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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-04-28
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4 NAs born - ftet - the sflvery light
3oas lAu <hD In southern fountain
free - the sea fed btfd that feete p
s On Scandinavian mountain:
Ffep rs the wind that mocks 1T the sway
Apd pinioning clasp Of another
Yet IN tho slave they scour1ed to-day
Z saw and khew-my brotherl
Wasted In purple sat apart
But the cord that smota him bruised me:
i oloSed my ears, but the sob that broke
From his savage breast accuAod me;
No phrase of judgment Just
The plant of my soul could smother.
A creature vile, abased to the dust
knew him still-my brother.
And the autumn day that had smiled 30 fair
Seemed suddenly overclcvded;
Gloom, more dreadful than nature owns,
MY human mind enshtouded.
/! thought Of the power benign that made
And bound men one to the other
And 1elt in nay brothers fear afraid,
AMI ashamed in the shame of my brother.
Florence Earle Coates.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-04-28
Cribblng.
Field Experiments with oats.

Cribbing, otherwise wind-sucking
or swallowing air, says the London
Live Stock Journal, is vice peculiar
to horses alone. It is vice which
may be checked by mechanical appli-
ances, but is rarely entirely eradi-
Gated. The removal of the manager
and placing the horses food on the
ground will not prevent a determined
cribber swallowing air. The sides Of
the stall he will sometimes utilize for
the same purpose, and some horses
will crib on their own body. Others
learn to crib without any support at
all It has been clearly proved that
what is known as cribbing is not, as
was once thought, an act of belching
and expelling gas from the stomach,
but Of swallowing air into it. Horses
killed after cribbing have had the
gases in their stomachs and
dntestines subjected to chem
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-04-28
Farm Notes.

Improvement is simply adding ad-
ditional value to the stock kept on
the farm.
It is not the particular breed that
| is of SO much Importance as the me-
cessity of good breed
Oats make good feed to develop
muscle, hence are preferable as a
grain for the work teams.
When a contagious disease breaks
out separate the we'll animals from
the sick ones Immediately.
In marketing stock size is only a
secondary consideration if the ami
NAL is fat, smooth and trim.
Breeding animals of all kinds re-
quire food rich in the elements
needed for bone and muscle.
Glover is valuable when plowed
under, but is more SO after it has
passed through the animals.
Remember that the chief end of
live stock on the farm is to convert
the coarser products into cash.
A good sandy loan is better for
potatoes than a heavy soil even
though the latter be the richer.
The average farm needs few head
Of every sort in order to make the
best use of the various products.
Every class of animals requires
more Or less exercise according to
it's kind if good health is secured.
With all classes of stock good clover
or grass will promote healthier and
thriftier growth than an exclusive
diet of grain.
Almost any animal can be fattened
rapidly enough after it is grown, and
especially If it has been kept in .
good condition.
Two bushels of oats per acre is an
average quantity to SOW, but in nearly
all cases it will ce better to increase
rather than to decrease the amount
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-04-28
SHORT AND SELECT.

Another petrifed man has been
found in Texas
The lost books of Euclid, in San
skirt, are said to be now in the library
of the Maharajah of Jeypore.
Decorative electric lighting effects
and their application to the interior
of modern houses is increasing greatly
'Old Billy Greene" is hermit who
has lived in Virginia town from time
beyond memory of the Oldest inhabi-
tant.
1t is said that the Turks were the
first people to bury their dead in CENT
eteries adorned with ornamental head
stones.
A belt is in use at large elevator
out West, which, it is claimed, has
surface speed of nearly $500 feet per
minute, the driving pulley being
sixteen feet in diameter
Elishah Candee has been running an
engine on the Wabash road, between
Fort Wayne and Lafayette, Ind, since
1864, and during that time, he asserts,
he has never been the cause of an ac-
cident.
About a month ago the young
daughter of H. A. Slough of Steel
Creek, N. c., swallowed tin tobacco
tag, and the other day, while in
violent coughing spell, she is said to
have coughed the tag up.
There is pond in the vicinity Of
Chestertown, Maryland, that has never.
been known, it is said, to have even a.
skim of ice on it's surface, and during
the last cold winter it is said that it
was not frozen particle.
Jacob Mumma, recluse, died few
days ago at his home, near York, Pa,
from which he had absented him
self only once in fortyfive years, and
that was when he went to England to.
dispose of patent he had obtained
on watch He is said to have re-
fused $50, 600 for it because he wanted
500, 600 and to have let the thing GO.
by default afterward
The Germans have caused their.
agents to compile dictionaries of all
the native languages spoken in their
colonies The task is not small one.
as there are fifty languages spoken in
their East African possessions, twelve
in those of Southwest Africa, twenty
in the CameroOns, five or six in Tonga
and at least fifty in the South seas.
Moreover. there are numerous dialects
Of these tongues.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-04-28
]. GENERAL BUTLER.
4 Few Good Ouss ON the Old Man 1A0
Will Bear TeY1i.g.

