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The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-09-21

An architect says there is no reason,
except limit of elevator power, why
houses should not be built /, 200 feet
high. As it is, no elevator at present
devised can travel higher than 400 feet
at most. So if we went up 1000 feet
we would have to change cars, so to
speak, two OF three times. There is un-
der construction at New York city a
building 23 stories in height. 1t is a
source of satisfaction to New Workers
that this will be taller than the famous
Masonic temple at Chicago. Four other
structures of equal height are now 60
ing up i'll various parts of New York
city, and one of 80 stories has been
planned for IL plot of ground neal the
foot of Broadway.
The man who discovered that an iron
frame was better than a stone or brick
wall to give strength to a house was the
man that made the modern skyscrap-
ing structure possible. That was only
10 years ago, yet later builders have al
ready improved on the original idea.
The frame is now made of steel instead
of iron, rendering it stronger still. Now
that they have begun there is no telling
where the tower houses will stop. The
lower floors of such houses will, how.
ever, be dark as Egypt if they are near
to any other buildings.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-09-21

he remarked, with an infection Of ad-
miration. "He was n of us when we
went up into the Bitter Root country,
away back in 1853. Did you notice
that red ring on his head? Well. gen
tlemen, the ragged edge of q Black
foot's knife made that scar, and all the
skin and hair inside of it were torn
from the skull by a red scoundrel's
muscular arm. The event occurred Just
about where Pocatello, Ida, now is.
Lou Parks and three other white
men had gone over in that neighborhood
to search for something or other, l for
get what, and II day Lou went out
from camp to kill some meat. The other
fellows heard him shoot once, and after
awhile wondered why he didn't bring
his game into camp or shoot again, as
the country just swarmed with game.
Then they concluded to go out and find
out what was the matter.
About half or three-quarters of a
mile away they saw a MAJ lying in
some bushes and rode up to find Lou.
He was unconscious, and his head was
covered with blood pouring from a hole
about as big as IA tin cup. 1t was easy
to see he had been scalped. No Indians
had been seen in the neighhorbood, and
the boys couldn't understand where they
had gone, because LOUIS gun and knife
were still with him. They looked around
for signs, and deeper in the chaparral,
about 20 yards away, found the dead
body of a Blackfoot Indian. He was
shot in the spine, and i'll his clinched
hand was q bunch of hair. 1t was Louis
scalp.
THE boys loosened the Indians
grasp and released the thing, and one OF
them suggested the bright idea of stick
ing it back OH Lou's head. They washed
it in water from one fellows leather
bottle and washed their partners head.
Then they fitted the scalp back i'll place
and tied it on with strips Of horse blan'
ket. When Lou came to his senses, ht
said that hewas kneeling down waiting
for an elk, which he thought he heart
below him, to com along, when he sud
denly felt something grab his hair from
behind and then pull the whole top o.
his head off. He said hat before h,
went off he saw something black go il
front of him and pulled his rifles trig
ger as he himself fell forward on hi
face.
For months he fingered between lif'
and death, but finally recovered. Whel
the blanket strip bandage was taken off
some time after the attack, by an arm,
surgeon at a post 400 or 800 miles away
where Lou was taken, it was found tina
the scalp had begun to grow on again
and after several years treatment it be
came as you see it now. Lou would Civ
q COW any time to find out what that In
dian was doing out there alone and VIII,
he took the chances III scalping hin
alive when he had a dead cinch on get
ting his hair by sticking the knife il
his neck first. Lou is here from Mis-
souri,, where he is now living, but h
amt after any postofice, you can bet.
Washington Star.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-09-21
Too Competent.

A duchess requiring a lady's maid
had an interview with one, to whom,
after having examined her appearance,
she said:
"Of course you will be able to dress
my hair for me-"
ooh, yes" replied the girl. ut never
takes me more than half an hour TO dress
a lady's hair."
"Half an hour, my child!' exclaimed
the duchess in accents Of terror. And
what on earth then should be able to
do with myself all the remainder of the
morning?"-London Tit-Bits.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-09-21

The bill Mr.. Harter of Ohio intro
duced into the national house while it
was waiting for the senate to unite it.
self provides that all existing tariff du-
ties shall be reduced one-half by Sept.
/, 1894, unless such reduction brings
them below 20 per cent ad valorem, in
which case Harter fixes special duties.
His idea is to place a 20 per cent ad va
lorem tax OH articles now paying q
higher rate than that. After Sept. /,
1894, he would have a uniform duty of
! cent a pound levied on all sugars and
molasses having 100 degrees of saccha-
rine strength, with a proportionally low
er rate for sugars and molasses not up
to full strength. He would put q uni
form duty of 4 cents a pound Oh coffee
and s cents a pound on tea. The inter
nal revenue tax on beer and all liquors
he would make 50 a barrel. After Sept.
l, 1899, his bill would reduce all GUS
toms duties to 12 per cent. He says this
is a compromise bill, which is what is
wanted, and if adopted it will give us
a surplus revenue every year from the
beginning. Mr.. Harter's bill has one
merit, at any rate-we can understand
IL
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-09-21
A Corner In Cocoons.

