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The Bottineau pioneer., 1894-12-01

We have known men to walk two
miles to grind an axe on a neighbor's
griLdstone-felt too poor to buy one If
their own. And yet we have seen these
same fellows with their tanks SO full
IF fireNater that locomotion was ini-
possible.
1t is not always the poor who thus
impose upon others. The rich or we'll
to-tlo are often the greatest offenders,
for this one Of the by.roads to wealth.
We know a rich man who lives in
ste Les throw Of a handsome store, yet
he makes an annual practice Of bor-
rowing so simple thing rs a garden
rake from his poor neighbor.
Let us make the inconsistency Of this
business more apparent. A invests $500
In farm machinery. Light per cent In
terest on this is $40. B instead puts
IKE amount In young cattle and uses
AS tools. The cattle grow in value,
and at the end Of the year perhaps B
has made 100 per cent on his invest
ment. AS tools are the worse for
"wear and tear" B invests and rein
vests his money in young stock till at
the end of ten years it may have In
creased at a low estimate tenfold,
while AS tools, with BIS help, are worn
out and the original investment, to say
nothing of minor expenses, is gone to
the dogs. Would it be more unreason-
able for A to ask b. for q share Of the
profits than for b to help wear out AS
tools without any pecuniary returns?
If there is anything fair or just In such
a "lopsided' affair we wish some one
would point it out
We always made it a point to make
what we could, buy what we could not
make and II unable to do either, do
without. We did not think there was
any one in this world who was under
obligations to keep us in farming tools.
And now, my friend, if you are in the
habit Of thus imposing on your more
free-hearted neighbor, better call a
halt before you become q burden and
a nuisance.-S. c. Bunstine in Farm,
Field adj Fireside.
The Bottineau pioneer., 1894-12-01
The O,de., sx.tem Of Telerraphv

Take care Of the poor Indians, and the
poor Indians will take hair Of you.
The Bottineau pioneer., 1894-12-01
preserving eggs; Dissolve in two-thirds

preserving eggs; Dissolve in two-thirds
Of warm olive oil. one-third of beeswax
and cover each egg completely with a
thin layer of this ponade with the end
of the finer. The egg shell by degrees
absorbs the oil and each Of its pores be-
comes filled with the wax, which her.
metically seals them. M. Bournouf at
firms that he has eaten eggs kept two
years in this manner in a place not ex-
posed to too great extremes Of tenn
perature. He thinks also that the germ
may in this manner be preserved for
a considerable time.
The Bottineau pioneer., 1894-12-01
Light ON an Old Question.

Prof. Dean, of the Ontario Agricultur-
al College has added his contribution
to the discussion of the effect of rennet
in cheese making. He holas that rem
net has the effect Of ripening the
cheese BY actual experiment, cheese
made on the same date and handled in
exactly the same way except that an in
creased quantity of rennet was used
in some as compared with others, that
in which the larger quantity Of rennet
was employed was pronounced ripe at
q time when the others in which the
smaller quantity of rennet was used
was considered green. This is not SIM
ply Prof. Deans own opinion about 1t,
but it that Of experts who examined
the cheese. and who were not aware
OF the different amounts Of rennet used
In making the two lots.
The Bottineau pioneer., 1894-12-01
Selecting Seed Potatoes.

James Harvey and his neighbo1
Young have been testing the matter OF
selecting seed potatoes for some years
and in the American Farmer and Farm
News he gives the results of his expe
rience as follows:
We select our seed potatoes when We
dig the crop In the fall and do not wait
for the hurry of spring work.
We select out good-sized potatoes OF
the shape we want, and all as nearly
Of one size as possible.
We prefer potatoes about the size Of
a turkey egg or slightly larger, smooth
and rather fiat than otherwise, as 8
pototo the shape of ball never cooks
through as evenly as one that is fat
tened little. You see we not only
look to shape and quality, but to the
convenience of the cook, for a poorly
cooked potatoe Is half spoiled.
After we have selected the seed We
let it lie in the sun or at least q igh,
place, until each potatoe is pretty greer
and they are pitted by themselves and
not disturbed until time to plant them
next spring. At first only a light coat
Of earth is put over them, and this is
increased as the weather grows colder
until a foot Of earth covers the tubers
When the cold is severe enough tC
freeze the ground coat of stable ma
Vnre is put over this and then more
earth over it all. If this method OF
pitting Is followed the potato will
keep until May without sprouting, and
this is important, for where the pota
toes are treated as we treat ours the
buds are strong, and the first ones
should be kept dormant until planting
time, for II they get any considerable
start they win get broken off before
planting, and the second ones will be
much smaller and affect the crop.
We cut just long enough before
planting to allow the cut surface to gel
dry.
The Bottineau pioneer., 1894-12-01

