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The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-04-04
A woman's First Duty.

1.-THE last half century," says Mrs
Jennie Lozier, ex-president of Sorosis,
marks marvellous advance in the
education uf women. From the strug-
giles of Mary Lynn of Mount Holyoke
and Emma Willard of Troy to the open
ing of Johns Hopkins, Yale and Har'
ward to women stretches a period OF
unfagging effort and brilliant success.
There have been many similar move
ments in the past when women seemed
about to enter into their rightful inher'
itance. They demonstrated the posi-
bilities of women by their achievements,
but the conditions of society were unfa-
vorable. Because of the leisure, wealth
and freedom of thought which now pre-
vail as the results of civilization indis-
pensable to culture we have now an
environment which gives permanenoy
and vigor to any attachments we may
make There is an axiom that the status
of woman is an infallible index of prog.
ress This test ranks our civilization
higher than any that has preceded it
Women's clubs have gone into the home
and brought the homekeepers into the
current of affairs. 1t has gathered an
army of good women whose misfortune
was perhaps to have been horn too sooni
women whose education, incomplete in
the beginning, had been completely
buried by an avalanche Of shirts and
buildings. These women were in dan
ger of mental starvation. They needed
some influence to give them an outlook
beyond the walls of home and an inlook
into their own mental condition. This
influence emanates from the women's
club.
ga womaH's first duty is to make
herself strong, intellectual, brave and
happy, and then to build her home
train her children, enlighten public san
iment and maintain social purity"
The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-04-04

on improved farm and city property,
Time five years, with privilege of part
payment of any amount before matur-
ity. This money is loaned on mort
gage only. thereby granting to bor-
rover the lawful redemption in case of
foreclosure. Low rate of interest.
Call on or write George A. Dusenberry
at county recorders Office, Provo city,
Utah.
The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-04-04

A pupil of the late Professor Helm,
holtz relates that when his master had
discovered the velocity of nerve currents
by the aid of electric measurements
Alexander Won Humboldt remarked to
Du Bots Raymond, 'Then nerve cur
rents move only three times as fast 81
the OIinopo
The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-04-04
Money to Loan

G. W. CRAIG,
Agent, Provo.
The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-04-04
Use Pure Water,

Parties DESTROYS of taking the city
water will do we'll to call on the super
intendent for the cost of connection
with the water mains. Rates or any
other question pertaining to cost and
use OF the city water kindly answered
EPH HOMER, Supt.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-04-12
BRAN FROM CORN MEAL.

In the preparation of fine corn meal
for the market, the tough skins of the
kernels are sifted out in the form of
corn bran, which comprises one eighth
of the weight of the shelled corn
ground in the mill. The chemical
analysis of corn bran, by G. l.. Teller,
of the Arkansas Station, shows that it
contains eleven per cent. of nitrogen
GUS matter, while the whole corn con-
tains over nine per cent. and the
bolted corn -four nine per cent. The
amount of fat is nearly doubled in the
bran, being 81 per cent. on account
of the oil in the seed coats. The corn
bran contains a higher percentage of
crude protein and ash, four times as
much fiber, but less water and much
less starchy matter. This analysis in
dicatss that corn bran has a food value
nearly equal to that of wheat bran.
though the stiffness of the seed coats
render the maize bran less palatable
for use as single food. Being less
nitrogenous than wheat bran, but con-
tanning more fat, corn bran forms a
very useful addition to ground wheat
or rye, or to middlings, cottenseed
meal and ground peas. As part of
a mixed dairy ration, corn bran is
better than cornmeal. - American
Agriculturist.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-04-12
The Power Inside a Piano.

