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St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-05

CATTLE-Steady and yards well cleaned up.
Fat cows and heifers in good demand other
butcher stuff slow. Not so much inquiry to-
day for stoclzers, but they held steady.
RenreSentative Sales.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-05
DR.. PEARCE,
43O Wabasha Street, St. Paul, MINI.

The most prominent and successful physS-
clan In the Northwest, devoting exclusive at
tention to Chronic Diseases of the
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-05
Chicago.

CHICAGO, April 4.-Cattle-Prices 20@25c
lower than week ago, common to choice
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-05

Press.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-05
One for Each Side.

PIERRE, S. D., April An the caucus in
the Third ward the Citizens league candidate
was selected by majority Of eleven, and in
the Fourth ward the league candidate was
defeated by majority Of five, one for each
side.
He's equal to anything-the man who drinks
Gamm'S Beer. Telephona a25-2 for q "a sa-
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-05
Bond List.

NEW YORK, April 3.-State bonds dull.
Railroad bonds strong. Government bonds
firm.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-05
LIVE STOCK.
Yards Well Cleaned Up at South ST.
Paul.

Receipts-Hogs, 400; cattle, 100; sheep, 200.
HOGS-Light hogs steady; heavy &c lower.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-05

The following were the closing prices OF
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-06-27
Tho Thing Was Loaded.

Old man Joshiah Jcrnigan has got one
of these long, tall army muskets, which
has come down to him through the
Jernigan generations from the first set
tlement of fhe country. 1t is one Of
them guns what you read about. You
ought to hear Josiah tell aboutit. He
can spin some of the hatr-raisin yarns
perhaps as to how his greatrgrandfa-
Their use to shoot bear and painters and
kill wild Indians with that same old
army musket
One night last week it would seem
like Wade Turner had went over there
to the Jernigan place to spend the
night with the boys. And after sup
per old man Josiah took down the old
musket and unwound himself in re-
CARDS to the war history and the fight
in records of the Jernigans. In his
own wild pecurious way he told some
tremendous bloody yarns, and conse-
quentially the boys they saw things in
their sleep that night.
Next mornin Wade Turner and Sol
Jernigan-both of them nothin but
yearlin boys-they went in kersnooks
together and fixed up for wild turkey
hunt. Wade lowed he would take the
old army musbet and go out after the
fresh meat. Sol was to meet him at the
big spring down in the woods and play
and levclcd his gun and pulled the trig-
ger and the cap popped-so far as they
llnowed that old musket hadn't been
fred off since the last war-Sol he was
to jump up and keel over and flop like a
wild turkey gobbler with q handful of
buclxshot in his head. Everything was
fixed up and laid off to a mats bristle,
and the boys went fortS.
Sol hid out in a clump of gallberry
bushes, and when Wade slipped up in
sight with the old army musl1et he
stretched his neck and gobbled loud
and clear and sassy. Then Wade he
brought down the old musket, took aim,
pulled the trigger and-well, the blamed
thing was loaded. 1t was so hard on
trigger till Wade pulled it up and missed
his mark. But it give out a regular
Fourth of July report and kicked Wade
ten feet down the hill. In the tremendous
roar and confusionment Sol forgot to
jump up and keel over and flop like a
regular shot turkey. He lit out and run
off down the branch and clum tree, and
there he stayed till old man Josiah and
all the family come and told him that
nobody was hurt and the war was over.
But the old army musket, which
hangs on the wall, amt gone nowheres.
RUFUS SANDERS.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-06-27
The nNrang, or King Locust.

The inhabitants of our western states
and territories are badly mistaken if
they suppose that they live in the only
country subject to the periodical in
cursions of locusts or "grasshoppers."
China has its vistations Of such plaques
just as regularly and more often than
ever Kansas, Nebraska, the Dakotas or
Minnesota. During the time of such
visitations in China the farmers only
remedy is to propitiate the 'Wang" or
king of the locusts" with gifts. They
believe that this wang" is a more mon
strous insect than was ever seen by
mortal eyes. His body is leagues in ex-
tent, but his wings are so transparent
that the sun shines through them with
out hindrance. Besides being of colossal
size, the king locust is of the supernat-
ural kind of insects. He hoyers over
the region of the upper air, silently di-
recting the various swarms and CON
trolling all their movements in time of
migrations. The Chinese also believe
that if a certain district or farm is to
be laid waste II is done under orders
from the wang" No wonder, then,
that this gigantic, supernatural insect
is prayed to and offered all kinds of in
dueements in order 10 keep his minions
from working destruction.-St. Louis
RcDublic
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-06-27
Dried Olives for Food.

