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which an avowed socialist could
possibly occupy at present In the congress
OF the United States. When he rises in
his rough clothes and begins to talk in his
strldent not TOO pleasant voice the other
members listen. They want 20 hear what
he says although. OF course, they do not
hesitate TO Interrupt and abuse him.
ought TO explain before / transmit some
OF the extraordinary views OF this extra
ordinary man 10 America that while they
are extreme and recognized as being ex-
IRENE. they are still serious and recog-
nized as being serious. keir Hardie ex-
poets bloody revolution There are those
who laugh at him even among the kadi-
Gals but there are those among the Con-
servatives who while pretending TO laugh,
take him and the conditions which have
created him seriously enough to fear that
their land titles in England are not certain
to hold forever. This widespread fear OF
an impending change Is unquestionaby
the real reason why go much English cap
ital has been and ls being invested in
America and other foreign countries. En-
glishmen VIII scofr at this explanation,
but there are thousands who Will IN their
hearts recognize IT'S truth. SO Keir Har
die, with his brown eyes and his big black
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predictions. With hts bushy red beard and
IFS haunting red flag. IS important and IS
worth writing about
Ny srst talk with rim occurred N his
editorial Office II Is a bare room up three
or four rfckety fights OF stairs. in cilap-
dated little building on the Strand one
cannot imagine an American congressman
working in such z room or wearing the
chea1 rrEsshapen clothes which loosely
araped the form % the English member or
parliament as ne received me. Whatever
may be true OF KeiF Har6ie, certainly no
one has ever charged that he led the
labor movement for what money
fhera might be IN II He is
poor man. yet he constantly gives out OF
his OAR small store TO the cause or united
labor. His seat in parliament IS not made
CON Portable by salary cushion. his paper
ftsef, although rs circulation Is large
and its influence great, really means the
weekly issue OF eight pages % self-saeri-
fee. These are some OF the things ne said:
ITO begin with. trade un.onlsm Is IN a
had way in England. ! sometimes fear that
il Is practically dead. We work4ngnen
are learning that capital can use its MONEY
in organization. and. by using Il, beat Us.
Take the recent lockout by the manufae-
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turers of boots and shoes. The manufac-
turers two years ago knew that the men
would soon reach the limit of oppression
and would strike. The moment they found
that out they began 10 manufacture vast
surplus stock. Wherever boots and shoes
were made they arranged to have part
OF this surplus prepared. They expected
the outbreak in London, but they prepared
for IL by getting the Scotch and even the
American manufacturers to increase their
output OF course this was also done in
the provinces of England. At last. when
they saw that the strike could be post
poned but a little while longer they took
the bull by the horns and locked the men
out Instantly they threw the vast surplus
stock OF boots and shoes upon the market
and waited comfortably for the men to
come to time. OF course they didn't have
10 wait long. Boots and shoes were never
so cheap in London as during that lockout.
The trouble did not have the least effect
upon the market, and the manufacturers
had so large a surplus on hand that they
were not at all worried by the stoppage OF
their shops. But the men starved and they
had to give in. Manufacturers have learn
ed this way OF beating the men. and The
men are helpless. Trade unions have not
won an important strike in London in a
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is the destruction of the slums and their
rebuilding. In some cases. after n bad
neighborhood has been wiped out. the land.
already purchased or leased by the-city.
has been offered for sale or lease TO pri-
Vate builders, privileged 10 construct new
houses under certain restrictions. but in
most instances the building has been I'M
dertaken by the city itself. who has thus
become one of the greatest of the London
Observation-Disclosures In every instance.
of houses well built, healthfully planned,
and offered at cheap rentals. This has
done away with the contract system in
public works
OF the party which has brought this and
many other similar but perhaps less i'm
portant advances about Sidney Webb is
and long has been the leader. His Lon
don Programme" is probably the most de-
lightful socialists dream, next % Edward
Bellamy's Looking Backward" which
has ever been written. and it Is better
than Looking Backward" because it is
admitted TO be entirely practical. Mr.
Webbs influence has been gained largely
through his connection with the Fabian
Society. an organization OF advanced and
educated socialists. which was born in 1854.
