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People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-01-02
THEY DON'T PAY SMALL CHECKS
Reasons Why Some Business Houses Mail
Trlfiing Amounts in Bills and Stamps.

Trfiing Amounts in Bills and Stamps.
A seaside hotel proprietor wishing to
close his seasons account with one of
the largest upholstering establishments
in this city, wrote for his balance few
days ago, requesting a check for the
four dollars and thirty-two cents that
stood to his credit He was surprised
the day following, says the New York
Herald, to receive registered letter
containing four one-dollar bills and
sixteen two-cent postage stamps.
He made inquiries of his neighbors
and learned that not only this particu-
lar business house, but many others in
New York city, were in the habit of
paying small amounts in cash, rather
than by checks.
! 1.-The reason for mailing cash instead
OF checks in settlement of small &C.
counts" said the manager of one of
these houses, in answer to my question,
sis twofold. For one thing, our banks
object to small checks. We have &C
counts only with big banks, doing a
business Of many hundreds of thou
sands or millions year, and mass Of
small checks would tend to bother them
greatly. Some banks won't take &C.
counts except with the understanding
that small checks will not be drawn up
on them except occasionally.
"The principal reason, though, is to
guard us against the raising of checks,
Any check under ten dollars is very
easily raised, and there are so many
petty sharpers engaged in that bust
ness that we are apt to be greatly
bothered and fretted by these little
frauds We find that it is much cheap
er for us, in these days of cheap regis
try, to settle such accounts in bills and
postage stamps, and pay the registry
charges, than to run the risk of loss
and trouble by sending lot of little
checks all over the country"
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-01-02
ROCK ISLAND TIME TABLE,

ROCK ISLAND TIME TABLE,
GOING EAST.
No.. Chicago Mail and Express. .s:OOs 2
MOI Chicago Fast Line. HIP D 10
No, 81. Accommodation Freight -. .9:ls N
GOING WEST,
No. |. Chicago Mail and Express. ...s:13 D NJ
Nc. = Chicago Fast Line. a m
No. 81. Accommodation Freight .6:ll m
Nos. l and run through to Fl Worth witbs
out change.
All trains run daily.
Free reclining chair cars on all passengers
TO Kansas City and St.Joe, where direct con-
nection Is made with all lines north. east
and south. No. has through sleener for
San Antoni? Tickets sold and baggage
checked to all important points In the Uni
ted States and Canada.
E. F. HIGGINS, Agent
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-01-02
BIC F0QER} ROUTE.
ATLANTA.
Cotton States and international Exposition.

Travellers 10 the South during the fall and
the early part Of the winter season will have
an unusual opportunity Of seeing the South
at its best advantage. The Atlanta EXPOSE
ton is the largest exposition OF its kind in
this country, with the exception ofthe Worlds
Fair at Chicago
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-01-02
A SERIOUS AEEAlR.
The old-Time Breakfast OF Which Newly
Married Ones Partnnk

The old-Time Breakfast Of Which Newly
Married Ones Partook.
The old-fashioned wedding breakfast
was training in fortitude for others
beside the bridegroom, says London
journal. 1t was the nurse of manly
virtues for some half-dozen or more of
his friends. Little do the unthinking
youths who nowadays assemble at a
wedding to guy" the "best man" sus-
pect that generation ago victim of
this description would not have had to
"dree his weird" alone. His weird
would have been breed conformity with
him by second best, third best"
down sometimes in a descending scale
Of excellence to an eighth best" man.
To every bridesmaid there was a
"groomsman," and to the youngest
groomsman there was a speech, the re-
Spouse to the toast of the bridesmaids
health. 1t was an effort of oratory de-
manding extraordinary tact-a demand
which, we need not say, was very rarely
satisRed-in the youth who would steer
successfully between the Scylla of sheep
ishness and the Charybdis of vulgar jocu-
larity; and many were the groomsmen
whom one or other OF these twin whirl-
pools sWeOt awaV Rut the survivors
nay, even the submerged-arose the
stronger for their plunge.
They had fam.liarized themselves in
imagination with the position of a bride
groom, often even assisting their mag
NATIVE powers by a Irritation with their
allotted bridesmaids; and they some
times returned home nerved for future
featS of matrimonial daring Of which
heir degenerate descendants seem in
aaro b1a
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-01-02
rrnlse, the Chinese Ooo.r.