Genesee Valley Forest association
prizes last year to school chill
pr the gathering of the cocoons of
ctive insects. The three scholars
|ing the largest number were to
IS each, the three gathering the
hrgest So each and the three gath
the third largest 80 each. Then a
pr $40 was offered to any scholar
you'd beat last years record of
!. This was the offer that is now
Passing the society. Instead of a
boy coming up to the $40 mark,
have brought in their 30, 900 or
cocoons. and there is danger that
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-09-21
WHY PEOPLE BLUSH.
Fear Is the True Cause, and Old People
Rarely DO 1t.

ASpf - ShV hfo' -" VIM 0ok
Rarely do 1t.
Why do people blush? Certain emo
tons cause q kind of syncope. The heart
stops for an instant, and regaining
strength Immediately it acts in a stron-
ger manner and sends the blood racing
into the arteries. So much for the phys
biological portion of the question, but we
wish to know what causes these emo
tions.
Darwin explained this by saying that
when we perceive or fancy that we are
being criticised or closely observed our
whole attention is forcibly directed to
ourselves and is especially concentrated
upon our countenance. When a particu-
lar part of the body becomes the object
of such concentrated attention, its work
ing is greatly modified. We see a good
example Of this i'll the immediate effect
produced upon the saliva by thinking of
a lemon. Our face reddens on the same
principle. The veins relax and are filed
with ~arteriai blood.
This explanation is not quite satisfac-
tory, and other theories have been put
Lol w L W 1 lilblC VI l'So Su',SDG. IL
latest is that of Mr.. Melinard, which is
at least original. We blush through
modesty, timidity, bashfulness and con-
fusion. Praise makes us blush-that is
modosty. Now, what takes place within
us? Something very simple. This praise
pleascs us, but we do not wish that fact
to be perceived. Take a case Of timid-
ity. A schoolboy is asked a question
which he cannot answer. He wishes to
hide his ignorance, which may expose
him to punishment or the gibes of his
fellow scholars. He turns red.
1t is the same with confusions. We
have done something which we wish to
hide, and we are afraid that it will be-
come known. In short, the moral state
is identical III all cases. We redden be-
cause we feel that people are finding out
something which we wish to hide.
NJ. Melinard cndeavors to demonstrate
the correctness of his theory by showing
that when the fear of being ''unmasked''
is removed there is no blushing. In the
case of lovers, we find at first that they
blush when they meet because they are
DESTROYS to hide their sentiment. After
ward there is no sign Of a blush because
each knows that the other is lware of
his or her sentiments and is no longer
afraid Of their being known.
A child does not blush. That is be-
cause he has no idea of hiding anything.
AS o O as he becomes old enough &c
understand that it may be to his inter
est not to tell all that he has done on all
I that passes in his mind he begins to
rcdden. 1t is the same with idiots. The
fear of being unmasked does not exist,
and there is no blushing.
Fear, then, is the cause of this change
of countenance, according to M. Nell.
nard. We are more likely to turn red in
front of a number Of people than when
we are face to face with one or two
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-09-21
A Mathematical Wonder,

Rube Field, the Warrensburg pa.
mathematical wonder, is al imbecile
and does not know n figure from an
other. His pastime is to give off handed
answers to problems like this: what
will 52O25 yards of calico amount to at
so cents per yard, with a discount Of
8 and 21a per cent" 1t takes but a mo-
ment for him to answer such questions,
and tho reply is said to be invariably
correct
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-09-21
The First HOOpskirts,

Hoopsk1rts first appeared in 1880. An
iron cage was prepared, and the skirts
were stretched over it. The cage was
tipped to one side, the lady crawled UNI
d~erneath, and the cage was fastened to
her waist by a strong leather belt. The
contrivance often weighed as much as
20 pounds. Yankee Blade.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-09-21
LOU PARKS SCALP.
Taken by an Indian, Then Grated Back In
Place as Good as New.

