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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-12-06

The agent and retail dealer take goods
and distribute them among consumers,
and for this work they add to the first
cost Of supplies just as much as the
business will bear. In some cases the
profits are large and in others they are
small. but at all times they represent
part of the price consumers have to
pay The work in which they are en-
gagged is an honorable and to some ex-
tent necessary one, and yet they are
not in good and regular standing with
the farmers as a class.
Now. IL does not pay to criticise man
for making all he can. We do not
blame men for forming trusts, but
blame ourselves for creating the condi-
tons that make trusts profitable. The
agent or retail dealer does just what the
most of would do We're we in his
place-get all he can for his services in
distributing producers goods. He is a
necessity long as no other means of
distribution are employed, and If his
profits are unduly large the buyer in
most instances has only himself TO
blame. The buyer rarely knows what
the first cost-producers' price-on any
article is, and cannot tell what pay he
may be giving his dealer for the work
of distribution
1t is the privilege of the farmer to
learn the first cost of all important
items among his supplies. If he cannot
learn it in one way he can in another.
Anything that is known to thousands
cannot be a state secret, kept under a
seal and bound with red tape. Having
gained this knowledge in reference to
any machine or other needed article it
is very easy to buy it without giving
the retail dealer any larger compensa-
ton than is just. Suppose that one
wishes to buy a self-binder that costs
the dealer sos. If he pays cash with
the order and knows how to run
binder without the dealers instruction,
and if he orders it without requiring the
dealer to spend a day talking him into
the purchase, he treats the agent well
when he tenders him Sis. If a farmer
knows what he wants and pays cash
for ii, 10 per cent. is enough for the
agent. If he does not pay cash and re-
quires a course of instruction regarding
what he wants and how to run his bust
ness, thus taking the agents time, he
should add what the agent asks for
tuition.
1t is the same way with mowers,
wagons, buggies, plows, harrows, etc.
The first cost of any make can be
learned by any energetic farmer who
determines what he wants before he
needs it and makes little investigation,
and then if he goes to the nearest deal
er and tenders cash with the order a 10
per cent. advance in price is sufficient
to make almost any agent glad to do
business. 1t is the time wasted in sell
ing and collecting the pay for goods
that makes prices unnecessarily high.
SO long many buy on time and pay
after time dealers may be unwilling to
make cut prices public. and one should
respect and confidence. But it is my
observation that no customer is more
heartily welcomed by dealers than the
one who knows just what he wants to
buy, what he should pay, tenders the
money and takes the goods.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-12-06
neeneninr the Flowing.

The best time to deepen the blowing
is during the fall blowing, says n. j.
Sheppard, as the new soil viii be
greatly benefited by the action of freez-
ing and thawing rain and snow, dur
ing the winter. The character Of the
subsoil should, however, in a great meas
ure, determine the depth of blowing. a
hard-pan sub-soil had best be left if il
be deep. With clay a sub-soil pillow can
be used to a good advantage, as this
would deepen the soil without bringing
the unproductive sub-soil to the surface.
A soil that has an unproducuYe soil
underneath, yet reasonably near the
surface, can be benefited more by deep
stirring than deep blowing, while
loamy soil of sufficient depth to admit
of deep blowing without bringing to the
surface unproductive soil, will be great
ly benefited by deep blowing. The char
acter of the soil must always be consid-
cred in determining the manner of
blowing. Often there will be plenty of
latent fertility in the sub-soil that needs
only the action of the air and other
elements to make it available. The
deeper the soil and the larger the avail
able supply of plant food, the better
will the soil retain moisture and the
more surely will 1t grow good crops.
By blowing this kind of soil deep in
the fall considerable benefit may be de-
rived But even then ii may not be
best to pillow too deep at one time, and
especially the case when shallow plow-
ing has been followed for some years
and the fertility of the surface soil has
In a measure been exhausted. With this
class of soils the better plan in nearly
all cases is TO deepen gradually, little
at each blowing.
Better results will be secured in plow-
land deeper for the first time II it is
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-12-06
BE KIND.
The World Would BE Better If All
Were So.