An American physician, Dr.. Fales,
who has spent many years in China,
has high opinion of Chinese cookery,
which, he says, is slrillfully contrived
to increase the digestibility Of the food
prepared. Whenever indigestible meats
are to be used as food, he says, the cook
increases their assimilative character
by the uss Of peptoniferous tripe AM
EiRag3~.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-01-02
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The volumes OF the MAGAZINE begin with
the numbers for June aud December Of each
year. When no tine is mentioned. subscrip-
tions will begin with the number current al
the time Of receipt Of order
Remittances should he made by post-)ffice
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People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-01-02
HaTper'S Magazine.
in 1896.
in 1896.

Briseis, a new novel by William Black. writ.
ten with all the authors well known charm OF
manner, will begin in the December number.
lsga, and continue until May. new novel
by george de Maurier, entitled The Tartan,
VIII also begin during the year. IL Is not too
much TO say that no novel has ever been
awaited with such great expectation as the
successor to Trilby. The personal recOllec-
tons oil Joan OF Arc will continue and will res
late the story of the failure and martyrdom
OF the Maid OF Orleans. Other Important fc-
ton Of the year will be novelette, by Mark
Twain, under the title, Tom SAWYER, Detec.
tlVei humorous three-par. tale called Tive
MormOns from Muddlety, by Langdon Edwin
Mitchell; and short stories by Octave Thanet,
Richard Harding Davis, Mary f. wilkins. Ju-
Ian Ralph. Brsnder Matthews, Owen Wister,
and other Well-knOwn writers.
Prof WOODROW Wilson will contribute six
papers on George Washington and his times,
with illustrations by HowardPyle Poultney
Bigelow's history Of The German Struggle for
Liberty, illustrated by K. Cation WoOdville,
will be continued through the winter. Two
papers on St. Glars defeat and Mad Anthony
Wayne's victory. by Theodore Roosevelt with
graphic illustrations will be printed during
the year
A noteworthy feature Of the MAGAZINE
during 1896 will be a series Of articles by Cas-
par W. Whitney. describing his trip OF 260O
miles on snOw-shOes and with dOg-siedge
trains into the UNEMPLOYED Barren Grouads
OF British North America in pursuit Of wood
bison and musk-OXen. Mr.. Whtney's series
VIII nave the added interest OF being Illus
trated from photographs taken by himself.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-12-15
Fresh Cows VS.. strinners

A bulletin Of the Iowa experiment
station reports an experiment on the
effect which the period of lactation has
upon butter flavor. 1t is often said, the
bulletin states, that it is necessary to
have part of the milk from fresh
cows in order to produce butter of good
flavor. In the test the cows of the col
lege herd that had been in milk for
more than six months were regarded
as shippers, while those that had come
in fresh within that time were in the
fresh" class. The average number of
days since calving in the first class was
go days and in the latter 1O7 days
The feeding and management of the
cows as we'll as of the milk was sim
liar, and the butter made separately
from the fresh and stripper milk, when
scored by w. S. Moore, official scorer
for the Elgin board of trade, scored
alike at 80 points for each lot. The
conclusion from the experiment is that
the period of lactation has no effect
on the flavor of butter made by the
separator system. Under the gravity
system there may be some difference,
as many dairymen claim, and the pos
Sible explanation is offered that as the
fat glCbuleS become smaller as lacta-
ton advances, more time is required
for the cream to rise by the gravity
method in the case of shippers than
with fresh cows, where the fat globules
are larger. 1t has been found that
when cream or milk is kept at low
temperature for some time a some
what bitter flavor is often developed,
an dthe organism which produces this
bitter flavor may be the reason why
the butter made from the milk of strip
pers is generally considered inferior to
that made from the milk of fresh COWS.
The time necessary for Dreaming by
the gravity process is an essential ele
ment in the development of the bitter
flavor. and when the separator is used
the milk does not have the time to be-
come bitter
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-12-15
Ounce Lifts n Ton