The Change to Winter Feeding.
Live stock suffers by a sudden
change from the green food of good
pastures to a diet Of dry hay, or straw
and grain. As the frost or the drouth
kills the green forage crops the stock
should have an occasional feed from
the winter wheat fields or turnips,
mangels, sugar beets, carrots or other
roots may be fed to advantage with
the dry hay or fodder. An early sown
field of rye will make choice pasture
for fall feeding. Stock on overstocked,
or on dried up pastures, should be fed
green corn fodder, either In the stable
yard or in the field. To gradually
change to dry food, fresh sorghum fod-
der cowpeas, vetches, Hungarian grass,
late oats with peas, or other good soil
ing crops may also be fed in the same
manner. IL such green foods are not
at hand then raw potatoes, roots, or
wheat pasturage should be resorted to,
using with them and the dry forage q
grain ration Of ground rye, corn and
oats. or wheat bran and middlings with
chopped corn. The grain should be fed
from small troughs, and it is more
profitable IL freshly soaked or moisten-
ed and less will be wasted If thus
treated. The change of diet from short
runs In the newly moved or reaped or
husked fields will benefit the stock as
they win CLEAN many scatterings and
eat nutritious weeds. Cattle and sheep
will be helped by being allowed to
browse the underbrush In timber land,
and when they begin to injure the trees,
they may be shut up In the barnyard.
1t will never pay to let stock lose flesh
and this Is especially true with growing
animals. To keep their digestions
good animals should gradually change
from green to dry food, and when eat
ing the latter they should have an
abundance Of drinking water.
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PASSION OF CLEANLINESS.
The Busy Mop and Scrub Brush In a
Holland Town.

