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The Dickinson press., 1896-06-06
The Ems" and the "outs.'

The ems" and the "Outs."
The sheep business seems to be more
affected by whether one belongs to
the "ins" or the "outs" than any other
industry with which the farmers Of
America are connected. Matters go
along very smoothly while all are in
it. Reverses, real or imaginary, come
and many breeders get out Of it; II
they can not get out any other way,
they fall out. During the time they
are in it they can not say enough In
praise of the sheep, but when they
get out, they shrink from the very
word. We have thought over the mat
ter for q good many years. and fail
to see why this is so common with
sheep and not with other domestic
animals. We are unable. to furnish a
reason unless it be that breeders of
sheep get like the sheep themselves,
which 60 with a stir and a start. II
started wrong, they go to destruction;
If right, to success. Such methods ap-
piled to the swine industry would
make us all pork hungry when the
cholera gets started in a locality. In
the banking business, they would make
the rate Of interest intolerable at times
and very low at others and would
drive any other class of business men
out Of business quicker than falling.
out. Take it all in all, the a who
succeeds in the sheep business is he
who has his business in hand and
sticks to it through depression and adj
versity of all kinds. 1t requires nc
persuasion to keep him in when the
business is making money. The in.
should have all the good sheep and
the outs should have all the scrubs
The outs should lose no time in get
ting in and the ins should remain
There win always be room for thu
sheen in farm economy.
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thought that perhaps some of the ser.

thought that perhaps some of the ser.
wants were sitting up hate.
Coming to a gate that led to the
kitchen door, he entered it Passing .
shed he saw, partly by the watery
moonlight. and partly by their own
lights, which were still burning, two
bicycles in q corner Of the shed. He
placed his own beside them and, tired
as he was, he looked with an experts
eye at the two other machines. They
were of an old pattern and did not
have pneumatic tires. He was aston
ished that such machines should be.
long to a house so %pretentious as the
one he was about to enter, but gave no
particular thought to the matter at
the time. A moment later he knocked
at the kitchen door. He thought he
heard voices within just before he
knocked, but now there was intense
silence, and no response vas made to
his demand for admittance. After
waiting a reasonable time he raised
his hand to knock once again, when
the door was cautiously opened a few
inches and a man peered out at him.
"What do you wanty' said the man
In a hoarse whisper, and, seeing Rog.
ers' hand still on the knocker, added:
"Don't wake up everybody; It's late,
you know"
Rogers apologized, and said that all
he wanted was shelter and something
to eat.
"Wait a minute" said the the man,
and he partially closed the door. Rog-
els heard a whispered consultation in.
side, then the door opened and the
man said quietly, "Come in"
Rogers entered and saw there were
two occupants Of the kitchen. One
man sat by the table, on which was q
huge joint Of cold meat, bread and but
ter, and foaming fagons of beer. This
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xuBs1ns or NEWS.