The shelless limpet pulls 1881 times
its own weight when in the air, and
about double when measured in the
water. Fleas pull ,493 times their own
weight The Mediterranean cookie,
Venus verrucoSa, can exert a pulling
power equal to 2,071 times the weight
of its own body. SO great is the pow
er possessed by the oyster that to open
it force equal to 1,319.5 times the
weight of its shelless body is required.
If the human being possessed strength
as great ia proportion as that of these
shell fish the average man would be
able to lift the enormous weight of
100000 pounds, pulling in the same
degree as the limpet. And if the man
pulled in the same proportionate de-
gree as the cookie he would sustain a
weight of no less that 3, 1865 pounds.
Worthington' Magazine.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-12-15
a Yillnee Under One Roof

Most of the large towns in France
contain Workmen's model dwellings,. or
tenement houses, which have been dig
nitied with the picturesque appeliation
of barracks, but none OF THESE have
attained to the colossal proportions of
the ''FreihauS,' situated at Weilden. Il
suburb of Vienna. This building has
thirteen court yards, and accommO-
dates ZIP persons belonging to all
classes of society. One postman is
specially appointed to deliver letters to
the inmates, whose correspondents
have to be careful to put on the cover
not merely the Christian name and
surname of the addresse. but the num-
Der of the yard, the staircase and tie
flat, if they want the letter to reach its
destination
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-12-15
Button Timepieces.

A buttOnbole watch is obviously a
very useful and ornamental fashion.
This unique timepiece can always be
kept in sight and enables one to an
sWer Il question as to the time with the
minimum amount of trouble. Large
quantities of these miniature watches
are being imported from France for
the Christmas season. The buttonhole
watch fad originated in France. They
were first worn by bicyclists on the
sleeve or in one of the lower button
holes of the coat. They enabled the
cycliSt to see the time without incon-
venience while riding at full speed.
In America they will be worn, how
ever, in the lapel Of the coat. The or
binary form of buttonhole watch has q
face about cne-half inch in diameter,
or even less. 1t may readily be seen
that when these tiny faces are taste
fully decorated they will be highly or
namental to the lapel Of most coats.
At 4 distance they might readily be
mistaken for badge of the Legion of
Honor or some similar device.
The works of the novel watches are
about the size of an ordinary ladies'
watch. The face, which is about one
fourth the diameter of the works, is
connected with the mechanism by a
thin neck. The button-hole watches
may be bought for $10 although some
Of the most elaborate designs cost ten
times that figure.-NeW York World.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-12-15
Mrs. NViEsiovv's Soothing Syrup
Ferchlt tee hing. softens the gums, reduces inham
nation allays pam cures wind collie. rs cents bottle.
increasing Butter Fat.

/ have not found any food which ma
terially increases the percentage of but
ter fat in the milk of given cow
The only way to reach this result is to
feed so as to secure more milk and
consequently a larger aggregate of but
ter fat Tests show that while it is
not practical to feed fat into the milk,
the percentage of fat is increased as
the milk yield falls off. Tt pays to feed
a little bran or grain feed even in sum-
mer, when cows are on good pasture.
They hold out longer and the milk
flow responds less readily to changes
of condition in pasture. In my own
personal experience this course has re-
suited in my cows making an average
of fifty pounds more than when the
practice was not followed. The cost
per head for the extra feed thus ex-
pended was So and the increase in but
ter sold was $13.50-C. p. Goodrich.
Wisconsin University.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-12-15

the practice of n man who is q large
COW dealer. The cows. as bought up
and in various stages of lactation. are
turned into the big pasture and never
MIXED. Some Of these cows soon have
large udders, but they subside, and
have nevec known one to become seTi-
Gus. The English have plan of dry
ing COW by stopping the milking and
covering the udder with /; thin coat of
tar. We have heard of putting on an
application of sweet oil and laudanum.
Prof. Curtis, in his remarks, says:
AT the Iowa station We lave sue
cessfully dried cows in this manner in
the early stages, midway, and at the
close of the period of lactation, some
OF which were heavy mixers. / keep
registered Jersey COW for my own
USE She is very strong and persist
ent mixer, and will easily make
pound and a half of butter per day on
a moderate ration. After she had been
in milk nearly sixteen months, ana
when within five weeks of her next
calving time, she began to increase in
her yield of milk. At this point the
milking was discontinued abruptly,
and not resumed until the COW calved
The milk yield was four to five quarts
per day when the milking stopped. No
application of any kind was used on
the udder. The COW was persistent
mixer, as is often in the Jersey breed,
but she dried off without the slightest
injury to her udder or any i'll effects
whatever"
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-12-15
Dairy Notes.

