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The Winslow mail., 1897-03-13
Storing Potatoes.

Strictly speaking, no one should Store
potatoes in the house cellar. But as
hundreds of thousands do every year,
and will continue to do so, word may
not prove amiss. First, potatoes should
be sorted while in the field. 1t saves
the housewife much work, saves stor-
age room and the work of extra han
ding. Potatoes for the cellar are best
barreled, as they are then movable
when the accidents of time bring frost
CT water. Above all, they shonld be
kept dark. Canvas sacks make good
curtains to set off a portion of the eel
lar, and also good covers for the bar
rels Light will ruin the flavor, and
half-light will cause them 20 sprout
The Winslow mail., 1897-03-13
Warm Alternative.

In some parts of Canada the recur-
renee Of broiled salmon, boiled salmon,
salmon outlets and salmon steak at ey-
ery meal becomes, after few weeks,
trifle monOtOnous.
To the native palate, brought up on 1t
and to the manner born, this constant
temperance of the self-same dish is
matter of course; but to the neWly-ar-
rived immigrant or tourist it grows at
last into a feeble joke.
rs there nothing else for breakfast?
said one such victim of colonial hospi-
tality at a backwoods inn, as whole
fish and a pot of mustard were laid be-
fore him on the table.
Nothing elser replied the host, in
surprise.
"Why, there's salmon enough there
for six, amt there?'
''Yes," responded the guest mildly;
''but don't care for salmon"
"Well then, pitch into the mustard!
The Winslow mail., 1897-03-13
Went In on Their Horns

Comedian William H. Crane says that
the greatest brass band that this coun-
try ever knew was an organization in
Ottumwa, Iowa, may years ago.
1--WE heard Gilmore and Sousa and
all the rest" said Mr.. Crane recently.
''but their bands couldn't be compared
with that prairie aggregation for a mo-
ment.
'In my theatrical salad days-when l
was much younger than / am now-I
was trying to pilot company of thes-
plan bright lights throughout the west
ern provinces. Business was bad and
our treasury was low. At Ottumwa the
theater orchestra had some sort of
grievance against the management and
demanded pay in advance. The theater
refused and our organization was not
financially in a position to discount the
future for single moment. So started
out to find some sort of music, if posi-
bic, to tide us over. 1 finally sue
ceeded in getting the OttumWa brass
: band to agrea- to -plav-t three selections
in front of the theater before the per-
formance in return for free admission
to the show.
''The band showed up on time carried
out its part of the contract and went
into the theater. / was on the door that
night and by and by 1 was struck by
the fact that the Ottumwa brass band
must be one of the most remarkable
musical organizations in the country.
Every minute or two somebody would
come up to the door with brass horn
under his arm, wave it at me and sail
on into the theater without a word.
After 1 had passed in fifty or sixty
musicians in this way l began to grow
a trifle suspicious and stopped an old
granger who was carrying in Il big
tuba.
Excuse me, SIR I remarked, but
do you play in the band?
Nope he answered.
"'What are you doing with that horn,
then? I asked.
"I'm goin' to go in on it, if can,' he
replied candidly.
Whose is it? I inquired.
Blamed if l know he said "a feller
outside there gave it to me and said
could get in with it,
81 left the door and stepped inside
Just in time to see one Of the band boys
drop another horn out of window into
the hands of somebody in the crowd
outside in the alley.
''As nearly as 1 can calculate the OF
tumwa brass band that night must
have had more members than Gilmore
or Sousa ever directed at one time
Chicago Times-Herald.
The Winslow mail., 1897-03-13

Some surprise is expressed becaus
Il New Jersey court began and finished
a murder trial in six hours; but why
should it take longer" asks the Phila-
delphia Ledger "a murder is commit
ted in a single moment. Surely, enough
witnesses to establish all the facts in
the case can be examined in a few
hours, and it need not take long for
wise judge and an intelligent jury to
apply the law to them. There is quite
as little doubt that substantial justice
was done when the defendant in this
case was convicted and sentenced as
there would have been if the New York
practice had been followed, and two or
three weeks consumed in a legal bat
flo -
The Winslow mail., 1897-03-13
Apples for Cows.

do not think there is any better food
for milch COWS than ripe, sound apples
| am aware that the prevalent opinion
is that apples have tendency to make
COWS sick and dry them up. AS con-
firmatory of this l have heard of nu-
merouS instances where COWS have
broken into orchards and eaten their
fill of apples and have been made sick
and in few instances have died as the
result. | also knew case where a
man ate an unreasonable quantity of
baked beans, and it killed him. Now
the one case no more proves that ripe
apples are not good cow food than that
baked beans are not good human food.
The proper way to feed apples to cows
is to have them ripe and sound. Green
or rotten apples are not good food for
anything. The cows should never be
given a full feed of them at first or
given them on an empty stomach. At
the first the COW should have no more
than two or three quarts once a day.
Rural New Yorker
The Winslow mail., 1897-03-13
NEWS
THINGS PERTAINING TO THE
FARM AND HOME.
The Winter Season a Good Time to
Rebuild Fences-Farmers Advised
to Stick to the Farm-Procuring the
Winter Fue1-Storing Potatoes.
Remake the Old Fence.

