplanade. or the street of the Sous
Prefecture. My boys are marching In
disorder. bawling and calling; follow
them with my hat drawn down over my
eyes, arms at my side and trailing my
feet. At right and at left the pretty
salcswomen of the ribbon dealers come
outside their shop windows and laugh
freely at my looks Of . brigand.
We have also days Of professions,
when we go out with music, with an
endless number OF tapers. that run
down in yellow streaks upon our
pantaloons: with red banners floating
at the head, and ears tortured by the
serpents and the trombones. We are
obliged to march through double row
of spectators. and go on as forlorn as
. sexton. thinking how ridiculous ap-
pear and that the young girls are maxi
ing fun of me. For q long time have
tried to forget myself and have put a
The Van Buren press., 1893-06-17
FARM AND GARDEN.
IMPROVED HIGHWAYS.
A California Arx~seas which Holds Good
Ia SaAeF Ssas<A

A California Areu0eAt which Holds Good
la 0sAee ssase&
enc u ssse s.as.ss Important adjuncts
for s@e~e~s In farming Is the possession
es roads maintained in such condition
sAAs hsavy heassS sAAs he hauled over
sh<sa "a ths SssAzaeSs possible outlay Of
<srsaxeh Nss nothing is so much
sexskeesi In the reral districts as this
u sses this state may be said to be
sr1esRa,sr wfskeas any scientifically
eeassruesed roaet<> while no state Is in
x-~as<r nesa Of them. This is truly a
rsxsen u magnificent distances. and
skss- sensh< Of the farmers have to
uaak~ tcrx hauls of their crops with
teams In order TO reach y market or a
shipping point II Is of vital impor-
saaee. therefore, that the roads over
which these loads must be carried
should be kept in good order. so that
the cost Of transportation may be re-
aueed to the lowest possible limit
No one who has had occasion to
travel over the roads in the interior
need be told that in the greater number
OF cases they are maintained in such a
manner as to necessitate vast waste
of power in hauling freight. They are
filled with chuck holes, there are long
stretches of loose sand, in which the
wheels of the lightest vehicle sink deep
", increasing the draft enormously,
and the only attempt to remedy these
evils is by occasionally spreading a
load of straw over the worst places.
The Van Buren press., 1893-06-17
INSECTS AND FLOWERS,
Explanation of the Peculiar Brilliancy oi
the Flora of the Higher Alps.

Explanation OF the Peculiar Brllliancy of
the Flora of the Higher Alps.
A curious instance of what might be
called device of nature to secure the
continued existence of certain forms OF
life under disadvantageous circum-
stances has recently attracted atten-
tion in discussion of the brilliancy OF
the colors of Alpine flowers. 1t is
known that insects are most important
agents in the fertilization of flowers,
and this is true of the flowers that
bloom among the SHOWS of the Alps as
well as of those that cover the meadows
far below.
But it has been observed, at the same
time, that the bees and butterflies
which ascend the mountains in order
to visit the brightly celored flowers
growing there perish by the thousand
in the sudden cold that envelopes the
peaks and glaciers at nightfall.
1t is only the extraordinary attrac-
tiveness Of the beautiful mountain
flowers that induces their insect admir-
ers to venture into the perilous realm of
snow and ice.
Here then, according to the view of
Doctor Jolly, the principal of the sur
vival of the fittest in the struggle for
existence comes into play. Those
Alpine flowers which possess the most
vivid colors succeed in attracting the
insects whose visits are essential to
their propagation, while the less beau
tifully cOlored blossoms are neglected.
The result Is that only the brighter
flowers are able to survive, and hence
the peculiar brilliancy of the fiora Of
the high Alps.-Youth's Companion.
The Van Buren press., 1893-06-17
cHrrpREN's GARDENS.
They Develop In the Young Mind Love
Of Nature.

