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Minnesota stats tidning. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1895-1939, 1895-10-30

passera. Doktorn var gemytlig och
vanlig mot ALA. Han sades vara en-
sardeles god sjalas0rjare och predi-
kant
Den andra och borjan al den tredje
sessionens f6rhandlingar skola sent
gl0mmas al de narvarande. Det galde
f6rhallandet mellan General Council
och The General Synod, de iva storsta
lutherska samfunden Amerika, huru-
vida nagot steg riktning af EFT mar
mande till hvarandra nu kunde tagas
af General Council. Generalsynoden
hade ntrdckt brodershanden f6rst 1893,
da den vid dess 36:te arsm6te Canton,
Ohio, genom en- rad af resoiutioner err
inrade General Council och andra lu-
therska kyrkoorganisationer ON nod
| vandigheten och onskyardheten af ett
| broderligt f0rhallande och broderlig
samverkan ALA praktiska fragor al
6msesidigt intresse och f0reslog hal
landet af en- konferens, sammansatt al
komiteer fran ALA luterska samfund
har landet for att utbyta tankar och
f6rbereda m0jligheten af ett narmare
med afseende pa den yttre verksamhe-
ten. Generalsynoden tillsatte ocksa en-
komite af fem, hvilken skulle m6ta
med liknande komiteer fran andra sam
fund.
General Council omfattade f6rslaget
med intresse och tillsatte likaledes er
komit@ af fem vid m6tet Fort Wayne
1893. Dessa komiteer hade haft mote
men da deras makt var ganska in
skrankt kupde de endast st0rsta all
manlighet behandla fragorna. De ena
de sig dock ON en- rapport som skulle
framlemnas vid de respektiva samfun-
dens m0ten. Rapporten vann bifal
inom Generalsynoden och f0ljden blef
att denna synod tog annu ett steg f0
astadkommande af kyrklig enhet: der
utnamnde en- delegat (visitor) till G
C's nu hallna mote.
Det var den nyss namda komiterap
porten som den arev0rdige DIR. Ses
fran Philadelphia pa torsdagsmorgo-
men begarde ia fran for motet. ST
skedde. Rapporten tastes och diskus
sion uppstod med anledning af densam
ma. Generalsynodens ombud, Rev. DR.
S. W. Owens framkallades for att ytt
ra sig, men han f6rklarade, att han ha
| de ingen myndighet att upptrada info
General Council, med mindre dett
mote omfattade den utrackta broders
handen medels utnamnande af ett ON
bud (Visitor) till Generalsynodens nj
sta mote. Hartill var man dock ick
fullt firdig anuu, hvadan DR.. Owen
blef for sin personliga del upptagen til
'ssate och yttranderatts, tills mote
hunnit komma pa det klara med ST
stallning till denna SAX. ~~@
Vid detta tillfalle upptogs prof. E
G. Lund, ombud fran den f6renad
Norska Lutherska Kyrkan, till safe oc
yttranderatt; han framf0rde helsninga
fran sin kyrka och uttryckte den fol
hoppningep, att afven den inom kor
, matte utgora en- lem General Coun
ellis stora kyrkokropp.
- [Forts. a5:te sidan.7
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-08-29

that kills many. and many more are
killed by predacious insects and para
sites, Yet We can never rely wholly
upon them to keep the cabbage worms
in subsection. 1t is encoura ging to
know that in large cabbage fields this
caterpillar is not common enough To
do much harm. The farmer who rails
es a few for his own use is the one
who must fight them il he secures cab
bages worthy the name. Many per-
fectly absurd remedies are in use for
this pest. There are also many prac-
tical ones, the most common of which
are the arsenites, pyrethum, kerosene
emulsion and hot water. For farmer
with only a few cabbages In his gar
den near the house my preference is
the last one. The cabbage will en-
dure water almost boiling, to within
80 degrees at least, while the cater
pillars are killed by water above 13O
degrees. giving a range Of tempera-
ture of 80 degrees or more, inside Of
which one can surely guess near
enough. 1t takes little time to heat =
kettle of water. carry it to the garden
and pour it over the cabbages, after
which they will be clean. and left free
from all powder and dirt.-Afichigan
Bulletin, III.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-08-29
Some Garden Talk,