Manager j. A. Filcher, of the Califor-
MIA board of trade, has received COM
munication of rare interest from south
crn California regarding the raising of
olives for drying purposes. If dried
olives possess all the qualities claimed
by their advocate a new industry may
be developed in this state and econom-
zeal persons be furnished with food
product, palatable and highly nutri-
tious, which will cost not more than
five cents day. w. S. Manning, of
Ballard, Santa Barbara county, has sent
n sample of the dried fruit for the in
spection of the board of trade. He con-
tends that no product on earth contains
as much of the elements of nutrition
necessary for the sustenance of the
body as ripe olive. The dried fruit
will, of course, contain all of these
qualities, and all that is necessary to
render it pleasant to tho taste is soak
ing and sailing it. The oil of the olive
is equal to meat and the pulp is as good
as bread.-San Francisco Call.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-06-27

appointments. At any rates, from all
] can pick up amongst the neighbors,
when Gus got home that night he was
SO bad scratched and tore up till he
looked like he moueht have rode a
thrashin machine through hurricane.
Up to this time old man Billy Virgins
and cid man Uriah Clancy had walked
the chalk line of law and order, and
kept the peace and dignity of the state
like friends and fellow citizens. But
the family rucus had went on from
bad to worse, and more and more of ii.
The day and hour had now come when
they couldn't stay out Of the game no
longer.
Over there on Little Wolf creek old
man Clancy runs water mill. And
down the creek mile below the mill
old man Clancy runs farm. The
next mornin after Gus Virgins went
home wearin on his youthful counte-
nance such scandlous Disagreement,
old man Billy he put out and went over
in the woods paster, where him and
old man Uriah had joined fences Is
years ago, and cut loose henceforth and
forever. In less than three hours, and
before old man Uriah could hear the
news, 81 head of cattle, four mules
and Il big bunch of goats had invaded
into the Clancy farm and licked up
three or or four acres of young corn.
Did old man Uriah shed any tears to
speak Of or lose lick of sleep, or miss
u meal of victuals? No. He blowed
the horn for his hands and built a new
fence. That night he lowed it was jest
about the right time of year for him
to cut his mill dam and let off the wa
ter. BY the first crack of day he was
down there with his hands at the mill.
They eut the dam, and when old man
Billy Virgins went down to his creek
farm, where he had 90 acres of swamp
corn-"and hit a burehin for the tas-
sel'-there was water, water every
where, and not a blame thing but
water.
Now you mought maybe think that
old men have met up together some.
where's along the big road and had
bloody fight. But they hayen't-not
rs anybody knows of. And my own
private opinions are that they never
will. From general appearments !
think one of them is right tolerable bad
sl:eered and the other blame glad of it.
They put me in mind of julie Majors
when he went out through the settle
ment leolin for work, and prayin to
the good Lord not to let him find any.
Old man Billy has now took out and
quit the Methodist church on the
grounds that he can't fellowship with
the Clancys, and old man Uriah has
left the peoples party because he don't
see how the Clancys and the Wigginses
can vote the same ticket.
There amt no tellin for certain where
the family rucus will stop. But in the
main time we are not lookin for any
second-elass funerals, and the country
is safe.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-06-27

This evil generally arises from a care
less mode of lighting the gas. 1t is a
frequent practice TO turn on the gas
suddenly and to allow volume of it
10 escape before the match is applied,
the consequence being that every time
this is done cloud of black smoke
arises to the ceiling. The proper
method TO treat gas burners is TO re-
move the globes every day and wipe
them before putting them on again,
to apply n match to the top Of the
burner and turn on the gas slowly, so
that very small ligh. results; then,
after the globe is adjusted, TO turn the
gas on TO the required height. If this
plan is pursued the ceilings viii not be
blackened and fewer accidents occur
Chicago Chronicle.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-06-27

