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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-23
40 YARDS AN HOUR.
Is the Distance Travelled By the Pen
of the Ordinary Writer.

Is the Distance Travelled By the Pen
of the Ordinary Writer.
Has it ever struck you what a dis
lance your pen travels every time you
write letter, or even when you sign
your name? If not, here are some
figures that will astonisk you. some
words, of course, are very much less.
but the average of all your words is
as nearly as possible an inch in length.
Taking into consideration, however, the
numerous curves made in forming each
letter, your pen travels the space of
about three inches in every word.
Now, if you are a fairly rapid writer,
you will write 30 words per minute.
That is to say, every minute your pen
travels a distance of ~ feet, or $50
yards in the hour Clerks, or those
who WELD the pen at all vigorously,
write at least half mile a day, or
about 120 miles in the working year.
To see this paragraph in print, you
wouldn't think that the pen Of the
writer made a tour of 16 yards in wind
ing through the curves of the letters as
he wrote them; but it is a fact for all
that
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-23
WITH LIFE AS THE STAKE.

Although the experience related in
the Following lines occurred a great
many years ago. the incidents with
which 1T deals are as fresh in my recol-
lection as if they happened but yester-
day; nor do 1 suppose they will ever be
efraced from my mind. The astounding
nature of the details, their terrible
viv:dnesss and reality, and the remean-
brance of those awful moments spent
in the companionship of death, have
LETT a mark on my memory that will
last as long as life itself.
1t was the close of a day toward the
end of the London season. I had been
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-23

of humor as those Abraham Lincoln
left on his bank cheques. Indeed, in his
making and handling of money we have
the mans whole character; his modest
estimate of his own services; his OBJ
stinate refusal to accept any advantage
of which his sense Of justice did not ap-
prove; his wholly unselish use Of what
ne had; his conviction that all he had
q right to spend in this world was what
he felt he had earned by a dt1igent
practice of his profession. This is not
the successful mans" standpoint to be
sure but if it were the general practice
of the world it is probable that many
of the financial problems of society
would disappear.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-23

Henry Chew. You Will please send me
draft for the same and oblige yours,
S. LITTLE.
Touching evidences of Lincoln's help
fulness are found in his bank cheques.
A number of those almost humorously
suggestive have been secured by col
lectors and we reproduce three here
through the courtesy Of their owners,
Mr.. H. H. Officer of Denver, Col, and
Mr. Frank Officer of Franklin, Pa. One
can see the picture of the "one-egged
colored man, a soldier perhaps, seeking
the president with his story OF woe, the
great melancholy eyes growing tender
and kindly as he listened. the look of
amused appreciation of the cheque he
wrote, pay to one-legged colored man.
the grateful negro, the friendly good
bye. Few men have ever left behind
them SO true and delicate proofs of
their gentle compassion, OF their sense
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-23
SHE WAITS FOR ME.

When. worn and tired with toll and care;
1 h6meward wheel my way,
A thought dispels my dark despair
And lights the hOneward way
a vision fair far up the street
With straining eyes / see;
I hurry then my love to meet,
I know she waits for me-
She waits for me, my love, my own,
She greets me with a smile;
hear again her tender tone,
1t shortens every mile.
She waits for ne, because, you see,
Like lightning she can go;
At every turn she waits for me
1 ride so awful slow.
Cleveland Plain Dealer
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-23

The Pleasant Pellets" gently stirnu-
late and invigoraEe the liver to throw
off biliousness; and tone up the stom-
ach TO secrete the digestive juices and
overcome dyspepsia. Tie entire diges-
tive or alfmentary tract is put in mo-
ton in the regular, steady way of ma
ture and health. This is what makes
the Pleasant Pellets so intensely su-
perior to the numerous purging pills
which wrench and weaken the system
Druggists may get more profit OUT of
those pills but you don't.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-23

Aug. ]. Bogel, the leading druggist of
Shreveport La, says: DR. Kings New
Discovery is the only thing that cures
my cough, and it is the best seller l
have j. F. Campbell, merchant Of SAT-
ford, Ariz., writes: DIR. Kings New Dis
covery is all that is claimed for it, it
never fails, and is a sure cure for Con-
sumption, Coughs and Colds. 1 cannot
say enough for its merits" DR.. King S
New Discovery for Consumption.
Coughs and Colds is not an experiment.
1t has been tried for a quarter of a
century, and today stands at the head.
1t never disappoints. Free trial bottles
at z. c. NJ. I. drug dept.
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ruin was due solely to his own acts
and no one else was in any way re-
sponsible. But the fellow persisted in
his tale and evidently believed in it
implicitly. Sane in all other respects,
on that point he was a dangerous mad
man. Nemesis finally overlook him.
for some time later he met his death
in railway accident in Germany
whittier his wandering steps seemed
to have led him, and his career is now
forever closed.
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SAVED.

