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Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1894-07-26

PoRr TOWNSEND, July l6.-Captain
McAllen arrived from Unga Island,
Alaska, to-day. He reports having dis
cussed the new sealing regulations with
several sealing captains, all of whom ex-
pressed the opinion that seals could be
more successfully hunted by Indian
spearsmen than with firearms. With
the latter many wounded seals escape
and die, but with spears it rarely
happens any of the wounded escape.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1894-07-26
More Trouble for Lillian Russell.

New YORK, July l6.-A permanent in
junction has been granted by Judge
Gaynor of the Supreme Court at the in
stance of Canary 4 Lederer, managers
of the Casino, restraining Lillian Russell
from singing or dancing, either for
money or gratuitously, in private, under
any management than that of Canary &
Lederer. The papers will be served upon
Miss Russell or her lawyers. Unless
this injunction is dissolved, Miss Russell
will be guilty OF contempt of court and
liable for damages when she sings in
London September under Graus man
agement. She has engaged passage for
London on the Paris, which sails next
Monday.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1894-07-26
AN EDITORS VIEWS.
What a Chicago Journalist Says of the
Strike.


NEW YORK, July 16.-Among the re-
plies received by the World to request
for views as to the Pullman strike was
the following from Joseph Medill, editor
OF the Chicago Tribune:
81 believe the result OF this strike
will be OF great benefit to the country.
1t is like a thunder storm that suddenly
sweeps up, purifies the atmosphere and
results in better supply OF health-giviDg
ozone. 1t will result in Congress devils
ing laws whereby disputes between rail-
roads and their employees will be har-
moniously adjusted. / have great faith
in the Anglo-SaXon race to govern them
selves. The people have been asleep
until awakened by this great economic
earthquake. | believe that in twelve
months we will have laws that will pro-
vide for the full settlement of future dis
orders. / think the contract system can
be applied successfully by the railroads.
Employees should be engaged under con-
tract and hold their positions SO long as
they abide by the rules of the company
and perform their duties faithfully. No
man should be discharged without due
notice, ana no man should leave the
employ OF the company without serving
notice. | indorse the scheme evolved
by the huge brain OF Bismarck in the
German empire"
Proceeding, he gives detailed scheme
for the complete regulation, through a
pension-fund law for railroad employees,
which should be made by Congress,
which will provide for the retiring of
men from active service at the age OF
iifty-tive years on half pay for the rest
OF his life, and the pension should be
paid to his family in case OF his being
killed; also to provide for the payment
OF certain sum to employees who are i'll
during their term OF illness. Many OF
these points, which he suggests, are OF a
nature long felt by the employees of great
corporations to be the only measure
which could ameliorate the strained con-
ditions now existing between employers
and employees.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-06-14

the former is a craving for the warmth
which God forgot to put with the blood
into my veins. One Of these days III
have q little house in the country and a
garden with sunshine in it, for am a
girl of the people, not a grand dame.
One has to be educated up to gaslight;
no more late hours no theater, no more
of that awful breathless plunge which
/ take every night like cold douche
every time face my audience. !"
One day lola gave a breakfast to his
publishers on little island9in the Bots
de Boulogne, and Yvette was there to
amuse them. She sat in her usual
dropping fashion under the shadow Of
one Of the spring trees, and listened to
Zola's pitiful account Of his early strug-
giles when he fought for bread and rec
ognition. AS he waxed eloquent she
leaned forward, her elbows on her
knees, her face in the palm Of her
hands.
When he had finished and he had
called upon her for song she rose and
sang it wit all the abandon, the fling,
the swing, the diabolical proficiency of
her craft, and as she stood and sung the
sun, with it's usual merciless irony,
shone through the leaves full on to the
painted face, into the weary eyes, and
sought out the dye Of her hair and the
disorder of her gown
Finally it halted and rested on two
great tear drops on her cheeks, which
had stood there since Zola's recital
Jerome X. Jerome's To-day.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-06-14
How Plants Get Nitrogen.

