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People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-05-09
FROM THE NEIGHBoRs' CANS,

A Dog With Craving for Milk and His
Manner of Satisfying 1t.
A strange tale comes from Dorches-
ter, which, if true, discounts anything
which the feeble imagination of Mum
ehausen was able to originate about
any of the numerous and gifted ami
mails with which he came in contact.
The story is vouched for by patrol
man and a milkman, and it is about a
big Newfoundland dog belonging to
Mr.. Kennedy. Of Armanline street, Dor
chester. Just what the dog does
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-05-09
No sign Needed.

Peddler-Want any Please Shut tina
Door" signs?
Jimson-Don't need 'em.
Your door hasn't any spring"
People always shut II when they "a
out"
That's queer"
I'm a tax assessor. They shut II with
a slam"
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-05-09
Rests on Cushions.

The brain is not affected by the
movements of the body, even though
these are sometimes very violent, be-
cause it rests on basis of soft cush-
ions between the bones of the spine.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-05-09
HE LIKED TO FIGHT.
CHRIS PAGE TAUGHT IN THE
. MAINE BACKWOODS.
The Hardest School That Could Be
Found Was a Pleasant Recreation to
Him-Could Whip a Whole Gang of
Bad Boys Single Handed,

T IS OWING,
perhaps, to my
long absence from
my native State"
said a Maine man
residing in New
York, to a Sun re-
porter, that l
have not in recent
years heard much
of Chris Page. In
the ffties he was q
famous schoolmas-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-06
DARyrxG A SURE BUSINESS.

The Breeders Gazette says: There
is no branch of American farming that
seems on a more stable and substan-
tial foundation than the dairy business.
During all commercial panIcs the pro-
ducts of the dairy have neld their own,
with reference to price, better than
anything else. 1t is prob>bly true
that. taking a series of years together,
less variation in the prices of such pro-
ducts viii be noticed than anything
else the farmer has to market The
business has, therefore, the element
of safety about it, and has made the
farmers in all great dairy regions
among the most prosperous in the ma
ton" This statement, coming from
such a source, is the highest evidence
in favor of what have been preaching
in advoca ting the Introduction of the
dairy business into the southern states.
Only one year in the past twenty have
butter and cheese sold at what could
be called a losing price. Can this be
said for the past five years for any of
the farm crops of equal Importance?
We are all familiar with ups and
downs of live stock sales. One year
is a hog year, the next a sheep year:
then cattle take boom, while COM
HUI llOISCS HtNCl w pay LII
words, the farmers business has an
uncommon lot of luck in it, and he
can never tell whether or not to raise
hogs, hay OF potatoes, to say nothing
of a surplus of corn, cotton or spring
lambs. This, after all, is a telling
point in favor of the dairy, that when
we'll conducted it is sure to pay, no
matter whether there are wars or fam
ines. or the Democratic or Republican
party is in power. We all say that the
party in possession of the government
always is responsible for the ills that
befaH the people, but it has never been
able to hurt the dairy interest. The
man who has good cows can raise
economical feed and make good butter
and cheese, can snap his fingers at the
manipulators of the markets and the
managers of the great government 1T
self. People will eat and pay for good
butter and cheese though the heavens
fall-Home and Farm.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-06
MELTED BY A CURRENT.

A contemporary states that a rail
was melted by an electric current a
few weeks ago on a plate girder bridge
carrying the New York, New Haven
and Hartford railroad over Mount
Hope street, in North Attleboro. Mass,
says the Philadelphia Record. An cleo
trio railway passes under the bridge,
but the Roadway is SO limited that
the trolley wire is not carried under,
but has its ends anchored by three
guy ropes to the plate Orders. the car
running under the bridge by its own
impetus. Each guy wire has glass
insulator, but one of these was bro
ken, and the current leaked along the
wire to the girder and along one of the
cross Orders. the top of which was only
about three-quarters of an inch below
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-06
CHAOTIC LONDON.
Appalling Eject of the millions
Cast Down ut Hazard.