me "Orto WOutu nc Detter N All
Were So.
Dear H. L. c. .Friends-'S appho's'' ref
erence in the last paper Nurses ILL
ness reminds me that since / became a
member of the II. L. c. I have done
nothing to further its interests.
with the grateful remembrance Of
many kindnesses shown believe that
we might all leave the world the better
for our having lived IL we would but
learn how to be kind.
Love active" Drunimond says, but
how often we bury kind thoughts deep
in our hearts when the simple express
sion might tighten a heavy burden.
l enjoyed "Sappho's' letter today and
ben Ardys'' selections. liked that one
especially from Mackey:
The old thoughts never die. Immortal
dreams
outlive their dreamers- and are ours for
aye;
No thought once formed and uttered can
expire.
I have learned to love many of the
II. L. c. members, but some of those
whose writings 1 most enjoyed have en-
tirely disappeared from the page. 1
trust that an interest in II. L. c. affairs
may be aroused and the club be again
what 1t once was and more. Your of
the II. L. c.. NURSE"
INDIANAPOLIS Nov 90. -
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to the Rev DR.. Annie Shaw Of Wash
ington, ID. c., who is one of your much
noted old maids and a companion of
Lucy Stone and Susan Il. Anthony,
those great voicers of woman's rights.
And a grand woman she is too, we'll de-
veloped and handsome, smart and log
ical i'm her conclusions, more than sim
ply jumping at them.
She lectured to us on Sunday evening
upon her pet theme, The Merchandise
of the Souls of Men. or the Cursed
Liquor Traffic" and Monday night she
spoke on THE Fate of Republics, or
Womans Rights +"
If any of my readers have ever heard
her you know what a treat we had.
Hope you all enjoyed Thanksgiving.
Success to The Sentinel and that grand
old club of ours. ''IVEN."
DanVille Dec f.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-12-06
Some Don'ts for Fathers.

From the Prairie Farmer we take
these "don'ts' for parents:
Don't lean down too hard when the
boy Is turning the grindstone; this is
one Of the causes of boys leaving the
farm.
Don't expect the boy to keep up with
you and the hired men, and run err
rands or carry water at the same time
Don't expect the boy TO maintain an
angelic disposition If. after working
hard all day. he is obliged to eat at the
second table.
Don't give the boy lamb or calf to
raise-which~ would have died IL he had
not attended TO it-and let 1t grow up
to be dads sheep OF COW.
Don't continue to treat the bc~b IL
he had no sense, but consult with him
occasionally; he may possibly know
more than you do.
Don't rave and storm because the
boy wants some time to tinker; he may
astOnish you with some Of his work.
Don't tell the boy he can go hunting
or fishing Saturday and then hitch on
days work before he goes. 1t is not
fair,
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-12-06
Founder in Horses.

A veterinary surgeon. DIR. Paaren.
gives the following advice in case of
founder:
In the beginning Of the disease, remove
the shoes and rasp down the heels aid
edges around the hoofs, so that the bear
ing of the animals weight comes en-
tirely on the sole and frog. Then place
the fore feet in a roomy, strong tub.
with warm water. during half an hour,
and repeat this three to four times daily
during two days. Thereafter apply
hogs lard, or some softening ointment
to the hoOfs daily. Leave the horse
without shoes in a roomy box stall or
comfortable shed with plenty of dry bed
ding. To keep such an animal tied up
in single stall is Objectionable; he
must have liberty to frequently change
his position, which cannot be afforded
in a single STALL AS soon as the shoes
have been removed and the feet pared
as directed. the horse should be given
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-12-06
OFFICERS.


II, President-wh E. strawn. Montpelier
First -President-Torrence NJ. jack
Second Vice-President-AI Miss Sue C. Par
ker, KalOna, Ia.
Recording Secretary-AIiss Dora Wenner.
PIeasal4t-ave:. Indianapolis md -
Corresponding .Secretsry-AIiss Emma L.
Merker, Emery, Eli.
Executive Committtee-wiliarn A. Clark
HanyiIie Id box " .Soral9 Medina
w Va.
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The Bible.

What wondrous thing
To us is given,
That yields to us hope
OF a home in heaven?
What wondrous light
Is that which shines
Lighting our pathway
To brighter chimes?
The bible.
In what book do we see
That story divine
OF Jesus OF Nazareth,
The Light Of all time?
Who taught US our Father
And suffered and died
That we might In heaven
Forever abide?
The bible.
oh, wondrous book.
Oh, beautiful light,
That fills the heart
or the Christian knight
With wonderful truths
OF Joy and love
And gives him HON
In heaven abovei
The bible.
Oh, wondrous word.
Oh. wondrous light,
That give to the Christian
Pleasure and delight;
That guides his feet
BY road and rod
And brings him at last
To heaven and God.
The bible.
"DASHING NICK"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-12-06
Grinding Grim for Hogs.