and which has during the eleven years of
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party. absolute and complete socialism.
England really takes him seriously, and so
1t may be that England takes socialism
seriously.
SIDNEY WEBB'S SOCIALISM.
Before | write Sidney Webb's opinions 1
ought, perhaps, to outline some of the So
cialism which he represents. which has
been accepted and is now in operation in
London. In writing of London I shall
omit what is technically known the
city" The city is small area in the cen
ter of London, and is governed by the lord
mayor and the guild. II is merely the CEN
ter of business activity, and is propably
the most corrupt and unprogressive spot
on earth. There is nothing good in 1t. Its
government is bankrupt and utterly vile.
1t is only question of a short time before
this government will die of its own decay.
and then the city" Will be absorbed by
the progressive London which surrounds
il like a ring-"the county"
Progressive London is in the control of
the county council. The county council is
made up of men who do not receive sala-
ries and who are chosen because of their
fitness. and not because of their political
pull. It's two main forces are known as
Conservative and Progressive. Up TO the
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IN the experimental state. he deserves
respect but his big tasks remain 70 reach
accomplishment
kerr HARDTE.S SOCIALISM
keir Hardie Is 2 snail man with
curly red beard, with big eyebrows and
Tam OShanter cap. The cap seems %
Be an mach part Of him az are bis beard
AMI hls socislis.fc theories he IL an az
trenist in more ways than one lie Is as
consistent in ms cap as ne - ~ rs conceFs-
tionz As leader o. the Infepe n9eat La
tor party az the last election he controlled
a large number OF votes- Ffe has heen the
p-opzeansFst OF trade uniouisn IN En-
gland yet he has not been entirely Sue
cessrui n organizing che workiHgulen %
MS own disfrscs. THIS - seized ~ many
az an opportunity for showing that ksir
uarSsc il without the confidence OF the
people who have sent rim % parliament.
hn, the criticism - not quite Just II Is
admitted that nowhere on earth could tx
is. = body % men more difficult 20 organ
fze Than the miners Of Northumberland.
His paaer. tire Labor Leader. Is unaues-
ssonably a power. and Keir Hardle's IN
Vulnerable speeches are always listened
20 By crowds. In parliament he occupies
a position much more dlgnlfsed than that
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is fortunate VINO gets two gusreas a week
the year round. and tha. lz5ore- IS lucky
who manages 20 earn "a shiIlinSs IN the
course Of each seven days. one-thtrd OF
which must go in rent. 50 in the best
paid classes OF workers the family can
only keep itself al the poverty tine. A
very short period OF enforced idleness is
invariably sufficient 70 drag them below
Il Hence our vast number Of paupers>"
II may be well here for me 20 interject
certain statistics OF Engiand's economical
condition. London contains now over
4Ssa coo persons. Sixty thousand families
tssss go personss average weekly income
Per family of less than IS shillings week.
and live in state OF chronic want One
in every eight of the total population OF
London dies in the workhouse or IN tho
workhouse infirmary. One in evey sixteen
OF the present population OF London IS at
the present moment a recognized pauper,
Every day 5000 children attend the board
schools. having gone without breakfast.
Thirty thousand persons have no homes
other than the four-penny lodging houses
or the casual ward
On all these things Keir Hardie COM
mented He believes in the platform of his
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las. election the Progressives were in the
large majority, and 10 this fact may De
attributed the enormous improvements
which have been made of late in London.
vastly 10 everybo6y's surprise, the iaS'
election returned a Progressive majority
~ one only. Whether or not this VIII
mean a pause in the pushing OF improve
,,,arts remains TO be seen.
Under the county council many Things
have been rnunic{palized. and private no
nonolies, which had. before the formation
Of This body, taken advantage OF their po-
sition. have been forced 20 serve the pun
n, better at smaller cost. This IS true OF
thA omnibus and tram. companies, whose
rates of fare have been very genera4ly re-
duce<i until one can ride as far as rom the
BATTERY 10 Fourteenth street in New YORK
for a penny e cents. 1t is true OF the
water companies. who have been COM
pelled 70 improve their service ana reduce
their rates: il is true OF the gas and cleo
trio conpanies. and the underground
railroads have had 10 adopt a working
mans fare in their third-class carriages
during certain hours
But the most important solanssic work
which has been done by the county council
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1895-11-16
Highest Of all in Leavenng Power-Latest u Govt Report
R@!a!!! RRskldRs
ABSOLUTELY PURE
WIG old King Cscrops.