There are many farms bearing old
rail fences that their owners have felt
for years would be better torn down
and rebuilt upon the same or other loca-
ton, says Rural World. They have
been built upon and added to until they
contain at least enough good rails 10
construct a good straight fence Inc
undertaking is not big one, and when
it is finished the satisfaction of seeing
the neat, newly constructed fence, IN
addition to the firewood, will repay the
farmer for time and new wire. Inere
is no more favorable time than just
after the ground has frozen and before
snow comes. A pair of bobsleighs can
be used. even if there is no snow, when
the site of the new fence is to be some
where else than that Of the present one.
If the ground should be too much froZ-
Ell to break the crust to set the stakes
or posts, everything can be got In readi-
ness to rebuild in the spring, and that
will be found a great advantage when
the building time comes. The sorting
of the rails, cutting and sharpening
stakes or preparing posts and saving
up the ''done" fence timber into fire
wood, can all be finished in the slack
season, and the putting up Of the fence
will be as nothing in the spring before
seeding operations commence, when
the ground will be so soft that the
stakes can all be driven with a sledge
hammer If possible, do not put this
work off. The commencement of such
jobs that have stared one in the face
for years, probably, is more than half
the undertaking. The old snake fence
is an eyesore and a harbor for rubbish
and weeds, while the new straight one
will save land and give the farm tidy
prosperous appearance.
The Winslow mail., 1897-03-13
Value of Bran.

Wheat bran or shorts contain little
more flesh and milk forming matter
and a little less fat than middlings.
There is not much difference in the
average feeding value per ton, but the
shorts being more bulky is to be prefer
red to middlings for mixing with glu-
ten and other heavy concentrated
foods. Careful analyses and digestion
tests made at the State Experiment Sta
ton have failed to note any material
difference in the feeding value of Sc
lected winter wheat bran.-Massachu
setts PlOWman.
The Winslow mail., 1897-03-13
SURGERY CENTURIES AGO.
The Methods of To-day Are Merely
Rediscoveries.

The Methods of To-day Are Merely
Rediscoveries.
Modern science is robbed of the credit
of several of it's most boasted discov-
cries by the revelations made in the
writings of a learned Indian prince
Prince Thakore. He is a fellow of the
Royal College of Physicians of Edin-
burgh, and holds several honorary de-
grees. His plea for the recognition OF
early Hindoo science is such departure
from the ordinary and his authority is
so we'll founded that it makes an inter
esting bit of reading.
The Hindus. the Prince claims. prac-
! ticed vaccination, anaeSthesa, antisep-
tic surgery and other branches of mod
ern medicine many centuries ago. They
used precisely the same methods of
making diagnoses which the physician
OF to-day employs. Percussion and
| auscultation, examination of the eye.
the skin and the pulse were the same
then as now. Put out your tongue"
was the order Of the Hindu doctor 1900
years ago, just as it is to-day. The
understanding of the quality of the
pulse beat was just as skillful. The
pulse that goes with delirium was de-
scribed as like the running of part
ridge, while the very faint, irregular
and languid pulse beat was interpreted
as the sign of approaching death.
In the surgery of centuries ago the
most astonishing feats are recorded. 1t
is related of King Bhoja of Dhar, who
lived about a. D. OF, that he was op-
Grated upon for severe pains in the
head. After being rendered insensible
by some form of drug, he was tre-
pinned, the cause of the trouble was
removed from the brain, and the wound
closed up. The operation was COM
pletely successful and a radical cure
was effected. Similar operations are
recorded of Jivaka, who was Buddha's
physician. There is abundant account
Of ancient knowledge of hydro-thera-
peuticS, dietetics, climatology, massage,
hypnotism, vaccination for smallpox,
and certain modern theories in gyne-
cology The evidence that Prince Tha-
kore adduces in proof of his assertions
seems conclusive that the Hindus Of
1000 years ago possessed much higher
medical knowledge than modern civil
ization enjoyed within half century.
The Winslow mail., 1897-03-13
Some Good Ideas.