The lank, wedged-shaped COW is the
cow for the dairy.
Keep the COWS warm, but furnish
plenty of pure air.
The calf needs special care in win
ter. Feed it generously and keep it
sheltered.
If YOU cannot make butter as cheap
ly as your neighbor can, learn his
methods and practice them.
Cool the milk as soon as possible af-
ter milking it to go degrees tempera-
ture, Fahrenheit.
Many cows will Withhold their milk
in whole or in part if the milker is not
ready to take the milk when she is
ready to give it.
Cows and calves can stand a great
deal of dry cold, although it does not
pay the owner to subject them to
it. but wet and cold very quickly
humps up their backs. No time on the
farm is more profitably spent than in
providing dry straw bedding for the
cows and calves on cold nights.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-12-15
PATENTS Issued.

List Of patents issued last week TO
Northwestern inventors:
+. q. bradbury. st. Paul, and n. Nil
son, Minneapolis, assienors to G. w.
Hughes, st. Paul, Mimi. book file.
Henry X. Brearley, Duluth, Mimi,
we'll point; Samuel Y. Kennedy. ST.
Paul Mimi. mower; John Il. Nichols,
Ed2erton, Mimi, power-transmitting
device: Charles S. Paul, Faribault,
Mimi, mangIe; Isaac Sorsoleil Owa-
tonna, Mimi, stop box; Edward /. T..
Staede, Mankato, Mimi. carbureter.
Il. d. MerWin, Patent Lawer, 90 Pi-
oneer Press Building, ST Paul, MINI.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-12-15

T. D. Coburn of Kansas some time
since wrote: There are reports of more
or less hog cholera in various parts
of the state, and it is not improbable
that many We'll meaning citizens,
through ignorance of the law and the
ease With which the disease is spread,
are unwittingly aiding in the destruc-
ton of thousands of swine which, with
strong prices, the present shortage and
tremendous corn crop Kansas, at this
time, can lily afford to lose. 1t is con-
coded that the contagion from "chole
ra' hogs and their dead carcasses is
carried from place to place by dogs,
wolves, crows, buZzards, running wa
ter and various other agencies, includ-
ing the clothing of those who come in
contact With them, and this fact en-
phs sizes the necessity OF promptly is0-
lating ailing animals and deeply bury
ing or burning the dead, even though
there is no law making it mandatory.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-12-15
Square Cheese.

Those having the real interests of
dairying at heart have by dint of a
good deaIof hard work at length sue
ceeded in rendering it reasonably GER
tain that cheese shall be made ION
the square," that is that it shall be
exactly what it pretends to be, and
that skinned and filled cheese stall
no longer be sold as full cream. There
is now a prospect that cheese will be
made on the square in another way;
that is, that it shall be put up in square
packages. The American Creamery
quotes a New York dealers comments
on a shipment of cheese received by
him put up i'll twenty-pound square
packages. The package is an oblong
box about 7X7X10 inches. 1t was made
in New York and bears the state brand.
The dealer says that an excellent de-
mand for the cheese has been met
with, particularly from uptown gro
GERS who were able to obtain three
fOurths of a cent per pound more for
it than for round cheese of the same
quality. One advantage claimed for
it is that it cuts better than the or
binary cheese. being cut in square in
stead of V-shaped slices, hence it does
not dry out so quickly. The demand
for this form of cheese is quite urgent,
and dealers would be able to handle a
good deal of it. OF course the square
cheese is a familiar enough thing in
certain fancy brands and special
makes, Limberger, brick and other soft
cheese, being commonly put up in that
way. but the idea is new in what are
ordinarily called the Chedders, and yet
there are advantages in the form of
package that are almost certain to
make it popular.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-12-15

fig L. Perspective View of En-
larged Barn.
in the floor plan-Fig. 2. A feed car,
with a track, is, arranged for the feed
floor and the feeding alley in front of
the COWS.
A double silo, grain room and calf
pens, with lofts over them, occupy one
side of the barn proper, while calf
pens and hay bay occupy the other
side Thus the main barn is used
mainly for the storing of feed, while
the addition is given up to the stalls.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-12-15
The wheel DIDN'T Eat.