Did say that the people who lived
there tAthens) at that time were
supplemented? Rather childlike they
were in some ways, and not SO worldly
wise as they might have been had they
lived some thousand years later; but
they were neither simpletons nor
altogether savages- They were the
foremost people in Greece. 1t was all
owing to their king, wise old Cecrops,
that they had risen to condition supe-
rior to that of the half barbarous tribes
around them. He had shown them
how to SOW barley and wheat and plant
vineyards; and he had taught them to
depend upon these and their focks and
herds for food, rather than the wild
beasts of the chase. He had persuaded
them to lay aside many of their old
cruel customs, had set them in families
with each it's own home, and had in
structed them in the worship of the
gods On the top of the Acropolis they
had built little city, and protected it
with walls and Notifications against
any attact from their warlike neigh
bors: and from this point as center
they had, little by little, extended their
influence TO the sea on one side and 70
the mountains on the other. But,
strange to say, they had not yet given
q name TO their city, nor had they de-
cided which of the gods should be its
protector.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1895-11-16
How wild Turkey. Forage.

A writer thus describes troop Of
wild turkeys on marsh in Missouri:
He said they started out in the morn
ing like a regiment of soldiers. taking
the fields and woods and everything
that came before them. each turkey
marching perhaps ten feet from it's
neighbor. They went away every
morning and usually came in an hour
before shutdown. keeping up the same
line of march in all their raids. About
an hour before shutdown they emerged
from the woods. in a long line. all
abreast. AS they went over the pas
ture lot every cricket, grasshonper,
bug and worm was pretty sure TO be
detected by their keen. sharp eyes,
and You could see them do their work
as they moved forward. or course
they got into the corn fields some, but
il is generally considered that they do
enough good i'm their march to atone
for the corn they take, for corn is
cheap down in Missouri.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1895-11-16
A Cure for Cholera.

Ed Girardin, Wisconsin: The surest.
quickest way to get rid of cholera is
10 kin all the sick fowls and burn the
remains, or else bury deep, having
first covered them with quicklime;
then clean up the quarters and burn
the matter gathered. When you have
got the quarters as clean as possible.
close them up tight and put a pound
of sulphur in an old kettle. pour on
half pint Of alcohol, and have il
where you can reach IL from the door,
set fire 10 Ii. close the door. and leave
II TO burn out. Do not have any fowls
In the house during the burning.
Wherever the sick fowls have left
their droppings. wet the ground thor
oughly with copperas disinfectant and
scatter lime freely. Do this daily as
long as the cholera remains on the
premises. Give the flock pulveriZed
charcoal Tablespoonful TO pint of food
three or four times a week, and once
In every two or three days add five
drops of carbolic acid TO a quart of
water and use il TO mix their food
with; also. until after the cholera has
disappeared. give Douglass Mixture
daily In their drink.
Douglass Mixture is made as fol
lows: Dissolve pound of copperas in
two gallons of water: then add two
ounces OF sulphuric acid. Put in stone
jug and keep well corked The dose
is a tablespoonful 10 each quart Of
drinking water. When handling the
sulphuric acid he careful. as II is
poisonous. -Lloyd's Modern Poultrv
Book.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1895-11-16
Some Garden Pointers.