The general notion of what happens
in the interior of the piano when the
finger presses key may be conveyed
in the simplest terms. Would you
believe that the power developed when
the strings of your piano are tuned to
the proper pitch equals energy suffi-
cient to.raise twelve tons one foot from
the ground? If it has ever been your
misfortune to be present when the
string frame of piano was fractured,
the above statement will require no
confirmation. A thunderbolt scarce
ly makes q greater uproar, an earth
quake causes little more destruction.
The writer happened to be playing on
one occasion, with what. in his con-
ceit, he imagined to he great effect.
He felt he was being admired by the
men and worshiped by the women,
when, as he brought his fingers down
for a magnificent finale, he instantly
found himself upon the floor with the
piano stool on his stomach, while the
piano itself presented wreck of keys,
lids, mechanism, and serpent-like
wires. Struggling to his feet, dazed,
his suffering questions as to what in
the name Of all the gods and demons
had happened, were answered by fin
ger pointing to the ruins of what had
once been very fine parlor-square. -
Demorest's Magazine.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-04-12
Caterpillars and SnaiIs Stop Trains.

A train in Russian Turkes tan was
recently stopped by cater pillars.
Near Kiew an army of these ere atures
was crossing the track, making bee
ine for the nearest gardens, where it
was their intention to have good
time stripping the young vegetables of
their leaves. When the train struck
the mass the wheels crushed them into
paste; but before it had made much
progress they began to slip in the
greasy stuff and the train came to
standstill. Another locomotive had
TO be sent for to get the cars away
from the slaughtered innocents. Mean
while, it IS said that the uninjured
caterpillars stood up by the side of
the track and made faces at the engi
neer. It will be remembered that
some Western trains in this country
had similar experience with grass
hoppers during the last plague of these
insects.
In Algeria they have to keep sharp
lookout for snails, for the same rea-
son. Only short time ago, on the
line from Sioux to Arba- -Bizerte, a
train was detained forty minutes by
these creatures, which had come out
in myriads during rainy period, just
preceding, and literally covered the
track. This accident probably could
happen nowhere but in Northern
Africa, where snails are SO abundant
that they often constitute as serious
plague as do the locusts. They climb
the trees and shrubs. by thousands,
crawl out on the smallest twigs and
hang therefrom like punches of grapes.
It is not known whether they are of
the edible variety; if SO, the Algerians
should not want for delicate food dur
ing the open season.-New York
World.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-04-12

In the evolution Of japan, China
and Korea, war has been the most i'm.
portant factor. The three started
with about the same bravery, the ssmo
military skill and the same love Of
conquest. Their annals disclose ex-
hibition OF wonderful courage, of
noble heroism in defeat and mag
nanimity in triumph. Each has had
its ups and downs, yet at the present
time they are so different as to justify
cause for surprise, writes Margherita
Arlina Hamm under the caption "The
Mongol Triad" in the Overland
Monthly.
''The Chinese are as brave as can
be, but their bravery is cold and fan
tastic. They have no love of nation
ality, no love of war and no love of
life.
''Very different are the Japanese.
They love lite and gayety, war and
fatherland. They have superstitions,
but while believing in them, laugh at
them as if capital jokes. They are as
brave as tiger cats. When the Ameri-
can and English gunboats bombarded
the Shiminosaki forts thirty odd years
ago, the garrisons never finched nor
faltered. They served the old smooth
bores against their enemy until they
we're shot down.
"The third type, that of the citizen
OF the Land of the Morning Calm, is
inferior to the other two. 1t is diff
cult to describe and more difficult to
understand. Physically the Korean
is strong and healthy; nevertheless,
he shirks his work if employed and
does boys task if his own master.
He has, times numberless, displayed
great valor, yet nine times out of ten
his conduct is savage, cruel and
cowardly. On the coast he wrecks
ships, loots the cargo and massacres
the crew. Inland he robs the traveller
and any one else he can Law hands on"
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-04-12