Appalling Eject of the Millions
Cast Down ut Hazard.
Heinrich Heine was moved to say of
London: This stern reality of things.
this colossal uniformity, this machine
like movement, this sour visage worn
by joy itself, this high pressure of life,
weighs down the fancy and rends the
heart aSunder."
What wild, wondrous, chaotic den
of discord it is" said Thomas Carlyle
when first he came to London. I am
often dazed and aWestruck TO wander
along its crowded streets and hear the
roaring torrent of animals and carri-
ages and horses and men, all rushing
they know not whence, they know not
whittier"
lone thing about London impresses
me- said j. Russell Lowell, "above
any other sound l have ever heard. 1t
is the low, unceasing hum one hears
in the air. When L hear it L almost
feel as if I We're listening to the roar
ing loom of time
81 am always haunted" says Lord
Rosebery, ''by the awfulnesS of Lon
don, of the great appalling effect on
these millions cast down, as it
would appear. by hazard on the banks
of this noble stream, working each in
their own groove and their own cell
without needing each other. without
having the slightest idea how the other
lives-the needless casualty of unnum-
bered thousands of men. Goblet call
ed London "a Wen IL it was a wen
then what is it now but a tumor suck
ing into it's great system half the life
and blood of the rural distEicts?"
zone Sunday" said Mr.. Chauncey
Depew, 81 traversed the Whitechapel
district and saw sight it is impossi-
BILE to see anywhere else in the world
Such poverty, such misery, such
wretchedness, such a seething furnace
of ignorance and all the attendants up
on it / never saw before and never
expect to see again. 1 felt that that
great city, with its magnificent pal
aces, with every evidence, in part of it,
of the greatest wealth and the largest
luxury, rests upon a volcano which
only needs the force of civilization to
loosen upon it to produce a catastro-
phe which would shock the world"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-06
SHE KNEW JACK POT.
4 Patronfzfng Husband Learns u
Costly Lesson.

It was a little card party of few mer-
~ acQuaintances. and though the stakes
were absurdly small the interest ran
breakers high, says the New York Re
The pretty wife of one of the players
was particularly excited, and played as
if the happiness of her whole life was
staked upon the cards.
Her husband didn't like her methods.
My dear" he said, as he dealt cards
70 all the rest. and added none to his
own hand you ought to watch the
players. You play very bad indeed. Poker
is game that needs careful handling
Then he raised" the man who had bet.
and the latter threw down his hand, as
did all the others except his wife. She
saw her husbands bet and raised
him in return. He looked very black.
There you go again. he said in a
vexed tone 1t does seem to me that
women haven't any sense. What made
you raise me? Didn't you see that 1 drew
..Didn't you?" queried his wife, opening
her eyes. Well, you didn't say So
I'm not obliged 10 say So" said her
a;Weil." she continued, since I've bet
why, I've bet. can't take il back again,
can 70"
Certainly not" was the reply; land
Just to teach you q lesson, and 10 make
you careful in the future, I'll raise you"
"Pll raise you back" was the reply,
and she did.
Her husband by this time was the pic
ture of impatient amazement.
You drew four cards." he said, sternly,
land ] drew none. When will you ever
learn TO play the game property"
Then he raised" her again, and she
raised him IN return.
He looked around the table in an apol-
ogetic and plying. way.
Emma is a splendid girl at most
things" he said, but when it comes to
card playing she makes me very weary"
Then ne doubled her bet; and she dou-
bled his in return.
.'Oh, this is absurd he cried; there's
no use winning money from your swn
wife: I'll just call you. I've got flush,
ace high"
And rye got four kings replied his
wife, as she raked in the ivory Chips"
And then a roar of laughter shook the
room, While tile man who knew all about
the game looked sheepish indeed.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-06