viii Bssr Telling.
Once while he was In congress h@
divided his time with fellow-mem
Der when question in which he wa
not specially interested came up for
debate. The member talked more
than his share, and on being called Il
order remarked: ..Mr. Speaker, Cen
eral Butler kindly divided his time
with me.'' That's true" Butler re-
piled, .but / didn't divide eternity
with you. The general was present
one night at dancing party, but
contented himself with looking on.
One of the bellies invited him tt
waltz with her, and on his declining
with pretty compliment, she in.
CURED: Don't you ever dance, gen.
eral?" "No," he explained to her,
II make other people dance"
Undertaking to talk down CROWD
of street rioters, he had an apple
thrown at him, says the New YORK.
Tribune. Putting out his hand he
dexterously caught it and interrupted
his remarks long enough to eat it,
The incident pleased the rioters, and
he was given hearing. The next
day one of the newspapers Of the city
in which the riot occurred mischiev-
ously rallied him on eating the apple.
reminding him that it probably
reached him from very dirty hand.
The general sent card to the
newspaper saying: II peeled that
apple before eating it, always
peel apples before eating them-don't
you?"
During the war a young fellow had
occasion to call upon him in Boston
in behalf of a lyceum which wanted
him to lecture before it. The gen.
eral received the youth with great
kindness, gave him his autograph,
but declined the invitation. II am
in the employ of tho United States"
he said. II have no lecture prepared,
and to write one which I would be
willing to deliver before your lyceum
would take me considerable time
Now, do you think l would be treat
ing the United States fairly if took
the time?' This question proved toe
much for the young fellow. The gener--
al bowed him out of his Office with the
kindly assurance that if he ever saw
his way clear for doing so he would.
write and deliver the lecture in ac-
| cordance with his request.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-04-28

There is in Spain d river called
Into, which has very extraordinary
qualities. Its waters, which are as
yellow as topaz, harden the sand and
petrify it in most surprising man
ner If a stone falls into the river
and rests upon another they both
become perfectly united and conglu-
tinated in a year. 1t withers all the
plants on it's banks as we'll as the
roots of trees, which it dyes of the
same hue as its waters. No fish live
in it's stream.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-04-28
Not Much of q Complim emit.

She--And won't you be able to
come to my reception?
He--I am afraid not, Miss Rose. /
will either come myself or send
flowers.
She--Ah, that is very kind of YOU
do so love fewers.-Texas Siftings.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-04-28
The Small Boys Fun.

Jimmy-Why don't yer come over
here an skate. The ice is a heap
slicker.
Tommy There's more fun here. If
] was to break through here I'd like
" drown, an over there tn water
amt foot deep.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-04-28
The German Soldier.