Items Of General Interest Placed In
. Few Lines.
Florsheim Bros, retail shoe dealers
OF Chicago, confessed Judgment to-
day for $685.
The Schofield- Hanauer Grocery COM.
pany. one of the Oldest wholesale firms
in Memphis, Tenn. assigned to-day.
Charles L. Simmons of st. Joseph,
No., who Is given as n of the miss
ing in the st. Louis disaster, is safe in
Baltimore.
Congressman James G.. Mcguire has
been renominated to congress by the
Fourth tCal.0 district congressional
convention.
The National Federation of Afro
American Women, organized last July,
will hold n national convention in
Washington July 70, u and %.
a cyclone, the first ever known in
that section, caused considerable DAM
age and injured a number of people ut
Lansing, in eastern Arapahoe county,
Colo.
Walter G. Faye. charged with forg-
ing and uttering a certain bond for
$1,000 of the school district of Cook
county, ILL.,, has been convicted in
Omaha.
The insurgents of Cuba recently
placed a dynamite bomb on the Sab
anilla railway. the explosion of which
wrecked Il train, killed the conductor
and injured several people.
The gravity which the Turkish gov
eminent attaches to the Cretan situa-
ton is shown by the fact that thirty
five battalions of troops have been
ordered to the island of Crete.
At Buffalo Capt. Joseph Phillips, of
the fire boat Hutchinson, was shot
and perhaps fatally wounded to-day
by Emett Brown, a sailor and cx-tire-
man, who had sought reinstatement.
There are only two presidential post
masters in the country whose term ex-
pires this month. The offices are York,
Pa. where the term expires on the
22d. and Fayetteville, N. Y, on the
Goth.
]. B. Robinson of London, the South
African millionaire, has received q
cable message from Pretoria saying
the leaders of the Johannesburg re-
form committee will be released in a
few days.
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"The Wheels Slipped From Under
Him."
not cold, and he had some thought of
remaining until daylight under the
shelter of the trees. He smoked a
pipe or two, and rested for perhaps IN
hour, when, with a sigh, he made up
his mind that anything was better
than this, even the pitiless torn, which
showed no sign of abAting. So, still
trundling his machine, he tralnped In
the slush along the lane until he came
out in the open once more, where half
an hour in the peiting rain made him
wish he had remained under the shell
ter OF the trees. Another grove pres
emily gave him the shelter he had
abandoned, and there he relit his pipe
and smoked gloomily. 1t seemed to
him that daylight would soon reap
pear, but on striking a match and
looking at his watch he found that the
night was not yet half over, it being
but q little after - O'Clock. He was
hungry, wet, tired and thoroughly mis-
cradle, In q condition of mind to well
come the toughest fare.
As he stood under the trees Rogers
noticed that the rain slackened, and
flanly 1t ceased. The moon now
peered out ftfully from among the
clouds, and, yearning for the comforts
OF home the young man pushed on,
with q determination to make q final
effort to reach civilization Of some
sort.
Shortly after leaving the grove he
came to a gateway, that evidently led
to q house. As there was no porter's
lodge beside the gateway he came to
the conclusion that the house could not
he a very important one, and that per-
haps the inmates would not resent be-
ing aroused at that untimely hour to
give shelter to q weary fellow creature.
Pushing open the gate, he wheeled his
machine into the avenue, and after a
ten minutes tramp along the winding
road, saw before him the bulk Of .
large country house with numerous
outbuildings, and what was o to
the purpose, a light still burning in
the windows of what al apparently
the kitche He was eheeees by the
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A I n FARM.
Raising the Animals to supply the
Fur Market.

Raising the Animals to supply the
Fur Market.
George Ridgway Of Barnegat' has
one Of the oldest farms in the State Of
New Jersey, or perhaps in the whole
country. He has begun the breeding
Of mink for their pelts, which com
mand O ready sale in the markets of
New York and Philadelphia. Ridg-
way has been q trapper and gunner
from bOyhOOd and has made many
dollars in the winter months by trap
ping the mink. This rodent was form
erly found in great numbers along the
fresh water streams that flow into
Barnegat bay, along the banks of the
salt marshes, and on the sedge islands
that crop out in the bay itself, choOs
ing these locations for fish and food
OF late years, however, the demand
for fur has almost led to their eXter
mination, and, seeing a profitable in
come In the future, If he could but
make a success of his enterprise,
Ridgeway has begun to trap instead Of
| kill the mink.
Ridgway is assisted in catching the
animals by a brace Of hounds, which
he has trained for his purpose. These
dogs will trail the mink to it's hole in
the ground, baying the while, so that
their owner can follow. When Ridg-
way arrives on the scene the hounds
dig out the mink. The trapper Is
armed only with a gunny sack and an
ordinary crab scoop Or net. He stands
by with his net, and, at the opportune
moment, as the mink leaps from it's
nest, he scoops it up in the long-han-
died net, quickly transferring it to the
sack, in which he carries it home.
The quarters where Ridgway keeps
his animals are as interesting as the
way in which he catches them. Their
teeth are so sharp that every bit Of
wood must be protected with tin. The
wire netting, Of which the sides are
partly made, is extended five feet into
the ground, SO that they cannot bur-
row and escape; and the pens are con
structed much smaller at the top than
at the bottom, SO that they cannot
leap out.
The mink are fed on fresh fish and
tender green shrubs. He has twelve
females to one male, and has to keep
the males away from the young, as the
fathers will kill the little ones and
suck their blood, just as they would
the blood of q chicken. Boxes set down
In the ground and filled with hay and
moss and covered v with earth are
used as nests for the animals inside Of
the pens.-Com's River IN. j. Cor. Of
the Philadelphia Record.
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Fer Over Finy Years

AN OLD AND WELL-TRIED REM
EDY.-Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Sy-
rup has been used for over fifty years
by millions of mothers for their
children while teething, with perfect
success. 1t soothes the child, softens
the gums, allays all pain, cures wind
collie, and is the best remedy for
Diarrhea. Is pleasant to the taste.
Sold by Druggists in every part Of
the world. Twenty-Five cents q bot
tie. It's value is incalculable. Be
sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow'e
Soothing Syrup, and take no other
kind,
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silese a. n Summer Feed.