A boomer girl
Just left her wheel;
A lurking piece
OF orange peel
a careless step.
A sudden slip,
A scream, a fall,
a fatal rip.
A man at hand
With macintosh,
A garment just
The thing, begosh!
The boomer girl,
Raised from the ground,
The garment wrapped
Her form around.
A store at hand;
The maid has gOnes
All'S over and
The band plays on.
Chicago Tlmes-Herald-
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LINCOLN'S MONEY METHODS.
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HE WAS
NOT cHAH@-
WAS LIN
asGH FoRC STEPHEN A
HIsB MONEY
HIs CHECKS, ONE of,
RI "PAY CoLORED MAN ONE DOL
MONEY IN POLITICAL
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-10-10
SHEEP ON The FARM.
No stock So Well Adapted to HIllsides
and Rough Pastures.

No stock So Well Adapted to HIllsides
and Rough Pastures.
1t does not require a large farm to
keep a small flock of sheep, which
everything considered is the best, says
the Missouri Farmer. 1t should be well
fenced so that they can be kept where
wanted. Many rough, WORKOUT farm
might be brought up and made valuable
by raising sheep. There is no stock so
well adapted to rugged hillsides or
rough pastures, or to prevent the
growth of weeds and bushes. Where
sheep have the range of field very few
weeds will go to seed. and bushes will
be so thoroughly cropped that they will
either die or be kept back When a
farmer can thus easily turn the weeds
and bushes of a farm into excellent
manure, and at the same time have
them converted into mutton and wool,
il is certainly good thing. Sheep will
thrive in pasture and get fat where
cattle would almost starVe. They also
scatter their droppings over the field
and never fail to enrich lands, where
kept. Feed them extra, for this addi-
tional food works to the profit of the
raiser in two ways-it not only insures
a good growth of flesh and wool, but
il makes the manure richer and more
valuable.
To make the most profit out of sheep
they should be we'll fed and cared for.
A sheep must be fed to make the best
mutton, but few conceive that we'll
fed sheen Droduces more wool than one
poorly cared for. Wool is a product
from feeding, the same as fat, and
many farmers lose half the profit from
neglect 70 feed properly. Sheep should
have, besides good feed. dry. clean
quarters, sheltered from rain and
storms.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-10-10
THE FARMING WORLD.
IDEAL ROAD HORSE

The Kind of Animal That VIII Always,
Bring 3 Good Price.
DIR. @. M. Twitchell before the Maine
board of agriculture said: The 1871 TO
16-hand horse of solid color, with broad
forehead, ears of good size and we'll
proportional, good length from base Of
ear to eye, eyes full and expressive,
with lids free from meatiness. face
straight, nostrils we'll rounded, full,
large and thin lips, not thick, well
closed, neck of good length, shapely,
clean cut at jowl, and fitting well at
shoulders, which can hardly be too
sloping, the point of the wethers being
well back of the saddle, chest Of good
width, forearm long and heavily mus
cled, knees firm, broad, straight and
strong, cannons short, fat, broad and
hiaty, pasterns good length, muscular
and nervy, free from meatiness, the
ankles from toe to ankle joint being
about 80 degrees. feet round, of size pro-
Portionate to the animal free from
contracted heels, of good material and
with elastic frog, barrel-shaped like an
inverted egg, deep at girth as we'll as
waist HiiONihB lhii use VI lungs WIN
out infringing upon other organs, back
short, the point of the coupling on line
with that of hip, thus allowing for the
extension of the muscles OF attachment
we'll forward over the kidneys, Civ
ing greater strength TO the weakest
spot in the animals anatomy, as well as
in man, quarters of good length, not too
sloping, thus affording room for that
free stifle action so necessary in the
ideal driver. Stiles and gaskins long,
of good width, qbounding in muscular
attachments, hooks free from meath
ness, sound, strong. neither straight
nor having a decided angle, and not cut
under too sharply nj base.
Such horse, going smooth and true,
neither padding nor toeing in forward,
nor, as we say, straddling behind, will
always command a top price in the
market, provided he has ben educated,
and abounds in nervous energy. Form,
size, color, symmetry and substance are
essentials, but these do not insure the
road horse. To these must be added in
dividuality, the result of breeding. It
manifests itself in what we term nerv-
Gus energy, the up and get there power.
1t is the power of heredity, so desirable,
so necessary. To secure this, there
must be high ideal and fixed deter
mination in breeding.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-10-10
NNZAZUf