Lieutenant-Youl look like a good
and efficient soldier. Tell me now,
what does an efficient soldier do the
first thing in the morning when he
gets up?
Soldier-He shines his boots the
evening before. Texas Siftings.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-04-28
Salt Far Asparagus.

j. L Buchanan. Mich, writes:
please. tell. me the proper way OF
handling an asparagus bed that has
been set folr years. Also, how much
salt to use to the square rod, and how
often to salt it?"
Reply by Joseph. Salt applica-
tions, even to the extent of ten or
more barrels per acre, will do no
harm to the asparagus plantation,
and it may do but little or no good.
/ am not a believer in sailing land,
but if you wish to try it's effects, you
may use three or four Or more bar
rels per acre. My advice, however,
is to use good manure, preferably old
compost applied broadcast and har-
rowed or cultivated in in spring. Or
If compost is not at hand, or not to
be had at a cheap rate, use wood
ashes, bone-meal and nitrate of soda
or good complete commercial fer
tilizer, and the more the better. If
your plants are set the proper dis
lance, and not crowded, liberal feed
ing will give you the large, fiat shoots
that are wanted in market and that
will bring good price.-Farm and
Preside
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-04-28
Home Hints.


According to the Medical Exam.
iner castor Oil has not failed in any
case to remove warts to which it was
applied once a day for two to six
weeks.
Half the battle in washing dishes is
keeping the dishcloths and towels
clean. Washing out once a week in
ammonia water should never be
neglected.
ScOrched linen may be restored by
the following process: Slice two
onions and extract the juice, to
which add half an ounce of white
soap, two ounces fuller's earth and
half pint of vinegar. Boil we'll and
spread it over the scorched places,
leaving it to dry. Wash the article.
Polished steel articles if rubbed
every morning with leather will not
become dull or rusty, but if the rust
has been suffered to gather it must
be Immediately removed by covering
the steel with sweet oil and allowing
it to remain on for two days, then
sprinkle it over with finely powdered
unslaked lime and rub it with polish
ing leather.
Rubber or even leather goods may
be repaired by using the following
cement: Take gum shellac three
parts, India rubber one part by
weight; dissolve these ingredients in
separate vessels in ether free from
alcohol, applying gentle heat.
When thoroughly dissolved mix the
two solutions and keep in a bottle
tightly stopped.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-04-28
Buying Yearlinr Cattle.

1t is pretty certain that beef cattle,
cows, and all the bovine kind, will
bring good prices for some years to
come. The buying of young animals
for rearing was many years ago a
good business, as it almost always
paid a profit. But it had a set back
about the time when the vast plains
of the West were flooding Eastern
markets with poorly fed beef. That
time has gone by forever. Cattle
growing is to be hereafter a legiti-
mate farm industry, and subjected to
the same conditions with other farm
ing. Whoever buys young cattle at
fair rates now, and fattens or brings
them to maturity. is reasonably sure
to make money by the operation. -
American Cultivator.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-04-28

sica1 analysis, Will the result
that pure air has been found. More
over, other experiments have been
made which lead to the same conclu-
sion. An empty bladder inserted in
the gullet in prescribed way is
found to be distended with pure air
after the act OF cribbing. The vice
of cribbiting. in the way it is most
usually performed, is destructive to
the teeth of the horse, and so inter.
feres with the proper mastication Of
his food. Swallowing air, however,
in any way, frequently results in SER
ious intestinal troubles indigestion,
fiatulencv, colicky pains, and other
ailments. The owner of a cribbing
horse is in possession Of a trouble.
some, undesirable animal
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-07-19
Don't You Know

That SRlins has the best business col
lege in the state of Kansas? 1t is the
Kansas Wesleyan Business College and
Institute Of Shorthand. There they
teach actual business as prscticed in the
real business world. Banking, railroad
ing, wholesaling, real estate, and insur-
snce, and all other kinds OF Office work
are practiced according to the most sp.
proved methods Of our leading CONNER
cial houses. Best system of shorthand
taught. Court reporters, general report
ers and smsnuenses fitted to fill the
most responsible positions.
1t has the most completely equipped
rooms and Offices, the most thorough
course Of study and the least expense Of
any business college in the west.
Board and furnished room $l.80 per
week. All other expenses ia proportion.
Satisfaction guaranteed or no pay. Rail
road fare paid beyond a radius of $50
miles. Practical business men in charge.
Every teacher a specialist. Every grad
uate qualified to fill important positions.
Students helped to places. No vacation.
Students may enter at any time. For
particulars address
T. w. ROACH, SalinR, Kan.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-07-19