TakCn by an dia Then GRATED Fack IN
Place as Good rs New.
A tall old man, with hair rapidly
changing from gray to white, sauntered
into the Arlington. A peculiar feature
about his head attracted the attention
of an observer. Shining through his
thin locks and forming a semicircle on
the back of the scalp was a bright red
irregular line. The card that he twirled
nervously in his fingers bore the name
of Louis Parks, and an old gentleman
in the lobby greeted him aifectionately
~ Lou. When he went ont his friend
talked about him to a circle of interest
ed loungers. THAT was old Lou Parks, !"
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-09-21

A spring Of marvelously pure water
discovered on the farm Of eX-Congress-
man Carlos French, rear Seymour,
Conn, has been analysed by Professor
Chittenden of Yale college and pro-
nounced to be the purest water yet an
alyzed in America.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-09-21
ALL SORTS OF YARNS

the aggregate of prizes earned Will go
up into the thousands. The society
wishes it understood that it intended
only one $40 prize, but certainly any
boy who has the industry to gather 5O,-
900 cocoons deserves to be generously
rewarded. The association admits its
error and will try to arrange a ~satisfac-
tory settlement with the boys. And
what they have done will saw thou
sands of dollars to their section Of the
state. Troy Times.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-09-21

81 like to look at you," said a dear
little girl to a stately woman one day.
"Why?' asked the latter, pleased at the
childish confidence. Because your eyes
are so green" was the unexpected an
SWer.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-09-21

Statisticians estimate that there are
not less than so, 900 barrels of coal oil
used every day for illumination, fuel,
etc.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-09-21

Best Paper in
Northeastern
Montana.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-24

just the right filler. I am frequently asked
to recommend a crop that can be planted
in orchards and will cover and protect the
land during winter. and improve the fer
ulity of the soil. Rye. which is so often
used, does not answer the purpose. II
does not draw nitrogen from the atmos-
pheric stores. and would add no fertility.
and but little humus. We have thought
of peas and vetches. ordinary clover being
OF too slow growth. Now, if crimson
clover can be seeded in orchards after cul-
uvation should cease, and then pastured
OF, cut or plowed under in spring when
cultivation should begin again, we have
in II exactly the crop that we were looking
for. 1t covers the land sufficiently to give
some sort of winter protection 1t fur
nishes "A valuable crop during a time when
the land would lie idle otherwise. 1t fur
nishes vegetable matter. thus improving
the mechanical texture of the soil to far
greater extent than could be done by
means of rye, ordinary peas or beans, and
last, but not least. 1t furnishes to the soil
nitrogen derived from the atmosphere.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-24
A Good WhitewaAh.

The following was picked up" some
where years ago. and parties to whom It
has been given say that the wash is in
every way satisfactory:
Take one half bushel Of unslaked lime.
Stake it with boiling water. cover 1t dur
ing the process to keep in the steam,
strain the liquid through fine sieve OF
strainer, and add 20 il peck OF salt pre-
viously dissolved in warm water three
pounds of ground rice boiled TO thin
paste and stirred I'm while rot one halt
pound of powdered Spanish whiting and
one pound of clean glue. which has been
previously dissolved by soaking In cold
water and then hanging over "A slow fire
I'm "A small pot hung within q larger one
hlled with water. Add five gallons Of hot
water to the mixture. stir IL well and let
10 stand few days, covered from the
dirt lt should be applied right hot. for
which purpose IL can be kept ina a kettle OF
portable furnace. 1t is said that a pint
OF this mixture viii cover one square yard
IL properly applied. and answers equally
as well as oil paint for wood. brick OF
stone, and is much cheaper. Colorine
matter may be added as desired For
lead, add lamp or ivory black: fawn, add
propOrtionately four pounds lumber 10 one
pound Indian red and one pound common
limp-black. common stone color add pro
portonatcly four pounds raw lumber to
pounds lampblack The east end Of the
Presidents house at Washington is en-
lbellislsed by this brilliant whitewash
Used by the government to Whitewash
lighthouses, etc.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-24
swine-How to Fat n.

Fattening swine is a work that is best
done in good time. When the cold weather
arrives large portion of the food is ex-
pended in producing warmth that is
used up in the animals body, and is
thus wholly lost 1t may be that when
the pigs have to seek the warmest cor
ner of the rail fence for shelter quite as
much food is spent in neutralizing the
excess of cold as is used in making ad-
dltional weight. Thus it may easily be
the case that, while under economic con
dltions, the increased weight is made for
the consumption Of four pounds of grain,
eight pounds may be needed to produce
the same effect under the adverse con-
ditions This Of course, doubles the price
OF the meat and turns profit. otherw Sc
made, into loss. 1t is unquestionable that
a good deal of this losing business is done
IN this way and more of it by the feed
ing OF the coarse, Taw-boned animals that
are too often kept. instead of the COM
pact small-framed improved breeds.
The attention of the farmers whose cir
cumstances compel them to use a large
part of their grain in feeding animals
should be drawn to this economy of feed
ing and marketing the finished animals
as soon as may be, and while the sea-
son is most favorable. 1t is in every way
the best For should the market be I'M
favorable and the future be promising for
an advance of value, it costs much less
10 keep we'll fattened animal in station
cry condition, or still improving its val
liable condition, than to feed under ad-
verse circumstances. And the feeder has
the market at call at any time. while the
belated feeder is forced to feed at the
worst time and to run the greater risk Of
lower prices than are usually current
a the first part of the season.
There never has been a time when it
has been more needful for every farmer
who feeds any kind of animals to study
the prices of the various foods. The low
value of wheat, a quite exceptional thing,
and probably only a temporary disturb
ance of values of the feeding substances,
has brought feeders into such a position
that they may make a profit. or sustain
a loss. unless they exercise the best
judgment in selecting the precisely right
food for their money. In an article on this
page, the comparative values of the va
riOus feeding substances at the command
of the farmer is shown in such fun
manner as has not previously been
done in any publication for the market
prices, the actual composition, and
what is of the greatest Importance. the
actual digestibility, all three necessary
elements Of the calculation of their real
money value are brought together in a
tabular form that VIII be plain TO the
reader without the necessity for figuring
out the probems-intricate enough for an
expert for themselves, and this under
difficulties of no little magnitude
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-24
Growing Pickle Onions.