Young Mr.. Lyghtlie, with his collar
worn very high and his forehead worn
very low, at that instant minced across
the assembly room floor.
"Therel" exclaimed Miss De Jones,
what does Mr.. Lyghtlie remind YOU
off"
Miss De Smith raised her glasses and
critically surveyed that ornament to So
ciety. Then she lowered Them.
Nothing" she calmly answered.
Miss De Jones hove n sigh of relief.
"The very thing" she said. in a tone
Of satisfaction. I've been looking Mt
him all the evening, but couldn't seem
to determine just what it vas n. Y
Recorder,
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-06-27

Round and oblong cloths with cir
cular borders come in various sizes for
dining tables so shaped. Floral designs
predominant largely in these, the clover
leaf, pansy and ehrysanthemum taking
the lead as the faverites. The hand
soonest ones, however, are of plain
linen, known as butchers linen, these
being decorated by three-inch inser-
ton of renaissance lace and hem
stitched strip and edging correspond
irg in design with the lace. Others
are tastefuliy decorated with bands of
Cluny lace in linen, alternating in Mex
lean drawn work in fanciful design
ST. Louis Republic.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-06-27
An Awful warning.

There is an awful warning to those
parents who continue to name children
after their relatives. Upin Knott coun-
ty, on Caney creek, the practice has been
carried to an excess, and the result is
that the Sloan family numbers among
its members the following: Big lsom
Sloan" "Hard's Isom," Sons lsom,'
"Isom's Isoln." "Jailer Isom,' "Sorrel
Head Isom," "Jim's jsom," Little
Isom," "Andy's Isom," "Summ's lsom,'
"Iimbos Isom," big Isom's Isom" AMI
'Sorrel Head Isom's Isom."-Louisville
Post.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-06-27

The sweet girl paused before her IA
theirs chair, an appearance OF indie
eision amounting almost to dread upon
her face.
"How do you like it2" she asked, hes
ltatingly.
The old man pushed his spectaeles up
onto his forehead ana examined her
critically.
$50 this is your new bicycle cos
tune" he said. at was for this that you
begged and begged until you made my
life a misery. And it was this that cost
me $50. Welt Well don't see much
to it."-Chicago Tribune.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-06-27

till If they was to fall in the creek and
git drownded they would float up
stream for pure cussedness--a general
miXtry OF pizen human nature and
yariegated meanness = and there you
arc, as the man says in the play.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-06-27

o n e spotted
hound dog with
a comm appetite
for eggs two
plain old female
women who talk
a whole passle
because t h e y
have got some
thin to talk with
two cantank-
erous old men,
s o C r o ssyays
a n d contrary
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-06-27

Scene on the balcony.
Marie lin ballroom attire)-I wish
] had wrap TO put around my neck.
Young Moonbeams-Won't my aruss
do2-Texas Siftings.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-06-27

"Poor little babyl" said Ethel, SYM
pathizingly, as her ne'y brother wept
Mamma, why don't you give him some
of that smoothing sirrp"-Harper :
Round Table,
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-06-27
itUHUS SANDERS.
The Sage of Rocky Creek Reports
a Family Rucus."
An Old speckied Hen, Spotted Hound
Dog and Two Plain, Old Female
Nomen-Story of Load
ed Musket

One old speckled hen settin under a
brush heap down by the COW pen gate
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-06-27

Their Double Breasted Compliments.
The next time them two plain old fe-
male women met up together it was at
singin match over at Bark Log church.
Naturally, of course, they brung up rhe
question of speckled hens and spotted
dogs, which the more they discussed,
the faster they talked, and the hotter
they got.
In the general run of that furious
confabulation Misses Virgins called
Misses Clancy every thing she could lay
her tongue to except gentleman and
a scholar, and the old lady Clancy she
returned the fire with her double
breasted compliments.
About the next news we heard was
20 the extent that two yearlin boys had
got up the question of speckled hens
and spotted dogs at school one day. 1t
would seem like Gus Virgins had final
" at last jumped on Pate Clancy and
give him one of the most severest chas-
easements that a white boy ever toted
out OF these woods.
Whereas, when Gus Virgins come
by the Clancy place that evenin on his
return back from school the speckled
hen had quit her nest, but old Misses
Clancy she was settin down there by
the COW pen gate-settin, bless your
life, and settin for Gus.
I am sorry / didn't ccme along there
in time to see the classification between
the old lady Clancy and Gus Virgins.
But life as we live II in this vain and
eeetin world is full Of sorrovs and dis
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-09-23
RECIPES.