Save the soap suds for the garden.
They make an excellent fertilizer for
tomatoes. and should not be thrown
away.
III. when the turnips come up, they
are too thick to make good growth
thin them out. Unless this Is done the
crop will be failure.
A good fertilizer for the garden is
said to he one bushel of wood ashes,
in which has been mixed five pounds
of nitrate of soda. We should think
this would make a good combination.
When onions get ripe their tops
break down. and they should he pulled
and carefully dried and stored away.
or wet weather may cause them TO
make second growth or rot, either of
which would spoil them.
III the tomatoes show disposition
TO rot on the vine, pick of every one
that has n spot on IL and throw 1t
fectiun. Some varieties are worse In
this respect than others and should
not he planted
The United States plants nearly a
million acres more to potatoes than
Great Britain does, yet the latter coun-
try raises the most bushels. This
shows the difference between thor
ough work and the average American
style of spreading out over a wide
area and sighting the cultivation.
Watch the squash vines and IL any
of them show disposition to droop.
you may be sure there are borers In
the stalk nj the root. Scrape away
the soil and look for holes, and when
found. split the vine with thin-bladed
knife. as carefully as possible, and dig
out the borers. Then return the soil,
heaping II over the vine az the base
and the splitting will not hurt H.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1895-11-16
An Antoinette Wrap.

If there is no new dress under the
sun, Aaron's linen coat being worn to-
day by women and pantaloons having
been found from the stone epoch, there
are at least designs that reappear like
comets at such long intervals that they
are new TO some consecutive genera
tons Thus it is with certain Marie
Antoinette cloak, that has appeared
and seems destined TO a career. Not
so very old in its design it is so ex-
tremely odd and its career was so short
in its day that it comes with all the
effect of surprise. This hood is ex-
ceedingly wide and is hooped round the
opening, and when on the head stands
out like an inflated half balloon some
what fattened on top and leaving a
wide space on each side of the face,
that may be filed with hair or shad-
ows The width of this hood reaches
out to that of the widest sleeves ever
made. Attached to a long cloak it il
bound to figure in evening wraps nex'
winter, but forstalling the time, they
are occasionally seen on hotel piazzas
at night. and made of taffeta berucheo
or of satin lined with cloth; one or two
travellers have worn them coming from
Paris to the beech. The effect is truly
marvellous
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1895-11-16
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products to-
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup Of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting,
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of perfect lax
alive; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and feven
and permanently curing constipation:
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
news, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all dru )
gists in SOC and 81 bottles, but 1t is man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs
and being we'll informed, you will NOT
accept any substitute If offered.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1895-11-16

Those who take the trouble TO read
the very exhaustive crop report Of
Illinois, published under the date OF
June 20, will be struck by the extent
TO which wheat fields and 0at fields
are this year abandoned TO the hogs In
that state, and, to considerable extent,
this will prevail elsewhere.
Where the crop is cut, IL Is still quite
common to turn the hogs into the stub
BILE field and let them hustle for liv-
ing, Notwithstanding the fact that the
conditions are very different from
those that existed when the practice OF
making the hog a cleaner originated.
The stubble field that is cut with an
improver reaper affords thin picking,
as compared with the old-time stub
BILE field Shade is absent and the heat
In oppressive, and while the older ami
mails may worry through without
much loss, the spring pigs often suffer
severely.
When a crop OF wheat that II does
not pay to cut Is turned over TO the
hogs, the case is different. Then the
feed afforded is ample, and 1t Is. per-
haps. the most profitable disposition
that can be made of crop that has
failed 10 repay harvesting.
The change 10 the wheat or oat field,
however. should be made gradually,
by cutting and feeding for a few days,
and in almost every instance special
pains will have TO be taken 10 provide
plenty OF good, clean water, as II is not
usually found In the field, and may be
forgotten. The fields are. also. so ex-
posed. as rule, that provision OF some
kind OF temporary shade under which
the hogs can take refuge during the
hottest portion OF the day, is one of
the essentials of the reasonable care
necessary TO keep the animals in
healthy. thriving condition.-lowa
Homestead.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1895-11-16
summer Manurinw Of Pastures