The Busy Mop and Scrub Brush In n
Holland Town.
Correspondence Boston Herald.
A Dutch express train stops whenever 1t
gets a chance. The one on which l left
Antwerp dropped me at Roosendaal and
left me there to kill the better part of
three hours, at the imminent risk Of my
life from a flood Of soapsuds. 1t was $50
in the morning by the Roosendaal town
clock. The Roosendaal cutters were bah
bling with their soapy streams, the Roosen-
daal house fronts were being scrubbed and
the Roosendaal windows were being rubbed
with chamois skin; the Roosendaal side
walks were being washed and the stair
ways were for a while transformed into
small Niagaras. A passion of cleanliness
had broken loose upon the town, and house,
maids and housewives had barred their
arms for the fray. 1t was a wonderful
sight to see. SoapSuds, soapsudS every
where; scrubbing brushes, sponges, wash
cloths, water running down the stairways,
through the Railways, down the house
fronts, across the pavements. The town
was taking its morning bath.
The long street of RoosendaaI shone with
its additions. The little shops set forth
their most tempting wares behind windows
which positively sparkled-such enticing
little shops they are, where they sell pretty
bits of lace at one counter and excellent
brown bacon at the other. The confec-
TONERS shops are the most delectable. No
where else in the world are there such in
confectioners' shops as In Hoi-
land-and then the confections!
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nished. The drinks are bad. bad, bad. But
the assembled company Is very smart. 1t
Is correct for certain types OF upper,
middle-class demi-mondaines and the gilded
youth to patronlze the poets and the artists
who set up artistic taverns to raise the
wind. Clubmen, young officers In multi.
common soldiers in their uniforms COM
mercial travellers, and decent bourgeois
with their wives and mistresses, mako up
the throng. 1t Is a mild excitement They
are doing good to keep the geniuses from
starving. All they ask Ia that the songs
be-French.
A Popular Song.
Yon-Lug, with his apostles beard, here
sings Les Lanterns Rouges, Paw Popu-
lo!' which are burlesQues on anarchy;
Marcel Legacy Is warbling Il Would Pre-
fer to Watch My Sheepp' some verses
which would shrivel up the English LAM
guage IL translated. Secot rails against
the government, in an "EnQuete sur Ia
Marine. 1t is political completely, and
more outspoken than would be safe for q
French editor to print.
Yon-Lug is singing The Red Lanterns!'
What does it meanr'
Here is the poem complete. done into Eng
lish. AS 1 have said. 1t is a burlesque on the
anarchists. Some people seem to find In 1t
a deep philosophy. mixed with great msr-
riment:
One night an anarchist,
A common workman. a fumste,
Had poured too much wine in his baG.
Which gave him something of a jag.
He said, in his stupidity.
Blood Down with all the bourgeoisisi
We ought to hang the propros
To the lamp-posts which light up the
prolos."
Refrain:
Just then he saw a lantern, lantern, Inn
tern.
Just then he saw a lantern. red as q car
nation.
Just then he saw a lantern, lantern, Lam
tern.
1t was a Bureau Of Tobacco; and 10 said
''Damnationp'
He entered 1t. and never cried bewaH
And then he bought q very good cigak
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A FAHYAH MAGICIAN.
He Walks Straight Up In the Air for
Some Hundreds of Feet.

lie Walks Straight Up In the Air Tor
Some Hundreds of Feet.
From the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
Charles Harkinson. a manager and actor.
who has travelled ell over Asia. Africa and
Europe. tells the following wonderful story
of Fahyah magician, who walked right
straight up through the air to a height of
several hundred feet:
The Fahyahs are the greatest necro-
mancers. hypnotists and magtcians Of the
world. and are supposed to be descendants
of the old miJas of Biblical lore.
zone OF their principal feats is that of
walking upward through the air to a con-
siderable height. The Fahyah who per-
ferns this startling feat first lies fiat on
the earth. face downward, for a minute or
a minute and a half. He then rises quick
ly. and, placing his arms tightly against
his sides. deliberately walks right up into
the air as high as his powers of endurance
Will permit. When his strength Is ex-
hausted by treading thin ether. he simply
stops usually at a height of from $50 to
400 feeD, waves his arms wildly time or
two. and then begins the descent. One
who sees this startling feat performed will
agree with me that IL Is a difficult matter
to believe ones eyes, and shake off the
idea that a miracle has not been enacted.
One who is not satisfied with the air
walking feat may hold a coin in his hand,
while Fahyah mutters over IL, and then
open his fingers and find the coin gone
and Shiny serpent in it's place"
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And then he walked out saying blithely.
Perhaps was little bit too lively"
The mob of girls and men take up the
chorus, which is easy to commit to MEM
DRY, And then he saw a lantern, lantern,
lanterni Just then he saw a lantern, Ian
tern, lantern"
The Beer Restaurant.
well, let us go and see a lantern, Ian
tern. lantern!' exclaims the tourist petu-
lantly. II can't stand any more Of thati
1 can't stand any more of that!"
And who would blame him?
'It is midnight. What shall we do nowr'
1--WE might go to the Carlton. 1t Is an
other cabaret artistique."
Thanks, no."
I'VE might go to the Cafe American. II
is rich. expensive cafe and restaurant.
open until 4 am. A lot of well-dressed
ladies sit around"
mo, thanks"
"Well. then, we might go down to Pous-
sets. 1t Is q very fine beer restaurant,
where people eat boiled crabs and onion
SOUP"
"All right
Three-quarters of an hour has passed.
We have seen Catulle Mendes Mile Moreno
of the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Georges Courte-
line, and some half dozen other notables.
They eat and talk just like the other peo-
pie sitting by them, common deputies and
Paris merchants.
"And now what shall we do?"
"why, anything you please Paris is all
before you. where to choose. Do you wish
to gamble? There is a prize fight between
two English light weights arranged for to-
morrow night. We might step into Francis
Brady Reynolds Irish-American bar and
see If Mr.. X is there. We could get
tickets from him."
mo gambling and no prize fights. There
is enough of that In old Chicago
"Well. them my dear friend, you had bet
ter go to bed. Shall you go Gown to your
hotel?"
Eyes, certainly, to the hotel"
STERLING HELLO.
p. Son a succeeding night the tourist
goes among the cafes-chantants. He does
not nike them.
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such big feet" The girls think we are
English, and, being patriots. they hope to
insult us-having nothing to gain from US.
Then they have not heard the report that
England is to join Russia and France in
order TO bring about the isolation of Ger
many? mo, those ladies only read the
Petit Journal"
Nov let's go somewhere"
Anywhere you please.
Then let US go and see the Moulin
Rouge"
The Moulin Rouge, That is the word
which Americans in Paris wait to hear!
They know 1t must come out. The very
ladies want to go and see its naughtiness.
The cab rolls up the hill. The narrow
streets with their infrequent lamps roll
back. The Boulevard de Clchy, noisy, roll
licking with its cafes, spreads out and
shows the blocd-red windmill arms of this
delightful dance hall, which Americans de-
sire to see more than the Louvre. But 1t
is quite an error to pretend-as Frenchmen
sometimes try to do-that it Is really kept
up by the English, the Americans. the
Germans, Scandinayians. the Belgians,
Austrians, Italians, Spanish, Greeks and
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BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD.