Cesding. Perhaps railroad officers and
attorneys would be- the proper persons to
hear from. In one thing they are mis-
taken-that "the Populist authorities of
Kansas, Nebraska, Texas and other
states will learn that there are limits to
their power for evil over Legitimate in
vestments in the business OF transporta-
tion." In this they err. Not only the
authorities, but large number Of peo-
ple-ln Kansas, q msjority-hsye already
learned that there are limits to the pub
lie control OF railroads. 1t is this knowl-
edge that makes them 30 Jealous for
government ownership.
Sunday opening OF the fair has not
proved to be an unquslined success. The
first open Sunday, May 28, saw $4,000
people on the grounds as against $1,000
the day before, and 6l,0OO the day after.
Since then the attendance has fallen
steadily. 1t has never equslled what it
was either on the day before or the day
after. While there were 10000 paid ad-
missions on July l, on Sunday, the I'd,
there we're but $4,000. On the 81, there
were 100000. On Sundays all Of the
United States government buildings and
exhibits, many state buildings, and the
foreign buildings, except those Of Ger
many and Sweden, have been closed.
About half OF the exhibits in the Manu-
factures building are covered and hid
deL from sight. In the other large
buildings many sections are closed. The
sideshows on the PlRssnce do q thriving
business. Several of them reduce en-
trance fees TO half prizes. But the pub
lie do not care to pay so cents for the
privilege Of seeing the architecture OF the
White City and the outlines of covered
exhibits. There has been talk Of reduc-
ing the price of entrance on Sundays to
25 cents. This may bring crowds. Un-
less something is done, the receipts will
not equal the expenditures for Sundays.
Once it seemed that Sunday opening
would do good in decreasing the patron
age Of the cheap sideshows that are
grouped near the entrance. But the
directory have permitted such number
Of sensational attractions to be located
in the Plaisance that it is about on par
with the neighboring streets outside.
One Of the latest attractions for the ele-
walton and refinement (H) Of the visitors
is the exhibition Of James j. Corbett, Of
San Francisco, who gained his notoriety
in doing what is made a crime by the
statutes Of almost every state. With the
saloon, the pugillst, and the dancing
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-07-19

proved to be guilty beyond a reasonable doubt
before he can be convicted of criminal Of
fense have examined all of the evidence
against Neebe with care and it fails to prove
even the shadow of case against him.
Some of the other defendants were guilty Of
using seditious language, but even this can
not be said Of Neebe.
STRUCTURES ON THE PRESIDING JUDGE.
"5. 1t is further charged with much bitter
ness by those who speak for the prisoners that
the record of the case shows that the Judge
conducted the trial with malicious ferocity
and forced eight men to be tried together;
that in cross-examining the states witnesses
he confined counsel for the defense to the
specific points touched on by the state, while
in the crOss-examination of the defendants
witnesses he permitted the states attorney to
go into all manner of subjects entirely foreign
to the matters on which the witnesses were
examined in chief; also that every ruling
throughout the long trial on any contested
point was in favor Of the state, and further,
that page after page Of the record contains in
sinuating remarks of the judge, made in the
hearing of the jury, and with the evident in
tent Of bringing the jury to his way of think
ing; that these speeches, coming from the
court, were much more damaging than any
speeches from the states attorney could pos
sibly have been; that the states attorney often
took his cue from the judges remarks; that
the judges magazine article, recently pub
lished, although written nearly six years after
the trial, is yet full ofvenom; that, pretending
to simply review the case, he had to drag into
his article a letter written by an excited
woman to a newspaper after the trial was over,
and which therefore had nothing whatever to
do with the case and was put into the article
simply to create prejudice against the
woman, as well as against the dead and the
living, and that, not content with this, he in
the same article makes an insinuating attack
on one of the lawyers for the defense, not for
anything done at the trial. but because more
than yePr after the trial, when some of the
defendants had been hanged, he ventured to
express few kind, if erroneous, sentiments
over the graves Of his dead clients, whom he
at least believed to be innocent 1t is urged
that such ferocity or subserviency is without
parallel in all history; that even Jeffries in
England contented himself with hanging his
Victims and did not stop to berate them after
they were dead
"These charges are of personal character,
and while they seem to be sustained by the
record of the trial and the papers before ME,
and tend to show that the trial was not fair,
do not care to discuss this feature Of the case
any farther, because it is not necessary. am
convinced that it is clearly my duty to act in
this case for the reasons already given, and l.,
therefore, grant an absolute pardon to Samuel
Fielden Oscar Neebe and Michael Schwab this
Goth day of June, 1893 JOHN p. ALTGELD,
Governor Of Illinois"
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-07-19