Good harnyard manure applied right
after the meadows and pastures are
mown In the summer give very bcne-
fetal results, II can he hauled out
from the yards and stables In August
or September. and spread over the
stuhblc. The earlier after the mead
ows are mown the better. and where
they are cut In early July the work
can he done proiitably then. Thin
pastures win also he greatly improved
by midsummer manuring. and
where the grass has been very thin nj
cutting II Is an easy matter then 10
apply the manure where most needed.
By following this method up system
atically patchy meadow land can be
made even and regular. So believes
the American Cultivator.
Even strawy manure that has not
been entirely composted will give good
results. The straw protects the roots
of the grass from the hot sun, and
helps to retain the moisture In the
soil after each shower. About ten
good loads OF manure TO the acre ap-
plicd several years In succession will
make such difference in the yield
that one would he surprised.
Manure applied In the fall. and then
narrowed over lightly. will tend to
make new grass seeds sprout at once,
and on the whole the pastures seem
10 he benefited by this narrowing, es-
pccially II n rain follows right after
IL. By applying the manure In this
way late I'm the summer Ii does not in
terferp with the next seasons crop of
bay, but rather tends TO increase its
Weld. OF course. II keeps the cattle
OF the pasture for time, and this
certainly should he done for a few
weeks I'm midsummer anyway. Pas
turing stock on the meadows right
after moving. when the soil Is dry
and the sun very hot. is the surest
way 10 run out good piece of grass
land. After moving the land II needs
n rest and little stimulating then
will help matters a great deal.
BY handling our hay fields In this
way we can crop them more years IN
sucrpsslon than II we neglect them.
SIX successive crops of good timothy
or the hay field IL something unusual,
apd vet that is Just what this system
will do every time. The question Is
whether the labor of spreading the
manure In late summer will not pay
n such results are obtainable.
This year hay IL apparently going TO
no high. Already prices are tending
inward. and holders are keeping their
did stock for further advances. The
coming crop will not he a large one
unless more rain falls. We have had
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1895-11-16
THE NEBRASKA STATE FAIR.
Special Rates and Trains via the Bur
lington Route.

lington Route.
Round trip tickets to Omaha at the one
way rate, plus so cents (for admission cou-
pom to the State Fair, will be on sale Sep
tember 18th to 2Oth, at Burlington Route.
stations, in Nebraska, in Kansas on the
Concordia, Oberlin and st. Francis lines
and in Iowa and Missouri within 100 miles
of Omaha !.
Nebraskans are assured that the '95 State
Fair will be vast Improvement on tts
predecessors Larger-more briliant-bet-
ter worth seeing. Every one who can do
SO should spend State Fair week, the whole
of it, in Omaha.
The outdoor celebrations viii DO particu-
larly attractive. SURPRISING any thing Of the
kind ever before undertaken by any west
ern city. Every evening, Omaha viii b
afiame with electric lights and glittering
pageants will parade the streets. The pro-
gram for the evening ceremonies is:
Monday, Sept. 16th-Grand Bicycle Car
nival
Tuesday. Sept 17th-Nebraska's parade
Wednesday, Sept. lsth-Military and
civic parade.
Thursday, Sept. 19th-Knights OF Ak-Sar-
ten Parade, to be followed by the "Feast
Of Mondaminn Ball
Round trip tickets to Omaha at the re-
duced rates above mentioned, as well -
full information about the Burlington
Routes train service at the time Of the
State Fair, can be had on application TO
the nearest B. & NJ. r. r. agent
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1895-11-16
Tn. r,r,t Horse thar Ever Lived.

There is a Greek legend telling how
Athens came by its name. and there is
a noble horse who plays a prominent
part in the legend. If we are to be-
iieve the story, he was the first real
blood horse of which we have
any account. Some men say that he
was the frst animal of the kind that
ever lived, but this is doubtful Snowy
white, without spot or blemish from the
tips of his ears to the tips of his amber
hoofs, how he must have astonished
the supplemented folk Of Cecropin
when he leaped right out of the earth
at their feet! If you should ever go to
Athens and climb to the top OF that
wonderful hill called the Acropolis look
around you. You may see the very
spot where il all is said to have hap
peued.