Judging from the enormous produc-
tiveness of our common field corn, if
anyone should ask me what is best to
grow to fill a silo, would say the best
thing to grow is corn. The second best
is corn, and the third choice in the sec
tion would be corn. Like the COW, ev-
cry part Of it is useful, and it is a forage
crop, the lazy mans crop, the ignorant
mans friend On hillside or valley it
brings a profitable return. 1t will do
we'll with half chance, even on hard
Seed-bed, or with roots torn and bleed
ing it is a great forager, and when
nursed it responds with great possibili-
ties. We have only half appreciated it's
wealth Of helpfulness in the past. The
silo and fodder machinery are giving
double value to it with a meaning of a
large profit on our seasons effort.-E. G.
The Winslow mail., 1897-03-13

3 The vast mahogany forests of Mic
aragua are almost wholly controlled by
Boston firms by contract with the Me
araguan Government. The export
trade in the expensive wood has be-
come very extensive, it having reach
ed 100000 feet in 1893. In connec-
tion with this industry it is interest
ing to recall that the first mahogany
logs imported into England were pur-
chased by doctor to use for medicinal
purposes. He ground them into pow
der. after the manner of Peruvian
bark, and administered the powder in
his prescriptions, but it seems not to
have been desirable as a remedy.
The Winslow mail., 1897-03-13
Odds and Ends.

The sin of moment may blight the
whole life.
The. first English work on anatomy
was by Thomas Weary, in 1913.
We say that the good die young. AS
a matter Of fact, it is the young that
die good.-Boston Transcript.
Some young men would get along bet
ter if they had less point to their shoes
and more to their conversation
Springfield, ILL.,, Register.
We are under lasting obligations to a
correspondent at West Superior for
sending US by mail the item about the
snow crust in that locality being thick
enough to bear up a freight train. We
could hardly have stood it by wire
Minneapolis Tribune.
The Winslow mail., 1897-03-13
The Winter Fuel.

Every farmer who burns wood even
partially for heating and cooking
should, as early in the winter as pcs
sible, cut and pile enough wood to last
a whole year. This will save many
complaints during the summer, and be
much easier done now than in warm
weather. Besides, dry wood burns
without the waste of heat, always lost
in turning its sap into steam. When
using green wood, chips and small
limbs will dry out more quickly than
will the body of the tree, especially if
the small limbs are split.
The Winslow mail., 1897-03-13

1t is the next thing to impossible for
boy or girl born in this country to
reach the age of 16 years without know
ing how 10 read and write The public
school system may be regarded as a
cOrollary to the constitution, because
government by the people would be 4
manifest absurdity if the people were
incapable of studying the constitution
itself, the laws of the land. and the dis
cussiOns of public questions. Against
ourselves there is, in fact, an educa-
tional qualification as condition prece-
dent TO the exercise of the suffrage.
The positive laws concerning school at
tendance serve the purpose of prohibi-
tory laws against illiterate voting.
Why. then. should foreigners be per-
mitted to enter the country and escape
The Winslow mail., 1897-03-13
CheEfnufa.

The American chestnut has the sweet
est kernel, but is smaller, and the
trees must be some fifteen or more
years from the seed before they bear
The European, or Spanish chestnut, has
nuts nearly double the size Of the Amer
lean, but tanner in flavor. But the
seed will bear at about ten years from
the seed. The dwarf Chinquepin Chest
nut will often bear the second or third
year from seed, but the nuts are so
small that they are not in general use.
The Japan chestnut is comparative
dwarf, though stronger grower than
the American Chiquepin-but the nuts
are as large as the European chestnut,
with about the same taste. Like the
Chinquepin, they bear early. But all
the kinds bear early when grated from
bearing trees.-Meehan' Monthly.
The Winslow mail., 1897-03-13
Best Food for Poultry,

The very best use of shrunken wheat,
some of which will be found in every
crop, is as food for poultry. The grain,
being shrunken, is deficient in starch
but it has all the greater proportion Of
gluten, which is the chief element of
the egg. while the outside husk, or
bran is rich in phosphate, which helps
to make the eggshell. The poultry
dealer can usually buy shrunken wheat
at a lower price than the perfect grain,
while for feeding fowl it is really better
for being shrunken.-Ger Tel
egraph.
The Winslow mail., 1897-03-13
The Advantages of Sheep.