Do not let beets grow too thickly in
the bed. Two to foot is enough for
the ordinary garden sorts.
Don't let the weeds grow up and 60
to seed where early crops have been
removed and in the paths. If you do
1t will be adding to your work next
tear.-Farm News
Keep the soil stirred during the dry
weather. 1t is better to do this late in
the afternoon, as turning the cool soil
10 the surface serves to condense the
moisture that is in the air and the
plants get the benefit of it.
Remember that cabbages cannot be
cultivated too often. Put coat of fine
barn yard scrapings or commercial fer
filizer on the patch and work it into
the soil as the cultivation proceeds.
This will help the plants when they
are ready to head up.
Celery may be set now. Dig trench
es a foot deep and then make the bot
tom fine and rich for four inches more
Give the plants plenty of water and
I'LL in the trench as they grow up, be
ing careful not to allow any loose soil
TO get into the heads.
Sow turnips from the 18th to the
last of July. The earlier sorts do best
II the sowing is put off till late. The
purple top strap leaf is coed variety
but some of the round. early white
varieties are very fine in texture c.':
flavor. We prefer the snowba:, t. a.
other variety.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-08-29
Eject of Good Food,

Eggs from hens that are fed largely
on slops and refuse are not as good for
cooking purposes as those which are
laid by hens having a liberal ration of
corn or wheat, and of the two corn
makes the richest egg, as it adds to
the fat content and gives the contents
Of the shells consistency that makes
1t specially valuable for baking and
kindred uses. a meat ration also adds
to the value of the eggs, and 1t Is be.
cause ducks are such ravenous hunters
1f frogs, and the many insects on land
and water that their eggs are prefer
red to all others by bakers and con-
fectioners. Guinea eggs are specially
rich in this quality and are better for
baking and making icing than those
of almost any other fowl The pro-
duction of good eggs is comparative
ly new idea and 1t has not been dis
cussed half as much as its merits de-
rerve that it should be-
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-08-29
AGAINST. DEPARTMENT STORES
Chicaxo's Small Merchants Will Fight the
HIg Concerns.

ChicaEo's Small Merchants Will Fight the
hig Concerns.
A Chicago dispatch says a movement
is on foot in that city to cripple the big
department stores which are now doing
such big business.
The Merchants License association
was organized July 1. The object Is
the better protection of all the smaller
merchants of Chicago, whom 1t Is pro.
posed to get together In one grand CEN
tral association, with an organization as
thorough and practical as that of Tam
many hall or the Civic federation. Sew
eral persons have been working more
than year on the plan, but 1t is only
since July 1 that actual attempts at Or
ganization have been made.
The first definite object of the associa-
ton is the passage by the state Legisla-
ture of bill for the protection of mer-
chants, or vendors. This bill has been
framed and is ready to present to the
next session of the Legislature, but for
fear of the politicians its full text is
not given out, nor is the name of the
legislator to whom Its passage is to be
lntrusted made public. The salient points
of the bill are these:
"All merchants engaged in the retail
trade of any sort are to be known as
vendors If they sell only one variety of
goods, such as boots and shoes, or hats
and furnishing goods, or groceries or
meats. All merchants. firms or corpora
tons engaged in the retail trade and sell.
ing more than one variety of goods are
to be known as general vendors. ven-
doris and general vendors are both to be
licensed, but with this difference: For
the first variety Of saleable goods the H.
cense Is to be SIS year; that is, all
vendors will be obliged to pay such IL
anl, iotx 80
goods after the first the license Is to be
$4,000, so that general vendors selling,
for instance, sixteen varieties of goods,
will be obliged to pay an annual license
of $75,OO5."
The object of the bill, say the pro-
moters, is plain to every business man.
In order to prevent the sale of all
sorts Of wares under one roof but by DIFF
ferent persons under one firm name, to
which the promoters say recourse might
be taken by merchants, provision of
the bill is that in all such cases the
5000 tax is to be added, so long as tile
business is advertised as belonging to
one firm, and so long, In fact, as all
these minor firms do business under one
roof and as part of the same general
store.
In order to work no hardship upon
wholesale merchants another section of
the bill provides that only the usual fee
shall be exacted SO long as the merchant,
firm or corporation makes affidavit that
no original packages will be broken anil
that no retail trade will be carried on.
The bill, it Is said, is sweeping in i.s
provisions. 1t is to become operative
only In such cities and towns as may
vote to adopt it, as in the case of the re-
cent civil-seryice-reform act.
"Johnnie, dear" said his mother who was
trying to inculcate lesson In Industry
"what do you suppose mamma would do for
you II you should come to her some day and
Lick me for telling falsehoodr said
dear little Johnnie, with the franknesS of
youth.-Pittsburg Bulletin.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-08-29
Sowing Alfalfa.