Curriers' European hotel, Chicago,
formerly the ST. Charles) has $50 newly
fitted rooms. Central location. No ad-
vance during the fair. It will pay TO en-
gage in advance. $l.00 per day. Cur
rier & Judd, Proprietors, Is and II s.
Clark St, Chicago.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-07-19
COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION 00RRE-
SPONDENOE,

uAnOSb 0V0Ey AmSEIC&u oAl5to d OOn@
sciousness Of the injustice Of the present
economic system. The Unequal distri-
button Of wealth in itself alarms him
not 1t is in the unequal reward for
equal labor that he sees q menace to
freedom, in making a few vastly more
powerful than corresponding number
OF their fellows, or even more powerful
than all the race. He finds liberty and
tie pursuit of happiness, il not life, more
or less dependent upon the will Of indi-
vidusls who have been permitted to OK.
ercise powers that are dangerous in the
hands Of a small number OF people.
True, he knows that monopolies are not
Of recent origin, but every 6bOr Of his
being has been permeated by the ICON
oclastic spirit that has no reverence for
abuses or evils because they are Of an
cient origin. A vague interest has long
broOded in his bosom, q secret sense Of
wrong, that has daily become more def
mite and more pronounced. He has
sought remedies for oppressive condi-
tions. He has tried economy, educa-
tion and strikes. All have done good.
All have failed in their ultimate purpose.
A political stroke is needed to attract the
notice of the blindfOlded goddess and
secure the adjustment of the scales Of
justice.
Mankind are in a volCano-like state.
Beneath seemingly sound crust the
unrest is great. In the effort TO secure
On equilibrium between labor and re-
ward, between work and returns, there
is boiling, q seething, q hesviDg that
shakes the economic world and gives
promise of a mighty upheaval. Vent
holes occasionally appear, as at Buffalo
and Homestead, in Tennessee and Idaho
and at Lsmont. These are premonitory
of a revolution that is sure to come.
In the great struggle for human free
dom, regardless Of race and color, Sew
ard declared it to be an "irrepressible
conflict" The struggle to-day is not one
whit more repressible And when Lin.
coin said that this nation could not exist
part slave and part free, he uttered q
truth that is as applicable to industrial
slavery resulting from q bad financial
system and the usurpstlon Of powers OF
the people by corporation as it was to
chattel slavery based on color.
There is an "irrepressible conflict"
now between public interest and the pri-
vste control Of natural monopolies-of
railroads, telegraphs, telephones, street
railways, canals, electric lights, gas and
water works. The alignment Of oppos-
ing forces is rapidly going on. Men
must take one side or the other. Pity
tits they do not always side with the
worker. At Salt Lake City few days
ago the Train Dlspatchers' Association
OF America bowed to the railroad power
and resolved that their "loYalty to the
railways" should be "unquestionable and
at all times to be relied upon" Could
there be q stronger evidence Of the
power Of monopolies?
1t may be that railway corporations
fear few things, but they seem to have q
wholesome respect for the power Of the
Populists, il paragraphs in recent issue
of the RGiIsOGy Age be taken as criterla.
The Nebraska POpuliSt rate law is as
sailed. The injury to the business Of q