Happened to see your wife on a
wheel yesterday. II remember,
heard you declare you would never al
low her to rider
yes, know. But she had chance
to trade off her pug dog for wheel,
and | thought would choose the least
evil. Indian .yolis Journal.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-12-15
Serving Two Masters.

'sJibway's wife seems to have him
pretty we'll under control.
Eyes; the only time Jibway is not
under the influence of his wife is when
he is under the influence of liquor
Indianapolis Journal.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-12-15
THE SETTING OF MILK.
Sole Useful Information From the
Indiana Station.

Sole Useful Information From the
Indiana Station
A very large share OF the milk
skinned for private buttermaking in
Indiana is set in cans or crooks, and
the cream skinned from the surface.
Milk may be set for cream in various
kinds of vessels and under different
conditions The poorest method is to
set in shallow tin pans or crooks, on
pantry shelycS or in a cellar. Milk
thus set is exposed to a greater air
contact than When set otherwise, and
so is more liable to be affected by in
furious odors, by diseases transmitted
through the atmosphere. and by heat
and cold. Milk SO set will oftentimes
rapidly sour, or, in very cold weather,
may freeze. Ii it sours badly in sum
mer, when skinned, curds will be
likely to get into the cream and remain
more or less IN the butter after churn-
ing. forming white spots, thereby Seri-
ouSly injuring the quality of the but
ter Or, if the milk or cream freezes,
an inferior grade of butter will be
made from it.
If cream is to be secured by setting
milk, the best plan will be to set the
milk in round tin cans, about eighteen
inches deep and eight inches in dame
ter If the can is placed in ice water
or cold spring water, to the height OF
the milk i'll the can, the conditions for
cream separation will be greatly i'm
proved, especially if inside refriger-
ator OF creamer. This method helps
keep the cream at a uniform tempera-
ture and enables the cream to rise to
best advantage. Such cans as these,
open at the top, are commonly known
rs shot gun" cans, and may be pur-
chased OF dairy supply houses, or can
be made by any good timer.
These deep cans are skinned in one
of two WayS-either by a cOnical skim
mer from the surface, or by means of
a faucet OF valve at the bottom of the
can, Where the skim milk is drawn off.
IN experiments at the Indiana station,
III comparing these two methods of
Swimming, where the milk was skim
med from above there was an average
loss about twice as great as in that
skinned by drawing off from below.
During fifteen days in February the
average loss from surface Swimming
was 0.34 per cent, while that skinned
from below showed a loss of but OF
per cent.
1t is impos tsnt that milk should be
set only i'll tin vessels and of good
quality. The cheap tin sold on 5 and
10 cent counters is SO thin wash that
it is readily corroded to the under met
81, which gives a rinous flavor to the
milk if it sours in The vessel at all.
Where used for holding milk, the tin
should be of the xxx grade. This is
more durable, sitter and less affected
by the acid in sour milk.
In general, persons striving to make
u fine quality of butter should have
cabinet creamer. In this the milk may
be kept to best advantage and properly
protected from Objectionable odors and
dirt.-Bulletin Indiana Experiment
Station.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-12-15
How to Dry on n Cow.

Horace Greeley once said that "the
way to resume was to resume, and
now the director of dairying in Iowa
saws that the way to dry off a COW is
to stop milking her. and so stop the Sc
creting of milk, which must follow
when the COW is MIXED semi-occaslon-
ally. The writer has noticed this IN
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-12-15
An Exception

ct is claimed that love levels all
things" sighed Mrs. Grumpey.
But no one in the world ever saw
a lover with a level head" sneered
Grumpey.-Detroit Free Press.