In an experiment made by DR.. Leh-
man of Saxony he found that so per
cent of whole grain fed to hogs was un-
digested, and says that food should be
reduced to a condition more or less fine
before being given to such animals.
S. H. Clay Of Bourbon county, KY,
made several experiments in feeding
hogs with the following results:
Other conditions being equal, and SIM
liar, one bushel of dry corn made five
pounds and ten ounces of pork; one
bushel of ground corn boiled, made at
one trial, fourteen pounds and seven
ounces of pork; at another trial sixteen
pounds and seven ounces, and in anoth-
er nearly eighteen pounds.
In the report of the department of
agriculture for 1871, it is stated that an
Iowa farmer fed twenty one-year-old
hogs with this result:
Fed on whole corn, one bushel made
ten pounds of pork. Fed on meal
ground fine and mixed with water, one
bushel made thirteen and half pounds
of pork.
Experiments made at the Maine agri-
cultural college in 1869 proved that the
feeding value of corn meal was 1874 per
cent greater than that of corn fed
whole.
In the report of the department of ag-
riculture for 1870 it is stated that the
result of many experiments made Ia
feeding hogs by Joseph Sullivant proved
that corn ground into meal increases the
value 33 per cent. over that fed in the
ear.
Mr. A Sellie. a successful hog feeder
at Mequon, Wis, says; ''On account or
the rapid digestion, hogs cannot assim-
Hate from the dry food whole grain)
and it should therefore be prepared in
such a manner as to make the loss as
small as possible. / would prefer all
grain ground fine. Only for a change
give il whole but well soaked
Prof. Mapes of New Jersey found it
required thirty pounds of whole corn to
make as much pork as thirteen pounds
of cooked meal would produce.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-12-06

Although they are grievous and very often
fatal If disregarded, may be prevented by a
timely resort TO that admirable safeguard
of health, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, a
genial promoter Of activity in the renal
organs. the stomach and the liver. Ere
inaction OF the kidneys develops into
Bright's disease. diabetes or other danger
disorders. recourse should be had to
the Bitters. II this suggestion is followed
the happiest outcome of the earlier symp-
toms may be anticipated with confidence.
the outset by the means indicated since
at their maturity they are hard indeed to
conquer. Dyspepsia rheumatism. insom-
complaints are eradicated by the Bitters, a
medicine OF comprehensive use and prompt
effects.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-12-06

left reasonably rough, as this exposes it
more fully to the action Of the different
elements through the winter. A soil
that is stirred deep is in a much better
condition % grow a good crop than if
only the surface is worked, but the
character of the soil mist determine
whether it shall be plowed deep or the
surface plowed and the under soil sim
ply stirred or loosened up. But in
either case the fall is a good time for
doing the work.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-12-06

MACON, Cal have found Simmons
Liver Regulator the best family medi-
cine. I have used it in Indigestion and
Biliousness and found it to relieve i'm
mediately. After eating a hearty sup
per, if on going TO bed. take a dose OF
it never feel any bad effects of the
supper.-Ovid G.. Sparks, Ex-AIayor.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-12-06

Is an article by Gen. John Gibbon, u. s.
A.. who in the Civil War was usually
where the hardest fighting was going on.
TO appear in The Youths Companion.
1t belongs to an interesting series OF
sketches in The Companion called Mill
tary Life Described by American Gen.
erals"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-12-06
THE MIDDLEMkN'S PROFIT.
FARMERS SHOULD INFORM THEM
SELVES ON FIRST COSTS,

Then Take the Money and Pay Cash
for What He Wants TO Buy-Grind-
Ing Grain for Hogs-Deepenfng the
PIOwing-CIearing Up Fields with
sheep-HOw TO Begin with Poultry
Founder in DEMONSTRATING But
ter Some "DOn'ts' for Fathers
Recipes.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-12-06

VIII some member of the club or read
er of The Sentinel please tell me where
I can procure hymn book entitled 1.-The
Christian Psalnist?" Or If some one has
a copy who will sell it? Please address
me, w S. Kokendoffer, Montevallo, Mo-,
and / will send the money to pay post
age and also the price of the book.
COMET"
MonfeyalIo Mo Nov 90
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-12-06
AN IMPORTANT MEETING.