below the general level of the ground,
but often they are built so much above
ground that wagon may BE- bacl;ed
into them when II is desired 30 remove
the potatoes.
The cut gives general idea of their
construction and interior arrangement,
as seen in n simple cross-section. Usual
ly these cellars are without walls of
masonry, and are provided with a roof
made of poles covered with layer of
hay or straw upon which arc six to
twelve inches of earth. A row of chrtes
arranged along each side serves to al
the bins easily from the wagon; these
are made OF inch lumber, and are about
one foot square in cross-section, pro-
iecting six to eight inches above the
roof. In the crest of the roof there are,
usually, two or more ventilators con-
structed in the manner of the chutes.
The entrance to the cellar, especially
when constructed so as to be entered
with wagon. is provided with double
doors separated by a hallway having
a length of six or eight feet. and has
for it's object the shutting out of the
frost from in front. When necessary,
potatoes are stored in the driveway as
we'll as in the bins, the rear of the drive
being filled first.--F. H. King, in Rural
New Yorker.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-10-10
A PREHISTORIC HORSE.
Fossil Remains That Are Found In Ahs
R0ekiaa.

AesaA AAoAtAAha AnaS AIe Eoumo In ne
RockieA-
Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn, of the
American Museum Of Natural History,
in the Century describes the remarka-
BILE fossil remains that are found near
Bridger Lake, in the Rockies. lie says:
II we leave the lake shore, and pass
into the drier upland, we discover the
clever little four-toed horse, swift, alert,
intelligent. lie is, to use the modern
measure, only four hands or 16 inches,
high, so he would not reach the knee OF
the Uintathere, and could be devoured
at one sitting by the Patriofelis. His
limbs are as slender as pencils. His
large eyes are much farther forward
than IN the horse. He could readily
hide among the taller stalks, and il is
possible that he had the beginning of
protective stripes initiating reed shad-
ows upon his neck and name. In his
hair and coloring, however. we pass into
pure conjecture. His well-worn chisel-
shaped front teeth indicate that he was
already cropper or browser, and the
evident secret Of his triumphant per
sistence over his ponderous contem-
poraries is that he learned TO browse
just about the time that grasses began
to appear. He was the animal Of the
times.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-10-10
VALUE IN DIVERSITY.
II Pays to Have Something to Sell All tn
Year Round.

IL Pays to Have Something to Sell All the
Year Round.
The farmer that grows n variety Of
stock has a decided advantage in one
respect, in that, with good manage
ment, he can have something to sell
every month in the year. or nearly so,
and having an income in this way he
can use it to better advantage than is
possible when all of his income comes
from one source. Then he runs less
risk of failure and is in a much better
condition to take advantage of the mar
ket and in many cases the difference in
price means that much difference in
the profits.
Having something to sell so that a
steady increase is had, affords a de-
cided advantage in buying. Under
present conditions the farmer buys con-
siderable of what is used in his family
and having ready money gives him &
great advantage.
Too many farmers that depend upon
wheat or hogs or cattle for their money
with which to pay running expenses
are obliged to go in debt, and the farm
er that buys on credit is not only at a
disadvantage in buying what he needs,
but in selling what he produces, and
this is so much the case That it makes
a very considerable difference in the
farm profits.
Then growing a variety of products
affords better opportunity for lessen
ing the cost of feeding the stock, while
keeping variety of stock gives bet
ter chance to use all of the products to
the best advantage.
There are cases where the conditions
are such that the specialist is able to
realize a handsome profit, but this is
the exception rather than the rule.
Generally the farmers who plan to have
something to sell at ali times work
not only on the safest, bat the most
profitable plan.-Farm, Field and Fire
side
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-10-10