By way of recapitulation 1 will re-
peat the rules for the successful start
ing Of crop:
First-The ground should be tightly
plowed and then well narrowed and
finely pulyeriZed. If the farmer has at
his disposal water TO- irrigatipg the
land he should begin with very thor
ough and deep soaking of the lard he
fore plowing, which latter should be
done as soon as the ground is in fit
condition to work well.
Second-The seed should be sowp
upon the land at the rate of not less
than twenty pounds per acre. and then
lightly narrowed SO as not to too deep
ly cover it; after this the field should
be well rolled, which is very necessary
where the soil is light, and the loo ality
subject to high winds, and if the re is
water to be had for the PURPOSE the
field should be given an irrigation
amounting to two or three inches in
depth for the whole field. and care
taken that no puddles or pools are left
standing anywhere upon the surface
over twenty-four hours.-C. w. Irish.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-08-29

tifc men as the foremost practical mete-
orologist in the world. Prof. Moore's
recent promotion to the position Of chief
of the weather bureau service IL only
Just recognition of his high capacity and
eminently useful career. The search
light used for the Chicago weather sig-
nal is a thirty-inch protector, which was
made for the cruiser Maine. When
needed on the ship 1t will be replaced by
forty-eight inch df not one still
larger) reflector. similar to those pow
erful lights which threw their beams
from the great roof of the Manufactures
Building at the Worlds Fair down upon
the Wooded Island and the Court of
Honor. and illumined the heavens for
miles around. The apparatus at pres.
ent used is rated at twenty thousand
candle power. The carbon used is an
inch In diameter. and the current is
taken from the house mains at a poten-
tial Of one hundred and seventeen volts.
and reduced to forty-seven volts by
rheostats. The present protector is
directed by hand, but the larger one will
be operated by a keyboard in the tower.
The beam of white light from the
big apparatus, 1t Is calculated,
may be thrown, in clear weather.
over a circle having a radius Of forty
miles or more. The Chicago weather
office is the headquarters of the service
for the upper lake region. extending
from Indiana on the east and Indian
Territory on the south. to the interna-
tional boundary on the north and the
crest of the Rocky Mountains on the
west-a region that floats commerce
as heavy as the Atlantic seaboard, and
includes the great cereal-growing states
Of the country. 1t is curious to note how
far the popular fiction Of the actual CEN
troll of the weather by the official OBJ
server has grown into vulgar belief.
In times when change of weather, for
hot or cold. wet or dry. is anxiously
looked for, it Is not uncommon for
rough-visaged. -whiskered men to
invade the sky parlor of the weather
man" and earnestly beg or vehemently
demand the desired alteration in mete-
orologic conditions. Others Of the class
known as ''cranks." come to divulge
their peculiar Systems" and to plead
for an exchange OF condolences, that
they may be better enabled to deal out
rain or shine to the satisfaction of their
patrons. Such people are briefly re-
ferred to the weather chart and the
various indicators. and are obliged,
many of them being unable to read even
a barometer. to make the best Of such
means of Information
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-08-29
Left fpr Mr.. Manners.

sin a restaurant of the lower middle
class" said an epicure, 81 saw a fellow
any man might have eaten with his knife
and no one would have cared. But manners
are better than they used to be, and this
over the room. He was an elderly man,
and evidently had learned his manners In
the old days.
"By the way, are children still taught to
leave the last piece Of bread or cake for
manners? In Charles Leland's child s
ners appears, thin, cadaverous gentleman
in evening clothes, who is supported by
what the children leave for him In the dish.
do you still cut OFF the tip of the boiled
tongue before you begin to serve the
tongue? ! don't know why that used to be
done; perhaps as a sacrifice to the gods, J
come In cans, so that perhaps the tips can
not be cut OF as of old."-New York Sun.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-08-29
Cooking Feed for uox..