A business meeting to count ballots
will be held at the residence of the
recording secretary Saturday, Dec. 10.
All are cordially invited to be present.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-12-06
How 10 Begin with Poultry.

The beginner with poultry is likely
to make mistakes, and one of the worst
is in attempting to do too much at
first. Reading of the phenomenal sue
cess Of some one growing poultry on a
large scale he attempts to discount it
by doing still more. Waldo Brown tells
of a man who started one fall with a
thousand hens. He located at the edge
of woods with brook running through
it. This was handy for the owls, minks,
raccoons. hawks, etc, but the owner did
not thing OF that. He wanted to save
lumber in building his house, and so
dug into a hillside and the water oozed
out and made the house damp. He be-
gan in the fall so as to have high
priced winter eggs. and figured out on
paper what 500 eggs would come to at
20 cents dozen and how many chickens
he would have to sell when each hen
raised a brood of twelve. He could see
like "Col. Sellers" that there was mill
ions in it," and for a few weeks he was
one of the happiest men 1 ever met. A
month later he began to look worried.
why on earth didn't them hens begin
to lay?'-and when winter set in his
hens became roupy and began to die.
and finally he found millions-they were
not dollars. but chicken lice. and by the
time spring came there were few hens
left, and they were sorry they were
alive. In short, he retired from the
poultry business with large fund of ex-
perience and absolutely no other assets.
Then another man began by an outlay
of about $1,000, put into fine houses. He
has taken good care of his fowls, knows
lots about the business, and may yet
make a success of it, but his investment
is too large for his experience, and in
slang phrase he may discover that he
has 'bit off more than he can chew"
How, then, would advise a farmer to
begin with poultry? I would say, start
with fifty or one hundred hens; if the
latter number, make two colonies Of
them. Put up a house eight feet wide
and twenty-five feet long for a colony
of this size, with roosts at one end and
nests at the other These houses should
be built warm. lined with paper Inn
pervious TO air. and may be cheap
structures, but should have some large
windows at the south / build them
with a front to the south and the roof
with but a single slope to the north.
Make them ten feet high at the south
and six feet at the rear.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-12-06
Cleaning Up Fields with Sheep.

A correspondent of the American
Farmer well says that the clearing of
land of weeds by means of sheep is a
very expensive method of accomplishing
a desirable result. 1t is a good deal like
q man using his razor for pruning his
young fruit trees and small fruit plants.
The razor could be used, but it would
be a great deal more profitable to do
the work with a cheaper instrument. So
with clearing land of weeds. Something
of this kind can be done by means of
sheep. But what is gained on the
land is lost the sheep. These ami
mails can be compelled TO eat weeds, but
they do great deal better when sup
piled with grass and grain. The idea
that sheep like weeds as well as or
even better than they do grass, is in
correct. If turned into a pasture in
which there is plenty of grass and but
few weeds and bushes they viii seldom
disturb .the latter. but Will eat and
thrive upon the grass. If there is lit
tie grass and plenty of weeds they viii
eat the latter rather than go hungry,
but they will not thrive on such a diet.
The fine flocks of sheep which are eX-
hibited at our agricultural fairs are not
kept in weedy pastures. and the men
who make money on sheep are not the
ones who use them for the extermina-
ton of weeds.
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MontevalIo, Mo-, Nov. 80
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Riley. Ind. Dec. l.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-10-27
Conferences Program.