The tribes OF Powhatan, as found by
John Smith, were farmers and fishers,
dwelling in fixed habitations. They
relies mainly for their support upon
agriculture, their most important crop
being corn. From the marshes they
obtained wild rice and "tuckaho, the
tubers Of the latter being used for
making bread. They took fish in nets
woven OF vegetable fibre or in weirs
made Of twisted stalks of weeds. Their
fsh-hooks were of bone, but they
knew how to shoot fish with arrows.
Their canoos, followed out Of logs,
we're sometimes fifty feet long and
capable of carrying forty men.
Their houses were from thirty-five
to fifty feet long, covered with bark
or mats. The fire, produced by twirl-
ing pointed stick in hole in block
of wood, was in the centre of the cab
in, around the sides of which was a
low platform, covered with mats or
skins, on which the inmates sat or lay.
Outside the door was a huge mortar,
dug out of log, for grinding corn.
The summer dless of adults was n
breech-cloth or short apron. To this
was added in winter mantel of deer
skin or of turkey-feathers The wo-
men and children did all the work,
while the men ate, slept, or danced,
when not engaged in the chase or in
war. Assoon as their corn was gathered
In the fall, they went up into the hill
country to hunt. This brought them
into collision with other tribes and
gave rise to constant wars.
A small remnant of the once-power.
full confedracy of Powhatan exists to-
day about twenty miles from Rich
mond, Va. The people composing
this last remaining fragment of great
nation call themselves Pamunkey.
They dwell on reservation of 800
acrss known as "Indiantown. They
get their living in true aboriginal
style by hunting and fishing. Farm
ing they do on small scale, though
they do not like it, and often hire
colored people to attend to their
truck-patches. They are very proud.
All of them are Baptlsts, the whole
number of individuals being about ITO.
they are not taxed, but pay an an
oual tribute by presenting to the
Governor of Virginia number of wild
iucks or other game. ---Now York Post.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-04-12
GRIT FOR FOWLS.

Grit is as essential to the health of
fowls as teeth are to the human being.
It fulfils the same office by grinding
up the food and aiding digestion. If
the gizzard of perfectly health y
fowl be examined it will be found to
contain liberal supply of grit or
gravel, thereby presenting striking
contrast to the gritless gizzard of a
sick bird. A failure to grind up the
food properly is responsible for indi-
gestion, bowel trouble. and congested
liver. The food gets sour, clogs up
the passage and, if not relieved, death
ensues. Keep your birds literally
supplied with grit at all times. New
York World.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-04-12
CARING FOR FARM HORSES.

The first thing in the morning the
horses are given hay; then the horses
are currfed, every one that is in the
stable, and all are stabbed six months
in the year. The colts are brushed
over little and names and tails
Strengthened out. The work horses
are thoroughly cleaned.
This much is done before breakfast
every day in the year. Plenty of bed
ding is used to keep horses comforta-
BILE and clean. The last thing before
going to breakfast the horses are given
their grain. This shortens the time
between morning and noon feeds.
Give horse q chance to eat hay q
while and he will eat the grain more
slowly.
If the horses are to work, after
breakfast they are harnessed and
watered, after which the work is pro-
ceeded with.
AS ! never bring horses from the
field too warm to water, at noon they
are watered, fed hay and grain before
going to dinner. want nothing to
hurry me after dinner as I usually sit
and read a while. The horses are
watered again before going to work in
the afternoon.
At night they are watered, and in
warm weather, if much sweaty, are un-
harnessed and washed all over before
going to the stable, and during warm
weather they are washed about twice
week whether they are sweaty or
not. And If not washed they are cur
ried as soon as brought in as they are
usually drier then than they will be in
half an hour. Shoulders are washed
twice day when washing.) Are fed
hay. Grain is given after supper.
During warm weather they are watered
and turned out just before dark in a
small pasture near the barn where
they are handy to get in the morning.
They usually come for calling. Horses
like this kind of treatment and if we'll
fed they have no objections to work.
One mare / got not long since was
cranky, ill dispositioned thing and a
bother to catch. Now she will come
when called, seems in a good humor
all the time and is always ready to do
what is wanted.
I always keep my horses fat, it takes
no more grain and if it did they
should have it. There may be some
days the heat bothers the fat horse,
but then I want to stop sometimes my
self in hot day. 1 had rather hold
back a fat horse few hot days than
to tail up poor one the rest of the
year Every one admires fat horse,
while no one wants poor one, and a
fat horse will live much longer than a
poor one.
A horses main comforts are plenty
to eat and drink and a comfortable
place to stay during inclement wealth
er, so don't neglect these. Farm,
Field and Fireside.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-04-12
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.