A, Trough for Adult Hogs: Il, Trough for
Little Pigs: @, Stakes Five or Six Inches
Apart.
them at such distances apart as will let
the pigs through, but keep the big fell
lows out. The accompanying diagram
makes everything plain at glance.
II is often desirable to leave n gate
open, so that cattle or a team and wagon
can pass through, but without allowing
hogs TO get out. My plan is TO drive
down a row of stakes across the gate
way, six inches apart, 10 inches high,
and slanting at about IS degrees to-
wards the hogs. Try II, and you will find
IL a success.
Never let growing pig creep
through n crack, least of all one under a
gate or board fence. II will kill him,
or make him crooked In the back.--C.
a. Coy, In JOurnal OF Agriculture.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-10-10
SALT AS A MANURE.
Report of q. v. VanderfOrd, of Tennessee
Experiment station.

Report of q. v. VanderfOrd, of Tennessee
Experiment station.
Results of a great many experiments
both such as have been conducted I'M
der control methodcally, and those
made by practical farmers, do not show
that salt is essential to life or develop
ment of agricultural plants. Salt may
have some indirect effect because of in
duced chemical changes in the upper
stratum of the arabic soil, and in some
cases by physical changes when applied
to stiff clays.
For many crops, as potatoes, tobacco,
beets, melons, etc, salt is injurious; in
some cases n light application of salt
may be beneficial. as for onions, cab
bage, celery and possibly tomatoes.
Upon stiff clay lands. salt at the rate
of 200 to 600 pounds broadcast some
weeks before the sowing of small grain,
or the planting of corn, has apparently
improved the mechanical condition of
the soil and has probably added to the
yield of grain. Upon land upon which
wheat had usually made an overgrowth
of straw, with a tendency TO straw
fall before ripening grain, the writer
has obtained n somewhat shorter but
much sitter growth of straw standing
up well till the fully matured crop was
harvested, By applying 800 pounds per
acre OF pork house refuse salt broadcast
upon the land in January.
Little or much, IL is not advisable to
apply salt 10 ANNALS at the time OF
seeding and Il should be used cautious
~, II at ell, during growth and culti-
yation. moderate dressing. 200
pounds per acre on meadow or pasture.
very early In spring, or better during
the last winter mouth. has upon Sow
eral occasions given apparently good
resuItAi but these were not sufficiently
marked 10 induce further experiments.
Clean the poultry hpuse Of lice. dust
the hens web with Persian lnseot pow
der, and give tbem hne dry earth in
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-10-10
CELLAR FoR POTATOES.

One Seen In Colorado Answers All OrdI-
nary Requirements
= l have just returned from a trip
through the irrigation districts of the
west, and while in Colorado, at Greeley,
where potato growing is so large IN
industry, and where they do know how
to raise potatoes, my attention was
called to their potato cellars of which
there are large numbers. The cheaper
forms of simplest construction aye,
usually, holes in the ground, preferably,
although not always, on slope t0c-
ing south or east. They are long, mar
row and, usually, three-fourths or mere
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-10-10
How Puss Regards Men.


The cat was a solitary roamer, whose
companions were the trees of its native
forests. 1t found a home in the hollow
trunks and safety among the branches
How do we know that the cats ances.
tors were dwellers in the forest? Be
cause every kitten takes to tree n
readily as duck to water. Also because
nearly all forest dwellcrs are notified in
character, so that they may not be con.
spicuous among the light and shadows
beneath the trees. While was consid.
cring what was the probable view held
by cats about human beings, it was sug-
gested by one ingenious friend that
probably they regard man as kind of
locomotive tree, pleasant to rub against
the lower limbs of which afford com.
Portable seat, and from whose upper
branches occasionally drop tid-bi;s
of mutton and other luscious fruits
We may laugh at the theory, but il has
quite respectable string of facts 10
back it up. If the Kanakas argued from
the pig to the horse, why should the
cat not pass from the familiar tree "a
the unfamiliar organism called man;
The cat, in spite of the domestic char.
lcter it has acquired, is in reality the
least tame of our animal servants. As
far as its duties are concerned man has
taught 1t practically nothing. Its meth.
DDS of pursuing rats, mice and birds
are all entirely it's own. II Is indeed
rather wild animal which has taken
up its residence in our houses for its
own purposes than servant or slave
DIR. Louis Robinson. In North Amerl
can.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-10-10
FaII PlarInr nom. In.eot..