TO reach and permsate the mass, it
viii be absorbed by The same and held
for the use of the crop that is to fol-
low. OF course the vegetable matter
can only hold so much moisture; hence
the rainfall, in excess of what the de-
caying mass could absorb, would go on
down into the subs0il. And when moiS-
ture is ascending the vegetable matter
thus put into the land would also ar
rest and retain much of it for the fu-
ture use of the crop. l have been told
of instances in which the beneficial
effects of a green crop thus plOughed
under could be noticed for three or
four successive years.
Flowing Under Green Crops.
In the East would not have the same
Importance relatively, as moisture
there is frequently in excess rather
than in quantities insufficient And
furthermore, because of the abundance
of moisture. the vegetable matter de-
Gays so rapidly that its bnefits cannot
in some instances be distinctly traced
beyond a single season. But it is not
so with us. The rapid decay of vege-
table matter in the soil in the east
as compared with the west is very
noticeable in the case OF stubble
ploughed under. In the east no trace
of them will be found the next sea-
son, while with US they may be
plOughed up year after they have
been buried and yet show but little
sign of decay.
1t is not my desire at this time to
specify the crops that shall be thus
turned under so much as to call at
tention to the benefits to be derived
from the "anuring of the land. But
in passing it may be mentioned that
rye. millet, rape, buckwheat and even
weeds may all be made to serve a good
end by thus ploughing them under.
And it may also be stated that land
may be cleaned and thus enriched at
the same time. If rye could be made
to germinate in the fall it could be
ploughed under in the spring The
land should then be Immediately har-
rowed and sown with some such crop
as buckwheat or millet The mass
thus turned a second time would SO
fill the soil with vegetable matter that
the benefits would extend to the crops
that would come after for several sea-
sons Where lands are badly infested
with weeds it might not be necessary
to SOW amy crop at all. A crop of
weeds could be ploughed under in June
and the ground narrowed Immediately.
A second crop could then be ploughed
under later. 1t matters but little what
the green crop is so long as the bulk
] ana SucCulence requisite are present
1t is apparent. therefore. that while
in some respects we are powerless to
increase the supply of moisture in our
soil in other respects, we can material
" increase it. We cannot cover the
sky of brass with vapors from which
the precious liquid viii fall upon our
crops Nor can we stay the south wind
with it's hot breath when it comes to
rob our soils of moisture sorely need
ed by the crops which grow upon them.
But we can do very much to arrest the
moisture that comes to US and to pro-
long its stay. We can do so by the
simple processes referred to, and also
by others not so patent.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-06
TUE RUSSIAN WON.

A good story is going the rounds at the
expense OF well known society. woman
who doesn't live a thousand miles from
Rittenhouse square The lady in ques-
ton has just returned from d visit to
friends in Washington. where she attend
ed quite a number of social functions.
1t is related that at q reception she was
presented to one of the attaches of the
Russian legation. Feeling in a quiZZical
mood, she extended her hand to the Rus
sian. at the same time eXclaiming: How
do YOU ioski?' Not 10 be outdone, the
gentleman from the cars domains
promptly and tersely replied: "Bullygo-
vitch!" And the Philadelphia lady adj
mitted that the laugh was on her.-Phil-
adelphia Record.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-06
To father.
Parted below.
To mother,
Joined above.
METAL TEN-DOLLAR BILL.

Something quite remarkable came
into the redemption division, of the
treasury at Washington a short time
ago. 1t was thin plate of silver about
two feet long. into the surface of
which a ten-dollar silver certificate
had been pressed in such a manner as
to incorporate its substance actually
with that of the metal 1t was a
brand new bill, and in the process had
been squeezed out to about twice its
original size Nevertheless, it was per-
fectfy recognizable. A statement &C
companied it to the effect that work
man in silverware factory had
dropped the bill accidentally upon a
plate of silver as the latter was pass
ing through a rolling machine. This
explanation being satisfactory, a fresh
ten-dollar certificate was returned to
the loser.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-06
EXERCISE V.