Rice Muains-One cup cold boiled
rice, one pint aour, two well-beaten
eggs, ono tablespoonful butter, half q
teaspoonful salt, milk to make bat.
ter. Beat hard and bake quickly.
Sweet Pickled Apples Make a sirup
of one cup of vinegar and two Of
sugar. Add few small pieces of
whole cinnamon and some cloves.
Pare and core sweet apples; drop
them in the syrup and let them cook
till tender. Put in jar and pour the
sirup over them. They are ready to
eat as soon as cold and will keep any
length of time.
Toast-Cut neat pieces of stale
bread into squares, round or oblong
shapes; dip in batter made from
cup of milk, one beaten egg, one tea
spoonful of melted butter, half cup
of sugar, half cup of flour. See
that the bread is we'll saturated with
the batter, but not so soft as to break.
Fry brown in very hot butter OF
sweet dripping, and serve with butter
or bit of jelly on each.
flashed Veal-Fut a tablespoonful
of butter and one of -four in sauce
pan. Melt without frying, then add
small half-pint of milk. Stir until
boiling. Add large saltspoonful OF
salt, good pinch of cayenne, half a
teaspoonful of onion juice. Then
stir in one large cup of chopped
cooked veal, add a pinch of nutmeg
and serve on hot dish, with a
poaehed egg for each person.
Lamb Chops-These may either be
broiled or fried. If fried, the spider
must be kissing hot. Drop a small
lump of butter in the pan, turning so
the whole surface will be slightly
CREASED, then put in the chops, cook
quickly over hot fire till brown on
both sides, remove to the back OF the
stove. cover closely aud let stand q
minute or two. Dish up on a hot
platter and have the plates hot also.
Thin Biscuits-One pint -four, one
wineglass milk, one tablespoonful
butter, one egg. Beat the egg till
light, and pour it on the flour, ther
add the milk, and lastly the butter
melted. Work 1t well, then break of
small pieces, the size OF a marble, rol
out thin as a wafer, sprinkling will
dry aour as you roll them, which viii
make them crisp. Prick each on
with fork and bake in q quick oven
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-09-23
STARTING A DAIRY.

There are every year men starting
in as farmers who have no cows of any
kind. This class will, as a rule, find
it to their interest not to stock up the
first year with the full number Of COWS
they expect to keep. This is because
it will be found almost impossible to
buy the best COWS out OF any herd. 1t
is better to raise a herd of dairy COWS
better for several reasons. First,
by using males of improved dairy
b-eeds better class of COWS can be
raised than can as rule be purchased /;
second, they will be more gentle if
properly trained from calfhood to
maturity; third, they are more con-
tented, and contentment counts.
At the bottom of all successful
dairying, whether conducted entirely
on the farm, OF partly as associated
dairying, is dairy education, dairy
habits, and sometimes it may be called
dairy instinct. Instinct is said to be
the sum of inherited habits. This is
doubtless the best definition that can
be given OF it. Hence the best dairy
communities are those where dairyine
has been carried on for generations.
kindness, patience, painstaking,
keen observation and steadfastness Of
purpose are all important factors il
producing good results. If dairyine
is not thought to be worth your best
efforts let it alone by all means. Lee
it alone if it is irksomo to you. Dc
votion and application to an enter
prise beget love for it, or should
and if they do not there is something
wrong.
There is a moral side to dairying
Regular habits are acquired. Mel
who keep cows must be at home q
milking timo-home is a good place
Very few good dairymen are wbisk.
drinkers. Dairy communities, as
rule, furnish but little business TO
lawyers. Dairying is educating an,
eleYating if intelligently followed
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-09-23
The kangaroo.