They are profitable.
They weaken the soil least, and
strengthen it most.
They are enemies of weeds.
The care they need is required when
other farm operations are slack.
The amount of investment need not
be large.
The returns are quick and many.
They are the Quietest and easiest
handled of all farm stock.
Other farm products are made more
largely from cash grains, while those
from the sheep are made principally
from pasture
There is no other product of the farm
that has fiuctuated so slightly in value
as good mutton.
By comparison wool costs nothing,
for do not the horses and COW in she'd
ding their coats waste what the sheep
saves?
The Winslow mail., 1897-03-13

Mr.. julius Hartman has undertaken
to found a beet sugar industry in South
Carolina. He has recently returned
from Germany, where he spent some
time among the farmers in the interest
of his project He will bring over 500
families from Saxony within the next
two years. He has secured $4,000 acres
of land in South Carolina, and will di-
vide it into farms of %, so and 100
acres. The average size of a beet sugar
farm will be about 80 acres.
The Winslow mail., 1897-03-13

The Sing Sing plan of putting con-
victs in military training in order to re-
lieve enforced idleness might ultimate
ly rebound to the public welfare, if
generally developed. There are many
thousands of idle convicts in the vari-
Gus State penitentiaries who are neitl-
er required nor permitted to work, and
If Uncle Sam is to enter upon the Don
QuixOte business of going to the re-
lief of all the distressed or oppressed
people of the earth an army of con-
victs trained to the use of arms would
make a handy lot of Sancho Panzas.
The Winslow mail., 1897-03-13

to the COW that hath from two to five
talents already. 1t does not pay, nor
did it ever, to feed cow $40 worth Of
food to get SIS worth of milk, let alone
her drying off soon after the county
fair, let the time Of year be what 1t
may. Think this matter over. An acre
of corn fodder, another of oats, and a
third of mixed crops, will keep two
COWS a year Can corn, oats and the
like be as we'll sold as to a good COW,
her produce sold and the fertility re-
turned to the farm?-Cor. Practical
Farmer.
The Winslow mail., 1897-03-13
Less than a Farthing.

The smallest coin now current IN Eu'
rope. and the one having the least value
is the Greek lepton. The lepton is, ac'
cording to the decimal monetary sys'
tenn, current money in all countries be
longing to the Latin union. Some idea
of this valueless little disc of copper
may be gathered from the fact that the
lepton is the one-hundredth part of a
drachma. The Greek drachma usually
passes for the sarse value that a franc
piece does.
The Winslow mail., 1897-03-13

An uniformed contemporary sneer-
ingly alludes to the Turks as being "too
cowardly to fight anybody but help
less Armenians." Want of courage has
never been alleged against the Otto
man. From the time of Sultan Soiy-
man the Turkish armies have made
themselves respected on every field.
The Moslem, as governed now, is who'll
ly undesirable in peace, but in war
he is a dreadful enemy or a valuable
ally. Ask Russia if this is not so.
The Winslow mail., 1897-03-13
The Cow to the Acre Plan.

Can the dairy be made to pay? We
believe it can, but it must be done on
the cow to the acre plan-better and
fewer COWS, better and more feed to the
acre, and cows better looked after
There are men making money to-day
from their dairies. How are they doing
it? Condensed dairying. AS fast as
COWS are demonstrated not to be MAX
ing 2 profit they go the way that all
poor things ghould, and leave their food
The Winslow mail., 1897-03-13
Song of May.

In Sweden pretty custom is preya-
lent on the first of May. At II o'clock
at night on the Both of April band of
young people in every Gown and village
begin visiting each house in the neigh
borhood. singing the Song of May un-
til each resident gives them either
money or food for the benefit OF the
Nav Ball which takes place two days
latee it's expenses being entirely paid
by the proceeds of this midnight sing
ing. over each door the party leaves
a branch of red or white may to bring
luck TO the household during the COM
ing year.
The Winslow mail., 1897-03-13

the conditions imposed upon Ameri-
cans? Is it not perfectly fair and just
that an educational test should be ap-
piled to them? The answers to these
questions are the justification for the
immigration bill which was passed by
the senate. We have met the menace
of unrestricted manhood suffrage by
the general diffusion Of education and
it is our right and duty to see that it il
not revived through unrestricted immi
grafton
The Winslow mail., 1897-03-13
Working Butter,

The object of working butter is to rid
it of the surplus moisture, to distrib-
ute the salt, and to unite the granules
and give the butter consistency; and it
should not have any more than will ac-
complish this. One Of the advantages
of sailing in the churn and allowing
the butter to stand until the salt is
wholly dissolved is, that much working
is not required, as the butter only re-
quires to be worked until the color is
uniform or when the streaks caused
by the salt disappear.
The Winslow mail., 1897-03-13

A box car containing lumber was
opened recently at Plainfield, n. j., and
a very emaciated tramp was found in
side. He had crawled into the car at
Ottawa, Canada, week before, to steal
n ride, the car had been locked and
sealed, and for seven days and seven
nights he had been standing in one po-
sition in that car, without food or drink.
The Winslow mail., 1897-03-13
Killing White Grub Worms.