All, see the solemn and depressing
sight!
Behold the large crowd with its
mournful mien.
Permit us to weep.
Is it funeral?
No. 1t is a game of football.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-06

the base of the rail. Rain and an ac-
emulation of cinders facilitated the
formation of an arc. and the rail base
was melted away until in one place it
was only two and one-eighth inches
wide. The corrosion was discovered be-
fore the passage of the morning train,
c1Jrrp1
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-06
SOMETHING RARE IN EP1TAPHs.
Curious Verses Found During Visits
to Country Cemeteries,

Curious Verses Found During Visits
to Country Cemeteries.
Here are some epitaphs brought back
to town by a summer tourist. The first
three were found in Clarkville. N Y
Mr.. Henry Gay had three wives-So-
phronia. Emeline and Jane. Sophronia
died November 5. 1880. Her epitaph
reads:
Don't mourn for me; the die is cast.
Our life is like a fading rose,
PreEare for death and follow me.
And in your Savior take repose.
Emeline died November 90 1882. Upon
her tombstone was this verse:
Submissive to a stern decree,
/ come, Sophronia, after thee;
To mingle dust, and join thy spirit.
In the blest world that saints inherit,
May Henry and our progeny
Join us i'll blest eternity
Jane joined the others on September
II. 1876.
The bonds of earth are severed;
Thou art numbered with the blest;
Where the wicked cease from troubling
And the weary are at rest.
Another epitaph at Plymouth reads
briefly:
e ....,;............... ............
: To father.
: Parted below. (:
To mother,
Joined above. {:
.....--.-... .-.-...-..---..-...
Two little children have this unfee;hlg
story cut in marble above them:
Here lies two babes,
AS dead as nits;
What shook to death
With ague and fits.
This was in Badensburg, Md.-New
York Herald.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-06
EXERCISE VI.

The yellow haired little boy is afraid
to go to bed in the beautiful, small
pink bedroom because he fears ghosts
The little boys uncle with the dark
mustache is assuring the little child
that there is no occasion for fear.
Dead people, says the little boys I'M
Gle. never walk about.
From this it is believed that the little
boys uncle has never been in st. Louis.
Chicago Record.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-06
EXERCISE w.

Here come two bicycles.
The riders are in costume.
Are the riders of the two bicycles two
men, two women, or man and wo-
man2
Goodness knows
There are some things that make
themselves to be a puzzle.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-06
THE oLLENDoRF SERIES.
Being Specimen Short Syndicate
Stories For the Year 1925.
EXERCISE T

A young man and young woman.
Is the young man not kissing the
young woman?
ON, yes; the young man is kissing
the young woman.
How af-fec-tion-ate!
The young people then are in love,
are they not?
Not much. They are only engaged.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-06
EXERCISE II.

The man.
The bed.
The man on the bed
This poor man is sick, is he not?
Quite so.
Has he had a fever?
No; he has been sitting in the draft
between two debaters on finance.
Poor mani
Sad. Is it not so?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-06
EXERCISE III.


What is the book in the hand of the
old uncle's nephew?
1t is a volume of logic, polemics and
the art of controversy
Then the young nephew of the old
uncle is a student, is he not?
Not exactly. He is a Cornell young
man preparing to present an explana-
ton of how it happened to his college
crew.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-06
SOL MOISTURE.
PERTINENT AND PRACTICAL ideas
On AN IMPORTANT SUBJECT.

Best Methods 10 Adopt to Retain {he
Natural Moisture OF the Ground
Facts of Interest TO Every Tiiler
of the Soil.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-06
The Need of Humus.

But no means can be devised. per-
! haps, that will tend in greater de-
gree to promote the retention of soil
moisture than keeping the soil we'll
supplied with humus. Humus or veg
etable matter adds much to the power
OF the soil to retain moisture. It has
been ascertained by chemical ANALYSIS
that soils which have been cropped for
several years in succession without be-
ing laid down to grass are deficient in
moisture as compared with those
which have produced meadow or pas
ture in short rotations. And what is
Of even greater import, their power to
retain moisture is materially de-
creased.
The remedy viii be found in keeping
the soil well filed with vegetable mat
ter This can be done in three ways.
viz: First, by applying farmyard ma
nure in suitable stage of decay. Sec
ond. by rotating with meadow or pas
ture; and, third. by ploughing under
green crops grown for the purpose.
In dry sections manure must, of
course. be intelhgently applied or it
will not decay quickly enough to bene-
fit the crops; but will, on the other
hand tnjure them by keeping the soil
in too porus condition. And when
meadow land or pasture land is
ploughed. the aim should be to do the
work at a season when there is much
succulent vegetable matter to be
ploughed under. as then the decay of
the same will be rapid But the
day is not far distant, prob
ably, when green crops plough
ed under will become the great
scurse of supplying humus to the soil
in the dry sections Of the prairie. This
question has received but little atten-
ton IN the past. but the day is coming
when it win be given much careful
study and when ploughing under green
crops will be most extensively prac-
tice6. Nor can 1t engage the atten-
ton of the western farmer too soon.
Suppose a, mass of vegetable matter
as, for instance the Russian thistle. is
buried with the plow, as often as rain
falls on the soil in quantities sufficient
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-06