Nitrogen is the most valuable ele-
ment of fertility in soil, is the most
abundant one in nature, and is about
the hardest one to get in a form avail
able for plant food. The air We breathe
is about four-ffths nitrogen,th other
fifth being oxygen. In breathing we
use the oxygen and discard the nitrogen.
Pure oxygen would be too strong, and
we should be killed by breathing it,
and nitrogen has been regarded as
merely a diluting material. All at
tempts to secure this nitrogen from the
air in shape in which it would be
available for plant food have failed,
but it has been discovered within q
few years that the leguminous plants,
clovers, peas, beans, vetches, ETC., and
can grow without being supplied with
nitrogen through the agency of bacteria
OF microbes, very low forms of life. GER
tain varities Of which are found where
leguminous plants have been grown.
Whether this be true or not it is GER
tain that crops of any Of these legumin-
Gus plants ploWed under when in full
bloom will fertilize the soil and enable
it to produce good crops sooner and
cheaper than any other known agency.
For this reason those who own farms
which are at all sterile in the North
should grow clover, and those in the
South should grow COW peas. The study
of farm chemistry is very interesting
one, and we hope to interest our read
ers in it in series Of articles concern
ing the mysteries Of 'sgreen things
growing which we shall publish in fur
| ture numbers.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-06-14
IN A SWALLOWS NEST.
An Observer Used a Mirror to Dis
cover What Was Taking Place

An Observer Used a Mirror to Dis
cover What Was Taking Place
There. w. ..' T. BIZ. ...
TO see only the bottom of the nest
yet to know that within it lay young
swifts which We're being fed in some
way by their parents, was tantalizing.
I recalled former year when I wish
ed to see sWift's nest with it's full set
Of eggs, and so had kept watch Of the
nest; not by climbing to the chimney
top and peering down, but by raising
small mirror, by whose aid I had seen
the reflected nest from below. The mir
ror served it's purpose a second time.
I dashed it to the tip of fishing rod,
and pushed the slender joint up the
chimney adding first the middle joint
and then the butt, in order to bring the
glass well above the nest. Something
white was in the nest-just what l
could not at first tell for mortar dust
had fallen into my eyes, and it was diff
fcult to keep the glass still enough to
see with my eyes blinking and weep
ing. The mother bird had been driven
from her nest by the appearance of the
strange, misshapen thing which I had
| forced toward her from below, and she
was now making short flights back and
forth in the upper part of the chimney,
| producing sounds and sudden varia-
lions in light and darkness which
would surely have frightened away
any but a human intruder.
Wiping my eyes and steadying the
glass, I took careful look at the con-
tents of the nest. The white object, or
at all events the Whitest part, was an
eggshell from whose opened halves a
! young bird was feebly trying to escape.
| Without waiting to see more with
drew teh mirror from the chimney and
removed all disturbing objects, myself
included, from the FIREPLACE My heart
reproached me. Had my violence driv-
sn the birds from the nest, thus making
4 probable the death Of the young at this
trying crisis in their career? More than
fifteen minutes passed before boom
ing wings in the swift's grewsome nur-
| sery assured me that a parent had re-
turned
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-06-14
Fig. g.

to the coop in any manner. This makes
a coop that is dry, yermin proof, and
admits of being easily cleaned three
essential prop erties connected with sue
cessful poultry raising To clean this
coop, it is only necessary to lift it from
the floor, brush off the accumulations,
sprinkle dry earth or sand upon it
and replace. Fig. / shows the top
part and Fig. the floor.
Pruning and Training the Tomato
Plants.
The Ohio experiment station in one
of it's bulletins gives the following di-
rections for stalking and pruning:
When pruned and staked, tomato
plants will bear much closer, planting
in the field than if left to themselves.
Two feet by four is about the proper
distance. AS soon as the plants are
set in the field they ought to be tied;
in order to provide for this the follow
ing plan has been found to be satisfac-
tory: Set strong stakes at each end
Of every row and brace carefully.
Smaller stakes may be set at intervals
Of two rods along the rows These
stakes should be about three and one
half feet in height. Next stretch two
wires of about the size used in baling
hay, along the tops Of the stakes in
each row. Take ordinary lath, OIL small
sticks Of any kind, Of the same length
as lath, and stick one just at the side
of the place that each plant is to oc-
cupy. The upper ends Of the stakes
are held in place by crossing the two
wires back and forth; that is, by weay-
ing the wires around the tops of the
| stakes or laths. This makes a neat
little trellis. sufficiently substantial for
one season, but the material can be
used several years in succession
The plants are trained to single
stems and tied to the lath supports
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-06-14
SPIDER WEBS ON THE WIRES