Schedule In effect November 1S, 1894.
Leave Washington from station CORNER Of New
Jersey avenue aud street
For Chicago and Northwest, vestibuled Limited
fos Cincinnati, s.. Louis ard Indianapolis, vssti-
For FtlsIurs and Cleveland. express daily, IL 30
For Lexington and staunton. IL 80 am.
Chattanooga, Memphis and New Orleans. I'D
pm daily sleeping cars through.
For LSray. $3.50 pm; daily.
49-mnutesl Il2.OO II2:06, l2i5, I2:20. $500
45minutel, x4:2s, 4:3l, Is 100 45-mnutesl ID 0b,
and 30 49, reg go: 1s;o9 s:l9 1900
s:99 4S,5@alnutesi, s:a5, All, 600 4s.Mlnatss(.
For Annapolis, TAO and $50 am, ia:T and
4i2s pm Sundays, $50 am, 4.si PIN.
For Frederick, bs:00. all 80 an. bills. a4:so
For h hoss all 80 an and es:so pm
Sia:5e asoo ana ass ESa ssiS bS,ss
sasf!is ss: Tsy s' .sssD Sse
principal stations only. a4:30. ao 80 pm.
ROYAL Blue f hiTn ESE NEW YORK AND
For Philadelphia. New York, Boston and the esss
sse G Dining Gs $50 &c., qSS bnnI p 6.1
sunday 400 600 am bnDs Carr. ,V dsoS DiniSS
for Deins S 600 Sleeping
Buffet parior Cars on all day trains
1900 noon Sundays. 40 anu, 20 noon an '"A
a..ssD' saroi h.prs.. r s1sip. 0snna'' only
els Pa sVs New io1a a Srs' and si isS
r. ;: c4 Ssl ELL cHAs. o, scysL
hAs Zen. Manager. Gen. Pass. Agt.
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No; most Americans speak of men-de-
sire to keep at a safe distance from the
Louvre. For they have come TO Paris, not
to study, but to rest Do you desire to
see the monuments, the sewers and the
catacombs. the morgue, the Ethel tower!
Yes; L may drop in on them some time
when / pass. Butt can get guide Tor
them. That's true. But still, to cut them
out will narrow the sights down. How
would you like to meet some families? We
can show you some delightful curiosities
In that line, IL you wish 1t.
mo; families"
Well. then. there's nothing left but light
amusements.
Lets start in on the light amusementsr'
The resident of Paris then suggests the
theaters.
mo, no; no theaters." He says he docs
not know the language well enough to un-
derstand the pieces. Besides, he fas seen
Coquelin, Bernhardt, Hading. Moune.-Sul-
iy and the rest already in America
The opera?
yes. 1 want to see the opera, once-but
not tonightT'
But not tonight!
Why should he? Has he not heard Calve,
Melba. Games and the De Reszkes in
America?
Well. it is almost dinnertime. What
shall do?
II want to do exactly what Parisians
do"
Boulevards and Cafes.
There are 1900 different species of Paris
fans But we are just now on the Boule-
ward. and here there only seem to be two
kinds. namely. % the kind that sits, and
20 the kind that walks.
Lets walk and sit"
1t is a chill and foggy night along the
Boulevard. The lights slant through the
log and slide in shining lines along the
slippery asphalt. A crowd continually
moves on westward. 1t is a crowd of bus
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RAILROADS
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.