Meadow lands infested with white
grubs should be plowed and thoroughly
cultivated In the fall. then planted to
some crop that requires thorough Guilt
walton the next season. The fall cmlth
walton viii destroy many OF the insects
which are then In . very tender stage Ia
little earthen cells In the ground. and
Che thorough and frequent onltlvaflsp
Of the following crop will soon dla.
courage The Grubs. Rural New Yorker.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-10-10
showing Low. Ont VISA.

We can look az any mans lunch pal
ana tell II his wife loves him. \ woman
shows lots OF her personal feeling In an,
way she packs boiled eggs and meni
sandwiches In n Tin pail.--AtchiSru
Globe.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-10-10
PROTECTING THE PIGS.

It Can he Done by Placing Two TrouEhs
sin the Feeding Pen.
To give the little pigs show at the
slop trough is out of the question If
they have to scramble for It among the
other swine. But it is easily managed
by having two troughs in the feeding
pen, with stakes driven down between
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-10-10
Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life
Away,

II you want TO quit tobacco using easily
and forever he made well, strong magnetic,
full of new life and vigor, take No-To-Bac,
the wonder-workcr that makes weak men
strong. Many gain ten pounds in ten days.
Over 100000 cured. Buy No-TO-Bac from
your own druggist, who will guarantee a
cure Booklet and sample mailed free. Ad
Sterling Remedy Co.. Chicago orNew York.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-10-10

your choice between me and your pipe, ycu
would hesitate That's where You make
a mistake Mrs. Jobson. A pipe soothe,
and comforts man in his old age"-N. Y
Herald
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-10-10

HIS Honor tscvercly)-"How could you,
sir, be so moan as to swindle people who
put confidence in your" Prisoner"
your honor, III make IL worth something &c
you II you will tell me how TO swndlo thin
as don't. "-Tit-Bits
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-10-10

WHEN little Willie heard that there was
TO be q money department estab-
lished at the town post office, he was de-
lighted. "Why," he said, '.now fellow
can go AMI order all the money he wants,
bap,
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-10-10

CuIEP OF DETEcTIvEs-"Why didn't you
catch Mag, the shopllftcrP | told Won liov
70 identify her by her peculiar hair. -"
Sleuthpup-"l guess she changed her
switch and threw nue. OF the track. "-Phila-
delphla Record.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-10-10

Sunday school teacher, shat you are nj.
ways happiCst when you ara goodl
"Yos'm," said Willie Tim never so happy
Us when I'm good, 'ceptin' when lm oatin. y
-ChicarO Trihune.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-10-10

The female mosquito has given !
bad name 10 the whole racei sho alone
aolng ala The billing and singing for n,
family.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-10-10

To THr SMALL BoY.-Why ia II, cherished
friend OF mine,
With various moods so hard to trace,
You'll swim with glee all day, and whine
Because you have 10 wash your facet
--Washiuaton Star
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-10-10

AT TIE WRoNG PIAcE. -"Who was that
hne, blocking gentleman at the door, janet"
~ don't know, mum, told him that no
had called at the wrong house" chow In
hreO pross
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-10-10

THERE is too much said about love in this
world, aud not enough about the necessity
of a marriage liCcnse.-AtChisou Globe.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-10-10

WHEN bilious or cOstive, eat a Cascaret,
candy cathartic, cure guaranteed, 1Oc, 25c.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-10-10

Mrs JABBER TO Mr.. Jabber) care you
aware that you talk in your sleeptn Young
Jab6er twho has just been silencedJ-
"What other chance does he getl'-TIt-Bits.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-10-10

] CAN recommend Pisos Cure for Con
sumption to sufferers from Asthma.-E. ID.
TOWNSEND, FIT. Howard, Wis, May 4, '94.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-10-10

WIEN you have another mans money in
your pocket, IL is so hard 10 remember that
1t Is not your own.