Highest of all In Ieavening power,
Hewlett Bros. new high grade
Three Crown Baking Powder.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-06
Surface Cultivation.

Surface cultivation during the grow
ing period is also very efficacious
mode of holding moisture in the soil
But such cultivation should be shall
low If deep, it will tend to promote
rather than retard surface evaporation
on the soils of the prairie. 1t may be
accomplished by using the harrow or
the cultivator according to the cir
cumstances. The harrow in some form
will vet be a potent factor in promot-
ing the growth of small grains during
the first weeks of their development.
In some instances it viii be used be-
fore the grain has reached the surface
and in other Instances at a later period.
The stirring of the surface soil will
thus tend to prevent the escape of
ascending ground moisture, and it win
also prove greatly helpful in destroy
ing myriads of weeds just after they
have terminated. But when the har-
row is thus used on growing crops it
must be with care and great judg-
ment Otherwise it may prove sword
that will cut two ways.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-06

Subsoil blowing. or subsoiling as tt
Is sometimes termed, is the stirring of
the soil TO Z. greater or a less depth
which Immediately underlies the area
that is ordinarily cultivated In sub
soiling the under soil is only broken
up: it is not brought to the surface. Tt
is ususlly done by running a plow of
pecula ar make in the furrow which has
been last made by an ordinary plow
when blowing is to be done But it
would also be correct to say that the
farmer subSoilS in a sense when he
piows more deeply that he has piowed
heretofore. One of the chief objections
TO -haa kind Of subSoiling is the large
quantities of subsoil earth which it
brings up to the surface al one time.
Subson earth is usually inferior in
available plant food to surface earth
until the elements work upon it, hence
Il should only be brought up very
gradually Subsoiling gives land great
e. ooyer TO retain moisture on the
principle, first, that it disturbs the
numerous little channels through
which water has heretofore passed
downward into the lower SUBJ
soil; second. by increasing the
size of the intersticss between the
Particles so that more room is made for
the retention of water; and, third, it
gives the land thus stirred greater
power 20 arrest moisture ascending
from q deeper source and TO hold it for
plants. And it allows the rootlets of
plants the more readily 60 go down
ward and gather moisture and food
than they could have done under other
conditfonc. But subsoiling is by no
means equally helpful in thus increas-
ing the absorption powers of soils.
With some soils it actually decreases
this power by increasing their por0sity
10 too great an extent. And no two
kinds of so,E5 differing in their physi-
ca and mechanical constituents are
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-06
Narrowing All Through.

It may be easily made to do more
harm than good. The harrow best
adapted to such work, the time to har-
row and the mode of the same cannot
be discussed at this time, but it may
be mentioned in passing that the best
harrow for such use has yet to be
invented. In growing such crops as
corn or sorghum the occasional use of
the harrow from the opening of spring
until the planting season viii greatly
tend to promote the retention of moist
ure in the soil. 1 do not stay to give
the reasons. but simply mention the
fact. Fan ploughed lands thus treated
should be capable of growing a fairly
good crop Of corn or sorghum at most
any season unless where a sandy or
gravelly subsoil comes up toward the
surface. Where soil for the crops
named has been thus treated up to the
time Of planting and where the harrow
and cultivatoE are made to do duty
properly. until such work cannot be
continued longer, the weed crop for
the time being would be given but lit
tie Quarter