The business of horse dentistry is
one attracting more and more atten.
tion.
To make SOW a good mixer breed
her early and do not give her much
fattening food.
If you are going to buy or sell any
bees this year. the time to do it is be-
fore the warm weather wakes them
up.
1t is fact worth considering that
fowls that have liberal allowance of
green bone seldom have the dumps
and get sick.
Take the best care of the sows that
are due to farrow. See that they do
not lay on too much fat and thus de-
stroy their pigs.
When you mix up the morning mash
of bran, ground oats, ETC., put in gill
of ground Aaxseed. 1t will help tone
aud smooth them up.
A COW may not know the difference
between a good milk-forming diet
and poor one, but her tactical system
makes sharp distinction in the mat.
ter every time.
Do up now all the jobs of mending
pasture. fences. gates, stiles and lot
Enclosures that will be needed when
the grass grows. You will gain many
days of time thus.
Eggs are still in great demand. The
| ual0oa1O 80
longer than usual this trip. Nothing
but continued moderate weather will
set the hens laying now.
In the season when lambs are COM
ing thick and fast, it is a good plan to
keep hot stones on hand to warm
them in case they are chilled and their
mothers do not own them.
Do you raise calves from your best
COWS only. If your best COWS make
$40 year more than your poorest
COWS, this is five per cent. interest on
1900.
The National Nurseryman suggests
that originators turn their attention
toward the improvement of the black
berry and raspberry in the line of re-
ducing the size of the seeds.
Don't try to winter your fowls by
feeding in troughs or throwing their
grain feed ON the bare floor where they
can readily pick it up. Have heavy
litter of straw for them to scratch in
and let them hunt for wheat and corn.
The most successful poultry breed
ers separate pullets and cockerels as
soon as they are half grown They
develop better and in all respects do
better. A few quarrelsome cockerels
disturb the peace of a whole yard of
! fowls.
If you have occasion to introduce
new stock into your flock, it would be
we'll to place the strangers in quaran-
tine for few days, using insect pow
der freely, and little kerosene in
spots most likely to be lousey. You
may thus be saved much trouble later
on,
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-04-12
Science of Eating.

Germany has allowed the establish
ment of an experimental class among
the soldiers for the purpose of a COM
parative study by specialists of differ
ent diets, times of eating, amount OF
food taken, etc. 1t is hoped, in time,
to learn something definite about what
man ought to eat, and how and when
he ought to eat it. 1t does not do to
say that nature has given us appetites
for this purpose, for appetite is easily
perverted, and probably not one per-
son in a thousand has natural" ap'
petite. New York Telegram.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-04-12
A Hot Water Dynamite Gun.

ThomasJ. Lovegrove, ofNew Egypt,
N. j., has invented mammoth dyna-
mite gun. 1t is capable of throwing
projectile weighing 5000 pounds dis
tance of nearly nine miles, The ac-
tive principle is the explosive force of
hot water. 1t Is generated in small
boiler connected with the gun. The
water is heated to pressure OF $50
pounds to the square inch, and is then
released through tube into the breech
of the weapon and the projectile is
discharged. New York Press.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-04-12
TO KEEP s1pE-BAcoN.

Smoke and dry the meat in the usual
way pack down in boxes or barn els
with pieces of seasoned wood between
each piece, so the meat will not touch.
We use cedar, but suppose any kind
of wood wonld do. Shut the box so
as to exclude the light. It is sup
posed that the light causes it to be-
come rancid. Pack it down the last
of February or the first of March, for
great deal depends on having it
packed early. Do not smoke it too
much just SO it is dry will do. Pack
it some bright day when it is dry. We
have packed our meat in this way for
years with success. s.-Home and Farm.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-04-12
An Incomplete House,

We run wild over the furnishings of a
house; Its furniture, carpets, hangings, pie.
lures and music, and always forget or me-
elect the most important requisite. Some
hing there should be always on the shelf to
provide against sudden casualties or at
lacks of pain. Such come like thief in the
night; sprain, strain, sudden backache,
;oothache or neuralgia attack. There Is
aothing easier to get than bottle OF st.
Jacobs Oil, and nothing surer to cure quickly
inv form Of pain. The house is incomplete
without it. Complete it with good supply.
An attempt is being made to revive tho
aax-growing industry in England.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-04-12
Call It a Craze.
AN ALARMING STATEMENT
CONCERNING WOMEN.
HOW BAD HABITS ARB FORMED.