The veteran agricultural writer, wa.
do F. Brown, in the Practical Farmer,
presents strong argument against
the practice of cooking feed for hogs.
He quotes nine years experiment
made at the Maine State college, end
ing in 1878, in which it was shown that
In each of the nine years uncooked
meal gave greater gain in weight
than cooked. 1t is very conclusive
trial, and We give the table herewith.
The difference between the figures in
the first and second columns shows
the excess of grain of the pigs fed
raw over that of those that were fed
cooked meal:
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-08-29
cu..in. and curip. clover.

As many farmers do not possess n
hay tedder and most plans described
by agricultural writer's include one,
the following from correspondent of
Country Gentleman ought to be read
with interest. He writes:
l give u plan which has been in ev-
cry way a success for years, and
have no hay tedders. First, clover
blossoms well, and before all of 1t Is
in bloom. The time of day when cut
has much to do with successful cur
ilg. l never start the machine in clo-
yer until the dew Is off, and then NOW
ii, and in the heat of the day, when
it is partially wilted, rake it and put
Up in not too large cocks. These are
generally left untouched one day, and
If the weather Is not first-class hay
weather they stand until the second
day, and then are opened out, not very
thin, but in such way that the air
can get through 1t and the sun not dry
1t too much.
After II short time the clover is put
in the barn. where it can be kept as
much as possible from air, drawing
through 1t. When it can be done, put
In and fill the storage place as soon as
possible, and put some straw or old
hay on the top, and you have some
thing to absorb all the moisture that
comes from the fresh-cut clover, and
VIII have none on top black or
moldy.
Should you get field cut and in
the cock and a few days rain come.
1t should be cooked over, and by this
means 1t can be kept from coloring
badly and getting musty. If one had
caps to cover when cooked up, there
would, perhaps, be no necessity of
cooking over. yet should not use the
hay cups in fairish weather as the hay
will sweat and cure out better uncov-
cred. Clover cut at the time mention
ed and cured as directed will come out
OF the NOV as bright and. green as
when put in.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-08-29

mats made haste to cover their tenoef
plants. and so saved their early crops.
Out on the lake. and in the harbor wnere
vessels deeply laden with grain were
ready to go down to the straits, wheh
the pilots saw a streak of red-and-
white light shoot across the SKY from
the direction of the big city, they knew
1t was not a display of aurora borealis,
but warning of a marine storm with
high westerly winds. And II the beam
was solid red. 1t was quickly interpreted
az presaging a storm with high easterly
winds. And. remembering the big
storm of last May, the boats kept the
harbor in safety until the storm went
by. These lights came from the
government signal station. high up on
the tower of the Auditorium. from the
level top of which the lig electric pro-
5ector can throw light twenty or thirty
miles over the horizon in any direction,
says John T. Bramhall in Leslie's
Weekly. The use of the search-light for
this purpose Is entirely new. and Is the
result Of the policy of the Secretary OF
Agriculture, who has brought the
weather bureau to state OF efficiency
and usefulness never before attained,
and who has been ably seconded in his
EFFORTS by Prof. ". L. Moore. who won
the post of chief observer OF the dis
trict of the northwest by his success in
a severe competitive examination. In
which problems in weather forecasting
formed the chief part. Prof. Moore
was trained by Major H. H. c. Dun.
woody, the assistant chief OF the
weather bureau. who is rated by scien
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-08-29
JAPANESE ODDITIES.
Some Curious Customs of the Little
OrlentAls