In a few instances we found men
who had silos large enough, and who
continued the feeding of silage the
year around, and in every case the men
were enthusiastic over the result.
When the drouth cut of the growth Of
grass and their neighhor's COWS nearly
dried up, theirs continued as flush as
when in June pastures. In two in
stances the feeders did not omit feed
ing q single day, even when the pas
lures were at their best. I found two
men who did not pasture their cows at
all, but depended upon silage. with a
little hay as coarse feed, the year
through. In both cases they say their
cows always shrink in milk yield when
changing from silage to corn, when
filling the silos. One Of these men de-
clared that he va going to have an
other silo so he would not be obliged
to feed any fresh corn. 1t must be ad-
mitted by every observant man who
goes much among milk producers, who
make milk for any purpose, that the
use of silage is rapidly on the increase.
III. s. Woodward, New York.
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Thrifty, II Not Quito Hone.t.


Some, people are now working a
scheme to ride home free. The other
evening a man var e e at Twelfth
and Walnut streets to get on a Seven.
teenth and Nineteenth street car.
When the car had started he asked the
conductor whether he was on a Barring
venue car. The conductor said no,
and accordingly he got of after he had
been carried a square. He got on the
next car, as the car run very close to-
gether on Walnut street. This car
was a Barring street car, and when the
car had safely started he asked the
conductor whether 1t was a Lancaster
venue car. The conductor politely
told him that those cars run on Market
street, and he had gained a square.
The next a vas a Chester avenue
car, and he kept 1t up until he got to
the Schuylkil .-Philadelphia Call.
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AGED 121.

4 Woman I'm Massachusetts Who
Speaks Only the Irish Language.
Lying at the point Of death in a lit
tie weather-beaten cottage, pictur-
esquely situated on a hillside between
Chicopee Falls and Holyoke, is Mrs.
Margaret Bowen, who, ut the age Of
121, can claim the distinction of being
one of the oldest-if not the Oldest
woman in the world. A month ago
she was in possession of all her mental
faculties, but physically unable to care
for herself. Within the last week she
has failed rapidly. She is almost
blind, and but little of her reason re-
mains. Her face is s%atfron-hued and
wrinkled.
Her husband, Bartholomew Bowen,
&c years old, cares for her as tenderly
as affectionately, as he did when he
chose her as his life partner.
Mrs. Bowen's maiden name was
Margaret Sweeney, and she was born
in the Parish of Evelane, Cork County,
Ireland.
She does not recall the exact year
Of her birth, but places it, according
to the Irish custom, by the 'year OF
the great blow" or blizzard. She was
for years a nurse in the parish, and
known throughout the county.
Her marriage to Mr.. Bowen was not
a case of love at first sight, but it was
an affection that gained in years that
followed.
MI. Bowen's first wife left him with
two children at her death. He wanted
some one to love and care for them
and, having had a warm friendship
for Miss Sweeney, they were finally
married, Miss Sweeney at the time
being SO years old.
They lived in Ireland until they
thought they could better their circum'
stances by coming to America. They
arrived in this country on the night OF
President Lincoln's assassination, and
came to Chicopee Falls, where they
have lived ever since.
They occupy a humble cottage OF
the Holyoke road, and Bowen provides
support for himself and wife by tilline
the soil.
The cottage is neat and fairly com
Portable, but is not large enough tt
contain all the household effects, SC
Mr.. Bowen made an excavation neal
by to hold the wood, coal and othel
necessities, covering the pit W witt
b0ughs and brush.
Mrs. Bowen is one of a family Of
nine children, zone of whom lived tt
be 100 years old, but all reached thu
age of 70. She has never employed
a physician, and has hardly been IL
a day.
She attributes her longevity to care
full habits of living. She has nevel
eaten between meals, never drank any
thing at meals and never tasted liquo
in any form.
Friends of the family ascertainet
Mrs. Bowen's remarkable age by writ
ing to the priest Of the parish, VIII
v0uches for it that she was SO year
old at the time of her marriage, nearl.
thirty-fOur years ago.
Mrs. Bowen speaks very little Eng
lish, c%onversing with her husband at
friends in the native Irish tongue.
The history Of her life was game,
from her husband and from friends
who had often heard her repeat it,
Boston Journal.
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Feeding Points.