,osS t aS pc NqEsnper L Il isSs
sDos s1sHnd and TOeSo Basss Pso9 9' "a;
1890 AM FAST LINE Pullman Bune. Par
Harrisbura 20 Ir,,org. farior and Dining Cara
pa Sao Pm Bu GG P.;o, AID ST LOUIS
iRs and Dining Cars HagrisDurs to s. IOus.
'i 7io PHI L %EsiEhs and SHspss
,pg Gar to Chicago and Harrisburg to Cleveland
4 :i5s Pm 70 s6aSafGi ExpREss-pull.
%sn Sleeping and Dining Cars to s.. Louis and
fep0s M fPsf G E SEs!nrP Sleep
.1 sS S,,4 AN r n cansos,.sas Rochester
cen. 1S;s s9nd IN for Eira and RenoVo daily sz-
ina ara halls daily, except Saturday, with Sleep
er Es sS Rochester Buff
WWashnston 70 Emir.. and, saturdays only.
F Fs'lAdogSs HsS }S and ,ff East
New YORK daily for IaS% ween aSss
CaI am. 1915. sI5. 4:2o $40 1000 and ii 30
D9ins sa 100 iisoO DINING G carr am. ,aS
Geiphis ony et F.,f to P and y 80 pm EO, rhl.
press, POI ana 5 40 pm. daily. ' WIN
and sis St p w dsT change 1850 am week days
,d For BaltimOr; eso. !os 100. $780, 500 900
S S:lS' s;to t;0S Limited, 400 4ss $40, e;oo.
sunday los 40 500 900. o;O5, 1870. 100.
20 S4o sos. 0:4o 7:1O. io:OO Io:4o and ii :s5
,, For Pope.s Greek Line. 7:2o am and 4:se pm.
For Annapolis. 7:so, 900 and II 80 am. and
IN Pm. daily, except Sunday. Sundays. 900
,. Atlantic codst Line Express for Richmond.
SSaSksonniile and Tampa, I90 am, $3.50 p m.
daily Richmond u and Atlanta $40 pm. daily.
"A Aeeoppodation for QuanticO. 7:45 daily
,oFor Alexandria, 400 e:ss, 7:e, $40, s:4o.
ho;9'' u :'e An l2so I;4o, a:26. 4;25 800.
at at a;so 7:43. s:45 am, 2:45. e:l5 s:02 and
7 Leave so aleSandria for Washington. sos s:4S
200 a. 500. $50, 6:I3. 700. 72o s;i6. l0:s3
an; 2;i3 $50, TOO 100. 9:lo and 1882 pm.
Ticket on1ces northeast corner Of 18th street and
pennsylvania avenue and at the station, 9Th and
Is streets, where orders be left for the cheek.
Ing OF baggage to destination from hotels AM
residences
g. N. PROVOST, B. WOOD,
General Manager. General Passenger Agent.
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THE MAN TOOK THE PLEDGE.
How Secretary of State Palmer Was
Worsted In Wrestling With the Civil
Service.