The New York Tribune saws: "The habit of
taking headache powders is increasing to an
alarming extent among great number of wo-
men throughout the country. These powders as
their name indicates. are claimed by the manu-
facturers to be positive and speedy cure for any
form of headache. In many cases their chief
ingredient is morphine opium, cocaine or some
other equally injurious drug having tendency
to deaden pain. The habit of taking them Is
easily formed, but almost impossible to shake
of. Women usually begin taking them to re-
lieve a raging headache and soon resort to the
powder to alleviate any little pain or ache they
may be subjected to, and finally like the NOR
phine or opium feud, get into the habit of taking
them regularly, imagining that they are in pain
if they happen to miss their regular dose"
In nine cases out of ten, the trouble is
in the stomach and liver. Take simple
laxative and liver tonic and remove the
offending matter which deranges the
stomach and causes the headache. DR..
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are composed
entirely of the purest, concentrated,
vegetable extracts. One Pellet is a
dose; sugar-coated, easily swallowed;
once used, alaOays tn fa00r They posi-
lively cure sick headache and remove
the disposition to it.
Mr. e. VARGASoN of otter Lake. LaSse~ q,
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-04-12

on the farm wagon is well adapted to
driving with little or no load, over q
good road; but with heavy load the
road surface is badly cut up, especi-
ally in wet weather. For heavy haul
ing on the road or farm, ar extra set
of wide tired wheels can now be bought
at a low price, or removable wide tires
can be used. ---New York Independent.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-04-12

A new process for the removal of
objects from wood fibre, such as paw
ing blocks, building materials, etc..
has just been patented. Mortar,
vitriol, sublimate, ETC., enter into the
composition of the material. which
can be sawed, nailed, drilled and 9th
erwise treated lust like wood.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-04-12

A1Hcs L<0PceT (O.,
Mich, writes II not
infrequentiy have an at
tack of the headache.
It usually comes on in
the forenoon. At my
dinner I eat my regular
meal, and take one or
two of Doctor Pierce's
Pleasant Pellets imme-
diately after, and in the
course of an hour my
headache Is cured and
no bad effects. I feel
better every way for
having taken them
not worse, as is usual
after taking other kinds
Of pills. Pleasant Pei
let's are worth more
than their weight in
gold, if for nothing else
than to cure headache"
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-04-12
WIDE TIRES FOR WHEELED VEHICLES.

WIDE TIRES FOR WHEELED VEHICLES.
The narrow tires in common use on
farm wagons are very injurious to the
surface of the country roads, either
cutting it into deep ruts, or grinding
it into dust as the weather varies. The
width of the tire should increase with
the weight of the load; for whatever
injuries the road surface increases the
draft by this very act. Long, practi-
cal experience has caused city vehicles
to have wide tires, for use on stone,
macadam and asphalt paving. That
wide tires are also the most economi-
cal for use on the roads around the
farm and across the fields is shown by
the experiments at the Ohio State
University in which the draft of the
narrow tires averaged nearly double
that of the vide tires. The traction
pull was measured by strong coiled
spring with an indicator scale, similar
to spring balance. Ttis dynamome-
ter was placed between the doubletree
and the tongue bolt OF an ordinary
farm wagon loaded to nearly five thou
sand pounds.
The draft with three-inch tires on n
dry, hard earth road was 254 pounds,
on a meadow 468 pounds, while on
freshly plowed land it was III pounds.
With two.inch tire these figures were
nearly doubled on the softer ground.
For every one thousand pounds of his
live weight, horse can draw $50
pounds, 30 that ON soft ground the
above load was too heavy for the aver
ago span of horses, though the great
saving effected hy wide tires was ap-
parent, lhe usual width OF the tires