Interruption of Telegraph Comr4u-
nication Between Boston and New
York.
Two Of the main through wires be-
tween New York and Boston were re-
Gently reported lin trouble" east Of
New London, says the New York Sun.
They positively refused to work at all
in the morning, but from about II
o'clock in the forenoon until II o'clock
at night they were found to be all
right. From this peculiarly they came
to be known as "the twelve-hour wires'
and Lineman Williams was directed to
find out what the matter was with
them. He located 1.-THE trouble. as
being between Noank and Poquonnock
Bridge, and then walked back and
forth and forth and back along the rails
with his eyes scanning the row of tele-
graph poles and wires in a vain search
for the mischievOus cross. He kept up
the hunt for two or three days, and f.
nally, just as he had given up in de-
spair and was swinging himself on
to train to go home ne caught sight
of large cobweb in the shadow of a
big elm tree, which was bound from
one Of the cratic wires to the ether.
Williams came back to the cobwet
the next morning and eyed it eagerly
He was not long in climbing the pole
nearest to it, and then he saw that
the web was the really gigantic prod
uct of several spiders, it's big white sur
face Hopping idly to and fro between
the two wires which it connected. Its
face was bespangled with big gems
Of dew; in fact, the condition was thu
same as if the two wires had beer
connected with a sheet Of muslin satur
ated with water. Nothing will "cross'
and ''kill" two electrically charged
wires more effectually than a wet sub
stance of this kind connecting them
When the sun dried the dew off til,
cobweb the ''cross" disappeared, ant
did not come back until rain storm
came Or the next dew fell. William
gathered the cobweb and stuffed it il
his coat pocket. It made large hand
full. There was no more trouble witt
the wires after that. When the line
man reported the matter to the east
ern chief Of the company in Boston h
got laughed at for his pains, but on tn
following. day he told of his adventur
with the cobweb to Supt. Fred Fail
child, of the New Haven Office, an e1
pert electrician who promptly declare
that it was the cobweb which crosse
the wire and at once sat down to
telegraph machine and talked for hal
an hour with the Boston chief, explain
ing to him where he was in error i
assuming a cobweb could not "cross
Il telegraph wire.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-06-14

Fig. 1.

four feet Next saw from a 2x4 scant-
ling four pieces thirty inches long.
Nail these together in the form Of a
square. TO either Of the opposite sides
of this square nail the boards first >aw-
Ell, allowing them to nleeI ut the top
So as to form A-shap ID roof. Next
beard up one end complete, and leave
a door in the opposite end large enough
for the entrance of the hens. Now
make bottom, sufficiently large to al
low of the coop being placed upon it
and extending two inches all around
the outside of the coop. Nail Stats
around the outer edge Of the bottom at
that distance, which will allow the
coop to be placed on the inside Of the
Stats. Don't nail or fasten the, bottom
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-06-14
FOR THE B a r N ERS,
USEFUL ESFORMATIOx FOR ,FILI~,
MRs OF THE SOIL.
No Horns, IF You Please-PruninG
and Training Tomato Plants-A
Coop for Chicks-The "17-Yenr''
Locust.