Picked onions enter largely into COM
merce A great many persons in the
Middle and New England states sow large
areas from one to ten acres) especially
for the purpose of producing small onions
that are sold to the pickle factories. Often
times they are grown on contract.
These small onions can be grown either
by sowing in drills or sown broadcast
Unless one has very clean land broadcast
sowing is not to be recommended The
best plan is to SOW in pinch drills, having
a distance of 2Ox24 inch between the drills.
II is almost like the plan followed in grow
ing onion sets, only the seeds are not
SoWn quite so thickly.
These small onions can be grown any
where IN the south as well as anywhere
north. The one great advantage that the
northern grower has lies in the fact that
ms crop does not mature so early in the
| season as the southern grown does. At
The north the crop natures in September
or october, while in Georgia they mature
IN June or July. We cannot keep them
until winter so easily as the northern
growers can. Still, if we make them into
pickle in the summer shortly after they
mature we can put them in the market
as pickles earlier.
The land should be thoroughly pulver-
zed, but deep breaking Of the soil is not
advisable Three or four inches is plenty
should be thoroughly fined with the har-
row; small plat with the rake.
Ihen every twenty or twenty-four inches
draw off shallow furrow with any i'm
pIement that will make a shallow Pinch
drill. A six foot 2-inch Stat will do very
Well: To aid the eye in distributing the
black seed more evenly, sprinkle along this
iurrow freely with land plaster or a COM
mon air-slaked lime previous to sowing.
Then sow the seeds evenly all over this
inch drill. If first class seeds, ten or
twelve to the square inch; if not good
seeds-that is. good many infertile ones
sow eighteen or twenty to the square
inch. 1t is always well to test onion seeds
beforehand, so as to have some idea of
their quality. This is easily done by hav-
ing a shallow box of soil in warm
place, in which place evenly one or two
hundred seeds and water them. Note
What per cent. grow (or sprout) After
sowing the seeds, cover lightly with a
rake and then roll with a garden roller,
or run an iron-bound barrel along the
rows. Give shallow cultivation, sufficient
10 keep the crop clean. Servings can be
made as late as April l. A part of the
crop can be saved as sets and part used
Tor pickles
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-24
Heading Cabbage.

The failure of cabbaees to head upon
well MANFRED land may be due to various
causes. The most common cause Is "A lack
Of mineral fertilizer In the soil or an ex-
cess Of nitrogen which forces rank and
rapid growth Of leaves 1t may be taken
as an established fact that most of our
soil is lacking in potash In an available
form and doubtless this is quite as true
upon the clay soils of New York as upon
the lighter land Of New England. Wood
ashes put on when the manure was put
in, or an application Of muriate of potash
when the plants were set. would probably
be of much benefit. In fact, we have
never known cabbages to fail to make
solid heads when this was done Bur
now. when they ought to be making the
heads and do not, try an application of
kainit around them and as it is cheap il
can be used literally. Some use only
common salt. which seems to have a
power Of assisting by attracting moisture
and by hberating potash in the soil, but
as the kainit contains both the salt and
the soda 1t VIII probably give better re-
suits.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-24
Hogs in the South

Slowly but surely, the south is coming
to the front as a hog country. Our farm
ers are finding out that the one-crop way
of farming is not the best. They cannot
depend upon low-priced cotton to supply
their tables with food and pay for the
score of other necessary things they need.
They are finding that sending abroad for
bacon not only keeps them poor, but
that they can raise a much better quality
of bacon right at home than the merchant
can supply them with, and at far less
cost. They not only make sweeter hams
and shoulders but better side-meat, and
lard that is far superior to the bought
on" article And then the uxuries of
good homemade sausages, sOuse and
"fat bread" which abound at hog-kliI-
ing time, 1t makes one smack his
mouth to think about them. But here