The following is the promise of good
things f,om tile comi"v inner confer
convention of Methodist preachers
IN be held Nov. Z, 8 and o:
TUESDAY EVENING.
1850 Devotional %ssrvices.
500 Sermon, Rev. II. A. James, Lead City.
WEDNESDAY MORNING.
$40 Devotional exercises, Rev. d. w. Tracy,
Speardsh, s. ID.
800 Sacrament Uf the Lords Supper.
$50 Survey Of the field, :Sup't y b. earns. A..
a. NJ: Snp't. MA Chamberlain, ID. d.;
President j. w. Hancher, A. NJ.
1890 The Evergreen Sunday School.
1l:l5 The under graduate and the conference
course of study.
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.
$40 Devotions: Rev. w. o. Glassmer.
900 Methodism and education, Rev. q. s. Baker
Chadrun, Neb.
$500 Post Graduate studies for preachers. Rev.
j. W. d. Anderson, PHI. d., Omaha, Nebr.
400 Blark Hills College and our youth, Rev.
e. E. Clodgh, DeadwOod.
"WEDNESDAY EVENING.
7:3O Platform Meeting:-
DevotiUns, Rev. j. r. Snedaker, ABB, Alliance,
Nehr.
Education in the Home, Rev. John r. Wood, A.
b., newcastle, Wyo.
Education in Business, Rev. A. r. Julian, A.
NJ, Chadron, Nebr.
Education in the Professions, Chaplain j. A.
Irish, ID. D., Fl. Meade, s. d.
TRURsDAY MORNING, 9.
$40 DevotiOne, Rev. E. E. RUrick, Box Butte,
Nebr.
9:O0 The Epworth League and the Church, Prot.
Mathew .. Dudgeon, A. b., Black Hills Col.
lege.
9:45 The EpwOrth League and the Circuit, Rev.
TIC. Balcl,, Chadron Circuit, Neor.
1880 The Junior Epworth League, Rev. O. L.
Ramsey, Valentine, Neb.
l1:l5 The MethOdiem Of Tomorrow, Rev. c. +.
smith, A. b JohnstOwn, Nebr.
THURSDAY AFTERNOON, 9.
lao Devotions, Rev. Vim. Shambaugh, Central
City, 8. d.
e.oo The Revival a Factor in the Growth of the
Church, Rev. NJ. Nichols, Hill City.
e:45 Hard Times and .Revivals, Rev. 7. j.
Elkins, HemingfOrd, Nebr.
$3.50 The PASTOR his own Evangelist, Rev. G. II.
Burleigh, Gordon, Nebr.
4:l5 After the Revival, Rev. G. NJ. Boswell, A.
NJ, Rapid City, 8 b.
THURSDAY EVENING, 8.
7:3O Temperance Hally:-
Devotiuns. Rev. q. 8. Ramsey, Valentine, Nebr.
Alcohol and Morals, Rev. j. Ii. Gillespie, Sher-
idan, Wyo.
Alcohol and Law, Rev. J. B. earns, A. NJ.
Rapid City, .. ID.
Alcohol and the Home, Rev. R. H. Cannon,
Nashville, Nebr.
Benediction.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-10-27

"For there will BIZ inspection in the
morning"
Anna Walton left Mondey night for
q two weeks visit at the Worlds fair.
All the dormito.y students, with a
few notable exceptions, are exerting
themselves daily, keeping their rooms
in the best possible shape, so that they
may not be- caught mapping when the
'inspector makes his appearance. Oh,
guileless youths.
Oar football friends have been rail-
lying their forces lately and the result
is an unprecedented interest in the
noble game. Games for instruction
and practice occur on the campus
every afternoon. 1t is a pity that we
have no neighboring college with which
to try our metal.
The musicale Wednesday afternoon
under the direction of Prof. Abhmtt
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-10-27

Wa an artistic success. 1t consisted
OF Instrumental solos by Misses MorrelI,
Dickover, Jennings, Mullen, Silkenson
and Crabill, and vocal solos by Prof.
Abbott and Miss Stanley, all OF which
were enjoyed. It is to be regretted
that students and parents do not take
more interest in these pleasant affairs.
Something we must learn is this, that
il we would create college spirit and.
enthusiasm we must support all coll
leee entertainments and gatherings as
q unit.
Russell Thorp was called home Wed.
nesday night to take charge Of the
Burlington Hotel during the absences
OF bis fAther.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-10-27
Cut Rates for the Rest If the Fair.

Cut Rates for the Rest Of the Fair.
Commencing Oct. 18th the Sioux
City and Northern and Pacific Short
Line will sell ronnd trip tickets to the
Worlds fair at less than one fare for
the round trip. Tickets on sale daily
until Nov. lst good to return until
Nov. 18th. Apply to any ticket agent
for information or write,
2S2. w. B. Member,
G. P. A., Sioux City, Ia.