Captain then Lieutenant) Cook,
with Mr.. (afterward Sir Joseph
Banks, set sail in 176s, and, the OBJ.
servation of Venus having been com.
pleted, porceeded in the spring of
ITO to Eastern Australia, visiting
among other places q spot which, on
account of the number of new and
strange plants there to be found, re-
ceived the name of "Botany Bay. Z"
Subsequently, when detained by an
accident in Endeavor River, some
sailors sent on shore reported they
chad seen an animal as large as q
greyhound, OF slender make, and ex-
tremely swift" "rwo days after
ward" Captain Cook continues, as I
was walking in the morning at little
distance from the ship, 1 myself saw
one of the animals" A fortnight af.
terward July 81 some of the crew ''set
out with the first dawn in search OF
game, and in a walk of many miles
they saw four ANIMALS OF the same
kind, two of which Mr.. Banks's grey
hound fairly chased, but they threw
him out at a great distance by leaping
over the long, thick grass, which pre-
vented his running. This animal was
observed not to run upon four legs
but to bound or leap forward upon
two, like the ierboa. This animal il
called by the natives kangaroo. The
next day our kangaroo was dressed
for dinner and proved most excellent
meat" Such is the earliest notice o
the observation of this animal by Eng
! hshRen.
As Australia became better known i
was found to be inhabited by beasts o
many kinds, all of which were pre-
viously unknown, while they Almos
all agreed with the American opos
sums, in that they were "pouched" o
"marsupial" animals. Not uDnatur
ally, therefore, some of these creature
were also called "oposums," thoug
the name had better have been re
served for the American marsupial
exclusively, which are the only "tru
opossums. "-Fortnightly Review.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-09-23
FLOWING UNDER BucKwHEAr.

The quick growth of buckwheat and
its broad, expansive leaves, enabling
it to take much of its substance from
the mir, has suggested to others as to
you that it ought to be good crop to
plow under for green manure. Un-
fortunately, however, all the buck.
wheat plant takes from the air through
its leaves is only carbon, and of com.
paratively little value as fertilizer.
We have seen rank growths OF this
crop plowed under green, but never
saw good crop of anything else thus
produced. 1t used to be said by old
farmers that buckvheat plowed under
from scattered seed late in spring for
corn was poisonous to the corn crop.
We do not believe this, but these far
mers probably thought the buckwheat
growth, being nearly as bulky as clio.
yer, ought to be equally valuable.
When its results were so inferior it
was easy to imagine that the corn after
buckwheat, being so much inferior to
that on clover sod, had been really in.
jured by the former. In one respect,
buckwheat ought to be good for corn,
as it makes the soil very light and
friable, so that if the fertility is there,
the corn roots Will easily find it. As
for plowing under buekwheat as prep
aration for wheat, it should never be
dore. The buckwheat will make the
soil so light aud porous that it will
hold great deal Of water, and wheat
on such soil will almost inevitably
winter kill. Boston Cultivator.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-09-23

"Sunstrokes are confined almost en-.
tirely to towns, and principally to
cities" said DR.. A. G. Fowler, Of
Atoka, Ind, at the Howard. "Cases
of sunstroke are very rare in the coun-
try and seldom fatal. Men work in
the broillng sun, when thermometers
register over hundred degrees in the
shade, and very seldom have to even
seek shade. Harvesting is done in
the hottest seasons of the year, and
yet the hands are not injuriously
affected. 70 some extent this is ex-
planned by the use of iced drinks and
Intoxicating liquors in the towns and
cities, and it is partly due to the sun
being reflected from sidewalks and
houses in city, while its rays are alb
sorbed by the earth in the country /;
but these matters would not seem to
explain all of the difference, and it
appears remarkable to me that there
are no sunstrokes in the country. -
Washington Star.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-09-23
THE sor A SUICIDE.

The Right Rev. Monsignor Thorpe, Of
Cleveland. during sermon on the great evil
OF modern days, said a man who will
squander his money in destroying his health
who will ruin his constitution, who will burn
his liver and corrode his stomach by intoxi-
eating drinks, Is murderer; he murders
himself. Those to whom my words would
apply are, perhaps, in this precious time OF
Sunday, hanging about some saloon, wasting
their time and desecrating the lords day
while wife and family are at home, cold and
cheerless and hungry, because the money OF
the fathers earnings Is being spent for drink
What spectacle for little children growing
up to see a drunken father. There is no
struggle to meet him at the door with n kiss
OF innocent childhood. to climb his knee and
caress him as he sits down by his humble
flreside There is no supper, no food, and
all because Of the unthiEking, unfeeling
fathers desire for drink. The responsibility
OF man to man is exacting, but the RESPONSE
bllity of parents to children is a thousand
times more exacting. Put temptation from
you; say that you will not degrade yourself
so as TO destroy the soul that God has given
you, and which one day you will have to
render an account for.