Meadow lands infested with white
grubs should be plowed and thorough
ly cultivated in the fall, then planted
to some crop that requires thorough
cultivation the next season. The fall
cultivation will destroy many of the
insects which are then in a very ten
der stage in little earthen cells in the
ground, and the thorough and frequent
cultivation of the following crop will
soon discourage the grubs.-Rural New
Yorker.
The Winslow mail., 1897-03-13

The City Council of Brussels has just
passed a vote prohibiting ladies wear
ing hats in the pit stalls and orchestra
stalls of the local theaters. 1t was ac-
cepted unanimously excepting one vote
-emanating, no doubt, from a some
what hen-pecked husband.
The Winslow mail., 1897-03-13

The Boston Globe says that all the
money in the world-reckoned by Mr..
Preston to amount to $10,93S, ,600,O 600
would not buy a nights rest for
badly afflicted conscience" OF what
has the Globe man been guilty?
The Winslow mail., 1897-03-13

When one considers that if Congress
wants war declared against Spain it
has only to say so, it is rather strange
that the able statesmen should put in
all their time talking about it.
The Winslow mail., 1897-03-13

A good deal of public time could be
saved and a good deal of important bus
iness could be facilitated if Congress
men would learn a little something of
the things they have to talk about, be-
fore making speeches.
The Winslow mail., 1897-03-13

Russia appears to have arrived un-
aided at an understanding" regarding
Turkey, and unfortunately Turkey
seems to be the only power that is able
TO understand it.
The Winslow mail., 1897-03-13

Boston pays her Common Council
men S1,5OO a year. Chicago's city faith
ers are paid So week. But it must be
acknowledged that they uncommon
o0uDcilmQn
The Winslow mail., 1897-03-13

Eastern papers are making a great
fuss because Idaho's governor-elect
wears a flannel shirt and no collar A
public official that doesn't wear col
lar IS an anomaly down East.
The Winslow mail., 1897-03-13

A st. Louis Uncle Tom" ran amuck
the other night and broke up an Uncle
Toms Cabin" show with a razor. 1t it
thought that he will be pensioned for
The Winslow mail., 1897-03-13
Gtte 5tot1mlptar mntl.
j. :. WALLACE,
1,,.uED Am PROP SIETOR
PubIlshoa at wiHsioU, arlzona:

And yet the one thing which invaria-'
bly, leads to all divorce proceedings is
eminently praiseworthy. Marriage is
all right
The Winslow mail., 1897-03-13

Old man Bismarck seems to be also
the possessor of some interesting recol-
lectiOns, but if he is wise he will Tor
get what he has remembered.
The Winslow mail., 1897-03-13

"If we must fight Spain, Missouri
will furnish all the colonies necessary
to lead our troops to glorious victory
in Cuba" says the st. Louis Republic.
The Winslow mail., 1897-03-13

A scientist says that the entire sup
ply of coal will be exhausted in ',5oO
years. Not if the coal trust has its own
way about prices.
The Winslow mail., 1897-03-13
REVIEW OF THE YEAR
CHRONOLOGICAL RECORD OF
IMPORTANT EVENTS.
Month of May Most Conspicuous by
Its List of Appalling Disasters and
Natural Catastrophes by Land aud
Sea-Record of Fires and Crimes.
a Backward Glance,

Following is a chronological record Of
the most important events of the past
twelve months: May, 1896, will be re-
nembered as a month of disaster. On
the Sd twelve persons were killed by an
explosion in Cincinnati; on the 10Th, 120
by cyclone in Texas; on the 18th, 33 by
cyclones in Kentucky and Kansas; on
the 18th, Al by cyclone in Nebraska
on the 2lst, 10 by cyclone in Oklahoma
on the 22d, ) by a cyclone in Missouri;
on the 24th. 40 by cyclone in Iowa; on
the 10Th, SO by cyclones in Michigan and
Oklahoma and 40 by cloudburst at Nc
Gregor Iowa; and on the 26th, II by Il
storm at Cairo and between rs and 100
by the fall of bridge at Victoria, B. G.
Otherwise the record is not out of the or
binary. II
The Winslow mail., 1897-03-13

A dispatch from Cleveland says that
Lillian Russell has Cancelled several en-
gagements. She has also Cancelled sew
eral husbands