Some Curious Customs Of the Little
Orlentxls.
The Japanese yell "oi! Oh! Oh" into
telephone.
sen for a ride-that is, half cent.
They make their own bicycles In Japan
now and call them jin;ten.sha, which means
literally man -wheel-vehlcle.
There is a Chinaman in Yokohama named
All Look.
Japanese kites do not have tails. but have
a lot of thongs rigged upon them like an
Aeolian harp. which make noise IKE
The Japanese fold the kimino from left
to right upon the living and from right to
left upon the dead, and 1t Is very bad
omen to get mixed up on that matter, as Tor
eigners usually do.
The children in the public schools are uni
formed according to grade. r,.
Holidays In Japan are very frequent; Ine
banks recognize forty-one, and suspend busi-
ness as they occur annually.
their knapsacks little tin arrangements that
army in China was furnished with neld
glasses. But they not field glasses at
all, but only little cylinders which contain
days rations of rice.
fountain or a tank filled with running water;
where people may battle their hands, anu
There is a suggestion of Palm Sunday in
the he. japanese custom Of hanging I,,ne lttie
On nearly every block in Japanese cities
Is public oven, where, for a small fee
housewives may have their dinners and sup.
pers cooked for them. 1t is a great measure
Of economy. They prepare the dishes ready
for cooking at home, then take them to the
oven, and while they are cooking sit around
and gossip with others who are there on the
same errand. This saves them the expense
Of fuel and an oven of their own, and in
hot days their houses are not heated up by
the fires.
There are no chiropodists in Japan. The
people go barefooted except for straw and
wooden sandals and tabs, which are low
stockings that fit closely over the foot
When 1t rains they put on high wooden
clogs, which are held to the feet by cords
that pass over the instep and between the
first two toes. There Is a Chinese chiropo-
dist in Yokohama who attends to the feet
of the foreigners, but the Japanese who
wear the native costume never need his serv-
ices.
The japanese farmers train their pear
trees over trellises as we train our grape
vines.
The postmen and messenger boys Of Japan
duty.
They use the American brass baggage
check upon the railways-Chicago Record.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-08-29
JaPAN.s EXPERIENCE.
They Have Realized tho Advantages c
Western Dpmon -t'z ian-


Western Drmon-t'zlIian.
Mr.. Kaneko. the japanese minister
of the interior, says that the policy Of
England and the United States on the
silver question has been of great benefit
to Japan. 1--WE pay in silver" he said.
"and sell for gold. II we were an i'm
porting nation of course the situation
would be reversed. but We are nation
of exporters, and have demonstrated
by centuries of experience that the peo-
pie Of Japan need not go outside the
limits Of the empire for single one OF
the neceSsarIer Of life. Most of our i'm
ports are raw material and machinery.
materials OF war and other supplies re-
quired by the government. While We
have to pay gold for our cotton and iron
the prices of both products have depre.
ciated with silver so that we do not feel
the difference so much as we otherwise
would, and we get so much more for
our silk and tea compared with the cost
of producing 1t than we did years ago
that the decentralization of silver in the
United States anc India has really been
Of great benefit to this country. We
have demonstrated that a nation Is able
to live and prosper on a silver basis.
We pay no more for labor or food or
clothing and get nearly twice as much
Tor everything We produce.
"The middle men and exporting mer-
chants pay no more TO the producer for
rice or silk or tea than they did two
years ago, but they get twice as much
for them in New York, London and
Paris. The prices of these commodities.
which are our principal exports, are reg
ulated by the demand in New York and
London, the same as wheat and cotton,
and telegraphic reports are received sew
eral times each day which govern our
sales here. less freight and charges.
There has been no effect upon wages or
the cost of living, which are just as low
as they used to be. Therefore, the dif
ference between silver and gold has
been all profit to Japan. The action OF
England in stopping silver coinage In
India has helped us in that country. We
are now exporting great quantities Of
manufactured goods there, and the
amount is increasing every month
There is a line of japanese steamers
running from Yokohama to Bombay III
addition to the several lines Of English
French and German vessels that touch
at India ports, and they all carry full
cargOes. There is to be very active COM
petition from this time on between ia
pan and European countries for the con-
troll of the Asiatic market, which Is the
largest market for textile goods in the
world. The Europeans buy their cot.
ton Of the United States just as we do.
although 1t costs us little more to get
1t to our mills on account Of the differ
ence in distance, but we more than
make that up by our nearness to China,
India, Java and other buying countries,
while the difference in the price of la
Dor gives us an enormous advantage"
"
When men are taken to prison they are
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-08-29
"The Cabbage Worm.

The adult Of this common caterpillar
8 white butterfly. The female lays
her small yellowish eggs on the cab
bage leaf and they soon hatch into the
green velvety cater,illar that makes
such havoc with tne cabbages the rest
of the season. There are at least two
broods. but they are SO irregular that
there seems to be only one continuous
brood. Although there is disease
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-08-29

The back board is hinged to the front
of the pen on the side marked "a"
The pail can thus be set into the
holder on the outside of the pen and
tine holder swung quarter of the way
round and hooked, thus bringing the
pail inside the pen. When removed a
button keeps the calf from getting his
head out through the opening. Such
a contrivance can easily be made by
any one handy with tools, and will be
found a considerable saving of time
as well as feed.