OF N0tuI6s
Give the children garden all TO
themselves. 1t should not be large,
but large enough to afford little mild
occupation. These little plots, II mat
ters are managed rightly, will develop
q love of nature in the children anu
teach them many of her open secrets
All may be brought about, too, quite
naturally, for the strong initiative fac
ulty of the infantile mind will prove an
excellent ally and nothing will be
found to delight most children more
than to have a corner of the domain
entirely to themselves, wherein they
may carry on such operations as they
see going forward in the larger gar
dens. BY little skillful management,
their native curiosity may be led to
seek for answers to all sorts of ques-
tions in this domain. Be at some pains
to show them how to prepare the soil,
explaining also why this labor Is neces-
sary. Teach them to recognize the va
rious seeds at sight, and show them the
manner of planting each best calculated
to induce termination.
Attention may be directed to the diff
ferent modes of termination, as that OF
the bean, which emits but single
shoot, and then jumps above ground
itself to look around and nurse the
young plant: while the corn kernel
throws out two shoots. one downward
and one up to the light, but itself stays
in the ground. Then they should be
taught to recognize the first shoots OF
each garden plant, and not to mistake
them for weeds or the weeds for useful
plants.
These and thousand other things
throughout the season may be found to
interest child of active, in
quiring mind, while such old-fashioned
virtues as industry, patience, perse.
verance and order may unconsciously
get lift at the same time. For while
the plots should not be large enough to
seriously tax the play hours In their
care, it should be understood that nc
slovenliness could be allowed, and that
decent carrying out of what had been
undertaken would be expected. Nature
offers rewards of her own for such
labars as even child is capable of, but
these might be judiciously augmented
by small prizes for the best-looking
plots, the largest retu rms, etc. Perhaps
some grown persons will exclaim:
''But Idon't know anyt hing about these
things myself" Well, no harm will
be done if, in teaching the children, you
find out, too
The Van Buren press., 1893-06-17
A Tax on Agriculture.

At meeting of the Iowa Road I'm
provement association, few days ago,
one speaker said he had made careful
computation from such data as he had
been able TO obtain of the cost Of bad
roads, and he found they tax what is
understood to be agricultural products
fully &l35, 900, 600 annually. He thought
it a moderate estimate to put the 9TH
er contributions to bad roads by the re-
naming traffic of the country at an
equal amount, making total of s250,-
0nn nno N
The Van Buren press., 1893-06-17
1t Pays to BE Careful.

What may be food for plant may
easily be poison to an animal; and the
farmer who hangs the empty fertilizer
bags on the pasture fence SO that the
cows may suck them will be apt to find
this remark to be too true, and to his
sorrow and abasement for his thought
lessness. In the mixed manures 1t is
muriate of potash that is the most vir-
ulent. but there is nothing in any of
the ingredients of the fertilizers that is
in any way good for animals. The safe
way is TO turn the bags inside out and
wash them or soak them in barrel Of
water, and use the liquid for the gar
den or the window plants. and
Farmer.
The Van Buren press., 1893-06-17
FOR FRUIT GROWERS.
How to Destroy the Tent Caterpillar and
Other Parasites.

How to Destroy the Tent Caterpillar and
Other Parasites.
Whoever has neglected to destroy the
caterpillar eggs before they hatched
should do SO just as soon as the nests
appear among the branches of the trees.
With pair of long-handled pruning
shears, the small limb or twig upon
which they are resting may be cut off
and burned or crushed under foot Or,
with pole fitted with hooked wire,
similar to that in Fig. 1, pull the nests
from the tree, and crush them with the
foot. If it is desired to do thorough
work, it can be done by burning them
ont. Make a compact ball, three inches
in diameter, by rolling strips of rags or
twine; around this wrap No. or an.
The Van Buren press., 1893-06-17
FIGS, 1 AND 9.

nealed wire, twist the ends together,
and wind around the end of pole in
the manner shown in Fig. 2. Soak the
ball with kerosene, apply the match,
and hold, for about ten seconds, directly
underneath the nest, and it will be COM
pletely destroyed. This. of course,
should be done in the morning, before
the caterpillars leave the nest, or after
four o'clock in the afternoon, when they
are usually all at home. Once filing
the ball will at least destroy fifty nests.
The same method is equally effective
with the tussock moths, which are so
destructive to ornamental lawn and
many street shade trees. : American
Agriculturist, 1867