"Bran and wheat middlinss abound
in the nutrition for furnishing strength,
but it is very rare that bran a be
fed with advantage to O horse that is
working hard. 1t will sour the stom'
ach, and that is always weakening
But ine middlings have a contrary
effect, and n be mixed with ground
corn and oats and so fed with cut hay.
A horse at work should be neither con-
stipated nor very loose in his bowels:
If the cxcrement Is at any time hard
and dry a very little linseed meal will
remedy the difficulty. Linseed meal
also contains much of the nutrition that
goes to build up muscular strength. 1t
cannot, however, be given in large
quantities, as it is very concentrated
food. 1t is better always to relieve
constipation in horses with some lax
alive food like linseed meal than with
physic."
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Filled CheeAe


Filled cheese is made of foreign fats
Or oils and skim milk, the product so
closely resembling honest cheese at
first as to deceive all but experts. By
the time it reaches the consumer filed
cheese is Of poor quality and unsatis.
factory. This spurious product has
greatly injured the Cheddar cheese
industry of this country and has done
vast harm In foreign markets. II not
checked Immediately, hundreds Of
cheese factories will be forced to
change to creameries, thus abnormally
increasing the butter output. There
is now before congress a bill to license
filled cheese factories and tax each
pound Of filled cheese produced and
1t has passed the house but the filed
cheese men are making a strong fight
against 1t In the senate committee,
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Cycle Comnanx ASSIGN.

Chicago. June 3.-The March-D Davis
Cycle company made an assignment
to-day. 1t scheduled assets to the
amount of 100000 and liabilities at
$4,000. Earlier in the day the con-
Germ had confessed judgment in the
sum of $4,000. The cause of the fail
ure of the company is said to have
been inability to collect outstanding
bills and to dispose Of its manufac-
tured stock. 1t manufactured only one
grade of wheels, and this was a high.
priced quality. Competition Of the
cheaper wheels was too much for the
company.
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Alfalf. for HOGS.

It will sustain life and produce some
growth in shoats. It will not make
them fat, but it will keep them in con
ditition to make good use Of a little
extra feed. One acre Of good alfalfa,
with a dividing fence In the middle,
60 that as Dol as n part is eaten
down the pigs may be changed to the
other, will support 20 pigs from the
middle Of May till the first Of October,
or a little later, providing the land is
properly irrigated and the work is
done systematically. Counting upon
alfalfa to furnish the %sustenance ra-
ton, the addition Of grain will produce
good, heavy porkers which will re-
turn a good profit, providing the price
In November is four cents or upward.
Alfalfa is also of great value in winter
ing brood sows. II the leaves which
drop OF in the mows, and which are
unfit for horse feed, be saved and
mixed with bran or Stops, they will
be eaten greedily with good results,
making a valuable saving of other
feeds.-F. L. Watrous, Colo. Expt.
Station.
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Tainted Milk.

The causes of tainted milk are thus
summarized by DR.. Gerber, the Swiss
scientist: Poor fodder; poor or dirty
water, used for watering the cows OF
for washing the cans; foul air in the
cow stable; lack Of cleanliness in milk.
ing; keeping the milk too long in too
warm and poorly ventilated placesi
n~eglecting to cool the milk quickly
after milking; lack Of cleanliness In
the care of milk; poor transportation
facilities; sick cows. and cows being
In heat.
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The Shepherd.

In the sheep business the man is Of
first Importance. He must be observ-
ing and ready to interpret his obser-
vations. He must be quick to note the
wants Of his flock. Whether it is sup
piled with all the food it can profita-
bly, use, or whether he may be feeding
too much for its good. He must have
patience and sympathy for his flock.
He should humor the lambs whims,
not feeding early in the morning when
they would rather sleep, o disturbing
them during the day when they lay
quietly sleeping. He must not be sat
isfed that things Ire good enough
when he can make them better. He
must be n man whom the lambs like
and fear not.
The Dickinson press., 1896-06-06
For FOUR rotection.-Catarrh "Cures"o or