This is the way l.. T.. CASTOR, Nor
NAL, Ill, dishes up ,.:l1orns'' in rec mt
Jersey Bulletin: In regard to the dis
CT ssions about dehorning, there seems
to be no more chance for all to agree
than in the matter of prohibiting the
sale Of horns that make brutes Of
men. The greater the nuisance the
more some will argue that we have
no right to deprive the others Of their
natural privileges. Were it not a fact
that the HORNS men take make them
even lower than brutes, there would be
no occasion for us to try to prohibit
their exercising their natural privileges.
And if the horns on our cattle were not
frequently used for doing injury to
both man and beast, very few would
advocate their removal VT
For several years past our state and
nation have been licensing the sale Of
horns that make brutes of men; how
why not allow owners of bulls, by
paying a license fee, to retain their
horns, so if the bull feels like killing
his master or his masters horse, OF his
masters neighbor, he shall have the
blessed privilege if his owner is only
willing to pay the license fee no mat
ter whether it is high or low. For my
self, I am satisfied men should be
prohibited from buying or taking
horns which make them go home and
kill their wife, or child, OF neighbor,
and so far as my cattle are concerned,
I wish they had not horn on them
| I have handled them both with and
without horns and know they are much
| easier handled and do less harm to
each other without horns. Have OBJ
tanned the consent Of my better half
| to dehorn all the male calves dropped
Oh our place by using caustic potash
| on the little horn when the calf is only
eight or ten days old, and find it gives
excellent satisfaction to pur chasers. I
| hope soon to obtain the consent of my
better half to also dehorn all the heifer
calves dropped on our place; then we
shall have Jerseys witho 1T horns.
If my neighbor prefers to have stock
with horns on and is willing to pay an
enormous license sufficient to cover all
damage done by these same horns,
perhaps he should have the privilege,
which makes man kill his family or
his neighbor, and our state and nation
have controlling interest in the cursed
business, why not make the whole
business responsible for the damage
caused thereby? Let us dehorn our
cattle and see how much nicer they
behave, and let us feed the young
America on pure unadulterated Jersey
milk instead of soaking them in beer
and see how much better they behave
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-06-14
A Coop for Chicks.

A cheap and easily cleaned coop for
eoung chicks is made as follows, says
the Ohio: Take common We;ltker
boarding or amy waste lumber you may
have on hand. Saw sufficient number
Of these thirty inches long to make
(when placed side by side) a width Of
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-06-14
The work of a Dairy school.

The instruction is given, first, by lee
lures; second, by work at the separa-
tors, the churns and the cheese watts, as
well as in the laboratory. Lectures are
given in the following branches: The
breeds and breeding of dairy cows. the
feeding of dairy COWS, diseases of dairy
COWS, the chemistry Of milk and it's
products, bacteriology of the dairy
products, physical problems connected
with the dairy, and the care and man
agement Of the boiler and engine.
These subjects are presented to the
class by different professors Of the uni
versity.
The practical work is taught in the
butter and cheese room, as well as in
the laboratory. The picture of the sep
arating room shows the arrangement Of
the separators OF these all the latest
and most improved patterns are kept,
as well as Of the butter extractor. It
may be in order to state, for the bene-
fit Of the many readers who never were
inside of creamery or farm dairy,
that cream separator or centrifuge,
as it is sometimes called, is a machine
for separating the cream from the
skim milk by means OF centrifugal
force. A strong steel bowl is made to
rotate by hand power or steam, at a
speed of five to eight thousand revolu-
tons per minute; by this means the
heavier portion of the milk, the skim
milk, is separated from the lighter por-
ton, the cream, and both are collected
| in separate vessels.
The work in the creamery room in.
cludes the handling and care Of the
cream previous to churnAag, the churn
ing, and the working and packing OF
the butter. In the cheese room, where
there are eight milk watts, each of 8
capacity of 300 pounds, thirty two stu
dents may work at the same time; the
various steps in cheese making, from
the proper handling Of the milk to The
curing Of the cheese, are here learned
from Dairy Schools and Dairy Prod
ucts, by Prof. n. w Vol, in the Pop
ular Science Monthly.
Ancient and Medieval Chemistr,
The workmen who dyed clothes
clothing and tapestries in purple Q
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-06-14
Uses OF CottOnseed Oil.