From the New York World
Secretary Of State John NJ. Palmer tells
a good story about his wrestle with the
civil service.
when l was elected" he said, there
vas enc little place which was wanted by
a friend of mine. He was old soldier,
without much money, and d man thorough
ly competent and trustworthy. l promised
him the place. When came to appoint
him 1 found that 1t was Under the civil
service. 1 told him to go and take the ex-
animation and then I'd Ak MIN. He came
out fourth on the list AS it was returned to
me-
II looked over the returns. The first man
had been a little lame on spelling. / OBJ
Jected to him. He would never do. The
second could spell all light, but was lit
tie lame in his handwriting. l got rid of
him. The third wrote like copper plate
and spelled like dictionary. No flaws
were visible. Then 1 remembered that he
was inclined to be extremely convivial. So
/ said: I'll appoint him. and the first time
Re gets drunk I'll fire him for cause and
then appoint the man 1 want So 1 ap-
pointed No. 3, and what do you suppose
the ungrateful rascal did?
well, I'm tlessed IL he didn't take the
pledge the day he commenced work, and
has never taken a drink since"
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THE USEFUL BAMBOO.
The Chinese Utilize 1t in a Variety of
WAYS,

The Chinese Utilize 1t in a Variety Of
Ways.
Just go and look at your long, slender
bamboo fishing pole, and try to fancy what
house would look like built Of that sort of
thing. Yet when a Chinaman wishes to
build house. he doesn't hire an architect
and look up contractor. and turn gray
over plumbers and decorators. he just
merely goes and plants few bamboo roots.
Then he goes on quietly attending to his
business and let's them grow. In q few
months he has fine forest of bamboo from
forty to eighty feet high, and with stalks
ranging from half inch to eighteen
inches in diameter. He digs a trench the
shape and size he wishes his house, and
proceeds to cut the trees he thinks the
proper size and set them up in this trench,
which he then fills up. With the slenderer
stalks he makes the rafterS and shingles 1t
with bamboo leaves. The windows are
delicate lattice work Of bamboo, and the
furniture Is OF slender bamboo bent and
curled and plated His water bucket is a
good big stalk sawed on just below the
joint and made as deep as he needs above
it.
For bottle he takes a slender piece and
treats it in the same way. If in the con-
fusion of building he mislays his knife he
just takes a good sharp edge of bamboo.
and does Just well for everything except
cutting bamboo. as IL it were Sheffield steel.
w ME ne IL Dulluiis lie Keeps OH the panyS
of hunger by cutting the little tender shoots
just as they peep from the ground, and
cooking them like asparagus. OF course we
all know how dangerous ii Is to move at
once into a new house, 1t Is so likely to be
damp, and so Mr.. Sin Foo catches a severe
cold All he does is to run out to his bam-
boo thicket, gather a few leaves, boil them
and drink the tea In day so he is all
right and ready to enjoy the delicious din
ner which Mrs. Sin Foo has prepared In
honor of the roof raising" She has deli
cate boiled bamboo shoots. bamboo grains
baked in a bamboo joint with honey and
bamboo shoots canded with sugar.
L can't tell you all they make of bamboo.
fans, pipes for carrying water over the rice
fields. the finest of paper. and, in fact
nearly everything they use. The strangest
of all uses is to bore gas and Oil wells with
ii. They begin by twirling followed bam-
boo pole where they wish to sink the we'll
This gradually works it's way into the
ground. When sunk to it's full length. they
fasten another to the end Of it, and keep on
twirling. This operation they keep up un-
til they strike gas Oil. which comes gush-
ing up through the poles. They use them
the salt wells. And then just think how
much cleaner, prettier and more graceful 1t
Is than our ugly iron work. Apropos of
this / remember an incident Of the dainty
little Japanese folk who took part in the
Columbian exposition last year In the
space allotted for their village was one OF
our ordinary iron water taps. It never CO.
ours to US to notice how hideous they are,
but the japanese looked at It, shuddered a.
one man. and at once set about hiding the
hateful object with clean. shining bamboo.