For your Pr0tection.-Catarrh "Cures" or
Tonissf for Catarrh in liquid form to be taken
internally, usually contain either Mercury or
Iodide of Potassa, or both, which are injur-
ious if toolong taken. Catarrh is a local, not
q blood disease, caused by sudden change to
cold or damp weather. It starts in the nasal
passages, affecting eyes, ears and throat.
Cold in the head causes excessive flow Of
mucus, and, if repeatedly neglected, the re-
suits of catarrh will follow; severe pain in
the head, a roaring sound in the ears, bad
breath, and oftentilnes an offensive dis
charge. The should be quickto allay
inflammation and heal the membrane. Ely's
Cream Balm is the acknowledged cure for
these troubles and contains no mercury
nor any injurious drug. Price, SO cents.
The Dickinson press., 1896-06-06
Five coacha, wreckea

Tive VUaCHGB "FGCK~u.
Livingston, Mont, June 4. - No. 4
east-bound Northern Pacific passenger
train left the track last night at a
point near Grey Cliff, about fifty miles
east of Livingston, wrecking the en-
CINE and five coaches. Three hobOes,
riding the blind baggage, were instant
ly killed and several trainmen were in.
jured. The passengers reported
uniniured.
The Dickinson press., 1896-06-06
state Farm. Popularity

STHte TuruT FOpuTHrHty.
st. Paul, June 4.-The state expert
mental farm at st. Anthony Park is
the Mecca for many visitors from the
agricultural districts these days. To.
day $50 farmers from the counties of
Lac qui Parle and Yellow Medicine
visited the grounds and listened to a
speech from Gov. Clough and other
distinguished men.
The Dickinson press., 1896-06-06
oppo.ed to secret soc,et,e.

Opposed to Secret Societies.
Cincinnati, June 4. - Rev. Thomas
Patton Of East Coldenham, N. Y,
made the annual report Oh secret so.
cieties before the Reformed Presby.
terrain synod to-day. He regarded
such societies as rivals of the church,
He urged that members should be out.
spoken against those societies.
The Dickinson press., 1896-06-06

light being furnished by hinged boards
in the sides, these being in reality very
wide battens covering a space left be-
tween the boards, as shown in the dia-
gram above the view Of the house.
Such houses provide roosting room and
laying quarters, and a be built
cheaper than any other form of. house
that car be entered by the attendant.
If preferred a door can be placed in
each end. and light and ventilation ad-
mitted solely through these, the fowls
being out of doors, except in rainy
weather, during the whole summer.
The Dickinson press., 1896-06-06
opposes the Boz stan.

the BOX StoIl.
A horseman In a late letter to an
Eastern exchange says:
A recent extended trip into Ken.
lucky and Tennessee and many visits
at various times to New England stock
farms have set me to thinking of the
very bad treatment mans noblest and
best friend among animals receives
from those who love and admire him.
In making this statement, apparently
80 contradictory, I refer to that prison
known as the "box STALL" I never
view one only to be maddened, feeling
that I would like to batter 1t down
and let the prisoner out.
Only think Of 1T; would father and
mother shut up their son or daughter
in a bedroom, with curtains down and
blinds shut, to be occasionally paraded
before company. What would most
likely be the effect on these young
folks2 Would they not become lone.
some. melancholy, insane?
.lhe horse l fancy is much like hui.
man beings; needs light, cheerfulness
company, both of his own kind and
mankind. Knock down your prisons
give the occupant all the reasonable
requirements you would yourself like
you will then have q better horse.
&
The Dickinson press., 1896-06-06
Rtn.ker VIII, Re Selected

Rfnaker Will BE Selected.
Washington, June 4.-The recount of
votes from the contested precincts Of
the Sixteenth Illinois district is near
ly completed and indicate that Rinaker
Rep.0 will secure the sea held by
Downing. The last precinct counted
to-day showed a gain of twenty-four
for Rinaker. which. with previous
gains, gives him q plurality.
The Dickinson press., 1896-06-06
Against Free Coinage

st. Paul, June S.-The Ramsey coup.
ty Democratic convention adopted res
olutiOns endorsing Cleveland's admin
istration and opposing the free coinage
of silver. NJ. Doran leads the delega-
ton to the state convention.
The Dickinson press., 1896-06-06
Different.

Mangled Party Slowly picking him.
self up from the foot of the stairway
III thought you said the editor up
stairs was one-armed?
Office Boy (who ha6 waited to see
the fun)-No, l didn't. l said he was
misunderstanding Plain Dealer.
The Dickinson press., 1896-06-06

Moscow. June 4.-The ear and car
ina today attended a grand parade Of
all the troops present in Moscow upon
the field where the camp had been
pitched. They then proceeded to the
church where the flags were blessed.