Cotton Oil ranks next to sperm Oil
and above lard oil for Illuminating pur-
poses, and it may be burned in any
lamp used for either. Mixed with pc
troleum, it increases the freedom Of
burning; but this requires a change in
the wick. AS lubricating oil cotton
seed is useless, because it is half way
between the drying and the non-drying.
For the same reason it cannot be used
FOR paints, for woodflling or for leath-
er dressing. 1t has some use as a
substitute for vaseline and simiduction
of laundry and fancy soaps and soaps
for wooden mills. The American sar-
dimes, properly known as young shad
and herring, are put up with this oil,
and the use Of it extends so far that
nearly all the real sardines of Europe
are now treated in the same way. The
oil forms an emulsion in medicine and
a substitute for codliver oil. On the
market the crude Oil is known as either
| prime, or off quality, or cooking. There
are also the white summer, the yellow
winter and the white winter, All these,
except the crude, bring an average of
about SO cents gallon in the whole
sale market. After the oil has left the
seeds, they become food for stock in
the shape of oil cakes, while the ashes
from the bulls make a fertilizer for
! root crops.-Frederic G. Mather in
Popular Science Monthly. aE$.s
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-06-14

Of course tying must I've done at sue.
cessive Intervals as the plants increase
in height. until the top OF the trell,S
is reached, otter which nothfng further
need be done in the way Of training.
All side shoots near the ground, and
suckers, must be kept pinched off,
as the object to be gained in stalking
would be lost otherwise. None Of the
blossoms are to be removed, but simply
the leafy shoots and suck rs, which
bear 10 blossoms and come out near
the ground and at intervals along the
main stock Pruning away these sur
plus shoots and tying the plants to
supports exposes the fruit to the sun
light and fayors early development in
a marked degree. Tomatoes hus train
ed riDen about two weeks N advance
Of those which are allowed to lie on the
ground, are freer from rot and larger.
The crop per plant is less than by the
ordinary method, but because Of the
higher prices obtained for the fruit the
profits are larger.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-06-14
Artificial Milk.

A Cincinnati chemist has made dis
covery that promises to revolutionize
the dairy business. 1t is a combination
Of water, solids and fats that is equal
to the finest milk. It is in reality chem
ically pure milk and is Of course free
from all faint Of disease that COW milk
has. This chemical milk will raise
cream, will sour, turn to curd and
water and butter and cheese can be
made from it the same as from COW
mill4 At present the cost Of the pro-
duction is more than 81 a gallon, but
the chemist believes with few expert
ments he can reduce the price to 10
cents or Is cents a gallon, and by max
ing it in wholesale quantities can retail
it at the usual cents a quart. 1t Will
be but short time, according TO TINS,
till the DRY Feed Dairy will dlsap-
pear from the milk wagons, to be re-
placed with Chemically Pure Milk
Made from Distilled Water and the
Purest Fats" Electricity has freed the
street car horses and now chemistry
threatens to complete the emancipation
Of the mich COWS. Cincinnati Times.
Star.
Chemical Reactions Studied Elec-
| trically.
NJ j. GARNER has shown that in mix
lures Of metallic oxides and wood char
coal the variations Of electrical resist
ance are different in the course OF the
reactions. and hence the resulting va.
riaton of current may be employed
i to Indicate the course of a reaction,
Thus many metallurgical operation
may be followed, notably the refining
Of metals whose conductivities vary &C
cording to their composition. Thus the
manufactures may follow, in his Of
fee, by watching the indicatin g-needles
Of amperemeters and volunteers, the
Il phases of manufactur of steel, copper
4 nickel or other metals.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-06-14
A cheerful Outlook.

Mrs. Youngwife welcoming husband
home) Now, ducky, I've been cooking
all day. I've made pie and cake and
biscuits.
Duckey (cheerfully Then sLet us
eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow
we die"
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-06-14
Country Florists.

There is an opportunity for any boy,
girl, or woman who lives in the country
to make considerable sum easily by
growing flowers to SELL We have al
ways grown flowers because we took
pleasure in doing so, and not because
there was any money in it, but there
never was a time that we could not
sell all that we could spare at good
prices. The following which we clip
from an exchange, contains much truth:
Il am a busy woman, /" said my neigh
Dor. The greenhouses are a long way
off and the flower market down town,
where I seldom go. Now, some of these
spring mornings, if a wagon came to
my back gate or even a hand cart,
and it was full of small geraniums in
pots. or even tin cans, and fuchsias
budded, or colens, or the seedlings well
started of asters, zinnias; balsams and
nasturtiums, and were reasonable in
price, I would gladly pay fifty cents
or a dollar and then I could have a
garden with little trouble.